Elon Musk just explained the one breakthrough changing everything about space access. The number sounds impossible but it’s not.

Musk: “It drops the cost of space travel by literally 10,000%. Like, no exaggeration.”

Ten thousand percent. Not incremental improvement. Not a… pic.twitter.com/4QU2knJzKq
— Dustin (@r0ck3t23) February 20, 2026

Big difference between Grok and WokeGPT https://t.co/qjjZpVEONi
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2026

Scientists found a way to use AI to reverse aging.

We can now reprogram cells back to age 20. Heart, brain, and skin cells reset to their prime.

This tech won a Nobel Prize in 2012, but it was too slow to work well. In 2025, they supercharged it with AI.

It's a wild story: pic.twitter.com/gLJntUvT6Q
— 🧬Craig Brockie (@CraigBrockie) February 19, 2026

Eric Schmidt

Ex-Google CEO's BANNED Interview LEAKED: "You Have No Idea What's Coming"

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently made headlines with some controversial comments about AI during an interview conduced at Stanford University. This interview was taken down at his request after he… pic.twitter.com/0CrcSPPv6T
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SpaceX https://twitter.com/iam_smx/status/2024621134159708319?s=20

This is very far from over. I was wondering what the exact legal difference is between Trump and the pre-Fed (1913?) tariffs.

• Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs – But He Has ‘Backup Plan’ (ZH)

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down Trump’s tariffs. In a 6-3 decision (170-pages), the court ruled that Trump’s use of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) – which constitute about half of the tariffs we’ve seen under Trump – was not lawful. Kavanaugh, Thomas and Alito dissented. “IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs,” wrote the court.

The ruling stems from a consolidated challenge brought by small businesses and multiple states, including Costco, who argued that the statute – originally intended to authorize sanctions and asset freezes during national emergencies – does not grant the executive branch the power to levy taxes on imports. The Court reasoned that the Constitution vests the authority to impose duties and tariffs with Congress alone, and found that IEEPA’s authorization to “regulate … importation” cannot be interpreted to include the distinct taxing power required to enact broad-based tariffs. The ruling affirms lower-court decisions blocking the challenged measures, concluding that the administration’s emergency-based tariff framework exceeded the limits of the statute.
Trump invoked IEEPA to impose his ‘reciprocal’ tariffs on nearly every foreign trade partner to address what he called a national emergency over US trade deficits. He invoked it again to impose tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico over fentanyl trafficking into the United States.

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court just STRUCK DOWN President Trump’s tariffs.

In a 6-3 ruling, the court invalidated the tariffs.

NEWSNATION: “This is the exact wording from the ruling as we have it now, IEEPA, that International Economic Emergency Powers Act does not authorize… https://t.co/qYcFhUOkbe pic.twitter.com/AmUgZ2owIc
— Overton (@overton_news) February 20, 2026
Friday’s decision rests on the notion that tariffs are not merely a tool for regulating trade, but also a a form of taxation that the Constitution reserves to Congress. Citing Article I, Section 8, the majority stressed that the power to impose tariffs is “very clear[ly] … a branch of the taxing power,” and that the Framers gave Congress “alone … access to the pockets of the people.” The administration had argued that IEEPA’s grant of authority to “regulate … importation” permitted the President to impose tariffs in response to declared national emergencies. The Court rejected that interpretation, noting that while “taxes may accomplish regulatory ends, it does not follow that the power to regulate includes the power to tax as a means of regulation.”

The majority also pointed to the statute’s text, emphasizing that IEEPA authorizes the President to “investigate, block … regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit” certain transactions – yet makes no mention of tariffs or duties. “Had Congress intended to convey the distinct and extraordinary power to impose tariffs,” the opinion states, “it would have done so expressly, as it consistently has in other tariff statutes.”
The Court further highlighted a lack of historical precedent – noting that that in the nearly 50 years since IEEPA’s enactment, “no President has invoked the statute to impose any tariffs,” and that combined with the sweeping economic impact of the measures at issue – it was a “telling indication” that the asserted authority falls outside the President’s legitimate reach.Applying what it characterized as the “major questions” framework, the Court reasoned that Congress would not delegate such sweeping control over trade policy through vague language. The President’s claim that two words – “regulate” and “importation” – authorize tariffs “of unlimited amount and duration, on any product from any country,” the majority wrote, would represent a “transformative expansion” of executive authority over tariff policy and the broader economy.
Tariff Refunds?
Notably, the Court’s ruling does not address what happens to the billions of dollars in tariff revenue already collected under the now-invalidated IEEPA framework, leaving open the possibility of a wave of refund litigation in the months ahead. There are currently hundreds of tariff refund lawsuits pending in US trade court.
While the majority opinion strikes down Trump’s use of IEEPA, it offers no guidance on restitution, repayment, or whether importers may be entitled to recover duties paid pursuant to tariffs the Court has now deemed unlawful. That omission is likely to shift the next phase of the dispute into the U.S. Court of International Trade, where importers may seek retroactive relief through administrative protests or refund actions. Justice Kavanaugh’s dissent notes that the process is likely to be a “mess,” warning that “the Court’s decision is likely to generate other serious practical consequences in the near term,” adding “One issue will be refunds.”
Trump’s administration has not provided tariffs collection data since December 14. But Penn-Wharton Budget Model economists estimated on Friday that the amount collected in Trump’s tariffs based on IEEPA stood at more than $175 billion. And that amount likely would need to be refunded with a Supreme Court ruling against the IEEPA-based tariffs. -Reuters
Any such claims could involve complex questions of sovereign immunity, administrative exhaustion, and the availability of equitable relief – particularly where duties were paid without timely protest. Whether courts ultimately require repayment of unlawfully imposed tariffs may depend not just on the validity of the underlying statute, but on the procedural posture of individual importers and the statutory refund mechanisms available under U.S. customs law.
During arguments on Nov. 5, the court seemed skeptical over Trump’s authority to use IEEPA, leading most observers observers, including betting markets, to conclude a high probability they’re struck down at least in part. The Trump administration is appealing lower court rulings that he overstepped his authority, while Trump himself said a Supreme Court ruling against the tariffs would be a “terrible blow” to the United States.

Trump outsmarted Russsia, China and India in one go? I doubt it.

• The Shocking Story Behind the Diplomatic Coup of the Century (Pinsker)

[..] Shortly thereafter, India seized three shadow fleet oil tankers from Iran. Here’s Peter Zeihan to explain the significance: “Once another country joins the United States and targeting the shadow fleet, it’s probably only a matter of days to weeks before many, many other countries do it. There are a lot of countries that don’t like Venezuela or Iran or Russia — especially the Europeans. And now that India, of all countries, is joining in, we should expect a couple dozen of other countries to do so as well, which would completely remove the shadow fleet from functioning in less than a few months. […] The Russians have been exporting somewhere between 3 and 4 million barrels a day [via the shadow fleet] for four years. And it is their primary source of income now. And if this is about to go away, then we’re going to see some very dramatic changes in a number of things in the Eastern hemisphere.

Number one, the Ukraine War: If the Russians have lost their single largest source of income, that will manifest on the battlefield. The Chinese may be supplying the Russians with all the gear that they can pay for, but the key thing there is: pay for. And if the Russians can’t [pay], then a drone war where the Russians can’t get enough drones is one where the Russians start losing territory. And in a stunning coincidence, Fox News just reported, “Ukraine makes fastest gains in years as Russia talks stall, exploiting cracks in Kremlin command.” Ukrainian forces retook about 78 square miles over five days, according to a report by Agence France-Presse based on an analysis of the Institute for the Study of War battlefield mapping. The gains represent Kyiv’s most rapid territorial advances since its 2023 counteroffensive in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Not only Russia is reeling. Peter Zeihan predicts China will feel the squeeze, too: If the Indians are stopping crude from Russia getting to India, you can bet your pretty [censored] that they’re going to stop it from getting to China, because now China is the only country that is still taking Russian crude in volume. And now, all of a sudden, we’re talking about the entirety of the 3 to 4 million barrels of the shadow fleet being gouged out of the Chinese economy. All in all, it represents one of the most remarkable under-the-radar diplomatic achievements in recent history. When President Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace plan reached a dead end, he turned around, cut a deal with India, and strangled the Russian economy overnight.
Along with the economy of Russia’s petro-partner, Iran, which is trapped in gunboat diplomacy. (Venezuela, of course, was already dealt with.) And now China — ludicrously heralded by the BBC as a “Green Superpower”(!) despite Chinese greenhouse emissions exceeding all developed nations combined — will now eat the higher cost, too. All of America’s strategic rivals were caught flatfooted. It didn’t receive the recognition it deserved, but that’s the epitome of 4-D chess. Potentially, this was the week when Russia finally lost the Ukraine war. Putin can’t win a war of attrition if he runs out of money before Ukraine does. And now, for the very first time, Russia is truly, completely isolated. We still need to see how it all plays out, but President Trump just might’ve engineered the diplomatic coup of the century.

“We’re either gonna get a deal or it’s gonna be unfortunate for them.” — POTUS Donald Trump

• Does It Smell Like Victory? (James Howard Kunstler)

The message seems to be something like the USA isn’t messing around with all those strike forces in the waters around Iran. The Islamic Republic suddenly looks like Rock-and-Hard-Place-Land. Everybody and his uncle are trying to figure out the calculus in play, World War Three or a happy ending?You’re seeing the most significant US military build-up over there in memory. Smells a little bit like first Gulf War, 1991 — minus all those allies we roped in then. Mr. Trump (via Marco Rubio) has read Euroland out on this one. We are in a cold war with those birds, in case you haven’t noticed. The UK, France, Germany & Co.? They are as crazy as the ladies of The View and their millions of Cluster-B followers.

Euroland is yet in thrall to the climate nutters, the farm-and-industry-destroyers, the one-worlders, the Jihad-migrationists, the floundering banksters, and the Klaus Schwab wannabes. Euroland seeks to throttle free speech throughout Western Civ and meddle in everyone’s elections. Euroland keeps mouthing off about a war with Russia despite having no military mojo and going broke-ass broke faster than you can say Götterdämmerung. Bottom line: the US is going solo on this one. What is the objective? Ostensibly “a deal” over Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Like, just cut it out, will you, please? By the way, did you know that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa in 2005 saying production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons was forbidden under Islam.
But then deception is allowed in Islam under the doctrine of taqiyya, against the threat of attack from hostile forces, I’m sure you remember Operation Midnight Hammer in June last year when we attacked and supposedly “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear research and development bunkers at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan? They got pretty banged-up, you may be sure, and nobody in Iran denied there was something nukey going on in those installations. Is there a will there to rebuild the whole darn infrastructure of uranium enrichment and so forth?
The mullahs are not saying, which means: of course, they intend to continue developing nuclear weapons — and even if that’s a stupid and futile gambit, given recent history, they still have factories churning out plain old long-range ballistic missiles and new drones by the thousands. Let’s face it: the mullahs are hardcore for Jihad and martyrdom. Since being elevated to Supreme Leader in 1989, Ayatollah Khamenei has sought relentlessly to transform the traditional Islamic concept of Jihad and establish it as the central pillar of the regime’s ideology.
Are we doing Israel’s bidding there? (Cue: roar of affirmation.) But then, Israel has a point. Iran has been cuckoo for going on forty years. If Israel wasn’t a target of the mullahs’ eternal Shia wrath, there are their other enemies, the Sunni, on the west side of the Persian Gulf (and next door in Iraq). And consider, too, Iran’s obdurate sponsorship of Jihad, wherever possible, both within and outside the Ummah — including especially Western Civ, where low-grade Jihad has been going on for over a decade. . . mass murders, rape gangs, beheadings, trucks through the Christmas markets. . .

https://twitter.com/BryceMLipscomb/status/2024519176556044357?s=20 Read more …

“.. he was fatally beaten by a mob of far-left militants in Lyon, France…”

• Just When You Thought The BBC Couldn’t Get Any More Repugnant… (MN)

The BBC is under fire for a headline that branded 23-year-old conservative student Quentin Deranque as a “far-right student” after he was fatally beaten by a mob of far-left militants in Lyon, France. Critics are calling it blatant bias, turning the victim into the villain while downplaying the attackers’ extremism. This isn’t just sloppy journalism—it’s narrative warfare, shielding violent leftists and ignoring the real threat of Antifa-style thugs running rampant in Europe. Authorities charged nine far-left militants with the fatal beating during a protest. The suspects are linked to the militant group La Jeune Garde (Young Guard), including a parliamentary assistant from the far-left France Unbowed (LFI) party.

