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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
It's starting to sound like Politico was a RICO operation.

It sounds like the entire DNC, including some RINOs, is a RICO operation.


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Well, the DNC never claimed to be any kind of news org., let alone an independent one. And while we all know Politico leaned pretty left, if you work in DC, it's a good paper to read to know who's where and what's going on around town. But to find out it was a taxpayer-funded, state-controlled propaganda apparatus means its leadership is totally corrupt and probably has some splainin to do to advertisers and subscribers.

Bull. Go to politico’s website right now and 90 percent of the articles on their homepage are either negative for Trump or pro liberal.

They’re nothing but Pravda for the demoncrats.

What a fucking swamp.

This USAID thing is turning into a major scandal, holy crap.

No WONDER the Democrats are raging mad right now, Trump just flipped over that rock and these cockroaches are scuttling away as fast as they can after he just exposed their grifting operation.

I'll bet you this is only the tip of the iceberg!

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Originally posted by TigerDore:

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
It's starting to sound like Politico was a RICO operation.

It sounds like the entire DNC, including some RINOs, is a RICO operation.
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McConnell? Murkowski? Collins?

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Gitmo the U.S. military base has been criticized around the world for its inhumane abuse and torture of detainees, including in interrogation tactics.

El Salvador says "Here hold my beer"

Exposing USAID is the best thing so far that Musk and his team have done, these guys are going to dig so deep into the corruption.

Would someone have DOGE get a list of Nancy Pewloski's stock trades and tie it to events that the government did, or market changes based on company releases (ie prove insider trading) then let the DOJ loose on her, her family members, the companies giving her the intel...

Big Deportation Raids Begin In Tren De Aragua-Infested Aurora, Colorado

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...sted-aurora-colorado

Holy Cow… if only half of what has been discovered is true, it is a massive scam.

Excellent must-see interview with Mike Benz, but the last 2 minutes is a mind fuck.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/...nistration-day-17%2F

Where your USAID Dollars went:

YOU PAID FOR IT... BUT NOT ANYMORE! Breaking This Morning, the White House releases more projects that you paid for with USAID, the wasteful unaccountable government agency that has been dismantled by DOGE and Elon Musk! Here is a look at where your tax dollars went (including terror groups!): I hope you're proud! ⤵️
— $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language”
— $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
— $4.5+ million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan
— $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities”
— $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
— $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles”
— $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society”
— $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals, which went to an al Qaeda-linked terrorgroup
— $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia
— $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam
— $16.8 million for a SEPARATE “inclusion” group in Vietnam
— ~$5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab
— $20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax
— $1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group”
— $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium”
— $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica
— $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America
— $500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel (just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack)
— $2.3 million for “artisanal and small scale gold mining” in the Amazon
— $3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans
— $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda
— $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world”
— $6.3 million for men who have s*x with men in South Africa
— $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion”
For decades, USAID bureaucrats believed they were accountable to no one — but that era is over. President Trump is STOPPING the waste, fraud, and abuse.

https://www.theguardian.com/us...-foreign-aid-freezes

Bondi's DOJ Day 1 directives: Fight weaponization of justice, eliminate cartels, lift death penalty ban
Bondi ends the moratorium on federal executions; warns prosecutors of discipline if working against DOJ mission; and more

By Brooke Singman | Fox News
Published February 5, 2025 12:24pm EST

EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi will issue several major directives on her first day leading the Justice Department, including orders to combat the weaponization of the legal system; make prosecutors seek the death penalty when appropriate; and work with the Department of Homeland Security to "completely eliminate" cartels and transnational criminal organizations, Fox News Digital has learned.

Bondi was confirmed by the Senate Monday night as attorney general of the United States and was sworn in on Tuesday.

Fox News Digital exclusively obtained memos outlining Bondi’s first-day directives, which will lay the groundwork for the Justice Department under her leadership.

Bondi issued a directive regarding "zealous advocacy." Bondi said DOJ attorneys’ responsibilities include "aggressively enforcing criminal laws passed by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges."

"The discretion afforded Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute their personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election," the memo states.

"When Justice Department attorneys refuse to faithfully carry out their role by, for example, refusing to advance good-faith arguments or declining to sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers," the memo continues.

