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Debt Rattle February 12 2026

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• Elon Musk Vows To Establish A MOON CITY Within 10 Years (MN)
• Economy Adds 130,000 Jobs in January, Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.3% (CTH)
• Trump Orders CIA To Give 2020 Election Intel To ‘Stop The Steal’ Lawyer (ZH)
• 30 Years Later Massie Discovers Les Wexner Was Associate of Epstein (CTH)
• Steve Bannon Messages About Trump Included in the Epstein File Release (CTH)
• The Trump Admin Just Won the Mask Decision . . . Now it Should Appeal (Turley)
• Jordan Opens Bondi Hearing By Railing Against Sanctuary Cities (JTN)
• Lawmaker Probing J6 Worried US Capitol Police Intel Politicized vs GOP (JTN)
• Munich 2007: Putin’s Warning To The West (RT)
• Russia Will Stick To Nuclear Arms Limits If US Does The Same (ZH)
• All the Media’s Men: When Journalism Became the Story -Part II of II (Wilson)
• Texas Judges Strategize Ways to Block DHS From Enforcing Immigration Laws (CTH)
• ‘No Privacy’ CBDCs Will Come, Warns Billionaire Ray Dalio (CT)

 


 

 


 


Musk ponders his own mortality. He won’t make it to Mars in time to be the first settler.

“Priority Of SpaceX becomes a self-sustaining lunar metropolis to safeguard humanity’s future..”

• Elon Musk Vows To Establish A MOON CITY Within 10 Years (MN)

Elon Musk and SpaceX are charting a bold new course for American space dominance, prioritizing a thriving city on the Moon to shield civilization from earthly perils like natural disasters or geopolitical chaos. With frequent launches and rapid iteration cycles, the Moon offers a practical launchpad for multi-planetary life, free from the constraints of overregulated space agencies that have stalled progress for decades. SpaceX’s announcement comes amid a renewed push for lunar exploration, where private enterprise is outpacing sluggish international efforts.


According to reports, the company aims to establish a “self-growing city” on the Moon within a decade, leveraging the proximity for hundreds of test cycles that Mars’ distant orbit simply can’t match. Musk elaborated on X, stating, “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.” He emphasized the logistical edge: launches to the Moon every 10 days with a two-day trip, versus Mars’ 26-month windows and six-month journeys.

This allows for swift advancements in life support, construction, and energy systems—key to breaking free from Earth’s vulnerabilities.

The shift doesn’t abandon Mars entirely. Musk noted that SpaceX will still pursue a long term plan for a Red Planet city, but the Moon takes precedence as a faster safeguard for civilization.

“The overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster,” Musk posted. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2020962635156684920

This pragmatic approach exposes the folly of pie-in-the-sky promises that have dominated space policy, often mired in wasteful spending and political gamesmanship. Musk also teased democratized space travel:

This development echoes broader frustrations with establishment space programs. NASA’s Artemis missions, while ambitious, are bogged down by delays and ballooning costs. SpaceX, unencumbered by such bureaucracy, is poised to deliver tangible wins, potentially including lunar data centers powered by constant solar energy, boosting U.S. tech supremacy. By prioritizing the lunar city, SpaceX advances an independent, resilient humanity—free from reliance on fragile international alliances that often prioritize control over innovation.

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In a time of large scale revisions, OK numbers.

• Economy Adds 130,000 Jobs in January, Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.3% (CTH)

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics releases the employment figures for January today [BLS DATA HERE]. Overall, in the establishment survey, 130,000 jobs were added and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%. This is much stronger than anticipated and there are indications of significant movement back to work as the exfiltration of illegal alien workers continues.


Via WSJ – “The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, surging past expectations and marking a strong start to the year following a weak year of job growth. The January numbers from the Labor Department were above the seasonally adjusted 48,000 jobs added in December, which were revised slightly lower. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal were expecting 55,000 jobs in January.The unemployment rate, which is based on a separate survey from the jobs figures, fell to 4.3% from 4.4%.” (more)

What I find interesting in the Household ‘Employment’ Survey is the number of people going back into the workforce. I am left to wonder if the ICE removals are starting to create employer driven incentives, increased wages etc. that seem to be pulling sidelined workers back to the labor market.


528,000 more people employed. The unemployed dropped by 141,000, and the number of people not in the labor force dropped by 221,000.

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“The administration last year hired Kurt Olsen, who more than five years ago took part in the “Stop the Steal” campaign that promoted baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, to investigate the 2020 election.”

• Trump Orders CIA To Give 2020 Election Intel To ‘Stop The Steal’ Lawyer (ZH)

President Donald Trump has instructed the CIA and other spy agencies to hand over intelligence related to the 2020 election, a bunch of (presumably panicked) US intelligence officials told Politico and NBC News. The records are to be handed over to Kurt Olsen – now a temporary government employee in the White House – who four years ago was involved in the “Stop the Steal” campaign to determine whether Joe Biden won the 2020 election via cheating. And you know they’re freaking out by the way they tell us this… “The administration last year hired Kurt Olsen, who more than five years ago took part in the “Stop the Steal” campaign that promoted baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, to investigate the 2020 election.” -NBC News


… President Donald Trump has directed top U.S. spy agencies to share sensitive intelligence about the 2020 election with his former campaign lawyer, known for pushing debunked theories of electoral fraud, according to four people with knowledge of the effort. -Politico. Indeed:

“The president has asked Mr. Olsen to look at intelligence related to the 2020 election and the agency is ensuring that he has the access necessary to do his work,” a CIA official told NBC in an emailed statement (probably right after hanging up with the reporter). When asked about Olsen’s role, the White House told the outlet “President Trump has the authority to provide access to classified material to individuals as he deems necessary. The entire Trump administration is working together to ensure the integrity of U.S. elections.”

The admin did not specifically respond to questions about whether Olsen was focusing only on the 2020 election, or possible security threats to future elections. The freakout comes after the FBI’s recent search of an elections center in Fulton County, Georgia – where they seized ballots from the 2020 election. Now check out the tone over at Politico: “The decision to provide some of the government’s most sensitive spy material to Olsen is unusual, given that he has no known experience working with the U.S. spy community and only joined the Trump administration as a short-term special government employee in October 2025. Special government employees are supposed to work no more than 130 days during any period of 365 days, suggesting his time at the White House could end soon.”


The first person said that Olsen has passed a background check and a polygraph exam. It is not clear how close Olsen is to completing his report on the 2020 elections. Intelligence analysis is supposed to be nonpartisan, and it appears Olsen’s views on electoral fraud in prior U.S. elections are so deeply held that even some people close to the president question his ability to evaluate the material shared with him. “This guy has no background” in intelligence, said the second person, a close Trump ally. Olsen “will find some super classified report, say it’s evidence of fraud, but really it’s just completely out of context.”

… Olsen rose to prominence by working closely with Trump to undermine the results of the 2020 election under the slogan “Stop the Steal.” He urged several DOJ officials that year to file a complaint to the Supreme Court scrutinizing Trump’s loss, and even called the president multiple times during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Wow! As we noted earlier Tuesday, an affidavit filed by FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans last month, which was unsealed Tuesday, lays out five categories of confirmed problems in Fulton County’s handling of ballots, raising questions that have simmered for over five years since Trump and his allies raised questions about the election in Georgia and other states where irregularities were alleged.

According to a report from Just the News, Evans filed the affidavit last month to establish probable cause for a raid that seized around 700 boxes of ballots from an Atlanta-area storage warehouse. The investigation stemmed from a referral by Kurt Olsen, President Trump’s election integrity czar. Evans interviewed roughly a dozen unnamed witnesses about allegations tied to the contested Georgia race, where Joe Biden edged out Trump by less than 12,000 votes in the official results. “This warrant application is part of an FBI criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws.”

