>>22563081 Catalyst Montana Funding Prompts Calls For State InquiryPN(this is why posting a headline and link is never the story, at least post a couple of paragraphs. Please BO and Bakers, can you make a requirement with headline, line to include at least a couple of paragraphs)

February 11, 2025

According to publicly available grant data from USAID,the leftwing Montana Human Rights Network—rebranded Catalyst Montana—received 71% of its funding through taxpayer grants.

By Roy McKenzie, Republished with permission from Western Montana News.

According to publicly available grant data from the USAID, the Montana Human Rights Network received 71% of its funding through taxpayer grants.

In May 2023, Western Montana News contributor Casey Whalen reported on allegations that theMontana Human Rights Network—now operating as Catalyst Montana—attempted to “hijack and silence” conservative media outlets. Fresh scrutiny of the leftwing organization emergedlast week on the heels of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency audit of payouts made by USAID. Publicly available USAID grant data revealed that Catalyst Montana derived roughly 71% of itsrevenue(about $735,117) from federal taxpayer funds, in addition to receiving$30,000 from the Transgender Law Center, $38,000 from the Tides Foundation, and $60,000 from the Windward Fund.

These figures prompted U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary Jeremy Carl tocall for Montana Governor Greg Gianforte to investigate the organization’s funding. “[I] hope @GovGianforte or someone on his staff looks into this,” Carl posted on X.Critics say the heavy reliance on federal taxpayer funding warrants deeper scrutiny.

On its website, Catalyst Montana outlines four primary programs financed by taxpayer funds:community organizing, policy advocacy, research, and leadership development=. The organization also provides a “Hate Incident Report Form” as part of its efforts to document and respond to so-called “hate activity.” The research the leftwing organization engages in involves targeting individual Montanan’s for what the organization deems as wrongthink==. The research section on Catalyst Montana’s website states:

“At the root of injustice is white supremacy and settler-colonialism. At Catalyst Montana, we research and track organizations andindividuals who promote white nationalism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and nativism. We also provide resources and support to community members to respond, dismantle, and reject hate.”Catalyst Montana website. Accessed February 10, 2025.

Catalyst Montana, under its former name Montana Human Rights Network, has long been a go-to source for local media when covering issues of alleged racism or extremism. In 2022, an articlepublished by Montana NBC affiliateKTVH covering a rally at the Montana Capitol in support of Jan. 6th prisoners recently pardoned by President Trump,MHRN Program Director Travis McAdams stated that the prisoners “literally and physically tried to overthrow the federal government.” He added, “Anytime you have an event that is celebrating people basically taking actions to overthrow the government, that’s concerning.” Critics argue MHRN is often tapped by reporters looking to characterize certain conservative actions as threatening or extremist.

As of this publication, Catalyst Montana has not released an official statement addressing concerns about its funding or its public comments.

(I lived in MT for 5 years, its beautiful, friendly, everyone has a gun, and very, very few libs, mostly conservative downhome loving and caring people. All the goals of this org above is what Obama did in Chicago. Accusing anyone there of all the lies is they are trying to destroy MT. And I would almost guarantee they radical liberals sending people from the thousands from CA (just like they are doing to GA) to move in and infiltrate the real culture of MT to turn it blue, John Tester that was not re-elected is probably involved in.)

https://montanasentinel.press/2025/02/11/catalyst-montana-funding-prompts-calls-for-state-inquiry

Zelenskyy: Europe cannot guarantee Ukraine’s security without America

Exclusive: In extended interview with the Guardian, Ukraine’s president says he will offer US firms lucrative reconstruction contracts to try to get Trump onside1/3Shaun Walker in Kyiv

Tue 11 Feb 2025 09.00 EST

(Big statement from the Guardian at the bottom of the article, with three paragraphs following:Why you can rely on the Guardian not to bow to Trump – or anyoneBoris Johnson is planning on making a lot of money at US expense in Ukriane. Zelensky has killed over a million of Ukrainians and severely disable about 700,000 for the money the Bidan's and he could make I despise this asshole and liar)

If Donald Trump withdraws US support for Ukraine, Europe alone will be unable to fill the gap, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned, on the eve of what could be his most consequential diplomatic trip since Russia’s full-scale invasion three years ago.

