From History.com:
The Oklahoma City bombing occurred when a truck packed with explosives was detonated on April 19, 1995, outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people and leaving hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes. His co-conspirator Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison.
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a Ryder rental truck exploded with terrifying force in front of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. The powerful explosion blew off the building’s entire north wall. Emergency crews raced to Oklahoma from across the country, and when the rescue effort finally ended two weeks later, the death toll stood at 168 people. The list of the deceased included 19 young children who were in the building’s day care center at the time of the blast. More than 650 other people were injured in the bombing, which damaged or destroyed over 300 buildings in the immediate area.
What Led to the Oklahoma City Bombing?
Timothy McVeigh
A massive hunt for the bombing suspects ensued, and on April 21 an eyewitness description led authorities to charge Timothy McVeigh, a former U.S. Army soldier, in the case. As it turned out, McVeigh was already in jail, having been stopped a little more than an hour after the bombing for a traffic violation and then arrested for unlawfully carrying a handgun. Shortly before he was scheduled to be released from jail, he was identified as a prime suspect in the bombing and charged.
That same day, Terry Nichols, an associate of McVeigh’s, surrendered in Herington, Kansas. Both men were found to be members of a radical right-wing survivalist group based in Michigan. On August 8, Michael Fortier, who knew of McVeigh’s plan to bomb the federal building, agreed to testify against McVeigh and Nichols in exchange for a reduced sentence. Two days later, McVeigh and Nichols were indicted on charges of murder and unlawful use of explosives.
Domestic Terrorists Behind the Oklahoma City Bombing
While still in his teens, McVeigh, who was raised in western New York, acquired a penchant for guns and began honing survivalist skills he believed would be necessary in the event of a Cold War showdown with the Soviet Union. He graduated from high school in 1986 and in 1988 enlisted in the Army, where he proved to be a disciplined and meticulous soldier. While in the military, McVeigh befriended fellow soldier Nichols, who was more than a dozen years his senior and shared his survivalist interests.
In early 1991, McVeigh served in the Persian Gulf War. He was decorated with several medals for his military service; however, after failing to qualify for the Special Forces program, McVeigh accepted the Army’s offer of an early discharge and left in the fall of 1991. At the time, the American military was downsizing after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Another result of the end of the Cold War was that McVeigh shifted his ideology from a hatred of foreign communist governments to a suspicion of the U.S. federal government, especially as its new leader Bill Clinton, elected in 1992, had successfully campaigned for the presidency on a platform of gun control.
McVeigh, Nichols and their associates were deeply radicalized by such events as the August 1992 shoot-out at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, between federal agents and survivalist Randy Weaver at his rural cabin, and the Waco siege of April, 1993, in which 75 members of a Branch Davidian religious sect died near Waco, Texas. McVeigh planned an attack on the Murrah Building, which housed regional offices of such federal agencies as the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives, the agency that had launched the initial raid on the Branch Davidian compound. On April 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of the disastrous end to the Waco siege, McVeigh parked a Ryder rental truck loaded with a diesel-fuel-fertilizer bomb outside the Murrah Building and fled. Minutes later, the massive bomb exploded.
McVeigh and Nichols Sentenced
On June 2, 1997, McVeigh was convicted on all 11 counts against him, and on August 14 the death penalty was formally imposed. The following year, Fortier, who had met McVeigh in the Army, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to warn authorities about the Oklahoma City bombing plan. Fortier was released from prison in 2007 and entered the witness protection program. In December 1997, Nichols was found guilty on one count of conspiracy and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter, for killing federal law enforcement personnel, and was sentenced to life in prison. In 2004, he was tried on state charges in Oklahoma and convicted of 161 counts of first-degree murder, including fetal homicide. He received 161 consecutive life terms in prison.
Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum
In December 2000, McVeigh asked a federal judge to stop all appeals of his convictions and to set a date for his execution. The request was granted, and on June 11, 2001, McVeigh, at age 33, died by lethal injection at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was the first federal prisoner to be put to death since 1963. In May 1995, the Murrah Building was demolished for safety reasons, and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum later opened at the site.
SOURCE: HISTORY.COM
Pat’s Note: Filly brought a comment about the bombing and I wanted to include it here:
NebraskaFilly
April 10, 2025 at 9:44 am Edit
Yet another quagmire from history – why are they STILL hiding this???
EXCERPT: “After the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI launched a massive manhunt for a mystery accomplice to Timothy McVeigh known as “John Doe 2”—only to later claim that he never existed, and that McVeigh acted largely alone.
Nearly 30 years later, an attorney in Utah named Jesse Trentadue is still working to unearth the truth through his ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for surveillance footage of the blast. According to FBI and Secret Service records, the footage shows McVeigh with another unidentified subject.
Since McVeigh’s other known accomplice, Terry Nichols, was confirmed to have been in Kansas on April 19, John Doe 2’s identity remains a subject of debate. Credible researchers have made the case that he may have been an undercover informant, or even an agent.
Trentadue’s nearly 17-year-old FOIA lawsuit hasn’t received much attention over the last decade, largely because it’s been litigated behind closed doors, with gag orders on all parties. That’s because a special master is continuing to investigate stunning allegations that the FBI intimidated an undercover informant involved in the case.
