DoGE (govt.efficiency) claims to have found
$55 billion or $8 billion on its "wall of
receipts" -- is actually of a Contract with
Immigration and Customs for the amount of
$8 million.
For context, the entire budget
for the CDC, Atlanta is $8 billion.
nytimes.com online article
doge-contracts-musk-trump.html
Musk recently admitted that the
DoGE group will "make mistakes.
No one will bat a thousand."
WashingtonPost.com online article suggested
that soon, around Washington's Birthday,
Pentagon officials will learn which probationery
members will be fired from the lists submitted
to Elon Musk (Trump associate and BFF) and
the D.O.G.E. team/commission in D.C.
The Hill.com reported that
the US Dept. of Agriculture is working to
rescind the firing of employees (probationery)
assigned to stop and eradicate the 2025 Bird/Avian
Flu outbreak -- staff fired were veterinarians,
animal health technicians, emergency health
personnel. The Cabinet-level agency is presently
addressing the outbreak at dairy cow farms and
poultry flocks nationwide.
Tuesday February 18, 2025
One day following Presidents Day, the Musk-Trump
govt. efficiency commission ordered the staff (probationery)
of Pres. Kennedy's library fired; they were responsible for
opening the facility and leading tours/answering matters
of the public visitors (both from America and global).
An official with the National Archives and Records
Administration ordered the Library to fire the probationery
employees.
In a statement Tuesday evening, NARA said the library
would reopen on Wednesday Feb. 20. . .NYTimes.com
online article with interviewed reaction from JFK
grandson Jack Schlossberg and grand-nephew Joe
Kennedy III.
Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
died 26 Feb. 2015;
legacy of his College Presidency
1952 - 1987 (35 years) --
will be memorialized at the Basilica,
campus of N. Dame, IN
5:15 p.m. Eastern on Feb. 26, 2025
details at
events.nd.edu/events/2025/02/26/
mass-to-commemorate-the-10th-anniversary-
of-the-death-of-university-president-emeritus-
rev-theodore-m-hesburgh-c-s-c/
Open to the public
It will be livestreamed
Probationery employees were on the
chopping block and 168 of the 1,450
career employees are no longer employed.
Trump and Musk continue to fire
scientists and public health employees.
Tuesday 18 Feb. 2025
They will no longer contribute to
findings on quantum computing, artificial
intelligence, and creation of new advanced
materials. . .
Feb. 18, 2025
childhood vaccine schedules,
psychiatric medications,
other frequent targets of his
suspicion
a New Presidential
Commission will be
empowered
Using a set of glass negatives,
observatory assistant Clyde Tombaugh
made the first recognized sighting of
the dwarf planet at Lowell Observatory,
in Flagstaff AZ. He used a blink
comparator with the negatives taken 2 days
apart.
Last Friday, 50% of the young researchers were told
that they would be let go by the Trump-Musk firing
squad. Cuts to the HHS have been especially jarring. . .
nytimes.com/2025/02/18/us/politics/fda-cdc-health-
department-trump.html
Random House, publisher of the
Dr. Seuss line of kids' book titles,
will give away a free copy of
Theodore Geisel books in 2025.
Sign up at Seuss pledge.com
with your full name, email address,
mailing address, phone number and
UPLOAD proof of a March 2 birthdate.
APNews.com/ online article
Top official at Social Security Administration, stepped down
after Elon Musk attempted to gain access to sensitive personal
data about millions of Americans in their data bases; she was
replaced by the head of the Fraud Division :
Leland Dudek
who had praised Musk's team and assisted it in its efforts
from comments left at his LinkedIn social media site.
The Senate has not yet taken up the advice - consent of
the Trump - Vance nominee to head SSA :
Frank Bisagnano . . .
nytimes.com/live/02/18/trump-news#social-security-
musk-team-access.html
AP News.com
Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel & Kfir,
would be included in the handover of four bodies
under the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza.
Three had been expected on a Saturday; no reason
was given for the change in number to be released.
In turn, Israeli authorities would also release all
the women imprisoned since Oct. 7, 2023 which
is an unknown number outside of the Prime Minister
and Cabinet. Further details being leaked to the press.
Emails of termination were sent out last
Friday (Valentines Day, 14 Feb.) --
Probationery workers in the areas of
personnel hired for FAA Radar, landing
and navigational maintenance; they
were fired without cause, nor based on
performance or conduct . . .
APNews.com/article/DOGE-FAA-air-traffic-
firings-safety . . .
Monday Feb. 17, 2025
Secy. of State Marco Rubio flew to the Saudi Capital
for whistle-stop tour to discuss the futures of Gaza
and Ukraine -- his first host foreign Secy. was
Faisal bin Farhan; he will be
across the table with Putin's
foreign / executive officials
to also hammer out the "peace"
between Ukraine and its invader,
the Russian army. . .
nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/
middleeast/rubio-saudi-arabia-
gaza-ukraine.html
POTUS 47, after firing the heads of 2 government
offices (constitutional law-required),
named
V.A. Secy. Doug Collins
as interim director of
both offices / departments
Feb. 12, 2025
POTUS 47 has asked the SCOTUS whether
his recent one-sentence Social Media Tweet-
notification is sufficient to fire the
Head of the Office of Special
Counsel, Washington, D.C.
Attorney Dellinger has sued
the President over the action,
pointing out its illegality.
washingtonpost.com/ Details
Presidential BFF Elon Musk, former immigrant
to U.S. and world's richest individual [father of
12 children by 3 women , some more recognized
than others ],
is asking for access on personal taxpayer data,
raising alarm at the Internal Revenue Service.
further details: Washington Post.com/
Feb. 16, 2025
Starmer, Prime Minister (P.M.) of the U.K.
(Britain, Scotland, N. Ireland, Wales), will meet
with POTUS 47 during Feb. 24 - 28, 2025 in D.C.;
this follows a shocking and surprising series of
meetings of the American Chief Executive with
Israel P.M. Netanyahu and Russian dictator (by
telephone for 90 minutes) V. Putin. Further details
to be released by #10 Downing Street and the
White House (1600 Pennsylvania Ave., D.C.)
That depends
. . . on Trump-Vance FDA approving
the Zoetis vaccine for flocks as
already used in China, Mexico,
France, Egypt that provide protection
from H5N1 virus. . .
science.org/content/article
14 Feb. 2025 3 p.m. Eastern
The annual parade honoring has been cancelled in 2025
due to the Maryland National Guard non-participation
due to anti-DEI injunctions =
No use of federal funding for
Black History Month,
Women's History Month,
Pride Month, et al.
source wmar2news.com/local/
maryland-national-guard-will-not-participate
in-frederick-douglass-parade . . .
