[John Day]

​Dr. Nass, The proposed Farm Bill has been released today. Here is the important information about the pesticide protection provision (PPP) and what you can do! More on the rest of the bill later
​ It says that no state or locality (no subdivision of a state) can impose “any requirement relating to the sale, distribution, labeling, application, or use of any pesticide or device that is subject to regulation” by the EPA Administrator.
​ The EPA Administrator currently is Lee Zeldin. I thought he was a Secretary, but he is not. He is the Administrator. In this bill, the buck stops at his feet.
​ The bill also says that FIFRA, the law that specifies how pesticides are regulated, “shall be applied to require uniformity of pesticide labeling nationally…” No state, subdivision of a state, or a court can, directly or indirectly, hold any entity liable for requirements that differ from the EPA label requirements.
​ Let me remind everyone that the term pesticide here refers to tens of thousands of chemicals and chemical mixtures that are registered by EPA, and whose manufacturers pay EPA yearly for this registration. These include fungicides, insecticides, rodenticides, virucides, herbicides and other pesticides. Antibiotics (bactericides) are included in some of the mixtures.
​ These products are regulated as single agents, a.k.a. active ingredients, and are not studied by the EPA as final formulations of (mostly) mixtures. This alone ought to negate the value of EPA review and registration.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-proposed-farm-bill-has-been-released

​ Meryl Nass MD, Pesticide Protection Provision: Beating back the pesticide industry’s false narratives
Since even the Members (R) were fed a bill of goods when the liability shield was being considered by the Appropriations cttee, we must anticipate and demolish the myths they will create about this.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/pesticide-protection-provision-beating

​ Marian Laderoute Ph.D. explains that shedding of mRNA lipid nanoparticles can lead to their transfection of un-“vaccinated” persons and intergration into their DNA. New Early Data Implies Shedding by the Pfizer-BioNTech GENE Therapy Product May Promote Integration of Spike mRNA/cDNA Sequences
​ Higher Risk Than What is Currently Thought for Genetic Modification of the Host Regardless of Vaccine Status​ https://hervk102.substack.com/p/new-early-data-implies-shedding-by

​ 80% of transgender in teens will sort it out by age 26 without intrvention: UK’s Insane New Trans Guidance Says School Kids As Young As Four Can ‘Change Gender’ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uks-insane-new-trans-guidance-says-school-kids-young-four-can-change-gender

​ High-Dose Vitamin C Cuts Death Risk from Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer by 54% and Doubles Survival Time
A randomized controlled trial found that adding 75g IV vitamin C to chemotherapy doubled median survival compared with chemotherapy alone — in one of the deadliest cancers known. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/high-dose-vitamin-c-cuts-death-risk

[John Day]

​ Big Business Has Pam Bondi Fire Trump’s Antitrust Chief
​Trump Antitrust chief Gail Slater was mostly a failure, though kept some antitrust cases alive. Despite attempts to mollify corporate lobbyists, Pam Bondi fired her anyway. What happens now?​ https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/trump-antitrust-chief-ousted-by-ticketmaster

​ Ellison Scalp? DOJ Antitrust Head Departs, Possibly Fired
Gail Slater was in charge of the antitrust division and a hawk on the mergers and acquisitions of Big Tech and Big Corporate media. As head of the DOJ Antitrust Division, Slater’s view on competition was against the interests of the major Big Tech billionaires and corporate media conglomerates who intersect with them.
​ Slater was in a position to influence the Warner Brothers-Discovery’s deal to sell the Warner Bros. studio and HBO to Netflix, which Paramount (David Ellison) is trying to stop.
​ If you have followed the influence of Larry Ellison (Oracle, TikTok) and his son David Ellison (Paramount, CBS) in/around the Trump administration as it relates to Elon Musk (a beneficiary of Ellison), then the timing of Gail Slater’s removal doesn’t look good at all.
​ Gail Slater came into the administration as a part of the JD Vance network (Peter Thiel, Palantir, etc.), and it looks like that same Vance network stood aside and watched Larry Ellison leverage his position to see her removed.​ https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/02/12/ellison-scalp-doj-antitrust-head-departs-possibly-fired/

​ The Las Vegas real estate market has languished in recent years. California Exodus Takes a Huge Leap Forward as Citizens Flock to Las Vegas to Avoid New Tax Hike https://www.westernjournal.com/california-exodus-takes-huge-leap-forward-citizens-flock-las-vegas-avoid-new-tax-hike/

Make electricity from cheap fuel and sell the more expensive fuels. ​Trump Orders Pentagon to Buy Coal. It’s an Energy Emergency
President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to purchase more coal-based electricity, drawing the U.S. military into his campaign to subsidize a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is struggling to compete in the marketplace.
​ Trump announced the move at a White House event Wednesday where he also said his administration would spend taxpayer money to upgrade coal plants in four states.​ https://mishtalk.com/economics/trump-orders-pentagon-to-buy-coal-its-an-energy-emergency/

​ Meryl Nass MD, Rand Paul does have a bill that would get rid of the vaccine liability shield
But there is only one cosponsor so far and no bill text yet​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/rand-paul-does-have-a-bill-that-would

[John Day]

​ Zelensky’s escape hatch: An emergency election could be his only option​ – The Ukrainian leader is apparently gauging support for a vote that he swore he’d never hold​ https://web.archive.org/web/20260213005050/https://www.rt.com/russia/632373-zelensky-election-referendum-plan/

​ In Latest Blow To Free Speech, German Courts Could Issue “Speaking Ban” Against Top AfD Politician​
German courts are currently deliberating whether leading Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Björn Höcke could be hit with a “speaking ban” during a campaign event in the city of Lindenberg im Allgäu.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/latest-blow-free-speech-german-courts-could-issue-speaking-ban-against-top-afd-politician

​ U.S. House Judiciary Committee confirm that the EU interfered in 8 European elections. Slovakia (2023) The Netherlands (2023&2025) France (2024) Romania (2024) Moldova (2024 Ireland (2024&2025) Th​ese people talk about democracy 24/7.​ https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2019025650099855464

​ Maybe an ECB digital currency could be invented… EU Bankers Call for Visa and Mastercard Alternatives
According to ECB data cited by the Financial Times, American firms Visa and Mastercard now account for nearly two-thirds of all card transactions in the eurozone, while 13 EU countries have no national card schemes.
​ Now, EU officials have issued a warning that an alternative medium must be deployed to counter US interference.​ As cash usage continues to decline, EU officials are suddenly alarmed that payment systems could be “weaponized” during a geopolitical conflict.​ https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/europes-current-economy/eu-bankers-calls-for-visa-and-mastercard-alternatives/

[John Day]

Surplus Energy Economics fundamentally disagrees with Elon. The end of growth
There are times when the most important facts, though straightforward in principle, are simply too big, or too unpalatable, for general recognition​.
​ This is one of those times. The Big Fact informing all of the sub-narratives of our age is that the global economy has stopped growing, and is starting to shrink.
​ We should swiftly dismiss all official or orthodox statistical claims to the contrary. GDP isn’t a measure of material value created in the economy, but of the transactional exchange of money in the system. Money routinely changes hands without value being added, and never more so than when most of the money in question has been conjured out of thin air as credit.
​ In reality, no form of money has any intrinsic worth. Obviously enough, we can’t eat fiat currencies, power our cars with cryptos, or sow our fields with precious metals. Rather, money is token, not substance – it commands value only as an exercisable claim on those physical products and services for which it can be exchanged.​..
​..The authors of The Limits to Growth, published back in 1972, used the then-new technique of system dynamics to see this coming, and even gave us a pretty good steer on its probable timing.
​ None of this is palatable, of course, to a world so obsessed with “growth” that it disregards the obvious truth of Kenneth Boulding’s observation that only “a madman or an economist” could believe in the promise of infinite, exponential economic growth on a finite planet.
​ Over the past twenty years, material economic prosperity has increased by 25%, but huge rises in the stock of monetary claims have enabled statisticians to assert that the flow of economic activity measured as “real GDP” has more or less doubled (+96%, 2004-2024)…
​..Since the real costs of energy-intensive necessities are rising, just as top-line prosperity inflects into contraction, the supposed “cost of living crisis” isn’t a temporary “crisis” but the emergence of a wholly predictable trend. This goes a long way towards an explanation of worsening internal political and social instability.
​ Washington, meanwhile, has awakened, belatedly, to the reality and consequences of material resource finality, an understanding that, we can reasonably infer, has long been grasped in Beijing and Moscow.
​ The breakdown of international trade – and its balkanisation into trading blocs and exclusion zones – becomes readily explicable if we once recognise the ultimate finality of the material, the impotence of the monetary and the technological, and the resultant intensification of competition for scarce and dwindling resources.​ https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/319-the-end-of-growth/

Andrew Korybko on the strategy to peel India away from Russia, China and Iran: India Might Soon Replace Russian Oil With Venezuelan At Scale After All https://korybko.substack.com/p/india-might-soon-replace-russian

​ Simplicius, Munich Security Conference Evangelizes European War
The Brussels nomenklatura and its attendant apparatchiks and media flacks are pushing war hysteria. The purpose of this is to make the Ukrainian conflict feel existential to Europeans to jawbone them into parting with their dwindling eurobucks for the sake of bleeding Russia as much as possible.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/munich-security-conference-evangelizes

It’s not like this could be foreseen for 30 years… ‘No Prospect’ Of European Governments Preventing Civil War, Warns British Army Colonel
Retired Colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, has issued a stark warning about the trajectory of social cohesion in Europe and Britain…
..Kemp, who also served in counter-insurgency operations in Northern Ireland and held intelligence roles in Westminster and the Cabinet Office, emphasized the lack of political will to address what he termed the “Islamification” of the UK.
“No government, the government now or any prospective government of the UK, has the guts to stop it,” he said. “If they want to take strong action to prevent the Islamification of the UK, it’s going to mean big trouble for them. They don’t want trouble, they look four years ahead, they will kick the can down the road to someone else.”
​ This political shortsightedness, according to Kemp, is fueling the risk of “civil war in Europe.” He described a potential scenario resembling Northern Ireland but on a far more intense scale, where “you have the indigenous British and some of the immigrant population and the British government all on three different sides fighting against each other.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-prospect-european-governments-preventing-civil-war-warns-british-army-colonel

Germany, France Hold Secret Talks On Continental Nuclear Shield In Pivot From US​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-france-hold-secret-talks-continental-nuclear-shield-pivot-us

[John Day]

The British Museum removes the name “Palestine” from its maps following pressure from pro-Israel groups​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/15/357934/

​ Apple buys Israeli ‘pre-speech’ tech firm implicated in Gaza genocide
The world’s second-largest tech company just acquired a military-linked Israeli startup that uses “facial skin micromovements” to anticipate what users will say before they speak.​ https://thegrayzone.com/2026/02/15/apple-buys-israeli-pre-speech-firm/

