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Greetings, fellow Conspirators!
Many thanks to Six of the New Prisoners and to all the great Conspirators who joined us tonight to explore the US warmongering against Iran, the evils of the “war on drugs”, the evils of Trump’s tariffs, Huckabee’s sociopathy, and more! Big thanks also to the fine journalists and lecturers whose work we got to feature tonight! - Join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble or X and get the audio pod via Spotify or here, on Substack! Here are some of the key topics we covered tonight! Be Seeing You! -
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MEXICO - THE US “WAR ON DRUGS”Many of our friends got stuck in Mexico after Anarchapulco finished. Natali Morris, or Redacted, has good coverage of this, in her morning email: ‘Drug cartels in Mexico are unleashing violent retribution after the government killed a notorious cartel boss, Nemesio Oseguera, known as El Mencho. The cartels caused violent havoc across Mexico on Sunday after the loss of one of their leaders. Schools across Mexico are shuttered today and most businesses are closed. El Mencho was a powerful drug lord and the leader of the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación. But inside parts of Mexico, his reputation was more layered than the American narrative. In many communities, he functioned as a parallel authority, enforcing order, creating employment pipelines, and during COVID lockdowns, distributing aid when the state failed to show up. The Mexican military launched the operation to eliminate him Sunday, reportedly with U.S. intelligence support. Likely more than support. For years, Washington has armed, trained, and funded Mexican security forces under counter-narcotics partnerships, while American drug demand and U.S.-origin weapons fuel the cartel ecosystem itself. American policy is woven into both sides of this conflict, and now the destabilization phase is unfolding in real time. There are circulating reports that cartel elements are considering retaliation beyond Mexico’s borders. If violence were to extend into the United States, the political consequences would be immediate and profound. Is that the point? Is this the excuse the U.S. has been looking for to launch a military operation in Mexico?’
Zerohedge notes that US intel aided in the attack LINK
Here are Daniel McAdams and Ron Paul on it LINK
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WARThe dynamic duo of Witkoff and Huckabee have done more to unravel the Netanyahu Yarns than anything in the last few months. First, we have Witkoff’s utterly deranged claim that Iran is within a week of “getting a nuclear bomb”. Not only does that contradict the Trump claim that the US “totally obliterated” the Iranian capacity to “develop nuclear weapons, for years to come”, it continues to push the yarn that Iran is developing nuclear weapons in the first place. The Ayatollah years ago issued a fatwah against nuke weapons, the Iranian government was, for years, signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty that allows the nation to pursue nuke refinement for energy (which they have) while being open to IAEA inspections to check on their facilities to check on any nuclear weapons work (and Iran, until a year ago, was not only open, the nation always passed inspections, and Tulsi Gabbard herself said last year that US Intel had determined that Iran was NOT pursuing nuke weapons. Here is Witkoff.
-More…
-The Iranian Foreign Minister on CBS Sunday had to reiterate that the Iranians were enriching uranium for energy, and have not gone for weapons, but that, as a sovereign nation, the Iranian government claims the international right to do it.
Meanwhile, the US continues to unconstitutionally hand cash and weapons to Israel,
…and the US breaks international agreements (Israel has nukes and is not open to inspections) to boot.
Then, there is the Hucka Beehive and the dangerous insects buzzing in his head. This claim to Tucker C, that Huckabee thinks it’s fine for Israel to take most of the Middle East, has sparked outrage around the globe.
-Antiwar has a good handle of the situation as it echoes around the world. Headline: ‘Fourteen Countries Condemn Huckabee’s Support for Israel Taking Over Most of the Middle East - News From Antiwar.com”‘ LINK
-Max Blumenthal notes something key re Huckabee and Jonathan Pollard, the US citizen who sold US “secrets” to Israel, which subsequently sold them to the USSR. Trump and Sheldon Adelson saw Pollard traded to Israel for a “spy swap” and Pollard has lived in the Zion Occupation Zone ever since.
Here is the full Tucker C v Huckabee video, time-loaded to the beginning of the conversation re Pollard
-While Mike spouts venomous verbiage, his daughter sends Arkansas public retirement investment funds to Israel.
-Here is more foolish and dangerous Christian Zionism, via NewsMax
-And here is Caleb Maupin confronting John Kirby at the Biden White House, years ago, bringing up the fact that Israel has nukes.
