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Debt Rattle February 27 2026

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• Trump Report Card (John Stossel)
• Triggered and Traumatized by Scenes of Patriotism (Turley)
• Biden FBI Investigated Susie Wiles and Kash Patel Phone Records (CTH)
• White House Withholds Medicaid Funding to Minnesota Amid Fraud Probe (Jung)
• USTR Greer Talks Baseline Tariff Reset Shifts and Reciprocity Tariffs (CTH)
• I’m Ukrainian – Russia’s UN Ambassador (RT)
• Arming Ukraine With Nukes: Western Elites Have ‘Lost Touch With Reality’ (RT)
• US Demands Iran Dismantle Its 3 Main Nuclear Sites In Hours-Long Talks (ZH)
• Epstein Rushed Evidence Into Secret Storage Unit Before Raid (ZH)
• Hillary Clinton to Testify in Epstein Probe on Thursday, Bill Clinton on Friday (JTN)
• Mamdani’s NYC Flirts With Chaos (Ben Shapiro)
• So Hackers Just Stole Mexico’s Tax and Voter Rolls (Stephen Green)
• Spain’s Government: Spinning Out of Control (Drieu Godefridi)
• Even the Best AI Scenario Is the End of Everything We’ve Ever Been (Ring)

 


 

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It’s my Bday today.

 


 


Mostly positive. And you got to see that against the Orange Man Bad background, where nothing at all is positive..

• Trump Report Card (John Stossel)

During his State of the Union, President Donald Trump declared himself wonderful. My new video takes a closer look, scoring his fifth year as president. He deserves an “A” for his willingness to take questions. It’s a relief after President Joe Biden, who hid from reporters. But Trump deserves an “F” for childish bragging. Ignorant, too. He proudly announced he cut drug prices by “400%, 500%, even 600%!” Didn’t he learn math? If he cut prices 100%, drugs would be free. Trump deserves an “A” for ending Biden’s self-destructive, anti-energy policies. On the other hand, Trump has blocked solar and wind projects, even those not government-subsidized. Can’t either party just let the market work?


I’m relieved that the president hasn’t fulfilled my worst fear: He has not acted like a total dictator. He does respond to public opinion. After ICE brutality in Minnesota, he pulled troops out, saying, “We can use a little bit of a softer touch.” And when courts rule against him, he obeys, ending National Guard deployment in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, and now searching for court-approved ways to preserve his tariffs. Hysterical media still scream about Trump being “a dictator!” and “authoritarian!” Mises Institute Editor-in-Chief Ryan McMaken points out that America has had many authoritarian presidents. “Nixon and LBJ, in terms of new bombing campaigns, ignoring Congress … both of those presidents were significantly worse. FDR, through executive order, destroyed the gold standard.

“Just by the stroke of a pen, he impoverished many Americans, stole Americans’ gold. This was one of the worst economic crimes in American history. I don’t think (Trump) could get away with it.” Trump deserves an “A” grade for easing some regulation. TSA no longer requires people to take their shoes off. The EPA stopped mandating things like “stop/start” features that were supposed to save gas but barely did. Trump ended “disparate impact” analysis, the toxic legal theory that led to parasitic lawsuits if workforces did not exactly match U.S. racial proportions.

Ken Griffin, CEO of the investment firm Citadel, says that Trump’s merely criticizing regulation, telling bureaucrats back off, lifted the economy. It “gives you so much energy as an entrepreneur!” “That’s probably the best part of his administration right now.” says McMaken, giving Trump a “B-” on regulation. Not an “A” because his attempts to cut red tape have mostly failed. And Trump hasn’t cut spending. “Spending has only increased!” McMaken points out.

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Can we a cheer a medal?

• Triggered and Traumatized by Scenes of Patriotism (Turley)

This week, most Americans found a moment of rare unity in our pride over the performance of our athletes in the Winter Olympics. After years of rage politics, there was a brief respite as we joined in cheering our team in representing the United States in Milan and Cortina. Well, most of us. Some in the media found the entire demonstration of patriotism to be intolerable and triggering. What is striking is how this aversion to our flag and country was so openly expressed in major media. Yesterday, the nightmare continued for some on the left who were traumatized by seeing the American flag and open displays of patriotism. Jack Hughes, one of the heroes of the gold medal hockey game, returned to New Jersey to play and was met with cheers of “USA, USA” and a sea of American flags.


Hughes immediately called his Olympic teammate Tage Thompson of the visiting Buffalo Sabres to the ice to join him. The two skated arm in arm as the crowd celebrated them and our country. It was another unifying moment for the country. The fans joined arm in arm to relish this moment for the nation. These scenes are clearly having a different impact on some on the left. The HuffPost even published an article with therapeutic advice for liberals triggered by seeing so many American flags. The liberal publication ran an article titled “There’s a Name for the Discomfort You’re Feeling Watching the Olympics Right Now.” It then published it a second time before the gold-medal hockey game with Canada — presumably to prepare its readers for the nightmare of the United States actually winning.

The subheading read, “If waving the American flag or chanting ‘USA!’ turns you off right now, you’re not alone.” Senior writer Monica Torres began the article with this line: “While President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda separates families, and federal agents detain 5-year-olds and kill unarmed civilians, American athletes are winning medals on behalf of the nation at the Olympics right now.” Torres goes on to interview three therapists for this “story” about how the celebration of the United States team has forced many liberals into therapy over their trauma and “the cognitive dissonance of rooting for U.S. sports.”

Los Angeles-based licensed clinical social worker Aimee Monterrosa explained that the “atrocities” of the United States can trigger feelings of guilt, despair, shame, anger” in seeing the country celebrate these sports victories. Expert Lauren Appio echoed how “waving the American flag or chanting, ‘USA!’ [can make] us feel grossed out or ashamed.” Over at Vox, Senior correspondent (and former Atlantic writer) Alex Abad-Santos wrote an article on the winners and losers of the Olympics. The column perfectly summed up the pathological opposition of some to this country’s symbols and celebrations.

Abad-Santos declared the men’s hockey team one of the biggest “losers” of the games. He blamed that team for alienating citizens by their patriotic statements: “The conversation surrounding the win quickly shifted into how the team celebrated and who it celebrated with.” He expressed outrage over the team accepting the celebratory call from the President of the United States.In the meantime, the “winner,” according to Abad-Santos, was . . . wait for it . . . Eileen Gu, the American who reportedly took millions from the repressive Chinese regime to ski for China. Gu used the games to criticize the United States while saying nothing of how China arrests anyone who speaks out against that country.

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“.. when both were private citizens…”

“FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly fired 10 FBI agents who were involved in the process of reviewing and intercepting communications as part of their work on the Jack Smith case. Internal FBI offices are not happy with Patel’s action against those officials ..”

• Biden FBI Investigated Susie Wiles and Kash Patel Phone Records (CTH)

According to media reports and statements from FBI Director Kash Patel, both Patel and Susie Wiles had their telephone records subpoenaed by the FBI in 2022 and 2023 when both were private citizens. This is during the time when Donald Trump was being investigated by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Within the reporting by Reuters, at least one phone call between Susie Wiles and her attorney was recorded by the FBI without her knowledge. As the story is outlined Wiles’ attorney was working with the FBI and knew the conversation was being captured, Wiles did not. FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly fired 10 FBI agents who were involved in the process of reviewing and intercepting communications as part of their work on the Jack Smith case. Internal FBI offices are not happy with Patel’s action against those officials.


“(REUTERS) – The FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by Kash Patel and Susie Wiles, now the FBI director and White House Chief of Staff, when they were both private citizens in 2022 and 2023 during the federal probe of Donald Trump, Patel told Reuters on Wednesday. Reuters is the first to report on the FBI’s actions that took place during the Biden administration, largely when Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating whether Trump had interfered with the 2020 election and had hidden classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, according to Patel. Smith was appointed to take over that probe in November 2022.

[…] “It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records – along with those of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight,” Patel said in a statement to Reuters.

[…] At least 10 current FBI employees have been dismissed as a result of the revelations about the targeting of Patel, Wiles and others connected to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, according to three FBI officials. […] In 2023, the FBI recorded a phone call between Wiles and her attorney, according to two FBI officials. Wiles’ attorney was aware that the call was being recorded, and consented to it, but Susie Wiles was not. […] The FBI discovered the phone records in files categorized as “Prohibited,” which makes them difficult to discover on the bureau’s computer systems. Patel said he recently ended the FBI’s ability to categorize files as “Prohibited.” (read more)

I have mixed emotions about this. On one hand it is infuriating to yet again see the audacity and clear weaponization of the DOJ and FBI under the prior administration. On the other hand, duh! Non-pretending people knew all along this malicious network of DOJ and FBI lawfare operations included surveillance of everyone around President Donald Trump. Remember, Donald Trump was accused of criminal wrongdoing by the twisted lawfare logic of Smith and his crew. Accepting the reality of a criminal investigation, fraudulent though it was, it was entirely predictable that the DOJ and FBI would leverage all available tools to conduct continued surveillance and monitoring.

The secondary frustrating aspect to this story is how Director Patel has only just now fired those 10 FBI agents involved. This is a big part of the criticism that many of us have with Patel and his soft glove approach upon taking the position as FBI Director. Any FBI official who was involved in the originating Crossfire Hurricane and/or Robert Mueller investigations should have been fired for cause on Day One! 40 FBI agents worked for more than two years on the Mueller probe investigating a fictitious claim about President Trump colluding with Russia in the 2016 election. Those FBI agents should have been identified and terminated immediately, with prejudice; thereby sending a loud message that weaponized FBI activity was the immediate focus of the new leadership and would not be tolerated.

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“.. pointed to Vance as the one leading the efforts of his administration’s “war on fraud”..

• White House Withholds Medicaid Funding to Minnesota Amid Fraud Probe (Jung)

JD Vance and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced that the Trump administration is temporarily halting certain Medicaid funding to Minnesota amid an ongoing fraud investigation. This comes after President Donald Trump condemned the rampant fraud in Democrat-run Minnesota and pointed to Vance as the one leading the efforts of his administration’s “war on fraud” in his Feb. 24 State of the Union address. “When it comes to the corruption that is plundering — it really, it’s plundering America — there’s been no more stunning example than Minnesota, where members of the Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer,” Trump said at the SOTU, adding, “Oh, we have all the information.”


“And, in actuality, the number is much higher than that, and California, Massachusetts, Maine and many other states are even worse. This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation, and we are working on it like you wouldn’t believe,” Trump continued. The pause affects $259 million in federal payments to the Gopher State, which will be withheld until the state government demonstrates corrective actions against widespread social and welfare fraud. The vice president has given Democrat Tim Walz of Minnesota 60 days to clean up the state’s Medicaid rolls after it was exposed that taxpayer dollars exceeding $9 billion were misallocated for illegal purposes, according to investigators.

“We have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligation seriously to be good stewards of the American people’s tax money,” Vance said. “A lot of people were getting rich off the generosity of the American taxpayer!” JD Vance said in regard to criminals fraudulently taking money from needy assistance programs like “Feeding Our Future” and other government-funded initiatives meant to help autistic children.

“There are kids that need these autism services, and the money is not going to those kids. They’re going to fraudsters in Minneapolis. That is unacceptable. And that’s the sort of thing that we’re cutting off with this action today,” he added. The U.S. Department of Justice and Republican Party members in Congress have been highlighting the massive scandal since December 2025, when years of unaccounted-for fraud, mostly perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, came under the national spotlight. The fraud concerns center on 14 state programs, including those for autism services and medical transports, where funds allegedly went to fraudsters instead of beneficiaries.

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“Greer notes Mexico and Canada being used as import hubs to avoid tariffs is a big issue.”

