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In the end, even his personal friendship with the President could not help the Professor save his job in New Delhi. Robert Blackwill, the US ambassador to India who announced his resignation today, was left with little choice but to take that return ticket to Harvard because of his constant and increasingly unpleasant run-ins with a US State Department that sought to openly wear its predilection for Pakistan on its sleeve. The last time a genteel exchange of views between India and the US — led, respectively, by foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal and US assistant secretary of state for South...

In an indication of their growing estrangement with the Bush administration, neoconservatives are slamming the White House for failing to stop what they describe as an antisemitic campaign to marginalize them being conducted by the CIA and the State Department. This view was outlined in a memo circulating among neoconservative foreign policy analysts in Washington. Obtained by the Forward, the memo criticizes the White House for not refuting press reports on the FBI's investigation of Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin that suggest wrongdoing on the part of Jewish officials at the Defense Department. "If there is any truth to any of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dozens of Republican former U.S. national security officials are forming a group that will back Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, people familiar with the effort said, in a further sign that President Donald Trump has alienated some members of his own party. The group will publicly endorse Biden in the coming weeks and its members plan to campaign for the former vice president who is challenging Trump in the Nov. 3 election, the sources said. It includes at least two dozen officials who served under Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, with...

More than half of Gaza's residents would consider leaving the Gaza Strip if given the chance, according to a poll published on Friday morning by the British Telegraph and conducted by the Gallup Institute. Electricity and fuel shortages, access to water and physical security were among the reasons cited. The poll found that 39 percent said they would stay in Gaza and had no plans to leave. Another 38 percent said they would leave temporarily, but return in the future. An additional 14 percent said they would leave permanently, a significant number considering the fear of admitting plans to leave....

A suspect was arrested in his nursing home last week for the unsolved murder of a 16-year-old student nearly half a century ago.Nearly five decades after her partially clothed body was discovered on the second floor of her Honolulu high school, modern DNA testing has led to an arrest that could solve the cold case murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara. Momohara, discovered with an orange cloth wound tightly around her neck, was found on the second floor of the English building at McKinley High School in Honolulu on March 21, 1977. She was a sophomore at the school at the...

What has 101 suites and villas, views over Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river and costs from $600 per night? Capella Bangkok, 2024′s ‘best’ hotel in the world, according to ’50 Best.’ That’s the collective view of 600 anonymous global voters, comprising travel journalists, hoteliers and seasoned travel specialists, which determined the results of “The World’s 50 Best Hotels,” announced Tuesday in London’s historic Guildhall. The hotel climbed 10 places, up from No. 11 on the 2023 list. It has five dining options, including a one Michelin-starred restaurant by chef Mauro Colagreco, plus a “spa sanctuary” called Auriga, and seven riverside villas...

The Safe Haven Baby Box organization is celebrating the life of a baby who was safely surrendered at the Montgomery County Fire Safe Haven Baby Box in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. The surrender marks the 50th in one of the organization’s baby boxes since the first one was installed in 2015 and the first since this particular baby box was installed on April 4. The Kentucky Safe Infants Act allows parents to leave newborn infants younger than 30 days old at a staffed police station, fire station, hospital, or participating place of worship without fear of criminal prosecution or allegation of...

The best beers in the world are easier to get than ever before. Forty years ago, customers strolling through grocery stores would only find endless variations on the easy-drinking domestic lager. Care for a Busch? Miller High Life? Bud Light? If you were lucky, you might find an imported Irish beer like Guinness, a beach-y Mexican beer such as Corona, or perhaps even Foster’s, that Australian beer sold in the oversized can. Today’s hopheads can pick from tens of thousands of the best beers that deliver every conceivable flavor and alcohol level. Hazy double IPAs are now sold alongside zippy...

On Monday, classified documents from his time as vice president were found in President Joe Biden’s private office at UPenn. Days later, more classified documents were found stashed in Biden’s garage next to the president’s corvette at his Delaware home which triggered Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel. “Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation into President Joe Biden’s potential mishandling of classified documents,” CNN reported. “The special counsel is Robert Hur.” There seems to be however, that more is going on than what meets the eye. According to a...

President Biden has said in a pre-midterms radio interview that he feels like he’s 50 and that his looming 80th birthday seems as distant as being able to fly. “What would 80-year-old Joe tell 50-year-old Joe in this moment?” radio host Willie Moore Jr. asked Biden in the sitdown, which was recorded Sunday and aired Monday. “That I’m still 50 — that’s the first thing I’d tell him,” Biden answered. “You think I’m kidding. I’m not kidding. That’s number one. “Number two, I can’t even say that number, 80, you know. But I’m serious, I no more feel that than...

