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StopFundingLeftistNGOs.com applied advanced, quantum-speed technology uncovering the hidden connections between the National Women’s Law Center and the vast, Leftist Dark Money world.

The CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, Fatima Graves is married to former U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves – a chief weaponizer of the Justice Department.

Uncovering these connections allows viewers to see how the Dark Money Leftist world uses innocent-sounding organizations to do its work.

Leftist NGOs are parasitic.

Leftists support themselves, as this video shows, in high style – on the boards or as executives of innocent-sounding organizations.

They produce nothing.

Leftists operate in a multi-billion-dollar-a-year hidden world of NGOs supporting extreme operators, moving from one NGO to another – working to undermine mainstream American institutions.

NGOs are often funded by some of the most sinister foreign billionaires – yet operate in the U.S. with tax-exempt status.

Leftists fund NGOs – tens of billions of dollars – and these organizations do what the government is afraid to openly do:

NGOs fund the Taliban.

NGOs fund late term abortion legislation, NGOs, particularly religious ones, fund the mass movement of illegal aliens over the border.

NGOs fund district attorneys who set criminals free.

Innocent-sounding NGOs are being outed with the use of Fractal, a quantum-speed technology, showing even the most anodyne-named group may be tied to the Tides Foundation, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, even the Chinese Progressive Association.

StopFundingLeftistNGOs.com is an organization of attorneys, investigators and technologists, brought together to attack the central nervous system of the Left – the vast, underreported Leftist NGO money machine.

We use quantum-speed Fractal technology.

The darkest secret of the Dark Money Leftist world is yet to be told – the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars, in grants, loans and contracts – the federal government gives to these NGOs.

If you want to stop Leftist groups from registering illegal aliens, the way to do it is to stop their funding – not challenge a Leftist Secretary of State – who will do nothing.

If you want to stop illegal immigration, build the wall and shut down federal dollars going indirectly to religious NGOs openly recruiting illegal aliens to cross the Texas border.

Indirectly is the key.

As this video shows, like the many other videos on StopFundingLeftistNGOs.com – money goes to NGO A, who funds NGO B, who funds NGO C who sends money to NGO X who gives money to NGO A.

Current relational technology cannot follow this recursive trail – particularly through a dozen or more layers – Fractal quantum-speed technology tracks every dollar, employee, director, address, phone – as this video shows.

The federal government and the legacy election integrity organizations have no technology to visualize these connections. They waste time and resources talking about cleaning voter rolls – which are never cleaned – while these NGOs grow in size and reach every year.

Millions of dollars are wasted each year funding losing election integrity lawsuits while NGOs undermine the election process funding hundreds of get-out-the-vote organizations – with money from foreign billionaires – invisible to current technology.

The StopFundingLeftistNGOs.com team funded quantum-speed technology to show these connections – the central nervous system of the Left – to all America.

As this video shows, the National Women’s Law Center is tied to some of the most sinister Leftist NGOs – and when one traces their funding through multiple layers – currently only possible with Fractal quantum-speed technology – the central nervous system of the Left appears.

The goal of StopFundingLeftistNGOs.com is to show the federal dollars going to every NGO, stop that funding immediately, shutting down federal government support for groups attacking American institutions.

StopFundingLeftistNGOs.com tracks every NGO dollar, across the entire FEC contribution system – showing where NGOs are using tax-exempt money for electioneering.

The goal is to challenge the NGO tax-exempt status.

Shut down the Leftist NGO money, the parasites perish – and elections will be far more honest and transparent.

That’s how you stop election fraud – not wasting dollars and time on useless lawsuits.

Jay Valentine led the team that built the eBay fraud engine, the underlying technology for the TSA No-Fly List. Jay can be contacted at FractalComputing.Substack.com

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/who-funds-national-womens-law-center/

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Abortion was the leading cause of death globally in 2024, with a record 45 million unborn babies killed in the womb, according to data provided by Worldometer.

As of noon on December 31, 2024, there were 45.1 million abortions performed in the course of the year, Worldometer revealed, while 8.2 million people died from cancer, 5 million from smoking, 1.7 million of HIV/AIDS, 1.35 million from traffic fatalities, and 1.1 million from suicide.

Totaling all the deaths in the world from causes other than abortion reveals a figure of 62.5 million, meaning that abortions accounted for just over 42 percent of all human deaths in 2024.

Globally, there were more deaths from abortion in 2024 than all deaths from cancer, malaria, HIV/AIDS, smoking, alcohol, and traffic accidents combined, according to Worldometer statistics.

Worldometer — voted one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association (ALA) — keeps a running tally through the year of major world statistics, including population, births, deaths, automobiles produced, books published, and CO2 emissions.

It also registers the total number of abortions performed worldwide, based on the latest statistics on abortions published by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The startling number of deaths from abortion has led certain observers to call abortion “the social justice cause of our time,” since the sheer magnitude of the problem completely overshadows other human rights issues.

In the United States, abortion accounts for roughly a third of all annual deaths, but more troubling still, it makes up over 60 percent of African American deaths, according to a study published in the Open Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2016.

The ongoing disparity of black deaths through abortion has led one leading black pastor to decry the “black genocide” taking place in the United States at the hands of the abortion industry.

The Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr. has noted that 52 percent of all African American pregnancies end in abortion and that whereas abortion is the most common operation performed on women, it is also “the least regulated medical procedure” and is often “completely ignored by health regulation enforcement.”

Statistics reveal that nearly 1,800 unborn black babies are aborted every day, proportionately more than any other race, Rev. Childress observed.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), black women have the highest abortion rate of any demographic (24.4 abortions per 1,000 women in the latest year for which there are data), whereas white women have the lowest abortion rate (5.7 abortions per 1,000 women), which means that black babies are more than four times as likely to be aborted as their white counterparts.

Blacks also have the highest abortion ratio (429 abortions per 1,000 live births), as compared with whites (106 abortions per 1,000 live births), the CDC revealed.

Among white women, there are 106 abortions for every 1000 live births; among blacks, there are 429 abortions for every 1000 births. This means that black babies are aborted at four times the rate of whites. It also means that more than four in ten black babies are aborted.

An astonishing 39.5 percent of all U.S. abortions were performed on black babies, the CDC noted, despite the fact that blacks make up a mere 12.4 percent of the overall population. In fact, the percentage of blacks in the U.S. population is dropping year by year, primarily because of the exaggerated abortion rate among blacks.

Conversely, whites, who make up 61.6 percent of America’s population, account for only 31.9 percent of all U.S. abortions.

Whatever the intent of abortion practitioners, by functional standards, abortion is a racist institution in the United States, with black children aborted far more often than white children.

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/01/01/abortion-was-leading-global-cause-of-death-in-2024-with-over-45-million-killed/

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Authorities have begun clearing approximately 377 tons of toxic waste from the site of a gas tragedy in Bhopal, central India, four decades after a gas explosion at a US-owned company’s plant killed over 25,000 people and affected the health of another 150,000.

On Wednesday, hazardous material was loaded into 12 sealed containers for transport to the Pithampur industrial area, located 250 kilometers from Bhopal, according to news agency PTI.

Last month, the Madhya Pradesh High Court criticized authorities for failing to clear the toxic waste from the Union Carbide factory despite Supreme Court directives. The court set a four-week deadline for completion of the removal, remarking that even 40 years after the tragedy, the authorities remained in a “state of inertia.” The bench also warned the government of contempt proceedings if its orders were not implemented.

Swatantra Kumar Singh, Director of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department, told media outlets that a green corridor has been created for the uninterrupted journey of trucks to Pithampur. Singh stated that if all conditions are deemed “satisfactory,” the toxic waste will be incinerated within three months; otherwise, the process could take up to nine months. Initially, a portion of the waste will be incinerated in Pithampur, and the resulting ash will be analyzed to ensure it contains no harmful substances. To prevent air pollution, the incinerator’s smoke will pass through advanced four-layer filters, Singh said, according to PTI. Once confirmed that the ash is free of toxic elements, it will be securely sealed using a two-layer membrane and buried to prevent any contact with soil or water.

The movement of hazardous materials has sparked protests from locals. On December 29, a large group of Pithampur activists gathered to oppose the disposal of Union Carbide waste in their city, which has a population of 175,000.

The Bhopal tragedy occurred on the night of December 3, 1984, and is considered one of the worst such disasters in history. Approximately 40 tons of highly toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked from a pesticide factory owned by Union Carbide India Limited, a subsidiary of US-based Union Carbide Corporation, now part of Dow Chemicals. The gas leak resulted in over 5,295 deaths, according to the central government, while various non-governmental organizations claim that more than 20,000 people have died from gas-related illnesses since then.

As reported previously by RT, the magnitude of the tragedy is still evident today, as over 150,000 people remain chronically ill decades after the disaster. Most suffer from chronic diseases, with high rates of neurological, immunological, pulmonary, and kidney problems. Additionally, their risk of developing cancer is eight to ten times higher than average. Despite the establishment of specialized healthcare for affected individuals, they continue to face difficulties accessing necessary treatment.

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https://www.rt.com/india/610345-bhopal-trafedy-toxic-waste-clear-india/

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Multicultural Germany with its history of extreme New Year’s Eve violence including the harrowing Cologne mass sex attacks prepares for violence tonight with thousands of emergency service personnel deployed.

European capitals including Paris and Berlin are deploying thousands of extra police officers, emergency vehicles, and even the armed forces for New Year’s Eve, given years of violence including attacks on firemen rushing to extinguish deliberately set blazes in “sensitive” areas to the infamous 2016 mass sex attacks.

