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Many thanks to Eric Peters of EricPetersAutosDotCom (and here, on X) for joining us to discuss the stunning police-state tactics of Donald Trump and ICE, the extrajudicial murders committed by the Trump Admin, the funding of genocide with our tax money, and the bureaucratic collectivist state that crushes market choice and freedom of association! We got to dig in and really support the principle of freedom.

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+Pete Hegseth this morning announced that the US hit FOUR MORE BOATS in the eastern Pacific, killing fourteen in international waters (Hegseth admits this, and this is an additional War Crime) LINK Mexican rescuers conducted search and rescue, and one man is reported to have survived. The US is not requesting extradition to try him for being a “narco-terrorist” whatever that goofball term means.
+Yesterday, the US conducted its THIRD BOMBER FLIGHT off the coast of VZ. LINK
See how the Epoch Times regurgitates the Trump Admin claim, not even putting quotes around “Narco-Terrorist” or noting “alleged” or “purported” or noting that the move was extrajudicial and unconstitutional. Sad. LINK
+Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams do a great job breaking it down. LINK

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WAR - ISRAEL
++Netanyahu ordered new strikes in Gaza, under the pretext that Hamas has not returned the bodies of hostages fast enough. The Hamas reps correctly note that they need heavy equipment to try to recover bodies, because ISRAEL turned most of Gaza to rubble. LINK LINK
++And Rubio excuses it. LINK
++Glenn Greenwald has salient observations, and we get to see Trump repeat his false claim that the “War is Over”. LINK
++Israel reportedly is preparing “explanatory materials” to distribute to international journalists entering Gaza for the first time in order to shift the blame for the destruction to Hamas.
++This conversation between Matt Hoh and Judge Andrew Napolitano, on Gaza, on Venzuela, and the US warmongering, is very valuable LINK As is THIS great conversation btwn the Judge and Karen Kwiatowski LINK
++Over 300 writers, scholars and public figures are calling to boycott The New York Times until it admits its collusion with Israel. But The New York Times has colluded with the U.S. government on every war.
++ MORE on Israeli aggression in Gaza LINK Video after Israelis bombed Al Shifa hospital. LINK
++ AND, attacking the west bank last night. LINK
++ Medhi Hassan conducted a very important interview with the former Chief of Staff for the Office of the US Coordinator between Israel and Palestine, and the latter discovered that a Palestinian-American reporter was intentionally murdered/targeted by the IDF. LINK

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IMMIGRATION
++ A judge has ordered the DOJ to STOP using prejudicial and unfounded language ot describe Kilmar Abrego Garcia. LINK And, remember, the US is planning on sending him to LIBERIA.
++ This story reminds us of the number of US citizens grabbed by ICE, b/c they didn’t have their “PAPERS” on them, or they upset the ICE goons. LINK
++More horror stories, for US citizens and non… LINK that being a teenager whose ribs were broken by ICE.
And Tump’s ICE has inked a deal with Zignal Labs to scour social media, the same as Israeli military and Pentagon use to collect social media date… LINK MORE LINK
A follow-up on the Chicago-area runner who was attacked by ICE as he drove home from a gathering with his running club. He is 67 years old, was unarmed, had his ribs broken… A common theme, those broken ribs, it seems. LINK
ICE-Man BOVINO, who has been cited for breaking into courts, harming innocent people, and more, has been ordered to appear every day in court to report to a judge what his goons are doing. What that means, practically, for rights, that’s unseen. LINK

POLICE STATE
This Congressman is advocating for a PERMANENT federal soldier presence in Memphis. Seriously. LINK

TRUMP APPEALS FELONY CONVICTION
We need PERRY! - Yes, Trump appeals, even as he commits war crimes and mass murder. LINK
AND… also in court, a judge has blocked Trump from conducting any more layoffs. LINKFREE SPEECH, FRENCH STYLE
LINK (yes, it has to do with the rumors re the French leader’s wife)

FINALLY, FOR CURIOSITY. HALLOWEEN HOME DECORE, EXTREME!
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Welcome, fellow Conspirators!

We got to roll for 3.5 hour tonight, and it was a blast! Feel free to join us, live, or on video/audio later! And spread the word! Tonight, we hit many key issues, and included a “Liberty Conspiracy Classroom” on free trade, inspired by the big controversy over Trump getting angry at the Ontario government using a powerful clip of Ronald Reagan to expose the economic problems of tariffs!

