War Criminal Netanyahu Shocked at Prisoner Handover but not at Child Killing

Wanted war cirminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as "shocking" the manner in which seven Hamas-held prisoners, including two Israelis, were handed over to the Red Cross by Hamas on Thursday.

"I view with great severity the shocking scenes during the release of our hostages. This is yet another proof of the unimaginable cruelty of the Hamas terrorist organisation," Netanyahu said in a statement, after television images showed gunmen struggling to control hundreds of Gazans gathered to witness the handover.

But obviously, Israeli ubermeschen humans are far far more vaulable and sacred than wretched Palestinian subhumans. Therefore, when Ahmed al-Qudra went to check on his family in the Israeli-bombed out village of al-Qarara after the ceasefire went into effect, he was accompanied by his children including his youngest daughter, Sama, 6. But the war criminal Netanyahu ordered airstrikes to continue.

Sama al-Qudra was killed by an Israeli airstrike.

As the family approached one of Khan Younis's main roads, an Israeli aircraft attacked a passing Palestinian vehicle, a supposed “terror target", massacring the al-Qudra family. Ahmed’s body was lying in the street as several of his younger children were screaming for their father. Six-year old Sama was declared dead, her body riddled with shrapnel. She was the last child killed in Gaza before the ceasefire.

Expectedly, the war criminal settler Benjamin Netanyahu, did not express any shock at what his "most moral army in the world" had just done: To kill an innocent child. Neither have many people around the world. Killing indigenous Palestinians - those "human animals" - has become acceptable, pending the publicly announced Zionist-American plans to deport them - all two million of them - to another country in order to make way for more foreign settlers from Brooklyn, New York.

Joseph Aoun and Nawwaf Salam Already Losing Credibility

Throughout the history of Lebanese politics post 1970s, inertia and fear have dominated. Because of fear of alienating this party or this sect, every decision takes time and endless negotiations, only to end in half ass solutions that never resolve the fundamental issues.

After sending the country on steroids with his swearing-in speech (in which he promised everything the Lebanese were deprived of for the past 50 years by terrorist organizations like the PLO and Hezbollah and their Saudi, Kuwaiti, Syrian, Iranian, Egyptian bosses), we are now watching President Joseph Aoun and his appointed Prime Minister Nawwaf Salam slowly begin to sink in the cesspool of trying to please everyone and trying not to upset anyone...a familiar pattern we've gotten accustomed to over the past 50 years of mismanagement and decline.

The upsetting thing is that Aoun and Salam are trying to appease the criminal terrorists of  Hezbollah and Amal - who have assassinated, bombed, kidnapped, murdered, bullied, and drawn the country into endless wars that they always lost. The reason why Aoun and Salam are now in power is BECAUSE of the crushing defeat of Hezbollah and Amal in their stupid war against Israel. So why even bother to try and appease losers?

Is Aoun afraid of a confrontation between the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah? Israel has already done three-quarters of the job by destroying the missiles and large weapons caches, and Hezbollah is on its last breath, cut off from its Iranian umbilical cord and deprived of its strategic depth in Syria. Hezbollah retains small arms and a terror infrastructure which it can resurrect with assassinations and bombings. The Lebanese army, one hopes, should be able to handle the remaining terror infrastructure with which Hezbollah continues to terrorize the country. But should Aoun and Salam also be fearful and be terrorized by the filth of Hezbollah and Amal? Why take on difficult jobs (president and prime minister) if you end up chickening out at the first obstacle?

So what if there is a confrontation between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and Hezbollah if the latter's "might" has been circumcized down to a filthy backstreet militia? What is the point of having an army that doesn't even dare oppose seditious terrorist foreign-affiliated militias and terrorist organizations that have been reduced to a criminal gang?

Hezbollah continues to challenge the state with public defiance and demonstrations of bullying sectarian practices: The Christians have welcomed the pro-Hezbollah Shiite refugees escaping Israeli barbarity in the south. They've taken them in their homes, their schools, their churches and did not kick them when they were down. They respected their dignity and their fellowship as citizens. What do the Christians get in return? Massive bullying invasions of their neighborhoods by Shiite scumbags riding their mini-motorcycles and flying the flags of the losers of Hezbollah and Amal.

The Lebanese people are keeping a tally of the insults they see coming from the losers and their attacks on the state. But the capital of goodwill expressed by the vast majority of the Lebanese toward Aoun and Salam is beginning to fizzle out at the sight of ineptitude, fearfulness and endless meanderings as opposed to firm and difficult decision-making.

If Aoun and Salam accept the conditions of Hezbollah and Amal - namely to appoint their own man at the Ministry of Finance so as to keep control of the drawstrings of the money purse that is likely to see a huge influx of aid for reconstruction - they would have lost the trust of the Lebanese people and have essentially joined the ranks of the corrupt and yellow-bellied traditional leadership. At the very least, Aoun and Salam should go ahead and appoint whatever government they see fit and let Hezbollah and Amal go to their rat corner and sulk. Enough is enough.

As they say in Lebanese, the time has come to "كسور الجرة" - smash the jar - and get it over with. The iron is still hot. Time to strike. The Lebanese people can put up with one more domestic war to finally bring a permanent end to the torment of the past 50 years, and they stand behind daring leadership, not some soft-bellied bootlickers who want to be nice to every criminal asshole with a gun.

