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Bellwether Report – January, 2026 – Globalization is Out, the 19th Century is in?

pgnewser February 7, 2026

Originally published Jan 16, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Sovereignty is your borders. You’re entitled to have borders. You shouldn’t offshore your medicine. You shouldn’t offshore your semiconductors. You shouldn’t offshore your entire industrial base and have it be hollowed out beneath you. You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation. And if you’re going to be dependent on someone, it darn well better be your best allies.” – Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at WEF’s Davos 2026

INTRODUCTION

Across the world, from the U.S. to China, it seems the turmoil, the instability is only increasing. At home, the Progmericans are fighting to defend non-citizens from American law enforcement officers. In China, Chairman Xi is engaged in a bloody war to the death with some of his previously dearest friends (many of whom are now dead).

All these rumblings, however, point back to the same source, the death of the weak ruling the strong through “international order.”

The WEF has become the symbol of a global world order than began after World War II as a way for the Americans to assure they had the vast majority of the “West” strongly in their camp against their main rival, the Soviet Union. The arrangement was simple, we protect the seas and you affirm our world policy.

Abuses abounded in that relationship on both sides, but the net result is the global world order has become a fecund bed for anti-Americanism, both globally and here at home. That globalism has left America bereft of her market independence, but not bereft of her military power. The World Order that once protected America from Soviet expansion has become its own foreign-dominated entity hellbent on one singular goal, dismantle, neutralize American power.

The U.S. military budget in 2024 was almost $1 trillion. China’s military budget was $314 billion. Russia’s military budget was $149 billion. The entire EU military budget, which includes its joint efforts and the budgets of the member states was $380 billion in 2024. If you add up all the budgets of the EU, China, and Russia, you still fall short of America’s military budget. If they hope to work together, currently, they can only do that with American logistical support.

The U.S. now finds itself in the position of having the world’s greatest military, by far and away (especially at this moment with the political turmoil in China which makes ICE protests look innocuous by comparison), but constrained by a global world order that has proven to be disastrous for Americans as a whole.

This is only considering the economic damage that has been done to America; this speaks nothing about the subversive activity foreigners from the CCP to Somalia have funded and participated in on American soil, all under the programs of the global world order.

While President Trump’s speech may have been the real statement of power, the plain speak version spoken by Howard Lutnick would serve as the succinct notice to the world that the ultimate real power behind that world order, the United States, was done sustaining it.

The time is now for nations to take responsibility for themselves, and the reality of power to be known. It’s time for the paper tigers to burn and the fortresses of steel to advance, come what may, in a new global interregnum where all bets are off for what the new world order will be, if there is any world order at all.

A. THE WRITING ON THE WALL

SOMALIA’S UN – Before Davos, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres intentionally or unintentionally telegraphed what was going to take place at Davos, Switzerland, the home of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.

The Secretary General could see the writing on the wall through America’s current avatar, Trump, who vowed to come into Davos as a vanquisher, not a partner.

In a meeting of the UN Security Council convened by the Somal contingency (which holds the Presidency until then end of January 2026) Guterres told his audience, “The rule of law is a cornerstone of global peace and security.”

The Secretary General said the quiet part out loud right here, without meaning to, when he declared, “For smaller and less-powerful countries, particularly those affected by historical inequities and the legacies of colonialism, international law is a lifeline promising equal treatment, sovereignty, dignity and justice.”

This is the language of America’s former enemy, the Soviet Union. The agreement has come full circle so that the power it creates for the weak is being used in the same way the Soviet Union would have used it, to destroy the American republic.

This part here appeals to moral restraint alone to check great power against small power. But in the case of the UN, we have a vehicle of power that is being used by collective small power to destroy great power from within their own countries. It is only fitting that the Somalis (who sent us a Minnesota fraud community that was stealing billions from American citizens) presided over this self-own disaster of a speech.

This is like handing over the controls of a 747 to a blind man because it was his turn to fly (and that would be the “democratic” thing to do).

ED.NOTE: Somali culture goes back centuries, and some of it is rich with governance innovation the West has yet to learn, let alone understand. Somalia is the southern region of the land Somalis occupy. Somaliland to the North is radically different than the south. What we have in Minnesota is hardly the Somali peoples’ best, even in the South.

He offered a token gesture to the great powers to convince them that an arrangement that creates an imbalance of power favoring small nations over the great is somehow still good for the great. He claimed, “For powerful countries, it is a guardrail defining what is acceptable – and what is not, in times of disagreement, division and outright conflict.”

The guardrail is there to check their power against their own interest. It’s not there to help great powers.

After Davos, the weak power’s vehicle of power, the UN, and even NATO (weak Europe checking American great power), have de facto lost their reason for existing at all. The UN was an engine of peace that turned out to be an anti-American poison pill largely funded by Americans. NATO was American protection of Europe while Europe undermined Americanism.

As Europe lurched further and further away from individual liberty, the incentive for America to continue to pay for their protection ended.

While International Rule of Law seems good as a Motte, its bailey is filled with violent political papercut fights that allow petty tyrants from barely existing countries to wield international power over far greater powers.

The Secretary General warned that rule of law was being replaced by the law of the jungle, but what he didn’t dare say, or face, was the fact that the UN has enabled a de facto law of the papercut jungle to rule over great powers for the bulk of its disgraceful existence.

Standards, for instance, are not followed consistently, they’re applied to target the UN’s main enemies, America, Russia, and Israel (not necessarily in that order). This speech by the UN’s CEO was a last desperate plea to preserve corrupt weak power over great power. It appears Trump was not impressed.

THE INDEPENDENCE COPE – Before Davos, President Trump’s bellicose language demanding Greenland become part of America emerged as the bellwether of the upcoming event and would ultimately prove to be the enduring bellwether of the event. Before the event, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen responded to Trump’s threats, calling them a “mistake.”

She then added, “It shows that our northern NATO members have Arctic-ready forces right now. And above all, that Arctic security can only be achieved together. And this is why the proposed additional tariffs are a mistake, especially between long-standing allies. The European Union and the United States have agreed to a trade deal last July, and in politics, and in business, a deal is a deal, and when friends shake hands, it must mean something.”

Europe rushed a few troops in for a few days, then pulled them back out in an empty display that defies the reality of power, which is this; Europe, as of right now, is more of a liability to America than an asset, and her paltry response to Trump’s shocking (even to this writer) suggestions he might use the military (which he later walked back), reveals just how little real power Europe has.

She called for Europe to become more independent, to not rely on American power for their defense, but, in point of fact, for the foreseeable future, Europe has NO EFFECTIVE defense outside of America.

B. THE END OF THEIR HISTORY

President Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, in a conversation on the WEF stage, may have delivered the most meaningful moment of the whole event, topping even Trump, even if not in authority (though one presumes he spoke with Trump’s authority).

What Lutnick did was spell out to Europe why it is that America has no interest in being shackled by a global order that produced a total gutting of American vitality in return. Of course, the story isn’t as simple as that, but this writer believes it is largely accurate (though complex, for the same “Americans” that also gutted other nations through this whole system were also doing this to their own country as well).

He starts off making it clear why the American arrived like never before to Davos this year. He declared, “Okay. We are in Davos, at the World Economic Forum, and the Trump administration—and myself—we are here to make a very clear point.

Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It’s a failed policy. It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export offshore, far-shore, find the cheapest labor in the world and the world is a better place for it.”

When the world order looks to the “good of the whole,” they do so at the sovereign expense of their member nations. This is fine in fat times, but the cost is overbearing in lean times, and even more costly when the payoff is the constant shaming and erosion of American vitality and sovereignty.

Lutnick spells it out plainly here, stating, “The fact is, it has left America behind. It has left the American worker behind. And what we are here to say is that America First is a different model—one that we encourage other countries to consider—which is that our workers come first. We can have policies that impact our workers.”

This isn’t a rebuke of the notion of international rule of law, this a rebuke of the current one and a demand that any new ones respect the sovereign rights of states. It encourages sovereign states to look after the interests of its own citizens first, but within the boundaries of their reality of power.

He makes it clear when he means sovereignty, he’s not just talking about borders. He exclaimed, “Sovereignty is your borders. You’re entitled to have borders. You shouldn’t offshore your medicine. You shouldn’t offshore your semiconductors. You shouldn’t offshore your entire industrial base and have it be hollowed out beneath you.”

This next comment is the ultimate indictment of the whole project, and it’s true not just of America but most of the nations of the west. The UN project shifted real market power through international law to China at the detriment of the West (including the US).

Lutnick brings home the point that indicts the whole globalist project, “You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation. And if you’re going to be dependent on someone, it darn well better be your best allies.”

Any system that leads any nation to violate that standard is an existential threat to that same nation, and that includes the U.S.

The UN pushed the Global Warming hoax that was used to justify maddening energy policies from sovereign nations that makes them utterly dependent on an authoritarian state that even now is in the midst of a political purge that hasn’t been seen since Mao.

Lutnick highlighted the foolishness of their green scheme, pointing out, “Why would Europe agree to be net zero in 2030 when they don’t make a battery? They don’t make a battery. So if they go 2030, they are deciding to be subservient to China, who makes the batteries. Why would you do that?”

You would only do that if you were in on the sabotage of your own nation-state, as EU, UN, and even NATO leaders are.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

Before Rome established an Empire, she managed Greece in much the same way America manages her spheres of influence, expecting little more from them than economic cooperation and submission to Roman foreign policy. After a century or two of violations of Rome’s foreign policy, and even an incursion by one Greek King, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Rome decided to use its military advantage to once and for all absorb Greece into its Empire.

This was accomplished with the fall of Corinth in 146 BC, and it would set Rome on a course of gutting their republic and creating a world Empire that would last for centuries. There are significant differences between Rome and America today, but yet we now find ourselves at a similar crossroads to Rome, finding itself sponsoring its own enemies and seeing its own power limited by rules effectively designed to neuter it. This transition from the republic to the empire is Part 3 of our Transitions series, which is scheduled to be published in the June 5 edition of MIA.

Rome chose flat-out conquest, which I am not suggesting America will choose, outside of perhaps Greenland, Canada, and maybe Mexico. It is doubtful America wants to absorb the rot that they view as Europe today. It would be like taking in an old man with a contagious disease.

I am not suggesting America will be conquering Canada and Mexico anytime soon, but the door is now open to do so (not that I recommend we do so).

We are going back to the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), where sovereignty was assumed only for those who could field an army to defend it and a professional class to manage it. Failure on any front would justify conquest from a stronger power. It laid the groundwork for an international order even as the global order would subvert its initial principles.

That treaty was replaced by the post-WWII agreement that afforded weak governments the “right” to hold land and be supplemented by the great powers through a global de facto redistribution of wealth system, one that awarded warlords for compliance with the world order.

The next domino to fall which could ignite a new round of conquest, absorption, and consolidation (sometimes voluntarily) will be the nullification of nuclear missiles through effective missile defenses. This writer believes we are close to seeing something like this happen. Trump’s Golden Dome moves us towards that direction (and it is why, in part, he wants Greenland).

Until then, for all the threats by Trump, Europe has nuclear arms, so they are safe, for now (and probably for some time to come afterwards, should they mind their own business). Canada and Mexico, however, do not have nuclear missiles. The new world order means territory is once again valuable (because they need land and water for AI centers). This makes possession of Canada and Mexico a potential vital need for the continuation of the American state.

If I am right, and Trump is sowing the seeds for that eventuality, see if pro-Americanist groups in Mexico don’t start sprouting up. They already are in Canada. Conservatives in Canada would feel far better under American authority with American rights than they do under Canada’s laws, ESPECIALLY if Canada can sustain its own identity (like Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales do in the UK).

Perhaps the mere offer of becoming American citizens with American rights will be enough to “conquer” Canada and Mexico.

The new American Empire would have more difficulty integrating Mexico than Canada, so phasing in their citizenship and voting rights will be generally longer than Canadians. Mexico’s Americanist population (people who understand and want dangerous liberty for themselves AND their neighbors) is much smaller (but not non-existent) than Canada’s (which might be as much as 25% of the country).

