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Have you seen President Trump's powerful 4 minute video message? Don't miss it!A NATION IN DECLINEQ is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure...

(Reuters) - Congress on Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a stopgap spending bill that averts an imminent government shutdown but does nothing to resolve a bitter debate over the federal budget. By a vote of 91 to 9, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a two-week funding bill that cleared the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Obama is expected to sign the measure, which includes $4 billion in relatively noncontroversial cuts, into law before current funding expires on Friday.The bill keeps the government running until March 18, which lawmakers say is probably not enough time to find common ground between the Republican-controlled...

David Letterman Curses Out Andrew Breitbart, Fox News,Conservatives in Heated Discussion with Rachel Maddow QUOTE:Maddow: ..Scaring white people is good politics on the Conservative side of the spectrum, and it always has been.Quote:1:38...the idea is your sort of rile up the white base to be afraid of an other to be afraid of scary immigrants or scary black people (agesticulating wildly as if counting items off a list ) somebody coming to take what is white people's "rightful property " Letterman:There's a guy who apparently takes interviews, press conferences and edits them and cobbles them together so they give the...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2008 – A surge in military operations and a shift in local support in northern Iraq has driven many al Qaeda fighters out of cities that once provided them safe haven and into the desert, or even out of the country, a commander in the region said today. Citizens in the four-province region of Multinational Division North have begun shifting their support to coalition and Iraqi forces in “droves,” and security gains are increasingly putting extremists on the run with no clear place to go to be safe, said Army Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, commander of...

**EXCERPT** BAGHDAD, Feb. 9 -- On Nov. 3, U.S. soldiers raided a safe house of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq near the northern city of Balad. Not a single combatant was captured, but inside the house they found something valuable: a diary and will written in neat Arabic script. "I am Abu Tariq, Emir of al-Layin and al-Mashadah Sector," it began. Over 16 pages, the al-Qaeda in Iraq leader detailed the organization's demise in his sector. He once had 600 men, but now his force was down to 20 or fewer, he wrote. They had lost weapons and allies....

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2008 – Even as al Qaeda in Iraq ramps up its torture of civilians and begins to employ women and children in suicide-bombing missions, Iraqi citizens are coming forward by the thousands to volunteer to help protect their communities, officials in the region said today. This trend has made it more difficult for extremists to reorganize and has restricted their movement, Multinational Force Iraq spokesman Army Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner said today in a briefing in Iraq. “They are changing the atmosphere. It’s that courage of the Iraqi people that is changing the dynamic in such...

The Marines of Marine Wing Security Battalion 372 gather information from residents of the Sahl Hawran during a census, Dec. 27. Marines gathered demographic information including each resident’s physical characteristics, the location of their homes and family information. AL ASAD, Iraq (Jan. 21, 2008) -- The Marines of Marine Wing Security Battalion 372 have more to look out for than themselves and each other; the local Iraqis are relying on them to watch their backs too. They help support one local Iraqi village by patrolling through to ensure their safety, but also to ensure they have the means for...

FALAHAT, Iraq (Jan. 9, 2008) -- Lance Cpl. Justin Milsaps and his fellow Marines with Engineer Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 8, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward), provide force protection despite low enemy activity in the area. FALAHAT, Iraq (Jan. 9, 2008) -- Sgt. Berry Oakley looks on as his Marines emplace barriers to provide protection for an Iraqi police station here. The force protection is also intended to spare policemen from manning posts at the station so they can instead patrol the area. Oakley is a Logistics Vehicle System operator with Engineer Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 8, 2nd Marine...

TIRANA, Albania: The Albanian government said Friday that it has seized assets of a man who allegedly worked with Osama bin Laden to provide support to terror networks in Albania. The Finance Ministry said it ordered authorities to block four apartments, a house, four bars and shops, and more than 2 hectares (about 5 acres) of land belonging to Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi businessman whom the United States accused of being a terrorist in October 2001 and who is on a U.N. sanctions list requiring all U.N. members to impose a travel ban on him and block his assets, according...

