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It's been a minute, so why not have a laugh at the pathetic lefty government in New Zealand? Kash Patel, the FBI director, traveled to New Zealand to open a security office in Wellington. At this event, he gifted security officials some 3D-printed replica handguns which were completely inoperable. Essentially a decorative piece. The New Zealand officials had to destroy the fake guns because even fake guns are banned in New Zealand. From Newsweek: During a series of meetings with New Zealand's top security officials on July 31, FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly presented three 3D-printed replica pistols mounted on...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urged European nations not to unilaterally restrict transatlantic travel, warning the United States is willing to take action to enforce agreements. "We're seeing more airports get in the game of trying to restrict air traffic, which is contrary to the agreements that we have with them," Duffy told Reuters from Montreal where he is attending an international aviation meeting, citing concerns about Amsterdam, Lisbon and Dublin.

uman Events editor-in-chief Jack Posobiec has just released never-before-seen footage of Kyle Rittenhouse on the night he was attacked in Kenosha, Wisconsin during a violent BLM rally last summer. Contrary to the ridiculous and false narrative that has been shamelessly peddled by the partisan media, Rittenhouse can be seen offering medical assistance to people on the street before overhead helicopter surveillance video captures the moments the violent crowd begins chasing Rittenhouse and attacking him.

Amid bitter, recriminatory exchanges between the United States and Pakistan over the Osama bin Laden extermination, planned bilateral visits of President Asif Ali Zardari to Washington DC and a return trip of President Barack Obama to Islamabad are both in jeopardy. Ties between the two sides are expected to slide further following Pakistan's "outing" of the CIA station chief in Islamabad on Saturday. In a sign of how bad ties are between the two countries, Pakistani media on Saturday once again publicly named the CIA station chief in Islamabad, a breach of both protocol and trust, that is bound to...

The men, decorated veterans of more than 40 tours of duty in Chechnya, said not only suspected rebels but also people close to them were systematically tracked, abducted, tortured and killed. Intelligence was often extracted by breaking their limbs with a hammer, administering electric shocks and forcing men to perform sexual acts on each other. The bodies were either buried in unmarked pits or pulverised.

BERLIN (Reuters) - The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi removes the man who took Iraq's insurgency to new heights of savagery but it also creates a martyr whose inspiration will mobilize new recruits. Arab and Western security analysts were agreed on Thursday that Zarqawi's death in a U.S. air raid would not end the insurgency, even if it represents a rare triumph in Iraq for the Bush administration. "There will be people that will be mobilized to join the caravan of martyrs, to emulate his example and to honor him," said Magnus Ranstorp, an al Qaeda expert at the Swedish...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Wednesday announced it was giving $20 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to help it through a financial crisis. A senior Bush administration official said it hoped the aid would encourage additional donations from other countries "at a time when the Palestinian Authority is in desperate need of budget support to pay its bills, maintain stability and allow it to focus on the larger question of governing." The Palestinian Authority is facing a severe financial crisis due to falling tax revenues during four years of violence which has paralyzed the Palestinian...

MIDI - YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS ANYMORE I know we opposed you...we tried hard to stop you Now in Iraq, we're being shut out And we Germans and French learn what payback's about We don't like it much This really isn't funny...we are losing money So why can't you forget and forgive Come on USA...how 'bout live and let live We will even act like we are really pensive Now you won't give us contracts anymore You did the heavy lifting...it looks like we are grifting We know that we are Euro Weenies Without gonads and spine that...

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Palestinians are mocking and laughing at American casualties in Iraq in their press and elsewhere, an independent Israeli media watchdog group said on Tuesday. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) Director Itamar Marcus said that while the Palestinians have been criticizing America in their media for years, the hatred has recently been ratcheted up. Established in 1996, PMW monitors and analyzes Palestinian Arabic language media. "[The Palestinians] have been condemning America since 1997," said Marcus in a telephone interview. "Anti-American cartoons mocking American dead [have] reached a new level of hatred." In a cartoon printed in the Palestinian Authority's...