A “state of emergency” will be preemptively declared in Berlin at 1900 local time (1300 EST) by the fire brigade tonight, as they face their busiest night of the year. The brigade, which has been reinforced with trained volunteer brigade members to 1,544 officers on duty tonight and further backed up by the German Civil Defence establishment (THW) and civilian charity volunteers expects to put out as many fires in one night as it would normally in two months.

In addition, 4,000 police officers are being deployed in the German capital tonight, tasked in part with escorting those firemen and paramedics into what the Die Welt newspaper euphemistically calls “areas that are considered sensitive”. Firemen were assaulted by the public 30 times in the city on New Year’s Eve 2023.

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) cites the remarks of Benjamin Jendro, a spokesman for the Berlin police union who said: “There are fires in many places, vehicles are being set on fire, and conflicts are escalating… Our colleagues start the new year with injuries every year”.

News magazine Stern states some military personnel are also being deployed in Berlin.

Germany is not the only European state afflicted by major New Year’s Eve violence. In France, it has been ‘tradition’ for decades now for “youths” in multicultural suburbs to burn cars — over a thousand a night, some years — on New Year’s Eve. Capital Paris is deploying 10,000 officers tonight for city centre and inner suburbs alike.

Le Figaro notes a police spokesman who states this massive deployment is “to guarantee the safety of people and property, and to prevent disturbances to public order, in a context of a still high terrorist threat”. Large parts of central Paris will be totally prohibited to motor traffic, with as many as one million revelers expected.

In Stockholm, Sweden, a police spokesman said he was anticipating “a lot of trouble” overnight and that extra resources were deployed to meet it. Brussels police, meanwhile, compared the operation planned for tonight to the level of security rolled out for a European Union or NATO summit, with “seriously scaled up” numbers of officers deployed.

And these major preparations are not limited to capital cities, with many regional cities forced to take warlike precautions against New Year’s Eve violence. In Hamburg, Germany, many additional emergency vehicles including trucks on loan from the armed forces are ready, with a large police presence backed up by drones will launch a stop-and-search operation looking for fireworks — banned in the city centre this year — and weapons with “targeted” checks.

In the infamous city of the 2016 mass migrant sex attacks against German women and girls trying to celebrate New Year’s Eve in the city centre, hundreds of extra officers are on patrol and enhanced protections are in place for the city synagogue given “ongoing tensions in the Middle East”.

The NZZ states, in aggregate, “German cities are preparing for riots”. In Belgian cities, some known troublemaker “youths” are being placed under preventative house arrest, and curfews are in force.

Breitbart News has long reported on the now long-term issues experienced by European cities with New Year’s Eve violence, and the often unspoken subtext that this violence is authored by young people from migrant communities. Most infamous of all these incidents is the 2015-2016 Cologne sex attacks, in which police eventually recorded over 1,000 victims in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

After successfully cracking down on crime in the following year’s celebrations, Cologne police were then criticised for using racial profiling.

On New Year’s Eve 2022-23 Germany saw mass migrant riots in Berlin leading to widespread fire damage and injuries. The rioting became a major media story after the nation’s publishers were accused of using carefully selected language to try and play down the perpetrators of the violence.

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/12/31/state-of-emergency-european-capitals-brace-for-new-years-eve-as-riots-feared/

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Researchers at Leiden University Medical Center, backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have developed a new method of delivering malaria vaccines using genetically modified mosquitoes as “flying vaccinators.”

The Blaze reports that in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists have demonstrated the effectiveness of using mosquitoes as “flying syringes” to vaccinate humans against malaria. The research, conducted at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, represents a new and potentially worrying advancement in vaccine technology.

The study involved genetically modifying malaria parasites to stop developing after a certain period of time in the human body. The modified parasites, named GA1 and GA2, were designed to prime the immune system without causing a full-blown malaria infection. Researchers then infected mosquitoes with these engineered parasites and allowed them to bite human test subjects in a controlled setting.

In the trial, 43 adults between the ages of 19 and 35 with no prior history of malaria infection were divided into three groups. The first group received 50 bites from mosquitoes infected with the GA2 parasite, the second group received 50 bites from mosquitoes infected with the GA1 parasite, and the third group, serving as a placebo, received 50 bites from uninfected mosquitoes. The participants underwent three vaccination sessions at 28-day intervals.

Three weeks after the final vaccination session, the human test subjects were exposed to malaria infection through bites from infected mosquitoes. The results showed that eight out of nine participants in the GA2 group were effectively protected against malaria, while only one out of eight in the GA1 group and none in the placebo group received protection.

The concept of using mosquitoes as “flying vaccinators” has been explored by scientists for years. In 2010, Japanese researcher Shigeto Yoshida modified mosquito saliva to deliver leishmania vaccines to mice, noting that vaccination by insect could be painless and cost-effective. However, concerns about informed consent and medical safety have hindered the development of this approach. That doesn’t appear to be a concern for Bill Gates and the professors he is funding today.

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https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/12/31/researchers-funded-by-bill-gates-turn-mosquitoes-into-flying-syringes-to-deliver-vaccines/

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“Ultimately, God is good,” In-N-Out President and CEO Lynsi Snyder said during an interview with PragerU’s Marissa Streit, detailing how she has continued to lean on Him after experiencing close family loss, leading to her inheritance of the company at the young age of 17.

Snyder sat down with PragerU CEO Marissa Streit and discussed her company and the challenges that come with it, including the tragedies that led her to be in the position she is in and how her reliance on God has carried her through.

Streit asked Snyder what she says to critics who dismiss her achievements and position because she inherited the business. “And my initial reaction was, I can’t imagine at 17 how hard it was to inherit,” Streit added.

“For me, defending myself and trying to get into that, I just had to lay it down a long time ago. And you know, being a Christian and being — accepting that persecution, it’s like I’ve doubled down on people judging me,” Snyder, now 42, said, noting that God’s word says that followers of Jesus can expect this.

“I mean, it says in the Good Book, that as soon as you align yourself with Jesus, and, you know, go by God’s word, it’s like you’re making enemies, you know. And so there’s going to be persecution and I know that if that’s already part of the plan and to be expected, then people just judging me and thinking, you know, she doesn’t really do anything. She’s just a trust fund baby, or whatever they say, you know,” she said, explaining that she finds peace because she knows that God knows the truth, the people in the company know, and “hopefully” the customer base knows “because they see that we’ve held true.”

“You know, we’re still doing the same thing. We’re not changing and doing what everyone else is doing, and we’re not compromising our product. At the end of the day, I know that God knows the truth, and the people that that love me and know me know the truth, and so I just have to let the rest go,” she said, before walking through what a week looks for her and placing an emphasis on reliance on God to get through it.

“My calendar, I’ve shown a few people, and they get, they say they get anxiety just looking at it. But I do feel like God’s given me a high capacity to deal with a lot of stuff,” she said, detailing many meetings with different vice presidents or department heads. … or work in the merchandise department, as she loves the creative outlet. But she said her father’s death “pushed me right into, you know, doing this, the operations.”

“I mean, just really being the guardian and continuing my family’s legacy. Because I was going to pursue other things, but at the end of the day, all the things I was passionate about, I’m able to do in some way here at In-N-Out or through ministry,” Snyder continued.

Snyder, who oversees over 400 restaurants, credits God all the way through for her success, even for setting up a moment for her father and uncle to reconcile before her uncle’s passing.

“It just has to come from God,” she said of forgiveness. “…I see that people that have unforgiveness have poison inside of them, and I think it affects your health. I mean, I really think it affects your health. And because I’ve had so much loss, I’m always pushing people to just forgive,” she said.

“Like, hey, you know, you’re — think there’s a saying that you’re drinking the poison and expecting it to hurt them, you know, but really it’s hurting you, yeah, and — but I do believe that some of the grace and forgiveness I can remember pretty young where I just loved my dad so much, and I saw him struggle, and God just gave me a grace for him, you know. And I saw the way he had that for others, too. And I think that just kind of went with me,” she added.

She also briefly spoke about another thing that makes her company so unique: The Bible verses on the meals.

“That came from my uncle. Yeah, it was actually, you know, not too many years before he passed away, he became a Christian, that he started doing that, and he put them on cups, the packages, and we’ve since added to more,” she said, noting that she has added a few herself.

“The fry boat actually was very personal, and I wanted it to encourage others, and that’s the one about falling and getting back up in Proverbs. And so, you know, the one on the water cup, I don’t want to give it away. I want people to look it up. But the water cup one actually ties to the water,” she continued.

Ultimately, Snyder’s theme throughout the interview is that God is faithful, God is good, and He has carried her through all the loss to where she is now.

“God knew that when I lost my family members that started this company and that were so special to me, I had such strong bonds with all of them — my grandpa, I didn’t meet — but my grandma, my uncle, my dad, you know, were just so, so close to me. In losing them, you can’t replace them. But God did know that I was gaining a giant family, that we were all going the same direction, doing something and trying to make the world a better place,” she said.

When asked what she would tell her 20-something-year-old self, Snyder — now a billionaire — said, “Ultimately, God is good.”

“He has blessed me. I feel like she would recognize that God brought her through a lot of stuff, and she came out the other side, still in one piece, and I think ultimately it just makes me love Him more,” she added.

Watch the full interview below:

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https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/12/30/in-n-out-president-ceo-credits-god-giving-her-strength-lead-ultimately-god-is-good/

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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has said there are signs that the suspect in a deadly car-ramming at Magdeburg Christmas market is mentally ill. The December 20 incident left five people dead, including a child, and over 200 injured.

Faeser told reporters after a closed-door parliamentary committee meeting on Monday that no clear motive had been established for the attack. However, she noted, there were “striking signs of a pathological psyche.”

