We’ve seized a Venezuelan ship full of oil. This is not unusual but it is inflammatory. You can watch on released video, it was rehearsed. Apparently we took control of this tanker and it was an armed endeavor. We don’t know the status, but apparently this is not unusual given the hostilities.

Trump is holding so many meetings that there’s not time to watch them all. The unsettling part is that there are hints that Russia may have stationed nuclear weapons in Venezuela. I wouldn’t swear to it, but there are indications. If that be the case, hold on to your hat. Putin says he’s backing Venezuela, and that’s all we need (sarcasm). That may turn out to be a factor.

It seems like a state of war exists between the U. S. and Venezuela, and Maduro is dancing around for the cameras. I don’t know if we’ve got any bigger fish to fry.

Trump wants peace, and I think that’s what he’ll pursue hardest. He thinks big, doesn’t sleep much and I’m rooting for him, if you couldn’t tell. There’s this situation with Erdogan of Turkey. What were they thinking when they allowed Turkey into NATO? It’s a complication, to be sure. Especially after the killing of a good guy.

Apparently the Ukraine constitution forbids holding elections during a time of war. Lucky for Zelensky. Trump is the eternal optimist, thinking he can cut a deal. I hope he’s right. Zelensky always has that look, like he may queer the deal at the last minute. I don’t think you can trust any of them.

There are big banquets that have been held in London. King Charles has been to the Vatican and apparently they’ve permanently installed some chair for him to sit in. Is the Vatican somebody that you want to pal up with? This may be movement on the prophetic scenario.

Meanwhile the trial has started with the killer of Charlie Kirk. The wife and mother is not pulling punches in her public appearances. The little fink who killed him is appearing in court, looking like exactly what he is. What defense does he have? We’ll have to live through this nightmare.

The United States is back on track again, we have that to be thankful for. The whole world has Donald Trump on their lips, and he’s not pulling any punches.

Just PLEASE don’t get us into a nuclear war.

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We just got back from the Feast of Tabernacles and had a fantastic crowd at Panama City Beach. I spent the entire time there, and everybody was in high gear. I hope it went as well in all the sites. 

It’s almost like we haven’t been gone in the news. The negotiations that were going on as relates to Ukraine, still are. The next meeting is in Hungary, and in the meantime the war goes on.

Israeli hostages have been released in the war in Gaza. Those idiots better have learned their lesson, but probably not. It’s a different mentality over there, and nothing makes sense to you or me. Everybody knows what has transpired so far.

Trump apparently wants to be known as a peace-maker. I saw him brag about the wars he’s stopped in Africa, and he’s got bigger fish to fry. Who knows what Putin has in mind, or Zelensky for that matter. The war in Ukraine may be the hardest one to solve. There’s another meeting planned, but the principles have that look on their face. It won’t be easy.

The Arabs have released hostages that should have never been taken in the first place. Things haven’t changed that much, despite thousands of years. Apparently Donald Trump has everybody’s respect in a way that we’ve not seen before. They better agree before something else happens. The rabble-rousers must have taken a play from some former playbook, because they’re still saying things that make me remember how they used to talk, and that was the 70’s!

Nancy Pelosi may retire! But then again, maybe not. There is a backbench of hopefuls, one of them related, that may make life difficult for years to come. Let’s hope not.

Charges have been filed on Comey and Bolton, and they are not insignificant. Page after page of crimes. They thought they’d be in power forever, and so weren’t worried. I guess they never saw Trump coming, but now they’re in trouble.  

Vigils were held all over Europe for Charlie Kirk. Who knew they even cared? He was having an impact, and now even more. That shooter didn’t know what he would unleash. What do you want to bet that he realizes he made a big mistake, and will have to live with it. In prison.

We had a great and inspiring Feast. We hope you’ll start planning right now for next year’s Feast.  There used to be a thing about the “best Feast ever,” but whose memory goes back that far? We’re having some great ones, no doubt about it, and looking to the future. We’re not through yet!  

With God’s help, we may never be.

Mark

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Comey’s going to trial for lying, multiple times, to Congress and all of us. He’s sending out messages trying to say he isn’t concerned, but he is. He was part of the grand conspiracy to get rid of Trump once and for all. But the tables have been turned, and justice will be done. Trump can let the underlings do it while he worries about the United States.  

Sarkozy of France is in trouble too.  He’s got a supermodel, but she’s not going to do him any good where he’s going. The charges date back to his relationship with Kaddaffi, his sentence is five years, and he’s charged with trying to raise funds from Libya.  Not good.  He has a month to get his affairs in order before going for a five year sentence.

