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This week French President Emmanuel Macron distanced himself from US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace and seized an oil tanker of Russia's 'shadow fleet' demonstrating notions of French independence and power. The decision on not joining the "Board of Peace" by Mr. Macron explained in terms of respecting 'international law' over 'arbitrary action'. There was concern not fully expressed that the "Board of Peace" was really a mechanism to go around the United Nations in Gaza and other places like Ukraine... At one point US President Donald Trump published texts Mr. Macron sent him in an apparent effort to...

Newsdump Alert: Kurdish Forces In Syria Pushed Back By Government Forces Fighting In Recent Weeks Leading To Ceasefire The Kurdish forces in Syria former backed by the United States have been expelled from large areas of Syria by the jihadist central government supported by the US and Turkey... Newsdump Alert: Iran's Supreme Leader Links Trump To Deadly Rioting In Iran Trump Speaks Of Need For New Leadership In Iran... Senator Graham is associated with... Going Covert In The Culture War... The "Canada Update" lets watch this rendition of "Oh Canada"... "This is love not that we loved God but that...

This week the appeal trial of Marine Le Pen and her co-defendants accused of misusing European Parliament funds. Last year Le Pen convicted and sentenced to four years in prison with a five-year ban on running for public office. That effectively prevents her from running for President next year... On Wednesday there were attempts to censure the government of President Emmanuel Macron following the EU approval of the free trade deal with MERCOSEUR that angered French farmers. The proposals of La France Insoumise on the Left and the National Rally on the Right fell short...

The ICE agent who fatally shot protester Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is a Trump-supporting Christian and war veteran who has a Filipina wife, according to his family. Jonathan Ross, 43, has been identified as the agent who opened fire on Good on Wednesday after the feds allege she tried to mow him down with her SUV on the suburban street. As anti-ICE protests erupted across the country and Democratic leaders ramped up their divisive rhetoric in the wake of the shooting, the agent’s family rushed to his defense, telling the Daily Mail “you would never find a nicer, kinder...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has left the building. She quit, though the Georgia Republican and former Trump stalwart waited until her congressional pension vested. Greene has done a 180-degree turn on Trump, opposing him on the Epstein Files, Gaza, and the Big Beautiful Bill. She’s been on an apology tour, was a guest on The View, and is doing everything she can to shed her firebrand conservative image. Why? It might be because Trump’s team killed her US Senate ambitions. But the latest allegation is serious: did MTG tip off CodePink about the president’s dinner in the capital last...

"secret settlements with 25 men" Ghislaine Maxwell speaking... "A future DOJ could convict the current AG and others" Thomas Massie's warning... The International Court of Justice will hear a genocide case against the military government of Myanmar... The US Justice Department appealing dismissal of charges...James Comey...Letitia James... The United States drafting a ten-year 112-billion-dollar project to rebuild Gaza... In Brazil imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro...leave prison for hernia surgery... "The subversion of democracy begins" Reform UK leader Nigel Farage... Republican US Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming will not seek re-election... Turning Point USA political event...Erika Kirk endorsing Vice-President JD Vance...

Newsdump Alert: Afghanistan-Pakistan Peace Talks Break Down Conflict Follows Pakistan Leader's White House Visit, Trump Demand For Use Of Bagram Air Base... Back in September Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his country's priority clear when meeting military leadership... "He was the founder of this important internet platform for Conservatives, and was a true patriot"... But for starters I'll go back to the music I heard in my background the guys in the dorm were into this group... "And so I put the blame on both Republicans and Democrats for basically, Caitlin. Just can't say it on CNN. But it's...

Washington — A man who was charged with throwing a sandwich at a federal agent was found not guilty of one count of misdemeanor assault after a jury trial in Washington, D.C. The acquittal of the man, Sean Dunn, comes after federal prosecutors failed to secure a felony indictment against him from a grand jury in Washington in the immediate aftermath of the incident. He instead faced a federal misdemeanor assault charge for allegedly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating and interfering with a federal officer.… Dunn did not testify in his own defense, and his legal team did not present...

Newsdump Alert: Trump Meeting In Qatar Opens Foreign Trip... Qatar's Connections To The US, Israel And Hamas Cannot Be Denied... The rage against Hamas over the brutal events of October 7th, 2023 belies the facts of Israeli and American interaction with Hamas through Qatar prior to October 7th. Having Hamas in power in Gaza and the... How about some Top Ten Country Songs from 50 years ago today the music of my life... Time for a "National Debt Update" our theme song... This week the US national debt that began rising when Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order vowing to use all measures including U.S. military action to defend the energy-rich nation of Qatar — though it remains unclear just what weight the pledge will carry. The text of the order, available Wednesday on the White House’s website but dated Monday, appears to be another measure by Trump to assure the Qataris following Israel’s surprise attack on the country targeting Hamas leaders as they weighed accepting a ceasefire with Israel over the war in the Gaza Strip. The order cites the two countries’...

