Reader’s Links for February 2, 2025

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55 Replies to “Reader’s Links for February 2, 2025”

  1. If he doesn’t know it yet, how llong will it take for President Trump to realize that Trudeau’s obliteration of Canada is intentional, that it is run by a cabal of corrupt fascists, that Red China and India are competing to steal the country, and that Canada’s annexation to the U.S. is becoming a matter for U. S. National security at light speed? The recent Hogue report on foreign interference is merely exhibit “A” as proof that the fish rots from the head.

    https://youtu.be/Hw2G5hyef2k?si=kDfA_ftDdwaWmaZs

  3. It takes an expert in financial plumbing to fully understand the broad impact of these tariffs. Unlike the other PT nominees for cabinet positions, I recall no protests over Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary.

    Tariffs will not be imposed for a single reason. Yes, fentanyl is a good one, but there must be more than one objective here. With all that is going on with the economy, only time will show us how many moves ahead PT is, and what the real objectives are.

    While Trudeau plans to not let this crisis go to waste, at the expense of the people, one hopes that serious men from south of the border take firm grasp of the continental bull and wrestle it under control.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trade-wars-begin-trump-slaps-25-tariffs-canada-and-mexico-10-china

    • I agree about the “more than one objective here: tying that thought to the climate tax bull shit. Canadians are going to suffer Carney’s (Liberals) carbon tax despite the fact this countries total emissions have been shown to represent less than 2% of the planets GHG’s.
      If every Canadian dropped dead tomorrow and didn’t contribute anything more to world GHG’s, the needle on the Green House Gas clock would not recognize we were missing.
      Yes! There is more – and Klaus and company aren’t exactly keeping it a secret it is so obvious. It will take numbers – so! SHEEP WAKE UP!

    • Latest find — RCMP find 8 kilograms of fentanyl during a highway stop near Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Charged with trafficking a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking are Swati Narula 26 and Kunwardeep Singh 28.

      RED FLAG
      Way back in 2015, 2015, 2015 Fahad Hussain 31, the older brother of Faisal Hussain, the Danforth shooter, was charged with petty crack trafficking in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He was court-ordered to live at home. He was allowed to move to Pickering, Ontario, where he lived at home with an old friend.
      In 2017 he was found unconscious in that home in Pickering. Fire Services found 42 Kilos of carfentanil ( 100 x stronger than fentanyl) and 31 identical, high-end hand guns.
      Nothing to see here folks, just move on.
      Ever listen to the old song How Long Has This been Going On?

      President Trump is right. All this fentanyl is being manufactured in Justine’s Canada. Just another way for WEF politicians to fulfill the reduction of the numbers of peoplekind.

    • The Dems worked hard to start a kinetic war with Russia and China, now a trade war has started that will end with many changes in the world.

      Buckle up it is going to be a very bumpy ride.

    • (VIDEO) Trudeau Responds to Trump’s Tariffs – CEO of Canada’s Second Largest Company Slams Trudeau, Says Trump’s Demands are “Things That Every Canadian Wants its Government to do”
      thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/video-trudeau-responds-trumps-tariffs-ceo-canadas-second/
      Feb. 2, 2025 11:20 am

      Justin Trudeau confirmed that Canada will impose tariffs on American goods in response to the Tariffs imposed by President Trump yesterday, and the CEO of Shopify, Canada’s largest tech company and second-largest publicly traded company, slammed Trudeau’s poor leadership.

      President Trump officially imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China on Saturday after they had ignored his threats.

      Trump slapped the tariffs on the three countries under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

      25% tariffs on all Mexico imports
      25% tariffs on nearly all Canadian imports — 10% on Canadian energy resources
      10% tariffs on all China imports

      President Trump announced the tariffs in a statement Saturday, saying tariffs were imposed because of “the major threat of illegal aliens and deadly drugs killing our Citizens, including fentanyl.”

      “We need to protect Americans, and it is my duty as President to ensure the safety of all. I made a promise on my Campaign to stop the flood of illegal aliens and drugs from pouring across our Borders, and Americans overwhelmingly voted in favor of it,” President Trump said on Truth Social on Saturday.

      JUST IN: President Trump Releases Statement After Imposing Tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China

      As The Gateway Pundit reported, Canada revealed plans to harm Republican states the most in response to Trump’s tariffs.

      During a news conference Saturday, Trudeau said, “Canada will be responding to the US trade action with 25% tariffs against $155 billion worth of American goods.” He continued, This will include immediate tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods as of Tuesday, followed by further tariffs on $125 billion worth of American products in 21 days’ time to allow Canadian companies and supply chains to seek to find alternatives.

