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To follow our earlier covering the US kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, we have more key news. We hope it offers plenty of information!…

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As we noted earlier today, the Trump Administration Friday night engaged in murderous, scandalous, unconstitutional action, killing approximately 40 people and kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Here are some of the key lies and double-standards that Trump piled atop of his previous lies re drug-running, “narco-terror”, and his claims of “saving America from drugs”.
…The US has imposed “sanctions” on Venezuela since 2005, beginning with “sanctions” against specific people, then growing to economic sectors, then almost all facets of economic interaction with Americans. This is militaristic, an act of aggression against Venezuelans and Americans.
…a reporter called out Trump’s hypocrisy for pardoning Honduran former Prez, Juan Orlando Hernandez, whom the US convicted of running hundreds of thousands of pounds (400 metric tonnes) of cocaine into the US, but claiming that Maduro, who has not had evidence presented against him for drug-trafficking, has to be, according to Trump, apprehended for “narco-terror”. LINK
…The indictment doesn’t cite the eeeevils of “fentanyl” that Trumploa told us was so genetically tied to Maduro; it claims Maduro-ties to drug groups like the Sinaloa, yet the US literally worked with that cartel for 12 years between 2000 and 2012 to give the Sinaloa an easy time in US cities, and arm the cartel in Mexico to “fight” smaller cartels. LINK The indictment also cites the Columbian drug gang FARC, claiming that Venezuela allows FARC trafficking through it. But so does the US, and so do many other nations. FARC can engage in black market ops, pay off politicians, and will continue to do so as long as there is a consumer market willing to buy.
… Then there is Trump’s DoJ trying to indict Maduro for “machine guns”, which might inspire a few people to wonder how far the gas-lighting can go, when Trump troops use weapons not limited to “machine guns” to invade another nation, commit mass murder, and kidnap people. That absurdity rests atop the fact that the 1934 Firearms Act itself it unconstitutional, and THAT rests atop the fact that, even if the Constitution were amended to allow for gun seizure in the US, or OUTSIDE the US, all state operations (i.e. activities of the polis) are premised on theft, so all statist operations are immoral.
…US claims that Maduro is not the “legit” Prez have nothing to do with the US, constitutionally. In addition to that, the claims of “legit” and “illegit” vary, from the Carter Center and UN claiming that the vote was not trustworthy, to other groups claiming that it was. If the debate over a “legit” Prez is an invitation to invasion and kidnapping, then that must mean that the UN and numerous internationally prominent EU figures, US politicians, and Canadian blowhards would support Putin taking out Zenenskyyyyyy?
… Trump claims he hates the people he calls “terrorists” - yet he just welcomed al Shaara (ne al Jolani) to the White House, and just welcomed Netanyahu. LINK
…This is fun, showing the “changing moods” and claims of the Trumpers. LINK From the post: ‘Three different statements by US officials about the reason for kidnapping Maduro:
Marco Rubio: This is about a dictator who oppresses his people.
Pete Hegseth: It’s about drugs that pose an imminent threat.
President Trump: It’s about the oil and we are going to make some people in the US very rich.’
……..so, of course, the US has to engage in months of threats, then kill scores, then invade and kidnap - totally consistent.
…Aaron Mate offers key thoughts LINK ‘Rubio, standing next to Trump: "Nicolas Maduro had multiple opportunities to avoid this. He was provided multiple very, very, very generous offers, and chose instead to act like a wild man."
Trump to Fox News earlier in the day: "You know, he [Maduro] wanted to negotiate at the end and I didn’t want to negotiate. I said, nope."‘
…Trump claimed that he had a long conversation with the Venezuelan VP, Delcy Rodriguez, and she said she would do “anything” Trump and the US wanted. This does not jibe with her public statements excoriating the illegal Trump attack. LINK
…As Dave DeCamp of AntiWar notes, one of the US strikes hit an apartment building, killing an 80-year-old woman, but here is Tim Pool, saying dumb things.

And here is Stephen Miller’s charming wife, Katie, targeting Greenland.

-And now, as AntiWar reports, Trump is threatening Rodriguez, the acting Prez of VZ. LINK
-And, again, Tulsi Gabbard has not resigned, has not uttered a syllable in opposition to Trump’s new criminal move, yet she was very clear about the immorality of regime change, when she spoke on Fox, circa 2019. LINK
-ANNNND the judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, who will preside over Maduro’s case (and, likely, over any charges the US brings against Marudo’s wife) is a hardcore Zionist. He also was involved in prompting relatives of 9-11 victims to settle civil suits, rather than seeing them come to trial and discovery. Here is some key information on the 92-year-old man. LINK
-But Rubio says that since Venezuela is in “the west” it makes perfect moral and logical sense for the US to overthrow the government there. See? Makes total sense. LINK
-And what of Venezuela’s massive GOLD reserves and holdings? LINK
-Finally, on the VZ front, as Congress remains, essentially, silent, save for Massie, MTG, and Rand Paul, former Senator, not National Security Guru and Sec of State Marco Rubio tells CBS that, as we all know the Constitution clearly allows, “Trump retains the ‘optionality’ to occupy VZ”. Seriously. LINK

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The Israeli ban on aid groups came into effect, further starving and harming the suffering, pushing them towards the doors of death. LINK

-Curiously enough, Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who is running for CA Gov, threatened to revoke the driver’s licenses of ICE agents caught in the state wearing masks. Since none of the agents are supposed to enter the state without an invitation/request from the legislature or the Gov if the legislature is out of session (Per Art 4 Sec 4 of the US Constitution), they should not be there in the first place. More fundamental: immigration is not a federal “power”, so ICE should not exist. LINK
-And Marco Rubio, that great paladin of liberty and peace, has adopted the pretense to criticize EUROPE for speech crackdowns. The Europeans, and the UK, are guilty within their political halls, for sure, but RUBIO pointing at them certainly is blindingly hypocritical. He repeatedly has said that to criticize ISRAEL is “antisemitic” and “assistance to terrorists” and he can revoke students’ green cards or revoke “protective” migration allowances any time he wants if he doesn’t like what people say. He has claimed for his government the power to scour social media going back years to see if potential visiting students said things he doesn’t like, and then block them from entering the US. Astounding. LINK
-Here is more discussion on what is coming closer and closer to a judge ruling that the Trump DoJ triple-attempt to indict Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not only “vindictive prosecution” but that the only case remaining against him should be tossed out. This likely will, and ought to, be the result, and it can’t come too soon. LINK Abrego Garcia is only charged now with driving illegal immigrants over state lines. But the Feds do not want to go to trial, they want their prosecution to keep Abrego Garcia in custody until they can find a place that will accept him as a deportee, then, the Trumpers want to wash their bloody, filthy hands of the issue, leaving him without a job, his family shaken up and forced to relocate (wherever they put him, if they get to send him away) and his rights demolished. LINK
-JUDGE HANNAH DUGAN, who did the right thing turning away ICE agents in her Federal District Court in WIS when they entered with a fake “administrative warrant”? She, who wrongfully was convicted of obstruction last month for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, has sent her resignation letter to the governor. LINK
From the article: “The letter was sent Saturday. Republicans had been making plans to impeach her ever since her Dec. 19 conviction. A spokesperson for Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, said his office received Dugan’s letter, and he would work to fill the vacancy without delay.”
-Around Portland, Oregon, citizens are organizing to track and keep a database of license plates of vehicles being used by ICE. LINK
-AND, another of the many ICE criminal acts that innocent people are suffering, this time, a SURFER who went into the “wrong waters”! LINK

