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  • U.N. Chief Guterres Calls for $4 Trillion in Aid Donations to ‘Turn the World Around’

    07/02/2025 5:35:38 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 47 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/02/2025 | Simon Kent
    U.N. chief Antonio Guterres wants to “turn the world around” but is lacking in one thing: other people’s money. On Monday the veteran Portuguese socialist acknowledged the financial shortfall and demanded the world step up and give to the globalist organization to fill the gap in aid donations. Guterres made his call at a meeting in Valencia, Spain, citing a “$4 trillion financing gap” as cause for immediate action. He noted “massive headwinds” exist since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew USAID contributions to U.N. projects soon after he returned to the White House via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)...
  • Biden Admin Rushed Out $90 Billion in Green Loans After Trump’s 2024 Victory

    06/24/2025 8:57:02 PM PDT · by Mr. Mojo · 30 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 24 Jun 2025 | JASMYN JORDAN
    U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is slamming the Biden administration for what he calls an “absolutely infuriating” last-minute spending spree, revealing that more than $90 billion in green energy loans were pushed through by the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office in the weeks between President Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection and his January inauguration. In an interview with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle, Wright detailed the results of a newly completed review of the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, revealing that “more than $90 billion in loans were closed or committed in the 76 days between...
  • Trump to Congress: Kill the Green New Scam

    06/23/2025 8:38:50 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 23 replies
  • Carbon Tax and the Green Deal: The EU’s Climate Heist Is Underway

    06/21/2025 12:43:54 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 10 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | June 20, 2025, 10:03 PM | Thomas Kolbe
    The EU cloaks supranational tax increases in green.On the hunt for fresh sources of cash, the European Commission has zeroed in on households and motorists. A planned expansion of the EU’s carbon pricing scheme to include home heating and transportation fuels is set to plug Brussels’ gaping budget deficit — at the expense of its citizens. What we are witnessing is a fiscal smash-and-grab dressed up in green. Starting in 2027, private homes, small businesses, and passenger vehicles will be folded into a second emissions trading system (ETS2), placing them under the strict control of EU-level cap-and-trade mechanisms. This bureaucratic...
  • Guess Who’s POCKETING The $100 Million Donated To The LA FireAid Concert!

    06/19/2025 5:25:26 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 33 replies
    YouTube ^ | 06/19/2025 | Jimmy Dore Show
    The fire aid concert raised over a $100 Million, but where did all the money go? Jimmy Dore went to the the Annenberg Foundation who are in charge of the funds, to find out more. After repeated emails, phone calls, etc with no replies, they eventually heard from Barbara Chen of Annenberg. Turns out most of the money went into the pockets of NGO’s, etc with just 30% going to the actual victims of the fire. Anyone surprised? Nope. This is LA after all.
  • What if the Foundation of the Climate Scare Was a Calculated Lie?

    06/18/2025 11:08:17 AM PDT · by SharpenedEdge · 54 replies
    Issues and Insights ^ | 6/18/2025 | SharpenedEdge
    Issues & Insights "Carbon dioxide, we’ve been told over and again, is the enemy that must be subdued if we are to avoid catastrophic global warming. It is, however, a faulty premise. Physics, not politics, tells us that man’s CO2 emissions will not cause catastrophic climate change nor an increase in extreme weather. “The common belief that CO2 is the main driver of climate change and the EPA Endangerment Finding assertion that ‘elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated’ to endanger the public health and welfare are scientifically false,” conclude the authors of a new...
  • USAID Gave Known Con Man $800M Contract To Do Kamala’s Work On ‘Root Causes Of Migration’

    06/18/2025 7:48:40 AM PDT · by Twotone · 18 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | June 17, 2025 | Luke Rosiak
    President Joe Biden’s USAID awarded an $800 million contract to a business operating out of a Virginia home even after it formally ruled that its key manager lacked “honesty or integrity” — a reference to the fact that, according to a May 12 guilty plea, he had secured USAID contracts through bribery for a decade. The contract was for addressing “issues affecting the root causes of irregular migration from Central America to the United States” — the work that Biden assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris, but which she never appeared to address, a Daily Wire investigation found. The Department...
  • Hawaii just passed the first climate tax in U.S. history. Tourists will foot the bill. $100M a year. Here’s what lawmakers aren’t saying out loud.