White House pressures Utah lawmaker to kill AI transparency bill​ https://endtimeheadlines.org/2026/02/white-house-pressures-utah-lawmaker-to-kill-ai-transparency-bill/

​ Dario Amodei just said the thing no one in tech wants to accept as true. The story everyone clings to about permanent human-AI partnership? It’s fiction. Comforting fiction we tell ourselves while the actual future takes shape around us. Amodei: “The ‘Centaur’ window could be very short.” Developer demand is exploding right now. Salaries competitive. Companies desperate for anyone who can harness AI effectively. Every visible metric suggesting the jobs adapted and survived. Every metric is wrong. This isn’t adaptation. This is the last breath before drowning.​ https://x.com/r0ck3t23/status/2022118457710719340

​ Silver, rare-earths, diesel and clean water are already in shortage. Is he missing something? Elon Musk just said what no economist will: the entire system is about to break and nothing can stop it.
AI and robotics aren’t generating growth. They’re destroying the scarcity framework economics depends on. Musk: “It will hit us like a supersonic tsunami.” Production compounds exponentially. Money supply grows linearly. Productivity sustaining permanent double-digit expansion. Numbers that sound impossible becoming baseline. Not evolution. Replacement. Musk: “Prices collapse hard.” Not decline. Implosion. AI strips out labor costs, eliminates production errors, removes every inefficiency keeping goods expensive.
Manufacturing anything approaches zero marginal cost while quality accelerates. Governments will react on instinct. Print money. Inject stimulus. Playbook designed for scarcity economies colliding with abundance they have no framework to understand. Musk: “GDP metrics are already meaningless.” Every economic model assumes constrained labor, limited output, gradual improvement. AI doesn’t work within those boundaries. It deletes them as variables. Production explodes. Central banks flood liquidity. Prices collapse regardless because physical abundance scales faster than any monetary intervention can match. https://x.com/r0ck3t23/status/2022112266988949516

[John Day]

​ Israel’s West Bank annexation moves raise security alarm in Jordan
Amman fears a ‘soft transfer’ of Palestinians from the occupied territory, with experts warning it could trigger a ‘regional earthquake’​ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-jordan-fears-soft-transfer-west-bank-after-israeli-annexation-steps

​ Türkiye condemns Israel’s land registration move in West Bank
Ankara says Israel has no sovereignty over occupied Palestinian territories, calling decision ‘null and void’​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/turkiye-condemns-israels-land-registration-move-in-west-bank/3830810

​ Israeli Attacks Kill at Least 12 Palestinians in Gaza
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, since the ‘ceasefire’ deal was signed, the IDF has killed 601 Palestinians in Gaza

Israeli Attacks Kill at Least 12 Palestinians in Gaza

​ Israel continues to block Gaza technocrats from entering strip as killings continue unabated
The High Representative of Trump’s Board of Peace claims the committee appointed to administer Gaza cannot begin its work until Israel’s ceasefire violations end​ https://thecradle.co/articles-id/35968

Indonesia readies up to 8,000 troops in first firm commitment to Gaza peacekeeping force​ https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-trump-prabowo-gaza-israel-peacekeeping-22185f61dd39e6f0c04f22bb541944da

[John Day]

​ NO1​ Daily digest: 2026-02-16
​ Iran war preparations at fever pitch. IRGC launched “Smart Control Exercise of the Strait of Hormuz” with live firing warnings. US has deployed 1/3 of its entire Navy near Iran including 2 carrier strike groups, 15 destroyers, ~600+ Tomahawk missiles. 163+ cargo flights from US to Middle East bases since Jan 15. F-35s and KC-135 tankers deploying from RAF Lakenheath today through France.
​ Russia delivering Mi-28 attack helicopters to Iran in consecutive Il-76 cargo flights. Iran FM Araghchi heading to Geneva for IAEA talks Monday, US talks Tuesday. Iran says “submission before threats” not on the table. Trump told Netanyahu he’d support Israeli strikes on Iran’s missile program if no deal.​ https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-02-16

“We treat the Goyim like dogs, we don’t let them sleep” says Israeli minister Ben Gvir as he throws a grenade into a room of Palestinian hostages.​ https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/2022828616883802268

​ Israeli soldier admits to killing and rape in Gaza during livestream with US YouTuber
In a live TikTok session with American YouTuber Jeff Davidson, the soldier said, “We don’t just kill, we also rape,” referring to actions carried out by Israeli forces against Palestinian children and women in Gaza.
​ In the livestream conversation, which took place during the war in Gaza but was only released recently, Davidson initially questioned the soldier about his identity and military affiliation. The man stated that he was a member of the Israeli army and broadcasting from within Gaza.​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/15/357913/

No details disclosed: Israeli army closes dozens of cases involving killing of Palestinians inside torture camps
Tel Aviv delayed revealing news of the closed cases as it would open up soldiers to charges of war crimes in international courts​ https://thecradle.co/articles-id/35952

​ Israeli government approves proposal to register West Bank lands as ‘state property’ for 1st time since 1967
Proposal submitted by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, and Defense Minister Israel Katz​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-government-approves-proposal-to-register-west-bank-lands-as-state-property-for-1st-time-since-1967/3830654

[John Day]

Danish PM says more Greenland talks due after meeting US’s Marco Rubio​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/14/danish-pm-says-more-greenland-talks-due-after-meeting-uss-marco-rubio

U.S. Air Force Keeps Small B-2 Stealth Bomber Fleet at Abnormally High Readiness Levels For Strikes Against Iran​ https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/usaf-b2-stealth-high-readiness-strikes-iran#google_vignette

Iran’s top general warns Trump new war would be ‘lesson’​ – Next round of US-Iran nuclear talks is scheduled for Tuesday in Geneva.​ https://www.trtworld.com/article/a494eeceb1a9

Amid Saber-Rattling, Iran Touts Economic Benefits To West If Nuclear Deal Reached​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/amid-saber-rattling-iran-touts-economic-benefits-west-if-nuclear-deal-reached

​ Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Says Ball Is in US Court To Reach a Deal​ – Another Iranian official said a deal with the US could include economic cooperation​ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/15/irans-deputy-foreign-minister-says-ball-is-in-us-court-to-reach-a-deal/

[John Day]

World War Or Techno Utopia https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/world-war-or-techno-utopia

I will enter a silent meditation retreat tomorrow, until next Sunday, so this blog will be dormant, and I’ll have some catching up to do afterwards.

Today the global economic restructuring to a world of less-stuff continues, and AI may help by relieving a lot of managers of their responsibilities this year.
We will all live lives of luxury and plenty, predicts Elon Musk, who must know better, but can’t say.
Wars are the usual way to manage these systemic economic transitions, and wars are being nurtered and brought up to speed, but not yet with total commitment, as CBDCs run by AI and complete management of all social media and information flows by AI might do the trick by keeping people isolated and controlled for the long, progressive population reduction.
This is a work in progress in uncharted waters, so we can see things happening, but not know what might happen next.
Donald Trump is still attracting attention, serving his Zionist masters with carrots and sticks, while trying to fall short of losing 1/3 of the US fleet to Iranian missiles before midterm elections. He’s trying to outpace the Red Queen as the pace of frantic change accellerates.
Each of us should look to meeting our own needs and those of family as we proceed into a period of global war, not yet certain what its form will be, but that our civilian needs will tend to come last.

Thanks for this, Eleni: Our unelected overlord: How Jared Kushner turned the White House into Israel’s backroom deal den
​ Trump did not walk into the White House alone. He stormed in with a promise to “drain the swamp,” but trailing in his shadow was Jared Kushner, carrying a tangled web of private financial networks, offshore holdings, and foreign capital so deeply embedded it functioned like a quiet engine at the heart of the presidency.
​ Years later, FBI documents released alongside the Epstein files crystallised the danger, with a Confidential Human Source (CHS) alleging that Trump had been compromised by Israel, and that Kushner was the true centre of gravity, orchestrating both the Trump Organisation and the White House from within…
..Viewed closely, a pattern emerges, pointing to a presidency where private capital, foreign networks, and personal access converge to shape outcomes that consistently serve Israeli interests, and not Americans. The decisions emanating from the Trump 2:0 administration appear to be dictated from within rather than guided by democratic oversight…
​..Before Jared Kushner ever stepped inside the West Wing, his family’s business was deeply enmeshed in a web of international capital and offshore entities. Kushner Companies, the real estate firm founded by his father, Charles Kushner, was burdened with debt following aggressive expansion into Manhattan in the late 2000s and early 2010s. To stay solvent, the business increasingly turned to unusual, opaque sources of capital.
​ Documents and reporting reveal that Israeli‑linked capital flowed into Kushner‑controlled deals through vehicles like Gaia Investments Corp, headquartered outside of Tel Aviv, Israel, and its U.S. affiliates, such as 65 Bay LLC (+ venture with KABR), originally known as GAIA JC LLC, and whose names would later appear in federal ethics disclosures in ways that triggered concerns about transparency. These investment vehicles were nominally distinct, but were tied through corporate filings and insider networks to Raz Steinmetz, a member of one of Israel’s wealthiest families, “The Steinmetzes”, whose global interests span diamonds, mining, real estate, and infrastructure. The Kushner Companies seem to have conducted a public “scrubbing” of their connections to Steinmetz. In late 2014, the Gaia name and logo vanished from the list of partners on the Kushner website, where it had been featured since early 2013.​..
​..When Jared Kushner assumed senior advisory roles in the White House, overseeing Middle East policy, diplomacy, and national security advice, he brought with him not only his ideology but a network of corporate and financial dependencies that would remain active, albeit obscured, during his tenure.
​ Jared became senior advisor to Trump in 2017 and held the position until Trump left office in 2021. He was the primary Trump administration participant for the Middle East Peace Process, authoring the Trump peace plan and facilitating the talks that led to the signing of the Abraham Accords and other normalisation agreements between Israel and various Arab states in 2020. He founded Affinity Partners, a private equity firm that derives most of its funds from the Saudi government’s sovereign wealth fund. In 2025, Kushner returned to an informal advisory role in the second Trump administration, serving, along with Steve Witkoff, as a key intermediary in diplomatic negotiations regarding the Israel-Hamas war and the war in Ukraine.
​ Nowadays, in the dim underbelly of global power plays, Jared Kushner’s shadow stretches long, weaving a tangled web around Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace”, a cabal of insiders poised to carve up Gaza’s ruins…
..The deepest failure here is not legal; it is democratic. Americans did not vote for a presidency conducted through family backchannels and international capital circuits. They did not consent to an arrangement in which an adviser’s private financial exposure intersected with public power in ways that shaped foreign policies, geopolitical outcomes, and economic trajectories.
​ Sovereignty is not merely a slogan. It is about who gets to define interests, set agendas, and negotiate outcomes without public oversight. When an adviser’s financial dependencies span borders, involve shell entities and opaque partnerships, and when regulatory protections are overridden politically, the line between personal benefit and public duty becomes indistinct.
​ “America First” ceased to function as a safeguard. It became rhetoric cloaking alignment — relational, structural, and invisible to the ordinary voter.
​The pattern we observe, of capital moving through opaque channels into private gain while shaping foreign policy, demands scrutiny, not speculation. Democracy does not fail only when ballots are stolen; it fails when consent is manufactured under premises the public never knew they were endorsing.
​ If foreign alignment now travels through family ties, private equity, and offshore networks, the urgent question is not whether influence exists. It is whether democratic institutions still possess the tools, transparency, and will to recognise and constrain it
https://www.sott.net/article/504631-Our-unelected-overlord-How-Jared-Kushner-turned-the-White-House-into-Israels-backroom-deal-den

