Debt Rattle Februay 28 2026
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February 28, 2026 at 10:25 am #232503
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterKeith Haring Untitled 1983 • Substitution of a Tariff for Income Tax Would Re-create Free Americans (PCR) • Who Rules America? Not Americans. (Paul Cr
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle Februay 28 2026]February 28, 2026 at 11:42 am #232522Topcat
ParticipantAnthropic has two rules baked into its Pentagon contract.
No mass surveillance of Americans and no autonomous weapons that kill without a human pulling the trigger.
February 28, 2026 at 11:51 am #232523Topcat
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February 28, 2026 at 12:00 pm #232526Topcat
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ParticipantCatherine Austin Fitts has been going on about digital currency for years, your just noticing now?
Early Public Discussion (2013): As early as May 11, 2013, Fitts participated in interviews discussing precious metals and digital currency, highlighting long-standing skepticism toward centralized digital systems.
February 28, 2026 at 12:27 pm #232530Dr. D
Participant“Iran would be outgunned in any war with the US but could still inflict considerable pain Iran’s military capabilities were badly degraded by 12 days of Israeli and U.S. strikes last year. But analysts say it could still inflict pain on American forces and allies in response to another U.S. attack. The Associated Press
Incredible, just pointing out the AP had a truthful story. I constantly complain they have none, so have to point out any that are. Note they say “Attack” not “War” a major difference from all the all the reporting that I’m picking on all month here.
“This time it looks like they are getting ready to hit because the negotiations have fallen through and Iran is refusing to give up it’s nuclear program.”
Which is odd because hours before they ALSO reported a breakthrough where Iran DOES give up their nuclear program. Yup. As expected, a strike, Friday night, after markets close.
Now! Will there be a WAR, a long, lingering war of attrition, with millions of men, occupation, regime change, and WWIII with Russia and China? That’s what I was promised. Like cattle cars. That’s what I’ve been picking on.
So they sunk our every ship, activated their cells here and blew up Tulsa and Houston? Why not? They have the men and hardware. What’s going on? Everyone promised me Iran could sink every ship and would. Does that mean there’s something else, some 3rd thing going on? Like exactly what I’ve been saying, following Luongo and Krainer?
“He calls Epstein a tool, not a puppet master: “Where did his money come from?”
Glad we’re here but it’s probably “Nobody cares” territory. No sex scandal and you can commit any crime you like, I guess.
“tariffs would eventually replace the system of income taxation. This is perhaps the most important sentence ever stated in a state of the union address.”
What is it, five? Presidents were assassinated over this?
“Tariffs are in effect a consumption tax, not a tax on labor and capital.”
We have too much stuff, and too much of it from overseas. Everyone knows this. Then fights the tarriff with every ounce of fury.
“Epstein’s job, for which he was well paid, was to compromise a few highly placed American, British and European officials in positions to influence American, European and British policy in the Middle East and make sure that it was aligned with Israel’s.”
Well, a few more things, but his general point is spot-on and the avoidance vectors all prove it.
“• Hillary: I Didn’t Know Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Was An ‘Acquaintance’ (JTN)
As with most things this won’t matter. It’s a fact, so it doesn’t exist. The Left now never had, and never liked Bill and Hillary. You can throw them under the bus because they don’t care. Because they are suddenly not “The Party”, then their bad behavior has nothing to do with “Us” or “The Party” which remains perfectly pure and good. The evil people are the ones talking about it and bringing it to light, i.e. Republicans and the Trump administration. Anyone stopping the trafficking across borders is evil.
“Democrats’ behavior during the SOTU revealed whose side they’re on—and it’s not the American people.”
Don’t know what to say. It’s an unforced error. This is the World Socialism model (Soviet) not the National Socialism model (Hitler). There are no nations, no border, no Ethnos, only the Brotherhood of man (under my absolute control as apparatchik).
“They don’t even try to hide their hate for Americans; If they can’t stand for ‘protect Americans first,’ what exactly are they standing for?”