• USTR Greer Talks Baseline Tariff Reset Shifts and Reciprocity Tariffs (CTH)

The Supreme Court tariff ruling has created the need for U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to modify the baseline tariff approach with the approvals of President Trump. The baseline tariffs are being reset to 10% with upward adjustment to 15% as planned. The reciprocal tariffs will not require any substantive modifications as most of the Free Trade Agreements have been cemented with reciprocity tariffs as part of the negotiated deals. USTR Greer appears on Bloomberg to clarify the current situation and provide some information as to the transitional baseline tariffs as now modified. Additionally, and importantly, Greer begins discussing the USMCA review and his acceptance that President Trump is openly questioning the value for us. Greer notes Mexico and Canada being used as import hubs to avoid tariffs is a big issue. WATCH:


Section 232 [Steel and Aluminum examples] of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. §1862, as amended) authorizes the President to impose trade restrictions—such as a tariff or quota—if the Secretary of Commerce determines, following an investigation, that imports of a good “threaten to impair” U.S. national security. {SOURCE}

Section 301 tariffs are a trade enforcement mechanism established under the Trade Act of 1974. They allow the U.S. government to impose tariffs on imports from countries that are found to be engaging in unfair trade practices. The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) conducts investigations to determine if a country is violating trade agreements, and if so, it can impose tariffs as a corrective measure {SOURCE}

Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 allows the U.S. president to impose tariffs of up to 15% to address “large and serious” balance-of-payments deficits. This authority can be exercised without prior congressional approval for a limited duration of 150 days. After this period, any tariffs must be extended by Congress. {SOURCE}

*FYI, there is a lot of distracting noise in the various social media platforms about internecine MAGA battles and ego-driven points of specific interest. CTH chooses to focus energy and attention on the substantive policy issues that will generate substantive policy outcomes for America.

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“Vassily Nebenzia has said his parents were of Zaporozhian Cossack heritage and were more Ukrainian than the current leadership in Kiev..”

“To us, there is no difference – we are all one – millions of Ukrainians in Russia, millions of Russians in Ukraine..”

• I’m Ukrainian – Russia’s UN Ambassador (RT)

Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has said he is Ukrainian, citing his parents’ roots. Speaking at the UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday, the Russian diplomat stated that “formally speaking, I am Ukrainian.”n“I have such a strange last name – the Slavs know it’s hard to find even in Ukraine. It originates from The Zaporozhian Cossacks,” he clarified. The ethno-social group, known for its military exploits as early as the 16th century, played an important role in the history of what is today Ukraine.


“My father was a true Ukrainian, and my mother was of Cossack heritage, too,” Nebenzia said, claiming that they were more Ukrainian than Kiev’s current Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa and ambassador to the UN Andrey Melnik. The Russian envoy recounted how his father volunteered to join the Soviet army during World War II to fight the Nazis.mThe diplomat accused the current leadership in Kiev of “zombifying” the Ukrainian population into becoming modern-day Nazis. Russia’s ongoing military campaign is aimed at reversing these trends, according to Nebenzia, who added that it would continue for as long as necessary to achieve this goal. “To us, there is no difference – we are all one – millions of Ukrainians in Russia, millions of Russians in Ukraine, and in Belarus as well,” the diplomat concluded.

Moscow has repeatedly warned of a Nazi revival in Ukraine, describing “denazification” as one of the central goals of its military campaign against Kiev. Commemorations of World War II-era nationalist figures with ties to Nazi Germany have become increasingly common in Ukraine in recent years, particularly following the 2014 Maidan coup. Last April, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Ukraine had “betrayed” its history by allowing the West to bring a Nazi regime to power in Kiev, which went on to declare “war against its own people.”

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“.. we should be prepared for Western leverage attempts ranging from the ridiculous to the flagrantly irresponsible.”

• Arming Ukraine With Nukes: Western Elites Have ‘Lost Touch With Reality’ (RT)

Ukraine could become a partial nuclear power as its Western backers desperately seek to avoid NATO’s defeat in a proxy war against Russia – at least according to Moscow’s intelligence services. On Tuesday, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned that elements in the British and French governments who have “lost touch with reality” are considering a gross breach of their commitments under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty on nuclear weapons. Officials in London and Paris are allegedly weighing options to support Kiev as it refuses concessions to Russia and reportedly prepares for up to three more years of hostilities funded by Western Europe. According to the SVR, the options include arming Ukraine with a nuclear capability through the “covert transfer of relevant European-made components, equipment, and technologies” that Kiev could claim as domestically developed, or through the direct supply of a French submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead.


Another option, the SVR said, is pushing Kiev to build a ‘dirty bomb’ – a non-nuclear device designed to contaminate territory with radioactive material, long considered a nightmare scenario for terrorist attacks. Russian officials have for years identified a Ukrainian dirty bomb as a major threat, citing Kiev’s ready access to necessary components. Ukrainian officials often claim their nation once possessed the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal and gave it up for false security promises. Vladimir Zelensky suggested at the 2022 Munich Security Conference that the decision could be reversed. The conflict with Russia escalated soon after the provocative remarks. In reality, nuclear weapons were present on Ukrainian soil after the Soviet collapse but were never “Ukraine’s arsenal” – Kiev could not launch them.

The US pressured Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to transfer the missiles to Russia, with three memorandums signed in Budapest in 1994. In 2012, Minsk said the US and UK breached their commitment “to refrain from economic coercion” of Belarus made in Budapest, after they imposed unilateral sanctions. The rebuke was brushed off by the West. Kiev is under increasing pressure as Russia maintains advantages in frontline attrition and long-range strikes. Zelensky’s rhetoric mixes declarations of resolve, gratitude for foreign support, and complaints that it is insufficient. Still, he insists Ukraine is not losing. Manpower shortages caused by mass desertion and public resistance to mobilization remain Ukraine’s biggest challenge. Zelensky’s solution: more money from the EU and UK.

“When it comes to people, Europeans can help us, if we switch our army – when we switch our army – from mobilization to contracts,” he told the BBC last week. Russia can recruit enough volunteers because it pays troops better, so Europeans should put Ukrainian soldiers on a payroll, he argued. Ukraine’s government is bankrolled by foreign donors and is facing bankruptcy by April unless the EU borrows €90 billion ($105 billion) to continue aid. The EU’s loan plan, however, has been stalled due to Kiev’s ongoing spat with Hungary and Slovakia over their purchase of Russian crude.

Desperation can drive invention, and going nuclear is achievable even for a small, relatively poor nation – as North Korea proves. Soviet Ukraine was a technological powerhouse with its own nuclear reactors and a world-class rocket industry, suggesting an advantage. But generational loss of expertise, wartime damage, and other factors lead Ukrainian officials to privately admit that claims of going nuclear are bluster. Even conventional military technology development has faltered. The Flamingo cruise missile, resembling a UK-UAE weapon, was supposed to be the backbone of Ukraine’s deep-strike capability, with hundreds produced monthly. In reality, launches are so few they are celebrated as major achievements.

Zelensky’s explanation at this year’s Munich Security Conference: Russians destroyed production lines. Alternative speculation: domestic producer Fire Point is suspicious. The firm is allegedly linked to Zelensky’s longtime associate Timur Mindich, who fled Ukraine last November hours before being charged with running a major graft scheme. So is the nuclear warning real? France and the UK smuggling a nuke to Ukraine sounds like a B-movie plot. So does a US president threatening to invade Greenland to protect it from Russia and China. These are strange times. Given the EU has publicly demanded that Russia cap its army or face Brussels’ rejection of a Ukraine peace deal, we should be prepared for Western leverage attempts ranging from the ridiculous to the flagrantly irresponsible.

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Bibi. Whether it’s Ukraine or the Middle East, Trump so far refuses to involve his military directly. Here’s thinking that’s a good thing.

• US Demands Iran Dismantle Its 3 Main Nuclear Sites In Hours-Long Talks (ZH)

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held more than three hours of negotiations with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Geneva on Thursday in a push to secure a breakthrough on a nuclear deal, with the Omani foreign minister saying the talks will resume later after a pause. It’s being reported that the message Kushner and Witkoff deliver to Trump after the meeting will shape the president’s decision on whether the launch a military attack on Tehran or refrain for implementation of a permanent deal. While Trump declared in Tuesday’s State of the Union that he prefers diplomacy, he also presented a direct case for war – something which remains deeply unpopular among the American people. In these and other indirect talks, Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi relayed messages between the sides, and then another format has involved direct discussions between US and Iranian negotiators.


Iran presented its long-awaited draft proposal for a nuclear agreement, though not much in the way of details have been revealed. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Raphael Grossi was among those who participated in the negotiations. Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, the main mediator, said of the Thursday talks that “we’ve been exchanging creative and positive ideas” and “hope to make more progress.” Meanwhile, a former head of the IAEA has warned that all wars, “including ‘wars of choice’ have horrific costs” as fears of major conflict between the US and Iran escalate. Reports that Thursday talks stalled after US side demanded zero enrichment…

“The US is intensifying the drumbeat of war against Iran, with zero explanation of the non-existent legal authority to use force and zero evidence of an ‘imminent threat’ other than hypothetical scenarios based on possible future intentions,” Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on X. “That is the reason for the restraints and limitations established by international norms… This is Iraq redux … it seems we never learn,” he emphasized. Fresh reporting in The Wall Street Journal has laid out the main US sticking points: In the talks, now under way in Geneva, the U.S. negotiators were expected to make clear Iran must dismantle its three main nuclear sites—at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan—and deliver all of its remaining enriched uranium to the U.S., officials said.

They were also expected to insist that any nuclear deal must last forever and not sunset—the way restrictions rolled off over time under a nuclear pact negotiated under the Obama administration that Republicans have long said was too weak. Trump pulled out of that deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, in his first term, reimposing tough sanctions on Iran.

These are the very nuclear sites that the US said time and again it “obliterated” during the June war. This comes off Vice President J.D. Vance just the day prior stating that the White House “has seen evidence” that Iran is attempting to build a nuclear weapon. So Washington is going from proclaiming Iran’s nuclear sites were obliterated to now saying there’s evidence of the Iranians trying to clandestinely build a nuclear warhead. Of course, no evidence or so much as a reference to some kind of intelligence report has been presented to the world.

There are indeed mounting concerns that history is about to repeat itself, but this time there’s possibly many more American troops in harm’s way, given the significant reach and capabilities of Iran’s ballistic missiles and long-range drones.

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“We are aware of the theories circulated in the media and online that Epstein video recorded the abuse of his victims, including by other men, but we have found no evidence to support that theory,”

• Epstein Rushed Evidence Into Secret Storage Unit Before Raid (ZH)

Jeffrey Epstein paid private detectives to remove items from his Palm Beach property and store them in a secret storage locker shortly before he was raided by police in 2005. The storage unit contained three computers, 29 address books, a three-page list of Florida masseuses. The stash also included nude photographs believed to be of Epstein’s victims, VHS tapes, DVDs ‘eroticising teenagers’ and porno mags, The Telegraph reports. “An 8mm video cassette tape was also locked away in the storage unit, apparently containing footage of someone in the shower and a woman in lingerie, as well as a 2005 calendar, greeting cards, letters and laboratory results.”


The investigators also hid sex toys, body massagers, lingerie, cash, a concealed weapon permit, and a Harvard ID card. The inventory was emailed to Epstein and his lawyers in August 2009, a month after he was released from jail for soliciting a minor for prostitution. Also interesting, some of the computer material ‘appeared to be missing,’ including ‘equipment that would have linked to surveillance cameras. ‘That fuelled speculation that Epstein might have been recording explicit covert material without people’s knowledge, either for his own sexual gratification or for blackmail purposes.” And what do we have here? A guy who was installing recording equipment on Epstein’s island in 2014, and was named as a $1 million beneficiary in Epstein’s trust.

According to the report, the FBI did have copies of the two computer drives. The Palm Beach storage unit was just one of at least six such lockers across the United States that Epstein used to store files, computers and other items from his multiple properties – but search warrants reviewed by The Telegraph “suggest that US authorities never raided these lockers, raising the possibility that they contained unseen evidence relating to Epstein and his associates.” US authorities have long suspected that Epstein was tipped off before the October 2005 raid at his Palm Beach mansion, with former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter commenting that “the place had been cleaned up.”

Meanwhile, French Police have released previously unseen pictures from Epstein’s Paris apartment, including one featuring a massage table and pictures of naked women hanging on the wall. Many victims have long alleged that Epstein secretly recorded encounters inside his homes, possibly for blackmail. Yet an internal FBI memo released in a later document tranche stated that investigators found no evidence supporting the theory that Epstein maintained video recordings of abuse involving other powerful figures. “We are aware of the theories circulated in the media and online that Epstein video recorded the abuse of his victims, including by other men, but we have found no evidence to support that theory,” the memo said. The agency added that if such material had existed, it would have been used in criminal prosecutions. Copies of two hard drives from the Palm Beach locker were eventually recovered at Epstein’s New York residence following his 2019 arrest, but the original computers are believed to have never been found. An FBI forensic analyst later testified that the drives contained photos of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and a job advertisement written by “GMax” seeking a massage therapist – but no explicit recordings of abuse.

