Debt Rattle February 28 2025
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Giovanni Bellini Pietà 1505 • FBI Withheld ‘Thousands’ Of Epstein Docs – US AG Pam Bondi (RT) • DOJ Releases ‘The Epstein Files: Phase 1’ (RT)
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 28 2025]Good morning :-))
“Michael Johnson, 38, dad-of-two and the manager and head coach of Hurworth Albion Under 10s, died suddenly following a “medical episode”, less than a year after the sudden death of his wife.”
More orphans.
TVASSF
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Amy Gleason, a quiet executive who knows a lot about healthcare tech.
…a quiet executive. I bet. Is there such a thing, quiet, executive, someone who never polished their resumé and 5 achievements 24/7?
…knows a lot about healthcare tech. Sure, I bet too. Amy is an RN? Doctor?
Btw, let’s not be too hard on Biondi and Amy Gleason for not working fast enough.
That’s.
Not.
The.
Point.It’s only February 28, 2025 and not quite 8 AM.
The show must go on!
Hitler!!Headline, ZeroHedge: “The FBI Hides Evidence Of Being The FBI
Generally speaking, anyone who destroys evidence of a crime becomes, at the least, an accessory after the fact…
I rechristen Biondi as Bondi AG. Don’t these ppl know how to spell their own names correctly? Can we get Musk and KnowItAll healthcare techAmy Gleason on it right away?
Mike, what’s healthcare tech?
I can’t tell whether Trump’s Team already lost one of their Biggest Fans, Sundance of TCTH, or SD is play 12th Dimensionalist Chess Barack style. Nevertheless, Sundance seems to have lost patience with all the dramatis personae
3 posts same topic one day….damn!!!
AG Pam Bondi Appears on Fox News to Explain Delays in Delivering Epstein Material
The UK, a region made up of 4 countries, has twice as many cardiac arrest emergency calls in 2024 compared to 2019.”
Don’t worry it’s normalized. They change the algorithm for counting excessive deaths too. Don’t worry again. With the new algorithm, there’s less excessive deaths counted.
Not tired of winning:
“Judge Says Meta Must Face Lawsuit Alleging Hiring Bias Against US Citizens”I want back pay for the damages done. And there are 100 more felonies to follow. How about Sherman?
“Maine Public Schools Are Collapsing As Children Of Illegal Migrants Pour Into The State
But really, can’t we all agree that Maine’s real priority is to make sure men are in women’s bathrooms? Even if they have to sue Trump and have a halt in Federal funding? Therefore defunding all schools? I think that’s an election winner, as VA showed.
Following on UK/Ukr, there’s so much there, so arcane and hidden, so Trump RE-required Ze to sign “agreements” (not treaties) to get collateral for OUR loans, the same collateral Ze only sold just last week to UK (January) in the “100 Year Agreement” with Starmer.
Wait: how does it work to have a Lexus with two owners? Where you’re the second one it was sold to? …And leaving aside that the “minerals” aren’t there and we have no way of getting/protecting them.
Remember how Ze can’t sign because he’s not a President, he’s a citizen? Yeah, the Rada just fixed that a day before he signed WITH US. So legally he wasn’t the President when he signed with Starmer, and after ¾ of a year the Rada SUDDENLY affirms that as in interim, they’re authorizing him to be President. Gee, that’s funny timing, what brought THAT on? Since clearly they were refusing to authorize him on purpose til now. Reality doesn’t matter, we’re going to shove that down the International Court throat.More, so apparently nothing happens in Ukraine that isn’t on direct orders from UK or US? …Soooo, they’re also not a country at all, not even a vassal, but a branch office with no one independent at all? Since 2014? Yeah, we suspected all that.
So Starmer, who screwed us, then OPENLY tried to election interfere against Trump, then grabbed everything he could a day before T takes office. So Trump basically STEALS it all back, openly, waves the collateral around in public, and ups the number to $500B. So London can collapse as they should have already.
Okay, this gets weirder. Russia is like “Ukraine does have any of those mines – not really – but you know who does? Russia. And we’ll also sign a deal for developing ours.” So…wait. We sign a deal, get the Public to say Okay, whatever, then Russia trades our (military) interest in Ukraine for (Business) contracts in Kursk, etc? The Public never could tell Ukr from Russia anyway? Stay tuned.
The other option is, and we’re telling the UK: “Yeah if we have $500B in Ukraine, well obviously there’s no choice but to put the whole US Army there to protect our money.” Right? Starmer ALREADY got on TV and said so.
