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Hungary has blocked €50bn ($55bn; £43bn) in EU aid for Ukraine - just hours after an agreement was reached on starting membership talks. "Summary of the nightshift: veto for the extra money to Ukraine," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after Thursday's talks in Brussels. EU leaders said the aid negotiations would resume early next year. Ukraine is critically dependent on EU and US funding as it continues to fight occupying Russian forces. The aid blocking was announced by Mr Orban shortly after the EU leaders decided to open membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova and to grant candidate status...

Details violation of Mann Act, exploitation of hookers, influence peddling, proof that Brandon is "big guy". AOC and others get mad because she shows a pic of a hooker in a bikini. Say it's "porn". Details stonewalling by Justice, asks that Weiss be removed as Special Counsel.

One person has died and another is in a critical condition in hospital after a boat carrying migrants got into trouble in the Channel. The boat was carrying 66 people when it got into difficulty about 5 miles (8km) off the French coast, according to the coastguard. The survivors have been taken to Calais. The search is continuing by air and sea. Rescuers reached the vessel at 1am local time and found one of the boat's tubes was deflated and people were in the water. Two were found unconscious. One was airlifted to hospital by helicopter, while a second person...

Harvard forces a Jewish student group to hide its menorah each night after its lighting over fears of vandalism that “won’t look good” for the Ivy League school, the rabbi of Harvard Chabad said. “On our campus in the shadow of Widener Library, we in the Jewish community are instructed, ‘We’ll let you have the menorah, you made your point, OK. Pack it up, don’t leave it out overnight because there will be criminal activity we fear and it won’t look good’,” Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi said at a Hanukkah lighting Wednesday night. Zarchi, the founder and president of Harvard Chabad,...

If you think the events in Hampton County & the Alex Murdaugh murders exposed “corruption” in South Carolina … you haven’t seen anything yet!!! The update from last nights SCGOP State Executive Committee meeting … and the Lexington County Republican Party … is simple: SCGOP Chairman Drew McKissick & the majority of the SCGOP State Executive Committee … DECLARED WAR ON MAGA & America FIRST!!! Yes, you read that correctly … Drew McKissick and his ilk want to stir up the FEBRUARY 24th, 2024, SC Presidential Preference Primary by shutting down TRUMP supporting County GOPs. Maybe to help Nikki Haley?...

President Biden’s job approval rating has plunged to a measly 33%, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday The dismal rating is the lowest that Pew Research has measured since Biden, 81, took office and represents a 2 point drop since the organization’s last approval survey in June. The president’s approval rating among registered Republicans and those that lean Republican stayed level at 7%, while his support among Democrats tumbled 4 points from June, to 61%.

For most of Western history, art was used as a way for patrons to showcase achievements, propagandize citizens, or lionize individuals. Maybe the single greatest artist in human history, Michelangelo, created his greatest works for patrons of various sorts. He created David for the Florentine Guild of Wool, the Pieta for the French ambassador to the Holy See, and the Sistine Chapel and St Peter’s Basilica for popes. Art was, in one way or another, an homage to something greater than its creator.Fast-forward about three centuries, and the art world begun to change. The idea of art as an indulgence...

The IDF fighters in Jenin who announced "Shema Israel" on the mosque's loudspeakers in the city during the activity were suspended. We went to check the great terrorist mosque of Jenin Elhanan Groner, HakolHayehudi, 2nd Tevet 5784 - 21:30 12/14/2023 The networks are abuzz following the IDF's decision to suspend reservists who proclaimed "Hear Israel" from the terrorist mosque in Jenin during the military operation in the camp, claiming that they had damaged religious shrines. At the direction of the Chief of Staff, it was even decided that the fighters would be put on trial this evening before Brigadier General...

Vice President Kamala Harris has been telling colleagues in the administration that she wants the White House to show more concern publicly for the humanitarian damage in Gaza, where Israel is locked in a bloody and prolonged battle with Hamas, according to three people familiar with Harris’ comments. President Joe Biden is among the officials Harris has urged to show more sensitivity to Palestinian civilians, these people said. In internal conversations about the war in Gaza, Harris has argued that it is time to start making “day after” plans for how to handle the wreckage of the war once the...

