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Children of God rock out to this or so I am told.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders running for Arkansas governor
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Sunday, January 24, 2021
Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is expected to announce on Monday that she’s running for governor of Arkansas in 2022, according to people familiar with her plans.
Mrs. Sanders, a conservative who served two years as press secretary to former President Donald Trump, is the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Her bid for governor has been long anticipated, with backing from Mr. Trump, who encouraged her to run when she left the White House in the summer of 2019.
Current Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson is term-limited.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/24/sarah-sanders-run-arkansas-governor/
Trump impeachment: Nancy Pelosi to formally send article of impeachment to Senate today – live updates
Former president charged with ‘incitement of insurrection’ after assault on Capitol by pro-Trump mob
Schumer promises quick but fair trial as impeachment heads to Senate
Trump plots revenge against Republicans he says betrayed him
4m ago 05:05 Amanda Holpuch
The single article of impeachment against Donald Trump will this evening be delivered to the Senate, where Democratic majority leader Chuck Schumer is promising a quick but fair trial.
“It will be a fair trial but it will move relatively quickly,” Schumer, from New York, told reporters on Sunday. The trial would not take up too much time, he said, because “we have so much else to do”.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will walk the article from the House, through the Capitol and to the Senate at 7pm ET (midnight GMT), marking the formal start of the impeachment trial. But there will be a two-week lull in proceedings, after Schumer and Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell reached an agreement on Friday.
“During that period,” Schumer said, “the Senate will continue to do other business for the American people, such as cabinet nominations and the Covid relief bill, which would provide relief for millions of Americans who are suffering during this pandemic.”
The delay will give both legal teams two more weeks to prepare. Pelosi has named the House managers who will prosecute Trump, led by Jamie Raskin. An attorney from South Carolina, Karl “Butch” Bowers, will lead Trump’s defense.
Bowers’ most high-profile cases to date include defending a controversial Republican-backed transgender bathroom bill in North Carolina and representing a governor of his own state, Mark Sanford, when he faced impeachment.
Though the Senate is now controlled by Democrats, two-thirds of senators must vote against Trump if he is to be convicted. That means 17 Republicans must go against a former president from their own party. As of Friday, according to a tally by the Washington Post, 42 senators had said they supported impeachment, 19 were open to conviction, 28 were opposed and 11 had made no indication.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/25/donald-trump-impeachment-joe-biden-nancy-pelosi-kamal-harris-covid-coronavirus-live-updates
'Different kind of evil': 5 dead, including pregnant woman, as Indianapolis suffers 'mass murder' shooting
25 Jan, 2021 09:50
A mass shooting has left five people dead, including a pregnant woman, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Authorities have described it as the city's “largest mass casualty shooting in over a decade.”
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) received a 911 call before 4am local time on Sunday. Responding officers discovered “a juvenile male with apparent gunshot wounds,” before they entered the house which was the scene of the mass shooting less than a block away.
The bodies of five people, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child, were discovered. The victims were identified by police as Kezzie Childs, 42; Raymond Childs, 42; Elijah Childs, 18; Rita Childs, 13; Kiara Hawkins, 19; and Hawkins' baby.
Police believe more than one shooter may have carried out the atrocity, and authorities have struggled to find the words to describe the horrors perpetrated.
“What happened this morning was not an act of simple gun violence. … What happened this morning was a mass murder,” Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said during a press conference.
“This does not appear to be a random act,” IMPD Sgt. Shane Foley told reporters.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Randall Taylor said on Sunday that no suspects have yet been identified, though forensic investigations at the scene of the shooting continue. The US Attorney's office and FBI have been called in to assist in the investigation.
The horrific incident, which the chief described as a “different kind of evil,” comes amid a recent spate of gun violence in the city, which registered a grim record of 245 homicides in 2020, marking a 40 percent increase from the previous year.
The newly installed Biden administration has vowed “to defeat the NRA (National Rifle Association) and end our epidemic of gun violence.” The gun rights advocacy group responded by warning Americans that their president is seeking to infringe on their constitutional rights and “wants to ban our semi-auto rifles, tax our guns” and “more.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/513517-indianapolis-mass-casualty-shooting/
US warships conduct exercises in South China Sea
25 Jan 2021 13:38
A US aircraft carrier group sailed into the South China Sea on a so-called "freedom of navigation" exercise, the first routine operation in the region under new President Joe Biden, AFP reports.
Led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the carrier strike group entered the area Saturday, the US Indo-Pacific Command said, the same day Taiwan reported multiple Chinese jets and bombers had flown into its air defense zone.
"It's great to be in the South China Sea again, conducting routine operations, promoting freedom of the seas, and reassuring allies and partners," said Rear Admiral Doug Verissimo, commander of Carrier Strike Group Nine.
Beijing lays claims to nearly all of the South China Sea – despite Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam also saying parts belong to them.
China's foreign ministry spokesman called the routine US exercises a "show of force and not conducive to the peace and stability of the region".
The South China Sea is a strategic waterway and also believed to have valuable oil and gas deposits.
Beijing has moved aggressively to turn reefs into artificial islands capable of hosting military planes, angering nations which also stake claims in the area.
