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"I am proud to be Scottish. I don't want them here." Standing on the balcony of his flat in Glasgow, George drapes the saltire Scottish flag as he explains his anti-immigration stance. "We can't afford to keep all these people coming in," he says. "There's too many people coming in." George, who lives on the Wyndford estate in Glasgow's Maryhill, is not alone. Streets across the city are filling with white and blue flags hanging from lampposts. Immigration has not been centre stage in Scottish politics for many years - but the mood appears to be shifting. Glasgow is the...

Ralph Pezzullo and Stephen Gardner get deep into why Trump is gearing up for war with Venezuela. Imagine being briefed with evidence that Venezuela has been rigging elections with US AID tax payer money. Imagine learning they also been rigging elections in the US. https://amzn.to/46PPAun Stolen Elections sounds like a spy novel but its all true. http://ralphpezzulloauthor.com/ Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and others have been briefed on the mechanics of rigging elections. This is why some many have been fired, Tulsi Gabbard says our election systems are vulnerable, Trump won the presidency but his down ticket went...

A Polish lawyer representing Volodymyr Z., wanted by Germany over his alleged involvement in the Nord Stream explosions, confirmed to Reuters on Tuesday that his client was detained in Poland. Polish private radio station RMF FM reported that the man had been wanted under a European arrest warrant issued by a German court.

THE LEGEND OF BIG BALLS CONTINUES TO GROW. 🚨 JUST IN: Edward Coristine AKA “BIG BALLS” says his GRANDFATHER was a DOUBLE-AGENT 🚨“My grandfather was a KGB double agent for the Americans. He died so that I could come here and live in the free country I love.” 🤯 pic.twitter.com/SpYxvXouTY— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) September 30, 2025He worked for Line X which is like this sophisticated KGB line, but he actually joined the CIA and he gave the CIA a bunch of valuable intel right around the Cold War. This has been public knowledge for quite some time. However, this is...

Starmer delivering keynote address at Labour conference PM says UK faces choice between Labour or Reform UK He questions whether Nigel Farage 'loves' Britain Tamara Cohen: Starmer urges voters to reject 'politics of grievance' on left and right Major overhaul of NHS with 'online hospital' Target of sending 50% of young people to university scrapped Streeting (HHS Secretary) attacks 'con artist' Farage for 'poison'

Companies could face probes into their compliance with the H-1B visa program as part of the Trump Administration’s effort to clamp down on the program and force companies to hire more Americans. The Department of Labor announced on Friday that it was launching Project Firewall, an “enforcement initiative” that will investigate employers for potential abuse of the H-1B visa process. The initiative may be the first time the federal government has sought to broadly enforce H-1B legal standards intended to protect both the H-1B employee and American workers, such as paying wages on par with other workers of similar qualifications...

When the newly-formed Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, April 1861, they ignited the Civil War. They, at least, had a clearcut goal: to maintain an economy (and society) based on slavery. It was patently evil, but it was firmly established and it was their engine for daily life, and they didn’t want it to end. When Charlie Kirk was murdered in 2025, Civil War 2.0 kicked off. The enemy this time are not Confederates with a coherent command structure and a goal. They are an army of nihilists like the gang in The Big Lebowski, who, for one...

I've noticed a lot of double and even triple posts in the last few days. I'm wondering if there is an issue with Free Republic. Thoughts?

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WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slammed "fat generals" and diversity initiatives that he said led to decades of decay in the military and told a rare gathering of commanders on Tuesday they should resign if they don't support his agenda. "Foolish and reckless political leaders set the wrong compass heading and we lost our way. We became the 'Woke Department,'" Hegseth said as he kicked off the event in Quantico, Virginia. "But not anymore," he said. Addressing the room full of America's top generals and admirals, summoned from around the world without explanation last week,...

