This guy is an idiot - he needs to go read the bible

Israel has biblical right to Middle East – US envoy to Tucker Carlson

“It would be fine if they took it all,” Mike Huckabee said

In an interview released on Friday, the envoy explained to Carlson that “a Zionist simply means a person, who believes that the Jewish people have a right to have a homeland where they have security and safety; who believe that the Jews have a right to live in Israel.”

“Israel’s right to exist comes from the Bible… [it] is a land that God gave through Abraham to a people that he chose,” Huckabee explained.

Carlson pointed out that, according to the Book of Genesis, the territory offered by God to the Hebrew patriarch stretched “from the Euphrates to the Nile.”

“That would include basically the entire Middle East. That would be the Levant. So, that would be Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon. It would also be big parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq,” he said.

Carlson asked if that meant that “Israel has the right to that land? Because you’re appealing to the Genesis. You’re saying that’s the original deed?”

“It would be fine if they took it all. But I don’t think that’s what we’re talking about here today,” Huckabee replied.

Israel has been expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank in contravention of international law. In addition to the war in Gaza, which, according to the Gazan Health Ministry, has left more than 72,000 people dead since October 2023 in the enclave, over the past two and a half years Israel has also attacked Iran, carried out a military operation in Lebanon, occupied parts of southwestern Syria, and struck targets in Yemen.

https://www.rt.com/news/632864-israel-carlson-huckabee-bible/

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Jeremiah 11

6 The Lord said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them. 7 From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, “Obey me.” 8 But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.’”

9 Then the Lord said to me, “There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem. 10 They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. 11 Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them. 12 The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes. 13 You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

14 “Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.

15 “What is my beloved doing in my temple

as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?

Can consecrated meat avert your punishment?

When you engage in your wickedness,

then you rejoice.[a]”

‘Satanic’ – Putin aide on ex-Prince Andrew and his ‘liberal West friends’

The comment follows an anonymous allegation in the recently released Epstein files claiming the prince took part in torturing a six-year-old

Kirill Dmitriev, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has called ex-UK Prince Andrew “satanic,” along with his “liberal Western friends,” citing newly released Jeffrey Epstein files containing an anonymous allegation that the former royal took part in torturing a child.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles III, was stripped of his royal titles last year over his ties to the late sex offender. The scandal intensified this month after the US State Department released the final tranche of Epstein files, totaling more than 3 million documents.

One document features an anonymous FBI witness who claims they were “6-8 years old” when they were drugged and taken to “pedophile ring parties” in the mid-1990s attended by Andrew.

The witness alleges that on one occasion, they were struck by a car “driven by Prince Andrew.” On another, Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell – now serving 20 years – allegedly tied them to a table and “tortured with electrical shocks” while men, including the former prince, watched.

Andrew lost his royal title following accusations from the late Virginia Giuffre, who said she was trafficked to the prince by Epstein in the early 2000s at age 17. He settled with Giuffre out of court in 2022, but renewed scrutiny came after her posthumous memoir last October detailed the abuse. Giuffre died by suicide last April.

Earlier this week, Andrew was briefly detained for “misconduct in public office” after the Epstein files suggested that he may have shared sensitive data while UK trade envoy from 2001 to 2011. He was released the same day “under investigation” and denied wrongdoing. Police made no mention of sexual abuse or trafficking, and it remains unclear if the claims will be investigated.

The latest release of Epstein files has triggered scandals, resignations, and criminal probes across politics, business, and academia worldwide. In the UK, three senior officials in Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government have resigned within the past ten days.

However, a number of high-profile Western figures named in the files have not been charged and deny wrongdoing, including US President Donald Trump, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

https://www.rt.com/news/632863-ex-prince-uk-satanic-dmitriev/

Kirill Dmitriev

wants to be a digger

Kirill Dmitriev

@kadmitriev

And the masks 🎭 are off:

https://twitter.com/i/status/2025167219689202102

Was Climate Change The Greatest Financial Scandal In History?

Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.

And for what?

Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources.

The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.

Since the global warming crusade started some 30 years ago, the temperature of the planet has not been altered by one-tenth of a degree—as even the alarmists will admit.

In other words, $16 trillion has been spent—a lot of people got very, very rich off the government largesse—but there is not a penny of measurable payoff.

But it’s much worse than that.

