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Last week, we actually had the British Parliament hold Joe Biden in contempt over the Afghanistan blunder. I can’t stress how huge of a deal that actually is. This is the first time that a sitting president has been held in contempt by the UK if I’m not mistaken. But then, to make matters worse, former British politician and Brexit leader Nigel Farage joined Carl Higbie on The Kelly Report on Monday to discuss Joe Biden’s historic failures in Afghanistan. During their discussion on the US exit from Kabul Nigel Farage warned that the UK will refuse any military interventions...

IAEA Head: No turning back the clock on Iran’s nuclear program — “The Iranian program has grown, become more sophisticated, so the linear return to 2015 is no longer possible,” IAEA: Too Late — New Digital Currency: Putting Chinese Surveillance in Wallets Worldwide — China’s new digital currency could boost Beijing’s power in international trade to the detriment of the United States dollar, and spread China’s toxic surveillance around the globe. - Bye Bye U$Taking Sides: China & Russia eye 'fixing' global 'disorder’ amid US withdrawal — China and Russia held a new round of strategic security consultations on Tuesday...

Apple: Employees Call for Company to Officially Support Palestine — Muslim employees of Big Tech company Apple are publicly demanding that the company formally declare the state of Israel to be guilty of “illegal occupation,” and express solidarity with the Palestinian people... Enemy Within — Leaked State Department Memo Indicates Official Support for BLM Agenda — U.S. “Diplomatic and Consular posts” are being encouraged to display shows of support for Black Lives Matter on Tuesday, May 25 - BLM Supports Terrorists SD Support BLMPompeo Outraged Biden Admin Scientists Downplaying Wuhan Lab Leak Theory — "I made remarks over a year...

Soviet Style: Police return with SWAT to church run by Artur Pawlowski — Pawlowski has refused to discontinue services or aid to local homeless throughout the entire duration of these COVID19 lockdowns, and has accumulated nearly 30 tickets for these violations. Pawlowski believes the local police will continue to try to make an example of him due to his activism that spans over the last decade. This was made clear to him when the police returned to his church for a second time. This time they brought 10 officers and were accompanied by a SWAT team. - Police return with...

With the recovery process just beginning in some parts of Texas on Thursday, following the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, President Donald Trump pledged $1 million of his own money to aid relief efforts. Only two of the Big Three Networks (ABC and CBS) found it fitting to report Trump’s act of charity. NBC Nightly News was the only network news show to ignore it, instead, they simply mentioned that Trump planned to visit Houston on Saturday. In addition to Trump’s pledge, Vice President Mike Pence was in Rockport, Texas to survey the damage, console the people, and personally help with...

Troubling news broke out of North Korea early Sunday morning after an American citizen was arrest by North Korean officials on Saturday. “It has been confirmed that another American has been arrested in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, which about 120 miles north from here from Seoul,” reported ABC’s Bob Woodruff during Good Morning America. It’s shocking news that hits just as tensions between the U.S. and communist regime are near a boiling point. Despite those facts, NBC’s Willie Geist failed to mention the development during his show, Sunday Today. “His name so far is not known,” noted Woodruff. “But the...

On Friday, NBC’s Today skipped any mention of CIA Director John Brennan detailing Obama administration failures in the fight against ISIS while testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The morning show ignored the major story despite Thursday’s NBC Nightly News devoting a nearly two-minute segment to the topic. On Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt declared: “Now to a stark warning here at home from the director of the CIA over the threat from ISIS. John Brennan told Congress today efforts to defeat ISIS on the battlefield have not put a dent in the group's ability to carry out terror attacks....

Ever since David Muir was tapped to replace Diane Sawyer when she leaves ABC World News in September, gossip about his sexual orientation has gone into overdrive. Kenneth in the 212 reports Muir is allegedly “openly gay in his day-to-day life.” Another juicy rumor claims that he and field reporter Gio Benitez are an item. Neither of these men are openly gay, but have been linked together after a series of coincidental appearances on ABC World News. Eagle-eyed viewers claim that Gio usually files his reports to Diane Sawyer from the field. But when Muir fills in as anchor, Benitez...

