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Thursday, 19 February 2026
So USA knew the pipe line was blown up by Ukraine all along and said nothing. Are Germans going to cool on Ukraine? Don't be ridiculous!
What conclusions do I draw?
First the media in Western countries are the equivalents of Russia Today. Never believe the legacy media.
Secondly, America is a different world from Europe or Canada or ANZUK. It has different interests from those of its satellites, different thoughts, different emotions and even under previous presidents couldn't be trusted by them.
America is a savage beast and joined at the hip with Israel which is more savage.
Anybody who believed for a minute that Russia blew up her own pipeline is infantile. I am ashamed to have to confess that for more than a minute I thought it might be true.
A reminder. This is NOT the sort of misinformation Ursula von der Leyen and Macron want to suppress. No siree!
Friedrich Merz tells Munich Security Conference: Freedom is no longer a given
From the Electronic Intifada:
<In January, a post I saw on Twitter/X shocked me.
“URGENT: As of now, I have ZERO access to any money,” Hüseyin Dogru wrote. “I can’t provide food for my family, including two newborns, due to EU sanctions.”
Dogru is a journalist, a German citizen living in Berlin.
After reading his post, I sent him a private message offering to order groceries and have them sent to his home.
The reply shocked me even more. “Unfortunately, I’m not allowed to accept any financial or material support,” Dogru wrote.
Dogru is the first European Union citizen known to be living inside the EU to face extrajudicial sanctions imposed by Brussels – robbing him of fundamental civil and humanitarian rights.
He’s also the first person to be sanctioned specifically for his reporting related to Palestine.
“I’m not allowed to exist anymore, I’m not allowed to provide my children with the basic necessities,” he explained on The Electronic Intifada Podcast this week.
“I can’t pay my rent, I can’t pay my lawyers and yes – I’m not even allowed to accept any kind of food, water or medicine whatsoever from third parties.”
Technically, that even includes his own wife.>
British Prime Ministers
No British PMs were absolutely not up to the job till Mrs May - from 2016 onwards none of them have been.
Balfour, Macdonald, Eden, Major and Brown were bad but not useless like the recent ones. North and Chamberlain were pretty good or would have been at any other time.
The problem therefore is with the people who go into politics or the way PMs emerge or maybe the country is going through a period of sharp nation decline overall. Maybe it's because Clinton and Blair had the effect on politics of Agent Orange.
Andrew arrested. What a lot of news there is every day. Perhaps those people who think it's End Times are right.
I am not surprised that Andrew, Duke of York, as he still is, has been arrested, as it happens on his 66th birthday.
By the way, many members of the English and Scottish royal families have been arrested and put in prison but the last was King Charles I in 1647. The Old Pretender would have been if caught and he would have suffered the fate of his royal grandfather. His son the Young Pretender too.
Since 1649 nothing until Princess Anne was convicted of a criminal offense in 2002 for letting her dog bite some children but she wasn't arrested, much less beheaded, just charged and fined.
The homuncule Starmer is not just an unprincipled liar but a pretty bad lawyer. He was quite wrong to say no-one is above the law. The King is, but not his brother.
Starmer was of course also wrong, and getting far above his station, when he said days ago that Andrew should go to America to answer questions.
The homuncule Starmer is not just an unprincipled liar but a pretty bad lawyer. He was quite wrong to say no-one is above the law. The King is, but not his brother.
Starmer was of course also wrong, and getting far above his station, when he said days ago that Andrew should go to America to answer questions.
England is not an American colony, although Starmer certainly behaves as if we were.
That's why he countenances the Royal Navy committing piracy accompanying an American ship.
That's why he countenances the Royal Navy committing piracy accompanying an American ship.
That's a more serious offence than any amount of ducal corruption, without mentioning his being an accomplice to mass murder.
Lord Mandelson is enormously to blame for lobbying for Prince Andrew to become the UK's special representative for trade and investment in place of the dear old, deliciously boring Duke of Kent.