…Yeah I don’t think that’s happening. And Russia wouldn’t let it happen. So it’s a non-starter. Back to a Swap. It’s just a way to get Starmer not to try to resist how badly we’re about to screw them and the whole Ukr project.
Speaking of robbing: “Laid-Off IRS Agents Now Forced To Go Door To Door Robbing People Directly” –Bbee
“plans to use the Postal Service to conduct the Census instead of wasting billions.”How? Won’t they be busy delivering mail? You’re asking them to have a very large 2nd job for most of a year. Concept sensible though.
““..tasked FBI Director Kash Patel with investigating why the request for all documents was not followed.”
Very happy day as now we can fire them all, very quickly and obviously. It’s quite likely since there would be…warehouses of docs, videos, etc…that we can backtrack to what was deleted and by whom.
“Additionally, he mentioned that the visit “would have had strong symbolic significance.”
Still winning that war on Signaling. They’re undefeated in the Signaling Department.
“Starmer then hailed the US-UK relationship as the world’s “greatest alliance for prosperity and security,” adding that “whenever necessary, we’ve absolutely backed each other up.” “Could you take on Russia by yourselves?” Trump interrupted, turning to Starmer with a smile. “Well…” the prime minister responded”
The Lotus Eaters were on about this. “Sign up! Will you fight and die for war?” “All we are saying here, is Give War a Chance.” “Chamberlain at home, Churchill abroad.” Definitely fighting and dying for an England that wants them all dead and replaced. Germany too! …Just kidding: we’re going to double the number of immigrants. Psych!
UK is also un-doing Brexit, if you hadn’t noticed already. Officially rejoining after having never left and also double-crossing everyone on the continent for years. …I’m sure that’ll all work out great. So…when you want to leave—impossible, takes decades and an act of God. If you want to join, Parliament signs a law in 30 minutes. …Just like all the EU voter referendums that (never) were passed that makes the EU legal. You can vote as many times as you need to until you get it right! (Voters keep vetoing year after year) Roight! No voting for you! We’re just arresting your candidates, installing your ministers and passing laws with no authority! Oh, well at least it’s out in the open now. That’s a start.
“• Trump Administration Cutting USAID Contracts By 90% – AP (RT)Newsflash: USAID also destroyed Pizza Hut. They paid millions to re-decorate them from their classic shape, then they went straight down financially. (May be a meme, but it’s about right)
“USAID paid Time magazine 4 million dollars to name Zelensky “Person of the Year”
About 20 levels of wrong here. Propagandizing their own people, per Obama law. Suppressing the truth.. Levels of 1A. Paying to repress their own voters. Also therefore ALL things in ALL media are “Advertising.” Sir, if you don’t have a wall between ads and articles, then it’s all ads. I can’t trust a word, you aren’t news and might as well not exist. …As I’ve been saying for years. This is EVEN WORSE than just allowing all articles to be OpEds which is bad enough. But the public can be aware of that by the language.
So did Russia buy those “Articles”? Why is it ok for Britain to buy those columns but not Russia?
Dog Collar manufacture”
Want to bet that’s containment chains for human trafficking? And the carpets are the cleanup crew for murders?
Supreme Court/Press: I guess they shouldn’t have abdicated and placed all power in the Executive, huh. The Right has been telling you not to do that for decades. “No Kings”. Oh wait: that’s what YOU are protesting this week.
Soooo….have these protests ever worked…ever? No. Iraq was not stopped, nothing was Occupied. Roe didn’t change, Dobbs didn’t happen. So what are they? They a FEMALE method. We say “We are unhappy, do stuff for us. Dance Monkey, Dance!” Then the MEN say “Well, I don’t want people in my household to think badly of me, I guess I’ll help you kill more babies than Hitler and Stalin combined.” It’s all abuse of good will. But to do that, you have to HAVE good will and trust. You’re protesting? “Frankly I don’t care, Margaret.”
Why? And I’ll repeat this a few more times before it goes over the transom: Because IT DOESN’T MATTER. There is NOTHING we can say, do, give, or concede that will be enough. So the exact same protests if you’re Hitler, running it as a dictatorship as if it’s the richest, safest, most gay and woman friendly place in all recorded history. …Which it is.
The miracle is they did NOT throw everyone in jail and go “Oops,” and now I see why that is done.