With the OKC bombing anniversary next week, Trentadue recently moved to unseal the deposition he took of the FBI informant—a retired Marine named John Matthews, who allegedly saw McVeigh months before the bombing. However, one of the top officials in the Justice Department, Principal Acting Assistant Attorney General Yaakov Roth, is opposing his motion, according to a letter Trentadue wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi—a copy of which this reporter obtained.
“Mr. Roth appeared in that case in his official capacity and heads the Department of Justice’s vehement opposition to unsealing Matthews’ deposition,” Trentadue told Bondi in a March 26 letter. “Why is the Department of Justice fighting so hard to prevent the unsealing of that deposition when it is contrary to everything the current administration has publicly stated about exposing and cleaning up the FBI lawlessness?”
The contents of Matthews’s deposition are not publicly known. Trentadue said he wasn’t allowed to comment on the matter due to the court-imposed gag order……”
Sew Colorful 
Morning All!
early here and the birds are screaming for their breakfast! lol
hubby says warm, but rainy here today.
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Good morning! Down to a nipply 30 here this morning but the wind has finally stopped. Wheezer was waiting for his breakfast. As for this bombing, years ago, I ran across another account that brought up some HUGE questions but I don’t think I saved it nor can I recall any of the details. But there WAS a definitive reason why that building was chosen and it wasn’t the daycare!!! And, IMO, yes, OUR government was involved!
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April 19, 2025 12:32 am
Astonishing identity of Minnesota Tesla vandal filmed keying EV while walking his dog
Excerpt:
A member of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s administration has been repeatedly caught on camera allegedly vandalizing parked Tesla vehicles with his keys while out walking his dog.
Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, a fiscal policy analyst for the State of Minnesota, was captured on vehicle surveillance footage allegedly dragging a key across the exteriors of several Teslas, stripping paint and causing thousands of dollars in damage.
Authorities reportedly arrested Adams on suspicion of causing an estimated $20,000 in damage
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14626443/identity-minnesota-tesla-vandalism-filmed-keying-ev.html
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“US-Ukraine mineral deal is back on, to be signed next week, Trump says”
NY Post, By Caitlin Doornbos, Published April 17, 2025, 6:30 p.m. ET
“WASHINGTON — The US and Ukraine will finally sign a long sought-after mineral rights agreement next week after months of negotiations, according to officials from both countries. President Trump announced in the Oval Office Thursday that an agreement had been reached, estimating that it would be formalized April 24 at a location to be determined later.
In a little-noticed series of X posts early Wednesday, Ukrainian Minister of the Economy Yulia Svyrydenko announced that “a positive new step has been made in the ongoing progress with the United States on the Economic Partnership Agreement and the creation of an investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine.”
“Our technical teams have worked very thoroughly together on the agreement, and there is significant progress. Our legal staff has adjusted several items within the draft agreement,” Svyrydenko added “Thank you to the negotiators on both teams.”
“We have now agreed with the American side to record this progress in the relevant memorandum of intent. We are preparing to complete the formalization of the agreement in the near future.”
Ukraine holds large deposits of more than 20 minerals the US has deemed critical, including titanium, lithium, and uranium — all of which are necessary for the American military, energy, and nuclear power sectors.
A mineral deal was nearly signed on Feb. 28 during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the White House, but the agreement was briefly taken off the table after an explosive argument between Trump, Zelensky and Vice President JD Vance in front of dozens of reporters in the Oval Office.
That arrangement’s terms held that Ukraine would allocate 50% of future revenues generated from key national assets — including minerals, hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas, and other resources — to a joint fund. While details on the new deal were sparse on Thursday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the new arrangement is “substantially what we agreed upon previously.”
Zelensky, 47, has repeatedly expressed willingness to sign a framework deal — so long as it is not viewed as repayment for previously gifted military aid. The partnership is in part designed to help win Trump’s favor and reinvigorate America’s support against the Russian invasion.
The Trump administration has made mineral security a key aim over the past several months, pursuing potential deals in Greenland and the Democratic Republic of Congo as top adversary China holds a stark advantage in access to rare earth minerals. The agreement could also work to help Ukraine restore its economy once Russia finally ends its assault on the country.”
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“Dr. Oz Declares All-Out WAR on America’s Corrupt Healthcare System: As the new head of CMS, he just dropped the most aggressive plan we’ve ever seen to fix Medicare and Medicaid. You won’t believe what your tax dollars have been funding.”
The Vigilant Fox, Apr 18, 2025
EXCERPT: “Today, Dr. Mehmet Oz was sworn in as the new Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) during a high-stakes ceremony at the White House.
Wasting no time, Dr. Oz laid out the brutal truth: America is sick—and it’s bankrupting us. “70% of the healthcare expenditures of this country are driven by chronic disease,” he said. His message wasn’t about throwing more money at the problem or prescribing more pills. It was about fixing the root cause—our collapsing health.
