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In the most troubling revelation yet related to Joe Biden’s alleged bribery scandal, Sen. Chuck Grassley announced on Monday that over a dozen different tapes exist of conversations involving the matter. Even more shocking is that two of the tapes supposedly contain Biden himself speaking directly to the foreign national who says he arranged the bribes. ... Sen. Chuck Grassley says the foreign national who bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has 17 different recordings of conversations he had with them that he kept as an "insurance policy." "The foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Wednesday she would “never forgive” former President Trump and his “lackeys” “for the trauma” that Capitol Hill staff experienced during the Jan. 6 riot. A mob of Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol that day as a joint session of the House and Senate considered the Electoral College vote, forcing the evacuation of lawmakers. The event led to Trump's second impeachment. “I'll never forgive president — former president of the United States and his lackeys and his bullies that he sent to the Capitol for the trauma that he — that wasn't what was...

Nine senior commanding generals have been fired by the Obama administration this year, leading to speculation by active and retired members of the military that a purge of its commanders is underway. Retired generals and current senior commanders that have spoken with TheBlaze say the administration is not only purging the military of commanders they don’t agree with, but is striking fear in the hearts of those still serving. The timing comes as the five branches of the U.S. armed forces are reducing staff due to budget cuts, and as U.S. troops are expected to withdraw from Afghanistan next year....

Not knowing who the eventual Republican presidential nominee will be in the 2012 election, President Obama's supporters are taking the opportunity to blast all of the GOP candidates, using aggressive language.... Much of the criticism is focused on describing the candidates as lackeys to the Tea Party, which establishment Democrats have classified as right-wing zealots bent on destroying the U.S. "While protecting tax breaks for the wealthy and big oil while proposing to end Medicare, slash Social Security and pile additional burdens on the middle class might win plaudits with the Tea Party, it's not remotely what the American people...

If there was ever a scene that stunned me and shamed me, was to see today the tape of the opening of the Supreme Court sessions for the Judicial year 2006 which took place two days ago. President Chavez was in attendance, the President of the Supreme Court gave a speech in which he spoke of Justice and independence. The Hall was packed with Justices and the employees of the Court. Then the session ended and the Justices in their solemn robes proceeded to show why this revolution is absolutely grotesque and immoral and why everything that was expressed during...

"Our praises are our wages" Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale" Adulators often appear in countries where total political power is in the hands of a strongman. Longing for approval from the master, adulators will do or say whatever it takes. This has happened in Venezuelan history since Boves and Guzman Blanco walked our geography. The people objects of adulation do not have to be particularly distinguished, as long as they have power. They can be louts like the Monagas brothers or Cipriano Castro or Juan Vicente Gomez or Marcos Perez Jimenez, but this poses no problem for the invertebrate members of the...

The ad hominem attacks and outright character assassinations by John Kerry surrogates have reached a fever pitch. Chris Matthews’ ambushes and shamelessly assaults O’Neill, Malkin and Thurlow, without allowing them to answer his questions; the ranting Matthews seldom breathes so it’s easy for him. Our never-to-be- esteemed “mainstream press” refuses to publish anything remotely truthful about their candidate- Kerry-(Ref. its refusal to fairly cover the book “Unfit For Command”) and will only cover Kerry’s attacks against that truth. Even when multiple claims by Kerry have been proven to be lies, the Kerry-proxy “mainstream press” continues to support them…and Kerry. This...

HAVANA, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- J.P. Wright & Company announced today that in spite of the political speeches of George W. Bush, it has reached an agreement with Alimport, Cuba's agency responsible for imports, to add 50 Florida cattle to its existing 250 head deal. The shipment of the 300 head will be the first shipment of Florida cattle to Cuba in more than 40 years of the embargo established by President Kennedy.<> Cuba Increases Cattle Order from Florida J.P. Wright & Company adds 50 Florida cattle to existing 250-head deal with Cuba.<> http://www.tuckerhall.com/cuba.htm<> HAVANA, Cuba (March 26, 2004) –...

