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I'm posting this especially for my fellow Generation Xers. This looks like it could be a big gloriously dumb and FUN movie! The kind of thing that could draw people to the theater and give them a good time. It's like they took the He-Man action figures we played with out of the box and onto the screen. Idris Elba is playing Man At Arms and Jared Leto is Skeletor.Hoping they'll have a Castle Grayskull popcorn bucket to go along with this.Click here for the Masters of the Universe first trailer

Yes, recent analyses from late 2025 and early 2026 data suggest the U.S. murder rate is projected to hit its lowest point since at least 1900, with a dramatic drop in 2025, potentially reaching around 4.0 per 100,000 people, marking the largest single-year decline on record and reversing pandemic-era increases. This significant decrease follows sharp drops in 2023 and 2024, bringing rates in many major cities to historic lows, although official FBI data for 2025 will confirm these preliminary findings later in 2026. Key Data & Projections (as of early 2026): Projected 2025 Rate: Around 4.0 per 100,000 people. 2025...

The United States will be able to buy sovereign base areas in Greenland that will become legal U.S. territory “forever” under the terms of a NATO-brokered deal at Davos, reports claim. A “framework” for a future deal negotiated in meetings at the Davos summit in Switzerland this week will see the United States get a sovereign base area modelled on Britain’s military bases on the Island of Cyprus, it is stated. While those bases are not on the British mainland, the UK owns approximately three per cent of the island in two exclaves, which are legally and internationally recognised as...

At his first appearance at the World Economic Forum, Elon Musk predicted artificial intelligence will soon be smarter than any human alive. “AI might be smarter than any human by the end of 2026,” Musk said, adding “no later than 2027.” Five years out, he went further: “AI will be smarter than all of humanity, collectively.” Musk also warned that robots are coming fast — and in massive numbers. “There will be far more robots than people,” he told the globalist audience, describing an automation boom that will upend labour, economics and power structures far sooner than regulators are ready...

Talarico: "Paul says that in Christ there is neither male nor female which is pretty woke for the first century."

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Trump slams open borders, green energy dogma, and elite-driven economic decline.U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a blunt, confrontational address at the World Economic Forum, using the Davos stage to reject the globalist consensus that dominates the annual gathering of political and corporate elites. In a speech that cut sharply against the forum’s open-borders ideology, Trump condemned mass migration policies pushed by Western governments and international institutions, announcing that his administration would immediately halt federal funding to so-called “sanctuary cities.” He dismissed them as “sanctuaries for criminals,” arguing that unchecked immigration undermines public safety, wages,...

New Yorkers are scrambling to buy required but tough-to-find official trash cans or face a fine — but the only company allowed to make the bins has already left town. A former worker at Otto Environmental Systems told The Post the company shut down its New York operation after City Hall axed its request to hike prices for the branded “NYC Bins.” Meanwhile, thousands of residents have complained that they paid for the $50 bins but still haven’t received them. “The volumes that were spoken about within the contract the city wrote did not come to fruition,” the ex-employee, who...

"If that would happen, there would be a big retaliation on our part, and we have all the cards," the US leader statedNEW YORK, January 22. /TASS/. Serious tit-for-tat measures can be taken if European countries start selling US bonds, President Donald Trump told Fox Business television in an interview. "If they do, they do. But you know, if that would happen, there would be a big retaliation on our part, and we have all the cards," Trump said. Danish pension fund AkademikerPension made the decision earlier to sell US Treasury Bonds amid the conflict around Greenland. The fund plans...

Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman sent a letter Wednesday to a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in Albuquerque warning that some practices of federal agents in other states could be prosecuted as a felony offense under New Mexico law. ICE officials who detain someone without a warrant signed by a judge can be charged under New Mexico's felony false imprisonment law, which contains no exceptions for law enforcement officers, Bregman wrote. "I write to express my deep concern about ICE procedures and operations across the country," he said in the letter sent to William Shaw, assistant field office...

