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Eradicating the Deep State Step 1: Get USAID under control

February 5, 2025/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

And on the good side of the Trump ledger: USAID was a deep state slush fund, funding Covid gain-of-function research, trans surgeries, and serving as a money-laundering scheme for Democrats  by setting up “obscure NGOs,” funding them, and then getting political contributions.

Rubio: ” their basic attitude is, ‘We don’t work for anyone, we work for ourselves, no agency of government can tell us what to do.'”

USAID Absorbed Into State Department Under Rubio After DOGE Crusade

“USAID will be merged into the State Department with cuts in the workforce, but it will remain a humanitarian aid entity, sources told @saraecook and me. Trump admin expected to announce the moves in coming days. Discussions of reductions in funding were still fluid today,” CBS News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs wrote on X.

Over the last several days, the Trump administration’s move to strip USAID of its independence and be rolled into the State Department has been well-telegraphed with leaks and reports via media outlets.

As we noted earlier:

If USAID is rolled into the State Department, Marco Rubio will ensure grant scrutiny, preventing taxpayer funds from being stuffed into the coffers of the Deep State. And this will ultimately mark a historic shift in America’s role in the world. 

All USAID lacked was grant distribution oversight, turning the agency into a Deep State slush fund. Not anymore, under Rubio at State.

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About one day after the US Agency for International Development’s website went dark and its official X account disappeared, President Donald Trump addressed reporters Sunday night, declaring, “It’s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics. And we’re getting them out.” 

By midnight, Elon Musk—who oversees the government efficiency initiative “DOGE”—provided taxpayers with an update on USAID’s status during a live X Spaces session.

Musk told the more than 682,000 listeners who tuned in that the president “agreed we should shut it [USAID] down.” This would be one of the largest planned cuts to date, and the fate of USAID is likely that it will lose its independence and be rolled into the State Department.

“As we dug into USAID it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have actually just a ball of worms. If you have an apple with a worm in it, you can take the worm out. If you have a whole ball of worms, it’s hopeless. USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple you just need to get rid of the whole thing. That’s why it’s got to go. It’s beyond repair,” Musk explained.

Musk wrote on X, “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.”

The move to end USAID as a stand-alone agency comes as the DOGE creator revealed: “Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people?” 

AP noted:

Musk’s comments come after the administration placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former US official told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Members of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, eventually did gain access Saturday to the aid agency’s classified information, which includes intelligence reports, the former official said.

Trump has already ordered a freeze on foreign aid as part of his “America First” foreign policy. As some note, USAID has effectively served as a laundering scheme for the Deep State.

Journalist Robby Starbuck provided further color:

“Like I said before, USAID is a front for the CIA.  And together with NGO’s like the Open Society Foundation, they have been using US tax dollars & govt resources as their personal piggy bank. It has been infuriating to watch. Hopefully now the whole truth will come out,” journalist Lara Logan wrote on X.

Musk’s involvement with DOGE suggests that the rapid counteroffensive against the Deep State is underway. What likely happened with USAID is a precision-guided strike aimed at severing the Deep State’s key funding source. Always follow the money—neutralizing the Deep State’s ability to launder taxpayer funds is a good start.

Musk was also joined by DOGE co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on X Spaces. Ramaswamy noted:

If USAID is rolled into the State Department, Marco Rubio will ensure grant scrutiny, preventing taxpayer funds from being stuffed into the coffers of the Deep State. And this will ultimately mark a historic shift in America’s role in the world.

Rubio quoted here:

According to Rubio, “Now we have basically an active effort — their basic attitude is, ‘We don’t work for anyone, we work for ourselves, no agency of government can tell us what to do.”

“So the president made me the acting administrator,” he added. “I’ve delegated that power to someone who is there full-time, and we’re going to go through the same process at USAID as we’re going through now at the State Department.”

According to Rubio, USAID has lost its focus and abandoned the “national interest” – telling Fox: “They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they’re not even a U.S. government agency, that they are out — they’re a global charity, that they take the taxpayer money, and they spend it as a global charity irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not in the national interest.”