In Finland and Estonia
Feb. 14 is celebrated as
Friendship Day;
the focus is on
showing appreciation for
friends through small
gifts and heartfelt messages!
DOJ official who quit when AG demanded that he fire
prosecutors who had a case against Eric Adams, most
recent Trump sycophant. He wrote to the superior
Justice officials:
"If no lawyer within
earshot of the POTUS
is willing to give him that
advice, then I expect you
will eventually find someone
who is enough of a fool, or
enough of a coward, to file
your motion. But it was never
going to be me!"
VP Vance was condemned by the ADL
for his remarks at the Munich Security Conference
in support of the AfD party in Germany. They said
it was deeply concerning that Vance openly welcomes
a group that includes antisemitic, anti-Muslim,
anti-democratic, and xenophobic rhetoric. . .
nytimes.com/2025/02/14/us/politics/vance-far-right-
germany-munich-afd.html
UPDATE: Monday 17 Feb. 2025
NY TIMES dot-com online article
mentions that the employees at
labs such as Los Alamos, NM have been
"unfired" -- when it is apparent that no one
will be left minding the security of the nation's 3,000
nuclear weapons. . .
Thanks to DOGE (Elon Musk) and administration
goons eager to show as many firings as possible --
officials within the NNSA were given hours to fire
hundreds of employees while workers were shut
out of email as termination notices arrived . . .
npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190-
nuclear-agency-trump-firings-nnsa
further details at
fortune.com/2025/02/14/doge-firings-
nuclear-weapons-specialists-energy-department-
layoffs-nnsa-elon-musk
German Chancellor rebuked VP Vance for
his address to the Munich Security
Conference that implicitly violated a
commitment to never again let Germany
be led by Fascists who could repeat the
Holocaust horrors of the 1930s - 1940s
across Europe.
Scholz rebuked the U.S. vice president
of unacceptably interfering in the upcoming
German elections on behalf of the AfD ,
a political party that has played down the
atrocities committed by the Nazis 80+
years ago.
nytimes.com/2025/02/15/world/Europe/
scholz-vance-munich-germany.html
Sheryl Crow
donated her Tesla, saying Good Bye to Musk.
variety.com/2025/music/news/sheryl-crow-unloads
her-tesla-response-elon-musk-president-npr
thehill.com/
JD Vance (at Munich Security Conference) took time to
meet with a leader of the Alternative fu"r Deutschland party,
making him the highest-ranking American official to meet
with the AfD party, which is favored by Elon Musk. . .
Vance also shared on social media the endorsement message
of Musk for German voters to overturn the political party
make-up of current German representation.
Fox 4 news .com online update
Cases doubled from Tuesday to today 2/14
Friday 1 p.m. Eastern Time
48 cases
most in Gaines County
(area with highest non-
compliance w/required
vaccination in TX)
3 unvaccinated individuals
in Lea County, NM reported
to authorities as well.
Three international hostages about to
be released on 15 Feb. 2025 by HAMAS
in the Gaza stronghold of the terrorist
organization . . .
reuters.com/ Press release 2/14
Director of
The Return
(2024 adaptation of
THE ODYSSEY by Homer)
tale of Odysseus' return to
Ithaca where his wife
Penelope is besieged by suitors
and his son Telemachus must
defend his mother
BLEECKER STREET
production
Feb. 13, 2025
Ukraine's Foreign minister met with the UN Nuclear
director (IAEA) at Munich Security Forum after
reports of an overnight drone strike -- "we urge
strong international reaction to the Russian
nuclear blackmail" -- CNN.com/ breaking news
The drone attack hit the Chernobyl Radiation Shield.
BREAKING NEWS:
While both vessels were traversing the Suez Canal
(Egypt), the U.S.S. warship Harry S Truman
collided with a Panamanian vessel [ Besiktas - M }.
No injuries reported on either vessel.
This was near Port Said, where around 100 ships
were at the time of the incident
CNN.com (1:06 a.m. Eastern)
Friday 14 Feb. 2025
14 February 2025
Trump, following a "NO" vote on RFK, Jr. as
HHS Secretary Thursday, called the
former Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell of KY "bitter" and questioned his
childhood polio diagnosis. . .
apnews.com/
as reported in the NY TIMES:
a "conflagration" between the lawyers for
NYC Mayor Eric Adams and DOJ 2nd
in charge official Emil Bove III --
led to politically-tinged dropping of
charges and an "Extraordinary Shattering
of Norms" for an agency charged with
enforcing the laws of the United States. . .
nytimes.com/2025/02/13/nyregion/
adams-lawyers-justice-department-dismissal.html
Feb. 14 - 16, 2025
Munich (GERMANY) Security Conference
euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/13/
europes-future-at-stake-as-Munich-security
conference-2025-gathers
mid-February annually
Organ,
Eye,
Tissue.
Blood, and
Marrow donors.
100,000 on
waiting lists
nationwide. It's
estimated that 17
Americans die daily
waiting for donations.
11:15 a.m. Eastern
R.F.K. nomination passed the U.S. Senate this
morning in a majority vote 52-48 (only Mitch
McConnell and 47 Dem. and Indep. Senators
dissented) . . . trained as an environmental law
trial lawyer / activist . . . he will now act as
an anti-VAXX force in the federal supervision
of agencies such as the CDC, NIH, FDA, and science-
related agencies and commissions of all sorts . . .
Feb. 13, 2025 -- a day for the history books
The NIH also has lost its #2 official who resigned.
___________________________________________
Kennedy, age 71, now runs a department that
directs more than $3 trillion in healthcare
spending. Kennedy has said he wants to
get rid of as many employees as possible
at FDA and NIH.
Linda McMahon, entertainment CEO
will answer questions and state her plans
for the Federal
Department of Education
today -- Feb. 13, 2025
before the U.S. Senate; already fired by Trump
are +70 employees in the Cabinet-level
federal agency . . . He also said Wed. 12 Feb.
that he would "shutter the agency" immediately,
calling it a "big con job."
McMahon, wife of Vince McMahon, founder
of World Wrestling Entertainment, will be
a loyal lieutenant for the former sponsor
of "Wrestle Mania" when he was a NY real
estate developer and casino investor. . .
McMahon wants more funds to be set aside
for tutoring programs and for other alternatives
to public schooling to serve students in rural
districts.
