China’s tightening of its national security laws come as Beijing is also currently trialing an experimental Covid-19 drug in the city of Yiwu in the Zhejiang province. The Chinese government has changed a law to make it a criminal offence to deface or intentionally insult its national flag, according to AP News. The changes reportedly made to the National Flag and National Emblem law, which were reportedly passed on Saturday, October 17, by The Standing Committee of China’s congress, will make liable for criminal responsibility and investigation anyone who burns, tramples upon, or defaces its flag in public. In 2017, The […]
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How do Americans feel about the U.S. flag? It’s complicated. Lynne Gilbert/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Lynne Gilbert/Getty Images How do Americans feel about the U.S. flag? It’s complicated. Lynne Gilbert/Getty Images On a fall afternoon, Mark Hurley, a retired Army and Marine veteran, was doing chores in his yard in Bennington, Vt. Hurley has two American flags flying in front of his home. “It means tons to me,” he said. “Regardless of what your opinion is on life, we are Americans we should be proud of that over everything.” Hurley, who is white and leans conservative, told NPR he […]
Hollywood star Penelope Cruz has been unwittingly dragged into an online battle over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, after social media users falsely assumed she had posted an image of the Armenian flag. The Spanish-born actress shared a photo of the poster advertising her upcoming 2021 action thriller ‘The 355’, about a formidable team of international female secret agents. It shows Cruz in character as a Colombian, posing with the yellow, blue and red flag of Colombia in the background. But many apparently confused it with the flag of Armenia, which is red, blue and orange. “Karabakh is Azerbaijan!” many Azerbaijani commenters wrote. Users […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – A decision by the Trump administration earlier this year to move the flag honoring missing war veterans from a prominent position atop the White House to a less visible spot on the South Lawn has angered some veterans and lawmakers, who see it as disrespectful and potentially illegal. Trump signed the act, which only repeated earlier law, then was the first to violate it: Lawmakers said the National POW/MIA Flag Act would ensure the banner is prominently displayed at the U.S. Capitol, the White House, the WWII Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam […]
Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the cost of the failed Western economic model burdened by banks and lawyers. A former US spy and co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, he is today the Chief Enabling Officer (CeO) of Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 and now also CeO of Open Source Everything (OSE Inc.). He continues his education with non-fiction reading, posting over 2,000 reviews across 98 categories; […]
… by Preston James Traditionally, the business of starting wars has been a long arduous process of geopolitical and economic manipulations and numerous provocations. With the development of the War on Terror, it has become much faster and easier for the folks that really run things to start wars so they can make huge war profits and further expand and centralize the governments they control in order to gain even more totalitarian power. The idea of declaring a ongoing “forever war” with no end ever, against a single concept began with the War on Poverty under LBJ. This idea of fighting […]
President Trump visited Wilmington, N.C., on Wednesday and urged supporters to try to vote in person after sending in a mail-in ballot — actions that would be both illegal and disruptive. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images President Trump visited Wilmington, N.C., on Wednesday and urged supporters to try to vote in person after sending in a mail-in ballot — actions that would be both illegal and disruptive. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Updated at 3:08 p.m. ET President Trump, who has frequently criticized mail-in voting, on Wednesday took his attacks on the process a step […]
A Black Lives Matter rioter outside the Kenosha County Courthouse screamed “death to America” as an American flag was burned on Tuesday night. The rioters are now openly parroting not only the methods, but also the language, of terrorists. An American flag was just burned outside the Kenosha County Courthouse. One woman screams, “Death to America!” and kicks the fence. pic.twitter.com/vI8U6EOGBv — Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) August 26, 2020 TRENDING: Media Blackout: North Carolina Man Arrested For Shooting at Crowd of Trump Supporters, Which Included Children “An American flag was just burned outside the Kenosha County Courthouse. One woman screams, “Death to […]
A lot of Liberals wish the Second Amendment had never been written. They wish the words would just go away. They don’t understand how important the Second Amendment is to America. Without the Second Amendment, we’d have lost the First Amendment long ago! To remind Liberals how important the words of the Second Amendment are to us, here’s something special: a Second Amendment American flag with the words printed on the stripes (ordering through this link and the links below supports Gateway Pundit)! The best part: It’s free – just pay shipping and handling! TRENDING: Garbage DC Website Known for Promoting Conspiracies […]