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US WARMONGERING - ISRAEL, GENOCIDE, OCCUPATION
+Israel did a lot of “peace” in the past 24 hours (sarcasm included, no charge). LINK
MORE, via AntiWar LINK
MORE, on the Israeli attacks on Lebanon LINK
+AntiWar reports on the Hamas groups funded by Israel to be disrupters. LINK Dave DeCamp has excellent additional observations in the AntiWar News video for today. LINK
+Jeremy Scahil tells Democracy Now that Netanyahu repeatedly has defied potential peace agreements with Hamas. No kidding. LINK
+Israeli Tanks are moving deeper into Syria. LINK

US WARMONGERING - VENEZUELA
++ The Venezuelan govt claims to have apprehended CIA agents involved in plotting a false flag to trigger a US invasion. LINK
++Trump is expanding the naval force headed to Venezuela. It will take about three more days for them to get in proximity of the VZ coast. LINK
++Jon Oliver expresses what many others might be thinking about Trump’s reckless and red-eyed war sentiment, and his extrajudicial murders on the high seas. LINK ++This US parasite (aka Ambassador) just reiterated the reason the US is desirous of breaching even more provisions of the US Constitution and ousting Maduro. LINK
+Lindsay Graham has no problem with that, even a land invasion. LINK Did he swear to protect and defend his US Constitution? Just wondering…
Matt Hoh notes on Going Underground that any attempt to overthrow Maduro will be a disaster. LINK
Here is info on the top three oil-reserve nations on Earth:
Top Three Countries by Estimated Proven Oil Reserves (in billions of barrels)

1 Venezuela 303
2 Saudi Arabia 267
3 Iran 209

These figures represent proven oil reserves, which are economically recoverable under current conditions, primarily sourced from OPEC and EIA data as of 2024.
Here is a reminder of what the US did in Panama, circa 1989. LINK

