Foreigner became one of those bands that occasionally perform without any original or classic members. However, since the band’s leader and guitarist Mick Jones had to step aside due to his struggle with Parkinson’s disease, original singer Lou Gramm has been more involved, joining the band from time to time to sing a few songs at their shows. They already have many tour dates scheduled for 2026, but so far it has been announced that Gramm will perform with them only in December. Foreigner’s current touring line-up has Jeff Pilson (Bass), Michael Bluestein (Keyboards), Bruce Watson (Guitar), Chris Frazier (Drums), Luis Maldonado (Vocals) and John Roth (Guitar). Foreigner 2026 tour dates with Lou Gramm December 6 – Staten Island, NY - St. George Theatre 7 – Bethlehem, PA 0 Wind Creek Event Theater 9 – Wallingford, CT 0 Oakdale Theatre 11 – Montclair, NJ 0 Wellmont Theater 12 – Montclair, NJ 0 Wellmont Theater 13 – Williamsport, PA 0 Community Arts Center Other Foreigner tour dates (without Lou Gramm) July (With Lynyrd Skynyrd) 23 – Atlanta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre 24 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion 25 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live 26 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center 30 – Toronto, Ontario – RBC Amphitheatre 31 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre August (With Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1 – Grand Rapids, MI – Acrisure Amphitheater 6 – Saint Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheater 7 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center 8 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center 14 – Kansas City, MO – Morton Amphitheater 16 – Shakopee, MN – Mystic Lake Amphitheater 20 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion 21 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Beach Theater 22 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center 23 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center 27 – Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion 28 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion 29 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxmMftBNmo&pp=ygUOZm9yZWlnbmVyIDIwMjU%3DThe post Foreigner announces tour dates featuring Lou Gramm appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

Brothers do not always get along and sometimes they remain apart for long periods. That is the case with Rudolf and Michael Schenker, who were bandmates in Scorpions from 1969 to 1973 and again from 1978 to 1979. They have not been on good terms for several years, and Michael has not said many positive things about his brother in the press. In an interview with Classic Rock, while discussing Scorpions’ 60th anniversary and their celebratory hometown concert in Hannover, singer Klaus Meine and guitarist Rudolf Schenker talked about Michael. Klaus Meine and Rudolf talks about Michael Schenker “Well, it’s a family affair and it’s their business. I think Rudolf was pretty much up for Michael joining us, actually, but the whole guest issue was very complicated by Ozzy’s farewell show and other people’s touring commitments. There is part of me that wishes whatever (bad blood) is between us all could be washed away and we could hang with Michael like we did in the old days. He’s still a wonderful guitar player, truly amazing,” Klaus Meine said. About his brother, Rudolf said: “I love Michael, but he’s too different. He’s a solo artist, and he has a hard time being part of a band. But like everyone who has played with the Scorpions, he will be thanked on the sleeve of Coming Home Live.” About the show and inviting Uli Jon Roth as a special guest, Rudolf said that there were some things that prevented that from happening too. “But the record company wanted a live album, we were also filming the show, and Uli wanted his own amplifier, all his own gear on stage. We said: ‘Sorry, Uli, we can’t have people getting bored watching roadies.’ I think it was good we concentrated on ourselves. That way we made no mistakes,” Michael Schenker said. Besides the new record "Coming Home Live" and new compilation called "At First Sting", the biggest celebration of their anniversary will be the biographical movie "Wind of Change", which it is expected to be released in 2026. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bzgIREoQPY&t=331s&pp=ygUpc2NvcnBpb25zIG1vdmllIGNhc3Qgcm9jayBhbmQgcm9sbCBnYXJhZ2U%3DThe post Klaus Meine and Rudolf talks about Michael Schenker appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