Fulton County admitted it lacks scanned images of all 528,777 ballots counted during the initial count and of the 527,925 ballots tallied during the state’s first recount. County officials also confirmed that during the recount, some ballots were scanned multiple times. Ballot images obtained through public records requests show identical markings appearing on duplicated images.During the Risk Limiting Audit, hand counters reported vote totals for batches that didn’t match the actual votes inside those batches. According to the affidavit, “The State’s Performance Review Board reported that Secretary of State investigators confirmed inaccurate batch tallies from the Risk Limiting Audit.

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“Wexner’s money was the originating capital for what would later become Epstein’s influence empire…”

• 30 Years Later Massie Discovers Les Wexner Was Associate of Epstein (CTH)

I said Monday on Twitter: “Seriously. Correct me if I’m wrong. For more than a decade we have known that billionaire Les Wexner from Victoria’s Secret was the originating money man behind Jeffrey Epstein. This should not be some kind of revelation, as it was widely discussed by those who researched Epstein over a decade ago. Wexner’s money was the originating capital for what would later become Epstein’s influence empire. Additionally, and again, stop me if this old news is incorrect, well over a decade ago it became openly known that the “PINK” brand of Victoria’s Secret was specifically created due to the sexuality of young girls becoming part of the marketing influence of Epstein. Wexner created the original VS girls, and the influence of Epstein (underage sexual perversions) then led to the adding of the VS “PINK” sub-brand.


Are we supposed to understand this is all new information? Honest question. No snark. I’m just confused by this sudden newness of it. We been knew.”The above VH1 segment was from 2007; however, even ten years prior to that it was commonly known that Les Wexner from Victoria’s Secret was the source of most of Jeffrey Epstein’s start-up finances. The resulting social network was fraught with sexual weirdos, and the VS brand alignment just fit with the club. Suddenly, Representative Thomas Massie, a Sea Island asset if ever there was one, is proclaiming the Epstein file information outlining the relationship with Wexner is new information, stunning in scope and worthy of extraordinary time to explore. It’s all weird.

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/2021055705826943265?s=20

VIA NBC – […] The newly released version of the 2019 document shows eight people are listed as co-conspirators, including four whose names are not redacted: Wexner, the former CEO of Victoria’s Secret, Lesley Groff, Epstein’s longtime secretary, the late modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, and Ghislaine Maxwell, the only person who was charged in connection with Epstein. She was convicted of sex trafficking charges and is serving a 20-year prison sentence. Four other names on the document are still redacted. It’s unclear who those people are but prosecutors have said that Epstein used women he preyed on as recruiters. A separate document dated August 2019 indicated that some of the others were victims as well, and had been cooperating with investigators.

A Wexner legal representative said in a statement to NBC News Tuesday that “The Assistant U.S. Attorney told Mr. Wexner’s legal counsel in 2019 that Mr. Wexner was neither a co-conspirator nor target in any respect. Mr. Wexner cooperated fully by providing background information on Epstein and was never contacted again.” Wexner had a long relationship with Epstein that dated back to the 1980s, and hired him to manage his personal finances. He’s said he cut ties to Epstein after he was accused of sexually abusing minors in Florida. It was after that Wexner said he “discovered that he had misappropriated vast sums of money from me and my family.”

Wexner’s name was also mentioned in a July 2019 FBI email about possible co-conspirators that was made public as part of the DOJ release. Another August 2019 FBI email said there was “limited evidence regarding his involvement.” He is scheduled to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee next week. (more)The first time I heard the information about Wexner and Epstein was sometime in the mid 1990’s. It was well known. There is a lot of horrible, creepy and perverted stuff in the Epstein file releases that is factually new information. However, the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Les Wexner is not new. Perverse, yes -as it was even then; but not new. There were even documentaries about it, one of them I think was called “Angels and Demons“. Maybe it wasn’t as widely known as I thought?

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“Trust your instincts folks, and always remember…. It’s ALWAYS about the money”

• Steve Bannon Messages About Trump Included in the Epstein File Release (CTH)

Apparently, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein had a considerable relationship together. Bannon is cited frequently in the 3 million+ Epstein files that were released by the DOJ. Unfortunately, part of the document production includes text messages between Steve Bannon and an unknown individual. Within a segment of the text messages Bannon calls Jared Kusher “the idiot son-in-law,” and frames himself as more important that President Donald Trump who Bannon sees as “transitory.”


STEVE BANNON (SB) – “To do that shows that [Trump] is center of gravity of this movement and not me — will never do — they are transitory figures — the dc game is to succumb to that — it’s why I never did before joining campaign — I could have been the trump whisperer years ago — avoided on purpose” This rather elevated sense of self-importance likely explains why Bannon was the source for Michael Wolf via leaks, and why President Trump seems to have kept distance from Mr. Bannon. However, people who walk the deep weeds of U.S. politics will also remember when Steve Bannon was the editor of Breitbart and together with financial owner Robert Mercer in 2015/2016 was backing Ted Cruz in the run-up to the 2016 election.


Both Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway were original political consultants and financial beneficiaries connected to the failed Ted Cruz presidential effort, before they abandoned the Cruz Crew and jumped aboard the MAGA movement. The Cruz Crew has essentially morphed into the Ron DeSantis coalition and this superiority attitude expressed by Bannon is one of the key characteristics of the group we affectionately call the “alligator emojis. Perhaps the best two words to describe the brilliant political strategies of Steve Bannon are ‘Roy – Moore’. I digress.

Trust your instincts folks, and always remember…. It’s ALWAYS about the money!

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“Judge Synder came to the right conclusion for the wrong reason.”

• The Trump Admin Just Won the Mask Decision . . . Now it Should Appeal (Turley)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has become increasingly Orwellian in his declarations of success. Last week, Newsom was proclaiming the great success of his high-speed train to nowhere – a project delayed by decades, reduced to a fraction of the original plan, and set to cost tens of billions over budget. This week, he is proclaiming victory after a court struck down his signature law requiring federal agents to unmask. The preliminary injunction issued Monday by Senior status Judge Christine Snyder against California’s No Secret Police Act was a victory for the Trump Administration. However, it should still appeal Judge Snyder’s flawed decision. In other words, the Administration won for the wrong reason.


Snyder, an Obama appointee, faced two laws passed in September 2025 with great fanfare in California: the Secret Police Act and the No Vigilante Act. As their titles indicate, they are not serious efforts at legislating but unconstitutional acts designed to pander to the politics of the moment. In the oral argument, some of us were concerned over the curious position staked out by Judge Synder. DOJ counsel Tiberius Davis tried to explain how such state laws usurp federal authority and violate the Supremacy Clause. He drove that point home by asking “Why couldn’t California say every immigration officer needs to wear pink, so it’s super obvious who they are? The idea that all 50 states can regulate the conduct and uniforms of officers … flips the Constitution on its head.”

That would seem an unassailable point, but not to Judge Synder. She asked, “Why can’t they perform their duties without a mask? They did that until 2025, did they not? How in the world do those who don’t mask manage to operate?” I remarked at the time that the court seemed to miss the central point. The question is not whether the federal government can continue to function under limitations imposed by various states, but whether those states have the authority to impose such conditions. I do not believe that they do. Nevertheless, Judge Synder came to the right conclusion for the wrong reason. She enjoined the mask requirement, but did so on the basis that California exempted its own officers.

