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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus)
[H/T Hour of The Wolf]
Good morning boys, girls and everything in between. Our beloved KT is back home. She is thankful your prayers.
Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Stoughton.)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2) Be nice. Be kind. And no, I repeat no jumping on the futon.
3) Running with sharp objects is neither commanded or forbidden. Do you have the deductible?
4) Have a great weekend!
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
12/14 – Jewells is still in a lot of pain. The drain was put in on 12/11. She was supposed to receive a sedative and medication for pain while they worked, and she received nothing. She felt everything and it hurt like hell. It also hurts when it is being drained, and that is daily for the first week. She has a great home health nurse coming in now, and she has shown Jewell’s daughter and husband how to do it.
1/18 Update – Jewells saw the ortho doc, and she should be able to get a shot 1/29. Her arms are still very painful all the time. She can barely use her left arm at all. She spends most of her day in bed. She will see the oncologist 2/5 and will get a scan. She says she has to admit she gets very depressed.
1/31 Update – The excruciating pain in her left arm was because it was broken. The brittleness of her bones from chemo caused the break to spontaneously occur. It now has a splint.
12/21 – Sugar Plum Fairy requested prayers for her brother-in-law, M, who found out yesterday that he has leukemia. He is only in his mid-thirties and his daughter is 2. He is heading to the hospital for 6 weeks on 12/23 for testing. Please pray for strength for his wife and mother who are in shock and understandably devastated. And for good doctors and total healing if it is God’s will.
1/18 Update – Thank you to all who prayed for her brother-in-law. The last test showed no signs of leukemia! He is not out of the woods yet, but they are giving thanks to God and all the prayers surrounding him! Also, prayers for a safe inauguration day for President Trump and all those in DC.
1/4 – Smell the Glove asked for prayers for an 80 year old aunt. The aunt was diagnosed with colon cancer and started treatment this week.
1/31 Update – The aunt has gone through her 12 treatments and is doing well. It knocks her flat for a couple of days but she’s a tough old bird. Prayers for all of the Horde and their loved ones in need.
1/4 – vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for her eldest sister. It looks like her illness is cancer.
1/12 Update – Please keep praying. Her sister has stage 4 breast cancer.
1/25 Update – Her sister has started on chemo – a pill that blocks estrogen, and vmom has sent her fenbendazole, turkey tail mushroom capsules, and some vitamins.
1/30 Update – Her sister has gone to her eternal rest. Please pray for her soul and for the consolation of her daughters.
1/10 – Village Idiot’s Apprentice asked for prayers for his cousin, who was having triple bypass surgery.
1/11 Update – The surgery went “superbly”. Thank you all for your prayers.
1/11 – Our Country is Screwed asked for prayers. He is having a double mastectomy. (He notes: Yes, male breast cancer is a thing!) He is fortunate that it appears to be localized. Another request is for an aunt (age 70+) who is facing lung cancer and having part of her lung removed. She is scared and needs prayers too.
1/31 Update – The surgery went well (bilateral mastectomy). Now he is waiting for the pathology report to learn what the next steps are – chemo and/or radiation. Thank you for the prayers for his 70 year old aunt. Her surgery was moved up to 2/3.
1/15 – Sponge gave an update on his wife. She met with the radiation oncologist, and he used the word “cure”, so she is pretty happy about that. She has a couple more chemo treatments to go.
1/16 – Mental Block asked for prayers of thanksgiving upon completing all 28 radiation treatments for prostate cancer with minimal, temporary side effects. He also asks for continued prayers for healing as his hormone therapy continues for an additional four months.
1/16 – Pookysgirl asked for prayers for Lil Pooky, who was scheduled for hernia surgery on 1/20.
1/20 Update – The surgery went well and he’s already mostly back to his normal self.
1/18 – Hadrian the Seventh shared good news. The pain in his shoulder has been correctly diagnosed, so he can keep the discomfort at bay. He’s also receiving physical therapy. Now he can take on professional computer assignments again.
1/18 – rhennigantx updated the Horde, that his friend Tim, who had a stroke in the spring, died about 10 days ago. He kept getting infections in the feeding tubes.
1/18 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for Chris, the new husband of a friend of hers. They have been married since the summer, and are nice conservatives and Catholics. He is hospitalized with a high fever and urinary issues, which he has had a long time.
1/25 Update – Chris came home on 1/20. He is doing better. The infection was removed by IV antibiotics, but the doctors still need to determine why he’s having excessive urination – up to 20 times a night – which is exhausting for them both. Continued prayers are appreciated.
1/18 – Sock Monkey offered praise to our Lord. A year after a large cancerous growth was found on his spine. The prognosis was not good. After a nine hour surgery, chemo, therapy, and lots of prayers throughout the year, he was pronounced cancer free last week. He wanted to say thanks to the Lord and to the Horde for the prayers.
1/18 – Madame Mayhem asked for prayers for her niece’s husband, who had a mini heart attack. He’s around 32 years old, and works like a dog at his dad’s construction business.
1/18 – Jrgunn77 requested prayers for health, which was fine a few months ago, but recently has been his with extremely high BP spikes, anxiety attacks, constant headaches, and hernia troubles. Jrgunn is on meds for the BP and anxiety, scheduled for a colonoscopy, and has referrals for a cardiologist and neurologist. These out of the blue anxieties are the worst. Jrgunn also asked for prayers for a friend from church, Rodney, who has recently suffered lung failure and is on oxygen, to come home from the hospital, and Pastor Ben and his brother, for comfort after the passing of their little sister from drug addiction.
1/18 - MkY asked for prayers for his wife, who was diagnosed with stage IV renal cancer last week, out of the blue. They ask for prayers, not that their own will be done, but that God’s is, and that he is merciful.
1/18 - Teresa in Fort Worth said she could use some more Horde prayers. She had a CT scan on Monday. The largest tumor has not increased, but at least 4 others have quadrupled in volume, despite 2 rounds of chemo. Her third round of chemo stats on Wednesday. So far, she’s had exceptionally light nausea which has been controlled with medication, which is a blessing.
1/21 Update – the news is less than encouraging. The current chemo regimen does not appear to be working. There are a LOT more satellite tumors in her liver, and all of them are growing. There are new treatment options planned, but ultimately, it looks like the best case scenario is that she has 1-2 years left. If she doesn’t do the proposed treatment, they would be looking at 3-6 months at most. She said this is kind of what she thought was going to be the outcome. It sucks, but she knows the timeline, and is determined to make the most of the time that she has left.
1/18 – Hrothgar’s daughter updated the Horde that there was a complication in his surgery, and he is in the ICU. She asked that we please keep him in our thoughts and prayers.
1/22 Update – Hrothgar is out of ICU, started on PT, and is able to take more nutrition. His condition is much improved. His family thanks everyone for their prayers. It has meant so much to them.
1/22 – Skip and his family could use some prayers. His mother’s brother has only a few days left. He has been in a VA hospital the last few years, after a stroke.
1/25 Update – Skip’s uncle passed away.
1/25 – Sal asked for prayers for a couple he volunteers with. The husband, a retired pastor, has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. They are both in their mid-80s and surgery is not an option for him.
1/25 – Tonypete asked for prayers, as he has his second day of services as a hospital chaplain.
1/25 – B requested prayers for his brother Paul, who has been very sick for the last several years. This weekend he will join their parents, and little sister and older brother, who left them, too young, many decades ago.
1/25 – Grammie Winger asks for prayers that everything goes well, as Rev finally has his colostomy reversed this week.
1/31 Update – There are some complications.
2/5 Update – Rev is on day 7 of his 4 day stay at the hospital. He is still unable to eat. He goes for more tests today.
1/25 – Lizzy requested prayers for her colleague, Sally, who was dealing with some GI issues. This week, after a trip to ER, they found and removed a mass. They are waiting for more information now, and praying it’s not cancer.
1/25 – A asked for prayers for her nephew’s wife, who was just diagnosed with brain cancer. Please pray for a miracle that they are able to remove it all.
1/30 – KT had asked for prayers as she had a stroke earlier in the week. She is sill at the hospital be feels very lucky, considering what happened.
1/31 – BurtTC posted that his son, who had Down Syndrome, had died. BurtTC tried to give him as good a life as possible. It wasn’t a protracted illness, but he was expected to recover. BurtTC says that he doesn’t believe his son needs prayers; God now has the purest of souls to hold and protect. Please pray for those of us who knew and loved him. The loss is immeasurable. BurtTC asks that instead of condolences, that you would hold close those you love, and be kind to each other.
1/31 – From about that time asked for prayers for a SIL, who was suddenly terminated from the only job he’s held in his adult lifetime, with the second child on the way. Please pray it works out for the best.
1/31 – Tonypete asked for prayers for his wife’s buddy Barb, who is either bi-polar or manic depressive and doesn’t know it. She is a disaster and very unhappy. Prayers for healing would be greatly appreciated.