Escape Key looks at a couple of centuries of recent history: Agents for the Rothschilds
In 2016, the publisher De Gruyter released an essay by Rainer Liedtke titled Agents for the Rothschilds: A Nineteenth-Century Information Network.
Drawing on the Rothschild Archive London — correspondence from over one hundred business agents working for the various Rothschild houses — Liedtke documented a recruitment and intelligence operation that spanned the European continent and reached into Latin America for most of the nineteenth century.
The paper describes a system in which agents were placed in locations where the Rothschild banks did not maintain a permanent presence. These agents carried out business transactions, gathered political and economic intelligence, and forwarded information that enabled the family to make decisions ahead of competitors and, frequently, ahead of even governments.
Liedtke notes that what we now would consider insider trading ‘was commonplace in nineteenth-century finance and part of the salary package of employees of financial institutions’. The agents were not merely tolerated in this practice — they were compensated through it.
The recruitment criteria tell their own story. Trust was paramount, and two principal routes existed for earning it: being a relation of the family, or having worked within one of the houses for a considerable period. Marriage was the preferred option, and these marriages ensured that important business locations were ‘covered in the long run by trustworthy representatives’.
Liedtke is explicit about one boundary:
… such men never gained access to the decision-making circle of the family but instead maintained their own business interests separately, albeit profiting significantly from contacts to the Rothschild network.
The agents were operationally essential, but they remained permanently outside the core. Only born Rothschilds were fully trusted. The ‘quintessential criterion’ for whether a Rothschild bank existed in a given city was whether a Rothschild was willing to move there.
He also documents a deliberate policy of heterogeneity. Despite being Jewish, the Rothschilds employed non-Jewish agents as a matter of strategy. A homogeneous network, Liedtke explains, would be ‘self-referential’ — limited to the social circles its members already moved in…
..Liedtke records a shift over time in what the principals expected. In the early decades, the network’s value lay in raw market data — commodity prices, exchange rates, shipping movements. After the telegraph commoditised this kind of information in the mid-nineteenth century, the agents’ importance shifted towards strategic political assessment: who was likely to form a government, which minister could be cultivated, what policy was being contemplated before it was announced…
..Fritz Stern’s Gold and Iron (1977) provides the most detailed case study of the template in action. Gerson von Bleichröder — whose family bank functioned as a ‘branch office in Berlin of the Rothschild banking house’ — became Bismarck’s personal financial agent, managed his portfolio, bribed officials on his behalf, financed wars while bypassing parliamentary opposition, and served as intermediary between European finance and the Prussian state. Bleichröder’s ‘remarkable and long-running relationship with the Rothschilds made his services doubly worthwhile to both Bismarck and Germany’.
Yet Bleichröder was never admitted to the inner circle of power. After Bismarck’s death, he ‘dropped out of German historiography like a stone in water’…
..The humiliation of the 1871 terms drove France’s demands at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, which opened on the 18th of January — the anniversary of Wilhelm I’s proclamation at Versailles in 1871. Clemenceau sought explicit revenge. The resulting reparations of 132 billion gold marks wrecked the German economy, and it was those reparations that created the institutional justification for the Bank for International Settlements, established in 1930 to administer the payment schedule.
The BIS (Bank for International Settlements), however, was modelled on more than the reparations problem. At the Brussels International Monetary Conference of 1892, Julius Wolf, a professor at the University of Breslau, had submitted a project for internationally issued, gold-backed clearing certificates administered by a joint institution in a neutral country — in effect, a globalisation of the clearing house architecture.
At the same conference, Alfred de Rothschild, a former Director of the Bank of England, presented his own paper advocating the London Bankers’ Clearing House as a system approaching ‘perfection’ and arguing against a physical coinage solution in favour of paper certificates representing quantities of metal…
..The function the BIS was designed to perform — clearing sovereign obligations between states, intermediating capital flows across borders — had previously been performed by multinational merchant banks, the Rothschilds foremost among them. Bleichröder processing reparation payments on the German side while Alphonse de Rothschild raised the bonds on the French side was the BIS function carried out by private agents.
When the institution was constituted in 1930, its founding governance reflected this lineage. The entire American share subscription went not to the Federal Reserve but to a consortium of private banks led by JP Morgan… An internal Federal Reserve Bank of New York memo from 1929 warned that the bankers’ plan ‘suggests too great of power conferred on private stockholders’ and that private ownership ‘introduces the pressure of profits as opposed to the motive of public service’. The US government did not ratify Federal Reserve board membership until 1994; private shareholders were not bought out until 2001–2005, and only after an arbitration fight…
..The agent network did not disappear, but its function changed. Where the nineteenth-century agents had managed the family’s direct business, the twentieth-century successors would manage the institutional architecture that replaced it — operating not within the Rothschild banks but within the sovereign and multilateral bodies that now performed the Rothschild banks’ historical role at a vastly larger scale.
The family’s reach extended into state intelligence as well.
Victor Rothschild served in MI5 during the Second World War, and his London flat functioned as a gathering point for fellow members of the Cambridge Apostles — a secretive Cambridge society whose membership in the early 1930s, according to MI5’s own files, was ‘nearly all’ communist. Several of those who frequented the flat, including Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess, were later exposed as Soviet agents.
Woolf and Keynes were also Apostles — as documented in declassified MI5 records and published accounts by former intelligence officers…
..Niall Ferguson’s two-volume The House of Rothschild4 (1998–1999), written with unprecedented access to the family archives, documents the broader pattern: a transnational business partnership ‘preserved over five generations through family loyalty, written agreements, and intrafamily marriage’. Between 1824 and 1877, fifteen of twenty-one Rothschild marriages were between direct descendants.
Adam Kuper — who analysed Ferguson’s archive material in a 2001 paper for Social Anthropology — arrived at a similar figure: more than 70 percent of marriages in this period were with a father’s brother’s daughter or father’s brother’s son’s daughter, arranged specifically to sustain the partnership between branches. Kuper concluded that the Rothschilds were likely ‘the only banking family who had such an explicit strategy of endogamy’…
..Thus, across four independent academic studies the method is clear: agents placed where the family requires presence but does not wish to reside, recruited through marriage or long service, compensated through access rather than salary, deliberately heterogeneous, publicly visible and socially prestigious by association, but permanently excluded from the family’s decision-making core.
What these sources collectively describe is a private intelligence operation — one that enabled the family to act ahead of competitors and governments for the better part of a century.​ https://escapekey.substack.com/p/agents-for-the-rothschilds

​ Simplicius, Reports Claim US Readying ‘Long-Term’ Attrition Op Against Iran
This news comes as Trump sends a second aircraft carrier to the region. Recall that during Desert Storm and the 2003 Iraq War, the US had six carrier strike groups (CSGs) operating in the region.​..
..In a new interview, Colonel Daniel Davis claims that Larry Johnson’s naval sources told him that a serious “classified problem” has already stopped the USS George HW Bush from being able to transit the Atlantic, causing it to be replaced by the Gerald R Ford at the last minute​…
..More concerning is the fact that Trump has allegedly been weighing sending “commando teams”—or, in other words, ground troops—into Iran, presumably to attempt another snatch-and-grab-style raid as seen in Venezuela…
​..The options U.S. President Donald Trump has been weighing include military action targeting Iran’s nuclear program and ability to launch ballistic missiles, with U.S. officials saying he is also considering options that would include sending American commandos to go after certain Iranian military targets. – NYT
​ If you’re still wondering, what exactly would be the objective of such an operation? Well, Trump himself doesn’t seem to know. In a must-watch video, a reporter finally tasked him with the central question: what’s the purpose of striking Iran if the US had already allegedly taken out its nuclear program in the “Operation Midnight Hammer” strikes on Fordow?​ …
..As per his usual M.O. Trump has no principled answers—he sticks to his tactic of playing both sides, wanting his cake and eating it too. He seeks our belief in his ‘miraculously’ executed Fordow strikes, yet at the same time wants us to accept the inanely contradictory notion that Iran still needs to be further bombed to reduce its nuclear potential.
​ In reality, we all know what the strikes would really be all about: simply creating chaos to destabilize the Iranian government, foment more unrest, and attempt to create a ‘critical mass’-like situation of social panic that can be further exploited by co-conspirators like Israel.
​ The good news is that this could be one of Trump’s threatening ruses with the purpose of leveraging Iran into negotiations concessions. As of this writing, there are new reports that Iran is willing to play ball to an extent, and could be willing to open up certain cooperative oil and gas development projects inside Iran to US companies…
​..Though unsourced, one pro-Iranian account claimed:
Iran will open certain economic sectors to US companies as part of an upcoming deal
​ The Deputy Foreign Minister has stated that Iranian oil and gas fields and mining investments will be open to US companies
Tehran also plans to purchase more than 100 passenger airplanes
​ Total economic activity could exceed $500 billion​…
​..This deal-making appeared to be supported by recent statements by top DC energy consultant Bob Mcnally who was virtually salivating in a recent speech over the potential of the US anarcho-extortion vulture capitalism bandwagon alighting in Iran, whose oil and gas fields he believes hold far more plunder potential than those of Venezuela…
..His colonialist-colored speech circumscribes the new American doctrine and paradigm-in-one, which Rubio likewise elaborated on during the Munich Security Conference. Rubio’s speech made new waves due to what appeared to be a call for the US-European ‘civilization’ to take back the reins of global dominion…
..What Rubio appears to be doing is shoe-horning the West’s cultural decline due to globalism and its spawn of mass-migration into some kind of new ideological call-to-action meant to justify the US’s erratic abrogation of MAGA’s promises and to continue the neocon plunder of the Global South…
​..As Prof. Joe Siracusa told Sputnik:
​ While the White House started off declaring its intentions to “avoid long-term conflicts,” its “shift from being risk-averse to highly unpredictable suggests a more dangerous and erratic direction for global stability,” Siracusa said, noting that Rubio’s job is to now try “to rationalize a worldview that does not truly exist.”
​ Another way of simplifying it: the Trump administration campaigned on being non-interventionist and ‘America-first’, but then something happened. That something seems clear: Trump had a “talking to” by Miriam Adelson on behalf of Israel, and here we are. Now, Trump’s gophers like Rubio are forced to whip-up sloppy post hoc rationalizations to make it sound like this new “doctrine” was the plan all along; it wasn’t. Trump was merely “turned” by Israel​…
..He cannot come up with a valid reason because one doesn’t exist: he’s simply following orders.​ “Iran must be destroyed, tell your cattle citizens whatever you must—we don’t care what reasons you make up. Just make it sound somewhat convincing.”​ …
..This all as the US seized another two tankers—Veronica III and Aquila II—all the way in the Indian ocean, reportedly again related to Venezuelan oil. It’s clear that the Western order is plotting to escalate its piracy as a last resort to shut down the Global South’s economic life lines because there is no other way for the West to compete…​ China, Russia, and Iran will slowly be pushed into closer naval alliances to safeguard global economic arteries​…
..Now, the latest word is that Israel may go it alone against Iran, and that Trump has given them his ‘greenlight’. This obviously leaves Iran in a bind because even if the US were not to directly strike Iran itself, it will certainly aid Israel in the capacities of refueling, armaments, anti-air defense to block Iranian retaliations, etc. That gives Iran a clear incentive to attack US assets anyway as a deterrence measure, to degrade the overall capabilities of the ‘coalition’ launching the hostile strikes.
​ This would essentially be Israel’s trick to lure the US into open conflict: simply attack Iran unilaterally, and when the American vassal is forced to assist, it is brought directly into the conflict against its will.​.. We now wait to see if Trump’s appetite for risk leads him to truly open up “Pandora’s box” once and for all, giving Iran no choice but to go all out, or whether diplomacy prevails. But even if a compromise is reached, Israel holds the wildcard, and a desperate Netanyahu could attack Iran unilaterally, igniting another conflagration across the region.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/reports-claim-us-readying-long-term