Speaker Johnson is currently facing backlash after a photo surfaced showing him in the company of former House Speaker Paul Ryan. The image, captured and shared by Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News, depicts the two figures emerging together from the Speaker’s suite at the Capitol. This encounter has sparked controversy, particularly given Ryan’s recent public statements criticizing former President Donald Trump. Paul Ryan, who served as the Speaker of the House from 2015 to 2019 and the architect of FOX News cancel culture, branded former President Donald Trump as an “authoritarian narcissist” while commending the actions of Trump critics, Adam...

Unfortunately for the Bidens, just hours before Hunter’s press conference, the transcript of the latest testimony of Ziegler and Shapley was published by the House Ways and Means Committee. Ziegler is a registered Democrat and is regarded as the most talented criminal investigator in the IRS team described as the “SEAL Team 6” of international tax-fraud investigations. His supervisor, Shapley, is a registered Republican and equally well-regarded, having managed some of the largest cases in IRS history, and recovered more than $3.5 billion for the US taxpayer. Georgia Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ga.) stepped on the first landmine when she asked...

The Turkish member of parliament who collapsed after he attacked Israel's warfare in Gaza and the Turkish government's continued trade with Israel died today... "that vote...just threw away the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution" Congressman Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky)...147 Republicans including US House Speaker Mike Johnson supporting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act today... The members of the European Union agreed tonight to start talks with Moldova and Ukraine about membership. Before the vote Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban left the room while the 26 other nations held a vote... The US Central Command says that Houthi-Yemeni forces launched a ballistic missile...

(Dec. 14, 2023) — A bill introduced on December 8 in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to define the scope of a key phrase of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment with the purpose of abolishing “birthright citizenship,” or the bestowing of citizenship on anyone born within the United States by whatever means. The 14th-Amendment phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is not only often omitted from mainstream news reporting, but also from the webpage of the U.S. Senate and from other authoritative sources, thereby arguably misleading readers. The U.S. Senate claims: Passed by the Senate on June 8,...

On Nov. 20, 2023, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft 169561 YD-561, belonging to the VP-4 “Skinny Dragons” based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, ended in water after overshooting the runway during landing at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The crew, safely evacuated the aircraft after the mishap without immediate injuries....

Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham or seemingly any prime time host would be fine with the Florida Governor. Gov. Ron DeSantis deserves credit for consistency, calling on yet another Fox News host to help shore up his presidential campaign by hosting a debate. “If you want to do other debates, Nikki Haley and me, I’m in. Donald Trump and me, I’m in. So just say the word. You’ve shown that you can do it in a way that I think really helps the voter. So I’m game, just let me know,” DeSantis told Sean Hannity. DeSantis benefited late last month from...

"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. "And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first." "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of...

Patriotism? To What? I wish more people could see the United States Government for what it really is, a brutal organization seeking every means of stepping on one’s neck while they rip the wallet from their back pocket. What method of thuggery have they refused to utilize? A SWAT team descending on a local preacher or common welder who participated in a protest is not police work or law enforcement, it’s terrorism. It’s not fear of the preacher or common welder that dictates their actions, but the sheer terror they might strike into the hearts of patriots that they strive...

Lifetime York County resident and former Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf sold his house in central Pennsylvania and plans to move to Philadelphia with his wife, according to a local report. Wolf and his wife sold their Mount Wolf home and will move into a Philadelphia apartment, according to the York Daily Record. “I spent 75 years in York County, and I love this place. So many wonderful memories,” Wolf told the York Daily Record Thursday. Mount Wolf was named after Wolf’s ancestor, Adam Wolf. The Wolf family ultimately decided to move so they could be closer to their children and...

The United States Navy's F/A-XX fighter is expected to receive almost full funding, NavalNews.com reported on Monday. It comes as a compromise in the Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to fund a special access program (SAP) believed to be for the next-generation stealth fighter. Earlier this year, the House Armed Service Committee had cut $1.1 billion from the Link Plumeria line, citing "unjustified requirements." The U.S. Navy had requested $2.1 billion for Link Plumeria in its budget request for FY2024. However, the current version of the bill cut just $50 million from Project 2937, which is...