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Telescope

Best of the Web: Caltech astrophysicist fatally shot on porch of his rural home

Clara Harter
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:43 UTC
Carl Grillmair
© IPAC / CaltechCarl Grillmair worked at Caltech’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. He was a principal investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, and his research earned him numerous accolades.
  • An acclaimed Caltech astrophysicist was fatally shot on his porch in Llano early Monday.
  • A suspect, Freddy Snyder, 29, was arrested and charged with Carl Grillmair's slaying as well as carjacking and burglary.
  • Among the scientist's accomplishments was the 'ingenious discovery' of water on a planet outside our solar system.
An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in a rural area of the Antelope Valley on Monday morning. A suspect in the shooting has been charged with murder.

Comment: This is the third "highest profile" tragic loss in less than 4 years.

First one was back in 2022, in what was a classical missing 411 case: Body found in Chile identified as Warwick University professor Tom Marsh: 60-year-old was found dead two months after vanishing from remote mountain observatory

Second case: Who was Nuno Loureiro? MIT professor gunned down in apartment near university

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Boat

The German Navy . . .

Eric Peters
ericopetersautos.com
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:31 UTC
Clogged Toilets
© ericopetersautos.com
Toward the end of WW I, the German Navy - the rank and file sailors - had enough of it and rebelled against their officers, who apparently wanted to put to sea again, to try to fight another Jutland or some such that likely would have meant more German sailors sleeping with the fishes. It was the beginning of the end of the Kaiser - the German king - who was compelled to abdicate and soon thereafter, then the country went Communist.

Sailors
© ericopetersautos.com
Is something somewhat similar happening to the American High Seas Fleet?

There are reports - who knows whether they are true in our era of narratives deployed - that one of America's mighty (and newest) aircraft carriers is having to head to port because its toilets aren't working. They are stopped up; possibly overflowing. There are 600 toilets, apparently, on this ship - necessary because there are about 4,500 sailors aboard the ship and that's a lot of flushes. You can imagine what happens when the toilets no longer do.

It might be on account of a mechanical issue. It might also be on account of the sailors - who maybe decided to do the only thing they could think of to throw a wrench into the works - so to speak. It is a method known to every high school kid. If the mighty ship's toilets are clogged or overflowing, the mighty ship is no longer mighty. It is very smelly. A place no one wants to be.
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Cult

The top elites losing power and position over Epstein fallout

Ben Whedon
Just The News
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:28 UTC
epstein egregor chuthulu graphic collage
© The Bombthrower Blog
The Trump Department of Justice has faced intense scrutiny for its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and prosecutors' decision not to bring charges against anybody found in the million-plus-page dossier to have associated with the now-deceased sex-crime offender. But that hasn't stopped other countries and the private sector from tearing down their own implicated elites.

The most clear example is perhaps former Prince Andrew, Duke of York, whose email exchanges with Epstein along with pictures of him next to women appeared in a recent batch of publicly released files.

King Charles III late last year formally stripped Andrew of all royal titles, and he was evicted from his residence as a consequence. The move followed long-time concerns and controversy about Andrew's personal and official diplomatic relationship with the wealthy Epstein, which resulted in the Royal Family retiring him from public life years ago, largely after following a botched interview in which Andrew attempted to defend himself. Still, he is not expected to face criminal prosecution.


Comment: 'Prince Andrew Was F*ing Underage Girls' Says Royal Insider In Undercover Footage


Comment: This is just the tip of the iceberg but still no accountability. Everyone needs to be aware of how psychopaths operate.

"A Different Species": Epstein's Pseudo-Elite Psychopathy

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Brick Wall

Taking back control: Alberta and Switzerland to vote on immigration controls amid growing backlash

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:43 UTC
border control signage
As the world watches unchecked immigration fundamentally transform the West, a growing backlash has gained a foothold - and it's made it to the ballot box.

In Alberta, Canada, Premier Danielle Smith announced a referendum this fall to decide whether the province should limit the number of new international, temporary foreign workers and asylum seekers - as Alberta seeks to take charge of the issue amid a surge of proud Canadians who do not embrace change.

As Reuters notes;
The move, announced by Premier Danielle Smith in a televised address on Thursday evening, represents an attempt by Alberta to wrest control of a key issue from the federal government. Immigration policy in Canada is primarily the responsibility of Ottawa, not the provinces.

It is also an attempt by Smith to ward off a simmering Alberta separatism movement, which has threatened Canadian unity as Prime Minister Mark Carney makes efforts to improve relations with western, resource-rich provinces in the face of economic challenges posed by U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policy.

Giving citizens a say on immigration policy is the government's way of giving Albertans hope that the Canadian federation can work, Smith told reporters on Friday.