-Here is our embed of Trump and Witkoff utterly contradicting themselves and the Admin claims of “utterly destroying the nuke program” in Iran. First, Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons and has been open to inspections until last year. Second, even if the govt there WERE, that has nothing to do with either the US Constitution or the deeper reality that you are supposed to be a free person, unencumbered by politicians telling you what to do with your life and earnings…
-Congressman Jim McGovern wants a “War Powers Resolution” before Trump attacks Iran. That’s close to a Declaration of War, but NOT a Declaration of War.
Mike H, from Florida, thinks there’s a term called “Maximum Flexibility” in his lovely Constitution…
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TARIFFS-The Trump DoJ in December court filings promised refunds to many businesses (they are consumers, like we are) - yet, now, the Trump White House says that is not going to happen? According to the initial DoJ filing, the “reliquidation funds” from the unlawfully collected IEEPA tariffs would primarily go to the importers of record—typically businesses that paid the duties when bringing goods into the U.S. But, now,
-Re the SCOTUS-hit tariffs, Trump quickly imposed new global tariffs (initially at 10%, then raised to 15%) under alternative statutory authorities, such as Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which unconstitutionally allows the PREZ to impose surcharges “to address balance-of-payments issues for up to 150 days (potentially extendable with congressional approval).” The administration also signaled plans to pursue additional tariffs via other mechanisms, including Sections 232 of the bizarrely titled “Trade Expansion act of 1962”, 301 (unfair trade practices), and 338 (discriminatory practices against U.S. commerce), to effectively replicate or expand upon the invalidated ones. This article, from JUSTIA, is very good to get a strong handle of what the 6-3 majority ruled re the specious Trumpite claim that it can use the IEEPA to impose tariffs. LINK Tax researchers are trying to figure out the burden his continued incubus activity will place on each US consumer. The Tax Foundation $700 estimate you see here is low, likely by 100%.
abcnews.com/amp/Politics/t… ","username":"ericadyork","name":"Erica York","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2021977097997086720/CjFywa55_normal.jpg","date":"2026-02-22T14:53:55.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HBxSreRXEAA4KuX.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/jZLSr6rviS"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":5,"retweet_count":18,"like_count":74,"impression_count":2510,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">-The attempt to use Sec 122 is, even on the statutory level, bogus. Phil Magness has been covering this well:
…More from Phil M
… more from Phil M
More…
— Just to offer it here, Section 338 is in 19 U.S.C. (§ 1-338 titled “Discrimination by foreign countries”). It unconstitutionally authorizes the President, when finding that the public interest will be served, to impose additional duties (up to 50% ad valorem) or even exclude imports from countries that HE claims:
Impose “unreasonable charges, regulations, or limitations on U.S. goods not equally applied to goods from other countries”, or
“Discriminate against U.S. commerce” through customs duties, fees, classifications, restrictions, or other measures, placing U.S. commerce at a disadvantage compared to that of other nations.
The provision simply harms US consumers, even as it breaches the Separation of Powers between the Legislative and Executive branches. It never has been used to actually impose tariffs (though threats or findings of discrimination occurred historically, such as in the 1930s), making it an untested claim of authority in modern practice. Recent DoJ and Commerce Department discussions (as of February 22) have noted it as a potential alternative tool for country-specific tariffs following the Supreme Court’s invalidation of IEEPA-based duties, but it remains country-targeted rather than broadly global, and any use would likely face legal challenges due to its vagueness and lack of precedent. Note: There is a separate, unrelated 19 U.S.C. § 338 in Title 19 (Customs Duties) dealing with consular indorsement of invoices and ports of entry, but in trade policy and tariff authority discussions, “Section 338” universally refers to the discriminatory practices provision in the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1338).
It is astounding that some MAGA-Minds still believe Trump’s tripe.
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…yeah… Even in polls, which I typically give little attention, Trump’s lies are reflected as not sticking.
@washingtonpost ","username":"SteveRattner","name":"Steven Rattner","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1559587528109395969/HfLfInk2_normal.jpg","date":"2026-02-23T19:03:01.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HB3VSJAWsAA9T-Y.png","link_url":"https://t.co/UIlRM10mia"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":6,"retweet_count":20,"like_count":48,"impression_count":1051,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">And this is interesting, as Trump moves to put all imports at a 15% tax rate…
ft.trib.al/PRxwdFk ","username":"FT","name":"Financial Times","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/931156393108885504/EqEMtLhM_normal.jpg","date":"2026-02-22T17:09:49.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HBxxyNTW8AAdglp.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/h6ZpbPrOr6"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":199,"retweet_count":1408,"like_count":3867,"impression_count":620274,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">That’s it for now, all! Spread the word about what we offer! 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
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Amherst, NH, 03031 :)
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By Gardner GoldsmithGreetings, fellow Conspirators!
