Anonymous ID: cf0489 Feb. 6, 2025, 9:01 p.m. No.22529434   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy leads, manages, and oversees the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Through PEPFAR, the U.S. government has invested over $110 billion in the global HIV/AIDS response, the largest commitment by any nation to address a single disease in history – saving 26 million lives, preventing millions of HIV infections, and accelerating progress toward controlling the global HIV/AIDS pandemic in more than 50 countries.

Anonymous ID: cf0489 Feb. 6, 2025, 9:30 p.m. No.22529562   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9572

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/chinese-secret-police-station-rcmp-lawsuit

Chinese groups in Montreal threaten to sue RCMP over ’secret police station’ allegations

Anonymous ID: cf0489 Feb. 6, 2025, 9:35 p.m. No.22529587   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Ronald Wyden was born in Wichita, Kansas, the son of Edith (née Rosenow) and Peter H. Wyden (originally Weidenreich, 1923–1998), both of whom were Jewish and had fled Nazi Germany.

Anonymous ID: cf0489 Feb. 6, 2025, 10:08 p.m. No.22529711   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9735 >>9764

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/usda-inspector-general-escorted-out-her-office-after-defying-white-house-2025-01-29/

USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House

Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the department, had earlier told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her Friday, saying that she didn’t believe the administration had followed proper protocols, the sources said.

In an email to colleagues on Saturday, reviewed by Reuters, she said the independent Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency “has taken the position that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time.”

Fong declined to comment and the Office of the Inspector General did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

After this article was published, a USDA spokesperson said Fong left the office Monday on her own accord.

"She was accompanied by two friends who she paused to take selfies with on her way out. Security officials did not play any role in her departure,” the spokesperson said.

The White House defended the firing of Fong and the other inspectors general, saying "these rogue, partisan bureaucrats… have been relieved of their duties in order to make room for qualified individuals who will uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy."

The USDA inspector general has a broad mandate, pursuing consumer food safety, audits and investigations of the Agriculture Department as well as violations of animal welfare laws. The USDA has been at the heart of concerns about bird flu, which has spread among cattle and chickens and killed a person in Louisiana.

In 2022, the inspector general’s office launched an investigation of Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, which remains ongoing, sources said. In recent years, the office has also taken on animal abuse at dog breeders for research labs and the listeria outbreak at Boar’s Head, among other issues.

Musk spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help President Donald Trump get elected in November and has emerged as a key player in the president’s orbit.

Fong was among the 17 federal watchdogs fired by Trump on Friday in what critics described as a Friday-night purge. Speaking to reporters afterwards aboard Air Force One, Trump defended the move saying "it’s a very common thing to do." He did not say who would be installed in the vacant posts.

The dismissals, handed out less than a week after Trump took office for his second term, appeared to violate federal law, the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency said in a letter to the White House on Friday.

Fong served as the first chairperson of CIGIE from 2008 through 2014, according to her biography on USDA’s website.

In response to the Reuters story, Senator Mazie Hirono criticized Trump's firing of the watchdogs.

"Egg prices are soaring. Bird flu is out of control. USDA should be fixing this problem. Instead, Trump is stacking the federal government with yes-men. He doesn’t care about your grocery prices," she wrote on X.

Anonymous ID: cf0489 Feb. 6, 2025, 10:42 p.m. No.22529889   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9911 >>9942 >>9947 >>9950

https://globalnews.ca/news/10982178/que-nygard-trial/

Preliminary hearing in Montreal for Peter Nygard, charged in alleged sex assault

Former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard appeared in a Montreal courtroom remotely on Tuesday for the first of a two-day preliminary hearing on one count of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement.

Nygard, the founder of a defunct international women’s clothing company, is facing trial for incidents that allegedly took place between Nov. 1, 1997, and Nov. 15, 1998. The alleged victim’s identity and the evidence being presented this week in Quebec court are subject to a publication ban. Quebec prosecutors charged Nygard in March 2022.

A judge has permitted Nygard, 83, to appear remotely from a federal institution in Ontario where he is serving time. The founder of Nygard International was wheeled into a room in a wheelchair, wearing a heavy coat, a ball cap and glasses.

Anonymous ID: cf0489 Feb. 6, 2025, 10:52 p.m. No.22529941   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://apnews.com/article/pizzagate-gunman-dead-police-shooting-north-carolina-81f0383fb55587350576b8265b7b5dd5

‘Pizzagate’ gunman killed by police in North Carolina after traffic stop, authorities say

Anonymous ID: cf0489 Feb. 6, 2025, 11:14 p.m. No.22530057   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,

And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

 

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime

 

Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

 

In all my dreams before my helpless sight

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

 

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer,

Bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,–

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.