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Thanks, to everyone who stopped by the Live Stream for their great response to the presentation tonight. Thanks, to all the fellow Conspirators who joined us tonight to dissect the Trump Admin lies re Iran, economics, ICE, and more. Big thanks, also, to all the excellent journalists and peace advocate whose work we got to discuss tonight. I hope many more folks get to follow their posts here at X, and I hope you will join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble or X for our news program! We even got to dig into Wordsmith Wednesday today, talking about the great crime novelist, Lawrence Block! - Audio Pod always follows shortly after each stream finishes, available via Spotify or Substack! - Here is the link to the livestream, stored at Rumble: https://rumble.com/v7f0286-liberty-conspiracy-live-9226-2-faced-trumpers-lie-re-iran-us-prices.-ice-mi.html
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WARIRANLIES from the US
Fuel Prices - Aggregated average for each American - extra costs since Feb 28:
Trump claimed that the US shot down all of the airborne attacks launched by Iran in response to his attacks (that killed people in a wedding party, lest we momentarily forget). That was not true. Nimah Alkhorshid and Matt Hoh explore this reality, and then, stick with it, of course, because they observe the absolutely stunning pass-of-the-buck by Speaker Johnson. The two cuts are items I had isolated myself today, but the wraparound by Nima and Matt is so valuable, I want to give them credit and show their observations.
Marco Rubio deflected when asked about the US depleting highly expensive interceptors each time Iran launches relatively inexpensive (and swiftly replaced) drones. Nima Alkhorshid and Anthony Aguilar discuss this, right at the outset of Nima’s conversation with Anthony today. From there, Anthony — as he often does — offers key insights into the geography/topography and tactical challenges on the ground. If you watch the first 12 minutes of this, you will be reminded of why gentlemen such as these are seen by so many as being such valuable information assets to peace advocates.
Anthony also delves into the reality facing many Gulf nations: that the presence of US bases in their land makes them targets when the US engages in aggression from those bases. He sounds another note of wisdom in predicting that Iraqis will expel the US.
For example, Iran responded to Trump’s most recent attacks by retaliating against US forces in Jordan (among other locations). But the US tried to hide that reality. This is leading to a lot of stress and shakeups in the DoD. Anthony offers more key information on the resignations and battles with Hegseth.
GAZANo shocker to see another public statement reiterating this… they want to finish their ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
THUS: Israeli Strikes Kill Four Palestinians, Including Two Children, During Ground Raid in Gaza City - News From Antiwar.com LINK
AND…
Zelinsky openly threatens civilians in planes. “Zelensky Warns ‘Safe Days’ Are Over for Civilian Aircraft in Russian Airspace as He Vows To Escalate Drone Attacks - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
And…
And Matt Hoh echoes sentiment we’ve mentioned on Liberty Conspiracy regarding the shift of the Euro hierarchy to try to prolong their power and fascist money-making shelf-life by making Ukraine their ready-always consumer of arms. Matt also notes that Trump is surrounded by people who seem to have this same mentality and Trump might start seeing Russia’s alliance and friendliness with Iran as a reason to begin helping Ukraine prolong the war and, of course, see more Ukrainians die. I want to stress that I think that the worse the US and EU economies become, the more likely it is that their fascist tendencies will lean on Military Keynesianism, attempting to fake productivity and GDP numbers by shoveling a bunch of central-bank created money into arms making. As long as nations have central banks, their war-states will be funded, regardless of the damage that inflated system does to the civilian living standard.
ARGENTINASo, in February, Trump announced that he, in his great imperial glory, is allowing 100K metric tonnes of beef to come to the US duty-free. (The 300K MT we recently heard him mention, based on my research, appears to NOT be coming from Argentina, despite many claims and my initial belief and even what Trump implied on AF One last week when a reporter asked him about it). The new 300,000 metric ton quota of lean beef trimmings (the one opening in three 100,000 MT monthly tranches starting September 1, 2026) is reserved for “other countries or areas.” It does not apply to Argentina.Argentina already has its own separate country-specific allocation of 100,000 MT for 2026 (the original 20,000 MT WTO quota plus the extra 80,000 MT of lean trimmings granted in February). The August proclamation states that the new 300,000 MT volume does not change or add to Argentina’s existing quota. The same exclusion applies to Uruguay, Australia, and New Zealand.
Trump ALSO BAILED OUT ARGENTINA last year… Let’s remember key points: A $20 billion currency-swap facility announced in October 2025 through the Treasury’s unconstitutional, debt-adding, Exchange Stabilization Fund. Argentina drew on $2.5 billion of it. The country purportedly repaid that by late 2025 / early January 2026, and the U.S. reported a profit of tens of millions of dollars, without providing any evidence.
The U.S. Treasury also bought Argentine pesos directly in the market (reports mention hundreds of millions of dollars, including about $400 million in one period) and provided roughly $872 million in related IMF-reserve support.
Yet… What a shock
Meanwhile, the US applies tariffs on Canadian dairy and other natural products people could eat or drink.
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GOLD AND SILVER AS MONEY IN TXTexas recently saw a bill passed that will allow people to connect to a “depository” then draw what are seen as tradeable digits based on the gold deposits. “Texas Embraces Gold and Silver for Everyday Payments | Arabian Post” LINK It’s not exactly a gold-money free-market exchange system. Instead, it sees the state of TX position itself as overseer and “partner”. LINK
Texas Bullion Depository — Latest News and Developments
The Texas Bullion Depository (TxBD), the nation’s first state-administered precious metals vault, continues to expand its services and prepare for major legislative changes. As reported in July, last year, Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock visited TxBD in Leander to see operations firsthand and discuss new services. The depository is ready to hold precious metal IRA assets through a private-sector partnership” (i.e. fascism - freedom does not exist in “partnership” with the polis) with Lone Star Tangible Assets and Equity Trust Co., offering a “secure, state-administered option for retirement investors” LINK
This begins operations in May, 2027…
The concept of TxBD was part of House Bill 1056 (though the actual establishment of it was in another statute, HB 483, of 2015), signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in June of 2025, and the statute will allow Texans to use gold and silver bullion stored at TxBD for everyday purchases starting May 1, 2027. Transactions will be processed via a debit card or mobile app, with the Texas Comptroller setting the metal-to-dollar exchange rate at the time of each purchase Arabian Post+1. This makes Texas the first state to operationalize gold and silver for daily commerce on this scale.
