I have been waiting for someone, anyone, to outline the reality of what the Dept of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is all about. Unfortunately, perhaps due to the history of the matter, it appears no one really “gets it.” So, with that in mind, and accepting that even the operators of DOGE may not have a fulsome comprehension of the dynamic, here is what it all means.
Few people realize the last Federal Budget that passed through “regular order” was for Fiscal Year 2008, signed by President George W Bush in September of 2007. Every budget since has been outside regular order; a series of continuing resolutions, omnibus spending packages and short-term funding mechanisms. {CITATION}
That is correct. In the past 17 years, all federal spending has been ‘short-term’ or ‘stop-gap’ spending measures, generally known as “Continuing Resolutions,” where the govt (House and Senate) continue to perpetually resolve to fund the government. The CRs as they are known, punt the spending debate by accepting a baseline of prior spending and tweaking around the edges.
The key takeaway to begin thinking about DOGE is to understand that REGULAR ORDERhas not been used since Fiscal Year 2008.
Title III of the Congressional Budget Act outlines a legal timeline that each President and Congress must follow {SEE HERE}. Prior to 2007, Continuing Resolutions were only used to resolve short term arguments about spending priorities.
♦ BACKGROUND – The President is required by law to submit his budget by the first Monday in February. Yes, even when an election takes place and a President doesn’t assume office until January 20th, the first Monday in February is still the legal requirement for the new White House budget proposal.
The Presidents’ budget is then submitted to The House of Representatives, where two weeks later the Congressional Budget Office, reviews the budget and issues an opinion as to the cost of the budget. No later than six weeks after the President submits his budget all House committees send the House Appropriations Committee their spending proposals [April 15].
Through May and June, each budgetary appropriations bill from the House is sent to the Senate. The Senate receives the House appropriations bills, then reviews through the Senate Appropriations Committee (Thune just picked Susan Collins as Chair). The Senate proposes their spending priorities based on the House bill because the House has constitutional authority to originate all spending [June 15]. The House and Senate budgets are “reconciled” using parliamentary procedures [June 30] and then sent to the President for signature.
The fiscal year begins October 1st.
That’s the regular order process.
Again, regular order has not been followed since Fiscal Year 2008, signed by George W Bush in September of 2007.
♦ The Problem – When congress doesn’t follow regular order they end up with a series of “continuing resolutions” (CRs) where spending is decided on a short-term basis because they don’t have an agreed budget. The problem with CRs is what’s called “baseline budgeting” where all prior spending is the baseline for the continuation of spending proposals. The baseline accepts all previous spending priorities, then adds to them with the new spending needs.
[This is a very clear, succinct, and valid overview of what is going on. I highly recommend reading the entire piece, which is not long. The more we understand, the more likely we are to support what is happening. ABN]
A study conducted by US Army Intelligence has suggested that reincarnation is real because consciousness ‘never dies.’
Entitled ‘Analysis and Assessment of The Gateway Process,’ the 29-page report was drafted by US Army Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M McDonnell in 1983 and declassified by the CIA in 2003.
The mind-bending official Pentagon study was commissioned to better understand what its Army intel colleagues were doing sending personnel to a small institute in Charlottesville, Virginia that was working on the ‘Gateway Experience.’
The then-secretive ‘Gateway’ project, based to McDonnell’s analysis, was ‘a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus and coherence… to alter consciousness.’
From there, Gateway’s ambitious goal was to shift the practitioner’s consciousness ‘outside the physical sphere so as to ultimately escape even the restrictions of time and space.’
At least according to McDonnell, the Monroe Institute’s discoveries that wound up bolstering the case for reincarnation were profound.
‘When consciousness returns to the Absolute [Monroe jargon for a realm outside spacetime] it brings with it all the memories it has accumulated through experience in reality,’ as he distilled the Institute’s finding that memories pass on from life to life via reincarnation.
The Buddhist term is rebirth rather than reincarnation. The study mentioned, which might be of interest to some, is here: Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process. ABN
The nascent Sanhedrin in Jerusalem has made an official ruling, calling on Jews outside of Israel to come home.
“We are the beis din (rabbinic court) of Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), and we have poskened (officially ruled) that all Jews around the world have an obligation and chiyuv (religious requirement) right now to do whatever is in your power, to come to Eretz Yisrael (the land of Israel), and that is the mitzvah of Torah (Biblical requirement). And that is the mitzvah of today, especially because of what’s happening around the world and the dangers that all the Jews are in around the world. It’s necessary now more than ever to come to EretzYisrael, and we as a beis din have poskened that all the Jews have to come as soon as they can back to eretz Yisrael.”
