Barack Obama is “nervous about his legacy” after President-elect Donald Trump’s historic victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, the former president’s biographer said. “He has been and remains extremely concerned and nervous about his historical legacy,” said David Garrow, who wrote the 2017 biography, “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.” “That has certainly taken a big hit with Trump once again triumphing.” “The conclusion for Democrats is that they’ve got to dispense with these people from the past, including Hillary Clinton too, and move to a new generation of figures who are not in the AOC club at all,” Garrow added. Garrow cited Obama and his wife, Michelle, lecturing voters as they campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris, telling The Daily Mail, “People do not want to be talked down to, no matter who they are. … I thought it was tone-deaf and clueless for them to preach as they did. … I would expect that perception will be shared by lots of people. If so, I think it reduces their relevance to Bill Clinton territory.” “Even before last night, I was of the quite strong belief that the tone and condescension with which both Barack and Michelle spoke, particularly towards black men, was self-defeating to the point of backfire,” Garrow posited. On October 11, at a local Harris campaign office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Obama criticized black men for not displaying the same “energy and turnout” for Harris they showed when he ran. “You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses,” Obama said. “I’ve got a problem with that, because part of it makes me think — I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.” Some black men took offense to Obama’s remarks. During an October rally in Kalamazoo, Michelle Obama made similar remarks about men in general, saying she did not “expect any man to fully grasp how vulnerable” the election makes women feel. “So fellas, before you cast your votes, ask yourself, what side of history do you want to be on? Now I recognize that there are a lot of angry disillusioned people out there upset with the slow pace of change,” Michelle Obama said. “So are you as men prepared to look into the eyes of the women and children you love and tell them that you supported this assault on our safety?” “Certainly at the margins, I think they both harmed her,” Garrow said of the Obamas’ effect on Harris’s chances. “He still has the celebrity factor of being an ex-president,” Garrow insisted, adding that he surmised the Obamas would “continue to hang out with celebrities and live on Martha’s Vineyard.” Still, Garrow predicts Trump’s victory will change some things for the Obamas. “I certainly expect them to be spending less time in Washington after early January,” he said.

Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Conservative Party in Great Britain, ripped into the ruling Labour Party Wednesday for sending representatives to aid Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential effort. Badenoch, who was named the leader of her party just three days before the U.S. presidential election, took Prime Minister Keir Starmer to task during Prime Minister’s Questions, a weekly session where the PM faces inquiries from Parliament. Badenoch was referencing Labour Party operations head Sofia Patel’s announcement that the party would help the Harris campaign. “I have nearly 100 Labour party staff (current and former) going to the US in the next few weeks heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia. I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina — we will sort your housing.” “Yet another reason to vote for President Trump,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) said at the time. Yet another reason to vote for President Trump. https://t.co/HA4Beade4T — Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) October 17, 2024 “I’m very sure that President Trump will soon be calling to thank him for sending all of those North London Labour activists to campaign for his opponent,” Badenoch said. Kemi Badenoch challenges Keir Starmer on Donald Trump in first PMQs pic.twitter.com/kwrg0uuXv2 — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) November 7, 2024   Badenoch began by asking Starmer of Foreign Secretary David Lammy would apologize for remarks he made about Trump in 2018, while serving as a parliamentary representative for Tottenham in North London. “On Friday, a 19-foot a ‘Trump Baby’ balloon is set to float over the Houses of parliament in London, as President Donald Trump makes his first official visit to the United Kingdom. I will be one of tens of thousands on the streets, protesting against our government’s capitulation to this tyrant in a toupee,” Lammy wrote in TIME magazine in 2018.  “Trump is not only a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath. He is also a profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of Western progress for so long.” “As leader of his Majesty’s opposition, I have been taking a different approach to the last opposition by being a constructive opposition,” Badenoch said Wednesday. “And so I would like to start by congratulating President-Elect Trump on his impressive victory this morning. The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary met him in September. Did the Foreign Secretary take the opportunity to apologize for making derogatory and scatological references including, and I quote, ‘Trump is not only a woman-hating neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath, he is also a profound threat to international order.’ And if he did not apologize, will the Prime Minister do so now on his behalf?” “The Foreign Secretary and I did meet President-elect Trump just a few weeks ago for dinner about a couple of hours; we discussed a number of issues of global significance; it was a very constructive exercise,” Starmer answered. “Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister did not distance himself from the remarks made by the Foreign Secretary, Badenoch said..   Yet another reason to vote for President Trump. https://t.co/HA4Beade4T — Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) October 17, 2024  