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE-US
+THE STORY THAT Zelinsky just purchased a massive ranch in the US IS NOT TRUE… Just dug into that…
+And, as we often have discussed on Liberty Conspiracy, the EU appears to be ready to BORROW MONEY to fund its proxy war (and US weapons makers) in Ukraine. LINK
+Putin said that the Russians have withdrawn from a key nuclear weapons materials pact with the US because Trump cannot be trusted. LINK
THE US ECONOMY
++ The US Debt just hit $38 Trillion. LINK And Daniel McAdams and Ron Paul have some key points to make about that, offered today, on The Liberty Report (m-f noon, eastern, on Rumble) LINK
++ A new survey reflects the position of what the researchers claim is a “majority” of Americans who cannot afford to go on a holiday vacation. Perhaps the Sex Pistols might have something to say about that… LINK
++Trump utterly lied when claiming that Ronald Reagan “loved tariffs.” The Criminal-in-Chief told reporters that the clip of the Gipper smashing the economic insanity of tariffs must have been AI. LINK and he dug in deeper w this post LINK. But the Reagan clip was real (Ontario paid to have it replayed during the World Series), and, in fact, Reagan could have gone further. Here is part of his address. In it, you can see the single mistake Reagan made. He said that in certain cases, such as the Japanese semiconductor protections, he used tariffs to try to bring back “fair trade”, but those tariffs he imposed not only hurt American manufacturers, they didn’t stop the Japanese continuing their central-planning-based push for semiconductor protectionism and the Japanese. That push became a legendary example of the folly of central planning, something economics professors often mention in classes and books. When manufacturers outside Japan found ways to make chips incredibly inexpensively, the Japanese banking on chips collapsed. The Japanese economy collapsed (it was THAT Bad), and did not recover until nearly a decade later. Here is two minutes of Reagan: LINK
++Trump has is going ahead with an unconstitutional ADDITIONAL 10% tariff on Canadian goods (after his Reagan-based temper tantrum, he might have realized he wanted some Canadian goods)… LINK
++ UPS and other shippers are really starting to feel the problems caused by the Trump tariffs. LINK
++ Meanwhile, Treasury Sec Bessent appeared on MTP and This Week (or, perhaps it was an AI Bessent) claiming that the tariffs have been a great success. LINK
His boastful claims about price inflation (the inflation is the inflation of the money supply that precedes the price increases, but what can one expect from Mr. Bessent?) curving downward hide the fact that prices STILL rose, and his claim that import prices have decreased overlooks the fact that DEMAND for imports has plummeted since US importers stocked-up early this year and Trump blasted up his tariffs. I crunched the month-to-month, year-on-year stats and will present them tonight, on Liberty Conspiracy Live at 6 pm on Rumble and X. Here is a brief overview of what Bessent conveniently did not mention:
Month-to-month, the past month has seen virtually no decrease in import prices. Based on monthly data through August 2025 (the latest fully available; September data released mid-October shows a negligible +0.1% month-over-month change, per preliminary reports). Meanwhile, import prices have decreased by 0.3% cumulatively from the January 2025 level… Here are the stats:
Month-over-Month Change (%)
January+0.3 (Dec 2024 to Jan)
February+0.2
March-0.4
April+0.1
May-0.5
June-0.2
July+0.2
August+0.3
September+0.1 (preliminary)
And what could be a big, causative factor for the tiny price decrease for imported goods which is decreasing demand. But, more important, these price stats do not include the additional cost of tariffs, which, sector-averaged, see prices RISING for imported goods. Tariffs significantly boost the changes, turning several declines into gains (e.g., April’s sharp tariff hike from ~4% to 7% adds ~3% to the MoM).
YEAH… Cumulative change from Jan to Sep 2025: +8.2% (vs. -0.1% for unadjusted IPI). Mr. Bessent is dishonest, it seems…
++ Bessie also foreshadowed Trump’s announcement that the US and Chinese trade “gurus” had come to some agreements that might “avoid” the US imposing the 100% tariffs on Chinese goods, as if the tariffs just HAPPEN. Virtually everything he claims here is based on fearmongering re “fentanyl” and the false idea that tariffs just harm the “exporting nation”, when, in fact, they harm US consumers. OH, and his discussion re soy farmers in the US? (Notice how Martha Raddatz skips the fact that “aid to farmers” isn’t in the US Constitution, as she brings up the possibility) - Bessent owns millions of acres of fields that he rents to soy agricultural interests. He currently is discussing bailouts for soy farmers, which would have a direct impact on his own property value and income. He did not divest from his field ownership - this is a violation of US statute. LINK
Here he is talking about the “coming resolution” of the “trade dispute”… LINK
Here is the full back-and-forth from MTP LINK
++ Notice here, w the Hyundai plant in GA, Trump’s tariff stance also is dependent on what big corporate interests speak up. LINK He now claims the ICE raid was a mistake. Thank goodness this self-perceived DemiGOD came to that conclusion.
++ This is a very good piece, from AIER, on tariffs. LINK
++ I usually don’t bother paying attention to polls, because they are easy to manipulate, from the questions asked, to the populations surveyed, to the stat analysis of the results. But this Reuters-CNN poll might be valuable to see because it seems to reflect public sentiment about the tariffs AFTER Trump has had months to apply them and people now can see the bad economic results. While this might not mean that more people are recognizing the immorality of tariff taxation, it does seem to indicate that more people are seeing their own lives being harmed by the Trump thievery and hubris. LINK
++ As the Mises Institute notes, even Trump’s claims of the tariffs bringing in oodles to the Treasury are false. LINK
AND… David Knight and Mises have key insights into the tariffs, soy, and more. LINK

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THE US BAILOUT OF ARGENTINA ($20 Bil + $20 Bil): It is important to note the JP Morgan - Chase and Goldman Sachs both have heavy investments in Argentinian debt AND in a proposed internal Argentinian oil pipeline. All of this would crash if Argentina defaults on its bonds. It also is important to know that Scott Bessent has a very dirty past, associating with George Soros. has deep professional ties to George Soros spanning over two decades, primarily through employment at Soros Fund Management (SFM), the billionaire investor’s hedge fund. Bessent’s relationship with Soros began shortly after his graduation from Yale University in 1984 with a degree in political science. He joined SFM in the early 1980s (initially via an intermediary role at the Olayan Group, which placed him there) and quickly rose through the ranks due to his expertise in global macro investing. Key highlights of their connection:

• By 1991, Bessent had become a partner at SFM. He played a pivotal role in one of the firm’s most famous trades: the 1992 short-selling of the British pound, which “broke the Bank of England” and netted SFM over $1 billion in profits. At age 29, Bessent was a core member of the team executing this high-stakes currency bet against the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

• Bessent served as SFM’s chief investment officer (CIO) during his second stint from 2011 to 2015, managing the fund’s $30 billion portfolio and interacting with global leaders across 60 countries. He credits Soros with mentoring him in macro strategies, though their political views diverged—Soros is a prominent liberal donor, while Bessent has aligned with Republican causes, including advising Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign.