Prince Andrew held the job, for which he was egregiously unfitted from 2001 until 2011.
No doubt he and Epstein used it to their advantages.
Only thanks to Wikileaks was Andrew sacked. Otherwise he might have held the job until the interview with Maitlis.
Andrew had made a very embarrassing (for himself and the UK) speech to a British Chamber of Commerce in some remote country in which he said everyone bribes.
Only thanks to Wikileaks was Andrew sacked. Otherwise he might have held the job until the interview with Maitlis.
Rod Liddle said in the Spectator issue of 8 December 2010: 'The most important, and comforting, thing to emerge from all that Wiki-Leaks business was that, by and large, we were right. All the things we suspected, or knew either instinctively or through common sense, were proved to be correct. Prince Andrew — arrogant, rude and with the IQ of a corgi? Yep.'
Andrew had made a very embarrassing (for himself and the UK) speech to a British Chamber of Commerce in some remote country in which he said everyone bribes.
The moral is: royal princes and princesses shouldn't have jobs.
Which brings me to Beatrice and Eugenie, who will be now scrutinised closely. I doubt if either will withstand it.
They are also plain and seem greedy and have French names.
Andrew Lownie thinks Andrew might have left the countryn had he not been arrested this morning - and that this is a bigger scandal than the abdication of King Edward VIII. I agree - the abdication was not a scandal at all.Why isn't Wexner arrested? Or Dershowitz or any Americans? Or Israelis? America and Israel are republics where nobody is supposed to be above the law.
Whitney Webb says Epstein’s sex crimes are being used to distract attention from most of what he did - 'he was a sort of financial terrorist'
My head swims when I listen to Whitney Webb or read her wonderful book 'One Nation under Blackmail'.
Whitney Webb talked to Katey Halper about the links between Epstein, Wexner, a circle of Zionist billionaires, organised crime, AI, cryptocurrency and the Likud.
Whitney Webb talked to Katey Halper about the links between Epstein, Wexner, a circle of Zionist billionaires, organised crime, AI, cryptocurrency and the Likud.
She thinks the Epstein’s sex crimes are being used to distract from his high-level financial transactions and political activities.
He is at the centre of a nexus involving billionaires, technology, organised crime, cryptocurrency, the Likud and much else. She draws a comparison with Bentham's Panopticon and ultra-Zionist Oracle owner Larry Ellison saying "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we [who?] are constantly recording and reporting everything."
He is at the centre of a nexus involving billionaires, technology, organised crime, cryptocurrency, the Likud and much else. She draws a comparison with Bentham's Panopticon and ultra-Zionist Oracle owner Larry Ellison saying "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we [who?] are constantly recording and reporting everything."
The Einstein class now is hugely powerful in most of the world, excluding China, Russia, Iran and the Catholic Church.
Sovereignty versus Israel
I have been thinking this morning that sovereignty is the big issue these days - it was the motor for Brexit and underlies the issues of mass migration, Ukraine and the issue of Israel: both as Israelis view their continued existence and as Israel-sceptics see their influence on Western countries.
On the one hand, you have the left who believe in sovereignty like Cenk and Ana and Max Blumenthal. On the other hand is the other left - the ones who don't like national self-determination such as the Clintons, who dream of world government powered by green energy.
I opposed my country being ruled by foreigners, which is why I supported Brexit, but she is still ruled by America, a more erratic ruler than the European Union. I now see that, as a former head of MI6 has said, Israel has enormous power over the UK too.
Then I saw this post from an American X on X. This man's point doesn't just apply to America, by any means.
The DOJ covered up Epstein for Israel and in the same exact week that they closed the investigation with zero prosecutions the DOD is likely gonna fight a war for Israel in Iran.
I'm now a single issue voter and that issue is sovereignty.
Until we reclaim it nothing matters.