2025/02/13 - Thursday
nytimes.com/live/trump-news.html
The Tesla company name was removed from
a State Department contract list of planned
vehicle purchases -- $400 million for
an unspecified number of Tesla trucks . . .
Besides
Jordan &
Egypt,
POTUS 47 suggested he is
looking at a broad group to
house the residents of the
Gaza Strip : specifying
ALBANIA
& INDONESIA.
nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/middleeast/
trump-gaza-jordan-egypt.html
UPDATE:
Albania's P.M. denies any request from
U.S. authorities to accept; also they deny
readiness to accede to Israeli or American
plan to re-settle Palestinian residents of Gaza
region. . .www.haaretz.com/
Flu cases are surging in the United States;
at least 24 million cases have been reported
in the season -- and the virus is still
spreading rapidly
nytimes.com/2025/02/12/well/flu-season-risk.html
what is its mission? 2 million
visitors annually / 2,200 per-
formances-exhibits annually
Kennedy-center.org/our-story/
__________________________
who has resigned from the Kennedy Center for the Arts?
Renee Fleming, artistic adviser;
Ben Folds, singer-songwriter;
Shonda Rimes, Treasurer
of the Center;
18 board members appointed
by POTUS 46 - Joseph R. Biden.
February 11, 2025
Today 13 Feb. 2025 -
Entertainer Issa Rae cancelled
her "Evening" at the Kennedy
Center in March 2025. Tickets
will be refunded.
see further:
time.com/7221538/donald-trump-kennedy-center/
David Rubenstein, the deposed Chair of the Trustees,
posted on social media that he praised Rutter and the
Kennedy Center staff for supporting the arts over
many years making it a beacon for the arts that
the founders intended. . .
GOSHEN College
goshen.edu Calendar
Thursday, Feb . 20, 2025
5 p.m.
Koinonia Room,
Church Chapel
PLANS change to
Thursday 20 Feb. at S. Arabia with bigger
summit 2 weeks later March 4 at Cairo, Egypt
UPDATE: 18 Feb. 2025
Reuters is reporting that El-Sisi will travel to
S. Arabia with his own plans to rebuild Gaza,
supplanting those of Trump to make it into the
"Riviera of the Middle East" and displacing
the Palestinian residents . . .
________________________________________
according to Middle East and Reuters.com press
information,
the Egyptian President will decline meeting with
POTUS Trump on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 (day after
Presidents Day holiday) if the Gaza Relocation
proposal is on the agenda
The White Stripes of Detroit, MI
Jack White and Meg White formed in 1997,
are in the first time nominee class for the
Rock and Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH
Also on the list/ballot are:
Bad Company
the Black Crowes,
Chubby Checker,
Joe Cocker
Billy Idol,
Mana,
OutKast
Phish.
Six staying on the ballot
from previous qualification
are
Mariah Carey,
Joy Division/New Order
Cyndi Lauper,
Oasis,
and SoundGarden.
mlive.com/2025/02/michigan-rock
duo-nominated-for-rock-and-roll
hall-fame.html
Trump is grateful for release of
Marc Fogel,
from Russia prison
by Vladimir Putin
11 Feb. 2025
His home is Butler, PA
[ location in W. Pennsylvania
where Trump narrowly avoided
head shot by local teen on
nearby shed-building ]
Fogel had been imprisoned
3 1/2 years.
THE "DEAL" is to release
cybercriminal Alexander Vinnik.
Organizers of the three-day festival announced
via social media post/tweet that the Festival of
the Arts will cease operations immediately
Feb. 8, 2025
mlive.com/grand rapids/news/2025/02
It was an annual celebration of the arts
providing access by making all performances
and exhibitions free.
According to 2024 Forbes.com review
article
#9 is "The Dispossessed"
(1974) ambiguous utopia
#7 is "The Lathe of Heaven"
(1971 short story)
#6 is "Tehanu" (1990)
kid's novel Newberry Honor
#2 is "The Left Hand
of Darkness" - won both
Nebula and Hugo Awards
#1 is "Wizard of EarthSea"
(1968) first in a trilogy
H.S. graduate named as Dept.
of Govt. Efficiency (DOGE)
senior advisor by Elon Musk
along with other <25-yr.-olds
in State and Homeland Security
departments : details at
msn.com/en-us/news/us/
elon-musk-s-19-year-old-
lieutenant-sparks-fury-after-
taking-new-role
Feb. 10, 2025 MSN website
Bichon Frise named NEAL
German Shepherd named MERCEDES
Shih Tzu named COMET
Whippet named BOURBON
02/10/2025 at MSG, New York City
apnews.com/article/westminster-
dog-show-dog-names-breed-judging
details:
Trump fires all advisory boards of
outside Board of Visitors for
West Point, Annapolis, Air Force
academy et al.
DETAILS: New republic.com/
post/191350/trump-anti-woke-purge-military
Today according to "Truth" Social tweet
Feb. 10, 2025
was #DJT (age 78 years, 8 months)
grandfather who had been invited in the
Owner's Box / Suite to the Caesars SuperDome,
New Orleans, LA by
Gayle Benson, owner
of the New Orleans Saints
50-yard-line
(NFL Franchise).
Also in the suite was Louisiana
Governor Jeff Landry. Trump
in the 1970s-80s also wanted to
own an NFL team but lacked
financial backing and in 1983
did own the New Jersey Generals.
The USFL folded in mid-July
1985 after its lawsuit to merge
with NFL resulted in a $3 (U.S.
dollars) settlement. . .
espn.com/espn/story
five-things-to-know-donald-
trump-usfl-experience
ISBN : 978-0-593-97877-1
Back Cover :
An Autobiography is not our private story, but
rather the baggage we carry with us. Memory
is not just what we recall, but what surrounds
us. It speaks not only about what has been,
but about what will be. It seems like
yesterday, and yet it's tomorrow.
All is born to blossom in an eternal
springtime. In the end, we will say only:
I don't recall anything in which
You (God) are not there. Signed,
Franciscus
born Jorge Mario Bergoglio
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dec. 17, 1936
named a cardinal of R. Catholic Church
in 2001 and elected Pope / Bishop of
Rome 13 March 2013.
CITY: Springfield, OH
as of Feb. 2025 is suing the group
Blood Tribe, a 4-yr.-old
Neo-Nazi group that intimidates
the group of immigrant workers and
new residents of the city near Columbus
nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/springfield-ohio-
lawsuit-neo-nazis-lawsuit.html
Acting Archivist is Marco Rubio,
Jim Byron as Sr.Advisor [President / CEO
of Richard Nixon Foundation ]
Feb.17
NYTIMES dot-com coverage
Sat. Feb. 8, 2025
#DJT has fired the top archivist, head of
National Archives and Records Administration.