1/31 – Just Sayin posted that s/he has brain cancer and will be gone soon, and asked that the Horde keep fighting the good fight.
1/31 – L asked for prayers for her daughter, Shannon, who is scheduled for surgery on 3/11. She will be traveling to Cleveland on 2/27 for a pre-op meeting. She will be staying in town for the weeks before the operation, so they will have some time together. (As a Franciscan sister, she has spent much of the last 20 years in other states.) L thanks the Horde for their prayers. Shannon’s community will be praying, as well.
1/31 – Bif Bewalski gave an update on Smash. The blood work confirmed that she does not have pancreatitis. They gave her fluids, 3 types of digestive system meds via IV, and then ignored her for 8 hours. Anyway, she is home and feeling better.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Farritor had studied Latin and was fascinated by ancient civilizations. "I always read about archaeology growing up, and it's like, wow, now I get to actually be involved in a project with Richard Janko," he recalled, referring to the classics scholar who was a judge for the Vesuvius Challenge.
Luke Farritor and his friends won a $700,000 prize by using advanced scanners and 3D reconstruction to read scrolls from Herculaneum that were burned almost beyond recognition but otherwise physically intact.
Watching the media tie itself into knots trying to tar these young geniuses as fascists is at least briefly amusing.
The Xeon E was Intel's low-end server CPU range, based on desktop chips but with support for ECC memory.
Intel still sells them, but they've been utterly demolished by AMD. The fastest Xeon E, the eight-core E-2488, is slower than AMD's six-core 9600X. And uses more power. And is a lot more expensive.
You wouldn't know it from their website, but they make both mini-ITX and micro-ATX boards with laptop chips embedded on them. And not any old laptop chip either, but the 16 core 7945HX, which is as fast as a 12 core desktop 9900X )on multi-threaded tasks) while using half the power.
Which is interesting because at least in Australia, the board including that CPU is cheaper than the 9900X alone.
Greetings boys, girls and everything in between this fine Friday evening from the bowels of the People's Republic of Dane County, WI. (Madison)
On the road with the Fabulous for the next couple of days.
Dave isn't here tonight as there was a family emergency back east. Hopefully, he will be back next week. He didn't give me the keys to the middle school boy's bathroom and humor vault. So I don't have any memes. Deal with it in any fashion you choose.
A federal judge said Friday he is putting at least a short-term stop to President Trump’s plans to place thousands of employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave, dealing another legal setback to the new administration’s attempt to reshape the government bureaucracy.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said he would issue a written ruling later detailing his reasoning for the temporary restraining order.
“One lady in the medical ward that said that he had the traveler’s insurance and that meant $20,000 of coverage,” he recalled.
The cruise line maxed out two credit cards Cameron had on file and he still owes $21,000, he added.
The couple had purchased travel insurance from the cruise line that covered expenses of up to $20,000 and have health insurance — but Cameron is stuck in a holding pattern, with each claiming the other is responsible for the bill, he told Fox 9.
For $50K I hope they loaded him up with the good drugs and not the generic Gatorade.
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If you don't know what a walleye or a perch is. You have time to search........
Entitled residents of East Coast hamlet hold panicked meeting to keep nannies from being deported
Tom Hohman you are a great guy and hopefully an active Moron. Go and raid East Hampton. Raid it now!
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The ONT Musical Interlude & Ice Machine Emporium
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Offended? I don't really care (Insert your offended name here)
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Apparently he was concentrating while on his neighborhood watch!!! Genius Award Winner!
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. - A man was charged with breaking and entering, assault, and public intoxication after mistaking Wednesday bible study for a "human trafficking operation."
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Super Bowl Weekend Cafe
—Ace
Budapest by Agi Noszek
I saw that you can watch the Super Bowl on Tubi, if you sign up for an account. I'll acknowledge it this year because they're taking the "End Racism" propaganda out of the end zones.
Secret doors! My knowledge of secret doors comes from the Hardy Boys. I know all houses that feature secret doors are subject to fake "hauntings," usually by counterfeiters or other criminals who threaten and chase children but never actually kill them.
First the Sowing Phase, which is fun, and then the Reaping Phase, which is not. One of the hardest run-downs of a thug he's shown. Also a shooting at the end. Content warning.
If you've seen all those videos of Hamas' underground cities in which they plan and prepare for their urban warfare against Israelis, you will notice a lot of interesting things.
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One of them is that they are all lined with massive amounts of concrete. There are miles and miles of these tunnels and bunkers, and most of the destruction in Northern Gaza is the result of Israel systematically destroying the UNDERGROUND city that Hamas built. The bombs fall to destroy those bunker-like tunnels, and the result is that the buildings above also get flattened.
So where did all that concrete come from, you might ask... It turns out that USAID helped build the cement factory with hundreds of millions of dollars in aid money and pays the company for whom we built the factory for the products, giving them a steady source of funds.
So yes, USAID helped build the Hamas tunnels in Gaza from which the planning and preparation for October 7th happened, and from which Hamas has conducted the war that has destroyed Gaza.
I mean, you're not going to have a hotter governor.
Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis is reportedly considering a bid to replace her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis, when his second term concludes in 2026. According to NBC News, donors have been encouraging her to run, making her a potential contender in the race. Were she to win, she would be Florida’s first female governor.
If you haven't heard, GOPe Senators in Florida are scheming to thwart DeSantis's deportation of illegals. They created an illegal-immigration protection bill which they created a backronym for, calling it the "T.R.U.M.P. Act" (I won't dignify this with looking up what the letters stand for) to con Trump into supporting the bill.
What it does is strips away DeSantis's power to deport illegals... and gives that power to a pro-illegal-worker functionary, the Secretary of Agriculture, who is captured by Big Ag interests and want to keep using foreign pickers.
And they dress this scheme up as "tough on illegals." It's the standard Democrat ploy -- announce a "border enforcement" bill that amnesties all the illegals.
So that might be why the DeSantis family is wary about who might succeed him.
This is a fake "Science" Museum that indoctrinates people into "seeing things queerly." That's a favorite leftwing meme -- they want people to give up their common sense and logic because those things help people resist ideological lies.
And of course, to indoctrinate children into becoming gay or trans.
What are the odds that USAID funded this "museum"? 90%? Higher?
A self-guided tour at the U.K.'s Science Museum accuses popular building toy Lego of reinforcing "heteronormativity."
The accusation is part of a self-guided tour titled Seeing Thing Queerly, which allows visitors to "discover some of the objects on display at the Science Museum that tell stories of queer communities, experiences, and identities." Among items such as airplanes and replica chickens, the tour accuses Lego of taking an anti-LGBT stance.
"Like other connectors and fasteners, Lego bricks are often described in a gendered way," a description on the museum's website reads. "The top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating."
"This is an example of applying heteronormative language to topics unrelated to gender, sex and reproduction," the description continues. "It illustrates how heteronormativity (the idea that heterosexuality and the male/female gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual) shapes the way we speak about science, technology, and the world in general."
Science Museum provides no citations for its claims about Lego. An entry on Lego's website explaining how its bricks work also appears to use different language compared to Science Museum.
Have you not heard? Old-fashioned heteronormative merit-based Science requires citations and research. The new-school Gay and DEI Science dispenses with such antiquated notions -- if a gay, trans, or minority person dreams it up, it's automatically a Science Fact. The science is settled, bigot.
A repeat child sex offender entered children's bathrooms in high schools and rec centers Democrat government-stooge dominated Fairfax County and exposed himself to little girls.
He was only arrested when his registration on the child sex predator list came to light.
Arlington and Fairfax County said Tier III registered child sex offender Richard Kenneth Cox, 58, visited two schools and two county-owned recreation and fitness centers in their regions late last year.
7News was the first to report that Cox was charged for allegedly exposing himself to women and girls in a girls' locker room at Washington Liberty High School, which has an indoor pool open to the public outside of school hours.
An Arlington mother told 7News that Cox exposed his fully naked body in front of her and her 9-year-old daughter in the Washington Liberty High School girls' locker room in September 2024 after swimming lessons for children.
"We walked into seeing a man changing in the girls locker room," the Arlington mother told 7News Reporter Nick Minock. "Completely naked facing the doorway. My little girl saw it. She was ahead of me ready to get changed and dried off and that's the first thing she walked into."
Witnesses said Cox was allowed to use the girl's locker room at Washington Liberty High School because Arlington Public Schools allows people to use school bathrooms and locker rooms based on gender identity, not biological sex, and Cox told pool staff he identified as transgender.
A Fairfax County spokesperson and Fairfax County police told 7News that Cox visited Oakmont Rec Center in Fairfax County twice, shortly after he visited Washington Liberty High School.
During his visit to Oakmont Rec Center on November 3, 2024, a Fairfax County spokesperson said Cox used the locker room according to Cox's gender identity, which is county policy.
