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The propaganda drumbeat about the dangers of the right wing stealing the 2024 election is building up to an early crescendo. If you've been following the news, you'll have noticed more and more articles appearing, all predicting or forecasting or worrying about right-wingers forcibly "taking power" or overthrowing a "democratic" election result. A few examples (out of many that qualify):
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McCaulley's embrace of Critical Race Theory over Christianity shines most clearly in his article entitled "Why Christians Must Fight Systemic Racism." It's a very defensive article in which he insists he's not a communist and that he doesn't consider all White people racist. However, to the extent that he insists that America, the least racist country in the world, which has made racism illegal in both the public and private spheres, is systemically racist, he's advancing a purely Marxist doctrine.
The Salvation Army, having faced a massive backlash because of November's "Let's Talk About Racism" guide, doesn't seem to have learned its lesson. It's now announced that, in January, it will be offering a two-day racial justice forum in Illinois. This turn to the left does not bode well for an organization that has already seen a significant drop in charitable donations since it decided to embrace leftist politics.
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Had this picture on the wall in the kitchen when I lived in Can Tho.
The 26-foot tall Pillar of Shame depicts 50 bodies piled on top of each other
It was made by a Danish sculpture to symbolise those killed in the square in 1989
To this day, the true number of deaths in the bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 is unknown
The dismantling of the sculpture came days after pro-Beijing candidates scored a landslide victory in the Hong Kong legislative elections
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The government of Vietnam will update its entrance requirements beginning January 1, 2022. All fully vaccinated travelers or travelers recovered from COVID-19 and who can present a negative COVID-19 PCR test will be allowed to enter Vietnam. Still, they will be required to self-isolate at a place of residence for three days. Two additional PCR tests must be taken throughout the self-isolation period. These requirements are the same for vaccinated citizens, permanent residents, and the spouses and children of Vietnamese citizens, along with the spouses and children of permanent residents.
Unvaccinated or partially vaccinated citizens, permanent residents, and the spouses and children of Vietnamese citizens, in addition to the spouses and children of permanent residents, will be permitted to enter Vietnam but will be required to undergo self-isolation at a home residence for seven days.
What are the Changes
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Dried fish? Pomelo? A chicken? Heels? Plates? Perhaps a fizzy soft drink or simple meal on the street? What is on your shopping list when you go to Ben Thanh Market?
As these photos from 1938 reveal, many of the items you travel to famous the District 1 market were on sale there in 1938. While one may certainly have arrived via a different mode of transportation and wasn't likely to see as many plastic-packaged goods, let alone foreign brands, the bustling commercial center was strikingly similar to today.
When famed French photographer Eli Lotar traveled to Vietnam, he turned his lens towards nearly everything, with an intent to capture people in their normal activities, as opposed to stage shots. During a trip to Ben Thanh Market, this means he snapped people preparing and selling a variety of goods, families enjoying meals at the stalls surrounding the market, and a variety of transportation options waiting to take people wherever they needed to go.
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PBS Poll: Biden Approval Rating Lower with Hispanics than White People
According to the PBS/Marist poll,
Biden’s approval among white Americans stands at 40 percent versus 33
percent of Hispanics, with a disapproval rating among white people at 56
percent versus Hispanics at 65 percent.
Job Approval Underwater in 45 States, Close in California and Rhode Island
More people disapprove of Biden’s job performance than approve in 45 states, according to the CIVIQS poll, which has covered the president’s job approval on a rolling basis since his inauguration. That leaves only five states where more approve than disapprove.
However, two of those five states that are overwhelmingly solid blue states — California and Rhode Island — showed the president’s approval numbers close to flipping, with only a two-point margin in each. Both states showed Biden at 46 percent job approval, with 44 percent disapproval, and both showed ten percent “neither approve nor disapprove.”
Although I applaud these lawmakers, this entire situation is disgusting.
SEALs are some of the most highly trained soldiers in the world, some might say the most highly trained fighting force in the world.
They serve their country with honor and distinction, and the idea of forcing them to take an unnecessary vaccine or face discharge from the armed forces is awful.
That being said, 47 lawmakers have filed a brief in support of a group of SEALs facing discharge because their religious exemption to the vaccine mandate has not been honored by the state.
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Of all of the decisions so far made by the Biden administration, perhaps none has been quite as fraught with criticism as the attempted implementation of a federal vaccine mandate, aimed at further weakening the coronavirus pandemic.
The idea that any American should be forced into an unwanted, personal medical decision has not sat well with freedom advocates, who are afraid that this is but the first erosion of bodily autonomy here in the United States.
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Within weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron, as well as previous SARS-origin viruses that have killed millions of people worldwide.
The achievement is the result of almost two years of work on the virus. The Army lab received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020. Very early on, Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch decided to focus on making a vaccine that would work against not just the existing strain but all of its potential variants as well.
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