Tag Archives: taxes

International, U.S.

2025: New Year, New President, same war on drugs & illegals?

Video

U.S. Secretary of Defense Peter Brian Hegseth reports, morning of 30JAN2025, about efforts to use Guantanamo Bay, on Cuba, to hold violent illegals. Video via Department of Defense:

CALIFORNIA: U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) video showing the capture of illegals, about 20 miles off the coast of Point Loma, by the crew of Cutter Terrell Horne (WPC-1131) during the early morning of 28JAN2025:

The USCG delivers illegals, captured 20 miles off the coast of Point Loma, to U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol) on 28JAN2025.

On 31JAN2025, two U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey (Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron [VMM] 161-Marine Aircraft Group 16-3rd Marine Aircraft Wing) were assigned to help Border Patrol and National Guard conduct operations along the California/Mexico border. I edited down video via Staff Sergeant Luc Boatman:

FLORIDA: Crew from USCG Cutter Campbell (WMEC 909) offload more than 8-thousand pounds of cocaine (captured on the Eastern Pacific Ocean) on Port Everglades, 27JAN2025.

At the end of January, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon, out of Naval Air Station Jacksonville (Patrol and Reconnaissance Squadron [VP] 45), began patrolling the U.S. southern border.

NEW MEXICO: Under Task Force Sentinel, National Guard personnel, and equipment (like this Arizona National Guard UH-72 Lakota), from several states are assisting the Border Patrol on the Dona Ana Airport, which helps to cover the El Paso Sector.

TEXAS: USCG Marine Safety Security Team (MSST) Houston, and the Border Patrol, patrolling on the Rio Grande River, 28JAN2025.

A militiaman with the 877th Engineer Company, Georgia Army National Guard supports Border Patrol operations along the southern border in Del Rio, Texas.

2025: Trump’s Wall War is on!

2021: New year, new President, same war on drugs & illegals?

Technology, U.S.

Two crashes in two days involving U.S. military aircraft!

Video

U.S. Secretary of Defense Peter Brian Hegseth reports, morning of 30JAN2025, about the 29JAN2025 crash between U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk and American Eagle Flight 5342, video via Department of Defense:

On 28JAN2025, a U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning-2 crashed near Richardson Highway in Alaska. Colonel Paul Townsend, 354th Fighter Wing commander, conducts a local media press conference:

2022: MiG 31 crashes in Novgorod

2011: United States blows-up crashed French Mirage 2000D!

1949: NACA’s ramjet F-82 Twin Mustang, 1949 crash & burn? Reborn more than 60 years later!

1947: Cold War Dragon crashes into Antarctic Ocean, caught on film.

U.S.

Trump’s Wall War is on!

Video

“U.S. Northern Command is aggressively bolstering security at the southern border.  For initial actions, Soldiers and Marines are immediately deploying to seamlessly integrate with forces already along the border and working together with the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection. In a matter of days, we will have nearly doubled the number of forces along the border, effectively implementing the President’s intent while planning and posturing for expanded efforts to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the United States.”-General Gregory M. Guillot, U.S. Northern Command (NorthCom)

On 20JAN2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Orders (EO), including a national emergency declaration, concerning the southern U.S. border.  Under Title 10, NorthCom is deploying 1-thousand-5-hundred Regular (active duty) military personnel to assist the 2-thousand-5-hundred military personnel already working the U.S./Mexico border.

Operation Lone Star is still in effect. The Texas Military Department-Air National Guard and Department of Public Safety conducted a Migration Operational Readiness Exercise (MORE) in Roma, 20JAN2025.

