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- Associate Executive Producers:
- Linda Lu Duchess of jobs and writer resumes
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- Knights & Dames
- Joe Gwaltney > Sir Duderino of the Elbow
- End of Show Mixes: Sir Chris Wilson - David Keckta - Joe Grillo
- Engineering, Stream Management & Wizardry
- Mark van Dijk - Systems Master
- Ryan Bemrose - Program Director
- Clip Custodian: Neal Jones
- Clip Collectors: Steve Jones & Dave Ackerman
- M5M
- Grammy ratings down almost 10%
- A few dei and trans comments
- first ten ad breaks all included pharma
- MAGAZA
- Dude Named Mohammad take on Gaza BOTG
- My take on the proposal to move people out of Gaza.
- I'm still stunned by American podcasters who just scream. "the Egyptians and Jordanians don't want them!".
- actual Arab world, the people, looks at this like another "Nakba". They
- don't want to participate, encourage or facilitate the forced migration
- of Palestinians from their lands. As they lost a large portion of their
- if this was agreed, you noticed the number of Hamas operatives parading
- and orchestrating the release of hostages. If you move all the people
- out, you're moving those to Egypt And Jordan and creating firtle ground
- for radicalizing a more extreme version of young children and boys
- raised by memories of bombs.
- Israel in the future will be launched from Egyptian or Jordanian soil.
- Which places Israel in a retaliatory position against an ally with a
- long lasting peace agreement.
- good thing, I believe Trump is pushing a radical idea to kick start the
- negotiation process. And this will end up being a major rebuilding
- effort with funding from Arab countries. GCC, Egypt and Jordan would
- very much like Muslim Brotherhood out. And Hamas is a part of the
- That leaves Qatar and Turkey out, which needs to be managed separately.
- bad thing is Trump is losing popular support and this will always taint
- him as a pro Israel figure in the eyes of average Mohammeds, in this
- USD BTC STABLECOINS TARIFFS
- Tariffs were a test run to see how the dollar would respond
- A paper written by Trump's chairman of Economic Advisors, Stephen Miran
- New Breton Woods - Mar-a-Lago accord
- Reset currency valuations
- The Stablecoin Gambit
- Spread our debt among the global poor
- Sovereign Wealth Fund
- Howard Lutnick - Canto Fitzgerald
- Tether will issue the stablecoins
- Partially backed by Bitcoin
- DOGE
- Musk as Hatchet man is pure genius
- Schedule F
- **Schedule F** refers to a classification within the United States federal civil service that was established by Executive Order 13957, signed by President Donald Trump on October 21, 2020. This classification allows for the appointment of federal employees to positions that are considered "policy-related" and thus exempt from the usual civil service protections. The main intention behind Schedule F is to give the president greater control over federal employees, particularly those in roles that influence policy, by making it easier to hire and fire them without the extensive protections typically afforded to career civil servants[1](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-accountability-to-policy-influencing-positions-within-the-federal-workforce/)[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_F_appointment).
- Under Schedule F, employees could be removed from their positions without the usual rights to appeal, potentially affecting tens of thousands of federal workers who serve in roles deemed to have significant policy influence[3](https://federalworkerrights.com/2025/01/20/schedule-f-what-federal-employees-need-to-know/)[4](https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/01/20/schedule-f-is-back/). The reinstatement of Schedule F has been a topic of discussion and concern regarding its implications for federal workforce accountability and the balance of power within the government[1](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-accountability-to-policy-influencing-positions-within-the-federal-workforce/)[5](https://protectdemocracy.org/work/trumps-schedule-f-plan-explained/).
- USAID
- USAID NGO spending in Georgian elections
- USAID spent, through political NGOs, USD 41,7 million on Georgian elections. In terms of US/Georgia population ratio, this would amount to USD 3,78 billion foreign money injected in US elections. These numbers are even more grotesque if compared with GDP ratio as well.
- So, it is impossible to spend USD 41,7 mln on another country’s elections and, at the same time, feel no accountability towards the population of the said country.
- USAID, which was responsible for spreading false PVT results and thus participated in disruption of elections in 2020 and continued a similar practice in 2024, must make clear how and why are millions of US taxpayer dollars spent on the NGOs that lead disruption of every election in Georgia.
- USAID and Hollywood
- Love May Be Blind, But It’s Definitely Not Cheap: The Astronomical Cost of Hollywood’s Support for Ukraine—Paid by U.S. Taxpayers USAID has funded high-profile visits by American celebrities to Ukraine, aiming to bolster the Zelensky regime’s image—especially among U.S. audiences. Since 2022, USAID has also partnered with Google to promote pro-Ukraine content on YouTube, spending taxpayer money to manufacture the illusion of widespread enthusiasm for Ukraine. The price tag for this media push? A staggering $8-12 billion from the USAID budget.
- Big Tech AI and the Socials
- Drill baby Drill
- Trump’s Bid for More Oil Is a Hard Sell for Allies in U.S., Saudi Arabia
- Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, has said global producers should try slashing oil prices to $45 a barrel, to pressure Russia into ending the war with Ukraine. LOL!!
- Such prices could be disastrous for U.S. frackers and Saudi Arabia—Trump’s two most powerful friends in the global oil market. The last time prices sank below $45, during the pandemic in 2020, it prompted a painful war for market share between Saudi Arabia and Russia and pushed dozens of shale drillers into bankruptcy.
- At lower oil prices, Saudi Arabia would struggle to generate enough revenue to pay for social services, monthly payments to citizens and big infrastructure projects. It will need about $90 a barrel this year to balance its budget, according to the International Monetary Fund.
- There is a clash coming between Trump and Saudi Arabia over oil prices, one of the former U.S. officials said.
- Trump’s advisers have told some oil-and-gas donors they understand the president can’t rely on U.S. frackers to boost production in the short term, people familiar with the discussions said.
- “Companies are no longer pursuing growth at all costs,” said Kaes Van’t Hof, president of West Texas oil producer [Diamondback Energy](https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/FANG). “Shale is in a much different phase of its life cycle.”
- Longer term, the advisers say Trump’s support of U.S. oil and gas—including by scrapping environmental regulations—will make the sector more appealing to investors. That, in turn, would lead to more capital flowing into the industry and eventually increase output. Making it easier to build pipelines and other infrastructure could also increase fossil-fuel demand, potentially spurring drilling, the advisers say.
- Aspirations to marginally boost U.S. output over time aren’t completely unrealistic, said Ed Crooks, vice chairman, Americas, at energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie. It depends on whether the administration is able to
- Replacement Migration
- Birthright Citizenship BOTG
- Adam—Moments ago, a federal judge in Maryland granted a temporary injunction pausing Trump’s executive order eliminating birthright citizenship. The judge gave her ruling from the bench, so I can’t give you a written order yet. But I can give you a short highlighted and annotated article. Her words from the bench were pretty incisive.
- Because this involves an injunction, the Trump Administration gets to appeal it immediately. That’s what Trump wants; he wants this thing up at SCOTUS as soon as humanly possible. So I expect to see a notice of appeal to the Fourth Circuit. The appeal will almost certainly be expedited. Then, no matter who wins at the Fourth Circuit, the loser will seek SCOTUS review. If Trump wins at the Fourth Circuit (doubtful), SCOTUS is far more likely to take the case since the ramifications are so huge.
- But like I said, I think that Trump has a steep hill to climb. The 14th Amendment has been interpreted to death, and I don’t see him winning the argument absent a constitutional amendment. **And this might just be his long game:** Get SCOTUS to shoot him down and then light the country on fire to get rid of birthright citizenship in the most undeniable way possible.
