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Victor Davis Hanson Delivers Brilliant Summation of Trump’s ‘counter revolution’
When Elon Musk asked how Norm Eisen could be financed, I replied, “If the United States govt gave money to Qatar, knowing Qatar was going to send that money to organizations within the USA intended to carry out an objective of a small group in U.S. govt., what would that be called?”
Qatar is a major source of funding for the Brookings Institute. Brookings funds various Lawfare operations, including Norm Eisen. The extended process is quite simple. If elements within the U.S. Govt., wanted to indirectly fund Brookings, could they do it by sending funds to Qatar?
The question is not supposition, because this was the exact process Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta used for the State Dept to send weapons to the Libyan “rebels,” aka Operation Zero Footprint.
Operation Zero Footprint was the State Dept/CIA sending funds to Qatar, and the Qatari govt then purchasing missiles from the CIA to give to al-Qaeda affiliates in Libya. We can consider the historic Iran-Contra scandal under a similar framework. However, the nuanced difference is about sending money toward a foreign govt (via USAID), while knowing the money would return to fund a domestic agenda inside the USA.
Example: USAID sends money to the U.K, and then British political allies send political operatives into the USA to support Kamala Harris. We know the latter part of that sentence happened. So, did the Biden administration (Samantha Power) fund the Labour Party operation?
Are the various political NGOs and activist groups in the USA actually funded, indirectly, by U.S. taxpayers? Many signs point to, yes.
Against this high likelihood, it becomes just a natural extension of the process if U.S. politicians are beneficiaries of the circular laundry operation. That is what Representative Tim Burchett believes will surface if the DOGE team follow the money trail. WATCH:
February 14, 2025
We keep hearing that the Deep State is in full-blown panic mode—and while some critics might dismiss it as wishful thinking, the facts say tell us otherwise, don’t they?
The unelected bureaucrats who’ve been running this country into the ground fought like hell to keep President Trump out of office—throwing everything at him, including the kitchen sink. And why did they do that? Just because they don’t like him? Hardly. They did it because they knew if he made it back to the White House, their jig was up.
They knew this wasn’t 2016 anymore. A Trump win in 2024 would spell big trouble for their entire operation.
And they were right.
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The uniparty, media, and left-wing radicals don’t want to admit it, but their precious Deep State is crumbling. And one of their biggest problems is that President Trump’s administration is more America First than ever.
Last time around, they made sure to stack his cabinet with a plethora of traitors and backstabbers. But Trump—who was a newcomer to the dirty world of politics back then—learned from his mistakes. This time around, he rolled into The Swamp with a posse that has his back.
And as we recently reported, Trump is using a whole new strategy. He’s moving at breakneck speed—firing off rapid-fire policies, executive orders, and decisions faster than the media, Dems, and Deep State can respond. They’re frazzled, flailing, and falling way behind.
And that’s exactly how it should be.
Even some experts, like Mark Halperin, have been left speechless
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The United States Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), spearheaded by entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk, has axed a controversial $21 million taxpayer-funded grant that was designed to boost “voter turnout in India.”
This allocation was merely a fragment of a staggering $486 million budget under the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening” initiative approved during the Biden regime.
But that wasn’t all. DOGE’s latest findings revealed that another $29 million had been designated for “strengthening the political landscape in Bangladesh”, a country that recently witnessed significant political upheaval amid allegations of U.S. ‘deep state’ involvement in orchestrating the removal of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, according to NDTV.
The Musk-led department confirmed that several other overseas projects funded by U.S. taxpayers have also been axed.
Below is the full list:
Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at the Munich Security Conferenceyoutu.behttps://www.youtube.com/live/pCOsgfINdKg?si=iW9xEliWM0E1JbI7
EXCERPT FROMTHIS ARTICLE: Most of the press coverage has focused on the fact that the balloon had a lot of U.S. tech on board. For example, it was communicating with Beijing via Iridium satellite communications. Less attention has been paid to the fact that the balloon was carrying gliders. That means it was carrying devices that could be dropped in flight and then glide down to a safe landing on the ground.
“Sensor Drop. A high-altitude balloon can drop autonomous gliders that travel to land near targets of interest. The gliders can be outfitted with sensors to detect anything from micro vibrations (i.e. passing trucks, tanks) to radiation or chemical particles (affluents) in the air. Targets might include military, nuclear, or chemical production or storage facilities. A balloon could deploy dozens of gliders. With a conservative 10-to-1 glide ratio, a GPS guided glider released at 60,000 feet could travel over 100 miles to its target.”
We don’t know exactly what those gliders carried because they had all been dropped before the balloon came down. The container within the balloon’s payload, which held them, was empty when it was recovered. Presumably, that means those gliders are somewhere on American soil. Of course, that could be anywhere, but I’ll put my money on somewhere near the key facilities located at all those American nuclear facilities the balloon was allowed to circle by China Joe.
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14 Feb 2025
ROME — Jesuit Father James Martin has struck back at the “internet,” launching the disingenuous and counter-factual claim the Vatican “is not a walled city.”
Father Martin, a gay rights activist, was responding to critics who have pointed out the obvious irony involved in Pope Francis’ harsh criticisms against U.S. immigration policy while the Vatican itself is the only walled sovereign territory in the world.
The massive, 40-foot-high walls surrounding Vatican City State were built by Pope Leo IV, after Islamic Saracen troops sacked Old St. Peter’s Basilica in 846 AD.