“Even though the United States has failed to demonstrate that the facial covering prohibition of the No Secret Police Act unduly interferes with federal functions, the court acknowledges that it is nonetheless an incidental regulation on law enforcement officers. The intergovernmental immunity doctrine prohibits imposing such a regulatory burden, albeit minimal and incidental to operations, in a discriminatory manner against the federal government.” By adopting this narrow basis, the court was able to enjoin the No Secret Police Act while rejecting an injunction against the No Vigilantes Act and certain other provisions of the No Secret Police Act. I think the court is wrong and should be reversed.

Snyder rejected the rationale of the federal government that these masks are being used to protect ICE agents from “doxing,” even though various agents have been targeted and threatened. Synder waved off the concern and said that the government had not shown by such masking is essential to carrying out such functions. Her opinion relies on broad, unsupported assumptions. Because officers are facing these security concerns, she concludes that they will continue regardless: “Security concerns exist for federal law enforcement officers with or without masks. If anything, the court finds that the presence of masked and unidentifiable individuals, including law enforcement, is more likely to heighten the sense of insecurity for all.”

It is a bizarre rationalization. The court is simply imposing its judgment on what will make officers safer, rather than emphasizing whether these agencies have the discretion to make such judgments in the execution of federal law. Yet the court still enjoins the law because it discriminates between federal and state officers. (Not surprisingly, Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, the author of the mask ban, immediately declared that they would amend the law to add state law enforcement).

The Court then upheld a state requirement that federal officers cannot conceal their identities in a discussion more befitting a legislative committee than a court: “The Court finds that these Acts serve the public interest by promoting transparency, which is essential for accountability and public trust. Moreover, the Court finds no cognizable justification for law enforcement officers to conceal their identities during their performance of routine, non-exempted law enforcement functions and interactions with the general public.” In my view, Judge Snyder twists the analysis into knots to try to preserve as much of these laws as possible while giving the Administration the minimum level of deference.

Under the intergovernmental immunity doctrine, the Supreme Court has mandated in cases such as McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, 317 (1819), that “the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control, the operations of the constitutional law enacted by congress to carrying into execution the powers vested in the general government.” A state cannot intrude into this authority absent a “clear and unambiguous” authorization from Congress, Goodyear Atomic Corp. v. Miller, 486, U.S. 174, 180 (1988).

Snyder finds that the California laws discriminate but do not constitute direct regulation of the federal government. She does so through a “functionalist” approach that avoids bright lines of supremacy. She simply dismisses the objections, saying the federal government has not shown that wearing masks is “essential” to carrying out these functions. Consider that approach for a second. A wide range of state regulations on federal officers could be deemed permissible, since federal officers can still functionally carry out arrests. States could dictate everything from uniform requirements, such as masks, to vehicle conditions to verbal commands or warnings.

The opinion is spotty in its analysis and sweeping in its implications. It is, in my view, ripe for reversal either before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit or the Supreme Court.

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“..almost 1/3 of the American people live in a city, county or state where the left wing leadership tells local law enforcement not to work with federal law enforcement..”

• Jordan Opens Bondi Hearing By Railing Against Sanctuary Cities (JTN)

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Wednesday opened a hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi by railing against sanctuary cities and their impact on Americans.”The chairs now recognize 18 cities, 11 states, excuse me, three counties and the District of Columbia are sanctuary jurisdictions, accounting for 31% of the population in this country, 31% of the American people, almost 1/3 of the American people live in a city, county or state where the left wing leadership tells local law enforcement not to work with federal law enforcement,” he said.


Jordan then turned to the case of Abraham Gonzalez, an illegal alien whom Colorado authorities released from prison after ignoring a detainer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who later assaulted an officer. He then highlighted the voluminous instances of ICE detainers issued in sanctuary jurisdictions for violent offenders said that such policies were “helping create the environment that results in the tragic deaths.” Jordan made the remarks as part of his opening statement.

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“Now, why would you need these intelligence guys, these plain clothes guys, to just show up? It just stinks to high heaven, but I believe I was a target,”Now, why would you need these intelligence guys, these plain clothes guys, to just show up? It just stinks to high heaven, but I believe I was a target..”

• Lawmaker Probing J6 Worried US Capitol Police Intel Politicized vs GOP (JTN)

The House chairman tasked with investigating law enforcement and intelligence failures related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot says he is probing whether U.S. Capitol Police intelligence gathering was weaponized by House Democratic leadership against their Republican colleagues in the aftermath of the Capitol riot. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., who is the Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on January 6, said he suspects that Democrats used the department to gather information on Republican lawmakers concurrent with the Justice Department’s wider Arctic Frost probe into alleged efforts by President Donald Trump and his followers to contest the 2020 election results. Loudermilk told Just the News that what former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund and others told his committee raises questions about how the department’s intelligence arm might have been used to further what he says was “weaponization against members of Congress.”


“Political weaponization against members of Congress”
“There may be some evidence out there that this [Arctic Frost] extended all the way into Congress, that there was investigation and political weaponization against members of Congress that may even have ties with the Select Committee on January 6,” Loudermilk told the Just the News, No Noise TV show on Tuesday, referring to the Democrat-led committee that probed the Trump administration alongside the Justice Department. “There’s others who have spoken to us about efforts within the political element of Congress, within the Democrat Party, who were actively seeking access to the Capitol Police database and their intelligence, and they were using that intelligence against sitting members of Congress,” Loudermilk added.

The probe into Trump and his allies in the aftermath of Jan. 6, code named “Arctic Frost,” was led by an openly anti-Trump FBI supervisor, and was eventually taken over by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith. The probe treated the effort by Trump’s allies to submit alternate electors to Congress to sway the certification of the 2020 election as a criminal conspiracy, even though two prior episodes in American history were not prosecuted as crimes. Experts told Just the News last year the FBI memo that officially launched the investigation, around the time that Trump announced he would run for president again, was thin on evidence and legal justifications.

Snooping and snapping
The House Judiciary Committee, the parent of Loudermilk’s subcommittee, released FBI records last year showing that the Arctic Frost investigators targeted more than 160 Republicans in Donald Trump’s orbit, including members of the president’s staff and Republican officials from the House and Senate. Loudermilk pointed to the case of Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, a member of his subcommittee, who claims that Capitol Police searched his office. Nehls alleged in a lawsuit last year that an officer improperly entered his office during the 2021 Thanksgiving break and snapped a photograph of his office whiteboard. Later, plainclothes officers returned to the office and questioned a staffer about the whiteboard without the congressman’s permission, the court documents allege.

“That is totally outside the realm of anything acceptable here,” Loudermilk said of the Nehls search. “He was investigated as a member of Congress by the US Capitol Police, and I know he has litigation regarding that going right now, but I think this is just the tip of the iceberg of what may have been happening, not only in the Wray FBI, but under the Pelosi House of Representatives as well.” “It just stinks to high heaven, but I believe I was a target,” Nehls say Nehls also told Just the News that he believes the Capitol Police spied on him because of his outspoken criticism of the department in the wake of Jan. 6. “I think that the Capitol Police, they found a few weaklings in there to go out there and spy – I will say ‘spy’ – and look into members of Congress that were very, very outspoken and critical of January 6,” Nehls told the John Solomon Reports podcast.

“We found out that these employees worked for the intelligence division of the U.S. Capitol Police. Now, why would you need these intelligence guys, these plain clothes guys, to just show up? It just stinks to high heaven, but I believe I was a target,” Nehls added. Former Capitol Police Chief Sund confirmed that even before Jan. 6 he faced increasing pressure from Democratic leadership for access to the Capitol Police intelligence unit, which he called “very concerning.” Sund told Just the News that “it was an ongoing process where we had, you know, people, senior staffers, like from [Senator Chuck] Schumer’s staff that wanted to be involved in intelligence briefing, wanted to have access into the Capitol Police Headquarters, specifically to be able to access into the intelligence unit.”

