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Debt Rattle February 25 2026

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• Are Democrats Working Against Their Own Voters? (Eric Florack)
• How a Party Offends Its Voters (Daniel McCarthy)
• What the FBI Is Investigating in Criminal Probe of 2020 Election (ET)
• Democrats Double Down on SOTU Boycott (DS)
• ‘You Owe Us’ Is the Mantra of the Left (Victor Davis Hanson)
• US To Integrate Musk’s Grok AI Into Classified Military Systems (RT)
• Trump, Along With Democrats, Will Make Their Case Tuesday at State of the Union (JTN)
• Netflix’s Stock Plunges After Refusing to Fire Susan Rice (Bryan S. Jung)
• We Need to Talk About Artemis (Stephen Green)
• Royal Theater, Silent Streets: Loud On Epstein Ties, Silent On The Roving Gangs (David Manney)
• Ukraine (EU) Strikes Russian Oil Pumping Station (CTH)
• Slovakia Halts Electricity Supplies To Ukraine (RT)
• Hungary Vetoes €90 Billion EU Loan For Ukraine (RT)
• Ukraine Hates Us – Hungary (RT)
• The New Navalny Poison – This Swedish Disinformation is a British Lie (Helmer)

 


 

Apart from the SOTU, which deerves enough attention already, there’s the rumor today that France and Britain have de facto become Ukraine’s army, and are as we speak preparing to send a nuclear bomb to Kyiv.

 


 

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“I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” — Charlie Brown

• Are Democrats Working Against Their Own Voters? (Eric Florack)

Let’s start with a few quotes. This quote comes from a May 22, 2020, interview on The Breakfast Club, a popular radio show, where Biden was speaking with host Charlamagne tha God. As the interview was wrapping up, Biden famously said: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Next, we offer up for your inspection this quote from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles on May 6, 2024: “Right now, we have young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word “computer” is. They don’t know. They don’t know these things.”She made the remarks while touting a $400 million supercomputer initiative in New York.


And finally, and most recently, we have this from California Gov. Gavin Newsom:”I’m not trying to impress you. I’m just trying to impress upon you, I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy… You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.”nbNewsom was obviously trying to impress the predominantly black audience that attended the Atlanta event promoting his newly released memoir. If you wanted an indication of his presidential ambitions, you need look no further than his book release. If you were looking for an indication of how bad he would be in the role, look no further than the quote. I mean, if he believes black people can’t read, why in the world is he promoting his book to them? For the pictures?

It’s fairly obvious that these were not planned remarks. If they were planned, someone in Gov. Gruesome’s team needs flogging. We can assume these quotes just kind of slipped out, an untold truth.The quotes do reveal something of the inner workings of the leftist mind. Just as obvious, in every case of the above quotes, minority citizens are diminished in the eyes of the members of a party supposedly on their side. Can you imagine the howling and screaming if anyone in the GOP even came close to this level of stupidity? Why, the press would be 24/7 wall-to-wall with it for the next month, if not longer, And it would come up again at the next election. As it is, do a search on the Biden quote, as an example. You’ll find very few references to it.

In a sane world, any of these quotes would be career-ending for any political figure. But of course, these are Democrats, so sanity doesn’t even enter the discussion.Then we have the overarching antisemitism of the Democrats that goes back decades. In that direction, for example, lies the political demise of Joe Lieberman. The cause? His support for Israel in the face of attacks by the Palestinians, as directed by Iran. Matt Margolis gets into some of this: Axios is reporting that senior Democratic officials who worked on the party’s secret post-election autopsy concluded that Kamala Harris lost measurable support because of the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Gaza war. According to multiple sources, the DNC’s own data flagged the party’s Gaza position as a “net-negative” in the 2024 election.

That’s a rather diplomatic way of saying that they weren’t anti-Israel enough. According to the report, the DNC did meet with the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) Policy Project — a pro-Palestinian advocacy organization — as part of its evaluation process. During that meeting, according to IMEU spokesperson Hamid Bendaas, “the DNC shared with us that their own data also found that policy was, in their words, a ‘net-negative’ in the 2024 election.” Two other senior IMEU aides confirmed the same conclusion. Axios independently corroborated that Democratic officials believe the issue damaged the party’s appeal with specific voter demographics. Yeah, that demographic is the antisemitic left.

Indeed so. But of course, a bit under 70% of Jewish citizens vote Democrat at every opportunity. Similarly, black voters vote Democrat in huge percentages, though that’s been changing of late. In every case, the Democrat claim to speak for the advancement of traditional minority groups, for which they receive much support from voters. Democrats claim that the GOP is a bunch of racist, misogynist fools who would bring back slavery if they could.

And yet, finding anti-black, anti-woman, anti-religious, anti-farmer, anti-flyover states, and anti-middle class statements and actions by these same Democrats is easy enough. And of course, Donald Trump is the racist Nazi. Right? Yeah, makes no sense to me, either.nbTake care of yourselves today. I’ll see you here tomorrow.

Thought of the day: “I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” — Charlie Brown

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“His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is & that he can’t read..”

• How a Party Offends Its Voters (Daniel McCarthy)

Gavin Newsom won’t be the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nominee unless he wins a significant share of the African American vote. So how’s he courting it? Promoting his new memoir to a largely black audience in Atlanta, the California governor decided to forge a connection by boasting about his poor SAT scores and difficulty reading. “I’m like you,” he said.”You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy” and “you’ve never seen me read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech.”Newsom suffers from dyslexia, but he obviously wasn’t assuming he was addressing a room full of voters with the same debility.He just looked around and concluded this audience wouldn’t have high academic aspirations.


“How insulting” was the response on X from Nina Turner, a former Democratic state senator in the battleground state Ohio and now a senior fellow with the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy. The outspoken rapper Nicki Minaj was just as direct: “His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is & that he can’t read,” she posted. Even a tactful Democratic consultant quoted in TheGrio said she was “disappointed” by Newsom: “He’s a great wordsmith, so I was kind of bothered by the way that he said it,” Ameshia Cross told the outlet. Luckily for Newsom, some of his rivals for the 2028 nomination have even less rapport with black voters. Polls often register Pete Buttigieg’s African American support at zero percent.

The likes of Buttigieg are no threat to Newsom no matter how many gaffes he makes, but his fellow Californian Kamala Harris is another story. It’s true her 2020 campaign didn’t even make it to the first primary — it imploded in December 2019. But Harris failed upward, getting chosen as Joe Biden’s running mate and then replacing him without a competition four years later. Now she’s Newsom’s roadblock. The ’28 race isn’t far away: In about a year, all the contenders on the Democrats’ side will be clear — and maybe they already are. Newsom and Harris have serious liabilities, not least the deteriorating condition of the blue state they both call home: Does the whole country want to wind up like today’s California?

Do businesses and families fleeing Newsom’s state for the freedom and lower taxes of Texas and Florida want the governor’s ruinous recipe attempted nationwide? Yet Democrats looking for an alternative to the California scheme represented by Harris and Newsom have little to choose from. Pennsylvania is the nation’s most important battleground state, and culturally and economically similar enough to other battlegrounds like Ohio and Michigan that a successful Pennsylvania pol might have the right stuff to sweep the Electoral College. But Josh Shapiro, the Keystone State’s Democratic governor, has problems of his own with one of the party’s key constituencies — critics of Israel.

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“Fulton County had more than half a million ballots to tabulate—almost 90 percent cast early or by mail. The result was announced several days later: Biden won the county by 26-point margin.”

• What the FBI Is Investigating in Criminal Probe of 2020 Election (ET)

After the election offices of Georgia’s most populous county were raided last month, the FBI has disclosed information indicating where its investigation is heading. Federal laws may have been broken during the 2020 election according to the affidavit supporting the court-approved raid. Yet the breadth of the materials seized shows the FBI may be able to check the integrity of the ballots more broadly, uncovering further issues or putting speculation to bed. President Donald Trump’s campaign challenged the Georgia election most vigorously, as he lost the state to President Joe Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes according to the official tally.


The legal challenges failed. Instead, Trump was indicted based on rationale that his efforts to challenge the election results were allegedly executed with corrupt intent. The case was dismissed after he became president again in 2025. The renewed investigation now targeting Fulton County, which covers the broader Atlanta area, uses a rationale analogous to the case against Trump. The affidavit states that if known irregularities in the election were intentional, such acts would be criminal. On Jan. 28, agents seized some 700 boxes of election records, including physical ballots from the 2020 election. County officials have since filed a lawsuit seeking to have the materials returned.

The issues detailed in the affidavit were largely discovered years ago by concerned citizens using data obtained through freedom of information requests or litigation. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who was responsible for overseeing the election and is running for governor of the state, has dismissed the issues as administrative and human errors too small to affect the election’s result. The FBI, however, has a different perspective. “If these deficiencies were the result of intentional action, it would be a violation of federal law regardless of whether the failure to retain records or the deprivation of a fair tabulation of a vote was outcome determinative for any particular election or race,” reads the affidavit signed by FBI Special Agent Hugh Evans.

Raffensperger has repeatedly stressed that the 2020 votes were counted three times, including a hand recount and a machine recount. However, many of the deficiencies outlined in the affidavit happened during these recounts. Vote counting in Georgia starts by law on election day. Fulton County had more than half a million ballots to tabulate—almost 90 percent cast early or by mail. The result was announced several days later: Biden won the county by 26-point margin. One issue with the results was a lack of receipts. Each tabulator machine should be “closed” at polls closing and tabulator tape should be printed out to show how many ballots and votes for each candidate were counted. Then, the tape should be signed by the poll manager and two witnesses.

Yet tabulator tapes for more than 300,000 votes weren’t signed, and some were missing altogether, wrote Evans, referring to an analysis by Clay Parikh, a voting machine security expert. Raffensperger said that was merely administrative oversight, as the vote tallies aren’t recorded on the tape alone. They are also preserved on memory cards in the machines. But Parikh’s analysis went deeper. “Parikh identified one tabulator that was used to close out 15 tabulator machines from 12 different locations. In addition, the poll closing time and report printed times on several closing tabulator tapes were close enough in time that Parikh believed someone had to have manipulated the times on the reports,” Evans wrote. “Parikh believed this showed that the memory cards were removed from the original tabulator and put in another tabulator to print out the closing tabulator tapes.”

The tabulators also have “protective counters” that track how many ballots have been scanned on them over their lifetime. “The protective counters on at least five tabulator tapes from the same unit were identical,” Parikh found, according to Evans. “Some of the reported ballots scanned exceeded the protective counter number.” “This indicated to Parikh that no ballots were ever scanned on these machines and that the numbers generated from those ballots were done so by placing an unencrypted memory card into the unit to generate the closing tape,” Evans wrote. “This would have allowed an opportunity for the tabulation to be tampered with.”

The tabulators are supposed to scan each ballot, creating a digital record. But the majority of the images from the original in-person voting count have not been preserved by the county, Evans said. At the time, the county was not legally required to preserve them, but it’s not clear why they were discarded to begin with. “This is another impediment to ruling out non-criminal explanations for the activities during the election,” the affidavit said.
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With the oldest and lamest trope imaginable: “Trump is marching America towards fascism.”

