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Good morning kids. Now that the light has been turned on in the kitchen so to speak, President Donald Trump is not only dousing everything with Plutonium-infused RAID, and the cockroaches who were once doing the multi-trillion dollar mambo to "hey baba-rebop" as per the old Robert Klein routine, but they are shrieking in anger and terror. Hopefully they'll go legs up any second now and can be swept up and disposed a la the garbage trucks in Soylent Green, to be turned into Soylent Marxist insect meat and force-fed to the Greta Thunbergs of this world, until they choke on it.
Considering our budget over the past couple decades has soared into the trillions, the fact that USAID was allocated merely billions each year still is significant in that all the money, minus whatever was skimmed off the top to wet the beaks of the Democrats, went to a veritable rogues gallery of anti-American, anti-Western crackpot, terroristic thugocracies, kleptocrats and tyrants that have shed rivers o blood of their own people and us in the process. Those who are shrieking loudest are both in on the grift and hate this country as much if not more than the scum getting the dough-rey-mi. And this is just USAID, wait until the DOge axe really starts being wielded at the rest of the bureaucracy.
The reaction of some U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) employees when the Dept. of Government Efficiency (DOGE) came to their Washington D.C. office last week is raising more questions about the shadowy agency.
Contractor Kristina Drye, who is employed at USAID described to ABC News a scene reminiscent of the kind of mad scramble historically witnessed when a corrupt government has fallen and officials are desperately trying to get rid of evidence of wrongdoing.
Drye described USAID employees taking down pride flags and removing books that she felt might be “incriminating” as well as how “no one was talking” as DOGE team members began their review of the operations of the agency that sends billions of taxpayer dollars abroad for a variety of reasons ranging from disaster relief to funding regime change.
She described her concerns over DOGE setting up automatic transcription of USAID employee Google meets and how, over the weekend, she lost access to work computer.
USAID’s Director of Security John Voorhees and his deputy Brian McGill were both placed on administrative leave after denying system access to DOGE employees who were eventually able to gain access to the secure systems in order to conduct their analysis.
Such actions seem out of place considering that USAID employees and managers have had since early November to anticipate the incoming Trump administration and the anticipated arrival of DOGE.
Hiding flags and books and attempting to prevent access to the systems that track secretive government payments lend more strength to the concerns about fraud expressed by Elon Musk than they do to claims that USAID is operating with full transparency and accountability.
President Trump ordered a 90 day pause in foreign development assistance via USAID while the DOGE team reviews that agency’s efficiencies and consistency with the new administration’s foreign policy objectives.
Trump said he would deploy US troops to the territory “if it’s necessary” and that he imagined “the world’s people” occupying an “international unbelievable place” that would be regarded as “the Riviera of the Middle East,” with some Palestinians permitted to resettle there.
Netanyahu all but endorsed the idea, saying: “I think it’s something that could change history and it’s worthwhile really pursuing this avenue.”
The Israeli leader said “[Trump] sees a different future for that piece of land that has been the focus of so much terrorism, so many attacks against us, so many trials and so many tribulations.
“He has a different idea, and I think it’s worth paying attention to this.” Trump, who frequently denounces prior US military interventions in the Middle East, did not lay out a timeline for either the proposed US occupation or the relocation of Gaza’s residents, but he presented the overall plan as a well-considered “strong recommendation” to bring peace to the region.
“I’ve studied this very closely over a lot of months, and I’ve seen it from every different angle,” Trump said.
. . . Egyptian and Jordanian leaders have already rejected Trump’s request that they take in Gazans. But Trump claimed Tuesday that he believes Amman and Cairo will agree to do it, and that Gazans would be thrilled to relocate.
“Gaza is a hellhole right now,” he said. “It was before the bombing started, frankly, and we’re going to give people a chance to live in a beautiful community that’s safe and secure, and I think you’re going to see tremendous outpouring of support.”
The president made a series of escalating remarks about Gaza throughout the day Tuesday, and said in the Oval Office before the press conference that he thought residents “wouldn’t want to go back” after being relocated.“I do see a long-term ownership position,” Trump said at the press conference when asked about the potential US takeover. “Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent, in a really magnificent area that nobody would know.”
First of all. the notion of deploying US Troops here is insane. No, just flat out no. Even if this idea of remaking Gaza into a new Riviera had a snowball's chance in hell of sucess (which it doesn't) US boots on the ground is a line in the sand of a region already soaked in American blood, particularly in Beirut which at one point was a Middle Eastern Riviera until the same ideology turned it into Gaza 25 years ago.
While I appreciate Trump's support for Israel, and that it's good to both think out of the box if for no other reason than to force people to see things they may not want to, and to force the hand of your opponents. That said, this is all well and good on President Trump. But the real problem is, as we all should know by now is ISLAM itself.
Unless and until the majority of Muslims openly reject the main tenets of their so-called religion, that is the submission and or death of unbelievers, particularly Jews, then while we may have gained some time and some measure of security, I'm afraid the past 1,500 years or so of history means we will have more innocent blood spilled in the name of Mohammedanism.
With the exception of pre-Jimmy Carter Iran, the Arab and broader Muslim world despite being awash in petrodollars, have spent the past 77 years primarily focused on one thing, eradicating the State of Israel and then going on to finish the work of Adolf Hitler by killing every Jew on the planet as is their prime directive stated in pretty
To mangle the lyrics of Rogers and Hammerstein, "Call Me a cockeyed Pessimist,' or perhaps realist. Again, I give credit to Trump for at least putting this out there and taking a blowtorch to the abject failures of Foggy Bottom in its support of the irredentism of the fake "Palestinians" and their enablers around the world and here.
Hamas tortured and executed terrorists within its ranks who allegedly had gay sex, shocking documents show — as sources added some male Israeli victims of the Oct. 7 massacre were raped in captivity.
The Iranian proxy terror group had a running list of recruits who were found to have failed Hamas’ “morality checks” by having same-sex relations — and they heavily paid the price, according to documents recovered by the Israel Defense Forces and shared with The Post.
The documents reveal the “crimes” that were allegedly committed by 94 Hamas recruits — lumping together “homosexual conversations,” “flirting with girls without a legal relationship” and “sodomy” in with serious allegations of child rape and torture.
This has kind of a Colonel Kurtzian hypocritical splendor to it, all things considered, no? Continuing...
It is unclear what happened to the recruits identified as “unacceptable” to Hamas, but homosexuality is illegal in Gaza and can result in years of prison — and even death.
Such was the case with former Hamas commander Mahmoud Ishtiwi, who was executed in 2016 after he was accused of having gay sex.
Ishtiwi’s confession and apparent testimony of the brutal treatment he received was included in the documents shared with The Post.
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"Qom fly with me, off the Tehran Hilton roof."
To mangle the lyrics of Rogers and Hammerstein, "Call Me a cockeyed Pessimist,' or perhaps realist.
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Contractor Kristina Drye, who is employed at USAID described to ABC News a scene reminiscent of the kind of mad scramble historically witnessed when a corrupt government has fallen and officials are desperately trying to get rid of evidence of wrongdoing. Drye described USAID employees taking down pride flags and removing books that she felt might be “incriminating” as well as how “no one was talking” as DOGE team members began their review of the operations of the agency that sends billions of taxpayer dollars abroad for a variety of reasons ranging from disaster relief to funding regime change. She described her concerns over DOGE setting up automatic transcription of USAID employee Google meets and how, over the weekend, she lost access to work computer. USAID Employee Describes Scramble When DOGE Team Showed Up Last Week
Glenn Reynolds: Philosopher Eric Hoffer once wrote, “Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.” As President Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency get on with their business of trimming waste, fraud, abuse and graft from the federal budget — a business that is vitally important, given the government’s parlous financial outlook — they need to keep this in mind. Smashing the ‘rice bowls’ — how elites are lashing out at Trump and Musk’s reforms
“I started crying with happiness,” said Carlos Suezo—a 54-year-old illegal immigrant from Honduras—after being released from a U.S. prison into ICE custody and promptly deported to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Suezo had one month remaining on a six-month prison term for unlawfully entering the country after being deported in 2017 following his arrest for a gun crime. President Trump has prioritized the removal of illegal immigrants who are currently being held in the U.S. prison system. Win-Win: Criminal Migrants Thank Trump for Deportation.
