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Debt Rattle February 11 2026

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 February 11, 2026  Posted by at 10:54 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , ,  Add comments


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• Trump Called Police About Epstein in 2006 (Weiss)
• Epstein Files: Victims Buried at Zorro Ranch? (Catherine Salgado)
• Musk Shifts Gears: Moon Megacity Beats Mars Colony (Stephen Green)
• US to Fund Free Speech Initiatives in Europe, Trump Official Reveals (ET)
• French Defense Chief Says Europe Has Until 2030 For War (RMX)
• Lavrov: US No Longer Wants To Pursue Its Own Ukraine Peace Proposal (Antiwar)
• Ukraine Launching Arms Exports At Centers Across Europe (ZH)
• Judge Blocks California’s Law Mandating Federal Agents Remove Masks (ET)
• Trump Threatens Blockade of Almost Completed Michigan-Ontario Bridge (CTH)
• Fetterman Breaks Ranks With Democrats, Supports Federal Voter ID Measure (AmG)
• Hollywood Is Sick — but It’s L.A. That’s Dying (Stephen Green)
• New York Post Publishes Long Excerpt From “Rage and the Republic” (Turley)
• Adam Smith and The Importance of Capitalism (Turley)

 


 

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Everybody has the story. But what will they do with it? They just love linking Trump to Epstein.

• Trump Called Police About Epstein in 2006 (Weiss)

Newly unsealed Department of Justice documents reveal that in July 2006, then businessman Donald Trump was one of the first to call police to warn them about sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. The documents include a previously unreported 2019 FBI interview summary with former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter. Trump had contacted the department shortly after reports of Epstein’s criminal sex investigation became public. The future president contacted Reiter to express relief that authorities were finally acting, suggesting his associates in New York had described Epstein’s behaviors as “disgusting,” and advised investigators to focus on Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he described as “evil.” The Miami Herald first reported on the development.


The first mention of Trump in the FBI interview summary notes that he told investigators that he “threw Epstein out” of Mar-a-Lago, something he has maintained consistently over the years. “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump reportedly told the Palm Beach Police Department. “TRUMP told him people in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting. TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN’s operative, ‘she is evil and to focus on her,’ the report continues. The president also noted that he had witnessed Epstein in the presence of teenagers and was apparently dismayed by what he saw and “got the hell out of there.”

This bombshell document release is narrative-busting stuff. Democrats, desperate to land a punch on President Trump with the Epstein files, have repeatedly attempted to tie the two together as close associates. Epstein, the late financier, was convicted of procuring for prostitution a girl below the age of 18 in 2008 and was facing sex trafficking charges until he died, according to authorities, by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019. Maxwell is currently serving 20 years in prison for her involvement in the late billionaire pedophile’s crimes.

The media, of course, is framing the latest revelation not as ‘Trump tried to warn authorities’ but rather, as ‘this contradicts the president’s previous claims.’ From the Miami Herald: “That stands in sharp contrast to what Trump told reporters in July 2019 when he was asked if he had any knowledge that Epstein had molested girls. “No, I had no idea. I had no idea,” Trump said at the time It’s a misleading and dishonest spin, something one comes to expect from the media. Trump’s comment came in direct response to reporters asking if he had any knowledge that Epstein had molested girls. He was denying awareness of Epstein’s crimes or the allegations of molestation/sex trafficking that surfaced prominently around Epstein’s 2019 arrest.

Nowhere in this FBI interview does it indicate he had specific knowledge of the criminal molestation, sexual abuse, or trafficking details that later emerged in the full Epstein investigation or his 2008 plea deal. It’s Trump saying he had heard from others about “disgusting” behavior and how he was so creeped out that he had to remove Epstein from his club. Countless people in Palm Beach social circles noticed Epstein had a pattern of questionable behavior with young women, without having direct evidence or knowledge of the felony-level crimes. Good try, media. Maxwell repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to testify before the House Oversight Committee during a closed-door virtual deposition on Monday. Her lawyer declared that she would “speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump.”

“Both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing,” the lawyer said. “Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to hear that explanation.”

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I don’t think so. But that’s just me.

• Epstein Files: Victims Buried at Zorro Ranch? (Catherine Salgado)

One message in the Justice Department-released Epstein files claims that two girls, victims of the abusive trafficker, are buried at Zorro Ranch after they died as a result of sexual abuse there. Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who died under suspicious circumstances while in jail in 2019, owned one property that reportedly has yet to be raided by federal authorities: Zorro Ranch outside Santa Fe, N.M. Multiple victims have testified to Epstein’s criminal and horrifying sexual abuse there, and multiple powerful men, including a former governor, reportedly visited the place. And an eerie message in the Epstein files seems to indicate that the powerful pedophile was trying to cover up the reason for the deaths of two young women.


Award-winning journalist Catherine Herridge discussed the email and the possibility of investigating the allegations concerning the dead girls with a former FBI special agent and investigator, Jonathan Gilliam. A former staffer at the ranch wrote in the email, “Did you know somewhere in the hills outside the Zorro, two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madame G? Both died by strangulation during rough, fetish s*x.” Madame G is likely Epstein’s partner-in-crime, Ghislaine Maxwell. Herridge mentioned the possibility of video evidence in the case of the dead girls and asked Gilliam, of the allegation, “Could that be investigated at this stage?”

He affirmed, “That could absolutely be investigated. There is no statute of limitations on that, and then also, if they have testimony or some type of witness saying that that is where they were killed, they can then go out and do a search and potentially find a body.” Gilliam did caution, “It’s going to be difficult years later to prove something like sexual assault, but if you can find the evidence that somebody was killed, that’s totally different. And again, there’s no statute of limitations. But, see, this is also, Catherine, why you don’t just say, ‘Oh, that crime that that person committed is dropped off, we’re not gonna investigate that any further.’ [Because] you never know who these loop back around to.”

He went on to say that if, as some victims’ testimony indicates, “this was a society of people abusing women, then, and some of them died, you really don’t know who was connected to them… and who has knowledge of that. So that’s why you would continue to look into all these different subjects.” This “ongoing conspiracy” involves people still prominent in the media, Hollywood, business, and politics. Powerful pedophiles and sex abusers should NOT get away with their crimes just because they are wealthy and influential. What is the point of being a Republic if our oligarchy always evades accountability? We might as well have an official aristocracy. That’s what the Justice Department ought to understand.

Herridge asked if the released email about the dead girls was blackmail. Gilliam warily answered, “It looks like it could be any of several things. It could be blackmail. It could also be that somebody had some type of information, and they wanted to make it known somewhere along the way that they had nothing to do with that. We’ve seen that in other cases.” He concluded, “I don’t think there’s enough evidence at this point for me to say blackmail or not, but is there a possibility? Of course.” Sounds as if federal authorities need to pay a visit to Zorro Ranch.

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“I’d like to die on Mars, just not on impact…”

• Musk Shifts Gears: Moon Megacity Beats Mars Colony (Stephen Green)

“I’d like to die on Mars, just not on impact,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk half-joked to a capacity SXSW crowd in 2013, reiterating the launch company’s core mission of establishing a self-sustaining human colony on the Red Planet within his lifetime — and his lifelong dream of being one of those colonists. It seems almost impossible that just 13 years ago, SpaceX had yet to land a Falcon 9 booster rocket, much less reuse one. Yet since then, the Falcon is now so inexpensive and reliable that it launched more than 150 times in 2025 alone, accounting for more than 80% of all the mass lifted into orbit last year. While no other company has yet to master it, reusable boosters are the norm for SpaceX, and its Starship rocket — still in development — promises to reduce launch costs by at least one order of magnitude.


Times change. So do dreams. “For those unaware,” Musk posted to X (another Musk company) on Sunday, “SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.” “It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.” That’s always been true — orbital mechanics are unforgiving in the extreme — but Starship development stalled badly enough in 2025 that a change in focus was perhaps inevitable.

Musk had hoped to launch multiple Starships late this year on an unmanned exploratory/proof-of-concept mission during the next Mars launch window (the optimal Earth-Mars transfer opportunity using a fuel-efficient Hohmann transfer orbit). But too many technologies and processes remain unproven, including the orbital refueling that makes it possible for Starship to reach Mars. Or even Luna, for that matter. Starship’s unprecedented cargo capacity for deep-space missions is only possible through orbital refueling performed by other Starships acting as LEO gas stations. Direct-transfer windows to Luna — with flight times of just three to five days — open roughly twice per month. The Hohmann window to Mars opens about every 26 months, with a flight time of up to nine months. Another technology SpaceX has yet to fully iterate is crew protection from radiation during such a long flight.

Iteration is the key, and at 54 years old, Musk probably can’t afford the time it will take to iterate Starship for manned Mars missions — certainly not on the scale needed to make life even semi-tolerable for, say, an aging launch company founder “It’s not any easier landing on the moon,” space photographer Andrew McCarthy added, “but once getting mass to the moon is a solved problem Mars becomes so much easier.” Indeed. Musk also said that SpaceX’s core mission remains unchanged, to “extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.” “Aim for the moon,” they say, because “If you miss, you may hit a star.” I’d still love to see human footprints on Mars in my lifetime, but if the alternative is a large and growing American population on Luna, I’ll take it.