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) deployed a Boeing C-17 Globemaster-3 to Fort Bliss, Texas, to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol) deport illegals on 23JAN2025, video via Sergeant First Class Nicholas J. De La Pena:

On 23JAN2025, during the day USAF C-130s delivered the U.S. Army’s 401st Military Police Company to Fort Bliss, Texas,  and then during the night the 41st Engineer Company arrived, for duty on the border with Mexico.  I edited together videos via Sergeant Logan Ubaldo Lechuga and Sergeant First Class Nicholas J. De La Pena:

On 24JAN2025, USMC Bell-Boeing MV-22B Ospreys, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 161-Marine Air Control Group 16-3rd Marine Aircraft Wing on Brown Field Municipal Airport in Otay Mesa, California, transported palletized concertina wire to the border with Mexico.  Video via Sergeant Gabriel Tavarez:

On 25JAN2025, U.S. Air Force 62nd Air Wing Boeing C-17 Globemaster-3 delivers the U.S. Army’s 23rd Military Police Company-716th Military Police Battalion-16th Military Police Brigade to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, video via Lance Corporal Alexander Vaughn:

On 25JAN2025, USMC 1st Combat Engineer Battalion-1st Marine Division reinforce the wall near San Ysidro, California.  Video via Staff Sergeant Luc Boatman:

Local Chicago, Illinois, news media reporting that on 26JAN2025 Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) began what is called Enhanced Targeted Operations (ETO). The Chicago ETO arrests added to the nationwide Sunday total of 956 arrests! Chicago ICE video via Todd Packard:

Texas Army National Guard board CH-47 Chinooks on Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, as part of the Texas Tactical Border Force.

USMC’s 1st Combat Engineer Battalion-1st Marine Division reinforce the border wall near San Ysidro, 27JAN2025, video via Corporal Logan Courtright:

Task Force DC: Massive National Guard mobilization for the U.S. Capital City!

Biden’s Borderland: Eating fish is a major cause of human trafficking?!

Technology, U.S.

Uncle Sam preps for War: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

Video

Curtiss XP-40 Warhawk tested in the NACA wind tunnel, Langley Research Center, Virginia, 1939.

I edited together videos from United States Army Air Corps/Forces (USAAC/USAAF) newsreels, released in 1941. Curtiss P-40 Warhawk:

Before the U.S. entered the Second World War, ‘volunteers’ were being paid by the U.S. government to fly P-40 ‘Flying Tigers’ for China, against the Japanese.  However, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor the Flying Tigers became an official USAAC/USAAF unit, along with some of their pilots being transferred to the Navy/Marine Corps, and the Chinese began flying their own P-40s.  Here is a poor quality, silent film of Chinese operated P-40s:

Here are some photos of various versions of P-40s throughout the war:

P-40 tied down on Iceland, 23SEP1941.

P-40E being tested by NACA, 20MAY1942.

A U.S. taxpayer funded P-40F is presented to a French air force chaplain in Algiers, northern Africa, 1942.

Warhawk lands at Burg-el-Arab, Egypt, October 1942.

Somewhere in the Caribbean, December 1942.

25DEC1942, “…SSGT J.A. Muller, CPL John W. Coleman, and CPL L.B. Thomas of the 16th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, consume their Christmas dinner on the field at a base somewhere in China.”

May 1943, Dobodura, New Guinea.

A bullet riddled British Royal Air Force P-40 ‘Kittyhawk’ somewhere in northern Africa, 1943.

Port Moresby Air Depot, Papua, New Guinea. A P-40 converted into a two seat observation plane, sometime in 1943.

Sometime in 1943, Burma-India Theater of Operations.

Sometime in 1943, Abadan, Iran, Soviet pilots play chess before flying their U.S. taxpayer funded P40s to the Karelian Front.

P-40 lands on a new airfield on Baker Island (aka New Nantucket), 11SEP1943.

Apamama Island, Gilbert Islands, January 1944.

February 1944, Upper Assam, India.

A Curtiss C-46 lands while a Curtiss P-40K watches, somewhere in China, sometime in 1945.

Chinese anti-air spotters are taught not to shoot down a Warhawk, sometime between 1945 and 1946.

Final flight outta the U.S.?: Yankee Lady, the last take-off? Does anybody know what is going on?

Idaho, U.S.