Quick News: Portland peaceful, 1000 protest while fake police protesters regroup, waiting for orders from Bill Barr. Trump again blames Fauci for not knowing testing causes COVID deaths. You see, you test, more people die. We all fucking know that, motherfucker… Is Trump saying Fauci is killing those who test himself? Sounds like Qanon/pizzagate. ~ VT: Former FBI agent lied to Congress, aided by Israeli Chad Wolf. Our sources say both were directly involved, working with Stephen Miller in the White House, with staging violent demonstrations in Portland, using primarily Portland Police recruiting by the Defense Intelligence Agency as part of […]
The Crew Dragon SpaceX capsule splashed down off the coast of Florida on Sunday. Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley returned to earth on Sunday after launching from the Kennedy Space Center at the end of May. A boat with a Trump flag floated by the Crew Dragon and was told to leave the area. “As SpaceX is working to recover Bob and Doug from the capsule, a private boat drives by waving a Trump flag. One of the NASA TV announcers suggests that maybe in the future they shouldn’t publicize their landing zones.” a reporter tweeted. TRENDING: Federal Government and […]
27 Jul, 2020 01:13 Follow RT on A US national flag has been pulled down at the US Consulate General in Chengdu, after Beijing ordered Washington to shut down the diplomatic facility in a tit-for-tat response for the closure of Chinese consulate in Houston. The flag was lowered around 6:18am local time, according to Chinese media, which earlier reported a deadline for the eviction set sometime Monday morning. Beijing said the closure a “legitimate and necessary response” to Washington’s “unreasonable actions” actions in regard to its diplomatic facility in Houston, Texas. Also on rt.com US officials force entry into shuttered Chinese consulate […]
According to scientist and board member of the Swedish Humanist society Patrik Lindenfors, the centuries-old Swedish flag is rife with Christian heritage and should be replaced with something more inclusive. In the wake of the massive protests around the world, purportedly against racism and colonialism, calls have been made to do away with the cross on the Swedish flag, because it represents the nation’s Christian heritage and the oppression it allegedly stands for. In his opinion piece in the newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, board member of the Humanist Society Patrik Lindenfors called the flag “problematic” and compared the Swedish cross to the Saudi […]
A school in Russia’s second-largest city has turned to the police after a rainbow flag was hung from a school flagpole during exam period. The LGBT pride banner is highly controversial in modern-day Russia. The leadership of St. Petersburg school number 511 contacted law enforcement on July 9 after two students raised the flag outside the building. According to the online publication Paper, two girls hung the multicolored symbol next to the Russian tricolor and were caught on CCTV. Also on rt.com US Embassy in Moscow flies rainbow flag to honor Pride flag day The flag remained on the pole for […]
After many years demanding the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state flag, Black Mississippians received their wish when a bill doing that was signed into law last week. Just as the state flag had served as a symbol of white supremacy for 126 years, beginning nearly 30 years after the Confederacy’s defeat, the lowering of the flag for the final time by a Black man symbolized Black Power. By the state’s own admission, the Mississippi state flag was rooted in white supremacy. Mississippi’s Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Protesters burned a US flag near the White House after US President Donald Trump’s Independence Day address, in which he promised to defeat the radical left. The protesters were chanting “One, two, three, four, slavery, genocide, and war. Five, six, seven, eight, America was never great”, as they were burning the flag, The Hill reported on Saturday. NBC4 Washington said hundreds of protesters marched from Black Lives Matter Plaza to the National Mall on Saturday and riot police were confronting the protesters on the National Mall. According to NBC, protesters from the Revolutionary Communist Party first tried to […]
A group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, DC, has marked July 4th by trampling the American flag before setting it on fire, while arguing that the US state symbol represents “slavery, genocide and war.” Footage that shows protesters mocking the US flag began making rounds online on Saturday evening. One of the videos, filmed at a square outside the White House, an area which was officially named ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’ in wake of the protests, shows a young black woman dancing on the American flag sprawled on the ground, as another female protester with a megaphone in her […]
A decision by the Virginia state government to order a giant American banner to be pulled from the would-be seat of the local General Assembly amid fears protesters could tear the flag down, has faced pushback online. The huge banner, made of tarps, which hung about two stores from the ground, was ordered to be taken down from what is set to become the future seat of the state legislature just as the nation was gearing up to mark July 4th. State officials argued that the removal is a neccessary precautionary measure, so that Black Lives Matter protesters won’t see red […]
In case you were wondering if this is still about George Floyd.It’s not. Black Lives Matter activists danced and stood on the US flag in DC today on July 4th holiday. Advertisement – story continues below They don’t want to fix America.They want to destroy it. #BLM protesters dance and step on American flag on Blacks Lives Matter Plaza in DC pic.twitter.com/zIwNrFSLoy — Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) July 4, 2020 TRENDING: Two Women Activists Hit by Car on I-5 Outside Seattle — Suffer Serious Injuries After Hitting Windshield and Front Grill We’ve seen this before…Palestinians stand on the US flag in […]