Finally, we want to give you this big ruling, re the arbitrary, unconstitutional, and immoral blocks the CA Assembly tried to impose on “open carry.” LINK

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ONE! - Patrick Henningsen and the team were just outstanding today, covering the US kidnapping of Maduro and the crazed MAGA support for it. The whole show was superb, of course!

TWO! - Danny Haiphong’s conversation with Diego Sequera, a journalist from VZ, is excellent.

That’s it for now, all! Thank you for believing in freedom!

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Happy New Year, everyone!

We’ve got a special report for you to start the day — a report on the latest re the US kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, what power block remains in Venezuela, and what the history has been there when it comes to US meddling and internal power-blocks. WE WILL RETURN LATER, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, WITH MORE OF THE ASSEMBLY!

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As Saturday, January 3, bloomed into daylight, many Americans woke to discover that the mock “TEAM AMERICA” of puppet-movie theatrics, that spoof of American soldiers, tax cash, debt, and corporations policing the world, was, again, being reflected to tragic degrees in Venezuela.

Of course, not long ago, Donald Trump the non-Prez told Americans that he and the American people were tired of “regime change” - here are a couple examples of that forgotten position. LINK and LINK.

Yet, this year, he has bombed seven nations, as noted by AntiWar. He, and his complicit underlings, have killed nearly 100 people in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, offering spurious and insulting rationales such as “combating” their invented, meaningless bogeyman of “narco-terror.” Not only has the argument not aligned with facts about the Maduro regime and drugs, but also, even IF the Maduro Administration were directly involved with trafficking every speck of fentanyl or some other terrible drug, Trump’s US Constitution has not been amended to give him “authority” to block people from selling, buying, using, or possessing it. And even IF the Constitution were amended to allow him to act against those activities, the Constitution has no authority over you or me, and it is not a magical talisman that can confer legitimate “authority” over anyone. The only people who are supposed to abide by it are the politicians who take the illegitimate seats of power over us that it created.

So, Trump ordered this attack. And, as he got closer to January 3, he revealed that this was not about drugs, as he had claimed, but was about oil and resources. So, where did this US thirst for Venezuelan oil begin?…

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We can go as far back as the days of wickedness fueled by Harry Truman…

After Venezuela supplied the US military with oil for its Navy in World War Two, and this oil provision actually provoked German Nazi Navy ships to carry out sabotage operations off its coast, Truman oversaw a coup in Venezuela, and Venezuela saw the installation of its first pro-US dictator, Marcos Perez Jimenez (1948 to 1958). Following that, there were numerous efforts by the U.S. to prevent Venezuela from benefiting from its own natural resources (over which its government gained US-free control in ‘58, and the US and UK have been meddling there ever since, so this is a continuation of that back-and-forth struggle).

Maduro was not a totalitarian dictator, though some in the US Administration have tried to depict him as such. That would be the US regime, which, of course, currently is the one that kidnaps people and flies them to Salvadoran prisons sans Due Process, the one that drone killed over 100 in the open sea in just a few months time, that hit Somalia with over 100 attacks this year, and continued to supply genocidal Israeli forces with arms…

But, lest we digress, here is more of the Venezuela story:

The Venezuelan ruling system, i.e. the party that Maduro represented, is nicknamed “Chavismo” (being the supporters of Hugo Chavez), and that movement has ruled Venezuela for over 20 years. Curiously, even with Maduro out, it is firmly in place in the streets and in the military. And so it’s not precisely a regime change that has taken place here. It’s more of a shuffling of the Chavismo deck.

Which raises the questions: how was this allowed to happen and who had an interest in getting Maduro out of the picture?

Those, like most of us, looking at Venezuela from the outside likely would benefit from understanding that there are many factions and interests at play, even within a political movement such as Chavismo. In fact, this overthrow seems similar to the Syria universe of chaos and debris, where, when Syria fell last year, it was not at the nation-state’s worst moment, and now, it is in worse shape. The same seems likely with Venezuela’s change. The country had much greater economic troubles from 2016 through 2019 (about which I wrote for MRCTV on a few occasions).

What plays out now is the dirty war, the financial war, and what could become very chaotic. There are many interests at play here, and the United States under Trump wants to exploit a new, very tricky situation.

Some observers, such as Max Blumenthal, have speculated that Trump wanted as strong a form of control as he could get without a full-blown war, which he could not win. He wanted Maduro taken out for personal reasons and, likely, to make sure that he could install a much more puppet-like character who would not change direction once oil and mineral “agreements” were made.

Numerous observers (such as Max and his sources) noted that Trump did not take Maria Corina Machado (Ms. “Peace Prize Winner” who supports Israel’s genocide and supported a military attack on Venezuela) seriously and was, therefore, determined to force a managed coup or a deal to replace Maduro with someone inside the Chavista camp. This would allow Trump to get the oil and minerals, while keeping the pro-Chavista military in line, tamping down violence.

So, perhaps Trump’s gang thought that they needed someone other than Machado, some kind of more moderate figure from within the Chavista realm. And such a figure has to get the support of Diosdado Cabello, who was in the Maduro administration as Minister of Interior, and also was the Minister of Justice and Peace, and holds sway among the military.

Multiple US sources told Max over the holidays that the Trump administration was not serious about installing Maria Corina Machado and, instead, proposed a deal in which Maduro would leave and agree to be replaced with VP Delcy Rodriguez. This now appears to be what Venezuela got by force… Although, in addition to agreeing with Max and Anya saying that the case against Maduro should be dismissed, Scott Ritter wonders about the fact that Venezuelan forces seemed to stand down and Maduro was apprehended without a fight. “There’s an element of collaboration here, with Maduro. This went down too easily…” - See his comment to the Judge, here:

Curiously, Trump told the press today that Marco Rubio had been talking to VP Rodriguez and that in Trump’s words, “she’ll do whatever we want.” How does one interpret all of this?