“The perpetrator does not fit into any previous categorization,” Faeser said, emphasizing the need to learn from the event, particularly in tracking potential suspects who are “psychologically disturbed” or driven by “confused conspiracy theories.” She added that the suspect’s social media presence was extensive, with “tens of thousands of tweets” that have yet to be fully examined.

Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old Saudi psychiatrist, was arrested at the scene after he rammed a car through a crowd. According to German media reports citing unnamed security sources, Abdulmohsen had a history of mental illness and had tested positive for drug use on the night of the attack. A journalist who interviewed Abdulmohsen several years ago described him as having a “twisted mind.”

“I got the feeling that he’s a twisted mind, if you will. I wouldn’t say he is crazy, but he’s inconsistent in his discussions and debates,” Mustafa Fetouri, a reporter and spokesperson for the Association for the Victims of NATO’s Intervention in Libya, told RT. According to Fetouri, it is unlikely that al-Abdulmohsen carried out the attack due to any religious beliefs because “he has no religion” and is “against all forms of religion, including Christianity and Judaism.”

Abdulmohsen has been living in Germany since 2006 and was granted refugee status in 2016. He has a history of legal issues, including a conviction for “disturbance of public peace by threatening crimes” in 2013, which resulted in a fine but did not affect his asylum request. Saudi Arabia had reportedly warned German authorities about Abdulmohsen and requested his extradition, but those warnings were not acted upon.

Lawmakers from various parties have criticized the government’s handling of the case following Monday’s hearing. Konstantin Kuhle of the Free Democrats (FDP) stated that while federal and state authorities were aware of the suspect, they failed to connect all the dots. Gottfried Curio of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) was more critical, claiming that “everything was foreseeable” and calling for deportations instead of naturalizations.

The attack has sparked intense debate about security and immigration policies in Germany, particularly ahead of the February election. Last week, Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to “examine very carefully whether there were any failings on the part of the authorities” and whether any clues were missed.

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https://www.rt.com/news/610213-germany-christmas-attack-mental-disorder/

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The number of homeless persons in the United States has reached 771,000 this year – a record high since the federal government began tracking figures in 2007. According to data released this week, homelessness increased by 18% compared to 2023, marking the sharpest annual rise in decades.

The figure published by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday translates to approximately 23 out of every 10,000 people in the US experiencing homelessness. The increase follows a 12% rise in 2023, which the department attributed to skyrocketing rents and to the conclusion of pandemic assistance.

The crisis underscores the severe lack of affordable housing nationwide, compounded by “rising inflation, stagnating wages among middle- and lower-income households, and the persisting effects of systemic racism,” natural disasters, and an influx of migrants without access to stable housing, according to the HUD statement.

Median rent was up 20% in January 2024 from rent costs for the same month three years earlier, the National Low Income Housing Coalition wrote in March.

According to the HUD, there has been a 39% increase this year in the number of individuals in families with children who depended on shelters or slept outside. This amounts to approximately 259,000 people, the highest figure recorded since data collection began.

The report also shows that nearly 150,000 children were homeless on the targeted January night, a 33% increase from the previous year’s count. Meanwhile, the number of veterans experiencing homelessness declined by 8% from 2023.

The new homelessness figures come amid the Biden administration’s pledge to increase funding for affordable housing and expand services aimed at preventing homelessness. However, advocacy groups argue that more systemic reforms are needed, such as stronger tenant protections, rent controls, and a focus on mental health and addiction services.

The US Supreme Court ruled in June that cities may ban homeless residents from sleeping outside; more than 100 jurisdictions around the country have since taken steps in that direction, Associated Press writes.

On the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly pointed to illegal immigration as the cause of high housing costs, vowing that his plan to carry out “the largest deportation operation in American history” would lower home prices, as quoted by the New York Post. Immigration “is driving housing costs through the roof,” Trump said at a September rally in Arizona.

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https://www.rt.com/news/610174-number-of-homeless-in-us/

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US intelligence officials “silenced” researchers who found evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic was the result of a Chinese lab leak, the New York Post reported on Thursday, citing sources.

According to the outlet, their analysis included “dozens” of data points to back up a lab leak version, but none of them made it to a 2021 report ordered by President Joe Biden, which stated that the virus was “probably not genetically engineered.”

The researchers involved were John Hardham, Robert Cutlip, and Jean-Paul Chretien, who at the time worked at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, part of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, tasked with studying biological weapons threats and infectious diseases. They conducted a scientific study of Covid-19 and concluded that the virus was most likely made in a lab.

According to their findings, the virus contained a biological characteristic that allowed for easier transmission to humans, similar to a feature described in a Chinese study several years back. They also found that a Chinese military researcher applied for a patent for a Covid-19 vaccine mere weeks after the virus was first sequenced in 2020, which meant he must have had the sequence much earlier. Moreover, the researchers found that scientists at China’s research laboratory for coronaviruses in Wuhan, the city in which Covid-19 was first detected, previously worked with US researchers on viruses which won’t have traces of being scientifically-manipulated.

The damning findings, however, were overlooked in the report on Covid-19 origins prepared by the director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, which was presented to Biden in August 2021. The researchers were also reportedly forbidden from sharing their findings, including with Congress and the FBI.

“The scientists who had the subject matter expertise were silenced,” a source close to their work told the New York Post, adding that Biden and other officials were “completely unwitting” about the evidence that the virus was likely the result of a lab leak.

An earlier report by the Wall Street Journal claimed that US intelligence officials also had a hand in excluding the FBI’s findings on the Covid-19 origins from Biden’s report. The FBI was the only US agency at the time to conclude the lab leak theory was likely. However, FBI scientists were not invited to the White House briefing at which Biden was presented with Haines’ report, and their findings were overlooked in it.

Earlier this month, the US Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic published a 520-page report, also concluding that Covid-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan. The report claimed that the Chinese government, agencies within the US government, and members of the international scientific community “sought to cover up facts concerning the origins of the pandemic.”

In 2020, then-President Donald Trump claimed without providing evidence that the virus originated from a Chinese lab. Beijing denied the claim, calling it a reelection tactic aimed at boosting Trump’s standing among Republican voters.

The following year, during Biden’s presidency, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci faced scrutiny over his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic’s origins. Critics allege he downplayed the possibility of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which received US funding for coronavirus research through grants approved by his agency. Emails and congressional hearings have raised questions about whether Fauci sought to suppress discussions of the lab leak theory to protect scientific collaboration. While Fauci has consistently denied any cover-up, the debate has fueled demands for transparency about US involvement in such research.

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https://www.rt.com/news/610065-intelligence-covid-findings-biden/

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The US is significantly expanding its military-biological presence in Africa, raising concerns about sovereignty and healthcare dependencies among participating nations, new analysis from the Russian military has claimed.

According to documents presented on Tuesday, the US is collaborating with local ministries, private contractors, and Big Pharma companies to implement American standards in biological safety and health management in Africa.

The documents indicate that the US military-biological presence on the African continent is rapidly expanding. Studies on the resistance of pathogenic microorganisms to medical drugs are reportedly being conducted in 18 African countries, while funding is provided through the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Here is a breakdown of the countries mentioned in the report from the Russian military.

Ghana and Djibouti Branches of the US Navy Medical Center are located in these countries, where work is being conducted to isolate and sequence pathogens in natural disease hotspots.

Nigeria In 2024, a joint medical research center and a military medical laboratory were established in Nigeria, staffed by US Defense Department specialists. Additionally, the country is funded for HIV projects, where Nigerian citizens participate in clinical trials of drugs by the Pentagon-affiliated company Gilead.

Senegal A $35 million laboratory complex is nearing completion, implemented by Pentagon contractors.

Zambia The US has begun active research into highly dangerous pathogens, funding the enhancement of military medical institutions and retraining healthcare personnel, according to the Russian report.

South Africa The US is organizing joint research on the mpox virus (formerly known as monkeypox). Washington has delivered 10,000 doses of a vaccine produced by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic.

Guinea The US has invested $40 million in healthcare while simultaneously launching a project to study Lassa Fever. Washington’s efforts are mainly directed to undermine Russian-Guinean economic cooperation, Moscow claims.

Kenya The US Army Medical Center has deployed a network of field stations to monitor the spread of infectious diseases in Equatorial African states.

According to Moscow, one of the “real clients” behind military-biological projects is the Metabiota company. Its requests are reportedly directed towards the US Army’s Infectious Diseases Research Institute, and concerns the training of infectious disease specialists in Kenya and Uganda.

Moscow stressed that Metabiota has currently ceased its activities in Africa. Major General Aleksey Rtishchev, who conducted the briefing from the Russia’s Ministry of Defense, described a report by an international group of experts who participated in combating the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in 2014. According to the report, the company’s personnel concealed their engagement with Pentagon employees. The primary goal of this activity was to isolate virulent strains and subsequently smuggle them. As a result, Ebola virus samples were illegally exported by company representatives and handed over to the US Army’s Infectious Diseases Research Institute.

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https://www.rt.com/africa/609870-us-biolab-activity-africa-country-list/

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The US is growing increasingly concerned about joint efforts by Russia and China with African nations to expose Washington’s alleged secret military and biological activities on the continent, the Russian Defense Ministry has said.

The accusations were laid out in a document presented on Tuesday by Major General Aleksey Rtishchev, the deputy chief of Moscow’s Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops.

According to the report, while the US claims its initiatives are aimed at monitoring infectious diseases and providing assistance to African countries, it is actually expanding its military-biological capabilities in violation of the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention (BTWC).

“The Americans are particularly concerned about the work carried out by Russia and China with the states of the continent to expose the true content of the military-biological programs of the United States in connection with the possible restriction of the Pentagon’s activities in this area,” Rtishchev stated.