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According to Christopher Sharp of Liberation Times, new disclosures from Intelligence Community and Department of Defense (DoD) sources suggest the U.S. has conducted covert operations since World War II to recover Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) materials. Sources allege that the CIA, collaborating with the U.S. Navy and other agencies, has led missions to retrieve non-human materials from land, sea, and even foreign territories. These missions reportedly involve organizations such as the National Underwater Reconnaissance Office, and submergence vehicles provided by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, with recovered materials sent for analysis to defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin. Significant figures within the CIA, including former CIA Director of Science and Technology Glenn Gaffney, are implicated in blocking transfers of alleged non-human materials to outside entities. The CIA’s Weapons and Counterproliferation Mission Center (WCPMC) reportedly plays a key role in studying and categorizing UAP materials, leveraging space-based and technical intelligence from agencies like the National Reconnaissance Office, DIA, NSA, and NGA. The WCPMC’s operations, while primarily analytical, are linked to historical intelligence on non-human technology, stretching back to the OSS’s WWII-era involvement with the alleged crash of a non-human craft in Magenta, Italy. The CIA’s lineage of UAP research has evolved through several institutional changes, from the Office of Scientific Intelligence to today’s WCPMC. The ongoing revelations may intensify calls for greater government accountability, as U.S. officials grapple with potential decades-long coverups of non-human intelligence and technology. The post Inside the CIA’s Covert UAP Retrieval Missions and Non-Human Technology appeared first on Anomalien.com.

In recent weeks, the federal government has been criticized for allocating FEMA money to illegal aliens seeking shelter rather than saving it for Americans displaced by hurricanes. But Michiganders should know that their state government is doing the same thing.The Michigan “Newcomer Rental Subsidy” gives Michigan taxpayers’ money to aliens to help pay for housing while Michiganders — like many Americans — struggle to pay for basic necessities such as groceries, housing, and gas.Michigan should prioritize housing subsidies for US citizens first. Illegal aliens shouldn’t get housing subsidies at all.The subsidy offers rental assistance of up to $500 per month for up to a year to immigrants, including illegal aliens.The Office of Global Michigan defends this program, stating that “many refugees and other newcomers face critical housing challenges, and this program will increase access to better and more affordable housing opportunities.” While that may be true, thousands of Michiganders also face the same challenges. Who is helping them?The homeless population in Michigan in 2024 is over 8,000 people, approximately 500 of whom are veterans. Yet homeless Michigan residents are not eligible for this rental subsidy. Yes, Michigan does have a program that provides “short-term residential care and treatment to eligible veterans,” but that program could be improved and expanded if the Newcomer Rental Subsidy wasn’t pulling precious time and resources away from citizens of Michigan who desperately need them.It isn’t just the homeless who can’t find housing, either. The average cost of rent in Michigan has risen from $1,150 per month in 2020 to over $1,400 per month in 2024. The cost of homes has also increased exponentially over the last four years. In 2020, homes on average cost around $180,000 in Michigan, and in 2024 homes on average cost nearly $250,000. In a time of record inflation due to the devastating policies and spending of the Biden-Harris administration, Michigan is diverting its limited funds to provide relief for noncitizens before its own citizens.However, even those sympathetic to refugees should remember that aliens with far less lawful immigration status than foreign nationals granted refugee protection are eligible for the rental subsidy. For example, aliens with a pending asylum application may apply for a housing subsidy.Unfortunately, aliens frequently submit fraudulent asylum applications because they are free. Submitting provides them with other benefits, including a work authorization document and years living in the United States because of millions of backlogged cases in the immigration courts and at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Allowing mere asylum applicants, rather than requiring an alien to have been granted asylum beforehand, to receive this benefit is a clear waste of Michigan and U.S. taxpayer money.Michigan also provides the housing subsidy to aliens the Biden-Harris administration unlawfully and unconstitutionally mass-paroled into the U.S. through defrauded programs. For example, USCIS found in a recent internal report that the administration approved thousands of parole sponsors in the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan parole programs without adequate vetting. This resulted in thousands of applications having fake Social Security numbers and nearly 20,000 applications having the same 100 physical addresses listed, among many other problems.Michigan should prioritize housing subsidies for U.S. citizens first, then entirely lawful immigrants second. Illegal aliens shouldn’t be receiving housing subsidies at all.At a time when Americans face record inflation and struggle to pay for housing and put food on the table, it is time for Michigan to stop putting noncitizens first.