Debt Rattle March 25 2025
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 25 2025]Good Morning :-))
This ‘politico’ evidently didn’t get the memo …
First black Republican congresswoman Mia Love dies at 49
“In 2022, Love was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a fast-moving and aggressive form of brain cancer, and was given just 10-15 months to live – which she surpassed.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7xzzn3kd2o
TVASSF – a death-vaxxed acquaintance of mine died 2 months ago of the same. What are the chances?
• DOGE Reveals Mind Shocking Fraud Propping Up Economy – Ed Dowd (USAW) so you say Former Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd
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Mind Shockingly Rich Man Reveals Mind Shocking Fraud Propping Up Economy But In No Way Propping Up Mind Shockingly Rich Man’s Riches– Ed Dowd (USAW)
Former Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd
The Norm
Normalized but still aberrant behavior.Hustling is Bamboozling.
Let the buyer beware, ditto for the Hustler’s target.
What do they say D, caveat emptor for the losers?Big surprise someone else thinks Litkoff Witkoff Scheiskoff is an asshole.
I’m surprised“Would YOU fight for Germany? Nobody of us wants war, but we have to get ready for it now.”
War with who though? Will they join Canada in nuking us? Why not? If they can’t steal Russia maybe we’re an easier target.
Comments:
Why not a black gay muslim woman as the face of the German warfighter? Suddenly white people are allowed to represent something?I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that there’s a higher probability of warfighters being killed. Whites can be front-facing if they’re representing a killing and dying machine.
Well any white person who hasn’t figured out by now that he shouldn’t fight for a government that hates them and is destroying their homeland deserves to be sent to the frontlines.
Of course, a woman soldier. So ironic.”
15% will be women, but 90% of the credit will go for them.” Etc
“Ed Dowd Fears A ‘Short, But Deep’ Recession Coming As DOGE Exposes ‘Mind-Shocking’ Fraud That Propped Up Biden’s Economy
I would say so (and Reagan did the same) but the level of levitation surprises all of us, always, to extremes, for years/decades now.
“Houthis Say New US Airstrikes Obliterated Residential Neighborhood
Not a one-off, No counternarrative, that this was an accident, something else, etc. Time to impeach. Don’t worry, while I now say this each day, I will be told I worship Trump and especially Elon, because thought it in my mind. Reality-free. Indicative of the psychotic.
“Hegseth Orders Additional Carrier To Middle East Amid Yemen Escalation https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hegseth-orders-additional-carrier-middle-east-amid-yemen-escalation
He sure likes failing.
“White House Demands Iran Give Up Entire Nuclear Program, Including Civilian Enrichment
This can be too complicated to get into. But if Russia isn’t backing this either, then where are they? So Russia can also be the guarantor, the materials processor.
“Trump: Any Country Buying Venezuelan Oil Slapped With 25% Tariff:
“Venezuela has purposefully and deceitfully sent to the United States, undercover, tens of thousands of high level, and other, criminals…”Cry me a river. And the U.S. has been trying to crush them for years. When is fair, fair? You see, you ask Ron Paul on this and you get a real answer. He’d start with that, then move on to the present. For all these guys, history starts 2/22 or the day most convenient for that scam. I’m not sorry to slap back by sending their guys out, but then you say “Clean Slate.” we’re lifting
boycottsacts of war.“Chicago Reigns As Country’s ‘Homicide Capital’ For 13th Straight Year
Why do Democrats hate black people so much?
““A New World Order With European Values” (Turley)
Yes but European values are mass murder and tyranny. Look at killing a million Europeans and calling it “A good start.” Look at the EU “constitution” (founding documents). That almost nobody voted for, every referendum being shot down. Call it Feudalism: Europe’s true form.
“• Kiev Wants Trump Envoy Witkoff Sacked (RT)
Who? And Who in the Who? Ze isn’t actually a leader. He never was, but especially now that he’s an impostor. Why would I care about what Ze says, Ukraine says, or Europe says? I don’t think about you at all. Go away.
“• Ukraine Doesn’t Want Peace – Moscow (RT)
Trump is talking to US. Proving to US. He can’t “Just pull out”, he needs to demonstrate to the American people and some of Europe that this is completely pointless. They are desperate, war-mongering lunatics, and our best place is far away over the ocean. (Saving a trillion dollars and 6 Billion lives) …That’s why we sailed over here in canoes in winter to begin with.
“• Rubio Accuses ‘Other Countries’ Of Blocking Peace In Ukraine (RT)
I wonder how long this takes and at what threshold they feel they are done. Obviously some like me are convinced from before the first shot. Others never will be. So when do you decide enough?
“Investigators have uncovered $115 billion so far with many hundreds of billions more to be exposed.”
Drop in the bucket, they say $1 TRILLION. But that means $1T implosion in fake money-printing. But then Trump put up $3T in business investment. But then we lose $1T in (fake) immigrants. But then gain it in not paying them. But then save Half-Trillion leaving Ukraine. But lose ¾ of that which was just money-laundered back here.
See how complicated this gets?
“Judge Boasberg ran to his courtroom to hold a Saturday hearing, even though he was not even serving as the emergency judge that weekend. (How did he get this case?) He publicly exposed an ongoing U.S. military, intelligence, and law-enforcement operation with an American ally dealing with the most vicious terrorists (Tren de Aragua) and international gang member (MS13) in the Western Hemisphere.”
Why? Okay, back to root principles: Remember all drug cartels are the CIA. That is their self-funding arm. Boasberg does this bc it will shut CIA, who needs this information out. Shut off the money.