President Trump has made clear he believes the border crisis poses a grave threat to U.S. national security and is acting accordingly. The case for militarizing the border
The announcement came as a surprise alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, evidently also catching some people off guard and causing them to become enraged. A crowd outside the White House said they would resist Trump’s announcement, while members of the media and far-left content creators posted snide remarks on X. “We will continue to resist for every inch of Palestine. Let Donald Trump know that the ceasefire is only the beginning,” the crowd shouted. Leftist users on X were quick to spread conspiracy theories and suggest Trump would be starting a war in Gaza Far-Left, Media Freak Out over Trump’s Announcement of U.S. Taking over Gaza
The Department of Justice (DOJ) first announced the effort Monday as part of a new “Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism” that will “root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,” a press release says. The Department of Education (DOE) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) then announced it would probe five universities and four unnamed medical schools on behalf of the task force. Trump Admin Investigates Alleged ‘Jew Hatred,’ ‘Support For Terrorist Organizations’ At 9 Universities
"Three fires that broke out in San Diego last week started in homeless encampments, the San Diego Metro Arson Strike Team (MAST) confirmed to NBC 7 on Thursday. “Those fires were the Friars Fire in Mission Valley, the Center Fire in Rancho Bernardo and the Gilman Fire in La Jolla, according to MAST Capt. Pat Buckley.” California Fires Caused by Homeless Skyrocket, 3 More Confirmed in San Diego
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI+Pelosi-engineered FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The Trump administration’s second term should be called the “Shock And Awe Tour.” The first time around, it was undisputable how unprepared they were for the deep state machine, but this time is different. In less than 20 days, the team Trump has assembled has overwhelmed the entrenched bureaucrats by shutting down the cash cow that helped them fund wildly anti-American policies at home and abroad. Trump Struck A Killing Blow To Heart Of Democrat Deep State Machine
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 20 imposing a freeze on new regulations. House Republicans, meanwhile, say they plan to support legislation that would place additional controls on government regulations. Axon Enterprise CEO Rick Smith, entrepreneur Magatte Wade and Hoover Institution Research Fellow Dr. Patrick McLaughlin are scheduled to testify at the Feb. 11 hearing. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Joni Ernst Takes Another Crack At Evicting Bureaucrats From Washington) EXCLUSIVE: Jim Jordan Readies His Committee For Another Showdown Against Administrative State
Daniel Penny landed a cushy job at a powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm less than two months after he was acquitted in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely. The Marine veteran was hired by Andreesen Horowitz to work in Manhattan as a deal partner on the firm’s American Dynamism team, which invests in government and defense tech, according to the company’s website. Penny was lauded for his “courage” in an internal memo sent to all employees Tuesday afternoon. Daniel Penny lands job at powerhouse venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz less than 2 months after acquittal in Jordan Neely’s death: ‘Acted with courage’
The World Economic Forum has big plans to stifle the world’s freedom. But America stands in the way. Will the Global Elites’ War on Free Speech Succeed? (Hit Switzerland with Tariffs and treat the WEF like Teen de Aragua and MS-13 - jjs)
President Trump was elected to oversee the executive branch. The FBI falls under his purview, and nobody who works there should feel exempt from whatever scrutiny he chooses to apply. But CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday spoke as if this were a violent assault on innocent children. Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: FBI Questionnaire Edition
The Verge reports that U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta has denied Apple’s emergency request to halt the Google Search monopoly trial. The trial, which could potentially dismantle the search exclusivity deal between Google and Apple reportedly worth up to $18 billion a year, is set to move forward without Apple’s involvement. Apple Hits a Brick Wall with Desperate Attempt to Intervene in Google Search Monopoly Trial
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Zeldin is affectionately known in America First activist circles as “the Legend of Zeldin,” a play on the name of the classic video game the Legend of Zelda. He earned the nickname when he was a rank-and-file GOP U.S. House member from New York, when he was serving on the House Intelligence Committee and tearing up its then-chairman Democrat Adam Schiff’s plot to impeach President Donald Trump in his first term. Exclusive — ‘Powering the Great American Comeback’: The Legend of Zeldin Comes to the EPA
The sad fact, though, is that the weather propaganda has worked, and a majority of Americans still accept the manifest illogic of “climate change.” Cold Winters Mean Global Warming? In What World?
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
USAID had a budget of about $50 billion in 2023, the last year for which full figures are available. While $50 billion is a drop in the bucket — it's less than 1% of federal spending — it has an outsized effect. That's billions of dollars going every year to left-wing causes (some of them dressed up as RINOs) that are too unpopular to gain private support.It's largely NGOs, armed with your tax dollars, funding the migrant invasion, pushing gender confusion on a global scale, etc.If Bill Kristol or whoever is behind organizations like Hopewell can raise funds privately, that's their business. But the parade of public tax dollars to private causes has to stop. The Dirty Truth Behind Bill Kristol's 'Private' Funding
Even more troubling, at least one former IRI employee was actively involved in the Democratic Party’s Russia hoax and cooperated with the Mueller investigation, which was largely reliant on the discredited Steele Dossier. Sam Patten, a former IRI staffer, pled guilty in 2018 to federal charges that he failed to register as a foreign agent and subsequently provided materials to federal investigators that allegedly tied the Trump campaign to Ukrainian oligarch Konstantin Kilimnik. The latter was accused of being involved in Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.While the Mueller investigation paints Kilimnik as Russian intelligence asset, the truth appears murkier. Kilimnik also worked for IRI for nearly a decade, received a visa to travel to the U.S. from the State Department in 2016, and was revealed to be a source for the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, suggesting the Ukrainian oligarch may have been a U.S. intelligence asset. Deep State-Aligned International ‘Republican’ Group Has Received Millions From USAID and Open Borders NGOs.
Republican Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, had questioned Kennedy strongly about his views on vaccines in both the Senate Finance and the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) committee hearings. Despite saying he “struggled” with the nomination, Cassidy ultimately voted to advance Kennedy to the Senate floor. RFK Jr. Nomination For HHS Secretary Advances Out Of Senate Committee
Here are three snapshots of a party wallowing in denial: When the eight candidates running to head the Democrat National Committee were asked if they believed “racism and misogyny” were factors in Kamala Harris’ defeat, all eight raised their hands. When congressional Dems gathered outside the headquarters of the rogue USAID agency that Trump plans to shrink or close, one of their lead speakers was the antisemitic terror defender and America-hating Rep. Ilhan [Bro-Fo] Omar. Then there’s New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who said Saturday he was hiding an illegal immigrant in his house and challenged ICE, saying “good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.” I’ve long believed Trump has a gift for driving his opponents over the edge. Michael Goodwin: Dems wallow in denial and do the dumbest things – proving they haven’t learned a thing from Trump’s win
California’s latest secession push is a delusional stunt driven by contradictions, but Trump’s growing support proves that voters may be waking up to reality. (So long as we retain the farmland, forests and watershed, the cities can become Haiti on the Pacific - jjs California’s Secessionist Delusions Are Back
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
America must end its involvement in Ukraine’s war, focus on its own security, and abandon Biden’s moral crusade before it drains U.S. strength in a fight that isn’t ours to win. Blessed are the Peacemakers!
This Trump Doctrine is the realpolitik of the 21st century—a world where economic leverage is as vital as military power. Ukraine’s Rare Earth and Realpolitik
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Trump … signed executive orders withdrawing the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council, defunding the terror-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), ordering a review of U.S. involvement in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, and a review of U.S. ties to the United Nations generally. Trump also signed an executive order restoring his “maximum pressure” policy on Iran, which he said he did reluctantly, citing Iran’s efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Trump Signs Sweeping Executive Orders Pulling Out of Several UN Bodies
The Hill sets out Vance will travel to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in France and the Munich Security Conference in Germany, citing the Washington Post as a source. The announcement came after U.S. President Donald Trump hinted the European Union (EU) could be next to face tariffs, after he slapped 25 percent levies on goods from Mexico and Canada along with an additional 10 percent tax on imports from China. JD Vance Bound for Europe in First Foreign Venture
According to Le Figaro, this brings the total number of people with valid residence permits in the country to over 4.3 million, a new high for France. Migrants from Algeria, a former French colony, were the highest-represented group, with nearly 650,000 residence permits. Legal Immigration Hits Record High in France as Populists Call for National Referendum
Trump’s Greenland concept was never absurd — it was strategic. On the grand chessboard of global power, geography is destiny. The Arctic, once a frozen afterthought, is now the front line of strategic competition and cooperation. At its heart lies Greenland — the world’s largest island, with immense untapped potential and irreplaceable geopolitical significance. Ronald Lauder Op-ed: I’m a Greenland investor — these 3 paths can make it America’s next frontier
Thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the entire federal leviathan is undergoing a full MRI scan. DOGE Walks Among Us
The improper payments underscore President Donald Trump’s vow to clean up the administrative state and his support of DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) and of Elon Musk’s audit of the federal government to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. Report: Biden Junta Made Improper Payments Totaling $236 Billion in 2023
The buyout window remains open until Thursday, so the final tally of acceptances is likely to increase. “We expect more to come. If you see what’s happening at USAID, it’s just one piece of the puzzle,” the unnamed official told Axios, referring to the radical overhaul of the United States Agency for International Development. USAID is being effectively dismantled and having its functions absorbed into the U.S. State Department. The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) determined it was unsalvageable. Trump ‘Buyout’ Offer Has Already Cut Federal Bureaucracy by 20,000.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The same group of politicians that have done nothing about the exploding obesity rate, our declining health, and chronic childhood diseases are defending Big Pharma while screaming at the guy who’s actually trying to reverse those trends. Our Broken Healthcare System
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
SpaceX placed the entire Worldview constellation in orbit over three launches. The first stage on today’s launch completed its fourth flight, landing back at Cape Canaveral, while the rocket’s two fairing halves completed their 21st and 23rd flights respectively. This was also SpaceX’s second launch today. SpaceX launches two high resolution Earth imaging reconnaissance satellites
Astronomers using Hubble identified eight visible rings, more than previously detected by any telescope in any galaxy, and confirmed a ninth using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Previous observations of other galaxies show a maximum of two or three rings. Astronomers find galaxy with nine rings (Ballantine times3 - jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“I probably will be primaried,” he admitted to CNN. “And that’s great. That just proves my point: you can’t speak a sentence that’s out of line and not get backlash from the left. But that’s OK. This is a democracy.” Well, I guess he changed his mind. Last month, when he had a chance to put his money where his mouth is, he chose his political career over the well-being of his own daughters. That's right: Moulton voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which bans biological males from competing in girls' school sports by amending the Education Amendments of 1972 to uphold that, under Title IX, sex is determined strictly by one's biology. Mass. Congressman Chose His Career Over His Daughters' Safety
Daniel Greenfield: The final feminism should be a liberation from feminism. Sixth Wave Feminism
Last week, it was reported that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg axed his “he/him” pronouns from his social media accounts. The discovery came amid speculation that Buttigieg may run to become the Democrat nominee for Michigan’s 2026 Senate seat, which came about after Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., announced he will not be seeking reelection. If Leftists Believe DEI Radicalism Is So Popular, Why Are They Whitewashing Their Support For It?
Manfred said in a statement that Hoberg exercised “extremely poor judgement” by sharing his betting accounts with friends. He further stressed that Hoberg’s deletion of past messages during the investigation granted the “appearance of impropriety.” Major League Baseball Fires Umpire for Violating Gambling Rules
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Termed altermagnetism, the individual atoms in the crystal lattice have their quantum spin in opposite directions to their neighbours, but with a novel twist, that they don't explain very well and which I don't understand but can apparently be used to store data somehow.
First, it actually worked, and second, it worked pretty well for the most part. On Horizon Zero Dawn it saw a significant loss of performance compared with a desktop system with a 5090, which may have been the OCuLink connection or may have been the thermal limits of the pocket-sized device.
The 5090 itself offers a PCIe 5.0 x16 connector, but OCuLink only provides PCIe 4.0 x4 - one eighth as much bandwidth. Tests have showed that the 5090 keeps chugging right along with PCIe 4.0 or 3.0 x16 slots, but this is half that again.
So if you really need to play Horizon Zero Dawn on your handheld device plugged into a desktop graphics card that it is not currently possible to buy, you may be limited to just 80fps.
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - February 4, 2025 [scampydog]
—Open Blogger
It is tough to pick a favorite EO or event since Inauguration Day, but what is easy to say is that this has been the happiest, most impressive first couple of Presiential weeks in a lifetime. Drop a comment about your favorite events so far.