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”.. the policy “has got nothing to do with racism” and is “a classic example of how the EU proceeds to amass for itself more powers to regulate orderly life and get involved in politics.”

• US to Fund Free Speech Initiatives in Europe, Trump Official Reveals (ET)

The Trump administration announced plans to direct funding toward promoting free speech in Western allied democracies, a senior State Department official said on Monday. The initiative bolsters efforts to counter European online regulations categorized by Washington as censorship. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers discussed the initiative during a trip to Europe. It includes grants to support free expression, a result of concerns about rules such as the European Union’s Digital Services Act and Britain’s Online Safety Act. These laws, which E.U. officials say aim to deter hate speech and misinformation, have been scrutinized by U.S. officials as restricting the free speech of American tech firms and suppressing immigration policy critiques.


“One way my office is going to operate differently is we’re going to be very forthright and transparent about everything we do,” Rogers said during a panel discussion in Budapest on Monday. She added that her role allows directing U.S. funding through grants, stating, “I want to promote free speech in Western allied democracies, and … that’s what my grantmaking is going to be doing.”Rogers, appearing alongside a top aide to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, underscored the importance of free speech for democracy. “The United States government, via me, but not only me, has been engaging aggressively on the issue of free speech, because you don’t have self-governance without freedom of speech, you can’t have a democratic deliberation if viewpoints are proscribed from the public square,” she said.

Rogers is scheduled to stop in Dublin, Budapest, Warsaw, and Munich to discuss digital freedoms with officials and others. The administration’s December National Security Strategy said that European leaders were censoring speech and suppressing opposition to immigration policies, warning of the continent’s “civilizational erasure.” Rogers said European polls showing European views on migration are similar to those in the United States.The United States imposed last month visa bans on a former European Union commissioner and four anti-disinformation activists. The administration labeled them agents of censorship for working to regulate U.S. social media platforms. European leaders lambasted the bans. They defended the commissioner and activists’ rights to push for regulations on foreign companies operating locally.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed the designations on Dec. 23, 2025. He called the individuals “agents of the global censorship-industrial complex” and blocked their entry to the United States.The European Commission unveiled a new “anti-racism” strategy on Jan. 20, aiming toward a “Europe free from racism” with increased anti-discrimination enforcement and training. The Commission said the training will help civil servants “recognise and tackle racial bias, while fostering greater cultural awareness and sensitivity.” It also requires European educators to “address teacher training and professional development on diversity and inclusion, as well as promoting diversity in the teaching profession itself.”

Eric Kaufmann, a professor at the University of Buckingham, said the strategy “betrays an illiberal moralizing worldview” that could lead to “suppressing free speech and asphyxiating the historical pride and culture of Europe’s ethnic majorities.” Jacob Reynolds of think tank MCC Brussels called it a “slide to cultural socialist ideas.” Reynolds previously told The Epoch Times that he believes that the policy “has got nothing to do with racism” and is “a classic example of how the EU proceeds to amass for itself more powers to regulate orderly life and get involved in politics.”

“This is not [anti-racism], as ordinary people understand it,” he said. “This is the kind of woke [diversity, equity, and inclusion] agenda that has come to dominate the way that lots of civil servants, lots of academics, lots of civil society organizations think.”

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They really want war. Trump really doesn’t.

• French Defense Chief Says Europe Has Until 2030 For War (RMX)

France and Europe have four years to prepare for war, said Fabien Mandon, chief of the defense staff of the French Armed Forces, who cited Russia as Europe’s biggest threat. His speech at a major naval conference outlined that France, as well as its allies, must take into account that this war will break out in the near future and that the French military must be ready by 2030. “Today, we are preparing for war,” he said, according to BreakingDefense. During his speech at the naval conference, Mandon stated that France is not prepared for war and the country had “an insufficient number of ships and armaments.” He stated the nation needs “more missiles with greater range and lethality.”


Mandon recently made headlines for stating that Europeans and the French must be ready to lose children in a war, stating: “You have to accept that you will lose your children,” which is necessary to defeat Russia during a November speech at the National Congress of French Mayors. His words caused national shock, while the representatives of the parliamentary parties protested sharply in connection with his comment. As in November, he named Russia as the main source of the threat of war.

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“Lavrov claimed that the US and Russia came to an agreement on Ukraine during President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s summit in Anchorage, Alaska, back in August 2025.”

• Lavrov: US No Longer Wants To Pursue Its Own Ukraine Peace Proposal (Antiwar)

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said in an interview published on Monday that the US no longer wants to implement a Ukraine peace deal that it previously proposed, the latest sign that there’s little chance the grinding war will come to an end anytime soon. Lavrov claimed that the US and Russia came to an agreement on Ukraine during President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s summit in Anchorage, Alaska, back in August 2025. He didn’t elaborate on the details of the potential deal, but it’s believed to involve Ukraine ceding territory it still controls in the Donbas, a condition included in a 28-point peace plan that was later drafted by the Trump administration.


“In other words, we were told that the Ukrainian issue must be resolved. In Anchorage, we accepted the United States’ proposal. To put it straightforwardly, they proposed, and we agreed – the problem should be solved,” Lavrov told TV BRICS. “The position of the United States was important for us. Having accepted their proposals, we essentially fulfilled the task of resolving the Ukrainian issue and moving toward comprehensive, broad, mutually beneficial cooperation.”

The Russian diplomat said that despite the “positive” summit, the US began imposing sanctions on Russia a few weeks later and has continued the economic pressure. “New sanctions are imposed, attacks on tankers are staged in international waters in violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and India and other partners are discouraged from purchasing affordable Russian energy, while Europe has long prohibited such purchases, forcing them to buy American liquefied natural gas at significantly higher prices,” he said.

Lavrov added that he didn’t see a “promising future in economic terms” when it comes to US-Russia relations. “Thus, in the economic sphere, the United States has effectively declared a goal of economic domination,” he said. Elsewhere in the interview, which focused on Russia’s relationship with other BRICS nations, Lavrov said the Biden administration has turned the US dollar into a “weapon,” prompting Russia and other countries to reduce their reliance on the US currency. “Under the Biden administration, the United States has taken every step to weaponize the dollar against those it considers inconvenient,” he said, adding that the policies have continued under the Trump administration.

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“Moscow’s allegations specify that modern, Western-supplied stockpiles are being used far outside the actual Ukrainian battlefield, and that the illicit trade has enriched powerful Ukrainian officials, while increasing crime and terrorism.”

• Ukraine Launching Arms Exports At Centers Across Europe (ZH)

Ukraine has another money-making idea – instead of begging for urgently needed funds from Western partners, it plans to start exporting weapons, instead of only buying them. But there is a big and unexpected catch to the whole scheme. Flush with external funding connected to the war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced ambitious plans to open ten arms export hubs across the European continent by the end of 2026. Given Ukraine is still an active warzone, and given the likelihood that Russian forces will continue targeting defense manufacturing sites, Ukraine is seeking to have European allies play host to Ukrainian arms production plants.


For example, Ukrainian-made drones are expected to be in production on German soil later this month. Zelensky laid out new details of Ukraine’s move into foreign arms markets, describing it as a long-term economic necessity, in a speech before the Kyiv Aviation Institute on Sunday night. Ukraine’s defense sector rapidly grown as a result of the war, accounting for roughly 7% of GDP, according to July 2025 estimates from the Kyiv School of Economics Institute. “Today we are opening up exports. In Europe in 2026 there will be 10 export centers. These are the Baltic countries and the countries of Northern Europe. In 2026, 10 representative offices will operate,” Zelensky said, as quoted in Reuters.

“This is a [production] line that is already working. The production lines are already operating in the UK. These are Ukrainian technologies,” Zelensky added – though without providing much more in the way of specifics. In essence, Ukraine is seeking to sustain its war effort while locking in a long-term economic leverage by expanding its defense production sector, but in a protected and safe way far from the front lines. Simultaneously, Moscow has complained that Ukraine is already deep in the black market export of arms siphoned off from Western deliveries, which Russian media alleging as follows:

Russian officials have long accused Kiev of fueling global arms proliferation through the black market and have specifically alleged that Ukraine has supplied weapons, including those it received from the West, to militant groups in Africa. Last week, Russian envoy to the UN Vassily Nebenzia reiterated the accusations and told the Security Council that “the Kiev regime is actively involved in… supplying terrorists with weapons, including drones, and training fighters,” citing the Sahel region as an example. Mali’s Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maiga has accused Kiev of supplying kamikaze drones to terrorists. Some serious question remain, however…

Of course, Russian weapons also often make their way to African battlefields. But Moscow’s allegations specify that modern, Western-supplied stockpiles are being used far outside the actual Ukrainian battlefield, and that the illicit trade has enriched powerful Ukrainian officials, while increasing crime and terrorism.

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Keep cops safe, why don’t you.

