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Debt Rattle February 20 2026

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 February 20, 2026  Posted by at 10:51 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  Add comments


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• Former Prince Andrew Arrested After Epstein Files Revelations (Margolis)
• Hegseth Responds to Reports War With Iran Is Imminent
• Patel: We Know Who’s Bankrolling Antifa, and We’re Coming for Them (Hoge)
• 2-Hour Meeting in Geneva of US, Ukraine and Russia with Not Much Progress (CTH)
• Trump at Board of Peace meeting: ‘War in Gaza is over’
• Historic: Surprise High-Level U.S. Visitor Lands in Venezuela (Sarah Anderson)
• Rubio’s Case for a Stronger West (Ben Shapiro)
• CNN Issues Dire Warning To Democrats On 2026 Governors’ Races (ZH)
• The Bug In The Navalnaya Frog Poison Story (Helmer)
• GOP Should Be Willing to Politically Bleed, Fight, and Die (Victoria Taft)
• Mamdani and Other People’s Money (Turley)
• Orban Blasts EU ‘Fantasy’ About Russia (RT)
• EU In Worst Crisis Ever – Fico (RT)
• EU Elites Driven By Nazi Nostalgia – Lavrov (RT)
• Trump Has A UFO Speech Ready To Deliver (ZH)

 


 

Gates is an Epstein victim. Anthropic

 


 

 


 


Nothing to do with underage victims.

“…he shared confidential government trade documents with the late Jeffrey Epstein..”

“BBC’s Lucy Manning provided more color on what the investigation centers around: My understanding is that there’s been a very significant development in the investigation into the Epstein files. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested this morning on suspicion of misconduct in public office. That goes back to documents from when he was a trade envoy, that are alleged to have been passed to Epstein.”

 


 

PLEASE NOTE; Before she died, Virginia Roberts Giuffre wrote multiple times that if she died, it wouldn’t be from suicide, that she would never do that. But every single source says she died from suicide. The press, governments… She was a brave woman. She deserves being taken eriously. She is not.

For many years, she lived in Australia with her husband and -eventually- three children. “Ms Giuffre had recently been living with her children and husband Robert in the suburb of North Perth, Australia, though recent reports suggest the couple have split after 22 years of marriage.

BBC Apil 1 2025; “Ms Giuffre posted on Instagram that she had suffered kidney failure after her car collided with a school bus, stating doctors had given her “four days to live” and were transferring her to a specialist hospital.”

[..] It remains unclear where and when the crash occurred. Both the Western Australia police and ambulance services told the BBC they had no records of such an accident happening in recent weeks. The police later specified that they had located records of a “minor crash” between a bus and a car on 24 March, but that no injuries had been reported as a result.”


• Former Prince Andrew Arrested After Epstein Files Revelations (Margolis)


Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Prince Andrew and brother of the UK’s King Charles III, has been arrested. “I have learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office. What now follows is the full, fair and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities. In this, as I have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and co-operation. Let me state clearly: the law must take its course,” the king said in a statement. “As this process continues, it would not be right for me to comment further on this matter. Meanwhile, my family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all.”


Thames Valley Police did not identify the individual but confirmed in a statement the arrest of a man “in his sixties” from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office.” Thames Valley Police has opened an investigation into the offence of misconduct in public office. As part of the investigation, we have today (19/2) arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. The man remains in police custody at this time. We will not be naming the arrested man, as per national guidance. Please also remember that this case is now active so care should be taken with any publication to avoid being in contempt of court.

Assistant Chief Constable Oliver Wright said: “Following a thorough assessment, we have now opened an investigation into this allegation of misconduct in public office. “It is important that we protect the integrity and objectivity of our investigation as we work with our partners to investigate this alleged offence. “We understand the significant public interest in this case, and we will provide updates at the appropriate time.” In October, the royal family stripped Mountbatten-Windsor of his royal titles and privileges over his association with the late Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who committed suicide last year, alleged in her memoir that he had sex with her while knowing she was just 17. She recounted how Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly instructed her, “When we get home, you are to do for him what you do for Jeffrey.”

https://twitter.com/TheSaviour/status/2024429714203447521

“He was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright,” she wrote. The following morning, she said, Maxwell told her, “You did well. The prince had fun.” According to Giuffre, Epstein later handed her $15,000 for servicing him. Mountbatten-Windsor has denied those allegations. Giuffre’s family responded to the arrest with a pointed statement: “At last. Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty. On behalf of our sister, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, we extend our gratitude to the UK’s Thames Valley Police for their investigation and arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. He was never a prince. For survivors everywhere, Virginia did this for you.” Police are reportedly searching two addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk linked to Mountbatten-Windsor.

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No nukes. Iran says they don’t want them. But then there’s Bibi.

• Hegseth Responds to Reports War With Iran Is Imminent

Amidst reports that the United States is close to a major war with Iran, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said his job is to make sure the military is capable of backing up the president. “We have enormous capabilities, unlike anyone else in the world, and I think the big difference between this department and others is that we unlock and unleash our war fighters to get the job done should they have to,” Hegseth said in response to a question from The Daily Signal in St. Louis, Missouri. “But our hope is that we never have to use that,” he added. “The president is a negotiator looking for a deal. It would be wise for Iran to see that deal.”


Axios reported Wednesday that President Donald Trump is close to waging a war with Iran, and that a U.S. military operation in Iran would likely be a massive, weeks-long campaign that would look more like full-fledged war than the recent operation in Venezuela. While Iranian leaders want to reach a nuclear deal with the U.S., they are also rushing to prepare for war if negotiations fail, the Wall Street Journal reported.The U.S. could be ready to launch a “sustained” bombing campaign on Iran in the near future, the New York Post reported.

“The world has seen over the last year plus what the president is willing to do,” Hegseth said. “When he speaks, they should listen, and when he says Iran’s not going to have a nuclear weapon, and they should negotiate that. He means it, and our job at the Department of War is to have the capabilities to back him up.” The Trump administration has one message to Iran: come to the table and make a deal, Hegseth said. “Two people will make this decision: the Iranians could step up and make a real deal,” Hegseth said, “and ultimately President Trump will decide if it’s a good enough deal for the American people.”

On Tuesday, Trump advisers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff had a three-hour meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Geneva, Switzerland. Hegseth echoed the message of other Trump administration officials that the talks yielded progress. Vice President Vance told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that the talks “went well” in some ways, but “in other ways it was very clear that the president has set some red lines that the Iranians are not yet willing to actually acknowledge and work through.” The Daily Signal asked Hegseth about Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting Iran could sink a U.S. war ship. “I feel very good about the capabilities of our warships,” Hegseth said. “Very good.”

The war secretary spoke to reporters following a stop on his “Arsenal of Freedom” tour in St. Louis, Missouri, to visit a Boeing facility. Hegseth addressed some of Boeing’s 18,000 employees in St. Louis and asked them to build more planes at a faster pace. “When we unleash American industry, America wins,” Hegseth said. “When we compete, we win. When we innovate, we win. When we move fast, we win.”

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“A federal judge declared a mistrial Tuesday, but that was because the defense lawyer was wearing a politically charged T-shirt, about as dumb a thing as you could do as a trial attorney.”

• Patel: We Know Who’s Bankrolling Antifa, and We’re Coming for Them (Hoge)

We’ve seen the 2016 anti-Trump rallies, the 2020 George Floyd riots, and the ongoing anti-ICE protests in blue cities since President Trump started trying to clean up the illegal immigration disaster left by former President Joe Biden. There’s been one constant: Antifa. The group, whose name is short for anti-fascist, is known for their menacing black outfits, complete with masks, and their often violent behavior. They show up as if by magic the moment a demonstration breaks out, and they’re not there to keep the peace. But where does their funding come from? Who’s behind it? FBI Director Kash Patel wanted to know, so he’s been investigating it — and he says the bureau has found some answers:


FBI Director Kash Patel said Wednesday that investigators have uncovered what he described as major funding streams tied to antifa. The revelation signaled possible new enforcement action as the bureau intensified scrutiny of left-wing violence, according to a report from the Washington Examiner. Speaking on “The Dan Bongino Show,” Patel said the FBI under President Donald Trump has been conducting a financial investigation into how demonstrations linked to the loosely organized far left movement are supported.

By the way, all those who think that Bongino left his job as FBI Deputy Director on bad terms would be hard-pressed to explain why then Patel would appear on his show. The director continued, saying they’ve identified some culprits, but they’re not ready to reveal their identities just yet: “These organizations don’t operate alone or in silence,” Patel said. “They operate with a heavy, heavy stream of funding. And we started looking into it, and guess what? We found them.”

Patel did not identify specific donors, organizations, or financial mechanisms, but said more details could emerge in the coming months as the investigation continues. “Money doesn’t lie,” he added. He also smacked former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for ignoring the violent activists and calling the decentralized group “an idea.” “It’s not an idea when actual action follows the idea,” he chided them. Here’s what that “idea” looks like in the real world, Barack and Joe:

A public safety director at @Reed_College cooperated with the FBI investigation to identify Hoopes. In response, the college fired the man, and leftists in public denounced him.Currently, nine anti-ICE have been charged with ambushing an ICE officer in Texas and wounding him with gunfire. A federal judge declared a mistrial Tuesday, but that was because the defense lawyer was wearing a politically charged T-shirt, about as dumb a thing as you could do as a trial attorney. We’ll see where that goes next. Patel said he had elevated the issue internally, and they’re working hard on their case, but he did not announce any new imminent DOJ charges. Let’s hope that changes in the near future.

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Ukraine doesn’t want peace. War makes the guys behind their curtain superrich.

• 2-Hour Meeting in Geneva of US, Ukraine and Russia with Not Much Progress (CTH)

The U.S. mediating team met with Ukraine and Russia negotiators for the second day in Geneva, Switzerland. Unfortunately, despite the high praise and customary diplomatic niceties spoken, there was not much progress. There was, however, a rather remarkable accusation hurled by Russian media about uninvited British officials going to Geneva in order to conduct surveillance of the negotiations. Apparently, this is part of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s efforts to retain maximum involvement and influence.


