The Truth About USAID and Pete Marocco

by Scott Creighton

A little more info on Elon Musk and Marco Rubio's pick to run their rebranded USAID. Remember, USAID gave 2.1 billion in aid to Gaza since Oct. 7th 2023.

USAID has provided more than $2.1 billion in aid to Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. Speaking on an audio stream described as the first "Dogecast" podcast, Musk said USAID was "hopeless" based on his team's findings.

That wont happen again.

Pete Marocco has worked for USAID for a while. During that time it seems he ran the regime destabilization and change operations it has become known for.

Pete also did work for something called the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) as a member of the Advisory Council.

FPRI hosted a joint conference with the Irregular Warfare Center. You know, the Special Operations folks who are tasked to run color revolutions and destabilization campaigns via proxy armies (terrorists) in countries we want to overthrow? Yeah, those guys.

FPRI also recently did a study on how wonderful the opportunities are in Syria now that Assad has been murdered and we have our own al Qaeda guy in charge over there.

Dov Zakheim works for FPRI as does Robert Zoelick.

Pete Marocco should be known by the company he keeps and the work he has done.

While Scott Ritter and Max Blumenthal sing Elon's praises for regime changing USAID, leave it to little old me to give you the truth about it all.

The Truth About USAID, Elon Musk, Marco Rubio and Pete Marocco

Elon Musk has contracts with USAID in Ukraine via his Starlink company. Marco Rubio is a neocon who never opposed a single USAID regime change operation in his life. And Pete Marocco? He's a destabilization and regime change specialist who has headed up such programs at USAID for years. These guys want USAID to stop giving billions in aid to places like Gaza and instead redirect that money to Elon's pockets and more regime change operations. Period.

“Early U.S. support for Starlink came via the United States Agency for International Development [USAID]. The largest single contributor of [Starlink] terminals, according to the newly obtained documents, is Poland with payment for almost 9,000 individual terminals. The US has provided almost 1,700 terminals.” – CNN Reporting

links https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/02/notes-for-usaid-being-remade-worse-than.html

Elon Musk Starlink USAID connection https://www.boldbusiness.com/communications/elon-musk-isnt-wrong-want-get-paid-starlink-ukraine/

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Rubio Says He Now Runs Aid Agency, as Staff Are Blocked From Systems

(You are being lied to. Elon Musk has contracts with USAID via Starlink. He has no intention of doing away with that revenue stream. Instead he and Little Lying Marco (Rubio) have every intention of doing away with the good programs USAID has so they can instead focus entirely on the CIA/State Department regime change operations. USAID has given 2.1 billion in aid to Gaza since Oct 7 2023. And now Elon, Trump, Marco Rubio and Netanyahu have shut that down and have installed a CIA/State Department asset to run USAID.)

from the New York Times

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that he had taken over as acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, assuming control of an agency that had functioned largely independently for over 60 years and stoking fears about U.S. assistance around the world.

Mr. Rubio’s announcement came after a week of drastic changes at U.S.A.I.D., the government’s lead agency for humanitarian aid and development assistance. Senior officials have been suspended, and hundreds of civil servants and contractors have been iced out of U.S.A.I.D. systems without warning.

Many of the cuts were rolled out in secret and without warning, as representatives of Elon Musk, who was deputized by President Trump to lead a task force to reduce government spending, took over its operations despite objections from aid workers and Democrats in Congress.

Speaking to reporters in El Salvador, Mr. Rubio said that many of U.S.A.I.D.’s programs were worthwhile and would continue under the umbrella of the State Department, promising to delegate the day-to-day operations to Pete Marocco, the department’s director of foreign assistance.

In a letter to the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate committees on foreign affairs and related appropriations, Mr. Rubio said that Mr. Marocco would “begin the review and potential reorganization of U.S.A.I.D.’s activities to maximize efficiency and align operations with the national interest.”

Mr. Rubio added that the review might include “the suspension or elimination” of programs, projects, missions, bureaus, centers and offices, and that the U.S.A.I.D. “may be abolished consistent with applicable law.”...

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notes for: USAID Being Remade WORSE Than it Already Was by a Neocon and a CIA Regime Change Spook

by Scott Creighton

What follows are a series of links and images I need for this morning's video on Trump supposedly shutting down USAID for being a 'criminal enterprise' as stated by our new robber-baron in chief Elon Musk. 

Canada Follows Mexico in Reaching Deal to Delay Trump Tariffs

from the NYT

President Trump and the leaders of Mexico and Canada struck last-minute deals on Monday to postpone the imposition of hefty tariffs on goods exported to the United States, averting at least temporarily a damaging trade war that would roil North America and the global economy.

Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, after speaking twice by telephone with Mr. Trump, said U.S. tariffs on his country’s goods would be postponed by 30 days as negotiations on a border deal took place. That announcement came hours after Mexico negotiated a similar delay, agreeing to send thousands of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.

The frenzy of last-minute maneuvering demonstrated Mr. Trump’s willingness to use tariffs as a source of leverage against the most important U.S. trading partners, inwhat he called an effort to curb drug smuggling and illegal immigration. Imports from Mexico, Canada and China — a of tariffs still set to take effect just after midnight — account for more than a third of the products brought into the United States each year...

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Trump's Shock Doctrine: Make the Economy Scream

Trump is shutting down our government and making the economy scream. This is what we do to other countries when we regime change them. We do this so we can impose a brutal Shock Doctrine of crippling austerity measures and market reforms that make the oligarchs wealthy and the workers poor. And that is exactly what Trump and his band of merry oligarchs are doing to us right now.

the DOW is now down 600+ points

make the economy scream https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm

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Did Our Billionaire Overlord Shut Down USAID Website? How Could He?

 by Scott Creighton

Yep. You voted for TrumpyBear and got God Emperor Musk instead.

https://www.usaid.gov/

You do realize that Elon is just the bad guy here, right? He can't just say USAID is no more and suddenly it happens. Someone shut down their website. Someone with real authority told their staff not to show up at work this morning. Someone had two of the heads of USAID resign.

