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How it's done: Former Norway leader formally charged with corruption after probe into alleged Epstein ties

Laura Sharman, Billy Stockwell and James Frater
CNN
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:00 UTC
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© Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesNorway's former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland pictured at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, during his tenure as Secretary General of the Council of Europe in 2016.
Norway's former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland has been charged with "aggravated corruption" after a police probe into his alleged ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the law firm representing him.

Elden Law Firm confirmed to CNN on Thursday that Jagland is "charged with aggravated corruption," adding that he "denies all charges."

Økokrim, Norway's investigative agency for economic and environmental crime, said it will now question Jagland as part of its ongoing investigation.

The agency's director, Pål Lønseth, said searches were carried out Jagland's residence in Oslo on Thursday, as well as at two other properties. "Økokrim cannot comment on any potential seizures. The investigation will now take its course," he said in a statement.
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WhatsApp & YouTube blocked In Russia, Telegram throttled as state "super-app" falters

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:41 UTC
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© Moskva News AgencyMax, Russia's much derided state-sanctioned replacement for Telegram
The West has been calling Russia's ever-tightening internet regulations on its citizenry a "digital Iron Curtain". Already over a period of months and years of the Ukraine war, various popular US-based social media apps have been throttled and even banned, but this week things have escalated with YouTube and WhatsApp being blocked in Russia:
Russia's internet regulator Roskomnadzor has removed"youtube.com" from its DNS (Domain Name System) servers. If a user tries to access the site directly without a VPN (Virtual Private Network), their router can no longer assign the address to its IP address.

This means that You Tube is no longer accessible in Russia. The WhatsApp domain has also disappeared from Roskomnadzor's servers. The Russian government has also launched a campaign against the messenger app Telegram, leading analysts to say Roskomnadzor is cracking down on platforms beyond its control.
But perhaps even more impactful - in terms of Russians quickly getting news, information, and public statements (even from their own government channels) - is the new move to throttle and block Telegram.

Comment: Mercurous' sensible, though somewhat sanguine take on the matter:



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Decades of broken promises, aggression, Israeli pressure leave Iran no reason to trust US: Analyst


Press TV
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:20 UTC
Media interview
© PressTVInterview with E. Michael Jones
Decades of broken promises, military aggression, and Israeli pressure have left Tehran with no reason to trust Washington, says a US-based analyst.

In an interview with the Press TV website, E. Michael Jones, author and editor of Culture Wars Magazine, said it would be "foolish" to put "trust in a regime which violates its own word repeatedly," referring to the Donald Trump administration.

"Iranians have learned their lesson and will not put themselves in jeopardy again. The US cannot be trusted," he noted.

Mistrust is not a tactical posture but the logical outcome of experience, Jones said, adding that the United States, particularly under Trump, has demonstrated "again and again" that it does not feel bound by its own international commitments. That mistrust is sharpened by Trump's record on international obligations, he remarked.

Comment: Is Trump a gatekeeper in efforts to minimize disaster - or in lockstep with Israel, considering it is not beyond Netanyahu to nuke Washington into submission in reprise of 9/11.

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The bigger problem that the Tim Walz NGO scandal has exposed

Edward Woodson
American Greatness
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00 UTC
Tim Walz
© Getty ImagesGOP lawmakers in Minnesota are calling for Gov. Tim Walz to resign over the exploding fraud crisis.
Minnesota's nonprofit scandal isn't an outlier but a warning: unaccountable institutions drift from those they claim to serve while taxpayers and members pay the price.

The Minnesota nonprofit fraud scandal, now expected to cost taxpayers more than $9 billion, is being dismissed by many as an isolated failure. However, this is far from the case, and writing it off as such would be a colossal mistake.

What it actually revealed is a broader problem in the Swamp — that institutions claiming to represent others often operate with little accountability and then quietly drift away from the very people who are footing the bill.

In Minnesota, nonprofit organizations became the perfect vehicle for abuse — shielded from scrutiny, politically protected, and flush with public money. However, in Washington, trade associations operate in largely the same way. They collect millions in dues from American businesses while increasingly choosing to serve their own leadership's personal and political interests instead of those of their dues-paying members.
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Now You Will Know

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00 UTC
Revolution car
© UnknownThe Infernal Machine
"The ICE derangement syndrome is off the charts because we are amidst a pandemic of progressive leftist mental illness, which is an extremely disproportionately female problem."
— JD Haltigan on "X"
It has come into focus now and you no longer need to be perplexed, mystified, bewildered, or bamboozled by events unspooling in Minneapolis and other hotspots of Woke-Marxist-Jacobin delirium. You are seeing the infernal machine of a sponsored revolution. Its parts are visible. They can be named and clearly understood. I will tell you how this works.

You realize, of course, that there has been an ongoing effort by players outside the USA to destroy Western Civ. This is too obvious to be denied. It is coming from several different places. First, China, because China has sprung from a sink of immiseration to become an industrial behemoth in a mere forty years and sees itself as the next global hegemon. Neville Roy Singham, the wealthy American ex-pat living in Shanghai, exposed all over the Internet this past week, is fronting for the CCP with his web of NGOs that just now underwrite the Lefty-left rage-riots around our country, surely subsidized with extra money from his China handlers.
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Epstein Epistemology - Why Trump Wants 'Epstein Files' To Go Away


Sott.net
Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:30 UTC
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© Sott.net
It seems as if everyone who is reading and discussing 'the Epstein Files', most of which are emails exchanged between Jeffrey Epstein and the 'great and powerful', is assuming the worst from them: that Epstein himself, and his co-conspirators, engaged in child sex-trafficking and indulged in the worst abuse of minors, including 'ritual sacrifice' and even cannibalism.