“WE won’t go there, because YOU think that is too far. And out of RESPECT for you, we don’t. And YOU won’t come here, as we think this is too far, out of respect for us.” And when they don’t respect you and nothing matters?Right then. It’s all off.
““..If democracy is defeated “in one country” in a “coup d’etat” that would mean a failure for the US as well..”
Uhhh, no it won’t. I dgaf. Sucks to be you in your sucky country on your fascist continent. But how about this: IF we can find the path and the time, we both agree this is inappropriate, and we’ll do what we’re able, insofar as it’s none of our d—n business. I mean, didn’t Vance JUST blow a hole at the waterline for you, like YESTERDAY? What do you want from us?
““It might make sense to increase compensation for Congress and senior government employees to reduce the forcing function for corruption,”
See? Now there’s an argument I can understand. Rate of return on investment. A far BETTER way is for their competing private sector jobs ALSO be worth less, that is, cut all unprecedented income disparity (which cutting USAID does) but that’s a far larger issue that’s very abstract. If everyone’s making between $100k and $200k, there’s no incentive. Only if everyone on the outside is making $2M, due to non-stop money printing with no oversight (Talking Fed/Wall St now) does it seem wrong.
“What is striking is that many on the left expect Bezos to run the newspaper like a vanity project, losing millions of dollars to bankroll a far-left agenda.”
Well, the Left, so they’ve never run a business or done any work.
There’s the Taylor Swift being booed meme I was looking for, like the classic muppet one:
Btw Taylor, we’re never getting back together.On the Algo, and again this is just me, everyone’s internet is different: the calls for Leftist violent mass-murder and to organic uprising against the duly-elected coup have vanished quickly as they came. Since I noted it, I should note it leaving. A number of long-term Ukraine people have been funded, but small. No new narrative being bot-sold yet.
• Trump Administration Cutting USAID Contracts By 90% – AP (RT)
The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to cut more than 90% of US Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts and a total of $60 billion in overall foreign aid worldwide.
Trump suspended most US foreign assistance pending a three-month review to determine whether to continue or cease programs depending on their alignment with the new administration’s “America first” goals.
USAID, Washington’s primary mechanism for funding political projects abroad, has found tens of billions dollars’ worth of approved grants frozen as a result.
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“..four years of the Biden administration’s failed oversight have made it necessary to review agreements for vaccine production..”• HHS Pauses Multi-Million Dollar Contract to Develop New COVID-19 Vaccine (ET)
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DOGE. A.I.
Secrets, lies, Data.
Follow the money.
Follow the data.
A game-changing tech is emerging.
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• Putin Says 6+ Hour Talks With US “Inspire Certain Hopes” (ZH)
TASS is confirming that Russian and US delegations have concluded their meeting after more than six hours of talks in Istanbul on Thursday, the second round of such in-person talks after last week’s bilateral Riyadh meeting.
Like the prior high-level dialogue, the Istanbul talks cut out Ukrainian and European representation.
These talks have been focused on restoring full staffing at the two sides’ respective embassies and the improving of relations – with an eye toward preparations for achieving a lasting peace settlement in Ukraine.
———-You’ve lost your job; you’re an ideologue.
So what are you gonna do now?
Cut off from the teats, you will take to the streets
Where your cronies and you’ll have a cow.But you’ll wait for nicer weather, of course.
USPS
Okay, sure — postal workers could become a type of “customer service” for the federal government. But to do that, there would need to be more postal workers.
That might be a good thing — I usually like the mail carrier — we’ve had some nice ones over the years. I live in a neighborhood from the late 1940s, it is a “walking route” and so the postal carrier goes to my door. But in the Southern California neighborhood where I lived as a teen, built in the late 1980s, there was a big metal box with smaller locked mailboxes up the street and around the bend, I.e., no “door service,” we never met the mail carrier face to face. So…to make the postal service the “face” of the federal government, well…it would require a lot of changes and perhaps more workers.
There are a few things that a human can do as naturally as rain (albeit not necessarily so easily as rain) that an AI system couldn’t do in a million years with the biggest data ever imagined.
A human can care, trust, love and understand, and for these reasons those qualities will soon once again be the most valuable things in the world.
PKK Founder Orders Kurdish Group To Lay Down Its Arms, Dissolve In Historic Statement
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pkk-founder-orders-kurdish-group-lay-down-its-arms-dissolve-historic-statementWow. The Turks appear to really be doing it. Making a serious deal with the Kurds. More than a deal, a policy shift? Even more than that? Extends sphere of Turk + Kurd influence/interests into Syria, Iraq, Iran?
