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VIDEO Former Congressman Joe Walsh has been in a nosedive ever since his infamous 2011 Town Hall meltdown in which he attacked his own constituents. Of course, he lost his next election and proceeded to dive further into the depths of economic desperation and mental depravity until he discovered that if only he sold his soiled soul and embraced the TDS left he could earn a few pieces of silver they tossed his way for performing anti-Trump propaganda tricks for them. Look for more and more broadcast appearances by PATHETIC Joe Walsh the closer to Election Day we get. Oh,...

Abbas discussed with Blinken means of reviving the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, ...reopening the US Consulate in Jerusalem.... and the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) headquarters in Washington. Talks also tackled the resumption of 'US financial support to the Palestinian Authority', which was suspended by former President Donald Trump. Blinken, for his part, stressed that the US is committed to rebuilding its relationship with the PA and Palestinian people. He said the American administration has been focused on concrete ways to help improve the lives of Palestinians, including rejoining UNRWA and providing half a billion dollars in humanitarian assistance since April 2021,...

A visit to North Korea by U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth ended in failure Thursday to convince the North to return to multilateral nuclear disarmament talks. "We identified some common understandings on the need for and the role of the six-party talks and the importance of the implementation of the 2005 Joint Statement," Bosworth told reporters. "It remains to be seen when and how [North Korea] will return to the six-party talks." He added, "This is something that requires further consultations among all six of us." But Bosworth claimed he had "very useful" meetings with senior North Korean officials. Further bilateral...

Not content with his humiliation at Copenhagen this past September, President Obama will be traveling again to the Danish capital in December to attend the U.N. COP15 Climate Change Conference. This agreement would commit the United States to punitive and expensive greenhouse gas regulations dictated by the United Nations without recourse. COP stands for "Conference of the Parties" and the December Copenhagen conference will be the 15th under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), hence COP15. According to their website, it will be one of the largest conferences ever held outside the New York or Geneva headquarters,...

Google's decision to censor its search engine in China was bad for the company, its founders admitted yesterday. Google, launched in 1998 by two Stanford University dropouts, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, was accused of selling out and reneging on its "Don't be evil" motto when it launched in China in 2005. The company modified the version of its search engine in China to exclude controversial topics such as the Tiananmen Square massacre or the Falun Gong movement, provoking a backlash in its core western markets. Asked whether he regretted the decision, Mr Brin admitted yesterday: "On a business level,...

The tickets for Washington's hottest inaugural bash went in 48 minutes, all 10,000 of them. The ones with the Hollywood firepower, with Macy Gray headlining, went on sale yesterday at $1,000 a pop. By the close of business, perhaps 200 of the 1,000 tickets were still available. Even before the few public tickets for the nine official inaugural balls go on sale or the artists performing at those events are announced, the parties around the nation's 55th presidential inauguration are shaping up to be hard sellouts by the end of the holidays. Greg Jenkins, executive director of the Presidential...

CNI [Spanish Intelligence Service] Agents Close to the PSOE [Socialist Party] Negotiated in Iraq for Shiites Not to Attack Spanish Troops Agents made a secret trip to Najaf a week ago to reach an agreement with representatives of Moqtada al Sadr. Fifteen hours after Zapatero announced the return of the “Plus Ultra” Brigade, the religious leader ordered his militias not to fire on the Spaniards. Agents of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) with ties to the PSOE [Socialist party] secretly travelled to Najaf a week ago to meet with representatives of Muqtada al Sadr. Their mission was to inform the...