What we are seeing on the streets of Minneapolis are, most likely, the last violent gasps of a global world order desperately trying to reel America back into its heeled place, providing the power while being sabotaged by it.

The 2026 Midterm Elections may be the last stand for the globalist world order or the beginning of their counter-reformation. Let us hope for the sake of the human race they are vanquished by the end of this year. If they are not, expect a Progmerican revival that will not long last as even America’s energy will finally flicker out and the world will be filled with violence for decades to come.

Whether they want to accept it or not, the globalist project is dead. The resources are gone. The myths are destroyed. Even if they “win,” they will have nothing left to complete their project. America is putting it out of its misery before it can completely break her, and thus the world.

A strong, independent America is the best hope for stability for most of the world in the decades ahead. A weak America is war for the world and great pain and suffering for us here at home.

To our Christian subscribers, let us pray for repentance in America, especially of the sin of murdering our children, both in the womb and in the classroom, both physically and spiritually. And barring that, that the Lord might tarry in our deserved judgment and give us more time to lead our nation to repentance, forgiveness, and restoration.

Let us hope there are 10 of us found for God to spare our country.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

World Economic Forum, Davos 2024 – Thomas C. Sanchez

A Patriot’s History of Globalism (It’s Rise and Decline) – Larry Schweikert

United Nations (A History) – Stanley Meisler

The New World Order Book – Nick Redfern

Bellwether Report 2025

pgnewser December 19, 2025

Originally published Dec 12, 2025 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

These are the top bellwether stories of 2025 in three categories, Global Outlook, People Advance, and Headlines Missed. The news briefs are listed in order from the lowest (30) to the highest ranked (1) in that category.

This report ranks World, U.S., Market, Culture, Sci-Tech News Briefs produced from December 2024 to December 18, 2025.

The rankings are from an Americanist perspective nested within a Christian worldview.

GLOBAL OUTLOOK 2025 REPORT

Recapping Trending, World, U.S., Market, Culture, Sci-Tech News from December 2024 to December 2025

Here are the TOP 10 NEWS TAGS for this Time Period:

HERE ARE THE TOP 30 TRENDING GLOBAL STORIES OF 2025:

JANUARY 2025 – DC MID-AIR COLLISION LEAVES SCORES DEAD – A collision between a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter and a passenger plane has killed 67 people, including members of both the U.S. and Russian national figure skating teams. Speculation about what caused the crash points to errors potentially made by air traffic controllers, who may have been understaffed.

The crash happened in Washington, D.C., with both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River after the collision. There were no survivors from either aircraft. President Trump has suggested Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies may have led to the crash. The crash occurred Wednesday night, January 29, 2025.

SEPTEMBER 2025 – WHITE WOMAN MURDERED ON CHARLOTTE TRAIN BECOMES SYMBOL OF AMERICAN DIVIDE – 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee, was murdered on a Charlotte, North Carolina, subway while passengers watched and failed to come to her aid. Decarlos Brown, 34, can be seen in the now-viral video striking Zarutska in the neck with a knife. She bled out while not one fellow passenger helped her. (We wrote in more detail about this event in the September 2025 Mid-Month Issue).

The Mayor of the city, Democrat Vi Lyles, chose to focus on the murderer, saying, “While I do not know the specifics of the man’s medical record, what I have come to understand is that he has long struggled with mental health and appears to have suffered a crisis. This was the unfortunate and tragic outcome.” Read More on Charlotte Stabbing

NOVEMBER 2025 – THE SHUTDOWN IS OVER – The U.S. government re-opens after the filibuster is broken. The U.S. Senate has finally passed a filibuster vote on the continuing resolution to keep the government open. Eight democrats, including Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, voted in favor of the motion, helping the GOP reach the 60-vote threshold.

Two key points in the CR:

1.The CR bill makes hemp-based THC products illegal which Rand Paul tried to stop. Congress has one year to fix this “problem.”

The Democrats will NOT get their requested Obamacare subsidies that Republicans claim supported illegals and freeloaders.

The House passed the measure on a partisan vote. The President signed the bill late Wednesday night, November 12, 2025.

MARCH 2025 – JFK FILES INDICT CIA BUT OFFER NO SMOKING GUN ON ACTUAL ASSASSINATION – The much-anticipated release of the John F Kennedy assassination files was met with an underwhelming response as the documents, more than 80K newly released documents, don’t offer a smoking gun to prove Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone.

What it does show is that the CIA used media manipulation and psyops to nudge the perception of culture alone towards its own self-serving ends. These actions weren’t against foreign countries, they were against the American people.

At this point, however, the news was hardly even noteworthy as it simply affirmed what the vast majority of people suspect: our news, our lives are being coercively manipulated to serve the interests of the CIA, not the American people.

DECEMBER 2025 – TRUMP PUSHES AMERICA TOWARDS THE BRINK OF WAR WITH VENEZUELA – After President Donald Trump ratcheted up the pressure on Venezuela’s Maduro regime through drone strikes on drug boats, Venezuela has responded with vows to “protect” their interests from U.S. aggression. Now, the President is pushing both nations towards the brink of war, declaring the Maduro regime a terrorist organization and ordering all oil tankers seized.

Trump alerted Americans through Truth Social, “I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela. (They are) completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America. It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”

The Maduro regime has responded by promising to protect their oil tankers with their own Navy. Trump has also placed a $50 million bounty on Maduro’s head. Maduro is alleged to have offered to resign on condition he remain in control of the military, but that offer, if it happened, was refused. The reason for Trump’s incursion into Venezuela may have more to do with China than anything else. A future MIA might delve into that possibility.

GO DEEPER ON VENEZUELA U.S. CONFLICT

OCTOBER 2025 – SCOTUS RED MASS GETS BOMB SCARE FROM ANTI-ICE LEFTIST – St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C. may have been the target of a potential terrorist attack. The DC Metropolitan Police confronted 41-year-old Louis Geri of Vineland, NJ just ahead of the “Red Mass,” a mass that was held to pray for legal officials, especially the Supreme Court Judges. The police discovered multiple incendiary devices inside the tent he had set up on the cathedral’s steps.

Geri was rabidly anti-ICE and anti-SCOTUS as revealed in his manifesto. He had been trespassed off the premises before. He is being charged with Unlawful Entry, Threats to Kidnap or Injure a Person, and Possession of a Molotov Cocktail. It is not uncommon for SCOTUS judges to attend the mass.

GO DEEPER ON SCOTUS BOMB THREAT

NOVEMBER 2025 – U.S. MINT STRIKES ITS FINAL PENNY – On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, the U.S. mint in Philadelphia struck its last-ever-penny, ending a 232-year tradition. The move comes following a Presidential order by President Trump. Every penny made costs 4 cents to make, costing the American taxpayer millions of dollars each year. In February, the President wrote “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!”
DECEMBER 2025 – COLLEGE REPUBLICAN MURDERED IN BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING – A (now known) gunman opened fire on a Brown University campus on December 13, 2025, killing 2 students and wounding 9 others. The shooter entered the classroom and opened fire, using a 9mm handgun. The victims were identified as Ella Cook, 19, Vice President of the College Republicans on the Brown campus, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov,18, an Uzbekistan student.

Police were looking for two people of interest, one of whom was seen in proximity with the suspect. One person of interest, Mustapha Kharbouch, had a now deleted report in which he called for “sustained confrontation,” specifically for Israel supporters. We could not confirm Ella’s stance on Israel, but her profile strongly suggests she did.

LATE BREAKING: The authorities claim Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, is the shooter. He also murdered an MIT professor. He is here on a student visa and has been for over two decades now. The alleged shooter was found dead in a storage container. No more details were available at the completion of this report.

GO DEEPER ON THE BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING

JULY 2025 – ICONIC AMERICAN PASTOR, JOHN MACARTHUR, PASSES – During the Covid-19 era, Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church stood tall and kept his church open, defying civil law in favor of God’s law. His pastorship goes back decades, and his impact on American Christianity has been significant, with many top Pastors today citing MacArthur as one of their biggest influences.

While MacArthur planned on coming back after a recent bout with illnesses, that would prove not to be the case. The Pastor caught pneumonia and died at the age of 86. MacArthur’s central gospel message was one he spoke until the end. Speaking of the job of Pastor, MacArthur said, “Being a pastor means you’re a truth-teller. The whole purpose of the Christian message is to confront the sinner’s sin so you can call the sinner to repentance and forgiveness… The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.”

DECEMBER 2024 – HEALTH INSURANCE CEO ASSASSINATED, AND THE LEFT CELEBRATES – UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson, 50, was assassinated in New York City allegedly by 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, who was arrested 5 days after the December 4 assassination at a McDonald’s in Altoona, PA. He was found to have incriminating evidence on him at the time of his arrest, including the 3D-printed gun used in the killing.

Mangione is claiming he was set up, though many on the American left are convinced he is the killer, and for that, he is being celebrated as a hero. Allegedly, Mangione killed Thompson due to the company’s policy of “delay, deny, defend” to assure paying customers don’t get paid off when they actually get ill. The killer left three bullet cases at the scene that said Delay, Deny, Defend, which is also the title of a book about the health insurance industry’s unethical practices of denying coverage to save money.

DECEMBER 2025 – ISLAMISTS MURDER JEWS ON AUSTRALIAN BEACH – On December 14, 2025, an Islamist Father-son team assaulted Jews celebrating Hanukkah on an Australian beach called Bondi Beach. The pair managed to murder 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl, and injure more than 40 others. The father, Sajid Akram, 50, was killed on scene while the son, Naveed Akram, 24, is in hospital facing numerous murder and terror charges.

More arrested have happened since then, though details on those arrests are not yet forthcoming. A Muslim man temporarily stopped one of the assailants, but Australian laws don’t support gun defense, so the hero hesitated once he got the rifle from the assailant, leaving him to escape and rejoin the attack. Australian leadership is blaming guns and calling on MORE gun control laws as a response despite video showing police on scene cowering and surrendering during the attack.

GO DEEPER ON THE BOND BEACH KILLING

NOVEMBER 2025 – NANCY PELOSI OFFICIALLY RETIRES – At the ripe old age of 85, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is finally leaving congress. She has served in congress since 1987. She has served as Speaker of the House not once, but twice. Her role in undermining Americanism while advancing Progmericanism is laudable for Progmericans but treason to Americans. She made the official announcement while appearing to groom her daughter, Christine Pelosi, to take her place (which didn’t work… yet).
OCTOBER 2025 – TRUMP DOUBTS HIS OWN SALVATION – President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One shortly after signing a peace deal that ended the Gaza War that he doubts his own salvation. Peter Doocy of Fox News asked if ending this war might help him get to heaven. Trump replied, “I don’t think there’s anything gonna get me in heaven. I think I’m not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly in Air Force One. I’m not sure I’m gonna be able to make heaven.”
APRIL 2025 – REAL ID BECOMES REALLY REQUIRED – As of May 7, 2025, if you want to fly on a U.S. plane and you are an American citizen, you will now be required to have a Real ID to do so. This follows delays in the deadline that go back to 2020. The major difference between Real ID and current Federal ID is the increase in documentation requirements, like verifying social security numbers, compared to current Federal IDs.

The underlying methodology is what makes Real ID a potential threat to liberty. Read more about REAL ID here.

AUGUST 2025 – TRANS TERRORIST MURDERS CHILDREN IN CHURCH PRAYER, LEFT DECLARES DEATH OF PRAYER – A transgendered nihilist named Robert “Robin” Westman killed two children, ages 8 and 10, and injured 17 other children. His mother once taught at the Catholic School he opened fire on. The media focused on defending him from being “deadnamed,” as well as calling for guns to be confiscated. Some Republicans, including Trey Gowdy, joined in. Leftists also declared, “Where’s your god now?” and “Where’s your prayer now?” to Christians wherever they found them online.

