by Scott Creighton
Over and over again this comes up for a vote in the United Nations and over and over again it's pretty much the same story. I wonder why.
'The Jewish mob, led by Meyer Lansky and closely tied to the Italian-American Mafia, was forced out of Cuba during the 1959 Cuban Revolution. When Fidel Castro’s forces seized power, they nationalized hotels and casinos, causing Lansky to lose his estimated $7 million investment and fleeing the island immediately'
Oh well, that makes sense.
Novichok. The new one.
Instacart story https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/02/instacart-just-stole-my-last-100-bucks.html
Instacart and the FTC https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/12/instacart-pay-60-million-consumer-refunds-settle-ftc-lawsuit-over-allegations-it-engaged-deceptive
Max Blumenthal and The Shah Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5BhZbIVgY&t=325s
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--- UPDATE 2 ---
Well would you look at this. Not only is Instacart bleeding out customers these days, but Robbie ( @Robbie96781988 ) found this from FTC official website:
Insrtacart was just hit with a massive ruling regarding their deceptive practices, fraud and 'unlawful subscription enrollment processes'
'FTC settlement resolves allegations that Instacart deceived consumers with false advertising, failure to provide refunds, and unlawful subscription enrollment processes ...
Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that grocery delivery provider Instacart will pay $60 million in refunds to consumers to settle allegations that the company engaged in numerous unlawful tactics that harmed shoppers and raised the cost of grocery shopping for Americans. Instacart will be required to cease its deceptive practices under a proposed FTC order, and consumers who were charged for Instacart+ without their express informed consent will receive refunds as a result of the settlement' FTC website
So it looks like Instacart has found a NEW WAY to unlawfully enroll people in their subscription services... just sign up old ones who have quit them. I mean, after all, they still have their bank account information, just take the money and see how many make noise about it.
Not only am I now contacting Chase fraud services, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,More Perfect Union and Groundwork Collaborative... but now I also have to contact the Federal Trade Commission with this news about how Instacart seems to be trying to make up the $60 million hit they just took for being corrupt in the first place.
H/T and big thanks to Robbie ( @Robbie96781988 ) for finding this and to Aunt BB ( @AuntBee8 ) from bringing it to my attention. Give em both a follow if you can.
see UPDATE at end of article
It's not enough that they jack up the prices on stuff you need from the store.
It's not enough they charge some people more for the same product from the same store as they charge others.
Nope.
Apparently they are now waiting until late Friday evening (after bank offices close that can help you fix this fraudulent charge) and then hit you with a totally fraudulent charge for accounts you no longer have.
Just straight up stealing from their previous customers who helped make them rich over the years.
Just flat out thieves at Instacart.
When I got the car I immediately cancelled my Instacart subscription. Didn't need it or want it anymore. I'm happy shopping for myself after several years of not being able to.
This evening I can't sleep so I checked my email and saw I was under $50 in my account. That made no sense. After going to the store this morning and dealing with the sunroof all day, I knew I had about $117 in my account which is not much but enough to maybe get what I need to try to fix the sunroof in the morning.
Come to find out, Instacart, after all this time, submitted a fraudulent charge against my debit card of $99, a year subscription to their service.
So I went to Instacart and tried to log in on my old account to see what was going on and maybe have to jump thru the hoops of cancelling it... again... and lo and behold... I don't have an account at Instacart.
That's the screen you get when you try to log into an account with an email it doesn't recognize as having an account. Of course it doesn't because I don't have an account with Instacart anymore.
I took to Twitter immediately after trying to call the bank to challenge this fraudulent charge but they are closed for the day. Will see if they even open on Sat. in the morning.
This is Steve and Other News of the Day
Trump issues order declaring glyphosate national defense priority https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/19/trump-executive-order-glyphosate-herbicides-roundup/88766972007/
Trump throws a hissy fit over SCOTUS tariff ruling https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5746060-live-updates-trump-supreme-court-governors/
Rathbone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRAhBwZt7Rc&t=22s
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from Common Dreams
US Sen. Bernie Sanders used his appearance at a rally in Los Angeles on Wednesday to call out—in some cases by name—the billionaires using tiny slices of their fortunes to fight a proposed wealth tax in California.
“What I can tell the oligarchs is that the American people are sick and tired of their greed,” Sanders (I-Vt.) told an enthusiastic audience gathered at The Wiltern theater, with members of the crowd donning “Tax the Billionaires” T-shirts. “They are sick and tired of people like Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, who is spending $20 million to defeat this tax on billionaires.”
“It’s not just Mr. Brin,” the senator continued. “Mark Zuckerberg is the wealthiest man in California and the fourth-wealthiest person in the world, worth $226 billion. And for Mr. Zuckerberg, it is apparently not good enough to own one yacht. He had to buy three yachts worth $530 million. He had to buy 11 homes in Palo Alto to make a family compound. Mr. Zuckerberg, you can afford to pay your fair share of taxes so that people have healthcare.”
The senator also condemned billionaires’ fearmongering about the supposed negative impacts of wealth taxes and threats to flee the state if the levy proposed in California is enacted.
“I would say to these oligarchs: Be careful, because you are treading on very, very thin ice,” said Sanders. “At a time when the very rich are becoming phenomenally richer, when the very rich have been given a massive tax break by Donald Trump, when millions of people in this state are struggling to be able to afford healthcare, maybe billionaires should start paying their fair share of taxes.”...