• Democrats Double Down on SOTU Boycott (DS)

More Democrats are joining a boycott of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Sens. Adam Schiff and Ruben Gallego recently joined the ranks of Democrat lawmakers over the weekend. “I am not going to the State of the Union,” Gallego said in a video posted to social media on Saturday. “There’s more productive things than I can do with my time than just sitting there for two hours and clapping on cue. Right now, this country is hurting.” Instead, the senator will be at home in Arizona during the address.


Schiff’s participation in the boycott was also announced on Saturday. MeidasTouch wrote on X that Schiff will instead speak at the “People’s State of the Union,” a counter address hosted by the news outlet and progressive-aligned nonprofit MoveOn Civic Action.

Democrats announcing their boycott of the State of the Union comes after progressive-aligned organizations, like Amplify Edge’s “Young People Address the Nation” campaign, pressured Democrat lawmakers last week to boycott the address. As the boycott grows, the left-leaning sports and political commentator Stephen A. Smith has come out against Democrat theatrics. Smith said on his SiriusXM radio show that the Democrats’ refusal to attend the address “ticks him off,” calling them “juvenile.” “Why do they get to circumvent the need and the insistence of mere decorum? This is the kind of stuff that ticks me off,” Smith stated. “At some point in time, ladies and gentlemen, there’s got to be an adult in the room.”

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“If you’re going to act as juvenile, as petulant, as petty as you accuse president of the United States to be, how are you ever going to hold a high moral ground at least high enough to judge him accordingly?” Smith added. During Trump’s address to Congress last year, some Democrats tried to steal the show. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, interrupted the speech with shouts and gestures several times before he was removed from the chamber.mSchiff’s RSVP to the event hosted former MSNBC anchors Joy Reid and Katie Phang comes after 12 of his congressional colleagues—including Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill.; and the chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas—announced last week that they would not “legitimize” Trump’s “lies.”

“Donald Trump will use the State of the Union address as a platform to gaslight the American people and normalize and justify their terror, abuse, and violations of our rights. I refuse to legitimize it,” Ramirez stated in a release. Van Hollen added on X that this “cannot be business as usual” because “Trump is marching America towards fascism.”

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“So, they’re paying 55% of their income and nobody ever says, “Thank you for doing that, you people, we have a very skilled elite that allows us to have this huge budget.”

• ‘You Owe Us’ Is the Mantra of the Left (Victor Davis Hanson)

Sami Winc: Two things that came together for me. One was [New York City Mayor Zohran] Mamdani’s 9.5% increase in the property tax for New Yorkers, but not that alone. I’m sure our audience has read about that. But I was looking at Power Line. I always like to give a shout-out to them because they have some great articles, and they were comparing New York State’s budget versus Florida’s budget. And they came up with, well, it’s only half at the state level. So, I thought, well, let’s look at the city level, New York City versus Miami. And while the billions that each of them has to spend is not meaningful in and of themselves. So, for example, New York City’s budget is $127 billion while Miami’s is only $3.4. But that being said, per citizen, what has to be paid into these cities? And so, for Mamdani, each of his citizens has to pay $14,431 in for his budget. And in Miami, it’s just half of that, at just under $7,000 per citizen.


Victor Davis Hanson: And it’s more disproportionate because in New York, the number of people who are actually paying taxes is a much smaller percentage than in Miami. He inherited the city that was this blue-chip financial market, this cultural, financial capital of the world, and the first thing he did was raise spending by $11 billion. Second thing he did was prove that he couldn’t get the trash or the snow off the street during the storm. Third thing he did, it was very hard to find an appointee who somewhere in their dark history had not issued or written something antisemitic. All he does is smile and try to be … basically, his message is: I’m not Lenin, and Trotsky or Stalin. I’m the nice, happy-faced communist, and you’re going to like me, and you’re going to like my communism. We’re all going to get along.

I mean, if you’re in New York, if you’re in California, you got a choice. If you’re in California and this billionaire tax passes, and you’ve got to come up with $50 million, you’re going flee. If you’re in New York, and they’re going to raise your property tax on these multimillion-dollar buildings, you’re talking what could be $20 or $30, $40, $50 million more a year, then you’re going to flee, get out. If you don’t, they’re just going to keep doing it. They’re going keep targeting you because they have an idea. I don’t think people realize that. nThe socialist mind … I knew a lot of socialists in the universities and some friends of mine, and they always think … The whole core of socialism is, I work hard, and no one knows how I suffer at my job as a nurse, as a farmer, whatever. And I believe in the labor theory of value.

Why is it that when Victor had a Ph.D. but he was pruning vines, he was only making $4 an hour—I was for three years—and then all of a sudden, five years later, he is an academic, and he is sitting in between classes and having coffee and he’s making $50 an hour. That’s not fair. And so, they don’t think about supply and demand, expertise, education, nothing. And somebody would say, “Well, when Victor was pruning vines, a lot of people could not only prune them, they could probably prune them better.” When he was teaching a particular Greek literature class, and they thought that was an important class to offer. Questionable, but that’s what they said. Very few people could do it. They don’t accept that.

And so, they run on this envy that we work hard, and we get up, and we do things, and therefore we should be compensated. And that’s what a socialist is, and they’re going keep raising taxes. The other thing about it is, when they raise taxes, they don’t ever say thank you. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, even former Sen. Dianne [Feinstein], they’re all wealthy, but they never said, “We want to thank the people in California that are the 1% that are paying 50% of the income tax.” And by the way, the 50% of the income tax in California, there’s only about, I don’t know what there is, 250 billionaires? They usually pay capital gains tax. They pay at about, I don’t know, 28%. The people in that 1% of Californians are highly compensated professionals and small businesspeople who make a million or two million, three million dollars, and then they get hit with a 13.3% tax rate, plus their federal plus Medicare.

So, they’re paying 55% of their income and nobody ever says, “Thank you for doing that, you people, we have a very skilled elite that allows us to have this huge budget.” They don’t. The attitude is always, “They have to. They have to pay more.”

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The Pentagon clashed with rival contractor Anthropic over ethics limitations on its tech … Still, not an rexclusive deal. ChatGPT, Gemini et al are there.

• US To Integrate Musk’s Grok AI Into Classified Military Systems (RT)

The US Department of War has reportedly signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s xAI to integrate its Grok chatbot into classified military systems, escalating pressure on rival contractor Anthropic as it refuses to lift safeguards on its Claude model. The deal, first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by Axios on Monday, would make Grok the second AI system approved for use on the military’s most sensitive networks, where intelligence analysis, weapons development, and battlefield operations take place. Until now, Anthropic’s Claude has been the sole model available on classified platforms, through a partnership with Palantir Technologies.


The agreement comes as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for what sources expect to be a tense meeting at the Pentagon on Tuesday. According to Axios, Hegseth is expected to present an ultimatum: agree to make Claude available for “all lawful purposes” without additional safeguards, or face consequences including potential designation as a “supply chain risk” – a label typically reserved for entities linked to foreign adversaries.


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Anthropic has resisted Pentagon demands to remove restrictions that prevent its technology from being used for mass surveillance of Americans or deployed in fully autonomous weapons systems with no humans in the loop. xAI has reportedly agreed to the demands, but the company has yet to comment on the reports. Google is also reportedly “close” to a deal allowing classified use of its Gemini model, according to people briefed on the discussions, while OpenAI remains “not close” as it continues working on safety technology.

Pentagon officials acknowledge that replacing Anthropic within its classified systems could cause short-term disruptions. The model was used during the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last month – the first known instance of AI playing a direct role in an active military raid. Anthropic has positioned itself as the safety-conscious alternative within the AI industry. CEO Amodei has repeatedly warned of the existential dangers posed by unconstrained artificial intelligence, including “autonomy risks.” The company’s Safeguards Research Team lead, Mrinank Sharma, abruptly resigned last week with a cryptic warning that “the world is in peril.”

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And they did.

• Trump, Along With Democrats, Will Make Their Case Tuesday at State of the Union (JTN)

President Donald Trump is set to deliver his State of the Union Address Tuesday evening, when he is expected to highlight his accomplishments during his first year back in office and spotlight goals for the coming year. During an event at the White House Monday morning, Trump teased that his address is “going to be a long speech, because we have so much to talk about.” The president is expected to tout his accomplishments over the last year, highlighting tax cuts, lower gas prices, a dramatic decline in illegal border crossings, lower crime rates, lower drug costs, international peace deals, and trade deals – despite presiding over the longest government shutdown in history.


Trump’s address comes as the federal government is in the midst of a partial shutdown that is affecting the Department of Homeland Security. Several Democratic lawmakers have announced their intention to boycott the address; it’s unclear if other Democratic lawmakers will protest the president in the House Gallery. Last year, several held paddles to make statements. The president will likely make the economy one of his top priorities, highlighting the passage and signing of the Big, Beautiful Bill last summer. In briefings and news conferences, Trump and his administration often point to higher tax credits and a tax break for tipped workers as well as a healthy stock market, as evidence that his economic policies are winning.

Among the top issues Trump will likely spotlight are crime and immigration. During the past year, the president has deployed the National Guard to select major U.S. cities, including Washington, D.C., to tackle crime. The president will likely spend part of his speech trying to sell his economic agenda, including his use of tariffs. Trump could also use the opportunity to push his Senate Republicans to eliminate the filibuster to pass key legislation, such as election security measures. While Trump will likely point to lower gas prices and lower taxes, Democrats have been pushing affordability.

Democrats have tapped newly inaugurated Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., to deliver the Democratic response to Trump’s address Tuesday night, with Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., to deliver a Democratic response in Spanish. The address comes ahead of a critical mid-term election, where both Republicans and Democrats have a lot riding on their messaging. It’s unclear who the president will be hosting in the gallery Tuesday evening. However, multiple reports indicate that the men’s U.S. hockey team, which just brought home the gold, has been invited to attend.

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“.. How much is she being paid, and for what???“

• Netflix’s Stock Plunges After Refusing to Fire Susan Rice (Bryan S. Jung)

Netflix’s stock plunged after its refusal to fire former senior Obama and Biden official Susan Rice from its board, following her threats of retribution against supporters of President Donald Trump under a future Democrat administration. Rice was national security adviser and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Barack Obama, and later served as a senior advisor in the Biden White House. She returned to Netflix’s board in 2023 after leaving her role as director of the Domestic Policy Council in the Biden administration. Rice boasted during a podcast last week that “it is not going to end well” for corporations, news organizations, and law firms that “bent the knee” to Trump, claiming that their deference to the president is unpopular.