Comment: The outcome of the Swiss referendum could have sweeping consequences



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Wolf

Best of the Web: "A Different Species": Epstein's Pseudo-Elite Psychopathy

Harrison Koehli
Political Ponerology
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:11 UTC
young jeffrey epstein
© Stephen OgilvyJeffrey Epstein, 1980
The partial release of the Epstein files has prompted some interesting responses. Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost posted:

From the Epstein files, you can see how he saw himself as spiritual elite, an awakened elect, above standard morality. That "elect" status gave him a moral blank check that licensed the predation. His transhumanist POV was also a part of this frame.
Comedian Duncan Trussell took this observation even further, comparing the Epstein revelations to a hypothetical disclosure of alien life in conversation with Jeremy Corbell:
With the Epstein files you get a form of catastrophic disclosure, not disclosure of UAPs or extraterrestrial life, disclosure of the fact that the super elite — they don't follow the same laws we do. They don't have the same view on ethics, morality. It's almost a different species, in fact. And watching the sort of impact that that's having on the psyche of people who probably haven't gone as far out on thin ice as you and I have is really interesting, because you're looking at people getting red-pilled in the most extreme way, where you look at these emails, it's not just emails Epstein wrote. It's emails to Epstein from people who were sucked in by that power, into that orbit. And even though Epstein wasn't like, "I'm going to puppeteer this person," just something about hanging out with that, seeing the hedonism, seeing what it's like to be in a room with all these very powerful people — it's seductive. Just standing next to it makes you want to become part of it. And that doctor, what's his name? Attia.
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Arrow Up

New Mexico lawmakers approve 'Truth Commission' to probe Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch activities

Kushal Deb
WION
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:31 UTC
zorro ranch
© UnknownMultiple women have claimed they were abused at Epstein's Zorro Ranch when they were under 18 years old.
New Mexico lawmakers have approved a comprehensive investigation to reveal the total extent of activities at the Zorro Ranch. The New Mexico House, on Monday, in a bipartisan vote, established a "Truth Commission" to "fill in the gaps" in the horrific allegations of crime and abuse against girls and women at the Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe.

"We have heard years of allegations and rumours about Epstein's activities in New Mexico, but unfortunately, federal investigations have failed to put together an official record," said Rep Andrea Romero. The lawmakers are urging locals to testify. The so-called "Truth Commission", comprised of four lawmakers are planning to question state officials who were aware or participated in the mishappenings at the 7,500-acre sprawling property. The $2.5 million investigation poses a threat to two former Democratic Governors and an Attorney General. They had ties to the late sex trafficker Epstein, who supposedly died of "suicide" in 2019.

The New Mexico ranch was the location where Annie Farmer was flown from out of state and groomed for abuse by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. The Ranch, located 50 miles away from Santa Fe, is sparsely populated, establishing a pattern of isolation that the victims were subjected to.

Comment: Zorro Ranch you are being probed:
With a $2.5 million budget approved by unanimous vote of the legislature, a "truth commission" of Democrats and Republicans will head up the probe into potential criminal activity on the 7,600-acre property that features both a 26,700-square-foot mansion and guest houses. Legislators are urging victims to come forward, but multiple accusations of sexual misconduct at the ranch have already been made. For example:
  • Annie Farmer, who testified at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial, said Maxwell gave her a nude massage there when Farmer was 16 years old -- and that, the next morning, Epstein entered her bed and "pressed his body" into hers.
  • A victim identifed as "Jane" testified that she was taken to the ranch and abused when she was only 14 years old. "I just remember someone, at one point, just came into [my] room and said: 'Jeffrey wants to see you,' and then escorted me to see him."
  • The late Virginia Giuffre claimed to have been abused at the ranch, and that Epstein partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell instructed her to "massage" former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson there -- with "massage" mutually understood to mean sexual intimacy.
  • A Santa Fe massage therapist accused Epstein of sexually abusing her at the ranch.
The most disturbing but least-substantiated claim was made anonymously -- an email in the possession of the DOJ said two females were buried in the hills near the ranch. Last week, the New Mexico Chief of Criminal Affairs asked the DOJ to give his department "immediate access to a complete, unredacted version of file EFTA01250229" along with forensic information associated with the email and any DOJ documents associated with it.
Hills and ranch
© unknownAre two sex-strangulation victims buried in these hills?
According to the Albuquerque Journal, the email was sent to a local radio host in 2019, written by someone claiming to be a former worker at the ranch. The author claimed that Epstein and Maxwell ordered the bodies of two foreign girls to be buried in the hills. The girls were said to have been killed "by strangulation during rough fetish sex."

The new probe is expected to look beyond the wrongdoing of Epstein and Maxwell, with the potential to identify other participants in devious activities -- and those who looked the other way. "Many of the survivors had experiences in New Mexico, and as we've learned, there were local politicians and other people that were aware of what was happening in New Mexico," said Sigrid McCawley, an attorney whose firm has represented hundreds of Epstein accusers.
Annie Farmer
© Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images/NBC NewsAnnie Farmer testified she was abused at Zorro Ranch at age 16
Epstein bought the property in 1993 and owned it until he 'died' in a New York prison cell. In 2023, Epstein's estate sold the ranch to the family of Don Huffines, a former Texas state senator and current Republican candidate for state comptroller. The property has been renamed San Rafael Ranch, and the Huffines family says it plans to transform the ranch into a Christian retreat.

