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Friday, August 22, 2025

Sept. 7, 2025, Phil Keaggy concert (re-scheduled) - Howard Performing Arts Center

 September 7, 2025

7 p.m. rescheduled from

April 6 (due to hand surgery)

Part of "HOWARD CENTER

PRESENTS" series

Andrews University,

Berrien Springs, MI

southwest Michigan

One of the most talented

guitarists in music today, 

Phil Keaggy continues to 

delight audiences across the U.S.

He has been an audience-pleaser

for more than 40 years. . .

Ticket prices primarily

$10 - 30 but upper level seating

starts at $49 and up to around $200+

Web connection = hpac@andrews.edu

phone 269-471-3560

Which Southwest Michigan Schools K-12 (Cass or Berrien Counties) start day after Labor Day 2025?

Edwardsburg, MI Public Schools begin

September 2, 2025 (K students

begin on Wed., 9/3/2025)

New Buffalo Schools begin

Tuesday Sept. 2 for K - 12

with a half-day.

First Day of Community and Parochial Schools' Calendar 2025 - 2026 (CITY of Niles, Michigan 49120)

 Niles Community Schools (city limits

and others in School district) - Niles

Michigan proper and others registering

August 25, 2025 (half-day

for 1st - 8th grades, full

day for 9th - 12 grades)

August 26 is first day for

Kindergarten students

that same week.

[Brandywine / Niles Twp. students also

begin Monday 25th August with

half-day for K - 6 students but entire

day for 7th - 12th graders]

Parochial school - St. Mary's School

of Niles begins Monday 8/25/25

at 8 a.m.

SDA (Seventh Day Adventist) - Niles

Adventist School, 110 N. Fairview Ave., Niles,

MI 49120  -- First day AUGUST 13 (1/2 day)


TikTok - after Joining in, Trump 2.0 now says he may yet again extend MANDATORY sales deadline

August 22 REUTERS dot-co

tells that the WHITE HOUSE dot-gov

has now joined the short-video

platform . . .

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July 5, 2025

On social Media (Truth social & X)

POTUS Trump 2.0 has declared that

his negotiators will begin talks with

Chinese counterparts about the "deal"

on TikTok (July 7 - 11, 2025).  He 

often remarks that "in the next weeks"

or "in two weeks" when the Trump-

Vance administration still has not

engaged the party/parties with whom

they will provide a "starting point" from

which compromise and deal-making must

emerge.  To distinguish his position from

that of POTUS 46, Trump 2.0 has often

presupposed that the ease in transferring

ownership of the social media platform will

take no effort or safe-checking with the

credit for such transfer coming to him personally.

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The June 19, 2025 deadline for TikTok

to be sold to U.S. controlling interests

was moved as of June 18, 5 a.m. to

90 days into the future.

Trump to likely extend deadline for

TIK-TOK to be sold away from indirect

China control (thought at times to be

"Security Risks"); poll analysts pointed

out to the Trump-Vance campaign that

influencers and celebrities were likely

using their viewership to appeal to

possible, new voting blocks to elect

the GOP challenger to Harris-Walz

(Democratic political party) last

Fall months - inauguration 2025 and beyond.

Mark Carney told Trump "Canada not for SALE" May 6, 2025 // decides August 22 to remove Punitive Trade Measures on Trump 2.0

BREAKING NEWS (Aug. 22)

Mark Carney (new Prime Minister)

tells U.S. that his nation (CANADA)

will remove retaliatory tariffs soon

and expects to enter new TRADE

TALKS -- since old USMC from

Trump-Pence era is not intact . . .

reuters.com/ August 22, 2025

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newly elected Canadian leader

will come to the White House

OVAL OFFICE today to meet

with POTUS Trump 2.0 and

other officials -- it will be

their first of many face-to-face

confrontations since

Mark Carney, Liberal Party

and Nation of Canada champion

has shown willingness to stand

up to Trump's abusive rhetoric.

Carney is known not to suffer fools.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia -- deported by mistake April 10, released 4 p.m. today AUGUST 22, 2025

BREAKING NEWS (Reuters.com) : released

at 4 p.m. Eastern Time today FRIDAY 22 August, 2025

The Maryland man at the center of a legal

battle has been returned and will face charges

here relating to transporting migrants --

NY Times "Breaking News" 4 p.m. 2025/06/06

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UPDATE (April 17) - he has met in El Salvador

with Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen

(press service publicity)

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at Oval Office Press Q/A, both Presidents of

U.S. and El Salvador shrugged their shoulders

as far as returning the Salvadoran man with a

U.S. family who was never charged with

being in a MS-13 gang and the Trump-Vance

officials admit they deported him in error.

April 14, 2025

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UPDATE: 9 p.m. April 10 (Thursday)

SCOTUS affirmed the Federal ruling that the

wrongly deported Mr. Garcia should in effect

be brought

Back FROM El Salvador prison where he was

wrongly airlifted into by the DOJ / DHS.

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Trump's Gulag Archipelago

and the case of the mistaken refugee / immigrant

LAST FRIDAY, April 4, 2025

Judge Paula Xinis of U.S. Federal Court of

Maryland ordered him returned to the U.S.

"There were no legal grounds whatsoever for

his arrest, detention, or removal"

SCOTUS will decide

if her order to return him

by 11:59 p.m., Monday

April 14, 2025 after 

their 9-judge review,

will effectively return

Mr. Garcia.


Kentucky Congressman Massie receives D.of Justice "Epstein Client List" / "Epstein Files (Grand Jury)"

Friday 22nd web article/posting

epstein-files-land-on-capitol-hill-00519851

Today (Friday 8/22) House

Investigations committee day received from DoJ (Dept. Justice)

files on Epstein & Maxwell -- Friday Aug. 22, 2025

see POLITICO dot-com 

/congress-trump-doj-epstein-files.html

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UPDATE (August 18, 2025) House of Repr. (D.C.) Investigations

committee's

GOP/ MAGA leader Chmn. James Comer of KY promises by

August 22 -- to release the "Client List" or 

"EPSTEIN Files (Grand Jury)"


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Virginia Giuffre's family

now July 31 is asking:

What did Donald John Trump know

about the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

and Ghislaine Maxwell?

nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/Virginia-Giuffre-family-trump-epstein.html

Wrath of Trump -- today: Pamela Jo Bondi convinced a Fed. Judge to send FBI Evidence team into Bolton Residence

Update : FBI
Raid on JOHN BOLTON,
former National Security Adviser
Bethesda, MD home

August 22, 2025


Object of #DJT revenge / retribution
 NY TIMES articles 19 Jan. 2025

Jack Smith
Letitia James
Arthur Engoron
Fani T. Willis

Liz Cheney
Adam Kinzinger
7 other members of 
Jan. 6 Select Committee
investigating the attack on
the Capitol

General Mark Milley
Michael Cohen
John Bolton

Deep State officials:
James Comey
Andrew McCabe
Peter Strzok
51 former top Intelligence
officials

The media
Mark Zuckerberg
outgoing Pres. Biden
Barack Obama
outgoing VP Harris
Hillary Clinton
Sen. Adam Schiff
former Speaker of House
Nancy Pelosi

As far as public tours of Executive Mansion, White House to limit weekday tours due to new building (Ballroom) - construction deadlines imperative

 BREAKING NEWS: White House Tours scaled back

August 2025 -- work now underway for Trump Ballroom

Construction (needed to be complete before Election Day, 2028)

. . . people's access to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is less priority

than building privately-funded record-breaking construction site

for next years, election cycles . . .

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Beginning July 19, 2022

Daily Tuesday to Saturday tours resume from 8 a.m. up to 12:30 p.m., excluding Fed. holidays.

