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New York Democrats Clamor for Cuomo’s Resignation in Harassment Scandal Free

By Neil Campbell lower back at a reception and process — where people get the Governor to resign in a New York Visiontimes once kissed her hand when she the facts, and they make a March 7 statement. More Governor rose from her desk.” determination…I was the than 50 elected o cials in the Andrew Cuomo’s Director of Attorney General of New York State legislature have called on Cuomo listens to ew York Democrat calls Communications, Peter for four years. I got all sorts of the Governor to resign or face And I think it should speakers at a for beleaguered Governor be encouraged in every Ajemian, took a page out of the allegations against politicians.” impeachment proceedings. vaccination Andrew Cuomo to tender Chinese Communist Party’s Last week Cuomo made a Stewart Cousins was joined site on March his resignation intensified way. I now understand (CCP) Ministry of Foreign point of o ering an apology by Assembly Speaker Carl 8, 2021, a er two additional women that I acted in a way A airs’ book, by launching an for his conduct, “I want New Heastie who questioned the in New York. came forward to accuse that made people feel assault on Hinton in defense of Yorkers to hear from me “governor’s ability to continue Cuomo is the Democrat of sexual his Governor, “Karen Hinton directly on this. First, I fully to lead this state,” according to facing calls harassment on Sunday, uncomfortable. is a known antagonist of the support a woman’s right to the New York Times. from within bringing the total to  ve. It was unintentional. governor’s who is attempting come forward.” Cuomo also faces an his own party to resign The accusations include And I truly apologize to take advantage of this “And I think it should be independent probe from former press aide Karen moment to score cheap points encouraged in every way. I State Attorney General Letitia after two additional Hinton, who told the for how I feel awful with made-up allegations now understand that I acted James, who says the  ndings women Washington Post that about it. And frankly, from 21 years ago,” he said in in a way that made people of her investigation will be stepped when he was head of the I am embarrassed by it. a statement according to the feel uncomfortable. It was released in a future public forward over U.S. Housing and Urban Washington Examiner. unintentional. And I truly report. the weekend Development Department And it’s not easy to say, The CCP’s propaganda apologize for how I feel awful The Governor’s sexual with in 2000, Cuomo summoned but that’s the truth. machine recently launched about it. And frankly, I am harassment scandals come accusations her to his hotel room a er an But this is what I want a smear campaign against embarrassed by it. And it’s not after it was revealed that of improper event, “embraced her” and “ Uyghur Muslim women easy to say, but that’s the truth. Cuomo’s actions resulted in conduct. pulled her back toward his you to know, and I want who stepped forward in But this is what I want you to the deaths of thousands of body, holding her” a er she you to know this from an interview with BBC know, and I want you to know seniors in New York nursing resisted his advances, and Ana me directly. cataloguing brutal instances this from me directly.” homes during the earliest Liss, a policy operations aide of gang rape and sexual “I never touched anyone parts of the SARS-CoV-2 who worked in the Governor’s abuse experienced first inappropriately. I never knew novel coronavirus pandemic o ce from 2013 to 2015. Liss --Cuomo hand during the genocide at the time that I was making as his o ce ordered homes told the Wall Street Journal of the ethnic minority in the anyone feel uncomfortable,” to accept COVID-19 patients that Cuomo “asked her if she Xinjiang Autonomous region. he added. discharged from the hospital. had a boyfriend, called her During a teleconference on His administration was also sweetheart, touched her on her Sunday, the 63 year-old Cuomo New York Democrat found to have under-reported (Image: Screenshot form Twitter) said he had no intentions of o cials call for deaths in nursing homes by as resigning amid the scandal, resignation much as 50 percent. A third “That’s democracy. There New York Democrat Senate Cuomo’s situation is not woman has accused is no way I resign,” he said. Majority Leader Andrea without precedent in the Governor “People are free to make Stewart Cousins called New York Democrat faction. Cuomo of allegations, but then you Cuomo’s recent scandals a In 2008 when New York unwanted also have a process — due “distraction” and called on Democrat Governor Elliot touching and Spitzer resigned during a sexual prostitution scandal, Spitzer attention, similarly faced a loss of saying he support from his own Party. placed his hands on her face and asked if he Emergency Medical Service workers unload a could kiss her patient out of their ambulance at the Cobble Hill at her friend's Health Center on April 18, 2020 in the Cobble Hill wedding. neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New A friend took York City. New York Democrat Governor Andrew a series of Cuomo is under re for ordering discharged pictures of COVID-19 patients to nursing homes and covering the incident up death statistics in his state. (Image: Justin Heiman/ as it occurred. Getty Images)

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By Jonathan Walke ing their right to vote. discriminatory. The court ties, including political oper- inevitably find it more chal- preserving the present Dem- Visiontimes Arizona has a policy that stated that the criminaliza- atives, protects against voter lenging to comply with the ocratic majority. It is a bill by excludes provisional ballots tion of collecting another coercion and preserves bal- election rules. The Supreme the majority, for the majority, cast in-person on Election person’s ballots affects His- lot secrecy,” Brnovich said in Court has a 6-3 conserva- and is intended to entrench he United States Day at a location outside of panic, American Indian, a statement. tive majority. A decision on the majority in power for years Supreme Court the voter’s precinct. Another and African American vot- Michael Carvin, attorney the case is expected by June. to come,” Republican Repre- recently heard two policy, H.B. 2023, only allows ers more since they are gener- for the Arizona Republican sentative Tom Cole, a House T Arizona Republicans cases related to Arizona’s elec- a voter’s close family mem- ally poorer and face difficulty Party, also stated that Arizona Rules Committee Ranking tion integrity. The two law- bers, caregivers, election in receiving and sending mail. has never denied any citizen and H.R. 1 Legislation Member, said in a statement. suits were filed by Arizona officials, and mail carriers to It is a violation of Section 2 of their rightful voting opportu- One of the provisions of Attorney General Mark Brno- handle their early ballot. the VRA, the court said. nity. When Justice Sonia Soto- While Arizona Republicans H.R. 1 is to automatically vich and the Arizona Repub- These rules were challenged At the Supreme Court, mayor argued that being poor fight for election integrity in register all adults irrespec- lican Party against the Dem- under the VRA since Section Brnovich dismissed these is, in itself, violating an indi- the Supreme Court, Demo- tive of their citizenship status ocratic National Committee 2 of the act prohibits states findings, saying that Arizo- vidual’s voting rights, Carvin crats proposed new legislation for voting. It also mandates (DNC.) and localities from impos- na’s election laws do not vio- countered, stating that voting that threatens probity nation- states to implement early vot- The plaintiffs in both cases ing any requirement to block late VRA regarding racial dis- underutilization due to socio- wide. H.R 1 or ‘For the Peo- ing, allow felons to vote, end argued that Arizona’s elec- a person from voting based on crimination. economic factors is not a cog- ple Act’ will empower the fed- voter ID requirements, prac- tion integrity laws are con- their color or race. A U.S. dis- “Requiring in-person voters nizable factor under Section 2 eral government to impose its tice 15 days of early voting, sistent with the federal Voting trict court upheld Arizona’s to cast their ballots at assigned of the VRA. election mandates on states. and enact no-fault absen- Rights Act (VRA) and must rules as legally valid. precincts ensures that they Associate Justice Samuel “I said this bill’s title is a tee voting. House Minor- be upheld. Democrats claim However, a panel of the can vote in local races and Alito stated that the Democrat misnomer because I do not ity Leader Republican Kevin that Arizona’s laws violate 9th Circuit Court of Appeals helps officials monitor for argument makes every vot- believe this bill has anything McCarthy warned that the VRA by restricting vulnera- agreed with the claim that fraud… Restricting early bal- ing rule vulnerable to attack. to do with the American peo- bill would totally erode confi- ble groups from fully practic- Arizona’s election laws were lot collections by third par- Disadvantaged people will ple… This is a bill that’s about dence in the election process.