"Upon receiving complaints from rec center guests and further investigation, it was determined that the individual is a registered sex offender," a Fairfax County spokesperson told 7News. "Staff contacted the Fairfax County Police Department and, in coordination with the Park Authority, issued the individual a no-trespass notice prohibiting them from entering all Park Authority Rec Centers and locker rooms."
During his visit on November 16, 2024, witnesses at Oakmont Rec Center told police that Cox identified as transgender and went into the women's locker room at Oakmont Rec Center and was aggressive with staff when they confronted him.
"The safety of our guests is of the highest importance to Fairfax County and the Park Authority," a Fairfax County spokesperson told 7News. "Park staff works with patrons to swiftly investigate complaints and resolve appropriately in accordance with county policy. We will continue working with fellow county and state agencies to evaluate additional protective measures to ensure that our facilities remain a safe and welcoming place for all."
Arlington police say Cox is also facing charges for exposing himself in the women's locker room at Wakefield High School in Arlington in October and in November.
John Fetterman has bad news for Democrats -- all they do is insult people and scold them and shame them, and people are sick of it. Particularly men, who Fetterman notes the Democrat Party can't stop blaming for everything and nannying at every step.
Can Democrats ever win back white men? Fetterman says Democrats have alienated them so badly they may "never" come back.
The Master Criminal used Google to figure out how to dispose of his murder victim:
He's moving them to the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo because, if you remember (I didn't), he directed the classification of Tren de Aragua as a terrorist organization.
I don't know if it's really that but I'm not going to stand on ceremony.
The first 10 "high threat" members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) have been transferred to Guantanamo Bay, marking a major escalation in the U.S. crackdown on illegal migrant criminals.
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The Department of Defense (DOD) confirmed the detainees' arrival at Guantanamo Bay, where they will be held in vacant detention facilities.
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order directing agencies to designate TdA as a "foreign terrorist organization."
Over 100 TdA members were arrested in federal raids in Aurora, Colorado, as part of a broader effort to combat the gang's influence in the U.S.
Diving Deeper:
The Biden administration's failure to curb illegal immigration allowed violent international gangs like Tren de Aragua to spread across the U.S. However, under President Donald Trump's leadership, the federal government has taken a sharp turn toward aggressive enforcement. On Thursday, the first 10 high-threat TdA members arrived at Guantanamo Bay, the Department of Defense confirmed.
These individuals, all of whom have been identified as part of the Venezuelan criminal organization, are being held in vacant detention facilities. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that Gitmo will be used exclusively for the "worst of the worst" criminals. While the arrangement is temporary, DHS officials indicated that detainees would either be deported or transferred to appropriate facilities.
Tren de Aragua has become a growing threat, operating from New York City to Colorado. The gang has been linked to violent crimes, including human trafficking, drug smuggling, and extortion. Trump, who took office last month, wasted no time in targeting TdA. On January 20, he issued an executive order instructing federal agencies to move toward officially designating the group as a terrorist organization.
These people talk about Muh Princibuhls, but in the end, it's all about their greed for taxpayer dollars they didn't earn.
In response to President Trump's executive order barring men from women's sports, the NCAA's Board of Governors voted to update the association's policy for transgender student athletes, restricting the women’s category to females.
"We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today's student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions," NCAA President Charlie Baker said in a statement. "To that end, President Trump's order provides a clear, national standard."
Something about Disney-owned ESPN having to report men arent women therefore they can't play in women's sports feels serendipitous.
ESPN did a special for Women's History Month about how much courage it takes a less than mediocre man to steal from titles from exceptional women. https://t.co/aoi59NUc02pic.twitter.com/1oQRT0nxc3
🚨 President Trump just gave an EPIC shoutout to @Riley_Gaines_ before signing his Executive Order banning men from women's sports
"Riley was a 12 time all-American who sacrificed countless hours in the pool... then the league forced her to share a spot on the podium with a male… pic.twitter.com/8fPf2ydVTC
Before the Trump administration closed USAID's doors, the agency regularly routed funding to causes aligned with George Soros' nonprofit empire, terrorists and drag queens.
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In recent days, the Trump administration identified USAID programs ranging from contraceptives for Afghanistan to LGBT diversity programs for European countries as clear evidence that foreign aid needed to be paused and reevaluated, a task that fell to the Rubio State Department.
The development agency for years also funneled money to several nonprofit groups that also received substantial backing from components of George Soros' empire. Some previously came under scrutiny during the Obama administration for "democracy promotion" and judicial reform efforts in European countries that critics claimed promoted leftist politics.
For example, U.S. government spending records show that the East-West Management Institute, which is in part backed by Soros' Open Society Foundations, received more than $260 million over the years in grants from USAID to, among other things, promote the rule of law in Georgia, strengthen civil society in Uganda, and advance Serbia's accession talks with the European Union.
That same nonprofit group came under scrutiny during the Obama administration after Judicial Watch uncovered government records and communications showing that the East-West Management Institute's "Justice for All" campaign in Albania received $9 million in funding from USAID.
The assistance concerned several GOP Senators, who sent a letter to the newly appointed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in 2017, alleging the campaign funded by the U.S. government helped craft an Albanian judicial reform proposal that may "give the Prime Minister and left-of-center government full control over the judiciary."
Those same Senators also raised concerns about a similar Soros-backed program in neighboring Macedonia where they said a local affiliate called Foundation Open Society-Macedonia received backing from USAID through the Open Society Foundations and pushed "a progressive agenda."
Other Soros-backed organizations that received funding from both his Open Society Foundations network and USAID include the Anti-Corruption Action Center in Ukraine and Transparency International.
According to the group's own records, the Anti-Corruption Action Center began receiving funding from USAID the same year the Maidan Revolution overthrew Ukraine's elected, Russian-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych. The group, by its own admission, was heavily critical of Yanukovych's government and ministers, which aligned with U.S. State Department policy at the time. During the 2014 Maidan Revolution, then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland visited Ukraine and was recorded on a leaked phone call discussing how the United States could influence the formation of a new government in Kyiv.
George Soros' Open Society Foundations did not respond to a request for comment.
Of course, $68 million is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to funding the WEF. The transnational elite uses hundreds or thousands of income streams that wind up in the pockets of the WEF to push ESG, eating bugs, "sustainable development," NetZero, and all the evil things the organization does, but among all those many tendrils of funding and control, USAID is a conduit of money to the technocrats of the WEF.
Who could have guessed?
ESG alone has done more to distort the allocation of capital and slow economic growth than just about anything any of our foreign adversaries aside from perhaps China have done. NetZero has been destroying the European economy, impoverishing millions of people across a continent that should be an economic powerhouse.
15-minute cities, the shuttering of farms, skyrocketing energy prices, destabilizing societies, mass immigration, censorship coordination. All the things that have been plaguing Western societies have been egged on and planned at the World Economic Forum, which serves as a coordinating institution for the technocracy that is fundamentally transforming our society.
Before Trump purge at USAID, memo warned agency it created 'vulnerabilities' doling out foreign aid
The internal watchdog warned the agency that it was not sufficiently vetting for terrorists or getting the U.N. to comply with transparency requirements.
Just days before Elon Musk began a purge at the U.S. Agency for International Develop (USAID), the foreign aid agency was warned in a stinging memo from its own internal watchdog that it had created serious "vulnerabilities" by doling out billions of tax dollars to overseas countries and groups without fulling vetting for terrorists and fraudsters or demanding transparency from recipients of America's largesse.
The memo, which was published by the Inspector General of the U.S. Agency for International Development in late January, details some long-standing concerns about how safeguards against misuse of funds and the proper authorities to hold violators accountable are missing from the Office of Inspector General's toolbox.
"Incredibly politicized"
This memorandum "identifies vulnerabilities and challenges which we believe hinder accountability and transparency within Agency programs," Inspector General Paul Martin wrote to the acting administrator of the agency.
Fred Fleitz, a former Trump National Security Council official, told Just the News that a key concern of the administration is ensuring the money is being spent wisely and on causes benefitting U.S. interests.
"[USAID] has been incredibly politicized for leftist political goals by the Democrats. It's become a politicized boondoggle, and we saw that over the last 48--72 hours. We know that USAID officials were trying to subvert Trump's effort, or his order to freeze foreign aid for 90 days, so we can see what our tax dollars are being paid for, and is it in the interest of the United States? Is it America First?" Fleitz told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Monday.
Inspector General Martin identified three main areas of vulnerability: "Resistance from United Nations (UN) agencies and foreign-based nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to sharing information with OIG about potential misconduct;" "Limitations on vetting of aid organizations for ties to designated terrorist organizations and known corrupt actors;" and "Limitations in obtaining data about USAID-funded sub-awardees."
As mentioned, this is a money laundering operation where money is first laundered through relatively "clean" NGOs who then award the money to less clean NGOs who in turn then launder it to dirty NGOs. So that the CIA has plausible deniability about sending money to actual terrorist groups.
