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January 26, 2025
Trump revokes security detail for Fauci
By Chris Pandolfo Fox NewsDr. Anthony Fauci had security provided by taxpayers due to threats received as the government’s top COVID-19 official.Trump says he ended Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detailPresident Donald Trump explains the decision to terminate Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail during a press conference.
President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday that he has terminated the security detail provided to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the taxpayer’s expense.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) requested security for Fauci in 2020 to protect him from threats he received as the top health official and public spokesperson during the COVID-19 pandemic. But that detail was pulled on Thursday night, CNN first reported.
Trump was asked about the decision Friday while visiting Asheville, North Carolina, to tour areas impacted by Hurricane Helene.
“I think, you know, when you work for government, at some point your security detail comes off and, you know, you can’t have them forever,” Trump said.“We took some off other people, too, but you can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government,” he added.
Trump earlier revoked the security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who had wrongly claimed that Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” as well as the details provided to former national security advisor John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Asked if he would feel partially responsible if something were to happen to Fauci or Bolton, Trump said he would not.
“No. You know, they all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security,” Trump said, adding that he knows several good security firms and “can give them some good numbers.”
“Certainly I would not take responsibility,” he said.
Former President Joe Biden offered a preemptive pardon to Fauci on his way out of office to shield him from Trump’s retribution. Though Trump had initially followed Fauci’s recommendations at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he began to criticize Fauci as the government’s pandemic response and recommendations proved to be unpopular.
Fauci served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022 and was the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022. Trump awarded presidential commendations to Fauci and other members of Operation Warp Speed in 2021 for their work to quickly develop coronavirus vaccines.
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Via https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-revokes-security-detail-fauci
Trump Reverses Course In Gaza, Now Says He Wants To Move Residents, Egypt Refuses
By L Todd Wood
President Trump stepped on a land mine yesterday when talking with reporters on Air Force One about the situation in Gaza.
The comments come after Hamas humiliated female IDF hostages yesterday by putting them on stage in a public act of vengeance.
Hamas has also refused to provide an accurate list of the remaining hostages in violation of the terms of the ceasefire. The agreement to end the conflict is now in jeopardy.
The President mentioned he has a plan to ask neighboring countries to take in the million and a half residents remaining in the bombed-out territory.
This is a shift from his previous pressure to allow Gazans to return to the northern sector since the ceasefire.
“I’d like Egypt to take people…You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over.”
“I spoke with the King of Jordan about the possibility of transferring Gazans to neighboring countries.”
“I told him to take more people because the Gaza Strip is in a real mess. I want Egypt to take in people too, and I will talk to Al-Sisi tomorrow.”
These comments provided fuel to progressive voices in the media.
The President has promised billions in aid if neighboring nations take in Gazans.
Egypt has already publicly refused.
The Gaza territory is essentially uninhabitable after massive Israeli bombing.
Trump also removed any restrictions the Biden administration had enacted against The Jewish State regarding weapons deliveries.
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Marco Rubio Exposes Biden Regime’s Cover-Up: Taliban Holds More American Hostages Than Reported
By Jim Hoft
Newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio raised alarms about the actual number of American hostages held by the Taliban—figures far greater than previously reported.
This disclosure, coming just days after the Secretary’s appointment, points to a disturbing possibility: Biden’s administration knew about the higher hostage counts but chose to hide this critical information from the public.
Marco Rubio, voicing his concerns on X, highlighted the dire situation: “Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported. If this is true, we need to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than the one we had on Bin Laden.”
Rubio’s did not specify the exact number of Americans still captive.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Anna Corbett, whose husband Ryan was held hostage by the Taliban, spoke to ‘Fox and Friends’ after her call with Joe Biden.
Corbett was upset after Joe Biden only gave her a few minutes. Anna said current U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz spoke with her for an hour outside at Mar-a-Lago.
She was hopeful Trump would be able to bring her husband home. Her husband has been held by the Taliban since 2022, after the Biden regime surrendered the country to the Taliban.