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U.S. Takeover of Gaza?

February 4, 2025/3 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

It’s the least we could do and would be a dream come true for the Israelis because the Palestinians would be removed, supposedly to Egypt and Jordan (who are opposed). And Hamas is opposed. If it happens, I bet Israel would have de facto control and eventually de jure.

Trump, Hosting Israel’s Leader, Proposes the U.S. Take Over Gaza

ImagePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Trump standing at lecterns in front of U.S. and Israeli flags.
President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at a news conference in Washington.Credit…Eric Lee/The New York Times

Where Things Stand

  • Gaza’s future: President Trump proposed on Tuesday that the United States take over Gaza and that all Palestinians there — some two million people — should leave, describing a permanent relocation to one or more sites funded by “countries of interest with humanitarian hearts.” As he hosted Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for a joint news conference in the White House, Mr. Trump said that he has studied the conditions in Gaza and his idea to seize and develop it has gotten “tremendous” support from the “highest of leadership” as a viable plan to bring peace to the Middle East. Read more ›

Trump says he wants Jordan and Egypt to take in Palestinians from Gaza.

President Trump declared on Tuesday that he would seek to permanently relocate the entire Palestinian population of Gaza, an explosive idea in a region that has already endured generations of war over disputes about homelands and forced migration.

Hosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House, Mr. Trump said that all 2 million Palestinians from Gaza should be moved to countries like Egypt and Jordan because of the devastation wrought by Israel’s war with Hamas after the terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023.

While the president framed the matter as a humanitarian imperative, he effectively reopened a geopolitical Pandora’s box with far-reaching implications for the Middle East. Control over Gaza has been one of the major flash points of the Arab-Israeli conflict going back decades, and the idea of displacing its Palestinian residents recalls an era when Western great powers redrew the maps of the region and moved around populations without regard to local autonomy.

Hamas, which has ruled in Gaza for most of the past two decades and is re-establishing control there now, immediately rejected mass relocation on Tuesday, and Arab nations including Egypt and Jordan have rejected the idea of taking in a large influx of Palestinians, given the fraught history, burden and destabilizing potential. But Mr. Netanyahu, sitting at Mr. Trump’s side in the Oval Office, smiled with satisfaction as the president outlined his ideas.

“I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza,” Mr. Trump said. “I heard that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They live like hell. They live like they’re living in hell. Gaza is not a place for people to be living, and the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative.”

He suggested that nations in the region could finance the creation of a new homeland or homelands that would provide better living conditions. “It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn’t want to return,” he said without offering any details of what that would entail.

Asked how many Palestinians he had in mind, he said, “all of them,” adding, “I would think that they would be thrilled.” Pressed repeatedly on whether he would force them to go even if they did not want to, Mr. Trump said, “I don’t think they’re going to tell me no.”

Hamas, at least, was quick to tell him no. Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas official, said that the president’s proposed relocation was “a recipe for creating chaos and tension in the region.”

“Our people in Gaza will not allow for these plans to come to pass,” he said in a statement distributed by Hamas. “What is needed is the end of the occupation and the aggress

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Joining the dots on Satanic subversion: A speculation

February 4, 2025/7 Comments/in General/by Niall McCrae

What is the connection between occultist Aleister Crowley, the horror movie Rosemary’s Baby, and recent US president George W Bush? Fasten your seatbelts, for I will be taking you on a journey through time of exactly a hundred years, into the realm of dark magic fictionalised in The Devil Rides Out by Crowley’s acquaintance Dennis Wheatley.

This is admittedly speculative and would be labeled a “conspiracy theory,” but since the covid-19 debacle, a critical thinking movement has grown. There are doubts about almost any official narrative, and the movement rejects the presumed authority of ‘experts’. Prominent people and events in history are reconsidered and counter-narratives are formed. Among some far-fetched ideas there is many a reasoned conjecture, and sometimes perceived links between happenings seem too much for coincidence. Nonetheless, conspiracy theories remain speculative and readily dismissed by the establishment, partly because facts are hidden and mainstream media act as gatekeepers for the truth.