President Donald J. Trump strode to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly and delivered a speech bold and uncompromising in its excoriation of the fictions hoisted by the elites. In a world awash with sanctimonious platitudes about mass migration and climate change, Trump dubbed them the forces “destroying a large part of the free world”With characteristic bluntness, he declared the global climate change movement as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”

The fourteenth-century Icelandic Edwardsaga chronicles the life of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (reigned 1042–1066). It also describes how, in the years after the Norman Conquest in 1066 -- when William the Conqueror invaded England and was crowned king -- 350 ships carrying English warriors set out for Constantinople. There, the Byzantine emperor employed the Anglo-Saxons as members of the Varangian Guard, an elite unit of foreign soldiers that served as his personal army. Such was their loyalty, says the Edwardsaga, that the emperor deeded them land six days' sailing north of Constantinople. There, presumably on...

United States Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg insisted on Tuesday that Russia is not achieving success on the battlefield in Ukraine, claiming that its military forces have been "decimated" and its President Vladimir Putin is "taking tanks out of museums to bring them to the frontlines." Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum, Kellogg stressed that, when it comes to negotiating peace in Ukraine, Putin has "got to make that call, not the West. The West is aligned very well, and I have great confidence in it as well." "He's got the problem, not the West," he noted. Previously, Kellogg...

A second illegal migrant hit in the mass shooting at a Dallas ICE facility has died from his injuries, according to his “shattered” wife, who is expecting their fifth child any day now. Mexican national Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, 32, was shot at least eight times during last Wednesday’s sniper-style attack and was rushed to Parkland Hospital in a critical condition before dying of his injuries, CBS News reported. Garcia-Hernandez, who was in the US illegally, was detained by ICE after being arrested on Aug. 8 for a DUI, Gauffeny previously said.

The first eight months of the second Trump administration have seen a sea change in energy policy. Previously, under Biden, the federal government had undertaken a blowout of hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies and incentives for so-called “renewable” energy sources, while simultaneously implementing dozens of regulations and restrictions to suppress the production and use of fossil fuels. President Trump has now reversed all of that. However, please take note of an important distinction: although Trump and Congress have zeroed out nearly all subsidies and tax credits for wind and solar generation and for grid-scale batteries, they have not...

The South African Ambassador to France has died after falling from the 22nd floor of a Paris hotel, French media reported today (Tuesday). Ambassador Nkosinathi Emmanuel Mthethwa's body was found near the Hyatt Hotel at Porte Maillot. The prosecutor's office stated that Mthethwa had booked a room on the hotel's 22nd floor and that the room's secure window was forced open. The case is currently being investigated as a suicide. Mthethwa's wife reported him missing after receiving what the prosecutor's office called a "disturbing message" from him. .....

President Trump to address the generals and admirals at Quantico any minute now.

A new technique stabilizes a metastable form of sodium solid electrolyte, enabling all-solid-state sodium batteries to maintain performance even at subzero temperatures. All-solid-state batteries are considered a safe and powerful option for running electric vehicles, electronics, and even storing energy from the power grid. However, producing them relies heavily on lithium, a metal that is costly, difficult to source, and damaging to the environment when mined. Sodium offers a cheaper, more abundant, and less harmful alternative, but sodium-based all-solid-state batteries have struggled to operate efficiently at room temperature. “It’s not a matter of sodium versus lithium. We need both. When...

Has anyone heard of the Amish rebuilding effort in hurricane-ravaged North Carolina? The report now, from citizen-photojournalist Matt Van Swol is that they have completed the last tiny home for the thousands of victims in the western part of the state, whose entire homes were destroyed or washed away in the ravages of Hurricane Helene last year. 🚨#BREAKING: The Amish have confirmed they have completed their very last tiny home for Western North Carolina victims of Hurricane Helene.This final tiny home is being delivered today to David Hostetter, a Vietnam veteran who lost his home in the storm.GOD BLESS THE...

Boeing is in the early stages of developing a new single-aisle airplane that would eventually replace the 737 MAX, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Rolls-Royce declined to comment, while Boeing did not respond to a Reuters' request for comment. The 737 MAX entered service in 2017 but was grounded globally in 2019 after two fatal crashes killed 346 people. The incidents slashed Boeing's profits and triggered lawsuits, investigations, and a criminal probe by the U.S. Department of Justice. The Federal Aviation Administration lifted the grounding...