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Trump - and ordinary, sane Americans - have a very narrow window of opportunity to sort this out. Pray God that he uses it to full effect. So far, so good.

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That's why I keep saying he needs to knock of the foreign shenanigans in order to take full charge on the home front.

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" Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson changed the CIA whistleblower rules " This change to whistleblower rules (to permit secondhand reporting) was discovered by one of your regular readers. Who checked the metadata on the pdf.

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Correct. Credit where it's due. :-)

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The IC is rogue and unaccountable. As Schumer said "Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you." Snowden revealed the extent of the illegal spying on American citizens and not one person in the IC was jailed. IC officials went before Congress and lied about the spying without consequence. It's been going on for decades and it's getting worse.

Huge data centers are being built to collect your information, to be used at any time needed. They are not needed for monitoring our adversaries, but monitoring the IC's adversaries, which may include some of us. Even the president of the US was not exempt.

The IC needs to be dismantled and rebuilt to one-tenth its current size. Its black budgets must be published so we can see the extent of money being shoveled in.

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"Huge data centers are being built to collect your information"

We should be devoting that money to facilities that will hold the criminals of the IC. As we are beginning to learn there are many who commits acts of criminality that could be considered crimes against humanity, yes?

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We can add to domestic regime change the “freezing” of the (global!) culture over the last 20-30 years. From a brilliant essay by C&C (tx to Ray) Childers:

“If you are under the age of 30 you may think things are normal. But to someone who has lived 3 decades or more you may notice something odd: we haven’t had a shift like we did in the past. Culture is frozen. Throughout the 20th century we had changes almost every decade. Changes in fashion, in music, in aesthetics, hairstyles, style of comedy, television shows and movies. If I show you a photo or play you a song from the 20th century, you’d probably be able to guess the decade. It was that clean of a break.

But I haven’t felt that change since the mid 2000s.“

Childers also comments on the frozen state of discoveries and potential cures for Alzheimer’s, saying this has actually (but of course) benefitted Big Pharma (adhering to the amyloid plaque hypothesis) while failing to push beyond to test new hypotheses. Quite eye-opening! So we see more of how we’ve been controlled…

From: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-big-thaw-thursday-february-6

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Yeah, all that is quite noticeable. What's also noticeable is how stuck in the past liberal politics is.

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Agreed. And there's another thing that his noticeable right now: for the first time, Wokeness is really starting to seem very dated and "yesterday". It's not quite as faded as kipper ties and flares but it's on the way. It's as if Trump is merely actualising what the vast majority of people feel about this insanity. Even the Wokies themselves don't seem to have the stomach left for the fight. Sure, it will linger on for a while, but its day are numbered.

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https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/06/senate-confirms-russ-vought-for-budget-chief-in-major-blow-to-deep-state/

Talk about domestic regime change--Vought is the architect of much of Trump's domestic agenda.

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Wth the regime change flops in Russia, Turkey, Iran, Georgia, Romania etc. maybe the CIA has decided the old world hard money physical approach is moot.

With AI, Palantir (up over 300% in a year) and the likes maybe the deck is being reshuffled.

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Palantir is one of our worst nightmares. Isn't that Theil's baby?

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I read Liz Cheney was involved with USAID too. No surprise.

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Why does not surprise me?

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Yes, look no further than J6 and all that MIC money coming to her through her dad.

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Don't forget about Lindsey too! Both sides of the aisle are at risk of publicity.

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Yep. The diapers of full on both wings.

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Smith-Mundt 2012.

Not enough of the public interested.

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OK, that looks like a handy money laundering tool. State contracts the work out to a group that gets its funding from USAID which takes its orders from CIA.

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Go watch Sen. Ron Johnson's Covid19 hearings.

After Smith-Mundt 2012 it's legal to run psyops on the US public/legal to lie to the public.

Why have a Constitution?

Try not to fall asleep.

They could go on for years.

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Someone needs to do the legwork to verify those foreign USAID expenditures actually went to the activities claimed. My bet would be some bureaucrat was typing in budget line items using a provided list of fictional recipients and purposes, laughing the entire time knowing the true recipients and purpose of the funding. Who really believes $15,000,000 for condoms for the Taliban. That one would have provoked a big belly laugh as the data set was being entered.

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They Taliban had alot of children's parties with balloons.

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Or kept a lot of AK-47 barrels dry in rainy season

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That is quite few, isn't it.

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At $0.25 a pop?

Yeah.

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Or made by Big Pharma, so $4'000 each

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