As the years passed, Bob Dylan gradually stopped giving many interviews and became a more reclusive artist, what gave people the notion he was more focused on his career and the music that influenced him in the past. However, to this day, the legendary songwriter still pays a lot of attention to the music scene and was quite aware of the incredible artists who appeared during the past decades. He had the chance to meet and see many of those musicians playing and tell them what was his opinion on their music. One of them was the British singer and pianist Elton John, who wrote some of the most famous songs of all time with the lyricist Bernie Taupin. What is Bob Dylan's opinion on Elton John Bob Dylan is a fan of Elton John and knows his discography quite well, having praised some of his lesser known songs and asked interesting questions about his songwriting. Asked by Rolling Stone in 2011 which some unforgettable moments of his life, Elton recalled when Bob Dylan approached him and lyricist Bernie Taupin at the Fillmore East to say he liked the song “Ballad of a Well Known Gun. "When I met Bob Dylan at the Fillmore East. He was standing on the staircase and he tells Bernie, 'Oh, I really like the lyrics to ‘Ballad of a Well-Known Gun,’ and Bernie goes (fakes heart attack). There’s nothing like when your heroes rubber-stamp what you’re doing," he said. In his autobiography "Me", Elton tells the same story but says the track praised by Dylan was "My Father's Gun". Both songs are from his 1970 album "Tumbleweed Connection". Another Elton song that Dylan likes is "Candle In the Wind". He mentioned the track in his book "Chronicles Vol.1" to explain his admiration for Judy Garland, famous actress and singer. "Judy Garland was from Grand Rapids, Minnesota, a town about twenty miles away from where I came from. Listening to Judy was like listening to the girl next door. She was way before my time, and like the Elton John song says, 'I would have liked to have known you, but I was just a kid,'" he said. Elton and Bob had the chance to record together in 1990, when the American musician invited him to be part of the album "Under the Red Sky". He played the piano in the track "2 × 2", which also featured David Crosby on backing vocals. When Elton mistook Bob Dylan for the gardener and threw oranges at him during a charades game They became good friends over the years and Bob went to see Elton playing a couple of times. "I went to an Elton John show; there must have been at least three generations of people there. But they were all the same. Even the little kids. They looked just like their grandparents. It was strange. People make a fuss about how many generations follow a certain type of performer. But what does it matter if all the generations are the same?" he told AARP in 2015. After you become good friends with someone, you might sometimes cross the line without noticing and that happened to Elton John. As he recalled in his autobiography Me (2019), he once threw oranges at Bob Dylan. That happened when the songwriter was not very good at the charades game they were playing together against Paul Simon. "Simon and Garfunkel had dinner one night, then played charades. At least, they tried to play charades. They were terrible at it. The best thing I can say about them is that they were better than Bob Dylan. He couldn’t get the hang of the ‘how many syllables?’ thing at all. He couldn’t do ‘sounds like’ either, come to think of it." Elton John continued: "One of the best lyricists in the world, the greatest man of letters in the history of rock music, and he can’t seem to tell you whether a word’s got one syllable or two syllables or what it rhymes with! He was so hopeless, I started throwing oranges at him. Or so I was informed the next morning, by a cackling Tony King. That’s not really a phone call you want to receive when you’re struggling with a hangover. ‘Morning, darling – do you remember throwing oranges at Bob Dylan last night?’ Oh God," Elton John said. The musician also recalled another moment with Bob Dylan that was funny but also a little sad. Back in the 80s, when Elton was still struggling with addiction, there was a party at his house where he was intoxicated and he mistook Bob for the gardener. After realizing it was actually Dylan, he even tried to give him some clothes to change into. He said: "(It was) an insane party I’d held at a house I was renting in LA. I’d had the garden strung with lights, got Bob Halley to fire up the barbecue. (I) invited everyone I knew that was in town. By the middle of the evening, I was flying, absolutely out of my mind, when a scruffy-looking guy I didn’t recognize wandered into the party. Who the hell was he? It must be one of the staff, a gardener. I loudly demanded to know what the gardener was doing helping himself to a drink. There was a moment’s shocked silence, broken by the sound of Bob Halley’s voice: ‘Elton, that’s not the fucking gardener. It’s Bob Dylan.’" "Coked out of my brain and keen to make amends, I rushed over and grabbed him. (Then) started steering him towards the house. ‘Bob! Bob! We can’t have you in those terrible clothes, darling. Come upstairs and I’ll fit you out with some of mine at once. Come on, dear!’ Bob stared at me, horrified. His expression suggested he was trying hard to think of something he wanted to do less than get dressed up like Elton John, and drawing a blank." Elton John continued: "This was the late eighties, and one of my recent looks had involved teaming a pink suit and a straw boater with a scale model of the Eiffel Tower on top of it. So you couldn’t really blame him. But full of cokey confidence, I wasn’t deterred. As I continued propelling him out of the garden, I heard the unmistakable sound of George’s mordant, Scouse-accented voice calling out to me. ‘Elton,’ he said. ‘I really think you need to go steady on the old marching powder.’ Bob somehow managed to talk his way out of being dressed in my clothes. But it didn’t change the fact that one of The Beatles was publicly telling me to do something about my cocaine habit. I just laughed it off," Elton John said in his autobiography. Back in 2019, The Guardian requested Bob Dylan to ask a question to Elton John for a special article. His choice was: "In the song Tiny Dancer, did you work your way up to the cathartic chorus gradually, spontaneously? Or did you have it thought out from the start?" The British musician answered saying it was a really good question. Then explained that: "Tiny Dancer has a really long lyric, a very cinematic, California-in-the-early-70s lyric. So it had two verses and a middle eight before it even gets to the chorus. It lent itself to a long buildup." When Dylan played at his home an unreleased record to Elton Although Elton is not a lyricist like Dylan, he is the one who brings Bernie Taupin’s ideas to life by adding the right kind of music to them. Dylan has a great deal of respect for Elton’s compositions and likes to show him the music he is working on. As Elton told The Telegraph in 2021, when Bob was preparing to release his album "Fallen Angels", he played a test-pressing version for him. They were at Bob's house in Malibu, where "he was there in his tracksuit and hoodie and roll up cigarettes, with his beautiful wife who was done up in a beautiful outfit, nails and jewellery and Louis Vuitton.” Elton didn't reveal who the mysterious Dylan wife was but said she took his husband David Furnish for a walk to see all the "art and the paintings" Bob owns. Meanwhile, the American musician played to Elton a test pressing of his new album. He’s always been very sweet to me. He just has an ability to do what he wants, to write what he wants. Not to worry about what anyone else thinks. He’s been a template for me. I think he’s a template for most artists," Elton said. Curiously there is an unreleased Elton John song about Dylan. Decades ago Bernie Taupin wrote a song called "The Day Bobby Went Electric". It was inspired by when Dylan decided to adopt the electric guitar in his compositions. The singer and pianist usually don't get writers block but he was with the lyrics for 20 years and couldn't finish the song. However, there is an available demo on Youtube which was not officially released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWHjYX4pdcwThe post Bob Dylan’s opinion on Elton John appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

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Watch The X22 Report On Video 2 videos found Ep 3790b – Monroe Doctrine Has Been Resurrected, Countries Are On Notice, End Of The Old Guard Ep 3790a – Trump Is Now Ready To Tap Liquid Gold In The US, [CB] Removal Prepped WW pt> Click On Picture To See Larger Picture Trump is now helping the farmers out in California, he is now opening the waters in the north to help the farmers in the south. China is now purchasing soybeans from the US. The US is going to be a manufacturing powerhouse, the US is now building Tiny Cars. Trump is ready to release the liquid gold under our feet. Elon wants the EU abolished which will lead to the destruction of the ECB. The [DS] is trying to stop Trump from moving forward with his plan to take back the country and allow the people to control it. Trump and team released the NSS letting the old guard know that their days are numbered and put the countries on notice that the US is going down a different path and some of the allies we have now might not be our allies. Everything is about to change WW.   Economy Trump Administration to Direct More Water to California Farms  The Trump administration is making good on a promise to send more water to California farmers in the state’s crop-rich Central Valley. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on Thursday announced a new plan for operating the Central Valley Project, a vast system of pumps, dams, and canals that direct water southward from the state’s wetter north. It follows an executive order President Donald Trump signed in January calling for more water to flow to farmers, arguing the state was wasting the precious resource in the name of protecting endangered fish species. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said the plan will help the federal government “strengthen California’s water resilience.” It takes effect Friday. But California officials and environmental groups blasted the move, saying sending significantly more water to farmlands could threaten water delivery to the rest of the state and would harm salmon and other fish. Most of the state’s water is in the north, but most of its people are in the south. Source: newsmax.com Under @POTUS’ leadership, China is buying AMERICAN again! Just this morning, half a million more metric tons of AMERICAN SOYBEANS, 123,000 more metric tons of AMERICAN SORGHUM, and 387,000 more metric tons of AMERICAN WHEAT are headed to China. This is just the beginning!… — Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) December 5, 2025  Trump Set to Sign Off on New Arctic Drilling Surge  Alaska’s Congressional delegation, along with the support of House and Senate Republicans, has scored a major win on the energy front. Representative Nick Begich (AK-At Large) introduced House Joint Resolution 131, stripping Biden-era restrictions on oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Rep. Begich’s resolution has passed the House of Representatives and the Senate and is headed to President Trump’s desk for signature. Alaska’s congressional delegation on Thursday succeeded in stripping Biden-era protections from the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, moving to expand opportunities for drilling there. The U.S. Senate voted to eliminate the 2024 leasing program for the refuge that put much of the refuge’s 1.6-million-acre coastal plain off-limits to potential drilling.  The vote does a lot more than just open the door for potential oil and gas activity.  This is another step in unlocking America’s treasure chest. The areas in question in ANWR are estimated to hold 7.7 billion barrels of oil recoverable with current technology, and the U.S. Geological Survey has estimated that there may be hundreds of millions of barrels in other areas to the west of the ANWR sites. Source: redstate.com ELON MUSK: "The European Union should be abolished." pic.twitter.com/YHiUIkigpu — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) December 6, 2025 Political/Rights BREAKING: A federal judge has just UNSEALED the Epstein grand jury files in South Florida Transcripts are now authorized to be made PUBLIC The judge cited the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act and Trump’s signature for allowing the materials to be released. pic.twitter.com/oQqem24MAh — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 5, 2025 JUST IN: Trump-Appointed Judge Unseals Epstein Grand Jury Records in South Florida  US District Judge Rodney Smith, a Trump appointee, said the law passed by Congress and signed by President Trump overrides grand jury secrecy. The Act applies to unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials that relate to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Consequently, the later-enacted and specific language of the Act trumps Rule 6’s prohibition on disclosure. Accordingly, it is ORDERED that United States’ Expedited Motion to Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts and Modify Protective Order [DE 6] is GRANTED,” the judge wrote.   Last month President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency act into law to release all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Source: thegatewaypundit.com   DOGE You can’t make it up pic.twitter.com/ViSf6vbkZG — Patri0tsareinContr0l (@Patri0tContr0l) December 5, 2025 UPDATE – Germany's AfD leader Weidel says the "European Commission appreciates censorship and chat control of its citizens. They want to silence critical voices by restricting freedom of speech. That’s what it’s all about!" — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) December 5, 2025 European Union Fines X (Twitter) $140 Million for Violations of Europe’s Digital Services Act  The European DSA is ultimately designed to control information, that reality should not be debated. All efforts to control traditional and social media are efforts to control information. The specifics of the reasoning for the fine are typically European.  (1) Twitter allows ordinary people to deliver information at the same level as people who should be defined as more important.  (2)  Advertisers of those who pay for promotion of information on X are not easily identifiable – people need to figure it out on their own.  (3)  It is too difficult to figure out who is providing the information. Basically, all of the EU concerns center around information control.  It’s really an ideology issue.  In the outlook of the EU, bureaucrats and elites feel they are superior and must rule/protect the people under them.  Ordinary people having access to information that may or may not be approved by the EU is the underlying issue.   Source: theconservativetreehouse.com [SOURCE] What Christopher Landau notes as the contrast and conflict in ideological priority from the EU can just as easily be applied to the USA dynamic with Canada.  As noted by Twitter user John Frank, “The same observations can easily apply to the relations with Canada, given the divergence between the US role in the military alliance with Canada, while Canada is involved in activities which work against US interests.” The response to this by President Trump must be merciless, punishing and unrelenting. A standard must be set that the US doesn’t allow foreign tyrants or weasels to bully US companies into wokeness. Period. Bring the pain to EU tyrants @realDonaldTrump — it’s the only way now. https://t.co/Ygs8PyPN9H — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) December 5, 2025 Once again, Europe is fining a successful U.S. tech company for being a successful U.S. tech company. Europe is taxing Americans to subsidize a continent held back by Europe’s own suffocating regulations. pic.twitter.com/EzeOWZRC2t — Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) December 5, 2025 US election interference by Trump-hating, unelected EU bureaucrats is now out in the open. Brussels has long sought to undermine President Trump and is actively sabotaging his peace efforts. The AWAKENING to the EU’s role is underway. https://t.co/uH2nhey6Rl — Kirill Dmitriev (@kadmitriev) December 6, 2025 I mean it. Not kidding. https://t.co/dUpYQetR22 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 6, 2025     