Hello good people. Tuesday ONT of cloak and dagger. Burn after reading. A Soooooper Seeeekret Mystery Click or two to be found.
Domestic enemy. Conspiracy to steal Federal Reserve secrets for the benefit of the People's Republic of China. China holds more US debt than any other nation and consistently makes effort to manipulate our economy.
"The Chinese Communist Party has expanded its economic espionage campaign to target U.S. government financial policies and trade secrets in an effort to undermine the U.S. and become the sole superpower," said FBI Assistant Director in Charge David Sundberg. "Today's indictment represents the FBI's unwavering commitment to protect U.S. national security interests and U.S. jobs and to bring to justice those who are willing to betray their country for personal gain."
Destined to house nearly 200 residents, the top-secret missile base in northwestern Greenland, far north of the Arctic Circle, was publicly touted as a "remote research community" under the auspices of the Army Polar Research and Development Center.
Unsurprisingly, the CIA conducted the project with the utmost secrecy, even giving it multiple code names. And when it finally ended in the 1970s, most of the records pertaining to it were destroyed on the orders of the director of the CIA himself - that is, all but a small misfiled cache accidentally left intact.
The program was quickly headed by chemist and poison expert Sidney Gottlieb, who was known in covert circles as the "Black Sorcerer."
One of the earliest known encryption devices is the scytale, a tool used by the ancient Spartans for secure military communications. The scytale's simplicity belies its significant influence on the history of cryptography, marking one of the first known applications of transposition ciphers-a technique still in use today.
Tuesday ONT Secret Code - Word Scramble.
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ONT Intermission. What are your favorite spy movies?
A CIA agent who became a Soviet spy, Ames' betrayal proved devastating for American assets in the U.S.S.R. Between 1985 and his arrest in 1994, Ames revealed the names of every intelligence agent he knew of, leading to the deaths of at least 10 people.
Part of the new International Spy Museum collection in Washington, D.C., the 4.5mm single shot weapon disguised as a tube of lipstick
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Former Israeli spies describe attack using exploding electronic devices against Hezbollah.
One agent said the operation started 10 years ago using walkie-talkies laden with hidden explosives, which Hezbollah didn't realize it was buying from Israel, its enemy. The walkie-talkies were not detonated until September, a day after booby-trapped pagers were set off.
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Kalendar Month-& herewith give you a warrant on the Paymaster Genl. For the sum of Five hund. Dollars to pay those whom you may find necessary to Imploy
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Spy ONT and Mata Hari.
Endless historical debate whether she was actually a spy or just got caught up in the wash, this is the ONT, details be damned.
The real question is: Where does the Mata Hari pinball machine rank on the all time scale?
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Around 10 people were killed in a shooting at an adult education centre on Tuesday, Swedish police said, marking the country's deadliest gun attack in what the prime minister called a "painful day."
Police said the gunman was believed to be among those killed and a search for other possible victims was continuing at the school, located in the city of Orebro. The gunman's motive was not immediately known.
"We know that 10 or so people have been killed here today. The reason that we can't be more exact currently is that the extent of the incident is so large," local police chief Roberto Eid Forest told a news conference.
Forest said police believed the gunman had acted alone and that terrorism was not currently suspected as a motive, though he cautioned that much remained unknown. He said the suspected gunman had not previously been known to police.
We'll see. The fact that they haven't released his name yet tells me it's not Sven or Bjorn.
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Ali Elmokad was outside the Orebro University Hospital, looking for his relative, not yet knowing if he was among the injured or the dead.
"We've been trying to get hold of him all day, we haven't been successful," he said, adding that he had a friend who also attended the school. "What she saw was so terrible. She only saw people lying on the floor, injured and blood everywhere."
Police said it was still going through the crime scene and had searched several addresses in Orebro after the attack.
Late on Tuesday, police vans and personnel were still outside an apartment building in central Orebro that had been raided earlier.
"We saw a lot of police with drawn weapons," said Lingam Tuohmaki, 42, who lives in the same building. "We were at home and heard a commotion outside."
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said it was the worst mass shooting in Swedish history.
"It is hard to take in the full extent of what has happened today -- the darkness that now lowers itself across Sweden tonight," he told a news conference.
But I know that can't be right, because authorities swear they have no idea of what the motive could have been, and they never lie to protect Diversity, which is Our Strength.
The man who burned the Koran was shot to death on the streets of Sweden a few days ago.
The last time I wrote about Sweden, just five days ago, was to highlight the murder of an anti-Islam activist named Salwan Momika. Momika was shot to death last Wednesday and so far no one has been arrested. He was infamous in the Muslim world because he had publicly burned the Koran a few times, specifically to make the point that Islam was not compatible with the modern world. His murderer seems to have proven his point.
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But there's more to the story because Momika and another man were also on trial for the burning of the Korans. He was supposed to be sentenced on the day he was murdered and a few days later his fellow defendant in the case was found guilty.
Bear in mind, a man burned a Koran in Manchester, UK, and was immediately jailed. Rape gangsters remain free, but the guy who burned a book is already in the clink.
The man burned the Koran, it turns out, because his daughter had been killed in what is delicately being called "the Israel conflict." In other words, Hamas murdered her.
A man has admitted a racially aggravated public order offence after setting fire to a Quran which was live-streamed on social media in Manchester.
Martin Frost, 47, was filmed holding a flag of Israel before tearing out pages of the Islamic holy book and setting fire to it in Manchester on Saturday (February 1), a court heard. He had publicised the event online beforehand, and it was streamed on social media, Manchester Magistrates' Court was told.
The 'trigger' for his actions was the death of his daughter in the Israeli conflict which had affected his mental health, the court heard on Monday (February 3).
Frost, of Barkway Road, Stretford, Trafford, pleaded guilty to a single charge of racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment or alarm to Fahad Iqbal, by displaying some writing, sign or other visible representation which was threatening, abusive or insulting thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress.
Angela Rayner is planning to create a council on Islamophobia and is lining up a former Tory minister to lead it, The Telegraph can reveal.
The 16-strong council will help advise on drawing up an official government definition for anti-Muslim discrimination and will provide advice to ministers on tackling Islamophobia, according to sources.
Dominic Grieve, the former Conservative attorney general and a prominent Remainer, has been "recommended" to chair the council within Ms Rayner's Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) as a politician who has been actively involved in tackling Islamophobia.
He chaired the Citizens' UK Commission on Islam, which aimed to promote dialogue between Muslim and non-Muslim communities, and wrote a foreword to a controversial all-party parliamentary group's report in 2018 that set out a definition of Islamophobia, which the Labour Party adopted.
The definition has been criticised for being so widely drawn that it curbs free speech, amounts to a de facto blasphemy law and stifles legitimate criticism of Islam as a religion.
"Our Strength" is certainly putting up a lot of Wins.
David Strom comments:
The original paper on which the anti-blasphemy laws are likely to be based specifically calls out people discussing the Muslim rape gangs as bigots. Having rapists roam the streets is an unfortunate fact of life, but calling them and their culture out is beyond the pale.
I can't figure out whether Labour's obsession with placating Muslim extremists in Britain is due to fear, a desire to pander to an important constituent group that keeps them in power or some combination of the two.
There have been 27 bombings in the first 27 days of the year. Sixty bombings in the past two months.
In Sweden.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson admitted that his government has lost control over a burgeoning wave of violence sweeping the country, amid escalating public concern.
The acknowledgment came during an emergency meeting where Kristersson announced the acceleration of new legislation targeting juvenile involvement in criminal activities.
The beginning of 2025 has seen bombings carried out at an average of one per day, leading to 27 bombings by January 27 -- including several in residential communities, the Nordic Times reported.
"Sweden is in the midst of a new wave of violence; it's primarily the bombings that are increasing, with almost one occurring every day," Kristersson told reporters on Thursday.
"It's abundantly clear that we do not have control over this wave of violence; otherwise, we wouldn't be here," he added.
In 2024, there were 317 total blasts reported by police, which has coincided with a troubling escalation in gang-related conflicts.
According to the Swedish prime minister, gang violence is now affecting entire communities, showing "total indifference" to the consequences in residential areas. The Swedish Police Authority estimated in 2024 that 1,700 under-18s were active members of criminal networks.
In response, the Swedish government will bring forward planned legislation that will grant police more powers to detain children under the age of 15 in some circumstances. Originally due in the summer of 2026, the law is now slated to come into effect as early as 1 October this year.
Nevertheless, Kristersson described these criminal issues as "inherited" over a long period, suggesting that resolving them would be a project that extends through the entire decade.
It's ironic that Diversity, Which Is Our Strength, keeps shooting us and blowing us up.
It's a sad thing when Our Strength keeps killing us.
BREAKING UPDATE: Hours After Salwan Momika’s Assassination, Sweden’s Government-Funded Media Justified His Sharia Execution
Salwan Momika wasn’t just assassinated—he was executed with the full complicity of Sweden’s government and media. But the most damning proof of this… pic.twitter.com/Hsb7BU9LA2
Oh -- Sweden is also the Rape Capital of Europe, after hundreds of years of being a very low crime country.
I guess this just happened. Who can say why, without being prosecuted by the police.
How Sweden went from being the lowest crime country in Europe to being the "Rape Capital of Europe" - in less than 10 years.
Wake up please, or your wives and daughters will pay the price for your GULLIBILITY, in the face of this Globalist evil mass migration strategy: pic.twitter.com/JtXEQDa2jh
If one seventh of the organization can be detailed to political persecution, seems like the FBI could afford to lose one seventh of its staff.
CNN:
FBI officials have complied with demands to provide the Justice Department with a list of thousands of employees who worked on investigations related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to people familiar with the situation.
The demand has caused consternation among FBI employees who fear it is meant to amass a list of personnel for possible termination by the Trump administration.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, in a Friday memo with the subject line "Terminations," had given FBI officials a noon deadline Tuesday to submit the names of thousands of agents and analysts. Bove previously ordered the firing of eight senior FBI officials, including those who oversaw cyber, national security and criminal investigations.
More than 5,000 names were submitted, sources said. There are more than 13,000 agents and 38,000 total FBI employees.