Bondi, in the memo, states that "any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination."

Bondi is set to establish the "Weaponization Working Group," which will review the activities of all law enforcement agencies over the past four years to identify instances of "politicized justice."

The working group’s first reviews will include prosecutions against Trump led by former Special Counsel Jack Smith; Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg; and the civil fraud case brought against Trump and his family by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The working group will also review any potential prosecutorial abuse regarding Jan. 6, 2021; the FBI’s targeting of Catholic Americans; the Justice Department’s targeting of parents at school board meetings; and FACE Act abuses.

Meanwhile, Bondi also will end the moratorium on federal executions and order that federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice, including U.S. attorney’s offices, seek the death penalty when appropriate —specifically with a focus on violent drug trafficking crimes.

Bondi also ordered that the Justice Department "re-evaluate instances of the prior administration electing not to seek the death penalty."

Bondi also is expected to rescind any DOJ policies that are "not sufficiently in line with President Trump’s death penalty executive order."

The move represents a major reversal from the Justice Department’s view of the death penalty under the Biden administration. In 2021, Biden allowed the DOJ to issue a moratorium on federal executions.

In December 2024, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 criminals on federal death row, which President Donald Trump, in his executive order on the death penalty, described as the "most vile and sadistic rapists, child molesters, and murderers on Federal death."

Bondi said she is now also directing the Justice Department to achieve justice for the families of the victims of the 37 murderers that had their death sentences commuted.

As for cartels, Bondi is directing the Justice Department to work closely with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal partners to "completely eliminate" the threats of cartels and transnational criminal organizations.

Bondi plans to re-imagine charging priorities relating to those cases in order to ensure that law enforcement resources are focused on dismantling the foundational operational capacity of cartels, as opposed to just picking off low-level offenders.

Here, the Justice Department is expected to temporarily suspend some "bureaucratic approvals and reviews" in order to prioritize speedy prosecutions and captures of those accused of severe offenses like capital crimes, terrorism, or aiding the operations of cartels.

Bondi said Joint Task Force Vulcan, which was created to destroy MS-13, and Joint Task Force Alpha, which was created to fight human trafficking, would be "further empowered and elevated" to the Office of the Attorney General. Their missions are expected to expand—specifically Vulcan’s—with a new focus on destroying Tren de Aragua.

Also on the cartel front, Bondi is directing the DOJ Office of Legal Policy to find legislative reforms to target equipment designed to make fentanyl pills and add Xylazine, a new deadly drug, to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act.



And as for illegal migrants, Bondi has directed the DOJ to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities.

Bondi has also directed the DOJ to identify and evaluate all funding agreements with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide support to illegal aliens.

She is also directing litigating components of the Justice Department to investigate instances of jurisdictions that are impeding law enforcement, and directing they be prosecuted, when necessary.

Meanwhile, Bondi will also create a new Joint Task Force on October 7 focused on holding Hamas accountable for its crimes against Jews during its terror attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The task force will also "achieve justice for victims and fight terrorist-led anti-Semitism."

The task force on Oct. 7 will pursue criminal charges where applicable against Hamas; seek the arrest and extradition of Hamas leadership; and investigate anti-Semitism in the United States.

Bondi is also directing the FBI to staff the joint task force with personnel "significantly experienced in investigating terrorism."

Beyond those directives, Bondi is directing the DOJ to confirm the termination of all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs at the department by March 15. She also is demanding the removal of all references to DEI in training programs—specifically ending the emphasis on race and sex-based criteria and refocusing hiring and promotion guidelines "solely on merit."

Bondi will also work with the Department of Education to ensure that educational institutions receiving federal grants are adhering to "fair admission practices."

Bondi, a longtime prosecutor and former Florida attorney general, has vowed not to use her position to advance any political agenda, testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee that "politics has to be taken out of this system."

Bondi told lawmakers in January that the "partisanship, the weaponization" at the Justice Department "will be gone."

"America will have one tier of justice for all," she said.

Before Bondi was confirmed, Fox News Digital exclusively reported that the Trump Justice Department fired more than a dozen key officials who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team prosecuting Trump, after Acting Attorney General James McHenry said they could not be trusted in "faithfully implementing the president’s agenda."