      Trudeau also lectured Americans, claiming, “Tariffs against Canada will put your jobs at risk, potentially shutting down American auto assembly plants and other manufacturing facilities. They will raise costs for you, including food at the grocery store, gas at the pump. They will impede your access to an affordable supply of vital goods crucial for US security, such as nickel, potash, uranium, steel, and aluminum.”

      WATCH:

      However, as Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke noted, “Hitting back will not lead to anything good. America will shrug it off. Canada will decline.”

      “These tariffs are going to be devastating to so many people’s lives and small businesses,” Lutke said in reference to Canadians.

      He further said “every Canadian” wants Canada to work with President Trump to secure the borders and stop the flow of fentanyl. “These are not crazy demands,” he added.

      Lutke expressed his disappointment in Trudeau this morning on X:

      I’m disappointed that trump admin placed the 25% tariffs.

      I’m disappointed that this is our governments response.

      I love Canada and want it to thrive. I built Canada’s biggest tech company here because I know it’s a special place.

      Canada thrives when it works with America together. Win by helping America win. Trump believes that Canada has not held its side of the bargain, and he set terms to prove that we still work together: get the borders under control and crack down on fentanyl dens.

      These are things that every Canadian wants its government to do, too. These are not crazy demands, even if they came from an unpopular source.

      Trending: Canada Has Detailed Retaliation Plan to Harm Republican States the Most in Response to Trump’s Tariffs

      These tariffs are going to be devastating to so many people’s lives and small businesses.

      Action has to be judged based on what it leads to, not how good it sounds or feels. Leadership is about doing what’s right, not what is popular. And hitting back will not lead to anything good. America will shrug it off. Canada will decline.

      It’s simply the wrong choice in a possibility space where much better options would have been available.

      I’m disappointed that trump admin placed the 25% tariffs.

      I’m disappointed that this is our governments response.

      I love Canada and want it to thrive. I built Canada’s biggest tech company here because I know it’s a special place.

      Canada thrives when it works with America… https://t.co/Pt9MH8Aq9s

      — tobi lutke (@tobi) February 2, 2025

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/video-trudeau-responds-trumps-tariffs-ceo-canadas-second/

      • An election should be called immediately if not sooner. Canada has suffered a major decline under these WEFFERS (including carney). How much lower do they want us to go — ask madman Klaus Schwab the unelected one.

  4. A propos the Oct 7 HAMAS massacre of people in Israel, this is thought-provoking. Among other aspects of warfare that targets civillians, it mentions the “innovation” of sending images of murder victims directly to their relatives in order to maximize trauma.

    Here’s another instance of when language, media, perspective, and tech manipulate opinion, and evenexacerbate evil. The coinage has “kin” for family, but I’d put it to Kin for Cinema.

    https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-840279
    FEBRUARY 2, 2025 12:52 Hamas’s ‘kinocide’: A new crime against humanity revealed

    “taken a major step toward eradicating evil by giving it a name.”

    Speaking of names, HAMAS is an acronym that also means “destruction” in Hebrew. https://www.njohsp.gov/threat-landscape/foreign-terrorist-organizations/hamas “Harakat al-Muq?wama al-Isl?miyya, or the “Islamic Resistance Movement,” was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood.”

    • I can’t remember or find who said “The purpose of terror is to terrorize” but the new actions are using the new technology to increase and spread the terror.

  6. Darkness of the Moon author Arthur Koestler. Copyright 1941

    The equation collapses in any case because one discovers that twice 2 are not four when the mathematical units are human beings.

    • Newly-Elected DNC Vice-Chair David Hogg Wants to Abolish ICE, Defund the Police, and Designate NRA as a Terrorist Group
      thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/newly-elected-dnc-vice-chair-david-hogg-wants/
      Feb. 2, 2025 3:20 pm

      The Democratic National Committee’s new vice-chairman likes to style himself as anti-gun activist. But he is far more dangerous than that.

      Hogg, 24, rose to political fame in the wake of the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, of which he was a survivor. Tragically, many of his classmates were not so lucky.

      Since then, Hogg has embarked on a variety of unsuccessful political ventures including the March For Our Lives gun control protests, a failed boycott of Fox News and specifically The Ingraham Angle and the launch of the pillow company called Good Pillow, which was intended to put Mike Lindell’s MyPillow out of business.

      While some of Hogg’s ideas have gained traction, none of them have ever achieved their intended goals of overturning the Second Amendment and putting Fox News and MyPillow out of business.

      Hogg’s political rise also earned him a place at Harvard University, from which he graduated in 2023.

      However, Hogg’s election as the vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee gives him a level of institutional power that his activism has never been able to afford him.

      BREAKING: DNC Elects Anti-Gun Activist David Hogg as Vice Chair

      With this in mind, it is worth reading this post put out by the Republican operative Steve Guest which exposes Hogg’s radical far-left views.

