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President Trump's newly installed attorney general, Pam Bondi, has ordered the transfer of a federal inmate to Oklahoma so he can be executed, following through on Trump's executive order to more actively support the death penalty. Bondi this week directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer inmate George John Hanson, 60, so that he can be executed for his role in the kidnapping and killing of a 77-year-old woman in Tulsa in 1999. “The Department of Justice owes it to the victim and her family, as well as the public, to transfer inmate Hanson so that Oklahoma can carry out this just sentence,” Bondi told the BOP's director. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who sought Hanson's transfer last month, praised Bondi's swift action. He requested Hanson be transferred before Oklahoma's next execution on March 20 so that he would be eligible for the next available execution date, likely in June. Hanson was sentenced to death in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, after he was convicted of carjacking, kidnapping and killing Mary Bowles after he and an accomplice kidnapped the woman from a Tulsa shopping mall. Hanson has been serving a life sentence in federal prison in Louisiana for several federal convictions, including being a career criminal, that predate his state death sentence. Drummond’s predecessor, John O’Connor, previously sought Hanson’s transfer and sued the Bureau of Prisons in 2022 after it refused to turn over the inmate to state custody during the Biden administration. The agency’s regional director at the time, Heriberto Tellez, said the transfer was not in the public interest, a decision Drummond called “appalling.”

The Department of Energy under the Trump administration announced that it is postponing the implementation of the Biden administration’s efficiency standards on household appliances. The efficiency standards for household appliances including central air conditions, washers and dryers, walk-in coolers and freezers, general service lamps, gas instantaneous water heaters, commercial refrigeration equipment, and air compressors is postponed. “A top priority for President Trump is lowering costs for American families. Today’s announcement will foster consumer choice and lower prices — it is a win for all Americans. The people, not the government, should be choosing the home appliances and products they want at prices they can afford.” Secretary of Energy Chris Wright The Department of Energy also announced that it is creating a new energy efficiency category for natural gas tankless water heaters. By creating a new category for these popular and low-cost water heaters, they are exempt from the Biden-Harris administration’s onerous rules. President Trump previously revealed that he is instructing EPA Secretary Lee Zeldin to return to his “Environmental Order” regarding “Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES” and other appliances, which former President Joe Biden terminated. “I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe. I look forward to signing these Orders.” In July 2023, the Biden administration cracked down on water heaters by “imposing greater efficiency standards.” The Biden administration also created new guidelines on ceiling fans, which were reported to cost manufacturers $86.6 million annually.

Last month at the winter retreat of BMT Investor members in Monaco, we discussed this matter and decided on neutral stance. Reason being, we expect the market to perform significantly better under President Trump than it did over the last four years. At this juncture, BMT Investors COO Barry Holden wisely has us heavily invested in energy including oil and natural gas, and President Trump has demonstrated a willingness to work with America's energy industry to the benefit of our positions.

President Trump signed an executive order Friday establishing a White House energy council to promote the nation’s energy industries. Called the National Energy Dominance Council, the group is headed by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin also serving on the council. It’s tasked with centralizing the nation’s energy policies under the eye of the White House and underscores Trump’s position that American energy production is a pressing national security issue. “Energy security is also national security. President Trump’s vision for energy dominance is that we’re selling energy to our friends and allies, not having them buy it from our adversaries.” "President Trump wisely understood that under the Biden Administration, there was a war against American energy, and today that war has officially ended. President Trump on day one declared a national energy emergency, and this is a real emergency because the Biden Administration restricted the production of oil and natural gas." Interior Secretary Doug Burgum

President Trump said on Friday that he planned to move forward with tariffs on foreign cars on April 2. He did not specify how much the tariffs would be or which nations could be targeted. The President has complained particularly about European tariffs on American cars. The European Union charges a 10 percent tariff on the American vehicles it imports, while the United States charges a tariff of only 2.5 percent on European cars (Lyndon Johnson's chicken tax, a holdover from 1964, does apply a 25 percent tariff on imported European light trucks).

Did anyone know that USAID was spending $697 million on Afghanistan annually? AND, in addition to that, sending $40 million to $80 million in cash every 7 to 10 days ??? .

You read my mind. I was just telling a friend exactly that. It’s clearly suspiciously ridiculous.

