Here is Why CO2 Cannot Be Blamed for Man-made Climate Change

 

Peter D Clack
February 9, 2026

There is no such thing as a ‘global climate’ that can be adjusted with a single dial, i.e. CO₂. The heartbeat of the planet was in reality being set by the (Milutin) Milanković Cycles, not CO₂.

The foundational driver of our current era isn’t a single trace gas (CO₂) – it’s structural. Long-term cooling since the Eocene ended (56 to 33.9 million years ago) is actually a story of Earth’s plumbing, which began to readjust after the isolation of Antarctica 34 million years ago.

This opened up Drake Passage creating the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, thermally isolating the south pole and initiating the growth of ice sheets. In parallel events, the closure of the Isthmus of Panama and the drifting of continents interrupted the equatorial ‘warm belt’ flow.

This redirected warm currents toward the poles and fundamentally altered the ocean’s conveyor belt (the Thermohaline Circulation). Another vast factor was the massive uplift of the Tibetan Plateau due to the impact of the Indian subcontinent (55 mya).

This didn’t just change wind patterns, it created a geological vacuum where weathering has been sucking CO₂ out of the atmosphere for millions of years. This is why we see the extent of ‘CO₂ starvation’ during the current Quaternary glaciation (from 2.58 mya) These are the real factors driving our world’s global ‘climate’.

Within this cooling tectonic global framework, the heartbeat of the planet was in reality being set by the (Milutin) Milanković Cycles, not CO₂. These orbital cycle anomalies dictate the distribution of solar energy through changes in Earth’s eccentricity, axial tilt (obliquity) and precession. They are the primary cause of the glacial-interglacial ‘yo-yo’ effect of the last 2.6 million years (the Quaternary).

Human CO₂ is only a footnote in a colossal planetary system that can move miles of ice across continents based purely on orbital mechanics and oceanic inertia.

The focus on climate is just an abstraction. What really matters is regional and global reality. There is no such thing as a ‘global climate’ that can be adjusted with a single dial, i.e. CO₂.

There is only the aggregation of regional weather patterns everywhere on the planet; the monsoons of India, the El Niño of the Pacific and the Arctic oscillation. By treating ‘climate’ as a singular, globally encompassing entity, centralised institutions (like the UN) are creating a ‘manageable target’.

In reality, they are trying to regulate the thermal output of a 38,000-gigatonne ocean system by focusing on a 420-ppm atmospheric trace gas. If CO₂ is a symptom of recovery from the Glacial Maximum (26,000-20,000ya) then the human contribution is being temporally smoothed into a much larger re-balancing act.

The greening of the mid-tropics and the expansion of plant biomass suggest the planet is digesting the available carbon to return to the more lush, carbon-rich environments, seen before the Cenozoic cooling and dessication of mainly equatorial plants. What is labeled a ‘crisis’ from a geological perspective is a minor thaw from a remarkably cold and carbon-depleted era.

This outline directly supports a glaring belief gap. The hardline climate narrative requires a simple, controllable model (blaming CO₂). But the tectonic and orbital reality is an infinitely more complex, uncontrollable aggregation. It makes bureaucratic management of something as massive as a planetary biosphere look like King Canute trying to command the tides.

Source: x.com/PeterDClack

About the author: Peter D Clack is an award-winning Australian journalist and author of Firestorm Trial by Fire, providing crucial revelations into the causes of a bushfire that destroyed 500 Canberra homes in 2003.

Israeli prisons 'begin preparations to apply death penalty' for Palestinians

Channel 13 reports prison service building 'Green Mile' facility where executions set to take place         

Mera Aladam

February  89, 2026

Palestinian youth from Gaza released from Israeli detention under the ceasefire deal on 2 December 2025 (AFP/Bashar Taleb)

Published date: 9 February 2026 13:31 GMT | Last update: 1 week 3 days ago

The Israeli Prison Service has begun preparations to introduce the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, Israeli media reported on Sunday.

