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Hi! We have a great group of people who join us to look into the news and derive long-standing principles from them. I want to thank everyone, and thank the journalists and commentators/researchers we featured tonight! Thank you, all, and God bless you for being so dedicated to truth! Here are some of the key issues we explored tonight…

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WARUKRAINE

While Donald Trump and Marco Rubio gaslight with their fake claims to be working for “peace” between Russia and Ukraine, a new report from a French publication reveals that US pilots are flying f-16s for Ukraine. Headline: ‘US and Dutch pilots flying F-16s for Ukraine – media — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK

-And the EU political elites are disconnected from European manufacturers who WANT Russian steel and know that the EU trying to block the product will make them less and less productive and less and less competitive, worldwide. Headline: “‘High-stakes fight’ erupts in EU over Russian steel – Euronews — RT World News” Link

IRAN

The peace talks in Geneva between US and Iranian envoys just ended, and Daniel McAdams, of the Ron Paul Liberty Report has the breaking news LINK
Daniel Davis and Douglas MacGregor Cover other aspects, including Tom Kean’s insane warmongering and lying.

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IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE

-Not cool… Headline: ‘DHS orders tech giants to unmask anti-ICE accounts’ LINK
-Not cool… Headline: ‘DHS has shot 13 people during immigration enforcement since September, report finds” LINK
-Not cool. Headline: ‘FBI refuses to share evidence in Alex Pretti killing, Minnesota investigators say’ LINK
-This has been obvious, but it’s good to see the revelation of the internal documentation of their policy.

-And this is another major story that is not getting much attention. Astoundingly anti-constitutional. Headline: “US secretly deports migrants to African state – media — RT Africa” LINK
-But, thank goodness, it looks like Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s long torture at the hands of ICE might be drawing to a close. Headline: ‘Federal judge rules Kilmar Abrego Garcia can’t be re-detained by immigration authorities” LINK!

-More Trump Admin attacks on foreign-born, non-citizen truckers working in the US LINK
-This is an interesting and important fight, between the state-level, and the local-tied-to-feds-unconstitutionally level “Dem governor in deep-red state calls for ICE pullout, triggering clash over enforcement authority” LINK
-And others are beginning to sound the alarms about the US feeding money-hungry states with cash to convert vacant warehouses into corrals for the ICE kidnap victims LINK
-And another nightmare. Headline ‘Teen girl whose Chicago father was detained in an immigration case dies from a rare cancer’ LINK

US ECONOMY - TARIFFS, THE US BUDGET

-This is key to remember… Rent seeking is amplified under tariff-heavy regimes

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-MI loses lots of jobs Headline: ‘20,000 jobs vanish in Michigan during worst January since 2009 as hiring hits record low’ LINK
-David Stockman offers a pithy insight about the Trumpers and Congress - They are snake-like, slithering past most popular desires to TRULY lower spending. But Mr. Stockman’s observation also could be expanded to note two more dimensions, which are that the list of these agencies is a list of anti-constitutional carbuncles on the body of the so-called “confederation/union” and that, on a more fundamental level, the entirety of the state is immoral, and no group of men can claim power over other people, regardless of the pieces of paper they write to claim that power is theirs.

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The percentages in the New York Times chart, as referenced in David Stockman’s post, represent actual year-over-year changes in funding levels compared to the FY2025 enacted budget—not adjustments relative to a projected baseline that assumes automatic increases for inflation or other factors.For the EPA specifically:

  • The FY2025 enacted budget was approximately $9.14 billion.

  • The Trump administration (White House) proposed roughly $4.16 billion for FY2026, a genuine 54% reduction in total dollars from the prior year.

  • Congress ultimately enacted about $8.8 billion for FY2026, a real 4% (or approximately 3.7%) aggregate reduction in dollars spent compared to FY2025—not an increase that fell short of some planned baseline projection.

Similar logic applies to HUD:

  • The FY2025 enacted budget was around $77-89 billion (depending on whether gross or adjusted figures are used, as the chart excludes certain items like disaster funding and receipts).

  • The White House proposed about $43.5 billion for FY2026, a true 44% cut.

  • Congress enacted approximately $91 billion (gross) or $77.3 billion (program-specific), resulting in a 9% increase over FY2025 levels.

VACCINE MANUFACTURERS - LIABILITY

Rand Paul is trying to remove the federal block against tort suits that has prevented them from entering federal courts, state to state. Headline: ‘Sen. Rand Paul unveils bill to end nationwide liability protections for vaccine manufacturers’ LINK

CLIMATE CULT

CA and UK - a “Memorandum of Understanding” that expands fascist green fraud from govt, and might pit CA windfarm plans against Trump on a state-v-feds level. Headline ‘Trump slams energy deal between California and Britain, Politico reports’ LINK The MoU focuses on advancing what they call “clean energy cooperation,” with a particular emphasis on offshore wind and other inefficient and government-pushed technologies. It was signed in London by California Governor Gavin Newsom and UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband (widely disliked in Scotland for his push to destroy forests and turn away from North Sea oil drilling) during Newsom’s European trip, which included the Munich Security Conference. The non-binding pact will use fascist, rather than market means, to connect businesses, researchers, and institutions across the Atlantic.

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