That last part -- "Limitations in obtaining data about USAID-funded sub-awardees" -- is talking about this: USAID doesn't know (or more accurately, wants to hide) who the ultimate "sub-awardees" of its grants really are.
So yes, there are "limitations in obtaining data" about the ultimate recipients of the money, because that's precisely what the rogue Marxist CIA officials want. The whole point is to hide who's getting US taxpayer dollars from US taxpayers.
Good article about the "unelected bureaucrat" who executed Obama's orders to turn USAID into a worldwide propaganda outfit for transnational progressivism -- Samantha Power.
Not only is she an immigrant from a left-wing country (Ireland), she is a credentialed ideologue.
Notice how Samantha Power conflates all the left-wing projects being funded by USAID with the American national interest. For global leftists like her, funding DEI and LGBTQ propaganda in every corner of the world and enriching the DC overclass is the main purpose of the U.S. https://t.co/AcD8h1IxjJ
And her husband, Cass Sunstein, argues for the government to infiltrate itself into people's lives to push covert propaganda on to them to "nudge" them in a progressive direction:
Daily reminder that Biden head of USAID Samantha Power's husband is Cass Sunstein -- the totalitarian technocrat author of "Nudge" who pushed for NSA/FBI shills running psyops on Americans across social media during the Obama admin. https://t.co/gn5qMSahpe
Corrupt Senile Democrats Staging an Insurrection at the Department of Education
—Ace
They want to see the Department of Education one last time before Trump shuts it down forever.
Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
Dept of Education on House Dems coming to the Dept wanting a mtg about Trump plan to end the Dept: "The protest was organized by members of Congress who were exercising their First Amendment rights, which they are at liberty to do. They did not have any scheduled appointments, and the protest has since ended."
Note that these lazy tax-lice promised that they would stand outside the doors "all night," and then went home by 11am or so.
Notice that Maxine Waters badgers this Trusted Civil Servant again and again to keep re-showing her his ID, which he already showed her.
Also note that she repeatedly cannot understand his clearly-spoken words. This is because she's senile and has been since the mid-90s. She still thinks that Ellen is straight.
Maxine Waters (D) is currently accosting random federal employees outside the Department of Education pic.twitter.com/5L8RviQ9rH
Members of Congress are attempting to stage a photo op at the Department of Education but security won’t let them in. They say they should be let in because they’re not dangerous people, or thieves, or robbers.
Watching this security officer handle Maxine Waters and the progressives in front of the Department of Education has me cracking up. The man is as calm as a sleeping baby.🤣🤣🤣
Oh, and happy Friday! Boy these weeks are long. The Trump Administration makes so much news I sign off every day knowing I covered half of it (at best) and not feeling that I'm actually done.
Not complaining, mind you.
The latest jobs report confirms what many have warned about for years--the Biden economy was far weaker than it appeared. Job growth slowed in January, with only 143,000 new positions added. In a statement, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the report proves "the necessity of President Trump's pro-growth policies" and reaffirms the administration's commitment to reversing the economic failures of the previous administration.
Key Details:
The U.S. added just 143,000 jobs in January, falling short of the 170,000 economists had expected.
The unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4%, the lowest since May 2024, but hiring remains sluggish.
Wage growth came in stronger than expected, with a 4.1% increase over the past year. While wages rose, inflation concerns persist as the Federal Reserve faces mounting pressure on interest rates.
Diving Deeper:
The Biden administration's economic mismanagement continues to cast a shadow over the country, as Friday's job reportrevealed a sluggish labor market struggling to regain its footing. Reacting to the report, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made it clear that these numbers highlight the damage left behind and why President Trump's economic policies are needed now more than ever.
"Today's jobs report reveals the Biden economy was far worse than anyone thought and underscores the necessity of President Trump's pro-growth policies," Leavitt stated. She pointed to Trump's early executive actions, including his declaration of a national energy emergency and sweeping regulatory cuts, as the foundation for a robust economic turnaround.
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While the mainstream media may attempt to spin this report as a consequence of Trump, the reality is that Americans are still feeling the pain of Biden's policies. With President Trump now working aggressively to reverse course, his administration has made it clear: the era of economic decline is over, and America's comeback is just beginning.
The reporting period ran from mid-December 2024 to January 12 2025 -- in other words, during Biden's "presidency."
That jobs report only includes data through January 12. Since I assume you also can’t read a calendar, Joe Biden was president then.
Kinda hilarious you blame Trump for Biden’s policies, but you spent four years pretending Biden’s economy was amazing while blaming inflation on… https://t.co/uIzWDZwCUE
Trump to Gut USAID; Deep State Strikes Back as Unions Sue
—Ace
Holy crap: Rubio has calculated how many USAID "workers" are really needed:
Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
JUST IN: Secretary of State @MarcoRubio has just informed USAID workers that he only needs 294 of them.
There are 14,000 people who work at the agency.
The DOGE Effect.
@EricLDaugh
JUST IN: The Environmental Protection Agency just put 168 staffers on administrative leave - POLITICO
Vinay Prasad MD MPH
@VPrasadMDMPH
If you try to cut government with a scalpel, people inside the organization divert the funds and subvert the cuts, rename projects, or wait you out. (A lot of the chaos now is malicious compliance) Sometimes the only solution is to use a sword.
The Trump administration has unveiled a plan to slash the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), cutting its global workforce from thousands to fewer than 300 employees. The move is part of a broader effort to restructure foreign aid, drawing legal challenges from federal workers' groups who argue the president lacks authority to dismantle a congressionally established agency.
Key Details:
The plan, presented Thursday, would leave only 300 USAID staffers from a current workforce of 8,000 direct hires and contractors, with thousands of locally hired international staff also facing uncertainty. The administration has not confirmed whether the cuts will be permanent.
Nearly all USAID workers posted abroad were given 30 days to return to the U.S., with government-covered relocation costs. Those staying longer without a hardship waiver may have to fund their own expenses.
Federal workers' associations have sued the administration, arguing that shuttering USAID requires congressional approval. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the move, saying U.S. aid will continue but will be refocused on national interests.
The Swamp counter-attacks Trump with, get this, more lawfare:
Unions representing federal employees are taking legal action against the Trump administration's efforts to shut down USAID, claiming the move threatens thousands of jobs and disrupts global humanitarian aid. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, names President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other officials as defendants.
The administration, through DOGE, implemented a swift reduction in USAID's operations over the weekend, locking employees out of internal systems and putting thousands on administrative leave. Critics of USAID's shutdown argue the move jeopardizes national security and weakens U.S. influence abroad. However, Trump's allies contend that USAID has long been a bloated and inefficient agency, spending billions in taxpayer dollars with little accountability.
In their lawsuit, the unions claim the shutdown has created a "global humanitarian crisis" and are seeking an injunction to stop further actions. They are pushing for the reopening of USAID offices, the resumption of grants and contracts, and a reversal of furlough notices.
I've been worried about inflation -- how is Trump going to cut it? We don't want the fed keeping interest rates high forever. That throttles the economy.
But chopping down government spending, which pays people out in freshly-printed Fantasy Dollars, will be a big help.
Elon Musk pointed out that 90% of USAID's payments go to recipients in the, get this, Washington DC area. It's just a funding mechanism for the left. It's just guaranteed employment for leftwing operatives when they're out of government.
Yes, I'm sure a fraction of that money is eventually paid out to people in the developing world -- after it's laundered through a dozen leftwing NGOs and all the parasites of the left have taken their share.
THE MORNING RANT: Why Didn’t Principled Free Traders Argue That Canada Would Benefit from Trump’s Tariffs, Since They Advocate that the U.S. Benefits from Surrendering to Foreign Mercantilism?
—Buck Throckmorton
The great North American Trade War lasted almost a day before both Mexico and Canada bowed the knee. In the face of proposed 25% U.S. tariffs on goods imported from those countries, both Mexico and Canada quickly promised actions demanded by President Trump, specifically to stop allowing their borders to be a supply route for an army of narco-terrorists who use fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction against U.S. citizens.
For the national economies of both Canada and Mexico, the United States is their major export market, and both are heavily dependent on access to the U.S. If a 25% tariff were imposed on our neighbors, it would obviously be devastating to them. Or would it?
Principled Free Traders have argued ad nauseum that tariffs only hurt the country imposing the tariffs, and therefore the United States’ appropriate response to trade barriers and tariffs imposed on us by countries such as China should be no response at all. Instead, they argue that we should just continue to import their goods, even though our exports are blocked. In other words, they argue that the U.S. should unilaterally surrender to foreign mercantilism. So why shouldn’t Canada unilaterally surrender to U.S. trade barriers and just live with crushing U.S. tariffs?
In the words of a prominent Principled Free Trader whom I often quote, “Trade isn’t fair. Americans should pray it never gets fair.” Well shouldn’t Canadians also then revel in the United States imposing unfair tariffs on their country. I scanned the Twitter feeds and bylines of some of the Principled Free Traders I follow and I couldn’t find anything resembling a think piece advising Canadians that “Trade isn’t fair. Canadians should pray that it never gets fair.”