In another document from the Epstein dump, a victim writes a coded diary where she describes being a 'human incubator' who was forced to give birth to a child that was taken from her.
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Scribd Download this PDF

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They may want to start with an exorcism.


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Bulb

What have we learned In the last 6 hard years?

Jeffrey Tucker
ZeroHedge
Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:31 UTC
rear view mirror
The last six years have been a time of astonishing revelation about many features of public life that had been previously hidden.

I'm not just speaking of the Epstein files though they are part of it.

We've all seen and experienced things over these years that (at least to me) would have been nearly inconceivable before. It's shaken us and forced people to recalibrate their understanding of the world.

If you have changed your mind on some important matters, congratulations? That's a sign of humility, curiosity, adaptability, and adherence to facts over bias. This is a virtue. People who report no change are either omniscient, which is doubtful, not paying attention, or just too doggedly attached to prior views that nothing can unsettled them.

I have a huge archive of my own writings over decades and I look through sometimes just to test how and to what extent my own outlook has shifted. Indeed it has. There is value in my old books and articles but reading them now, I detect a kind of naivete, a simplicity in theory and understanding. I don't think it is just maturing here. There is more going on.

Below I list some of the issues on which our times have introduced depth and complexity that defy conventional ideological categories.
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Fire

Germany: Electric car catches fire at charging station, Sets off local 'inferno', widespread damage

P.Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:12 UTC
The article from Blackout News here reports on how a severe fire was triggered by an electric car at a charging station in Schwaigern (Baden-Württemberg) on February 16, 2026.

Electric car on fire at a charging station
© Symbol image generated by Grok AISymbol image generated by Grok AI: Electric car on fire at a charging station.
Avoid parking next to electric cars

Blackout News reports that an electric car connected to a public charging station caught fire on Monday morning and the fire quickly spread to a motorhome parked next to it. Since the motorhome contained gas cylinders, the intense heat triggered several explosions!

Multiple other cars in the immediate vicinity were damaged by the flames and heat. Two buildings were damaged as well -one directly adjacent residential house and a building on the opposite side of the street. Property damage was estimated to be in the mid-six-figure range. The report describes a local "inferno".

According to Blackout News, extinguishing the fire proved difficult due to the burning EV battery, which required continuous cooling to prevent reignition.

Comment: A picture which shows the damage done:
E-auto fire
The result of the chain reaction which happened after an EV caught fire while charging.


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Heart - Black

Family blasts Canada's MAID program for euthanizing son, 26, who had 'seasonal depression'

Kelly Garino
The Daily Mail
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:08 UTC
Kiano Vafaeian Canada MAID Medical Assistance in Dying
© Margaret Marsilla / InstagramHis family has accused Canada's laws of 'killing the disabled and vulnerable' with the program
A family has accused Canada's laws of 'killing the disabled and vulnerable' months after their son, who suffered from seasonal depression, died by assisted suicide.

Kiano Vafaeian, a 26-year-old blind man with Type 1 diabetes, died in December using Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, which allows patients with 'grievous and irremediable' medical conditions to request a lethal drug.

Eligibility was expanded in 2021 to include people with chronic illnesses, disabilities and, pending parliamentary review, potentially individuals with certain mental health conditions.

Vafaeian faced mental health struggles stemming from a car accident at 17, and according to his mother, his depression often flared during the winter months.
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Che Guevara

France: 23-year-old Catholic lynched by regime-aligned Antifa redshirts

Lola Salem
The Telegraph
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:03 UTC
Quentin Deranque lynched antifa lyon france
© Alain Jocard/AFPQuentin Deranque was attacked February 12, 2026, at a protest organised by his friends who are part of a female-led activist group
On the evening of February 12 in Lyon, a small group of young women gathered for what has become, for them, a routine act of civic defiance.

They are members of Némésis, a feminist collective founded by Alice Cordier who argues that women's rights and dignity are being eroded by mass immigration and Islamist pressure. Their activism is deliberately confrontational but non-violent: they place banners on university buildings, organise silent demonstrations, and use sharp slogans about sexual violence and forced marriages. In exchange, Némésis' members are used to being shouted at, followed, and threatened.

Because Némésis occupies an ideological space the French Left detests - feminist, anti-Islamist, unapologetically critical of immigration - their events rarely pass quietly. Alice and her peers are accused of being "far-Right", "racist", "fascist". Their meetings are generally targeted for disruption. Venues are pressured to cancel bookings. And so security becomes an existential necessity.

Comment:





A tipping point?



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