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"They're taking Lloyd Dobyns off" That's how I felt about the move by NBC to introduce its new live Saturday night show bi-weekly alongside the newsmagazine "Weekend". "Weekend" was a show I had enjoyed during the previous 1974-75 season every week. I liked watching Lloyd Dobyns and his attempt to bring some attitude to television news... I read about this newfangled NBC Saturday Night Live show in the newspaper much hype about the reunion of Simon and Garfunkel which came on the second show in the series later in October. In all honesty I didn't watch the first show and...

To sum up the week in French politics one sees the struggle of Emmanuel Macron to maintain political power to keep dragging out the political process out as long as possible. His latest designated Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu named a cabinet last Sunday night to a storm of rejection a symbolic if not literal middle finger. By Monday in the face of certain rejection in the National Assembly Lecornu...

A group of about 200 US soldiers will be in Israel as part of the ceasefire...Gaza... In North Korea Friday night a military parade unveiling a new ballistic missile... The US military establishing a joint task force to 'crush' drug cartels... President Trump described in 'excellent overall health'...medical evaluation... Amid the US federal government shutdown layoff notices sent to 4,100 employees... Power outages in at least two Ukrainian cities tonight following... A 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Drake Passage... A UN Security Council meeting on Venezuela amid fears of imminent US military action... President Trump leveling a 100 percent tariff...

Newsdump Alert: Israeli Attacks Continue In Gaza Despite Hamas Acceptance Of Trump Plan To End Fighting And Trump's Call For Israeli Attacks To Stop... "You shall have no other Gods before me" Exodus 20:2 The First Commandment Back in the early 1980's I lived in this drunken delusion of an America being "Christianized" by people like... Talking Of Peace When War With Iran Could Be Coming Soon... A Department of War Update the theme from that classic movie "Patton"... And fast forward to this week and the speech of the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth... What Did China Find Out...

This week an oil tanker seized by French naval commandos off the Atlantic coast. The captain and second-in-command taken into custody. The tanker linked to what's called the "Russian Ghost Fleet' carrying oil exports from Russia under sanctions over the Ukraine War. The accusations leveled at the tanker included the notion it was used to launch a drone flight over... Ahead of the announcement of a new government this weekend Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu attempting to create a new image. Lecornu vowing not to invoke Article 49.3 to force through a budget as he seeks input from the opposition on...

..a death sentence in Tunisia...Facebook posts critical of Tunisia's... US intelligence officials told...September 8th Israeli attack on the Gaza Aid Flotilla... Court of Appeals ruling against President Trump's executive order to end birthright... The US Supreme Court reaffirming the right of the Trump... Another night of drone sightings and disruption at the Munich... Russian air defenses shooting down a drone...fire ignited... Explosions in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions... Music mogul-icon Sean "Diddy" Combs sentenced to 50 months... US House Speaker Mike Johnson deciding to keep the House out... Trump Speaks Of Hamas Readiness For "Peace" Calls On Israel To End...

Newsdump Alert: Gaza War Continues Dozens More Killed, 21 Point US Gaza Plan Is Leaked Out That Will Not Expel Gaza's Population And Create Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue... Newsdump Update More Drone Sightings In Denmark... Here again another attempt at media excellence your host winner of the American History Award from the Daughters of the American Revolution back in 1978 I was the 4.0 student in that area. Historically American Presidents have laid down the law to Israeli Prime Ministers on certain occasions... They may get somewhere on Gaza but the intentions of Mr. Netanyahu made very clear at the UN yesterday...

France may have a new Prime Minister but officially it does not have a cabinet. Sebastien Lecornu delayed appointment of cabinet ministers for more than two weeks leaving the outgoing ministers serving with limited powers. Many powers left to judicial-administrative parts of the government. Yesterday Mr. Lecornu saying he will have a cabinet... President Emmanuel Macron speaking to the UN General Assembly and recognizing the State of Palestine. Macron also calling for release... "I see an American President who is mobilized, who says 'I want the Nobel Peace Prize'. The Nobel Peace Prize is only possible if you stop this...

..."Disobey Trump's order"...Colombian President Gustavo Petro...visa revoked by the United States... The FBI has fired as many as 20 agents... Explosions ringing out late tonight in the central Ukrainian... Controversy over the release of the military records of Democrat candidate... Sources tell NBC News that US military officials...possible attacks on sites in Venezuela... A retired investment banker...arrested on federal sex trafficking charges... The US and allied nations vetoing a UN Security Council resolution... The medical charity 'Doctors Without Borders' (MSF) suspending...work in Gaza... Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee releasing Jeffrey Epstein documents... Trump tonight speaking of four days...

COPENHAGEN-Denmark's Prime Minister apologised in person on Wednesday (Sept24) to women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign, which has left islanders with deep scars and strained relations with their former colonial power. Thousands of women and girls as young as 12 were fitted with intrauterine devices without their knowledge or consent between 1966 and 1991, the year Greenland was given authority over its healthcare system... An investigation this month showed that 4,070 women had been fitted with intrauterine devices by the end of 1970-roughly every second Greenlandic-born woman of childbearing age. A large number of women...