Genocide of Palestinians Helps the World Remember Auschwitz

In an irony of historical proportions, the averge world citizen watches the horrors of the Zionist genocide of the Palestinian people and wonders: Regardless of the insignificant details and looking at what is happening to the Palestinian people from a high altitude, he/she sees one people drenched in arrogance and racism decimate another people whose innocence is beyond doubt.

The Germans claimed to be a superior race. The Zionists make the same claim. Doesn't Netanyahu keep telling the world that "his people" are defending western values, as if non-western values are trash that should be fought with 2,000-lb bombs?

The Germans claimed that Jews are filthy subhumans worthy only of destruction and annihilation. The Zionists make the same claim about Palestinians being subhuman - human animals - whose destruction and annihilation are legitimate. 

The Germans herded their own native European Jews in ghettoes and in concentration camps. The Zionists arrived some 100 years ago as foreign settlers to Palestine - they weren't even born there - and began herding the native Palestinians, war after war, out of their ancestral villages and towns into squalid refugee camps. With each war, the Zionists would expel Palestinian refugees from their older refugee camps into new camps: Haven't you noticed that Gaza is nothing but a collection of some hundred refugee camps to which the Palestinians had already fled from the 1930s-1940s Jewish terror campaigns, then 1948, 1967, and 1973 wars? The entire trajectory of the creation of the state of Israel -  a western colonial military outpost in the Middle East -  is one giant Zionist ethnic cleansing campaign of the native indigenous people of Palestine. And now the Zionists want them to go to new refugee camps in Jordan and Egypt. Syria, Lebanon and Jordan already host dozens of Palestinian refugee camps.

The Germans spoke of a "final solution" when tagerting the elimination of European Jewry. The Zionists already speak of their own "final solution" to the Palestinian "problem" they themselves have created by displacing, killing, expelling and otherwise exterminating the native indigenous people of Palestine. Neither the Jews of Germany, nor the indigenous Palestinians, have done anything to suffer their fates.

The Germans spoke of a cultural incompatibility between their own culture and that of the Jews. The Zionists speak of their "white man's mission" in Palestine as one aiming to introduce western culture to a backward and primitive Arab world. Zionists keep referring to their violent colony in a land not their own as "the only democracy" in the region. What democracy is this that is custom-tailored to only one community (the invading settler one) but not to the other indigenous native community? What democracy is this that not only treats its own Palestinian victims as second-class citizens with no rights, but denies them the space for their natural growth, while stealing their land and claiming it for the natural growth of its Jewish community only?

There is irony in the fact that the world this year commemorated 80 years of Auschwitz under the long shadow of the crimes commited by the survivors of that death camp against the Palestinian people.  That is why you can sense in the media a subdued commemoration of Auschwitz, barely one minute coverage on most media. The world is beginning to understand that the de novo creation of an artificial foreign colony in Palestine is perhaps the other greatest and vilest crime to be committed during the 20th century. The world is beginning to reject the psychological blackmail with which one crime has been used to justify another. The double standard will no longer be ignored.

Zionist Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine for Dummies

The Imbecile-in-Chief at the White House - Kim Jong-Trump - now wants Gaza’s Palestinians to “relocate” to Jordan and Egypt because Gaza is a “demolition site”. This fits perfectly well with the Zionist plan, of course.

His Zionist handlers told him to comply with their plan to void Palestine (now Gaza but soon the West Bank) of its native indigenous people who have lived there for thousands of years, long before the European colonial settlers arrived less than 100 years ago to conquer Palestine and establish the western military outpost we now call Israel. The idiot probably wouldn’t know where to locate Palestine or even Israel on a map. The man-child has no concept of national historical identities; in 2021, he was ready to trash his own America because he doesn’t understand why people have values and why they get attached to their land, traditions and identity.

The only thing the orange baboon understands is making money, buying in partners, and making deals over real estate. So, asking Jordan and Egypt to take the Gaza Palestinians so his colonial Zionist friends can “clean out that whole thing” is simple. Can you blame ignorant illiterate people for who they are? Back in 1958, another jackass US president who had to deal with Muslim Egypt and Syria trying to erase tiny Christian Lebanon from the map said, “How many are they, these Christian Lebanese? 1 million, 2 million? Why don’t they all move to California and get it over with?” Kennedy too thought that by “cleaning out” Lebanon of its beleaguered Christians, constantly threatened by their Arab Muslim surroundings, he’d solve the problem the "American way".

You see, Americans have created their country by massive movements and displacements of people. The Europeans moved en masse, then killed millions of the native indigenous peoples and displaced the remaining ones to desolate reservations. They moved millions of African slaves from their native lands in Africa to work as free labor in America. Americans do not understand why people have an attachment to their land and country. For the most part, they themselves relatively recently moved to “America” over the past two centuries and have no deep historical roots in the land. That is why Americans easily move from New England to Arizona overnight and vice-versa, depending on where the money and the job are. It is simply beyond their comprehension that a handful of people (in the few millions) could fight tooth and nail to stay in their native homeland.

On Saturday, the UV-sizzled orange baboon in the White House said he wants Egypt and Jordan to accept Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip and declared his plan to "just clean out" the war-torn Gaza and thus bring peace to the Middle East. He knows that the only stumbling block to his money-making deals with decadent dictatorial Arab regimes and Zionist colonial settlers is this “Palestine thing”. 

Like Kurt Vonnegut once said in reference to an elephant in the room that no one wants to notice, Palestine is this stench wafting from somewhere into a party that the guests pretend to ignore so as not to ruin the party. As long as the Palestinian issue remains unsolved via a free, sovereign and independent Palestine, the dinosaur Arab regime of Saudi Arabia - the silverback of the Muslim and Arab worlds - will not normalize relations with the Jewish colony in Palestine. So for the Zionists and the Americans to circumvent this obstacle, the simple solution, the “Final Solution” as it were, is to get rid of the Palestinians.

