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Welcome, fellow Conspirators!!
Immense thanks to our fellow Conspirators for joining us, live, tonight, and for enjoying Theology Thursday, as well as the key news, to get real lessons of liberty from the program. Thanks, of course, to the excellent journalists whose we got to cover. - Join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble, or here on X, and get the audio pod shortly after each show, via Spotify or here at Substack! Here are some of the big items we got to explore tonight!
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WARIRANThis is the bizarre and dark mindset of many in the MAGA-RAH-RAH rabble. Good comment on it, from Daniel Davis…
LEBANONIt looks like the IDF is remaining consistent in its pillaging and plunder of occupied territory, not to mention its record of killing innocent people.
Ms. Amal Khalil received death threats via text/WhatsApp messages from an Israeli phone number in September 2024 (with some reports noting an initial threat around August 2024 and a reiteration in mid-September).
She said the messages came from “the Israelis,” “Mossad,” or an “Israeli enemy” number and were attributed to the IDF in many reports. People have confirmed the number as an Israeli-govt number.
The sender(s) knew details of her movements between villages in southern Lebanon.
Key alleged content (paraphrased from her accounts and the reported message):
“We know where you are and we will reach you when the time comes.”
Demands that she leave southern Lebanon immediately, stop reporting from the south, or flee (e.g., “I suggest you flee to Qatar or somewhere else”).
Graphic death threats, including variations of “sever your head from your shoulders,” “cut your head from your body,” or “keep your head connected to your shoulders” if she didn’t comply. LINK
And is Israel preparing for a wider US-assisted invasion into Lebanon?
Aaron Mate thinks that, indeed, Netanyahu will move more forces into and kill more people in Lebanon
STRAIT JACKETDavid Stockman is correct.
David Stockman’s numbers check out—and they highlight a glaring inconsistency in the official narrative around the US Navy’s “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz. In his post, Stockman directly challenges Trump’s claim: “We have total control over the Strait of Hormuz. No ship can enter or leave without the approval of the United States Navy.” Stockman points out that the normal ~20 million barrels per day (mb/d) of oil and products that typically flow through the strait to the global economy is now “essentially 0.0 b/d—except for all the Iranian oil that is sneaking through the ‘blockade’ to the tune of 1.2 million barrels per day.” He’s quoting independent tanker-tracking data, and the figures align closely with what’s being reported right now.
- Independent trackers confirm Iranian crude and condensate exports have continued at roughly 1.1–1.5 mb/d even after the US-enforced restrictions began.
-STILL, the world flow is highly restricted by this US aggression and the Iranian response. Headline: “JPMorgan sees Iran oil system hitting shut in threshold within 15 days” LINK
-AND MintPress News reports the US Navy seized another Iranian-linked tanker, despite Trump’s recent unilateral extension of a fragile ceasefire that Iran has abided by without formal agreement. the ship in the MintPress News video has been publicly identified by name as the M/T Majestic X (also referred to as Majestic X or Majestic-X). It is a large crude carrier (VLCC oil tanker, IMO 9198317, previously named Phoenix/Phonix, Guyana-flagged or described as stateless/sanctioned). US forces seized it on April 23, 2026, in the Indian Ocean (INDOPACOM area, between Sri Lanka and Indonesia) while it was transporting Iranian oil in violation of sanctions. Note, this was not even CLOSE to Iran or the Strait of Hormuz.
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And trump just amped the rhetoric, talking about “shoot to kill” Headline: “U.S. seizes Majestic X tanker in Indian Ocean” LINK
These interdictions, including additional tankers seized in the Indian Ocean around April 21-23, risk escalating tensions by disrupting oil flows while both US and Iranian forces continue vessel seizures.
