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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Vigil for victims of Annunciation Church assassin at Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN

 Pray for the children from Wed. a.m. Mass

Shooting at

Annunciation R. Catholic church, Minneapolis, MN

August 27, 2025

join with

Teachers,

Students, 

Nurses,

as well as police officers.

One such victim is 12-yr.-old Sophia Forchas

in critical condition after undergoing surgery

abcnews.go.com/

grief-turns-hope-minneapolis-rallies-kids-hurt-school

Inflation rises 7.3%

School Supplies soar 7.3% amid tariffs

for parents shopping for their children's

September needs.

abcnews.go.com/US/school-supply-prices-soar-73-

amid-tariffs/story?id=12561130

September 4, 2025

online coverage of inflationary trend nationwide

Wiener Dog Costume Contest - Bristol, Indiana - Saturday Sept. 6, 2025

Bristol, IN

Annual CORNDOG_ Festival

Saturday all day

September 6, 2025

10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

new and improved

bristolcorndogfest.com

Prizes for the

"Wiener Dog" / Dachshund

Costume Contest are sponsored

by Goshen (IN) Physicians

RULES =

all contestants must be one year or older

dogs must be sociable with other dogs, adults, children

only one costume per pet

all pets must be up-to-date with vaccinations and provide

proof from your veterinarian

pets must be leashed and under control at all times

people-costume allowed but are not judged

obscene, lewd, or cruel costumes NOT PERMITTED

costumes must be safe and comfortable for the dog

no dogs in heat

owners-handlers must clean up after pet

FEE : $20 per pet

online registration includes waiver signature (required)

bristolcorndogfest.com/wiener-dog-contest/

Jeffrey Goldberg

Host of WASHINGTON WEEK in review

with the Atlantic 

PANEL: Friday Sept. 5, 2025

Elisabeth Bumiller, NY Times

Leigh Ann Caldwell, Puck

Stephen Hayes, The Dispatch

Vivian Salama, The Atlantic

Isaac Herzog - President Israel -- NOT Netanyahu -- permitted to meet at Vatican with new POPE Leo XIV (earlier re-scheduled meeting altered with death of Pope Francis)

details

NCR online.org/Vatican/pope-meets-israeli-president-discusses-tragic-situation-gaza


The Israeli President will meet

Pope Leo XIV

and Vatican Sec. of State

at Vatican City

September 4, 2025.

jpost.com/israel-news/article

Focus will be on

hostages,

antisemitism,

protecting Christians in

the Middle East.

World Central Kitchen - Damian's Kitchen / Mawasi Field Kitchen

Yes the ship bound for port outside 

Gaza arrived with

baby food, formula,

canned goods :

see specifics at

wck.org/news/gaza-questions-answered

updated as of

September 4, 2025

Former Apple Exec. DAN BECK resigned as Hegseth DIU unit head : in charge of latest technology given to PENTAGON

Doug Beck,

stepped down August 25, 2025

abruptly telling his staff in an email

after leading the Pentagon's "DEFENSE

INNOVATION UNIT"

He is a Naval Reserve captain;

that unit is responsible for

fielding Drone technology and 

AI-driven weapons through the

Replicator Initiative of the Pentagon/ D o D.

The HILL platform / Capitol D.C. news

Two top Cyber Officials leave Pentagon / Hegseth's Dept.Defense

 Ashley Manning, principal

assistant Secretary of Defense

for cyber policy

and Jonathan Owen, acting

deputy assistant of Defense

for homeland defense integration

and defense support to civil

authorities

resigned recently (Sept. 2025).

Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist who wrote 1968 book about survivors of Hiroshima A-bomb

 The noted psychiatrist / author

OBITUARY :

nytimes.com/2025/09/04/obituaries/robert-jay-lifton-dead.html

Amazing facts about Kennedy's omissions and deficiencies

from Committee member

Senator Raphael Warnock (D - Georgia)

RFK, Jr. had never been 

to the CDC before the gunman

attacked it in Atlanta this year;

he has not been briefed by any 

of its scientists / employees

about vaccines.

Many CDC employees believe

Kennedy is to some extent

responsible for misinformation

that led to the crazed gunman's

attack where bullets entered office

windows.

_____________________________

Kennedy's back-and-forth with

New Hampshire Sr. Senator

Maggie Hassan is the most striking

example of his disdain for members

of the Finance Committee and his

disregard for Capitol protocol.

"You're just making things up. . ."

to which the Senator replied:

"Sometimes when you make an

accusation, it's a kind of confession,

Mr. Kennedy"

Kennedy asserted that "there are no

cuts to Medicaid" // by 2034, the CBO

estimates that there will be 7.8 million

persons without health insurance.

First Sunday Sept. 7, 2025 , Guitarist Phil Keaggy concert (re-scheduled) - Howard Center, Andrews Univ.

 September 7, 2025

7 p.m. rescheduled from

April 6, 2025 (due to hand surgery)

Part of "HOWARD CENTER

PRESENTS" series

Andrews University,

Berrien Springs, MI

southwest Michigan

andrews.edu/agenda/65491

__________________________

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. . .

HOWARD Performing Arts Center

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

Shohei Ohtani -- thus far 100 home runs - will pitch for Dodgers on Monday Sept. 8, 2025

 100th Home Run

as a

Los Angeles Dodger

(California, USA)

coverage in NHK (Japan) platform

wws3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250903_07/

His 100th Home Run was measured

as his fastest exit-velocity in his

MLB (American) career.

John Bolton Sept. 4, 2025 - accused but not charged for gathering classified information & retaining it

POSSIBLE (not yet actuated)

Charges begin to emerge from Pamela Jo Bondi

Trump attorney general -- Bolton to face

espionage act violations, other crimes

[ gathering and retaining classified information ]

REUTERS.com/ September 4, 2025



Trump 2.0 continues to blame Bolton,

calling him one of the "stupid people"

making it harder to end the Ukraine war.

He fails to offer evidence that Bolton leaked

classified information. 


selections from

The Room Where It Happened  (2020)

Simon & Schuster

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 7 : "Trump heads for the door in

Syria and Afghanistan, and can't find it"

chapter 8 : "Chaos as a way of life"

Chapter 12 : "Trump loses his way,

and then his nerve"

__________________________________

Epilogue (pages 483 - 494)

As the line in Hamilton

goes, that "I am not

throwing away my shot. . ."

