Yesterday, Sunday, February 9th, 2025, President Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop making pennies, citing costs.  From the article:

“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Trump wrote in a post Sunday night on his Truth Social site. “I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-penny-t...97653051ba

I think Trump is being short sighted here.  Once he "saves the economy" and prices start going back down, I'm sure that the materials for making things will also cost less to produce as well.  We're gonna need that penny, sooner or later.

When contemplating owning man's most favourite and faithful friend, choose its colour wisely.
Apparently, the black ones can bring problems!

More from the Biden crime family and associates...
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Quote:It’s hard to believe that there may be a bigger story today than the final score of the Super Bowl.
President Donald Trump learned today a Federal Whistleblower and former PA State Police employee has come forward with information and filed a criminal complaint this week on February 7, 2025, allegedly linking Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro with the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Allegations from the private criminal complaint,
“In the weeks leading up to the Trump Rally, President Joseph R. Biden, made frequent visits to Defendant Joshua Shapiro to discuss the obstacle faced by the Democratic party. Joshua Shapiro, organized, schemed, and conspired with other officials to carry out the attempted assassination against Former President Donald J. Trump.”
“Governor Josh Shapiro, facilitated, planned, and coordinated the attempted assassination to climb the political ladder..”

Quote:Pennsylvania Arrest Warrant's Post
Pennsylvania Arrest Warrants

It’s hard to believe that there may be a bigger story today than the final score of the Super Bowl.

President Donald Trump learned today a Federal Whistleblower and former PA State Police employee has come forward with information and filed a criminal complaint this week on February 7, 2025, allegedly linking Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro with the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Allegations from the private criminal complaint,

“In the weeks leading up to the Trump Rally, President Joseph R. Biden, made frequent visits to Defendant Joshua Shapiro to discuss the obstacle faced by the Democratic party. Joshua Shapiro, organized, schemed, and conspired with other officials to carry out the attempted assassination against Former President Donald J. Trump.”

“Governor Josh Shapiro, facilitated, planned, and coordinated the attempted assassination to climb the political ladder..”

"On July 13, 2024, this Affiant contacted the Secret Service to provide a tip which was blocked by Biden's Administration.

On July 15, 2024, through July 23, 2024, this Affiant communicated with Secret Service Agent John T. Donohue and provided numerous documentations related to the crimes committed by Governor Joshua Shapiro and the Philadelphia FBI's involvement in covering up the crimes of Defendant Joshua Shapiro. Agent John T. Donohue sent the complaint to Headquarters, but the Biden Administration blocked it.

On March 9, 2024, Supervisory Special Agent Kenneth Keller, advised this Affiant through email that he contacted the FBI Philadelphia Personnel, FBI victim services, and management at the Washington Field office, and that they advised him to direct the Affiant to Philadelphia FBI. Agent Kenneth Keller informed this Affiant that the crimes being reported are not occurring in his jurisdiction, and that he has no jurisdiction to assist Pennsylvania victims. He advised the Affiant to contact the Department of Justice. This affiant contacted the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation. Up until recently, Ex FBI director Christopher Wray was conspiring with the Biden Administration and concealing the reports.

Now that he has resigned, this private criminal complaint must be investigated."

July 23, 2024 the former State police employee filed documents to have criminal charges of attempted homicide filed against Governor Josh Shapiro. Butler County District Attorney, Richard Goldinger sent a letter to the former State police employee, dated August 22, 2024 refusing to bring attempted murder charges, because it was being investigated by other agencies.

Governor Josh Shapiro has not been criminally charged at the time of this story and presumed innocent of any alleged wrongdoing.
Both President Trump and Josh Shapiro are attending the Super Bowl today, which should make for an interesting game.

Finding this stuff is one thing but convicting the fraudsters may be a different matter ??  https://therightscoop.com/breaking-elon-...e-of-doge/

Quote:Elon Musk wrote a long post today explaining the changes that have been jointly agreed by the Treasury Department and DOGE.
Musk also revealed that there is $100 billion being spent every year on entitlements to people without social security numbers. He polled the people at Treasury and the consensus is that about half of it is fraudulent.
He did credit the working level people, saying they’ve been wanting to do something about this fraud for years but were stopped by prior management.
Here’s what Musk said:

Quote:To be clear, what the @DOGEteam and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:
– Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.
– All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!
– The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.
The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!
Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.
When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!
This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.

Responding to someone who asked how Treasury can be aware of this much fraud and not do anything about it, Musk said:

Quote:Nobody in Treasury management cared enough before. I do want to credit the working level people in Treasury who have wanted to do this for many years, but have been stopped by prior management.
Everything at Treasury was geared towards complain minimization. People we receive money don’t complain, but people who don’t receive money (especially fraudsters) complain very loudly, so the fraud was allowed to continue.