And Friday, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove issued a memo to the acting FBI director directing him to terminate eight FBI employees and identify all current and former bureau personnel assigned to Jan. 6 and Hamas cases for an internal review.

After the directive, on Tuesday, a group of nine FBI agents filed a lawsuit seeking to block the public identification of any FBI employees who worked on the Jan. 6 investigations into the U.S. Capitol riots in an attempt to head off what they described as potentially retaliatory efforts against personnel involved in the probe.

At the bottom of the ZeroHedge article listed on the previous page.

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At the start of the week, a US Air Force spy plane conducted a SIGINT operation over the southern half of Baja California, a region home to heavily armed Tijuana Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel members. This might indicate US operations against cartels are nearing. 

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...sted-aurora-colorado

https://report.az/en/analytics...nted-its-leadership/

OCCRP mentioned in video.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
McConnell? Murkowski? Collins?

I would not be at all surprised.

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Our Broken Healthcare System
By Sloan Oliver

Attention, younger readers (under 40). Talk to your elders (those who grew up in the 1940s through the 1970s); growing up back then, none of us ever heard of peanut allergies, ADHD, or gluten intolerances because they didn’t exist. The only vaccines we received were smallpox, polio, and DTP (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough). There was no MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), chickenpox, flu, or hepatitis vaccine. Our immunization came when we got the mumps, measles, chickenpox, or any of the other childhood illnesses. We ate every meal at home, and carried our “mom-prepared” lunches to school. We seldom ate processed food. On the rare occasions we did, it was a TV dinner. We walked or rode bikes to school, played outside at recess, played outside after school, and played outside all day on weekends and during the summer. Also, playgrounds were packed with kids playing pick-up games. As a result, there were very few “fat kids,” perhaps one per class of 30. In 1965, the childhood obesity rate for children under age 11 was 4.2%.

That is how children ate, played, and maintained their health some 50-plus years ago. It was similar for adults -- very few processed foods, very few food additives, most meals at home, no annual flu vaccines, very few doctor visits, and very little obesity. The one bad health habit was smoking, which was everywhere. (Thankfully, smoking is greatly reduced.)

Today, it’s completely different -- countless kids have food/peanut allergies, celiac disease, gluten intolerance, ADHD, and a host of other maladies. Autism has exploded to approximately 1-in-150 children (in 2000) to 1-in-36 children in 2020. Kids frequently eat at fast-food restaurants. And when they eat at home, much of the food is processed. You never see playground pick-up games anymore. Children get very little physical activity because daily they spend upwards of 8-to-10 hours gazing, zombie-like, at their phones. As for the vaccines, in addition to the ones given 60 years ago, kids receive dozens more to include respiratory vaccines, HPV, rotavirus, MMR, annual flu, and on and on with the jabs. The CDC even recommends infants as young as six months get the COVID shot, and continue those COVID stabs forever. When kids get sick, off to the doctor they go who prescribe endless pills for their chronic diseases.

RFK, Jr.As a result, today children are less healthy and have more illnesses than ever. We’ve been in the midst of a national health crisis for at least two decades. Obesity is a huge health problem. By 2023, childhood obesity has risen to 20%. Adult health is even worse; 74% are overweight which includes over 40% rated obese, even worse among Hispanics and blacks. Most adults sit all day long in front of screens (at work) then the TV at home, intermixed with hours staring at cell phones, all while stuffing ourselves with addictive processed foods. Adult physical (un)fitness has gotten so bad that the military has problems finding recruits that meet the height-weight standards because, as a country, we’re too fat.

When you consider what’s happened to our food, our deteriorating health should surprise nobody. Everything is processed. Meat, poultry, and dairy are fed bioengineered grains and so jammed with growth hormones, I wouldn’t be surprised if that ribeye, in the meat cooler, has a heartbeat and continues to grow. Our vegetables and grains are all genetically modified in the lab such that none can reproduce naturally, yet we eat it all. Then, look at the food label ingredients; sugars and artificial sweeteners are near the top followed by various salts (sodium), closely followed by additives that sound like a chemistry experiment. Many of these are banned in Europe but allowed here. It might look like cheese or a burger but we have no idea what we’re eating because we have no idea how it was raised or what’s in it. Yet, Big Food wants us to blindly accept that their food is nutritious and healthy, and to believe the healthcare system cares about our health as they demand we stuff ourselves with more and more processed, bioengineered, lab created “food.”