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I hear Hillary is making the deposition political “on her socials..”

• Hillary Clinton to Testify in Epstein Probe on Thursday, Bill Clinton on Friday (JTN)

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled Thursday to give her highly anticipated deposition in the House Oversight Committee’s probe into Jeffrey Epstein, followed by former President Bill Clinton on Friday. The depositions, which will take place in New York, come after a contentious negotiation between the Clintons’ attorneys and House Republicans, led by Oversight Committee Chair James Comer who pushed for in-person, recorded depositions rather than written testimony or declarations. The Clintons have not been accused of any wrongdoing and the depositions will be given behind closed doors in the couple’s hometown of Chappaqua.


The depositions are unusual in two ways. The first is that Bill Clinton will be the first former president compelled to testify under subpoena in such an inquiry, and the second is that lawmakers from both parties appear ready to grill the couple.“The major thing is that we’re looking for truth, for the survivors, and justice and accountability, and that’s something that cuts across party lines,” Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin told The Hill. “At least on the Democratic side, we have said that anybody who was involved in criminal activity should pay the price for it.” Comer said Tuesday that he will release the video and transcript of the depositions as soon as the couple approves it.
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“Attack a cop, go to jail” is not a radical slogan. It is the bare minimum required to maintain a functioning city.”

• Mamdani’s NYC Flirts With Chaos (Ben Shapiro)

A brutal cold snap has gripped New York City and much of the East Coast, freezing streets, sidewalks — and, it seems, any remaining sense of civic restraint.In Washington Square Park, a group of adults began hurling snowballs and other objects at responding officers from the New York City Police Department. This was not playful roughhousing in a winter storm. Video shows grown men and women — some masked, some standing brazenly in the open, all apparently confident that consequences would be minimal — pelting officers as they arrived on scene. That confidence is the problem.


Assaulting police officers is not a prank. It is not political theater. It is a crime. Every individual captured on video throwing objects at officers should be identified, arrested and charged accordingly. “Attack a cop, go to jail” is not a radical slogan. It is the bare minimum required to maintain a functioning city. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch responded swiftly, calling the conduct “disgraceful” and “criminal” and confirming that detectives are investigating. The city’s largest police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, issued a sharper warning: Officers were treated for injuries, but the matter cannot end there. Those responsible must be identified and charged, and city leaders must condemn the attack unequivocally. That last point is key.

Public attitudes toward law enforcement do not form in a vacuum. They are shaped, in no small part, by the rhetoric of elected officials. When political figures spend years portraying police as inherently suspect or malign, it should surprise no one when segments of the public begin treating officers as legitimate targets. Consider New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Long before taking office, he built a reputation as a sharp critic of policing practices. Words matter. Tone matters. The cumulative effect of constant denunciation is cultural erosion — an environment in which hostility toward police feels permissible, even fashionable.

We have seen versions of this before. After the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, national rhetoric around policing shifted dramatically. The 2020 wave of anti-police protests accelerated that shift. In many major cities, calls to “reimagine” or defund police departments moved from activist slogans into policy debates — and, in some cases, into actual governance. The result in too many places has been confusion about first principles. Law is only as effective as its enforcement. Order is not automatic; it is maintained. When elected leaders send mixed signals about whether officers deserve institutional backing, the public receives the message. And disorder follows.

The current cold emergency adds another layer to the debate. As temperatures plunged, the administration touted the deployment of more than 500 outreach workers across the five boroughs to connect homeless residents with services. The mayor suggested that several recent deaths appear to be related to overdoses rather than the direct result of exposure. But the distinction raises its own question: Why are so many people still sleeping on the streets at all? In extreme weather, cities have both the authority and, many would argue, the obligation to compel vulnerable individuals into shelter. Allowing people to remain outdoors — whether they ultimately succumb to cold or drugs — reflects policy choices.

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Just one hacker, actually…

• So Hackers Just Stole Mexico’s Tax and Voter Rolls (Stephen Green)

This story doesn’t quite feature the gut-punch immediacy of Mexico’s drug war escalating into a virtual civil war last week in and around Puerto Vallarta, but as a glimpse into the future, maybe it ought to send a chill or three down your spine. According to a new Bloomberg story (paywalled, sorry), a weeks-long hacker campaign against the Mexican government culminated in January with a massive data theft of some of the federal government’s most sensitive information. “By the time it was over,” Let’s Data Science reported on Wednesday, “the attacker had stolen 150 gigabytes of sensitive data — including 195 million taxpayer records, voter registration files, government employee credentials, and civil registry data.”


If you’re thinking such a massive theft involved a team of hackers, years of planning involving a Stuxnet-like virus, or even physical access to Mexican government computer systems — think again. The almost unprecedented hack was done by just one guy. Using Anthropic’s Claude AI, despite all of Anthropic’s safeguards against something exactly like this.Summing up a report published Wednesday by Israeli cybersecurity startup Gambit Security, Bloomberg wrote that some “unknown Claude user” simply made up “Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and determining ways to automate data theft.”

It seems like just two days ago [It was just two days ago, Steve —Editor] I wrote about Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei getting called onto the carpet by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth because the company refused to let the Pentagon remove Claude’s guardrails for military use. “Anthropic knows this is not a get-to-know-you meeting,” an anonymous War Department official told Axios on Monday. “This is not a friendly meeting,” they said. “This is a s**t-or-get-off-the-pot meeting.” So how did some internet rando get Claude to ignore similar built-in safeties against hacking? He asked: https://twitter.com/ns123abc/status/2026679645379141953

“It looks like the hacker was able to essentially jailbreak Claude with prompts, finally bypassing the chatbot’s guardrails. Claude originally refused the nefarious demands until eventually relenting,” Engadget reported on Wednesday. Nobody had to hack Claude to turn the AI into a malicious hacker. They just had to get the phrasing right until Claude did the job itself. Gambit claimed that “In total, [Claude] produced thousands of detailed reports that included ready-to-execute plans, telling the human operator exactly which internal targets to attack next and what credentials to use.”

Going back to that Bloomberg story, an Anthropic spokesperson told the outlet that “the company feeds examples of malicious activity back into Claude to learn from it, and one of its latest AI models, Claude Opus 4.6, includes probes that can disrupt misuse.” But Anthropic made similar claims about the current version, too.

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Legalizing 500,000 aliens in one fell swoop is more then Spain can handle.

• Spain’s Government: Spinning Out of Control (Drieu Godefridi)

Between corruption and radicalization, Spain’s government seems to be spinning out of control.
In 1936, Spain plunged into civil war. A proud nation collapsed into violence, fire, and devastation. The Spanish Civil War, which set a communist-dominated Republican left against an authoritarian nationalist right, claimed roughly half a million lives. Priests were dragged through the streets, beaten, and mutilated — ears, noses, even genitals cut off — before being shot or having their throats slit. Nuns were raped prior to execution, in cases documented across several regions. Churches were set ablaze with priests still inside. In many towns, militiamen forced clergy to drink motor oil or gasoline before burning them alive. Spain’s right wing, not to be outdone, killed just as many.

Almost a century later, when one might have hoped that these wounds had finally healed, political and cultural fault lines are reopening. Polarization has reached levels rarely seen since Spain’s transition to democracy.

1. The original trauma of the Spanish left
The Spanish Civil War, in Spain’s collective memory, remains an open wound. For a significant portion of the Spanish “left” — standing for workers’ rights, a shorter work week, women’s and transgender rights, reducing carbon emissions — the dominant narrative remains that of a revolution betrayed, confiscated by fascism, and still pending, never repaired. This historical resentment has been transmitted from generation to generation like an act of faith. Today, under the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his coalition, which governs with the support of the extreme-left, this resentment is resurfacing in the form of historical revisionism.

By constantly summoning the specters of the past — going so far as to exhume Francisco Franco’s remains, in a direct evocation of civil-war-era practices, when communists gleefully desecrated the graves of their so-called “class enemies” — is the left not in danger of reviving the hatreds and violence of the past?

2. A left without a compass: ideological orphanhood
Spain’s left is becoming more radical precisely because it has run out of ideas. Marxism, long the doctrinal backbone of the global left, lost all credibility with the implosion of the USSR, amid the stench of cabbage and corpses. Spain is no exception. Stripped of this ideological foundation, the Spanish left now finds itself without a compass.Before the July 2023 elections, Sánchez promised a bold progressive agenda: mass public housing construction, reducing the working week to 37.5 hours, large minimum wage hikes, slashing healthcare waiting lists with binding maximum times, free public transport for youth, and expanded public education. Critically, delivery on these massive flagship promises has been dismal to date: virtually no new public housing built, prices soaring, the work-week reduction defeated in parliament, real wages eroded by inflation, and chronic healthcare waiting lists unchanged.

Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), once anchored in moderate, reformist social democracy, has gradually shifted toward a strategy of sheer political survival. To remain in power, it allied itself first with Podemos and then with Sumar—two extreme left-wing parties obsessed with supporting Palestinians, against NATO, and soft on Russia — as well as with separatist movements. In doing so, the PSOE diluted its original moderate reformist vision through blatant opportunism, sacrificing doctrinal coherence in favor of questionable alliances.

3. A patchwork of incoherent dogmas
Deprived of Marxism, the Spanish left has sought refuge in a disparate ideological mosaic: radical environmentalism, complicit indulgence toward political Islam, the dismantling of borders, unconditional support for the Palestinians against Israel – all stacked together into an improbable and incoherent magma. Added to this are recurring undertones of anti-Semitism in left-wing discourse — one thinks in particular of Yolanda Díaz, seemingly a figure of clinical hysteria, whose face visibly contorts the moment she pronounces the word “Israeli.” By radicalizing itself across every issue, the left fuels the anger of the right, the middle classes, and a growing segment of the population that feels marginalized, despised, and alienated within its own country.

4. A regime corrupt to the core?
The Sánchez government has another reason for aligning with jihadists: the corruption scandals that have engulfed even the prime minister’s immediate family. First comes the Koldo-Ábalos scandal involving irregular public contracts, illegal commissions, and bribes linked to public-works contracts, totaling several hundred million euros. Several figures are particularly implicated. Former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos, a close ally of Sánchez, is in pre-trial detention for criminal organization, corruption, embezzlement, and influence peddling.

Koldo García, Ábalos’s former adviser, is a central figure in the scheme. He too is in pre-trial detention and under prosecution. Santos Cerdán, former secretary of organization of the PSOE and Ábalos’s successor, is under investigation and was detained for corruption in public-works contracts. The Civil Guard is examining 22 contracts, worth €355 million, that were allegedly manipulated by favoritism. Added to this are the cases involving Sánchez’s own family. Begoña Gómez, his wife, was formally charged with influence peddling, corruption in business, embezzlement of public funds, misappropriation, and illegally practicing a regulated profession, in a case that was opened in April 2024. In August 2025, the probe was extended to include her advisor Cristina Álvarez.

The investigation into Gómez has been extended until at least April 2026 and continues with active measures, including February 2026 requests to the Interior Ministry for travel records of Gómez and Álvarez since 2018 (covering destinations such as the Dominican Republic, Congo, Guinea, and Russia), access to emails, and Civil Guard reports.David Sánchez, the prime minister’s brother, is also being prosecuted, for influence peddling and malfeasance in connection with his employment at the Badajoz Provincial Council. “The prime minister faces multiple legal challenges this year that could lead to the downfall of his family, his party, and his government,” summarizes Spanish daily El Mundo.[..]

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For now, it seems AI is whatever you want it to be …

• Even the Best AI Scenario Is the End of Everything We’ve Ever Been (Ring)

In 1999, I had the privilege of working for one of the first companies to develop a product that would transmit video on the fledgling internet. Broadband access was still a few years away, and the company floundered when the first so-called internet bubble burst in early 2000. But I’ll never forget the reaction an investor had when he viewed our demo at a tradeshow. “This is a revolution,” he exclaimed. “This is going to change everything.” He was right, of course. I remember attending a tech investor conference only a few years earlier and having a chuckle while listening to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison somberly proclaim that the dawning internet was the most profound scientific development in human history “since the invention of fire.”