Readers can be assured that

in my book (ROOM) I have 

faithfully presented the substance

of Trump's conversations with

foreign leaders, and mine as well.

[for the "classification review"]

Almost no changes in my manuscript/

final draft (ROOM) were required in

my discussion of conversations between

Trump and his subordinates (page 492). . .

For all ages, an Extravaganza -- Free admission

POLITICS and PROSE

bookstore is official bookseller

at the Convention Center

NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 2025

the 25th annual

Sat. Sept. 6, 2025

8:30 - 7:30 all day!

politics-prose.com/bookmark/national-book-festival-all-ages

Washington, D.C.

our nation's capital

Pfizer announces that mRNA vaccine development (specifically "Warp Drive" COVID vaccine work under Trump 1.0) is NOBEL PRIZE-worthy

HEADLINE:

"Pfizer responds to Success of

Operation Warp Speed

(rapid development using mRNA

technology to produce COVID-19

vaccine in 2020) and re-affirms

it will transparently and consistently

disclose its research findings"

THIS Heralds the $1 trillion saved by

use of vaccines to save lives

and health care costs --

pfizer.com/news/announcements/pfizer-responds-success-

operation-warp-speed-and-affirms-transparency-covid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2025 10 a.m. -- NEW YORK, NY

President Trump 2.0's call for transparency

is welcomed. . .We stand by the integrity of our

data. . .

Your Story's Not Over 5K - Baroda, Michigan -- Suicide Prevention -- MTT Great Lakes Story

 Run Walk

runsignup.com/

11 a.m.

$20 race + $2.20 fee

Registration ends Sept. 19 for the

Sat. Sept. 20, 2025

Race/Events/MI/Baroda/MTTGreatLakesStory5k

Niles (MI) H.S. VIKINGS -- face 8 football opponents; Friday night lights beginning Sept. 5, 2025

Niles, Michigan (Berrien County) - SW Michigan High School 

Friday Sept. 5 : at Lakeshore

Sept. 12: at Paw Paw

Sept. 19: versus Otsego

Sept. 26: versus Sturgis

October 3: vs. Three Rivers

Oct. 10: at Vicksburg

Oct. 17: vs. Plainwell

Oct. 24: at Edwardsburg

after a pre-season game

against the St. Joseph (MI)

Bears, the Vikings have a 1-0

record to date.

25th National Book Festival 2025 - list of authors / guests featured from Convention Center - Sept. 6, 2025

Saturday Sept. 6, 2025

Free

expected are +200,000

9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern Time

on BOOK TV

C-Span cable channel

2025 National Book Festival from

Walter e. Washington Convention Center,

Washington DC

among guests and authors :

Ron Chernow

Peter Cozzens

Stephen Grant

Garrett Graff

Jill Lepore

Greg Lukianoff

Kate Marvel

Robert Newlen

Clay Risen

c-span.org

Top CDC Officials have quit, S. Monarez out as CDC Director, RFK Jr. offers directorship to own deputy J. O'Neill

"acting" CDC director will be for immediate future

a biotechnology executive whose degrees were from

Yale and U. Chicago (a B.A. and a M.A. in Humanities)

Jim O'Neill

____________________________________________

RFK, Jr. Sought to Fire CDC Director

Susan Monarez over

COVID-19 Vaccine Policy. . .

RFK, Jr. fumed at a Texas News

Press Conference saying, the

CDC is a "cesspool of corruption". . .

There's a lot of trouble at CDC

(Atlanta, Georgia)

"it's going to require getting rid of

some people over the long term in

order for us to change the institutional

culture". . .

ADMIRAL Brett Giroir, a physician

who helped lead the nation through

recent pandemics said:

I DON'T KNOW WHO's IN

CHARGE HONESTLY and

THAT's FRIGHTENING !

August 28, 2025

5 p.m. Eastern Time

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

September 2025 blog statistics

 September 1 (Labor Day)    3,787 visits - (most of entire 30-day month)

Sept. 2                                    2,227

Sept. 3                                       844

Sept. 4                                       676

Sept. 5                                        52

Month of September (first - 30th) : Running Total = 7,586

to this Web GOOGLE BLOG

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Seeking Faith and Understanding

Timothy J. Shaw

My Part of the 

CITY

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Lonnie Bunch, Smithsonian director -- REPLY to Trump challenge to exhibits (will nit-pickers "continue historical revision / re-write"?)

September 3 (two days after Labor Day 2025)

the SMITHSONIAN replied stating :

it has authority over its

programming and content

arts/design/smithsonian-

bunch-trump.html

_______________________

The director of the Smithsonian

Lonnie Bunch,

historian + current

director of the Smithsonian

museums

lunched Aug. 28, 2025 with 

Donald J. Trump & review

operative Lindsay Halligan,

a special aide/assistant to

POTUS, who is leading a

review detailed here =

NYTimes.com/2025/08/28/arts-design-trump-bunch-lunch-smithsonian.html


LaMonica McIver

 Sept. 3, 2025

Five Republicans in "swing" districts sided with Democrats

as a whole to stop the House Leadership's censure over

her defensive, non-violent interaction with law enforcement

at a New Jersey "deportation site" // she is a member of the

U.S. House who was properly at that location in May 2025.

Charges were dropped by the D of J's Prosecutor / 

U.S. attorney ( term officeholder Alina Habba) against Newark

Mayor.

Some Republicans voted "present" / No Opinion and the

winning side prevailed.

She is a member of the House Black Caucus and

a freshman from New Jersey.

The punitive measure would also have removed her from

a legislative committee.

The Louisiana Congressman who forced the entire House

to vote on her censure is 

Rep. Clay Higgins. . .

Karol Nawrocki gets Oval Office welcome President to President (Wed. 9/3/25)

 In OVAL OFFICE photo-op

with newly-elected POLAND

President-elect

POTUS Trump makes broad hint that

transactionally he and Hegseth will promise

that U.S. Troops will be stationed there --

independent of any other factors, just out of

give-and-take from that European leader . . .

3 September 2025 -- mid-day

see major news media coverage of that

open-air flattery and under-the-table approach .  .  .

