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February 11, 2026 at 10:54 am #230604
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterHenri Matisse The Blue Window 1913 • Trump Called Police About Epstein in 2006 (Weiss) • Epstein Files: Victims Buried at Zorro Ranch? (Catherine Salg
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 11 2026]February 11, 2026 at 12:55 pm #230620Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 11, 2026 at 1:32 pm #230622zerosum
ParticipantBillionaire owner of Ambassador Bridge met Trump official hours before Gordie Howe Bridge post: NYT report
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CTVNews.ca Staff
Updated: February 10, 2026 at 8:23PM ESTAfter a direct call between Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump, attention is now turning to what comes next for the Gordie Howe International Bridge.
Carney said he told Trump that Canada paid “over $4 billion” for the bridge’s construction, and that ownership is shared with the state of Michigan, calling the project a “great example of co-operation” between the two countries.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that the Detroit-based billionaire owner of the Ambassador Bridge met with a White House official just hours before Trump posted his threat to halt the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge.
Also, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is pushing back against the president’s social media threats, saying the Gordie Howe Bridge was made with “union labour” on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.
Matthew Moroun, whose family has operated the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, Mich., for decades, met with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick just hours before U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block the opening of the nearby Gordie Howe International Bridge, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Sources told The Times that Lutnick spoke with Trump by phone about the matter after the meeting with Moroun. The president would post his threats about not allowing the bridge to open just before 6 p.m. ET on Monday.
The Moroun family has made numerous efforts to stop the construction of another bridge between Windsor and Detroit. Matthew’s father, Manuel “Matty” Moroun, who died in 2020, publicly appealed to Trump during his first term in 2018 to revoke a presidential permit that former U.S. president Barack Obama granted to greenlight construction of the Gordie Howe Bridge.
February 11, 2026 at 1:48 pm #230623those darned kids
Participant“He uses Canadians as toys.”
toys get played with, tools get hammered.
February 11, 2026 at 1:50 pm #230624Clueless Honky
ParticipantRaul,
I just want to celebrate your return. It’s now been over a week of daily TAE posts.
So glad you’re back and providing this forumFebruary 11, 2026 at 1:51 pm #230625zerosum
ParticipantPreparation for a New Strike is Complete
Zelensky Suddenly “For Peace” & Elections
MS 2026.02.11
————February 11, 2026 at 2:29 pm #230626Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 11, 2026 at 2:35 pm #230627Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 11, 2026 at 3:25 pm #230628Michael Reid
ParticipantTaiwan may be moving towards China
February 11, 2026 at 3:32 pm #230629zerosum
ParticipantEconomic Coercion by, Marco Rubio, USA
Cuba is reaching ‘breaking point’ as fuel shortage worsens. What to know
Cuba is reaching ‘breaking point’ as fuel shortage worsens. What to know
By Sean Boynton Global News
Posted February 10, 2026 1:22 pmCuba had been weathering economic hardship before U.S. President Donald Trump effectively cut off oil shipments to the island by blockading its chief supplier, Venezuela, and threatening tariffs on any country that stepped in to fill the void.
After the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in early January, Trump predicted Cuba’s government was “ready to fall” next.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators at a hearing late last month that “we would love to see a change” in the regime, but added the U.S. wouldn’t “make” that change.
Cuba had been weathering economic hardship before U.S. President Donald Trump effectively cut off oil shipments to the island by blockading its chief supplier, Venezuela, and threatening tariffs on any country that stepped in to fill the void.
After the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in early January, Trump predicted Cuba’s government was “ready to fall” next.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators at a hearing late last month that “we would love to see a change” in the regime, but added the U.S. wouldn’t “make” that change.
Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants with deep ties to Miami’s Cuban community, told the U.S. Senate foreign relations committee on Jan. 28 that Cuba’s economic problems are the fault of the government’s decades of mismanagement.
“The suffering in the rural areas of Cuba are acute and they’re deep, and it’s not because of the embargo. It’s because they don’t know how to run an economy,” he said.
“How is it the fault of the U.S. embargo that Cuba, one of the world’s largest sugar producers, now imports sugar? Because no sector of their society works. It’s frozen and it’s broken.”
The White House has labelled Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the U.S. due to the communist nation’s alliances with Russia, China and Iran.Trump’s Venezuelan oil blockade, and his Jan. 29 order that countries will face tariffs if they supply oil to Cuba, has further compounded the pain the country is facing.
Diaz-Canel has imposed emergency measures including shorter workweeks and school days, limited transport between provinces and fuel rationing for essential services.
“I know we are going to live through difficult times. But we will overcome them together, with creative resilience,” he said during a rare press conference on Feb. 5 where he told residents they must “sacrifice” and “resist.”