Newsdump Alert: A "Very Clever Cyber Attack' Disrupts... Newsdump Update: UN Secretary General Calls On Nations Around The World Not To Be Intimidated By Israel... "Submit yourselves then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up" James 4:7-10... Your host with you again seeking media excellence and coming clean by...

The conference co-sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia set for the United Nations in New York this Monday to recognize a Palestinian state. It's strongly opposed by Israel and the United States which cancelled diplomatic visas for Palestinian officials to attend the UN General Assembly... President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed his intention to recognize Palestine following a conversation with... But France is being compliant with Israel when it comes to Iran President Macron now saying "snapback" sanctions on Iran... Mr. Macron made his comments on Iran in conjunction with an interview conducted by Israel's Channel 12 in which he slammed Israel's...

...the home of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. searched following a bomb threat... "War, a lot of strange things happen"...Trump asked about the safety of Israeli hostages... Israel's military spokesman warning of 'unprecedented force' as that assault on Gaza... Trump Administration seeking Congressional approval for a six billion dollar weapons... French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirming...recognize a Palestinian state... More than 70 people killed in a drone attack on mosque in Sudan's... Shots fired at a television station building in Sacramento... US Attorney for Eastern Virginia Eric Seibert resigning under pressure... Turkish President...Trump at White House next...

Dozens of haredim protest outside Prison 10, block a van carrying detained draft dodgers, and manage to free one of them despite a heavy presence. Two soldiers lightly injured Dozens of haredim rioted Wednesday evening during a protest outside Prison 10, where detained haredi draft dodgers are being held. The protesters clashed with security forces in the area, blocking a van transporting approximately 20 haredi draft dodgers into the prison. Despite the presence of significant security personnel, the demonstrators succeeded in freeing one of the detainees from the vehicle. During the confrontation protesters hurled rocks and used tear gas. Two...

In a small reception room in a hospital in Dnipro, in south-central Ukraine, Viktoria Lants struggled to look at the computer screen as a forensic worker shuffled through photos of the remains catalogued in the overwhelmed morgue. Some images were of badly damaged bodies, military clothing and a pocket knife. When her family was led into a refrigerated unit to view one body, her eyes lingered on a wooden cross. Lant's 31-year old son, Vladyslav Kharkov was given a similar one by his grandmother before he was sent to the front line over the summer. The last time she spoke...

A lot has happened in the last week including "Free Republic" going down... Support Free Republic The premier conservative site a favorite of Rush Limbaugh I support it and her are links to support FR... Newsdump Alert: A Mass Protest In London... Newsdump Alert: Trump Pledges Russia Sanctions If NATO Countries Do The Same, Calls For NATO Tariffs On China... And here we are what a week Benjamin Netanyahu bombing Qatar and I think lusting for more war with Iran anything to divert from "Qatargate"... Charlie Kirk spoke out against war with Iran directly to President Donald Trump... In last...

President Emmanuel Macron moved quickly when his government led by Premier Francois Bayrou lost a confidence vote Monday. The 384-194 vote was a sign of deep opposition to the austere 2026 budget. Macron's quick move to appoint Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu as Prime Minister... demonstrations called to 'block everything' led to various events blocking roads and railroads involving thousands of protesters leading to hundreds of arrests... Mr. Macron quick to contact the Emir of Qatar following Tuesday's Israeli attack. Macron denouncing the attack... he met families of the Israeli hostages at the Elysee Palace Wednesday... The French-Saudi conference on a...

"Daily Mail" reporting on an affair involving Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton... Jeffrey Epstein paid the travel expenses of prominent British Labor Party... "They killed Charlie because he preached patriotism, faith and the merciful love of God...You have no idea what kind of fire you lit"...Erika Kirk... Tucker Carlson told podcaster Megyn Kelly...Kirk opposed War with Iran in the Oval Office... A Houthi missile fired at Israel successfully intercepted... Explosions reported in Odessa, Ukraine... The news leaking out of Israel...Mossad spy agency rejected a ground attack in Qatar... The commander of US Central Command...visiting Syria today... Nearly 200 people killed...

Newsdump Alert: Israeli Offensive Rolls On In Gaza City... In a previous life your host with his three thousand song collection playing it back to... "And then secondly there are those that want instant sex instead of true love The pregnancies of now 13, 14 to 17 year-old girls is now an epidemic. Don't blame the girls blame the boy too. We make it one sided all the time" Dr. Billy Graham... 37 Trillion Dollars In The Hole There Is A "Government Shutdown Deadline" coming up... Dad got a birthday card from me today I picked it up at the...

The pressure building on France this week over plans to recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in New York later this month. Israel's UN Ambassador warning France and other countries aligned with it... The United States joined Israel's strongarming of France. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called French Foreign Minister... France's foreign ministry taking to social media to slam US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's accusation regarding its decision to recognize a Palestinian state... President Emmanuel Macron in the spotlight this week in connection with the "Coalition of the Willing" in Ukraine those 26 nations meeting... Meanwhile...