Contact your Congress Repr.'s office at D.C. or in your district

https://abc57.com/news/white-house-announces-free-public-tours-will-resume-full-operating-schedule-on-july-19

Treatments for HIV, TB, Malaria halted due to Trump January Executive Order : of $6 billion appropriated, officials will spend merely $2.9 billion

August 22, 2025

OFFICE of Management & Budget (Russell Vought,

famous for Project 2025 planning) will spend only

$2.9 billion of the $6 billion agreed to by Congress.

PEPFAR has been essentially halved and

the "deal" made to pass a budget bill on to Trump

for signature was made with that "condition" that

PEPFAR would still be fully funded . . .


Further development

(March 18, 2025)

Judge Theodore Chuang bars Elon Musk 

and his "raiders" from further

dismantling of US A.I.D. -- while court cases /

injunctions lawsuits receive appeal rulings.

reuters.com/2025/03/18/

us-judge-bars-musk-doge-further-efforts

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PEPFAR continues to be frozen

NYTimes.com/2025/02/05/health/trump-usaid-pepfar-html

In Uganda (Africa) the national Malaria Control program

has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes

and ceased shipment of bed nets to pregnant women

and little children;

medical supplies cannot reach villages in Zambia . . .

dozens of medical trials cannot continue in

South Asia, Africa, and Latin America

there will be no one to take custody of

millions of dollars' worth of oxygen supplies

where systems funded by U.S. A.I.D. had

administered aid in the poorest nations . . .

nytimes.com/2025/02/01/health/trump-aid-malaria

tuberculosis-hiv.html

UPDATE: US AID employees to be fired and

suspended - foreign aid to be halted - Musk

DOGE attempts to gain access to security

material at the agency.

NY TIMES [ Top security officials at aid

agency leave -- Musk & DOGE

Tipping Point -- Famine is declared for GAZA City and surrounding areas

Tom Fletcher, top U.N. humanitarian spokesman

and a group of experts declared 

a "man-made" famine has arisen and can be reversed

and halted.

August 22, 2025

9:50 a.m. Eastern

at least

a half million persons face

starvation, acute_ malnutrition,

and death

---  --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 

NBC NEWS Headline

Gaza hunger reaches

Tipping Point

under Israel's offensive

as children face lifelong

impacts of malnutrition

NBC News.com/world/Gaza/

hunger-gaza-tipping point August 1, 2025 

Happy 30th Birthday today to Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter !

Here is her

IMDb biography -- the artist

is well-known for Barbie (2023)

imdb.com/name/nm7645984/?ref_=hm_brn_15

born Aug. 22, 2025 in

West Hampstead, London, England, UK

This year's annual EMMY Awards ceremony

WHEN are the Emmy Awards Ceremony (Prime Time)

shows / specials /technical & leading recognition

for the 2024 - 2025 eligibility year?

Sunday night Sept. 14, 2025

8 p.m. following NFL Football

and 60 Minutes -- given in Hollywood

[local time is 5 p.m. Pacific]

on CBS entertainment

broadcast channel (check

local listings)

This year will be the 77th

annual ceremony (expect

3+ hours for the show)


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January 15, 2024

8 p.m. Eastern Time 

on FOX Television network

75th Ceremony Award nominations are based on 2022-23 seasons

shows & Specials (June 1, 2022 programming until May 31, 2023)

Television Arts and Sciences -- broadcast & Cable

Thursday, August 21, 2025

First Atlantic tropical storm Erin (2025) prompts evacuations of N.C. Outer Banks

Pray for those affected by the dangerous

and impactful to property and those "left behind" : 

HURRICANE Erin on Monday

wass bringing deadly rip currents

and surf to the East Coast; it

did re-intensify Sunday to

a Hurricane-class tropical storm

but may not cross over to make

landfall. . .

LEVEL 4 Hurricane

August 18 2025

HIV Field reels from US AID Grant cancellation (African nations left bereft)

United Nations AIDS joint programme

relies on U.S. funds to help track and

coordinate the global response -- 

South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia,

other hard-hit countries may soon run

out of anti-HIV drugs soon

science.org/content/article/bloodbath-hiv-

field-reeling-after-billions-u-s-funding-axed

Feb. 28, 2025

Washingtonpost dot-com reports that

PEPFAR cuts by Trump-Vance upends

lives of Kenyan families now in crisis

April 5, 2025

WALK Tour (Niles Downtown) Friday a.m. 29 August 2025

Walking Tour to begin at NILES, (Michigan)

Riverfront Park Amphitheater, Front Street at Main,

Niles, MI 49120

beginning at 10 a.m.

until 11:30 a.m.

LOCAL Historian of

Niles (MI) History Center,

near Library and Parking lot,

will lead walkers on a 100+

year journey back to an early

downtown store / shopping

district of not-that-long-ago

and in the 1800's to 2000s

as well as area near the

St. Joseph River Bridge and

the Four Flags Hotel of an

earlier 20th century era.

Tour is free but donation/s

welcome to help these seasonal

programs / talk-and-walk.

more schedule of other topics

for WALKING TOURS at

uncoverniles.com/events

Islamic State -- U.S. Defense department mission to keep it from further advances / strategic terrorism

UPDATE: August 21 according to NY TIMES / world/

middleeast/

U.S. kills Islamic State operative in rare Syria raid

killing a senior Islamic State financier. 8/21/2025

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2,000 troops from U.S. Army are on site in Syria to support the

core official deployed forces participating

in the Pentagon's mission of keeping

Islamic State's armed forces from reconstituting

nytimes.com/2024/12/19/us/politics/us-troops-syria.html

20 Jan. 2025

UPDATE: Following new POTUS swearing-in

new head of Defense Department is

Robert G. Salesses,

formerly deputy director of

Washington HQ Service,

a mid-level Pentagon official.

He accepted the job of acting

Defense secretary when no

Biden official would take it 

from Jan. 20 forward.

Pierogi, Polka, Polish traditions : August 29 - 30 (Labor Day weekend)

Details in MLive! dot-com (Michigan fairs/

festivals : MLive.com/2025/08/pierogi-

polka-polish-traditions-return-to-Muskegon-for-10th-year.html

Immersive experience for

MUSKEGON, Michigan

authentic food, imported beers,

live music, dancing, cultural

demonstrations

Hackley Park, 11:30 a.m. until

10 p.m. both Friday-Sat.

August 29 - 30, 2025

Matthew Brann ruling disallows Trump giving ALINA HABBA a "temp" job over NJ Atty.'s office

Judge Matthew Brann, Pennsylvania's Middle District

(Federal Court Judge) rule on August 21, 2025

that Alina Habba is acting UNLAWFULLY

as "Acting" U.S. attorney and her actions are VOID.

NBC NEWS Breaking News update on 8/21st

see POLITICO.com online article following a 4-hour

hearing where both sides argued vociferously . . .


Alina Habba - Trump personal lawyer -- her successor

at NJ "Acting" U.S. attorney was fired by Pamela Jo

Bondi and Donald John Trump -- this maneuver will

be sorted out in U.S. District Judicial court by

Matthew Brann -- see politico.com/2025

08/01/federal-judge-will-decide-whether-trump-ally

alina-habba-can-lead-prosecutions-in-new-jersey-00489575

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Trump's pick for 

Interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey

Monday March 24, 2025 (her temp position only

could have 120-day limited impact).

She was his personal lawyer in

sexual abuse and defamation lawyers.

She will immediately begin to supervise

the work of about 150 prosecutors.

She previously ran a small firm

specializing in civil litigation;

her style is pugilistic, openly political.