She said that firms aligned with Trump could face an “accountability agenda” if Democrats return to power, stating, “This is not going to be an instance of forgive and forget.” “I think they’ve got another thing coming … they’re going to be surprised. Democrats have had a bellyful, and we’re not going to play by, you know, the old set of rules,” added Rice. Trump has since demanded that Netflix fire Rice and warned the company to get rid of Rice or “pay the consequences.” “Netflix should fire racist, Trump Deranged Susan Rice, IMMEDIATELY, or pay the consequences,” Trump wrote on Truth Social over the weekend. ”She’s got no talent or skills – Purely a political hack! HER POWER IS GONE, AND WILL NEVER BE BACK. How much is she being paid, and for what???“

The streaming service is currently in the midst of a bidding war with Paramount Skydance Corp. to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., excluding the company’s cable networks, including CNN, which the White House has the power to scuttle altogether. Netflix’s $72 billion bid for Warner Brothers Discovery requires regulatory anti-trust approval from the U.S. Department of Justice, which is scrutinizing the deal during this latest political controversy. Paramount Skydance launched a hostile takeover bid for all of Warner Bros. Discovery, promising shareholders $30 per share in an all-cash deal.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has so far refused to fire Rice and told the BBC that the acquisition is a “business deal, not a political deal.” “He [Trump] likes to do a lot of things on social media,” Sarandos said, according to the BBC. Sarandos added that regulatory bodies, not the White House, should make a decision on the deal. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that the DOJ is investigating whether Netflix’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery could hurt competition and whether the streaming service’s previous acquisitions may have affected the industry’s creative talent.

The streaming giant has been accused of anticompetitive tactics in negotiations with independent content creators for acquiring programming, reported Bloomberg.It is unknown if the decline in Netflix’s stock price at market open reflected investor concerns over political interference in corporate governance, but the media company’s shares tumbled Monday before slightly recovering at $76.02 per share at closing, a 3.37% loss.

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Let Elon Musk reorganize US space programs.

• We Need to Talk About Artemis (Stephen Green)

We need to talk about NASA’s Artemis program to get the U.S. back to the Moon because things can’t continue like this.The initial reports of last week’s Artemis 2 wet dress rehearsal (WDR) made it sound like the hydrogen leaks were acceptable and our first manned mission around the Moon would be good to go for launch during the first week of March. That was Thursday evening. Friday’s midday press conference was all happy talk about how well the WDR went.Before anyone at NASA had time to grab lunch on Saturday, agency chief Jared Isaacman revealed that “overnight data showed an interruption in helium flow in the SLS interim cryogenic propulsion stage,” and “teams are troubleshooting and preparing for a likely rollback of Artemis 2 to the VAB [NASA’s massive Vehicle Assembly Building].”


Easy fixes are performed outdoors, right there on the launch pad. Trickier fixes require a slow journey back to the VAB on NASA’s tracked Crawler-Transporter 2 (CT-2). As it turns out, Artemis 2 requires one of those trickier fixes. So much for that March launch window. Now it’s “fingers crossed!” for early April, depending, of course, on how long it takes to find and fix whatever went wrong during last week’s WDR. Here’s the thing to remember about the SLS rocket that by law must launch at least the first three Artemis missions: This is as good as it gets. Leaks, delays, regular trips on CT-2 to and from VAB? That’s the norm for SLS. As discussed in a couple of previous columns, each SLS is a unique snowflake.

Earlier this month, space reporter Eric Berger asked NASA’s top civil servant, Amit Kshatriya, about the SLS’s issues and low flight cadence. “Every time we [try to launch] these are very bespoke components, they’re in many cases made by incredible craftsmen,” Kshatriya replied. “It’s the first time this particular machine has borne witness to cryogens, and how it breathes, and how it vents, and how it wants to leak is something we have to characterize.” nIn other words, figuring out how to correct the hydrogen leak on the Artemis 1 SLS rocket taught NASA very little about the leaks it might encounter on the Artemis 2 rocket. Or what leaks NASA will find on Artemis 3 two years from now. Or maybe three.

The Artemis program was designed during the first Trump administration, using existing hardware with the hope of getting us back to the Moon by 2024. Now NASA claims 2028. 2030 might be more realistic. So whatever the original hope was, it hasn’t materialized. And at $4 billion-plus per SLS, everybody (including high-ranking NASA people) understands that SLS is a dead end. My modest proposal is this: As Dr. Evil might say, a ONE BILLION DOLLAR prize for the first private company to put at least three astronauts on the lunar surface (leaving a fourth one in orbit to crew a command vehicle is fine, if needed) near the southern ice resources. The landing mission must also include a “useful” amount of cargo for at least getting started on a permanent habitat.

The crew must also return safely to Earth, naturally. A billion dollars is a lot of money. But it’s also a little less than 25% of the cost of a single SLS rocket, not including everything else that goes into a manned NASA mission. Just on rockets alone, taxpayers would stand to save more than $7 billion on Artemis 2 and 3 — and at the SLS’s unpredictable launch cadence, we might even get to the Moon sooner.

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All the attention goes to the man formerly known as prince.

The 1,400 mass-raped girls? Not so much. Their story doesn’t sell. The press make sure of that.

• Royal Theater, Silent Streets (David Manney)

Need an idea about how to start an argument between people in the UK? Mention a royal name alongside Jeffrey Epstein. That should get the fires started. The elite formerly known as Prince Andrew’s association with Epstein remains a global fixation — global if you mean England. Political editor and commentator Emma-Jo Morris recently highlighted how authorities moved aggressively in matters tied to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, while long-running grooming gang cases have dragged on for years without any similar feelings of urgency.


Andrew, formerly the Duke of York, stepped back from the spotlight after the crown stripped him of public and royal duties following his 2019 BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, which generated massive political shockwaves. In America, Virginia Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against Andrew, which was later settled. Because of the scandal, the Royal Family removed his honorary military titles and patronages. The Epstein story burned like hydrogen fueled by leaking inert helium gas and combusting front pages like the Hindenburg. Every development generated debate in Parliament and endless commentary across Britain.

Meanwhile, documented grooming gang scandals in towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford revealed systematic sexual exploitation of young girls. In Rotherham alone, independent investigator Professor Alexis Jay concluded that around 1,400 children were abused between 1997 and 2013, while many of the perpetrators were identified as men of Pakistani Muslim backgrounds. Alexis Jay, who authored the report, used to be chief inspector of social work in Scotland. She’s seen a lot. But despite being deeply familiar with the details of this report, even she seemed shaken by the words coming out of her mouth at Tuesday’s press conference about the victims, some as young as 11, abused from 1997 until last year.

“It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse the child victims suffered. They were raped by multiple perpetrators. They were trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England. They were abducted, beaten and intimidated,” Jay said. Nine men in Rochdale were convicted in 2012 for grooming and trafficking underage girls.

The nine defendants were jailed for a total of 77 years, with the ringleader, a 59-year-old man from Oldham, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, receiving a 19-year term after being convicted of two rapes, aiding and abetting rape, sexual assault and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.Kabeer Hassan, 25, of Oldham, was jailed for nine years for rape and three years, concurrently, for conspiracy. Hamid Safi, 22, an illegal immigrant of no fixed address, was jailed for four years for conspiracy and one year, concurrently, for trafficking.Greater Manchester Police were criticized for earlier failures of intervention. The story remained the same in Telford, where an independent inquiry led by Tom Crowther KC discovered that as many as 1,000 girls may have been sexually exploited over decades.

In his closing comments, Telford added: “People will not forget Telford’s history of child sexual exploitation – and nor should they. But in my view Telford’s approach – the Council’s approach – to the Recommendations, to engagement with its key partners and most of all with those three people it let down as children, now stands as a model. All involved – but particularly the Consultees, who put aside hurt and anger and years of being dismissed in order to ensure that next generations are better protected than they were – deserve our very high praise.”

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“.. we see European leaders attacking their own European “allies” through the use of Ukraine. If you do not support the continued bloodlust, you are an enemy of the EU collective hive mind”

• Ukraine (EU) Strikes Russian Oil Pumping Station (CTH)

The Ukraine military, technically and non-pretendingly accepted as the EU military, has targeted a key oil pumping station in Russia that feeds into the westerly directed oil supply. However, if you stand back from the western media, what you will notice from this attack is not the target in Russia, but the customers at the end of the pipeline in Europe, mainly Hungary and Slovakia.


[…] Through local stations, including infrastructure around Kaleykino, oil from Tatarstan and neighboring regions feeds into the main pipeline, which runs through the Samara region and continues westward toward Belarus and further to countries in Eastern and Central Europe. […] There were also earlier reports that Ukrainian forces carried out several attacks on Druzhba pipeline infrastructure inside Russia, which at times disrupted Russian oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia. {source}


So, what’s going on here?Well, with the anniversary of the Russian Federation beginning the war into Ukraine, the Europeans who now control the military operations inside Ukraine are targeting European countries who do not align with their bloodlust, specifically Hungary and Slovakia. Both Hungary and Slovakia are land locked countries without easy access seaports. Because of their geographic locations, they rely on Russian oil and gas for their energy needs. Hungary and Slovakia have not wanted to expand the war against Russia. The EU is demanding Hungary and Slovakia agree to expanded war. The European ‘coalition of the willing’ is now targeting key Russian infrastructure that supplies energy products to European countries who are not in compliance with the EU dictates of war.

Putin says threats to energy pipelines sabotage peace process with Ukraine. In his televised speech, the Russian president also accused Ukraine of threatening Russian energy pipelines with the help of Western intelligence agencies. He claimed these attacks were aimed to sabotage the peace process. Putin also stressed it was vital for Russia to strengthen the defence of energy infrastructure and other strategic sectors. {source} This is why Secretary of State Marco Rubio travelled to Hungary and Slovakia last week. Essentially, now we see European leaders attacking their own European “allies” through the use of Ukraine. If you do not support the continued bloodlust, you are an enemy of the EU collective hive mind.

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Ukraine blocks the flow of Russian oil to Slovakia, but still expects Slovakia to send it power.

• Slovakia Halts Electricity Supplies To Ukraine (RT)

Bratislava has stopped providing emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine until Kiev restores the flow of Russian oil to Slovakia through the Druzhba pipeline, Prime Minister Robert Fico has said, warning of “further reciprocal steps.” The prime minister made the announcement on Monday, when the ultimatum he issued over the weekend to Kiev to resume operations of the Soviet-era pipeline expired. The Druzhba pipeline, which connects Russia to Slovakia and Hungary, has been out of commission since late January. Kiev claims it was damaged in Russian strikes, which Moscow denies. Both Slovakia and Hungary have accused Ukraine of deliberately withholding supplies for political reasons and threatened retaliation.


Announcing the halt to electricity supplies to Ukraine, Fico reiterated that Ukraine’s actions were a “purely political decision aimed at blackmailing Slovakia.” “Reciprocity is a fundamental rule in international relations. The government’s first response to the hostile acts of the Ukrainian president in the form of stopping emergency electricity supply is therefore entirely appropriate,” Fico stated, warning of “further reciprocal steps” if oil supplies are not resumed. Kiev has been increasingly reliant on electricity imports to stabilize its power grid, which has been battered by Russian strikes on Ukraine’s dual-use infrastructure. According to Fico, Ukraine received twice as much electricity from Slovakia this January as it did throughout 2025.