Maine’s Jared Golden Only Democrat Dissent as House Passes Final $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan

By Neil Campbell run through the House, said the bill wholeheartedly and Affordable Care Act, and pen- Visiontimes he voted against his Democrat believe we should do more for sion reform. fellows because the Amer- the people hardest hit by the Golden says he appreciates ican Rescue Plan Act does pandemic by continuing to these policies on their own, he House of Repre- not fit his principles, “This extend unemployment pro- but feels they should not be sentatives, sans Rep. bill addresses urgent needs, grams until economic indica- included as riders in a pan- TJared Golden (D-ME), and then buries them under tors show they are no longer demic relief spending bill. passed the final version of the a mountain of unnecessary or necessary.” “Between the money spent Biden administration’s $1.9 untimely spending,” he said in Golden says the remaining in 2020 and today’s package, trillion American Rescue a Statement. 80 percent of the bill falls into we are already nearing $6 tril- Plan spending bill on March two categories. The first he lion in new spending in less 10. The Act will now be sent Between the money described as a “series of spend- than one year. This amount to President Biden for final spent in 2020 and today’s ing provisions that duplicate of new spending is unprece- signing and become United ongoing COVID assistance dented since World War II,” States law. package, we are already programs that Congress has said Golden. “It’s not unrea- The Act’s journey through nearing $6 trillion in already funded or are poorly sonable to take a step back and Congress has been a partisan new spending in less designed and wasteful of ask ourselves if we are making affair, with the House reject- than one year. This public resources,” including every dollar count and pick- ing all but 2 of 286 Republican Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader amount of new spending additional rental, food, and ing the right priorities.” amendments to the gargan- Chuck Schumer sign the American Rescue Plan Act after the House is unprecedented child care assistance, aid to The United States national tuan 591 page bill. The Sen- Chamber voted on the final revised legislation of the $1.9 trillion state and local governments, debt increased from approx- ate, meanwhile, accepted only spending plan, at the U.S. Capitol on March 10, 2021 in Washing- since World War II schools, small businesses, and imately $23.6 trillion in three Republican amend- ton, DC. Jared Golden of Maine was the only Democrat to vote Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) $1,400 checks for individuals March of 2020 to a high ments in a 24 hour session nay on the bill. (Image: OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) making more than $75,000 of $27.9 trillion by Feb- on March 6. The final ver- “In reviewing the bill in its and couples making $150,000. ruary of 2021. Accord- sion included the removal of The revised Act was passed sition and all Democrats, full scope, less than 20 per- Jared Golden described the ing to the Federal Reserve, Biden’s promised $15 min- by the Senate 50-49 after except for Jared Golden, vot- cent of the total spending second category as “a series the U.S. Gross Domestic imum wage hike, a reduc- Republican Dan Sullivan of ing in favor. addresses core COVID chal- of policies worthy of consid- Product is approximately tion of the “raise” given to Alaska had to leave the mar- lenges that are immediately eration under regular order $21.5 billion as of Q4 2020. the unemployed of $400 per athon session early to attend Jared Golden the pressing: funding for vac- but that do not belong in an President Biden is sched- week to only $300 per week a family funeral. The final sole Democrat ‘nay’ cine distribution and test- emergency spending bill,” uled to sign the American and an extension of the addi- passing in the House was by In a statement, Jared ing, and emergency federal such as a one-year expansion Rescue Plan into law on tional unemployment insur- a margin of 220-211, with all Golden, who also voted unemployment programs. of the Child Tax Credit, a two- Friday, according to USA ance to Sept. 6. Republicans voting in oppo- against the bill in its original I support these portions of year enhancement under the Today.

York Governor is also under investigation into Whittier’s Michigan Governor Allegedly Bribes Public Health scrutiny for hiding nurs- role in nursing home coro- ing home deaths in his state. navirus deaths. In addition Official to Stay Quiet About Nursing Home Scandal But in May, Cuomo stopped to her problematic policies, COVID-19–positive peo- the lawmakers explained ichigan Gover- begin an investigation to look Whitmer refused to release ple from returning to their that there are discrepancies nor Democrat at the process of what they’re CCP virus death data and nursing homes. Whitmer, in in the data reported by nurs- MGretchen Whit- doing within this adminis- accurate home numbers to contrast, continued to allow ing homes. mer is accused of paying hush tration… [House Republicans the public. He is willing to infected people into nursing For example, patients money to the former health are] working with our legal fight the case all the way to homes. She even vetoed a bill transferred to hospitals who department director Robert counsel to determine what the Supreme Court. that would protect the elderly. received a positive corona- Gordon. One month after options we have available… “The public has a right to Last July, Whitmer vetoed virus test were added to the announcing his resignation and if we have to do a sub- know. Above all, the public a bill aimed at stopping coro- records of only a few nursing on Jan. 22, Gordon allegedly poena, we will,” Steven John- has a need to know. We shut navirus patients from being home facilities. At the same signed an agreement with son said at a news conference. down the entire economy. We housed together with the vul- time, some centers completely Whitmer’s administration interrupted our children’s nerable elderly. People aged skipped all reports of them. for $155,506. Under fire lives, all in the name of pro- 60 and above constitute 90 Steven Johnson, Chair- The bribe was to silence tecting the most vulnerable. percent of coronavirus deaths man of the Michigan House Gordon over Governor Whit- The Michigan gover- We now know this was the in the state. Oversight Committee, held a mer’s COVID-19 policies and nor is also under fire by institutionalized elderly. If Mackinac Center for Pub- hearing to know more about not discuss his resignation the Pulitzer Prize-winning COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, ILLINOIS we could not protect them, lic Policy spokesperson Holly Whitmer’s COVID-19 nurs- circumstances. The deal has reporter Charlie LeDuff. He – APRIL 16: Terrence Bardney of at the very least, we deserve Wetzel stated that its law- ing home policies. However, only added fuel to claims that announced that he would Leak and Sons’ Funeral Chapels an explanation from Madam suit aims to collect accurate the state health and human Whitmer is hiding something sue Michigan Governor carries flowers from the chapel Governor,” LeDuff told Fox records to understand better services director, who was significant about the pan- Democrat Gretchen Whit- following the service for Cora News. He added that if there how the pandemic affected supposed to testify at the demic’s impact in the state’s mer to force her to release Johnson on April 16, 2020, in is gross negligence or incom- Michigan. hearing personally, did not nursing homes. coronavirus data regarding Country Club Hills, Illinois. The petence from the governor, show up. Pulitzer Prize-winning jour- “This is a public official its nursing homes. LeDuff is she needs “to answer for it.” Michigan Republicans Instead, the director sent a nalist is suing Michigan gover- being bought off with tax- preparing the lawsuit along nor over coronavirus nursing The journalist tweeted want answers letter stating that they have payer dollars… What I want with free-market think-tank home policies. ( Images: cott Olson/ that Whitmer copied nurs- “the greatest data out there” to know is, what are they hid- Mackinac Center. Getty Images) ing homes’ policies from Michigan’s Republican state but failed to share any data ing… [The committee will] The journalist tweeted that Andrew Cuomo. The New legislators have demanded an with the committee.

