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No self-respecting counter-revolution is complete without a full audit. I hope this one is done in Technicolor. Unless DOGE takes accountability to its logical conclusion it should not have been created. The American people will not suffer any sort of economic reset quietly without full disclosure. And even then… :
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lets-do-it-rand-paul-supports-fort-knox-physical-audit-after-zerohedge-suggestion-goes
https://youtu.be/MA65V-oLKa8?si=A51ZJXBvMVYHd5qS
So, we’re supposed to remain willingly ignorant of everything that was done in our name and with our money; you sound like you’re speaking for the people who are trying desperately to keep everything secret.
Military Summary. The Green T-shirt comforts his stolen money while Russia hammers on attaining optimal positioning prior to peace talks:
Having watched both parts I’m more convinced than ever:
1-Eurorat movers-&-shakers NEED !War! to wipe out the impossible debt burden (via force majeure). The opinions of the PEOPLE of Europe are not welcome, though they’re the ones who would be dying for Democracy.
~~~Just say NO~~~2-Russia prefers the USA – NOT CHY-na – have access to the rare earth metals on “liberated” property. International contracts signed before this war will be honored, if they were properly registered. That’s sensible, invites investors, not looters.
Part II:
Zelensky Plans Escape: Russians Advance On All Fronts
Leo Hohmann:
Ukraine-Russia war debacle may spell end of American taxpayers’ funding of European-globalist warmongering cartels in London and Paris
NATO’s super-expensive proxy war against Russia has finally run its course, ending in total failure. This may result in the obliteration of post-World War II norms in which U.S. fights Europe’s wars.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-157283453
Frankenstein Fauci is starting to be exposed. Justine will be exposed — “fringe minority” — Emergency Act — the truckers knew what Justine, Twitchy, Singh, Carnage, and the Health Minister were promoting was not true. The vaccines were not safe and effective.
At what point will the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons across Canada apologize and reinstate all the doctors, nurses, healthcare workers and Canadians who lost their livelihood through this group’s lack of knowledge and common sense?
All the headlines about safe and effective, the superspreaders were not the unvaccinated.
“At what point will the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons across Canada apologize and reinstate all the doctors, nurses, healthcare workers and Canadians who lost their livelihood through this group’s lack of knowledge and common sense?”
Never. As it was never about that. It was about a revolution in the medical and state systems. They know it was all a lie. You can KNOW they knew it was a lie by watching the actual ‘tribunals’ of the colleges on Rumble against Ontario doctors.
They rigged the hearings so that factual information about the vaxx could never be seen or heard. They went to great lengths to discredit world class experts like Peter McCullough while not having any actual doctors or scientists on the board.
We really must come to understand this if we hope to have a chance. This was not incompetence or even corruption. This was a political revolution for the purpose of ending individual liberties.
There is one crack in the College of Physicians in BC , but in Ontario they are so far unrelenting.
… from an email….
As you know from my email on Tuesday, I had some urgent, but positive news to share. Late last week, I heard from Dr. Charles Hoffe that the College of Physicians in BC has dropped all charges against him!
Today I have my interview with Dr. Hoffe ready which you can see by clicking his picture below. In it, we discuss the dropping of his charges, along with a brief recap of his trials and tribulations to this point.
When I asked him what reasons the College gave for dropping the charges, Dr. Hoffe told me the college gave a few vague reasons, but nothing substantive. He suspects that after they failed to have his evidence excluded by means of judicial notice, they wanted to keep his evidence off the record, and thus ended this case.
Whatever the reasons, this is great news, but Charles is still many thousands of dollars out of pocket for legal fees to defend himself during this time.
You’ll remember some of the questionable legal tactics the College pulled, like for example serving massive documents on Dr. Hoffe last minute that required his lawyer to hire a whole team of help to answer and defend against.
This cost Dr. Hoffe a tremendous amount of money.
To help Dr. Hoffe with his legal expenses click below:
Etransfer – fundingthefight@proton.me
Password – Freedom
Memo – Dr. Hoffe
For those who did not read my previous email, Dr. Hoffe is a heroic Canadian Doctor from BC who sounded the alarm early about possible dangers of the COVID jab, and according to him, noticed multiple cases of COVID vaccine harms within his own practice.
Dr. Hoffe says he noticed high measures of blood clotting and other health issues in his patient population, and wrote up 14 Vaccine Adverse reaction reports, which were submitted to the appropriate authorities. Every report was denied by the health authorities and deemed a “coincidence”.
Given that his concerns were ignored, he took the extraordinary and courageous step to write an open letter sharing his concerns to the provincial health officer Bonnie Henry. Shortly after, his hospital privileges were revoked. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. began to investigate him for publicly expressing support for Ivermectin in treating COVID-19, and for publicly warning about possible side affects to the COVID jab, including cases of serious neurological harm, female infertility and even death.