Swearing-in ceremony

rollcall.com/factbase/Trump/transcript/

donald-trump-remarks-aline-habba

On this date in History - in 1831

August 21, 1831

Nat Turner, self-styled prophet,

preacher, carpenter

who launched a slave rebellion

resulting in the deaths of at least

55 white people (including his

owner, Joseph Travis and family);

scores of black people (enslaved

and free people of color) were killed

in the retribution in the aftermath of

the killing, Turner himself later was

executed by Virginia authorities.

He claimed to have been divinely chosen

to lead the rebellion and during early years,

and as a 3-4 year-old could tell of events

that occurred before his birth.   He regularly

read the Bible and preached/encouraged

his fellow enslaved men, women, children.

Must-see in Budapest, Hungary (since 1987)

Monument by sculptor

Imre Varga

to the thankful memory of W.W. II

hero and savior of countless people

caught in the jaws of Fascism / Hitler's

death squads

Raoul Wallenberg

He was a Swedish diplomat who used his

position to save over 20,000 Hungarian

Jews from the extermination camps.  He

set up safe houses in the city and obtained

fake Swedish documents for them.  When

the Soviet army took control of Budapest

in 1945, Wallenberg disappeared.  It is thought

that he was arrested by the KGB and sent

to a prison/work camp where he died. The

memorial at the junction of Szilagyi Erzsebet

fasor and Magyajtai Utca_ is near

Aquincum -- which was founded at the

beginning of the 2nd Century C.E.

and Capital of the Roman province of

Pannonia -- an archaeological treasure

that was not excavated until the end of the 19th

Century and even in the 21st, only one-third

of this expansive ancient town has been unearthed.

READ MORE IN Budapest : DK Random

House / Penguin (2022) pages 184-6.

Tulsi Gabbard, DNI -- update August 21, 2025 -- will fire half of staff - barred UK, Australia, Canada, NZ from intelligence-sharing

CBS news reporting 4 p.m. Thursday 21 Aug.

that Gabbard prevents the "5 Eyes" of our 

intelligence-sharing international allies to share

what is being learned during the scramble to

counter offense against

Ukraine - Russia Talks -- CBS News.com/

gabbard-barred-sharing-intel

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POLITICO : August 21, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard (Trump 2.0 Director

National Intelligence) will fire half

of the intelligence-gathering / coordinating

staff. -- BREAKING NEWS

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August 6, 2025

Gabbard continues to declassify 2016 documents so as

to satisfy her boss who wants to defame those

ahead of his and VP Pence Term (Jan. 20, 2017 -

insurrection 2021) : her release of the House intelligence

committee (chaired by then Congressman Rubio (R))

multi-page report

about investigating the CIA consensus on Russian/Putin

interference in the election between Trump 1.0 and 

then-opponent Hilary Clinton.  

By doing this leak herself Gabbard could reveal top-secret

spying techniques and sources. Washingtonpost

online exclusive (2025/08/06)

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Tulsi Gabbard de-classifies pre-election memos

from Oct. 2016 about election confusion --

Russian release of Hilary Clinton - Tim Kaine

campaign

emails -- Russia Did NOT directly "vote"

for Trump - Pence in Nov. 2016.

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CBS news May 23, 2025

is reporting that the Counter-terrorism

nominee for Tulsi Gabbard, DNI

is "under scrutiny" for ordering a

re-write of a memorandum concerning

TGA (Venezuelan gang and gang Lord's)

and the Venezuelan government.

cbsnews.com/news/counterterrorism-nominee-

joe-kent-emails-edits-intelligence-assessment

May 22, 2025 -- 6 a.m. video includes

Gayle King, CBS Mornings

Happy 81st Birthday to Director-Writer-Producer Peter Weir (b. 1944)

 Peter Lindsay Weir

director of "WITNESS" (1985) and

"MASTER & COMMANDER" (2003)

was born August 21, 1944 in Sydney,

New South Wales, Australia

At age 22 he married Wendy Stites

in 1966; they remain married with 2 children.

We especially enjoyed his comedy

The Truman Show (1998) from a script

by Andrew Niccol and The Year of Living

Dangerously about press coverage in the rebellion -

oppression in Indonesia in 1965 - fiction (1982).

Linda Hunt won an Academy Award for supporting

actress in that latter movie.

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Budapest, Hungary

 Thirty-one years ago, 

then-POTUS Bill Clinton met with

Russian president Boris Yeltsin

and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk

in

Budapest, Hungary

for a tri-party talk.

NSA (August 2025 update) - Director failure

UPDATE: ON acting director director of NSA

Lt. Gen. William Hartman -- sought to save his chief science

officer from Tulsi Gabbard purge of security clearance take-aways

but he failed -- NYTimes dot-com on Wed. Aug. 20, 2025

online article

us/politics/security-clearances-scientist-fired.html

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POLITICO reports that the Navy Admiral (retired), 

Timothy Haugh,

put into place over the National Security Agency (spy

/intelligence gathering responsibilities) still has not

been replaced and a "COO" position was being discussed

among career officials inside the secretive and highly

involved cyber & agent-heavy group.

The agency already has such Operating Officer 

bureaucracy in place to control 30,000 agents (estimated).

Laura Loomer was spotted Thursday (June 5) and asked

about that shift and she was non-commital. SEE:

POLITICO.com/news/2025/06/5/NSA-considers-then-disavows-

leadership-reshuffle-00391130

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Navy Admiral Shoshana Chatfield_ was fired

by Trump, latest example of the 9 senior military

leaders fired in POTUS 2.0 re-shuffling of those

in charge; she is 4th of 4 women to be axed. 7 April 2025

washingtonpost online article tonight (Monday)

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Haugh had been NSA Director for one year

and was fired by Trump/Vance administration

on the recommendation of Laura Loomer during

an NSC meeting (National Security Council) this week.

details NPR.org/2025/04/04/g-s1-58247/

national-security-agency-chief-fired-trump-timoth-haugh

Friday online article April 4, 2025

He and his deputy, Wendy Noble, a civilian were both

removed from their posts.

Are there 6 wars that Trump kept insisting during Summits (Aug. 15 - 18) that he had "settled" since Jan. 20, 2025 Swearing-in ?

DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Rwanda

[ actually no sign it is over ]

Egypt and Ethiopia [ little sign the war concluded ]

India and Pakistan [ evidence is lacking of U.S. peace-making ]

Kosovo and Serbia [ no evidence of U.S. involvement to stop fighting ]

Armenia and Azerbaijan [ true, its Constitutional leaders did sign treaty in Oval Office ]

Cambodia and Thailand [ technically all they have is a cease-fire not a peace treaty ]

Israel and Iran [ Trump claims he stopped Iran from firing  nuclear weapons;

                           Trump without Declaration of War from GOP Congress did drop

                           bunker-busting barrage of Mother-Of-All-Weaponry on hidden labs ]

Somehow -- that adds up to SEVEN -- but who's counting?

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Trump 2.0 who lacks a moral compass but loves the spotlight and the chances to skim off profits for self and sons . . .

 Thomas L. Friedman

noted author, wise analyst who sees a "Big Picture"

nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/trump-russia-ukraine-putin.html

Trump's seat-of-the-pants Transactional / Ego-Driven / farcical

personal lapel-grabbing effort to grab the spotlight . . .

Tuesday evening, August 19, 2025

Has Friedman seen anything quite like this summitry since

beginning as a journalist in 1978?

NO

a country in dire need sends an obliging leader to thank the 

Superior World-Stage Power Individual 15 times in 4 1/2 minutes . . .

POTUS Trump 2.0 is unlike any president in last 80 years . . .

August 2025 blog statistics

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visits to this GOOGLE Blog

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website : faithfor2008.blogspot.com/

Entire month (August 1 - 31) : total for this month  20,967

World Central Kitchen to provide baby food, rice, pasta, canned goods (by Friday Aug. 22nd arrival at coastal Ashdod)

The Panamian vessel is conveying 1,200 tons of food

to those starving in Gaza (a besieged Palestinian area)

neighboring to Israel and Egypt.

apnews.com/article/cyprus-gaza-humanitarian-aid-ship-food . . .