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By Prakash Gogoi the resources and law enforce- ments by pointing out that the Visiontimes ment personnel needed to con- president’s policy of allowing front this crisis,” the governor a large number of migrants said in a statement. through the southern bor- he governor of Texas, The decision to launch Oper- ders was the main reason the Greg Abbot, recently ation Lone Star came after pandemic continues to spread Tlaunched ‘Operation Governor Abbott and Presi- throughout Texas and other Lone Star’ in collaboration with dent Biden clashed on how to U.S. states. the Department of Public Safety control the pandemic. Abbott Most illegal migrants are (DPS). The operation will deploy had recently lifted the mask allowed entry without proper the state’s National Guard mandate in his state, feeling COVID-19 test or quarantine Troops and personnel from that such restrictions were requirements. According to other agencies to block crimi- not needed given the reduced data from the Customs and US Soldiers assigned to the 2-151st Security and Support Aviation Battalion, South Carolina Army nal organizations from Mexico hospitalizations, encourag- Border Patrol (CBP), the num- National Guard depart the SC Technology and Aviation Center, Greenville, SC in a UH-72A Lakota hel- smuggling people and drugs, ing recovery numbers, and ber of illegal crossings via the icopter to provide support to the US Border Patrol in Texas, May 21, 2018. Image courtesy Sgt. Jorge across the border, into Texas. expanding vaccinations. southwestern border between Intriago/South Carolina National Guard. (Image: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Ground, air, marine, and However, the governor did October 2020 and January tactical assets will be deployed say that even though the state 2021 rose by 79.6 percent. to aid in the operation. In Feb- won’t force citizens to wear The number of illegal aliens disastrous leadership of Joe COVID,” Trump said in a are almost evenly split on the ruary, Abbott held a meet- a face mask, it would be a coming into the country rose Biden… Our great Border statement. issue, with 47 percent choosing ing with DPS Director Colo- responsible practice towards even further in February after Patrol and ICE agents have to control the virus while 43 nel Steve McCraw in which family and the community. Biden lifted many of Trump’s been disrespected, demeaned, Recovery as a whole percent wanted a move toward they discussed various ways restrictions on immigration and mocked by the Biden Texans are also divided on economic recovery. to secure the border regions. Pandemic spreading and introduced new policies Administration…” whether to prioritize the econ- This division is more “Texas supports legal immi- in Texas that boost the flow of peo- “A mass incursion into the omy at the cost of potentially extreme when looked at from gration but will not be an Biden, meanwhile, has crit- ple across the border. Biden’s country by people who should worsening the pandemic or a political perspective. 72 per- accomplice to the open border icized the move as a “big mis- immigration policies have not be here is happening on an impose restrictions to curb cent of the Republicans stated policies that cause, rather than take,” saying that the last thing been widely condemned; hourly basis, getting worse by the viral outbreak at the econ- that preserving the economy is prevent, a humanitarian crisis the country needs is “Nean- Trump has termed it a disaster. the minute. Many have crim- omy’s expense. A poll by Texas most critical, while 82 percent in our state and endanger the derthal thinking.” Abbott “Our border is now totally inal records, and many oth- Politics Project conducted in of the Democrats stressed con- lives of Texans. We will surge responded to Biden’s com- out of control, thanks to the ers have and are spreading February showed that people trolling the pandemic.