There are a lot of people working on this demolition project and Elon is just the front-man for it. Elon and Trump. 

Elon can't shut down government servers just by speaking them out of existence.  They are literally remaking our government into their own fascist wet dream, like when we overthrow a country and install a brutal dictator to take over.

That's what's happening.

America is being systematically dismantled right before our eyes while Trump and his cronies are about to 'make the economy scream' so they can use the crisis as an opportunity to remake everything back in the mold of 1870s Gilded Age.

While folks like Jimmy Dore and Joe Rogan are sitting back watching em do and cheering them on. 

But of course they are... they're rich. 

This is class warfare folks.

You better wake up before they liquidate the country your fathers and mothers left to you to protect.

Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID

 ('Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that he was declaring war on bureaucracy in the Pentagon and that he wanted to combine some civilian and military staffs, cut duplication in the military services and shift some jobs to the private sector.' New York Times Sept 11 2001)

from MSNBC

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Monday that he and President Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy and defying the constitutional power of Congress to determine how money is spent...

“We’re shutting it down,” he said. At another point, he said "we’re in the process” of “shutting down USAID.”   Musk did not say what legal authority he believed the White House has to shut down a federal agency without congressional approval, or how quickly the administration planned to act. 

He said the idea had “the full support of the president” and that he had spoken with Trump on the matter several times.   

“With regard to the USAID stuff, I went over [it] with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down,” he said. “I actually checked with him a few times [and] said, ‘Are you sure?’” he said. He said that Trump responded, “Yes.”   

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Musk’s announcement early Monday...

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With tariffs signed, Trump warns of ‘pain’ to come for Americans

('The price that MUST be paid' will be paid by his fans and supporters left out in the cold on inauguration day not by the billionaires who were standing behind him on the stage. The 'must' he is talking about is what has to happen to 'make the economy scream' so he and the DOGE criminals can destroy our economy and our government (mainly the social safety net and worker protections created by the New Deal) so the billionaires can enjoy a new Gilded Age)

from CNN

A day after signing steep new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, President Donald Trump acknowledged what economists, members of Congress and even some of his own aides — in their previous lives — have been saying all along: Americans may find themselves paying the costs.

“THIS WILL BE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA! WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!),” Trump posted, in all capital letters, on his Truth Social platform...

“WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID,” Trump wrote. “WE ARE A COUNTRY THAT IS NOW BEING RUN WITH COMMON SENSE — AND THE RESULTS WILL BE SPECTACULAR!!!” ...

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Dow futures slammed by 600 points after Trump hits Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs

from CNBC

Stock futures dropped to kick off a new trading month after President Donald Trump hit several key U.S. trading partners with tariffs, raising fears that a full-blown trade war would disrupt global supply chains, reignite inflation and slow the economy.

Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 616 points, or 1.4%. S&P 500 futures dropped 1.6%, while Nasdaq-100 futures lost 1.8%. Futures on the Russell 2000, the small-cap benchmark, lost 2.1%. The Cboe Volatility Index, Wall Street’s fear gauge, briefly spiked above 20 before trading around 19.

The impact from the new tariffs ricocheted around the globe in a risk-off move:

• Major European equity markets sunk with Germany’s Dax benchmark off by nearly 2%.
• Bitcoin tumbled to around the 95,000 level from above $102,000 before the weekend. Ether lost 12%.
• The ICE U.S. Dollar Index, a measure of the U.S. dollar versus several currencies, leaped 1%.
• WTI crude oil jumped 2% on concern of supply disruptions in North America from the new tariffs.

President Donald Trump on Saturday slapped a 25% tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada. He also placed a 10% levy on imports from China. Energy imports from Canada received a lower 10% tariff. Canada responded with retaliatory tariffs of its own, while Mexico said it would explore levies on U.S. imports. The Chinese government, meanwhile, said it would file a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization.

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Oil prices rise 0.6 percent to $76.13 amid potential disruptions from Trump’s tariffs

from Middle East Economy

Oil prices surged on Monday following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of extensive tariffs on imports from Canada, China, and Mexico. The focus on oil prices increase is evident as these tariffs have sparked concerns regarding potential disruptions in oil supply chains, especially from Canada and Mexico, which are major crude suppliers to the U.S.

Tariffs raise concerns for oil supply

At 20:05 ET (01:05 GMT), Brent Oil Futures were 0.6 percent higher at $76.13 a barrel, while crude oil WTI futures expiring in March jumped 1.1 percent to $72.75 a barrel. The new tariffs, effective Tuesday, impose a 25 percent levy on goods from Canada and Mexico and a 10 percent tariff on imports from China. Notably, Canadian energy products were also among the targeted items, facing a 10 percent levy.

Impact on U.S. oil imports and refiners

The U.S. imports approximately 4 million barrels of Canadian oil and nearly 500,000 barrels of Mexican oil daily. The newly imposed tariffs are anticipated to drive up costs for U.S. refiners, particularly those located in the Midwest and Gulf Coast regions, which could result in higher fuel prices and potential production cuts.

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Here’s What Air Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems Can And Can’t Do

from The Warzone

... Modern TCAS works using transponder signals from nearby aircraft, meaning it’s independent of air traffic control, but also that it requires aircraft with transponders fitted and switched on in order to function. Using the transponder signals, the system builds a three-dimensional map of the surrounding airspace, with aircraft movements plotted within this. Based on respective aircraft and flight paths, speeds, and altitudes, TCAS then automatically provides the crews with an alert of a possible mid-air collision danger. In some modern airliners, the process of avoiding action will be taken without any pilot action, using a technology known as auto-TCAS... 

