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Carr continued in his letter that he will alert Congress to the investigation, noting that lawmakers already are weighing whether NPR and PBS should receive taxpayer funds.
"In particular, Congress is actively considering whether to stop requiring taxpayers to subsidize NPR and PBS programming," he wrote, according to the Times.
"To the extent that these taxpayer dollars are being used to support a for profit endeavor or an entity that is airing commercial advertisements, then that would further undermine any case for continuing to fund NPR and PBS with taxpayer dollars," he continued.

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In 1930 there were less than 10 million jews in Europe. 500k in germany.

I asked ChatGPT how many jews were in the holobunga camps when they were liberated using the number of survivors alive today as a reference point. Naturally I didn't state it like that. tl;dr, ChatGPT estimates there were 4.9 Million jews liberated from the camps. Here's the details:

Me:
An event happened 80 years ago. There are 245,000 people alive today that were participating in that event. How many people can we estimate to have participated in the original event 80 years ago? Include all ages. We can assume they are average Europeans for the purpose of life expectancy. Explain your answer including assumptions.

ChatGPT said:
To estimate the number of participants in the event that took place 80 years ago, we need to account for survival rates over time based on life expectancy. Since we assume the participants were average Europeans, we will use European life expectancy data to guide our calculations.

Step 1: Understanding Mortality Rates
The average life expectancy in Europe today is around 78–82 years.
Life expectancy in the early 20th century was lower, but for simplicity, we'll assume that at the time of the event, participants had a similar long-term survival pattern.
Mortality rates increase with age, so younger participants in the event would have had a better chance of surviving to today.
Step 2: Survival Rates by Age Group
We assume the participants in the event were a mix of ages, from infants to elderly individuals. Using life tables (mortality rates per age group), a rough estimate of survival rates to today (from 80 years ago) can be made:

Age in Event Survival Rate to Today (%)
0 (newborns) ~3%
10 years ~6%
20 years ~10%
30 years ~20%
40 years ~12%
50 years ~5%
60+ years ~1% or lower
The survival rates are lower for older participants at the time of the event, with most centenarians today having been very young at the time.

Step 3: Backward Estimation
If 245,000 people from the original event are still alive today, we work backward by estimating what percentage of participants survived.

A reasonable weighted average survival rate across all age groups would be around 5–10%, considering that a large portion of the original population consisted of young and middle-aged adults.

Using this assumption:

Original Participants
≈
Current Survivors
Survival Rate
Original Participants≈
Survival Rate
Current Survivors
​

Using a 7% survival rate as a reasonable midrange estimate:

245
,
000
0.07
≈
3.5
 million participants
0.07
245,000
​
≈3.5 million participants
Final Estimate
Thus, we estimate that about 3 to 4 million people originally participated in the event 80 years ago.

Key Assumptions
Participants were of average European life expectancy.
Survival rates are derived from historical and modern life tables.
A weighted average survival rate of 7% was used, balancing younger and older age groups.
The event had participants of all ages, but younger individuals were more likely to survive to today.
Would you like a more precise breakdown or alternative calculations?

Me:
5% survival rate for 50 year olds is unreasonable they would be 130 years old! Also 12% survival rate for 40 year olds is unreasonable. They would be 120 years old! Please reconsider your survival rate estimates.

ChatGPT said:
You're absolutely right—my initial survival rate estimates for older participants were too high. Let's refine the analysis with more realistic assumptions based on mortality data.

Revised Survival Rate Estimations
We will assume that:

Participants were of all ages, from infants to elderly.
European life expectancy trends apply.
Survival rates decline significantly with age.
A reasonable survival rate for different age groups at the time of the event (80 years ago):

Age in Event Survival Rate to Today (%) Current Age
0 (newborns) ~5–7% 80
10 years old ~10–15% 90
20 years old ~6–8% 100
30 years old ~2–3% 110
40 years old ~0.5% 120
50+ years old Effectively 0% 130+
People who were 50 or older at the event (now 130+) are essentially non-existent today.
Those who were 40 at the time (~120 today) have near-zero survival.
The vast majority of living participants today were likely children, teenagers, or young adults at the time.
Step 2: Backward Estimation
We now assume that 245,000 people alive today primarily come from age groups that had reasonable survival rates.

Weighted Average Survival Rate
Most of today's survivors were likely between 0–30 years old at the time. Let’s take an overall survival rate of ~5%, assuming that:

Children (0–10) had the highest survival (7–10%).
Young adults (20s) had moderate survival (6–8%).
Older adults (30+) had much lower survival (~2% or less).
Revised Calculation
Original Participants
≈
Current Survivors
Survival Rate
Original Participants≈
Survival Rate
Current Survivors
​

Using an overall survival rate of 5%:

245
,
000
0.05
=
4.9
 million participants
0.05
245,000
​
=4.9 million participants
Final Estimate
We estimate that around 4.5 to 5.5 million people originally participated in the event.

