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WAR - ENMITY
-MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: Trump claims he is going to designate the brotherhood as a “terrorist organization.” He has no power to do so, and such a term is based on zero solid foundation in traditional jurisprudence. LINK
-UKRAINE: 5:15 PM - BREAKING - ZELINSKY GIVES VERBAL APPROVAL TO A REVISED PEACE PLAN LINK
*A Zelinsky advisor has dais that the 28-point framework for peace presented by the US and given mild preliminary support by Russia is off the table. This, after the Europeans stuck their bloody feet into the strange dance to offer an “alternative” that would have pushed for a temporary “ceasefire” and other provisions that the Russians repeatedly (and logically) have said are unacceptable. Here are two choice points in the frustrating back and forth, as the EU keeps meddling and as the Russians continue to do what they need to do militarily to achieve eventual victory. LINK
-Trump appears to be sticking to his proverbial guns to stop supporting Ukraine Friday if Zelinsky doesn’t agree to much of the peace plan by the end of Thursday. LINK
-This, as Rick Sanchez offers more on the enormity of the corruption (HERE IS MORE) within the corruption of US and EU money going to the Ukraine kleptocrats. LINK I noted this about the matter. LINK
-This RT piece offers valuable insight into the progress Russian troops are making in eastern (now, almost middle) Ukraine. LINK
-Daniel Davis lays it out with logic and morality. LINK
-VENEZUELA:
-Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, is increasing his calls of alarm over the US military buildup off the coast of Venezuela. He is pleading for de-escalation. LINK
- The Pentagon is threatening to call Senator Mark Kelley back into service to prosecute him for him mentioning that soldiers only should follow “legal orders. LINK
-JD VANCE is claiming that the six Congress-folk and Senators committed crimes when they merely said that soldiers are not supposed to comply with illegal orders (they did not point out that it’s CONSTITUTIONAL orders, not just “legal.”) Here is what I offered, back to him. LINK And here is what FURB, of SMOOVE FOODS, noted. LINK ANNNNND, Trump just posted a photo of the military oath that REITERATES how wrong he, Vance, and many MAGA are. Justin Amash noticed it. LINK
-Rand Paul spells it out, again, that the US Congress has not issued any Declaration of War. LINK
-Reiterating and amplifying information we heard two weeks ago, a top US military official continues to express his concern over the legality (not to mention the unconstitutionality and immorality) of Trump’s multiple murders in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. LINK
-Airlines are canceling flights to Venezuela, over worries of violence. LINK
-US DHS X ACCOUNT BASED IN ISRAEL
-Musk allowed the source locations to show on X, and many so-called “American” voices appear to emanate from beyond the so-called “land of the free.” LINK This after we already discovered that Israel was paying “influencers” $7,000 per post to promote the genocidal state’s agenda.
-A whistleblower from the IDF claims that thousands of pounds of food intended to go to Gaza were buried by the Israeli military. LINK
-Israel kills nearly 340 during “ceasefire” LINK

THE “GOING UNDERGROUND” EXCHANGE W FORMER CIA TEL AVIV STATION CHIEF SUSAN MILLER…
- We are going to play this in its entirety tonight on Liberty Conspiracy LIVE. It is THAT revealing and offers so much to remember when it comes to US international malfeasance. Here is a bit, offered by Afshin Rattansi. LINK MORE LINK