“There are voices which say that Europe could offer security guarantees without the Americans, and I always say no,” said the Ukrainian president during an hour-long interview with the Guardian at the presidential administration in Kyiv. “Security guarantees without America are not real security guarantees,” he added.

Trump has said he wants to end the war in Ukraine, but sceptics fear that a US-brokered deal could involve forcing Ukraine to capitulate to Vladimir Putin’s maximalist demands. Zelenskyy said he was ready to negotiate, but wanted Ukraine to do so from a “position of strength”, and said he would offer American companies lucrative reconstruction contracts and investment concessions to try to get Trump onside.

“Those who are helping us to save Ukraine will [have the chance to] renovate it, with their businesses together with Ukrainian businesses. All these things we are ready to speak about in detail,” he said.

Zelenskyy will travel to the Munich Security Conference later this week, wherehe expects to meet the US vice-president, JD Vance, one of the most hostile towards Ukraine among Trump’s inner circle. At last year’s conference, Vance, then a senator, refused to meet Zelenskyy, and he has previously said he does not “really care what happens to Ukraine, one way or the other”. (That's why I respect Vance)

Zelenskyy also plans to meet other members of Trump’s team as well as influential senators in Munich, but there is “not yet a date” to meet Trump himself, he said, although his team is working to fix one. Trump said over the weekend that he would “probably” meet Zelenskyy this week, and it is possible that the Ukrainian president could fly to Washington from Munich.

“We are hoping that our teams will fix a date and a plan of meetings in the US; as soon as it is agreed, we are ready, I am ready,” he said.

Zelenskyy switched between Ukrainian and English to make his points during the interview, conducted on Monday afternoon in a lavishly decorated room inside the heavily fortified administration building in central Kyiv.

During the first phase of the full-scale invasion, his communication skills and passionate pleas were credited with forcing reluctant western leaders to back Ukraine with weapons and financial support. Now, in Trump, Zelenskyy faces a new challenge, with a major sceptic on continuing support for Kyiv becoming the leader of the country’s biggest ally.

We are talking not only about security, but also about money …

In a Fox News interview aired late on Monday, Trump said the US had spent hundreds of billions of dollars on Ukraine in recent years. “They may make a deal, they may not make a deal, they may be Russian some day, they may not be Russian some day, but we’re gonna have all this money in there and I said I want it back,” said Trump.

It means that along with Zelenskyy’s oft-heard messages about the geopolitical and moral risks of allowing Russia to prevail in Ukraine, he has added some new ones, tailor-made for the US president. Most notable is the idea that the US will get priority access to Ukraine’s “rare earths”, a prospect that has piqued Trump’s interest enough for him to mention it several times in recent media appearances. Trump on Tuesday said he was dispatching US treasury secretary Scott Bessent to Ukraine, which was reported by Reuters to discuss rare earth mineral resources.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/zelenskyy-europe-cannot-guarantee-ukraines-security-without-america

>>22566565

Another Scam by Europe to draw America into their shit and we have to pay it all. BTW Zelensky has NO idea what PDJT is like, his comments are insulting and disrespectful

2/3Zelenskyy said he pitched this idea to Trump back in September, when the pair met in New York, and he intends to return with “a more detailed plan” about opportunities for US companies both in the reconstruction of postwar Ukraine and in the extraction of Ukrainian natural resources.

Ukraine has the biggest uranium and titanium reserves in Europe, said Zelenskyy, and it was “not in the interests of the United States” for these reserves to be in Russian hands and potentially shared with North Korea, China or Iran.

But there was a financial incentive, too, he said: “We are talking not only about security, but also about money … Valuable natural resources where we can offer our partners possibilities that didn’t exist before to invest in them … For us it will create jobs, for American companies it will create profits.”

Zelenskyy said it was crucial for Ukraine’s security that US military support continued, giving the example of US-made Patriot air defence systems. (Fuck You, our soldiers are working those arms, because Ukrainians have not knowledge and our soldiers of America are dying for your fucking greedy war) “Only Patriot can defend us against all kinds of missiles, only Patriots. There are other [European] systems … but they cannot provide full protection … So even from this small example you can see that without America, security guarantees cannot be complete,” he said.