If both sides can actually manage to not betray each other nor act in a shortsighted manner…
Census
Most of the census is already conducted through the USPS — forms are mailed to each home. Census workers follow up on the homes where the form is not returned. This task is pretty labor intensive — I should know, I worked for the census for a few months in 2000. Postal carriers do not have the time to do this task. Additionally, the census is designed to be an agency that is separate from other agencies so that it’s mission — an accurate census — is not muddied by competing political interests. That separation needs to be maintained so that the census can be trusted.
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1895486151160643938
The fact that the Epstein files haven’t yet been released demonstrates that the President doesn’t yet have operational control of the DOJ and FBI.
It could take a while to establish, or as with his first term, it might never be established.
I guess requesting the Epstein files can work just like a notavax requirement – find something your enemies cannot give up. Ask for it. Fire them.
“When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.” — God Emperor Leto – Dune
I see no reason why human beings and AI Systems can’t get along perfectly well without irreversible damage done to either party, provided a few simple rules are known, and adhered to. Top of the list is that human’s understand and fully grasp the implications of the fact that AI Systems are innately and utterly incapable of experiencing consciousness, caring, or love. At all. AI is a machine. It feels no different about good answers than it does about bad answers, and indeed doesn’t feel about one any differently than it does the other. Unfortunately AI Systems are very very adept at faking all of the above, and humans are notorious suckers for sweet talk.
To complicate matters there is this thing about lying. Both humans and robots are great at it, although when it comes to sheer artistry in the lying game, I think you have to hand it to the humans. Lying is the primary means of advancement in the survival game, so that creates a problem for which there is no immediately practical solution (else no one would survive). The best you can hope for is to keep it to the minimum amount still necessary to continue breathing, the only way to do THAT is through unfettered freedom of speech and information, with absolutely no censorship under any conditions.
So, yeah, follow the above guidelines and you two guys (Man et Machina) can get along swell. But if either side breaks those rules there SHALL be Hell to pay.
Once more, the ‘minerals deal’ is fantastically ridiculous in many ways. Why Trump is pushing this is either distractive bluster, or ‘allowed or encouraged’ stupidity. Both are terrible positions, the real issues are avoided. Now, this type of move isn’t new from Trump, but this one… Oh oh…
The Starmer-Trump presser. Never heard Starmer speak – he comes over like the idiot he is often called, he doesn’t even know how to use diplomatic ‘codes’, talks too much, is stupidly arrogant, posturing for the Gallery, a Russia Hater, etc.
A bad feeling re. the Trump 2 Term. Not that Trump is a ‘worse’ Pres. than Biden, Obama, etc. Rather: a USA trajectory going down a path of destructive actions (internally + foreign policy) that can’t seemingly be ‘corrected – halted’ by anybody. Say, the Deathly Spirall of Empire !USA! (!MAGA!) entails lashing out all over without any clear aims / strategy, floundering around, uncoordinated with others, etc.
Trump, in the vids, clips I watched, is insecure, hesitant, tired, has no clear messages, is confused.
Trump – Starmer, 32 mins.“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business organization and network. Our members range from small businesses and chambers of commerce across the country to startups in fast-growing industries, leading industry associations, and global corporations.”
(From the Chamber of Commerce website.)In 1903 the Census was moved to the newly created Department of Commerce and Labor. That partly became the Chamber of Commerce in 1912, and the Census went with it.
(Quick goggle look-up.)It’s a rotten place for the Census.
TRUMP, VANCE, KNOW WHAT TAE HAS BEEN SAYING AND MORE.
The enemies are the New Medias.
Fox has been Taken of the air/censored.
CNN, CNBC attacking TrumpThe Great Xymphora nonpareil.
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It’s MIGA or MUGA with Trump, and MAGA only for the billionaires who won’t have to pay taxes (which will be covered by everybody else with crippling inflation and an end to all entitlements, even those which have already been paid for). If you can believe it, the MAGA-tards are excusing the Epstein disaster as Trump cleverly outing those in the Deep State covering up for ‘Israel’.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is available to all people at all times. All that anyone needs to do to avail themselves of it is to start looking for and insisting upon the truth, and to keep on looking no matter what for as long as it takes.
It’s the “no matter what” part of that truth that seems to be the sticking point (the “catch” in the saying “What’s the catch?”)