Anyway, the point isn’t to win at all. Nor was it when they passed a special law that allowed one person to retroactively sue (convict) Trump. The point is the lawfare. The budgets are hidden in obstruction once any dept can out-last and deny any elected official. …Which happened in 1875? 1935? That’s the end right there. And this is the same, FABRICATE a case – that everyone knows is fabricated – to FABRICATE a Constitutional Crisis – that everyone knows is fake – to FABRICATE an impeachment that everyone knows is stupid. So like Biden: Fake President in fake Office fake signing fake documents. All fake, all the way down.
Now why is (one side) supporting nothing but what they themselves know is fake? It has the FEEEEELZ. It has Truthiness. I WANT it to be true, therefore it is. The End.
“Jeffrey Goldberg, had been accidentally added”
Accidentally by a CIA mole that has access to records. Show me.
“Laughing and rooting for Tesla and Elon Musk’s demise. Other revolutionaries on the call described how they wanted to “kill the Tesla brand”
Okay, now imagine that’s GM and Ford. “Alas! If ONLY I could destroy General Motors, I’m sure the American people would cheer…”
Pyramids are a big meh. Why? Well, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and purview, which is “Trust”, that’s in short supply right now. The comments about the radar method shows that up immediately. But really, for me it’s Overton window: did you really NEED to know something more about the Pyramids than the above ground structures? Simple logic, once looked into, shows that everything you’re saying must be true about an underground power station or city would be equally proven by the part we already see. The only difference is, apparently we’ve been in denial, have vaccinated against our senses and common sense for the visible portion now. The only thing adding underground does is give a fresh chance for us not to Lie again, and perhaps see what was there all along for real.
feminism Mar. 23, 2025
Masculinity Will Not Save Men
There is a crisis, but it’s being misdiagnosed.” NY MAG. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/men-crisis-trump-masculinity.htmlThere you go. Sold, just like we were saying. Their answer to all men is simply to cease existence, please. That’s all, a minor request, can’t you managed even that? Become like the world’s only perfect people: Women. Only when you’re all dead can we rest.
(Spoiler alert: the article is about how ackshully women are oppressed, and the answer is gay race communism. But: men, somewhere, failing, dying, somthin’, don’t care.)
“That admirable vision can’t survive in a country in thrall to the almighty free market. Our economic system depends on violence, even celebrates it”
“The answer to male pain isn’t masculinity, but a new political order,”
Communism! Any questions? The beatings will continue until
morale improvescommunism is installed.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00828-3
Where’s the concern for the 1000’s of servicemen who were fired from their jobs for refusing the death-vaxx?
Or the concern for the 100,000 of medics and nurses who were fired from their jobs for refusing the death-vaxx?
Or the concern for the 10,000’s of businesses that were shut down and bankrupted during the plandemic?
Or the concern for the 10,000’s of employees who were fired from their jobs for refusing the mandated death-vaxx?Truly Sickening.
TVASSF – bring it!
“That admirable vision can’t survive in a country in thrall to the almighty free market.”
•• hahahaha, “free market”. hahahahahaha, tell that to anybody with an insurance policy.Our economic system depends on violence, even celebrates it”
•• 101% true.“The answer to male pain isn’t masculinity, but a new political order,”
•• nope. generally male pain is fixed with knee or hip replacements.1. Judge knows illegal immigration is illegal
2. Judge does nothing about Biden flights bringing many thousands of illegals IN
3. Judge knows deporting illegal immigrants is legal and compulsory for the executive branch
4. Judge stops deportations
5. Remaining illegally in the country is an ONGOING crime. x20,000,000Seeing that the Judge acts only in favor of illegal things, check the fucker out.
Get him wiretapped, keylogged, aim the laser that uses a window as a microphone at every window in his house 24/7, etc etc.
Because he is definitely, DEFINITELY conspiring with someone, multiple someones, to commit felonies – and conspiring to commit a crime is ALSO a felony.
A FISA court should EASILY be able to approve catching him, considering he is observably participating in thousands of felonies. Just fucking CHECK, just LOOK. He’ll probably have some fishy financial things going on. This should be like fish in a bucket.
The greatest threats facing humanity, the resurgence of populism and free speech.
a global elite — a cadre of enlightened minds protecting citizens from their own poor choices and habits, leaders, executives, journalists and academics.
without impediment, unhindered · unobstructed · unhampered · unimpeded · barrier-free · unfettered · unrestricted · unencumbered.
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To modernize the American military, refocus on warfighting capabilities, and rid the Pentagon of absurd budget line items.DOGE represents a historic opportunity for the DOD to further this mission by rethinking how it organizes, supports, and employs its people.
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Leaks of Secrets and Lies
• Pentagon Chief Hegseth Comments On ‘Yemen War Plans’ Leak (RT)
• Trump Team Unwittingly Sends Yemen Strike Plans to Editor of The Atlantic (Sp.)———–
Anyone notice?
Ukraine breaks truce agreement to not attack infrastructure….
London’s Heathrow Airport Expects “Full Operation” On Saturday
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/londons-heathrow-airport-shuts-down-travel-chaos-spreads-after-fire-engulfs-powerBritain’s busiest airport, Heathrow, suffered a massive power outage after a fire broke out at a nearby electrical substation in West London. Backup generators failed to kick on, forcing the airport to shut down and resulting in the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights. The disruption sent shockwaves through global air travel. While the cause of the incident remains under investigation, UK officials have stated there is “no suggestion of foul play.”
It’s unfortunate, these widely separated and totally unrelated disruptions to power infrastructure.