The first weeks of Trump’s presidency have given Ukrainians plenty to worry about. There was the global freeze on USAid projects, which in Ukraine torpedoed hundreds of organisations working on everything from army veterans to schools and bomb shelters. Then, there was Trump’s admission in an interview with the New York Post over the weekend that he had already spoken to Putin by telephone in an attempt to begin negotiations. When asked how many times, he said only: “I’d better not say.”

Zelenskyy said it was “very important” that the US president met a Ukrainian delegation before meeting Putin, but stopped short of criticising Trump for his opaque statements. “Clearly he doesn’t really want everyone to know the details, and that’s his personal decision,” he said.

Zelenskyy is used to treading carefully when it comes to Trump; soon after he was elected in 2019 he was reluctantly sucked into a US impeachment drama (LIAR!) over a phone call between the two presidents. Now, he again finds himself walking a diplomatic tightrope, with Ukraine’s survival potentially dependent on the US president’s decision to continue support.

On the USAid freeze, Zelenskyy said: “We aren’t going to complain that some programmes have been frozen, because the most important thing for us is the military aid and that has been preserved, for which I’m grateful … If the American side has the possibility and desire to continue its humanitarian mission, we are fully for it, and if it doesn’t, then we will find our own way out of this situation.”

Trump’s public pronouncements on Ukraine so far have been fragmented and often contradictory, but one theme that has prevailed is that while he wants to make a deal to end the war, Europe should be responsible for maintaining the peace afterwards. In response, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has floated the idea of a European peacekeeping force that could be deployed to Ukraine at some point after a ceasefire deal. Zelenskyy said such a mission would only work if it was deployed at scale.

“When it comes to Emmanuel’s idea, if it’s part [of a security guarantee] then yes, if there will be 100-150,000 European troops, then yes. But even then we wouldn’t be at the same level of troops as the Russian army that is opposing us,” he said.

Europe is still a long way from agreeing to deploy combat-ready troops to Ukraine, a move that Putin would be unlikely to agree to in negotiations, and Zelenskyy said a softer peacekeeping mission would be unlikely to work unless it came with guarantees that it would stand against Russia if Moscow resumed hostilities.

“I will be open with you, I don’t think that UN troops or anything similar has ever really helped anyone in history. Today we can’t really support this idea.

We are for a [peacekeeping] contingent if it is part of a security guarantee, and I would underline again that without America this is impossible,” he added.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/zelenskyy-europe-cannot-guarantee-ukraines-security-without-america

>>22566598

3/3

If Trump does manage to get Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table, Zelenskyy said he planned to offer Russia a straight territory exchange, giving up land Kyiv has held in Russia’s Kursk region since the launch of a surprise offensive there six months ago.

“We will swap one territory for another,” he said, but added that he did not know which part of Russian-occupied land Ukraine would ask for in return. “I don’t know, we will see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority,” he said. (You lost the war a long time ago asshole)

As Zelenskyy turns his attention to Trump-whispering, he said it was still too early to pass judgment on the previous administration.Relations between Kyiv and Washington were said to be increasingly frosty as Zelenskyy’s team grew frustrated with Joe Biden’s focus on managing the risks of escalation. (He's blaming Bidan now, especially when Z worked to overthrow 2020 election, and stated publicly he hates Trump, and Z willingly sent a 1,000,000 of their young men to death! God please give Z his full karma)

Asked whether he thought Biden would go down in history as the man who helped save Ukraine, or the man who responded too slowly to meet the challenge from Putin, Zelenskyy laughed and said it was “very difficult” to say at this stage.

He criticised Biden’s initial unwillingness to provide Ukraine with weapons – “this lack of confidence gave confidence to Russia” – but said Ukraine was grateful for all the help that followed.

The full evaluation, he said, would only emerge with time: “History shows that there are many things that you just don’t know, what happened behind the scenes, what negotiations there were … it’s hard to characterise it all today because we don’t know everything. Later we will know, we will know everything.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/zelenskyy-europe-cannot-guarantee-ukraines-security-without-america

>>22566630

Good Night Anons, should have left an hour ago, but this article pissed me off so much, I had to pass it on to you:)