Background and facilities
Under HB 483, TxBD is an official agency of the Texas Comptroller, operated by a politically selected private entity (Lone Star Tangible Assets and Equity Trust Co). It began accepting deposits in 2018 and completed a 40,000-square-foot facility in 2019 on a 10-acre campus in Leander, just north of Austin (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts+1)
TX political pushers of this fascist depository claim it will become a hub for both retirement metal storage and state-backed precious metal transactions, aligning with Texas’s broader push for financial sovereignty and alternative currency systems, including a state strategic bitcoin reserve Arabian Post. But let’s perceive some deeper points that belie the glowing rhetoric.
Sooo… Texas now invites residents to lodge gold and silver in the state Bullion Depository at Leander and spend it by debit card. House Bill 1056, enacted in June 2025, recognizes qualifying specie as legal tender beginning September 1, 2026, and authorizes an electronic currency backed by depository metal from May 1, 2027.
BUUUT…. The TX Comptroller will set the metal-to-dollar ratio at each transaction. That last clause is the danger. The same office that holds the bars also prices them. A modest official premium would inflate the paper value of metal already in state custody and of any reserves the state itself reports. Control of both warehouse and price list is how a government can mark up its books without buying an ounce. Confiscation need not look like 1933. It can arrive as an emergency valuation, a freeze, a conversion fee, or a rule that depositors may withdraw only dollars at the state’s rate. Optional acceptance today does not bind a future legislature. Metal in a private safe is yours. Metal in a state vault, priced by the state, is a political asset.
The Feds lie, again.
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@David_J_Bier in testimony before a House Judiciary Subcommittee.\n\nLearn more: ow.ly/kJLn50ZHW2i ","username":"CatoInstitute","name":"Cato Institute","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2092315345038041088/IS4-_ggE_normal.jpg","date":"2026-09-01T23:00:18.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HRKpqw4WMAAZTnr.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/jZ3I9PAqsh"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":197,"retweet_count":65,"like_count":181,"impression_count":20581,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">AND
@David_J_Bier before a House Judiciary Subcommittee.\n \nLearn more: ow.ly/Feq950ZHVLQ ","username":"CatoInstitute","name":"Cato Institute","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2092315345038041088/IS4-_ggE_normal.jpg","date":"2026-09-02T13:00:56.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HRNqEyNWwAAp7eq.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/1csFmUrNVa"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":66,"retweet_count":27,"like_count":95,"impression_count":5667,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">And…
And, lest one forget: “ICE detains 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer: Daughter” LINK
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This is interesting… It shows any observer the kind of dystopian world one gets when the polis claims power over what it defines as “security” — be it “border” (defined by the state), or “health” (the individual can be sacrificed for the bulk of others, but each of those others also can be the victim, ad infinitum)
@milo or his trolling methods on this platform. But if you still can’t see that his deportation was political persecution, likely orchestrated by Laura Loomer, Ben Shapiro, and co there’s no helping you.\n\nAmerica is governed by enemies of its own …","username":"goddek","name":"Dr. Simon","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2049137708036227072/44MqWOx0_normal.jpg","date":"2026-09-01T22:09:31.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!turh!,w_1028,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/l_play_button_usfui2,w_88,e_colorize:0/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2094910238193246208.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/TiHBJuvNaJ"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":190,"retweet_count":320,"like_count":2694,"impression_count":50316,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2094910238193246208/vid/avc1/1280x720/MQAmBbnTws021VoZ.mp4","video_preview_media_key":"13_2094910238193246208","belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">That’s it for now all! Please keep in mind that ANTIWAR is starting a soft fundraiser, a quiet way to get support! Check it out and feel free to give ‘em a hand!
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Immense thanks to Eric Peters of EricPetersAutosDotCom for joining us to discuss the energy and bond situations, central banking and fiat currency, warmongers, the Trumpista lies and Johnson's abuse of Christ, and more. Big thanks to our great audience and to all the fine journalists whose work we got to discuss.- I hope many more folks can follow their releases, and that you can join us m-f at 6 pm for Liberty Conspiracy Live, on Rumble and on X- Audio always follows, soon after each show, via Spotify and Substack! Here is the link to the entire live video stream - Liberty Conspiracy Live 9126 Trump Kills Iranians AT WEDDING, Bonds Explode, EPSTEIN LIST? https://rumble.com/v7eygf0-liberty-conspiracy-live-9126-trump-kills-iranians-at-wedding-bonds-explode-.html And here are some of the key stories we got to explore!
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WARTrump just used our tax cash to attack Iranian people again, along the southern coast. And he says that Iran better not respond, or Trump will wipe out most of Iran (I think we understand this kind of genocidally deranged lip-wagging)
Trump hit a wedding party in Kuhestak, Iran.
For perspective:
And they are using these, among their arms.
@airwars airwars.org/prsm-lamerd-ir…","username":"gardgoldsmith","name":"Gardner Goldsmith - Liberty Conspiracy M-F 6pm","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1474251280772182073/3c_7JKTw_normal.jpg","date":"2026-09-01T20:23:07.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":0,"impression_count":41,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">Let’s consider this, from Prof Hanke.
The Iranians not only are in control of the Strait, they are making stronger connections in the Global South, working with the SCO (meeting now) and with BRICS. Here is the military wall Trump confronts.
Trump said last week that the Strait was open and mine-free (we knew that was a lie, because the US can’t get their ships in there to remove the mines — removal is up to Iran and Oman), then a tanker got hit by a mine. Here are Nima Alkhorshid and Col/Prof Lawrence Wilkerson on the power of one mine to dissuade shippers, and on the insane Trumpers, from Bessent’s repulsion of foreigners to use the Dollar, to Johnson…
Trump attacks again today, and moves (something we noticed last night) many air-based resources away from Jordan and to Israel. WTI is up 4% at $94 and Brent is up 3.8%. per barrel. and here, we see journalist Elijah Magnier tell Mario Nawfal that what we see as the current price per b is much lower than the actual price to acquire the physical oil.
Eric Peters offers some key thoughts about Trump’s claim that Iran’s military is done. “That Fegelein! Fegelein! Scene - EPautos - Libertarian Car Talk” LINK
AND…
And so much of it, for Israel
As we see Johnson disgustingly attempt to leverage what he must perceive to be a widespread Christian distrust of Islam and use that to gaslight, to mirror onto Iran everything HE and the US are doing.
GAZA“Israeli Strikes Kill at Least Five Palestinians in Gaza - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
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NBC - WEST BANK OCCUPATION VIOLENCEAfter what appears to be more than a day delay, NBC finally brought the footage to viewers.
