Politico, NY Times Propped Up By Millions Of Dollars From US Government

On Tuesday, staffers at Politico were notified that a 'technical error' had prevented paychecks from going out. Many joked that this had something to do with the Trump administration putting a freeze on USAID funding.

And while there's no evidence the two are linked, the suggestion prompted internet sleuths to look into Politico's sources of funding. What they found was absolutely shocking.

According to government spending tracker website USASPENDING.gov, Politico - which laundered the Hunter Biden '51 intel officials' propaganda during the 2020 election - received up to $27 million (and by some counts $32 million) from various US agencies during the Biden years.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/politico-ny-times-propped-millions-dollars-us-government

Google removes ban on weaponizing AI

In a reversal of previous policies the tech giant will now permit the technology to be used for developing arms and surveillance tools

Google has significantly revised its artificial intelligence principles, removing earlier restrictions on using the technology for developing weaponry and surveillance tools. The update, announced on Tuesday, alters the company’s prior stance against applications that could cause “overall harm.”

In 2018, Google established a set of AI principles in response to criticism over its involvement in military endeavors, such as a US Department of Defense project that involved the use of AI to process data and identify targets for combat operations. The original guidelines explicitly stated that Google would not design or deploy AI for use in weapons or technologies that cause or directly facilitate injury to people, or for surveillance that violates internationally accepted norms.

The latest version of Google’s AI principles, however, has scrubbed these points. Instead, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and senior executive for technology and society James Manyika have published a new list of the tech giant’s “core tenants” regarding the use of AI. These include a focus on innovation and collaboration and a statement that “democracies should lead in AI development, guided by core values like freedom, equality, and respect for human rights.”

Margaret Mitchell, who had previously co-led Google’s ethical AI team, told Bloomberg the removal of the ‘harm’ clause may suggest that the company will now work on “deploying technology directly that can kill people.”

According to The Washington Post, the tech giant has collaborated with the Israeli military since the early weeks of the Gaza war, competing with Amazon to provide artificial intelligence services. Shortly after the October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, Google’s cloud division worked to grant the Israel Defense Forces access to AI tools, despite the company’s public assertions of limiting involvement to civilian government ministries, the paper reported last month, citing internal company documents.

Google’s reversal of its policy comes amid continued concerns over the dangers posed by AI to humanity. Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneering figure in AI and recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics, warned late last year that the technology could potentially lead to human extinction within the next three decades, a likelihood he sees as being up to 20%.

Hinton has warned that AI systems could eventually surpass human intelligence, escape human control and potentially cause catastrophic harm to humanity. He has urged significant resources be allocated towards AI safety and ethical use of the technology and that proactive measures be developed.

https://www.rt.com/news/612242-google-removes-ai-weapon-ban/

Bill Kristol’s Group Was Receiving Millions From Inside the USAID

Hello Mr. Kristol,

For you, the deep state is preferable because you are listed as the President of Defending Democracy (EIN 831567380) which is an indirect beneficiary of USAID through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

You are exposed.

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1886161143108149298

https://datarepublican.com/expose/?eins=831567380

Obama Judge Says Names of FBI Agents Involved in J6 Cases and Trump Investigations Can be Withheld From Public Amid “Safety” Concerns

DC Chief Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, said the names of the anonymous FBI agents involved in the January 6 cases and Trump investigations can be withheld from the public for now.

On Tuesday, 9 FBI agents anonymously filed a lawsuit to block the Justice Department from accessing their names.

CNN reported Tuesday afternoon that the FBI turned over the names of the 5,000 employees who worked on J6 and Trump investigations.

According to NBC News, there were more than 2,400 cases in total – but 5,000 officials involved.

The FBI officials who worked on the J6 cases and Trump investigations were identified by a case management system.

Per NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian: An internal FBI document obtained by NBC News shows that executives use the FBIs Sentinel case file management system to identify agents and employees who worked on January 6 cases. The document says there were around 2400 investigations in total. The document says the search of case files was used to generate a list of names who then received a survey asking them exactly what they did on these cases. This is being viewed within the FBI as a retribution mission.

In an update, Ken Dilanian said that the list does not include names of the agents, rather, the agents were identified by a number called a “unique employee identifier.”

“The Justice Department, of course, can match the numbers with names on the payroll. But by leaving the names off, the FBI ensure that for now there is not a master list floating around of the names of people who worked on January 6th,” he said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/showdown-obama-judge-says-names-fbi-agents-involved/

TRAGIC

New leaked video shows the disturbing realization that 82-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell can barely walk after his fall yesterday.