The arguments that these unilateral free traders consistently make include:
• “Tariffs are a tax on consumers.” Yet there was widespread consensus that Canada would have to issue retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. Where were the free traders, and why weren’t they scolding Canada for imposing a “tax on its consumers” with their proposed retaliatory tariffs?
• “Consumers enjoy lower prices in countries that don’t impose tariffs.” Again, shouldn’t the free traders have been imploring Canada to preserve lower consumer prices by unilaterally surrendering to America’s tariffs?
• “Tariffs hurt the country that imposes the tariffs.” Japan and South Korea famously imposed protective tariffs against the US auto industry to keep American automobiles out of their markets in the post-war era and beyond. The free traders will argue that this only hurt those countries, as you can tell by how badly their auto industries are...thriving. Anyhow, if tariffs hurt the tariffing country, shouldn’t Canadians have punished the United States by doing absolutely nothing in response to American tariffs? That would teach us a harsh lesson according to free trade principles.
• “Outsourcing jobs to countries that impose tariffs helps consumers.” When an American plant closes and the jobs go to a foreign country with protective tariffs that block American goods, the free traders rejoice. If they were truly principled, you’d think they’d be consistent and suggest that Canadian manufacturers could simply move jobs to the U.S. to avoid our tariffs and gain access to our market. Of course, the free traders would never suggest that, because their objective is to eliminate American manufacturing jobs, not increase them.
• “People who lose their jobs due to offshoring can simply find better jobs.” Again, if Canadian manufacturers would just move their jobs to the U.S. to avoid the tariffs, then those displaced Canadian workers would have a great opportunity to go find better jobs outside of manufacturing.
Let me offer up here that I generally favor reciprocal free trade with Canada, and that I do not desire a nasty trade war with our northern neighbor. But I absolutely support Trump threatening (and imposing if necessary) a harsh tariff to compel Canada to stop allowing narco-criminals access to my country. I’m also pretty disgusted to have learned that despite the North American Free Trade Agreement, Canada has continued to block American dairy products by imposing high tariffs. “Free trade” that blocks American agricultural products is not what I understood free trade to mean.
Last weekend, before the U.S. – Canada tariff issue was (temporarily?) resolved, The Free Press published a story on just how painful the tariffs would be for Canada.
It’s hard to overstate the harm Trump-imposed tariffs could do to Canada.
Trevor Tombe, an economist at the University of Calgary who has modeled the impact of a 25 percent tariff on the Canadian economy, told me he sees “an economic hit to Canada that is roughly equivalent to your typical recession, resulting in a 2.6 percent drop in Canada’s GDP.”
That’s weird, because the Principled Free Traders have assured me that here in the United States, the destruction of as many industries as possible, and putting as many Americans as possible out of work, actually strengthens a country’s economy.
Small businesses are especially at risk. In 2022, 81.8 percent of Canadian small business exports went to the United States. These companies are so dependent on cross-border trade that Trump’s 25 percent tariff, coupled with Canada’s retaliatory tariffs, will likely affect 82 percent of them, according to a survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
Interesting. Apparently it would be deleterious to Canada’s economy if its industrial exports were eliminated. That certainly makes sense, but the free traders have told me repeatedly that their ideal is for the United States to import 100% of our products, with all of our manufacturing offshored. If losing the export component of the economy is good for the U.S., shouldn’t it also be good for Canada?
In fact, pragmatic Canadian businesses are already considering heading south: “With these tariffs, we will either sell the business to a U.S. company or move our business there,” Darrin Smith told me.
Huh? So if the tariffs are imposed, Canadian manufacturers would have to move manufacturing to the United States and create jobs here if they want access to our market? Apparently so…
[The founder and CEO of Canadian clothing brand Sophie Grace] told me that with a quarter of her sales coming from the U.S., she is one of those considering a move. To her, it is a simple matter of getting “behind the tariff wall,” she said.
I don’t want to see Canada harmed, and I don’t want to see Canadians hurting, but I’m glad that the threat of punitive tariffs compelled the Canadian government to respond to the national security crisis at our border. I hope that the 25% tariffs don’t ultimately have to be imposed.
That said, if there is a near consensus that “Trump’s tariffs” and a massive loss of jobs would be devastating to Canada, how is there an intellectual argument that when the same actions are taken against the United States in the name of “free trade” that it’s not equally harmful to our country?
Good morning kids. One link in particular this morning made me think of famed wit Oscar Wilde's brilliant pearl of wisdom:
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst, the last is the real tragedy.
East Hampton government officials are trying to quell wealthy residents’ fears that local police could deport illegal migrants from the tony town — many of whom work as maids, landscapers, and nannies to support the luxurious lifestyles of the well-off locals.
Village and town leaders held a special community meeting on Tuesday to assure citizens of Long Island’s exclusive nabe — where the median property value is $2 million — that their hired help are not on their radar when it comes to deportation.
East Hampton Village Police Chief Jeffrey Erickson stressed that local law enforcement do not have authority to enforce federal law — and won’t hold onto undocumented immigrants if given an ICE detainer. East Hampton government officials are trying to quell wealthy residents’ fears that local police could deport illegal migrants from the tony town — many of whom work as maids, landscapers, and nannies to support the luxurious lifestyles of the well-off locals.
Village and town leaders held a special community meeting on Tuesday to assure citizens of Long Island’s exclusive nabe — where the median property value is $2 million — that their hired help are not on their radar when it comes to deportation.
East Hampton Village Police Chief Jeffrey Erickson stressed that local law enforcement do not have authority to enforce federal law — and won’t hold onto undocumented immigrants if given an ICE detainer. The sentiment was echoed by East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo at a separate meeting.
“Our level of participation and cooperation with ICE lies in criminal matters,” Sarlo told the town board at a meeting Tuesday.
“I haven’t seen an ICE agent in this town in I can’t tell you how long.”
“You see what I’m wearing here,” Sarlo said dramatically pointing to his firearm, “People who wear this and put this on don’t interfere with other people who wear this and put this on because then people die. You don’t step in front of an Immigration Enforcement officer in uniform with a gun and a badge who’s taking his action.”
“That’s for attorneys to get involved in and that is for policies and procedures through the state to get involved,” he added.Some East Hampton residents were grateful for the reassurance that their undocumented employees and neighbors will be able to avoid deportation.
“I think it’s a very good idea and very helpful considering we have a very large community here, and people rely on them,” Alex Lovett, of East Hampton, told News12.
“They’ve been a vital part of the community for a very long time,” she empathized.
The local officials said a major purpose for the small-scale messaging campaign is to assure undocumented residents that they can interact with police without fear of deportation.
“If they’re a victim of a crime, we don’t want them to fear the police, we want them to call us so we can protect them,” Erickson said in an interview to the local news station. . .
. . . Also on Tuesday, the East Hampton Town Board held a two-hour public hearing where members of the Latino community expressed their concerns over the Trump administration’s new immigration policies.
Sandra Melendez — an East Hampton Village trustee, immigration attorney, and Spanish speaker –addressed the community and stressed that they are not obligated to cooperate with ICE, the local paper reported.
At that town board hearing Councilwoman Cate Rogers stated that the well-heeled townies will remain vigilant as the federal government attempts to enforce immigration law. “The rules are being rewritten by the second,” the councilwoman said, according to the East Hampton Star. “I want to assure everyone that this is the beginning of a conversation. It’s not a one-and-done statement, ‘Okay we did our job let’s move on.’ We’re invested. We’re your neighbors, and we’re with you.” This resistance-style approach taken by the officials in East Hampton is a far cry from the actions taken by authorities elsewhere on Long Island.
Earlier this week, Nassau County police were granted authority to help ICE arrest criminal migrants under a new agreement with the Trump administration.
First of all, any elected official who is interfering with federal law enforcement agents from carrying out their duties is committing a felony and should be charged, tried, convicted and imprisoned. Tom Homan to his credit has stated he wil be going after anyone and everyone who does this. I hope he slaps cuffs on that fat barrel of goo and lipids JB Sitz-Pritzker and anyone else with a notion to "resist."
Like I said, good and hard! Beyond them, any citizen who employs an illegal alien is harboring a criminal and as such is committing a felony themselves! Fines, property seizures and imprisonment will focus minds good and hard, n'est ce pas?
Here's an idea. The big lie Lefties always belch up is how illegals are doing the jobs Americans refuse to do? What if Dominicans, Puerto Ricans and Latinos of other stripes (actual legal citizens) who live in shitholes like Spanish Harlem and the South Bronx decided to declare themselves as migrants and drift out to the Hamptons looking for sanctuary! Now that would be hilarious. Hey Hamptons lefties, I've got your nannies and maids and gardeners right here! (presupposes our native-born welfare queens and layabout victims of the Great Society want to actually work.) Then again, being on the beach in East Hampton is a damn shot nicer than dog crap, garbage and crack pipe strewn 125 street or Morris Avenue.