@camkasky, myself & other Americans a month ago. nytimes.com/2026/07/11/us/…\n\nThe next President must: \n✅ Zero out all aid to Israel\n✅ Stop military weapons used to kill Palestinians\n✅ Recognize a Palestinian state","username":"RoKhanna","name":"Ro Khanna","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1370100950086615041/CDHmaPbH_normal.jpg","date":"2026-09-01T02:42:58.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years. \n\nBut yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu. \n\nA group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious. \n\nWe’re all ok now - and Aida is","username":"MattMcBradley","name":"Matt Bradley","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2032534411711815683/R6hHINTe_normal.jpg"},"reply_count":75,"retweet_count":197,"like_count":786,"impression_count":46020,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">THE ECONOMIC WAR ON YOUDebbie Downer - Debt and oil shocks
Here is that Trump statement about making you richer by blocking your ability to buy items from what seems to be Switzerland, based on the context of the meeting.
This woman makes some valuable points about new Wal Mart “back-to-school” sales data. Hint: it’s not good. “Strained consumer complicates Fed’s rate path, market expert says” LINK
AND Kraft CEO says lower-income consumers are ‘literally running out of money.’ McDonald’s and Whirlpool CEOs agree — is a breaking point near? LINK
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BONDS30-year U.S. Treasury yield is about 5.27%.
Mario N and Philip Pinlkington discuss the crash of the US economy that is happening NOW
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UKRAINEGermany claims a Russian drone strike. This appears dubious.
IMMIGRATION POLICE STATEA follow-up on the Homan/ICE deflection re the ICE kidnapping of parents at a school bus stop in CT.
The ICE goons are kidnapping kids, separating them from parents.
@jaketapper, @maddow, @ErinBurnett @SRuhle @MeidasTouch @JessicaTarlov @mehdirhasan","username":"donwinslow","name":"Don Winslow","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1947763656701448192/Wli8elHE_normal.jpg","date":"2026-09-01T19:46:15.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"🚨The Trump Administration said ICE is finding abused, unaccompanied migrant children… but this is what they are doing once they find them…\n\nThey’re deporting them to countries where they have no family.\n\nThis week in Chicago, 10 children… ages 12 to 17… appeared in","username":"TheJFreakinC","name":"Jesus Freakin Congress","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1558250904012431360/SzgS0YVI_normal.jpg"},"reply_count":3,"retweet_count":53,"like_count":98,"impression_count":6529,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">Meanwhile, the claims that kidnapping and deporting people would “help REAL Americans” in their jobs has, again, been proven as bogus as the dumb argument for the polis, itself.
But that is not stopping Homan and company from kidnapping tens of thousands a month. ICE arrested roughly 50,000 people in August, matching July’s record and sustaining a daily pace above 1,400. Officials call the operation less visible than earlier city-by-city raids, yet it still sweeps through workplaces, airports, and check-ins. Prior data showed a majority of recent arrestees had no criminal convictions—only civil status issues. This quota-driven policing continues to separate families and remove workers who sustain construction, hospitality, and service industries, instilling fear rather than focusing resources on genuine threats to public safety. LINK
-Haitian Student Dies After ICE Ankle Monitor and Lost Protections:
Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Wright State honors student who dreamed of becoming a doctor, died Monday after walking into traffic on I-70. His family and advocates say he took his own life, crushed by the loss of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and the humiliation of an ICE ankle monitor that classmates mocked. Bel had asked ICE twice to remove the device so he could play soccer. Ending humanitarian protections and electronically tagging students who pose no danger turns immigration enforcement into a source of despair rather than justice. LINK let’s recall JD here… “JD Vance under siege after Haitian student’s death: ‘Not enough Hail Marys in the world’“ LINK
Administration Targets Immigrant Truck Drivers in New Crackdown:
Federal officials announced an intensified unconstitutional campaign against non-native commercial truck drivers, shutting nearly 300 training schools and demanding state licensing data in a hunt for immigrants they claim hold improper credentials. Curiously, that runs not only contrary to the fact that truck licensing and the federal government have no connection on the Constitutional Venn Diagram, but it also shows us that the US is demanding information on these people, sans WARRANTS, which is prohibited by the 4th A.
Transportation and Homeland Security secretaries framed the effort as a safety measure after citing crashes involving unauthorized drivers. Yet, as I reported many months ago, non-native-born drivers are MANY times safer than “‘Merican” drivers, re both fatal and non-fatal crashes. The most detailed available comparison comes from a California DMV analysis of 2022–2024 police-reported crashes among licensed CDL holders:
U.S.-citizen CDL holders: 14.8 total crashes and 0.123 fatal crashes per 100 licensed drivers.
Temporary-resident legal immigrants with CDLs: 11.9 total crashes and 0.092 fatal crashes per 100 licensed drivers.
That equates to roughly 20 percent fewer overall crashes and 25 percent fewer fatal crashes for the immigrant group on a per-license basis. The same pattern held for injury crashes. Someone might want to mention that to the Transportation Sec or Homan.
-AND A REMINDER: “This is the cost of Trump’s ever-widening immigration trap” LINK
-AND “Three-sport Florida high school athlete and his family detained by ICE” LINK
-ANNNNND “US judge won’t immediately block Trump’s newest order limiting birthright citizenship” LINK
-ANNNNND “Spike in dead migrants in Arizona desert under Trump, data reveals” LINK
-ANNNND - VERY IMPORTANT - THE RISE OF ADMINISTRATIVE (i.e. FAKE) WARRANTS TO COLLECT DATA ON AMERICANS (JOURNALISTS) WHO INVESTIGATE DHS AND ICE “Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’“ LINK
AND, re the “Fentanyl” bogeyman
AND the ICE goons shot a man, then detained witnesses. “3rd person released from ICE custody after deadly shooting in Houston” LINK
AND - “Judge orders return of Mexican cartel witness deported three times by ICE” LINK
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MORE ON THE ISRAEL/US AGGRESSION AGAINST GAZA, LEBANON, WEST BANKThis is a good piece of history to recall, as the British ran the area and prepared to start the Israeli state on other peoples’ land.
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EPSTEIN LISTThat’s it for now, all! Please keep in mind that ANTIWAR is starting a soft fundraiser, a quiet way to get support! Check it out and feel free to give ‘em a hand!
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Big thanks to all the fine Conspiratoros who joined us in the fight against the bulls of war, and to all the great journalists whose work we got to cover tonight. I hope many people get to add them to their list of sources here at X, and I hope you can join us m-f at 6 PM on Rumble or on X as we go live! The audio pod is on the way, via Spotify or Substack, and will include that live reading of Robert E. Howard's "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune"!! Here is the link to the live stream of the vid, now stores at Rumble! Liberty Conspiracy 83126 Trump Attacks Iran AGAIN, US Economic War on U, ICE Lies Here are some of the key issues we got to discuss tonight!
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The US attacked Iran again last night… This comes after Trump claimed that the US had beaten Iran. Iran struck back on US sites in Jordan.