"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate." Alex Jordan is partly right
Trump is a terrible negotiator as we see all the time. He negotiated a bad deal with the ghostwriter of The Art of the Deal.
As his quondam best friend Epstein said he was a terrible businessman who couldn't understand a balance sheet. His strength was that he was a very good salesman.
But Trump has one quality in which I am pinning my hopes for avoiding war with Iran - cowardice or call it his instinct for self-preservation or in other words TACO.
“When Congressmen hear a command from Israel, they jump. They certainly run this place.” Barry Goldwater in 1988
Emmanuel Todd: “The war in Ukraine is perceived in the West as a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and of course, I admit that it was the Russian army that entered Ukraine. But the historical reality is that the true cause of the conflict is NATO's expansion into Russia, through Ukraine, and the war waged by the Ukrainians themselves, pushed by the West, against the Russians in Donbas. It is absolutely true that, for the Russians, this war is defensive. For me, it is obvious that the Americans and Europeans are the aggressors, since they have come within a thousand kilometers of Moscow. This is the objective situation. What is fascinating is that these aggressors think they are the ones being attacked and that they are forced to defend themselves. There is an element of madness in our situation in Europe.”
Ian Proud: "No-one is discussing what will be [Europe's] relationship with Russia" after the war ends
Ian Proud held a senior position at the British Embassy in Moscow.
He points out in conversation with Glenn Diesen that Europe is in economic decline because it buys expensive American energy instead of cheap Russian fuel and if a revanchist Ukraine intensely hostile to Russia joins the European Union this may have huge consequences and could lead to another war.
The EU may in any case become Nato lite.
He thinks Putin is right to play hardball in negotiations. If he does not he will end up with a peace and another cold war.
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Epstein was clearly working for Russia
From the indispensable Drop Site News, one of the few trustworthy news sites when it comes to the Epstein case.
NEW: The Israeli Government Installed and Maintained Security System at Epstein Apartment
The Israeli government installed security equipment and controlled access to a Manhattan apartment building managed by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails recently released by the Department of Justice. The equipment was installed beginning in early 2016 at 301 E. 66th Street, where former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak stayed for extended periods.
Emails show the security operation at “Ehud’s apartment” remained in place for at least two years, with officials from Israel’s permanent mission to the United Nations corresponding regularly with Epstein’s staff about security arrangements. The unit was owned by a company connected to Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, but was effectively controlled by Jeffrey Epstein. Units in the building were frequently loaned to Epstein’s contacts and used to house underage models.
Dust unto dust - these last words seem appropriate for Ash Wednesday
When I had just come down from university I collected hundreds and hundreds of famous last words. This was my favourite.
In the Lutheran Church they have the sacrament of the last rites. As King Frederick William I of Prussia (the "Soldier King") lay dying the clergyman at his bedside said 'Naked came you into this world and naked will you depart hence'. The King opened his eyes, said, 'Not quite naked, for I shall be wearing the uniform of a Field Marshal of the Brandenburg Royal Guard' and then expired.
Ash Wednesday
Evelyn Waugh on Ash Wednesday in New Orleans, written for LIFE magazine: "….There is witchcraft in New Orleans, as there was at the court of Mme. de Montespan. Yet it was there that I saw one of the most moving sights of my tour. Ash Wednesday; warm rain falling in streets unsightly with the draggled survivals of carnival. The Roosevelt Hotel overflowing with crapulous tourists planning their return journeys. How many of them knew anything about Lent? But across the way the Jesuit Church was teeming with life all day long; a continuous, dense crowd of all colors and conditions moving up to the altar rails and returning with their foreheads signed with ash. And the old grim message was being repeated over each penitent: ‘Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return.’ One grows parched for that straight style of speech in the desert of modern euphemisms…"
Ronald Blythe on the start of Lent. “What shall my discipline be? Rather than fast I will say Compline before I sleep. Also feed on George Herbert. And recognise that the wilderness is not the wasteland.”