Take, for example, the Skull & Bones Club.  The existence of this sinister association is undeniable: its lodge is in the grounds of Yale University, and its membership includes numerous leading American figures, many of whom graduated at the law school. But newspapers and broadcasters and books for popular consumption omit mention of it, and consequently few citizens are aware that the institutions of society are led by men initiated to occult beliefs and practice.

Crowley’s influence on society cannot be overestimated. On amicable terms with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, he would undoubtedly have given these authors material for their dystopian classics Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. A spy for British security services, Crowley had contacts at the highest level of the British state. He would have shared the vision of a technocratic regime, although his motive was not order and control, but a ‘beast system’ of sexual degeneracy.

Referring to himself as the embodiment of 666, Crowley was described as the wickedest man in the world. He was deeply immersed in Kabbalistic teachings and the idea of a higher realm of consciousness, creating a pseudo-religion of Thelema. He devised ritual practices that typically entailed sadomasochism and sexual depravity.  He inspired the Babalon Working rite, first performed in the Mojave Desert by L Ron Hubbard (founder of scientology) and rocket scientist Jack Parsons. The objective was to incarnate the Thelema goddess Babalon, also known as the Scarlet Woman.

The aforementioned Rosemary’s Baby dramatised such demonic pursuit. Roman Polanski’s film was based on the book by Ira Levin, who later wrote The Stepford Wives and The Boys from Brazil.  A child of Satan is born to an innocent woman who had the misfortune to live next door to Devil worshippers on the exclusive upper west side of Manhattan. Allegedly Levin was not merely an author, but a secret service propagandist. The forces of evil are revealed to use through fiction.

In 1925 a daughter was born to American socialite Pauline Pierce. Several months earlier, Pierce had participated in a sexual magic ritual similar to the Babalon Working, with Crowley and his novelist friend Frank Harris. She was Crowley’s mistress at the time, before returning to her husband and raising the child, who they named Barbara.

The girl went on to marry George Bush, who in 1976 was appointed as director of the CIA. Bush is suspected of organising the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963.  After serving as Ronald Reagan’s vice-president in the 1980s, Bush was elected as 41st president. Barbara Bush would have known she was marrying into the dark side: Bush was a Skull & Bones man (indeed, this secret society is believed to be a recruiting ground for US intelligence).

The facial likeness of Barbara Bush and Crowley is remarkable; see here for a discussion. If we consider the possibility that the president’s wife was conceived by Satanic ritual, we could also wonder on the offspring of George and Barbara’s union. It was on the watch of George W Bush, 43rd president, when the 9/11 event shocked the world.

Critical thinkers deny the official story of the Twin Towers, believing that this was an inside job to justify a giant stride towards totalitarian security and surveillance. Bush Junior would have known in advance. Like all presidents he was an actor on stage, but was he something more than that?  Perhaps the destruction of the World Trade Center was a sacrificial offering to Satan. After all, the sitting president had the seed of Crowley – his grandfather.

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USAID Destroyed: Trump and Musk’s Conservative Revolution Continues

February 3, 2025/1 Comment/in General/by Alexander Dugin

I know a lot of people who are sympathetic to White interests are very skeptical about Trump. I get it, but he is doing a lot of good things—the moves against DEI, transgenderism, deporting illegals, and the attempt to rein in federal employees by putting them on leave and firing them. And now getting rid of USAID and much of the funding for leftist NGOs, like the ones that are paid to process illegals. Could anyone expect more?

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2025

From Arktos.

The liquidation of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an event whose significance can hardly be overstated. When the Soviet Union abolished the Comintern (Third International) and later the Cominform, structures that advocated the ideological interests of the USSR on a global scale, it marked the beginning of the end for the international Soviet system. Although the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) and the Warsaw Pact Organization existed until 1991, their demise was essentially predetermined during Khrushchev’s time.

