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International politics can be boring at times, but the one constant in an ever-changing universe is the hubris of the European Union.With President Trump outlining the breakthrough negotiations for a peace agreement in Gaza, Emmanuel Macron (France), Keir Starmer (U.K) and Friedrich Merz (Germany) call an urgent meeting of EU Foreign Ministers to organize their strategy to take over the Gaza “Board of Peace.”EUROPE – Now that Donald Trump’s peace deal has the green light, European powers want a seat at the table.As the news broke that Israel and Hamas had agreed the first phase of a ceasefire plan, French...

After a whistleblower alerted The Defender, an OSHA spokesperson confirmed an internal directive telling healthcare employers not to report or track COVID-19 vaccine injuries. OSHA removed the policy from its website after inquiries from The Defender. Critics said the directive concealed the scope of vaccine injuries and made it difficult for injured workers to obtain workers’ compensation or disability benefits. =================================================================== The federal agency that oversees workplace safety exempted healthcare employers from reporting workers’ adverse reactions to mandated COVID-19 vaccines, according to a healthcare industry whistleblower who alerted The Defender The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued the directive...

An online anarchist platform encouraged people on Wednesday to shine lasers at federal helicopters in Portland, Oregon, a crime that law enforcement officials say can create extreme danger for pilots. A post on the leftist, Portland-focused website “Rose City Counter-Info” tells viewers to scatter throughout the city’s streets on Saturday for the attack — nicknamed “Laser Tag” — as federal agents respond to demonstrations near the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. The goal is to “ground” the helicopters by making it difficult to safely fly them and flash too many lasers for law enforcement to hunt down those...

In August, a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast said something that immediately caught his interest. The United States faces a fundamental rift “between heritage Americans and the new political class,” Auron MacIntyre, a columnist for Blaze Media, argued. “Heritage Americans—what are those?” Carlson asked. “You could find their last names in the Civil War registry,” MacIntyre explained. This ancestry matters, he said, because America is not “a collection of abstract things agreed to in some social contract.” It is a specific set of people who embody an “Anglo-Protestant spirit” and “have a tie to history and to the land.” MacIntyre...

Belgian federal authorities have arrested three young suspects in connection with what prosecutors said was an attempted terrorist attack on the country’s politicians, including Prime Minister Bart De Wever. Federal prosecutor Ann Fransen said the suspects — born in 2001, 2002 and 2007 — were detained in Antwerp Thursday morning on suspicion of attempted terrorist murder and participation in the activities of a terrorist group. Two remain in custody and will appear before an investigating judge, while the third has been released. “There are indications that the intention was to carry out a jihadist-inspired terrorist attack targeting politicians,” Fransen said...

President Trump may have finally achieved what many long thought impossible, as Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace agreement, but this ceasefire didn't come without conditions from Hamas. Here are 10 demands Hamas is making as part of the peace deal: 1. Israel must eliminate 100% of its Jews: This is a dealbreaker for Hamas. 2. New pagers: The last batch had some problems. 3. A new fleet of paragliders: They have assured everyone it's only for recreational purposes. 4. Goats. Lots of goats: They won't say why. 5. Super Bowl tickets: They're apparently...

With details revealed exclusively to The National Pulse, Liberty Vote, under the leadership of Missouri-based Scott Leiendecker, has taken full ownership of the controversial, foreign-owned Dominion Voting Systems company. This acquisition marks a historic transformation in the realm of election technology in America, with Dominion effectively being shut down and subsumed into Liberty Vote. Leiendecker, a prominent figure in election reform, is committed to rebuilding trust in the electoral process through transparent and secure voting systems. His approach includes the use of hand-marked paper ballots, emphasizing simplicity and accuracy. The National Pulse spoke with Leiendecker and his team exclusively over...

Interestingly it appears the Democrat machinery has decided to torpedo former House member Katie Porter from her primary race for governor. Monday a controversial video segment appeared showcasing the unstable disposition of Mrs Porter, and today someone from inside the Biden govt decided to deploy another video showing her angry state of mind.As noted by the New York Post, “California gubernatorial hopeful Katie Porter snapped and tried to storm out of an interview after being asked a simple question about President Trump — with the Democrat raging “I don’t want this all on camera.” Footage of the bizarre encounter, which...