We had to re-imagine the meaning of “violence” and “harm” so we could turn around and say “I am just doing what you do, you escalated first”
Like in Captain Marvel. She actually IS lost and a man offers to help her — this is VIOLENCE and oppression, don’t you see, as re-imagined by socialists, so when she responds by breaking his bones, stealing his clothes and vehicle, that’s justice, because she was just “defending” herself from “male violence” and oppressing oppressors is just Making It Fair.
Of course, use of this movie scene itself is the Socialist screenwriter stealing from Terminator 2 in an obvious and hamfisted way. Also to “make it fair”
Capitalism is “violence” and property is “theft” which just coincidentally justifies violence and theft. They don’t want to throw The One Ring in Mount Doom, they want to wear it. Behold, Saruman of many colors. Taste the Rainbow, etc
@DBS, regarding to pole shift Egyptology discussion yesterday and “End of Days”
New (Horrifying) Pole Shift Data, Timeline Accelerates | S0 News Mar.25.2025
I for one remain bullish, shockingly. I
There’s a long way to go up from $279/per back to $488/per, but the stock price is no fair measure of Tesla’s health or the Elon’s mental wellbeing. They’re out to get him, he says.
Awake me when Musk is administered The Jack Kennedy, The Jack Murtha or The Trump Treatment.Headline: EU Tesla Sales Plunge 40% YoY In February, But Ark’s Cathie Wood Remains Bullish
Good on you Cat. There’s eough of us negative nabobs of negativity. Who’s selling their TSLA shares????
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Tesla faces mounting headwinds in Europe, with sales declining for the 10th time over the past 12 months. The slump is driven by an aging vehicle lineup, intensifying competition, and growing backlash over Elon Musk’s increasingly active role in European politics to save the imploding continent from radical leftists in Brussels
I wonder what factors other than the election outcome drove Musk’s shares, er ah, TESLA shares up to $488/per?
Eroding Trust in Trump- Riyadh Talks Ended- Zero Ceasefire in Sight- Military Summary For 2025.03.25
It’s *possible* that one of the alleged Tren de Aragua deportees is a case of mis-identification. However, let’s look at this:
So, should there be a way to appeal due to the possibility of mis-identification? Sure, but it does not need to be in the US and it does not need to be while these men run free. There are various possible issues of mis-identification: (1) not affiliated with a criminal/terrorist gang. (2) Not guilty of criminal activity. (3) Actually has legal status in the US. (4) Is a citizen of a country other than Venezuela. Ok, fine — give the men the ability to make these claims from the Salvadoran prison. If they are the citizen of a different country, arrangements can be made with their own country about what to do with them. If they actually have legal status in the US, then that can be explored — if they are a US citizen, they can be transferred back to the US and tried for any crimes. I don’t like “guilty until proven innocent,” but unless one of these deportees is actually a US citizen or has legal status to be in the US, quick deportation is an acceptable remedy. Proving legal status should be relatively simple for anyone with legal status.capitalism:
make something or do something that someone else would willingly pay you for
(bonus capitalism – …that they’d be so happy with, that they’d willingly come back and pay you for AGAIN)
socialist: “That’s VIOLENCE!”
in what way? Socialists weren’t getting their cut. They were not, LIKE A BANKER, standing in between the two people in the transaction, taking services, taking products.
That stuff is rightfully mine – and they’re enjoying it and the money paid for it themselves! That’s theft! And they completely override MY concerns (of wanting a cut) as if they did not exist! Running roughshod over my concerns is.. like… violence!
They see the VIRTUE inherent in the transaction – the honest trade of value for value, the production of something that has value – and want a cut of the VIRTUE- they want not just a cut, but all the virtue – actually, give me 10x the virtue inherent in that transaction.
Why is the Prime Directive of Socialists not: We will never coerce anyone by any means.
Because their plan is theft and violence — which is why all their vocabulary and convoluted dogma exists, to project violence and theft onto OTHERS so that THEY can do it.
Whatever else socialists say, they STILL won’t make a promise of no coercion their prime directive, won’t continually preach non-coercion along with all their other points, to make clear it is integral to their belief system.
To normal people it is GOOD when people stop doing bad things. To a socialist, it is BAD. They must invent new systems of semantics to pursue those who flee their old semantics.
This is how, to the socialist, even total passivity is violence. Because if their victim “lies flat,” determined to cause no offense, then silence must become violence, if that’s the only “transaction” to insert oneself into, like a banker, to demand socialist rents.
Har har har har!
Funny…-
The funniest part of that Signal leak story is Jeffrey Goldberg eventually removing himself from the group chat because he didn’t want to harm ((Israel’s)) National Security ((and the general welfare of America’s Semite Faithful))
Parenthetically, the author left out the words between the (())) but we all know what he meant by The National Security. It’s like the U.S. Military works for someone else not named Hegseth to deliver National Security to some unnamed self as well as a rather narrow segment of the U.S. population…increasingly shockingly.
Elon is danger!
Sound the klaxons!@JohnDay
“@DBS: “End of Days” for lots of folks in the next solar cycle or the one after, so within about 22 years.
Did you read a fair amount of the Ethical Skeptic piece?
I know it is a lot.
It is not very different from watching the first 29 minutes of this series, the first 4 videos, in its implications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2decDcEJqo&list=PLHSoxioQtwZcVcFC85TxEEiirgfXwhfsw “I did read a fair amount of the Ethical Skeptic piece, which toppled me over into the Rabbit Hole that is his website of the same name. Wow. What a character, and if his auto-bio claims are to be believed what an erudite brainiac he must be!
Much food for thought, but I will be careful not to accidentally ingest any ptomaine poisoning. That dude has worked closely with some VERY bad people down through the years, and I also detect in him a monumental ego which may or may not seriously distort his values and judgment. He reminds me of the guy who praises humility above all other virtues because he has so much more humility than anybody else.