Judge Allison Burroughs rules POTUS Trump broke the law by cancelling Research Grants -- orders them restored

Sept. 3, 2025  4:58 p.m. Eastern

Judge Burroughs has ruled and Trump has lost --

he broke the law when using the power of the

Executive Branch against the institution of Harvard

University (founded 1634) --

see today's breaking news

NYTimes.com/2025/09/03/us/harvard-trump-funding-ruling.html

_____________________________________________

UPDATE -- July 21, 2025 -- Judge Burroughs in

her courtroom will hear from Harvard's lawyers that

the Trump team of lawyers is attempting to curb

the +388-year-old American institution's

rights to free speech.

NY TIMES.com/ 2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html

Pamela Bondi, Trump's A.G. at the D.ofJ. argues that 

the Trump-Vance administration has the clear authority

to halt research across the entire university departments.

After today's arguments, it is not clear when she will issue

her ruling.

_________________________________________

UPDATE: June 20 -- Yes, Judge Burroughs

rules in favor of Harvard's continuance to

admit international students.

NYTimes.com online BREAKING NEWS 4 p.m.

Friday June 20

______________________________________

Update: June 16, 2025

NPR is reporting that the Judge will delay until

Monday the 23rd of June.

NPR.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5432750/harvard-lawsuit-international-students-hearing

____________________________________________

Judge Allison Burroughs (Fed. District) -- insisted that

the Status Quo remain in place. . .

details on Kristi Noem revocation -- see ABC News.go.com

"Breaking News"

Thursday May 29, 2025

Harvard University attorneys will make their first in-person

arguments before a Boston, Mass. federal courtroom

Its strategy is to use the POTUS Trump's statements

as evidence that the government is on a political

crusade against the school.

At stake is the 70-year-old Harvard

tradition of admitting top students

from around the globe; a visa ban

would affect 7,000 students currently

enrolled and other incoming students

who had expected to enroll in summer

and fall.

_________________________________

On the Trump-Vance side,

Lawyers on the Dept. of Justice have not

yet submitted any written arguments on

the case.

_________________________________

Revoking a university's right to host

international students is an extraordinary

measure.  In court papers, Harvard has

maintained that the Trump-Vance lawyers/

legal complainants bypassed detailed 

procedures that might lead to a revocation.

Florida -- points of crisis

On
September 3, 2025
Florida Surgeon General
Joseph A. Ladapo
concurs with official
stance to
move to end all
Vaccine Mandates
for
School-age
___________________

On
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, 
causing record damage; 
 the storm was blamed for 55 deaths in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas.

Midwest Canine Obstacle 5K Run - Benton Harbor, MI : The Woods Fitness Park

runsignup.com

$110 or $150 for Open Division

Noon - 2 p.m.

October 4, 2025

over 40 obstacles -- runners and their

pups on leash : everyone gets finisher medals and hat,

live music, vendors - food trucks,

food / beer / overnight camping nearby.

"MIDWEST Canine Obstacle 5K Run"

must register by Oct. 2 to participate that

Saturday (48 hours advance)

Wooded Trails,

Creek Beds,

Dirt

Water obstacles

RUN with the best to

see how you stack up!

Donald John Trump -- health [ insight from Maggie Haberman ]

as of Sept. 4 -- White House is NOW

declaring that viral video showing

black disposable bag being thrown out of

White House to dispose of health / quarantine

materials is


"FAKE"

____________________________________

THE HILL.com

"Maggie Haberman says,

Trump

has never been 

transparent about his

health" 


He appears at public events

with his hand caked with make-up.

(August 25, 2025)

NBC News termed it in a summary article

"Trump, who questioned 

his opponents' health,

rebuffs rumors about his

own"

nbcnews.com/politics/

donald-trump/trump-rebuffs-

health-speculation-golf-hand-

bruise-biden-clinton-rcna228542

Receive Apple, Donut, Apple Cider : after 5K or 1 Mile

If you want an "APPLE FESTIVAL 5K"

experience, 

cross the state line and enjoy:

Nappanee (IN)

APPLE FESTIVAL 5K

and 1 mile run that

begins at Missionary Church

2 miles north of Downtown

Nappanee -- date this year

September 20, 2025 , 8:30 a.m.

Eastern Time

findtherun.com/race/14960/nappanee-apple-festival-donut-dash-5k-and-1-mile-donut-dash

North American Monsoon season (set to begin this month)

 Details at

abcnews.go.com/US/Monsoon-season-us/story?id=125098088

Daily patterns of mostly dry

mornings with storms

developing later in the day

with heavy rains occuring in

the afternoon and evening hours -

also known as a diurnal cycle.

[California, southern Nevada, Arizona]

Agritourism

 Read all about SW Michigan (Berrien County)

sites and events :

Farmers Markets

U-Pick Orchards & Flower Farms

Farms and Farm Tours

Fruit and Vegetable Shopping

Plants and Gardens

Organic Goodness

more at 

harborcountry.org/

15311 Three Oaks Road,

Three Oaks, MI

49128

telephone 269-469-5409

stay connected FaceBook,

Instagram, Pure Michigan

Die Musikmeisters (German music for Oktoberfest)

 Three - day weekend

Oktoberfest at

INDIANA DINOSAUR MUSEUM

October 3 - 5, 2025

Noon - 6 p.m. each day

German music,

food & beer, hayrides

to our Pumpkin Patch,

Pumpkin Pie eating

contest

visitsouthbend.com/event/oktoberfest-at-the-

indiana-dinosaur-museum/8142/

7102 Dinosaur Way,

South Bend, IN 46628

Japan (island nation) had hottest summer on record

 According to NHK World News,

Japan set a new record for hottest

summer average temperatures:

a record 13 days with daytime highs

greater than 30 degrees Celsius or

higher.  In August, Isesaki City in

Gunma Prefecture recorded the

highest-ever temperature of 41.8 degrees

C. 

[story posted Monday Sept. 1, 7:20 a.m.]

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Netanyahu faces high-level opposition to his Gaza advance to control city/territory

Military chief of staff

Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir

Head of Mossad spy agency

David Barnea

National Security adviser

Tzachi Hagnebi

Foreign minister

Gideon Saar

Trump plans hefty tax on imported drugs, risking higher prices and shortages

 ABC News breaks this story

Sept. 2, 2025

Politics/WireStory

CPB : Corporation for Public Broadcasting to receive Governor's Award at Creative EMMYs Award Sept. 7, 2025

 Accepting the award will be

Patricia de Stacy Harrison,

longest-serving president 

and CEO of Corporation for

Public Broadcasting.

