Musk Reveals Treasury Has Been Auto-Paying Everyone, 'Even Known Terrorist Groups'

Update (0942ET): Well, well, well - DOGE moves into the Treasury, triggering their longest-serving, highest-ranked career official to quit in a huff, and they find that department has essentially been auto-paying everyone, according to Elon Musk.

"The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups," said Musk in a Friday night tweet.

"They literally never denied a payment in their entire career."

The Treasury Department's highest-ranking career official quit after a clash with aides of Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to the Washington Post, citing (of course), three anonymous sources.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/treasury-depts-highest-ranking-career-official-rage-quits-after-musks-doge-team-probes

⚠️🧵IG is playing games to protect DC swamp.

Games are over. Replace the careerists who place self-preservation over God and country with patriots if you want to live under the Constitution, or it's over.

Cc: @SecDef @DoD_IG

https://x.com/ted_macie/status/1885457088681218457

The Rise of the Immortal Dictator: What Will AI Mean For Freedom And Government?

The surveillance state, combined with AI, is creating a world in which there’s nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. We’re all presumed guilty until proven innocent now.

“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”—Elon Musk (2018)

The Deep State is about to go turbocharged.

While the news media fixates on the extent to which Project 2025 may be the Trump Administration’s playbook for locking down the nation, there is a more subversive power play taking place under cover of Trump’s unique brand of circus politics.

Take a closer look at what’s unfolding, and you will find that all appearances to the contrary, Trump isn’t planning to do away with the Deep State. Rather, he was hired by the Deep State to usher in the golden age of AI.

Get ready for Surveillance State 2.0.

To achieve this turbocharged surveillance state, the government is turning to its most powerful weapon yet: artificial intelligence. AI, with its ability to learn, adapt, and operate at speeds unimaginable to humans, is poised to become the engine of this new world order.

Over the course of 70 years, the technology has developed so rapidly that it has gone from early computers exhibiting a primitive form of artificial intelligence to machine learning (AI systems that learn from historic data) to deep learning (machine learning that mimics the human brain) to generative AI, which can create original content, i.e., it appears able to think for itself.

What we are approaching is the point of no return.

In tech speak, this point of no return is more aptly termed “singularity,” the point at which AI eclipses its human handlers and becomes all-powerful. Elon Musk has predicted that singularity could happen by 2026. AI scientist Ray Kurzweil imagines it happening it closer to 2045.

While the scientific community has a lot to say about the world-altering impact of artificial intelligence on every aspect of our lives, little has been said about its growing role in government and its oppressive effect on our freedoms, especially “the core democratic principles of privacy, autonomy, equality, the political process, and the rule of law.”

According to a report from Accenture, it is estimated that across both the public and private sectors, generative AI has the potential to automate a significant portion of jobs across various sectors.

Here’s a thought: what if Trump’s pledge to cut the federal work force isn’t really about eliminating government bureaucracy but outsourcing it to the AI tech sector?

Certainly, Trump has made no secret of his plans to make AI a priority. Indeed, Trump signed the first-ever Executive Order on AI in 2019. More recently, Trump issued an executive order giving the technology sector a green light to develop and deploy AI without any guardrails in place to limit the risks it might pose to U.S. national security, the economy, public health or safety.

President Biden was no better, mind you. His executive order, which Trump repealed, merely instructed the tech sector to share the results of AI safety tests with the U.S. government.

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https://thefreethoughtproject.com/technology/the-rise-of-the-immortal-dictator-what-will-ai-mean-for-freedom-and-government

Two Killed, 10 Wounded as Israeli Fighter Jets Attack Eastern Lebanon

Lebanon reports 15 ceasefire violations by Israeli forces

In eastern Lebanon, Israeli jets carried out attacks against areas near the Lebanon-Syria border, south of Baalbek. The Lebanon Health Ministry reported two people were killed in the attack, and 10 others wounded.

Details are still emerging about what was actually hit. Israel claims they targeted “underground” Hezbollah infrastructure in the airstrikes, and that all of the attacks in eastern Lebanon were general Hezbollah targets.