Though he pushed back on those efforts, Sund told the John Solomon Reports podcast that he does not know what happened after he resigned on Jan. 16, 2021, just ten days after the riot during which hundreds of protesters entered the secured Capitol building. “My concern is, what happened after January 6? You know, did these people then all of a sudden, now get involved? They’re now on the intelligence calls, intelligence briefings, things like that. Now, are they using that for any political benefit?” Sund questioned. Loudermilk has doggedly investigated the Jan. 6 security failures and politicization related to the Democrat-led Jan. 6 Select Committee for years. He exposed a key witness who changed her story that was damaging to Trump and documented failures to secure key entry points at the U.S. Capitol before protesters entered.

Pipe bomb mystery solved by Patel’s FBI
He also relentlessly pursued accountability for what was the biggest unsolved mystery of that day, how the FBI had failed to identify a suspect in the planting of two pipe bombs at the Democratic and Republican Party headquarters. That case was blown open last year when the new FBI Director, Kash Patel, and his then-Deputy Director, Dan Bongino, brought a new team and a fresh perspective to the mountains of data collected by investigators. The new approach led to the arrest of suspect Brian Cole Jr. of Virginia. Earlier this month, Loudermilk subpoenaed T-Mobile for the phone records that it had turned over to the FBI and had languished in its possession until last year.

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19 years ago he spelled it out. Who listened?

• Munich 2007: Putin’s Warning To The West (RT)

Exactly 19 years ago on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin took the podium at the Munich Security Conference and demolished the myths and falsehoods underpinning the American-led world order. Did anyone heed his warning? To Russia, the “rules-based international order” has always been shorthand for a system in which the US makes the rules and issues the orders. “However one might embellish this term, at the end of the day it refers to one type of situation, namely one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision-making,” Putin told the audience in Munich. “It is a world in which there is one master, one sovereign. And at the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within.”


Under the auspices of protecting this order, the US carried out “unilateral and frequently illegitimate actions,” in “disdain for the basic principles of international law,” he declared.In the decade before Putin’s speech, the US invaded Afghanistan, invaded Iraq, and led a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia on behalf of Kosovo separatists. Four years after his speech, NATO forces dropped more than 7,000 bombs on Libya, ending Muammar Gaddafi’s rule and handing the keys of the country to jihadists and slave traders. “No one feels safe,” Putin stated in 2007, “because no one can feel that international law is like a stone wall that will protect them.”

Putin warned that NATO’s broken promises to halt its eastward expansion after the Cold War represented “a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust.” The Russian president noted that the US-led bloc had already placed its “frontline forces on our borders,” and asked “against whom is this expansion intended?” The following year, NATO published its infamous Bucharest declaration, assuring Ukraine and Georgia that they “will become members” at an unspecified future date. The consequences of this declaration – which flew in the face of warnings from Putin and American strategists – are playing out in Ukraine today.

No, the Atlanticist neoliberal establishment roundly ignored Putin’s layered and impassioned warning. But Russia kept trying. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov echoed Putin’s complaints when he spoke at the conference in 2018, pointing out that “NATO troops and military infrastructure are accumulating on our borders,” and that “the European theatre of war is being systematically developed.” By that stage several thousand people had been killed in Donbass. Lavrov urged European leaders to abide by the Minsk agreements, which were ostensibly aimed at ending hostilities in Donetsk and Lugansk and granting autonomy to the two predominantly Russian-speaking regions.

Following the collapse of the accords, and the escalation of the conflict in 2022, European and Ukrainian leaders admitted that the agreements were a ruse to enable Ukraine to buy time to prepare for a war with Russia.The organizers of the Munich Security Conference have not so much as attempted any introspection over the last 18 years. Instead, in their latest report, they blame US President Donald Trump for taking a “wrecking ball” to the so-called “rules-based international order.”

All the Europeans could do was cry. Literally, conference Chairman Christoph Heusgen broke down in tears during his closing comments, sobbing as he lamented the decline of the “rules-based international order” and proclaiming that “our common value base is not that common anymore.”nVance’s speech “illustrated just how different the current administration’s perspective on key issues is from the bipartisan liberal-internationalist consensus that has long guided US grand strategy,” Munich Security Conference Foundation President Wolfgang Ischinger wrote in a report ahead of this year’s conference, which kicks off on Friday. As such, discussion in Munich this year will focus almost entirely on “the United States’ evolving view of the international order,” he wrote.

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” For the first time since 1972, Russia (the former USSR) and the US have no treaty limiting strategic nuclear forces..”

• Russia Will Stick To Nuclear Arms Limits If US Does The Same (ZH)


One of the globe’s biggest developing stories this month, but which has been largely underreported in mainstream TV networks and other press, is the collapse of New START – the last major nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that Moscow will in good faith stick to the nuclear limits outlined in the now-expired arms control treaty, provided Washington does the same. It expired earlier this month after Washington declined to respond to President Vladimir Putin’s proposal for a one-year extension capping both sides’ nuclear arsenals.

The Trump admin has long wanted a more comprehensive agreement which brings China’s arsenal into the scope; however, there’s been no formal process on this front with Beijing or Moscow. Lavrov said Russia has no intention of rapidly expanding or deploying additional weapons, clarifying remarks from his ministry last week that suggested Moscow no longer considered itself bound by the treaty. “We proceed from the fact that this moratorium, which was announced by our president, remains in effect, but only while the United States does not exceed the outlined limits,” Lavrov told Russia’s parliament.

Some key aspects to the treaty have gone unobserved for some time, especially the regimen of mutual nuclear site inspections.President Trump has in the recent past called New START “badly negotiated” and said it “is being grossly violated. He has in mind Russia having blocked inspections of its nuclear facilities under the treaty framework in 2023, as tensions with Washington escalated over the proxy war in Ukraine. Moscow has in turn complained that Washington is the chief violator, and that it now refuses to respond to Putin’s overture to extend it by one year, while a more comprehensive and extended deal is negotiated.

That’s it. For the first time since 1972, Russia (the former USSR) and the US have no treaty limiting strategic nuclear forces. SALT 1, SALT 2, START I, START II, SORT, New START – all in the past. pic.twitter.com/D3TBZM9ffC — Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) February 4, 2026


Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave insight into why the White House has let New START expire: “Obviously, the president’s been clear in the past that in order to have true arms control in the 21st century, it’s impossible to do something that doesn’t include China because of their vast and rapidly growing stockpile,” he explained.

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Did the Internet make journalism worse?

• All the Media’s Men: When Journalism Became the Story -Part II of II (Wilson)

There was once a professional rule in American journalism that functioned as a real constraint: report the story; do not become the story. It was not a claim of purity. Ego, ambition, and moral certainty were known dangers, and the rule existed to keep them from overwhelming the work. Journalism was never perfect. Nothing is. But it was once constrained by this rule and by rivalry among competing papers, by scarcity of publishing platforms, by reputational risk, and by audiences willing to walk away. Those constraints mattered more than ideology.mThe first visible crack came with Nellie Bly, fairly described as a stunt reporter. Her work was brave and effective, exposing abuses that would otherwise have remained hidden.