February 11, 2026 at 3:32 pm #230630Dr. D
Participant
You look like a monster. Nailed it.
“Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement”
Huh? Shapiro is MAGA?
“ In an interview with David Remnick, Ben Shapiro discusses his break with figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, and why he condemns President Trump as corrupt yet sticks with him.” The New Yorker
Oh right. Nope. Shapiro is exclusively Israel, and shoved down our throats. When USAID was shut off, suddenly his viewers collapsed! So strange! He had to sell everything, move into a closet and is still falling! The “New Yorker” doesn’t notice. “Noticing things” is racist.
“Ukraine Launching Arms Exports At Centers Across Europe
They keep saying they’re going to build major arms factories in Ukraine. They keep “Not noticing” that Russia will giggle themselves into hiccups bombing them flat they day after they open. Noticing you’re a retard is racist.
Noticing that you’re not going to run that arms factory on a Honda generator because you have no electric grid is racist. Europe’s going to win this, actually. And Greenland too. With their twelve guys.
Speaking of, this is our future:
Totally plausible, glossy presentation of Elon v EU war. With names, dates, presentation. Except it’s all AI, not a word of it happened. (yet). Thankfully they gave specific dates or I would have got up and looked for this in the news. Every day this will happen more often, until…?
“US No Longer Wants To Pursue Its Own Ukraine Peace Proposal, Kremlin Charges
“In Anchorage, we accepted the United States’ proposal…”Oh absolutely. Too bad we have nothing to do with it. If Mongolia also agreed to the terms it would ALSO have no effect. Because the only two countries are 1) Ukraine and 2) Europe, neither of which were interested. …As everyone expected, but needed to see play out for their fee-fees.
Thankfully now everyone can go around us now and we can do something useful and relevant for a change. We tried! Call all the peace teams home: Alex Christophoros is going to solve it all now, on his way to Mars.
“DHS Shutdown Talks Stall As Democrats Reject GOP Offer, Thune Signals Stopgap May Be Needed
They have passed 5(?) laws and have prevented the seating of 90(?) prosecutors? “Well, my work here is done.” — The Republican Party.
“Zuckerberg Follows Billionaire Exodus To Florida As California Pushes New Wealth Tax
Radically Pro-Communist…until the wealthy are taxed. Then Oopsie!!! It didn’t mean ME! I meant the really RICH people, like (looks around…)
“Macron Reopens Direct Channel With Putin As He Moves To Counter Trump
Da Fuq? “Manny takes the field in the 4th quarter with 2 minutes to go, because the other guy has been out there the entire game playing (And granted only made 14 points)”. Wow, great counter! What’s your chess like? Leave the room for the first hour until four pieces are left?
R. Gouviea, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6n2o1t11DMQ
So much here, as usual, he is a blow-by-blow channel.All the things in Georgia, all leviathan, thousands of different scams piled on, everyone saw one step in it, dozens of witnesses report them. Nothing happens.
MN, No one has the “Master List”. They won’t let it out. Now they say because they are “Editing” the Master List. Ohhhhh! Then it’s not a “master list”, is it?
Get copies of “A list” accidentally one county lets to through to election rep (MN, R) TWENTY PERCENT of Omar’s county is being challenged. That is the largest in Minnesota, obviously. Not the only one. So that is ONE district of ONE method of fraud. But there’s no fraud in Minnesota! We Leared that.
So they are locking out the Federal oversight, naturally. As they are editing the lists, the list the Minnesota themselves are not allowed to see is sent out to private contractors for repair. They can see all the names and edit them, the Federal Govt is not. All this is official record. All Congress, Thune, say this is no problem, no SAVE Act, with 80% of the people wanting Some sort of ID. But this is Congress: all the other NON-CITIZENS there are ALSO against voter integrity, and that includes the dual-Israeli ones, although they’re generally more clever.
Very likely Ilhan Omar was naturalized under false pretenses and committed immigration fraud by the hundreds thereafter. Some of the other examples can barely speak English. They are all against the Constitution and law, of course. But not all: Merkowski from Alaska wants us not to know or care if they’re citizens.
Tiny sample of immeasurable problems (London and the Globalists) have created for us, planting land mines from sea to sea. Listen to the whole thing, but why? What are my action steps?
“Lavrov’s message
The USSA is not our partner for peace: It is our Enemy”Odd since Putin’s message seems to be the Opposite. But no one trusts Putin. Putin is an idiot now. Glee for Russia if there is HATE, and winning, but opposing Russia and calling them stupid if it interrupts your HATE. Shrug. Can’t say it’s doing much for your strategic accuracy. Suit yourself.
New Sachs-Diesen. I shouldn’t have clicked, every minute I get dumber. 1) Things happened in 1890. 2) Trump is being honest 3) This is bad. Sachs hates that we’ve ending the lying; the lying should continue.