Many thanks to Six of the New Prisoners and to all the great Conspirators who joined us tonight to explore the US warmongering against Iran, the evils of the “war on drugs”, the evils of Trump’s tariffs, Huckabee’s sociopathy, and more! Big thanks also to the fine journalists and lecturers whose work we got to feature tonight! - Join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble or X and get the audio pod via Spotify or here, on Substack! Here are some of the key topics we covered tonight! Be Seeing You! -
Subscribe now
Share
MEXICO - THE US “WAR ON DRUGS”Many of our friends got stuck in Mexico after Anarchapulco finished. Natali Morris, or Redacted, has good coverage of this, in her morning email: ‘Drug cartels in Mexico are unleashing violent retribution after the government killed a notorious cartel boss, Nemesio Oseguera, known as El Mencho. The cartels caused violent havoc across Mexico on Sunday after the loss of one of their leaders. Schools across Mexico are shuttered today and most businesses are closed. El Mencho was a powerful drug lord and the leader of the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación. But inside parts of Mexico, his reputation was more layered than the American narrative. In many communities, he functioned as a parallel authority, enforcing order, creating employment pipelines, and during COVID lockdowns, distributing aid when the state failed to show up. The Mexican military launched the operation to eliminate him Sunday, reportedly with U.S. intelligence support. Likely more than support. For years, Washington has armed, trained, and funded Mexican security forces under counter-narcotics partnerships, while American drug demand and U.S.-origin weapons fuel the cartel ecosystem itself. American policy is woven into both sides of this conflict, and now the destabilization phase is unfolding in real time. There are circulating reports that cartel elements are considering retaliation beyond Mexico’s borders. If violence were to extend into the United States, the political consequences would be immediate and profound. Is that the point? Is this the excuse the U.S. has been looking for to launch a military operation in Mexico?’
Zerohedge notes that US intel aided in the attack LINK
Here are Daniel McAdams and Ron Paul on it LINK
Share Gardner Goldsmith
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WARThe dynamic duo of Witkoff and Huckabee have done more to unravel the Netanyahu Yarns than anything in the last few months. First, we have Witkoff’s utterly deranged claim that Iran is within a week of “getting a nuclear bomb”. Not only does that contradict the Trump claim that the US “totally obliterated” the Iranian capacity to “develop nuclear weapons, for years to come”, it continues to push the yarn that Iran is developing nuclear weapons in the first place. The Ayatollah years ago issued a fatwah against nuke weapons, the Iranian government was, for years, signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty that allows the nation to pursue nuke refinement for energy (which they have) while being open to IAEA inspections to check on their facilities to check on any nuclear weapons work (and Iran, until a year ago, was not only open, the nation always passed inspections, and Tulsi Gabbard herself said last year that US Intel had determined that Iran was NOT pursuing nuke weapons. Here is Witkoff.
-More…
-The Iranian Foreign Minister on CBS Sunday had to reiterate that the Iranians were enriching uranium for energy, and have not gone for weapons, but that, as a sovereign nation, the Iranian government claims the international right to do it.
Meanwhile, the US continues to unconstitutionally hand cash and weapons to Israel,
…and the US breaks international agreements (Israel has nukes and is not open to inspections) to boot.
Then, there is the Hucka Beehive and the dangerous insects buzzing in his head. This claim to Tucker C, that Huckabee thinks it’s fine for Israel to take most of the Middle East, has sparked outrage around the globe.
-Antiwar has a good handle of the situation as it echoes around the world. Headline: ‘Fourteen Countries Condemn Huckabee’s Support for Israel Taking Over Most of the Middle East - News From Antiwar.com”‘ LINK
-Max Blumenthal notes something key re Huckabee and Jonathan Pollard, the US citizen who sold US “secrets” to Israel, which subsequently sold them to the USSR. Trump and Sheldon Adelson saw Pollard traded to Israel for a “spy swap” and Pollard has lived in the Zion Occupation Zone ever since.
Here is the full Tucker C v Huckabee video, time-loaded to the beginning of the conversation re Pollard
-While Mike spouts venomous verbiage, his daughter sends Arkansas public retirement investment funds to Israel.
-Here is more foolish and dangerous Christian Zionism, via NewsMax
-And here is Caleb Maupin confronting John Kirby at the Biden White House, years ago, bringing up the fact that Israel has nukes.