The above. There is no other explanation. I know it sounds crazy, and especially to actual believers in actual Socialism for the People, — trust me, I deeply sympathize — but this is what happens. The only explanation is, they hate Americans, and so FOR who else? TO what end? THEY don’t think they hate Americans, THEY think they just love everyone else on earth more, including rapists. But they don’t love, e.g. Somalis specifically, such that they want a Somali government, replacing one with the other. They believe a hazy “People”. Who are not White or American. That is, the aggregate “World” people. And not Murdoch, Elon, Epstein, so “Not elite” people. That is, translated, tah-dah! A worldwide brotherhood of working men. (Led by ME and all the PMC University class, of course, WE will be the rulers and AWFUL Mommy-dictators.) Okay, fine, but that’s what you get. And just like “Everywhere else it’s been tried” what ACTUALLY happens is the workers are screwed hollow. And the minorities. And women. Exactly as is already happening in the U.S. Left, we cover daily.
My point is they say it’s not “Actual” world Socialism which has never been tried. I’m saying peel off the labels and you find it’s identical in every way. For that matter, peel off THOSE labels and you’ll find it’s a replacement of (toxic) Christianity, Churchism. Christianity with no Christ, no redemption.
““You’ve taken the need of [President] Donald Trump. You have allowed him to bully you.”
Autocorrect. They’ve Taken the KNEE for Trump.” And note, what an odd thing to say. They didn’t DO anything. They didn’t take specific illegal, unconstitutional actions. Right? If she said “You all are helping racketeering and violence” she would say so, right? If it was “The American people have been (tax) robbed,” she’d say so. Those are not the crimes. The CRIME, the only real crime, is “Do What You’re Told.” Like a psychopath.
As pointed out in the article, you (she) can commit any crime, no matter how many Trillions are lost or millions of people (literally) are killed, so long as you “Do What You’re Told”. Okay, Susan, I’m game:
TOLD BY WHOM?
WHO is it Trump – and us – are supposed to be obeying? If not him, who? Speak up, I can’t obey this person or group unless you tell me. I might do what the Amish or Moonies suggest instead. Tell me.
“• Jack Smith’s Secret Orders Targeting Patel and Wiles Should Alarm Us (Turley)
As pointed out here, Jack is still walking around having 5-star dinners on his 6-figure Federal income and pension. With free health care. Several million Americans are dead of deaths of despair and all 360 Million of them are wiretapped daily.
“• Kristi Noem Says DHS Staffers Put Spyware on Her Phone and Laptop (AmG)
Likewise no one arrested. In that case, you have no objection to ME downloading software on your phone and spying on you instead, right? Trust me, I’m good for it. Or the President. Oh. Wait. That already actually happened, hundreds and thousands of times.
So back to Susan Rice, so who is really President? Who is doing the wiretapping that no one minds, because THEY are who we all seem to be working for. You’re mad at Trump, Rice, Noem seem to say he’s not the President. So let’s go find whoever this REAL President is and get mad at him?
Ellison Family Empire: Yes, and since there is a “Sherman Anti-Trust Law” we put in as a compromise against monopoly but allowing non-person, non-single owner businesses, we are going to break up EVERY company shown there back into an independent business, right? No? I thought we had a law? We don’t enforce those now? (A: Hahahahahaha! The point of government is to NOT enforce laws. That’s what we pay them for. That’s why large central governments exist.)
“• McDonald’s Germany HIDES Food Ads During Ramadan (MN)
Sargon pointed this out, they keep chasing this group. Okay, we understand that. WHILE +80% OF THE VOTERS (Customers) are WHITE. That is, like all Wokeness, they chase up the 1% margin while savaging, mauling, and leaving for dead the 99%. Same here. Okay, McD, you win: All Muslims buy from you, and Zero White Germans. Happy now? Ah, you see it requires the complicity and cultural suicide of the majority. Which they are enthusiastically aiding. Specific reference is to yesterday’s UK by election where Green (Brown) Party said they would steal stuff from any Briton and hand it to Immigrants and surprise! Got a lot of votes from those receiving the loot. No opposition campaigned saying “I would like to prevent all such robberies from (White) people.” They like the looting, and the suicide, just want it to be quieter and be quick about it like Scrooge suggested.