Furthermore, TCAS is intended to ensure flight safety at higher altitudes, thereby reinforcing the requirement to maintain at least 1,000 feet of vertical separation — or more, depending on flight level. For aircraft operating at lower altitudes, TCAS is inhibited. Specifically, ‘Increase Descent’ warnings are inhibited below 1,550 feet AGL, ‘Descend’ warnings are inhibited below 1,100 feet AGL, and all types of warnings are inhibited below 1,000 feet AGL. Terrain and other obstacles can also interfere with transponder signals during very low-level flight...

Initial reports suggest that Flight 5342 and the Black Hawk helicopter collided at an altitude of somewhere between 200 feet and around 400 feet, although this is not confirmed...

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AA5342: Seems like It Wasn't DEI, Biden, Obama or even Trump

It looks like there is a discrepancy in the altitude of the Blackhawk helicopter and AA5342's which likely at least played a part in the horrible accident that occurred the other night. Recording from the air traffic controller and the pilots involved showed the people in the control tower did their jobs admirably. So much for both DEI and under-staffing theories. 

sources https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/02/analyzing-mid-air-collision-over.html

altitude discrepancy https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/02/data-from-deadliest-us-air-accident-in.html

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Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number

(Project 2025 and Social Security)

from NY Mag

The world’s richest man may now have access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States. According to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday granted Elon Musk and his minions at the faux-agency DOGE full access to the Treasury’s massive federal payment system. As with the rest of Musk’s wide-reaching project within the U.S. government under Donald Trump, it’s not at all clear what he plans to do with this unprecedented access.

Also on Friday, the top civil servant at the Treasury Department, David Lebryk, was apparently ousted after he refused to give Department of Government Efficiency officials access to the system — or rather, per the Times, he “was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.”

Lebryk had worked at Treasury for three decades, and had been the Trump-named acting Treasury secretary until Bessent was confirmed by the Senate on Monday...

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Analyzing the Mid-Air Collision Over the Potomac: A Detailed Examination of ATC Communications

360deg view inside cockpit of a Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter  https://www.klapty.com/p/genesys-aerosystems/t/uh-60-blackhawk-cockpit-tour-100911

Blackhawk pilots typically sit in right-hand seat https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=does+blackhawk+helicopter+pilot+sit+in+right+or+left+chair

why did data from blackbox on plane show the chopper was at 200ft? https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/02/data-from-deadliest-us-air-accident-in.html

from Captain Steeeve

 

Data from the deadliest U.S. air accident in a generation show conflicting altitude readings

from the AP

Preliminary data from the deadliest U.S. aviation accident in nearly 25 years showed conflicting readings about the altitudes of an airliner and Army helicopter when they collided near Reagan National Airport in Washington, killing everyone aboard both aircraft, investigators said Saturday.

Investigators also said that about a second before impact, the jet’s flight recorder showed a change in its pitch. But they did not say whether that change in angle meant that pilots were trying to perform an evasive maneuver to avoid the crash.

Data from the jet’s flight recorder showed its altitude as 325 feet (99 meters), plus or minus 25 feet (7.6 meters), when the crash happened Wednesday night, National Transportation Safety Board officials told reporters. Data in the control tower, though, showed the Black Hawk helicopter at 200 feet (61 meters) at the time...

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The New Media

by Scott Creighton

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

As the Trumpites of the 'Destroy the Republic' Cult Blame the FAA, Turns Out it Was the Chopper Pilot's Fault

by Scott Creighton

 

And of course, that wont do because if it is the fault of the helicopter pilot, then the military is on the hook for millions of dollars in compensation for EACH of the victims.

But no, the JD Vance/Peter Thiel 'destroy da ebil gubmint' cult will have you believe it's black people or women or disabled people who are at fault because 'big gubmint' hired Helen Keller and Charlie Manson to be air traffic controllers.

At least that is the story over at Fox News, who also, by the way, hate our country and it's constitution and laws.

But here is the truth as we know it so far:

Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries

(If you believe the FAA made Helen Keller, Chris Reeves or Charlie Manson air traffic controllers, you're a moron)

from the Washington Post

In the aftermath of the deadly collision between a jetliner and a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan National Airport, Trump held an extraordinary news conference during which he speculated on the cause of the accident. At length, he attacked former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for imposing what he called “a big push to put diversity” that he said weakened the Federal Aviation Administration.

Reading from a 2024 Fox News report — which he incorrectly identified as being two weeks old — Trump listed conditions that he suggested disqualify people from being air traffic controllers: “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.”

“Can you imagine?” he asked. “Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress.” He suggested that it was wrong for anyone with those conditions to qualify “for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot, a little dot on the map, a little runway.”...

 ... But Trump, in his first term, left the policy in place, leading to a class-action lawsuit filed in 2019 by Mountain States Legal Foundation. The case was due to go to trial this year.

Moreover, the FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference.

“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.”

The link under “targeted disabilities” is now dead, but the Wayback Machine retains links from June 2017 and January 2021 that show the page was unchanged during Trump’s tenure. The list included:

• Hearing (total deafness in both ears)
• Vision (Blind)
• Missing Extremities
• Partial Paralysis
• Complete Paralysis, Epilepsy
• Severe intellectual disability
• Psychiatric disability
• Dwarfism

The June 2019 webpage for the Aviation Development Program (ADP) — also now removed but still visible on the Wayback Machine — said the program “provides an opportunity for Persons with Targeted Disabilities (PWTD) to gain aviation knowledge and experience as an air traffic control student trainee.” Participants would get up to one year of experience in an Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC), with a possibility of getting a temporary appointment at the FAA Academy...

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Control Tower Staffing Was ‘Not Normal’ During Deadly Crash, F.A.A. Report Says

from the NYT

Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal” during the deadly late-night crash between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people, a preliminary Federal Aviation Administration report said, as bodies of the victims were being recovered Thursday from the icy Potomac.

The internal report reviewed by The New York Times said the controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity on Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways — jobs typically assigned to two different controllers. President Trump promised on Thursday that a thorough investigation would be conducted, while also engaging in political attacks on his predecessors.