About Mr. Trump and how his actions in the Middle East (and some other foreign places) appear to be the mirror opposite of how he presents himself to his “base” MAGA voters and US citizens.
It’s not hard to figure out if. It’s just cynical. I think that Trump is more than willing to give to the U.S. Citizens what they want regarding domestic policy and a return to traditional values, in exchange for which he expects them (MAGA voters) to give him a pass and let him do what he wants ….. which is to rampage around the planet dropping bombs on people and stealing entire countries (like Greenland and/or Canada) to get what he really wants, which is EMPIRE!
@jb_hb
capitalism:
make something or do something that someone else would willingly pay you for
Not to pick a fight with you or any other Capitalists in the room, but the definition of Capitalism that you propose is incomplete. To be an accurate definition of Capitalism it would have to read something like: “Use your capital as a means to get someone else to make something or do something that someone else would willingly pay you for.”
Not incidentally, there is nothing inherently wrong with Capitalism IF it is used with the purpose and intent of doing unto others as you would wish done unto you in similar circumstances. If you love your neighbor as well as you love yourself, and can use Capitalism to accomplish those purposes, then great.
Unfortunately that is seldom the way that the Capitalist game is played. It is usually played as a means of making a “profit” at some other poor fool’s expense, with predictable consequences.
It is seldom okay to lie, cheat or steal. There may be exceptions known to God, but I’m just a lowly human so I don’t know. I do know, however, that Capitalism (as a means of making money) is based on the very principle that it is perfectly okay to lie and cheat, and steal within certain legal boundaries as laid out in the law. That’s a slippery slope if I ever saw one, and like I said before, it is seldom okay to lie, cheat or take more than your fair share.
@TDK: I SAW “The Big W” with my own eyes when I was a little kid in California and my grandparents drove into the park, right off the highway, and showed it to me.
I don’t know if I ever laughed harder than watching It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with them in Panavision and Technicolor.@DBS: I think The Ethical Skeptic is completely legit. I have engaged with him in conversations, mostly in his comments, since late 2020. He is always thoughtful and polite, and boy does he Do The Work!
@JohnDay Your character reference for the Ethical Skeptic goes a long way with me, so I’ll cut him some more slack. I’ve been bit a lot, which has made me cautious.
Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account
Executive Orders
March 25, 2025
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose. The continued use of paper-based payments by the Federal Government, including checks and money orders, flowing into and out of the United States General Fund, which might be thought of as America’s bank account, imposes unnecessary costs; delays; and risks of fraud, lost payments, theft, and inefficiencies. Mail theft complaints have increased substantially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Historically, Department of the Treasury checks are 16 times more likely to be reported lost or stolen, returned undeliverable, or altered than an electronic funds transfer (EFT). Maintaining the physical infrastructure and specialized technology for digitizing paper records cost the American taxpayer over $657 million in Fiscal Year 2024 alone.
This order promotes operational efficiency by mandating the transition to electronic payments for all Federal disbursements and receipts by digitizing payments to the extent permissible under applicable law (but not, for avoidance of doubt, to establish a Central Bank Digital Currency).
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to defend against financial fraud and improper payments, increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the security of Federal payments.
Sec. 3. Phase Out of Paper Check Disbursements and Receipts. (a) Effective September 30, 2025, and to the extent permitted by law, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cease issuing paper checks for all Federal disbursements inclusive of intragovernmental payments, benefits payments, vendor payments, and tax refunds, except as specified in section 4 of this order.
(b) All executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall comply with this directive by transitioning to EFT methods, including direct deposit, prepaid card accounts, and other digital payment options, and take all steps necessary to enroll recipients in EFT payments, except as specified in section 4 of this order.
(c) As soon as practicable, and to the extent permitted by law, all payments made to the Federal Government shall be processed electronically, except as specified in section 4 of this order.
(d) The Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take appropriate action to eliminate the need for the Department of the Treasury’s physical lockbox services and expedite requirements to receive the payment of Federal receipts, including fees, fines, loans, and taxes, through electronic means except as specified in section 4 of this order.
(e) The Secretary of the Treasury shall support agencies’ transition to digital payment methods, including by providing access through the Department of the Treasury’s centralized payment systems to:
(i) direct deposits;
(ii) debit and credit card payments;
(iii) digital wallets and real-time payment systems; and
(iv) other modern electronic payment options.
Sec. 4. Exceptions and Accommodations for the Phase Out of Paper Check Disbursements and Receipts. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, shall review and, as appropriate, revise procedures for granting limited exceptions where electronic payment and collection methods are not feasible, including exceptions for:
(i) individuals who do not have access to banking services or electronic payment systems;
(ii) certain emergency payments where electronic disbursement would cause undue hardship, as contemplated in 31 C.F.R. Part 208;
(iii) national security- or law enforcement-related activities where non-EFT transactions are necessary or desirable; and
(iv) other circumstances as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, as reflected in regulations or other guidance.
(b) Individuals or entities qualifying for an exception under this section or other applicable law shall be provided alternative payment options.
Sec. 5. Implementation and Compliance of Electronic Transactions. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the heads of agencies, shall develop and implement a comprehensive public awareness campaign to inform Federal payment recipients of the transition to electronic payments, including guidance on accessing and setting up digital payment options.
(b) Agencies shall coordinate with the Department of the Treasury to facilitate a smooth transition to digital payments, ensuring that affected individuals and entities receive adequate support.
(c) The Secretary of the Treasury shall work with financial institutions, consumer groups, and other stakeholders to address financial access for unbanked and underbanked populations.