      Among the ideas he has espoused, many through the megaphone of the X platform include abolishing ICE, defunding the police, and declaring the NRA a terrorist organization.

      He also has an embarassing lack of knowledge about the U.S. constitution, once claiming that the Second Amendment was only designed to give each state the right to an armed national guard.

      He also has 0 knowledge about how the Constitution works. pic.twitter.com/nhX7HDouQz

      — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 2, 2025

      After four rounds of voting on Saturday, Hogg won 215 votes and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta won 298 votes, more than the 205 votes needed for them to become vice chairs.

      In his victory speech, Hogg promised to “kick some ass.”

      “Who’s ready to take the fight to the Republicans and win this thing? Are you guys ready to fight? It’s been a long day, but guess what? We have a long road ahead,” he declared.

      “Let’s go and kick some ass. Let’s go win our young people back, and let’s stop sending just our thoughts and prayers to address gun violence and do something.”

      After Parkland, our country was in a similar moment—where we had a Republican trifecta in Washington, and we as students were told it wasn’t going to be possible for us to create change. But we didn’t listen. We went on the offense, put the Republicans on the defense, and we won.… pic.twitter.com/oJ1SNcqsLh

      — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) February 2, 2025

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/newly-elected-dnc-vice-chair-david-hogg-wants/

  12. Hamas terrorists called out to workers from Thailand in their native tongue to lure them out of hiding, only to murder them or take them hostage during the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.

    The Times of Israel reports Hamas’s brutality against innocent civilians on the day they made their bloody incursion has been recounted by former Thai hostages. The outlet says:

    One of the Thai survivors, nicknamed Top, recounted his near-death experience on October 7, 2023. Initially, he dismissed the sound of gunfire as a routine clash between Israeli forces and Hamas. However, by 7:00 a.m., the reality of the massacre unfolded — four armed Hamas militants stormed a nearby labor camp, indiscriminately gunning down every Thai worker in sight. Top managed to hide inside a bunker, narrowly escaping the same fate.

    https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/02/02/report-hamas-callously-lured-then-murdered-thai-nationals/

  13. A man was arrested in Manchester, England, on Saturday after appearing to burn a copy of the Qur’an in the city centre.

    Greater Manchester Police said that a 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence, the Manchester Evening News reported.

    Assistant Chief Constable Stephanie Parker said: “We understand the deep concern this will cause within some of our diverse communities and are aware of a live video circulating.

    “We made a swift arrest at the time and recognise the right people have for freedom of expression, but when this crosses into intimidation to cause harm or distress we will always look to take action when it is reported to us.”

    Footage of the incident was published on the X social media platform, with a man appearing to burn pages of the Islamic religious text at the Glade of Light memorial, which honours the victims of the 2017 Islamist terror attack at the Manchester Arena.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/02/02/uk-1984-man-arrested-after-appearing-to-burn-quran-in-manchester/

  14. Female Pilot Rebecca Lobach’s Entire Social Media Scrubbed before Army Released Her Name – So What Are They Hiding?
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/female-pilot-rebecca-lobach-had-her-entire-social/
    Feb. 2, 2025 7:30 am

    On Saturday the US Army released the name of the pilot of the US Army Blackhawk helicopter that flew into a passenger jet landing at Reagan National Airport.

    The crash was on Wednesday. The third pilot’s name, Rebecca Lobach, was finally released on Saturday, three days later.

    All 64 passengers in the jet were killed.
    The three pilots in the Blackhawk helicopter also died in the explosive crash.

    Kristinn Taylor at The Gateway Pundit reported:

    After withholding at the request of the family the name of the female pilot killed in the mid-air collision Wednesday night between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a PSA/American Airlines passenger plane on final approach to Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., the Army issued a statement Saturday afternoon from her family identifying the pilot as 28-year-old Capt. Rebecca Lobach from Durham, N.C.

    The other two soldiers killed in the crash previously identified by the Army are Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Maryland.

    Lobach was part of a three-man crew flying a training mission for “continuity of government” down the Potomac River when the collision occurred, killing all three crew members on the Black Hawk based at nearby Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and all 60 passengers and four crew members on the flight out of Wichita, Kansas.

    Lobach, who had over 450 hours of flying experience, recently served as a military social aide at the Biden White House.

    It took the US Army and Rebecca’s family three days to scrub her social media accounts. They really don’t want the public to know anything about this female pilot.

    I want to see her social media that was scrubbed. https://t.co/jBpHQaHp39

    — The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) February 2, 2025

    Rebecca worked in the Biden White House.
    U.S. Army Capt. Rebecca Lobach at the White House press room, January 24, 2023, via Samantha Brown.

    Here entire social media was scrubbed.