Among the victims about Flight 5342 were several figure skaters from the United States and Russia who had attended the national figure skating championships in Wichita, Kan., where the American Eagle flight originated...

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FAA Administrator Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign

from the Daily Beast

The Federal Aviation Administration’s leader stepped down on Jan. 20, months after Elon Musk demanded that he quit.

The move by Michael Whitaker means the FAA has no Senate-confirmed leader for one of the biggest crises in its history because he quit before Donald Trump took office.

Whitaker ran the FAA for just a year but announced in December that he would step down on Jan. 20, as the new president was sworn in.

Nobody has taken his place. Last week, specialist aviation site The Air Current reported that industry veteran Chris Rocheleau had been sworn in as deputy FAA administrator, which would put him in acting charge of the agency. The Wall Street Journal had first reported that he would become deputy.

Whitaker’s departure came after he clashed with Musk, who is now in charge not just of SpaceX but has been named by Trump as the head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, which is not technically a real government department.

In September Whitaker had proposed fines of more than $600,000 for SpaceX, prompting Musk to demand his resignation and promise to sue...

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The Business Plot of 2025: Vance, Thiel, Musk and Curtis Yarvin Want to Destroy America

 

 Their actions make it clear: they want to destroy this country, our government of the people by the people and for the people and replace it with the same kind of brutal dictatorship the NED, CIA and DIA have installed in nations across the world because only in that kind of environment can they amass even more wealth. That is who they are and that is as impeachable of an offense as any I have ever seen. Question is... what are you going to do about it?

The Business Plot of 2025: JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, The Heritage Foundation and Curtis Yarvin Want to Destroy America

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TrumpyBear Rescinds His Criminal Act Impounding Government Spending

(This being his second impeachable act in a week the first being trying to help facilitate Israel's genocide in Gaza)

from NYT (title mine)

The White House rescinded an order on Wednesday that froze up to trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans and sparked mass confusion across the country.

The initial directive interrupted the Medicaid system that provides health care to millions of low-income Americans and sent schools, hospitals, nonprofits, research companies and law enforcement agencies scrambling to understand if they had lost their financial support from the federal government.

A federal judge in the District of Columbia on Tuesday afternoon temporarily blocked the order in response to a lawsuit filed by Democracy Forward, a liberal organization that argued that the directive violated the First Amendment and a law governing how executive orders are to be rolled out.

On Wednesday, Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director for the Office of Management and Budget, sent a notification to federal agencies notifying them that memo freezing aid had been “rescinded.”

“If you have questions about implementing the President’s executive orders, please contact your agency general counsel,” Mr. Vaeth said in the notification.

"Complete Chaos": Medicaid, Meals on Wheels & More on Chopping Block as Trump Freezes Trillions

Democracy NOW!

Watching RFK Jr. Confirmation Hearing

 

by Scott Creighton

the live broadcast is here

He praised deregulating Agribusiness. Wants to be able to tell poor people what they can and cant buy with SNAP program. 

Asked about vaccines. Reminded he said he wished he didn't vaccinate his kids.

RFK Jr. says he was taken out of contrast. Says Sen was dishonest. 

Sen reminds RFK Jr. tried to prevent people from taking mRNA vaccines. 

RFK Jr. says he was talking ONLY about 6 year old kids.

People yelling in the audience.

As Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds, over 500,000 return to northern Gaza

from al Jazeera

• More than half a million displaced Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza after 15 months of war, according to the enclave’s Government Media Office.
• At least two Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in the past day and two others have succumbed to their injuries as 59 bodies have been recovered from the rubble, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
• In the occupied West Bank, two Palestinians have been confirmed killed by Israeli forces, and dozens of homes, along with a prayer hall and a restaurant, have been destroyed as the Israeli military continues an operation in Jenin for a second week.
• UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini warns that an Israeli ban on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, due to start on Thursday, will affect millions of people and place Gaza’s ceasefire in “jeopardy”.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 47,417 Palestinians and wounded 111,571 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 were taken captive.

 

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Israeli media claims Trump to withdraw US troops from Syria

from Daily Sabah

Israeli media on Tuesday alleged U.S. President Donald Trump plans to pull out thousands of American troops from Syria, something that would impact Israel's expansionist plans in the south and activities of the terrorist groups it supports in the north.

Israel's official public broadcasting Kan reported that "senior White House officials conveyed a message to their Israeli counterparts indicating that President Trump intends to pull thousands of U.S. troops from Syria."

It added that "the withdrawal of American forces from Syria will raise significant concerns in Tel Aviv."

According to a Pentagon announcement in December, the U.S. has some 2,000 troops deployed in Syria.

Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, visited the occupied Mount Hermon in Syria on Tuesday, emphasizing Israel's intent to maintain a military presence there indefinitely following its occupation last month.

"We will not allow hostile forces to establish a foothold in the security zone south of Syria, from here to the Sweida-Damascus axis. We will act against any threat," said Katz...

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Israeli war minister says troops will remain in Syrian territory indefinitely

(It's OURS! We stole it fair and square! Just ask Donnie)

from PressTV

The Israeli minister of military affairs says the regime’s troops, who seized ground at a so-called “buffer zone” inside the strategic Syrian Golan Heights after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, will remain stationed there indefinitely.

“The Israeli military forces will remain at the summit of the Hermon, and the security zone indefinitely to ensure the security of the communities of the Golan Heights and the north, and all the residents” of the Israeli-occupied territories, Israel Katz said on Tuesday during a visit to the Syrian side of Mount Hermon.

Mount Hermon, known as Jabal al-Shaykh in Arabic, is a huge cluster of snowcapped mountain peaks towering above the Syria-Lebanon border.

It overlooks the Damascus countryside as well as the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.

Katz also said Israel would not allow what he described as hostile forces to establish themselves in southern Syria...