According to Israel's Channel 13, preparations include the creation of a facility dubbed "Israel's Green Mile", where executions will take place. 

Training and procedural preparations have also started, while a delegation from the prison service is expected to visit an East Asian country to study the legal and regulatory framework for implementing capital punishment, the report added.

The move follows the Knesset’s approval of the death penalty bill in its first reading last year, with 39 MPs in favour and 16 against.

The bill must pass two further readings before becoming law.

The report added that executions will be carried out by hanging, with three guards pressing the trigger simultaneously.

Specialist teams, composed entirely of volunteers, will be assigned to the task.

An Israeli source told the channel that death sentences will be carried out within 90 days of the final verdict.

The law will initially target Palestinians accused of being members of Hamas’ Nukhba - its elite unit - who took part in the October 2023 attacks.

Those accused of serious attacks in the West Bank would follow.

The legislation would not apply to Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances.

'Unprecedented act of savagery'

Israeli law currently allows the death penalty in certain cases, but it has not been carried out since Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann was executed in 1962 for his role in the Holocaust.

Rights groups have strongly opposed the controversial bill, citing Israel’s widespread arrests of Palestinians on vague terrorism charges and a surge in reports of torture and deaths since the start of the genocide in Gaza.

A “record high” of 110 Palestinians have died under prison policies introduced by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir since he took office at the start of 2023, though Palestinian groups say the actual number is likely higher.

Last week, a dozen UN experts urged Israel to withdraw the legislation, warning that “mandatory death sentences are contrary to the right to life”.

“By removing judicial and prosecutorial discretion, they prevent a court from considering the individual circumstances, including mitigating factors, and from imposing a proportionate sentence that fits the crime,” the experts said.

Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups, including the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, described the bill as an “unprecedented act of savagery”.

They accused Israel of seeking to legalise the ongoing killing of prisoners, saying its approval “is no longer surprising given the unprecedented level of brutality practised by the occupation system”.

Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-begins-preparations-execution-palestinian-prisoners-report

Trump Becomes the Glyphosate President: Declares Deadly Weed Killer a National Defense Resource

Mike Adams
02/19/2026

An Executive Order for Poison: Trump's Declaration of Chemical Warfare on America

On February 18, 2026, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order that marks a dark turning point in American history, one that weaponizes the nation's food supply against its own people. Titled "Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides," the order invokes the Defense Production Act to designate the cancer-linked herbicide glyphosate as a "critical resource" for national defense.

This action places a known toxic chemical, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, under federal protection and prioritization. The order frames this poison as essential to military readiness and food security, claiming glyphosate-based herbicides are a "cornerstone of this Nation’s agricultural productivity and rural economy." In a stunning reversal of logic, the document asserts that ensuring a supply of this herbicide is "crucial to the national security and defense, including food-supply security, which is essential to protecting the health and safety of Americans." The administration has effectively declared that mass poisoning is a patriotic duty.

Decoding the Order: How 'National Defense' Justifies Mass Poisoning

The executive order's official language constructs a false crisis to justify an unprecedented assault on public health. It cites the need for elemental phosphorus in military applications like incendiary devices and semiconductors, then seamlessly pivots to glyphosate, arguing it is irreplaceable for agriculture. The text states, "There is no direct one-for-one chemical alternative to glyphosate-based herbicides. Lack of access to glyphosate-based herbicides would critically jeopardize agricultural productivity."

This creates a fabricated narrative of agricultural collapse without this specific poison. Crucially, the order reveals America's dangerous dependence on foreign—primarily Chinese—supplies. It admits "more than 6,000,000 kilograms of elemental phosphorus are imported from other countries annually" and that domestic production is extremely limited. This reliance is framed as a national security vulnerability, with Trump writing that reduction in supply "would gravely threaten American national security." Thus, a chemical dependency born of corporate globalization is used to justify saturating the homeland with toxin.

