Canada #90

CHA-CHING! Financial Filings Reveal MASSIVE Grift at the Obama Foundation

by Mike LaChance Mar. 11, 2026

Newly released financial filings reveal that there are a lot of people making an absolute fortune off the Obama Foundation. Anyone who remembers the massive grift at the Clinton Foundation might feel like they’re taking a walk down memory lane.

Valerie Jarrett, a former Obama White House player who was central to his presidency, was making a cool $740,000 per year running the foundation. That’s more than the President of the United States makes in a year.

Other figures were also pulling in huge six-figure salaries and the number of employees has ballooned to more than 300 people.

Obama has become an industry unto himself and everyone in his orbit is cashing in, big time.

FOX News reports:

Valerie Jarrett earned $740K as Obama insiders filled top roles during $850M presidential center build

As construction nears completion on the long-delayed $850 million Obama Presidential Center, federal tax filings show the Obama Foundation paid CEO Valerie Jarrett $740,000 in 2024 while several former Obama White House officials collected six-figure salaries as foundation executives.

The Obama Foundation — which will operate the 19.3-acre center on publicly owned Chicago parkland — paid its CEO more than any other major presidential foundation. Salaries and benefits soared from $18.5 million in 2018 to $43.7 million in 2024, as staffing expanded to 337 employees and annual revenue reached nearly $210 million.

Jarrett, one of the Obamas’ closest advisors, took over as CEO in 2021 and is among six of the foundation’s 10 highest-paid executives who previously held senior roles in the Obama administration or campaign, according to a review of the foundation’s tax filings from 2018 to 2024.

“Illinois Democrats are truly living their best lives — making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help design the ugliest building in Chicago,” Illinois GOP Chairman Kathy Salvi told Fox News. “Their jaw-dropping salaries prove that Illinois’ culture of corruption is alive and well as Barack Obama’s top allies rake in the cash.”

Despite all of this heavy spending, the new Obama Center is looking for volunteers.

ABC News in Chicago reports:

Foundation looking for Obama Presidential Center volunteers

Plans for the opening of the Obama Presidential Center are moving forward.

On Tuesday, a new opportunity for Chicagoans to get involved was announced.

Valerie Jarrett, the CEO of the Obama Foundation, addressed City Club members on Tuesday…

Jarrett said they are now looking for local volunteers.

“A big part of how we are going to interface with the public is through volunteers so we announced today that we are going to be recruiting 75 to 100 volunteer that will be our ambassadors,” Jarrett said.

Massive salaries are for the important people. The peasants are expected to volunteer their time.

How perfect.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/cha-ching-financial-filings-reveal-massive-grift-obama/

Canada #90

Conquered: NYC Firefighters Angry After Bosses, Muslim Firefighters Make Startling Change to 9/11 Memorial Area for Ramadan

by Samuel Short, The Western Journal Mar. 12, 2026

In an insensitive, if not outright brazen display of disrespect for the firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11, Muslims placed their prayer mats right in front of a plaque at the Fire Department of New York’s headquarters that memorializes the 343 dead.

Independent reporter Susan Edelman wrote about the prayer rugs, circulating a picture of them.

For context, FDNY Islamic Society hosted an iftar last week – a breaking of the Ramadan fast with an evening meal.

Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore and Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended, along with an estimated 125 employees and guests.

According to Edelman, this event has taken place for years, using the FDNY auditorium at the Metrotech Plaza as a venue.

However, Edelman said, this appears to have been the first time prayer rugs were put in the lobby next to the plaque.

Another plaque is out of the shot, listing the 409 firefighters who died of various illnesses as a result of their heroism that day.

New York Republican Councilwoman Joann Ariola reportedly had over 20 complaints come to her office from 9/11 first responders and relatives upon learning about the event.

One current firefighter said, “As someone who respects the sacrifices made by all FDNY members, I believe the Muslim group involved, along with city leadership (including the Mayor), showed a real lack of sensitivity.”

The firefighter added that “the auditorium, already in use as a dining hall, could easily have served a dual purpose for any ritual or gathering — keeping the memorial lobby untouched and focused on its solemn role.”

“We owe it to the fallen and their families to treat that space with the utmost respect and inclusivity that truly honors everyone who served.”

The FDNY posted about the evening on social media platform X.

Canadian Professor of Marketing Gad Saad has written about suicidal empathy as an explanation for the West’s willful decline.

The Gladstone Institute summed up Saad’s theory as follows: “Empathy becomes misdirected into a type of benevolent altruism that prioritizes the perceived feelings and needs of ‘marginalized’ or external groups at the expense of the survival, security, and interests of one’s own group and its values. The outcome is the weakening, and ultimately the destruction, of the very civilization that expressed this emotion.”

It’s this type of empathy that is leading the United States in 2026 to embrace a people who seek to subjugate non-Muslims.

Naive Westerners believe that Muslims are tolerant and seek the same ends that so many others do — religious tolerance, peaceful coexistence, and equal terms.

But to understand Islam, simply read the Quran.

Quran 9:29 reads, “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Christians and Jews], until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”

These people lie to our faces, even after their history, their theology, and countless recent examples show who they are.

Western stupidity is Islam’s greatest ally.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/conquered-nyc-firefighters-angry-bosses-muslim-firefighters-make/

>>24373106

Elections are not how they operate

>>24373164

>could not get much more American if i tried

Not buying it

>>24373254

So timesofisrael, jpost, and haaretz in the same bread again?