Joe Biden wanted to trade Ryan and two other Americans in exchange for Muhammad Rahim, an aide to Osama bin Laden, and one of the remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Just before Joe Biden ended his term in office, the U.S. freed an Afghan convicted of drug smuggling and extremism, Muhammad Rahim, for two American citizens.
Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty were the two Americans who were freed.
In 2021, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Biden regime and its woke generals abandoned thousands of Americans in Afghanistan, including up to 14,000 U.S. legal permanent residents (LPRs), during their quick escape from the terrorist-controlled country.
However, the exact number was difficult to determine due to challenges in tracking and the fluid nature of the situation.
“Isn’t the operating assumption about 14,000?” Republican Rep. Chris Smith asked Biden’s Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, Brian McKeon, during a hearing in 2021.
“We don’t track [legal permanent residents],” McKeon responded. “It’s a good question why we don’t,” he added
As many as 14,000 Americans were left to fend for themselves when Biden and the woke generals quickly fled the country due to their artificial timeline. This was an atrocity that was completely ignored by the legacy media, who worked overtime to prop up their friends at the Biden White House.
Meanwhile, approximately 124,000 Afghans were able to flee the country in August during ‘Operation Allies Refuge,’ one of the largest air evacuations of civilians in American history—most of them were unvetted.
This left approximately 9,000 Americans to fend for themselves under Taliban rule—a catastrophic failure largely ignored by mainstream media, which continued to shield the Biden administration.
According to the report at the time:
“On August 17, 2021, and at the height of evacuation efforts, senior State Department officials leading the evacuation task force indicated there were 10,000 to 15,000 Americans in Afghanistan, according to the F-77 report.
By August 31, when the president ordered an end to evacuation operations, State and DoD had evacuated approximately 6,000 American citizens. Even taking the most conservative estimates from the F-77 report, this meant the United States left at least a few thousand people behind.
However, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee in September, asserted that only a “small number” of American citizens, “approximately 100-150 remained in Afghanistan who still wished to depart.”
If Marco Rubio’s report is correct, Antony Blinken committed perjury in Congress. This story was ignored and quickly forgotten by the fake news legacy media. Like the Biden regime, they really didn’t care.
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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/marco-rubio-exposes-biden-regimes-cover-up-taliban/
January 25, 2025
Mexico refuses to accept US deportation flight as Trump’s immigration overhaul gets into full swing
” . . . yesterday Mexico accepted a record four deportation flights in one day! This comes in addition to unrestricted returns at the land border, the deportation of non-Mexicans and reinstatement of Remain-in-Mexico.”
Mexico refused to allow a plane carrying illegal migrants to land in the country on Thursday after President Trump dramatically beefed up security at the border and ordered mass raids and deportations since reclaiming the White House, according to military officials.
The deportation flight was blocked from leaving the US after two Air Force C-17 flights, each carrying about 80 deportees to Guatemala, successfully took off Thursday night, NBC reported, citing two defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation.
It was not immediately clear why Mexico blocked the plane, but tensions have flared between Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum since he threatened to slap 25% tariffs on Mexican goods in response to migrants illegally crossing the border.
A White House official told the outlet via text message that “the flights thing was an administrative issue and was quickly rectified.”
The flight rejection appeared to be confusion over the Department of Defense flight manifest, according to Fox News’ Bill Melugin, who cited a senior State Department official.
“Per the official, Mexico was full steam ahead to accept the deportations – and would have if there hadn’t been a misunderstanding regarding the paperwork,” he tweeted.
About 2,000 illegal migrants were deported to the country Thursday, with the nation detaining around 5,000 within its own borders, Melugin added.
As of Friday night, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made 593 arrests, with 449 detainers lodged, the agency posted on X.
Trump on Monday declared a national emergency at the US-Mexico border and restricted refugees and asylum, saying he wants to halt all illegal entry and border crime, designating cartels and organized migrant gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.
Federal officials swept into sanctuary cities, including Boston, Denver, Philadelphia and Atlanta, on Trump’s first full day in office on Tuesday, nabbing about 308 illegal migrant criminals from more than a dozen nations.