• Judge Blocks California’s Law Mandating Federal Agents Remove Masks (ET)

A federal district court judge partially blocked a California law barring law enforcement officers from wearing masks in a Feb. 9 ruling, finding the law discriminated against federal officers. District Court Judge Christina Snyder ruled in favor of the Trump administration, prohibiting the state from enforcing its No Secret Police Act—which was scheduled to go into effect earlier this year—against federal law enforcement officers. The federal government sued California, challenging the law as well as with another law—the No Vigilantes Act, that requires federal officers to wear identification. Snyder ruled that the second law was not discriminatory. California had agreed to pause enforcement of the laws, which went into effect on Jan. 1, while the Trump administration challenged them in court.


Attorney General Pam Bondi praised the court’s decision on Feb. 9. “These federal agents are harassed, doxed, obstructed, and attacked on a regular basis just for doing their jobs,” Bondi posted on X. “We have no tolerance for it. We will continue fighting and winning in court for President Trump’s law-and-order agenda—and we will always have the backs of our great federal law enforcement officers.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed both bills into law last year in response to federal immigration enforcement operations in the state. The No Secret Police Act prohibited any law enforcement officer from wearing a facial covering while performing official duties unless the agency employing the officer has a policy regarding the covering. Some exceptions were made for SWAT teams and in other cases.

The No Vigilantes Act requires any law enforcement officer operating in the state to visibly display identification indicating his or her agency and name or badge number when working. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued the two state laws violated the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which mandates that if state laws conflict with federal laws, the federal law takes precedence. The department also argued that the laws violated the intergovernmental immunity doctrine, which prevents federal and state governments from interfering with each other’s operations.The DOJ argued that prohibiting facial coverings and requiring identification put officers’ safety at risk as violent crime against federal immigration officers has skyrocketed in recent months.

Snyder found the No Secret Police Act did not apply equally to all law enforcement officers in the state, and therefore it “unlawfully discriminates against federal officers,” according to her ruling.“Because such discrimination violates the Supremacy Clause, the court is constrained to enjoin the facial covering prohibition. California may not enforce the facial covering prohibition of the No Secret Police Act, SB 627 … against federal law enforcement officers,” she ruled. The judge denied the federal government’s other challenges. The state’s law was already receiving pushback by the largest metropolitan police agency in the state. Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell said his officers would not enforce it.

“The reality of one armed agency approaching another armed agency to create conflict over something that would be a misdemeanor at best—or an infraction—it doesn’t make any sense. It’s not a good public policy decision and it wasn’t well thought out, in my opinion,” McDonnell said during a news conference on Jan. 29.

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He uses Canadians as toys. It’s what you get for electing Justin.

• Trump Threatens Blockade of Almost Completed Michigan-Ontario Bridge (CTH)

Writing on a Truth Social post earlier this evening, President Trump is threatening to block the U.S. side of a new bridge that links Detroit, Michigan to Ontario, Canada: (Truth Social) – “As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually no U.S. content. President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel.


Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just “take advantage of America!” What does the United States of America get — Absolutely NOTHING! Ontario won’t even put U.S. spirits, beverages, and other alcoholic products, on their shelves, they are absolutely prohibited from doing so and now, on top of everything else, Prime Minister Carney wants to make a deal with China — which will eat Canada alive. We’ll just get the leftovers! I don’t think so.

The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup. The Tariffs Canada charges us for our Dairy products have, for many years, been unacceptable, putting our Farmers at great financial risk. I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve. We will start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY. With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” ~PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

The USMCA renegotiation plan likely plays a big part in this announcement. Don’t react, just watch.

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Who doesn’t love him?

• Fetterman Breaks Ranks With Democrats, Supports Federal Voter ID Measure (AmG)

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has broken ranks with Democratic leadership and has come out in favor of requiring photo ID for voting in elections across the nation. Fetterman appeared on the Fox News program “Sunday Morning Futures” yesterday and told host Maria Bartiromo that voter ID wasn’t an “unreasonable” requirement, saying, “It’s not a radical idea for regular Americans to show your ID to vote.”


Fetterman pointed to states like Wisconsin that have similar protections requiring proof of citizenship for federal voter registration and photo ID at the polls. He noted that 60% of voters in Wisconsin support such safeguards, despite having elected liberal justice Susan Crawford in 2025 to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. House Republicans plan to vote this week on the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act with national polls showing 83% of Americans support the measure, including 71% of Democrats. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries continued to decry the SAVE America Act as “voter suppression” and accused President Trump and GOP leadership of trying to steal the upcoming midterm elections by nationalizing them.

Fetterman rejected comparisons of the SAVE America Act to resurrecting Jim Crow laws as Democratic leaders have claimed. The Pennsylvania Senator also broke with his party leadership on the issue of funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which is expected to run out on Friday unless lawmakers can break a deadlock.

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Fetterman came down on the side of border enforcement and said he does not support shutting down the government, saying, “I don’t ever want to vote to shut our government down again.” Fetterman told Bartiromo that he expects Democrats and Republicans to remain divided beyond Friday’s funding deadline.

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“They have what we call the Noah’s Ark problem,” Willems continued, “which is, if they effectuate this deal, they’re going to have two of everything.”

• Hollywood Is Sick — but It’s L.A. That’s Dying (Stephen Green)

Hollywood as we know it is sick — not the kind of sick you might usually think of with the woke agenda pushing, child-actor grooming, and all the rest — but the “sick and dying” kind of sick. Netflix’s Chief Global Affairs Officer warned Monday that Hollywood will suffer billions of dollars worth of job losses if rival Paramount Skydance succeeds in buying Warner Bros. Discovery out from under the streaming giant’s buyout bid. During an interview on Fox Business Network, Clete Willems said, “Paramount has identified $6 billion in synergies in the offer that they made, which is code for $6 billion in job cuts.” “They have what we call the Noah’s Ark problem,” Willems continued, “which is, if they effectuate this deal, they’re going to have two of everything.”


There’s also the matter of debt. The Paramount offer is generous, but requires billions in financing — including personal security guarantees from Oracle multibillionaire Larry Ellison, whose son David runs Paramount. So when Willems says Paramount will “have to cut, cut, cut,” if the studios merge, he’s probably right. But similar downsizing wouldn’t happen when and if Netflix buys Warner, instead? Color me skeptical that Netflix’s bid magically spares the axe — especially when it already churns out content like it’s going out of style (which, quality-wise, it often is). Netflix wants Warner more for its old intellectual properties for streaming than it does for its production facilities or crews.

Netflix already spews out plenty of content on its own, seemingly without much care about actual quality in most cases. The last thing Netflix needs is probably more output; it just needs that sweet, sweet Warner IP to fill the streaming hours. “Cut, cut, cut,” indeed.mRegardless, either buyout likely means the end of Warner Bros. as Hollywood has known it for just over a century — and that, gentle reader, is the absolute least of Hollywood’s troubles. Or maybe I need to rephrase that bit. Maybe Hollywood is the sickness, and Los Angeles is the patient at risk of dying. The Hollywood Reporter featured a telling report in recent weeks, headlined with a dire warning for the City of Angels: “Los Angeles’ Hold on Hollywood Is Slipping.”

When 2025 wrapped, Hollywood tallied up its Los Angeles-based production figures, and the numbers were stark at best. “Superhero movies have fled to London,” HR’s Erik Hayden wrote, and “three major studios (Netflix, Paramount and Lionsgate) have inked expansive deals to build or lease in new production bases in New Jersey; states like Georgia, Louisiana and New Mexico are fighting for their share of projects with generous tax incentives while Illinois is becoming a player in its own right.” The result is that in 2025, there were almost as few productions in L.A. as there were during the panic-fueled COVID lockdowns. Read that again — and it’s close, too. Hollywood’s Los Angeles shoots dropped almost in half during COVID, from over 36,000 in 2019 to just under 19,000 in 2020. Things bounced back almost immediately when the lockdowns ended, right back up to 37k.

But something happened in 2023, and that number dropped precipitously to 24,000. Last year? Just 19,694 shoots in L.A.— barely above the 2020 lockdown abyss, yet it’s boom times anywhere that isn’t business-hostile California. Streaming killed Hollywood’s movie theater cash cow without even pretending to look for a golden goose first. Instead of enjoying a night out at the movies, anonymous Hollywood screenwriting veteran George MF Washington warned in 2022, “streaming subscribers expect a constant firehose of content fired directly into their faces 24/7/365.” Now the largest streamer is about to buy one of Hollywood’s oldest and most storied studios, just as Los Angeles plumbs COVID-era depths of disaster with no relief in sight.

Hollywood is sick, but it might be Los Angeles that’s dying.

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Loooong excerpt.

• New York Post Publishes Long Excerpt From “Rage and the Republic” (Turley)

I am delighted that the New York Post decided this week to run a long excerpt from my new book, “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.” I wanted to share the full excerpt and a clip from the audiobook below. Here is the description and excerpt that appeared in the New York Post:


America’s Revolutionaries: We’re Our Own Greatest Creations, As Tom Paine Proved.
In his new book, “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution,” Professor Turley explores the meaning and future of democracy on the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary. The first half looks back at the unique confluence of people and events that led to the establishment of the American republic.The second half looks forward, exploring whether the American republic can survive in the 21st century in light of changes ranging from artificial intelligence to robotics to global governance systems. Turley believes the American republic is uniquely suited to address those challenges, but it will require a return, not a rejection, of the core values that defined the American Revolution.