​ Moon of Alabama, U.S. Calls For New Colonial Era
In a speech held at the Munich Security Conference Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for a renewal of the colonial age
​..”This is what we did together once before, and this is what President Trump and the United States want to do again now, together with you.​”
​ Arnaud Bertrand summarizes:
​ The man literally laments the outcome of WW2 because it marked the end of the era during which “the West had been expanding”, a “path” he “hopes [the US and Europe] walk together again.”
​ And just to ensure you’re clear about what he means: he wants to restore the building of “vast empires extending across the globe” and blames “anti-colonial uprisings” for what they did to “the great Western empires.”
​ He also says that “we cannot continue” to allow “abstractions of international law” get in the way of US interests.
Basically the man is openly saying that the whole post-colonial order was a mistake and he’s calling on Europe to share the spoils of building a new one.
​ Some of the dimwits in the room did applaud that revisionist nonsense.
Bertrand cautiones:
​ What’s the thinking here? That Trump’s America – “America first” – would suddenly become magnanimous and share with Europe just out of sentiment? That’s not how imperialism works: the whole premise of it is that the strong dominate the weak.
​ When an imperial power is speaking to you of sentiments, of how much they like you and how they want to partner with you – the much weaker party – that’s cause for worry, not applause​. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/02/u-s-calls-for-new-colonial-era.html

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@Tboc: You are welcome.

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​ Peter McCullough MD, Measles Outbreaks and Availability of Childhood Vaccine Exemptions
Year 2026: 736 measles cases prompt nearly 40,000 press pieces, 75% promoting vaccination mainly in states with vaccine choice​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/measles-outbreaks-and-availability

​ When you have brain fog from an all-nighter: A Single 20g Dose of Creatine Increases Cognitive Processing Speed by 24.5% Within 3.5 Hours
A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial found that creatine rapidly enhanced brain bioenergetics and improved cognitive performance during sleep deprivation, with effects lasting up to nine hours.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/a-single-20g-dose-of-creatine-increases

​Small farmers resist Monsanto with their lives: Farmers in India Reject the Seeds Act and the Corporate Enclosure of Seeds https://www.globalresearch.ca/farmers-india-reject-seeds-act-corporate-enclosure-seeds/5915483

Climate Physicist Anastassia Makarieva explains biotic pump mechanisms in detail: Biotic Pump Q&A #2: The Dual Role of Condensation
Why forests need both the precipitation mass sink and latent heat release to drive atmospheric moisture transport.​ https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/biotic-pump-q-and-a-2-the-dual-role

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Wait another year. “Everyone’s Grandma Is Selling The Silver Chandelier, Forks, Knives” As Scrap Volumes Overwhelm Refiners​ https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/everyones-grandma-selling-silver-chandelier-forks-knives-scrap-volumes-overwhelm

House passes bill to OVERTURN Trump tariffs on Canada​ https://therightscoop.com/breaking-house-passes-bill-to-overturn-trump-tariffs-on-canada-and-here-are-the-republicans-who-voted-with-dems/

Senate Blocks DHS Bill As Shutdown Looming Intensifies​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-passed-voter-id-save-act-set-die-senate-dhs-shutdown-looms

Supreme Court To Hear Roundup Maker’s Bid To Block Thousands Of Lawsuits In April​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-hear-roundup-makers-bid-block-thousands-lawsuits-april

​ Steve Kirsch, It is unethical to mandate kids to get the COVID shot. It’s easy to show with math.
We have the data from the Czech Republic. It shows to prove safety, we’d need to enroll 7.5M young adults in a R​andom C​ontrolled T​rial and observe them for a year. Without that, recommending a vaccine is unethical.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/it-is-unethical-to-mandate-kids-to

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​ Successful contrarian investor, Hugh Hendry: “Modern Money Only Works By Cheating”: If You’re Long Bitcoin (Or Not Long Bitcoin), Read This…
Bitcoin exists not to replace fiat money but as a provocative “hard object” in an elastic monetary world. Modern fiat succeeds by cheating – deferring pain, socializing losses, and bending rules to absorb crises (Weimar rigidity led to hyperinflation; 1929 rigidity was abandoned for elasticity in the 1930s; 2008 and COVID responses bent rules to survive). Fiat buys time during trauma but creates ratcheting inflation that disproportionately burdens the asset-poor, while rewarding mobile capital.
​ Bitcoin recreates gold’s key elusive trait: non-discretionary, issuer-risk-free scarcity in digital form. Unlike gold (which responds to price via new supply), Bitcoin’s 21-million cap is mechanically enforced by code and time, refusing incentives. This makes it an potential anchor beneath fiat – collateral for credit expansion – if it scales to gold-like market value (~$45T vs. Bitcoin’s ~$1T).
​ Yet the real risk lies not in math (256-bit cryptography remains robust against classical attacks) but in human coordination: governance, quantum threats requiring consensus upgrades, and holder temperament during violent drawdowns. Markets price Bitcoin’s gap to gold not from doubts about scarcity, but from uncertainty about whether humans can endure its rigid, psychologically demanding process without capitulating. Bitcoin tests endurance more than code – its value hinges on who holds it, and for how long.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/modern-money-only-works-cheating-if-youre-long-bitcoin-or-not-long-bitcoin-read

​ EU seeks to close Russia crypto loopholes in new sanctions
The EU plans to ban crypto transactions with Russia by shutting down all related channels, but analysts question whether the measure is fully enforceable.​ https://cointelegraph.com/news/russia-crypto-loophole-eu-20th-sanctions-package

About ​our $300 billion in Europe… Dollar Detente? Kremlin Memo Explores Rejoining US-Led Financial System​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dollar-detente-kremlin-memo-explores-rejoining-us-led-financial-system

China’s Central Bank Keeps Buying Gold… And Dumping US Debt​ https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/chinas-central-bank-keeps-buying-gold-and-dumping-us-debt

​ Gold & Geopolitics: Daily digest: 2026-02-12 – Get up to speed
F-35s delivered without radars since June 2025 due to APG-85 delays linked to Chinese rare earth export restrictions on Gallium Nitride. Lockheed installing barbell counterweights as ballast. Will Schryver summary, widely confirmed by defense press.
​ Silver market structure nearing breaking point – SHFE’s new rules effectively end large-scale leveraged naked shorting on Shanghai’s exchange. Hedgers must now renew quotas monthly with no automatic rollover. Eric Yeung explains implications – SLV short interest jumped ~10M shares to 73.5M (12.8% of float), yet borrow cost barely moved – raising questions about phantom share creation – SHFE silver vaults at just 350t (down 89% from 3,091t in 2021). Shanghai silver trading at $94.27 vs COMEX ~$84 – a massive arbitrage gap – pmbug estimates LBMA has roughly one month’s supply of liquid free float, COMEX Registered has ~45 working days. By June, delivery defaults likely – Dario expects a “volatility event” triggered by the first naked short who “breaks ranks” and starts covering, timing linked to Mar26 settlement – CFTC’s Chicago office has lost its last enforcement lawyer – zero oversight on trading manipulation – China closed for CNY next week – games expected on COMEX but shortage may intensify if Chinese scramble to buy COMEX Feb futures for immediate delivery
​ Gold & precious metals bull market intact – Gold above $5,100, breaking through on third attempt. Silver surged +6% back above $85.​ https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-02-12

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​ Public Trust In US Government Nears Historic Lows
The United States has fallen to its lowest-ever rank in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI), a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and business people.
​ In 2025, the U.S. fell down one spot to 29th place (out of 182) with a score of 64/100 on a 0 to 100 scale, where 0 means highly corrupt and 100 completely clean.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/public-trust-us-government-nears-historic-lows

​ As you likely know: EU Pressured Social Media Giants to Censor Americans’ Speech
A U.S. House of Representatives 160-page report accused EU government officials of forcing tech firms to apply EU speech laws, including the Digital Services Act.​ https://tdefender.substack.com/p/eu-pressured-social-media-giants-to-censor-americans-speech

Microsoft AI CEO Warns Most White Collar Jobs Fully Automated “Within Next 12-18 Months”; Anthropic Fears Potential For ‘Heinous Crimes’​ https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/microsoft-ai-ceo-warns-most-white-collar-jobs-will-be-fully-automated-within-next-12-18-months

US Consumer Debt Delinquencies Soar To Highest Since 2017 While Office Delinquencies Hit Record High​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-consumer-debt-delinquencies-soar-highest-2017-while-office-delinquencies-hit-record-high

