Your Sunday News Assembly, for 3-9-25!
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Kinetic war and death, government extortion, theft, censorship, Orwellian Newspeak! This week, we have twenty-one breaking stories, and two video links for your perusal!
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Now, as Mario and Luigi would say, “Lets-a-GO!”
FIRST!
I got to discuss this on my streaming show Friday. The Trump tariff idea is not only economically vacuous and destructive, it's framed within the foolish idea that Canada will take a big bite out of fentanyl smuggling. Here are some of the items that already are disappearing from the Canadian shelves, in response to the US tariffs. LINK, and here is a document produced by a George Mason Econ prof in association with a Canadian (Montreal) group that helps open a window onto tariffs, their malignant effects on prices in the country applying the tariffs, and how tariffs actually have been reduced (not by increased tariffs from one side making some other side reduce them, but unilaterally... (see PDF below)....
Canadian stores pull U.S. liquor from shelves as Trump’s tariffs take effect
As tariffs set by the Trump administration on Canada and Mexico came into effect on Tuesday, Canadians discovered empty shelves where American liquor products were once stocked.
www.msn.com
Here is the PDF. And Mises always has great info on tariffs.
TWO!
As with the Budget Resolution last week, there are ZERO actual cuts. It's Baseline Budgeting, using the label "cuts" to describe increases that are not as steep as first proposed. Meanwhile, the Dems argue that the number of people using Medicare and Medicaid will increase, so, unless more money is reserved for those programs, the amount per-person will have to be reduced. Here's a first-blush story on it. Link!
Speaker Johnson unveils bill to fund the government through September 30 - MSN
House Speaker Mike Johnson formally unveiled plans on Saturday for a government funding stopgap through September 30 — a measure intended to stave off a potential March 14 shutdown and buy time ...
www.msn.com
And here is more, seeing the "cuts" that aren't cuts overall, and seeing Johnson promise more money to "defense" when that term is laughably off the mark. The increase in "defense" i.e. military spending (much of which will go to unconstitutional weapons-shipments and assistance going to Israel and the 750 US military bases worldwide - during a time of no declared War) will come in a separate bill Johnson promises, and he promises to tie that to "tax cuts". How the rhetoric is tailored to appeal, yet mean nothing, is truly astounding. LINK!
House Unveils Trump-Backed Bill to Avert Government Shutdown - MSN
House Republicans announced a spending bill to keep government agencies open through Sept. 30, daring Democrats to vote against it and risk a disruptive March 15 shutdown.
www.msn.com
THREE!
I got to discuss this on my show Friday. The US Justice Department has no place here. The US government is not supposed to be funding universities. As readers of the linked piece can see, these are professors making "allegations" about students and protesters. With the JD Vance sponsored "Antisemitism Awareness Act" passed in late 2023, even criticizing the state policies of Israel now is defined under US law as "antisemitism" when it is not. Reporters such as Glenn Greenwald and Michael Tracey correctly noted that such a reshaping of the word would weave in US "civil rights violations" law, and this is an example of the result. This is akin to the Biden DOJ going after conservative parents who voiced concerns over LGBTQ pedagogy at their school board meetings, similar to the FBI labeling those parents "domestic terror threats".
Here is the first wrinkle in this ugly visage, via California's public university system. LINK!
Justice Department launches investigation into allegations of antisemitism at UC - MSN
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has launched a civil rights investigation into allegations of antisemitism at the University of California, saying its attorneys believe ...
www.msn.com
And here is the next, ratcheted upwards, phase. Columbia U opened a new office to "investigate claims of antisemitism" on campus. Those who support freedom of speech and see the problems of government grants or other funds tying all people into these systems can acknowledge the problem of Columbia targeting a young woman for merely calling for divestment from Israel. LINK!
But, evidently, Columbia's clampdown was not fast enough, as Pam Bondi (who still has not apologized for supporting a Red Flag statute in FLA) and the DOJ swept down on Columbia and pulled hundreds of millions in federal grants because of the "antisemitism" on campus. LINK!