• Bessent left SFM in 2000 to launch his own hedge fund, Bessent Capital (which closed in 2005 amid market challenges). He returned to SFM in 2011 at Soros’s invitation, solidifying their professional bond until he departed again in 2015 to found his own firm, Key Square Group (a $2 billion global macro hedge fund).

• Despite leaving, Bessent has spoken positively about Soros as a “genius” and intellectual influence, though he distanced himself politically during his Treasury nomination to address conservative concerns about Soros’s Democratic ties. No ongoing financial or advisory roles are reported as of October 2025.

IMMIGRATION
+ ICE deployed chemical agents on parents and kids near Chicago, they pushed septuagenarians to the ground, as the kids went outside for a Halloween parade. LINK
+ These ICE agents blocked an ambulance in order to kidnap someone. LINK
+ Let’s keep in mind how much ICE has spent on guns, ammo, even shoulder-missiles. LINK
IMMIGRATION AND US TRUCKING - TRUMP’S ICE ATTACKS FURTHER RESTRICT SUPPLY CHAIN
+This story indicates that there is a black market for freight truckers. LINK And it’s important to know that the regulations (ie diktats and threat) the feds have placed on truckers have made it virtually impossible to pay above-board for many trucking companies. The situation is not a new problem this year. LINK and LINK
And here is deeper information that I provided for MRCTV years ago, info about federal burdens on truckers. LINK

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Trump is waging war without any connection to his vaunted US Constitution. He is invading states contrary to all constitutional parameters. This is a crazy time. Here is a lot of the key info we would like to offer to you. Feel free to leave us your thoughts on any of these or other matters!
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VENEZUELA
Trump’s idea of stopping wars (he stopped 5,000 by lunch today, remember that), seems to entail sending aircraft carrier strike forces towards Venezuela. LINK
++As RT notes, the US just magically slapped “sanctions” on the Prez of Columbia, because Petro spoke up re the US attacks on Venezuelans and his own citizens in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. LINK But, what are the details? The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed financial sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, two family members, and a close government associate under Executive Order 14059, which targets foreign persons involved in the global illicit drug trade. Trump claimed on September 15 that Colombia is “failing demonstrably” to meet its drug control obligations. Of course, even if that were DEFINED and then proven, it’s not the place of the US government or any polis to engage in aggression to take your money and fund an “interdiction” thug-force. The sanctions apply to the following individuals, designated as Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs):

• Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (Gustavo Petro): President of Colombia.

• Verónica del Socorro Alcocer García: Petro’s wife and First Lady.

• Nicolás Fernando Petro Burgos: Petro’s eldest son and former campaign manager.

• Armando Alberto Benedetti Villaneda (Armando Benedetti): Petro’s Interior Minister and close political ally.

Any businesses owned 50% or more by these individuals are also blocked.
+++What the Sanctions Entail
These are “standard OFAC blocking sanctions,” which include:

• Asset Freeze: All property and interests in property owned by the designated persons that are located in the U.S., or in the possession or control of U.S. persons, must be blocked and reported to OFAC.

• Transaction Bans: U.S. persons (including citizens, residents, and entities) are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions involving the blocked persons’ property or interests. This includes providing funds, goods, services, or any other support to or from them, unless authorized by OFAC license.

• SDN List Addition: The individuals are added to OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List), making it illegal for U.S. persons to deal with them.

• Penalties for Violations: Civil penalties apply on a strict liability basis; criminal penalties can reach up to 20 years imprisonment and $1 million fines for willful violations. Non-U.S. persons may also face secondary sanctions.

The threats do not directly target Colombia’s government or economy but focus on the individuals.

