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Recent historic election victories appear to be putting wind in the sails of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which continues to widen its lead over the establishment and expand its support base. After two major first-place finishes this month in the local elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the anti-mass migration AfD has seen its lead over the supposedly centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Friedrich Merz grow to its largest in history. According to the first national survey after Sunday’s elections, the AfD has seen its support rise to 29.5 per cent, a record high recorded by...

The U.S. and China agreed to lower tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods each country imports from the other and launch new talks on artificial intelligence (AI) following President Trump’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The agreements were part of an eight-point consensus reached during Xi’s three-day state visit to Washington, D.C., which ended Friday. Under the trade agreement, the two countries will reduce tariffs on products considered “noncritical,” including agricultural and energy-related goods. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said earlier this week that he and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer had been in New York discussing lowering those...

A dangerous trend is unfolding in America: please do not let what happened in my home country happen here. Many people refuse to see the gradual creep of Islamist ideology into nearly every sector of American society: media, politics, community organizing, education, and public discourse. These are what the stages of an Islamic revolution look like. It advances quietly and methodically -- an ideology that prioritizes its religious doctrine over national identity, Sharia constitutions over non-Islamic ones that are made by made by man, not by Allah. If voters continue supporting and electing them [Muslims], they will soon transform this...

Ada County Sheriff identifies man found dead in Boise church in 1982, possibly linked to the Tylenol cyanide poisonings in the 1980s. The following is the YT transcription. It might be better just to watch all 10 minutes of the news cast.

NEW YORK CITY - A powerful, intensifying nor'easter is pounding the Northeast this weekend, putting over 40 million Americans in its path and prompting states of emergency across the region. A powerful weather system is bringing heavy rainfall, damaging winds, and widespread coastal flooding across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Officials advise residents to stay off the roads and remain indoors if possible. With the storm forecast to stall just off the coast of Long Island, persistent onshore winds, heavy rain bands, and exceptionally high tides are combining to threaten widespread coastal inundation, dangerous surf, and severe beach erosion...

Established parties in America and Germany face ideological insurgencies from opposite flanks. Their strategies of co-option and confrontation may determine whether they survive. If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now It’s just a spring clean for the May queen Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run There’s still time to change the road you’re on. – Led ZeppelinWell, so hope two political parties, both of which, notwithstanding the sage advice of Page and Plant, are indeed alarmed by extremist insurgencies bustling their hedgerows from different ends of the ideological...

George Russell has broken through for his third win of the season, leading every lap of the Qatar Airways Azərbaycan Qran Prisi to hold off Max Verstappen by just 0.196s in a race filled with crashes and Safety Cars.The Mercedes driver controlled the early stages before the first Safety Car erased his advantage, while a second brought Verstappen right onto his rear wing, although Russell held off the four-time world champion by the narrowest of margins to claim his first victory since Austria.It was a strong drive from Verstappen, who started down in eighth and made the most of an...

Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed once called for repealing a Michigan law that made it a felony for people who knew they had HIV to have sex without first informing their partner — a position he is standing by eight years later as he campaigns in one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races. As he unsuccessfully ran for Michigan governor in 2018, El-Sayed repeatedly took aim at the law. The law carried a prison sentence of up to four years for people who knew they were HIV-positive and engaged in sexual penetration without first informing their partner of their...

The Justice Department announced yesterday the indictment of postal worker Damon Matai Seeii (yeah, I know…) of Payson, Utah for “Unlawful secretion, destruction and delay of mail.” It seems that Seeii had trashed several hundred (the exact number is uncertain, but it’s over 300) ballots for reasons that remain unclear. The ballots involved votes made in last June’s primary election. A number of voters in the district complained to the county clerk that they had not received their ballots as they’d expected. The clerk, God bless him, checked voting records and learned that voting in that district had suffered a...