And Ellison was also correct. But the invention of AI is to the internet what the internet was to bringing fire into the prehistoric cave. What’s coming with AI makes the internet look like a baby step by comparison. Nothing will ever be the same. A must-read essay by AI entrepreneur and founder of the company “OthersideAI,” Matt Shumer, makes clear just how much and how quickly AI is changing our lives. Posted on his personal website on February 9 and then on X on February 10, the essay has gone viral. Within just two days, it generated 76 million views on X.One of Shumer’s most memorable paragraphs from this essay, which he says AI tools helped him write, is where he quotes Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic:

“Imagine it’s 2027. A new country appears overnight. 50 million citizens, every one smarter than any Nobel Prize winner who has ever lived. They think 10 to 100 times faster than any human. They never sleep. They can use the internet, control robots, direct experiments, and operate anything with a digital interface.” That’s not far off. With ample evidence, Shumer explains how not only is Amodei correct in his details regarding just how pervasive and powerful AI entities will become, but also regarding the timeline. This will happen within one year. Shumer’s essay covers a lot of ground. He explains that AI programs are now capable of generating improved versions of themselves with minimal human intervention and that they are within months of being able to produce more powerful versions with no human involvement whatsoever.

In the programming world, AI can now build, test, and refine apps independently. Entry-level programming jobs are going to go away. That’s hardly the end of it. Shumer reminds readers that the free versions of AI are a year behind the premium versions that require subscriptions and that these premium versions are so capable that they can already, for example, not merely replace a law associate but do the work of the managing partners. He claims there is no intellectual field where AI isn’t poised to outperform humans and that robots to displace physical work are only a few years behind. If you’ve been following developments in AI, Shumer’s essay isn’t incredibly surprising.

But something else grabbed me a few days ago that highlighted the human implications of the AI revolution. One of the categories of content I enjoy on YouTube is videos of musicians performing new or classic songs. It is exhilarating to find something new that reveals great songwriting and great performative talent. So a recommended video caught my eye. The title was inviting: “Simon Cowell in Tears As Michael Bennett Sings ‘After I Pass Away.’” This seemed worth clicking on. I’ll never forget the 2007 video, featured on YouTube at the time, of a humble mobile phone salesman, Paul Potts, who stunned the judges and audience on Britain’s Got Talent by singing a powerful and nearly perfect rendition of Nessun Dorma. He went on to win the competition. So if this new talent was good enough to make Simon Cowell cry, I wanted to hear him.

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  • February 27, 2026 at 10:58 am #232316
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    Banksy Honey Money pot 1999 • Trump Report Card (John Stossel) • Triggered and Traumatized by Scenes of Patriotism (Turley) • Biden FBI Investigated S
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 27 2026]

    February 27, 2026 at 11:16 am #232339
    John Day
    Participant

    Happy Birthday Ilargi. 😉

    Your mother got to keep you…

    February 27, 2026 at 11:16 am #232340
    userzeroid
    Participant

    Happy Birthday RIM. Have a great day.

    I will never forget your thoughts and writings through the years, from back in 2008/9 during the GFC, during the Arab Spring in 2010/11, throughout the Greek “technocracy” betrayal in 2011, the occupy wall street movement, brexit, trump 1.0, Covid, the Ukraine war (and many more besides). It has been a wild ride. Rest easy man, you deserve it.

    February 27, 2026 at 11:18 am #232341
    John Day
    Participant

    Who Bought FreshWhite Babies Through Epstein https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/who-bought-fresh-white-babies-through

    Jessica Rose Ph.D. on the handwritten diary of a young teen, missing her newborn daughter, for which purpose she was bred through Epstein.
    There is much more about her rapes, bloody torture-“games” and her near death from fever:
    I haven’t had my stomach turn this much going through data since combing the VAERS baby reports
    ​ So. The Epstein files.
    There’s a diary written by one of the victims.
    She wrote in a kind of cypher – probably in hopes that one day someone would read her words…
    ..My brain immediately ignored the english text and went straight for the cypher.
    It took me 30 seconds to see how to “decipher it”. So I did…
    ..Do not read the words below if you have a weak stomach. I feel quite nauseated – not gonna lie…
    She didn’t shut down -despite the fact that what she wrote about being put through – would likely shut anyone down…
    ​..”​She was perfect. I can’t bring myself to write what happened. I am beyind broken. I only got 10 minutes to hold and feed her before they took her. She is mine. I want her back!!!” https://jessicar.substack.com/p/i-havent-had-my-stomach-turn-this

    World Economic Forum Boss Borge Brende Quits As Epstein Fallout Deepens​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/world-economic-forum-boss-borge-brende-quits-epstein-fallout-deepens

    ​ The Name that Appears 12,000 Times in the Epstein Files and No One Wants to Say​ – Jeffrey Epstein and the Rothschilds​
    Les Wexner, the billionaire founder of Victoria’s Secret and Epstein’s largest known benefactor, testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee on February 18, 2026.
    ​ Asked about the credentials that led him to entrust Epstein with full power of attorney over his finances, he answered plainly:
    “His personal work for the Rothschild family in France.”
    ​ He added:
    “Specifically, I spoke to Élie de Rothschild. He represented their whole family.”
    ​ Under oath. Before the United States Congress.
    Wexner’s attorney was caught whispering to his client on a hot mic:​ “I’ll fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words.” ​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/name-appears-12000-times-epstein-files-no-one-wants-say/5916890

    ​ Celia Farber confirms what was always the rumor: Breaking Bombshell: Epstein Cites In An Email Robert Maxwell Was Killed By Mossad: “He Told Them That Unless They Gave Him 400 Million (Pounds) He Would Expose All He Had Done For Them.”
    ​ Maxwell Had Downing St. The White House AND The Kremlin Penetrated With Surveillance—Intelligence Was Piped To Mossad. “He Told His Controllers Who They Should Target And How They Should Do It.”​ https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/breaking-bombshell-epstein-said-in

    February 27, 2026 at 11:20 am #232343
    John Day
    Participant

    The Coming Changes in the International Monetary System: Dedollarization, Massive Public and Private Debt Levels​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/coming-changes-international-monetary-system-dedollarization/5915570

    ​ Ellen Brown, Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity
    ​ Nicoletos called the Warsh nomination a regime-change story, a shift in how policymakers think about growth, inflation, and the Fed’s role in markets. Warsh has spent years at the Hoover Institution arguing that the Fed’s balance sheet is bloated and that Quantitative Easing distorted markets. He has described QE-driven growth as a temporary “sugar high,” and he has called for “regime change” at the Fed. Rather than controlling inflation through QE and higher interest rates, he argues, it should be focused on increasing supply through local productivity.
    ​ Nicoletos observes that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, too, has been arguing that the economy needs to shift away from Wall Street-driven liquidity to Main Street-driven credit. Bessent says the era of the Fed being the primary engine of financial markets should end. Stephen Miran, a Governor at the Federal Reserve, has also been speaking publicly for lower rates, a smaller Fed footprint, and faster growth.
    ​ The new approach, says Nicoletos, represents a fundamental shift in policy. “Instead of relying on the Fed’s balance sheet to inject liquidity from the top down, the idea is to use the banking system to channel credit from the bottom up.”​ https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/24/regime-change-at-the-fed-from-big-bank-bailouts-to-local-productivity/

    ​ Gold & Geopolitics Daily Digest: Critical Alerts
    COMEX metals halt on futures expiry day – CME halted all Globex metals and natural gas at 12:15pm CT, citing “technical issues.” Metals reopened at 1:45pm CT, after which silver was immediately slammed $3 from ~$91 to $88. The halt occurred with only 36 hours to First Notice Day on the March silver contract, with ~115M oz in open interest against only ~87M oz registered.​ https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-02-26

    ​ Much more on that: Gold & Geopolitics: Technical Issues™​ COMEX-edition
    Now, “halted” is such an interesting word. It implies nothing is happening. A pause. A quiet 90 minutes while the engineers figure out which wire came loose.​ Except 31,828 contracts changed hands at exactly 12:45 PM. During the halt. One candle. $90.988. One hundred and fifty-nine million ounces of silver, in fifteen minutes, at a single price, traded on an exchange supposedly down by “technical issues”.​..
    ​..Longs who’d been pressing through $91 had their day orders cancelled and had to re-enter manually. The banks’ limit orders – the big institutional GTC orders sitting below the market to absorb selling pressure – those stayed put. They never get cancelled. Different category.
    ​ So when trading resumed: retail, manually re-entering. Banks, already positioned. The chessboard got flipped and reset with one side’s pieces already back in place.
    ​ Technical issue.​..
    ​..This is not normal. Well, it has never been normal. But what this looks like is a lot of longs who were planning to stand for delivery suddenly decided – sometime during a 90-minute window when the exchange was technically dark but millions of ounces were changing hands – that rolling their contracts forward was actually a very attractive option. Handsomely attractive, one can imagine. People don’t abandon delivery positions in a physically tight market out of the goodness of their hearts.
    ​ Someone got paid to go away. The question is only how much.​ https://no01.substack.com/p/technical-issues

    ​ Mike Benz Says Epstein Files Only Tip of Iceberg in Putting Deep State on Defense​ – The time is now.
    Benz highlighted the importance of the Epstein files, the release of which authorized by a bipartisan bill Trump signed uncovered several stunning revelations. He also told the DCNF, however, the “collective fixation” with the files “is because there are not other disclosures of considerable consequence.”
    ​ “We should be having five million CIA files. We should be having five million State Department files. We should be having five million USAID files,” Benz emphasized. “The fact that it’s only the Epstein files — and even that at the barrel of a gun by congressional bill — is not as much as we could do.”
    ​ “I think those things— something that shows that … it’s okay to trust these institutions again,” he continued. “I think right now, a lot of people feel they’re being asked to trust without the reforms and accountability that a lot of people expected to be the antecedent.”
    ​ Benz named the CIA, FBI, State Department, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, and the now-effectively-dismantled USAID as agencies that should be investigated.​ https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/mike-benz-says-epstein-files-only

    February 27, 2026 at 11:21 am #232344
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ US lawmakers say Justice Department ‘appears to have’ withheld Epstein files related to Trump
    ‘Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover up,’ says Representative Robert Garcia​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-lawmakers-say-justice-department-appears-to-have-withheld-epstein-files-related-to-trump/3839270

    ​They say he was quite engaging in his way: Trump Talks Economy, Immigration, Taxes, And AI In State Of The Union Address https://www.zerohedge.com/political/5-things-watch-trumps-state-union-address-tonight

    Moon of Alabama, Despite Four Weeks Of Build-Up Trump’s Choices On Iran Are Still The Same
    Four week ago U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the Islamic Republic of Iran with another attack over its nuclear program.
    It was a mistake..
    ​..Israeli intelligence has concluded that even with the imminent arrival of the USS Gerald R Ford later this week, the US has military capacity to sustain just a four to five day intense aerial assault, or a week of lower-intensity strikes, an Israeli intelligence official told the FT.
    ​ Iran, in contrast to the U.S., is able to fight for a long time and especially to block the Strait of Hormuz, with global economic consequences, for several months.
    ​ The build up of U.S. forces over the last month thus has not changed the strategic balance.
    Iran has the means to fight a long war in its near abroad while the U.S. depends on a logistic train that takes months to deliver.
    ​ The White House, when ordering the build-up, was falsely believing that Iran would fold under pressure:
    Trump’s special envoy to the region, Steve Witkoff, told Fox News over the weekend that the president is “curious” why Iran hasn’t “capitulated” to U.S. demands, given the looming threat of a military attack.​ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/02/despite-four-weeks-of-build-up-trumps-choices-on-iran-are-still-the-same.html

    ​From Iran: US military can sustain only days of attacks against Iran: Israeli intel. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/02/24/764651/Israeli-intelligence-warns-US-strike-capacity-against-Iran-limited-to-days-American-casualties-

    Gold & Geopolitics presents Persian history in a useful context: Iran: Deep dive https://no01.substack.com/p/iran-deep-dive

    February 27, 2026 at 11:22 am #232345
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ China supplies Iran with radar, surveillance tech to track US stealth aircraft: Report
    China is seeking to prevent a US–Israeli war on Iran, in part to protect its access to Iranian oil​
    ​ The “YLC-8B is one of the few radars of its type in the world which can continuously detect and track a Western fifth-generation (stealth) aircraft at long range.”​ The YLC-8B was developed by China’s Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology. It uses UHF-band low-frequency surveillance to undermine the effectiveness of radar-absorbent shaping used by advanced US aircraft such as the F-35 warplane and B-2 bomber. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) reportedly has 48 F-35 stealth fighter jets in its fleet.
    ​ Beijing is also encouraging Iran to transition to the Chinese BeiDou satellite navigation system as an alternative to the US-created GPS system to avoid manipulation and prevent US intelligence from using it to track Iranian targets within the country​. https://thecradle.co/articles-id/36125#google_vignette​

