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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 1/29/26

30 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis and this is the Breaking News. We're going to talk about how it appears the United States is imminently going to invade or attack Iran. Trump and the regime are calling it their big plan, and it appears that a military strike may be imminent, whether that means it's in the next 24 or 48 hours or in the next week or so.

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All signs are aligning that there does appear to be a military strike that's going to be taking place. Now, you'll recall that back in, what, last June, when the Trump regime attacked Iran, they said that all of the nuclear facilities were absolutely obliterated. Remember, that was the word they used, obliterated.

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Chapter 2: What is the imminent military action involving the U.S. and Iran?

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Well, now they're saying that Iran needs to agree to stop enriching uranium and stop building nuclear facilities. So I guess it wasn't obliterated. And remember, at the time, the Midas Touch Network was saying all of the intelligence saying it's not actually obliterated. And

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You know, yeah, I mean, we struck Iran, we used stealth bombers, but it didn't seem to achieve the military objectives that Trump claimed at that time. And so here we are. We'll talk more about that. Talk about the Trump regime.

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Further attacking Canada, seems that there are secret meetings taking place where the Trump regime is meeting with these fringe separatist groups from Alberta, who may also be working with Daniel Smith, the Maple MAGA leader.

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leader of Alberta and trying to perhaps hatch a plan for Alberta to secede from Canada as Donald Trump is increasingly jealous and angry at the success of Prime Minister Carney, whose approval rating there is through the roof and who has really become a leader of the free world people in Canada.

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And the Midas Maple out there are absolutely livid at this latest plan by Donald Trump to try to get Alberta to secede. It seems treasonous and traitorous. It is very similar to what Putin tries to do in the Donbass region and how Putin tries to annex and take over territory. We'll cover that in some detail as well.

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Talk about what's going on here in the United States, where we appear to be on the eve of another government shutdown. You know, magma... sent all of the MAGA Republicans and the whole House of Representatives in general home for another vacation, which was a ridiculous thing to do, knowing that we were approaching a government shutdown.

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It appears that in the Senate there may be a deal being made regarding an appropriations package there where the Department of Homeland Security funding, which funds ICE and Border Patrol, may be kind of carved out and removed from the package that they're seeking to pass to keep the government funded and then deal with

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what the Senate's going to do with the Democratic demands as it relates to ICE and Border Patrol. You all know my feelings. ICE and Border Patrol should be abolished. Not only that, all these people involved in the terrorizing of our community should be prosecuted in addition to abolished. I think, you know, the Democrats are talking about or

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Some Democrats in the Senate are talking about, oh, we'll take off the mask, have some stipulations that they can't wear their masks and body cams and things like that, which to me does not even go anywhere close to what should be done. But let's just assume they reach a compromise in the Senate, which would piss us all off, but just assume they do. The House of Representatives is adjourned.

Chapter 3: What secret meetings are taking place between Trump and Canadian separatists?

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raid the Fulton County election offices to take the 2020 ballots with the Director of National Intelligence. Then you have people like Sidney Powell, one of the biggest election conspiracy theorists out there, posing for photos, laughing. In the American people's faces, her and Ed Martin were together. And Ed Martin's a top DOJ person who's obviously part of the team coordinating this.

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You have all of that going on. And then you have Donald Trump making posts like this, accusing former President Obama of treason. This is a post for Donald Trump. Treason. Trump stuns reporters after declaring Barack Obama will face justice. Or how about this post? This is a post right here from the President of the United States, though it pains me to say this. This was a post last night.

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Maybe it's time to shut the fuck up and let him cook. Shut the fuck up and let him cook. That's a post from Donald Trump, a repost. Then you had Donald Trump posting videos from Dr. Oz. Dr. Oz has been in L.A., recently. And the same way the Trump regime's been attacking the Somalian community in Minnesota, you have Dr. Oz of Turkish background in LA attacking the Armenian community

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And he stands in front of the Lavash Bakery in Los Angeles and says, this right here is the center of where the fraud is committed. The Armenians with their own dialect. Look at what they're involved in. Look at what they're out there doing. They're doing the health care fraud and the hospice fraud. That's just the same playbook that they did against Somalians. They're doing it in L.A.

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And they're saying, look what we did to Governor Walz. We attacked Governor Walz. Let's attack Governor Newsom the same way by going after the Armenian commuter. And he's like, look what happened over there. A $16 million fraud was committed by this Armenian group with this fake hospice. And they were prosecuted by the DJ. They were prosecuted. Unfortunately, Dr. Oz,

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There is crime and you don't have the individual who commits the crime as a proxy for an entire nationality. So yes, there have been crimes committed by lots of different people from lots of different ethnic and national and religious groups and people get prosecuted. That's what law and order is.

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But in 2026, to see Dr. Oz standing in front of a bakery and pointing around and saying, look what we're going after. We're going after the Armenians now. The Armenian community is absolutely living in pissed and, you know, As a former litigator in Los Angeles, I work closely with a lot of Armenian lawyers. I've worked closely with a lot of Armenian doctors.

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And these people are pissed right now at what Oz and Trump are doing. And while all of this is going on, too, there was also a post from Donald Trump last night on social media where he again called Alex Preti a domestic terrorist. And that's, you know, that's the new tone. Remember people like, oh, there's a new tone taking the new tone. It's like, what do you mean new tone?

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What are you talking? You think Tom Holman is a new tone? Kava bag, kava bag guy, right? 50,000 in a kava bag, which he denies, but refuses to talk about it. Refuses to produce the allegedly video of it. That's the guy who you say is new tone. By the way, Homan has been in Minnesota now.