Click on Dr. Hoffe’s picture below to see our latest interview:
Dr. Hoffe describes in his own words the sequence of events that have led up to today:
“I got in trouble for drawing attention to the safety signals (for the COVID jab) internationally and also in my own practice. I was given a gag order by my own local health authority, and I was not allowed to say anything negative about the experimental shots.
When I was seeing harm in my own patients I sent a public letter to Bonnie Henry, the BC chief provincial health officer, telling her what was happening to my patients. Rather than applauding a doctor for trying to keep his patients safe, this was seen as a huge problem as they did not want people to know about these risks.
They did a complete denial of vaccine injuries. Every report I committed was called a coincidence, and was denied. After submitting 14, I gave up. Then they issued a citation against me for misinformation and professional misconduct.
This has been dragging on since February 2022. It’s been adjourned a number of times for various reasons. In Spring of 2024 my hearing was adjourned. Shortly before the hearing, when the college saw the mountain of evidence stacked against them, they panicked, and tried to bury the evidence by applying for judicial notice, trying to get the facts of safe and effective declared as irrefutable, meaning I wouldn’t have been able to present any facts to the contrary, and would not have been able to defend myself. This was a drastic effort to bury evidence. Thankfully the disciplinary panel had enough honesty to not grant judicial notice.
The college’s response to that was to ask for more expert witnesses. At the time they had 1, now they have 8 expert witnesses. This has massively increased legal costs as my lawyer has had to prepare to cross-examine each one of these additional witnesses. Each step the college takes to try and bury evidence increases my legal costs enormously. The college has 7 lawyers working against me to try and bury me, and to just pile so much on my lawyer. This has caused my lawyer to need to recruit other lawyers, forensic analysts and various others.
This has become a war of attrition where they just try and bury you by wearing you down. They have huge legal resources, and obviously I don’t. I’m at the mercy and goodwill of the public who have been so kind and supportive so far. It’s a long battle, we have to stay strong.
The hearing that was scheduled for this fall (October) was the second time they scheduled a hearing when they knew my lawyer could not be there. When I complained about it they said I needed to get another lawyer. Obviously, this is very complex and that was very unfair to expect me to find a new lawyer who would have the knowledge and history behind all of this that Lee Turner has. Fortunately, the tribunal did agree to reschedule for when he was available.”
With all the tricks, and legal warfare, Dr. Hoffe has racked up many thousands of dollars in legal bills.
Click below to help Dr. Hoffe raise pay off the bills he has incurred.
Etransfer – fundingthefight@proton.me
Password – Freedom
Memo – Dr. Hoffe
Dr. Hoffe is exceptionally grateful for your ongoing support, and he told me without it, he wouldn’t have been able to see this through.
I believe the reason this case is dropped is because of the phenomenal defence Dr. Hoffe put forward, and the amount of interest this case caused around the country. You were an instrumental part of that in terms of supporting and sharing his case far and wide.
Thank you so much for supporting Dr. Hoffe. It has meant so much to him. The tide around the world is turning, we just have to keep fighting and standing strong.
Thanks so much for your support!
God bless,
Derek Sloan
I would guess when the numbers of vaccine deaths and vaccine injured are FINALLY allowed to be made public, and RFK will make that public knowledge, the Colleges of and Surgeons in Canada will be held accountable. I believe those numbers will be common knowledge sooner rather than later.
They Will be held accountable. It will be political suicide for any politician to ignore what Justine Trudeau (all the Liberals) and Jagmeet Singh (all the NDP) voted in favour of. It isqq absolutely unbelievable what they did to Canadian citizens.
Yes, there are many guilty parties including the press. They lied, they damn well lied, and now they have been found out. This is seditious corruption at the highest level.
I still look at the population reduction numbers presented to the madmen at Event 201 and I pray they will not come to pass.
In Klaus Schwab book COVID-19: The Great Reset, that surprisingly was published in June of 2020, he tells the reader that
“Strange as it may seem, the successful resolution of the pandemic crisis may motivate us to deal with those bigger issues that we have until now balked at confronting. If the pandemic does at last prepare us to deal with those existential threats, there be a silver lining to the virus’s black cloud. Among the virus’s consequences, it could prove to be the biggest, the most lasting— and our greatest cause for hope.
We are now at a crossroads, one path will take us to a better world: more inclusive, more equitable and more respectful of Mother Nature. The other will take us to a world that resembles the one we just left behind —- but worse and constantly dogged by nasty surprises. We must, therefore get it right. The looming challenges could be more consequential than we have until now chosen to imagine, but our capacity to reset could also be greater
than we had previously dared to hope.”
Remember at the very beginning of the plandemic, Justine and Twitchy telling us this is an opportunity for a Great Reset. I don’t believe the UN, WEF, WHO and EU peoplekind were overjoyed at the numbers of people worldwide that refused their vaccines. There takedown of the little useless eaters, there plan, to reduce the world population failed.