“We don’t have an explanation from Senate Majority Leader John Thune as to why he will not do what is within his power to do: pass election reform,” — Kunstler
Everyone else knows: he and 2/3rds of Republicans are open traitors. We’ve known since long before Gingrich, 40 years ago. Why not look at the Warren Commission? President Ford’s installation. Everyone supported Bush. You can just say it so we can primary and/or arrest all of them. But one thing’s for sure: whatever Thune, McConnell, or all of Congress do, I blame Trump. He should arrest them all ‘cause that won’t cause Constitutional issues or nothin’. Trump is the only man in the universe and controls all other human thought and action. What Congress? What separation of powers? That’s my American, Patriot demand.
“A Montreal Narco Network Busted For Allegedly Smuggling Super Fentanyl Into America
“We’re getting crushed with carfentanil, xylazine, etizolam, isotonitazene — all those different new psychoactive substances which are coming out of China.”With allies like this, Canada is essentially our enemy. They host the attack on Americans, and knowingly launder the money by the billions for decades.
Enemies are here as well, in the “Why do I bother” category, Clive Thompson points out that the CME got into trouble with Silver longs, and then had “Computer glitch” that shut down the short squeeze and gave all markets time to calm down. This also helps only the shorts, who can get more margin, make more calls, etc, and not Retail, whose orders were “Glitched out” and had to all be re-written into the market. Standing orders (that is, those run by the shorts) were coincidentally NOT erased.
Since a whole server bank went out the minute there was market trouble, that one server rack had ONLY Silver, Natural Gas in its little trading CPUs, the likelihood of which is a number the rest of all humankind calls “Zero.” There is “Zero” chance an entire trading floor’s computers go down and it affects only ONE market of dozens, only that minute, and only the one in distress.
But since the Denali-sized open manipulation of silver, and indeed any and everything they feel like has been demonstrated with every exchange action since…the Hunt Brothers…I don’t bother saying it. It’s the market that needs to decide not to play if there are no rules. Like any cowboy casino in 1869, the rules are: “We make up the rules so you can’t win.” Here are some free drinks.
Back in what is practical, No we don’t want or need a market collapse here. We do need real price discovery. But what seems to be happening is, Powell, etc are very slowly undoing the rig and attempting to restore real markets in the same underhanded, hidden way they were installed. This is hard to take but better than the opposite. The Asia spread is now $13 (all arguable, it’s details) but no one will make infinity free money by closing it. Huh. I guess nobody likes money anymore. Odd. Must be Capitalism at work.
February 28, 2026 at 12:36 pm #232531Topcat
ParticipantSubstitution of a Tariff for Income Tax Would Re-create Free Americans
Great Utopian Idea (GUI)
What about the ‘transtion’interval’ where the public is still paying income tax (like NOW) but is also simultaneously paying higher prices for imports and domestic industrial production hasn’t even put it’s shoe on and stepped out the door, like NOW?
Income tax and higher import prices are happening together today.
I look in stores like Walmart and 90%+ is from China and Asia.
Teeny tiny amount of made in USA.
I see no sign of rapid increases in domestic production of any consumer goods.
February 28, 2026 at 12:43 pm #232532Topcat
ParticipantDr D, our native Trump apologist:
Trump won’t attack Iran, a deal is in the bag
Smoke rises after Iran carried out a missile strike on the main headquarters of the US Navy 5th Fleet in Manama, Bahrain, on Saturday.
February 28, 2026 at 12:48 pm #232533Topcat
ParticipantIranian missile flies straight through air defenses and hits the U.S. Navy’s 5th fleet HQ in Bahrain.
February 28, 2026 at 12:59 pm #232534Topcat
ParticipantIran just hit the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet HQ in Bahrain. That is one of our most strategic military commands in the entire Middle East.
Iranian missiles hit dozens of targets in a short time with multiple impacts in Israel.
As I said weeks ago, all American bases in the region are being targeted.
So far, Patriots and THADs have been unable to protect even the bases in Israel, which host a large portion of the American air force. These aircraft will have to disperse to various smaller airports.
With the current attacks, Iran has left the coalition without secure bases or safe ranges to retaliate through the air at this moment.
The pace of attacks from both sides has already exceeded a hundred missile launches, and the number is set to increase.
In American bases alone, there have been dozens of explosions.