Well, right now, we have Delcy and her brother, Jorge Rodriguez (National Assembly President). They are a power faction that appears to be the “ready player.”

And then you have Diosdado Cabello, who has massive support within the military and the colectivos, who are a form of semi-organized militant supporters in the streets. Cabello had been out in the street with armed men, ready to fight the US invaders. Now, more likely, they will be police to help back the temporary regime of Rodriguez, who has not yet been sworn in as president.

She Saturday announced full national mobilization — militants in the streets, armed forces deployed nationwide — per contingency orders Maduro had previously issued.

Invoking Bolívar and Chávez, she framed the US attack as violating Articles 1 and 2 of the UN Charter, called the blockade and strikes "crimes against humanity," and warned the region: "What they did to Venezuela today, they can do to anyone."

She and her brother (who once was communications minister as well) are the children of Jorge Antonio Rodriguez, who was tortured to death in the Fourth Republic. And THAT lasted from 1958 to 1999. This era began after the overthrow of dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez and ended with the adoption of a new constitution under Hugo Chávez, which established the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

The elder Rodriguez was leader of “Liga Socialista” (the Socialist League), and was killed on July 25, 1976. He had been arrested on July 23, 1976, by agents of the DISIP (Venezuela’s intelligence service at the time) in connection with the kidnapping of American executive William Niehous. He died two days later in custody from severe torture, which caused a heart attack and extensive internal injuries. This occurred under the Acción Democrática government, of Carlos Andres Perez, a close friend of forces within, of all things, the IMF, which wanted to neutralize the socialist left, and keep corporate ties to oil and minerals installed in Venezuela. Over a thousand people tied to Rodriguez were killed.

As Max Blumenthal noted in a recent “GrayZone” stream, when he interviewed Delcy:

“I asked her about it at the end of our interview, which mostly focused on economic and hybrid warfare on Venezuela and how they were responding, how they were dealing with COVID, et cetera. And she got very emotional. So the question is: If Delcy Rodriguez is going to be president for now, is she going to maintain the Chavista character economically, politically, ideologically of a government that has just been not decapitated, but seen its leadership now absconded, kidnapped, abused by the US regime… Can we assume that Chavismo is still in effect? And where does Rubio go with that? Chavismo is still in power.”

That’s where things stand! WE WILL BE BACK WITH MORE NEWS LATER IN THE DAY ON SUNDAY! BE WITH US! We’ll send you the link if you are a paid or unpaid subscriber! MORE SUNDAY NEWS ASSEMBLY, ON THE WAY!

MEANWHILE, for additional reference, here is Jeffrey Sachs with Glenn Diesen on this terrible development.

And here is Judge Napolitano with Col Douglas MacGregor on it and on the Ukraine-US-CIA problem! - Here is a question… Will Tulsi Gabbard resign after all of this?

That’s it for now, all! We will be back soon, later on Sunday… And come back Monday for our new DAILY NEWS NOTES! It’s for paid subscribers, and will give you a midday look at some of the breaking news you might want to follow, to compare notes with others, and utilize to keep an eye on the statists in politics and the statists in the “commentary/reporting” realm! Remember, you can watch Liberty Conspiracy Live, each weeknight, at 6 eastern! Help others learn about all the facets of freedom, from markets, to privacy, to speech, to parental control and education, and much MORE! You can watch, listen, and join the chat for freedom as we broadcast on my X and Rumble. Hit me up at X as @gardgoldsmith there and on GAB as “GardnerGoldsmith”! And, of course, I want to mention that if you’d like to get some of my fiction, grab my current novellas at Amazon and Barnes and Noble!! As a rocking opener, I recommend “Fishing” as a dark, well-composed crime tale with some very unusual turns (this contains some scenes of dark violence, so please, be warned)…

…Or feel free to get “Bite” for a different take on vampirism, and “Wall” for a cryptoarcheological adventure set in 1960s China. And I have three novels and two more novellas in their final editing phases, soon to be on the way!

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Trump announced that the US will “run” the nation - for who knows how long? What does that mean? President Trump stated that the strikes were conducted in coordination with ‘U.S. law enforcement’ to target Maduro on drug trafficking charges, and he’s mentioned ‘reviewing options for a power transition.’ There’s no confirmed plan to install opposition leader María Corina Machado, but she (A Novel Peace Prize winner, yet a supporter of Israeli genocide and of military action in Venezuela to overthrow Maduro) and her allies have celebrated the events as a potential liberation from the Maduro regime, and the Trumpers likely will try to get her in, pushing for ‘elections,’ that the US manipulates.
Trump administration officials like Secretary of State Marco Rubio have emphasized that no long-term U.S. military involvement is planned, focusing instead on disrupting narco-trafficking networks, but his behavior and statements tell us it is about oil. Trump would not have released Hernandez from prison to return to Honduras after his conviction for drug dealing if Trump actually cared about his stated and unconstitutional policing against drugs.

Not one scintilla of this is constitutional or moral, and Trump adds to his long list of crimes. He once said he could shoot someone on the streets of NY and no one would care - he is doing that kind of thing around the world, now.

Regarding the U.S. attack on Caracas and surrounding areas, it was a rapid operation lasting under 30 minutes early this morning, involving airstrikes to provide cover for a ground capture. Key details include:

Soldiers involved: The U.S. Army’s Delta Force (an elite special operations unit specializing in counter-terrorism and hostage rescue) executed the ground raid to capture Maduro and Flores from a fortified residence near the Fuerte Tiuna military complex. No large-scale troop invasion occurred—estimates suggest a small, highly trained team supported by helicopters (possibly Apache models for close air support, per unconfirmed reports). U.S. officials reported a few injuries but no deaths on the American-invader side, and they are not telling us how many innocent people they killed in Venezuela today.

• Munitions and targets: Trump’s goons claim that airstrikes targeted “military sites” across Caracas, Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira states, including Fuerte Tiuna (Venezuela’s largest military base), La Carlota Air Base, the port of La Guaira, and possibly signal antennas or government buildings like the parliament. Explosions (at least seven reported) likely were caused by bombs from U.S. aircraft (such as F-35s or F/A-18s deployed from nearby carrier groups like the USS Gerald R. Ford) and potentially Tomahawk cruise missiles from naval assets.

This event builds on escalating U.S. actions since late 2025, including extrajudicial murders by the US and US attacks on oil tankers, and airspace violations, amid broader tensions over drug cartels and Russian/Chinese influence in the region. DD Politics had good running coverage. Here is their link Ben Norton also rocked on this. LINK
Thomas Massie is on top if it all. Good work. LINK

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We had a great time tonight, digging into key breaking stories and reading some fiction at the close! Big thanks to everybody who joined us live and to the great journalists whose work we got to feature! Here is the audio pod!! Join us, m-f 6 pm on Rumble or on X “at” gardgoldsmith! AND here are some of the stories we investigated!