Excerpt: “Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.” Those words from journalist Jacques Mallet du Pan during the French Revolution referred to the Roman God Saturn, or Kronos in Greek. Kronos attempted to defy his mother’s prophesy that he would be overthrown by one of his children by them upon their births. When his son Zeus was born, Kronos’s consort Rhea decided to trick him by wrapping a stone in a swaddling blanket and handing it to him to devour. She then hid Zeus on Crete. Once he reached adulthood, Zeus returned and, fulfilling the prophesy, defeated his father. The story of Kronos held obvious meaning for Mallet du Pan, who watched with alarm as the French Revolution devoured first its aristocratic foes and then its own supporters.

It is a story played out over and over again in history as ambition becomes activism, activism becomes extremism, and extremism becomes authoritarianism. Call it the Saturn gene. We are all Saturn’s children with an inherent impulse that rests within each of us: the capacity of all mortals to become monsters. The lesson of Saturn would also be raised in the American Revolution by none other than Thomas Paine. Long before Jefferson put pen to parchment on the Declaration of Independence, it was Paine who would speak of the natural and inalienable rights as the basis for the American Revolution. It was Paine, in his pamphlet Common Sense, who made the case for “independency.” It was also Paine who saw, firsthand, the ability of a revolution to consume itself.

Paine would play a significant role in two revolutions that took strikingly different paths in America and France. Among the best-known figures of the American Revolution, only the Marquis de Lafayette could make a similar claim. Paine learned the dangers of unrestrained popular government in the hardest possible way. It came close to killing him in France. He would learn that what was lost in Paris was precisely what he had left in Philadelphia—a system that could channel tremendous political and economic pressures into a stable Republic.

We are again living in revolutionary times. It is not just classic revolutions where governments are overthrown, but rather revolutions that can change countries from within. We refer to the Industrial Revolution and the Information Revolution to signify the transformative changes that they brought to society. Often those new realities produce countervailing political changes in government. The twenty-first century has seen the acceleration of new technology like artificial intelligence (AI) that is reframing every aspect of human existence. These changes will redefine not just the workplace but also the place of citizens in society at large. The question is whether American democracy can survive in the twenty-first century or collapse under the same forces of democratic despotism that brought down its contemporaries. It is the unfinished story of the American Revolution.

Thomas Paine saw this up close in Paris at the height of the French Revolution. He had been among those voices early on among the French Jacobins who cheered the stripping away constitutional protections to unleash the “general will.” The insatiable appetite of Saturn took hold of the liberators.bFor Paine, the ultimate collapse of his ideals came in December 1793. He had just been stripped of his seat in the French National Convention in a vote of no confidence. In watching the executions in Paris, Paine lamented to a friend, “Ah France, thou hast ruined the character of a revolution virtuously begun, and destroyed those who produced it.”

The long-awaited knock at his bedroom door came on December 28, 1793. There stood five policemen and two representatives of the feared Committee on General Safety. When asked for the charge, they just shrugged. Such details were now largely meaningless in France. It would not be democratic ideals but poor ventilation that would save Paine from joining his decapitated colleagues in Paris. After opening the door to allow more air into the cell, guards missed the chalk mark designating him and his cellmates for death. Paine would soon walk out of the Palais du Luxembourg as the Terror came to an end with the death of Robespierre..[..]

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“The Importance of Capitalism…in the Founding and the Future of the American Republic..”

• Adam Smith and The Importance of Capitalism (Turley)

Capitalism is under attack from classrooms to town halls to voting booths. According to polls, a rising segment of the population is calling for socialism or even communism as young people embrace a radical chic in the country. And this week, another socialist looks ready to join a growing “squad” in Congress. On our 250th anniversary, the fight over capitalism and economic freedom could prove critical to the future of this republic. However, there is an unexpected change that could help reverse this trend. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently announced that one million families have already signed up for the new tax-privileged Trump Accounts, which will be seeded with $1,000 in taxpayer funds for children born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028.


With an anticipated 25 million participants, the initiative is one of the most ambitious and potentially impactful in U.S. history. But its true impact may be far greater than the wealth that it could generate for families. It may just be the determinative factor in preserving this Republic in this century. This month, Simon and Schuster released my new book on the founding and the future of the American republic — “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.” The book asks whether this unique republic can survive in the 21st century amid growing economic, political, and social challenges.

What many celebrating our 250th anniversary do not appreciate is that this is also the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, released around the same time as the Declaration of Independence. The book was not a great success in Great Britain. In addition to its foundational support for capitalism, it challenged the mercantilist policies of the British Empire and supported the claims of the colonies in seeking greater economic freedoms. Smith, however, was immediately embraced by the founders, who saw his work as the perfect economic theory to advance their political theory. Ours was the first Enlightenment Revolution based on a belief in natural rights that came from God, not governments.

Yet, the founders knew that true individual liberty could not be achieved without economic freedom. Smith’s idea of the “invisible hand” offered an idea of individual economic freedom where whole economies were driven by the individual tastes and choices of citizens. The combination would prove transformative, as the U.S. became not only the world’s oldest large-scale democracy but also history’s greatest economy. We will need that combination in the years to come to maintain what I call a “liberty-enhancing economy.” The book looks at the expected impact of new technology, from robotics to AI, in the possible creation of a large population of unemployed, unproductive citizens.

The question is how the likely state support for a large segment of our population will change their relationship to the government, changing the dynamic of what it is to be a citizen. The danger of a “kept citizenry” is that we will lose the essential independence that our founders wanted to instill in new Americans from their government. As we face these challenges, we are seeing a rise in support for socialism and communism in the West. It is the rage among young people who have no experience or memory of the socialist governments that collapsed in the prior century. Their understanding of socialism comes from armchair revolutionaries in colleges and the sloganeering of figures like Zohran Mamdani about introducing them to “the warmth of collectivism.”

That brings us back to the Trump accounts. The insidious aspect of past socialist systems is that their consistent failure often resulted in demands to “double down,” to increase state subsidies, nationalizations, and central planning. For their part, citizens can become accustomed to government support. When socialist François Mitterrand came to power in France in 1981, promising a “rupture with capitalism,” he quickly destroyed the country’s economy. However, he continued to dazzle French citizens with promises of free money, even appointing Andre Henry as the Minister of Free Time to assist citizens in their new socialist leisure.

The same seductive appeal is evident today in the U.S. and other Western countries. Sixty-five percent of Democratic voters have a favorable view of socialism. An even greater percentage of young Britons want to live under socialism, and 72 percent favor nationalization of industries.Capitalism was key to the success of the American Republic, and it will be even more important in the coming years. As jobs are wiped out through robotics and AI, we will have to shift to homocentric jobs and productivity to preserve not just economic but also political liberty. We cannot preserve that liberty as some arts-and-crafts citizenry, entertained with state-subsidized leisure and distractions.

The $6.25 billion gift of Michael and Susan Dell (now augmented by dozens of corporations) could offer the single best hope for the survival of our system. Millions of young people will be able to experience the benefits of investments, savings and, most importantly, economic independence. It has the benefit of being a tangible lesson about capitalism — not simply an abstraction pulled from the pages of the Wealth of Nations. As socialist experiments replicate the failures of past eras, these accounts will offer a stark contrast for a rising generation. It is an investment that must be extended beyond 2028 to inculcate values of economic and political independence in the 21st century.

For young Americans, there has been a continual barrage of anti-capitalist sentiments. However, there is still muscle memory in this country of the gifts that free markets brought to a free people.

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  • February 11, 2026 at 10:54 am #230604
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    Henri Matisse The Blue Window 1913 • Trump Called Police About Epstein in 2006 (Weiss) • Epstein Files: Victims Buried at Zorro Ranch? (Catherine Salg
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 11 2026]

    February 11, 2026 at 12:55 pm #230620
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 11, 2026 at 1:32 pm #230622
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/ambassador-bridge-owner-met-with-white-house-official-before-trumps-post-nyt-report/

    Billionaire owner of Ambassador Bridge met Trump official hours before Gordie Howe Bridge post: NYT report
    By
    CTVNews.ca Staff
    Updated: February 10, 2026 at 8:23PM EST

    After a direct call between Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump, attention is now turning to what comes next for the Gordie Howe International Bridge.

    Carney said he told Trump that Canada paid “over $4 billion” for the bridge’s construction, and that ownership is shared with the state of Michigan, calling the project a “great example of co-operation” between the two countries.

    Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that the Detroit-based billionaire owner of the Ambassador Bridge met with a White House official just hours before Trump posted his threat to halt the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge.

    Also, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is pushing back against the president’s social media threats, saying the Gordie Howe Bridge was made with “union labour” on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.

    Matthew Moroun, whose family has operated the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, Mich., for decades, met with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick just hours before U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block the opening of the nearby Gordie Howe International Bridge, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

    Sources told The Times that Lutnick spoke with Trump by phone about the matter after the meeting with Moroun. The president would post his threats about not allowing the bridge to open just before 6 p.m. ET on Monday.

    The Moroun family has made numerous efforts to stop the construction of another bridge between Windsor and Detroit. Matthew’s father, Manuel “Matty” Moroun, who died in 2020, publicly appealed to Trump during his first term in 2018 to revoke a presidential permit that former U.S. president Barack Obama granted to greenlight construction of the Gordie Howe Bridge.