American Views of China in a Recent Survey

By Debbie Cho ing Chinese cyberattacks. At Regarding a total of 84 per- Visiontimes an event at the Hudson Insti- cent of Americans surveyed, tute, he said, “To achieve its another 31 percent of Amer- goals and surpass America, icans feel the basic human he Pew Research China recognizes it needs to rights in China to be a nota- Center released its make leaps in cutting edge bly serious issue. Tsurvey results on the technology, but the sad fact The past year has seen American public’s feelings is that instead of engaging in the Chinese crackdown on towards China in a report the hard slog of innovation, democracy in Hong Kong issued March 4. The report China often steals American through arrests under the new questioned American’s on intellectual property and then National Security Law; ninety their attitude towards China uses it to compete against the percent of respondents believe in several different categories, very American companies it China does not respect its cit- including economics, human victimizes, in effect, cheating izens’ freedoms. rights, technology, military twice.” Yet, the CCP’s clampdown power, coronavirus handling, He also stated that the against Tibetans, Christians, the environment, and interna- Chinese government tar- and the Falun Gong spiritual tional students. gets “research on everything In this file photo taken on August 04, 2020, Prince, a member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alli- group members needs even According to the survey, from military equipment to ance who refused to give his real name, claims to show a website that monitors global cyberattacks greater exposure to make a on his computer at their office in Dongguan, China’s southern Guangdong province. Chinese com- four main topics of serious wind turbines.” In the past significant impact. Recently, munist state hackers have been using a zero-day exploit on Microsoft Exchange Server email serv- concern among the Amer- few months, the Center for various news reports have ers since January. (Image: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images) ican public stood out. Chi- Strategic & International highlighted the use of con- na’s role in cyberattacks, Studies (CSIS) reported that lighted the seriousness of rely- ans both within China and centration camps and forced job losses, the CCP’s grow- Chinese hackers targeted Jap- ing on China as the sole man- outside the country. And in labor on the Uighur Muslim ing military power, Human anese organizations, South- ufacturer in a supply chain far January, China sent military minority group in the Xin- rights, and Animal Rights. east Asian governments, and from domestic consumers. planes into the Taiwan Strait jiang region. The increasing negative senti- The past year has the National Data Center of When the scarcity of medi- in a show of force just as a Furthermore, there has ments of the American public seen the Chinese Mongolia. Hackers connected cal equipment and PPE arose new administration entered been a widespread call to towards the Chinese govern- to the Chinese government during the pandemic’s height the White House. action to end the use of goods ment are also shared in other crackdown on targeted gaming and gam- in 2020, the bottleneck in sup- To counter any U.S. assis- and labor in the supply chain, countries, as found in an ear- democracy in Hong bling countries, demanding plies pointed towards China tance in the CCP’s military which eventually makes its lier Pew Research Center sur- a ransom of $100 million. as equipment manufacturing growth, American invest- way to the U.S. in the form of vey released in October 2020. Kong through moved offshore from the U.S. ments in entities related to the retail products. Countries such as Belgium, American job losses to China. Chinese military have been Of the surveyed American Denmark, the UK, Sweden, arrests under the new American job loss to China restricted. individuals, seventy percent Canada, Australia, and Japan National Security Law; saw a six-point increase from Growing military power In November 2020, the believe in prioritizing China’s have an extremely unfavora- the previous year growing to Forty-nine percent of Trump administration barred Human Rights issue. This sen- ble view of China that has 53 percent in 2021. As one respondents believe that U.S. investments into private timent crosses political affilia- increased in the past year. 82-year-old man included in the CCP’s growing military Chinese companies with mili- tions, education level, and age the survey stated, “They are power is a serious issue. Dur- tary ties as the People’s Liber- groups of those surveyed. As Chinese cyberattacks 90% actively working to take over ing the National People’s Con- ation Army (PLA) used these one surveyed respondent put Cyberattacks are of huge the U.S. economically rather gress meeting in Beijing on entities as a means to mod- it, “When I think of China, concern, voiced by the Amer- of respondents than militarily. They are March 5, the Chinese defense ernize and develop their tech- the first thing that comes to ican public. Two-thirds of believe China pulling our manufacturing spending budget increased nology. mind is the oppressive meas- respondents have found the abilities, copying advanced 6.8% this year to $208 billion. ures it takes on those within issue to be a very serious mat- does not respect its technologies, buying up large- This comes after spats with Human Rights its borders, especially the ter which is seven percent- citizens’ freedoms. scale U.S. corporations and India over border disputes, Additionally, about 50 per- plight of Uyghur Muslims, but age points higher than last they own much of our debt. and tensions with Taiwan cent of respondents see Chi- also the restrictions placed by year’s survey. Last summer, They are methodically taking flared. In February, hack- na’s human rights viola- the Communist government FBI Director Christopher over control of our economy.” ers connected to the Chi- tions as a grave issue, up by on free speech and dissent by Wray made statements blast- The pandemic has high- nese military targeted Tibet- seven points from last year. its citizens.”

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How Were Trojan Asteroids Discovered and Named?

By Troy Oakes covered, astronomers began won- dering what to call them. At this Illustration of n Feb. 22, 1906, German point, most asteroids were given astrophotographer Max the Lucy mis- the names of women from Roman Wolf helped reshape our sion's seven or Greek mythology, unless their O targets: the understanding of the solar system. orbits were particularly strange. A new Again. Born in 1863, Wolf had a binary aster-  e asteroids in question certainly NASA Discov- habit of dramatically altering the oid Patroclus/ had bizarre orbits, so Austrian ery Program astronomy landscape. Something Menoetius, astronomer Johann Palisa sug- mission called of a prodigy, he discovered his rst Eurybates, gested the names Achilles, Patro- Lucy will y comet at only 21 years old.  en, Orus, Leucus, clus, and Hektor a er characters by seven Tro- in 1890, he boldly declared that from  e Iliad. jan asteroids, Polymele, he planned to use wide- eld pho- Achilles was a nigh-invulner- plus a main and the main belt aster- belt asteroid able Greek hero (except for his heel), and Patroclus was a friend oid, to survey Donaldjo- of his. Hektor, prince of the Tro- the diversity hanson. of this popu- jans, eventually killed Patroclus, lation in a sin- and Achilles exacted revenge by gle 12-year Image: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab killing Hektor. record-break-  e recently discovered aster- ing mission. oids were then given Iliad-in- (Image:NASA/JPL- spired names. As astronomers Caltech) tography in his quest to discover As unsurprising, then, that on Feb. 22, continued discovering aster- new asteroids, which would make 1906, Wolf made another impor- oids hiding in Jupiter’s Lagrange him the rst to do so.  is set the astronomers tant discovery: an asteroid with a points, they continued naming groundwork for the eventual dis- particularly unusual orbit. As Jupi- them a er heroes of the Trojan covery of Trojan asteroids. continued ter moved, this asteroid remained War and began referring to them Two years later, Wolf had found discovering ahead of Jupiter, as though it was as “Trojan asteroids.” (“Trojan 18 new asteroids. He later became somehow trapped in Jupiter’s orbit asteroids” would eventually refer the rst person to use the “ste- asteroids around the Sun. German astrono- to asteroids inhabiting any plan- reo comparator,” a View-Master- mer Adolf Berberich observed that et’s stable Lagrange points, though like device that showed two pho- hiding in the asteroid was nearly 60 degrees names from  e Iliad are reserved tographs of the sky at once so in front of Jupiter. for Jupiter’s Trojans.) that moving asteroids Jupiter’s  is speci c position reminded It later became the convention appeared to pop out Lagrange Swedish astronomer Carl Char- to name Jupiter’s L4 asteroids a er from the starry lier of a peculiar behavior pre- Greek characters and Jupiter’s L5 background. points, they dicted by the Italian-French math- asteroids a er Trojan characters, It is per- ematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange so L4 and L5 became the “Greek haps continued over 100 years earlier. Lagrange camp” and the “Trojan camp” argued that if a small body (such respectively. Palisa apparently naming as an asteroid) is placed at one of did not foresee this tradition, for t h e m a e r two stable points in a planet’s orbit his naming of the rst three aster- around the Sun (called the L4 and oids led to a Greek “spy” residing heroes of the L5 Lagrange Points), the asteroid in the Trojan camp (Patroclus) would remain stationary from and a confused Trojan (Hek- Trojan War the planet’s perspective due to tor), who probably wandered into the combined gravitational forces the Greek camp hoping to order and began of the planet and the Sun. Char- some of their famous custom-built lier realized that Wolf’s asteroid wooden horses. referring to was actually caught in Jupiter’s L4 No spacecra has ever been to them as Lagrange point. Until Wolf’s dis- this population of small bodies, covery, Lagrange’s prediction had called the Trojan asteroids. Now, “Trojan only been a mathematical exer- a new NASA Discovery Program cise. Now, these astronomers had mission called Lucy will  y by asteroids.” photographic proof that Lagrange seven Trojan asteroids, plus a main was right. belt asteroid, to survey the diver- Eight months later, one of Wolf’s sity of this population in a single graduate students, August Kop , 12-year record-breaking mission. discovered an asteroid in Jupiter’s  e Lucy spacecra launch win- other stable Lagrange point L5, as dow opens on Oct. 16, 2021. well as another asteroid caught in Provided by: David Dezell L4 a few months a erward. Once Turner, NASA [Note: Materi- three of these Lagrange point-in- als may be edited for content and habiting asteroids had been dis- length.]