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from Daily Sabah
Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has vowed to displace more Palestinians from the occupied territories.
The announcement Tuesday came as part of his "Colonisation 2030" campaign and presented as encouraging "emigration," despite mounting criticism of recent measures tightening control over the occupied West Bank.
Since last week, Israel has approved a series of initiatives backed by far-right ministers to consolidate control over the West Bank, including in areas administered by the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo Accords, in place since the 1990s.
"We will eliminate the idea of an Arab ... state," Smotrich said at an event organized by his Religious Zionism Party late Tuesday.
"We will finally, formally, and in practical terms nullify the cursed Oslo Accords and embark on a path toward sovereignty, while encouraging emigration from both Gaza and Judea and Samaria," he said, using the Biblical term for the West Bank.
"There is no other long-term solution," added Smotrich, who himself lives in a settlement in the West Bank.
Smotrich was speaking at a vineyard near Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, where he presented the "Colonization 2030" campaign initiative ahead of national elections scheduled for later this year...
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from al Mayadeen English
Joint naval exercises between Iran and Russia commenced Thursday in the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean, with participating warships deploying to their designated missions and coordinating operational activities at sea.
Captain Hassan Maqsoudlou, spokesperson for the joint drills, confirmed that naval vessels had embarked on their assignments a day earlier. He stated that following the deployment of units across the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean, information was exchanged between operations rooms aboard the participating warships.
Maqsoudlou noted that special operations units from the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy and the naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), alongside their Russian counterparts, conducted a series of coordinated exercises, successfully achieving the objectives set for the maneuvers.
He added that the Iranian Navy carries out numerous routine programs in the framework of defense diplomacy, emphasizing that the current drills fall within the annual plans agreed upon between Tehran and Moscow...
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from PressTV
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that any new US strike on Iran is “playing with fire” and will have “serious consequences.”
Lavrov made the remark in an interview with Saudi Arabia's al-Arabiya television aired on Wednesday, a day after Iranian and American negotiators held indirect talks in the Swiss city of Geneva over Tehran's nuclear program.
"The consequences are not good. There have already been strikes on Iran on nuclear sites under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), he said.
“From what we can judge, there were real risks of a nuclear incident… Everyone understands this is playing with fire,” the top Russian diplomat emphasized.
Iran and the US held the second round of indirect nuclear negotiations at the Omani consulate general in Geneva on Tuesday. As in the previous round in the Omani capital of Muscat, the agenda of the talks focused primarily on the nuclear issue and the lifting of illegal US sanctions.
Following the talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the two sides agreed on a set of guiding principles to clear the path for future talks.
Separately, a senior US official, who spoke to Reuters on Wednesday, said Iran is anticipated to present a written proposal for resolving its dispute with the United States following the Geneva talks...
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This is Gaza https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/02/this-is-gaza-as-zionist-envisions-it.html
Gaza Today https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/02/gaza-today.html
the list with links https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/02/gaza-before-and-after-genocide.html
The Guardian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQdB9xPhBCo&t=133s
UN human Rights Council https://x.com/ricwe123/status/2023721443968585864
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by Scott Creighton
video from @nadaa01012
Remember... in order to build you must first destroy. That is what this is all about. Not about Hamas. Not about Oct. 7th. Not about existential threats.
'From the river to the river' was the promise. That's what Daniela Weiss said in that documentary. That's what they claim the promise from god was. Everything from the river Euphrates to the river Nile belongs to the Israelis. It's right there in front of your eyes and always has been.
In order to achieve that they must destroy what came before them. Wipe it out. Not only ethnically cleanse the land of it's rightful owners, but erase all the evidence of it ever being inhabited.
Only then can they begin to construct their own technocratic version of what the land of Palestine is to become.
from Common Dreams
Much has already been written about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s damage-control mission to the Munich Security Conference, sent to cool transatlantic tensions mere weeks after President Donald Trump hinted multiple times at annexing Greenland by force. But beneath the conciliatory tone was Rubio’s explicit defense of the fight against “godless communist revolutions” and “anti-colonial uprisings” throughout the world, a horrific sanitization of the US-backed dictatorships that terrorized Latin America and beyond in the last century.
Rubio painted a sweeping narrative of Western civilization under threat. “The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline,” he declared, “accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map.”
from Public Knowledge
We are nearing the 30th anniversary of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, in which lies Section 230, the infamous internet liability shield opponents believe is the major roadblock to making platforms a safer, healthier space for free expression. Responding to incessant calls to hold social media platforms accountable for harm, a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers have championed repealing or reforming Section 230. The most recent charge is driven largely by kids’ online safety debates, and is being led in the Senate by Senators Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) with support from a bipartisan group of 8 other lawmakers. In the House, Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY) introduced her own Section 230 sunset bill to tackle what she perceives as “liberal Silicon Valley bias” in platform content moderation. Most recently, Representative Jimmy Patronis (R-FL) introduced the Promoting Responsible Online Technology and Ensuring Consumer Trust (PROTECT) Act, legislation to repeal Section 230, coming from the angle of holding platforms accountable for harm to children.
from al Jazeera
Al Jazeera is set to release a new investigation on armed groups in Gaza accused of collaborating with the Israeli military against Palestinians, detailing their names, movements and training locations, as Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave continues unabated.