-Similarly, the Prez a few days ago claimed that the US had eliminated all mines from the Strait of Hormuz, but then the US said that the Iranians were threatening ships with mines… Here is Antiwar on the US hit on Iran’s Larak Island “US Bombs Iran’s Larak Island; IRGC Strikes US Bases in Jordan - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
Daniel Davis Nails it:
And Netanyahu brags about his ability to get the US to attack Iran.
And as Trump does that, and increases his fake number of “protesters” who have died in Iran (many of the people killed in the “protests” were backed by Mossad and the CIA), he has the gall to push for “war crimes” prosecution for the Iranian victims of his aggression. That, after he and his Admin “sanctioned” (economically stole from, economically blocked) many members of the ICC leadership.
AND, over the weekend, Trump posted an IA vid of the US blasting Kharg Island. JD Vance said to take it lightly, essentially. Yes, that was his attitude. Could anyone ask these killers when they got a Declaration of War from their “honored” Congress?
And… Ted Kabballah Cruz wants the US to AGAIN try to arm Iranian rebels to see more blood on the streets. That means, YOU paying for it.
While Bessent announces more attacks on us, through our wallets
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THE MAKKAH (not “MECCA”) NATIONS MEET IN ISTANBULToday in Istanbul, foreign and defense ministers and military chiefs from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan held the first meeting of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement’s Strategic Political and Defense Committee. They discussed joint production, force interoperability, a secretariat, and a roadmap to implement the “attack on one is an attack on all” pledge signed in Mecca on 7 August. LINK This session advances overdue regional self-reliance. After decades as a theater for U.S. strategy and Israeli military dominance, the three nations are forging complementary capabilities of their own. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called the pact defensive, complementary to NATO, and open to expansion, while labeling Netanyahu an enemy of humanity. The Mecca Accord is a concrete step toward genuine Middle East autonomy. LINK This morning, Nima Alkhorshid welcomed Former Swiss Col Jacques Baud (himself a victim of EU economic attacks due to his clear reporting on the US/NATO/EU influence on Ukraine), and Jacques offered some key insights into the meeting and how it appears to be a defensive posture against Israel, especially due to recent Israeli claims to take over Jerusalem, and the Al-Aqsa mosque.
The mosque area is actually 35 sq acres, and the Israelis already claim control over part of it, but not the interior of the mosque, which is supposed to be protected by international agreement. (As if that has done anything except allow Israel to expand). Key to keep in mind:
Jewish visits have risen sharply (tens of thousands per year).
Police have increasingly tolerated Jewish prayer, singing, and even prostration.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and other ministers have visited, declared “the Temple Mount is in our hands,” and said Jews should be allowed to pray there.
Some Knesset members and Temple activist groups openly call for removing the Islamic buildings and building a Third Temple.
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GAZAThe IDF murderers pile insults onto the murders.
A response from Jose Andres, founder and head of the World Central Kitchen.
Ben-Gvir taunts Palestinian female prisoners, boasts about his orders to mistreat prisoners.
This article offers excellent points about the mistreatment of the Palestinians that Israel kidnaps as part of the Israeli occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. “The Torture Regime” LINK
Annnnd, does anyone see Vance’s coming statement as a surprise?
Already offering his soul, Jim Jordan, who also noted how “funny” Lindsay Graham was. Seriously. Talking the humor of one of the most assiduously devoted warmongers in the history of mankind. Okay…
But the Govt of Greece might love Lindsay, too.
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But the Philippines are headed in the opposite direction
THE WEST BANKLest one forget that NBC did not report on this for 36 hours after the attack. CBS, of all nets, did. “Masked Israeli settlers attack US news crew in West Bank — RT World News” LINK
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FREE SPEECH, UNCONSTITUTIONAL-IMMORAL FEDERAL FUNDING OF COLLEGES, CRITICISM/BOYCOTTING OF ISRAEL…The feds should not be sending any money anywhere, and to create this focus is another indication of who butters the DC bread. Boycotting is a form of speech and a choice NOT to associate, which is part of the principle of freedom to associate (or not to associate). Of course, statism is forced association, at the outset, so there is a long-term lesson in that…
VENEZUELATrump Sunday claimed that the US has “made a deal” with VZ, and it comes in two parts. First, the US will be taking 35% of VZ oil sales funneled through a private company. Here is what Drop Site notes about the new colonialism/fascism:
—The Trump administration plans to take a 35% passive stake in North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP), the private company at the center of its new Venezuela oil deal, the Wall Street Journal reports. Washington would also get preferential rights to buy 20% of its production at cost.
➤ The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital would use warrants to give the U.S. equity without a major upfront investment. The Financial Times reports it would also provide guarantees to reduce risks for companies developing the fields.
➤ NABEP would gain access to 17 oilfields containing more than 65 billion barrels, about one-fifth of Venezuela’s reserves, and could license fields or form joint ventures with other investors.
➤ NABEP is led by Alejandro Betancourt, a wealthy, politically connected Venezuelan businessman whom the Financial Times describes as one of the country’s most prominent “Bolichicos,” the class of magnates who accumulated fortunes through ties to governments that emerged under Hugo Chávez.
➤ Betancourt built his fortune through no-bid electricity contracts before expanding into deals connected to state oil company PDVSA; NABEP now produces about 200,000 barrels a day, making it Venezuela’s second-largest private oil producer after Chevron. He and his companies have been investigated in Spain and Switzerland over alleged money laundering and embezzlement, but he has not been charged and denies wrongdoing, according to the FT.
The Pres also said that the US will be “refilling” the “Strategic Oil Reserves” using oil from VZ. As I noted Sunday on X, the VZ oil literally is not useful to fill the reserves. It is too sulfur-heavy. Official DOE requirements limit sour crude to max 1.99% sulfur and 30-45° API gravity; Venezuelan Orinoco grades often reach 2-5.7% sulfur, 8-16° API, high acidity (TAN often >1.0), and extreme viscosity, risking cavern corrosion, sludge, and unpumpable storage.
Then there is the length of time to get the machines operating properly, and the security required…
Here is Dave DeCamp, of AntiWar, offering key coverage:
And small-town supporters of the Chavez/Maduro model of governance are sounding alarms that the US and VZ proxies are going to attack them.
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US ECONOMYThe Trump-GOP is ramping up the rhetoric to convince as many people as possible that the economy is grrrrreat… As Frank Zappa might say, “Okay, fine. Fer-sure, fer-sure…”
And here, he seems to be threatening to cut off trade with Switzerland, claiming that eliminating the opportunity to buy their exports would make US residents wealthier… We kid you not!
WAGESEmmer simply lies. And he does it repeatedly, in less than 1.5 minutes.