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ECONOMICS-ETHICS-PHILOSOPHY
-This is an excellent piece by Sheldon Richman on the moral imperative of voluntary association and the practical superiority of free exchange over statism/collectivism. Sheldon points out that people are free to enter into consensually-created groups without the aggressive force of the state, and Sheldon also points out the tautological nature of statists claiming that individuals are too weak/unreliable/ill-informed to handle their own lives and voluntary associations, yet, somehow, such fallible people can voluntarily join to create a state, a machine of force that will make everyone not in the power-block comply. Great work, by Sheldon, as usual! LINK
-At the risk of bringing in the more current economic info after that great philosophical link, here is Treasury Sec Bessent making the absurd claim that this Thanksgiving will be the cheapest in four years. Seriously. LINK He might want to read this LINK, or he could use simple functional mathematics and see that inflation that hovers (even according to the US stats, which are undercuts) at 3% each month (as measurements of year-to-year price increases), INCEASE costs. Here is MORE
-Of all people, former Biden Economic Advisor Jared Bernstein makes valid points here about Trump’s tariffs and their impact on the US economy (he focuses on manufacturing jobs, which need not be the only focus). LINK
-A reminder about Goodwill in CA shutting numerous locations. Last week on Liberty Conspiracy LIVE, got to dig into the way that the CA minimum wage mandate has hit this organization. LINK
-Rand Paul chats with Nick, of Reason, about JD Vance’s absurd backing of Trump’s dumb tariff terrorism. LINK
-Justin Amash shows us that Trump seems to know that the tariffs are paid by US citizens. LINK
-Car sales PLUNGE LINK
-TRUMP PUSHES TO EXTEND OBAMACARE - SERIOUSLY. - Here is Thomas Massie on it, and here is Politico.

BONUS VIDEO LINK!
- The YT Channel “Interesting Books, Reviewed” is excellent. Here, the host offers key books that dig into the illegitimate Zionist regime. LINK

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Towering hypocrisy, high on many fronts, as Donald Trump attacks Dems who merely remind military members to only follow lawful orders (it’s actually CONSTITUTIONAL, not “lawful”) even as he continues to make us employ Mike Huckabee, who, in July, secretly met with one of Israel’s most infamous spies…

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MARJORIE TYLOR GREENE ANNOUNCES SHE IS QUITTING
-Leaving, Jan 5, 2026, two days after she will be eligible to receive her pension
(that start date being January 3, 2026 (after 5 years of service). With 5 years of creditable service, she can receive an unreduced pension starting at age 62 (she turns 62 on May 27, 2036). Early retirement is possible at age 50 with 20 years (which she doesn’t meet), or reduced benefits at 55 with 30 years (also not met). Thus, payments begin in 2036, with annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) applied thereafter. Federal Early Retirement Supplements (FERS) for members of Congress uses 1.7% of the average of her highest three consecutive years of salary (her “high-3”) multiplied by years of service, so…

• High-3 average: $174,000 (base salary for rank-and-file members since 2009; no changes reported for 2023–2025).

  • Years of service: 5.

  • Annual amount: 5 × 1.7% × $174,000 = $14,790 (pre-COLA; this is the base starting in 2036, increasing annually with inflation).

• Additional Notes:

  • This is taxable income and subject to survivor benefits if elected.

She may also qualify for other post-service perks like health insurance continuation (FEHB) if she served 5+ years, but that’s not a direct “payment.
She spoke out against the US backing the Israeli-committed genocide in Gaza, spoke up and worked hard to release the Epstein files (what might be left of them), but also tweeted a photo of the Statue of Liberty wearing a burka when Mamdani won, and once compared Trump to Jesus. Her image as an opponent to the expansion of the US government has many snags in it, such as her support for some form of continuation of federal medical coverage, and she often supported the funds to go to the US military in the NDAA, despite that military occupying hundreds of bases worldwide where they should not be. She seems very earnest in her sentiments here.
-Thomas Massie offers key thoughts on Trump’s unhinged statements about her LINK
-David Stockman offers additional wisdom. LINK
-Massie also has introduced legislation to make political candidates disclose whether they have dual citizenship. LINK