USAID........$2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam...........How does that help America ??? .

You pegged it. Never before has the government been upfront with the masses in our lifetime.

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The Democratic party (deep state, George Soros Inc ?) are clearly scared to death of Kash Patel becoming the FBI director. He comes across as an extremely savvy, capable and confident individual.

The Department of Government Efficiency website. (Check it daily) https://doge.gov/ “In fact, our actions… we post our actions to the DOGE Handle on X and to the Doge website. So all of our actions are maximally transparent. In fact, I don’t think there’s been, I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Elon Musk

The State Department of the Trump administration will designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and calls for their complete eradication. The decision was made as Mexico continues to experience unprecedented levels of violence, including the widespread use of landmines and improvised explosive devices, despite empty government claims that crime has decreased and impunity has ended. Designated cartels include the Sinaloa Cartel, Cartel Jalisco New Generation, The Gulf Cartel, The Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas (Northeast Cartel), Carteles Unidos, and Familia Michoacana. The designation includes the Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha and the South American Tren De Aragua. The New York Times says the list includes the Colombian criminal organization Clan Del Golfo. In Mexico, the cartels receive protection from the Tamaulipas government, and Mexico’s federal government. In addition to mass killings, widespread kidnapping, and torture, each of the six cartels has also been linked to the indiscriminate use of explosives and some of them to the use of land mines. All the organizations have a long history of receiving government protection, and legal protection, with Mexican judges routinely releasing captured cartel figures.

You meant to say that Biden illegally tried to forgive student loans. What is the core purpose of a student? Answer: learning. Thus, students with loans should be taught that paying back one's loan is mandatory in life. By cancelling student loans, Biden in essence taught students it is possible and okay to not pay off one's debts.

No, the Trump administration is not using the same playbook as the Schumer & Schiff Democratic team.

On Thursday, Washington DC Biden-appointed Judge Amir Ali ordered that funds for hundreds of foreign aid contracts be reinstated, saying the decision to suspend funding for 90 days while conducting a thorough review of each contract and its validity has not been justified or rationalized. Elon Musk immediately hit out at the ruling. "Lawfare has gotten out of control. They have been planning the lawfare against the Trump administration for 2 years. They have 800 lawyers and 280 civil service organizations. They were pre-interviewing plaintiffs in November of 2024. That is not me saying this. That is the New York Times saying this." "This constitutional crisis narrative has been planned in advance and is being executed because they have hundreds of lawsuits planned." Elon Musk

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) increased grants for illegal aliens from 2020 to 2024, spending more than $22 billion in taxpayer dollars on grants that included money going toward vehicles, home loans, and startup businesses. The agency’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), handed out $22.6 billion to a host of nonprofits, which attracted illegal aliens crossing the border. The amount of non-citizens eligible to obtain funding that derived from ORR under the majority of Biden’s administration soared significantly, with over $10 billion handed out to grant-receiving organizations in just 2023 alone. Meanwhile, the United States experienced record-setting numbers of illegal border crossings, as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehending 2.4 million illegal aliens during that time. Non-government organizations swindled up to $1.7 billion from U.S. taxpayers for services “including dollar-for-dollar matching savings plans for cars, homes, college educations or startups; small-business loans of up to $15,000; loans to repair credit history of up to $1,500; ‘cultural orientation,’ ’emergency housing support,’ legal assistance, and Medicaid care.” But most of the funding went toward unaccompanied migrant children — committing $12.4 billion over five years — despite whistleblowers sounding the alarm and calling out ORR for handing over many of 300,000 children in its care to unvetted and abusive sponsors. For an encore, ORR lost track of 32,000 illegal alien children.

This is why I don't like parties. Today's Democrats, unlike those of the distant past, are not about representing the voice of their constituents as Louisiana's John Kennedy does (I like Rand Paul as well). They appear to be getting some benefit(s) for ramrodding today's Democratic party's absurd narratives, substance that none of them actually believe in or care about. That said, today's Republican party lacks a majority of high caliber individuals. No more Newt Gingrichs. I was taught in school and college that our system of government had congress members representing the voice of their constituents back home. But that's rarely the case. So I say do away with the massive distraction of political parties.

But this is about far more that tariffs. That they are targeting countries that place VAT on U.S. goods is huge.