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This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.
So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.
This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.
For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.
Mark Carney is lauded as an “expert”. The arrogance of his conceit is common to the graveyard of history and his “expert” ideas.
Thomas Sowell on experts:
https://youtu.be/MmthRMOdWd0?si=WCjR5s4yWyxyDy8e
Klaus Schwab resigned because he was caught stealing. Funny how it took his own organization to notice while the world is oblivious to the greater grift:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bug-and-tug-wef-investigates-klaus-schwab-over-room-massages-and-other-allegations
Schwab, aka Dr. Evil is Twitchy Freeland and Mark Carney’s idol/ boss. Schwab has often praised the Canadian WEF who have infiltrated the Canadian parliament.
Has anyone ever wondered how much information has been exchanged?
Hands up if you are for depopulation.
Is the WEF a Ponzi scheme? What do they actually produce?
On the destruction of Western civ by population replacement:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I-72zZYSY64
Thomas Sowell is, perhaps, the smartest person alive. There is no description I can make of him without it sounding corny… Born and orphaned during The Great Depression, he worked his way from utter poverty to Ivy League professor and perhaps the leading non-leftist intellectual of the 2nd half of the 20th century – and he is still going strong.
This link is to a recent video he had made about Obama’s legacy on racializing US politics (his words: elevating race hustling to national policy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKyuypTLKkY
Here is a link to a full reading of Thomas Sowell’s book ‘Black Rednecks and White Liberals’ which really opened my eyes to a lot of ‘stuff’, including how ‘black-American’ dialect is actually a British one (including ‘aksed’ instead of ‘asked’ and so on:
LONDON (AP) – European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.
The European Commission imposed a 500 million euro ($571 million) fine on Apple for preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store.
The commission, which is the EU’s executive arm, also fined Meta Platforms 200 million euros because it forced Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing personalized ads or paying to avoid them.
The punishments were smaller than the blockbuster multibillion-euro fines that the commission has previously slapped on Big Tech companies in antitrustcases.
Apple and Meta have to comply with the decisions within 60 days or risk unspecified “periodic penalty payments,” the commission said.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/04/23/eu-slaps-apple-and-meta-with-hundreds-of-millions-in-fines-in-digital-competition-cases/
April 23 (UPI) — The Iran-backed Houthi rebels of Yemen launched a missile targeting northern Israel early Wednesday, according to the Israeli military.
The attack is rare for the Houthis, who have been enforcing a military blockade of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in support of the Palestinian people, tens of thousands of whom have been killed in Israel’s war against another Iran-proxy militia, Hamas, in Gaza.
The IDF announced the missile launch in a statement on Telegram, saying it triggered sirens in Haifa, Krayot and Western Galilee.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/houthi-rebels-launch-rare-missile-attack-on-northern-israel/
On April 16, Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Tulsi Gabbard declassified the Biden-era “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” The release followed an April 2 declassification request from Stephen Miller’ legal organization America First Legal (AFL). While much of the document’s content had been publicly discussed in general terms, the newly declassified version reveals troubling new specifics.
The declassified version features language that outlines how the Biden administration planned to operationalize counterterrorism efforts. It details strategy, actions, and performance measures, and assigns responsibility across agencies including the NSC, FBI, DHS, and DoJ. Notably, this was the first counterterrorism plan in U.S. history in which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) prioritized Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE) over foreign threats.
This declassified plan is one of several documents forming the backbone of the Biden administration’s counterterrorism strategy. While the documents claim an unbiased approach to identifying DVEs, much of the language and policy framework suggest otherwise — raising significant constitutional and civil liberty concerns.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/biden_s_national_censorship_regime.html
Note: Yes, I am about as Anti-Bush person (both father and son) as you can find. Bush ‘Pater’ is the one who made it a law that people can be ‘vaccinated’ against their will by force, which is widely un-noticed.
And don’t get me started on the son…
Interestingly, Bush also appointed a rather unseasoned judge not just to be on the top US court, but to be the top judge of it – bypassing constitutionalists who ought to have been elevated to the top row, but who had been skipped over (and, according to ‘conspiracy theories’, murdered, like Scalia who had been found ‘with a pillow over his face’ – according to first reports quoting the owner of the hunting lodge Scalia was staying at at the time of his murder).