China posted a jaw-dropping $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2025—most of which came from the Global South, rather than the United States. Amid various other major events in global news—large-scale unrest in Iran, the stunning tactical raid directed against the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela, and the ongoing spat between the United States and Denmark (and other European nations) over Greenland—one item has gone virtually unnoticed. China, the world’s second-largest economy, reported a $1.189 trillion trade surplus for 2025—meaning that the total value of its exports for the year exceeded its imports by that amount.

Former Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone confronted a MAGA election denier to his face at a Thursday congressional hearing for former Special Counsel Jack Smith. Former Capitol Police officer Michael Fanone confronted a MAGA election denier to his face at a Thursday congressional hearing at which former special counsel Jack Smith testified.At Thursday’s hearing, Fanone, who was at the Capitol on duty during the January 6 riot, was filmed during a break confronting Ivan Raiklin. At one point, Fanone was held back by multiple people, including fellow former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn. Raiklin is a 2020 election conspiracy theorist...

Seven Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday to pass a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill, despite opposition from their own leadership over unmet demands for additional guardrails on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. The DHS bill will be bundled alongside three other spending bills, totaling a combined $1.2 trillion in federal spending. The entire package’s passing is a significant step toward averting a government shutdown come Jan. 30. Lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted on two separate packages on Thursday afternoon. One groups together three spending bills to fund the departments of War, Education, Labor, Transportation...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Band of Brothers Ep 09: Why We Fight The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5 (NIV)...

The Department of Homeland Security said a child, whom Minnesota Democrats alleged had been targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was actually "abandoned" during an immigration enforcement operation. After Democrats, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., shared an image of a 5-year-old boy online and claimed he was arrested by ICE while coming home from pre-school, the White House fired back in a statement to Fox News Digital. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson condemned what the Trump administration views as the mainstream media working "hand-in-glove with Democrats to spread malicious lies about ICE operations."...

A “coastal tourism” zone would run along the seafront — long enough for up to 180 skyscrapers, many likely earmarked as hotels. “I know it’s a little risky to be investing in a place like this, but we need you to come, take faith, invest in the people,” he said.

New York Police Department (NYPD) detectives were mistaken for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and reportedly treated rudely by hospital staff as they were seeking medical attention for wounds incurred in the line of duty. The detectives reportedly checked into the NYU Langone/Cobble Hill Hospital in Brooklyn following a violent altercation with a drug suspect. “[Hospital staff] were nasty to the officers in the waiting room, accused them of being ICE and suggested they go elsewhere,” one source told the New York Post. “They properly identified themselves,” another source said. “It’s despicable to attempt to deny care or suggest...

Here’s one reason to own gold. The appreciation of Russia’s gold reserves has nearly replaced the value of the assets frozen by the European Union when the country invaded Ukraine. Based on calculations by Bloomberg, the value of Russian gold reserves has surged by $216 billion since February 2022. The EU froze approximately €210 billion in Russian sovereign assets held within the bloc. That equals about $244 billion. As Bloomberg put it, the surge in gold reserves “restores most of Russia’s lost financial capacity,” even if it never gets those assets back. Russia has held its gold reserve steady throughout...

An anti-ICE activist who disrupted a Minnesota church service Sunday was previously arrested outside the White House after screaming at families in line for a tour, court records show. Kelly faces two disorderly conduct charges for allegedly harassing officers, pedestrians, and families in line for a White House tour in early December, calling the guests “Nazis” and yelling “f*** you,” according to court records. During the incident, Kelly heckled officers, yelling “traitors!” and asking, “How does it feel to protect a pedophile?” according to a police officer’s affidavit. “[Kelly] also screamed ‘you Nazis’ at pedestrians who were traversing the south...

NEW: Multiple sources tell me & colleague David Spunt that the federal magistrate in Minnesota who refused to sign off on an arrest warrant for Don Lemon is Douglas L. Micko and that his wife works as an Assistant Attorney General in Minnesota AG Keith Ellison's office.