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CHINA’S PRES. XI: TAIWAN'S PEOPLE'S BASIC INTERESTS ARE SERVED BY REUNIFICATION. — FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) October 9, 2021 Weekend – China’s President Xi said reunification with Taiwan must, will be achieved https://t.co/XFhV6a40wg — Nude Movie Scenes 🔥 (@NudeMovieScenes) October 9, 2021 TAIWAN'S GOVERNMENT URGES CHINA TO STOP ITS PROVOCATIVE ACTIONS OF INCURSION, HARASSMENT, AND DESTRUCTION. — … Read more

Nation state traditional allies China, Russia, Iran, Serbia, Pakistan acting with transnational corporations and cults to attack and undermine the West. Time to wake up people. h/t yy1500

Total delays today at Houston Bush Int’ctl:  125 Total delays within, into, or out of the United States today at Houston Bush Int’ctl:  125 Total cancellations today at Houston Bush Int’ctl:  10 Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today at Houston Bush Int’ctl:  10 https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today/KIAH   AC

2021-10-08 A worker has died after being caught up in a scaffolding collapse in Happy Valley on Friday morning. The woman had been taken to hospital unconscious after being freed from the debris. Dramatic footage posted online showed a huge wall of scaffolding and netting that had covered a building on Broadwood Road collapse into … Read more

They literally did an entire building lockdown to try to guilt her into wearing a mask. They try scare tactics but to their surprise, nothing works. Grace just respectfully says "no" ever single time they ask her to put it on. She’s not backing down. Courage is contagious. — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 9, 2021 … Read more

https://twitter.com/YoussefDisla/status/1446241982318252042 h/t Ralph

Image credit: Creative Commons (CC0) From Birch Gold Group The housing market is on the verge of spinning out of control. Just about everything that could be going wrong is going wrong. The only holdout for the moment is home prices, which are up an astonishing 22.5% just this year. For many homeowners, that’s great news. Home equity is a huge … Read more

Economic confidence fell to 96.6 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, down more than seven points from September, the fifth consecutive monthly decline. This is the lowest index level since May 2020. Enthusiasm about the economy surged under former President Donald Trump, reaching as high as 147.8 in January 2020 before tumbling after the coronavirus lockdown threw … Read more

A federal appeals court reinstated Texas’ controversial “fetal heart beat” abortion ban on Friday night, days after a lower court suspended the Republican-backed law. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay, effectively pausing U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order against the abortion ban earlier this week. Texas … Read more

(Bloomberg) — Investors in the $4 trillion market for state and local government debt appear to be looking for the exit.Most Read from BloombergThey pulled $344 million from long-term municipal-bond mutual funds and $460 million from high-yield funds during the week ended Wednesday, according to Refinitiv Lipper US Fund Flows data. Overall they put just … Read more

High schoolers in California’s class of 2030 will be required to complete an ethnic studies course in order to graduate, under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom Friday. The Golden State is believed to be the first in the US to institute such a mandate. Public and charter schools in the state will be … Read more

Republican congressman from Florida, Matt Gaetz, has promised to nominate Donald Trump as the next House Speaker, should Republicans regain the majority. A few people have floated this possibility over the last year. But Gaetz is the first elected official to make it a pledge. .@RepMattGaetz pledges that when Republicans retake the House in 2022, … Read more

In 2018, House Republicans adopted a resolution recognizing “that allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.” All but one Republican voted for the measure, which was adopted 279–72. A total of 71 House Democrats voted against the resolution, while 49 joined Republicans in supporting it. … Read more

One doctor reveals how they are hiding the TRUTH! pic.twitter.com/CdFtHR2qkd — Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) October 2, 2021

Donald Trump is not happy with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and he is making that beyond clear. In a series of interviews with The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, Trump not only tore into McConnell, but he also spoke about the 2020 election and Republicans who didn’t have his back when he needed them most. The interviews, … Read more

I don’t remember voting for this… The breakthrough comes after some changes were made to the original text. Notably that the rate of 15% will not be increased at a later date, and that small businesses will not be hit with the new rates. This helped Ireland — a longtime opponent of raising corporate tax … Read more

via usatoday: Millions of voters going to the polls Tuesday will cast their ballots on machines blasted as unreliable and inaccurate for two decades by computer scientists from Princeton University to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Toyed with by white-hat hackers and targeted for scathing reviews from secretaries of state in California and Ohio, Direct Recording Electronic … Read more