Trump administration yanks $400M in grants, contracts from Columbia University over antisemitism
nypost.com
And, of course, not only is the interpretation of speech on a university campus not a constitutional activity for the feds, the federal funds shouldn't be going out to universities in the first place. This is a lesson to people who think the feds or states should fund so-called "school choice" in the form of vouchers. Politicians always start to attach strings or make threats to withdraw funding unless the recipients act the way they want the recipients to act. Biden tried this by expanding the Dept of Ed definition of Title 9 to include men pretending to be women... Pot, meet kettle. .
Glenn Greenwald comments on this, but, unfortunately, he turns away from the focus - the public funds that create the Tragedy of the Commons disputes. LINK.
The jurisprudential history of Unconstitutional Conditions tells us that, most of the time, the Supreme Court has ruled that, even when the feds provide cash to something, they cannot make the recipient give up a constitutionally protected right. The SCOTUS did, however, make an exception to that in the Grove City College/Hillsdale College cases of the 1980s.
And, of course, RFK, Jr. who LITERALLY is involved in a SCOTUS suit over being censored by federal pressure on social media, is engaging in using the HHS to describe "antisemitism" as a "public health" problem, as part of this coordinated attack on free speech, overlooking so many blatantly unconstitutional agencies, and assumptions about the role of the state in stifling speech. Incredible. LINK!
FOUR!
As a guy who spent many a day walking across Paramount sets and lots, this is sad to me. Very sad. It seems as if, the more readily recognizable is the growing social antipathy for insane wokeness in media/television/film, the more the entrenched "sensitive" crowd in LA wants to "teach" us unwashed and unenlightened trogs a lesson in "acceptance". They simply will not recognize that this kind of agenda, stuffed into entertainment, destroys the viewer's suspension of disbelief and gets us thinking of the board room, the suits, the arrogance, of Hollywood. LINK!
Paramount employees pen letter blasting DEI shakeup: report - MSN
Paramount employees are blasting the studio’s decision to roll back their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in a searing letter sent to the company’s co-CEOs, according to one ...
www.msn.com
FIVE!
This not only forces the companies to pay for a nothing-burger, for something that has not been proven as harmful to people, it will see higher costs spread to people outside the state. The question in my mind is - if this goes into the courts, on what will the court focus? This could open a dangerous door to politically-motivated judges trying to cement into rulings that the energy companies ARE harming people through allowing people to use their products. (GOD FORBID!!!!) Here's the news about the suit! LINK!
Hochul Sued Over ‘Illegal and Misguided’ Climate Change Law That Critics Say Will Send New Yorkers’ Gas, Utility Bills Skyrocketing. Businesses say the lawsuit will force them to raise prices on consumers to pay for the whopping assessments for their alleged responsibility for climate change.
www.nysun.com
SIX!
Ahh, yes. Take an assumption of unconstitutional power over "homeland security" - whatever that means to each new Administration — without any Declaration of War or Letters of Marque and Reprisal (meaning, there technically are no enemies of the US, atm) - mix it with the unconstitutional assumption of "immigration control" by the feds (I'm still waiting for one of them to find the word in the Constitution, and I will wait forever, since it's not there) and then add to it the new Administration trying to change what the previous gang was doing, which was SUBSIDIZING people to move here. What a mess. It's like watching mafia gangs change turf and apply new rules as they take over. LINK!
DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers - MSN
The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking information to the media about immigration operations, according to four ...
www.msn.com
SEVEN!
Phew! I thought for a minute that Newsom wasn't helping the "little guys"! Now, I know it's the evil... Uh... Hold on, here...
NEW DATA: Staggering 16,000 Jobs Lost Under California Gov. Newsom’s $20 Fast Food Wage Law
Brand-new quarterly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), analyzed by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), has laid bare a grim reality for California’s fast food industry: the ...
www.msn.com
EIGHT!
Sometimes, people just don't have the sense to shut up and try some introspection. LINK!
Former NIH Director Francis Collins Sings Song at Science Rally - Breitbart News Network
Francis Collins, the former Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), sang a song at a “Stand up for Science” rally in Washington, DC, on Friday.
www.breitbart.com
NINE!
