Thomas Pritzker Resigns

… company's board he cited “terrible judgment in maintaining contact” with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his companion Ghislaine Maxwell.

Gray or Grey

Nick Shirley Investigates California’s Voter Fraud, 16 February 2026

Susan Kokinda, 16 February 2026



Secretary of State Marco Rubio says at the Munich conference that deindustrialization was a deliberate, decades-long policy choice that stripped nations of wealth, productive capacity, and independence. Susan Kokinda connects Rubio’s claim to a 1977 Council on Foreign Relations report calling for the “Controlled Disintegration” of the world economy, arguing it targeted the Hamiltonian American System and helped drive the hollowing out of U.S. manufacturing and current European industrial decline. The episode highlights European reactions, including ECB head Christine Lagarde’s warning about geo-economic fragmentation and financial fragility, and Belgium’s prime minister citing a dramatic loss of chemical production capacity linked to decarbonization. It then argues the Trump administration is reversing the model through tariffs, industrial policy, large-scale investment, support for critical sectors, and a renewed focus on physical economy and household incomes, citing speeches by Trade Ambassador Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Examples include Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s announcement of deploying a next-generation nuclear reactor to Utah and White House advisor Peter Navarro attacking JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon amid a push to cut credit card rates from 20–30% to 10%

Veronica III Shut Down

… quarantine—hoping to slip away. We tracked it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, closed the distance, and shut it down. No other nation has the reach, endurance, or will to do this.

International waters are not sanctuary. By land, air, or sea, we will find you and deliver justice.

The Department of War will deny illicit actors and their proxies freedom of movement in the maritime domain.

Thanks for the New Boat

Translation: Our National Navy has carried out the largest drug seizure in the history of El Salvador.

At 380 nautical miles (703.7 kilometers) southwest of our coasts, the Multi-Purpose Support Vessel (supply vessel/tug) FMS EAGLE was intercepted. The vessel is 180 feet long (54 meters), registered under the flag of Tanzania, Africa, and was carrying in hidden compartments 330 packages equivalent to 6.6 tons of cocaine, with an approximate value of $165 million dollars.

To locate the drug, which was concealed in ballast tanks, divers from our National Navy were deployed. They conducted the inspection that confirmed the concealment and proceeded with its seizure.

On board the vessel were 10 drug traffickers: 4 Colombians, 3 Nicaraguans, 2 Panamanians, and 1 Ecuadorian.

Another major blow to drug trafficking.

By the way, thanks for the new boat 😉

Greater Energy Security

War, Energy Departments Team Up to Advance Future of Nuclear Power, Military Base Energy Security

The Ward 250 is a 5 megawatt nuclear reactor that fits into the back of a C-17 aircraft could theoretically power about 5,000 homes.

For military use, such a reactor could provide energy security on a military base ensuring the mission there need not depend on the civilian power grid, and in military operations overseas, such reactors would mean U.S. forces could operate without concern that an enemy might cut fuel supplies.

A reactor such as the Ward 250 also means greater energy security for the entire United States. It is firmly in line with President Donald J. Trump's executive orders to reshape and modernize America's nuclear energy landscape.

The president signed four executive orders designed to advance America's nuclear energy posture, May 23, 2025.

Mike Benz, 15 February 2026



This new move by Sarah Rogers is causing The Blob to have its most insane meltdown of the year. Here Mike Benz covers a potential new initiative by the US State Department's Public Diplomacy branch to begin funding charities and think tanks in Europe that promote free speech online and digital freedom, and the utterly empty arguments being made in response by the EU, Brussels & Shadow Diplomacy elements of our own NGOplex and CIA.

EVA AI Café

… seated at single-person tables with phone stands, devices with downloaded Eva AI app, and spent the evening chatting with their digital plus-one in a wine-bar-style setting in Hell’s Kitchen.

Hillary Clinton, Munich Security Conference, 14 February 2026

… nation by securing our borders, deporting criminal illegal aliens, and enforcing the law.