Your Sunday News Assembly, for Easter Sunday, 4-20-25!
Breaking news and video information, with additional context to derive long-standing lessons for liberty!
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This week we have 20 breaking news stories and two video links to explore the news AND Easter Sunday.
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ONE!
Iran and US on the brink? Curiously at mid-week, Witkoff ended up signaling to folks like Sean Hannity that they were on track to see Iran "allowed" enrichment of uranium to 3.67%, and what's curious about that is that is the exact same level that Obama had negotiated circa 2015 in what was called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), but Trump Admin One saw Trump not only
negate that agreement, but ridicule it! Here's what things looked like a few days ago... LINK!
US signals openness to 3.67 per cent enrichment cap in potential Iran nuclear deal
The United States and Iran have resumed indirect talks, over Iran’s nuclear programme, after President Trump warned of “great danger” if a deal isn’t reached. Both sides described the discussions as “constructive,” though major differences persist. US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, speaking to Fox News, said Iran “does not need to enrich past 3.67 per
nationalsecuritynews.com
Restoring the JCPOA’s Nuclear Limits | Arms Control Association
A year after former U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and reimposed sanctions on Iran in violation of the deal, Iran began to breach limits under the accord.
www.armscontrol.org
Many anti-Iran hawks are upset by this, and yet they do not acknowledge that Iran always has been open to IAEA inspections, while Israel not only HAS nukes and will not allow inspections, it appears that in the 1960s Israel got some of the fissile material it used to build bombs via espionage against (and with) the US. Also, Jonathan Pollard (who was a spy for Israel, convicted of espionage against the US in the 1980s) was given a deal via negotiations with Israel, and flown back to Israel in a private jet owned by Trump's friend, now deceased, Sheldon Adelson... Since Witkoff's initial statement, he has walked things back, leaving us with this status between US and Iran LINK!
Witkoff in Apparent Reversal Says Iran Must Halt Nuclear Enrichment - MSN
“A deal with Iran will only be completed if it is a Trump deal,” Witkoff wrote in a post on X, adding that “Iran must stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment and weaponization program.”
www.msn.com
By the way, Iran won't agree to this. They just agreed to a new nuclear power cooperative with Russia earlier this week. I've been discussing this on the Liberty Conspiracy live show this last week. LINK! (Don't mind the headline, just hop a few graphs into the piece to see the nuclear energy facet - though Newsweek is not as detailed as RT has been in its video coverage of the agreement this week.)
Trump Accuses Iran Of 'Tapping' U.S. Along On Nuclear Deal
Russia's upper house of parliament ratified a key strategic partnership deal signed between Moscow and Tehran on Wednesday.
www.newsweek.com
TWO!
Another big matter! Late Friday night, technically Saturday morning, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump MUST STOP the deportations w/o due process that he is doing under the so-called "Alien Enemies Act." As I've noted on the show, that act not only leaves a wide zone of ambiguity regarding a president making a "public proclamation" of an invasion occurring (meaning, what, that he can define it, or that Congress recognizes it and he proclaims it?) the more important problem of the act that makes it clearly unconstitutional is that it seems to allow the President to move into states and arrest people without being invited in (during a time of non War) by a state legislature or governor, per the CONSTITUTION in Article Four Section Four. He can't go into a state with federal militia (the original military, not ICE, not Border Patrol) unless invited in, and the feds also have no power over immigration, and IF foreigners are arrested for actual criminal activity within states, generally speaking it is supposed to be the states that do so, based on their statutes (there were supposed to be few federally-based crimes) and every suspect must be granted DUE PROCESS. Trump is not only not doing this, he intentionally is defying judge's opinions on this (the judicial branch has no enforcement power, of course) and intentionally is shipping people outside the US on the basis that in the Boumedienne SCOTUS decision of 2008, the SCOTUS found that any "enemy combatant" held on US soil (even soil outside the US but rented by it, like Gitmo) the apprehended people must be afforded habeas and Due Process. This is a very important matter, and Trump supporters are turning away from very clear constitutional rules here. Additionally, they are doing everything they can to depict Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a criminal, when he has never been found guilty of committing a crime and, now, has not been afforded due process or accused of having committed a crime against another person.
