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Britain
Keir Starmer has arrived in China.
[X] How many millions of the population did the CCP government have to sift through to find that many soldiers tall enough to loom over the 5’8” British PM?
Posted by: 3dc || 01/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1765 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Well one thing we know for sure...the Chicom's boots will all be nice and shiny!
Posted by: Tarzan Ulinens4062 || 01/29/2026 0:19 Comments || Top||


#3  He just came for the authentic chow mein.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/29/2026 6:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Keir Starmer has arrived in China on his knees and with lips puckered.

FIFY
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/29/2026 9:26 Comments || Top||


Europe
Spanish Nationalists Furious: Socialist PM Sanchez Decrees Amnesty For 500K Illegals, Skirts Parliament
[ZreoHedge] Spain’s struggling socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has agreed with the far left to push through a mass amnesty for around 500,000 illegal immigrants by royal decree, bypassing parliament and avoiding any binding vote in Congress.

The extraordinary regularization, negotiated between Sánchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE) and the far-left Podemos, is due to be approved by the Council of Ministers on Tuesday. By using a royal decree, the government can impose the measure directly, despite the fact that an almost identical proposal has been stalled in parliament for more than a year due to a lack of majority support.

Under the agreement, illegal migrants who can prove they were in Spain before Dec. 31, 2025, and have remained in the country for at least five months will be eligible for provisional residence and work permits, provided they have no serious criminal record. The moment an application is filed, any deportation or return proceedings will be suspended. If approved, applicants will receive a one-year residence permit, eligible for renewal. Podemos estimates that more than half a million people will benefit.

Podemos figures have openly celebrated the move. As cited by El País, Irene Montero, former equality minister and now an MEP, described the amnesty as an “urgent measure of social justice” and said her party would ensure the process is “swift.”

She claimed the regularization was necessary to protect migrants from what she described as “racist violence” and framed the policy as the granting of rights to people allegedly denied them through “institutional racism.”

The government argues that the decree merely provides legal certainty for an “existing social reality.” Critics, however, have labeled the move undemocratic and catastrophic for the message it sends to illegal immigrants who are still arriving in large numbers.

The amnesty mirrors a Popular Legislative Initiative backed by more than 700,000 signatures, but that proposal has been blocked in Congress for over a year because it lacks sufficient support. Rather than negotiate or abandon it, the executive has opted to force it through without parliamentary oversight.

The decision comes as illegal immigration in Spain has exploded. According to estimates from the Funcas think tank, cited by La Gaceta, the number of undocumented immigrants has risen from about 107,000 in 2017 to nearly 840,000 in 2025, an increase of almost 685 percent. Funcas estimates that illegal migrants now account for 17.2 percent of the non-EU foreign population in Spain. The think tank warns that mass regularizations do not reduce illegal immigration if current entry and legalization practices continue.

Facilitating illegal immigration into the European Union via Spain has become big business, with record numbers arriving on the Canary Islands in recent years, and critics of Sánchez’s move argue this will only entice more to embark on the journey.

Several fraud networks have been uncovered in recent months, linked to fake residence permits and sham marriages to help regularize illegal migrants, including one in October last year, where 12 people were arrested for manufacturing fake family links to legitimize the stay of illegals.

Spain’s immigration crisis is also one of security and public safety, with foreigners disproportionately suspected of criminal offenses. In November last year, the Ertzaintza, the autonomous police force of Spain’s Basque Country, revealed that 64 percent of those arrested for crimes in the region were foreigners, including 68 percent of sexual assault and robbery suspects. This is despite migrants making up 14 percent of the Basque population.

In December, a CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory report, titled “Demography of Crime in Spain,” found that foreigners, who make up 31 percent of Spain’s prison population, commit per capita 500 percent more rapes and 414 percent more murders than Spanish citizens. The highest rates are seen among Arabs and Latinos, with many of them hailing from countries in South America known for their extremely high crime rates.

Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1811 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Spain 1st to cross Globalist finish line. Get your Iberico ham now before it starts disappearing.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/29/2026 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  "Free, free, free Andaluse!!!"
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 01/29/2026 0:50 Comments || Top||

#3  This is how leaders get strung up at gas stations and shot.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/29/2026 2:13 Comments || Top||

#4  We're fortunate that President Autopen didn't try this during his lame duck phase.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/29/2026 6:08 Comments || Top||

#5  ...Is Fransisco Franco still dead?