No cause or reason was stated.
Colleen Shagan, the first woman appointed to the
typically apolitical role, was not involved in the
criminal investigations of Trump's handling of
classified documents, and was not the leader of
the Archives when it raised concerns about #DJT.
She also had high-profile clashes with the Biden-
Harris administration. She began her job in May 2023.
_____________________________________________
washingtonpost.com
the Inspector General for the National Archives
administration has been fired by Trump without
notice or immediate replacement / attorney
Homily 13, 2.11 (pages 162-3) in Origen: Homilies 1-14
on Ezekiel, ACW vol. 62, transl. by Thomas P. Sheck,
(2010, Newman Press).
You committed iniquity among the delights of the
paradise of your God (Ezek. 28:13 - 15).
He does not simply say "in paradise," but "in the
paradise of Delights." My question is whether there
are different types of paradise and, though someone
may have been in the paradise of God, yet he may
not have been in the paradise of Delights; as for example,
the thief, when in the first hour he entered into
paradise with Jesus [Luke 23: 39, 43]. Suppose
I ask you: Do you think he entered into paradise
or not? No doubt you would respond that he entered
it. Then, if I again ask you: What then, when he
entered paradise, was he immediately excluded from
the paradise of Delights? Perhaps you would say:
Since he entered in the first hour, he did not come
into the paradise of God's delights. But if you now
see him taking from the TREE of LIFE [Revelation
2:7], and from all the trees that God has not forbidden,
so that you see him feeding from every tree of
paradise and eating food from all that were not
prohibited at the time, and I would ask you:
Do you think that he came not only into paradise
but even into the paradise of God's delights? What
else would you respond but that he was in the
paradise of Delights? [LATIN beatitudo / final
goal of supreme perfection & bliss]
You who seem to lament are hastening to this
blessedness. But he who is lamented was once in
the delights of God.
from Origen's Homilies 1 - 14 on Ezekiel;
Homily 1 #5 (2) translated by Thomas P. Sheck
vol. 62 Ancient Christian Writers series (2010, Newman
Press) page 35
These things have been recorded because the prophet
says And I was in the midst of the captivity
by the river Chebar [Ezek. 1:1], which means
heaviness.
For the river of this world is heavy, as it is said
elsewhere in a mystery (and for the simple and
for those for whom it unfolds history); but for
those who hear the Scriptures spiritually, it
signifies the soul, which has fallen into the eddies
of this life. By the rivers of Babylon, there we
sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
We hung our instruments on the willows in the
midst of it. For there those who had led us as
captives asked us for the words of songs [Psalm
137:1-3]. These are the rivers of Babylon next
to which they sit and reminisce for the heavenly
fatherland. They mourn and weep when they
hang their instruments on the willows, namely,
on the willows of the law and of the mysteries
of God. For it is written in a certain book that
"all believers receive a willow crown" [Shepherd
of Hermas VIII. 2. 1-3]. And it is said in Isaiah
They will spring up as grass between the water
and as a willow on the flowing water [44:4].
And in the solemn feast of God, when the
tabernacles are arranged, they put willow
branches at certain places on the tabernacles
[Leviticus 23:40].
Trump is self-installed as of Feb. 12, 2025 as "Chair of Kennedy Center"
Deborah Rutter has been fired.
__________________________________________________
Monday 10 Feb. 2025 - TRUTH Social (social media)
tweet now states longtime confidant Ric Grenell
has been appointed chairman/executive director
of KENNEDY CENTER -- CNN.com details
________________________________________________
Trump has plan to depose its Board chairman and appoint
himself as main CEO and Program approver,
ACCORDING TO
Atlantic Monthly article emerging Feb. 7, 2025.
The current president of Kennedy Center for the
Arts was Deborah Rutter, who announced since
Jan. 2025 that she would step down.
About 1/2 of the members were appointed during his
former term 2017 - Jan. 20, 2021 : including
Pam Bondi
Elaine Chao
"Mike" Huckabee
The current chairman is David M. Rubenstein who
is a longtime friend of Donald J. Trump . . .
Among Biden (2021 - 2024 POTUS) appointed
Board members (6-year term) was Karin Jean-Pierre.
Three next Israeli hostages to be released,
all men, by HAMAS in rounds of the Cease-Fire
after their Oct. 7, 2023 abductions in the Gaza
Strip vicinity -- to follow are 180 Palestinians
who will be released from Israeli jails/
prisons -- Feb. 8, 2025 -- the 3 Israelis range in age from
34 to 56.
The Trump-Vance National Endowment for the Arts
will cancel the "Challenge America" opportunity
a Biden-Harris program that offered support primarily
to small organizations for projects that extend the reach
of the arts to underserved groups/communities. . .
Now (up to July 4, 2026) --
the NEA dot-gov will celebrate and honor the 250th
Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence (National Document). . .
axios.com/2025/02/06/trump-national-endowment-arts-grants
Michigan's Upper Peninsula Sled Dog Race
is back in downtown Marquette, MI
7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, 2025
Details about the 228-mile race for
12-dog teams through hills, creek
crossings, deep snow and isolated
trails from Marquette to Grand Marais
and back; the multi-day race ends Sunday
2/16 at the Ojibwa Casino, east of Harvey, MI
www.mlive.com/life/2025/02/its-back-up200-dog-sled-
race-returns-after-two-years-of-bad-conditions.html
Current Prime Minister of Japan
Shigeru Ishiba
met with POTUS 47
at 11:30 a.m. Eastern
Friday Feb. 7, 2025 at the White House.
He received the Trump Photography
book, inscribed by its POTUS author.
At a bilateral meeting & Lunch,
Trump OK'd investment of Nippon
(mistakenly calling it N-I-S-S-A-N)
to be part-owner of US Steel but not
an owner; Trump intends to slash
the trade imbalance ($68 billion).
For P.M., Trump is very "Frightening"
on television" ? ! ?
details of the man arrested Jan. 2021, convicted
of violent attacks toward Capitol Police & law
enforcement, spraying officers with bear spray
now FEB. 2025 TX sheriff arrested the 6-year-term convict who
was pardoned 20 Jan. this year by Trump. This arrest on
solicitation charges to have sex with under-17-
yr.old propositioning the individual on Bumble
dating site.
thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5131524-
pardoned-january-6-rioter-minor-solicitation-charges/
Tiger Woods and these 3:
Jay Monahan, Commissioner
Adam Scott, 2013 winner of the Master's
by phone with Yasir al-Rumayyan,
Saudi sovereign wealth fund chairman,
one of most influential figures in
Saudi Arabia
said in a joint statement that
Trump brought us close to a final
deal, toward reunification of men's
professional golf.