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"The WHOLE System Is COLLAPSING..." | Gerald Celente

Life Worth Living

 

Caroline Kennedy Urges Senators to Reject Her Cousin’s Nomination

from the New York Times

Caroline Kennedy wrote a scathing letter to key senators on Tuesday, calling her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” addicted to attention from airing dangerous views on vaccinations and who is unfit to be the nation’s health secretary.

She urged lawmakers, who will be questioning Mr. Kennedy at his confirmation hearings Wednesday and Thursday, to reject his nomination. She cited his lack of experience, misinformed views on vaccines and personal attributes. In the letter, she described how he led other family members “down the path of drug addiction.”

“His basement, his garage, and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks,” Ms. Kennedy wrote. “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”

Her letter was first reported in The Washington Post.

Ms. Kennedy expressed particular outrage over the new disclosures in his ethics agreement filed with the Senate, which she described as outlining how his “crusade against vaccination has benefited him in other ways.”

She cited Mr. Kennedy’s decision to keep a financial stake in litigation against Merck, which makes a key vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV) that is administered to protect against cervical cancer...

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BREAKING: MASS CHAOS AS TRUMP FREEZES ALL MEDICAID SPENDING!

from Secular Talk

"It's ALL Pre-PLANNED..." | Richard Wolff

from Life Worth Living

Trump bashed California’s water system. Then DOGE paid a visit

 

from Politico

The Department of Government Efficiency paid California’s water-delivery infrastructure a visit on Monday following President Donald Trump’s withering criticism of the system.

DOGE officials visited the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s water pumps in Northern California and said they’d worked with the agency to increase water deliveries south, as Trump has been pushing California to do.

“Congratulations to the Administration and DOI’s Bureau of Reclamation for more than doubling the Federally pumped water flowing toward Southern California in < 72 hours,” the agency posted on X on Tuesday morning. Was an honor for the DOGE team to work with you. Great job!”

The pumps, which move water south from California’s wetter northern region, are federally owned and operated. California officials said late Monday that they had been down for maintenance. They also said Trump did not send the military into the state to “turn on the water,” as Trump claimed in a social media post.

“The military did not enter California,” California’s state Department of Water Resources posted on X after 10 p.m. Pacific time. “The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful.”...

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States Will Sue Trump to Stop Federal Grant Freeze

from NYT

A coalition of state attorneys general plans to file suit on Tuesday afternoon to block an order from the White House budget office that would freeze all federal grant programs by 5 p.m. Tuesday.

The move was announced by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, at a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday morning. Among the states joining the suit are New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Delaware.

“My office will be taking imminent legal action against this administration’s unconstitutional pause on federal funding,” the New York attorney general, Letitia James, wrote on social media on Tuesday. “We won’t sit idly by while this administration harms our families.”

The freeze order, a two-page memo from Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, directs federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance,” specifically citing “D.E.I., woke gender ideology and the Green New Deal.” The meaning of the directive was unclear and has plunged state agencies, city governments and nonprofit organizations into confusion...

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Yes Elon Musk, you can be both a Zionist and a Nazi

from Mondoweiss

In an ominous incident at Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk performed a gesture widely perceived as a Nazi salute. Much of the world expressed shock and outrage. In response to the criticism, Musk tweeted in jest: “So I am both a zionist AND a nazi?”

He meant it mockingly, but it’s not an outlandish proposition. Musk has expressed support for both Israel and Germany’s far-right AFD party, which has been widely condemned for its attempts to rebrand Nazism. Speaking at an AFD campaign rally this weekend, still reeling from the salute controversy, Musk reaffirmed his support for the party and urged Germans to move past “their guilt.” He also claimed the AFD was the only chance to preserve German culture. Evidently, Musk believes his support for the Israeli state absolves him of ties to the burgeoning neo-nazi movement. But one can in fact be both a white nationalist and a staunch supporter of Israel. 

How? Well, the ideology of Zionism – and subsequently the state of Israel – was built on the foundations of antisemitism and ethnic cleansing. Zionism was predicated on the idea that the Jewish people do not fit into the rest of the world and must emigrate to a national homeland in Israel, all while displacing the indigenous Palestinian population already living there. The original founder of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, even wrote in 1895: “Antisemites will become our [Israel’s] most dependable friends, the antisemitic countries our allies.” Herzl and the antisemites of the time had the same end goal: a massive migration of the Jewish population out of Europe.

Both Zionists and antisemites were violently against Jews assimilating in their home countries. In Israel’s early days, Zionists murdered their own people to encourage the exodus of Middle Eastern Jews to Israel. In 1951, a pair of Jewish Zionists carried out a series of bombing attacks against Jewish sites in Baghdad. They wanted to falsely blame the attacks on antisemitic terror and give credence to the idea that Jews outside of Israel were not safe, and that Israel must exist to protect them. And they were willing to kill Iraqi Jews to make that point.

It’s unsurprising then that Zionists have always been willing to cooperate with unsavory characters to justify Israel’s existence on Palestinian land. Today, they’ve found many allies in the Republican Party and the far-right parties across Europe and Latin America. For instance, American Christian Zionists often parrot racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories while loudly proclaiming their love for the Jewish state. Take Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, who has tweeted outlandish antisemitic conspiracies about “Jewish space lasers” while expressing her support for Israel and voting to fund its Iron Dome...

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Released IDF soldiers’ greeting in Arabic, celebration demolish BBC propaganda

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Türkiye dispatches new aid ship to Gaza following cease-fire

from Daily Sabah

The 14th ship carrying essential humanitarian aid for displaced Palestinians set sail from Türkiye to the Gaza Strip, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced Tuesday, days after the cease-fire with Israel took effect.

"To heal the wounds of our Gazan brothers and sisters and meet their temporary shelter needs, we have launched our #ShipOfGoodness," Yerlikaya said on X.

The ship is carrying 10,460 tents, 14,350 blankets, 20 portable toilet and shower units, and 300 generators, totaling 871 tons of humanitarian aid, he noted.

