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When the U.S. men's hockey team goes to the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics, it will try to shake off an ugly history of overseas performances. Since NHL players first went to the Olympics in 1998, the Americans have never medaled outside of North America. Can that change next month? While the U.S. has gotten some strong results at Olympics held in North America -- silver in Salt Lake City (2002) and Vancouver (2010) -- it has not fared nearly as well across the pond. In three attempts, the Americans have not finished better than fourth, and they have a combined six...

Donald Trump is not supporting the Globalist Agenda. Howard Lutnick makes a very important point. That the USA has huge investment,6 Billion in AI alone. Carney did nothing to attract investment in Canada because he is protecting his industrial tariff protected liberal monopolistic cronies. Lutnick states now all Carney ever does is whine and complain.USMCA is going to fail, Lutnick is going to add tariffs to Canadian products entering the USA, and many businesses will move from Canada to the USA.Carney is completely out to lunch.The Globalists have left the Canadian Liberal party high and dry. See this whole brilliant...

Prime Minister of Canada,Mark Carney, makes a disastrous speech at the World Economic forum in Davos, pathetically trying to rally the "Middle Powers" around his putative leadership in order to resist and counter the ecomnomic policies of Donald Trump. Carney reveals himself as sophomoric, and someone suffering from delusions of self induced false grandeur. A huge embarrassment to Canada. This is Mark Carney's "Swan Song" Carney is actively reducing Canada's tariff protected economy to the level of a third world nation. Carney the Globalist has been defeated soundly by Donald Trump.USMCA will not be renewed. Canada is in grave economic...

At a press conference held by Tom Barrack and Ahmed al-Sharaa (al-Jolani) at the Tishrin Palace in Damascus, it was stated that SDF General Commander Mazloum Abdi was ready to attend the meeting but was unable to do so due to adverse weather conditions. In his brief remarks, al-Jolani said: “We have reached a comprehensive ceasefire and full integration between the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and a ceasefire order has been issued.” Al-Jolani added that he would meet with Mazloum Abdi at a later date to discuss the details and mechanisms for implementing the agreement. Responding...

The principles of ‌international ​law apply to ‌everyone, including the United States, German Finance Minister ​and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said on Sunday, in reference to ‍President Donald Trump's threats ​to seize Greenland. "It is solely up to Denmark and ​Greenland ⁠to decide about Greenland's future. Territorial sovereignty and integrity must be respected," Klingbeil said ahead of his departure to Washington for a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven ‌advanced economies.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent a letter to President Trump on Wednesday inviting him to deliver his State of the Union address to Congress on Feb. 24. This will be Trump’s first time delivering a State of the Union address in his second term. He delivered remarks to a joint session of Congress in March 2024, though that was not technically considered a State of the Union address. “As our nation marks the Semiquincentennial Anniversary of American Independence, the United States stands stronger, freer, and more prosperous under your leadership and bold action. Together in 2025, your administration and the...

Friend or no friend, America’s history with the Jewish people goes back farther than either the Trump or Biden administrations. In fact, the country’s very foundation is based on the Jewish Scriptures. For instance: The three branches of the U.S. government were extracted from Isaiah 33:22: “For the Lord is our Judge [judicial branch], the Lord is our Lawgiver [legislative branch], the Lord is our King [executive branch].” The Liberty Bell’s inscription is taken from Leviticus 25:10: “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof.” Three of America’s Founding Fathers (Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John...

This is what the newspaper Berlingske writes the day before Denmark's military intelligence service releases its annual threat image report. According to Thomas Ahrenkiel, head of the intelligence service, smaller countries are now facing a world where there is more "law of the jungle than rules-based world order." We now see that the three major military powers, the US, Russia and China, in their different ways do not support that world order, he tells the newspaper. The report states that the US is now using "its economic and technological strength as a tool of power, even against allies and partners."...

Having completed my first full day in Singapore, I continue to be impressed, as I believe all visitors are, by what a shiny, clean, well-organized place it is. One could say that this is because it’s a wealthy country. I would go in the other direction: It’s wealthy because it’s chosen to be a clean, bright, shiny place. Yesterday, we went to the Marina Bay complex, a major tourist attraction that has two massive indoor gardens and one of the biggest malls I’ve ever seen. To get there and back, we took the underground trains that are part of the...

I didn’t grow up with Thanksgiving. I grew up in Australia, a place that prides itself on being relaxed and irreverent, where national icons range from crocodile wrestlers to movie stars with casual, sun-soaked charisma.Our culture is fun-loving and independent, summed up in the phrase, “she’ll be right, mate.” It means: don’t fuss, don’t interfere, everyone handles their own problems. It isn’t unkindness; it’s distance. You stay in your lane; others stay in theirs.Thanksgiving wasn’t part of my world. What I grew up with was a steady, unquestioned criticism of Americans. In art school in Sydney, we were encouraged to...