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UKRAINE
Zelinsky is in London for more chatter about money and weapons... LINK
The delusions and wild statements of EU members and British politicians keep getting wilder. Now, a Brit thug is using the Ukraine war as a pretext to excuse continued British domination over Northern Ireland. LINK

NEW IRISH REPUB PREZ - A CRITIC OF EU, NATO?
It looks like that is the case. LINK

ISRAEL-GAZA
++Lee Camp makes a good point about the vile reality that Israel has ethnically cleansed Gaza. LINK
++Israeli War Criminals? LINK
++And, Israel again, has broken the ceasefire. LINK
++As DropSite notes: “Sky News reveals that Israel is backing four anti-Hamas militias operating behind the “yellow line,” the ceasefire boundary for IDF troops. Militia leader Hossam al-Astal said he and others – Yasser Abu Shabab, Rami Halas, and Ashraf al-Mansi – are part of a joint plan to “remove Hamas” and establish “The New Gaza.” His group operates less than 700 meters from Israeli positions, coordinating logistics and supply deliveries with the IDF through the Kerem Shalom crossing. Sky found similar coordination in northern Gaza, with militias receiving aid and vehicles via Israeli and PA channels, and possible Gulf backing, including ties to UAE-linked forces in Yemen. Al-Astal says, “Our project is ‘The New Gaza’ — no war, no Hamas, no terrorism.” LINK
++And Suppressed News has this, “Israeli Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, father of Minister of Heritage Amichay Eliyahu, calls Israelis to murder any recently released Palestinian they see on the street...” LINK
++This story, from Electronic Intifada, highlights how the political players in the German left not only have abandoned their anti-war stance, they use beards to pretend to be caring for kids and war victims, while covering for Israeli atrocities. LINK
++While Israel supposedly is in its “ceasefire” with Hamas, the Israeli government has given the green light to “settlers” (aka occupiers and terrorists) to attack local Palestinians in the West Bank. LINK

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IMMIGRATION, US, ICE BREACHING CONSTITUTION ON MANY LEVELS
++Not only is immigration not a federal “power” in the US Constitution, the US Constitution is imposed on us and isn’t a valid contract, so even if the document were AMENDED to allow this sort of tyranny, it would not be moral, at all. Here is a single story, out of Vegas, that shows us just how lawless the ICE goons and many “law enforcement” goons are. LINK
++Here is another ICE-driven death, as the man fled them — and got hit by a car on the freeway. LINK
++ICE shipped this man to the African nation of Eswatini three months ago. He has been held there since that time, without any charges brought against him (and now, he is on a hunger strike)... This is the same ICE-Justice Dept MO as what Trump did with the hundreds of men it shipped to El Salvador, thinking, perhaps, that the Admin would be able to skirt the BILL OF RIGHTS. LINK
++Let’s recall that a judge has barred federal agents from arresting people inside courthouses. LINK This is angering the goons at DHS.
++The LA COUNTY government actually took this action on Oct 15th, but it is getting wider discussion now, as ICE runs roughshod in NYC, Chicago, Portland, and might go into San Fran... LINK DETAILS: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared a local state of emergency in response to ongoing federal immigration raids by ICE, which began in early June 2025 and have since led to over 5,000 arrests. The declaration, passed by a 4-1 vote, aims to provide resources like legal aid, tenant protections, and economic support for immigrant communities affected by the fear and disruptions caused by the raids. Mayor Karen Bass has publicly criticized the raids but focused on other responses, such as a separate emergency in Los Angeles on June 6, 2025, that she issued, in response to protests and what she called “civil unrest” in the city. Of course, the unrest came because of the actions taken by government, not the people. It was government action that initiated the problem.
++AG Pam Bondi not only loves the attack the right to keep and bear arms (as evinced by her push for Red Flag statutes in FLA when she was AG there), she likes ICE invading states, breaking into private property without warrants, shooting people, gassing people, throwing them to the ground, attacking dogs, harming and kidnapping kids, and more. And while she has no problem with ICE tracking people through facial recognition and license plate data, she doesn’t want YOU to know where the ICE goons who receive your money might be located. In addition to numerous civilians using apps to alert each other to the location of ICE criminals, the DC Dems have created a web-tracker site for people to report ICE locations and actions. Bondi doesn’t like that. LINK

KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA will be shipped to Liberia by Oct 31. LINK Notice how Breitbart characterizes him as “MS-13 gang member” despite that never being proven or even brought up in court. LINK
And another horror story, brought to us by ICE LINK

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IMMIGRATION, UK, BRITCARD
How many of you suspect that this prisoner was not “accidentally” released, but, instead, he was let out to generate even more UK societal anger re immigration and more support for Starmer’s dangerous and tyrannical BritCard e-ID system? LINK