Trump = Teddy Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. Everyone knows that. 2026 = 1954. Obviously.
“Trump asked: ‘Since you all want me to interfere, why don’t I just invade Venezuela? That’s what you all want, right?’
‘No no no!! They all said, ‘That’s all wrong! We all want to DENY we’re ACTUALLY invading Venezuela’
‘Oh’ Trump nodded. ” …This asking of simple questions and “noticing things” is very, very very bad. The only thing worse than Asking Questions is telling the Truth, according to Sachs. That’s not what good university people like him do. It’s what Vulgar Construction workers from Brooklyn like Trump do.
Then Trump wakes up one day, “Just says” Random Guido is President of Venezuela ackshully, according to Sachs. There are of course no other men, forces in all North America which is occupied by only one man. Sachs can’t be arsed to “Ask questions” or “Know things” like a common construction worker.
He continues, Trump then turns to ALL the UN, ALL international law, ALL other nations on earth. …Who all kneel and with glowing enthusiasm suck our…but nevermind, this is a family show. The fact that they would all obey utter violation of all norms ever, without hesitation or resistance, is the United State’s fault of course. Not one of all 60 countries have a single person with a single mouth. Nope. There is not one lawyer in any of these countries, and zero in the UN, which has no diplomats and no typewriters. They had no choice but to rob Venezuela WITH us, you see! Yup. According to Sachs.
That’s what their law – of the entire planet – is worth. Sachs is furious Trump exposed that. It’s Trump’s fault, all 60 nations combined couldn’t have basically created the very same BRIICS we have today, and exhibit the same independence we see occurring today. It’s IMPOSSIBLE to have morals, Sachs says. If morals cost anything – even a sternly-written letter – then OBVIOUSLY you cave. These 60 nations combined with double the population and double the GDP of the United States CLEARLY could not have lifted a finger. Don’t you understand?
Orange Man SAID something: we were all perfectly helpless innocent babes.
Then it was such a horrible, unconscionable act Orange Man committed that NOTHING HAPPENED. Both we did nothing to Venezuela, and Venezuela couldn’t be arsed to like, open a factory and make those naughty oil system parts we embargoed. That would be “Work” and “Socialists” don’t do that. They are helpless tribesmen, carrying spears and eating raw fish in huts. Orange Men are just naturally, genetically superior I guess! That’s Sachs.
And in fact the same NOTHING has happened every day from then to now. Biden also did nothing and more of it. But that was the GOOD nothing. Right now the same government is in Venezuela, more firmly than ever, and 1 Million soldiers are NOT there. Much to Sach’s sadness and regret. HOW DARE YOU DO NOTHING, SIR????
Why, this Nothing = Everything I say!!! All us experts know that!
Those 60 nations are still almost entirely on their knees, helping Orange Man by doing NOTHING as well. They could have raised and trained 100 million man army and constructed 1,000 Intercontinental bombers by now, but raised exactly ZERO because they care Just. That. Much.
You see, there is only ONE nation on the planet called Earth, and only ONE man in that nation. No one else on the planet Dirt has any duties or responsibilities for themselves or others.
And we know this because they all worship and obey Orange Man slavishly all day. What? They don’t? They say he’s bad and they actually oppose him all day? Huh.
…SO LONG AS THEY GET TO POINT AND COMPLAIN AND NEVER DO ANY WORK. While eating bon-bons on the seaside and raking in crumbs from screwing
Africa, Asia, South America,Venezuela too. Funny old world.Probably not halfway through the interview. But then Sachs is the most Global Globalist, the one whose “apologetics” make Globalism more possible than any Spanish Inquisition ever made. He says each of these things, ignoring he was the one Raping Russia in 1999, while I read and watched him help it for money and privilege. Every. Day.
Yes, I was just as appalled and offended then. I didn’t need an Orange Man to wake up to hating Clinton, Bush, and Obama. I did it on general moral principles, and I suggest more people might try it.
February 11, 2026 at 3:38 pm #230631Dr. D
ParticipantCanadian Bridge: Wow, they somehow forgot the mention that only yesterday Canada refused to certify our new plane and grounded the fleet just to dick with us. We can “Not certify” new things too, Mark. And reporters can remain illiterate, moronic, partisan boobs longer than I can remain solvent.
MacGregor – Napolitano If only we’d had such a war a year ago and could tell if it must spiral out of control. Iran is going to nuke us with the nukes they’ve never had, I hear.
Taiwan is China, Xi and all China says. That’s exactly why they are going to attack and nuke themselves, experts say.
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 pm #230633Topcat
ParticipantPatel: “Nothing to see here, move along…..”.
