From Beyond the Trees in the Other Forest (CTH)
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The British Sentencing Council has decided that starting Tuesday, white men will be sentenced to longer prison sentences than women and ethnic minorities
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1906011614605701451
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Holy Moley! Price of lumber is up almost 30% since the 1st of the year and expected to go higher through the end of the year.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber
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Seneca the Elder
March 29, 2025 11:58 am
To my dear Treeper Friends,
I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the work and writing of attorney Jeff Childers, but I cannot recommend him more highly if you want to really enjoy a great daily read about our crazy political situation.
Jeff’s substack is Coffee and Covid- C&C News- and it comes out daily for free. If you are inspired to make a donation, that’s great but not necessary. What a guy!
Anyway, here’s a link to his substack:
His take on Elon’s visit to the CIA is a masterpiece and I was laughing out loud- he is funny as hell.
FROM THE ARTICLE:
Are you ready for the final battle? In a perfect metaphor for an unseen spook war reaching its silently concussive climax, yesterday’s most explosive DOGE story was virtually ignored by corporate media. Of the big US platforms, only Bloomberg carried the narrative-bending story, headlined “Elon Musk Set to Visit Central Intelligence Agency Next Week.” Right on schedule.
But it was somewhat curious news because, until now, the security agencies were considered safely DOGE-exempt.
I believe that Herridge’s tweet was a muted declaration that Trump’s war against the Deep State just entered its final, conclusive chapter. And the outcome will change history forever— for better or for worse. Let me explain.
Think about it: This isn’t about DOGE or efficiency or cost cutting. It’s about information control. It’s about access to a deliberately opaque, compartmentalized, self-financing black-budget machine that’s historically operated with zero accountability, even to its own directors.
Ratcliffe, like anyone assigned the Director’s chair, walked into a fortress within a fortress.
Imagine a new, AI-powered, top-secret, digital DOGE dashboard at Langley that can show Ratcliffe everything in real-time: every dollar, every operation, every contract, every overseas asset being paid — and only Trump’s team will hold the keys. Once such a dashboard were installed, the Agency’s permanent staff couldn’t play their covert games anymore. No more secret drug ops. No more unauthorized coups. No more backchannel slush funds.
No more resist Trump operations.
If DOGE can pull this off, the Agency will properly become an extension of the White House, rather than the other way around.
👻 In other words, DOGE at CIA is the nuclear option. It is a breathtaking vision of a brand-new reality that could dismantle the entire postwar geopolitical model. Now, permanent, unelected bureaucrats and spies hold the real power, because they control the money, secrets, and the levers of influence, while manipulated elected officials come and go like figure skaters blissfully unaware of all the busy little crustaceans teeming right below the ice.
To be perfectly clear: DOGE in intelligence suggests, not just draining the swamp, but the engineered desertification of the swamp.
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Keynote Speaker
March 29, 2025 11:22 am
Hahahaha’ing over Fourth Circ. vacating Idiot District Court Judge’s TRO, which opined the party irreparably harmed is none other than DOGE. From today’s Coffee & Covid:
“The Court briefly considered the government’s case. It did find irreparable harm— for DOGE. “The district court has, based on alleged injuries from a handful of plaintiffs, issued injunctive orders that dictate and restrict a separate branch of government. Unlike the harm alleged by plaintiffs, this harm cannot be remedied by monetary damages. It truly is irreparable.”
One of the unintended consequences these Idiot District Court Judges end up suffering, is exposure – being told how wrong they are.
Link to article here:
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Tariffs: The Taxes That Made America Great
https://buchanan.org/blog/tariffs-the-taxes-that-made-america-great-136986
“Tariffs, to protect manufacturers and jobs, were the Republican Party’s path to power and prosperity in the 19th and 20th centuries, before the rise of the Rockefeller Eastern liberal establishment and its embrace of the British-bred heresy of unfettered free trade.
The Tariff Act of 1789 was enacted with the declared purpose, “the encouragement and protection of manufactures.” It was the second act passed by the first Congress led by Speaker James Madison. It was crafted by Alexander Hamilton and signed by President Washington”
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Huh, imagine that. David Hogg’s largest and most favorite gun control movement is going bankrupt…right after DOGE strikes.
March For Our Lives Lays Off Most Employees
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/03/28/march-for-our-lives-lays-off-most-employees-n1228125
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RFK, Jr. recently revealed what an organizational mess HHS is:
To demonstrate how dysfunctional the department was when he took charge, he revealed that it’s organizational (Org) chart was incomprehensible.”
“There was no chain of command,” he explained, adding that “territorial” and “self-serving” employees were operating in “all these different silos and fiefdoms.”
According to Kennedy, within these silos, officials were “selling patient information to each other.” He told Cuomo that when he tried to obtain Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) depersonalized patient data—which belongs to HHS—”the sub-agency said we have to buy it from them!”
“It doesn’t make any sense. There were sub agencies that wouldn’t give us patient data,” he complained.
Kennedy told Cuomo that HHS has 100 communications departments, 40 procurement departments and “dozens” of IT and human resources units.