    February 11, 2026 at 1:48 pm #230623
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “He uses Canadians as toys.”

    toys get played with, tools get hammered.

    February 11, 2026 at 1:50 pm #230624
    Clueless Honky
    Participant

    Raul,
    I just want to celebrate your return. It’s now been over a week of daily TAE posts.
    So glad you’re back and providing this forum

    February 11, 2026 at 1:51 pm #230625
    zerosum
    Participant

    Preparation for a New Strike is Complete
    Zelensky Suddenly “For Peace” & Elections
    MS 2026.02.11


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    February 11, 2026 at 2:29 pm #230626
    Michael Reid
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    February 11, 2026 at 2:35 pm #230627
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 11, 2026 at 3:25 pm #230628
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Taiwan may be moving towards China

    February 11, 2026 at 3:32 pm #230629
    zerosum
    Participant

    Economic Coercion by, Marco Rubio, USA

    Cuba is reaching ‘breaking point’ as fuel shortage worsens. What to know

    Cuba is reaching ‘breaking point’ as fuel shortage worsens. What to know

    By Sean Boynton Global News
    Posted February 10, 2026 1:22 pm

    Cuba had been weathering economic hardship before U.S. President Donald Trump effectively cut off oil shipments to the island by blockading its chief supplier, Venezuela, and threatening tariffs on any country that stepped in to fill the void.

    After the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in early January, Trump predicted Cuba’s government was “ready to fall” next.

    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators at a hearing late last month that “we would love to see a change” in the regime, but added the U.S. wouldn’t “make” that change.

    Cuba had been weathering economic hardship before U.S. President Donald Trump effectively cut off oil shipments to the island by blockading its chief supplier, Venezuela, and threatening tariffs on any country that stepped in to fill the void.

    After the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in early January, Trump predicted Cuba’s government was “ready to fall” next.

    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators at a hearing late last month that “we would love to see a change” in the regime, but added the U.S. wouldn’t “make” that change.

    Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants with deep ties to Miami’s Cuban community, told the U.S. Senate foreign relations committee on Jan. 28 that Cuba’s economic problems are the fault of the government’s decades of mismanagement.

    “The suffering in the rural areas of Cuba are acute and they’re deep, and it’s not because of the embargo. It’s because they don’t know how to run an economy,” he said.

    “How is it the fault of the U.S. embargo that Cuba, one of the world’s largest sugar producers, now imports sugar? Because no sector of their society works. It’s frozen and it’s broken.”
    The White House has labelled Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the U.S. due to the communist nation’s alliances with Russia, China and Iran.

    Trump’s Venezuelan oil blockade, and his Jan. 29 order that countries will face tariffs if they supply oil to Cuba, has further compounded the pain the country is facing.

    Diaz-Canel has imposed emergency measures including shorter workweeks and school days, limited transport between provinces and fuel rationing for essential services.

    “I know we are going to live through difficult times. But we will overcome them together, with creative resilience,” he said during a rare press conference on Feb. 5 where he told residents they must “sacrifice” and “resist.”

    February 11, 2026 at 3:32 pm #230630
    Dr. D
    Participant

    RoanJoke

    You look like a monster. Nailed it.

    “Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement”

    Huh? Shapiro is MAGA?

    “ In an interview with David Remnick, Ben Shapiro discusses his break with figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, and why he condemns President Trump as corrupt yet sticks with him.” The New Yorker

    Oh right. Nope. Shapiro is exclusively Israel, and shoved down our throats. When USAID was shut off, suddenly his viewers collapsed! So strange! He had to sell everything, move into a closet and is still falling! The “New Yorker” doesn’t notice. “Noticing things” is racist.

    “Ukraine Launching Arms Exports At Centers Across Europe

    They keep saying they’re going to build major arms factories in Ukraine. They keep “Not noticing” that Russia will giggle themselves into hiccups bombing them flat they day after they open. Noticing you’re a retard is racist.

    Noticing that you’re not going to run that arms factory on a Honda generator because you have no electric grid is racist. Europe’s going to win this, actually. And Greenland too. With their twelve guys.

    Speaking of, this is our future:

    Totally plausible, glossy presentation of Elon v EU war. With names, dates, presentation. Except it’s all AI, not a word of it happened. (yet). Thankfully they gave specific dates or I would have got up and looked for this in the news. Every day this will happen more often, until…?

    “US No Longer Wants To Pursue Its Own Ukraine Peace Proposal, Kremlin Charges
    “In Anchorage, we accepted the United States’ proposal…”

    Oh absolutely. Too bad we have nothing to do with it. If Mongolia also agreed to the terms it would ALSO have no effect. Because the only two countries are 1) Ukraine and 2) Europe, neither of which were interested. …As everyone expected, but needed to see play out for their fee-fees.

    Thankfully now everyone can go around us now and we can do something useful and relevant for a change. We tried! Call all the peace teams home: Alex Christophoros is going to solve it all now, on his way to Mars.

    “DHS Shutdown Talks Stall As Democrats Reject GOP Offer, Thune Signals Stopgap May Be Needed

    They have passed 5(?) laws and have prevented the seating of 90(?) prosecutors? “Well, my work here is done.” — The Republican Party.

    “Zuckerberg Follows Billionaire Exodus To Florida As California Pushes New Wealth Tax

    Radically Pro-Communist…until the wealthy are taxed. Then Oopsie!!! It didn’t mean ME! I meant the really RICH people, like (looks around…)

    “Macron Reopens Direct Channel With Putin As He Moves To Counter Trump

    Da Fuq? “Manny takes the field in the 4th quarter with 2 minutes to go, because the other guy has been out there the entire game playing (And granted only made 14 points)”. Wow, great counter! What’s your chess like? Leave the room for the first hour until four pieces are left?

    R. Gouviea, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6n2o1t11DMQ
    So much here, as usual, he is a blow-by-blow channel.

    All the things in Georgia, all leviathan, thousands of different scams piled on, everyone saw one step in it, dozens of witnesses report them. Nothing happens.

    MN, No one has the “Master List”. They won’t let it out. Now they say because they are “Editing” the Master List. Ohhhhh! Then it’s not a “master list”, is it?

    Get copies of “A list” accidentally one county lets to through to election rep (MN, R) TWENTY PERCENT of Omar’s county is being challenged. That is the largest in Minnesota, obviously. Not the only one. So that is ONE district of ONE method of fraud. But there’s no fraud in Minnesota! We Leared that.

    So they are locking out the Federal oversight, naturally. As they are editing the lists, the list the Minnesota themselves are not allowed to see is sent out to private contractors for repair. They can see all the names and edit them, the Federal Govt is not. All this is official record. All Congress, Thune, say this is no problem, no SAVE Act, with 80% of the people wanting Some sort of ID. But this is Congress: all the other NON-CITIZENS there are ALSO against voter integrity, and that includes the dual-Israeli ones, although they’re generally more clever.

    Very likely Ilhan Omar was naturalized under false pretenses and committed immigration fraud by the hundreds thereafter. Some of the other examples can barely speak English. They are all against the Constitution and law, of course. But not all: Merkowski from Alaska wants us not to know or care if they’re citizens.

    Tiny sample of immeasurable problems (London and the Globalists) have created for us, planting land mines from sea to sea. Listen to the whole thing, but why? What are my action steps?

    “Lavrov’s message
    The USSA is not our partner for peace: It is our Enemy”

    Odd since Putin’s message seems to be the Opposite. But no one trusts Putin. Putin is an idiot now. Glee for Russia if there is HATE, and winning, but opposing Russia and calling them stupid if it interrupts your HATE. Shrug. Can’t say it’s doing much for your strategic accuracy. Suit yourself.

    New Sachs-Diesen. I shouldn’t have clicked, every minute I get dumber. 1) Things happened in 1890. 2) Trump is being honest 3) This is bad. Sachs hates that we’ve ending the lying; the lying should continue.

    Trump = Teddy Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. Everyone knows that. 2026 = 1954. Obviously.

    “Trump asked: ‘Since you all want me to interfere, why don’t I just invade Venezuela? That’s what you all want, right?’

    ‘No no no!! They all said, ‘That’s all wrong! We all want to DENY we’re ACTUALLY invading Venezuela’

    ‘Oh’ Trump nodded. ” …This asking of simple questions and “noticing things” is very, very very bad. The only thing worse than Asking Questions is telling the Truth, according to Sachs. That’s not what good university people like him do. It’s what Vulgar Construction workers from Brooklyn like Trump do.

    Then Trump wakes up one day, “Just says” Random Guido is President of Venezuela ackshully, according to Sachs. There are of course no other men, forces in all North America which is occupied by only one man. Sachs can’t be arsed to “Ask questions” or “Know things” like a common construction worker.

    He continues, Trump then turns to ALL the UN, ALL international law, ALL other nations on earth. …Who all kneel and with glowing enthusiasm suck our…but nevermind, this is a family show. The fact that they would all obey utter violation of all norms ever, without hesitation or resistance, is the United State’s fault of course. Not one of all 60 countries have a single person with a single mouth. Nope. There is not one lawyer in any of these countries, and zero in the UN, which has no diplomats and no typewriters. They had no choice but to rob Venezuela WITH us, you see! Yup. According to Sachs.

