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Microsoft ditches USAID-funded NewsGuard after Ted Cruz starts digging

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:38 UTC
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Microsoft has dropped NewsGuard, a left-wing fact checking organization they partnered with that has helped the advertising industry justify blacklists for independent conservative media sites such as ZeroHedge.

The move came after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) began investigating Microsoft for funding the online "media literacy" censorship tool created by NewsGuard to help guide "learners of all ages through the overwhelming landscape of online news and information."

Comment: "Newsguard" has been a blot on free speech in the media space. Even SOTT.net has had its own run-ins with Newsguard:

Warning: Do NOT Read This! NewsGuard 'News Rating Agency' Gives SOTT.net Red 'Fake News' Label

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22 blue states signed secret pact to defy Trump immigration efforts, coordinate legal strategies

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:00 UTC
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© UnknownCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom
Attorneys general from 22 blue states along with Washington DC and San Francisco signed a secret agreement just 3 days after President Trump won the 2024 election for a coordinated response to resist Trump's anticipated actions to end birthright citizenship.

According to an investigation by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project, the 22 AGs agreed to legal collaboration and communication to defy Trump's immigration enforcement initiatives, including any deemed confidential or privileged.

All shared information would be used to coordinate various legal schemes, as well as pre-lawsuit investigations, litigation strategies, complaints, dispositive motions, merits briefs, and amicus briefs. The agreement also bars third parties from accessing any of this shared information, which is defined as all documents, materials, information, and communications exchanged between the attorneys generals' offices prior to the agreement.
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'Reverse flow': Illegal immigrants streaming back home after being blocked by Trump's border

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
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© Gregory Bull/APFamily walks back to Mexico • deportation at Tijuana, Mexico after 1 week detention • January 20, 2025
President Trump's border buildup has been so successful that America's southern neighbors are now dealing with a startling new problem: migrants streaming south, trying to return back home after realizing they wouldn't make it to the U.S.

Officials from Panama and Costa Rica met this week to work out details for how to handle the flow, which is already a steady stream and could become a flood as people who'd been waiting in Mexico for a shot at the U.S. give up.

In Nicaragua, authorities this month have had to figure out what to do with migrants crossing south from Honduras. After initially resisting them, Nicaraguan immigration officials ended up allowing them to cross, as long as they promised to keep heading further south.

It's a startling reversal, though one the U.S. is trying to help with by orchestrating flights to get the migrants out of Central America and back to their home countries.
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Data indicates there could be hundreds of truck-driving serial killers at large

George Knapp
8 News Now
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:54 UTC
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© Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
As data indicates that hundreds of truck-driving serial killers could be at large, a best-selling book is highlighting the most gruesome cases as law enforcement officials try to warn potential victims.

It's a familiar plot for TV shows and movies: murderous truck drivers prowling US highways for victims. Federal Bureau of Investigation data indicate that there are likely hundreds of homicidal truck drivers who have never been captured. Although the percentage overall of long-haul truckers who become killers is small, many of those who did have driven across Nevada.

Patrick Carnes, 86, of Reno, may have become a victim in 2011. He disappeared while driving in tandem with a long-haul trucker along the so-called 'The Big Lonely,' Interstate 80. Judith Casida, 62, disappeared five years earlier. Both victims' vehicles were found in the same field a half-decade apart.
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FDA misled the judiciary about Pfizer's vaccine documents

Maryanne Demasi
Brownstone Institute
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
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On December 6, 2024, a federal judge ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release documents related to the emergency use authorisation of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine. These documents had been hidden from public view.

The legal battle traces back to September 2021, when attorney Aaron Siri filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on behalf of the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency. The plaintiffs sought access to the vast trove of documents the FDA relied on to approve Pfizer's vaccine.

Initially, the FDA proposed a slow release schedule. In November 2021, the agency stated it would release just 500 pages per month — a pace that would have stretched the full disclosure process to 75 years.