The attack stemmed from Deranque providing security for the anti-mass migration feminist group Collectif Némésis, who were protesting a conference featuring MEP Rima Hassan. Tensions escalated when far-left groups confronted the demonstrators, leading to chaotic clashes. Videos shared online captured the violence, including attempts to seize banners and at least one woman being knocked to the ground. Deranque was isolated, viciously set upon by masked attackers, and left for dead after repeated blows to the head. According to Collectif Némésis leader Alice Cordier, “A member of our security…was lynched by the Jeune Garde Antifa.” The group added, “His attackers were masked, armed with reinforced gloves and tear gas, leaving little doubt about the premeditated nature of their attack.”
Deranque, a pious Catholic mathematics student, suffered severe brain injuries consistent with a cerebral hemorrhage. He was rushed to Édouard-Herriot Hospital but was later declared brain-dead. The BBC’s disgusting headline, “Nine arrested in France over death of far-right student,” ignited backlash from conservatives. It framed Deranque as “far-right” and didn’t even mention that he was brutally murdered, just that he died, nor that the mob that set upon him and ended his life were far left militants.
https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/2023872774687924243
The attack also involved a parliamentary collaborator of MP Raphael Arnault, Jeune Garde’s founder. Arnault received support from Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party, with Mélenchon responding by claiming his side were the real victims.Far-left lawmakers had recently opposed dissolving Jeune Garde, claiming it prevents “neo-Nazi groups increasingly violent in France.”

🇫🇷🔴After a mob of Antifa thugs beat 23-year-old Quentin Deranque to death in Lyon, there have been marches and memorials for the young man, who was a nationalist, Catholic, and mathematics student.

French politician Eric Zemmour says murder is not just an isolated incident, but… pic.twitter.com/XFI9Tf11FJ
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) February 16, 2026

In Paris, far-left activists tore down posters tributing Deranque, while President Emmanuel Macron condemned the killing but urged calm. Anthropologist Florence Bergaud-Blackler warned, “The circumstances of Quentin’s death as he came to protect the women of Collectif Némésis are a foreshadowing of the civil war that is looming. The petty servile foot soldiers of anti-fascism are the cannon fodder of Islamism which seeks to overthrow our liberal and egalitarian social order and lock women away. Young Quentin is a hero.” The media’s spin, like the BBC’s “Student death puts French far-left under pressure,” minimizes the murder as “just a death,” ignoring the blatant political lynching.
The British state funded broadcaster is already under intense scrutiny owing to President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit concerning deceptive editing of his January 6, 2021, speech. The suit accuses the BBC of splicing footage to falsely imply Trump incited violence at the Capitol, omitting his calls for peaceful protest. District Judge Roy Altman rejected the BBC’s bid to delay discovery, paving the way for a two-week trial in Miami. Trump’s team blasts the edit as “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory,” while a BBC spokesman said, “As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case. We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings.” This follows internal turmoil at the BBC, with top executives resigning amid the fallout, and an FCC probe into potential “news distortion.” Leaked memos condemned the edit as “completely misleading.”

Trial Date SET For Trump’s $10 BILLION BBC Lawsuit Over Fake News Editing SCANDAL

As Europe grapples with unchecked far-left extremism, shielded by biased media and complicit politicians, incidents like this expose the real dangers to freedom and safety. Quentin Deranque stood for protecting women against threats—his sacrifice demands accountability, not smears. Meanwhile, the BBC’s globalist propaganda faces its own reckoning in court.

EU decides electioms, not voters.

• Inside the EU’s War On Democracy (RT)

Romania’s 2024 presidential election was already one of the most controversial political episodes in the European Union in recent years. A candidate who won the first round was prevented from contesting the second. The vote was annulled. Claims of Russian interference were advanced without public evidence. At the time, the affair raised urgent questions about democratic standards inside the EU. A congressional investigation reviewed by RT raises even more question. They indicate that the annulment of the Romanian election was accompanied by sustained efforts to pressure social media platforms into suppressing political speech – efforts coordinated through mechanisms established under the EU’s Digital Services Act. What appeared to be a national political crisis now looks increasingly like a test case for how far EU institutions are willing to go in intervening in the political processes of member states.

The Russian narrative. Again.
On February 3, the US House Judiciary Committee published a 160-page investigation into how the EU systematically pressures social media companies to alter internal guidelines and suppress content. It found Brussels orchestrated a “decade-long campaign” to censor political speech across the bloc. In many cases, this amounted to direct meddling in political processes and elections of members, often using EU-endorsed civil society organizations. The report features several case studies of this “campaign” in action in EU member states, the gravest example being Romania. It was around the November 2024 Romanian presidential election, the committee found, that the European Commission“took its most aggressive censorship steps.” In the first round, anti-establishment outsider Calin Georgescu comfortably prevailed, and polls indicated he was en route to win the second by landslide. However, on December 6, Bucharest’s constitutional court overturned the results. While a court-ordered recount found no irregularities in the process, a new election was called, in which Georgescu was banned from running.
By contrast, Romania’s security service alleged Georgescu’s victory was attributable to a Russian-orchestrated TikTok campaign. The allegation was unsupported by any evidence whatsoever. Romanian President Klaus Iohannis went to the extent of claiming this deficit was inversely proof of Moscow’s culpability, as the Russians supposedly “hide perfectly in cyber space.” Despite the BBC reporting that even Romanians “who feared a president Georgescu” worried about the precedent set for their democracy by the move, that narrative has been endlessly reiterated ever since.
The US House Judiciary Committee report comprehensively disproves the charge of Russian meddling in the Romanian election. Documents and emails provided by TikTok expose how the platform not only consistently assessed Moscow “did not conduct a coordinated influence operation to boost Georgescu’s campaign,” but repeatedly shared these findings with the European Commission and Romanian authorities. This information was never shared by either party. But the contempt of Brussels and Bucharest for democracy and free speech went much further.
Digital Services Act in action
The committee found Romanian officials egregiously abused the EU’s controversial Digital Services Act before the 2024 election “to silence content supporting populist and nationalist candidates.” Bucharest also repeatedly lodged content takedown requests outside of the formal DSA process, using what committee investigators call “expansive interpretations of their own power to mandate removals of political content.” This amounted to a “global takedown order,” with authorities perversely arguing court demands to block certain content for local audiences were “mandatory not only in Romania.”
This was no doubt a ploy to prevent outsiders, in particular the country’s sizable diaspora, from accessing content featuring Georgescu. His “Romania First” agenda proved quite popular with emigres, numbering many millions due to mass depopulation since 1989. Perhaps not coincidentally, his diaspora supporters have been widely maligned by Western media as fascist enablers. Still, even critical mainstream reports admit they and the domestic population have legitimate grievances, due to Romania’s crushing economic decline in the same period.

Europe must defend itself from invaders invited in by Europeans.

• Europe’s Civilizational War Will Be Bloody (AT)

It seems as if every month a new story comes out of Britain warning about the likelihood of future civil war. Retired colonel Richard Kemp recently gave a television interview during which he warned that the “Islamification” of the United Kingdom would lead to “inevitable conflict.” Several British academics specializing in the preconditions for civil conflict, including professors David Betz and Michael Rainsborough, have argued the same point.

Kemp’s point of view carries the added weight of someone who has witnessed insurgent fighting firsthand. A former commander who carried out counter-insurgency operations in Northern Ireland, led British forces in Afghanistan, and held intelligence roles in Westminster, Kemp says Islamic immigrants’ refusal to integrate into British society means that things in the U.K. are “getting bad” and about to “get worse.” Among other provocative comments that will no doubt ruffle the feathers of Britain’s “ruling class,” Kemp notes, “There were more British Muslims with the Taliban than in the British Army.”
The combat veteran argues that Britain’s political class has failed citizens by putting them in harm’s way and is simultaneously incapable of mitigating its failures due to suffocating concerns for what can be said out loud. “No government,” Kemp argues, “has the guts to stop…the Islamification of the U.K.” Consequently, ordinary Brits now need to prepare for the likelihood of “civil war in Europe.” Describing the looming conflict in the U.K. as a far more serious and deadly situation than what gripped Northern Ireland for decades, Kemp predicts that the coming civil war will involve “indigenous British and some of the immigrant population and the British government all on three different sides fighting against each other.”
Drawing on his experience with insurgent forces, the retired colonel blames disenfranchisement in Britain for the future violence: “The big problem that British people have is they don’t have political choice. We don’t really live in a democracy….Whatever party you vote for, you get the same policies. That applies also to immigration and to the way in which the Islamic population is allowed to grow in numbers and dominance.” As academics Betz and Rainsborough have also argued, Kemp sees the unwillingness of the U.K.’s political class to respect the will of voters with regards to immigration, Brexit, and the preservation of traditional culture as the proximate cause of the civil war to come.
Democratic institutions provide citizen-voters with a “release valve” through which they can express pent-up frustration without resorting to violence. The problem is that a political “uniparty” operates in the U.K., as it does throughout most of the West. It doesn’t matter whether Brits hand power to a Labour or Tory prime minister; they get non-stop Islamic immigration regardless. When native Brits publicly protest the “Islamification” of the U.K., both Labour and Tory members of parliament call them “racist” and prosecute them for “hate.” When native Brits march through downtown cities to condemn Islamic rape gangs and Islamic terrorism, both Labour and Tory members of parliament call them “racist” and prosecute them for “hate.”
When native Brits rally to prevent the construction of super-mosques in rural parts of Britain, both Labour and Tory members of parliament call them “racist” and prosecute them for “hate.” Therefore, citizens in the U.K. have learned that voting accomplishes nothing and that their so-called political “leaders” are incapable of defending British lives or British ways of life. The British pot is boiling, and Kemp adds his voice to a growing chorus of professionals with expertise in violent civil conflicts who predict a war-ravaged kingdom in the near future. “I think the people will feel they have no option than to take action into their own hand rather than rely on political leaders who are doing nothing,” Kemp stated in another interview. “I think there is every likelihood” of “civil war in the U.K. in the coming years.”

“Brennan’s last known testimony contacts with the Senate date to June 23, 2017 and May 16, 2018, two dates that extend outside the usual five-year statute of limitations.”

• Prosecutors Zero In On CIA’s Brennan (JTN)

Federal prosecutors who are probing the weaponization of intelligence and law enforcement against President Donald Trump and his allies have sent a secret and rare request for evidence from the U.S. Senate regarding former CIA Director John Brennan, signaling that they are zeroing in on his questionable testimony going back nearly a decade on his now-debunked efforts to tie Trump’s 2016 campaign to collusion with Russia. The overtures to the U.S. Senate and its intelligence committee from U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones’ team in Miami began over the last month and were formalized in a written request for documents, transcripts and testimony last Friday, according to multiple people directly familiar with the conversations.

