Saturday, April 19, 2025
Trying To Figure Out How Much Of The Government Grants Goes To Left-Wing Causes And Propaganda - Francis Menton
Over the intervening weeks it has become clear that the general answer is “a lot of it,” but the details will be slow to emerge.Back on February 14, I had a post titled “How Much Of This Has Been Paid For By The U.S. Taxpayer?”
The post asked that question about a sample of issues held dear by the Left: migrant caravans, services in the U.S. to illegal aliens, DEI and climate alarm.
Over the intervening weeks it has become clear that the general answer is “a lot of it,” but the details will be slow to emerge....
Over the intervening weeks it has become clear that the general answer is “a lot of it,” but the details will be slow to emerge....
- How much of this money was getting diverted to an NGO, and from there to another NGO and then another until it ended up funding migrant caravans or pro-Palestinian propaganda or some other such cause...
Glenn Reynolds (of Instapundit) has an op-ed in today’s New York Post that compiles some prior Post reporting on the subject. The title is “How Democrats used NGO’s to end-run voters.”
- Reynolds: [A]s we’ve learned recently, partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, many “non-governmental” entities are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly. For example, America’s border crisis was funded in large part by President Joe Biden’s government, which sent large sums of money in the form of grants to various NGOs that helped train migrants on how to get to the United States — and how to claim asylum when they arrived.
- Most significantly, Reynolds links to this February 1 Post piece reporting that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had terminated some $1.4 billion of funding for 2025 to some 15 UN agencies and 230 (!) NGOs that were involved in some way in providing services to the migrants. That is undoubtedly the tip of the iceberg.
Yes!-----Energy Department Set To Axe $10 Billion In Clean Energy Projects - Climate Change Dispatch
Energy Department Set To Axe $10 Billion In Clean Energy Projects - Climate Change Dispatch - Julianne GeigerIf Big Oil was starting to feel good about its government-sponsored climate-era glow-up, they may be in for a rude awakening, with the U.S. Energy Department reportedly preparing to pull the plug on nearly $10 billion in clean energy funding, according to new memos seen by the Wall Street Journal.
- The DOE’s move could put everything from hydrogen hubs to carbon capture collaborations in the crosshairs—yes, even those buzzy projects with ExxonMobil and Occidental...
- It’s not just the oil titans who could take a hit. Solar players like First Solar, SunPower, and Shoals Technologies are all on the list of possible collateral damage...
End the free-ride!-----NPR: Trump's Plotting to Cut All of Our Funding - Ace of Spades HQ
Ace of Spades HQWhat a scoop from NPR.
The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.The memo, which the administration plans to send to Congress when it reconvenes from recess on April 28, will open a 45-day window in which the House and Senate can either approve the rescission or allow the money to be restored.
The official, who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity, confirmed the existence of the draft.
In a statement on Monday that did not refer to the memo, the White House said: "For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'" The statement includes examples of what the White House said is "trash that passes as 'news'" and "intolerance of non-leftist viewpoints."
NPR produces the award-winning news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered, while PBS is best known for its nightly PBS News Hour and its high-quality children's programming, such as Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.
There's a little commercial for NPR tucked right into NPR's article about NPR.
No bias here!...
The article claims NPR and PBS aren't biased. Another lie...
New Yorkers Cheer as ICE Rounds up Same Criminal Illegals Democrats Defend to the Death
New Yorkers Cheer as ICE Rounds up Same Criminal Illegals Democrats Defend to the Death:
In short, the Democratic Party has decided, for some ungodly reason, that taking the side of foreign criminals who are in the country illegally is a winning formula to get support among sane Americans.
Democratic allies in the federal judiciary are helping, naturally. Democratic allies in the mainstream media are doing their part, too.
The Media Is LYING About Trump’s ‘Tanking’ Immigration Numbers - Scott Pinsker
Dishonest outlets are playing the Spin Game..The Independent’s story today screamed, “Trump’s approval rating on immigration has tanked in recent weeks as more controversial deportations are revealed.”
“Tanked,” eh?