The SCOTUS members should step up and do the right thing, because the Constitution is clear. Right now, with this ruling, it's merely about procedural matters, not the actual, easily seen, way the Alien Enemies (Enemy Aliens) Act breaches Article Four, Section Four and breaches due process as well as assumes the feds have a power over immigration, which they do not. LINK!
Supreme court blocks Trump's use of rare deportation law - MSN
The US Supreme Court temporarily halted the deportation of Venezuelan citizens detained in northern Texas on Saturday. This action was to be carried out under a rarely used 18th-century wartime act.
www.msn.com
And...
§21. Restraint, regulation, and removal. Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or ...
uscode.house.gov
THREE!
And, again, because few people in the US (except, I think, the founder of the Future of Freedom Foundation, attorney Jacob Hornberger) acknowledge that the US has no constitutional purview over immigration, and this dominant ignorance not only sees many of the problems conservatives saw under Biden, but new Trump attack on the Bill of Rights and Article Four Sec Four. It also sees the "revocation of visas" Rubio and others seem to love, despite the fact that there is nothing in the US Constitution that give him or any other fed a "power to issue" or "revoke" visas, because federal "visas" aren't in the Constitution. Now, the feds also have added the threat of removing federal funding from colleges (not anything in the Constitution that allows the funding, in the first place, of course) if they don't crack down on what the US feds call "antisemitism" which has been redefined to fit the IHRA definition, which now includes criticism of the generic state of Israel's POLICIES or US handing weapons to Israel.
In the spirit of the Stockholm Declaration that states: “With humanity still scarred by …antisemitism and xenophobia the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils” the committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial called the IHRA Plenary in Budapest 2015 to adopt the following working definition of antisemitism.
holocaustremembrance.com
The US Congress and Senate are embracing that with the "Antisemitism Awareness Act" and that runs completely contrary to the First Amendment, bc it has a bearing on so-called "civil rights" violations by Americans on a federal criminal level, and it is the leverage for this US attack on universities. The universities should not be getting the cash from the feds in the first place, but now the US is going further, as this major new story about Harvard indicates. Here TIS!
The Trump administration has significantly dialed up its pressure on Harvard University, not only freezing $2 billion in federal funding but now threatening its eligibility to host international ...
www.msn.com
Essentially, what the feds are threatening is to eliminate Harvard's role in offering foreign students the chance to be under that university umbrella as they get what is called "SEVP Certification" to be here as a "non-immigrant student". My old roommate, Sean Naylor, went to Boston University under this (a variation of it) and if it were revoked by the feds (the feds have no claim of power over foreigners studying in any state, it is up to the states) Sean would have been deported. Here is background. LINK!
Getting Started with SEVP Certification | Study in the States
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) delegated the school certification process to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and ICE assigned this responsibility to its Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP). SEVP certification allows institutions to issue Forms I-20, "Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status," to prospective international students after ...
studyinthestates.dhs.gov
And this is an attachment to that story, going back to when the Trump Admin sent a letter demanding information on Harvard's DEI programs and other specifics re admissions and also demanding information on migrants being admitted. If the Biden Administration engaged in similar tactics while pushing its own agenda, I suspect conservatives would speak up. Meanwhile, few in the GOP or the D party bother talking about separating the universities from the tax money. LINK!
White House claims letter to Harvard with demands was an 'unauthorized' mistake: NYT
The Trump administration's April 11 letter to Harvard University was "unauthorized," two people familiar with the matter told the New York Times. In the letter, the White House demanded that ...
www.msn.com
FOUR!
It looks like Putin and someone in Ukraine (Zelinsky isn't legally the leader there, despite their "emergency extension") have gotten a ceasefire for Easter. LINK!
Vladimir Putin announces truce with Ukraine starting in hours in huge breakthrough
Russian President Vladimir Putin called an Easter ceasefire in a major breakthrough in the 3-year conflict in Ukraine.
www.msn.com
Trump could achieve a ceasefire by abiding by the Constitution and ending all weapons and monetary aid to Ukraine, same with Israel.
FIVE!
This might be the politically popular thing to do, but it is not the constitutional thing to do. He has a duty to end them, immediately. LINK!