Federal anti-trust officials are
reviewing the trust sheet . . .
Update Tuesday 11 Feb. 2025
Following a meeting with Prince Abdullah II
of Jordan, #DJT was asked "Do you have
interest in developing your own real estate
projects?" (i.e. a Riviera on the Meditteranean)
He replied "No, I've had a great career in real
estate" laughingly . . .
NYTimes.com/live/President-Trump-news
IN one-on-one interviews, repeatedly
Trump said the U.S. would take over Gaza
and lead its reconstruction for the long-term
AT PRESENT --
Gaza is still controlled by HAMAS 16 months
after the Palestinian organization attacked Israel
taking settler, military, and civilian hostages
(including Thai agricultural workers) and the
IDF launched a military campaign & invasion.
We will do what is necessary;
if it's necessary we'll do that =
USE OF AMERICAN TROOPS
Contrast follow-up statement
Secy of State Rubio
It was not meant as a hostile move;
It was meant as a very generous move --
the offer to rebuild and to be in charge
of the rebuilding
LONG-TERM CONTROL &
OVERSEEING CONSTRUCTION
IN GAZA
Trump said
I do see a long-term ownership
position, and I see it bringing
long-term stability to the Middle East;
the Riviera of the Middle East . . .
__________________________________
Feb. 7, 2025 Defense Minister of
Israel backs with plan and orders military
to prepare for Palestinians to leave Gaza
with "exit options"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/
trump-gaza-war-crimes.html
bobdylan.com/date/2025-04-14-south-bend-the-
morris-performing-arts-center/
One night concert - Bob Dylan
at downtown South Bend, IN
Tickets on sale Friday Feb. 7
2025
Next concert in nationwide
tour is Kalamazoo, MI (04-16)
see further
bobdylan.com/news OFFICIAL
WEBSITE
Last living "Tuskegee Airman" dies at age 100
He saw combat during W.W. II
obituary NYTimes.com/2025/02/05/us/harry-stewart-jr-dead.html
died Sunday Feb. 2, 2025 at his home in
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Stewart flew 43 missions from
Winter 1944 until Spring 1945
NPR coverage of the 30 Jan. 2025 concert - testimonial
at Intuit Dome & Kia Forum -- +30 artists took turns
performing and comedians also addressed the on-site
audience. NPR.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5286841/fireaid-
concert-la-wildfire
Speaker Mike Johnson -- read Matt. ch.5
Beatitudes (KJV, 1600)
prayer from Bulletin avbl. to all . . .
Chicago area Congressman
Krishnamoorthi (D) -- led a mantra
Katie Britt from AL (U.S. Senator)
led prayer for our leaders Trump & Vance
protect Pres. and FLOTUS Melanie
VP and 2nd Lady Usha & 3 children . . .
Also Quotation from Holy Qu'ran
led by Indianapolis Congressman
Andre Carson (D) -- words
following the comments by POTUS 47
TODAY -- annual event
held at Capitol Bldg., D.C.
c-span plans live coverage at
8 a.m. Eastern c-span.org/
c-span.org/event/white-house-event/
president-trump-members-of-congress
at-natl-prayer-breakfast/430598
Senator Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire
"We should pray that we are on God's side"
A. Lincoln comment
If foreign agents manage to attack, wound, maim,
and even assassinate the POTUS or other members
of the Presidential line of succession,
it is NOT up to that Chief Executive /
Commander-in-Chief to instruct the Pentagon /
CIA, NSA or other intelligence service with
lethal power to threaten to obliterate any
rival nation or ruling group / party overseas.
see further
nytimes.com/2025/02/04/us/politics/trump-iran
-executive-order.html
The international Restaurant chain McDonald's
will offer during Feb. and March only (check
local franchise locations yourself) an annual
dessert-drink that has Green Food Coloring
and mild mint taste in these sizes
Small (500 calories), Medium (540 calories),
and Large. Depending on your state / region,
some McDonald's will give a portion of sales
for children's hospital charities like the
Ronald McDonald House.
Chapel Sermon delivered by Benjamin Elijah Mays
SOURCE: Walking Integrity pages 13 - 14, edited
by Dr. Lawrence E. Carter, Sr. (1998, Mercer Univ. Press)
Text: "Father, into Thy hands, I commend
my Spirit"
Preacher : Morehouse College President
Jesus died challenging God;
one need not feel sorry for a great
man's glorious death.
Mays told of how bravely great men
have died, true to the causes for which
their lives had been dedicated [ Mohandas
K. Gandhi, Socrates ].
"Feel sorry for the man who dies
running away licked, a coward,
fearfully having failed to fight for
justice for all peoples of the world."
At different stages of his work on earth,
Jesus was plagued by injustice, tyranny,
condemnation, almost insurmountable
forces of Sadducees, Zealots, Romans,
and Pharisees. Was Jesus fanatical
and mistaken? Let history speak for
itself? Jesus challenges the people
of earth while they work, yet, fight,
all the while having faith in the
consequences. That's the conquering
Faith!"
AP News (7:30 p.m. Eastern Feb. 4, 2025)
POTUS Trump announced Tuesday evening that he
will withdraw aid from UNRWA that provides aid, health
care, schooling, assistance to Palestinians who fled or
were expelled from their homes before and during the
1948 Arab-Israeli war that established the state of Israel,
as well as for their descendants. Some 2.5 million
refugees in Gaza, W. Bank, E. Jerusalem and 3 million
more in Jordan & Lebanon.
DETAILS of that Executive order move taken the
same day as the visit of P.M. Netanyahu of Israel
to visit the Trump - Vance administration in D.C.
apnews.com/article/trump-un-human-rights-palestinian
refugees-israel
Trump also called for a review of UNESCO and the
level of support paid by the U.S. for the U.N. budget
from NY TIMES article 4 Feb. 2025
American well-being compared
across 37 rankings compared to
other industrialized nations & China
on economic performance, physical
health, mental health, social trust . . .
we have the LOWEST life expectancy
highest murder rate,
world's highest rate of drug overdoses,
lowest rates of trust in government,
among highest rates depression in youth,
high rate of single-parent families. . .
