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"Donald Trump is very important to NATO and very committed to NATO", Secretary General Mark Rutte said in remarks at the European Parliament on Monday as many MEPs worry about the president of the United States' aggressive rhetoric against Europe. Whereas Trump's threats to control Greenland have been defined as "the end of NATO" by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Rutte said he believes that US President "deserves to be defended" and "is doing a lot of good stuff" for the NATO alliance. "The 2% [of the GDP spending target on defence] reached by all NATO countries at the end...

The International Monetary Fund is preparing for the possibility of a rapid sell-off of U.S. dollar-denominated assets, its managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, said today. "At the fund, one muscle that we are building is our ability to hypothetically present scenarios of unthinkable events and then figure out what to do," Georgieva said at an event hosted by Bruegel, a Brussels-based think-tank. Asked whether the scenarios include a potential run on dollar assets, Georgieva said the fund runs "all kinds of scenarios" and that it was examining the issue as part of its ongoing analysis. Her comments come as Donald Trump's...

Eleven thousand flights canceled. Fifteen tragic deaths associated with the storm so far. Frigid Arctic air is settling in behind it - here in NW Florida, we just hit 40° a little over an hour ago for the first time all day after mid-30s with steady gusts as high as 30 mph (real feel temp 34°). We have 24° forecast for a morning low - NIPPY! Mississippi got hit hard, with almost three inches of ice. Classes in Oxford have been canceled until the second of February. Tennessee and Louisiana have line crews clearing trees from ice damage as well....

I'm losing faith in republicans to be completely honest, I believe in "Liberal Democracy" I mean people should have the freedom to choose and elect what is they system and political alignment that best suits their values and worldview having a goon squad shoot American citizens is nowhere near what my values are I am a conservative, I believe in Person responsibility, governance by consent, limited government control over personal legal enterprise and entrepreneurship

California Governor Gavin Newsom accused TikTok on Monday of suppressing content critical of President Donald Trump as he launched a review of the platform’s content moderation practices to determine whether they violated state law. The step comes after TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, said it had finalised a deal to set up a majority US-owned joint venture that will secure US data, to avoid a US ban on the short video app used by more than 200 million Americans. “Following TikTok’s sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports, and independently confirmed instances, of suppressed content critical of...

For many social media users, the irony was inescapable. Former President Bill Clinton, whose first term started with the bloodbath in Waco, Texas, and whose second term included impeachment on charges of lying under oath, took to social media on Sunday to weigh in on the leftist violence erupting in Minnesota. And the responses it stirred were scathing.

The UK government has pledged to introduce a digital ID system for all UK citizens and legal residents by the end of the current Parliament (so no later than 2029). The integration of digital ID into government services, though already under way, has hitherto been largely voluntary. However, it is becoming steadily less optional, as the government has said it will now be required as a precondition for work in the UK, and a version of it (GOV.UK One Login) is already being imposed unilaterally upon company directors throughout the UK. Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones has...

The wife of a prominent lawyer was one of six killed in a horror private jet crash on a snowy airport runway. Tara Arnold, 46, wife of personal injury attorney Kurt Arnold, died along with several of her friends on a girls' trip to Paris. The Bombardier Challenger 650 business jet went down during takeoff from Bangor International Airport in Maine about 7.45pm on Sunday. Dramatic footage showed the burning wreckage of the plane upside-down on the runway. Flight data showed it veered right during takeoff and flipped at 175mph. The FAA earlier on Monday incorrectly said there were eight...

Oh, Xi Jinping Pooh is not going to be very happy with Mark Carney, the globalist squish Prime Minister of Canada. It wasn't a week ago that the two of them were bestest broskis and the rest of the Western Hemisphere was going, 'You out your mind, dude? Or just having a Newsom moment?'Even the Washington Post took a step back.DUDEWashington Post Editorial Board "But there is a fine line between “pragmatism” and naiveté which Carney has already started to blur. Carney and Xi did not simply agree to new trading parameters. They put on a show.Frustrations with one American...

Back in October, Neil Young pledged to remove all of his music from Amazon. And in a recent post on the Neil Young Archives, he said he's sticking with the plan. "Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," he wrote. "The president's international policies and his support of ICE make it impossible for me to ignore his actions. If you feel as I do, I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon..." Young's complete catalog and a vast archive of live concerts, studio outtakes, and concert films is available on the Neil Young Archives...