He warned Moscow’s “African partners against cooperation with the United States in the military-biological sphere,” adding that “such cooperation turns out to be a loss of national sovereignty in the sphere of biosecurity and worsening of the disease situation.”

Moscow and Beijing have repeatedly demanded greater transparency from the US and its allies regarding their military biological activities. Earlier this year, the two countries agreed to unite against biological security threats and strengthen the BTWC, a 1972 treaty signed by 109 nations to block the development of bioweapons.

Last year, the Russian Defense Ministry drew attention to the transfer of Washington’s dual-purpose biological research projects from Ukraine to Africa under the guise of public health programs.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the former head of the Russian Army’s Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops who was recently killed in an explosion, stated that the relocation was in response to Moscow’s efforts to expose the Pentagon’s illegal operations in the European region.

On Tuesday, the Russian military said Africa has become a focal point of interest for the US government, which views the region as an unlimited natural reservoir of dangerous pathogens and a testing ground for experimental medical treatments.

In its latest report, the Defense Ministry identified 18 African countries where research on the resistance of pathogenic microorganisms to medical drugs are reportedly being conducted with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funds. Djibouti, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia, South Africa, and Guinea are among the countries.

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https://www.rt.com/africa/609885-russia-allegations-us-africa-bioweapon-projects/

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The first $1 billion installment of a $20 billion US loan backed by impounded Russian assets has been paid to Kiev, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal announced on Tuesday. Russia has vowed to respond to the “theft.”

It comes two weeks after the US Treasury Department paid $20 billion into a World Bank fund for transfer to Ukraine. The EU has pledged to contribute an additional $20 billion to the fund, while G7 members Britain, Japan, and Canada will add another $10 billion, for a total of $50 billion that will theoretically be repaid over 40 years.

The loan was funded by interest earned from immobilized Russian sovereign assets. An estimated $300 billion worth belonging to the Russian central bank was frozen by the US and its allies following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.

“We expect that all sovereign Russian assets will be confiscated and used to rebuild Ukraine,” Shmigal wrote in a post on X.

In a separate announcement on Tuesday, Shmigal said that Ukraine had also received $1 billion from Japan and the UK via the same World Bank program.

Ukraine’s government, military, and public services have been entirely dependent on foreign aid since 2022, and the cost of sustaining the conflict with Russia has driven the country’s finances into disarray. Last month, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky signed next year’s budget into law. It anticipates revenues of $49 billion and expenditures of $87 billion, an overall deficit of $37 billion.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the seizure of Russian assets will undermine global confidence in the US and its allies, while the Kremlin has repeatedly denounced the asset freeze as “theft” and argued that tapping into these funds would be illegal and set a dangerous precedent.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has warned that Moscow will take legal action against those involved in the asset seizure.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/609894-ukraine-gets-russian-money/

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A man who was allegedly behind the deadly attack at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg was known to law enforcement and the counterterrorism authorities for years, German media outlets reported on Monday. The suspect identified as Saudi national Taleb al Abdulmohsen also underwent several threat assessments by the police, including just weeks before the attack, a regional interior minister has revealed.

Abdulmohsen first entered the security services’ crosshairs as early as in 2015, ZDF TV reported, citing a statement by Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Interior Ministry. At the time, local security officials reported him to the Joint Counter-Terrorism Center as a person who could potentially carry out a violent attack over threats to a regional medical association and a local welfare office.

In September 2023, a female informant also warned the police in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt about Abdulmohsen’s potentially violent intentions, calling the situation “very urgent,” according to broadcaster MDR. The police reportedly did not take any action at the time.

Saxony-Anhalt Interior Minister Tamara Zieschang told regional lawmakers on Monday that the police conducted a threat assessment of Abdulmohsen on two occasions, in 2023 and 2024. They also conducted two “potential security threat interviews” with the man in September 2023 and October 2024 – just weeks before the Christmas market attack.

The measure is used by the German authorities to inform potential perpetrators that the police are monitoring them, to deter them from committing criminal acts. According to Zieschang, the investigation into Abdulmohsen was opened over a post he made on X in December 2023. The proceedings were discontinued after the police failed to find him on several occasions.

The minister refused to make the content of his messages public. Magdeburg Police Chief Tom-Oliver Langhans confirmed that there was a criminal complaint against the suspect in the past, as well as an attempt by the police to assess the threat he posed, but did not provide further details.

Last Friday, Abdulmohsen allegedly drove his car into a crowd at the Magdeburg Christmas market, killing at least five people, including a nine-year-old boy, and injuring 200 others. He was arrested at the scene and identified as the primary suspect in the attack.

According to dpa news agency, Saudi Arabia warned the German authorities about the man around a year ago, but the nature of the warning was not immediately known.

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https://www.rt.com/news/609899-police-monitor-market-attack-suspect/

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It was supposed to be a triumph of modern engineering. The Olmsted Locks and Dam—situated on the Ohio River, an artery of American commerce—was designed to fix the aging infrastructure of Locks 52 and 53. These two rusting, Depression-era relics were falling apart, threatening to grind shipping traffic to a halt on one of the busiest waterways in the country. The Olmsted project would replace them with something better, bigger, and undeniably impressive.

How impressive? For starters, Olmsted is one of the largest and most complex inland water navigation projects in the world. Think of it as the Amazon Prime of river systems—efficient, high-tech, and responsible for keeping everything moving. The system of locks and dams on the Ohio River controls water levels for barge traffic, ensuring that goods—grain, coal, steel, and more—can move efficiently from the Midwest to the rest of the globe.

And move they did. Until the farmers got in the way.

Or rather, until the government got in their way. You see, when you’re holding back that much water, you better know where it’s going to end up. Spoiler alert—they didn’t. Instead, 70,000 acres of farmland—some of the most productive in the country—disappeared under water. Livelihoods were destroyed, 454 farmers lost their land, and the folks who feed you were left holding the bag for one of the most expensive infrastructure projects in U.S. history.

The farmers didn’t ask for this. They didn’t sign up for their fields to become an unintentional reservoir for one of the world’s largest locks and lakes. Yet here they are, mired in bureaucratic limbo, waiting for justice from a government that would rather stonewall than admit, “Oops, we broke your life.”

Why? Because the numbers are big. Really big. If the government acknowledges its colossal mistake, it’ll cost them more than just money—it’ll cost them credibility. And let’s be real: credibility is the one thing Washington pretends to still have. So instead of stepping up, they punted the problem to the Department of Justice. You know, the same DOJ that’s great at prosecuting random nobodies but apparently breaks into a sweat when it comes to helping the actual victims of government incompetence.

Here’s the thing: government isn’t inherently evil. Most of the time, it’s just wrong—wrong in its priorities, wrong in its assumptions, wrong in its execution. But when it refuses to fix what it’s broken? That’s when wrong turns into evil. That’s what these farmers are up against: a system that knows it’s failed but doesn’t have the guts to make it right.

Speaking of guts, where are the voices standing up for these farmers? This is the region J.D. Vance wrote about in Hillbilly Elegy. The Ohio Valley, stretching from Ohio into Kentucky, is the very heartland he claimed to champion. These are his people—the folks who feel the brunt of government neglect. They’re the backbone of this country, and their suffering is the story he used to launch his political career.

And now he’s in the position to finally help these farmers that have been forgotten for years.

And let’s not forget Vice President Kamala Harris, who likes to point out her own roots in this region. She grew up in Ohio, and her family has connections to Kentucky. The plight of these farmers is a direct link to the very places our leaders hail from. Yet the silence on their behalf is deafening.

Speaking of fiscal responsibility, have you checked the national debt lately? We’re $30 trillion in the hole, and adding another trillion every couple of weeks, give or take. And yet, somehow, we always find money to send abroad. Billions to Ukraine, where farmers are understandably fighting to rebuild their lives and fields. That’s fine—great, even. But what about the people here? The ones who feed our country? What is the premise of “America First” if the farmers who feed Europe flourish, while the ones who feed America drown? Literally.

The Olmsted project is an awesome display of what America can do when it sets its mind to something massive. We’re talking about a feat of engineering so advanced it’s like the Apple iPhone of locks and dams. But the same ingenuity that built the thing disappears the second there’s a human cost. And make no mistake: there is a human cost.

America loves its farmers in speeches. Politicians love to pose in front of tractors and slap farmers on the back at county fairs. But when the floodwaters rise—literally—they’re left to fend for themselves. The government could fix this. It could settle, compensate these people, and move on. But instead, it’s choosing to fight, because it’s easier to bury a few farmers in legal red tape than to admit, “Yeah, we wrecked your life.”

This isn’t just a Midwest problem. This is a national disgrace. These farmers didn’t just lose their land—they lost their futures. They’re the reason you have food on your table. And yet, instead of helping them, the government has left them in the lurch.

If you want to know where America’s priorities lie, just follow the money. We’re sending billions overseas while ignoring the people who are literally keeping us fed. A bailout for Wall Street, silence for the people who grow your wheat. This isn’t about being anti-aid or anti-government—it’s about being pro-accountability. If we can find the funds to rebuild other nations, surely we can scrape together the decency to help the people who feed our own.

The Olmsted Dam is a marvel of human achievement, but the story of the farmers it ruined is a marvel of human failure. And until the government steps up to make it right, every time you bite into a slice of bread or a burger bun, remember this: someone paid a hell of a price for it, and it wasn’t the DOJ.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/when-government-flooded-americas-breadbasket-walked-away/

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The U.S. government spent millions of dollars on experiments torturing cats, compliments of the U.S. taxpayers.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) highlighted over $1 trillion in government waste in this year’s Festivus report, but there seems to be a few that involve our feline friends, uncovered by the White Coat Waste Project.

