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Professional Protestor Economics

We will be finding out that this is the cycle: 1. Taxpayer money and remittances go to foreign countries. Remittances are the big part; immigrants simply aren't hardwired for individualism like we are so they feel obligated to wire huge shares of their grift back to their country. 2. And here's the critical part: these foreign countries operate just like ours. Immigrants often think they're donating to a mosque or nonprofit or whatever, but in fact they're going to a foreign NGO. 3. Foreign NGO donates directly to Actblue, because American cover is what gives them legitimacy. 4. Actblue kicks back to Democratic politicians and donates to various 501(c)(3) which then pay these professional protesters under the table.

Jennica Pounds

January 11, 2026

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Experience Shows High Speed Rail Investments Do Not Pay Off

Private investors for California High-Speed Rail? Experience from Brightline shows that this would be a risky proposition for any investor not getting state guaranteed tax money. New from me in the Southern California News Group.

Marc Joffe

January 05, 2026

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Inconsistent Outrage over Military Actions

How Obama Dropped over 26K bombs on 7 countries without congress approval Just in 2016. Even @snopes reported on this. In 2016 alone, then–U.S. President Barack Obama authorized more than 26,000 airstrikes across seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. This figure is based on data from the U.S. Air Force, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Long War Journal, and the New America Foundation. Obama did not seek a new act of Congress to carry out these military operations. While his actions were not deemed illegal, they relied heavily on the broad 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), originally passed to target al-Qaida and the Taliban in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Over time, that authorization was expanded to justify strikes against militant groups that either did not exist on Sept. 11, 2001, or were not formally affiliated with al-Qaida. This practice is not unique to the Obama administration. U.S. presidents have routinely conducted military operations without explicit congressional approval, and President Donald Trump similarly cited the 2001 AUMF to justify military actions during his first term. @RepThomasMassie @RandPaul @DataRepublican @RepJeffries @TheDemocrats @mattvanswol @PeteHegseth @marcorubio @GenFlynn @DonaldJTrumpJr There was no outrage back then. Why now?

Steven Al Ebadi

January 05, 2026

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Criminal Nephews Put Back into the Public by Biden Administration

The Biden Admin released Nicolas Maduros Nephews: 1- Efraín Antonio Campo Flores (also known as Efraín Campo Flores). Raised by Cilia Flores after his mother's death, he is sometimes described as her adopted or stepson. He grew up in the presidential household. 2- Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas (also known as Francisco Flores de Freitas or Franqui Flores) Cilia Flores' cousin-nephew. In November 2015, they were arrested in Haiti by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents during a sting operation while attempting to arrange the transport of 800 kg of cocaine to the United States. They were convicted in a U.S. federal court in 2016 of conspiracy to import cocaine, and each sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2017. Evidence included recorded meetings where they discussed using the presidential hangar at Venezuela's main airport and claimed the drug proceeds would help "keep the family in power" (potentially funding Cilia Flores' political activities). In October 2022, they were released in a U.S.-Venezuela prisoner swap for seven detained Americans (including CITGO executives) and returned to Venezuela. @DataRepublican @sarahadams @PeteHegseth @StealthMedical1 @JDVance

Steven Al Ebadi

January 04, 2026

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Criminal Warrant Executed

To those worried about a quagmire: We captured Afghanistan and Iraq in weeks. The reason both went on so long was because we had the hubris to remake these countries in our own image and failed. Maduro was illegitimately elected in one of the most blatant coups. He kicked out all the watchdog groups except the literal Communist ones like Alliance for Global Justice and DSA. He simply announced the final totals, declared himself the winner, and that was it. 7 million people have fled from Venezuela and many of them are inside the USA. And now they can return. This is one of the rare military interventions that actually reverses entropy instead of accelerating it. A successor government is already prepared to assume power. There is no plan to occupy or reconstruct the country, we leave. That is exactly why the usual suspects who normally celebrate intervention are crying "regime change" and "forever wars." They consider themselves the only legitimate guardians of the national order and they saw Venezuela as a stabilizer for the BRICS axis. (Or cynically, they benefited from the drug trade.) They're now whining because they're hoping you're too stupid to see the difference in military operations.