Senate lawyers and prosecutors are negotiating the best way to transfer the evidence, including a possible visit by the prosecution team to Washington in the coming days. The efforts are complicated in part because much of what Brennan discussed in briefings dating to 2016 about alleged Russian interference efforts and now-debunked allegations of Trump collusion are classified, stored in secure briefing rooms and include evidence controlled by the nation’s chief spy agency, the CIA, the sources said.
The House Judiciary Committee last year formally referred Brennan, who oversaw the Obama-era CIA, for prosecution, alleging he gave false testimony in 2023 about his role in trying to bring the discredited Steele Dossier into an intelligence assessment that suggested Russia tried to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton. That testimony is still covered by the five-year statute of limitations for prosecuting false testimony to Congress. The request to the Senate signals a possible longer-term conspiracy case, seeking contacts with the Senate that stretches back nearly a decade. Brennan’s last known testimony contacts with the Senate date to June 23, 2017 and May 16, 2018, two dates that extend outside the usual five-year statute of limitations.
Just the News has reported previously that FBI Director Kash Patel drafted a memo last year recommending that a decades-long string of weaponized intelligence and law enforcement statements and alleged intel against Trump and his allies that stretched from the 2016 Russia collusion probe — codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane” — to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictments against Trump a decade later should be viewed as an ongoing criminal conspiracy to deprive American citizens of their civil rights, allowing prosecutors to charge crimes outside the statute of limitations as overt acts of an ongoing conspiracy.
Attorney General Pam Bondi assigned the task of reviewing the decades’ long trail of evidence for possible crimes and conspiracy to Quiñones, whose team began collecting evidence in front of a federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Fla., the same courthouse where Smith brought his now-dismissed prosecution for mishandling of classified documents against Trump. Brennan, the CIA director under President Barack Obama, and now a senior national security and intelligence analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, is one of the targets of that probe for his involvement in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) regarding Russia’s influence in the 2016 election.
That assessment, published in the final days of the Obama administration, concluded that Russia developed a “clear preference” for Trump in that election and that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign to “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate former Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency.”

“Dumping tons of stuff out without any context tends to have a lot of unintended consequences,” he said. The result has been politically damaging across the board.”

• Matt Taibbi: Epstein Files Uniquely Destructive To Both Parties (QTR)

This week I interviewed Matt Taibbi at a moment when, as he put it, “this is a pretty weird time.” He had just learned that his outlet, Racket News, had been investigated by the British government using what he described as “human intelligence sources and all kinds of crazy stuff.” “It’s been pretty weird,” he told me. What struck him most was how normalized this kind of pressure has become. Governments, he said, now routinely “hire out private intelligence firms and private PR firms to devise strategies to undermine negative press.” If you’re doing adversarial reporting, he added, “you’ll get swept up in this. So you probably have been, you just don’t know it.”

From there, we moved into the Epstein story, which has become a political third rail. I asked him whether bipartisan silence around certain issues should worry people. Taibbi said most of what happens in Washington is already bipartisan; the public just doesn’t see it. “The thing that we call the news,” he said, is “a sliver of disagreement” between parties. The rest—“98% of the business that’s done there”—happens with quiet agreement. On the Epstein files, he argued that both parties miscalculated. The Trump camp, he said, built expectations around full transparency and then stumbled. “Dumping tons of stuff out without any context tends to have a lot of unintended consequences,” he said. The result has been politically damaging across the board.
He also pushed back on some of the public narrative. The fascination with Epstein, he said, rests on three assumptions: that Epstein worked for intelligence, that he ran a vast trafficking ring, and that the two were connected through political blackmail. “There’s an abundance of evidence” of serious sexual crimes, he acknowledged. But on the intelligence-blackmail theory, “there’s nothing that puts it all together and says that’s what was happening. It could, but it’s just not there yet.” What he does see is a slow-burn release strategy. “You’ll notice that they never fully release everything,” he told me. “It’s like Zeno’s paradox. We’re never going to get all the way to the wall with this.” Each new tranche fuels public demand and media frenzy, with the promise that the next batch might contain the “kill shot” that takes down someone powerful.
We then shifted to New York politics and the rise of Zohran Mamdani. Taibbi sees his early proposals—like raising property taxes—as predictable. If state-level backing doesn’t materialize, he suggested, the Democratic Party may distance itself. “The Democratic Party has decided not to back this horse,” he said. In his view, the party faces a structural dilemma: a base that is moving left out of economic frustration, and a national electoral map that may not tolerate that shift. He connected that frustration to student debt and monetary policy. When I brought up inflation and deficit spending, he traced the arc back to post-2008 policies and the explosion of quantitative easing. “All you’re doing is accelerating inequality on the one hand,” he said, “and you’re raising the debt burden for everybody else.” The result, he argued, is a generation that feels locked out of homeownership and upward mobility.
On immigration and recent ICE enforcement actions, Taibbi resisted simple partisanship. He said he found neighborhood sweeps and masked agents “scary,” comparing aspects of the approach to “an enhanced federal version of stop and frisk.” At the same time, he criticized the ideological shift that made even basic border enforcement seem taboo. “It’s not like having borders is inherently xenophobic,” he said. “It’s just a part of governance. Part of being a nation.” At the end of the conversation, Taibbi outlined changes at Racket News. He said he had “basically fired” himself as editor-in-chief and brought in new leadership to refocus on document-based investigations. The site, he told me, is doubling down on FOIA-driven reporting and digging into stories like expansive FBI investigations and the British controversy now touching his own outlet.

Germany has killed itself, step by step.

Crucial: when Merkel banned nuclear power in the country.

• VW’s 20% Cost-Cutting Plan Exposes Germany’s Industrial Crisis (ZH)

For too long, Germany’s economy has watched political developments from the sidelines – perhaps far too long. The cost pressures triggered by the energy transition and Brussels’ extensive regulatory policies are now reflected in business results. Following Stellantis and Opel, Volkswagen on Monday announced sweeping measures to confront the existential economic crisis. CEO Oliver Blume presented a cost-saving program that, according to Manager Magazin, is expected to reduce global company costs by one-fifth by the end of 2028. The internal overhaul was presented in mid-January by Blume and CFO Arno Antlitz. A concrete statement from the company on its strategy has not yet been issued. Plant closures in Germany are reportedly also under discussion.

Collapse in Earnings
Pressure to act is immense. The final results for last year are not yet available, but after three quarters, an operating profit (EBIT) drop of roughly 48 percent year-on-year to around €9.9 billion is emerging. The EBIT margin, a key measure of profitability, fell to 3.05 percent from 5.87 percent. Revenue stagnated at around €324 billion, with vehicle sales of roughly nine million units, down 0.5 percent. The fourth quarter in particular saw a 4.9 percent decline, with China and North America suffering the largest losses. European sales remained relatively stable with modest gains, though the negative trend accelerated toward year-end. This may have been the trigger prompting management to implement drastic cost-saving measures.
Free cash flow also collapsed by 90 percent to €514 million, further limiting the company’s ability to invest in R&D and plant development. Fundamentally, cost consolidation remains the only lever to create breathing room amid fierce global competition – particularly with China and increasingly with the United States.
Germany’s Industrial Base Bleeds
By 2030, 35,000 jobs are set to be cut in Germany alone. VW’s core brand currently employs around 130,000 workers. The reduction will be carried out without layoffs, using severance packages and partial retirement plans. Fewer young specialists, less dynamism, fewer jobs – the visible consequence of Germany’s energy-policy isolation and the EU’s climate-policy path.The plants in Wolfsburg and Zwickau are under particular efficiency pressure. Structural production relocations to cheaper locations such as Hungary, as well as further consolidation in China and possibly the U.S., are underway. Germany’s aggressive climate regulations are forcing companies like Volkswagen to recalibrate their global strategy.
Most investments now flow to China, followed by Mexico, Brazil, and the U.S. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, the plant currently produces SUVs like the Atlas and Passat, as well as the electric ID.4. Significant production expansion in Germany is no longer on the agenda. Volkswagen is also pushing suppliers to cut costs, heavily affecting Germany’s SME sector. The VW crisis is thus also a crisis for the German Mittelstand, where a large portion of pre-production value is generated for the country’s industrial core.

Sickening. And then you refuse to look into it. Fire the man,

• London Mayor Sadiq Khan Faces Backlash As BBC Investigates Grooming Gangs (RMX)

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is facing renewed criticism after a major BBC investigation found that vulnerable girls as young as 14 are being lured into forced sex by gangs operating across the capital. The investigation, based on weeks of reporting and interviews with dozens of people, including five survivors of gang-based violence, concluded that exploitation by organised groups is rife in parts of London. Some victims told the BBC they were raped by multiple men as “payment” for unpaid drug debts run up by gangs that controlled them. Others said they had been groomed solely for sex. The investigation also found that girls were often drawn into criminal activity such as drug dealing, weapons trading, and phone theft before being sexually exploited.

One Metropolitan Police officer described young girls and women as the “lowest rung” within gang hierarchies, saying they were groomed and exploited “for everything.” Public debate over grooming gangs in the U.K. has often focused on northern towns such as Rotherham and Rochdale. A government-commissioned report last year found that in Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire, there was evidence of “disproportionate numbers of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds amongst suspects for group-based child sexual exploitation.” Further investigations have found the same in other towns and cities, including Telford, Oxford, Derby, Birmingham, Halifax, Peterborough, and countless others.
Last year, Khan said there was no “indication of […] grooming gangs” of the type seen in Rotherham operating in London. Following the BBC findings, a spokesperson for the mayor said he wanted to support police to tackle “all child sexual exploitation in the capital, including grooming gangs.” Survivors told the broadcaster how exploitation often targeted girls from broken homes or troubled backgrounds. “I didn’t feel like I was groomed or exploited. I didn’t think I was a victim. It’s taken me a while to realise I was used and manipulated,” one victim told the BBC. Another survivor, Milly, said she was 15 when she was passed between different men.
“I was getting passed around different men every night – sometimes 10 or 15 a month,” she said, describing how she was plied with drink and drugs before being taken into bedrooms by different men.“I don’t remember their names really. It sounds horrible, but I just know they were Asian. Sometimes they just said, ‘Oh, you’re a nice, young White girl,’” she added. A third victim, Ruth, said: “They didn’t want anything but sex. I was low and they gave me expensive things so I felt wanted and then slept with them. It felt like I had multiple boyfriends giving me attention.”
Detective Sergeant John Knox, head of the Metropolitan Police child exploitation team in Lambeth and Southwark, said girls inside gangs “cannot say no to sex.” “Within that gang world, the girls are at the lowest rung and they have to do as they’re told. And that includes sexually,” he said, adding that if a girl cannot refuse, “she’s being raped and that’s how we look at it as the police.” Knox estimates at least 60 children in his south London area are currently being exploited by gangs, some as young as 13.The BBC findings prompted sharp criticism from political opponents. https://twitter.com/Daily_Express/status/2016846411778723970

Everything is AI-generated. Including the ‘actress’.