Surely, there are many people worldwide that understand their plan to reduce world populations did not work. From the first meeting, Event 201, in New York on October 18, 2019, the death of the Nobel Prize winner, Kary Mullis the man who discovered the PCR test, all of their grand eugenics scheme, the capture of many in the medical field, has been a colossal failure.
Where we go from here is anybody’s guess. I will never surrender my freedom. I choose to stand with anyone who will stop these mad men. They created a plot only monsters could plan, now we the people must stand up and demand their arrests, incarceration or the death penalty.
On how a revaluation of gold is possible, but complicated:
https://youtu.be/odm343IXlGA?si=UXJj8v84WFGvDiOE
Tweede Kamer intruder planned terror attack, Prosecutors say
https://nltimes.nl/2025/02/17/tweede-kamer-intruder-planned-terror-attack-prosecutors-say
The 18-year-old man who entered the Tweede Kamer with a knife last Thursday has been charged with making threats and planning to commit murder with terrorist intent, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) confirmed. The suspect, a resident of Nijmegen, remains in custody after an examining magistrate ordered him to remain in pre-trial detention for up to 14 days.
The incident occurred around 6:45 p.m. when the suspect gained access to the main hall of the Tweede Kamer. Security footage reportedly shows the man acting in an “aggressive and determined manner,” according to the OM. Officials suspect he may have been planning an attack on someone inside the building.
Shortly after the suspect entered, security protocols were enacted, leading to a brief lockdown. One committee meeting was forced to suspend its hearing, and access to the building was restricted for approximately 20 minutes before a staff entrance was reopened.
The suspect managed to walk deep into the Statenpassage before reaching a hallway leading to smaller committee rooms. Security officers apprehended him more than 100 meters from the main entrance and handed him over to the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, who subsequently transferred him to police custody.
During the arrest, no one was injured. However, eyewitnesses reported hearing a security officer shout, “Everyone get out of here!” as the situation unfolded.
Authorities have not disclosed the suspect’s intended target, and his exact motives remain unclear. The OM stated that investigators are closely examining his psychological state as part of the ongoing probe.
“The available footage suggests this was the preparation for an attack on someone in the Tweede Kamer, which would have caused public fear,” an OM spokesperson said.
‘Yes, Dummy’ — VP JD Vance Fires Back at Far-Left Reporter Mehdi Hasan Who Attempts to School Him on Free Speech
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/yes-dummy-vp-jd-vance-fires-back-far/
Feb. 17, 2025 3:00 pm
Vice President J.D. Vance unleashed a scorching rebuttal to far-left reporter Mehdi Hasan during an online confrontation that has since gone viral.
Vance, who had just delivered a powerful speech at the Munich Security Conference last week, criticized European leaders for their assault on free speech, condemning their use of ‘misinformation’ laws to suppress dissent and control political narratives.
“The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values: values shared with the United States of America,” Vance said.
“Free speech, I fear, is in retreat and in the interests of comedy, my friends, but also in the interest of truth, I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe, but from within my own country, where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation.
“So I come here today not just with an observation, but with an offer. And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite, and I hope that we can work together on that.
“In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town. And under Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer them in the public square,” Vance said.
Vance’s remarks hit a nerve among European elites, who quickly erupted in outrage.
On Monday, Hasan took to social media to challenge Vance’s stance on free speech. He attempted to “educate” him but ended up getting absolutely wrecked.
“JD Vance, I know you’re busy lecturing the Europeans on free speech, but have you seen this?”—referring to an incident where a far-left AP reporter was denied entry in the White House press briefing room after refusing to acknowledge the executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”
Vance didn’t mince words in his retort. He responded, “Yes dummy. I think there’s a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the WH press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views. The latter is a threat to free speech, the former is not. Hope that helps!”
Screenshot: @JDVance / X
Vance’s retort highlighted a fundamental difference: in America, even if a reporter is denied access to the White House press room, they can still voice their opinions freely online, on air, or in print.
Meanwhile, in parts of Europe, expressing an opinion contrary to the state narrative can lead to legal repercussions, fines, or worse.
Vance’s rebuttal not only put Hasan in his place but also served as a reminder to all watching that the fight for free speech is far from over, and America, under leaders like Vance, will not bend to the whims of those who would rather control thought than promote open dialogue.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/yes-dummy-vp-jd-vance-fires-back-far/
SURPRISE: Son of Woke Anti-Trump Bishop Mariann Budde Works for Barack Obama as Battleground States Elections Analyst
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/surprise-son-woke-anti-trump-bishop-mariann-budde/
Feb. 17, 2025 8:45 am
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde (Screenshot: 11Alive / Youtube)
It has come to light that the son of the woke liberal Episcopal Washington Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde has deep roots in Democrat politics.
Bishop Budde, during an inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral, used her time speaking at the National Cathedral to use her faith to attack the president.
“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President,” Budde began. “As you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God.”
“In the name of a loving God, to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now, she stated. “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.”
“And the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings…They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation,” she added.