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The most important NGO related issue by far is the LEGAL way that HUGE USAID (CIA) grants to leftist/globalist NGOs were then used to affect US internal politics in major ways, like the on-line censorship, aid for the invasion of illegals, and things like this:
USAID funneled MILLIONS to Black Lives Matter through Tides Center
Tides granted more than $12.6 million from its Black Lives Matter Support Fund to BLM Grassroots following the death of George Floyd
https://thepostmillennial.com/usaid-funneled-millions-to-black-lives-matter-through-tides-center
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) issued a $24.7 million grant to the George Soros-funded Tides Center, which then funneled millions of taxpayer funds to the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. Tides granted more than $12.6 million from its Black Lives Matter Support Fund to help support BLM Grassroots during the height of the racial justice riots following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. BLM Grassroots is an organization that works with local Black Lives Matter chapters and similar racial justice groups.
The discovery was revealed after the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation sued the Tides Center in California court last year, accusing the nonprofit of withholding $33 million in donations to the foundation. Tides was forced to issue a clarification that the funds were intended for BLM Grassroots, which is a distinct organization separate from BLMGNF, and other racial justice groups. Tides, which manages roughly $1.4 billion in assets, said the amount awarded was $12.6 million, according to a statement issued to Bloomberg.
Karl Denninger has correctly pointed out what should be obvious – government grants to NGOs should be ILLEGAL because taxpayer money is being granted after which taxpayers have no control over how it’s used. That is GRIFTING.
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Maquis
March 29, 2025 12:26 am
THE GAME PLAN
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more. Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it. Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later. Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives. I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future. They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good. Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp. All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied. You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months. They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect. (Two posters on CTH that fit this description.)
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
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Finally, enjoy yesterday’s headline from Fierce Healthcare: “CDC, DOGE claw back $11 billion in COVID-19 grants nationwide as agency roots out ‘censorship’ contracts.”
It’s so much better than that. The article reported that a new directive “went out to HHS employees the morning of March 26, telling them to urgently identify contracts that may lead to censorship or cause someone to hold certain ideas more than others. Examples given included COVID-19 vaccine usage, masking and education and outreach advertisements.”
“Hold certain ideas more than others.” In other words, and for example, just one small slice canceled all studies on vaccine hesitancy, and similar sorts of thought control.
Put simply, the government spent billions making sure we thought the “right” thoughts about masking, vaccines, and school closures. Now the spanking robot is cleaning HHS’s house.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/accountability-robots-friday-march
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Bonus one from yesterday
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Mycroft
March 28, 2025 3:03 pm
Reply to Troublemaker10
From Ticker-Guts rag.
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Everyones focused on how dumb this Signal leak was. Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Waltz, Ratcliffe, Tulsi, Stephen Miller, even Susie Wiles openly chatting on Signal about a live op. Real targets. Launch times. Political messaging. Even fist bump and flag emojis after the first building went down. And yep, they included Jeffrey f*ing Goldberg in the chat.
Thats not a mistake. Thats a broadcast.
Goldbergs article lays it all out. He thought he was being set up by a prankster. So he watched the clock. And right on schedule, the bombs dropped in Yemen. What he had read two hours earlier was real. The strikes landed, and everyone in the group celebrated like theyd just finished a Call of Duty match.
At first glance it looks like the most boneheaded OPSEC violation in modern history. Cabinet-level officials coordinating war plans on Signal, a platform literally built for journalists and whistleblowers, with a journalist in the thread. But thats surface noise.
Zoom out.
What if this wasnt about the Houthis? What if this was about putting the entire world: enemies, allies, and voters – on notice?
This is Madman Theory 2.0. Nixons old game was to act just erratic enough that foreign leaders would believe he might go nuclear. That unpredictability forced them to deal. Now fast forward to 2025. Trumps people didnt need to act crazy. They let the public watch the crazy in real time.
Its messy, chaotic, testosterone-soaked theatre. But the point isnt internal discipline. The point is external message control.
Heres what the leak really accomplished:
Europe just got humiliated. The chat reads like a roast of NATOs naval impotence. They outright say European navies cant handle the drones, cruise missiles, or anti-ship tech the Houthis have. Then they talk about billing Europe after the US clears the Red Sea. They even debate whether to extract economic gain from the cleanup. Thats not a leak. Thats a Mafia-style invoice.
The Houthis and Iran got the message loud and clear: We can ID your missile guy walking into his girlfriends building, and two hours later its rubble. Thats not a press conference. Thats a live demo.
And domestically? This wasnt about military planning. It was campaign messaging in real time. Biden cratered deterrence. Were restoring it. This is what decisive leadership looks like. The leak makes them look unfiltered, in control, and ruthlessly effective. Whats more politically useful than that?
Goldberg didnt stumble into a leak. He got invited to a premiere. And when he left the chat? No one said a word. Thats not an accident. Thats the tell.
What were watching isnt a scandal. Its a signal.
So no, this wasnt a dumb slip. This was informational warfare disguised as incompetence. The perfect modern psyop: loud, believable, morally grey, and impossible to unsee.
And just like Nixon wanted, now everyones wondering what theyll do next.
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Great American Patriot Tickerguy 213
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4307582/posts?page=1
Two-Tier Sentencing: White Brits Shafted, Christianity on the Ropes
https://medium.com ^ | 3/28/2025 | Rhys Aldous
Lots of good stuff.
ThanQ, CTC.