​ More ​pervasive control over people​; Epstein’s extended project: Why governments insist on CBDCs or stablecoins when most people don’t want them
There will be two types of CBDCs: one to be used by populations and another to be used by states, banks, and large investment funds and corporations. The first kind is the “retail” CBDC, the one to be used by the population. It is essentially a control mechanism because currency ceases to have a nominal value and becomes a state-sanctioned token to be used when and how the state decides. It will also bring the end of anonymous payments and introduce automatic taxation, among other “liberating” features. From a state and central bank point of view, this is, of course, ideal.
​ The second type will be the “wholesale” CBDC, the one used by governments, banks, and transnational investment funds to settle their accounts. It will be built on the same blockchain foundation as retail CBDCs, but it will have certain features — like expiration dates and spending restrictions — turned off. It will function closer to current digital fiat currencies and, possibly, its strength will be based on the resources that determine its demand.
​ The result, essentially, will be two types of wealth: one held by elites — financial, military, technological, and political — who will end up controlling most assets, and one held by the population at large, which will be completely under elite control through military and surveillance technology.
​ CBDCs and stablecoins, however, will not, in a sense, create a new social dynamic, but rather crystallize the current trajectory. They will make it apparent that control of currency is power and that society is structured in a pyramidal form, with those who have access to currency creation at the top. Splitting money into two kinds only reaffirms this and creates a shield to ensure the continuation of elite rule over the population.
​ Elites in every field — financial, technological, military, or bureaucratic — will in effect become one, which, arguably, they already are. But what will determine relevance and status will be the ability to access non-fungible, non-programmable wealth. As this will create an almost total impossibility of upward mobility, these elites will become a close-knit network of wealth maintained through marriages (or reproductive agreements), inheritance, and mergers.
​ As financial technology demands growth, and monopolization is the logical path, the initially delimited areas where a digital currency is applicable will start merging into blocks. This is already happening. mBridge is a platform that is currently being developed by China, Thailand, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and, not surprisingly, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
​ The BIS is a supranational organization based in Basel that was set up in the interwar period of the 1930s and was essential in establishing the foundations — the rails — of the current financial system, and in coordinating monetary policy between Western central banks. What its involvement in this project signifies is that the core of the financial system — the financial “deep state,” if you will — is involved in the transition to the CBDC paradigm. It shows that despite geopolitical conflicts over resources, eastern, western, northern, and southern financial elites are moving in coordination towards it.
​ This was, perhaps, the logical development of the marriage between government and banking that happened in 1694, which gave birth to the Bank of England and the modern financial state. In England, and for the first time, the debt of the Sovereign had the conditions to become what became known as the National Debt — a concept whereby the debt incurred by the Sovereign no longer belongs to him, but to the entire nation…
..What we are witnessing is the merger between the Modern Financial State and digital technologies.​ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/why-governments-insist-on-cbdcs-or-stablecoins-when-most-people-dont-want-them.html

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U.S. Reports New Bombing of Alleged Drug-Trafficking Vessel in the Pacific​ https://www.telesurenglish.net/u-s-reports-bombing-vessel-pacific/

​Drug trafficking vessel look-alike: FAA Grounds Flights in El Paso After Military Laser Downs Party Balloon Mistaken for Drone https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/FAA-Grounds-Flights-in-El-Paso-After-Military-Laser-Downs-Party-Balloon-Mistaken-for-Drone/

​ The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg
​ Many of these soldiers served in Afghanistan, where it is now acknowledged that the U.S. military aided their local allies in “bacha bazi” (boy play): the practice of kidnapping and keeping boys as sex slaves, large numbers of whom were enslaved on U.S. military compounds.
​ Joshua Glardon – a first sergeant in the 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg – was sentenced to 76 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for the distribution of child pornography across the internet. An unnamed woman – his accomplice – was sentenced to 30 years in prison after she “confessed to allowing him to rape” her child…​ https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/11/the-us-military-aided-mass-child-rape-in-afghanistan-now-its-soldiers-are-committing-this-crime-at-fort-bragg/

​ Homan Says Minnesota Immigration “Surge Operation” Is Over​
White House border czar Tom Homan said on Thursday that the Trump administration has made significant progress in Minnesota and will therefore end the immigration enforcement surge in the state.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/homan-says-minnesota-immigration-surge-operation-over

US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals​ https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/11/us-military-helping-trump-to-build-massive-network-of-concentration-camps-navy-contract-reveals/

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President Orbán Calls Ukraine an ‘Enemy’ of Hungary​ – Ukrainian pressure to ban Russian energy has angered the Hungarian government.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/orban-calls-ukraine-enemy-hungary/5915423

​ European Parliament approves $107B loan for Ukraine
EU leaders agreed in December to fund Kyiv via market borrowing after failing to agree on using frozen Russian assets
​ Of the total amount, €30 billion ($35.8 billion) will be provided as macroeconomic support, either via macro-financial assistance or through the Ukraine Facility, the EU’s dedicated instrument designed to deliver stable and predictable financial support to Kyiv.
​ The remaining €60 billion ($71.5 billion) will be used to bolster Ukraine’s defense industrial capacity and support the procurement of military equipment, providing Ukraine with timely access to defense products from both Ukrainian and EU defense industries.​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/european-parliament-approves-107b-loan-for-ukraine/3826950

​ UN expresses concern over increasing fuel shortages in Cuba
‘The UN continues to monitor the situation in the country and is working with the Government to provide more support, including food, water and sanitation and health care,’ says spokesperson​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/un-expresses-concern-over-increasing-fuel-shortages-in-cuba/3825333

Russian Airlines Suspend Flights To Cuba, Begin Evacuation Of Citizens, Over Fuel Crisis​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-airlines-suspend-flights-cuba-begin-evacuation-citizens-over-fuel-crisis

​ Russia To Send Oil To Cuba Amid US-Imposed Blockade
The Russian Embassy in Havana told Izvestia that “as far as we know, Russia is expected to supply oil and petroleum products to Cuba as humanitarian aid in the near future” – amid the island’s worst energy crunch in years.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-send-oil-cuba-amid-us-imposed-blockade

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Body Organs of Over 15,000 Syrians Including Children Sold in Six Years: ISIL- Al Qaeda Involved in Abduction of Children. Syria Coroner’s Office
[First published by GR in November. 2016, this report is of utmost significance in relation to the release of the Epstein Files and crimes committed against children in the war theater.]
​Body Organs of Over 15,000 Syrians Including Children Sold in Six Years: ISIL- Al Qaeda Involved in Abduction of Children. Syria Coroner’s Office
​ “We have accurate information that over 25,000 surgical operations have been conducted in the refugee camps of the neighboring countries and in the terrorist-controlled areas in Syria since 2011 to take out the body organs of 15,000 Syrians and sell them in the international black markets,” Dr. Noufel said.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/body-organs-of-over-15000-syrians-sold-in-six-years-coroners-office/5557626

​ Member of Trump’s ‘Religious Liberty Commission’ Removed After Questioning Claim That Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitic
Carrie Prejean Boller, a Catholic conservative activist and model, took issue with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which has been embraced by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice and conflates criticism of the modern state of Israel with antisemitism.
​ “Undoubtedly, anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University in New York, told Boller during one exchange. Boller then pointed to her Catholic faith, which does not affirm the idea that the Jewish people have a divine right to historic Palestine.​ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/11/member-of-trumps-religious-liberty-commission-removed-after-questioning-claim-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemitic/

​ Massie Exposes Les Wexner As Epstein Co-Conspirator, Opening Door To Criminal Charges Against Kash Patel
While Wexner’s role in facilitating the crimes of Epstein has been well-established for years, the revelation that the FBI officially acknowledged him as a co-conspirator by 2019 dismantles the narrative woven by the Trump administration that it has not withheld the identities of any of the notorious pedophile’s accomplices. In September 2025, Patel ostensibly did just that when he testified before Congress regarding Epstein. During his testimony, Patel was asked “Who did Epstein traffic these young women to?” by Louisiana Senator John N. Kennedy. Patel responded, “Himself.” There is no credible information—none—that he trafficked to other individuals.” The revelation that the FBI had confirmed that Wexner was a co-conspirator of Epstein by 2019 suggests that Patel lied to Congress during his testimony.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/massie-exposes-les-wexner-epstein-co-conspirator-opening-door-criminal-charges-against

​ Federal Judge Blocks Hegseth’s Censure Of Sen. Mark Kelly​
“This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly’s First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees,” U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled on Feb. 12.
​ “To say the least, our retired veterans deserve more respect from their Government, and our Constitution demands they receive it!”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-judge-blocks-hegseths-censure-sen-mark-kelly

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​A very short video clip: The israelis kill rescue workers live on air, while not one single western media outlet has reported or broadcast this footage https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/2021475822209728710

​ The Israeli government recently took radical steps to change the legal status quo in the West Bank. Here’s what these changes mean and how they set the stage for annexation.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/israel-just-started-legalizing-its-annexation-of-the-west-bank-heres-what-that-means/

Israeli settlers displace 15 Palestinian families from al-Dyouk al-Tahta village near Jericho​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/11/357664/

​ After they shot him: A 14-year-old Palestinian Bled to Death for 45 Minutes as Israeli Soldiers Stood Nearby
Videos show him abandoned as he pleaded for help, while his family watched helplessly from a distance.
​ Israel is now holding his body.
According to the IDF, “a terrorist* who posed an immediate threat was identified, the force fired at him and provided first aid”​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-war-crime-palestinian-child/

​ Labs and blood banks in Gaza warn of total shutdown as critical supplies run out​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/09/357548/

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​ UN reports continued Israeli shelling, airstrikes in Gaza, warns civilians at risk
‘Civilians and civilian infrastructure must always be protected during military operations,’ says spokesperson​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/un-reports-continued-israeli-shelling-airstrikes-in-gaza-warns-civilians-at-risk/3826187

​ Israeli Attacks Kill at Least Six Palestinians in Gaza as IDF Continues Ceasefire Violations
The Health Ministry said on Monday that the IDF has killed 581 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire deal was signed​ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/02/09/israeli-attacks-kill-at-least-six-palestinians-in-gaza-as-idf-continues-ceasefire-violations/

Private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank​ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/05/revealed-private-jet-owned-by-trump-friend-used-by-ice-to-deport-palestinians-to-west-bank

Israeli Drone Strike Kills 2 Cyclists in Gaza as Death Toll Mounts Despite Ceasefire​ https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5239361-israeli-drone-strike-kills-2-cyclists-gaza-death-toll-mounts-despite-ceasefire

​ Israeli prisons ‘begin preparations to apply death penalty’ for Palestinians
Channel 13 reports prison service building ‘Green Mile’ facility where executions set to take place​ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-begins-preparations-execution-palestinian-prisoners-report

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As you know Iran blocked their use and traced their locations: Confirmed: US Covertly Sent Thousands Of Starlink Terminals Into Iran Amid Unrest​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/confirmed-us-covertly-sent-thousands-starlink-terminals-iran-amid-unrest

