Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The U.S. Senate as a whole and members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee specifically, have lost millions of dollars wealth for themselves and their families as a result of Rubio eliminating USAID. As a consequence, while they cannot publicly showcase that specific motive for opposition, the committee as a whole is not happy about losing a substantial portion of their stakeholder interests.
The families of all the senate committee members exist inside the think tanks, NGOs, political orgs, PACs and lobbyist companies for various foreign governments. Just like Q-Anon advocate ¹Mike Flynn recently taking a job that pays him $100,000/month to lobby for the Republic of Srpska (aka ‘Serb Republic’, for advice, counsel and introductions), so too all the family members of the senate leverage their DC connections to foreign governments for personal gain.
Thus, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now being questioned by the very Senators he has defunded. WATCH (prompted):
¹Yes, Michael Flynn signed an agreement within the Trump administration not to lobby for foreign governments; but that was only a paper promise. That’s one of the reasons why it is more than a little silly for people to mention Flynn’s name as a potential DNI nomination.
Thune defers to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton, who, obviously, wants maximum control returned to the Central Intelligence Agency, and it is a little funny; visibly funny. Because in the background -much to the angst of the SSCI- people are starting to realize how this dysfunctional Intelligence Community apparatus actually works.
With Marco Rubio as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, and John Ratcliffe as Director of the Central Intelligence agency, and Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence, the SSCI has started to lose control over their analyst-centric institutional control mechanisms.
What most Americans don’t yet fully grasp is how ridiculously stupid most of the Intelligence Community actually is. For two decades, particularly when Team Obama was in charge, the IC qualification that mattered was political ideology. The IC became a massive network of analysts, who had no functional ability to interpret reality on the ground – regardless of where the intelligence was coming from.
As a consequence, the IC got almost everything wrong as they chased outcomes borne from the brain trust of leadership within the Senate, within the CIA, and within U.S. Dept of State. Instead of looking at things as they are, the IC always looked at things from the prism of how they wanted it to be. The analysis of the issue flowed from that perspective – regardless of the capability of the Govt institution to create that outcome.
Rubio, Ratcliffe and Gabbard started taking apart that nest of bureaucratic analytical thinking – and focusing on policy that doesn’t come from the Senate. When you take that approach, the Senate loses control. SSCI Chairman Tom Cotton is asked about Acting DNI Pulte and hilariously says: “I have no observations on the matter.” WATCH:
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There are a blue-zillion important events and storylines happening today; however, John 15:17: “This is my command: Love each other.” A prioritization is needed.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard shares a moment of pause and thankfulness, as together with her husband Abraham Williams she arrives at the hospital to begin surgical treatment for his bone cancer.
“We are getting ready to head to the hospital for my husband’s surgery and just wanted to say thank you so much to all of who have shared messages, prayers and well wishes for Abraham. We are humbled and so grateful to be surrounded by aloha during this really tough time.” (source)
Heavenly Father, we have need for You today. Please provide Your healing power and grace upon Abraham Williams, the husband of Tulsi Gabbard.
Lord of mercy guide those who will now tend the affliction. We accept Your works through those You guide and love powerfully, completely and unconditionally. Our first, last and final healing is always found in You.
We come to You today with our prayers for both Abraham and Tulsi, and we know You hear our prayers just as You understand our faith. We ask for Your comforting embrace of Abraham, Tulsi and those they love.
Father of strength, lift the heart of Tulsi Gabbard and fill her with fortitude, courage and the sense of safety. God that holds the stars, we ask for Your healing and grace to cover Abraham; every affliction; every wound; every trepidation and consequence. Thank You for Your mighty power that works through all things.
We reach out to You knowing through every struggle Your glory is in command. We ask that You pull our prayers close and extend Your healing power. In Jesus’ name. ~Amen.
President Trump has announced Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, via a Truth Social post earlier today:
PRESIDENT TRUMP – “I am appointing the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, William J. Pulte, to serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence. William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a substantial increase from where it was just 12 months ago. During this period, he will remain Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Congratulations to Director Pulte!” ~ President DONALD J. TRUMP
In the context of what has taken place in the past 16 months, from CTH perspective an ‘acting’ position in this specific role is essentially a placeholder position. Pulte placed as acting DNI, perhaps (my guess) in lieu of a permanent appointment that cannot yet be made due to other factors.