Americans spend less time in group
activities (e.g. sports leagues, labor
union meetings, church activities). . .
progress has slowed for millions of
Americans even as they hear that the
economy is stronger than it has ever
been. We're prone to overconsume
and make ourselves sick. . .
The end of all ends:
ibi vacabimus et videbimus
videbimus et amabimus,
amabimus et laudabimus.
There we shall be at rest,
and see,
we shall see and love,
we shall love and praise!
BOOK 22, #30
from Gerard O'Daly's AUGUSTINE's THE CITY OF GOD
A Reader's Guide (2020, Oxford Univ. Press, 2nd edition)
Chapter 10, pages 250-1 : on Book 20
Augustine at this point in De Civitate Dei
adduces the example of natural phenomena
to support his argument that things can
survive fire, and bodies may be immune
to decay: the salamander, volcanoes, the
flesh of the peacock. . .Fire itself is some-
thing full of contradictory powers. It both
destroys and preserves, it burns most
things black but some white (e.g. stones).
It can be stored in lime, and then activated
by the addition of water, which normally
extinguishes fire, but it is not activated
by oil, which is normally a fuel for fire.
from Gerard O'Daly's THE CITY OF GOD
A READER'S EDITION (2020: 2nd edtion)
chapter 10 pages 242 - 244
In Book 20 Augustine is chiefly concerned to
demonstrate that this judgment of God will take
place, and to show of what kind it is, on the
basis of Scriptural testimonies. He relies on
testimonia divina [Latin for evidence of
Scripture] in his assumption that it will happen
or rather that it happens continually in human
history, starting with the expulsion of Adam &
Eve from Paradise. Before that event, God
judged the angels who rebelled. Moreover, present
punishments -- of demons -- are instances of
divine judgment [Book 20 #1]. Concerning the FINAL
judgment he deals first with NEW Testament then
OLD Testament materials, preferring value (LATIN
merita) to chronology (LATIN tempora ). . ."things
new and old" (Parable in Matthew 13:52). . .Some
passages refer to the first resurrection / the soul's
liberation, through baptism, from the death-like
state of sin. . .The final judgment will be the second
one, and will lead, for some, to the second death
of eternal damnation (Book 20 #6) . . .In 20.7
A. demonstrates that what Revelation 20 says about
the Devil is consistent with what he says about the
two meanings of the Millennium / 1,000 years. . .
the binding of the devil symbolizes the belief that,
although the devil may tempt, he cannot undermine
the church. His release, Revelation 20:3, does not
entail that the devil can then do serious damage,
but is rather intended by God to demonstrate the
power of the defeated enemy. The 42-month release
(Revelation 11:2 & 13:5) is underscored in a
literal sense, but A. does not propose that there
will be any great difference in the pattern of those
falling away from, or joining, the Church in that
period (Book 20 #8). . . The present state of the
Church is that of a kingdom at war, with evil and
with its enemies; but the final state of the kingdom
of God will be one of peace.
The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
Washington, D.C. won the ruling from Judge Tanya
M. Jones Bosier of the Superior Court of the District
of Columbia that the "PROUD BOYS" name
trademark, merchandise with it symbols
was stripped from the white nationalist group
of insurrectionists and violent domestic terrorists
and will instead benefit the historic black church /
congregation. Today Monday Feb. 3, 2025
all funds raised now must be given to the D.C.
congregation where they tried to burn and attack it.
nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/proud-boys.html
UPDATE: 11 Feb. 2025 --
demands $500 billion in rare earths / minerals
POLITICO.com/ article
Trump announced Monday Feb. 3, 2025
future U.S. Support of the
Government of Ukraine
could be tied to access
to the country's rare earth
materials : "We're looking
to do a deal with Ukraine
where they're going to
secure what we're giving
them with their rare earth
and other things" -- Oval
Office interview
Trump emphasized:
we want a guarantee
Chapter 10 in Gerard O'Daly (Oxf. Univ. Press
2020, 2nd edition) Augustine's The City of God:
A Reader's Edition.
The beginning of Book 19 marks the transition
from authority to reason:
Augustine will proffer a critical survey
of philosophical opinions about the nature
of human happiness and the final good.
His survey of human ills sequences
individual-household-city / or state -
world - angelic society. . . For A.,
the world (Latin orbis terrae ) is first
the Roman empire and second the rest of
the world cut off from Roman rule. For
among the world's evils he reckons civil
wars. . .and wars between emperors and
usurpers.
Wars may be just, a necessity
imposed by the injustice of others;
but they are none the less
terrible!
The word peace (Latin pax) [Book
19 #10] . . . is the final good
for the Christian inasmuch as it
is the condition, in its perfect
form, of eternal life.
The name JERUSALEM means
'vision of peace'. A. provides
a classified and hierarchical series
of definitions of kinds of peace
BODY, irrational and rational SOUL,
the BODY-SOUL conjoint, peace
between humans and God and among
humans themselves, domestic peace,
the peace of the city of God, the
peace of all things as a
'tranquility of order.'
Grammy Tribute to
Quincy Jones
artists included Herbie Hancock,
Cynthia Erivo,
MOTOWN superstar Stevie Wonder;
other famed performers, creators/
producers who died since last Grammy
ceremony 12 months ago
Liam Payne (One
Direction - singer);
Kris Kristofferson;
Cissy Houston;
Sergio Mendes;
Eric Carmen;
JD Souther;
Toby Keith;
Marianne Faithful.
A Centennial Celebration
Ahead of the 8 - 11 p.m.
Eastern show, the Grammy
for Best spoken Album
went to Jimmy Carter
"Last Sundays in Plains".
Rest in strength and glory
POTUS 39 and Nobel Laureate!
This was Carter's 4th Grammy!
One individual (born in S. Africa - who emigrated here
on a student visa but didn't complete his academic
requirements / degree) spent more than
$290 million to elect his BFF and gain unprecedented
access to the Executive Branch of the United States
government (formerly a constitutional democracy).
He now runs a DOGE branch of external review of
government spending and also handled Space X,
Tesla, and "X" (formerly Twitter) -- sounds like a
concentration of power unprecedented in American
history. Who is that mortal human being? Does
he dance on stage with his BFF? Make Nazi-inspired
salutes? Hard to imagine such a person exists in
2025 . . .
from Gerard O'Daly's AUGUSTINE's
CITY OF GOD A reader's guide (2020)
pages 220-222 selections
Christianity is no less free from dissension
than are the secular cities with their
philosophical schools: heretics abound.