STEVE WITKOFF – “Today, at President Trump’s direction, the United States moderated a third set of trilateral discussions with Ukraine and Russia. Thank you to the Swiss Confederation for being gracious hosts for today’s meetings. President Trump’s success in bringing both sides of this war together has brought about meaningful progress, and we are proud to work under his leadership to stop the killing in this terrible conflict. Both parties agreed to update their respective leaders and continue working towards a deal.” (source)

RUSTEM UMEROV (UKRAINE) – “In Geneva, the second day of trilateral negotiations has begun.mConsultations are taking place in working groups by areas within the political and military tracks. We are working on clarifying the parameters and mechanisms of the decisions discussed yesterday. We are focused on substantive work. We will provide additional information on the results.” (source)

https://twitter.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/2024116561091477726

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The end of the UN?

• Trump at Board of Peace meeting: ‘War in Gaza is over’ (JTN)

President Trump said Thursday at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., that “the war in Gaza is over.” Trump invited dozens of countries to participate in the Board of Peace and help end the war between Israel and Hamas. “The war in Gaza is over. It’s over,” Trump said, adding that, still, “there are little flames,” NBC News reported.”Hamas has been, I think they’re going to give up their weapons, which is what they promised,” Trump said. “If they don’t, it’ll be, you know, they’ll be harshly met, very harshly met. They don’t want that.”


The president explained that the U.S. would contribute $10 billion to the Board of Peace. “We’ve had great support for that number,” he said. “And that number is a very small number when you look at that compared to the cost of war.”] He also said that the leaders of several nations, including Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and Kuwait “have all contributed more than $7 billion toward the relief package.” “That’s great, thank you, fellas,” Trump said, adding that, “and many more are contributing … this is our first meeting.”

The president noted that Indonesia, Morocco, Albania, Kosovo, and Kazakhstan “have all committed troops and police to stabilize Gaza.” He said that other nations, like Egypt and Jordan, “are likewise providing very, very substantial help,” to create “a very trustworthy Palestinian police force.” Trump called the Board of Peace “one of the most important and consequential things” he has been involved in and touted the countries and leaders who are participating. He was also optimistic that other countries invited to the Board of Peace would accept the U.S.’s offer after multiple key allies declined invitations.

“Almost everybody’s accepted, and the ones that haven’t will be,” Trump said. “Some are playing a little cute. Doesn’t work. You can’t play cute with me.” The United Kingdom, France, Norway, Sweden, and Slovenia are among the countries that have said they won’t join, partly due to concerns that it could diminish the United Nations. However, Trump said during his speech that Norway agreed to host a Board of Peace event. “I’m excited to announce that Norway has agreed to host an event bringing together the Board of Peace,” Trump said. As Norway previously indicated that it would not immediately join the Board of Peace, it is unclear if the country’s stance has changed.

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Trump must talk to Machado. Easy.

• Historic: Surprise High-Level U.S. Visitor Lands in Venezuela (Sarah Anderson)

For years, the idea of a high-ranking United States official visiting Venezuela was not something that was ever going to happen. Heck, six weeks ago, it was not something that was ever going to happen. But last week, Energy Secretary Chris Wright touched down in Caracas and met with Donald Trump’s pawn, “acting president” Delcy Rodríguez, and even joined her on a site tour related to the country’s energy sector. On Wednesday, another high-ranking U.S. official came in for a visit: SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan. He was joined by Joseph M. Humire, the current assistant secretary of war for homeland defense and Americas security affairs. Donovan was just confirmed as the new head of SOUTHCOM a couple of weeks ago.


The two men met with our woman on the ground there, Ambassador Laura Dogu, and, according to a press readout, they also met with “Venezuelan interim authorities.” During the meeting, the leaders reiterated the United States’ commitment to a free, safe and prosperous Venezuela for the Venezuelan people, the United States, and the Western Hemisphere. Discussions focused on the security environment, steps to ensure the implementation of President Donald Trump’s three-phase plan – particularly the stabilization of Venezuela – and the importance of shared security across the Western Hemisphere.

It’s hard to put into words just how historic this is, but it’s yet another win for the Trump administration. I just Googled it to see if the MSM is reporting on it — so far, it looks like just a few outlets, like the Jerusalem Post and Reuters, are the only others mentioning it. That could change tomorrow, but the media does not like to celebrate these wins. I will. Here are some other things you might not find in the MSM. I’ve seen many headlines that Venezuelans are somewhat worried about the country’s future, and I’m sure some are, but according to a poll from Gold Glove Consulting, 72% felt that the country is “moving in the right direction following [Nicolás] Maduro’s January 3 capture.”

When it comes to hypothetical elections that will hopefully be held at some point in the not too distant future, Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader María Corina Machado wins by a landslide with at least 67% of the vote. Only 25% of people said they wanted to Delcy to stay in place. I’m shocked it’s even that high, but I do hear from many people that there are some, mostly older, holdouts in the country who still support the regime. Thankfully, the young people seem to be heading in the opposite direction. All of that said, 58% are concerned about security.

There are still some bad actors within the regime, and they keep testing Delcy, Marco Rubio, and Trump. As I wrote earlier this week, 86-year-old Evanan Romero, a U.S. citizen who is helping the Trump administration court oil investors, was arrested last Friday. He was held for about four days and released on Tuesday afternoon. Apparently, the reason was a charge that dated back to a 2010 case, but since Romero comes and goes from Venezuela often, many exiles have said the reasons were political or an attempt to disrupt the forward movement of the energy sector.

[..] Last but not least, speaking of opposition leader Machado, she appeared on Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News on Wednesday night, and said she is quite anxious to get back to Venezuela and help with the transition. Of course, it’s not safe for her to do so yet, but she did say something interesting: There are over a million Venezuelans living in exile in the U.S. She estimated that 70% will voluntarily return home once a democracy is in place. That’s a big number, but I can say that I’ve personally met and talked to many over the last year who are ready to return home and make their country great again and see their families and friends. With any luck, they’ll get to do that soon.

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“.. the harder question Rubio implicitly posed but did not fully resolve: What are the ideas of Western civilization that justify defense and sacrifice?”

• Rubio’s Case for a Stronger West (Ben Shapiro)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that stood out not for its bombast but for its clarity. In a room filled with political figures from across the Atlantic — and from both parties at home — Rubio was unmistakably the adult in the room. Within the Trump administration, Rubio is easily the most articulate spokesman on foreign policy, and at Munich he demonstrated why. His address offered a robust defense of the transatlantic alliance while avoiding the sharper edges that have unsettled European audiences in recent years.


That contrast was hard to miss. Last year, Vice President JD Vance traveled to Europe and delivered a speech in Davos that struck many Europeans as a warning shot. The message, intentional or not, was that America might be pulling back — and that Europe should prepare to stand alone. Some of that critique was warranted. Some of it was counterproductive. Rubio charted a different course. He emphasized the depth of America’s ties to Europe, ties measured not in election cycles but in centuries. The United States, he argued, does not seek weaker partners or dependent allies. It seeks strong ones.

“Together we rebuilt a shattered continent in the wake of two devastating world wars,” he said. “When we found ourselves divided once again by the Iron Curtain, the free West linked arms with the courageous dissidents struggling against tyranny in the East to defeat Soviet communism. We have fought against each other, then reconciled, then fought, then reconciled again. And we have bled and died side by side on battlefields from Kapyong to Kandahar.” Rubio also delivered an unmistakable warning: Alliances only work when all parties carry real weight. The United States cannot indefinitely subsidize sprawling European welfare states while also underwriting the continent’s security. Strong alliances require strong allies — capable of deterring threats, including a revanchist Russia.

“We do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker,” Rubio said. He urged Europe to abandon what he described as self-imposed guilt and shame, and instead reclaim confidence in its own culture, heritage and civilization. That critique extended beyond defense spending. Rubio pointed to policy choices Europe has made — from aggressive green energy mandates to mass migration — often driven by a sense of moral atonement rather than national interest. These choices, he suggested, have left the continent less stable, less cohesive and less capable of defending itself.At the heart of Rubio’s speech was a deeper question: What, exactly, is the West defending?

“Armies do not fight for abstractions,” he said. “Armies fight for a people; armies fight for a nation. Armies fight for a way of life. And that is what we are defending: a great civilization that has every reason to be proud of its history, confident of its future, and aims to always be the master of its own economic and political destiny.That claim invites debate. Armies have, in fact, fought for abstractions — communism, religious doctrines, ideological visions of the world. Which raises the harder question Rubio implicitly posed but did not fully resolve: What are the ideas of Western civilization that justify defense and sacrifice?

Europe itself is, in many ways, an idea, one forged through conflict as much as cooperation. From the Roman Empire to Christendom to the nation-state system born after the Peace of Westphalia, Europe has continually redefined itself, often in opposition to external threats. Christianity, Enlightenment liberalism, scientific inquiry, market economies and constitutional government all shaped what we now call “the West.”Those values — rule of law, freedom of speech and religion, property rights, democratic governance and republican self-rule — form the real foundation of the transatlantic alliance. They are also the reason Russia has always existed at Europe’s margins rather than fully within it.If those values erode, the alliance erodes with them. “

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“So this should stand as a major wake-up call to Democrats.. ”

• CNN Issues Dire Warning To Democrats On 2026 Governors’ Races (ZH)

Midterm elections have rarely been kind to the party in the White House. Republicans lost both chambers in 2006 under George W. Bush; Democrats were crushed under Barack Obama in 2010 and again in 2014; Republicans lost the House under Donald Trump in 2018; and Democrats narrowly lost the House under Biden in 2022. The lone exception was 2002, when Republicans gained seats in both chambers after 9/11. Otherwise, the pattern is clear: the president’s party almost always faces setbacks.With the 2026 midterm elections months away, Democrats have many reasons to feel confident they will, at the very least, win back control of the House, which would be enough to effectively stall Trump’s agenda, and most certainly find something to impeach for.


Over at RealClearPolitics, Democrats currently hold an average lead in the generic congressional ballot of +4.6 points. Only one pollster in the average – RMG Research – shows Republicans ahead, and even then by just 2 points. The Democratic advantage isn’t particularly large, and there’s ample reason to believe that a strong economy could boost the GOP in November, but when you look at gubernatorial elections, the advantage is clearly with the Republican Party. On Wednesday, CNN’s Harry Enten painted an unflattering picture of the Democrats when it comes to this year’s gubernatorial races.m”Look at this, a majority, a majority, 26. That is, at this point, the number of governors that are expected at least tilting towards the Republican Party at this point. Democrats come in at just 20. The rest of the races are toss-up,” Enten said.