The Trump administration has dramatically loosened restrictions on how ICE can conduct deportation raids – removing bans on operating in courthouses, churches and other places that illegal migrants had previously been shielded from immigration authorities.
The 47th president has also deployed 1,500 active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border, with many given orders to fly helicopters to help Border Patrol agents and assist with constructing barriers, Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said Wednesday.
The use of military aircraft to carry out deportation flights is part of the Pentagon’s plan to fulfill Trump’s emergency declaration – marking the first time military planes have been used to transport deportees since President Dwight Eisenhower was in office, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed US official.
“Thanks to President Trump, yesterday Mexico accepted a record four deportation flights in one day! This comes in addition to unrestricted returns at the land border, the deportation of non-Mexicans and reinstatement of Remain-in-Mexico. Mexico has also mobilized 30,000 National Guard,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Post.
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Cyberattack on Ukraine Exposes Dangers of Digital ID Systems
Ukraine’s reliance on its new digital identity systems has become a warning about the dangers of digital ID, as a recent cyberattack exposed critical vulnerabilities in the country’s digital infrastructure.
Last month, several key government databases were taken offline, disrupting essential services like legal filings and marriage registrations. Officials assured citizens that the controversial Diia, the government’s widely used e-governance app, would soon be restored, but the incident laid bare significant risks within the app’s centralized backend platform, Trembita.
This breach, the most serious since Trembita’s launch in 2020, raises urgent questions about the security of Ukraine’s growing dependence on digital IDs and is a clear warning to other countries that are rushing to embrace the controversial tech.
Trembita, the platform enabling Diia’s operations, functions as a digital network connecting government databases. While officials insisted it operated as designed during the breach, cybersecurity experts are sounding alarms. Mykyta Knysh, a former Ukrainian security official, described the platform’s centralized architecture as a dangerous “single point of failure.” Warnings about these risks had surfaced before — security analysts cautioned in 2021 that consolidating sensitive personal and administrative data under Diia would leave Ukraine exposed to large-scale attacks.
The Russian hacking group XakNet has claimed responsibility for the attack.
This highlights a broader danger inherent in Ukraine’s ambitious digitalization efforts, spearheaded by the Ministry of Digital Transformation under the Zelensky administration.
While consolidating government services into the smartphone-based Diia app has streamlined access for millions of citizens, the breakneck pace of implementation has left little time to address critical security gaps.
The compromised registries contained highly sensitive data, including personal addresses, family connections, and financial assets.
Beyond military implications, the breach exposes the inherent risks of digital ID systems. Security analysts have pointed out that a central repository of personal data, as seen in Ukraine’s system, creates lucrative targets for hackers. If exploited, such data could fuel identity theft, phishing campaigns, or even more devastating cyberattacks, undermining public trust in digital governance.
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Via https://reclaimthenet.org/cyberattack-on-ukraine-exposes-the-dangers-of-digital-id-systems
Trump Orders 1,500 Active-Duty Troops to Border Ahead of Pentagon Security Plan Deadline
Texas Military Department soldiers, airmen, and state guardsmen guard the Texas-Mexico border as part of Operation Lonestar, Aug. 3, 2022. (Texas Military Department photo by Sgt. Jason Archer)By Konstantin Toropin and Thomas NovellyThe Pentagon is surging approximately 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern U.S. border under orders from President Donald Trump to assist in flying migrants out of the country as well as building barriers, as the commander in chief flexes his new authority and attempts to make good on a campaign promise to curb immigration into the country.
Those active-duty forces are made up of 1,000 Army soldiers and approximately 500 Marines. It also includes helicopters with associated crews and intelligence analysts “to support increased detection and monitoring efforts,” Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said in a statement.