The original wall encompassed the entire Vatican hill, surrounding what came to be known as the Leonine City, but was later reduced to circumscribe the 110-acre Vatican City that exists today.
The current walls span a full 2 miles in length, completely surrounding the territory. Saint Peter’s Square and Basilica are technically on Vatican territory and are open to the public but moving beyond the square or the basilica into the interior of the Vatican involves passing check points manned by armed Swiss Guards.
The extent of the Vatican walls can be grasped from this accurate visual from WorldAtlas.com:
Father Martin’s ill-advised foray into Vatican topography sought to counter a barrage of criticism aimed at the pope’s equally ill-advised letter to the American bishops on the question of U.S. immigration policy and Vice President J.D. Vance’s defense of it using the Catholic principle of ordo amoris (the order of love).
In that letter, the pontiff stated that any rightly formed conscience can see the error of identifying “the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.”
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Elon Musk reported that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) spent $59 million last week alone – all on immigrants in New York City. Part of that was for housing, including luxury properties like The Row and The Watson, meant for tourists headed to see the marquees of Broadway. (Later the feds clawed back $80M from the city).
Open the Books previously reported that FEMA had an enormous $8 billion shortfall in its Disaster Relief Fund following the catastrophic damage of Hurricane Helene.
Well, FEMA is not the only agency that’s been spending gobs of taxpayer dollars on the immigration crisis. Programs span various agencies.
Included is the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), housed inside the Department of Health and Human Services subagency called the Administration for Children and Families.
ORR has spent over $22.6 BILLION since 2020 on grants to nonprofits providing everything from help accessing Medicaid to help building credit, help with home and auto loans, and cash assistance. Yes, cold hard cash!
While Department of Homeland Security is often thought of as the main agency in charge of migration policy and spending in the United States, ORR spends tens of billions a year setting up refugees in the United States. Programmatic activities had a focus on, but were not exclusive to, unaccompanied children.
As Open the Books previously reported, one ORR program helped participants save for car and home purchases, another gave out business and personal loans to help them build credit. Another program helped with “legal assistance,” “cultural orientation,” and “emergency housing support.”
These acted as giant magnets for those seeking to cross the border and claim asylum.
As spending from ORR exploded, Open the Books also identified instances where the agency was expanding the scope of criteria for individuals eligible for its funding. For example, in its 2023 Congressional Budget Justification, the agency suggested the following changes to expand its mandate:
Total amount of new grants awarded by ORR, from FY 2020-2024
2020: $2,682,493,224.22
2021: $2,352,120,351.54
2022: $3,378,055,499.50
2023: $10,035,487,466.68
2024: $4,207,541,746.00
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BREAKING: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just announced that his team has discovered a staggering $20 BILLION that the Biden regime laundered to corrupt NGOs. Zeldin has referred the matter to the Inspector General & Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of
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Many of these transgender animal grants were coded in the NIH’s “Sexual and Gender Minorities” category — a category routinely used to route diversity equity and inclusion grants — which accounted for approximately $373 million of spending in 2023.
One experiment at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, cost Uncle Sam $668,250 — a sum well spent while studying whether mice receiving so-called”gender-affirming hormone therapy” responded well to treatments for kidney failure.
At the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, $2,587,605 has been spent since 2019 turning mice transgender to study testosterone treatment on “reproductive phenotype and function and determine the reversibility of these effects following cessation” of the hormone.
In Oregon, $9,738,868 has been spent at Health & Science University to “expand and improve knowledge of the developmental and neurobiological determinants of sexual partner preferences/orientation using domestic sheep as the experimental model.” The goal was to turn rams gay by controlling testosterone secretion by the fetal testes.
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The demise of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been swift and total. But while liberals have devolved into literal tears over the dissolution of the once-obscure foreign aid agency, they should not mourn its passing if they are truly concerned about America’s “standing” in the world.
USAID, for all practical purposes, was running its own foreign policy. Through strategic grants, it bred dependency that allowed it to in effect take over large segments of the charity/NGO (non-governmental organization) sector around the world. To say it bestrode the world stage like a giant would not be unfair. The Pentagon’s procurement office could learn something from the manner in which USAID utilized everything from newspapers to theaters and even vaccination campaigns to advance its agenda.
Whether that agenda was in the best interests of the United States is, to say the least, doubtful.
The original mission of USAID, which President Kennedy established in 1961, was to advance American influence by advancing American values around the world. During the Cold War, when there was something of a common American culture, socially “progressive” within a civically Judeo-Christian, pro-free market mindset, there was little contradiction between advancing America’s perceived values and boosting American influence.
In a conflict against an atheistic, socialist Soviet Union, the idea that humans should be free to believe what they wished was at once both conservative and “progressive.” When the status quo across much of the world was feudalism or central planning, the idea that anyone, regardless of religion, race, or gender should be able to own property or start a business was both “progressive” and capitalist.
What changed after the 1990s was the values that USAID sought to advance.
Equality is universal. Everyone should be treated the same regardless of background. Equity and DEI, on the other hand, are divisive. These concepts define people based on immutable characteristics like race and sex. By embracing DEI, USAID ceased advancing the shared interests of the United States and the people of the world, and instead chose specific individuals and groups to favor, most notably those dedicated to LGBT or feminist causes and religious or ethnic minorities.
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