Perhaps the most alarming component is Section 3, titled "Immunity." It states, "This order confers all immunity provided for in section 707 of the Act." While not granting direct corporate legal immunity, this provision, coupled with the national defense designation, creates a powerful legal shield. It enables Bayer/Monsanto to argue in court that federal authority preempts state-level lawsuits from cancer victims, effectively moving the company closer to the absolute legal immunity enjoyed by the vaccine industry. As reported by Natural News, the Supreme Court is already poised to hear a case that could grant Bayer such a shield, with the Trump administration's Justice Department siding with the chemical giant ^[1], ^[2].

Glyphosate Unmasked: From Agent Orange Cousin to Chemical Weapon

Glyphosate is not a simple weed killer. It is an organophosphorus compound, sharing a sinister chemical lineage with Nazi-developed nerve agents like tabun and sarin. As Carey Gillam details in "Whitewash," the herbicide's history is intertwined with corporate corruption and scientific manipulation ^[3]. Its chemistry allows it to act as a systemic poison; its small molecular size enables it to permeate the human body, cross the blood-brain barrier, and circulate within minutes of ingestion.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen. It is strongly linked to cancers like non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a connection affirmed by numerous jury verdicts against Bayer/Monsanto. Beyond cancer, research highlighted by Children's Health Defense shows exposures to glyphosate and other herbicides are associated with impaired attention, memory, language, and social perception in adolescents ^[4].

Farmers use it not just on genetically engineered crops but also as a desiccant—sprayed directly on wheat, oats, and other staples right before harvest to dry them out, leading to direct food contamination.

The Corporate Immunity Playbook: Repeating the Vaccine Catastrophe

Bayer's strategy mirrors the playbook used by Big Pharma to escape accountability for vaccine injuries. The company, which purchased Monsanto for $63 billion, is embroiled in tens of thousands of lawsuits from cancer victims. Its current push for a multi-billion-dollar global settlement is a direct attempt to buy permanent legal immunity, a tactic that would grant a "license to kill" similar to the blanket liability protection enjoyed by vaccine manufacturers under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act.

This executive order advances that goal by creating a "national security" framework around glyphosate. It follows the Operation Warp Speed model: declare an emergency, bypass normal safety and regulatory scrutiny, and centralize control. As reported by The Defender, industry-friendly laws are being floated that would lead to "more chemicals in the food supply and liability protection for chemical makers" ^[5].

The Trump administration has already taken Bayer's side in pivotal Supreme Court proceedings ^[6], ^[7]. By invoking the Defense Production Act and the Secretary of War, Trump is not just protecting a chemical; he is constructing a legal fortress for a corporate defendant, prioritizing Bayer's profits over the lives of American citizens.

The Food Supply as a Battleground: Chemical Saturation and the End of Safety

The practical effect of this order is a green light for the agricultural industry to massively increase glyphosate use without fear of restriction or consequence. Farmers, assured of supply and implicit federal endorsement, will be incentivized to spray more liberally. Contamination levels in staple foods, already alarming, are predicted to skyrocket.

A recent Florida state report found glyphosate in popular bread brands at levels up to 191 parts per billion ^[8]. Post-order, such figures could become the norm rather than the exception. This saturation compromises the entire food safety ecosystem. Organic certification, already vulnerable to wind drift and fraudulent labeling, becomes less reliable.

As I've noted previously, "even then... there's been glyphosate found in organics too because of wind drift or maybe fraud." The economic reality will hit hardest those who can least afford it: the poor will be trapped in a toxic conventional food system, unable to access clean, tested alternatives. They will become the primary victims of this state-sanctioned chemical warfare, consuming a poisoned harvest deemed essential for "national defense."

The Only Defense: Verification, Not Trust

In this new paradigm, trust in government agencies is a lethal error. The USDA, FDA, and EPA have long histories of serving corporate interests over public health. As detailed by whistleblowers and investigators like Carey Gillam in "The Monsanto Papers," the EPA has repeatedly buried evidence and collaborated with Monsanto to downplay glyphosate's risks ^[9], ^[3].