Most of its staff positions end

Sept. 30, 2025; Trump 2.0 and the

GOP House and Senate have

defunded public TV programming. . .

apnews.com Online Article

2 September 2025

The CPB now ends almost 6 decades

of producing education programming.

Hundreds killed in Sudan landslide

In remote Marra Mountains

in western Sudan

bbc.com/news/articles/cdj2jygzzk9o

Days of heavy rains caused the landslide

Sunday Aug. 31, 2025

Sept. 17 Buckingham Palace Dinner for Trump 2.0 and FLOTUS -- third Wednesday this month -- will not address Parliament House of Commons/Lords

NY POST offered details

of who on "invite list"

09/02/  NY post.com/

"Trump issues surprise invitation to

UK State Banquet hosted by King Charles - report/

Amy Coney Barrett : Q / A with former Law School professor- peers (Notre Dame) : DeBartolo, Notre Dame Sept. 12, 2025

Friday Sept. 12, 2025

4 - 5:15 p.m.

Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo P.A. Center

Citizenship and Constitutional Govt.'s YOU Tube channel

see details to register for this closed to University event

events.nd.edu/events/2025/09/12/

jeanie-poole-oshaughnessy-memorial-lecture-

a-conversation-with-supreme-court-justice-

amy-coney-barrett

Univ. of Notre Dame,

South Bend, IN

46556

Listening to the Law

 Supreme Court associate justice

Amy Coney Barrett

published Sept. 9, 2025

Colorado Springs, CO

Space Command to move from Western State

to deep South

Huntsville, AL 

Graham Greene, Canadian First Nations performer

Graham Greene, well-known First Nations

indigenous Canada actor - celebrity,

died September 2025

age 73

OBITUARY to follow

nominee for performance as "Kicking Bird"

in Dances with Wolves 

Grammy winner, Gemini Award, Canadian

Screen Award, Dora Mavor Moore Award,

Governor General's Performing Arts Award (2025)

High Blood Pressure guidelines (Sept. 2, 2025)

American Heart Association

Blood Pressure Criteria

normal is less than

120 / 80

elevated is greater than

121 - 129 / less than 80

Stage 1 Hypertension is

130 - 139 /80 - 89

Stage 2 is

greater than 140 / greater than 90

Speaker Johnson to be confronted by Congressional dissatisfaction of his postponement of Epstein "reckoning" : Sept. 3, 2025

UPDATE: 10 accusers to hold press event

on steps of Capitol Wed. Sept. 3, 2025

___________________________________

The Hill platform / web news supplier at 6 a.m.

posted the story Sept. 2, 2025 :

GOP Lawmakers

to be confronted by

Jeffrey Epstein

saga as they

return to Congress

_______________________________

Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna have a

press conference upon the opening hours

with survivors of Epstein's and Ghislaine

Maxwell's sex trafficking / conspiracy /

sexual exploitation of minors crimes.

Their "discharge petition" will require a

vote by all 435 Representatives.

The House Rules Committee will have to 

resolve its impasse by either sweeping

matters under the "carpet" or admitting

that the "Epstein Files" was part of

mis / dys_ / Disinformation concocted

by MAGA and Trump-Vance operatives. . .

thehill.com/homenews/house/547730-

epstein-files-gop-congress/

80 Years Ago - on this Date in HISTORY

September 2, 1945

Foreign minister of

Japanese empire signs

formal surrender treaty

while General MacArthur

looks on aboard the USSS

Missouri stationed at

Tokyo Bay -- thus bringing

World War II to an end.

apnews.com/today-in-history/september-2

C-SPAN dot-org

will have coverage of an

80th Anniversary

commemoration today.

Congress back from August time off ; one more month until new TERM for SCOTUS

c-span.org/event/us-house-of-representatives/us-house-of-representatives/436044


The House of Representatives begins its fall

schedule of important fiscal and budgetary-spending

work on September 2, 2025 as does the U.S. Senate.

On Thursday 9/4 HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. will

testify before the Senate Finance Committee and

his words / agenda will be under great scrutiny.

Chairing that committee is Senator Crapo of Idaho

and ranking member (D) is Ron Wyden of Oregon.

_________________________________________

The Supreme Court (headed by Chief Justice

Roberts) returns to its 2025- 2026 term on the

first Monday of October next month.  It too 

will be under great scrutiny by the citizens of

the United States as to whether it will continue

the constitutional principle of "Checks and Balances"

on the two other branches of Federal governance.

To participate in social media or not . . .

Because he values his private life,

Keanu Reeves

doesn't participate in

social media.

[ other trivia about the

actor - philanthropist :

although he has starred in

Shakespearean films and plays,

he does believe that Edward

de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford,

wrote the works of Shakespeare. ]

He established a private foundation

to support children's hospitals

and cancer research.  He donated

a large portion of his earning from

the Matrix films to charity.

Economists / accountancy experts

estimate his net worth to be

$380 million.

Happy 61st Birthday to actor - philanthropist Keanu Reeves !

 Keanu Charles Reeves,

whose first name means "cool breeze

over the mountains" in Hawaiian

was born September 2, 1964 in

Beirut, Lebanon.  His father was 

born in Hawai'i of native Hawaiian

and Chinese ancestry while Keanu's

mother is originally from Essex,

England.  In high school, Keanu was

lukewarm toward academics but

took a keen interest in ice hockey

and drama.  SEE FURTHER :

imdb.com/name/nm0000206/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Monday, September 1, 2025

Archbishop Bernard Hebda

Archbishop (R. Catholic)

of Minneapolis- St. Paul, MN

prayer should be

coupled with action

thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5480203-

minneapolis-archbishop-prayer-school-shooting/

September 1, 2025

[ after Annunciation Church

mass shooting ]

This means coming together

to work with officials, to

work with our legislators,

to see how it is that we might

be able to diminish that

pandemic of arms!

refers to POPE Leo XIV

prayer that the pandemic of

arms / weapons may be 

reduced and eliminated!

Book Discussion: Daniel James Brown on 1936 U.S. Rowing Team (Berlin Olympics)

 The Boys in the Boat

NINE AMERICANS & THEIR

EPIC QUEST FOR OLYMPIC

GOLD AT THE BERLIN

OLYMPICS (1936)

_______________________

It won a GoodReads Choice

Award [354,399 ratings]

and was published June 4, 2013

with a subsequent filming by

director George Clooney.  Was the

BOOK better than the Amazon-

MGM Film ?  Discussion hosted

at NILES (Michigan) Public Library

September 15 (3rd Monday, 6 - 7 p.m.)

