It seems clear now that Covid-19 will take a place in world history, a seismic event of the twenty-first century whose effects will only be fully understood over many years, even decades. What also seems clear is that the United States-China relationship will change — indeed, must change. The question is how, and along what lines.

Among Americans, anger at China runs high. American voters may, in the short term, choose to blame the Trump administration at the polls in November 2020; in the long term, whomever they vote for, most Americans understand that China is responsible for a global catastrophe that could have been greatly minimized or even averted entirely had Beijing simply told the truth about it from the beginning. No number of missteps, from often-bungling Western governments, can disguise Beijing’s fundamental culpability. Recent polls in the United States suggest that Americans understand this — overwhelming majorities blame China for causing this disaster. Moreover, the coronavirus has darkened Americans’ views of China more broadly. A Pew poll showed two-thirds of American respondents now view China negatively.

READ MORE HERE: https://medium.com/@Douglas_Schoen/wake-up-america-china-and-russia-are-plotting-to-destroy-us-1530d0448316

Democrats in Congress appear to be at a crossroads.

Under the leadership of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrats in the lower congressional chamber have repeatedly come under fire for the inability to work across the aisle. This inability has been magnified by a litany of impasses and stalemates regarding the provision of coronavirus aid to Americans.

READ MORE HERE: https://www.conservativecardinal.com/pelosi-house-democrats-panned-for-embracing-the-socialists/

A team of researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has built a bionic device that they say can restore vision to the blind through a brain implant.

The team is now preparing for what they claim will be the world’s first human clinical trials of a bionic eye — and are asking for additional funding to eventually manufacture it on a global scale.

It’s essentially the guts of a smartphone combined with brain-implanted micro electrodes, as TechCrunch reports. The “Gennaris bionic vision system,” a project that’s more than ten years in the making, bypasses damaged optic nerves to allow signals to be transmitted from the retina to the vision center of the brain.

The system is made up of a custom-designed headgear, which includes a camera and a wireless transmitter. A processor unit takes care of data crunching, while a set of tiles implanted inside the brain deliver the signals.

READ MORE HERE: https://futurism.com/doctors-preparing-implant-the-worlds-first-human-bionic-eye

Palestinian militants of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades take part in a military show as they protest against the deal between Israel and the UAE. August 22, 2020.

Palestinian protests against the normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain could lead to an intifada, Palestinian activists warned on Tuesday.
 The warning came as Palestinians held protests against the “treacherous” agreements in some parts of the West Bank. The protests, organized by several Palestinian factions that are part of a new group called the Unified Leadership of the Popular Resistance, were held under the banner: “Normalization is a crime.”
“We are on the brink of a third intifada,” a Fatah activist told The Jerusalem Post. “The Palestinian people feels betrayed by the Arabs and will show the world that the Palestinian issue remains the central issue of all Arabs and Muslims.”

READ MORE HERE: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/decrying-normalization-palestinians-warn-of-third-intifada-642378

Openly contradicting the government’s top health experts, President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that a safe and effective vaccine against the coronavirus could be ready as early as next month and in mass distribution soon after, undermining the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and calling him “confused” in projecting a longer time frame.

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LONDON — The Bank of England indicated Thursday that it could cut interest rates below zero for the first time in its 326-year history as it tries to shore up a U.K. economic recovery that is facing the dual headwinds of the coronavirus and Brexit.

After unanimously deciding to maintain the bank’s main interest rate at the record low of 0.1%, the nine-member rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee said it had discussed its “policy toolkit, and the effectiveness of negative policy rates in particular.”

In minutes accompanying the decision, the rate-setters said a recent wave of virus infections has “the potential to weigh further on economic activity, albeit probably on a lesser scale than seen earlier in the year.”

Though the committee noted that recent economic data have been a “little stronger than expected” at its last meeting in early August, it said it is unclear what that says about the future “given the risks.”

READ MORE HERE: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bank-england-says-economic-outlook-111515858.html

The election on November 3, 2020 will be the most important election in the history of the United States. Major changes are on the horizon. It is very important that every registered citizen of this nation go to the polls and vote. There must be thought and prayer before your vote. GET OUT AND VOTE!

-Bishop Cornelius Duncan

President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

JERUSALEM, Israel – President Donald Trump warned Iran on Monday the United States will respond “1000 times greater” to any attack following reports that the Islamic Republic is weighing assassinating a US diplomat in retaliation for the January killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

“According to press reports, Iran may be planning an assassination, or other attack, against the United States in retaliation for the killing of terrorist leader Soleimani,” Trump tweeted. “Any attack by Iran, in any form, against the United States will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude!”

READ MORE HERE: https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/national-security/2020/september/trump-us-will-respond-1-000-times-greater-to-any-iranian-attack

HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA) — State lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it a misdemeanor to go maskless in public.

Supporters of Senate Bill 1287 says Pennsylvanians who don’t wear masks are recklessly endangering other people and not following the rules set forth in the state’s emergency order.

Those opposed to the bill say requiring masks infringes on a person’s rights and doesn’t account for people who cannot wear masks or face coverings for medical reasons.

READ MORE HERE: https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/09/14/pa-lawmakers-considering-bill-that-would-make-not-wearing-masks-a-misdemeanor/

Photo: Mark Wilson, TNS In a since-deleted Facebook post, Michael Caputo,top spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services in Trump administration accused U.S. government scientists of “sedition” and claimed left-wing hit squads are gearing up to kill him and other supporters of the president. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/TNS)

WASHINGTON – A top communications official for the administration’s coronavirus response urged President Donald Trump’s supporters to prepare for an armed insurrection after a contested election and accused government scientists of “sedition” in a Facebook Live chat that he described in detail to The Washington Post on Monday.

Michael Caputo, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, which is overseeing the coronavirus response, leveled the accusations and promoted other conspiracy theories in a Facebook Live event first reported by The New York Times. Caputo confirmed the authenticity of the video in comments he made to The Post.

READ MORE HERE: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Health-and-Human-Services-spokesman-warns-of-15567068.php