Sean McMeekin's Stalin's War (2021)
Reading military history is the vice of middle aged men and one I try to avoid. Sean McMeekin's Stalin's War which I am reading is political not military history and a very good book indeed.
McMeekin quotes a transcript in the Russian archives from 19 August 1939 that says “'the Vozhd [Stalin] told Molotov that if he cut a deal with England and France ‘Germany will back off and seek a modus vivendi with the Western powers.’ By contrast, if Molotov ‘accept[ed] Germany’s proposal and conclude[d] a nonaggression pact with her,’ Stalin predicted that Germany ‘will certainly attack Poland and the intervention of England and France is then unavoidable.’"
Stalin may have been wrong about that - or right- but he wanted a European war, for Marxist-Leninist reasons.
In early 1940 as a response to Russia's invasion of Finland London considered bombing the oil fields of Baku and making war on the USSR as well as Germany. I used to think the idea of going to war with both countries at the same time absurd but now I see advantages to it.
In the two years following the start of the Second World War in September 1939 Hitler and Stalin had both invaded seven countries. Would you say that a Western victory over one of these countries which allowed the other to seize half of Europe and become the West's great enemy almost immediately was a great victory?
For Great Britain the victory was pyrrhic.
Quotations
The United States and Europe belong to a civilization that stretches over continents, crossed over oceans, and persisted for thousands of years: from Athens to Rome to America.
Western Civilization must embrace its noble legacy if it is to reverse its decline.
“The enemy is not Hamas. Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy.” former member of the Knesset Moshe Feiglin said during an interview on Israel’s Channel 14 in May 2025.
Late last night:
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
John Mearsheimer: Every country in the world, including the USA, is desperate to avoid war with Iran except Israel and the UAE, but Israel may well be powerful enough to make it happen
John Mearheimer's lastest interview on Judging Freedom is here.
“Even if Trump works out a deal that is satisfactory to him…it’s not going to satisfy to the Israelis. The Israelis have made it very clear that they will attack Iran alone if that is necessary. Of course if they attack Iran, there’s no way we don’t get involved because we will then have to help defend Israel when the Iranians then start launching ballistic missiles at Israel.”
"The Chinese import 1.4 million barrels of oil from Iran a day. Are they just going to sit back and allow the Iranian leadership to be toppled if Netanyahu and Trump attack?
Who was Epstein and what was he doing? Spying for Russia? Eating children and worshipping Baal?
As Mark Twain said truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.
I explained here how the Epstein case became a big scandal in 2019 despite the mainstream media.
I explained here how the Epstein case became a big scandal in 2019 despite the mainstream media.
In 2019 it was obvious (except to the media) that he had been conducting a blackmail operation and Israel seemed likely to be behind it. But there was no proof of that and so I kept an open mind.
The media still display an absolute lack of curiosity about an Israeli connection today, instead suggesting that he worked for Russia.
The media are about mind control.
Monday, 16 February 2026
The battle now is for freedom of information and Musk is the hero - but how long will he withstand pressure from the EU and Israel?
“Free speech is hanging by a thread globally, and that thread is Elon Musk … What's happening on X right now is a change of consciousness and … the establishment is desperate to either shut it down or censor it … It is a central priority for the left.” Professor Michael D. Shellenberger.
Not just the left. Ursula v d Leyen said 'misinformation' is her first priority, before climate change or Ukraine. Netanyahu says US social and other media are the most important military front.
Poland's Foreign Minister and husband of Ann Applebaum Radosław Sikorski said at the Munich Security Conference that the U.S. should not impose its free speech values on Europeans: "In the U.S., it's almost absolute... whereas in Europe, for good historical reasons... we believe in freedom of speech with responsibility."
I'd have hoped someone who grew up under Communism would not say that but he is a liberal and therefore is frightened of the people just like Western European politicians except the populists.
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