Wages are not rising faster than they have in decades. IN fact, Emmer, as Stephen Moore did not do two weeks ago, does not include the rising number of unemployed or those no longer looking for work. Additionally, even for those employed, their wages are not keeping up with price inflation. BLS average hourly earnings for all private employees were about $37.62 in July 2026, up 3.2% from a year earlier. That is ordinary mid-cycle nominal growth, not an outlier by historical standards. Nominal wage growth was often higher in the 1970s–80s. After inflation, the picture is weaker. Real average hourly earnings for all employees fell 0.2% from July 2025 to July 2026. For production and nonsupervisory workers—about four-fifths of the private workforce, and a closer proxy for typical pay—real hourly earnings fell 0.1% over the same year. Real weekly earnings were roughly flat to slightly up only because hours ticked higher. The Atlanta Fed’s Wage Growth Tracker, which follows the same people’s pay 12 months apart and reports the median change, was 3.8% in July 2026. That is a modest real gain for people who stayed employed, once you subtract inflation in the mid-3% range. It is not “faster than in decades.” LINK
The CENTRAL BANK-FASCIST ECONOMY - WINNERS
THE SCO!!!!!!This is the 26th annual meeting, and it is a big deal. Iran’s President is there, and this series of meetings will see major economic agreements and an acceleration of a BRICS-like push away from the collapsing Dollar. Pepe Escobar told Danny Heiphong today that the nations will announce a new SCO Development Bank, which will run parallel to the NDB (the BRICS Bank). It will delink third-world nations from the Dollar.
Here is Pepe on it
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FREE SPEECHTrump now is attacking NBC and threatening to have the FCC pull the license that the FCC should not be issuing because the FCC is not sanctioned by the US Constitution and, even if it were, no one has a right to demand that you pay for a “broadcast licensing bureau” that will police speech. “Trump’s answer to bad press? “FCC TO THE RESCUE!” - Salon.com” LINK
-Recall, of course, the US attack on Disney-ABC, by pushing closer the deadline for FCC license re-approval, meaning new costs for the stations and the larger corporation. LINK An Aug. 31 USA TODAY piece reviews the broader FCC-ABC fight and its potential impact on broadcasting, noting the early-renewal order and ABC’s lawsuit but not a new Trump quote from the prior 72 hours.
ANOTHER facet of the feds getting into the act. In this case, they are claiming to stop foreign governments from attacking the speech of US citizens, yet the US DC GOP and Most Dems in DC want to censor Americans and others who speak up against Israel on college campuses and they want to label as “antisemitic” anyone who criticizes the nation-state of Israel. Amazing hypocrisy… Headline: “Federal GRANITE Act Targets Foreign Censorship Orders in US” LINK
And then there is the KOSA… almost passed. The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) requires platforms to exercise a “duty of care” toward minors by mitigating designs and content tied to harms like self-harm, eating disorders, and anxiety, plus default high-privacy settings and parental controls. It clashes with the First Amendment’s wording that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” The duty deputizes platforms to suppress lawful speech on government-defined “harmful” topics—a content-based restriction. Age-gating also burdens adults’ and minors’ rights to receive information anonymously. As of late August 2026, the House passed a weaker KIDS Act package (KOSA without duty of care) on June 29. The Senate Commerce Committee advanced stronger S.1748 on August 5; it awaits a full Senate vote amid House-Senate deadlock.
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IMMIGRATION POLICE STATEICE Goon commander Tom Homan (he who once worked for Geo Group, the private prison corporation often hired by ICE to cage its kidnap victims) is not a fool. Over the weekend, he appeared on CNN to claim that ICE and the Border goons had NOT arrested kids and parents in schools and not arrested people in churches. Of course, truthful people know that these are kidnappings, not arrests. They are under color of law, not Natural Law (the state always stands in opposition to Natural Law), and Homan likely is well aware of the fact that his gangs have kidnapped people on the WAY to school, and just outside churches. Here is an info-graphic vid noting his claim:
Homan keeps saying ICE has not arrested anyone inside a church, hospital, or elementary school. That wording matters. If you suspected he was parsing, trying to skirt by saying his opponents had accused him of certain egregious acts (acts that actually were NOT the accusations), then using his own straw dogs to pretend at innocence, you are spot-on. We have seen NUMEROUS ICE kidnappings in parking lots, drop-off lines, bus stops, and people on the way to church or school.
Let’s go back a few months…
In February 2026, during the Minnesota surge, Homan said ICE had not arrested anyone inside a hospital, school, or church, and challenged critics to produce a case. He also said those places are “not off the table” for a public-safety or national-security target. Then, yesterday, after Sen. Chris Murphy on the 26th said ICE was arresting parents at Danbury, Connecticut bus stops,
…Homan told CNN he was “not aware” of bus-stop arrests, repeated the “no one inside an elementary school / hospital / church” line, and said there is no safe harbor for people with removal orders, especially criminals or “national-security threats” (that lovely play-doh term). LINK
Context: on January 21, 2025, DHS revoked the old “sensitive locations” guidance that had generally steered ICE and Border Patrol away from schools, churches, and hospitals. Officials said agents should use “common sense,” and that criminals would no longer be able to hide in those places.
Some items to mention to Homan
1. Kidnappings in church parking lots and church grounds: yes. There is a substantial public record of ICE or other DHS officers detaining people on church property, in church parking lots, or immediately outside churches, especially after the policy change. Documented examples:
Tucker, Georgia (Jan. 26, 2025): Wilson Velásquez was in Sunday service at Iglesia Fuente de Vida when his ankle monitor went off. He went outside; agents were waiting and arrested him in the parking lot / outside the church. This is widely described as the first high-profile church-adjacent arrest of the second Trump term. He was not taken from a pew.
Downey, California (June 2025): Armed, masked officers detained a man in the parking lot of Downey Memorial Christian Church; a pastor said agents pointed a long gun at him.
San Bernardino County, California (June 20, 2025): Officers detained a longtime parishioner at Our Lady of Lourdes in Montclair on church property. Separate agents chased men onto the parking lot of St. Adelaide in Highland. DHS said the Montclair case began as a traffic stop and the man pulled into the church lot; it denied agents entered the church hall.
Other complaint filings and reporting list arrests outside churches in Oregon, Washington state (family leaving Sunday services, surrounded in the parking lot), Los Angeles-area church fronts, and a grandfather dropping a child at a church school.