FREE -- nileslibrary.com -- Adult Services

Faith and Order (October 24 - 28, 2025) Alexandria Egypt

Sixth World Conference of

the

WORLD COUNCIL of

CHURCHES (global

ecumenical body)

oikoumene.org/

Where now for

visible unity?

By invitation only --

the centrepiece to the

W.C.C.'s 1700 year

anniversary of the

Council of Nicaea

Season of Creation : September 1 - October 4

 Peace with Creation

September 1 - Oct. 4,

2025

oikoumene.org/events/season-of-creation-2025

Two Southwest Michigan Schools K-12 (Cass and Berrien Counties) will start First day after Labor Day 2025

Edwardsburg, MI Public Schools begin

September 2, 2025 (K students

begin on Wed., 9/3/2025)

New Buffalo Schools begin

Tuesday Sept. 2 for K - 12

with a half-day.

Autism (September 2025)

Reuters Press Agency

has "EXCLUSIVE" --

RFK, Jr.'s new 

Autism Data Science Center

aims to mine large datasets

to investigate possible contributors

to Autism;

and to evaluate outcomes of 

existing treatments.

_____________________________

AUTISM : Senator (Oklahoma) James Lankford

Autism is NOT caused by Vaccines

to Kristen Welker, MEET THE PRESS

NBC News dot-com August 31, 2025

_______________________________________

Rebuttal : by FL Congressman Maxwell Frost

RFK, Jr.'s comments are disrespectful and flat-out lies

Autism is neither a virus nor a disease. . .it's a 

neurological condition with a wide spectrum.  Many

Americans with autism work, pay taxes, and are living

happy and healthy lives" the hill.com/homenews/house/

5254311-maxwell-frost-rfk-jr-autism-disrespectul/?tbref=hp

 Autism Prevalence has increased to 1 in 31

children across all 50 states;

rates of diagnosing are increasing;

environmental factors may be in play.

_______________________________

April 16, 2025 news conference

RFK, Jr. : Studies suggest autism risk is 

heavily rooted in genetics (80% estimated).

Epidemic, Surge, Tsunami are 

descriptive terms used in the discussion/presentations

for the reporters and agency staff gathered in

the District of Columbia office space.

He was joined to answer technical questions by

Clinical Psychologist Walter Zohorodny, professor

Rutgers University.

RFK, Jr. also claimed, we "know" that it's an

environmental exposure. . .

abcnews.go.com/health/rfk-jr-lays-new-studies-autism-

shuts-diagnoses . . .

Today (Sept. 1, 2025) Labor Force now contains 1.2 million less immigrants

AP NEWS :

Preliminary Labor Statistics show that

under Trump 2.0  - Vance there are 

1.2 million less laborers due to the

disappearance from Census Data,

primarily in California's workers in

farming, fishing, forestry . . .

AP News.com/article/labor-day-immigration-trump . . .

 

Ongoing World Expo 2025 (Osaka, Japan)

From APRIL 13, 2025

until OCTOBER 13, 2025

the Expo Osaka 2025

marks the 20th year

anniversary as a return 

since the Aichi Expo 2005.

see further

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

ALSO coverage on

NHK (Japanese Public television network/platform)

Mid-Air collision of 2 small planes : Fort Morgan Municipal Airport in Colorado

Sunday Aug. 31, 2025

two people were aboard both aircraft

and Morgan County officials report that

one person was killed and 3 injured.

thehill.com/policy/transportation/5479881-

mid-air-collision-colorado-airport/?tbref=hp

COVID-19 vaccination availability (contrast between 2025 and 2021)

STATUS in 2025 as far as COVID Vaccination

ABC NEWS online article

September 1, 2025

In 34 states, the customers of CVS can receive the

current COVID-19 vaccination; in 13 states and the

District of Columbia, Americans can be vaccinated,

depending on age, with a prescription.  In 3 states,

Massachusetts,

New Mexico,

Nevada

the COVID Vaccine isn't being offered.

_________________________________________________ 


from FACEBOOK site article

Niles High School will host a Covid Vaccination clinic next Wednesday, June 9, 2021 from 3:00-6:00 p.m.

➡️ Students that are 12-15 must have a signed consent form and be accompanied by a parent.

➡️ 16 and 17 year olds only need the consent form signed by the parent to participate.

Hard copy consent forms are available in the main office at the high school.

Happy 86th Birthday, Lily Tomlin ! Kennedy Center Honoree in 2014

Actress, writer, producer

Lily Tomlin was born

September 1, 1939 in

Detroit Michigan.  She

began her career by doing

stand-up comedy in clubs

in Detroit and NY City.

Nominated as Best Actress

for the 1975 directed-Robert-

Altman comedy "Nashville".

Nominated 25 times for

Primetime Emmys -- won

in 2013 as "Narrator" for

An Apology to Elephants 

and in 1981 for her comedy

special Lily : Sold Out.

Three other Emmy wins --

her first nominations were for

Rowan & Martin Laugh-In

series (1971, 1972, 1973).

Earthquake in eastern Afghanistan near border with Pakistan kills more than 1,400 / / burials on mountaintop

UPDATE ON BBC World News

Afghan quake victims buried on Mountain top

_____________________________________

Early Monday morning September 1, 2025

local time

a 6.0 magnitude earthquake

shook eastern Afghanistan

as relief and rescue workers

rushed to reach those hit hardest

by the quake, with 2,800 injuries

immediately counted and treated.

nytimes.com/2025/09/01/

afghanistan-earthquake-jalalabad.html/

TRANSPO service offered for September 6, 7 p.m. Notre Dame Stadium

South Bend, IN

Mass transit buses will be available for the 

event see DETAILS

ABC57.com/news/transpo-announces-service-to-

zach-bryan-concert-on-september-6


[game day express route will continue to be free

for all riders; FREE PARKING available at

Century Center Parking Lot, downtown S.B., IN]

__________________________________________ 

Zach Bryan

comedian SHANE GILLIS

Irish singer Dermot Kennedy

TICKETMASTER

experience.nd.edu/events

7 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. expected

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Lake Michigan College, Benton Harbor, Michigan (Berrien County) - Sept. 2, 2025