Task Force-DC: Massive National Guard mobilization for the U.S. Capital City!

Video

Since the beginning of January 2025, Air & Army National Guard units have been pouring into the U.S. Capital of Washington-District of Columbia (DC).  Never mind all the other government security organizations who are also deploying there.  This is just a little bit of what the National Guard is doing.

New York National Guard in-process for Joint Task Force-District of Columbia (JTF-DC) at the DC Armory, Washington DC. Photo via Sergeant First Class Steven Eaton, 18JAN2025.

As many as 8-thousand militia personnel, from at least 40 states, deployed to Washington DC for Joint Task Force District of Columbia (JTF-DC), as part of the 60th Presidential Inauguration.

On 18JAN2025, Idaho based 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team (wearing ‘Snake River Brigade’ patch) gets sworn in as deputies, along with other Guard units from other states. I edited from a video via Technical Sergeant Missy Sterling:

Connecticut National Guard discuss preparations for assigned Joint Task Force-District of Columbia (JTF-DC), 17JAN2025. Photo via Private First Class Emmanuel Gibson.

On 17JAN2025, Virginia Army National Guard used buses and HMMWV to deploy to Washington DC, video via Staff Sergeant Marc Heaton:

17JAN2025, about 1-hundred Oklahoma National Guard personnel deployed for the 60th Presidential Inauguration. Video interviews, via Matthew Hilborn, explains why:

On 17JAN2025, a Kentucky Air National Guard C-130 delivered Idaho Army National Guard personnel to Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland.  About 350 Idahoans deployed.  Video via Technical Sergeant Andrew Enriquez:

District of Columbia Army National Guard inspect their dress uniforms as part of the 60th Presidential Inauguration. Photo via Staff Sergeant Simone Sampson.

On 17JAN2025, Tennessee Air National Guard Security Police and Army National Guard Military Police deployed, video interviews via Sergeant Olivia Gum:

National Guard board a C-17 Globemaster-3, Photo by Sergeant N.W. Huertas, 16JAN2025. About 500 Florida militia personnel will take part in JTF-DC.

On 16JAN2025, Maryland Army National Guard personnel reported for duty in the DC Armory, video via Thomas Lamb:

Pennsylvania Army National Guard gets food from the USO, after arriving for JTF-DC, 16JAN2025. Photo via Sergeant First Class Shane Smith.

Massachusetts Army National Guard helps to in-process other Guard units, in the DC Armory, 16JAN2025. Photo via Staff Sergeant Tyrone Williams.

Wyoming National Guard takes part in riot control training, in preparation for Joint Task Force-District of Columbia, 15JAN2025. Photo via Staff Sergeant Cesar Rivas.

On 15JAN2025, Virgin Islands deployed Army National Guard personnel to the upcoming 60th Presidential Inauguration. Video via Technical Sergeant Andrew Enriquez:

I edited together videos via Vincent De Groot and Technical Sergeant Adam Welch; on 15JAN2025, Iowa deployed Air National Guard medics to the upcoming 60th Presidential Inauguration:

South Carolina Army National Guard board busses bound for Washington DC, 15JAN2025. Photo via Sergeant Duran Jones.

On 15JAN2025, Alaska National Guard C-17 Globmaster-3 delivered National Guard militia personnel from Puerto Rico, I edited video via Staff Sergeant Natalie Filzen:

I edited down a long video (via Staff Sergeant Katherine M. Jacobus); on 15JAN2025, about 140 Illinois Air National Guard Security Police and Army National Guard Military Police deployed, they explain why:

06JAN2025: Militarizing the Police: Army Guard deputized as Capitol Police!

Technology, U.S.

U.S. Disaster 2025: What is PHOS-CHEK? FEMA & National Guard ops in California.

Video

PHOS CHEK is a product of a company called Perimeter Solutions. They also sell a retardant called FIRE-TROL. They claim their retardants are certified USDA “environmentally friendly”. The red color means nothing, it is one of three options for buyers, the other two are “disappearing color” and “uncolored”. Obviously the red would allow fire fighters to see where they’ve already applied the stuff.