He emphasized Ankara's commitment to helping those in need. "As in the past, today we continue to stand by the oppressed and deliver the helping hand of our noble nation to those in need," he noted.

The shipment reflects Türkiye's ongoing support for Palestinians and efforts to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which was devastated by Israel's use of air and artillery before a cease-fire agreement was reached with the Palestinian group Hamas after more than 15 months.

The cease-fire agreement, which began on Jan. 19, halted Israel's genocidal war that has killed more than 47,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children and injured over 111,400 since Oct. 7, 2023...

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Under-fire Serbian PM Vucevic resigns

from RT

Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic officially announced his resignation on Tuesday following weeks of anti-government protests over alleged corruption and negligence.

His decision comes after sustained public outcry that began with anger over the collapse of a concrete canopy at the Novi Sad railway station three months ago, resulting in 15 deaths.

In his resignation statement on Tuesday, Vucevic claimed that the ongoing protests across the country are being organized from abroad with the ultimate goal of staging a coup d’etat. “I can say with certainty that this is an absolutely deliberate action, organized from abroad, I have no doubt about that,” Vucevic said, adding that a blow had been dealt to the most “sensitive area of society – children’s education,” with the aim of “threatening Serbia as a state.”

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has also accused the country’s opposition of collaborating with foreign intelligence agencies to destabilize the country, describing the protests as an attempt at a “color revolution.” He has specifically claimed that a coalition of Western, Croatian, and Albanian interests was working to “to destroy Serbia from within.”...

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Israeli fire injures civilians in southern Lebanon as forces miss ceasefire withdrawal deadline

from al Jazeera English

‘Conspiracy Theory’ is Now Fact: Greater Israel Has Arrived

from Mint Press News

Ever since Tel Aviv’s 1948 creation, much has been said and written about ‘Greater Israel’ – the notion Zionism’s ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims that this territory was promised to Jews by God. The media typically dismisses this concept as an antisemitic conspiracy theory or, at most, the fringe fantasy of a minuscule handful of Israelis.

In reality, as The Guardian admitted in 2009, the idea of a Greater Israel has long appealed to “religious and secular right-wing nationalists” alike in Tel Aviv. They have the shared objective of “[seeking] to fulfill divine commandments about the ‘beginning of redemption,’ as well as create ‘facts on the ground’ to enhance Israel’s security.” The outlet acknowledged this motivation was a key contemporary driving force in mainstream Israeli politics, which “effectively turned the Palestinians into aliens on their own soil.”

The Nation has described the push to establish Greater Israel as “the central ideological goal” of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, which has dominated Israeli politics in recent decades. In July 2018, Israel passed the “Nation State of the Jewish People” law. It enshrines “the development of Jewish settlement as a national value.” Meanwhile, the state is legally obligated “to encourage and promote” the “establishment and consolidation” of settlements in illegally occupied territory...

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Serbian Color Revolution and the Controlled Demolition that Started It

 

What's happening in Serbia is a color revolution and this is why.

footage of the collapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIN0clHNv70

Belt and Road https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-belt-and-road-in-europe-between.html

extraditions https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/01/china-serbia-eye-stepped-up-cooperation.html

protests with kids https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-thousands-protest-over-novi-sad-station-collapse/a-71400148

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 just some stuff for today's video on the color revolution in Serbia and the controlled demolition that they kicked it off with.

The Belt and Road in Europe: Between Tragedy in Ukraine and Hope in Serbia

from BRIX March 2022

 

... China and Serbia are negotiating a Free Trade Agreement that is expected to be signed by the end of 2022. This will increase the volume of trade between the two countries dramatically.

President Alexander Vučić, and President of Poland Andrzej Duda were among the few European leaders who visited Beijing during the Winter Olympics 2022 and held talks with President Xi Jinping on matters related to the Eurasian express rail connection and the importance of enhancing the connectivity through rail and building logistics hubs in Poland. Poland has become one of the bottlenecks in the China-EU Express and needs investments in rail infrastructure to cope with the rising volumes of freight.

Serbia is emerging as a major economic partner of China in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. But this is not an isolated country nor a separate policy of China. This is integral to the expansion of the BRI cooperation in a region which has been basically abandoned by the EU and the U.S. in terms of investments in infrastructure and regional connectivity. In reality, China is doing the EU and Europe a favor by connecting this region together to the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and the Black Sea. Many of the “European Corridors” in this region are standing still with lack of financing and capacity to construct. China is filling a major gap in the connectivity of the European continent.

Peace through economic cooperation should become the norm for modern diplomacy and international relations. The BRI has shown its potential to bridge political, cultural, and social differences.

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China, Serbia Eye Stepped-Up Cooperation Through Extraditions

from the CIA's Radio Free Europe Dec 2024 H/T AuntBB

Serbia has extradited five Chinese citizens in the last five years, according to data obtained by RFE/RL.

While one extradition case between China and Serbia was made public in 2021, the new instances, which were obtained by RFE/RL’s Balkan Service through a freedom-of-information request from the Serbian Justice Ministry, shows extraditions took place on a larger scale than previously known.

That cooperation is also set to grow as the Justice Ministry prepares to submit to parliament a draft extradition law with China that, if passed, would expand the scope of cooperation between Beijing and Belgrade...

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Serbia might snub EU and join Brics, president says

(In November of the same year a small protest broke out regarding the collapse of a canopy in Novi Sad which killed 16 people. The locals blamed the collapse on corrupt local politicians, namely the mayor, but it appears the globalists saw it as a target of opportunity and latched onto it as a trigger for a nationwide color revolution to oust current leadership (President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)) and move the country further from Russia and China and BRICS back into the fold of NATO, the West and the EU. This is what happened in Ukraine as well and probably what is happening in Georgia. They always latch onto an organic albeit small protest or demonstration and then try to amplify it to include the full regime change of the country. They did it in Turkey with Gezi Park protests and in China with an extradition law and now in Serbia. This also fits the current model of the regime change NGOs by it's use of well meaning yet naive young people. They found that these target market of energetic youth were easily manipulated and eager to put their own stamp on the future direction of the nations in which they live. They have done this kind of destabilization using youth activists everywhere from Hong Kong to the United States and even globally on behalf of the 'Global Warming' agenda. Now they are doing the same thing in Belgrade.)

from The Times Oct 25 2024

Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic has thrown his country’s future in the European Union into doubt by suggesting it could instead join Brics, the global economic bloc hosted in Russia this week by Vladimir Putin.