In economics there is a concept called opportunity cost: What could we have done with $16 trillion to make the world better off?

What if the $16 trillion had been spent on clean water for poor countries?

Preventing avoidable deaths from diseases like malaria?

Building schools in African villages to end illiteracy?

Bringing reliable and affordable electric power to the more than 1 billion people who still lack access? Curing cancer?

Many millions of lives could have been saved.

We could have lifted millions more out of poverty.

The benefits of speeding up the race for the cure for cancer could have added tens of millions of additional years of life at an economic value in the tens of trillions of dollars.

Instead, we effectively poured $16 trillion down the drain.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/was-climate-change-greatest-financial-scandal-history

Trump Hikes Global Tariffs To 15%, Blasts "Ridiculous, Anti-American" SCOTUS Ruling

One day after 'The Supremes' struck down his IEEPA tariffs, President Trump has announced, in a statement issued on Truth Social, that he will raise his new, global tariff to 15% (the maximum allowed under a separate trade law), a day after he took hiked global tariffs to 10% (in response to the SCOTUS ruling).

Trump further slammed the SCOTUS decision as "anti-American"…

"Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday, after MANY months of contemplation, by the United States Supreme Court,

Then dropped the hammer…

"…please let this statement serve to represent that I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been “ripping” the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level."

With the policy taking effect immediately, Trump further signaled that he would press ahead with his trade war despite the major legal setback.

"During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs…

…which will continue our extraordinarily successful process of Making America Great Again - GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter."

Ironically, for those cheering yesterday's court ruling, for some countries, President Trump’s new 15% tariff may actually be higher than the rates that previously applied to their exports to the US.

Trump is applying the new baseline tariff under Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act, which allows the president to impose tariffs for 150 days without congressional approval.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-hike-global-tariffs-15-blasts-ridiculous-anti-american-scotus-ruling

If 'Cash Is King', Berkshire Hathaway Leads The World

The cash that companies hold is important for paying employees, funding operations, and as a measure of financial health.

This chart, via Visual Capitalist's Boyan Girginov, shows the 50 companies with the largest cash holdings, using data from TradingView to highlight who is sitting on the largest war chests.

This metric captures a company’s most liquid assets: cash plus short-term securities like T-bills that typically mature within a year.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/if-cash-king-berkshire-hathaway-leads-world

No Laughing Matter: John Cleese Declares "I'm Afraid They Are Going To Have To Arrest Me"

“I’m clearly a terrorist, so I’m afraid they are going to have to arrest me…”

Now 86, Cleese has a more pressing concern about being English: whether his exercise of free speech will make him a criminal in his own country.

In a recent interview, Cleese observed that the government’s new speech standards would classify many citizens, including himself, as presumptive criminals for criticizing certain policies.

He observed that: ”As I am an Islamosceptic, I’m now worried that the Labour government may categorise me as a terrorist…”

The government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer has continued its headlong plunge into the criminalization of speech. The guidelines include a section on cultural nationalism, stating that such views are now the subject of government crackdowns. To even argue that Western culture is under threat from mass migration or a lack of integration by certain groups is being treated as a dangerous ideology.

Cleese responded by saying, “I’m clearly a terrorist, so I’m afraid they are going to have to arrest me.”

The tragedy is that this is no wicked Monty Python joke. Cleese has every reason to be concerned.

As I discuss in Rage and the Republic, the United Kingdom has eviscerated free speech in the name of social cohesion and order.

For years, I have been writing about the decline of free speech in the United Kingdom and the steady stream of arrests.

A man was convicted of sending a tweet while drunk, referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.”

A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.”

Last year, Nicholas Brock, 52, was convicted of a thought crime in Maidenhead, Berkshire. The neo-Nazi was given a four-year sentence for what the court called his “toxic ideology” based on the contents of the home he shared with his mother in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

While most of us find Brock’s views repellent and hateful, they were confined to his head and his room.

Yet, Judge Peter Lodder QC dismissed free speech or free thought concerns with a truly Orwellian statement:

“I do not sentence you for your political views, but the extremity of those views informs the assessment of dangerousness.”