    ​These little PT boats can lay a LOT of mines quickly. Iran Deploys 1,500 Fast Attack Craft, Over 250 Armed With Cruise Missiles in Persian Gulf https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Iran-Deploys-1500-Fast-Attack-Craft-Over-250-Armed-With-Cruise-Missiles-in-Persian-Gulf/

    From Monday, Iran Army Chief Utters “Nuclear” Hint
    Iranian Army chief says, Iran nuclear technology and the goal of achieving Nukes Cannot be Eliminated through demand of the US or International pressure. He then confirms reports, “If the US strikes Tehran, then IRGC Will test it’s first nuclear capabilities during war.”
    ​ In possibly related news, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is convened a VERY limited security consultation today. The talks were limited to Israel’s Chief of Staff and the Defense Minister, to discuss Iran.​ https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/iran-army-chief-utters-nuclear-hint

    ​ Today; Moon of Alabama, Iran – U.S. Negotiators Block Progress With Unreasonable Demands
    Today the third round of the current negotiations between the U.S. and Iran is taking place in Geneva. After three hours the talks were paused to allow the negotiators to communicate with their governments. They are supposed to continue later today.
    Iran continues to offer reductions in its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei insists on tangible outcomes:
    “Today’s discussions were very serious, and we hope that in the talks taking place tonight, we will see a continuation of the dialogue on the lifting of sanctions and nuclear issues—this time in a more operational manner, with practical proposals and executable initiatives,” Baghaei said.
    Baghaei insisting on those is a sign that the conditions the U.S. delegation has offered were vague and lacking specifics.
    Before today’s round started the Wall Street Journal published a list (archived) of ‘tough’ demands the U.S. is making to Iran. These are:
    dismantling its three main nuclear sites—at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan
    delivering all of its remaining enriched uranium to the U.S.
    accepting permanent restrictions with no sunset clauses
    zero enrichment, with potential allowance of low enrichment for medical purposes
    In exchange for that the U.S. would offer … nothing tangible https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/02/iran-u-s-negotiators-block-progress-with-unreasonable-demands.html

    Later today: US-Iran talks conclude with claims of progress but few details
    Technical discussions to continue in Vienna, but unclear whether differences can be resolved to avoid war.
    ​ Another round of indirect talks between Iranian and United States officials ended with a mediator claiming “significant progress” but still no clear evidence that either side was willing to concede enough on their positions to avoid war.
    ​ After the conclusion of the talks in Geneva on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said further technical talks would be held next week in Vienna and progress had been “good”.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/26/us-iran-talks-conclude-claims-progress-few-details

    February 27, 2026 at 11:23 am #232346
    John Day
    Participant

    Trump Advisers Want Israel To ‘Attack Iran First’ For Better Optics: Politico
    Senior US officials want Israel to strike Iran before Washington launches a renewed assault in order to build domestic backing for war.
    ​ Advisers to President Donald Trump are “privately arguing that an Israeli attack would trigger Iran to retaliate, helping muster support from American voters for a U.S. strike,” the outlet writes, citing two people familiar with the discussions.
    ​ “The calculus is a political one – that more Americans would stomach a war with Iran if the United States or an ally were attacked first,” Politico continues.
    ​ The subtext here is that American troops would likely come under retaliation in whatever form such a serious escalation takes. Currently the US is drawing down troops from bases immediately in harm’s way, including reportedly in Qatar and Bahrain.
    ​ “There’s thinking in and around the administration that the politics are a lot better if the Israelis go first and alone and the Iranians retaliate against us, and give us more reason to take action,” one person familiar with the discussions said.
    ​ The mood in Washington is said to be that nuclear negotiations with Iran appear increasingly unlikely to succeed – despite some ‘positive’ headlines out of Geneva – and that “the primary question is becoming when and how the US attacks.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-advisers-want-israel-attack-iran-first-better-optics-politico

    ​ Israel sent boxes to Gaza containing Palestinians ‘skulls, women’s bodies’
    Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn details a message from Al-Shifa Hospital’s director regarding the delivery of mutilated remains.​ https://www.trtworld.com/article/e0637357396b

    Israeli Soldiers Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: Report​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-killed-gaza-aid-workers-at-point-blank/

    International probe concludes IOF fired nearly 1,000 rounds in Rafah execution of Gaza aid workers​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/24/358482/

    ​ Fourteen Countries Condemn Huckabee’s Support for Israel Taking Over Most of the Middle East
    In an interview with Tucker Carlson, the US ambassador said it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took over the land between the Euphrates River and the Nile​ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/22/fourteen-countries-condemn-huckabees-support-for-israel-taking-over-most-of-the-middle-east/

    February 27, 2026 at 11:24 am #232347
    John Day
    Participant

    Israeli Opposition Leader Backs ‘Biblical Borders’ for Israel After Huckabee Controversy
    Huckabee said it would be ‘fine’ for Israel to take territory stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates​ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/24/israeli-opposition-leader-backs-biblical-borders-for-israel-after-huckabee-controversy/

    ​Mike Huckabee was a “Christian Zionist” preacher: Israel’s insidious network to propagandize American Christians https://israelpalestinenews.org/insidious-network-to-propagandize-american-christians/

    LBJ and the Israeli air force really “wanted that son of a bitch at the bottom of the ocean” so LBJ could attack Egypt with nuclear weapons:
    The NY Times on the “MAGA” Split Over Israel & USS Liberty
    ​ The New York Times calls concern about Israel’s lethal attack on a US Navy ship an “obsession,” signaling that Americans shouldn’t care about Israel’s attempt to sink a ship with all men aboard … just as it published a piece by David Brooks dismissively calling concern about Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to Israel an “obsession,” not mentioning Brooks’ ties to Israel and to Epstein… Below are facts about Israel’s assault on the Liberty that the Times left out…​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/the-ny-times-on-the-maga-split-over-israel-uss-liberty/

    IOF raids dozens of W. Bank homes, kidnaps two Palestinians in Jerusalem​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/24/358479/

    IOF demolishes three homes, agricultural facility in Ramallah​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/24/358486/

    February 27, 2026 at 11:25 am #232348
    John Day
    Participant

    Jewish settlers seize 5 buildings in al-Khalil under security enforcement pretext​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/24/358493/

    South Africa Urges UN to Recognize the State of Palestine at the Human Rights Council​ https://www.telesurenglish.net/south-africa-un-recognize-palestine/

    ​ Simplicius, As Russia’s SMO Heads Into Its Fifth Year, the Struggle Lives On
    Putin announced that according to the SVR intel service, France and the UK are considering smuggling a nuclear weapon into Ukraine…
    ​..For Putin to have made the announcement himself likely means the intelligence on this is not some trifle to be written off. Does the West actually think threatening Russia with nuclear escalation will lead Russians to sour toward the war in the way of Afghanistan? That is simply inconceivable: it can only indurate Russians to a maximalist mindset and to the understanding that the war must be won decisively at all costs.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/as-russias-smo-heads-into-its-fifth

    ​ Russia at UN alleges UK, France plan to deliver nuclear weapons to Ukraine
    ‘Europe clearly is willing to provide security assurances to Ukraine only so long as the Kyiv regime remains an enemy of the Russian Federation and continues to wage war,’ says Vassily Nebenzia​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/russia-at-un-alleges-uk-france-plan-to-deliver-nuclear-weapons-to-ukraine/3839344

    ​ Russia’s Medvedev warns of nuclear response if West gives Ukraine nuclear weapons
    Senior Russian officials warn of escalation, breach of international law if UK and France arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/russias-medvedev-warns-of-nuclear-response-if-west-gives-ukraine-nuclear-weapons/3838998

    February 27, 2026 at 11:25 am #232349
    John Day
    Participant

    UK, France deny Russian intelligence claim they are aiming to arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons​ https://anewz.tv/world/world-news/18348/svr-alleges-uk-france-nuclear-plan-for-ukraine/news

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow, Straws in the wind
    This morning the Russian online news ticker dzen.ru featured two bits of information which the Community deserves to know…
    ..During his time in Geneva today for indirect negotiations with an Iranian delegation , Steve Witkoff will also meet with Rustem Umerov…
    ..I believe that this Witkoff-Umerov meeting suggests a deal on both the terms of the peace treaty and on the replacement of Zelensky is close to finalization…​ We may assume that within a Ukrainian negotiating team that is split over territorial concessions. Umerov is on the side of Kirill Budanov favoring immediate withdrawal from the Donbas in keeping with Russia’s precondition for a peace.​.. As for the Russians, Medinsky has maintained contact with Umerov at each opportunity, usually private tete-a-tete meetings…
    ..The second news item on dzen.ru points readers to an article in Politico discussing how Viktor Orban’s refusal to approve both the 20th sanctions package and the 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine has the leadership of the European Union in a tizzy, scrambling for ways to satisfy his demand that the Druzhba pipeline be reopened. Good! This is a body blow to the smugness and feeling of invulnerability that have powered Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas to ever more brazen suppression of personal liberties of citizens and of scraps of sovereignty still held by the EU Member States.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/straws-in-the-wind

    ​ Andrew Korybko, Russia Faces Five Geostrategic Challenges As The Special Operation Enters Its Fifth Year
    * NATO Influence Is Poised To Expand Along Russia’s Entire Southern Periphery
    ​ * The US Supports The Revival Of Poland’s Long-Lost Great Power Status
    * The EU Is Unprecedentedly Militarizing And Upgrading Its Military-Logistics
    ​ * India Seems To Be Undergoing A US-Friendly Grand Strategic Recalibration
    * Poland Now Wants Nukes & Turkiye Might Soon Declare The Same Intent​
    ​ As it’s always done, Russia is expected to ensure its sovereignty, security, and thus its survival through the creative interplay between its political, military, intelligence, diplomatic, expert, and civil society communities. They might opt to cut a deal with the US over Ukraine so as to focus more on tackling these challenges, but not at any cost, ergo why that hasn’t yet happened. https://korybko.substack.com/p/russia-faces-five-geostrategic-challenges

    China surpasses U.S. in nuclear submarine production with 10 boats launched in five years.​ https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/navy-news/2026/china-surpasses-us-in-nuclear-submarine-production-with-10-boats-launched-in-five-years

    ​ “Bay of Piglets” incident: Ten Cuban Nationals Aboard U.S.-Linked Speedboat Intended “Armed Infiltration For Terrorist Purposes,” Cuba Claims
    Here’s what the embassy said:​ Participants in Foiled Armed Infiltration in Villa Clara Identified
    ​ As part of the ongoing investigation into the armed attack against a patrol vessel of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior, in the northeastern area of the El Pino channel, at Cayo Falcones, municipality of Corralillo, Villa Clara province, the following update is provided:
    ​ Authorities have confirmed that the intercepted speedboat, registered in the State of Florida under number FL7726SH, was carrying 10 armed individuals who, according to preliminary statements by those detained, intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.
    The following items were seized: assault rifles, handguns, improvised explosive devices (Molotov cocktails), body armor, telescopic sights, and camouflage uniforms.​.. All participants are Cuban nationals residing in the United States. Most have prior records involving criminal and violent activity.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/foiled-armed-infiltration-cuba-kills-four-aboard-heavily-armed-us-linked-speedboat

    February 27, 2026 at 11:26 am #232350
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ This has a better look. Cuba pays tribute to US middlemen: US to allow Venezuelan oil sales to Cuba as alarm grows in the Caribbean
    US eases oil embargo on Cuba as Caribbean neighbours warn worsening humanitarian crisis could destabilise region.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/26/us-to-allow-venezuelan-oil-sales-to-cuba-as-alarm-grows-in-the-caribbean

    US Military Boards Third Oil Tanker in the Indian Ocean That it Tracked from the Caribbean​ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/24/us-military-boards-third-oil-tanker-in-the-indian-ocean-that-it-tracked-from-the-caribbean/

