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As Mexico braces for the return of President-elect Donald Trump, Mexican officials wonder if Trump's threats of military action against the drug cartels will become a reality, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. According to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper's memoir, Trump had floated the idea of using the military to get rid of drug labs owned by cartels during his first administration but was ultimately talked out of it. This time, Mexican officials are cautious of Trump’s plans resurfacing. Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, quickly shot down the idea of U.S. military assault.“There won’t be an invasion,” Sheinbaum...

The H1B situation has EXPLODED! Several threads have recently been posted by others that would remind us that Trump held a good position on this in his previous Administration. Hope he’s firm on that now with his new allies. Search by Title finds fewer articles than Search by Keyword. See link immediately below. FReepers, if you will please help ensure that all relevant new threads are keyworded with H1B, it will keep the keyword index current. People, pray for America and for wisdom, think the best but verify. Let's manage this crisis well. CLOSE RANKS! (Mods, perhaps this could be...

The US taxpayer has suffered a double whammy under The Federal government. First, thanks to the Federal Reserve, the purchasing power of the US Dollar has fallen 97% since the creation of The Federal Reserve in 1913 (under Woody Wilson). ... The second leg of the double whammy is the staggering $36 TRILLION is public debt, up from $321 million in 1966. That is a remarkable increase, most of it happening under Obama/Biden then Biden/Harris or 188% since Biden/Harris. Yes, Trump is sanwiched in between Obama and Biden for a scant 4 years. While we love to blame Presidents, it...

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From Elon Musk: "This is the right position for those who want America to win. For those who want America to lose for their own personal gain, I have no respect. Zero." From The Rabbit Hole: "Elon's stance on immigration has been pretty consistent. Here's him outlining it in 2023:" Quote from Elon Musk: “We should greatly increase legal immigration of anyone who is hard-working, honest, and loves America. Every such person is an asset to the country. But massive illegal immigration of people we know nothing about is insane.”

Standing alone, the corruption raises a lot of red flags, but it also takes on sinister proportions as we see Ukraine move toward Turkey. Europe now has no more corrupt country than Ukraine. For the third consecutive year, the country has been grappling with the repercussions of an ongoing war, seeking ways to sustain and operate all governmental institutions while relying heavily on international aid. Additionally, as was to be expected, within the Ukrainian government, there are individuals who are still attempting to profit amid a substantial budget shortfall. Most Ukrainian ministers are currently someone’s proteges, with real power concentrated...

[OFFICIAL.] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 -- 10 P.M. To Maj. Gen. John A. Dix. The following extracts from Richmond papers of to-day, have been furnished to the Department by Gen. GRANT: WILMINGTON, N.C., Dec. 25. The enemy's fleet, over fifty vessels, including two monitors, several armed vessels and many heavily armed frigates and sloops-of-war, made a furious attack on Fort Fisher about 1 o'clock, yesterday, and kept up an average fire of thirty shots per minute until night. Our loss is 23 wounded. The attack was renewed at 10 o'clock this morning, and has been very furious and continuous....

“[Christ] is . . . the first-born of all creation” (Colossians 1:15). Christ is the preeminent inheritor over all creation. Puritan minister Thomas Manton once said, “Heresies revolve as fashions, and in the course of a few years antiquated errors revive again, and that by their means who did not so much as know them by name.” He was right: false doctrines keep repeating themselves through the ages, only to reappear under different names. From the Arians of the early church to the Jehovah’s Witnesses of our own day, cultists have sought to deny our Lord’s deity. One of the...

Newly released video of a fatal New York prison beating shows correctional officers repeatedly pummeling a handcuffed inmate, striking him in the chest with a shoe, and lifting him by the neck and dropping him. Body-worn camera footage of the Dec. 9 assault on Robert Brooks was made public Friday by the state’s attorney general, who is investigating the officers' use of force. Brooks, 43, was pronounced dead at a hospital the morning after the assault at the Marcy Correctional Facility, a state prison in Oneida County. Thirteen correctional officers and a nurse implicated in the attack will face termination,...

Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH If #ElonMusk is correct about the U.S. having a #LaborShortage, then how does he explain this? "Most studies indicate that 75-85% of adults with #AspergerSyndrome do not hold a full-time job." https://autismspectrumnews.org/tackling-the-unemployment-crisis-for-adults-with-asperger-syndrome/ #Aspergers #Autism #ASD #H1B #H1Bvisas #STEM #Math 9:39 AM · Dec 28, 2024

A man was burned inside Manhattan's Penn Station train terminal on Friday, just days after a woman was set ablaze inside a Brooklyn subway car. Metropolitan Transportation Authority police received a report of a man on fire at the transit hub just before 8pm, and when officers arrived on the scene, they found a 67-year-old man on fire near the entrance to the subway, according to the New York Daily News. He had burn injuries to both her legs and upper body, which a fire department spokesman told the New York Times were serious but not life threatening. Man, 67,...

Former FBI senior scientist Dr. Jason Bannan has made startling claims, alleging that the Biden administration intentionally disregarded vital evidence tying the origins of COVID-19 to a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology For years, government agencies, Big Tech platforms, and mainstream media dismissed the lab-leak theory as a baseless conspiracy. However, mounting evidence, including analyses by the FBI and other experts, has lent significant credibility to this explanation. Throughout the pandemic, the lab-leak hypothesis was vehemently denied by public health officials and key figures such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, as well as organizations like the CDC and...

“This is the right position for those who want America to win. For those who want America to lose for their own personal gain, I have no respect. Zero.” See X post for full context.

On December 4th, 2024, at 6:45 ET, an assassin killed United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson in New York City in front of the Hilton Hotel. Video of the assassination shows the assassin with what appears to be a pistol with a suppressor attached. The assassin fires at least two shots, possibly three, while manually working the action at least twice. This would leave two shell cases and a potentially loaded round or three shell cases at the crime scene.On December 9th, 2024, a suspect was identified in a McDonald’s at about 0914 a.m. in Altoona, PA. Altoona police officers approached...

Alex Valaitis @alex_valaitis · I also didn't want anyone else on my team to get in trouble, including my Director or even the hiring manager. That might sound crazy, but I genuinely couldn't stomach being the reason some guy lost his job and couldn't support his family. I knew the intern was likely still not Show more Alex Valaitis @alex_valaitis · 13h So when my turn came to talk to HR, I took the coward move and played dumb. I denied any foul play and instead just tried to highlight that I personally thought the intern was good enough to...

Germany is gone. Germany has wiped itself out. Numbers like these show how quickly mass migration can eliminate a country’s future. In Germany, 42% of people under age 15 were either foreign-born or had at least one foreign-born parent Not all of these are third worlders. Germany, like the rest of Europe, has a lot of Eastern European immigrants. And it always did. When I was in Europe, I would find the number of ‘More-German-Than-Thou-Germans’ sneering at ‘Auslanders’ while their own last names were clearly Eastern European like Kapusta a little ridiculous. The numbers have increased though. Germany can absorb...

For obvious reasons, our legacy media have very limited interest in reporting regularly on economic news from the various socialist/communist paradises around the world. So if you want to learn the latest, best to turn to the Manhattan Contrarian. Needless to say, all the economic news from these places is bad. If you think that Bidenomics has been bad for America, you really need to look at the destruction that serious socialism can bring to a country when given a chance. CubaI last checked in on Cuba on October 29 with a post titled “Cuba: The Collapse Accelerates.” A Spanish...

Russian President Vladimir Putin apologizes to Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, for what the Kremlin said was a “tragic incident” in Russian airspace involving the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25. Putin tells Aliyev that Russian air defense was active when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Grozny before it crashed in a phone call, the Kremlin says. “During this time, Grozny, (the town of) Mozdok and Vladikavkaz were being attacked by Ukrainian combat drones and Russian air defense was repelling these attacks,” the Kremlin says Putin told Aliyev, without explicitly acknowledging that...

Scottie Scheffler was recently named PGA TOUR Player of the Year for a third straight year after one of the greatest seasons in golf history. His candidacy for a fourth consecutive award has been delayed by an unexpected injury to his right hand, however. “On Christmas Day while preparing dinner, Scottie sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass,” Scheffler’s manager, Blake Smith, said in a statement released Friday. “Small glass fragments remained in the palm which required surgery. He has been told that he should be back to 100% in three to...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (12/28/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Comforter) Isaiah 63:14314 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS