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Queensland is launching a global recruitment drive for hundreds of police officers over the next five years, as the state's police minister acknowledges difficulties attracting new recruits. Under an agreement struck between the state and federal governments, the Queensland Police Service (QPS) has approval for 500 international recruits to join the service each year for five years. The recruits will complete a fast-tracked training course of three to four months and then be stationed across Queensland. The program will give recruits a pathway to permanent residency and citizenship. Commissioner Katarina Carroll said those wanting to be recruited would be required...

With around 4,000 miles separation, two friends of the Treehouse, Neil Oliver and Lee Smith, essentially asked me the same question this week, “how do we stop this madness?” It should not be an option hearing this talk about the need to secede, fracture, isolate or form smaller defensive boundaries. WE ARE IN THE MAJORITY, they just control the power structures and systems of communication. That’s why they spend so much time, effort and attention manipulating social media. My proposed solution is to draw from history, specifically from the Polish solidarity movement. What we need is a general two-day workers...

How Secretary Hillary Clinton Engineered the Obama Administration’s Illegal, Covert Diversion of Weapons from al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists in Libya to ISIS in Syria Guest post by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. This article is the third of a series of articles explaining why President Obama enlisted the federal government’s national security and justice agencies to make sure Lt. General Michael Flynn never served as President Trump’s national security advisor. In September 2011, Flynn was promoted to Lieutenant General and assigned as assistant director of national intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). On April 17,...

A convicted serial killer is suspected of killing his pedophile cellmate less than a month after he arrived at prison, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Juan Villanueva, 53, who was serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14, was found unresponsive by North Kern State Prison officials during a welfare check at 8:49 a.m. Friday, according to CDCR

These are extremely damning claims and if true should blow the lid off of election fraud. Who is going to investigate? The corrupt FBI, or DOJ? The AZ governor's office? Who? Worthwhile watch when you have the time. I hope Cindy McCain gets taken down, for she has to be involved in all of this, in my opinion. Maybe it's just my bias. Either way I believe the woman is as crooked as Joe Biden.

Attorney John Thaler joined Brannon Howse with former Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem Friday night on Lindell TV to explain the alleged phony mortgage and real estate transaction scam used by the Sinaloa Cartel to bribe elected officials and control the state of Arizona. The Sinaloa Cartels and the treasonous Americans who work with them are destroying our country by flooding Arizona with dangerous drugs and crime. The Gateway Pundit reported that Tempe Police seized over 30 million lethal doses of fentanyl. In 2022, the DEA nationwide seized over 50.6 million deadly fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills and over 10,000 pounds...

On Friday French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne talking about spending 100 billion Euros (105 billion US Dollars) to modernize the French rail system by 2040. The plan creates new rail lines in 12 large cities and expands rail service in the countryside. The massive plan aimed at creating a rail system that is an alternative to the use of cars... Meanwhile the 2030 scheme of President Emmanuel Macron, pension reform, is on a path to its final approval by March 26th... The Saturday afternoon protest in Paris is again underway... Today French President Emmanuel Macron announced a trip to China...

The same corporate media that never showed any interest in seeing the full police video taken during the mostly-peaceful January 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol are now demanding all 41,000 hours of it. That’s right; for over two years, the fake media knew there was a buttload of video that the rigged January 6 Committee was not showing them. Nevertheless, not once did this same media demand to see all the video. Nope, instead of being interested in the full context and truth of what happened on January 6, the very same media outlets now demanding the full 41,000...

Russia raked in significantly more money from its crude oil sales than previously thought, a group of academics have said.Russia took in more money in the weeks that followed the oil price cap implemented on December 5 last year, calculations from academics at the Institute of International Finance, Columbia University, and the University of California show. The calculations show that Russia sold its crude oil for about $74 per barrel on average, according to the paper “Assessing the Impact of International Sanctions on Russian Oil Exports” published on the Social Science Research Network.The paper studied two things: the effects of...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a health advisory to warn the public of an increase of a drug-resistant bacteria called Shigella. There are limited antimicrobial treatments available for these particular drug-resistant strains of Shigella and it’s also easily transmissible, warned the CDC in the Friday advisory. It’s also able to spread antimicrobial resistance genes to other bacteria that infect the intestines. Shigella infections known as shigellosis can cause a fever, abdominal cramping, tenesmus and diarrhea that is bloody. The bacteria can be spread by a fecal-oral route, person-to-person contact, and contaminated food and water. While...