The investigation, a new episode of the programme What is Hidden is Greater, by Al Jazeera journalist Tamer Almisshal, will be broadcast at 9pm in Doha (18:00 GMT) on Friday. It includes audio and video material that the network says documents how individuals inside Gaza were recruited and operated.
The investigation reveals how the armed groups have been moving freely from northern to southern Gaza behind the so-called “yellow line” – the self-proclaimed demarcation line, effectively a buffer zone, where the Israeli army is entrenched under the first phase of the Gaza “ceasefire” that came into effect in October.
Israel has repeatedly violated the “ceasefire” on a near-daily basis, killing more than 525 Palestinians.
Israeli military maps indicate the line extends 1.5km and 6.5km (0.9 to 4 miles) inside Gaza from its eastern boundary with Israel and covers roughly 58 percent of the enclave...
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from al Jazeera
Hamas has rejected remarks by an Israeli government official calling for the Gaza-based group to disarm in 60 days and threatening to resume Israel’s genocidal war if it fails to comply.
Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi told Al Jazeera Mubasher on Monday that he had no knowledge of such a demand.
“Statements made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu … and through the media are merely threats with no basis in the ongoing negotiations”, Al Jazeera Arabic cited him as saying.
Mardawi’s comments come after Israeli Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs, during a conference in Jerusalem on Monday, threatened to renew the genocidal war on Gaza if Hamas failed to disarm in 60 days, local media outlet the Times of Israel reported.
A top aide to Netanyahu, Fuchs claimed that the two-month period was requested by the United States administration. “We are respecting that,” he said...
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from al Mayadeen English
Eight Arab and Islamic countries on Tuesday issued a unified condemnation of "Israel’s" latest decision to designate vast areas in the occupied West Bank as “state land” and initiate comprehensive land registration procedures for the first time since 1967.
In a joint statement released from Doha, the foreign ministers of Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt described the move as a grave escalation designed to accelerate settlement expansion, entrench Israeli control, and impose what they termed unlawful sovereignty over occupied Palestinian territory.
The condemnation follows the Israeli cabinet’s approval on Sunday of a proposal to register large areas of the occupied West Bank as “state property", a move reportedly spearheaded by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, alongside so-called Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Security Minister Israel Katz. Israeli media reported ahead of the vote that the plan envisions the gradual settlement of 15% of Area C by 2030.
Under the 1995 Oslo II Accord, the West Bank was divided into Areas A, B, and C. While Areas A and B fall under varying degrees of Palestinian administrative control, Area C, comprising roughly 61% of the territory, remains under full Israeli control and hosts the majority of illegal settlements. The newly approved policy focuses squarely on this zone...
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(Meanwhile... U.S. House Blocks Resolution to Bar Trump From Using Military Force in Venezuela )
from TeleSur
On Thursday, Jim McGovern, a Democratic U.S. representative for Massachusetts’ 2nd Congressional District, introduced a bill to eliminate the legal basis of the U.S. blockade against Cuba.
“I introduced a bill to repeal the U.S. embargo against Cuba. For over six decades, the U.S. has embraced failed, obsolete, Cold War thinking toward Cuba,” said the lawmaker, who is also a senior member of the House Rules Committee, a leading anti-hunger advocate and co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.
“Our 60-plus-year embargo has been ineffective and counterproductive — it hurts the Cuban people, it strengthens hardliners, it gives rise to more refugees, and it undercuts our standing in the world,” he added.
“We have tried the same thing for over 60 years — and it has failed for over 60 years. Let’s try something different — let’s open things up! Let’s lift the embargo, giving U.S. businesses, entrepreneurs, tourists and universities more access.”
“Let’s push for freedom and democracy through diplomacy and engagement. Let’s let Cubans who live on the island decide their own future — not Marco Rubio or Donald Trump,” McGovern concluded.
His bill, titled the United States-Cuba Trade Act (H.R. 7521), seeks to repeal the statutory basis for the U.S. embargo on Cuba. To that end, McGovern’s proposal would:
from NPR
Over his long career, Robert Duvall brought a wide range of characters to life, from tough Marines to wistful, tender-hearted cowboys.
Duvall died on Sunday. His wife Luciana posted on Facebook on Monday, "Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, cherished friend, and one of the greatest actors of our time. Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort."
He was 95 years old.
In
his first major movie role, in 1962, Robert Duvall appeared in only a
handful of scenes. He didn't have a single word of dialogue. Yet the
actor managed to make an indelible, star-making impression. The film was
To Kill a Mockingbird. The role was Boo Radley.
from the Guardian
John Paulson, a hedge fund billionaire and one of Donald Trump’s earliest Wall Street backers, is planning to offshore an Ohio manufacturing plant to China despite heavy pushback from employees.
Workers at the plant call the move “a slap in our face”, after Paulson vocally defended domestic manufacturing, and are fighting to keep the plant open.
Conn Selmer, the largest US manufacturer of brass and orchestra instruments, told the union it planned to offshore most work at its East Lake, Ohio, plant to China by the end of June 2026, eliminating 150 jobs.
United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2359, which represents the 150 employees, said workers were informed of the closing when it first sat down to bargain over their new union contract last month...
