Gardner Goldsmith

Your Sunday News Assembly, for 2-15-26


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Welcome, fellow Conspirators!

After Valentine’s Day, we send more loving thoughts to you and yours, and our thanks for being devoted to, and fighting for, freedom and peace. Today, we have 18 breaking stories, some revolving around core issues, some completely independent, or seemingly so. They all share the common thread of statism, gangs of politicians and their supporters and cronies, taking money, pushing people around, and being used by gangsters to gain at the expense of others. Take a look! As always, please feel free to read all, or just portions, to leave and return, and to SHARE the internal links and the whole release! Be sure to head to Rumble or Gardner’s X at 6 PM eastern each M-F for the news, from Liberty Conspiracy LIVE! We hope to provide as much big info for freedom fighters as we can!! ALSO, check out the new Former Star Trek Writing Fellow Channels - On YT, and on Rumble!

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IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE

Let’s begin by way of some money matters. The US government is more than $38 TRILLION in debt — this, the government that sees its political lever-holders claim it’s run according to a “Constitution.” See if anything ICE, DHS, or Border Control do comports with any aspect of their “government-creating” document. Then, consider the fact that, even IF the Constitution were amended to allow for these kidnappings and trafficking of the victims all over the world, such activity would not be moral, and taking our money for it is not moral, either. Remember, this is just a drop in the bucket for the DHS, which used $302 BILLION in 2025 when aggregating regular “visible” budgeting and additional spending voted on or shifted to DHS - that is bigger than all the defense budgets on Earth save for China and the US. And this fiscal year the estimate is close to $320-$360 Bil.

-This, another example of ICE/BP kidnapping gangsterism, is something that only a kid’s nightmares should see. It should not be real. It is, and kudos to the bus driver for trying to help the kids. This post ties to our next piece of information, showing how such federal behavior is inspiring many locals to take to the streets in protest.

More, with testimony from one of the kids.

-This has inspired this man to speak out, to rally against ICE

-And all of this ICE insanity, while more publications are reporting on the stunning and rapid moves by the feds to buy warehouses to act as new detention centers for the people they kidnap.

And, remember, the feds keep complaining that it’s the lack of LOCAL and STATE cops “assisting” ICE when its goons are violent after they invade states without any Constitutional or moral authority. Clearly, this family would agree (wink)…

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-Local Minnesotans are citing ICE for trying to intimidate them at their homes

-MORE LEGAL INFO

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-The economy of Minneapolis is getting hammered by the ICE invasion and kidnappings

-More real economics, tying to our Friday News Notes posts on the positive outcome of allowing people to be left alone and not claiming the power to take other people’s money to police immigration…

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-and more, on the illegal ICE operations, from Cato’s David Bier.

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-From the COURTS:
First, in MN, headline: ‘Judge orders Homeland Security to give Minneapolis detainees swift access to lawyers’ LINK

(here is the court document) LINK

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-MORE CRIMINAL AGGRESSION FROM ICE

-Headline: ‘Floodgates closed: 8 in 10 asylum seekers now booted by judges as Trump attempts to restore borders’ LINK
-This is something to keep in mind.

-ICE is adopting fake identities to interact with upset locals and monitor their plans. Headline: “ICE's chilling new social media strategy uncovered as expert slams 'insidious' policy” LINK Here is the original work, from Ken Klippenstein

Ken KlippensteinExclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than OneI get leaked documents bigger media don’t because I’m not slowed down by corporate bureaucracy. But this also means I don’t have corporate money - I just have readers like you. Please become a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work…Read more10 days ago · 573 likes · 19 comments · Ken Klippenstein

-THIS - MORE on the LIES of ICE-DHS-BPS-CBP

  • HABEAS? WHAT IS THAT?