Reflecting on the last three years of terror, torment, and totalitarianism, a tweet from Justin Hart got us thinking.He asked a simple thought-provoking question about COVID: "Did 'they' get a single thing right?"We must admit we struggled to find a single thing 'they' got right, but here are some of Justin's thoughts:Transmission of the disease - wrongAsymptomatic spread - wrongPCR testing - wrongFatality rate - wrongLockdowns - wrongCommunity triggers - wrongBusiness closures - wrongSchool closures - wrongQuarantining healthy people - wrongImpact on youth - wrongHospital overload - wrongPlexiglass barriers - wrongSocial distancing - wrongOutdoor spread - wrongMasks - wrongVariant impact...

The 2024 presidential race will start to heat up very quickly, indeed, the talk is already moving towards the front burner. On the Democratic side, the nomination is Biden’s, if he wants it; the fact that he hasn’t announced yet has created some questions (Breitbart headline, 2/22: “2024: Joe No Show? Delayed Decision Causing ‘Doubt’”), but Biden will almost surely run again, and there are no Democrats strong enough to challenge him. The Republicans now have three candidates: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and multi-millionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who, on Tucker Carlson’s February 21 show, announced his intention to run for...

A grandmother in the 22nd Street Southeast neighborhood of Washington, D.C. was on her way to chemotherapy treatment last Friday when she was stopped by a 15-year-old male with a firearm. He demanded the keys to her car and, when she refused, began struggling with her. Fortunately, he did not use the firearm during the struggle. Also fortunately was that, during the struggle, the grandmother was able to call for help from her neighbors. That plea for help was answered by good Samaritans that were also good fighters and they taught the young thug a lesson he won’t soon forget,...

“Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.” said Betty Hutton. She was born 102 years ago in Battle Creek, Michigan. At three years of age, she and her sister and mother were singing in her family’s Speak Easy. She won a most popular actress award for Annie Oakley and a best actress award for her performance in the screwball comedy The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek. She had 6 top ten hits. What do Freepers think of Betty Hutton?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has reintroduced a bill that would force an audit of all military aid the United States has sent Ukraine since the Russian invasion one year ago. Greene’s legislation comes as the U.S. has committed tens of billions of dollars in military assistance since Russia invaded Ukraine last February. The Georgia Republican introduced the resolution of inquiry in the House on Friday, marking the one-year anniversary of the invasion. “It’s going to force Congress to give the American people an audit,” Greene told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday. “And that is exactly what the...

Late this night in 1969, a platoon of seven Navy SEALs slipped into the Mekong Delta village of Thanh Phong.* At their head was a 25-year-old lieutenant, the future United States Senator Bob Kerrey. Thanh Phong was reportedly an official U.S. Army free fire zone. That meant that any Vietnamese civilians within it were presumptively enemies and could be slain at will — according to the U.S. Army, if not to any recognizable law of war. In Thanh Phong, they were slain. Nearly every single person in the town. Gregory Vistica’s disturbing investigation brought this story to wide public attention...

Could two highly intelligent men with two entirely different perspectives possibly help you come to your own personal conclusion concerning the central figure of history? Perhaps. Let’s find out. History’s central figure, of course, is Jesus Christ. And the two men I have in mind are American New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman and Canadian astrophysicist Hugh Ross. Ehrman professed faith in Christ as a teenager but is now an atheist; whereas Ross grew up in a non-religious home but is now a Christian. One man abandoned Christianity, while the other embraced it. Ross said, “I didn’t know any Christians or...

The Republican Party is “Trump’s party,” Kimberly Guilfoyle, former Fox News commentator and host of Rumble’s upcoming The Kimberly Guilfoyle Show, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.Guilfoyle spoke about the 2024 Republican primary race, explaining that she supports former President Donald Trump not because she is engaged to his son, but because she has been friends with the former president for 18 years and knows he is the man for the job. “President Trump has been my friend for 18 years. I know the man. Well, that’s why I was the first one to support him in 2016,”...

Earlier this week, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) cut ties with Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church. The influential Southern California-based congregation had been part of the SBC since its founding, but the denomination dismissed Saddleback over a decision that founding pastor Warren made shortly before he retired.In 2021, Warren ordained three women as pastors, which caused the SBC to consider disciplining the church or kicking it out of the denomination. One of those women, Stacie Wood, the wife of lead pastor Andy Wood, is a “teaching pastor.” On Tuesday, the SBC Executive Committee deemed Saddleback to be “not in friendly cooperation...

Brian Stelter on Friday falsely claimed Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop “wasn’t” labeled Russian disinformation by the establishment media after he continually furthered the false narrative as a CNN anchor. Stelter, who was ousted by CNN and hired by Harvard, was among the numerous media personalities that pushed the false narrative for months. At least 15 media personalities claimed Hunter’s laptop was likely Russian propaganda before New York Times admitted it was authentic in 2022, directly contradicting many in the Democrat-allied media. “U.S. authorities are seeing if those emails we just talked about are connected to an ongoing Russian disinformation effort,”...