On Tuesday night, the three major broadcast networks omitted from their coverage on the Islamic group ISIS a report that President Barack Obama has received briefings on the terrorist organization “for at least a year before the group seized large swaths of territory over the summer.” ABC, CBS, and NBC all led their evening newscasts with multiple segments on the gruesome murder of American journalist Stephen Sotloff at the hands of ISIS in a propaganda video released on Tuesday afternoon. Over on the Fox News Channel (FNC), Special Report with Bret Baier aired three segments on the story, including a...

The U.S. Navy has four destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea positioned within range of targets inside Syria, as well as U.S. warplanes in the region, Hagel said in an interview with BBC television. Hagel also predicted that U.S. intelligence agencies would soon conclude that last week's deadly attack on civilians in a Damascus suburb was a chemical attack by Bashar Assad's government. Here we go again.

Tuesday's unrest in Lashio was sparked by a quarrel between two people, named by state media as Aye Aye Win, 24, a Buddhist woman who sold petrol, and Ne Win, a Muslim man aged 48. MRTV television said Ne Win poured petrol over Aye Aye Win and set her on fire. She was in hospital, it said. After police detained Ne Win, Buddhists surrounded the police station and demanded he be handed over. When they refused, the crowd went on the rampage, attacking Myoma Mosque near Lashio market, residents said.

Good news for pimps and election fraudsters in South Korea and Egypt who are looking for some help organizing: ACORN International is beginning to expand around the world: ACORN is defunct, but ACORN International, a separate organization, is thriving, according to a message to supporters from Wade Rathke, founder of ACORN and chief organizer for ACORN International. In his message, Rathke noted that ACORN International just added a new affiliate in South Korea, known as Asian Bridge, and that activists in Prague had begun an organization called ACORN Comrades Club, with which he is communicating via Skype from his home...

A 8.9 earthquake hits Japan causing a devastating tsunami leaving hundred of thousands missing or dead. Egypt had a revolution and Libya is in the process of the same. The Middle East is in turmoil. Oil prices keep on going up and up, rising above 104 a barrel.....

French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Thursday that multiculturalism had failed.... This joins a growing number of world leaders.

Just perusing through the posts here on Free Republic this morning, I found the following: "Why is incest a bad thing?" "Not enough research done to see if polygamy is harmful" "McDonald's being sued by CSPI over Happy Meals" Add to that: Escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula A President who won't do anything about that or ANY OTHER world crisis Same President who may or may not be eligible to even hold the office he currently occupies Unemployment at Great Depression levels, but the government won't acknowledge it Massive government debt that will be near-impossible to pay off Half...

Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Col. Jorge Mejía, chief of Peru’s anti-kidnapping police. He said the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told the police it was worth $60,000 a gallon.

The marriage between the White House and the media has been consummated, officially, with the shack-up of ABC News in the blue room. This is not a lot different from Hugo Chavez's Fascism, except in the case of our media, it's all voluntary -- and nauseating.

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Kosovo armed forces took over security duties on Wednesday, less than a year after the territory declared independence from Serbia, officials said. The Kosovo Protection Force replaces a 3,000-strong civilian emergency organization formed out of the disbanded ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army that fought Serbia in the 1998-99 war. New commander Lt. Gen. Sylejman Selimi, a former rebel fighter, said the 2,500 lightly armed troops would fulfill security duties in the fledgling nation, but would remain under the supervision of NATO's 15,000 peacekeepers in charge of overall security. It will be trained by British NATO officers, wear...

Al-Azwahiri declares Jihad on Palestine? Is he for Hamas or Fatah? Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, urged Palestinians to reject elections and wage Islamic holy war to ``liberate Palestine,'' warning that attempts to form a national unity government will fail. ``Any road other than jihad will only lead to loss and failure,'' al-Zawahiri said in a videotaped message broadcast today on the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television channel. ``Anyone trying to liberate the land of Islam through elections based on secular constitutions or on decisions to surrender Palestine to the Jews will not free a grain...

First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she had dinner in a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, even though she was being guarded by a detail of Secret Service agents, according to law enforcement reports made available to ABC News. It was not the only mishap on the two-week trip to Argentina by Barbara (right) and her twin sister Jenna (left). A Secret Service agent on the advance detail got into an "altercation" with someone after a night out and was badly beaten, according to the law enforcement reports. The Secret Service said today the...