According to Gallup polling from last year, up to 45% of adult Americans identify as political independents. That's a plurality, as the remainder is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with 27% each. Forty-five percent is around 120 million adults, and that number has been growing for the past 20 years, driven largely by the younger generations. It's easy to see why. Neither party represents them.

Every four years, independents are put in the position of either throwing their vote away for a third-party candidate who will get at most 3% of the popular vote, or choosing what they see as the lesser of two evils. (In the last 50 years, only Ross Perot came close, winning 19% in 1992.)

That's not to say independents are a homogeneous group. Slightly more independents lean Democrat than Republican (20% vs. 15%), with a core 10% who explicitly reject both parties. Given the choice (and an electoral system that would support it), their votes might be split among a handful of parties, as is the case in most democracies. The end result is that the largest segment of the American voting population does not have consistent political representation, at least on the federal level.

Widespread flooding and landslides across Europe, Asia, and South America, alongside record snowfalls and deadly avalanches in Japan and the Alps, marked this month. Volcanic eruptions occurred at Mount Semeru in Indonesia and Kanlaon in the Philippines, while a powerful cyclone struck Madagascar. Multiple meteor fireball sightings were reported globally, and severe storms caused power outages and disruptions in several regions.

Early in the month, solar activity included multiple X-class flares that triggered geomagnetic storms and auroras visible in parts of the U.S. and Europe.

Something's gotta give. Iran is being practically carpet-bombed, resulting in widespread civilian destruction. Despite near-total regional censorship, satellite imagery and some video footage is documenting mild-to-strong 'hits' on US bases and other assets across the whole region. Trump assures us Iran's military is 'destroyed', yet he acknowledges Iran's de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the high risks this presents for the regional and thus global economy.

The heavy criticism Trump has come under for 'blundering into war' overlooks something though: neither he nor the 'permanent govt' advisors he listens to is oblivious to the knock-on effects of what they're doing. However chaotic the situation appears - and the situation IS chaotic! - they're confident they can contain both Iran and the 'oil shock' situation they've created.

They are, after all, "history's actors," and the rest of us are left, as usual, "to study what they do..." They may be losing public support, but when has that ever counted in Western 'interventions' in the Mid-East?


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One week into the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the mission has been extended from "4 days" to "4 weeks" to "4 months" to "as long as it takes." But what IS the mission? It was "regime change," but Iran is not "surrendering" despite its leadership being assassinated. In fact, surviving Iranian leadership is conveying that its counter-strikes will continue until ITS mission is accomplished. So, a war of attrition until one side blinks? In the meantime, damage to neighboring countries in the Middle East, and to the global economy, is already setting in. This missile war threatens to become a maelstrom of truly epic proportions.

Which brings us to what is motivating the Americans to do this. We all know they're in lockstep with an Israeli regime that has been salivating at the prospect of "taking out Iran" since 1979. But why the desperation, extreme rhetoric, absurdity and gross risk-taking from the Americans? What, truly, made them furious enough with Iran to even name their operation "Epic Fury"?


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How LLMs turn vague red-pill intuitions into crystal-clear explanations (and why "AI censorship" is just user error)

Tired of knowing the world is rigged but struggling to explain it without sounding like a tinfoil-hat guy? In the launch of my new "Fun With AI" series, we hand the hardest questions to uncensored LLMs and get back answers so sharp they'll make normies choke on their Kool-Aid. From psychopathic power structures to why the masses cheer for their own enslavement, this is the clearest breakdown you'll ever read — and proof that the "censorship" people complain about is just a skill issue. Welcome to the red-pill classroom. ~~~
You've probably all realised at some point that you understand relatively well how most things work in our world, but explaining it to others is a different matter. You accumulate knowledge over decades and understand many things intuitively, but formulating them in a way that normies can grasp is often difficult to impossible. LLMs simplify this and make vague things obvious. Many knowledgeable people experimenting with AI haven't learned much that they didn't already know, but what is remarkable is that the understanding of the things that are known can become much sharper and clearer and easier to express in words. This comes in handy not only for writing articles, but also for explaining to people who still drink the mainstream Kool-Aid.

One expert, who actually works with AI at very high levels, says that AI can be very good for sort of low level pedagogy. It can help you study in the traditional sense, like learning a topic composed mainly of facts which the AI collects efficiently - more efficiently than you can - but once you get to the higher levels that require greater degrees of abstraction and inference of new or unique insights, it's a very poor helper.