The US operation comes days after Washington said its commitment to Taiwan is "rock-solid", the first comments from the Biden administration on the democratic island.
Taiwan split from China at the end of a civil war in 1949 and exists under the constant threat of invasion by the mainland, whose leaders have vowed to one day take it.
Beijing balks at any official contacts with Taiwan and tries to keep the island diplomatically isolated.
The US remains Taiwan's most important unofficial ally, however, and is bound by an act of Congress to sell it weapons to defend itself.
President Donald Trump embraced warmer ties with the island as he feuded with China over trade, and his successor is also expected to remain tough on Beijing.
https://www.news.az/news/us-warships-conduct-exercises-in-south-china-sea
China flies warplanes close to Taiwan in early test of Biden
By CNN Newsource
Published January 24, 2021 11:36 pm
China dispatched two large formations of warplanes close to the self-governing island of Taiwan over the weekend, presenting a significant foreign policy challenge to new United States President Joe Biden just days into his administration.
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said 13 Chinese planes entered the southwestern portion of the island’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Saturday followed by 15 on Sunday, prompting Taipei to take defensive measures, including scrambling fighter jets to monitor the Chinese flights.
According to Taiwan’s Defense Ministry, Chinese military planes made more than 380 flights into the island’s air defense identification zone last year. The US Federal Aviation Administration defines an ADIZ as “a designated area of airspace over land or water within which a country requires the immediate and positive identification, location, and air traffic control of aircraft in the interest of the country’s national security.”
While the frequency of such drills has increased in recent years, the timing and the composition of the latest formations — mostly fighter jets and bombers — appeared intended to send a message to the new administration in Washington.
Beijing claims full sovereignty over Taiwan, a democracy of almost 24 million people located off the southeastern coast of mainland China, despite the fact that the two sides have been governed separately for more than seven decades.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed that Beijing will never allow the island to become independent and has refused to rule out the use of force if necessary.
In a statement Saturday, the Biden administration urged Beijing to stop trying to intimidate Taiwan and promised support for the democratic government in Taipei.
“We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure against Taiwan and instead engage in meaningful dialogue with Taiwan’s democratically elected representatives,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price said, adding that US-Taiwan ties are deepening and Washington remains committed to the island’s self-rule.
The US showed a strong commitment to Taiwan’s defense during the Trump administration, approving the sale of advanced military hardware to Taipei, including F-16 fighter jets, while sending high-level envoys to the island, both moves that angered Beijing.
In an early show of support from the Biden administration toward the island, Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US, Hsiao Bi-khim, attended Biden’s inauguration last week. It was the first such official invitation to a representative of the Taipei government since 1979, when Washington established formal diplomatic ties with Beijing. On the same day, Beijing announced sanctions against outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and 27 other high-ranking officials under Trump, accusing them of “prejudice and hatred against China.”
https://kesq.com/news/national-world/2021/01/24/china-flies-warplanes-close-to-taiwan-in-early-test-of-biden/
US carrier in South China Sea
Besides backing Taiwan, State Department spokesman Price said on Saturday that Washington would also stand with other Indo-Pacific friends and allies, as China ramps up its military activities in the region.
In a display of that solidarity, a US Navy aircraft carrier strike group entered the South China Sea at the weekend, the first deployment during the Biden administration of one of the 100,000-ton warships with its contingent of more than 60 aircraft.
A US Navy statement said the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and its guided-missile cruiser and destroyer escorts were on a scheduled deployment to uphold freedom of the seas in the 1.3 million square mile South China Sea, almost all of which China claims as its sovereign territory.
“With two-thirds of the world’s trade traveling through this very important region, it is vital that we maintain our presence and continue to promote the rules-based order,” Rear Adm. Doug Verissimo, commander of Carrier Strike Group Nine, said in a statement.
But at the close of 2020, China said military movements like that of the Roosevelt strike group inflamed tensions.
“Some countries outside the region come from afar to flex their military muscles, ignite confrontations, and create tensions in the South China Sea, which is the root reason for the ‘militarization’ of this region,” Defense Ministry spokesperson Senior Col. Tan Kefei said at a regular press briefing.
Last year, the US Navy sent two of its aircraft carriers, the world’s largest warships, into the South China Sea on two occasions for dual exercises, something it had not done in the previous six years.
Washington also regularly conducts freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea, most recently in December. They involve US warships steaming within the 12-nautical mile limit of coastlines that nations can claim as their territorial waters.
China’s new coast guard law
On Friday, Beijing gave another indication of how it can tighten its control over waters it claims in the region, passing a new law that authorizes its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels.
The law, which takes effect February 1, also allows the coast guard to demolish foreign structures built on Chinese-claimed reefs and islands and for it to set up exclusion zones to keep foreign vessels out.
The law could not only increase chances of confrontation between China and other South China Sea claimants — which include Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan — but also in the East China Sea, where China and Japan contest sovereignty over an island group known as the Senkakus in Japan and the Diaoyus in China.
On its English-language news website on Monday, China’s military specifically referred to the Japanese-controlled islands when announcing enactment of the law, with a headline saying it safeguards Beijing’s sovereignty over the uninhabited rocky chain, 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo.
