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US officials: Yemen’s Houthis fired missiles at US fighter jet and drone this week, but missed
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Tulsi Gabbard receives a real-life Captain America Shield
[X]


Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11142 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They should have given her golden bracers and a lasso of truth.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/23/2025 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Or made her invisible.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/23/2025 1:48 Comments || Top||


Europe
Allies in Europe & NATO looking for ways to safeguard Top-Secret Information from the Trump Administration
[X] From?? Trying to hide another Steele Dossier, guys? Bad, bad idea — this time President Trump controls the bureaucracy instead of being controlled by it, so they won’t be helping you — or want your help to undermine their boss.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  They are only allied with the Americans who want to destroy us. Witacker needs to chop block some of them.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/23/2025 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Or, he can just go to Google.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/23/2025 1:46 Comments || Top||

#3  *shrug* No doubt the DOGE crew have friends who’d love playing white hat for a bit…
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/23/2025 1:53 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^Agreed.

Our enemies have been especially determined, but not especially smart.
Posted by: Crusader || 02/23/2025 1:54 Comments || Top||

#5  This might drive development of a new encryption obfuscation technology.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/23/2025 1:57 Comments || Top||

#6  NOFORN needs to include the other 4 "eyes"
Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239 || 02/23/2025 9:02 Comments || Top||

#7  German security leaked like a sieve during the Soviet era.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/23/2025 9:36 Comments || Top||

#8  After the wall came down, Germany was reluctant to share captured East German intelligence sources and documents.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/23/2025 9:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Among other things they are very worried that their own weakness and game playing might be further exposed.
Posted by: Vortigern Speaking for Boskone4685 || 02/23/2025 10:12 Comments || Top||

#10  ORCON as well as NOFORN. For a dascinating and fun read, try dipping into this Wiki, open source, unclass, deep dive!



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/23/2025 16:04 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Kash Patel will also serve as the Acting Director of ATF.
[X HT Insty]
Posted by: Frank G || 02/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Brandon Herrera for ATF director!
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/23/2025 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Hulk Hogan, except I would like Hulk to b the guy who takes care of bureaucrats who won’t leave their office.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/23/2025 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^^^ Agreed,

The leg-drop takes too much time to set up.

Perhaps Shawn Michaels?
Posted by: Crusader || 02/23/2025 1:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Use the Force Kash...Let go!
Posted by: Angimp Squank3949 || 02/23/2025 4:19 Comments || Top||

#5  I was pulling for Ted Nugent.

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 02/23/2025 6:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Comment seen on internet “alcohol, tobacco and firearms should be a convenience store; not a government agency”
Posted by: Airandee || 02/23/2025 9:00 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/23/2025 14:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Or, in Frank's case ...
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/23/2025 14:48 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Absolutely
Posted by: Frank G || 02/23/2025 15:23 Comments || Top||


DOGE, EPA cut $67M in grants for lefty groups pushing Biden’s ‘environmental justice’ mandate
[NYPOST] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency teamed up with the Department of Government Efficiency to put the kibosh on more than $67 million in grant money once earmarked to push ex-President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
's ''environmental justice'' mandate, The Post has learned.

The EPA and the Elon Musk-led DOGE this week flagged 21 grants totaling $77.1 million previously awarded to 20 lefty nonprofits and universities, and the Trump administration will withhold $67.4 million in payments yet to be made, officials said.

The biggest loser is Vermont-based Institute of Sustainable Communities, which has yet to receive $12.4 million of the $16 million it was promised under two separate Biden-era grants to serve as a ''National Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center.''
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  90% of what the EPA does involves screwing us over.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/23/2025 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^^^^
And padding the pockets of the chosen people.

The more that comes out from DOGE leaves me believing that almost the *entirety* of government spending includes a significant diversion of funds to the pockets of those who thought up the scheme to begin with.
Posted by: Crusader || 02/23/2025 2:09 Comments || Top||


#4  "Environmental Justice"

Yet another method for laundering taxpayer money for other purposes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/23/2025 7:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump says Elon Musk should be 'more aggressive' on DOGE cuts

This could suggest a schism between Trump and Musk, according to media sources. Or not. "Faster, faster, moar!; Sir, yes, sir!" is not what most people would call a disagreement.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/23/2025 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6 
a drop in the bucket when you consider....
"The average American will pay $524,625 in taxes throughout their lifetime — that’s a third (34.7%) of all estimated lifetime earnings ($1,494,986) spent on taxes.

I want DOGE to find things that a Fire Hose can't handle.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/23/2025 13:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Federal department cafeteria empty for years under Biden: report
[NYPOST] The cafeteria in a top federal department resembles a ghost town after remaining empty and closed for years under the Biden administration, Fox News Digital has learned.

''You have federal workers showing up to protest President Trump's plan to make government work for the people on a federal holiday, but they refuse to show up to work when they are collecting a paycheck courtesy of American taxpayers. It's just nuts,'' a source close to the situation told Fox News Digital.

The Department of Interior (DOI) cafeteria was initially closed during the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic, but the lunchroom remained shut down for several years because the Biden administration did not require federal employees to work in person.

A photo taken on Feb. 20, 2025, reveals that five years after the pandemic, the lunchroom remains empty and unmanned, which ''shows you exactly what's wrong with the mindset of far too many federal workers,'' the source tells Fox.

''President Trump is keeping his promise to the American people about having a government that works hard and responsibly for the people. Under the Biden administration, there were so few people in the Interior office that the cafeteria closed!'' Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2025 09:19 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can't help but wonder how much food has been ordered and 'served' in this unused facility over the last five years.
Posted by: Cesare || 02/23/2025 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Less than the food rotting in Gaza.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/23/2025 11:47 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Disturbing reason NASA 'abandoned' stranded astronauts in space, according to experts
[MAIL] A public blame-game has erupted over who's responsible for leaving two NASA astronauts stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for over eight months.

Last week, Elon Musk blamed NASA's choice to extend Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore's ISS mission on 'political reasons' during a FOX News joint interview with President Donald Trump, who added that Biden was going to 'leave them in space.'

Rudy Ridolfi, a respected former Space System Commander in the US military, told DailyMail.com that 'the Biden administration's vitriolic hate for Elon' may have influenced how NASA handled the situation.

Williams and Wilmore embarked on what was supposed to be an eight-day ISS mission aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft last June. But their capsule was plagued by thruster issues and helium leaks before, during and after the launch.

These numerous technical issues drove NASA to postpone the astronauts' return flight, but the agency still entertained the possibility of using Starliner to bring them home and gave Boeing more than 12 weeks to try and fix the issues from the ground.

In late August, NASA officials decided there was still too much uncertainty about Starliner's performance and tapped SpaceX to bring Williams and Wilmore home instead, sending Starliner home uncrewed the following month.

But 'Elon coming to the rescue was not in the cards,' Ridolfi said. He suggested the reason NASA did not tap SpaceX sooner may have been due to the Biden administration's contentious relationship with its CEO, Musk.

'The Biden Administration relying on SpaceX to return the astronauts would put its decisions on Starliner into question,' he said. 'In their world, Boeing was the leading space company.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/23/2025 09:50 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:



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1Moslem Colonists
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