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In addition to being able to play a great reading of Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart", we got important thoughts from all the good folks who joined us live, and we got to investigate big reports from great journalists.- Follow them if you don't yet do so, and join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble or on X, and get the Audio Pod shortly after each stream, free, via Substack and Spotify! - The Show Title: “Liberty Conspiracy Live 81426 Lincoln Fallout, Tariff Terrorism, US/EU Attacks v Exposed, FICTION” Here is the link to tonight’s stream! https://rumble.com/v7e6l5q-liberty-conspiracy-live-81426-lincoln-fallout-tariff-terrorism-useu-attacks.html
US ECONOMY
To add more follow-up to the follow-up. We noted two days ago the major data set missing from Stephen Moore’s claim that US “ability to afford” is up — that data set being the number of people who are either unemployed or are no longer looking for work. That has an effect on the calculation output, because it’s a data pool skewed towards only those who are working. Here is the stunning information on the labor participation rate.
And check out this one. The low expectations motif, with a touch of “rah-rah, ‘Merica!”
This is not going to help. Most of all, it is immoral. Oh, and it won’t turn any tide against Iran.
WAR
IRAN (Thanks to the Straw Dogs) And… The insanity increases
TRUMP FANS, REJOICE! HE’S STILL AN ENEMY OF YOUR CONSTITUTION AND HE CARES NOT AT ALL FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY HE TELLS TO DO IMMORAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL THINGS!
Daniel Davis has thoughts on that and more
And, like Trump, JD Vance can’t let a Friday pass without making it a Fraud-Day
Everything he said was false. Oil prices are up today. As of recent trading (afternoon updates):
WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude: approximately $82.24 per barrel, up about 1.22% (roughly +$0.99) from the previous close of around $81.25.
Brent crude: approximately $88.55 per barrel, up about 1.70% (roughly +$1.48) from the previous close of around $87.07.
Comparison to January 2025In January 2025, monthly average spot prices were:
WTI: $75.74 per barrel.
Brent: $79.27 per barrel.
Today’s prices are higher than the January 2025 averages:
WTI is up by roughly $6.50 (about 8–9% higher).
Brent is up by roughly $9.30 (about 11–12% higher).
MORE ON ENERGY
This is unsustainable.
Yet, Hegseth and Trump appear to want to sustain their blockade of Iran, which will prolong and worsen the world energy shortage.
NOTE: Senator Ossoff (D- GA) notes that this entire aggressive endeavor is based on a lie. But Mr. Ossoff repeatedly has supported the unconstitutional proxy war against Russia via Ukraine.
Trump appears to be prepping for more strikes “US Sending Fresh Aircraft Carrier to the Middle East Amid Reports of Multiple Sailors Attempting to Jump Overboard - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
YEMEN-SAUDI
Yemen hit an ARAMCO site in Saudi and a major Saudi-controlled port in Yemen — recall that it was Saudi that broke the ceasefire many weeks ago. “Ansar Allah Launches More Attacks on Oil Sites in Saudi Arabia, Saudi-Backed Forces in Yemen - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
Nima has key thoughts on this:
UKRAINE/US/NATO/EU v RUSSIA
The August 13 explosion at the KNDS Ammo Italy plant (formerly Simmel Difesa) in Colleferro, about 40 km southeast of Rome, has not been attributed to Russian forces. We wondered about that yesterday. LINK The blast involved a fire in the powder-processing/pressing area that led to a large blast, with no casualties reported. The plant (part of the Franco-German KNDS defense group) produces medium- and large-caliber ammunition and related products; it was operating with reduced staff during the summer holiday period. Italian authorities and investigators (including the Velletri Public Prosecutor’s Office) have stated there is no immediate suspicion of arson with subversive intent, sabotage, or external attack. The incident is being treated as an industrial accident or investigated under arson related to internal operations, with the precise cause still under review. Official sources and early reports explicitly ruled out sabotage. Some media and commentary have noted the plant’s role in European ammunition production (including 155 mm shells linked to Ukraine support) and referenced broader concerns about Russian sabotage campaigns elsewhere in Europe, but no evidence or official attribution connects this specific explosion to Russian forces or agents.