    That’s what their law – of the entire planet – is worth. Sachs is furious Trump exposed that. It’s Trump’s fault, all 60 nations combined couldn’t have basically created the very same BRIICS we have today, and exhibit the same independence we see occurring today. It’s IMPOSSIBLE to have morals, Sachs says. If morals cost anything – even a sternly-written letter – then OBVIOUSLY you cave. These 60 nations combined with double the population and double the GDP of the United States CLEARLY could not have lifted a finger. Don’t you understand?

    Orange Man SAID something: we were all perfectly helpless innocent babes.

    Then it was such a horrible, unconscionable act Orange Man committed that NOTHING HAPPENED. Both we did nothing to Venezuela, and Venezuela couldn’t be arsed to like, open a factory and make those naughty oil system parts we embargoed. That would be “Work” and “Socialists” don’t do that. They are helpless tribesmen, carrying spears and eating raw fish in huts. Orange Men are just naturally, genetically superior I guess! That’s Sachs.

    And in fact the same NOTHING has happened every day from then to now. Biden also did nothing and more of it. But that was the GOOD nothing. Right now the same government is in Venezuela, more firmly than ever, and 1 Million soldiers are NOT there. Much to Sach’s sadness and regret. HOW DARE YOU DO NOTHING, SIR????

    Why, this Nothing = Everything I say!!! All us experts know that!

    Those 60 nations are still almost entirely on their knees, helping Orange Man by doing NOTHING as well. They could have raised and trained 100 million man army and constructed 1,000 Intercontinental bombers by now, but raised exactly ZERO because they care Just. That. Much.

    You see, there is only ONE nation on the planet called Earth, and only ONE man in that nation. No one else on the planet Dirt has any duties or responsibilities for themselves or others.

    And we know this because they all worship and obey Orange Man slavishly all day. What? They don’t? They say he’s bad and they actually oppose him all day? Huh.

    …SO LONG AS THEY GET TO POINT AND COMPLAIN AND NEVER DO ANY WORK. While eating bon-bons on the seaside and raking in crumbs from screwing Africa, Asia, South America, Venezuela too. Funny old world.

    Probably not halfway through the interview. But then Sachs is the most Global Globalist, the one whose “apologetics” make Globalism more possible than any Spanish Inquisition ever made. He says each of these things, ignoring he was the one Raping Russia in 1999, while I read and watched him help it for money and privilege. Every. Day.

    Yes, I was just as appalled and offended then. I didn’t need an Orange Man to wake up to hating Clinton, Bush, and Obama. I did it on general moral principles, and I suggest more people might try it.

    February 11, 2026 at 3:38 pm #230631
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Canadian Bridge: Wow, they somehow forgot the mention that only yesterday Canada refused to certify our new plane and grounded the fleet just to dick with us. We can “Not certify” new things too, Mark. And reporters can remain illiterate, moronic, partisan boobs longer than I can remain solvent.

    MacGregor – Napolitano If only we’d had such a war a year ago and could tell if it must spiral out of control. Iran is going to nuke us with the nukes they’ve never had, I hear.

    Taiwan is China, Xi and all China says. That’s exactly why they are going to attack and nuke themselves, experts say.

    February 11, 2026 at 3:43 pm #230633
    Topcat
    Participant

    Patel: “Nothing to see here, move along…..”.

    I guess when you’re running an Industrial ‘pizza’ operation…

    You need to buy ingredients in bulk

    February 11, 2026 at 4:00 pm #230634
    Topcat
    Participant

    Hey, even SBRs (semi banana republics) require ID to vote.

    Ah’merica isn’t developed enough to even know the difference.

    I had to show photo ID as an old grey haired person yesterday to buy a can of beer at the supermarket.

    February 11, 2026 at 4:07 pm #230635
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Crypto stable coin exodus

    February 11, 2026 at 4:44 pm #230636
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Physical silver shortage

    February 11, 2026 at 4:48 pm #230637
    those darned kids
    Participant

    TERROR THREAT – LEVEL FUCHSIA 2!

    Power & Pushback: Leqaa Kordia is back in ICE detention after being hospitalized and disappeared by DHS

    February 11, 2026 at 5:16 pm #230638
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 11, 2026 at 5:27 pm #230639
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 11, 2026 at 5:46 pm #230640
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    “Lavrov’s message
    The USSA is not our partner for peace: It is our Enemy”

    Odd since Putin’s message seems to be the Opposite.

    Not odd at all, and fully in accord with what Putin said. Putin said that he (representing Russian interests) had negotiated a peace agreement with Trump (who was representing the interests of Russia’s enemy).

    All that Lavrov and Putin are saying now (and they are essentially saying the same thing) is that Russia’s enemies in the West are not agreement capable. That applies now to Trump as well, same as it did to all of the liars who preceded him. Russia knows, and has even publicly stated (diplomatically, of course) that the West is simply not capable of making trustworthy agreements. Okay. That’s just the way it is.

    Therefore, Russia will always negotiate in good faith to form legally binding agreement with it’s adversaries and competitors, but it will not expose itself to harm by actually believing that the West would keep its side of the bargain. That ended forever when the West secretly used the Minsk Agreements as a deceptive mask for building Ukrainian forces for the invasion and fragmentation of Russia for the Great Western Empire of Money (Satanists to the last soul).

    Russia has made its objectives crystal clear in legally binding writing. Look carefully at what they wrote, and expect it to happen that way, because Russia understands the purpose and use of Law and diplomacy better than most, and will stick to that procedure like glue because in the long run it’s what works best.

    February 11, 2026 at 5:54 pm #230641
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Topcat

    I guess when you’re running an Industrial ‘pizza’ operation…

    You need to buy ingredients in bulk

    That’s the darkest sense of humor that I’ve seen in a while, but I have to admit that you just nailed that observation to the door like an indictment.

    February 11, 2026 at 5:59 pm #230642
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Canada Told Trump “We’re Not on the Menu

    February 11, 2026 at 7:07 pm #230643
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Canada Raises Electricity Prices — New York and Boston Face Historic Crisis!

    February 11, 2026 at 7:14 pm #230644
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Michael_Reid

    The implications of that video, if true (and they sure look like it) are absolutely world changing. One does not overtly and deliberately reveal to an adversary that you have TOTALLY captured their security services (which Iran just did to the US and Israel in one swoop) unless and until it is time to demand and get that adversary’s unconditional surrender.

    We should know soon if that is the case.

    I’m re-attaching the video just because it deserves it, and it’s worth watching more than once.

    February 11, 2026 at 7:34 pm #230645
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Canada Just REJECTED Trump’s Craziest Demands Ever — The Fallout Is Already Starting

    February 11, 2026 at 8:11 pm #230646
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    FURIOUS Canada RESPONDS STRONGLY to Trump ATTACK

    February 11, 2026 at 8:26 pm #230648
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Carney’s 5-Move Counterattack Is Breaking Trump’s Tariff War

    February 11, 2026 at 8:29 pm #230649
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Carney is an interesting guy. Evil, but interesting. I don’t see him taking any shit from Trump unless his own handlers tell him to, because on a personal level he isn’t intimidated by the Donald…at…all.

    February 11, 2026 at 9:11 pm #230651
    my parents said know
    Participant

    I think you need sulfuric acid to make jerky, right?
    /s

    February 11, 2026 at 10:11 pm #230652
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 11, 2026 at 10:15 pm #230653
    WES
    Participant

    Phoenixvoice: – SNAP

    Up here in socialist Canada, we call SNAP’s behavior “Rationing”!
    Since demand for “free stuff” is unlimited, governments limit “free stuff”, by demanding that their customers jump through ever more hoops and time delays!

    They naturally assume you have unlimited time and energy to jump through all of their hoops!

    February 11, 2026 at 10:32 pm #230654
    WES
    Participant

    US – Canada Trade:

    Carney, installed by the city of London, WEF, globalists, US congress, etc., is using Canadians as a proxy, just like the Ukraine vs Russia, to battle Trump.

    Like Ukrainians, Canadians will pay the price.
    Obviously, Canadians are just as stupid, as Ukrainians, for allowing our elites, to use us like cannon fodder for someone else’s war.
    So Carney = Zelensky.
    Stupid Canadians = Stupid Ukrainians.

    TPTB don’t give a rat’s ass about what happens to Canadians.
    Whatever happens to Canadians, will be well worth the price for TPTB!