Again, regardless of how one feels about immigration on a cultural, crime, or economic level, the fact that politicians and their bureau-filling fiddlers can take our money to help people move is an indictment of the people pushing it and of the lack of any real conception of the US Constitution. LINK!
Trump Reforms Force Closure of More NGOs Resettling Refugees Across U.S. - Breitbart News Network
Another non-governmental organization, which contracted with the federal government to resettle refugees across American communities, is having to close its doors after President Donald Trump froze the government’s refugee resettlement program.
www.breitbart.com
TEN!
How about Trump stops US funding to ALL foreign nations, and he abides by his oath? Why is there no standard from any occupant of the White House? LINK!
No thumbnail image, so how about a shot of Fad Gadget, from the “Collapsing New People” video?
US Stopping All Federal Funding to South Africa, Trump Says
The United States is stopping all federal funding to South Africa, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday. "To go a step further, any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
www.newsmax.com
ELEVEN!
Auto-pen signings. Biden might not have known about many of them. LINK!
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has done something that could be extremely significant. Bailey is demanding the Department of Justice investigate whether Joe Biden's cognitive decline "allowed unelected staff to push through radical policy without his knowing approval."
redstate.com
TWELVE!
This is interesting. Will he or anyone in DC acknowledge that Iran never has been shown to be developing nuclear weapons but, instead, has increased its ownership of power-grade nuclear materials? Iran always has been open to international nuke inspectors, as opposed to Israel, which developed its nukes through espionage against the US many years ago. LINK!
Trump reveals he is pushing to negotiate nuclear deal with Iran
nypost.com
THIRTEEN!
Isn't this missing the forest for the trees? Whence comes this magic federal "power" to "help" people during whatever the feds deem is an "emergency" or "disaster"? Davy Crockett's spirit must be pretty frustrated, since he already explained that such actions are not appropriate for the feds or any political organization, in the normative sense. This flare-up over the FEMA workers avoiding Trump-sign houses is angering, but it misses the larger problem of FEMA, itself. LINK!
That makes four in total, given their walking papers over the incident. The news appears to contradict former FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, who told members of the House Oversight Committee that the shocking directive involved a lone employee.
redstate.com
FOURTEEN!
It's a good thing Cornell doesn't get tax subsidies as it pushes and funds nonsense like this. LINK!
Scholar says the ‘male norm is affecting’ scientific knowledge about mammals. Feminist scholars discussed their concerns about science being too male, “hetero,” and “feto-centric ...
www.thecollegefix.com
Oh, wait... My mistake. Link. (one of many, many, many that easily can be found)
Cornell Center for Health Equity receives $150K federal grant to improve telehealth
The Diversity Center of Excellence of the Cornell Center for Health Equity has received a $150K federal grant to support increased health professions workforce training with a focus on telehealth and distance learning capabilities in response to COVID-19. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded $15 million ...
centerforhealthequity.cornell.edu
FIFTEEN!
HHS is offering $25 K to employees who voluntarily leave. For us taxpayers, is this kind of like offering a squatter money to vacate one's home? LINK!
All HHS workers given $25,000 voluntary buyout offer, source says - MSN
All employees in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were notified Friday of the option to voluntarily resign in exchange for a $25,000 payment.
www.msn.com
SIXTEEN!
Let's not forget this gem... LINK!
Agriculture Dept. gave university $600K to study ‘menstrual cycles in trans men’ - The College Fix
The U.S. Department of Agriculture granted Southern University Agricultural & Mechanical College in Louisiana $600,000 to study menstrual cycles in “transgender men,” according to a new ...
www.thecollegefix.com
SEVENTEEN!
This might be worth further investigation. In the UK, new sentencing guidelines handed to judges appear to direct them to offer lighter sentences for criminals if the crims are "trans" or some other preferred minority. LINK!
That seems to enshrine two tier justice into law. Potentially one sentence for white, Christian, straight men, and one sentence for ethnic minorities, cultural minorities and trans people.
www.msn.com
EIGHTEEN!