What do you have in your closet?

What steps are you willing to take to pull living history out of the shadows?

In WWII - are you willing to go over Nazi Germany alone, unarmed... dozens of times?

Flying Sargeant. Americans in Supermarine Spitfires.

In 2005, an 83 year-old World War II pilot is surprised to see 16mm footage of his 1944 Spitfire crash for the first time.

Really amazing short story.



The film is complex in that it is a photographic record of a man reviewing a photographic record of his own photographic record-making process (a wartime photo-reconnaissance flight) across a timespan of 61 years. The film includes several high-altitude reconnaissance photos taken by Blyth.

Blyth was interviewed by BBC in 2011 for their docu Operation Crossbow.

Here's some photos...




Aerial photos taken by Blyth:











Photo source for the 14th & 22nd Photo Squadron, 7th Photo Recon Group at American Air Museum in Britain. Around a 1,000 photos.

Hi-res Aerial Photos by John S. Blyth on Flickr

Quote:In authoritarian regimes, the unimaginable becomes reality. In one such country, citizens are required to collect large amounts of feces annually—500 kilograms from adults and 200 kilograms from elementary school students. This is a real situation happening today in North Korea. On January 9th, Radio Free Asia's Korean service reported that North Koreans, struggling to meet the government’s high feces collection quotas, have begun fighting with each other. Not only has the black market emerged as a result, but people, fearing punishment, have been resorting to theft and violent struggles over the feces.

E.O. for 2d amendment signed by Trump... Good news for those who want to retain the freedom to protect themselves from idiots and critters.

Interesting analogy for the current world stage of happenings.

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We, Borg

UPDATE 06FEB25: as if on cue to prove my point, it seems that the leftist propaganda rag Politico, that did the wrap-up smear with the Biden laptop and the SCOTUS abortion leak, was receiving millions of tax dollars as “subscriptions” from the government.

The human eye has a contrast ratio of roughly 1,000,000:1 under ideal conditions, meaning it can detect details in a scene where the brightest area is one million times brighter than the darkest area. Note that this is a sliding scale. As the scene gets brighter or darker, the ratio adjusts up or down, but maintains the ratio.

The best Kodak film stocks had a contrast ratio of 2,000:1. Thus, we could have everything from brightly lit comedies to film noir and chiaroscuro lighting.

When I first got into television in the mid-1980s, the best video cameras had a contrast ratio of 300:1. They also had a very narrow range from 8% black to 90% white, limited by the iris, where the camera could see anything at all. For this reason, television shows generally had very “flat” lighting with little difference between the darkest areas and brightest areas, until the digital revolution.


Modern digital cinema cameras have a contrast ratio of about 100,000:1, which has allowed contemporary Hollymood “content” to be uniformly dark. Compare the lighting in Star Trek: The Next Generation to that found in Star Trek Discovery. That gives you an idea of the best analog ratio to the worst digital slop.

The point of all this is to introduce the idea that the left-right political scale is a lot like contrast ratio. Of the full political spectrum, there is a left-right ratio of roughly 300:1 — the very best political system in the world is just 300 times less painful than the very worst — out of a possible 1,000,000:1 scale.

On the far left of the scale is Totalitarianism, where government has full, utter and unquestionable power over everything. At the far right of the scale is pure unadulterated anarchy, where there is no government of any kind. Within that spectrum are all kinds of political systems, with some having been tried and others that have not.

We can think of our political scale as being “pure collectivism” on the left, and “pure individualism” on the right. Put another way, the far right would be ultimate freedom, and the far left would be abject slavery. Our 300:1 ratio slides back and forth between these extremes.

As far as I can tell, the least painful political systems in existence at this particular time would be just left of center in the full spectrum. Using our contrast ratio metaphor, that means the worst systems right now are 300 times worse, but in all cases, the ratio is to the left of center.

Pure free-market capitalism would fall somewhere to the right of center on the spectrum, with minimal government interference and a wealth-based monetary system. Looking at the world today, we see nothing like the latter anywhere. All nations have some degree of government manipulation of markets and fiat debt-based currencies. They are all left of center on our scale.

Note that the MAGA movement may be to the right of the previous administration, but it is by no means “right wing” or even close to the center of our scale. MAGA is a move in the right direction (pun intended), but it is far from even centrist political movements. There’s still an strong whiff of collectivism tangled up in it, albeit with a hint of individualism as a harmonic impulse.


The 20th century saw the rise and dominance of Socialism worldwide. There were essentially three competing forms of Socialism, but it was all shifted far to the left of the scale. At the left (worst) end of our 300:1 ratio was Russia’s Marxist Socialism. Towards the center of the ratio was America’s New Deal Socialism (mercantilism). At the right end (but not right wing) was Germany’s and Italy’s Fascism, or Public-Private Partnership.

