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How China executes 1,000 people a year for literally anything you do they do not like. And those are only the ones that got some sort of public trial - others are just taken away buy the police, dumped in a ditch and shot. ( By comparison the US executed 84 people in 2023. ) This video about public Death Vans is for the Chinese public - a sort of public service announcement to instill fear. Westerners are not supposed to know about this. So don't watch. Be right with the CCP. The video goes through the process step by...

In a bid to boost the country's low birth rate, one company in South Korea is putting their money where their mouth is. Booyoung Group is offering employees an attractive sum of 100 million won (S$101,000) for every baby born.

In the “hmm, this sounds weird” category of stories today, multiple outlets are reporting that the death of Foremost Group CEO Angela Chao — the sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — is being treated as a possible criminal matter. A Texas county sheriff’s office is leading the investigation:Chao, 50, was found dead shortly after midnight on Feb. 11 after being pulled out of a car that had gone into a pond on a private ranch in Johnson City, Texas, about 40 miles from Austin.“This incident was not a typical accident," the Blanco County Sheriff's Office wrote in a...

Today I received a letter from a good friend who just lost a loved one. Let me predicate all this by stating my friend knows that her loved one is with our Lord, because my friend's loved one was a follower of Christ Jesus like herself. All who put their faith in Jesus know the promise that to be absent from the body means we are Present with our Lord. (2Corinthians 5:-10) I do understand her mourning, because she misses her loved one dearly. For those confronted with the loss of a loved one, I often times use the following...

SNIP "After she passed,” Taylor said, “we found a bucket list that she had made when she was 16." “Yeah, adopt a teenager, number 28," Allen read from the list. "Number 29, be a foster parent. Number 27, be a mother." "That one gets me every time,” Taylor said. “A gut punch." The dreams on Trista’s bucket list will never come true. She died on Nov. 9, 2022. This was twelve days after her parents believe she got her second COVID vaccine. Trista Martin They found her vaccination card from her first appointment in her purse after she died. It...

How many people died from the COVID shot? Do vaccines actually cause autism? Steve Kirsch has looked at the data. ( 11 minute video in the link below) https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1761148935572459745

Non-binary student, 16, dies after girls ‘beat her head across the floor’ in bathroom assault: reports An Oklahoma teen died earlier this month after she and another student were severely beaten inside a school bathroom, according to reports. Sophomore Dagny Benedict, 16, was involved at a fight at Owasso High School in suburban Tulsa on February 7, according to 2 News. A school staffer finally broke up the melee after Benedict, a straight A student, and a classmate were battered for an extended period — reportedly by three older female students. While her family’s obituary used female pronouns, mother Sue...

Last week, two New York University students died just days apart from each other. Police officials told the New York Post, that Jacqueline Beauzile, 19, was pronounced dead by EMS after she was found unresponsive at Lipton Hall on Thursday. The body of Doreah Salti, 18, was discovered around 7:30 PM outside the Barney building on Stuyvesant Street. She was later pronounced dead at the Bellevue Hospital with trauma on her body that indicated that she had either jumped or fallen from the building. With many speculating that Salti's death was a suicide, her family said they believed her death...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s team declared his death a murder Saturday as authorities claimed his life ended because of a medical condition called “sudden death syndrome.” Navalny, 47, died Friday in Russia’s brutal IK-3 penal colony in remote Kharp, about 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow. “Alexey Navalny was murdered. His death occurred on February 16 at 2:17 p.m. local time, according to the official message to Alexey’s mother,” Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh wrote on X early Saturday. Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service originally claimed “the convict” collapsed and died after he “felt unwell” during a walk. “When Alexei’s lawyer and...

Alexei Navalny's body has gone missing from the morgue where it was officially being held, his team have said as his mother arrived at the brutal IK-3 Polar Wolf penal colony this morning. Navalny's lawyer, who arrived in the town of Salekhard with Navalny's mother on Saturday, called a number for the morgue and was told that 'Alexei's body is not in the morgue', as claimed by the prison where he had died, the team said on Telegram. Alexei Navalny's spokesperson this morning confirmed the Russian opposition leader had died and said that his body is with investigators. Kira Yarmysh...