According to the report, the Department of Defense (DOD) spent $10,851,439 on what it describes as an “Orwellian Cat Experiment.” The experiment was completed under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the University of Pittsburgh.

White Coat Waste Project 🥼🗑️ @WhiteCoatWaste

In this year's #Festivus airing of grievances, Sen. Rand Paul features CAT-astrophic gov waste exposed by WCW 🧵

🦠$2M Fauci-funded COVID experiment on cats 🙀$10M to shove marbles up cats’ butts for constipation tests (DOD) 🤢$1.5M to spin cats for motion sickness tests (NIH)

The experiment involved slicing the back of male cats, exposing their spinal cords. Researchers then used electrodes which “fired off electric shocks while the incision was still open to make cats have an erection.”

It gets worse, as researchers continued to torture cats, shocking them up to ten minutes at a time and severing their spinal cords:

But the horror doesn’t end there. These cats were then subjected to even more electric shocks, sometimes for up to 10 minutes at a time, before having their spinal cords severed to paralyze their lower bodies. And just for good measure, the shocks continued for another 10 minutes. All this, in the name of “science.”

In another shocking DARPA-funded experiment, researchers “attached electrodes to cats’ spinal cords and inserted condom- balloons into their colons and marbles into their rectums.”

“The objective? To force these poor animals to defecate the marbles via electric shock,” the report found. One cat was shocked for 11 minutes:

Your hard-earned money, nearly $11 million of it, was spent on experiments that would be more at home in a dystopian novel than the real world. It’s a grim reminder that, when left unchecked, government spending can drift into realms that defy common sense.

White Coat Waste Project 🥼🗑️ · Dec 23, 2024 @WhiteCoatWaste · Follow Replying to @WhiteCoatWaste Fauci didn't just torture beagles!

Sen. Paul's report includes WCW’s exposé of ongoing Fauci-funded experiments where cats are infected with COVID, observed as they suffer & are then killed.

This has cost taxpayers over $2M from the NIH and USDA 💸

White Coat Waste Project 🥼🗑️ @WhiteCoatWaste

Sen. Paul also takes aim at a $10M+ DOD project WCW exposed that entails electro-shocking cats to give them erections & shoving marbles up their butts & for constipation experiments.

Are ya kitten me?

The report would not be complete without highlighting cruel experiments at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), formally led by Dr. Anthony Fauci –.and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which spent $2.24 million on experiments.

The NIAID and the USDA have given Cornell University $2.24 million to “study whether felines can contract and transmit COVID-19.” This experiment, again, involved taking healthy cats, injecting them with the illness and watching them suffer, ultimately killing them:

Some were killed as early as two days after being infected. Some weren’t even infected with COVID-19 since they were the “control” group, yet they were still killed. Throughout the experiment, the cats were completely isolated in cages.

There is one more highlighted in the waste report, as well. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $1,513,299 on a study that involved training female kittens to submit and then torturing them by strapping them to a spinning and tilting hydraulic table. The goal was to cause motion sickness. Bright lights were shined in their eyes, and they received an injection of copper sulfate to make them puke.

“According to the NIH, the purpose of these experiments is to study how different species, such as cats and monkeys, respond to motion sickness,” the report wrote, asserting that the American people would surely reject this reasoning as legitimate justification for torture.

White Coat Waste Project 🥼🗑️ @WhiteCoatWaste

If that spending didn't make you sick, this might:

Sen. Paul's report includes WCW's exposé of a $1.5M NIH project that makes cats nauseous by shocking them & spinning them 100s of times for motion sickness tests. Some cats have holes drilled into their skulls to restrain them.

Read the entire waste report here.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/23/orwellian-rand-paul-festivus-report-shows-feds-spent-millions-torturing-cats/

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The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has spent more than a decade preparing to carry out an operation that resulted in pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Lebanon in September, CBS reported over the weekend, after interviewing two recently retired senior agents who allegedly spearheaded the effort.

Mossad first started to work with walkie-talkies, according to CBS sources. The intelligence agency designed a battery for them that had an explosive device within it and later infiltrated the supply chain through a string of shell companies to hide its traces.

“We create a pretend world. We are a global production company: We write the screenplay, we’re the directors, we’re the producers, we’re the main actors,” one of the former agents said. Eventually, the Israeli operatives reportedly managed to sell over 16,000 of the exploding walkie-talkies to the Lebanon-based militant group, Hezbollah, according to the report.

The Israeli intelligence services did not stop at that and aimed for the devices the Hezbollah members would have on them “at all times” next, CBS said. That is how pagers came into play in 2022.

According to the two former agents, the agency had run numerous tests to determine the exact amount of explosives needed to injure a pager owner, with almost no collateral damage.

The devices designed by Mossad reportedly had no intelligence capabilities and could not be used for tracking or surveillance. “There’s almost no way how to tap it,” one of the former operatives said, adding that the pagers were essentially just small bombs.

Mossad found out that Hezbollah was buying such devices from a Taiwan-based company, Gold Apollo. It then set up more shell companies, including one in Hungary, to dupe Gold Apollo into cooperation, without sharing any of its plans with the Taiwan-based company. The spy agency fully manufactured the pagers that were then sold through its licensed partnership with Gold Apollo.

The intelligence service even hired the company’s saleswoman dealing with Hezbollah to promote their product. It also went on a massive fake ad campaign on YouTube and elsewhere on the net that even included fake online testimonials supposedly verifying their pagers’ quality.

“When [Hezbollah] are buying from us, they have zero clue that they are buying from the Mossad. We make like the ‘Truman Show,’ everything is controlled by us behind the scene,” one of the former agents said. By September 2024, the Lebanon-based movement had about 5,000 pagers on their hands, according to CBS.

All those efforts were aimed at just crippling and scaring their foes, the former agents admitted. “We want them to feel vulnerable, which they are,” a former Mossad operative said. Another one said that the intelligence agency wanted people caught up in that plot to literally serve as a living warning to Israel’s adversaries.

“Those people without hands and eyes are living proof, walking in Lebanon, of ‘don't mess with us’,” he told CBS. The September 17 attacks killed at least 42 people, including 12 civilians – and injured over 3,500, including women and children. West Jerusalem had denied any involvement in those incidents for months until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed responsibility for the attacks in mid-November.

The scheme drew international condemnation, with UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Turk labeling it a “shocking” and “unacceptable” act that violates human rights laws. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the UN General Assembly in September branded it a “glaring example of terrorist methods.”

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https://www.rt.com/news/609844-mossad-exploding-pagers-attack-details/

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A letter signed by nearly 100 “national security professionals” against Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence contains smears rather than facts, according to a closer review by Breitbart News.

The letter was published earlier this month by Foreign Policy 4 America, a left-of-center, Soros-funded organization founded in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to InfluenceWatch.org.

The letter, signed by a number of former Obama and Clinton administration officials and partisan retired military officers, claimed that following Gabbard’s trip to Syria in 2017, she “aligned” herself with Russian and Syrian officials.

It said, “She publicly cast doubt on U.S. intelligence reports and overwhelming public reporting that Assad carried out chemical weapons attacks against Syrian civilians, giving credence to the debunked conspiracy that the attack was staged by agents of the United Kingdom.”

Rather, after her trip to Syria, Gabbard did not say she did not believe Assad carried out the attacks. She said it was “irrelevant” what anyone believed, but that she wanted “evidence and facts.”

She said in an April 7, 2017, interview on CNN:

What I believe, what you believe or others believe, is irrelevant. What matters here is the evidence and the facts. If President Assad is found to be responsible after an independent investigation for these horrific chemical weapons attacks, I’ll be the first one to denounce him, to call him a war criminal and to call for his prosecution the International Criminal Court make sure that those consequences are there.

She added, “…all I’m saying is that we have an executive branch of government and a legislative branch of government, and we need to see the evidence. Congress and the American people need to see and analyze this evidence and then make a decision based on that, whether or not an authorization of U.S. military force is necessary, and what I’m telling you is that that hasn’t happened. I have not seen that independent investigation occur, and that proof presented showing exactly what happened. And there are a number of theories that are out there on exactly what occurred that day.”

The letter cites as an example of her casting doubt on whether Assad carried out the attacks was a statement on her website that did not absolve Assad, but rather, said, “There is evidence that both the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad as well as the armed opposition groups aligned against him have used chemical weapons (CW) during the Syrian war.”

The letter also states that Gabbard “released a video insinuating that U.S.-funded labs in Ukraine were developing biological weapons and that Ukraine’s engagement with NATO posed a threat to Russian sovereignty, both arguments initially used by Russia to justify its illegal invasion of Ukraine.”

Gabbard in the video did not say U.S.-funded labs in Ukraine were developing biological weapons, she said, “According to the US government, these bio-labs are conducting research on the use of pathogens” — a statement that was supported by then-Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland.

Nuland told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in March 2022, “Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned…Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of. So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.”

Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard

There are 25+ US-funded biolabs in Ukraine which if breached would release & spread deadly pathogens to US/world. We must take action now to prevent disaster. US/Russia/Ukraine/NATO/UN/EU must implement a ceasefire now around these labs until they’re secured & pathogens destroyed.

In addition, a recent Wall Street Journal article admits that the U.S. was funding the bio-labs. It said: “U.S. funding of Ukrainian biological labs has focused on efforts to improve security and prevent the escape of pathogens.”