Trump’s first term was marred by faulty appointments in all fields – he elevated people he thought were good, but who were actually hostile to freedoms and the US constitution. He was going on bad advice from people he trusted, but should not have. This explains some of his SCOTUS appointments, which will haunt The West (precedent rulings and all that, even in other countries).
He may have learned from his mistakes – as all good business people do, but we will not know that for a few years yet as some decisions have a long ‘lead time’. So, I offer the following link with that in mind:
The Legacy of the Roberts Court
By Robert A. Taft
Chief Justice John Roberts is very concerned about his legacy, but he should already know what it is. He and his court will go down in history as increasingly unconstitutional as they emplace double standards on due process and free speech, lawfare, interference with Article II, and political campaign financing, to name a few. The wobbly court has gone so far off the rails that one of the two constitutionalists left, Samuel Alito, wrote of the last goofy ruling: “The Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order,”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/the_legacy_of_the_roberts_court.html
This is NOT trivial!
Another insubordinate officer?
By Mike McDaniel
In Another disloyal officer is fired, I told the story of Col. Susan Meyers, former commander of our Pitiffik Space Force Base in Greenland. Following a visit by Vice President Vance, she told everyone under her command “the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base,” a clear violation of Article 88 of the UCMJ:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/another_insubordinate_officer.html
Orban says no to Ukraine joining EU.
https://youtu.be/24-VQ-D4PRw?si=1WQdvhMNaAvtflDR
BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard Criminally Refers Two Intel Officials to DOJ for Prosecution Over Leaks to WaPo, New York Times
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/tulsi-gabbard-criminally-refers-intel-officials-doj-prosecution/
Apr. 23, 2025 4:40 pm
Tulsi Gabbard tore into the intelligence community’s corruption.
ODNI Tulsi Gabbard criminally referred two intel officials to the Justice Department for leaking to The New York Times and the Washington Post.
And a third criminal referral is “on its way,” Fox News reported.
An ODNI official told Fox News that they are “aggressively investigating other leaks.”
Fox News reported:
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred two intelligence community professionals to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution Wednesday over alleged leaks of classified information, Fox News Digital has learned.
An ODNI official told Fox News Digital that the intelligence community professionals allegedly leaked classified information to the Washington Post and the New York Times. A third criminal referral is “on its way” to the DOJ.
The official told Fox News Digital that intelligence community professionals should take the move “as a warning.”
“Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation’s security at risk and must end,” Gabbard told Fox News Digital. “Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
“Today, I referred two intelligence community leakers to the Department of Justice for criminal referral, with a third criminal referral on its way, which includes the recent illegal leak to the Washington Post,” Gabbard said. “These deep-state criminals leaked classified information for partisan political purposes to undermine President Trump’s agenda.”
The Trump Administration is not putting up with leakers this time around.
Last month DHS Chief Kristi Noem said her investigators have identified two leakers within the Department of Homeland Security and are preparing to refer them to the Justice Department for felony prosecutions.
“These individuals face up to 10 years in federal prison,” Noem said.
Last week three Pentagon officials who were caught leaking to the media were fired.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/tulsi-gabbard-criminally-refers-intel-officials-doj-prosecution/
JUST IN: DOJ Files Terrorism Charges for The First Time Against Tren de Aragua Leader
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/just-doj-files-terrorism-charges-first-time-against/
Apr. 23, 2025 5:00 pm
FBI agents arrest Tren de Aragua gang member in Mobile, AL
In an unprecedented move, the Justice Department has announced that they indicted a leader of the violent Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang, and he will face terrorism and international drug distribution charges.
This is the first time the DOJ has brought terrorism charges against a member of the newly-designated foreign terrorist organization.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the first-of-its-kind indictment on terrorism charges “a critical step in dismantling their network and holding its members accountable.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump signed an executive order on Inauguration Day designating violent groups and drug cartels such as MS-13, TdA, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).
President Trump Has Officially Designated Drug Cartels in Southern Border as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
This comes as the Trump administration faces legal battles and far-left judges blocking the deportation of TdA terrorists under the Alien Enemies Act.
Fox News obtained a five-count superseding indictment against Jose Enrique Martinez Flores, 24, a reported high-ranking member of TdA, who goes by the name “Chiqui.”
He is charged with conspiring to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy, and Cocaine distribution.
Flores was arrested by Colombian authorities last month at the United States’ request.
