Friday, February 28, 2025

Smoke And Mirrors

 Head-Faked,


  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 K​ier 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-earths

FBI 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.

​  Romanian 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 rĂ©gime 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-statement

​Caitlin 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

​  The "incompetence defense" hides nefarious agency:  Israeli army admits 'colossal failure' in October 7 probe
The investigation says the army relied on flawed strategic assumptions and overconfidence in its intelligence superiority.​   https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/israeli-army-admits-colossal-failure-in-october-7-probe-18269601

​  Israeli army's 7 Oct probe further confirms implementation of Hannibal Directive
Israeli choppers fired over 11,000 shells on 'anything that moved' near the Gaza separation wall on 7 October 2023​   
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/29125

​  He's not a politician, is he?  Musk’s father says son ‘not cut out for politics’
Errol Musk, a retired South African engineer, dismissed the idea of his son entering politics.
​  “Elon is not cut out for politics,” he said. “Politics is where you have to deal with everyone, from the very incredibly clever to the very somewhat not clever, the highly sophisticated to the very unsophisticated. If you can’t do that, don’t get into politics.”​   
https://swentr.site/news/613406-musk-father-political-ambitions/

Elon Musk floats pay hikes for Congress, top government workers to fight temptation for corruption​   https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/us-news/elon-musk-floats-pay-hikes-for-congress-top-government-workers-to-fight-corruption/

FBI withheld ‘thousands’ of Epstein docs – US attorney general​,  The first batch of declassified files reportedly contains little new information​   https://swentr.site/news/613418-fbi-withheld-epstein-files/

Did she get them?  After Lame 'Epstein Files' Release, AG Pam Bondi Demands 'Withheld' FBI Files By 8AM Friday​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/epstein-files-tomorrow-ag-pam-bondi-announces-thursday-release-250-victim-names-redacted

Federal Judge Declines To Halt Firings Of CIA Officers Tied To DEI Programs​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-judge-declines-halt-firings-cia-officers-tied-dei-programs

Moderna Investors Spooked: Trump Admin Reviewing $590m Bird Flu Contract—Is MRNA Funding at Risk?​   https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/moderna-investors-spooked-trump-admin-reviewing-590m-bird-flu-contractis-mrna-funding-at-risk-370acab0

​  Meryl Nass MD,  Interesting legal decision at the European Court of Justice on COVID vaccines
It is being interpreted as doctors having the right to offer or refuse the vaccines, and if there is liability for injuries, it is the doctors themselves that will be liable, not the licensing agency​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/interesting-legal-decision-at-the

Donald Trump is reinstating thousands of members of the military who were discharged for refusing Covid jabs​.  And they will receive back pay.​   https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-donald-trump-is-reinstating

​  Meryl Nass MD,  The truth about COVID vaccines is emerging. Soon it will gush.
And Kennedy asks for the evidence on COVID vaccine clinical trial before allowing it to go forward, cancels flu shot advisory meeting, while CDC minions test him by pushing COVID vax today for babies​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-covid-vaccines-is

Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value​   "The canary just died."​   https://futurism.com/microsoft-ceo-hesitation-ai-expensive-data-centers

​  Scientists have a new explanation for the last two years of record heat
Rising temperatures are fueled, in part, by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate feedback loop.
​  Earth’s overall energy imbalance — the amount of heat the planet is taking in minus the amount of heat it is releasing — also continues to rise, worrying scientists. The energy imbalance drives global warming. If it rises, scientists expect global temperatures to follow.
​  Two new studies offer a potential explanation: fewer clouds. And the decline in cloud cover, researchers say, could signal the start of a feedback loop that leads to more warming.​   
https://archive.is/vGGPI#selection-541.0-545.117