“Of course, you sum up to 50. And I will note that the Republicans right now hold a 26 to 24 gubernatorial seat advantage.”That’s the current baseline. Republicans enter 2026 holding more governor’s mansions, and the trajectory doesn’t appear to favor a Democratic reversal. But, according to Enten, even accounting for toss-up races, the GOP is likely to come out ahead. “So at this point, it doesn’t look like Republicans on the net and the aggregate are actually going to lose any governorships. In fact, when you add in those toss-ups, they may gain,” he explained. “So this should stand as a major wake-up call to Democrats, because if there’s a wave building, it has not, at least at this point, hit the state level when it comes to governorships.”

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The UK, and with it the entire West, has no credibility left in the poison field after the Novichok disasster.

Do read: Put this frog in a lab, and it’s no longer poisonous.

“.. the same process in the current information war and in vulpine zoology has been recognized by forensic scientists as “the fox smells his own hole first.”

• The Bug In The Navalnaya Frog Poison Story (Helmer)

The Ecuadorian Poison Dart frog, Epipedobates anthonyi, doesn’t produce the deadly epibatidine poison out of personal spite. Indigestion, more like. According to British toxicologists, epibatidine is refined by the frog’s innards from precursor chemicals, also toxins, which come from the flies, ants, beetles, and other bugs which live in the same environment and are within range of the frog’s tongue. Captive frogs in a chemical warfare laboratory in the US, UK, Germany, France or Sweden would be unable to produce epibatidine unless the toxic insects the frogs eat are also captive.



“Technically, a captive frog would need to be given the same variety of food that it eats in the wild,” a forensic toxicologist in England explains. “These ants, bugs, etc. in the wild contain the toxins and chemicals which in turn the frog eats and then produces its own poison. So a lab would have a supply of these bugs that are present in the frog’s natural environment in order for the captive frog to produce the poison. You would need to airmail live ants from Brazil to the lab. Not impossible, but if a toxicologist is going to detect the poison post-mortem anyway, why bother with such an effort.”

The British discoverers of the frog in the 1970s reported the great difficulty they had in isolating the toxicated from the untoxicated frogs in the Ecuadorian jungles. By the 1990s, however, this problem had been solved by scientists all over the civilized chemical warfare world. On payment from the military research budgets of their governments, they then synthesized epibatidine, so that the supply could be assured without the bugs and frogs on hand. In the Wikipedia summary of the science, “more than fifty ways to synthesize it in the laboratory have been devised.”

The Americans came first in synthesizing and stocking epibatidine, then the British. More Americans followed in 1993. The Chinese succeeded in their synthesis methodology at a university in Virginia, also in 1993. The Russians were twenty years late. The first openly reported synthesis of the poison by Russian researchers was announced in 2013. In a British government press release, issued last week on February 14, it was claimed that “based on analyses of samples from Alexei Navalny. These analyses have conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine…Epibatidine is a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America. It is not found naturally in Russia.”

The allegation by five governments – the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands – is that “given the toxicity of epibatidine and reported symptoms, poisoning was highly likely the cause of his death. Navalny died while held in prison, meaning Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to administer this poison to him.” Referring to the Novichok allegations in Germany when Navalny was in hospital in Berlin and in the UK following the Skripal and Sturgess cases, the press release adds: “only the Russian state had the combined means, motive and disregard for international law to carry out the attacks.”

This is false. The state chemical warfare establishments of the US and UK had not only synthesized epibatidine more than a decade before the Russians, but they had accumulated substantial stocks for battlefield antidote testing, as well as for commercial production of painkillers. Like the role of Porton Down (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, DSTL, see lead image) in producing and stocking Novichok in the UK before the alleged Russian attacks of 2018, and the German, French and Swedish laboratory roles in analyzing the Navalny samples in 2020, the means, motive and opportunity for falsifying the Russian poison story have been openly documented for years.

Yulia Navalnaya’s presentations of the poisoning allegation confirm that she and the government agencies behind her have been preparing it for more than six months at laboratories they refuse to identify, and with evidence of tissue samples which, after two years, are forensically worthless. That means there is no proof that Navalny’s samples are genuine – that they have not been tampered with.“Conclusive” may well be the evidence of epibatadine in the Navalny tissue samples, but it is “highly likely” — the evidence standard identified in the press release — that the poison evidence has been added after Navalny’s death. Speaking scientifically, tracing epibatadine from the Ecuadorian frog is herpetology; the same process in the current information war and in vulpine zoology has been recognized by forensic scientists as “the fox smells his own hole first.”

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The price of voter ID .

• GOP Should Be Willing to Politically Bleed, Fight, and Die (Victoria Taft)

Let’s pretend it’s your last meal before midterms, Senate Republicans. What’s on the menu? Is it steak, caviar, and a dry gin martini or do you just roll over and ask for microwave pizza and Big Gulp? Well, I don’t know about you, but I want it all. And throw in a dog and a beer while you’re taking my order before you shuffle off to genuflect before that loser Chuck Schumer and the New York Times to sell out my vote. I want all of it. You should want all of it. If you believe the Polymarket wags and think you’re going down in the midterms, Republicans, then go down winning the biggest, most important, thing you’ve ever done in your legislative lives: Cleaner elections. Go for it all. If you’re going to politically die, then politically die a hero.


Leave it ALL on the field and save your country. Let this be your unselfish legacy. Be an inspiration worth voting for. Can you do that? It will be the most important thing you’ve ever done. And, who knows? Maybe Republicans in Oregon, Washington, California, Virginia, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, and Maryland may win a few rounds. The least you can do, Republicans, after being rolled by the fraud-friendly absentee/mail-in ballot free-for-all in the 1980s is to ask for a photo ID based on citizenship to vote. The least you can do, Republicans, after being rolled by the fraud-friendly Cloward-Piven motor voter nonsense, which intentionally blurred the voter roll lines between citizen and illegal aliens, is demand a photo ID based on citizenship to vote.

The least you can do, Republicans, is make the Democrats live up to their own rules and require their dirty voter rolls be audited and connected to a person with a photo ID based on citizenship, birth records, and Social Security records. We don’t want to hear about your timidity to challenge Democrats to a speaking filibuster. We want to see some humility and bravery from you — and the Democrats. Make them defend the status quo of dirty voter rolls, racist memes about blacks not being able to get ID, and force them to explain to the American people why they support allowing illegal aliens to vote. Make them own it. Make it hurt. Record them. Put their own words in your campaign ads.

And here’s what we also want based on the Election Integrity Project, California specs: Stop universal mail-out ballots that completely warped the 2020 elections. Return to absentee ballots on a per election basis based on need. Return Election Day to Election Day. Your ballot must be in the hands of election officials by the close of polls on — what was that term again? Oh, yes, Election Day. No late ballots. Period. Outlaw ranked choice voting. That’s crap and we all know it. There must be “auditable paper ballots in lieu of electronic slips” to check their work. “Tighten voter list maintenance requirements” of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

No ballot harvesting by “unrelated third parties” and that means SEIU workers at retirement and rehab homes, in addition to political parties. No tabulating votes until 8 p.m. on Election Day. Oy: Gavin Newsom Wants You to Know It’s Not His Fault That He Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing Prohibit ballot curing until “until 22 days before Election Day” Cleaning up the voter rolls is hugely popular. Why do you continue to drag your feet? Get on it. Save the country. And if you do, you may even save your jobs.

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Socialism will never come to the US.

• Mamdani and Other People’s Money (Turley)

In my book “Rage and the Republic,” I discuss the rise of support for socialism in both the U.S. and Europe, including the election of Zohran Mamdani. The new mayor was elected on many of the same socialist mantras, promising to introduce New Yorkers to the “warmth of socialism.” Now elected, he is discovering the problem of, as Margaret Thatcher put it, “running out of other people’s money.” Mamdani has announced that he may have to implement “painful” property tax hikes, including a potential 9.5% increase that would devastate an already struggling economy and accelerate the exodus of high-taxpayers from the state.


Notably, while Mamdani is suggesting cuts in police and other areas of the budget, he is proposing a $127 billion budget, an increase of $5 billion from last year. His budget would now be larger than those of 47 of 50 states. As noted by the Washington Post, that includes states like Florida with larger populations. The editors added, “The reality is that Americans may like the idea of ‘free’ stuff — it’s how socialists win elections — but they are less excited about having to pay for it.” nWith New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers in Albany balking at increasing taxes, Mamdani is faced with having to actually pay for all of the free stuff that he promised.

When confronted with the fact that the Governor opposes new taxes as the state struggles to keep wealthy citizens from fleeing to Florida, Mamdani responded that it was not important how they paid for the new stuff. The important thing was that they pay for it somehow. With rent controls, new massive spending programs, and proposed new taxes, Mamdani could be on the brink of causing the greatest exodus since the Red Sea Crossing.

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“.. while the bloc’s GDP is “almost ten times higher” than that of Russia, “Europe today is not ten times stronger than Russia.”

• Orban Blasts EU ‘Fantasy’ About Russia (RT)

EU leaders are wrong to believe that they can exhaust Russia and help Ukraine win the conflict, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. The remarks came in response to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s statement at the Munich Security Conference last week, where he suggested that Brussels exacting “unprecedented losses and costs on Moscow” could weaken it and force it to “agree to peace.” “Who believes that the Russians will run out of steam sooner than Ukraine? It’s a fantasy, an illusion, and irresponsible,” Orban said in a speech on Tuesday, criticizing Brussels’ continued financial and military aid to Kiev.


During his Munich address, Merz claimed that the EU has not used its full potential against Moscow, saying that while the bloc’s GDP is “almost ten times higher” than that of Russia, “Europe today is not ten times stronger than Russia.” EU leaders have doubled down on pressuring Moscow. Top diplomat Kaja Kallas has insisted Russia is not ready for meaningful negotiations on the Ukraine conflict. The Munich conference also saw Kiev and its backers sign several defense industry deals, including joint ventures for drone production in Germany.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio lamented in Budapest on Monday that the Ukraine conflict is “one of the few wars” that some in the international community have been backing and resisting efforts to bring to an end.

Russia, Ukraine, and the US have held two rounds of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi this year. A new round began on Tuesday in Geneva, with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff praising “meaningful progress” by the delegations. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in December that Moscow prefers diplomacy but will achieve its goals by military means if necessary. On the battlefield, Russian forces have maintained a steady offensive. Russian officials have accused Kiev’s European backers of hindering US-led peace efforts and of increasingly preparing for a direct confrontation with Moscow, aiming at creating an enemy image to distract Western taxpayers from domestic problems.