    @USArmy pilot Rebecca Lobach’s entire social media nuked https://t.co/WCqFeG1fEp pic.twitter.com/wFlIvNuBqh

    — NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) February 1, 2025

    What are they hiding from the American public?

    They deleted Rebecca Lobach’s social media accounts before releasing her name. It wasn’t to grieve.

    — I Am Leah (@Bossy_Leah) February 1, 2025

    They even scrubbed her family members’ accounts.

    It is not just that Rebecca Lobach is gone from social media, both her sisters and parents were scrubbed as well. This sister had a LinkedIn and an X which you can see clearly on Google, but the pages are gone. Another sister has a Pinterest account that’s been scrubbed as well.… pic.twitter.com/HTtR3GUcQW

    — Krysten Mccord (@anchoredowlex) February 2, 2025

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/female-pilot-rebecca-lobach-had-her-entire-social/

  15. WATCH: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Says Guantanamo Bay “Will Hold The Worst of The Worst” – Tren De Aragua Ringleader Caught “Trying to Buy Grenades”
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-says-guantanamo-bay/
    Feb. 2, 2025 9:45 am
    DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spoke about the Trump Administration’s plans on Sunday to detain violent criminal illegal aliens at Guantanamo Bay “before they are returned home to their countries to deal with.”

    This includes aliens wanted for “murders, rapes, assaults, gun purchases, drug trafficking,” and even one gang member who was “trying to buy grenades,” says Noem.

    As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump announced plans to lock criminal illegal aliens in Guantanamo Bay as they await deportation to their home countries.

    The facility will be able to hold up to 30,000 people who are in the United States illegally.

    “We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” the President said.

    BREAKING: Trump Will Sign Executive Order to Send Illegal Aliens to Guantanamo Bay Facility That Can Hold 30,000 (VIDEO)

    Noem explained who will be held in Guantanamo Bay pending repatriation flights in an appearance with NBC Sunday morning.

    “This President has said that it will hold the worst of the worst that we are going after those bad actors,” Noem said.

    “We were going after people that had warrants out for their arrest on murders, rapes, assaults, gun purchases, drug trafficking. In fact, we had a member of TDA [Tren De Aragua] that was one of the ringleaders that we picked up that that week had been trying to buy grenades.”

    WATCH:

    Noem: Due process will be followed, and having facilities at Guantanamo Bay will be an asset to us, and the fact that we’ll have the capacity to continue to do there what we’ve always done. We’ve always had a presence of illegal immigrants there that have been detained. We’re just building out some capacity.

    So, we appreciate the partnership of the DoD in getting that up to the level that it needs to get to in order to facilitate this repatriation of people back to their country. So, remember that Guantanamo Bay, clearly by this President, has said that it will hold the worst of the worst that we are going after those bad actors.

    This last week, I was in New York City. We were going after people that had warrants out for their arrest on murders, rapes, assaults, gun purchases, drug trafficking. In fact, we had a member of TDA [Tren De Aragua] that was one of the ringleaders that we picked up that that week had been trying to buy grenades.

    These are the types of individuals that we are targeting, we’re removing from communities and that could end up having a stay at Guantanamo Bay before they are returned home to their countries to deal with.

    click through for video

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-says-guantanamo-bay/

  16. A United Airlines flight from Houston to New York had to be evacuated Sunday morning after the plane caught on fire on the runway while it was preparing to take off. The incident spread panic among the passengers who started screaming after spotting flames around the wings. United Airlines Flight 1382, an Airbus A320, aborted its takeoff from the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston, Texas, due to a “reported engine issue” just after 8:30 a.m., the FAA said in a statement.

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/united-airlines-plane-catches-fire-on-runway-terrified-passengers-get-off/articleshow/117865135.cms

    • Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.

      This is the third plane crash and semi crash in less then a week.

  17. ussian Leader Putin: Europe’s Elites Will Soon Stand at Donald Trump’s Feet and “Gently Wag Their Tails” – VIDEO
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/russian-leader-putin-europes-elites-will-soon-stand/
    Feb. 2, 2025 8:45 am
    Putin describes the European elites as lapdogs to President Trump.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked about his prediction of the future of Europe with Trump as US President. Putin did not hesitate to slam the European elites. He says they will soon get in line despite working against Trump in the election.

    Via Russia Today.

    Vladimir Putin: Nothing has changed. They were happy to carry out any order from Washington under Biden.

    They just don’t like Trump. They forgot him actively, really interfered in political life, in the election process of the United States. And then they were confused when Trump suddenly won.

    And then they mentally liked Biden more, you know, mentally.

    But Trump has better ideas about what is good, what is bad, including in gender policy, in some other issues, they kind of don’t like it.