The children were participating in a yearly traditional Prayer Mass that begins the school year at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, MN. The terrorist was well aware of the school and the mass, using an AR-15, a shotgun, and a 9mm handgun to fire through an opaque window before being killed by officers. Some children protected other children with their own bodies, including one who was injured in the shooting. READ MORE ON MINNEAPOLIS CHURCH SHOOTING

MAY 2025 – POPE FRANCIS DIES, POPE LEO XIV LIVES – After the death of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025, and the funeral that followed, the Cardinals of the Catholic Church gathered to select the next Pope to replace him. In the end, they defied oddsmakers, picking a longshot, President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Robert Francis Prevost. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

Prevost is the first-ever U.S. citizen to serve as Pope. He is also the first-ever Peruvian citizen to serve as Pope due to his dual citizenship. He was born in Chicago but spent over a decade in Peru doing missions work. His appointment by Francis to his most recent office suggests he may be more aligned with the Catholic “left” than the Catholic “right.” Read the full blurb report

FEBRUARY 2025 – FIRST ROUND OF EPSTEIN FILES A DUD – The first phase of the Epstein Files release plan occurred Thursday, February 2025, but it revealed little of substance. The bigger story was news that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ACTUAL scheduled release may have been sabotaged by insurrectionists working within the FBI’s NY office.

FBI Director Kash Patel made it clear the efforts by the NY office might not end well for the saboteurs acting in the interest of the Democratic Party over the American republic. He stated, “The FBI is entering a new era—one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice. There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned — and anyone from the prior or current Bureau who undermines this will be swiftly pursued. If there are gaps, we will find them. If records have been hidden, we will uncover them. And we will bring everything we find to the DOJ to be fully assessed and transparently disseminated to the American people as it should be. The oath we take is to the Constitution, and under my leadership, that promise will be upheld without compromise.

JUNE 2025 – MINNESOTA POLITICIAN KILLED AFTER VOTING AGAINST FUNDING ILLEGAL ALIENS – On June 14, 2025, in the early morning hours, 57-year-old Vance Boelter assassinated Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband after attempting to assassinate Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. Hoffman’s wife survived, Hortman’s husband did not.

The motivation for the shooting still remains unclear and contested. So far, law enforcement has yet to release the shooter’s notes, even though parts were released that indicate he blames Governor Tim Walz (D) for the shootings. Walz appointed Boelter to a state business council, though Boelter appears to have at one time been registered as a Republican, and there is video of him espousing “evangelical Christian” beliefs. GO DEEPER

ED.NOTE: The shooter would prove to be a political enigma save for his clear dedication to the illegal alien cause, which would prove to be the central motivation for the murders.

JUNE 2025 – ISRAEL-IRAN WAR SORT OF ENDS WITH IRAN MISSING MOST OF ITS LEADERSHIP AND POSSIBLY ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM – This month, Israel and Iran went to war, with the U.S. appearing to have finished it, at least for now. The fallout of the war will be reported on in the next MIA issue (which it was). For now, the Iranian regime is tottering, but not dead, with executions being reported in reaction to growing unrest within. While a ceasefire is in place, it is questionable how long it will last.

While Iran attacked Israel with missiles and drones, targeting major civilian populations, Israel wiped out most of Iran’s military and scientific leadership, along with numerous military targets, which included Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. delivered strikes on three facilities, with most “experts” now conceding Iran’s nuclear program is over, despite denials by Iran’s leadership (and the DNC-controlled media). GO DEEPER

APRIL 2025 – POPE FRANCIS PASSES ONE DAY AFTER EASTER – A day after meeting with Vice President JD Vance and making a public appearance delivering the benediction on Easter Sunday, Pope Francis passed away at the age of 88 on Monday, April 21, 2025, 7:35 AM. He had been hospitalized for five weeks with life-threatening pneumonia before being released four weeks ago to recover in his own residence.

He currently lies in state, where he will remain until his funeral this weekend. No clear front-runner has emerged in the bid to replace him, though conservatives and leftists are vying to ensure “their man” takes the helm.

MAY 2025 – BIDEN’S CANCER DIAGNOSIS ADDS CREDENCE TO THEORY BIDEN WAS NEVER PRESIDENT, THE COMMITTEE WAS – In light of the recently announced advanced prostate cancer diagnosis of former President Joe Biden, non-DNC media is beginning to ask two questions: 1.) Was Joe Biden EVER the ACTUAL President? 2.) Who were the people (person) making the decisions for the incapacitated Biden? Now, everyone is re-examining the use of the autopen by President Biden. According to President Trump’s AI Czar, David Sacks, “Elizabeth Warren controlled the autopen during that administration.”

A whistleblower has come forward to U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin claiming there were three people who primarily controlled access to the autopen, and they made a lot of money selling that influence. Martin isn’t taking the claim as plain fact, but the investigation has begun. The implications got deeper when a watchdog group representing energy workers claimed there was “no evidence” President Biden knew about the autopen Presidency.

SEPTEMBER 2025 – TRUMP SIGNS TIKTOK DEAL WORTH $14 BILLION – In what appears to be a victory for the Trump administration, specifically President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, a difficult negotiation process with Chairman Xi came to a close with the help of both men.

A spokesperson for JD Vance claimed, “President [Donald] Trump and Vice President [JD] Vance provided the leadership and foresight necessary to produce a framework deal that fulfills another campaign promise and saves TikTok. Hundreds of millions of Americans will now be able to continue safely enjoying the highly popular app thanks to the president’s decisive leadership.”

On Thursday, September 25, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order sealing the deal. ByteDance still retains a stake in TikTok, but for less than 20%. Oracle and Silver Lake are the two big American company winners, with an Arab Emirates investment company joining the two with 45% stake in TikTok. The three will also be the managers of the U.S. business (the controllers of the American market algorithm).

It should be noted the deal has yet to be finalized as of December 18, 2025.

OCTOBER 2025 – VA AG WANTS TO MURDER GOP CHILDREN, DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT HIM – Virginia’s current Attorney General, Democrat Jay Jones had private text messages exposed that revealed his desire to kill his GOP opponent. He claimed that if he had two bullets, his GOP opponent, and two of the evilest people in human history, he’d use both bullets to kill his opponent. He later expressed desire to kill the opponent’s children.

Since his text messages were revealed, it’s also been exposed he promoted killing cops as a way to change their racist behavior. Yet despite all that, the Democratic Party, including their candidate for Governor, continue to support Jones. No top national Democrat has called on him to quit the race. He remains endorsed by all the major gun control groups and top members of the Virginia General Assembly.

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NOVEMBER 2025 – MAMDANI IN OVAL OFFICE, PUTS POLICE ABOLITIONIST ON TEAM AND CONDEMNS SYNAGOGUE FOR BEING ATTACKED – Islamist Socialist Zohran Mamdani has chosen a police abolitionist author to be on his transition team. Alex Vitale, who wrote the book “The End of Policing.” The “defund the police” activist will be working on “community safety issues.” This follows Mamdani’s meeting with President Trump in the oval office where they exchanged mostly substance-less jabs with one another.

After a Jewish synagogue was harassed by a group shouting “Death to the IDF,” Mamdani blamed the victims for holding an event that offended the anti-Israel activists. His recent reiteration that he would honor “international law” over U.S. law leaves some to question whether he will try to arrest Jews wanted by the antisemitic “World Court.”

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OCTOBER 2025 – XI SURVIVES THE PLENUM BUT FORCED TO END TRADE WAR – The Chinese Communist Party’s Fourth Plenum was held from October 20-23. 11 top officials were axed, with nine of them, all Generals, being called out for taking insubordinate action. The nine generals are all close Xi allies, with two being considered both his right- and left-hand man.

Now that Xi has JUST AGREED with Trump to end his rare earth mineral ban, it appears the results of the plenum are this; Xi is no longer able to pursue his more bellicose policies. The moderates have won, but not conquered. Xi had been escalating the trade war with the U.S. by attempting to use its rare earth monopoly to separate market allies from the U.S., a bold move that made the moderates nervous.

NOVEMBER 2025 – SCOTUS ENDS DNC HOPES OF GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT IN 2028 – In a move that could help the political group most likely to be against it, SCOTUS has dismissed recent challenges to its ruling that made gay marriage a constitutional right. Had SCOTUS taken the case and struck down the 2015 ruling, it would have made gay marriage a top wedge issue for the DNC, assuring it holds onto its white suburban female vote.

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DECEMBER 2025 – MURDERED DIRECTOR ACCUSED OF BRINING DEATH ON HIMSELF BY TRUMP – President Donald Trump reported on the murder of Film Director Rob Reiner on Truth Social, writing, “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS.”

The director and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, 68, were murdered in their Brentwood home, stabbed to death allegedly by their son, Nick Reiner, 32. So far, most of the Trump base seems dissatisfied with the reaction, with only a small few defending the comments. The strongest defense he gets is, “He screwed up here but all in all he’s the best we got.” Nick Reiner has been arrested, charged with double-homicide, and held without bail. An arraignment is not scheduled until January 2026.

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JANUARY 2025 – TRUMP ELECTION VICTORY OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED – President Donald Trump saw his 2024 election victory certified by the U.S. Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris having to preside over the whole affair. She said of the process, “It’s a peaceful transition of power. It’s a good day.” The President won the election 312 electoral votes to 226, 77 million votes to 75 million votes.
JULY 2025 – TRUMP CLAIMS EPSTEIN CLIENT LIST IS A DNC MYTH – President Donald Trump is doubling down on his insistence that the Jeffrey Epstein Client list doesn’t exist and that the whole obsession with Epstein is not good. He wrote, “The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 ‘Intelligence’ Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden’s bathroom!)”

“… Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success-starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”

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SEPTEMBER 2025 – AMERICAN ACTIVIST CHARLIE KIRK SLAIN ON COLLEGE CAMPUS BY SNIPER – Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative American activist, was murdered by a sniper’s bullet at a Utah event on the Utah Valley University campus on Wednesday, September 10, 2025. At this time, no motive for the shooting has been announced. The shooter has been arrested. Charlie Kirk was only 31 years old. The shooter has been identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. He was turned in by his family, with his father detaining him until the police arrived.

President Trump said of the news of the shooter being captured, “I hope he was going to be found guilty, I would imagine, and I hope he gets the death penalty. What he did. Charlie Kirk was the finest person that he didn’t deserve this. He worked so hard and so well. Everybody liked him.”

2025 PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

Ranking People Advance stories from December 2024 to December 18, 2025

Top 30 People Advance stories of 2025:

MAY 2025 – TRUMP ADMIN WELCOMES FIRST SOUTH AFRICAN REFUGEES – The Trump administration welcomed 59 South African Afrikaners, the first arrivals following Trump’s February executive order offering them asylum. Trump told the media, “It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about, but it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place, and farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me.”
MARCH 2025 – PRIDE PARADES LOSE SPONSORS – Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, La Crema, Diageo, and Smirnoff have all pulled hundreds of thousands in planned donations from San Francisco’s 2025 Pride Parade.

Anheuser-Busch pulled support from a St. Louis Pride festival it had sponsored for 30 years. The Family Research Council’s David Clossen said, “The reelection of Donald Trump suggests, among other things, that tens of millions of Americans are no longer going to be held hostage to the most ardent activists in the LGBT lobby… The pendulum has certainly shifted.”