He didn’t mince words. “It is your patriotic duty—I’ll say it again—the patriotic duty of all Americans to take care of themselves because it’s important for serving in the military, but it’s also important because healthy people don’t consume healthcare resources.” The payoff, he said, is both personal and national: “The best way to reduce drug spend is use less drugs—because you don’t need them—because you’re healthy.”
Dr. Oz is calling on Americans to rise up and take charge of their health—not just for themselves, but for the future of the country.
(Video clip)
After diagnosing the problem, Dr. Oz explained that he wanted to overhaul Medicare and Medicaid from top to bottom—ripping off the mask and exposing the dysfunction that’s held the system back for decades. Transparency, he said, is the key to everything. “The president is showing that he actually does love and cherish Medicare, with all of these executive orders—like the one on transparency—that really helps us.”
By pulling back the curtain, he believes we can finally tackle the rot that’s been festering behind closed doors. “You shine a light in the dark shadows where so much of the problems happen with the healthcare system,” he said. Because, as he put it plainly, “The most expensive care is bad quality care.”
This isn’t about more red tape. It’s about trust—and results.
(Video clip)
Then came the fire. Dr. Oz declared war on the fraudsters looting the system. And he meant it…..”
Videos: https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/dr-oz-declares-all-out-war-on-americas
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Just The News: “The Supreme Court will hear a legal challenge next week brought by Maryland parents who seek to opt their elementary school children out of hearing about LGBTQ topics during story time.
The case stems from the Montgomery County Board of Education’s decision to roll back its 2022 policy to notify parents and guardians of students about the “inclusivity” program’s LGBTQ story time in advance, and allow them to opt their Pre-K to fifth grade children out.
The school reversed the policy in 2023, but continued the program, per the Washington Times.
The challenge is brought by a group of parents from various religions, including Christianity, Islam and Judaism, who argue the reversal infringes on their free exercise of religion because their faiths do not support LGBTQ teachings.
The Supreme Court will hear the case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, on Tuesday.”
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Just The News: “President Donald Trump is planning to replace Gary Shapley, the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service just three days after appointing him, according to news reports Friday. Shapley is the fifth leader to leave the agency this year.
The decision to replace Shapley came after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Trump that Shapley was put in the agency without his knowledge at the direction of Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk, according to NBC News. Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender will likely become the next acting IRS commissioner.
Shapley and Special Agent Joseph Ziegler became well known after they investigated former first son Hunter Biden’s alleged financial crimes, but were removed from the probe after telling Congress that the Justice Department interfered with their probe.”
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Just The News: “A former New York Times opinions editor on Thursday emotionally apologized to former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for an opinion piece that he edited in 2017, which she claimed was defamatory.
The article, which was published in the wake of a shooting at a congressional baseball practice in Virginia, attempted to argue that the former Alaska governor’s political action committee contributed to an atmosphere of violence in the months leading up to the 2011 assassination attempt on then-Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords.
The piece attempted to connect a map Palin’s political action committee released, which showcased crosshairs over Democratic congressional electoral districts, to the 2011 assassination attempt, even though there was no evidence that the 2017 gunman ever saw the map.
The New York Times quickly revised the opinion piece and admitted in a note that the argument was inaccurate.
James Bennet, the former editor responsible for the inaccuracy in the piece, admitted during a defamation trial on Thursday that he put the information into the op-ed without vetting it first. He also apologized for the “mistake.”
“I blew it, you know, I made a mistake,” Bennet said on the stand. “I did, and I do apologize to Governor Palin for this mistake.”
He also testified that he did not believe the piece was implying that the map had caused the gunman to shoot lawmakers, but that he believed rhetoric could have “played a role.” He also said he did not believe the governor was responsible.
“There wasn’t any part of me that thought that Sarah Palin herself had drawn the crosshairs on the map or something like that,” Bennet said.
The current defamation trial is the second trial over the piece, after a jury ruled against Palin in 2022. But an appeals court later reinstated the case. Palin is expected to take the stand next week, according to the New York Post.”
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Just The News: “The two victims who were fatally shot at Florida State University (FSU) on Thursday have been identified by family members as an employee at the school, and a food service vendor executive.
Two people were killed in the mass shooting, and six others were injured, after 20-year-old FSU student, Phoenix Ikner, the son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy, allegedly opened fire with his mother’s service weapon. No motive has been released so far.
Authorities have not released the names of the dead victims, but family members of one victim and a legal team representing the family of the second have confirmed their loved ones’ deaths.
One of the victims, who worked at the school as the university dining coordinator, was identified as 57-year-old Robert Morales, who had been with the university since 2015, NBC News reported.
“Today we lost my younger Brother, he was one of the victims killed at FSU,” Morales’ brother Ricardo Morales Jr. posted online late Thursday. “He loved his job at FSU and his beautiful Wife and Daughter. I’m glad you were in my life.”
Morales previously attended FSU as a student in the early 1990s, where he studied criminology. The brothers are also the sons of the late Cuban exile turned CIA operative Ricardo Morales, known as “the Monkey” in South Florida.
The other victim is 45-year-old Tiru Chabba, who was on the campus while working for the food service vendor Aramark. Chabba, who is from South Carolina, is survived by two children and his wife, according to the Associated Press.
