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French President Emanuel Macron called for an emergency summit in Paris on Sunday after Trump officials flew to Europe and rocked the status quo with the Old Continent. The European leaders are expected to discuss the “challenges” posed by US President Donald Trump. The European elites were unprepared for the US visits this past week and the policies proposed by President Trump’s top officials. As Steve Bannon says, “The European elites never took President Trump seriously – and they paid the price.”

Vance's Munich speech slammed European elites for stifling democracy, warned of censorship and mass migration, and urged leaders to respect voters—or risk losing the very system they claim to defend. Everyone agrees that Vice President J. D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday was remarkable. I do not mean that everyone liked it. For example, Boris Pistorius, the German Defense Minister, sniffed—or perhaps “smoldered” would be a more accurate term—that Vance’s remarks were “not acceptable.” And then there is Bill Kristol, a sort of Greta Thunberg of the rancid former right, who thundered that Vance’s speech was...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “finish the job” against Iran with the support of US President Donald Trump. Netanyahu was speaking alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is visiting Israel in his first official trip to the region since assuming the role. “Over the last 16 months, Israel has dealt a mighty blow to Iran’s terror axis. Under the strong leadership of President Trump… I have no doubt that we can and will finish the job,” Netanyahu said. Rubio said that there “could never be a nuclear Iran.”

-snip- “Putin's aims are extraordinarily ambitious, way beyond the capacity of his country, which he is ruining,” he added. Sikorski called the full-scale invasion a “civilizational struggle.” “We [Europe] represent the world of rules, of peace, of prosperity. And Putin has gone back to the world of Genghis Khan.”

So basically taxpayers paid for the creation of the Covid-19 virus through USAID and then paid the mainstream media to brainwash them about masks, vaccines, and lockdowns? It's unbelievable what these sick people did to us. ... You, the American taxpayer, paid for the global pandemic and then you paid the media to brainwash you into complying with their agenda. ... Americans went from starting a revolution over a tea tax to sleeping through our own government trying to kill us. ... It's time for the masses to wake up to how corrupt their own government is. ... Mind-blowing what...

U.S. Border Patrol agents will stop using body cameras immediately in all field operations following social media posts that revealed how to identify Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, NewsNation reported on Saturday. “All U.S. Border Patrol Agents will cease the use of body-worn cameras (BWC) in all operational environments,” reads a statement to Border Patrol received by NewsNation. The directive follows notification “regarding a potential security risk,” the statement said. “Pending completion of investigation and risk mitigation, all Agents will stand down the use of their BWCs [body worn cameras] until further notice. Additional guidance and...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(2/16/25)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Evidence) Acts 11:1115 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. 16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. 17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

It takes loyalty to rise in Donald Trump’s world. And on Saturday, July 13, Karoline Leavitt demonstrated it in uncommon fashion. As she tells it, Trump’s then-campaign spokeswoman had only just carried her 3-day-old baby boy home from the hospital when she switched on the television to watch her boss’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa. It turned out to be the fateful event at which a would-be assassin’s bullet clipped Trump’s ear. Almost immediately, according to Leavitt, she and her husband decided: She would scrap a planned maternity leave and go back to work, which she did four days later....

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. - Matthew 5:4 If you have spiritual poverty and true humility, they will lead you to godly sorrow. That’s what Jesus meant by “mourn” here in this second beatitude. Paul told the Corinthians about this kind of sorrow: “For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you” (2 Cor. 7:10–11). Of the nine different New Testament words that...

The Talk Shows February 16th, 2025 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.); Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Pirate McCain) (R-Texas); Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.); National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: National security adviser Mike Waltz; Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.); Hillary 2016 running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). Panel: Olivia Beavers, Mollie Hemingway, Whine Williams and Josh Wingrove.MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Darrell Hammond, comedian (serious, Kristen, you are a joke!). (MSDNC) Panel:...

Federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan is poised to issue a temporary restraining order that would block nearly everyone in the Trump administration from accessing any data produced by any federal agency or dismissing any federal or contract workers. The order comes in response to a suit filed by 13 states — New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington — claiming "that President Trump has violated the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution by creating a new federal Department without Congressional approval and by granting Musk sweeping powers over the entire federal...

