🇺🇸 Blackwater founder Erik Prince has suggested that Trump issue “letters of marque” to American PMCs so that they can attack targets outside the United States.

In an interview with Breitbart News, he said that these “privateers” could be used to combat drug cartels in Mexico and Latin America.

The last letter of marque in the United States was issued after Pearl Harbor in 1942 – to a blimp operator who began hunting Japanese submarines. Introducing something similar today by presidential action that would grant a private organization a “license to hunt.”

This would help stop the flow of drugs and human trafficking across the U.S. border.

The cartels make a lot of money, which allows them to buy very good equipment, highly qualified specialists, and modern weapons. They outgun Mexican law enforcement agencies.

📎 Lord Bebo

🇺🇸🇻🇪 300,000 Venezuelans Lose Protected Immigration Status: Trump Official Says Program Is 'Contrary To The National Interest'

The NYT, citing a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) order that has not yet been made public, indicates that Venezuelans who received TPS in 2023 will be unprotected within 60 days after the government publishes the document.

The current TPS, which allows more than 600,000 Venezuelans to work and reside legally in the United States, expires on September 10, 2025.

https://www.elnacional.com/mundo/the-new-york-times-trump-revocara-tps-para-300-000-venezolanos/

🇺🇸💸 "Can someone ask The Don to start taxing remittances at 99%"

📎 Taylor Day

🇺🇸🇲🇽 "The loss in 'remittances' to their home countries will be immense. $63 Billion to Mexico alone."

📎 Wayne Stebbe

🇺🇸🇵🇦 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on X:

"I met with Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino and Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha Vásquez to make clear that the United States cannot, and will not, allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue with its effective and growing control over the Panama Canal area. We also discussed efforts to end the hemisphere’s mass migration crisis and ensure fair competition for U.S. firms."

📎 SecRubio

🇫🇷⚡️France to Double Its Defense Budget — Macron

🇨🇴🇺🇸 Colombian President Petro calls Trump a fascist and compares him to Hitler:

“This attitude of criminalizing population groups for profit is exactly what Hitler did with regard to the Jews.”

📎 Clash Report

💰📉 Bybit CEO says that in the last 24h total market liquidations were way more than $2B, estimated to be around $8-10B and call for more transparency:

"I am afraid that today real total liquidation is a lot more than $2B, by my estimation it should be at least around $8-10b. FYI, Bybit 24hr liquidation alone was $2.1B, As you can see in below screenshot, Bybit 24hr liquidations recorded on Coinglass was around $333m, however, this is not all of the liquidations. We have api limitation on how much feeds are pushed out per second. From my observation, other exchanges also practice the same to limit liquidation data. Moving forward, Bybit will start to PUSH all liquidation data the same way as we push out all other data. We believe in transparency."

https://x.com/benbybit/status/1886392616411168890

@FelipeChannel

🪙💵❌ The Government Says Money Isn't Property—So It Can Take Yours

As a lawyer who sues the government, you get used to the different kinds of arguments that government lawyers use to justify abuses of individual rights—sweeping claims of government power, bad-faith procedural obstacles, and more.

This was a new one: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued that confiscating $50,000 from a small business did not infringe the business' right to private property because money is not property.

"Money is not necessarily 'property' for constitutional purposes," the government's brief declared—putting the very idea of property in square quotes. Reading at my desk, I practically fell out of my chair.

https://reason.com/2025/01/31/the-government-says-money-isnt-property-so-it-can-take-yours/

@FelipeChannel

#BREAKING

🥇📈🚀GOLD spot hit a new All Time High over $2829/oz!

@FelipeChannel

🇺🇸🇵🇦 Secretary Marco Rubio:

"Yesterday's announcement by President Jose Raul Mulino that Panama will allow its participation in the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative to expire is a great step forward for U.S.-Panama relations, a free Panama Canal, and another example of POTUS' leadership to protect our national security and deliver prosperity for the American people."

📎 SecRubio

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Mexico's president says tariffs will be PAUSED for 1 month after her discussion with President Trump.

As part of pausing tariffs, Mexico will:

1. Deploy 10,000 national guard troops to help secure border

2. Work with US on "security and business"

📎 The Kobeissi Letter

🇮🇱📞🇵🇦 | Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced he spoke with Panamaian Foreign Minister today

I spoke with Panama's Minister of Foreign Affairs Javier Martínez-Acha Vásquez.
We discussed a number of issues and I thanked him for Panama's support for Israel after the October 7th massacre.
I expressed my desire to continue strengthening our bilateral relations and we agreed to soon meet in Israel. 🇮🇱🇵🇦

🇺🇸🇵🇦🚢 US Says Its Navy Ships Will Have Free Passage Through The Panama Canal After Marco Rubio's Visit

US Navy ships will go through the Panama Canal for free, an American official said following Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit to the Central American country during the weekend, Bloomberg reported. Panamanian authorities did not comment on the claim.

Panama's canal authority did say late Sunday that it will "optimize transit priority" of US Navy ships through the waterway. It is one of the concessions made by President Jose Raul Mulino following the visit from Rubio, who had warned of "consequences" if the country did not take actions regarding what the US has described as China's large influence over the canal.

While Trump made threats of taking control of the canal from the Panama Canal Authority, Mulino said Rubio made "no real threat of retaking the canal or the use of force."

The Panamanian government also said it will not renew a memorandum of understanding with China regarding its "Belt and Road Initiative," the country's project to finance infrastructure projects across several continents.

https://www.latintimes.com/us-says-its-navy-ships-will-have-free-passage-through-panama-canal-after-marco-rubios-visit-574420

🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱❗️ | The Trump administration is preparing a massive military aid package for the State of Israel worth about $1 billion, which will include at least 4,700 2,000-pound bombs

🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱❗️ | President Donald Trump will meet with Prime-Minister Netanyahu tomorrow reportedly to discuss annexing parts of the Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to the de jure territory of the State of Israel.