Deputy DNI Aaron Lucas remains in place. Within the construct of the DNI office, Lucas remaining as Deputy actually facilitates the installation of a placeholder that would otherwise not be possible because legislative regulations and preferences on the DNI post are specifically designed to favor only nominations with background experience in military intelligence and/or long-term intelligence status. {See 50 U.S. Code § 3026}
When congress created the ODNI they outlined: “under ordinary circumstances, it is desirable” that either the director or the principal deputy director of national intelligence be an active-duty commissioned officer in the armed forces or have training or experience in military intelligence activities and requirements. {Go Deep} Also remember, President Trump (T1) was the first administration to elevate the DNI to a cabinet level position. Biden retained that status.
Bill Pulte is viewed as loyal, trustworthy and a solid team player. As a placeholder Pulte makes sense, and that explains retention of his current job in the Federal Housing Finance Agency while he fills the role of ‘acting DNI’. Given the legislative expectations behind the office, Pulte would seemingly have no path to permanent confirmation by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Under the scenario (in my head) that seems to make the most sense, the White House would seem to favor current House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford to fill the DNI spot. However, with only a one seat margin in the House pulling a republican member of the House to the cabinet is not plausible. In this scenario an acting appointment makes sense.
HPSCI Chairman Rick Crawford has worked closely with DNI Gabbard and seems like he: (a) wants the job, (b) would be qualified for the job; and more importantly (c) understands the job as executed by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. The last point is the most important. Crawford also fully appreciates how badly the IC was weaponized by political corruption, and he knows (generally) who the bad administrators were in the weaponization of the IC and what actions they took.
Having a DNI that accepts and admits all previous corruption is really important, and unfortunately there are not many names in/out of Washington DC who have any substantive concept of it. Very few; very, very, few people, can fathom just how badly the Intelligence Community has been compromised. What set Tulsi Gabbard apart from the rest was her keen awareness of reality. Crawford does seem to come closest to that frame of mind.
If Rick Crawford was viewed as the best candidate to replace Tulsi, then putting Pulte into position as a placeholder makes sense.
If Republicans lose the House in the midterms, Crawford moves to DNI (seats numbers become moot). If Republicans can gain seats in the Midterms, Crawford can move to DNI. That type of scenario played out is my best guess for why Bill Pulte was announced.
Suspicious Cat remains, well, increasingly suspicious.
18-year-old Henry Nowak was violently attacked and brutally stabbed by an Indian man named Vickrum Digwa. When police arrived the attacker claimed the victim called him racist names. The police then handcuffed the bleeding victim and told him he was under arrest.
Henry Nowak continually told police he had been stabbed by Digwa and could not breathe. The police didn’t believe him, and fraught with political correctness that demands they protect the minority rights of the Indian attacker, the U.K. police read the victim his rights and dragged him over the ground. Henry Nowak bleed to death and died as a result of his stab wounds.
The police laughed at the white male victim and mocked Henry Nowak while he died.
Eventually, the police realized the Indian man Vickrum Digwa was -indeed- the attacker and video evidence showed young Nowak was attacked and stabbed at random. Digwa was arrested and forced to stand trial. With overwhelming evidence against him, he was convicted of murder. Following the conviction Henry Nowak’s father gave a press statement. WATCH:
When the public found out during trial that police had actually handcuffed the victim and ignored his pleas for help, outrage grew.
The entire case is stunning in just how messed up Great Britain really is. The police never even handcuffed the attacker, even after they found out he was guilty of murder. Then, adding salt to the wound of the entire matter, Digwa’s defense team sought to shift blame for the murder from their violent client to the politically correct police.
The Nowak family was barred from speaking about the murder and the police conduct during the trial. However, as evidence in the trial was shown, the public found out about it. Demands for release of the officer’s body camera footage were made. No one could believe what they were hearing. The police and courts refused to release the footage until public and political pressure became just too much.
Nobody elected Google to manage the ecosystem. Yet here we are.
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has quietly spent the better part of a decade developing what it calls the “Debug” project. The latest proposal seeks approval to release tens of millions of laboratory-bred mosquitoes across California and Florida. We are told not to worry because these are the “good” mosquitoes. We are assured they are male mosquitoes and therefore do not bite. We are told they carry a naturally occurring bacteria known as Wolbachia that will interfere with reproduction and reduce mosquito populations.
For generations, governments and corporations have repeatedly assured the public that interventions into nature would be harmless. DDT was once considered a miracle. Countless pesticides were approved before later being restricted. Entire rivers were polluted in the name of progress. Every generation is told that the experts have everything under control until something goes wrong.