But it also introduced a dangerous precedent: the journalist as protagonist. Readers followed the reporter as much as the facts. The tool proved powerful and reusable. The profession corrected itself for a time. Through the 1940s and 1950s, likely learning from war reporting norms, American journalism emphasized impersonality and restraint. Authority came from distance. Reporters were meant to be interchangeable. Credibility rested on institutional voice rather than personality. Television eroded that equilibrium. Once news had faces, voices, and time slots, personality became unavoidable. The anchor was no longer merely delivering information but performing steadiness and judgment.

Journalism did not yet see itself as entertainment, but it had begun using entertainment tools: lighting, camera angles, makeup, vocal intonation, even on-scene reporting.The decisive rupture came with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. What they uncovered mattered. Watergate took advantage of a nascent mythic template: the journalist as lone truth-seeker standing between power and the people. Reporting, fed by classic Hollywood movies that romanticized the crusading reporter, became an identity rather than a function.mFrom that point forward, becoming the story was no longer a lapse. It was aspirational.

Hollywood, Myth, and Moral Authority
Watergate supplied the moment. Hollywood, already primed to heroize the reporter, crafted the meaning. Films like All the President’s Men dramatized and then sanctified the Heroic Journalist. The journalist was patient, tenacious, hard-working, incorruptible, and uniquely qualified to Bring Truth to the public — a pattern that perfectly follows the Hero’s Journey. Opposition was framed not as disagreement but as ignorance or corruption. Journalism absorbed that image. It began to see itself as a secular clerisy: interpreters of reality rather than accountable informers. A clerisy assumes its authority by right of wisdom and superior knowledge. Questions are permitted only within bounds. Dissent is treated as moral failure rather than feedback.

Skepticism became asymmetrical. Journalists remained suspicious of every institution except one: their own. Tone displaced argument. Moral urgency crowded out evidentiary discipline. Entertainment tools such as emotion, narrative compression, repetition ceased to be aids and became substitutes for reasoning. And any pushback became grounds to cast the questioner out as a heretic.The pattern is familiar enough to be lampooned, as in my favorite satirical novel The Narrative, which captures how story replaces fact once the reporter becomes the hero and the audience becomes a problem to manage.

How Journalists Rise on the Left Today
Once journalism adopted that heroic clerical self-image, advancement followed a different logic. Status stopped coming from readers and started coming from institutions adjacent to power.Journalists rise by demonstrating narrative reliability, not truthfulness or factuality. Their stories must follow the Approved Narrative. Editors and other gatekeepers learn who can be trusted to frame events without destabilizing the approved story. This is rarely enforced explicitly. It works through selection. Those who create friction are sidelined; those who anticipate expectations are rewarded.

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“.. openly strategizing ways to work around that higher court ruling and keep giving bond releases to illegal aliens under the guise of “liberty interest.”

• Texas Judges Strategize Ways to Block DHS From Enforcing Immigration Laws (CTH)

This is one step further than simple Lawfare, this story is about lower court judges openly strategizing ways to stop the enforcement of laws they are supposed to uphold. Last week the Fifth Circuit Cout of Appeals ruled that detaining illegal aliens during the deportation proceedings is entirely following current immigration law. Now, according to Politico, federal judges in Texas are openly strategizing ways to work around that higher court ruling and keep giving bond releases to illegal aliens under the guise of “liberty interest.”

POLITICO – […] two federal district court judges in Texas, who are bound by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit’s ruling, said the 2-1 decision left an opening for them to continue granting immigrants’ release on other grounds, primarily constitutional arguments against detaining people who have established roots in the U.S. without due process. Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a “liberty interest” that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a neutral judge. “This conclusion is not changed by the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision,” Judge Kathleen Cardone, an El Paso based appointee of George W. Bush, ruled late Monday in at least five cases, concluding that the circuit’s decision “has no bearing on this Court’s determination of whether [the petitioner] is being detained in violation of his constitutional right to procedural due process.”


Judge David Briones, an El Paso-based Clinton appointee, reached a similar conclusion. “The Court reiterates its original holding that noncitizens who have ‘established connections’ in the United States by virtue of living in the country for a substantial period acquire a liberty interest in being free from government detention without due process of law,” Briones wrote. The decisions from the Texas-based judges are notable in part because the administration has often rushed detainees there after their arrests in other states such as Minnesota.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.n A Justice Department official, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said the rulings were in keeping with the view that there are rogue judges who continue to make results-oriented decisions to suit their personal policy preferences.The 5th Circuit’s ruling has yet to percolate through federal courts across Texas and Louisiana, where detained immigrants have been filing so-called “habeas” petitions in extraordinary numbers to seek freedom from what they say is illegal detention without the opportunity for bond. The losing parties in Friday’s ruling may still appeal the decision to the full bench of the 5th Circuit or the Supreme Court. (more)”

Lower courts trying to circumvent higher court rulings, even before any plaintiff brings them a case or argument. This is judicial activism in the extremes.
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Hedge fund manager Ray Dalio warns that CBDCs will eliminate financial privacy and enable governments to tax, seize funds and cut off political opponents.

• ‘No Privacy’ CBDCs Will Come, Warns Billionaire Ray Dalio (CT)

American billionaire and hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has warned that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are coming, offering benefits but also potentially allowing governments to exert more control over people’s finances. “I think it will be done,” said Dalio on CBDCs in a wide-ranging interview on the Tucker Carlson Show on Monday, which also included topics on the US debt crisis, gold prices, and even a potential civil war. Ray Dalio is a billionaire hedge fund manager who has been co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates since 1985, after founding the firm in 1975.


During the interview, Dalio said CBDCs could be appealing due to the ease of transactions, likening them to money market funds in terms of functionality, but he also cautioned about their downsides. He said there will be a debate, but CBDCs “probably won’t” offer interest, so they will not be “an effective vehicle to hold because you’ll have the depreciation [of the dollar].” Dalio also cautioned that all CBDC transactions will be known to the government, which is good for controlling illegal activity, but also provides a great deal of control in other areas. “There will be no privacy, and it’s a very effective controlling mechanism by the government.”

A programmable digital currency will enable the government to tax directly, “they can take your money,” and establish foreign exchange controls, he said. mThat will be an “increasing issue,” particularly for international holders of that currency, as the government can seize funds from nationals of sanctioned countries. mDalio also said that you could be “shut off” from a CBDC if you were “politically disfavored.” An American CBDC is unlikely to be deployed in the near future, as US President Donald Trump has been vocally opposed to them.

Soon after taking office in January 2025, Trump signed an executive order prohibiting “the establishment, issuance, circulation, and use” of a US CBDC. According to the Atlantic Council’s CBDC tracker, only three countries have officially launched a CBDC: Nigeria, Jamaica, and The Bahamas. Another 49 countries are testing CBDCs, including China, Russia, India and Brazil. Twenty nations have a CBDC in development, and 36 are still researching central bank digital currencies. India’s central bank reportedly proposed an initiative in January linking BRICS CBDCs to facilitate cross-border trade and tourism payments.

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  • February 12, 2026 at 11:30 am #230698
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Camille Pissarro The Boulevard Montmartre at Night 1897 • Elon Musk Vows To Establish A MOON CITY Within 10 Years (MN) • Economy Adds 130,000 Jobs in
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 12 2026]

    February 12, 2026 at 12:19 pm #230713
    tboc
    Participant

    “You’ll just tell it to fix itself.” – Jesen Huang
    why does this remind me of Francis Fukuyama?

    just for fun let us say that the humans engaged in frivolities in the Epstein network are the ones assembling the AI prompts. As a model of wealth accumulation is put into place the Ai is told “just fix anything that diminishes the model”.