Killing all 6 million of the resident Palestinians instantaneously is highly desirable but it’s a huge task, not from an ethical point of view but as a PR issue for the history books: How can the so-called suffering and victimized “Jewish people” who were ethnically cleansed by the Europeans and dispatched to Palestine turn around and victimize the indigenous Palestinians whose land they are stealing? Instead, the US-Zionist tandem kills them slowly, in a long simmering, and hence hopefully unnoticed, ethnic cleansing campaign which peaked in Gaza last year with 100,000 killed in 15 months. But that too remains slow because Yahweh's ushering of Armageddon, the coming (for Jews) or return (for Evangelicals) of the Messiah, and the end of times cannot wait any longer: so, let’s expel a few million. 

And this is only in Gaza. As the news pouring in demonstrate, now that Gaza is on its knees and its 2 million Palestinians on standby to be “beamed” to Jordan and Egypt, the same process has taken off in the West Bank: Destroy, kill, displace, starve, demolish…. Then suggest its 4 million Palestinians there move somewhere else. That’s the plan. In the language of the violent foreign settlers and their American lovers, expulsion and displacement of indigenous peoples are euphemistically referred to as “voluntary relocation”. That is how the European settlers did it with the indigenous Indians of the American continent. They see no problem with the European Zionist settlers doing it with the indigenous Palestinians of Palestine.

The White House baboon has already placed a call with King Abdullah II of Jordan to convince him, i.e. to try and buy him up in a deal worth a few billion dollars.  "I'd like him to take people. I'd like Egypt to take people," he said, adding that he plans to speak to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday. "You're talking about a million and a half people [only!], and we just clean out that whole thing. You know, over the century, it's had many, many conflicts. And I don't know, something has to happen." One wonders why that "something" that has to happen doesn’t entail a free, sovereign, independent Palestine for example? Why does it have to be extermination and displacement?

Last year, under the hypocrite Biden administration, the US said that it opposed the forcible displacement of Palestinians. Rights groups and humanitarian agencies have for months raised concerns over the situation in Palestine where an entire nation is being wiped out of existence.

For the Moron-in-Chief, the ignorant real estate developer, it's a "housing issue" he can fix by building stuff. In his blathering rant on Gaza, he added, "It's literally a demolition site, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there, so I'd rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change," he said.

Fear Settling in: All US Media are Bending the Knee to the Dictator

CNN Caves in to the Dictator

CNN has decided to do away with Jim Acosta's morning newscast.

Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) commented, “I appear on CNN quite often. And if saying what I’m about to say means my days at CNN are over, well then f‑‑‑ it. CNN, what you just did – removing Acosta from his morning show – is cowardly bulls‑‑‑,” Walsh said on X. “Acosta is one of your most independent, unafraid hosts. To demote him to f‑‑‑ing appease the crybaby in the White House is pathetic.”

Why is CNN doing this to Acosta? Because he often stood up to the orange baboon and sparred with him which resulted in the revoking of his press pass.

Walsh, a vocal Trump critic, called CNN’s move on Acosta “an abdication of your duty to hold ALL public officials to account.”

“Shame on you CNN,” he said.

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Fearful CBS News to Settle with the Dictator

CBS News appears to be caving in to the despot Donald Dumb as it is considering settling its legal battle with the orange baboon in the White (Out)house.

Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News is a direct attack on free speech. It accuses CBS News of improperly editing a "60-Minutes" interview with democratic rival Kamala Harris last fall. Who is Trump to decide what a news corporation can or cannot do with its content?

CBS's parent company Paramount Global is considering settling the suit to avoid further clashes with the orange baboon. This appears like a cowardly cave-in by a so-called independent media to a dictator.

Bernie Sanders, the independent Senator from Vermont, is sounding the alarm on the settlement. "CBS may be reaching a legal settlement with Trump because he didn't like how a campaign interview with Kamala was edited. Really?" Sanders reacted. "If CBS caves, the belief that we have an independent media protected by the First Amendment is undermined."

"CBS: stand tall. Support the Constitution," Sanders added.

WSJ reported that Paramount is considering making a deal with the president as it pursues a merger with Skydance Media in hopes to prevent potential retribution by Trump's FCC, which has the authority to halt the multibillion-dollar transaction.

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ABC News Already Bent the Knee to Big Brother Back in December

Back in December, ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit filed by Trump, resulting in giving him $15 million and a written apology.

Trump sued the Disney-owned network after an exchange its anchor George Stephanopoulos had with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., on the Sunday morning news program "This Week."

During the interview, Stephanopoulos said Trump was found "liable for rape," when the jury in the E. Jean Carroll civil case actually determined him to be liable for "sexual abuse," which has a distinct definition under New York law.

Despite the defiant posture Stephanopoulos took early on, his bosses at Disney 's ABC News paid $15 million to Trump. In addition, the network paid $1 million in Trump's attorney fees. Stephanopoulos and ABC News also had to issue statements of "regret".