I guess when you’re running an Industrial ‘pizza’ operation…
You need to buy ingredients in bulk
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 pm #230634Topcat
ParticipantHey, even SBRs (semi banana republics) require ID to vote.
Ah’merica isn’t developed enough to even know the difference.
I had to show photo ID as an old grey haired person yesterday to buy a can of beer at the supermarket.
February 11, 2026 at 4:07 pm #230635Michael Reid
ParticipantCrypto stable coin exodus
February 11, 2026 at 4:44 pm #230636Michael Reid
ParticipantPhysical silver shortage
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 pm #230637those darned kids
ParticipantTERROR THREAT – LEVEL FUCHSIA 2!
February 11, 2026 at 5:16 pm #230638Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 11, 2026 at 5:27 pm #230639Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 11, 2026 at 5:46 pm #230640D Benton Smith
Participant“Lavrov’s message
The USSA is not our partner for peace: It is our Enemy”Odd since Putin’s message seems to be the Opposite.
Not odd at all, and fully in accord with what Putin said. Putin said that he (representing Russian interests) had negotiated a peace agreement with Trump (who was representing the interests of Russia’s enemy).
All that Lavrov and Putin are saying now (and they are essentially saying the same thing) is that Russia’s enemies in the West are not agreement capable. That applies now to Trump as well, same as it did to all of the liars who preceded him. Russia knows, and has even publicly stated (diplomatically, of course) that the West is simply not capable of making trustworthy agreements. Okay. That’s just the way it is.
Therefore, Russia will always negotiate in good faith to form legally binding agreement with it’s adversaries and competitors, but it will not expose itself to harm by actually believing that the West would keep its side of the bargain. That ended forever when the West secretly used the Minsk Agreements as a deceptive mask for building Ukrainian forces for the invasion and fragmentation of Russia for the Great Western Empire of Money (Satanists to the last soul).
Russia has made its objectives crystal clear in legally binding writing. Look carefully at what they wrote, and expect it to happen that way, because Russia understands the purpose and use of Law and diplomacy better than most, and will stick to that procedure like glue because in the long run it’s what works best.
February 11, 2026 at 5:54 pm #230641D Benton Smith
ParticipantI guess when you’re running an Industrial ‘pizza’ operation…
You need to buy ingredients in bulk
That’s the darkest sense of humor that I’ve seen in a while, but I have to admit that you just nailed that observation to the door like an indictment.
February 11, 2026 at 5:59 pm #230642Michael Reid
ParticipantCanada Told Trump “We’re Not on the Menu
February 11, 2026 at 7:07 pm #230643Michael Reid
ParticipantCanada Raises Electricity Prices — New York and Boston Face Historic Crisis!
February 11, 2026 at 7:14 pm #230644D Benton Smith
Participant@Michael_Reid
The implications of that video, if true (and they sure look like it) are absolutely world changing. One does not overtly and deliberately reveal to an adversary that you have TOTALLY captured their security services (which Iran just did to the US and Israel in one swoop) unless and until it is time to demand and get that adversary’s unconditional surrender.
We should know soon if that is the case.
I’m re-attaching the video just because it deserves it, and it’s worth watching more than once.
February 11, 2026 at 7:34 pm #230645Michael Reid
ParticipantCanada Just REJECTED Trump’s Craziest Demands Ever — The Fallout Is Already Starting
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 pm #230646Michael Reid
ParticipantFURIOUS Canada RESPONDS STRONGLY to Trump ATTACK
February 11, 2026 at 8:26 pm #230648Michael Reid
ParticipantCarney’s 5-Move Counterattack Is Breaking Trump’s Tariff War
February 11, 2026 at 8:29 pm #230649D Benton Smith
ParticipantCarney is an interesting guy. Evil, but interesting. I don’t see him taking any shit from Trump unless his own handlers tell him to, because on a personal level he isn’t intimidated by the Donald…at…all.
February 11, 2026 at 9:11 pm #230651my parents said know
ParticipantI think you need sulfuric acid to make jerky, right?
/sFebruary 11, 2026 at 10:11 pm #230652Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 11, 2026 at 10:15 pm #230653WES
ParticipantPhoenixvoice: – SNAP
Up here in socialist Canada, we call SNAP’s behavior “Rationing”!
Since demand for “free stuff” is unlimited, governments limit “free stuff”, by demanding that their customers jump through ever more hoops and time delays!They naturally assume you have unlimited time and energy to jump through all of their hoops!
February 11, 2026 at 10:32 pm #230654WES
ParticipantUS – Canada Trade:
Carney, installed by the city of London, WEF, globalists, US congress, etc., is using Canadians as a proxy, just like the Ukraine vs Russia, to battle Trump.
Like Ukrainians, Canadians will pay the price.