    February 11, 2026 at 10:33 pm #230655
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 11, 2026 at 10:39 pm #230656
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    @ WES,
    When do the Americans invade?
    We might invite them in and make them supper

    February 11, 2026 at 10:48 pm #230657
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 11, 2026 at 11:02 pm #230658
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 11, 2026 at 11:08 pm #230659
    John Day
    Participant

    Pre Watergate Secret World https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/pre-watergate-secret-world

    Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now.
    Do you think “It Can’t Happen Here,” the plot of Sinclair Lewis’s novel about a fascist takeover of America?
    ​ The key point of the brilliant exposé by journalist James Rosen, about information which had been sealed for 50 years, is that President Richard Nixon testified under oath that the most serious threat to his presidency came not from political opponents or the media, but from a covert espionage operation run by the U.S. military’s top commanders—the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
    ​ Rosen takes a long time to present a narrative that sets up the story, but (cut to the chase) here are the core revelations from the newly unsealed seven pages as he reports on the New York Times Oped page (note he is NOT a NYT staffer):
    ​ The “Deep State” Was Real and It Was Military: Nixon revealed that Yeoman Charles Radford was part of a systematic spy ring that stole thousands of top-secret documents from the National Security Council (NSC) for over a year and funneled them to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Thomas Moorer. This was an illegal domestic espionage operation within the White House itself.
    ​ Nixon Considered It Treasonous but Buried It: Nixon and his aides (Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman) viewed the Moorer-Radford affair as “a federal offense of the highest order” and akin to the plot of Seven Days in May (a novel about a military coup). However, they chose to cover it up to avoid:
    ​ Damaging the public image of the U.S. military.
    Exposing other secret operations (like the Cambodia bombings or the China opening).
    Triggering a constitutional crisis.
    ​ The Motive Was Policy Sabotage: The Joint Chiefs spied because they were deliberately excluded from Nixon and Kissinger’s key foreign policy decisions (détente with the USSR and China, Vietnamization, budget cuts). They used stolen information to resist and undermine policies they opposed.
    ​ It Directly Connects to Watergate: The “Plumbers” unit was initially formed to plug the leak that exposed this military spying (the Jack Anderson columns about the India-Pakistan war). The illegal activities of the Plumbers, born from this crisis, later metastasized into the Watergate break-in and cover-up.
    ​ Nixon’s Warning: In his 1975 testimony, Nixon explicitly warned the prosecutors not to “open that can of worms,” referring to the full story of the Joint Chiefs’ espionage. The prosecutors and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft agreed, classifying and sealing those seven pages to prevent the story from coming out.
    ​ In essence, the article argues that the most profound scandal of the Nixon era was not the Watergate burglary itself, but the previously concealed “criminal insubordination” by the nation’s highest military leaders—a true “deep state” operation that Nixon felt powerless to expose. The story draws a direct line from this historical episode to modern political discourse about the “permanent bureaucracy” or “deep state” undermining a sitting president.​..
    ​..Conclusion on U.S. Military Corruption:
    The Moorer-Radford affair reveals a specific, troubling form of corruption: institutional insubordination justified by ideological conviction and protected by claims of national security necessity.
    ​ It shows that:
    ​ The military is not monolithic—factions with different ideologies can engage in illegal activities to advance their vision.
    Checks and balances can fail when civilian leaders fear confronting powerful institutions.
    ​ “National security” can become a shield for corruption rather than a genuine concern.
    Historical accountability is often selective—the most powerful actors frequently escape consequences.
    ​ This case doesn’t suggest the entire military is corrupt, but it demonstrates how even venerable institutions can engage in systematic illegal activity when they perceive existential threats to their influence or worldview. The real corruption may be less about individual venality than about institutional self-preservation and ideological conviction overriding legal and constitutional boundaries.
    ​ The lesson isn’t that the military is uniquely corrupt, but that all powerful institutions—military, intelligence, political—require vigorous, transparent oversight and a culture where whistleblowing is protected rather than suppressed. The fact that this scandal remained buried for 50 years is perhaps the most damning evidence of all about how systemic corruption can be hidden.
    ​ The Pentagon for decades has refused to supply a financial audit mandated by Congress to tell what it does with the billions of dollars it receives. Money which could be financing the next projected coup. And many of members of Congress, of both parties, who ought to demand the audit are bought by arms dealers. Yes, it can happen here.​ https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2026/02/did-you-think-it-cant-happen-here-revelations-of-jt-chiefs-of-staff-spy-operation-against-white-house/

    ​ Escape Key, Epstein III​ – The Intelligence Channel
    At the centre of the architecture is Ehud Barak — former Prime Minister of Israel, former Defence Minister, the man who held direct authority over Mossad, Aman (military intelligence), and Shin Bet during his time in office.
    ​ Running in parallel, the documents reveal a second channel: Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, serving as Britain’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. Together, they gave the operation credentialed access to the intelligence establishments of two Five Eyes nations and one of the most capable intelligence states on earth.
    ​ This essay starts slow. It does so to establish the scene. The documents show an operation that required a former Defence Minister, a serving royal trade envoy, former MI6 and Mossad officers, two former US Treasury Secretaries, the head of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, and the chief science adviser to Bill Gates — all routed through Epstein’s email accounts.​..
    ​..Before 2008, anyone could claim to have met Epstein socially. After the conviction, the registered sex offender was radioactive to every figure with a public reputation. The continued presence of Barak, Summers, Geithner, Gates, Staley, Black, Blankfein, Schwarzman, Frankel, Kissinger, Ruemmler, Thiel, Hoffman, Ito, and Andrew — years after the conviction, with full knowledge of it — requires explanation. These were people with limitless options for social and professional connection, every reason to sever the relationship, and no obvious reason to maintain it.
    ​ The conviction served as a filter: it removed casual acquaintances and left only those for whom the operational value outweighed the reputational cost. But it also ensured that public attention remained fixed on the sex crimes — and never reached the intelligence operation running beneath them.
    ​ Epstein provided Americans and Europeans with a channel to Barak, and provided Barak — and by extension Israeli intelligence — with visibility into the financial, technological, and policy networks of the Western world. The British channel through Andrew gave visibility into Crown relationships across the Gulf, China, and the Commonwealth. The Rothschild channel gave financial architecture and European banking access.
    ​ The function was not unique to the Epstein network. The Podesta emails, released in 2016, appears to document Lynn Forester de Rothschild performing a structurally identical role in the adjacent political network. She is a constant presence in correspondence with Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, organising meetings, shaping economic policy through the ‘Inclusive Capitalism’ initiative, and bridging political operatives to sovereign capital. She emailed Clinton: ‘I remain your loyal adoring pal’.
    ​ Ariane de Rothschild served as the connection between the intelligence and financial architecture documented in the Epstein files. Lynn Forester de Rothschild served the same function for the political architecture documented in the Podesta emails. The family’s position at the junction of both networks is visible in two independent archives that were never meant to be read together…
    ​..In 2024, Israel signed a separate deal with Palantir for AI services to help the Israeli military select targets in Gaza — the company whose founder Epstein routed to Barak, whose board Epstein tried to place Barak on, now providing target selection for Israeli military operations.
    ​ The British dimension runs through Mandelson. In February 2025, Starmer and Mandelson — then still serving as Ambassador — visited Palantir’s headquarters in Washington for a tour, a question-and-answer session with staff, and a meeting with CEO Alex Karp. The Cabinet Office described it as an ‘informal visit’. Mandelson’s lobbying firm, Global Counsel, listed Palantir as a client. He retained a 21 per cent stake in Global Counsel while serving as Ambassador…
    ​..Denmark and Switzerland have both raised concerns that US intelligence could access data shared with Palantir; Switzerland rejected a deal on those grounds. A paid asset in the Epstein network toured the surveillance company’s headquarters with the Prime Minister, the company embedded itself in British defence and health infrastructure, and the freedom of information requests that might explain the connection have been refused.
    ​ The DOJ has released over 6 million pages — 3.5 million in the January 30, 2026 tranche alone — and acknowledged identifying additional responsive material still under review. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche stated that images showing ‘death, physical abuse, or injury’ had been removed. Congress has demanded the remaining names of co-conspirators.
    ​ Only 49 per cent of Americans believe the current administration is not attempting to cover up Epstein’s crimes.​..
    ..The consequences are still unfolding, but a familiar counter-narrative has emerged: Russian intelligence links…
    ​..The pattern is now four for four, though the tally keeps increasing.
    When the DNC emails on Clinton’s illegal, private email server were released in 2016, Russia was blamed — the emails were authentic158.
    ​ When the Podesta emails were released in 2016, Russia was blamed — the emails were authentic.
    When the Biden laptop surfaced in 2020, Russian disinformation was the explanation — the laptop was genuine161162.
    ​ Now, with the Epstein correspondence documenting Israeli and American intelligence channels in detail, the same deflection has appeared on cue.
    ​ The competing claims — Israeli intelligence, French intelligence, American intelligence, British intelligence, the alternate option such as private Rothschild intelligence, or some combination — are themselves an indication that the operation’s scope exceeds any single national intelligence framework.
    ​ The alternate option is not speculative: the Rothschild family operated its own private courier and intelligence network across European capitals from the early nineteenth century, a capability that predated most national intelligence services. The Cambridge Apostle, Victor Rothschild, served as MI5’s wartime liaison and was later investigated as a suspected Soviet double agent.
    ​ The family’s capacity to run private intelligence has never been formally dissolved — and the correspondence documented in these essays suggests it never needed to be.​ https://escapekey.substack.com/p/epstein-iii

    FBI Confirms Vote-Counting Irregularities In Georgia 2020 Election​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-confirms-vote-counting-irregularities-georgia-2020-election​

    Panic Ensues After Trump Orders CIA To Give 2020 Election Intel To ‘Stop The Steal’ Lawyer​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/panic-ensues-after-trump-orders-cia-give-2020-election-intel-stop-steal-lawyer