While there is evidence for such dark practices in 'elite circles', the hard evidence for such in 'the Epstein Files' isn't there. When considering whether or not to 'assume the worst', consideration must also be given to the context in which these 'revelations' are occurring: Trump's second term and the major damage it can do to his intention of enacting the electoral mandate he was given by the American people.

In the meantime, Trump is also under tremendous pressure to 'regime change Iran', an issue he has made clear he does not want to see result in a protracted bloody conflict, but which 'the deep state', including Israel, seems determined to make happen. Is it by design or just bad luck that 'Epstein-gate', and the fear and loathing it is generating in the population, erupted at this time?


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Nordic leaders back long-range strikes on Russia


RT
Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:28 UTC
Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky, all trying to feel important.
Ukraine needs long-range weapons to stand a chance in the conflict, Denmark's Mette Frederiksen and Finland's Alexander Stubb have said

The West must provide Ukraine with weapons capable of striking deep into Russian territory, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Finnish President Alexander Stubb have said. Moscow has warned that this would lead to a major escalation and trigger an "overwhelming" response.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Frederiksen lamented that "there are still red lines when it comes to the weapons they [Ukrainians] can use to win this war."

"You cannot win a war with one hand tied behind your back. We need to give them weapons so they can strike into Russia," she said, complaining that discussions have been going on for several years with no positive decision in sight.


Comment: What about all the Wunder waffen you have talked up over the years as being able to win the war, yet which have failed miserably.


Stubb echoed the call, urging Kiev's backers to increase economic pressure on Russia and "hit as hard as you possibly can."

"Secondly, keep on providing Ukraine with all the necessary means, including Tomahawks," he added.


Comment: To think they can win the war against nuclear armed Russia is insanity and to push for more escalation is a complete lack of connection with reality.


Comment: If Russia had some reservations with the US having Greenland, then Denmark is doing their best for those reservations to disappear. Denmark wants to play hard ball with Greenland when it comes to Greenland but is at the same time lobbying the US to supply all kinds of weapons to Ukraine. Much for brains!

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Amazon's ring and Google's nest unwittingly reveal the severity of the U.S. surveillance state

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00 UTC
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© CC Photo Lab/ShutterstockOne of Google’s Nest surveillance cameras, whose recordings can be accessed by Google even if users don’t subscribe to the security firm’s services
Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

That the U.S. Surveillance State is rapidly growing to the point of ubiquity has been demonstrated over the past week by seemingly benign events. While the picture that emerges is grim, to put it mildly, at least Americans are again confronted with crystal clarity over how severe this has become.

The latest round of valid panic over privacy began during the Super Bowl held on Sunday. During the game, Amazon ran a commercial for its Ring camera security system. The ad manipulatively exploited people's love of dogs to induce them to ignore the consequences of what Amazon was touting. It seems that trick did not work.

The ad highlighted what the company calls its "Search Party" feature, whereby one can upload a picture, for example, of a lost dog. Doing so will activate multiple other Amazon Ring cameras in the neighborhood, which will, in turn, use AI programs to scan all dogs, it seems, and identify the one that is lost. The 30-second commercial was full of heart-tugging scenes of young children and elderly people being reunited with their lost dogs.

But the graphic Amazon used seems to have unwittingly depicted how invasive this technology can be.
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Netanyahu pushing to turn US into 'slave state for Israel's expansionist dreams': Analyst


Press TV
Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:48 UTC
Rectenwald and Trump
© PressTVMichael Rectenwald • US President Donald Trump
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been deliberately steering the United States toward confrontation with Iran in an escalation that pushes America into a "slave state for Israel's expansionist dreams," says an American analyst.

In an interview with the Press TV website, Michael Rectenwald, an author and former professor, pointed to the strong Zionist influence in the US policy-making:
"The Zionist stranglehold on US policy prioritizes Israel's aggression over American sovereignty. Netanyahu knows that provoking Iran draws in US forces and funds, turning our country into a slave state for Israel's expansionist dreams."
He noted that Tel Aviv's push to see an all-out Iran-US war is not "just a willingness" but "a calculated strategy to bleed America dry."

Comment: Trump is the wild card upon which everyone speculates.

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Confirmed: US covertly sent thousands of Starlink terminals into Iran amid unrest

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:50 UTC
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© Getty Images
The Trump administration has confirmed what was already long suspected -the US sent Iranian protesters thousands of Starlink terminals amid last month's raging economic protests and unrest.

The mainstream media had claimed the whole time that the demonstrations were both purely peaceful and completely spontaneous, but a Thursday Wall Street Journal piece greatly muddies this MSM narrative.
"After Iranian authorities smothered mounting unrest in January by killing thousands of protesters and severely cutting internet connectivity, the U.S. smuggled roughly 6,000 of the satellite-internet kits into the country, the first time the U.S. has directly sent Starlink into Iran."
This also contradicts earlier claims from weeks ago that it was merely activist non-profit NGO groups which got a small amount of Starlink systems to protesters. That was perhaps the 'cover' narrative. But later it became evident the SpaceX-made comms equipment was more ubiquitous.

Comment: Adding to the information curve from WSJ:



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