    But I assure you, Trump with his character, persistence, he will restore order pretty quickly. And all of them, you’ll see, it will happen quickly, soon, all of them will stand at the master’s feet and gently wag their tails.

    Video via BRICS News.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/russian-leader-putin-europes-elites-will-soon-stand/

  18. Collin Rugg
    @CollinRugg
    NEW: Group of protesters waving Mexican flags harass a man flying an American flag on his truck in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

    Only in America.

    The incident happened as several hundred people gathered near the Broadway Bridge to pledge their support for Mexico as they protested against Trump’s deportations.

    Some signs at the protest read “No human is illegal on stolen land” and “The Pilgrims were undocumented!”

    https://x.com/i/status/1886094294118756416

    https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1886094294118756416

    • Lawlessness – Anti-ICE Protestors Block Major Portions of Los Angeles Freeway (VIDEO)
      thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/lawlessness-anti-ice-protestors-block-major-portions-los/
      Feb. 2, 2025 3:40 pm
      Los Angeles deportation protests block major portion of freeway 2/2/25 – source: KTLA screen image

      It is no surprise when the border was open for four years under Joe Biden that people in support of those policies would react this way once President Trump actually started enforcing border security and deportation.

      Trump’s immigration raids have already arrested and removed some of the most vicious illegal alien criminals living in the US.

      President Trump’s DOJ has directed all 93 US Attorneys Offices to prosecute state or local officials who obstruct immigration raids.

      In a memo, Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, has instructed federal prosecutors across the country to investigate and potentially prosecute any local officials who obstruct efforts to block Trump’s immigration enforcement raids and deportation operations.

      Anti-ICE protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles on Sunday, which included the freeway itself. The 101 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles was closed down as a result of lawless people walking onto the southbound side of the freeway.

      Peaceful protesting within the First Amendment does not allow people to block a freeway or put others in danger like this group of lawbreakers.

      Watch:

      UPDATE: A large group of anti-ICE protesters have walked onto the southbound lanes of the 101 Freeway, at the Alameda Street exit in DTLA. Read more: https://t.co/K60ImdzmDi pic.twitter.com/BPcsiDvRIe

      — KTLA (@KTLA) February 2, 2025

      The situation took a turn for the worse when both sides of the 101 Freeway were blocked by the deportation protesters.

      Although there were some US Flags being carried, a good portion of them were carrying Mexican flags.

      Watch:

      NOW: Anti-ICE protesters are blocking both sides of the 101 Freeway near the Alameda Street exit in DTLA. The CHP has since closed that portion of the freeway. Read more: https://t.co/K60ImdzmDi pic.twitter.com/iO5ARSTyTL

      — KTLA (@KTLA) February 2, 2025

      KTLA reported:

      A massive protest formed in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday in response to President Trump’s crackdown on immigration and emphasis on deportations.

      The protest, which was organized and promoted on social media, originated on the Placita Olvera on Olvera Street near DTLA.

      By 11:30 a.m., the protest had thousands of demonstrators and was growing in size, marching to City Hall in downtown.

      At about noon, a large group of protesters walked onto the southbound lanes of the 101 Freeway, at the Alameda Street exit in DTLA. By 12:30 p.m., they were blocking both sides of the 101 in the same area.

      This is a developing story.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/lawlessness-anti-ice-protestors-block-major-portions-los/

  20. Cartels authorized the use of weaponized drones against ICE agents

    Threats have been made on social media
    Posts suggest ways to kill or harm federal agents
    Agents have been told to take precautions

    (NewsNation) — Cartels have authorized the use of weaponized drone explosives against border agents and other U.S. law enforcement at the southern border as violent threats are escalating on social media, with some promising the use of deadly force against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection is taking the threats seriously enough to circulate two memos among agents and officers within the agency. Copies of the memos were obtained by NewsNation.

    One of the communications references three different social media posts that included threats.

  21. Former Senior Adviser for the Federal Reserve Indicted on Charges of Economic Espionage
    Friday, January 31, 2025
    For Immediate Release
    Office of Public Affairs

    John Harold Rogers, 63, of Vienna, Virginia, a former Senior Adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB), was arrested today on charges that he conspired to steal Federal Reserve trade secrets for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

    In furtherance of the conspiracy, allegedly made false statements to the Office of Inspector General for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (FRB-OIG), and those false statements had a material impact on its investigation.

    “As alleged, the defendant violated the trust placed in him by the Federal Reserve Bank by putting U.S. trade secrets in the hands of his PRC co-conspirators, knowing full well that such information would benefit the PRC Government and PRC instrumentalities,” said Devin DeBacker, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “The Justice Department will continue to use all the tools at its disposal to disrupt economic espionage and protect our national security.”