Russia launched a mass aerial attack on Ukraine overnight Jan. 24, killing at least one person and injuring others, while causing widespread damage to energy infrastructure. In Kyiv, one person was killed and four others injured during the attack. Explosions were first heard at 1:20 a.m. local time, according to Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground, who reported blasts throughout the night, including the interception of a ballistic missile. The Ukrainian Air Force tallied 396 aerial weapons, including 21 missiles and 375 drones. Hypersonic "Tsirkon" missiles, ballistic Iskander missiles, and Kh-22/Kh-32 cruise missiles were used. The attacks continued Russia’s targeting...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gave a briefing Monday afternoon to, in part, distill the latest on the Trump administration's plans to bring law and order to Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was the first official White House press briefing since Saturday's shooting of leftist protester Alex Pretti by a Customs and Border Patrol agent, and the weekend's events were clearly top of mind for everyone in the briefing room. Leavitt spoke first of the administration's disgust for the efforts of Democrats and hard-left agitators to disrupt "the will of the people;" President Trump has spoken previously of his dismay at...

There are multiple lawsuits ongoing involving the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota (Operation Metro Surge), but the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals just pressed pause on one of them, issuing a stay pending appeal in the case titled Tincher v. Noem.As Bob Hoge reported, U.S. District Court Judge Kate Menendez issued a preliminary injunction on January 16th, which: ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity,” or to use pepper spray or other “crowd dispersal tools” in retaliation for protected speech. The judge also said agents could not stop or detain protesters...

Jerusalem, 25 January 2026 (TPS-IL) - Scientists have uncovered a rare, sharply defined neural circuit that behaves like an “on/off” switch, showing striking differences between males and females. The discovery, made by researchers in Israel and Canada, could transform our understanding of how sex, experience, and hormones interact in the brain, and eventually inform approaches to social behavior, mental health, and parenting, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced. The study, led by Dr. Tamar Licht and Dr. Dan Rokni from the Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, identified a previously unknown group of neurons...

A Manitoba appeal board has dismissed an appeal from a woman whose surgery to treat advanced colorectal cancer was cancelled because she is on a visitor's record and is not considered eligible for provincial health coverage. The woman came to Canada in February 2024 on a visitor record, which was later extended until October 2025 by federal immigration officials, according to a Jan. 2 decision by the Manitoba Health Appeal Board. She started experiencing "severe gastrointestinal pain" in December 2024 and she was diagnosed with advanced colorectal cancer, the decision said. According to the document, a surgery was scheduled for...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: That if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Religion Forum threads labeled *Prayer* are closed to debate of any kind.1 John 5:20 "And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true...

Pope Leo says different Christian faiths are ‘already one’<Pope Leo's claim directly contradicts Catholic teaching that Christian unity is grounded in shared faith, the sacraments, and governance.Pope Leo XIV concluded the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity by declaring that different Christian faiths are already “one.”“We are one! We already are! Let us recognize it, experience it and make it visible!” Leo said in his Sunday homily on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul at the Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls in Rome.As Vatican News put it, he stressed how “different Christian religions share the same...

Happy Australia Day to all our readers Down Under. The national holiday is, in fact, on Tuesday, but for all I know it's already Tuesday there, or possibly Wednesday, in which case Happy Australia Day for yesterday - or, as the depraved nutters at the nation's state broadcaster say, "Happy Invasion Day". As you know, we always like to have an Oz song for Australia Day. The story behind "Waltzing Matilda" is in my book A Song for the Season, and, what with one thing and another, "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" doesn't seem to get played as often as...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, MaineThe Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard located in Kittery on the southern boundary of Maine near the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. PNS is tasked with the overhaul, repair, and modernization of US Navy submarines.Though PNS is nominally a public shipyard, several corporations (e.g., Delphinius Engineering of Eddystone, PA; Oceaneering International of Chesapeake, VA; Orbis Sibro of Mount Pleasant, SC; and Q.E.D. Systems Inc. of Virginia Beach, VA) carry out the submarine maintenance and upgrades there.The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was...

The mechanics of silver price suppression teaser image Many precious metals investors have heard about silver manipulation or suspected it, but few fully understand how it works or can clearly explain it. Many also intuitively sense that silver's price is artificially low and should be much higher but struggle to identify what—or who—is keeping it suppressed. I have committed myself to studying silver price manipulation, documenting the evidence, educating others, and exposing these practices to bring them to an end and ensure justice is served. In this article, I will explain in clear and accessible terms how silver's price is...