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    John Day
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    Kosovo is reputedly a NATO/deep-state/Mafia crime and rendition hub, similar to Ukraine. Potential US troop withdrawal from Europe to leave Kosovo exposed
    Reports from European security officials suggest that the United States may consider withdrawing its troops from Europe, including its presence in Kosovo, if US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine. Germany’s Bild reported on February 19 that such a deal could lead to significant shifts in the security landscape of the region.
    ​ Currently, the Nato-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) maintains a presence in Kosovo to ensure freedom of movement and stability. KFOR has been operating in the region since 1999 following Nato’s intervention in Serbia that ended the Kosovo conflict.​ https://www.intellinews.com/potential-us-troop-withdrawal-from-europe-to-leave-kosovo-exposed-368273/?source=ukraine

    US Treasury’s Bessent Says Russia Could Win Sanctions Relief If Cooperative In Peace Talks​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-berates-zelensky-rude-treatment-bessent-vance-warns-against-badmouthing-potus

    CDU/ASU with AfD could rule​ by ​breaking the anti-AfD “firewall”​. ​ POLITICO’s Poll of Polls tracks political trends across Germany ahead of the Bundestag election.​ https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/

    ​Patel has proven his mettle against the deep-state. Senate Confirms Kash Patel To Lead FBI https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-confirms-kash-patel-lead-fbi

    Israel continues to deny entry of heavy machinery to remove rubble from Gaza, says official​ https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/israel-continues-to-deny-entry-of-heavy-machinery-to-remove-rubble-from-gaza-says-official-3698675

    #182779
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants
    ​ “I was sobbing, asking them, ‘Why do you want me to leave my house?’ My baby is upstairs, just let me get my baby please,’” Ayat Abdullah, 30, recalled from a shelter for displaced people in the village of Kafr Al-Labd. “They gave us seven minutes. I brought my children, thank God. Nothing else.”
    ​ Told to make their own way, Abdullah trudged 10 kilometers (six miles) on a path lighted only by the glow from her phone as rain turned the ground to mud. She said she clutched her children tight, braving possible snipers that had killed a 23-year-old pregnant woman just hours earlier on Feb. 9.
    ​ Her 5-year-old son, Nidal, interrupted her story, pursing his lips together to make a loud buzzing sound.
    “You’re right, my love,” she replied. “That’s the sound the drones made when we left home.”​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2590869/middle-east

    Israel destroyed 50 homes, 280 shops in Tulkarem refugee camp: Palestinian official​ https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/israel-destroyed-50-homes-280-shops-in-tulkarem-refugee-camp-palestinian-official-3698672

    Israeli false-flag bombing? Netanyahu orders ‘intensive’ crackdown in occupied West Bank amid rising tensions
    Israeli army ‘to carry out an intensive operation’ after explosions tore through 3 empty buses in Tel Aviv suburbs, no injuries reported​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/netanyahu-orders-intensive-crackdown-in-occupied-west-bank-amid-rising-tensions/3488670

    ​ Professor Anthony Hall provides the detailed history that Netanyahu can’t afford investigating in Israel. What Really Happened on October 7, 2023?
    Netanyahu Continues to Block a National Commission of Inquiry in Spite of the Unfolding Scandal of the IDF Spotters, Both Dead and Alive​ https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/what-really-happened-on-october-7

    ​ Hamas rejects Israel’s demand for disarmament, withdrawal from Gaza Strip
    “Any arrangements for the future of the Gaza Strip will be through national consensus,” Spokesman Hazem Qassem said​ https://tass.com/world/1915473

    #182780
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ This is a good overall structural assessment of interests and capabilities. Reconstruction and rivalries: What to expect from Saudi Arabia’s Gaza summit
    Hamas has already made a big concession by allowing private American and Egyptian military contractors to operate inside Gaza​ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/reconstruction-gulf-rivalries-what-expect-saudi-arabia-gaza-summit

    ​COBOL could not include what century a birthday was in. New Social Security chief contradicts claims that millions of dead people are getting payouts https://apnews.com/article/social-security-doge-musk-trump-improper-payments-57f9e374e77e7a24fdff3afa294aa7fe

    Toronto Dominion Bank and each of the officers of that bank as separate defendants, may set an important precedent for prosecuting money laundering bankers.
    New Suit Seeks Clawback of >$4 Billion of Fines and Insider Trading Profits from TD Bank Executives Earned While Running Decade+ Massive Money Laundering Schemes​ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/new-suit-seeks-clawback-of-4-billion-of-fines-and-insider-trading-profits-from-td-bank-executives-earned-while-running-decade-massive-money-laundering-schemes.html

