{"id":189672,"date":"2025-02-16T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=189672"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:45:22","slug":"heartland-patriots-hold-february-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/02\/16\/heartland-patriots-hold-february-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartland Patriots hold February meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why pursue Greenland and the Panama Canal?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the question the Heartland Patriots examined at their February meeting.&nbsp;They used the Glenn Beck podcast as their main source of information.&nbsp;Greenland is the largest island in the world, home of 56,000 people, mostly Inuits.&nbsp;It has many untapped resources, including some rare earth minerals. It is still owned by Denmark, but has been seeking its independence.&nbsp;The United States has troops there, making it the U.S.\u2019s northernmost air base.&nbsp;According to Beck and the Heartland Patriots, the U.S. needs it for national security reasons, and cannot allow it to fall into the hands of either China or Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The U.S. took over the Panama Canal project in 1904, and opened the canal in 1914.&nbsp;It took 10 years to build and cost $375 million, the most expensive construction project ever at the time. It is 51 miles long.&nbsp;The U.S. continued to control it until 1977, when President Jimmy Carter signed it over to Panama.&nbsp;It took the Panamanian government 22 years to completely take it over.&nbsp;40 percent of the world\u2019s cargo ship traffic goes through the canal, avoiding sailing all the way around the tip of South America.&nbsp;It turns days into eight hours. The U.S. is Panama\u2019s biggest trade partner, although China has a huge influence there.&nbsp; There is currently a bill, the Panama Canal Repurchase Act of 2025, to authorize President Donald Trump to negotiate with the Panamanian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Heartland Patriots invite the public to attend their next meeting at 7 p.m.Tuesday March 25, at Wesley Methodist Church in Van Wert.&nbsp; The group plans to have a speaker address some of the possible new health regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information Why pursue Greenland and the Panama Canal?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is the question the Heartland Patriots examined at their February meeting.&nbsp;They used the Glenn Beck podcast as their main source of information.&nbsp;Greenland is the largest island in the world, home of 56,000 people, mostly Inuits.&nbsp;It has many untapped resources, including some rare earth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyles"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 06:02:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189673,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189672\/revisions\/189673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}