    February 12, 2026 at 12:22 pm #230714
    tboc
    Participant

    The Diary of a CEO on youtube has an interiview with Eric Weinstein,
    “You’re Watching the End of the World in Real Time”
    that might be of interest to some

    February 12, 2026 at 12:30 pm #230715
    Dr. D
    Participant

    So I guess we nuked Iran already? They nuked us? So I hear, experts say, this is so certain they’ve already reported it. That goes along with the million hundred million men we’ve deployed in Caracas, Kiev, and Tehran? Each?

    …Meanwhile, back in “Reality”…. Welcome to the world of “Nothing Happened.”

    “Elon Musk Vows To Establish A Moon City Within 10 Years

    So today is an odd-numbered day and we DO Have these safe, pocket nuclear reactors? I mean last month or so you said we did, yes? Since then, no, more solar panels wiping out farmland and human food.

    ““Priority Of SpaceX becomes a self-sustaining lunar metropolis to safeguard humanity’s future..”

    From what??? Do you know something? Would you like to tell us? A city on the moon? What do we eat? What do we make there? Why? Why am I paying for it? If you need a city, isn’t Antarctica 500x easier?

    “key to breaking free from Earth’s vulnerabilities.”

    “Vulnerabilities” like that we have air and can grow things here? Like almost every square inch? And not a single square inch of the moon is like that?

    “The future is going to be RIDICULOUS.” It certainly is. Ridiculously retarded. Do not want.

    “Democratic Governors Threaten Boycott Of White House Gathering

    Oh no! Politicians will stop talking! Call the Marines to save us!

    “Trump Holds Off On Option To Seize Iranian Tankers, Fearing Sharp Oil Rise

    Oh no! Nothing happened again! This is bad because 1) Reason Yes 2) Reason No. Why should I even bother filling in the blanks at this point? Event Happened/Did Not Happen, therefore it’s bad.

    “Ambitious France-Germany Next-Gen Fighter Faces Crash Landing Amid EU Infighting

    Speaking of nothing happened: they are THINKING about something happening. Later. Maybe.

    “We uprooted it in five. And it’s never going back.” Chinese cars.

    It’s going back. The whole planet and all NYC would be bought by Japan in 1989, SONY, Die Hard, Made in America, etc. Yet cycles exist and they were at the TOP, not the bottom. China is very powerful, and good for them, but the U.S. is at the bottom, internally. China is at the top, internally.

    ““The administration last year hired Kurt Olsen, who more than five years ago took part in the “Stop the Steal” campaign that promoted baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, to investigate the 2020 election.” -NBC

    So? They start with ad hominem, it’s all ad hominem, which is a “Fallacy”, that is “FALSE”. Wtf would I care what the NAME of the guy is? A LAWYER had previous clients in D.C. some unsavory? Nooooooooo!!!! Whut?????? How dare he “represent things” and “file paperwork.”

    So did he do any specific crimes or actions you’re squawking about? NO. Or you would have named them. So he’s done NOTHING. According to you, yourself, NBC.

    “• Steve Bannon Messages About Trump Included in the Epstein File Release (CTH)

    Oh. So interesting. Bannon from Navel Intel, the core hive of traitors if we can ever find one. Outsiders like Kalinsky are attacking ROGAN, and Mike Benz as Covering for Epstein. Da fuq? Mike Benz has done everything except get shot to EXPOSE Epstein! Rogan is a key reason it wouldn’t go away. This is all OppositeLand, like on “11”. They “Just say”. That’s it. They “Just say” Trump was actually the ringleader, no explanation why three DNC Presidents over 20 years couldn’t seem to do anything about it, with Biden right there for four years straight, taking Trump down by every other means. Everyone exposing Epstein 10 years was actually protecting Epstein in Crazyland.

    So now all these OTHER guys seem to be in the files. Huh. So weird.

    “Democrats find Donald Trump’s name in the Epstein files… and it’s the exact OPPOSITE of what they alleged.”

    Hasn’t stopped them ever. Months, years, decades of this. Makes no difference. Only prison will.

    “I said Monday on Twitter: “Seriously. Correct me if I’m wrong. For more than a decade we have known that billionaire Les Wexner from Victoria’s Secret was the originating money man behind Jeffrey Epstein.”

    I mean well, THAT’S wrong, it’s doubtless the other direction; Wexner was captured (perhaps willingly). But they are co-conspirators and everyone knew it for +10 years, true. That’s because Epstein = CIA/FBI in the first place. It’s impossible for him to walk around without their permission. Because……???? Because we pop up a name we already know to keep our eyes off actual new information that’s deadly and damning??? Almost certainly. And it’s Massie. Hmmmm

    Epstein is using limited-hangout rules now. Keeping eye on the sex stuff, which is relatively unimportant. I agree that’s what I’m most mad about and would prefer and accomplish hanging them for. However, it’s about the money trafficking, influence, end of democracy, no fair lotteries, no free markets, they’re not trafficking some girls – although they are of course – they are trafficking and raping our entire lives and cultures.

    Look again at Bill Barr, Maxwell, picking Jeffy out of thin air with no background, expertise, at a school, then rolls up Clinton, Israel, UK, Princes, CEOs, everyone. The girls are a sideshow, though I don’t want to say that as those acts are very vile. But to keep your eye on the sex, keeps it OFF everything else, and they’ll throw a few insiders to the wolves until you start eating and stop chasing, and to keep the entire same status quo intact.

    Let’s not get distracted and so full with crumbs these guys skate, shall we?

    Look at all the titillation: no meat, no essence. And they’re trying to get us off the titillation while using the exposure to cover there are no prosecutions. How many levels of half of a half of a half of a half of a crumb are we supposed to tolerate here?

    Let’s start with: “Planning on hanging a third of the Insiders named over the reflecting pool on national TV. We will go UP from there as evidence demands.”

    So watching Bondi (and/or Kash) = thrilled. Whack Bondi with everything you’ve got. Her answers are ridiculous. While Congress is tirelessly contemptible, these are all evasive non-answers. The answers are VERY EASY. Suppose the reason she can’t answer is, “They’ve already been in all the docs and purged all the ppl who paid, and also tampered with everything for years. Because the FBI, DoJ, are completely corrupt and complicit, essentially an extension of Epstein’s mob, and Mossad’s agents themselves.” Okay, just SAY THAT. We know. Just say it, we start arresting and hanging a lot, a lot, a lot of people, one by one, thanks. All done, fixed.

    So NOT answering and evading is not a thing to do here. IDGAF if the Heavens Fall. Make them fall then, that’s your job. That’s probably why she suddenly goes on this crazy diversion into the 50k Dow, which is entirely irrelevant, which also everyone knows is a bubble.

    She’s saying IF YOU DO THIS THE WHOLE U.S. AND ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE. All our prosperity with fail. It’s Austin Fitt’s “Big Red Button” where every Boomer 401k collapses (to make kids safe again).

    As the rest of us say: “Hahahahahaha! So???” I’m no Senator’s son. I don’t own any stocks in the first place. But I DO live in a place that’s now both toxic, and deadly. Why would I care? Hope every Congressman is arrested and we all eat ice cream at your trial.” Kash isn’t in the spotlight this minute, but he certainly seems the same.

    Get them. Oh they’re TRUMP’S guys? Could not care less. Congress’ job is to ask questions. Her job is to answer. They need to arrest each other, us normal citizens not (presently) having the authority to do so. Arrest 10 Senators and Congress can arrest 10 DoJ directors, and we’ll work our way through all of you one by one.

    We’ll slowly add non-corrupt employees from Wisconsin and Alabama, until there’s at last a quorum of NOT-Epstein there, and we can enforce the law again for the first time since 1960. Deal?