[snip] Even though we disagree with roughly 99% of the opinions expressed on Morning Joe, let's accord the show credit for giving President Trump generally unqualified praise for his diplomatic achievement. David Ignatius of the Washington Post said: "President Trump will take a victory lap for sure over the next few days. But it's deserved. There's no way that I can see that this would have been done without Trump's pressure in the final hours." And in perhaps the bitterest pill for liberals to swallow, Ignatius added: "This war was blocked for two years. President Biden, who preceded him, was...

Let’s talk about the deal. For two years, Gaza’s position was that it won’t release the hostages without a full withdrawal and a permanent ceasefire. Today they gave up on both key objectives. The IDF is still in Gaza and negotiations will start only after the release of the hostages. An unkind voice would call it surrendering and I’ve never been accused of kindness towards the enemy. So what happened? Israel dropped a few bombs on Qatar. Suddenly, the puppet master behind Hamas discovered that he was not immune. Qatar was just another Arab country that Israel bombed at will....

If contrariness were an academic discipline, American colleges would lead the world in its study. Such is the lesson of the Trump administration’s higher-ed “compact,” a 10-point bargain offered to nine elite universities earlier this month. Citing American colleges’ “extraordinary relationship with the U.S. government,” the document asks universities to practice admissions fairness, encourage civil discourse on campus, tackle grade inflation, and undertake several other modest but conservative-coded reforms. In exchange, signatories would receive “priority access to federal funds and looser restraints on overhead costs,” as the New York Times and other outlets have reported. Trump might as well have...

Members of the Antifa movement have physically assaulted and beaten conservatives for nearly a decade, but apparently, it’s wrong to be angry about it. CNN anchor Erin Burnett stepped in it when she tried to downplay Antifa’s long history of violence on Wednesday. Burnett played a clip of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying, “This network of Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ICIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them. They are just as dangerous.” “That's pretty incredible, right?” Burnett quipped. “Hamas has just been engaged in a two-year war that we just announced...

The classic Downfall bunker meme gets a 2025 twist. Silver has smashed through $50, the short-side generals are panicking, and their trusted market-rigging AI — COMEX-GPT — starts glitching and twitching. Watch the mayhem unfold as the paper shorts crumble and the physical market takes control.

@TheChiefNerd Trevor Noah jokes about Charlie Kirk’s assassination during his standup set These people are sick

VIDEOWhen it's good news for President Trump, MAGA, and the country in general, you can count on Morning Mika to put on her sour face. Such was the case when Morning Joe announced the significant Mideast peace deal arranged by Trump. The result was the Morning Mika sour face. Give poor Mika credit. She was struggling mightily to keep from looking downright gloomy and the result was her signature sour face.

At this point, it feels like every week brings another revelation about how far the Biden regime went to weaponize the government against its political enemies. And the American people are exhausted… not from outrage, but from watching bombshell after bombshell drop with no accountability. They’ve seen enough corruption to fill a 10-story library but still haven’t seen a single perp walk. So, the fatigue is real, and it’s justified. The latest scandal involves Operation Arctic Frost, and hopefully, this is the final straw. We now know that under Biden’s watch, the FBI and Jack Smith secretly spied on nine...

Tough noogies, asthmatics! CNN has officially pinned your breathing tool as the latest climate change threat to the environment. Jen Christensen of the CNN Health & Climate Unit railed against respiratory-challenged individuals’s survival tool in an October 6 story headlined: “Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds.” Apparently being full of hot air is no longer just an idiom for the lefty media. Christensen’s story was utterly ridiculous from the start: “The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to...

Reuters on Monday published a report on InfinitUs Marketing Solutions, a Philippine marketing agency that was allegedly hired by the Communist Chinese government to wage an “infowar” campaign against America’s security alliance with the government in Manila. Much of the activity China paid for consisted of old-fashioned astroturfing — fake social media accounts created by InfinitUs Marketing Solutions to make it look like a groundswell of Filipinos were in love with China, hated the United States, and wanted their own government to stop resisting China’s aggressive territorial claims in the South China Sea. According to documents obtained by Reuters and...

@WallStreetApes American traveled to a Muslim country to see what it’s like living under Islam Sharia Law “Are women's rights in Afghanistan that bad in 2025? I traveled here to understand more as a woman myself and this is what I learned. Here's 5 things that are illegal for Women in Afghanistan to do today” Every single person in America needs to watch this because this is where we are headed

Blue Fascism Deuteronomy 13:4 (King James Version) Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. The Democrat National Socialist Party has become one of the most violent Party’s in the history of the United States. They have nothing left to run on other than Trump is Hitler or whoever is the worst human they can label to keep their violence growing. They have been organizing these Antifa groups since Barak who was a radical Communist who tried to turn America...