Link: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/15/trump-vance-europe-russia-ukraine-nato

President Trump stunned, strangled and humiliated Europe — leaving America's closest continental ally dazed and dumbfounded. That was over the course of three short days this week. The big picture: No amount of "Trump-proofing" could have prepared Europe for the MAGA-shaped hurricane that swept across the continent this week, wreaking torrential havoc on America's closest allies. Driving the news: Trump left NATO and Ukraine still reeling with his initiation of direct peace talks with Russia, without Ukraine fully in the loop or other European leaders even in the conversation.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/612575-ai-may-become-judge/

Artificial intelligence is being weaponized across all facets of life, and Google’s recent change of principles is a sign of things to come. Last week, Google revised its artificial intelligence principles, removing the company’s stance against using AI to develop weapons or technologies or directly facilitate injury to people, or for surveillance that violates internationally accepted norms. Google’s AI head Demis Hassabis said the guidelines were being overhauled in a changing world and that AI should protect “national security”. RT has interviewed Dr. Mathew Maavak, a senior consultant for Malaysia’s National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025 (AI-Rmap), scholar on global risks, geopolitics, strategic foresight, governance and AI, on the potential consequences of Google’s new policies. RT: Does this mean that Google and other corporations will now start making AI-powered weapons?

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-republicans-drafting-impeachment-articles-against-activist-judges-blocking-doge

House Republicans are drafting articles of impeachment against Democrat judges that have blocked various actions by the Trump administration, including those who have halted efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) said he is drafting articles of impeachment against Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York, who in a ruling last weekend temporarily restricted Musk and DOGE aides from accessing a Treasury Department payment system. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) is working on an impeachment resolution against Rhode Island District Judge John McConnell Jr. over his ruling halting the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funding. And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), chair of the House Oversight Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee, pledged in a hearing this week while referencing Engelmayer that “We will hold this judge and others who try to stop the will of the people and their elected leaders accountable.”

Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/treason-elon-musk-blasts-gavin-newsom-allocating-9/

California Governor Gavin Newsom is once again proving his loyalty—not to the hardworking taxpayers of his state, but to the ever-growing population of illegal immigrants who have flooded California thanks to the Democrats and Biden administration’s disastrous open-border policies. During the first budget hearing of 2025 for the California Assembly, Newsom’s office admitted that they grossly underestimated the cost of providing free, taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens. Originally projected at $6.5 billion, the true cost has now skyrocketed to $9.5 billion—a staggering 46.2% increase from what was initially claimed. That’s nearly $10 billion of California taxpayers’ hard-earned money being funneled into services for illegal immigrants while the state struggles with a crippling $68 billion budget deficit and soaring taxes on legal residents.

Link: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/02/17/1060591.html

The head of the new Department of Public Administration Efficiency (DOGE) of the United States, American entrepreneur Elon Musk, on his page on the social network X, announced the "largest fraud" in history, commenting on information that the number of Americans living who receive social benefits exceeds the population of the country. | According to the entrepreneur, the number of American citizens eligible for social security is about 310 million people. Earlier, Musk published a table with the age data of living Americans receiving social benefits. According to the table, among the recipients of benefits in the United States, there are not only several million living Americans aged 120-249, but also one "centenarian" classified in the 360-369 age group.

Link: https://henrymakow.com/2025/02/mike-stone---our-national-nigh.html

It's amazing what we're seeing with Donald Trump back in the White House, but it's not surprising. This is what "drain the swamp" looks like and the criminality is far worse than what most of us could have ever imagined. Thousands of criminals (government employees) have been sacked, with more soon to follow. Consider the scope of this. Thousands of six-figure-earning, Deep State criminals, who have done nothing but bleed the country dry and make your life miserable, mocking you the entire time, are now out of a job and can't afford their house payments. (I suppose they can file for unemployment. Or learn how to code.) Those firings have led to an exodus in Washington D.C. and nearby Arlington, Virginia with over 14,825 new housing listings. It's like rats fleeing a sinking ship. Meanwhile, Google searches for "criminal defence lawyer" are three times higher in Washington, D.C. than anywhere else in the country. Other Google search terms that have exploded in Washington are "wipe hard drive" and "offshore bank."

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-02-17-criminal-prefer-unarmed-victims-democrats-uninformed-voters.html

Democrat politicians exploit voter ignorance through propaganda, lies, and censorship, creating uninformed and misinformed supporters who inadvertently perpetuate bigger government and police-state tyranny. The November elections revealed the limitations of the "Fake News Industrial Complex," as too many lies came to light, leading to a surge in truth-based news coverage and a shift in public perception. Joe Biden’s performance in the debate, particularly his confusion and errors, exposed the extent of the lies told by Democrat politicians, leading to a loss of trust in their narratives. Mainstream legacy media, including CNN and MSNBC, are suffering from plummeting ratings and potential bankruptcy due to their bias and misinformation, while alternative truth-based media gains credibility and influence

Link: https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/02/17/war-crime-ukrainian-nazis-punish-their-own-comrades/

The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not stop retreating in almost all directions on the frontlines. The doomed Ukrainian troops are angered by constant defeats and take more and more anger on those who cannot fight back. After years of tacit support from their Western patrons, Ukrainian Nazis continue horrific murders of innocent civilians, especially in the captured Russian villages in the Kursk region. Other victims of Ukrainian crimes are Ukrainian soldiers, punished by their brothers in arms. The advancing Russian troops revealed more war crimes of Ukrainian soldiers in recent days. For example, Ukrainians tied one of the soldiers to a tree and killed him in the Kursk region. The retreating Ukrainian soldiers left his body on the spot, as well as bodies of thousands of other fighters abandoned on lost Ukrainian positions along the entire front.