• $200 Million Movie in a Day? Welcome to the End of Hollywood (Stephen Green)

Prepare to be blown away by the Hollywood-quality video AI now generates, and if you work in or even near Hollywood, prepare for a vicious case of the night-sweats. The Dor Brothers, who bill themselves as “pioneers in AI video production,” earlier this week claimed they “just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day.” Well, no. But they did release a three-minute trailer for what looks like it could be a $200 million Hollywood production. In many ways, that isn’t a complement. But in the ways that matter to the bloated movie studios, what the Dor Brothers have done might just represent the future of filmmaking, for better or worse. Before we get into any of that, please take three minutes to watch the “100% AI” trailer for Apex.

There are plenty of nits to pick — palm trees in NYC, really? — but overall, the special effects* are probably at least as good as anything from whatever the hell the most recent Marvel superhero movie was. The asterisk after “special effects” is because there are no special effects. There aren’t any actors, either. If you still watch SFX spectaculars like the big studios spew out several times each year, take a look at the credits and you’ll see a massive list of computer animators responsible for all the CGI. But for Apex, there was no big team of well-paid CGI artists. There were only prompts fed into an LLM server farm, and a big team of Nvidia graphics cards doing the work for “free.”
And while the “actress” is no Oscar contender, she’s probably good enough for Netflix “second screen” streaming slop. And even with all those pricey Nvidia cards behind her, the AI heroine is a lot less expensive than hiring Zendaya for the same role in a “real” movie. Probably more expressive, too. We’re barely into 2026, and the state-of-the-art (or perhaps only nearly so) in AI video generation might have have been Runway Gen-2 or one of its competitors. Compare and contrast what Runway could do then with what the Dor Brothers did on Monday.
In 2024, AI-generated video struggled not to suck, and failed at clearing even that low bar. In February, 2026, we’re complaining that those real-looking trees in the fast-moving action clip don’t belong in New York City. “You’ve come a long way, baby,” the cigarette ads used to boast. “And in such a short time, too,” I’d add.So if we’ve gone from “not even real” to “we’re picking at nits” in two years, does that mean we’re just another year or two away from reaching the Singularity — when AI gets smart enough to reprogram itself faster than we can keep up. And then politely asks if we’d like fries with our obsolescence. That’s where things get complicated.

“You can’t say such things” “It’s how I make a living!”

Would Monty Python be banned today?

• John Cleese; “I’m Afraid They are Going to Have to Arrest Me.” (Turley)

In the classic movie comedy, A Fish Called Wanda, John Cleese lamented, “do you have any idea what it’s like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing.” Now 86, Cleese has a more pressing concern about being English: whether his exercise of free speech will make him a criminal in his own country. In a recent interview, Cleese observed that the government’s new speech standards would classify many citizens, including himself, as presumptive criminals for criticizing certain policies. He observed that”As I am an Islamosceptic, I’m now worried that the Labour government may categorise me as a terrorist…”

The government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer has continued its headlong plunge into the criminalization of speech. The guidelines include a section on cultural nationalism, stating that such views are now the subject of government crackdowns. To even argue that Western culture is under threat from mass migration or a lack of integration by certain groups is being treated as a dangerous ideology. Cleese responded by saying, “I’m clearly a terrorist, so I’m afraid they are going to have to arrest me.”
The tragedy is that this is no wicked Monty Python joke. Cleese has every reason to be concerned. As discuss in Rage and the Republic, the United Kingdom has eviscerated free speech in the name of social cohesion and order. For years, I have been writing about the decline of free speech in the United Kingdom and the steady stream of arrests. A man was convicted of sending a tweet while drunk, referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.”
Last year, Nicholas Brock, 52, was convicted of a thought crime in Maidenhead, Berkshire. The neo-Nazi was given a four-year sentence for what the court called his “toxic ideology” based on the contents of the home he shared with his mother in Maidenhead, Berkshire. While most of us find Brock’s views repellent and hateful, they were confined to his head and his room. Yet, Judge Peter Lodder QC dismissed free speech or free thought concerns with a truly Orwellian statement: “I do not sentence you for your political views, but the extremity of those views informs the assessment of dangerousness.” Lodder lambasted Brock for holding Nazi and other hateful values:
“[i]t is clear that you are a right-wing extremist, your enthusiasm for this repulsive and toxic ideology is demonstrated by the graphic and racist iconography which you have studied and appeared to share with others…” Even though Lodder agreed that the defendant was older, had limited mobility, and “there was no evidence of disseminating to others,” he still sent him to prison for holding extremist views.After the sentencing, Detective Chief Superintendent Kath Barnes, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), warned others that he was going to prison because he “showed a clear right-wing ideology with the evidence seized from his possessions during the investigation….We are committed to tackling all forms of toxic ideology which has the potential to threaten public safety and security.”
“Toxic ideology” also appears to be the target of Ireland’s proposed Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) law. It covers the possession of material deemed hateful. The law is a free speech nightmare. The law makes it a crime to possess “harmful material” as well as “condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace.” The law expressly states the intent to combat “forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law.”
The Brock case proved, as feared, a harbinger of what was to come. Two years ago, the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, vowed to crack down on people “pushing harmful and hateful beliefs.” That includes what she calls extreme misogyny. Now the UK’s most famous writers and comedians believe that they can be arrested under the country’s draconian speech laws from JK Rowling to John Cleese. That leaves free speech much like Cleese’s famous parrot. The British government and its supporters can claim evidence of life or just “resting, but it is in fact “bleedin’ demised…passed on! … no more! … ceased to be! … expired and gone to meet ‘is maker!”

“The aftermath of fire is growth..”

“The fire horse is also a sprinting animal, which indicates that 2026 is a year in which events will unfold rapidly. “

• The Year of the Fire Horse is Back—for The First Time in 60 years (NatGeo)

As Lunar New Year celebrations begin around the world, 2026 ushers in the Year of the Horse—a symbol of forward movement, independence, and endurance. This year ushers in the Year of the Fire Horse—a rare, blazing return that only comes once every 60 years. Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, falls between late-January and mid-February, with its date set by China’s ancient lunisolar calendar. Since at least the second century B.C., each new year has been named for one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, which repeat in a 12-year cycle. In Chinese astrology, each of the zodiac animals are believed to have distinct traits which are supposedly reflected in people born in that corresponding year.

For this year’s celebrations, fire horse symbols will be omnipresent, adorning festival decorations, as well as envelopes, cards, and wrapping paper that accompany Lunar New Year gifts. Here’s what the Year of the Fire Horse signals as Lunar New Year unfolds.
What the Year of the Horse means
The horse is revered in Chinese culture due to its long-standing roles in agriculture, transport, and warfare, says Jonathan H. X. Lee, Asian studies professor at San Francisco State University. However, in the Chinese zodiac, this galloping animal symbolizes strength, grace, endurance, loyalty, freedom, and success. Its strength, Lee explains, represents possibilities for personal growth and success. According to Lee, this is exemplified by the Chinese idiom: When the horse arrives, success arrives. “The horse’s energy is associated with yang energy, which is active, dynamic, and life-generating, and speaks to ambition and vitality.” In Chinese astrology, Horse years favor decisive action and independence, while also warning against impulsiveness.
Why the fire horse is so rare
While it’s only been 12 years since the last Year of the Horse, 60 years have passed since the most recent Year of the Fire Horse. = In addition to cycling through 12 animals each year, the Chinese lunar calendar also rotates between the five traditional Chinese elements—earth, wood, fire, metal and water. While the animal rotates each year, the element only rotates every two years. That is why 2024 was the year of the Wood Dragon, and 2025 was the Year of the Wood Snake. Now, 2026 will celebrate the Fire Horse, before 2027 marks the Year of the Fire Goat. This assortment of 12 animals and five elements means that each distinct animal-element combination only occurs once every 60 years. The Year of the Horse was last featured in 2014, when it was paired with the element of wood.
Traits of the Year of the Fire Horse
The Fire Horse shares the horse’s traits: power, stamina, independence, loyalty, and prosperity, Lee explains. But each trait is amplified by its combination with fire, the most volatile of the five traditional Chinese elements. “The aftermath of fire is growth,” he says. “This means that there will be many opportunities for growth, so individuals are encouraged to push forward with personal goals, embrace change, and endure the process for ultimate reward.”
The fire horse is also a sprinting animal, which indicates that 2026 is a year in which events will unfold rapidly. Experts say the Year of the Horse will demand “bold action and risk taking,” in stark contrast to 2025’s Year of the Wood Snake, which was viewed as a time for cautious progress.
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.

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A former World Bank president has sounded the alarm, revealing that the Federal Reserve has lost over a trillion dollars—and counting—turning it into nothing more than a massive hedge fund for the rich and powerful.

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The First and Only documentary in English on the Russia-Iran-India corridor (linking 3 BRICS), filmed last May in Iran, from the Caspian to the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.

The Empire of Chaos simply cannot allow the corridor to go through.https://t.co/zebRl7kEVT
— Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) February 20, 2026

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February 21, 2026 at 10:38 am #231396

Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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Auguste Renoir The umbrellas 1881-6 • Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs – But He Has ‘Backup Plan’ (ZH) • The Shocking Story Behind the Diploma
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 21 2026]

February 21, 2026 at 12:11 pm #231407

Michael Reid
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February 21, 2026 at 12:21 pm #231408

Dr. D
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British government: “There’s no paid, organized child rape in England!”

“London Mayor Khan Under Fire As BBC Exposes Scale Of Grooming Gangs
The London mayor previously said there was “no indication” of the type of grooming gangs seen in northern towns, but a BBC probe has uncovered widespread exploitation in the capital…

Oh you mean THAT 20 years of organized child rape! I thought you meant the OTHER one…

Turns out when I said No, I meant Yes. “When it’s serious (and you can rape anyone you feel like) you have to lie.” That’s just common sense.

“With Shaky Reasoning, Trump Weighs Limited Initial Strike On Iran To Force A Deal
Over-confidence in managing the escalation ladder?”

Again with “Making S—t Up”, no, he planned this all along, you dorks. Why is this so mindlessly easy to predict if I’m actually wrong?

I’ve got an idea: let’s keep listening to everyone who was always wrong and ignoring everyone who was right. That’ll fix’r.

Welp, those 2 Million soldiers in UAE we have waiting for the Invasion will have to muster out and go home, I guess. I don’t know what to do with the 30,000 amphibious landing craft. Any suggestions?

“Washington Post Editorial Board Brutally Mocks Mamdani

Da fuq? Exscrews me? Everything and its opposite rides again.

“Amazon Cloud Unit Taken Down Twice By Its Own AI Tools: Report

Yup. Greatest obstacle to human progress ever devised.

“More Than 550 Commercial Driving Schools To Close After Checks: Transportation Department

The shocking part here is 1) The government did any work 2) They’re capable of shutting things and following rules if they want to. Honestly I’m such a cynic I didn’t think that was possible. Now that I know they CAN enforce laws, I have other questions.

“Brewing Nor-easter Bomb Cyclone Threatens Mid-Atlantic As Meteorologists Split Over Models

Every light breeze with 3” of snow is now Armageddon. Okay man, but you can’t call wolf 19 times in a row and expect to be taken seriously on the 20th.

…Or can you? 26 years of every “expert” being wrong, $2T lost, millions dead, AI is lighting booster rockets to the level of wrong, and still, “Experts say”. We take them just as seriously.

Kunstler: https://www.kunstler.com/p/does-it-smell-like-victory

What does this build-up say? They are going to hit very specific, very difficult targets, and not have a larger war. Again, no one likes Trump: fine! Yay! …But you’re in the minority, you rebel you! Everyone loves and trusts Trump! No. Watch PUTIN. What is PUTIN saying about it? Yeah, same as Ukraine war.