Furthermore, a March 20, 2022 Wall Street Journal article also confirmed that the U.S.-funded labs were working with “dangerous biological materials”:

On his first official visit abroad, the new senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, was taken to a facility in Ukraine where the U.S. helped scientists working with dangerous biological materials. But rather than produce biological weapons, U.S. officials in that ramshackle building were trying to prevent lethal pathogens from falling into the hands of terrorists.

“I removed a tray of glass vials containing Bacillus anthracis, which is the bacterium that causes the anthrax,” recalls Andrew Weber, the Pentagon official who was in charge of the U.S.-funded program that worked with the Ukrainian government. Mr. Weber said he showed the tray “to a very concerned-looking young senator.” The letter also states, “Her sympathy for dictators like Vladimir Putin and Assad raises questions about her judgment and fitness,” but fails to mention that Gabbard has called Assad a “brutal dictator”

Gabbard has also criticized Putin multiple times as well.

On April 3, 2022, she posted:

President Putin, not only is your brutal attack on Ukraine reprehensible, it has been a huge geopolitical error which has already cost Russia dearly. Those costs will get higher every day you remain in Ukraine. So it is in the best interest of the Russian people and the people of Ukraine, that you pull your forces out now. It is still not too late to salvage the kinship felt between the Russian and Ukrainian people, as expressed in this video clip from a Ukrainian soldier.

Gabbard later posted on X on February 25, 2022:

On a visit to Ukraine, I met a number of everyday Ukrainians who have become good friends over the years. Some are stuck in Kyiv, others trying to get to the Poland border. They’re scared & worried for their families. Please join me in praying for their safety and the safety of all Ukrainians. Please join me in calling on US, Russian, and Ukrainian leaders to SERIOUSLY negotiate an end to this war (not just political posturing); and call on Putin to end his crackdown on anti-war Russian protestors.

It also claimed that Gabbard would be the “least experienced Director of National Intelligence since the position was created.”

“Prior directors had executive branch experience working on intelligence matters or served on a congressional intelligence committee. Most have also had significant management experience,” it said.

However, as retired three-star Air Force General Dan Leaf recently pointed out in an op-ed, the current DNI, Avril Haines, had a background in physics and law, not intelligence.

Leaf wrote in the Washington Times: “Those who decry Ms. Gabbard’s qualifications for the role must think that the current director’s background — degrees in physics and law, an inside-the-Beltway existence since 2003 — outweigh Ms. Gabbard’s military service, including combat deployments and time on the House Armed Services Committee. Perhaps Director Avril Haines has a long list of accomplishments that Americans don’t know about.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/23/letter-signed-by-national-security-professionals-against-tulsi-gabbard-includes-unfounded-smears/

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President Joe Biden has acted 28 days before he leaves office to commute the sentences of 37 of 40 individuals on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment.

AP reports a long list of convicted offenders will be spared after they were sentenced for a range of criminal acts including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as well as the killings of guards or prisoners in federal facilities.

“I’ve dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” Biden said in a statement confirming the commutations.

“Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.”

The three inmates who will remain on federal death row include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who helped carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and Dylann Roof, who in 2015 shot and killed nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.

Robert Bowers, who killed 11 Jewish worshippers during a 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, will also remain on death row.

Biden took a political jab at President-elect Donald Trump while making his announcement, saying, “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”

For his part, AP notes Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has spoken frequently of expanding executions.

In a speech announcing his 2024 campaign, Trump called for those “caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts.”

He later promised to execute drug and human smugglers while during his first term as president, Trump also advocated for the death penalty for drug dealers.

As Breitbart News previously reported, at the beginning of December, Pope Francis called for people to pray “for those on death row in the United States,” and that the inmates’ “sentences may be commuted.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/23/biden-commutes-sentences-of-32-death-row-inmates/

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President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates on death row on Monday — including cold-blooded murderers who had killed entire families, and predators who had slaughtered innocent children.

For example, Ricardo Sanchez, Jr., and Daniel Troya had been convicted for the brutal murder of an entire family. As Palm Beach, Florida, CBS affiliate 12 News recalled, the two “shot and killed a mother, father, and their two young children”:

The murders occurred early in the morning of October 13, 2006, when the pair stopped the family’s Jeep Cherokee along the Turnpike, outside of Fort Pierce.

Each family member – Jose Luis Escobedo, Luis Damian Escobedo, Luis Julian Escobedo, and Yessica Guerro Escobedo – was shot and left their bodies there. Sanchez and Troya drove off in both their Dodge Ram van and the Escobedo’s black Jeep Cherokee.

The Palm Beach Post added:

In 2009, Daniel “Homer” Troya and Ricardo “Ricky” Sanchez, Jr. were convicted of carjacking resulting in death and other felonies for their roles in the 2006 deaths of Jose “Lou” Escobedo, his wife Yessica, and their two young sons aged 4 and 3. Their bodies were found riddled with bullets off the side of Florida’s Turnpike in Port St. Lucie.

Federal prosecutors said that their drug trafficking boss, Danny Varela, ordered the hit to wipe out a large drug debt and to steal 15 kilos of cocaine Escobedo, who was the group’s cocaine smuggler, had with him at the time. Sanchez and Troya followed the Escobedos north to the Daytona Beach area where Jose made the drug pickup, and then killed them on the Turnpike, prosecutors said.

Another death row prisoner, Thomas Sanders, had been convicted in 2014 for kidnapping an murdering a 12-year-old girl. The FBI recalled his crimes in a press release at the time of his sentencing:

Sanders met Suellen Roberts, 31, in the summer of 2010 when Roberts rented a storage unit at a warehouse in Las Vegas where Sanders worked. Roberts and Sanders began dating, and approximately two months later Roberts agreed that she and her 12-year-old daughter, Lexis, would go on a trip with Sanders over the Labor Day weekend to a wildlife park near the Grand Canyon. As they were returning to Nevada after three days of traveling, Sanders pulled off Interstate 40 in a remote location in the Arizona desert and shot Suellen Roberts in the head and forced Lexis Roberts into the car, keeping her captive.

Sanders drove several days across the country before he murdered Lexis Roberts in a wooded area in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. Evidence at trial established that Sanders shot Lexis Roberts four times, cut her throat and left her body in the woods, where a hunter found her body on Oct. 8, 2010.

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At trial, the jury heard a recorded confession in which Sanders admitted killing the mother and daughter.

Another murderer whose sentence Biden commuted was Philadelphia drug kingpin Kaboni Savage. The local Philadelphia NBC affiliate recalled that Savage “was convicted of murdering 12 people, which included a family of six killed in a brutal firebombing.”

It added:

The family Savage firebombed in 2004 belonged to Eugene Coleman, his former confident turned FBI informant. In retaliation, Savage killed Coleman’s mother plus his cousin, his infant son and three other children. Coleman was in prison at the time.

Although Savage was also incarcerated at the time of the firebombing, he orchestrated the attack through phone calls and prison visits and communicated with other inmates through prison plumbing pipes.

The only three federal inmates still on death row are Dylan Roof, who murdered nine black parishoners in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; Robert Bowers, who murdered eleven Jews in the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in 2018; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two Islamic terrorist brothers behind the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.

A full list of the 40 federal inmates (now 37) formerly on death row can be found here.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/23/biden-spares-murderers-who-killed-entire-families-including-children-infants/

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The Associated Press

Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk’s X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given its owner’s support of President-elect Donald Trump, or wanting an alternative to Meta’s Threads and its algorithms.

The platform grew out of the company then known as Twitter, championed by its former CEO Jack Dorsey. Its decentralized approach to social networking was eventually intended to replace Twitter’s core mechanic. That’s unlikely now that the two companies have parted ways. But Bluesky’s growth trajectory — with a user base that has more than doubled since October — could make it a serious competitor to other social platforms.

But with growth comes growing pains. It’s not just human users who’ve been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division or direct users to junk websites.

The skyrocketing user base — now surpassing 25 million — is the biggest test yet for a relatively young platform that has branded itself as a social media alternative free of the problems plaguing its competitors. According to research firm Similarweb, Bluesky added 7.6 million monthly active app users on iOS and Android in November, an increase of 295.4% since October. It also saw 56.2 million desktop and mobile web visits, in the same period, up 189% from October.

Besides the U.S. elections, Bluesky also got a boost when X was briefly banned in Brazil.

“They got this spike in attention, they’ve crossed the threshold where it is now worth it for people to flood the platform with spam,” said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University and a member of Issue One’s Council for Responsible Social Media. “But they don’t have the cash flow, they don’t have the established team that a larger platform would, so they have to do it all very, very quickly.”

To manage growth for its tiny staff, Bluesky started as an invitation-only space until it opened to the public in February. That period gave the site time to build out moderation tools and other distinctive features to attract new users, such as “starter packs” that provide lists of topically curated feeds. Meta recently announced that it is testing a similar feature.

Compared to the bigger players like Meta’s platforms or X, Bluesky has a “quite different” value system, said Claire Wardle, a professor at Cornell University and an expert in misinformation. This includes giving users more control over their experience.

“The first generation of social media platforms connected the world, but ended up consolidating power in the hands of a few corporations and their leaders,” Bluesky said on its blog in March. “Our online experience doesn’t have to depend on billionaires unilaterally making decisions over what we see. On an open social network like Bluesky, you can shape your experience for yourself.”

Because of this mindset, Bluesky has achieved a scrappy underdog status that has attracted users who’ve grown tired of the big players.

“People had this idea that it was going to be a different type of social network,” Wardle said. “But the truth is, when you get lots of people in a place and there are eyeballs, it means that it’s in other people’s interests to use bots to create, you know, information that aligns with their perspective.”