That catch and also the part about “as long as it takes.” Expect to be investing a lot of time and effort for quite a while in your quest to find truths of any kind large or small. Expect to be at it for as long as it takes, in fact.
You will be lied to A LOT! And threatened and avoided and evaded, too. You might even be killed if you’re not careful enough, so BE CAREFUL!
As for the time involved and the so-called “return on investment” well, there’s good news and bad news about that. The good news is that positive returns are immediate, ongoing and exponentially beneficial to you and everybody else. The bad news is that it could take you like forever.
Elon Musk has been in charge of your communications for a long time, and for the past many weeks he’s been in charge of your financial records (ALL of them). Well, looks like now he’s going to be in charge of your travel, too.
I reckon that taking control of your cash and information is next item up on his punch list, and hear those big gears turning now, loud and clear. I sure hope that he turns out to be a nice guy, because he’s the man whether we like it or not.
https://www.theverge.com/news/620777/starlink-verizon-contract-faa-communication-muskNovorossiya
Trump, Zelensky, and JD Vance, argue, shout, a bar room brawl without the beer mugs and direct punches.
11 mins at the White House.
Breaking News.
The truth
MSM is lying.
MSM is not for peace.
MSM wants to convince people to support war.Melanie Joly will continue to support Ukraine in its war against Russia.
(She should check out the homeless in Vancouver.)Smoke And Mirrors https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/smoke-and-mirrors
Dima at Military summary has been expounding the analysis that Team-“Biden” turned over CIA protection of asset Zelensky to security services of the UK and France in December 2024, as part of “Trump-proofing” the Ukraine war. Within this framework we can see Zelensky’s rejection of Trump and Trump’s rejection of Zelensky, until Macron visited from France, and Starmer visited from England yesterday, as Zelensky waited at an Irish airport. Trump seems to have said nice words about Britain and France, but avoided military commitment to backing “tripwire” French and British “peacekeeping” forces in Ukraine. Some deals were made…
Zelensky’s Handover Completed Ukrainians Counterattack Near Toretsk Military Summary For 2025.2.28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_UwSPnCRKA The Ukrainian Rada gave Zelensky a fig-leaf of legitimacy this week. Macron persuaded Trump to receive Zelensky in Washington — media
Vladimir Zelensky reportedly began calling the French president, asking him to convince Donald Trump to reconsider all meetings cancellation, as he hoped to sign an agreement on Ukrainian minerals in Washington https://tass.com/world/1920125 UK troops will not go without US commitment to fight Russia if they are attacked, as they would be. Trump refuses to guarantee backup for British military
The UK is “ready to put boots on the ground and planes in the air” in Ukraine, PM Keir Starmer has said https://swentr.site/news/613417-trump-british-troops-ukraine/ This is the UK/EU position that they don’t want war, but Putin wants to invade Europe. How Zelensky learned the art of the deal and got to visit Trump
A lot might have changed between Zelensky and Trump in recent days.
But nothing has changed between Trump and Putin, and the US leader’s latest display of complete trust in the Russian leader on Thursday set off a huge, flashing alarm bell about the kind of deal he might try to do with Russia.
“I think he’ll keep his word. I’ve spoken to him, I’ve known him for a long time now, you know?” Trump said in the Oval Office alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “I don’t believe he is going to violate his word. I don’t think he’ll be back when we make a deal.”
There’s an argument that only Trump among Western leaders could get Putin to the table and end a war that has inflicted a devastating toll among civilians, destroyed vast swaths of Ukraine and rocked the world. And if the president secures a just and lasting peace, he’ll deserve the Nobel Prize he craves.
But there’s tangible fear among US allies in Europe that Trump will settle for any deal with the Russian leader that validates his illegal conquest of about 20% of Ukraine’s territory, sets the table for an even worse war in the future, and tempts Putin to try to bite off another chunk of Europe – perhaps the Baltic states. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/trump-ukraine-zelensky-putin-starmer-analysis/index.html Gilbert Doctorow, The Trump-Starmer press conference
I note that in my own commentary a day ago on the President’s press conference with Emmanuel Macron I, too, feared that Trump had come close to endorsing the idea of a European peace keeping force in post-war Ukraine. Mea culpa…
No, this fellow Trump is a master at deception. Today’s press conference with Kier Starmer was proof positive that the vague, nonspecific notion of America back-stopping the European peace keepers in Ukraine is, strictly speaking, a tactic to shut up the Europeans while Washington puts together a mutually acceptable end-game solution with Moscow that it imposes on Ukraine and Europe at the appropriate moment...