Something similar is happening today in America, as USAID was the main operational structure for the implementation of globalist projects. Essentially, it was the primary transmission belt for globalism as an ideology aimed at the worldwide imposition of liberal democracy, market economics, and human rights, while dismantling sovereign states and overthrowing regimes capable of resisting this on a global scale.

Through this agency, globalism was embedded in various countries. That is why USAID was financed with a substantial portion of the U.S. federal budget: about 1% — amounting to $50 billion annually. When you factor in subsidies from other globalist structures, this figure at least doubles. Thus, approximately 2% of the American treasury was spent on this agency each year. One can only imagine the material resources this organization possessed. Additionally, it was closely integrated with a certain segment of the Central Intelligence Agency (most USAID branches worldwide served as cover for CIA activities, into which globalist ideas were actively embedded).

After sweeping out the previous U.S. political leadership — super-globalists — Donald Trump began purging the CIA of representatives from this globalist structure. The banning of USAID is a critical, fundamental move, the importance of which, as I said, cannot be overstated. This is especially true because countries like Ukraine largely depend on this agency, receiving significant funding through it. All Ukrainian media, NGOs, and ideological structures were financed by USAID. The same applies to almost the entire liberal opposition in the post-Soviet space, as well as liberal regimes in various countries, including Maia Sandu’s Moldovan administration and many European political regimes, which were also on USAID’s payroll.

And suddenly, all of this collapses. Sure, some committed liberals will continue their activities out of ideological conviction, but they are a very small percentage. The vast majority of liberalism and global liberal networks operate on the principle of “money for loyalty.” But whose money funds this liberal “loyalty”? It is USAID’s money. Therefore, without USAID — and given that Elon Musk has called it a “criminal organization responsible for deaths” — this funding for subversive activities will cease. This, in turn, is a blow to the entire global liberal environment. Essentially, it is a missile strike on the headquarters of globalism. And Trump and Musk made it happen.

The consequences, in my view, will be profoundly felt in all countries. We will suddenly realize that this oppressive pressure on our Russian society is coming to an end. It is no secret that USAID helped draft Yeltsin’s Constitution in 1993, through which it controlled Russia. Before that, it played a role in the collapse of the Soviet Union, laying the foundation for the creation of the Russian Federation, which was initially intended to be part of the global world under the direct control of USAID and the globalist elites.

Vladimir Putin began resisting this external control as soon as he came to power in 2000, focusing on strengthening sovereignty. However, USAID operated in Russia until 2012. It was only when Putin assumed his third presidential term that USAID was officially banned from Russia. Indirectly, of course, it continued to exert influence, as much of the political opposition and many representatives of the so-called “sixth column” remained closely tied to it. Only now is this coming to an end.

I must admit, this news is so significant that it is hard to comprehend. Until recently, we believed that globalists were a permanent fixture, that USAID was an almost eternal structure, and that the U.S. would always be the vanguard of globalization. We thought nothing could be done, and no one could change this. But it turns out that it can be changed — and it already has been.

(Translated from the Russian)

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David Lebryk and “Wally” Adeymano

February 2, 2025/4 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

I have the feeling that DOGE is going to uncover huge corruption in Treasury payments. We all know the reputation of Nigerians for honesty and integrity.

DOGE: David Lebryk controlled the computerized payment system responsible for $6 trillion in Treasury payments before he refused to give Trump’s DOGE team access to the system. His manager was a Nigerian immigrant appointed by Biden. He quit two weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/rt8FnbM8zm

— @amuse (@amuse) February 1, 2025

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Horus on his Substack: The problem with the invaders is they are different people

February 1, 2025/1 Comment/in General/by Horus
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This is one of the crucial blue pills I aim to refute in my work. Immigration did not become bad in the 1990s and immigrants are not violent primarily because of having experienced war or poverty. They are different people who frequently regard us with contempt and hostility.

