Doomsought
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From the stories I've hear, I'm surprised we haven't had another Bonus Army march on DC.
United States Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) News & Discussion
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mrttao
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Overpaying by 3060x (= 306,000% overpay) seems like blatant fraud to me.
I bet someone was getting kickbacks
Safe bet, dodge pretty much proved that the dems were using the federal government to create pateronage networks for their people. Which is why smashing them is so effective.
State Department, IRS, and credit card updates:
Article: @SecRubio continues to scrutinize @StateDept foreign assistance, today cancelling 139 wasteful grants worth $215M including:
- $5.2mm to “Media Diversity” for programs like “Get the Trolls Out!” - “an anti-disinformation program” in the United Kingdom
- $2.5mm for “advancing critical civic engagement” in Uzbekistan
- $2mm for “Expanded Newsroom Sustainability and Engagement” in Moldova
- $1mm for “channeling gig workers’ rights” in Brazil
- $2.4mm for “Responding to Disinformation Through Creative Content in Belarus”
- $1.7mm for “Independent Media for Peace and Democracy” in Europe
- $1.5mm for a “Women-led Gendered Approach to Justice and Accountability”
- $1.7mm for “BeMediaWise” in Bulgaria
- $900k for a “Place for Women to Join to Organize” in Mauritania
- $750k for “Building the Migrant Domestic Worker-Led Movement” in Lebanon
- $740k for a feminist “Free Expression Initiative”in Tunisia
Article: Great job by @SecRubio @StateDept
In addition to the ones below, they also cancelled these wasteful grants:
-$1.4mm for “Preventing Internet Fragmentation” in Brazil
- $750k for “Enabling Civil Society Resilience and Adaptation” in Kyrgyzstan
- $1mm for “Building Trust and Keeping Hope Alive” in Sri Lanka
-$2mm for “Advancing Democratic Culture” in Armenia
Article: The IRS has successfully saved $2 billion without any operational disruptions by eliminating wasteful contracts, such as auto-renewed licenses unused for years.
Article: The IRS has removed non-technical people from technical leadership roles in engineering and replaced them with experienced engineers.
Going forward, skilled engineers will drive technical decisions. The IRS has its fair share of software talent. These men and women, who have long served the IRS, need to be empowered to make decisions.
Article: Contract update!
Today, agencies terminated 57 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.6B and savings of $1.5B, including a $120K USDA contract for an “Indonesia environmental policy and law enforcement specialist”
Article: Credit Card Update!
The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 30 agencies. After 7 weeks, ~470k cards have been de-activated.
As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do.
DarthOne
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Harvard Doesn't Have a Right to Your Money
The Trump administration threatened to review and pull some or all the nearly $9 billion in federal grants from Harvard.
www.dailysignal.com
The Trump administration threatens to review & pull some or all the nearly $9 billion in federal grants from Harvard.
Harvard President Alan Garber responds: the school will ignore Trump's demands.
Buba
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I'd stop Fed funding immediatelly.
mrttao
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Because it is a liberal institution.
that is what liberal institutions do, suck the blood of the working man
mrttao
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CVE.
database of software vulnerabilities. used by all govt and most major corporations worldwide.
yesterday a single board member leaks that they are going to have to shut down because orange man bad and doge cut ther funding.
all the typical news outlets went into a frenzy with this reporting.
lunduke journal only ones to actually investigate...
Summarizing some of the points lunduke makes:
> Despite being allegedly so important to every govt and large corpo in the world, 100% of their funding comes from USA taxpayer. 2 billion dollars a year are donated by USA govt
> CVE is a subsidiary of MITRE, a very sus looking defense contractor who pretends to be a charity
> The board of CVE is made up of representatives of various major megacorps
> They coincidentally employe many immediate family members of the board at very high paying cushy jobs.
> Why does it cost 2 billion a year to operate host a website?
> Looks like there is some internal conflict going on. As the CVE might split in two, with a group of corporations who use it making their own CVE and actually paying for it.
database of software vulnerabilities. used by all govt and most major corporations worldwide.
yesterday a single board member leaks that they are going to have to shut down because orange man bad and doge cut ther funding.
all the typical news outlets went into a frenzy with this reporting.
lunduke journal only ones to actually investigate...
Summarizing some of the points lunduke makes:
> Despite being allegedly so important to every govt and large corpo in the world, 100% of their funding comes from USA taxpayer. 2 billion dollars a year are donated by USA govt
> CVE is a subsidiary of MITRE, a very sus looking defense contractor who pretends to be a charity
> The board of CVE is made up of representatives of various major megacorps
> They coincidentally employe many immediate family members of the board at very high paying cushy jobs.