​  "Biotic Pump" model co-originator, Physicist Anastassia Makarieva,  Natural ecosystems and climate stabilization
Ideas on how to integrate Nature's Complexity into the climate change narrative
  Highly productive non-forest ecosystems, such as agricultural lands, generate significantly less low cloud cover, as shown by the purple symbols. The more we extract from an ecosystem—whether through timber harvesting or food production—the fewer resources it has to stabilize itself, the surrounding environment, and climate.
  It’s almost hilarious that, in the global change discourse, we still tend to view life merely as a physical-chemical system, even though we know that information governs everything. We’ve embraced artificial intelligence and supercomputers, yet when faced with the ultra-super-hyper computer of life itself, we reduce it to simple chemical reactions—CO₂, carbohydrate production—little more. This perspective is not only flawed but also dangerous.
  This outdated view—treating life as a simple physical-chemical process—is also embedded in climate models through oversimplified parameterizations. It comes as an intellectual atavism, a relic of our failure to fully appreciate the complexity of the world.​   
https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/natural-ecosystems-and-climate-stabilization

​Appreciating Life  (with grandson, Atlas and fresh mango)


Thursday, February 27, 2025

Unifying Principles

 Seeking Understanding,


  Here we are on a planet with oil, coal and natural gas beneath our feet, and oxygen in the atmosphere, having learned to perform work by combining the two under special circumstances, and we have become the masters of this planet, by doing so. We reached peak industrial economy and peak oil + condensates about the end of 2018. Everything since then, the weirdness, has been a reflection of that change. It is likely to get worse until we all address this fact openly. Industrial output is about to start falling, like it did in COVID lockdowns, but that was based on lies. This situation shapes all of these stories below.

  Surplus Energy Economics,  Revolutionary times:  WHY MONEY AND TECHNOLOGY WILL FAIL
  Material economic prosperity took off when the discovery of how to convert heat into work enabled us to access the vast reserves of energy contained in coal, oil and natural gas.
  As we extended the geographic reach of the energy industries, as economies of scale were captured, and as the technologies of energy use advanced incrementally, the ECoEs (Energy Costs of Energy) of fossil fuels adopted a downwards trajectory. These were to hit their nadir in the quarter-century after 1945.
  Latterly, with the potential benefits of reach and scale maximised, depletion has taken over as the primary driver of ECoEs, pushing these up from 2.0% in 1980, and 4.2% in 2000, to a projected 11.0% this year.
  The wholly objective observer could, at this point, give us a solidly rational description of our economic past, present and future. Prosperity soared during roughly 150 years of rising energy use and falling ECoEs. More recently, the impetus initially imparted to the economy by the harnessing of fossil fuel energy has been fading out, a process most readily captured in the trend of ECoEs...
..In reality, of course, money, which commands value only as an exercisable “claim” on the material, cannot drive the arc of the material...
..These failures are already unfolding. Debts and quasi-debts are expanding at super-heated rates, thereby creating a body or stock of monetary “claims” that cannot possibly be ‘honoured for value’ by an inflecting material economy.
  With energy companies slashing, rather than expanding, their forward investment plans, technological hopes are already in retreat over transition to renewable forms of energy.   
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/300-revolutionary-times/#like-44147

  Josh Mitteldorf insists on looking at the murderous side of our human reality.  Open Letter to Charles Eisenstein 
He tells the deep story of our time, but misses the conspiracies.
  During Saturday’s conference call, I mentioned military-grade attacks on humanity and on Gaia, using fires, directed energy weapons, chemtrails, and weather warfare. These assaults indicate that, in addition to the epochal historic and spiritual forces coming to a head in the present era, there is also a cabal with a hellish agenda. My purpose in bringing up this topic with you is to ask you to expand your narrative.
  You emphasize that we should not judge the behavior of others, that if we were to experience all their upbringing and their circumstances, we would do the same. This is a wise and beautiful message, a message that carries a great truth; but I believe there are exceptions. There are sociopaths in positions of power acting under cover of media darkness, and they are doing unthinkably violent and destructive things that neither you nor I nor billions of ordinary people would do under any circumstances.   
https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-charles-eisenstein