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by Scott Creighton
Keep in mind...
by Scott Creighton
Hundreds of first responders on Sept. 11th 2001 reported hearing and seeing explosions which took down the Twin Towers and Building 7. Many videos exist of those explosions some even showing the tell-tale flashing light going from floor to floor as the det cord pulverized the concrete and steel floor systems ahead of the upper sections' fall at free-fall acceleration.
Here is a little reminder of what a few of those responders said.
Remember... NIST never tested for residual traces of the high explosives that were used in the demolition of the Twin Towers and Building 7. When pressed to explain why, they said that their special expert told them it didn't LOOK like a typical controlled demolition. That special expert was the owner of Controlled Demolition Inc. (CDI) which was the largest controlled demolition company in the world at the time and one that held several government contracts at the time of 9/11.
CDI was on site at ground zero on Sept. 11th 2001 and had pulled permits to handle high explosives in Manhattan for several months prior to 9/11 and it was CDI's 'special engineer' who told officials that Building 7 was going to come down before it did.
by Scott Creighton
Let me be the first to welcome our new algorithmic AI overlords. Oh they are so infallible. Oh they are wise beyond their years. How could humanity have lasted this long without their benevolent leadership I ask oh lord? How?
Oddly enough, as I am writing this, the garbage truck is picking up my bin so in a way, the AI Rainman was correct, in it's own unique incorrect way.
But the fact remains, Google AI did not know today was a major holiday in my first inquiry only to know it in my second.
Yeah, lets let AI run air traffic control for the country. Yeah, let Google AI diagnose your symptoms at the hospital.
Idiocracy here we come!
(A little context for the bullshit jobs numbers the Trump regime just announced this week.)
(They claim they want to protect kids online but that's bullshit. They want to shut down all forms of speech they don't like specifically anyone talking about Israel committing genocide, our turn to fascism and perhaps even discussion of the Epstein files.)
from Electronic Freedom Foundation
For thirty years, internet users have benefited from a key federal law that allows everyone to express themselves, find community, organize politically, and participate in society. Section 230, which protects internet users’ speech by protecting the online intermediaries we rely on, is the legal support that sustains the internet as we know it.
Yet as Section 230 turns 30 this week, there are bipartisan proposals in Congress to either repeal or sunset the law. These proposals seize upon legitimate concerns with the harmful and anti-competitive practices of the largest tech companies, but then misdirect that anger toward Section 230.
But rolling back or eliminating Section 230 will not stop invasive corporate surveillance that harms all internet users. Killing Section 230 won’t end to the dominance of the current handful of large tech companies—it would cement their monopoly power.
The current proposals also ignore a crucial question: what legal standard should replace Section 230? The bills provide no answer, refusing to grapple with the tradeoffs inherent in making online intermediaries liable for users’ speech...
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(Rewriting Section 230 is a key part of Project 2025 fascist agenda.)
from Tech Dirt
You may have heard last week that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to Washington DC and gave a short speech at an event put on by Senator Dick Durbin calling for the sunsetting of Section 230. It’s a short speech, and it gets almost everything wrong about Section 230.
Let me first say that, while I’m sure some will rush to jump in and say “oh, it’s just some Hollywood actor guy, jumping into something he doesn’t understand,” I actually think that’s a little unfair about JGL. Very early on he started his own (very interesting, very creative) user-generated content platform called HitRecord, and over the years I’ve followed many of his takes on copyright and internet policy and while I don’t always agree, I do believe that he does legitimately take this stuff seriously and actually wants to understand the nuances (unlike some).
But it appears he’s fallen for some not just bad advice, but blatantly incorrect advice about this. He’s also posted a followup video where he claims to explain his position in more detail, but it only makes things worse, because it compounds the blatant factual errors that underpin his entire argument...
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by Scott Creighton
Yesterday there was a demonstration in Los Angeles of a couple thousand people who seem dedicated to pushing America to war with Iran at this particular moment in time. Why not? It's not their kids and brothers and fathers who will be dying.
Google says only 0.4% of the active American armed services are Jewish while 2.4% of our population are. Hmmm. Seems kinda low. Yet they are ready, willing and able to send us to war with a nation as well armed as Iran all because they want little Israel to dominate the Middle East.
At the Global Day of Fascist Scumbags demonstration are a combination of fascist Shah-loving fake Muslims from Iran along with a smattering of fascist Mileikowsky-loving Jewish folks who put the interests of Israel above all else.
Years and years ago, a 'Republican Senator and 2008 presidential contender John McCain joked about bombing Iran by singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway, ah" to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann" in April 2007. He made the comment in response to a voter's question about military action against Iran during a campaign event in South Carolina' NPR 2007
McCain, a neocon songbird and noted liar, was picked to lose to the chosen one, Barack H. Obama and since the nation was decidedly opposed to more unnecessary aggression in the Middle East, when John did his little warmongering routine, he was sealing his fate and ours for the next 8 years.
McCain was famous for hanging out with actual Nazis in Ukraine and wanted ISIS terrorists in Syria.
'In late 2013, during the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv, then-Senator John McCain was photographed with Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of the far-right nationalist Svoboda party. Tyahnybok and the Svoboda party have been accused of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi views'
It is argued that the image above does not show Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and that may or may not be so. However, what is not argued is the fact that the other men seen with McCain in 2013 and pictured above are leaders of the Free Syrian Army, a collection of former al Qaeda, ISIS and al Nusra proxy terrorists we trained and used in Syria to destabilize the country making ready for regime change. Ergo, McCain hung out with terrorists in Syria. The images of him with Tyahnybok speak for themselves.
