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Washington -- As President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk work to overhaul the federal government, they are forcing out thousands of workers with insider knowledge and connections who now need a job. For Russia, China and other adversaries, the upheaval in Washington as Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency guts government agencies presents an unprecedented opportunity to recruit informants, national security andintelligence experts say. Every former federal worker with knowledge of or access to sensitive information or systems could be a target. When thousands of them leave their jobs at the same time, that creates a lot of targets, as...

Every so often, when the conversation veers toward the societal costs of illegal immigration, one can almost predict the emergence of a tired refrain, delivered with all the sincerity of a child rehearsing lines for a school play. “Who will pick our crops?” they ask, as though this plaintive wail were some profound economic insight rather than the rhetorical equivalent of a fig leaf hastily employed to cover up moral abdication. It’s a question designed not to spark a discussion on the issue, as you’ll often find they can’t discuss much further than that line. It’s brought up as a...

Healthcare rapists As shocking as the revelations about mass rapes of women and children by UN “peacekeepers” and “teachers” may be, even more distressing is that UN employees supposedly dedicated to healthcare have carried out those very same atrocities and are led by an actual terrorist. As Frontline News previously reported, the World Health Organization (WHO), a UN agency, is headed by a terrorist who keeps rapists and pedophiles on staff giving them the power to abuse the poorest people in the world. He even flies these staff members to towns in the developing world, with fancy rental cars and...

A visa programme intended to attract top talent to the United States has become a lightning rod for controversy and an unexpected battleground in America's culture wars, with racial tensions against Indians at its core. The H1B work visa debate has drawn in figures like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Bernie Sanders, capturing the attention of over 200 million people online and affecting 1.7 billion people across the US and India. The controversy ignited when Sriram Krishnan's nomination as Trump's senior White House policy advisor on AI sparked outrage among the far-Right Republican faction. An old tweet about...

AP — About 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa have been recruited to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack drones to be launched into Ukraine. In interviews with The Associated Press, some of the women said they were misled that it would be a work-study program, describing long hours under constant surveillance, broken promises about wages and areas of study, and working with caustic chemicals that left their skin pockmarked and itching. The AP analyzed satellite images of the complex in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan and its leaked internal documents, spoke to...

An excellent roundtable discussion among five military veterans involved in the communication security and communication exploitation aspects of communication tradecraft. The discussion focuses on how modern electronic devices can be used against citizens by unscrupulous actors and governments. This video will help people recognize vulnerabilities in their everyday habits when using computers, smart phones and even vehicles. Many people will be surprised. Length is 1:35:36, bookmark and watch on your schedule.

From the cobalt miners in Africa to the black Americans in the “clean energy” industry, exploitation of black communities and their people remain an integral part of the “green” agenda, especially when you consider it in the context of the Harris-Biden electric vehicle mandates and policies; here’s a report from journalists Amy Scott and Sean McHenry from Marketplace, a division of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), detailing the current situation:Black workers are paying the price in the the rush to mine cobaltWhether you’re using a cellphone or an electric vehicle, there’s a good chance that the battery inside it contains cobalt...

Sometimes you can really mess up your life by doing something nice for someone, even a senior. It can turn on an entitlement button and then you’re bombarded with demands and guilt tripping, like what happened to the young woman in this story. Read it and you’ll see what I mean. I’m 25 and live in a building with a lot of seniors. One of my neighbors is in her late 80s. She has pretty much been badgering me to help her do stuff and plays the guilt card if I say no. At first I was willing to help,...

Jonathan Glazer, the director of “Zone of Interest” – his movie about the time Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss’ and his family lived next to the Auschwitz concentration camp Rudolph Hess’ Auschwitz – used his acceptance speech for his Oscar for Best International Feature Film to reject being Jewish or the Holocaust as reasons for supporting Israel. He should have also received an Oscar for outstanding exploitation of Jewish suffering. Glazer said: “Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people....

A Minnesota woman who has decided to detransition from a transgender male is suing the doctors who performed a double mastectomy on her when she was just 16. Luka Hein, now 21, claims she was going through a tough time emotionally as a teenager, when her parents were getting divorced and when she was being groomed online by a man from another state. As she struggled with her mental health during this time, she said she found influencers online who extolled the virtues of breast surgery and hormones. Hein then met with staff members at the University of Nebraska Medical...