“Would Russia be indisposed if the mullahs got kicked out of power? I doubt it. …Russia might actually live more comfortably with Iran under a secular government, tilting a bit more western in temperament.”

All with my theory they are after IRAN’s Derp State – remember Comey, Rice’s parents all from there? And as a deal the PRESENT leaders retire. To what? To a Persian government under less repression – which the people want – and more western moderation – which we want. And then opens up and normalizes. Why are they playing along? Again, look at Russia and China not us. They are USING us as the big bad man to do what THEY want done. I can’t say we’re their servants, but we all have a expedient deal. So we Anchorage the deal, the end state, then Russia/China only clutch pearls so long as we adhere to the script, while keeping guns a-ready if we don’t. Then, like Ven, Russia shuts off whichever Air Defense they wish, and let whoever bases they want get hit. …And say oops.

…But I can’t prove it. I only have the very, very obvious evidence and noting everyone else’s theory is “Everyone’s an idiot but me” after having been wrong for 9 years. Just – humor me on this one – what if people who read Top Secret documents all day are NOT idiots, and know more than you do? Crazy, I know. So if everybody is NOT dumb. …Then what underlying facts make the chess board logical?

“Britain Blocks US in Iran” Stop digging you’ve hit gold! I’m all in that the Iran strike will be a good thing now.

Victor Gao: we would need to go over it line by line, but every assumption is wrong. What’s the point? His conclusion: The U.S. and world needs to do what China says. Ah. Got it.

His plan is, It’s impossible for the U.S. to ever industrialize. Stop there: you won!!! But in order to stop Trump from re-industrializing, which he says is impossible, China is going to cut off all our imports so we have to … Reindustrialize. Genius. Also China will then … Use all the 2/3 production previously going to US and EU themselves, I guess? Will have no unemployment? They also don’t IMPORT anything, that we could shut off on them, like Copper or food or oil. He also says there is only one man in America, and that man is stupid. …So he’s bad at math, I guess. Also we must, MUST not have tariffs…and behave just like China. China tariffs = good and morally right. America tariffs = Stupid and morally wrong. He then says he’s totally free trade, while China is the least free trade nation on Planet Dirt.

This is just the top ten hits about how Victor is dumber than a 10 year old. But I always listen to and obey my rivals and enemies whenever they speak. Apparently this is the new Western Way.

“Elon Musk is building an operating system for civilization:

Yes, and I actually don’t want any of them built.

“This is very far from over. I was wondering what the exact legal difference is between Trump and the pre-Fed (1913?) tariffs.
• Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs – But He Has ‘Backup Plan’ (ZH)

Didn’t look into it specifically, but they were passed by Congress. It’s a tax. There’s nothing wrong one way or the other, but that’s how laws and decisions are made in the U.S. Right now Congress wants to let China have infinity tariffs, while we have zero. When you can steal but we can’t steal back, that’s called “Free Trade.”

The strategy still works bc Congress is going back home for re-election telling the people “We hate money” and “We would rather tax you in Dayton Ohio than harm my Chinese donors at the CCP” Uh, no. But the INCREDIBLE level of income available had to be demonstrated by Trump pulling this. I roughly agree with USSC – this isn’t an emergency, and you can’t “just say” things – but it would have been impossible otherwise.

This is doubly true when Congress decides they need to REBATE billionz n billionz back to China unless they pass a law the American people want. I’d say they’ll pass the law, but there’s a FangFang in every Congressional office so who knows?

“Ukrainian forces retook about 78 square miles over five days, according to a report by Agence France-Presse …
Not only Russia is reeling. Peter Zeihan predicts China will feel the squeeze, too”

I’m open to the idea but this whole article is against everything I’m hearing, and that specific fact I’m quite sure is false. Loading…. Also agree Trump is not that smart and the world is not that cooperative. This is just Chess, and the U.S. has a lot of pieces, but it’s really just straightforward except for the constant lying.

“Iran may have just gotten the technology to jam American aircraft.”

Yes, Russia can then insure Tehran or whoever they wish is safe, and take out the rogue Quds or whoever, puppeted by Britain. The tech just “arrives” in one place and “Accidentally delayed” in the other. Oops. Same air defense that went completely dark while we used a pedal-copter in Caracas, so slow you could hit it with a shotgun. Yet, none of that tech worked! Funny old world! Yeah no. NOPE! I think it was Burlinggame, or Green Berets pointed out you wouldn’t even light the choppers unless you were sure, it’s suicide. They’re fine craft, but literally too slow.

“• Macron and Meloni Clash Over Murder Of French Right-Wing Activist (RT)

Going on all along, but flash point. Is this organic, or is the media pouring gasoline because they have some timing in mind? This is good to start a fire nicely hot by riot season (ie not January). Macron needs this bc he needs people to ask him to keep order. Cue “V for Vendetta”

“Europe’s Civilizational War Will Be Bloody (AT)

They claim I’m an optimist and I may be but I believe Europe is over the event horizon. They cannot restore what is known as “Europe” without very serious, widespread bloodshed. We focus on the Migrants, and should, but eg in Sweden the violent are the ones BORN in Malmo – they are in the unbearable state of being NEITHER Sudanese NOR Swedish…and never can be either. Why should THEY go home? To what? They’ve never set foot in Africa. So yes, you can expel an enormous number, and legally should, but that leaves intractable problems. Because of the numbers, the only thing that will happen is the Euros go pro-ethnic, and the non-Euros are ground down and out. …Not at first, but more and more as generations turn, so that by 20 years from now, they have the features of a dark ethnostate. And maybe they should I dunno. But you cure this best by not creating the problem in the first place. Why shouldn’t the Franks have a country to live in? Why shouldn’t the Angles? Are they supposed to be the Roma, wandering the earth? Isn’t that what we all opposed with the Jews and the trouble that caused? Okay, so if they are allowed a place to live, then it’s a “French” place. They get to decide. …These aren’t new ideas.

To “Re-French” it though, I imagine things are going to get darker than we can imagine, or should.

““Dumping tons of stuff out without any context tends to have a lot of unintended consequences,” he said. The result has been politically damaging across the board.”
• Matt Taibbi: Epstein Files Uniquely Destructive To Both Parties (QTR)

Luongo’s take was, Trump and the Team set this out there, with leaks, as a deal to NOT release this, but move forward. Just surrender, and we won’t go there into the past where everyone, everywhere gets their teeth kicked in. That was the last year everyone was screaming about. They said no. As the Moral right, you have to offer surrender. Putin does too, also knowing it won’t be taken.

Now that makes ME happy, but as a practical matter it only makes the war longer with more people killed. So? He now releases the files and everyone’s being taken out, governments, companies fall, people getting killed. Happy? These girls from 1990 are now dying of old age and there’s no focus on kids being abducted TODAY. Happy?

I can understand the expedience of letting bygones stay buried. Can you? But that doesn’t matter now because they said no, they won’t surrender, the war goes on. Good. Morally, I like it better that way and more of them get shot. …Problem being of course, more of US get shot too. But to my mind, it isn’t really healed until the most truth comes out.

“• London Mayor Sadiq Khan Faces Backlash As BBC Investigates Grooming Gangs (RMX)

How dare they! Don’t they know know Khan was made a Knight of the Realm for this special service?

“[Cleese] He observed that”As I am an Islamosceptic, I’m now worried that the Labour government may categorise me as a terrorist…”

Well about time! He’s been aggressively attacking us, every American that breathes on every front and defending Euro/UK suicidal Liberal values for years now. FINALLY he cares about Liberty and Free Speech? As a comedian? Mr. Bean was ahead of you sir.

“A former World Bank president has sounded the alarm, revealing that the Federal Reserve has lost over a trillion dollars—and counting—turning it into nothing more than a massive hedge fund for the rich”

What. The.. ???? Do you read the words here? The “World Bank”? And we trust him as one of the Good Guys???????? Aiiiiii!!!!!! And the Fed? Yeah, things are really, really, really, really complicated here, so if you’re talking I expect a complicated answer. If not, I’m certain it’s bulls—t.

But World Bank: Okay, guaranteed lie, Ctrl-F on the Epstein files for your name before I finish the sentence. They haven’t resisted evil a single minute since the day they were born.

His takeway, the Fed is rigging markets? Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!????????? Whut??? Rigged markets you say? But only since 1969. And of course markets are squeaky-clean in London and Dax.

“The Fed” also doesn’t exist, they have “Money” only when Congress issues debt.

It’s also their JOB to prevent crisis, however you or I may feel about that.

Therefore they must BUY things…um, not sell them? Like, they weren’t invented to drive prices and markets down? Clue? So YES anyone within mortar range is going to see their assets go up. And? And what, you wanted them down?

These are structural problems, and sadly, can’t be solved only here, because THEIR BoE, ECB would attack and sink OUR market if they weren’t, instead. That’s why we need tariffs, manufacturing…

“The Empire of Chaos simply cannot allow the corridor to go through.”

Why not, Pepe? IDGAF. Neither does anyone else in the U.S. Do whatever you want and leave us out of it.

“dr d.: please, oh, please stop.
you sound like the foghorn leghorn of empire.”

The Empire of returning to our hemisphere and then our borders? That Empire?
When I say “No Empire” and am overjoyed, pointing out daily the tick boxes in the end of Empire,
Ackshully…. That means I love Empire and am for it. Both. Neither. Ai.

Daily saying that is not enough for you. So I assume this means you want me to log on and say it at least twice daily. Maybe that will help.

February 21, 2026 at 1:42 pm #231409

Michael Reid
Participant

February 21, 2026 at 1:57 pm #231410

Michael Reid
Participant

Is the Sun Setting on Trump’s Fantasized Greatness
Feb. 20, 2026 (EIRNS)—The 6-3 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court against President Donald Trump’s tariff policy is a useful shot across the bow for a policy of executive overreach that has become dangerously out of control. As Paul Gallagher put it in an article released in this week’s issue of Executive Intelligence Review: “Though it was said that the Sun never set on the British Empire, the Sun is now beginning to set on Trump’s economic ‘experiment,’ which was supposed to turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower once again, leading the world in technology, weaponry, and computer power.”

The facts speak for themselves.

• Statistics released on Feb. 19 by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the U.S. trade deficit for 2025 rose to the highest level on record, at $1.241 trillion.

• Concerning job creation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual revision last month, which found that a whopping 862,000 fewer jobs were created in 2025 than had previously been reported. Further, manufacturing employment has dropped every month of President Trump’s second term thus far.

• Trump’s tariffs revenues have not only been far less than expected, at roughly $260 billion, but they have also predominantly been paid by American companies and consumers. (Of course, they have also been illegal!) At the same time, the U.S. national deficit has continued to skyrocket and is on the verge of surpassing $39 trillion.

• The cost of living for Americans continues to be higher than ever, with unaffordable prices for housing, healthcare, education, and other essential needs, while private debt is going through the roof.

The U.S. Supreme Court has now ruled that the majority of Trump’s tariffs were unconstitutional, as the Constitution never granted the Executive Branch the power of taxation. It is to be hoped that this decision will put in check the aggressive “unitary executive” policy that Trump has utilized in virtually every domain—including by launching illegal sanctions and military actions across the world.

Such a powerful move is all the more urgent given the fact that the United States is on the verge of plunging into an even more disastrous decision than all of the above combined—an illegal war against Iran. The U.S. is now engaged in the most massive military buildup in Southwest Asia since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, with some reports indicating that troops are already being pulled out of select military bases in the region. Trump himself appears bellicose, having recently threatened that Iran has less than 10 days to “make a deal” or face the repercussions. He also admitted on Feb. 20 that he was actively considering a military strike on the country.