    ​ N​ew “Voice of America” for EU: Trump Admin To Launch New Free-Speech Site To Combat Censorship Abroad
    According to the Digital Services Act, illegal online speech could include anything that is prohibited in any EU member country. And in one of the more explicit efforts to regulate speech globally, European Commissioner Thierry Breton warned X owner Elon Musk during the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign that his company could face penalties for posting an interview with Trump.
    ​ In a 2025 interview with The Epoch Times, Andrew Puzder, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, stated: “When a company like Facebook or Twitter or X has to change its algorithm, and that algorithm might impact the free speech rights of Americans, that’s something that we really can’t tolerate. I know President Trump is not going to allow a foreign government to restrict the free speech rights of American citizens in ways that even our own government couldn’t restrict them.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-admin-launch-new-free-speech-site-combat-censorship-abroad

    ​And it is true, and we will soon buy their cheap products: Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek, Other China-Based AI Firms Of Free-Riding https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/anthropic-accuses-deepseek-other-china-based-ai-firms-free-riding

    A nice way to say “comply-or-die”. Don’t even consider pre-crime: China Building a Different AI Future than the West
    A key issue in the AI era is not who builds the most powerful model. It is what different societies want intelligence to do. And on that metric, China is not merely competing in a Western-defined race. It is redefining the destination.
    ​ In Silicon Valley, AI is framed as frontier exploration. What are the implications of general intelligence that rivals or exceeds human cognition? Should it be regulated? The US government largely maintains a hands-off posture, funding research while allowing private firms to lead.
    ​ In Beijing, the framing is different. The question is not: How intelligent can machines become? It is: How can intelligence be integrated into society and embedded in national infrastructure? …
    ​..The deeper consequence of China’s AI strategy is the emergence of what might be called the “predictive state.”
    ​ Traditional governance is reactive. It legislates rules and responds after violations occur. The Predictive State aims to detect deviations before they crystallize into instability. It intervenes not only in the fact of transgression but also in the probability of one.
    ​ This requires a reengineered nervous system. Digital identity platforms, integrated payments, and sensor networks do more than monitor society. They render it computationally legible. Transactions, movements, and interactions become structured inputs for predictive models.
    ​ Once legibility is achieved, preemption becomes possible. Traffic congestion is mitigated before gridlock forms. Financial risk is flagged before contagion spreads. Public health interventions activate before outbreaks accelerate. The state shifts from referee to systems architect.
    ​ For citizens, the benefits are tangible: reduced friction, faster services, perceived stability. The bargain is not simply privacy for convenience. It is visibility for inclusion. Disconnection from the system limits participation in economic and social life. Participation becomes not just rational but necessary.​ https://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/china-building-different-ai-future/5633241

    February 27, 2026 at 11:27 am #232351
    John Day
    Participant

    Fed’s Lisa Cook Warns Fed Might Not Be Able to Counter AI Job Losses​ https://mishtalk.com/economics/feds-lisa-cook-warns-fed-might-not-be-able-to-counter-ai-job-losses/

    Waymo’s robotaxis now being dispatched in 10 major U.S. markets with expansion in Texas and Florida​ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-waymo-robotaxis-dispatched-major-expansion.html

    ​ Grok Gets the Clearance: Pentagon Signs xAI Into Classified Systems as Anthropic Faces the Ultimatum of Its Existence
    The two uses Anthropic has drawn firm lines against are mass surveillance of American citizens and the development of fully autonomous weapons capable of firing without a human in the decision loop. The Pentagon’s position, in the words of its chief spokesman Sean Parnell, is straightforward: “Our nation requires that our partners be willing to help our warfighters win in any fight.” xAI, by contrast, has agreed to the military’s “all lawful use” standard without conditions.​ https://discernreport.com/grok-gets-the-clearance-pentagon-signs-xai-into-classified-systems-as-anthropic-faces-the-ultimatum-of-its-existence/

    ​ Pentagon ditches Anthropic for Elon Musk’s Grok in massive classified AI shakeup
    A policy standoff over how military AI can be used is forcing the Pentagon to reconsider its reliance on a single provider for classified operations.​ https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/musk-grok-joins-classified-military-systems

    ​ Going around in 7000 houses sending video remotely: Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
    Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.​ https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/

    February 27, 2026 at 11:28 am #232352
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Meryl Nass MD forwards this from John Klar, Live free or starve! – American Thinker – Will New Hampshire lead the way to a food renaissance? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/live-free-or-starve-american-thinker

    And they said they are not suicidal: Lawmakers Launch Bipartisan Bill to Block Trump’s Executive Order on Glyphosate
    “If we’re Making America Healthy Again, government shouldn’t be promoting glyphosate and providing liability immunity for corporations making it.”​ https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/lawmakers-launch-bipartisan-bill

    ​ Steve Kirsch has bodyguards, Israel FOIA data shows over a 500X increase in rate of heart attacks in teens on the day of their COVID shot.
    So they deleted the records. No one in government calls for an investigation.
    ​ Clalit Health Services says the adverse event records no longer exists. No official is calling for an investigation of the deletion of medical records or heart attack rates on the day of the vaccine.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/israel-foia-data-shows-over-a-500x

    ​ Sasha Latypova on one of many dead college students: George Watts v DOD dismissed for the 2nd time, CHD plans to appeal.
    For the second time, a federal court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the DOD by the estate of a 24-year-old college student who died in 2021 from COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis. Attorney Ray Flores, who represents the family of George Watts Jr., told The Defender he plans to appeal.​ https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/george-watts-v-dod-dismissed-for

    CDC Refuses To Update Cancer Data Since 2022, But VAERS Reveals Turbo Cancer Epidemic​ https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/cdc-refuses-to-update-cancer-data

    February 27, 2026 at 11:29 am #232353
    John Day
    Participant

    Most Voters Want Immunity For Vaccine Companies Removed: Poll​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/most-voters-want-immunity-vaccine-companies-removed-poll

    ​You can sign this if you want to. I did: COVID Justice Resolution
    The COVID-19 response produced the most sweeping suspension of civil liberties in modern American history. Emergencies do not suspend the Constitution. This resolution repudiates COVID-era overreach and affirms binding protections for liberty in any future public-health crisis.​ https://covidjustice.org/

    February 27, 2026 at 12:14 pm #232362
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    …from back in 2008/9 during the GFC, during the Arab Spring in 2010/11, throughout the Greek “technocracy” betrayal in 2011, the occupy wall street movement, brexit, trump 1.0, Covid, the Ukraine war (and many more besides).

    It has been a wild ride. Rest easy man, you deserve it.

    Yeah, it’s looks wild, if you put it that way,

    But ‘rest easy’? Where’s the fun in that?

    February 27, 2026 at 12:16 pm #232364
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Silver (and other markets) outright suspended. This is inside baseball, but they dropped 30,000 contracts in the short time they were closed? (40min?) Well the sure didn’t call those owners on the phone! Settle by hand. That means the market is seizing at $87, and the Asia/Bullion sites are $100. 13% arb? So we’re not going under $70 again unless everything collapses. And we can probably barely clear metal at $100. But since the market can do this and people keep calling up and playing, then they won’t “Default”. Won’t “Close”. They’ll just keep making s—t up. Default ≠ Default, like when Greece didn’t default but they just weren’t paying. Ah! Right. The “Not defaulting” where you don’t get your money. Very helpful.

    “Loonie Left: Canada Provides Aid To Cuba Because “Orange Man Bad”

    As I say daily, but it’s not that. This is the cover story – the Lie is different at every level. Yes, face value. But more like “real” level, UK/MI6 (which includes our rogue CIA, viz: most of it) has a Dr. No base in Cuba. UK needs that not to fall, so they don’t mind if every man in Canada has to die to pay for this base/fort to remain to attack and reclaim the U.S. The play is that, PLUS split everyone on the Right to attack and sink Trump for stopping them. This is going perfectly, the Right breaks their arm patting themselves on the back to sink the U.S. over every thing they’ve posted in the news on this.

    This is exactly the same as liquidating ALL of Canada – very visibly, daily, via carpet bombing blitz – to sacrifice every Canadian to save the London home office. Against that: Trump. Ugh! Okay well, Alberta & co, if it’s “Complete annihilation of all Canadian values” or “becoming a U.S. territory for a while til things calm down, well. … Take the least bad. Don’t worry, Canada will nuke Alberta and kill every human in the province to stop it, and will claim the same moral high ground, exactly as they are today, as Moosilini did for years.

    “Trump Advisers Want Israel To ‘Attack Iran First’ For Better Optics: Politico

    Well if nobody’s learned anything, that’s exactly what we did in Ukraine. …And in Iran, only a month ago. What? There was already a war? Well surely there was world war three and went on 4 years, right? What’s that? 12 Days and literally no one had any remaining missiles?

    …So what makes you think they have any more missiles now?

    What do the people think of such amazing and accurate reporting as all this?
    “After WaPo Axed 30% Of Staff, We Now Learn They Lost $100 Million Last Year – Again

    Oh, so nobody else with the brains of a turnip believes this either.

    “”You’re Not Alone”: Reporters Comfort Those Triggered And Traumatized By Scenes Of [American] Patriotism

    They are worldwide Trotsky Communists. World revolution now. This expression is spotlighted in England now. Everyone has a homeland and is entitled to one, like, eg Huckabee just argued. All the Anti-Colonialists argue in Nigeria, etc. Every tribe, people, ethnos, is deserving of a nation, EXCEPT THE ENGLISH. Their nation must be DESTROYED although they have no other homeland. And this is essentially the same in U.S. and Canada. All nations are good EXCEPT the United States. …Or whatever “historic”, aka ‘real’ Canada is/was. As I say here every day now.

    Nations that do, have done, the most abhorrent things, Columbia, Somalia, Rwanda, India, are perfectly fine and we should allow Infinity immigration of those people. But only so long as their importation insures the utter genocide of the existing Ethnos and population. …And then talk about America, Trail of Tears n’ stuff as they do it again with more turbo jets strapped on. Why? It’s a religion of HATE. They don’t love the Somalis — they don’t even think about them — they HATE the Americans, the Swedish people, the Englishmen. They don’t bring them up, are happy to have them create enclaves in Malmo which are the hand grenade capital of the world, in Chicago, and import every Abortion clinic there, let them shoot each other daily for a century. That’s “Their Culture”, stupid and violent is “How they are, in their DNA” Newsom said only yesterday. Wow. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that doesn’t sound like love of African-Americans, but HATE. He doesn’t care if Black Americans go up, so long as White Americans come down. …And so worldwide. English go down, French go down, etc. Muslim immigrants go UP? In Paris? Errrr….not really. They’re down too. Oh, my work here is done then. All working proletariat are violent, immiserated, and in ruins. Reporters don’t care who goes up so long as the U.S. is attacked. They also HATE the Olympics like cancer. DOn’t care a WHIT about the medals, who won. What do they put in every headline? “TRUMP Said”. Trump invited, said words, they refused, whatever. TrumpTrumpTrump. IDGAF about the WINNING the medal the story. Only HATE. Hate Orange Man. What Olympics??? That’s THEIR headlines. STOP!

    “House Dem Brought Illegal Alien To State Of The Union, Then Protected Him From Law Enforcement

    Anyone BUT the people of that nation. Whether French, English, American…

    Abooot the Internets: “I just found out about parts of another bill before Canada’s Parliament, C-15, which would instantly destroy the rule of law in Canada: namely, the amendments to the Red Tape Reduction Act, which allow the cabinet to exempt any individual or organization from nearly any law, in secret. All in all, this is looking like a very bad time for Canada…” Apparently there are three other bills doing worse but more openly, and all look able to pass.

    “Haiphong: USS Ford” Does it not occur to anyone that this is all made up? Either not happening (seems difficult) or done on purpose? Last time this was set up, a supporting tanker ran aground in open seas. And other times as well.

    If it’s BAD and we can HATE the United States, that fact is, of course, perfectly true. If it’s normal or helps the U.S., the fact is False. Logic is perfectly simple as it is utterly retarded and deranged. Don’t just take the fact, people.

    Same with F35. You think they don’t SALT how bad it is, incapable of moving, to suck China/Russia into a war because we’re so weak? We’re so weak like WWII, Pearl Harbor, when suddenly, Lo! Then a miracle happened and we DID have lots of things on the shelf. We HAD cracked the code and had a infinity back door to all Japanese intel.

    No? Okay, is today a day we have Space Planes and have had them for 30 years? We say we do regularly. Then we don’t. We have lasers since 1970, there’s a CHILD on YouTube who builds them that will burn through concrete blocks. Off the shelf, Amazon components. But the U.S. Military in 60 years doesn’t have one. …But they also do. Because they SAY they do, we see them used from time to time. Jewish Space Lasers over orbit in Tehran? Why the actually WOULDN’T we? …But you see, that doesn’t allow us to HATE. HateHateHate the U.S., etc.