What makes this case particularly remarkable is who is behind it. This is not a public health agency. This is not a university research department. This is one of the largest technology companies on earth. The same corporate structure that dominates online advertising, search results, artificial intelligence, data collection, mapping, cloud computing, and digital communications now wants to engineer mosquito populations on a massive scale.
The project itself is run by Verily, Alphabet’s life sciences division. Debug combines software engineers, robotics specialists, AI systems, automation experts, and mosquito biologists. They have spent years building automated mosquito factories capable of producing millions of insects per week. Computer vision systems sort male from female mosquitoes while robotic systems manage breeding and deployment. This is industrial-scale biological engineering that will now become a social experiment.
The problem according to Google: “Mosquitoes kill more people than every other animal combined. One species, Aedes aegypti, carries diseases such as dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya which make hundreds of millions of people sick every year. And these diseases are spreading faster than ever.”
Their stated objective is to reduce mosquito populations without widespread pesticide use. Studies involving Wolbachia have shown reductions in mosquito populations and lower transmission of certain diseases. Singapore reported reductions in dengue risk exceeding 70% in areas where Wolbachia programs were implemented. The CDC has acknowledged that Wolbachia-based mosquito suppression can reduce target mosquito populations and notes that these mosquitoes are not genetically modified.
Why should the public automatically trust any institution that asks for permission to alter the natural environment on this scale?
This is not the first time modified mosquitos have been released on the population. Bill Gates has been involved in mosquito projects for years, long before Google entered the arena. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he has funded research into both genetically modified mosquitoes and Wolbachia-based mosquito programs designed to suppress malaria, dengue, Zika, and other mosquito-borne diseases. Gates has openly championed the release of engineered mosquitoes, arguing that technology can be used to alter insect populations and reduce disease transmission. The Foundation supported projects involving biotechnology firm Oxitec, which developed genetically modified mosquitoes carrying self-limiting genes intended to collapse wild mosquito populations over time. Gates has also heavily promoted the World Mosquito Program, which breeds millions of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes and releases them into communities throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Whether one agrees with these programs or not, what is remarkable is the philosophy behind them. A handful of billionaires, technology companies, and global foundations increasingly view nature itself as something that can be engineered, modified, and optimized. Gates has praised facilities producing more than 30 million mosquitoes per week and has argued that mass releases are necessary to combat future disease outbreaks. Google is now pursuing its own large-scale mosquito deployment through Verily’s Debug project. The public is being asked to trust that these interventions will work exactly as intended, yet history is littered with examples of experts assuring everyone that there was nothing to worry about until unforeseen consequences emerged years later. The issue is no longer simply mosquitoes. It is the growing belief among technocrats that every aspect of the natural world can be redesigned from the top down by unelected institutions operating far beyond public scrutiny.
We are living through a period where public trust has collapsed. Governments concealed information during COVID and unleashed a deadly cocktail of mRNA vaccines on the global population. Pharmaceutical companies received legal protections that ordinary businesses could only dream about. Regulators routinely move through revolving doors into the industries they supposedly oversee. The public has been repeatedly told to trust experts who later turn out to be wrong.
Now the same population is expected to calmly accept the release of tens of millions of engineered insects because another collection of experts says everything is safe.
What could possibly go wrong?
Corporate agriculture turned food into a chemistry project. A recent consumer test of Driscoll’s conventional strawberries found 12 pesticide residues, including eight described as PFAS-linked “forever pesticides,” while the organic sample came back non-detect. Why are Americans expected to eat food treated with chemicals that other nations restrict or prohibit?
The USDA will run out and tell you that over 99% of tested foods fall below EPA tolerance levels. That is the same bureaucratic trick they always use. They define the allowable poison, then congratulate themselves when the poison is within the legal limit. The average person does not eat one chemical in isolation. They eat strawberries, spinach, grapes, apples, processed food, contaminated water, and whatever else the industrial food machine has dumped into the supply chain.
The Environmental Working Group ranked strawberries third on its 2026 Dirty Dozen list, noting Americans eat about eight pounds of fresh strawberries per year and with them “dozens of pesticides.” When children are eating these berries, when pregnant women are eating these berries, when families are told fruit is healthy, then the burden should be on these companies to prove the product is clean, not on consumers to become chemists in the grocery aisle.
There are videos circulating the internet of consumers leaving fruit outside overnight only to find it untouched in the morning. The animals won’t eat these substances. Even the bugs are avoiding the very produce on American grocery shelves.