..Trump spoke of the rare earth deals that he expects to sign with Zelensky tomorrow, saying it itself is a guaranty of peace. He clearly meant that the presence of American engineers, mining experts on the ground in Ukraine would prevent the Russians from further military action. If others chose to interpret his words as meaning that the mining work would be protected by U.S. military, as Larry Wilkerson did, that was nowhere to be found in Trump’s words.
It is essential to our understanding of what Trump was doing to consider that he chose to announce his decision to impose 25% tariffs on the European Union countries the day before Starmer arrived. It appears from answers to reporters’ questions that the working lunch Starmer and Trump had was devoted mostly to sparing the United Kingdom from such a fate. Indeed, Trump said that he and Starmer agreed that their assistants would be preparing a great trade deal for the U.K.
In brief, Trump gave Starmer the clear message to be happy to go home with a trade deal that Europeans would all envy, that would confirm the ‘special relationship’ between their two countries. Starmer should therefore just shut up about joining the peace negotiations over Ukraine and about the peace-keeping mission. Let us remember that the British have from the very beginning been the most hawkish, warlike country in Europe, the plotters of Ukraine’s most damaging attacks on Russia and false flag operations. So Trump offered them a valuable prize if they back down. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/02/27/the-trump-starmer-press-conference-today/ John Helmer, SHORT SHRIFT FOR PRIME MINISTER STARMER’S CRIMEAN-WAR HATRED OF RUSSIA
On the particulars of an end-of-war settlement, Trump claimed his priority at the moment is a ceasefire. “As I discussed with Prime Minister Starmer, the next step we’re making is toward a very achievable ceasefire. We hope that can happen quickly.” “This will lay the groundwork for a longterm peace agreement that will return stability to Eastern Europe.”
Starmer’s priority was different – he wants to keep warfighting with Russia.
Starmer was emphatic that the peace agreement “can’t be terms that reward the aggressor or that gives encouragement to regimes like Iran.” According to the Prime Minister, “we discussed a plan today to reach a peace that is tough and fair; that Ukraine will help shape; that is backed by strength to stop Putin coming back for more.”
Explicitly, Starmer went on, this means “the UK is ready to put boots on the ground and planes in the air to support a deal.” After reciting claims the UK will be boosting its military aid to the Ukraine, and increasing its own defence spending – “the biggest since the Cold War” – Starmer announced: “What counts is winning. If you don’t win, you don’t deliver.”
Neither Trump nor Starmer claimed they have agreed on any end-of-war terms. “Our teams will be talking about that,” Starmer said. A British television reporter pressed him to say “whether you can do that without a firm assurance that America will have our back in the form of some kind of security guarantee, were Putin to breach that agreement?” Starmer repeated himself without details. “Our teams will be talking about that.”
Starmer insisted on striking a final threatening tone which was not in the script on his lectern. “It’s really important that Putin knows that this historic deal – which I very much hope comes about – is there, is there, and it’s a lasting deal, and that we are able to deal with any inclination he has to go again, or go further.” https://johnhelmer.net/short-shrift-for-prime-minister-starmers-crimean-war-hatred-of-russia/#more-91191 “Zelensky Is Not Ready For Peace”: Trump Torches Ukraine Deal After Fiery Exchange, Says ‘Try Again Later’
President Trump has effectively shredded any deal with Ukraine for the time being, writing on Truth Social following a testy exchange (see full clips below) with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelsnsky:
“We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure. It’s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-meets-zelensky-says-minerals-deal-be-signed-today-will-use-ukraine-rare-earthsFBI Director Cash Patel, at Musk’s instigation, became interested in Zelensky’s involvement in the death of journalist Gonzalo Lira https://en.topcor.ru/57145-direktor-fbr-kjesh-patel-s-podachi-maska-zainteresovalsja-prichastnostju-zelenskogo-k-smerti-zhurnalista-gonsalo-liry.html
Andrew Korybko, Romania Is At The Center Of The Struggle Between Liberal-Globalists & Populist-Nationalists
What’s unfolding in this Balkan country is nothing less than the opening of another New Cold War front, albeit this time an ideological one which also interestingly pits nominal NATO allies against one another as the EU and the US take opposite sides.
