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For 500 years, a pattern has destroyed every global superpower that followed it. Spain collapsed in the 1600s. Britain lost its empire by 1954. The Soviet Union disintegrated in 900 days. Three empires. Three complete collapses. All following the exact same seven-stage sequence. And the United States has already completed five of those seven stages. This documentary traces the collapse pattern across three superpowers and five centuries—from Spain's silver wealth that bankrupted the richest empire on Earth, to Britain's pound that lost reserve currency status within decades of two world wars, to the Soviet Union that went from superpower to...

VIDEOThe famous Dom Luis bridge in Porto over the Douro River felt like a magical experience while we were walking on it. Built in 1886, the arched bridge has two levels. The lower level for vehicular traffic and the upper level, where we were, is for light rail and pedestrian traffic. The elements of the lighting from a perfect sunset, the music in the distance from a festival, electric train cars gliding past us, the variety of people, both locals and tourists, including the eccentric English Fox hunters, all blended to create that magical unforgettable ambiance. I hope this video...

‘Petey’ is back in Britain, looking for a vengeance. And so it happens that Lord Peter Mandelson is back to Britain, after getting fired as US ambassador in the wake of the scandal caused by his emails to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Instead of the glory he would have dreamed of, he is facing ignominy. Mandelson and Epstein shopping in the US Virgin Islands. ============================================================================== The leaked emails revealed that Mandelson continued to support Epstein even after a conviction in Florida for ‘procuring a child for prostitution’. Columnist Andrew Pierce, wrote on the Daily Mail: “‘Fight for early release,’ he...

California Governor Gavin Newsom, the man who presided over a mass exodus of businesses, rising homelessness, skyrocketing crime, and record-setting taxes, now says he’s “thinking about” taking his failed leadership nationwide. In a taped interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, Newsom admitted he’d “be lying” if he said he wasn’t considering a presidential run in 2028. The Democrat governor, who has spent more time preening for cameras than addressing California’s crises, told CBS’s Robert Costa that after the 2026 midterms, he’ll give a White House bid “serious thought.” “Yeah, I’d be lying otherwise,” Newsom said. “I’d just be lying. And...

A German court ruled the Trump administration is “openly far-right” with “fascist tendencies” as German police raided several prominent conservative critics for alleged “Hate Speech” last week. Firing back, the US Embassy in Berlin warned of “censorship and oppression of political opponents in Germany”, which is “threatening to ban the opposition”. Notably, President Trump has yet to even nominate an Ambassador to Germany, a diplomatic slight usually reserved for antagonistic countries. A judge at Bonn Circuit Court described the Trump administration as “openly far-right extremist-populist” and claimed it had “fascist tendencies”, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported. The Circuit Court 13th Civil Chamber...

A true mask off moment for Thomas Massie. Only $22,000 of the nearly 540k of individual donations came from within Kentucky. This guy has become everything that he claims to hate.

We have more clarity regarding an interesting factoid from last weekend’s anti-Trump rallies that swept across the country and Democrats will not like hearing it. As the Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft previously reported, Democrats and Communists, or Communist Democrats, held “No Kings” rallies in cities around the country last weekend. The protests, organized by the progressive group Indivisible, took place in over 2,000 locations across the U.S. and even internationally, including cities like Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Kansas City, and Bozeman, as well as spots in Canada and Mexico. These rallies came as President Trump...

The Cuomo campaign threw up an AI generated political ad attacking his political opponent Zohran Mamdani, And it's both hilarious and frightening. Take a look: VIDEO AT LINK................. https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1981150231174746370 According to the New York Post, the usual motley crew of leftists showed up to scream "racism," despite the fact that the video is mostly a mix of The Sopranos and inebriated Golden Girls. Of course, the campaign quickly kowtowed to the vitriol and pulled the video. Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi denied the video was an ad in a statement swiping back at the attacks. ‘The video was a draft proposal...

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes In June 2025, GPS data placed Zohran Mamdani at Barack Obama’s war room twice in just 6 weeks. Also present were individuals tied to the Muslim Brotherhood Obama’s war room is located at 2446 Belmont Rd NW, just minutes from the Islamic Center of Washington DC The Muslim Brotherhood openly state their goal is to control the political power in every state in America and eventually the all country “We will run candidates inshallah— the strategy is a long-term strategy. I can be very confident to tell you. That we are on the road to the...