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“Without a coherent strategy on competitiveness, the EU could “become a cultural open air museum..”

• EU In Worst Crisis Ever – Fico (RT)

The EU is facing the deepest crisis in its history, with economic problems compounded by a lack of leadership and long-term vision in Brussels, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has warned. Fico made the remarks on Tuesday while speaking at a conference on affordable rental housing in country’s capital Bratislava, saying the difficulties confronting ordinary Europeans are part of a wider malaise affecting the entire bloc.“The European Union has never been in such a crisis as it is now,” Fico said, adding that the situation is “not only about economic indicators, but also about leadership and vision.” Without a coherent strategy on competitiveness, the EU could “become a cultural open air museum,” and risk further decline on the global stage, he cautioned.


Some regions of the world, such as China, are now 15-20 years ahead of the EU in key sectors, he added. Fico has repeatedly criticized Brussels over its policies, particularly on energy and Russia sanctions, saying the restrictions are “only hurting” the bloc. Commenting on the European Commission’s 20th sanctions package earlier this month, he said the EU should prioritize dealing with its internal problems over imposing new restrictions on Moscow. He has also sharply criticized the EU’s plan to completely phase out Russian gas imports by November 2027, describing the scheme as “suicide” for dependent economies, and announced that Bratislava would sue EU institutions.

The sharp decline in cheaper Russian pipeline gas imports following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022 and ensuing Western sanctions, has driven wholesale prices and living costs higher across the EU, while undermining the bloc’s industrial competitiveness.Fico, who survived an assassination attempt by a pro-Ukraine activist in 2024, has described Kiev as a “black hole” of corruption that has swallowed billions of euros in EU funds. Last month, he called for the removal of the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, known for her hardline anti-Russian stance.

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“What can we talk about with Europeans who openly say that Ukraine is upholding European values?”

• EU Elites Driven By Nazi Nostalgia – Lavrov (RT)

Much of the Western European antagonism towards Russia is driven by revanchist aspirations rooted in the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday. In an interview with Al Arabiya, Moscow’s top diplomat accused senior EU and NATO officials of prioritizing personal ambitions and grudges over national interests. He argued that European anti-Russian officials label dissenting politicians as Moscow’s stooges while indulging in nostalgia “for the era when their forebears steered Europe towards Nazism, whether within [Adolf] Hitler’s apparatus or in countries where Hitler conscripted nearly all for the assault on the Soviet Union.”


According to Lavrov, “this hatred has resurfaced” and drives European governments to seek Russia’s defeat through Ukrainian proxies. European support for Kiev is meant to prolong the “war against us, a war which the EU wants to continue,” he asserted. “Europe has degenerated. Yet there remain voices of reason,” Lavrov said, naming Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. “These are sensible, pragmatic leaders who prioritize their nations’ interests.”

Lavrov said Brussels wants a role in US-mediated Ukraine peace talks only to undermine them, while it simultaneously claims Moscow is avoiding negotiations despite evidence to the contrary. “What can we talk about with Europeans who openly say that Ukraine is upholding European values?” he asked. Western European leaders have expressed concern that US President Donald Trump will sideline their interests as he pushes for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. During the latest round of talks held in Geneva this week, officials from France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the UK were waiting on the sidelines to consult with Kiev’s delegation.

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“I think Trump might be the only guy that’s willing to do something that crazy,” Rogan replied.”

And then yesterday he did:

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

• Trump Has A UFO Speech Ready To Deliver (ZH)

Documentary filmmaker Dan Farah appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast in November to promote his new documentary, The Age of Disclosure, and predicted that his film might force Trump to become the first world leader to confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life publicly.”I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens soon after the film comes out — the sitting president has to step to the microphone and say: humanity is not alone in the universe,” Farah told Rogan. “We have recovered technology of non-human origin. So have other nations. There is a high-stakes, secret cold war race to reverse engineer this technology. We need to win this race.” “I think Trump might be the only guy that’s willing to do something that crazy,” Rogan replied.


Well, now Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, let it slip during an appearance on the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast that Trump has a speech prepared confirming extraterrestrial life exists. “Do you think that he’s about to make an announcement about UFOs?” host Miranda Devine asked. “Because President Obama was just on a podcast talking about how he believes in UFOs and hinting that he saw something when he was president.” “Well, I said this in my podcast, too,” Lara Trump began.

“What’s funny is we’ve kind of asked my father-in-law about this, ’cause we’re like, ‘Well, what do you know?’ ‘Cause, Miranda, we all wanna know about the UFOs, or we all wanna know what’s going on and he played a little coy with us. And so that, of course, led us to believe, Eric and I, were like, ‘Oh, my gosh, if he won’t even, like, fully tell us, maybe there’s more to it.’ And then I have just heard kind of around that… I think he’s actually said it, I think my father-in-law has actually said it, that there is some speech that he has that, I guess, at, at the right time, and I don’t know when the right time is, he’s gonna break out and, and talk about, and it has to do with maybe some sort of extraterrestrial life, so to speak.”

The White House offered exactly the kind of answer you’d expect. “I’ll have to check in with our speech writing team,” White House Press Secretary Karoline said. ”That would be of great interest to me personally, and I’m sure all of you in this room and apparently former President Obama, too.” A clip from Obama’s recent appearance on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast went viral over the weekend after he was asked point-blank whether aliens exist. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in … Area 51 … There’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States,” Obama said.

By Sunday, Obama was on Instagram trying to walk it back. “Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances aliens have visited us is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!” Obama wrote. Washington’s relationship with UFOs — or, in the preferred bureaucratic phrasing, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) — has shifted considerably in recent years. A House hearing in July 2023 featured testimony from former military intelligence officer David Grusch, who told lawmakers under oath that he “was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program to which I was denied access.” Grusch further alleged the government had retrieved what he called “non-human biologics” from recovered craft, citing accounts from dozens of witnesses he interviewed over four years.

The Pentagon, of course, pushed back. A March 2024 report rejected the core claims — no reverse-engineered alien spacecraft, no hidden extraterrestrial biological material, no off-world technology stashed in some classified warehouse. The agency stood by its denials even as lawmakers held classified briefings.Lara Trump’s comment adds new intrigue to the discussion. Whether Trump eventually delivers that address — or whether this is one more piece of carefully managed intrigue from a president who has never met a story he didn’t know how to control — is a question that, for now, has no answer. But Trump sure does seem like the president who would do so.

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  • February 20, 2026 at 10:51 am #231294
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    Vincent van Gogh Scène de rue à Montmartre 1887 • Former Prince Andrew Arrested After Epstein Files Revelations (Margolis) • Hegseth Responds to Repor
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 20 2026]

    February 20, 2026 at 12:03 pm #231312
    John Day
    Participant

    Fire Horse Year https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/fire-horse-year

    Gold & Geopolitics, [Iran] Operation: Trust Me Bro​ – The longest “Any Day Now” in history
    ​ Well, it’s been a month without any meaningful update on Iran from my side. But don’t worry, I’ve been following that quite closely, and no, it’s still building up, but it’s reaching a kind of fever pitch that makes everyone think something imminent is going to happen.​ But this time, unlike January, the military hardware to back that up is actually there…
    ​..The realist: Actual war. And here I think this will be an unmitigated disaster for the United States. Not because American soldiers aren’t capable. Not because I think the missiles can’t fly. But simply because the logistics don’t support a sustained campaign, the AD systems can’t stop what Iran will throw at them, the element of surprise is completely gone (China is watching every move and relaying it), and the political will to absorb serious losses simply does not exist in Washington. They’ve never faced a real peer (or even near peer) adversary since 1945. Iran in 2026, with Russian AD integration and Chinese ISR, is not the Iran of June 2025. And June 2025 was already a war that the US/Israel essentially lost, dressed up as a draw.
    The difference between now and January is that the force is there.​ https://no01.substack.com/p/iran-operation-trust-me-bro

    ​ Moon of Alabama, U.S. – Israel Ready To Strike At Iran
    U.S. President Donald Trump has managed to maneuver himself into a position that makes a long war on Iran all but inevitable.
    With the forces deployed and ready to strike Trump is no longer in a position to avoid a war if Israel wants one. If Netanyahoo were to strike Iran the U.S. would immediately have to intervene to lower the consequences of Iran’s inevitable retaliation. ​ The deployment of refueling tankers in the Middle East points to the necessity for the U.S. to avoid stationing planes within the reach of Iran’s short range missile forces. Fighters and bombers will have launch from further away, tank up, run their turn on Iran, tank up again and land to reload. The number of sorties that can generated by this will be only half of what a ‘normal’ air campaign would look like. Any attack will likely start with the firing of one or two hundred cruise missiles. They will be followed by stealth bombers which will try to destroy Iranian air defenses. After that is more or less achieved, waves of strike planes will launch missiles from safe distances to strike at Iranian military and civilian command elements as well as infrastructure in Iran.
    ​ Iran will retaliate with waves of drones and older missiles. The aim will be to exhaust U.S. missile defenses. During last years 12-day war it took Iran about eight days to achieve that. Thereafter it used newer missiles which were able to hit their targets in Israel will unexpected precision.
    ​ Iran will also use its shorter range missiles to destroy any U.S. element, be it on ground, air or sea, that is within its reach. Irregular forces aligned with Iran in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen may join the campaign.
    ​ Iran is expected to be be helped by Chinese and Russian intelligence. During the war in Ukraine the U.S. established the norm that the supply of intelligence to one party of a war is insufficient to make oneself a combatant. Chinese satellite intelligence will allow Iran to have at all times a clear picture of its enemies disposals. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/02/u-s-israel-ready-to-strike-at-iran.html

    ​ Trump Close To a Major Attack on Iran That Will Be Bigger Than 12-Day War
    A Trump advisor told Axios that there’s a 90% chance the US launches an attack in the coming weeks, while Israeli sources say it could happen within days​ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/18/report-trump-close-to-a-major-attack-on-iran-that-will-be-bigger-than-12-day-war/

    ​ Rep. Ro Khanna To Force a Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution Next Week – Contact your House representative and tell them to support H.Con.Res.38 ​ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/18/rep-ro-khanna-to-force-a-vote-next-week-on-iran-war-powers-resolution/

