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In a recent undercover revelation, Jamie Mannina, a Pentagon advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former FBI Special Agent, revealed strategies and covert meetings aimed at influencing public perception and undermining the presidency of Donald Trump. Mannina acknowledged collaborating with retired military leaders, including generals and admirals, to devise methods to counteract Trump’s administration. “I’ve been in conversation with a couple of retired generals to explore what we can do,” he admitted during the undercover conversation. These discussions reportedly occurred in high-security environments, including “The Tank,” a secure room within the Pentagon reserved for critical defense deliberations. Mannina...

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called on members of the alliance to either increase their defense spending targets or start taking "Russian language courses." NATO's current target for members' defense spending is 2 percent of their country's GDP. Trump said in 2018 during his first administration that the defense spending goal for NATO should be doubled to 4 percent. While on the campaign trail in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, Trump also accused NATO of relying too much on U.S. contributions. During a December appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, he even suggested the U.S. could look at leaving...

Quaid reflects. Asks all the questions, like - why are we spending all this money giving it to illegals? This is well worth the watch. He starts about midway point.

The owner of a well-known Orlando LGBTQIA+ nightclub and another man rumored to be a school teacher are facing serious federal charges involving minors. Federal court documents have painted a disturbing picture, raising significant questions and sparking widespread community concern. Allegations Against Southern Nights Owner Richard Kowalski, owner of Southern Nights, an LGBTQ+ nightclub located on Bumby Avenue in Orlando, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Alongside him, Eric Patrick has been named in the same indictment. The charges stem from alleged criminal activities occurring between July 1, 2020, and February 10, 2021. The pair faces multiple serious...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a historic first, a current presidential cabinet nominee received an official military commendation, as Pete Hegseth was awarded the Silver Star for enduring a roomful of hysterical women during his Senate confirmation hearing. In less than one full day of questioning before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hegseth withstood a near-constant barrage from female Democratic senators, leaving witnesses amazed by his heroic display of courage and determination. "A truly astounding example of toughness and bravery in the face of danger," Republican Senator Eric Schmidt said. "I've heard a lot of inspiring stories over the years from...

The ridge high above Los Angeles is filled with clues. There are shattered pieces of electrical equipment, and a grove of madrone blackened by fire. Police tape is strung around one section of the sandy soil, now mixed with ash. Investigators have zeroed in on these rocky bluffs with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean as the ignition point of the Palisades fire, the inferno that has destroyed at least 5,000 homes and businesses and killed at least eight people. A recent visit by New York Times reporters to the site — near the “crime scene,” as officers for the...

A Northern Ireland MP is set to issue legal proceedings against controversial online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, over social media posts. KRW Law said the posts were made on Friday, the day after Sorcha Eastwood of the Alliance Party said she was a "survivor of abuse" in the House of Commons. During a debate on violence against women and girls, Eastwood said she was once approached by a member of the public who told her that he wanted to rape her. Her solicitors confirmed that they had been instructed to issue legal proceedings and that correspondence with...

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, officially endorsed Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense on Tuesday night, despite expressing some initial uncertainty following their first meeting. "After four years of weakness in the White House, Americans deserve a strong Secretary of Defense," Ernst told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement. "Our next commander in chief selected Pete Hegseth to serve in this role, and after our conversations, hearing from Iowans, and doing my job as a United States Senator, I will support President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense. As I serve on the Armed Services Committee, I...

I use my FR homepage as a scrapbook for things I find interesting online and might want to link to someday. I stumbled across this gif a couple of weeks ago (I do not remember where) and uploaded it to Imgur.com and posted it on my homepage. Yesterday I went looking for it on my homepage and discovered Imgur.com had deleted it. Contrails are one of those things we are assured are a conspiracy theory and that contrails are always present from jets. This gif shows that they can turn off the contrails at will and that they spray in...