Ed Morrissey comments:
The mind boggles at the concept that one-seventh of the FBI workforce went into investigating a riot at the Capitol, for any period of time. Was it worthy of investigation? Absolutely. Should violent protestors have been charged and prosecuted? Absolutely. Should every seventh employee of the only federal law enforcement and counter-intelligence agency have been dedicated to that purpose? Come on, man.
Sorry this post is late. I realized I had a doctor's appointment fifteen minutes before the appointment and had to run just to get there late.
Update: Nine FBI agents are suing, arguing that they shouldn't have to obey the orders of the duly-elected president. They want to hide the names of the J6 persecution squads.
Moreover, the complaint asserts, since being pardoned by Trump, "leaders of the January 6 riot and others have tagged FBI agents who worked on the investigation and prosecutions of those rioters." The complaint notes that "Violent threats against FBI agents who have carried out lawful orders in relation to January 6th or subsequent investigations have been a consistent problem for the FBI for years."
The plaintiffs further assert (citing "credible press reports") that they anticipate a "mass, unlawful termination of Bureau employees who had any involvement in certain investigations related to President Trump, including Jan. 6 cases, and the lawful search of President Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago." They reference a questionnaire directed to certain FBI agents regarding their work related to J6.
Ultimately, plaintiffs assert that they believe Defendants "intend to publicly disseminate the names of those employees who responded to this survey, and/or those employees who the Defendants plan to demote, transfer and/or terminate based on this survey, and/or publicly disseminate employees' responses to the survey questions outlined above."
They request that the court enter an order prohibiting the DOJ and the federal government from disseminating their personal information and rescind what they refer to as "unlawful termination orders."
President Trump is set to slash U.S. funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) over its reported ties to Hamas and pull the U.S. out of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). The executive order is expected to be signed Tuesday when Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Key Details:
Trump previously halted UNRWA funding in 2018, citing concerns over its alleged support for Hamas, but Biden restored it.
The HRC has long been criticized for its anti-Israel bias, with Trump previously withdrawing the U.S. in 2018.
The move follows revelations that UNRWA employees participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack against Israel.
Diving Deeper:
President Donald Trump is taking decisive action to sever U.S. support for two controversial UN entities, cutting funding for UNRWA and withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council. The expected executive order, set to be signed Tuesday, coincides with Trump's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The decision comes in response to revelations that multiple UNRWA employees were involved in the brutal October 7 Hamas terror attack against Israel. Reports from both Israeli intelligence and international media indicated that several UNRWA staffers played direct roles in the planning and execution of the assault. Following Israeli pressure, UNRWA dismissed 10 of the 12 employees involved, while the other two were confirmed dead.
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The UN Human Rights Council has also drawn criticism for its disproportionate scrutiny of Israel. During Trump's first term, the U.S. exited the council in protest of its anti-Israel stance.
While the Biden administration acknowledged the HRC's flaws, it argued that maintaining a presence would allow the U.S. to advocate for reforms. Then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken justified the decision to rejoin, stating, "The UN Human Rights Council is flawed and needs reform, but walking away won't fix it."
My only worry about the latter move is this -- and I don't even know the answer to this question. Does the US have some kind of veto on the Human Rights Council that we lose if we exit the corrupt group?
🚨RUBIO: USAID rife with “rank insubordination” — “we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control."
"They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they're not even a U.S. government agency...they're completely unresponsive. They… pic.twitter.com/LQOKRDUlBk
When USAID staff heard that Musk's team was coming, says a contractor receiving money from the CIA Marxist slush-fund, they took down their Pride flags (which Trump's EO ordered them to do, but which they were resisting) and hid their "incriminating books."
This is what a USAID "contractor" says, trying to show the organization to be good.
ABC actually aired a USAID employee's description of the scramble as DOGE rolled up to the office, and their hurried removal of woke iconography a la the documents burning scene in Downfall:
This data analyst found the network of shell companies that fund Bill Kristol's "Defending Democracy Together" partisan psyop group. What USAID does is give grants to some clean (or clean-er) organizations, who then grant money to less clean organizations, who then grant money to dirty organizations, who ultimately grant money to leftwing/Marxist groups who were always the intended recipient of the money, but the CIA wanted to maintain plausible deniability.
This is all a money laundering operation to allow the CIA to pay money to US agents to run political operations against the population of the US.
Here's what the convoluted funding scheme for Kristol's "Defending Democracy Together" looks like, starting with the original grant. I believe each of the numbers is the numerical designation for some "nonprofit" NGO.
And they all act together to pay off Bill Kristol to run CIA ops against the duly elected president of the United States:
48 vCPUs are throttled curating the USAID grant network for every single EIN, will take a while (~12 hours). Which is fine, it gives @watilo time to prettify it in the morning.
Blame the federal government for creating such computational complexity.
That's how USAID funded the Wuhan lab -- they sent money to a "clean" recipient, the University of California, who then laundered the money to a less-clean recipient, Fauci's buddy's "EcoHealth Alliance," who then sent the money where it was always intended to go, the Chinese bioweapon lab in Wuhan.
Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo
I met with a range of people in New York this week, from right-wing anons to establishment-left reporters. The sense is that the Left will concede on DEI--smart liberals consider it a failure--but they are panicking about the idea of defunding the NGOs. That will be the fight.
Razib Khan
@razibkhan
the NGOs employ a lot of people who have worked there for decades. it's multi-generational employment that goes back to the NGOs long-ago seeded by the ford foundation. DEI employment was a new racket
also, NGOs are how the cultural left actualizes soft power
Cernovich
@Cernovich
It's a sinecure and soft landing. Democrats go into staffing jobs at the White House. Then they go back to their cozy, no-show-no-work mafia style "jobs." This is why Democrats are always ready to go on day 1. Their bench is ready to go in. Nobody had real businesses to unwind.
Mike Benz reveals that USAID pays more to George Soros' Tides Center -- which fomented Black Lives Matter and pays to get leftwing, pro-crime prosecutors elected -- than George Soros himself pays.
We've been blaming George Soros for paying for pro-crime prosecutors. The joke's on us! We've been paying for those prosecutors all along, through USAID!
He also says that USAID funded "disinformation" organizations to eliminate "populist" news sites from the media, because populists reduce trust in the leftwing media organizations they're propping up.
How can this not be criminal!?!?
Benz says that Alexandria Donkey-Chompers' rise from obscurity to sitting congresspyrsyn was funded by, get this, USAID, which pumps money into "justice and democracy" groups which then fund socialist groups in the US like the "Justice Democrats" (who then picked AOC out of 10,000 contestants to run for Congress).
🚨Mike Benz EXPOSES AOC as a "USAID creation" pushing to keep their corrupt cash flowing:
"She's a USAID creation. They teach you the ways open political doors for you. AOC uses her perch in Congress to keep the USAID money flowing. She's in the club." pic.twitter.com/hRvAvsIDey
Trump Informs EPA That 1,000 of Its Layabouts and Make-Work Social Justice Warrior Hires May Be Dismissed "Immediately"
—Ace
They're not fired yet, just told that they may be fired at any moment.
Which is almost better, as far as The Cruelty goes.
Steve Milloy
@JunkScience
In case you feel sorry for any EPA employees that may be axed, don't bother. Recall that these are same arrogant and evil creeps who killed 50,000 high-paying coal industry jobs during the Obama years. Each killed coal job supported anywhere from 4-10 other community and related-industry jobs. The loss of these jobs irreparably devastated coal communities, where there is typically little else do but mine coal or support those that do. All of this was for absolutely no reason. Just left-wing politics. I was there. I saw it. I only wish I could be at EPA to hand out the pink slips and turn the lights off. @LeeZeldin @realDonaldTrump @JDVance
Liberal-As-Shit Fake Republican Bill Cassidy Votes in Favor of RFKJr. in Committee Plus: The Case for RFKJr. and MAHA
—Ace
He had threatened to vote against RFKJr., supposedly to "protect Trump" from backlash against RFKJr.'s vax hesitancy.
Cassidy views Trump as an idiot and a weakling in need of his guidance. Just as he views all of us
But he's up for re-election, and Vance explained that simple fact to him.
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D.
@SenBillCassidy
I've had very intense conversations with Bobby and the White House over the weekend and even this morning. I want to thank VP JD specifically for his honest counsel. With the serious commitments I've received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the issues we agree on like healthy foods and a pro-American agenda, I will vote yes.
The Polymarket betting site now says that -- given Tulsi getting support from Susan Collins, etc. -- that RFKJr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel are now 97% likely to be confirmed.
BREAKING: RFK Jr. has just been APPROVED by the Senate Finance Committee as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services, advancing his nomination to a full Senate vote.
Senator Bill Cassidy (R - Louisiana) was the key flip that helped Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for… pic.twitter.com/eAyypn7yvL
In case you don't know, when Kennedy talks about "chronic disease," he's contrasting chronic disease -- long-term, slow-moving health conditions -- with acute diseases like an infection or flu or something conventionally treatable. Simple obesity is a major "chronic disease," which causes a lot of serious conditions, like hypertension, heart disease, diabetes of course, and even cancer and Alzheimer's.
You might or might not object to calling obesity a "disease." Fine. Call it a "persistent adverse health syndrome" if you want to fight over semantics.
The medical community is focused on curing acute diseases, and is often very good at doing so. But it focuses very, very little on chronic diseases, and the theory goes that if we could "cure" chronic diseases, or at least ameliorate them, we'd avoid a lot of acute diseases.
Obviously, for example, type 2 diabetes is now rampant when it used to be rare. No one can seriously question that reducing the obesity rate will reduce the diabetes rate.
It's critical for the government to fund studies into preventing or curing chronic diseases. Big Pharma's answer to them is always something they can sell, like Ozempic. I don't call that a conspiracy or anything -- it's just that Big Pharma sells pills, so all of their research goes into making pills that they can sell.
That's not evil or anything. Just self-interest.
But it winds up being the case that there are no funders for any studies that don't involve, down the line, a pill that can be sold to the public. For example, there are very few large, long-term studies into dietary interventions like intermittent fasting or keto. Why? Because you can't sell intermittent fasting or keto in a pill. There is no product at the end of the development pipeline. The treatment is free, only the research costs money.
So people have to beg, borrow, or steal money for studies into these non-renumerative interventions, and what winds up happening is that people dismiss their findings, because they only ran a study with 40 people and they were only tracked for three months, not for (say) five years.