Obviously, Canadians are just as stupid, as Ukrainians, for allowing our elites, to use us like cannon fodder for someone else’s war.
So Carney = Zelensky.
Stupid Canadians = Stupid Ukrainians.TPTB don’t give a rat’s ass about what happens to Canadians.
Whatever happens to Canadians, will be well worth the price for TPTB!February 11, 2026 at 10:33 pm #230655Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 11, 2026 at 10:39 pm #230656Michael Reid
Participant@ WES,
When do the Americans invade?
We might invite them in and make them supperFebruary 11, 2026 at 10:48 pm #230657Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 11, 2026 at 11:02 pm #230658Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 11, 2026 at 11:08 pm #230659John Day
ParticipantPre Watergate Secret World https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/pre-watergate-secret-world
Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now.
Do you think “It Can’t Happen Here,” the plot of Sinclair Lewis’s novel about a fascist takeover of America?
The key point of the brilliant exposé by journalist James Rosen, about information which had been sealed for 50 years, is that President Richard Nixon testified under oath that the most serious threat to his presidency came not from political opponents or the media, but from a covert espionage operation run by the U.S. military’s top commanders—the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Rosen takes a long time to present a narrative that sets up the story, but (cut to the chase) here are the core revelations from the newly unsealed seven pages as he reports on the New York Times Oped page (note he is NOT a NYT staffer):
The “Deep State” Was Real and It Was Military: Nixon revealed that Yeoman Charles Radford was part of a systematic spy ring that stole thousands of top-secret documents from the National Security Council (NSC) for over a year and funneled them to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Thomas Moorer. This was an illegal domestic espionage operation within the White House itself.
Nixon Considered It Treasonous but Buried It: Nixon and his aides (Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman) viewed the Moorer-Radford affair as “a federal offense of the highest order” and akin to the plot of Seven Days in May (a novel about a military coup). However, they chose to cover it up to avoid:
Damaging the public image of the U.S. military.
Exposing other secret operations (like the Cambodia bombings or the China opening).
Triggering a constitutional crisis.
The Motive Was Policy Sabotage: The Joint Chiefs spied because they were deliberately excluded from Nixon and Kissinger’s key foreign policy decisions (détente with the USSR and China, Vietnamization, budget cuts). They used stolen information to resist and undermine policies they opposed.
It Directly Connects to Watergate: The “Plumbers” unit was initially formed to plug the leak that exposed this military spying (the Jack Anderson columns about the India-Pakistan war). The illegal activities of the Plumbers, born from this crisis, later metastasized into the Watergate break-in and cover-up.
Nixon’s Warning: In his 1975 testimony, Nixon explicitly warned the prosecutors not to “open that can of worms,” referring to the full story of the Joint Chiefs’ espionage. The prosecutors and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft agreed, classifying and sealing those seven pages to prevent the story from coming out.
In essence, the article argues that the most profound scandal of the Nixon era was not the Watergate burglary itself, but the previously concealed “criminal insubordination” by the nation’s highest military leaders—a true “deep state” operation that Nixon felt powerless to expose. The story draws a direct line from this historical episode to modern political discourse about the “permanent bureaucracy” or “deep state” undermining a sitting president...
..Conclusion on U.S. Military Corruption:
The Moorer-Radford affair reveals a specific, troubling form of corruption: institutional insubordination justified by ideological conviction and protected by claims of national security necessity.
It shows that:
The military is not monolithic—factions with different ideologies can engage in illegal activities to advance their vision.
Checks and balances can fail when civilian leaders fear confronting powerful institutions.
“National security” can become a shield for corruption rather than a genuine concern.
Historical accountability is often selective—the most powerful actors frequently escape consequences.
This case doesn’t suggest the entire military is corrupt, but it demonstrates how even venerable institutions can engage in systematic illegal activity when they perceive existential threats to their influence or worldview. The real corruption may be less about individual venality than about institutional self-preservation and ideological conviction overriding legal and constitutional boundaries.
The lesson isn’t that the military is uniquely corrupt, but that all powerful institutions—military, intelligence, political—require vigorous, transparent oversight and a culture where whistleblowing is protected rather than suppressed. The fact that this scandal remained buried for 50 years is perhaps the most damning evidence of all about how systemic corruption can be hidden.
The Pentagon for decades has refused to supply a financial audit mandated by Congress to tell what it does with the billions of dollars it receives. Money which could be financing the next projected coup. And many of members of Congress, of both parties, who ought to demand the audit are bought by arms dealers. Yes, it can happen here. https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2026/02/did-you-think-it-cant-happen-here-revelations-of-jt-chiefs-of-staff-spy-operation-against-white-house/ Escape Key, Epstein III – The Intelligence Channel
At the centre of the architecture is Ehud Barak — former Prime Minister of Israel, former Defence Minister, the man who held direct authority over Mossad, Aman (military intelligence), and Shin Bet during his time in office.