> Why does it cost 2 billion a year to operate host a website?
> Looks like there is some internal conflict going on. As the CVE might split in two, with a group of corporations who use it making their own CVE and actually paying for it.
Buba
A total creep
I googled a bit and Harvard barely makes the Top 10 of recepients of Federal funding. As to Fed funding for tertiary eduction - it is like a relationship - complicated
There is money for research, there is money to aid students of humble backgrounds, there is money for blahblah etc.
mrttao
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Shoeonhead did a video on how USAID was actually lying in its internal documents about promoting "govt funded sex changes in guatamala" and "HIV prevention" and so on and in fact it is being used to overthrow foreign govts and do other CIA related tasks.
And also mentions how odd it is that leftists used to complain about USAID being an arm of the CIA and now suddenly it is sacred.
And also mentions how odd it is that leftists used to complain about USAID being an arm of the CIA and now suddenly it is sacred.
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Article: DOGE CLEARED IN NLRB WHISTLEBLOWER FIASCO — NOW THE ACCUSER'S IN THE HOT SEAT
Daniel J. Berulis claimed Elon's DOGE team hacked into the NLRB — that's the National Labor Relations Board — and funneled sensitive data to Russia.
One problem: they never had a login. Not even a password reset email.
Turns out Berulis filed a national security complaint based on a gut feeling, not evidence.
Now folks are asking the DOJ to investigate him — because making up a spy story isn't a harmless mix-up.
So that report that DOGE funneled info to the Russians was a lie created by this man, based on a 'gut feeling', and he's now under DoJ investigation for it.
Buba
A total creep
Slam him with a slander charge and lock him up.
These judges and politicians don't seem to understand that by trying to use their influence, cats' paws/sacrificial dupes, and positions to roadblock DOGE, they're just making themselves targets for investigations/"voluntary resignations".
Stupid, liberal idiots.
Stupid, liberal idiots.
Their movement has been more or less in charge of the culture with the media running interference for them with bias since 1933. Thats 92 years roughly speaking of insitutional dominace, and as a rule leadership cadres tend to start to go bad after 80 years or so of having power when they need to be replaced by new more capable elties.
After so much time they really do not have the context that this can backfire, the media sheilding and hiding their corruption has only made them weaker in the long run, in victory they became decadent.
And mean while for the movement that will replace them?
Well arakiss trains the faithful, the people who will replace them will be quite hard and capable men indeed and then the cycle repeats itself as it always has.
Weekend update - dunking on the Endangered Species Act, and the National Science Foundation axing DEI:
Article: The Endangered Species Act has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave!
Article: Great work by @NSF canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for “Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation”.
See the NSF update below. Grant awards will be based on merit, competition, equal opportunity, and excellence.
So ironically this is one I can actually speak to as, while not involved with the IRS, I do know what's going on to add time and, frankly, there's good reason for it, though not 103 days reason for it.
The Federal government requires that all changes to computer systems, including websites, go through a Change Management Process that has MANDATORY security review steps. This is to validate and ensure that everyone involved in making the change knows what the change entails AND how that impacts the security of the system in question.
Part of that process REQUIRES an independent third party analysis and verification of the change and that group will draft a document known as a Security Impact Assessment and determine if the change made is "Significant" (potentially impacting the security status of the system in question) or "Non-Significant" (not impacting the security status). This assessment than has to be agreed to by multiple stakeholders in the system and signed by the System Owner, that is, the government representative whom takes responsibility for the system (IE, the buck stops with them).
Now, for a change like this, ideally the security review process would not take long, it would be classified as a "Non-Significant" change and thus quickly get processed through the system. It would take longer than 71 minutes, yes, perhaps even days. But 103 days, over three months, means that the IRS' security assessment process is fundamentally broken and they need to improve their handling of change management.
And yes, that independent security assessment step IS, unfortunately, required. Both the contractors hired and the government employees have self interest in skipping it and ignoring security concerns about changes. Government focuses on availability and uptime, while contractors only care about what they're hired for, which is usually ALSO availability and uptime. They will CONSISTENTLY cut corners or falsify documentation to claim changes that WOULD impact the security status of a system would not, because it's faster, means less paperwork, and the person who ends up holding the bucket if things go wrong is that System Owner, not the people who made the changes. Basically everyone EXCEPT the independent security assessment team have conflicts of interest that potentially compromise their analysis, meanwhile the independent assessors are paid to ONLY care about that.
mrttao
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The stupidist part of the Endangered species act that is it by location not by global species population.
Species are only protected in environments where they don't like to live. In their preferred environment where they are more plentiful they aren't protected.
So...something like white people protected in Dubaj ?