Fall semester

Classes begin Tuesday,

September 2, 2025 at

all campuses

First 5-week, first 7-week,

first 10-week, and full

term (14-week) classes

set to begin!

lakemichigancollege.edu

"Epstein Client List" / "Epstein Files (Grand Jury)" / / / House Investigation - on floor of House a discharge petition

By SEPTEMBER 3, 2025

House members will by procedure / protocol

face a Sept. 3, 2025 vote to discharge the

"EPSTEIN FILES" -- Ro Khanna and Thomas

Massie in a bipartisan effort will force

Mike Johnson & MAGA to face the eventual

truth-telling on the FBI's and D o J's EPSTEIN

Files -- more to come

_________________________________________

Alex Acosta who gave Epstein "sweetheart" deal

in 2019

will face questioning from the House

Investigations Cmte.

democracynow.org/2025/08/26/headlines


August 26 -- Media reports that Investigations

committee (GOP - MAGA) Repr. Comer has

phrased his request

any document or record that

could be reasonably construed

to be a potential list of clients

involved in sex, sex acts, 

or sex trafficking . . .

_____________________________________

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

_____________________________________

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)"


_____________________________________

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

Did Todd Blanche get the nod from Congress to become its "Librarian" last May 12? Wasn't he the one who interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell for 2 days last month?

cnn.com/2025/05/12/politics/library-of-congress-trump-justice-blanche.html

Paul Perkins

Brian Neves

senior lieutenants of D o J  underling

TODD BLANCHE (Trump's 

chosen lawyer of 2024 (before & after)

who lost at trial for then-candidate Trump's

34 felony convictions, Manhattan)

The two designated subs were not allowed into

the offices.  Until Congress itself

gives direction, the Executive Branch lawyers

at Dept. Justice will be frustrated . . .

MAY 15 update

POLITICO fills in details of House

Administration chair & ranking Member

finding out in Nashville, TN of the ouster

of Carla Hayden when meeting with

music industry officials about AI issues.

May 14 POLITICO.com/2025/05/14/library-of-congress-trump-takeover-carla-hayden

Earliest version of Lemonade

 According to HISTORY dot-com

the earliest recipe / version of a

lemonade drink in record was

kashkab

made of fermented barley, mint, rue,

Citron (Lemon) leaf

10th Century Egypt

Wildlife Conservationist to headline "Dancing with the STARS" (ABC reality competition)

 Robert Irwin

(son of the late Reality

TV Star STEVE IRWIN)

is himself a Wildlife

Conservationist who confirmed

his participation on social media

August 31, 2025

also Andy Richter, comedian - sidekick

Pentatonix singer Scott Hoying

August 2025 blog statistics

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visits to this GOOGLE Blog

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website : faithfor2008.blogspot.com/

Entire month (August 1 - 31) : total for this month  25,220

Minneapolis Shooting: NPR rebuts Patel with more Complex Picture: immediate local police offer cautionary presence Ann Arbor, MI

NPR (Friday 29 Aug.)

A day after Kash Patel said the

attack at ASSUMPTION SCHOOL

in Minneapolis was motivated by

Hate-Filled ideology / NPR interviewed

counselors - staff at "Institute for 

Countering Digital Extremism"

NPR.org/2025/08/29/. . ./minneapolis-shooting-motive

__________________________________________________

St. Francis of Assisi School

2270 E.Stadium Blvd. in Ann

Arbor, Michigan

2 Police officers stationed

outside "out of an abundance

of caution"

mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/

2025/08/police-at-ann-arbor-

catholic-school-as-precaution-

following-minnesota-shooting.html

Thursday August 28, 2025 1 p.m. online article

Acts of Heroism

 NY TIMES dot-com

inspiring Media coverage of the

acts of heroism last week

in Minneapolis during

and following the shootings

at Annunciation R. Catholic

Church, Minneapolis, MN

Students and staff shielded

the youngest children,

police officers stopped

victims' bleeding, a nurse

abandoned protocol to hold

a scared child's hand ! ! !

Two assassins -- both Minnesotans -- one alive, one committed suicide after killing children at school's worship

WHAT Motivated the Minneapolis Shooter

who killed 2, injured many including elderly

worshippers at Annunciation R. Catholic,

Minneapolis, MN?

see further:  NYTimes.com Analysis piece

8/31/us/minneapolis-school-shooter-motive.html

Despite early and misguided

comments by Kash Patel and

Kristi Noem, Dr. Jillian Peterson

of Hamline University Criminology

dept., St. Paul, MN:

"It's this sort of self-hatred that turns

outward, and then you have this really

angry person who plans to go out in

a blaze of glory". . . The 23-yr.-old

shooter fits a profile of one who shoots

children who themselves are young,

isolated, depressed, and angry individuals

who become obsessed with previous

slayings that have generated extensive

media coverage.

The Minnesota funeral home employee,

a husband and father of 5, on the other

hand, provides an entire set of 

confounding explanations :

in a letter to Kash Patel (FBI Director

2025) he called the plot to shot point-

blank at MN State legislators and spouses

part of his "dark plot to involve Gov.

Tim Walz (incumbent) and competition

for the state's 2 U.S. Senate seats".

More recently, he told reporters that

his motive was "COVID-19 vaccines."

Happy 76th Birthday to Richard Gere!

 The well-known actor and humanitarian,

Richard Gere

who was born in Philadelphia, PA

August 31, 1949

has been an actor of stage, movies, & TV

since 1973, having left college after

two years.  In the early 1980s,

he traveled to Honduras, El Salvador, 

and Nicaragua amidst political violence

and wars.  He founded TIBET HOUSE

a non-profit organization dedicated to

the preservation of Tibetan culture.

An accomplished pianist and music writer.

IMDb.com/name/nm0000152/bio/?ref_=

nm_ov_bio_sm



By doing away with Mail-In voting, Trump hopes to disenfranchise the sick/disabled voters and the overseas military voting families

 Early

Sunday / late Saturday August 31 --

POTUS Trump 2.0 declares

"HE WILL DO AWAY WITH

Mail-in Voting : that practice

he falsely claims

"is corrupt" . . .

Daskalakis, Demetre

 Demetre Daskalakis

director of the National Center

for IMMUNIZATION and

RESPIRATORY DISEASES

who resigned from HHS

interviewed on MSNBC

"Wake up. This is where Fascism Lives"

msnbc.com/

YOU TUBE August 30, 2025

After chiding POTUS Obama, current President caught by photographers on golf course

 USA TODAY photographers

spotted Trump leaving the White Office

Saturday August 30, 2025

and then arriving at his Trump National

Golf Course at 9:15 a.m. in Sterling, VA.