No space- craft has ever been to this pop- ulation of small bodies, called the Trojan aster- oids.(Image:- Public Domain)

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Comet Makes a Pit Stop Near Jupiter’s Asteroids pixabay / CC0 1.0

By Troy Oakes come into the orbit of Jupiter at vations from the Apache Point planet to the next in a game of just the right trajectory to have Observatory in New Mexico, celestial pinball before reaching this kind of con guration that which also hinted at the activity. the inner solar system, warming  er traveling several bil- gives it the appearance of shar-  e team observed the comet up as they come closer to the Sun. lion miles toward the Sun, ing its orbit with the planet. We’re using Spitzer just days before the  e researchers say the objects a wayward young com- investigating how it was captured Inner observatory’s retirement in Janu- spend as much or even more time Aet-like object orbiting among the by Jupiter and landed among the system, ary 2020, and identi ed gas and around the giant planets, gravita- giant planets has found a tempo- Trojans. But we think it could be dust around the comet nucleus. tionally pulling on them — about rary parking place along the way. related to the fact that it had a ‘short-  ese observations convinced 5 million years — than they do  e object has settled near a fam- somewhat close encounter with the team to use Hubble to take crossing into the inner system ily of captured ancient asteroids, Jupiter.” period’ a closer look. Aided by Hubble’s where we live, Lisse explained: called Trojans, that are orbiting  e team’s paper appears in sharp vision, the researchers iden- “Inner system, ‘short-period’ the Sun alongside Jupiter.  is is  e Astronomical Journal.  e comets ti ed the tail, coma structure comets break up about once a the rst time a comet-like object research team’s computer simu- break up and the size of the dust parti- century. So, in order to main- has been spotted near the Trojan lations show that the icy object, cles and their ejection velocity. tain the number of local com- population. called P/2019 LD2 (LD2), proba- about once a  ese images helped them con- ets we see today, we think the  e unexpected visitor belongs bly swung close to Jupiter about rm that the features are due to bucket brigade has to deliver a to a class of icy bodies found in two years ago.  e planet then century. So, relatively new comet-like activity. new short-period comet about space between Jupiter and Nep- gravitationally punted the way- in order to Although LD2’s location is sur- once every 100 years.” tune. Called “Centaurs,” they ward visitor to the Trojan aster- prising, Bolin wonders whether An early bloomer become active for the rst time oid group’s co-orbital location, maintain the this pit stop could be a common when heated as they approach the leading Jupiter by about 437 mil- pull-o for some sunward-bound Seeing outgassing activity on Sun and dynamically transition number of comets, saying: a comet 465 million miles away into becoming more comet-like. “This could be part of the from the Sun (where the intensity Visible-light snapshots by NASA’s local comets pathway from our solar system of sunlight is 1/25th as strong as Hubble Space Telescope reveal through the Jupiter Trojans to the on Earth) surprised the research- that the vagabond object shows we see today, inner solar system.” ers, Bolin said: signs of comet activity, such as we think  e unexpected guest probably “We were intrigued to see that a tail, outgassing in the form of will not stay among the asteroids the comet had just started to jets, and an enshrouding coma the bucket for very long. Computer simu- become active for the rst time of dust and gas. lations show that it will have so far away from the Sun at dis- Earlier observations by NASA’s brigade has another close encounter with tances where water ice is barely Astronomers found a roaming Spitzer Space Telescope gave Jupiter in about another two starting to sublimate.” comet taking a rest stop before to deliver a clues to the composition of the possibly continuing its journey. years.  e he y planet will boot Water remains frozen on a comet-like object and the gasses The wayward object made a tem- new short- the comet from the system, and comet until it reaches about 200 Astronauts driving its activity. Lead Hubble porary stop near giant Jupiter. The it will continue its journey to the million miles from the Sun, where install the researcher Bryce Bolin of Caltech icy visitor has plenty of company. It period inner solar system. Team member heat from sunlight converts water Wide Field in Pasadena, California, said: has settled near the family of cap- Carey Lisse of the Johns Hopkins ice to gas that escapes from the and Plane- tured asteroids known as Trojans comet about University Applied Physics Lab- nucleus in the form of jets. So the tary Camera that are co-orbiting the Sun along- oratory (APL) in Laurel, Mary- activity signals that the tail might 2 (WFPC2) side Jupiter. This is the rst time a once land said: not be made of water. In fact, on the Hub- comet-like object has been spotted “ e cool thing is that you’re observations by Spitzer indicated ble Space every near the Trojan asteroid population. actually catching Jupiter  inging the presence of carbon monox- Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope observa- this object around and changing ide and carbon dioxide gas, which during SM1 tions reveal the vagabond is show- 100 in Decem- ing signs of transitioning from a its orbital behavior and bringing it could be driving the creation of ber, 1993. frigid asteroid-like body to an active years. into the inner system. Jupiter con- the tail and jets seen on the Jupi- (Image:NASA) comet, sprouting a long tail, outgas- trols what’s going on with comets ter-orbiting comet.  ese vola- sing jets of material, and enshroud- once they get into the inner sys- tiles do not need much sunlight ing itself in a coma of dust and gas. tem by altering their orbits.” to heat their frozen form and con- Only Hubble (Image: NASA, ESA, and B. Bolin (Caltech))  e icy interloper is most likely vert them to gas. Once the comet “ one of the latest members of the gets kicked out of Jupiter’s orbit could detect active so-called “bucket brigade” of and continues its journey, it may comets to get kicked out of its meet up with the giant planet comet-like features lion miles. frigid home in the Kuiper belt again, Lisse said: and into the giant planet region “Short-period comets like LD2 this far away at such Bucket brigade through interactions with another meet their fate by being thrown high detail, and  e nomadic object was discov- Kuiper belt object. Located into the Sun and totally disinte- ered in early June 2019 by the Uni- beyond Neptune’s orbit, the Kui- grating, hitting a planet, or ven- the images clearly versity of Hawaii’s Asteroid Ter- per belt is a haven of icy, le over turing too close to Jupiter once restrial-impact Last Alert System debris from our planets’ construc- again and getting thrown out show these features, (ATLAS) telescopes located on the tion 4.6 billion years ago, contain- of the solar system, which is the extinct volcanoes, one on Mauna ing millions of objects, and occa- usual fate. Simulations show that such as a roughly Kea and one on Haleakala. Japa- sionally these objects have near in about 500,000 years, there’s a 400,000-mile-long nese amateur astronomer Seiichi misses or collisions that drasti- 90% probability that this object Yoshida tipped o the Hubble cally alter their orbits from the will be ejected from the solar sys- broad tail and high- team to possible comet activity. Kuiper belt inward into the giant tem and become an interstellar  e astronomers then scanned planet region. comet.” resolution features archival data from the Zwicky  e bucket brigade of icy relics Provided by: NASA’s Goddard Transient Facility, a wide- eld endures a bumpy ride during their Space Flight Center [Note: Mate- near the nucleus survey conducted at Palomar journey sunward.  ey bounce rials may be edited for content and due to a coma and Observatory in California, and gravitationally from one outer length.] realized that the object was clearly jets. active in images from April 2019.  ey followed up with obser- Describing the Centaur’s cap- ture as a rare event, Bolin added:” “ e visitor had to have