On 12JAN2025, C-130 cargo haulers equipped with U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) get loaded with brand name PHOS CHEK, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station on Port Hueneme, California. Currently there are old C-130H Hercules operated by Colorado Air Force Reserve, Nevada Air National Guard and Wyoming Air National Guard. California Air National Guard operates the newer C-130J Super Hercules. I edited video via Technical Sergeant Nicole Wright:

California Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing Super Hercules water-bombing (retardant/brand name PHOS CHEK) the mountains above Pacific Palisades. The air-horn noise is the MAFFS in operation. Video via Master Sergeant Nicholas Carzis, 11JAN2025:

On 11JAN2025, California Army National Guard’s 40th Combat Aviation Brigade arrived on Camarillo Airport, to link-up with CalFire (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) Fire Hawks. I edited down a video via Specialist William Franco Espinosa:

On 11JAN2025, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) began helping survivors file claims, at the Pasadena Convention Center. FEMA video via Alexis Hall:

If you are a fire survivor and have transportation, the FEMA and The American Red Cross have set up locations across Los Angeles County, to try and help you and even your pets. FEMA video via Alexis Hall, 10JAN2025:

California Army National Guard’s 40th Military Police Company on patrol in Santa Monica.  I edited video via Sergeant William Griffen, the video was recorded 10JAN2025, but not released until 12JAN2025:

U.S. Disaster 2025:USMC & Air Guard mobilized for California fires!

Technology, U.S.

U.S. Disaster 2025: USMC & Air Guard mobilized for California fires!

Video

A Presidential order, delegated through the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and U.S. Northern Command (NorthCom), has mobilized full-time and part-time military units to fight the fires in the Los Angeles County area of California.  Those units began preparations on 10JAN2025, to be ready for action by 12JAN2025.

Marines prep a Bambi water bucket for their UH-1Y Venom.

On Camp Pendleton, California, U.S. Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367-Marine Aircraft Group 39-3rd Marine Aircraft Wing prepares Bell UH-1Y Venom for fire fighting duty.  About 5-hundred Marines will join fire fighting efforts. I edited video via Lance Corporal Jennifer Sanchez:

California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection (aka Cal Fire) and Air National Guard prepare PHOS CHEK (a brand name of a type of fire retardant) and Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules (with Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) on Port Hueneme, California.  I edited video via Master Sergeant Nicholas Carzis:

U.S. Air Force-Reserve’s 302nd Airlift Wing loads U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) on Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. I edited time lapse video (sent with no audio) via Technical Sergeant Justin Norton:

Wyoming Air National Guard’s 153rd Airlift Wing personnel load a  USFS-MAFFS into a C-130H Hercules on Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. Video (sent with no audio) via Technical Sergeant Justin Norton:

Nevada Air National Guard 152nd Airlift Wing’s Maintenance Squadron prepares C-130H Hercules with a U.S. Forest Service MAFFS.  I edited down video via Senior Master Sergeant Paula Macomber:

Idaho deploys personnel and equipment to fight California fires: https://shoshonenewspress.com/news/2025/jan/10/north-idaho-crews-deploy-to-support-efforts-in-sou/

U.S. Disasters 2024: Hawaii Fires, 4+ months on, Lithium batteries made things worse?

2023: MAFFS prepping for 2023 wildfire season!

2022: C-130 MAFFS deployed, Idaho suffers most fires/acres burned in the U.S.!

2021: California MAFFS prep.

2018: California fires make at least 1-million tons of waste!

U.S.

Militarizing the Police: Army Guard deputized as Capitol Police!

Video

On 06JAN2025, about 5-hundred Army National Guard personnel from Maryland, Pennsylvania and District of Columbia (DC), were deputized by Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger, for the Counting and Certification of the Electoral Votes, and the transfer of the U.S. Office of The President, which is a National Security event.

