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20-year-old accusations, no DNA, no physical evidence, no corroborative evidence. Nine Minute Clip SummaryThe speaker argues that Russell Brand's prosecution and reported 10-year sentence in Britain were politically motivated retaliation for abandoning the political left and criticizing government policies, particularly COVID lockdowns.Main ArgumentsThe accusations were allegedly influenced by media coverage.The speaker claims the 2023 documentary about Brand encouraged women to come forward with allegations.He compares this to the McMartin Preschool case and the Satanic Panic, arguing that public narratives can influence memories and produce false accusations.He suggests some accusers may have fabricated or altered memories.Brand became a target after changing...

EV owners could soon pay a $130 annual federal fee to help fund roads, since electric vehicle drivers don't pay federal gasoline taxes. Owning an electric vehicle may soon cost more. A transportation bill making its way through Congress would require EV owners to pay a new annual federal fee starting at $130. The fee could eventually rise to $150, while plug-in hybrid owners would pay $35. Supporters say the fee would help fund road projects because EV drivers don't pay federal gasoline taxes. The fees could take effect as soon as December if approved by Congress. It is part...

Two planes have collided while taxiing at Miami International Airport, with audio revealing the moment one of the pilots had to tell air traffic control of the mishap According to audio published on ATC, a UPS flight collided with a Copa Airlines flight that had just touched down in the Florida city on Saturday night. The flight, according to Flightaware, had just touched down after arriving in from Panama City when it was struck.

Leading French Presidential Candidate Marine Le Pen says she is willing to meet Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky suggesting Brussels as an appropriate location. Controversy arose when Le Pen said that France does not have enough money to continue to support Ukraine. Le Pen says that Brussels should be the place... Last month's attacks on refrigeration systems in French grocery stores have been linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps... This weekend the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said that France should not fall for what is considers an Israeli 'false flag trap'... The high volume of internet messaging linking France's...

A drone strike killed Mathias Saintil, leader of the Boston gang in Cité Soleil, on Thursday evening, November 5. The explosive-laden drone targeted his car in Port-au-Prince. Haiti's prime minister took to social media to declare him "one less gang leader." It marks the first time a gang leader has been killed by a drone strike in Haiti. Despite drones operated by Erik Prince's Vectus Global since March 2025, gang leaders have managed to evade capture. Now Bukele's soldiers are stepping in. Drone Takes Out Haitian Gang Boss, Bukele Wants the Next One | 4:22 Sometimes Unpopular | 4.6K subscribers...

An American robotics company backed by Eric Trump is negotiating a potentially massive deal to send humanoid robots into Hamas’s underground tunnel network in Gaza, where the machines could eventually fight alongside Israeli soldiers. Foundation Future Industries is discussing the potential sale of up to 1,000 Phantom MK1 robots to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), according to the Financial Times.The proposed deployment could place American-made humanoid machines inside one of the world’s most dangerous underground battlefields, with missions ranging from detecting explosives to potentially engaging enemy combatants.The robots could patrol underground passageways, identify tripwires and neutralize booby traps, according to...

Ajak Mabior, an 18-year-old Christian girl in South Sudan, was beaten to death after refusing to enter a forced marriage to an older Muslim man. Mabior was killed in Jonglei state on Nov. 6 after her family arranged for her to be married to the Muslim man, but she opposed the arrangement because of her faith in Jesus Christ. ... her own brother and cousin were those who killed her. ... They were arrested in the city of Bor, but released without charges after family members petitioned for their release. ... when a young girl is killed for refusing a...

King Charles has been dubbed a "modern king" after he appeared on the latest episode of Elton John's Apple Music radio show, which aired on his 78th birthday. The pair secretly recorded the episode of Rocket Hour at the Apple Music Studios in Battersea Power Station in London last month to mark 50 years of the King's charity, The King's Trust. Charles described it as "an opportunity too good to resist," while Elton John, 79, admitted afterward, "I learnt a lot from speaking to His Majesty." During the hour-long episode, the monarch and music icon reminisced about performances by some...

