80 Years After WWII, US Taxpayers Fund Europe's Authoritarianism

The United States has protected and bailed out Europe for far too long. - Hayden Daniel 

May 8, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the Allies’ triumph over Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. 

Through Lend Lease and the destroyers-for-bases scheme, we had become involved in the European war much earlier than Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States on December 11, 1941...
Once the war ended, the U.S. decided to maintain a military presence on the Continent and extend its protective hegemony over Western Europe for two reasons...
And we’re still there today. 

• But if you look at the state of the Continent now, it’s hard to justify our continued presence and support. 
• We stormed the beaches of Normandy to rid Europe of tyranny, but in the decades since, the continent has succumbed to a wave of left-wing authoritarianism...

#1 This day 1975-----He don't love you like I love you Tony Orlando & Dawn 1975

America needs MORE DOGE!-----Former Army Civilian Employee Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for $100 Million Fraud Scheme | United States Department of Justice

Janet Yamanaka Mello, the civilian Army employee who stole over $108 million from a grant program designed to provide services to military dependents and their families was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for five counts of mail fraud and five counts of filing a false tax return.

• In or around December 2016 through at least August 29, 2023, Mello formed a business she called Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development (CHYLD). 
• The sole purpose of CHYLD was to receive grant funds from the 4-H Military Partnership Grant program, which Mello fraudulently secured by way of her position as a CYS financial program manager.

Once Mello received a grant check, she deposited the check into her bank account, spending the money on clothing, jewelry, vehicles and real estate...

The people are learning!

 

Dems' favorite MS-13 associate ran human trafficking operations, says ex-boss | Blaze Media

Dems' favorite MS-13 associate ran human trafficking operations, says ex-boss | Blaze Media: 

Abrego Garcia's illegal entry into the U.S., his failure to appear for hearings on traffic violations, the domestic abuse allegations lodged against him, his links to a terrorist gang, and his identification by two immigration courts as a danger to the community were likely already cause enough to justify his deportation and to question his Democratic defenders' judgment. However, more damning information has come to light. In the wake of the Tennessee Star's publication of footage showing Abrego Garcia's Nov. 30, 2022, encounter with Tennessee Highway Patrol and confirmation of the Department of Justice's investigation into the traffic stop, ABC News reported that the Salvadoran's boss has outed him as an human trafficker.

CFTC 'Staff' Placed on Leave Amid Investigation Beege Welborn

"I’m disturbed by the many accounts of serious misconduct by former union leadership in this report —including a lengthy scheme to defraud the American taxpayer over many years..."  - Beege Welborn
Seemed noteworthy at the time, but there wasn't a lot of information besides what was actually IN the announcement itself.

The government's Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulates the commodities and derivatives markets.

...the CFTC has placed staff on administrative leave for potential violations of laws, government ethics requirements and professional rules of conduct. Investigations are currently ongoing into these matters and the CFTC will provide updates as appropriate. 

What sort of hanky-panky was going on, and how did they find it?...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 9

History for May 9 - On-This-Day.com

Henry J. Kaiser 1882

• 1914 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a joint congressional resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
• 1926 - Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly an airplane over the North Pole.
• 1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.
• 1980 - A Liberian freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida. Thirty-five motorists were killed and a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed.
• 1996 - In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, AR, U.S. President Clinton insisted that he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.

Imported degrees, exported jobs: How America's student visa system became a foreign labor pipeline * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta

Imported degrees, exported jobs: How America's student visa system became a foreign labor pipeline * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta: 

WASHINGTON – Originally intended to support academic exchange, U.S. student visa programs have gradually been expanded and transformed into large-scale foreign labor channels, all to the detriment of multitudes of American workers.

The way we were-----J'accuse! The History of the Dreyfus Affair

Kashmir tension soars after India launches missiles at Pakistan

Commies gonna commie - by Tom Knighton

Commies have got to spy on capitalists because communists can’t create, only steal. - Tom Knighton

And while China might produce low-cost stuff and have something resembling private ownership to some degree, at heart, they’re still commies and they’re still eager to steal stuff from the West.
Which Stanford has been reminded of.

This summer, a CCP agent impersonated a Stanford student.
Under the alias Charles Chen, he approached several students through social media.
Anna*, a Stanford student conducting sensitive research on China, began receiving unexpected messages from Charles Chen.
At first, Charles's outreach seemed benign: he asked about networking opportunities.
But soon, his messages took a strange turn...

After interviewing multiple anonymous Stanford faculty, students, and China experts, we can confirm that the CCP is orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign at Stanford. 

In short, “there are Chinese spies at Stanford.”...
The problem is that, as the experts noted, China is looking for “sympathetic Stanford students.”

• In this day and age, that’s not exactly difficult...

NGOs Are "The Biggest Scam Ever" As Another $20 Million Grant of Inflation Reduction Act Funds Illustrates

We have been living under NGO domination of our politics and our news for decades now, and it’s only gotten worse over time.  - Thomas J Shepstone
Elon Musk...the following remarks by him represent a major contribution to saving Western civilization from the massive corruption that’s now endemic among our institutions:

...The scam of which Musk speaks is, in fact, blatant today and I have another example from the Data Republican website to share.