“The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors…May I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away,” she concluded.
Amos Budde, one of two sons of Mariann Edgar Budde and her husband Paul Budde, once worked as a battleground states elections analyst for Barack Obama’s campaign. This revelation was reported by investigative journalist Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations.
“Amos Budde, the son of Rev. Mariann Budde from whom Trump’s demanding apology for her “nasty” remarks @ prayer service, worked for OBAMA FOR AMERICA as a battleground states elections analyst; also worked for Intern’l Criminal Court in The Hague, where JACK SMITH worked,” Paul Sperry wrote.
BREAKING: Amos Budde, the son of Rev. Mariann Budde from whom Trump’s demanding apology for her “nasty” remarks @ prayer service, worked for OBAMA FOR AMERICA as a battleground states elections analyst; also worked for Intern’l Criminal Court in The Hague, where JACK SMITH worked
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 22, 2025
As a battleground state elections analyst for “Obama for America,” he was responsible for designing tools that forecasted election outcomes, dictated the locations of campaign rallies, and managed volunteer time and resources.
“Obama for America” (OFA) was the official campaign arm that propelled Obama to victory in both 2008 and 2012.
Following the 2012 election, the organization transformed into “Organizing for Action,” a nonprofit focused on pushing Obama’s policy agenda.
Beyond his political operations for Obama, Amos Budde later secured a prestigious Technology Fellowship with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2015 — an institution that just so happens to have employed none other than Special Counsel Jack Smith (2008-2010), the very man spearheading legal attacks against President Trump.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Bishop Mariann Budde has been found to have pocketed a staggering $53 million in taxpayer funds through her organization, Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM).
The Episcopal Migration Ministry (EMM), the federal contracting arm of her church, has been profiting immensely from taxpayer-funded government programs aimed at resettling migrants.
In 2023 alone, EMM raked in $53 million to resettle 3,600 individuals, according to the New York Post.
The news outlet added that in 2024, EMM “sponsored” 6,400 individuals from 48 countries, including Afghans under a special humanitarian program and refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
These new arrivals are immediately eligible for all forms of welfare, such as Medicaid and cash assistance, on the same basis as U.S. citizens. Further, they can sponsor friends and relatives under a recent Biden expansion of the refugee resettlement program.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/surprise-son-woke-anti-trump-bishop-mariann-budde/
Elon Musk’s DOGE Team Uncovers Over 25 Million People Ages 100+ in Social Security Database, Some Older Than the Constitution: “There are a Lot of Vampires Collecting Social Security”
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/elon-musks-doge-team-uncovers-25-million-people/
Feb. 17, 2025 8:30 am
Photo credit: depositphotos.com
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has unearthed jaw-dropping irregularity from the U.S. Social Security database.
The numbers are truly mind-boggling: over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself.
Late Sunday night, Musk tweeted a staggering claim accompanied by a table of ages, suggesting that the Social Security Administration might be paying out benefits to “vampires.”
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the ‘death’ field set to FALSE. Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” Musk quipped.
The table Musk provided shows:
Age 0-9: 38,825,456
Age 10-19: 44,326,480
Age 20-29: 47,995,478
Age 30-39: 52,106,915
Age 40-49: 47,626,581
Age 50-59: 45,740,805
Age 60-69: 46,381,281
Age 70-79: 33,404,412
Age 80-89: 15,165,127
Age 90-99: 6,054,154
Age 100-109: 4,734,407
Age 110-119: 3,627,007
Age 120-129: 3,472,849
Age 130-139: 3,936,311
Age 140-149: 3,542,044
Age 150-159: 1,345,083
Age 160-169: 121,807
Age 170-179: 6,087
Age 180-189: 695
Age 190-199: 448
Age 200-209: 879
Age 210-219: 866
Age 220-229: 1,039
Age 240-249: 1
Age 360-369: 1
According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
This information released by Musk aligns with the audit conducted by the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General (SSA OIG) in 2015.
According to the 2023 report:
In 2015, we reported that SSA had not established controls to annotate death information on the Numident records of numberholders who exceeded maximum reasonable life expectancies of age 112 or older and were likely deceased.
At the time, only 35 known living individuals worldwide were age 112 or older, however, SSA’s Numident included 6.5 million numberholders4 age 112 or older whose record did not contain death information.
Therefore, the numberholders’ information did not appear in the full DMF. We recommended SSA add death information to approximately 1.5 million Numident records where the numberholders’ death information appeared in SSA payment records.
We also recommended SSA determine whether it could efficiently correct the approximately 5 million remaining records. SSA agreed to explore the legal and technical feasibility, as well as the cost, to establish an automated process to update the millions of Numident records for individuals who appeared to be alive and age 112 or older, but ultimately decided not to update these records.
[…]
In response to our 2015 report, SSA considered multiple options, including adding presumed death information to these Numident records. SSA ultimately decided not to proceed because the “. . . options would be costly to implement, would be of little benefit to the agency, would largely duplicate information already available to data exchange consumers and would create cost for the states and other data exchange partners.”
