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🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇭 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 Retired Brit in the Philippines. Audiobook and music addict. Photography by smartphone as a hobby. Socialist. Atheist. Humanist. UK tax payer.
Rupert Fawcett cartoon.
February 17, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Bill Bramhall/New York Daily News
Bill Bramhall's editorial cartoon for Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, shows Russia's Putin answering a text from President Trump on President's Day.
"Thank you, Donald, and Happy Autocrat's Day to you, too."
February 17, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Aren't these 'pastors' checked thuroughly or does their 'holy' status negate checks?
14 Victims of Child Sex Abuse Materials File Suit Against Former TX Pastor - MinistryWatch
A former TX pastor is being sued by 14 abuse victims for possessing child sex abuse materials featuring their abuse. He could be ordered to pay up to $150K per victim.
ministrywatch.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:10 PM
' Coeckelbergh argues that we are seeing the rise of a new form of fascism, which he terms “technofascism”. '
Technology: AI & Platforms
Business: Big Tech, Surveillance Capitalism.
Political: Right-wing Popularism, Authoriterianism, Iliberal Democracy.
Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism
In the shadow of the fascism of the 1930s, George Orwell wrote 1984. A new study suggests that his world is closer than we want to think
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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This is a bombshell: One of Epstein's victims accused Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her when she was "13 to 15" and the FBI deemed her credible enough to warrant an interview.
FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show
Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.
substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Our 10 year old Toyota Fortuner SUV needs TLC occasionally due to living next to the sea in the tropics, not a vehicle friendly climate. Front discs skimmed and new pads. Autumn happens all year here. The foundling kittens are doing great.
February 17, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Israeli's and their jewish supremacist zionists supporters will do anything, including genocide, to further their selfish idiology.
UN Israel lobby group created fake Francesca Albanese video
Zionist lobby group - UN Watch - is credibly accused of faking a video cited by European governments as reason to remove Francesca Albanese
www.thecanary.co
February 17, 2026 at 10:54 AM
China are certainly advancing their technology despite imposed sanctions etc. Perhaps these hurdles are making China more agile in its research and development.
China's 09V sub signals shift in Pacific's undersea power - Asia Times
China's first Type 09V nuclear attack submarine (SSN) surfacing at Bohai isn't just a new hull in the water—it may be its boldest bid yet to break out of
asiatimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:39 AM
' “The crimes that were reported to federal and state authorities were never fully investigated,” Stansbury said. The probe seeks to “ensure we have safeguards in place not only to hold those individuals accountable, who were complicit, but to ensure that this can never happen again”. '
New Mexico lawmakers launch probe into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch
The 'truth commission' will interview victims who say they were abused at the sprawling property south of Santa Fe.
www.aljazeera.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM
R.I.P. Jesse Jackson
1941 - 2026
American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister.
February 17, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Yet Trump et al are still immune. The big fat dirty cats are still the scum at the top of the cesspool of corruption.
The Epstein files are toppling business bigwigs
Some people who hobnobbed with the convicted sex offender are leaving their posts.
www.morningbrew.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:14 AM
' KPMG Australia said it has caught more than two dozen employees using AI to cheat on internal tests since July, fueling broader concerns about improper AI use at accounting firms. '
Big Four partner fined for using AI in an AI test
Broader concerns about improper AI use at accounting firms have already been swirling.
www.morningbrew.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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February 17, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Can they use AI to find child abusing priests, quickly bring them to justice before the law and then fully compensate the victims?
Vatican to use AI to translate Mass in 60 languages
"We wish to serve the mission that defines the centre of the Catholic Church, universal by its very vocation," said Cardinal Mauro Gambetti.
www.euronews.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)

This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
February 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
The outcome will be interesting as will any reaction from Mr Musk. I'm sure lots of countries and AI companies will be closely watching.
Ireland investigates Elon Musk’s Grok AI over sexualised images
Ireland can levy fines of up to 4 percent of a company's global revenue under EU rules.
www.euronews.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Tuesday afternoon siesta with Magic Cat. Warm and sunny outside, we have the air con running in the bedroom. Our audiobook is a wonderful assessment of military incompetence. So far the Boer War, Crimea, WW1 and Arnhem, Singapore of WW2. The carnage and suffering is Incredible.
February 17, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Our good friend Clint made us a new bamboo pedestrian gate this morning. A neighbour took our old gate. Everything is recycled in our small fishing village.
February 17, 2026 at 6:27 AM
' The FBI did speak to a victim of Jeffrey Epstein who also accused Donald Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her, according to records in the Justice Department’s own Epstein database and discovered by investigative journalist Roger Sollenberger. '
BURIED IN THE FILES: Epstein Victim IDs Trump In FBI Interview
Will MAGAts still tell themselves Trump was working on the inside to help the victims?
crooksandliars.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:10 AM
The every expanding Epstein world keeps spitting out names leading to resignations, grovelling apologies and repulsion for these elite people. These grubby people must be challenged by the full force of the law.
Epstein News February 16, 2026 - EPSTEIN WIKI
New records, whistleblower accounts, and international probes linked to the Epstein files are expanding scrutiny of financial institutions, associates
epsteinwiki.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:20 AM
The US is still in the pre 20th century in so many things, particularly it's treatment of human beings believed to be 'lesser' than themselves.
“The Alabama Solution”: Oscar-Nominated Film Uses Prisoner Cellphones to Show U.S.’s Deadliest Prisons
Three activists — Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray and Raoul Poole — featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution were placed in solitary confinement last month in what advocates be...
www.democracynow.org
February 17, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Is Israel somehow beyond the law, sanctions, decency? WTF is so special about this tiny little country that allows it to indulge in genocide with total impunity? WTF UK?
UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli
Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain
www.declassifieduk.org
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 AM
The Catholic church has had over 1,000 years to stop their clerics abusing children, yet they haven't. It does beg the obvious question, WHY?
New Catholic head says lessons must be learned from abuse failings - BishopAccountability.org
The newly installed Archbishop of Westminster has said the Church must learn from victims of sexual abuse. Archbishop Richard Moth was installed as the new head of the Catholic Church in England and W...
www.bishop-accountability.org
February 17, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Probably US supplied munitions contining to kill Palestinians despite a so called ceasefire. The US sponsored genocide continues. The US sponsored ethnic cleansing continues. The US sponsored crimes against humanity continue. All protected by the US at the UN and via the US bullying against decent.
15-day-old baby loses father in Israeli strike on Gaza
A 15-day-old baby lost her father in Israel’s latest violation of the Gaza ‘ceasefire’ in attacks that killed 11 people.
www.aljazeera.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:57 AM
R.I.P. Robert S Duval
1931 - 2026
February 17, 2026 at 12:52 AM