The induction took place in the Washington DC Armory. Video via Second Lieutenant Paige Bodine, and the 60th Presidential Inauguration Joint Information Center:

Actually, military personnel, both part-time and active duty, have routinely been deputized for various civilian and military events around the United States, and even in other countries.

In June 2024, U.S. Marines (Combat Logistics Battalion 13-Combat Logistics Regiment 17-1st Marine Logistics Group) were deputized by the Palau Bureau of Public Safety, in order to allow them to be ‘weapons-ready’ during an international wargame called Valiant Shield.

During the night of 16-17JAN2021, more than 2-thousand Air and Army National Guard personnel were deputized as Capitol Police in front of the Capitol building in Washington, DC.

National Guard: End of year operations, 2024.

Mega Taxpayer Project: What is USACE doing with the Upper Ohio River, in Pennsylvania?

International

NATO cover-up: Brutal overthrow & murder of Libyan leader was to hide illegal funding of NATO members!

From 2007, when Sarkozy was buds with Gaddafi. Notice the anti-U.S.A. statue in the background.

A former president of NATO-France is now on trial for corruption involving illegal payments from long dead Libyan leader Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi.  Interesting as the former president of NATO-France was the first to call for Gaddafi’s overthrow, which lead to Gaddafi’s brutal murder, in 2011, which was shown live on social media.

In December 2024, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy had already been given a piddly sentence in a different corruption case connected to Libya.  This new trial includes 12 additional defendants.

France24 report, 07JAN2025:

The revelations which show that several NATO countries (including France, United Kingdom and United States) were taking bribes ‘in the millions’ from Gaddafi, were the result of years of investigative journalism, spurred-on by leaked government documents detailing the cash payments. Sarkozy allegedly used most of the bribes to finance his re-election campaign, if convicted in this new trial he could get a piddly ten years in prison.

2017: NATO-Italy & Libya form united navy to block migrants?

2014: Obama regime insurgents in Libya, Syria and Egypt! Wearing U.S. military camo body armor!

2012: Now there’s a porn connection! FBI cancels trip to Libya! Libya attacks were set up!

U.S. Navy SEALs killed in Libya!

U.S. ambassador to Libya assassinated, blowback for assassinating Gaddafi! 

Arab League tries to shut down Syrian TV, same thing happened in Libya!

March 2012: Libyan rebel leader says Western Powers wanted Gaddafi killed, because of his knowledge of the evil secrets of Europe & United States

Technology, U.S.

What is USACE doing with the Upper Ohio River, in Pennsylvania?

Video

A huge taxpayer funded Upper Ohio River Project as part of Presidential Executive Order 14063 on Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects.

In 2024, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Pittsburgh District awarded a nearly $770-million contract to construct a new 110 feet by 6-hundred feet lock chamber at Montgomery Locks and Dam in Monaca, Pennsylvania.  It is part of the even bigger Upper Ohio Navigation Project, itself the result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law which already authorized $934-million in taxpayer funding for the project.

It is hoped the project will help with the transportation of at least 12-million tons of products in and out of the Port of Pittsburgh: “Completing the new lock chamber’s plan marks a significant achievement for the district’s team. This project is vital to ensuring safe and reliable navigation on the upper Ohio River. With the contract awarded, we are ready to advance this critical infrastructure for the region and the nation.”-Colonel Nicholas Melin, USACE Pittsburgh District

The old lock is almost 1-hundred years old, and will disrupt the U.S. domestic supply chain if it fails. It is estimated that if the old lock fails it would cause the loss of nearly $150-million for the U.S. economy, per year of shutdown.

The Montgomery Locks and Dam project must first deconstruct the old auxiliary lock chamber, then the new primary lock chamber will begin sometime in mid to late 2025. But even before that, a new ‘pad’ had to be built in order to mix, on-site, a special type of concrete that will be used. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers video explainer via Michel Sauret, released 03JAN2025:

USACE in Idaho: Boise State University joins forces with USACE, it’s about water!