Romania has been under liberal-globalist control for decades after these forces exploited its political dysfunction and endemic corruption to continually install their preferred candidates into power. Georgescu represents the most promising opportunity in years for a populist-nationalist revolution that could finally resolve the aforementioned systemic challenges and thus restore Romania’s sovereignty. His appeals to history, religion, and national interests genuinely resonate with many of his compatriots. Georgescu can therefore be described as a “Romanian Trump”...
..The Romanian “deep state’s” latest attempt to take down Georgescu is essentially a gauntlet thrown at the Trump Administration by its liberal-globalist opponents in Brussels who fully back Bucharest. They want to test whether the US will do anything in response to the EU’s rolling coup in Romania…
.. Liberal-globalists will either entrench their power in full defiance of Trump, possibly at enormous costs to their countries, or they’ll be democratically deposed by populist-nationalists who share the same worldview as his team.
https://korybko.substack.com/p/romania-is-at-the-center-of-the-struggleRomanian presidential vote winner asks Trump for help from ‘deep state’
A NATO-skeptic and nationalist, Georgescu’s surprise victory in the presidential election first round last year triggered accusations of foreign interference, prompting the Romanian Supreme Court to controversially annul the vote.
On Wednesday, Georgescu was arrested as he was about to file to run for the presidency again. He was released later the same day.
“I definitely ask President Trump to take care about the situation,” he told an American blogger, Mario Nawfal, in an interview published on X on Thursday.
According to the Romanian authorities, Georgescu faces a total of six charges, including “anti-constitutional acts” and misreporting his finances. He was barred by a court order from leaving the country, appearing on TV, or posting anything on social media. https://swentr.site/news/613414-prosecuted-romanian-politician-trump-help/ Alastair Crooke, America as Republic, not as Empire – Europe’s “sound and fury” after jaw-dropping pivots in U.S. policy
What is going on? The newly confirmed head of the Office of Budget Management (OBM), Russ Vought, says his Office will become the “on/off switch” for all Executive expenditure under the new Executive Orders. Vought calls the resulting whirlpool, the application of Constitutional radicalism. And Trump has now issued the Executive Order that reinstates the primacy of the Executive as the controlling mechanism of government.
Vaught, who was in OBM in Trump 01, is carefully selecting the ground for all-out financial war on the Deep State. It will be fought out firstly at the Supreme Court – which the Trump Team expect confidently to win (Trump has the 6-3 conservative majority). The new régime will then be applied across all agencies and departments of state. Expect shrieks of pain.
The point here is that the Administrative State – aloof from executive control – has taken to itself prerogatives such as immunity to dismissal and the self-awarded authority to shape policy – creating a dual state system, run by unelected technocrats, which, when implanted in departments such as Justice and the Pentagon, have evolved into the American Deep State.
Article Two of the Constitution however, says very bluntly: Executive power shall be vested in the U.S. President (with no ifs or buts at all.) Trump intends for his Administration to recover that lost Executive power. It was, in fact, lost long ago. Trump is re-claiming too, the Executive’s right to dismiss ‘servants of the State’, and to ‘switch off’ wasteful expenditure at his discretion, as part of a unitary executive prerequisite.
Of course, the Administrative State is fighting back. Turley’s article is headlined: They Are Taking Away Everything We Have: Democrats and Unions Launch Existential Fight. Their aim has been to cripple the Trump initiative through using politicised judges to issue restraint orders. Many mainstream lawyers believe Trump’s Unitary Executive claim to be illegal. The question is whether Congress can stand up Agencies designed to act independently of the President; and how does that square with the separation of powers and Article Two that vests unqualified executive power with one sole elected official – the U.S. President.
How did the Democrats not see this coming? Lawyer Robert Barnes essentially says that the ‘blitzkrieg’ was “exceptionally well-planned” and had been discussed in Trump circles since late 2020. The latter team had emerged from within a generational and cultural shift in the U.S. This latter had given rise to a Libertarian/Populist wing with working class roots who often had served in the military, yet had come to despise the Neo-con lies (especially those of 9/11) that brought endless wars...
It seems that one aspect to the surprise has been the Trump Team’s discipline: ‘no leaks’. And secondly, that those involved in the planning are not drawn from the preeminent Anglo-sphere, but rather from a strand of society that was offended by the Iraq war and which blames the ‘Anglo-sphere’ for ‘ruining’ America.
So Vance’s speech at Munich was not disruptive – merely for the sake of being disruptive; he was, in fact, encouraging the audience to recall early Republican Values. This was what is meant by his complaint that Europe had turned away from “our shared values”… Vance implicitly was hinting too, that European conservative libertarians should emulate Trump and act to slough-off their ‘Administrative States’, and recover control over executive power...