Comment: See also:

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Busted fentanyl super lab in Canada makes "Breaking Bad look minor league": Former Trump official


Zerohedge
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:00 UTC
Fentanyl Super Lab
Canada's last-minute decision to cooperate with President Trump on border security and efforts to curb fentanyl trafficking was a key factor behind the president's 25% tariff threat. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to strengthen border security, a former US official who led an anti-fentanyl task force under President Trump's first term has argued that laws in Canada hinder a proper crackdown on the flow of drugs in the US.

"Well, several months ago, you had the biggest lab in the history of the world taken over by (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in Vancouver... It made Breaking Bad look like minor league," former State Department official David Asher told Canada's state-funded CBC News' chief political correspondent, Rosemary Barton, in an interview last weekend.

Asher claimed that the fentanyl super lab was "definitely" connected to Chinese organized crime and also pointed to possible connections with Iran and even rogue biker gangs.


Comment: Iran? Really? Kind of reminds us of "Iran's plot to assassinate Trump" or "Iranian drone motherships"- fairly unlikely.


Comment: Hybrid warfare by Beijing or a powerful Chinese crime syndicate with some ties to the CCP? It would be interesting to know.

Watch Daniela Cambone interview investigative journalist Sam Cooper - who has already connected many of the dots of Canada's massive fentanyl trafficking racket to the US:



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Young girl with heart conditions denied being added to transplant list over vaccination status, family says

Alexandra Koch
Fox News
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 02:03 UTC
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© Jeneen Deal
A mother is speaking out after she says her 12-year-old daughter was denied a place on the heart transplant list at Cincinnati Children's Hospital because of her vaccination status.

Brayton and Jeneen Deal, who adopted Adaline from China, said she was born with two heart conditions that will now require a transplant.

When the Deals were in the process of adopting Adaline, the adoption agency told them to pick another child because "her heart was so bad, she wasn't going to make it," they wrote in a GoFundMe campaign.

"We continued to support Adaline so she could stay in a foster home, but shortly after we arrived home with our other adopted child, the agency stopped taking the funds out of our account," they wrote.

"So, we thought she had passed away."
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Missing plane with 10 aboard found crashed in Alaska, no survivors expected

Phil Helsel
NBC News
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 01:58 UTC
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A missing plane with 10 aboard was found crashed in Alaska on Friday, a day after it left for Nome and never arrived, the Coast Guard said. There are believed to be no survivors.

The wreckage of the plane was found approximately 34 miles southeast of Nome, and three people were found dead inside, the maritime military branch said.

Seven others who were on the plane "are believed to be inside the aircraft, which was inaccessible due to the condition of the plane," the Coast Guard said.

"The Coast Guard determined the severity of the wreckage was beyond the possibility of survival," it said.

The Bering Air Cessna Caravan took off Thursday from Unalakleet, on the east coast of Norton Sound in western Alaska, and was headed to Nome around 140 miles away, officials said.
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Swedish police say 'multiple nationalities' died in mass shooting


France 24
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:52 UTC
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© Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFPFlowers and candles have been left at the scene of the shooting
Regional police chief Lars Wiren said officers arriving at the scene, where the gunman had killed 10 people before apparently killing himself, had described a scene resembling "an inferno".

Wiren said officers sent to the adult education centre in Orebro, west of Stockholm, were faced with "dead people, injured people, screams and smoke".

Releasing a timeline of the attack, police described how the first officers arrived at Campus Risbergska five minutes after police received several reports about a shooting at 12:33 pm (1133 GMT).

Shortly afterwards, officers reported smoke spreading through the building. They saw what they perceived to be "the shooter armed with a rifle-like weapon", said the police statement.
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Four FEMA employees canned over 'egregious' $59M payment for NYC migrants

Patrick Reilly
New York Post
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:44 UTC
Fema headquarters
© Getty Images
Four Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees have been fired for sending $59 million to New York City to house and care for illegal migrants, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

"Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants," DHS officials said in a statement obtained by The Post.

The firings, first reported by Fox, include FEMA's Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist.

"Under President Trump and Secretary Noem's leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people," the statement added.

Comment: The small fry are easy to catch. DOGE and its allied groups will have real credibility when the big fish start going to prison. Here's hoping . . . .

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