The retired flag, which dates to 1894, includes the Confederate battle flag. A commission will propose a new flag, and voters will consider it in November. Source link
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The Mississippi State flag has been pulled down from the State Capitol building shortly after lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to remove the Confederate emblem from the banner amid a reinvigorated anti-racism push. “Today, the future has taken root in the present. Today, we and the rest of the nation can look on our state with new eyes, with pride and hope,” speaker of the House Philip Gunn told Mississippi Today after both houses of the state legislature approved the measure. Wow. Historic day in Mississippi as State flag with Confederate insignia comes down, following a vote to remove it in legislature.Moment it […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107974/32/1079743210_0:308:3072:2036_1200x675_80_0_0_0dddf0160df3276cb7983ed1d5bc5fd0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006291079743195-mississippi-legislature-votes-to-remove-state-flag-featuring-confederate-emblem/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill to remove the current Confederate state flag and allow a commission to redesign a new one. The bill was passed on Sunday with a 37-14 vote, according to the Mississippi StateWatch legislative information service. Earlier in the day, it was passed by the Mississippi House of Representatives with a 91-23 vote. The bill calls for the removal of the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag and for the establishment of a commission to come up with a new flag design that will be […]
Mississippi lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to remove a Confederate emblem from their state flag on Sunday, marking one of the most dramatic repudiations yet of white-supremacist imagery during a wave of protests against racism and police brutality in America. The bill passed 128 to 37 and is now awaiting signature by Gov. Tate Reeves. It requires the current state flag to be removed within 15 days of passage. A commission selected by the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the House will design a flag including the phrase “In God We Trust” to be completed by September 14. Mississippi voters will decide […]
The flag of the state of Mississippi flies in front of the Mississippi State Capitol dome on Jan. 10, 2019. Lawmakers have cleared the way for legislation to remove and replace the flag. Brandon Dill/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brandon Dill/The Washington Post via Getty Images The flag of the state of Mississippi flies in front of the Mississippi State Capitol dome on Jan. 10, 2019. Lawmakers have cleared the way for legislation to remove and replace the flag. Brandon Dill/The Washington Post via Getty Images Lawmakers in Mississippi cleared the way to remove the Confederate […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107973/71/1079737182_0:0:3016:1697_1200x675_80_0_0_2549aaa7e8e6e94189c3bb8e64da01a0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006271079737211-mississippi-governor-says-ready-to-sign-bill-removing-confederate-emblem-from-state-flag/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The governor of the US state of Mississippi Tate Reeves on Saturday expressed his readiness to sign any bill that passes the legislature proposing to remove the Confederate emblem from the state’s flag. “The legislature has been deadlocked for days as it considers a new state flag. The argument over the 1894 flag has become as divisive as the flag itself and it’s time to end it. If they send me a bill this weekend, I will sign it”, Reeves wrote on Twitter. The legislature has been deadlocked for days as […]
The US Embassy in Moscow is flying the rainbow pride flag alongside the country’s famous Stars and Stripes as a show of support for the LGBT community. The move comes as Russians begin to head to the polls to vote on proposed constitutional amendments, including the definition of marriage as a union between a man and woman. “LGBTI rights are human rights. Human rights are universal,” said the caption on the embassy’s Instagram page. “Pride Month is designed to emphasize that everyone deserves to live a life free of hate, prejudice, and persecution.” In the USA, LGBT Pride Month occurs in […]
US President Donald Trump has called on lawmakers to “do something” about protesters who burn American flags, apparently inspired by demonstrators who set Old Glory ablaze just blocks away from the White House. “It is a shame that Congress doesn’t do something about the lowlifes that burn the American Flag. It should be stopped, and now!” Trump boomed from his perch on Twitter on Tuesday night. Earlier in the evening, protesters were seen torching an American flag during a demonstration in the nation’s capital, not far from the White House, where a crowd erupted into cheers as the banner burned. Think your friends […]
Livin’ On Tulsa Time: Infiltrating ‘Trump Country’ To Fly A Different Flag By Danny Sjursen, Scheer Post. June 23, 2020 Livin’ On Tulsa Time: Infiltrating ‘Trump Country’ To Fly A Different Flag2020-06-232020-06-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/black-wall-street-mural-tulsa-ok-by-danny-sjursen-e1592936536242.jpg200px200px Above photo: Black Wall Street mural, Tulsa, OK by Danny Sjursen. These antiwar veterans agree this was the mission they most believed in. “Does anyone else feel like we’re living out an episode of ‘The Americans?’” So asked my buddy and teammate — a Marine Corps combat veteran — as we sat in the nearly empty upper deck at the Trump rally in Tulsa’s Bok Center. It was almost […]