A very important book about Iraq has just been published by The Lyons Press, a little Connecticut house that specializes in books about fly fishing. A lot of important journalists are hoping you'll miss it. "Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, an Oral History," by Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson, contains an astonishing 4,000-word interview with John Burns, who until recently covered Baghdad for The New York Times. "Terror, totalitarian states and their ways are nothing new to me," says Burns, who has won two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting in Bosnia and Sarajevo, "but I felt from the start...

from the web site of the SECOND most ungrateful European nation in existence: EMBASSY OF GERMANY IN THE UNITED STATES Address 4645 Reservoir Road NW Washington, DC, 20007-1998 Telephone:(202) 298-4000Fax: (202) 471-5558 > Wolfgang Ischinger: Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States of America

Payá's answer to Fidel Castro By Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, Coordinator Comité Ciudadano Gestor del Proyecto Varela. Havana, 13th of October of 2002 (TRANSLATION TO ENGLISH BY RCB) According to information by the press, in an interview with journalist Barbara Walters of the ABC network in the U.S., Mr. Fidel Castro responding to her question on the right of the citizens to propose the Varela Project, declared: "Yes, they have the right to present a request, but not to change the Constitution" Fidel Castro also declared on the interview: "they will have their answer in due time" Due to the contradiction...

Acts that don't deserve the prize By Jeff Jacoby, 10/17/2002 www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/290/oped/Acts_that_don_t_deserve_the_prize+.shtml AS A PATRIOT and a man of honor, Jimmy Carter should refuse the Nobel Peace Prize. That act of integrity would win him more respect than anything he has done in the past two decades. The Nobel Peace Prize committee has sometimes shown disturbingly bad judgment, but never before has it awarded the prize with the explicit purpose of castigating the United States. That new low was achieved last week, when the Nobel Committee chairman, Gunnar Berge, emphasized that the award was meant as a denunciation of US policy...

Dissident Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet to be released WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA El Nuevo Herald Thu, Oct. 17, 2002 (Translation by RCB) Doctor Oscar Elías Biscet, one of the most prominent jailed political dissidents in Cuba, will be released next 31st of October after fulfilling a sentence of three years of prison, informed his wife, Elsa Morejón yesterday. The Cuban authorities communicated to her that she had to appear that day, 8 a.m. at the penitentiary Cuba Sí in Holguín, to complete Biscet's, 41, official liberation proceedings. ''He is in good spirits and will continue fighting peacefully for the respect of...

Formal Complaint Filed By Judicial Watch. “U.S. Food & Agribusiness Exhibition,” in Havana, Cuba from September 26 – September 30, 2002. (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that it filed a formal complaint with President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill and the Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) to revoke the license granted to PWN Exhibicon to conduct a “U.S. Food & Agribusiness Exhibition,” in Havana, Cuba from September 26 – September 30, 2002. Cuba is...

To: politics@foxnews.com Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 10:17 AM Subject: Your article and possible misinformation. In your article, you say: """Reno has been on the outs with Florida's Cuban community, an influential voting bloc, since she authorized the federal raid two years ago that took Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives. The boy was sent back to Cuba with his father. """ Regarding Elian's story, it should be noted that the press was very helpful in distorting the reality of the truth in this case. Maybe because of lack of information, knowledge about the situation in Cuba, or merely, because...

The AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER June 21, 2002 #170 Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness From a Public Interest Perspective EDITOR\PUBLISHER: A.V. Krebs ADDRESS: PO. Box 2201, Everett, Washington 98203-0201 E-MAIL: avkrebs@earthlink.net WEB SITE: http://www.ea1.com/CARP/ TO RECEIVE: Name and e-mail address CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME !!! U.S. APPEALS COURT REINSTATES LAWSUIT ALLEGING ADM AND OTHERS ENGAGED IN CORN SWEETNER PRICE FIXING SCOTT KILMAN, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a seven-year-old civil lawsuit alleging Archer Daniels Midland Co. and its rivals rigged what is now a $2.4 billion market for a corn sweetener used in everything from soft drinks to candy....