Is it time for him to retire?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1866895862246543669

Netanyahu gives Trump ‘Hezbollah pager’ – media

The US president has reportedly described Israel’s devastating sting on the militant group’s network as a “tremendous operation”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented US President Donald Trump with a gold-plated pager during their meeting at the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, according to Israeli media. The gift, which was accompanied by a standard pager, is an apparent reference to Israel’s covert sabotage operation against Hezbollah.

Trump reacted to Netanyahu’s gift by calling the Israeli attacks a “tremendous operation,” media reports claimed. In return, he gave Netanyahu a signed photograph of their meeting, with the message: “To Bibi, a great leader.”

Thousands of pagers, primarily used by Hezbollah members, exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria on last September. The following day, hundreds of walkie-talkies detonated in a similar wave. The attacks reportedly resulted in at least 42 fatalities, including 12 civilians – and injured over thousands, including women and children.

The operation was widely attributed to Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and perceived as a preemptive strike. In the aftermath, Israel intensified its military campaign in Lebanon, culminating in the assassination of long-time Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a September 27 airstrike on Beirut.

In November, Netanyahu publicly acknowledged for the first time that Israeli intelligence was behind the sabotage. His spokesperson later confirmed that the prime minister had personally approved the pager operation.

Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit the White House since Trump’s return to office. Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom quoted a diplomatic source at the meeting as saying: “The relationship between Netanyahu and Trump has never been stronger or closer.”

At a joint press conference following the talks, Trump announced plans for the US to assume control of and rebuild Gaza, while resettling the enclave's two million residents elsewhere. Netanyahu responded positively to the proposal, describing it as a potentially historic move.

Trump’s declaration has triggered global condemnation, including by Germany, China, Iran, Türkiye, and Saudi Arabia, with human rights groups describing the plan as ethnic cleansing.

The UN human rights office said on Wednesday that any forcible transfer in or deportation of people from occupied territory is a violation of international law.

https://www.rt.com/news/612220-netanyahu-gifts-pagers-trump/

Virginia Residents Ask School To Overlook Trans Sex Offender Caught Naked In Girls’ Locker Room To Keep Gender Policy

Virginia residents are rallying against parents who spoke out about an Arlington Public Schools (APS) District policy that allowed a serial sex offender to watch young girls change in a high school locker room for months.

The transgender proponents called on the district to maintain its policy allowing men to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms if they claim to be transgender after many parents voiced their concerns at a Jan. 30 school board meeting, according to ABC 7 News. Registered sex offender Richard K. Cox was arrested in December 2024 after several people reported a naked man watching women in the changing room of the Arlington Aquatic Center, which shares facilities with Washington Liberty-High School in Arlington, Virginia.

The man claimed to be transgender and had been allowed in the locker room for months despite complaints dating back to September of 2024.

“The gender identity of the person who entered the pool locker room is completely irrelevant to this conversation,” one speaker said at the school board meeting.

Another said that since the pool is open to the public, anyone is allowed to enter whichever locker room they choose, and changing the policy would not prevent future occurrences of sex offenders watching young girls.

https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/04/virginia-residents-ask-school-overlook-transgender-sex-offender-caught-girls-locker-room/

Hegemony And Propaganda: Love Your Servitude!

Technological advancements are used to shape preferences and behaviour, and predictably, powerholders use the notion of convenience to manipulate and exert control over populations.

Today, we are witnessing a profound transformation. We are increasingly impacted by algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, data proliferation, data harvesting and sophisticated monitoring of how we think and act.

This affects how we work, how we access services and how we relate to and interact with others.

While digital innovations and online platforms offer unparalleled ease, they also raise critical concerns about our independence. The constant connectivity and data-driven decision-making that characterise modern life has major implications. Technological advancements are used to shape preferences and behaviour, and predictably, powerholders use the notion of convenience to manipulate and exert control over populations.

Giant corporations and the state are leveraging what is often termed ‘technological solutionism’ to establish a digital iron cage of control. By monitoring and predicting our thoughts and actions, these intertwined entities impose a tightening noose of automated systems, suffocating personal liberty.

We are increasingly hurtling toward a reality reminiscent of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, where a dystopian technocracy merges with a plutocracy. Huxley foresaw a society where the ruling class maintains control not through overt oppression but through subtle manipulation and distraction, effectively creating a system where people are conditioned to accept their servitude without resistance. In this emerging landscape, the values of order, conformity and compliance reign supreme, overshadowing individual freedoms and critical thought.

