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‘Prepare For A Long War,’ Says NATO Chief.

Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg has warned members of the military alliance the war in Ukraine will not be over in the near future and that they should prepare for a “long war” against Russia.

Stoltenberg made the remarks in an interview with German media over the weekend, shortly before Ukrainian President Zelensky is due to visit the United States to demand more military assistance, in which he argued:

“Most wars last longer than expected when they first begin… We all want a quick peace, but at the same time, we must recognize: if President Zelensky and the Ukrainians stop fighting, their country will no longer exist.”

“If President Putin and Russia lay down their weapons, we will have peace,” Stoltenberg added, suggesting there’s little appetite among NATO members to make concessions to bring peace.

Pressure has begun to mount on Ukraine and its NATO allies over the summer’s failed counter-offensive, with the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs telling reporters to “shut up” about the effort.

Former President Donald Trump has been repeatedly attacked for promising to bring a swift end to the war, including his Vice President Mike Pence suggesting the 45th President is not conservative because he is anti-war.

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Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg has warned members of the military alliance the war in Ukraine will not be over in the near future and that they should prepare for a "long war" against Russia. show more

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DeSantis Fundraises With RINO Impeachment Donor Who Works as Foreign Agent.

Ron DeSantis is attending a Texas fundraiser hosted by Lamar Smith, a former Texas Congressman who is now a registered foreign agent and a donor to Democrat politician Jamie Raskin, who led impeachment efforts against Donald Trump over January 6th.

Smith is advertised by Team DeSantis as one of the hosts of the Friday fundraiser in San Antonio. The Florida Governor is currently polling at 10 percent to Trump’s 61 percent in Texas, and Smith seems unlikely to help burnish the Floridian’s America First credentials, being a registered foreign agent.

Despite his background as a GOP legislator, Smith is also a donor to Representative Jamie Raskin, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. Raskin was a prominent member of the January 6th Committee, and served as House impeachment manager against then-President Trump in 2021.

Smith is not the only DeSantis donor who has supported Raskin financially, either, with key backer ‘Mullah’ Morteza Hosseini and his wife having also funded the Democrat – along with Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Anthony Weiner – through an Iranian political action committee.

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Ron DeSantis is attending a Texas fundraiser hosted by Lamar Smith, a former Texas Congressman who is now a registered foreign agent and a donor to Democrat politician Jamie Raskin, who led impeachment efforts against Donald Trump over January 6th. show more
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America Has Lost a $90,000,000 Jet, Unmanned, Flying on Autopilot.

The United States military has called upon the public to help locate an F-35B stealth fighter jet that went missing somewhere over South Carolina after a so-called “mishap” on Sunday afternoon.

Joint Base Charleston, a U.S. military air base in North Charleston, took to several social media platforms, including Facebook and “X” (formerly Twitter), in a public appeal after the $90 million fighter jet – the U.S. Air Force’s most expensive stealth fighter jet – disappeared, stating:

We’re working with [Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort] to locate an F-35 that was involved in a mishap this afternoon. The pilot ejected safely. If you have any information that may help our recovery teams locate the F-35, please call the Base Defense Operations Center at 843-963-3600.”

“Based on the jet’s last-known position and in coordination with the FAA, we are focusing our attention north of JB Charleston, around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion,” the U.S. military added.

A Joint Base Charleston spokesman, Jeremy Huggins, told the media following the public appeal that the aircraft’s transponder, which assists in locating the plane, was no longer working “for some reason that we haven’t yet determined.”

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The United States military has called upon the public to help locate an F-35B stealth fighter jet that went missing somewhere over South Carolina after a so-called "mishap" on Sunday afternoon. show more
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WATCH: “Conservative” PM Theresa May Says She’s ‘Woke and Proud’.

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May has openly admitted to being a “woke woman” and supporting uncontrolled, mass immigration in an interview, which confirms her staunchly held left-wing convictions despite claiming to be a “conservative.”

May, charged with overseeing Britain leaving the European Union for several years, despite not having supported it herself, made the remarks in an interview with another liberal “conservative” former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, Ruth Davidson, for the Murdoch-owned British newspaper The Times, in which she was asked whether she was “woke”:

“‘I am, yeah! It’s a bit like being asked in the old days, was I a feminist? Well, I wore a T-shirt which said ”This is what a feminist looks like…”’

– Theresa May, September 2023.

She was then quizzed on her views about mass immigration to the United Kingdom, whereupon she explained: “I’ve always said that immigration has been good for the country.”

“I think the concern that people have is always around numbers and often, actually, the people who feel most about this issue are people who see least migration in their own communities,” she added. Theresa May presided over a surge in migration to the UK between 2016 and 2019, with 2018 seeing a, then, record high of 825,000 people entering the country.