Jewish immigrants like the Rothschilds bribed their way into Parliament and pressured politicians to supplant British foreign policy with Jewish foreign policy (e.g. supporting the Ottoman Empire). In the 1880s a massive wave of Jewish immigrants moved to Britain and the USA. The existing Jewish communities used the ‘pogroms’ narrative to justify treating the immigrants as ‘refugees’ and condone their takeover of the East End of London, parts of Manchester and Leeds and other areas, driving out and replacing British people.

The post-1880 Jewish immigrants included violent criminals, disturbing neighbours, rapacious landlords and businessmen, and socialist/communist/anarchist subversives (the essays I’m working on will cover this). They then brought Zionism too. British politicians began to be recruited to the Zionist cause, betraying their own nation.

The descendants of the 1880s generation include many of the most aggressive subversives in British history, including Anthony Lester, Richard Stone and Barbara Roche. They include the terrorists who assaulted British police at Cable Street, and those who formed the 43 Group and 62 Group. They set the pattern for the violent suppression of native resistance to immigration.

Several of the leading communist revolutionaries from the Russian Empire were free to live in Britain for several years before they overthrew the monarchy back home: Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Litvinov and many others.

Some Maltese had moved to Britain by the 1910s and were largely involved in crime or illicit business. Romani gypsies had been allowed to move in over previous centuries and conducted themselves similarly, as did Irish travellers. Various Irish immigrants in Britain were supporters of anti-British militancy. Contingents of Somalis and other Africans were allowed to stay in Cardiff, Liverpool and other ports after the First World War, and their criminality quickly led to violence. Chinese workers were employed where possible to drive down wages and standards.

Throughout the interwar period, Marxists like CLR James and Kwame Nkrumah were free to use Britain as their base of operations, just as Lenin and co had done.

After the 1948 Nationalities Act, Afro-Caribbeans began to flood in, encouraged and facilitated by Jews of both pre- and post-1880 descent, and later Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. By 1988, Muslims were confident enough to demand the banning of books and threaten death to their enemies. Irish journalists in Britain like Sean O’Grady have since endorsed their demands.

What reason is there to think that these people were as loyal to the country as our parents and grandparents were? Were the Jamaicans who pimped out or raped white women loyal? All available evidence suggests that most immigrants simply see life in Britain as easier, more lucrative and, for many of them, wide open to predation. The Muslim rape gangs date to the 1970s at the very latest, but probably began as soon as the first Muslims moved in and got the measure of British tolerance combined with state-imposed ‘anti-racism’.

All immigration, i.e. state importation of strangers, has been forced on us against our interests. It did not become bad in the 1990s. And they were not “coming home”.

First, for Britain at least, the initial wave of immigration came from the Commonwealth and that generation was as loyal to their Queen as anyone born and bred in Bradford or Birmingham or London. They were coming home, only to very bad weather. The immigration we have seen in the last twenty to thirty years however was very different. It turns out that importing people from war torn countries, countries that have experienced brutal genocides, say such as Rwanda, was not such a good idea.
Laura Perrins

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JTA: A South Carolina rabbi’s Holocaust memorial speech was pulled from public TV for being too ‘political’

February 1, 2025/2 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

The Holocaust industry has always been about promoting immigration, diversity, etc. From the Preface to Culture of Critique:

The Holocaust framework allowed one to put aside as irrelevant any legitimate ground for criticizing Israel, to avoid even considering the possibility that the rights and wrongs were complex” (Novick 1999, 155). As the threat to Israel subsided, the Holocaust was promoted as the main source of Jewish identity and in the effort to combat assimilation and intermarriage among Jews. During this period, the Holocaust was also promoted among gentiles as an antidote to anti-Semitism. In recent years this has involved a large-scale educational effort (including mandated courses in the public schools of many U.S. states) spearheaded by Jewish organizations and staffed by thousands of Holocaust professionals aimed at conveying the lesson that “tolerance and diversity [are] good; hate [is] bad, the overall rubric [being] ‘man’s inhumanity to man’” (Ibid., 258–259). The Holocaust has thus become an instrument of Jewish ethnic interests, not only as a symbol intended to create moral revulsion at violence directed at minority ethnic groups—prototypically the Jews, but also as an instrument to silence opponents of multiethnic immigration into Western societies.