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US Freezes All Foreign Aid – Including Ukraine Funding
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2025. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
by Katie LivingstoneThe US – the world’s largest foreign aid provider – abruptly froze nearly all overseas assistance on Friday, with exceptions only for emergency food relief and military funding to Israel and Egypt.The sweeping order, issued just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, appears to halt military assistance to Ukraine.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued an internal memo instructing all agencies to immediately suspend foreign aid programs unless explicitly approved by the new administration.
“No new funds shall be obligated for new awards or extensions of existing awards until each proposed new award or extension has been reviewed and approved,” said the memo, per AFP. The directive signals the administration’s aggressive pivot toward Trump’s “America First” foreign policy, which prioritizes domestic interests over international commitments.
Humanitarian aid to Ukraine likely to be hit by the Trump executive orderThe newly inaugurated president issued an executive order shortly after taking office on Monday instructing departments to pause the issuance of foreign aid grants for 90 days pending a review by the incoming secretary.
But Rubio’s guidance today goes further, directing agency heads to stop dispersing aid even to programs already approved by the US government.
The order caught some department officials off guard, according to Politico. “State just totally went nuclear on foreign assistance,” a State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the publication.
“Decisions whether to continue, modify or terminate programs will be made following the review” from the secretary,” the memo states.
One current State Department official and two former Biden administration officials confirmed to Politico that the freeze appears to impact key allies, including Ukraine, Jordan, and Taiwan.
The US has been one of Ukraine’s largest backers since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, making the suspension of aid particularly dangerous for Kyiv’s ability to continue defending its sovereign land.
While the freeze affects most US foreign aid, the memo explicitly carved out exceptions for military assistance to Israel and Egypt.
The US has long provided Israel with extensive security aid, a commitment that has only expanded amid the ongoing war in Gaza. Egypt, which has received substantial US defense funding since signing its 1979 peace treaty with Israel, also remains unaffected by the restrictions.
Rubio, who previously supported humanitarian aid, also maintained an exemption for US contributions to emergency food assistance.The in-depth assessment and aid suspension are necessary, according to Rubio, to assure that federal programs “are not duplicated, are effective, and are consistent with President Trump’s foreign policy.”
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Octopus Game Part IV – Hidden History of Palestine
The Octopus Game Part IV
Press TV (2024)
Film Review
This episode consists of three main threads. The first explores the continuity between the 1948 Zionist terrorist campaign against Christian and Muslim Palestinians and Israel’s current genocidal war against Gaza. Unlike the 1948 campaign of Zionist genocide, the current war on Gaza is garnering global media attention. The second thread traces the rise of the Palestinian resistance and Hamas. The third explores the early aftermath of Israel’s declaration of war against Gaza on October 8, 2023.
In 1948, some orders were so atrocious (such as killing children by cracking their skulls) that various Haganah members refused to carry them out. Input from Palestinian refugees the same year led the UN to call for a criminal investigation against the founders of the first Israeli government. Despite persistent claims that Palestinians refugees left their villages voluntarily before the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) arrived to occupy them, the Ben Gurion government finally ordered an investigation into the civilian massacres. After nearly 80 years, Israel has yet to release the report.