SSA also believed a regulation would be required to allow it to add death information to these records, and adding presumed death information to the Numident would increase the risk of inadvertent release of living individuals’ personal information in the DMF.
We note that, as of January 2023, the full DMF included death information on approximately 137 million deceased numberholders. Over 18 million missing death records represents more than 10 percent of the records in the full DMF.
Therefore, the death information SSA currently provides Federal benefit-paying agencies–and will begin providing to the Department of the Treasury’s Do Not Pay initiative in December 2023–to help prevent improper payments to deceased individuals, omit information for more than 1 of every 10 deceased numberholders.
As of 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that approximately 101,000 Americans are aged 100 and older, representing about 0.03% of the total U.S. population, according to the Pew Research Center.
Individuals aged 110 and above are referred to as supercentenarians, a subgroup that is exceedingly rare. As of February 2025, the Gerontology Research Group reported that 136 Americans belong to this category.
Currently, the oldest living American is Naomi Whitehead, born on September 26, 1910, in Georgia, making her 114 years old. The longest-lived person in U.S. history is Sarah Knauss, who lived to be 119 years and 97 days, passing away on December 30, 1999.
For years, conservatives have sounded the alarm on government waste, fraud, and abuse—particularly within entitlement programs.
The Social Security Administration (SSA), riddled with inefficiencies, appears to have an entire army of ghost beneficiaries cashing in taxpayer-funded benefits.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/elon-musks-doge-team-uncovers-25-million-people/
Top Auto CEO Says He May Pull Production Out of Mexico If Trump Follows Through on Tariffs
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/top-auto-ceo-says-he-may-pull-production/
Feb. 17, 2025 7:15 am
Nissan CEO Makota Uchida
The CEO of Nissan has said he may be forced to move production out of Mexico if Donald Trump imposes tariffs on exports.
The head of the Japanese automaker made the comments during a press conference on Friday.
“From Mexico to the U.S., we are exporting a significant number of cars this fiscal year,” Uchida said, according to Reuters.
”320,000 units are exported from Mexico to the U.S., and if the high tariffs are imposed, we need to be ready for this,” he continued.
”Maybe we can transfer the production of these models elsewhere if this were the decision, we will think how we can make it a reality while monitoring the situation.”
“We are exporting a large volume to U.S., so if there’s a high tariff, this would have huge implications on our business, so we need to monitor this carefully.”
https://youtu.be/21CDdWHEYzU
While it is not clear whether Uchida would return production to the U.S., a promise to ened the outsourcing of American jobs to Mexico has always been an integral part of Trump’s political appeal..
Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on Mexico are currently on hold until March after discussions with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
“It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican Soldiers on the Border separating Mexico and the United States,” Trump said on Truth Social last month.
”These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl, and illegal migrants into our Country.”
BREAKING: Mexican President Agrees to Work With Trump to Close Border One Day After Tariffs Imposed
If Trump eventually follows through, the move could have serious implications for the Mexican economy.
Just last year, Mexican plants manufactured 670,000 Nissan vehicles, over 450,000 of which were exported.
Nissan is the ninth largest car company in the world, selling between three and four million units every year.
The company has several manufacturing facilities across the United States, the largest being in Tennessee and Mississipi.
Over recent weeks, there had been active negotiations about the possibility of Nissan merging with fellow Japanese automobile giant Honda.
However, those talks have since fallen through and are not expected to resume.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/top-auto-ceo-says-he-may-pull-production/
Pres. Trump Files Emergency Appeal to Supreme Court to Overturn Reinstatement of Hampton Dellinger as Head of Office of Special Counsel
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/pres-trump-files-emergency-appeal-supreme-court-overturn/
Feb. 16, 2025 8:20 pm
Judge Amy Berman Jackson (L); Hampton Dellinger (R)
President Donald Trump has been forced to take his fight to the U.S. Supreme Court after an Obama-appointed judge reinstated Hampton Dellinger, a Biden-era bureaucrat, as head of the Office of Special Counsel.
This latest legal battle comes after a series of judicial oversteps by the activist judiciary.
Last Friday, President Trump exercised his constitutional duty to dismiss Dellinger from his position at the Office of Special Counsel, an agency tasked with safeguarding federal whistleblowers.
Rather than accept his removal, Dellinger filed a lawsuit to reclaim his job. The case was conveniently assigned to none other than Obama-appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson.
Unsurprisingly, Jackson granted an administrative stay that blocked Trump’s decision and allowed Dellinger to continue running the agency.
This rogue judge went even further, dictating that Trump “must allow Dellinger to continue to have access” to the agency’s resources and forbidding the administration from recognizing any replacement Trump had in mind.
The Trump Justice Department’s appeal of Judge Jackson’s decision was dismissed by a three-judge panel stacked with leftist appointees—Florence Pan (Biden), Michelle Childs (Obama), and Greg Katsas (Trump).