Wander explained that the Sanhedrin makes this announcement every year, but this year, it is of special significance and is garnering more attention than in the past.
While many Jews do not recognize the authority of this current Sanhedrin, it is, in fact, expressly forbidden by Torah law for Jews to accept the authority of a system of law or a legal body that is not based in the Torah.
“It was about a decade before Hitler took power,” Wander said. “The rabbi wrote that because the Jews are making their Berlin into their Jerusalem, God will have to bring a huge storm, which will wipe out Europe. The rabbi stated that God does not allow the Jews to feel too comfortable in the exile. We’ve seen in history over and over again that when the Jews get too comfortable in exile, God needs to shake things up in order to make them a little less comfortable.”
I have watched about one-half of this and find it enjoyable; opens the mind to the many factors that went into the Bible and Abrahamic belief systems. ABN
UPDATE: Takes a little effort to get into this video, but it is well worth watching. I watched the entire thing and learned plenty. If you are at all interested in the first few centuries BCE and/or religious history, you will enjoy this talk. ABN
The skeletal remains of two bodies — and a trove of jewelry including a Rolex watch and diamond ring — were pulled from a submerged car that likely belonged to the Scarsdale couple who vanished 44 years ago, authorities and family said Wednesday.
The bombshell findings come as Georgia authorities were finally able to pull the vehicle from a pond after it was first discovered Friday near the Holiday Inn where Charles and Catherine Romer were staying before their disappearance in April 1980.
Human remains in the car “conclusively show the bodies of two people were in the vehicle,” a Glynn County, Ga., police spokesperson said in an email to The Post.
Go big picture. The FED will slow rate drops not because politics per se’, but rather it is a tacit admission they know the MAGAeconomy is going to explode – red hot.
Trump’s policies create actual deflation. We’ve seen it before. We know it first-hand. Goods prices will drop. Food prices will drop. Gasoline prices will drop. The dollar will skyrocket. Service prices will go up, but only because demand increases.
As President Trump imports American wealth back into the USA, we benefit. The multinationals, and their pretending financial media have to pretend not to know this; but you can see it in reactionary data.
The FED knows the Trump economic plan leads to almost immediate dynamic growth. Yes, they suck, but they suck because they pretend not to know how good President Trump is for the USA economy. Nothing more.
…Even if Christians could convert the Jews, what would be the point, anyway? Jews are the way they are, not because their rejected Jesus, but because they followed Yahweh. Jews don’t need to be converted to a narrative that attests to their chosenness. Jews need to be converted to the truth. The truth is not that “God chose the Jews”, nor that “God chose the Jews then unchose them”. The truth is that the Jews wrote a book that says God chose the Jews — and, sadly, Christians believe God wrote that book.
…The Levites could convert, submit and tax the indigenous Israelites because they were not just a priestly caste, but a particularly violent and cruel band of conquerors. They massacred around three thousand Israelites in the golden calf episode (Exodus 32:26-28):
And Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Whoever is for Yahweh: to me!” And all the children of Levi were gathered to him. And he said to them, “Yahweh, God of Israel, said this: ‘Set, each man, his sword on his thigh; cross over and come back from gate to gate in the camp; and kill, each man, his brother and, each man, his neighbor and, each man, his relative.’” And the children of Levi did according to Moses’ word, and about three thousand men fell from the people in that day.
In this passage, the Levites appear as some sort of military guard of Moses, terrorizing the people into submission to their exclusivist, ethnocentric religion, the cult of the Jealous God.
…Ultimately, many things point to the theory that the Levites came to dominate the Israelites religiously by military force. Which, of course, is consistent with the violence of their god Yahweh Sabaoth (“of the armies”), whose kill-count amounts to 2,821,324 according to Steve Wells, author of Drunk with Blood: God’s Killins in the Bible (the book title is a borrowed from Deuteronomy 32:42, in which Yahweh says: “I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword devour flesh”).
…Let us ponder the fact that, according to the Bible, the hereditary priesthood of the Jealous God was secured as a reward for the double murder of a Jew and his non-Jewish wife. Here you have the very essence of the Jewish faith.
…“Fear and terror” is the essence of the Jews’ control over the Goyim, but it is also the essence of the Jews’ control over the Jews themselves. The Tanakh was written by generations of Levites as a means of controlling the Israelites by the fear of a bogeyman god. Which is why, in Biblical terms, a good Jew is a God-fearing Jew.