Congressman Pence Meets with Hoosier Soldiers in Iraq May 23, 2006 04:18 PM EDT Congressman Pence Meets with Soldiers in Iraq 1st Sgt. Darren Thomas of Bloomington More on WISHTV.com Indiana Congressman Visits Injured Soldiers in Germany Indiana Congressman Mike Pence recently returned from Iraq. Pence took with him a small WISH-TV camera as he met with Indiana soldiers and talked to them about their mission. The day began at 4 a.m., the start of a 24-hour day in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It's a 2-hour ride aboard a C-130 cargo plane to Mosul, a bus ride to the military base...

Members of the services, are calling in to give their impressions of what's going on in Iraq...Every one i've heard, has accused the MSM of not telling the truth. Say they aren't telling about all the good stuff going on, and they don't understand why.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2005 – The terrorist known as "the Butcher of Ramadi" was detained today, turned in by local citizens in the provincial capital of Iraq's Anbar province, U.S. military officials in Iraq reported. Amir Khalaf Fanus -- listed third on a "high-value individuals" list of terrorists wanted by the 28th Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team -- was wanted for criminal activities including murder and kidnapping. Ramadi citizens brought him to an Iraqi and U.S. forces military base in Ramadi, where he was taken into custody. Fanus was well known for his crimes against the local populace. He...

A final version of the Iraqi constitution has been completed and is set to be approved, an Iraqi Government spokesman has said. Political leaders had until tonight to agree a new constitution. Parliament had already granted Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish negotiators three more days to resolve the outstanding issues. During the negotiating process it emerged that Sunnis fear the federal structure of the new Government will give the Kurds and Shi'ites control over the country's oil revenues. They are also concerned that federalism will lead to an autonomous Shi'ite area in southern Iraq - under Iran's influence. A Shia and...

I was just watching Countdown on MSNBC and he quoted a National Fox Poll i have never seen 47 Bush - 45 Kerry. Did they just quote tomorrows Fox Poll? Or maybe its one i havent seen yet?

Kerry: 'Wake Up America' and Choose Fresh Start Fri Oct 29, 2004 01:17 PM ET By Patricia Wilson ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Democratic challenger John Kerry urged Americans on Friday to "wake up" and choose a new start on the economy and Iraq instead of four more years of President Bush's "catastrophic mismanagement." Four days before the United States chooses its next commander in chief, the Massachusetts senator told supporters in Orlando they could not afford to re-elect Bush, "a president who's unwilling to admit the mistakes he's made and says he would do the same thing all over again."...

[I'll be brief and to the point; do me a favor, and either read before posting, or don't post at all, willya?]I'll admit, Mondays in general seem to hit me harder than they used to. But it seems to me as if the drum beat of the news has been going from bad to worse, with precious little to break it on the national scale. I figure I'm not the only one here who feels that way.My purpose in this essay is to lay out what is making me feel so gloomy, and to invite anyone and everyone to share...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 8 — They were a father and son shopping for a car for the young man, a family ritual as common as any in the United States. It was unfolding on a recent evening here, though, to the cadence of distant gunfire and explosions. Aadel Kadhem, 43, and his 23-year-old son, Mohammed, walked around a pair of black BMW's, opening the doors, staring through the windows. Aadel Kadhem paints automobiles for a living, and his income has risen tenfold since the fall of Saddam Hussein's government, he said, allowing him to squirrel away $3,000 for a car...

WASHINGTON -- The number of terrorist attacks around the world dropped sharply last year, the State Department reported Wednesday. The 44 percent decline -- from 355 attacks in 2001 to 199 in 2002 -- can be attributed to various factors, including the arrest of thousands of suspected terrorists, the freezing of money flowing to terrorist groups, increased security measures in virtually every nation and a sharp drop in the number of oil pipeline bombings in Colombia, the report said. "Terrorist cells have been broken up, networks disrupted and plots foiled," said Secretary of State Colin Powell. "The financial bloodlines of...