    -A return to one of the issues we explored Friday night on Liberty Conspiracy LIVE. The curious thing is that many of the politicians who are in this group have voted to fund the NSA, CIA, and overall DOJ that have spied on many of us… Headline: ‘DOJ faces bipartisan backlash for tracking lawmakers’ searches of Epstein docs’ LINK
    -And a reminder about the on-the-scene horror and DC terrorism of the murder of Alex Pretti

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-Marco Rubio Saturday spoke at the “Munich" Security Conference” - a gathering of fearmongers and despots, brown-nosers and thieves, and he used the occasion to offer a not-so-subtle display of anti-Iranian, anti-Muslim, pro-war, pro-military spending song and dance routine. Here is his entire harangue

- The Russian government has a few things to say about the mounting EU-US-NATO mania and fearmongering over Russia - HEADLINE: ‘Munich conference ignoring Kiev’s ‘hellish terrorism’ – Moscow — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union’ LINK
-As we reported Friday, members of the EU and NATO (often they mix and mingle, of course) are pushing for more “military spending” for both an EU military, for NATO, and for Ukraine. We observed that this is the way these politicians use international conflict, contribute to it, and use the feedback of the conflict and their own bogeyman-pushing anti-Russian rhetoric to gain financially, and/or try to convince their local populations that industry is buzzing, as they syphon more and more money away from the taxpayers and plunk it into devices of death. This is not how to foster a flourishing economy. It is anti-productive, harms living standards, and also will require debt-financing from their central banks.

Daniel Davis understands the problems they create for the people in their nations.

ISRAEL

This is curious…

VENEZUELA

Shockingly, one of the biggest GOP supporters juuuuuust got a big chance to refine VZ crude! Lookie! MONEY-MONEY! Headline: ‘Exclusive - US refiner Valero to import up to 6.5 million barrels of Venezuelan crude in March, sources say” LINK
Valero’s corporate PAC and related contributions overwhelmingly favor Republicans:

  • In the 2023-2024 election cycle, Valero Energy PAC contributed $595,000 to federal candidates, with 97% ($577,500) going to Republicans and only 3% ($17,500) to Democrats.

  • This pattern holds in breakdowns: House candidates received 96.71% to back Republicans, and Senate candidates 100% Republican.

  • Valero has donated significantly to GOP entities like the National Republican Congressional Committee (e.g., over $100,000 in recent cycles) and figures such as Steve Scalise and other Republican leaders.

  • In some tracking for 2026 cycles, company-related donations (PAC + employees) showed 100% to Republicans in certain reports.

UK-EU-US v FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Re UK censorship, Matt Taibbi follows-up on what Max Blumenthal reported Friday

Here is Max’s info:

AND HOW ABOUT THAT GREAT TEAM AT BLOOMBERG? They just hired Canada’s TOP VIPER AGAINST FREE SPEECH, the pro-Nazi, crackdown, lockdown, bank-account-freezing Chrystia Freeland! You read that right.

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THE US ECONOMY

Not good.

More, on Trump’s Tariff Insanity

Leading to this reminder…

-For those who tell you the economy showed greatness in January, here’s some reality. Headline: ‘January job cuts hit 17-year high’ LINK
-Wendy’s closes more locations LINK

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The EPSTEIN FILES

MTG speaking with Owen S

ANOTHER TRUMP OFFICIAL - Kept in close touch with Epstein, long after his criminality was known Headline: ‘Trump insider Tom Barrack kept in contact with Epstein for years, files show” LINK

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LITTLE LEVIATHAN

-Another example of the problems of collectivism, this time in a government-controlled cemetery, and a controversy over a HEADSTONE. Seriously. Headline: “Family told to remove 'inappropriate' tombstone from cemetery” LINK

That’s it for mainly text-based links! Now, a SINGLE VIDEO suggestion!

I would like to offer you this, which actually is five months old, but it is worth watching many times, worth the viewer taking notes, and worth sharing, then re-watching months later! Well done Mike Benz and Glenn Diesen! See in this the great research Benz has conducted into the US overthrow of Ukraine and the use of NGOs, the ties to Soros in many intelligence ops, and more. This is a great class-level exploration and might inspire viewers to get books and read more on the numerous dark intel ops mentioned.

That’s it for now, all! Thank you for believing in freedom!

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