In agriculture, technocratic control is increasingly evident in the push for a ‘one-world agriculture’ dominated by AI, genetic engineering and precision farming, all under the sway of a few powerful corporations. Companies like Bayer, Cargill, Corteva, Syngenta, Microsoft and Amazon, along with influential investment firms that hold stock in companies throughout the agrifood chain, aim for the standardisation of food systems.

Their vision is a monopolistic, cloud-driven agricultural framework that prioritises control, dependency and uniformity over diversity and local practices. This approach threatens to reduce our food systems to an even blander, more standardised product line, stripping away traditional farming methods and local knowledge.

In culture as well, the trend is starkly toward standardisation. The goal is to dilute or erase traditional knowledge, local customs and diverse worldviews, creating a bland, uniform, AI-driven existence that can be easily controlled and manipulated. This push extends to a radical alteration of human biology itself through transhumanism.

The transhumanist agenda seeks to enhance human physical and cognitive capabilities through technology, aiming to transcend what it means to be human. This ambition aligns with the drive for a one-world agriculture, envisioning a standardised, technologically enhanced version of humanity (genetically engineered humans).

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/technology/hegemony-and-propaganda-love-your-servitude

Report: Jared Kushner Behind Trump’s Call for the US To ‘Take Over’ Gaza

Last year, Kushner said that Gaza's 'waterfront property could be very valuable'

The online news site Puck has reported that Jared Kushner was involved in crafting President Trump’s plan for the US to “take over” Gaza, which involves the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.

Citing Puck, The Times of Israel reported that Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, helped prepare the shock remarks the president made on Tuesday night during his press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Kushner, who has a long history of friendship with Netanyahu, served as an advisor to President Trump during his first term in office and was involved in negotiating the Abraham Accords, the deals that sought Israel’s regional integration without settling the issue of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.

Kushner, who has no official position in the current White House, remarked last year that Gaza’s waterfront property could be “very valuable” and said Palestinians should be removed from the territory, at least temporarily.

“Gaza’s waterfront property — it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said.

“It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but I think from Israel’s perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up … But I don’t think that Israel has stated that they don’t want the people to move back there afterward,” Kushner added.

President Trump would not rule out the idea of sending US troops to Gaza if “necessary.” Axios reported that Israeli officials visiting Washington felt “almost jubilant” by the announcement, and one official said it “exceeded all of our expectations and dreams.”

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/05/report-jared-kushner-behind-trumps-call-for-the-us-to-take-over-gaza/

Alongside Netanyahu, Trump Says Palestinians in Gaza Should Be Removed ‘Permanently’

The president said Palestinians could no longer live in Gaza due to the destruction caused by the US-backed Israeli bombing campaign

“You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years, it’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed,” Trump told reporters.

Trump’s repeated calls to “clean out” Palestinians from Gaza have raised fears that the US may support the ethnic cleansing of the territory, the ideal outcome for the Israeli government. Despite very strong opposition from Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab states, Trump has continued to double down on the idea.

Trump said at the White House that he believes Palestinians can be resettled in “areas where the leaders currently say no.” He said Palestinians could no longer live there due to the destruction caused by the US-backed Israeli bombing campaign and the threat of unexploded ordnances, among other things.

The president said repeatedly that the conditions in Gaza have been “like hell,” a result of the Israeli blockade that was first imposed on the Strip in 2007. “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. I think Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They’ve lived like hell, they’ve lived like you’re living in hell. Gaza is not a place for people to be living. And the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative,” he said.

When asked if Palestinians would have the right to return to Gaza, Trump said, “It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn’t want to return. Why would they want to return? That place has been hell.”

Israeli officials have welcomed Trump’s idea, which has overwhelming support among Jewish Israelis, and frame what would be ethnic cleansing as “voluntary migration.” But since Israel has made Gaza uninhabitable, Palestinians who don’t want to leave might have no choice but to go for their survival if given the option. Not only have the majority of residential buildings in Gaza been destroyed, but the infrastructure has also been completely shattered.

Regardless of the living situation in Gaza, removing the Palestinian population would face significant resistance from Hamas, which has replaced the fighters it has lost in the Israeli onslaught, according to US intelligence. A Hamas official said on Tuesday that Trump’s proposal was a “recipe for chaos” in the region.

