Link: https://www.rt.com/news/612665-trump-freezes-ned-funding/

The US president’s spending cut reportedly leaves the organization unable to pay staff and grantees. US President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen all funding to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), several media outlets reported on Wednesday. The move is said to have caused a “bloodbath” within the organization, leaving it unable to pay staff or fulfill financial commitments. The NED, established in 1983, is officially a nonprofit organization that provides grants to support democratic initiatives worldwide. However, over the years, it has faced allegations of covertly influencing political outcomes, with critics arguing that it has taken over covert functions previously handled by the CIA, particularly those aimed at overthrowing foreign governments. Earlier this month, Elon Musk, who heads Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has been in charge of finding ways to cut federal spending, singled out NED, calling it a ”scam” and an “evil organization” that needs to be dissolved.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/612697-macron-us-electroshock/

The French president has called US diplomacy a “strategic wake-up call” and urged the bloc to stop being so dependent. French President Emmanuel Macron has compared Donald Trump’s return to the White House and his recent steps as US president to an “electroshock” that should force the EU to take charge of its own security and Ukraine’s future. In an interview with the Financial Times published on Friday, two days after Trump had a phone talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Macron urged the EU to “muscle up” on its defense and revive its economy. The bloc must embrace the “strategic wake-up call,” take on greater responsibility for its own security, and reduce its reliance on both the US and China, he said. “It is an electroshock. We need asymmetric shocks, we need external shocks. It is an exogenous shock for Europeans,” Macron told the FT.

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2025/02/14/europe-is-shocked-by-the#more32396

During Biden's presidency, European dwarfs were constantly inflating their own importance. However, after the return of Trump, who intends to shift all costs related to Kiev from Washington to Brussels, European officials began to assure the world community of their inability to cope with Russia without the United States. The former mouthpiece of the American Democrats, The New York Times newspaper, which has now become a spokesman for the hidden opposition to Trump, picked up on the claim of "European weakness" and writes that the whole of Europe does not have enough troops to "protect" Ukraine. "Deterring Russia after the end of this conflict may require 150,000 troops, as well as American assistance in the field of air cover, missile defense and intelligence," the newspaper claims.

Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/censorship-industrial-complex-hearing-highlights-democrat-denial-of-big-tech-censorship-collusion

US House Democrats seem to have chosen the path of not taking any accountability whatsoever for the goings-on during a number of previous years, which resulted in an unprecedented form of “public-private partnership” – what is known, and investigated, as the government-Big Tech censorship collusion. The House Judiciary Committee is behind one of the more prominent investigations (yet another is conducted by the Committee on Small Businesses) and the Judiciary body just held a hearing titled, “The Censorship-Industrial Complex.” But it was mostly an opportunity for Democrats who showed up to deny, deflect, downplay – pretty much every point of this fundamentally important problem.

Link: https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/02/14/nato-sec-gen-bends-to-vp-vance-you-are-absolutely-right-we-have-to-grow-up/

MUNICH, Germany – Vice President J.D. Vance attended his first bilateral meeting this morning alongside NATO leaders, including Secretary-General Mark Rutte, who appeared to react positively to the Trump-Vance insistence that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) needs reform, with Rutte stating: “I look forward also from that perspective to our talks and on Europe stepping up, European part of NATO stepping up. You’re absolutely right. It has to be done. We have to grow up in that sense and spend much more.”

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-biden-judge-blocks-trump-cancelling-foreign-aid/

A federal judge on Thursday evening temporarily blocked President Trump from cancelling foreign aid contracts. President Trump last month froze US foreign aid for 90 days. Last month, after Trump’s executive order to halt foreign aid grants, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued new guidance to temporarily pause spending on most foreign aid for 3 months. Marco Rubio said the State Department will issue waivers on a case by case basis.

Link: https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/are-covid-19-vaccines-in-pregnancy-as-safe-and-effective-as-the-medical-industrial-complex-claim-part-i/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Introduction: In Part I of this three-part series, we report a retrospective, population-based cohort study assessing rates of adverse events (AEs) in pregnancy after COVID-19 vaccines compared to the same AEs after influenza vaccines and after all other vaccines.

Methods: Data were collected from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The CDC/FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database was queried from January 1, 1990 to April 26, 2024, for adverse events (AEs) involving pregnancy complications following COVID-19 vaccination. The time-period included 412 months for all vaccines except COVID-19 vaccines, having been used for only 40 of the 412 months (December 1, 2020 to April 26, 2024). Proportional reporting ratios (PRR) by time compared AEs after COVID-19 vaccination to those after influenza vaccination, and after all other vaccine products administered to pregnant women. In cases in which the PRR was not applicable, Chi-square analysis and Fisher’s exact tests were used according to CDC/FDA guidance. CDC/FDA stipulate a safety concern if a PRR is ≥ 2 or if a Chi-square is ≥ 4.