ADL's Chief Zionist Greenblatt Backtracks on Musk

First, the Zionist organization “Anti-Defamation League” – which claims to be against racism when it supports the Israeli genocide in Palestine – reacted nonchalantly to the right-wing extremist Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at Donald Dumb’s inauguration. It was an “awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm”, the ADL said, as it tries to curry favors with the right-wing Christian supremacist Trump administration, its riffraff peasantry, and its billionaire oligarchy collectively known as MAGA. Please notice the contradiction between, on one hand, Trump being a racist white supremacist neo-KKK type (who hates Jews and anyone who is not a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant), and on the other hand claiming to be pro-Jewish Israel. But Christian nationalists and evangelicals love Jews only with the objective of killing them if they don’t convert to Christianism once the garbage biblical prophecy of the return of the Messiah and the ushering of Armageddon and end of times materializes.

In any case, now that everyone recognized a pig, even with lipstick on, the ADL is backtracking. A Nazi salute is a Nazi salute, especially when it is gestured by a white radical racist Afrikaner (Elon Musk) who fled Apartheid South Africa when his white supremacist colonial settlers lost and the indigenous Black Africans took power.

How did the change of heart occur? It must be that, on balance, forgiving a neo-Nazi billionaire is more costly than shaming him. You see, it is not a matter of principle. The Zionists have a golden goose that keeps laying the same golden eggs: “Antisemitism” and "Holocaust", among others. If they lose the lever of throwing accusations of antisemitism right and left to justify the genocide of the Palestinian people and the colonization of their land, they'd be out of business. People would no longer take them seriously if, on one hand, they forgive Nazis, and on the other hand, they applaud Nazis.

The chief Zionist of ADL, one Jonathan Greenblatt, was caught with his pants down. So, after “forgiving” Musk’s Nazi salute as “just an awkward gesture”, he is now rebuking him because Musk, whose Nazi convictions are very deeply seated, couldn’t help himself dig the knife deeper into the ADL's golden goose. The imbecile billionaire joked about the Holocaust. Oh my God! That’s a big no no in the Zionist Big Brother's language. The Zionist golden goose lays many golden eggs, and Holocaust is one of them. How dare Musk?

Musk apparently mentioned demonic words like “nazis,” “Goebbels,” and “Göring” in a series of “jokes” on X, a mere few days after he made the Nazi salute hand gesture onstage at Donald Dumb’s inauguration. “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!” he wrote in a post, adding, “Bet you did nazi that coming” [nazi = not see] with a crying-laughing emoji. Playing on words, the idiot continued with,

“Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!” [Hess = yes]

“Some people will Goebbels anything down!” [Goebbels = gobble]

“Stop Göring your enemies!” [Göring = goring]

Joking about the Zionist golden eggs would diminish their value in the market of the universal emotional and political blackmail. They are the Zionists' main currency with which to justify the atrocities and genocide perpetrated by foreign settlers against the native indigenous people of Palestine.

 “In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead,” Greenblatt had declared after saying Musk’s Nazi salute was simply “awkward”.

Now, the ADL’s chief Zionist Jonathan Greenblatt is fuming at Musk for trashing the golden egg:

“We’ve said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it ... @elonmusk, the Holocaust is not a joke.” Ooooh! Someone dared touch the hallowed golden egg. Pay attention to Greenblatt's use of the adjective "singularly", which is drilled in order to mean: No other genocide, no other mass murder, no other ethnic cleansing can ever supersede what happened to the Jews of Europe. Not the Armenian genocide. Not the Cambodian genocide. Not the genocide of the native indigenous Amerindian nations of the Americas. Not the Slavery of Africans. Not the Stalinist Terror. And now, not the Palestinian Genocide. It you are a Jew (by conversion or birth) you are immunized against any criticism for perpetrating your own genocide against another people, because those you claim as your ancestors suffered a "singular" suffering no other human suffering can ever surpass. 

To those who criticize Israel for ethnically cleansing Palestine of its indigenous people, the answer is: But the Israelis' ancestors endured a suffering so great that they should be forgiven their own genocide against the Palestinians. Period! That is the emotional blackmail that has been engineered into western and other societies to justify the existence of the apartheid state of Israel and its decimation of the Palestinian people.

And trying to salvage the diminishing returns of the Zionist golden goose and its eggs, Greenblatt said, “Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah.”

Unsurprisingly, Greenblatt did not express to the victims of colonial Zio(naz)nism, the Palestinian people, the same courteous and pseudo-civilized feelings like those he initially addressed to Musk, something like, “In this moment, both sides - the native indigenous Palestinians, and the invading European Zionists - should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. Let this be a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward peace and human dignity in the months and years ahead”. 

But Zionists are incapable of such grace, for they have gone too far over the ledge.

The Orange Baboon is Destroying American Science Research

What does an illiterate ignorant real estate developer understand about science? Nothing. What he understands is exacting vengeance against scientists whom, though they propulse the US to the forefront of scientific research, he perceives as having somehow ruined his first term with this Covid thing, as personified by Dr. Anthony Fauci who just benefited from a Biden pardon. The barbarian in the White House can't get back at Fauci, so he unleashed his barbarity against the best scientific institutions in the world. Also, his equally barbaric illiterate base does not believe in science. They prefer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s voodoo bullshit, religious crap from the Bronze Age and such other degenerate forms of human beliefs.

When no advances in cancer become a reality, remember that you voted for a criminal idiot. When no new leads for drugs come out of the laboratories funded by the US government, the CEOs of the pharmaceutical companies will regret kissing the dirty ass of one Donald Dumb.

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Health researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communications
Dan Diamond,Lena H. Sun,Carolyn Y. Johnson and Mark Johnson, (c) 2025 , The Washington Post
Fri, January 24, 2025




No meetings of cancer researchers to discuss issuing new federal grants. No new scientific reports on lessons from fighting avian flu. Not even private briefings for congressional staffers who have questions about health agency operations.