Little data has emerged to help quantify the rise in impersonator accounts, artificial intelligence-fueled networks and other potentially harmful content on Bluesky. But in recent weeks, users have begun reporting large numbers of apparent AI bots following them, posting plagiarized articles or making seemingly automated divisive comments in replies.

Lion Cassens, a Bluesky user and doctoral candidate in the Netherlands, found one such network by accident — a group of German-language accounts with similar bios and AI-generated profile pictures posting in replies to three German newspapers.

“I noticed some weird replies under a news post by the German newspaper ‘Die Ziet,’” he said in an email to The Associated Press. “I have a lot of trust in the moderation mechanism on Bluesky, especially compared to Twitter since the layoffs and due to Musk’s more radical stance on freedom of speech. But AI bots are a big challenge, as they will only improve. I hope social media can keep up with that.”

Cassens said the bots’ messages have been relatively innocuous so far, but he was concerned about how they could be repurposed in the future to mislead.

There are also signs that foreign disinformation narratives have made their way to Bluesky. The disinformation research group Alethea pointed to one low-traction post sharing a false claim about ABC News that had circulated on Russian Telegram channels.

Copycat accounts are another challenge. In late November, Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech, found that of the top 100 most followed named individuals on Bluesky, 44% had at least one duplicate account posing as them. Two weeks later, Mantzarlis said Bluesky had removed around two-thirds of the duplicate accounts he’d initially detected — a sign the site was aware of the issue and attempting to address it.

Bluesky posted earlier this month that it had quadrupled its moderation team to keep up with its growing user base. The company also announced it had introduced a new system to detect impersonation and was working to improve its Community Guidelines to provide more detail on what’s allowed. Because of the way the site is built, users also have the option to subscribe to third-party “Labelers” that outsource content moderation by tagging accounts with warnings and context.

The company didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment for this story.

Even as its challenges aren’t yet at the scale other platforms face, Bluesky is at a “crossroads,” said Edward Perez, a board member at the nonpartisan nonprofit OSET Institute, who previously led Twitter’s civic integrity team.

“Whether BlueSky likes it or not, it is being pulled into the real world,” Perez said, noting that it needs to quickly prioritize threats and work to mitigate them if it hopes to continue to grow.

That said, disinformation and bots won’t be Bluesky’s only challenges in the months and years to come. As a text-based social network, its entire premise is falling out of favor with younger generations. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that only 17% of American teenagers used X, for instance, down from 23% in 2022. For teens and young adults, TikTok, Instagram and other visual-focused platforms are the places to be.

Political polarization is also going against Bluesky ever reaching the size of TikTok, Instagram or even X.

“Bluesky is not trying to be all things to all people,” Wardle said, adding that, likely, the days of a Facebook or Instagram emerging where they’re “trying to keep everybody happy” are over. Social platforms are increasingly splintered along political lines and when they aren’t — see Meta’s platforms — the companies behind them are actively working to de-emphasize political content and news.

The Associated Press receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content. 🤣

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https://www.breitbart.com/news/bluesky-finds-with-growth-comes-growing-pains-and-bots/

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The Associated Press

Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk’s X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given its owner’s support of President-elect Donald Trump, or wanting an alternative to Meta’s Threads and its algorithms.

The platform grew out of the company then known as Twitter, championed by its former CEO Jack Dorsey. Its decentralized approach to social networking was eventually intended to replace Twitter’s core mechanic. That’s unlikely now that the two companies have parted ways. But Bluesky’s growth trajectory — with a user base that has more than doubled since October — could make it a serious competitor to other social platforms.

But with growth comes growing pains. It’s not just human users who’ve been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division or direct users to junk websites.

The skyrocketing user base — now surpassing 25 million — is the biggest test yet for a relatively young platform that has branded itself as a social media alternative free of the problems plaguing its competitors. According to research firm Similarweb, Bluesky added 7.6 million monthly active app users on iOS and Android in November, an increase of 295.4% since October. It also saw 56.2 million desktop and mobile web visits, in the same period, up 189% from October.

Besides the U.S. elections, Bluesky also got a boost when X was briefly banned in Brazil.

“They got this spike in attention, they’ve crossed the threshold where it is now worth it for people to flood the platform with spam,” said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University and a member of Issue One’s Council for Responsible Social Media. “But they don’t have the cash flow, they don’t have the established team that a larger platform would, so they have to do it all very, very quickly.”

To manage growth for its tiny staff, Bluesky started as an invitation-only space until it opened to the public in February. That period gave the site time to build out moderation tools and other distinctive features to attract new users, such as “starter packs” that provide lists of topically curated feeds. Meta recently announced that it is testing a similar feature.

Compared to the bigger players like Meta’s platforms or X, Bluesky has a “quite different” value system, said Claire Wardle, a professor at Cornell University and an expert in misinformation. This includes giving users more control over their experience.

“The first generation of social media platforms connected the world, but ended up consolidating power in the hands of a few corporations and their leaders,” Bluesky said on its blog in March. “Our online experience doesn’t have to depend on billionaires unilaterally making decisions over what we see. On an open social network like Bluesky, you can shape your experience for yourself.”

Because of this mindset, Bluesky has achieved a scrappy underdog status that has attracted users who’ve grown tired of the big players.

“People had this idea that it was going to be a different type of social network,” Wardle said. “But the truth is, when you get lots of people in a place and there are eyeballs, it means that it’s in other people’s interests to use bots to create, you know, information that aligns with their perspective.”

Little data has emerged to help quantify the rise in impersonator accounts, artificial intelligence-fueled networks and other potentially harmful content on Bluesky. But in recent weeks, users have begun reporting large numbers of apparent AI bots following them, posting plagiarized articles or making seemingly automated divisive comments in replies.

Lion Cassens, a Bluesky user and doctoral candidate in the Netherlands, found one such network by accident — a group of German-language accounts with similar bios and AI-generated profile pictures posting in replies to three German newspapers.

“I noticed some weird replies under a news post by the German newspaper ‘Die Ziet,’” he said in an email to The Associated Press. “I have a lot of trust in the moderation mechanism on Bluesky, especially compared to Twitter since the layoffs and due to Musk’s more radical stance on freedom of speech. But AI bots are a big challenge, as they will only improve. I hope social media can keep up with that.”

Cassens said the bots’ messages have been relatively innocuous so far, but he was concerned about how they could be repurposed in the future to mislead.

There are also signs that foreign disinformation narratives have made their way to Bluesky. The disinformation research group Alethea pointed to one low-traction post sharing a false claim about ABC News that had circulated on Russian Telegram channels.

Copycat accounts are another challenge. In late November, Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech, found that of the top 100 most followed named individuals on Bluesky, 44% had at least one duplicate account posing as them. Two weeks later, Mantzarlis said Bluesky had removed around two-thirds of the duplicate accounts he’d initially detected — a sign the site was aware of the issue and attempting to address it.

Bluesky posted earlier this month that it had quadrupled its moderation team to keep up with its growing user base. The company also announced it had introduced a new system to detect impersonation and was working to improve its Community Guidelines to provide more detail on what’s allowed. Because of the way the site is built, users also have the option to subscribe to third-party “Labelers” that outsource content moderation by tagging accounts with warnings and context.

The company didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment for this story.

Even as its challenges aren’t yet at the scale other platforms face, Bluesky is at a “crossroads,” said Edward Perez, a board member at the nonpartisan nonprofit OSET Institute, who previously led Twitter’s civic integrity team.

“Whether BlueSky likes it or not, it is being pulled into the real world,” Perez said, noting that it needs to quickly prioritize threats and work to mitigate them if it hopes to continue to grow.

That said, disinformation and bots won’t be Bluesky’s only challenges in the months and years to come. As a text-based social network, its entire premise is falling out of favor with younger generations. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that only 17% of American teenagers used X, for instance, down from 23% in 2022. For teens and young adults, TikTok, Instagram and other visual-focused platforms are the places to be.

Political polarization is also going against Bluesky ever reaching the size of TikTok, Instagram or even X.

“Bluesky is not trying to be all things to all people,” Wardle said, adding that, likely, the days of a Facebook or Instagram emerging where they’re “trying to keep everybody happy” are over. Social platforms are increasingly splintered along political lines and when they aren’t — see Meta’s platforms — the companies behind them are actively working to de-emphasize political content and news.

The Associated Press receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content. 🤣

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California Democrats have written to outgoing Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to ask for more than half a billion dollars in funding for an ailing high-speed rail project that President-elect Donald Trump defunded in 2019.

As Breitbart News reported, Trump withheld $1 billion in funding from the project after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) canceled the original project. Newsom had explained to the state legislature that the original plan for a Los Angeles-to-San Francisco “bullet” train “would cost too much and, respectfully, would take too long.” Trump then demanded the state refund the money federal taxpayers had given it — applying the same rules that hold in the private sector.

Newsom resisted, and when President Joe Biden was elected, he restored the funding. Biden also added federal funding to a different high-speed rail project — a Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas train that shows more commercial promise and was originally started by private investors. Trump is unlikely to stop the latter project — but he is unlikely to support the former, which now only plans to connect stations in the interior regions of California.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday:

Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff joined Reps. Pete Aguilar, D-San Bernardino; Jim Costa, D-Fresno; and Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, on Friday in calling for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to approve $536 million for the project. In a letter addressed to Buttigieg, they called the project “essential.”

The money would fund design work on the first two segments of the project from Bakersfield to Palmdale (Los Angeles County) and from Gilroy to a junction point in the Central Valley south of Chowchilla (Madera County). Specifically, the money would fund the designing of tunnels through the Tehachapi Mountains in Southern California and through the Pacheco Pass in Northern California.