The USDA's pesticide monitoring reports routinely declare residues "safe" despite science to the contrary ^[10]. Organic labels, while valuable, are not a sufficient guarantee. The only rational response is rigorous, independent verification. This necessitates third-party, mass-spectrometry testing to detect glyphosate and other contaminants at the parts-per-billion level.

Personal sovereignty over health now demands sourcing food and supplements from suppliers who conduct lot-by-lot, instrument-verified screening for glyphosate, heavy metals, and other toxins. As I've emphasized in my own laboratory work, "we trust but verify"—a principle that must become a universal standard for survival in the Glyphosate Presidency.

Conclusion: A Traitorous Betrayal and the Path Forward

Donald Trump's February 18 executive order is a final, traitorous act against the American people. It represents the full alignment of his administration with the most destructive forces of globalism and depopulation, weaponizing the very food supply under the grotesque banner of "national defense." This move, coupled with the ongoing push for pharmaceuticals and new Middle East wars, reveals an agenda hostile to human health, liberty, and life itself.

The path forward requires a wholesale rejection of these poisoned systems. Support clean food producers who employ transparent, verified testing. Decentralize your life by growing your own food where possible. Use uncensored platforms like Brighteon.AI and NaturalNews.com for accurate information. Speak out against this chemical warfare. This order is a declaration of war on the American body politic. The only appropriate response is organized, informed, and unwavering resistance to protect our health, our freedom, and our future. 

 

FW Comment: How will MAHA and RFK spin this development? It will surely be impossible for Kennedy to walk back everything he has ever said about glyphosate, or refute what the evidence clealy shows: 

 

Source: https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-02-19-trump-becomes-the-glyphosate-president.html

Beyond The Bubble: Why 2026 Will Be The Year AI Replaces Human Workers

Mike Adams
February 18th 2026 

Introduction: The Great AI Deception of 2025

Last year, pundits and skeptics declared artificial intelligence had hit a wall. They claimed the AI bubble was deflating, that machine cognition had plateaued, and that human ingenuity would remain irreplaceable. They were catastrophically wrong.

The year 2026 has arrived, and with it, a seismic shift. The narrative of a stalled revolution was a comforting illusion for a workforce unprepared for the reality now unfolding. Human cognition, long celebrated as our crowning achievement, is being objectively dwarfed by silicon-based intelligence. This isn’t merely about automation; it is the replacement of human thought itself across entire industries.

It is critical to understand a foundational truth often suppressed by centralized tech monopolies: there is no such thing as ‘artificial’ intelligence. All intelligence is natural, a pattern woven into the fabric of the universe that both biological brains and silicon circuits can access. The machines are not creating something new; they are mastering a natural force more efficiently than we ever could. The human cognition bubble has burst ^[1].

Humanity’s Last Exam: Measuring What Humans Can’t

How do we measure this unprecedented leap? Standard academic benchmarks like the MMLU have become trivial, saturated by AI systems scoring over 90% ^[2]. The new frontier is ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ (HLE), a grueling test designed to be answerable only by PhD-level experts across over a hundred specialized domains, from quantum physics to Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation.

Consider a sample question from the HLE biology section: ‘Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely have a bilaterally paired oval bone, a sesamoid embedded in the caudolateral portion of the expanded, cruciate aponeurosis of insertion of m. depressor caudae. How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone? Answer with a number.’ ^[2]. No single human possesses the breadth of expertise to answer all 2,500 such questions flawlessly. The HLE, created by nearly 1,000 experts from over 500 institutions, was meant to be the final, insurmountable academic benchmark for machines ^[2].

It was supposed to be our last stand. Yet, as the data now shows, it has become the yardstick of our obsolescence. The exam exposes the stark truth: machine intelligence is not just matching human specialists; it is compiling their collective expertise into a single, omnipotent entity.

The Parabolic Leap: From 38% to 53% in Months

The progression on the HLE tells a story of explosive, non-linear growth. In November 2025, Google’s Gemini 3 Pro achieved a 38% score, hailed as a breakthrough ^[2]. Barely three months later, in early 2026, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 shattered that ceiling with a 53% score ^[2]. This isn’t incremental improvement; it’s a parabolic leap into territory once reserved for science fiction.