Yet they ultimately bring benefits to the
Church, testing both its patience & its
wisdom. They also give Christians an oppor-
tunity to practice neighbourly love, whether this
takes the soft form of persuasive teaching or
the hard form of stern discipline. The Devil,
the chief (Latin princeps ) of the impious
city (Book 18 #51) can do the City of God
no lasting harm. Providence uses evil to good
ends. But heretics and other dissidents are
a source of scandal and dismay to Christians,
and discourage others from joining the Church.
Distress and anguish are therefore a feature of
the Church: (Book 18 #51) The Church proceeds
a pilgrim (LATIN peregrinando) in these evil
days, not merely since the time of the bodily
presence of Christ and his Apostles, but since
Abel himself, the first righteous man, whom his
impious brother killed, and from then on until
the end of time, among the persecutions of the world
and the consolations of God.
There may and may not be more persecutions
in the time of the Antichrist. . .Augustine resists
the temptation to be precise about when this will
happen. He does not wish to adopt beliefs
(millennial or other) about the specific duration
of the Church in history or Christ's second coming.
A. is particularly scathing about the otherwise
unknown oracle claiming that the apostle Peter
used sorcery to ensure that Christianity would
survive for 365 years (see Book 22 #25 & Book
18 #53-4). Thus, the glimpse into the
future reaches no clear conclusion. Instead,
concluding Books 15 - 18, A. summarizes his
general argument in these four books:
We have demonstrated sufficiently, we believe,
the mortal course of the two cities, the
heavenly and the earthly, which are mixed from
beginning to end. One of the, the earthly
city, has made for itself the false gods it
wished, from any source -- even making them
out of humans -- to serve these with sacrifices;
the other city, a heavenly alien on earth,
does not make false gods, but is itself
made by the true God, to be itself his
true sacrifice. Both alike equally make use
of the good things, or are afflicted with
the devils, of our temporal condition, with
a different faith, a different hope, a
different love, until they are separated
by the last judgement, and each receives
its own end, of which there is no end
(Book 18 #54).
With the end of Book #18, Augustine's
account of the historical course (Latin
procurus) of the two cities is complete!
from Gerard O'Daly (2020, 2nd edition) page 220
Chapter on Books 15 - 18 of Augustine's The
City of God THE READER's EDITION (Oxford
Univ. Press):
Just as the LXX translators are prophets,
so too there are non-Jewish prophets,
whom Christians may cite. For every if
there were no people of God other than
the Jews, there were individuals who were
citizens of the heavenly City. JOB,
presented by Augustine as neither a native
of Israel nor a proselyte (Latin nec indigena
nec proselytus) is one such example. These
individuals (Sibylline oracles/ seers, possible
among others) are prophets only as the
result of a divine revelation. Their faith is
one and the same as that of Christian
believers (De Civitate Dei Book 18 #47).
Yet in the Christian Church as it is
constituted, there are those who are not
true members (Book 18 #48). Many
unworthy members are mixed with the good,
caught in the Gospel's dragnet, and swimming
in this word as in a sea (Book 18 #23),
before the separation of the evil from the
good. This a consequence of the great
increases in the number of Christians. To
these thoughts Augustine appends a further
_instalment of his historical survey, summar-
izing events of Christ's life (Apostles, preaching,
death, resurrection, post-resurrection period
with the disciples, ascension), the coming of
the Holy Spirit, the spread of the Gospel,
persecutions and martyrdom of early Christians
(Book 18 #49-50). The end of this process
is the Christianization of emperors who succeed
those who persecuted Christians and persecute
paganism in their turn (Book 18 #50).
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
from Gerard O'Daly's 2020 (2nd edition) of
Augustine's City of God: A Reader's guide
Book 18 of De Civitate Dei
In Book 18 #42, Augustine mentions the
conquests of Alexander the Great but does
not consider his rule to rank with the great
empires, because it did not last. The
mention of Alexander is a prelude to
Augustine's account of the Septuagint
translation (LXX) in one of the Hellenistic
kingdoms that great out of Alexander's
conquests, the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt.
The miraculous translation of the 70 / seventy
two translators, working independently and
yet producing an identical version, down to
word-order, is a guarantee of its inspired
nature (Book 18 #42). Augustine knows of
other translation of the Hebrew scriptures
into Greek, but he stresses the derivation
of Latin versions from the LXX, with the
recent exception of Jerome. Despite expert
praise for Jerome's version and scholarly
qualms about the absolute accuracy of the
LXX, Augustine stresses the superiority of
the latter. If there is disagreement between
the LXX and other versions, then we must
at least concede that there is "prophetic
depth" in the former. The very fact that the
LXX is not a slavishly literal translation is
a sign that it is inspired: the same Spirit
that spoke through the prophets influences
the translator, conveying identical meanings
in different ways. The practice of biblical
critics not to correct the Gk. Version from the
Hebrew, but to add from the Hebrew a
translation of what is missing in the Greek
and mark it in the manuscripts by an asterisk
just as a horizontal stroke marks passages
lacking in the Hebrew but found in LXX),
shows that their respect for the LXX version.
These marks have been carried over into Latin
translations. The same principle of inspiration
is applied to explain these divergences. The
Spirit simply wished to communicate some
things in one medium, some in another:
the LXX translators are the equal of the
prophets, and some of their words carry
a unique message (Book 18 #43). The
discrepancy between the Hebrew & Greek
versions of Jonah 3:4, where the Hebrew
has it that Nineveh will be destroyed in 40
days and the LXX says 3 days, is a case in
point. Jonah must have said what stands in
the Hebrew text. But the alternative version
points symbolically to the three days of
Christ's sojourn in hell before his resurrection,
just as do the three days which Jonah spent in
the whale (Hebrew word great fish ). The
number 40 has also a symbolic value: it
refers to the number of days Christ spent
with his disciples after the resurrection and
before the ascension. These discrepancies
compliment one another symbolically,
and keep readers on their toes, ever alert for
prophetic depths in the text (Book 18 #44).
Rick Husband, commander
William McCool, pilot
Michael Anderson, mission specialist
David Brown, mission specialist
Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist
Laurel Clark, mission specialist
Ilan Roman, payload specialist
REST IN STRENGTH & GLORY!
more at
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/
spacelevel_2/Columbia.html
https://festival.sundance.org
For "tickets" and deals for
Utahans . . .
Short films and documentary
films and feature-length films
SOURCE: David Brooks, NY TIMES columnist
Rituals often mark
doorway moments, when
we pass from one stage of
life to another. They
acknowledge that these
passages are not just
external changes but
involve internal
transformation!