After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found a temporary parking place along the way.

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By Max Lu cries of protests from Tibetan Visiontimes activists. Stories around the river claim that it is actually the body uilding a dam no longer of the goddess Dorje Phagmo, just aims to control who is known to be the high- Bflooding. Dams now est incarnation in Tibetan also double as power gener- culture. While Tibet is by no ators and tourist attractions. means backward, they have China, as of 2019, boasted immense respect for the nat- 23,841 dams. In fact, the ural world. is was the core largest dam in China is the reason why no dams were con- ree Gorges Dam built on structed in the past, as many the Yangtze River in Hubei of their waterways are deemed Province. Hence, when China holy. announced another major Another scienti c and geo- dam project, the people of graphic impact of the dam’s China, and of the world, were construction will be the heavy taken aback. loss of the natural ecosystem e new dam is set to be in the area. is part of the built in the Yarlung Valley, Tibetan plateau is said to be which is formed by the Yar- rich in natural resources and lung Tsangpo River and joins has a  ourishing aquatic eco- with the Chongye River. system. Located at the base of the The water that ows down from the Himalayas is said to supply the needs of over 1.8 billion people encompassing three countries — Another impact of the dam foothills of the Himalayas, it China, Bhutan, and India. (Image: Dreamstime.com © Namchetolukla) construction will be of a polit- is considered to be the cradle ical nature. e proposed area of Tibetian civilization, and it borders many nations, one of is where China aims to build with this goal — reduction of water that  ows down from a major positive impact on the sonal losses to the residents them being India. In fact, the the world’s largest hydroelec- the usage of fossil fuels and the Himalayas is said to sup- reduction of carbon. However, of the region. area is very close to the Indian tric dam. achieving carbon neutrality ply the needs of over 1.8 billion all these bene ts do come at The Yarlung Tsangpo state of Arunachal Pradesh. by 2060. people encompassing three a cost. River, on which the dam is With the current geopo- The purpose Said to be the world’s largest countries — China, Bhutan, proposed to be built, is the litical animosity between of the dam hydroelectric dam project, the and India. The Tibet angles longest river in Tibet. It also the two countries, India has China is battling pollu- power generated from water Coming to the bene ts of the While the aims of the dam forms the world’s largest and expressed doubts regarding tion e ects and its carbon  owing through the dam’s tur- project, a hydroelectric dam are noble, Tibetan environ- deepest canyon, the Yarlung the true reason behind the footprint, especially in the bines has the potential to equal de nitely has many potential mentalists and activists are Tsangpo Grand Canyon, dam’s construction. is has major cities, as it aims to cre- three times the power output bene ts, especially as being a raising their voices. e prime when leaving the Tibetan also led to India planning its ate greener and more sus- of the ree Gorges Dam. source of alternative and clean location of the dam is sparsely plateau. Apart from its geo- own 10-gigawatt dam project tainable initiatives that span e river on which the dam energy to fuel electrical appli- populated, having about graphic importance, the Yar- on the Brahmaputra River to from small pig farms to huge is proposed to be built has its ances and industries. is not 14,000 inhabitants. Still, the lung Tsangpo also is deemed counter any reverse  ooding solar plants. e core objec- point of origin from melt- only reduces the generation of dam construction will mean sacred by the Tibetans, which or other political moves made tive behind this dam is aligned ing glaciers and springs. e greenhouse gases but also has reallocation and heavy per- is another reason behind the by China.

Communist China’s Anal Swab Tests Anger World Governments By Prakash Gogoi tests. Communist China ples to test for COVID-19. Some studies have shown Visiontimes dismissed the allegation Communist China has that traces of the virus and said that they have vehemently defended the might remain in fecal mat- never asked U.S. diplomats anal swab test, calling it a ter longer than the respira- stationed in China to take critical part of controlling tory tract, strengthening he Chinese govern- anal swab tests. the pandemic. In an inter- the case for anal swab tests. ment’s decision to The Japanese govern- view with the state-backed However, there has been conduct COVID- ment complained that the Global Times, Lu Hong- strong opposition to the T Currently China using anal swab tests as the only option in 19 anal swab tests on for- anal swab tests have caused zhou, an expert from Chi- test in the Chinese medi- eigners is endangering the “great psychological pain” na’s Fudan University Pub- cal community. Yang Zhan- mandatory testing for SARS-CoV-2 on the public. (Image: Sina Weibo) international community. to travelers going to China. lic Health Clinical Center, qiu, deputy director of the In February, a video Foreign travelers looking to Germany recently con- Tokyo has asked Chinese said that nasal and throat pathogen biology depart- showing people walking visit China will need to sub- demned the tests after Ger- authorities to stop conduct- swab tests might produce ment at Wuhan University, like penguins in a swaying mit a 14-day record of their man nationals complained ing the tests. Kyodo News false-negative results. said that an individual con- motion spread online in the travel plans and accommo- about them. said that the test humiliates tracts the virus through the country claiming that these dation registration forms. “We have repeatedly people and violates their respiratory system rather individuals had under- Nucleic acid test results raised that issue vis-à-vis human rights and dignity. There has been than his digestive system. gone anal swab tests. Chi- showing that you are free the Chinese government, The South Korean foreign Consequently, nasal and nese authorities called the from coronavirus infection especially with regard to the ministry informed citizens strong throat tests should suffi- video fake and assured cit- will have to be provided. medical tests and examina- that visitors to communist opposition ciently identify infections. izens that no one walks like If your visit is official, a tions that are taking place China can now submit their “There have been cases that after they take the test. certificate of employment against the will of the per- stool samples rather than to the test in concerning the corona- will be needed. Face masks sons concerned,” a source having Chinese officials virus testing positive in a Visitor requirements and green health codes of from the German Foreign “taking them directly.” The the Chinese patient’s excrement, but Some reports suggest that your location and desti- Office told VICE. ministry’s statements come no evidence has suggested communist China might nation are required. Some Washington had raised after China announced that medical it had been transmitted fully open borders to for- cities might issue entry and the issue with Beijing after foreign travelers refusing community through one’s digestive eigners by October. Chinese exit certificates. Be sure to several American diplomats to take an anal swab test system,” Yang told Global ex-pats will likely be able collect them to ensure you were forced to undergo the should submit stool sam- Times. to visit Tibet starting April. can travel freely.