According to a Facebook page called Left Behind USA, Antifa domestic terrorists are planning to desecrate the Gettysburg National Cemetery and set the American Flag ablaze on Independence Day. Gettysburg, the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War and on American soil, is respected and revered by every sane American. As they have demonstrated since 2016, and in particular since Antifa and BLM have fused into a violent rage mob, the modern progressive and leftist movement has lost all sense of decency and sanity. The event page for the flag burning, that they have scheduled on the day we […]
The official Twitter account of the United Nations Office at Geneva tweeted an Antifa flag on Friday and “expressed concern” about the violent anarchist movement being branded terrorists by U.S. Attorney General William Barr. “UN #HumanRights experts express profound concern over a recent statement by the US Attorney-General describing #Antifa and other anti-fascist activists as domestic terrorists, saying it undermines the rights to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly in the country,” the UN Geneva office tweeted. UN #HumanRights experts express profound concern over a recent statement by the US Attorney-General describing #Antifa and other anti-fascist activists as domestic terrorists, […]
The US Navy has signaled that it will bar public displays of the Confederate Flag on installations, warships and aircraft, mirroring a similar decision by the Marines as protests over police brutality and racism sweep the country. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday said on Tuesday that an order is being drawn up to prohibit the controversial flag “from all public spaces and work areas aboard Navy installations, ships, aircraft and submarines,” adding that the move is meant to “ensure unit cohesion, preserve good order and discipline.” The order is meant to ensure unit cohesion, preserve good order and discipline, […]
Bubba Wallace, one of the most successful African-American drivers in NASCAR history, has called for fans to be banned from bringing Confederate flags to races, and says that the time has come for a change in the popular sport. Alabama native Wallace, who drives the number 43 car for Richard Petty Motorsports, added his voice to the wave of protests currently taking place across the United States by wearing a t-shirt which read “I can’t breathe/Black Lives Matter” prior to Sunday’s race in Atlanta, and he has since underscored his stance by calling for the sport’s authorities to take a harsher stance against […]
14 per cent of Small and Medium-Sized businesses won’t have enough cash ‘to last four weeks of lockdown’, according to the latest business survey conducted by two country-wide accountancy networks with tens of thousands of members. 99 per cent of all UK employment is within Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), businesses employing 250 people or less. The Association of Certified Charters Accountants (ACCA) UK and the Corporate Finance Network (CFN) produce weekly reports tracking the financial health of SMEs in the UK amid the COVID-19 lockdown. ACCA UK explains to Sputnik that while there has been much effort from the government […]
Before the Demo-2 mission, only one American crew vehicle had ever carried astronauts to the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle. On Sunday, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon became the second. Dragon Endeavour has completed the first half of her round trip mission to the space station. Spacecraft Commander Doug Hurley and Joint Operations Commander Bob Behnken have “Captured the Flag” as the first crew to reach the ISS from the United States since the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011. Endeavour lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday, leaving LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:22 PM EDT […]
US President Donald Trump has offered a sneak peak into the future of American military tech, talking up what he called a “super duper missile,” but his scientific terminology was simply too much for some netizens to take. The comment came during an Oval Office ceremony to unveil the official flag of the Space Force on Friday, with Trump taking a brief detour into state of the art hardware under development at the Pentagon. “We have, I call it the Super Duper Missile. And I heard the other night [it’s] 17 times faster than what they have right now,” Trump said. […]
World 17:50 GMT 09.05.2020Get short URL 9 May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, which, of course, prompts many social media users to share pictures related to the memorable event. However, Facebook algorithms seem to be strikingly intolerant of one picture in particular. Facebook users have been complaining about experiencing trouble with uploading a picture of the victory flag being raised over the Reichstag in Berlin in May 1945. According to the Classicalmusicnews.ru website, Russian pianist Ekaterina Mechetina complained that her page was blocked for 24 hours “for violating regulations of the community”. Mechetina told the […]
Social media feeds are filled with historic shots marking Victory Day, but Facebook seems to have taken issue with one that symbolizes the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, and it keeps deleting a recently-colorized version of it. Taken during the Battle of Berlin on May 2, 1945, Yevgeny Khaldei’s ‘Raising a Flag over the Reichstag’ commonly springs to mind when it comes to the subject of World War II and Victory Day celebrations. It universally appears in literature, documentaries and, indeed, in social media posts. RT has even reenacted the iconic moment as part of its V-Day project. All the more […]