Results: The CDC/FDA’s safety signals were breached for all 37 AEs following COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy including miscarriage, chromosomal abnormalities, fetal malformations, cervical insufficiency, fetal arrhythmia, hemorrhage in pregnancy, premature labor/delivery, preeclampsia, preterm rupture of membranes, placental abnormalities, fetal growth restriction, stillbirth, newborn asphyxia and newborn death. All p values were ≤ 0.001 with the majority being <0.000001.

Link: http://www.smoking-mirrors.com/2025/02/the-spring-of-new-age-is-also-time-of.html

When a certain series of changes goes into motion and... more importantly... continues in motion upon the same trajectory... then you may know that the hand of The Divine is engaged... via his principal advocates and agencies. Otherwise, it is the usual agitated bucket filled with water; slosh this way and you get a slosh thataway, and... you also get secondary and tertiary sloshes in every other direction, which should show you... if you think about it.,.. how quickly the simple can become complicated. Ergo? Don't think about it.

Link: https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/trump-suspends-funding-for-national-endowment-for-democracy-ned-as-usaid-waste-fraud-and-abuse-list-becomes-public

Trump Suspends Funding for National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as USAID Waste, Fraud, and Abuse LIST becomes public | President Donald Trump has suspended funding and operations of the National Endowment for Democracy; an entity which meddles in countries and elections all over the world in the name of "promoting Democracy." This one is HUGE, folks… Want to know how huge? VICTORIA NULAND sits on the Executive Board of the N.E.D. This “Non-Profit” is the primary founder of Soros/WEF NGO’s creating unrest and color revolutions around the world.

Link: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/02/trump-tells-ukrainian-war-party-that-the-game-is-up.html

Moon of Alabama | Today the Trump administration told the Ukraine war party that their game is finally up. Everything it had hoped for is out of reach | Just yesterday Zelenski claimed that Europe cannot guarantee Ukraine’s security without the US. He is right with that. Over the last years Russia's military power has tripled. No alliance of current European armies could withstand its power should a conflict over Ukraine reignite. There is only one party that can and is willing to give Ukraine real security guarantees. That is of course, as I have written 20 months ago, Russia.

Link: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/interviews/the-dark-money-behind-the-trans-movement-investigative-journalist-jennifer-bilek/

or the first time in a decade, the seemingly invincible transgender movement is on the run. In the United States, the Trump administration is purging gender ideology from government institutions and issuing a string of executive orders targeting everything from sex change surgeries for minors to LGBT indoctrination in schools. Europe’s medical institutions—in Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and France—are pushing back against “gender affirming care” for minors or banning it entirely. Populists in Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany have caught the mood and are increasingly unequivocal in their condemnations of aspects of gender ideology. Leaders in Hungary and Poland, of course, were ahead of the curve. To ensure that recent victories and the frequently unstable positions of politicians bending to public opinion are permanent, it is essential to understand the key sources of the transgender movement’s power.

Link: https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/12/dhs-chief-noem-clawed-back-59-million-fema-allocated-house-illegal-aliens-nyc-hotels/

The Trump administration has retrieved the $59 million the Federal Emergency Management Agency allocated last week to house illegal aliens in hotels in New York City. “I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X on Wednesday. “FEMA was funding the Roosevelt Hotel that serves as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to house Laken Riley’s killer,” Noem wrote, referring the Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien from Venezuela who was found guilty in November of murdering Riley, a Georgia nursing student. Tren de Aragua is a Venezuela-based gang.

Link: https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/12/gabbard-confirmed-intel-chief/

The Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence in a 52-to-48 vote on Wednesday. Gabbard, who served four terms in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021 as a Democrat but subsequently became an independent and then a Republican, was approved on a near-party-line vote. All 45 Democrats and the two nominal independents who caucus with them were joined by Sen Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in voting against her nomination. As director of national intelligence, Gabbard will oversee 17 agencies in the intelligence community, including the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency. Gabbard had faced tough confirmation hearing questioning from some Democratic senators. They alleged that Gabbard, a lieutenant colonel in the Army National Guard who had passed several FBI background checks, was unduly sympathetic to foreign powers.

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/12/bidenomics-final-score-7-jobs-for-migrants-for-each-american-job/

The results are in: The Democratic Party’s Bidenomics strategy produced a disastrous score of just 160,000 extra jobs for Americans during each year of President Joe Biden’s presidency. President Joe Biden’s dismal Bidenomics also created jobs for 4.7 million migrants — including almost three million illegals, according to federal data collected by the Center for Immigration Studies and reported on February 7. So Bidenomics created 7.3 migrant jobs for every job gained by an American, even as it also exploded the national debt by $8 trillion. Bidenomics also flatlined wages, spiked housing costs, and slowed workplace investment. The Bidenomics 7:1 policy — 4.7 million jobs for migrants, 645,000 for Americans — was deliberate. Bidenomics deliberately stranded millions of working-age Americans outside the workforce, without jobs or prospects, often homeless and on drugs, and usually dependent on expensive government aid.