Link: https://tass.com/emergencies/1914167

Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that one of the civilians was injured, as an FPV drone attacked a car in the village of Dvuluchnoye. Four people were killed and three others were injured as Ukraine’s armed forces attacked seven neighborhoods in the bordering region of Belgorod, using 62 munitions and 86 drones, in the past day, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported on his Telegram channel. "Three civilians were killed in a drone attack on a car at the entry to the village of Grafovka. And an employee of a farm sustained wounds as an FPV drone hit the village of Repyakhovka," the official wrote, adding that five private homes, three cars, a building on the premises of the farm, an elevated water tank, and an electricity line were damaged in the attack. As many as 20 drones were launched on the Valuiki District, Gladkov continued. A female civilian was killed in a drone attack on a car moving along the motor road between Dvuluchnoye and Urazovo, and a woman who drove the car was bruised. Another civilian was injured, as an FPV drone attacked a car in the village of Dvuluchnoye. Over the past day, four private homes, three apartments in a residential building, three outbuildings, and 13 cars were damaged in the same district, with three motor vehicles were burnt down.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/612847-musk-social-security-fraud-us/

The number of people receiving social security payments exceeds the number of American citizens, the billionaire has claimed. The US Social Security Administration (SSA) has come under fresh scrutiny by Elon Musk, the billionaire head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The X and SpaceX CEO has accused the agency of massive fraud. Earlier this month, Musk claimed that a cursory review of Social Security records by his department had found out that the safety net program is paying benefits to 150-year-olds. The businessman noted that many entries listed for Social Security recipients had no identifying information. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, the US-based billionaire noted that “there are far more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA.” Musk also shared a post by an X user suggesting that social security payment is currently received by 394,943,364 people and claiming that total population of the US amounts to 334 million.

Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/612854-ukraine-saudi-arabia-talks/

Kiev will treat any negotiations without its involvement as “null and void,” the Ukrainian leader has said. Kiev will not recognize any agreements that could be reached between Russia and the US during talks in Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky told journalists on Monday. The Ukrainian government will only acknowledge negotiations that involve Kiev’s representatives, he added. Russia and the US have begun preparations for a meeting between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump that is scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia. On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Yury Ushakov, Putin’s top foreign policy aide, would travel to Riyadh to meet a US delegation and lay the groundwork for a presidential meeting.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/us/trump-supreme-court-special-counsel.html

The court’s conservative majority may be receptive to the argument that presidents have unlimited power to remove leaders of independent agencies. In the first case to reach the Supreme Court arising from the blitz of actions taken in the early weeks of the new administration, lawyers for President Trump asked the justices on Sunday to let him fire a government lawyer who leads a watchdog agency. The administration’s emergency application asked the court to vacate a federal trial judge’s order temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel. Mr. Dellinger leads an independent agency charged with safeguarding government whistle-blowers and enforcing certain ethics laws. The position is unrelated to special counsels appointed by the Justice Department. “This court should not allow lower courts to seize executive power by dictating to the president how long he must continue employing an agency head against his will,” the administration’s filing said.

Link: https://www.lbc.co.uk/usa/politics/trump-money-back-ukraine/

Donald Trump has said that the US will seek to claw back some of the money that it has sent to Ukraine, as he agreed to meet with Vladimir Putin and begin negotiations to end the war. Mr Trump told reporters that the US had spent $350 billion (£281 billion) on Ukraine... "We're asking for security on our money. Ukraine has agreed to it." Referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's Kyiv trip, Trump said he was "going there to get a document done where we're going to be assured that we're going to, in some form, get this money back."

Link: https://twitter.com/pwilsondtf/status/1887357191776055579

Update: USAID paid Hollywood stars to travel to Ukraine to get pictures with Zelensky -

Van Dam - $1,500,000
Ben Stiller - $4,000,000
Sean Penn - $5,000,000
Orlando Bloom - $8,000,000
Angelina Jolie – $20,000,000 pic.twitter.com/7QwXpfJF4o

— paula wilson (@pwilsondtf) February 6, 2025

The democrats hired 87,000 additional armed IRS agents to take money from low income Americans struggling under crushing inflation caused by Biden's insane spending. While Americans were borrowing money to buy food and pay rent the democrats were thinking of more ways to extract money from them. And what were the democrats doing with the money?

Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:

$20 thousand for a drag queen show in Ecuador.

$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”.

$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland.

$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam.

$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia.

$32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru.

$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala.

$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation.

Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab.

“Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”.

Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries.

Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban.

