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DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad
https://nypost.com/2026/05/11/us-new...iolabs-abroad/
https://nypost.com/2026/05/11/us-new...iolabs-abroad/
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CEO's controlling trillions of dollars flying on the plane with DJT was not necessarily scheduled...
I saw somewhere that Elon Musk valued an hour of his time at $100 million....how much is an hour of your time worth?
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This is a very lengthy video.
It cam be summarized, at 3:50 - 3:59
"You could give everybody twice as big [a refund] as the average get if you just collected all the taxes that are due."
The short version is that, regardless of Republican or Democrat, the income tax system in the US is a system of normalized theft and payola from those of us who pay them, benefiting those of the governing class and their patrons & benefactors.
The video:
It cam be summarized, at 3:50 - 3:59
"You could give everybody twice as big [a refund] as the average get if you just collected all the taxes that are due."
The short version is that, regardless of Republican or Democrat, the income tax system in the US is a system of normalized theft and payola from those of us who pay them, benefiting those of the governing class and their patrons & benefactors.
The video:
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Asspensive farmland contributes to asspensive fud. Just like emishuns on farm equipment and truks makes fud more asspensive. And emishuns on construction machines makes stores, homez, and rodez more asspensive. Is like we stupit or something, what we do to our ownselfs.
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E10 gasoline yields worse fuel economy and simply exists to subsidize corporate farms. Yet another Federal way to make our lives more expensive.
The current tier of diesel emissions on over the road trucks and all construction machinery requires significantly more fuel to obtain the same amount of work out of an engine, because self-flagellation is the national pastime of useful idiots. "Why are groceries so high?" The answer is literally, "Because you're an idiot."
The current tier of diesel emissions on over the road trucks and all construction machinery requires significantly more fuel to obtain the same amount of work out of an engine, because self-flagellation is the national pastime of useful idiots. "Why are groceries so high?" The answer is literally, "Because you're an idiot."
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E10 gasoline yields worse fuel economy and simply exists to subsidize corporate farms. Yet another Federal way to make our lives more expensive.
The current tier of diesel emissions on over the road trucks and all construction machinery requires significantly more fuel to obtain the same amount of work out of an engine, because self-flagellation is the national pastime of useful idiots. "Why are groceries so high?" The answer is literally, "Because you're an idiot."
The current tier of diesel emissions on over the road trucks and all construction machinery requires significantly more fuel to obtain the same amount of work out of an engine, because self-flagellation is the national pastime of useful idiots. "Why are groceries so high?" The answer is literally, "Because you're an idiot."
It takes more than a gallon of fuel to plant/grow/harvest/process corn into making a gallon of alcohol.
A gallon of alcohol has less BTUs than a gallon of gasoline...
The only real benefit that I can see from this is the use of E/85 in a boosted car.
So, corn good for turbo Miata; not really good for anything else...
When it was highly subsidized and cheaper than anything else the reduced mileage was a wash, you just had more time lost with the increased number of fill ups.
And when it got cold your truck might not start on E/85...
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Meanwhile in Texas:
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We let foreign companies buy property in the United States to build factories, offices, and distribution centers for all sorts of items. I don't want them to own farmland, but I have some difficulty figuring out where the line is.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/coffee...ay-may-22-2026
Corporate media almost perfectly blacked out one of the most gratifying and encouraging stories of 2026, which quietly appeared last week in Nature-- the prestigious British science journal that spent four years insisting the lab leak theory was a dangerous conspiracy. The headline included the 10 most triumphant words we've seen all year:"NIH ousts infectious-disease leaders as COVID scientists face US charges."
Three more top NIAID scientocrats got the axe last week, bringing the running tally to eight of ten top leadership positions at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases having now been purged since President Trump took office. (Portlanders, the "Allergy and Infectious Diseases" group is where the Deep State hid its chief bioweapons engineer and ran the covid plandemic, I mean pandemic.) Seven slots currently remain open, with no one yet serving in a permanent capacity.