This year, Valentine's Day is being clouded by pro-abortion groups who insist that abortion is a way of showing love. Though the left agrees that Valentine's Day is all about love, many outlets and groups are using the holiday to promote something that’s completely antithetical to the idea of love - abortion. Last week, the Carolina Abortion Fund put out a tweet indicating that people could send a love note to someone and donate $14 for “abortion care.” Supposedly, this is the third year in a row that the group has pushed this campaign where people donate money for others...

A Utah teenager plunged hundreds of feet to his death when he stopped to take photos with buddies at a scenic overlook and fell over the edge, according to officials. Thrill-seeking 19-year-old Jonathan Fielding died Saturday in what authorities believe was an accident while he was hiking near Moonscape Overlook, KUTV reported. Fielding, an avid photographer, and two friends went to take pics near the edge of a cliff when Fielding lost his footing on shaky ground and went over the canyon edge as he attempted to find a better vantage point, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, per the station,...

Chilean leftists engaged in acts of public disorder and small riots on Wednesday in celebration of the tragic death of moderate President Sebastián Piñera the day before in a helicopter crash. Police arrested at least one individual in the disturbances. Piñera, who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022, died on Tuesday evening while piloting his personal helicopter. The helicopter crashed into a lake near the southern Chilean town of Lago Ranco. Piñera was accompanied by three members of his family, all of whom survived the crash and were able to swim...

San Mateo County recently became the first county in the country to recognize loneliness as a public health emergency. The county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last week to approve a resolution introduced by Supervisor David Canepa declaring loneliness a health emergency. In the resolution, Canepa outlined several strategies to address loneliness. These include strengthening social infrastructure, implementing pro-connection public policies, mobilizing the health sector, conducting research to deepen knowledge, reforming online environments and fostering a culture of connection. “Many people are suffering alone in silence, and there’s no cure for it,” Canepa said.... Following the resolution, Canepa wrote a...

South Carolina wants to bring back the firing squad and the electric chair as the state argues that “painless” deaths are not mandated. Among the 33 prisoners on death row in the Palmetto State, four inmates are arguing that the electric chair and firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. The inmates also claim a 2023 law that allows lethal injections is too secretive about many details of the new drug. However, the governor of the Palmetto State disagrees, saying all three methods fit the existing protocol and painless executions are not mandated by law. “Courts have never held the...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the second worst President of all time. What would be an appropriate way to celebrate ?

You are not your brain, and brain death does not equal death. Protect yourself from a false “brain death” diagnosis by refusing to be a registered organ donor. But this is not enough. The 2006 update to the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) now mandates that if a person has no documented refusal to donate (and the family cannot be contacted) the coroner, medical examiner, or hospital administrator can donate your body or organs on your behalf. By documenting your refusal to donate in your advanced directive and electronic medical record and by carrying a “refusal to donate” wallet card,...

Canada’s psychiatric community has been divided on the country’s emergence as a global leader in assisted death under the MAID program. The number of Canadians ending their lives through medically assisted death has grown at a speed that outpaces every other nation in the world. As Canada is poised to expand eligibility criteria under medical assistance in dying (MAID) legislation, data from all 11 countries where the controversial end-of-life treatment exists shows Canada is the fastest-growing adopter in history, an analysis by the Investigative Journalism Bureau and the Toronto Star has found.

This is the news I see happening tonight in our former great nation of the U.S. FOX Baltimore @FOXBaltimore Three people are dead and one person is injured after four men were shot Friday night in Northwest Baltimore, according to police. --- As of January 13th, there have been 11 homicides in the city of LA, the same YTD as 2023. Shooting victims are up 23.5% with 42 victims compared to 34 last year. Robberies are up 5.2% with 285 robberies compared to 271 last year. ---- FOX 5 Atlanta @FOX5Atlanta Milwaukee pizza delivery homicide; 3 teens charged with felony...

Canadian world champion pole vaulter Shawn Barber died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 29. Barber’s agent confirmed in a statement that the athlete had died at his home in Kingwood, Texas, on Wednesday. The cause of death has not yet been revealed. “More than just an incredible athlete, Shawn was such a good-hearted person that always put others ahead of himself,” Doyle said Thursday. “It’s tragic to lose such a good person at such a young age.” World Atheletics account on X posted their condolences: “Keep flying, Shawn. World Athletics is deeply saddened by the passing of Shawn...