OBAMACARE FASCISM
Dr. Oz appeared on FOX to toss around claims that he and the Trumpsters would replace Obamacare, but he is scarce on detail. The move is a topic of discussion because of the federal govt shutdown, which Trump’s HHS is saying will see the end of Biden-era subsidies and tax-rebates (really, overt subsidies, in many cases, because these levels of earnings don’t pay income taxes) and might see a widening of the ability of insurance companies to deny coverage for certain pre-existing conditions. SO, to be clear, nothing in the US CONstitution allows the feds to demand that businesses get insurance for employees, and nothing allows the feds to demand that we get insurance, ANNNND nothing in the US Constitution allows the feds to tell insurance companies what to cover, what their rates can be, and whom they can deny. Doing so forced healthier people to subsidize sicker people, raises costs, thus making it harder for people to afford health insurance, and inspires people to change their behavior, often waiting for a condition to arise before they get “coverage” (meaning, that’s not really INSURANCE). Additionally, he isn’t really talking about ending the federally funded medical system. He’s even mentioned EXPANDING MEDICARE. Oz has advocated extending private Medicare Advantage plans (which now cover over 50% of Medicare enrollees) to non-Medicare populations, potentially funded by payroll tax hikes—though this isn’t confirmed in the current plan.

ECONOMY
Yes, prices are WAY UP, not WAY DOWN, as Trump has claimed. LINK
Annnnd, Target is going to lay off nearly 2,000 people. LINK

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TARIFFS
+The Trump tariffs and blocks on trade are raising prices for the corn needed for Mexican tortillas. LINK
+AND... Trump promises to increase his unconstitutional and immoral tariffs on Canada another 10% in response to the Ontario Province releasing its pro-free-trade ad featuring Ronald Reagan destroying the tariff argument. LINK Here is Breitbart on it. LINK
++This 10% tariff on all imports from Canada “over and above what they are paying now,” would apply universally to current tariffs (or lack thereof). Here’s a breakdown by key categories, including current rates, proposed new rates, and approximate shares of total US imports from Canada (based on 2023-2024 trade data, as 2025 full-year figures are preliminary but structurally similar; total imports ~$412 billion in 2024).

• Notes on Variations:

  • USMCA-exempt goods dominate by value (e.g., machinery/transport equipment at ~26% of imports, mostly exempt).

    These would see the smallest relative increase but a shift from duty-free status.

  • Energy is a large share but already lightly tariffed; the hike would double its rate, potentially impacting ~$123 billion in annual value.

  • General goods and steel/aluminum represent smaller but higher-rate categories; steel/aluminum alone accounts for ~$16-17 billion annually and faces the steepest proposed rate due to Section 232 national security tariffs.

Average Proposed Tariff Rate on All Canadian Goods

Using the weighted shares above, the current weighted average tariff rate on all US imports from Canada is approximately 8.9% (calculated as: (55% × 0%) + (30% × 10%) + (11% × 35%) + (4% × 50%) = 0% + 3% + 3.85% + 2% = 8.85%, rounded).
With the universal +10% addition, the proposed weighted average tariff rate would be 18.9% (current average + 10 percentage points, as the increase applies equally across all categories).
This is a simple weighted average based on import values; actual effective rates could vary slightly with trade shifts or further exemptions.

Comparison to Average Tariff Rate One Year Ago (October 2024)

****In October 2024—prior to the 2025 trade war escalations under the USMCA trade pact—the average effective tariff rate on US imports from Canada was effectively 0% (or <0.5% including minor non-compliant items like certain agricultural goods). The USMCA ensured 99% of bilateral trade was duty-free, with negligible revenue from tariffs ($100-200 million annually vs. $412 billion in imports). The proposed 18.9% would represent a ~3,800% increase from 2024 levels, dramatically raising costs on a $400+ billion trade flow and potentially adding ~$75 billion in annual duties if volumes hold steady.