Well, let’s look under the hood, shall we:
“Tanked,” eh?
Well, let’s look under the hood, shall we:
- Last week 57% of Americans supported Trump’s immigration policies.
- This week it “tanked” to 54%.
- Three points!
- The poll’s margin of error is 3.5, by the way.
You don’t need to be a math major to recognize a big, fat, juicy Nothing Burger when you see one.
- Besides, there’s a hidden danger for Democrats like Van Hollen: When you’re battling tooth and nail for the rights of an illegal alien, you’re not perceived as focusing on the rights of American citizens.
- And this Kilmar Abrego Garcia guy isn’t the most sympathetic cat to build a movement around. There’s an awful lot of chatter connecting him to MS-13, and ample evidence he’s an abuser of women:
- The looming danger for the Democrats is, eventually, your constituents will notice that your priorities aren’t on us; it’s on them...
History for April 19
History for April 19 - On-This-Day.com 
David Ricardo 1772 - Economist, author
1775 - The American Revolution began as fighting broke out at Lexington, MA.
1892 - The Duryea gasoline buggy was introduced in the U.S. by Charles and Frank Duryea.
1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation that removed the U.S. from the gold standard.
1993 - The Branch-Davidian’s compound in Waco, TX, burned to the ground. It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the cult and U.S. federal agents. 86 people were killed including 17 children. Nine of the Branch Davidians escaped the fire.
1994 - A Los Angeles jury awarded $3.8 million to Rodney King for violation of his civil rights.
1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, was destroyed by a bomb. It was the worst bombing on U.S. territory. 168 people were killed including 19 children, and 500 were injured. Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing on June 2, 1997.
Friday, April 18, 2025
'Denied': U.S. senator suffers humiliating rejection after flying to El Salvador to rescue deported illegal * WorldNetDaily * by Christina Laila, the Gateway Pundit
'Denied': U.S. senator suffers humiliating rejection after flying to El Salvador to rescue deported illegal * WorldNetDaily * by Christina Laila, the Gateway Pundit:
Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador where he was soundly rejected by the country's vice president.
What a joke.
Senator Van Hollen said his request to meet with El Salvador's Vice President was denied.
Tulsi Exposes a Terrifying Biden-Era Program That Was Meant To Be Secret Matt Margolis
They thought they could keep it hidden forever.Buried under layers of classification and bureaucratic doublespeak, the Biden administration's masterplan for undermining American liberty was supposed to stay safely locked away from public scrutiny...
In a stunning move that has the DC establishment scrambling, Director of National Intelligence Gabbard just declassified what might be the most disturbing government document of the Biden era: their deceptively-named "Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism."
In a stunning move that has the DC establishment scrambling, Director of National Intelligence Gabbard just declassified what might be the most disturbing government document of the Biden era: their deceptively-named "Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism."
- Let's cut through the bureaucratic noise and call this what it really is: a systematic blueprint for targeting and silencing conservative Americans. While Biden was preaching "unity" from his teleprompter, his administration was quietly crafting plans to turn Big Tech into their personal censorship machine.
- The scheme reads like a progressive wish list: monitoring "suspicious" online speech (translation: conservative viewpoints), expanding federal watchlists to include Americans with the "wrong" political beliefs, and – you guessed it – finding new ways to chip away at Second Amendment rights...
All ruled by democrats! And billion$$ in free money!-----Even after bankruptcy, Detroit is in debt
Watchdog group counts the tally as $1,600 per taxpayer - John LaPlante 
The news comes more than a decade after the city entered federal bankruptcy court.
The Financial State of the Cities, published in late February by Truth in Accounting, reports that the nation’s 75 of the nation’s largest cities had $300.7 billion in debt.
The Financial State of the Cities, published in late February by Truth in Accounting, reports that the nation’s 75 of the nation’s largest cities had $300.7 billion in debt.
Public officials in 53 cities “have not included the full cost of government in their budget calculations,” said the Illinois-based nonprofit focused on public information about governmental finances.
- Detroit had $4.8 billion in bills but only $4.4 billion available at the end of the 2024 fiscal year, leaving a shortfall of $381.8 million, or $1,600 per taxpayer, the report said.