Here are a couple of quotes from the ABC story about the event yesterday:
They took him to another facility before the M.E.'s office and fingerprinted the body and prepped him and THEN took his body double to the coroners office. This is all highly illegal. Jeffrey Epstein is not dead and is still abusing kids.
new evidence from Epstein files https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/02/epstein-jail-guards-used-fake-body-to.html
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Gotta tell the truth. No matter what. And if Youtube doesn't permit it, if you can't make a living telling the truth on that venue, then make it someplace else. Eventually YouTube will have to change or go out of business. Go along to get along is NOT the new black. Pay attention folks. Change is coming and not the ObamaGod kind.
jobs report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rjbUQszOC0
Pam Bondi's magnum opus https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/pam-bondi-epstein-files-testimony-reveal.html
All Star game voting https://ak-static.cms.nba.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2026/01/2026-NBA-All-Star-Game-Starters-Voting-West.pdf
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from PressTV
Britain’s High Court has dealt a significant legal blow to the UK government’s attempt to silence outspoken support for Palestine, ruling that the Home Office’s 2025 decision to ban the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was unlawful.
The landmark judgment, delivered on Friday in London, vindicates critics who warned that the proscription was an excessive infringement on basic civil liberties and a dangerous misuse of anti-terrorism laws.
The group, founded in 2020 to challenge British support for Israeli military invasions and corporate links to the occupation, was added to the UK’s extremist list in July 2025 under the Terrorism Act 2000.
That designation equated Palestine Action with internationally proscribed terrorist organizations, making it a criminal offence to be a member or to publicly show support — punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Supporters and civil liberties advocates were outraged at the time, arguing that the ban criminalized peaceful protest and solidarity with Palestinians rather than any genuine threat to public safety.
Government critics pointed out that actions by the group — such as blocking entrances, spraying paint at defense contractor sites, and staging direct actions targeting British complicity in arms production — were political acts, not terrorism, and should be dealt with through ordinary criminal law where necessary.
In her ruling, Judge Dame Victoria Sharp and her fellow High Court judges found that the government’s proscription lacked proper justification and disproportionately encroached on rights to freedom of expression and assembly...
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(Epstein was taken in the black van to another facility before the ME's office where they took his fingerprints and claimed they were the prints of the body they used as his.)
from Daily Mail
Jail guards overseeing Jeffrey Epstein used a decoy body to mislead reporters gathered outside the prison after his death, while his real corpse was secretly removed in a separate vehicle, newly unsealed files claim.
According to an internal memo, a jail supervisor told FBI agents that staff at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center staged the ruse amid an intense media presence following Epstein's apparent suicide in 2019.
The files allege that boxes and sheets were arranged to resemble a human body and loaded into a white van marked as belonging to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, prompting reporters to follow it as it drove away.
Unbeknown to the media, Epstein's actual body was instead placed into a black vehicle that left the facility 'unnoticed,' allowing officers to transport the corpse privately.
The alleged deception was carried out after an official warned guards about the large number of journalists gathered outside the jail and said he would arrive at the loading dock with a separate black vehicle to remove the body...
... Other sections of the records describe how officers were stationed at a secure facility linked to the prison, where Epstein's body was guarded while fingerprinting and other procedures were carried out ahead of its transfer...
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(The racist, fascist, woman-hating moronic dictator is so hated by the people of America, the establishment have decided to stop keeping track of it. This is beyond Orwellian.)
from USA Today
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval, the analytics firm confirmed on Feb. 11.
Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the Washington, DC-based management company began tracking the president's job performance 88 years ago.
Gallup told USA TODAY it will no longer publish "favorability ratings of political figures," a decision it said "reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership."
A statistician and founder of the American Institute of Public Opinion, Gallup first sent pollsters across the United States during the Depression era to ask people whether they approved or disapproved of how the nation's commander-in-chief was handling his job...
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(Six years ago a guy 'dressed as a mounty' killed 22 people and Canada got the gun grabbing law their elites had wanted for a while. There are still 1+ million assault 'type' weapons in the hands of everyday Canadians to be grabbed though. Perhaps this will put pressure on government to finish the job. Notice, the shooter is found dead 'by his own hand' and someone at his residence is also killed. This is fitting into the pattern. All we need now is a push for gun grabbing and no motive.)
from the NYT
... In 2020 in response to the worst mass shooting in Canadian history — when a rampage by a man disguised as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer left 23 people dead — the federal government took a number of steps to overhaul the gun laws. Among the measures was a ban on 1,500 types of assault-style weapons that was later widened to include freezing handgun sales and expanding the list of banned firearms.
A national gun buyback program for military-style assault rifles was also included, which has proved politically divisive and logistically challenging. There are roughly 1.3 million registered firearms in Canada, according to police data.
The police have not released the shooter’s identity, details about the firearms used or how they were obtained. Superintendent Floyd said the suspected shooter found dead in the school was the same person mentioned in a police alert at around 1:20 p.m., which described the person as a “female in a dress with brown hair.”...
