Ignore the Trolls, Forge Ahead (Week 2 News Review)

The Trump Administration is forging ahead with plans to create a more efficient government, and at such a rapid clip that the press can barely keep up. Here are some of the undercovered news which have occurred that the alternative news media is doing a better job at covering.
From TruNews.com, “Political Shock as Trump Fulfills Campaign Promises,” yesterday President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), announced that they had accessed US Agency for International Development (USAID) offices over the weekend. They were combing accounts and finances, to such an extent, the investigation requires a lockout of employees, who were told to stay home. Located inside the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on the way to the National Mall, this investigation is bound to ruffle a few feathers because as Foundation for Freedom Online‘s Mike Benz puts it, there is no aid in USAID.
What is USAID? When people hear the name USAID, they focus on “aid,” they focus on thinking like it’s humanitarian work. But “aid” is not actually in the name of US aid. USAID stands for the “United States Agency for International Development,” not aid, it’s not a charity. And international development is simply capacity building.
It is essentially a funding pool for the State Department to exert “soft power” overseas from funding Western-leaning thinktanks and media apparatus, to vote-buying, to funding terrorist groups and armaments, often categorized in disguise. However it is a $50 billion dollar per year operation, such a huge amount that no wonder it deserves to be audited.
Another breaking Red Wave story is the DOGE plan to clean up waste inside the Pentagon. As Colonel Douglas MacGregor, Ph.D. and founder of Our Country Our Choice has asserted, as well as others, many of the Senior Executive Service (SES) are comprised of retired generals and intelligence officials who go through the revolving door and are hired as government consultants, but there is no clear accounting of what those services may comprise. This would be in addition to their retirement salary, and the number of these SES, including amenities and/or security details (such as recently halted for Dr. Fauci, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo) amounts to billions in federal dollars. (There are also concerns about allowing SES continued access to classified state security portals.)
While the White House Executive Order establishes the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize government efficiency and productivity,” the renamed United State Digital Service (USDS) agenda will be to modernize federal technology and software to maximize efficiency and productivity. The DOGE agenda is to eliminate fraud, waste, redundancy, and abuse.
What other examples of flagrant waste of taxpayer money have been uncovered?
According to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in Press Briefing on January 29th:
“DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money. So that’s what this pause is focused on: being good stewards of tax dollars.”
As President Trump himself states: “America is Back” and it is for the benefit of the real future our children and everyone around us deserve.
However what caught people’s attention last week as the fires in Los Angeles, California are waning, was the mid-air collision of a Blackhawk military helicopter into an American Airlines commercial aircraft attempting to land at 8pm at Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday evening of January 29, 2025. There were various reports of the flight path being flown by inexperienced pilots, of the air traffic control at the airport being manned by only one person doing the job of two, and of the controversial use of visual approach by the helicopter pilot, especially at night. Whether DEI hires were involved remains to be investigated also. This unheard of tragedy in the DC region caused at least 68 deaths—there were no survivors.
According to Brooks Agnew of American Revolution Radio, this is where Artificial Intelligence (AI) may play a useful role in the future in helping with air-traffic monitoring in control towers. AI would be able to monitor without need for breaks, would not tire, but would be subject to the decision-making and problem-solving that humans do best. Currently the only known AI software for traffic control is being tested at Heathrow International Airport in London, England, also known for being extremely traffic heavy.
There are right now many skeptics voicing complaints about Elon Musk and DOGE, and while it is easy to question the motives of the tech-billionaires—certainly for instance, many have had enough of Bill Gates (who is not a medical doctor) and his avid interest via the Gates Foundation investing in WHO and a variety of experimental vaccine programs.
They are worried about the $500 billion dollar Stargate program that Trump proposed in the first week of his administration. Certainly per TheLastAmericanVagabond.com which has covered much of the Covid-19 controversy in great detail, there are legitimate concerns. However, that should not stand in the way of allowing Mr. Musk to do his job as a leader for DOGE, and judging from his successes—which they are indeed—with StarLink, Space X (the backflip to land upright is totally awesome), Tesla, and takeover of Twitter (even though censorship remains a problem on X) showing a man with great multi-tasking and administrative leadership capability. He’s, unusually enough, also a “big-picture” type.
We should thank him for being brave and bold enough to go where no man has gone, tackling the octopus from the outside in, and reaming its insides out. Even if the octopus survives, it will be no more than a shadow of what it once was. We should thank President Trump and his team for tapping the ideas of so many of the Common Spartacus, citizens who will defend him because they were imprisoned for their courage to support Trump.
Indeed another sign that Trump will not tolerate another use of the weaponization of the media against him was the move by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to implement a new annual rotation program for the Pentagon Press Corps. For the time being it rotates out legacy media giants such as NBC News, the New York Times, National Public Radio, and Politico. A similar rotational program is being implemented for the White House Press Corps by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
In view of how the Biden Press corps had routinely attacked Trump especially throughout his court hearings and especially throughout the election, it is refreshing that alternative media will be given a chance to participate in the press briefings. Imagine Alex Jones Infowars (who has long endured a ‘witchhunt’ by legacy media and NWO politicians), or Redacted, Inc, or DayzofNoah being welcome to an empty seat instead of the usual compliant, jockeying court stenographers doling out Reuters-sized soundbites or treating the public to The View‘s version of the news replete with endless repetition and the same tiresome shock-treatment style footage airing over and over again for hours.
President Trump and his administration and advisors are telling the public: If you think we are going to just do business as usual, “Hasta la vista baby!”
We’re tired of the same-old same-old, from the border to the boardroom to the deep-state cyclotron of debt-generation and war-spending with no exit in sight. And you don’t have to be blue or red or green to feel like we’re in a rut.
However personally, this reporter knows that this must also be accompanied with hope and with spiritual committment. It is hope and prayer and flexibility that guided Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to strike a bargain just yesterday with President Trump to beat back a tariff war in exchange for tighter border controls. The same spirited response guided Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. And maybe the same might happen with other nations.
Sometimes we can overcome, but other times we may not. Certainly in our personal lives, we all know of testy individuals who seek to try to destroy, control, undermine, and even imprison us. Those people are not our friends. They are, even if they pretend otherwise, actually our enemies. But if you are too direct with them, they are also hoping to bait and provoke and destroy you by their rumor-mongering or your own self-destruction.
A Prayer for Divine Protection Against Evil
Dear Lord, I come before You today asking for Your divine protection. Shield me from every evil plot, scheme, and wickedness of those who seek to harm me. Surround me with Your mighty angels and cover me with Your precious blood. Let no weapon formed against me prosper, and protect my heart, mind, and spirit from any evil influence. I trust in Your ability to guard me and deliver me from all evil.
Psalm 91:9-10 “If you say, ‘The Lord is my refuge,’ and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.” I declare that Your protection will be over me today and always. Amen.
Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your protection that covers me from the attacks of evil people. I ask You to continually shield me from any harm, whether it be physical, emotional, or spiritual. Please expose the plans of the wicked and turn them into nothing. Guide my footsteps so that I may walk in Your truth and righteousness. May Your peace guard my heart, and Your wisdom guide my actions. Let Your light shine through me, dispelling any darkness that tries to surround me. In Jesus’ name. I pray. Amen.