Running in parallel, the documents reveal a second channel: Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, serving as Britain’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. Together, they gave the operation credentialed access to the intelligence establishments of two Five Eyes nations and one of the most capable intelligence states on earth.
This essay starts slow. It does so to establish the scene. The documents show an operation that required a former Defence Minister, a serving royal trade envoy, former MI6 and Mossad officers, two former US Treasury Secretaries, the head of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, and the chief science adviser to Bill Gates — all routed through Epstein’s email accounts...
..Before 2008, anyone could claim to have met Epstein socially. After the conviction, the registered sex offender was radioactive to every figure with a public reputation. The continued presence of Barak, Summers, Geithner, Gates, Staley, Black, Blankfein, Schwarzman, Frankel, Kissinger, Ruemmler, Thiel, Hoffman, Ito, and Andrew — years after the conviction, with full knowledge of it — requires explanation. These were people with limitless options for social and professional connection, every reason to sever the relationship, and no obvious reason to maintain it.
The conviction served as a filter: it removed casual acquaintances and left only those for whom the operational value outweighed the reputational cost. But it also ensured that public attention remained fixed on the sex crimes — and never reached the intelligence operation running beneath them.
Epstein provided Americans and Europeans with a channel to Barak, and provided Barak — and by extension Israeli intelligence — with visibility into the financial, technological, and policy networks of the Western world. The British channel through Andrew gave visibility into Crown relationships across the Gulf, China, and the Commonwealth. The Rothschild channel gave financial architecture and European banking access.
The function was not unique to the Epstein network. The Podesta emails, released in 2016, appears to document Lynn Forester de Rothschild performing a structurally identical role in the adjacent political network. She is a constant presence in correspondence with Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, organising meetings, shaping economic policy through the ‘Inclusive Capitalism’ initiative, and bridging political operatives to sovereign capital. She emailed Clinton: ‘I remain your loyal adoring pal’.
Ariane de Rothschild served as the connection between the intelligence and financial architecture documented in the Epstein files. Lynn Forester de Rothschild served the same function for the political architecture documented in the Podesta emails. The family’s position at the junction of both networks is visible in two independent archives that were never meant to be read together…
..In 2024, Israel signed a separate deal with Palantir for AI services to help the Israeli military select targets in Gaza — the company whose founder Epstein routed to Barak, whose board Epstein tried to place Barak on, now providing target selection for Israeli military operations.
The British dimension runs through Mandelson. In February 2025, Starmer and Mandelson — then still serving as Ambassador — visited Palantir’s headquarters in Washington for a tour, a question-and-answer session with staff, and a meeting with CEO Alex Karp. The Cabinet Office described it as an ‘informal visit’. Mandelson’s lobbying firm, Global Counsel, listed Palantir as a client. He retained a 21 per cent stake in Global Counsel while serving as Ambassador…
..Denmark and Switzerland have both raised concerns that US intelligence could access data shared with Palantir; Switzerland rejected a deal on those grounds. A paid asset in the Epstein network toured the surveillance company’s headquarters with the Prime Minister, the company embedded itself in British defence and health infrastructure, and the freedom of information requests that might explain the connection have been refused.
The DOJ has released over 6 million pages — 3.5 million in the January 30, 2026 tranche alone — and acknowledged identifying additional responsive material still under review. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche stated that images showing ‘death, physical abuse, or injury’ had been removed. Congress has demanded the remaining names of co-conspirators.
Only 49 per cent of Americans believe the current administration is not attempting to cover up Epstein’s crimes...
..The consequences are still unfolding, but a familiar counter-narrative has emerged: Russian intelligence links…
..The pattern is now four for four, though the tally keeps increasing.
When the DNC emails on Clinton’s illegal, private email server were released in 2016, Russia was blamed — the emails were authentic158.
When the Podesta emails were released in 2016, Russia was blamed — the emails were authentic.
When the Biden laptop surfaced in 2020, Russian disinformation was the explanation — the laptop was genuine161162.
Now, with the Epstein correspondence documenting Israeli and American intelligence channels in detail, the same deflection has appeared on cue.
The competing claims — Israeli intelligence, French intelligence, American intelligence, British intelligence, the alternate option such as private Rothschild intelligence, or some combination — are themselves an indication that the operation’s scope exceeds any single national intelligence framework.
The alternate option is not speculative: the Rothschild family operated its own private courier and intelligence network across European capitals from the early nineteenth century, a capability that predated most national intelligence services. The Cambridge Apostle, Victor Rothschild, served as MI5’s wartime liaison and was later investigated as a suspected Soviet double agent.