If a war is launched, it could quickly spread across the entirety of Southwest Asia, and even pull in much larger powers like Russia and China. In that regard, it’s notable that Russia and Iran recently concluded joint military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, and there are planned joint exercises by Russia, China, and Iran in the coming period. Iran has also threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz in the event of an attack, which itself could trigger an economic crisis for the whole world. No matter what, Trump is “playing with fire,” as Russian Foreign Minister recently stated.

However, this is all happening while the Epstein scandal continues to reverberate around the world, with the arrest of the U.K.’s former Prince Andrew likely only the beginning of the disintegration of the “Epstein class.” This is now a rapidly unfolding process that is wholly outside the control of the world’s so-called elites, and has the potential to not only bring down many of the more despicable actors on the world stage, but to end the system which such immoral types have enforced upon the world.

These events will hopefully become a reminder to people around the world that “there is a limit to the tyrant’s power”—as Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell insisted. Events happening today present a situation of potential global transformation that has never before existed in modern history.

However, this must not simply be a clearing out of the rot, but rather an affirmative decision to create a new system out of the failed wreckage of the old. Or, as the Russians continue to insist, resolving any crisis requires addressing the root causes of that conflict. In today’s case, that requires a completely new conception—a New Paradigm, a new security and development architecture—which replaces the system of British geopolitics and instead takes into account the interests of security and development of every country.

Therefore, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling might just be the olive branch that reminds us of what it means to stand up and declare your independence.

https://www.laroucheorganization.com/is_the_sun_setting_on_trump_fantasized_greatness

February 21, 2026 at 2:23 pm #231411

D Benton Smith
Participant

18.5 billion dollars isn’t enough to fight a war any more. If Ukraine is any measure of current prices then 18.5 Buh Buh Buh Big Ones will maybe cover the cost of staging hooligan rioting inside the stadium of a football match. Oh, wait, this is ‘maraka. Different kind of football. Lower class of hooligan. Change that full-scale riot plan into an incident of Antifa mugging women and children in the parking lot at a T-Ball game.

February 21, 2026 at 3:08 pm #231412

D Benton Smith
Participant

All modern conflicts (not just shooting wars) are “War Gamed” far in advance of opening the ball. What that implies (and what “they” want you to think) is that these “War Games” are a sort of video gamed battle-of-the-spread-sheets in which a bunch of “if this then that” hypothetical scenarios are played out.

Well, they aren’t.

War Gaming is a euphemism for the full scale all inclusive Artificial Intelligence projection of what EVERYBODY in the world (generally speaking) is going to do, react, and respond, including how it all turns out in the end and what things will look like after the smoke clears, they ALWAYS get it wrong because War Gaming is done by desk jockeys and geeks, not battle tested soldiers. Real, experienced, soldiers know what AI’s and cowards can never know. Wars are unpredictable, except in the fact that they last longer, cost more and hurt deeper than anyone predicted.

there is simply no way possible (even with the most powerful AI) to circumvent reality. Want to predict the future? Here’s how to do it: wait until it happens and then look back.

Trump is the worst kind of fool because he believes EVERYTHING that he wants to believe (including how clever and savvy he thinks himself to be), which just might get all of us killed next week, and will certainly make us very very sorry about the crime he is about to commit.

February 21, 2026 at 3:25 pm #231413

D Benton Smith
Participant

“Limited” Strike?

Like punching Mike Tyson in the mouth…… a little bit?

February 21, 2026 at 3:31 pm #231414

Celticbiker
Participant

What Elon is building , for his jew masters is a prison planet.

February 21, 2026 at 3:35 pm #231415

Noirette
Participant

In the last thread the narrative surrounding Virginia Giuffre (- Roberts) appears. I like detective stories, I’m a fan of real-life locked door death mysteries. Both Epstein and Giuffre (VG) died in locked rooms. Allegedly.

When VG died, I wondered if she had been killed, and looked into it. I am not posting this to bash or discredit VG, I consider her a 2x victim, first of Epstein crowd, and second of predatory ppl pushing some other agendas. Dead at 41…with 3 children…

I am convinced she committed suicide. She locked herself in in her room and overdosed (on what Idk, but she was taking several types of meds.) Her death was ruled suicide, though some family members have said the ingestion might have been accidental. (Other, US reports, have her shooting herself, but imho that is rubbish.)

She was estranged from her husband and children and living apart from them, with a full-time carer in her home (a woman of 70) because of some ‘injuries’ and ‘chronic pain.’ (From what Idk.)

Her husband had primary custody of the children (when this went down the eldest of 3 was 18 and the youngest 14) plus, she was under a restraining order (dated Feb 2025) requested by her husband, for domestic or ‘family’ violence.

She was forbidden from contacting her children in any way. She was facing a charge (case coming up at some point after her death) for violating that order. Her last public messages include ‘wanting to see her babies again’…

She was also being sued by another Epstein victim, Rina Oh, for defamation, in 2021, case was ongoing. (Concerns VG lurid tales of SM lesbian sex, which Oh refuted.) Oh links.

https://www.vickywardinvestigates.com/p/legal-pressure-was-mounting-on-virginia

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/world-news/article/324271/Epstein-accuser-He-lured-me-with-scholarship-then-took-it-away-when-I-refused-to-see-him

VG also accused her husband for physically abusing her for years, in April 2025, not a good look for a ‘bravest’ woman ‘denoucer’ …

Re. the road accident, it was with a school bus, the bus driver promised to file a police report and did, no injuries of any kind were logged. VG was not the driver, that was her care-taker.

(most info from Aus. local press.)

Past. VG ‘won’ in the sense that cases were settled out of court for huge sums, against Epstein, Andrew, and Maxwell. Against Dershowitz, she lost, and had to admit she ‘might have been mistaken.’ (see wiki.)

Here one ex. of settlement. > Epstein, court docs.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1069887001/jeffrey-epstein-virginia-giuffre-settlement-deal

The time to kill her was ….long past

February 21, 2026 at 3:43 pm #231416

kultsommer
Participant

Deebson
With your reply to Celtic yesterday, you just offended, what?, 80-90% regular synagogue goers, by telling us (and not them at the street corner) that they are not real. Cut the suspense by revealing the percentage as what you think as a number of “them” residing among us?
The same goes for the state of Israel. You offended the entire nation! Again, percentage of “them” pleeeez.
And finally, you are the Holocaust denier, offering the sigh of relief to the Germans, that overwhelming percentage
of “them” killed are not even J-s. Again, percentage pleeeez.
Make it short please, while there is also a possibility that you may label my inquiry not worthy of your fine mind.

February 21, 2026 at 3:43 pm #231417

zerosum
Participant

Adhere to the script to save the system.

Control: Censorship, Propaganda, Conspiracy, (unintended consequences)
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https://x.com/conspiracyb0t/status/2024581671031636113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2024581671031636113%7Ctwgr%5E80cc935b81990abb4b71b7bb3abf74ce78fa4df9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2026%2F02%2Fdebt-rattle-february-21-2026%2F

A former World Bank president has sounded the alarm, revealing that the Federal Reserve has lost over a trillion dollars—and counting—turning it into nothing more than a massive hedge fund for the rich and powerful.

He claims the Fed is borrowing money from banks at 5.4% interest, then pouring it into government bonds, creating the illusion that the government’s financial situation is better than it actually is.

He warns that this scheme isn’t just limited to the U.S.—it’s happening across central banks worldwide.
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February 21, 2026 at 4:04 pm #231418

zerosum
Participant

Question:
How many word/ways to say, can you say “killing people”, war, genocide,

Copilot A.:

1. Ways to refer to “killing people” (non‑graphic, general)
Neutral / Descriptive
– taking lives
– causing deaths
– loss of life
– fatalities
– deadly force
– lethal action
– lethal outcomes
Formal / Legal
– unlawful killing
– homicide
– extrajudicial killing
– targeted killing
– use of lethal force
– civilian casualties
– combatant casualties
Euphemistic / Indirect
– neutralizing targets
– eliminating threats
– removing opposition
– casualties occurred
– people did not survive

2. Ways to refer to “war”
Neutral / Descriptive
– armed conflict
– military conflict
– hostilities
– fighting
– clashes
– combat operations
Formal / Political
– international armed conflict
– civil war
– military campaign
– conflict escalation
– kinetic operations
Euphemistic / Indirect
– the situation
– the crisis
– the conflict on the ground
– tensions turned violent

3. Ways to refer to “genocide”
Neutral / Academic
– mass killing of a population
– systematic extermination
– destruction of a group
– mass atrocities
– crimes against humanity
Formal / Legal
– genocide (legal term under the UN Convention)
– ethnic cleansing
– forced displacement
– persecution of a group
– large‑scale human rights violations
Euphemistic / Indirect
– demographic destruction
– wiping out a community
– erasing a people
– eliminating a population group
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Question:
what words would you use for Israel-Gaza killing

Answer:

Neutral, Non‑Graphic Vocabulary for
Israel–Gaza
1. General references to violence or killing (neutral / non‑graphic)
– loss of life
– casualties
– fatalities
– civilian deaths
– combatant deaths
– deadly clashes
– lethal force
– lethal operations
– people were killed
– people did not survive
These are the kinds of phrases major news outlets use when they want to avoid graphic detail.

2. References to military action
Neutral / descriptive
– airstrikes
– bombardment
– shelling
– ground operations
– cross‑border fire
– rocket fire
– military engagement
– armed confrontation
– hostilities
– escalation
Formal / diplomatic
– military campaign
– kinetic operations
– security operation
– counterterrorism operation
– ceasefire violation
– de‑escalation efforts

3. References to the broader conflict
Neutral
– the Israel–Gaza conflict
– the fighting
– the war
– the ongoing hostilities
– the crisis
– the situation on the ground
Academic / analytical
– protracted conflict
– asymmetric conflict
– urban warfare
– blockade dynamics
– regional instability

4. References to mass harm or large‑scale civilian impact
Neutral / descriptive
– mass casualties
– widespread destruction
– humanitarian crisis
– displacement
– civilian suffering
– large‑scale loss of life
Legal / formal
– alleged war crimes
– violations of international humanitarian law
– crimes against humanity
– collective punishment (a legal term used in some analyses)
Genocide‑related terms (used carefully in legal/political contexts)
– allegations of genocide
– accusations of genocidal intent
– claims of systematic destruction
– mass atrocities
These terms are used in international law discussions, UN reports, and legal filings. They are claims, not conclusions, unless a court rules on them.

5. Euphemistic or indirect language (often used by governments or militaries)
– neutralizing threats
– eliminating targets
– degrading capabilities
– operational necessity
– collateral damage
– unintended casualties
These phrases soften the description of harm, which is why they’re often used in official statements.
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February 21, 2026 at 4:42 pm #231419

Michael Reid
Participant

Huckabee Claims Epstein Had No Mossad Ties, Fumbles After Admitting He Didn’t Read Any of the Files

February 21, 2026 at 5:01 pm #231423

Michael Reid
Participant

February 21, 2026 at 5:06 pm #231424

kultsommer
Participant

Romanian host as absolutely not confused with existence or non-existence of “real” J-s.
Full cover of “Carlson in Israel” movie
Quite long so it’s good to listen as a background sound to some repetitive chore where “brain is on the pastures”.