And here is the best detail of all: all but one of the eight pink-slipped officials reported directly to the Human Cockroach himself, Anthony 'Mengele' Fauci.
Fauci is long gone. Now the people who carried out the orders, his deputies and lieutenants, are nearly gone, too. But Nature (and only Nature) reported more. The criminal prosecutions are starting, too.
Alert readers will recall that, three weeks ago on April 28th, the DOJ criminally indicted David Morens, 78, a 'senior adviser' in NIAID's Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022. Morens reported directly to Fauci. He was charged with conspiracy against the United States, destruction and falsification of federal records, and a truly catastrophic failure of basic operational security-- all connected to a revolting scheme to conceal his communications about EcoHealth's Wuhan research grants from FOIA requests.
As a reminder, in an email that is now the indictment's Exhibit A, Morens --an actual moron-- explained his methodology: "I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA'd but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe." Au contraire, mon amî. After EcoHealth won a new $7.5 million grant, Morens wrote to Daszak: "Ahem.... do I get a kickback???? Too much fooking money!"
If this were a heist movie, Morens would be the guy who accidentally clicks 'email all' with the getaway plans attached.
In other words, the culture at NIH was so corrupt that a senior federal official was bold enough to write emails soliciting bribes and confirming the agency's in-house FOIA official taught the scientists how to destroy government records. He wrote those admissions down. In emails that he helpfully sent to everyone he was conspiring with. Thanks, doc!
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (bless him) explained, "Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records to suppress theories regarding the origins of COVID-19. Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest -- not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas."
In another email cited in the indictment, Morens wrote, "We all agree that we want to keep off Of it any fingerprints of you, [North Carolina Scientist 1] and any [COMPANY #1] or grant colleagues." He stressed, again, "I need to keep this off of govt email and govt phone text."
Morens --a top NIH scientist, but obviously not any rocket scientist-- sent this incriminating reminder about not leaving fingerprints on government email or government phone texts in a government email, from his government phone. You just can't make this stuff up. Maybe he thought abbreviating 'govt' would keep it off the radar.
Anyway. Who might be the redactee in Moren's email, the "North Carolina Scientist 1"? The Charlotte Observer, at least, thinks it might be the gain-of-functioner-in-chief himself, Ralph Baric.
? Morens is no one-off. He's dragging all the others down, one by one. Less than two weeks ago, on May 7th, HHS proposed a ban on all federal funding to Ralph Baric, the UNC virologist who conducted some of the most controversial gain-of-function coronavirus research in the country-- research that, according to HHS, involved "deceptive" communications with NIAID officials.
Is Moren's North Carolina co-conspirator Ralph Baric? Consider the recent evidence.
Last week, UNC suspended him. All his current grants are now frozen. He just announced his upcoming 'retirement' on June 1st, coupled with a departmental announcement packed with effusive praise for his career but conspicuously omitting any explanation for his abrupt retirement.
Meanwhile, the now-former acting NIAID director, Jeffery Taubenberger, another Fauci crony, abruptly resigned yesterday-- spectacularly rage-quitting during yesterday's Senate hearing. (Drama queen alert.) That brings the total to eight of ten (80%) senior NIAID positions now vacant.
The institution built as a corrupt cult of personality around diminutive Anthony Fauci, staffed by slavish Fauci cronies, and operated according to Fauci's secretive priorities for 38 years is now being systematically dismantled.
Not with any press conference. Not with any dramatic announcement. Quietly, methodically, one reassignment and indictment at a time. They are practically inviting the trad-media to connect the dots. But, while the media may be ruthless and cunning, its reporters are simply not smart enough to connect these dots.
Indeed, this is the natural consequence of what the Morens indictment described as a years-long conspiracy to hide the pandemic's origins from the American people, using government resources, on government time, funded by taxpayer dollars, all while cracking jokes about breaking the law, collecting wine, and mooching promises of Parisian dinners as a 'kickback.'