    06/16/2025 7:34:10 AM PDT · by davikkm · 100 replies
    The ink is dry. Hawaii has officially become the first state in the nation to impose a climate tax. It’s called the Green Fee. The name sounds harmless. The impact is anything but. Senate Bill 1396 is now law. It tacks on a 0.75% increase to the Transient Accommodations Tax. That means every hotel stay, every short-term rental, every cruise ship docking in the islands will now carry a new surcharge. The state expects this to rake in $100 million annually. This isn’t a symbolic gesture. It’s a full-scale revenue engine. The money will be funneled into climate resilience projects....
  • Insurers Are Covering Up Wide-Scale Medicaid Fraud

    06/05/2025 6:34:44 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 7 replies
    The American Mind ^ | 06.04.2025 | John C. Eastman and Jacob Kuriyan
    New Mexico’s program is just the tip of the iceberg.While experts have long dismissed large-scale Medicaid fraud as improbable, evidence from New Mexico tells a different story. This discovery presents an unprecedented opportunity to offset part of the $880 billion budget deficit without cutting healthcare services for enrollees.As the most powerful stakeholders, insurers frame fraud as an issue with hospitals, physicians, and enrollees while quietly escaping scrutiny themselves. A 2020 Health and Human Services report claimed that fraud in Medicaid fee-for-service stood at 12.3%, compared to just 0.3% in Medicaid managed care, reinforcing the industry’s message that managed care is...
  • Duffy moves to defund California high-speed rail after blistering federal review

    06/04/2025 2:51:53 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 44 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 4, 2025 | Michael Dorgan
    It could be the end of the line for the "train to nowhere." Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has released a scathing report exposing what he said is the unfeasibility of California's long-troubled high-speed rail project — and is threatening to pull the plug on a plan that already has the federal government on the hook for $6.9 billion while Californians are underwriting an additional $9 billion. Duffy said that the federal government is moving to terminate around $4 billion it has currently obligated to the project unless the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) can prove it is tenable. He blasted...
  • Jeff Bezos’ dazzling fiancée Lauren Sanchez, who rocketed to space with her girlfriends, sailed into Cannes on a $500 million superyacht to accept a climate-justice award.

    05/29/2025 12:32:02 PM PDT · by george76 · 80 replies
    Luxury launches ^ | May 27, 2025 | Neha Tandon Sharma
    Preaching climate justice while arriving in a half-a-billion-dollar superyacht? That’s the kind of cinematic irony Lauren Sánchez served at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, pulling off a Leonardo DiCaprio moment of her own. The Amazon founder’s fiancée made her Cannes debut while being honored at the prestigious Global Gift Foundation charity gala for her environmental efforts through the Bezos Earth Fund and her work in social justice with This Is About Humanity, an organization that reunites families separated at the US-Mexico border. Interestingly, the soon-to-be Mrs. Bezos was joined by tech tycoon Jeff Bezos and their permanent third wheel, the...
  • 'No sign of respite' in global warming for coming years, UN says

    05/28/2025 4:04:34 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 61 replies
    France24 ^ | May 28, 2025
    The United Nations warned Wednesday there is a 70 percent chance that average warming from 2025 to 2029 will exceed the 1.5 degrees Celsius international benchmark. The planet is therefore expected to remain at historic levels of warming after the two hottest years ever recorded in 2023 and 2024, according to an annual climate report published by the World Meteorological Organization, the UN's weather and climate agency. "We have just experienced the 10 warmest years on record," said the WMO's deputy secretary-general Ko Barrett. "Unfortunately, this WMO report provides no sign of respite over the coming years, and this means...
  • Marco Rubio Reveals Just How Little USAID Funding Was Helping the Needy

    05/25/2025 4:25:54 AM PDT · by george76 · 49 replies
    Western Journal ^ | May 24, 2025 | Michael Austin
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered some shocking data points about American foreign aid spending before the Trump administration reformed the system. During testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, the top diplomat revealed that the White House discovered a foreign aid regime that was distracted and inefficient. Only 12 cents of every dollar spent by USAID reached recipients. ... while a mere 12 cents went to recipients, the other 88 cents was pocketed by third parties. ... Rubio noted that the United States is still giving “more humanitarian support than the next 10 countries combined” even after...
  • In The 76 Day Period Between Trump Winning And Biden Leaving Office $93 Billion Was Sent From The DOE, Who GAVE IT AWAY WITH NO OVERSIGHT, TO ENTITIES WITH NO FINANCIALS

