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"Everything at Treasury was geared towards complaint minimization," Musk revealed after meeting with officials. Not accuracy. Not accountability. Not protecting taxpayer dollars. Just keeping the machine quiet. This wasn't incompetence. This was design. Previous management had built a perfect system: Let the fraudsters complain. Let them threaten. Let them pressure. Easier to process bad payments than face their wrath. When DOGE found empty fields in Treasury's payment system, they uncovered more than missing data. They found a mechanism. Simple things were left blank: Payment categories Payment rationales Basic audit controls The kind of fields any small business would require. The...

You can’t rebuild the same. We have to rebuild with science. We have to build with climate reality in mind," California Gov. Gavin Newsom told CNN last week in an interview about rebuilding the burned-out Pacific Palisades. ... Whatever happened to Newsom's promise that he'd eliminate red tape and accelerate the rebuilding of one of L.A.'s nicest and most historic neighborhoods? The former homeowners of Pacific Palisades who were hoping to quickly rebuild from the ashes now understand to their very cores what Otter told Flounder in "Animal House": "You f***ed up, you trusted us." Anyone dumb enough to believe...

Fort Liberty is no more. It was formerly known as Fort Bragg during the Biden presidency in a push to give military facilities named after Confederate generals a woke makeover. It was part of that weird period where liberals were obsessed about the names of things, statutes, and other silly stuff that was a blatant attempt at erasing American history. With Trump winning the 2024 election, he promised to get Fort Bragg’s name back. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made it official, though there’s a little twist. It’s renamed Fort Bragg, not after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg but Pfc. According...

EL PASO, Texas – A Customs and Border Protection officer was arrested in El Paso on criminal charges related to his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to smuggle undocumented noncitizens for financial gain and alleged drug trafficking activity. According to court documents, between on or about Dec. 21, 2023 and Feb. 5, 2025, Manuel Perez Jr., 32, of El Paso, allegedly smuggled and attempted to smuggle undocumented noncitizens into the United States for commercial advantage and private financial gain. The indictment alleges that, in multiple instances, Perez Jr. admitted a vehicle driven by an undocumented noncitizen at the Paso Del...

We think it's coming from inside. We know the first leak of Aurora is under current investigation. We think we identified that person. The California leak, Secretary Noem, she's correct on some of the information we are receiving tends to lead toward the FBI. I talked to the Deputy Attorney General all this weekend. They've opened up a criminal investigation and they have promised that not only will this person lose their job and lose their pension, they will go to jail.

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, signed an order on Monday, changing the name of America's largest military base from Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg. The name change is one of several reversals of policy from the Biden administration. The base in North Carolina was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 as part of a national effort to remove names that honored Confederate leaders….

The genome of the Javan horseshoe bat ( Rhinolophus affinis ), a carrier of coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2, was also sequenced by the international research team. Credit: Burton Lim, Royal Ontario Museum ===================================================================== A study on bat genomes, involving Texas Tech University, discovered genetic adaptations that help bats resist viral infections, including COVID-19. Researchers found that a bat gene, ISG15, can reduce SARS-CoV-2 production by up to 90%, while the human version showed no effect. Five years after the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists worldwide continue to study its long-term effects and explore strategies to mitigate future pandemics. Now, an international...

🇼🇸🇮🇱Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (2/11/25)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Wisdom) Acts 6:1010 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

Key Points * Chinese electric car giant BYD announced late Monday that it was releasing a “DiPilot” assisted driving system for its cars, which includes a 69,800 yuan ($9,555) low-cost vehicle. * BYD also said it was integrating artificial intelligence from Chinese startup DeepSeek into at least the most advanced version of the new driver assist system. * Tesla’s most advanced version of driver assistance, called “Full-Self Driving,” has yet to receive Beijing’s approval. ================================================================= BEIJING — Chinese electric car giant BYD shares hit a record high in Hong Kong trading Tuesday after the company said it is going all...

KYIV, Feb 11 — US President Donald Trump floated the idea that Ukraine "may be Russian someday”, as his Vice President JD Vance gears up to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later this week. Pushing for an end to the nearly three-year war with Russia, Trump discussed the conflict in an interview with broadcaster Fox News that aired yesterday. "They may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday,” he said. Trump also emphasised reaping a return on investment with US aid to Ukraine, suggesting a trade...