Did you see Trump’s visit to England?  I couldn’t help having my Dad’s words occur to me over and over: Ephraim and Manasseh.   

The outpouring of love over Charlie Kirk has been impossible to miss. Multiple commentators have said they’re going to keep having these meetings on university campuses and keep his movement going. Can you imagine what the little furry must think as he watches this play out? He probably made sure it would continue, rather than stamping it out. That fruit didn’t know what he was doing!

Charlie Kirk is being celebrated all over Europe. I encourage you to look up some of the ceremonies that have been held. Who knew? His videos were already coming often on my phone. Now they’re coming three at a time! Not that I mind. He seemed to put pretty much everybody in their place, and left them shaking their heads. They couldn’t argue with him so…

It looks like all of Europe is taking up for the Arabs in Gaza. Their Arab benefactors may have something to do with it. But here we are. I don’t think it’ll have any effect. Israel is cleaning out Gaza. Something people don’t know is that they position helpless women and children in positions they think will be targeted so they can carry on wailing when they are killed. These are probably the grandchildren of people I met a long time ago. But they’ve always reverted to disastrous tactics so they have something to be emotional about when the time comes. 

Trump says he will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank, and he’s working toward a cease-fire in Gaza. There are names being floated to preside over Gaza once it has been cleared. That’s a miserable situation, and who knows if it can be worked out? A bunch of imbeciles are boating off of Gaza, trying to pretend like they’re doing something. If they don’t get blown out of the water, they’ll have something to brag about the rest of their lives.

We are planning for the Feast of Tabernacles, and I hope you are too. My son Michael is flying to California to help out, to Branson and then to Panama City beach. I need to warn him about jet-lag.  

If WWIII doesn’t start, we’re in for a good ride.                        

Mark  

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Who’ll shed a tear for Jimmy Kimmel? I didn’t watch him anyway. He’s apparently mad as all get out about being fired. But his show was losing money. Maybe he didn’t know they were looking for an excuse to fire him anyway, but he’s acting like the network gave up its cause. But his ratings were awful, and networks don’t like losing money. He can pretend like he didn’t foul things up, but we don’t care. All the late-night comedians are on notice now. We don’t even have comedians like in the old days.They knew better than to get political.

They may be talking about an end to the war in Ukraine, but you wouldn’t know it. It seems both sides are looking to get an advantage before that happens. Peace talks seem way off somewhere as both sides press the war. Apparently there are rare earth minerals in Ukraine, and that is a major factor.  

You know the score with Israel and Gaza. The Arab countries seem loathe to mess with Israel now that Trump is on the job. Nobody wants to get crosswise with him!  Israel is still at work in Gaza, and you have to wonder what the future holds. Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf kingdoms aren’t pitching in, but who knows what they’re doing behind the scenes. Israel hit a neighborhood in Qatar, saying that the idiots who unleashed Oct. 7 were residing there. The news tells us to feel sorry for Gaza, but I don’t. If you’d have told everybody they’d have to flee and live in a tent, they probably would have taken care of the terrorists themselves.

Trump is making deals all over the world. He’s got his best deputies fanned out doing our bidding.  Can the world survive peace? We’re going to find out.  Hatreds over there date way back and have to do with the British partition of 1947, and they still hate each other. They both have nuclear weapons and nobody wants to see one go off.  

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have made an agreement.  An attack on one is as good as an attack on both, and Pakistan has nukes.  There have always been incidents along the border with India, but this heightens the odds.  Will Saudi Arabia get involved in their ongoing border skirmishes?  Surely not.  

I’m sure everybody is breathing a collective sigh of relief, but it may not always be peaceable.  Donald Trump plays for keeps, and it doesn’t look like he’s getting much sleep.  We may have to live through the indictment and trial of all the bad guys of the Obama/Biden administration.  Maybe even Obama himself.    

Trump visited England this week.  It’s nice to see Ephraim and Manasseh getting along even though the rest of the world is still in disarray.   

Mark

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President Donald Trump will make a state visit to the U.K. this week, marking his second such stop during his presidency. Later in the week, Trump will travel to Arizona to attend the funeral of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Trump’s return to England is unusual, as U.S. presidents rarely make more than one state visit during their time in office, underscoring both the political and symbolic weight of the occasion.

