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An unexpected catch has revealed Beijing’s sneaky underwater spying activities right on Australia’s doorstep – a scary new escalation in tensions. An unexpected Christmas catch has revealed Beijing is actively surveying critical shipping choke-points to Australia’s north. And that could have dire implications if our trade-spat worsens. Three undersea spy drones have been caught in Indonesian waters. They appear to be a Chinese design, and they were in shipping lanes crucial for Australia’s security. They look like simple tubes with wings. But they’re packed full of sensors and a long-range transmitter to send their discoveries back to headquarters. RELATED: Secret...

Conservatives who object to election fraud have found that liberals' favorite retort is "your claims have been laughed out of court." This argument is authoritarian in its reasoning. It defers to a juridical priesthood and allows one guild, the attorneys, to override what average people can see in front of them. Such an argument should not stagger wise conservatives. The latter can always draw from Plato's Republic and the debate between Socrates and Thrasymachus over whether justice is merely defined as whatever the mightiest people in society say it is. Spoiler! Socrates wins that debate. That's partly why people live...

Can we now stop calling this an election? By pretending this insurrection is a legitimate democratic process, we're playing into our enemy's hands, giving credence to the lie that a decrepit, corrupt, sickly old man, Joe Biden, has been elected president of the United States. This is not an election; it's a coup. A coup d'état.is any "sudden and decisive action in politics, esp. one resulting in a change of government illegally or by force." Note that the definition says "illegally or by force," thus equating a rigged election with a military invasion. But election fraud is the weapon of...

It took six months of rioting and millions of dollars in property damage for Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler to order increase law enforcement action against Antifa. Several businesses were damaged during riots on New Year’s Eve including two Starbucks shops, a Chase Bank, a Pandora Jewelers, a Ben Bridge Jewelers, and multiple local businesses, such as the Portland Wine Company and an office space, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The riots led to three arrests. “My good faith efforts at de-escalation have been met with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa and anarchists,” Wheeler said in a...

Source: Credit Perdue for SenateOn January 5, 2021, Georgia voters will put a capstone on a disastrous 2020 by deciding which party controls the U.S. Senate. And truly, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Georgians will either decide to put a check on a future-President Joe Biden’s worst leftist influences and impulses, or they’ll choose permanent one-party rule. And by one-party rule, I do mean one … party … rule. Soviet-style, but with a smile (at least at first). If it weren’t so deadly serious, it would be comical that the future of our country comes down to not one but...

Adolf Hitler retreated to his Führerbunker as the Allies advanced into Germany in the spring of 1945, leaving Germans to their fates. Moammar Gadhafi holed up in his fortress on the outskirts of Tripoli, refusing to surrender when Libyans took up arms against him. And President Donald Trump has turned the White House into his own refuge as he desperately seeks to remain in power despite having lost the presidential election. Trump has followed an authoritarian, rather than a democratic, playbook as president. It is fitting that he would end up like some of history's best-known autocrats: hunkered down in...

Very graphic but clearly shows proof of death. I believe Epstein worked for Mossad. Over a long period of time he collected taped information on many influential people. The Israeli government has it all. I would NOT be surprised if it included people like John Roberts. We’ve all read posts on this forum rumoring that there is a world wide pedophile ring that was set up thru Epstein and others like John Podesta. I believe, and pray, that within the next 48 hours the deep state corruption in this country will be exposed, and true patriots both democrat and republicans...

In Washington, do we have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people? Abraham Lincoln ended his Gettysburg Address with the words "... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." That ideal of Lincoln's has been taught in civic classes for generations. But how true is it today? In Washington, do we have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people? Consider three flashpoint issues — prayer in...

Wait, I changed my mind from the headline. Let’s unify this sucker. Let’s all work together for a brighter tomorrow and join the team and bring in the big win. Let’s have a big circle of hugs and solidarity where we rally around shared values and norms. Except how about we normal people get to pick those values and norms, not the garbage elite that presumes to rule us?RECORD SCRATCH!Just kidding! The idea that we might have some legitimate interests and policy preferences is outrageous and seditious and probably transphobic and generally doubleplusungood. We need to give them up and...