IMMIGRATION, THE POLICE STATE AND TRAVEL IN THE US
-As the rabid anti-migrant MAGA mass celebrate the Trump ICE, FBI, Border Patrol, and DHS crush what is left of the Bill of Rights, they also push all of the American population towards electronic IDS. The latest step, of course, is REAL ID in all airports in order to fly, but as the feds hold a gun to your gut to make you pay for the operation of this police state, they also will let you pass the Black Guards — FOR A FEE. LINK
-These residents of the Boston area were kidnapped while they tried to do their jobs at an Allston car wash. Now, they say, “The American Dream is over.” LINK
-Another example of a deportation that hinges on not only an utterly flagrant dismissal of the Bill of Rights, but on the idea that the state can take your money to do what the “agents in power” want. LINK
-ICE kidnapped an LA man, six weeks ago. Now, no one knows where he is. LINK
-Dems in DC want Americans to be able to visit a website to find out where ICE is operating. MAGA GOP don’t. How about leaving us alone to NOT PAY FOR ICE, then we WON’T HAVE TO PAY FOR THE WEBSITE EITHER. LINK
-Trump twice denied so-called “disaster aid” to Illinois in what looks like retribution for Gov Pritzker’s opposition to ICE invading the state. In every facet of this fight, one can see the unconstitutional immigration police state, the unconstitutional “disaster aid” cash, and the unconstitutional expansion of federal statutes and offices that the feds claim they must maintain inside states. LINK
-We missed this one last week in MN. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, along with FBI and DEA support, raiding Bro-Tex Inc., a paper distributor in St. Paul, for suspected “immigration violations”. Protesters gathered after being tipped off, blocking federal vehicles and leading to clashes around 10 a.m. Agents deployed pepper spray and chemical irritants directly at demonstrators, injuring several, and 14 people were arrested. Local officials, including St. Paul leaders, condemned the use of force at a vigil the next day. LINK
-The Trump Admin is hiring MORE unconstitutional “immigration judges” LINK

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SPECIAL ATTENTION: IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE AND PRIVACY, SURVEILLANCE
-This is not getting a lot of attention. An undisclosed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) initiative—often referred to in reporting simply as a “secretive Border Patrol program”—that involves nationwide monitoring of vehicle movements to flag and detain individuals based on “suspicious” travel patterns is “happn’nen out there...” LINK
Let’s investigate. The feds quietly launched this in recent years (exact start date not publicly confirmed, but operational since at least 2022 based on incident timelines), it leverages automated license plate readers (ALPRs), data-sharing agreements with private companies, and AI-driven analytics to track millions of American drivers across the country, far beyond traditional border zones. The goal, according to CBP statements, is to “identify potential immigration violators, human smugglers, or other threats” by analyzing patterns like frequent cross-border trips or routes deviating from typical commutes. However, it has drawn sharp criticism for ensnaring U.S. citizens and legal residents without warrants, probable cause, or transparency, raising Fourth Amendment concerns over unreasonable searches and seizures. Here’s how it Operates
FIRST Data Collection: CBP accesses vast databases from private vendors (e.g., companies like Vigilant Solutions) that compile ALPR scans from toll roads, parking lots, and traffic cams. This creates a “travel graph” for individuals, mapping routes, timestamps, and associations with known suspects.

• Flagging and Action: Algorithms score travel as “suspicious” (e.g., repeated trips to border areas or links to flagged vehicles). Agents then pull over flagged drivers for secondary inspections, often at interior checkpoints or during routine patrols, sometimes coordinating with ICE for arrests.

• Scope: It covers all 50 states, not just border regions, affecting over 100 million vehicle scans annually. No public oversight or congressional notification is required, and details remain classified under “law enforcement sensitive” exemptions.

Several cases highlight the program’s insanity:

• 2023, Arizona: A U.S. citizen of Mexican descent, Maria Gonzalez (pseudonym in reporting), was detained for 12 hours at a Tucson checkpoint after her routine grocery runs to Mexico were flagged as “smuggling patterns.” No charges were filed, but she was questioned aggressively about family ties abroad.

• 2024, Texas: Father and son U.S. citizens, both veterans, were stopped near El Paso en route to a family wedding. Their shared vehicle history with a relative’s past border crossing triggered the alert, leading to a 6-hour detention and device searches.

• Ongoing Reports: At least 20 documented detentions of citizens since 2022, per ACLU and immigrant rights groups, with many involving Latino or Muslim Americans profiled by algorithmic biases.

Criticisms and Legal Challenges:

• Civil Liberties Groups: The ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have sued CBP, arguing the program enables “predictive policing” without due process, disproportionately targeting minorities and eroding privacy. “This isn’t border security; it’s a dragnet on American freedom,” said an EFF attorney in recent filings.