Round 'em up, ship 'em out and start with the Democrat Mayors and Governors. To Federal Prison.
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“I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts,” the Transportation Secretary wrote on X. “The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from Trump’s civil service buyouts.” Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy Accuses Hillary Clinton of Lying to Cover Up Family’s ‘Obscene Grifting via USAID’ [Lock her Up for realz? - jjs)
Just moments after being sworn in as the 87th Attorney General of the United States, Bondi on Wednesday issued a memo that pauses federal grants administered by the DOJ to localities that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The move will likely foment a court battle between the Trump administration and major sanctuary cities like Chicago, Boston and New York City that prohibit assistance to deportation officers. AG Pam Bondi Immediately Pulls Funding For Sanctuary Cities
Village and town leaders held a special community meeting on Tuesday to assure citizens of Long Island’s exclusive nabe — where the median property value is $2 million — that their hired help are not on their radar when it comes to deportation. East Hampton Village Police Chief Jeffrey Erickson stressed that local law enforcement do not have authority to enforce federal law — and won’t hold onto undocumented immigrants if given an ICE detainer. Arrest this miscreant, and strip the township of its charter. Then let Hochul be next when she does an Orval Faubus to interfere - jjs East Hampton officials reassure wealthy residents that officers won’t deport illegal migrant maids, landscapers and nannies [not manscapers and trannies? - jjs)
In addition to slashing illegal border crossings, the Trump administration has been moving to round up illegal aliens already present in the U.S. Homan, who has been helping to spearhead these efforts, says the authorities’ initial focus has been criminal aliens; however, he is stressing that anyone present in the country illegally falls within the purview of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Homan: Border Crossings Between Ports of Entry Down Almost 90 Percent.
From Texas to California, the shelters that once counted on a steady flow of cash from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Food and Shelter Program and later by FEMA and Customs and Border Protection jointly under the Shelter and Services Program are no longer receiving released asylum-seeking migrants from the Department of Homeland Security. The released migrants, now the missing part of the equation necessary to receive millions of tax-payer dollars, are causing the rapid closures of shelters in Texas and Arizona in the first few weeks of the new administration. NGOs Shutter Migrant Shelters as Releases End and Money Dries Up
Although Biden reversed a Trump-era ban on funding in 2021, the ban was reinstated in 2023 after evidence emerged that UNRWA workers were involved in Hamas’s October 7 attacks. Intelligence reports later revealed that over 1,000 UNRWA employees had connections to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, with some involved in the massacre. On top of that, UNRWA schools have been criticized for promoting curricula that glorify terrorism and martyrdom. Joe Biden Funded Terrorism to the Tune of $1.3 Billion
“Countries like Spain, Ireland, Norway, and others, which have leveled accusations and false claims against Israel over its actions in Gaza, are legally obligated to allow any Gaza resident to enter their territories,” Katz declared on X, formerly Twitter. He argued that nations critical of Israel’s military operations against Hamas should bear responsibility for providing refuge to Palestinians who choose to leave the territory. Katz’s comments followed his directive to the Israeli army to develop a plan facilitating the “voluntary departure” of Gaza’s residents, including exit options via land crossings, sea, and air. The move aligns with President Trump’s controversial vision, announced a day earlier, to transform Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” under U.S. control, contingent on relocating Palestinians to “safer and more beautiful communities” in the region. Israel Says European Nations That Recognized ‘Palestine’ Must Accept Them as Migrants.
The United States unequivocally opposes and expects our allies to oppose any ICC actions against the United States, Israel, or any other ally of the United States that has not consented to ICC jurisdiction. The United States remains committed to accountability and to the peaceful cultivation of international order, but the ICC and parties to the Rome Statute must respect the decisions of the United States and other countries not to subject their personnel to the ICC’s jurisdiction, consistent with their respective sovereign prerogatives. Trump Slaps Sanctions Back on International Criminal Court
Robert Spencer: Hadi Matar finally went on trial Tuesday for attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie back in Aug. 2022. There is little, if any, doubt about Matar’s guilt, even though he has pleaded not guilty, for he stabbed Rushdie multiple times in full view of a shocked crowd at the Chautauqua festival. Matar was supposed to have gone on trial in Jan. 2024, but Rushdie wrote a book about the attack, and Matar’s defense attorney, public defender Nathaniel Barone, received a delay in the trial so that he could review the book. It’s hard to fathom how what the victim thought about what happened might affect the guilt of his client, but nevertheless, Barone managed to delay the trial for over a year. A Critically Important Trial Has Just Begun, and No One Involved Will Speak About Motive
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Trump’s executive order aims to combat rising workplace antisemitism, reinforcing civil rights protections while businesses adopt inclusive policies to foster religious tolerance. Trump’s Executive Order Takes Aim at Workplace Antisemitism
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI+Pelosi-engineered FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Douglas Murray: So it’s not like Anyone who follows Soros Jr. on social media will have noticed that he gets some pretty amazing photo opportunities. One day he’s posting a photo of himself with Nancy Pelosi. Next he’s standing next to Chuck Schumer. Another day he’s with Kamala or Tim Walz (remember him?). Still another day he’s with Pete Buttigieg or Elizabeth Warren. . . So it’s not like Schumer & co. care about non-elected people having any say in government. It’s just that they don’t like it — in fact they really hate it — when it isn’t their guys. Soros-funded Dems suddenly upset by billionaires in government
Cheney, who received a preemptive pardon from former President Joe Biden for whatever crimes she may have committed since 2014, reacted to a one-word xweet from Elon Musk. All Musk wrote was, “Interesting.” Musk was responding to a xweet that revealed Cheney basically began her government career with USAID, the government outlet currently under fire from Musk’s DOGE group for its reckless and unaccountable spending to the tune of billions of taxpayer dollars. “Liz Cheney, who led Trump’s impeachment and the mass imprisonment campaign against thousands of Trump supporters, was spawned out of USAID,” wrote Mike Benz, the executive director of Freedom Forum Online. Liz-ard Cheney Launches Xenophobic Attack on Elon Musk
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Young sued after the fake news outlet lied about him operating a “black market” program to exploit Afghans desperate to get out of their country after former President Joe Biden abandoned them to the Taliban during his disastrous surrender. After the $5 million verdict, CNNLOL chose to settle the case with Young for an undisclosed amount before the jury of six could award punitive damages. Young likely settled because settled means “settled.” It puts an end to the case, forecloses any appeal process, and allows Young to go back to his normal life. CNN likely settled fearing a bombshell punitive award that would’ve further shattered the reputation of the disgraced outlet. Turns out that was a wise move… Jury Was Ready to Send CNN a Message with $100M in Punitive Damages
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced legislation Wednesday to write into law one of President Donald Trump’s key campaign pledges, Breitbart News can exclusively reveal. Tuberville and Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) introduced the Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act to stop the unjust double tax on Social Security benefits. Exclusive: Tommy Tuberville Bill Will End Taxes on Social Security Benefits, Delivering on Key Trump Pledge
The political uncertainty that hung over the economy going into the election has lifted. It has been replaced by the highest level of confidence in nearly three years, Williamson said. The anticipation of a more business friendly environment—including tax cuts, tariffs, and deregulation—is the main driver of this improvement. The Blue Collar Boom Has Already Begun
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
“Late last year the White Coat Waste Project exposed that more than $10 million dollars in taxpayer funds were spent creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys,” Chairwoman Mace revealed, opening the “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty” hearing. Government Wasted Millions Creating Transgender Mice, Rats and Monkeys
“Just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that I would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump’s America,” said state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia), who is openly bisexual. “I refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate.” Michigan Democrat Says She ‘Opted for Voluntary Sterilization’ Because of Trump Presidency (Wouldst only every Democrat in he nation be inspired to do this!!!!!! - jjs)
Democrats believe that the mild-mannered, self-described devout Christian nominee for budget director, Russell Vought, is "the most dangerous" Trump nominee. “Russell Vought was born to make corruption safe again,” said freshman Sen. Andy Kim, Democrat from New Jersey. Whenever a Democrat from New Jersey talks about "corruption," grab your wallet and lock up your wife and daughters. You Won't Believe Who Senate Democrats Say Is Trump's 'Most Dangerous Nominee'
The committee’s chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), blasted Democrat members for the delaying tactic: “Democrats are establishing a double standard by forcing us to meet this morning,” the Judiciary Committee chairman said, noting in the last Congress, Republicans did not force the committee to meet in person just to hold over nominations. However, Grassley relented, acknowledging: “The minority as well as myself has exercised their right and my right under the committee rules to hold over the nomination of Kash Patel to be Director of the FBI. So that nomination is held over.” Democrats Delay Vote on Kash Patel’s FBI Director Nomination for ANOTHER Week.