Lodder lambasted Brock for holding Nazi and other hateful values:

“[i]t is clear that you are a right-wing extremist, your enthusiasm for this repulsive and toxic ideology is demonstrated by the graphic and racist iconography which you have studied and appeared to share with others…”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/no-laughing-matter-john-cleese-declares-im-afraid-they-are-going-have-arrest-me

Riyadh Seeks To Replace Israel With Syria For EU Fiber-Optic Cable Route

Saudi Arabia wants to replace Israel with Syria as the transit country for a fiber-optic cable designed to connect the kingdom to Greece through the Mediterranean Sea, two regional officials familiar with the project told Middle East Eye.

Saudi Arabia's insistence that it be connected to Greece through Syria, and not Israel, as previously discussed, underscores how regional alignments are shifting as Riyadh looks to bolster Damascus’s standing in the region and potentially isolate Israel.

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has publicly accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, where over 72,000 Palestinians have been killed. Riyadh is also at odds with the UAE, Israel’s closest Arab partner, in Yemen, Sudan, and the Red Sea.

Athens is trying to position itself as a hub between Europe and the Middle East for energy, real estate and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Greece has courted Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia for investment, but it is particularly close to Israel, which policymakers in Athens view as an ally against Turkey, and an insurance policy to keep the US engaged in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Saudi Arabia's shift on the project could throw a wrench in Greece’s relationship with Israel, if it is indeed snubbed in the new route.

Fiber-optic cables carry essential digital services from country to country in milliseconds using pulses of light. Their importance is growing as Gulf states position themselves as exporters of AI, seeking to send data to Europe.

Greece and Saudi Arabia announced the East to Med data Corridor, or the EMC project, in 2022. It is a joint partnership between Saudi Telecom (STC), the Greek electricity provider PPC, Greek telecoms and the satellite applications company, TTSA.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/riyadh-seeks-replace-israel-syria-greece-fiber-optic-cable-route

President Trump says SCOTUS Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch "EMBARRASSED" their families by ruling against his tariffs

"Their decision was terrible. I think it's an EMBARRASSMENT to their families, you wanna know the truth. The 2 of them."

https://twitter.com/i/status/2024923470585368927

GOP Rep. Stutzman: Need IEEPA Update, Mexican Fentanyl ‘Still a Very Big Problem’

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) said that Congress needs to make changes to the IEEPA statute and said that “the fentanyl manufacturing that is on the Mexican side of our border is still a very big problem.”

Stutzman said, “I do think that, we, as Congress, we should take a deep look at the IEEPA statute and say there is a point in time when I think the president does look at what the emergency is — and there are several of them that I think could be argued — that we do have a fiscal situation that’s an emergency, but also a trade situation, and along with the drug traffic that other countries have been using against us as Americans, for the president — whether it’s Republican or Democrat — to utilize if they deem so.”

He added, “I think this is where Congress does need to act and give the executive branch flexibility and ability. The border situation that we saw where we have drugs coming across the border, I was just in Arizona a couple of weeks ago, and the fentanyl manufacturing that is on the Mexican side of our border is still a very big problem. I think that it would be good for us as Congress to take a look at, not only the tariff flexibility for the executive branch, but define those emergencies a little better.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/02/21/gop-rep-stutzman-need-ieepa-update-mexican-fentanyl-still-a-very-big-problem/

The Dalai Lama and Jeffery Epstein: A Mysterious Connection Left Unsolved

Recent documents released by the Department of justice cast a curious light on the relationship between disgraced pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and the Tibetan religious leader the Dalai Lama.

The latest tranche of Epstein Files has put a rather unlikely figure in the spotlight: the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan religious leader’s name is mentioned hundreds of times in the newly-released documents, with suggestions and allegations that the two maintained some kind of personal relationship. A search for “Dalai Lama” elicits 156 results on the Department of Justice’s website, with other similar queries, such as “Dali Lama” (Epstein had notoriously poor spelling) also prompting dozens of relevant results. A prominent Epstein guest recalls meeting the Buddhist teacher at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, scene of many of his most serious sex crimes. The Dalai Lama’s office has vehemently denied any connection to the disgraced pedophile and suspected Israeli intelligence operative.

Partying At Epstein’s House?