Russia on Wednesday shot down President Trump’s claim that the Kremlin had already agreed to some concessions on ending the war in Ukraine — as Moscow blasted innocent Ukrainians with fresh drone strikes overnight. Multiple Russian officials insisted it was too premature to speak about accepting any peace plan and that Moscow wouldn’t agree to anything that didn’t fully meet its demands. “There can be no talk of any concessions or surrender of our approaches to the key aspects of resolving the problems facing us, including in the context of the special operation [in Ukraine],” said Sergei Ryabkov, a Russian...

There was a thread earlier entitled "Too Many Americans Want a Civil War." Referring to the Kirk assassination, the author warned "how close the country had come to a 'potential' civil war." I've got news for him, and everyone else. Technically speaking, we're not "potentially" in Civil War II, it's already begun. Anyone involved with or familiar with various factions of the intel community, which geek-out on societal analysis, will tell you it's here. The 3 phases of civil war are, technically, classified as follows: 1. Routine Peaceful Competition Remember, not too long ago, when we could argue vociferously, especially...

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA !! We are interested in hearing from any Christian individual who has the experience of living and working (or having lived and worked), for 1,000 days or longer, inside of a country governed by a totalitarian or authoritarian system or regime; that governing system/regime being either religious or atheistic. When we say, totalitarian or authoritarian, we give as examples: communist, National Socialist, authoritarian military junta, Islamic or Mohammedan, or the like. If otherwise, you may describe your own situation, and we may find that it applies. We hope to form a...

New statistics show a revival is underway all over the world, with Christian media use increasing across books, technology and music. This revival is also taking place in the UK. Premier Christian News reported “The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) has noted an 87% increase in purchases of the Bible between 2019 and 2024. Nielsen Book Data records a jump from £2.69 million to £5.02 million spent on copies in the last five years.” “Spending on religious books in total last year measured £25.2 million, up 3 per cent year-on-year,” a spokeswoman for Nielsen Book Data shared. Christian music...

For 500 years, a pattern has destroyed every global superpower that followed it. Spain collapsed in the 1600s. Britain lost its empire by 1954. The Soviet Union disintegrated in 900 days. Three empires. Three complete collapses. All following the exact same seven-stage sequence. And the United States has already completed five of those seven stages. This documentary traces the collapse pattern across three superpowers and five centuries—from Spain's silver wealth that bankrupted the richest empire on Earth, to Britain's pound that lost reserve currency status within decades of two world wars, to the Soviet Union that went from superpower to...

Last year, sensitive information concerning numerous South Korean intelligence agents has been leaked, casting a shadow over the Korea Defense Intelligence Command (KDIC) work in China and Russia. This incident prompted the KDIC to recall undercover agents based overseas back home, which put South Korean intelligence activities at risk. Moreover, the leak caused discontent in Washington and Tokyo because it came at a time when the country was expanding military intelligence sharing with the United States and Japan to confront North Korea and China. Have any actions been taken since then to repair the damage and restore the functioning of...

Marc Lynch is angry. The word “rage” appears six times on the first page of America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region, and comes in response to Israel’s war in Gaza. This should be sufficient warning to anyone expecting a cool, calm, dispassionate analysis of the Middle East that they might have picked up the wrong book. That is not to say that Lynch, who runs the George Washington University’s Middle East program, is not worth reading. On the contrary, and despite the occasional lapse into the sort of political-science-speak favored by academics, he is a fierce and compelling...

An analysis of the Russo-Urainian War in 2025. I look at events essentially from the draw down in Kursk to the overall trajectory of the combat lines. Finally, I take a look at constraints on the west and challenges faced.

The United States is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire International Criminal Court, putting the court's day-to-day operations in jeopardy in retaliation for investigations of suspected Israeli war crimes. Washington has already imposed targeted sanctions on several prosecutors and judges at the court, but naming the court itself in the sanctions list would be a major escalation. Six sources with knowledge of the matter, all speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive diplomatic issue that has not been publicly announced, said a decision on such "entity sanctions" was expected soon. A source said...

Spiritual truth before government policy. We have to seek and embrace spiritual truth while we avoid spiritual confusion, and expose and reject spiritual deception. Gospel truth and principles before social, political, and economic theories that are used to develop government policy. Some people will reject this and say that I am proposing to create a theocracy, but this is not the case. The one and only legitimate theocracy is when God created the nation of Israel. That Old Covenant was broken, which ended the theocracy. Our United States was founded as a constitutional republic. In the discussions and debates of...