    “President Trump tasks us with protecting our fellow Americans from all enemies, foreign and domestic. As alleged in the indictment, this defendant leveraged his position within the Federal Reserve to pass sensitive financial information to the Chinese government, a designated adversary,” said U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. for the District of Columbia. “Let this indictment serve as a warning to all who seek to betray or exploit the United States: law enforcement will find you and hold you accountable.”

    “As alleged in the indictment, Rogers betrayed his country while employed at the Federal Reserve by providing restricted U.S. financial and economic information to Chinese government intelligence officers,” said Assistant Director Kevin Vorndran of the FBI Counterintelligence Division. “This information could allow adversaries to illegally gain a strategic economic advantage at the expense of the U.S. This indictment sends a clear message that the FBI and our partners will hold accountable those who threaten our national security.”

    “The Chinese Communist Party has expanded its economic espionage campaign to target U.S. government financial policies and trade secrets in an effort to undermine the United States and become the sole superpower,” said Assistant Director in Charge David Sundberg of the FBI Washington Field Office. “Today’s indictment represents the FBI’s unwavering commitment to protect U.S. national security interests and U.S. jobs and bring to justice those who are willing to betray their country for personal gain.”

    “This indictment sends a clear message that those who deliberately misuse sensitive Federal Reserve information for their own personal gain and lie about it to investigators will be held accountable for their actions,” said Special Agent in Charge John T. Perez of the FRB-OIG, Headquarters Operations.

    According to the indictment, Rogers, a U.S. citizen with a Ph.D. in economics, worked as a Senior Adviser in FRB’s Division of International Finance of the FRB from 2010 until 2021, where he was entrusted with confidential FRB information. The confidential information that Rogers allegedly shared with his Chinese co-conspirators, who worked for the intelligence and security apparatus of China and who posed as graduate students at a PRC university, is economically valuable when secret.

    China holds a large amount of U.S. foreign debt (approximately $816 billion as of October 2024). The data Rogers shared with his co-conspirators could allow China to manipulate the U.S. market, in a manner similar to insider trading. Gaining advance knowledge of U.S. economic policy, including advance knowledge of changes to the federal funds rate, could provide China with an advantage when selling or buying U.S. bonds or securities.

    The indictment alleges that, from at least 2018, Rogers allegedly exploited his employment with the FRB by soliciting trade-secret information regarding proprietary economic data sets, deliberations about tariffs targeting China, briefing books for designated governors, and sensitive information about Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) deliberations and forthcoming announcements. He passed that information electronically to his personal email account, in violation of FRB policy, or printed it prior to traveling to China, in preparation for meetings with his co-conspirators.

    Under the guise of teaching “classes,” Rogers met with his co-conspirators in hotel rooms in China where he conveyed sensitive, trade-secret information that belonged to the FRB and the FOMC. In 2023, Rogers was paid approximately $450,000 as a part-time professor at a Chinese university.

    On Feb. 4, 2020, in response to questioning by the FRB-OIG, Rogers lied about his accessing and passage of sensitive information and his associations with his co-conspirators.

    Rogers is charged with conspiracy to commit economic espionage and with making false statements.

    The FBI Washington Field Office and FRB-OIG are investigating the case.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Paschall for the District of Columbia and Trial Attorneys Nicholas Hunter and Steve Marzen of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Section are prosecuting the case.

    An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-senior-adviser-federal-reserve-indicted-charges-economic-espionage

  22. An American Airlines flight headed into Reagan National Airport 24-hours before the fatal crash Wednesday was forced into a last-minute go-around to avoid another aircraft — the second known redirect in the hours before the fatal crash.

    One of the passengers, Marcus Webster, told The Post that and his fiancé were flying first class on American Airlines Flight 5210 from Destin, Fla., to Washington DC on Tuesday when the nerve-racking change of plans occurred.

    Flight 5210 was diverted just 1,100 feet above ground — pilots getting the worrying directions from ATC at an even later point in the flight plan than another jet redirected that night, Republic Airways Flight 4514, which hit 1,600 feet before being redirected on that same day.

    https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/us-news/another-american-airlines-flight-was-forced-into-last-second-redirect-at-dca-24-hours-before-tragic-crash/

  23. Iran ‘secretly building nuclear missiles that can hit Europe’
    Joe Barnes
    Fri, January 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM CST
    4 min read
    Iran is developing nuclear missiles at two sites with a range of 3,000km
    Iran is developing nuclear missiles at two sites with a range of 3,000km
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    Iran is developing nuclear missiles with a range of 3,000km based on designs handed to the Islamic regime by North Korea, The Telegraph can disclose.

    The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which has previously exposed details of Tehran’s secret uranium enrichment facilities, has shared information on how the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are expanding their weapons programmes.