This ties-in the earlier story re Columbia and Bondi, and RFK, and Vance, and all the other insane, Orwellian speech policing. Even IF the students were violent on college campuses, there isn't a place for the feds unless states are not protecting victims of violent crime equally, per the 14th Amendment. LINK!
State Department Rolls Out AI to Track Online Activity, Revoke Student Visas - The New American
The State Department has launched an AI-powered program to revoke student visas based on social media activity. This follows President Donald Trump’s recent threats to deport foreign students ...
thenewamerican.com
NINETEEN!
Here is the status of the CHD (Children's Health Defense) suit against META for its work with federal bureaucrats to censor posts re COVID, mRNA, and more. LINK!
TWENTY!
This is a nice backgrounder on Birx and her association with USAID, via Brownstone!
Deborah Birx Came Directly from USAID ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Deborah Birx, who became the White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator on February 27, 2020, came directly from USAID – the department everyone now knows to be a front for CIA propaganda and regime change operations.[She served as U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy, a joint USAID and State Department office that had ” developed a strategic approach to accomplish ...
brownstone.org
And here's a little reminder of what Birx promoted with her lockdown fever. LINK!
TWENTY-ONE!
As Al Jolani (McCain's ol' Al Nusra pal from way back) and HTS slaughter innocent civilians in the streets, folks on X remind us of how Jolani (who simultaneously was "most wanted" by the US while the US worked with him in Adlib province in Syria) was just embraced by the haughty high-ups at the UN LINK, and then, we can recall the McCain-adored Obama op called "Timber Sycamore", we can see the bloodshed, shot by members of HTS, here and here and from many more posts (X has removed some of the vids of actual head-shot attacks that were visible on the platform Friday night, and which I showed on my stream - with, hopefully, some decent discretion). Now, word is out that those eeeevil RUSSIANS have opened their still-operating airbase in Syria to allow people fleeing for their lives to get to safety behind the fences and the Russian soldiers, escaping the bloodshed.
Over 1,000 Reported Killed, Mostly Civilians, as HTS Syrian Forces Attack Alawites
Over 1,000 Reported Killed, Mostly Civilians, as HTS Syrian Forces Attack Alawites Government forces reportedly control major cities, fighting continues in Latakia mountains by Jason Ditz March 8 ...
news.antiwar.com
The airbase news.
Hundreds of Alawite refugees have taken refuge at a Russian airbase in Syria.
For several days now, a brutal extermination of one of the indigenous religious groups has been going on in Syria, which has been living on its land there for centuries. The Alawites had to flee to the territory of the Russian military base. For...
syria.news-pravda.com
NOW, MORE VIDEOS!
Judge Andrew Napolitano and Larry Johnson are in Moscow to meet with Lavrov, and they got together with Ray McGovern to really nail key points about the US-Russia-Ukraine status and the US-Israel situation. Here’s the video!
And… Former EU “Rep” from Ireland, Clare Daly, offers key insights about the EU and its sword-rattling over Ukraine — even as Russian troops move with greater force to purge Ukraine soldiers from Kursk. Check it out!
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Yes, 2025 is shaping up to be one heck of a year. But the last item on your list, the escalating tensions in Syria, is really the most important one. You are basically right, watching the SuperTrump team oust the Biden Show is like watching turf wars between mafiosi. Nothing really substantial to see- just one socialist regime replacing another.
The Latin and Orthodox Patriarchs are running red flags up poles all over Syria. It would appear not thousands, but tens of thousands are being murdered. And we know all these Al-CIAda fronts are the children of the Mossad and US and British "Intelligence" Agencies. This has me very worried, as Zionist cronies are destabilizing Syria as a prelude to... Israeli invasion? And that runs right into the Biblical Prophecies of Isaiah. Meanwhile, even though I suspect everything is staged, are we going to expect Iran, Syria's ally, to stand by under these circumstances, or are they allegedly goading the "terrorists"? It is hard to discern the angle here.
But what seem certain is that the Evangelicals and the Dispensationialists are about to get a whole heck of a lot more Armageddon than what they ever bargained for.