MAY 2025 – TRUMP ADMIN REVERSES $37 MILLION FINE AGAINST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY – The Trump Department of Education rescinded a $37 million fine that the Biden regime levied against Grand Canyon University in 2023. Education Department spokeswoman Ellen Keast stated, “Unlike the previous administration, we will not persecute and prosecute colleges and universities based on their religious affiliation.”
JANUARY 2025 – WORKERS FIRED OVER COVID-19 VACCINE WIN $78 MILLION – Federal California Judge William A. Alsup upheld a $7.8 million verdict to six former Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) employees who were fired after rejecting the COVID-19 mRNA injection on religious grounds. Alsup said, “Curiously, BART presented zero evidence of the information actually relied upon by the BART board in adopting its mandatory vaccine requirement.”
AUGUST 2025 – TRUMP BROKERS ANOTHER PEACE DEAL – President Trump met with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House to sign a “historic” joint peace declaration, along with economic agreements with the United States. Trump celebrated, “For more than 35 years, Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a bitter conflict that resulted in tremendous suffering for both nations… Many tried to find a resolution. … They were unsuccessful. But with this accord, we’ve finally succeeded in making peace.”
DECEMBER 2025 – TRUMP DELIVERS ON MILITARY BONUS PROMISE THANKS TO TARIFFS – President Donald Trump has delivered on his promise to give military members a bonus for Christmas, announcing the specific details during a White House address to the nation. He declared, “Military service members will receive a special … warrior dividend before Christmas. A warrior dividend in honor of our nation’s founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776.”

He added, “Think of that. And the checks are already on the way. Nobody understood that one until about 30 minutes ago. We made a lot more money.” He is referring to the tariff program, which is allegedly funding the program. Over 1 million service members will receive these bonuses before Christmas.

OCTOBER 2025 – THE BLUE CITY SWEEPS ARE WORKING AS FBI REPORTS HISTORIC HIGHS IN VIOLENT ARRESTS – FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has revealed the FBI has made 28,000 violent crime arrests this year, and the year is far from over. The past 3 or 4 years, Bongino claims, the FBI averaged around 16,000 violent crime arrests per year.

Bongino said, “It shows that when you get a president, an attorney general, a deputy attorney general and an FBI leadership team that lets the FBI do FBI work, instead of getting into other nonsense like in the past. Look what happens. Your cities get cleaner.”

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NOVEMBER 2025 – WOKE YOUTH FLAGSHIP MAGAZINE “TEEN VOGUE” EFFECTIVELY DIES – Five years ago, the teen magazine that early on leaned into the toxic woke message had to stop printing. At the time, the woke defenders argued it didn’t go woke and broke, it’s just a victim of digital media overcoming print media. Now, Teen Vogue is effectively being folded into Vogue as a section of the publication it originally came from. Teen Vogue ACTUALLY got woke and went broke.
SEPTEMBER 2025 – CRACKER BARREL SCRAPS INTERIOR REMODELS – Cracker Barrel announced that it will stop remodeling existing Cracker Barrel restaurants, following backlash to its woke logo rebrand. The company stated, “Today, we’re suspending our remodels. If your restaurant hasn’t been remodeled, you don’t need to worry, it won’t be. We heard clearly that the modern remodel design does not reflect what you love about Cracker Barrel.”
OCTOBER 2025 – DEI INDUSTRY DYING AS TRUMP CLAMPS DOWN ON RACIST POLICIES – September’s job postings reveal a 50% drop in DEI-related job postings compared to pre-pandemic levels. The peak of DEI job postings was in 2022, when 10,000 jobs were posted, compared to the pace of 1,500 for this year so far.

The Trump administration’s policies had a direct impact on DEI incentives, penalizing government-funded companies and banning DEI policies in government institutions. So far, under President Trump, 38% of DEI employees were moved into non-DEI roles, 55% moved to another company in a non-DEI role, leaving only 7% still in DEI positions.

MAY 2025 – HEGSETH ORDERS 20% CUT IN SENIOR MILITARY RANKS – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated, “My title is ‘Less Generals, More GIs.’ We’re going to shift resources from bloated headquarters elements to our war fighters… When we were fighting across the globe during World War II, we had a force that was 12-million-strong. For that 12-million-man element, we had 17 four-and-five-star generals. Today, we have 2.1 million service members and 44 four-star and flag officers. So, it used to be a ratio of one general to 6,000 troops. Today, it’s one general to 1,400.”
OCTOBER 2025 – TRUMP LOOKS TO SET DEPORTATION RECORDS FOR ONE YEAR – Without having a full 12 months, and while facing the first part of the first month when illegal aliens were still being allowed to freely walk into the country, Donald Trump is set to break the record for deportations in a single year. So far, they have identified 1.6 million people who have self-deported while the government has deported 400,000 more. The government expects to deport 600,000 by the end of the year.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital “Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence. Migrants are now even turning back before they reach our borders. In the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges, ICE, CBP, and the U.S. Coast Guard have made historic progress to carry out President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country.”

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DECEMBER 2025 – NO MORE FEDERAL DOLLARS FOR HOSPITALS THAT TRANSITION KIDS – President Donald Trump’s executive order cutting funding for hospitals that medically transition children is now baring teeth. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing new rules to align with the xo that will effectively cut off federal funding from hospitals that medically transition kids. There is a 60-day public comment period before the rules can be made official.
SEPTEMBER 2025 – SENATE HONORS CHARLIE KIRK – The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to designate October 14, Charlie’s birthday, as the “National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk.” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fl) said, “Charlie was a magnetic leader, a loving father and husband, and a friend and inspiration to so many. His loss is devastating, and I’ll always cherish the friendship I had with him. Charlie loved our nation and its founding principles and believed deeply in his faith, in his family, and in beauty of ideas and discussion.”
OCTOBER 2025 – JAPAN’S FIRST FEMALE PM IS MAGA – After the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party selected their first female leader, Sanae Takaichi, some are calling her the female Trump who promises to prioritize Japanese national interests over global interests. Her party is expected to win the next election. It has ruled since 1955 with no serious opposition. Takaichi promises to be tougher on China and open to militarizing Japan beyond traditional post-WWII Japan’s previous limited standards.

President Trump said of the selection, “Japan has just elected its first female Prime Minister, a highly respected person of great wisdom and strength. This is tremendous news for the incredible people of Japan. Congratulations to all!”

MAY 2025 – CDC NO LONGER RECOMMENDS COVID VACCINE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN – HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced, “Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC’s recommended immunization schedule. It’s common sense, and it’s good science. We are now one step closer to realizing President Trump’s promise to Make America Healthy Again.”
APRIL 2025 – SUPREME COURT GREENLIGHTS MASS FIRINGS – In another win for Trump, the Supreme Court blocked a lower court ruling ordering the Trump administration to rehire over 16,000 bureaucrats. The court said, “The District Court’s injunction was based solely on the allegations of the nine non-profit-organization plaintiffs in this case. But under established law, those allegations are presently insufficient to support the organizations standing.”
OCTOBER 2025 – TRUMP CELEBRATES CHARLIE KIRK’S BIRTHDAY BY GIVING HIM PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM – President Donald Trump held a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk on the slain American activist’s birthday, October 14^th. The event was held at the East Room of the White House, with President Trump attending. Also attending were his wife, Erika Kirk. He also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk.
OCTOBER 2025 – GATES FOLDS ON CLIMATE HOAX, TRUMP DANCES ON ITS GRAVE – The wanna-be world czar Bill Gates signaled to the world that the climate change hoax jig was up after admitting “The doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world. The biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been.”

This signals a potential shift in globalist strategy from promising to save the world from human greed and the brown people from the white devil, they’re going to go back to the basics, economic class warfare. President Trump wasn’t letting Gates surrender so gently, however.

He quipped back, “I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue,” he added. “It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!”

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NOVEMBER 2025 – CLIMATE CHANGE JUSTIFICATION FOR CENTRAL GLOBAL CONTROL OF MARKETS DIES WITH IEA REPORT – The narrative that “man-made climate change is going to destroy us tomorrow if we don’t hand over all market control to a central global government” received another blow after an IEA report shows the greatest growth in energy production (and climate pollution) is in the emerging markets.

Efforts in these markets to convert to alternative energies have led to failure as they still cannot fairly compete against fossil fuels. Countries like India and Indonesia are expecting to see their energy demand grow by over 70%. These countries will have no interest in throttling their growth based on increasingly unfounded science. There is no global power left to create a global climate police Empire.

NOVEMBER 2025 – MORE MAGA CASUALTIES OF DNC LAWFARE PARDONED BY TRUMP – President Donald Trump continues to strategically pardon political targets of the Democratic party for what seems to be a slow-drip pardoning process. In this round, he pardoned dozens of people prosecuted by the DNC for daring to challenge the illegal mass mailer 2020 election (an illegality the courts have yet to even address, let alone rightly identify, though that might soon change).

Among those pardoned include former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of Staff Mark Meadows, as well as lawyers Sidney Powell and John Eastman. Trump called the action “No MAGA left behind,” with his pardon attorney, Ed Martin, saying of the pardons, “President Trump is putting an end to the Biden regime’s communist tactics once and for all.”

ED.NOTE: While he did issue a pardon for Tina Peters, the legality of that pardon is in dispute, and she remains in prison while the appeals are made.

OCTOBER 2025 – UN’S GLOBAL TAX DIES IN THE FACE OF TRUMP – After President Trump caught on to the UN’s efforts to enact a de facto world tax on shipping, he made it clear that U.S. ships would NOT be complying with this unenforceable order. Rather than risking appearing to be powerless, the UN has announced a plan to delay the final vote on the tax by one year. Trump has made it clear the passage of a year will not alter his administration’s defiance.

In a joint statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said on October 10, “President Trump has made it clear that the United States will not accept any international environmental agreement that unduly or unfairly burdens the United States or harms the interests of the American people. Next week, members of the IMO will vote on the adoption of a so-called NZF aimed at reducing global carbon dioxide gas emissions from the international shipping sector. This will be the first time that a UN organization levies a global carbon tax on the world.”

MAY 2025 – TRUMP BANS GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH – President Trump ordered a permanent end to all funding for gain-of-function research in China and other foreign countries, along with a 120-day pause on similar research in the United States as the HHS develops a new policy. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, “All of the history of gain-of-function research, we can’t point to a single good thing that’s come from it.”Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulschercalled the order “a critical first step toward ending dangerous gain-of-function research once and for all.”
JUNE 2025 – SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS STATE BANS ON TRANSGENDER MUTILATION –The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3to uphold a Tennessee law banning transgender mutilation surgeries and drugs on children. The ruling supports 26 other state laws protecting children. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “In politically contentious debates over matters shrouded in scientific uncertainty, courts should not assume that self-described experts are correct.”
APRIL 2025 – TRUMP ADMIN UPDATES COVID.GOV TO REVEAL TRUE ORIGINS OF COVID – The Biden-era covid.gov website now redirects to a site titled “LAB LEAK: The true origins of COVID-19.” The page criticizes the EcoHealth Alliance’s gain-of-function research and faults Dr. Anthony Fauci and others who claimed COVID-19 did not leak from the Wuhan lab. The website stresses, “The WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was an abject failure because it caved to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and placed China’s political interests ahead of its international duties…”
SEPTEMBER 2025 – TRUMP DESIGNATES ANTIFA AS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION – President Trump announced, “I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices.” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Millerpromised, “We’re going to channel all of the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks.”
OCTOBER 2025 – CBS PICKS ANTI-WOKE CHAMPION TO HELM REVIVED NEWS DIVISION – The DNC may have lost one of its illegal campaign advertisers in CBS, who selected an anti-woke news activist, Bari Weiss, to be their new editor-in-chief. Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks captured the mood of the left in response when he declared, “CBS News is naming Bari Weiss Editor in Chief, which will make CBS News useless. She is indisputably biased towards Israel. In fact, that’s why she was hired.”

Following her hiring, Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison said, “We want CBS to speak to that 70% of the audience that would really define themselves as center-left to center-right.” The declaration has CBS “insiders” leaking complaints and warnings to both Ellison and Weiss not to touch CBS’ now-discredited sacred cows, 60 Minutes and CBS Sunday Morning.

DECEMBER 2024 – UK BANS PUBERTY BLOCKERS INDEFINITELY – The leftist British government is permanently banning puberty blockers, after temporarily halting them last year. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said, “We need to act with caution and care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people, and follow the expert advice.”

Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and France have taken similar measures to protect minors. Charlie Kirk noted, “Soon, American blue states will be the only places on earth where this barbaric practice is still allowed.”