Geopolitical War/Peace EU making unacceptable demands on Ukraine peace – Kremlin Western European leaders are constantly making proposals that are unacceptable for Russia, presidential aide Yury Ushakov has said EU leaders are complicating Russia-US efforts to reach a settlement on the Ukraine conflict by making unacceptable demands, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov has said. European states, however, have reportedly been urging Kiev to reject any deal with Moscow without receiving security guarantees from the US, according to the Wall Street Journal. The EU and UK have also insisted on playing a larger role in the peace process. Source: rt.com Ukraine State Structure in Crisis: Neo-Nazi Junta Starts Unraveling. Clash within its Military-Intelligence (SBU-GUR) Apparatus   Ukrainian state stopped existing in early 2014 at the latest, when it was replaced by a US/NATO-installed regime composed of Nazis, criminals, murderers and their enforcers (it could easily be argued that these are all synonyms and listing them separately might be redundant). This was unequivocally confirmed by the infamous Victoria Nuland, one of the architects of the NATO-orchestrated    Source: theglobalist.com Trump made it a point to when meeting with Zelensky that they don’t have elections in Ukraine because of the war.  How do you get Ukraine to accept a peace deal while the EU, NATO DS is putting on pressure on Zelensky to start WWIII 1. As more corruption is brought out into the open this will put pressure on Zelensky 2. Zelensky will either going along with Trump peace deal or be exposed 3. If Zelensky does not go along, most likely he will be removed because of the corruption 4. This will pave the way for a new candidate, someone who is not controlled by the EU,NATO DS.    NATO EU DS might push a false flag to push the war 5. Trump will be able to work with the president of Ukraine because Putin is ready to go   Medical/False Flags MORE – Genome sequencing by a Madrid lab showed the strain was "very similar" to one first detected in Georgia in 2007 and now widely used in research and vaccine development, Spain's Agriculture Ministry said.https://t.co/XqL4ukdZtp — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) December 5, 2025 ICYMI – Influential and widely cited study that concluded the herbicide glyphosate was safe, is retracted, 25 years after publication — Le Monde pic.twitter.com/YxAMk5wJLW — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) December 5, 2025   efficacy of this “schedule,” as have I! That is why I have just signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the Department of Health and Human Services to “FAST TRACK” a comprehensive evaluation of Vaccine Schedules from other Countries around the World, and better align the U.S. Vaccine Schedule, so it is finally rooted in the Gold Standard of Science and COMMON SENSE! I am fully confident Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the CDC, will get this done, quickly and correctly, for our Nation’s Children. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAHA! Impossible: CNN told me illegals don't get Obamacare. https://t.co/PCqSEMCnXj — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) December 5, 2025 [DS] Agenda Grand Jury Says It Won’t Indict Letitia James A federal grand jury refused Thursday to reindict New York Attorney General Letitia James. The grand jury rejected Department of Justice’s (DOJ) second attempt to bring mortgage-fraud charges just 10 days after a federal judge tossed the original case, according to CNN. Another source told CNN that the decision should not be interpreted as a clean win for James, saying the department could ask a third grand jury to consider the allegations. Source: thegatewaypundit.com FBI Raids Home of High-Ranking DEA Official Under Obama, Charges Him For Conspiring to Launder Millions of Dollars For Mexican Drug Cartel  The FBI on Friday morning raided the home of a high-ranking DEA official under Barack Obama and charged him for conspiring to launder millions of dollars for a Mexican drug cartel. The Feds charged former DEA Deputy Chief of the Office of Financial Operations Paul Campo and friend Robert Sensi for conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Paul Campo and Robert Sensi were charged with narcoterrorism, terrorism, narcotics distribution, and money laundering charges. Campo and Sensi were arrested on Thursday afternoon in New York, according to the DOJ. Campo and Sensi agreed to launder $12 million and participate in narcotics trafficking for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a/k/a Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion or CJNG. Per the Department of Justice:   As part of the scheme, CAMPO and SENSI agreed to launder approximately $12,000,000 of CJNG narcotics proceeds; laundered approximately $750,000 by converting cash into cryptocurrency; and provided a payment for approximately 220 kilograms of cocaine on the understanding that the payment would trigger the distribution and sale of the narcotics worth approximately $5,000,000, for which CAMPO and SENSI would (i) receive directly a portion of the narcotics proceeds as profit; and (ii) receive a further commission upon the laundering of the balance of the narcotics proceeds. Source: thegatewaypundit.com  President Trump’s Plan Kash Patel Shuts Down Candace Owens’ Accusations About Charlie Kirk’s Murder FBI Director Kash Patel shut down numerous accusations that have been made by podcast host Candace Owens involving the murder of the late co-founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk. During his appearance on Friday on the Sirius XM The Megyn Kelly Show podcast, Kelly started out by asking Patel if they believe they have the “proper suspect in custody” — if Tyler Robinson is “in fact, the man who killed Kirk.” Patel didn’t hesitate in the slightest and answered, “Yes.” The host then brought up one of the wild accusations that have been made by Owens, which includes claiming that Kirk’s own friends and his organization allegedly knew and approved of his murder. Insane. “Do you have any credible reason to believe that anyone connected with the Turning Point organization had anything to do with Charlie’s death?” Kelly asked. Patel’s response: “Zero.” He was then pressed about other claims that Owens has made about the alleged involvement of foreign governments in Kirk’s assassination, like French paratroopers, Egyptian Air Force planes flying out of Provo, Utah, and “potential underground assassins traveling through unseen tunnels,” as the producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, Blake Neff, previously explained. “At this time, the FBI doesn’t have credible information to connect any foreign governments to it,” Patel said. The FBI director made it clear that the investigation is continuing and they are looking into everything, no matter how small. “We are not done just because we arrest someone, just like in the pipe bomber case,” Patel said. “We don’t just say, Okay, we’re done, on to the next. The investigative team continues to work with the Utah authorities, and they’re deriving their own leads and coming back to us saying, ‘Hey, can you look at this piece of information? Can we get a search warrant on this account? What about this individual who is located in X, Y, or Z?'” Source: redstate.com https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1996873942406164855?s=20 BREAKING: The J6 PIPE BOMBER Suspect just made his FIRST COURT APPEARANCE… and ADMITTED to PLANTING THE BOMBS SO, Who REALLY is this ALLEGED PIPE BOMBER?! Brian Cole LIVES with his MOTHER, loves “CHIHUAHUAS”, wears “SHORTS”… and has been described as “ALMOST… pic.twitter.com/MynByjtbXm — Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) December 6, 2025  AUTISTIC-LIKE”   SO Why didn’t BIDEN’S FBI REALLY catch THIS GUY MS NOW reported that Brian Cole is a Trump supporter. This is disinformation and Cenk knows it. https://t.co/60qRauvXAL — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) December 5, 2025   January 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Brian Cole is NOT a Trump Supporter – Family Says He is an “Autistic Recluse” Who Lived in a Basement  January 6 pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole is not a Trump supporter like the legacy media has claimed. Brian Cole’s grandmother told The Daily Mail that her grandson has no party affiliation and that he is not a Trump supporter. Cole’s family said he is an “autistic recluse” and “computer nerd” who lived in the basement of his parents’ Woodbridge, Virginia, home.   Source: thegatewaypundit.com The FBI has arrested Brian Cole Jr. of Woodbridge, VA for the pipe bomb incident that took place the eve of January 6th 2021. Let's do Open Source Intelligence #OSINT using Publicly Available Information #PAI to uncover the digital breadcrumbs of this suspect, who is innocent… pic.twitter.com/D9fo0ch8nm — Travis Hawley (@talk2trav) December 4, 2025   until proven guilt in a court of law THREAD PARDON? Cole’s lawyer plans to argue Trump’s January 6 class based pardon shields him, claiming the pipe bomb incident falls within the broader J6 timeline DOJ created. If so, a major constitutional fight is coming. Cole’s legal team may argue that Trump’s January 6 pardon,… pic.twitter.com/qZ5VqIP9Km — @amuse (@amuse) December 5, 2025  written to pardon “all targeted” and “everyone involved in the events surrounding that day”, functions as a class based pardon broad enough to include DOJ linked pre riot conduct like the pipe bomb incident. Because federal authorities folded that episode into the J6 security narrative, the defense says it sits squarely within the pardon’s scope. Right on the heels of Kash’s FBI catching the pipe bomber, MSNBC has a fake news “exclusive”, claiming Kash had his girlfriend’s FBI security detail take one of her drunk friends home The source? “Three people familiar with the matter” Kash’s spokesman says the story is… pic.twitter.com/c79g3xK2Sg — Patri0tsareinContr0l (@Patri0tContr0l) December 5, 2025 is made up. So Kash gets a big win and the NEXT DAY the Fake News comes out with a hit piece based on anonymous sources. I can’t believe there are still people out there who can’t see through this bullshit. FBI Director Kash Patel explains that they have been providing what they can to the public while these massive ongoing investigations are taking place and says we can expect the Arctic Frost investigation to end up just like the J6 pipe bomber investigation. “What’s unique… pic.twitter.com/bimL00BqQM — TheStormHasArrived (@TheStormRedux) December 4, 2025   about this FBI is that we are running investigations while providing what we can… This pipe bomb investigation should show the American public that we, while providing information on the pipe bomb over the last 8 months and protecting the integrity of our investigation, gets us to the end point we want. Accountability & transparency… This investigation should show the world how we are going to operate in every single investigation. Arctic Frost specifically, we have HUGE investigation going… and it’s gonna take a little more time to peel it back. But no, I’m not gonna let people get off the hook or get a hall pass. I don’t care what position you held in the FBI, you’re gonna be held accountable. And this DOJ is assuredly backing us.” Love it. We keep getting bits & pieces of the grand conspiracy investigation before ultimately the hammer drops. I’m not sure why this is hard to understand for some… Pam Bondi Gives FBI Marching Orders For Tackling Antifa Terrorists Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed federal law enforcement agents on Thursday to form a list of Antifa groups for potential prosecution, according to multiple reports. Bondi’s order is part of a broader counterterrorism plan after President Donald Trump’s directives targeting the Antifa movement and organized political violence, Reuters and Bloomberg Law reported, citing a Thursday memo from Bondi. The FBI must provide within 30 days a list of groups “engaged in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism” along with strategies to disrupt them, with an emphasis on left-wing extremists, the memo reportedly says.  Bondi’s memo directs law enforcement agencies to unearth whatever intelligence files they have on Antifa groups for investigators and to investigate unsolved domestic terrorism incidents over the past five years, Reuters and Bloomberg Law reported. The incidents may include the “doxxing” of law enforcement officers’ personal information and threats against Supreme Court justices. The FBI must also streamline its tip line to allow members of the public to “send media” on suspected domestic terrorism, the memo says, according to Reuters. Source: dailycaller.com  Holy. Shit. Trump’s National Security Strategy questions Europe’s future as reliable allies: "Their economic decline is eclipsed only by the real and stark prospect of civilizational erasure. If present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years." pic.twitter.com/o0JjuI6eMd — Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) December 5, 2025 With the New U.S. National Security Strategy, Trump Revives Monroe Doctrine     Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS). The intent seems to be a return to the Monroe Doctrine by increasing the United States military presence in the Western Hemisphere, taking on the drug cartels, enhancing border security, making trade deals that are better for the United States, and enhancing American energy production. That’s not the worst high-level take on the NSS, but a look at the actual document is illustrative. The NSS states as its purpose: To ensure that America remains the world’s strongest, richest, most powerful, and most successful country for decades to come, our country needs a coherent, focused strategy for how we interact with the world. And to get that right, all Americans need to know what, exactly, it is we are trying to do and why. A “strategy” is a concrete, realistic plan that explains the essential connection between ends and means: it begins from an accurate assessment of what is desired and what tools are available, or can realistically be created, to achieve the desired outcomes. A strategy must evaluate, sort, and prioritize. Not every country, region, issue, or cause—however worthy—can be the focus of American strategy. The purpose of  foreign policy is the protection of core national interests; that is the sole focus of this strategy. One of the more interesting (but not surprising) pieces of this NSS is the overt and robust return to the Monroe Doctrine, an early 19th-century policy intended to restrict further European colonization of the Western Hemisphere and to ensure American dominance in that region. The modern take on this doctrine by the Trump administration uses American power by employing both internal and external security measures. The NSS states: American policy should focus on enlisting regional champions that can help create tolerable stability in the region, even beyond those partners’ borders. These nations would help us stop illegal and destabilizing migration, neutralize cartels, nearshore manufacturing, and develop local private economies, among other things. We will reward and encourage the region’s governments, political parties, and movements broadly aligned with our principles and strategy. But we must not overlook governments with different outlooks with whom we nonetheless share interests and who want to work with us. Source: redstate.com The Monroe Doctrine is a foundational principle of United States foreign policy, first articulated by President James Monroe in his annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823.   It declared that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open to European colonization or interference, while affirming that the U.S. would not meddle in existing European colonies or internal affairs.   