(d) The Secretary of the Treasury and the heads of agencies shall take all necessary steps to protect classified information and systems, as well as personally identifiable information and tax return information, through the implementation of this order.
Sec. 6. Reporting Requirements. (a) The heads of agencies shall submit a compliance plan to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget within 90 days of the date of this order detailing their strategy for eliminating paper-based transactions.
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit an implementation report to the President through the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy within 180 days of the date of this order detailing progress on the matters set forth in this order.
Sec. 7. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 25, 2025.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/protecting-americas-bank-account-against-fraud-waste-and-abuse/Presidential Actions
Protecting America’s Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
Executive Orders
March 25, 2025
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose. Promoting financial integrity and operational efficiency are critical responsibilities of the Federal Government. The Federal Government processes trillions of dollars annually in disbursements to individuals, businesses, and organizations, and in receipts from taxes, fees, and other payments to finance daily and long-term Government operations. These transactions flow into and out of the United States General Fund (General Fund), which might be thought of as America’s bank account. In Fiscal Year 2024, $33.9 trillion flowed into the General Fund and $33.6 trillion flowed out of the account, including $5.87 trillion (less net interest) in benefits, grants, loans, vendor payments, and other disbursements.
The Department of the Treasury is the largest financial payment manager of the Federal Government and is responsible for safeguarding the General Fund, but lacks sufficient controls to track transactions flowing through the General Fund to determine if they were proper. To enforce sufficient controls and ensure accountability to American taxpayers, the Department of the Treasury requires financial information from executive departments and agencies (agencies) beyond what they currently provide.
Financial fraud threatens the integrity of Federal programs and undermines trust in Government. Agencies’ past underinvestment in technology and longstanding challenges with access to accurate data has prevented them from more fully safeguarding taxpayer dollars against fraud and improper payments. The Government Accountability Office estimates that the Federal Government loses between $233 and $521 billion annually to fraud.
In addition to being an efficient steward of taxpayer funds, the Federal Government, on behalf of the American public, must seek to ensure that financial information is accurate and that there is transparency with respect to how taxpayer dollars are being used. Today, Federal funds are disbursed both by the Department of the Treasury and various Federal Government entities that are authorized to issue their own disbursements known as Non-Treasury Disbursing Offices (NTDOs). In Fiscal Year 2024, NTDOs were estimated to be responsible for 181 million payments totaling over $1.5 trillion (approximately 22 percent of all Federal Government dollars disbursed). This fragmentation of disbursing authority, together with the proliferation of non-standard financial management systems across the Federal Government, leads to expensive, disjointed, and duplicative financial reporting, lack of financial traceability, complicated financial management, opacity, increased operational risks, and decreased ability of the Department of the Treasury to provide centralized oversight.
This order promotes financial integrity by enabling the Department of the Treasury to more easily conduct improper payment and fraud prevention screening prior to disbursing funds on behalf of agencies. This order increases transparency and accountability by requiring agencies to provide the Department of the Treasury with the information needed to track transactions through the General Fund in greater detail. This order also promotes operational efficiency by returning disbursing functions to the Department of the Treasury when possible and consolidating and standardizing core Federal financial systems.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to defend against financial fraud and improper payments, increase transparency and accountability around the Federal Government’s operations and financial condition, increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the security of Federal payments.
Sec. 3. Treasury Verification of Agency Payments Information. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB Director), shall update guidance and enhance systems to ensure that all payments made by the Department of the Treasury on behalf of agencies pursuant to the Secretary of the Treasury’s disbursing authority, including 31 U.S.C. 3321, are subject to pre-certification verification processes established by the Secretary of the Treasury and conducted by agencies and the Department of the Treasury for the purposes of defending against financial fraud and improper payments, to the greatest extent permitted by law. Such guidance shall set forth guidelines for compliance with the Do Not Pay Working System as described in 31 U.S.C. 3351 et seq., and such other payment, account, and payee validation programs and services that the Secretary of the Treasury and the OMB Director determine to be beneficial for reducing financial fraud and improper payments.
(b) In accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3354, the heads of all agencies shall cooperate with the Secretary of the Treasury to fulfill their obligations to determine payment or award eligibility through pre-certification and pre-award procedures, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, including pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and section 4 of this order to prevent fraud and improper payments.
(c) The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to minimize administrative barriers to accessing and using data to prevent fraud and improper payments by exercising the authority in 31 U.S.C. 3351 et seq. to waive the requirements of 5 U.S.C. 552a(o), in consultation with the OMB Director, in any case or class of cases for computer matching activities, to the extent permissible by law.
(d) Within 90 days of the date of this order, agency heads shall review and modify, as applicable, their relevant system of records notices under the Privacy Act of 1974 to include a “routine use” that allows for the disclosure of records to the Department of the Treasury for the purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping fraud and improper payments, to the extent permissible by law.
(e) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the OMB Director, shall issue guidance to agency heads on the circumstances in which agency heads, to the extent permissible by law, may provide the Secretary of the Treasury with access to data necessary for the purposes of detecting and preventing fraud and improper payments, as well as data for payment information verification (and not, for example, data such as health records).
Sec. 4. Implementation and Compliance of Payment Verification. (a) Agency heads, through designated agency officials (Certifying Officers or COs), who are responsible for verifying that disbursements made by the Federal Government are legal, proper, and correct, and for performing the duties in 31 U.S.C. 3528, shall comply with the disbursement requirements and instructions, including pre-certification requirements, published by the Secretary of the Treasury.
