US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled:
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 15, 2025
- $10M for "Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision"
- $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills"
- $2.3M for "strengthening…
Elon Musk and Senator Mike Lee just shared a thread showing US Government is using our Social Security to fund anything they need extra money for
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 3, 2024
Senator Tommy Tuberville CONFIRMS they spend our Social Security, “It’s all a scam — what happens, it comes up here, we spend it”… pic.twitter.com/pORxPRxr5g
| Above, Mesa Verde National Park will be open for eclipse watchers. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The impending government shutdown has been averted, at least for 45 days.
According to the Associated Press (via AOL):
WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of a federal government shutdown suddenly lifted late Saturday as President Joe Biden signed a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open with little time to spare after Congress rushed to approve the bipartisan deal.
The package drops aid to Ukraine, a White House priority opposed by a growing number of GOP lawmakers, but increases federal disaster assistance by $16 billion, meeting Biden’s full request. The bill funds government until Nov. 17.
The national parks will remain open. Some, like Mesa Verde National Park, will be open for eclipse viewers on October 14.
To read more, go here.
| Above, the American Silver Eagle is one of the U.S. Mint's profitable products. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
For those who collect or invest in gold or silver, the U.S. Mint is a source people should look into.
Strange as it may seem, the U.S. Mint is one government department that actually is turning a profit for the government. That wasn't always the case.
Yahoo! Finance has posted an article on the trials and tribulations the Mint went through in the 1990s to get to where it is today.
They begin with:
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Currently, the U.S. Mint strikes around 10 billion circulating coins each year, making it a profitable operation for the government. However, that wasn't always the case. This week on U.S. Money Reserve's "In Conversation," 35th Director of the U.S Mint (1994–2000) and U.S. Money Reserve President Philip N. Diehl and 38th Director of the U.S. Mint (2006–2011) and U.S. Money Reserve Senior IRA Strategist Edmund C. Moy discuss the challenges at the U.S Mint in the 1990s.
To read more, go here.
Thanks to Elon Musk, we now know that the government had a secret portal in Twitter to censor free speech by reporting anything they felt was "misinformation."
Twitter Files 4 has been released.
The Gateway Pundit reported:
More damning evidence of collusion between the CDC and social media companies to stifle free speech and censor the public was revealed in the fourth batch of explosive documents obtained from litigation against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released by the nonprofit organization America First Legal (AFL).
Twitter allowed government officials and other “stakeholders” to use a secret portal called, “Partner Support Portal” to report anything they believed to be “misinformation.”
Previously, back in July 2021, TGP reported on Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai and his investigation, where he uncovered Twitter’s “partner support portal.”
Dr. Shiva discovered that Twitter built a special portal offered to certain governmental entities so that government officials can flag and delete content they dislike for any reason, as part of what they call their “Twitter Partner Status.”
Now there is more evidence to back up this theory.
According to documents obtained by AFL, one government employee was enrolled in this Portal through their personal Twitter account.
Other publicly available documents indicated that Facebook had adopted a similar strategy for censoring content concerning rigged elections.
According to AFL, “This production also reveals that the U.S. government was actively working to “socially inoculate”–or brainwashing–the public against anything that threatened its narrative. It did so by using aligned Big Tech corporations to monitor and manipulate users for the purposes of censoring unapproved information and pushing government propaganda. For example, Facebook sent written materials to the CDC in which it bragged about censoring more than sixteen million “pieces of content” containing opinions or information the U.S. government wanted suppressed.”
Funny how the drive-by media has avoided the Twitter Files story.
To read more, go here.
| Above, cattle corralled near Cibola National Forest. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Many Americans have only experienced government overreach and outright tyranny just recently.
According to an article in the Piñon Post, ranchers have been experienced it for years. Fortunately, people can be made aware of this in a new series called "Ranching Uncanceled".
The article begins with:
A new series done by Ben Luna of Lexit called features the stories of ranchers fighting the government from being “canceled” by overreach aiming at snagging the land that they’ve been ranching on for generations.
The series called “Ranching Uncanceled” showcases stories of ranchers, such as that of Mike and Kelly Goss, owners of the Sacramento Grazing Allotment (SGA) in the Lincoln National Forest. The Goss family is successor to cattle operations that have existed in the Sacramento Mountains since the 1880s.
They have been battling the government for years against attacks on their grazing rights, including severe limits to the number of cattle and other drastic measures. Their story is featured in the first episode of the project.
To read more, go here.
| Above, only one worker at Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q in Albuquerque is wearing a mask. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
During my recent trip to the Wells Fun Run in Wells, Nevada, mask-wearing was imposed on travelers at all of the airports (Albuquerque, Salt Lake City and Twin Falls) and on all Delta Airlines planes by the feds. The only places not imposing masks on people were in the casinos and restaurants in Wells. Very few, if any, wore masks at the Wells Fun Run. At least I don't remember seeing any.
It is totally ridiculous to mandate masks on people who have already been vaccinated. I am one of them (I was given the Pfizer vaccine in February).
All this is allegedly due to the spread of the so-called "Delta Variant" of COVID-19. Of course, the feds have to create panic over this so they can control the populace. Frankly, I think all of this is a bunch of B.S.
Thinking masks will protect people from the virus is like keeping mosquitoes our of your yard with a chain-link fence!
Before leaving New Mexico last Friday, I stopped in at Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q in Albuquerque Thursday to pick up dinner before heading to the KOA Kampground. Only one of the workers was wearing a mask and I didn't hear anyone complain.
Curious.