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Everything is about Charlie Kirk, wherever you look. I don’t know what I did, but Charlie’s appearances on college campuses came regularly on my phone, and he was the nicest guy. He didn’t try to embarrass those who came to debate him, he just gave them every out in the world. The guy who killed him still lived at home at 22 years old, and was escorted by his dad to turn himself in. Whatever dynamic was going on in that household, who knows? His Dad and a minister convinced him to turn himself in. But he was a monster, living with his parents. He might get the death penalty.

They’ve turned Charlie Kirk into a martyr. He’ll get far more recognition in death than he did in life. But he left a wife and kids behind, and I’m sure he must have known there were risks. He didn’t have the Secret Service, and I guess the people he did have were not up to the job. Now everybody will want to know what he was saying.

Now there’s another shooter in Colorado, shooting up a school. These lunatics have lost all the arguments, and there’s nothing left to do but start shooting. They certainly can’t convince us all to be crazy like them. I don’t know if that was the motivation for the stupid Colorado shooter, but it wouldn’t surprise me. He was just a kid. But we’re through catering to idiots. 

The President is intent on cleaning up our cities, and they need it! Thankfully most of us live where we don’t have to worry about it. But who wants to go to a big city? Scenes we’re seeing on the news are enough to say we don’t even want to go.

Israel hit Qatar with bombing raids and as usual Arabs are crying foul. Netanyahu accused Qatar of granting terrorists safe haven, and said if the Arabs are not going to bring them to justice, Israel will. An article on the internet is saying that intelligence agency Mossad “balked” at the idea, but Netanyahu went ahead. Apparently the missiles in question were fired from a long way off, the officials are saying that innocent civilians were killed, and Israel did not get who they wanted.  They’re going after the goons who planned October 7.

We have to wait for a resolution to the wars that are going on. Putin has bombed Kyiv and launched unarmed drones into Polish airspace. NATO made quick work of the drones, but tensions have heightened dramatically in the region.

Trump has sent warships off the coast of Venezuela. It looks like the drug war is about to heat up. Meanwhile, in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years in prison on charges similar to those they attempted to foist on Trump after January 6. There’s hope that he’ll be able to appeal and the US is already threatening to increase tariffs on Brazil.

If we hoped we’d get a rest from the wars, we were wrong. 

Mark

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“I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” during a live interview at the cable giant’s Manhattan studio, saying he’d heard just minutes before his 8 a.m. interview.

“Somebody who was very close to him turned him in,” the president said, then revealing it was the suspect’s dad, Matt, who relayed it through “a minister who was involved with law enforcement.”

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Foul-mouthed Antifa demonstrators went on a rampage August 6 as they assaulted two high-profile conservative activists at a downtown Philadelphia restaurant for being conservatives and supporters of President Trump.

The attack came the day after Antifa smashed the windows at a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office in Berkeley, Calif., during a leftist counter-protest of a “No to Marxism” rally. Twenty people were arrested. “Besides the damage to the Marine Corps post, Berkeley police also said ‘an extremist element among a large group’ damaged 21 city vehicles, setting one on fire, and slashed their tires,” Fox News reported.

The incident in Pennsylvania’s biggest city also came after the leftist mayor of Portland, Ore., Ted Wheeler (D), allowed anarchy to break out in his city, instead of cracking down on Antifa troublemaking. For 38 days Wheeler, who is also police commissioner, allowed hundreds of his Antifa allies to unlawfully occupy public property at an Occupy ICE protest site that eventually became a biohazard. “I do not want the @PortlandPolice to be engaged or sucked into a conflict, particularly from a federal agency that I believe is on the wrong track,” he tweeted. “If [ICE is] looking for a bailout from this mayor, they are looking in the wrong place.”

The attack in Philadelphia and other recent violent actions by Antifa are yet another reminder that the totalitarianism-loving domestic terrorists of Antifa, who call themselves anti-fascist activists, are the real fascists in today’s America because, among other things, they use violent tactics pioneered by the real-live fascist storm-troopers of Weimar Germany, the Sturmabteilung (SA). These Antifa goons opposed the Nazis but eagerly copied their tactics, using their fists to shut down political opponents and break up meetings and rallies. Some Antifa today even dress like Nazis, wearing black and red, the anarchist colors which traditionally have also been used by Nazis.

Antifa, which as a group has been warmly embraced by many Democrats, have regained prominence in the post-Obama era by assaulting conservatives and Trump supporters. The hyper-violent anarchists and communists of the Antifa movement are notorious for promiscuously labeling those they target as fascists, Nazis, and racists, in the absence of evidence.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and communications director Candace Owens were trying to enjoy breakfast at the Green Eggs Cafe when Antifa thugs surrounded them and became loud and belligerent. Antifa poured a bottle of water on Kirk as police officers, who were not white, tried to protect them.