An account bearing Troy Jackson’s name got kicked out of a Facebook group devoted to supporting him after members decided its replies were so insulting they couldn’t possibly have come from their candidate. Screenshots from “Mainers for Troy Jackson” show members arguing over whether they were dealing with the real Jackson, an impostor or someone else using his account. One member posted images identifying the profile as Jackson’s personal page, complete with a Facebook designation that made for an awkward endorsement: “Former member of Mainers for Troy Jackson.” According to a Maine Wire investigation, the account profile picture matches the...

Starship Flight 14 is just a few days away now. SpaceX has stacked Ship 41 on Booster 21, loaded 26 Starlink V3 satellites and completed a wet dress rehearsal ahead of its planned first orbital flight. We'll look at the September 28 launch target, what the mission could reveal about Starship, and intriguing new suggestive dates for Flights 15 and 16, including a possible first launch from Florida's Pad 39A!? So SpaceX Is Aiming for 3 Starship Flights in 5 Weeks?! Crazy, but take it with a handful of salt because that is a BIG ask! There's plenty more from...

In view of the brutal and hellish record of its failed communist messiahs, past and present, it is only right that the ideology and actions of the current government of Cuba be confronted and resisted by the U.S. istorian Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times, described the 1930s as “the age of the heroic lie.” “Saintly mendacity” became its most prized virtue. Stalin’s Soviet Union was built on sanctified fabrications that characterized communist ideology and practice. The creation of Stalin as a communist messianic figure was part of the “saintly mendacity.” Johnson wrote that views of Stalin written in the...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (9/26/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 34[a][b]Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelek, who drove him away, and he left.1 I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips. 2 I will glory in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. 3 Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together. 4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. 5 Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. 6 This poor...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin is firing back at a progressive House Democrat who is pushing one of the most radical Trump administration crackdowns yet. Mullin and his DHS spokesperson both criticized legislation by Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., a member of the progressive “Squad,” that would dismantle most of the department and abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “Radical leftists are calling to defund the police and abolish DHS. It’s NEVER going to happen. Our 270,000 DHS patriots are keeping Americans SAFE — unlike this open-borders politician who refuses to prioritize Americans over illegal aliens,” Mullin told...

The owner of Minocqua Brewing Co. said Monday that the Madison taproom in Wisconsin will likely shut down by the end of the year after state officials revoked the company’s alcohol permits. Channel 3000 reported that Minocqua Brewing Co. owner Kirk Bangstad said the Madison taproom is likely to shut down as the business continues fighting the state’s decision. The brewery has become known for its outspoken messaging against President Donald Trump. The Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) revoked brewing permits for the company’s Minocqua and Madison locations after alleging violations involving beer transported from Illinois without the required permits...

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0:15 On Xi Jinping 1:03 Tesla Shanghai factory 2:27 Cybercab rollout 3:55 Speed of AI breakthroughs 4:29 Grok 4.7 and Grokbot 5:48 SpaceX/Tesla data for real-world AI 6:48 Chinese AI models and the compute gap 8:16 China’s electricity output 9:01 US-China AI safety 9:27 Humanoid robots and Optimus 10:55 1 billion robots in 10 years 13:04 Money may not matter 16:27 10 billion to 100 billion robots 17:09 Space cooperation and Mars 21:07 Neuralink and human bandwidth 22:37 Education in the AI era 24:02 Visit Shanghai, and Beijing 24:38 Beijing high-speed rail 24:59 “Words do not do justice to China”

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)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

The president is skeptical that Tehran will meet his demands President Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said.Tehran’s proposal would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz and resumed nuclear talks in return for the U.S. lifting its blockade of Iranian ports, which is causing deep damage to the country’s economy. Trump says openly that Tehran is begging for a deal after the midterms that dismantles its nuclear program.But privately Trump is skeptical Iran would meet his demands and has told his...

Daily Readings from the USCCBWhile they were all amazed at his every deed, Jesus said to his disciples, “Pay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be handed over to men.” But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was hidden from them so that they should not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying. Luke 9:43b–45After Jesus revealed His coming Passion, Death, and Resurrection to the Twelve for the first time, eight days passed. Then He took Peter, James, and John up a high mountain, where He...