This is a very good piece on it all, from Jacob Hornberger, of FFF.org Headline “An Unseen Consequence of the U.S. War on Iran – The Future of Freedom Foundation” LINK
CUBANext week, the Senate is to vote on what should not be needed, a “War Powers Resolution” re Cuba. The US Constitution’s requirement that Congress issue a Declaration of War before engaging in even a blockade (essentially what the US has been doing to Cuba since the 1960s and the US now is getting closer and closer to an attempt to overthrow the government there) is obvious. Beyond that, even IF Congress declared War, that would give the politicians no more ethical power to tell you to pay for it. HEADLINE: “Senate To Vote on War Powers Resolution To Block US Attack on Cuba - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
MORE sword rattling, but David Stockman calls it out
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US ECONOMYKaroline Leavitt’s claims v reality
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The death rattles are sounding. Consumers are becoming more restrictive, more selective. Real Personal Consumption Expenditure (RPCE) is growing at only 0.8% on a 3-month annualized basis, the slowest rate since 2020.
And more evidence that the US housing market is ready for its biggest crash in nearly 100 years.
The GERMAN ECONOMYNot good.
reut.rs/41Tq5pV ","username":"Reuters","name":"Reuters","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1874154135869616128/nJDmubGJ_normal.jpg","date":"2026-04-23T09:45:08.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":146,"retweet_count":479,"like_count":1326,"impression_count":156493,"expanded_url":{"url":"http://reut.rs/41Tq5pV","title":"Germany is sleepwalking into permanent stagnation","description":"The economy will barely expand by 2030, despite Chancellor Friedrich Merz's 500-bln-euro fiscal stimulus. The Iran-triggered energy shock is only making bare structural flaws that have reduced growth potential to near-zero. And the government can’t agree on much-needed reforms.","domain":"reut.rs","image":"https://pbs.substack.com/news_img/2047250414311976960/8IK11bWJ?format=jpg&name=orig"},"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">EDUCATION, RELIGION, FEDERALISM, PARENTAL RIGHTS, COLLECTIVISMWhat do you think: Headline “Supreme Court takes up Catholic objection to Colorado’s preschool program” LINK
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**US HITS SPLC WITH FRAUD CHARGESHeadline: “DOJ hits Southern Poverty Law Center with criminal charges – NBC New York” LINK This is a big deal. THE SPLC is one of the biggest wielders of the “strategy of tension” approach of demonizing conservatives and libertarians, calling them racist etc, to create tension situations, even as, so says this grand jury indictment, the SPLC was funding high-ups in well-known racist groups in the US, and, likely, getting funding from CIA-tied operatives via proxies like the LA Times (where Morris Dees got his original seed money, after building a massive phone and mail contact base, AND after Dees represented in court members of the KKK.) Dees co-founded (with Joe Levin Jr.) Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 1971, built his fortune as a direct-mail marketer selling cookbooks and other products in the 1960s. In 1969 he sold the business to Times Mirror—the parent company of the Los Angeles Times—reportedly for $6–7 million. He used that windfall and his marketing expertise to launch the SPLC and turn it into a fundraising powerhouse, mailing alarmist appeals about the KKK and hate groups to Northern liberals. Critics have long called the operation a “flimflam” scheme: the SPLC amassed a half-billion-dollar endowment while spending relatively little on actual litigation. Dees’s 1980 divorce from Maureene Bass Dees exposed further personal controversies. Court documents and testimony alleged he conducted multiple extramarital affairs, including a sustained relationship with another woman, and that he attempted to molest his 18-year-old stepdaughter with a sexual device. These revelations, combined with Dees’s 2019 firing amid internal charges of sexual harassment and workplace racial discrimination, have fueled long-standing accusations that the SPLC’s celebrated founder prioritized personal gain and power over the civil-rights mission he publicly championed. Please note that the “strategy of tension” might seem like an esoteric term for those deliberately working to cause political fighting and funding various blocks in order to gain political power and funds (for themselves or their friends, or both) But the activity is not the original problem, and the people who engage in it are only able to do so because political power influences money, and the polis creates interest blocks that do not work in comity, through productive, positive commerce and free will. The state, in its normative sense, is what facilitates and incentivizes this underhanded activity, by pushing all people into one arena to fight.