Health officials and experts said this week they are reeling after the new Trump administration on Tuesday abruptly halted external communication at the Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. The pause extends through Feb. 1, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post. The Trump administration also issued a second order indefinitely halting the travel of HHS personnel, according to a second memo obtained by The Post.

The Trump administration Thursday defended the holds as a part of the presidential transition and said it had provided flexibility for urgent communications.

“HHS has issued a pause on mass communications and public appearances that are not directly related to emergencies or critical to preserving health,” Stefanie Spear, an HHS spokesperson and longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to run HHS, said in a statement. “This is a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization. There are exceptions for announcements that HHS divisions believe are mission critical, but they will be made on a case-by-case basis.”

Some health officials told The Post they had been approved to post data updates considered mission-critical, such as case counts of bird flu.

The decisions to pause communications and travel, which were not publicly announced - and which extended to reporters’ inquiries, with HHS media offices not responding to requests for comment for two days - trickled out as agency staff members and health-care workers across the country have tried to make sense of suddenly canceled briefings, updates and events.

In interviews, health-care personnel described panicked efforts to learn if their programs had been affected, with some speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the news media or feared retribution from the new administration.

Victoria Seewaldt, chair of population sciences at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, was scheduled to lead an NIH study section Thursday that was abruptly canceled, without guidance on when it would be rescheduled. The session was scheduled to review grants focused on cancers and other chronic illnesses.

Seewaldt has spent two decades serving on study sections, which review research proposals and rate them based on their scientific merit. She said there is no precedent for the pause.

“Everything is basically in chaos. And frankly everyone is terrified,” Seewaldt said. “We’ve never seen anything like this. This is like a meteor just crashed into all of our cancer centers and research areas.”

The CDC canceled a monthly call scheduled for this coming Monday with the entire clinical laboratory community - lab leaders, pathologists and laboratory scientists across the country, including at large health systems and hospitals - that had been intended to share updates about emerging threats and testing changes.

“It is hard to imagine a worse time to prohibit federal officials from communicating directly with the clinical laboratory community and the public health workforce,” one laboratory leader said, noting the slew of winter viruses and increasing risk of avian flu. “Viruses don’t care who the CDC director or HHS secretary is, or what spin newly appointed political leadership want to put on their agencies’ efforts.”

Some former Trump officials have defended the halt as the necessary work of a presidential transition.

Pausing communications is “extremely appropriate,” David Mansdoerfer, who served as a senior health official in the first Trump administration, wrote in a message.

“The Biden administration was trying to spend every dollar and push every policy it possibly could up until noon on Monday,” Mansdoerfer wrote. “A two week hiatus for review and reflection will allow the incoming team to reset expectations and potentially reverse anything that was done during the days leading up to transition.”

Health workers and researchers said they were prepared for some review, but described moments of disorganization as the Trump administration’s directive took effect.

Christopher Fox, the CEO of the International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research, said he logged on to a long-scheduled meeting of dental researchers hosted by NIH on Wednesday morning only to hear from a federal official that communications had been paused and to stand by. More than 40 minutes later, he said, another NIH official joined the broadcast and said the session was postponed. He learned later that a second session, at which researchers would make decisions on awarding NIH grants, had also been postponed.

“It’s really shutting down the research pipeline in our country,” Fox said in an interview Thursday, calling the news “devastating” and noting that dental researchers had spent months preparing for the meeting. “Hopefully, it will be temporary.”


The NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, awarding about $35 billion in fiscal year 2023 to support scientific research.

Other delays were seen across federal websites and publications. The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which provides clinical updates to health-care personnel and had published at its regular cadence after Trump’s first inauguration, did not appear at its regular time Thursday. This week’s edition was set to include updates on avian flu.

The list of postponed meetings has continued to grow, such as a planned meeting next week of the president’s council on how to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Federal researchers contacted by The Post on Thursday said they were still seeking answers about whether their workshops and discussions with external experts could proceed.

Outside organizations said they were affected by the pause, too. A summit of health information technology leaders scheduled for next week was postponed because “nearly all of our speakers have informed us that they will be unable to participate,” the organization, AFCEA Bethesda, wrote in a message obtained by The Post.

William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, said he was worried about the ramifications in the U.S. scientific community but also abroad, as researchers in other countries await U.S. decisions on grants and other updates.

“This will slow the development of scientific research,” Schaffner said.

The move caught some Trump officials by surprise, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal operations. One person tapped for a senior HHS role in the new administration said they were not briefed on the extent of the pause, and they would not have supported some aspects of it.

Carrie Wolinetz, who previously served as a senior NIH official and is now a senior principal at Lewis-Burke Associates, a government relations consulting firm, said pauses in certain activities routinely occur when presidential administrations transition.

“Freezes and pauses in general are pretty common in transitions, particularly on communications, just as the new administration is getting their ducks in a row in messaging and putting people in place,” Wolinetz said, adding that the length of the pause would affect how disruptive it would be. “For now, it’s too soon to tell - we just have to wait and see.”

Many staff members said they first learned of the policy in a briefing with Spear on Tuesday morning. The policy was further detailed in a Tuesday memo by Dorothy Fink, the HHS acting secretary.

“Refrain from publicly issuing any document (e.g., regulation, guidance, notice, grant announcement) or communication (e.g., social media, websites, press releases, and communication using listservs) until it has been reviewed and approved by a Presidential appointee,” Fink wrote.