In yet another legal absurdity, the court ruled that Trump could not appeal an administrative stay, leaving the decision in the hands of Jackson, the very judge who unlawfully reinstated Dellinger in the first place.
With Jackson’s ruling set to expire Thursday, she quickly moved to extend it, arguing that Trump cannot unilaterally fire the Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel—a blatant affront to the president’s constitutional authority.
Not willing to bow to judicial tyranny, President Trump has now taken the battle to the U.S. Supreme Court, filing an emergency appeal to overturn Jackson’s decision and finally remove Dellinger.
This is the first Supreme Court battle of Trump’s second term, and it signals an unprecedented fight between the executive branch and an activist judiciary hellbent on stopping Trump’s reforms.
The Justice Department’s filing, obtained by the Associated Press, makes a compelling argument that Judge Jackson’s ruling violates the president’s constitutional authority.
The news outlet reported, “The Justice Department’s filing obtained by The Associated Press asks the conservative-majority court to lift a judge’s court order temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger as the leader of the Office of Special Counsel.”
Trump’s legal team is citing previous Supreme Court decisions that affirm broad presidential powers over executive appointments.
With a conservative-majority Supreme Court, including three justices appointed by Trump himself, the administration is hopeful that the justices will correct this outrageous judicial overstep and reinstate Trump’s rightful authority to govern.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/pres-trump-files-emergency-appeal-supreme-court-overturn/
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Reporter:- “President Zelensky says that Russia will use Tactical Nuclear Weapons”
“Zelensky says many things – it depends on what he drinks or what he smoke”
– Sergey Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister
https://x.com/i/status/1891500723914912106
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ATF’s Facial Recognition Tied to Trump Assassination Attempt Investigation, Raising 2A Concerns ~ VIDEO
Ammoland Inc. Posted on February 17, 2025 by F Riehl, Editor in Chief
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Washington, D.C. – New revelations confirm that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has been utilizing facial recognition technology to identify gun owners, sparking alarm among civil liberties advocates and Second Amendment supporters.
The controversy resurfaced following the July 13, 2024, attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Shortly after, an FBI preliminary report released by Senator Ron Johnson revealed that law enforcement sent photos of the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, to the ATF for facial recognition purposes. This revelation has led to renewed scrutiny of the agency’s involvement in biometric surveillance.
ATF’s Facial Recognition Program Exposed
According to a 2021 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the ATF has access to various facial recognition systems, including Clearview AI, Vigilant Solutions, and databases maintained by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. These systems allow authorities to compare facial images against a database of billions of online photos, including images scraped from social media, news sites, and mugshot databases.
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https://www.ammoland.com/2025/02/atfs-facial-recognition-tied-to-trump-assassination-attempt/
Another Democrat Gun Grabber Calls for Political Violence, This Time with ‘Actual Weapons’
Ammoland Inc. Posted on February 16, 2025 by David Codrea
After urging followers to engage in insurrection using “actual weapons,” how much more “distinction” does he need? (Robert Garcia/Facebook)
“A Democrat in Congress is urging Americans to ‘bring actual weapons’ against Elon Musk as the head of DOGE continues to expose massive amounts of spending waste in the federal government,” World Net Daily reported Wednesday. “U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., told CNN on Wednesday that Musk is ‘harming the American public in an enormous way, and what I think is really important and what the American public want, is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country.’”
So… basically, engage in armed insurrection to prevent government waste, abuse, corruption, and fraud from being identified…? Unlike the J6 “seditious conspirators” Democrats have breathlessly painted as Nazis and domestic terrorists…?
Just what we need from an immigrant whose family came here from Peru ostensibly to enjoy the superior recognition of freedom this copuntry offered…
This is hardly an isolated incident.
Earlier this month, AmmoLand related the words of a Democrat official in Pennsylvania, calling for Trump supporters, presumably all 77 million of them, to be “extraconstitutionally… hanged by the neck until dead,” noting the climate of hate being fostered by national party leaders. And Thursday, this column reported on still Kweisi after all these years Democrat Rep. Mfume of Maryland exhorting his followers to start a “street fight over Musk’s efforts to identify government waste, abuse, corruption, and fraud.
Since doing that ought to be a goal of all loyal Americans, especially those in the legislature entrusted and privileged to represent the people paying for it all, some questions naturally come to enquiring minds:
Why?
Why are they so desperately angry, ready to drop all pretenses of “friends across the aisle” civility and call for street violence?
Against people they’re trying to disarm…?
Garcia is no exception.
Aside from never seeing a gun he didn’t want to grab, he is especially invested in imposing prior restraint restrictions on ammunition. And all the major gun-grab groups agree.
“With so much on the line this November, it’s important that we protect our majority in the House by electing gun safety champions from coast to coast—champions like Mayor Robert Garcia,” Giffords gushed in its endorsement of him. “We know he has the courage to act to end gun violence, and the people of Southern California deserve a legislator who will always put their well-being first.”