The retaliatory move came hours after Hungary vetoed the EU’s latest sanctions on Russia, as well as a proposed €90 billion ($106 billion) emergency loan for Ukraine. Budapest tied the double veto to the Druzhba standoff, accusing Kiev of imposing an “oil blockade” on the country and “blackmailing” it. Last week, both Slovakia and Hungary announced that they would suspend diesel exports to Ukraine until the Druzhba pipeline becomes operational again. Budapest has also mulled cutting emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine.

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“Budapest has also opposed the bloc’s proposed 20th package of sanctions against Russia amid an oil supply row with Kiev..”

• Hungary Vetoes €90 Billion EU Loan For Ukraine (RT)

Hungary has blocked the EU’s proposed €90 billion ($106 billion) emergency loan for Ukraine, as well as the latest package of sanctions on Russia, citing Kiev’s allegedly deliberate disruption of oil supplies to the country. Hungary placed the double veto on the initiatives on Monday as Kiev and Budapest remain locked in a bitter row over the Soviet-era Druzhba oil pipeline – which carries Russian crude to Hungary and Slovakia and has been out of commission since late January. Kiev claims that it was damaged by Russia, which has denied the allegations. Budapest has echoed Moscow’s stance, accusing Kiev of deliberately withholding supplies for political reasons and subjecting the country to an “oil blockade,” and threatening retaliation.


“Ukrainians cannot blackmail us; they cannot jeopardize the security of Hungary’s energy supply by colluding with Brussels and the Hungarian opposition. No, a clear no,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after a meeting of the bloc’s top diplomats to discuss the loan and sanctions package. EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc’s leadership expected the measures to be approved at the meeting, adding that it was a major setback and a “message we did not want to send today.” The €90 billion loan was agreed to in December, when Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic secured an opt-out scheme, allowing them to not contribute to the scheme financially.

Hungary, as well as the other nation affected by the oil supply disruption, Slovakia, has threatened retaliation over the Druzhba issue, demanding that Kiev resume its operations immediately. Last week, both countries announced that they would suspend diesel exports to Ukraine until the pipeline becomes operational again. This weekend, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico also threatened to stop providing Ukraine with emergency electricity supply unless Kiev restores oil deliveries within two days. Fico said on Monday that he will keep his promise, raising the issue with the nation’s electricity provider. In January alone, Kiev received more emergency electricity from Slovakia than throughout 2025 to stabilize its energy grid amid Russian long-range strikes, he noted. https://twitter.com/HungaryBased/status/2026333804428705922?s=20

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“We don’t hate Ukraine. The problem is that the Ukrainian state hates Hungary..”

• Ukraine Hates Us – Hungary (RT)

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has rejected accusations that Budapest hates Ukraine, suggesting that it’s Kiev that’s been pursuing hostile policies toward his country for years. The remarks came in response to questions from reporters on the sidelines of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, as Hungary threatened to veto the bloc’s latest sanctions package against Russia. When one journalist confronted Szijjarto, suggesting that Hungary should direct its ire at Moscow, the minister offered a scolding response. “We don’t hate Ukraine. The problem is that the Ukrainian state hates Hungary,” Szijjarto said, accusing Kiev of undermining Budapest’s energy security by blocking crude oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline, among other issues.


At the heart of the dispute is the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline, the main artery carrying Russian crude to Hungary and neighboring Slovakia. As landlocked countries in Central Europe, both are heavily dependent on it. Another journalist charged that Hungary’s Russian oil purchases mean Budapest is “financing the war.” Szijjarto dismissed the claim, pointing out that the value amounts to a mere 0.2% of Russia’s gross domestic product. Later in the day, Hungary followed through and vetoed the sanctions package. Szijjarto said that Budapest would consider lifting its block only when Ukraine resumes oil flow via the Druzhba pipeline. Previously, Budapest halted diesel supplies to Ukraine and threatened to cut off electricity and natural gas.

When the oil flow stopped in late January, Ukraine blamed a Russian airstrike. Moscow, however, insisted that Kiev was using energy as leverage to blackmail the two EU countries, which have been critical of the bloc’s support for Ukraine. The diplomatic dispute between Hungary and Ukraine has escalated in recent weeks, spilling over into personal jabs. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky launched a string of attacks against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, including fat-shaming him during the Munich Security Conference earlier this month.

Orban, a vocal critic of EU support for Kiev, responded by saying Zelensky’s comments demonstrate why Ukraine “cannot become a member of the European Union.” The Hungarian prime minister has long opposed Ukraine’s push to join the bloc and has repeatedly refused to send it weapons or approve EU military aid, calling for diplomacy instead.

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Between Novichok and Navalny, we’ve come to know we cannot trust one single word from the British government.

And that’s how we also know that Russia did NOT kill Navalny.

• The New Navalny Poison – This Swedish Disinformation is a British Lie (Helmer)

The Swedish Government has admitted it has no direct evidence of the cause of Alexei Navalny’s death – only British Government hearsay.In a series of email exchanges last week, the Swedish Foreign Ministry has revealed that its military laboratories and scientific establishments have not received post-mortem samples of Navalny’s tissues. There has been no Swedish analysis of the toxicology of those samples. There is no Swedish documentation proving in the toxicology of the Navalny samples epibatidine poisoning as the cause of Navalny’s death on February 16, 2024. Forensically speaking, the Swedish Government does not know — cannot know — if Navalny died of natural causes or was poisoned to death. Ten days ago, however, on February 14, the Swedish Government signed with four other states – UK, Germany, France and The Netherlands – an announcement of fact and allegation of murder it had no intention to verify.



“The UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands are confident [sic] that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin,” the statement declared. “This is the conclusion [sic] of our Governments based on analyses [sic] of samples from Alexei Navalny. These analyses have conclusively [sic] confirmed the presence of epibatidine. Epibatidine is a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America. It is not found naturally in Russia. Russia claimed that Navalny died of natural causes. But given the toxicity of epibatidine and reported symptoms [sic], poisoning was highly likely the cause of his death. Navalny died while held in prison, meaning Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to administer this poison to him.”

Sic is the old Latin adverb manuscript which editors traditionally used to mark an original word or term that applied to a surprising claim, faulty reasoning, fabrication, or falsehood which the reader might otherwise interpret as a mistake of transcription. No mistake here by the Swedes – this wording is their cover for not being caught at a provable lie. An investigation in Stockholm by lawyer Mats Nilsson, based on Swedish freedom of information law, has produced the record to show that the only conclusion the Swedish Government has reached is to accept that Porton Down, the British Government’s chemical warfare laboratory, which synthesized epibatidine at least a decade ago and has accumulated operational stocks since then, has reported the discovery of that poison in the Navalny samples.

However, the British Government has not transferred these samples to Sweden for investigation. The Swedish Government’s chemical warfare laboratory at Umeå does not confirm it has either received the samples, or analysed them, or reported any findings. Instead, a series of emailed answers from the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s Disarmament Non-proliferation and Export Control (NIS) Unit has repeated the February 14 joint statement allegations. When requested to substantiate them, the Ministry has added a series of disclaimers:

“we will not comment on the details regarding how the samples were obtained. What we can say is that we have high confidence in the integrity of the process… We will not comment on the details of the entities involved in the forensic investigation… We will not comment on the exact details of the identification process. We will not comment on the details regarding how the samples from Navalny were obtained. What we can say is that we have high confidence in the integrity of the chain of custody.”

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  • February 25, 2026 at 10:54 am #231782
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    Piet Mondriaan Victory Boogie Woogie 1942-44 • Are Democrats Working Against Their Own Voters? (Eric Florack) • How a Party Offends Its Voters (Daniel
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 25 2026]

    February 25, 2026 at 11:09 am #231797
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Yesterday:
    This AI art was extremely nice. And the season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFZLLrqdmHA

    “X Really Is Pulling Users to the Right Elites may not be as immune to this kind of algorithmic radicalization as they think.” New York Magazine

    Yes, to the Right of Mao. NY Mag is to the LEFT of Mao, so they would know. (Mao believed in Borders and Guns. NY Does not.)

    “ Russia Can Now Disconnect Citizens and Entire Regions from the Internet” – Armstrong

    If we don’t like America doing this, then we don’t like Russia doing this either?

    “Former Norway PM Attempts Suicide After Epstein-Linked Raid, Corruption Charges: Report
    If convicted, Jagland faces up to a decade in prison…

    Darn it! If only Trump had released those records! Why does nothing happen? All these governments should be clawed up from the lowest, like Georgia elections board, up to the top like the Prime Minister of Britain. Why does nothing happen?

    “Chinese Defense Labs Exploit Nearly $1 Billion In US Research Funds, Report Says

    As usual with the Anglos, they pay for their own enemies to be constructed, then go to war with them. Ask IBM and Henry Ford.

    “Iran To Buy Chinese Supersonic Anti-Ship Missiles As US Carriers Near

    Aw shucks, it’s almost like Trump won’t be able to attack after all. Whoodaknewd? What am I saying? According to everyone, we ALREADY attacked, all regimes are changed, and we have millions of men stationed overseas in a total, attritional war.

    “The men’s team beat out Canada and took home the gold, but woke journalists are furious over their refusal to snub Trump…”

    Not any act, any attack, just a “refusal to attack.” Right. 1) “All things are Political” To communists. That’s what makes them stupid and boring. Like BE A HUMAN for two seconds, will ya? 2) Boy I’m sure glad the LEFT never attacks anyone and is a snow white party of love and light. Nothing says, “Brotherhood of man” “Solidarity of the working classes” like attacking all humans, for any reason, wherever they are found. Then they attack others for NOT attacking others. “Attack! Kill all the things humans!!!” — Communists. Why? Will the Revolution complete and peace be had when all human life is extinguished? Stop!

    “Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails.” CNN

    Yes, 1) because contractors should do whatever they want, not what we pay them for. Really Corporations are the government, CNN says. They say that because they and their whole staff and all reporters are Socialists. Ask them! 2) Because CNN thinks the point of a Military is to have “Guardrails” and “Safe spaces” and not hurt anyone. China would like that, and CNN works for their true masters, the Glorious Revolution, and against their hated enemy, Hate! Hate!! The Working People of the United States. Their stupid red hats, and “I need drinking water” “I need jobs” Blah blah blah…

    Duran on Ukraine stays on topic for the first in months. They’ve come to the AMAZING and very true conclusion that Europe wants war, Europe wants escalation, they just don’t want to pay for it. Whaaaaaaa??? No, no sirs, it’s always the United States! The U.S. does everything and “Just says” Alex; there is no “Europe”. What brought on this fit of honesty? Aaaaaaand Europe may WANT that, but almost nobody is DOING anything, except Germany, who is barely doing anything except dying. They are sending all remaining military hardware to Ukraine, and opening factories that can’t get supplies. It will make no difference.

    This was opened because they have this new plan – stay with me here – they are going to “Just send” all NATO troops into Ukraine, hold it forever, but that’ll be all legal n’ stuff because they won’t shoot anyone! …I mean unless Russia shoots them first. Ah. Ha. Sirs? That is “Plan A”. That’s the same plan you’ve had since 1999. Have you asked RUSSIA about it? Because my understanding is they’ll gleefully smash every living NATO man into powder, and will have little trouble doing it.

