Free Republic

How do we know mainstream media will cancel all mentions of the nation of Gibraltar for the foreseeable future? Because their extreme Covid vaccination protocols have utterly failed to prevent a massive spike in cases and hospitalizations. This betrays the narrative they’ve been ordered to propagate, so Gibraltar is officially a taboo topic for the press. The nation averages 2.79 doses of Covid-19 jabs administered per person. Despite everything we’ve been told by government, media, Big Tech, academia, the healthcare industry, and all the other pawns of Big Pharma, Gibraltar has not defeated or even slowed Covid-19 from spreading. In...

THE Spanish prime minister has threatened to reject the Brexit withdrawal agreement unless the European Union hands Madrid a guaranteed veto over the future of Gibraltar in any trade deal between Britain and Europe.

Gibraltar Beauty Queen Crowned Miss World Brunette Kaiane Aldorino was a crowd favorite at South Africa pageant Schalk van Zuydam / AP Leggy brunette Kaiane Aldorino, a crowd favorite who won the swimsuit competition, was crowned in Johannesburg Saturday. [Pic in URL] Leggy brunette Kaiane Aldorino from Gibraltar has been named as the new Miss World. Aldorino was crowned at a glittering two-hour pageant in Johannesburg Saturday as silver confetti rained down onstage around her. She clapped her hands to her mouth when her name was announced. Aldorino said she "had no words" to describe how she felt about her...

Navy warships dispatched as Spain invades seas around Gibraltar Royal Navy warships have forced heavily armed Spanish ships to retreat from British waters around Gibraltar. Relations between the 30,000 residents of the British outpost and mainland Spain have become strained following what the Foreign Office described as 'a violation of British sovereignty'. The warships were dispatched after Spanish ships sent boarding parties to inspect fishing boats in British waters, despite having no authority to do so. DISPUTE: Inhabitants are concerned the Spanish authorities want to control the British outpost of GibraltarThe Rock's inhabitants fear Spain could damage their economy by...

Scientists say the Barbary macaque monkeys who live on the Rock of Gibraltar are a rare population vital to primate research. But to local tourism officials they have become a nuisance--an aggressive, 30-pound nuisance with a dangerous taste for chocolate and a flair for theft. The dispute has pitted the government of Gibraltar--which ordered 27 of the monkeys killed this summer--against researchers, who maintain the macaques would have returned to the hills if townspeople could resist offering them junk food. < SNIP > The government says the monkeys started it. For whatever reason, probably overcrowding on top of the Rock,...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - What was to be a six-week deployment to snag drug smugglers off South America will likely become more than six months protecting military shipping in the Mediterranean for the Charleston-based Coast Guard cutter Dallas. "It's been eventful for us," the cutter's commander, Capt. Chris Colvin said by satellite phone from the ship on Friday. "So far we have not come under any hostile fire but it's been interesting." The 378-foot cutter has been operating with the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the eastern Mediterranean. Earlier, the Dallas provided escort for military supply ships moving through the Strait of...