Month: January 2021

Sunday, January 31, 2021: Epoch Crossword

‘”Big Bang Theory” network’, ‘Biased’, ‘”American” territory’ ‘Assimilate anew’, ‘Approve automatically’, ‘Marshaled’, and ‘Consciousness’ are some of the clues in this crossword puzzle from the May 25, 2020 edition of The Epoch Times newspaper.


Analyst: In GameStop Battle, ‘The Little Guy Has Been Winning’

Smaller investors have been winning in the battle with Wall Street over GameStop, according to a financial analyst. “The generic backdrop to all this is kind of a little guy against the big [Wall] Street firms. And, in this case, the little guy has been winning,” analyst Jeff Carlson told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought…


Russia Arrests 3,300 During Wide Protests Backing Navalny

MOSCOW—Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia’s vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up the nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. More than 3,300 people were detained by police, according to a monitoring group, and some were beaten….


Russia Arrests 2,700 During Wide Protests Backing Navalny

MOSCOW—Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, thousands of people took to the streets Sunday across Russia’s vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up the nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. Over 2,700 were detained by police, according to a monitoring group. Russian authorities mounted a massive effort…


Democrats Seek to Make Guns Illegal for Lawmakers on Capitol Hill

A pair of House Democrats are pushing a bill that would it make it illegal for lawmakers to carry a gun anywhere on Capitol Hill. Reps. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) introduced the No Congressional Gun Loophole Act on Dec. 28, 2020, and reintroduced it in the new session of Congress last week. “As…


‘Zuckerberg Didn’t Convince Me to Back Down’: Australian Treasurer

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to discuss an impending new law that will force the tech giants to pay local media for display their news content. The Facebook CEO, however, was unable to shift the Australian government’s position on introducing the News Media Bargaining Code. The treasurer revealed on…


Fake News About Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Becomes a Most Searched Trend on China’s Social Media

A negative news report on Moderna vaccines recently set off a debate on China’s social media. Moderna is a drug company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm has developed a COVID-19 vaccine. On Jan. 27, an article titled “WHO Does Not Recommend MODERNA COVID-19 Vaccines” appeared on a host of Chinese state media outlets, including…


UK Opens New Visa Scheme to Hong Kong Residents

The UK government on Sunday officially opened a new visa scheme designed to offer holders of British National (Overseas) status in Hong Kong a path to citizenship at a time when freedom and human rights in the former British colony are under unprecedented threat from the Chinese regime. The scheme, first announced last July after…


The Eternal Beauty of Divine Truth and Love: ‘Aurora Taking Leave of Tithonus’

Aurora was the personification of the dawn in Greco-Roman mythology. She was a child of the Titans, who were the 12 primordial gods born to heaven and earth. She was sister to the sun and moon deities and mother to the winds and stars. According to the “Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite,” Aurora, also called Eos,…


China’s Communist Party Blames Imported Food for Recent COVID-19 Surges

The news of “positive nucleic acid tests on imported food packaging” have appeared on mainland Chinese media frequently this month. State-approved “experts” quoted by the media have given different opinions on the risk of contracting the virus from imported, causing confusion and panic among the people and huge losses for import businesses. Faced with an…