The Covenant is based on the permanent threat of destruction. Jews who challenge their God-appointed elites and who socialize with their non-Jewish neighbors, who eat with them, who intermarry with them, and who, while doing all this, show respect to their gods, are the dregs of the Jewish people, traitors to Yahweh and to their race. They deserve to be eliminated without mercy, especially since they endanger the whole community by attracting Yahweh’s wrath. The fact that the Levites’ authority is founded on violence and terror is plain enough in Leviticus:
And if, in spite of this, you will not listen to me but go against me, I shall go against you in fury and punish you seven times over for your sins. You will eat the flesh of your own sons, you will eat the flesh of your own daughters. I shall destroy your high places and smash your incense-altars; I shall pile your corpses on the corpses of your foul idols and shall reject you. I shall reduce your cities to ruins, etc. (26:27-31).
…In Numbers 16-17, a group of two hundred and fifty Levites led by Korah are themselves exterminated for having rebelled against Moses and Aaron. “I am going to destroy them here and now,” said Yahweh, and “Fire then shot out from Yahweh and consumed the two hundred and fifty men offering incense” (16:20-35). “On the following day, the whole community of Israelites were muttering against Moses and Aaron and saying, ‘You are responsible for killing Yahweh’s people!’” Then Yahweh said “I am going to destroy them here and now,” and a plague decimated fourteen thousand seven hundreds of them (17:6-14).
Today’s Jewish elites might not be Levites in the strict sense, but Jewishness is still a system of mind control by terror. Jewishness is a form of Stockholm syndrome. As Smilesburger says in Philip Roth’s novel Operation Shylock: “To appeal to a crazy, violent father, and for three thousand years, that is what it is to be a crazy Jew!”[9] Jews feel hated by all of humankind (the Jews are “the people chosen for universal hatred,” wrote proto-Zionist Leon Pinsker[10]), but this may be, in part, a case of Freudian projection: deep inside, they know that the god who chose them is the god of hate, not of love. This fake god conjured up by the Levites only loves them as long as they obey his crazy laws without discussion, but hates them as soon as they try to be think and act as free human beings.
That is why the only way to ultimately save the Jews is to expose the evilness of their leadership. “The evils of Israel are the evils of leadership,” wrote Jewish publisher Samuel Roth in Jews Must Live: An Account of the Persecution of the World by Israel on All the Frontiers of Civilization (1934). He blames all the suffering of the Jews on “the stupendous hypocrisy and cruelty imposed upon us by our fatal leadership.”
…Historical criticism has shown that Jewish monotheism was established, not when God chose the Jews, but when the Jews declared their prehistoric, holocaust-loving national god to be the only god, therefore God. We need to acknowledge and to tell the Jews that their god is not God, but the god of genocide — as Athena is both the goddess of the Athenians and the goddess of wisdom. The Jewish god (by Yahweh, Hashem or any other name) is a nasty, greedy, vengeful devil that has enslaved the Jews spiritually. Judaism is a case of collective demonic possession.
I am posting this because it is fascinating, deals well with religion, and because it directly addresses the extremely gruesome violence that is woven into the Old Testament and the psychopathy of its God. Since I was young, I was never able to imbibe this aspect of any of the Abrahamic religions. I understand how it can work on various levels for some people I respect, but overall it simply sounds crazy to me, a cult of insane violence and abuse. I apologize to Laurent Guyénot for excerpting so much of his article but my motivation for that is to attract more readers to his work. His book From Yahweh to Zion: Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land…Clash of Civilizations is an informative overview of Jewish religious and social history. I highly recommend it to everyone. ABN
Since questioning the Holocaust is illegal in much of the West, all Western peoples are more or less morally obligated to question the Holocaust. This is how we the plebs can and must fight back against totalitarian mind-control perpetrated against us by the powers that be, however you conceive of them. It’s as simple as that. We do not all need to agree on exactly what happened but we can all roughly agree that whenever rational speech is made illegal something is deeply wrong. Our power lies in knowing that and acting on that in whichever ways are appropriate for us and not too scary (for whoever you are, for whatever reason). I mention fear because mind-control myths are typically backed by terror, fear of ostracism, fear of ridicule. Recall the stern threats against ‘antivaxxers’ who dared to question the conspicuously unproved ‘safe and effective’ covid vaxxes. By most of us simply refusing to take that vax or to continue taking that vax, its popularity has fallen to record lows and that myth has been busted. The basic strategy of all of us roughly agreeing on important topics is the only way we can prevent WW3 and increased totalitarianism throughout the West. In this vein, I encourage all readers of ABN to click on the link above and at least skim the material presented. ABN
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