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Former CNN boss Jeff Zucker was confronted by CNN host Michael Smerconish in a conversation about media, telling him it was 'partisan' to not give much air time to the scandal surrounding Hunter Biden's laptop. Zucker and Smerconish were joined by former MSNBC boss Phil Griffin for a talk on the state of media at the Un-Convention in Philadelphia. The convention was billed as 'an exploration of political reforms to improve our election systems and policy ideas to govern a divided country.'

China has bombarded US warships with drones at least 151 times over the last five years: One LANDED on deck of destroyer near Hong Kong, Chinese national was arrested in Pearl Harbor flying one over fleet - and drones of unknown origin snooped nuclear stockpile US warships have been bombarded by suspected Chinese espionage via drones over the past five years, according to newly released Navy records. Following a Freedom of Information Act request from The War Zone, the unsealed documents show US fleets were plagued by unidentified drones that appeared to be documenting America's forces in the Pacific. Among...

Alarmed by the increasingly dangerous rhetoric regarding the Ukraine-Russian war, former President Donald Trump has offered to try "to negotiate peace before we lapse into World War III." President Biden objected to "this unwanted intrusion. I won the 2020 election, not Trump. I represent the will of the people. What Trump wants doesn't matter. What I want does. We are confronting Putin's threat to use nukes in Ukraine and countering it with our threat to nuke Russia if he does." Biden went on to point out that "all the great thinkers are with me on this. European Union foreign policy...

“All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast” (Proverbs 15:15).

Stacey Abrams' voting accessibility PAC Fair Fight appears to be paying many thousands of dollars to family and friends of its director who lack political experience or expertise. The PAC, established in the wake of Abrams' 2018 loss to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, is doling out cash - to the tune of $178,000 - to people close to the PAC's director, Andre Fields. When confronted by the accusation, Fair Fight told Fox News it was launching an internal investigation.

Preliminary data from Russia's Finance Ministry showed that the country's fiscal surplus shrank to 55 billion rubles ($860 million) in the first nine months of the year, down from 137 billion roubles ($2.15 billion), Bloomberg reported. Olga Bychkova, an economist at Moody's Analytics, told Newsweek that the Russian government surplus is 30 times lower, when compared to the same period last year.... She predicted the government budget would post a modest surplus of 0.6 percent in 2022 on high energy prices but flip to a deep deficit of around nine percent in 2023 due to limited growth, imports, and the...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Taken from the upcoming album Point Blank MMXXIII... Stay tuned! In cooperation with Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e. V., BONFIRE finances the "Farba project" with donations in order to be able to help traumatized children and young people quickly.

Anyone remember this movie? I remember watching it as a grade schooler, and learning the duties of a young patriot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNzApsp1ZSQ&t=11s

As 12-year-old David Vetter was about to die at Texas Children's Hospital in 1984, he gave a last wink to his doctor, William T. Shearer. His wife told us Dr. Shearer carried that moment through the rest of his life. Dr. Shearer, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, died this week at the age of 81. David Vetter had been born with severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare disease that could have made it fatal for him to be touched, held, kissed by his parents or even take a breath of fresh air. Doctors devised a sterile clear...

This poor democrat congresswoman agreed to a live interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo. BIG mistake. Whew....

Elon Musk got in hot water again on Twitter—for proposing peace. On Monday, Musk proposed a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, for which he was denounced as a pro-Putin puppet by the Twitter mob that has formed to police the discourse on all things related to Ukraine. The president of Ukraine himself, Volodymyr Zelensky, accused Musk of supporting Russia—even though Musk's company SpaceX donated Starlink to Ukraine's war effort at an out-of-pocket cost of $80 million. (Full disclosure: Musk is a friend and I am an investor in SpaceX.) Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrj Melnyk was less...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul leads Republican challenger Lee Zeldin by 10 percentage points according to a new Marist College poll. Hochul, a Democrat, is seeking a full four-year term after taking over when Andrew Cuomo resigned in August 2021. She has held the edge in polling and fundraising against Long Island Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin throughout the race, and with Election Day less than a month away, the Marist poll shows that dynamic hasn’t changed. The poll finds 51 percent of registered voters backing Hochul, with Zeldin at 41 percent. Among voters who say they will definitely vote, Hochul...

Scores of Amazon employees walked out of the Amazon Air Regional Air Hub in San Bernardino Friday, Oct. 14, to protest what they have called unfair labor practices and retaliation in response to their demands for better, safer jobs and a $5 hourly pay raise. Crowds gathered on the corner of a street leading to the 659,000-square-foot warehouse, known as KSBD, where roughly 1,400 employees work. Jane Chung, a spokesperson for the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, wrote in an email that 100 employees, or half the shift, went on strike Friday afternoon. Night shift workers also were expected to walk...

Update from Ukraine: I expect Ruzzia to leave Kherson very soon Oct 14, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deEDsODhADo 10/14/2022 Also, you may check military maps here: https://militaryland.net/ https://deepstatemap.live/

Explosions were heard in Melitopol, Zaporizhia region, occupied by Russian invaders. "Cotton" again covered the locations of the Russian army. This was stated by the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov. According to him, the explosions were very loud. "In Melitopol again bombs. Powerful explosions were heard in the city. We are investigating the enemy's losses," Fedorov said. At the same time, the propaganda rossmi TASS confirmed "bombimgs" with reference to local collaborator Vladimir Rogov. "The sounds of explosions are heard in the city of Melitopol, Zaporizhia region," said Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the "We are together with Russia movement."...

President Joe Biden grabs a young girl by the shoulder and tells her “no serious guys till your 30” as she looks back appearing uncomfortable, secret service appears to try to stop me from filming it after Biden spoke @ Irvine Valley Community College | @TPUSA @FrontlinesShow

JPMorgan Chase & Co reportedly canceled the account of a religious nonprofit organization for unexplained reasons, and said it would only reconsider the decision if the group provided its donor list, and a list of political candidates it intended to support. The National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF) launched on January 18, 2022 “to defend religious freedom for all Americans and all their religious communities by supporting political candidates at the local, state, and national levels—regardless of party affiliation—who support the free exercise of religion,” according to its website. “Religious freedom is a cornerstone of America’s constitutional democracy and was...

"Biden grabs a young girl by the shoulder and tells her “no serious guys till your 30” as she looks back appearing uncomfortable, secret service appears to try to stop me from filming it after Biden spoke @ Irvine Valley Community College "

Crime here in Pennsylvania convenience store chain "Wawa" closing down two Center City Philadelphia locations... A federal judge dismissing one of the five charges against Igor Danchenko the primary source of the "Steele Dossier"... At least 25 dead and dozens still trapped following an explosion at a coal mine in Turkey... US Politics the Harvard-Harris poll shows Donald Trump leading for President in 2024 45 to 43 percent... The evening in Georgia a debate between Democrat US Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker... "these wackadoodles wanted a total police state in Ottawa after just 6 days" The reaction...