His grandchildren, 18-yr.old Kai and 12-yr.-old

Spencer were also spotted at that location

with him.

His calendar (released to reporters & 

the Executive Branch) has no public events

for the duration of Labor Day up to Tuesday.

usatoday.com/story/news/politics/

2025/08/30/

trump-spotted-golfing-in-virginia-

over-labor-day-weekend . . .

Bob Hope Humanitarian Award recipients (Academy of Television Arts & Sciences)

2025 - Mary Steenburgen &

Ted Danson

2022 - Sean Penn

2010 - George Clooney

2004 - Danny Thomas

2002 - Oprah Winfrey

2025 Emmy Awards ceremony - September 14 (second Sunday evening, CBS Network)

Emmy Awards Ceremony (Prime Time)

TV sitcoms, dramas, variety, series, special one-time

shows / specials /technical & leading recognition

for the 2024 - 2025 eligibility year

Sunday night Sept. 14, 2025

8 p.m.  given in Hollywood

[local time is 5 p.m. Pacific]

on CBS entertainment

broadcast channel

Prime Time awards

and acceptance speeches will be 

given during the 77th

annual ceremony

_______________________________________________

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

In 2 weeks, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen to receive award at EMMY Ceremony

Variety dot-com (online entertainment

platform) reports that

on

September 14, 2025

the Hollywood couple

will receive the

BOB HOPE

Humanitarian Award

during the 77th Emmy

Ceremony.

Charles Borges

CBS News report (August 2025):

Social Security Admin.'s chief data officer resigns

after whistleblower reveals that Elon Musk's

DOGE uploaded to a vulnerable

cloud environment

the entire SSA database of

American contributors / recipients

of Social Security records. . .

cbsnews.com/news/social-security-

admin-chief-data-officer-resigns-

after-filing-whistleblower-complaint

August 29, 2025 9:30 p.m. Eastern

Borges had served in his Data Officer

position since January 2025; administration

officials declined to comment.

Federal immigration agents (ICE) enter fire zone to arrest immigrants fighting wildfires

A first for the Trump 2.0 administration,

ICE Agents arrested at 9 a.m. Wednesday

AUGUST 27, 2025

Mexican contractors who were helping to

tackle a wildfire in Olympic National Forest

Washington State -- details at NBC News

news/us-news/federal-agents-arrest-fire-crew-members-

washington-wildfire-rcna227797

Saturday, August 30, 2025

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE - Trump aspires to win this December -- as of Aug. 31, states Putin & Zelinsky meeting "off"

on a "Daily Caller" program Question - 

Answer segment, POTUS Trump 2.0 stated that 

the bilateral meeting between Russian invader/

dictator V. Putin and democratically elected

President of Ukraine Zelinsky is unlikely to

occur. . .

Aug. 30, 2025 12:57 p.m. Eastern Time Zone

reported on ABC News platform go.com 

_____________________________________

August 26, 2025

Washingtonpost dot-com reports

that most on Norway's NOBEL PRIZE

selection committee (part of Nobel 

Prizes given in December annually)

are opposing and certainly not favoring

Donald John Trump when

the announcement will be

made in approx. 6 weeks

(early October).


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. . . .

A kind of pagan or heathen figure

TODAY (July 19, Saturday)

Ross Douthat : Julie K. Brown interview "What remains

to be revealed about Epstein's 2nd arrest in 2019 for sex

crimes, about what the govt. COULD release but hasn't,

and how the story is bigger than Epstein.

NYTimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html

______________________________________________

Ross Douthat focused on Faith / Religion / Conservative Politics /

Philosophy / Political movements & 21st Century / History

NY TIMES columnist / acclaimed author

OPINION PAGE:

. . .I think of Trump as, persistently,

a kind of pagan or heathen figure,

much more than he is a Christian

figure.  Not withstanding the attempts

to claim him as a kind of King David

or Emperor Constantine.  .  . The

bargain for religious conservatives

with Trump is for protection and support.

A transactional bargain.  . .Particular

steps Trump-Vance administration has

taken are anti-Christian. . .the way in

which the foreign aid programs were

reshuffled and cut off was a failure of

Christian duty. . .

April 25 column / op-ed / 2025

Massa Candida (white lump)

Also excerpt from St. Augustine of N. Africa

COMMENTARY ON Psalm 49

Are we to think that only

153 just people will be at

his right?  No, scripture

suggests thousands of thousands.

And read the Apocalypse: it

would seem from what is said

there that there will be twelve 

times twelve thousand from the

Jewish people alone [Rev. 7:4].

Then think of the huge number

of martyrs.  To go no further

afield, our own Massa Candida 

numbered more than 153 martyrs.

[martyred at UTICA, north of

Carthage in Emperian Valerian's

reign (circa 258)] -- a legend 

grew up that they were thrown

alive into quicklime, which

reduced their bodies to white

powder _______________________

. . .The 153 fish do not 

correspond to the exact number

of the saints and the righteous,

so that by a hundred and fifty-three

we may understand all those who

have part in the resurrection to

eternal life.

Expositions of the Psalms vol. 2

WSA Translation for the 21st Century

by Maria Goulding (text & notes)

III/16 New City Press, New York, NY

One hundred and fifty-three fish

 St. Augustine of Hippo

Commentary on Psalm 49 (transl. Maria Boulding)

WSA 21st Century : Works of St. Augustine for the 21st Century

"After his resurrection the

Lord orders his disciples to

cast the net to starboard,

and 153 fish are hauled up,

yet large as they were, the

apostle tells us (Gosp. John

21: 6 - 11) the nets did not

split. . .BY neither saying

cast the nets right NOR left,

he indicated that both good

and bad are to be taken, mixed

up together.  And caught

they were, as the gospel's

reliable account testifies. . .

The catch symbolized the present

age and the torn nets symbolized

the rents and tears made by

heretics and schismatics.  But

the Lord's action after his

resurrection signified what will

happen for us after our own

resurrection, in that multitude

in the heavenly kingdom. . .