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TECHNOCRATIC DYSTOPIA
Baltimore cops attacked and handcuffed a HIGH SCHOOL student when their AI told them that his bag of Doritos was a gun. LINK

TRUMP EGO, ZIONIST MONEY
Brian Shilhavy has an interesting piece on the new “ballroom” Trump is building... LINK

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ONE!
This conversation between John Kiriakou and Ray McGovern is fantastic. The first 20 minutes see Ray offer one of the best, most detailed, breakdowns of the 2014-2022 western meddling in Ukraine that led to the Kiev unleashing death on the Donbass, and the early 2022 UK meddling that blasted apart the Russia-Ukraine deal that was close to being finalized.

TWO!
The GrayZone nails this history…

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Greetings, fellow Conspirators!

It was a wild way to open the show, but we did it! A Streamyard update threw a great deal into turmoil, but we dove in and got the information out there! We even read a short story for Fiction Friday, this tale called “Assassin” by GG in the novella “Wall” (it’s tied to the novella, and to all of the other novellas that I’ve had published so far :) )

Here are some of the items we discussed!

TRUMP KILLS AT SEA, A TENTH STRIKE
The death toll is 47. LINK This time, it was in the Caribbean, again. Tonight, on Liberty Conspiracy, we will show vid of Hegseth strutting his cocky stuff.
+We will show more on this tonight, but here, we can see MTG supporting an immoral, unconstitutional program of mass-murder by Trump LINK He openly says he will “just kill them.”
+And let’s recall that he is deploying a carrier task force w support ships to near the coast of VZ. LINK
+Rick Sanchez and Max Blumenthal on Trump trying to push for a coup in VZ LINK
+Juston Amash is close, but could explicate LINK

ECONOMICS
The US “inflation rate” (actually, the price hikes caused by inflation of the money supply) rose AGAIN, in Sept. LINK
Donald Trump did not like the government of Canada posting an ad that included Ronald Reagan providing many of the key reasons why tariffs are disastrous on the economic front (they begin from an immoral premise, so should be a non-starter), so Trump has canceled negotiations with Canada over his already spiked tariff attack on their exports and our ability to buy Canadian products. LINK
AND, to follow-up our report on the Stellantis dilemma, whereby the Trump gang will slam the company if they build in Canada and export their products to the US, but the Canadian government said it might sue or take other measures, because the govt subsidized the creation of one of Stellantis’ Alberta plants. Now, Canada is adding a tariff on Stellantis cars made in the US and imported to Canada! It’s an insane juggling act, and the jugglers are tyrants in the US and Canadian govts! LINK

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UKRAINE-US-RUSSIA
An aid to Vladimir Putin is still planning on negotiating with Trump officials over the next few days, but not about peace between the US/NATO/EU/Ukraine and Russia but over the Trump-imposed sanctions and economic blocks against Russia. We will discuss it further on Liberty Conspiracy Live tonight at 6 eastern… LINK
++ This is a very good piece on the US sanctions against Russia and why they are immensely evil failures. LINK

INDIA-RUSSIA-EU-US ECONOMICS-TARIFFS-BLOCKS
++The EU is targeting India (similar to Trump doing so) to indirectly target Russia. LINK
This is a good piece revealing the exceptions folks like Kier Starmer want carved out for their UK purchasing of Indian resold Russian oil LINK
+And, tonight on Liberty Conspiracy, we will discuss the EU also attempting to finish its theft of Russian assets in Euro banks.

ISRAEL-GAZA
Israel not only is replenishing its military outposts inside Gaza LINK, the Israeli Occupation Force set up the so-called “Yellow Line” markers far inside where they are supposed to be. LINK

