Daily News Digest - Summary for February 20, 2026
‘No expense has been spared’: Inside a luxury jet DHS wants to buy for “deportations” (and Kristi Noem’s travel)
‘No expense has been spared’: Inside a luxury jet DHS wants to buy for “deportations” (and Kristi Noem’s travel)
DHS leadership says the department needs the jet for immigrant “deportations” and Kristi Noem’s travel.

Etienne Note: This article also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime’s control of the “Government,” Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_Scams
Etienne Note: This is how the organized crime “government” is living at your expense and they think the population is so brain dead that you are going to believe that this luxury plane is going to be used for “deportation flights”
By Julia Ainsley, NBC News
WASHINGTON — An executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.
DHS recently began leasing the Boeing 737 Max 8, which DHS officials have described as a luxury jet, but now Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking approval from OMB to purchase it for $70 million, according to two DHS officials involved in the request. ICE told OMB that it would be used for deportations and travel for Cabinet officials, the two officials said…
Tariffs paid by midsize US companies tripled last year, a JPMorganChase Institute study shows
Tariffs paid by midsize U.S. businesses tripled over the course of past year, new research tied to one of America’s leading banks showed on Thursday

By JOSH BOAK
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tariffs paid by midsize U.S. businesses tripled over the course of past year, new research tied to one of America’s leading banks showed on Thursday — more evidence that President Donald Trump ‘s push to charge higher taxes on imports is causing economic disruption.
The additional taxes have meant that companies that employ a combined 48 million people in the U.S. — the kinds of businesses that Trump had promised to revive — have had to find ways to absorb the new expense, by passing it along to customers in the form of higher prices, employing fewer workers or accepting lower profits…
The Great Automotive Deregulation?
Late last year I wrote an article for this website titled “What Has the Government Done to Our Cars” decrying the way decades of excessive regulations have changed America’s automobiles for the worse

by Brad Pearce
Late last year I wrote an article for this website titled “What Has the Government Done to Our Cars” decrying the way decades of excessive regulations have changed America’s automobiles for the worse. Now, just months later, in what EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is billing “the single largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States,” the Donald Trump administration has killed the “endangerment finding” which allowed the EPA to regulate “greenhouse gasses” as a threat to human health due to the risk of “climate change.” On top of this, the administration has reduced MPG requirements while Congress has removed penalties entirely, making those a “recommendation,” not a requirement. A New York Times article panicking about this modest bit of freedom, titled “With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules” provides fascinating, and frankly chilling, insight into the minds of regulators and “experts…
Ten Tenets of Human Respect
A tidy summary of our doctrine as we navigate our way in the world.

by Max Borders
At Human Respect Labs, our dual mandate is to advance the philosophy of Human Respect or expand people’s ability to self-govern. The following set of tenets represents our commitment to both approaches and provides a clear heuristic for thinking through potential projects.
- Happiness is each person’s fundamental mission in life, but each must find it in his or her own way. Given this, we must vigorously pursue our own ends and leave others free to pursue theirs as they choose.
- Threatening or harming the innocent in their person or property deprives them of happiness. So, we should first refrain from harming others, and then endeavor to protect the innocent from anyone who would harm them…
New Study: US Military Meals Contaminated with Toxic Pesticides, Banned Veterinary Drugs, Heavy Metals
American Soldiers are Consuming Food Below USDA Standards and Dangerous Levels of Primarily Chinese Pesticides Related to GMO Foods Banned by China and Russia Militaries

Etienne Note: Debilitating the troops is one of the dozen+ sub-techniques used on the military that I discuss in my book To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many. It is one of dozens of unethically manipulative techniques that are used starting from childhood in the government schools, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorers, etc. to create a class of people that will set their morality aside and agree to use violence against peaceful people for the “government”. The troops are also injected with debilitating vaccines, kept on brain damaging caffeine (coffee and Rip It “energy drinks”) that suck the oxygen out of the brain, kept drunk with low-cost alcohol from officer/NCO clubs and exchanges, and suffer brain damage from the constant adrenaline of “door kicking” and convoy dangers in war zones. Pilots and others are given methamphetamines and modafinil. It has been rumored for generations that the services are using salt-peter and/or bromide in the food to reduce libido during “basic training” which the services deny BUT a 2013-2014 study found that one in three young military men (33%) had erectile disfunction vs. 7% in the civilian population. Finally, the services debilitate the troops with toxins from the burn pits, low-level blast exposure during both training and combat and the unnecessary use of depleted uranium munitions that were only intended for “Hail Mary” contingencies like stopping a Soviet armor blitzkrieg across the Fulda Gap in Europe not shooting Iraq Armor like fish-in-a-barrel with 100% air superiority.
By Zen Honeycutt and Michaela Bardossas
In previous testing of school lunches and fast foods, Moms Across America (MAA) found a concerning number of meals containing harmful contaminants, many at alarming levels. In fact, the Health Research Institute Laboratory Chief Scientist, John Fagan, stated, “The test results of school lunches show more toxins than nutrients.” School lunches fall under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Agriculture.
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