Kombucha has treated George Thomas Dave well. But Dave's kombucha factory treated workers terribly for years, according to a new ruling in a long-running lawsuit against his company, GT's Living Foods. SNIP As the owner of GT's — which sells about $275 million of the fermented tea drink and other beverages each year — Dave has become a billionaire, according to Forbes estimates. This year he bought a $14-million hilltop estate just a few streets away from the two-home compound he already owned in Beverly Hills. All along, he's insisted that good vibes and a positive attitude have been the...

Few things are stunning these days, but it was alarming to learn of the the autism link in the drastic increase in transgenderism. As the mother of a young adult son with autism (high functioning), I had no idea what autism could possibly have with wanting to "become" (or think one has become) the opposite gender. The vulnerabilities of people with autism that place them at great risk of being considered for "gender reassignment surgery" include "otherness," feeling different -- that they don't quite fit in -- not understanding social cues and not quite connecting with people, feeling less empathy....

First column in a series exposing the truth about PizzagateLiz Crokin Jan 15I want to start my Pizzagate series by establishing the fact that pizza has been a known pedophile code word used by predators to operate hidden in plain sight for many years. In October of 2016, when the Podesta E-mails were released, the Urban Dictionary actually had defined “cheese pizza” as child porn. At that time there were two definitions of pizza as a code word for child porn – one from 2010 and one from 2015. So it’s important to note these definitions were established long before...

Katelyn Boss is a 22-year-old server at a sports bar in Salt Lake City, Utah. She thought it was a waste of time at first. The tips were bad, and her base wage was $2.13 an hour. Then she tried putting her hair in pigtails to get higher tips from male customers — and it worked. When I first started working as a waitress at a sports bar and grill, I was struggling to make tips. It almost felt like I was wasting my time. I was making so little money, because the minimum wage in Utah for tipped employees...

A tearful President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sunday visited the Texas town rocked by last week’s school massacre — but some locals said they fear the visit was little more than a display for the cameras. After Mass at a local church, the president was hit with cries of “Do something!” He replied, “We will.” The presidential motorcade’s first stop was the scene of Tuesday’s slaughter, Robb Elementary School, in Ulvade, where onlookers in the crowd of about 100 cheered them while booing pro-gun-rights Gov. Greg Abbott. The president wiped away a tear as he and wife...

Under-18s have used fake identification to set up accounts, and police say a 14-year-old used a grandmother's passport. The UK's most senior police officer for child protection also says children are being "exploited" on the platform. OnlyFans says its age verification systems go over and above regulatory requirements. The platform has more than a million "creators", who share video clips, photos and messages directly to subscribers on a monthly basis. Teaser videos or photographs for accounts are often promoted on Twitter and Instagram. In return for hosting the material, OnlyFans takes a 20% share of all payments. SNIP These sources...

The mother of a black Kentucky woman shot by police last year claimed this week that Black Lives Matter is a "fraud" organization and that activists have exploited her daughter's death for financial gain. Tamika Palmer, the mother of the late Breonna Taylor who was gunned down during an alleged no-knock raid by police last year, said in a Facebook post this week that she has "watched [people] raise money on behalf of Breonna's family who has never done a damn thing for us" and that she "could walk in a room full of people who claim to be here...

During her appearance on the Armchair Expert podcast, actress Salma Hayek opened up about a traumatic experience on the set of her breakout film, Desperado. After Hayek went through six auditions and a screen test, securing her role as the female lead, the studio added something that wasn’t included in the original script—a sex scene:I had a really, really hard time with that. . . . I started to sob: “I don’t know that I can do it, I don’t know that I can do it. . . .” I was not letting go of the towel, and they would...

A social worker in Texas has been charged with 134 counts in an election fraud investigation, officials with the Texas Attorney General's Office said. Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday that his Election Fraud Unit and other officials charged Kelly Reagan Brunner, a social worker in the Mexia State Supported Living Center (SSLC), with 134 felony counts of "purportedly acting as an agent and of election fraud." Brunner allegedly submitted voter registration applications for 67 residents without their signature or effective consent, while purporting to act as their agent. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. "I...

Netflix is facing criminal charges for its film "Cuties" in an East Texas county. A Texas grand jury indicted Netflix for the "lewd" representation of children in the controversial French film, according to the Tyler County District Attorney. The Sept. 23 indictment shows the Tyler County Grand Jury charged the popular streaming site for "promotion of lewd visual material depicting child" for its drama about a young girl who is torn between her conservative Muslim family’s values and her desire to join a dance troupe. Among the charges in question is Netflix’s alleged promotion of material that portrays the "exhibition...