Trump Promises No Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid | NTD
President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated that there will be “no cuts” to Medicare and Medicaid programs. Trump made the comments during the swearing-in ceremony of Dr. Mehmet Oz as the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). “As CMS Administrator, Dr. Oz will work tirelessly to strengthen and protect Medicare […]
www.ntd.com
SIX!
Why do purportedly free people need a statute to "allow" them to buy something? Is the act of engaging in trade a vile and violent one? No. Here's the news in Ivermectin! LINK
Idaho Governor Signs Bill for Ivermectin to Be Sold Over the Counter
Idaho has become the latest of a handful of states to legalize over-the-counter sales of the anti-parasite drug ivermectin following the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.theepochtimes.com
SEVEN!
So... Trump's team has released a "devastating" report on things we already knew and on which MRCTV, CHD, and many others have reported. But Trump is not talking about Operation Warp Speed and his culpability in the deaths of thousands, in lockdowns and massive transfers of wealth through the CARES act. LINK!
Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19 – The White House
THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak
www.whitehouse.gov
Here is more background on what the Trump team did, replacing the old COVID govt page with that above page. Interesting way to promote and attract people who justifiably hold great resentment about the Faucis of the world. LINK!
CIA joins FBI, Energy Dept in backing Wuhan lab leak theory
The White House rolled out a new COVID.gov website showing the “true origins" of the coronavirus after Democrats and the media discredited the lab leak theory.
www.foxnews.com
Here is Dr. Mary Holland, of Children's Health Defense, posting about it on X.
EIGHT!
Bernie and AOC are fighting for the little people. Really. LINK!
AOC, Bernie Sanders spotted getting off private jet on 'Fight Oligarchy' tour
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez boarded the luxury private jet at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California, ahead of "Fighting Oligarchy" tour stops.
www.foxnews.com
NINE!
I'm really looking forward to this. Mr. Gibson risked a great deal to make "Passion of the Christ" and it paid off, emerging as the first push-back to help promote Christianity in major films. LINK!
Mel Gibson revealed key new details about the sequel to The Passion of the Christ on Joe Rogan’s podcast, which is expected to hit theaters in 2026.
www.msn.com
TEN!
ICE just ordered a LOT of tech from Palintir to track migrants — despite the fact that it contravenes the Fourth Amendment and that immigration is a state matter. LINK!
Palantir, ICE Agree to $30 Million Tech Contract - Business Insider
Documents seen by BI show a $30 million contract between ICE and Palantir for software to track visa overstays and self-deportation.
www.businessinsider.com
ELEVEN!
It's like legal ping-pong! One move by Trump leads to a court ruling a few days or weeks later, then an appeal or refusal to abide (which is natural, given separation of powers). Here's the latest on Trump's attempt to make sure that passports reflect the biology of the holder. NO WAY, says a judge! Oh, man... LINK!
(Since this thumbnail doesn’t appear as we edit for publication, here’s one of our own choosing…)
Judge Blocks Trump's Gender-Related Passport Changes
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of "X" marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.
www.newsmax.com
TWELVE!
Tulsi Gabbard declassified an alarming Biden-Era plan that Trump's team seems to be mimicking with its attack on peace advocates on college campuses and its push for the Antisemitism Awareness Act. In the Biden Admin case, they wanted to lever both "civil rights" law and the "COVID emergency" (RFK Jr is calling this new definition of "antisemitism" a national health problem, as well, which is pretty amazingly Orwellian) to target people and their speech. No wonder the GEC sprinkled our tax cash on so many censorship and propaganda interests. LINK
Declassified Document Reveals Biden’s Scheme To Spy On Americans
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified the Biden Administration’s “Strategic Implementation Plan For Countering Domestic Terrorism” on April 16. The fifteen-page document details “four pillars” of domestic terrorism response, as assessed by intelligence and law enforcement in March 2021.
dailycaller.com
THIRTEEN!
The final move! Good news re this insane and unconstitutionally funded project! LINK!
Trump Admin Pulls the Plug on Construction of New York's Offshore Wind Projects
Norway-based Equinor, which already had all the necessary lease and permit approvals from the feds before Trump’s January 20 executive order went into effect, confirmed that it has started construction at the site — laying rock as the foundation for the giant 54 wind turbines — 15 miles off the coast of Long Beach.
legalinsurrection.com
FOURTEEN!