The family’s capacity to run private intelligence has never been formally dissolved — and the correspondence documented in these essays suggests it never needed to be. https://escapekey.substack.com/p/epstein-iiiFBI Confirms Vote-Counting Irregularities In Georgia 2020 Election https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-confirms-vote-counting-irregularities-georgia-2020-election
Panic Ensues After Trump Orders CIA To Give 2020 Election Intel To ‘Stop The Steal’ Lawyer https://www.zerohedge.com/political/panic-ensues-after-trump-orders-cia-give-2020-election-intel-stop-steal-lawyer
February 11, 2026 at 11:10 pm #230660John Day
ParticipantMAJOR BREAKING: Lawmakers say Trump’s personal lawyers — Bondi, Blanche, and Patel — withheld or redacted an estimated 95% of references to Donald Trump in the Epstein files — roughly 950,000 of 1M+ mentions, per staff calculations. If accurate, this is one of the largest political cover-ups ever carried out against the public. https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2021313247354532283
Why USrael-Iran war is inevitable
There are a few more things to take into account: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Epstein files. The former requested to move his meeting with Trump at the White House to next Wednesday, 11th February 2026, instead of the originally planned date the week after, as reported yesterday by Al Mayadeen, citing Israeli Channel 12. Of course, you can easily imagine what the agenda of the meeting is: war with Iran. Netanyahu will try and convince Trump by hook or by crook that he needs to request Iran to give up on its ballistic missile program and its support to the factions of the Axis of Resistance (Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah, etc.) or face war. If he cannot convince Trump tactfully, he will resort to threats and, more specifically, to release even more damning material against Trump and other US government officials from the Epstein files.
Listen carefully to what former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe recently said to Afshin Rattansi on “Going Underground”:
“In my opinion, if there’s a real deal between the Americans and the Iranians and it’s going towards that, Netanyahu will try to sabotage it.
One of the ways he’d sabotage it is by putting out Epstein’s material against US government officials, including Trump… and he’d put it out there.
New material that wasn’t seen before… in public. […] Not just Trump, other officials too.” https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/why-usrael-iran-war-is-inevitable M.K. Bhadrakumar, Odds are 8-1 Trump won’t start a Gulf war
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu always made sure he led Trump from the rear. But all that has become irrelevant today. Iran has made it clear that Israel will be in its crosshairs from day 1. But then, the Israeli spy agency Mossad and the CIA are openly interfering in Iran’s recent protests, and they even boasted about it openly. Israel, which already had a first-hand experience of the scale of destruction that Iran can inflict even in a sub-par performance with one hand tied behind its back, fears retribution. In fact, Israel now prioritises in its threat perceptions Iran’s missile development programme over its nuclear programme. Again, the Israeli claims to have vanquished the forces of resistance aligned with Iran — principally, Hamas, Houthis and Hezbollah — turn out to be far from the reality. The resistance groups are regrouping and Iran continues to work with them.
On its part, the US too has developed some healthy respect for Iran’s indigenously developed missile and drone technology…
..Last week, Iran briefly took the veil off one of its new underground ‘missile city’ operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to display Khorramshahr-4 in the heavy ballistic missile class, with an operational range of 2,000 kilometers capable of delivering over one ton of explosives. Khorramshahr-4 reportedly reaches speeds of up to Mach 16 outside the atmosphere and approx. Mach 8 within it. “With a total flight time estimated at 10 to 12 minutes, Iranians have warned, all US military bases in the region will be targeted.
This is a paradigm shift. The US’ military superiority is in no doubt but the risk of suffering loss of American lives becomes exceedingly high and that will be politically costly for Trump as the 2026 US midterms on November 3 are already looming large. Loss of control over Congress is a high possibility as things stand and a Middle Eastern war will be the ultimate clincher.
The threat of wars hovers over the negotiations in Oman, but the good part is that Trump called the talks to be “very good” and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian responded that they “constitute a step forward”. Iran has categorically ruled out any deal that denied its right to enrich uranium and refuses to discuss its missile development programme. Nonetheless, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi responded that Iran is seeking to have US economic sanctions lifted in exchange for “a series of confidence-building measures concerning the nuclear programme.” The day after Araghchi spoke, Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said Tehran may consider diluting the 60% level of its enriched uranium stocks if all sanctions were lifted in return.
Meanwhile, an inflection point is arising as Netanyahu is due to be in Washington through Wednesday. It is entirely conceivable that Netanyahu, who faces elections later this year, will put pressure on Trump to expand the scope of nuclear talks with Iran to include limiting ballistic missiles and “ending support for the Iranian axis,” as Netanyahu’s office said over the weekend. Such a demand is a non-starter, out of sync with the growing reality that the military option against Iran as such may be nearing the point of exhausting itself. https://www.indianpunchline.com/odds-are-8-1-trump-wont-start-a-gulf-war/ Hours-Long Netanyahu Meeting Concludes Away From Cameras, Trump Committed To Iran Talks
President Trump met with Netanyahu for a reported 3-hours at the White on Wednesday, away from the cameras and with no press briefings either before or after. Trump later indicated that nothing definitive was reached on the Iran matter other than “I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue.”