This lie, however, is much more consequential in terms of policy impact: “I don't take contributions from Big Pharma executives. I don't take any corporate PAC money,” Elizabeth Warren says in the Senate hallway when confronted over her smears of RFK Jr. Elizabeth Warren DESTROYED by X Community Notes Over Pharma Corruption
During the “outrage of the week” segment on his “Politics War Room” podcast, Carville expressed frustration with New York Democrats pushing for pet bereavement leave and with the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) gender rules discussed at its Saturday Winter Meeting. (RELATED: ‘I Am Naming Names’: DNC Chair Says He’s Going Scorched Earth On Party When Term Ends) ‘Level Of Jackassery’: James Carville Outraged At Dems Over 2 ‘Stunningly Stupid’ Moves
Minnesota State House Republicans scored a major victory Thursday morning following an announcement that GOP lawmakers will take control of the state’s lower chamber for the next two years. GOP control of the state House is the product of a power sharing agreement negotiated between both parties, resulting in the election of Republican Minnesota State Rep. Lisa Demuth as House speaker and the creation of an oversight committee to probe the Walz administration. After Defeating Tim Walz At Ballot Box, GOP Deals Former VP Candidate Another Blow
Costa Rica was the third stop on a tour of Central America and the Caribbean for Rubio, who made the Western Hemisphere trip the first of his tenure as America’s top diplomat. Rubio began the trip in Panama, where the government announced during his visit that it would allow a memorandum of understanding linking it to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a sovereignty-eroding predatory lending program, expire. The then traveled to El Salvador, where leader Nayib Bukele offered to take in deportation flights including nationals of all countries and suggested he would be willing to house U.S. citizen convicts in American prisons for a price. Marco Rubio Takes on Chinese Bullying, Cyberattack Crisis in Costa Rica
Lord Peter Mandelson, who previously called President Trump a “danger to the world” and said he was “little short of a white nationalist and a racist,” was questioned about his relationship with Epstein by the Financial Times. He claimed he regretted ever meeting the pedophile financier or being introduced to him by Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison, snapping: “I’m not going to go into this. It’s an FT obsession and frankly you can all f** off. OK?” Presumptive UK Ambassador to USA Dodges Questions on Epstein Links: ‘You Can All F*ck Off.’
“I will NOT attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg. South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change,” Sec. Rubio wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The Trump administration’s chief diplomat continued: “My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism.” Rubio Skipping G20 in Johannesburg: ‘South Africa Is Doing Very Bad Things.’
The memo ordered the cancellation of “all sections, meetings, events, and other activities associated with these clubs.” Among the clubs that were shut down were the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Women Engineers Club, the Latin Cultural Club, and the Native American Heritage Forum. U.S. Military Academy Disbands Student Clubs Focused on Race, Gender
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Federal personnel were advised to submit resignations by emailing the word “resign” to their government accounts. OPM communicated to employees that while some agencies and military branches might experience workforce increases, most federal bodies are likely to downsize. This includes plans for restructuring, realignment, and potential reductions in force. 40,000 Federal Bureaucrats Take Trump’s Buyout Offer Ahead of Midnight Deadline.
U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole Jr. issued an order Thursday afternoon pausing the deadline for federal employees to accept a buyout authorized by President Donald Trump that would see them voluntarily resign in exchange for eight months of pay and benefits. The order comes just hours before the offer expires at midnight.The deadline pause will last until at least Monday when Judge O’Toole Jr. is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit brought by federal worker unions challenging the legality of the buyout. Should the Trump White House successfully defend the policy in court, the delay may prove beneficial. The National Pulse reported Thursday morning that approximately 40,000 federal employees had decided to take the buyout. However, by Thursday afternoon, that number had risen to 60,000. Judge Delays Deadline for President Trump’s Buyout Offer for Federal Employees.
DC AIRLINER/COPTER COLLISION, and Philly Air Crash AFTERMATH
LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES
When asked if the FHA would be helping victims who lost their homes with loans to rebuild, Turner said, “The FHA will do exactly what it’s called to do, and what it’s supposed to do, and you can count on that.” The southern California fires were officially declared fully contained 24 days after they first sparked in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood and took at least 29 lives, the New York Times reported. HUD Sec. Turner on L.A. Fire Victims: FHA Will Do ‘What It’s Supposed to Do, You Can Count on That’
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The Food & Drug Administration should not be a sacred cow. Trump can root out inefficiencies and overreach here, too.Trump is on a roll. DOGE for the FDA
According to this British news report, Borosov was fired due to a “catastrophic reduction in the number of launches, as well as incidents and accidents with serious consequences”. Since 2022, the number of successful Russian launches has dropped from 21 to 19 to 17 (in 2024), and so far in 2025 it has only launched once, a classified military launch yesterday. Putin fires head of Roscosmos
The furniture giant bows to the Religion of Peace. Islamizing IKEA (I-Keall-you! Flatpack decapitation chopping block with rusty hacksaw. Instruction sheet in Arabic, Pashtun, Farsi and Swedish- jjs)
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He stated explicitly that he is not taking the fork. Apparently someone already stole it.
Musical Interlude
Axel F, the theme from Beverly Hills Cop, played more or less on an original Amiga. It looks like this is an emulator, and it has 1MB of RAM where a stock Amiga 1000 had just 512K, but pretty close.
The Amiga had four sound channels playing 8-bit audio at 15.75kHz, so for anything other than electronic music it didn't sound quite so good. But it nailed this piece.
Disclaimer: Close only counts in horseshoes and retrocomputing.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law a bill that will allow the government to seize land without having to pay compensation, which some in the government say is a threat to private ownership.
The law, which replaces the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975, "outlines how expropriation can be done and on what basis" by the state, the government says, according to the BBC.
Ramaphosa's party, the African National Congress, or ANC, hailed the law as a "significant milestone." However, some members of the government have signaled they will challenge the legality of the law.
If you're not familiar with what happened in Rodesia, you should read up on it. A stable and prosperous country gutted by the west and handed to the communists just because they were black.
Now that we’ve established that, moving on: what I expected, in my wildest dreams, where somehow Trump got beyond the barriers that held him back in his first term was the roll back of some of the crap that made the US a basket case under Biden. You know, actual semi-effective border control. Maybe a few thousand deportations. Perhaps a reining back of the stupid regulations, and some drill baby drill.
But I didn’t actually expect revolution. A revolution that rolls back the now long established corruptions imposed on our system by the likes of FDR.
At first I was in shock at the speed and compass of the EOs and other work going on. And then–
Well, part of it is my health, but I’m having real trouble controlling this. I will read the news on my phone first thing in the morning, because it’s weird and exciting. And then I have to fight to work during the day, because I’m fascinated by this show which is more interesting than anything Hollywood has produced in decades.
And in the middle of all this it was only a couple of days ago that I realized this is a revolution.
Andre says he was picking up donuts with three of his kids -- ages 4, 7 and 10 -- when the jet came crashing down.
"Sounded like a missile was firing bullets, metal at my car, everyone else's car," Andre recalled. "You see a car on fire, a man walking on fire. It was just crazy."
He immediately backed up his car while his son Trey covered his little sister, protecting her.
"I turn around and he has metal outside of his head," Andre described.
On March 4, 2002, as daylight was replacing darkness, Air Force combat controller John Chapman was fighting for his life. He was fighting alone on a snow-covered mountain in Afghanistan called Takur Ghar. The SEAL team he was attached to (codenamed MAKO 30), commanded by Senior Chief Britt Slabinski, had left him for dead. But Chapman wasn’t dead. After battling alone for the better part of an hour in the bitter cold, Chapman was almost out of ammunition. A Chinook (Razor 01) with a QRF of Rangers was 45 seconds from landing. Firing in three directions, Chapman was still killing Al Qaeda and laying down suppressing fire when he slipped his mortal coil. An Al Qaeda fighter took his life with a bullet to the heart. That final, fatal wound was his 16th battle wound. Chapman had fought to the last second of his life. Had he not, it is likely Razor 01 and the men aboard could have suffered the same fate as Chapman. As it was, three QRF soldiers were gunned down as the loaded Chinook settled into knee-deep snow.
Thirteen hours later, it was over. Operation Anaconda had failed. Miserably. It was bound for failure. Multiple command decisions before and during the operation cost the lives of seven men.
After the battle, DEVGRU SEALs universally praised Chapman’s heroism. He was one of them, they said. Today, Chapman’s name is the only non-SEAL on the Navy SEALs wall of honor in Virginia Beach. In after-action statements, SEALs praised Chapman. Chapman was put in for the Air Force Cross (the equivalency of the Navy Cross). That medal was quickly approved. Britt Slabinski, the man who had left Chapman for dead but had never checked Chapman's body for signs of life, received the Navy Cross.
The story, as presented, is infuriating. I can't vouch for its veracity, it is telling just one side of the story.