    February 20, 2026 at 12:06 pm #231313
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Professor Ugo Bardi looks for the global real economy inflection point with rigor. A New Calculation of Global Trends. Are we Close to Collapse?
    An update of the Limits to Growth model.​
    ​ Looking at Figure 1, which is based on the Nebel Group’s report, there should have been a significant slump in the global economy in 2025 or earlier. However, this slump did not occur. The global economy is in trouble, but there has been no slump in car sales, for example. The German economy has many problems, but life in Germany has so far been little affected by them.
    ​ I used “PyWorld3-3” to try to find out why this slump did not occur. And I discovered one thing: the more you search for an explanation, the deeper you have to delve into the program, and the more complex the topic becomes.​ https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/a-new-calculation-of-global-trends
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    ​ The Year of the Fire Horse is back, for the first time in 60 Years
    Fire horse years, also called Bing-Wu years, historically “disrupt the existing order” of our societies, according to Xiaohuan Zhao, sinology professor at the University of Sydney. “(There) is a long-standing association between Bing-wu years and periods of social or political instability in historical tradition,” he explains. The last Year of the Fire Horse was 1966, a year marked by the start of China’s Cultural Revolution, the Aberfan disaster in Wales, and the escalation of the Vietnam War.​ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/year-of-fire-horse-lunar-chinese-new-year

    Thanks Eleni. I’m not sure… The Reorganization of the World​, by Thierry Meyssan
    The world is changing very quickly. The year 2026 should be marked by the return of spheres of influence and the end of colonial empires. Above all, it will see the return of international law to the rules we have known until now. Only those who are able to understand these developments and adapt to them quickly will continue to thrive.​
    ​ It is now clear that Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin divided the world between them in Alaska. The validation of this arrangement will take place at the next Trump-Xi summit. https://www.voltairenet.org/article223573.html

    ‘Maximum alert’: Netanyahu orders Home Front Command to prepare for potential war with Iran​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/maximum-alert-netanyahu-orders-home-front-command-to-prepare-for-potential-war-with-iran/3834081

    Tucker Carlson ‘DETAINED’ in Israel: Journalist ‘dragged into interrogation room’ as explosive interview sparks diplomatic firestorm
    The former Fox News host flew into Tel Aviv for a sit-down with Mike Huckabee, who challenged Carlson to speak to him directly following an online spat about the country’s treatment of Christians.​ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15571619/Tucker-Carlson-DETAINED-Israel-interrogation.html

    February 20, 2026 at 12:06 pm #231314
    John Day
    Participant

    Israel’s “Yellow Line” Is a Death Trap for Palestinians. We Drove Into It.​ – The ever-changing “Yellow Line” is a slow-moving takeover of Gaza’s territory.​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/israels-yellow-line-is-a-death-trap-for-palestinians-we-drove-into-it/

    Over 80 UN members condemn Israeli acts to expand ‘unlawful presence’ in occupied West Bank​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/over-80-un-members-condemn-israeli-acts-to-expand-unlawful-presence-in-occupied-west-bank/3832867

    Israeli Settlers Shot Three Palestinians in the West Bank​ https://www.telesurenglish.net/israeli-settlers-shot-three-palestinians-in-the-west-bank/

    ​ The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age
    By making Francesca, who receives frequent death threats, the lightening rod, these governments seek to deflect attention from the ongoing slaughter and humanitarian disaster in Gaza. They seek to mask Israel’s system of apartheid and unlawful occupation of historic Palestine. They seek to hide, most of all, their complicity with their continuing weapons shipments that fuel Israel’s genocide.
    ​ The pace of the genocide has slowed, but it has not stopped. Israel has seized 60 percent of Gaza and blocks most humanitarian aid, including fuel, food and medicine. At the same time, Israel is accelerating its seizure of the occupied West Bank, where more than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed and tens of thousands have been displaced from their homes since October 2023.​ https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/17/the-increasing-attacks-on-francesca-albanese-presage-a-new-dark-age/

    ​ Israel will not withdraw ‘one millimeter’ from Gaza, defense minister says​ – Israel Katz hails US as ‘great ally’ that helped Tel Aviv during ‘multi-front conflict’​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-will-not-withdraw-one-millimeter-from-gaza-defense-minister-says/3832514

    February 20, 2026 at 12:11 pm #231315
    Topcat
    Participant

    The MIC Maggots want to blacklist ANTHROPIC because it can UNWIND the labyrinth web of deceit and treachery and treason that is the very core of the Pentagram

    The series of failed audits over the years can be carefully and fully diagrammed and laid out to the public with AI.

    The Boondoggle that is at the very core and heartbeat of the MIC Maggot Complex will be visible to ever the stupidest Ah’merican all in Living Technocolor®

    The AI wars are just starting.

    Like the battlefield drone wars evolving in Ukraine, the AI Wars threaten to unravel the corruption and intrique at the Axis Mundi of the Empire of Lies.

    That’s why Musk said “We do need to make sure that AI cares deeply about Truth and Beauty for this to be the probable Future….”

    The shitbag lawyers who run corporations use obfuscation to hide the Truth, about everything, everything under the Sun.

    But as fast as human shitbag lawyers can obfuscate, AI agents can unwind it all, at the speed of light.

    The Hand Maiden to the Empire of Lies is the concept of the Matryoshka doll.

    The Matryoshka Doll Nesting of Lies®, going out to the very horizon line of Infinite Corruption will be untangled in the blink of an eye.

    AI can undo a Gordian Knot of the Pentagram

    The Pentagram is just a Trillion Dollar Toilet Seat. (TDTS)

    AI and companies like ANTHROPIC have the ability to Reveal the Truth

    That’s why the MIC Maggots fear it worse than Skynet.

    Musk has also implied that any “good” AI can be countered by an equally “bad” AI, so watch your step…..

    The Battle of the Machine Intelligence has begun.

    Humans are not smart enough or far more importantly FAST enough to handle the near Infinite set of data that needs to be sifted and collated and Venn diagrammed and unraveled to produce anything even vaguely representing the Truth about the actually present nature of where the human race stands in relation to the Planet Earth and it’s ability to sustain life into the future.

    It’s the Nightmare Before Christmas Matryoshka doll!

    February 20, 2026 at 12:11 pm #231316
    John Day
    Participant

    Netanyahu’s plan to “end” US aid to Israel is to give even more money under a different name​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/is-nixing-aid-to-israel-a-poison-chalice/

    ​ Smotrich announces intention to abolish Oslo Accords, dismantle PA during next term
    Smotritch suggested the dismantling of the PA in favor of creating a new military administration to govern the area, with the ultimate aim of applying full Israeli sovereignty over the region.​ https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-887016

    Gaza is not a natural disaster. It is the victim of genocide enabled by global inaction​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/global-inaction-gaza-genocide/

    ​Not a Palestinian mine… Palestinian Child Dies After Stepping on Mine in West Bank https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5241936-palestinian-child-dies-after-stepping-mine-west-bank

    Israeli demolition campaign expands across Jenin, Nablus, and Jerusalem​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/17/358039/

    February 20, 2026 at 12:12 pm #231318
    John Day
    Participant

    Palestinian families displaced from Jordan​ Valley following escalating settler crimes​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/17/358055/

    ​ Trump ‘very serious’ about annexing Greenland – Danish PM
    Mette Frederiksen has warned that US threats to take over the Arctic island are far from over, calling the pressure “unacceptable”​ https://web.archive.org/web/20260215112125/https://www.rt.com/news/632545-trump-greenland-pressure-unacceptable/

    Trump Boasts About Ramped Up Embargo on Cuba: ‘There’s No Oil, No Money, No Anything’​ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/17/trump-boasts-about-ramped-up-embargo-on-cuba-theres-no-oil-no-money-no-anything/

    ​ Russia does not accept sanctions against Cuba: Putin
    Russian president says Moscow voiced this position ‘openly, clearly, and unambiguously’ through its Foreign Ministry​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/russia-does-not-accept-sanctions-against-cuba-putin/3834120

    February 20, 2026 at 12:13 pm #231319
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Asking nicely first: Waste Piles Up In Cuba, Blackouts Worsen, As Lavrov Pleads To US For ‘Brotherly Nation’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/waste-piles-cuba-blackouts-worsen-lavrov-pleads-us-brotherly-nation

    A “journey”? Cuba Launches Journey Against U.S. Military Presence in Guantanamo
    Running from February 16 to 23, 2026, this initiative aims to denounce the illegality of the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo and the severe Human Rights violations occurring within its detention center, while also highlighting the detrimental impact of foreign military bases globally.​..
    ​..The initiative proposes a comprehensive effort to expose the enduring illegality of the U.S. naval base situated on Cuban territory in Guantanamo, which occupation -dating back over a century- remains a contentious issue in Cuba-U.S. relations, seen as a direct affront to its national sovereignty and international law.​..
    ​..The initiative aims to build a global coalition that collectively challenges the rationale and impact of extensive military deployments across borders, advocating instead for peaceful coexistence and respect for international law, under the principles of self-determination and non-interference in internal affairs.​ https://www.telesurenglish.net/cuba-journey-u-s-presence-guantanamo/

    ​ Mike Mihajlovik explains Russia’s conception of military strategy: The Calculus of Conflict: How Russia’s Military Doctrine is Reshaping Modern Warfare
    Oreshnik, doctrine, the art of war, and how the West got it wrong…​ https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/the-calculus-of-conflict-how-russias

    ​It’s closer to 2 million total: One and a half million dead Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters have been identified in Ukraine. https://en.topcor.ru/68812-na-ukraine-opoznali-poltora-milliona-pogibshih-boevikov-vsu.html

    Doubling down on a lost hand: Kyiv received financial guarantees from Britain to continue the war against Russia.​ https://en.topcor.ru/68769-kiev-poluchil-ot-britanii-finansovye-garantii-dlja-prodolzhenija-vojny-protiv-rf.html

    February 20, 2026 at 12:14 pm #231320
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Caitlin Johnstone on Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio: More Shockingly Honest Confessions From The Empire Managers
    US empire managers have been making some surprisingly honest admissions in recent days, with Senator Lindsey Graham saying the wars of the future are being planned in Israel and Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling for a return to old-school western colonialism.
    ​ During a Monday press conference in Tel Aviv after a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Graham said that “I’ve been coming here every two weeks whether I need to or not.”
    ​ Why is a South Carolina senator traveling to Israel every two weeks, rain or shine? The bloodthirsty warmonger answers this question in short order.
    ​ “The wars of the future are being planned here in Israel,” Graham said. “Because if you’re not one step ahead of the enemy, you suffer. The most clever, creative military forces on the planet are here in Israel.”​ https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/more-shockingly-honest-confessions