On September 23rd, 2025, I published a video on YouTube titled ‘The Man Who Murdered Charlie Kirk’ reviewing all of the available public information regarding Tyler Robinson, his assassin, and Lance Twiggs - Tyler’s roommate and romantic partner. Shortly thereafter, I was contacted by someone familiar with Lance and Tyler. They provided an alleged firsthand account of what their relationship was like, how it developed, and some of the events that may have driven Tyler to do what he did. They have allowed me to publish this information, but wish to remain anonymous.

Two serious incidents that occurred last Saturday in Gush Etzion have sparked anger among local residents, who accuse IDF forces of unjustly detaining Jewish shepherds while failing to act against violent Arab rioters. In both cases, shepherds grazing their flocks were either detained or arrested by IDF soldiers, while-according to the residents-the Arab assailants who attacked them were not stopped. The first incident took place during the morning hours near Mikneh Avraham Hill, above Ma'ale Amos. Residents reported that a shepherd grazing his flock was ordered by soldiers to leave the area. When he asked to understand the reason, they...

On MSNBC's The Weekend, in a segment on President Trump's ballroom project co-host Eugene Daniels called the Founding Fathers "nightmarish" on some policies, citing slavery. Daniels acknowledged that the Founders got it right in creating a White House that was relatively small, the goal being to distinguish it from the palaces of royalty. The original Constitution did not forbid slavery because the Southern states, whose economies were heavily dependent on slave labor, had made it clear that they would not join the United States if the Constitution had abolished slavery. Daniels would apparently have preferred a United States composed only...

🇺🇸 I Have A Scheme!▫Letitia James mimics MLK’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech as NY AG pleads not guilty to federal bank charge▫@jchristenson_▫https://t.co/Ea6sJCERko#frontpagestoday #USA @nypost pic.twitter.com/Oyy7xKQvZt— 𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 📰 (@ukpapers) October 25, 2025

A media spectacle unfolded in Paris on Tuesday when former President Nicolas Sarkozy left his home for prison. This followed his latest corruption conviction one for involvement in a criminal organization. The charges revolved around Libyan President Moammar Qadaffi's financial support for Sarkozy's 2007... Last Sunday in broad daylight the robbery of 'priceless' jewelry from the Louvre in Paris... BBC News reported this week that French authorities were backing away from stricter enforcement of migrant crossings on the English Channel. The former Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau credited with that more aggressive... French support for Ukraine reaffirmed Friday at a mass...

Trump arriving in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the ASEAN conference and meetings with Xi other leaders.

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Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro issued a rare plea to Donald Trump in English, calling for peace with the United States as tensions between Caracas and Washington escalate following a series of U.S. military operations in the Caribbean and Pacific. “Yes peace, yes peace forever. Peace forever. No crazy war, please!” Maduro said in English during a meeting with pro-government labor unions in Caracas. Maduro’s comments were met with applause from the audience. Switching between Spanish and English, he repeated the appeal several times: “No war. No war. No crazy war. Yes peace. Please, peace forever.” Nearly 14% of the...

Bertha Weingarten about 1935 Hair was a brighter red than in pictureBertha Schmidt Weingarten 1914 - 2013Bertha was born Bertha Schmidt, in Brook Park, Minnesota, on December 21, 1914. She was an early Christmas present who arrived shortly after the start of World War I. She was the seventh child to be born in a log cabin with two little loft bedrooms. Her mother, Emma, left her abusive husband, Herman Schmidt, when Bertha was 12. At the time Bertha was one of ten children. Divorce was very rare. Her father had taken to drinking. The situation must have been very...

British Prince Andrew and UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed. Andrew may go into a gilded life in exile. As the former Duke of York is massacred daily by an unstoppable flux of scandals, he is facing the prospect of being evicted from the 30-room Royal Lodge that has been his residence for more than 20 years. Prince Andrew always maintained that he held a ‘cast iron’ lease of the mansion, until it became public that he only paid ‘one peppercorn a year’ in rent. The agreement stated that the Crown would have to pay Andrew around £558,000 ($742,000) if he gave...

We first heard of Lindsey Halligan working for President Trump after the illegal Mar-a-Lago raid. The crooked Biden regime authorized the raid in an effort to steal documents that the President rightly held in his possession. Halligan was on Hannity to discuss what happened and the corruption in the elections and more. Lindsey Halligan, who brought us the historic, unprecedented indictment of corrupt criminal Jim Comey, has always been fighting for President Trump and for truth and accountability. Here is her interview as Pres Trump’s lawyer defending him from the FBI goons and Jack Smith responsible for the raid on...