Israeli police arbitrarily blocked and arrested Christians trying to attend Easter services in occupied Jerusalem. LINK!
Israeli police barred some Palestinian Christians from Easter services in East Jerusalem.
www.news.com.au
MORE, from X. And Israeli political forces also denied Palestinian Christians access to Good Friday services.
Israel stops Palestinians from marking Good Friday in Jerusalem
Thousand of Palestinian Christians have been blocked by Israel from marking Good Friday at Jerusalem's holy sites.. After Israeli authorities barred Palestinians from the occupied West Bank from celebrating Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, they are now preventing them from obtaining permits to participate in Holy Week activities — particularly Good Friday observances, as well as celebrations for ...
www.newarab.com
FIFTEEN!
The US is going to charge CHINESE SHIPS more to doc and bring in products. They claim this is to "revitalize" the US shipping industry. Again, a warped collectivist system sees a new collectivist central plan, targeting one kind of shipper and claiming control when the US Constitution does not "grant" such power. The US Congress can levy tariffs, but no "dock" control is in the Constitution, and this is just more targeted financial punishment that will, of course, harm US consumers. When Biden put on the jab mandate for shippers and truckers, many conservatives spoke up... How about this restriction on peaceful trade? This is mafia writ large. LINK!
WASHINGTON – Today, USTR took targeted action to restore American shipbuilding and address China’s unreasonable acts, policies, and practices to dominate the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors.These responsive actions come after a year-long Section 301 investigation, which included USTR convening a two-day public hearing, receiving nearly 600 public comments, and consulting with ...
ustr.gov
More, from Zerohedge. LINK!
US Plans Port Fees For Chinese Ships To Revitalize American Maritime Industrial Base - Zerohedge
The Trump administration announced plans on Thursday to impose new port fees on Chinese commercial vessels—part of a broader effort to revive America's dwindling shipbuilding industry, which officials now view as a national security risk amid the urgent need to bolster hemispheric defense across the Americas in an increasingly fractured, bipolar world.
www.zerohedge.com
SIXTEEN!
Here's a big one for Bitcoin... LINK! Obviously, the city officials know that certain kinds of currency will resist inflationary tendencies from government.
Panama City Approves Bitcoin and Crypto Payments for Taxes, Fees, and Permits
Panama City becomes the first government institution in the country to accept Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies for public services. In yet another milestone for Bitcoin adoption in Latin America, the Panama City Council has voted to approve the acceptance of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for ...
bitcoinmagazine.com
SEVENTEEN!
Today is the 250th Anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord!! LINK!
At first light on April 19, 1775, the soft soil of a village green in Lexington, Massachusetts, was soaked in the blood of farmers, fathers, and freemen.
thenewamerican.com
EIGHTEEN!
Here's another disturbing one from New American.
AP Spins Mayan Child Sacrifice as Nonviolent “Connecting With Celestial Bodies” - The New American
The newly discovered altar, which is about one yard by two yards by one yard in size, is covered in limestone. It was found in a dwelling that featured “anthropomorphic figures with tassels in ...
thenewamerican.com
NINETEEN!
And another good one from New American! LINK!
Congressional Panel Charts Path to Biosecurity State
The National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology calls for $15 billion to bolster U.S. leadership in biotech.
thenewamerican.com
TWENTY!
Yes. It's insane. LINK!
Trump wants lower egg prices. He's also putting tariffs on imported eggs. - Reason.com
The Trump administration can't seem to decide whether it wants the price of eggs to fall or rise. That might tell you something about the White House's
reason.com
That's it for text news links! Now, let’s check out VIDEO LINKS!
First, for Easter, this live feed from the church Daniel McAdams attends is remarkable. Daniel is the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute, and he reads and presents much of this wonderful, wondrous, educational video about Christ, the crucifixion, and the resurrection.
SECOND! Michael Tracy fills in for Glenn Greenwald here, and he does an excellent job discussing some of the Iran information, and discussing the rise of Trumpian censorship! Here is the LINK!
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