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A Chinese energy company financially linked to Hunter Biden, the son of the President of the United States, developed technology to improve cotton harvesting in Xinjiang, an industry that relies on Chinese Communist Party forced labor. The invention – a thin film to cover fields – was created by the Biden-linked Chinese state-owned enterprise Sinopec and helped defend cotton from unfavorable climate conditions and weeds, according to The Global Times. The development comes amidst controversy over the use of forced labor in Xinjiang’s cotton fields, prompting many Western clothing brands to halt their use of cotton from the region. U.S....

Australians in lockdown in New South Wales are having their alcohol deliveries monitored by the government’s NSW Health Agency, because science. Advertisement - story continues below “Residents in apartment blocks locked-down by NSW Health are having their alcohol deliveries policed as part of a policy to limit the number of drinks being consumed each day,” NCA News Wire reported. Government goons are rummaging through private mail deliveries, confiscating alcohol and telling Aussies they can only receive a ration of “six beers or pre-mixed drinks or one bottle of wine.”

The deadline for President Trump’s executive order on foreign election interference is tomorrow, and John Ratcliffe said that Iran, China, and Russia DID interfere. Report coming soon. The CEO of Dominion revealed that some of his voting machines can be connected to the internet. The Trump administration is withholding $200,000,000 of funds from California, because they require insurance companies to fund abortions. A new report found that Mark Zuckerberg’s $500M donation to the election, was unevenly distributed between Democrats and Republicans, by a ratio of about 10:1.

The Christian governor of Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday for committing blasphemy against Islam. While running for governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as “Ahok,” said his opponents were inaccurately citing the Quran to say voters cannot vote for a non-Muslim. Despite trying to make Islam seem like a more tolerant religion, Purnama’s comments were reportedly edited and shared in a video that caused mass protest and outrage from the Islamic community. On Nov. 2016, at least 200,000 Islamic protesters took to the streets of Jakarta and demanded Purnama be thrown in jail...

Hilarious...don't know how long the video will be available. Love the line, "Can they drive to Kenya on surface streets?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oAl2VlF3OSw#!

Two churches were firebombed and an apartment building was attacked in the Imbaba suburb of Cairo May 7 in a round of violence that ended with twelve people dead and more than 200 wounded. By Friday, May 13, thousands of protestors filled Tahrir Square in Cairo to protest the violence and cry for unity. The attacks demonstrate the rising struggle between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt, fomented by a group of hardliners called Salafists who have been linked with Al Qaida and who have now joined arms with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Woman chronicled her own death from meningitis in phone pictures as doctors told her spreading rash was only a 'minor infection' 30th July 2010 Doctors stopped antibiotics and gave her headache tablets Medics 'didn't see' deadly rash spreading across her limbs Patient died just 14 hours after being admitted to hospital A desperate patient texted photos of a deadly rash spreading across her body to her mother as she lay dying on a hospital bed while being ignored by NHS doctors. Critically ill Jo Dowling, 25, sent more than 40 pictures and messages to her mother and best friend as...

(Article in Spanish) My translation: The first violent incident of this day was discovered outside the Aristos Bar in the Historic Center of the city. Eight people were found dead there. None have been identified but it is believed that five were minors. The second incident occurred in the streets of the Bellavista township, where two men and a woman they were accompanying were attacked in their turn. The victims, identified as José Ángel Torres Ávila and Iván Gabriel Rodríguez Torres, both about 30 years old, and Ana Lourdes Sánchez, 31, were found dead in their sand colored 1996 Cadillac...

The Kenyan government has defended a contentious media bill which critics say is intended to gag the press. The Kenya Communications Amendment Bill, which was passed by parliament, gives the state power to raid media houses and control broadcast content. Information Minister Samuel Poghisio insists that the government is committed to press freedom. Kenya's press has feared for its independence since a 2006 raid on a TV station and newspaper offices.

AQABA, Jordan (AFP) – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday Palestinians should soon have their own state, though she has made it clear she does not expect a breakthrough before Barack Obama moves into the White House. "They are dignified people and I am certain the day is coming soon when they have a state that will be in accordance with that great national dignity," she said after meeting Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah, the West Bank's political capital, before heading later to Jordan. Rice has nevertheless tacitly admitted that Israel and the Palestinians were unlikely...

Sometime in the next few hours, most likely.. The 2 Millionth thread will hit the "press".

A new reality TV show has been launched in Germany to find the man with the fastest sperm. The sperm will be attracted to the finishing line by a chemical lure identical to that emitted by the female egg in the womb. The aim is to find Germany's most virile man in a new reality show being dubbed Sperm Race.Twelve men, including two celebrities and a 'health freak', will take part in the show set to be aired later this year.The show will follow the contestants as they make donations at a sperm bank. The frozen sperm will then be...

(Washington, DC--August 17, 2004) Iran's strategic calculations for the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Russia are driving a "new and aggressive foreign policy," a foreign policy expert told a RFE/RL audience last week. Terming its' policy one of "deterrent defense," Iran aims to prevent Western -- or more precisely United States -- influence from spreading in the Middle East while "projecting Iranian influence into areas where there is a vacuum of power. Ilan Berman, Vice President for Policy at the American Foreign Policy Council, explained there exists an "Iranian paradox:" the war on terror is simultaneously enhancing and...

Voting Machine Study Divides Md. Officials, Experts For some in Maryland, the report yesterday by Johns Hopkins University computer security experts that electronic voting machines could easily be hacked into set off alarm bells. But for others, including the state officials who recently signed a $55.6 million agreement to put the units in every voting precinct by March, the report is one more example of "technological hysteria." "The study should be setting off alarm bells," said Del. William A. Bronrott (D-Montgomery). "We need to be 100 percent sure that there is no chance that our machines can be tampered with."...