“Tiru Chabba’s family is going through the unimaginable now,” Bakari Sellers, one of the attorneys hired by the family, said in a statement. “Instead of hiding Easter eggs and visiting with friends and family, they’re living a nightmare where this loving father and devoted husband was stolen from them in an act of senseless and preventable violence.”
All the wounded victims, who have not been identified so far, are expected to make a full recovery.”
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Just The News: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday announced that his department will restrict the visas of more than 250 Nicaraguan officials over human rights violations committed by its leaders.
The Nicaraguan legislature in January approved a constitutional amendment that allows Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo to serve as co-presidents. The Oretga’s government has also been accused of imprisoning political protesters, reporters and religious leaders, according to The Hill.
Rubio claimed in a post on X that the regime is an “enemy of humanity” and accused it of “weaponizing immigration” by serving as a hub for illegal migrants hoping to enter the United States.
“As we mark seven years since the Ortega and Murillo regime’s brutal wave of repression against protesters, we reflect on the protesters’ courage and desire to live in a Nicaragua free from tyranny,” Rubio said in a statement. “The United States will not stand for Ortega and Murillo’s continued assault on Nicaragua.”
https://www.state.gov/promoting-accountability-for-the-ortega-murillo-dictatorship/
The secretary added that the U.S. has now restricted visas for more than 2,000 Nicaraguan officials altogether. The move comes after the Biden administration imposed sanctions and restrictions on more than 250 members of the country’s government and their family members last year.”
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How sad…..it’s never easy when you lose a child.
Just The News: “Arizona GOP Rep. Andy Biggs announced Friday that one of his children recently died from cancer.
“Earlier this week, our daughter Cosette lost her battle with cancer,” Biggs wrote in a statement posted on the social media platform X. “We are devastated by her passing but take comfort knowing she is at peace with the Lord.”
Biggs said she died peacefully surrounded by family.
“Thank you to everyone for your thoughts, prayers, and support,” Biggs wrote. “We are humbled by this great community and the outpouring of love for Cosette and our family.”
Biggs represents Arizona’s 5th Congressional District. He recently announced his bid for governor of the state. He and his wife, Cindy, are the parents of six children and grandparents to 11 grandchildren, according to the congressman’s website.”
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Just The News: “Vice President J.D. Vance attended the Good Friday service in Rome during his trip to Italy amid Holy Week. Vance, a Catholic, went to St. Peter’s Basilica along with his wife, Usha, and three children.
The 88-year-old Pope Francis reportedly did not attend the service, as he convalesces from a weeks-long hospital stay earlier this year from pneumonia.
The Pope in February criticized the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations and rebutted the theological concept Vance used to defend the crackdown. The vice president was not scheduled to personally meet with the Pope on his trip, amid speculation he might. However, he was set to meet with the Vatican secretary of state.
Prior to the Good Friday service, Vance met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one day after she met with President Donald Trump at the White House.
“I’m grateful every day for this job, but particularly today where my official duties have brought me to Rome on Good Friday,” Vance wrote on the social media platform, X. “I had a great meeting with Prime Minister Meloni and her team, and will head to church soon with my family in this beautiful city.”
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“Is Canada Brain-Dead?”
PJ Media, David Solway | 1:45 PM on April 18, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “As we survey the political landscape today, it is hard to escape the conclusion that a plague of mental catalepsy has swept the globe. One recalls the old multi-attributed adage: whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Clearly, being rendered stupid would be just as effective.
In essence, we note there are two large demographic bodies that resemble one another in the extent of their cognitive impairment: brain-dead politicians and brain-dead electorates. They are not necessarily coterminous. In some nations, one predominates; in others, another. Sometimes the two dispensations are found in sync.
In European nations such as the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, and Romania, and of course in the higher echelons of the EU itself, the political class is plainly suffering from an access of both mental impairment and historical ignorance, receding into the very totalitarian past they were reconstructed to avert, imposing court-ordered repressive measures against public expression, imprisoning dissident individuals, and banning popular rival parties poised to triumph at the polls. The electorates themselves are generally in revolt, joining the surge of populist resentment and political protest.
In the U.S., the situation is somewhat more complex. The MAGA/Republican leadership and its loyal supporters enjoy a visionary lien on a productive and unfettered future, but nearly half the citizenry and its political representatives are firmly embedded in the dark ages of political evolution. The former are, for the most part, sane, intelligent and fundamentally decent; the latter are effectively brain-dead, which is to say, short-sighted, naïve and, frankly, incapable of reasoned judgment. And like their leaders, they are often prone to violence in word or deed. One might say that America is basically two countries, or rather, a cleanly bifurcate nation. In the MAGA wing, both leadership and electorate are vital; in the Democrat wing, leadership and electorate are reciprocally brain-dead.
Canada generally is far more unified in its dereliction than the U.S. It furnishes a unique example in which both an intellectually vacuous political cadre and a comatose electorate operate in approximately sibling tandem to pulverize the economy, enact oppressive articles of legislation, and plunge a once free and prosperous country into a debt-ridden, unproductive, ESG-indentured third world crater. The dominant political clade and the overwhelmingly left-voting electorate are twin aspects of the same moral and intellectual depravity. The politicians are brain-dead because they believe social and economic ruin is a planetary advantage. The people are brain-dead—at any rate, at least two-thirds or more of the voting public—since they are in general agreement with their betters and are just too stupid or indifferent to do their homework.