The restaurant assault resembled a Black Lives Matter action carried out on the weekend of Jan. 3 and 4 in 2015. In it leftists terrorized people as they got together for brunch. “Black Brunch” organizers and their followers stormed upscale eateries in New York City and Oakland, Calif., reading out the names of black criminals killed by the police and shrieking that whites had no right to be there. They accused whites of committing “genocide.”

Kirk and Owens were no doubt targeted because Turning Point USA is becoming a formidable threat to the increasingly violent anti-Trump resistance movement. Turning Point is a six-year-old nonprofit organization whose mission, according to its website, “is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.”

The group “has embarked on a mission to build the most organized, active, and powerful conservative grassroots activist network on college campuses across the country. With a presence on over 1,300 college campuses and high schools across the country, Turning Point USA is the largest and fastest growing youth organization in America.”

In a bizarre scene right out of Communist China’s Cultural Revolution, young white Antifa agitators blew whistles in the faces of Kirk and Owens, a black woman, while chanting “Fuck white supremacy,” during the restaurant showdown earlier this week. Owens can be seen in a video yelling back at the Antifa activists, “We love the police, we love America, we love the U.S.A.,” as police officers in the City of Brotherly Love tried to separate Owens and Kirk from the protesters.

Soon after the assault, Kirk took to Twitter to denounce the Antifa activists involved.

“If [an] angry conservative mob formed while two young liberals, one white guy and a black woman, were eating breakfast, and the mob hurled horrific insults, threw objects and assaulted them, the left would call it a ‘hate crime’ and every major outlet would be demanding condemnation,” Kirk tweeted.

Interestingly, Antifa activists, like those in Philadelphia who claim America is an irredeemably racist hellhole, are generally young and almost exclusively white.

This fact was not lost on Owens, who referred to Antifa as “an all-white fascist organization” on Twitter, and thanked the police for coming to her aid. “Would like to personally and publicly thank the @PhillyPolice force for keeping us safe today. As you can see in the video, they were all Hispanic and black. The white liberal thugs were shouting ‘no good cops in a racist system[,]’”she tweeted.

Interestingly, at least two left-wingers came to Owens’ defense.

Movie director Samm Hodges stood up for Owens in a Twitter post.

Man, I hate @RealCandaceO’s politics, but watching an (apparently) all-white crowd scream “fuck white supremacy” in her face was sickening. I’m pretty sure that no part of being an ally includes actively oppressing women of color.

Singer Ariana Savalas tweeted:

This is beyond comprehension. What the hell is happening to my party? No matter what you think of @RealCandaceO, even if you hate her, this childish behavior is abhorrent. Fellow liberals, come on. We need to start speaking out more strongly against this bullshit. #NotInMyName

These disturbing incidents caused by radical leftists are becoming increasingly common.

The attackers in Philadelphia seemed to be expanding on the admonition of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) who earlier this summer urged her supporters to publicly confront and harass members of the Trump administration over the separation of illegal aliens’ children from their parents in immigration detention.

“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that [the] cabinet of [President Trump] in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

Kirk blamed Waters for the Monday incident in Philadelphia.

“Why won’t Democrat leaders denounce these ANTIFA thugs?” Kirk tweeted. “This is the new base of the Democrat party. They hate America and will go to violent measures to attack conservatives. This is {Maxine Water’s] America – she called for these sort of attacks.”

Leftists recently hounded Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen into abandoning her dinner at a Washington, D.C. restaurant. Members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) participated in the name-and-shame action and broadcast video footage of it over social media. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was chased out of a restaurant in Lexington, Va., for daring to work for President Trump. Immigration hardliner Stephen Miller was screamed at in the capital city for doing his job and a set of “wanted” posters appeared near his downtown apartment. He famously discarded an $80 box of sushi after a chef heckled him as he left a restaurant (Miller said he feared his food had been spat on).

Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway was accosted in a supermarket. Former chief strategist Stephen Bannon was harassed while he was quietly minding his own business in a bookstore. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R), a strong Trump supporter, was harassed by activists outside a movie screening.

But now Americans far outside President Trump’s inner circle are feeling the wrath of Antifa.

And a backlash is on the way.

ABOUT MATTHEW VADUM

Matthew Vadum, senior vice president at the investigative think tank Capital Research Center, is an award-winning investigative reporter and author of the book, “Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.”

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