- Detroit is $1.6 billion short of the money it needs to pay its pension obligations and $1.4 million short of what it needs to pay its retirees’ health insurance expenses, according to Truth in Accounting...
The 'Skilled Worker Hoax': How India's human-capital scheme took over American jobs * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta
The 'Skilled Worker Hoax': How India's human-capital scheme took over American jobs * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta:
For decades, the American public has been told the nation's future depended on importing foreign "skilled workers." They have been fed a narrative claiming their nation's own citizens were somehow unqualified, uninterested or incapable of filling the very jobs that built their country. But this story was a fabrication, one carefully constructed by economic elites and facilitated by government policy. Behind the curtain stands a foreign government, executing what may be the most expansive and under-acknowledged labor infiltration in modern economic history.
This is not immigration. This is infiltration by policy. A silent economic war is being waged, not with bombs or bullets, but with resumes, fake credentials and weaponized visa loopholes. This is the story of how, through a deliberate national labor export policy, India systematically overtook America's tech, engineering, defense and research sectors while displacing qualified American citizens in the process.
This is the Skilled Worker Hoax.
"End the Gravy Train: Why Public Money Should Not Fund NGOs"
@amuse on X: "End the Gravy Train: Why Public Money Should Not Fund NGOs" / X - @amuse
Not elected, not accountable, yet flush with your tax dollars.
Why does this matter?
- Because it represents a fundamental evasion of the structure and safeguards of constitutional democracy. The Founders designed a system of checks, balances, and electoral accountability.
- No power without representation, no authority without transparency.
But in recent decades, and particularly under the Biden administration, a parallel architecture has emerged.
This architecture is built not of departments and agencies, but of foundations, non-profits, and NGOs.
It is a second state, answerable not to the people, but to donors.
- What precisely are NGOs doing with public funds?
- Everything from facilitating migrant influxes at the border, to administering social justice programs abroad, to writing and distributing model legislation domestically.
- NGOs are not subject to FOIA requests.
- They are not answerable to voters.
- They are rarely audited.
- Yet they regularly execute the very programs that would be politically toxic or legally suspect for the government itself...
'This travesty has gone on long enough': Trump admin annihilates rebrand of Obama's censorship agency | Blaze Media
'This travesty has gone on long enough': Trump admin annihilates rebrand of Obama's censorship agency | Blaze Media:
The Global Engagement Center, a multi-agency entity housed within the U.S. State Department that was credibly accused of working with domestic and foreign organizations to silence conservative voices, was supposedly shuttered on Dec. 23, 2024. This closure was, however, a sleight of hand.
In the final weeks of the Biden administration, the censorious practices undertaken by the agency established by Barack Obama in 2011 and the officials who executed them were migrated to a new outfit called the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the closure of the State Department's R/FIMI, which reportedly had 40 employees and a budget of over $51 million.
GOPer bosses just as crooked as dems when no one cares!------'Mississippi Musk' Finds $400 Million in State Government Waste | Frontpage Mag
While one in five Mississippians lives below the poverty line. - Robert Spencer 
Fox News reported Monday that White is releasing “a compilation of audits conducted by his office that tabulated a collective $400 million in waste over the course of his tenure.”...
After all, Mississippi is a relatively small and poor state that hasn’t voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since it went for Jimmy Carter in 1976...
After all, Mississippi is a relatively small and poor state that hasn’t voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since it went for Jimmy Carter in 1976...
And even so, Mississippi Musk and his team found a great deal of money that could have and should have been better spent...
He will detail all this waste in an 800-page report that will show, among other things, that
He will detail all this waste in an 800-page report that will show, among other things, that
- “Medicaid is a major issue, in that tens of millions of dollars in subsidies are going to income-ineligible Mississippians.”
- Even worse, “one state agency was spending nearly $6,000 each on televisions, which the similarly bloated feds pay about $2,000 for similar tech.”
White commented: “So, if you think the federal government is inefficient, I promise you, your state governments around the country are likely even less efficient.”...
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