The issue has come to a head with the accession of globalist banker and Net-Zero fanatic Mark Carney to the prime minister’s office, and the alarming possibility that the Liberal Party, which enjoyed three successive terms in which to devastate the country, is poised to win yet a fourth to complete the job. Carney, who is far more crackerjack and dangerous than his hapless puppet Justin Trudeau, is just the man to make it happen.
As Action4Canada reminds us, Canadians don’t seem to care that Carney is an unrepentant globalist, a member of an oligarchic class that has “been contriving to create a dystopian future through fearmongering, misinformation, unscientific data, and manipulation.” Climate change must be fought, goes the mantra, even if it means the de-industrialization and impoverishment of the market-dominated economy. The Carneyesque project entails measures such as the six-year UN/WEF plan to reduce
That is the future that Carney is planning for Canada, which must reduce its comparatively miniscule emissions to zero even at the expense of its prosperity and possibly of its survival as a viable country. Obviously, the likelihood of planetary salvation is pitched too far into the future to provide a scintilla of evidence for the validity of the policy. But if the world were to be saved tomorrow according to Carney’s intention, Canada will have ceased to exist. The problem is that Canada’s sacrifice on the altar of Gaia would yield no demonstrable result.
But Carney has been given a free ride. People are impressed by his resume, a CV, apparently, confected to dazzle a dull-witted and unsuspecting public with red ribbon appointments, accomplishments and awards. People do not seem to understand that CVs may be deceptive, for two reasons. What is not included in a CV may be just as or even more revealing than what is. Additionally, much of what glitters therein is not gold but mica.
Nigel Hannaford at the Western Standard interviews an elderly female Carney voter who bears eloquent witness to this form of cognitive deficiency. “I like Carney,” she enthuses. “He has a good resume, you know. He was a banker.” Hannaford responds by asking her: “how do you feel about the fact that he wants to choke our oil industry? Or that as a professed church-going Catholic, he won’t condemn abortion? That he wants to bring back the Online Harms Act? He’s in thick with people who don’t like people having too much freedom to travel or eat beef. He’s all about making you use less electricity by making it more expensive.”
Her typically Canadian reply was about as predictable as Carney’s election appears to be: “I wouldn’t know about any of that. But you know, he seems steady. Makes me feel safe. He’s not going to change things.” It boggles the mind. In the words of Elizabeth Nickson, Carney is “a ghoul in a suit with the ethics of an alley cat.” The evidence that Carney is unfit for leadership is readily available to any citizen who is willing to perform even a modicum of research, to look into a prime minister’s past statements, enactments and commitments, or merely to observe the civil and economic ruination his party has caused over a lost decade.
Such laziness and shallowness are common human properties, of course, but in Canada they are ubiquitous, the real pandemic. Any sentient and reasonably informed citizen will know that Mark Carney and the Liberal Party portend economic desolation and diminished freedom of speech and action for all Canadians, irrespective of whom they voted for. It is, in effect, his plan for the West in large, but Canada is his chosen petri dish.
Sometimes you can tell a book by its cover. The cover image of Carney’s Value(s) tells us all we really need to know about Carney’s motives: the planet enclosed by a cage-like apparatus. The symbolism is no doubt meant to connote a scaffold of protectiveness, but the inadvertent suggestion of snared confinement is glaring. Carney’s values are tantamount to a prison sentence.
Despite the prognosis, all may not be lost. Perhaps a deus ex machina may appear at the last moment to defy the polls. After all, we have MAGA-like people among us, as well as younger folk who know they have been handed a raw deal—those who represent whatever hope may be waiting at the bottom of Pandora’s box. But the fact remains that Canada is one of those countries in which the majority of the electorate and the greater part of the political estate are equally brain-dead, which is why its future has become entirely problematic. It was different once, but Canada has changed. Barring the unforeseen, it is now a place where the mind goes to die.”
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Just The News: “Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Ore., is planning to travel to El Salvador to advocate for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian national who the Trump administration deported to El Salvador.
“A legal U.S. resident has had his due process rights ripped away and is now being held indefinitely in a foreign prison. This is not just one family’s nightmare; it is a constitutional crisis that should outrage every single one of us,” Dexter said in a statement released on Friday night.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., met with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador on Thursday night. He vowed to continue pushing for his release back to the U.S.”
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“Fauci Refuses To Take Media Questions At Protested Florida Speaking Event –While Anthony Fauci retired in 2022, his wife was recently laid off by cuts to Fauci’s former agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.”
The Federalist, By: Ashley Bateman, April 18, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Floridians gathered to protest Anthony Fauci’s two lectures at the acclaimed Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota Monday, in a two-part rally across southwest sections of the state. The event demonstrates increasing public skepticism about Covid lockdowns and Fauci, lockdowns’ foremost champion.
