As of this writing (February 3, 2025), when you attempt to access the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Web site or social-media pages you are informed that “This site can’t be reached.” The media reports that the new Trump Administration has not only frozen USAID activities, but may be planning on bringing it back under control of the U.S. State Department. Other reports, including statements by Elon Musk, suggest that it will be closed completely.

The income tax is, at its core, a method of population control and redistribution of wealth. It's also a disincentive to work because the more you work, the more you pay.

Tom Vilsack will return to Iowa as CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation, headquartered in Des Moines, following his role as U.S. secretary of agriculture during the Biden-Harris administration.

Senator Joni Ernst and Representative Randy Feenstra, both Republicans from Iowa, introduced matching bills aimed at reducing overpayments made to recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, but Iowa advocates say the bills won’t be effective at reducing payment errors.

Tom Vaccaro of Davenport had a “Grand Ole” time in Nashville, Tennessee, to kick off his 2025.

Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025? So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft, corruption, and make-works programming that leaves us no better off than where we started.

Julian and Stella Assange at PACE Oct 1.2024

October 1, 2024 marked Julian Assange’s first public remarks about the United States Justice Department’s prosecution since his release from the Belmarsh high-security prison in London.

Federal Court Rules That Water Fluoridation Poses an “Unreasonable Risk” to Children

After a precedent-setting, seven-year legal battle in federal court, an historic ruling by the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take regulatory action to eliminate the “unreasonable risk” to the health of children posed by the practice of water fluoridation

I highly respect and commend Kennedy with the spirit of and his ultimate objectives to defund war and to tame the FED & inflation; it requires a lot of courage (to threaten) to take on the military industrial complex and the banking system. I simply disagree on his approach, namely his lack of attention to legal tender gold and silver.

Julian Assange Pleads Guilty to Practicing Journalism

A global effort by advocates, campaigners, journalists, organizers, and supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pushed President Joe Biden’s administration to finally free Assange.

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