God bless you,

World Central Kitchen!

Trump claims of "settling" or "thwarting" a war per month -- as a POTUS "deserving" of Nobel Peace Prize (to be announced Oct. 10, 2025)

"Wars" in the 

continent of Africa:

DRC and Rwanda;

Egypt and Ethiopia

in continent of Asia:

India and Pakistan

Cambodia and Thailand

Israel and Iran

Armenia and Azerbaijan

in the Balkans (Europe)

Kosovo and Serbia

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Where's the impartial

mediating agency that

declares Trump - Vance

the Mediating Peace Makers

that are the "2025 Difference"?

THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL: New Taylor Swift album announced 12:12 a.m. on 12 August 2025 on boyfriend's and brother's podcast

DETAILS:

New ORANGE

color is 

Portofino Orange Glitter!

details from

NY TIMES

published early this morning

article by Julia Jacobs

Taylor Swift

Tuesday 12th of August

12:12 a.m. as a countdown

clock on her website

reached its fruition

arts/music/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl.html

Washington Performing Arts Organization -- for 2025-6 season will move to these locations

They will no longer utilize the

Kennedy Center for the Performing

Arts in D.C. but instead will utilize:

the Music Center at Strathmore,

Sixth and I,

Church of the Epiphany,

Howard Univ. Cramton Auditorium,

Hopkins Blomberg Center Theater,

Lisner Auditorium.

web location: washingtonperformingarts.org

Mary Anne Carter of Florida -- no background in the arts, served as Sr. deputy chairman Endowment for Arts (2017 - 20, now 2025)

 Her resume' and list of accomplishments :

expanding arts therapy for service members / 

bolstering "Shakespeare in American Communities"

nytimes.com/2025/08/19/arts/design/trump-cultural-leaders-

smithsonian-ballroom-garden-kennedy-center.html

ALSO information at this web address about

"National Garden of American Heroes"

speechwriter for Trump in past

Vince Haley who is guiding

"TASK FORCE 250"

the 250th anniversary event

series during 2026 commemorating

1776 from vantage of this administration.

Ship loaded with food for the starving in Gaza is en route from Cyprus to a port on Mediterranean

 1,200 tons of food

bound for Gaza is

approaching Ashdod, Israel.

apnews.com/article/cyprus-gaza-

humanitarian-aid-ship-food . . .

Who is a PREDATOR and an OGRE?

Correct answer is

Vladimir Putin

SOURCE: Emmanuel Macron

President of France

TIME: August 19, 2025

10 a.m. Eastern Time USA

specifically :

"an ogre at our doorstep"

FBI now has an acting co-deputy director after Dan Bongino is "shelved"

Kash Patel's deputy director (appointed by Trump

since it is a position NOT Senate-confirmed)

Dan Bongino (podcast host

with military & Police experience base,

well-known Epstein Files conspiracy

theorist)

will be sidelined by his intermediate

superior A.G. Pamela Jo Bondi in 

favor of

ANDREW BAILEY

current Missouri Attorney

General -- who had himself 

been passed over for the job

filled by Ms. Bondi for

TRUMP-VANCE

General David Allvin_ Air Force forced out by Hegseth

The Pentagon has deleted one of its own generals

by order of Hegseth (late of FOX NEWS Weekend

Anchor) -- August 19, 2025

He has been forced to retire halfway through a 4-year

term and is now the most senior military official to

be pushed out by Trump-Vance-Hegseth. . .

washingtonpost.com/

10:30 a.m. Tuesday following historic

day of Trump-Zelensky-European leaders-NATO

confab in the Oval Office - White House Conferencing

Kostiantyn Kartavsev - donor of golf equipment to POTUS Trump 2.0

A golf club / both literal and symbolic gift

was presented along with a letter for FLOTUS

Melania Trump on August 18, 2025

by President Zelensky of Ukraine

to POTUS Trump 2.0.

details of the war-injured 

junior sergeant who used the

golf equipment as part of his

physical and occupational

rehabilitation in Ukraine's

hospitals and treatment centers.

politico.eu/article/volodymr-zelensky-donald-trump-heart-letter-melania-golf-club

AUGUST 19 (Tuesday 10:15 a.m. CDT) . . .

Olena Zelenska - Letter to Melania delivered August 18 at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, D.C.

Ukraine's First Lady

penned a letter praising Melania

for her advocacy of children to dictator

war criminal mastermind behind the

killing and kidnapping of thousands of

Ukraine's children.

No stamps were used in a Postal System

delivery ; instead it was hand-delivered

to the shy, introverted spouse of the POTUS

who continues to work as an executive

producer on her own AMAZON documentary

with live, edited footage of her work in

the Trump-Vance White House since

Jan. 20, 2025.  When released by

Hollywood director Brett Ratner, the

much-heralded non-fiction documentary

will be titled :

Melania

date of release to be

determined later in

2025/2026/2027/2028/2029

Delivery Drivers Detained DHS / ICE arrests while those ordering food look on

 NBC News

coverage

5 a.m. Eastern Time Zone

reporter Didi Martinez

D.C. Delivery Driver

Detentions spark concern

fear among community

(federal agents are arresting

those at work and shrug off

any need for translators /

interpreters to confirm that

they have the "right" undocumented

or overstayed immigrant workers

in the D.C. work force.

For sale for $90 Billion -- Trump offers to Zelinskyy a "deal"

 Trump 2.0 is

willing to sell

arms to help fend off the

Russian (and other armies')

assault on the civilians and military

of the sovereign nation of 

Ukraine.

nytimes.com/2025/08/18/

us/politics/takeaways-trump-zelensky-putin.html

Also in negotiations are the sale by Zelensky of drones to the

U.S. Military .

Trump 2.0 acknowledged that the agreement had yet to be

signed and agreed upon -- the terms of sale remain murky.

Luke Broadwater, NY Times reporter (Monday 18 Aug. 2025)

Student Visas revoked -- U.S. State Dept. announces it has already revoked 6,000

 BBC.com/news/articles/cz93vznxd07o

Those deportees have had their visit privilege

revoked because of overstay and these

violations of U.S. law:

assault,

DUI,

burglary

support for terrorism

[ unspecified but in recent past

during 2025, Trump-Vance admin.

has targeted supporters of Palestine

by way of public or online expressions ]

RUBIO : "I don't know the latest count. . .

we're going to have to revoke the visas

of people disrupting our higher education

facilities. . ."

Monday, August 18, 2025

Will Melania (Knauss) Trump assume a more important role in diplomacy and children's advocacy from mid-August to the end of his second term?

It all depends . . .

Does she view herself primarily as a professional model

as was the background of Pat Nixon (FLOTUS from Jan. 1969

until August 1974) or as a mother and homemaker (many examples

of such from Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower)?

Will she have time for children's advocacy apart from her role as

Movie Producer (executive) for her self-titled documentary / 

biopic being in final stages with Director Brett Rattner 

for which she received $28 million from company founder/s 

Jeff Bezos / AMAZON?

She was 46 years and 9 months when her husband, then POTUS 45,

took the oath of office; she resided at Trump Tower and Mar-A-Lago

until September 2017 when she and Barron moved in to 1600 Pennsylvania

Avenue.  When the Trumps left office she was 50 and 9 months, then

returning to Palm Beach; from Palm Beach (Mar-A-Lago) she moved

to the White House Jan. 20, 2025, refusing to coordinate with then-

FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden, who was moving out that January to their

Delaware home / compound.  Now at age 54 with a 19-yr-old son,

she may well be expecting grandchildren even though she has

several step-grandchildren by her husband's children by his two

previous wives.  She does maintain and update her own

skin care lines of merchandise and a jewelry line as well as

other endorsed products/ trademark collectibles.  She has a

CRYPTO coin for sale as well.