The deeper problem is the farming system itself. California grows around 90% of the strawberries in America. At the state level, strawberry production has relied heavily on fumigants such as 1,3-D and chloropicrin. These chemicals are not harmless fairy dust. 1,3-D has been treated as a cancer-risk chemical, and chloropicrin was once used as a choking agent in war. Reports have shown these fumigants are used near schools and farmworker communities, and regulators have permitted exposure frameworks that critics say protect production more than people.
There should be lawsuits. “FDA approved” means absolutely nothing. It is an absolutely useless agency that is beholden to corporations over the people. Consumers deserve to know what was sprayed, where it was sprayed, what residues remained, what the companies knew, what regulators ignored, and whether labeling created a false sense of safety. If a product is marketed as wholesome, natural, fresh, and safe while containing residues that would not pass standards elsewhere, then the public has every right to demand accountability.
This is about the industrial corruption of food itself. America was once the breadbasket of the world. Now we have allowed monopolized agribusiness, chemical companies, captured regulators, and political cowards to transform the grocery store into a legal poison aisle.
The government will not fix this voluntarily because it never does. The agencies protect the system first and the people second. The only thing that moves these people is exposure, lawsuits, boycotts, and public outrage. If companies want to sell food to American families, then make it clean, prove it is clean, and stop hiding behind tolerance levels written by the same regulatory empire that has failed the public for decades.
A sick population can be easily controlled. They make us sick, prescribe pills, and force a lifetime of prescriptions and medical treatments not covered by greedy insurance companies. Government and corporations profit off our pain. Globalist entities openly discuss controlling the food and water supplies. This is why the World Economic Forum suggested banning individuals from gardening and growing their own food. This is why the likes of Bill Gates and other psychopathic pretend philanthropists are buying farmland and creating synthetic meats that cannot be distinguished from natural meat. Fresh produce and real sources of protein are becoming harder to obtain. Small farms are struggling to stay afloat. What is happening to the food supply should be on the front page of every paper, but these articles make 30-second news clips before they are forgotten. Pay attention to what is happening with the food supply, for they are actively using this as a way to control the population.
Jerome Powell is now warning that the Federal Reserve is undergoing a “stress test” and that political interference threatens public confidence in the institution. He stated that “the public would lose faith” if administrations could remove Fed officials over policy disagreements and argued that democratic institutions can be “torn down all too quickly.”
What is interesting is not what Powell said. It is what he did not say.
The Federal Reserve has spent years demanding independence from elected officials while simultaneously expecting the public to trust its judgment after one of the largest inflationary episodes in modern history. Powell himself admitted previously that the Fed was late in recognizing inflation, famously calling it “transitory.”
The real stress test is not whether politicians criticize the Fed. The real stress test is whether the public still believes central bankers know what they are doing.
Throughout history, central banks have always claimed they must remain independent. The argument is simple. Politicians think in election cycles. Central bankers are supposed to think in long-term economic cycles. There is truth in that. If every administration could simply fire central bankers whenever interest rates became politically inconvenient, monetary policy would become nothing more than an extension of campaign strategy. Powell warned that if one administration succeeds in removing Fed officials over policy differences, future administrations will follow the same path.
Governments borrow beyond reason. Debt accumulates for decades. Then central banks are forced into impossible choices. Raise rates and governments struggle to finance their obligations. Cut rates and inflation returns. Every major sovereign debt crisis throughout history eventually places the central bank in the crossfire because there is no solution that satisfies everyone.
The United States national debt continues to expand while interest costs consume an increasing share of federal revenue. Politicians want lower rates because debt service becomes too high, and they falsely believe lower rates will spur confidence. Markets want stability. Savers want protection from inflation and borrowers want cheap credit. Everyone deeply needs to believe in a better tomorrow, or they will panic and hoard for survival. These objectives conflict with one another.
Powell said democratic institutions take years to build and can be destroyed quickly. He is correct. However, public trust is earned through performance. The Federal Reserve’s credibility was damaged not because politicians criticized it. Credibility was damaged when inflation exploded after years of assurances that price pressures were “transitory.”
The larger cycle is what matters. Around the world, confidence in institutions is declining. Governments, courts, media organizations, universities, and central banks are all facing challenges to their authority. Powell himself acknowledged that the Fed is merely one institution among many now facing scrutiny.
Powell sees political pressure as the Fed’s stress test. I would argue the greater stress test is whether citizens still believe the people running these institutions deserve the trust they once commanded.
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