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
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 1, 2025 1,390
visits to this GOOGLE Blog
Saturday August 2 2,172 (second-greatest # of daily visits)
Sunday August 3 218
August 4 207
August 5 232
August 6 408
August 7 104
August 8 124
August 9 98
August 10 6,248 (greatest # of daily visits)
August 11 1,483
August 12 189
August 13 565
August 14 433
August 15 1,367
August 16 1,646
August 17 1,089
August 18 1,199
August 19 482
August 20 724
August 21 272
August 22 274
August 23 43
website : faithfor2008.blogspot.com/
Entire month (August 1 - 31) : total for this month 20,967
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!
"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"?
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
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
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.
1,200 tons of food
bound for Gaza is
approaching Ashdod, Israel.
apnews.com/article/cyprus-gaza-
humanitarian-aid-ship-food . . .
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"
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
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
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) . . .
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
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.
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)
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. . ."
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.
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
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)?
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?
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
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
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
"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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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/
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
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."
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. . .
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
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
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.
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
"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
2025 explosive biography
of Prince of York, Andrew
by British historian
Andrew Lownie
April 2025 publication
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"
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)
+ 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
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 !
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
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
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.
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;
__________________________________
+ more minor candidacies / political parties
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
__________________________
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/
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. . . .
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
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.
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 . . .
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.
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 . . ."
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)
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 . . .
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)
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