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Trump nominates ally who defended Jan. 6 rioters, DOGE efforts as top DC federal prosecutor

Sarah Fortinsky
Yahoo! News
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:23 UTC
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© AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, FileAttorney Ed Martin is Trump's pick for U.S. attorney for D.C.
Trump nominates ally who defended Jan. 6 rioters, DOGE efforts as top DC federal prosecutor

President Trump nominated Ed Martin — who defended Jan. 6 rioters and Elon Musk's efforts with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — to serve as the permanent U.S. attorney for D.C.

Martin has been serving in the role on an interim basis since shortly after Trump was sworn into office. The job requires Senate confirmation.

"Since Inauguration Day, Ed has been doing a great job as Interim U.S. Attorney, fighting tirelessly to restore Law and Order, and make our Nation's Capital Safe and Beautiful Again. He will get the job done," Trump wrote Monday on his Truth Social platform.

Comment: Martin didn't waste any time:

New DC US Attorney Ed Martin opens inquiry into unlawful use of common J6 felony

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Late financier Evelyn de Rothschild accused of abuse during banking career

Anna Isaac
The Guardian
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
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© FocusonracingSir Evelyn de Rothschild was knighted by the Queen for services to banking and finance in 1989
One of the world's most celebrated financiers, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, has been accused of exploiting his position at the storied bank to abuse women who worked with him.

The claims against De Rothschild, two years after his death, come from several women who said they felt unable to raise their concerns while he was still alive, because of his position within the bank and the British establishment. They spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity.

Among the allegations are that he seriously sexually assaulted and harassed several women in the mid and late 1990s when they worked for NM Rothschild.
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Bad Guys

Why Catholic school sexual abuse scandal is plaguing France's prime minister


RFI
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:40 UTC
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Bayrou has survived several votes of no-confidence since taking office in mid-December. But he now faces scrutiny over allegations of physical and sexual abuse at Notre-Dame de Bétharram - a Catholic boarding school in the Pyrenees where he sent several of his children.

In 1996, when Bayrou was education minister, a student lost hearing in one ear after being slapped by a school monitor, who was later convicted.

In 1998, a former headmaster was detained for allegedly raping a 10-year-old boy in the 1980s but was later released and found dead in Rome's Tiber River two years later.
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Bullseye

Biden's EPA issued $20 billion in green grants: Trump's administration wants that money back

Matthew Daly
Associated Press
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:20 UTC
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© AP Photo/Mark SchiefelbeinFormer Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington.
In a major reversal, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency said he will try to rescind $20 billion in grants awarded by the Biden administration for climate and clean-energy projects.

In a video posted on X, Administrator Lee Zeldin said the EPA would revoke contracts for a still-emerging "green bank" that is set to fund tens of thousands of projects to fight climate change and promote environmental justice.

The program, approved under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, is formally known as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, but is more commonly called the green bank. Two initiatives, worth $14 billion and $6 billion respectively, are intended to offer competitive grants to nonprofits, community development banks and other groups for projects with a focus on disadvantaged communities.
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Dominoes

CNN admits Dems are 'powerless' amid GOP takeover of federal government

Thomas Stevenson
The Post Millenial
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:18 UTC
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CNN admitted that Democrat lawmakers in Congress are facing an uphill battle as to how they will advance their agenda without holding a majority in either the House or Senate. The White House is also in GOP hands after the recent election gave it to President Donald Trump. CNN reported that Democrats are starting to confront their "powerlessness" as the president has come into office and has been executive orders aligned with his agenda as well as working with GOP lawmakers to push legislation through Congress.

The outlet said that they are "essentially leaderless, with prospective future presidential candidates largely sitting back and allowing others to be the first ones" to challenge the GOP and Trump. Democrats are hoping to counter Trump and the GOP with the upcoming mid-March budget deadline, but as Trump and Elon Musk work to cut back in different government agencies, the Democrats have been making attempts to show what is going on by gathering outside of the buildings that DOGE staffers are auditing.
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Bullseye

Freedom of speech, defense, migration crisis: Key takeaways from Vance's Munich address


RT
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 13:16 UTC
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© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesUS Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the 61st Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2025 in Munich, Germany.
US Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a historic speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, which President Donald Trump has praised as "brilliant." Vance touched on the most pressing issues facing Western democracies. Here are the key takeaways from what he said:

Democratic backsliding

Vance voiced concerns over the erosion of democratic values in Europe, highlighting cases where elections were annulled or threatened. He cited Romania's presidential election, where the first-round results were overturned in November due to alleged foreign interference.