  What exactly does this mean?  Washington ‘not providing’ military assistance to Kiev – Trump
The US president has said, however, that the flow of weapons could be sustained “for a while, until we have a deal with Russia”   https://www.rt.com/news/613311-trump-ukraine-military-aid/
  This allows Zelensky to sign deals and negotiate:  Ukrainian parliament affirms Zelenskyy to remain president
With 268 votes in favor, Verkhovna Rada approves resolution declaring president's powers will continue until end of martial law   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ukrainian-parliament-affirms-zelenskyy-to-remain-president/3492925

  Kiev agrees to Trump’s minerals deal – media
It reportedly gives the US half the future proceeds from the industry, but says nothing of security guarantees
  The final draft, dated Monday and seen by the outlet, would require Kiev to create a fund and set aside 50% of the revenue from the “future monetization” of its state-owned mineral resources, including oil and gas and related logistics. The fund would invest in Ukrainian industries.
  According to the FT, this monetization would not cover resources already generating revenue for the Ukrainian government, such as the country’s gas and oil companies Naftogaz or Ukrnafta. However, the document reportedly does not name the size of the stake Washington will hold in the fund. The terms of “joint ownership” deals are to be determined in future agreements.  
https://www.rt.com/news/613306-kiev-trump-mineral-deal/

  Zelensky To Visit White House Friday To Sign Minerals Deal
President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday that he heard Zelensky was visiting on Friday...
.."I hear Zelensky’s coming on Friday, it’s ok with me... It could be a trillion dollar deal, it could be whatever... Biden was throwing around money like it's cotton candy."
From the Oval Office presser:
Reporter: What does Ukraine get in this mineral deal?
Trump: "Military equipment
… Without the United States and it’s money… this war would have been over in a very short period of time."
And... "I’d like to buy minerals on Russian land too."   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-says-major-deals-discussed-us-while-dangling-russian-rare-earth-mineral-access

Zelensky To Visit White House But Minerals Deal Still Up In The Air: 'Framework, Not A Deal'   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-visit-white-house-minerals-deal-still-air-framework-not-deal

  Witkoff had 3.5 hours alone with Putin in Russia before he went to Riyadh.  Trump Envoy Witkoff Says He Met With Putin During Trip to Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East confirmed in a video that he met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin during a recent trip to Moscow, where he secured the release of an American prisoner.
  “I spent a lot of time with President Putin, talking, developing a friendship, a relationship with him,” Steve Witkoff said...
  Earlier, Fox News host Sean Hannity claimed that Witkoff held a three-and-a-half-hour meeting with Putin on Feb. 11 while negotiating the release of imprisoned U.S. teacher Marc Fogel.   
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/21/trump-envoy-witkoff-says-he-met-with-putin-during-trip-to-russia-a88113

  Trump's special envoy: conflict in Ukraine was provoked
US Presidential Special Envoy Steven Witkoff 
believes that the conflict in Ukraine was not inevitable, but was provoked. He stressed that this does not mean that it was provoked by the Russian side.   
https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/7532631?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

  Simplicius,  Putin Plays Peacemaker as War Rages On
  Putin has earned some raised eyebrows amongst the Russian commentariat for his sudden offer to ‘work with the US’ in exploiting Russian rare earth and mineral resources in both Russia and the Donbass. He was accused of selling Russia out in exchange for sweeping the war under the rug.
But there is strong evidence that Putin is, as always, being the consummate statesman and congenial host, extending a hand of friendship to position Russia as friendly and cooperative...
..Lavrov immediately followed this up during his visit to Turkey, by saying that a ceasefire will only be allowed to happen after the US and Russia agree on all the most fundamental terms, which have been variously articulated as understanding “the root causes of the conflict”... Another way of saying that is Russia wants the US to acknowledge all of the years of iniquities dealt to Russia at the hands of NATO and the West, including expansion, ignoring Russia’s security concerns and strategic interests, et cetera. Until this becomes codified in some kind of newly undersigned framework, Russia does not intend to entertain any ceasefires, which, as Ryabkov said above, will only erupt back into full-on hostilities after a given amount of time like all the previous Minsk charades...
..Russia and the US appear to be at a kind of epistemic loggerheads when it comes to the order with which the conflict must come to an end. You see, Trump, Marco Rubio, and others from their camp hold the position that the conflict must be brought to a ceasefire first, and only then would the higher order normalizations and negotiations between the US and Russia take place...  But Russia insists on the opposite order of events: first the US must recognize all the causes of the conflict and fulfill Russia’s demands for long-term security guarantees, and only then will Russia entertain bringing the conflict to an end. How to reconcile these antipodal positions? Easy: Russia must simply continue plowing ahead until the US ‘comes around’ to realizing that it’s not the one in the driver’s seat...
..Trump states that Ukraine essentially gets nothing in return for signing the mineral deal—their payment for it was the money the US had already disbursed over the past several years... But note the interesting point at the end: Trump admits that the conflict may very well continue on “for a while, until we have a deal with Russia.”   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-22625-putin-plays-peacemaker