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(Israel will try to scuttle the peace deal because that is what they always do. A false flag or just bombing the negociators or just attacking random citizens in Iran if the threat of peace looms too large. Because that is what glorious Israel does. But god forbid someone put a sticky note on the back of some kid's bag. They are the perpetual victims you know, no matter what horrible crime they commit in Israel and how much 90% of America's Jewish population supports it.)
from PressTV
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has advised the United States to avoid "destructive" Israeli influence as Washington engages in indirect nuclear negotiations with Tehran, citing the drawn-out history of Tel Aviv-manufactured regional crises.
Esmaeil Baghaei made the remarks during a press conference in Tehran on Tuesday, identifying the US as Iran’s sole negotiating counterpart that had to decide whether it was willing to act independently of Israel’s “destructive” pressures that harmed regional stability and even contradicted Washington’s own interests.
Baghaei said one of the main challenges in US foreign policy in the West Asia region was its alignment and compliance with the demands of the Tel Aviv regime, which he said has been the primary source of insecurity in the region over the past eight decades.
He further described Israel as the driving force behind an artificially manufactured crisis surrounding Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy program.
Repeated allegations propagated by Tel Aviv that Tehran sought to divert the program towards military purposes were aimed at creating an illusory sense of fear, he added.
The same regime, the senior diplomat noted, has consistently obstructed peaceful diplomatic processes.
The remarks came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is about to travel to the United States ahead of schedule in line with what observers have speculated to be Tel Aviv’s intentions to force Washington into complicating the talks...
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from RT
The British and French intelligence services played a role in the assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, British journalist Afshin Rattansi has said, citing sources.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was killed last week by four gunmen at his residence in the city of Zintan in northwestern Libya. The 53-year-old politician had intended to run for president of the North African country, which remains divided between rival governments and has been plagued by intermittent civil war since his father was deposed and murdered in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
Rattansi told RT on Sunday that after the assassination of Gaddafi’s eldest son, “sources immediately... told me that... indeed, it was [British military intelligence service] MI6 and a local proxy” that were behind it. “There were hints... that there was French involvement as well,” he added...
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from Common Dreams
Allies of the Trump administration, in partnership with the White House, are reportedly using the upcoming 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as another opportunity to solicit deep-pocketed donors, enticing them with promises of access to the president and other rewards.
The New York Times reported Sunday that donors who give at least $1 million to Freedom 250—a group announced by President Donald Trump in December—have been promised a path to “gain access to, and seek favor with, a president who has maintained a keen interest in fundraising, and a willingness to use the levers of government power to reward financial supporters,” including through his crypto scam and ballroom project.
Trump has described Freedom 250 as a “public-private partnership” dedicated to organizing “a celebration of America like no other” later this year. Listed as official corporate sponsors of the initiative are prominent corporate names, including ExxonMobil, Mastercard, and Palantir.
The Times obtained a donor solicitation document circulated by Meredith O’Rourke, Trump’s top fundraiser. Donors who give at least $1 million to Freedom 250 “will receive prominent logo placement at Freedom 250 events,” which are expected to include UFC fights and an IndyCar race.
Freedom 250 appears to have been created to dodge oversight that applies to America250, a bipartisan congressional commission formed to plan official celebrations of the nation’s semiquincentennial...
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from PressTV
Demonstrations have broken out across Australia as Israeli President Isaac Herzog begins an official visit, with thousands of protesters gathering in major cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and Brisbane.
In Sydney, large crowds assembled at Town Hall, where demonstrators waved flags, held placards, and joined chants led by drummers. Police maintained a visible presence as tensions briefly flared when officers stopped and searched a protester dressed in black.
The incident prompted chants of “this is not a police state,” though the individual was quickly allowed to move on, and police did not explain the stop.
Herzog is visiting Australia following the December 14 Bondi Beach terror attack and was invited by the governor-general and prime minister to join the Jewish community in mourning the victims.
The mass shooting came as hundreds of people had gathered at Sydney’s Bondi Beach for an event called Chanukah by the Sea, celebrating the start of the Jewish festival.
At least 15 people were killed, and another 42 people were hospitalized, including two police officers...
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(Imagine if anyone cared enough about Palestine to use their own military vessels to get aid and supplies to the people of Gaza. Wouldn't that be nice?)
from AA
Mexico has sent more than 800 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba, reaffirming its longstanding policy of solidarity with Latin American nations, the country's Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
Two Mexican Navy logistical support vessels, the Papaloapan and Isla Holbox, departed from the port of Veracruz carrying more than 814 tons of provisions intended for the people of Cuba following instructions from President Claudia Sheinbaum.
The Papaloapan is transporting 536 tons of essential food items as well as hygiene products, while the Isla Holbox is carrying over 277 tons of powdered milk.
The vessels are expected to arrive in Cuba within four days.
More than 1,500 tons of powdered milk and beans remain to be sent, it added.
"Through these actions, the Government of Mexico reaffirms the humanistic principles and spirit of solidarity that guide it, and its commitment to international cooperation among peoples, especially with those who require humanitarian assistance in situations of emergency and vulnerability. Cuba and Mexico are sister nations, heirs to a long history of solidarity that we honor today," it said.