You've proven nothing, they say. You need to run a study with 1,000 people tracked for five years before we'll concede you've made your case, but here's the catch, we won't give you the money for that study. Eat it, losers.
Here, take another pill.
It's cases like this where the government must fund the basic science, because literally no one else is doing it.
RFKJr. will direct the HHS into focusing on these areas of research. Big Pharma will continue spending tens of millions on making new, exciting pills. They don't need any help doing that.
But for the boring stuff you can't make money on, HHS will do the studies.
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
RFK Jr. Shocks Dem Senator Into Silence With the Brutal Truth About U.S. Health
"President Trump has asked me to end the chronic disease epidemic and make America healthy again... and that is what I'm doing.
"And if we don't solve that problem, Senator, all of the other disputes we have about who's paying--whether it's insurance companies, whether it's providers, whether it's HMOs, whether it's patients or families--all of those are just moving deck chairs around on the Titanic.
"Our ship is sinking. Our 60% increase in Medicaid over the past four years is the biggest budget line now, and it's growing faster than any other. No other nation in the world has what we have here.
"No other nation has a chronic disease burden like we do. We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world. During COVID, we had 16% of the COVID deaths in a country where we only have 4.2% of the world's population. We had a higher death count than any country in the world.
"And when the CDC was asked why, they said it's because Americans are the sickest people on earth. The average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. This is an existential threat--economically, to our military, to our health, and to our sense of well-being.
"And it is a priority for President Trump. And that's why he asked me to run the agency. And if I'm privileged to be confirmed, that's exactly what I'll do."
"When my uncle was president, 2% of American kids had chronic disease. Today, 66% have chronic disease," says RFK Jr. at his confirmation hearing.
This single fact serves as irrefutable evidence that the current “scientific consensus” is not working.pic.twitter.com/pQLFZFZeJj
Conservatives who object to RFKJr. need to explain: Who else could Trump nominate who would promote MAHA?
Name a single Republican that conservatives approve of with this passion for the subject.
You can't. There aren't any. Republicans have long, long been corporatists. They don't like people coming in to tell the corporations that buy them off that maybe Red Dye No. 3 actually causes cancer and, given that there are plenty of alternatives (and given that there's no need for a "food" to be artificially, intensely red), you should stop certifying Red Dye No. 3 as "generally regarded as safe" (GRAS) for including in food.
Note that Biden's FDA did finally recognize Red Dye No. 3 as a problem just before Trump took office.
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
REPORT: The FDA has finally decided to BAN Red Dye No. 3, based on serious concerns about cancer.
This stuff is often in your candy, frozen foods, gummy vitamins, and dairy products like strawberry milk.
It was once deemed a "conspiracy theory" to think that the dyes in our food could have detrimental effects on our health.
But like other "conspiracy theories" that turned true, the truth could not be ignored forever.
"This ban was LONG overdue," remarked epidemiologist @NicHulscher
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"Unfortunately, the other synthetic food dyes that have also been linked to serious deleterious health effects still remain on the market. A few months ago, I summarized the harm linked to synthetic food dyes -- outdated FDA standards expose Americans to toxic food dyes linked to cancer, neurobehavioral issues, and other health risks, demanding urgent regulatory action."
He added, "While the FDA has finally made a decision that will benefit public health, they are still allowing the dangerous COVID-19 genetic injections to be administered to all individuals aged 6 months and older despite far exceeding criteria for a Class I recall. The immediate removal of unsafe and ineffective gene therapy injections should be the first priority before any other product bans."
Anyone opposed to RFKJr. is de facto opposed to MAHA, because there are no alternatives. I guess Thomas Massie talks about stuff like this a little, but we are down to a 2-seat majority in the House so no, we can't take him out of Congress and put him in charge of the HHS.
Not to mention that RFKJr. is a major magnet for disaffected Democrats and by giving him this post -- which we usually don't care about all that much; Republicans never care much about the HHS -- we take a major step towards cementing the new political realignment.
When I heard that RFKJr. might endorse Trump, I didn't believe it. Surely Kamala Harris would give this dog a bone and secure his endorsement.
But they didn't. They spurned him. They're so vax-crazy they couldn't offer RFKJr. some kind of symbolic posting to secure his support.
When talk of an endorsement intensified, I was worried: RFKJr. will demand some kind of major leftwing concessions, and Trump would agree.
But RFKJr. didn't demand major leftwing concessions. He wanted to promote MAHA, which I was actually in favor of and wanted Republicans to start taking seriously anyway.
Then I thought there's still no way this will go through, because his running mate -- a left-liberal California tech industry woman who I think might be Asian or something -- will go along with it. She'll go into Ultimate Karen mode and blow up any deal.
NEW: Nicole Shanahan tears up during interview on Fox News, doubles down on her promise to fund primary challengers of Senators who don't vote for RFK Jr.
Shanahan got emotional as she recalled stories of parents burying their own children.
Even after they said they'd endorse, I expected that endorsement to be half-hearted, crabbed, and full of caveats.
Instead, they were both very supportive of Trump and MAGA. RFKJr. and Shananan have been more supportive of Trump and MAGA than 50%+ of all "Republican" Senators. If we can tolerate them, we can't tolerate these two?
And our shitbag liberal Republicans bring about zero voters into the coalition, while these two bring millions.
This is such a good deal for us. We get a lot and we give up very little. Like I said, HHS in Republican Administrations is usually led by some empty gray nobody. A president just puts whatever Congressman who just lost a seat into the job just to keep him from being unemployed.
RFKJr. and Shanana are demanding almost nothing for their support. In exchange, we get a policy position we should have adopted anyway because it's right, and also get maybe 5% of disaffected Democrats to join us.
And people are turning their noses up at this deal?
Trump Preparing to Dismantle the Department of Education?
—Ace
So says the WSJ. They report that Trump's team is discussing an EO to end all functions of the Department of Education except those encoded into law. That is, a lot of functions of the DoE "evolved" without express Congressional authorization, and the EO would aim to end all of those currently-tolderated-but-unauthorized functions, leaving only the parts of the DoE that Trump can't end via EO.
Breaking911
@Breaking911
BREAKING: White House prepares executive order to DISMANTLE the Dept. of Education, per WSJ.
"The officials have discussed an executive order that would shut down all functions of the agency that aren't written explicitly into statute or move certain functions to other departments. The order would call for developing a legislative proposal to abolish the department."
Happy Tuesday. Here are some gifs of women "vibing" to the news that Trump might defund the DoE.
Back when I was a youngster CBS '60 Minutes' was an interesting television magazine show. Of course it being a CBS show there was always a left lean to it. But it was quite a relevant show. That is until 2004 during the formative years of the internet and conservative talk radio. '60 Minutes' was no longer untouchable.
The new media chewed on Mary Mapes and Dan Blather Rather and spit them out. The ploy by '60 Minutes' to derail George W. Bush presidential bid failed.
Dan Rather would soon be out of a job at CBS. George W. Bush became president. And the prestigious '60 Minutes' was no longer prestigious.
Of course over the years CBS learned nothing of value from Rathergate. '60 Minutes' thought it could derail the Bush presidential run. Wrong. Twenty years later '60 Minutes' thought it could help out the democratic presidential nominee Kamala (The San Francisco Head Hunter) Harris.
Well we all know how that blatant election interference is working out at the moment. President Trump has sued CBS. And if that isn't enough of a headache for CBS the FCC is now involved.
So if an average Citizen Joe like myself knows '60 Minutes' is irrelevant and a looming disaster why would a sitting Republican Senator sit for them? Well of course it would be Mitch McConnell, retired Minority Leader and poster child for mandatory retirement and/or term limits.
This was probably McConnell's last interview of any kind of importance. Will McConnell be remembered as a sharp Senate tactician? Yes, some will remember him as that.
He certainly won't be remembered as a budget hawk. His last interview conducted by the witch Leslie Stahl demonstrated that Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well with Mitch and CBS.
Posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 11:00 AMComments
Mid-Morning Art Thread
—CBD
St Sebastian Attended by St Irene and Her Maid
Dirck van Baburen
Good morning kids. The old adage "Nothing Succeeds Like Success" certainly applies to these first two weeks of the Trump administration. On several interconnected fronts that include foreign policy, domestic policy and the economy, at this early date, it certainly seems as if nothing can stop Trump and company as he takes a bulldozer to Leftist/Democrat and Deep State bureaucratic cancer, with the side benefit of making anyone who opposes him look ridiculous. It not only makes those of us who put him in office to do exactly what he's doing cheer even louder, which also garners him support from an even broader cross-section of the populace who not only see the benefits of what he's doing but more crucially can compare and contrast with the abject disaster of Democrat/Leftist policy. Obviously the open border insanity is the big issue illustrative of this. More on that in a moment but first . . .
Before getting to some of the juicier nuggets in the links, of which there are many, Even if it is early days, it certainly appears as though Trump senses the political winds, which feel like a category 4 storm, are at his back. While he dared sign an E.O. barely after being sworn in that erases the revolting bastardization of the 14th amendment, birthright citizenship, and ending it (or at least throwing down the gauntlet to fight for its end.
The draft order would be a step toward fulfilling a key campaign promise President Donald Trump made to return education policy back to the states. The order would not direct the dismantling of the department, but request a plan to do so from the Education secretary, according to
The order would also call on Congress to pass legislation striking the department from federal statute. Trump may sign the order soon, according to ABC News, but no set date has been determined.
The order, if signed, would likely be carried out by Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Education, Linda McMahon. Some officials in the Trump administration are pushing for the president to hold off signing the order until after McMahon’s confirmation, according to The Wall Street Journal, presumably to avoid hindering her nomination in the Senate.
In years past, something like this was a non-starter, even if a Republican was in the White House. Aside from the fact that the number one mission of any bureaucracy is to expand its funding and power and not solve the problems it was created to address which would ultimately mean bringing about its own obsolescence. The GOP is part of the grift and has been since the New Deal. Now to shutter the EPA and Department of Energy, then we'd really be on something.
In other news, while all the usual suspects were freaking out over Trump hitting Mexico and Canada with tariffs for their malfeasance in not keeping their borders secure and allowing the millions of third world peasants and criminals to stream across, it looks as if both Trudeau and Scheinbaum have caved and cried Uncle Sam.
“Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl,” said Trudeau, who announced his intention to resign as prime minister and as leader of the Liberal Party last month. He continued in his post to declare that nearly 10,000 frontline personnel “are and will be working on protecting the border,” and announced a new commitment to “appoint a Fentanyl Czar.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Monday announced she is immediately deploying 10,000 National Guard soldiers to the southern border to help mitigate the flow of drugs and illegal immigration through the U.S.-Mexico border. In exchange, the Trump administration will pause its 25% tariff on Mexican imports for one month and work to quell the flow of arms south of the border.
The president of El Salvador on Monday offered to house convicted US citizens in his country’s “mega-prison” and take in deported criminal illegal migrants of any nationality after a meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Rubio, 53, said the deal struck with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele represents “the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” in remarks from the capital city of San Salvador.
“We can send them and he will put them in his jails,” the secretary of state said of migrants set to be deported from the US. “And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States even though they’re US citizens or legal residents.”
President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, having been alerted to New Jersey Democrat governor Phil Murphy admitting he had an immigrant who lacked full documentation residing in his home and daring the federal government to “try and get her,” indicated he would seek to prosecute Murphy if he was knowingly harboring an illegal immigrant.
Speaking at a public event with “Blue Wave New Jersey,” Murphy bragged that New Jersey was “the lead state in challenging birthright citizenship.” Later, he said defiantly, “There is someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to and we said, ‘You know what? Let’s have her live at our house above our garage’ and good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.”
. . .“I think the governor is pretty foolish … I got note of it. Won’t let it go. We’ll look into it. And if he’s knowingly, knowingly harboring, concealing an illegal alien, that’s a violation of Title VIII, United States Code 1324. I would seek prosecution or the Secretary would seek prosecution,” Homan answered.
Here's an idea on how to deal with Murphy: conduct a 3:00AM DHS raid on his house with a CNN crew ready to film him being dragged out in his urine-stained BVDs. Then charge him with a felony, for harboring an illegal alien.
Time to pass a law in Congress declaring sanctuary jurisdictions illegal and tantamount to insurrection against the Federal government.
Elsewhere, Trump not only took a wrecking ball to the horrendous USAID which used taxpayer dollars to fund Marxists, Maoists, and other assorted America-hating bone-in-the-nose savages and tyrants as well as Islamic terroriststs who have American blood on their hands.
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order removing the U.S. from the UNHRC and will also call on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to examine other international groups that promote “radical or anti-American sentiment.”The executive order will also shut down funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which has received over $8 billion over ten years from Western nations. At least nine UNRWA staff participated in Hamas’s October 7 terror attacks in Israel in 2023, a fact later admitted by the United Nations last year.President Trump has already paused foreign aid funding, announcing a 90-day freeze just days after his inauguration. The United States spends around $60 billion per year on foreign aid projects, the most of any country globally.
And it looks like Gabbard and perhaps Bondi are on track to be confirmed. So much winning!
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Trump's conflict with the governing class arises from his rejection of universalism, challenging the liberal belief that all people deserve equal treatment, even at the cost of national interests. The End of Suicidal Universalism
President Donald J. Trump will delay a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods for 30 days after the country’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced his government will make significant investments in enhancing border security and join a U.S.-led joint taskforce to crack down on fentanyl trafficking. The Canadian leader also pledged that he would move to add Mexican drug cartels to his country’s list of terrorist entities—mirroring a similar move by President Trump last month. In 24 Hours, Trump Got More from Mexico & Canada on Borders and Fentanyl Than Any President in the Last 24 Years.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Monday announced she is immediately deploying 10,000 National Guard soldiers to the southern border to help mitigate the flow of drugs and illegal immigration through the U.S.-Mexico border. In exchange, the Trump administration will pause its 25% tariff on Mexican imports for one month and work to quell the flow of arms south of the border. Mexico Caves, Deploys 10,000 Troops To Border In Exchange For Trump Pausing Tariffs
According to Breitbart, the memorandum of understanding (MOU) was given to the state of Texas by Acting CBP Commissioner Pete Flores, though it has not yet been formally distributed to all Texas authorities along the southern border. The statement confirms that all soldiers with the Texas National Guard will be allowed to conduct patrols and carry out all the same responsibilities as federal immigration agents, as long as they are accompanied by a U.S. immigration officer or Border Patrol agent. Texas National Guard Granted Authority to Arrest Illegal Aliens
NJ Governor Murphy admitted to having an immigrant living in his home, and taunted, "Good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her." (Arrest him for obstruction of justice and aiding an abetting a felony ,Cuff the bastard and drag him out in his underwear with a CNN crew filming at 3AM - jjs) Border Czar Homan: I’ll Prosecute NJ Governor If He’s Concealing An Illegal Alien
Historically, Europe experienced significant migration waves, particularly post-World War II and during the following economic reconstruction period. This led to spontaneous, often unregulated, immigration. European countries initially expected migrants to return home after their labor was no longer required, but regulations evolved over time. By the 1970s, amid economic challenges, restrictions became more common, altering naturalization policies. Notably, the United Kingdom shifted from a jus soli to a more jus sanguinis (“right of blood”) citizenship norm, requiring parental citizenship to obtain British nationality. As of 2004—when Ireland abolished its expansive jus soli laws—Europe ceased offering unrestricted birthright citizenship entirely. America’s Birthright Citizenship Laws Make It an Outlier Among Peer Nations.
“Border security is national security. Guys and gals of my generation have spent decades in foreign countries, guarding other people’s borders. It’s about time we secure our own border,” said Hegseth, a combat veteran who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. He added, “Tens of millions of people have poured across this border under Joe Biden’s administration, unchecked. We have no idea who they are. We have no idea where they’re coming from. We have no idea what their intentions are. In many ways, under the Biden administration, and Tom knows this better than anybody else. They were facilitated their entry into this country. That stops now under President and the Defense Department is proud to be a part of it. We have defended other places and other spaces. We will defend this line.” ‘We Will Defend This Line’: Pete Hegseth Visits Troops at Southern Border in First Trip as Defense Secretary
DC AIRLINER/COPTER COLLISION, and Philly Air Crash AFTERMATH
“So I do know that, in the last administration, they were focused on not safety, but they were focused on changing the name from cockpit to flight deck, or notice to airmen, they want to change it to notice to air mission,” Sec. Duffy said after Tapper pressed him on whether DEI policies had any part in the tragic air collision that killed 67 individuals in Washington, D.C. last week. He continued: “They focused on E.V.s and sustainability and ‘racist’ roads, things that don’t matter in regard to safety.” Sean Duffy: Biden Govt More Focused on ‘Racist Roads’ and Electric Vehicles Than Airline Safety.
Dr. Majed bin Mohammed al-Ansari, the spokesperson for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a senior adviser to Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jabr Al Thani, spoke to Breitbart News by phone exclusively on Monday morning, saying that Trump has put the Middle East on a pathway to peace and seeing the ceasefire in Gaza through to a lasting peace is critical to expanding his vision in the region. EXCLUSIVE — ‘We are Counting on Trump’: Senior Qatari Official Says ‘We Want the Middle East to Be Great Again,’ Trump’s Push for Peace Critical (Simply renounce Islam - jjs)
The order, which will reinstate policies from Trump's first term, will cite anti-Israel bias within both the council and UNRWA, Politico reported. The Biden administration last year suspended funding to the UNRWA for one year after reports emerged that some staffers had been involved in Hamas's October 7 terrorist attack on Israel. Trump To Withdraw US From UN Agencies That Whitewash 'Horrific Human Rights Violations'
President Donald J. Trump is set to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council and end any funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), whose members were previously caught working with Hamas.POLITICO reports it has seen a document outlining the reasons for the U.S. leaving the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). It states, “The UNHRC has demonstrated consistent bias against Israel, focusing on it unfairly and disproportionately in council proceedings.” It also notes that President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the UNHRC in 2018 during his first administration. Trump to Exit U.S. from UN Human Rights Council, End Funding to UNRWA.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
We tend to think of Idaho as a solidly red state. It has voted for the Republican nominee for president in the last 14 election cycles, and a group of Oregon counties views it as conservative enough to try to secede from Oregon and join Idaho. Idaho’s conservative reputation makes a lawsuit involving the state’s Army National Guard so shocking. An officer is suing Idaho’s governor and two generals based on the allegation that the guard removed him from command because of his Christian faith. Idaho Army National Guard Declared 'No Christians in Command': Lawsuit
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI+Pelosi-engineered FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Similarly, MSNBC also saw a significant decrease in its audience numbers. Compared to January last year, MSNBC’s primetime total viewership fell by 33 percent, with a 41 percent decline in the 25 to 54 age demographic. Over its entire 24 hours of programming, the far-left corporate news network saw a 34 percent and 42 percent drop in viewers, respectively. CNN Primetime Ratings Plummet in January.