Cute

>>24373304

Canada #90

In From The Cold Already: Putin Envoy Met With US Team On Energy Markets Crisis

by Tyler Durden Thursday, Mar 12, 2026

With the globe's attention focused on the now almost two week long ongoing Iran war, Moscow is busy in the sidelines making strides to improve bilateral relations with the United States, while demonstrating how vital Russia is to global energy markets.

Kirill Dmitriev, Putin's directly appointed special envoy, held a meeting in the US "with the heads of the working group on economic cooperation between Russia and the United States," according to his Telegram statement and fresh reporting in Bloomberg.

Dmitriev and US officials discussed "promising projects that could contribute to the restoration of Russian-American relations, as well as the current crisis in global energy markets" - according to the top Kremlin official's statement.

More to come as the world recognizes Russia as a must-have supplier of energy. https://t.co/YnIlEhm25b

— Kirill Dmitriev (@kadmitriev) March 6, 2026

The US-Russia meeting comes on the heels of Washington having declared a temporary ease in targeted energy sanctions earlier in the Iran conflict, allowing India to buy Russian oil currently stranded at sea.

The US Treasury Department Secretary described the one-month waiver as a "deliberate short-term measure" to allow oil to keep flowing in the global market, in an effort to free up millions of barrels of oil and gas stuck in transit near the Strait of Hormuz.

The ongoing blockage of the strait impacts nearly half of all Indian oil and gas imports. Meanwhile, overnight Reuters has reported that "Iran has laid about a dozen mines in Strait of Hormuz, sources say."

Amid the energy market mayhem and deep uncertainly, Dmitriev is offering Russia as a key partner in stabilizing the energy crisis:

"Many countries, especially the United States, are beginning to better understand the key, systemically important role of Russian oil and gas in ensuring global economic stability, as well as the ineffectiveness and destructive nature of sanctions against Russia," Dmitriev stated.

With the Iran war and energy in the foreground, the over four-year long Russia-Ukraine war has largely receded into the background, in terms of global media coverage.

Moscow likely sees this as a great advantage - no longer facing the same avalanche of pressure and daily Washington condemnation. Now, it's more likely to be that the Trump administration needs Russia if it hopes to manage oil prices and the fallout from Trump's Iran gambit.

Dmitriev has also recently stated that everything happening with oil prices demonstrates that "sanctions do not work and are counterproductive."

More:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cold-already-putin-envoy-met-us-team-energy-markets-crisis

>>24373440

>blustering about an Attack

Keeps the normies from remembering Valero is shutting down the Benicia refinery by the end of next month

>>24373454 (me)

California State Gas Averages Regular $5.368 Mid-Grade $5.589 Premium $5.774 Diesel $6.209

https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/

>>24373455

Dear Nathan

At first it was a "girl's school" and then it was a "girl's technical school" now it's just an "elementary school"

Good News!

The pulled-pork barbeque place across the street is fine

Canada #90

“What Kind of Fcking Bullsht is This?” – Megyn Kelly GOES OFF After Catching 60 Minutes Fraudulently Splicing Pete Hegseth Interview to Push Pro-Israel Narrative

by Jordan Conradson Mar. 12, 2026

Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly went off this week on CBS and Bari Weiss this week, saying they “just cannot seem to help themselves making deceptive edits” after they spliced an interview with Pete Hegseth to misrepresent his comments and run cover for the foreign state of Israel.

“They do not give a sh*t about misleading you over at CBS, the old CBS, or the new CBS, which has a brand new agenda,” Kelly said, accusing CBS of “trying to shove Israel into the debate” by completely changing the framing of a question in post-interview edits.

CBS and its parent company, Paramount, were previously forced to pay millions of dollars to President Trump and agreed to change their editorial policy in a settlement with President Trump following the infamous edited “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris in 2024.

Last year, the network and its parent company were acquired by Skydance Media, led by David Ellison, the son of billionaire Larry Ellison. Skydance is now one of the world’s largest and most powerful media conglomerates, controlling CNN, CBS, HBO, MTV, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Showtime, TNT, TBS, Adult Swim, and more, following the acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery after Netflix pulled out of a bidding war with Paramount Skydance. Netflix notably pulled out, allowing Skydance to proceed with the deal, after Attorney General Pam Bondi opened an antitrust inquiry into Warner’s already agreed-upon deal with Netflix.

Under Ellison and Skydance, the Free Press co-founder Bari Weiss now serves as CBS’s new editor in chief.

So, naturally, with Trump allies taking over the media landscape, you’d expect the media to be fairer and more honest, but it appears that’s not the case.

In a recent interview with Hegseth, CBS used tactics similar to those previously used with Kamala Harris. They altered the question posed to Hegseth, making it appear that he was defending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s prosecution of the war in Iran, which Hegseth has admitted isn’t always in alignment with US objectives.

“Do you want to address that criticism?” host Major Garrett asks Hegseth after a narrator says, “Some normally enthusiastic supporters of the President have criticized him, suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the US into a war that, to their minds, did not put American interests first.”

Then, as if Hegseth was defending Netanyahu and Israel, in response to arguments that Israel pulled the US into the war, the clip then shows Hegseth telling Garrett, “All I know is, I’m in the room every day, and I see how President Trump operates and what he’s putting first, and it’s America, Americans, and American interests.”

But in the full unedited version of the interview, Hegseth is asked about unspecified criticisms, several of which have nothing to do with Israel, from some on the right, not about Israel or Netanyahu. He goes on to defend the Trump Administration’s actions in Iran with no mention of Israel.

More:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/what-kind-fcking-bullsht-is-this-megyn-kelly/