PLZ watch the above… On a personal note, the SPLC often attacked MRCTV when I was writing for them (this, prior to my departure and the MRC embrace of Zionist Israeli activities).
IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE-THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT dug the hole deeper. Not only did they not call out the unconstitutional and immoral ICE, not only did the judges not cite the feds for sending armed goons into CA without a request from the CA legislature or Governor (according to Article Four, Section Four of the US Constitution), they court allows for the ICE goons to not ID themselves and allows them to wear masks. Astounding. Headline: “Law requiring ICE agents to show identification struck down by 9th Circuit” LINK
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As David Knight discussed on his program today, this is alarming and works into both the Immigration Police State and the rest of the police state imposed on us. Headline: “Homeland Security Is Making “Smart Glasses” To Collect Intelligence on Americans - The Free Thought Project” LINK
-AND a reminder, from yesterday, about how HIPAA was designed by the feds to allow them to get your medical information without a warrant. Headline: “Did CA hospital release ICE shooting patient’s medical records without consent?” LINK Well, here is the bill as it was turned into statute, and you can read for yourself all about the “unique healthcare identifier” the HHS gets to issue to anyone who visits any medical center touched by federal money. Turn to page 75 and start there. LINK
That’s it for now, all! Many thanks for supporting freedom, and for sharing the links! And remember, you can back us here by becoming a paid subscriber if you would like, and feel free to watch Liberty Conspiracy LIVE on Gardner’s X @gardgoldsmith and on Rumble! Spread the word! Thanks, again! Please feel free to SHARE the links, and join us every M-F at 6 PM on Rumble, and my X @gardgoldsmith — and you also can donate to help the Liberty Conspiracy, itself! Just visit PayPal to help out! You also can mail GG at:
Gardner Goldsmith
PO Box 581
Amherst, NH, 03031 :)
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By Gardner GoldsmithWelcome, fellow Conspirators!!
Immense thanks to our fellow Conspirators for joining us, live, tonight, and for enjoying Theology Thursday, as well as the key news, to get real lessons of liberty from the program. Thanks, of course, to the excellent journalists whose we got to cover. - Join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble, or here on X, and get the audio pod shortly after each show, via Spotify or here at Substack! Here are some of the big items we got to explore tonight!
Subscribe now
Share
WARIRANThis is the bizarre and dark mindset of many in the MAGA-RAH-RAH rabble. Good comment on it, from Daniel Davis…
LEBANONIt looks like the IDF is remaining consistent in its pillaging and plunder of occupied territory, not to mention its record of killing innocent people.
Ms. Amal Khalil received death threats via text/WhatsApp messages from an Israeli phone number in September 2024 (with some reports noting an initial threat around August 2024 and a reiteration in mid-September).
She said the messages came from “the Israelis,” “Mossad,” or an “Israeli enemy” number and were attributed to the IDF in many reports. People have confirmed the number as an Israeli-govt number.
The sender(s) knew details of her movements between villages in southern Lebanon.
Key alleged content (paraphrased from her accounts and the reported message):
“We know where you are and we will reach you when the time comes.”
Demands that she leave southern Lebanon immediately, stop reporting from the south, or flee (e.g., “I suggest you flee to Qatar or somewhere else”).
Graphic death threats, including variations of “sever your head from your shoulders,” “cut your head from your body,” or “keep your head connected to your shoulders” if she didn’t comply. LINK
And is Israel preparing for a wider US-assisted invasion into Lebanon?
Aaron Mate thinks that, indeed, Netanyahu will move more forces into and kill more people in Lebanon
STRAIT JACKETDavid Stockman is correct.