Think about what that means. The U.S. government has a long and remarkably consistent track record of not prosecuting its scientific class, no matter how horrible the misbehavior. The researchers who conducted secret radiation experiments on unwitting hospital patients from the 1940s through the 1970s --injecting people with plutonium, exposing prisoners to X-rays, irradiating the ********* of Oregon and Washington state inmates just to see what would happen-- none of them faced any criminal charges when those programs were exposed in the 1990s.
Instead, we got an apology from President Clinton. (In between cigar sessions.) That was it. Nobody went to jail, resigned, got fired, or was even debarred.
The doctors who ran the Tuskegee syphilis study for forty years, deliberately withholding treatment from black men so they could watch them die slowly in pain and anguish-- no criminal charges. (But it got another presidential apology!)
The Office of Research Integrity has handled hundreds of scientific misconduct cases over the past three decades. The standard outcome is purely administrative: you might lose your funding, some papers might get retracted, and you might, in the worst cases, be barred from grants for a few years. That's it.
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Corporate media almost perfectly blacked out one of the most gratifying and encouraging stories of 2026, which quietly appeared last week in Nature-- the prestigious British science journal that spent four years insisting the lab leak theory was a dangerous conspiracy. The headline included the 10 most triumphant words we've seen all year:"NIH ousts infectious-disease leaders as COVID scientists face US charges."
Three more top NIAID scientocrats got the axe last week, bringing the running tally to eight of ten top leadership positions at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases having now been purged since President Trump took office. (Portlanders, the "Allergy and Infectious Diseases" group is where the Deep State hid its chief bioweapons engineer and ran the covid plandemic, I mean pandemic.) Seven slots currently remain open, with no one yet serving in a permanent capacity.
And here is the best detail of all: all but one of the eight pink-slipped officials reported directly to the Human Cockroach himself, Anthony 'Mengele' Fauci.
Fauci is long gone. Now the people who carried out the orders, his deputies and lieutenants, are nearly gone, too. But Nature (and only Nature) reported more. The criminal prosecutions are starting, too.
Alert readers will recall that, three weeks ago on April 28th, the DOJ criminally indicted David Morens, 78, a 'senior adviser' in NIAID's Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022. Morens reported directly to Fauci. He was charged with conspiracy against the United States, destruction and falsification of federal records, and a truly catastrophic failure of basic operational security-- all connected to a revolting scheme to conceal his communications about EcoHealth's Wuhan research grants from FOIA requests.
As a reminder, in an email that is now the indictment's Exhibit A, Morens --an actual moron-- explained his methodology: "I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA'd but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe." Au contraire, mon amî. After EcoHealth won a new $7.5 million grant, Morens wrote to Daszak: "Ahem.... do I get a kickback???? Too much fooking money!"
If this were a heist movie, Morens would be the guy who accidentally clicks 'email all' with the getaway plans attached.
In other words, the culture at NIH was so corrupt that a senior federal official was bold enough to write emails soliciting bribes and confirming the agency's in-house FOIA official taught the scientists how to destroy government records. He wrote those admissions down. In emails that he helpfully sent to everyone he was conspiring with. Thanks, doc!
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (bless him) explained, "Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records to suppress theories regarding the origins of COVID-19. Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest -- not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas."
In another email cited in the indictment, Morens wrote, "We all agree that we want to keep off Of it any fingerprints of you, [North Carolina Scientist 1] and any [COMPANY #1] or grant colleagues." He stressed, again, "I need to keep this off of govt email and govt phone text."
Morens --a top NIH scientist, but obviously not any rocket scientist-- sent this incriminating reminder about not leaving fingerprints on government email or government phone texts in a government email, from his government phone. You just can't make this stuff up. Maybe he thought abbreviating 'govt' would keep it off the radar.
Anyway. Who might be the redactee in Moren's email, the "North Carolina Scientist 1"? The Charlotte Observer, at least, thinks it might be the gain-of-functioner-in-chief himself, Ralph Baric.