Per Fox:
“TdA is not a street gang—it is a highly structured terrorist organization that put down roots in our country during the prior administration,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News Digital. “Today’s charges represent an inflection point in how this Department of Justice will prosecute and ultimately dismantle this evil organization, which has destroyed American families and poisoned our communities.”
FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital that Tren de Aragua is a “violent arm of the Maduro regime operating inside our borders.”
“With these charges, we are using every available tool to confront them as the transnational threat they are,” Patel told Fox News Digital. “From drug trafficking and human smuggling to brutal violence, this group has inflicted chaos on American communities.”
Patel added: “Today’s indictment is a critical step in dismantling their network and holding its members accountable.”
This is a developing story.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/just-doj-files-terrorism-charges-first-time-against/
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Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is boasting on the front page of The Wall Street Journal that, “Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There’s nothing to talk about here.” This statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama, and is not even a point of discussion. Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory but, if he wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired? The area also houses, for many years before “the Obama handover,” major Russian submarine bases. It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about! The situation for Ukraine is dire — He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country. I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever. The statement made by Zelenskyy today will do nothing but prolong the “killing field,” and nobody wants that! We are very close to a Deal, but the man with “no cards to play” should now, finally, GET IT DONE. I look forward to being able to help Ukraine, and Russia, get out of this Complete and Total MESS, that would have never started if I were President!
Apr 23, 2025, 11:00 AM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114388111141848447
Declassified Document: Biden-Harris Administration Targeted Gun Owners & 2A Rights Under “Domestic Terrorism” Pretext
Ammoland Inc. Posted on April 23, 2025 by NRAHQ
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On April 16, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made good on a promise to expose the ways in which the Biden administration had weaponized the federal government against its political adversaries by releasing the Biden-era “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism” (SIP). The document offers a chilling look at how the federal government sought to curtail Americans’ Second Amendment rights under the dubious guise of combatting “domestic terrorism.”
According to the opening paragraph of the document, “This Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) provides direction and guidance for implementation of the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” and “actual implementation of the SIP should be approached in adherence to the principles which seek to ensure that US. Government efforts to address [domestic terrorism] remain consistent with the rule of law and American values.”
Apparently, the Biden administration’s idea of “the rule of law and American values” didn’t include the Bill of Rights. The document endorsed diminishing the Second Amendment rights of all Americans to target so-called “domestic terrorists.”
The document noted that a goal of the SIP was that “Lethal means for perpetrating acts of domestic terrorism are reduced.” An action item in this purported effort, which just so happened to align with the longtime goals of the institutional gun lobby, was the following,
Action 4.1.1a: Rein in the proliferation of “ghost guns”; encourage state adoption of extreme risk protection orders; and drive other executive and legislative action. including banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
The Biden administration did take several steps aligned with the SIP.
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In the gun control context, “ghost guns” typically refers to privately-made firearms that are manufactured for personal use without government interference and are not required to be imprinted with a a serial number under federal law. In April 2022, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) approved ATF final rule 2021R-05F, Definition of “Frame or Receiver” and Identification of Firearms, which overreached the agency’s authority under federal law in an attempt to curtail home manufacture of firearms. The rule, as it pertains to certain unfinished frame patterns and firearm build kits, was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in March in the case Bondi v. VanDerStok.
Banning privately-made firearms entirely would violate the Second Amendment. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022), Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinion made clear that in order for a firearm regulation to pass constitutional muster it must fit within the text, history, and tradition of the Second Amendment right. Specifically, the opinion noted:
When the Second Amendment’s plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct. The government must then justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Only then may a court conclude that the individual’s conduct falls outside the Second Amendment’s “unqualified command.”
Since before the Founding, Americans have enjoyed the right to make their own firearms without government interference. As there is no historical tradition of the government restricting the right of Americans to make their own firearms for personal use, attempts to eliminate this right do not pass constitutional muster.
So-called “extreme risk protection orders,” better known as red flag gun confiscation orders, grant the government the authority to confiscate a person’s firearms without due process of law, let alone an actual criminal conviction. As enacted, the laws can extinguish a person’s Second Amendment rights based on weak and nebulous standards of proof and without a hearing for the target of the order to be heard and to present evidence.
These confiscation order schemes treat the Second Amendment as a second-class constitutional right. Moreover, as with attacks on privately-made firearms, red flag laws have no historical basis. Red flag supporters have even touted the unconstitutional measures as “innovative.”