Full Snow Moon is Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025
Its peak illumination will be 8:53 a.m. Eastern;
look for it the night ahead of the 12th when it
reaches its height around midnight.
February on average is the snowiest month
of the entire year!
Annual winter holidays that originated with
European churches that blessed CANDLES
brought to weekly mass by people;
it was associated with the Holy Family
presenting young Jesus at the Jerusalem
Temple when he was of age.
Groundhog Day is observed on Feb. 2
no matter what weekday it falls upon;
this year is Sunday and many places will
be trying to tie in with Punxatauney, PA
at 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time and the
announcement of Phil the Groundhog.
UPDATE: Acting Director FBI
Brian Driscoll
Feb. 2025 continues to
fight off attempts of DOJ to
single out those who arrested Jan. 6
insurrectionists
NYTimes.com/2025/02/04/us/politics/fbi-director
brian-driscoll-trump-justice-department.html
Revenge and Retribution
from MAGA - Trump party
on independent Law Enforcement
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jan. 31, 2025
cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-news-01-31-25/index.html
Blog Visits -- Google statistics for
"Seeking Faith and Understanding" (faithfor2008.blogspot.com)
February 1, 2025 (Saturday) : 187
Groundhog Day : 145
Feb. 3 (Monday): 125
Feb. 4 = 116
Feb. 5 = 132
Feb. 6 = 143
Feb. 7 = 110
Feb. 8 = 84
Feb. 9 = 158
Feb. 10 = 110
Feb. 11 = 101
Feb. 12 = 142
Feb. 13 = 306
Feb. 14 St. Valentine's = 214
Feb. 15 = 241
Feb. 16 = 117
Feb. 17 = 216
Feb. 18 = 139
Feb. 19 = 161
Total for 28-day month = 2,972
Number of February post messages = 94
from Gerard O'Daly's Augustine's The City of God: Reader's Edition
on Books 15 - 18
Augustine connects the Tower of Babel
(Genesis 11: 1 - 10) with Babylon,
which he understands to mean "confusion."
The foundations of Babylon, archetype of
the earthly city as a political reality, is thus
linked with the tower, a symbol of Nimrod's
pride (Book 16 #4). The Babel narrative allows
Augustine to employ an exegetical principle
and that enables him to explain why Genesis
11:5 has 'the Lord came down' and verse 7
(same chapter) 'the Lord saying "Come,
let us go down to Babel"'. The principle,
which Augustine took from the Donatist
theologian - exegete Tyconius is called
recapitulation which accounts for such
features by relating them to an earlier
point in Biblical narratives. . .Augustine
stresses that these passages are not to be
'taken literally,' indicating as they do that
'God's movement and sudden decision';
A. suggests that they refer to an angelic
intervention (Book 16 #5). The
attribution to God of language here leads
A. to consider the divine words of
Genesis 1:26 LET US MAKE MAN.
The plural here is not to be understood
to refer to angels, as that would involve
them in creation. Rather, it refers to
The TRINITY; which makes man in
'our image'. In Genesis 11:7 however
the words ARE more appropriately
those of angels: the reason Augustine
gives is the artificial one that the
exclamation 'Come' alludes to the
angels' approach to God as the source
of eternal truth, towards which they move.
God's meta-language is soundless,
it precedes his action as the unchanging
ground (ratio) of the action itself,
communicating itself directly to the
angelic minds. Augustine, who has
little to say about the multiplicity of
human languages other than that it
exists, reckons that from Noah's sons
after Babel: 72 languages came into
existence, and even more peoples
(Book 16 #6).
page 200 of O'Daly's 2020 book
Three Oct. 7 hostages held by HAMAS in
Gaza will be freed Saturday Feb. 1, 2025
in exchange for 90 Palestinian prisoners.
nytimes.com/2025/01/31/world/middleeast/hamas-hostages-
israel-prisoners-release.html
Mr. Siegel is an American-Israeli was taken hostage
from his home in Kfar Aza, a kibbutz near the
Gaza border.
Secretary of Commerce
Howard Lutnick-nominee
disclosed Tuesday
Jan. 29, 2025
that he will NOT
recommend NOAA be disbanded.
Democrat interrogators did
not ask any further questions of
the billionaire nominee, friend
of #DJT about "climate science."
Feb. 19 update (NY TIMES): TSA Chief Duffy
laid out in a memo to NY Gov. Kathy Hochhul
that Trump personally objected to "Congestion
Pricing" in Manhattan below 60th street // Duffy
would contact her to discuss orderly cessation
of toll operations. POTUS then crowed on Truth Social:
"All of New York is saved: long live the King"
with illustration of #DJT wearing a crown
us/politics/trump-king-image.html
____________________________________________
Feb. 3 update (POLITICO): TSA Chief Duffy
told the DOT to prioritize communities that have
higher than average birth rates and marriage rates;
accessibility of transportation to families of young
children . . .undated memo, effective immediately. . .
UPDATE: FAA Chief and FAA Deputy administrator
positions are vacant; incoming Trump-Vance admin.
asked for all Biden-Harris to leave effective Jan. 20.
No one is able with Congressional approval to act
on behalf of the FAA today after yesterday's deadly
collision between an Army helicopter and an American
Airlines flight from Wichita, KS that crashed near D.C.
Mike Whitaker was forced from office (5-year-term) after
a vote of 98-0 from the Senate in Oct. 2023. Elon Musk
had called for Whitaker to resign once Trump-Vance
won the Nov. 5 election; also posting on "X" / Twitter
that the FAA should no longer exist
new republic.com/post/190942/faa-no-leader-dc-plane-
crash-elon-musk
________________________________________________
Duffy was nominated by POTUS Trump and confirmed by
the U.S. Senate, Transportation Secy. will now
be the face of the Fed. Govt. with the collision
mid-air of an Army helicopter and an American
Airlines flight from Wichita, KS that collided
near Reagan Intl. Airport (Wed. night 1/29/2025).
Duffy is most recently a lobbyist and
FOX NEWS on-air commentator having entered those
fields after 8 years as a Wisconsin GOP Congressman
from 2011 - 2019 and a district attorney general
for Ashland County, WI (NW part of state). He had vowed to improve
the nation's transportation infrastructure.
Father of 9, he is married to one wife, Rachel Compos-Duffy,
and was a professional lumberjack athlete in the field
of lumberjack sports. The family lives in Wausau, WI.