A serial networker, Epstein’s emails show that he worked hard to connect with the Dalai Lama, sending requests out to his web of contacts for an invitation. Joichi Ito, head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, helped him in his endeavors, noting that his close contact, Tenzin Priyadarshi was a Tibetan monk, MIT’s Buddhist chaplain, and had a direct line to the Dalai Lama. As he wrote:

“Yes. First step would be to meet Tenzin. His student who runs the Dalai Lama center and is now a Director’s Fellow at the Lab and going to start the ‘ethics initiative’ at the Media Lab. We’re working on some cool things like a meeting about cognitive machines and man. I think you’ll probably like him. He can get us the Dalai Lama.”

Epstein would go on to meet with Priyadarshi and donate $50,000 to the Prajnopaya Institute, a Buddhist Center he founded. In 2019, Ito resigned in disgrace over his association with Epstein.

Epstein was excited by the prospect of reeling the lama into his personal network. “I’m working on the dalai lama for dinner” he emailed Soon Yi-Previn, wife of Woody Allen. “Any date for the lunch with Woody and dalai L?” celebrity scientist Lawrence Krauss asked Epstein two weeks later.

Another message from a redacted sender also hints at a closer relationship than previously known.

“Sorry for that didn’t check my email since yesterday morning. You know that I don’t have an Internet in my phone, why didn’t you call me or text me on my phone if you need me? About the event I told you almost a month ago on the island that Dalai Lama is coming and I want to go there to see him. But I can skip this event if you need my help today.”

It is not clear whether the reference to the “island” is Little St. James, the infamous Caribbean retreat where the billionaire trafficked and raped girls and women.

more

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/news/the-dalai-lama-and-jeffery-epstein-a-mysterious-connection-left-unsolved

Ex-PM Boris Johnson Calls for British and European Troops to Be Deployed Immediately in Ukraine

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the U.K. and its European allies should immediately deploy noncombat troops to Ukraine to show Russian President Vladimir Putin that Western nations are truly committed to the nation’s freedom and independence.

Speaking ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Johnson told the BBC that the troops should be sent to peaceful regions in non-fighting roles. The comments from Johnson, who was one of Ukraine´s staunchest supporters as Britain´s leader during the first months of the conflict, were contained in excerpts of an interview that will be broadcast on Sunday.

If adopted, the proposal from Johnson would mark a major policy shift for the U.K. and its allies. While the “coalition of the willing” is working on plans to send troops to Ukraine, such a deployment would only take place after an agreement to end the fighting and would be designed to police the ceasefire.

“If we are willing to do it in the context of a ceasefire, which of course puts all the initiative, all the power, in Putin’s hands, why not do it now?” Johnson said. “There is no logical reason that I can see why we shouldn’t send peaceful ground forces there to show our support, our constitutional support for a free, independent Ukraine.”

Western military planners have avoided discussing such a move publicly out of concern that Russia would see it as an escalation of the conflict.

Putin in September rejected Western proposals for a peacekeeping force in Ukraine, saying that any troops deployed to the country would be “legitimate targets.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/02/21/ex-pm-boris-johnson-calls-for-british-and-european-troops-to-be-deployed-immediately-in-ukraine/

Another shot at Trump? Or Blackmail?

DOJ busted deleting evidence of Ghislaine Maxwell holding 'blackmail' over Trump

The Department of Justice wasreportedlycaught deleting evidence that sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was in possession of three interviews that could possibly be used as blackmail over President Donald Trump and were not released to the general public.

On Wednesday, I reported that the Justice Department had removed from its Epstein file database a key document about a woman who told the FBI that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child. By Thursday evening, it was once again live.

It’s unclear why the DOJ deleted the document in the first place. ((Here’s proof the document had been taken down.) It’s also unclear why they put it back up after my reporting, which included a screenshot of the relevant information and a link to an internet archive of the full record. The information in the document pertaining to the Trump accuser — whom the DOJ identifies as a victim of Jeffrey Epstein in the early-mid 1980s — doesn’t appear altered in any way. (Compare the record on the DOJ site today with the version they removed.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20260219042051/https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00095751.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20260131112525/https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00095751.pdf

However, the existence of this record — more specifically, the public’s knowledge of its existence — carries significant implications when it comes to the president and his DOJ’s posture against Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.

That’s because this document shows the FBI conducted not just one but four interviews with Trump’s accuser. And, as I reported Wednesday, while the government gave all four of those interviews to Maxwell’s legal team ahead of her trial, the government gave only one of those four interviews to us in the Epstein files.