Several Meta employees who said they received positive performance ratings in their mid-year reviews last year had their jobs cut Monday, as the company let go of nearly 4,000 workers in its latest round of job reductions. Business Insider spoke to eight terminated employees, who said they received “At or Above Expectations” ratings — the middle tier in Meta’s three-level mid-year review system — in their 2024 assessments. These employees said they were surprised to learn their ratings had been downgraded to “Meets Most,” one of the lower tiers in Meta’s year-end performance system that refers to meeting most, but...

The Hamas terrorist group on Tuesday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for the release of all remaining Israeli and American hostages from Gaza by noon on Saturday, or the ceasefire deal is over — and Israel can respond as it wants. AP reports Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the dozens of hostages would only be returned if all parties remain committed to a ceasefire deal reached last month. “Trump must remember there is an agreement that must be respected by both parties,” he cautioned, adding threatening language only complicates matters.

Doxing is more than exposing personal data—it’s about silencing political opposition by using privacy breaches as weapons. Elon Musk’s team of young programmers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been doxed. First, their names were exposed by Wired magazine. This once-staid tech magazine has become a fever swamp of left-wing politics in recent years. Then, the contents of one of the DOGE employee’s deleted x.com accounts were reported in the Wall Street Journal, leading to his resignation. The doxers presumably went through these materials on an internet archive, likely using illegally leaked or hacked data to uncover the...

FILED UNDER: You just can’t make this sh*t up!! Meet Nigerian Prince Ifeanyi Ossai Nwabuonwu Idriss. Last year, his company, CribProcure Inc., received $1.4 MILLION from FEMA for bottled water for illegal immigrants in NYC. But wait, it gets better!! CribProcure Inc. is not certified or registered to participate in NYC’s procurement process or conduct business with the city. This raises the question: how was Idriss able to secure a contract with the city without proper documentation? Additionally, branches of his company may have ties to the WEF. DOGE and Big Balls need to look into NYC contracts funded by...

The world has entered the third nuclear age, and nuclear weapons are increasingly seen as valuable—and even usable—weapons by a growing number of states. Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons, China’s rapid nuclear buildup, the United States’s unprecedentedly expensive nuclear modernization, and ongoing nuclear work in North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Iran all make clear the 21st century will be defined by nuclear risks. The re-election of President Trump is likely to accelerate many of these trends as US allies increasingly question whether the United States will defend their security in a crisis, all while it doubles down on its...

It was always going to be unlikely that Shlomo Mansour , 86, the oldest hostage in Gaza, would survive his ordeal at the hands of Hamas. His friends and relatives feared that he was physically frail. Point of No Return has featured his story, because he was the link between 7 October and the Farhud pogrom in Iraq. He survived the Farhud pogrom as a young child, before his family moved to Israel. The Jerusalem Post reports his passing, announced by Kibbutz Kissufim: Update: It now appears that Shlomo Mansour was murdered on 7 October and his body dragged into...

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Rhodesia was known as being “more British than Britain” and was a thriving state amidst a continent of failed nations; it had a highly developed economy, and citizens enjoyed a very high standard of living. But, that all changed when the black majority wrested political control from the white minority, seized white-owned property (specifically the farms), and Rhodesia became Zimbabwe—it’s been a third world hell-hole with “severe food insecurity” and high levels of violence ever since. But progressives are the ignoramuses doomed to repeat history, and a nearly-identical sequence of events seems to be unfolding in South Africa. And, like...

An amended complaint says police officers discovered a crowbar at the scene. "My God, my military retirement. Shoot," Mitchell said, according to the complaint. Prosecutors filed an amended criminal complaint Monday charging Minnesota Sen. Nicole Mitchell with a second felony. Mitchell, a first-term Democrat from Woodbury, was initially charged with first-degree burglary last April after she allegedly broke into her stepmother’s Detroit Lakes home before dawn. Now, prosecutors have added a second felony charge of possessing burglary or theft tools. The amended complaint says police officers discovered a crowbar in the window well where Mitchell allegedly broke in. Mitchell was...

-snip- Asked about unconfirmed reports on Telegram and X that U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff may have flown into Moscow, Peskov said he had no information about the matter and that no meetings with him were on the agenda. Later on Tuesday, Rosaviatsia, Russia's aviation regulator, issued a statement in response to what it said were media questions and reports after flight tracking services showed a private jet landing in Moscow from the United States. The regulator said it was a one-off technical flight from Washington to Moscow related to "humanitarian cooperation" of a medical nature. It did not...