She has taken a number of trips abroad and domestically to

inquire of the welfare of children, including trips to detention

camps and the remote regions of Africa.


The child of FLOTUS and POTUS 47

Barron (b. 2006) is now 19;

he speaks English, Slovene (the language of Slovenia :

his mother's native language, his Knauss grandparents'

primary language, his aunts / uncles native/first/only

language

He not only has grown stepbrothers (2) and Stepsisters

(2) even as a baby he had four nieces 

Kai Trump (born 2007)

Arabella Kushner

Chloe Trump

Carolina Trump

and NEPHEWS (a seventh - Alexander Trump Boulos

born May 2025)

Donald Trump III,

Tristan Trump,

Spencer Trump,

Joseph Kushner

Theodore Kushner

Eric Trump.

According to Biography dot-com,

Barron Trump has always lived a life of luxury, enjoying

an entire floor of the personal suite of the Trump family, his

mother & father quarters in Trump Tower, New York City.

Melania at times admitted that she would call Barron,

"little Donald" because his personality is so like his

father's : very strong-minded, very special, smart,

independent, opinionated.

After his father's first election (majority of the Electoral

College : Nov. 2016) he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,

D.C. on June 11, 2017, nearly five months after Trump and VP

Pence took the oath of office Jan. 20, 2017 and moved into

D.C. housing (the Pences dwelled at the Naval Observatory :

Mrs. Karen Pence and children and pets/companion animals).

Barron graduated with H.S. Diploma from Oxbridge Academy

Palm Beach, FL in May 2024 at the age of 18.  His major in

college is business at the NYU Stern School of Business.

source = biography dot-com / PEOPLE dot-com

Unasked questions given the context of FLOTUS' letter to Russia's leader who wages a vicious war against civilians [ set of inquiries ]

1) How many children does Putin have by his marriage to 

Lyudmilla (only between 1983 to 2013)?

ANSWER --

Maria b. 1985

Katerina b. 1986

both have professional occupations

2)  Given that Melania appears aloof from her step-children and

devotes a vast amount of attention to her sole son by her only

husband Donald John Trump

Barron (born March 20, 2006) presently

a college freshman at NY Univ.

She became a U.S. Citizen in 2006 by

naturalization -- the couple had married

in Florida at Episcopal Church

of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in

Palm Springs in 2005.  Her family

(parents, sister/s) came to America

after Mrs. Trump's naturalization in 2006,

setting up "chain migration"

Q: Does Melania treat nieces/nephews as

if they are her close relatives and thereby

treat family members as seriously as she

would treat Barron? [regarding them at

family holidays at the personal quarters

at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., D.C. ]

Thereby for FLOTUS are "children" all

of the next generation of the "extended" family

as far as the Knauss of Slovenia branch/others.

Does she keep at arm's length her stepchildren's

offspring as did Nancy Reagan to her husband's

son by his first marriage to Jane Wyman (Oscar-

winning actress)?


Melania Trump Letter Sunday August 17, 2025 [ 2 days after Trump-Putin Alaska Summit ]

By posting it online, will a "hard copy" be stored in

the national archive of White House correspondence

as well as in the Kremlin official records of heads of

state?

Q: Did she first compose it in Slovenian and have

it translated into Russian second and then finally

into English language?

Q: Did she intend to leave the SUBJECT of the

email as a vague "Children" or did she actually

mean to ask protection for the children of Ukraine

some of whom were kidnapped and forced into

families far from their homeland by Russian

troops and bureaucrats?

Q:  Did Melania (Knauss) intend to use her

charity / charities to benefit the children of the

world in a manner like other dignitaries /

spouses of world leaders / celebrities might

do with the UNICEF fund / special needs?

Q:  Does Melania maintain letter-writing

relationships with other spouses of world

leaders or is that off-limit to public / press

knowledge?  Will a volume of her letters

ever be published or made available only

on a limited basis for those searching the

Trump Presidential record database in

the Mar-A-Lago Library of the near future

(after 2029, Jan. 21st)?

Q: Does she consider herself an Advocate

for children and childhood causes such as

health, wellness, education, socialization?

Q: Has she moved her focus of FLOTUS

matters away from the "East Wing" since

that is where the upcoming "Trump Ballroom"

will be build before the end of this

Second TRUMP Presidential Term?

It's WHAT you WEAR and who's your personal DESIGNER that matters . . .

 August 18, 2025

President Zelinskiyy "shines"

in a Gilded Age White House

OVAL OFFICE when his

Look is stylish, new, and

unexpected . . . the fashion

critic that matters is married

the 3rd time to a Fashion

Super-Model . . .

"Zelinsky Suits Up for Trump"

nytimes.com/2025/8/18

zelinsky-suit-trump-meeting.html

NewsMax forced to pay $67 million for defamation of Dominion Voting Systems

The right-wing MAGA news-supplying organization

for countless of Conspiracy Theorists and others

seeking biased treatments for their candidates in

the 2016, 2020, 2024 elections will now have to pay

by Jan. 15, 2027

$67 Million,

still foregoing an apology to the

Voter Machine firm that continues

to work nationwide.

nytimes.com/2025/08/18/business/news-media/newsmax-

dominion-defamation-lawsuit-settlement.html

BTW, FOX News (?) faces a $2.7 billion lawsuit from

SmartMatic, which is set to proceed in a Manhattan

state court unless settlement is first agreed to by its

owner / investors . . .

Associated Press debunks online "RUMOR" that IRS is sending out $1,400 checks signed by Trump

The $2.4 billion "Recovery Rebate Credit"

is N O T

being paid out to all those filing 1040 tax payments back during

COVID - 19 era (last months of Trump 1.0 - Pence administration)

ONLY

payments outgoing up to $1,400

for those who filed 2021 Tax Returns and 

did not receive one or more of the 

"Covid-19 stimulus checks".

see further

AP News.com/article/fact-check-stimulus-irs-treasury-hawley . . . 

Assaults on Ukrainian cities by PUTIN kill 14 -- hours before Zelinskyy meets for Summit with Trump

Cities of KHARKIV

and ZAPORIZHZHIA where

14 killed by Russian attack missiles / drones.

No Comment from Putin's press secretaries/

spokespeople in Moscow / Kremlin

August 18 - 2025 mid-morning Eastern USA Time Zone


Deadly airstrikes hit Ukraine's capital

The deadliest attack on Kyiv since Summer

2024 -- 12 killed, many missing, +100 injured.

Once again, Russia strikes civilians

Drones and cruise missiles also hit the

2nd largest city, Kharkiv; one strike hit

a residential neighborhood, injuring many.

nytimes.com/2025/04/24/world/Europe/

ukraine-russia-missile-airstrikes.html

BREAKING NEWS:

Ukraine rescue and defense officials

report that the missile used was from

North Korea

Woody Guthrie defines an essential character in the American dream

from Robert Cantwell

essay "Fanfare for the little guy"

in Hard Travelin' : The life and legacy of

Woody Guthrie [1999 published

anthology of essays, Rock 'n Roll

Hall of Fame / Univ. Press of New England ]

"AMERICAN MUSIC MASTERS" series


We celebrate Woody Guthrie for

his political conviction and his

poetic genius. . .Woody was a skinny

little feather-boned guy with a 

head of springy black hair, a high-

sloping intelligent brow, sharp-

hooded, sometimes heavy-lidded

scrutinizing eyes, a nose and mouth

coldly faceted as if by a smith's

hammer and yet, in the pronounced

bow of his upper lip, touched with

sensuality.  He was in a sense homely,

and in another beautiful.  His hands,

moreover, his lifelong, guitar-picking

notwithstanding, were plump, languidly

relaxed, possibly lovely.