The Biden administration used taxpayer money to fund a red flag law clearing house at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – named for Billionaire gun control bankroller Michael Bloomberg. With an assist from Congress, the Biden administration also used tax dollars to fund red flag confiscation order regimes in several states.
The inclusion of red flag measures in the SIP document as a tool to supposedly combat “domestic terrorism” is especially concerning. This suggests that the Biden administration may have been seeking to create due process-free mechanisms to strip the Second Amendment rights of political adversaries who had committed no crime under a questionable “domestic terrorism” justification.
As for “banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” the inefficacy of that policy was illustrated for all during the 1994-2004 Clinton gun ban. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court made clear that the Second Amendment protects the ownership of firearms “in common use” “for lawful purposes like self-defense.” The AR-15 is the most popular rifle in the U.S.
As with the actions of criminals generally, the potential behavior of an actual “domestic terrorist” should not be used as a justification to undermine the Constitutional rights of all Americans. However, the Biden administration’s actions are even more chilling given what that regime and some of its predecessors tried to target under the rubric of “terror.”
First consider some of the language used in the document. The item, supposedly targeted at “terrorism,” notes that it seeks to ensure “[n]orms of non-violent political expression and rejection of racism and bigotry are strengthened” and to “mitigate xenophobia and bias.” Another goal is to guarantee “Americans have increasing faith in democracy and government.”
What is asserted as “racism” and “bigotry,” however, are constantly shifting concepts that politicians often use in bad faith to attempt to discredit their opponents. In almost every such case, the right to hold and express such beliefs is protected by the First Amendment and is often well within mainstream discourse. Protected speech should never be the basis for government surveillance or used as a justification for diminishing other Constitutional rights.
As for “faith… in government,” a healthy skepticism of government is an integral part of the American tradition and, given the behavior outlined in the document at issue, downright prudent.
Second, previous federal governments have repeatedly attempted to target their political adversaries under a “domestic terrorism” framework.
In 2023, it came to light that the Biden FBI was targeting devout Catholics under a “domestic terrorism” justification. A report on the episode from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government explained:
The Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been investigating the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) categorization of certain Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists. While the FBI claims it “does not categorize investigations as domestic terrorism based on the religious beliefs—to include Catholicism—of the subject involved,” an FBI-wide memorandum originating from the FBI’s Richmond Field Office did just that. Under the guise of tackling the threat of domestic terrorism, the memorandum painted certain “radical-traditionalist Catholics” (RTCs) as violent extremists and proposed opportunities for the FBI to infiltrate Catholic churches as a form of “threat mitigation.”
In early 2022, a group of Republican senators confronted the Biden administration for what they cited as a scheme by the Merrick Garland-led DOJ to label concerned parents who attended school board meetings as “domestic terrorists.” In a letter, the senators reminded the Secretary of Education of some obvious truths: “Parents are not ‘domestic terrorists’ and it is appalling that anyone would suggest that exercising the constitutionally protected freedoms of speech and assembly would be characterized as a threat.”
Consider the 2009 Obama-era U.S. Department of Homeland Security report “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” The report explicitly targeted Second Amendment supporters and returned military as potential terrorists, stating,
The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.
Further targeting gun rights supporters for heightened scrutiny, the report went on to explain:
Weapons rights and gun-control legislation are likely to be hotly contested subjects of political debate in light of the 2008 Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller in which the Court reaffirmed an individual’s right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but left open to debate the precise contours of that right. Because debates over constitutional rights are intense, and parties on all sides have deeply held, sincere, but vastly divergent beliefs, violent extremists may attempt to co-opt the debate and use the controversy as a radicalization tool.
Previous federal governments have shown a repeated willingness to target their political opponents by abusing the empty “domestic terrorism” label. Addressing actual dangerous criminals, let alone anyone an overreaching federal government might disfavor, cannot be the justification for a wholesale assault on Constitutional rights. Gun owners must recognize the federal government’s Constitutionally bankrupt “domestic terrorism” label and justifications for the political effort they are and inform others of this cynical strategy to undermine Constitutional rights.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/04/declassified-document-biden-harris-administration-targeted-gun-owners-2a-rights-under-domestic-terrorism-pretext/
Montana Governor Wooing Colorado Gun Makers
By Cam Edwards | 3:31 PM | April 23, 2025
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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has a message for the beleaguered firearms industry in the blue state of Colorado: since you’re clearly not welcome there, why not move to a place that will treat you right?