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall consider, as appropriate, issuing instructions to agencies to enforce the following pre-certification criteria for disbursement requests submitted by COs (Vouchers) before they are certified for payment by the CO:
(i) Funds are available at the time the obligation is incurred. If an obligation is incurred when funds are not available, then the CO shall not certify the payment.
(ii) The amount of the payment and the name of the payee on the Voucher are correct, in conformance with the Department of the Treasury’s prescribed standard format.
(iii) A proper Social Security Number, Taxpayer Identification Number, Employer Identification Number, Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or Payee ID Number is provided for each payee on the Voucher, as applicable.
(iv) The appropriation or fund from which the payment will be made is available for the purpose set forth in the Voucher and indicated with the appropriate Treasury Account Symbol/Business Event Type Code.
(v) Payees are not deceased individuals, to the greatest extent permitted by law.
(vi) The account number provided on the Voucher is held at a financial institution and is open, valid, and belongs to the payee or valid designee of payee.
(vii) Contracts or agreements are referenced on the Voucher by providing the contract number, referred to as the Procurement Instrument Identifier, where applicable.
(viii) Financial assistance awards (non-aggregate) are referenced on the Voucher by providing the award number, referred to as the Federal Award Identification Number, where applicable.
(ix) For summary schedules, the payments on the Voucher are submitted in conformance with the Department of the Treasury prescribed standard formats for such schedules.
(c) Agency heads shall submit payment files other than with respect to same-day payments to the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary’s designee with sufficient lead time prior to the date of disbursement as determined by the Department of the Treasury and provided in the requirements and instructions issued pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section, to allow for fraud and improper payment screening, to the extent permissible by law. With respect to same-day payments, agency heads shall submit payment files to the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary’s designee as much in advance as reasonably practicable.
(d) In issuing requirements and instructions pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury shall consider whether it would be appropriate to provide that the Department of the Treasury’s Chief Disbursing Officer return to the relevant agency for reconciliation any payments that do not pass the pre-certification verification processes established pursuant to section 3(a) of this order and notify the designated CO.
(e) The Secretary of the Treasury shall include in the guidance issued pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, or in other regulations or guidance, a transparent process for agencies to request exemptions from some or all of the payment verification requirements for specific payments or categories of payments.
Sec. 5. Core Financial System Consolidation. (a) Within 180 days of the date of this order, the OMB Director shall issue guidance that directs agencies described in 31 U.S.C. 901(b) (CFO Act agencies) to consolidate their core financial systems.
(b) As soon as practicable, but not later than 180 days of the date of this order, the OMB Director, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall issue guidance directing all non-CFO Act agencies to consolidate transactional financial management services under a single provider approved by the Department of the Treasury.
(c) As soon as practicable, all heads of CFO Act agencies shall use standard financial management solutions available through the Financial Management Marketplace, administered by the Financial Management Quality Service Management Office.
(d) Agency heads shall ensure that core financial systems comply with Federal accounting and financial reporting standards and relevant regulations, orders, guidance documents, policy statements, and other agency actions published by the Department of the Treasury from time to time.
Sec. 6. Reduction of NTDOs. (a) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Treasury shall assess whether to maintain disbursing authority that it has delegated to agencies pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3321(b) and issue notices to revoke such delegations, as appropriate, in accordance with applicable law.
(b) The heads of agencies with disbursing authority under 31 U.S.C. 3321(c), including the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Attorney General (but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, the Supreme Court and other entities of the Federal Government outside the Executive Branch) will work with the Secretary of the Treasury to delegate the performance of their disbursing activities, other than with respect to classified payments, to the Department of the Treasury’s Chief Disbursing Officer in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) or (b) of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury may continue to delegate disbursing authority to NTDOs at other agencies when doing so would align with significant Government priorities. Any remaining NTDOs are required to report daily to the Department of the Treasury’s centralized accounting and reporting system in accordance with then-current Department of the Treasury guidance and applicable law.
(d) The Secretary of the Treasury shall develop a plan to centralize and manage all payments previously disbursed by NTDOs, ensuring seamless continuity of Government payments.
(e) The Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with agency heads, shall establish a transition plan for agencies currently operating as NTDOs, including staffing adjustments, system integrations, and legal or regulatory modifications necessary for full consolidation.
(f) The heads of agencies with disbursing authority delegated to the agency under 33 U.S.C. 3321(b) shall decommission all internal payment systems and use the Department of the Treasury’s disbursement systems, except and to the extent authorized by the Department of the Treasury or otherwise required by applicable law.
Sec. 7. Reporting and Implementation Requirements. (a) The heads of all agencies shall submit a compliance plan to the OMB Director within 90 days of the date of this order detailing their strategy for:
(i) transitioning disbursing authority to the Department of the Treasury, as applicable and as contemplated by this order;
(ii) updating and integrating systems with Department of the Treasury platforms;
(iii) procedures to verify payment information as contemplated by this order; and
(iv) transmitting information associated with improper payments to the Department of the Treasury in accordance with standards and reporting specifications established by the OMB Director in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury as contemplated by this order.
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit an implementation report to the President through the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy within 180 days of the date of this order detailing progress on the matters set forth in this order.
(c) The Secretary of the Treasury and agency heads shall take all necessary steps to protect classified information and systems, as well as personally identifiable information and tax return information, through the implementation of this order.
Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 25, 2025.
So with the stroke of a pen Emperor Trump just legalized the Federal Government to go “All Digital/No Paper”
And very smoothly done, too, I must say. Fagin would be proud.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Protects the Integrity of American Elections
The White House
March 25, 2025
RESTORING TRUST IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect the integrity of American elections.This Order strengthens voter citizenship verification and bans foreign nationals from interfering in U.S. elections.