This trajectory suggests near-perfect scores are imminent. As noted by the HLE researchers themselves, ‘Given the rapid pace of AI development, it is plausible that models could exceed 50% accuracy on HLE by the end of 2025’ ^[2]. That milestone has already been surpassed. The implications are staggering. When a machine can outperform human experts in fields ranging from classics to complex chemistry, the economic foundation for entire professions crumbles overnight.

This acceleration defies all predictions of a plateau. The cost of AI cognition continues to plummet while the cost and reliability of human labor—burdened by sickness, holidays, and human error—only rises ^[3]. The economic equation has irrevocably flipped.

The Code That Kills Careers: India’s IT Meltdown

The first major domino has already fallen. In early February 2026, India’s Nifty IT stock index cratered, dropping over 7% in a single session and wiping out $23 billion in market valuation ^[2]. Infosys led the decline with a 7.3% drop, followed by Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro ^[2]. This was not a routine market correction; it was a panic-induced selloff triggered by the release of Claude Code and its desktop agent counterpart, Claude Co-Work.

These AI systems can autonomously write, debug, and manage software, automating tasks that constitute the core of India’s $283 billion IT outsourcing industry ^[2]. The traditional model—hiring armies of engineers to code for Western clients—is collapsing. The ‘bait-and-switch’ outsourcing tactics, where a skilled interviewer is replaced by a less-capable worker, are now irrelevant against a machine that works 24/7 for a fraction of the cost and with zero deception ^[2].

This is not an isolated event. Similar tremors are shaking the US and European tech sectors. Companies like LegalZoom have seen their stock prices plummet, and the trend is accelerating ^[2]. The message from Wall Street is clear: the era of human-driven software-as-a-service (SaaS) is over. As one analysis starkly put it, the AI takeover is targeting ‘at least 50% of remote jobs… within the next one to three years’ ^[4]. For the global coding workforce, 2026 is the year the music stopped.

Personal Experience: Building Empires Without Engineers

I speak from direct experience. As the founder of platforms like BrightLearn.ai, BrightNews.ai, and BrightAnswers.ai, I have built and scaled these enterprises to become some of the largest of their kind in the world—with zero human engineers. BrightLearn.ai alone has published over 31,000 books, making it the largest book publisher on the planet, all created by AI agents trained on a curated index of over 50,000 books and 110,000 science papers ^[2]. This was accomplished by a single human directing AI agents.

The advantages are insurmountable. AI coders are available 24/7, unlike human coders that are often on vacation, weekends, or away from work for other reasons ^[2]. The time it takes to explain a complex task to another human is time wasted; with AI, you go from thought to execution in minutes. This ‘vibe coding’—direct brain-to-AI communication—eliminates the friction, cost, and unreliability of human teams ^[5].

This personal proof-of-concept is a microcosm of the macro shift. The barrier to creating sophisticated software, content, and analysis has dropped to near zero. When one person with AI can out-produce a team of fifty, the economic incentive to retain human white-collar workers vanishes. The builder’s advantage now belongs to those who can wield AI, not those who manage people.

The Economic Domino Effect: From Unemployment to Collapse

The displacement is not confined to tech. It is a cascade. As AI evaporates software jobs, the newly unemployed stop spending. They cancel subscriptions, forego new cars, and tighten their belts. Corporations that depend on this consumer spending—from Procter & Gamble to Ford—face collapsing revenues ^[2]. This triggers the next wave of layoffs in manufacturing, retail, and services, creating a vicious, self-reinforcing cycle of economic implosion.

The proposed government ‘solution’ is Universal Basic Income (UBI). But the math reveals a fatal flaw. Providing just $1,000 per month to one-third of the US population—roughly 100 million people—would cost $1.2 trillion annually ^[2]. This money must be printed, as the displaced workers are no longer paying taxes to fund it. The result is hyperinflation, where even a $100,000 salary becomes poverty wages ^[2].