BUT, LAVROV is warning European deciders to stop assisting Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilians.
AND, Lavrov is aware that the US is involved with most of the strikes
US WAR CRIMES ON THE SEAS
“Covert CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on Galápagos boats - The Washington Post” LINK
-AND ““Total Whitewash”: Pentagon Claims It Killed No Civilians in Boat Strikes” LINK
CUBA (AS XTC might say)
Hegseth. Insufferable liar.
TARIFF TERRORISM
Yep. Despite Lutnick’s claims, despite Trump’s claims… Reality stands. “‘Tariffs have saved General Motors:’ Trump claims import taxes are helping GM — even as they will actually cost the company up to $3.5 billion” LINK
-More dark tidings, thanks to the court of “international trade”… “US court backs Trump’s power to close ‘de minimis’ tariff exemption | Reuters” LINK and LINK - Folks, this is stunning. The current removals (or indefinite suspensions) of the de minimis exemption for low-value imports (generally under $800) were carried out under discretionary presidential authority that Trump claimed and exercised primarily through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), rather than under a statute from Congress that had already taken effect to end the exemption. LINK
Key details:
Trump issued a series of executive orders (beginning in 2025, with later continuations) invoking IEEPA. Under 50 U.S.C. § 1702(a)(1)(B), the President may “nullify [or] void … any … privilege” with respect to property in which a foreign country or national has an interest during a declared national emergency. The court treated the longstanding de minimis exemption (codified at 19 U.S.C. § 1321) as such a “privilege.”
On August 13, 2026, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade upheld this action. The court held that IEEPA authorizes the rescission because it voids a privilege without constituting an exercise of the congressional power of the purse or the power to impose new tariffs. It distinguished the action from the broader IEEPA-based tariffs that the Supreme Court had earlier invalidated (those created new duties; this merely subjects low-value goods to duties that Congress had already authorized in the absence of the exemption).
Congressional role?
Congress did act separately. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (enacted in 2025) repeals the commercial de minimis exemption effective July 1, 2027. The legislative history explicitly states that this future repeal does not limit the President’s existing authorities (including under IEEPA) to restrict the exemption before that date. (Which is, of course, unconstitutional). LINK
-Here is that piece by Phil Magness that we last night mentioned on LCL “Trump’s Tariff ‘Plan B’ Has Arrived: News Article - Independent Institute” LINK
-AND… “Washington wanted manufacturing to leave China and come back to America - much of it went to Mexico instead” LINK
IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE
The CTG-5 - as opposed to TVC 1-5 by Bowie - continues to see a massive pushback. The trouble is that more than 50 people have been killed by ICE or have died in ICE custody since Trump returned to the Oval Office. Unless people address the deeper unconstitutional and immoral existence of ICE itself, the capacity for expansion of ICE actions to become deadly will remain. The immoral predicate is enough to oppose ICE. “
This is significant for the states located within the zone of the First Circuit “DHS slammed for contorting law ‘beyond recognition’ to ‘hide elephants in mouseholes’“ LINK
-Then, there is, again, the lesson to derive from this one. The concept of a “visa” is not in their US Constitution, and, on a more fundamental level, where does one gang of people get off claiming they can tell others whether they can travel or not?- “Over 175k visas revoked by State Department under Trump” LINK
-This is very NOT cool - “Federal court dismisses visa lawsuit filed by Massachusetts robotics professor” LINK
-More despotism, and another mariachi singer who wasn’t harming anyone, kidnapped by ICE “Another San Antonio mariachi is in ICE custody, and his fellow musicians are making noise” LINK
-”Springfield Haitians get ICE check-in orders as deportation fears rise” LINK
-ICE’S DIGITAL DEVILISHNESS “US Customs & Border Protection is now emailing foreign visitors with a 10-day warning” LINK
-”Watchdog sues ICE over healthcare crisis as unpaid medical bills pile up” LINK
-AND, GET THIS! A LAWFIRM TIED TO TRUMPERS SUDDENLY CLAIMED… experience in immigration law, despite zero indication of it prior to the firm updating their website and… getting a massive federal contract to… represent migrants whom ICE had kidnapped! Seriously. LINK
THE CLASSIC EX OF PORK
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