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IMMIGRATION POLICE-STATE
Trump abruptly canceled his plan to have ICE and the Nat Guard invade San Francisco, but not after the ICE goons hit protesters with gas and pepper munitions. LINK MORE, w silent vid LINK
And a typical ICE goon-fueled hassling of a woman who simply wants to get something at Wal Mart. LINK
High school students hit with pepper-bullets, zip-tied near Chicago - by ICE, of course. LINK
+Another horror, caught on Vid. LINK
NOTE: The most recent Ninth Circuit panel ruling affirmed Trump’s utterly spurious and immoral so-called “authority” to federalize and deploy National Guard troops from California (or other states) came on October 22, 2025, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In Newsom v. Trump (No. 25-3727), the full court denied CA Governor Gavin Newsom’s request for an en banc rehearing, thereby upholding a three-judge panel’s June 19, 2025, ruling. That panel had stayed a temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer, which had initially blocked Trump’s federalization of approximately 4,000 California National Guard troops.
The claim of “authority” is not based on the US Constitution, but on a statute that actually SKIRTS the Constitution’s Article Four, Sec Four, under the pretext of “protecting federal properties” (which, as we often get to discuss on Liberty Conspiracy, only number THREE in the Constitution: a 10-sq-mi area for the national capitol, territories, and military garrisons, and so the injection of federal immigration police is unconstitutional and the use of federal troops in a state would only be constitutional if the feds were trying to protect a federal military garrison — of course, if a state has seceded from the US, the whole she-bang is canceled, but folks like Abe Lincoln won’t acknowledge that fact.)…
+This report on how locals in Chicago are helping each other steer clear of the ICE goons, is valuable. It takes a while to get to the meat of the story. LINK
+AND… a reminder about the US government (ICE, in particular, and DHS, as well) getting license plate/traffic cam data from FLOCK LINK - this, even as ICE in Chicago has been switching license plates each day, and has been warned to stop. LINK
David Knight, covering aspects of these stories and the recent Reason Magazine story on Trump’s Immigration Police State, has keen observations, from today’s David Knight Show (m-f 9a to noon) LINK
+And… have you ever heard of the federal government’s typically authoritarian and “special-interest” crony “EB5 Visa Fee” program? It’s in the news, so here’s some background:
Claiming the magical “authority” to limit the number of people with whom business owners, consumers, and everyday people can voluntarily associate, the US allows 10,000 people per year (and their families) to enter for certain companies. Administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the program allows “qualifying foreign investors,” along with their spouses and unmarried children under 21, to obtain lawful permanent residency (a green card) in exchange for investing in a U.S. commercial enterprise that creates or preserves jobs for American workers. It is the fifth preference category in the employment-based (EB) visa system, hence the “EB-5” name.
If you have the cash, you can play…

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Welcome, fellow Conspirators!

Tonight, we had the pleasure of chatting in our Mind Meld with Brad, of MOE Studios! Find him, here, at his X! And we had the chance to study a large number of big breaking issues, reminding ourselves of stories and history we don’t want to forget, and more…

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Well, comrades, despite the fact that we ALL know Mr. Trump ended 1,500 wars before breakfast today, every claim of “peace” he has made has not been borne out. The situation in Gaza continues to unravel, and, as we mentioned yesterday…

ISRAEL-GAZA-WEST-BANK
Yes, as we reported last night on Liberty Conspiracy Live, the Israeli parliament voted to give themselves permission to annex the West Bank, even though President Trump said recently that they’d better not. And JD Vance was THERE, thinking nothing of it. Tonight, we’ll play a video cut of him being asked about that, and, as you might expect, brushing off concerns. Please recall that in 2024, Smotrich “deputized” many of the illegitimate Israeli residents and new occupiers in West Bank, and gave them automatic weapons. We will explore this more, tonight, on Liberty Conspiracy Live…
Here is more, from Dave DeCamp, of AntiWar LINK
And, though Trump was emphatic that Israel will not control the West Bank, he now is dismissive and flip when asked about it. LINK

RUSSIA-UKRAINE-US
The US is hitting Russian oil exports with new sanctions, beyond the ones already imposed, this coming as the EU contemplates complete theft of Russian assets. Treas Sec Bessent is at his deranged worst, here. LINK
This conversation between Max Blumenthal and Judge Nap is key, re Ukraine, and re Israel and re Venezuela. LINK

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VENEZUELA-COLUMBIA
The Trump Admin claims it hit a NINTH boat, this the second in the eastern Pacific. LINK
It also claims land action might be next. LINK
And Lindsay Graham and Sean Hannity like the idea of making VZ a state. LINK
The two men who survived Trump’s most recent boat strike appear to have legal cause to pursue justice against Trump. It’s a statute called the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1350, is a U.S. federal law dating back to the Judiciary Act of 1789. It states: “The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.” It allows non-U.S. citizens (”aliens”) to file civil lawsuits in U.S. federal courts for serious violations of international law, such as torture, extrajudicial killings, war crimes, or crimes against humanity—even if the acts occurred outside the U.S. The “law of nations” refers to customary international law, and plaintiffs must show the violation is a universally recognized norm.
Let’s recall what Rand Paul said… reiteration of key points re the spurious “drug war” rhetoric from Trump that Trump used to provide himself what he might think is cover for his criminality. LINK

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