Fink’s memo instructs staff members who believe they have information that should not be subjected to the pause, such as matters of “critical health,” to submit requests that would allow for “expedited release.” Fink did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The first Trump administration in 2017 also immediately paused some communications at federal agencies. Federal officials who spoke to The Post this week said that they understood why some additional review might accompany a presidential transition - but that they are rattled by the scope of the pause and the ramifications, particularly after Trump campaigned on pledges to weaken the civil service.

The decision to halt communications has alarmed some career civil servants who remember how political appointees in the first Trump administration pressured health-care personnel to align with Trump’s own messages about the coronavirus.

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Joel Achenbach and Rachel Roubein contributed to this report.

The Making of a Dictator: Republicans want Third-Term Constitutional Amendment for Trump

When you are clutching to power with lies, fabrications and insults as a way to artificially elevate your own abysmal standing – Trump’s only way to make America look great is by demeaning and attacking others – you subvert the laws to help you remain afloat. 

Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), a representative from Tennessee, one of those backward former pro-slavery and seditious southern states, didn’t wait more than a few days since the enthronement of Dear Leader Donald Dumb to already propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term.

This is not made up. This is real. Southern ultra-religious republican bastards – like Andy Ogles - want a dictator, a king, a monarch at the helm. He argued that by extending the shelf-life of the Moron-in-Chief, the country would “sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.” Indeed, “his” (white supremacist racist Christian) nation needs help because it is losing on all fronts, and that is why enabling Trump to become like Hitler, Putin or Xi Ji-Ping, a Dear Leader for life is needed, among many other tactics they are resorting to in despair. Then, when Donald Dumb is really decaying in the White House, say by 2032, one of his imbecile sons like Don Jr. or Eric would inherit the leadership that these white trash degenerates desperately need and create an American version of North Korea. Ogles said in a statement that Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal.” Amazing, all of this was accomplished by trump in less than  a week in office. Yup, give him the time he needs to bleach America of its other colors, that is. They are no longer satisfied with the “melting pot” because blending white with color reduces and “tarnishes” the purity of their whiteness.

Why are they fighting immigrants? Because the inbred white anglo-saxon protestant morons are losing the demographic battle. Most of Donald Dumb’s recent executive orders aim at somehow slowing down the drowning of the white trash by smarter people with darker, tanner, blacker skin colors. Birthright citizenship. H-1B immigrants. Migrants at the border. Evicting foreign students. And on and on. Even their ban on abortion aims at increasing the birth of white trash babies. They might even join the Catholic Church in penalizing masturbation and the use of condoms. Welcome to the flailing white anglo-saxon protestant fortress under siege. The US is perhaps the most visible country to display this pathology but the sickness has spread across the entire Latin American continent – from Tijuana all the way to Tierra del Fuego.

Indigenous and mixed-race (between indigenous Amerindians and African slaves) peoples and nations remain demographically the most numerous in all of Central and South America, despite the estimated 100 million who were killed by the Europeans [The population of Indigenous Americans is estimated to have decreased from approximately 145 million to around 7-15 million between the late 15th and late 17th centuries, representing a decline of around 90-95%. From: McKenna, Erin; Pratt, Scott L. (2015). American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present. 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK: Bloomsbury. p. 375. ISBN 978-1-44118-375-0., as cited by Wikipedia). Yet, the ruling minority elites in all these countries are the descendants of European white colonial settlers. Whenever a native Amerindian tries to pierce the glass ceiling to power, he/she is immediately persecuted and removed by the white oligarchies, even by those who claim to be progressive and humanistic as is happeneing in Peru, Ecuador, and other Latin American countries.

In his proposal for an amendment, the inbred isolationist from Tennessee, Ogles, states that “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” This is Ogles’s blatant way to violate the 22nd Amendment barring Trump from running for a third White House term. In fact, Trump instructed his minions in Congress to begin working on this issue when he “joked” at one of their meetings, “I suspect I won’t be running again, unless you do something, unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we have to just figure it out.’”

At 79, Trump will end his current term at the age of 83, one year older than Biden’s last year in office. Hence, senility, bad health and degradation would have set in, not a good prospect if he were to be made President-for-Life by his lackeys and yes-men. The office takes its toll, of course, but when you are already a genetic moron like Trump, the transition is very smooth and may go unnoticed – as with the 76,838,984 American morons who voted for him without noticing his degenerate conduct and comportment. But dictators have been known to be moved around in wheelchairs with bagfuls of diapers and drugs. Dictators think they are immortal. MAGA republicans are ready to immortalize Donald Dumb. Who knows, if he makes miracles, even the Pope could beatify him. The Catholic Church has beatified criminals and killers before.

Trump's Tariffs to Make Him and Billionaire Friends Rich. Not You.

When an idiot makes a stupid promise, then keeps his promise, it only means that his promise will have bad consequences because it is stupid to begin with, regardless of the apparent goodness of keeping the promsie.

If I tell you I promise to attack China and sack the Communist party there. Then I go ahead, fire a hundred missiles on China, send my fleet to the Chinese shores and start bombing China, I would have kept my promise. But the consequences of keeping this promise are disastrous.

Such are Trump and his promises. He makes stupid promises without even understanding what he's saying or doing. Now he is keeping his promises of increasing tariffs on every ally and enemy out there, and the consequences are going to be disastrous for you the average consumer, and only you. If it were such a simple thing to do, economists would have increased tariffs long ago. But people with brains and Nobel prizes know this won't work and that is why it was never done before. Only an idiot like Trump thinks it will work.