FREE SPEECH - A LESSON LIZ WARREN WILL NOT LEARN
-Warren claims she will fight against figures such as Larry Ellison getting massive swathes of the existing media landscape. What she doesn’t mention is that Ellison GOT CBS (actually, his SON runs it, via Skydance) BECAUSE of the FCC pressure and Trump’s lawsuit against CBS 60 Minutes. The pressure from FCC Sec Carr laid the foundation for this to come about as a way for CBS to avoid the perennial threat of “license revocation” that WARREN LOVES. LINK A free market - sans government “licensing” and pressure, allows for GROWTH of market alternatives, rather than political-fascist connections and coercion.

TAKEAWAYS FROM TRUMP’S MEETING WITH INCOMING NYC MAYOR MAMDANI
- Both of them embrace socialist-collectivist ideas. Trump disregards more of the Bill of Rights than Mamdani, but Mamdani will be sure to invade privacy to know what people own, earn, or how they run their businesses. His “collective grocery stores” are only a different form of the obnoxious and unconstitutional SNAP benefits that Trump wants to reserve only for “citizens” — who should not be getting the fruits of other people’s labor, either. It’s educational to look at both and see the lessons one can derive from their similar mentalities. LINK - AT LEAST MAMDANI says there is a genocide in Gaza and that he will arrest Netanyahu if the mass murderer comes to NYC. - Justin Amash has a salient observation about why Trump “likes” Mamdani but doesn’t like conservative Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) LINK

WAR
UKRAINE:
-This is interesting reading, and echoes many reports over the past few years, reports about how the Ukrainian leadership and military are not interested in trying to leave Russian civilians in peace. (Which, of course, was shown in early 2014, when the Ukrainian military attacked Russian people in the Donbass) LINK
-Let’s recall from the other day that the “negotiations” over a possible peace deal still seem to have life, now that the Russians are very close to total military victory. LINK
-Given that Macron held the map of Ukraine upside-down the other day as he purported to “explain” the war status to French citizens, his new non-response to questions from RT at the G-20 conference is to be expected. RT has been banned from going into the G-20 to cover events. LINK
-Trump is saying that Zelly can agree or continue being winnowed down to zilch. He could have cut the funds and weapons long ago, abided by the US Constitution, and helped stop the bloodshed. LINK
ISRAEL-GAZA
-Al Jazeera updates has the new slaughter, 22 killed in the past 24 hours by Israel. LINK
VENEZUELA
-As NBC Reports, this top official in the Trumpola military raised serious concerns about the “legality” of Trump’s sea-blasts. No kidding. That’s obvious. LINK

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US ECONOMY
- Ford is cutting more jobs. LINK
-Remember, the tariffs are going to hit even harder. LINK
-Unemployment just hit the highest it has reached in four years. LINK MORE. LINK
- The Trump Tariff problem so intensely has screwed up beef/ranchers that even Tyson is dropping jobs. LINK
-Arbys is closing many locations. LINK More on fast food locations having trouble in the strained economy. LINK
-More on the pressures on businesses. LINK
-Reminder, our old pal, Kevin Hassett, Director of the White House National Economic Council, falsely claims that productivity and buying power are on the rise. That is flatly false, as we spelled out in the News Notes last week, and on Liberty Conspiracy LIVE. LINK
-And to wrap up the insanity in a nice, cray-cray bow, here is Mark Levin making more false claims. LINK

COLLECTIVIST EDUCATION - ARGUING - GENDER CONFUSION
-Yep for eleven-year-olds, in MI. LINK

UK - COVID LOCKDOWNS, JABS - DISASTER
-Unfortunately, some reporting still embraces the falsity that there WAS a pandemic, but here we can see the political connections and the central planning that disrupted many lives, and took many others - RT has that (we got to post about this the other day, and want to repeat the info) LINK

NOW! VIDEO LINKS!!
THIS, from Max and Aaron at the GrayZone, is key. Worth every second.