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In a new video, Gianforte calls out Colorado Gov. Jared Polis for signing a sweeping bill that bans the purchase of most semi-automatic long guns unless the buyer first obtains a permission slip from their local sheriff; contrasting that authoritarian move with the freedom-loving and 2A-accepting culture in Big Sky Country.
Last week the Democratic governor of Colorado signed into law one of the most restrictive gun bans ever adopted in the United States. The law bans the manufacturing and selling of semi-automatic firearms. This is on top of the liberal state’s existing ban on high capacity magazines. That’s just crazy!
If you needed another sign that Democrat governors are out of touch with reality, well here it is. Colorado is ranked in the top ten states with the biggest gun industries.
So to all gun manufacturers in Colorado, my question for you is simple: do you want to move back to America?
Gianforte goes on to extoll the virtues of Montana, noting that the state is already home to more than 150 gun and ammo makers, which he says makes the state the home to more firearm industry members per capita than any other state in the country.
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The governor also pointed to the strong 2A stance taken by lawmakers and himself, including adoption of Constitutional Carry and prohibiting financial companies from using gun store-specific merchant category codes.
“In Montana, we embrace freedom and the free enterprise system,” Gianforte says in the ad, before once more inviting those in the industry to “come on home to America, right here in Montana.”
As far as messaging goes, Gianforte’s video is pretty good. I think though, he could have made his pitch even stronger by pointing out that, unlike Colorado, most Montana residents are strongly supportive of the Second Amendment as well. When gun control activist Ryan Busse ran against Gianforte in the 2024 governor’s race, the Giffords senior advisor and expert witness for anti-gun regimes in California and Illinois couldn’t even get 40% of the vote.
Jared Polis and the Democratic majorities in the Colorado statehouse aren’t just a problem, but a symptom of a deeper issue in the Rocky Mountain State. They only have power because a majority of voters have put them in office, and their attacks on a fundamental civil right hasn’t hurt them politically. Montana not only has different laws than Colorado. It has a different culture as well, and one that’s far more welcoming to both gun owners and the firearms industry than what you’ll find in Denver.
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I don’t know if Gianforte’s message will lead to any manufacturer pulling up stakes and moving north, but I’d be shocked if SB 3 didn’t result in major changes to the state’s firearm industry; not only in terms of FFLs leaving the state, but gun and ammo makers as well. Of course, many companies like Magpul left years ago, so the industry’s footprint is much smaller than it used to be, but the continued attacks on the Second Amendment will only fuel the exodus to 2A-friendly states like Montana in the months ahead.
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/04/23/montana-governor-wooing-colorado-gun-makers-n1228406
Crazed Scientists to Start ‘Dimming the Sun’ to Prevent Climate Catastrophe — Planning For Full Weather Control by 2035
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/crazed-scientists-start-dimming-sun-prevent-climate-catastrophe/
Apr. 23, 2025 5:40 pm
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The British government is reportedly just weeks away from approving bizarre experiments aimed at dimming sunlight in a bid to combat so-called climate change.
Proposed outdoor trials may involve spraying aerosols into the upper atmosphere or artificially brightening clouds to bounce sunlight back into space in order to help cool the earth.
Another key focus of current research is on Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), which involve techniques like Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI)—the process of dispersing fine particles high into the stratosphere to bounce a portion of sunlight back into space.
A third approach under consideration is Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB), where vessels would release sea salt particles into the atmosphere to make low-altitude clouds more reflective.
Aria, the state’s high-risk research agency, has earmarked £50 million for these speculative projects, with announcements expected shortly.
Professor Mark Symes, who oversees the program, says the British public can look forward to a series of “small controlled outdoor experiments,” as the agency tests whether meddling with the planet’s natural sunlight will solve the environmental disaster they so fear.
“We will be announcing who we have given funding to in a few weeks, and when we do so, we will be making clear when any outdoor experiments might be taking place,” Symes said, according to The Telegraph.
“One of the missing pieces in this debate was physical data from the real world,” he continued. “Models can only tell us so much.”
“Everything we do is going to be safe by design. We’re absolutely committed to responsible research, including responsible outdoor research.”
“We have strong requirements around the length of time experiments can run for and their reversibility, and we won’t be funding the release of any toxic substances to the environment.”
