President Donald Trump’s efforts, through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and otherwise, to reduce United States government spending is the focus of much attention. Indeed, in his speech Tuesday night in the US Capitol, Trump listed several expenditures...
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More Empty Threats from Donald Trump?
by Larry C. Johnson | Mar 6, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Trump’s act is starting to wear thin. He tried this same gambit a month ago and, despite what appeared to be a genuine threat, he did nothing. I think the latest dire threat is to divert attention from the fact that Mr. Witkoff is in Doha, Qatar talking directly to...
Del Bigtree Looks Back at the Disneyland Measles Outbreak
by Adam Dick | Mar 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The media are overflowing with discussion using an ongoing measles infection outbreak in Texas to whip up disdain for and fear of people who have not taken vaccines. Much media coverage was similar in 2015 when there was what was referred to as the Disneyland measles...
The US Government’s Terrible Bird Flu Scheme
by Adam Dick | Feb 28, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“The unfolding bird flu narrative serves as a chilling echo of the COVID-19 pandemic, starkly illustrating a playbook dusted off and redeployed,” wrote Joseph Mercola in the concluding paragraphs of his Friday article at mecola.com detailing the outrageous actions the...
The Start of a US Government Exit from Supporting Coronavirus Shots Development?
by Adam Dick | Feb 26, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Even people who took one, two, or three experimental coronavirus “vaccine” shots during the height of the coronavirus scare are saying “nope” to taking any more “boosters.” Yet, behind the scenes, the United States government has kept funding companies in the...
New HHS Secretary Curtails US Government Role as Drug Promoter
by Adam Dick | Feb 21, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It has been commonplace for so long that most Americans cannot remember a time before the United States government was out running public relations campaigns urging Americans to take this or that vaccine or other pharmaceutical industry product. Now, an early action...
Yves Engler: I’m Being Charged for Responding to Anti-Palestinian Hate on X (Twitter)
by Yves Engler | Feb 21, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
UPDATE: After writing the report below, the Montreal police claimed that Engler was victimizing the police by writing the report below. Engler wrote this update before being taken into custody. Engler says that a new investigator has...
Promising Statement from the Louisiana Surgeon General
by Adam Dick | Feb 15, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In September of 2021, I wrote about Joseph Ladapo speaking “boldly in favor of freedom and against using health fearmongering, including the overstating of dangers from coronavirus, as an excuse to violate individual rights” in the comments he made upon Florida...
President Trump Provides Reason for Hope the Ukraine War May End Soon
by Adam Dick | Feb 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The change in tone is night and day from the Joe Biden administration to the Donald Trump administration. Biden refused to talk with Russia President Vladimir. At the same time, Biden escalated US efforts against Russia, including in the Ukraine War. Trump, in...
Keeping Up with US Sanctions against Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Etc.
by Adam Dick | Feb 5, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It can be hard to keep up with the United States government’s sanctions imposed against countries, organizations, and individuals across the world. There are just so many sanctions against so many targets. And each year it seems that the US sanctions reach expands....
Thoughts On Musk’s Raid Of USAID
by Moon of Alabama | Feb 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced to reconfigure U.S. foreign policy from a unipolar view to a multi-polar concept of strong states. But, as Brian McDonald warns, that does not mean that the U.S. has given up hope of being the biggest dog in...
Seeing the Destruction the Israel Military Has Caused in Lebanon
by Adam Dick | Feb 1, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
British journalist and former diplomat Craig Murray has provided a great service to people around the world in traveling to Lebanon to provide updates on the situation there in the wake of the Israel military’s invasion of the country. Murray’s latest video report,...
You’re On Your Own, Tony…
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 24, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Outgoing president Joe Biden may have given former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci a "pass" in the form of a pre-emptive pardon for any crime he may have committed, including creating or spreading "Covid 19," but he wasn't able to keep the discredited former bureaucrat...
Trump Signals US Government’s Return to Respecting “Freedom to Choose” in American Homes
by Adam Dick | Jan 24, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The choices Americans make about the products they use in their homes can seem trivial in comparison to matters like violent crime, diseases, and war. Yet, these choices are in fact very important. Consider the days of the Cold War when Americans were thankful that...
Putin to Trump: Congratulations on Your Inauguration; Now Let’s Talk.
by Adam Dick | Jan 20, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Joe Biden has stood out among United States presidents in his refusal for years to talk with the leader of the Russia government. This refusal to talk with Russia President Vladimir Putin has been particularly precarious because over the same time period the...
Before Donald Trump Became a Free Speech Hero Regarding TiKTok, He was a Villain.
by Adam Dick | Jan 18, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Luckily for free speech and free press in America, Donald Trump, who is set to be sworn in as president on Monday, seems determined to ensure that the many millions of American TikTok users will be able to continue posting and watching videos at the popular social...
Downsized DOGE
by Adam Dick | Jan 11, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Elon Musk stirred up much hope among many small government advocates when he spoke on stage at Donald Trump’s October 27 presidential campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Musk declared then his expectation that the Department of Government...
May Meta Really Be Turning Away from Censorship?
by Adam Dick | Jan 7, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Saturday I wrote advising that people should be cautious about expecting the promotion of Joel Kaplan at Meta means the company will end, or even make a big reduction in, its censorship at its social media sites of Facebook and Instagram. I stand by my analysis in...
New Censor Replacing Old Censor at Meta
by Adam Dick | Jan 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Some people are optimistic that the promotion of Joel Kaplan to be Meta’s president of global affairs heralds the end of, or at least a big reduction in, censorship at Meta’s social media sites of Facebook and Instagram. This optimism springs from the fact that Kaplan...
Polio Poppycock
by Adam Dick | Jan 1, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“Polio.” That is a common go-to word for trying to silence people expressing any concern about any vaccine. The emotion-centered tactic relies on people having great fear of polio and great reverence for the polio vaccine commonly understood to have vanquished the...
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