Jennica Pounds

January 03, 2026

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California has the Highest Unemployment in the US

California has the highest unemployment among the 50 states (DC is higher but it's not a state). Your minimum wage policies are partially responsible for that, along with all the other things you do to raise employment costs, like not repaying the federal unemployment loan.

Marc Joffe

January 02, 2026

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Look to the International Organization for Migration

@DaleStarkA10, asked which NGO enabled these Somalis to operate scams in the U.S. The real question is: who brought them to the United States in the first place? One major player is the International Organization for Migration (IOM). IOM received approximately $114 million to facilitate the relocation of Somalis to the U.S. One specific grant alone totaled $45 million—exactly as you’d expect—earmarked for the “Transition Initiative for Somalia.” This grant was authorized and funded by USAID. @DataRepublican @nickshirleyy @elonmusk @nicksortor @MarioNawfal @WallStreetApes @JDVance

Steven Al Ebadi

December 29, 2025

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Why Raise California Taxes After Collecting $828B in 2024

California state and local governments collected $828 billion in revenue in 2024 amounting to 20.6% of the state's GDP. Shouldn't that be enough? Something to keep in mind as you hear about plans for new taxes and bonds next year.

Marc Joffe

December 13, 2025

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Nature estimated that high carbon emissions would reduce global economic output

A paper in Nature estimated that high carbon emissions would reduce global economic output 63% by 2100. Nature just retracted the paper due to faulty input data from Uzbekistan more than doubling the estimate. But the damage is done: the false study already has 434 citations.

Marc Joffe

December 04, 2025

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California paid four technology companies over $450 million to build out its Next Generation 911 system

“Between 2019 and 2025, California paid four technology companies over $450 million to build out its Next Generation 911 system, a more advanced emergency communication tool that would provide dispatchers with enhanced location services and other ways for the public to communicate with first responder operators. But when the time came to turn that system on, it didn’t work.”

Lisa Cusack

December 02, 2025

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New Cluster-Configured Shaheeds Drones

Vyshhorod, Ukraine In the early hours of the morning, Russian forces launched a familiar yet increasingly dangerous weapon toward the Kyiv region: the Shahed loitering munition. But this time, the drone carried a modified payload one engineered to inflict wider civilian harm. As the barrage reached Vyshhorod, one Shahed struck the roof of a multi-story residential building. By chance alone, its primary warhead failed to detonate. What emergency responders discovered next signaled a troubling evolution in Russia’s tactics.

Steven Al Ebadi

2 min read

December 01, 2025

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“The Fund": USAID’s Trojan Horse of the 90’s.

It's 1994, and I'm slouched in a mental foxhole, watching the Soviet Union’s guts spill across Eastern Europe

Brian Clifton

9 min read

November 21, 2025

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Epstein got involved in Mongolian mining deals

1/8 In the early 2000s, Jeffrey Epstein got involved in Mongolian mining deals directly tied to Rio Tinto. He invested $30M in Second City Capital Partners. Then offshore entity, Liquid Funding Ltd., handled all the mining property mortgages. Mongolia's remote location is perfectly located to conceal hidden motives, like say....off-books transactions? The kind Soros and Epstein are notorious for. https://s28.q4cdn.com/411854535/files/doc_financials/2021/AR/Turquoise-Hill-2021AR_Final.pdf… @DataRepublican @MikeBenzCyber

Brian Clifton

November 16, 2025

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Years of Democrat leadership has left California with incompetence

Years of Democrat leadership has left California with: 1. The second highest cost of living 2. A government so incompetent it can’t keep entire towns from burning down . Here’s how to (re)register to vote Republican : https://lagop.com/vote

Lisa Cusack

January 26, 2025