Arlo Guthrie : Keynote Address

Hard Travelin' Conference (28 Sept. 1996)

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

excerpted memories / anecdotes

 "I remember later on, in the fifties,

when the folk boom, was getting under way.

Every weekend we'd bring him home from

one of the hospitals out in Howard Beach

there, in Queens, where we were at the

time.  And we'd have a stack of records

that had come in that week from all around

the world, where people had recorded his

songs in all of these different languages

that we never heard of, couldn't read,

or understand, but he'd sit there, you know,

eating hot dogs, and we'd play that stack

over and over. . .My dad exists today in

a lot of people who are here, not just me.

And he exists in ways that mean different

things to different times. . .In more and more

places, too there is the kind of belief that you

can change the moment.  Sometimes you

can just change one little moment from one

situation to another by inspiration of a song,

or a couple of words, or just having fun or 

playing, and moment by moment, the world

seems to change on its own. . . It's only in

the last 50 years that people have let TVs

and radios do their singing for them . . .

FROM Hard Travelin' (collection of essays)

about Woody Guthrie, WESLEYAN UNIV.

PRESS

Confederate Statuary / Memorial : 2021 book by historian Karen L. Cox, Univ. of N.Carolina - Charlotte

 No Common Ground:

Confederate Monuments

and the Ongoing Fight

for Racial Justice

(Ferris & Ferris, U of

NC Press)

Chapter 1 (p. 13)

Monuments were placed

on the Southern landscape

by white Southerners whose

intentions were not to preserve

history but to glorify a heritage

that did not resemble historical

facts. . .negating the legacy of

slavery and suggesting that

all white southerners were

committed to the Confederate

cause, which they were not.

Sharlee Mullins Green (Board member BYU, Utah) shares doubts that Trump deserves "conservative" moniker

DESERET News

(Salt Lake City and major Utah Cities media platform)

August 16, 2025

"Is Trump a Conservative" ? ? ?

her op-ed discusses his anti-law

approach to terminating 90% of

US AID contracts throughout the

world in Feb. 2025; omnibus bill

of 2025 legislative appropriating

will cost $3.4 trillion over next 10 years;

his insistence that Christianity must

be a "dominant religion" / state religion;

she concludes "his disdain for the rule

of law should disqualify him from

being president."

deseret.com/opinion/2025/08/16/is-donald-trump-conservative

The Dismantling of U.S. AID (International food - meds assistance globally) - since Jan. 20, 2025

The Dismantling of US AID (administrator position

part of Marco Rubio, multi-positioning atop Federal

positions of National Security & State Dept. / National

Archivist)

has worsened the problem

of malnutrition and severe

hunger throughout the world

nytimes.com/2025/08/15/health/hunger-malnutrition-usaid-cuts.html

SAVING CHILDREN with severe acute malnutrition

is simple and inexpensive . . .

grants were abruptly and permanently when

the Trump-Vance administration froze foreign

aid early this year.

Happy 56th Birthday to Actor, Filmmaker, Activist Edward Norton!

Edward Norton (b. August 18, 1969) is

received his 3rd Oscar nomination in 20144 for his role in

Birdman ; also had key roles in Fight Club (1999), 

The Illusionist (2006) -- I enjoyed his roles in two

Wes Anderson productions : Moonrise Kingdom and

The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Alongside his work in cinema, he is an environmental

and social activist, and a member of the Board of

Trustees of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit

organization for developing affordable community housing

founded by his grandfather, James Rouse.


Federal Judge Dolly Gee (Los Angeles U.S. District) - blocks end to agreement on Immigrant Children Rights

"Court blocks Trump administration's

request to end 1993 policy to

protect immigrant children

in custody"

Saturday Aug. 16, 2025

is when Judge Gee issued

her order following the

Trump-Vance officials 

arguing that enough changes

had been made in treatment

of children in custody on Aug.

9 [FLORES SETTLEMENT

AGREEMENT].  Plaintiffs

submitted evidence that long

detention times at border facilities

violate the agreement's terms.

thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/. . .migrant-children-protection-ruling


Please return the children you took away from us

Volodymyr Zelinskiyy

values the words of POPE LEO XIV

on the need for peace for

the Ukrainian people -- he also

requests that the R. Catholic leader

of Vatican City

help with the return of the

Kidnapped Children, Tweens, and

other dependents from their

detention in Russian state facilities

and among families who are holding

on to them since the 2022 invasion

and continued hostilities / attacks on

Civilian dwellings and neighborhoods.

NPR.org May 14, 2025

"Deportation Depot" merchandise now pulled from shelves

Florida's GOP (MAGA)

political party HQ has

pulled its "Deportation

Depot" merchandise after

objections from Home Depot,

and obvious copyright violations

and outright violating a Cease-

and-Desist from the big-box

Home Depot signature-orange.

ANOTHER example of the

poor taste of political hyper-

partisans when it is happening

that people in U.S. parking

lots of Home Depot are being

grabbed by ICE who claim

they are in this country illegally.

wgcu.org/education/2025-08-17/

merchandise-sold-by-florida-gop-branded-as-deportation-

depot-removed-after-home-depot-objects

Sunday, August 17, 2025

August 18, 2025 Berrien County and SW Michigan County districts - first day of school (K - 12)

According to WNDU

"Back to School 2025" collected data =

Andrews Academy begins 8/18 (Monday)

as does Burr Oak Schools, Centreville,

Colon, Constantine, 

Nottawa, St. Joseph County (MI)

Independent School District, Sturgis

Public Schools, White Pigeon Community

Schools.

Hostages and Missing FAMILY FORUM (protest Day : Aug. 17, 2025) : evening rally

Further Details: NYTimes.com/2025/08/17/world/middleeast/

israeli-rallies-labor-strike.html 

Sunday August 17, 2025

is a regular day of business

since their "weekend" is

eve of Shabbat (Friday) and

Sabbath (Saturday) in the

nation of Israel, Middle East.

Today would be a return

to regular work schedules /

business open hours EXCEPT

for a "Called NATIONAL

Day of Stoppage" by the

anxious families of 50 hostages

still not returned after 22 months

of captivity . . .

nbcnews.com/world/israel/israel-move-palesinians-southern-gaza-rcna225387

Happy 34th Birthday to Austin Butler (born 1991 on this date) of Anaheim, CA

 Actor who played the title role in 

Baz Luhrman's Elvis 2022

for which he won a Golden Globe

and BAFTA award; also portrayed

Tex Watson, Sharon Tate's murderer

in Once upon a time. . .

in Hollywood 2019.

Rubio orders end to visitor visas (Gazans may no longer travel to U.S. as well as medical-humanitarians visiting there)

 Saturday (Aug. 16, 2025)

Jerusalem Post reports from the

U.S. State Dept. that any visas

in process will be stopped for an

emergency review of the small amount

of medical-humanitarian visas to travel

to the besieged GAZA STRIP (Palestinian

war region).  The process of a "Social

Media" posting review had been initiated

in April but this action (Aug. 16) means that

a security review analysis will become

a way to slow indefinitely any passage between

the U.S. and the Gaza territory.

jpost.com/ international article 864374

Trump - historic summit at Anchorage, Alaska - leaves without securing cease-fire - gives Putin a friendly reception

David Ignatius, Washington Post

guest panelist on Washington Week w/The Atlantic

breathed a sigh of relief that Trump 2.0 accepted

that he would first have to talk with America's

allies about what would be the post-Summit 

steps to take since Putin brought no CEASE-FIRE

proposal nor recognition of the right of

Ukraine as a democracy for its own sovereignty . . .