ing, and other expenses associ- China’s Lonely Hearts Club: Single Population Soon 400 Million ated with marriage. e gender imbalance means By Prakash Gogoi 30 percent since 2013. Accord- reach 92 million this year. ing prices are beyond the reach that many rural areas have Visiontimes ing to recent  ndings, there e decline in marriage, the of many. young men of marriageable age were half as many divorces rise in divorce rates and the with no immediate prospects of registered in 2019 as there were increasing number of people Growing single meeting a suitable partner. n China, the number of marriages. deciding to remain single have population hides ese pressures have led to an registered marriages has e decline in marriages has led to a decline in the birth social disaster increase in human tra cking, decreased consecutively led to a dramatic fall in the birth rate. ere was a 14.9 percent Rural areas and villages are sexual assault, and instances I ( Image: Adobe Stock) for the last six years, while the rate decrease in the birth rate from particularly impacted by two of family violence. It is hoped divorce rate has increased over e 21st Century Economy 2019 to 2020. is is a signi cant issues — the gross gender that the government will review the same period. It is estimated regime’s One-Child policy, and  ndings recently stated that decline over a 12 month period. imbalance and the costs asso- these issues caused by its social- that one-third of the Chinese it is projected that soon there in 2018, China’s population of Academic  ndings indicate ciated with weddings and mar- ist policies and implement poli- population is in the Lonely may be as many as 400 million single people had reached 240 that many people feel that they riage. Many families have found cies to redress the gender imbal- Hearts Club. single individuals in the coun- million, with 77 million of these simply can’t a ord the cost of themselves in debt and plunged ance and the resulting social ere is a huge gender imbal- try. single people living alone. It is raising children. Education into poverty a er meeting the issues that are causing so much ance caused by the communist e marriage rate has fallen estimated that this number will costs are increasing and hous- costs of weddings,  nding hous- harm.

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Image: Sam Tsang /SCMP By David Clapp to be behind the Yuen Long Vision Times train station attack. Plausible deniability n the evening of July 21, ose who study the phe- 2019, dozens of masked nomenon say there is rarely men in white T-shirts a clear evidence chain. “Gov- Ostormed the Yuen Long train ernments outsource violence station and assaulted people to third-party agents for plau- returning home a er a pro-de- sible deniability,” said Lynette mocracy protest, as well as pas- Ong, a University of Toronto sers-by, with wooden sticks academic who studies the and metal rods.  ere has been patron-client relationship widespread speculation that the between gangsters and local attackers belonged to the Hong governments in China. Kong triads — the name given Regarding the violence at to organized criminal networks Yuen Long, she said they that operate in Hong Kong. “could be part of organized e violence le 45 people crime groups, or simply peo- injured and shocked the ter- ple who are willing to work ritory, as footage of the bru- by using their muscle power.” tal attack quickly circulated While the attacks were online. hard to directly trace back to Beijing, the circumstan- What are the triads, tial evidence points strongly and what is their in the mainland’s direction. history of violence? ough the former colony is Triads have a global pres- under Chinese control, the ence with operations in Tai- CCP still needed to exercise wan, Macau, and Chinese Thugs for Hire: some restraint in the use of overseas communities in force against elements in Southeast Asia, North Amer- Hong Kong it deemed unde- ica, and Europe. However, a sirable. majority conduct their crimi- The Relationship Between Beijing knows full well that nal activities — which include a direct assault by the state extortion, counterfeiting, apparatus would be counter- drug tra cking, and prosti- Beijing and productive and likely would tution — in Hong Kong. have alienated a larger num- A South China Morning ber of Hong Kong residents. Post article from 2017 esti- Pro-Beijing thugs are easily mated that there could be as the Hong Kong Triads manipulated, have no com- many as 100,000 triad mem- punction in using force, and, bers operating within the more importantly, o er plau- city, with the most notorious Suspected triad members attack pro-democracy sible deniability. gangs being the 14K, Sun Yee e CCP wasn’t the  rst to On, and Wo Shing Wo. protesters in North Point, Hong Kong, on August 5, 2019. employ organized criminal e triads developed out of elements for the purpose of the 18th-century Tiandihui, Image: Wikimedia / CC0 1.0 political agitation, the Nazis (also known as the Hongmen) as Singapore, which became there was not much doubt and Bolsheviks utilized sim- and o en worked with for- notorious for gang violence. that the CCP was strength- ilar tactics when attempting eign traders to bring opium Triads were largely driven ening its ties with the triads. to seize power in Germany into China. In the 19th cen- out of the Chinese mainland Since Hong Kong’s 1997 and Russia. tury, they operated as secret following the Chinese Com- handover from British colo- e blurred line between societies opposed to the harsh munist Party (CCP) take- nial rule, some of Beijing’s criminal activity and politi- rule of the Manchu Qing over in 1949, but they con- most ardent critics have cal agitation creates a juris- Dynasty, regarded by many tinued to  ourish in Hong found themselves at the dictional nightmare for ethnic Han Chinese as bar- Kong and Macau. Many also wrong end of a triad assault. law enforcement in the tar- barian outsiders, and aimed allied with the defeated Kuo- Radio host Albert Cheng, geted societies while pro- to replace them with the old mintang Chinese nationalists publisher Chen Ping, and viding plausible deniability Ming Dynasty. in Taiwan. Jimmy Lai, owner of the for the political forces work- e triads thrived in the Some triad groups began Dozens of masked men stormed the Yuen Long train station in Apple Daily tabloid, have all ing behind the scenes. e warlord era from the 1920s shi ing their allegiances in 2019 and assaulted people with wooden sticks and metal rods. survived triad attacks. quick enrichment promised to 40s, particularly in free- the early 1990s as Beijing In 2014, former Ming Pao by involvement also ensures wheeling Shanghai, where at began showing signs of tol- ity to cross the border for conference in 1993. newspaper editor Kevin Lau a ready supply of recruits its height the Shanghai-based erance, a remarkable tran- various, o en trade-related, He went on to say: “Our was nearly killed in a machete among delinquents and drop- Green Gang had 100,000 sition for crime groups that activities. public security organs have attack by two men who said outs. members and connections once used to be archenemies It was around this time broad links and ties with dif- they were paid to “teach Lau As China becomes a global with the Kuomintang, the of communism. that Beijing began showing ferent strata in society, includ- a lesson.” power, and as it seeks to ruling party of China at the increasing openness to the ing such groups,” and recalled Also in 2014, as a wave expand its in uence glob- time. Thugs for hire triads. “Regarding organiza- how, when an unnamed Chi- of pro-democracy protests ally, triads that are already During World War II, some Before the handover in 1997, tions like the triads in Hong nese state leader paid an over- swept through Hong Kong, active in the Chinese dias- gangs helped the Kuomintang the CCP had built on its con- Kong, as long as these people seas visit, the Chinese Secret a group of men in white pora — across Southeast Asia, nationalists  ght against the siderable contacts with gang- are patriotic, as long as they Service was helped by “800 T-shirts descended on dem- Europe, and North America Japanese while others took sters in the south — forged are concerned with Hong triad members to guard our onstrators in Mongkok. — could also begin to play advantage of the chaos to rav- largely through the personal Kong’s prosperity and sta- state leader against any dan- Many of those later arrested a more active role, again to age the countryside. e end connections between party bility, we should unite with ger.” had links with prominent threaten political opponents of the war saw a resurgence in o cials and local gangsters them,” said Tao Siju, China’s Beijing later played down triad gangs Wo Shing Wo and and media that remain criti- activity in new locations such — and drew from their abil- Police Minister during a press Tao Siju’s statements, but 14K, who were also believed cal of Beijing.