Essentially, it warned European powers—particularly those in the Holy Alliance (Russia, Austria, and Prussia)—against attempting to extend their influence or establish new colonies in the Americas, positioning the U.S. as a protector of independent nations in the region The doctrine emerged amid concerns over European monarchies potentially aiding Spain in reconquering its former Latin American colonies, which had recently gained independence. It was largely drafted by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and reflected growing American confidence following the War of 1812.  At the time, the U.S. lacked the military power to enforce it fully, so it relied on British naval support, as Britain also opposed European rivals in the Americas for trade reasons.Key excerpts from Monroe’s address include: The American continents “are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” Any attempt by Europe to extend its political system to the Western Hemisphere would be viewed as “dangerous to our peace and safety.”   Significance and EvolutionInitially more symbolic than enforceable, the Monroe Doctrine evolved into a justification for U.S. intervention in Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries. For instance: In the mid-1800s, it intertwined with Manifest Destiny to support U.S. territorial expansion, such as during the Mexican-American War.  President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 “Corollary” expanded it to allow U.S. intervention in Latin American countries to prevent European involvement, leading to actions like the occupation of Cuba and the Dominican Republic. It influenced Cold War policies, framing U.S. opposition to communism in the hemisphere as a defense against external threats. Critics, especially in Latin America, have viewed it as a tool for U.S. imperialism, enabling dominance over sovereign nations. Though less invoked today, it remains a symbol of U.S. hemispheric influence and anti-colonial rhetoric. facebook.com https://twitter.com/onechancefreedm/status/1996970776373735933?s=20     Pay attention. This is a huge story. Trump is reclaiming Executive Authority under the Constitution. The State Department under the Executive Branch, gets to decide which countries get foreign aid and they get to track that money. Unelected bureaucrats don’t get to freely… https://t.co/NubNk6Hd36 — JoeLange (@JoeLang51440671) December 5, 2025   other hand, I can see how we help real allies with aid when needed, as long as we get something of economic value in return. Regardless, NGO’s are the root of a lot of EVIL and this will DESTROY a lot them. This is a good thing. The EU is drowning in corruption. Commissioners face serious charges, the Commission and the Parliament are engulfed in scandal, yet Brussels still claims the moral high ground. Corruption in Ukraine should be called out by the EU, but once again it's the same old story:… pic.twitter.com/m9PwkrqzwX — Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) December 5, 2025 Senate To Confirm 97 More Trump Nominees After Democrat Blockade Fails Republicans will confirm a bloc of eight dozen Trump nominees as soon as next week following an attempted blockade by Senate Democrats. Republican leadership planned Thursday to kick-off the procedural process to confirm 88 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in a bloc vote, but were initially thwarted by Democratic Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who challenged the package for violating Senate rules. When Republicans refiled the package later on Thursday, the conference included an additional nine nominees, bringing the total to nearly 100.  The Senate has confirmed 314 civilian nominees as of Thursday evening, according to a tally by the Senate Republican Communications Center. The 97-member bloc would bring the Senate to more than 410 civilian confirmations in the first year of Trump’s second term. “That far outstrips total confirmations by this point in President Biden’s term, and in President Trump’s first term as well,” Thune said Thursday. Thune also said that Senate Republicans have virtually cleared the nominations backlog. Before Republicans changed Senate precedent to allow for certain nominees to be confirmed in groups, more than 150 of the president’s picks were awaiting floor consideration. The Senate approved a 48-member nominations package in September and an additional 108 of the president’s picks in a single group vote in October. Source: dailycaller.com 

from ZeroHedge: More than four years after pipe bombs appeared outside the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, and less than a month after The Blaze fingered a former Capitol Police officer in a now-retracted report (that their sources still stand by), the Trump administration announced the arrest of Brian Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on Thursday. […]

by Don Tracy, Real Clear Wire: I’ve watched two American cities make opposite choices about the same problem. As a young man, I worked in Memphis: first as a traveling salesman, then as a law student, and finally as an attorney at a Memphis law firm. As an associate lawyer, I dreamed of escaping the […]