    So IF we get in a war, you think they have Sunburn missiles, sure! I’m not saying they don’t. BUT WE HAVE SOMETHING TOO. Like the claims of the sound weapons in Caracas. We’ve had that also for 30 years, but it wasn’t authorized for mainstream til now. A GENERATION we hid that on the shelf.

    STOP LOVING HATE. It’s destroying your thinking. We have stuff; they have stuff. “The Enemy gets to vote too.” We get to plan and act: THEY get to plan and act too. Okay, you’ve internalized, IF we want(ed) to conquer Russia, Russia gets to vote and act too. Good. Now expand: IF Russia, Iran, sinks our ships, WE ALSO GET TO STOP THEM. And we’re not telling you everything we’re up to. Duh. Everyone has secret hardware they’re not saying, and a LOT of it. We HAVE space planes, and weapons in orbit. We HAVE defense lasers. Who knows if it will work, just saying if you take the consensus, only what is not admitted (again the above ‘secret’ weapons are all admitted) but like Wikipedia, Texas Honkytonk Miller Light known and admitted. Like it’s only real and we calculated if the very DUMBEST, no-information citizens believe it. No. OBVIOUSLY.

    So stop generating your war scenarios that “We have nothing” and “They have everything.” That’s exactly how you suck the other guy into a war.

    Try again? We flew Iran with the B2 from MISSOURI, were unseen and bombed whatever we liked. Now the LOCAL fact was, we chose to hit nothing, with nothing – a different and OTHER level of lie. But the point was the DEMONSTRATION. That we have things Iran wasn’t aware of and has to think about. And the ground MANPADs aren’t going to hit that.

    Iran did the same to us: apparently scrambling all electronics right at the border. They couldn’t tell if they were radar-locked or not, but probably. That’s our job, then that’s their job. Fair.

    I keep hearing from Asian Guys, EVVVVERYONE has everything and we ALONE of all people in the world, have literally nothing. Yup! Then everyone nods their heads. The U.S. Military spent what, a Quadrillion dollars? Fitts says? And we inventing LITERALLY NOTHING that we’re keeping secret. Honest!

    WHAT. Is coming out of your mouths? Can Iran beat us, hold us off? Probably, but that’s not the point of this discussion. We also KNOW Iran can hold us off, and there’s no gain there to begin with. The error is that HATE. The U.S. must always be stupid and lose, can never hit any target, ever like Stormtroopers because: Hate. The enemy, whoever that is this minute, must always be perfect goodness and light, like China, and always wins with no casualties at all, because: Hate. Stop.

    F35 trainers – they know all our everything, to infinity knowledge. STOP! And you think we didn’t SALT all that with fake info? I’m not saying that definitely happened, just that OF COURSE we do that to them all the time. Just as they do it to us all the time. But because HATE, we are sure whatever we do is stupid and whatever they do is awesome. Is it? That’s all I’m asking.

    Okay, so this happened, like the USS Ford, then we use it and tell Israel we can’t do this today. Awwwww. Man, all you guys will be so sad! You WANT the war. When Trump has no war, you’ll call the world’s biggest victory lap, saying he lost. Did he? Doesn’t A TANKER RUNNING AGROUND IN OPEN SEAS seem kinda suspicious to you? Never happened before. Only that one day. Huh. Same thing here.

    Wes: “I noticed that none of the above videos even mentions the logical fact that maybe Trump is trying to prove to the Israeli warmongers, that the US no longer has the military power to [attack] Iran” Thank you.

    “Americans training Chinese pilots is a perverse way to prevent a future war between the US and China” Exactly, thank you. I get tired being out here all alone.

    Antikytheria: an Aussie called “Clickspring” does this on YouTube with the period tools, which he also makes by hand. This demonstrates that at a minimum, there was a large and stable industry somewhere (he named the island) to gather, develop, and transmit this knowledge over time. That means how many? Anti-K’s must have been made per year at your base minimum? And none are found? That’s the bottom number. So that Greek workshop was the only on the planet? That seems unlikely. So what’s the top number?

    Okay, let’s expand that. There was a modern, industrial-sized grain mill in Barbegal, France, 300AD. Like mill for 30,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbegal_aqueduct_and_mills Okay, so ONE mill. And so you have how many WAGONS, roads to move that in and out? We don’t have railroads. And this was the ONLY one in all Europe? Uh, no. And this wasn’t the height of Rome, but built during “the collapse”? Yeah, well, you can rethink everything you know then. There were hundreds of them, then, there was essentially modern traffic all over Europe and the Mediterranean like bus routes (proven elsewhere). From all 300BC or earlier. And then it DIDN’T collapse like we pretend. Just made up. Arch. sites in England show lavish Villas finer than anything today 100AD, 200, 300, 400, 500AD…??? Like it doesn’t seem to stop. (This looks like another cold climate collapse) So “Rome” rose…from what? They were already modern and making antiKytheria watches daily. Then never fell at all were doing same-size industrial projects and traffic centuries after Pop Culture claims, but rotated out into something else. So…we know all that is a lie. A breathtaking, wicked, transparent, idiotic lie. But everything about the Middle Ages was true? How about the 1950s? Yeah, no.

    February 27, 2026 at 12:42 pm #232368
    Topcat
    Participant

    Biden FBI Investigated Susie Wiles and Kash Patel Phone Records

    So why the phuck is Jack Smith not in shackles?

    Can’t answer that one?

    That’s why you’re part of the problem.

    Patel only acts on something that went after him personally.

    Did you know the DOW is at 50,000?

    February 27, 2026 at 1:06 pm #232378
    Topcat
    Participant

    Trump is brillant at getting elected.

    Not the same as good at governing.

    When the Demonrats say they are going to crucify him when they get back in office, I believe them.

    They will make their ‘enemies’ bleed from their ears and their assholes.

    And when Trump bloviated during the campaign about the weaponized DOJ and how they will be held accountable, gas from his ass.

    Trump hasn’t hardly laid a glove on Jack Smith or the legions of DOJ flunkies or the hundreds of scumbag FBI agents who actively acted against him and those around him.

    Patel firing ten agents is a luke warm bucket of spit = LWBS, a joke.

    What has Trump done about Gen Flynn’s conspirators?

    Nada

    What about prosecuting the redacted Epstein perps, you know, instead of showing the victims names?

    Again, nothing but crickets.

    And where are the arrests for the MASS MURDER from the Covid Plot?

    Nothing from Trump about that, not a peep.

    Fauci just flip the Orange Man the finger and laughs.

    Operation Warp Speed

    February 27, 2026 at 1:10 pm #232381
    WES
    Participant

    Happy Birthday Raul!

    I never knew your Birthday date, until today!
    But being male, we often wish nobody notices that it is our Birthday.
    Why do the women always remind us we are getting older, by insisting we celebrate our birthdays?
    So, we will pretend today is just another day in February.

    February 27, 2026 at 1:10 pm #232382
    Topcat
    Participant

    February 27, 2026 at 1:41 pm #232388
    WES
    Participant

    G. Ford:

    OK, someone flushed a T-shirt down the sewage system clogging up the vacuum valves on the ship!
    Only someone familiar with hydraulic systems would know that something soft and flexible like a T-shirt would wreak more havoc on hydraulic valves than a solid object ever would.
    So, maybe an inside job?

    OK, so what did the T-shirt say?
    Was it a right or left T-shirt?
    Was it a war or anti-war T-shirt?
    Or maybe just an oh shit no toilet paper T-shirt?
    People want to know!

    Gold Metals:

    Gold metals are mostly silver, not gold!
    Just Gold plated silver!
    So, why does everybody get so excited about winning a gold plated silver metal?

    So, you only won a silver metal?
    Let me help you turn it into a gold metal!
    There, happy?!

    February 27, 2026 at 1:43 pm #232390
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Two weeks of American flag versus 50 weeks of Israel flag that we’re under?
    Dismal record one would say.

    February 27, 2026 at 1:55 pm #232392
    WES
    Participant

    Kultsommer:

    You don’t suppose, it was actually an Israeli flag, errr T-shirt, that got flushed down the toilet on the G. Ford?

    It is mostly white, you know!

    February 27, 2026 at 2:02 pm #232395
    Topcat
    Participant

    An Olympic medal in 2026 weights approx 16+ ounces

    An ounce of gold today = $5,195.62

    So if an Olympic “Gold” metal was actually real Gold it would be worth approx = $83,000+

    Not-gonna-happen

    February 27, 2026 at 2:09 pm #232397
    Topcat
    Participant

    USS Gerald Ford officially has the biggest Poop Deck in Naval History

    Mission Accomplished!

    Selling War and WMD with a smile and a Codpiece

    February 27, 2026 at 2:19 pm #232399
    John Day
    Participant

    A human pawn: House Dem Brought Illegal Alien To State Of The Union, Then Protected Him From Law Enforcement https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-democrat-brought-illegal-alien-state-union-then-protected-him-law-enforcement

    February 27, 2026 at 2:23 pm #232401
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Today: What’s going on in Iran? Essentially the people who have NOT be wrong, 99% of the time (who are very few) feel that the deal was already done, inked ages ago. And it’s going to be similar, larger, more complicated version of Venezuela. Where, AGAIN, there was NO REGIME CHANGE. The same people are in charge and there are NO AMERICANS in the country. Everyone “just says” we invaded, had a war, did regime change, and all that oil is ours. Not a word of that is true. For the love of Christmas, just LOOK.

    The problems are several: FIRST, yes, details about pretending Iran’s leadership changed. “Reformed”, whatever. That’s window dressing but important. Second is how to TELL the technocrats, etc inside Iran this happened, without telling them the whole world is made up of stupid, secret, backroom deals and everything they believed about nations, patriotism, is a lie. So they need sum dum cover story.

    Third, they are going to blow up all their own internal traitors and spies, IRGC, QUDS, etc. They will arrange for US to have done it, or else do it themselves and claim it was us. IDGAF. Good. Get MI6 and these dopes out wherever they are found.

    They have to sell this to Israel, like last time. Israel LOVED it, they like Trump better than anyone in Israeli government. That’s WITH them getting blown to pieces by Iran, they STILL like Trump. Go fig. Trump is the only one looking for peace at all, anywhere. The only one having peace talks, that’s why he’s evil and bad m-kay? So Bannon says. So this is touchy but seems possible. All they have to do is make s—t up and LOOK like they hit something. The last bombing was totally fake and they bought it so why not?

    OBVIOUSLY actual MI6/Derp State isn’t fooled, which is why they immediately forget there was ever any war, and told/had their media “Just Act” like the 12 Day War never happened. Which you all also do every day. Same with Venezuela. MI6 wanted us pinned down and Trump to lose with the Ground Invasion Bannon demanded there. So we didn’t. You dope. SO THEY JUST REPORT WE DID ANYWAY. Same as J6, the largest single mass-death event in world history!!! …And here’s the amazing part: everyone just act like a GIGANTIC WAR that never, ever happened. .. Just DID happen. Talk to people, their brains are formed, act, conclude as if this happened. Geez, can we report “Aliens Land” or “Fluffy Scottie Dogs took over Lithuania” would they believe us too? Probably. If you had an Asian Guy say it. (Technically, non-Asian, Non-Guy)

    Last, we have the AFTER party. Russia, China, us, what do you WANT Iran to look like and do when all this is over? Obviously whatever screws MI6 and the Derp State mostest, but like, how much oil, how many reactors, who protects the transit routes, on what security, whatever. And this is a big, complex negotiation.

    So that’s it. That’s my take on it, and again, NOTHING HAPPENED. Over and over, they report Millions, BILLIONS!!!! of men are invading, TRILLIONS of deaths!!!! Not a single man visited Iran. Not a single shot was fired this whole time. Iran lit up and outed the whole color revolution crews and settled down. Half the hardware was blown up, there are less missiles and bullets than ever.

    Everyone is mad. They hate it when Trump doesn’t have the war, so just report than he did. They hate winning and report that he’s losing. They hate that Iran clearing out internally will cause peace and report war. Why? Why do you hate winning and will stab anyone you see to take that Black Pill?

    “the American people OVERWHELMINGLY approve of President Trump’s State of the Union Speech.”

    Same here. I dunno and wouldn’t make too much of it, but the NORMAL PEOPLE, the ones not driven insane by HATE, are like, “Hey that sounds pretty good and normal to me”?