    05/23/2025 6:39:17 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 32 replies
    X ^ | 05/23/25 | Wall Street Apes
    In the 76 day period between Trump winning and Biden leaving office $93 billion was sent from the DOE, who GAVE IT AWAY WITH NO OVERSIGHT, TO ENTITIES WITH NO FINANCIALS“The 76-day period you're talking about, that's the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office — How much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy?From the Loan Program Office in Loans and Commitments $93 billion. Well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years”— You’re you're telling me that the Department of Energy in the 76-day period...
  • Price Tag for California's High Speed Rail Project Goes Up Again

    05/19/2025 9:20:08 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 30 replies
    Hotair ^ | 05/19/2025 | John Sexton
    Gov. Newsom of California is determined to see the high-speed rail system completed or at least started, but the bad news just keeps rolling in like a freight train (pun intended). Newsom is in the process of pushing for next fiscal year's budget and as part of that process he has announced a plan to make sure the bullet train project gets money from the state climate fund.California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to tap at least $2.5 billion from the state’s climate fund to pay for state firefighting crews and the long-troubled high-speed rail project.In his budget proposal unveiled last...
  • Terminated: CMS Office of Minority Health's $13.8M marketing research DEI contract to provide “analytical and initiative support on building the case for health equity”.

    05/19/2025 2:54:36 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 6 replies
    X.com ^ | May 16, 2025 | DOGE
    https://x.com/doge/status/1923564122463199470Department of Government Efficiency@DOGEContract Update!Over the last 3 days, agencies have terminated 262 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.2B and savings of $230M, including a $13.8M marketing research DEI contract to provide “analytical and initiative support on building the case for health equity”.May 16, 2025 · 567.1K Views
  • Trump to skip Russia-Ukraine peace talks, calls Zelenskyy the ‘greatest salesman, maybe in history’

    05/15/2025 5:42:39 AM PDT · by McGruff · 45 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 15, 2025 | Bradford Betz
    President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would skip Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul and downplayed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision not to attend. Speaking in Doha, Trump said the Russia-Ukraine war "has to stop." The president lamented the lives lost and money spent on the war effort. "We spent $350 billion there – just handed. Nobody even knows where the money is. There’s no accounting. There’s no one. It’s just give him money," Trump said, referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. "I have to hand it to him. I think he’s the greatest salesman, maybe in history. Every time...
  • Trump Energy Sec Hints at Canceling Billions of Dollars of Biden’s Green Energy Loans

    05/12/2025 10:35:20 AM PDT · by DFG · 6 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | 05/12/2025 | Thomas Catenacci
    Energy Secretary Chris Wright hinted that he would soon take action canceling billions of dollars' worth of Biden-era green energy loans that he said do not promote American energy security and are too risky for taxpayers. In an exclusive interview with the Washington Free Beacon, Wright took aim at how the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office dished out billions of dollars in loans during the final months of the Biden administration. While Wright stopped short of naming particular projects he may cancel loans for, he said the Trump administration would only look to support projects that directly benefit Americans...
  • Updates On The Collapse Of The Climate Scam

    04/28/2025 5:17:47 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 26 Apr, 2025 | Francis Menton
    On April 14 I recorded a podcast with Tom Nelson. He has since posted a slightly edited version on his YouTube site. Go to this link if you would like to watch it — about an hour long. The main subject is the sordid history of EPA’s Endangerment Finding and efforts of people including myself to get it rescinded. The good news on the Endangerment Finding front is that EPA under new Administrator Lee Zeldin is very much on the job of eliminating the EF. Of course, once it has been rescinded it will face a blizzard of legal challenges....
  • Long Island wind power is yet another green screwjob — forcing New Yorkers to pay more than DOUBLE for energy (only 5.75 years left)

    04/26/2025 1:22:59 AM PDT · by Libloather · 16 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/25/25 | Post Editorial Board
    Gov. Kathy Hochul’s green-energy lunacy keeps socking New Yorkers, with the latest blow coming from the Empire Wind One offshore turbine project. Team Trump has blocked it for now, and that’s great news (despite Eric Adams’ pleading that it should go forward): If it went into operation, New Yorkers would be forced to pay a brain-busting 2.5 times the market rate for energy, an independent analysis found. The project won a sweetheart contract to provide energy at $155 per megawatt hour, as opposed to the wholesale-market rate of around $50, an effective subsidy on the order of $9 billion over...