National Catholic Reporter and later summaries have said DHS had not, as of late 2025, been shown to raid a church building during worship, but agents had arrested people on or near church property in multiple cases. So: “in churches” in the everyday sense of church grounds / leaving church / parking lot — you are largely correct. “Inside the sanctuary during worship” — Homan’s narrow wording still mostly holds in public reporting.Related but different: in 2026, church plaintiffs alleged an undercover ICE agent entered University Baptist Church in Minneapolis and recorded a class in the gym. A judge has treated that as possible violation of an injunction covering certain houses of worship. That is entry and surveillance, not a public immigration arrest of a congregant in the pews.
2. ICE KIDNAPPING PEOPLE at school parking lots, drop-off, pickup, bus stops, and “on the way”? Yes. And this what the parental-arrest / “terrorize little kids” debate is actually about. Examples:
Chula Vista, California (Aug. 2025): Parent arrested on a public roadway near Camarena Elementary during morning drop-off.
Linda Vista Elementary, San Diego (Aug. 2025): Father waiting nearby to pick up his son arrested just before dismissal. DHS said he pulled into a lot and was wanted for Social Security fraud / removal.
Ann Arbor, Michigan (Sept. 2025): Father detained after elementary drop-off; witnesses said agents cut off his car nearby.
Charlotte, North Carolina (May 2025): Parent detained near a magnet school drop-off line, children in the car according to parents/PTA.
Beaverton, Oregon (July 2025): Father driving a child to preschool; ICE allowed him to go to the lot, then broke a car window to arrest him in front of families. ICE said he resisted after a traffic stop.
Portland, Maine: ICE said it arrested a parent after watching him drop a child at school; the man had a prior domestic-violence charge.
Baltimore (June 2026): Two parents detained at/near Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle during drop-off; school said the arrests were on campus. Video showed a woman taken from a car in a school parking lot as children were nearby.
Crystal, Minnesota: Parent arrested while waiting at a school bus stop with a child; principal said students at the stop and on the bus may have seen it.
Bridgeport, Connecticut (May 2026): Father arrested at a bus stop while waiting with his 16-year-old; ICE said the student was not detained and officers waited until the mother arrived.
Minneapolis suburbs: A 10-year-old and her mother were intercepted on the way to a bus stop and sent to a Texas family detention center. DHS said it does not target children or schools and “keeps families together.”
Columbia Heights / Fridley, Minnesota: Superintendents and a lawsuit described agents circling schools, following buses, and staging in school parking lots.
Danbury, Connecticut (this week, late August 2026): Sen. Murphy, the mayor, and local advocates said ICE arrested parents after children boarded school buses, and that operations overlapped with the first days of school. Local officials claimed roughly 50 detentions in a few days. DHS called the “targeted parents at a school bus stop” claim false and said at least one named arrest was of a driver already in the country illegally. Homan said he was not aware of bus-stop arrests. That fight is live and contested; the pattern of near-school / drop-off / bus-adjacent enforcement is not unique to Danbury.
3. Border Patrol at schools: also yes, in at least one major caseAt Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis (January 2026), school officials said Customs and Border Protection officers came onto campus at dismissal, tackled people, handcuffed two staff members, and used chemical munitions near students. That is CBP, not ICE, but it is the same DHS family Homan is defending.
-THE MN-TX Extradition fight: “ICE officer extradition fight sparks rare constitutional test” LINK
MEANWHILE, THE US NAVY PRAISES ITS OWN EXTRAJUDICIAL MURDERSThis is like pirates hired by Victoria to kill, and putting on a show for the folks back home, all to promote their own taking of lives, on your dime. “US Navy just sank a narco vessel and exposed a cartel’s $1 billion network | Watch” LINK
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THE FTC is doing something that is not sanctioned by the federal constitution. Of course. “FTC sues Amazon for allegedly overcharging advertisers on its platform” LINK
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Find out why the "Prize Court" concept does not apply to Mr. Trump's attacks on foreign ships and see how the arrangement of the "Prize Court" ties directly into federal district courts, thus requiring Due Process for the people whom the US might hire mercenaries to attack. That latter has not happened, but it is valuable to understand the original concept and see how far off base Trump is. We also want to stress that the state, normatively, is immoral and unsupportable, so the idea of any state hiring mercenaries (again, not happening here with this story) also is a non-starter. Join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble or X "At" gardgoldsmith . Tell your friends to subscribe to this here Gardner Goldsmith Substack for Daily News and research, and visit the "Former Star Trek Writing Fellow" ch on YT or Rumble for great book suggestions and insights into TV and film production! Be Seeing You!
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We roll out of August to the abrasive tunes of fuel shortages, price increases, US bond ponzi schemes to try to suppress long-term rates, that latter move signaling to many that it’s time to get very far away from the Dollar and realty, and ICE arresting a high-profile backer of ICE deportations.
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A couple to keep in mind:
1. Trump’s lies on oil through the Strait of Hormuz
Trump’s latest boasts that America “controls” the Strait and that record oil volumes now flow freely are propaganda covering a failed blockade. Trackers show only a handful of vessels crossing daily versus 130 pre-war, with continued projectile strikes on tankers. Iran and Oman, as rightful coastal states, are negotiating a legitimate temporary corridor while Washington’s illegal war and threats against Muscat keep markets chaotic and Iranian exports zeroed. The White House release claiming 1,500 escorted ships cannot hide the reality of disruption. https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/08/president-trump-was-right-america-controls-the-strait-of-hormuz/
https://www.cnbcafrica.com/2026/tanker-attack-tests-trumps-claim-that-hormuz-is-a-functioning-strait
2. Soaring US gasoline and jet fuel prices
Americans saw a record-expensive August at the pump, with national regular averaging over $4.09–$4.22 per gallon—88 cents higher than last year—while Gulf Coast jet fuel sits near $3.62–$3.73, up more than 70 percent year-over-year. These spikes are the direct result of Trump’s reckless war on Iran that choked the Strait of Hormuz, the route for a fifth of global oil. Ordinary drivers and airlines suffer while the administration peddles falsehoods about restored flows.
https://www.deseret.com/business/2026/08/28/iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-petroleum-industry-gas-prices-august-average-consumer-costs-inflation-household-budgets/
https://www.gurufocus.com/economic_indicators/2839/kerosenetype-jet-fuel-prices-us-gulf-coast
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ISRAEL/US v VIRTUALLY EVERY PEACEFUL PERSON ON EARTH
A MAJOR LAWSUIT
The Israelis are using Board of Peace “reconstruction” cash to destroy more of Gaza, as you might have expected.
Before these segments were put together, many of them were shadow-banned by META…
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Fetterman. How long can he keep making such absurd claims?