A South Carolina rabbi’s Holocaust memorial speech was pulled from public TV for being too ‘political’

… Following the prayer, Rose instructed the crowd to be seated and launched into his speech, during which he sought to tie the Holocaust to “the attacks on human rights and human lives which echo a dangerous refrain.”

“In our time we are witnessing a resurgence of hate, of antisemitism, of prejudice, of discrimination,” the rabbi said, in a video he later posted to YouTube himself. “Our country, which has served so often as a beacon of hope to those suffering around the world, is now, as of this week, refusing aid of any kind to refugees.”

He then implored attendees to visit the website of HIAS, the Jewish immigrant and refugee aid group, which has been open about its struggles to continue to fulfill its mission after Trump’s recent freezing of federal funds for refugee assistance.

“If the Holocaust happened and ended yesterday, would the same Jews who were let in this country be let in today?” Rose continued. He then moved onto LGBTQ issues, referencing Trump’s recent executive orders that recognize only two official sexes and bar transgender health care for minors: “My friends, my neighbors, my colleagues who are members of the LGBTQ+ community, are terrified right now.”

Rose then briefly pivoted to the issue of book bans, especially potent in South Carolina as one of the leading states for book challenges. “When we talk about education and the censoring of things where we need to learn about and legitimize the experience of suffering of other people, books are being taken out of libraries and our children are not being taught the full spectrum of experience in this country,” he said.

South Carolina in recent years has restricted classroom access to some books about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Districts in the state have briefly pulled the novel “The Fixer” from one district prior to a review and pulled a book about local Holocaust survivors from its middle-grade curriculum. The state is currently facing a civil rights lawsuit over a new law restricting the teaching of subjects including race and gender; the state superintendent, who was a featured speaker at the Auschwitz event, is a named party in the suit.

“I was so nervous giving the speech that I was trembling,” Rose recalled on Friday about his speech. “But I was immediately surrounded by people who wanted to give me hugs.”

Only one person told him they objected to the speech, he said, because “he didn’t believe that religion and, in particular, prayer was ever the platform to bring in politics. To which I responded, then you might as well get rid of the Hebrew Bible.”

The injection of modern-day politics into Holocaust commemoration events, which are often attended by political figureheads, has been a subject of controversy for years. Similar ceremonies this year have also been magnets for political grandstanding, as Jews were removed from one commemoration in Dublin for protesting the Irish president lamenting the death toll in Gaza during his remarks. No world leaders were invited to speak at an event this week at Auschwitz to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation, a date that the United Nations designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day 20 years ago.

The South Carolina speech wasn’t the only Holocaust memorial controversy to play out this week in the United States. This week a leaked memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency, a wing of the Pentagon, instructed staff to pause all activities related to the commemoration of Holocaust Day of Remembrance and other activities the agency deemed representative of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, or DEI, now banned from the federal government via a Trump executive order.

Rose has harsh words for the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, which the state created in 1989, because it exists in parallel with the state’s other education policies suppressing the teaching of racial history and the recognition of children’s gender identities.

“They believe that by talking about Holocaust education, it gives them license to ignore every other political issue of suffering in their educational processes,” he said.

This week the Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission also announced a broad investigation into NPR and PBS that could lead to their funding being revoked, putting public broadcasters on edge.

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We may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website.

Click on the different category headings to find out more. You can also change some of your preferences. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer.

Essential Website Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features.

Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site.

We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain.

We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. You can check these in your browser security settings.

Other external services

We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Changes will take effect once you reload the page.

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Vimeo and Youtube video embeds:

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You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page.

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