This range is based on:

Realistic survival rates considering age at the time.
The fact that most of today's survivors were young at the time.
A weighted survival rate of ~5%.
Would you like further refinements or considerations?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-identity-months-dead-dod

After multiple US federal government agencies required employees to remove gender-identifying pronouns from email signatures on Friday evening, the Defense Department issued a memo titled "Identity Months Dead at DoD." The move is part of the Trump administration's broader effort to remove toxic cultural Marxists from managerial roles across the federal gov't and military.

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New guidance from US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed the following: "Identity Months Dead at DoD." 


He continued: 

"**Our unity and purpose are instrumental to meeting the Department's warfighting mission. Efforts to divide the force – to put one group ahead of another – erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution." 

What's key in Hegseth's directive is "Efforts to divide the force"... 

Cultural Marxists hide under the guise of 'social justice warriors.' They have reintroduced racism, created privileged classes, and controlled speech across government, the military, and houses of worship. Their goal is simple: dismantle the foundations of America and push for a socialist reconstruction. 

Sex, sexual orientation, climate, and other ways to divide people have been used by cultural Marxists to advance revolutionary goals. 

On Wednesday, Hegseth told Fox News that "one of the dumbest phrases in military history is 'our diversity is our strength.'"

"Our diversity is not our strength," Hegseth said, adding, "Our unity and our shared purpose is our strength."

He noted, "We will be merit-based and color blind." 

Hegseth is correct. Unity is strength, and far too long, especially beginning under the Obama years and supercharged under Biden; the nation has been divided by Marxists based on sex, gender, "oppressed vs. oppressor," and all other non-sense developed in far-left colleges that will come to an end under the Trump administration.

Hegseth noted in the memo:

Installations, units, and offices are encouraged to celebrate the valor and success of military heroes of all races, genders, and backgrounds as we restore our warrior culture and ethos. We are proud of our warriors and their history, but we will focus on the character of their service instead of their immutable characteristics.

News flash*: China and Russia aren't dividing their nations and hindering their warfighting capabilities as the world has crept closer to World War III.

https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-federal-agencies-directed-to-remove-gender-ideology-from-websites-contracts-and-emails/

Public health data disappeared from websites, entire webpages went blank and employees erased pronouns from email signatures Friday as federal agencies scrambled to comply with a directive tied to President Donald Trump’s order rolling back protections for transgender people.

The Office of Personnel Management directed agency heads to strip “gender ideology” from websites, contracts and emails in a memo sent Wednesday, with changes ordered to be instituted by 5 p.m. Friday. It also directed agencies to disband employee resource groups, terminate grants and contracts related to the issue, and replace the term “gender” with “sex” on government forms.

Some parts of government websites appeared with the message “The page you’re looking for was not found.” Some pages disappeared and came back intermittently.

Asked by reporters Friday about reports that government websites were being shut down to eliminate mentions of diversity, equity and inclusion, Trump said he didn’t know anything about it but that he’d endorse such a move.

“I don’t know. That doesn’t sound like a bad idea to me,” Trump said, adding that he campaigned promising to stamp out such initiatives.

Much public health information was taken down from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website: contraception guidance; a fact sheet about HIV and transgender people; lessons on building supportive school environments for transgender and nonbinary kids; details about National Transgender HIV Testing Day; and a set of government surveys showing transgender students suffering higher rates of depression, drug use, bullying and other problems.

Eliminating health resources creates dangerous gaps in scientific information, disease experts said. The Infectious Diseases Society of America, a medical association, issued a statement decrying the removal of information about HIV and people who are transgender. Access is “critical to efforts to end the HIV epidemic,” the organization’s leaders said.

A Bureau of Prisons web page originally titled “Inmate Gender” was relabeled “Inmate Sex” on Friday. A breakdown of transgender inmates in federal prisons was no longer included.

The State Department on Friday removed the option to select “X” as a gender on passport applications for nonbinary applicants. It also replaced the word “gender” from the descriptor with the word “sex.” Nonetheless, the online passport application form was no longer available late Friday, linking simply to a message that said the system was “undergoing maintenance.”

All State Department employees were ordered to remove gender-specific pronouns from their email signatures. The directive, from the acting head of the Bureau of Management, said this was required to comply with Trump’s executive orders and the department was also removing all references to “gender ideology” from websites and internal documents.

“All employees are required to remove any gender identifying pronouns from email signature blocks by 5:00 PM today,” said the order from Tibor Nagy. “Your cooperation is essential as we navigate these changes together.”

An official from the U.S. Agency for International Development said staffers were directed to flag the use of the word “gender” in each of thousands of award contracts. Warnings against gender discrimination are standard language in every such contract. The official spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, under a Trump administration gag order prohibiting USAID staffers from speaking with people outside their agency.

The official said staffers fear that programs and jobs related to inclusion efforts, gender issues and issues specific to women are being singled out and possibly targeted under two Trump executive orders.

Some Census Bureau and National Park Service pages were also inaccessible or giving error messages.

Trump’s executive order, signed on his first day back in office, calls for the federal government to define sex as only male or female and for that to be reflected on official documents such as passports and policies such as federal prison assignments.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to immediately stop recognizing identity a day before the start of February’s Black History Month, saying such events “erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution.”

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Mike Stobbe in New York and Amanda Seitz, Matthew Lee, Will Weissert and Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington contributed to this report.

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