​ Thanks Eleni, Thierry Meissan, Iran, on the verge of implosion
It was at this point that snipers, positioned on rooftops, began indiscriminately gunning down targets, both among the protesters and the security forces. This is the “dogfighting” strategy, tested in the 1990s and successfully replicated from Libya to Ukraine. The shooters are probably Israelis of Iranian origin (there are 250,000 of them in Israel), but I don’t know for sure. These killings turn all sides into enemies of one another. The security forces, terrified, become savages. In just a few days, the death toll rose from 1,200 to over 40,000. https://www.sott.net/article/504601-Iran-on-the-verge-of-implosion

​Everybody can lose, but can anybody win? China Deploys One of the World’s Most Powerful Destroyers Near Iran as Western Attack Looms ​ https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-destroyer-near-iran-attack

Top Hamas Leader Rejects Trump’s Disarmament Demand, Vows No ‘Foreign Rule’ in Gaza​ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/09/top-hamas-leader-rejects-trumps-disarmament-demand-vows-no-foreign-rule-gaza/

​ Türkiye, 7 other nations condemn Israel’s ‘unlawful’ measures in occupied West Bank
Foreign ministers of Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE denounce Israel’s actions as ‘unlawful, null and void’​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/turkiye-7-other-nations-condemn-israel-s-unlawful-measures-in-occupied-west-bank/3824743

[John Day]

Annihilation Looms https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/annihilation-looms

Unconfirmed rumor: HIGH PRIORITY NUCLEAR CODES TRANSMITTED BY U.S. NUCLEAR FORCES THIS MORNING!! THESE ARE KNOWN AS “SKYMASTER” MESSAGES THEY ARE RIGHT BELOW THE EMERGENCY WAR ORDER OR ORDER TO LAUNCH!! https://x.com/nyprepper1/status/2021664929472745876

The United States continues an unprecedented buildup of forces and resources in the Middle East.​ https://en.topcor.ru/68611-ssha-prodolzhajut-besprecedentnoe-naraschivanie-sil-i-sredstv-na-blizhnem-vostoke.html

The Gerald Ford: 2nd US Aircraft Carrier Rerouted From Caribbean To Mideast As Iran In Crosshairs​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/2nd-us-aircraft-carrier-rerouted-caribbean-mideast-iran-tensions-mount

​ A US-led regime-change operation in Iran would be tantamount to a declaration of war on China and here’s why
China gets nearly 20 percent of its oil from Iran, and US threats of military action against Iran just prompted China to instruct its banks to dump U.S. treasuries, dealing another blow to the dollar.
​ International geopolitics is ruthless and cunning and is carried out with zero regard for human life or basic morals. It’s all about projecting power and grabbing resources.
​ If China sees Washington’s actions against Iran as a backdoor method of starving it’s fuel-dependent industrial base of needed energy resources, that’s likely to be interpreted by Beijing as a U.S. declaration of war.
​ Washington is risking the very real prospect that China may no longer see it in its interests to continue standing down in the face of increased U.S. aggression against its allies. It could afford to walk away from Venezuela, but can it afford to cut ties with Iran?
​ The question in Trump’s mind has to be churning: Do we really want to choke off oil supplies to China and drive the dragon further into the arms of the Russian bear?
​ Russia already has its hands full with Ukraine, a war that would have been over in a few weeks if not for all the weapons and money funneled to Ukraine by the U.S. and NATO. The U.S. has been sanctioning countries that buy Russian oil and now it appears ready to make a play for the oil that goes from Iran to China.
​ Washington has already backed Russia into a corner. Is China next?
​ It’s not like China lacks leverage over the U.S. It has non-military options to counter the West and will likely play those cards before doing anything militarily. China could cut off rare-earth supplies to the U.S. It could cut off the processing of vital medications like antibiotics, the majority of which come into the U.S. from China.
​ China can up its game in the realm of economic warfare and there are signs that’s exactly what it is doing.
​ In the latest shock move, Xi has ordered Chinese banks to dump U.S. treasuries. Major Chinese banks have already been dumping treasuries quietly but now they are going to officially and massively de-dollarize. This is also why China has been buying gold at an unprecedented rate.
​ The U.S., meanwhile, in an attempt to compensate for the loss of China’s appetite to fund U.S. debt, has been printing money to buy its own debt.​..
..The bottom line is this: There’s a big fight going on for global currency supremacy and a race to see who can control the most gold, minerals and oil resources.​..
..Could there be a comeuppance in 2026 with Iran serving as the place where the U.S. pushed the envelope too far, not just against Iran but China? …​ ..Trump has really backed himself into a corner. He has assembled a massive naval armada in the Persian Gulf region for the sole purpose of attacking Iran and changing out their regime.
​ He may prefer a negotiated “deal” that allows Iran’s regime to stay in place in exchange for certain concessions with regard to Iran’s support for anti-Israeli proxies and its crackdown on the protests in its own country. But then he has the Israelis to contend with. They are dead set on regime change and counting on Trump to carry it out for them. The neocons at home in Washington also are pressuring Trump to pull the trigger on a full-scale invasion of Iran, if that’s what it takes to remove the Islamic government from power.​ https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/a-us-led-regime-change-operation

[John Day]

Sasha Latypova, Awkward moment: The FDA refuses to file Moderna’s mRNA flu shot biologics license application.
How long is this standoff going to last? I am not holding my breath for now.​ https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/awkward-moment-the-fda-refuses-to

​ A Midwestrn Doctor on re-activating stress-dormant cells: Regenerative Medicine and The Cell Danger Response
How locally resolving the cell danger response allows chronically impaired tissues to heal and resume their normal function​ https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/regenerative-medicine-and-the-cell-6c5

​China, Korea, Japan, Iran… Average IQ by country (2025 update) https://web.archive.org/web/20250114060922/https:/international-iq-test.com/en/test/IQ_by_country

‘Walk for Peace’: Buddhist monks arrive in in Washington after 108-day journey​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTHyAde49eg

[John Day]

Glyphosate kills more than “weeds”, too: ‘Stark warning’: pesticide harm to wildlife rising globally, study finds
Toxicity from farm chemicals increased for most species groups between 2013 and 2019, with insects worst affected​ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/pesticide-wildlife-harm-rising-globally-despite-stark-warning-study

​ Common Sweetener May Damage Critical Brain Barrier, Risking Stroke
Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, erythritol has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar.​..
​..A study from the University of Colorado suggests erythritol may damage cells in the blood-brain barrier, the brain’s security system that keeps out harmful substances while letting in nutrients.​..
​..One major study tracking thousands of participants found that those with the highest blood levels of erythritol were roughly twice as likely to experience a major cardiac event.​ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-sweetener-may-damage-critical-brain-barrier-risking-stroke

​ Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function
Findings​: In this prospective cohort study of 131 821 individuals from 2 cohorts with up to 43 years of follow-up, 11 033 dementia cases were documented. Higher caffeinated coffee intake was significantly associated with lower risk of dementia. Decaffeinated coffee intake was not significantly associated with dementia risk.​ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2844764

​Wherever they looked, their tests found nothing bad… Moderna tries to whitewash their Biodistribution – Stevie Wonder and Helen Keller can find more. https://anandamide.substack.com/p/moderna-tries-to-whitewash-their

[John Day]

Dreadful 10Y Auction Sees Biggest Tail Since 2024, Foreign Demand Slides
Overall, this was a very disappointing 10Y auction, easily the worst refunding in over a year, and subjectively the ugliest sale of benchmark paper since 2024​. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dreadful-10y-auction-sees-biggest-tail-2024-foreign-demand-slides

China has reportedly told banks to scale back holdings of US government debt​ https://www.businessinsider.com/treasury-bonds-china-holdings-us-debt-sell-america-yields-dollar-2026-2

Predatory lenders un​restrained: ‘This Is Your Money’: Trump Assault on CFPB Has Cost Consumers $19 Billion​ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/this-is-your-money-trump-assault-on-cfpb-has-cost-consumers-19-billion.html

​ ‘Setting this agency up for failure’: Amid staffing crunch, IRS taps employees with no relevant experience to assist during filing season
The tax agency is taking unusual steps to prepare for its busy season after watchdog finds it is severely underprepared.​ https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/02/setting-agency-failure-amid-staffing-crunch-irs-taps-employees-no-relevant-experience-assist-during-filing-season/411192/?oref=ge-home-top-story

​ Meryl Nass MD, PFAS contamination of our food, water, soil and bodies–an update, and what we at Door to Freedom doing about it
And some good news at last!
​ The Waterkeeper Alliance (RFK, Jr’s old organization) found PFAS in 98% of waterways tested.
​ Readers hopefully recall that there was an effort to prevent regulation of PFAS-containing sludge (renamed as “Biosolids” since “sewer solids” didn’t sound so good) in a rider tucked into the Interior, Environment Appropriations Bills in the House and Senate.
​ Congress had directed the EPA, years ago, to study PFAS in sewer sludge. EPA’s draft report was released on January 15, 2025, just before Biden left office. It acknowledged the health problems of PFAS in sludge. So the industry came up with a clever rider that said that no money could be spent to finalize or otherwise use the report to advance regulation.
​ In an 11th hour maneuver, the rider got removed from the two bills in January, despite having been approved in committee. This is huge!​
​ Now efforts need to made to be sure that the report gets applied and PFAS (which till now has been unregulated in sludge) will be measured and limits applied. It would be great if it was prohibited, but that simply won’t happen.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/pfas-contamination-of-our-food-water

[John Day]

Commercial flights were mysteriously shut down: Duffy: FAA And Military “Acted Swiftly” To Combat “Cartel Drone Incursion” On US Border https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/special-security-reasons-faa-abruptly-halts-all-flight-operations-above-us-border-town-el

The Honest Sorcerer on the critical shortage of physical silver: Silver: A Story of Converging Supply Crises​ – Are we in for a Bronze Age Collapse 2.0? https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/silver-a-story-of-converging-supply