_____________________________________

David Sanger - NY TIMES (White House beat)

This is the first meeting of a sitting POTUS with a

Russian dictator since his invasion with now amassed

troops of N. Korea, Belarus, other client-states . . .

Trump 2.0 had claimed over numerous Campaign Rallies (2022 - 4)

that he would "stop / solve" the Ukraine / Russia invasion

on Day 1. . .if he comes out of the Alaska conference without

a cease-fire or imminent movement toward lowered 

bombings / civilian attacks by missiles-drones,

it will not be obvious that he "won" anything.

trump-putin-alaska-meeting-stakes.html

Thursday Aug. 14. . .


August 12 -- in three days, Trump will travel to Alaska

for a two (not three-)way summit between Ukraine

and Putin/Russia as well as Trump (representing U.S.

interests) . . . he was telling the world press Monday

8/11 that he has set the "bar" low going to the 

world powers summit to "SEE WHAT PUTIN HAS IN MIND."

_________________________________________________

August 7, 2025

At a venue that has been decided "in principle,"

incumbent POTUS Trump 2.0 and incumbent-for-life

Putin of Kremlin/Russia will meet

"to show progress in reaching the end of the

Russian Ukraine and all-out war against Kyiv and

all of Ukraine's borders / major areas of population.

____________________________________________

May 19, 2025 (Monday) after return from

initial (actually 2nd) trip abroad for

Trump 2.0 with current VP Vance --

POTUS Trump 2.0 will telephone Vladimir Putin

then make a call to Ukraine and also European

allies . . .

ONGOING is Ukraine - Russia negotiation talks

in Turkey (Istanbul). . .

__________________________________________

REUTERS agency calls the Russian delegation

an aide, a diplomat, a spy

Thursday May 15, 2025

Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelinsky has called the

so-called negotiating team from the Kremlin sent to

the official U.S. - Ukraine - Russia talks in Istanbul,

Turkey

phony

CNN.com/ May 15, 2025 posting

Zelinsky is meeting today

with Erdogan of Turkey

and will address the world

press at 9 a.m. US Time zone.

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Kristi Noem

weekend of Aug. 15 - 17, 2025

Washington Post dot-com

unearthed her "Free Rent" / no cost benefit

of living rent-free at the on-base home of 

the Coast Guard Commandant. . .

______________________________________

 According to the HILL platform

DHS (Kristi Noem, Homeland Security secretary, cabinet-level)

has violated copyright laws by posting without permission the

work of artist

Thomas Kinkade

"Morning Pledge" / / / she and/or her

designated web designers added a scary

caption

PROTECT THE HOMELAND

thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5426804/

thomas-kinkade-family-denounces-dhs-post/

Michael Sean Winters : "If Trump were to agree to Putin's terms. . . then Anchorage 2025 would be like Munich 1938"

 online op-ed / commentary

by 

Michael Sean Winters

National Catholic Reporter.org

ncronline.org

"Is Alaska 2025 like Munich 1938?

Yes and No"

Free to those visiting website (no 

paywall)

ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/

alaska-2025-like-munich-1938-yes-and-no

Gene Simmons of KISS -- was contestant on Trump's TV competition-show (reality TV?)

 Guitarist & singer

Gene Simmons

once quoted to say

"Donald Trump is

out for himself."

USA TODAY found this

critique =

"I knew him before he entered

politics.  Look what that gentleman

did to this country and the polarization. . .

I don't think he's a Republican or a

Democrat.  He's out for himself,

any way you can get there."

Stefanie Spear (aide to former Democratic Presidential Candidate RFK, Jr.) defended by her boss

Ms. Spear herself an environmental lawyer

of Democratic political party connections

remains an aide to the now HHS Secretary,

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

at his Cabinet-level desk.

He commented recently:

(Trump) has made himself 

the answer to my 20-year

prayer that God would put

me in a position to end the

chronic disease epidemic --

that's exactly what my

team and I will do until

he leaves office

[presumably Jan. 19, 2029] . . .

________________________

Conspiracy right-wing lobbyist

Laura Loomer has continued to

criticize and call for the firing

of Ms. Spear as insufficiently

MAGA and 200% loyal to

Trump and Trump alone. . .

Jeffrey Finn, top producer to leave Kennedy Center for Performing Arts (Sept. 2025)

As Donald John Trump

tightens grip on the D.C.

Center for Performing Arts

[ that was since its founding

a bipartisan and cooperative

institution in the District of

Columbia ]

the top official overseeing

theater at JFK Center is

leaving in September, throwing

into question the stability of

the institution's financial

viability . . .

nytimes.com/2025/08/15/theater/jeffrey-finn-kennedy-center.theater.html

Happy 67th Birthday to Angela Bassett! Star of Blockbusters & TV series

 Congratulations on a lifetime of 

excellence in media projects :

ACADEMY HONOR AWARD;

Golden Globe Awards (2)

NAACP Image Awards (16)

Screen Actors Guild award with cast for

Black Panther

Primetime Emmy Creative Award for

Queens


Friday, August 15, 2025

Putin - War Criminal - last 2015 visit to the U.N. General Assembly in New York - since then world pariah

Before the historic Anchorage summit

between Presidents Trump and Putin

that sought to end the Ukraine Invasion

in 24 hours (see campaign 2024 promises), 

V. Putin

dictator for life (Russia)

had NOT set foot on American

territory / city/state

since Sept. 2015 address to

the U.N. General Assembly.

He and Obama shared a "terse"

handshake at that moment.

Downtown Anchorage, Alaska -- Flag display of Ukraine's Blue & Yellow FLAG

Sewn message on the

two blocks of Blue

and Yellow was message:

Alaska Stands with UKRAINE !

Those who sewed were a trio of

septuagenarians :

Barbara Hood, age 70

Colleen Ray, age 73

Linda Jamidlo, age 72

nytimes.com/live/2025/08/15/world/trump-putin-meeting-alaska

Jerome Adams : Trump 1.0 - Mike Pence's Surgeon General (2017 - 2020)

 "I saw OPERATION WARP SPEED

succeed.  Why Trump 2.0 refuses to

defend it is to me baffling."

WASHINGTONPOST op-ed

August 15, 2025 online

7 p.m. Eastern posting

Rise and Fall of the House of York

 2025 explosive biography

of Prince of York, Andrew

by British historian

Andrew Lownie

April 2025 publication

Prince of York, Andrew (younger brother of King Charles) & ex-wife Sarah Ferguson : both have Jeffrey Epstein connections

 August 14, 2025

BBC - U.K.

Good Morning Britain talk show

Sunrise

crew learns / shares more about

the Andrew - Fergie - Epstein - Maxwell

connections - financial entanglements.

youtube.com/ "Explosive Royal Biography"

Ongoing World Expo 2025 (Osaka, Japan)

From APRIL 13, 2025

until OCTOBER 13, 2025

the Expo Osaka 2025

marks the 20th year

anniversary as a return 

since the Aichi Expo 2005.

see further

www.japan-guide.com/event/expo-2025/

ALSO coverage on

NHK (Japanese Public television network/platform)

Inflation up 2.7% -- Trump overall approval falls to 38% across Polled VOTERS (Pew Research Center)

2.7%

month of July 1 - 31, 2025

______________________

Pew Research center --

only 38 percent of voters

approve of the job of

POTUS Trump 2.0

15 August 2025 12:15 noon hour

Happy 62nd Birthday to Alejandro G. Inarritu !

 Director of

21 Grams

Babel

Birdman

The Revenant

Peter MacDonald and Thomas Begay

Two lone

Navajo Code Talkers

who survived in 2025

(World War II intelligence

officers who stymied the

Japanese cryptographers):

PETER MACDONALD, 96

and THOMAS BEGAY,

now 100 --

Navajo Code Talkers

day is celebrated by 

NAVAJO NATION !