WATCH AND SHARE: Devastating Documentary ‘Climate: The Movie’ Obliterates Climate Scam, Shadowbanned By YouTube
The experiments are being pushed under the premise that humanity isn’t cutting emissions quickly enough to avoid an environmental apocalypse, at least, according to scientists still clinging to worst-case climate scenarios.
Scientists backing the proposals believe that, if the tests yield promising results, the techniques could be expanded and rolled out on a wider scale within a decade.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/crazed-scientists-start-dimming-sun-prevent-climate-catastrophe/
It has been going on where I live for at least 4 years. They have killed thousands of coniferous trees that are now falling over. My hydro has gone out 5 times in the last month. Forest areas have many dead trees falling on the hydro lines.
I took some printed information to the town hall a year ago, I ask the councillors what they thought of my information — they never got it.
Control, control, control. Well at least that is what they told me.
You can see the chemtrails almost everyday. I have not seen the Northern lights for years, I used to see them all the time, that was when we lived under a dark sky, now it is always light grey at night. Last year there were hardly any mosquitoes, bees………Carney and Gates support this madness.
Lots of 7 and 8 year old kids with cancer, is it the vaccines, the spraying or a combination? SHHHHHH
NEW: Twice-Deported California Illegal Who Killed Two Teens in DUI Set to be Released from Prison Early After Serving Only 3.5 Years of 10 Year Sentence – U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli Files Federal Charges
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/new-twice-deported-california-illegal-who-killed-two/
Apr. 23, 2025 6:00 pm
A twice-deported illegal alien with several prior felony convictions is set to be released by the sanctuary state of California after serving less than half of his prison sentence for killing a 19-year-old couple while driving under the influence.
Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano (43) was reportedly drunk and high while driving over 100 miles per hour when he crashed on California’s 405 freeway, killing Anya Varfolomeev & Nikolay Osokin in November 2021.
He was then sentenced in early 2022 to ten years in prison on two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter. However, California now plans to release him more than six years early.
According to ICE, Ortega-Anguiano entered the country illegally three times and was last deported on June 1, 2018, before reentering and killing the two teenagers. Since 2005, he has had several criminal convictions, including burglary, vehicle theft, and battery on spouse with kidnapping.
ICE confirmed to Fox that they have put out a detainer request to take the alien into federal custody before he is released.
ICE provided the following statement to Fox News:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed a detainer with North Kern State Prison, Delano, California, June 9, 2022, on Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, 43, of Mexico. He is serving time after being convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. His previous criminal convictions include burglary in 2005; vehicle theft in 2007; and battery on spouse with kidnapping in 2014.
An immigration judge ordered Ortega removed Nov. 3, 2014; he filed several unsuccessful appeals and was taken into ICE custody Dec. 2, 2016, and removed to Mexico the same day. Ortega attempted to reenter the United States Feb. 2, 2018, near Otay Mesa, California by presenting a counterfeit document; he was paroled into the U.S. pending criminal prosecution for illegal reentry after removal. An immigration official issued Ortega an expedited removal order and removed him June 1, 2018, to Mexico; after his latest removal, he again illegally reentered the U.S. on an unknown date and location. ICE issued a detainer with the Orange County Jail, California, Nov. 27, 2021, where he was being held on vehicular manslaughter charges at the time.
Per Bill Melugin:
EXCLUSIVE: The families of two teens killed by an illegal alien who crashed into them while drunk, high, & speeding at 100 mph in OC in 2021 have been told by the state of CA that their killer will be released from prison early in July, just 3.5 years into a 10-year sentence for killing the teens, who both burned alive.
Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, a twice deported Mexican illegal alien, had a lengthy rap sheet prior to killing 19-year-olds Anya Varfolomeev & Nikolay Osokin in the DUI crash on the 405 freeway in Seal Beach in November 2021. Both were US citizens, and they were dating. Ortega-Anguiano had several felony convictions, had gone to state prison, and had multiple convictions for driving without a license, but was still on the streets when he crashed into the teens’ vehicle.
In spring of 2022, Ortega-Anguiano was convicted in OC of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for killing the teens, and a judge sentenced him to serve 10 years in prison for each count, but concurrently, meaning he would serve both 10-year-sentences at the same time.