Other Israeli airstrikes were reported in the north of Lebanon, once again not far from the Syrian border. The Israeli strikes reportedly targeted a truck hauling scrap metal in the Akkar District, along with the border crossing outside of Hnaider.

These attacks bring the number of Lebanese killed by Israel since the ceasefire began in late November to at least 83. Lebanon reported 15 violations today on Thursday, with Lebanese National News Agency putting the number of Israeli violations of the ceasefire so far at 823.

Hezbollah officials have suggested in recent days that the number of total violations is well in excess of 1,000. It’s not clear how individual violations are counted right now, for instance, whether Israel burning down multiple civilian homes in a village is counted as a single violation or several. Since many of the violations involve mass destruction in occupied territory, that could explain the discrepancy.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/01/31/two-killed-10-wounded-as-israeli-fighter-jets-attack-eastern-lebanon/

Responding to Trump, Arab nations reject transferring Gazans ‘under any circumstances’

Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Palestinian Authority and Arab League say such plans would pose a threat to regional stability, risk expanding conflict

Arab foreign ministers on Saturday rejected the transfer of Palestinians from Gaza “under any circumstances or justifications,” presenting a unified stance against US President Donald Trump’s call for Egypt and Jordan to take in residents of the Strip.

In a joint statement following a meeting in Cairo, the foreign ministers and officials from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League said they were looking forward to working with Trump’s administration to achieve a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, based on a two-state solution.

The foreign ministers rejected any “infringement of the inalienable rights” of Palestinians, whether by “settlement, expulsion, home demolitions, annexation, depopulation of the land of its people through displacement, encouraged transfer or the uprooting of Palestinians from their land.”

The statement warned that such plans “threaten the region’s stability, risk expanding the conflict, and undermine prospects for peace and coexistence among its peoples.”

Trump insisted on Thursday that Jordan and Egypt will support a proposal to resettle Palestinians in their countries rather than in a rebuilt Gaza Strip, despite flat refusals from both countries to consider the move.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/responding-to-trump-arab-nations-reject-transferring-gazans-under-any-circumstances/

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Israeli Troops Targeted In Southern Syria For First Time

Israeli troops have come under attack in southern Syria for the first time since they invaded the buffer zone adjacent to the occupied Golan Heights following the collapse of the Assad regime.

In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that troops were targeted in the buffer zone late on January 31 and returned fire toward the source of the shooting. There were no Israeli injuries, according to the military.

Daraa 24, a news blog that covers southern Syria, reported that a force of the IDF stormed the town of Turnejeh in the al-Quneitra countryside and arrested two young men. It is still unclear however if the move was related to the attack on Israeli troops.

On February 1 morning, the “Syrian Resistance,” a group affiliated with the former regime in Syria, claimed responsibility for the incident, according to the Lebanese Al-Akhbar news outlet which is close to Hezbollah.

The group announced that it “has begun its operations against the Israeli enemy alongside operations against al-Julani’s terrorist gangs,” using the nom de guerre of Syria’s transnational president Ahmed al-Sharaa who led the offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad.

The group also said that “the Syrian Resistance will not allow Israel to occupy our land. We will ambush it and al-Julani’s gangs with precise ambushes and surprise attacks.”

The IDF invaded southern Syria just hours after the fall of the Assad regime on December 8, occupying most of the buffer zone including the summit strategic Mount Hermon. For the next few days, it launched hundreds of strikes targeting the bases and equipment of the now dissolved Syrian Arab Army.

Syria’s transnational government condemned Israel’s actions and called on the country to respect the United Nations-observed 1974 separation of forces agreement.

It is highly unlikely that the attack on the IDF was carried out by the new Syrian military. At the same time, the so-called Syrian Resistance appears to be more of a propaganda stunt as there is nothing proving that the group actually exists. The poorly planned attack may have been carried out by locals fed up with the Israeli occupation of their farms. The lack of a strong reaction by the IDF suggests that this was the case.

https://southfront.press/israeli-troops-targeted-in-southern-syria-for-first-time/