February 2026

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QUESTION: Marty, it’s clear you were called in to implement a peace plan because others have been blocking it. I voted for Trump because I thought he would end the Neocon wars, and he appointed Bessent, who was with Soros and the Neocon Rubio, who even introduced a law when he was in the Senate

January’s U.S. jobs data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics clearly illustrates the cyclical stagnation and weakness beneath the surface of the headline figures. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 130,000 jobs in January 2026 — nearly double the 70,000 economists had forecast — and significantly stronger than the 50,000 jobs added in December 2025. The

Touted as cutting-edge AI technology, Waymo’s autonomous self-driving technology is actually based on a group of human operators based in the Philippines. A top executive at Waymo acknowledged before the US Senate that its robotaxis sometimes call upon remote workers to assist when the vehicle encounters a situation its algorithms cannot handle. These workers are

The Environmental Protection Agency under the Trump administration is on the verge of repealing the 2009 “endangerment finding” that formed the legal and scientific basis for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. That finding, first issued early in the Obama administration, concluded that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases “may reasonably be

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ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 closed • Shanghai increased 3.612 points or 0.09% to 4,131.985 • Hang Seng increased 83.23 points or 0.31% to 27,266.38 • ASX 200 increased 147.40 points or 1.66% to 9,014.80 • SENSEX decreased 40.28 points or -0.05% to 84,233.64 • Nifty50

Voter ID laws have finally passed, but in Somalia. Somalia has taken a step this year toward a “one person, one vote” electoral system with mandatory voter identification to ensure that each individual can cast only one ballot. Federal authorities took it a step further and have now moved toward biometric voter IDs and registration

Discord will begin enforcing mandatory global age verification by requiring users to submit a face scan or government ID to access adult content and full platform features. Starting in March, every user account will be barred from age-restricted servers or live chat features until they comply with the system. The company will also deploy AI-driven