​  Trump says US could lift Russia sanctions
The measures, which Moscow considers illegal, will be addressed “at some point” during talks on a potential Ukraine settlement, according to the president​   
https://swentr.site/news/613317-trump-us-sanctions-russia/

  Russia & US Holding Next Talks In Turkey, Without Europe: Lavrov
  Last week's Riyadh talks between the United States and Russia have led to another round of face-to-face bilateral negotiations, set for Thursday in Istanbul... The Istanbul meeting is expected to focus on restoring diplomatic staff and full relations at each respective embassy. Both sides went through several rounds of expelling the other's diplomats under the Biden administration, as relations hit a low-point during the Ukraine war, also amid US/EU-led sanctions on Moscow.
  "Such a meeting will take place tomorrow in Istanbul. I think that its results will show how quickly and effectively we can move forward," Lavrov said Wednesday.   
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-us-hold-new-talks-turkey-lavrov-says

  Gilbert Doctorow,  United Nations votes yesterday and the widening rift between the U.S. and Europe
  Yesterday, on the third anniversary of the Russian incursion into Ukraine, there were two very important votes in the United Nations on ending the war.  One vote, in the Security Council, passed a U.S. drafted resolution calling for a quick end to the war without naming Russia as aggressor and without mention of the withdrawal of Russian forces to the Ukrainian boundaries before the start of hostilities.  This resolution was approved by Russia and China.   The European permanent and temporary members of the Council abstained, allowing the resolution to pass. Thus, for all the world to see, Russia, China and the United States stood together for the first time in decades, while Europe fell silent before this superior power constellation.
  On the same day, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution put forward by the Europeans which repeated the whole anti-Russian litany of previous resolutions these past three years.  It passed though it was vetoed by the United States as well as Russia while 65 member states abstained, itself an unusually large number of abstentions.
  From these votes, there can be no doubt of Trump’s sincerity in striking a deal with Russia to end the war and of his readiness to push the divorce with Europe.   
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/02/25/press-tv-iran-united-nations-votes-yesterday-and-the-widening-rift-between-the-u-s-and-europe/

Putin backs Trump’s proposal for US, China and Russia to halve defence spending   https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3299974/putin-backs-trumps-proposal-us-china-and-russia-halve-defence-spending

Future of European Nuclear Capabilities Uncertain: France Considers Sending Nuclear-Armed Rafale Fighters to Germany   https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/future-european-nuclear-capabilities-uncertain-france-nuke-capable-rafale

Germany: Syrian won’t be deported despite smashing windows of 245 cars, beating an elderly woman, and possessing illegal weapons   https://rmx.news/germany/germany-syrian-wont-be-deported-despite-smashing-windows-of-245-cars-beating-an-elderly-woman-and-possessing-illegal-weapons/