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California voters initially approved $10 billion in bond funding for the project in 2008. At the time, it was projected to cost $33 billion and be completed by 2020. Sixteen years later, the project has blown past both of those estimates. Its projected costs have soared to between $89 billion and $128 billion. Even under the rosiest projections, no segments will be completed and ready for riders until 2030 at the earliest.

The request for money for high-speed rail is just one last-minute request California Democrats have sent to the White House. Last week, the Biden administration approved Newsom’s plan to eliminate sales of gas-powered cars by 2035 — despite the fact that sales of electric vehicles, even in California, are far too slow to meet the target. President-elect Trump is expected to repeal that policy as soon as he takes office, along with other federal electric vehicle mandates.

Trump has chosen former Republican congressman Sean Duffy to be his nominee for Secretary of Transportation, continuing a tradition of nominating officials from the Midwest, historically the country’s transportation hub.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/22/california-democrats-ask-buttigieg-for-half-a-billion-dollars-for-high-speed-rail-before-trump/

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The transition team of US President-elect Donald Trump hopes to pull the country out of the World Health Organization (WHO) the first day of the new administration, thus cutting one of the agency’s major cash flows, the Financial Times (FT) has reported, citing health experts.

Members of Trump’s team told the experts that they intend to announce a withdrawal from the global health body on inauguration day, January 20, the FT wrote on Sunday. Some in the team reportedly want the US to stay in the WHO but push to reform it. However, another group, which hopes to cut ties, is reportedly winning the argument.

The transition team wants Trump to withdraw from the WHO on the first day because of the “symbolism” of reversing Joe Biden’s own inauguration-day move, FT wrote, citing Ashish Jha, former White House Covid response coordinator to the US President.

On January 20, 2021, Biden restarted relations with the UN body, after his then-predecessor Trump initiated a withdrawal process in line with his criticism of the WHO’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

”America is going to leave a huge vacuum in global health financing and leadership. I see no one that is going to fill the breach,” Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health at Georgetown Law told FT. The plan to withdraw “on day one” would be “catastrophic”, he added.

The WHO is a UN body that acts as a coordinating authority on international health issues. The agency gets its funding from dues-paying member states as well as voluntary contributions. The US has been one of the organization’s largest donors for decades, and, according to its data, is currently the second-largest contributor among its member states.

In 2020, Trump accused the WHO of being under China’s control amid the coronavirus pandemic. The president claimed that Beijing had pressured the organization to “mislead the world” about the virus and pledged to direct US funds to other global public health charities instead.

Under a 1948 Congressional resolution, the US can withdraw from the WHO but must give a year's notice and should pay outstanding fees. The Trump team, however, did not comment directly on the potential withdrawal, noted FT.

In November, Trump nominated long-time vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy to become US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). RFK Jr. was among the vocal critics of the WHO-recommended Covid-19 response measures imposed by governments around the world, namely strict lockdowns and the introduction of rapidly developed vaccines.

Kennedy’s nomination has yet to be approved by the Senate.

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https://www.rt.com/news/609763-us-quit-who-trump-inauguration/

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Dozens of people took to streets in the Italian city of Genoa to pay tribute to Russian General Igor Kirillov and to condemn the EU and NATO for backing Kiev during the conflict with Russia. Kirillov was killed in a Ukrainian terrorist attack earlier this week.

Kirillov, who headed Russia’s Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Protection Forces, and his aide, Lieutenant Colonel Ilya Polikarpov, were assassinated by an improvised explosive device planted on an electric scooter parked outside a residential building in Moscow on Tuesday morning.

The next day, a man from Uzbekistan was arrested for allegedly carrying out the attack. According to the Russian Investigative Committee, the suspect admitted that he had been recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services to kill the general in exchange for a $100,000 reward and an exit route to a European country.

Footage made during the rally in Genoa captured the demonstrators tossing EU and NATO flags on the pavement and trampling on them.

They displayed banners declaring, among other things, that Italy is grateful to Kirillov for his service and remembers the Russian general, who became “a victim of terrorism by Ukraine and NATO.”

Many also carried the Italian and Russian national flags. A replica of the Victory Banner, which is a symbol of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany during the Second World War, was also seen on display.

During his tenure, Kirillov had frequently accused the US of conducting secretive biological research under the guise of humanitarian aid and military cooperation in Ukraine and other countries. He also blamed Kiev for using banned chemical weapons on the battlefield amid the conflict with Moscow.

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin described Kirillov’s killing as a terrorist attack perpetrated through “publicly dangerous” means.

“The regime in Kiev has repeatedly committed such crimes – terrorist attacks against many citizens of Russia,” Putin said, adding that “we have never heard condemnation of such terrorist attacks” in the West.

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Did you know that the omnibus CR funding bill that GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson put forward would have enshrined a number of aspects of the WHO Treaty into law in America?

Did you know it expanded COVID lockdown law to other diseases? Did you know it reiterated and strengthened laws that provide legal immunity for vaccine manufacturers?

I’m guessing you didn’t because almost no one did but all these things are true and Congressional leadership seems hell bent on bringing it back. While a full evaluation of everything this nightmare does let me offer a few examples of the shadiness as a means of explanation.

Hundreds of pages of this continuing resolution spending bill were dedicated to health policy. Why? The purpose of the bill is to keep the government funded – temporarily – until an actual budget could be passed (I know – ha ha).

Regardless of the likelihood of Congress doing their job and passing a budget, the Republican led House ought to want to pass something minimalistic so that the next Congress and incoming Trump administration can fight for their agenda more fully. Instead, we have major critical provisions everywhere.

While the focus here is on the corrupt health policies included in the bill, it should be noted that there is also a related provision of the bill that would have supported the State Department Global Engagement Center (GEC).

The GEC worked with numerous NGOs from other nations to promote censorship during COVID and, in light of the major focus on health policy in this bill, it appears that the continued support for the GEC is likely to be based on a desire to continue to censor information on health.

That censorship has been incredibly severe and it seems like this provision is timed to provide legal cover for censorship activities related to the upcoming plandemics that Peter Hotez referenced recently in an interview.

In the shadow of this nightmarish backdrop – Congress drops this bill. The bill was written in a way designed to hide its true purpose. This is particularly true in terms of its expansion of COVID lockdown laws. For example, here is a portion of page 724 of the bill:

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Lines 9-15 really look innocuous and make almost no sense… at least until you look at what they mean in context. These lines reference other law and changes a few words so let’s look at what they change. Here’s the law as it is written today:

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As you can see the law that is being changed is in reference to creating a “National Health Security Strategy” and a “public health workforce.” This section of law was created specifically to put people in place to deal the “COVID emergency”.

The new bill changes about 7 words but completely changes the law. With the changes, the newly updated law would read:

(3) PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE

The National Health Security Strategy shall include a national strategy for establishing, maintaining, and sustaining an effective and prepared public health workforce, including defining the functions, capabilities, and gaps in such workforce (including gaps in the environmental health and animal health workforces, as applicable), describing the status of such workforce, identifying strategies to recruit, retain, and protect such workforce from workplace exposures during public health emergencies, and identifying current capabilities to meet the requirements of section 300hh-2 of this title.

This means that instead of letting an old COVID policy expire, we are now creating and funding a permanent “public health workforce” to deal with “public health emergencies.” We were told repeatedly that COVID was a once in a century plandemic so why do we need a permanent workforce to deal with this sort of thing?

A similar example can be found on pages 740 and 741. Here we see 42 USC 247d-7e being amended in a way that makes very little sense.

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Here’s the original section of law:

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The new section would read like this:

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(D) Supporting innovation

To carry out the purpose described in paragraph (2)(D), the Secretary may award contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements, or enter into other transactions, such as prize payments, to promote—

(i) innovation in technologies that may assist countermeasure and product advanced research and development, including to improve manufacturing capacities and capabilities for medical countermeasures;

(ii) research on and development of research tools and other devices and technologies; and

(iii) research and development of medical countermeasures for priority virus families that have significant potential to cause a pandemic, including such countermeasures that take either pathogen-specific or pathogen-agnostic approaches, and platform technologies to improve the development and manufacture of such medical countermeasures; and”;

(iv) research to promote strategic initiatives, such as rapid diagnostics, broad spectrum antimicrobials, vaccine-manufacturing technologies, dose-sparing technologies, efficacy-increasing technologies, platform technologies, technologies to administer countermeasures, and technologies to improve storage and transportation of countermeasures.

This addition of section iii is significant. While a bit vague, the section appears to authorize research very broadly. It could also easily be read to allow gain of function work on about any virus family out there as long as it was being done to “create a cure.”

The language about pathogen specific or agnostic approaches allows for additional research on platforms/gene therapies – like mRNA, DNA, etc. It also broadly authorizes research into “platform technologies” that may include transhumanist concepts such as nano-tech. None of this is required under the law but the Secretary may offer such awards.

This might all be fine with Bobby Kennedy at the helm but if we have another crooked clown at HHS like we have now you can bet that the loosely written nature of this section would be leveraged.

In my mind, before such broad discretion is provided to the executive branch to basically research anything and everything, using any means necessary to find cures to any potential disease perhaps we ought to consider the ethical failures of the last 4 years.

Why would Congress authorize the Secretary to fund risky research in a CR funding bill? This was clearly meant to be unnoticed.

Ultimately this bill was a disaster and appears to have been shelved. That said, the fact that Mike Johnson would put forth a bill that does so much damage to our freedom should be terrifying.

This bill would open the door to the WHO treaty being implemented in the next emergency, limit Kennedy’s ability to deal with many issues related to healthcare, and expand COVID lockdown powers.

If they tried to sneak it through once they will try again and we MUST remain vigilant.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/tom-renz-omnibus-cr-funding-bill-who-treaty/

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