    The exiled opposition group says that two sites camouflaged as communication satellite launch facilities have been used to rush the production of nuclear warheads.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-building-nuclear-missiles-3-181456549.html

  24. (Richard: When the Second Amendment was written all males age 16 and over were required to own a musket or rifle, a bayonet or tomahawk, two flints and enough powder and balls to fire 5 shots. They were required to take them to Church once a month and the Pastor had to examine them to ensure they met the requirements, if they didn’t the government fined them.)

    5 Circuit Court Strikes Down Federal Laws Prohibiting FFLs From Selling Handguns to 18-to-20-Year-Olds
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on February 1, 2025 by NRAHQ

    This week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(b)(1) and (c)(1)—which together forbid Federal Firearms Licensees from selling handguns to 18-to-20-year-olds—violate the Second Amendment.

    Applying the text-and-history test for Second Amendment cases set forth in NYSRPA v. Bruen, the Fifth Circuit began its analysis by considering whether the regulated conduct is covered by the Second Amendment’s plain text. First, the court concluded that “the right to ‘keep and bear arms’ surely implies the right to purchase them.” Next, the court determined that 18-to-20-year-olds are among “the people” protected by the Amendment because “There are no age or maturity restrictions in the plain text of the Amendment” and because 18-to-20-year-olds were traditionally required to provide their own arms for service in the militia and posse comitatus.

    Since the plain text covers the purchase of handguns by 18-to-20-year-olds, the court next considered whether the federal prohibition is consistent with America’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.
    The court concluded that it is not. During the founding era, as noted above, 18-to-20-year-olds were required to acquire and possess firearms.

    And no founding-era law forbade them from doing so. Rather, regulations limiting the ability of 18-to-20-year-olds to acquire arms were first enacted in the latter half of the nineteenth century, which is too late to establish a historical tradition. Therefore, the court held, the federal laws prohibiting FFL sales to 18-to-20-year-olds violate the Second Amendment.

    The court cited law review articles published by ILA’s Director of Litigation Counsel, Joseph Greenlee—which were coauthored with David Kopel—five times in determining that 18-to-20-year-olds are among “the people” and were protected by the Second Amendment at the time of our nation’s founding.

    The case, Reese v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was brought by Caleb Reese, Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, Louisiana Shooting Association, and Emily Naquin.

    https://www.ammoland.com/2025/02/5-circuit-court-strikes-down-federal-laws-prohibiting-ffls-from-selling-handguns-to-18-to-20-year-olds/

  25. LAST EPISODE! What’s Next for Israel and the Jewish people | Caroline Glick In-Focus
    JNS TV – Premiered January 20, 2025

  27. I’m home.

    Back from sitting shiva in Israel for my Russki’s “Ukrainian” son. He was killed in Kiev by a direct hit on the most advanced military research facility in the country. The top drone specialists were wiped out entirely.
    ~~~Were there any reports about it anywhere?~~~

    His wife wants nothing to do with “genocidal fiends” like us. Not even to let us evacuate the baby grandchildren to a neutral USA.

    His other son – who is now fully, emphatically Israeli – is also a drone guy. Like my Israeli-Singapore based brother, after wasting ten years on the F-35.

    My nephew isn’t in the MIC- “family business”. He continues to heal from post-surgical complications after being injured on the northern front.

    At least it’s peaceful in my lonely apt. I’ll sleep for a while, then return to you – my dear VTB friends. You’ll bring me up to date on what in the world is going on.

    As ever, yours fondly,
    Yucki, Yankee Kafir

  28. WATCH: “I Don’t Know Where All This Money Is” – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Says Ukraine Only Received About $75 Billion of $177 Billion in U.S. Aid
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-i-dont-know-where-all-this-money/
    Feb. 2, 2025 3:00 pm
    Joe Biden’s handlers send billions more to Ukraine to prolong war.

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted in an interview that he hasn’t even seen half of the nearly $200 billion in foreign aid that the United States has sent to Ukraine since war broke out with Russia.

    According to Ukraineoversight.gov,

    As of September 30, 2024, the U.S. Ukraine response funding totals nearly $183 billion, with $130.1 billion obligated and $86.7 billion disbursed.

    Congress appropriated $174.2 billion through the five Ukraine supplemental appropriation acts enacted FY 2022 through FY 2024, of which $163.6 billion was allocated for OAR and the Ukraine response. Additional funds of $18.2 billion were allocated from annual agency appropriations and $1.1 billion was allocated from other supplemental appropriation acts.

    However, Zelensky says, “We received just over 75 [billion dollars].”

    He accounts for this in the “70-something billion-worth of” weapons.

    “But when they say that Ukraine, during the war, received 200 billion to support the army, etc., this is not true. I don’t know where all this money is,” Zelensky said.