Fauci refused to make himself available to media at the Florida event, another reversal for the famous TV and publicity hound. While Fauci retired in 2022, his wife was recently laid off by the Trump administration’s cuts to Fauci’s former agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Five years on from unprecedented lockdowns, the evidence of their damage continues to grow. A new book documenting those harms for school children comes out on April 22.
The Florida event is the latest in a string of lectures Fauci is giving this spring to rehab his image and promote his book. Demonstrators held anti-Covid-vaccine posters just outside the building where the former NIAID director spoke before a sold-out crowd. One man in a Fauci mask wielded new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.”
In a parallel event dubbed “FreedomFest,” physicians, health freedom advocates, and community leaders spoke at Five Points Park, calling out the devastating directives that cost livelihoods, freedoms, and lives during the Covid outbreak under Fauci’s misguided leadership.
Keynote speaker Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo emphasized the importance of the grassroots effort to attendees. Called the “Anti-Fauci” by The New York Post in 2021, Ladapo has consistently stressed the value of data and preventive treatment, despite intense criticism and ridicule from left-leaning outlets.
“We were told some people are essential and some are not. We were told we couldn’t sit on the beach. We were told we couldn’t work independently with our physicians. It completely ruined everything we considered American,” said Michelle Pozzie, director of operations for Hollow Alliance and host of Open Mic on Patriot TV. “And you look at the driving force who pushed all of those policies, the driving force behind all of that was Anthony Fauci, and I didn’t elect him.”
Fauci’s “hero” persona couldn’t be a more false representation, said Kimberly Overton, an ICU nurse and founder of Nurse Freedom Network. She witnessed the weaponization of public health during the lockdowns and promoted the Sarasota event.
Fauci not only misled the American public, but pushed policies that caused irreparable harm to individuals, families, and public trust in medicine, Overton said in an email. Rather than face accountability, Fauci’s speaking tour is an attempt to rewrite history and falsify his legacy, she said.
The event was sponsored by Vic Mellor’s health non-profit, We the People Health and Wellness Center. Mellor, a well-known local philanthropist and retired Marine, created a haven in the state for physicians who refused to follow abusive government and business directives and treated patients independently during lockdowns. His “medical freedom” sanctuary, The Hollow, drew patients and physicians seeking health freedom during national closures and censorship and has grown from a 10- to 40-acre retreat space.
Mellor now runs his clinic and advocates for truth in what he calls today’s “media war.” He said he sees the paid Fauci event as disappointing, but also as an opportunity to expose the former presidential advisor. Pozzie called the event a “collaboration of groups, organizations, and businesses who are like-minded that we as citizens must have the loudest voice in our government, the way people are elected and the way our government works.”
“If the city is going to bring him in and give him accolades, we want to present the other side of the coin,” Pozzie said.”
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“Former White House Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci earned $3.5 million in his first year of retirement from government and may have misled Congress about the date of his departure, documents reveal.
Fauci received several six-figure deposits through 2023 totaling $1.15 million according to a 141-page financial disclosure obtained by Open The Books, a government watchdog group. The documents do not describe the source of the deposits.
Fauci leveraged his celebrity status as the top trusted messenger on COVID-19 to pad his earnings in 2023, just as newly empowered Congressional investigators sharpened their focus on the ways Fauci betrayed the public’s trust at the pandemic’s height.
Fauci sold his memoir to a subsidiary of Penguin Random House for a reported $5 million in March 2023. That news coincided with a March 2023 congressional memo showing Fauci had privately “prompted” an influential paper dismissing the theory that COVID could have resulted from a lab accident. On July 1, 2023, Fauci began an appointment at Georgetown University as distinguished university professor in both the School of Medicine and School of Public Policy. Roughly two weeks later, two of the coauthors of that paper testified to Congress about the extent of their collaboration with Fauci.
The White House on Friday updated the official covid.gov page to highlight this paper, “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” and Fauci’s behind-the-scenes role in downplaying the “lab leak theory.”
Fauci also accepted speaking gigs with several special interest groups in 2023. Some of these organizations and trade associations — including the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and American Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) — have policy agendas that intersect with the federal government’s COVID-19 response or the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the NIH division that Fauci led for nearly four decades.
Fauci’s esteem in the scientific community was lucrative in 2023, despite nagging questions from Congress about his endorsement of gain-of-function research like the coronavirus experiments funded by NIAID in Wuhan, China.
Fauci accepted medals with monetary prizes from the highest echelons of academia including Columbia University’s Calderone Prize, worth $50,000, and the National Academy of Medicine’s Lienhard Prize, worth $40,000.
Fauci’s final government salary totaled an unprecedented $480,654, the highest salary earned by any of the roughly 2.4 million employees who work for the federal government, including the president, according to Open The Books. Fauci continues to accept a six-figure pension.
Fauci’s net worth roughly doubled from $7.6 million the year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2019 to $15 million in 2023. Fauci also received taxpayer-funded transportation and security detail via the U.S. Marshals Service as a private citizen in 2023.