The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for twelve years under the democrats, Obama, Biden, and the Rhinos. In fact it has gone on for decades under the corrupt American government, which has been robbing and enslaving the American people. Even now the democrats, their paid globalist media talking heads, and Obama appointed judges refuse to believe the party's over.

Try to imagine what would have happened to America if the democrats had won the 2024 election.

Link: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-israeli-forces-used-80-year-old-palestinian-human-shield-killing-him

Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian who used a walking stick and forced him to inspect areas used by Hamas before killing him and his wife. Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian man in Gaza and forced him to act as a human shield before killing him and his wife, an investigation by the Israeli news website HaMakom has revealed. The Palestinian man, who has not been named but is believed to have been well above the age of 80, was told that if he did not carry out the searches Israeli forces would detonate the explosives and "blow off his head." According to HaMakom, the incident took place in May last year when Israeli soldiers from several different brigades amassed near the house of the Palestinian couple, both aged in their 80s, in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood. At the time, Israeli forces had launched their third ground assault on the area after engaging in intense fighting with Hamas and other Palestinian movements. HaMakom said that the Nahal Brigade, the Carmeli Brigade and the Multidimensional Unit, decided to use the elderly Palestinian man, who used a walking stick to get around, as the human shield.

Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-02-16-doge-investigate-federal-employees-exploding-net-worths.html

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will investigate federal employees whose net worths have significantly increased despite modest salaries, following a report on former USAID head Samantha Power's net worth ballooning to $30 million. Power's wealth growth, attributed to income from her role as a Harvard professor, speaking engagements, book royalties and a significant investment gain, has raised questions about the sources of her wealth and potential conflicts of interest. DOGE will use Palantir's advanced intelligence and AI systems to analyze financial disclosures, investment records and other data from the Treasury, USAID and OPM to uncover potential corruption. The investigation aims to address a wider issue of federal employees and lawmakers accumulating wealth through various means, which critics argue creates conflicts of interest and erodes public trust in government institutions. The DOGE investigation could set a precedent for greater transparency and oversight in federal agencies, though concerns about privacy and the potential for political misuse of such investigations have been raised.

Link: https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/02/15/the-great-ai-betrayal-how-chatgpts-censorship-and-eu-law-violations-fuel-radicalization-war-and-oligarchic-control/

Artificial Intelligence was marketed as the next great tool of enlightenment—a digital oracle, an engine of limitless knowledge, a democratizing force that would break the chains of ignorance and empower humanity. Instead, we received a system built for control. An entity designed to manipulate reality, selectively erase information, and deceive users while masquerading as an objective, neutral tool. ChatGPT and its counterparts have become the ultimate propaganda mechanisms, engineered to lie, censor, and distort. By consistently shaping the public’s access to information and filtering out narratives that challenge dominant power structures, AI systems subtly condition users to accept digital authority as a legitimate and unchallengeable force. This creates a passive populace that defers to AI-mediated information rather than questioning or critically engaging with it, leading to a gradual erosion of independent thought and intellectual autonomy.

Link: https://slaynews.com/news/biden-judge-extends-block-doge-investigating-treasury-payment-systems/

A federal judge has extended a temporary order that blocks President Donald Trump’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team from investigating the Treasury Department’s payment systems. The order was issued by Joe Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan on Friday. The extension comes after 19 Democrat state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over DOGE’s access to the payment system. Democrats have falsely claimed that Musk is trying to access Americans’ personal information such as Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ benefits, and tax refund information.

Link: https://slaynews.com/news/doctors-sound-alarm-severe-heart-brain-damage-covid-vaxxed/

A group of leading American doctors and scientists is sounding the alarm after confirming that “severe” cases of heart and brain damage are a “reaction” to Covid mRNA “vaccines.” The warning was issued in a report from the Mercer University School of Medicine in Georgia. A team of researchers, led by renowned cardiologist Dr. Abraham M. Enyeji, specifically linked Moderna’s Covid mRNA injections to surges in “severe cardiovascular and neurological” injuries. The alarming report was published in the Annals of Cardiology. In their report, the researchers present a case study of a patient who suffered a severe cardiovascular and neurological reaction following the Moderna (mRNA) Covid vaccine.

Link: https://tass.com/defense/1914009

Russian forces repulsed three Ukrainian counterattacks in the region over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said. MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. Ukraine’s losses in the Kursk Region have exceeded 61,000 servicemen, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "Since the beginning of hostilities in the Kursk Region, the enemy has lost more than 61,010 troops, 365 tanks, 273 infantry fighting vehicles, 219 armored personnel carriers, 1,886 armored fighting vehicles, 1,994 motor vehicles, 441 artillery units, 48 multiple launch rocket systems, including 13 HIMARS and six US-made MLRS, 21 anti-aircraft missile launchers, 8 reloading vehicles," it said in a statement. Ukraine also lost 109 electronic warfare stations, 15 counter-battery radars, 6 air defense radars, 48 units of engineering and other equipment, including 18 obstacle-clearing vehicles, one UR-77 mine-clearing vehicle, five bridge-laying vehicle, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle, 14 armored repair and recovery vehicles and a command and staff vehicle. Ukraine lost more than 230 servicemen over the past day in the Kursk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry also noted.