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Marjorie Taylor Greene says it well regarding two matters. Trump pushing for more unconstitutional and immoral attacks on Iran, and the Zionist love of censorship and propaganda in the US. LINK Col Larry Wilkerson offers precisely right commentary about how Netanyahu wants the attack, cannot do it via Israel, and is pushing Trump to do it. LINK AND Ana Kasparian offers salient points re Israel running US politicians in both parties. Her mention of “democracy” is a foundational canard, of course, but her point about Zionist power is key. LINK
AND, in Iran, the CIA appears to be pushing pockets of protesters, then the Trump admin and warmongers are claiming they will “stand up for” the protesters against the government, somehow thinking they can pass that off as a pretext for an attack. LINK MORE LINK
Israel still blocks essential items, after blocking over 30 aid orgs this week, from going into Gaza. LINK
-AND an astonishing, but “it fits with previous info we know” revelation: Israel asked Qatar to supply Hamas with even MORE funds just a month prior to Oct 7. LINK

Nicolas Maduro again has offered to negotiate with Trump. LINK The latest developments as of today show Maduro extending an olive branch in a pre-taped state TV interview aired today. He expressed readiness for “serious talks” on combating drug trafficking, dismissing U.S. accusations against his government as fabricated (comparing them to the Iraq WMD claims), and invited American investments in Venezuela’s oil sector, citing Chevron as a model. Maduro stated, “If they want to seriously discuss an agreement to combat drug trafficking, we’re ready,” and added that Venezuela is open to dialogue “whenever they want, wherever they want, and however they want” on drugs, oil, and migration. He declined to comment on a recent CIA strike on a Venezuelan dock but referenced a cordial November 21 phone call with Trump as a potential starting point. LINK
-On DEC 31 the US hit another 5 boats and killed more people in the Caribbean. LINK

Kit Klarenberg has a very good piece that helps one understand the splinters in Somalia, the power-plays there to back Israel and harm the Houthis in Yemen, and more. LINK

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The Ron Paul Institute has excellent coverage of, and additions to, the NYT expose that the CIA long has been involved with Ukrainian drone and other strikes inside Russia. Likely the recent Novgorod strike also had help from the CIA. LINK MORE LINK
-Zelenskyy just named a widely recognized terrorist to be his new Chief of Staff. LINK
-This follows a barbarous attack on New Year’s Eve, by Ukraine, against civilians celebrating the new year, and it coincides with NEW attacks on civilians. LINK We will dig into all of this Ukraine-US darkness tonight, on Liberty Conspiracy LIVE, at 6 on Rumble and X.
-Russia is closing Odessa to Ukrainian ships. The war will be decided militarily, regardless of the delay and obfuscation tactics of Trump, the EU, and NATO. LINK
-This is a key conversation on that, from Danny Haiphong, Larry Johnson, and Larry Wilkerson. LINKIMMIGRATION POLICE STATE

-Trump says he is withdrawing National Guard Troops from Chicago: LINK
-A Federal District Judge Wednesday blocked the Trump Admin from revoking temporary protective status for 60K migrants. Many people who opposed Biden’s immigration policies called out his wide-open application of this “legal category”, which the Bidenistas used to bring in tens of thousands and then give free accommodations to many of those folks. But the key is that the central political machine should have nothing to do with “protective status” or any other kind of immigration. Not only is there nothing in the US Constitution allowing such “control”, the very idea of the polis telling people that they cannot interact is offensive. The act of moving to live someplace is NOT an offense against another person. LINK
-ICE just deported a single father of 6 who has been living in the US for 34 years. LINK
-A new report reveals that migrants who, when applying to enter the US, make claims of being victims of domestic abuse face stricter scrutiny than others. This cadre of people has risen because a portion of the Violence Against Women Act (an unconstitutional federalization of something that is supposed to be a state and local issue) included a provision offering special, accelerated, consideration for migrants making such claims. LINK From the article: ‘In 1994, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act, which has allowed immigrant non-citizens who have been abused by their U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident relative to independently petition for themselves (self-petition) for immigrant classification without the abuser’s knowledge, consent, or participation in the immigration process. This has allowed victims to seek both safety and independence from their abusers, the agency says on its website.’ - But since the number of those applications has skyrocketed recently, the feds are cracking down.
-This, yet another tragic story of federal invasion, terrorism, and kidnapping, is garnering some attention, and might help some “on the fence” Americans see the evil of the immigration police state. This former Miss Hawaii is fighting to keep her HUSBAND in the US. LINK
-A Utah-based federal judge Dec 31 ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a man whom administration officials acknowledge was deported in violation of a court order. LINK
-AND a new study links massive economic damage in CA to what appears to have been a key catalyst: removal of migrants from fields, construction, more. LINK
-MALI and BURKINA FASO have responded to Trump’s bans on visitors from those nations (and 37 others) by imposing bans on US visitors to those nations. LINK As of January 2, 2026, the expanded travel restrictions under President Trump’s December 16, 2025 proclamation impose full restrictions (suspension of entry as immigrants and most nonimmigrants, effectively barring new visa issuance in nearly all categories) on nationals of the following 19 countries: Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Burkina Faso, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, along with individuals holding travel documents issued by the Palestinian Authority. Partial restrictions (primarily suspending immigrant visas and key nonimmigrant categories such as visitor, student, and exchange visas, while permitting certain work visas with reduced validity and heightened scrutiny) apply to nationals of the following 20 countries: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cuba, Dominica, Gabon, Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Turkmenistan, previously under partial restrictions, has been eased and is no longer included. DROP SITE NEWS has good coverage of the Burkina Faso move. LINK

-Kevin Hassett, supremo advisor to Trump on economics, just admitted on CNBC that US manufacturing jobs have declined for SEVEN STRAIGHT MONTHS. Only a madman would expect hiring to increase or stay the same, when Trump has imposed a plethora of new costs on them (from tariff expenses, to higher energy costs, to immigration police thuggery that sees workers yanked out of facilities). LINK
This article, headlined with a reference to a 116-year-old steel plant closing due to Trump’s tariffs, is a good introduction to the stunning losses in the mills. Here is the link. Reports from December 2025 highlight surges in bankruptcies (over 700 companies last year, the highest since 2010), with manufacturing and steel-related sectors heavily affected.
-The Trump Admin just announced that it is not going to impose its 91% “anti-dumping” tariff on Italian pasta, leaving some with the mistaken impression that Trump has made things less expensive for them than they were a year ago. LINK Again, as with his other tariff rhetoric, this is false. Not only will pasta such as Garofolo be hit with a 13.98% “anti-dumping” tariff tax, there are the EU tariffs Trump has imposed. Let’s do a temporal comparison.
Under the new Trump administration announcement slashing the proposed anti-dumping duties (purportedly effective for imports starting this month, but, actually pending final confirmation in March 2026), the combined total tariff is 15% ( which is the new baseline on EU imports imposed in 2025) + 13.98% (revised anti-dumping) = 28.98%.On July 30, 2024 (prior to the new baseline tariff and the current review period), there was no 15% baseline tariff in place; the total tariff consisted only of the then-applicable anti-dumping duty from prior reviews, which for Garofalo was approximately 2% (based on historical patterns of small penalties for cooperating producers in previous administrative reviews).The overall percentage increase in the total tariff rate is (28.98% - 2%) / 2% × 100% = 1,349%.