Yeah, it's not about the Super Bowl. That's just gratuitous clickbait. Sorry. Just chatting about recent news events. Have a good Sunday and enjoy the game
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by Scott Creighton
This is the president of the United States of America. He said the discombobulator kept Venezuela from defending themselves from our attack. The discombobulator is a weapon used by Marvin the Martian in Bugs Bunny cartoons. We have no such weapons. It was an internal coup.
Last night the 'president' reposted a video which included this racist segment:
That's right. The former president and First Lady depicted as apes. The first black president and his wife reduced to the most egregious racial trope there is.
Trump's Discombobulator https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/02/trump-claims-secret-discombobulator.html
Epstein's Escape https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/02/jeffrey-epsteins-prison-guard-says-hes.html
Israel Wiping Rafah Off the Map https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/02/watch-how-israels-zionists-are-wiping.html
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This is unbelievable. The crime of the century. Bigger than U.S. making Covid-19 and releasing it at Wuhan Games 2019. They are literally wiping Palestine off the map. This is Rafah.
'A newly released image of Rafah. There is not one building left. Total annihilation. This has never happened before.!! '
from Jimmy Dore (H/T Mike Palecek)
So now Jimmy says he thought this all along. Lol. That's alright. Glad to see all it took was a file from Epstein to get him to come to Jesus and not that pesky video of him taken weeks after his death or anything like that. Lol.
(It's amazing what you remember when you routinely forget what you had for lunch.)
(You have to be Gen X or older to get this one. He's just laughing at you. Just f-in laughing.)
from CNN (H/T T)
President Donald Trump said the US used a weapon he referred to as a “discombobulator” to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this month, but a senior US official said he’s likely conflating tools used by the US military.
“The discombobulator, I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump told the New York Post in an interview that published Saturday but added that it “made [enemy] equipment not work” during the capture.
The president may be conflating several capabilities into a single weapon that doesn’t exist, a senior US official told CNN. US forces did use cyber tools to disable early warning and other Venezuelan defense systems during the operation, it also utilized existing acoustic systems to disorient personnel on the ground.
The US military also for years has had a heat ray weapon, called the Active Denial System, which uses directed, pulsed energy. It’s not clear whether that was used as well.
CNN has previously reported that the ADS, according to the US military, is a nonlethal weapon that shoots an invisible beam of electromagnetic waves that can reach a little more than half a mile away. It penetrates human skin and creates a heating sensation that causes people to move away from the beam.
A few days after Maduro’s capture, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reposted comments purportedly from a Venezuelan security guard who claimed the US “launched something” during the operation that “was like a very intense sound wave.”
“Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside,” the security guard added. “We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.”
That account hasn’t been verified by CNN...
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from the NYT
The Trump administration finalized a new policy on Thursday that would strip job protections from up to 50,000 federal workers, a move that would make it easier for President Trump to remove or discipline them, in his latest effort to dismantle the federal work force.
Until now, the roughly 4,000 people appointed by the president, known as political appointees, were the only federal workers who could be fired at will. The policy issued on Thursday allows the administration to expand that number to include career employees whom the administration considers to also have policy-related roles. For these employees, any whistle-blower complaints would now be handled inside their agencies rather than by the independent Office of Special Counsel, as they had previously.
The 255-page rule did not say precisely which positions would be affected. The White House will ultimately make that decision, Scott Kupor, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, said on Thursday...
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from PressTV
Israel will begin cutting off water and electricity to United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) facilities in the occupied Palestinian territories, a top Israeli minister announced on Wednesday.
Israel's Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen told The Jerusalem Post that he will "personally" oversee the shutdown of utilities to UNRWA offices in occupied al-Quds starting today.
Cohen accused the agency of operating "in a systematic way to incite against Israel." He said utility companies had been formally instructed to carry out the cutoff, which is expected to be completed within two weeks.”
“In principle, the law was passed about two weeks ago. Warning letters have already been sent to properties that we identified as belonging to UNRWA,” he added.
“We are now working to locate all UNRWA assets, evacuate them where necessary, and in some cases, seize the properties," Cohen said. "Where they continue operating, we will disconnect electricity and shut down the buildings."...
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from PressTV
Israel will begin cutting off water and electricity to United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) facilities in the occupied Palestinian territories, a top Israeli minister announced on Wednesday.
Israel's Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen told The Jerusalem Post that he will "personally" oversee the shutdown of utilities to UNRWA offices in occupied al-Quds starting today.
Cohen accused the agency of operating "in a systematic way to incite against Israel." He said utility companies had been formally instructed to carry out the cutoff, which is expected to be completed within two weeks.”
“In principle, the law was passed about two weeks ago. Warning letters have already been sent to properties that we identified as belonging to UNRWA,” he added...
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There is no right there is no wrong. No good no evil. These are constructs for the simple minded plebes... or so they think. But these things happen in cycles. And they have always failed and will always fail. Fascism lost in WWII. We won the war of independence and the right side won the Civil War. The French Revolution, Magna Carta, the Russian Revolution. History shows us the better angels of our nature always triumph over the darkness that resides in the hearts of man. Always. It may take time. It make cost lives but in the end, good does triumph over evil because that is the true nature of man and what I believe to be a universal law of nature like gravity.
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(After Trump killed 100+ bombing boats off their coast and hijacking several tankers and then killing a bunch more Venezuelans and 32 Cubans (in fact it was Delcy's generals who did that part) and flying away with the rightful president of the country, Delcy and her corrupt brother Jorge have completely sold out the people of the country and handed everything over to U.S. business interests.)
from Venezuelan Analysis
Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez met with US Chargé d’Affaires Laura Dogu in Miraflores Presidential Palace on Monday afternoon.