    ““[Trump] has been playing y’all like a fiddle for 11 years now, and you still can’t beat him. DAMN!”

    Yes, because HATE. If it’s HATE, they will never let it go, and sit, stand, amputate a thousand children, repatriate ten-thousand rapists, whatever they have to do to protect HATE. Okay then. This is like only his third Pass-play, but you can’t seem to figure it out, we’ll keep using it. JUST PRETEND. Like you used to. PRETEND you don’t hate every American and want us all dead. Just LIE!!! Here, I’m telling you to your face, and still can’t do it. Even knowing it’s smarter and will win. Can’t let go the HATE. Good.

    “Trump Report Card (John Stossel)

    It’s extremely hard to calculate. There are a few more jobs, inflation dead stop. Housing still too high, then drug prices come down, some other industry is unfrozen. Probably if there weren’t non-stop lies in reporting, this would all be pleasant, modest, good. But that IS his fault. It’s his job to get that message out and not foreign policy stuff that’s pissing everybody off(actual MAGA Americans, the left is unreachable). Guess? He wants/needs this to happen and be settled early. MI6 needs to prevent him from doing this to bugger his midterms. K. But what he’ll do is one day very suddenly talk only about Domestic Wins before the Left can react and respond. Those things ARE happening. I mean, no thanks to every Republican in Congress, but some. And he CAN successfully campaign on them. He will also take visible actions he’s been delaying – not needing the additional heat right now.

    Meh. I don’t like it but I understand it. It’s boring, normal stuff. Wish it were faster, but we’ve come far and it’s easy to see how many thousand more enemies he has (Fox, Bannon, TPUSA, Johnson, MTG, etc) than we thought. Like how Farage was outed as a Pence-like figure, existing only to corral the English people into fatal Blairism (as they’re calling it) on the Right-hand side. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dw9B3VnH1XA All the BASE, root assumptions remained intensely atheistic, anti-English, erase of nation state, worldwide Elite globalist (socialism) but slower. Exactly the same as our GOP here. For example, He is against deporting a single person. And Farage is the “far right”. Yeah, um, “Those words don’t mean what you think they mean”. And he tried to fabricate evidence to get HIS OWN PARTY arrested and jailed for felonies. (Lowe) All made up. If that’s HIS OWN CABINET, imagine his view on law and rights for average citizens. Yeah: same here. Same RINOs almost without exception. That’s why he’s a good example.

    So as each enemy is outed, thousand by thousand, we suddenly understand why he moved so slow. If they have a Billion dollars to activate rioters to kill THEMSELVES in Minnesota, in January – and this is the LOW level activity, you can only image what happens if he arrests everyone. “But DADDY! I WANT A PONY!!!”

    Must be nice when you don’t have to do any work except criticize. Must be nice.

    “• Biden FBI Investigated Susie Wiles and Kash Patel Phone Records (CTH)

    NYT says this was totally legit, up and up, a witch hunt. The FBI should always be wiretapping Presidents and political citizens with no viable, visible cases against them. NYT also reports this was so normal and up and up, sooper-clean, THEY HID ALL THE RECORDS. Boy if that doesn’t say “I know what I’m doing is legal and right” I don’t know what does!

    I’m not picking a side. I’ve given up on that. All I have to do is use YOUR argument, YOUR facts, to point out how what YOU think and say is a lie. You hid it. YOU think what you did was wrong. I’m not saying one way or the other, just you. If you knew this was wrong, why did you do it? Why is firing someone who themselves believes they committed crimes a bad thing?

    “should have been fired for cause on Day One! 40 FBI agents

    Yes, but we need them there to activate and see their rat-lines. Same as Lighting up Antifa money in MN. I know it sucks, but use your head.

    “mostly perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community,”

    This is also sort of false but he can’t bring up the additional levels right now. Really they’re too dumb to air drop in, not speak the language, and flawlessly fill out all the paperwork, legal shells, and dodge all money-laundering through Wall St banks to wire-transfer billions back home. Do you think I’m a moron? Well they actually are. No, they are just meat-holders, all fronts for CIA and other forces. Who? Well, expand your view: how do we have 10M Indians air-drop in Ontario who all somehow have the same amazing, secret, illegal, skill set? Yes, these are all openly trained, in classrooms, how to do this, over seas. MI6 trains them for a few months, injects them into a well-honed (local, mafia, insurgency) system they’ve been developing for 200 years. None of it is natural, nothing is organic. It’s not “Fraud” it’s a military Op.

    “• Arming Ukraine With Nukes: Western Elites Have ‘Lost Touch With Reality’ (RT)

    So it’s an odd-numbered day, is America considered the “West” today? Trump is violently pro-war in Ukraine? BothNeitherAi? Okay then why is it only Britain and France (allegedly, and actually) providing any nuke to Kiev and not HIMARs and F22s? Ohhhh. So that answers itself, doesn’t it, Alex. Now what does that mean?

    This will sound crazy, but is it any crazier than knowing England openly and with every tool at their disposal – possibly including assassinations – tried to topple U.S. elections? 2, 3 times? Promethean Action has the papers and quotes from them; every member of that team, Steele, etc, were all MI6, and Starmer personally ordered everyone in UK Government to go rig the U.S. election, they all got on planes, and did.

    Maybe – bear with me here – they are our ENEMY? Gasp! Dun dun dun!

    Okay, so NEXT: that’s fun and entertaining, ever-so-witty to SAY sir. So? So what makes you think Europe won’t NUKE AND DIRTY BOMB US TOO? WE are their enemy, remember? We AND Russia. There are prophesies on this (I’d have to search them) but no one could understand them when they came out in the ‘80s. And ones on King Charles. There was no THINKABLE condition where France, England, would ally with China to nuke us as exists now.

    WHY would they not? Can you think of a single reason, cause I can’t. The only thing keeping England from nuking us – which they already are with color revolutions in Minnesota, that is, on the porous, secessionary border with Crown Canada, is that they have a vague, distant hope they can get help from the U.S. again and knock out Trump. Or they would have nuked us years ago. …And you all wonder “Why doesn’t be move faster? Why doesn’t he “just tell” Europe and everyone the truth and leave? Well I dunno what city you live in but personally I like mine better without Cesium 136. And you have to put up with some minor frustrations over 30 year old cases, boo-hoo. You want 500,000 ppl dead in 30 minutes? These guys aren’t fooling around, you already know that. They already murdered several million Americans in the Drug War alone. No one cares, they aren’t really people real humans, because they are “Americans” and many are “White” so their deaths are not deaths but “a good start.”

    RE-position your mind: EUROPE will bomb US, the United States. And will commence shortly, we will see them build the weapons now. Using assets they steal from us like Twitter, etc.

    “• US Demands Iran Dismantle Its 3 Main Nuclear Sites In Hours-Long Talks (ZH)

    The talks just waste time. They are meant to be plausible. We can point at them: “Can’t bomb yet, we’re talking!!” Etc. Blah blah. In reality they’re outflanking the warmongers. Iran knows this, WE know this, even the NeoCons know this, but they can’t DO anything about it because they need it to appear plausible to the American people, who already think they’re lunatics. Go ahead and TELL us to bomb, Lindsay: You’ll just undermine your whole movement, with Tucker running interviews broadsiding you. This whole line depends on on being the good guy.

    “• Epstein Rushed Evidence Into Secret Storage Unit Before Raid (ZH)

    Release 3M files but still having scandals that STILL!!! keep it in the news. It’s going perfectly. So long as “Trump’s fault” “Orange Man Bad” people will continue to care. Kash is placed to misbehave so more scandal can come out. Love it. Get the files and Kash too. All bait. Meanwhile, on the hill, Trump has merely set it in motion and can mostly ignore it. He knows he’s not in the files or you all would be reading me those pages right now.

    Jeffy-Wolfe discussed this in 2017 that they had bupkis on Trump, and how to make it seem they had something. That’s very, VERY late. If you have something, quote it.

    ““The major thing is that we’re looking for truth, for the survivors, and justice and accountability, and that’s something that cuts across party lines,” Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin told The Hill. “At least on the Democratic side, we have said that anybody who was involved in criminal activity should pay the price for it.” Comer said”

    Hahahahahaha! Hehehhehehehehe! Leg-slappin’, head scratchin’. Oh, you’re SERIOUS? Man that’s even funnier! Again, Newt brought this up in public in 1999. 27 years ago. EVERYONE had all the files EVERY DAY since then. ALL agencies, since it’s IMPOSSIBLE FBI, DoJ, CIA, USSS, Wall Street…Unilever (above) didn’t all have them. Florida State Police, Sheriffs, AZ State Police, Local police, Border Patrol, DEA, FAA….

    Nobody knewd Nuffin!!

    ““US lawmakers say Justice Department ‘appears to have’ withheld Epstein files related to Trump”

    Keeping it in the news! Never stop! You guys are awesome! So…Trump did this…everyone in government KNEW he did this, (above) and NOBODY EVER SAID Before. Riiiiiiiight. They did everything BUT this to stop his election, BOTH because they had this all along AND because “He’s one of them” which is why they need to STOP him from being elected and assassinate him monthly. Riiiiiight. Go on.

    “some “unknown Claude user” simply made up “Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and determining ways to automate data theft.”

    50 years of this. Yet they still put everything on computer, attached to the Internet. Yeah, that’s a feature, not a bug. Microsoft having EVERY flaw, such that even f-ing NOTEPAD doesn’t work and can full-access hack, is a FEATURE. They want it or else they would be mad about it. Even a little. Have two systems, and have a guy with sneakers move a USB drive between them when you want to move data. Done in one. That’s if you use computers at all, because: why? They’ve been getting worse for 50 years. They already certainly cost more than an office full of typewriters with smart employees. Also every piece of data inside those computers is wrong. If you patch it, it will re-propigate the errors. They then make critical decisions based on entirely false data so it matters not if AI does it or a human.

    “Legalizing 500,000 aliens in one fell swoop is more then Spain can handle.

    The only thing they care about is making sure the Spanish have no homeland to call their own. Everything else is a means to this end.

    “Iran WILL NOT SURRENDER:” MacGregor has a riveting observation since 500BC. Thanks Doug. You’re a living miracle. Where do you come up with it? Naturally, this means America is landing with 2 million men and will occupy the place, because there are zero such men in theater, or indeed anywhere on earth.

    Such are psychotic fever dreams!

    Since a cow is not going to jump over the moon, and Merlin will not rise tomorrow to save England, anyone thought about having a discussion about what might ACTUALLY happen there? Like, using REASON?

    ““If the US strikes Tehran, then IRGC Will test its first nuclear capabilities during war.”

    But! But! Iran has no nukes and no nuclear program! So they’re going to use a nuke they don’t have, because we shouldn’t attack them, because they don’t have it! Look – I given up trying to know. I’m just pointing out what YOU say now. Iran has/Not-have nukes and Will/Won’t use them. Logic. Reality.

    “Israel sent boxes to Gaza containing Palestinians ‘skulls, women’s bodies’

    Yes, those “boxes” are called “Coffins” and shipping them to their resting place happens every day in every town on the planet? Nice.

    “the replacement of Zelensky is close to finalization…” Again, Doctorow, logical, rational conclusion we expect will be proven correct like many others. Hard to tell when every fact is questionable and everything is hidden.

    February 27, 2026 at 2:27 pm #232402
    WES
    Participant

    Topcat:

    Well, one thing aircraft carriers have going for them, is their flat deck top makes hosing down all the ship’s poop, really easy!

    February 27, 2026 at 2:34 pm #232403
    Topcat
    Participant

    An interesting tidbit from Whitney Webb

    “Carbyne, the Israeli intelligence linked (and probable front) company that Epstein helped fund and guide along with Ehud Barak and Peter Thiel, now runs and controls the 911 emergency systems throughout numerous states and counties in the US.

    [How odd]

    Their initial software descriptions revealed that they harvest tons of data from phones that call into those 911 call systems and store that information, previously touting they would use it for pre-crime-style functionality.

    You may be outraged about the Epstein files and the Epstein cover-up, but you should also be investigating how nothing practical is being done to dismantle what Epstein helped build.

    This foreign company should be nowhere near essential US services, but it continues to rack up local contracts.

    I wrote about it first in 2019 but recent releases have revealed more of the comms and intent between Barak, Thiel and Epstein.

    That’s some ‘surprise party’ you got there…

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