Each of these systems represented a “flavor” of Socialism, but they were all Socialism. We might have a choice between milk chocolate, Belgian chocolate, and dark chocolate, but they are all chocolate.

Marxism always fails because it is anti-human. One cannot ever have total domination over a population. Human nature always fights against it.

New Dealism took an early lead, being the only system to survive World War Two intact. However, I would argue that Fascism (the Public-Private Partnership) has won the war. What we see globally right now is Fascism, with geographical trade blocks (EU, ASEAN, BRICS, ECOWAS, etc.), civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations, and the monetization of literally everything.


The dear reader may disagree that I put New Dealism between Russia and Germany. My response is that the triumvirate of government, corporations and banksters (mercantilism) was worse than Fascism, but better than Marxism.

Under Fascism, corporations use government to create environments that empower and enrich themselves. In exchange, government uses corporations to enforce its edicts (vaccine mandates, DEI, etc.), with a convenient revolving door between corporate and regulatory jobs. This allows government to skirt legal limits on power, and the ability to deflect blame for failures, not to mention steady flow of taxpayer money into politician and private pockets.

Corporations, or collectivist “persons,” are Socialist by their nature. They are run by an elite group of appointed officers, they demand employee adherence to internal policies, and they function as a singular entity within society. Furthermore, the largest shareholders (owners) are often other corporations. In a purely Socialist state, such as Indonesia, the government is the primary shareholder.


Interestingly, American English uses 3rd Person Singular, while British English uses 3rd Person Plural, when referring to collectives (NASA has vs. Nasa have).

The government creates corporations via legal frameworks and enabling policies, with jurisdictions competing to attract as many of these “persons” as possible. Laws are passed that minimize competition by raising the cost of entry, tax breaks are offered as incentives, and even some operating costs may be covered by taxpayers.

Thus, the entire Fascist system is a circus of Olympic-scale back-scratching between public (government) and private (corporate) entities. They comprise their own eco-system, with corporate “compliance” rewarded by financial success within the protection racket, in the guise of government contracts, grants and other benefits not available to human beings.

The government is rewarded with plausible deniability, and an army of compliant enforcers that use “jobs” to twist the arms of the general public, and NGOs (see USAID) to twist the arms of resistant governments around the world.


It is telling that only the Nazis, and not the Italian corporatists, are held out as examples of Fascism, though Italy arguably created it. Hitler’s regime has successfully been made a scapegoat, and carefully crafted narradigms keep folks looking in the wrong direction with a constant refrain of “evil Nazis,” while actual Fascism grows like a cancer in front of our very eyes.

We have been deceived into thinking that Fascism is a “right-wing” political ideology, with radical racism and nationalism as the defining characteristics. However, group identity is a collectivist hallmark. While Germany may be at the right end of our 300:1 contrast ratio, it is far from being even moderately right of center.

Any political system that utilizes collectivism as a defining characteristic is, by definition, left wing.

In a true right-wing system, corporations would not be persons, humans would have divine unalienable rights, judicial systems would protect the individual above all else, the power to tax (steal your money) would decrease as we moved right, there would be real specie instead of fiat paper, and private property would be sacrosanct against government meddling.

In other words, a constitutional republic.

If you know of a place like this, go there immediately — do not pass GO, do not collect 200 worthless dollars.

I didn't exactly understand everything Anton says in this vid but enough that I found it rather interesting...Timescape Cosmology.




0:00 Hubble tension and history of dark energy
2:00 Bizarre discoveries ever since
2:25 Measuring distance with the cosmic ladder
3:10 Cepheid variables and Type 1A supernovae
4:50 Hubble and JWST confirmations
5:40 CMB observations that are super different
7:10 DESI creates a crisis
8:15 Coma cluster calculations to see if there's a tension
10:00 More JWST discoveries and more issues
10:35 Possible explanations
13:20 Conclusions

A little something for everyone

Quote:Deep beneath Earth's mountains lie secrets that could reshape our understanding of human history and technological capability. Mountains like Shasta, Hayes, and the pyramids of Giza possess qualities that defy conventional explanation - perfect alignments, unusual magnetic properties, and inexplicable energy signatures. Military agencies have spent decades investigating these peaks through classified programs, and witnesses report strange phenomena that science struggles to explain. Ancient texts speak of mountains harboring tremendous power and describe technologies that sound remarkably similar to modern energy generation and distribution concepts. Some of these mountains contain facilities that seamlessly integrate human and non-human operations, suggesting cooperation beyond what official sources acknowledge. The evidence points to a hidden truth: many of Earth's most prominent peaks might serve purposes far beyond their natural geological roles.