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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sounded more like a populist leader than a former central banker during his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20. Bemoaning the "fading" of the rules-based order, Carney delivered a surprisingly blunt speech. "The old order is not coming back," he declared. "We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition." In this new reality, he warned, quoting Thucydides, "the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must."

Steve Bannon has clarified the real target of Trump’s ICE/Gestapo Wave of terror:  the 2026 election.

Nationwide polls and early special elections indicate a likely massive public rejection of the Trump madness.

But this regime won’t tolerate any outcome that would hand Congress to the Democrats.

So it’s launching a Gestapo attack on the electorate.  

From Hitler’s Nazis to advanced totalitarian states to fascist juntas in Third World nations throughout history, the agenda is clear:  crush democracy.

The ICE killings and terror from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to Charlotte to many other cities, campuses and rural reaches throughout the US are anything but random.  They are the early stage of a coordinated dictatorial assault on the mid-term vote scheduled for November.

Trump has fantasized about cancelling that election altogether.  If he could, he would.

 But America’s popular and institutional resistance might run too deep.

To start GREEP Zoom #255 we visit with HEDY TRIPP in St. Cloud, followed by her own state rep.

From DR. MELISSA BIRD we get the latest news from Oregon’s anti-ICE resistance.

Radio host LYNN FEINERMAN tells us that ICE is assaulting our democracy 24/7.

Co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces us to the great progressive US REP RO KHANNA (D-CA).

Rep. Khanna pledges to help stop funding ICE while also phasing out the Diablo Canyon nukes & lower rates in CA.

From Atlanta RAY MCCLENDON reports on the FBI raid against the election facility in Georgia.

Congressional candidate DR. MELISSA BIRD asks Rep. Khanna to consider Indigenous rights against the ICE attack.

MN State Sen. ARIC PUTNAM, Chair of the Ag Committee reports ICE attacks against the East African community.

With her brother kidnapped, MN resident MA ELENA GUTIERREZ reports on ICE’s gestapo tactics first hand.

From STEVE CARUSO we hear a report on the illegal intervention of spy chief Tulsi Gabbert.

Co-convenor MYLA RESON reminds us that Donald Trump personally called into the FBI raid against the raid against GA elections.

In recent weeks, the United Arab Emirates has begun to put forward an initiative concerning the management of civilian affairs in the Gaza Strip after the war through organizing economic and service sectors, managing markets and commercial activities, and establishing logistical centers for distributing goods within the Strip.

What is striking about this initiative is that it was not presented within a comprehensive Palestinian or Arab framework but rather through direct talks with the United States and Israel, in a clear attempt to obtain their political and security approval. This suggests that the administration of Gaza is a matter to be decided in consultation with the occupying power and its main ally, not with the people of the land themselves.

One’s morning ritual has become something unpleasant over the past year. Opening up the computer homepage after breakfast invariably brings up the image of the Orangeman who unfortunately is otherwise known as the president of the United States of America. The person in question, who goes by the name Donald J Trump, is invariably scowling, radiating hatred, and raising his tiny fist to express his willingness to pummel anyone who has offended him in thought, word or deed. The accompanying article usually describes how he is ready to fire someone in the government or punish a journalist for failure to bow and scrape when they are dealing with the imperial presence of the self-described “Man of Peace.” Occasionally, when on a roll, Trump threatens to kill either an “enemy” or even an entire group or nation full of people if they offend him. He justifies his savagery by his assertion that he possesses some kind of high level but indiscernible personal “morality” which permits him to claim that “I can do whatever I want!”

A group of House Republicans has formed the Sharia Free America Caucus to address the influence of Islamic Sharia law in the United States. They argue that Sharia is not simply a religious code; they see it as a political and legal system that conflicts with the U.S. Constitution. The caucus intends to advance legislation. One key proposal is the No Sharia Legislation.

Those who are advocating that 3.5 million Muslims in America want to impose Sharia law on the rest of America are either ignorant, liars, or both. Most polls show that American people are not truly concerned by the potential spread of Islamic Sharia.

Sharia is to Islam what Halachah is to Judaism and Canon law is to the Catholic church. So why single out Muslims? The Republican Party preys on people's fears and depicts Muslim Americans as if they are evil or snakes hiding in the grass waiting for the next move and as such constitute a threat to our homeland security.