This, from our friends at Knights of the Storm, is VERY valuable, engaging in a great conversation about the mRNA jab and childbirth problems, jabs and autism, and more. LINK

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WAR
UKRAINE-RUSSIA PLAN - NOT Rejected. NOT accepted. The latest is that Zelinsky says he will meet with Vance to discuss. The Trumpers say he has until Thursday to accept. Zelinsky also is warning the Ukrainian civilians that they either accept this, or the people should prepare for a cold, hard, winter. That seems like an indication that he is going to agree to terms, one way or the other. LINK
The plan requires Ukraine to cede Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea to Russia, freeze frontlines in other areas, adopt permanent neutrality without NATO, limit its military to 600,000 troops (that is 8 times larger than it was in 2022 - in March of 2022, the Russians had agreed to allow an 85K member Ukrainian military), and hold elections within 100 days. In return, Russia pledges non-aggression, sanctions ease, and $200 billion in aid from frozen assets helps rebuild Ukraine—with the U.S. taking half the profits from one pot. Zelenskyy received it constructively, calling for refinements with partners, while Ukraine and European leaders firmly reject territorial losses and demand continued aid to pressure Russia. LINK Zelinsky’s response LINK RT on the plan LINK Aaron on it LINK The warning from 2006 about NATO suckering Ukraine. LINK
The US is pressing Ukraine to accept the peace plan (while the EU overall, UK, and Germany push for more war), by threatening to cut off Ukraine from intelligence and weaponry. This likely is a smokescreen, or a bluff, but it tacitly admits that the US has been sharing intel — which we all know, anyway, based on the fact that many of the US weapons given to Ukraine require US intel and expertise to operate. LINK
-Macron could have used a bit more intel when showing a map of Ukraine, and holding it UPSIDE DOWN. LINK
ISRAEL
- Trump is standing by Huckabee. LINK
-Of all things, the meeting between Donald Trump and Zorahn Mamdani led to some constructive chatter re trying to stop Israeli aggression in the Middle East. Don’t expect Trump to act on it, of course. LINK
-Human Rights Watch cites Israel for war crimes, this time, in the West Bank. LINK
-The US just delivered its 1,000th immoral and unconstitutional arms shipment to Israel. LINK
ISRAEL-HUCKABEE - “He’s out of control!” LINK the ties to Cruz LINK ABBOT LINK — FREE SPEECH in TX at risk, FREE ASSOCIATION in TX threatened - by Abbott’s Zionist madness. LINK
VENEZUELA
Nima Alkorshid spoke with Larry Johnson and Lawrence Wilkerson today, and deep into the excellent conversation (covering Ukraine-Russia, Iran, Israel) they touched on a subject that could become more evident as the US influence in Venezuela gets more widely reported years from now. If Trump has placed intel and special ops personnel in VZ, it is likely that they will be left hanging by the misjudgments of the Admin, causing many deaths of US forces. They ought to know better than to get involved in aggression, but the politically powerful often have been shown to not care about the fates of those secret forces put into foreign lands. LINK
NIGERIA
-Mike Walz had Nikki Minaj speak at the UN re the killing of Christians in Nigeria LINK. Why the US is focused on Nigeria has nothing to do with Christians, and it has nothing to do with their US Constitution. It also has no tie to any standard re the US disapproving of the slaughter of innocent people. More non-Christians have been killed there in the past year than Christians, if they are interested in playing their atrocious and hypocritical “save people from slaughter” fakery. There are myriad conflicts in Nigeria that have nothing to do with religion and which dominate the death rolls. Total murders (~40,000–50,000) far exceed religiously targeted killings. Non-Christians (mainly Muslims in northern insurgencies and banditry) account for the bulk, as Boko Haram/ISWAP primarily attack Muslim civilians (e.g., 60,000 moderate Muslims killed since 2009 per Intersociety). ACLED confirms most jihadist victims are Muslim. Re: In faith-linked violence, Christians are overrepresented (e.g., 6.5x more likely killed than Muslims per Open Doors). Middle Belt attacks (e.g., Benue/Plateau states) killed hundreds of Christians in 2025 (e.g., 280 in Yelewata massacre). Nigeria accounts for ~82% of global faith-related Christian killings (Open Doors 2024).