The healthcare industry isn’t. Doctors, nutritionists, nurses, pharmacists, Big Pharma, Big Food, etc. want to manage our ill-health while doing little to promote good health. You want proof? Obesity is perhaps the country’s greatest health problem. Obesity leads to heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, liver disease, strokes, mental health problems, decreased fertility, and many other illnesses. Given that, when was the last time your doctor or nurse said anything about your weight? Instead of telling parents the best way for their kids to lose weight and to be healthy is by staying active and by eating healthy, the “healthcare” industry prescribes Ozempic to 12-year-old children. In the last 50 years, we’ve become much less healthy. However, nobody has bothered to examine holistically the consequences of what bioengineered foods, processed foods, endless fast-food meals, no exercise, microplastics, pesticides, endless prescription pills, and dozens and dozens of vaccines have done to Americans.

With our nation’s declining health and myriads of health problems, over the past two decades, only one man, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tried to draw attention to these issues. He even ran for president mostly on health issues. When Kennedy was forced out of the race, President Trump took up his cause to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) and frequently had Kennedy campaigning with him to encourage better health. To promote his MAHA agenda, Trump named Kennedy the next secretary of Health and Human Services.

Last week, Kennedy had his Senate confirmation hearing. During his opening statement he said that diabetes, autoimmune diseases, cancers, asthma, Alzheimer’s, depression, and addictions are all increasing. Poignantly he said, “A healthy person has a thousand dreams. A sick person has only one.” Good health shouldn’t be a partisan issue. You would think everyone, including Dems, would celebrate someone adamant about improving health, especially children’s health, and would embrace Kennedy’s cause. Ha -- you don’t know the food industry, Big Pharma and Big Healthcare. They’re the ones who made America the world’s most unhealthy, developed country. They’ve gotten wealthy off of our bad health and demand that the status quo continue. Using Democrat senators (Liz “Pocohontas” Warren, Bernie Sanders, Dick Durbin, etc.), they are doing everything possible to destroy Kennedy’s nomination. The same group of politicians that have done nothing about the exploding obesity rate, about our declining health, and chronic childhood diseases are defending Big Pharma while screaming at the one guy who’s actually trying to reverse those trends.

If you agree, call your senators and demand they vote to confirm RFK Jr.

https://www.americanthinker.co...althcare_system.html

Just think of what Trump and Elon are going to uncover going forward.
The USAID is only .07% of the gov spending.

I hope and wish they could follow the funds back to the corrupt gov officials that are getting kickbacks.

The corruption is deep and am very glad something is being done.

Hell I want my taxes cut and my money back that has been wasted through the years.

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Last week, Kennedy had his Senate confirmation hearing. During his opening statement he said that diabetes, autoimmune diseases, cancers, asthma, Alzheimer’s, depression, and addictions are all increasing. Poignantly he said, “A healthy person has a thousand dreams. A sick person has only one.” Good health shouldn’t be a partisan issue. You would think everyone, including Dems, would celebrate someone adamant about improving health, especially children’s health, and would embrace Kennedy’s cause. Ha -- you don’t know the food industry, Big Pharma and Big Healthcare. They’re the ones who made America the world’s most unhealthy, developed country. They’ve gotten wealthy off of our bad health and demand that the status quo continue. Using Democrat senators (Liz “Pocohontas” Warren, Bernie Sanders, Dick Durbin, etc.), they are doing everything possible to destroy Kennedy’s nomination. The same group of politicians that have done nothing about the exploding obesity rate, about our declining health, and chronic childhood diseases are defending Big Pharma while screaming at the one guy who’s actually trying to reverse those trends.

Because their funding is from Big Pharma, if we had allowed Ivermectin and not allowed the push for Covid Vaccines then we'd have saved billions of dollars of insurance payouts, premiums, and the risk associated with the shots.

Sanders and Lieawatha are the two largest recipients of Big Pharma Money..