At this rate, Tomahawks will be depleted in less than a week.Iran is just starting
Iranian missiles have hit Tel Aviv. Israelis are taking refuge in bunkers.
https://x.com/i/status/2027728291747041386
Israel is lying through it’s teeth as usual and says the Iranian missiles aren’t hitting Tel Avi
Watch this:
At least NINETEEN missiles hitting Tel Avi within a minute:
February 28, 2026 at 1:10 pm #232535Topcat
ParticipantTrump Kills Children
“More than 40 Children died after US & Israel missiles hit a Primary Girls School in southern Iran”
February 28, 2026 at 1:15 pm #232536Topcat
ParticipantWave after wave of missiles hitting Israel, very few intercepted by the shitbag MIC Maggot ‘patriot’ system
Watch them flood the zone:
February 28, 2026 at 1:28 pm #232537Topcat
ParticipantWith targets in Israel being hit by Iranian missiles and other targets at American bases in the Gulf region, even in the face of numerous Patriot batteries that are now known to be firing with little success, given the numerous explosions in Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Kingdom, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
I’m If the Iranian launches maintain the current pace, they should deplete the Patriot interceptor stockpiles protecting these bases within 48 hours….
leaving only Riyadh, which possesses a large number of its own batteries with ammunition, including a THAAD battery.
Iranian missiles has hit in Holon Israel
February 28, 2026 at 1:42 pm #232539Topcat
ParticipantAnother brilliant move by Trumptard, launching an attack on an Islamic country during their Holiest month of Ramadan
Iran goes into a use it or lose it mentality.
They have tens of thousands of missiles that will annihilate Tel Aviv and Haifa in 48 hours after all air defense missiles are exhausted.
They’re going to slam Israel for weeks.
Houthis and Hezbollah join in, and the Strait of Hormuz gets shut.
Just in:
Iranian missiles reportedly hit US facility Doha
Sardar Jabbari:
“Trump should know that today we fired the old stockpile missiles, soon we will unveil weapons you have never seen before.”
Ya, waiting for the ‘good stuff’ to show up
February 28, 2026 at 1:50 pm #232540Topcat
ParticipantHaifa being hit hard by Iranian missiles
https://x.com/i/status/2027741688068747416
Hahaha, OH SHIT OH FUCK’
An American sailor records the Iranian missile strike from his quarters in Bahrain.
February 28, 2026 at 1:55 pm #232541Topcat
ParticipantTrump: “Israel First”
Did you know the DOW was 50K?
“US has stepped on the serpent tail”
Saudi Arabia will be interesting to watch
The Houthis announced attacks too.
BREAKING: Explosions have been heard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to the AFP news agency.
February 28, 2026 at 1:59 pm #232542Topcat
ParticipantBlinded by the Light
US FP-132 radar stationed in Qatar and acting as early warning system for Israel has been reportedly destroyed by Iran.
This will reduce the reaction time of Israel against Iranian missiles.
Iran is punching beyond it’s weight.
February 28, 2026 at 2:08 pm #232543zerosum
Participanthttps://www.aljazeera.com/
US, Israel bomb IranIran responded to Saturday’s attacks with missile and air strikes across the region, including in Israel, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq.
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CGTNLive: Latest as Israel, U.S. launch military attacks on Tehran
———February 28, 2026 at 2:21 pm #232545Topcat
ParticipantPerfect
THAD and patriot defense systems failed to intercept Iranian missile, hitting at the center of Tel Aviv
https://x.com/i/status/2027739585451799033
Missiles hitting in Jerusalem now:
https://x.com/i/status/2027694189803409910
And it’s spreading:
Iran just fired at Erbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan.
February 28, 2026 at 2:23 pm #232546Topcat
ParticipantIranian missiles hitting in Qatar
https://x.com/i/status/2027704879888884150
Iranian missiles hitting US air bases in Jordan
https://x.com/i/status/2027708907641340242
https://x.com/i/status/2027701238255718707
Iranians missile hit bus depot in Houla, burn it to the ground
https://x.com/i/status/2027692662657355969
Iranian missiles hit Abu Dhabi
February 28, 2026 at 2:31 pm #232547Michael Reid
ParticipantIt’s Done: America Just Launched a Massive Strike on Iran
February 28, 2026 at 2:35 pm #232548zerosum
ParticipantYESTERDAY IS GONE!!!!!!!!
