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Romanian Police Arrest Election Front-Runner And NATO-Skeptic Georgescu


RT
Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:11 UTC
Călin Georgescu
Călin Georgescu
Romanian police have arrested Calin Georgescu, the front-runner in last year's annulled presidential election, and conducted dozens of raids on his supporters and people tied to his campaign, local media reported on Wednesday.

A critic of NATO and the EU and an opponent of sending aid to Ukraine, Georgescu made headlines in November last year when he unexpectedly garnered 23% of the vote in the first round of the presidential election in Romania. However, the Constitutional Court annulled the results shortly before the second round, citing intelligence documents alleging 'irregularities' in his campaign.

Georgescu's communications team has said on Facebook that he was arrested just as he was about to submit his new candidacy for the presidency.

"The system stopped him in traffic and he was pulled over for questioning at the Prosecutor General's Office! Where is democracy, where are the partners who must defend democracy," his team wrote.

Comment: The CIA has too much riding on Romania to allow it to be ruled by anyone other than a pro-Western lackey. They care nothing about democracy.

Previously:

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Penis Pump

They're Fired: 100 Intelligence Officials In Sick Chat Group 'Terminated And Their Security Clearances Revoked' By Tulsi Gabbard

Josh Christenson
NY Post
Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:07 UTC
gabbard chat group
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Tuesday night that she was dismissing more than 100 employees of the US intelligence community (IC) who participated in "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms on a government messaging platform.

Gabbard told Fox News' "Jesse Watters Primetime" that the spooks — who were exposed by conservative activist Christopher Rufo for having discussed their fetishes and sexual fantasies on the National Security Agency (NSA) Intelink platform — had committed "an egregious violation of trust."

"When you see what these people were saying," she told Watters, "they were brazen in using an NSA platform intended for professional use to conduct this — kind of really, really horrific behavior."

"And they were brazen in doing this, because when was the last time anyone was really held accountable?" she asked. "Certainly not over the last four years, certainly not over the last 10, maybe 20 years, [as] we look at some of the biggest violations of the American people's trust in the intelligence community."
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Attention

Coming Soon: The European Digital Identity Wallet

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:28 UTC
Digital Wallet
© Off-Guardian
The elite are already running large-scale pilot schemes for the future they want and we don't. They are not being subtle about this. They are not hiding it.

The plan is a single government-issued app that holds your medical records, employment records, travel records, education records, vaccination records, tax records, financial records as well as (potentially) copies of your signature, fingerprints, facial scans, voice samples and DNA.

All stored handily on your phone...and shared with the governments of nineteen countries (plus Ukraine) and over 140 other public and private partners. Everyone from Deutsche Bank to the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Progress to Samsung Europe.

You will use this app to make payments, apply for loans, pay your taxes, pick up your prescriptions, cross international borders, start businesses, book doctor's appointments, apply for jobs and even sign digital contracts online.

Businesses and government agencies would access this data from the back-end to conduct "automated background checks".

The German Federation of Consumer Organizations (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, VZBZ) has raised concerns that such an app would "pose privacy and data risks", to which the only response is "duh, that's what it's for!".

None of this a hypothetical, by the way. It's Potential.

Just one of the pilot schemes "building prototypes and testing use-cases" for the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet, there are three others at least.

This is the latest development in a roll-out dating back to the birth of Covid and beyond, with the EUID wallet being touted since 2021.
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Blackbox

Republicans demand to know when Epstein files will be released

Marni Rose McFall
Newsweek
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:00 UTC
Pam Bondi CPAC
© Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesU.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
On Thursday, February 20, Attorney General Pam Bondi indicated that files pertaining to the late sex offender Jeffery Epstein are set to be released; the fact that they are yet to be released is raising questions from Republican politicians.

Newsweek has reached out to the Justice Department via an online contact form outside of regular working hours for comment.

Why It Matters

Epstein, a financier and convicted sex offender, was found dead in a cell in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was ruled a suicide, but it prompted a wave of conspiracy theories due to his well-documented connections to public and powerful figures.
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Top Secret

The NSA's Secret Sex Chats

Christopher F. Rufo and Hannah Grossman
City Journal
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:00 UTC
NSA national security agency
The "intelligence community" is one of the most powerful parts of the American national security apparatus. In theory, it works tirelessly to keep the nation safe. But according to internal documents that we obtained, some intelligence agency employees have another on-the-job priority: sex chats.

We have cultivated sources within the National Security Agency — one current employee and one former employee — who have provided chat logs from the NSA's Intelink messaging program. According to an NSA press official, "All NSA employees sign agreements stating that publishing non-mission related material on Intelink is a usage violation and will result in disciplinary action." Nonetheless, these logs, dating back two years, are lurid, featuring wide-ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory, and castration.

One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves surgically removing the penis and turning it into an artificial vagina. "[M]ine is everything," said one male who claimed to have had gender reconstruction surgery. "[I]'ve found that i like being penetrated (never liked it before GRS), but all the rest is just as important as well." Another intelligence official boasted that genital surgery allowed him "to wear leggings or bikinis without having to wear a gaff under it."
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Bomb

Explosive devices thrown into Russian consulate


RT
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:07 UTC
French police officer
© Getty Images / GwengoatFrench police officer
Firefighters and police have deployed to the scene in Marseille following reports of a blast.