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 01/29/2026 9:39 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Yes, but he has been replaced by a Ugandan.
Posted by: Matt || 01/29/2026 11:46 Comments || Top||

#7  This shit has been going on for centuries. You'd think the Spaniards would have learned by now.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/29/2026 11:48 Comments || Top||

#8  The Spanish youth unemployment rate is around 25%. So where do these 500,000 worthy folks find jobs?
Posted by: Matt || 01/29/2026 11:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Jobs?! They don't need no stinking jobs! Socialism!

I bet within that group are a few hands on researchers who will document how monkeypox spreads.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2026 13:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
FBI investigating Fulton GA 2020 Ballot Fraud - FINALLY
[HaystackTV]


NoMo's additional link for comment #1 compressed here.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/29/2026 04:40 || Comments || Link || [1787 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "There’s only 1 reason DNI Tulsi Gabbard would be at the Fulton County election center after it was raided by the FBI:

Foreign interference in our elections.

It’s no coincidence this raid happened after we captured Maduro."
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/29/2026 13:12 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2026 14:46 Comments || Top||

#3  To effectively cheat at the level required to elect Joe Biden, who was less popular than Hillary Clinton, fake voters and ballots are not enough. Hillary had the fake voters and used them. It was not enough.
What was needed, instead, was fake ballots to match to real voter registrations for voters that didn’t vote. To pull that off, requires electronic manipulation and a large stock of fake ballots that include a quantity for each of the 400 precincts in the county. The freeze was to determine who did not vote. The prolonged count was to pull enough Biden ballots of each precinct flavor. It would require a meticulous process for that cheating to pass a real audit. What I saw on video in Fulton County was not a meticulous process. They are caught. They will need a Federal judge to interfere at this point.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/29/2026 15:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Thanks for the assist NN2N1 - the width didn't show up in the preview for some reason. Sorry for the trouble!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/29/2026 18:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Grey highlight is Besoeker in moderator mode, dear NoMoreBS.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2026 22:17 Comments || Top||

#6 
Not mine, it was Mr. B's.
I am on the road with spotty cell.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/29/2026 23:11 Comments || Top||


Rep. Ilhan Omar suggests Trump is to blame for syringe attack: ‘So obsessed with me'
[NYP] Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) claimed the disturbing syringe attack against her was motivated by anger over not enough Somalis being deported — and suggested President Trump is to blame for the assault.

"The man that attacked me was specifically upset that Trump’s order to deport Somalis was not yielding enough deportations of Somalis," the "Squad" lawmaker told reporters Wednesday, during a press conference at Minneapolis’ Karmel Mall.

"He wanted to come get the person he thought was protecting the Somalis," Omar said of the 55-year-old suspect Anthony Kazmierczak.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2026 03:17 || Comments || Link || [1802 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I blame Jussie Smollett.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/29/2026 5:53 Comments || Top||

#2  ‘So obsessed with me'

As much as your brother?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 01/29/2026 5:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Charge the bozo with assault of a Fed Official. Do the same for the protesters that assault ICE. That would cause all sorts of problems for her.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/29/2026 6:12 Comments || Top||

#4  AOC: "He wants to date me"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2026 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Squak!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2026 11:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Kazmierczak, who was described by a neighbor as being “heavily medicated” and a Trump supporter, is being held by authorities on third-degree assault charges.

If he's taking that kind of a dive for her he is either a very, very good friend or he's expecting some kind of a payoff. Watch his finances and, if he's getting paid for this show, fire charges against Omar for filing a false police report just like Jussie.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/29/2026 12:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Puppet.
Check his socials for orgs.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2026 13:42 Comments || Top||

#8  On the other hand, haven't seen a Star Trek: Academy agit-prop is the best show evah! in a couple of days. Unfortunate, it was better acting.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2026 14:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Federal prosecutors charge man accused of spraying Rep Ilhan Omar at town hall

a hazmat specialist "field tested the substance from the syringe and determined it was water and apple cider vinegar

"It tastes like apple cider"
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2026 14:34 Comments || Top||

#10  ‘So obsessed with me'

Oh, she wants disney sass huh.

Got some dressing sprayed all up on that salad looking hairstyle. Got lettuce all over the place, let us steal this, let us steal that. Got more head than her brother at the family reunion.

Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2026 18:22 Comments || Top||

#11  At least she got a periodic washdown?
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2026 20:27 Comments || Top||

#12  Sired her, yes I did.

Oh, cider.

/Squak's brother
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/29/2026 22:16 Comments || Top||


Trump warns Minneapolis mayor he's 'playing with fire' after immigration enforcement conversation
[FoxNews] President Trump pounced after Mayor Frey said the city won't enforce federal immigration law

President Donald Trump asserted that Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey "is PLAYING WITH FIRE," issuing the warning in a Truth Social post on Wednesday morning.

"Surprisingly, Mayor Jacob Frey just stated that, ‘Minneapolis does not, and will not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws.’ This is after having had a very good conversation with him," the president said in the post.

"Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!" Trump warned.

Frey responded to the president's comments.

"The job of our police is to keep people safe, not enforce fed immigration laws. I want them preventing homicides, not hunting down a working dad who contributes to MPLS & is from Ecuador. It’s similar to the policy your guy Rudy had in NYC. Everyone should feel safe calling 911," the mayor asserted in a post on X, making an apparent reference to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

The president issued the warning on Wednesday after Frey, who met with Trump's border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday, declared in a Tuesday post on X that the city will not enforce federal immigration law.

"Today, Chief O'Hara and I met with Border Czar Homan and had a productive conversation. I reiterated that my main ask is for Operation Metro Surge to end as quickly as possible. Public safety works best when it's built on community trust, not tactics that create fear or division," Frey noted in a Tuesday post on X.

"I shared with Mr. Homan the serious negative impacts this operation has had on Minneapolis and surrounding communities, as well as the strain it has placed on our local police officers," Frey added in another post.

"I also made it clear that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws, and that we will remain focused on keeping our neighbors and streets safe. City leaders will continue to stay in conversation with Mr. Homan and his team," he noted in another post.
So long as the city protects the ICE agents from the howling Antifa mob while the agents get on with picking up the illegals they’re after, it’s all good. Holding the bad guys in their custody for ICE pickup would be faster and easier, but the game must be played.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2026 01:18 || Comments || Link || [1778 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants



'Horrible SNL skit': Investigation demanded as many claim Ilhan Omar syringe attack was staged
[World Net] 'If someone randomly sprayed me with a substance, I'd be running to the nearest bathroom to wash my eyes and skin — or straight to the hospital'

In the wake of a bizarre incident Tuesday in which a man rushed U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis and sprayed her with an unknown liquid, the internet is ablaze with some pushing for an investigation into what they claim is a staged attack.

"This is the most staged thing I have ever seen in my life," said investigative journalist Laura Loomer, an ally of President Donald Trump.

"I'm calling for an immediate investigation into whether Ilhan Omar staged the spraying of her body at her Townhall tonight to distract from new reports over her marriage fraud and accumulation of $30 million worth of wealth on a $180,000 per year salary. There must be an investigation into this known fraudster.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1768 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ilhan becomes a liability to the Party.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 01/29/2026 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Ilhan Is another sterotypical example of the FUBAR, far left, Liberal, Socialist leaning, Democrat Party.

Given the openly stupid a$$ things she has done.
One has to wonder if she is using AOC's handlers also.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/29/2026 1:53 Comments || Top||

#3  It's hard to control a dumb bitch.
Posted by: chris || 01/29/2026 2:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ^That's because she gets her orders from Somalia.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 01/29/2026 5:40 Comments || Top||

#5  It was pure karaoke.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/29/2026 5:58 Comments || Top||

#6  A year ago she has shared photos with the same man. They were good friends.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/29/2026 8:07 Comments || Top||

#7  When the "yellow fluid" turned out to be apple cider vinegar and not a pig product, the game was up.
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/29/2026 9:28 Comments || Top||


Photo of Minn Star Tribune CEO and Editor in Chief with his Pro-Walz signs
[X]
Posted by: 3dc || 01/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1763 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  He could have been on the chat but Reuters was covering the pool.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/29/2026 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2026 13:46 Comments || Top||



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  Battlefield 'voice of God' sonic weapon used in warzones unleashed on Minneapolis protesters
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  Hamas says senior officer killed in Gaza strike, accuses Israel of breaching ceasefire
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