What was once the world’s greatest deliberative body is being reduced to a leftist clown show as the “woke” left struts its stuff. On Saturday, news broke that the Democrats are going to remove all gendered words from the House of Representatives. On Sunday, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a pastor, opened the 117th Congress with a prayer. At its conclusion, he said “amen,” and then added “a-women.” What he said was both stupid and sacrilegious. I wrote here about the newly “woke” House’s push to remove gendered language. I pointed out that, in English at least, gendered words fall into two...

Judicial insistence on remaining above the fray will do the opposite of safeguarding the judiciary, the nation’s institutions, and a peaceable civil society. Unlike committed partisans on both sides of America’s political divide, I have no fixed belief about which of the two major party candidates actually won our recently concluded presidential election. Two things that I do know are that: 1. Significant and obviously plausible questions have been put forth about the announced results, the manner in which the election was conducted in certain key states, and how the votes were counted in those states, and 2. Our courts,...

President Trump called Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to try to get the latter to stop obstructing the fraud investigation in Georgia. Instead, after whining about the almost seven hours he’s spent on the issue, Raffensperger refused to engage in an investigation and then leaked the call to the Washington Post, which promptly misrepresented its contents. Trump has now sued Raffensperger in both state and federal court for secretly recording and then disseminating a confidential settlement discussion. There’s something wrong with Brad Raffensperger. I don’t know what it is – that is, whether he’s generically corrupt or has a...

So … what part of the word “conclusive” is unclear? Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are erudite constitutional law scholars. They are former Supreme Court clerks, each becoming a top government lawyer in his state: Hawley as Missouri’s attorney general, Cruz as Texas’s solicitor general. Yet they are leading a cabal of Republican senators in a farce that, if Democrats tried it, would be decried by conservative constitutionalists as the ultimate Swamp usurpation of state sovereignty. They propose an “Electoral Commission” that would audit the election results in select states, chosen out of careful partisan calculation. It is a lawless...

The mainstream media and Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, are utterly disgraceful, dishonest, and manipulative people. Raffensperger released a private phone call that the media immediately claimed – falsely -- showed Trump begging Raffensperger to fraudulently find enough votes for Trump to win. In fact, Trump called Raffensperger to try to get him to stop obstructing the fraud investigation. As Trump explained during the call, evidence proves Trump won Georgia by a massive margin, only to have victory stolen through equally massive fraud. Trump sought to avoid litigation forcing Raffensperger to do his job, which is to make at...

People have called 2020 "The Year of the Mask." I disagree. This past year is clearly the year when the left, media, and big tech dropped their masks and let us know they were no longer going to waste their time trying to convince us. They are going seize this nation, and they care not whether we know it. A dude with the appellation "Emanuel" quoted Churchill as a means of counseling the left to never allow a crisis to go to waste. But awaiting a crisis to exploit is so 2009. Today, a crisis created is far more effective....

quote: As background to tweets I am about to post, you should read this article carefully. I ask that you read each of my tweets carefully & decide if the information conveyed demands that Patriots rise up so that every lie will be revealed. quote: The price for speaking TRUTH can be high. Ultimately, one’s life & the lives of his or her family members & friends can be at risk or lost. I ask for your prayers that Almighty God cover me, my family members & close friends with Psalms 91 protection. quote: have shared with several individuals the...

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The media and medical establishment now defining deaths far differently in order to push their agenda of COVID bad, vaccine good. Imagine changing the rules in the middle of a football game. The halftime score is 14-12, the Raiders scoring two touchdowns while the Broncos kicked four field goals. In the second half the rules change with field goals worth seven points and touchdowns only three points. Suddenly the Broncos are ahead 28-6. Absurd isn’t it? That’s what is happening with the reporting of COVID deaths versus vaccine deaths, the media and medical establishment now defining deaths far differently in...

Thomas Wictor stopped posting videos on his own youtube channel a week ago due to idiots posting threats on his life. This man has keen insight into military and political affairs and many here on FR may be missing him.. here is a 2hr+ dose of Wictor...a must see IMO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3E3WNpPiz0&t=8s +

Shares in China’s three biggest telecoms companies fell as much as 5% in Hong Kong on Monday, the first trading session since the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it would delist the firms in a move China branded unwise and oppressive. By the close of trade, the shares had mostly recovered. The NYSE said on Thursday it would delist China Mobile Ltd, China Telecom Corp Ltd and China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd following the U.S. government’s move in November to block investment in 31 firms it says are owned or controlled by China’s military. Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for...