Belgrade has long performed an East-West balancing act, but with the war in Ukraine forcing the world to take sides, the scales are tilting evermore toward the Kremlin.

Russian and Belarusian dissidents sheltering inside the country have told The Times that Serbian authorities have begun a crackdown against them at the Kremlin’s behest, while an opposition MP has accused Aleksandar Vulin, the deputy prime minister, of breaking a Putin ally out of Italian custody and spiriting him away to Moscow on a charter flight from Belgrade. Serbia has also refused to join western sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine...

On Tuesday he claimed that Serbian popular support for BRICS, a group of countries that “blackmail us less” than the EU, had reached 42 per cent, adding that the appeal of the blocs had now drawn level.

“When people vote for a new president in two and a half years, this will become one of the key topics. Who knows, maybe it will even become a point for a referendum,” Vucic said.

Russia and Serbia have long celebrated a close bond over their shared Slavic background, but Putin has used cheap gas supplies to consolidate his influence over the Balkan nation, which sits strategically amidst EU and Nato allies.

“Any defeat of Russia will be a defeat for Serbia,” Vulin, 52, told Russian media last month, adding that the two countries’ security services enjoyed “excellent co-operation”. He accused the West of fomenting a colour revolution in Serbia, which he would curtail by Kremlin-style legislation outlawing civil society organisations as “foreign agents”...

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Serbia deploys FK-3 air defense system, ‘flagship export product from China’

(As good as this system is, it can't do a thing against color revolutions.)

from Global Times Jan 1 2025 H/T AuntBB

The Serbian Ministry of Defense announced its deployment of the Chinese-made FK-3 mid-range air defense weapon system, emphasizing its advanced capabilities, news website Defence Blog reported on Thursday. A military expert told the Global Times that the FK-3 demonstrates robust combat capabilities and serves as a flagship export product in China's air and missile defense portfolio.

"By arming the Air Force and Air Defense with the new FK-3 air defense missile system, the airspace control and protection system has been significantly improved in the Republic of Serbia," the Serbian Ministry of Defense said in a recent statement. It said that the system comprises a command center vehicle, rocket launchers, radars, and logistics support vehicles.

The Serbian Ministry of Defense also released detailed images of the FK-3 from different angles, including its inclined launch mode.

According to the Serbian Ministry of Defense's statement, Captain 1st Class Stefan Manić, commander of the FK-3 missile battery, described the system as a "milestone in air defense systems."...

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Will America or China Win the Serbian Proxy War?

from Politico 9/2024 H/T AuntBB

This Balkan country is one of the most important in-between places in the world today. Its fate will help determine which Great Power comes to dominate this century — and is an overlooked test of American power for whoever takes the White House this November.

Serbia sits in a geostrategic gray zone, pulled between the authoritarian powers of Beijing and Moscow and more recently, after some years of neglect, the U.S. and its European allies. It’s not alone. Moldova and Georgia are two other European states straddling those worlds. The Ukrainians have fought for over two years to stay free. In Asia, the proxy battle between democracy and despotism is over Taiwan.

For now, Serbia’s leaders lean this way and that, depending on the day, without explicitly picking sides. But this struggle is going to come to a head sooner than later...

But neither Washington nor Brussels has leaned in on Serbia. Their main goal seems to be to keep Serbia from becoming a Russian satellite like Belarus. “Our greatest concern is the malign influence of Russia,” said a Western diplomat who asked not to be named. “We want Serbia aligned with the West, part of a system that opposes Russian expansionism.”...

Serbs eager to head westward look above all to Washington. The senior minister said the U.S. should be using its voice and influence to help Serbia, as it did Poland and other Central European countries over 20 years ago, to get into the EU. Many Serbs remember that the last U.S. president to visit Belgrade was Jimmy Carter in 1980. China’s Xi has been here twice and Putin three times. A little more focus on Serbia in Washington could make a difference on the ground here — to give this government a path to get closer to the free world and, along the way, make them less predisposed to autocrats and autocratic habits...

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Trump Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza While Israel Criminalizes the Truth

Genocide Joe? Ethnic Cleansing Donnie. The Trumpening now includes his calls to 'clean' Gaza of Palestinians and forcibly relocate them to other countries. That's his peace plan. Smotrich approves. It is vile and offensive and anyone who still supports him after this... the door is right over there. Meanwhile in the 'only democracy in the Middle East', they are making it illegal to even question the official story of Oct. 7th 2023... while simultaneously postponing an actual inquiry into those same events. You can't make this up folks.

Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’ https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/01/trump-suggests-his-plan-for-gaza-strip.html

Israel Locks Down Official Oct 7th Story Under Threat of Imprisonment https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/01/israel-locks-down-official-oct-7th.html

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Israel Locks Down Official Oct 7th Story Under Threat of Imprisonment

by Scott Creighton

Would I get 5 years for this meme in Israel? It's accurate

Don't you dare question what really happened on Oct. 7th 2023 if you live in Israel. 'The only democracy in the Middle East' will put you in prison if you even think about questioning the official state-made lies they have been peddling.

The Knesset passed a new law criminalising the denial, minimisation, or celebration of Palestinian resistance’s infiltration of Israel on 7 October 2023.

The legislation, proposed by Yisrael Beiteinu MK, Oded Forer, was approved in its final reading yesterday by a vote of 16-0, reported the Times of Israel.