However, a December investigation found no evidence of Russian involvement in a social media campaign supporting independent candidate Calin Georgescu. Instead, the probe revealed his campaign was funded by the pro-Western National Liberal Party (PNL), contradicting earlier claims. Snoop reported that Romania's constitutional court ultimately annulled the election.
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In Syria, the barbarians aren't at the gate, they're in power with Western support

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:39 UTC
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Atrocities are being committed every day in Syria by the new rulers, according to Irish writer and peace activist Declan Hayes.

However, the Western corporate-run media are ignoring or censoring the horrific reality because the Western governments backed the regime-change operation.

He says that Syria - a cradle of civilization - is now being ruled by barbarians with the tacit support of Western governments and media.

The population is living under a reign of terror because the new rulers are terrorists affiliated with Islamic State who espouse an extremist version of Islam that does not tolerate other religions or versions of Islam.

Declan Hayes visited Syria as a peace activist and humanitarian many times during the decade-long war in that country. He witnessed the aftermath of atrocities carried out by insurgent groups in Latakia, Kassab, and Maaloula, among other places.

These mercenary groups were proxy forces financed and armed by the United States and its Western allies in a covert war for regime change against the former Syrian government.

The reasons for the regime-change operation were geopolitical due to the West's support for Israel and antagonism towards Russia and Iran, as well as control of oil and gas resources.
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MAGA

Legend: Trump hangs framed portrait of his mugshot outside Oval Office

Emily Van de Riet
News 2
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:08 UTC
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President Donald Trump has his infamous 2023 mugshot framed just outside the Oval Office.

The framed mugshot was spotted in numerous photos taken Thursday during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the White House.

Photographers inside the Oval Office took pictures of Trump and Modi sitting side-by-side in two chairs, and some camera angles captured part of the hallway in the background.

The frame is hung in the hallway just outside one of the doors leading to the Oval Office.
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Bullseye

Best of the Web: JD Vance is right: the anti-democratic West is no longer worth defending

Poppy Coburn
The Telegraph
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:04 UTC
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© AFP/Thomas Kienzle
Yesterday a car was deliberately driven into a crowd of bystanders, injuring 30. Attacks of this nature - violent, random, nihilistic - have become commonplace, even mundane, in Europe; the identity of the alleged perpetrator (reported as a Afghan failed asylum seeker) grimly predictable even as the motive remains obscure.

That this particular attack received so much coverage reflected less the scale of the violence and more the location and timing: in the centre of Munich, a day before the Security Conference.

Perhaps it may have given some pause to the delegates of the liberal Western order, travelling to the city to discuss Europe's external security threats, to be reminded in such a brutal fashion that the greatest danger to our civilisation operates within our borders. Or perhaps not: much easier to offer thoughts and prayers, and turn our eyes to the undoubtedly urgent questions of the future of Ukraine and Nato.

But one attendant - arguably the most important, and certainly the most closely-watched - did pay attention to the chaos on the intersection of Seidlstrasse.
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Bad Guys

SOTT Focus: Exposed: US NSC developed secret terror blueprints to 'help Ukraine resist'

Kit Klarenberg
The Grayzone
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:09 UTC
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© The GrayzoneThe US National Security Council is helping Ukrainian neonazis hatch terrorist "resistance" plans
Newly-leaked documents reveal a crew of military academics pitching the US National Security Council a series of extreme strategies for Ukraine, from IED's inspired by Iraqi insurgents to sabotaging Russia's infrastructure to propaganda "from ISIS' playbook." Conceived under the auspices of the UK's University of St. Andrews, the plans were outsourced through third parties to ensure "plausible deniability."

Explosive leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how a shady transatlantic collective of academics and military-intelligence operatives conceived schemes which would lead to the US "helping Ukraine resist," to "prolong" the proxy war "by virtually any means short of American and NATO forces deploying to Ukraine or attacking Russia."

The operatives assembled their war plans immediately in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and delivered them directly to the highest-ranking relevant US National Security Council official in the Biden administration.

Proposed operations ranged from covert military options to jihadist-style psychological operations against Russian civilians, with the authors insisting, "we need to take a page from ISIS' playbook."

Comment: One wonders how much money changed hands to develop schemes that led ultimately to nothing, except overflowing Ukrainian graveyards. And Russia continues to advance:
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