As Microsoft courts major victories in Washington including OpenAI’s Project Stargate support and a potential TikTok acquisition, a new report from the Foundation for Freedom Online reveals the tech giant has maintained controversial censorship partnerships and initiatives from the Biden era, including ties to NewsGuard, the establishment pro-censorship group operating a news blacklist against conservative media. Microsoft’s Partnership with ‘Orwellian’ NewsGuard Continues Even as It Courts Trump Administration
As regards tariffs, the American public is rightly happy that the Trump-Vance administration is keeping its promises to tackle the issues that matter. Evaluating the Tariffs
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The world isn’t coming to an end due to climate change, and policies intended to fight it rob people of choice, often their property, and increase their costs of living. CCS is one of those policies. The Threat of Carbon Capture
SECOND AMENDMENT
Supporters of freedom and Natural Rights just got good news, in the form of a Federal Appeals Court panel-ruling that acknowledges and affirms the right to self-defense for people aged 18 through 20. Despite the fact that such a right should be obvious to anyone who bothers thinking about the nature of self-defense, it’s a big victory, hints at just how precarious all rights are at the hands of voracious political predators, and it contains a key flaw that helps us learn about a prior major Supreme Court error. Fifth Circuit Affirms Fundamental Right of 18-20 Year-Olds To Possess Guns
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
The legislation was signed into law in 2022 and, in part, forces municipalities with a record of discrimination to obtain preclearance before making changes to how they conduct voting systems. The legislation was being used by some to sue towns for how they conduct their elections. New York Court Upholds State Election Law Democrats Were Using To Take Over Local Governments
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Trans-radicalism and other social issues — along with epic malmanagement of the economy — led to Trump's victory. But unlike Trump 1.0, this new version understands how Obama's fundamentally transformed Washington works. And he's working hard to undo the damage. Here's the lesson Obama never learned about America.He could corrupt our institutions and introduce trendy social nonsense, but he couldn't corrupt our vision of ourselves as a fundamentally fair and decent people. It seems strange, impossible even, that the fairness and decency counterrevolution is spearheaded by a fundamentally outrageous TV host/real estate developer — with a big assist from the world's richest man who wants to die on Mars. Yet here we are. Obama's Fundamental Transformation Is Blowing Up
Only 31 percent of voters view the Democratic Party favorably, while 57 percent hold an unfavorable view of the party, a 16-year high in the far-left Quinnipiac Poll. In fact, that’s the worst unfavorable rating for the Democratic party since Quinnipiac started polling on this question.That puts Democrats an incredible 26 points underwater. Democrat Party Unfavorable Rating Hits 16-Year High
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The attack late Sunday hit a refinery in the Volgograd region, which is one of Russia´s 10 biggest refining facilities, processing close to 6% of the country´s oil, an official in Ukraine´s Security Service told The Associated Press.Russian authorities acknowledged only a brief fire at the Volgograd refinery during the drone attack. Ukraine Says it Has Struck Major Russian Oil Refinery for Second Time in Three Days
Need a race riot in Africa? No problem, USAID is your go-to riot planner. Want to force out a democratically elected president? Call USAID for an information onslaught guaranteed to get rid of any elected populist. Need conservatives censored? Call USAID. USAID Pays the Terrorists Who Kill Us
Established in 1983 during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the NED is a supposedly independent nonprofit that claims to be dedicated to bolstering democratic institutions worldwide. It allocates over 2,000 grants annually for nongovernmental group initiatives across more than 100 countries, primarily funded by U.S. government allocations through Congress. Many allege it squanders funds on undermining conservative governments in allied nations such as Hungary while boosting leftist media and politicians. Elon Musk Criticizes Reagan-Era National Endowment for Democracy.
Hector Chapa, a clinical professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine, said it was "difficult to comprehend" why clinical skills get less weight than DEI. "That is heartbreaking," Chapa told the Washington Free Beacon. "Clinical skills are of paramount importance and should be considered major criteria for any promotion." (See also Air disasters and Pacific Palisades - jjs)
Though Curiosity has climbed about 3,000 feet from the floor of the crater where it landed, it still sits about 5,000 feet below the top of the crater’s rim. Curiosity’s view from the heights (Now Rover adores a minuet. Oops wrong heights - jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,” according to the executive order. Hospitals Moving Away From ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ After Trump Executive Order
When Episcopal leaders like Bishop Budde preach politics over faith, they shouldn’t be surprised when their congregations vanish—shepherds who push ideology over theology lose their flock. The Left-Wing Episcopal Church Embarrasses Itself—Again
What I'd really like to know, however, is why is no one talking about Usha Vance at all, regardless of her ethnic background or religious views. I realize that being the second lady (or, um, second spouse) isn't the most exciting position in the world, and it doesn't always attract much attention (I'm sure Doug Emhoff is thankful for that), but the Vance family has taken the nation by storm, and I, for one, am here for it. Meet Usha Vance, America's Second Lady
ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.
This is the interest on a billion-dollar fine levied against Intel back in 2009, and then largely overturned after a court battle lasting more than a decade.
Yet another article in the endemic genre of fascists weeping over the restoration of the Republic.
Still, based on the events that have transpired so far, it seems the clear goal here amounts to a coup over the administrative state.
Jane, you ignorant slut, the administrative state is a coup.
My editor reminds me that many of you were not paying attention in civics class and so: our government's famed checks and balances system relies on Congress controlling spending.
That's entirely backwards.
The executive cannot spend money not apportioned by Congress, but (with few exceptions) it is entirely within its power not to spend money so apportioned.
Monday Overnight Open Thread - February 3, 2025 [Doof]
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Howdy Hordelings, and a good Monday evening to you all! You have many choices when it comes to your late night hangout. We appreciate you making the wise decision of stopping by tonight's ONT!
Parts of Dutch society are campaigning to bring risky playgrounds back into their cities and towns as concerns about too much time spent indoors, helicopter parenting, and childhood diabetes risk grow.
Some are merely advocating playgrounds with potentially dangerous toys, such as a merry-go-round, but others are seeking places for their children to start fires, build with hammers, and play flight with sticks.
No one wants their children to be injured of course, but the policy proposal from the D66 liberal democrats, which currently holds 7 seats in parliament, acknowledges that without spaces to explore and challenge themselves in, kids risk losing the opportunity to develop crucial skills.
“Rufty-tufty playing means that children might get a bump or a cut,” according to the policy—but it’s an acceptable risk the authors determine.
“The inspiration, and it really is a huge problem, is that children are hardly moving,” said Rob Hofland, head of the local D66 to the Guardian. “All kinds of problems stem from just sitting behind a screen.”
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In Amsterdam, some parents and organizations are taking this principle to the extreme: in the form of Woeste Westen, or “Wild West.” In this radical play space, kids can go fishing, climb trees, build huts, start and cook with open fires, and play with real tools like hammers and knives—all in the name of helping them develop the mental-physical coordination that an adult relies upon to navigate potentially dangerous situations.
Woeste Westen highlights how every time a parent says “watch out!” or “don’t do that!” the child loses one more instance where they may have better prepared themselves for adulthood.
Of course there will be scrapes, bruises, a scar or two, but who said a painless life is preferable?
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The old lady and this supermarket worker have a routine where they standoff with each other.pic.twitter.com/kRC0gbOD6n
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This is an amazing album from the late 70s. Time sure does fly.
The waitress who appeared on the cover of Supertramp's Breakfast in America (1979) – album is 95 years old on this picture. How wonderful is this!! pic.twitter.com/8xMabCXH00
On Feb. 3, 1959, young rock ’n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
The early morning crash was immortalized as “the day the music died,” but in truth air travel during the winter of 1959 was a challenge, and the crash was just one of several during the first few days of February.
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Democrats Melt Down Now That Their $1.5 Trillion Slush Fund Has Been Put Under New Management
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Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately"
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USAID spent $18.5 billion on Islamic terrorist states in the last 5 years
Including $3.7B for the Taliban
Over $2B for 'Palestinians'
$3.4B for Yemen as part of $8B for Iranian puppet regimes
$3.3B for Somalia
Was that good or bad for our national security?
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NEW: Senator Joni Ernst said that USAID had threatened her and her staff after she started looking into them. She was told she wasn't allowed to access their databases and that 30-40% of USAIDs money goes towards "overhead" of rent and salaries and entertainment expenses. She later found out that even that number was understated and it was actually upwards of 50-60%. @SenJoniErnstL
"The truth is, we don't let them [secretaries] get in our way," admits Brandon Wright, Platform Services Manager for the Department of Homeland Security (@DHSgov
), on hidden camera, to an undercover @OKeefeMedia
Journalist. Drawing an analogy to a septic tank, Wright described the multi-layered bureaucracy within DHS: "There's a lot of layers, like [in] government... By the time the actual marching orders get to me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship."
"If we don't agree with those priorities," he said, noting executing orders often involves deceptively construing priorities set by political appointees to make them more practical and less disruptive, adding, "there's a lot of room for interpretation."
When discussing @KristiNoem
's role as the Trump-appointed DHS Secretary, Wright didn't mince words on his opinions over Noem's qualifications for the position. "Kristi Noem doesn't know... She doesn't know her ass," he remarked, adding, "The Department of Homeland Security could fall on her f*cking head, and she wouldn't recognize what it is."
Wright also admitted his personal dislike of her leadership style, adding, "To say that I am not excited about this would be the most epic understatement."
The Department of Homeland Security provided the following statement to O'Keefe Media Group:
"Secretary Noem has not seen the video in its entirety. This type of behavior will not be tolerated. This person has been placed on leave and is under investigation ... The senior official says the termination of the official is imminent."
The Democrats are angrily demanding that taxpayers continue paying for their grift.
Ilhan Omar supports USAID because almost $2.3 billion of our tax dollars were wasted on Somalia. Omar swore allegiance to Somalia over America.
She said, "I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from within the US system."
This violates Omar's oath to Congress and the US.
Senator Chris Murphy: USAID funds "freedom fighters" around the world. Thanks for admitting it's a CIA front group that uses taxpayer monies to attempt coups that the public has never approved or even been apprised of.
I think Michael Shellenberger pointed out that the left has attacked USAID as a CIA front group destabilizing third-world regimes for 60 years. Now they're praising it for just that.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio just absolutely RIPPED the deep state slush fund known as USAID:
"I am the acting director of USAID."
"My frustrations with USAID goes back to my time in Congress. It's a completely unresponsive agency, it's supposed to respond to policy directives of the state department and it refuses to do so."
"Every dollar we spend will be aligned with the national interest of the United States. USAID has a history of ignoring that and deciding that they're a global charity. These are not donor dollars, these are taxpayer dollars."
Democrats are now protesting outside of the Office of Personnel Management to seemingly protest the USAID audit and the treasury audit that OPM is helping DOGE with.
2025 is not 2016. The public isn’t showing up for the Dems, even in deep blue D.C.
Wired magazine doxxed Elon Musk's crew of young engineers scanning the USAID budget for waste, so that their leftwing antifa allies can threaten them and murder them.
Note that, below, the picture of Luigi from Nintendo is a reference to Luigin Mangione, the CEO Assassin. This is an explicit call to murder Elon's team of waste-hunters, and likely a call to murder Elon Musk himself.
Dear @elon, Please see this important letter. We will not tolerate threats against DOGE workers or law-breaking by the disgruntled. All the best. Ed Martin pic.twitter.com/jIgMPVbPT5
Not in a gay way, mind you. But rather -- LIKE A VIKING.
You need an enemy to really know and feel he's been defeated.
President Donald Trump on Monday agreed to pause the implementation of planned tariffs on imports from Canada for at least 30 days, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
The pause was announced in a tweet by Trudeau hours after Trump and Mexico's president said Trump would pause for one month planned tariffs on imports from Mexico.
Trump on Saturday said he would impose 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% tariffs on goods imported from China. Trump had also planned to impose a 10% tariff on energy resources from Canada.
Trudeau in his tweet said, "I just had a good call with President Trump," and suggested that the pause on tariffs was in response to Canada's agreement to target the flow of the deadly opioid fentanyl across the border into the United States.