The victims’ families felt that was already a weak sentence, but they tell me they were notified by the CA Department of Corrections on Easter Sunday that Ortega-Anguiano is scheduled for an early release on July 19th, 2025, only a little more than 3 years into his sentence, leaving the victims’ families shocked, and outraged given the seriousness of the crime and his prior criminal history. They provided us the CDCR document showing the July 19th release date.
The CA Department of Corrections wouldn’t confirm the release date when I reached out, saying they “cannot provide information on an incarcerated person’s release date or location in advance of their release.” They added that “incarcerated persons may earn credits for participating in rehabilitative programming, which may move parole eligible dates to an earlier date.
ICE confirms to @FoxNews that they have placed a detainer on Ortega-Anguiano with the CA Dept of Corrections and intend to take him into custody upon his release. They hope the CA Dept. of Corrections will honor the detainer request and transfer him to their custody upon his release, which they often do. But the families fear, even if he is deported, he will just re-enter the US as a gotaway, as he’s done twice before.
Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, responded to the report, announcing that his office has filed felony immigration charges against Ortega-Anguiano, and he faces up to 20 years in prison. “If the State of California will not seek the full measure of justice against this individual, the @TheJusticeDept will,” he said in an X post.
My office has filed a felony immigration charge against this defendant. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted for 8 USC 1326.
If the State of California will not seek the full measure of justice against this individual, the @TheJusticeDept will. https://t.co/wTuQdun1as
— US Attorney Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) April 23, 2025
The Gateway Pundit has also learned that Essayli has a warrant for Ortega-Anguiano’s arrest, leaving California no choice but to hand the individual over if he is released from prison.
Essayli has previously spoken to The Gateway Pundit about his plans to “aggressively enforce immigration law,” including potential charges filed against state officials who attempt to harbor illegal aliens and shield them from ICE.
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Previously, in an interview with The Gateway Pundit, then-California Assemblyman Essayli discussed California’s policies of shielding dangerous illegal immigrants from ICE deportations and releasing them back into the community. California officials have long ignored ICE detainers, which request that local law enforcement maintain custody of illegals and notify ICE instead of releasing them back into the community after they’ve been prosecuted for a crime.
This is a developing story.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/new-twice-deported-california-illegal-who-killed-two/
What is the government’s role in supporting the arts, assuming they are non-political? One could have searchable libraries for Ninja music, folk music from Wales, and Tibetan chants. At some abstract level, curation has the potential to benefit wide swaths of people, but when there are enough people who can afford to pick up the tab, perhaps those that directly benefit can acquire tax-deductible contributions instead of Federal grants.
Today’s
https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/dc-artists-fundraise-after-klezmer-institute-loses-federal-grant/
Note the language. Instead of celebrating independence and initiative, the immediate reaction was “close to tears.” “The $57,000 in federal funding taken…” “Sorrow and anger” over “terminated” NEH Phase II grant.The article ends on a positive note about fundraising.
I took the liberty of pulling the public tax filings and the organization is a modest one, with the sole paid employee at $26,000 annually, receiving around the state’s hourly minimum wage; accounting and legal services add in an inexplicable $20,000 cost.
We’ll see what happens without the government largesse. Perhaps an entrepeneurial publishing house or two will come up with a proprietary music archive format to be used across genres of music and charge users for access.
It all depends on whether you feel that money grows on trees, so the government can freely give to one arts project without another worthy project feeling the pinch. Reality hits hard.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/364013890
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/364013890/202520499349300207/full
My error. That 990 is not the right one. I checked the name of the executive director, and this is the correct entity
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/832011740
Its prinicpals (at the Klezmer Institute, which hosts the Klezmer Archive Project) are paid even less the previously mentioned nonprofit, which is the
Klezmer Music Foundation!
I wonder how much cost the federal government takes on in awarding, administering, and tracking grants. Perhaps that sum is the raison d’être for the grants in the first place.
BREAKING: Today the State of Colorado was UNSUCCESSFUL at Dismissing the DOJ Inquiry About Tina Peters
by Guest Contributor Martel Maxim – April 22, 2025
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/breaking-today-state-colorado-was-unsuccessful-dismissing-doj/
TINA PETERS – Will Her Conviction Be Overturned? DOJ Intervention?
OFFICIAL Jovan Hutton Pulitzer – April 23, 2025
Program begins @ 11:25…
https://rumble.com/v6sgmwx-tina-peters-will-her-conviction-be-overturned-doj-intervention.html