FEBRUARY 2025 – TRUMP BANS MEN FROM WOMEN’S SPORTS – President Trump signed executive order stating, “It is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy…” Following the order, the NCAA officially banned transgendersfrom women’s sports. 79% of Americans believe men should not compete in women’s sports.
OCTOBER 2025 – TRUMP BRINGS GAZA WAR TO AN END – President Donald Trump signed the treaty that officially ended the brutal war in Gaza. He did so in Egypt, where he delivered a speech proclaiming the finalization of the deal and the commitment of all parties involved to follow through with the full Gaza Peace plan. All Hamas prisoners have been released along with all living Israeli hostages. Aid has already started coming in, as have the refugees who are now returning. The next step is the formation of a Peace Council that will govern Gaza during the transition. The Nobel Peace Prize Winner, María Corina Machado, partially dedicated her award to President Trump.

Trump told world leaders, “I want to congratulate everybody sitting in these first few rows and standing behind me. I don’t know why they chose to stand, but I promise I’ll make it short, okay? We are not going to keep you standing for long. These are great leaders. After years of suffering and bloodshed, the war in Gaza is over. Humanitarian aid is now pouring in, including hundreds of truckloads of food, and medical equipment, and other supplies, much of it paid for by people in this room.”

2025 TOP MISSED HEADLINES

Covering the news period from December 2024 to December 2025

The Top 30 most inadequately covered stories of 2025:

DECEMBER 2025 – CHINA’S PRE-CRIME AI INTEGRATED IN THE LIVES OF 1.4 BILLION CITIZENS – China is using AI to monitor every aspect of life of every citizen in its country by integrating it into every technology used in daily life, A report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute shows how China has been building the very central-controlled AI-mass-machine many in the west hope to bring over here. The cutting-edge nature of their pre-crime surveillance capacity is the envy of the world for oligarchs everywhere, and thus will define the next decade or more.

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SEPTEMBER 2025 – HOUSE OF SAUD GETS NUCLEAR UMBRELLA FROM DEFENSIVE PACT WITH PAKISTAN – Saudi Arabia has announced a new defensive partnership with Pakistan, a nation Saudi Arabia has long had economic and religious ties to. The fact that Pakistan is a nuclear power is what makes this pact so significant. The pact means that Saudi Arabia is now under Islamabad’s nuclear umbrella. The pact is a further check on nuclear-aspirant Iran’s already ebbed power.
NOVEMBER 2025 – UK THINKS WE’RE STILL A COLONY? – Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s communications regulator has recently declared that Americans are not protected from UK prosecution for violating their soviet-styled speech laws when their social media posts reach their citizens. So far, talk of bills being written to deal with this foreign intrusion on American sovereignty is all that’s been seen in response to this assertion by the UK. They do this while they push forward with Online censorship, Digital ID, and now mass arrests of UK protesters.

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OCTOBER 2025 – THE GLOBALISTS WILL USE TICKS TO MAKE US ALLERGIC TO RED MEAT? – Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is claiming that there is a globalist plot to genetically engineer people so they are allergic to red meats. He cited efforts by the WEF through the years, pointing to their website. The claim isn’t as preposterous as it sounds if you realize there is a video from 2016 outlining this very plan, this one using ticks to spread the allergy.

Dr. Matthew Liao, director of the NYU Center for Bioethics, made the video. Liao said, “Just as some people are naturally intolerant to milk or crayfish, like myself, we could artificially induce mild intolerance to meat by stimulating our immune system against common bovine proteins.”

SEPTEMBER 2025 – “AMERICAN” POLICE FORCE HAS ARABIC PATCHES – A police force in America has chosen to allow its officers to use a foreign language on their police patches. In this case, the language is Arabic. Dearborn Heights moved closer to becoming a de facto foreign country when the police force “chose” to allow “American” citizens the “option” of having Arabic police patches to “better serve” a community that clearly has no intention of integrating with the American republic.
MAY 2025 – FLORIDA MAKES GOLD AND SILVER LEGAL TENDER – After signing the bill, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said, “This legislation will authorize money services businesses like check cashers or PayPal to transmit and accept payment in gold and silver. That means these precious metals can start functioning like real currency again, not just investment vehicles for the wealthy.”
APRIL 2025 – DID CCP HELP WU BECOME BOSTON MAYOR? – Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) is alleged to have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from a CCP agent named Gary Yu. This allegation is coming from Daily Caller, who claims Wu’s Chinese name, Yu Guoliang, reveals he is “listed as an official by an agency of a (CCP) influence and intelligence service called United Front Work Department…”

Daily Caller quotes China expert Gordon Chang in response to this report, “Wu’s ultra-leftism makes her the perfect candidate for CCP recruitment and capture. Or do we have it backward? Is her ultra-leftism the result of CCP recruitment and capture? More than just the people of Boston would like to know.”

APRIL 2025 – SUICIDE IS BEING PUSHED ON AILING CANADIANS? – Dr. Ramona Coelho, a committee member on Ontario’s MAiD Death Review Committee, is accusing doctors of pushing patients aggressively towards suicide in increasingly questionable situations. She accused the institution itself of “rushing to death” through quick approvals of Canada’s euthanasia program, called MAiD (Medical Aid in Dying).
JUNE -2025 – MORE NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS SLAUGHTERED BY MUSLIM NIGERIANS – While the world remains silent, the rise of Islamism in Nigeria is causing death for Nigerian Christians, who see their government fail to protect them while it also prevents them from protecting themselves. The latest slaughter happened in the Yehewata village in the Benue State. Over 100 men, women, and children were slaughtered by raiding Islamists. GO DEEPER
JUNE 2025 – CHINA HAS A MAN IN SEOUL – South Korea has replaced a President who tried to use emergency powers to stop a communist takeover of the country from within with a President who appears to be more aligned with the Chinese Communist Party than a “democratic” South Korea. Lee Jae-myun has beaten his opponent by more than 10 points.

The far-left candidate called for closer ties to both China and North Korea. In his victory speech, the CCP plant said, “I will fulfill my mission of creating a world where democracy is restored and the people are respected as sovereign in a democratic republic while living together in cooperation with each other.” Fittingly, the winning party’s name is the Democratic Party, which appears to have a lot in common with America’s DNC-CCP party.

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OCTOBER 2025 – HARVARD’S OWN REPORT DISCREDITS ITS DEGREES – A Harvard degree these days is considered, in growing circles, a liability, not an asset, given the university’s hard left lurch towards insurrection against the republic. But now, a new report has exposed Harvard’s grading system. Even the students themselves acknowledge what the data now shows, Harvard’s grades are fake. College professors pass students more to fulfill DEI dreams than to train true experts for a shared, American society. Harvard’s own report condemns them.

In the report, faculty members themselves said there’s been “a radical shift from providing critical feedback to providing emotional support.” More than 60% of the grades awarded are As, for instance, and hardly anyone ever fails. In grading, some faculty allege “[T]he College has been exhorting faculty to remember that some students arrive less prepared for college …”

DECEMBER 2025 – EVIDENCE OF DEBANKING OF CONSERVATIVES SURFACES, WITH AGENCY PLEDGING TO END IT – The practice of debanking, of cancelling the bank accounts by undesirables for political and/or religious reasons has been called a myth by the left and denied by the banks accused of doing it. The targets are almost always conservative and/or Christian, with a healthy dose of gun supporters thrown in there for good measure.

Now, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has confirmed debanking of non-leftists occurred in 9 banks, which are U.S. Bank, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America, Citibank, Capital One, PNC Bank, TD Bank, and BMO Bank. The Comptroller, Jonathan V. Gould, said, “The OCC is committed to ending efforts – whether instigated by regulators or banks – that would weaponize finance. Although our work continues, the OCC is today providing visibility into the debanking actions against customers and lawful businesses taken by the nation’s largest banks to ensure public awareness, and to halt these harmful and unfair practices.” These are preliminary investigations. The OCC has pledged to continue the investigations and “discourage” any banks from continuing the practice or considering it in the future.

NOVEMBER 2025 – AI TOYS ARE CHILD SEX GROOMERS – Don’t leave your children alone with any interactive AI warns a consumer watchdog group called The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) in its 40^th annual report, “Trouble in Toyland 2025.” The group warns “Some of these toys will talk in-depth about sexually explicit topics, act dismayed when you say you have to leave and have limited or no parental controls.”

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OCTOBER 2025 – TRUMP ADMIN SIGNALS COMMITMENT TO SET PRICE CONTROLS ON RARE EARTH METALS – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is signaling the administration’s intentions to set price floors, a form of price control, on rare earth metals. The move is intended to counter China’s dominance in the market, but it has Americans concerned it is setting a precedent for market controls that aren’t aligned with American values.

The justification for this anti-American action comes from China’s bad faith actions, Bessent suggests. He stated, “When you are facing a non-market economy like China, then you have to exercise industrial policy. So we’re going to set price floors and the forward buying to make sure that this doesn’t happen again, and we’re going to do it across a range of industries.”

NOVEMBER 2025 – FCC CONSIDERS THIRD RAIL MOVE THAT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE “NETWORK TELEVISION”– The FCC is considering abolishing what has been called the third rail in broadcasting politics, the national ownership cap. This cap is set at 39%, which means station owners cannot own more than 39% of the affiliates of a national broadcaster’s network.

The move is being considered to allow, theoretically, conservative affiliate owners a chance to push back against anti-American broadcasting, with the Jimmy Kimmel kerfuffle being the foil for the theoretical action.

OCTOBER 2025 – CHINA’S AIRCRAFT CARRIER SCORES HISTORIC FIRST – China is allegedly the first country in the world to launch a jet off an aircraft carrier using an electromagnetic catapult (EMALS). The country released a video of a J-34 stealth fighter being launched by an EMALS catapult off an aircraft carrier at sea. The name of the aircraft carrier was not mentioned in any reports, which all seem to come from the Chinese state media video itself.

Regardless of the full efficacy of the claim, China’s rapid development of aircraft carriers poses a security risk for the United States, though the era of the aircraft carrier itself is in question by some.

NOVEMBER 2025 – PREDICTIVE INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM DEPLOYED BY BORDER CONTROL? – The Associated Press is reporting the U.S. Border Patrol is using a traffic monitoring program that used “Predictive Intelligence” to identify and detain individuals driving in “suspicious patterns.” AP claims the program is monitoring millions of Americans. It started as a border monitoring program but has since been scaled out nationwide.

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JULY 2025 – UKRAINIANS PROTEST ZELENSKY’S ANTI-CORRUPTION PROSECUTOR PURGE – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill that allows his administration to dissolve the country’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. The response from the people has been to protest the move in the major cities, including Kiev. These protests continue. READ MORE ABOUT THE UKRAINE WAR
AUGUST 2025 – MYANMAR JUNTA ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR A LATE DECEMBER ELECTION – The Myanmar Junta’s election commission has just announced plans to hold a “multiparty democratic general election” on Sunday, December 28, 2025. The commission was formed the previous month. It is seen as a sign that the junta is recognizing its inability to hold a land it took through force, denying the results of a fair and free election, though skepticism abounds as to whether the election will actually happen. READ MORE ON MYANMAR
NOVEMBER 2025 – EU BANS LARGE CASH PAYMENTS – The European Union (EU) will ban all cash purchases over $11,500 beginning in January 2027. This draconian change was not made through legislation that was debated and voted on; it was created through regulation. Unelected EU bureaucrats simply chose to make the change, claiming it is purely to target criminals.

In addition to that, new laws already passed will soon require anyone using or holding cryptocurrency to do so through a digital ID system, assuring no anonymity in the transaction of value between humans. By 2029, the EU plans on rolling out their digital currency, which they intend on being the replacement for physical currency. Digital currency turbo-charge governments’ ability to control transactions, create instant “magic value,” and micromanage the currency markets.