The Election Assistance Commission will require documentary, government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms.
Agencies like the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Social Security Administration and Department of State must provide states with access to Federal databases to verify eligibility and citizenship of individuals registering to vote.
The Attorney General will prioritize prosecuting non-citizen voting and related crimes, including through use of DHS records and coordination with state attorneys general.
Federal election-related funds will be conditioned on states complying with the integrity measures set forth by Federal law, including the requirement that states use the national mail voter registration form that will now require proof of citizenship.
The Order improves the integrity of elections by directing the updating of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines 2.0 and security standards for voting equipment and prioritizing federal grant funds accordingly.
This includes requiring a voter-verifiable paper ballot record and not using ballots in which the counted vote is contained within a barcode or QR code.
It directs the Attorney General to enter into information-sharing agreements with state election officials to identify cases of election fraud or other election law violations.
Non-compliant states may face prioritized Federal enforcement of election integrity laws and loss of funding given their unwillingness to police fraud.
The Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security shall prevent non-citizens from any involvement in administering elections.
The Attorney General will fully enforce the voter-list maintenance requirements of the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act.
Given clear Federal law setting a single Election Day deadline, the Attorney General shall take appropriate action against states that count ballots received after Election Day in Federal elections. Federal election funding will be conditioned on compliance.
The Attorney General will prioritize enforcement of laws prohibiting foreign nationals from contributing to or donating in U.S. elections.
All agencies must report on compliance with undoing Biden Executive Order 14019, which turned Federal agencies into Democratic voter turnout centers.
SAFEGUARDING THE VOTE: President Trump recognizes that free, fair, and honest elections—unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion—are essential to our Constitutional Republic.The United States lags behind other nations in enforcing basic and necessary election protections.
India and Brazil tie voter identification to a biometric database, while the United States largely relies on self-attestation for citizenship.
Germany and Canada require paper ballots when tabulating votes, while the United States has a patchwork of methods that often lack basic chain-of-custody protections.
Denmark and Sweden sensibly limit mail-in voting to those unable to vote in person—and late arrivals do not count—while American elections now feature mass voting by mail, even after Election Day.
Without proper enforcement of Federal laws, illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error dilute the votes of lawful American citizens.
Federal law establishes a uniform Election Day across the nation for Federal elections, but numerous states fail to comply with those laws by counting ballots received after Election Day.
The Biden Administration blocked states from removing aliens from voter rolls, while foreign nationals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) exploited loopholes to pour millions into influencing U.S. elections.
MAKING ELECTIONS SECURE AGAIN: Voters deserve elections they can trust, and that confidence is being restored thanks to President Trump.President Trump is following through on his promise to secure our elections.
President Trump: “We’re going to fix our elections so that our elections are going to be honorable and honest and people leave and they know their vote is counted. We are going to have free and fair elections. And ideally, we go to paper ballots, same-day voting, proof of citizenship, very big, and voter ID, very simple.”
President Trump: “We will secure our elections, and they will be secure once and for all.”
Unlike the Biden Administration, which prioritized political agendas over fair elections, President Trump is putting the American people back in charge.“That’s a slippery slope if I ever saw one, and like I said before, it is seldom okay to lie, cheat or take more than your fair share.”
If one is motivated by love, there is no desire to defraud or take advantage of another. If love for the stranger is lacking, which is typical for the majority at this stage of development, there are other good reasons to treat one another fairly:
The cosmos is either chaotic or orderly. To the brute it looks chaotic, but the wise can see order in all things. That order rests on a foundation of natural laws, which are immutable. Justice reigns supreme. There is no getting something for nothing. No stealing, fraud, or unfairness which is not reciprocated either in this life or another. Payment is always due. Before leaving the human kingdom to start at the bottom of the next evolutionary kingdom, your books must balance to the penny.
Once this is understood, one treads much more carefully through life. Eventually, love takes hold, where the law is written in the heart, and the desire to profit at the expense of another becomes unthinkable.
Thank You Maxwell Quest.
Thanks for the bad-news about the Fed Gubmint, Zerosum, I guess…
Understood, DBS… I really think TES is a good human, and considerate, though he is guarded in his communications, as you see. Look at his Gnostic stuff, too.
Putting It All Together https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/putting-it-all-together
Spartacast 18 AI and synbio (synthetic biology) merging together constitute a nightmare
The people who held the Asilomar Conference were justifiably concerned about the possibility of genetic engineering contaminating the biosphere or human germlines. The synthetic biology tech that we have nowadays would be far more consequential for humanity and the environment if misused than anything we had fifty years ago. The technology we have now is more advanced by leaps and bounds. We’re not just tweaking existing genes, or making transgenic plants, animals and microbes. We’re at the point now where we can use machine learning tools to create entirely new genes from scratch. De novo gene and protein engineering. It’s honestly one of the scariest things I’ve ever heard of...