Chairman of the Bow Group, the world’s oldest conservative think tank, Ben Harris-Quinney, took to X (formerly Twitter) following the May’s remarks, arguing, “[e]very single Tory leader when out of office reveals themselves to be to the left of [Tony] Blair, it’s only a shame a handful of people still don’t see that reality whilst they are in office.”

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Former British Prime Minister Theresa May has openly admitted to being a "woke woman" and supporting uncontrolled, mass immigration in an interview, which confirms her staunchly held left-wing convictions despite claiming to be a "conservative." show more
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Pence: Trump Isn’t Conservative Because He is Anti-War.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has suggested that Donald Trump cannot make any promises to govern as a conservative if he is re-elected in the 2024 presidential election because the former President would implement a quick end to the war in Ukraine.

Pence claimed on CNN on Sunday that by ending the bloodshed between Russia and Ukraine, the 45th President would be “embracing the politics of appeasement on the world stage [and] walking away from our role as leader of the free world.”

The ex-VP intimated that the only conservative position, therefore, was a continuation of the war.

“Look, the only way this war would end in a day, as my former running mate says, is if you let Vladimir Putin have what he wants, which, frankly, other candidates for the Republican nomination are advocating as well,” Pence continued, before describing Trump’s adoption of the same populism Pence himself embraced in 2016 as a growing threat.

Donald Trump announced his intention earlier this summer to bring about an end to the Ukrainian war within just 24 hours after re-entering the White House in January 2025, with the number of casualties on both sides continuing to grow. It is believed the Ukrainians have lost around 200,000 soldiers killed or wounded, and the Russians 300,000 similarly killed or wounded since the war began in February last year.

The former Vice President is not alone in fearing a swift peace if Trump were re-elected, as the former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson similarly implored the former President not to abandon the United States’ support for Ukraine.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence has suggested that Donald Trump cannot make any promises to govern as a conservative if he is re-elected in the 2024 presidential election because the former President would implement a quick end to the war in Ukraine. show more
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LISTEN: DeSantis Backers Jenna Ellis & Steve Deace Rant About Founding Fathers Being in Hell for Not Repenting Over Slavery.

Jenna Ellis, a former Trump lawyer turned hysterical anti-Trumper, referred to the 45th President as “malignant” during an unhinged rant involving establishment Republican Steve Deace, who bizarrely suggested America’s Founding Fathers have gone to hell.

Deace, who wanted Trump to lose in 2016, now supports Ron DeSantis for the 2024 GOP nomination. The Florida Governor recently tweeted that he was “proud” to have received Deace’s endorsement. In the clip below, Deace can be heard insisting:

“[W]e need to remember there are Founding Fathers who are in hell for all of eternity, who did some great work, but they didn’t bow the knee to Jesus either. They didn’t repent of owning slaves either. And they’re in hell now because of where — because of that, those decisions. And so will [Trump] be.”

Ellis, agreed with Deace, responding: “Yeah, really incredibly well said Steve, and I think that you perfectly articulated exactly how I as a voter feel.” She added: “Why I have chosen to distance is because of that, frankly, malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that [Trump’s] never done anything wrong.”

Ellis is one of the 18 associates of the former President who have been criminally indicted by the Democratic Fulton County District Fani Willis in Georgia. In April 2022, she offered to defend the pro-LGBT, groomer-friendly Disney Corporation against DeSantis’s actions against them. She has since been spotted at Disney parks wearing apparel connoting a membership of their private ’33 Club’ which costs $60,000 to join, as well as an annual $25,000 in dues.

Ellis recently started a crowdfunder for her legal bills, raising over $200,000 so far, equivalent to almost 10 years of ’33 Club’ membership dues. Ellis has since tweeted at The National Pulse staff to admit that despite posing as a 33 Club member, she is in fact not one.

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Jenna Ellis, a former Trump lawyer turned hysterical anti-Trumper, referred to the 45th President as "malignant" during an unhinged rant involving establishment Republican Steve Deace, who bizarrely suggested America's Founding Fathers have gone to hell. show more
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U.S. Air Force Finally Corrects ‘Stolen Valor’ Lies About Trump-Backed Candidate J.R. Majewski.

The U.S. Air Force has added the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal to the record of former Congressional candidate J.R. Majewski, who was the subject of a false “stolen valor” smear campaign at the hands of the Democrat political establishment, as well as corporate media outlets during the 2022 mid term elections.

Majewski, 43, lost his race to Democrat Marcy Kaptur, 77, by around 35,000 votes after a protracted media campaign pushed by the Democrat-aligned “Due Diligence Group”.