MARCH 2025 – CHINA TAKING OVER AFRICAN PORTS AND TEXAS COURTS – The CCP has successfully managed to build an African port empire, being active stakeholders of 78 ports across 32 countries, mostly in the East. This represents a Chinese presence in nearly one-quarter of all commercial African ports. It also has ports in the Texas Senate Affairs Committee, where 30 CCP Activists appealed to American legal standards to justify striking down a law that would prevent the CCP from owning land in Texas. Read the China blurb report
NOVEMBER 2025 – MORE COLLEGE STUDENTS THAN EVER HAVE ELEMENTARY MATH UNDERSTANDING – A report from the University of California, San Diego has set off alarms about how well-prepared high school graduates are for college. According to the report, from the start of the pandemic in 2020 to the current year, the number of high school students with math knowledge below the 8^th grade has exploded. In 2020 it was 1%, while today it has exploded to 12%.

This is not the first university to report these numbers. George Mason and Temple have reported similar trends. The problem is not many are interested in measuring such numbers, and DNC corporate media is not interested in covering it. So far, only Fox News has covered what could be a critical fail issue in our public schools.

NOVEMBER 2025 – U.S. HOUSE CRAWLS BACK ARCTIC FROST VICTIMS’ LAWSUIT ALLOWANCE – The U.S. House has passed a bill to repeal a provision included in the continuing resolution that ended the historic government shutdown. The bill is NOT addressing the provision that makes most of the hemp industry illegal (We wrote more on this in a report in the November 2025 End-Month Issue of MIA). The bill removes the permission for Federal employees who were victims of Operation Arctic Frost to sue the Federal government.

The operation, run by DNC attorney Jack Smith, spied on mostly Republicans’ phone records, including its top leadership, which includes Marco Rubio. The bill required a two-thirds yes vote to pass, which it did. Seven members, three Republicans and four Democrats, chose not to vote at all. It must now pass the Senate, which is not a guarantee as of right now.

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OCTOBER 2025 – AI AND TECH EXPERTS CALL FOR A PAUSE ON “SUPERINTELLIGENCE” – 800-plus leading figures in AI and tech banded together to call for a pause on the development of what is called “superintelligence.” Theoretically (and probably true), it is an AI model that WILL be able to out-think humans not just scientifically, but psychologically. Part of the coalition includes Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and former U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

The key statement was signed off on by over 16,220 AI and tech professionals. The core statement is, “We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and strong public buy-in.”

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JULY 2025 – D.C JUDICIAL CONFERENCE TURNS INTO ANTI-TRUMP CABAL – In another blow to the perception of Rule of Law, The Federalist has discovered a memo that reveals the D.C. Judicial Conference in March turned into a cabal to undermine President Trump, introducing inherent biases into their judgements before a case ever came before them. At the center of the cabal is Chief Justice John Roberts and insurrectionist D.C. Circuit Judge James Boasberg, who said the quiet parts out loud.

From the memorandum obtained by The Federalist, “District of the District of Columbia Chief Judge James Boasberg next raised his colleagues’ concerns that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts, leading to a constitutional crisis.” Given Boesberg’s recent disregard for the Law in his attempt to sabotage a sitting President, this writer hopes the Trump administration is thoroughly investigating the judges who took part in this de facto cabal to overthrow the will of the people through illegal rulings. Read more about the efforts to use the judiciary to overthrow the republic, JUDGEFARE

NOVEMBER 2025 – SOUTH KOREAN DEMOCRATS WANT TO CRIMINALIZE ANTI-CCP DISSENT – As protests continue against the new government in South Korea over its seeming embrace of China and North Korea, the Democrats prepare to crack down on the dissenters. The Democratic Party of Korea is introducing multiple bills in the legislature it controls that would criminalize anti-China protests.

Democratic Party Representative Yang Bu-nam introduced an amendment to the criminal act that would prohibit anti-China protests. He justified the actions, claiming, “On March 3 of last month, participants at an anti-China rally sang a song containing lyrics like ‘Changgae, Bukgye, and red communists should leave quickly’ and used profanity, spreading false claims about Chinese interference in elections.”

APRIL 2025 – ALLEGED DEEP STATER FEARED TO HAVE DELETED KEY CDC COVID-19 DATA – Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, the former director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office under Joe Biden, appears to have allegedly deleted government data. The data feared lost is Covid-19 vaccine results data that will show the true depth, breadth, and severity of side effects from the mandated Covid-19 vaccines.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and acting HHS watchdog Juliet Hodgkins, to ensure criminal investigative action was taken on this matter. He wrote, “HHS officials recently informed me that Dr. Shimabukuro’s records remain lost and, potentially, removed from HHS’s email system altogether. Dr. Shimabukuro’s potential mishandling of his official records is highly concerning… Any attempt to obstruct or interfere with my investigatory efforts would be grounds for contempt of Congress.”

NOVEMBER 2025 – AMERICA SEES HISTORIC DROP IN RELIGIOUS IMPORTANCE – A poll by Gallup shows in just 10 years the percentage of Americans who say religion is an important part of their daily life went from 66% in 2015 to 49% in 2025. Gallop said the 17-point drop “ranks among the largest Gallup has recorded in any country over any 10-year period since 2007.”
JUNE 2025 – U.S. BIRTH RATES HAVE HIT SUICIDAL LEVELS – The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released the latest numbers on U.S. birth rates, and it shows women on average are having 1.6 children each, meaning it has reached the level referred to as “civilizational suicide.” The general fertility rate (GFR) has declined by 22% since 2007 alone.
NOVEMBER 2025 – TRUMP ADMIN MOVING ONTO MILITARY BASES IN WAKE OF RISING PROGMERICAN THREATS – U.S. officials are increasingly moving themselves and their families onto military bases in response to rising threats from within that are connected to the usual Progmerican, DNC blue shirts threats. In addition to the DNC threats, the officials are also facing an “ongoing foreign threat.”

In response to this ratcheting up of threats, the Trump administration is building “a quick reactionary force” in every state through the National Guard to deal with the rising DNC blue-shirts threats. Some of the officials include Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and Stephen Miller.

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Editor’s Commentary: Trust in God? How?

pgnewser June 20, 2025

By William Collier, Publisher

Originally published June 13, 2025 for our Mid-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.” – Proverbs 3:5-8

NOTE: Here is a special editor’s commentary from our publisher, Bill Collier, about what it means to trust God, a challenge for many during these trying times, and yet a source of comfort in the midst of chaos for many others.

Trust in God.

It’s so easily said. It just rolls out of your voice, almost as predictable as the tide.

But do we trust God?

I have been experiencing something like I haven’t experienced since I was maybe 10 years old. This “feeling” had been dormant in me for years, though I only realized it recently. It was a specific and unique feeling of joy/peace and quiet certainty that if I but stewarded my life and actions with honor to God as the driving energy behind that, God would take care of an outcome that serves my eternal good, even if suffering and loss in this life are needed to shape me into who He wants me to become.

Of course, I’m paraphrasing here; the kid version of me would have used much different language. Still, looking back, I realize, in essence, this is what I was really thinking in that incredible moment of joy/peace.

I do trust God, overall, but I have not been living in that joy/peace I experienced back then. I have not experienced the trust in God that gives you the REST within, replaces anxiety with peace, and gives a heart thankfulness, filled with the simple joy of following and knowing Jesus Christ.

Of course, this was not a deliberate choice, to kill this joy/peace within me, and it didn’t happen overnight. It was a gradual ebbing out of the spirit of peace as I struggled to finitely figure out for myself how to essentially save myself.

I trust God. I trust the outcomes. I trust when I am merely suffering the consequences of my own failing or mistake, knowing He has grace and mercy and that whatever is resetting me, if I give it to Him, He will transform me as I seek to obey Him until I can put those traits or flaws behind me.

I trust when I suffer for something that was not true, something that was a total lie (yet is laid at my charge), that God’s provision will give me exactly what I need to fulfill His purpose and intentions for my life.

I trust Him when the outcomes are good and bring joyful results, success, and prosperity. But I also trust Him when it seems that in every direction, there is bad news and failures.

I trust when I have more than I need or when I am totally lacking and overwhelmed by the needs I cannot at present meet.

I trust in Jesus Christ to shape and utilize me through this life experience to be prepared for my eternal destiny and to fulfill His scroll of destiny and purpose for me in this life as well.

I rest in that trust.

When anxiety comes because I want an outcome, fear an outcome, or am just confused and uncertain how to proceed, I just focus my heart and mind on the fact God oversees my life BECAUSE I have surrendered to Him. While I need to be a good steward through my worship of Him, He truly is in total control of my outcomes, and I surrender that to Him.

Being a good steward means you take responsibility for your actions, and you utilize all God has given you according to His design, His blueprint, and His purpose, to the best of your understanding and through the means God has given you.

Even if you fumble your stewardship in some way, seeking God and trusting that He will always control your outcomes for your eternal good, allows you to recover and be transformed until you no longer fumble in that manner.

Trust comes as we obey, and as we learn and grow through knowledge and experience over time, we become ever more attuned to God’s voice, understanding of God’s Word, and surrounded by wise Christian counsel through fellowship, and thus, we suffer less for our mistakes.

When we do suffer, it is not necessarily because we made a mistake or a bad choice, but we trust it serves God’s purpose.

As we learn to trust in bad times, we also learn to trust in good times. When riches increase, we do not set our hearts upon those riches. When we are praised and honored, we acknowledge our honor comes from God and goes back to God. When we no longer have the urgency of needing to retreat within ourselves to the Presence of God, we remember this need to abide under His shadow during good times as well, lest we become tempted by our own sense of well-being and our pride.

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” –Romans 8:35-39

I survey the unresolved problems I do not know how I will overcome, but yet, even here, I trust in God. I can see that when I lacked the ability, resources, or knowledge to solve a problem, it becomes resolved through God’s provision and/or guidance in sudden, unexpected ways.

Deus Ex Machina isn’t just a dramatic device, it’s real. I can attest to this fact, even through my marriage (maybe even especially through it).

I consider all the impossible things and trying things and what I must face or do that will be hard or have uncertain outcomes, and I yet trust in God. In suffering, the fellowship of His suffering is a place of honor. In happy prosperity, victory, and abundance, I guard my heart but revel in a thankful heart toward God for all He has done.

When I have abundance, I enjoy and take pleasure in distributing the benefits of living for Jesus and of His Kingdom to others. When I lack, I trust in Him and endure knowing these outcomes too serve God’s eternal purpose for my life, and I bear up, seeking counsel in the Word, the meditations of my heart, and the support and encouragement of my circles of family, friends, and fellow saints.

I say these things as a statement of faith, for I am not different than most in that I do not always do these things. But as I am learning to do these things more, I am experiencing more trust and more peace, and therefore more joy. Even in the midst of great blessings (and I have had plenty of those lately as well), I set not my heart upon them but stay in a place of seeking the JOY of HIS Presence.

It is easy for success to make you confident in your own false self-salvation powers; even great Kings of Israel fell to such snares. Remember Joash? He was the King who was saved from the only Queen of Judah, Athaliah, by Jehoiada the Priest.

She had murdered all the male descendants of Judah, save one (Joash), so she could take power for herself. Jehoiada protected the child Joash and worked to finally get him restored to the throne. He saved his life and his Kingship. These blessings were through God.

Under Jehoiada’s guidance, Joash was a righteous King, and his Kingdom prospered. After Jehoida died, Joash let men satisfy his ego, and he turned away from the Lord, ending his days by killing Jehoida’s son, Zechariah, for challenging his unrighteous ways (2 Chronicles 24).

I sense that old pure, innocent, and unquestioning faith in Jesus Christ in its joy and peace is growing anew, at a deep level to where I feel more fearless and overcoming, without fretting over results which, ultimately, I must acknowledge are in God’s hands. That is JUST where I WANT them to be. This means I surrender my expectations or desires as to outcomes, not that I don’t make my requests known or seek to be a good steward and work toward goals.

This isn’t laziness or pacifism. We bear stewardship responsibility for our actions; this includes how we manage and use everything God gives into our hands (stewardship).