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While 22 following reports Wash- - On a similar note, U.S. “This week we inaugurate San Francisco and eventually ramifications of a widespread Newsweek reports that addi GNCSince was the sold2020 to campaign China- - Liang,” translating literally being owned and/or con- stocks” like Gamestop aftertragic set of actions that are Americans.and Taiwan are ready to counter demned the riots in the U.S. the noble everyday citizens of is based in China and report National Counterintelligence certain benefits of analyzing- ington is considering banning Ambassador at Large for Inter a new administration and we - leading up to becoming the DNA database. Indeed, a New tional goals of the CCP may trail,based Team Harbin Biden Pharmaceu has sharp to “Bright as Snow”), a sur- trolled by the PLA. A series being hit with a $3 billiontaking place there in the West aggression by mainland China in Capitol during the Jan. 6 Joint America. 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Mystical Udumbara Flowers Bloom Once

Every Years 3000, The udumbara flower is also a synonym for something that is exceedingly rare, sacred and special.

By Mikel Davis King of the Golden Wheel ifestation of the merits of refined. The flower is bell- appears in this world and the Holy Wheel Turning shaped, its stem is as thin with his great merits, the King. This kind of manifes- as gold silk and it has a n recent years, the flower appears.” tation is a symbol for the light, unique fragrance. mysterious udumbara Back then, Buddha Sak- rare experience of encoun- The flowers are snow-white flowers have been yamuni mentioned to his tering a Buddha or hearing in color and their existence

S sighted all over the world. disciples about the Wheel c a Buddha’s teaching.” The fills the surrounding area I r e e n This flower is ultra-mysti- Turning King and the udum- sh Buddha advised his disci- with an auspicious aura ot cal and it is said to bloom bara flower. When the Bud- / Y ples to accumulate merits that makes the one who ouT once every 3,000 years. dha brought his disciples ube and said he would protect sighted the flower feel Strangely, it grows on any to practice, disciples asked them until the day they calm and refreshed. medium and on some really the Buddha whether they would meet the Holy Wheel The most peculiar char- surprising surfaces, such as could remain as part of Turning King. acteristic is that the udum- glass, paper, Buddha stat- everyday society and do bara flowers can grow any- ues, and so on. The blossom their practice while living Buddha disciples where — on glass, steel of this plant is an amazing as ordinary people in the This and all sentient pipes, offices, paper, Bud- phenomenon that contains human world. The Buddha beings are looking dha statues — without any infinite secrets and divine replied: “You have to wait forward to this day! soil. The flowering period messages. until the day when the Holy flower lasts for weeks, months, or The udumbara flower is King of the Wheel Turning In 1997, South Korean even years. They usually also a synonym for some- appears in the world… At does media first reported appear in Buddhist temples thing that is exceedingly that time, you must not that udumbara flowers and the residences of Bud- rare, sacred, and special. miss the eternal opportu- appeared at the Cheong- dhist practitioners. According to Buddhist nity.” not gye-sa temple. The crys- scriptures, the udumbara is After the disciples lis- tal clear flowers attracted The extraordinary a sacred flower. The flow- tened to the Buddha’s countless people to see moment has arrived er’s name comes from San- words, the female disci- come this rare phenomenon. skrit and it means “auspi- ple Lianhuase respectfully Later, the South Korean Recently, udumbara flow- cious flower from heaven.” asked the Buddha: “Mas- from media reported sightings ers have been blooming all The supernatural arrival of ter, in the future when of this mystical flower in over the world and this sig- this flower, which depicts the Holy Wheel Turning many places, including at nifies that the extraordi- a plant with no chlorophyll King appears in the world, the Buddhist temples in South nary moment which sen- and no roots, is beyond what if people do not know Korea. tient beings have been imagination or understand- about it, what do they do Soon afterwards, news waiting for has arrived. ing. The Buddhist scripture then?” The Buddha replied: world. of multiple sightings of At this time when human- Fahua Wenju does tell of “At that time, there will be a udumbara flowers began kind’s morality has declined “a flower that blooms only kind of flower called udum- to spread throughout to the lowest level, plagues once every three thou- bara blooming everywhere China, as reported by the are rampant, and signs sand years that heralds the that can remind people of media. point to everything hav- advent of the King of the the coming of the Wheel In addition, the blossoms ing reached the final limit, Golden Wheel.” Turning King to the world of these wondrous flowers it is only through empha- The eighth volume of Hui- to spread his teachings and were also sighted in Tai- sizing virtue and doing lin’s Yinyi (a composite col- to save sentient beings in wan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, good, respecting heaven lection of all the glossa- the world.” Singapore, Australia, the and believing in God, that ries of scriptural words and The Buddha further United States, and other we can be blessed by God, expressions compiled in and explained: “This flower is a parts of the globe. avoid disasters, save our- s e c re before the Tang Dynasty) flower that does not come t Udumbara flowers are selves, and enter into the ch also relates that: “When the from the world. It is a man- ina beautiful, elegant, and future. .com

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