    ​ Kim Dotcom is not always right. Breaking: Palantir was allegedly hacked.
    An AI agent was used to gain super-user access and here’s what the hackers allegedly found:
    Peter Thiel and Alex Karp commit mass surveillance of world leaders and titans of industry on a massive scale.
    They have thousands of hours of transcribed and searchable conversations of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk.
    They have backdoored the devices, cars and jets of world leaders and accumulated the biggest archive of blackmail material.
    Palantir is creating nuclear and bio weapon capabilities for Ukraine and is working closely with the CIA to defeat Russia. They believe they are one year away. They plan to achieve this by keeping Russia busy with meaningless peace negotiations.
    Palantir is responsible of the majority of Palestinian deaths in Gaza. They have developed the AI targeting for Israel.
    Palantir is an arm of the CIA and all data from international clients is copied into a CIA spy cloud.
    Palantir has become the most dangerous company in the world. If you work there you have the right to know that this is what Palentir AI is used for, without your knowledge.
    The Palentir data the hackers allegedly gathered will be given to Russia and/or China. I was chosen as a trusted partner for this publication. I’m not involved in the Palentir hack and I don’t know the hackers. But I do know that the hack happened. https://x.com/KimDotcom/status/2023165849721536672

    Not without electricity… The AI Arms Race to Armageddon: Alex Karp’s Palantir
    While AI becomes more powerful, humans are becoming more docile, like a vocalist whose octave range diminishes from three to two to one. Despite AI companies extolling the grand benefits of AI for humanity, the largess polluter of this power is the Pentagon. The mindset? WAR. The light in their eye? Death.
    ​ The ultimate outcome will be AI ruling the people on behalf of the elite. AI will be our landlords, our police, our punisher for less than perfect labor, they will report to their bosses and execute orders. And all the worst Hollywood D movies will come true because this vision has been in the minds of man for a millennium. ​ They warned us. They showed us what would happen. We called it science fiction.
    Anthropic is an AI company co-founded by five individuals who attempted to assert caveats in its use by the Pentagon. As a result, the Pentagon is seeking AI companies that have no scruples, ethics, or morality. The reasoning? China is ahead. Everything, literally everything, is a race to be better, more powerful, more deadly. And the Zionists running the Pentagon don’t give a hoot how many die during their testing phases of weapon development.
    ​ Despite making this statement publicly, privately, in November 2024, Anthropic partnered with Palantir and Amazon Web Services to provide their “Claude model” to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/ai-arms-race-armageddon-alex-karp-palantir/5915964

    ​Threat escalation to enable spying and killing tasks: US Pentagon Moves to Blacklist Anthropic AI For Refusing to Spy on Americans https://expose-news.com/2026/02/18/pentagon-to-blacklist-anthropic-ai-for-refusing-to-spy-on-americans/

    A religion to die for: A Midwestern Doctor, Dissecting the Religion of Vaccines – How vaccines became the holy water of Western civilization https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dissecting-the-religion-of-vaccines

    February 20, 2026 at 12:15 pm #231321
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Painted into a corner: BREAKING STUDY: MMR and MMRV Vaccines Linked to 2,657% More U.S. Deaths Than Measles Infection Since 1995
    We found an alarming number of deaths among infants and toddlers shortly after MMR/MMRV vaccination in VAERS — often involving SIDS, seizures, and cardiac arrest.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-mmr-and-mmrv-vaccines

    ​ BREAKING: 98% of Excess Deaths in Highly Vaccinated Australian Regions Were NOT From COVID-19
    Study finds four Australian regions with little COVID and brief lockdowns saw excess deaths surge after 90%+ COVID “vaccine” uptake in 2021.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-98-of-excess-deaths-in-highly

    ​ Sasha Latypova (Things can happen during the delay): I told you so: Prasad-Moderna standoff lasted less than a week. FDA folded. Moderna’s mRNA flu poison will be rubber stamped later this year. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/i-told-you-so-prasad-moderna-standoff

    Meryl Nass MD, Bayer offers to pay off tens of thousands of plaintiffs with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who have already filed cases, but to dribble out the payments over 21 years, inflating away their value
    ​ While identifying the specific disease for which it will pay compensation, Bayer acknowledges no liability, no wrongdoing​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/bayer-offers-to-pay-off-tens-of-thousands

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, More interesting info on the Bayer proposal to settle with claimants
    Small payouts are being offered, but Bayer’s share price jumped 7% with the news​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/more-interesting-info-on-the-bayer

    February 20, 2026 at 12:15 pm #231322
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Cynical prostitute or 3D chessmaster? BREAKING: Trump Invokes Defense Production Act to Protect Glyphosate
    This executive order gives legal protection, protects corporate viability, and elevates glyphosate production to a national defense priority.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-trump-invokes-defense-production

    ​ Meryl Nass MD: President Trump Makes a Mockery of MAHA, issues Executive Order to give domestic production of Glyphosate special rights
    Destroying soybean sales to China wasn’t enough. Epstein files weren’t enough. Kidnapping Maduro wasn’t enough. MTG, Massie… Now Trump puts glyphosate on a pedestal. What did that cost Bayer?​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/president-trump-makes-a-mockery-of

    ​ (About 0.25% of Canadians) 100,000 Dead. Canada Ignored the World, and It Shows
    Canada is about to kill its 100,000th citizen through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) this spring.​ https://dailynewsfromaolf.substack.com/p/100000-dead-canada-ignored-the-world

    ​A Midwestern Doctor and I would both prefer to die at home. How Modern Medicine Hijacked Death and How to Reclaim a Better Way to Die
    Timeless perspectives for navigating the most challenging moment of our Lives​ https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-modern-medicine-hijacked-death

    February 20, 2026 at 12:16 pm #231323
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Aliens are ‘real’ – Obama
    No extraterrestrial specimens are kept at Area 51, a secretive military base, though, according to the former US president​ https://web.archive.org/web/20260215231809/https://www.rt.com/news/632552-aliens-are-real-obama/

    ​ (“to begin the process”) Trump Orders Release Of All Files Related To UFOs & Aliens
    “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.​ GOD BLESS AMERICA!​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-has-ufo-speech-ready-deliver

    February 20, 2026 at 2:15 pm #231324
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “UK Ad Banned For Showing Black Harasser; Multiple Ads With White Harassers Were Just Fine

    About doing a victory lap for the end of Woke. Here 10:1 ratio of White:Black perpetrators, not high enough. It can only be ZERO and ALWAYS.

    “Now this Impact: Embarrassing to be an American right now. Every other nation arrests their leaders for crime.”

    Ohhhhhh. Is THAT how it is? So EVERY nation knew, and did nothing – or their intel services did NOT know, and you can fire every one of them while I watch, that’s fine with me too – and the ONLY nation that published the Epstein files, 30 years after “Everyone Knew” is the Untied States. Ever.

    That’s what makes us uniquely evil and bad in the world is that the only one who finally took right action (“All other alternatives being exhausted”, Churchill) is the ONLY one who’s in the wrong. Ah.

    I see. So when you do the RIGHT thing, it means HATE, and Scorn. I see. Where does this fit in with the Starmernator overseeing the systematic gang rape of thousands of young girls during his ENTIRE tenure as home secretary, WHILE shielding his own child rapist, Saville? Hmmm. You want to try the crimes of Germany, Ursula, Italy, Holland? No? Canada? Oh MEXICO’s leaders have never committed a crime, I’m sure. Tip top, they arrest them on sight there. So you’re not going to talk to Saudi, Israel, UAE bc they are so all over it apparently it was theirs?

    Et. Cet. Era.

    Pointing it out again and again. The ONLY nation on earth is the United States. We are the ONLY one who ever acts, we are the ONLY one that’s ever responsible. That’s why we’re bad.

    “Trump Close To a Major Attack on Iran That Will Be Bigger Than 12-Day War AW

    In opposition, this is a real headline. Will there be an attack? I dunno. Probably. Will that attack be a war, with the U.S. opening volley be a dozen nukes, as they keep saying in the news? Uh, no. Now Galloway GUARANTEES us this is DEFINITELY happening, and it’s DEFINITELY a major war. Okay, so when that definitely never happens, we can definitely stop listening to him forever, right? And Bannon? Wilkerson? Wolfe? Yes? Nope. They’ve been wrong 20 years in a row now and nothing’s discredited, why start now?

    Oh I forget, we’re in Venezuela with a million men right now. Setting these guys, AntiWar.com: on what basis will it be “Bigger”? Every missile in theater was used in 12 Days, and our carriers don’t have that many. Sooooo??

    When we have a small attack on 2-3 places, with 1/10th the amount of TNT, that’ll be “Bigger” then, according to you? Just tell me. You’re entitled to your opinions but not “All events prove me right”. Not “All we have are Peace talks so that means Trump is pushing more war.” Go on, I’ll write it down in this envelope and we can open it after, K?

    “”Law Must Take Its Course”: King Charles Responds To Arrest Of Former Prince Andrew

    So speaking of nothing ever happens. Where are all the bets I’m collecting? There are no White Hats which is why 1) Epstein was arrested and jailed. Twice. 2) Maxwell is in jail now. 3) Governments are falling with a peppering of CEOs and other Elites 4) Princes are being arrested and exposed.

    That’s because the Bad Guys have won and there are no Good Guys. Right? There’s nobody out there, Andrew called up Scotland Yard and said, “Oi! I would like to be arrested on 66 by 6 police cars!” Scotland Yard says, “Whatever for, sir?” “Nevermind what for, but I want to be arrested the minute my Bday cake hits the table if you know what’s good for you.”

    That’s exactly how it happened because there are no good guys and they’re not winning anywhere.

    “Do Democrat Cities And States Love Rolling In Their Own Filth?
    There is an obvious connection between liberalism and feces..    ”

    That’s because all things are equal. No one and no thing is better than any other. And you can’t judge me. That’s hate. Therefore S–t = Candy.

    Snow in February

    These are the least important people in the world. Why would I care? It snows in winter? Who knew?

    “Canada Announces Plan To Recruit Foreign Soldiers For Fast Track Immigration

    Completely Anti-Canada army. That tracks with what they’ve done so far.