    (Yes, the markets will all fall. And I do understand we should have it fail in Munich first. Just like ending Empire, everyone will be furious when the evil stops and real prices return.)

    “Canada detonated a $12 billion bomb in the North American steel market. In a single coordinated strike, they ended horizontal remission on steel imports, imposed a 25% global tariff on steel derivatives covering $10 billion in goods, and slashed import quotas by up to 80% for foreign producers.
    The result? The most integrated steel market in the world just fractured into hostile trading zones. “

    Yay! I haven’t heard such good news since I don’t know when. Thank you, THANK YOU Canada! Did we have to pay them to do this, or did they do it on their own for free? Either way, massive win, we’ll re-start our steel plants shortly, with all the jobs, AND ancillary jobs. Canada will not and may not have anywhere to sell product. Are they planning on Underselling China and Japan? Bon chance mon frere.

    Reid, you’re the gift that keeps on giving. Every time you post something from these jokers, I say, “Can it REALLY be? Is there really more good news for the U.S. AGAIN?” And yet, somehow, every time, it is. And every time, more to my amusement and delight, it’s framed as if it isn’t! And whoever it is wants to keep doing it, and harder! No Br’ier Bear, not the Briar patch of no Empire full employment no taxes!!!

    A few more months of this and we’ll be both perfectly sovereign AND fully employed! Oh noe! Black Pepo will have jobs n’ stuff. Must! Stop! Empire will end! Cats and Dogs, living together. In perfect harmony!

    P.S. By “Vaporized” he means all the men, skill, and equipment is still right there. Nothing happened. $125B is probably an hour’s spending right now.

    A single bank failed? Uhhhh…we bailed out more banks than all of ‘08 Lehman just a second ago and no one even noticed. …Suspect we’ll be fine.

    “Canada Just Told Trump to Go to Hell — His Furious Response Broke the Internet”

    No one noticed or cared. Internet still up.

    “Trump’s Iran Nightmare” I cannot comprehend what any of you are talking about. What nightmare? That Trump will end the Empire he said he’s ending? That you also want ended? If that’s a nightmare to you, what side are you on? First they project a wagon load of motivations that Trump has said on TV he’s doing the opposite of. When he doesn’t get the things he claims he never wanted in the first place, Ritter or Pablo take a victory lap. That’s like saying when the sun rises each day it’s because I defeated the moon dragon in my closet last night. No. You’re just psychotic.

    Phoenix: Yes, thanks to the government running snap, administration is well over 50% of total costs, and they BOTH have infinity fraud AND deny and shut off everyone for no reason. Government Nirvana unlocked. So expect it to continue forever while costing 3% more compounded.

    Garland – Joti. You know I would pick on all these interviews, but Joti actually means and believes what she says, has a cogent case, and presents it for the good of the people. Now it’s not going to WORK, mind you, but I respect her motivation and point of view, and Garland for posting it regularly. So few post a truly different point of view.

    February 12, 2026 at 12:48 pm #230716
    Dr. D
    Participant

    What are they “Protecting us from” with a multi-planet civilization? Even if we had a total nuclear exchange, even if a Chicxulub comet hit us, THERE WOULD STILL BE AIR HERE.

    And none on the moon or Mars. Here is STILL your best bet.

    1) They are the worst scientists the world has ever produced.
    2) They are liars.
    3) Both at once.

    Because none of this is about anything they’re saying, the motivation and timing is all completely different, concerning truths they’ve been keeping from us for 80 years. Like perhaps we’re already interacting with (several) aliens, and the only way to get creds and motion with them is to be a multi-planet tech society. Otherwise they’ll also stay hands off and let our secret oppressors keep hammering on us while these limp-wristed milsops claim “Prime Directive”, not get involved as the Shadow Wraith bomb us at will. Jerks. If so we should bomb the “Galactic Council” first and the Wraith/Borg Second on general principles.

    Point being, now THAT makes sense. What Elon says and admits, does not. Therefore he is lying. But we knew that.

    February 12, 2026 at 1:19 pm #230717
    Topcat
    Participant

    The United States is not just The Empire of Lies, it’s the Empire of Hypocrisy

    In the same way the Trump administration redacts the names of the perpe=traitors but leaves the victims names public……

    the Trumpard DOJ under Pay=for=Play Blondi Bondi Girl Lawyer Slut does enforce this:

    The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA)

    “Yes, it is illegal under federal law for U.S. employers to knowingly hire, recruit, or refer for a fee anyone who is not legally authorized to work in the United States.

    The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) established “employer sanctions,” which make these actions unlawful. The purpose of these provisions is to remove the primary incentive for illegal immigration: the availability of employment.”

    “Employer Responsibilities Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment authorization of every person they hire by properly completing and retaining a Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification for each employee.

    Employers must review documents presented by the employee that “reasonably appear to be genuine” and relate to the individual.”

    Even here at the TAE Peanut Gallery no one including the host talks about ARRESTING employers who hire illegals.

    How strange.

    Is that part of the Empire of Hypocrisy’s Auxiliary Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Unit?

    Dr. D, Trump’s No. 1 Fanboy here at TAE, would be outraged if some of Trump’s wealthy donors in the Ag and Construction business got publicly Frog Marched in shackles out of their corporate offices and locked up in holding cells along side of their illegally hired illegal immigrants for hiring the dreaded “illegals”.

    “Oh the Humanity!”

    Grow up Ah…merica

    Your hypocrisy is showing to the world.

    You’re not a “A Shining City on a Hill”

    The USSA is a Shabby Plantation in a Swamp

    February 12, 2026 at 1:27 pm #230718
    Topcat
    Participant

    ARRESTING employers who hire illegals

    There should be a one to one correspondence between stories about ICE detaining illegal immigrants and stories about employers being arrested for hiring them.

    Even here at TAE the silence is deafening on arresting employers of illegals.

    Even small employers have the internet tools at their disposal to determine if someone is illegal before hiring them.

    Their are tons of ‘private eye’ data brokers on the Web, so please stuff a sock in your lame excuses for not using them.

    February 12, 2026 at 1:33 pm #230719
    Topcat
    Participant

    Meanwhile in the Empire of Hypocrisy:

    “Newly released records show Jeffrey Epstein purchased 330 gallons of sulfuric acid in December 2018, with the shipment delivered to his private island in the US Virgin Islands….”

    How monstrous.

    I wonder how many gallons of sulfuric acid would it take to dissolve Congress???

    February 12, 2026 at 1:35 pm #230720
    Topcat
    Participant

    Even Pedos can produce ID

    February 12, 2026 at 1:40 pm #230721
    Topcat
    Participant

    In early betting polls Gavin Gruesome is almost tied with J D Vance

    Wow, Vance has set the bar pretty low

    The severely dyslexic Gavin would make a great buttplug ‘president’.

    Hey Gavin, hire some illegals to finish that high-speed rail!

    I hear they work cheap enough to finish stuff on time and on budget!

    Hahahahaha!

    February 12, 2026 at 1:48 pm #230722
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Trans-continental Railroad

    A little history for the Empire of Lies

    Irish and Chinese immigrants formed the backbone of the transcontinental railroad,

    but they largely worked on separate lines:

    Chinese laborers made up ~90% of the Central Pacific (West), while Irish immigrants and Civil War vets dominated the Union Pacific (East). Together, they completed the 1869 project.
    Key Facts on the Workforce Breakdown:

    Central Pacific (West – California/Sierra Nevada): Primarily built by 10,000–15,000 Chinese workers, comprising roughly 90% of their crew by 1867

    Union Pacific (East – Plains/Rockies): Mostly Irish immigrants, Civil War veterans, and African Americans.