  "A threat to our democracy..."  Romania's Georgescu Banned From Appearing In Media As State Accuses Him Of 'Fascism, Attempted Coup'
Prosecutors have revealed that police have raided nearly 50 addresses of people and associations connected with Romanian presidential front-runner Calin Georgescu, who has denied all wrongdoing and said state authorities are trying to block his candidacy.
  Georgescu will reportedly be released from a hours-long detention by police for questioning. But emerging reports say he's been charged with 'attempted coup' and advancing 'false information'. Reuters has summarized the charges against him include forming an antisemitic organization, promoting war criminals and fascist organizations, and communicating false information.
A Romanian Court Press Release cites "attempted incitement against the constitutional order" (coup), "spreading false information," as well as "false statements on campaign funding," and links to "fascist, xenophobic, and antisemitic organizations."   
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/romanian-police-nab-election-front-runner-calin-georgescu-after-russian-interference

  Gilbert Doctorow,  The ever-changing Trump: latest new position on Ukraine security guarantees can only lead to failure of his peace initiative
Indeed, and judging from what I heard in the televised press conference of Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump in Washington earlier today, the road to peace just got that much longer and more problematic due to Trump’s seeming acceptance of the latest French suggestions about a European peace-keeping force to be deployed in Ukraine with unspecified back-up from the Americans.
  The underlying assumptions stated clearly by Macron are unworkable because they cannot and will not be accepted by the Russian side. It is precisely the Minsk 3.0 formula that Moscow has denounced.   
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/02/24/the-ever-changing-trump-latest-new-position-on-ukraine-security-guarantees-can-only-lead-to-failure-of-his-peace-initiative/

  On Monday the Pentagon sent a US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber and a formation of supporting fighter jets over Estonian airspace, very close to Russia's doorstep.
  Crucially the large bomber is capable of carrying nuclear weapons, and reports say the accompanying F-35A Lightning II fighter jets approached the Russian border during the flight.   
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-flies-stratofortress-nuclear-capable-bomber-f-35-jets-near-russian-border

  The thing is huge, like a C-130. What's it carrying?  China’s newest KJ-3000 early warning aircraft spotted again
Analysts speculate that Beijing could be secretly integrating artificial intelligence into the aircraft’s radar and command systems, allowing it to process vast amounts of data in real time, identify patterns, and predict enemy movements with uncanny accuracy.   https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/02/25/chinas-newest-kj-3000-early-warning-aircraft-spotted-again/#google_vignette

  A brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs
There are over three decades of evidence that Israeli doctors harvest Palestinian organs in direct violation of international law. These stolen body parts were not just used for transplantation and research but for sale and profit.   
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/a-brief-history-of-israels-theft-and-trafficking-of-palestinian-organs/

  Situation around Gaza very alarming, must be resolved based of UNSC resolutions — Lavrov
According to the Russian foreign minister, this also applies to the "violation of the sovereignty of the Lebanese Republic"   
https://tass.com/world/1918865

Israel Sends Tanks into West Bank Amid “De Facto Annexation” of Palestinian Lands: Mariam Barghouti   https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/25/israel-sends-tanks-into-west-bank-amid-de-facto-annexation-of-palestinian-lands-mariam-barghouti/

  Israel says army to stay ‘for next year’ in Palestinian refugee camp in occupied West Bank
Israel’s defense minister says 40,000 Palestinians evacuated from Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps   
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-says-army-to-stay-for-next-year-in-palestinian-refugee-camp-in-occupied-west-bank/3490658

  Gazans say Israeli ceasefire violations are meant to cause mass expulsion
Palestinians in Gaza say that Israel is violating the ceasefire’s humanitarian agreements in order to force them to leave their homeland. 
  On Monday, the Gaza Government Media Office stated that only 30% of the supplies that were supposed to enter the strip in accordance with the ceasefire agreement have been let in. According to the agreement, Israel is supposed to let in 600 trucks of aid per day, including 50 trucks of fuel, and a total of 200,000 tents and 60,000 prefabricated mobile homes during the first phase of the ceasefire. The Government Media Office said that Israel has only let in 8,500 trucks out of the total 12,000 (in northern Gaza, only 2,916 instead of 6,000)less than half the intended number of tents, and only a handful of mobile homes.
  The practical result of this policy is that, without the humanitarian aid stipulated in the ceasefire deal, Gaza remains uninhabitable.   
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/gazans-say-israeli-ceasefire-violations-are-meant-to-cause-mass-expulsion/