Los Angeles authorities’ poor preparation for and lamentable response to the wildfires now devastating the city capture a broader problem – namely, the failure of governance across America’s Democrat-controlled regions. This pattern of incompetence has accelerated the shift of American economic and political power to regions outside the long dominant north-east and West Coast. The reason for this shift lies in the clear failure of Democrats, writ large in the inferno now consuming large swathes of LA. In states like California, Democratic politicians no longer prioritise such things as public safety and key infrastructure, including roads, ports and, most importantly...

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Russia is facing a critical challenge to its war effort in 2025: The nation is quickly running out of cash, with financial reserves potentially running out before the end of the year, according to estimates from one European economist. Anders Åslund, a Swedish economist and a former fellow at the Atlantic Council, thinks liquid reserves in Russia's National Wealth Fund could potentially be depleted by the fall of this year. That spells trouble for the nation's military efforts in 2025, he said, given how heavily Russia has relied on its wealth fund over the last several years. Liquid reserves in...

THIS is Why People Think 'The Homeless' May Have Started the California Fires

What is now called “woke” started with the social engineering obsession of the “democratic managerial state” and the threat it represented to traditional social relations. Chronicles began as a recognizably Boomer publication. As an early contributor to the magazine, I noticed that its founders, Rockford College President John Howard as publisher and the Polish émigré writer Leopold Tyrmand as editor, held what were establishment conservative views for the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were exceedingly high on Ronald Reagan, whom they regarded as the great champion of our “ way of life” against our pervasive Communist foes. Opposing world...

Is desalination the future of drought relief in California? Oct 31, 2015 San Diego is set to soon start supplying itself with millions of gallons a day of fresh, drinkable water, using saltwater from the Pacific Ocean, converted by a brand new desalination plant. As California's historic drought continues, the plant will likely intensify the debate over the role of desalination may play in the state's water supply. Special Correspondent Mike Taibbi reports.

The freshly released Jack Smith report is a textbook example of a dirty “legal wrap-up smear,” a term describing the intersection of partisan politics and legal weaponization. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explained this tactic in 2017: "You smear somebody with falsehoods... you merchandise it, and then you write it, and they’ll say, ‘See, it’s reported in the press.’ Then it’s called a wrap-up smear."This tactic is glaringly evident in the report’s handling of former President Donald Trump. One of its most egregious admissions is that prosecutors considered—but ultimately declined—to charge Trump under the Insurrection Act. This is significant because Democrats...

Dr. Steven Greer discusses the imminent disclosure before the inauguration of Trump. Dr. Steven Greer's FULL Interview on Newsmax (10 min. video)

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis says God loves homosexuals ‘as they are’ in new memoirIn his new memoirs, Pope Francis defended the controversial 2023 text Fiducia Supplicans and also appeared to suggest that there is no need for conversion away from the homosexual lifestyle.Pope Francis with New Ways Ministry, October 2024.Expanding his defense of the 2023 document approving blessing of same-sex couples, Pope Francis attested that such blessings are for “people” but “not the relationships.”“It is the people who are blessed, not the relationships,” said Pope Francis of the blessings authorized by the controversial document Fiducia Supplicans.Francis’ comments, found in his...

* Meta is set to cut about 5% of its workforce, focusing on the company’s lowest-performing workers, CNBC confirmed Tuesday. * CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed employees about the decision to “move out low performers faster” in a memo posted on the company’s internal Workplace forum on Tuesday. * Zuckerberg told employees 2025 will “be an intense year.” Meta is set to cut about 5% of its workforce, focusing on the company’s lowest-performing staffers, CNBC confirmed Tuesday. CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed employees about the decision to “move out low performers faster” in a memo posted on the company’s internal Workplace forum...

It’s not the White House. But… it’s a short walk to the Park? Kamala Harris is eyeing post-loss life in New York, we hear. Page Six spies say that Doug Emhoff toured a $20,000-a-month three-bedroom at the Park Loggia luxury condo building on the Upper West Side last week. (“The missus was missing,” said the source.) We’re told he arrived at the Lincoln Center high-rise on Friday with a “convoy of SUVs and a phalanx of Secret Service.” No word yet if the power pair plan to take the apartment. Meanwhile, a source said, “Not from me, but I heard...