The Palestinian Resistance
In 1964, the Palestinian diaspora established the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) under the leadership of Yasser Arafat. After years of negotiation with the Israeli government, in 1993 the PLO signed an agreement (the Oslo Accords) to establish a Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza and to negotiate its evolution into a fully independent Palestinian state. Many Palestinians rejected this agreement as it denied the majority of Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homeland (it’s illegal under international law for an occupying power to drive indigenous people from their homeland). As a result many many Palestinians shifted their support from the secular PLO to Islamic Palestinian resistance groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
1999 – at Israel’s request, Jordanian government expels the Hamas leadership, who moves their headquarters to Qatar.2000 – Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon leads IDF troops into the sacred Al Axa mosque in Jerusalem,* triggering the first Intifada (Palestinian uprising)2001 – Hamas builds and fires the first Kazan rockets into the occupied territories (Israel), forcing them to adopt a comprehensive missile defense system (the Iron Dome) with US supplied missiles.2003 – Arafat falls ill and Mahmood Abba assumes leadership of the Palestinian authority.2004 – after numerous assassination attempts, Israel finally succeeds in assassinating Arafat.**2004 – Israel built separation barriers around illegal (under international law) Israeli settlements in occupied Gaza and the West Bank. The International Court of Justice also declares these barriers illegal under international law, a move endorsed by nearly the entire UN General Assembly.2005 – Israel withdraws the IDF from Gaza and dismantles all Israeli settlements there, exercising de facto control over Gaza (with Egyptian cooperation) through periodic blockades of food, water and electricity entering Gaza.2006 – in January the Palestinian Authority orders the first free election for the Palestinian Authority Legislative Council (representing both the West Bank and Gaza). Hamas wins 74 out of 132 seats. Israel responds by assassinating eight Hamas commanders.2007 – Israel carries out 22-day bombing campaign against Gaza, employing illegal white phosphorus and depleted uranium and killing 1,300 civiliansIsrael’s Current War on Gaza
October 8, 2023 – the US orders the aircraft carrier USS Gerald A Ford to the eastern Mediterranean
October 10, 2023 – Israel bombs Damascus and Aleppo (in Syria) and the Islamic University of Gaza in the West Bank. Israel also blocks humanitarian aid convoy attempting to enter Gaza at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
October 14 – the UN declares UN Refugee and Relief Assistance (UNRWA) shelters are no longer a safe zone for civilians as Israel is bombing them.
October 15 – Israel restores water and humanitarian food and medicine convoys via the Rafah crossing but makes food deliveries impossible by bombing them and the civilians they assist. The US government orders the USS Eisenhower to eastern Mediterranean.
*The October 7 Hamas attack on the Zionist musical festival was named for this event.
**Most likely with polonium. See The Assassination of Yassar Arafat
January 24, 2025
Trump to Halt Gain-of-Function Viral Research Via Executive Order
Ben Bartee
Of course, the big news comes with possibly an even bigger caveat: according to the WSJ’s source, bird flu might be exempt from the temporary ban, which would beg the question: why?
If the gain-of-function pause should apply to anything, it should be to the virus that the public health authorities have promised over and over and over would be the trigger for pandemic 2.0.
This is not a permanent ban, and ostensibly it does not apply to private-sector actors.
But let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth.
Via Wall Street Journal (emphasis added):
The Trump administration is preparing an executive order that would halt federal funding, at least temporarily, for a risky and controversial kind of research into viruses that makes the pathogens more dangerous or contagious.
The goal of the order would be to stop scientists with U.S. funding from conducting “gain-of-function” research on viruses that could endanger human health, people familiar with the plans said.
Some viruses, such as the H5N1 bird-flu pathogen, might be exempt from the order , one of the people said.
The order hasn’t been finalized, and its specifics are a work in progress , the person said.
*Some Republicans have blamed the Covid-19 pandemic on gain-of-function research . Defenders say it helps scientists assess the potential of pathogens to infect humans and find ways to combat them.
“Some Republicans” blame COVID-19 on gain-of-function research? How about various American spy agencies, the House Oversight Committee that did a two-year investigation into the issue, and “anyone with common sense”?
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Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft
By Yuval Abraham
Microsoft has a “footprint in all major military infrastructures” in Israel, and sales of the company’s cloud and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli army have skyrocketed since the beginning of its onslaught on Gaza, according to leaked commercial records from Israel’s Defense Ministry and files from Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary.
The documents reveal that dozens of units in the Israeli army have purchased services from Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, in recent months — including units in the air, ground, and naval forces, as well as the elite intelligence squad, Unit 8200. Microsoft has also provided the military with extensive access to OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model, the engine behind ChatGPT, thanks to the close partnership between the two companies.
These revelations are the product of an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call in collaboration with The Guardian. It is based in part on documents obtained by Drop Site News, which has published its own story. The investigation shows how the Israeli army deepened its reliance on civilian tech giants after October 7, and comes amid growing protests by cloud company employees who fear that the technology they developed has helped Israel commit war crimes.
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Via https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/
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