An explosion took place at the Russian consulate in the French city of Marseille on Monday after unknown attackers threw explosive devices onto the territory of the Russian mission. The full details of the incident are yet unconfirmed, but local media have reported that around 30 firefighters and police officers are working at the scene.

According to reports, the blast occurred at around 7:30 am local time on Monday. The consulate has said that the explosion did not lead to any casualties or damage the building as the devices had detonated in the garden.

In a post on X, Valeurs journalist Nicolas Boutin had cited police sources as saying that law enforcement officers were investigating a stolen vehicle found near the scene.

Comment: See also:

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Broom

USAID reaches endgame: Trump fires 2,000 employees, most others put on leave

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:33 UTC
USAID office closed sign removed
© USA TodayA worker removes USAID signage from the agency's Washington DC office
Given a green light by a federal judge to plunge ahead with a sweeping federal layoff campaign, the Trump administration on Sunday announced it was cutting 2,000 positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and putting nearly every other USAID employee on paid administrative leave. There's no indication of how long those leaves will last -- or the ultimate fate of people in that category.

The leaves took effect at 11:59 EST on Sunday night. The relatively few who will remaining at work -- at least for now -- are "core leadership" and those involved in "mission-critical" or "specially designated" programs, according to a document reviewed by the New York Times. USAID employees were told that, if they fell into those exceptions, they'd find out by 5pm Sunday. Earlier reporting suggested that 600 people would be deemed essential.

Counting employees, contractors and local staff overseas, USAID had more than 13,000 employees as of September. In late January, thousands of contractors were let go. To eliminate the 2,000 employees now, the administration is using a mechanism called a "reduction in force."

Comment:

Whatever high hopes President John F. Kennedy may had when he instituted USAID have vanished. The organization is corrupt beyond all repair. It may have delivered some good to some people over the years, but has also been the tip of the spear that has caused untold political damage to other countries.

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Russian Flag

Russia and US discussing 'major' deals - Putin


RT
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:01 UTC
Putin
© Sergey Bulkin/Kremlin PoolRussian President Vladimir Putin
The Russian president has emphasized Moscow's strategic approach to economic cooperation with Washington.

Russia and the US are in talks on "major" joint economic projects, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. The two countries recently took steps to reestablish dialogue after years of deteriorating relations.

The Russian leader's comments come two weeks after he held a phone conversation with his US counterpart, Donald Trump. The US president has made a sharp turn from the policies towards Moscow pursued by his predecessor, Joe Biden.

"Some Russian and American companies are in contact and discussing major projects," Putin said in an interview with Russia 1 TV journalist Pavel Zarubin.

The Russian leader added that Moscow would be ready to cooperate with US private companies and government entities to develop Russia's rare-earth sector. Putin highlighted its critical importance in various industries, adding that Russia's large resources make it a global leader in the field.

Earlier in the day, Trump teased major "economic development transactions which will take place between the US and Russia," writing in a post on his Truth Social platform that talks between the two nations are "proceeding very well."

Comment: Cautionary optimism, perhaps? Haven't seen that in awhile!

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Question

Can Germany trust Friedrich Merz?

Thomas Fazi
UnHerd
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
Merz
© Unknown
At the ripe age of 69, Friedrich Merz has waited decades for this moment. Ahead of Sunday's election, he is Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, with his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) predicted to secure 30% of the vote. He'll have to cobble together another coalition of disparate parties, but Merz won't mind. Come Monday morning, he will have completed one of the most remarkable comebacks in recent political history.

Merz joined the party decades ago as a student. But today, he is effectively running on a "Make Germany Great Again" platform — a calculated attempt to win votes from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) by shifting his party to the Right on issues such as immigration. His cynicism here shouldn't be underestimated: like Donald Trump in America, the millionaire Merz is a corporate king in conservative clothing.

Merz, let's not forget, has long represented the interests of some of the world's most powerful corporate and financial elites, most notably as a key representative of BlackRock in Germany between 2016 and 2020. Indeed, if Merz is elected, Germany will become the first country to be ruled by a former BlackRock official. But his ties to elite institutions go back much further: for over two decades, even before joining BlackRock, he embodied the revolving door between politics, business and finance.
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Footprints

Tens of thousands join mass funeral for slain Hezbollah leader Nasrallah


CNN
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
Crowd tribute
© Mohammed Yassin/ReutersIn a public funeral ceremony, crowd pays tribute to the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed in Israeli airstrikes
Beirut, Lebanon • February 23, 2025
The long-delayed funeral for Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah took place on Sunday, nearly five months after he was killed in a massive Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Hezbollah has been left badly depleted by Israeli attacks and the mass event was intended as a show of strength for the militant and political group. Israel struck several locations in southern and eastern Lebanon during the mass funeral, according to local and state media. The Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah stockpiles of weapons.

A formation of Israeli fighter jets flew very low over the main site of the funeral after Nasrallah's coffin was unveiled in what Israel's military called "a clear message" to the group. The Israeli military on Sunday also released footage of what it says is Nasrallah's assassination.
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