Yet God knows we are a work in progress and ultimately, if we let Him, if we TRUST in Him and HIS ways, HIS timing, He will control the outcome for our eternal good. That is rock solid, and the more you live in that, the better your decision-making abilities will become, and the more peace and joy you will experience.

“At that time Jesus declared, ‘I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.’” –Matthew 11:25-30

Save the Planet, Lose Your Sovereignty

pgnewser April 18, 2025

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

Originally published April 11, 2025 for our Mid-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

“The current international order is based on the presumption that our physical geography is fixed and unchanging. However, climate change – in the form of sea level rise and inundation – is shifting international boundaries. The world’s changing geography will force policymakers and legal experts to adapt the concepts of sovereignty, statehood, and citizenship to address the new global environment.” –from Reconsidering Sovereignty Amid the Climate Crisis – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

ED.NOTE: The nation-state model is relatively new to the human experience. It may or may not continue to be the dominant model of human governance, be that for good or for ill. The critique offered here is not fundamentally against the notion that there aren’t viable non-nation-state models of human governance, but that this “paper” is not about an authentic exploration of those possibilities but rather agit prop intended to nudge humanity towards something approaching a one-world government.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace issued a “paper” called “Reconsidering Sovereignty Amid the Climate Crisis” that makes the case for surrendering national sovereignty to save the people and the planet from the impending climate change apocalypse.

The paper uses the unique circumstances of the Pacific Islands to justify the claim that the concept of national sovereignty itself is an impediment to saving the people from the disaster coming our way.

The paper was written by Nitya Labh, who Carnegie credits as being “a nonresident research assistant for the South Asia Program and for the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace…” A LinkedIn profile claims, “Nitya Labh (W&M ‘22) is the runner-up in the undergraduate category of an international essay contest sponsored by the journal International Security and Girl Security.”

Labh is a UN-approved girl, through and through, a content marketer disguised as a journalist, in this writer’s opinion.

Labh claims, “Policymakers should consider new legal options to address climate-induced boundary changes. These may include the creation of fictitious boundaries, collective sovereignty, hybrid citizenship, and corridors for climate displacement.

This paper does not seek to suggest that these new ideas for sovereignty are the only path to resolving the nexus of legal-climate challenges that exist today. Instead, this paper attempts to raise new questions and ideas about how policymakers should think about the international system at a time when anthropogenic climate and environmental change is rearranging its geophysical foundations.”

After a series of scientific claims justifying the climate apocalypse predictions, Labh doubles down on her “gentle” suggestion we reconsider sovereignty, writing, “With only a few exceptions, solely states and intergovernmental organizations obtain rights and face obligations in international law; the individual does not take part in this privileged community.

Sovereignty is also the basis for restrictions on international law; with only a few exceptions, it is the sovereign right of every state that no other state or organization interferes with its internal matters. Consequently, what happens within a state’s borders traditionally has little relevance for the international legal order.”

Here, she’s going far beyond suggesting sovereignty is interfering with saving the people and the planet; it’s just bad for the individual, a very Marxist worldview if ever there was one.

Her logic seems to be this: because sovereign states have avenues of exchange that don’t cater directly to the individual, the individual is somehow diminished because they’re not simply subject to an international order; they’re subject to the nation-state order. If they were subject to an international order, they would have direct representation, like they maybe do at the nation-state level.

Ask yourself if you’d rather face the consequences of a worldwide “election” or an election in the nation-state you’re currently in. If you really think about it, you’ll understand how much further your already diminished voice would be in a world where the prize is control of the entire world.

How much money do you think would go into those campaigns? How many people would die interfering with some faction’s plans to be the one to take power and always attempt to close the door behind them?

Her whole presentation presumes the world would be better off ceding its sovereignty to leftist thinkers, people who can’t understand the basic reality of power, where blood and bone and sinew meet forced habits of being delivered from on-high by “experts” such as this young woman must fancy herself to be.

They can’t even define what a woman is or allow for true value to be measured in their unrealistic “utopian” black-and-white schemes.

She rightly points out what could be considered the birth of the modern political world, the birth of the nation-state, in the Treaty of Westphalia, seeming to suggest that the “newness” of the concept of the sovereignty of the nation-state should cause you to be suspicious of it for that reason alone.

Let us remember, though, that leftists will more often argue that tradition is oppression and wisdom is in progress, the new, what is becoming, NOT what has been. Yet on this issue, this Marxist essentially appeals to tradition to justify rejecting the more progressive governance model, the sovereign nation-state.

This headline in Labh’s “paper” makes it plain, “Climate Change and Sovereignty Are at Odds.”

Here, Labh reveals more than perhaps her presumed handlers would have wanted her to, claiming, “Climate change challenges the presumption that a sovereign state will have ‘a permanent population,’ in the sense that while the individuals living there may change, a territory will be continuously inhabited. It can be a driving factor in human migration by creating climate refugees or internally displaced persons, or by incentivizing voluntary relocations.”

Herein lies the heart of the SOLUTION to save the planet, by nearly any means necessary: Dissolve local identity and geographical heritage in a people and prevent them from occupying any land for generations. It is not a reality, but rather a desire, smuggled in as a matter of fact.

That “fact”claim is this: Humans will, because of the climate change-triggered rising sea levels and food disasters (that human ingenuity will fail to overcome, not by stopping it but by redesigning and rebuilding to accommodate it), no longer desire to be tied to a land of their forefathers.

Certainly, if rising sea levels happen (presuming their climate apocalypse is real) then the micro national islands in the Pacific this writer conveniently focuses on will have major sovereignty issues, with whole island micro-nations being sent to the bottom of the rising seas.

Furthermore, their national sovereignty is relatively newer in these regions, with less allegiance placed on the nation-state than with the families, the larger communities they live with.

One interesting “solution” is not entirely without merit, even if it is intended to wholly replace the nation-state model, which this writer imagines it would not. Here, she writes of “collective sovereignty,” claiming it “could provide a legitimate basis for hybrid citizenship that spans multiple jurisdictions.”

Such collective sovereignties, in this writer’s mind, could come from nations that join in some form of league or confederal pact, but even then, primary citizenship would most likely not only be required, but preferred by the citizens themselves. Their ability to vote in non-primary nation-states would most likely be diminished in some capacity.

In that same section, she writes, “In the absence of international law or institutional frameworks that allocate human rights responsibilities in hybrid arrangements, states will have to establish bilateral or regional agreements to divide, reestablish, and share human rights duties. Regardless of the form citizenship and migration pathways take, it is clear that climate response policies must center around the interests of human security.”

The key phrases here are “human rights,” “human rights DUTIES,” “climate response policies,” and “human security.”

“Climate response policies” is a particularly interesting phrase in that it contains within it the very thing President Trump is at least severely disrupting, the administrative state. A legislative, democratic response to the climate apocalypse would hardly be adequate.

These changes must be made by scientists, experts, and human rights advocates, on the fly, as the crisis demands. In other words, these changes need to be made by the administrative state.

Imagine keeping a whole world captive to the lie that the planet was going to die, and people were going to perish by the billions if they didn’t hand their lives and sovereignty over to people with the same worldview as this woman.

Imagine if that was really the only thing that held them, the fear that the end might be near. Year after year the state would have to find reasons the climate apocalypse hadn’t happened yet or why it wasn’t making a difference, or maybe it was making things worse, in the “fight to save the planet” so far.

Any dissenting voice would be labeled a saboteur, or worse, a climate denier, a charge that could, in that world, be even worse than being called a racist or a homophobe in today’s leftist-controlled cultural reality.

Imagine a world where the statement “homosexuality is a sin” will get you imprisoned because climate change experts determined that statement was a human rights violation, which could accelerate the habits of being that made man-made climate change happen in the first place.

In case you’re interested, that would be white supremacism; everything goes back to white supremacism, right before it halts for a time at “muh patriarchy,” though this agit prop piece doesn’t pull any “social justice” trump card other than saving the planet and human rights (which is a dog whistle for a forced socio-cultural value system at existential odds with Christian and Americanist values).

The mere introduction of the notion that surrendering nation-state sovereignty is NECESSARY to save the planet AND the people is a hard enough blow on conventional thought as it is, so perhaps she wisely chose to lay off the white devil and toxic male tropes.

The piece itself is a test of the spirit of the land, or at least how the “opposition” might choose to react or not react to what appears to this writer to be a severe shot across the bow of sovereign rights.

But it is also a nudge, an attempt to both stigmatize nation-state sovereignty and normalize more collective sovereignty identities. Don’t be fooled, however, the collective sovereignty stop is just that – a stop, a stop on a journey that ends in a one world socialist government run by the few enlightened for the “benefit” of the vast many.

Finally, it is a signal to lower-thought-serving agit prop information terror machines, like CBS News, CNN, etc., to start running stories that make nation-state sovereignty sound evil (even if you must make them up) and collective sovereignty look great.

If this writer is right, expect more stories from the DNC-CCP media on the plight of the island nations of the Pacific over the coming months and years as they prepare their low-informed, partisan-identified de facto sycophants to accept a world “without borders” that really becomes, as Alex Jones warned us, nothing more than a prison planet.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace isn’t interested in saving the people or the planet; it’s interested in making humans in their inhuman “image,” an image that sees humanity as needing one unified society to truly be the human they were born to choose to be.

That society must be created from on high, from experts who understand what human rights are, experts who understand what social justice is, experts who can use science and math and logic and reason to redesign the human experience from top to bottom, towards a new shared whole.

Those that don’t choose what they SHOULD HAVE CHOSEN will be culled from the social human tribe.

This “paper” is nothing short of a declaration of war against the whole planet by the “globalist” powers that be; the race to secure power is on, and Nitya Labh is ready to do her part to assure the rest of her network knows, it’s time to make war on sovereignty.

Editor’s Commentary: How Ukraine’s Choice to Court the DNC Might Lead to its End

pgnewser March 21, 2025

By Bill Collier, Publisher

Originally published March 14, 2025 for our Mid-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

“I look at the Ukraine situation and I say, so Ukraine is a country that affects us far less than it affects other countries in NATO, and yet we are doing all of the lifting, they’re not doing anything. And I say, why is it that Germany is not dealing with NATO on Ukraine? Why is it that other countries that are in the vicinity of the Ukraine not dealing with – why are we always the one that’s leading, potentially the Third World War, okay, with Russia? Why are we always the ones that are doing it?”

“I think NATO as a concept is good, but it is not as good as it was when it first evolved. And I think we bear the, you know, not only financially, we bear the biggest brunt of it. Obama has been stronger on the Ukraine than all the other countries put together, and those other countries right next door to the Ukraine. And I just say we have, I’m not even knocking it, I’m just saying I don’t think it’s fair, we’re not treated fair. I don’t think we’re treated fair, Charles, anywhere.” –Donald Trump to the Washington Post Editorial Board in 2016 during his first Presidential campaign

If European countries rearm and support Ukraine directly, I applaud putting words into action. I believe Ukraine needs to win on the battlefield, then sue for peace. But the U.S. now has other priorities and, though I disagree, I wanted Biden to succeed, and I hope Trump’s moves work out.

The U.S. and NATO were miserly in sending stuff piecemeal. They also had no plans to prevent theft and corruption; rather, they may have gotten kickbacks. They never sent a lot of resources at once to tip the scales.

They also didn’t directly enable strategy with Ukraine. Finally, they restricted the weapons usage, which enabled Russia to have safe havens while Ukraine had none.

Western powers urged Ukraine to surrender their nuclear arsenal, and they did, believing all the powers involved, including Russia, would respect their territorial sovereignty. Russia used the unrest among the Russian minority while Ukraine’s government was ham-fisted about it.

I don’t buy Russia’s justifications, e.g. NATO expansion and the abuse of the Russian minorities, but I can say that poking a bear who already wants to eat you isn’t smart, even if the bear is also wrong in his true ambitions, which are hegemonic and imperialistic.