“The new coastguard law shows China’s clear attitude and determination to safeguard its sovereignty,” the report said, citing Lu Yaodong, a research fellow with the Institute of Japanese Studies under the state-affiliated Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
“Regular patrols near the Diaoyu Islands will be guaranteed by the legislation,” Lu was quoted as saying.
Chinese vessels spent record amounts of time in the waters around the islands last year, drawing condemnation from Tokyo. Washington has repeatedly said the islands are covered by the US-Japan mutual defense treaty, which would obligate the US to respond to any Chinese action against Japanese ships there.
https://kesq.com/news/national-world/2021/01/24/china-flies-warplanes-close-to-taiwan-in-early-test-of-biden/
Amen
GM, Sam
Imagine how stupid you have to be to think that you could disarm America yet [they] certainly seem determined to try.
What Folly.
‘The Storm’ never came, and QAnon believers are shook
6 hours ago Radio 25:01
QAnon believers are in turmoil. For years the baseless, wide-ranging conspiracy theory has gained steam, making serious inroads in Canada after exploding in the United States. QAnon believers think a blood-thirsty, child-trafficking cabal is running the world and that Donald Trump will bring justice through a day of reckoning known as “The Storm”. But now, following Joe Biden’s inauguration, many QAnon followers are devastated and disillusioned — while others are doubling-down. Today on Front Burner, Daily Beast politics reporter Will Sommer joins us to discuss what might happen to QAnon and its followers next.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1848007747599
Only the fair weather Patriots are "shook" and that's a good thing as maybe now they will read the drops or find their safe spaces.
I hear that the Road to Heaven goes straight through Hell, Anon.
Maybe that is why Heaven is not Overflowing?!
Whoa!
Hit me!
Onward!
There are probably around 10k MSM articles concerning "QANON" at this juncture and even though Anons know that there is only Q and Anons and that there is no Qanon… Imagine what that would have cost if RENT was not 100% FREE.
KEKISTAN!
Do you even Hooah, Scro?
kek I hope so!
Failure is the result of trying.
Enjoy your slavery oops I mean Safety, yeah.
Hawaii Republican Party Official Quits After QAnon Defense Posts
BY JACOB JARVIS ON 1/25/21 AT 4:52 AM EST
The Hawaii Republican Party's vice chair of communications has quit after branding a series of posts about the QAnon conspiracy theory an "error of judgement."
The QAnon theory revolves around the belief that a secret deep-state government of elitists involved in Satan-worship, sex trafficking and pedophilia actually run the world. Its narratives have been largely sparked by an anonymous figure named Q, posting so-called "drops" of information on message boards. Many of those following the theory saw former President Donald Trump as being a savior who would fight against these forces.
A Twitter thread posted by the Hawaii GOP defended those following the theory, stating those who did were "largely motivated by a sincere and deep love for America."
It added that "patriotism and love of County should never be ridiculed."
The posts prompted a backlash from both Democrats and Republicans, withRep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)a prominent voice questioning the messaging. The Democratic Party of Hawaii said in a statement: "There is nothing patriotic in defending Q-Anon adherents."
The posts in question were later deleted.
Following this, the Hawaii GOP's vice chair for communications, Edwin Boyette, posted details of his resignation on Facebook.
In a post, seen by Newsweek, Boyette shared his resignation letter in which he wrote: "Discussion of some topics is ill suited to the forums of social media, and regardless of intent - only serves to increase conflict and discord.
"The discussion of the Q-Conspiracy was an error of judgement, and should not reflect upon the leadership or the members of the Republican Party of Hawaii. The responsibility for that discussion and that error is mine and and mine alone. Please accept my resignation for the good of the Party."
In a previous Facebook post, Boyette addressed the furor around the thread.
He wrote: "Americans are getting trapped in bad patterns. People are ready to believe the worst about their neighbors.
"I made post examining the roots of the Q - theory, it references a document from one of the initial group who were responsible for creating Q.
"Left wingers on twitter went into fits because I refused to condemn or ridicule people who subscribed to Q theories. As far as I can see there is no shortage of material mocking and ridiculing those who followed Q over the past two year.
"The Q movement grew even faster."
The Hawaii GOP has not responded to the criticism on social media and has continued to post updates.
Newsweek has contacted the Hawaii Republican Party and Boyette for comment.
QAnon followers have expressed disappointment following President Joe Biden's inauguration, with this not fitting in with the narrative of the theories for many.
However, experts have suggested that some followers will work the events into their narratives and find ways to persist with their beliefs in regard to QAnon.
There is also concern some of those following Q theories could split into "violent offshoots" as they react to the situation.
https://www.newsweek.com/hawaii-gop-official-quits-qanon-posts-1564058
Inorganic Bullshit is more like it.
Start using "The Movement" instead of "We".
Trust me kek
He? Himself? One?
Q Team was using [their] word for the movement.
All [they] want is to be able to tie Q team to some fake anons on here espousing Racism, Violence and other Bullshit that this movement was never about. FAIL!
alright, sounds fine. Run it!
Yes! Yes!! Choose Pain! kek