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Axios is reporting that sources close to them are saying that President-elect Joe Biden is considering a ambassadorship to China for Pete Buttigieg instead of a much deserved cabinet position.

Sources Claim Pete Buttigieg Is Under Consideration for Ambassador to China Post

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Axios is reporting that sources close to them are saying that President-elect Joe Biden is considering a ambassadorship to China for Pete Buttigieg instead of a much deserved cabinet position.

Axios also reports that initial conversations over leading the Department of Veterans Affairs didn’t firm up, while Buttigieg’s name is still mentioned among those under consideration for other domestic posts, including Transportation or Commerce. But its being said that finding a Cabinet post for Buttigieg has been a challenge for Biden because he has been focused on nominating women and people of color to high-level posts which is creating a concern among many that Buttigieg could be left out of the Biden administration’s starting lineup altogether.

Buttigieg was the first openly gay Democratic Presidential candidate winning the most delegates in the Iowa caucuses earlier this year before dropping out to consolidate moderates’ support around Biden who he campaigned for tirelessly up until the November election.

IF Buttigieg does go to China, he would be following in the footsteps of former president George HW Bush, who was appointed to the liaison office in Beijing by the Ford administration in 1974, before the two countries had established formal diplomatic ties

SKYLAB 2: Electric Boogaloo - Chinese Space Station to Hit Earth in the "next 12 hours’

SKYLAB 2: Electric Boogaloo – Chinese Space Station to Hit Earth in the “next 12 hours’

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In America with it’s out out-of-control leader Donald Trump going off the rails every 20 minutes many have not noticed in the news that an out-of-control Chinese space station is expected to hit Earth in the next 12 hours. However, experts tracking the decaying orbiter admit they still have no idea exactly where the debris will land.

Launched in 2011, the Tiangong-1 was China’s first space station. It has been slowly losing altitude since malfunctioning in 2016.

In November, experts from the European Space Agency (ESA) listed Spain, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria and Greece among possible crash sites should any pieces of the craft fail to burn up in the atmosphere.

According to forecasts, the station will re-enter sometime between Sunday night and early Monday GMT.

“This should not have happened,” David Barnhart, a satellite designer who is the director of the University of Southern California’s space technology and systems group, told Space.com Saturday. “To date, almost everything we put into space, at some point, is going to die. But something that large, we now have the technology to go up to it and prolong its life.”

The Chinese Manned Space Engineering Office says it’s confident the uncontrolled re-entry will not cause any damage. The authority expects the eight-ton lab to disintegrate at an altitude of 80km.

An online tracking hub set up by the Aerospace Corporation suggests the Tiangong-1 is currently orbiting above the South Atlantic Ocean. Parts of the space station will enter Earth’s atmosphere within 12 hours, according to US Air Force authority.

It is expected to come to Earth somewhere between 43 degrees north and 43 degrees south, a range covering most of the United States, China, Africa, southern Europe, Australia and South America.

50,000 March In Protest At Taiwan Pride To Protest Anti-Gay Discrimination

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Compared with other Asian nations, Taiwan is becoming more open-minded towards homosexuality but prejudice and anti-gay discrimination still runs rampant and they still have a long way to go.

To protest a recent wake anti-gay incidents over 50,000 people who were attending this years gay pride event took to to the streets of Taipei in protest.

Participants chanted “discrimination get out!,”  as they marched in downtown Taipei in an annual event which attracted people from Japan, Malaysia and South Korea.

“We have an even bigger crowd this year particularly after a number of incidents showing that discrimination against the gay community is still serious,” said organiser Hiro Liu.

Earlier in the year an incident of five patients receiving organs from an HIV positive donor, who was homosexual, due to a hospital’s mistake led to  suggestions that homosexuals should be banned from donating blood and organs, which drew heated criticism from gay rights groups.  Tainwan DOES NOT ban gay blood donors

“AIDS is an illness, not a crime but the society equates AIDS with homosexuals to discriminate and stigmatise gay people,” Liu said.

Gay groups were also offended when a senior politician demanded opposition presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen to disclose her sexual orientation, as it will “affect her judgment call as a president,”