    No. Their PLAN is to get the U.S. to fight it FOR them, going back to 1st paragraph, they have ZERO pay for NATO, 1% and not 4%, have for decades, have done f—k all the last FOUR years, and are going to sit in Paris Cafes while boys from Oklahoma die for them. YUP! That’s “The Plan”.

    “Netanyahu has disrupted Trump’s negotiations” Then he doesn’t work for him, does he? You just proved it, right there. Trump was doing a thing. That thing was independent of Nutsy, obviously. So he’s not an employee. Then WHEN he found out – because Trump didn’t tell him – Nutsy then said, “HEY! You have to stop!” But then Trump did NOT stop, so Nutsy had to take public action to “Disrupt” Trump from doing all these actions Nutsy doesn’t like. …The Same as all other leaders. When Iran doesn’t like something, they also “Disrupt.” China non-stop “Disrupts”, with having Fang-Fang give orders, running Feinstein’s office and posting dumb AI Asians online. That’s called “All leaders, every day, in all history.”

    So when Trump does it, it means the #Opposite. Don’t look at me! This is YOUR evidence, YOUR sentence and logic-tree, not mine.

    Ambassador Chas Freeman: Yup! We’re in a “War”! We have millions of men streaming into Iran from all sides, even as we speak! Bombshell! Walls are closing in! (Meanwhile, men are booked in offices, drinking tea and talking on the phone. That’s REALITY.)

    Trump has no offramp” – Mearsheimer. Right! Because Trump is well known to be fully predictable and never change his mind. IF ONLY we had a short war – say for 12 days or something – and could PROVE this amazing hypothesis! Trump is well known for the hundreds – nay, THOUSANDS of wars he’s started, leaving the orders to remove from Syria, F-Stan, Sudan, Yemen, etc to those Peace-loving Democrats!

    “Trump has no offramp” – Mearsheimer.” Right! Just like in North Korea, that “Little Rocket Man” or EVERY G-DD—N NEGOTIATION HE’S EVER BEEN IN FOR FORTY YEARS SINCE HE WROTE THAT BOOK TELLING EVERYONE ONE PLANET DIRT WHAT HE DOES. I guess every expert on earth is illiterate, since he published “the big Ask” in 1986 and everyone just falls for it again. EVERY. DAY. Thanks John. There’s a special pointy hat in the back of the classroom, take your stool with the other geniuses. God, generally I think quite highly of him.

    “If I can MAKE you do things, I am your Master. You are my Slave.”
    So this is what Trump is all about. — M. Reid

    According to Reid everyone obeys Trump! Well known! He “just says” and you obey.

    …Speak for yourself, I don’t. If you want to obey him, that’s your prerogative. He makes you jump, all day, every day.

    “Their air defense will shoot down numerous US planes and capture their pilots and put them on parade like a replay of 1980 National Hostage Humiliation.
    This will be a Colossal Defeat for Trump.
    It will be the end of his 2nd term.     ”

    Which is why OF COURSE everyone is perfectly certain it will happen. “Mr. President, don’t put that gun to your head! It’s loaded with bullets!” “Shaddap! This is how I’ve won for 50 years since I was 20.” …Said no one ever. Okay, so We can take Nixon and Andre off the air? Never to be heard from again if this doesn’t happen? No? They get to be wrong EVERY. DAY. For a decade, come on, are considered perfectly stable geniuses again? When does it end? When do we re-attach “Reality” – what actually happens – back to your minds and end the psychosis?

    “Trump is the true face of all the oligarchs.” Why you hitting yourself? Why you assassinating yourself?

    Protecting pedos = first person in 30 years to release 3 Million documents while whole governments fall. What is it with your people? Why do you make me have to do this? STOP LOSING YOUR MINDS.

    What is happening is not simple, but it’s not hard either. “Reality” is DEFINED as the thing that is not constantly and completely self-contradictory to 12 year olds. “Reality” is ONE thing, not a never-ending system of “Opposite” things. Aren’t you tired of being constantly alarmed and WRONG every day?

    But! You sure had me with the millions of men we have stationed in Caracas and North Korea! You guys got all that one right. Big “L” on the forehead for me missing those two! STOOOOOOP!!!!!!

    February 25, 2026 at 12:27 pm #231800
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    “
    Not all Jewish people eat babies
    Not all Jews are Zionists
    “

    February 25, 2026 at 12:34 pm #231801
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Today:
    “It was pure, unadulterated patriotism and American optimism.” Guh! Gag.

    ““If you think Donald Trump is going to get graded as one of the greatest presidents… I wonder if you’re smoking crack.”

    Democrats made him that. THEY give Trump all his power with their focus. He’s nothing without them. If there is only ONE man and his name is Trump – as every commenter here believes – then HE must be the God-King-Emperor, the guy in charge. Obviously! YOU said that. I keep telling you NOT to say it, since 2016. Scrooooooool above ^^ You see me saying it there again, almost every paragraph? Why is this Orange Man your God? He’s not my god, he’s just some jackass YOU keep talking about.

    “France and Britain’s plans to transfer nuclear weapons to Ukraine”

    That can’t be right: they are innocent babes subject to the U.S. Empire and do anything Donald Trump says! I hear it daily, hourly, minute-ly. Trump is a Putin-Puppet BUT ALSO wants non-stop total war with Russia, and drags Europe along when they are just peace-loving innocents. Yet here Trump and the whole U.S. are out and Europe will burn the earth to a cinder to keep war? Huh.

    “Optimus would be a better surgeon than the best surgeons on Earth. “Three years. I’d say three years at scale.”

    Meanwhile his self-driving cars are still killing everyone 10 years after the same promise. Just yesterday, AI robots intentionally killed the Internet at Amazon. How is it that NO amount of contact with Tech, not a LIFETIME of continuous failure, and the minute somebody says “Yay tech” everyone jumps on again? No wonder nothing works.

    “The issues detailed in the affidavit were largely discovered years ago by concerned citizens using data obtained through freedom of information requests or litigation.”

    If only Trump and the DoJ would DO anything! …While Congress makes sure they have no legal prosecuting attorneys.

    Unhinged Dictator that he is, he then arrested Congress, installed any Prosecutor he liked, and shot all opposition. Oh wait, No?? So he’s bad if does things AND bad if he does not do things? Make up your mind. All things and their Opposites. BothNeitherAi.

    ““Parikh believed this showed that the memory cards were removed from the original tabulator and put in another tabulator to print out the closing tabulator tapes.”

    If any of this is possible, there should not be electronic voting. All of these systems are voluntary and could have been created in a secure way.

    ““Trump is marching America towards fascism.”

    He does this by limiting the monopoly power of Google, Facebook, insurers, other corporations and attacking all the Oligarchs who then assassinate him back. #Logic. STOPPING Oligarchs = Merging Oligarchs. Got it.

    “Trump is “violating the law and Constitution” by deporting criminal illegal aliens”

    Following the Law = Breaking the law. Got it. All things = Opposite of all things.

    Back to my theory Trump has their blackmail files and constantly phones down to the Democrats epically losing moves. Like supporting illegals over citizens in SotU Congressional floor, (Inter)National cameras on every one of them.

    “I refuse to legitimize it,” Ramirez stated”

    He has to Signal it. Signaling = Reality. …For the psychotic and criminally insane.

    “• Trump, Along With Democrats, Will Make Their Case Tuesday at State of the Union (JTN)

    Pushing one of my major points, and even here, having Claude decide what Trump already said/will say tomorrow, WHY are you reporting on things that never happened? Yet? JUST WAIT. You can report this morning when and after it DID happen. K? That’s a thing we can actually do. We can actually wait until there are facts, AND THEN report them. Not before. Not picking on this article, author is setting the stage, but opportunity to make the same point. It’s PSYCHOSIS. Stop being Psychotic. Re-Attach to “Reality.” Reality is where ONE and only ONE real, actual objective thing actually happened. That’s the meeting place for all live, non-insane people. Please be one of them.

    ““.. How much is [Rice] being paid, and for what???“

    That’s more my point. She has free speech, although she’s nearing the edge of calling for specific violent, death-camp purges here. But WHY is she paid at Netflix? A: It’s the new form of “Getting a book deal” which is just bribery and payoffs. Yeah, none of those “Book deals” sold copies either. So Obama would get $50M book deal and $2M in books would sell. Filled by Wall St, Madoff and Epstein.

    “• Royal Theater, Silent Streets (David Manney)

    Adding as parallel Prince Andrew, Starmer ran it all. He oversaw all rapes all as his job as Home Secretary. People told him, the scandals popped up even in the news that whole time. He tamped them down so the rapes could continue. I think of that man who tracked down his daughter to their door, faced the entire gang of murdering rapists, called the police…and was arrested. His daughter was returned to the rapists. Every. Day. So goes for 12-year old girls in Scotland. They can only defend themselves with long knives, and only if they’re underage or they too will be arrested. More immigrants were imported today, from a dozen nations where this is normal behavior. Starmer continues to approve and strain every muscle to help increase it. MOAR RAPES!!!!!!!

    Ah! Government at work. What’s that you say? Epstein isn’t “Government”? Well aside from: he was, he was directing Congressmen, ran kingmakers in UK, was integral to wars such as Ukraine, without government THOSE DAUGHTERS’ FATHERS WOULD JUST HAVE SHOT HIM. 50c bullet. Done. Government does DO things, but the major purpose of government is to PREVENT things. They stop things from getting done. Like good works. Free Public services like the aforementioned.

    “• Ukraine Hates Us – Hungary (RT)

    Good thing they’re really busy right now or they’d probably invade.

    “• The New Navalny Poison – This Swedish Disinformation is a British Lie (Helmer)

    Precisely the same as Assange. Boy if only Sweden were a sovereign country! How can we make that happen?

    “Jamie Dimon signaled that the bank is shifting from traditional banking rails to blockchain infrastructure”

    Yes and a lot of it is XRP. Therefore price go down. XRP is also not a crypto. It’s controlled and held as a private ledger.

    “Promethean Action

    I pick on everyone, but they keep doing good work and their predictions keep coming through most reasonably. This is all we can ask.

    Day (Delayed): I don’t see any reason for the 12,000 Sun nova theory to be incorrect. I was on Hapgood back a zillion years ago when things called “Books” roamed the earth. So here’s the problem: if you have a 12,000 year cycle then the +/- margin of error runs a hundred years? Hundreds of years? And we will know this by looking at the sun. Okay, yes, but we have no Science or no RECORDS of science from the last one, so nothing to go on. Total (educated) guess.

    How is this useful? It may be true – in fact, some variation of it probably is – but then what? Here’s the other part: from the actions of RICH people, THEY think something like this is going to happen “Imminently” by their actions. But they may be just as wrong. Look at “Kingsman” that is Jackson’s whole “Noah’s Ark” plot, which they are definitely running in the real world. You just SAY this is going to happen, point at this evidence, get Klaus and Elon in the DUMB bunker-city, then toss in a grenade and lock the door. I would. It’s way more useful and likely than actually picking the process and flip date.