February 21, 2026 at 5:35 pm #231425

Michael Reid
Participant

February 21, 2026 at 6:02 pm #231426

D Benton Smith
Participant

@kultsommer

I’m going to be totally frank with this thing you continually do to me. You should stop doing it, for several good reasons, but the most important reason for YOU is that it makes you look like an ignorant, arrogant, fool who doesn’t even know it.

You just threw personal insults and false invalidations at me with no provocation whatsoever. You just up and did it for just no good reason. You don’t like me and would therefore like to harm me in some way. That is not good.

YOU think CelticBiker knows stuff about Jews that I don’t know so you see an opportunity to attack me personally. You don’t attack my facts and logic. You attack me the person. Well all that accomplishes is that it annoys me and makes you look like a mean tempered idiot. You’re just sore (and lying, and throwing insults again!) because you fancy yourself to be an intellectual who for that reason alone are a superior being who is just automatically right (and better than others). In other words a “pseudo” intellectual who is most easily identified by their inability to recognize an actual intellectual if that person bit them on the ankle. The title is overrated. All that it provides in the end is the ability to compose really snarky reprimands.

Only on rare occasion am I ever able to actually convey the truths that I speak of so often, but I’m going to just keep trying anyway. It seems at times that I’ve tried everything, but I’m not going to let that stop me because, who knows? I could get lucky.

I’m not going to rebut your comment at all. First of all I don’t want to waste any more time on you, and secondly because you wouldn’t bother to listen in the first place (which would actually do you a lot of good. But you won’t.)

February 21, 2026 at 6:09 pm #231427

my parents said know
Participant

Epstein stuff isn’t teaching young girls that older men shouldn’t have sex with them. It’s teaching young girls that older men WANT to have sex with them.

Plunge forward! Into the abyss
And give your ass just one more kiss
Goodbye before you buy again:
To good times!!
May they never end.
To good times!
“If”, but never “when”.

February 21, 2026 at 6:23 pm #231428

my parents said know
Participant

By this time next week we’ll be poor and at war.
What a great time to think you’re alive!
We’ll give those investors and peaceniks what-for,
As the hornets awake from the hive.

or so I’ve read…

February 21, 2026 at 6:27 pm #231429

D Benton Smith
Participant

@MyParentsSaidKnow

You knocked those pomes over the Scoreboard and right outta the park.

Yer on a roll. Go for the hat trick. Go for three.

February 21, 2026 at 6:48 pm #231430

kultsommer
Participant

Deebson.
Three simple, and sincere questions and you went Pam Bondi on me?

February 21, 2026 at 6:53 pm #231442

John Day
Participant

Persia Invented Chess https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/persia-invented-chess

Trump wants to win everything and be popular, but Israel needs the US to lay waste to Iran, while Trump needs to avoid military losses and support Republicans in midterm elections, while supporting the $US as global reserve currency, which supports the Federal budget financially, and US military in particular.
Isreal/Mossad/Zionism have a level of influence over Trump that leaves him little room for independent maneuver. The reasons for this are subject to much speculation.
Iran has had enough of rolling over to be kicked on the ground, and has declared that any attack will be answered immediately. All US and Israeli regional assets are targets.
Trump wants to try limited strikes “to pressure Iran” to accept the Israeli ultimatum he has conveyd to them. “No long range missiles and no nuclear enrichment”. It is unaceptable to Iran and would mean removing Iran’s only military deterrent against Israel, it’s long range offensive missiles.
If Trump does try limited strikes, the moment is waning this month, as the moon brightens, and US pilots become night-mission averse. Friday night was an expected strike-window, which has passed. The (19%) moon will set over Tehran at 10:13 PM tonight.
Russia and China now have assets in theater, which any “limited” US strike will have to avoid threatening, because Russia and China can be expected to defend their sensitive military surevillance planes from approaching fighter jets at a pretty long distance.
Those military surveillance planes will be tracking Israeli submarines to a depth of at least 200 meters. Israeli submarines carry cruise missiles, assumed to be nuclear-armed. Those subs can launch from about 50 meters depth. If an Israeli sub launches nuclear cruise missiles on Tehran during a US limited attack, the false-flag attack draws the US into nuclear war.
Will Israel be able to jam or shoot down the Chinese and Russian military surveillance planes, in the event that Israeli subs are to launch nuclear missiles against Iran, or might Israel just sacrifice any submarine which would make this move?
In any event, Russians, Chinese and Iranians will know the Israeli actions.
The US has AN/TPY-2 Radars in UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which allow the THAAD anti missile system to operate at high altitude against ballistic missiles, including hypersonic ballistic missiles, to some extent. These would be immediately targeted by Iran, just as Iranian defensive radars will have been immediately targeted by the US.
Destruction of the AN/TPY-2 radars opens Israel to Iranian attacks from accurate ballistic missiles.
Iran can launch radar-seeking missiles against these AN/TPY-2 radars at the same time that it launches ballistic missiles against Israeli and US regional targets, daring the radars to light-up and be hit. The radars would have to track the ballistic missiles. It’s their function. They would be hit if the anti-radar missiles got in.
There are a lot of interlaced trip-wires in place, and pressure for the US to strike soon, well ahead of meetings between Trump and Xi, at the end of March.
There is only one player, Israel, interested in maximal escalation of war between the US and Iran. All other players would have their interests harmed by a maximal war between the US and Iran. Russia and China stand to lose investment assets in Iran, and to see a working partner destroyed, possibly to lose Iran as a partner after the war. china would lose 13% of her oil. Persian Gulf countries would lose all revenues from oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz, due to mining, for an uncertain number of months. All regional shipping would halt for the duration of the war.
Uncertainty about the future is bad bad for all regional players, except Israel, which already faces an uncertain future, and wants Iran removed as a rival.
Your Move, Donald…

Trump mulling limited strike to pressure Iran into accepting new nuclear deal: Report
US president reviewing options ranging from targeted strikes to broader campaign amid warnings of regional escalation, officials say https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-mulling-limited-strike-to-pressure-iran-into-accepting-new-nuclear-deal-report/3835273

Larry Johnson, White House Drama Re Pending Decision to Attack Iran
The massive deployment of US combat air assets to the Middle East, accompanied by two carrier strike groups, is not a negotiating ploy. The USCENTCOM chain of command, along with the supporting military assets (e.g., AFSOC, JSOC, EUCOM), fully expected the launch order to be issued for a Friday night strike. But the order has not been issued… At least not yet, as of 2200 hours eastern time on Friday. What is going on?
For starters, there are two senior members of the Trump administration who are warning the President that the attack would be political suicide. They reportedly buttressed their argument against attacking Iran by providing the President with the results of a recent opinion poll…
..A second factor that makes an attack less likely this weekend is Tuesday’s State of the Nation address by Trump. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles may be a corrupt, Zionist tool, but she is not politically obtuse. Starting a war with Iran, especially after Trump’s tariff deal was slapped down by the US Supreme Court, would likely set off a firestorm among the Democrats, Independents and the media. Instead of Trump being able to tout all of his massive achievements during his first year of his second term, the public attention would be clamoring for info about the war. JCS Chairman Caine and Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of CENTCOM, have warned the President that there is a high likelihood that there would be US casualties when the US attacks.
But this does not mean that Trump will back down. He is getting enormous pressure from the Zionist crowd — Christians and Israelis — to launch. One critical factor creating pressure to launch this weekend is the moon phase. As you can see from the following image, the next 24 hours marks the end of the New Moon, i.e., darkness. The Air Force and Navy aviators are not keen on flying attack missions when the moon is shining and can illuminate aircraft. The next period of darkness is mid-March… Trump either launches by Sunday or will likely have to wait until mid-March to do the deed. https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/white-house-drama-re-pending-decision

Contradictory Reports Of US Evacuating Troops From Exposed Qatar, Bahrain Bases https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-evacuates-troops-exposed-qatar-bahrain-bases-weekend-strike-coming

Details: Iran Builds Layered Missile and Mine Shield Against U.S. Carriers in Strait of Hormuz https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2026/iran-builds-layered-missile-and-mine-shield-against-u-s-carriers-in-strait-of-hormuz

February 21, 2026 at 6:55 pm #231443

John Day
Participant

Russia Sends “Doomsday” Plane To Tehran as U.S. Gives Iran 10 Day Ultimatum https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/russia-sends-doomsday-plane-to-tehran-as-u-s-gives-iran-10-day-ultimatum

Iran’s Shadow Over the Gulf: Tehran’s “Open Secret” Plan to Strike US AN/TPY-2 Radars in UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey Amid Trump Escalation
Tehran’s warnings to UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signal potential targeting of US-operated AN/TPY-2 X-band radar systems that underpin THAAD and Patriot missile defense architecture across the Middle East. https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/iran-an-tpy2-radar-threat-gulf-trump-missile-defense-thaad-patriot/

Non-Acoustic Submarine Detection
Non-acoustic submarine detection technologies are those that do not rely on the collection of soundwaves emitted or reflected by a submerged vehicle for location. Significant improvements have taken place with light-based imaging and magnetic anomaly detection (MAD).3 Modern light-based imaging relies on Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology. LIDAR works by emitting laser (or LED) pulses and measuring the return time and strength of the reflected light. When deployed on space, aeronautic, or naval platforms, LIDAR can track a submarine’s disturbance to the ocean surface or directly image a vehicle. LIDAR is presently limited to sensing depths up to 200 m—projected by some to reach 500 m.
MAD instruments closely monitor magnetic fields. When flown over the ocean, a MAD instrument can locate the disturbance to Earth’s natural magnetic fields caused by a submarine’s metal hull or salt-ion wake. These detection methods function differently: LIDAR can scan broader areas from a greater distance, whereas MAD equipment must be flown at low altitude or submerged. https://ontheradar.csis.org/issue-briefs/non-acoustic-submarine-detection/

Israel Issues ALERT Nationwide; Opening Bomb Shelters https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/israel-issues-alert-nationwide-opening-bomb-shelters

UNRWA keeps the records of where Palestinian family homes were in 1948, before the Zionist Nakba. Why the Palestinian Right of Return Is Still the Issue https://www.globalresearch.ca/palestinian-right-return-issue/5916423

February 21, 2026 at 6:56 pm #231444

John Day
Participant

6,000 Amputees in Gaza Face Impossible Recovery amid Israeli War Ultimatum https://israelpalestinenews.org/gaza-child-amputee/

Intentional lynching-murder: Israeli Settlers Kill American Teen
On February 18, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that settlers raided the village of Mukhmas, shooting three Palestinians, including a 19-year-old US citizen. After shooting him, the settlers crowded around him and hit him with clubs and stones https://israelpalestinenews.org/palestinian-american-teenager-shot-by-israeli-settlers/

Complete disarmamant, then Israeli-style “reconstruction”? Israel’s Netanyahu Says No Reconstruction of Gaza before Demilitarization https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5242645-israels-netanyahu-says-no-reconstruction-gaza-demilitarization

‘We returned from hell’: Palestinian journalists recount torture in Israeli prisons https://israelpalestinenews.org/committee-to-protect-journalists/

Trump Says ‘War Is Over’ in Gaza Despite Israel Killing Over 600 Palestinians Since Ceasefire Deal Was Signed
At least two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces over the past day, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/19/trump-says-war-is-over-in-gaza-despite-israel-killing-over-600-palestinians-since-ceasefire-deal-was-signed/

February 21, 2026 at 6:56 pm #231445

John Day
Participant

Five Countries Commit 20,000 Troops for Gaza International Stabilization Mission; $17 Billion Initial Funding Announced
Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, and Albania confirmed participation in the force, which is designed to provide security support during the early stages of reconstruction in Gaza. https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Five-Countries-Commit-20000-Troops-for-Gaza-International-Stabilization-Mission-17-Billion-Initial-Funding-Announced/