    Significance: Chinese labor was vital for the dangerous tunneling through the Sierras. (Even the Irish weren’t stupid enough to do that job.)

    A Real Group Effort:

    Both groups faced brutal conditions, low pay, and dangerous work, with the two lines meeting in Utah in 1869.

    February 12, 2026 at 2:22 pm #230723
    my parents said know
    Participant

    When the agents wear masks, they are easily identified as agents, though not as individuals. This precludes protestors from wearing masks, lest they be mistaken for agents, and the feds easily identify them individually with facial recognition using the hundreds of selfies they have taken of themselves and their pals.

    WES, from yesterday- The boring company! Of course! Robots and tunnels…maybe they’re already there?

    February 12, 2026 at 2:35 pm #230724
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships

    Some context:

    “The phrase “the face that launched a thousand ships” comes from Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play “Doctor Faustus,” where Faustus uses it to describe Helen of Troy.

    It refers to the myth that her extreme beauty and abduction sparked the Trojan War, prompting a massive Greek fleet to sail to Troy. “

    I wonder if the Greeks are down with this cultural appropriation.

    February 12, 2026 at 2:45 pm #230725
    zerosum
    Participant

    TRUMP IS DISTRACTING YOU FROM SEEING THE COLLAPSE OF THE EMPIRE.

    February 12, 2026 at 2:47 pm #230726
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @zerosum

    Success of our society depends on growth (etc.)

    Maybe it’s time someone did a biopsy on that growth.

    February 12, 2026 at 2:47 pm #230727
    Topcat
    Participant

    UBS Identifies When Humanoid Robots Will Invade Factory Floors

    The deployment of robots in manufacturing will rival the deployment of drones in modern warfare.

    Slow at first, then enveloping the whole space and totally dominating it.

    You can watch thousands of videos of drones blowing up individual soldiers in Ukraine.

    Just wait until the killer drones fly in great swarms like locust and vaporize all humans in their path.

    The same sort of wipeout will occur in human employment with factories dominated by drones with a sprinling of humans to watch them.

    The unemployment numbers released today will look like a dream in shortly coming years.

    February 12, 2026 at 2:58 pm #230728
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Topcat

    Central Pacific (West – California/Sierra Nevada): Primarily built by 10,000–15,000 Chinese workers, comprising roughly 90% of their crew by 1867

    Union Pacific (East – Plains/Rockies): Mostly Irish immigrants, Civil War veterans, and African Americans.

    Significance: Chinese labor was vital for the dangerous tunneling through the Sierras. (Even the Irish weren’t stupid enough to do that job.) [emphasis added]

    That’s the best zinger that I’ve read in a long time, and I’m Irish!

    February 12, 2026 at 2:59 pm #230729
    Topcat
    Participant

    Welcome To The ‘EUSSR’: Unpopular European Regimes Grasping For Power Crack Down On Dissent

    Eurotrash Totalitarianism

    You can smell it in the wind.

    The EU lemmings are spineless, which is amazing considering they are supposedly mammals.

    Orwell rang their bells.

    Not enough IQ or integrity left in the whole Rump Continent.

    The EUturds are opening plotting to get rid of Orban even if the Hungarian people still want him AND elect him.

    February 12, 2026 at 3:12 pm #230730
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Software engineering used to be the pinnacle of intelligence. Now it’s the first job AI is replacing.

    I deeply appreciate how easy it is to mistake highly accurate high speed numerical calculations with low error rates for being some type of “intelligence”. But it is not, and to do so is a very very very very very serious mistake to make.

    In other words, AI is artificial alright, but it damned sure isn’t intelligent. An intelligent carpenter uses his hammer as a tool for driving nails. A considerably less intelligent carpenter invents a hammer that doesn’t just drive nails, it decides where to put them. Great way to drive that last nail in the lid of his own coffin.

    February 12, 2026 at 3:21 pm #230731
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I like to flatter myself in considering that I may be a contender for the metaphorical title of King of the Metaphorists and in any case I sure do like it more than I should, especially when I get to mix them together.

    February 12, 2026 at 3:25 pm #230732
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I bet if you asked Trump if he was humble that he would say he was the humblest person in the whole world, and that his humility was the most humble humility that anyone had ever seen.

    February 12, 2026 at 3:31 pm #230733
    zerosum
    Participant

    A Step Toward Escalation: Massive Strikes Again Target Energy Infrastructure
    MS For 2026.02.12

    February 12, 2026 at 3:36 pm #230734
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    On the topic of the true meaning of intelligence I find it ironic beyond words that the world is being run by so-called “Intelligence” agencies”, and “services”, and their Masters. Remember that Spy Masters are nothing but secretive spies themselves. They Masters are just the ones who got to the top of the heap by being the best ones at exercising that strategic and particular job skill. Another way to understand that is that they are the best at the job because they have to be, otherwise they get killed by the guy who wants their job.

    February 12, 2026 at 3:58 pm #230735
    D Benton Smith
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    The essence of covert intelligence (in the spy-world sense of the word “intelligence”) is in pretended beingness. It consists of pretending to be someone or something that one is not.

    It is amazingly effective in getting just about anything that you want, without having to actually do anything for it except lie and pretend. Thieves who know what they want (and they ALL want to have something for themselves, alone, without actually doing what it takes to make that thing will invariable pretend to be the guy who actually can make it and is generous in giving it away for free, so everybody just loves him.

    A government, for example, (which is known by all to be a den of liars and pack of thieves) can actually get people to actually still believe what they tell people, despite centuries of lies built of broken promises and false hopes. How do they manage to do that and get away with it like forever?

    They do it by pretending to be, and passing themselves off as, the truly good ones who actually do love all people and will sacrifice themselves to keep those loved ones adequately safe and healthy.

    Find the demon who is pretending to be an angel and you’ve found your culprit.

    February 12, 2026 at 4:17 pm #230736
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The video is self-explanatory. Enjoy.

    February 12, 2026 at 4:37 pm #230737
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Yes, who INDEED ordered the transfer of Ghislaine from High Security prison to Club Fed? Trump, of course. No one else could have had the authority to have made it happen and get away with it. Which raises a number of very serious “Why?” type questions that we all know the answer to but I sure would like to hear the answers spoken in public anyway.

    February 12, 2026 at 5:06 pm #230738
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Okay, the lid is FINALLY starting to come off, but we ain’t home yet because up ’til now the only necks on the Epstein block under the falling publicly legal opinion ax are a bunch of high profile Western oligarchs and bevy of big name politicians.

    So, Trump has been the Imperial child trafficking meat market sex criminal I/C, and now him and a few his Middle Management co-conspirators are being outed. That’s good. That’s real good, but it doesn’t really tell us much about what’s going to happen when the world’s population finds out that what Trump and Epstein were doing is pretty much the way the ENTIRE WORLD is run.

    That’s when things get Biblicly spicey.

    February 12, 2026 at 5:58 pm #230739
    Michael Reid
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    February 12, 2026 at 6:46 pm #230740
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    February 12, 2026 at 7:50 pm #230744
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    February 12, 2026 at 7:58 pm #230745
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    February 12, 2026 at 8:32 pm #230746
    Michael Reid
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    WES:

    Given your background,
    would you please analyze this

    February 12, 2026 at 9:34 pm #230747
    Michael Reid
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    February 13, 2026 at 12:10 am #230748
    Michael Reid
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    February 13, 2026 at 12:36 am #230749
    Michael Reid
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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-canada-us-f35-9.7059800

    February 13, 2026 at 12:43 am #230750
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    February 13, 2026 at 1:11 am #230751
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