“If it can, I let the Prime Minister know that will be a preference. If it cannot, we will just have to see what the outcome will be,” he stated in a Truth Social post. “Last time Iran decided that they were better off not making a Deal, and they were hit with Midnight Hammer — That did not work well for them. Hopefully this time they will be more reasonable and responsible.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bibi-seeks-us-muscular-action-iran-seventh-meeting-trumpTrump Holds Off On Option To Seize Iranian Tankers, Fearing Sharp Oil Rise https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/trump-holds-option-seize-iranian-tankers-fears-sharp-oil-rise
February 11, 2026 at 11:11 pm #230661John Day
ParticipantSo add 3000 to the confirmed death count? Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/10/israel-used-weapons-in-gaza-that-made-thousands-of-palestinians-evaporate Those are the water tanks the Israeli military detonates in order to exacerbate thirst and collective death in Gaza.
This is why Doctors Without Borders is being banned from the occupied Palestinian territory in violation of the Genocide Convention.
Quote MSF International:
”We provide clean water to over half a million people in Gaza. Paula Navarro explains how we accomplish this and reminds that if we, and other NGOs, are forced to stop working in the enclave, hundreds of thousands of people will lose access to drinking water.” https://x.com/PeruginiNic/status/2021282553777283388 EXCLUSIVE: Marco Rubio Is Deliberately Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks
The Secretary of State has told the president that talks are happening with high-level Cuban officials. No such talks exist. Purported negotiations in Mexico? Actual fake news. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubio-is-deliberately-blockingCuba’s capital airport declares jet fuel unavailable as energy crisis deepens https://www.flightglobal.com/air-transport/cubas-capital-airport-declares-jet-fuel-unavailable-as-energy-crisis-deepens/166260.article
Venezuela Ships First Crude Cargo to Israel as Oil Exports Reopen After Maduro’s Ouster https://archive.vn/4KIsT#selection-1173.0-1173.87
February 11, 2026 at 11:12 pm #230662John Day
Participant Colonialist resource-extraction: The port of Chancay: a dramatic boost for extractivism in South America
The port of Chancay is not just a major infrastructure project; it is a key hub connecting South America with China that could alter the course of trade, investment, and geopolitics in the region. This paper shows how this megaport, financed primarily by Chinese capital, is reshaping transport routes and opening the door to new investors and large foreign conglomerates in areas where agribusiness is booming. Under the renewed promise of “development,” South America risks deepening the primary-export model and, with it, conflicts over land, water, and relationships with local communities. https://www.cadtm.org/The-port-of-Chancay-a-dramatic-boost-for-extractivism-in-South-America John Helmer, POPEYE AND THE ANCHORAGE FORMULA – KREMLIN NEEDS MORE THAN SPINACH TO FIGHT THE US AT SEA
Made public for all to see, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has just declared that escalation of the US war at sea against Russia’s trade routes and shipping fleets is the “opposite” of the Anchorage formula which President Vladimir Putin and his spokesman insist is still “fundamental [to] move the settlement process forward and allow for a breakthrough.”
The Russian Navy is on Lavrov’s side. Kirill Dmitriev and the Russian oligarchs are with Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov.
According to Admiral Alexander Moiseyev – submariner, former commander of the Black Sea and Northern Fleets, now chief of the Russian Navy – the Navy’s role must now be to “ensure maritime economic security, freedom and safety of navigation, protect economic interests, and prevent the loss of civilian vessels and growing threats to the Russian Federation.” https://johnhelmer.net/popeye-and-the-anchorage-formula-kremlin-needs-more-than-spinach-to-fight-the-us-at-sea/#more-93384 I would be dead by now: In Ukraine, deaths from hypothermia rise as Russia attacks energy system
At least 10 Ukrainians have died from cold-related illness as Moscow’s assaults cut heat to thousands. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/in-ukraine-deaths-from-hypothermia-rise-as-russia-attacks-energy-systemA referendum on peace with Russia and nationwide elections were reported: Zelensky’s Office Quashes False ‘Rumors’ Of National Election For Spring https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelenskys-office-quashes-false-rumors-national-election-spring
Von der Leyen seeks to break key EU pillar
Member states should work on economic matters in small groups in the absence of unanimity, the European Commission president has said https://www.rt.com/news/632274-eu-von-der-leyen-suggests-workaround-unanimity/ -
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