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-DISTILLERIES, REVISITED: Yeah. The spirits industry in the US is crashing due to Trump’s tariffs. LINK LINK Verified reports list 7 major U.S. distillery bankruptcies in 2025 (often equated with closures or halts, though some continued operations during reorganization): A.M. Scott Distillery (December), Luca Mariano Distillery (August), Devils River Distillery (May), JJ Pfister Distilling Co. (May), House Spirits Distillery (April), Boston Harbor Distillery (March), and Lee Spirits Co. (March). But, in order to fully grasp the dist-aster of Trump’s tariffs, one must look deeper, at smaller distiller interests.
Broader industry data from the Craft Spirits Data Project shows a net loss of 787 active craft distilleries (from 3,069 in August 2024 to 2,282 in August 2025), implying at least that many closures (assuming minimal new openings in a downturn year), far exceeding the FIRST article’s 11. n comparison, 2024 saw a net gain of 316 active craft distilleries (from 2,753 in August 2023 to 3,069 in August 2024), indicating openings outnumbered closures that year. Specific closure numbers for 2024 are not precisely tracked, but major bankruptcies were minimal (e.g., potentially 1-2 like an early Lee Spirits filing, though most sources date it to 2025), with the industry in growth mode amid strong exports. The 787 net closures in the 2025 period represent 25.6% of the prior universe of 3,069 active craft distilleries (which comprise the vast majority of U.S. distillers overall).
Large craft producers (top ~2% by volume, generating >54% of craft output; roughly 46-60 producers): Minimal closures (0-1%), as these focus on exports and home-state sales to weather downturns. No major large distillers (e.g., non-craft giants like Jim Beam) closed, though some halted production.

• Medium craft producers (~217 producers, averaging ~20,000 9L cases annually): ~12-13% decline from recent peaks, representing ~5-10% of total closures (e.g., House Spirits fits here).

• Small craft producers (2,551 producers, <5,258 cases annually; ~90% of all craft): The bulk of closures (85-90%), as these rely heavily on local sales and face the steepest tariff/export/demand pressures.

This, from Larry Reed, of FEE, is excellent as a way to open some eyes to the evils of tariffs. LINK

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This story, from CA, epitomizes the fundamental problem of government through the polis. When property is pubic, i.e. funded through taxation, disparate factions and interests will battle to control the communized resources. Here, the resource is space, and all the attendant factors of people living in an area versus people trying to travel through it. This is about virtually homeless people getting RVs and parking them in areas where the CA or local governments previously had statutory obligations to keep those areas clear for travel. Without private property respect, management of resources is impossible. LINK

Yep. And he is taking some interesting moves when it comes to residential building. Despite his rhetoric re price controls, he appears to want to open up more space for housing. Here is the mixed bag from Mamdani. LINK
-AND Mamdani scrapped the insane definition of “antisemitism” on day one. LINK

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If you missed tonight’s live program, here it the Rumble Replay! Many thanks to Eric Peters of EricPetersAutosDotCom and to Karen Carpenter of Knights of the Storm for joining us in two Mind Melds! It was a great way to round off the year! Check out the show, live, m-f 6 PM on Rumble, X! Thanks, also to all the fine journalists whose work helped us cover key news on the show tonight! - Liberty CONSPIRACY LIVE 12-31-25 END OF YEAR! MIND MELDS AND NEWS Here are some of the key items we covered tonight! :)

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UKRAINE
Two major factors to note today. First, coming off his unnecessary meeting with Trump (Trump has not kept his promise to stop sending aid to Ukraine, since $400 MILLION in aid was in the NDAA and he continues to fund NATO’s military budget to the tune of 60% of the total), Zelensky claimed that he and Trump are discussing US military “boots on the ground” for future Ukrainian “security,” and an “Article Five-like” assurance of defense for Ukraine. This, as always, is utterly unacceptable to the Russians. LINK
-AND, following the drone attack on Putin’s home in Novgorod (said drones shot down), the Russians have recovered an almost entirely intact drone (we have RT video coverage of this to offer tonight, on Liberty Conspiracy Live). This evidence stands contrary to Zelensky’s claim that Ukraine did not attack. LINK
ISRAEL
The US is going to fund $8.6 BILLION for Israel to buy fighter jets. LINK Enjoy looking for the “constantly arm Israel” provision in the US Constitution. Then, consider whether the Constitution, itself, has any authority over you, even if it were amended to allow this pernicious activity.
Francesca Albanese not only offers salient moral and historical points about the US-backed genocide being perpetrated by Israel, LINK, the US sanctions against her have led to her being unable to get access to funds derived from the US sale of her book, and it was a Zionist org that got the feds to focus on starving her of THAT income, as well! LINK
ISRAEL’S BAN OF MOST AID GROUPS IN GAZA LINK
Sam Husseini makes a key point about the Israeli-Hamas conflict. LINK
VENEZUELA - The Intercept says the US DID hit the coast of VZ, via CIA. LINK

Yep. The MAGA anti-immigration folks are very upset about fraud in Somali communities in MN (it’s not isolated to those) — yet they will not discuss the fundamental fraud of welfarism in the first place. LINK

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The just-unsealed order out of US District Court in TN is not good news for the oppressive and criminal ICE US DOJ in regard to their attempt to continue persecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This offers key info on the slippery behavior of the US govt. LINK
-And, a big development in the cases of those men who unconstitutionally were kidnapped and deported to CECOT in El Salvador last spring. Judge Boasberg has ruled that the Trump Admin acted illegally, and the Trumpers must take action to “rectify” their illegal actions, YET he did not order the return of the men or the freeing of the illegally held men! See if you can figure this out. Boasberg says due process can be afforded the men in PRISON - yet, due process includes HABEAS and a JURY TRIAL BEFORE PEERS. Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to propose a “path forward” within two weeks to ensure the men receive the due process they were denied, without mandating physical repatriation or immediate release. Note that the men were later transferred to Venezuela via a U.S.-facilitated prisoner swap, which may further complicate any return LINK
-And remember, Trump was sure to pardon/commute the former Honduran Prez after he was found guilty of drug running. Sooo, yeah, Trump is completely upside down, imprisoning innocent men, and freeing a guy he supposedly should find reprehensible. LINK

ANOTHER MASSIVE FED INFUSION TO BANKS TODAY!