“The gun sense majorities in Congress and statehouses across the country have delivered life-saving progress on gun safety – and now is the time to keep going by re-electing our champions and growing these majorities,” Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, said in a joint statement with Everytown endorsing Garcia and like-minded candidates for office. “These gun sense champions can count on a grassroots army of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers to put everything on the line to get them elected in November.”
“As an openly gay and Latino man, he knows that easy access to firearms makes hate lethal,” the Brady Campaign declared. “As a member of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, he has cosponsored bipartisan legislation to expand Brady Background Checks (H.R. 715), legislation to ban assault weapons (H.R. 698) and Ethan’s Law (H.R. 660) to mandate safe firearm storage nationwide, among others.”
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One might also ask if its intentional that none of the “commonsense gun safety” groups, ever active on social media platforms like Elon Musk’s X.com, has seen fit to disassociate themself from and condemn Garcia’s (or Mfune’s, or any other rabble-rousing Democrat’s) call for weaponized political violence.
And that makes another question fair: What is it they really want (if they ever get what they’re going after)?
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/02/another-democrat-gun-grabber-calls-for-political-violence-this-time-with-actual-weapons/
NYTimes Takes a Surprisingly Fair Look at New Gun Owners
By Cam Edwards | 12:29 PM | February 17, 2025
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Any time I see that the New York Times has a new enterprise story on guns and gun owners, I instinctively cringe. The paper’s hostility towards the right to keep and bear arms usually extends beyond the reach of the editorial page and into its “straight” news coverage, with no shortage of snark and condescension towards the tens of millions of Americans who’ve embraced their Second Amendment rights.
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So I was downright shocked to see that the Times’ deep dive into the lives of several new gun owners doesn’t portray them as heartless monsters, mindless tools of the gun lobby, or petrified and paranoid conspiracy theorists. Instead, they’re presented as normal people who made the rational decision to purchase a firearm for personal protection.
In hours of conversations with New York Times journalists, these five Americans shared deeply individual reasons for their leaps into gun ownership. But there were also common threads: new fears about political violence and hate crimes, and a diminished trust in law enforcement.
Most said they had been surprised by how much they enjoyed learning to shoot, and improving their skills.
While a majority of gun owners are white, conservative, male and from rural areas, some surveys have detected an uptick in those who are not. One by Harvard researchers found that among people who purchased their first gun between 2019 and 2021, 20 percent were Black, 20 percent were Hispanic and approximately half were women.
Behind the data, the stories of individual Americans who have bought guns in the past five years offer clues about how the country is changing — as the definitions of liberal and conservative evolve, and angst about our divisions runs high.
Now, it’s worth pointing out that of the five gun owners profiled by the NYTimes, four of them are liberal/progressive, and the fifth is a former liberal who moved to the right in the wake of the mask mandates and lockdowns that were imposed during the COVID pandemic. Maybe these are the “right kind” of gun owners for the liberal press outlet, but I’ve been at this long enough to remember when the Times would have pilloried even left-leaning Americans for picking up a gun, which makes this newfound respect for at least some gun owners fairly surprising. Even John Alvarado, the lone conservative interviewed by the Times is treated fairly in the piece.
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Mr. Alvarado, 30, a service technician and political conservative in southern Maine, said he started buying guns in part because he perceived a threat to stable society, and to his own family, from shifting social norms and practices.
“Morality is all over the place,” he said, “and because my viewpoints are more traditional it puts a target on my back.”
Mr. Alvarado, who is Black and Latino, said he became a staunch conservative during the pandemic, after years as a liberal voter. As he watched mask and vaccine mandates multiply in 2020, and neighbors turning against those who did not comply, Mr. Alvarado lost faith in the government and reconsidered his own politics.
He started attending a conservative Baptist church with his wife and reading the Bible. (His pastor faced public condemnation for defying pandemic health policies.) Mr. Alvarado, who first purchased a gun in 2020, soon began to see arming himself as a way to defend his beliefs and his family’s desire to live as they wished. He now owns six guns and serves on the security team at his church, patrolling the building during worship services.
The most biased part of the Times report comes when the paper’s reporters try to tie the fears of liberal gun owners to the election of Donald Trump and the shift to the right in our nation’s politics. While that’s undoubtably the case for some progressive gun owners, in many cases it simply boils down to the desire to be able to protect themselves from harm of any kind.
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For Ms. [Victoria] Alston, a 30-year-old Black woman who works in banking in Little Rock, Ark., the desire to own a gun arose after her separation. And her race made her feel particularly vulnerable, she said: “Black women are the least protected and the least respected.”
In 2022, she was rattled by an overnight theft on her rural property. Ms. Alston bought a Canik 9-millimeter pistol and signed up for training at a gun range managed by another Black woman.
Her intent, like that of other women at the range, was not to “look cute,” she said. “We don’t want to always have to look for a man to protect us.”