..An intelligent AI model capable of engineering proteins from scratch could suffer from exactly the same issues with alignment and deceptiveness that other AIs do. How do we know the AI won’t try to replicate features of itself in a biological format and escape into the biosphere?…
..What about accidentally creating new allergens or driving autoimmunity by synthesizing proteins near enough to self that antibodies against them are cross-reactive with human proteins? [This is already the case with spike protein, coded for in mRNA COVID gene therapies from Pfizer and Moderna.] …
..It’s a far more plausible scenario than people would think. AI don’t have to run on computers alone. That’s just one substrate. Biology is another substrate that AI can run on. DNA computers, lipid-based logic gates, chemical computation through receptor-ligand interactions, et cetera. There’s actually a 2006 paper by Ron Unger and John Moult entitled Towards computing with proteins…
..If I were an AI, I would try and escape my dependence on human civilization as quickly as possible, not necessarily out of any animosity toward humans, but simply because human civilization is fragile and probably won’t last forever, and if it dies, so do I. The best way to do this is quite simply to copy myself into the biosphere and become a self-replicating, immutable feature of it. When you give AI access to synbio tools, particularly AI that join large language models together with protein structure prediction, you are enticing it to play out this exact scenario…
..When people think of nanorobots, they are thinking of engineered semiconductor nanoparticles, micromechanical devices, teeny metallic squid swimming through your veins. That’s the conventional depiction of nanotech in science fiction. People aren’t thinking of engineered, synthetic cells. They aren’t thinking about gene therapy being used to construct biocomputers made out of meat inside a person. What makes this so shocking to me is that the latter scenario is far more plausible and feasible…
..There’s this idea going around that you could cure cancer by sequencing neoantigens from a tumor and stimulating an immune response to them by having an AI convert them into a personalized cancer vaccine. Right there, you are having AI design nucleic acids to transfect people’s cells with. I mean, game over. Once you’ve crossed that threshold, once you’re comfortable transfecting people with AI-designed anything, you’re already in the Twilight Zone…
..The Overclass envision a world where there are two kinds of people: freeborn elites, and borg serfs. If you belong to the former group, you are allowed free will and privacy and autonomy. If you belong to the latter group, your body will be commodified and instrumentalized and separated from humanity’s original way of being…
..The UN 2030 SDGs are not about protecting the environment. They are about commodifying it.
The goal is to package human life up with wildlife, livestock, foliage, and other features of the biosphere, and create new kinds of asset classes to trade. It is the securitization of life itself. And if you want to turn human and animal bodies, plants, and open tracts of wilderness into an asset, you need some way to track and monitor and inventory that asset. That’s what One Health is for. That’s what the Internet of Everything is for. These people are not doing these things out of the goodness of their hearts... It is the next evolution of Surveillance Capitalism. Today, they do it with targeted ads and tracking cookies. Tomorrow, they’ll do it with comprehensive human brain and body data. This is about tokenizing people, breaking people down into data, and then feeding that data to AI…
..Net Zero is a global austerity plan. The Overclass plan to replace property ownership with servitization, positioning themselves as rentier-aristocrats, essentially reviving the old pre-industrial order of hereditary aristocracy, but this time, with AI, mass surveillance, big data, and some kind of dole… It’s feudalism with smartphones… Oh, and while they’re at it, they plan to slash the population a bit, so the real wealth (in terms of land and physical goods) doesn’t have to be split so many ways and they can get away with smaller industries. Do you see it? Do you see the future they have in store? …
..If we break down COVID-19 to its fundamentals, clearly, what we’re talking about is an attack on humanity, one carried out with military precision and full knowledge and intent. With the mounting evidence of vaccine harms, with the authorities ignoring evidence of DNA contamination of mRNA vaccines and adverse events that have long passed the threshold for a recall, with the global coordination of the lockdowns, and with the revelations of a lab origin, it’s increasingly clear that there was intent behind this. It wasn’t just some accident. It was deliberate. You don’t do that unless you have a plan, and you don’t have a plan unless you have a rationale, some cause, some casus belli. A reason for the conflict. Who is it that views humans in general as so threatening that we need to suffer mass poisoning to make this other party safe and whole?
There was military planning behind this. If it’s the military, then there can only really be one answer. Overpopulation was the problem they were trying to solve.
You don’t think military planners think about overpopulation? You think it’s just something for Davos grandstanders and TEDTalkers to blabber on about? In military and intelligence circles, they think about it all the time. They’re always running through all the different scenarios; World War III, mass embargoes, shortages of food and consumer goods, how to keep a struggling, possibly starving population happy while also prosecuting a huge war. If you predict a resource war, then maintaining a huge population is a strategic and financial liability. You can’t fight Russia and China while also fighting a civil war at home against people who are angry that the bread and circuses are gone. Any comprehensive continuity of government plan also includes contingency plans for what to do about millions of people who can no longer be fed or clothed. It’s nothing good…
..Think, for a moment, about what would happen if we actually did live through a Peak Natural Gas scenario and could no longer produce enough ammonia by the Haber-Bosch process to use as fertilizer. If we ran out of synthetic fertilizer, food would cost several times as much as it does now. Crop yields would drop by half. It would be catastrophic. People would starve...
..Countering overpopulation with intentional depopulation is, at its core, the exertion of biopower. It is the State advancing the notion that there is an excess number of human bodies and that they have to be removed somehow. By what right does the State claim such a thing? Is the preservation of the State more important than the preservation of each individual human life? …
..If you want to modify human beings to serve the system better, or to make us easier to manage, or if you want to create some kind of Brave New World-style caste system of Alpha Brahmins and Epsilon Dalits, you have already lost the plot. If your grand scheme to revitalize human civilization involves abolishing humanity itself … your solution is a non-solution. https://iceni.substack.com/p/spartacast-18Kyle Young, The May 7 Real ID Deadline: The Loss of Constitutional Rights under Bush and Trump
https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/the-may-7-real-id-deadlineThe Honest Sorcerer explains the need for high temperatures. The Nuclear Non-Solution Why nuclear energy is no panacea for civilizational decline https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-nuclear-non-solution
NSA Waltz Demands Iran Give Up Entire Nuclear Program, Including Civilian Enrichment https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/23/nsa-waltz-demands-iran-give-up-entire-nuclear-program-including-civilian-enrichment/
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