Six newborns die as cold snap grips Gaza   
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2591571/middle-east

12,000 Palestinians displaced from West Bank camp amid Israeli assault40 residential buildings, 300 shops demolished in Tulkarem   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/12-000-palestinians-displaced-from-west-bank-camp-amid-israeli-assault/3492930

  Tel Aviv bus bombings: False flag or Netanyahu’s luck?
On Thursday night, three explosive devices detonated on buses in Tel Aviv, causing chaos and a public frenzy. While the issue has been weaponized by the Israeli government to expand its ongoing assault on the West Bank, no group has claimed responsibility. A senior Hamas official has informed The Cradle of their suspicions that the event could have been a false-flag attack.   
https://thecradle.co/articles/tel-aviv-bus-bombings-false-flag-or-netanyahus-luck

  There is no evidence Hamas killed members of the Bibas family. Israel is using their death to manufacture consent for genocide.
Israel claims Hamas killed two children in the Bibas family but has not offered any evidence. 
Their death has become another piece of atrocity propaganda Israel is using to justify genocide in Gaza.   
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/there-is-no-evidence-hamas-killed-members-of-the-bibas-family-israel-is-using-their-death-to-manufacture-consent-for-genocide/

  Netanyahu says Israeli army to stay in Syria buffer zone ‘indefinitely’
Netanyahu says Israeli army to continue to occupy several outposts in southern Lebanon   
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/netanyahu-says-israeli-army-to-stay-in-syria-buffer-zone-indefinitely-/3490981

  Israeli aircraft launch intense strikes on Syria, amid ground advance   
Israeli aerial aggression on Syria targeted multiple provinces as troops draw close to the capital.   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-aircraft-launch-intense-strikes-on-syria--amid-groun

  Situation in Syria remains difficult amid dangerous calls for separatism — Lavrov
"Syria’s territorial integrity is crucial and any attempts to push some regions of the country towards separatism, which we have seen in recent years, are absolutely unacceptable and highly dangerous," the top Russian diplomat said.   
https://tass.com/politics/1918841

  Iran rejects talks with US to avoid Ukraine’s situation — Iranian expert
According to Mohammad-Javad Larijani, Iran’s goal is to reduce the influence of sanctions to the point that Washington itself realizes how useless they are   
 Tehran has refused to hold talks with Washington because it does not want the US to enforce its conditions, like what is now happening with Ukraine   https://tass.com/world/1918763

Iranian Nuke Sites On "High Alert" For Stealth Jet Attacks; Enriched Uranium Stockpiles Near Level For Bomb   https://www.zerohedge.com/military/iranian-nuke-sites-high-alert-stealth-jet-attacks-enriched-uranium-stockpiles-near-level

  Campus Police Are Using Israeli Spy Tech to Crack Down on Student Protest
In the early days of his presidency, Donald Trump announced he would be “fighting anti-Semitism” on college campuses by prosecuting and revoking visas for certain students deemed to be “Hamas sympathizers.” ... Because participation in pro-Palestine movements is often equated with antisemitism, advocates and journalists like Etan Nechin, a correspondent from Haaretz, were quick to identify this as a move from “a textbook authoritarian playbook meant to stifle any criticism of what’s going on in Israel.”...
..One of the nation’s largest public universities, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), has taken a particularly aggressive approach to targeting activists. It’s currently pursuing felony mob-action charges against encampment demonstrators, using evidence from license plate readers and monitoring social media posts.   https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/25/campus-police-are-using-israeli-spy-tech-to-crack-down-on-student-protest/

Trump Revokes Venezuela Oil License After Maduro Failed To Take Enough Migrants Back   https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/trump-revokes-venezuela-oil-license-after-failing-receive-enough-migrants-back

Paging Franz Kafka (at least click through it) :  Trump Shares Bizarre AI Video Of Future Gaza: 'No More Tunnels, No More Fear'   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-shares-bizarre-ai-video-future-gaza-no-more-tunnels-no-more-fear

