On Jan. 6, we were treated to the disgusting spectacle of right wing extremists, many of them supporting confederate and neo-Nazi regalia, rampaging through the Capitol building in Washington D.C.,
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It’s almost like the mainstream media want to raise the temperature and stoke unsubstantiated fear. Actually, I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what they want to do. That was made apparent again today after a lie was trumpeted by several major media outlets before being shown to be mostly false.
I’m talking about the story that a man provided “fake” inauguration credentials while carrying 500 rounds of handgun ammunition on his person in an attempt to enter the Capitol area. This was supposed to be proof of an elevated threat, with the assumption being that this guy was there to shoot the place up as a probable QAnon disciple.
China urged the United States on Thursday to immediately withdraw its wrong decision to put an import ban on all cotton and tomato products from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and stop interfering in China's internal affairs under the pretext of Xinjiang-related issues.