Argentina has launched a fresh bid to take over the 'illegally occupied' Falkland Islands in a move branded 'extraordinary' by a former head of the Royal Navy. The announcement came during President Javier Milei's speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. The firebrand Argentinian leader told the summit that his country's claim to the South Atlantic island was 'legitimate' and 'unrenouncable'. In a fiery speech that could outrage leaders in Downing Street, Milei called on the UK to open 'bilateral' talks over the 'sensitive and crucially important issue' of the so-called 'Islas Malvinas'. 'I wish...

Senior Justice Department investigator Glenn Prager revealed Jeffrey Epstein was “CIA” and confirmed that rapes occurred while Bill Clinton was on the private plane. The O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released audio of Glenn Prager discussing the DOJ’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Prager served as an Inspector overseeing sensitive investigations involving the FBI, DEA, Bureau of Prisons, US Marshals Service, ATF and the US Attorney’s Offices. Glenn Prager was overheard at a Phoenix airport dropping Epstein bombshells. “I’ve interviewed all the victims, There’s never been an instance where Trump was on a plane with these kids and the rapes occurred....

Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory sent shockwaves throughout America and the world. Most of all, it devastated the Democrat Party, which could not accept that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democrats’ anointed next president, had lost to President Trump. We're only now finding out just how panicked the Democrats really were over the prospect of a Trump White House, but two men have for years been leading the charge to expose the dirtiest political trick in American history. And thankfully, they're still on the case. Throughout the 2016 campaign, Democrats sought to tie President Trump to President Vladimir...

This was an aggressive smackdown on the traditions of the Texas House and the conservatives who are not part of the Uniparty coalition. One indicator of this as a raw power move was that 47 Republicans and 42 Democrats were given enough advance notice of the motion to be able to sign on to the motion which requires a minimum of 25 to be introduced. Yet the 34 Republican grassroots members who voted against the suppression were blindsided by the move. They had spent their morning scrambling to craft amendments to the package. I saw the grassroots members hustling to...

US politics the Pennsylvania Supreme Court with a 4-3 ruling directing local election... The President of the Russian region of Abkhazia carved out of Georgia in 2009 is resigning... Two communications cable in the Baltic Sea have failed...Investigations underway to determine if the damage was deliberate... A Lebanese official says Hezbollah has agreed to a US ceasefire proposal... Two killed another critically wounded in knife attacks in New York City... Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution... immediate ceasefire in Sudan's Civil War... Tonight an Israeli air attack in Beirut near government buildings and foreign embassies with at least...

Your host with you again another excursion into media excellence one of those songs from 1971 "Put Your Hand In The Hand"... Way back in the 1980's I found myself on the student news staff eventually being the news director at a university radio station full power serving the big city and beyond. The news staff almost all white with a plurality being Jewish. The music people and public affairs folks almost all black and militant-woke... For me October 7th of last was the time I wanted to recall 50 years since I walked away from the Anti-Semitism of my...

"Imagine if Russia using a Russian satellite fired cluster munitions on a Florida beach" Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reacting to the deadly Ukrainian missile attack on Crimea today. The US ATACMS missiles with cluster munitions used in the attack linked to US drones providing tracking information. The allegation that weapons are being stored at the Beirut International Airport... Political polling in the USA and a CBS poll out today... In the southern Russian region of Dagestan deadly attacks at churches, a synagogue and a traffic police post... An Israeli soldier seriously wounded as Hezbollah staged drone attacks... A merchant...

Support Free Republic Some of the blog's posts are reposted to "Free Republic"... Another weekly excursion your host the hypocrite and sinner feeing months of prompting that signifies real change more progress towards better things in my life. The internet filled with incitement against personalities either side of the political divide. I've been an online character assassin what good is that kind of stuff. That Moment I Dumped Fox News... Hating Other Folks Isn't The Answer Wanting What's Best For Them And Cleaning Up My Own Act Is?... Meanwhile on the Russian Front the sanctions heating up US economic warfare...

In Cook County, Illinois (Chicago) a judge ruling that President Trump should be removed from the upcoming Illinois Primary ballot... In Washington a deal struck among Congressional leaders to fund six departments of government... Israel striking targets in the Damascus, Syria area tonight... Israel striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon tonight... The US Supreme Court will consider President Donald Trump's case that he has immunity from Biden Administration prosecution... The Biden Administration going after Finkelstein Metals a company that provides raw materials for Israel's Iron Dome air defense system... In Paris today the woman leading opinion polling for President in 2027...

If El Rushbo were here you would want the updates and why not a Joe Biden Update... Ukraine Rhymes With Insane Israel Is The Chicken Salad And Ukraine... Does Joe really want Israel to hold back so he can win in states with large numbers of Muslim voters next year states like Michigan and Minnesota... Trump 42 percent, Biden 36 percent, Kennedy 22 percent Harvard-Harris Poll... This week India's Supreme Court giving the thumbs down to Gay Marriage and Civil Unions... Back after Gay Marriage was legalized in the US in October of 2014 efforts were underway to give religious...