    ​ Claudia Sheinbaum Launches Initiative to Bolster Mexican Sovereignty As Trump Officially Declares Cartels as Terrorists
    ​ “Sheinbaum has used the relationship with Trump to define her personality as president and show the public, both at the national and international level, that she has her own style, focused on the technical and pragmatic,” he told EFE.
    ​ Sheinbaum’s message that her government is willing to cooperate with US authorities on security issues but will not accept direct US military intervention enjoys broad support across Mexico’s political spectrum. There are exceptions, of course, including some politicians in opposition parties and certain media figures who are calling for direct US intervention in Mexico, but they and their supporters represent a small minority.
    ​ The second ace up Mexico’s sleeve is, paradoxically, Donald Trump’s executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organisations. The designation theoretically allows US authorities to impose penalties on entities and individuals that provide material support to cartels. That surely must include the US arms manufacturers and dealers who provide an estimated 70% of all the cartels’ weaponry as well as all the Wall Street, City of Lo​ndon and Europea​n banks that help the cartels to launder the proceeds from their businesses.[2]
    ​ If Sheinbaum plays her cards right, perhaps she can shift some of the focus onto these major facilitators of the global drugs trade. She has already announced plans to expand the lawsuit filed by Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs during AMLO’s presidency against US arms manufacturers and sellers, accusing them of knowingly selling weapons to Mexican cartels.​ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/claudia-sheinbaum-launches-initiative-to-bolster-national-sovereignty-after-trump-officially-declares-cartels-as-terrorists.html

    ​ From March 14, 2014, Thanks for finding this, Mr. House. Ukraine Gold Reserves Reported To Be Hastily Aircrafted To U.S
    ​ As per the report of a source from the Ukrainian Government, the Ukrainian gold reserves were confirmed to be moved on an aircraft from the Bristol Airport at Kiev to the United States. The report says that about 40 tons of gold was flown from Ukraine to US. However, according to the World Gold Council, Ukraine has in store 36 tons of gold reserves.
    ​ Gold reserves in 40 sealed boxes loaded on an aircraft which remains unidentified was reported to be transferred last night from the Bristol airport. Witnesses say the board took off immediately after loading the boxes.
    ​ According to reliable source from the Govt. of Ukraine, the transferring of gold was ordered by the acting Prime Minister of the country, Mr. Arseny Yatsenyuk. The new acting PM was replaced by the President of Ukraine who was ousted by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland.​ https://news.metal.com/newscontent/100058331/ukraine-gold-reserves-reported-to-be-hastily-aircrafted-to-us/

    #182781
    John Day
    Participant

    Shortest-serving UK Prime Minister Liz Truss Calls For ‘Elon & His Nerd Army’ To Investigate ‘British Deep State’​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/liz-truss-calls-elon-his-nerd-army-investigate-british-deep-state

    ​ The Unseen Consequences of COVID-19 “Vaccines” on Women’s Health
    Dr. Kimberly Biss explores the impact of COVID-19 “vaccines” on pregnancy, fertility, and reproductive health
    ​ Post-marketing data, which should have been available in early 2021, revealed shocking numbers:
    Out of 270 pregnant women in Pfizer’s trial, only 32 were followed up.
    ​ Of those, 26 suffered miscarriages— there was an 81% loss rate.
    Despite these findings, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky publicly declared the “vaccine” safe and effective for pregnant women, contradicting the available data.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/consequences-covid-19-vaccines-women-health/5880456

    ​ This is revolutionary, if it is as-advertised​. There is a variable junction which can be made to be a superconductor on-off switch, to establish and sense quanta in nested placements. It looks legitimate. Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits​ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2025/02/19/microsoft-unveils-majorana-1-the-worlds-first-quantum-processor-powered-by-topological-qubits/

    ​ This writer read the Nature research paper and was not quite sure: Microsoft claims quantum-computing breakthrough — but some physicists are skeptical
    The tech giant aims to make ‘topological’ quantum computers that will reach useful scales faster than competing technologies.​ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00527-z

    Here is the Nature research paper, which I read in full, and largely followed, but certainly not every detail. ​Interferometric single-shot parity measurement in InAs–Al hybrid devices​ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08445-2

    #182782
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    Rand Paul’s letter this week to Scott Bessent in which he requests permission to audit Fort Knox confirms they the gold is owned by the US Treasury and not the Fed.

    https://mobile.x.com/SenRandPaul/status/1893039226666496502

    See footnote #2.

    Good to know.

    #182783

    A SEAL DIED OF BIRD FLU, PEOPLE! A SEAL DIED OF BIRD FLU!
    (it’s the battle of the deadly pathogens narratives- up next after the local news)
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    As they lack creativity, desire, and aspiration,
    They yearn to listen in, and then control through deprivation.

    #182784
    zerosum
    Participant

    How to reduce military expenses by 8% for 5 years

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moscow-demanded-us-nato-withdraw-forces-eastern-europe-riyadh-talks
    In December 2022, just before Russian forces poured across the Ukraine border later in February, President Putin told a news conference, “You promised us in the 1990s that [NATO] would not move an inch to the East. You cheated us shamelessly.”
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    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/rift-grows-into-chasm-as-trump-lays
    An Eastern European Official has told the German Newspaper, BILD, that discussions are ongoing in regards to the withdrawal of U.S. Troops from all Countries in Europe that joined the NATO Alliance after 1990, which is reported to have been one of the Goals of recent Negotiations between Russia and the United States. This would include Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden. Additionally, preparations are said to be ongoing in Italy, for the possible withdrawal of U.S. Forces from Kosovo.
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    #182785
    WES
    Participant

    Whatever happens with gold in the future, it will be in the best interests of the US gov, not yours!

    #182791

    Semiquincentennial.

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