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US politics polling on President Trump's popularity... Meanwhile polling regarding the Democratic Party gives it strongly negative... "finish the job" President Trump says that Israel... Facebook and Instagram forced to ban political advertising in the European Union... Iran holding a 'serious, frank and detailed' discussion with Britain, France and Germany... It's Saturday in Taiwan where recall elections are underway for 24 members... After two days of clashes Cambodia saying it wants an 'immediate ceasefire' with Thailand... A Reuters report says that entrepreneur Elon Musk shut down Starlink... ...federal judge in Illinois throwing out a US Justice Department lawsuit against that...

"The President of the United States must be allowed to protect America against those who are it Economic and Financial harm"...President Trump... Tonight, Israel ordering a mass evacuation in northern Gaza... The FBI arresting a Defense Intelligence Agency employee suspected of attempting to send national defense information... The US pulling back from cooperation with Israel on attacking Iran... A missile fired from Yemen taken down... Israel launching air attacks in Lebanon... A US federal appeals court allowing President Donald Trump's tariffs to stay... US President Donald Trump commuting the six life sentences of convicted Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover... Four...

Newsdump Alert: US Justice Department Cuts Non-Prosecution Deal With Boeing Over Deadly 737Max Crashes... Close to President Trump lately US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina where Boeing has major interests... I took a call last week on behalf of this charity in Israel and made a donation to it as I have in the past... Back in the 1990's Rush Limbaugh became a major personality he got an almost week-long tour of Israel meeting top officials on the Left and Right... Its Easy To Get Angry About Politics On The Internet And Everywhere Else I read incitement to hate...

Federal District Judge James Boasberg holding an emergency hearing this evening...Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union also asking for Supreme Court... Meanwhile a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington DC putting a hold on an earlier contempt order from Judge Boasberg... ...federal district judge ordering that a detained Turkish doctoral student... Al Jazeera reporting 64 killed in Israeli attacks... Hundreds believed dead in Congo after a wooden ship caught fire... The Pentagon making official...pullout of a large part of the US military...in Syria... US President Donald Trump on the phone with British Prime Minister... In the Netherlands...

Democrat US Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland meeting the imprisoned Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador... Tonight in Israel anger from some hostage families... In the Central American nation of Belize an American man killed in a small airliner after he attempted... British politics Reform UK leader Nigel Farage touting the latest... US Central Command announcing the destruction of a major fuel depot in Yemen... Four killed another seriously injured in Italy when a cable car... Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff is... The Emir of Qatar visiting Moscow and meeting Russian President......

Clashes between riot police and protesters in Athens... Three federal inmates suing...medical care for transgender... A firing squad executing convicted double murderer... A British newspaper "The Telegraph" alleges that US President... Yemen's Houthi leader giving Israel a four-day deadline... Israel airstrikes in southern Lebanon... Actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy died of natural causes... A mission to rescue army troops in South Sudan failed when a UN helicopter was attacked... Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari resigning his post following controversy... President Donald Trump saying 250 percent tariffs could be imposed on Canadian... Federal grants to Columbia University...rescinded....

Alberta, Canada...sentences of 120 and 90 days...truckers blockade...COVID... South Korea police field commanders meeting ahead...second attempt to arrest...impeached President... US CIA Director William Burns says "quite serious" hostage negotiations...Hamas in Gaza... Injuries reported in Kotovsk, Russia after Ukrainian drones crashed... Federal prosecutors want a 15-year prison sentence...former US Senator Bob Menendez... Thousands protesting on the streets of Slovakia against government...Robert Fico... in another nation close to Russia, Serbia, a 'student-led' street protest... US intelligence estimates that the "Havana Syndrome" illnesses experienced by US diplomats and... Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin... California Governor Gavin Newsom... Ukraine's cutoff of natural gas supplies...

President-Elect Donald Trump says that a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is being set up... German politics Elon Musk holding a conversation with Alternative for Germany leader Alice Weidel ahead of the February 23rd election... In Venezuela opposition politician Maria Corina Machado arrested for a short time, then freed...Donald Trump warning... In a 5-4 decision the US Supreme Court allowing sentencing of President-Elect Donald Trump... In Belgium the Ministry of Health advising people with respiratory infection symptoms to wear face masks... 500 million dollars more in US military aid for Ukraine... Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russia is 'interested...

A missile from Yemen intercepted over Israel early Friday...Video showing an explosion on impact in a populated area... The FBI releasing new video of a suspect wanted for planting pipe bombs near Democrat and Republican headquarters... An Israeli attack on defense facilities in Syria... Following a report by a prominent Ukrainian journalist Ukraine's government investigating mass desertion... Two killed 18 hurt when a small plane crashed into a building in Fullerton, California... In South Korea a massive police deployment (2,700) for the arrest of impeached and suspended President Yoon Suk-Yeol. Authorities entering his residence...An Army unit initially resisting...the Presidential Security...

A Ukrainian drone attack early Saturday in Russia's Voronezh... Oklahoma's Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond dropping charges of excessive force... Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan turning down an offer...house arrest... 1.25 billion dollars more in military aid for Ukraine... Late tonight a missile attack alert for Jerusalem and nearby areas... President-Elect Donald Trump urging the US Supreme Court to pause the looming TikTok ban... US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warning about federal spending...debt ceiling limit... The United States imposing sanctions on the founder of the ruling party in the nation of Georgia... The Prime Minister of the African...