It’s a $20,452,614 grant made to an NGO called “Day One” out of Pasadena, California. Day One describes itself as follows:
Day One is a community-based nonprofit organization with a 38-year history of providing effective, high quality and culturally-sensitive public health education, intervention, and policy development in the San Gabriel Valley.

The organization’s latest 990 return indicates it took in $2,474,402 in revenue that years, had net assets of $490,035, and managed to lose $190,839. 

Yet, Joe Biden’s EPA rushed $20,452,614 out the door under the Inflation Reduction Act at the last minute for this...

Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce transgender ban in U.S. military * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce transgender ban in U.S. military * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

As people who follow the science know, changing from male to female or vice versa doesn't happen, as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level. The CBS report noted the Pentagon disbursed some $52 million on medical "care" to treat gender dysphoria between 2015 and 2024. The Supreme Court's ruling came in a case from Washington state on behalf of "seven transgender service members" and others.

Deep Intel on How Truman Lost ANOTHER Super Hornet

The enemy within!-----“I hope you die behind the wheel you stupid transphobic b—tch!”

Antifa militants have targeted another elderly woman attempting to leave the TPUSA Riley Gaines event in Seattle. She is disabled. (video below!)

Lunch video-----Meanwhile in Antarctica....

Noon-toon

 

Gov. Youngkin announces investigation into 'alarming' violation of student rights at Loudon school district over trans policy | Blaze Media

Gov. Youngkin announces investigation into 'alarming' violation of student rights at Loudon school district over trans policy | Blaze Media: 

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said he was directing an investigation into what he called an "alarming" violation of student rights at a Loudon County school over a transgender policy. The family of a student at Stone Bridge High School said he was accused of sexual harassment after asking why there was a biological girl in the boys' locker room. The student is reportedly being investigated for allegedly violating Title IX, which forbids sex discrimination.

20 times more!

 

For higher education, “AI’s takeover [is] a full-blown existential crisis.”

“I think we are years — or months, probably — away from a world where nobody thinks using AI for homework is considered cheating.” - Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79

“It isn’t as if cheating is new. 

But now, as one student put it, ‘the ceiling has been blown off.’ 

Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences?” 

• “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate.”... 

"Incomprehensible"!!

 

I’m a power engineer. The Iberian grid collapse makes me very afraid for Britain - Capell Aris

The Iberian blackout was complete within a few seconds.

• Last Monday, the Iberian grid suffered a disturbance in the south-west at 12:33. 
• In 3.5 seconds this worsened and the interconnection to France disconnected. 
• All renewable generation then went off-line...

The Iberian blackout was complete within a few seconds.

At the time the grid was producing 28.4 GW of power, of which 79 per cent was solar and wind. 

This was a problematic situation as solar and wind plants have another, not widely known, downside – one quite apart from their intermittency and expense.

• This is the fact that they do not supply any inertia to the grid...

#1 This day 1984-----Lionel Richie - Hello

A Newly Discovered Algorithm in Wisconsin Voter File is Indisputable Evidence of Criminal Election Fraud - American Thinker

...leaving no doubt someone has penetrated the WEC’s computer system to impose a criminal reordering on the voter files... - Jerome R. Corsi
Andrew Paquette, Ph.D., has discovered a never-before-seen algorithm in the Wisconsin Election Commission’s (WEC) voter registration database...
Paquette first observed that the WEC voter roll had an unusually high number of voter records that ended in zero. 

Assuming that the WEC voter roll assigned voter ID numbers sequentially, without breaks or outside manipulation, records ending in 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 should appear with equal distribution. 

As seen in Table 1, voter records ending in zero occurred in 30.6 percent of the voter records, while those ending in numbers 1 through 9 ended with each number appearing equally at 7.7 percent of the time.

Replace "Americorps" with Walmart??!!

 

'Where the hell is Pam Bondi?!' Elon Musk discovers 100,000 ACTIVE federal employees illegally getting unemployment benefits * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'Where the hell is Pam Bondi?!' Elon Musk discovers 100,000 ACTIVE federal employees illegally getting unemployment benefits * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

The DOGE chief revealed the stunning figure Saturday to Lara Trump, host of "My View" on Fox News. "We've actually found there's a lot of people who are federal government employees, that are active employees, who nonetheless have applied for and received unemployment insurance," Musk explained.

Fear mongering again!-----The drop in visitors could have an impact... - The Grand Rapids Press | Facebook

The drop in visitors could have an impact on Michigan’s tourism economy which generates $400 million from Canadians every year.

mlive.com - Canadians are canceling their U.S. vacations. What will it mean for Michigan’s summer tourism?

AM Fruitcake

 

History for May 8

History for May 8 - On-This-Day.com 

Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884 - 33rd president of the United States

• 1541 - Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo.
• 1794 - Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen.
• 1794 - The United States Post Office was established.
• 1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."
• 1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat".
• 2018 - U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the nuclear accord with Iran and restored harsh sanctions.