  The Party Is Over,  Jeffry Tucker
Something dramatic has hit Washington. It’s about more than Trump.
  The party now in control of the US executive branch is a third party built out of the corpses of two existing parties. It goes by the name Republican but this is nearly a historical accident. The GOP was a vessel that was least protected against invasion and occupation. It has now been nearly taken over by outsiders who had little or no influence within the party a decade ago.
  Nearly all the top people now in power – including Trump of course but also Musk, Gabbard, Kennedy, Lutnick, and so many more, to say nothing of the voters themselves – are refugees from the Democratic Party.   
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/party-over

Anti-Trump FBI Official Leaked Sensitive Investigative Info, Emailed Nude Photo Of Girlfriend   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anti-trump-fbi-official-leaked-sensitive-investigative-info-emailed-nude-photo-girlfriend

  Jim  Kunstler,  No Way Out
“The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful." —Jeffrey Tucker
  You’re supposed to go boo-hoo because the Department of Justice is under new management. Now get this: since 2015 the Department of Justice and its step-child, the FBI, have devoted their vast and savage powers to manifold acts of sedition, treason, malicious political prosecution, obstruction of justice, suborning perjuries, and countless other abuses of law in an ever-widening gyre of ass-covering operations as year-by-year their crimes multiplied.
  RussiaGate was initially a cover-up op for the Clintons’ many acts of mischief and moneygrubbing when Hillary ran for President, just as the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation was a cover-up for the crimes committed by the DOJ and FBI after Hillary lost to Mr. Trump...
..The Democratic Party was the political enabling partner in all this sedition and treason and it is hard to see how it comes out of this alive. Expect to see a lemming stampede of resignations out of Congress and the Senate. And some of them, like Sen. Adam Schiff, and Rep. Eric Swalwell could end up in prison. You saw the fear in their public antics the past two weeks as the cabinet confirmations mounted. They know what’s coming. They are desperate, but the power they once wielded is now in other hands. There’s no way out.   https://www.kunstler.com/p/no-way-out-346

Tulsi the prude?  ;-)   They're Fired: 100 Intelligence Officials In Sick Chat Group 'Terminated And Their Security Clearances Revoked'   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sex-castration-butthole-zapping-nsa-cia-confirm-secret-kink-chat-room-after-chris-rufo

  Who Killed Seth Rich and Was He the Source of DNC Emails to WikiLeaks?  It’s time to know.
Since 2016, those interested in Seth Rich’s murder have wanted to get the information and evidence behind his murder.  The corrupt FBI won’t provide evidence surrounding the case, lies, and takes actions to bury it forever.   
https://joehoft.com/reminder-its-time-to-uncover-who-killed-seth-rich-the-alleged-source-of-dnc-emails-released-by-wikileaks/

USAID Sent Millions To Ukraine In Secret Slush Funds, Investigators Found   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/usaid-sent-millions-ukraine-secret-slush-funds-investigators-found

Rep. Jim Jordan: Obama IRS Targeted Conservatives, Biden IRS Leaked Taxpayer Data   https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/25/rep-jim-jordan-obama-irs-targeted-conservatives-biden-irs-leaked-taxpayer-data/

Musk Effect: Real-Time DC Traffic Data Shows "We've Returned To Office"   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/musk-effect-real-time-dc-traffic-data-shows-weve-returned-office

We'll hear a lot more about this:  Texas Rancher Killed Near Border In IED Attack By Cartel Terrorist   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/texas-rancher-killed-border-ied-attack-cartel-terrorist

Paul Craig Roberts,  President Trump’s idea of replacing the income tax with tariffs is sound and a great advancement in the restoration of freedom   https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/02/24/president-trumps-idea-of-replacing-the-income-tax-with-tariffs-is-sound-and-a-great-advancement-for-the-restoration-of-freedom/

  There is no "happiness" possible, is there?  China welcomes its new ‘AI civil servants’, but not everyone is happy
As Chinese local governments jump onto the DeepSeek bandwagon, not all public servants are pleased with their AI colleagues   https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3299432/china-welcomes-its-new-ai-civil-servants-not-everyone-happy