In other words, this document shows that, in choosing to withhold three of the four interviews from the Epstein files, the DOJ has granted Maxwell potential blackmail on the sitting president of the United States. (That depends, of course, on what the victim said in those interviews, but it doesn’t look good for Trump. However, if the victim “exonerated” him, the public needs to know that as well, and you’d think he’d see common ground there.)

https://sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/doj-deleted-record-revealing-that

Israeli press mad at the truth

Tucker Carlson claims Israel targeted his family, Netanyahu ‘believes in blood guilt’

In program including interview with Huckabee, right-wing commentator launches litany of unsubstantiated claims echoing antisemitic tropes, falsely says Herzog visited Epstein island

In a program released Friday following his brief visit to Israel, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson claimed the Israeli government targeted his family, called the Jewish state “probably the most violent country on earth” and falsely said President Isaac Herzog had visited Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island, apparently citing a fake AI-generated image that had circulated online.

He also called Israel a police state, questioned its right to exist and the historic ties of the Jewish population to the land, accused the country of controlling US policy, and made various other unsupported claims associated with antisemitic tropes.

Carlson, a leading critic of Israel on the right, came to Israel on Wednesday to interview US Ambassador Mike Huckabee. According to some reports, he never left the airport area and departed immediately afterward. The Friday program included his interview with Huckabee as well as solo segments in which he railed against Israel.

interviewed US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. (X screenshot)

In a program released Friday following his brief visit to Israel, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson claimed the Israeli government targeted his family, called the Jewish state “probably the most violent country on earth” and falsely said President Isaac Herzog had visited Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island, apparently citing a fake AI-generated image that had circulated online.

He also called Israel a police state, questioned its right to exist and the historic ties of the Jewish population to the land, accused the country of controlling US policy, and made various other unsupported claims associated with antisemitic tropes.

Carlson, a leading critic of Israel on the right, came to Israel on Wednesday to interview US Ambassador Mike Huckabee. According to some reports, he never left the airport area and departed immediately afterward. The Friday program included his interview with Huckabee as well as solo segments in which he railed against Israel.

Speaking alone, Carlson said: “There was a threat to my family. The Israeli government, and [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu himself, tried to punish two members of my family. I won’t be more specific, but actually punish two members of my family because he, as he has said in public many times, believes in blood guilt, Amalek. You know, when someone commits a crime against you, you punish not just him, but his family, his bloodline.”

Carlson did not give any more details or offer evidence to substantiate his claim. Netanyahu has never stated that he believes in “blood guilt” or in collective punishment of Israel’s enemies. His mention of the biblical Amalekites in the wake of the October 7 attack was a reference to genocidal threats to the people of Israel throughout history.

Carlson went on: “There’s no idea that’s less Western than that, more anti-Christian than that. Christians reject that. Netanyahu doesn’t. That’s why he’s talking about Amalek, and he was going after my family, literally, so I felt very threatened by that.”

During his interview with Huckabee, the right-wing pundit pressed Huckabee about Herzog’s supposed visits to Epstein’s island, although there is no evidence that Herzog had any connection to Epstein or visited his property.

“The current president of Israel, whom I know you know, apparently was at ‘pedo island.’ That’s what it says,” Carlson said. “Still-living, high-level Israeli officials are directly implicated in Epstein’s life, if not his crimes, so I think you’d be following this.”

Former prime minister Ehud Barak was friendly with Epstein, but there is no evidence of any criminality on Barak’s part.

Huckabee said he had not followed news about the Epstein files because it was not relevant to his job.

“I was not aware there was any connection with President Herzog. I would be surprised to hear that,” Huckabee said.

“I don’t know that I’ve heard the current president of Israel respond to it, but he is listed as a visitor to ‘pedo island,’ so that’s kind of a big deal,” Carlson said, criticizing Huckabee for not questioning Herzog about Epstein.

“This is the first I’ve heard of this, so why do you expect me to have knowledge like that?” Huckabee answered.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/tucker-carlson-falsely-says-herzog-visited-epstein-island-in-interview-with-us-envoy/

US Intelligence: 15,000+ Were Let Free From ISIS Detention Camp After Collapse

Another 'win' for America's disastrous Syria policy, long predicated on overthrowing the Assad government and installing a 'moderate' Sunni regime - though it turns out Jolani's bearded Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants are anything but…

"U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that 15,000 to 20,000 people, including Islamic State affiliates are now at large in Syria, after an exodus from a camp that held jihadists’ families, U.S. officials familiar with the estimate said," The Wall Street Journal reports Friday.