Yep. $75 BILLION to help them stay afloat. But it’s New Year’s Eve, so who will notice? LINK
-AND US AGRICULTURE BANKRUPTCIES ARE ON THE RISE. LINK In 2025, the United States recorded 259 Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies, encompassing both crop and livestock operations among primarily family-owned and independent farms. This figure represents approximately 0.0138% of the nation’s roughly 1.88 million total farms. Compared to previous years, the number marks a continued upward trend: in 2023, there were 139 such bankruptcies (about 0.0073% of the then-estimated 1.895 million farms), while 2024 saw 216 filings (roughly 0.0115%), reflecting a 55% increase from 2023 and a further 20% rise into 2025. Although these bankruptcy numbers remain low relative to the overall farming sector, the steady growth highlights persistent economic pressures on Midwest agriculture, including falling commodity prices, elevated input costs, and trade barriers imposed by Trump in the input/cost side and respondent trade decreases from buyers in China and elsewhere.

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Liberty Conspiracy News Notes:

Welcome, fellow Conspirators!

It was a fantastic time digging into the breaking news and comparing notes on privacy, war, economics, and ethics, tonight on the program, and, as is often our style, we want to thank all the excellent journalists whose work we discussed. Join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble, X, and get the audio via Substack or Spotify, shortly after each stream! Here are some of the key matters we discussed, tonight!

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VENEZUELA
ANTIWAR reports and CNN reports what Trump vocally appears to have confirmed, that the CIA used drones to destroy property in Venezuela. Trump’s thugs claim they were hitting a “drug facility”, but they provide no evidence, and even if it WERE a drug facility, their US Constitution not only contains no “enumerated power” allowing them to interdict drugs, it requires a Declaration of War to attack a foreign nation state, or issuance of “Letters of Marque and Reprisal” for the Prez to then hire mercenaries to go after non-state adversaries.
Additionally, local residents and workers deny that the place was handling the eeevil drugs Trump claimed were running through it, and the damage appears to have been due to a fire on Christmas eve. Reuters reports that the Primazol chemical plant, a private Venezuelan company involved in importing and distributing raw materials for industries like petrochemicals, animal nutrition, plastics, and pharmaceuticals, experienced a fire on Dec 24. Company representatives denied rumors that it was a US strike, attributing the blaze to “employee error” or an internal accident, with no mention of external attacks. Local Venezuelan media and witnesses reported no signs of a military strike (e.g., no drone debris or unusual explosions beyond the fire). This has fueled skepticism that the US is misattributing a domestic incident to justify claims of targeting a “drug facility.” Here is MORE ALSO - Venezuelan government officials, including Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, have not acknowledged any US strike inside the country, instead denouncing general US “harassment” without specifics. State-run media in Venezuela has no reports of a drone attack, and independent local accounts describe only the Primazol fire. This silence is interpreted by some as evidence the incident didn’t occur as claimed, or that the US targeted a non-drug-related site. LINK
ISRAEL, IRAN
As AntiWar reports, Trump yesterday said he is willing to back Israel in new strikes against Iran LINK
Trump also claimed that Israel was, get this, ABIDING BY THE CEASEFIRE! (oh, man…) LINK Here is Dave DeCamp on video, discussing it. LINK
Israel is expanding its “temporary” bases in Lebanon. LINK
Nima Alkorshid and Col Lawrence Wilkerson offer key thoughts about Trump’s economy, the lapdog Congress, and Israel at this point in their excellent conversation, conducted earlier today LINK
UKRAINE
The Russian government verbally responded to Ukraine attacking Putin’s Novgorod home. LINK
Putin also has moved Oreshniks to Belarus. LINK
AND - UKRAINE ERASES TCHAIKOVSKY? LINK
-Larry Johnson has a key perspective, speculation, about who was behind the attack on Putin’s residence. LINK
Here is some memory-kindling re the West and Ukraine, btw… Just an image to spice things up ;)

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The “One Big Beautiful Bill” not only contained $3.4 TRILLION in promised spending through 2034, and it not only showered approximately $165–170 billion through 2034 on “immigration policing” (which includes funding for more land seizure and “border wall construction” (~$46.5 billion), detention facility expansion, deportation operations, hiring of agents, and more graft to states, and it not only promises approximately $12.5 billion (through ~2029) dedicated to the unconstitutional and pork-originated FAA system, it contains $50 billion total ($10 billion annually from FY2026 to FY2030) for “rural health care” pork. Yessss… CMS (Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services) can hand the lucre to states for “rural health infrastructure, access improvements, and provider support.” The Trumpers just put on a PR show to promote the start of their new welfare scheme. LINK
From the article: ‘All 50 states will receive monetary assistance that will go to rural areas starting next year, with the first wave of awards ranging from $147 million to $281 million… The highest award goes to Texas, which will receive $281 million, while the smallest goes to New Jersey, which will receive $147 million in fiscal year 2026. States like California and Montana will receive $233 million each.’

A reminder, that the “Justice” Dept claims that you video recording their unconstitutional, immoral kidnappings is “domestic terrorism” - that coming from the invasive goon squad breaching freedom of association, operating on stolen tax cash, kidnapping people, shipping them away without due process, physically injuring protesters, and breaking into courtrooms. They want to claim that YOU, the videographer, are a terrorist. LINK
-This exchange on Fox, inspired by comments from the LA Mayor re people taking jobs with the feds to (join unconstitutional ICE or Border Patrol) and then round up peaceful people… It’s a good opportunity to see how one panelist seems to understand the fundamentals of how peaceful folks are justifiably alarmed by the ICE invasion. LINK
-Una Paloma Blanca is proposing a moratorium on immigration. LINK
-More Homan info… LINK!

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The Liberty Conspiracy News Notes:

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Big thanks to everyone who joined us tonight as we generally celebrated three years of gathering to conspire for freedom! It's around the date of our third anniversary (I just approached it as "GO" and never really kept track of the day) and we got to dig into MANY big news stories, thanks to the work of great journalists. - Join us, m-f 6 pm on Rumble, X and check out my Substack for Daily News - Best, to all! Here are some of the key stories we investigated tonight!