  Thousands of Canadians sign petition to revoke Elon Musk's citizenship
More than 52,100 signatures support petition urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to revoke Musk's dual citizenship, passport   https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/thousands-of-canadians-sign-petition-to-revoke-elon-musks-citizenship-3698839

Oops...  Republican Congressman and former Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw was apparently caught on a hot mic threatening to kill former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
  The Texas representative had just finished giving an interview with conservative British news channel GB News when reporter Steven Edginton asked him if he had ever met the former Fox host.
  Crenshaw then seemed to admit he had not met Carlson in person, but then said, 'If I ever meet him, I'll f***ing kill him.'   
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14432397/Dan-Crenshaw-threaten-kill-Tucker-Carlson-Ukraine.html

EPSTEIN FILES TOMORROW: AG Pam Bondi Announces Thursday Release As 250 Victim Names Redacted   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/epstein-files-tomorrow-ag-pam-bondi-announces-thursday-release-250-victim-names-redacted

Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Canada are Euthanizing Patients to Harvest Their Organs   https://www.lifenews.com/2025/02/25/netherlands-belgium-spain-and-canada-are-euthanizing-patients-to-harvest-their-organs/

I sure never took 'em before:  Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine Use Soared During COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Says   https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/ivermectin-hydroxychloroquine-use-soared-during-covid-19-pandemic-study-says

Mom-of-two, 34, undergoes a dozen surgeries to replace her dying bones- which doctors link to the Covid vaccine   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14431857/Mom-surgeries-dying-bones-doctor-links-Covid-vaccine.html

  Latest Measles Outbreaks a Result of Failed Vaccines — Not Failure to Vaccinate
As measles outbreaks continue to surface, the mainstream media is pointing the blame at HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “anti-vaccine rhetoric.” But measles outbreaks have repeatedly occurred in communities exceeding 95% vaccine coverage, proving the vaccine itself does not provide durable immunity.   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/latest-measles-outbreaks-result-failed-vaccines-not-failure-to-vaccinate/

  BREAKING: HHS Rightfully Halts BARDA-Funded Oral COVID-19 Viral Vector Vaccine Trial
Pausing the trial was a necessary decision given its flawed study design, lack of a placebo group, and dangerous mechanism of action.   
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-hhs-rightfully-halts-barda?r=e3v24

How to Address the Autism Epidemic,  Two Key Targets: Childhood Hyper-Vaccination and Toxic Pesticide Exposure   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/how-to-address-the-autism-epidemic

  RFK Jr.: HHS Will Investigate All Possible Causes of Chronic Disease — Including Vaccines
In his first address to his staff, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to subject potential causes of chronic disease — even the controversial ones — to “unbiased scientific investigation.”   
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-health-secretary-hhs-investigate-chronic-disease-all-causes/

  Peter McCullough MD,  RSV Vaccines Pfizer Abrysvo and GSK Arexvy Slapped with FDA Warning on Guillain-BarrĂ© syndrome
Adult Vaccine for Mild Upper Respiratory Infection Becomes Even Less Compelling   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/rsv-vaccines-pfizer-abrysvo-and-gsk

  Pfizer CEO: Vaccine Makers Need Liability Shield to Protect Against People Who Claim ‘Accident in a Car Happened Because of a Vaccine’
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla defended the law protecting vaccine makers from liability for vaccine injury, telling CNBC in an interview Tuesday that in a system where “litigations flourish, anyone can create a demand that the accident in a car happened because of a vaccine.”  (What's he know?)   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-big-pharma-liability-shield-false-claims/

  I think you already knew. I did.  First Peer-Reviewed Risk Stratification Protocol for Future Cardiac Arrest after COVID-19 Vaccination
Important step reveals hidden risk of cardiac arrest among vaccinated.   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-publicationfirst-peer-reviewed

Sasha Latypova,  Open Letter to the HHS Secretary, RFK Jr.  PREP Act emergency declaration must be terminated.   https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-the-hhs-secretary

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