David Stockman’s numbers check out—and they highlight a glaring inconsistency in the official narrative around the US Navy’s “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz. In his post, Stockman directly challenges Trump’s claim: “We have total control over the Strait of Hormuz. No ship can enter or leave without the approval of the United States Navy.” Stockman points out that the normal ~20 million barrels per day (mb/d) of oil and products that typically flow through the strait to the global economy is now “essentially 0.0 b/d—except for all the Iranian oil that is sneaking through the ‘blockade’ to the tune of 1.2 million barrels per day.” He’s quoting independent tanker-tracking data, and the figures align closely with what’s being reported right now.
- Independent trackers confirm Iranian crude and condensate exports have continued at roughly 1.1–1.5 mb/d even after the US-enforced restrictions began.
-STILL, the world flow is highly restricted by this US aggression and the Iranian response. Headline: “JPMorgan sees Iran oil system hitting shut in threshold within 15 days” LINK
-AND MintPress News reports the US Navy seized another Iranian-linked tanker, despite Trump’s recent unilateral extension of a fragile ceasefire that Iran has abided by without formal agreement. the ship in the MintPress News video has been publicly identified by name as the M/T Majestic X (also referred to as Majestic X or Majestic-X). It is a large crude carrier (VLCC oil tanker, IMO 9198317, previously named Phoenix/Phonix, Guyana-flagged or described as stateless/sanctioned). US forces seized it on April 23, 2026, in the Indian Ocean (INDOPACOM area, between Sri Lanka and Indonesia) while it was transporting Iranian oil in violation of sanctions. Note, this was not even CLOSE to Iran or the Strait of Hormuz.
Subscribe now
And trump just amped the rhetoric, talking about “shoot to kill” Headline: “U.S. seizes Majestic X tanker in Indian Ocean” LINK
These interdictions, including additional tankers seized in the Indian Ocean around April 21-23, risk escalating tensions by disrupting oil flows while both US and Iranian forces continue vessel seizures.
This is a very good piece on it all, from Jacob Hornberger, of FFF.org Headline “An Unseen Consequence of the U.S. War on Iran – The Future of Freedom Foundation” LINK
CUBANext week, the Senate is to vote on what should not be needed, a “War Powers Resolution” re Cuba. The US Constitution’s requirement that Congress issue a Declaration of War before engaging in even a blockade (essentially what the US has been doing to Cuba since the 1960s and the US now is getting closer and closer to an attempt to overthrow the government there) is obvious. Beyond that, even IF Congress declared War, that would give the politicians no more ethical power to tell you to pay for it. HEADLINE: “Senate To Vote on War Powers Resolution To Block US Attack on Cuba - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
MORE sword rattling, but David Stockman calls it out
Share Gardner Goldsmith
US ECONOMYKaroline Leavitt’s claims v reality
Share
The death rattles are sounding. Consumers are becoming more restrictive, more selective. Real Personal Consumption Expenditure (RPCE) is growing at only 0.8% on a 3-month annualized basis, the slowest rate since 2020.
And more evidence that the US housing market is ready for its biggest crash in nearly 100 years.
The GERMAN ECONOMYNot good.
