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Rudy Giuliani: The witness I relied upon if you paid any attention to what I did last week is someone named Victor Shokin. That’s the affidavit I put out plus two others… Those three all say that Joe Biden pressured the president to fire Shokin because Shokin had just come upon a laundered $3 million transaction to Hunter Biden. And he was told by the Serbian government that the United States government would not allow to give that information out. That’s the reason they say they were fired… That’s a lot stronger proof than any silly whistleblower nonsense about something...

The press is all agog over the President leading the UN security council which came out with extremely artfully worded resolution that endorses the eventual goal of "a world without nuclear weapons". That document is so carefully wordsmithed that the 2 most obvious violators of the UN's non proliferation treaty Iran and North Korea weren't mentioned by name. A vaguely worded document from an dysfunctional international agency and the press tells us how much progress is being made. The facts tell a different story, a story of a rookie in way over his head.

For many months the US felt that, “We want to help protect you from the threat in the Near East, and you are still holding out your palm for more money,” in relation to previous Polish actions to the US. Yet, when many months passed and the uncle from the West was not persuading their little Polish brother, the Americas began to change their tone. It suddenly became evident to the US that the Polish requests for financial and military help were justified. This was undoubtedly a success of Polish diplomacy. The important issue now is that success be achieved....

Russian President Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a planned US missile shield in Europe, told US President George W. Bush on Thursday that Moscow would drop its objections if the radar-based system were installed in Azerbaijan. Putin told Bush he would not seek to retarget Russian missiles on Europe if the United States agreed to put the system in the central Asian nation of Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic. Bush's National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley called it an "interesting proposal." "Let's let our experts have a look at it," Hadley said. Bush has proposed putting the radar and rockets in...

George W. Bush got out of Dodge just in time. The president and his best friends -- or those who used to be his best friends before he drummed them out of the company of patriots -- have been exchanging so much hostile fire that someone was about to get hurt. The president arrived in Prague last night, the first stop on his tour of the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Italy, Albania and Bulgaria. It's scary times over there, too. His old pal Vladimir Putin is sulking again, this time threatening to aim his nuclear missiles once more at Europe....

Canada told: 'Stop being defense freeloader' Former NORAD boss chastises his government for waffling with U.S. Canada must give up its passive role as a "defense freeloader" and participate in a missile defense shield under development by the United States, a former Canadian military official asserts. Canada's high-tech defense industry has suffered from its government's political waffling over the U.S. ballistic missile defense program, said Lou Cuppens, a retired lieutenant-general and former deputy commander for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, the Canadian Press reported. "As a retired military member, I know Canada can't stand around and be...