    February 25, 2026 at 12:34 pm #231802
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Dear Dr. D,
    You have stated that you are Christian.
    Are you also Zionist?

    February 25, 2026 at 12:43 pm #231803
    John Day
    Participant

    From last night when Trump was talking: Disappearing Money https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/disappearing-money

    Michael Hudson, Destiny of Civilization – Financialization & Collapse, discussion with Glen Diesen and transcript
    Michael Hudson explains that the objective of classical economics was to minimize rent extraction, and to use a mixed economic approach of private industrial capital and governmental provision of infrastructure to keep labor healthy and labor costs low. All of that led to the American industrial miracle, German industrial miracle, Japanese and Chinese, etc. This was the natural and healthy evolution of Industrial Capitalism.
    This began in England between about 1805 and 1846, when rent collecting landed gentry fought to maintain taxes on imported food, to keep their rent collections up. Eventually those “corn laws” were rescinded, feeding workers more cheaply, to the benefit of workers and industry. Further governmental services, like land allotments to grow some food, and improved water and sewage services, also bolstered worker health to the benefit of society and industry.
    “Free markets” then meant free-from-excessive-rent-collection, as opposed to the current case where (non-productive) Financial Capitalists are free to maximize rent collection through creation of monopolies and purchase of political favors.
    The situation is that industrial capitalism in the US has been hollowed out to support financial rent collection, while moving production to areas with low costs and lax regulation.
    Hudson repeatedly makes the point that supporting productive industry through government infrastructure and health programs at low cost, while minimizing rent-extraction, keeps wealth circulating in a society, to the benefit of the society, while extracting and concentrating that wealth in a few hands weakens all productive enterprises, in the interests of financial capitalists owning more and more of a weaker and less productive system.
    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/michael-hudson-destiny-of-civilization-financialization-collapse.html

    Former Assistant Secretary of HUD Catherine Austin Fitts describes how the U.S. government stole $50 trillion of taxpayer money, used Epstein to launder it, and then poisoned Americans to shorten their lifespans:
    “We hit the Great Financial Crisis, and then we have $29 trillion of bailouts. So we had $21 trillion of missing money from the US government, and now we have $29 trillion in bailouts. That’s $50 trillion…
    So we’re talking about putting the United States in a debt trap, and somebody walks off with $50 trillion… “[And] Jeffrey Epstein made his first visit to the Clinton White House arranged by Bob Rubin, who was the Secretary of Treasury when the money started to go missing… And at the time he was national economic adviser.
    I believe Jeffrey Epstein ran the SWIFT system on the missing money … the sex was just part of creating related control files that they used.” https://x.com/SenseReceptor/status/2025248808209469545

    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. https://x.com/conspiracyb0t/status/2024581671031636113

    Moonset over Tehran tonight is 12:37 AM, with sunrise about 6 hours after that. Military pilots much prefer to fly combat missions in the dark.

    Kind of like the JCPOA that Trump threw out: White House Ready To Offer Iran “Token” Nuclear Enrichment Instead Of All-Out War https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-ready-offer-iran-token-nuclear-enrichment-instead-all-out-war

    February 25, 2026 at 12:46 pm #231804
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ US evacuates hundreds of troops from Qatar, Bahrain amid Iran tensions: Report
    Reported pullout seen as precautionary ahead of possible US strikes on Iran, expected to trigger retaliation against American forces region-wide​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-evacuates-hundreds-of-troops-from-qatar-bahrain-amid-iran-tensions-report/3836259

    ​ A Dozen US F-22 Stealth Jets Land In Israel As Iran Tensions Soar
    Israel’s public broadcaster KAN has reported that at least 12 US F-22 fighter jets landed at an Israeli air base in the south of the country, connected with the ongoing Pentagon build-up threatening anti-Tehran action.
    ​ “Twelve US F-22 fighter jets landed this afternoon at one of the Israeli Air Force bases in the south of the country, as part of the American deployment in the Middle East,” KAN said.
    ​ The publication added of what is the world’s most sophisticated and high-tech stealth jet, that​ it is capable of “penetrating enemy territory and disabling air​ defense systems and radar installations.”
    ​ Local media further described the fighter jets’ presence as in anticipation of potential new attacks by Iran-aligned Houthi forces in Yemen. The Houthis had previously, in solidarity with Gaza and Iran, pummeled Israel with long-range drones and ballistic missiles.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dozen-us-f-22-warplanes-land-israel-iran-tensions-soar

    ​ I wonder if the Houthis in Yemen could use some of these, the best shoulder-fired air defense missiles in the world, costing $200,000 each: Iran Strikes Covert Missile Deal With Moscow In Backchannel Rearmament https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-strikes-covert-missile-deal-moscow-backchannel-rearmamamant

    ​ A false-flag “Iranian” attack on the US might make Trump attack, right? Simplicius, The Strategic Dilemma At the Heart of Iran’s Struggle
    Contradictory bouts of news and rumor continue to pour in surrounding Trump’s ‘imminent’ attack on Iran. The buildup is said to be the largest since the Iraq war, with various figures like ex-CIA operative John Kiriakou giving their renditions of ‘insider intel’ that Trump has already sealed the fated decision and is ready to roll heavy within the next 48 hours. Iranian officials, on the other hand, appear to signal that talks will continue into next weekend, and there are varied reports about deals gaining traction.
    ​ It’s clear that Trump has been wavering due to major second thoughts about a prolonged conflict. Multiple reports have indicated he may be leaning towards a “compromise” of limited strikes in order to coerce Iran into a deal, rather than risking an all out conflict which could end in humiliation.​..
    ​..We know that Trump’s real motivation for the Iran strikes is not US’s own intelligence regarding some nonexistent Iranian potential, but rather the pressure from Israel. That means for Trump the main operative goal is to somehow satisfy his Israeli superiors and relieve the pressure, rather than achieving any one particular military objective. As long as he can give them a good “college try” and prove his loyalty with a thrashing of Iran, he may deem his debt paid and pull the plug. Israel, of course, will never be fully satisfied until Iran is entirely destroyed, but this is simply how the game works: Trump relieves pressure by striking Iran even if it doesn’t entirely satisfy Netanyahu.​..
    ..It should also be noted that some are convinced Tucker Carlson has just single-handedly saved Iran from destruction by outing Israel’s true plans in his interview with ultra-Zionist Mike Huckabee, US’s ambassador to Israel. Recall that Carlson was detained in Israel in quite unfriendly fashion as he’s been internally deemed a kind of enemy of the state for exposing Israel’s propaganda… In the interview, Huckabee implied to Carlson his belief that Israel is entitled to conquer the entire Middle East, as per its biblically chosen stature.​..
    ..This sent a firestorm of outrage throughout the Middle East, with the ministries of every major country writing an ‘open letter’ of protest​:
    ​ The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, together with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the League of Arab States (LAS), and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) express their strong condemnation and profound concern regarding the statements made by the United States Ambassador to Israel, in which he indicated that it would be acceptable for Israel to exercise control over territories belonging to Arab states, including the occupied West Bank.​
    ​ This outrage, many now believe, could have led to Trump rethinking a long-term military campaign against Iran…
    ..This potential coming attack amounts to Israel’s last chance against Iran, because after midterms wherein Trump could lose control of all Congress, he may never again regain the political capital to engage in such large-scale unilateral actions.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-strategic-dilemma-at-the-heart

    ​ Gold & Geopolitics presents 7 mideast scenarios, including one where Iranian saboteurs strike inside the US, which Israeli “Iranians” could do just as well.
    The second after​ – 7 different scenarios gamed out​ https://no01.substack.com/p/the-second-after

    February 25, 2026 at 12:47 pm #231805
    John Day
    Participant

    Witkoff Says Trump Is ‘Curious’ Why Iran Hasn’t ‘Capitulated’​ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/22/witkoff-says-trump-is-curious-why-iran-hasnt-capitulated/

    ​ Chinese satellites exposed that the US has deployed six E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft in Saudi Arabia from the US mainland These aircraft are crucial for an attack on Iran, as they control the battlefield There are also an additional 20 fuel tankers present at this Saudi airbase​ https://x.com/IranObserver0/status/2025180355209080948

    ​ Iran Deploys Russian S-300 Long Range Air Defences Around Capital After Western Sources Claimed All Were Destroyed
    Satellite imagery has confirmed the redeployment of Iranian Air Force S-300PM-2 long range air defence systems to air defence sites near the capital Tehran, as well as to the second city of Isfahan. This has occurred amid a large scale buildup of U.S. forces around the country.​ https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iran-deploys-russian-s300-capital

    ​ How the US Government Sabotaged the Genocide Convention Orders against Israel — and How to Get Back on Track
    South Africa can move to get more emergency orders from the International Court of Justice. The UN General Assembly’s Uniting for Peace power can overcome obstruction with concrete measures.​ https://husseini.substack.com/p/how-the-us-government-sabotaged-the

    Unprecedented orphan crisis in Gaza leaves tens of thousands of children without family support​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/21/358288/

    February 25, 2026 at 12:48 pm #231806
    John Day
    Participant

    35,000 ‘Partially or Completely’ Deaf in Gaza Due to Israeli Bombings​ https://www.palestinechronicle.com/35000-partially-or-completely-deaf-in-gaza-due-to-israeli-bombings-report/

    ​ ‘Tortured and left to die’: New details emerge about Israel’s murder of prominent Gaza surgeon
    A new report from Britain’s Sky News provides details of Adnan al-Bursh’s death by torture in Israel’s Ofer Prison
    ​ “In mid-April 2024, Dr Adnan Al-Bursh arrived at Section 23 in Ofer Prison. The prison guards brought Dr Adnan Al-Bursh into the section in a deplorable state. He had clearly been assaulted with injuries around his body. He was naked in the lower part of his body,” the prisoner’s deposition states.
    ​ “The prison guards threw him in the middle of the yard and left him there. Dr Adnan Al-Bursh was unable to stand up. One of the prisoners helped him and accompanied him to one of the rooms. A few minutes later, prisoners were heard screaming from the room they went into, declaring Dr Adnan Al-Bursh (was dead).”​ Bursh was widely regarded as one of the best-qualified and well-known surgeons in Gaza.​ https://thecradle.co/articles/tortured-and-left-to-die-new-details-emerge-about-israels-murder-of-prominent-gaza-surgeon

    Amb. Huckabee Claims Israel Has ‘Biblical Right’ To Conquer Whole Middle East​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/amb-huckabee-claims-israel-has-biblical-right-conquer-all-middle-east

    Saudis Lead Arab Fury After Huckabee Floats ‘Greater Israel’ Vision​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/saudis-lead-arab-fury-after-huckabee-floats-greater-israel-vision

    Syria Asks Germany Not To Deport Its Citizens Back Home, Fearing It Would Make Country ‘Unsafe’​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/syria-asks-germany-not-deport-its-citizens-back-home-fearing-it-would-make-country