    February 11, 2026 at 11:10 pm #230660
    John Day
    Participant

    MAJOR BREAKING: Lawmakers say Trump’s personal lawyers — Bondi, Blanche, and Patel — withheld or redacted an estimated 95% of references to Donald Trump in the Epstein files — roughly 950,000 of 1M+ mentions, per staff calculations. If accurate, this is one of the largest political cover-ups ever carried out against the public.​ https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2021313247354532283

    ​ Why USrael-Iran war is inevitable
    There are a few more things to take into account: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Epstein files. The former requested to move his meeting with Trump at the White House to next Wednesday, 11th February 2026, instead of the originally planned date the week after, as reported yesterday by Al Mayadeen, citing Israeli Channel 12. Of course, you can easily imagine what the agenda of the meeting is: war with Iran. Netanyahu will try and convince Trump by hook or by crook that he needs to request Iran to give up on its ballistic missile program and its support to the factions of the Axis of Resistance (Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah, etc.) or face war. If he cannot convince Trump tactfully, he will resort to threats and, more specifically, to release even more damning material against Trump and other US government officials from the Epstein files.
    ​ Listen carefully to what former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe recently said to Afshin Rattansi on “Going Underground”:
    “In my opinion, if there’s a real deal between the Americans and the Iranians and it’s going towards that, Netanyahu will try to sabotage it.
    One of the ways he’d sabotage it is by putting out Epstein’s material against US government officials, including Trump… and he’d put it out there.
    New material that wasn’t seen before… in public.​ […]​ Not just Trump, other officials too.”​ https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/why-usrael-iran-war-is-inevitable

    ​ M.K. Bhadrakumar, Odds are 8-1 Trump won’t start a Gulf war​
    Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu always made sure he led Trump from the rear. But all that has become irrelevant today. Iran has made it clear that Israel will be in its crosshairs from day 1. But then, the Israeli spy agency Mossad and the CIA are openly interfering in Iran’s recent protests, and they even boasted about it openly. Israel, which already had a first-hand experience of the scale of destruction that Iran can inflict even in a sub-par performance with one hand tied behind its back, fears retribution. In fact, Israel now prioritises in its threat perceptions Iran’s missile development programme over its nuclear programme. Again, the Israeli claims to have vanquished the forces of resistance aligned with Iran — principally, Hamas, Houthis and Hezbollah — turn out to be far from the reality. The resistance groups are regrouping and Iran continues to work with them.
    ​ On its part, the US too has developed some healthy respect for Iran’s indigenously developed missile and drone technology…
    ​..Last week, Iran briefly took the veil off one of its new underground ‘missile city’ operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to display Khorramshahr-4 in the heavy ballistic missile class, with an operational range of 2,000 kilometers capable of delivering over one ton of explosives. Khorramshahr-4 reportedly reaches speeds of up to Mach 16 outside the atmosphere and approx. Mach 8 within it. “With a total flight time estimated at 10 to 12 minutes, Iranians have warned, all US military bases in the region will be targeted.
    ​ This is a paradigm shift. The US’ military superiority is in no doubt but the risk of suffering loss of American lives becomes exceedingly high and that will be politically costly for Trump as the 2026 US midterms on November 3 are already looming large. Loss of control over Congress is a high possibility as things stand and a Middle Eastern war will be the ultimate clincher.
    ​ The threat of wars hovers over the negotiations in Oman, but the good part is that Trump called the talks to be “very good” and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian responded that they “constitute a step forward”. Iran has categorically ruled out any deal that denied its right to enrich uranium and refuses to discuss its missile development programme. Nonetheless, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi responded that Iran is seeking to have US economic sanctions lifted in exchange for “a series of confidence-building measures concerning the nuclear programme.” The day after Araghchi spoke, Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said Tehran may consider diluting the 60% level of its enriched uranium stocks if all sanctions were lifted in return.
    ​ Meanwhile, an inflection point is arising as Netanyahu is due to be in Washington through Wednesday. It is entirely conceivable that Netanyahu, who faces elections later this year, will put pressure on Trump to expand the scope of nuclear talks with Iran to include limiting ballistic missiles and “ending support for the Iranian axis,” as Netanyahu’s office said over the weekend. Such a demand is a non-starter, out of sync with the growing reality that the military option against Iran as such may be nearing the point of exhausting itself.​ https://www.indianpunchline.com/odds-are-8-1-trump-wont-start-a-gulf-war/

    ​ Hours-Long Netanyahu Meeting Concludes Away From Cameras, Trump Committed To Iran Talks
    President Trump met with Netanyahu for a reported 3-hours at the White on Wednesday, away from the cameras and with no press briefings either before or after. Trump later indicated that nothing definitive was reached on the Iran matter other than “I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue.”
    ​ “If it can, I let the Prime Minister know that will be a preference. If it cannot, we will just have to see what the outcome will be,” he stated in a Truth Social post. “Last time Iran decided that they were better off not making a Deal, and they were hit with Midnight Hammer — That did not work well for them. Hopefully this time they will be more reasonable and responsible.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bibi-seeks-us-muscular-action-iran-seventh-meeting-trump

    Trump Holds Off On Option To Seize Iranian Tankers, Fearing Sharp Oil Rise​ https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/trump-holds-option-seize-iranian-tankers-fears-sharp-oil-rise

    February 11, 2026 at 11:11 pm #230661
    John Day
    Participant

    So add 3000 to the confirmed death count? Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
    Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/10/israel-used-weapons-in-gaza-that-made-thousands-of-palestinians-evaporate

    ​ Those are the water tanks the Israeli military detonates in order to exacerbate thirst and collective death in Gaza.
    This is why Doctors Without Borders is being banned from the occupied Palestinian territory in violation of the Genocide Convention.
    ​ Quote​ MSF International​:
    ​”We provide clean water to over half a million people in Gaza. Paula Navarro explains how we accomplish this and reminds that if we, and other NGOs, are forced to stop working in the enclave, hundreds of thousands of people will lose access to drinking water​.” https://x.com/PeruginiNic/status/2021282553777283388

    ​ EXCLUSIVE: Marco Rubio Is Deliberately Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks
    The Secretary of State has told the president that talks are happening with high-level Cuban officials. No such talks exist. Purported negotiations in Mexico? Actual fake news.​ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubio-is-deliberately-blocking

    Cuba’s capital airport declares jet fuel unavailable as energy crisis deepens​ https://www.flightglobal.com/air-transport/cubas-capital-airport-declares-jet-fuel-unavailable-as-energy-crisis-deepens/166260.article

    Venezuela Ships First Crude Cargo to Israel as Oil Exports Reopen After Maduro’s Ouster​ https://archive.vn/4KIsT#selection-1173.0-1173.87

    February 11, 2026 at 11:12 pm #230662
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Colonialist resource-extraction: The port of Chancay: a dramatic boost for extractivism in South America
    The port of Chancay is not just a major infrastructure project; it is a key hub connecting South America with China that could alter the course of trade, investment, and geopolitics in the region. This paper shows how this megaport, financed primarily by Chinese capital, is reshaping transport routes and opening the door to new investors and large foreign conglomerates in areas where agribusiness is booming. Under the renewed promise of “development,” South America risks deepening the primary-export model and, with it, conflicts over land, water, and relationships with local communities.​ https://www.cadtm.org/The-port-of-Chancay-a-dramatic-boost-for-extractivism-in-South-America

    ​ John Helmer, POPEYE AND THE ANCHORAGE FORMULA – KREMLIN NEEDS MORE THAN SPINACH TO FIGHT THE US AT SEA
    Made public for all to see, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has just declared that escalation of the US war at sea against Russia’s trade routes and shipping fleets is the “opposite” of the Anchorage formula which President Vladimir Putin and his spokesman insist is still “fundamental [to] move the settlement process forward and allow for a breakthrough.”
    ​ The Russian Navy is on Lavrov’s side. Kirill Dmitriev and the Russian oligarchs are with Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov.
    ​ According to Admiral Alexander Moiseyev – submariner, former commander of the Black Sea and Northern Fleets, now chief of the Russian Navy – the Navy’s role must now be to “ensure maritime economic security, freedom and safety of navigation, protect economic interests, and prevent the loss of civilian vessels and growing threats to the Russian Federation.”​ https://johnhelmer.net/popeye-and-the-anchorage-formula-kremlin-needs-more-than-spinach-to-fight-the-us-at-sea/#more-93384

    ​ I would be dead by now: In Ukraine, deaths from hypothermia rise as Russia attacks energy system
    At least 10 Ukrainians have died from cold-related illness as Moscow’s assaults cut heat to thousands.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/in-ukraine-deaths-from-hypothermia-rise-as-russia-attacks-energy-system

    ​A referendum on peace with Russia and nationwide elections were reported: Zelensky’s Office Quashes False ‘Rumors’ Of National Election For Spring https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelenskys-office-quashes-false-rumors-national-election-spring

    ​ Von der Leyen seeks to break key EU pillar
    Member states should work on economic matters in small groups in the absence of unanimity, the European Commission president has said​ https://www.rt.com/news/632274-eu-von-der-leyen-suggests-workaround-unanimity/

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