"Because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven, to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace" Luke 1:78-79 NIV Bible The first song today is from Sir Cliff Richard... Russia-Ukraine the warmup for the main event and how will Donald Trump impact the trajectory... 1. I get the impression that Luigi Mangione may beat all these charges... 2. The United States is pushing, prodding and provoking nations... A brief China Update we are moving from...

The US Navy dropping charges against two Navy SEAL officers... President Biden got it absolutely wrong...some children took their own lives..."...Democrat Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro reacting to Joe Biden's pardon... In Miami real estate broker Tal Alexander ordered held without bail...sexual assault and sex trafficking...prosecutor warned Alexander may flee...Israel... Israeli television news program says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was told about Israel's vulnerability to attack... President-Elect Donald Trump lining up...pushing for an end to Daylight Savings Time... A massive Ukrainian drone attack...fuel fire...Russia's Oryol Region... A US appeals court rejecting a bid by social media app TikTok to stop...

The US Defense Department announcing the successful test of a hypersonic... Rising tensions in the conflict between Israel's legal system and elected government... Reports of sexual harassment and assault at the three major US military academies... An explanation for 'drone drama'... word that a new prime minister will be appointed tomorrow by President Emmanuel Macron... new Israeli airstrike reported in Gaza tonight with at least 20 killed... Brazil's President Lula da Silva recovering after a second surgical operation this week... A Wall Street Journal report claims that President-Elect Donald Trump wants European troops...cease-fire...Russia and Ukraine... Israel sees an opening to...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking of giving up land to Russia in exchange for joining NATO... Supporters of Pakistan's opposition PTI party held funeral prayers in Washington DC...in memory of those killed in the opposition protest... The attack launched by jihadists in northwestern Syria...accompanied by denial of access...Russian Aerospace Forces killed 200 of the jihadists in air strikes...40 percent of western Aleppo under jihadist control... Russia's Defense Minister Andrey Belousov in North Korea... In Tbilisi, Georgia tonight opponents of the government...again marched on parliament... Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Florida meeting President-Elect Donald Trump... Canada's Gross Domestic Product slowed...

In Los Angeles no immediate decision to release Erik and Lyle Menendez... Two elderly Israelis hurt in a late-night rocket attack... Two Syrians hurt in an Israeli air attack... Tonight, President-Elect Donald Trump promising tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico...Mr. Trump's statement triggering a phone call tonight from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau... Prosecutors in France asking for a maximum 20-year prison sentence for Dominique Pelicot in the "Mazan rapes" case... Tonight Israeli officials noting no concrete certainty of any ceasefire materializing as it appears Israel, France and the US will say they agree... Biden Administration Special Prosecutor Jack Smith...drop...

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum nominated...Secretary of the Interior... Donald Trump nominating several of his lawyers to key positions in the US Justice Department... Claiming two Iranian officials as sources the New York Times saying that Elon Musk met... Tensions tonight as Israel and France played a soccer match... The RFK Jr. Nomination To Donald Trump's Cabinet... Israel's Attorney General sending a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling him to consider firing...National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir... Leaders of parties in...Netanyahu's government rejecting any attempt to declare him 'temporarily unfit' if Mr. Netanyahu has to testify at his corruption...

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee activating the National Guard... air raid alert early Saturday morning in Kiev... Tensions in Bolivia...former Leftist President Evo Morales and current President... 11 wounded when a rocket struck a home late tonight... Legal filings about abuse at the US Coast Guard Academy from 22 former cadets... Israeli attack...in Gaza...five reported dead... The British Anti-Islamization Activist Tommy Robinson moved...Belmarsh Prison...Woodhill Prison... US intelligence community getting involved in the US election saying that a video... US military adjusting its presence in the Middle East... In Israel suspects have been arrested...connection leaking of documents...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office......

In Lebanon Hezbollah says it's transitioning to 'a new and escalatory phase' in the conflict with Israel... A judge in Texas agreeing to a request from state legislators to pause the execution of Robert Roberson... US federal charges against a former Indian intelligence officer over an alleged assassination plot involving a Sikh... Russian Aerospace Forces continuing attacks in Syria on jihadists... The United States sanctioning two Chinese companies along with a Russian company and its leader...linked to... Five Israeli soldiers killed, three others seriously wounded in fighting with Hezbollah... A 52-page report saying the United States Secret Service has "deep...

Iran reaffirming its right to retaliate against Israel... Joe Biden on the phone...Egyptian and Qatari leaders...talks to be held on a ceasefire hostage release... Late tonight Israel shooting down a drone near the port city of Haifa... The US military says a leader... A major part of the federal charges against two former Louisville police officers...Breonna Taylor thrown out.. At least five US Secret Service agents placed on administrative leave... Former Boeing employees say the Ethiopian Airlines 737Max plane that crashed...electrical problems that were concealed... A deadly knife attack in Germany... An Israeli air attack in the Hama Region of...

Well, here we are its vacation week your host on the road thankful and grateful to the Lord giving me another day to keep the road trip moving forward some of the geography I've visited reflected in the music above. Gasoline Prices In The USA At the start of the week gasoline in Somerset, Pennsylvania 375.9 a gallon. At the week's end gasoline on west side of Knoxville, Tennessee 275.9 a gallon. In Taxylvania our gasoline tax can be bumped up by a decline in wholesale gasoline prices... On a brighter note I visited this place during the week... RFK...