A 7-year-old American girl was fatally shot by Mexican police during an anti-cartel operation near the U.S.-Mexico border. The girl, identified as Aranza, was shot in the head while traveling with her family in Matamoros, Mexico, as police pursued suspected members of the Gulf Cartel on Oct. 29, .. Her family alleges officers opened fire despite her father’s attempts to identify them as civilians, while Mexican authorities maintain that police were responding to an attack during the operation ... The mother alleges that she was driving with her husband and five children near the border in the town of Matamoros...

Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii, who is poised to be the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said he is open to paying for the party’s agenda but sounded wary of a hard-and-fast rule, especially after watching Republicans’ major legislation last year add to deficits. “I don’t think we should play this game where the things we want have to be paid for and the things they want can be put on a credit card,” he said, referring to Republicans. “So I’m cautious about falling into that trap, but if we can find pay-fors, that’s even better.” Democrats, who will have...

Hasan Piker is not alone in saying that the United States deserved the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. As the New York Post reported, a new poll shows that one in five college students say the U.S. deserved the attack that killed nearly 3000 fellow Americans. Forty-two percent said they would prefer to live under socialism, while only 28 percent favor capitalism. The Buckley Institute poll also found that 38% of students favored Palestine as an ally to 25 percent for Israel. Roughly half of the students — 47 percent — agreed with this extraordinary statement, “While socialist countries like...

Iranian state television has warned that modified versions of the country's Khorramshahr ballistic missile could reach American military bases in Europe, explicitly naming RAF Fairford in Britain as a potential target.

By Dr. John BergsmaSt. Josemaría Escrivà, the founder of the personal prelature Opus Dei, has often been called the “saint of the ordinary” for the emphasis he placed on achieving holiness in every-day living. In fact, one of his most famous sermons was entitled “The Richness of Ordinary Life.” St. Josemaría once said he could tell a great deal about a man’s interior life by looking at his closet. Good order in one’s soul is often reflected by good order in one’s lifestyle. A man who is sloppy or inattentive in the care of his personal effects will often likewise...

A former Wyoming VFW commander accused of stealing his own war helmet had no idea there was a felony warrant for his arrest until he was taken into custody at an airport in front of his family. Richard Knapp, 59, told Cowboy State Daily in a Friday phone interview that he, his wife, Nathalie, daughter, son, and son’s girlfriend were returning to the United States to visit Knapp’s mother and various sites after moving to the Netherlands a couple years earlier. When they landed at Washington Dulles International Airport on July 23, Knapp said, authorities arrested him and took him...

Police data shows imported practices hitting girls and women at the highest level on record ... Police in England and Wales recorded 3,145 honour-based abuse offences in the year ending March 2026 — the highest figure since comparable records began. Female genital mutilation offences rose 52 percent to 166. The number track the arrival and growth of communities in which family “honour” and control over female behaviour routinely override individual rights. The Home Office published the statistics on 5 November. They mark a 7 percent increase on the previous year’s 2,949 offences. .... London’s Metropolitan Police alone recorded 625 cases,...

Massive data centers in Southeast Asia exploited a gap in U.S. sanctions, providing crucial computing power for Chinese companies and a cover for alleged chip smugglingSENAWANG, Malaysia—An hour outside of the Malaysian capital, Bangladeshi workers this past week were driving dump trucks and excavators at a site stretching across 117 football fields.It was a world away from the Silicon Valley boardroom where, hours later, Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang would be ousted. Yet this site in Southeast Asia and others like it are at the heart of the Huang affair.Here, a Chinese company plans to use Nvidia’s advanced artificial-intelligence chips....

Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) joined Alicia Menendez from the Democrats’ “What’s Next” conference and emphatically supported abolishing the electoral college, saying: “our votes in New Jersey are worth about one-fifth of what a vote in Wyoming is.”

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION During my second month of night school, our professor gave a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Obviously this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper leaving the last question blank. Before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count on...

A terrible loss for country music. Richard Sterban, the legendary bass voice for The Oak Ridge Boys who provided the iconic “oom papa mow mow” in their hit song “Elvira,” passed away on Saturday, November 14 due to complications from bronchitis and pneumonia following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

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. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men,...