Gold & Geopolitics, This time is different ™​ – Shanghai’s watching
You know what I’ve noticed? Every single time someone gets close to actually winning in the silver market, the rules change.
Not some of the time. Not most of the time.
Every.​ Single.​ Time.​..
​..COMEX registered silver has dropped from 167.7 million ounces in October 2025 to 102.5 million ounces last report. That’s a 39% decline in four months. The drainage rate is running at around 750k ounces per day.January 2026 saw 49.4 million ounces delivered. That’s 7.27 times January 2024 levels. In a non-primary delivery month. February is showing a 98% delivery rate – nearly every contract standing for delivery instead of rolling forward. Out of 19.11 million ounces of open interest, 18.72 million demanded delivery.
​ That’s not a futures market. That’s a run on the bank.
​ The March contract has open interest representing around 380 million ounces. COMEX has 102.5 million ounces registered, falling daily. Even if only 27% demand delivery – conservative given recent rates – they’d need 102.6 million ounces…
​..Meanwhile in Shanghai, trader Bian Ximing is short 450 tons. The entire Shanghai Futures Exchange has only 349.9 tons available. This guy is short more silver than exists on the exchange. Add to that the unbelievable drain last Friday! There’s simply no escape. Someone fails to deliver.
​ The paper-to-physical ratio has reached absurd levels. Some estimates put it at 250:1. For every ounce of real silver, there are 250 paper claims. I’ve seen numbers fluctuating between 400:1 to 25:1.​..
​..I wouldn’t want to be a politician in this environment. Because you’ve got the choice between two evils. Let European banks eat the losses, or permanently losing price discovery to China?​ Because if they choose to intervene too obviously – liquidation-only, trade cancellations, forced cash settlement – every serious trader routes business through Shanghai. Yuan will become the pricing currency. And China controls yet another strategic market.​..
..Every intervention proves the game is rigged. But if they intervene too obviously, then Shanghai wins by default.
Traders aren’t stupid. They watch this. If COMEX and LBMA become obvious jokes, if SLV turns into a cash-settlement scam, business moves to Shanghai. Not because China is more trustworthy. But because at least they actually deliver physical when demanded.​..
​..Every time, the authorities changed the rules.
This time it’s European banks versus American banks versus China.
​ The Americans switched sides. They’re long now. They win if silver runs.
The Europeans are trapped. No escape.
​ And China? Waiting. Ready to take price discovery if the West plays too many games.
Someone’s going to get sacrificed when the music stops.​ And to me it looks like Europe drew the short straw.​ https://no01.substack.com/p/this-time-is-different

Historic Negative Jobs Revisions: 1 Million Fewer Jobs Added In 2025, Only 15,000 Avg Jobs Monthly​ https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/historic-negative-jobs-revisions-1-million-fewer-jobs-added-2025-only-15000-avg-jobs

CBO Director Warns US Fiscal Path Is ‘Not Sustainable’ ; Projects Additional $1.4T Deficit Swell Under Trump Agenda​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cbo-director-warns-us-fiscal-path-not-sustainable-projects-additional-14t-deficit-swell

[John Day]

​ 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-system

​A 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/

[John Day]

So 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-blocking

Cuba’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

[John Day]

MAJOR 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-trump

Trump 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

[John Day]

Pre 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-iii

FBI 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

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@Phoenixvoice: I’m sorry. The machine is being broken and all errors are in the favor of the bank, until the bank (govt.) absolves itself of all responsibility.

@Zerosum: Yes, the new rules of the great game are that anything you do has to reduce diesel use, but you can impose that on somebody else.
Political and economic events have to match the normal fossil fuel decline curve that is an open-secret.

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Josh Mitteldorf,​ What happened to the data?​ Governments are sitting on the data that could settle vaccine controversies.​ https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-the-data

Not Clear Whether Vaccines Cause Autism, Needs More Research; NIH Director Says​ https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/not-clear-whether-vaccines-cause-autism-needs-more-research-nih-director-says

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Watch: Dr. Oz Unmasks Billions In Hospice Fraud Tied To Foreign Mafias And Welfare Scams​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/watch-dr-oz-unmasks-billions-hospice-fraud-tied-foreign-mafias-and-welfare-scams

​Theatrical performance: When the WHO Wouldn’t Return the Flag, Trump and Rubio Sent the Marines https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/02/07/when-the-who-wouldnt-return-the-flag-trump-and-rubio-sent-the-marines-n4949238#google_vignette

​ Study Finds 3,625 High-Containment Biolabs Worldwide — 73% Don’t Disclose Their Locations or Pathogen Activities
The U.S. houses 47% of global BSL-3 facilities — and 91.6% of countries operating them lack dual-use research oversight.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/study-finds-3625-high-containment

​ That business model again? Statins stimulate atherosclerosis and heart failure: pharmacological mechanisms
In contrast to the current belief that cholesterol reduction with statins decreases atherosclerosis, we present a perspective that statins may be causative in coronary artery calcification and can function as mitochondrial toxins that impair muscle function in the heart and blood vessels through the depletion of coenzyme Q10 and ‘heme A’, and thereby ATP generation. Statins inhibit the synthesis of vitamin K2, the cofactor for matrix Gla-protein activation, which in turn protects arteries from calcification. Statins inhibit the biosynthesis of selenium containing proteins, one of which is glutathione peroxidase serving to suppress peroxidative stress. An impairment of selenoprotein biosynthesis may be a factor in congestive heart failure, reminiscent of the dilated cardiomyopathies seen with selenium deficiency. Thus, the epidemic of heart failure and atherosclerosis that plagues the modern world may paradoxically be aggravated by the pervasive use of statin drugs. ​ https://cardiacos.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2015-Statins-stimulate-atherosclerosis-and-heart-failure-pharmacological-mechanisms.pdf

​ CDC Study Finds COVID Shots Increase the Risk of a Leading Cause of Maternal and Fetal Death by 24%
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are major drivers of preterm birth, emergency delivery, seizures, stroke, organ injury, long-term cardiovascular disease, and maternal and fetal death.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-cdc-study-finds-covid-shots

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Russia Vows ‘All Possible Assistance’ To Cuba As US ‘Strangles’ The Population​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-vows-all-possible-assistance-cuba-us-strangles-population

Global piracy: Trump’s Venezuela Tanker Crackdown Goes Global With Indian Ocean Interdiction​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trumps-venezuela-tanker-crackdown-goes-global-indian-ocean-interdiction

​ Trump’s designs on Greenland might be as much about out-manoeuvring the Canadians, as the Russians
​ But it’s on the high seas that President Trump may also see considerable benefit in Greenland and here Russia is a long way ahead. Since at least the start of the Ukraine crisis, and with global warming making the Arctic increasingly navigable by sea during summer months, Russia has been actively developing its Northern Sea Route. Going over the top of the world slashes the distance for ships traveling between Europe and East Asia by three times, halving sailing time, compared to routing through the Suez Canal.
​ Russia also exerts complete control over the Exclusive Economic Zone that it passes through.
​ The comparable Northwest passage, over the top of Canada and Alaska, is seen as potentially shaving almost 3,500 nautical miles off the shipping routes for cargo that might normally transit the Panama canal. In 2013, the bulk carrier Nordic Orion made the journey from the eastern U.S., saving four days sailing and £200,000 in the process.
​ However, the legal status of the North West Passage is long disputed between Canada, which claims it as internal waters, and the U.S. American control of Greenland would radically change the balance of power and control over the route, with the U.S. anchoring both choke points, in the Bering Sea and into the Atlantic.
​ A less legally contested North-Western passage would also make it easier for the U.S. to maintain unchallenged military navigation across one half of the arctic waters. Gaining Greenland would make the U.S. both the entry and exit point to the route, reducing the strength of Canada’s claim to exclusive control.​ https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/trumps-designs-on-greenland-might
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How whale-traders sidestepped market short-circuits to hammer silver down: Gold & Geopolitics, The rules are made to be gamed – Silver edition https://no01.substack.com/p/the-rules-are-made-to-be-gamed

For-profit service providers increase profits through fraud: The real reason behind Minnesota’s Somali fraud scandal
The easiest way to steal from government programs is the same everywhere, and it has nothing to do with immigration​ https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-real-reason-behind-the-minnesota

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​ Russia to interrogate two suspects over attempted killing of general, report says
After interrogation, the suspects will be charged, the newspaper reported, without confirming whether the suspects had been detained. Russia has not officially reported ⁠the detention of the suspects​ https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/russia-to-interrogate-two-suspects-over-attempted-killing-of-general-report-says/article70603619.ece

​ China Rejects Calls to Join New Nuclear Arms Talks After After U.S.-Russia New START Ends https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/China-Rejects-Calls-to-Join-New-Nuclear-Arms-Talks-After-After-US-Russia-New-START-Ends/

Andrew Korybko, Any New Strategic Arms Control Pact Between Russia and the US Hinges on China’s Participation
They importantly added that, “While this report assessed in 2020 that China’s nuclear warhead would double from a stockpile of the low 200s over the next decade, the PLA remains on track to have over 1,000 warheads by 2030”, or quintupling its estimated nuclear stockpile in just a single decade. The approximately 800 more warheads that it’s expected to have by 2030 equates to an average of 80 new nukes a year, which is more than North Korea’s entire stockpile (~50) and slightly less than Israel’s (~90).
​ The New START that just expired restricted Russia and the US to 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads at any given time, the number of which China is on pace to reach by 2035 at its current rate. If it begins building them faster than one every 4.5 days, then this could happen even sooner, and China could then be emboldened to more assertively push back against its US-led regional containment. In order to preempt that, the US might deploy more nukes, build more, and/or help Japan and/or South Korea develop nukes.
​ Therein lies the reason why Trump let the New START lapse since the first two options aren’t possible without releasing the US from its restrictions and they’re much more manageable than proliferating nuclear weapons technology to its East Asian allies. The US’ retention of its nuclear superiority vis-à-vis China is non-negotiable, so it’ll either unilaterally maintain its existing edge outside of strategic arms control pacts or institutionalize it through a new such pact involving China.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/any-new-strategic-arms-control-pact-russia-us-hinges-china-participation/5915216

Who ya kidding? U.S. Air Force Academy Report Calls For Massive Expansion of F-47 Fighter and B-21 Bomber Acquisition Plans to Fight China​ https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-air-force-massively-expanded-f47-b21-china

Cuba Ready To Negotiate With Trump, But Urges Dialing Down Of Pressure​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cuba-ready-negotiate-trump-urges-dialing-down-pressure

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Media ignore allegations that Israel raped German journalist​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/media-ignore-allegations-that-israel-raped-german-journalist/

Israeli unit boasts of destroying Gaza girls’ school near Indonesia Hospital as part of northern campaign​ https://x.com/HatsOffff/status/2019606980701352311

Ignoring UN resoultions and replacing UN agencies with gangsters: The Media is Whitewashing Trump’s Board of Peace​ https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/07/the-media-is-whitewashing-trumps-board-of-peace/

​RoundUp in high concentrations: OHCHR Raises Alarm on Israeli Toxic Spraying in South Lebanon https://www.telesurenglish.net/lebanon-israel-toxic-spraying-ohchr/

He wouldn’t comply so AIPAC taught him a lesson: It’s pissing people off’: Centrist Democrats are livid with AIPAC after primary fiasco
AIPAC spent $2 million attacking moderate-leaning Tom Malinowski in a House special election — and may have handed the race to progressive Analilia Mejia.​ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/centrist-democrats-are-livid-with-aipac-after-primary-meddling-00769461

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Israel returns bodies with evidence of organ theft and severe mutilation – Not a ceasefire Day 120​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-returns-bodies-with-evidence-of-organ-theft-and-severe-mutilation-not-a-ceasefire-day-120/

​ ‘Israelis steal kidneys’: Teacher gets fired in California after sharing antisemitic video
“There’s no chance we would allow such a person to enter classrooms,” a local Israeli told N12.​ https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-885891