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IMMIGRATION
- A judge cites Trump goons for lying multiple times, while under oath, of course. LINK
- ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ LEGAL ACCESS in the spotlight LINK
-The Supreme Court met today to discuss arguments on “birthright citizenship” - which is obvious, based on the wording of the 14th Amendment. LINK (Here is the 14th A LINK) They could issue a ruling on Monday.
A Ruling on Chicago tear gas use LINK,
Judge orders release of 400 in Chicago LINK,
Car Wash workers kidnapped in the Boston area are released. LINK
RESTART of investigation into Trump’s first mass kidnapping to El Salvador LINK
Albrego G LINK
NC Food pantries LINK a big lawsuit LINK TRUCKING - DUFFY SPEAKS NONSENSE RE LABOR SHORTAGE AT SALARY LEVELS AVAILABLE GIVEN US MANDATES, TARIFFS, MORE LINK
My April 2019 article on the slow-roll NYC protest LINK and the other that might help expand awareness on the background of edicts placed on truckers LINK

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-California shows us more sad information about the tragic and evil nature and consequences of minimum wage mandates. Here, we see numerous Goodwill locations closing due to costs. LINK Goodwill must comply with the statewide rates, plus higher local minima in closure-affected areas (e.g., San Francisco’s $18.67/hour in 2025). From 2022–2025, the general rate rose ~10% overall, adding roughly $1–2/hour for frontline roles. For a typical Goodwill store with 20–30 employees averaging 25 hours/week, this equates to $25,000–$50,000 in annual added payroll per location (pre-tax). Sector analyses note nonprofits like Goodwill absorb ~70–80% of such hikes without full pass-through to prices, straining budgets.
Labor now comprises 50–60% of Goodwill’s operating expenses (up from ~45% in 2022), per industry benchmarks for thrift retail. Combined with utilities (up 15–20% due to energy costs), rent inflation, and reduced hours/donations during economic slowdowns, low-margin stores become unviable. A 2025 analysis of California thrift operations highlighted that wage-driven expenses outpaced donation revenue growth by 8–12% annually, prompting closures in high-cost regions like the Bay Area.
-Verizon is laying off 13K employees. LINK.

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ISRAEL - US Amb to Israel secretly met with Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who was convicted of spying against the US gubment and sent to Israel in an exchange for a US spy. Huckabee is on a trajectory to resign, if more people hear about this. LINK
-Israeli occupation forces MOVED the “yellow line” to further constrict the people in it and allow for easier “rationales” for killing in Gaza. LINK
UKRAINE - The French Minister of “Defense” (it’s impossible to explain how any political institution can be said to be engaging in “defense” when it only can exist by engaging in aggression against people to make them pay for it) rattled the sabre again against Russia, saying that French adults have to be ready to see their kids marched off to war. LINK
-EU apparatchik Kaja Kallas continues to push for precisely what the Russians will not accept, a “ceasefire” instead of a peace agreement. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin literally JUST MET with his commanders on the front lines and got updates on the regions they have just liberated or are close to liberating, allowing all combatants save for members of the Azov brigades (or other openly Nazi squads) to surrender. LINK
Here is more, on the Putin meeting: LINK!
-This is a very good distillation of the EU (possibly also the sly US) plan to get a ceasefire, rearm Ukraine, then solidify a peace call that grants more land to Ukraine and other concessions to the EU and NATO/US for minerals and permanent military stations. LINK
- Let’s not forget this from a few days ago, as Gvir says there is no such thing as a “Palestinian.” LINK

TRUCKERS
Yeah, more problems LINK

TRUMP ATTACKS DEM VET/POLITICIANS WHO PUBLISHED A VID ADVISING SOLDIERS TO DISOBEY UNLAWFUL COMMANDS.
-First, let’s look at Trump’s reaction. He is calling for their death as punishment for making the video. LINK Next, let’s see the video: LINK And let’s see WH Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt completely flip it to claim that the vet-politicians were calling for precisely the opposite of that which they said. LINK
MOST IMPORTANT is the fact that both Trump’s gang and the Dems in the video use the term “lawful” when it is supposed to be “constitutional”. Lawful pertains to statutes, and there are many statutes that Congress writes (and many EOs pushed by the Prez) that operate under color of law but are wildly unconstitutional. Here is the meat of the military oath: Enlisted Oath (10 U.S.C. § 502)
“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic … and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.”
Here is Schumer on Trump’s insane statement LINK, and here is Justin Amash LINK, And Alyssa Slotkin’s response (she was in the original video) LINK