Continued Israeli attacks:
Despite a so-called ceasefire, Israeli drones and gunfire killed at least two to three Palestinians on 29 August, striking a medical-supply warehouse inside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah and targeting a bicycle in Gaza City. A farmer was also shot east of Deir el-Balah. Gaza’s Health Ministry recorded additional bodies recovered from rubble. These daily violations form part of an ongoing campaign of destruction that supporters of Iran and Oman recognize as systematic genocide enabled by Washington. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/israeli-attacks-across-gaza-kill-two-people-hit-hospital-supply-warehouse
Meanwhile, the US Dems, on the whole, offer flash and no substance, as they prep for the November elections…
Even as polls show most Democrats now view Israel’s Gaza campaign as genocide and nearly half of House Democrats voted to cut aid, leaders such as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries continue shielding annual billions in military financing. A recent 45-senator letter on West Bank settler violence stopped short of ending the weapons pipeline. These politicians remain complicit in the slaughter and land theft while the same administration wages war on Iran, revealing Washington’s consistent hostility toward regional sovereignty.
https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/news-sen-schiff-leader-schumer-sen-booker-lead-45-senators-in-urging-netanyahu-to-immediately-crack-down-on-settler-violence-in-west-bank-protect-u-s-citizens/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/25/most-us-democrats-in-early-2028-primary-states-oppose-aid-to-israel-poll
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LEBANONIsraeli warplanes, drones and artillery continued pounding southern Lebanon on 29 August, hitting Nabatieh al-Fawqa multiple times, setting fires in Beit Yahoun, and striking areas near Aita al-Jabal, Haris and Al-Mansouri. These operations, concentrated in Nabatieh province, persist despite US-mediated understandings and UN Resolution 1701. They represent unprovoked aggression against a sovereign neighbor that Iran and Oman view as part of a broader pattern of Israeli expansionism backed by American weapons and political cover. https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2026/08/29/israel-continues-attacks-across-southern-lebanon
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On 29 August dozens of masked settlers again attacked Palestinian homes in Qusra, trapping families inside, throwing stones and prompting Israeli forces to fire tear gas rather than restrain the attackers. Similar assaults damaged olive groves and farmland near Jenin and Arraba. These raids, combined with new outpost expansions and “state land” seizures, constitute ongoing ethnic cleansing and theft of Palestinian territory under military protection—actions Iran and Oman condemn as illegal colonization. LINK
AND… Just an example, of many, showing the derangement and violence of the occupying gangs that the US calls “settlers”
UKRAINE
After the recent Ukrainian attacks on non-Russian ships, we see this: “Türkiye summons Kiev’s envoy over attacks on Black Sea shipping — RT World News” LINK
-AND “Zelensky passes buck over civilian deaths after drone depot blast — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK
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TRUMP - CANADA - MORE DUMB AI RELEASES
IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE
-The follow-up on Milo “Milo Yiannopoulos deported to the UK one day after ICE arrest” LINK
-And the follow-up to the story we got to report Thursday, re what should be a typical extradition of a suspect from the state to which he fled (TX) to Minnesota, where he faces the MN court system “ICE officer extradition fight sparks rare constitutional test” LINK
-AND “ICE plans to buy robot 'dogs' for some immigration enforcement operations” LINK
AND - “Elderly man arrested for overstaying 15-day tourist visa by 26 years” LINK
-AND - “Federal judge orders DHS to pause construction of border wall in Big Bend National Park” LINK
-And this brief video is a good reminder of the importance of division of labor and freedom of choice. “How important is immigrant labor for the US economy in 2026?” LINK
Because nothing says “Fourth Amendment” better than the international spy agency handing local cops reports on pre-crime axes. “The CIA is making AI-generated reports for local police” LINK
Perhaps the CIA could investigate this:
MITCH - NO - MITCH!
But, as long as Israeli interests make $$ off it, it must be cool.
ABORTION AND SPEECHThis is a key reminder, from a week ago, of what NJ is doing. Again, the matter is not to be judged based on the US Constitution’s First Amendment, but on the NJ Constitution. “NJ Gov Sherrill signs law critics say targets prayer outside abortion clinics” LINK The NJ Constitution DOES protect free speech.
PRIVATE PROPERTYFrom Reason: “Connecticut couple demands the right to let people hike on their land” LINK
FRANKEN-EPSTEINThe monster created by a mix of Mossad, CIA, UK spy agencies, perverted human desires, the thirst for money, and the political hack world is getting away with it…. Check out this new rhetorical idiocy.
Dershowitz Links Epstein List Demands to Antisemitism on Hannity…
Amid new Epstein document releases, Dershowitz—who once represented Epstein—defended himself and pushed for full transparency to prove his innocence. Posts pushed back hard, with Martina Navratilova writing, 'Hey Alan- we don’t give a damn what your bloodlines are- we care about men raping little girls and boys.’
Of nightmare “answers” to its insane spending. “Healey eyes windfall tax on banks and oil companies” LINK
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CLOSE TO FINALLY…This is insane. “Pete Hegseth is talking about a possible run for president in 2028, sources say” LINK
FINALLY, THIS IS ALMOST AMUSING :)!“Seeing double: Second Dan Sullivan advances, setting up bizarre Alaska Senate ballot” LINK
NOW! VIDEOS!!This is worth a watch:
AND this, another among the many fascinating videos from “Interesting Books, Reviewed” on YT!
AND this is interesting, too…
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Hearty thanks to all the fine folks who joined us tonight to dig into the twisted history of the "Prize Courts" and Trump's piracy, the immigration police state, and more, as we got to chill at the close of the show with FICTION! Salutations to all the fine journalists whose work we got to discuss tonight, I hope more folks get to follow them all, and that you will join us m-f 6 pm on Rumble or on X! The audio pod is coming soon tonight, via Spotify and here on Substack! Here is the link to the entire video stream! Be Seeing You! Liberty Conspiracy Live 82826 Pirate Prez, Caribb Kills, Milo ICE Arrest, Fiction!
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FIRST, SOMETHING DARKLY AMUSINGAND… How about another?
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We open with one of the most lie-packed-in-short-form statements of the week.