“Dr. Fauci’s assets soared during the worst of the draconian Covid lockdowns while families and small businesses struggled through school closures and lost income. Now it’s clear the cash kept coming during his first year of ‘retirement,’” said Open The Books CEO John Hart. “He was rubbing elbows with groups like AHIP flanked by taxpayer-funded security — even as his wife remained the top bioethicist at NIH.”
Amid concerns Fauci misled Congress under oath about the research in Wuhan, former President Joe Biden granted Fauci a pardon on Jan. 20. Fauci did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Delayed Retirement
Fauci announced in August 2022 that he would retire in December 2022. At the time, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky warned that “retirement can’t shield Dr. Fauci from congressional oversight.” In November 2022, Congressional Republicans — who had been investigating connections between Fauci’s NIAID and the Wuhan Institute of Virology — won control of the House of Representatives and thus key committees.
Now, Open The Books has uncovered evidence through Fauci’s Application for Immediate Retirement that he delayed his retirement until Jan. 6, 2023 — three days after the new Congress started — but misinformed Congress about the change. Fauci sent a request to NIH Acting Director Larry Tabak to delay his retirement in order to retain personal protection, emails suggest.
An email from Tabak to Fauci indicates a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Marshals Service was still tied up in the Office of General Counsel. “OGC is working to clear the MOU from the USMS,” Tabak said in a Dec. 27, 2022, email to Fauci confirming his delayed retirement date.
In both a transcribed interview with congressional investigators in January 2024 and in public congressional testimony under oath in June 2024, Fauci described his retirement from federal service as having occurred in December 2022. Fauci’s extraordinary MOU with the U.S. Marshals Service cost taxpayers roughly $15 million, Open The Books and journalist Jordan Schachtel reported in November 2024.
The U.S. Marshals Service captures fugitives and protects judges and court witnesses. It’s not clear that any other former federal employee has been protected under such an agreement, according to Open The Books.
President Donald Trump terminated the arrangement on Jan. 23, along with the security details of former national security adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “They all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security too,” Trump said. “Fauci made a lot of money.”
Bioethics?
Some of the growth in the Fauci household’s net worth stems from the taxpayer-funded salary of Dr. Christine Grady, a bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health, who earned $263,005 in 2024. An NIH official told the DCNF earlier this month that although Grady had a good reputation within the bioethics discipline, she had a conflict of interest that posed ethical questions of its own.
“One of the problems when the coverup was going on of the Wuhan lab leak, that whole fiasco, was that they were not listening to anyone giving ethics advice,” the official said. “If they had had someone at the table with knowledge of this, they would have said: ‘Hey do you want to play it this way, or be more transparent?’ Someone could have raised the question.”
“That’s something Christine Grady could have, or should have, done,” the official continued. “She wasn’t able to do it because she was Fauci’s wife. Maybe they had discussions in private about what was going on,” the official said. “She was placed in a conflicted role because of that.”
Grady was among the employees at the Department of Health and Human Services affected by the department-wide restructuring and reduction in force prompted by the Department of Government Efficiency earlier this month. Grady was reportedly given a choice between relocating away from the couple’s tony Beltway neighborhood to an Indian Health Service post or leaving HHS.”
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What goes around, comes around! Sales of flip phones are up 14% among Gen Z – they don’t want the distractions any more, they want to live in the moment w/more quiet. Ha! See? I’m really NOT such an old fuddy-duddy with my flip phone! ROFL
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Just The News: “Russian President Vladimir Putin announces Easter ceasefire in Ukraine beginning on Saturday night
The ceasefire is expected to begin on 6 p.m. Moscow time on Saturday and end 12 a.m. on the Monday following Easter Sunday, the Kremlin said.
“We assume that the Ukrainian side will follow our example. At the same time, our troops must be ready to repel possible violations of the truce and provocations from the enemy, any of its aggressive actions,” Putin said, according to NBC News.”
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Just The News: “The U.S. and Iran have agreed to enter the next phase of negotiations over the Iranian regime’s nuclear program.
The second round of the talks began in Rome on Saturday between Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff through the mediation of Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi.
The envoys have “agreed to enter into the next phase of their discussions that aim to seal a fair, enduring and binding deal which will ensure Iran completely free of nuclear weapons and sanctions, and maintaining its ability to develop peaceful nuclear energy,” a spokesperson for Oman’s foreign ministry said in a statement posted on Saturday on X.
“It is only in dialogue and clear communication that we will be able to achieve a mutually credible agreement and understanding for the benefit of all concerned regionally and internationally. It is also agreed that the next round will take place in Muscat in the next few days,” the statement also read.”
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“Utah woman has tires spiked by police during high-speed chase, calls AAA to come fix the flat”
Not The Bee, Mister Retrops, Apr 18, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Utah woman Annamae Cabalsa Martinez was happily leading police on a high speed chase at speeds as high as 130 mph earlier this month when she made some life choices she would later regret. According to the affidavit, after police pursued her she sped up from her original 120 mph to 130.
Eventually, after one failed attempt at dropping tire spikes on the woman, they dropped another and took out one of her tires.
From the police report:
Here’s where it gets wonky. After about 40 minutes of police yelling at Martinez to get out of the car, Martinez called AAA to come fix her flat.