Kiev has become infected with the leftist mantras and anti-Trumpism, which is NOT a basis for a reasonable foreign policy. Just as Trump has to talk to leaders he doesn’t agree with to make a deal, so too must Ukraine. I fear that ship has sailed.

I don’t care if Ukraine breaks with the USA and is backed by the EU on how to end this, and I mostly prefer the European approach as described; I just doubt they will do it.

Unfortunately, Trump’s calculus seems to be that China and our own hemisphere need to be our focus; therefore, he wants to divide Russia from China, as I think India has been at least partially divided from China.

China is the greatest threat in terms of economic and military capacity, and unlike Russia, whose “Mir Russiya,” Russia World, is limited to a region in the world, China’s ideology is world dominion under Communist control. China is the new USSR and Russia is the new China.

Trump believes rapprochement with Russia is possible, like Nixon going to China, though I think Russia is as big a threat as China.

Zelensky has to go back 500 years to see the kind of relationships countries will have in the future. If or when we find a way to neutralize the nuclear threat, we will see a world that looks more like the 1300s, a multi-polar and disconnected world (we see this with censorship and national intrawebs like in China, where “God is on the side with the bigger battalions.”) If Europe can rearm while arming Ukraine, force and force alone will win.

The USA has almost all the economic and military power advantages, while our interests do not align with the rules based arcane order, according to Trump himself. He campaigned on that and won a mandate to do so, with a slim majority supporting him still.

When/if Europeans rearm like Poland has and when they supply enough kit for Ukraine to win enough on the ground to bring peace with honor, then their policies will win, and we, the USA, will remain friends but mind our own business.

The acrimonious rhetoric between leaders is killing relationships that must endure past this war. The U.S. does need Europe as a friend and trading partner, even if we mostly all came from there. We have shifted our strategic focus, and demonizing Trump over this will drive wedges and ruin other areas of collaboration that could be mutually beneficial.

I personally think Trump is being shortsighted, but so are Kiev and Brussels, and even more so because at this moment their mouths are writing checks that their deeds may never cash. The ungratefulness for decades of U.S.-funded and manned protection should not be forgotten, even if you disagree with our President now. You don’t have to accuse him of being pro-Russia, as Ukraine is stupidly doing as an emotional response.

Ukraine needs to consider an approach that is transactional, and the good news is Trump is capable of changing course if he can get a good deal. You may be offended by that, and it may seem inappropriate to you, but we are in the resurging stage of regional empires, as old civilizations decline and devolve into depravity and totalitarianism, in degrees, and in diverse ways, with diverse justifications.

It is a time of transactional foreign policy and shifting alliances of convenience, with maximum competition, until only a few empires, but more than two, carve out their own zone of influence.

Trump sees Ukraine and asks, “What are we gaining?”

It’s not a moral crusade like many of us who support Ukraine might feel it is. The era of the battle of ideologies is ending. The left and the EU seem to not understand that Kiev is fighting Russia and Trump because they are a client state not of the U.S. but of America’s administrative state. This state is run by the hard left, whose aim is hegemonic, NOT for Americans but for their corporate backers over the whole world, per the WEF.

Americans see this and rebel. They aren’t interested in ideological crusades, not even against Communism. The idea is that the American empire has its spheres of influence with certain trusted allies and client states. Trump’s Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and Panama polices reflect an American imperialism that is long overdue as the age of decline and ruin of Western Civilization begins in earnest.

China could be communist and still have good relationships, but their hegemonic aims conflict with Trump’s aims (which are now America’s aims because he is the President). The U.S. has warm relationships with Vietnam, a former enemy and a communist state, because we have a “good deal” with them.

Kiev can do what it wishes. I have no right to lecture. I still want to see Ukraine win and yet their lack of understanding the reality of power in this age is causing them to essentially engage in 20th-century diplomacy rather than a diplomacy suited to the age of empires.

I fear if the EU arms and makes Ukraine a vassal state we will see an authoritarianism that turns it into everything NATO was formed to defend against. I do believe it is especially in Germany’s interest to have a presence in Ukraine and be closely allied, without the USA involved. But they will need to ramp up their war factories, and they CAN, but ONLY if they tend to the problem that only 18% of their citizens are willing to fight for Germany.

When I had the vision for a new Christian civilization back in 1982, then “history from the future written in 2147” showed that one day Germany and Russia will go to war over Ukraine! If Germany can beef Ukraine up and win by proxy, but also revert to a more Freedomist approach to civil liberties, then this could prevent that from happening.

I do not assess that Germany is serious about their support, and unless they can restore a patriotism that isn’t xenophobic, they will lack popular support and have to resort to more totalitarian measures than they have already enacted.

If Kiev wants to win against Russia, they too will need reform to build a more republican form of government, turning Ukraine into a decentralized federation. They will need the moral power of consent derived from a free electoral process that includes all Ukrainians in Ukrainian territory who pledge allegiance to Ukrainian independence.

I recognize that Russia will try to interfere, and measures should be taken to prevent that without becoming totalitarian like the Russians.

The U.S. gains nothing from Ukraine now. Most Americans now want the foreign wars and funding to stop. That’s sad, to me, but Kiev chose to align itself with the Party not in power and made it so that the war was now being used as a partisan football.

The White House meeting that was a disaster happened because Democrats meeting with Zelensky wanted to get him to sabotage the deal to make Trump look bad. He participated willingly and knowingly, and he is paying the price.

I will not stop rooting for Ukraine to win against Russia, but dragging this war out, because you give weapons and supplies piecemeal and limit weapons use, and through theft of foreign aid, especially U.S. aid, with kickbacks to the political class who secured the aid, was not smart at all. Zelensky and the Democrats tried to put the arm on Trump, and he walked away limping.

Editor’s Commentary: JD Vance and the Good Samaritan

pgnewser February 21, 2025

Originally published February 14, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

By Paul Collier, Editor

“Jesus replied, ‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance, a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

And the next day, he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, “Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.” Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?’ He said, ‘The one who showed him mercy.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘You go, and do likewise.’” – Luke 10:30-37

On January 30, 2025, newly sworn-in Vice President JD Vance had a moment when speaking with Sean Hannity that kicked off a whole host of “debates” (some in good faith, some in bad faith) about the nature of Christian love. He was speaking specifically about the illegal alien invasion of the country and the President’s plan to deport them all.

First, here’s what JD Vance said that kicked off the dust storms:

“[A]s an American leader, but also just as an American citizen, your compassion belongs first to your fellow citizens. It doesn’t mean you hate people from outside of your own borders.

But there’s this old-school [concept] – and I think a very Christian concept, by the way – that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.”

The go-to counter by the left is to appeal to Luke 10, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, to counter this notion that the Homefront comes first. In this story, a Samaritan, who is considered by many at that time to be a stench on the land, finds a poor (presumably) Jew who had been beaten, robbed, and left for dead. Before the Samaritan (the stench of the land) found him, a priest saw him and passed him by, so too did a member of the tribe of Levi, a Levite (which is the priestly tribe).

In this story, then, we have a non-descript Jew who is near death, and two Jews from the most “holy” of tribes, with one being an officer in one of the highest sacred positions in the land. We have the earth, the below, in the beaten man, and wisdom from heaven, the priest and the Levite, intersecting, and the highest of the highest who is a brother to this Jew walked on, left him for dead.

But the lowest of the low, the stench of the land, the Samaritan, bent down and picked up the earth, the Jew, though he was his enemy. The leftist uses this passage to back up the claim that “Christian” love means we love everyone equally, and so those who are without, whether they be family or fellow citizens, strangers or foreigners, we give first to those with the most needs. The good Samaritan gave to the man who hated him because that man had a greater need than his own.

Of course, this takes the gospel out of the story, as this writer sees it, a story that works to show us the nature of true Christian love, to love your enemy as yourself, but it also shows that this spirit, this Christian love, is what makes you a priest, a high position in a family that crosses all racial and ethnic boundaries.

The priest and the Levite were lower in the earth than the man left for dead, though they walked in the whitewashed tombs of a legacy of true priests and Levites.

That love is possible because Christ loved his enemies as he loved himself at an unfathomable scale, giving His life and suffering the torment of the sins of billions of enemies so that they might be saved, for Christ died for us while we were yet his enemies.

That love was reflected in the Samaritan, who risked death himself, walking into Judean towns. It might be the fact that he was helping a Jew that he himself wasn’t robbed and beaten and left for dead.

The Samaritan was like others in Christ’s gospel from outside the 12 tribes who would show Israel that the righteousness of God in men is what made them high places in His Kingdom declared, a Kingdom among those who follow Christ, not their genetic heritage.

In Matthew 8, Jesus says of the faithful centurion who knew his servant could be healed with but a word from Christ, “Truly I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you many will come from east and west and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8:11-12).

The message of the Good Samaritan is NOT to give to those who need it the most, for if that were the case, Christ would have chastised the woman who came and washed his feet and used expensive perfumes to anoint Him with, an expense that could have gone to the poor instead. Christ says of her gesture, “Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told.” (Matthew 26:13).

The message of the Good Samaritan is multi-valent, but outside the shadow of Christ we see in the Good Samaritan, it demonstrates to believers what living out the love of Christ looks like in our lives, emboldening us to dare risk life and limb to rescue our enemies from harm. But that doesn’t mean we preclude the needs of loved ones in our lives or form a hierarchy of giving around “need” alone.

The Apostle Paul himself tells us in 1 Timothy 5:8 that “if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and worse than an unbeliever.”

We have a particular responsibility to provide first for our family, our friends, our associates, our fellow citizens, and then ever outward. When Christ came to walk the earth as the Son of Man, He demonstrated that stewardship responsibility to the inner circle, but yet called us to be impartial to those outside our inner circle.

We see an example of this in Mark 7 when Christ delivered the Syrophoenician woman’s daughter from demons because the foreign woman clearly demonstrated faith in Christ the Messiah even though he did not come to serve non-Jews. He judged her impartially, not as a foreigner, but as a daughter of Christ, for she clearly recognized him as the Messiah, calling Him Lord.

As he was leaving, he told them, “You will be witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) He sent them out with a stewardship that began at home (Jerusalem) and extended outward (Judah, then Samaria, and then the ends of the earth) AFTER the home was served first.

On this, JD Vance was right. But he left out a distinction between stewardship and love. Stewardship is the fruit of love through Christ’s love; it is a certain responsibility love leads us to fulfill, but it’s not love itself. This, I believe, is closer to what JD Vance was describing.

This is an important distinction, and it could explain why JD Vance’s message isn’t more clearly understood (though it might reflect his own lack of understanding of the deeper gospel message, that love is about stewardship, but it’s also about impartiality, and even mercy).

Love does not mean I deprive my neighbors to provide for strangers. Love DOES mean that I show NO PARTIALITY to my neighbors over strangers. If my brother steals from a stranger, Christian love compels me to side with the stranger. Love DOES mean if someone is bleeding in front of me and they are my enemy, I stop what I’m doing and seek to come to their aid.

The left leaves out the stewardship responsibility we have to our inner circles, while JD Vance appears to have left out impartiality and mercy in his, equating stewardship with the totality of Christian love, which it is not.

What’s more, he uses this analogy to justify deporting millions of illegal aliens, some of whom might deserve impartiality and mercy when considering their unique circumstances. To be sure, the criminals (the ones who are criminals for more than just being here illegally) will have to go. To let this nation continue to be inundated with dangerous people who have no right to be here would be bad stewardship of our inner circle, our fellow citizens.

But somewhere in that mix are people who might be like that broken man, beaten and left for dead, in need of mercy, even if you imagine these people are our enemies (some of them are, but most of them are not).

In the last of the books of Moses, Deuteronomy, as Moses is preparing his people for his own death, he tells his people, as commanded to him by God “He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 10:18-19).

It is not good stewardship, and thus not good Christian love, to sacrifice the well-being of your fellow citizens to take care of strangers, but now that they’re here, let us remember it is also not good Christian love to decline to give mercy, nor to decline to serve the ones beaten, robbed, and left for dead either.