Trump's pause on tariffs on Mexican imports likewise came after Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said she would immediately send 10,000 soldiers to the U.S. border to prevent drug trafficking, fentanyl in particular, from Mexico.
Trudeau said Canada had made new commitments "to appoint a Fentanyl Czar," among other measures.
"Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together," Trudeau wrote.
President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are undermining democracy and national security by taking over the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), say Democrats and the media. "This is a five alarm fire," wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on X. "The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk. Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security." ABC News described USAID as in a state of "on-going turmoil" and in "chaos." A senior USAID executive told ABC, "The warp-speed of this mafia-like takeover has shaken USAID staff to the core."
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[A]ll Trump has done is put his people in charge of USAID, paused its grants, and shut down the organization's communications. When asked about USAID yesterday, he said, "It's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics and we're getting them out... and then we'll make a decision." If the courts were to find that Trump dissolved USAID in violation of the law, the evidence suggests that he would obey the court ruling, as he did with every order he received between 2017 and 2021. And if USAID was funding worthwhile activities, they can be re-funded in the future.
What's more, researchers have caught USAID abusing its powers, including by funding everything from censorship to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which may have done research that resulted in the Covid pandemic. Between 2004 and 2022, USAID was the largest US government funder of EcoHealth Alliance, which sub-awarded grant funding to WIV. USAID gave EcoHealth Alliance $54 million during that period, which was more even than the $42 million the group received from the Pentagon.
Samantha Powers, the USAID Director under President Barack Obama, evaded questions about what USAID with the WIV, alleged Senator Rand Paul in 2023. "Some of the research proposals in 2018 were the Wuhan Institute of Virology asking for money to create a... SARS-like coronavirus with a furin cleavage site," said Paul. "That's exactly what COVID-19 turned out to be."
Paul accused Powers of withholding information. "We want to know if there were other research proposals you either granted or denied that were in the same vein as creating viruses that could have become COVID-19. We can't tell because you won't give us information... I now have 25 Senators that have sent you a letter, and you aren't responding... You are being dishonest."
Evidence of USAID withholding information from Congress is sufficient justification for Trump to remove the agency's leadership and pause funding. After all, USAID may be currently funding dangerous research and not informing Congress.
Shellenberger writes that USAID is the main engine of "Regime Change" abroad -- as well as Regime Change in America.
USAID has the distinction of being both a "deep state" agency, involved in covert actions aimed at destabilizing foreign governments, and one of the main US government agencies that comprise the foreign policy establishment, which many on both the Left and Right refer to as "The Blob," because it is comprised of amorphous shape-shifting and self-perpetuating imperialistic elite, like the famous gelatinous alien in the 1958 science fiction movie by the same name.
A few hours after USAID's website went dark, Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador, wrote on X, "Most governments don't want USAID funds flowing into their countries because they understand where much of that money actually ends up. While marketed as support for development, democracy, and human rights, the majority of these funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas, and destabilizing movements. At best, maybe 10% of the money reaches real projects that help people in need (there are such cases), but the rest is used to fuel dissent, finance protests, and undermine administrations that refuse to align with the globalist agenda. Cutting this so-called aid isn't just beneficial for the United States; it's also a big win for the rest of the world."
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USAID is among other US government organizations that have promoted regime change abroad, including the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Even "To its proponents," notes the Washington Post, "USAID is an indispensable arm of U.S. foreign policy" that spends $40 billion per year to influence politics in 130 nations.
The money is ostensibly used for things like helping refugees but, as Jacobin and Chomsky noted, that money is always highly strategic and aimed at influencing politics. It's worth considering that many of the defenders of USAID operate as ostensibly normal charities. USAID is "a national security tool kit," said Konyndyk, the president of Refugees International.
As part of US government efforts to overthrow governments abroad, or simply influence what they do, USAID has in recent years been funding censorship advocacy worldwide through its "Countering Disinformation" program, which is part of its Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS). This work has included funding for so-called "fact-checking" organizations, including in Brazil, which governments use as a predicate for demanding censorship by social media companies.
The USAID program lays out its strategy, which is to fund ostensibly "civil society" organizations to pressure social media companies like Facebook and X to censor more, and to conduct "fact-checking." USAID also promoted pressuring advertisers to demand more censorship from social media companies, notes Foundation for Freedom Online founder Mike Benz.
The agency promoted "prebunking," like the kind used by Aspen Institute to program journalists and social media companies to censor the Hunter Biden laptop, as well as "strategic silence," which is similar to what Aspen promoted to journalists in the summer of 2020 before the New York Post published its first story about the laptop. USAID has funded the Aspen Institute in the past.
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Censorship advocate Nina Jankowicz, who was briefly the head of the Department of Homeland Security's "Disinformation Governance Board," posted a defense of USAID on the social media platform BlueSky yesterday. Shortly after, Benz noted that USAID is one of her funders.
Benz also pointed to USAID funding for a group called "Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project" (OCCRP), which investigated Rudy Giuliani, and whose work was cited in a letter written by a CIA agent, resulting in the impeachment of Donald Trump. In a documentary, OCCRP admitted that USAID must approve of its senior employees, which shows that OCCRP is not editorially independent of the US government. The US government was OCCRP's first and largest donor. And OCCRP's head says his organization's reporting resulted in regime change in five to six nations.
And, Benz noted, USAID funded the Atlantic Council, which was part of the Censorship Industrial Complex that demanded censorship of disfavored election and Covid information in 2020 and 2021.
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And, according to a new CNN story today, USAID officials appear to have attempted to "circumvent Trump's executive order to freeze foreign aid for 90 days." The Trump administration put "Around 60 senior USAID staff... on leave last week" and "Another senior official was put on leave for trying to reverse that move." Said Musk last night, "We don't have "an apple with a worm in it. We have a ball of worms... USAID is a ball of worms."
So why did Trump and Musk take such aggressive action against USAID? Part of the reason may be that it is a funder of the Censorship Industrial Complex, which targeted Trump and his supporters and which Musk exposed through the Twitter Files. Another part of the reason is that USAID is an instrument of US empire, and voters elected Trump to pursue "America First" over global commitments.
I excerpted a lot there, so let me propose that if you liked that, you should pay the $5/month or whatever it is for his substack. It's definitely worth it.
Speaking of Stanky Janky, this is the kind of censor and psychological operations officer against the populace of the United States that USAID was funding:
Adding fuel to the firestorm as the fact that [the so-called Disinformation Governance Board]'s director, Nina Jankowicz, had repeatedly cast doubt on The Post's reporting about former first son Hunter Biden's laptop.
Then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Majorkas quietly discontinued the board weeks after it was announced, leaving Jankowicz to find other employment as the head of a nonprofit that as of April 2024 was insisting that Russia had "interfered in our democracy" during the 2016 election.
Note that the Orwellian "Disinformation Governance Board" was funded and part of the DHS, but this is the kind of censor USAID and all the illegal censorship NGOs are funding -- anti-American, anti-democracy, catspaws of the transnational transgressive "elite."
But also note that since she was forced to step down as Biden's Top Censor, she is currently funded by USAID.
🚨 Karoline Leavitt just RIPPED USAID for wasting taxpayer dollars
➡️ $2.5M to promote DEI in Serbia ➡️ $70K for a DEI musical in Ireland ➡️ $47K for a transgender opera in Columbia ➡️ $32K for a trans comic book in Peru
Fauci’s NIAID and @USAID sent over $40M in U.S. taxpayer “support” to a scientist in Wuhan who was working on “bat coronavirus emergence” research, and who also became “patient zero” for COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/x5D634s85K
For you, the deep state is preferable because you are listed as the President of Defending Democracy (EIN 831567380) which is an indirect beneficiary of USAID through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
"Useful soft power"--like when we spent a decade teaching Afghan goatherds about gender identity and modern art? That kind of soft power?
U.S. foreign aid is a left-wing NGO scam and everyone knows it.
Zaid Jilani
@ZaidJilani
USAID costs Americans next to nothing and is useful soft power against China and Russia. So of course Musk is calling it a "criminal organization." He tells us that "China rocks," though. Not sure which country he's working for.
Leaked John Brennan Email About the "51 Intelligence Liars" Letter: Emails States The Point of the Letter Was to Give Biden a "Talking Point" To "Push Back" Against The Truth
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Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
President Trump's the Deep State BLOODBATH in the past 24 hours:
- All federal prosecutors handling January 6th cases fired, computers locked and marched out of their offices by security.
- David Sundberg, the FBI Assistant Director at the helm of the January 6th investigations, has been fired.
- 20 leaders of FBI field offices have been escorted out of FBI buildings around the country
- The 51 intelligence officers who spread misinformation about Hunter Biden's laptop and interfered in elections are now banned from entering federal properties.
- Federal employees are now required to return to the office, with non-compliance leading to termination.
- John Bolton and John Brennan have been permanently banned from government buildings.
- Jarold Harold Rogers has been indicted for compromising U.S. trade secrets to China
- Ban on all use of pronouns in government communications
- All 2 million Feds sent a resignation offer
This purge marks the beginning of the end for the corrupt tyrants in Washington.
Pam Bondi confirmed as AG on close, nearly party-line vote of 54-46 Maybe we can stop voting for all of their lunatics now, huh? I don't know who the lone Democrat casting a vote for her was, but I would guess it's John Fetterman, who has said that he's open to voting for Trump appointees (including the tough ones like RFKJR. and Tulsi) Update: yes, it was John Fetterman, whose stroke rebooted his brain into an elevated state
NEW: Senator Joni Ernst said that USAID employees claimed they lived in Washington DC to collect higher salaries and expense write offs but actually lives in other locations. This was done with the full supervision and acceptance of their bosses at these Federal agencies.
Dude this is just the bleeding edge of the very tip of the iceberg. There are going to be Church Committee-like investigations with Church Committee-like revelations. People are going to prison. We are going to find out the true Secret History of the United States of America.
Susan Collins announces "yes" on Tulsi Gabbard Lindsey Graham announced he's a "yes" on Gabbard and also on RFKJr. and Kash Patel. Though we mostly assumed that, because he's a Deep State operative who keeps his cover as a "Trump supporter" up-to-date
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click Well you can take it as a warning
Or take it any way you like
The lightning, the thunder
You never know where it's gonna strike-ike-ike
