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Trump answers Democrats’ Day One Impeachment fever with a single tweet

FPI / January 4, 2019 Democrats, as predicted, wasted no time in calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump as they assumed control of the House on Jan. 3. In filing articles of impeachment against Trump, Rep. Brad Sherman, California Democrat, accused the president of obstructing justice for firing FBI Director James Comey and […]

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What Romney really meant

FPI / January 4, 2019 By Ed Martin ​While there are many nuances and sub-text to the drive-by shooting of President Donald Trump by incoming junior Senator Mitt Romney, three primary messages come through that are likely to define politics in America for the foreseeable future. First and foremost, Romney was expressing the outrage by […]

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Netflix pleads with fans to stop Bird Box challenge

FPI / January 4, 2019 Netflix has warned fans of its hit movie Bird Box against participating in an online challenge inspired by the film in which people attempt to complete tasks while blindfolded. In the movie, which had a record 45 million viewers during its first week of release last month, Sandra Bullock (Melanie) […]

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Japan bans Chinese electronic firms over spying hardware

FPI / January 4, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct After months of investigating, the Japanese government announced on Dec. 10 a comprehensive ban of any government purchase of products by China’s top two electronics giants Huawei and ZTE. Within hours, all three of Japan’s main cellphone carriers issued the same ban on using Huawei and ZTE products, dealing […]

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Trump: Walls ‘work 100 percent’

FPI / January 3, 2019 In continuing to press Congress to approve $5 billion in funding for a wall at the U.S. southern border, President Donald Trump reminded critics that walls “work 100 percent.” “Look at all of the countries that have walls, and they work 100 percent,” Trump said on Jan. 2 during a […]

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Columnist tracks media-intelligence-political collaboration on anti-Trump narratives

FPI / January 3, 2019 Some two years after it was published, the unverified anti-Trump dossier authored by ex-British spy Christopher Steele remains “the cornerstone” of the case for collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, a columnist noted. The intricate fabric of media reports, redacted intelligence documents and opposition research paid for by the […]

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Poll of veterans back Trump on military decisions

FPI / January 3, 2019 An overwhelming majority of U.S. military veterans interviewed for a new poll support President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq and most also back the president’s decision to deploy troops to the border with Mexico. Over 80 percent of respondents agreed that it was time to […]

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Bolsonaro: Brazil will ‘free itself from socialism’ and ‘political correctness’

FPI  / January 2, 2019 In his inaugural address on Jan. 1, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called for a “national pact” to free the nation of corruption, crime and economic mismanagement and vowed to free Brazil of “ideology.” “Brazil will return to being a country free of ideological constrictions,” Bolsonaro said, later adding the nation […]

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Smackdown: Romney takes it on the chin from his niece, POTUS

FPI / January 2, 2019 President Donald Trump and RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel slammed Mitt Romney, saying the senator-elect should be a “team player” and that his Washington Post op-ed criticizing Trump was merely feeding the many Democrat and media trolls. Romney argued in his Jan. 1 op-ed that the Trump administration has caused […]

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Unification fever: China, North Korea turn up the heat on anti-communist brethren

FPI / January 2, 2019 Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping promised to reward Taiwan if it place itself under Beijing’s rule, while North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said he intends to visit Seoul to press for North-South reunification. Promising economic gifts to Taiwan, Xi in a Jan. 2 address said “with the great motherland’s support, […]

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Former federal prosecutor scorns Mueller, upholds ‘real Justice Department’

FPI / January 2, 2019 A former U.S. Department of Justice attorney who is representing a Russian company charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation accused Mueller of manufacturing a “make-believe crime” against his client and withholding “sensitive” evidence in the case. Eric Dubelier, a litigator for the Reed Smith law firm, is representing Concord […]

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California sheriff points to sanctuary laws in officer’s shooting

FPI / December 30, 2018 The illegal immigrant accused of murdering a California police officer should have been deported for previous criminal offenses but was allowed to remain in the country and free due to California’s status as a sanctuary state, the sheriff investigating the officer’s death said. “I’m suggesting the outcome could have been […]

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Lawmakers sound alarm on slaughter of Nigerian Christians by militants

FPI / December 31, 2018 A Nigerian archbishop has joined U.S. lawmakers in calling on President Donald Trump to appoint a special envoy to respond to the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria by Islamic jihadists. Although the majority of Nigerian are Christians, the nation is now headed by a Muslim government, a development that some […]

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Guess who is world’s top jailer of journalists? Time’s tribute to ‘Guardians’ made no mention

FPI / December 12, 2018 In naming persecuted journalists as its persons of the year for 2018, Time magazine presented an extensive analysis of the state of the free press worldwide. The name of the world’s top jailer of journalists – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – was not mentioned. Special honors went to murdered […]

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U.S. takes aim at Venezuela’s gold stashed in Bank of England

FPI / December 11, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump last month signed an executive order sanctioning Venezuela’s gold exports and banning American citizens from dealing with anyone involved in “corrupt or deceptive” gold sales from the socialist South American nation. The move by Trump tightens sanctions that effectively seal almost 16 tons of Venezuelan gold, […]

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