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DOUBLES-DOWN ON ATTACK OF ABC
Not only has Trump again unwittingly revealed the fascist nature of the US broadcasting control system via the FCC, he also has revealed his thin skin and focused more attention on the fact that his own US intel gangs have cited the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as being tied to the 2018 murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi. LINK In a declassified 2021 report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), based on CIA assessments from 2018. The report states: “We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.” It cites his control over Saudi security and intelligence, direct involvement of his advisers and protective detail, and his support for using violence against dissidents abroad as key evidence. This assessment has been widely reported and remains the official US intelligence position, despite denials from Saudi Arabia and varying political responses, such as former President Trump’s 2018 and 2025 comments downplaying MBS’s role. The Biden administration released the report in compliance with a 2020 congressional mandate, leading to sanctions on involved Saudis but not on the Prince, personally.

THE US ECONOMY GETS WORSE
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 119,000 jobs added in September, with “private sector” (often subsidized by the govt or central bank, or given special advantages via things like tariffs against foreign competition, at the expense of consumers and REAL job growth) job additions totaled appx 97,000, and government sector hires totaled appx 22,000, meaning nearly 1/4 of the new “jobs” directly were in govt, sucking more money from us and our progeny. Sectors like transportation lost 25,000 jobs. KEY: Unemployment ticked up to 4.4%, the highest since October 2021. The delayed BLS release, due to a six-week “government closure”, means no full October data, leaving mixed signals for the immoral Federal Reserve. And, we might note, their US Constitution doesn’t provide an enumerated “power” to create a BLM in the first place… :) LINK

TARIFF WOES RISE
- The cost of holiday meals and gifts is rising so dramatically, many people are trying to figure out ways to cut back, and sellers are using up the last of the extra inventory they bought months ago, in anticipation of the tariffs. LINK

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11-20-25
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HUCKABEE!!
Yep. a secret summer meeting in Jerusalem w Jonathan Pollard, the highest profile Israeli spy ever convicted in the US, then released to return to Israel. Woah.

TRUMP ATTACKS DEM VET/POLITICIANS WHO PUBLISHED A VID ADVISING SOLDIERS TO DISOBEY UNLAWFUL COMMANDS.
-First, let’s look at Trump’s reaction. He…

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Big thanks to the super-energized audience for tonight’s program. We had a blast, and a note, that “AI” vid being disputed is fo-real, though the politicians in it should go further to state that the military members are not supposed to abide by any UNCONSTITUTIONAL orders. That is much more restrictive than the term “unlawful orders”. Most of the statutes on the books are unconstitutional. Big thanks to all the great journalists we featured, thanks, for their key coverage that helped us form our presentation tonight - Join us m-f 6 pm on Rumble and on X!

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EPSTEIN FILE BILL PASSES SENATE ON VOICE VOTE

As the embarrassingly pro-Trump Gateway Pundit reports, the Senate passed by unanimous voice vote the House version of a bill to release all available documents concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking and likely blackmail operations. LINK As we noted yesterday in the Notes and on Liberty Conspiracy Live, the Trump Administration a few days ago suddenly announced the intent to start an “investigation” into Epstein’s crimes, which could preclude release of mounds of information — whatever Trump and Bondi don’t want people to see. This may or may not transpire, but as the names of criminal clients and other information sees the light of day, we likely will be well served to suspect that much of the info has been destroyed. We also can recall that many of those who voted for these releases did so not for moral reasons, but for political expediency. We also can recall that most of these “moralists” repeatedly have voted for weapons-funneling to regimes such as Israel and Ukraine, taking your money and the lives of your progeny to become slaves to genocide and prolonged war.
- Annnnnd, already, AG Bondi is signaling that the Trumpers might not release all the information. Her responses (the same reply, to virtually every question) at a presser today tell us that either the AG is unwilling to SAY she will release everything (perhaps due to uncertainty about some issue they are considering) or the Trumpers are totally unwilling to release everything LINK
CLAY HIGGINGS (R-LA) was the only “NO” vote in the House. LINK and here is Higgins from 2023, evidently assaulting someone near the Capitol. LINK Higgins years ago was employed as a Louisiana officer, and was accused of excessive force against a handcuffed man.