reut.rs/41Tq5pV ","username":"Reuters","name":"Reuters","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1874154135869616128/nJDmubGJ_normal.jpg","date":"2026-04-23T09:45:08.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":146,"retweet_count":479,"like_count":1326,"impression_count":156493,"expanded_url":{"url":"http://reut.rs/41Tq5pV","title":"Germany is sleepwalking into permanent stagnation","description":"The economy will barely expand by 2030, despite Chancellor Friedrich Merz's 500-bln-euro fiscal stimulus. The Iran-triggered energy shock is only making bare structural flaws that have reduced growth potential to near-zero. And the government can’t agree on much-needed reforms.","domain":"reut.rs","image":"https://pbs.substack.com/news_img/2047250414311976960/8IK11bWJ?format=jpg&name=orig"},"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">EDUCATION, RELIGION, FEDERALISM, PARENTAL RIGHTS, COLLECTIVISMWhat do you think: Headline “Supreme Court takes up Catholic objection to Colorado’s preschool program” LINK
Share Gardner Goldsmith
**US HITS SPLC WITH FRAUD CHARGESHeadline: “DOJ hits Southern Poverty Law Center with criminal charges – NBC New York” LINK This is a big deal. THE SPLC is one of the biggest wielders of the “strategy of tension” approach of demonizing conservatives and libertarians, calling them racist etc, to create tension situations, even as, so says this grand jury indictment, the SPLC was funding high-ups in well-known racist groups in the US, and, likely, getting funding from CIA-tied operatives via proxies like the LA Times (where Morris Dees got his original seed money, after building a massive phone and mail contact base, AND after Dees represented in court members of the KKK.) Dees co-founded (with Joe Levin Jr.) Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 1971, built his fortune as a direct-mail marketer selling cookbooks and other products in the 1960s. In 1969 he sold the business to Times Mirror—the parent company of the Los Angeles Times—reportedly for $6–7 million. He used that windfall and his marketing expertise to launch the SPLC and turn it into a fundraising powerhouse, mailing alarmist appeals about the KKK and hate groups to Northern liberals. Critics have long called the operation a “flimflam” scheme: the SPLC amassed a half-billion-dollar endowment while spending relatively little on actual litigation. Dees’s 1980 divorce from Maureene Bass Dees exposed further personal controversies. Court documents and testimony alleged he conducted multiple extramarital affairs, including a sustained relationship with another woman, and that he attempted to molest his 18-year-old stepdaughter with a sexual device. These revelations, combined with Dees’s 2019 firing amid internal charges of sexual harassment and workplace racial discrimination, have fueled long-standing accusations that the SPLC’s celebrated founder prioritized personal gain and power over the civil-rights mission he publicly championed. Please note that the “strategy of tension” might seem like an esoteric term for those deliberately working to cause political fighting and funding various blocks in order to gain political power and funds (for themselves or their friends, or both) But the activity is not the original problem, and the people who engage in it are only able to do so because political power influences money, and the polis creates interest blocks that do not work in comity, through productive, positive commerce and free will. The state, in its normative sense, is what facilitates and incentivizes this underhanded activity, by pushing all people into one arena to fight.
PLZ watch the above… On a personal note, the SPLC often attacked MRCTV when I was writing for them (this, prior to my departure and the MRC embrace of Zionist Israeli activities).
IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE-THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT dug the hole deeper. Not only did they not call out the unconstitutional and immoral ICE, not only did the judges not cite the feds for sending armed goons into CA without a request from the CA legislature or Governor (according to Article Four, Section Four of the US Constitution), they court allows for the ICE goons to not ID themselves and allows them to wear masks. Astounding. Headline: “Law requiring ICE agents to show identification struck down by 9th Circuit” LINK
Subscribe now
As David Knight discussed on his program today, this is alarming and works into both the Immigration Police State and the rest of the police state imposed on us. Headline: “Homeland Security Is Making “Smart Glasses” To Collect Intelligence on Americans - The Free Thought Project” LINK
-AND a reminder, from yesterday, about how HIPAA was designed by the feds to allow them to get your medical information without a warrant. Headline: “Did CA hospital release ICE shooting patient’s medical records without consent?” LINK Well, here is the bill as it was turned into statute, and you can read for yourself all about the “unique healthcare identifier” the HHS gets to issue to anyone who visits any medical center touched by federal money. Turn to page 75 and start there. LINK
That’s it for now, all! Many thanks for supporting freedom, and for sharing the links! And remember, you can back us here by becoming a paid subscriber if you would like, and feel free to watch Liberty Conspiracy LIVE on Gardner’s X @gardgoldsmith and on Rumble! Spread the word! Thanks, again! Please feel free to SHARE the links, and join us every M-F at 6 PM on Rumble, and my X @gardgoldsmith — and you also can donate to help the Liberty Conspiracy, itself! Just visit PayPal to help out! You also can mail GG at:
Gardner Goldsmith
PO Box 581
Amherst, NH, 03031 :)
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