February 28, 2026 at 2:37 pm #232549Topcat
ParticipantYemen just hit Tel Aviv and declared it’s gonna be unsafe for settlers from now on.
That bus station in Houla Israel completely burned
February 28, 2026 at 2:51 pm #232550zerosum
Participant
February 28, 2026
U.S., Israel Are Waging War On IranFebruary 28, 2026 at 2:53 pm #232551zerosum
ParticipantOn the Brink of Global Catastrophe
Neskuchne & Hirke Defenses Have Fallen
MS 2026.02.28February 28, 2026 at 2:55 pm #232552Michael Reid
ParticipantJust FYI.
In order to keep the hand on the pulse of events.Israel launched what it called a “preemptive strike” against Iran Saturday morning, according to Defense Minister Israel Katz, as a state of emergency was declared across the country. The government declared the state of emergency because of the expectation of Iranian retaliation with drones and ballistic missiles.
Some visuals.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/02/just-fyi.htmlFebruary 28, 2026 at 3:01 pm #232553Topcat
ParticipantIranian drone exploding in Bahrain
https://x.com/i/status/2027758721296646537
Dubai as Iranian missiles hit the UAE’s capital.
February 28, 2026 at 3:02 pm #232554Topcat
ParticipantTasnim News Agency reports that the U.S. MST combat support ship was severely hit by Iranian Revolutionary Guard missiles.
February 28, 2026 at 3:07 pm #232555Michael Reid
ParticipantUS Armed Forces start military operation against Iran — Trump
The goal of the US operation against Iran is to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons, he noted
US President Donald Trump AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson
US President Donald Trump
© AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson
WASHINGTON, February 28. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump confirmed the start of a military operation against Iran.“A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran, Trump said in the video address posted on his page in Truth Social.
The goal of the US operation against Iran is to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons, Trump noted.
“We will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon,” the US leader stressed.
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US-ISRAELI STRIKES ON IRAN
4 MINUTES AGO
US, Israel violate international law with their strikes on Iran — Russian mission to UN
Such dangerous gambles are aimed at destroying peace, stability, and security throughout the Middle East region, the statement reads
https://tass.com/world/2093211February 28, 2026 at 3:10 pm #232556Michael Reid
ParticipantDear Dr. D,
You were wrong about covid and
You were wrong about trumpFebruary 28, 2026 at 3:18 pm #232557Michael Reid
ParticipantSeyed M. Marandi: Israel & U.S. Launch Surprise Attack on Iran
February 28, 2026 at 3:19 pm #232558Topcat
ParticipantFebruary 28, 2026 at 3:22 pm #232559Topcat
ParticipantIranian ballistic missiles may have hit U.S. logistics facilities in Kuwait, with chaos and major disruption reportedly unfolding on the ground.
February 28, 2026 at 3:22 pm #232560Michael Reid
ParticipantScott Ritter: Full-Scale War as Iran Attacks All U.S. Targets
February 28, 2026 at 3:24 pm #232561Michael Reid
ParticipantJeffrey Sachs: US & Israel Attack Iran – War Is Spreading Across the Region
February 28, 2026 at 3:25 pm #232562Topcat
ParticipantIran is not Venezuela
The Iranian side announced two things
1. The Iranian missile attack resulted in the deaths of approximately 200 American soldiers.
2. Iranian missiles destroyed an A/N FPS-132 Block 5 radar system, an advanced phased-array radar system deployed by US forces in Qatar.
This radar has a detection range of 5,000 kilometers, and its primary mission is to provide early warning of ballistic missiles to the United States and Israel.
Didn’t the kidnapping of Maduro without any casualties give Trump excessive confidence?
An Iranian drone crashed at Kuwait International Airport; casualties reported.
February 28, 2026 at 3:28 pm #232563Topcat
ParticipantDirect Iranian missile hit on a hotel in Dubai
February 28, 2026 at 3:35 pm #232564Topcat
ParticipantIranian missile hits US base in Saudi Arabia
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