According to Communications Minister Miguel Pérez Pirela, the meeting took place “in the context of the working agenda” between Caracas and Washington. National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez was likewise present.
Dogu confirmed the high-level audience with Venezuelan leaders via social media, saying that she reiterated Washington’s intended “three-phase plan” for the Caribbean nation.
“Today I met with Delcy Rodríguez and Jorge Rodríguez to reiterate the three phases that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has proposed for Venezuela: stabilization, economic recovery and reconciliation, and transition,” she said.
The US diplomat, who was previously stationed in Honduras, arrived in Caracas on Saturday, vowing that her team is “ready to work.” US State Department officials had visited the Venezuelan capital previously to assess conditions for the reopening of the US embassy.
from Mondoweiss
In the late 1980s, Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz made the controversial warning that the 1967 occupation risked turning Israelis into “Judeo-Nazis.”
Leibowitz recently found a surprising supporter for this opinion – Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon.
On Friday, Ya’alon tweeted that “Yeshayahu Leibowitz was right, and I was wrong”. This was no benign reference – it referred directly to the late professor Leibowitz’s “warnings… concerning the process of bestialization towards us becoming ‘Judeo-Nazis’…”. Ya’alon says that the “ideology of ‘Jewish supremacy’” has become “dominant in the government of Israel”, and that it “is reminiscent of the Nazi race theory”.
This was said in relation to Ya’alon’s participation in a ceremony to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. In his tweet, he repeatedly mocks the commonly held reluctance to compare anything that Israeli Jews do today to what the Nazis did during World War II.
Leibowitz was an ultra-orthodox professor and intellectual, whom the late Israeli President Ezer Weizman eulogized as “one of the greatest figures in the life of the Jewish people and the State of Israel,” and “a spiritual conscience for many in Israel.” Leibowitz was vehemently opposed to Israel’s 1967 occupation and referred to Supreme Court Judge, Meir Landau, as a ‘Judeo-Nazi’ in 1987 after the court had legalized the torture of Palestinians. In the same interview, Leibowitz also referred to the discussion of Israeli democracy as “sterile” and labeled Israel as “the only dictatorship in the enlightened world.”...
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from RT
Ukraine offers far better investment opportunities than Russia for Western businesses, according to the influential US think tank RAND Corporation, known for its close defense ties. But the pitch to ‘big capital’ comes with caveats.
In a Barron’s commentary two weeks ago, RAND Corp. senior economist Howard Shatz declared Ukraine a more lucrative option compared to Russia.
“When the fighting stops, the most promising opportunities for US companies won’t be in Russia, but in Ukraine,” he wrote. “With US and European support, Ukraine is poised to emerge as a secure sovereign state deeply integrated with the global economy.”
Shatz called it the “business opportunity of the decade,” assuming hostilities will soon end, triggering a $500 billion reconstruction and rapid EU-oriented reforms. Early movers will have an advantage, he said...
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(I wonder how those investments are working out now for Jeffrey. Anyone ever think about tracking his dividend payments from his investment portfolio to see where they are going now?)
from RT
Convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein discussed potential business opportunities in Ukraine following the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev, newly released documents show. He discussed the matter with Ariane de Rothschild, head of the Swiss private banking firm Edmond de Rothschild Group.
Last week, the US Department of Justice released its additional batch of Epstein-related files. Among them is a March 2014 email exchange in which de Rothschild said she wanted to discuss Ukraine in an upcoming meeting. Epstein’s reply stated: “ukraine upheaval should provide many opportunites , many [sic].”
Earlier document releases highlighted business ties between the two. In 2015, after de Rothschild became CEO of the group, she negotiated a $25 million contract with Epstein for “risk analysis and the application and use of certain algorithms” for the bank. In 2013, he asked for her help in hiring a female personal assistant, whom he said should be “multilingual, organized.”...
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(I lost my faith in Human Rights Watch a long time ago)
from Common Dreams
Two Human Rights Watch employees—the group’s entire Israel-Palestine team—resigned after senior staffers blocked a report calling Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their homeland a crime against humanity.
Jewish Currents’ Alex Kane reported Tuesday that HRW Israel-Palestine team lead Omar Shakir and assistant researcher Milena Ansari are stepping down over leadership’s decision to nix the report, which was scheduled for release on December 4. Shakir wrote in his resignation email that one senior HRW leader informed him that calling Israel’s denial of Palestinian right of return would be seen as a call to “demographically extinguish the Jewishness of the Israeli state.”
“I have lost my faith in the integrity of how we do our work and our commitment to principled reporting on the facts and application of the law,” Shakir—who is also member of Jewish Currents’ advisory board—wrote in his resignation letter. “As such, I am no longer able to represent or work for Human Rights Watch.”...
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from the NYT
Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said on Wednesday that the federal government would immediately withdraw 700 law enforcement officers from Minneapolis, scaling down the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the area.
The change comes after the Trump administration sent thousands of federal officers and agents to Minnesota, a deployment that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said was the agency’s “largest operation to date.” About 2,000 personnel would be left in the state, Mr. Homan said...
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