February 2026

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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

The Commerce Department’s advance retail sales report for December revealed that total US retail receipts were essentially unchanged from November, coming in flat after a 0.6 percent increase in November and well below economists’ expectations for a 0.4 percent rise in December. Core retail sales, or the measure that excludes volatile categories like autos, gasoline,

The reality one would think that most governments are acutely aware of the risk of capital and talent will flee when designing regulatory policies and targeting the rich and corporations for excessive taxation. The dynamic seems to be one of ignorance, or denial that their marxist goals are simply against human nature. The only politicians

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 1,286.60 points or 2.28% to 57,650.54 • Shanghai increased 5.283 points or 0.13% to 4,128.373 • Hang Seng increased 155.99 points or 0.58% to 27,183.15 • ASX 200 decreased 2.70 points or -0.03% to 8,867.40 • SENSEX increased 208.17 points

When Zelensky became president, I warned that all of my sources said that this was the man selected by the Neocon to start World War III. He has simply refused to honor the peace agreements and demands the Donbas which he will unleash genocide and kill all the Russians who have lived there for centuries.

Hungary’s Viktor Orban declared that anyone attempting to dismantle his nation’s energy supply is an “enemy.” “Anyone who says this is an enemy of Hungary, so Ukraine is our enemy,” he said. Furthermore, Orban believes it is not in his nation’s best interest to permit Ukraine to join the European Union. “Hungarians should not want

Donald Trump recently stated that the Dow could reach 100,000 by the end of his presidency, and the usual crowd immediately rushed to either cheer or ridicule the statement without understanding why such a number is even possible. The problem with modern analysis is that it assumes markets rise because governments are doing something right.