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AGAINST YOU - The state always is in a state of war against civilians, because it only can exist by threatening you, creating embargoes against your free trade, silencing you, and demanding that you pay for it. But it just got more evident to those who want to look. General Gregory Guillot of U.S. Northern Command last week told a US Senator on the Armed Serviced Committee that he will fire on Americans whom he considers “domestic terrorists”. LINK
VENEZUELA - It appears that Trump has hit docks in VZ. More to come…
UKRAINE
-Trump is offering Ukraine 15 years of “security guarantees” (read: 15 years of contracts for US military and corporate cronies) as part of a “peace” plan. It sure is great to be forced to be part of his plans, isn’t it? LINK
Immediately after Zelenskyyyy met with Trump at Mar-a-Gogo, Ukraine evidently used over 90 drones to attack Putin’s home in Novgorod, which brings forth two major questions:
ONE - Why would Zelensky do this, if he is asking for concessions from Putin to end the war? This signals to Putin that he should increase the pressure inside Ukraine, hitting more infrastructure, moving westward even more rapidly, leaving Zelensky in a WORSE negotiating position than if he had not engaged in this attack. It’s utterly insane and suicidal.
TWO - One might want to ask Mike Pompeo (he of the infamous boastful statement about US Intel groups “we lie, cheat, steal…” etc. and of the dancing-with-Israeli-murderer-soldiers video) if the drones Ukraine used were made by the Ukrainian drone manufacturer that recently named him to its “advisory board.” LINK
MEANWHILE, UKRAINE and NATO just engaged in more “alliance theatre” conducting military exercises together. LINK
-Please note the shell-game Trump is playing against the US citizens, as he claims that the US is no longer going to supply the weapons to Ukraine it has been (this, despite the fact that the NDAA contained $400 MILLION more in weapons for Ukraine, and he didn’t veto it). The shell game comes via the primary mechanism for NATO allies purchasing US-made weapons for Ukraine, which is called the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative, launched in July. PURL allows NATO members and partners to fund and procure critical US equipment, such as air defense missiles (e.g., Patriots), artillery ammunition, and other systems, for rapid delivery to Ukraine. Total commitments under PURL have reached approximately $4-5 billion for 2025, with over 20 countries participating, though some like Italy have paused involvement amid ongoing Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
Here’s a chronological summary of key updates:

• December 16, 2025: Montenegro, Denmark, and New Zealand announced contributions to PURL for purchasing US weapons for Ukraine (specific amounts not detailed in reports).

• December 4-5, 2025: Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland pledged a combined $1 billion for PURL-funded US arms. This includes Canada’s additional $200 million (bringing its total to $890 million, focused on air defense like Patriots), Germany’s extra $200 million for weapons and ammunition, and the Netherlands’ €250 million for air defense and F-16-related equipment.

  Overall, 21 countries had joined PURL by this point, with commitments hitting $4 billion.

• December 3, 2025: Italy suspended its participation in PURL, citing it as “premature” amid ceasefire discussions, marking a shift as it was initially considering joining. This drew criticism, with Ukraine requesting an additional €1 billion in PURL deliveries for winter defense.

• December 2-10, 2025: NATO reported over $4 billion in PURL commitments, with deliveries ongoing. Pressure mounted on under-contributing allies to share the burden more evenly for US-sourced equipment.
  Relative to total NATO “defense spending” ($1.59 trillion): PURL represents ~0.25–0.31% — a negligible fractional increase.
  What is important to note is that the US supplies 60-66% of NATO’s “military” funds.

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ISRAEL-GAZA-ISRAEL-IRAN
Trump met with Netanyahu (who was looking particularly gnome-like today) to emerge from the Swipe-Hype House to say that he was ready to attack Iran again. Totally moral, and very, very, very, very “constitutional” - right? (wink) LINK You’ll notice in this clip that the questioner doesn’t distinguish between Iranian nuclear power refining and any weapons development (which Iran has not been doing). Trump implies that if Iran engages in ANY nuclear refining, he will attack.
-Trump calls for disarmament of Hamas, which is precisely what Netanyahu wants, to facilitate complete ethnic cleansing, “from the river to the sea” as Netanyahu oft says. This would be Hamas, which Netanyahu made sure was funded to the tune of tens of millions of our tax dollars. LINK
-This is a very good conversation re the meeting and the US-Israeli threats against Iran, thanks to Glenn Diesen and Prof. Seyed Mirandi LINK
- This, Iran saw coming, so the leadership there declared over the weekend that they already see the US in a state of War against them. LINK
Rubio is rolling out his parallel rhetoric as the Trump Admin tries to cajole Somalia to take the bulk of the population of Gaza. Rubio wants a “peace overseer” gang — in the occupied zone. See how that works? Totally moral. LINK
Annnnd, here is the latest on the US-Israel attempt to move Palestinians to Somalia, as Israel runs against international “law” and recognizes Somaliland as independent. Now, we also can see a triangulation to leverage Somaliland in order to pressure Yemen, and the Houthis therein. This is incredibly devious and dark. LINK Here is Dave DeCamp, of Antiwar-dot-com on the moves. LINK

How can one expect privacy and individuality to remain intact when, in fact, they already have been destroyed by the collective claiming to include you in its plans and as one of its sources of funds? Here is the tale of the NY Subway, which now will be taking people’s money via e-means, and it claims this will be the only way… LINK

Catholic leaders are slamming the Trump ICE kidnapping actions. LINK
-More nightmares for families, businesses, employees, customers. LINK
-To carry this over, from the Sunday News Assembly, Trump’s H1B visa (no “authority” in the Const for that, and no authority for any polis, in the first place) sees a biiig backfire, as companies hire… offshore. LINK

Yep. More, as Marsha Blackburn pushes to make the federal strangulation even worse, far worse than what even Trump’s recent EO claims to do. LINK