“Our people in the Gaza Strip will not allow these plans to pass. What is required is an end to the occupation and aggression against our people, not their expulsion from their land,” said Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri, according to Al Jazeera.

Trump and Netanyahu met amid the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, and there’s a significant chance the genocidal war will restart as the Israeli leader is reportedly looking for US support not to implement the second phase of the deal. Netanyahu said his war goals still include the destruction of Hamas, which would be impossible if the full ceasefire deal is implemented.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/04/alongside-netanyahu-trump-says-palestinians-in-gaza-should-be-removed-permanently/

Countering Trump, Saudi Arabia says no Israel normalization without Palestinian state

In 4 a.m. statement, Riyadh says its ‘unwavering’ stance had been relayed to admin; PA envoy rejects Trump’s call to permanent relocate Gazans: ‘Our homeland is our homeland’

Saudi Arabia reiterated its stance against normalizing relations with Israel before a two-state solution has been reached, after US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Riyadh has not made the establishment of a Palestinian state a condition for a peace deal with Israel.

A statement from Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry said the kingdom’s stance in favor of a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 lines with East Jerusalem as its capital is “firm and unwavering.”

The statement was issued after 4 a.m. in Riyadh, demonstrating the urgency with which the kingdom felt in responding to Trump.

It noted that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stated as much in a speech last September, when he said Riyadh would not establish ties with Israel without this main condition met.

The statement carefully did not mention Trump by name, as Saudi Arabia and other countries around the world try to avoid crossing the US president at the start of his second term.

However, Saudi Arabia did stress that it had already conveyed its position against normalizing ties with Israel before a Palestinian state is established “to the previous US administration and the current administration.”

Non-Saudi officials and analysts alike, though, have long dismissed such statements from the kingdom, insisting that bin Salman is far more flexible on the issue in private and is only seeking the establishment of a “pathway” to Palestinian statehood before normalizing ties with Israel.

Still, those same officials and analysts acknowledge that Saudi Arabia has been seeking a much more irreversible pathway amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which has catapulted the Palestinian issue to the top of the international agenda.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/countering-trump-saudi-arabia-says-no-israel-normalization-without-palestinian-state/

Denying US and Israel are planning a strike, Trump says he wants a deal with Iran

US president urges that work on new nuclear pact start ‘immediately’; Iranian FM insists administration’s restoration of ‘maximum pressure’ policy ‘will turn into another failure’

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied the United States and Israel plan to carry out a military strike on Iran, instead saying he wants to make a new nuclear deal with Tehran and that work on the pact should start immediately.

“I want Iran to be a great and successful Country, but one that cannot have a Nuclear Weapon. Reports that the United States, working in conjunction with Israel, is going to blow Iran into smithereens, ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED,” Trump wrote, apparently in the middle of the night, on his Truth Social platform. It was unclear which reports he was referring to.

“I would much prefer a Verified Nuclear Peace Agreement, which will let Iran peacefully grow and prosper,” he wrote. “We should start working on it immediately, and have a big Middle East Celebration when it is signed and completed. God Bless the Middle East!”

The post echoed comments he made during a joint press conference the day before with visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said the two of them are committed to ensuring Tehran never has a nuclear weapon.

On Tuesday, Trump restored his “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran, including efforts to drive its oil exports down to zero, in an effort to stop the Islamic Republic from developing an atomic bomb.

Trump took exception to the idea that Iran is currently weak when it was suggested during his press conference with Netanyahu.

“They’re not weak. They’re very strong right now, and we’re not going to allow them to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “It’s very simple.”

“I signed a very strong proclamation,” he said. “Doesn’t mean they won’t be weak [in the future].”

‘A failed experiment’

Responding, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated Wednesday that the reimposition of a policy of heavy pressure against Iran will end in “failure” as it did when Trump was previously in office.

“I believe that maximum pressure is a failed experiment and trying it again will turn into another failure,” Araghchi told reporters following a cabinet meeting, while again claiming that Tehran was not pursuing nuclear weapons.

As part of the “maximum pressure” policy during his first term that ended in 2021, Trump withdrew the United States from a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and major powers and reimposed biting sanctions.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/denying-us-and-israel-are-planning-a-strike-trump-says-he-wants-a-deal-with-iran/

Well, to the people living large off of gov’t embezzlement and maybe facing jail time, it is very hostile.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/well-to-the-people-living-large-off-of-govt-embezzlement-and-maybe-facing-jail-time-it-is-very-hostile/