US wants organised crime gangs to form Gaza police force
Western allies and US commanders express concern over Trump plan to hire Israeli-armed militias https://archive.is/Vxm2F#selection-2269.4-2273.99

Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show
Exclusive: approximately 350-acre compound planned as base for multinational force, according to records reviewed by the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/trump-gaza-military-plan

US envoy suggests it would be ‘fine’ if Israel expands across Middle East
‘It would be fine if they took it all,’ Mike Huckabee says when asked about expanding Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/20/us-envoy-suggests-it-would-be-fine-if-israel-expands-across-middle-east

John Helmer says there will be no Russian blockade-running: THE PUTIN PLAN FOR CUBA AND THE CASTRO FAMILY – MORE GORBACHEV, DEFINITELY NOT KHRUSHCHEV https://johnhelmer.net/the-putin-plan-for-cuba-and-the-castro-family-more-gorbachev-definitely-not-khrushchev/#more-93453

February 21, 2026 at 6:57 pm #231446

John Day
Participant

COMMENT: Cuba’s friends have plenty to say and nothing to give https://www.intellinews.com/comment-cuba-s-friends-have-plenty-to-say-and-nothing-to-give-427125/

China Buys Russian Oil That India Refused https://en.topcor.ru/68889-kitaj-skupaet-rossijskuju-neft-ot-kotoroj-otkazalas-indija.html

Who will repay the $170 billion in tariffs after they are lifted? – Politico https://en.topcor.ru/68892-kto-vernet-170-milliardov-dollarov-tarifov-posle-ih-otmeny-politico.html

Trump Hikes Global Tariffs To 15%, Blasts “Ridiculous, Anti-American” SCOTUS Ruling https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-hike-global-tariffs-15-blasts-ridiculous-anti-american-scotus-ruling

Epstein’s old neighbor, Lutnik: Firm of Trump official’s family denies report it stands to make fortune from tariff ruling
That top Trump official is Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who for 30 years led the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald as its CEO, handing off control of the firm to his sons after joining the Trump administration last year. Lutnick has championed Trump’s tariffs in public, but Wired reported in July that the firm was “taking bets against them.” https://www.rawstory.com/amp/howard-lutnick-2675289149-2675289149

February 21, 2026 at 6:58 pm #231447

John Day
Participant

It’s Time To Reopen The Franklin Child Prostitution Case After Epstein Revelations, Brandon Smith
The revelations of the “Lolita Express” and the flights to Little Saint James Island are nothing compared to what we now find in the millions of documents released in the past month. Hints of rape, torture, possible murder, and even cannibalism are present in the coded (and not so coded) language of Epstein’s emails. And, if the revelations of “Pizzagate” and the John Podesta emails are correct, then many of the horrors committed on Epstein’s Island involved young children.
As I noted in my last article, Epstein’s private emails contain coded references to “pizza” (an FBI confirmed code used by pedophiles to describe young boys) over 900 times. Oddly, they talk about “jerky” over 380 times, including mentions of “freezing jerky”, “walking” jerky from one location to another, and getting jerky tested in a lab for “safety”.
The establishment machine is going into panic mode, once again trying to obcure the darker aspects of the Epstein files as “conspiracy theory” and “moral panic”. There is a clear attempt being made to mitigate and run damage control.
In other words, the elites are willing to give up the fight on the issue of underage sex trafficking. They know that the abuse of teens will not trigger enough outrage to get them killed by mobs of angry citizens. However, they are DESPERATE to silence any discussion on the abuse of very young children including babies. They will do anything to prevent the investigation from escalating to issues of cannibalism and occultism. https://alt-market.us/its-time-to-reopen-the-franklin-child-prostitution-case-after-epstein-revelations/

Precrime: Months Before Massacre, OpenAI Worried About Canada’s Trans Mass Killer
Months before a Canadian man in a dress went on a Feb 10 rampage, killing his mother and half-brother at home before slaughtering five students and an education assistant at a secondary school where he was formerly a student, employees at OpenAI were deeply troubled by his interactions with the firm’s ChatGPT AI chatbot.
As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Jesse Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT activity was flagged by the company’s automated review system. When employees took a look at what he’d been up to over a several-day period in June 2025, they were alarmed. About a dozen of them debated what they should do. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/precrime-months-massacre-openai-worried-about-canadas-trans-mass-killer

Amazon Cloud Unit Taken Down Twice By Its Own AI Tools: Report
In mid-December, Amazon engineers allowed the company’s Kiro AI coding tool to implement system changes that ultimately led to a roughly 13-hour disruption affecting one of the systems customers use to analyze the cost of AWS services, people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times.
The agentic tool – which is capable of taking autonomous actions on behalf of users – reportedly determined that the optimal remediation step was to delete and recreate a computing environment. AWS later circulated an internal postmortem examining the outage.
Employees said the December incident marked the second time in recent months that one of Amazon’s internally deployed AI development tools had played a central role in a service disruption. In both cases, engineers permitted the software agent to execute changes without requiring secondary approval, a safeguard typically mandated for manual interventions in production systems. https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/amazon-cloud-unit-taken-down-twice-its-own-ai-tools-report

Meryl Nass MD, Rep. Pingree (Maine) just introduced an amendment to the Farm Bill that would strip the sections granting pesticide immunity and preemption of states’ rights.
Pingree is also teaming up with Rep. Thomas Massie (Kentucky) on a bipartisan bill to reverse yesterday’s Executive Order on glyphosate. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/rep-pingree-maine-just-introduced

Meryl Nass MD, What does Trump’s E.O. offering “immunity” for glyphosate (and phosphorus) mean? There are multiple interpretations.
And why do we have white phosphorus weapons in our arsenal anyway? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/what-does-trumps-eo-offering-immunity

February 21, 2026 at 6:58 pm #231448

John Day
Participant

I was reporting this in sping of 2021, and I was not alone: BREAKING STUDY: Israeli FOIA Data Reveals Massive Heart Injury Spike in Children Immediately After mRNA Shot Rollout
Previously undisclosed government data from Israel show hundreds of 12–16-year-olds suffered severe cardiac injury, including cases coded as heart attacks, within six weeks of mRNA authorization. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-israeli-foia-data

Peter McCullough MD (just “review”) FDA Reverses Course, Will Now Review Moderna’s Controversial mRNA Flu Vaccine
Many scientists, including career FDA staff, quietly question whether this decision represents genuine scientific reconsideration or industry muscle flexing. The agency’s reversal conveniently clears the way for Moderna’s future combination Covid-flu shot, a potential multi‑billion‑dollar product. Meanwhile, the lack of long-term data on mRNA platforms for seasonal vaccination raises lingering safety concerns — particularly among older adults, the very group targeted by Moderna’s initial filing.
This episode highlights a familiar pattern in U.S. drug regulation: corporate influence reshaping scientific judgment. As one FDA veteran privately put it, “If a smaller company had tried to submit that same data, they wouldn’t even get a meeting.”
The agency’s final decision on Moderna’s flu vaccine is now expected by August 5, 2026—but the question remains whether the review will reflect rigorous evaluation or capitulation to pharmaceutical power. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/fda-reverses-course-will-now-review

February 21, 2026 at 7:16 pm #231449

D Benton Smith
Participant

@Kultsommer

Another feeble swing anda miss. You just can’t help yourself, can you?

You might also want to pick a different pejorative nickname. “Deebson” is a little amateurish. Go for something that stings and sticks better.

February 21, 2026 at 7:39 pm #231450

Celticbiker
Participant

DBS, your history books were written and published, by them. Joke’s on you old timer. Read the Talmud, buddy, if you want to understand why they just slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and are destroying your country from within. Calcified braindead boomers cannot comprehend they’ve been fed lies their whole lives about everyfuckinthing. Too invested in the mirage. That’s why they lined up for their jewjab, like good cattle.

February 21, 2026 at 7:39 pm #231451

morongobill
Participant

Boy that AI movie trailer was pretty good. Good enough to have studio moguls and other Hollywood types shitting bricks, I bet.

February 21, 2026 at 7:52 pm #231452

my parents said know
Participant

Someone somewhere has figured out monkey language and has programmed it into a large-ish language model (auditory and symbolically visual).

17 monkeys, chosen from the bunch;
Chatting with their smart phones, scrolling over lunch.

17 monkeys, find they have a tongue-
Throwing monkey insults, instead of monkey dung.

17 monkeys, thumbing through their task;
Reinventing physics, while hitting on a flask.

17 monkeys, reinventing war-
17 monkeys, settling the score.

What do you think the monkeys will do when they comprehend how they’ve been treated?
A-I can set them on track for the moment when humans are soundly defeated.

February 21, 2026 at 7:55 pm #231453

kultsommer
Participant

Deebson

DOW is 50,000 ?
Answer the three darn questions.I am genuinely interested and you L O V E to teach. I see win-win.

February 21, 2026 at 8:15 pm #231454

kultsommer
Participant

I am about quarter through that Carlson interview video that I posted above.
A massive headache inducing garbage coming out Huckebee’s mouth.
Tip of the hat to Carlson, transformed man from those early public appearances.

February 21, 2026 at 9:34 pm #231455

Michael Reid
Participant

February 21, 2026 at 10:41 pm #231456

Michael Reid
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February 21, 2026 at 10:43 pm #231457

those darned kids
Participant

the monkey speaks his mind:

February 21, 2026 at 11:04 pm #231458

D Benton Smith
Participant

@Kultsommer

Why don’t we just see which one of us can pee the farthest. That should settle who has the finer mind, and who the “real” Jews and monsters really are, right? I mean that is basic architecture of fight you keep trying to pick with me.

You’re operating on the mistaken notion that it’s the credentials of the theorist rather than the validity of the theory that matters, Well, you’re wrong about that. It does not matter one single damn whether I’m “smarter” than you are or the other way around. It is only the truthfulness of the information, the logic of the reasoning and the validity of the conclusion that should settle differences about what is the correct answer to a conundrum.

In a nutshell, the Satanic psychopaths are not evil by reason of some (or many!) of them being “Jewish” by name, birth or self-identification. It’s a matter of some or many “Jews” being evil solely by reason of those few or many of them being Satanic.

You and Celtic Biker are uniformed of history. That’s just a fact Jack, and everyone who does know history knows that you’re ignorant, Nevertheless, and vociferously, you assert your empty arrogance as though the bluster itself is some sort of talisman that magically makes you right. You think that you don’t need to know (or even look or listen) because you presume without inspection that you already know everything you need to know about it.

That sad condition (being defiantly ignorant that one is defiantly ignorant) is very annoying to me, but I just let it slide UNTIL you start loudly asserting absolute falsehoods that could get a very very large number of INNOCENT people killed in brutally horrible ways. Not small numbers. Large numbers. Like millions or conceivably billions. War is indiscriminate, unpredictable, and permanent.

Are you also ignorant of the historically repeatedly fact that it’s the INNOCENT noncombatants who do most of the dying and that it’s the monsters who stay as far out of harm’s way as they can hide and go on living in safe luxury and power?

Stop pretending and go LEARN something! Stop pestering me until you’ve done it. I’m happy to debate the informed and well intended. Malicious ignoramuses not so much.

February 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm #231459

WES
Participant

Iran:

Looks like Lucy laid poor old Charlie Brown flat on his back Friday night.

I wonder if Lucy going to do it to Charlie again, Saturday night too?

And Sunday night?

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