Perhaps the most surprising part of the Times feature is the acknowledgement of the positive benefits that these new gun owners have received.
Ms. Kolanowski and the other new owners said they had expected to feel more confident and self-reliant after buying guns. Less expected, they said, were the new friends they made, and the uplifting sense of having bridged a societal divide.
Several described a profound enjoyment of a pastime they never dreamed would be so satisfying.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this story spurs some readers of the New York Times to buy a gun, or at least try to. Given the utterly insane gun control laws in New York, a lot of them are going to be in for a big shock when they realize how many barriers the state has erected between them and their ability to keep and carry a gun. Maybe the Times can make that the next 2A topic they delve into, though I’m not holding my breath. It’s one thing to treat a handful of gun owners sympathetically, but I’m guessing that criticizing the draconian gun control regime in the Empire State is still a bridge too far for the Old Grey Lady.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/02/17/nytimes-takes-a-surprisingly-fair-look-at-new-gun-owners-n1227704#google_vignette
Brigitte Gabriel
@ACTBrigitte
What is being uncovered by Elon Musk and DOGE from USAID should ENRAGE you, here are just a few of the worst examples I found!
https://x.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1890531177410277763
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
EXC – The “nonpolitical” USAID employee @60Minutes
used to attack Trump has a personal blog where she called Trump a “reincarnation of Mussolini and Hitler” and said she wanted to “eliminate” his supporters.
https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/1891618868398862336
Acting Director for Social Security Administration Steps Down After Blocking Investigation into Fraud Scheme Exposed by DOGE
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/acting-director-social-security-administration-steps-down-after/
Feb. 17, 2025 7:40 pm
Michelle King, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Administration
Acting Commissioner Michelle King, who was appointed last month, has been forced out after attempting to stonewall an investigation into massive fraud within the agency—an investigation spearheaded by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
King’s abrupt departure comes after Musk’s team requested access to critical data that could expose widespread abuse and fraudulent claims draining the Social Security fund.
Far-left Washington Post reported:
The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over their attempts to access sensitive government records, three people familiar with her departure said Monday.
Michelle King, who spent several decades at the agency before being named its acting commissioner last month, has now left her position after the disagreement, the people said.
President Donald Trump appointed Leland Dudek, a manager in charge of Social Security’s anti-fraud office, as acting commissioner while Frank Bisignano, the president’s nominee for permanent commissioner, is vetted by the Senate, according to three individuals who spoke on the condition anonymity to speak candidly. A public announcement is expected this week. Dudek had posted positive remarks on social media about DOGE’s efforts to cut costs and search for fraud in federal agencies, according to two of the individuals.
The White House declined to comment on the developments. However, White House officials have said that Musk’s associates are being properly vetted and have the proper security clearances before they are appointed to official roles in the agencies they are helping scrutinize. Administration officials have also been skeptical of career employees’ efforts to guard federal data, which they have maintained political appointees should also be able to access, particularly if necessary to root out wasteful or erroneous spending.
Since President Trump’s return to power, his administration has made it clear that government waste and fraud will no longer be tolerated. Social Security alone accounts for nearly $1.5 trillion in annual spending, and conservatives have long pointed to rampant misuse of disability and retirement benefits that Democrats have refused to address.
Musk’s DOGE initiative has already uncovered shocking levels of fraud and corruption across multiple federal agencies, with insiders warning that Social Security is one of the worst offenders.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller has sounded the alarm on a massive foreign fraud operation that has siphoned off billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded benefits using fake IDs and fake Social Security numbers.
“There’s a massive amount of fraud in this country. You have, for example, foreign fraud rings,” Miller wrote.
“These are foreign nationals who come into the United States, they use fake social security numbers, they use fake identities to steal billions in taxpayer benefits.
“There’s no way to know until DOGE gains full access exactly how much money we’re talking about. But over a ten-year normal budget window, you could be talking about saving over a trillion dollars by clamping down on massive fraud in our tax and entitlement systems, including, again, those carried out by organized fraud and theft rings.”
Read more:
Stephen Miller Exposes Foreign Fraud Rings: Foreign Nationals Use Fake SSNs to Steal Billions in Taxpayer Benefits Through IRS — Full Scope Unknown Until DOGE Accesses Records
The Gateway Pundit also reported earlier that Elon Musk’s DOGE team has unearthed jaw-dropping irregularities from the U.S. Social Security database.
The numbers are truly mind-boggling: over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself.
This information released by Musk aligns with the audit conducted by the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General (SSA OIG) in 2015.
According to the report, “In response to our 2015 report, SSA considered multiple options, including adding presumed death information to these Numident records. SSA ultimately decided not to proceed because the “. . . options would be costly to implement, would be of little benefit to the agency, would largely duplicate information already available to data exchange consumers and would create cost for the states and other data exchange partners.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/acting-director-social-security-administration-steps-down-after/