PBS slashes budgets 21% after Senate-House send recission measure to Trump's desk for signature

August 15, 2025

see further NY TIMES dot-com

"PBS Slashes its budget 21%

after Federal Funding Cuts"

_________________________

the public should blame MAGA

senators and GOP members of

the House of Repr. (very, very few

exceptional Congress representatives

have a "spine") who passed a 

rescission_ measure clawing back

the already approved funding from 2024

legal actions of that session of Congress

Judge Stephanie Gallagher struck down Trump 2 admin. actions that sought to eliminate D.E.I.

mlive.com/  Thursday August 14, 2025

Judge Gallagher of Federal court in Maryland

found that the Dept. of Education violated law

when it threatened to cut federal funding from

educational institutions that continued to 

implement D.E.I. initiatives

2025/08/trumps-2-efforts-to-eliminate-DEI-in-schools-

colleges-blocked-by-federal-judge.html

Minneapolis, MN race for mayor in November includes incumbent, winner of Dem. primary, 13 others

 mprnews.org/

Minnesota Public Radio (NPR) August 14, 2025

The Minneapolis-Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

has endorsed Omar Fateh who is a Democratic

Socialist while incumbent Jacob Frey remains in

the race for a 4-year-term.

Thursday, August 14, 2025

which is Best Candidate for NY City Mayor's office : incumbent Mayor Adams, disgraced former Gov. of NY Cuomo, Dem. Socialist Mamdani

 Eric Adams, independent candidate

(incumbent since 2021: sort of MAGA);

Andrew Cuomo, independent of a political

party, disgraced from sexual harassment

convictions;

Zohran Mamdani, Democratic Socialist,

Working Families Party;

Irene Estrada (Conservative Party);

Joseph Hernandez (Quality of Life Party);

Curtis Sliwa (GOP a.k.a. Republican):

he founded the "Guardian Angels"

Sliwa is NOT endorsed by Trump, pointing

instead at incumbent Eric Adams;

Jim Walden, anti-corruption candidate;

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+ more minor candidacies / political parties

House of David - - Berrien County history

Mary's City of David Hotel

is back on the market as a real

estate investment / resort property

Benton Harbor, MI

see HeraldPalladium.com/

August 14, 2025 online article 

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DOCUMENTARY Oct. 15, 2022

Buchanan, Michigan Public Library 128 E. Front Street

contact them at 269-695-3681

m.paulette@buchananlibrary.com

Documentary Movie Night

Enjoy a showing of a new documentary film exploring the 

origins and history of Benton Harbor's HOUSE OF DAVID

The film covers every aspect from their amusement park, 

baseball team, leader Benjamin Purnell's sex scandal.

Publicity at BUCHANAN CHRONICLE

https://thebuchananchronicle.com/2022/10/08/buchanan-district-library-october-2022/

Who acclaims Trump as NOBEL PEACE PRIZE - worthy? junior Senator ALABAMA / Senior Senator OHIO / all concerned that Ukraine rebuff Russian invasions/bombardments

June 24, 2025 -- AP NEWS reports 

Katie Britt -- calls Trump 2.0

Historic! The President of Peace

Bernie Moreno [as recently as Nov. 2024

Cleveland auto dealership magnate]

Moreno defeated incumbent D. Senator from

OHio Sherrod Brown; the car dealer will next stand

for re-election in 2030.

"nominated Trump for the Nobel Prize for Peace"

apnews.com/article/iran-strikes-israel-congress-trump. . . .

Artisan Market

 Mid-August (annually)

Lawrence, Michigan

(Van Buren County)

Come down to the Park

for the Artisan Market

10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Variety of vendors

Food Truck

Animal Shelter (meet & greet)

Saturday August 16, 2025

Rubio rolls back usual "Human Rights" report, in favor of "streamlining"

 The National Security Adviser / U.S. Archivist / U.S. AID Administrator

took time from his schedule to act as

Secretary of State (historic office

since 1787 : see U.S. Constitution)

and bring out the winter month

report on an ANNUAL HUMAN

RIGHTS REPORT (at mid-August),

cutting it back by dozens of pages

from its usual length, erasing and

watering down entire categories

of human rights abuses. . .

see ABC NEWS .go.com/

state-department-rolls-scales-back-human-rights-report

AUGUST 12, 2025 10:37 p.m.

Bhattacharya - NIH director stumbles when trying to axe mRNA vaccine research

Who is Bhattacharya?  see below. . .

on Wed. August 13, 2025

the NIH director for Trump 2.0 - Vance

spoke out of both sides of his mouth

saying the mRNA platform is

"promising" while admitting

RFK, Jr. and company are "winding down

mRNA Vaccine development research

activities."  MSNBC.com/


protesters from Cancer

Society officials as well as

ALZ-families & lobbyists

fill the Hearing Room. . .

cnn.com/2025/06/10/

health/NIH/bhattacharya-

budget-hearing

_______________________

at National Inst. Health

he brings "Chronic Illness"

axe to grind. . .

the bureaucrat seeks to require foreign 

scientists to directly apply for

grants rather than at "sub-award"

level . . .

Science.org covers his first

"Town Hall" -- he deflects

responsibility for firings of

2,500 of former 20,000 employees;

Read about his rationale to

oppose vaccine mandates and

closing of schools during

COVID-19 outbreaks :

science.org/content/article/nih-director-faces-pointed-questions-first-staff-town-hall

20 May 2025

Trump / Vance / Project 2025 moved him from being a 

Health Economist at Stanford University to

Bethesda without ever before working

for the Federal Government . . .

Pop Superstar on boyfriend's and his brother's PODCAST

see details

"Taylor Swift announces

The Life of a Showgirl 

on a rare podcast Appearance"

August 13, 2025

Release date is

October 3, 2025.

Her co-producers are

Max Martin & Shellback.

98 percent involved

SPEAKER : POTUS, the leader of the free world,

Commander-in-Chief, TV Celebrity of the 1980s,

reminisced of his first

trip to the Broadway musical

The Phantom of the Opera

(Andrew Lloyd Webber) :

"They were treating me good,

because I was a young star,

for whatever reason, this is

a crazy life I've had . . ."

Second POTUS with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

and the winner is . . .

Donald John Trump

-- celebrity star of TV

and Mark Burnett's

THE_APPRENTICE --

twice-elected (once with

a popular vote majority),

twice-impeached by the

House of Representatives,

the only convicted felon to

serve in 2 non-consecutive

terms as Commander-in-Chief

(see Constitution, Article II).

see August 13 Press Conference

[review in NY TIMES / us/politics/trump-kennedy-center-pop-culture.html ]

original POTUS with "STAR" on walk of fame

was Ronald Wilson Reagan (two consecutive

terms during 1981 - 88)

Trump is "a profane, authoritarian man who delights in attacking his critics"

from David French's

[ New York Times OPINION / douglas-wilson-evangelical-hegseth.html ]

denunciation of 

Douglas Wilson, a

paleo-Confederacy

theologian / activist

now ascendant in the

circles of the SBC-aligned

branches of American

conservative/fundamentalism/

misogynist subverters.

Christian Nationalism has its

Savanarola here . . .

Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (Moscow, ID)

David French,

renowned author

NY TIMES columnist (Opinion)

discusses how a Paleo-Confederacy

pastor is spreading far enough abroad

to be getting "re-tweeted" by

SECY. of DEFENSE Pete Hegseth

(Confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a 50-50

tie to head the Pentagon and to start off

running by demoting several admirals,

leading generals of the Military branches,

firing some officials for being too "woke"

as he would put it, see further his

own FOX NEWS weekend anchor diatribes /

published screeds)

TODAY -- August 14, 2025

nytimes.com/opinion/Douglas-Wilson-evangelical-hegseth.html