Though he defended his service record, the U.S. military at the time failed to provide the correct records for his service in the early 2000s. Republicans on Capitol Hill quickly abandoned Majewski and the Ohio 9th race, leading to a Democrat victory.

“Basically, the [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee], Pelosi, Kaptur and the Republican establishment were threatened by me and did everything they could to keep me from winning. I’m a former nuclear executive and they called me an insurrectionist, a liar, a knuckle dragger and accused me of stolen valor when none of that is true,” Majewski said this week,

False headlines like this plagued Majewski’s race.

The U.S. Air Force also admitted to “improperly releas[ing] the military records” of several GOP candidates, including Majewski, to the Democrat-aligned research Due Diligence Group before the election.

A spokeswoman confirmed Majewski’s “records were updated last month to include award of the GWOT Expeditionary Medal” after he was able to prove that he was deployed in Qatar between May and November 2002 and assisted in Operation Enduring Freedom throughout the Middle East, including Afghanistan.

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The U.S. Air Force has added the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal to the record of former Congressional candidate J.R. Majewski, who was the subject of a false "stolen valor" smear campaign at the hands of the Democrat political establishment, as well as corporate media outlets during the 2022 mid term elections. show more

Biden Is Trying to Make Globalist Government Employees Unfireable.

President Joe Biden’s White House proposed a change to federal statute on Friday that aims to make it more difficult for future presidents to fire federal workers and rein in the globalist deep state. The rule change would extend job protections for career federal employees even if their position is reclassified and explicitly limits the President’s ability to remove those protections to only appointed positions.

In October of 2020, President Trump signed an executive order establishing the Schedule F classification for federal employment. Federal workers who held influence over policy could be assigned the Schedule F designation, effectively making them at-will employees and easier to fire. The order was issued in response to efforts by some career federal employees to resist and hinder President Trump’s policy agenda.

Biden’s increase in federal worker protections might slow down the re-implementation of Schedule F, but it won’t stop it, according to former Trump administration official James Sherk.

“The Biden administration can, if they want, make removing intransigent or poorly performing senior bureaucrats harder on themselves,” said Sherk in a recent interview, adding, “The next administration can just as easily rescind those restrictions. With regards to reissuing Schedule F, this proposed rule would be a speed bump, but nothing more.”

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President Joe Biden's White House proposed a change to federal statute on Friday that aims to make it more difficult for future presidents to fire federal workers and rein in the globalist deep state. The rule change would extend job protections for career federal employees even if their position is reclassified and explicitly limits the President's ability to remove those protections to only appointed positions. show more

Armed Man Posing as US Marshal Arrested at Robert F. Kennedy Speech.

An armed man claiming to be part of Robert F. Kennedy’s security detail was detained by authorities at a California event where Kennedy was speaking.

The man, armed with pistols and ammunition, was wearing two shoulder holsters and identified himself as a member of Kennedy’s security team. Kennedy credited his elite security firm Gavin de Becker and Associates with flagging the individual. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the man had been impersonating a U.S. Marshal and stated that he would likely be charged with a gun offense.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for the Democratic nomination challenging President Biden, has been denied Secret Service protection. Kennedy’s father and uncle were both assassinated, and he said he is “aware” of the possibility that he might be targeted.

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An armed man claiming to be part of Robert F. Kennedy's security detail was detained by authorities at a California event where Kennedy was speaking. show more
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White House: President Biden Will Not Pardon Hunter.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden, if he is convicted on felony gun charges. Earlier this week Hunter Biden was indicted by Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel David Weiss. The three felony charges include making a false statement on a federal firearms form and possessing a gun as a prohibited individual.

In late July, federal judge Maryellen Noreika rejected a sweetheart plea deal that would have required Hunter Biden to enter a “diversion program” while facing no jail time for federal tax and gun crimes. Following the collapse of the deal, David Weiss – the DOJ lawyer who oversaw the federal investigation into Hunter Biden – was elevated by Attorney General Merrick Garland to special counsel, granting him broader investigatory purview. The promotion of Weiss to special counsel has drawn criticism as it was Weiss who worked on the now void plea agreement.

Questions about Hunter Biden’s ongoing legal troubles only add to compounding problems for President Joe Biden. Earlier this week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that Congress was launching a formal impeachment inquiry into the President, citing mounting evidence that the elder Biden had abused public office to profit off of his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings.

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden, if he is convicted on felony gun charges. Earlier this week Hunter Biden was indicted by Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel David Weiss. The three felony charges include making a false statement on a federal firearms form and possessing a gun as a prohibited individual. show more