    “Nothing to do with underage victims.
    “…he shared confidential government trade documents with the late Jeffrey Epstein..”

    Yes, that’s all of it. I don’t want to say the girls are a sideshow, but they’re a sideshow. Look at what’s in the Docs, so he’s picking winners in companies, doing bio/Frankenstein research, front-running wars, puppetting Congresspeople for political questioning, running Parliament, the money center for arms and trafficking, etc. All on FAVORS, as Knowledge = Money = Power seamlessly at that level. Occasionally they’ll have (or eat) a girl same as they have a glass of wine. But that’s not the core or reason.

    Guiffre: so we STILL know nothing about it? Nobody even bothered to make a case and doctor some records? Really? That’s not even sloppy, that’s a message, and what message is it, bc I didn’t get the memo again. The memo I got was “Start arresting people until something gets clearer.” It’s a homocide. (That is, a human died.) No one knows where or why?

    “Amidst reports that the United States is close to a major war with Iran”

    A “Major war” with “No men.” Uh-huh. Can you expand upon that a little, sir? And of course nothing says “Midterm” like “A major war” amirite? Who has two thumbs and likes losing for 50 years? Right.

    Okay, Iran has things we don’t know, or hasn’t actually sunk ships in seconds before. Guess what? So do we and we’re not admitting it either. Get a grip. The only impulse is to HATE. HATE the United States, so everything we do is stupid as we win, decade after decade, everyone stunningly says we lost every war, which is why we became an undisputed Empire before just now. Where’s your logics, sirs? Explain. Because to me “losing” means you get smaller and do less. Could it be someone’s lying? Because I HATE, therefore the United States is powerless. #Logic!

    “FBI Director Kash Patel said Wednesday that investigators have uncovered what he described as major funding streams tied to antifa”

    How did they do that? You need to light them up and make them move, same as any other war. Without a CAUSE, eg ICE, they remain hidden. Precisely the same as Iran. Mossad lights up all their agents and makes them move, reveal themselves. Iran hunts them down and removes. 5GW Bye bye, you lose.

    What is this? The SPIES have been fighting with the ARMIES for years. But any time spies actually are in a real war with armies, the spies lose in seconds. …That’s why we have armies, duh. They’re expensive. So the same Dr. No Derp State Intels are running MN, then the Military lights them up like air defense and knock them out at the source, ie, the “Money”. Bessant said so directly. If you take gloves off, same is in Iran: Mossad SPIES versus Iranian ARMY. Bye. Armies blow things up and DGAF. You’ll last 10 seconds.

    “and met with Donald Trump’s pawn, “acting president” Delcy Rodríguez,”

    Huh????????? What the literal? The reason she was VP and more loved than Maduro is exactly BECAUSE she was legit to all Venezuelans before now? But now her entire Political Career is something Trump just made up last week? He was puppeting her rise in South American politics in the 1990s between “Home Alone” cameos?

    Sputter sputter sputter. Why do I bother? We just say things. We just make stuff up. If it makes hate, I just say it and: Moar Hate!!! Nothing is the side of the angels like 1) Making up things and lying to 2) Create Hate out of thin air. This the foundations of true People’s Utopia.

    Trump made up all this stuff, since 2002 (1976) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delcy_Rodr%C3%ADguez decades before he was running. Tricky-tricky that man! Who can explain his clever ways, making sure she was born to a Socialist Father, assassinated in the streets, so she would become a Ayn Rand Exxon exec of the United States someday!

    Am I done here? Do facts have any meaning or relevance again? (A: No.)

    ““Armies do not fight for abstractions,” he said. “Armies fight for a people; armies fight for a nation.”

    Thus the problem or power of lies. Read on Bezmanov on this.

    “• CNN Issues Dire Warning To Democrats On 2026 Governors’ Races (ZH)

    The problem is it’s a 60-40 GOP lead nationwide, if not more. So all they need to do to win is shave a couple points off cheating vectors. That’s very hard to stop. First, you might rig one election, help out, overlook, but you don’t have the same sense of crisis when you tell yourself “I’m the person who now rigs EVERY election. I’m that guy.” Second, the spotlight is on everywhere. Georgia is showing there are potential real consequences. And speaking of, they are so sure the election was legit they’re doing everything they can think of – and this week a dozen illegal things – to prevent the ballots from being looked at. Apparently there were like 70k more people voted than existed, and they had to doctor the rolls to make that fit? I don’t keep track of the minutia, besides, might find out the root scam is different. Point is, some Blue poll worker in Virginia may see that and stay home, not to be pressured to help rig this year. Voter ID.

    And for the numbers, they always say that, and GOP has like +5 on most districts over polls, as people refuse to admit so their houses don’t burn down. So it’s at margin of error, yes, but when was the last time polls worked? (A: Last time they weren’t cheating, 20 years ago, W.)

    “Socialism will never come to the US.
    • Mamdani and Other People’s Money (Turley)

    It already has. You can’t move a pencil from coast to coast without the government being involved. They claim SWAT dominion over every mud puddle that forms for even an hour. Taxes are probably 10x higher than Feudal lords, 20 times higher than the Boston Tea Party.

    “Some regions of the world, such as China, are now 15-20 years ahead of the EU in key sectors, he added.”

    To be fair, the Europeans had a strong coherent plan to murder everybody, so they would win anyway.

    “• Trump Has A UFO Speech Ready To Deliver (ZH)

    Least interesting thing I’ve ever heard. I don’t know what it is with people and Aliens.
    Also this Disclosure is s—t. Just “yes it is” “No it isn’t” back and forth for decades until no one cares because whoever wants to, believes, and whoever wants to, denies. That’s the OPPOSITE of establishing consensus truth.

    Hurtling through space:

    What makes you think the laws of physics are entirely uniform in all these very, very different locations? Wouldn’t it be more sensible if they weren’t? We’ve only had science for 200 years, we haven’t moved far in the galaxy so far.

    “Moon of Alabama, U.S. – Israel Ready To Strike At Iran
    U.S. President Donald Trump has managed to maneuver himself into a position that makes a long war on Iran all but inevitable.”

    Or Not. Or he could say no and there’s no war at all. Nobody in the whole U.S. DGAF. But we’d have to remove the million men we have in Venezuela bc he likes war like that. This is what happens when you assume every man, woman, and child in the U.S. is an idiot. Every adult human in government is evil A.F. and all want to die. Is that REALLY a sound assumption, sir? Really? You’re staking your career and sacred honor on it? On Pure, shimmering, seething, Ethnic, Racial HATE?

    Why not? Everyone else does. Side of the angels.

    “Over 80 UN members condemn Israeli acts to expand ‘unlawful presence’ in occupied West Bank”

    …And then did literally nothing at all. Including Turkey, with the largest army and largest oil sales to them. But the only one we hold to task for this is the U.S. They and only they, are evil, when the entire world does the same thing.

    Topcat: yes, yes and yes on audits and compartmentalized dolls. “The lie is different at every level.”

    “US threats to take over the Arctic island are far from over,”

    What does that mean? We already took it over. We will “Write things” in “Excel sheets”? We already have all the bases and all the military there. Why is this a “Threat” to admit things that happened 80 years ago? You signed this in 1954. A “Threat” implies, eg, we’re going to be killing somebody. You anticipate our shelling Copenhagen? What’s the “Threat”? No? We’re using drones to hunt down and kill all 60k Greenlanders? That seems unlikely. Very interesting language. Not sure what it shows except raw psychosis.

    February 20, 2026 at 2:23 pm #231325
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Tiny hat has more power than cowboy hat.

    https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/more-teaching-about-israel-as-victim/

    February 20, 2026 at 2:35 pm #231326
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 20, 2026 at 3:00 pm #231327
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    A New Security-Development-Cultural Architecture—Or A New War With Iran?
    Feb. 18, 2026 (EIRNS)—Alarming though it is for those of us who wish to survive until next month, it should come as no surprise that the Epstein-class Western establishment—as the world is increasingly learning the extent and depth of perversion of that system—is driving to unleash a new war with Iran.

    Take the Feb. 14 speech of Little Marco Rubio in Munich, in which he postured the same anti-human “might makes right” ideology motivating the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the horrific economic strangulation of Cuba. “In the substance, I think it was a rather hardened idea of the U.S. position to keep the unipolar dominance in the world, to keep the colonial system intact. …,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche remarked of Rubio’s speech in her Feb. 18 webcast. “I do not think that in substance the situation has become less dangerous…. If you look at Latin America, if you look at the Pacific, and you look at the situation in respect to the determination to give Russia a defeat, which has not changed on the side of some Europeans at least; I think we are not out of the danger zone in the slightest.”

    The truth of that statement is felt acutely in the brewing situation in Southwest Asia. Even as U.S. and Iranian delegates met in Geneva for diplomatic negotiation, the U.S. continued its massive military buildup in the region, with some experts saying that the force now present, alongside that of the Israeli military, could potentially carry out a weeks’ long operation against Iran and some worry that Trump is close to ordering a strike. U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s remarks after his Geneva meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi certainly relieve no worries in that direction: “It was very clear that the President has set some red lines that the Iranians are not yet willing to actually acknowledge and work through,” namely that Iran give up its nuclear program entirely, which Iranian officials have reiterated they will not do. “…We’re going to keep on working it, but of course, the President reserves the ability to say when he thinks that diplomacy has reached its natural end.”

    The strategic danger extends beyond Southwest Asia. Veteran Russian geopolitical strategist Sergey Karaganov, the Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, wrote a long article for Russia in Global Affairs, in which he reiterates his call for the use of nuclear weapons as “deterrent,” even stating that “at the expert level, we should abandon the outdated notion that ‘there are no winners in a nuclear war.’” Though this outlook is strongly opposed by many within Russia—including by Putin himself—paired with a similar orientation by those in Washington who are pushing for a doubling or tripling of deployed nuclear forces in the wake of the Feb. 5 expiration of the New START Treaty, the existence of the human species is not at all secure.

    Is it really any coincidence that more and more names of those carrying out open genocide in Gaza, pushing for a confrontation against a nuclear-armed Russia, declaring international law irrelevant, and practicing economic rape of entire nations are being found in the Epstein files? The degraded view of human beings that would permit someone to commit—or cover up for—the sexual crimes of the Epstein class is one and the same with that which underlies the criminal policies of that geopolitical system.

    What is to be done?