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-02-13-egg-rationing-bird-flu-food-scarcity.html

Major grocery chains like Costco and Whole Foods are rationing eggs, citing bird flu-related shortages, sparking shopper outrage. Critics argue the mass culling of 148 million chickens is creating artificial scarcity to drive inflation. The USDA’s policy of euthanizing infected flocks has drastically reduced egg production, despite low human transmission risk of H5N1 bird flu. Egg prices surged 53% in January, with retailers imposing strict purchase limits and Waffle House adding a 50-cent surcharge per egg. Some experts claim the crisis is exaggerated, possibly to push mRNA vaccines and centralized food systems.

Link: https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/02/12/russia-has-now-won-the-war-in-ukraine/

On February 12th, Stephen Bryen, who has retired from a career at the tops of one of America’s ten largest armaments-makers and near the top of the U.S. Defense Department (he’s been through the revolving door and now has retired from it), headlined “Europe Gasping for Air as Trump Makes His Ukraine Move: No NATO Membership for Ukraine, No US Troops” and reported not only that Trump has basically fired Keith Kellogg who was his failed appointee to negotiate with Russia about the war in Ukraine, but that Trump has dropped the Kellogg-initiated U.S. starting position for entering into those negotiations with Russia (Russia refused to accept that even as a starting position); so, Trump had on February 12th a 90-minute phone conversation with Putin, and it was extremely productive, because Trump now recognizes not only why Russia refuses to accept Ukraine’s EVER being allowed into NATO, but also that Russians would have to be crazy to ever accept such a possibility

Link: https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musks-doge-slashes-millions-more-federal-contracts-taxpayer-dollars-wasted-nonsense/

President Donald Trump’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has just slashed millions of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded federal contracts. The Trump administration confirmed that the government contracts were a waste of taxpayer dollars. On Wednesday, the team DOGE confirmed that it has worked with various agencies to cancel several contracts. The contacts were found in the Social Security Administration, the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor, and several other areas. “Taxpayer dollars will no longer be wasted on nonsense,” an administration official reportedly told Fox News.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/612659-musk-trump-end-dei/

The new US administration will stop promoting diversity, equality and inclusion programs across the world, the billionaire has said. US President Donald Trump and his administration will work to end the promotion of diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) programs across the world, Elon Musk announced at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Thursday. The billionaire’s statement comes as Trump has launched a campaign aimed at ending DEI initiatives within the federal government since assuming office last month. Shortly after being sworn in, Trump repealed some 78 orders signed by his predecessor Joe Biden. This includes terminating DEI programs and ending protections for transgender individuals. Trump also set a 60-day deadline for federal agencies to cease all DEI-related practices.

Link: https://tass.com/pressreview/1912483

MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS/. The leaders of Russia and the United States spoke over the phone on Wednesday, and Armenia’s parliament takes a step toward joining the EU. Meanwhile, Washington scales back support for Ukraine. These stories topped Thursday's newspaper headlines in Russia. On February 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US leader Donald Trump spoke over the phone for almost 90 minutes. Among other topics, the two leaders discussed a prisoner swap: Moscow and Washington agreed to release American citizen Mark Fogel and free Russian national Alexander Vinnik from American jail. Also, the two politicians raised the issue of the Ukraine crisis, with Trump favoring putting an end to the hostilities there as soon as possible. Putin expressed his readiness to welcome US officials in Russia on topics of mutual interest, including the resolution in Ukraine. Besides, Putin and Trump agreed to hold an in-person meeting.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/612651-trumps-call-with-putin/

US-Russian relations will now return to their ‘factory settings’, but the key here is the end of Western overreach. The long-anticipated phone call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump has finally taken place, sending shock waves through the geopolitical landscape. But before anyone gets carried away with triumph or despair, it’s worth recognizing what has actually happened: Russian-US relations have simply returned to their natural state – one of strategic rivalry, conflicting interests, and fundamental differences in For decades, the US pursued a fantasy – one where it could reshape Russia in its own image, first through incentives and later through coercion. Washington believed it could mold Moscow into a compliant partner within the ‘liberal international order’, an illusion that only collapsed when reality hit: Russia was never going to be remade. Meanwhile, Moscow spent years trying to find common ground, adjusting its own policies in hopes of reaching a workable coexistence. That experiment, too, ended a decade ago.