On this date in history : August 30, 2021 (U.S. troops withdrawn at Kabul Airport)

 The United States' longest war

from Oct. 2001 til August 2021

ended with the withdrawal of troops

in C-17 cargo planes . . . The Taliban

then fired their guns into the air,

ending a 20-year insurgency.

AP News "On This Date" online almanac

Canada had withdrawn its troops from

Afghanistan on August 26, 2021.

Trump 2.0 picks Sergio Gor for key post : India and Sp. Envoy South & Central Asia

 Wed. Aug. 27, 2025

NY POST headline

"Trump Personnel Honcho

Sergio Gor picked as Ambassador

to India after POST reporting

on Musk feud, vetting controversy"

Gor, age 38, sparked Trump's

explosive feud with trillionaire

Elon Musk in June and had

dragged his feet on disclosing

necessary security clearance paper-

work, despite having vetted 

thousands of Trump 2.0 appointees

himself since Jan. 20, 2025.

Gor's homeland is the island of

Malta although officials in that

nation have no such record.

The Times of Uzbekistan reported

in July that Gor was born in their

nation before its independence

from the former "Soviet Union."

In 2021, the publishing executive

rocketed from obscurity as a publisher

of Trump's books/autobiographies/

self-help/business advice tomes. . . 

The NY Post also reported the Gor

ambassadorial apptmt. will come with

Special Envoy for South & Central Asian

affairs.  To be an ambassador requires

Senate hearing and majority vote (at

least 50 and VP Vance) but the Envoy

position is at the President's pleasure. . .

NY Post.com US News/2025/08/22 . . .



Japan's top negotiator cancelled Aug. 28 trip over U.S. demands that they buy more rice to gain mere 15% trade tariff

ONLINE Breaking News

Reuters news agency / platform

30 August 2025

"Trump Demand for Japan to

Buy More Rice Snagged Trade Talks

- - - Nikkei says"

the Nikkei report was posted Saturday 

India is now alone with Brazil -- with 50% Trump Tariffs

While Pakistan has 19% tariffs,

Brazil and India

are alone with 50%

tariffs, higher than

any other trading partner

August 30, 2025

Trump issues punitive 25 plus 25 per cent tariffs to punish Modi for "buying Russian oil" -- declines planned visit to India

 Wed. August 27 -- Trump announced the punitive,

punishing tariffs and dropped a visit to India from his

Fall 2025 schedule.

"The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: 

how the Trump-Modi relationship unraveled"

nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/trump-modi-india.html

To claim he solved India - Pakistan "war," Trump kept insisting he "settled" since Jan. 20, 2025 NOW a rupture between India and United States (Aug. 30)

online article on Modi's frustration with Trump gaslighting

NYTimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/trump-modi.html


BREAKING NEWS:

The war between Congo and Rwanda continues . . .

AP News.com/  Wed. Aug. 27, 2025


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?

$40 million for Malaria Research cut from CDC Budget (drug-resistant versions of disease exist)

"Will the CDC Survive?"

Apoorva Mandavilli reporter on science & global health

nytimes.com/2025/08/29/health/cdc-kennedy-public-health.html

(Online article -- Friday - Sat. Aug. 29 - 30, 2025

Friday, August 29, 2025

Trump Tariff measures omitted Brazil's Orange Juice exports, Commercial Aircraft, Energy products // was Executive Order Illegal ? ? ?

August 29, 2025

federal Appeals judge rules

they were illegal and unauthorized

live2025/08/29/us/trump-news


50% Tariffs leveled in a trade war against Brazil, the largest

economy in the Southern American nations --

HOWEVER,

last year U.S. had a $7.4 billion surplus

on about $92 billion total

in trade with Brazil . . .

online article July 30, 2025

nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/Americas_/trump-sanctions-brazil-judge-bolsanaro.html

Jim O'Neill (not a physician but has Yale degree and U of Chicago Master's in Humanities)

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, Georgia

is now headed by a deputy of an Environmental

Lawyer / Presidential Candidate [ R.F.K. junior ]

after the current scientist (not an M.D.)

Susan Monarez

was pushed out of her job by RFK and

White House Personnel notification (e-mail).

The scientist-administrator had

Senate-approval and Presidential appointment to

the job.

O'Neill previously held between 2002 - 2008 the

office of Speech and Editorial Division for HHS

(Bush-Cheney administration)

further qualification / resume positions at

hipaajournal.com/deputy-hhs-secretary-national-coordinator-for-health-it/

Malaria kills the hardest -- children under age of 5 and pregnant women -- SOURCE: Science.org

Blame Trump-Vance-Rubio-cowardly Senators-complicit MAGA Reprs.

read the article entirely

science.org/content/article/guinea-united-states

helped-beat-back-malaria-now-disease-set-soar

7 August 2025

2 p.m. Eastern US Time Zone

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Augustinian Friars

are expected in the post-summer 2025

to move into the Papal Apartments, Vatican

City when

Pope Leo XIV

moves as an order of

those in the Order

of St. Augustine . . .

see details at NCROnline

dot-org article

August 25, 2025

vatican-news/pope-leo-xiv-

include-housemates-apostolic-palace

National Catholic Reporter platform

St. Augustine of Hippo -- died August 28, 430 under siege -- ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY

 St. Augustine of Hippo died in

Hippo Regius (North Africa)

of a fever during the area's

siege by invading Vandal army;

he asked that the Pentential

Psalms be written on the walls

of his room and he prayed them

as he lay dying.

The bishop's last words were:

Your will be done; come, Lord

Jesus!

Attempt to set afire_ historic synagogue -- Australia expels Iran's diplomat -- Iran Revolutionary Guard is culprit

Ahmad Sadeghi

The ambassador from Iran sent to Australia

has been expelled over domestic sabotage and

attempted arson in that country.

August 28, 2025 a.m. local time

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BREAKING NEWS (AUG. 26, 2025)

Mike Burgess, head of Intelligence has reported

to the Government and the people of Australia

that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard

Corps was behind both this attack in early July

as well as organized crime . . .

see : NYTimes.com/2025/08/26/world/Australia/

australia-iran-antisemitic-attacks.html

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East Melbourne Australia

[ this country has the highest percentage of

Holocaust survivors after Israel among its

population ]

State of Victoria where Melbourne is capital

none of the 20 worshippers inside were injured.

The front door was damaged by a small blaze.

The attack came hours after tensions flared

elsewhere in the center of Melbourne.

Friday's attack followed a larger attack last

December.

July 4, 2025