Here is more on the anti-constitutional piracy Trump announced yesterday… “White House Planning to Reactivate Civil War-Era Court to Accelerate Theft of Iranian Oil - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
BUT, WHAT OTHER DETAILS CAN WE UNCOVER? The Constitution placed “all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction” in the federal judicial power and gave Congress authority to “make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.” The Judiciary Act of 1789 gave the new district courts exclusive original jurisdiction in admiralty, including prize. In Glass v. The Sloop Betsey (1794) the Supreme Court confirmed that every district court possessed the full powers of an admiralty court “whether considered as an instance, or as a prize court.” The keys here are three-fold. First and second: without a Declaration of War, the only “captures at sea” that the US can conduct have to stem from mercenaries hired under Letters of Marque and Reprisal). Third: If any non-war action is taken, the BILL OF RIGHTS must apply. The US cannot simply hire mercenaries who, upon going after baddies as characterized by the feds, capture the baddies but then do not deliver them to US courts where Due Process is afforded. That would allow the Congress to circumvent Due Process anytime they wanted simply by issuing Letters of Marque and Reprisal against any civilians…
Historically, Congress repeatedly authorized privateers (letters of marque) and prize money for naval crews. Captors filed a “libel” in district court; the court applied prize law to decide whether the capture was lawful, whether the property was enemy or contraband, and how proceeds would be divided. That system was used during the Quasi-War with France and, far more extensively, the War of 1812. The Prize Act of 1812 is one of the key early statutes. (I suspect you detect the fuzziness of their actions and how it’s easy for the feds to claim they don’t have to afford Due Process when they really DO have to afford it, including trial by jury.) AND IT GOT WORSE…
The Civil War produced the largest body of American prize litigation and the most important Supreme Court decision on the subject. Lincoln proclaimed a blockade of Southern ports in April 1861, before Congress had formally ratified his actions. Union warships seized blockade runners and other vessels; district courts condemned them as prizes.Four of those early seizures—The Brig Amy Warwick, The Schooner Crenshaw, The Barque Hiawatha, and The Schooner Brilliante—reached the Supreme Court as The Prize Cases (1863). In a 5–4 decision written by Justice Robert Grier, the Court held that a state of war existed as a matter of fact after the firing on Fort Sumter, that the President as commander-in-chief could institute a blockade without waiting for a congressional declaration of war, and that captures made under that blockade were lawful prizes. The Court treated the conflict as both an insurrection and a war to which the international law of prize applied. - That is, of course, insane. Unless Congress Declares War, the US government is not at War. It’s pretty simple. But, even then, one can see how the judges cared not for the wording of their “rule book”.
AND…
SCOTT JENNINGS - NOTICE HOW HE WEAVES, DODGES, CONTRADICTS HIMSELF, AND AVOIDS EVERYTHING OTHER THAN USING WORDS LIKE “STRATEGIC”
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-AND, in this, from Steve Rattner, we get a two-fer… And in the CNN cut, they don’t even acknowledge the fact that Iran was NOT pursuing a nuke weapon, and was showing that, with open inspections.
As a starter, here is an example of how even the leftist press that purportedly is anti-imperialism continues to do damage to the Iranian people. Well done, George G, for calling out the Guardian.
The key of the MECCA agreement - from Larry J, Judge N, and Karen K
VENEZUELA-CARIBBEANTrump and his military lackeys kill four more, sans any due process, no Declaration of War, no Letters of Marque and Reprisal. And even if those thresholds had been met, the “authorities” engaged in this attack turn their guns on YOU to pay their salaries. “US Kills Four on Suspected Drug Boat - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
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THE US ATTACKS, ECONOMICALLY…The US is not winning converts to economic suicide. As we know, the Chinese government is not going to work with the US to “stop buying from Iran”. Here are Nima Alkorshid and Chas Freeman on how China emerges as a winner by default because the US government is the biggest pirate on the planet.
ISRAEL-US GENOCIDE COMMITTED AGAINST GAZAShare
This is amazing. The Trump Admin is filled with shameless criminals
US POLITICAL TIES TO ISRAELRichard’s point is valuable here, and I hope to emphasize with even greater force what is included in the repost, the statement from Sen Fetterman.
Some pushback from Van Hollen and a few others. But, how do they vote on things like the NDAA and funds for any foreign nation?
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MORE ON TRUMP DESIGNATING PALESTINE ACTION A “TERROR” GROUPDave DeCamp, of AntiWar, has key thoughts on this:
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THE DINOSAUR MEDIA V. HASAN PIKERHasan, a left-leaning podcaster who campaigned in support of left-Dem Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed in MI, recently noted that US/global Jewish support of genocidal Israel runs the risk of blowback and reflects poorly on all Jews to their potential detriment. CNN’s Dana Bash misconstrues his statements to claim that he is antisemitic and WANTS blowback, when he was simply expressing logic. NJ Zionista Dem Congressman Gottheimer agrees with her, of course. “Gottheimer urges all Dems to cut ties with Hasan Piker: ‘He should be put outside and not welcomed into any kind of tent’“ LINK And… This, from a MA Dem CON-gressman
Here, we see the excellent analysis of Bash’s bashing of Piker, thanks to the great Aaron Mate and Katie Halper:
TRUMP E-OsFirst, let’s recall what is happening to food prices.
Now… Trumpola is doing through EO what Thomas Massie tried to do through legislation - allowing local ranchers to slaughter and process beef
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THE WEST BANKUKRAINE/US/NATO/EU V RUSSIAThis conversation, between Aaron Mate and Professor Richard Sakwa, is excellent, as we see them discuss different possible reasons for CIA Director John Rattcliff going to Russia for a few hours. (They conclude that it was most likely an attempt to get Putin to help the US negotiate with Iran to get some wiggle room out of the Strait Jacket the Trumpers and the pliant Congress have created by attacking Iran.)
TARIFF TERRORISMThe top five states being hit…
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FREE SPEECHHegseth had these reporters booted. Now, they are suing. “Fired journalists slap Hegseth with damning lawsuit over report he tried to bury” LINK
IMMIGRATION POLICE STATEMilo, who pushed for ICE actions, has been taken in by ICE
-“9th Circuit lifts block on Calif. Border Patrol stops” LINK
-AND “US judge won’t immediately block Trump’s newest order limiting birthright citizenship” LINK
-AND “Deported to Equatorial Guinea with a large abdominal hernia: ‘I’m not worth a dime’“ LINK
-AND “In the US, ICE arrests at school bus stops spark fear as students return to class” LINK
-This is nice, but how about they acknowledge that ICE is anti-constitutional and an immoral creation? “Letter signed by Democratic senators calls on ICE to halt electric shock gloves” LINK
-This, another story of shameful behavior by the government. “‘I’m broken’: Asylum seeker detained by ICE describes her experience” LINK
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POLICE MISCONDUCTThat is the origin of the state - misconduct. Here, we see that police didn’t think they needed a warrant. Sadly, many courts agree. “North Carolina woman opens her door at 3am. Then gets handcuffed by police as they barge into her home: ‘Gonna keep you up all night’“ LINK
AI DATACENTERSHere’s an idea. Get the feds and all government out of promoting the building of anything. Let private interests and potential liability operate without the political injections.
FINALLY!!! — A KEY SUBSTACK RELEASE - US ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN CONTEXTPeter St Onge Nails it “$40 Trillion Debt puts Nero to Shame - by Peter St Onge” LINK
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