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As one watches the FOX chattering class offer their evidently uninformed opinions on the economy, one sees a member of the panel make bold claims such as his expostulation that “entrepreneurship is at a record high.” LINK What he doesn’t dig into is what the word “entrepreneurship” means (it’s utterly malleable, clay, in the hands of the government and parrots such as many on television), and why these “entrepreneurs” are adding new hours of work to their lives… I suspected the category of Trump’s “entrepreneurs” actually includes vast numbers of people taking side jobs, part-time jobs, and gig work, which blowhards such as this FOX commentator try to liken to small business entrepreneurs in the great American tradition. This is not the case…
A significant portion of this surge in “entrepreneurship” statistics does indeed stem from the growth of the gig economy, side hustles, and independent contracting—activities like driving for Uber, freelancing, or part-time gig work. These are often captured in key datasets as nonemployer businesses (sole proprietorships without payroll employees), which the US Census Bureau explicitly links to the “gig economy” in its Nonemployer Statistics, showing continued expansion in gig-related industries. Research using US tax returns and other data confirms that gig workers, including those on platforms like Uber and Lyft, are included in broader entrepreneurship metrics because they operate as self-employed individuals, and but, in reality, they are not supposed to be defined as “formal entrepreneurship” which entails investment in space, time, energy, insurance, input and output lines, overhead, loans, and much more. In 2025, over 70 million Americans (about 36% of the workforce) are involved in gig work or freelancing, contributing to the elevated numbers in business formation stats. This broader inclusion can make traditional entrepreneurship appear more robust than if one focused only on scalable, high-growth ventures.
The 72.9 million p-t and gig workers cited for 2025 by the BLS (without stats from October and half of November) is 200K higher than 2024, and the percentage of U.S. workers fully or partially employed in part-time or gig work was approximately 45% in 2025, which is 4.3 percentage points higher than in 2022 (when it was 40.8%). That’s not good, especially since UNemployment has risen this year, from 4.0 percent in January to 4.6 % in November. As the Tenth Amendment Center noted this morning, this line, from OVID, is pertinent to the US experience and degradation.

GOLD, SILVER

-Following up on our coverage of the ever-weaker US Federal Reserve Note and the standard phenomenon of precious metals retaining their value, combined with the new Chinese overseas export controls on silver (see yesterday’s Sunday News Assembly), we see this news from Italy. LINK What’s going on in Italy? Here is the headline: “Italy parliamentary panel approves ‘people’s’ claim on central bank’s gold” and here is another article on it LINK ‘An Italian parliamentary committee has made a major decision when it approved an amendment to next year’s budget. According to the amendment, the gold reserves held in the vaults of the Italian central bank belong to the Italian people. “The gold reserves managed and held by the central bank belong to the Italian people,” reads the text approved by the upper house of parliament’s budget committee. This wording further clarifies that it is not legally superior to European Union rules protecting the independence of central banks. The bill’s proponents argue that the initial ownership of the gold reserves belongs to the state, acting on behalf of the Italian people, in order to ensure that foreign entities among the central bank’s shareholders cannot claim the treasure. The European Central Bank criticized the draft amendment, but Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said the issue had been resolved after a meeting with Christine Lagarde and other ministerial colleagues in Brussels. “We believe that the matter can be considered resolved,” the minister told parliament, adding that the executive branch has no intention of using central bank gold to finance public spending, as this would violate EU regulations.’
-And that “internet” thing is buzzing with rumors and unconfirmed claims that JP Morgan has “flipped” on its position on long-term prospects for silver, even to the point that JP reversed from a 200 million ounce short to a 750 million ounce physical long position in silver by December 16, 2025, marking the largest such flip in market history.

• This maneuver, absorbing approximately $4.875 billion in unrealized losses as silver prices spiked above $80 per ounce due to industrial demand surges in solar and AI sectors, suggests JPMorgan anticipates prolonged supply constraints, including China’s export licensing regime effective January 1, 2026, which controls 65% of global refining.

• HOWEVER!!!! No SEC 8-K filing existed by December 27 —a Saturday—with the latest from December 8 unrelated; so this narrative likely stems from CFTC data and speculative videos. HOWEVER (x2!!) - Acquiring an understanding of the prospect of such a flip likely is valuable. Let’s consider a generic situation and get a grasp of the terms and what such moves represent…
  JPMorgan long has held one of the largest short positions in silver futures contracts on the COMEX exchange. A short position bets on the price falling: the bank sells silver contracts it doesn’t own, hoping to buy them back cheaper later for profit. This has fueled years of accusations (and past fines) that JPMorgan and other bullion banks suppressed silver prices through concentrated paper shorts. According to circulating (UNCONFIRMED!!) reports in precious metals communities (e.g., from analysts tracking CFTC data, vault flows, and market commentary), sometime between mid-2025 (June–October) and late December:

  • JPMorgan closed out its massive ~200 million ounce net short position in paper silver futures.

  • It then shifted to a massive net long stance, allegedly accumulating ~750 million ounces of physical silver (actual metal in vaults, not just contracts).

  • This would make JPMorgan the holder of the largest private physical silver stockpile in history—roughly equivalent to a full year’s global mine production.

  The “flip” means going from betting against silver (short, profiting if prices fall) to betting on it rising (long, profiting from higher prices and holding physical metal amid supply shortages). Why would JPMorgan, after 15+ years on the short side, suddenly absorb billions in losses (e.g., the rumored $4.875B unrealized hit from closing shorts as prices rose) to switch sides? It suggests they anticipate sustained higher prices due to factors like industrial demand (solar, EVs, AI), structural deficits, and upcoming China export restrictions.
  Important Caveats:

  • This is not officially confirmed by JPMorgan, the CFTC, or SEC filings — CFTC reports aggregate bank positions anonymously (no individual bank names), and specific attributions to JPMorgan come from market analysts interpreting data trends, vault reports, and historical patterns.

  • Some sources call it speculation or exaggeration, as exact per-bank holdings aren’t public.

  • Silver prices did surge dramatically in 2025 (doubling+ to highs around $70–$80/oz before volatility), driven by real supply-demand imbalances, but the exact scale of JPMorgan’s role remains debated.

  In short: “Flipped/switched” = from bearish (short) to ultra-bullish (massive long physical), signaling JPMorgan expects silver’s rally to continue or accelerate.

HOWEVER!!!! - BREAKING*******- IT DOES LOOK LIKE THE FED IS INJECTING EMERGENCY CASH INTO BANKS THAT SHORTED ON SILVER AND BANKS THAT HAVE TO PAY HIGHER RETURNS ON ETFS! LINK LINK LINK More, this focusing on Bank of America’s silver shorts. LINK That’s a LOT of prospective LOSS. This injection comes ATOP the lowering of interest rates, meaning, more inflation of the money supply LINK
US BANKRUPTCIES - Large bankruptcies - the highest this year since 15 years ago. This is the third consecutive annual increase. LINK
-GUESS WHAT? Remember when White House Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett (on the short list for becoming next Fed Chair?) claimed that purchasing power for Americans had increased? In this video chat, he tacitly admits that said claim was false, because he says that purchasing power is poised to get better… Curious. LINK
-VEGAS - Revealing even WORSE economic data re tourism. LINK
-MORE TRUCKING PROBLEMS - Great Dane mid-month announced its intention to lay off 164 employees at its facility in Elysburg/Ralpho Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (with an estimated $12 million in annual wages effected).

• The company filed a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry around early December 2025.

-JOHN DEERE CUTS MORE AMERICAN JOBS LINK
-THE US, CANADA, in massive trouble. LINK While the Canadian govt early this month pledging more cash to Zelenskyyyy LINK

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