-Here is our embed of Trump and Witkoff utterly contradicting themselves and the Admin claims of “utterly destroying the nuke program” in Iran. First, Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons and has been open to inspections until last year. Second, even if the govt there WERE, that has nothing to do with either the US Constitution or the deeper reality that you are supposed to be a free person, unencumbered by politicians telling you what to do with your life and earnings…
-Congressman Jim McGovern wants a “War Powers Resolution” before Trump attacks Iran. That’s close to a Declaration of War, but NOT a Declaration of War.
Mike H, from Florida, thinks there’s a term called “Maximum Flexibility” in his lovely Constitution…
Subscribe now
TARIFFS-The Trump DoJ in December court filings promised refunds to many businesses (they are consumers, like we are) - yet, now, the Trump White House says that is not going to happen? According to the initial DoJ filing, the “reliquidation funds” from the unlawfully collected IEEPA tariffs would primarily go to the importers of record—typically businesses that paid the duties when bringing goods into the U.S. But, now,
-Re the SCOTUS-hit tariffs, Trump quickly imposed new global tariffs (initially at 10%, then raised to 15%) under alternative statutory authorities, such as Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which unconstitutionally allows the PREZ to impose surcharges “to address balance-of-payments issues for up to 150 days (potentially extendable with congressional approval).” The administration also signaled plans to pursue additional tariffs via other mechanisms, including Sections 232 of the bizarrely titled “Trade Expansion act of 1962”, 301 (unfair trade practices), and 338 (discriminatory practices against U.S. commerce), to effectively replicate or expand upon the invalidated ones. This article, from JUSTIA, is very good to get a strong handle of what the 6-3 majority ruled re the specious Trumpite claim that it can use the IEEPA to impose tariffs. LINK Tax researchers are trying to figure out the burden his continued incubus activity will place on each US consumer. The Tax Foundation $700 estimate you see here is low, likely by 100%.
abcnews.com/amp/Politics/t… ","username":"ericadyork","name":"Erica York","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2021977097997086720/CjFywa55_normal.jpg","date":"2026-02-22T14:53:55.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HBxSreRXEAA4KuX.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/jZLSr6rviS"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":5,"retweet_count":18,"like_count":74,"impression_count":2510,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">-The attempt to use Sec 122 is, even on the statutory level, bogus. Phil Magness has been covering this well:
…More from Phil M
… more from Phil M
More…
— Just to offer it here, Section 338 is in 19 U.S.C. (§ 1-338 titled “Discrimination by foreign countries”). It unconstitutionally authorizes the President, when finding that the public interest will be served, to impose additional duties (up to 50% ad valorem) or even exclude imports from countries that HE claims:
Impose “unreasonable charges, regulations, or limitations on U.S. goods not equally applied to goods from other countries”, or
“Discriminate against U.S. commerce” through customs duties, fees, classifications, restrictions, or other measures, placing U.S. commerce at a disadvantage compared to that of other nations.
The provision simply harms US consumers, even as it breaches the Separation of Powers between the Legislative and Executive branches. It never has been used to actually impose tariffs (though threats or findings of discrimination occurred historically, such as in the 1930s), making it an untested claim of authority in modern practice. Recent DoJ and Commerce Department discussions (as of February 22) have noted it as a potential alternative tool for country-specific tariffs following the Supreme Court’s invalidation of IEEPA-based duties, but it remains country-targeted rather than broadly global, and any use would likely face legal challenges due to its vagueness and lack of precedent. Note: There is a separate, unrelated 19 U.S.C. § 338 in Title 19 (Customs Duties) dealing with consular indorsement of invoices and ports of entry, but in trade policy and tariff authority discussions, “Section 338” universally refers to the discriminatory practices provision in the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1338).
It is astounding that some MAGA-Minds still believe Trump’s tripe.
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Share
…yeah… Even in polls, which I typically give little attention, Trump’s lies are reflected as not sticking.
@washingtonpost ","username":"SteveRattner","name":"Steven Rattner","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1559587528109395969/HfLfInk2_normal.jpg","date":"2026-02-23T19:03:01.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HB3VSJAWsAA9T-Y.png","link_url":"https://t.co/UIlRM10mia"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":6,"retweet_count":20,"like_count":48,"impression_count":1051,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">And this is interesting, as Trump moves to put all imports at a 15% tax rate…
ft.trib.al/PRxwdFk ","username":"FT","name":"Financial Times","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/931156393108885504/EqEMtLhM_normal.jpg","date":"2026-02-22T17:09:49.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HBxxyNTW8AAdglp.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/h6ZpbPrOr6"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":199,"retweet_count":1408,"like_count":3867,"impression_count":620274,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">That’s it for now, all! Spread the word about what we offer! 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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