Chapter 4: How is the U.S. government preparing for a potential shutdown?

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Not officers, not members of the community and not the targets of our operations.

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I warned you there would be bloodshed. I warned you there would be bloodshed. Well, if you're sending in ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo, 3,000 of them, and you're causing the bloodshed, and people are upset and peacefully protesting, what do you think is going to happen when you're the cause of the bloodshed? While all of this is taking place, I'll show you this video right here.

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I mean, the MAGA Republicans are not even just having a let them eat cake moment. I mean, they have another one of these eyes wide shut parties at Mar-a-Lago. Did you see this? These showgirls.

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in these like balls that they have like on the pool with their legs like legs spread open inside latest mar-a-lago bash with showgirls and champagne hours after ice killing like that's what they're doing in mar-a-lago right now that's what you have nikki minaj being given trump gold cards because she's i guess she was undocumented and

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boyfriend and her family have all these heinous things in their backgrounds and so she's been saying i'm the number one trump person and she gets a gold card because i think she was undocumented and then she meets with maga mike johnson maga mike partying with nikki minaj while our government's about to shut down like again i could say can you imagine

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If Akeem Jeffries, could you imagine if Biden, can you imagine if Obama? You can't because what we're discussing here is it's such vile and weird, disgusting conduct by these magas. Here, let me just show you here. This is Nicki Minaj.

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hugging MAGA Mike Johnson, while Congress is in recess, while our government is about to be shut down, while America is apparently about to go to war with Iran, after going to war with Venezuela, after bombing Nigeria.

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Here, let's play this clip.

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He said, I almost wore that coat today. I'm so glad I didn't. Nicki Minaj hugging Maga Mike, the height of just weird. And I'm not just pointing this out to be like, look, weird people, although clearly weird people. The American people are struggling right now. The American people are suffering right now.

Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's actions on Canadian sovereignty?

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How do we use the federal government to help build rather than destroy? Imagine if we had all of that. Well, then certainly we wouldn't be in a situation where you have Trump's approval ratings at 37, 38%, where the Americans absolutely despise everything about this regime. And then there's the gaslighting where Trump, we went to Iowa.

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where Republicans are very vulnerable in a lot of those seats in Iowa. We've been covering those special elections in Iowa where Democrats have flipped plus 21 Trump districts and plus 10 Trump districts. Remember those races, Mark Zimmer, Caitlin Dre and others. So that's one of the reasons Trump went to Iowa and the people weren't buying what he was selling in Iowa.

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But here he says, you're not hearing about the word affordability anymore because I fixed it. Listen to him say that. Let's play this.

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And they come up with this word affordability. And I saw it even, although you're not hearing it so much anymore. You know why? Because the prices are coming down so much. They don't want it to be an election based on lower prices. But we're bringing down the lower, I like that term better. It's the lower prices. We're bringing them down. But you're not.

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But you're objectively not. Especially when it comes to people's healthcare costs, home energy costs. You're not. Beef is at an all-time high. You go into the grocery store. If you all have the same reaction I do, you go and you buy the normal groceries you would buy. You're checking out. And maybe you bought 15 things. 15 things. Because you realize this is going to be expensive.

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And then show up on the line and it goes beep, beep, beep, which starts to sound like a heart monitor. And then at some point for you, it just flatlines. It goes beep when you see what it is. And it's like $295 or 300. It's always 312. It's like $312. I'm like $312. There's a milk. There's some cereal. There's maybe some chicken. And I go, how did this add up to 312?

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And you literally go to the person in the cash register. Go over with this one more time. You know, and it's not getting better. And Trump said that he would fix it, that everything would be better. And it's not. And it's not at all. When we come back, we have a lot more to discuss. I want to remind you, make sure you hit subscribe here.

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Chapter 6: How is the Trump regime affecting healthcare and the economy in the U.S.?

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Among them is the so-called big plan, which would see the U.S. strike regime and Islamic Revolutionary Guard facilities in a large-scale bombing campaign.

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less involved options include strikes on symbolic regime targets allowing space for bombings to ramp up if iran doesn't agree to end its nuclear work or options such as cyber attacks on iranian banks and tougher sanctions the officials said now don't you all remember this press conference donald trump jd vance marco rubio pete hegseth

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They went out June 21st, 2025, and they said, mission accomplished, that Iran's nuclear facilities were obliterated. And all the media ran with it. Obliterated. That was the headline on the newspapers. Obliterated. We won. We did it. It's another lie. Just to remind you, this is from June of last year. Let's play that clip.

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The U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.

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Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.

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Except they were not completely and totally obliterated. And also, Trump said that he was going to take immediate action if Iran killed any of the protesters. And Iran killed thousands of protesters. And then Donald Trump took no action. And instead, he said that it was very respectful that the Ayatollah agreed not to hang an additional 700 protesters. Very respectful.

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That was the word Trump used. Very respectful. You see, Trump had moved the aircraft carrier group out in order to do the invasion of Venezuela. So America didn't have the capacity to strike then while Donald Trump told the protesters, go out there. I just want you to think about that. Trump told the protesters, go protest the Ayatollah. We've got your back.

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While we quite literally didn't even have the capabilities to have the back of the protesters. Trump's armada, as he calls it, was in the Caribbean and had to go all the way closer to Iran, which is where it's at now.

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And so here we are, approaching February, and at any moment's notice, tonight, tomorrow morning, we will likely find out that there's another war taking place, and it will likely follow the same cycle. There will be strikes. There'll be an announcement that there was a victory that was achieved, that this was a great victory. Don't believe your eyes when you see everything else.

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