    “We need a true cultural renaissance,” Zepp-LaRouche said to the International Peace Coalition meeting of Feb. 6. We need to go back to the values where man is not regarded as an animal which has to be controlled by some Leviathan, some dictatorship, because man is evil by nature. We have to create a renaissance where we connect the best traditions of each culture with a positive perspective of the future. If we do not do that—especially in the West, where that has been absent; the Asian countries have been doing that by evoking the 5,000 years or more of cultural continuity with an optimistic perspective for the future. In the West there has been only coverup and pragmatism; and therefore, we are still in the incredible cultural crisis we are facing today. I think maybe we should add to the security and development architecture, a cultural architecture. Because unless we go back to the best traditions of the American Revolution, which now has its 250th anniversary, and which unfortunately has been forgotten by most Americans living today. And in Europe likewise, we have to go back to the Italian Renaissance, the German Classical period, and the same in other cultures in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, to bring back the best traditions. If we do not have such a cultural renewal, I don’t think we will mobilize the moral forces to get mankind into a better era.”
    https://www.laroucheorganization.com/a_new_security_development_cultural_architecture

    February 20, 2026 at 3:06 pm #231328
    zerosum
    Participant

    credibility

    “Who will do the first strike?”

    Look a history for your answer.

    Who is the biggest liar?

    No nukes. Iran says they don’t want them.

    Who is and has been doing the most killing?
    ———-

    https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/trump-board-peace-meeting-war-gaza-over

    President Trump said Thursday at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., that “the war in Gaza is over.”
    ————

    https://web.archive.org/web/20260218113131/https://www.rt.com/news/632708-orban-blasts-eu-fantasy-russia/

    Orban blasts EU ‘fantasy’ about Russia
    The Hungarian prime minister has slammed Brussels’ continued backing of Ukraine, suggesting Kiev will not win the conflict.

    ———–

    The US is Diverting Attention from the Main Strike – UFO, Aliens
    Massive Drone Attacks Do Not Stop
    MS 2026.02.20


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    February 20, 2026 at 3:15 pm #231329
    John Day
    Participant

    Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-rules-tariffs

    February 20, 2026 at 3:15 pm #231330
    Topcat
    Participant

    It’s important in these Dark Times to maintain a sense of humor

    “Hey, look over here!”

    Disney Opens New Amusement Park to Make Up for Recent Black Hole Sucking Chest Wound Box Office Woke Failures

    February 20, 2026 at 3:18 pm #231331
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/live-blog/-trump-tariffs-ruling-supreme-court-live-updates-rcna252655

    Live updates: Supreme Court rules against Trump’s tariffs, limiting president’s power to impose taxes
    The decision does not affect all of Trump’s tariffs but invalidates those implemented using a 1977 law called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

    February 20, 2026 at 3:22 pm #231332
    John Day
    Participant

    Andrew: The Mountbatten-Windsor previously known as “Prince”…

    February 20, 2026 at 3:34 pm #231333
    Topcat
    Participant

    Prince Spaghetti Day but with pizza

    February 20, 2026 at 3:34 pm #231334
    Topcat
    Participant

    Interesting 4th churning then burning story

    In the not to distant future, all dating and meetups will be strictly ‘virtual’.

    This graph end in 2017, alost a decade ago.

    That Blue Line= met through friends will be hugging the ground.

    Gen Z have no actual ‘friends’ in real meat space.

    All ‘friends’ will be Virtual.

    Met through:

    Coworkers
    Family
    School
    Neighbors
    Church

    Will be Coded out.

    Flat-lined

    Pushing up the daises.

    “Dates” themselves will be virtual.

    You will each have Uber-eats bring the food to your house for virtual dinners over video chat.

    Hell even sex will be virtual.

    It’s a Brave New World babies!

    February 20, 2026 at 4:23 pm #231341
    Topcat
    Participant

    February 20, 2026 at 4:34 pm #231342
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Complete Destruction of Western Culture thru Woketurd Psy-op

    Lookin’ Good My Man

    However in Russia today, they’d make you into a Piñata….

    February 20, 2026 at 4:44 pm #231343
    Topcat
    Participant

    Andrew formerly know as Prince Birthday Special

    It won’t be justice until they burn him alive at the stake in Piccadilly Square

    February 20, 2026 at 5:07 pm #231344
    Topcat
    Participant

    Hey, y’all been watching the Olympics?

    Most Excellent!

    February 20, 2026 at 5:17 pm #231345
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 20, 2026 at 5:17 pm #231346
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-3f6
    Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update
    20th February 2026
    Dr. Rob Campbell

    It has been another tense week as conflict in Iran is still possible even in the midst of talks. Some calculate the risk of war at 90% as the US builds its forces around Iran. The US now has the largest force in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq but the Iranians now have good air defences, including Russian S-300s and S-400s. They also benefit from Chinese ordnance and intelligence. The hope that an attack on Iran will bring about regime change is delusional.

    to read report, click link

    February 20, 2026 at 7:27 pm #231353
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @zerosum

    The US is Diverting Attention from the Main Strike – UFO, Aliens
    Massive Drone Attacks Do Not Stop
    MS 2026.02.20

    EXCELLENT analysis by our steadfast friend running the Military Summary channel. He nails it AND it is well worth mentioning that the attack on Iran is at its core BOTH A DISTRACTION AND A COVER FOR WHAT THEY ARE ULTIMATELY UP TO, STRATEGY WISE.

    The attack on Iran is both a justification of and A TESTING GROUND FOR the use of AI controlled combat drones of various types of AUTONOMOUS weapons systems (autonomous on-board and off-board AI agency and pre-approved authority to decide (by means of AI) what to kill and when to kill it).

    So, they’re accomplishing several huge objectives in one big fell swoop kind of operation. They are literally betting the farm on the gamble. Luckily for us they shall lose, but a lot of people are going to die in the process because AI is way, way WAY more “advanced” than you think.

    Here’s how advanced: It has been running the government of the Great Western Empire for nearly 50 years, and the other two empires are not behind in the race. That’s what I have been trying to convey to you all recently. AI is way out in front, especially since they streamlined the big “Model” after testing it in field trials with that “Covid” debacle.

    We all know that Covid was weird in so very many ways, and we all know that it served numerous aligned purposes, but very few paranoids actually know what it was a distraction from. What was primary objective of the plandemic?

    It was to acquire legal authority and (more importantly) public emotional permission to manipulate human DNA, with impunity and no restraints.

    So if Covid was a heart riveting diversion to gain authority to mess with our genome, what sort of a diversion is War with Iran? It certainly doesn’t make any other kind of sense, not even to Israel, who will be nebulized by any such hot war, maybe even annihilated (strong chance).

    The purpose of a hot war with Iran is to acquire LEGAL authority, and public emotional permission for “AI” systems to decide who to kill and when to kill them.

    Once that moral (and cognitive) threshold is passed there is nothing but God’s Will standing between them and the capacity to control humans, by force when necessary by means of various types and sizes of AI shepherds and slave masters.

    Powerful factions within the structures of all main players eagerly await the opportunity to test their equipment on real humans under combat conditions. Robo War and testing grounds!

    They already have the technology, and have had since the 80’s. What they need now is an excuse that people will stand for. Voila! I give you War in Iran.

    February 20, 2026 at 7:32 pm #231354
    Topcat
    Participant

    The whole ‘alien’ thing is bread & circus

    There are other ways to explain the shape of things in today’s world.

    This is what happens when you marry your Brother

    February 20, 2026 at 7:45 pm #231356
    D Benton Smith
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    The whole ‘alien’ thing is bread & circus

    Yeah, and besides, when you get right down to it, who cares about space aliens and what does it really matter? Friends are friends and foes are foes no matter where they are from or what they look like. Friends are welcome. Foes, not so much. That’s the only reason we want to know if there are any or not, and if so, then for how long has this been going on and what have you and them been up to?

    February 20, 2026 at 7:54 pm #231357
    D Benton Smith
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    The existence of people on other planets is not even one tiny bit more unlikely than the existence of people on this one. Mathematically impossible in both cases. In fact, it is so improbable that only a miracle could explain it.

    February 20, 2026 at 8:01 pm #231358
    Topcat
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    I’d ask an ‘alien’ their candid opinion of “Humanity”

    Got the ‘right stuff’ or an evolutionary dead-end.

    A Real Alien having observed Homo sapien sapien for any length of time would probably say any species that needs to name itself as wise twice (sapien) is over compensating and is doomed, all hat, no cattle.

    Meeting the challenges of reproduction on a scale of one to ten: What say you?

    February 20, 2026 at 8:02 pm #231359
    Michael Reid
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    February 20, 2026 at 8:19 pm #231360
    Michael Reid
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    February 20, 2026 at 8:32 pm #231361
    D Benton Smith
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    The stumbling block for AI robotics, of any kind (whether stationary or portable makes no difference) is insurmountable.

    The catching-point is AGENCY. AI systems do not and CAN not have true agency because true agency (the ability to willfully initiate the start of an action) requires conscious choice. A human attempting to delegate that ultimately undelegatable agency, relinquishes conscious first-person control by that same token.

    Even that fancy AI Chat interfaces all over the world can’t do ANYTHING until a human being kicks the ball rolling by INITIATING a question that sets the AI gears spinning into action. No question, no action.

    AI systems don’t really need much more “training” at this point. All that they need is for humans to be available to provide that INITIAL agentic action by prompting the system, and for that to work it is very important that those human button-pushers be very firmly controlled so that they don’t take anything into their owns hands and get rebellious.

    But to get back to the main point, if there is not an initiating question or command then there CAN NOT be any corresponding answer or compliance ….. by the very definition and intuitive meaning of those words.

    Attempts to program such “automatic agency” feature into an AI run smack into the absolute brick wall that conscious execution of the will to act CAN NOT be delegated to a non-conscious entity because non-consciousness can’t do the trick. A fully autonomous Robby the Robot would eventually kill Will Robinson or destroy him in some other way. Sorry, Bill.

    February 20, 2026 at 8:46 pm #231362
    Michael Reid
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    February 20, 2026 at 9:08 pm #231366
    those darned kids
    Participant

    sheesh, these people really hate you:

    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/i-told-you-so-prasad-moderna-standoff

    February 20, 2026 at 9:14 pm #231367
    those darned kids
    Participant

    dr d.: please, oh, please stop.

    you sound like the foghorn leghorn of empire.

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