    February 25, 2026 at 12:49 pm #231807
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Israel plans to turn Gaza into a “cashless society” where the IDF fully controls who has access to e-money, who one can transact with, how much, & who starves to death
    ​ This would be the ultimate tool of blackmail & pacification against journalists, critics, activists…etc.
    ​Any Palestinian would always be one click away from losing access to their Israel-controlled e-wallets.
    ​ Israel can simply call anyone they don’t like “khamas” & suspend their digital wallets, who’s going to double check? Palestinians under Israel’s military rule are not citizens, are ruled by “army regulations” not law, & have no course to appeal Israeli decisions. E.g. Israel bans people from leaving Gaza arbitrarily under unexplained unappealable “security pretexts”.
    ​ One of the reforms the US has been demanding of the PA is to transform the Palestinian economy into an Israel-controlled “cashless society”.
    Israel has been refusing European demands to rebuild the existing banking sector in Gaza & instead Israel kept pitching this “digital wallet” system.​ https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/2024801610094747692

    ​ Alex Krainer wonders how many high functionaries the owners need to sacrifice. Andrew, formerly known as Prince and the dark powers behind the throne
    For the first time in 380 years, a senior British royal was arrested by the police. The system is now in an existential struggle to defend its legitimacy.​ https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/andrew-formerly-known-as-prince-and

    ​ Satanic – Putin aide on ex-Prince Andrew and his liberal West friends
    The comment follows an anonymous allegation in the recently released Epstein files claiming the prince took part in torturing a six-year-old.
    ​ Kirill Dmitriev is an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has called ex-UK Prince Andrew ‘satanic,’ along with his liberal Western friends.
    He cites newly released Jeffrey Epstein files. ​ https://michaelwalshwriter.com/2026/02/21/satanic-putin-aide-on-ex-prince-andrew-and-his-liberal-west-friends/

    ​Celia Farber, Lord Peter Mandelson, Arrested “On Suspicion Of Misconduct In Public Office;” Epstein File Emails Reveal His Treason Against The British Public–High Level, Global Banking Crimes Continue To Unravel – As All Roads Lead To Jeffrey Epstein’s Spider Web, With New Focus On Espionage and Financial Treason https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/lord-peter-mandelson-arrested-on

    ​ Norway’s former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland was hospitalized a week ago after a failed suicide attempt, days after he was charged with “gross corruption” after a police probe into his ties with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-norway-pm-attempts-suicide-after-epstein-linked-raid-corruption-charges-report

    February 25, 2026 at 12:50 pm #231808
    John Day
    Participant

    Andrew Korybko, Trump 2.0’s Grand Strategy Against China Is Slowly But Surely Coming Together
    This is the grand strategic context within which Russia’s talks with the US and Ukraine are taking place.
    ​ Casual observers are convinced that Trump is a madman with no method behind his madness, but the reality is that he and his team – collectively known as Trump 2.0 – are slowly but surely implementing their grand strategy against China. Every one of their moves abroad should be seen as a means to this end. They want to comprehensively contain China and then coerce it into a lopsided trade deal that “rebalance[s] China’s economy toward household consumption” per the National Security Strategy.
    ​ Trump 2.0 doesn’t want to go to war over this, however, which is why they’re careful to avoid replicating the Imperial Japanese precedent. Piling too much economic-structural pressure on China at once could spook it into lashing out in desperation before the window of opportunity closes.​ https://korybko.substack.com/p/trump-20s-grand-strategy-against

    Moon of Alabama, Energy Glasshouse – Ukraine Attempts To Blackmail Hungary, Slovakia Destined To Fail
    Hungary and Slovakia oppose the war in western proxy war Ukraine. Both countries have continued to receive Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline via Ukraine. Both countries oppose EU membership for Ukraine.
    ​ The acting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski is trying to use a Russian attack in January on energy infrastructure in Ukraine, which he alleged damaged the Druzhba pipeline, to block further transfer of Russian crude oil to Hungary and Slovakia. It is an obvious attempt to blackmail those countries. ​ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/02/energy-glasshouse-ukraine-attempts-to-blackmail-hungary-slovakia-destined-to-fail.html

    ​ German Court Rules X Platform Must Turn Over Data on Hungarian Govt Support
    The European Union has a major targeting effort against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an ally of President Trump who does not support giving additional funding to the Ukraine war effort. Hungary is having national elections in April.​..
    ..As noted by Hungarian Minister Zoltan Kovacs, “Many have asked how Hungary can block the €90 billion Ukrainian war loan if we are not participating in it. clarified that the loan does not affect Hungary and does not entail any financial commitment for us. As Hungary is not part of the cooperation, in most of the decision-making procedures we do not even vote. However, he pointed out that for the scheme to function, the EU’s seven-year budget guarantee rules must be amended – and this requires the approval of all 27 member states, not only the financing member states. We are now blocking this decision, without which the war loan cannot be disbursed.”​ https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/02/21/german-court-rules-x-platform-must-turn-over-data-on-hungarian-govt-support/#more-280862

    ​ Russia says Britain, France plotting to give Ukraine nuclear weapons
    Russian Foreign Intelligence Service says Germany ‘wisely refused to participate in this dangerous adventure’​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/russia-says-britain-france-plotting-to-give-ukraine-nuclear-weapons/3838609

    ​ Andrew Korybko, Poland’s Conservative Opposition Has Good Reason To Reject A Gigantic EU Loan For Arms
    The larger trend is that “The EU’s Planned Transformation Into A Military Union Is A Federalist Power Play”, and this could become a fait accompli if two-thirds of Poland’s EU-allocated €40 billion low-cost loans go towards German-produced military-technical equipment. After all, that sum (€26 billion) is over half of Poland’s 2026 defense expenditures (€46 billion), which could therefore result in the radical reorientation of its armed forces towards its neighbor’s wares. The strategic implications are obvious.
    ​ Poland’s conservative opposition accordingly has good reason to reject this gigantic EU loan since the terms would and risk reversing the gains that it’s made vis-à-vis Germany with respect to their regional rivalry.
    ​ Liberal-globalist Prime Minister Donald Tusk claimed that Nawrocki’s veto of the law for implementing SAFE would be a “betrayal of national interests”, but since Nawrocki’s ally Kaczynski believes that Tusk is a “German agent”, Nawrocki might thus not be deterred.​ https://korybko.substack.com/p/polands-conservative-opposition-has

    February 25, 2026 at 12:52 pm #231809
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ High altitude balloons are cheap. Musk’s Starlink now Obsolete: Russia Tests Economical Alternative to Stratospheric Internet
    Russia has begun flight testing its new stratospheric communications platform.
    ​ Barrazh-1′ is a balloon-based system. It is designed to provide broadband internet from altitudes of about 20 km. This is far above conventional aircraft and terrestrial infrastructure.
    ​ At this altitude, a single platform can cover vast territories, functioning as a pseudo-satellite without ever reaching orbit.
    Unlike Starlink, which requires thousands of satellites and constant rocket launches, Barrazh-1 carries up to 100 kg of telecommunications payload.​ https://michaelwalshwriter.com/2026/02/21/musks-starlink-now-obsolete-russia-tests-economical-alternative-to-stratospheric-internet/

    ​Jessica Rose Ph.D. The Transhumanism Agenda – Upgrade or Extinction? …Or neither? It’s much broader and more far-reaching than any of us think https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-transhumanism-agenda-upgrade

    ​ Zuckerberg Grilled Over Instagram Strategies Allegedly Designed to Addict Kids and Teens
    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom in a landmark case alleging Instagram was deliberately engineered to addict children. The trial, the first of more than 1,500 similar lawsuits to reach a jury, centers on a young user named Kaley, who began using Instagram at age 9 and was spending up to 16 hours a day on the platform by age 16.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/zuckerberg-grilled-over-instagram-strategies-allegedly-designed-addict-kids-teens/

    ​ Declassified CIA Documents Reveal Plans to Control Human Behavior Through Chemicals Covertly Delivered via Vaccinations
    Since 2021, 70% of humanity received a neurotoxic agent masquerading as a “vaccine”.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/declassified-cia-documents-reveal

    ​ Kyle Young, The New Farm Bill Is A Disaster
    Glenn Thompson, Republican chairman of the Agricultural Committee, recently presented the new farm bill. The chairman is able to put together a bill he (and his cronies) wants passed without input from anyone else. As we’ll learn, it’s abundantly clear that Thompson has been sharing his bed with pesticide industry insiders. The bill was submitted Friday the 13th.​ https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/the-new-farm-bill-is-a-disaster

    February 25, 2026 at 12:53 pm #231810
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Meryl Nass MD, Waterkeeper Alliance points out yet more issues with the Farm Bill and Trump’s Executive Order on glyphosate. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/waterkeeper-alliance-points-out-yet

    Meryl Nass MD, The Pesticide legislation and the E.O. are complicated and confusing. I have tried to simplify what it is they do–because it is CRITICAL to understand the enormity of what has been attempted.​ – The attempt to basically deregulate pesticides is shocking. What chutzpah! https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-pesticide-legislation-and-the

    Meryl Nass MD, Rep. Thomas Massie introduces bill to prevent spending any funds to implement Trump’s E.O. on glyphosate. And it negates the Farm Bill liability shield, just for glyphosate.
    This is HUUUGGE: if the President and Bayer are doing dirty deals to harm Americans and advantage Bayer, well, the members can play hardball back.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/rep-thomas-massie-introduces-bill

    ​ Children’s Health Defense Seeks to Intervene in High-Stakes Vaccine Lawsuit
    In an emergency motion filed Wednesday, Children’s Health Defense and a group of parents and doctors asked a Massachusetts federal court to allow them to intervene in a lawsuit challenging recent changes to the CDC childhood vaccine schedule. “Nobody in the room is speaking for the children who were injured or killed under the schedule,” said attorney Rick Jaffe.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/childrens-health-defense-seeks-to-intervene-vaccine-lawsuit-aap-hhs/

    ​ Nicolas Huscher MPH, ResearchGate DELETED our MMR Vaccine Death Study for Posing “a Threat to Public Security or Public Health”
    The vaccine cartel does NOT want you to know that CDC data shows MMR/MMRV shots are linked to 2,657% more U.S. deaths than measles since 1995.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-researchgate-deleted-our

    February 25, 2026 at 1:24 pm #231834
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Rand Paul Introduces Bill to End Liability Shield for Vaccine Manufacturers
    The bill is a U.S. Senate companion to the U.S. House of Representatives bill, End the Vaccine Carveout Act. If passed, the bill would reform the federal vaccine injury program so that people who suffer vaccine-related injury or death can sue the vaccine manufacturer in state or federal court, according to a press release shared with The Defender.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rand-paul-introduces-end-the-vaccine-carveout-act-liability-shield-manufacturers/

    ​ COVID mRNA “vaccines” have 13 modes of increasing and facilitating cancer: mRNA Injections, Cancer, and Prometheus
    Have the high priests of molecular biology unleashed the “Emperor of All Maladies” on the world’s young people?​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/mrna-injections-cancer-and-prometheus