Read below and understand how stupid Trump is: The only consequence is that higher tariffs are like an import tax that the US importer will simply compensate by increasing the price to the consumer. Moreover, all these countries will increase their own tariffs on American products, which will deeply hurt American exporters who, in turn, will raise their own prices on the domestic market.

Some will say he's not stupid and that he is raising tariffs to bully other countries into making concessions in other areas. But bullying allies - and enemies too - will inevitably backfire. Would you let yourself be bullied by an idiot in the courtyard? No one will voluntarily submit themselves to bullying practices. Even if it somehow works, you, the average American, will end up holding the bag, while he lowers taxes on his billionaire friends.

So if you are stupid like Trump, and were even more stupid to vote for him, pat yourself on the back because he is keeping his promise. But in fact you are shooting yourself in the foot. He won't be keeping his promise to lower your grocery prices AND he will make your life more expensive and Americans generally despised around the world.
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How Trump's proposed tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada (and now Russia?) could affect you

Andrew Romano
Reporter
Updated Wed, January 22, 2025


Convicted felon Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talk in 2019. (Frank Augstein/AP, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

On Monday and Tuesday, President Trump announced that he would be keeping one of his key campaign promises and imposing by Feb. 1 a 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico as punishment for allowing drugs and migrants to cross into the United States as well as an additional 10% tariff on goods from China to penalize the country for sending fentanyl.

Trump also threatened Wednesday to use tariffs against Russia and "other participating countries" if “we don't make a 'deal' and soon,” to end the war in Ukraine.

For anyone who has followed Trump’s political career, the news probably didn’t come as much of a surprise. “I always say ‘tariffs’ is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary,” the president repeated Monday at Washington, D.C.’s Capital One Arena.

But the impact of Trump’s new tariffs — if they’re actually implemented — could be more of a jolt.

“Tariffs are gonna make us rich as hell,” Trump claimed onstage Monday. “They’re gonna bring our country’s businesses back that left us.”

Experts, however, tend to see things differently. Here’s how Trump’s tariffs could affect you.
Two views of tariffs

Tariffs aren’t a new obsession for Trump. “I believe very strongly in tariffs,” he told journalist Diane Sawyer in 1988, nearly 20 years before his first presidential run. “America is being ripped off. We’re a debtor nation, and we have to tax, we have to tariff, we have to protect this country.”

Trump has long insisted that universal tariffs will level the proverbial playing field by incentivizing companies to retain American workers and ramp up U.S. manufacturing — all while funneling “trillions” of dollars in new revenue to the federal government. Now he’s finally planning to put his pet theory into practice.

Yet nearly all economists disagree with Trump’s take, noting that a tariff actually is an import tax paid by the company doing the importing — not by the foreign country (or foreign business) that’s sending its goods to the U.S.

The same experts have found that most importers simply pass the added cost of tariffs on to U.S. consumers by jacking up their prices— rather than going out of their way to replace the affected goods with American-made alternatives, which still tend to be more expensive. Then other countries retaliate with tariffs of their own, risking a global trade war and recession.
Rising prices?

Together, Mexico, China and Canada purchased more than $1 trillion in U.S. exports and provided nearly $1.5 trillion of goods and services to the U.S. in 2023.

With that in mind, it isn’t hard to see how life might get more expensive for Americans if, say, a 25% tariff is added every time a part, product or raw material crosses our northern or southern border.

Consider the auto industry. A single car or truck can move back and forth between the U.S. and Canada up to eight times before it’s fully assembled. The entire car seat industry is based in Mexico. Ford’s Maverick pickups, Bronco Sport SUVs and Mustang Mach-E EVs are made in Mexico too. All told, S&P Global estimates that Trump’s tariffs could cost automakers up to 17% of their annual core profits — which could translate into a $3,000 price hike for the average car, according to Kelley Blue Book.

The list goes on. Canada exports 80% of its oil to the United States; the U.S. gets half of its imported oil from Canada. As a result, analysts estimate that gas prices could rise by 25 to 75 cents per gallon under Trump's new tariffs. Your jeans might be made with American cotton and buttons — then sewn in a Mexican factory. U.S. soybeans and corn are sent south, then sent back in packaged food and animal feed. Cheap avocados, mangos and tomatoes flow north, even in the winter months; they could cost U.S. shoppers 15% more if Trump’s tariffs are enacted. One analyst recently predicted a 4.5% price increase for Corona and Modelo beer. Medicines (and their ingredients) are often imported to help keep prices down. So are building materials such as steel and aluminum; if they get more expensive, prices for new homes and renovations will likely follow.

And then there’s retaliation to factor in. The Canadian government, for instance, has made plans to tax orange juice from Florida, whiskey from Tennessee and peanut butter from Kentucky. On Wednesday, a spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry warned that her country would also “safeguard” its interests.

“We always believe there is no winner in a tariff or trade war,” she added.
Negotiating tactic

On a recent podcast, Trump explained that he is “a big believer in tariffs because I think tariffs give you two things: They give you economic gain, but they also give you political gain.”

What Trump really means by “political gain” is “leverage” — leverage that is powerful enough, in his view, to stop a war.

“I can do it with a phone call,’’ he boasted in August. “We’re going to charge you 100% tariffs.’” And all of a sudden, the president or prime minister or dictator or whoever the hell is running the country says to me, ‘Sir, we won’t go to war.’”

Hence Wednesday’s Russia-Ukraine threat.