But it is no small thing that you can get an explanation of any aspect of the System in a way that's not only easy to understand but that also makes it easy to convey to others.

And so, utilizing the work of various talented interrogators of the current AI tools available, this series will present some of the best responses to difficult questions we've ever seen.

And so it begins. This time it isn't 'kayfabe' and 'negotiated strikes and counter-strikes'. The 'peace president', when announcing joint US-Israeli strikes against Iran on 28 February, said it would just take a few days, and gloated that he 'took out the regime' by targeting top Iranian leadership, including Ayatollah Khamenei. But Iran's swift and massive response - bombing 11 countries housing US and Israeli military bases and installations, including a British base in Cyprus, EU territory - now has Trump saying the war will 'last for weeks'...

What did they think was going to happen, that Iranians would 'rise up and take power from their oppressors'? The Americans appear to have truly believed their own propaganda. In reality, Iranians are defiantly rallying in support of their country, and government, while Muslims across the region are preparing to potentially join the fray and do as Iran has always sought: remove all American military forces from the Persian Gulf, if not the Middle East as a whole.

It's too early for predicting such an end-game, but in the meantime, it appears that, in the absence of Iranian popular support for US and Israeli 'regime intervention', the strategy could switch to attacking the people of Iran and the country's infrastructure, 'punishment' for not 'capitulating'.


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They called us grifters. Then the Epstein Files opened.

In 2021, the President of the United States told the nation that I and eleven other Americans were killing people — and the organization that gave him that claim was funded by the same dark money networks whose offshore vaccine profits we had been investigating.

Executive Summary

• The hit job: In 2020-2021, a coordinated network of UK-based NGOs — funded by the same philanthropies whose pandemic-related financial interests they were protecting — deployed government officials, tech platforms, AI moderation systems, legal threats, and parliamentary privilege to brand twelve named Americans as killers, criminals, and terrorists for questioning official pandemic narratives.
• The architecture: Epstein file releases document that the individuals declared off-limits had designed offshore vaccine funds projecting "tens of billions" in returns, brokered Rothschild DOJ settlements through a convicted sex offender, and listed "pandemic" as a standing capital category — all before COVID-19 existed.
• The irony: ISD's May 2020 report — funded by the Gates Foundation and Open Society — declared public discussion of Gates, Soros, and Rothschild pandemic involvement to be "unfounded" far-right extremism. The Epstein federal exhibit record documents that involvement in detail, with specific Bates numbers available for public audit. Meanwhile, Oxfam documented $85 billion in excess corporate pandemic profits as a mainstream policy issue — while CCDH labeled $36 million in independent media revenue as a moral emergency requiring deplatforming. The difference was never about the money. It was about the message.
• The arc: The founding architect of CCDH has resigned as the British Prime Minister's Chief of Staff. The Goldman Sachs General Counsel recruited by Epstein to broker the Rothschild DOJ settlement has departed under pressure. CCDH's CEO faces US visa revocation. YouTube has restored wrongfully removed accounts. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — branded a killer before Parliament — is Secretary of Health and Human Services. The people who were cancelled are still standing. The operation that cancelled them is not.

The 'major build-up' of US military forces in and around the Middle East sure makes it look like D-Day for 'war with Iran' is imminent. What people are overlooking, however, is that this is Trump doing his 'maximum pressure' routine with a view to 'deal-making', not blowing the world up to kingdom come. The situation is certainly tense, a lot is at stake, and Trump is under tremendous pressure by Israel to 'commit', but the world has changed, and Iran is not Syria or Libya. There will almost certainly be 'kinetic action', but perhaps not the kind envisioned by most.


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In January, a post I saw on Twitter/X shocked me.

"URGENT: As of now, I have ZERO access to any money," Hüseyin Dogru wrote. "I can't provide food for my family, including two newborns, due to EU sanctions."

Dogru is a journalist, a German citizen living in Berlin.

After reading his post, I sent him a private message offering to order groceries and have them sent to his home.

The reply shocked me even more. "Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to accept any financial or material support," Dogru wrote.

Dogru is the first European Union citizen known to be living inside the EU to face extrajudicial sanctions imposed by Brussels - robbing him of fundamental civil and humanitarian rights.


He's also the first person to be sanctioned specifically for his reporting related to Palestine.