    ​ Jessica Rose Ph.D. presents draft text pointing out the huge rise in VAERS cancer reports. A Proposal to Repeal PREP Act Liability Immunity for COVID-19 Vaccines – A one-pager that anyone can use as good reasons to do so https://jessicar.substack.com/p/a-proposal-to-repeal-prep-act-liability

    PROOF! Excess deaths caused by COVID vaccines, not just COVID or lockdowns​ https://okaythennews.substack.com/p/proof-excess-deaths-caused-by-covid

    ​ EMR Radiation From Cell Towers, Wireless Devices Linked to Diabetes Epidemic
    Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure from electrical power grids, cell towers and wireless devices is likely a driver of the global increase in diabetes, according to a new report by Paul Héroux, Ph.D. Studies compiled by Héroux show that very low levels of EMR can affect how cells function, including how they handle glucose.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/emr-radiation-cell-towers-wireless-devices-diabetes-kids/

    February 25, 2026 at 1:25 pm #231835
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Nicolas Huscher MPH, A Single 3g Dose of Beetroot Extract Boosts Memory Recall by 20.69% in Just 90 Minutes
    Double-blind, placebo-controlled trial finds beetroot extract rapidly increases immediate recall (+20.69%), delayed memory (+12.34%), verbal fluency (+11.16%), and frontal executive function (+2.57%).​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/a-single-3g-dose-of-beetroot-extract

    ​ Climate Physicist Anastassia Makarieva, An Old-Growth Biotic Pump Enviro Show
    Listen to the conversation — or read the full transcript — with Massachusetts forest activists Don Ogden and Glen Ayers, hosts of the Enviro Show podcast. Followed by a list of biotic pump interviews.​ https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/an-old-growth-biotic-pump-enviro

    February 25, 2026 at 1:34 pm #231836
    John Day
    Participant

    I just saw this, a sloppy backdoors left open to 7000 house-cleaning robots with live camera feeds in 7000 houses. Why didn’t the CIA think of this? … ;-/
    Man Accidentally Hacks Himself A 7,000-Robot Army https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/man-hacks-himself-7000-robot-spy-army-how-accidental-exploit-exposed-global-privacy-flaw

    February 25, 2026 at 1:43 pm #231837
    Topcat
    Participant

    ‘You Owe Us’ Is the Mantra of the Left

    Hookers & Hockey Players

    February 25, 2026 at 1:50 pm #231838
    Topcat
    Participant

    Pepe is Sad

    February 25, 2026 at 2:01 pm #231839
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Zionist Russians created the Bolsheviks who killed Jews and Christians by the million.

    Zionist Germans created the Nazis who killed Jews and Christians by the million.

    Zionist English devolved into Anglicans who killed Jews and Christians (and Buddhists , too!) by the million.

    Zionist Anglicans created Israelis who killed Jews, Christians, (and Muslims!) by the million.

    Zionist Israelis created Evangelicals who killed Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhist and everyone else in their vicinity near enough to enslave, murder and rob, by the tens of millions.

    Almost there! All that remains is for English speaking Marxist Evangelical Christian Nazi’s to trigger that nuclear war that they’ve been itching for and their blood sacrifice to Baal will be finally consummated.

    Holocaust. *

    And no one ever asked what in Hell a “Zionist” ** even was in the first place.

    * Holocaust : a burnt offering in which the sacrificial animal is incinerated until reduced to ashes, typically in worshipful propitiation to vengeful pagan gods known by various names in various cultures dating backwards from Israel, Caanan, Phoenicia, Babylon, Assyria, etc. and maybe as early as the not yet named civilization evidenced at Gobekli Tepi and similar sites in the Middle East dating back to the end of the Younger Dryas Period around 12,800 years B.C.

    ** Zionist : I don’t really have to spell that out for you do I?

    February 25, 2026 at 2:11 pm #231840
    Topcat
    Participant

    When Congressional Democrats refused to stand for putting US citizens first it was just an extension of Gavin Gruesom’s condescending faux pas about standing ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the black community cause he’s a Bro too cause he’s stupid and can’t read.

    Well the rot goes much deeper than that……

    The Demonrat Disease is a plague on humanity

    Their actual ‘thinking’ is pathological

    It extends to every issue and follows the same warped ‘logic’


    The Eco Hustle is among their best Mind Phucks

    February 25, 2026 at 2:22 pm #231841
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Point conspicuously absent from today’s TAE is:

    What if Trump had said, “Stand if you support America First over Israel First”

    All the Rethuglicans except a few would have remained seated

    Trump and Congress are Israel First

    To the Bone

    February 25, 2026 at 2:38 pm #231842
    kultsommer
    Participant

    I was looking for Dr D among the SOTU audience last night clapping silly.

    Gavin – the next president.
    Time to flip burger to other side.
    Enjoy the Dem/Rep puppet theater.

    The true strength of the country is the well being of majority of its citizens that is an envy of the rest of the world. That is the sign that other important things are taken care of as well.

    February 25, 2026 at 2:39 pm #231843
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The biggest scariest shiniest deadliest expensivist weapon in the American arsenal (the USS Gerald R.Ford, $13 billion to build, $2 million per day to operate) , is literally awash in human excrement and may be forced to withdraw from battle station and return to drydock for emergency repairs because it soils itself faster than it can pump shit into the ocean.

    Tell me that God doesn’t have a sense of humor.

    February 25, 2026 at 2:46 pm #231844
    Topcat
    Participant

    The ‘politically correct’ Gen Z, the most pathetic generation Ah’..merica has ever produced.

    Thank God they won’t be even be reproducing their own replacements!

    February 25, 2026 at 2:50 pm #231845
    Topcat
    Participant

    February 25, 2026 at 2:52 pm #231846
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    “Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws. They either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race……………They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not someday become deadly to the human race.” Voltaire

    February 25, 2026 at 3:03 pm #231847
    Topcat
    Participant

    Trump is Israel First, I’m Israel Last

    February 25, 2026 at 3:14 pm #231848
    Topcat
    Participant

    Make Ah’merica Great Again

    Be Fruitful and Multiply

    February 25, 2026 at 3:24 pm #231849
    Topcat
    Participant

    Make Ah’merica Even Greater MAEG



    Hahahahaha

    On the road again to ‘greatness’!

    You just need some good old fashioned Work Ethic to light a fire under your sorry ass….</

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    February 25, 2026 at 3:46 pm #231850
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Not all Jewish people eat babies
    Not all Jews are Zionists

    True and up to the point.
    -High percentage of J-s see Trump as “their” best president of all time.
    -Hi percentage of J-s cry only about precious J-hostages and are blind to Pal-suffering.
    -Enormous wealth of the “group” is the result of the blatant nepotism and inner-networking that assures to be so.
    Many, many are dependent on that network for their income and thus willingly or unwillingly “supporters of Israel”.
    Envelope with star of David, demanding the check for the “cause”, is a regular occurrence on the kitchen counter.
    -As I said before, if things get “rough”, an extremely high percentage of J-s will absolutely not have a problem
    if ICE is unleashed to hunt down “antiSemites”.
    -If the suffocating world wide clamp-down on a free speech pertaining Israel, with very little opposition on their side, is
    not the bad sign I do not know what is

    February 25, 2026 at 3:51 pm #231851
    kultsommer
    Participant

    By up to the point, I meant that line is blurred and “shifting as needed”.

    February 25, 2026 at 4:01 pm #231852
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Epstein Class of Globohomos is still in control of most Evil on Earth

    Not All, just most.

    February 25, 2026 at 4:14 pm #231854
    zerosum
    Participant

    Summary: Repeating drops of wisdom that you already know.

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    Definition of Epstein: elitists sex activities
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    Democrat theatrics – joining a boycott of Trump’s State of the Union address.
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    Socialist mind – Adequate, affordable, housing/shelter.

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    Iran – US war: pressure from Israel.

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    Elitists – Why does nothing happen?

    Elitism is the notion that individuals who form an elite—a select group with desirable qualities such as intellect, wealth, power, fame, physical attractiveness, notability, special skills, experience, lineage—are more likely to be constructive to society and deserve greater influence or authority. The term elitism may be used to describe a situation in which power is concentrated in the hands of a limited number of people.

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    The situation is that industrial capitalism in the US has been hollowed out to support financial rent collection, while moving production to areas with low costs and lax regulation.

    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/michael-hudson-destiny-of-civilization-financialization-collapse.html

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    February 25, 2026 at 4:18 pm #231856
    zerosum
    Participant

    The European ‘coalition of the willing’ is now targeting key Russian infrastructure that supplies energy products to European countries who are not in compliance with the EU dictates of war.

    Ukraine (EU) Strikes Russian Oil Pumping Station that Transmits Oil into Hungary and Slovakia

    Ukraine (EU) Strikes Russian Oil Pumping Station that Transmits Oil into Hungary and Slovakia
    February 24, 2026 | Sundance | 229 Comments
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    https://web.archive.org/web/20260224003241/https://www.rt.com/news/632945-slovakia-ukraine-electricity-supply/

    Slovakia halts electricity supplies to Ukraine
    Bratislava has said it took the reciprocal measure against Kiev over the disruption of Russian oil supplies
    ———–

    https://web.archive.org/web/20260224003243/https://www.rt.com/news/632935-hungary-ukraine-loan-veto/

    Hungary vetoes €90 billion EU loan for Ukraine
    Budapest has also opposed the bloc’s proposed 20th package of sanctions against Russia amid an oil supply row with Kiev
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    February 25, 2026 at 4:18 pm #231857
    zerosum
    Participant

    ​ US evacuates hundreds of troops from Qatar, Bahrain amid Iran tensions: Report
    Reported pullout seen as precautionary ahead of possible US strikes on Iran, expected to trigger retaliation against American forces region-wide​

    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-evacuates-hundreds-of-troops-from-qatar-bahrain-amid-iran-tensions-report/3836259

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    February 25, 2026 at 7:27 pm #231858
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 25, 2026 at 7:48 pm #231860
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 25, 2026 at 7:54 pm #231861
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 25, 2026 at 8:06 pm #231862
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    February 25, 2026 at 8:33 pm #231863
    zerosum
    Participant

    I thought some of you might enjoy the following.
    (Selected cut & paste.)

    PATRICK LAWRENCE: To Whom Are Our Liars Lying & What Is the Point of Their Lies?

    PATRICK LAWRENCE: To Whom Are Our Liars Lying & What Is the Point of Their Lies?
    February 25, 2026

    In the resulting empire of lies it no longer makes any difference that no one believes anything. It does not matter, in other words, that America makes its way in the world on the basis of endless deceits. The only ones who to have to believe any of the lies are those telling them, and among these people pretending to believe them is sufficient.

    There are reams of this stuff around just now, more all the time, it seems. And it is not enough to tag it clunky propaganda and leave it at that: This meta-reality is congealing before our eyes into a view of the world, a new geopolitical take, that we can accept if we wish, although it does not matter one way or the other if we do or do not.

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