The question now is whether Trump’s potential Canada-Mexico-China tariffs fall into the same category. As soon as Trump proposed the new duties back in November, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Mar-a-Lago, and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke to Trump by phone. With migration down sharply in 2024, Trump could conceivably spend the next 10 days negotiating with his North American neighbors — then credit his threats for any concessions he might extract.

Lessons from Trump’s first term

Trump tested the waters on tariffs during his first four years in office. Almost immediately, “Trump hit a slew of countries with tariffs on steel and aluminum,” according to the New York Times, then “wielded those taxes as leverage against Canada and Mexico to renegotiate NAFTA.”

He followed up in 2018 with “significant tariffs” on Chinese goods — including smart watches, chemicals, bicycle helmets and motors — “then continued to ratchet them up over the next 18 months until his administration signed a trade deal with Beijing in January 2020.”

Ultimately, the percentage of total imports covered by tariffs more than doubled during Trump’s presidency — and his successor, President Joe Biden, had kept many of Trump’s import duties in place.

“When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so,” Trump tweeted in 2018. “It will always be the best way to max out our economic power. We are right now taking in $billions in Tariffs.”

But according to a recent summary of the economic research conducted by the Harvard Business Review, Trump’s 2017-21 “tariffs didn’t lower the cost of imports from China” and “manufacturing jobs didn’t come back to the U.S.” — yet “U.S. consumers paid more on specific goods” and “sectors targeted by retaliatory tariffs,” especially agriculture, “took a hit.”

What’s next?

Now Trump wants to go even further. His biggest 2024 campaign promise on tariffs wasn’t retaliatory — i.e., things from this country will get taxed at this rate if this happens. Instead, he pledged to make tariffs universal, with a blanket, baseline tax of 10% to 20% on most imports; an additional tax of 60% or more on Chinese goods; and a plan to match the taxes other countries impose on U.S. products, tit for tat.

During his first term, Trump’s advisers reportedly steered him away from this sort of thing, warning that universal tariffs could tank the stock market and depress the economy. And questions remain about whether the president even has the legal authority to impose the sort of sweeping levies Trump now favors; court challenges would almost certainly follow.

Either way, economists have been clear about the risks ahead. “The 2018-to-2019 trade war was immensely damaging, and [Trump’s universal tariff plan] would go so far beyond that it’s hard to even compare,” Erica York, senior economist at the Tax Foundation, a right-leaning think tank that opposes the tariffs, told the Washington Post earlier this year. “This threatens to upend and fragment global trade to an extent we haven’t seen in centuries.”

Musk is a Neo-Nazi: He fled S. Africa When Apartheid Ended

Yes, Elon Musk did the Nazi salute on Monday. This is a white man who grew up in white supremacist racist South Africa, only to flee his country of birth when apartheid ended, the country became a democracy and the indigenous Black African majority took power. 

He must not have been happy to see the white South African Afrikaner Nazis defeated and the indigenous Black Africans take power (with a lot of open-mindedness and forgiveness), so he left for some other land that could welcome his radical white supremacist mindset. He first went to Canada, but found it too civilized. So he cheated on his immigration papers and obtained an H-1B visa for the United States where he is promoting extreme right-wing ideologies and kissing the feet of the racist orange ornagutan president of the United States. No wonder that he supports the neo-Nazis of Germany - the Afd party - and that all neo-Nazis around the world and in the US are applauding him.

The hypocrites of the Zionist Anti-Defamation League have always said that the Nazi salute of “raising an outstretched right arm with the palm down”, is a homage to Adolf Hitler. Today, white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the US and elsewhere perform the salute in what the ADL calls “the most common white supremacist hand sign in the world.” 

The colonial Zionists of the ADL indiscrimately accuse people right and left of being antisemites any time they criticize the sacrosanct genocidal Jewish colony in Palestine.

In this case, the ADL has taken a casual attitude on Elon Musk’s Nazi salute – Oh this was an innocent cute but awkward gesture – because they are kissing his ass and Trump’s ass, like all the garbage unprincipled MAGA republicans are doing, including Bezos, Zuckerberg and every other republican senator and right-wing billionaire racist sycophant of Trump.

In response to Elon Musk’s Nazi salute, the ADL said on Elon Musk’s own X platform that his Nazi salute was “an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute”. Only they, the smartest people on the planet, “know” when an outstretched right arm with the palm down is Nazi or just awkward. The bigots of the ADL added, “All sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath.” I wish the ADL would give non-billionaires, non-racist, non-Zionist critics, as well as Palestinians resisting the rape of their country and the genocide of the Palestinian people, a bit of grace and decency and the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, anyone who does not subscribe wholesale to Zionist colonialism and racism is branded an antisemite by the ADL.

Meanwhile, Musk has already claimed that critics of his Nazi salute are playing “dirty tricks” against him. But he is playing the lamb when he is in fact the wolf. How can the owner of the largest platform of viral information, who fled South Africa when Blacks took power, not see that his words and gestures have consequences. He cannot be controlling people’s lives and pretend that he can’t control himself!

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Update: People who called out Musk's Nazi salute are being fired.  A Milwaukee meteorologist by the name of Sam Kuffel, who spoke out against the Nazi salute, has been fired by CBS affiliate WDJT-TV, which testifies to the toxic Fascist environment that Big Brother and Dear Leader Trump has ushered.

In an Instagram story later posted to X by conservative radio host Dan O’Donnell, Kuffel captioned an image of Musk, “Dude Nazi saluted twice. TWICE. During the inauguration. You f--k with this and this man, I don’t f--k with you. Full stop.”