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WAR

UKRAINE: According to Politico, the Trump Admin is in negotiations with Zelinsky t end the war, possibly in one week’s time. LINK And Larry Johnson offers key info on the situation, via Sonar21. LINK
-Responsible Statecraft’s Stavroula Pabst offers an excellent look at the news of Mike Pompeo being placed on the board of a very corrupt Ukrainian arms maker. LINK
VENEZUELA: Maduro indicates that he is willing to meet in order to negotiate w Trump. LINK Trump has insisted on Maduro leaving or the US will engage in further aggression, as Trump’s mafia style consistently shows us.
-Max Blumenthal spells out the US sorcery of the “Tren de Aragua” bogeyman LINK
-Ms. Pabst also has a very good piece studying a new Council on Foreign Relations report claiming that state involvement to push certain sectors of the economy for “national security” is key for any nation. They even try to use the term “market failure” to frame the supposed need for fascism, yet they operate from fascist premises, presupposing state involvement in “national security/defense” and then attaching all the various needs they see need to be attached to it. Here is the story. LINK
ISRAEL: The Israeli Occupation Force just killed 24 more people in Gaza during the “ceasefire” LINK
-Gabor Matte offers key thoughts on the genocide and the complicity of western politicians. LINK
-As does Jeremy Scahill LINK with added perspective on the numbness of other nations in the Middle East.
-Meanwhile, the death toll has risen in Lebanon, as a result of the most recent IOF attack. LINK

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IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE
-As we noted here and on LCL, the unconstitutional Transportation Department, the Dept of Labor, and ICE all have focused on foreigners working as truckers in the US, seeing California pull the professional truck-driving licenses (why do people need permission from a mafia to drive? The statist argument is that the state/polis runs the roads and must keep others safe, but that is an immoral predicate and inspires limitless problems of operation by the state, even to the point of the state being unable to define what is “safe” for each of us and our varying ideas of safety/utility tradeoffs). NOW, a few days after California relented and pulled the pro-licenses of 17,000 truckers (doing so under pressure from Duffy and the threat of the feds withholding highway funds) whose “US temporary work visas” had expired, the Transportation Terrorist Sean Duffy is upset because a court has ruled that the feds cannot command that California or other states not issue the pro-trucking licenses to foreigners at all. The logical point, that one could get a “permission slip” from the government that gives him the statutory okay to drive, without engaging in the work, seems to have gone unnoticed by Duffy. Likewise, the fact that the feds have no “power” over immigration or “drivers’ licenses” also is missed. Here is the story on the ruling and Duffy’s response. LINK
By the way, thus far in 2025, non-domiciled CDL holders comprised <.2% of all CDL holders involved with (not even causing) fatal crashes in the US.
So far, domiciled CDL holders have been involved in 2,505 fatal crashes, of the total 2,510 for the year. According to the federal NHTSB, only 5 crashes are cited as involving non-domiciled CDL holders. To measure that with more precision, as percentages of the domiciled and non who are on the roads, non-domiciled who have been involved in fatal crashes this year represent 5 of the 200,000 recorded w/ CDLs. That is 0.0025%. Domiciled who have been involved in fatal crashes comes to the 2,505 of 3 million license holders, or ~0.0759%. SO, when you hear the canard that “foreigners” on trucking routes are causing a spike in fatal crashes, please consider this. Also, please consider that the normative/aggregate CDL-related crashes leading to death has been decreasing, going down 8.3% from 2023 to 2024, and the numbers indicate that 2025 will see even fewer CDL-related road deaths.
- A judge just ruled that the state of NY CAN block federal agents from entering state courts and kidnapping people LINK
- More horror stories of ICE, BPatrol, and FBI attacking people. Stories such as this LINK and LINK and this charmer LINK
-On the legal front, we have more. A judge has ruled against the feds stuffing Nat Guard troops into Memphis. LINK

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