The Danish government is filled with ghoulish inhumane death worshippers.Either that or they have decided that paying attention to real science and ignoring the COVID death cult is a better public health strategy than kowtowing to the terminally paranoid or narcissistic power mad elves like Anthony Fauci.In a move that will no doubt be completely ignored by the MSM and the COVID cultists, the Danish government will not even offer the COVID vaccine to otherwise healthy people under 50. Their explanation from the COVID-19 vaccination website:The purpose of the vaccination programme is to prevent severe illness, hospitalisation and death. Therefore,...

Denmark will bar almost everyone under 50 from receiving more mRNA Covid jabs, the Danish Health Authority said yesterday. Denmark had already ended Covid shots for nearly everyone under 18. The new rules go much further. Danes under 50 will only be allowed to receive the shots if they are “higher risk of becoming severely [emphasis added] from Covid-19.”

CNN — U.S. health officials have been in active discussions with the Food and Drug Administration on whether the agency will authorize a second booster vaccine for Americans under 50 years old, the nation's top infectious disease expert shared Saturday. "Hopefully we'll get an answer reasonably soon," Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN's Laura Coates. Advertisement Second boosters have been authorized for U.S. adults 50 and up, as well as certain people with weakened immune systems, since March. But for anyone under the age of 50, only one booster is authorized. Fauci's comments come amid a worrisome time in the pandemic...

Bill Gates: For people over 50 or 60, they'll probably have to get boosted every 6 months until we get even better vaccines; so we're in for ongoing vaccination to stay absolutely safe... pic.twitter.com/zqHXbCPzkK— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2022) May 15, 2022

The Biden-Harris administration issued a report Friday to increase the price of oil leasing fees on federal lands in the United States by 50 percent—even while accusing oil companies of artificially increasing prices through illegal and anticompetitive actions.Despite record-high gasoline prices impacting American families across the country with winter around the corner, the Biden-Harris administration is recommending Congress hike the cost of oil leases on government lands from 12.50 percent to 18.75 percent.The 6.25 percentage point royalty rate increase on oil companies would contradict the administration’s promise to lower gasoline prices. In recent weeks, the Biden-Harris administration has asked OPEC...

More corruption in Georgia ballots is uncovered. The reversal of these illegal votes could put the state in the Trump column. A group in Georgia has identified more than 40,000 votes cast in the 2020 election that were illegal: One of many volunteer groups, a Georgia-based voter data analytics firm says it has found that about 40,000 illegal votes were cast in Georgia in the November 3 general election. Mark Davis, President of Data Productions, Inc. and considered an expert in five court cases concerning election disputes found 40,239 people who moved from one county to another more than 30...

It's WAY-BACK MACHINE time, FReepers! Although it was clear President Obama was mysteriously immune from impeachment, here are just 50 of the many actions he should've been impeached for.. This list is by no means complete as IT DOESN'T EVEN INCLUDE OBAMA'S NUMEROUS CRIMES DURING SPYGATE, but take a look.. 01) Obama failed to force Eric Holder to resign following his 'Fast & Furious' and 'AP phone records' scandals and Congress' finding that Holder was in 'Contempt of Congress'! 02) Obama willfully deceived the American people by lying about Obamacare not being a tax solely for purposes of getting it...

(snip) -- Two groups of Central American migrants made separate marches on the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana Tuesday, demanding that they be processed through the asylum system more quickly and in greater numbers, that deportations be halted and that President Trump either let them into the country or pay them $50,000 each to go home.

DEMOCRATS HAVE MASSIVE TURNOUT IN 2017 SPECIAL ELECTION–   In 2016 Republican Donald Trump won Alabama with 62% of the vote. Trump had 1,318,255 votes Hillary had 729,547 votes On Tuesday night Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama special election for US senate. In 2017 Democrat Doug Jones won the Alabama senate seat with 49.9% of the vote to 48.4% of the vote. Democrat Doug Jones had 671,151 votes Republican Roy Moore had 650,436 votes Via The New York Times: Republicans (Roy Moore) lost 667,819 votes — or 50% of 2016 vote Democrats (Doug Jones) lost...

The most ambitious reissue yet of an individual album from the Beatles’ catalog is coming May 26 with an expanded and newly remixed edition of the Fab Four’s 1967 pop masterpiece, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Consistently ranked by critics and fans among the most influential rock albums of all time, “Sgt. Pepper” is being reissued in multiple formats and editions, including new stereo and surround-sound audio mixes along with nearly three dozen previously unreleased recordings from the same sessions.