    Meanwhile, Biden only provided $770 to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires after sending billions more to the black hole of money in Ukraine.

    This also comes amid recent reports that money is being laundered by Democrats through Ukraine. The Gateway Pundit recently reported that former Polish Minister Piotr Kulpa said up to half of the U.S. aid to Ukraine was laundered by Ukrainians, and much was given to U.S. Democrats. It is also believed that much of the billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars are going to Zelensky and the pensions of his bureaucrats.

    Thankfully, President Trump’s State Department immediately halted funding for military aid to Ukraine for 90 days after Trump took office last month.

    BREAKING: Officials Shocked After Trump State Department Halts Funding For Military Aid to Ukraine

    Watch below:

    Zelensky: Look, when I hear, and I heard before, and today we hear from the United States of America that America gave Ukraine hundreds of billions, 177, to be more precise. That’s what the exact figure sounded like, which was supported or voted by the Congress, etc. Look, as the President of a warring country, I tell you, we received just over 75. That is, 100 billion of these 177, or 200, some people even say, we have never received.

    And this is important because we are talking about specific things because we got it not with money, but with weapons. We got 70 something billion-worth of it. There is training, there is additional transport, there are not only prices for weapons, there were humanitarian programs, social, etc.

    But when they say that Ukraine during the war received 200 billion to support the army, etc., this is not true. I don’t know where all this money is.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-i-dont-know-where-all-this-money/

    • Disgusting. This is just the beginning of the accounting for this money-laundering pit of despair that Congress (so many of them) perpetrated.

  29. Subcontractor Working on Obama Presidential Center Files $40 Million Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
    thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/subcontractor-working-obama-presidential-center-files-40-million/
    Feb. 2, 2025 2:40 pm
    Obama Library

    A subcontractor providing rebar and concrete services for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago filed a $40 million racial discrimination lawsuit.

    The Chicago-based subcontractor, Robert McGee, is suing Thornton Tomasetti, the firm which oversees the engineering of the Obama Presidential Center.

    According to the lawsuit, Thornton Tomasetti created new rules for rebar spacing which impacted Robert McGee’s productivity and cost him millions of dollars.

    Thornton Tomasetti claimed the subcontractors were “questionably qualified.”

    The New York Post reported:

    A Chicago-based subcontractor is suing one of the firms involved in managing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center for $40 million, claiming racial discriminatory practices forced the firm to do extra work that left it at risk of bankruptcy, according to a lawsuit.

    Robert McGee, the owner of II in One, which provided concrete and rebar services for the center starting in 2021, filed the lawsuit in federal court last month against New York-based Thornton Tomasetti, which oversees structural engineering and design services for the $830 million project.

    McGee claims that Thornton Tomasetti changed standards and imposed new rules around rebar spacing and tolerance requirements that differed from the American Concrete Institute standards, which resulted in “excessively rigorous and unnecessary inspection” and massive overruns.

    This, McGee, claims, incurred extensive paperwork that impacted productivity and resulted in millions in losses, according to the lawsuit.

    Obama’s ‘Presidential Library’ is anything but a library.

    The eyesore of a building will be a “working center for citizenship,” set to be built on the south side of Chicago and will include a 235-foot-high “museum tower,” a two-story event space, an athletic center, a recording studio, a winter garden, even a sledding hill, reported the New York Times.

    The Obama center will also reportedly cost nearly $1 billion and the one major difference between his center and other ex-presidents? It’s not actually a presidential library.

    There will be NONE of Obama’s official presidential records on site — rather, the Obama Foundation will pay to have roughly 30 million pages of unclassified records digitized.

    There will also be no archivists on site to help professional researchers and historians

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/subcontractor-working-obama-presidential-center-files-40-million/

  31. I hope citizens of Ontario go to all the debates and ask Pinky Ford and his representatives why doctors who refused the vaccine lost their licences or were not allowed their hospital privileges. Are ALL the foreign doctors and nurses vaccinated for COVID? Will these doctors , nurses and healthcare workers EVER be allowed back in the hospitals? Why does he say “We are all in this together”, his past performance -Covid- proved to be NOT true.

    Does he have any idea of the number of citizens who have died or are vaccine injured? Ask why the truckers were so badly treated and why our streets are now filled with foreigners shouting “Death to Canada”. What is he doing about the unrest? Why has there been a revolving for criminals?

    The premier is supposed to work for ALL the people, does he know that?

  32. This past year has been tiresome, many friends and acquaintances have died or are sick now because of coercion. My sweet, wonderful dog died in the early spring. I broke my ankle this summer and discovered I am a terrible patient who has no patience ( broke my stride) Recently I went to the humane society, rescued a wonderful new friend and he rescued me.

    How nice to have a friend who loves walking everyday and is always happy.