When I was a child growing up in India, I learned that “might makes right.” Power was often abused, with those in control acting as if they had a God-given right to exploit and dominate others. The display of authority could be so extreme that questioning it or expecting those in power to do their duty might lead to retribution. Those in authority seemed to believe that their positions were not for serving others but for personal gain.
People who showed respect appeared to have meekly accepted a lower, subservient position. Kind people had to hide their compassion, for being nice was seen as a weakness.
In India, I have rarely seen someone in authority take the initiative to solve a problem he was responsible for. When I was at university, an underaged boy who worked in the kitchen was raped and sodomized by the janitors. I reported the matter, but not only did no one in authority do what was right — something well within their power — the authorities and fellow students threatened me with severe consequences if I pursued the matter further. Devoid of empathy, they also made fun of the boy and me.
Yes, there is an element of sadism here. There is some degree of pleasure that Indians take in the pain suffered by others. The attitude of the authorities was like that of the high-placed Delhi bureaucrat who told me that his Black Label whiskey tastes so much better because he knows that most Indians can’t afford to drink it.
There used to be norms, and then the Democrats decided not to honor the norms but demanded that we still do. And during Trump 1.0, we did. We pretended that there were still guardrails, that there was still truth and honor in our institutions, and that’s why so many establishment Republicans believed we should treat hoaxes like the Russiagate lies with more than just a summary dismissal and ruthless mockery.
We naively tried to honor the dead norms, pretending that the regime media was actually trying to report the truth rather than slavishly parroting the Democrat narrative. Well, we learned after Trump 1.0. During Trump 2.0, we’re not pretending anymore. There’s nothing to pretend. It’s a new day. It’s a new dawn - a dawn of the dead ideology of leftism. We’re going to nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
This change didn’t just happen. People didn’t just spontaneously figure out what time it is. This all began about 15 years ago, with the rise of the Tea Party and the appearance of a cultural colossus, Andrew Breitbart. Andrew always knew what time it is. He always saw through the lies. He saw through the Potemkin village facade of institutional integrity. And he wasn’t playing by their rules. His critique of, and attack upon, the regime media was an essential component of what we’re seeing now. If it weren’t for Andrew, we’d still be in a morass of managed decline and utter failure, probably having just ended the second term of Hillary Clinton and watching her being replaced by someone even more evil. Instead, we’re trashing DEI, sealing the border, no longer indulging weird perversions, and terrifying the GOP establishment into fixing the Pentagon with a former Marine corporal casting the tie-breaking vote.
Not tired of winning yet, but we need to legislatively codify our gains. Otherwise, the next Dem president will just do the same thing in reverse.
A Personal Request
Last Saturday, in the middle of the night, my little sister suffered a major heart attack. Her husband administered CPR and called the EMTs, who shocked her heart and got it going again. She was rushed to the ICU and put on a vent. "We will just have to wait and see” we were told.
Well, we're still waiting. During the week the vent was turned down to assist mode, so she's mostly breathing on her own, but she's still unresponsive. A EEG was inconclusive - reduced cranial activity, but quite possibly that's due to the meds in her system. Her kidney numbers dipped, so she's being put on dialysis, which might help clear the meds and any toxins from her bloodstream. We're waiting to see. It's hard.
Plus I'm 1500 miles away. Waiting to see. At least here I have work and my family to keep me busy. If I flew back there, I'd be waiting to see with nothing to do, although I would be with my folks and my sister's family. I feel like I'm riding a knife's edge.
If you are so inclined, would you mind remembering my sister Susan in your prayers? We could all use it. Thank you.
Across the government, "directors of DEI" are changing their job titles to avoid Trump's order to terminate their employment. Trump issued an order stating that anyone who attempts to avoid this order through "disguise" or deception will be fired.
Forty million for Sesame Street in Baghdad is kind of steal now that I see the clips.
Jake Tapper, the completely fair and objective reporter who Loves the Troops (and is a hero to many bi-curious fake "conservative" bloggers) informs his 17 viewers that Elon Musk is bad to "target" Two-Tier Keir for his part in covering up the Muslim Rape Gangs, because he's just "opening old wounds" of a "scandal" that's a whole ten years old.
Reminder: CNN continues to celebrate January 6th every year as if it's Media Christmas. Some old wounds want to remain open!
For those of you spreading the Russian Disinformation Conspiracy Theory that California will not allow people to rebuild their homes as they were, but will mandate that residential neighborhoods agree to put up subsidized housing in apartment buildings for the poor and also rebuild as constrained by "climate change" doctrines, I have bad news for you: Your Russian Disinformation Conspiracy Theories are all true, confirmed by Gavin Newsom.
They burn your fucking house down, and then they forbid you to rebuild, saying that climate change requires you to move into an apartment building.
Lindy Li: "Despite her repeated denials, Beyonce was paid."
Shawn Ryan: "Who was she paid by?"
Lindy Li: "And Kamala Harris thought all these people came out to Texas to hear her speak. Yeah, right. Kamala Harris got booed. She got drowned in boos."
I wonder if we'll find out that some USAID money was sent their way, too.
Such a typical leftwing woman quote: "Let me tell you about me."
I'm shocked, you want to run your mouth bragging about your fake accomplishments?
This is wild.
A CNN analyst launches into a tirade about “not having the same opportunity” and being paid less than everyone else at the table because of her race, essentially accusing CNN of discrimination.
The left has a different idea of "fighting terrorism." They want to give US taxpayer money directly to terrorist groups, so long as they mutually pretend these specific monies will be used for some non-terrorist purpose.
Even though money is fungible, and paying a terrorist group any kind of money frees them up to not pay those expenses and put the money saved into terrorism.
And even though terrorist groups take other people's money and use that money to buy the goodwill of the people they hide among. When I was over in Lebanon, my guides pointed out that the government of Lebanon sends aid to the poor, Hezballah controlled south. Hezballah takes that aid and, after skimming a lot off for terrorism, distributes it to the poor pretending that Hezballah is giving them money.
Aid stations are branded as Hezballah charity organizations, flying Hezballah flags, and of course the money mainly goes to Hezballah supporters.
Trump said, "No more of that."
Biden immediately reversed Trump's ban and started sending billions to terrorists.
More than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds from the Biden administration ended up helping groups that sponsored or committed terrorism.
Federal watchdog reports and other documents show former President Joe Biden's aid programs funneled the money toward a network of terrorism in the Muslim world -- largely by reversing Trump-era policies. National security experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation the new Trump administration must take the trend more seriously.
"We should not be putting money into any country or areas where a terrorist group remains in control," Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said. Roggio said that "aid, like money, is fungible."
"It winds up propping up these groups," the counterterrorism analyst told the DCNF. "It allows them to use ... whatever money they have to invest into their terrorist activities."
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The largest share of Biden-era dollars linked to terrorism went to Palestinian organizations, Congressional Research Service records show.
The Biden administration gave $1,053,400,000 in taxpayer money to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which claims to help war-afflicted Palestinian civilians but is tied to terrorists fighting Israel, according to U.S. and Israeli intelligence. Biden reversed a Trump-era ban on UNRWA funding in 2021 but brought back the ban last year after Israel accused UNWRA workers of participating in Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.
Intelligence officials later revealed that more than 1,000 UNRWA employees, or around 10%, were linked to the groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to documents found on the bodies of dead terrorists and other evidence. A dozen took part in the Oct. 7 massacre, including a Hamas commander who was teaching in elementary school for UNRWA and led a siege against an Israeli kibbutz that killed almost 100 people.
UNWRA's schools have long used curriculum for Palestinian children that glorifies terrorists and martyrdom, a March 2023 report from UN Watch found.
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Trump and Congress passed a law in 2018 blocking economic support funds for the PA due to its program. Trump later paused all remaining funding for the PA before Biden took office and resumed it.
The Biden administration in part revived the economic support fund that Trump's law restricts. The State Department claimed in documents from 2021 that "most" of the money did not "directly benefit the PA" in violation of the law. However, officials sent $265 million straight to the PA for its "security forces and justice sector institutions" throughout Biden's presidency, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Under Biden, the PA agreed to pay more than $97 million to reward the perpetrators of the Oct. 7 attacks, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
USAID secretly poured uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward Hamas, including tens of millions of cash they could never account for.
Throughout the Biden admin, they knew the money they were pouring into Gaza would benefit Hamas. They did it anyway.
On the night of November 26, 1991, Frazier was walking along the street by Brown's first-floor apartment when he found the lights on inside, and decided to commit a robbery.
He broke into her lower-level window and found $10, before moving to another room where he discovered Brown sleeping in a bed.
Frazier then woke Brown up and demanded more money, and she gave him $80 from her purse.
The then-19-year-old later confessed to police that he then held Brown at gunpoint and raped her, during which she begged him profusely to not kill her.
In his confession, Frazier said it was Brown's begging that led him to shoot her in the head, because he 'didn't like whiny women who pleaded for their lives.'
If he were on federal death row, Biden would have commuted his sentence.
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