Modeled on Israel’s 1986 Holocaust denial law, it states that any individual who verbally or in writing denies the events on 7 October, intending to defend or show sympathy for Hamas or its affiliates, could face up to five years in prison.

“The State of Israel today said in a loud and clear voice: The denial of the atrocities of October 7 will not pass in silence, neither in the Knesset, nor on the street, nor in the world,” Forer said after the vote. “Anyone who tries to deny Hamas’s heinous crimes is an active partner in spreading lies and incitement that undermine the foundations of our society.”

He added: “In an era where lies are spread at the speed of light on social media and in the international arena, this law is a bulwark. Not only for the memory of the murdered and the honour of the survivors, but for the sake of future generations who will remember the truth, and not the lies that try to obscure it.” Middle East Monitor Jan 22 2025

Babies in ovens. Babies on the clothesline. 40 beheaded babies. Systemic rape. All lies. All bullshit. All done to help justify the ethnic cleansing they had in mind for the Gaza 2035 plan.

Yes. Foundations of society are sometimes laid in filth, in mud, in lies. And to question these lies means to threaten the Greater Israel ambitions of the messianic Zionists who are currently in charge in Israel (and apparently in the White House)

These lies must be set in stone under threat of state violence so that the young people are never exposed to the truth that threatens to shake their love of Israel and hatred of Arabs.

This is what that statement means. This is what that law means. 

Trump says he may withhold federal aid for Los Angeles if California doesn't change water policies

(The reasoning behind this is simple: Big Agrabusiness in southern California have drained the aquifers and are using way too much water for the area. Everyone else is screwed. They already get water from surrounding states but they want more for their crops so Big Business Sycophant TrumpyBear is trying to force the state of California to reroute the water from the north down to Big Business in the south so they can drain them as well. Its fucking sick. Just let the greedy business owners suck all the life and water out of the entire state. But he wont say it that way. Instead he makes up bullshit about fish or some other idiotic crap his troglodyte followers can latch their sub-60 IQ brains on. The reason southern Cali is running out of water and on restrictions is because Big Business sucks so much out of the ground for their profit margins. That's a fact.)

from OPB

President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to withhold federal disaster aid for wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles unless California leaders change the state’s approach on its management of water.

In a Fox News interview, Trump repeated false claims that the state’s fish conservation efforts in the northern part of the state are responsible for fire hydrants running dry in urban areas. He says the blame for Los Angeles' struggles to tame some of the deadly fires lies with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a political foe who has called for partnership and mutual respect as the state fights the blazes.

“I don’t think we should give California anything until they let the water run down,” Trump said.

The president leveled the threat as he prepares for the first presidential trip of his second term. On Friday, he will visit Southern California in addition to western North Carolina, which is recovering after Hurricane Helene pummeled the area more than three months ago.

Trump in the interview also called for reform of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, claiming it is “getting in the way of everything.”

“I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” he said. He did not elaborate on his proposed reforms, only saying that the agency is “going to be a whole big discussion very shortly.”...

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IDF Opens Fire on Palestinians Trying to Return to Northern Gaza as Promised in Cease-Fire Deal

by Scott Creighton

'Israeli occupation forces open fire at Palestinians who are awaiting entry to northern Gaza after they were forcibly displaced from their homes during the Israeli genocide.'

Of course this comes as President Trump tells the press corps on Air Force One he wants to forcibly displace all the people of Gaza and expel them to other countries in order to 'clean it out' making ready for Israel's Gaza 2035 plan.

Remember when the lobotomites like Jimmy Dore were praising Donald Trump for bringing peace to the Middle East?

Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’

(The greedy developer billionaire who is currently running a meme coin scam on his own followers and fans has let the cat out of the bag and said the quiet part out loud. It's a war crime and a crime against humanity, by the way, the ethnic cleansing and forced displacement and relocation of people for the purpose of stealing their land (especially when the thieves are on record saying they want it because it is valuable))

Israel's Gaza 2035 plan to steal Palestine and remake it into a resort paradise for the wealthy and a massive free trading zone for Jewish businesses

Gaza 2035

(Donald Trump is a piece of shit who puts Israel front and center and considers the fevered dreams of their messianic Zionists ahead of the needs of his own people.)

(What he is talking about less than a week into his presidency is a war crime and a crime against humanity by the way)

'Forcing people, by expulsion or other coercive acts, to leave a place where they are living lawfully for reasons not allowed by international law could be a crime against humanity, a war crime or both. When people are displaced across an international border, it is called deportation.'

 (Trump is a vile, nasty waste of human life who will sell out the Palestinians, Panamanians, Canadians, Ukrainians, Mexicans, Americans and even his own lobotomite followers if it garners him a percentage of what the masters of the universe hope to profit from their schemes. Trump should be impeached immediately for even saying such a thing.)

from CNN (H/T AuntBB)

President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about potentially building housing and moving more than 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries, a remarkable proposal from a sitting US president.

Trump said he asked Jordan’s Abdullah II, a key US partner in the region, to take in more Palestinians in a Saturday phone call.

“I said to him that I’d love you to take on more, because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One.

Jordan’s state news agency Petra reported the call with Trump, but made no mention of relocating Palestinians. The kingdom is already home to more than 2.39 million registered Palestinian refugees, according to the UN.

Trump said he would like both Jordan and Egypt – which borders the battered enclave – to house people, and that he would speak to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about the matter on Sunday.

“You’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” Trump said, adding that there have been centuries-long conflicts in the region.

He continued: “I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.”

The president, a former property developer, said that the potential housing “could be temporary” or “could be long-term.”

As well as killing tens of thousands of people, the 15-month war between Israel and Hamas has reduced much of Gaza to rubble. Israeli airstrikes have damaged or destroyed around 60 per cent of buildings, including schools and hospitals, and around 92 per cent of homes, according to the UN.

Approximately 90% of Gazans have been displaced, and many residents have been forced to move repeatedly, some more than 10 times, according to the UN.