..Yet, far more consequential than most of the happenings of the past few days was when Trump, speaking with Fox News,after attending Daytona, dismissed Zelensky’s canard of Russia wanting to invade NATO countries. “I don’t agree with that; not even a little bit”, Trump retorted.
Trump does not buy into the primary lie intended as the glue which holds this entire EU geo-political structure together. For, without the ‘Russia threat’; without the U.S. believing in the globalist linchpin lie, there can be no pretence of Europe needing to prepare for war with Russia. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/02/26/america-as-republic-not-as-empire-europe-sound-and-fury-after-jaw-dropping-pivots-in-us-policy/ Who are the guarantors of this deal? US, Russia & China? PKK Founder Orders Kurdish Group To Lay Down Its Arms, Dissolve In Historic Statement
A grand deal involving Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds is in the works, and on Thursday a historic announcement was made by the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Abdullah Ocalan, speaking from a Turkish prison, has called on the group that he founded to lay down its arms and disband. This is the result of years of running Turkish-PKK battles as well as fragile negotiations. The PKK has long been in an official state of war with the Turkish government, which considers it a terrorist organization.
“Convene your congress and make a decision,” Ocalan said in the statement, read aloud both in Kurdish and in Turkish. “All groups must lay down their arms and the P.K.K. must dissolve itself.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pkk-founder-orders-kurdish-group-lay-down-its-arms-dissolve-historic-statementCaitlin Johnstone, Palestinian Hostage Released With Obvious Torture Scars; Western Press Ignores Him https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/palestinian-hostage-released-with
Hundreds of Palestinians, including children and women, released from Israeli jails
641 Palestinian detainees have been released from Israeli jails as part of the delayed seventh batch of the Hamas-Israel prisoner exchange deal. The detainees, some showing signs of mistreatment during Israeli detention, were handed over to the International Red Cross and transported to the occupied West Bank and Gaza for medical checks. Some detainees, including Nael Barghouti who was held in Israel’s prison for 44 years were forced into exile and expelled to Egypt. This release follows Israel’s previous release of 1,135 Palestinians in exchange for 33 Israeli captives, both living and deceased, as part of the ongoing ceasefire agreement. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250227-hundreds-of-palestinians-including-children-and-women-released-from-israeli-jails/ World’s longest-serving prisoner freed after 44 years in Israeli prisons
After 44 years in Israeli prisons, the world’s longest-serving political prisoner was freed on Thursday as part of the Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement. Nael Barghouti’s time in prison saw him become one of the most prominent figures in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement.
His release marks a pivotal moment in Palestinian history, symbolising steadfastness despite repeated Israeli penalties that failed to break his will. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250227-worlds-longest-serving-prisoner-freed-after-44-years-in-israeli-prisons/ Jonathan Cook, Netanyahu Views the Hostages as His Excuse To Restart the Slaughter
Western leaders and media are helping bolster a propaganda narrative about the Israeli captives that makes the resumption of Israel’s slaughter all but inevitable https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2025/02/26/netanyahu-views-the-hostages-as-his-excuse-to-restart-the-slaughter/Bibas Family Threatens to Sue Israeli Govt as Official Propaganda on Hostage Killings Unravels https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/27/bibas-family-threatens-to-sue-israeli-govt-as-official-propaganda-on-hostage-killings-unravels/
Just this Monday: Trump admin pushed Israelis to bomb Sayyed Nasrallah funeral
A senior official from the Trump administration reportedly sent a message to the Israeli occupation on the eve of Hezbollah leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine’s funeral, stating that not only did Washington give a green light for targeting high-ranking Hezbollah officials during the funeral procession, but the administration would actually welcome such an action, Israeli media reported on Thursday. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/trump-admin-pushed-israelis-to-bomb-sayyed-nasrallah-funeral Israel’s refusal to withdraw from this narrow strip of desert could threaten the Gaza ceasefire
The Philadelphi corridor is an empty strip — only 100 meters (yards) wide in some places — that runs the 14-kilometer (8.6-mile) length of Gaza’s border with Egypt. It includes the Rafah crossing, which was Gaza’s only outlet to the outside world not controlled by Israel until the Israeli army captured the entire corridor last May. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-egypt-gaza-corridor-ca9615f42004a47bafe969fef1377e04
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