This may explain why she wasn’t complying with the police: She was on hold with AAA. Anyhow, AAA wasn’t about to send one of their people into that mess, so they transferred the call to the police, who then transferred it to the trooper at the scene.
The trooper successfully convinced a deflated Martinez that AAA wasn’t coming, and eventually she exited the vehicle and got towed to jail.
No word yet on whether or not AAA eventually fixed the tire…”
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“It snowed in Hawaii on Friday. While most of the state enjoys a tropical climate year-round, Hawaii’s mountaintops are no stranger to winter weather. A University of Hawaii web camera showed snow on the ground along the guardrails of one of the Mauna Kea astronomy observatories on Friday morning.
A slow-moving low pressure system is making its way through Hawaii before exiting later Saturday, bringing snow to the summits on the Big Island. Hawaii’s mountains are mainly volcanoes, including Mauna Kea on the Big Island, whose summit is nearly 14,000 feet above sea level.
Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on the planet when measured from it’s base which extends below the ocean floor. While snow is not uncommon among the tall peaks of Hawaii’s Big Island, you might think by April the snow would be done.”
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“AR Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Signs First-in-the-Nation Law to Break Up Big Pharma’s Provider Network”
Red State, By Jennifer Oliver O’Connell | 1:12 PM on April 19, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has done something unprecedented, and just like her call for SNAP reform, she has now driven a MAHA stake through the heart of Big Pharma. In signing House Bill 1150 (HB 1150) on Wednesday, Sanders has effectively disconnected the pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) from the profit centers of its retail chains.
The PBMs control price and product monopoly, which puts a stranglehold on the ability of local pharmacies and providers to survive and grow. The signing into law of HB 1150 also looks to combat the increased price of medications for Arkansas consumers:
The average consumer knows that their medication is overpriced. What they may be unaware of is the control and regulation exerted by the pharmaceutical monopoly. PBMs are the third-party administrators for health insurers like Blue Cross, United Health, Medicare Part D, and others. Along with this control, they are also embedded into the retail pharmacy chains: CVS and Walgreens primary among them. They control the formularies, the pharmacy networks, and set who manages the drugs in use.
Think about all the COVID madness, when life-saving drugs like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin were being banned by major pharmacies, while mifepristone (the abortion pill) was allowed without restriction. You can thank the PMBs for that. Companies like CVS Caremark and Optum RX run the show through these PMBs, which in turn are owned by a top-10 health insurer like Blue Cross or United Health. One hand washes the other and helps to maintain the entire health industrial complex and therefore what you can access and how much you pay:
So, Sanders’ move is huge and could set a precedent for other states to follow. To be expected, the usual suspects are not happy about this development:
Sanders did not listen, setting the stage for what could be the erosion of the pharmaceutical monopoly. There will be close watch on these developments as other red state legislatures review their relationship with PBM networks.”
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“Florida Woman Evicted From Apartment After Shooting Would-Be Intruder”
Bearing Arms, By Cam Edwards | 4:01 PM | April 18, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “It’s been a little more than a week since 28-year-old Juan Diego was shot and killed as he allegedly tried to enter a dwelling in the Carlton Apartments in Fort Myers, Florida, and though police continue to investigate the shooting as a case of self-defense, the company that owns the apartment complex is moving to evict the tenant who fired at Diego, along with her roommates.
Fox 4 in southwest Florida spoke to the father of one of the tenants, who’s understandably livid that his child is getting kicked out of her home because her roommate acted to protect herself and her friends.
Even if Diego had no ill intent when he tried to enter the apartment, the women inside had no idea what his intentions were. As far as they’re concerned, a stranger (who turned out to be armed himself) was trying to break into their home. Under Florida’s Castle Doctrine, there’s a strong case to be made that the armed citizen acted in lawful defense of herself and her roommates, and the fact that police haven’t filed any charges more than a week after the incident at least suggests that law enforcement is leading to that conclusion.
The management of the complex, however, isn’t waiting for police to officially determine whether any charges should be filed. It sounds like as far as they’re concerned, the tenants are already guilty of violating the terms of their lease.
So if you discharge a gun, even in self-defense, you’re violating the terms of your lease? What about telling a would-be intruder “leave or I’ll shoot you”? Would that be considered threatening violence by the apartment complex’s management?
I’d love to see these tenants fight the eviction notice, but Lurie says his daughter and her friends plan on leaving the Carlton Apartments in the next few days. Still, he’s speaking out about the letter they received because he’s “shocked” at the policy and the disregard for the particular circumstances involved here, telling Fox 4. “If the intruder had gotten in and harmed the occupants, including my daughter, then they’d be allowed to stay? It just doesn’t make any sense to me.”
It doesn’t make any sense to me either, and I hope that this was just an error on the part of the Mahaffey Apartment Group; one that will be rectified now that the local media’s paying attention. The owners of the Carlton still have the opportunity to do the right thing and rescind the eviction notice, apologize to these tenants, and explicitly state that protecting your life will not lead to you being booted out of your apartment.
If they fail to do so, 2A advocates in the Sunshine State should spread the word about this insane provision in the Carlton’s lease and ensure that no other gun owner has to choose between their protecting their life or losing their home.”
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