​ They have been looking forward to this: Caitlin Johnstone, In Australia The Police Beat You Up For Opposing Genocide
Australian authorities were fully aware that inviting Israel’s president for a visit was going to ignite unrest and furious opposition. They invited him anyway, and sent in the police to assault the protesters.
​ I saw a video of two cops pinning a kid in a keffiyeh face down on the ground and proceeding to punch him over and over again long after he’d been subdued.
I saw another video of police repeatedly punching a middle-aged man who was holding his hands in the air until he fell to the ground.
​ I saw another video of police repeatedly pepper spraying a demonstrator directly in the face as he was visibly complying with their demands to move and providing no resistance whatsoever.
​ I saw another video of police manhandling Muslim men who were literally on their knees praying, presenting no possible threat of any kind.​ https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/in-australia-the-police-beat-you

​ Geneva Academy warns Gaza death toll could top 200,000
Population decline suggests Gaza toll higher than confirmed deaths, expert says​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/geneva-academy-warns-gaza-death-toll-could-top-200-000/3822529

​ Handcuffs, interrogation, humiliation: Palestinians describe Israeli treatment at Rafah crossing
The first Palestinians returned to Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing this week, after being stuck outside Gaza for two years or more. They described grueling interrogations, intimidation, and threats by Israeli soldiers at the crossing.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/handcuffs-interrogation-humiliation-palestinians-describe-israeli-treatment-at-rafah-crossing/

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Two Palestinians martyred as Israeli fire and demolitions continue across Gaza​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/06/357368/

​ Israeli Settlers, Military Accelerate Violent Expulsion of Palestinians Off Their Land in the West Bank
What was once creeping encroachment by settlers has escalated over the past three years into a state-backed campaign of mass expulsion.​ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-west-bank-palestinian-displacement-settlers-bedouins-jordan-valley

​ For Six Hours, Israeli Settlers Rampaged Two West Bank Villages – While Soldiers Looked On
‘Settlers tried to break down our door, broke the window and sprayed us with pepper spray,’ a resident recalls​ https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2026-02-04/ty-article-magazine/.premium/for-six-hours-israeli-settlers-rampaged-two-west-bank-villages-while-soldiers-looked-on/0000019c-23d8-d604-adbe-abf9fd7e0000

Ten elected West Bank lawmakers held in Israeli prisons​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02/07/357412/

​ Israel ‘imposes de facto annexation’ with sweeping West Bank policy change
New regulations include expanded Israeli authority in Area A, including at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron​ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approves-west-bank-policy-expand-settlements-deepen-control

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​ Iran Deploys Khorramshahr-4 Ballistic Missile for Combat Duty, Redefining Middle East Deterrence and Escalation Dynamics
Iran’s decision to operationalise the Khorramshahr-4 ballistic missile marks a decisive shift from defensive deterrence to offensive missile diplomacy, dramatically compressing response times for Israel and U.S. forces while reshaping escalation dynamics across the Middle East and Indo-Pacific energy corridors.​ https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/iran-deploys-khorramshahr-4-ballistic-missile-combat-duty-middle-east-deterrence/#google_vignette

Iran Offers To Dilute Enriched Uranium If US Lifts All The Sanctions​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-offers-dilute-enriched-uranium-if-us-lifts-all-sanctions

​ Demand everything and also annihilate Iran this week: Jetting to DC, Netanyahu says he’ll present Trump with ‘our approach’ to Iran talks
PM to meet president earlier than planned amid Israeli unease over potential direction of nuclear talks; Israeli official says PM focused on curbing nuclear and missile rearmament​ https://www.timesofisrael.com/jetting-to-dc-netanyahu-says-hell-present-trump-with-our-approach-to-iran-talks/

​ How Israel destroyed Gaza’s health system ‘deliberately and methodically’
Despite ‘ceasefire’, the health sector in Gaza continues to suffer from shortages, destruction and lack of equipment.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/4/how-israel-destroyed-gazas-health-system-deliberately-and-methodically

Israeli forces shell Gaza, demolish buildings amid ongoing ceasefire violations​ https://en.yenisafak.com/world/israeli-forces-shell-gaza-demolish-buildings-amid-ongoing-ceasefire-violations-3714292

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Russia accuses Polish intelligence in general’s assassination attempt
Russian authorities claim Poland assisted Ukraine in recruiting a suspect for a failed assassination of a top military intelligence official in Moscow. The alleged shooter was captured in Dubai and extradited to Russia.
​ The FSB released a video purporting to show suspect Lyubomyr Korba describing his recruitment in Ukraine in August 2025. He claims he was trained, vetted with a polygraph, and promised $30,000 for the killing. Korba stated his son, a Polish citizen, facilitated the connection with Polish intelligence. The attack occurred last Friday in Moscow, where Alekseyev, deputy head of Russia’s military intelligence directorate, was seriously wounded but survived.​..
​..The accusation marks a significant escalation, directly implicating Poland, a NATO member and key ally of Ukraine. The Russian government classifies such incidents as terrorist acts orchestrated by Kyiv. ​ https://en.yenisafak.com/world/russia-accuses-polish-intelligence-in-generals-assassination-attempt-3714362

​ Russia has rejected a US proposal regarding the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
Moscow has opposed Washington’s proposal to transfer the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to US control to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, Reuters reports , citing a source.​ https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/8418748?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

​ Moon of Alabama: U.S.-Iran Talks Up To A ‘Good Start’
The first round of new talks between Iran and the United States in Muscat, Oman, has ended with satisfying results.
​ U.S. President Donald Trump very much needs the talks to chicken out from his threats to again attack Iran. Any attack on Iran would be retaliated for with missile​s which would cause massive damage to U.S. and Israeli assets…
​ Other Iranian media report that Araghchi during the talks insisted on continued enrichment in Iran and that neither side budged on their previously stated positions.
​ After consultations with the capitals a new round is likely to take place in a week or so.
​ For some intriguing (or stupid) reason the U.S. delegation, led by Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, included Admiral Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East. The Iranian delegation was purely civilian and certainly not impressed by some uniformed man sitting in a room away from theirs.
​ I have yet to see ‘leaks’ or rumors from the U.S. side of the negotiations.
​ There are many people around the White House, i.e. Marco Rubio, and in Israel who do want the talks to fail. They will do their best to portrait the Iranian position as unreasonable and to press for and immediate end of the negotiations.
​ But Trump needs a way out. Any new conflagration in Middle East could easily turn into a months long disaster with significant U.S. casualties. The political aftermath of such a fight would likely ruin his presidency.​ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/02/u-s-iran-talks-up-to-a-good-start.html

​Lots and lots of missile defenses to US bases: At Least 112 USAF C-17 Aircraft Headed To Middle East: ‘Desert Storm Levels’ https://www.zerohedge.com/military/least-112-usaf-c-17-aircraft-headed-middle-east-desert-storm-levels

Will the US nuke Iran while Netanyahu is in Washington? Iran War Watch: US Moves Towards Attack Footing Despite Questionable Odds of Success
​Col. Daniel Davis: “So there’s lots of air force. If you don’t know those C-17s, one of the pictures right there, these are the large transports. You can move tanks in these things, large combat vehicles, air defense missiles. These are some of the aircraft that’s used to use a lot of the air offensive and air defensive missiles into the region. And you see there is a huge huge number much much more than anything normal implying that you have been moving lots and lots of equipment and ammunition in uh there has also just been in the last 48 hours or so according to channel 14 out of Israel US has finalized the deployment of Patriot and THAAD missiles defense system across 20 bases in the Middle East. 20 bases.
​ So, this tells you that we are seriously taking the issue of air defense seriously. And of course, listen, it’s it goes without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway. You’re not going to move in a buttload of air defense systems unless you expect to receive a lot of missiles. Meaning, this is much, much more than just the normal deployment.
​ And when you take a look at the bases that are scattered throughout the region, you see that there is a lot there. And listen, I mean​ it’s useful and necessary to have additional missiles and all these other air defense capabilities, whether it’s THAAD or Patriot or anything else, but as I have talked about many times, and the Iranians have proven last year especially, their offensive missiles will get through our defenses. We’ll shoot some of it down, but not all of it.” https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/iran-war-watch-us-moves-towards-attack-footing-despite-questionable-odds-of-success.html

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​ Alex Krainer explains that 30 years of sheltering Pakistani rape gangs might finally bring consequences: London’s blind panic
The Trump administration may be gunning for a total takedown of the pathogenic British establishment. UK’s color revolution playbook may be coming home to roost.​
​ As I discussed it in last week’s TrendCompass report, the recent release of Epstein files caused quite a panic in the ranks of UK’s political establishment, prompting the Prince of Darkness, Lord Peter Mandelson to resign from the Labour Party and from the House of Lords.​ https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/londons-blind-panic

​War against French citizens… “Today, We Are Preparing For War”: French Defense Chief Says Europe Has Until 2030, Cites Russia As Biggest Threat​ https://www.zerohedge.com/military/today-we-are-preparing-war-french-defense-chief-says-europe-has-until-2030-cites-russia

​ Simplicius, Europe’s Triumvirate of Lame Stooges Faces Moment of Truth
Beneath the feigned ‘Ukrainian solidarity’ and ‘European strength’ put-ons, Europe’s leaders are drowning in unprecedented crises. The leaders of all three major nations—Germany, UK, and France—are seeing the total collapse of their factions and rulership in general, as their approval ratings hit rock bottom.​..
​..Whether Starmer actually survives or not is immaterial: the fact remains that Europe is in a deep crisis of credibility, no longer retaining even a picayune’s worth of moral authority over the rest of the world. But the whacky thing is that these Western governments have no real solutions to their problems because the issues are so utterly structural and fundamental in nature, that merely the simple act of admitting to their root causes would signify the total collapse of everything the Western globalist order has built up over the last decades.​..
..The most notable example is the ‘quick-fix’ of mass migration, which is meant to quickly boost economic and job figures in the short-term for political PR, while turning each host country into a cultural cloaca that leads to the erosion of all key societal pillars over the long-term.​..
..European countries are trapped in this zugzwang of inextricable problems that can only be “patched” over because, as stated earlier, truly fixing them at the first-principle level would require peering into uncomfortable closets where the elites have stashed their secrets. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/europes-triumvirate-of-lame-stooges

Zelenskyy Says US Gave Ukraine And Russia A June Deadline To End War​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelenskyy-says-us-gave-ukraine-and-russia-june-deadline-end-war

​ Macron Reopens Direct Channel With Putin As He Moves To Counter Trump
But ironically it’s not necessarily for the sake of seeking to forge a peace deal in eastern European, but in reality toward ensuring the United States doesn’t mediate something less than satisfactory to Ukraine and Europe. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-reopens-direct-channel-putin-he-moves-counter-trump

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