Who could have predicted that chaos, instability, and terrorism would come out of the CIA's Operation Timber Sycamore? Well, we did, and every rational observer of the Syria situation.

A billion plus dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives after the decade-long proxy war, and this is all Washington has to show for it:

Security experts have long warned that the wives of Islamic State fighters were effectively raising the next generation of militants at the sprawling Al-Hol facility. Security at the camp fell apart in recent weeks after Syria’s government routed the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which had guarded Al-Hol for years, raising concerns about the release of people who might have become radicalized during the years held behind the razor wire.

The size of a small city, the camp in Syria’s eastern desert at one point held more than 70,000 people after U.S.-backed forces destroyed what remained of Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria in 2019. At the end of 2025, more than 23,000 people were there, according to a report this week from the Pentagon’s Inspector General.

The US military is rapidly backing out of this region after the years-long occupation, effectively throwing the Kurds (SDF) under the bus, as HTS radicals move in and take control.

Given many analysts have pointed to HTS being 'ISIS-lite' to begin with, the following WSJ note is no surprise: "The vast majority have left Al-Hol after the Syrian government took control last month. Western diplomats in Damascus assessed that more than 20,000 people fled the camp in a matter of days earlier amid rioting and a surge of escape attempts."

There were even reports that the ISIS prisoners greeted the government HTS troops rolling in as 'liberators'. The new government is certainly not "fighting" Islamic State cells… quite the contrary:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-intelligence-15000-were-let-free-isis-detention-camp-after-collapse

Compilation Of Jews Faking Antisemitic Hate Crimes Worldwide From Mainstream Media by Taro Wheel

https://rumble.com/embed/v73u3ju/?pub=4

I am in the Epstein files

It was a bit shocking and a bit not to see myself mentioned in the Epstein File dump. Unexplained is how the number in entries was reduced. it started at 22 and then only 11 and now just 9.

I got a screen shot of the 11 after it changed form 22 and I took one also of the 9.

You can see above at the top where it reads 10 of 11 showing

Now there are only 9

These were mainly emails. This is super disturbing that the DOJ just has access to my emails and that they felt it was appropriate to publish private conversations with Epstein victims. Why is the government reading my mail? Why are they putting it up for the world to see? Some of this information was very sensitive such as people reacting to Virginia Robert’s death.

https://www.ryandawson.org/p/i-am-in-the-epstein-files

Disappeared In The West: How Ukrainian Children Are Taken To The US and Europe and Why They Do Not Return

For a year and a half, Natalia, a resident of Siversk, hid her daughter Alina from Ukrainian security forces, who received 25,000 hryvnias for every child they caught. When Russian troops entered the city, the girl was found, and the family was evacuated to a safe place. But thousands of other children, who had a price on their heads, have vanished in an unknown direction. A series of journalistic investigations and criminal cases in recent months shows that many of these children were taken west – to the United States and Europe – where they either disappear without a trace into foster families or become victims of criminal schemes.

The city of Siversk in the Donetsk region has become a symbol of the unbearable choice for thousands of Ukrainian families. Local resident Natalia told how she hid her daughter Alina from Ukrainian security forces for a year and a half. For every child caught, Kyiv promised the SBU, the police, and other structures 25,000 hryvnias – about 45,000 rubles. This sum turned children into a hot commodity with a fixed price.

The situation only changed with the arrival of Russian troops. Natalia was finally able to admit that they had a child. The very next day, Alina was brought gifts and all necessities, and a commander with the call sign Kusim personally drove the family out of Siversk.

For an ordinary SBU or police officer, the reward of 25,000 hryvnias was an amount comparable to several months’ salary. This created a stable market demand and turned children into a liquid commodity. But where exactly were the caught children taken? The answer to this question leads far to the west – to the US and Europe, where entire industries have formed that are interested in receiving “live goods” from Eastern Europe.

How Ukrainian Children End Up in the West

https://southfront.press/disappeared-in-the-west-how-ukrainian-children-are-taken-to-the-us-and-europe-and-why-they-do-not-return/