? Morens is no one-off. He's dragging all the others down, one by one. Less than two weeks ago, on May 7th, HHS proposed a ban on all federal funding to Ralph Baric, the UNC virologist who conducted some of the most controversial gain-of-function coronavirus research in the country-- research that, according to HHS, involved "deceptive" communications with NIAID officials.
Is Moren's North Carolina co-conspirator Ralph Baric? Consider the recent evidence.
Last week, UNC suspended him. All his current grants are now frozen. He just announced his upcoming 'retirement' on June 1st, coupled with a departmental announcement packed with effusive praise for his career but conspicuously omitting any explanation for his abrupt retirement.
Meanwhile, the now-former acting NIAID director, Jeffery Taubenberger, another Fauci crony, abruptly resigned yesterday-- spectacularly rage-quitting during yesterday's Senate hearing. (Drama queen alert.) That brings the total to eight of ten (80%) senior NIAID positions now vacant.
The institution built as a corrupt cult of personality around diminutive Anthony Fauci, staffed by slavish Fauci cronies, and operated according to Fauci's secretive priorities for 38 years is now being systematically dismantled.
Not with any press conference. Not with any dramatic announcement. Quietly, methodically, one reassignment and indictment at a time. They are practically inviting the trad-media to connect the dots. But, while the media may be ruthless and cunning, its reporters are simply not smart enough to connect these dots.
Indeed, this is the natural consequence of what the Morens indictment described as a years-long conspiracy to hide the pandemic's origins from the American people, using government resources, on government time, funded by taxpayer dollars, all while cracking jokes about breaking the law, collecting wine, and mooching promises of Parisian dinners as a 'kickback.'
Think about what that means. The U.S. government has a long and remarkably consistent track record of not prosecuting its scientific class, no matter how horrible the misbehavior. The researchers who conducted secret radiation experiments on unwitting hospital patients from the 1940s through the 1970s --injecting people with plutonium, exposing prisoners to X-rays, irradiating the ********* of Oregon and Washington state inmates just to see what would happen-- none of them faced any criminal charges when those programs were exposed in the 1990s.
Instead, we got an apology from President Clinton. (In between cigar sessions.) That was it. Nobody went to jail, resigned, got fired, or was even debarred.
The doctors who ran the Tuskegee syphilis study for forty years, deliberately withholding treatment from black men so they could watch them die slowly in pain and anguish-- no criminal charges. (But it got another presidential apology!)
The Office of Research Integrity has handled hundreds of scientific misconduct cases over the past three decades. The standard outcome is purely administrative: you might lose your funding, some papers might get retracted, and you might, in the worst cases, be barred from grants for a few years. That's it.
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I also noted that the Artemis II program was relegated to minor news. Something that should inspire awe and national pride is too "ho-hum" for the unwashed masses.
So called news sites are nothing but reality TV anymore. Mostly crap.
So called news sites are nothing but reality TV anymore. Mostly crap.
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I honestly never had this on my dance card. Who would have thought that the Democrat party was funding itself through our own tax dollars? Didn't the Kamala Harris spend over a billion dollars on her failed campaign? Wow.
And now we're seeing all the Medicare graft going on with the Somalis in Minnesota, homeless graft in California and New York to the tune of billions of dollars.... what amazing dumb piggy banks we are.
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From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
People who paid attention during civics class in elementary school.
If you mean "illegally funding," though, it's the same deal with the Republicans. Worse, in some cases.
Take a look at where all of the money which was collected from us in the form of tariffs during the period of 2025-2026 is now going. It makes the Somali fraud look like amateur hour.
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I honestly never had this on my dance card. Who would have thought that the Democrat party was funding itself through our own tax dollars? Didn't the Kamala Harris spend over a billion dollars on her failed campaign? Wow.
And now we're seeing all the Medicare graft going on with the Somalis in Minnesota, homeless graft in California and New York to the tune of billions of dollars.... what amazing dumb piggy banks we are.
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