The United States’ negotiating tactics for bringing an end to the war in Ukraine, which were shared with allies at the Munich Security Conference by US envoy Keith Kellogg, are unorthodox but give hope, Poland’s foreign minister said on Sunday. “General Kellogg has presented to me personally and to the circle of European allies the United States’ negotiating tactics,” Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters. “I will not reveal them here. They raise some hopes. They are unorthodox, but we wish them luck.”

John Eastman should be a household name among conservatives, along with anyone else who believes authoritarianism can exist not just in the past or in faraway parts of the world, but in modern “liberal democracies” as well. For those unaware of him, John Eastman is a leading constitutional scholar, a former presidential advisor and clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, and is perhaps the most persecuted man in the country apart from Donald Trump. Last month at Mar-a-Lago, the latter was actually treated to the premier of The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice, a documentary in which the since-fired law professor...

NEW PODCAST! "15 minutes with Dr.Makis" - Episode 043: The Kim Iversen Show (Part 2) - Mel Gibson, Ivermectin and Fenbendazole in Cancer Dr. William Makis MD Feb 16, 2025 ***** Be there or be square. Dr Makis is the world's top Ivermectin and Fenbendazole for Cancer researcher. Who has treated 1000 patients iirc. He is in Alberta Canada and always at war with the stupid medical authorities there. Best place to read his "stuff" is at his twitter-X account. His substack will force you to pay to see his good material. He should have some Rumble videos too.

Muhsin Hendricks, considered the world’s “first openly gay imam”, has been shot dead near the southern city of Gqeberha, South African police have said. The imam, who ran a mosque intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalised Muslims, was in a car with another person on Saturday when a vehicle stopped in front of them and blocked their exit, police said. “Two unknown suspects with covered faces got out of the vehicle and started firing multiple shots at the vehicle,” the Eastern Cape force said in a statement. “Thereafter they fled the scene, and the driver noticed...

Excerpt from transcript: Music] 0:07 and Hello everybody welcome back to T TV 0:10 your Global News Channel I'm your host 0:11 Dan and today we do have some breaking 0:14 news coming from Austria and villac to 0:17 be specific in the southern part of the 0:20 country as there has been a mass 0:23 stabbing attack as uh what's being 0:26 reported uh five people randomly 0:29 attacked with one left dead and a Syrian 0:34 Asylum Seeker having been arrested by 0:38 police we are going to be going through 0:40 what we currently know at the...

Lebanese government wouldn't let IRGC plane land at Beirut International, because it was carrying hardware to resume hostilitities with Israel. IRGC and Hezbollah attacked UNIFIL forces protecting the airport. Lebanese armed forces were caught flat-footed by the attack, which was ongoing as of yesterday. Mahyar has footage from phone cameras on scene. Transcript linked below video.

The fight for freedom rarely begins before freedom is nearly snuffed out. The plan was simple. If Western governments controlled the “narrative” and censored dissent, those with power would retain power forever. If they spied on citizens and threatened uncooperative parties with imprisonment, nobody would dare resist. If they fashioned their labyrinthine bureaucracies into regulatory weapons targeting ideological enemies, opposition leaders with the most to lose would be the first to cower in silence. Own the message. Monopolize the means of messaging. Neutralize competing messengers. This is how totalitarianism rises and freedom dies. However, as nineteenth-century Prussian military commander Helmuth...

Deep under the Bank of England, in a network of vaults into which cameras are rarely admitted, sits the world's second biggest known trove of gold. Once upon a time the Bank's vaults stored bullion owned by the Crown but these days they serve mostly as a repository for other central banks and private banks that want to hold on to this critical asset. But in recent weeks fears have been raised that the vaults are slowly being emptied - leading to other fears, that the Bank is struggling to keep up with the outflow. All of which raises a...

Three fights broke out in the first nine seconds of a 4 Nations Face-Off game between the U.S. and Canada Saturday. At the opening puck drop, Matthew Tkachuk of the U.S. and Canada's Brandon Hagel didn't wait to drop the gloves. Just two seconds later, Matthew's brother, Brady, went toe-to-toe with Sam Bennett, who is NHL teammates with Matthew with the reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. That wasn't all. After an opening rush into the Canadian zone, a scrap involving just about everyone broke out, and J.T. Miller and Colton Parayko got into a fight of their own. The...