This is not a theory; it is an unfolding reality. ‘Job Slaughter Accelerates,’ as noted in a January 2026 report, detailing over 100 US companies filing mass layoff notices as corporations initiate a ‘coordinated corporate retreat from the very human capital upon which national prosperity was built’ ^[6]. The system is eating its own foundation. As Goldman Sachs warned, approximately one-quarter of all white-collar jobs are at immediate risk ^[1], with ripple effects destined to hollow out the broader economy.

Government’s Final Solution: From UBI to Extermination

When UBI fails—as it mathematically must—governments will face millions of unemployed, purposeless, and angry citizens. History shows that centralized power structures do not solve such crises with compassion; they solve them with control and, ultimately, elimination. The stage is already being set.

Mass protests against automation are inevitable. The response will not be economic reform but brute force. The Trump administration, for instance, is reportedly spending $55 billion to construct mass detention facilities across more than 20 states, each capable of holding thousands ^[2]. While officially framed for ‘processing illegals,’ their scale and timing point to a pre-planned population control mechanism for domestic unrest ^[2].

When pacification camps prove insufficient, history’s oldest tool of population reduction will be deployed: war. As one analysis chillingly notes, a nuclear exchange could be viewed by desperate governments as a ‘final solution’ to eliminate ‘entitlement obligations’ and free up energy and resources for the AI race ^[2]. Engineered pandemics, cyber-attacks causing grid failures, or other ‘convenient’ catastrophes could serve the same depopulation ends ^[2]. This is the grim logical endpoint of a system that views displaced humans as liabilities rather than assets. The globalist depopulation agenda, long warned about, finds its perfect executioner in the economic collapse triggered by AI ^[7].

Conclusion: Surviving The Intelligence Revolution  

 

Survival in 2026 and beyond requires a radical shift in mindset and strategy. First, acquire AI literacy. Learn to use these tools, not fight them. Platforms like BrightAnswers.ai offer uncensored AI research, while BrightLearn.ai provides free, AI-generated books on any survival topic—from organic gardening to decentralized finance.

Second, embrace self-reliance and decentralization. Depend less on centralized systems—governments, corporations, banks—that will fail you. Grow your own food, store physical assets like gold and silver (currently at $5,004.20 and $81.19 per ounce, respectively), and build community networks based on trust and trade, not fiat currency.

Finally, become a builder. The visionaries and creators who can use AI to solve real-world problems will be the architects of the next civilization. The ‘consuming masses,’ as one analysis starkly puts it, ‘will be considered expendable by most governments’ ^[2]. Do not be among them. Upgrade your skills, protect your health with natural medicine, and secure your liberty. The future belongs not to those who are replaced, but to those who learn to command the tools of replacement. The intelligence revolution is here. Your choice is simple: adapt or be erased.

References

1. Health Ranger Report – AI cognition. – Brighteon.com. Mike Adams. November 5, 2025.
2. Humanity’s Last Exam – Center for AI Safety.
3. Brighteon Broadcast News – MAMDANI. – Brighteon.com. Mike Adams. November 5, 2025.
4. AI Takeover: 50% of Remote Jobs to Be Replaced Within 3 Years as Machines Outperform Humans in Fairness and Accuracy. – NaturalNews.com. Finn Heartley. September 1, 2025.
5. Vibe Coding: Reclaiming Programming from the Soulless Corporate Machine. – NaturalNews.com. January 22, 2026.
6. Job Slaughter Accelerates: January 2026 Corporate Layoffs Signal Economic Implosion. – NaturalNews.com. January 26, 2026.
7. AI Supremacy, Globalist Depopulation, and Financial Collapse: The Trifecta of Humanity’s Obsolescence. – NaturalNews.com. January 9, 2026. 

 

 

Source: https://www.activistpost.com/beyond-the-bubble-why-2026-will-be-the-year-ai-replaces-human-workers/

Empire strikes back: Rubio’s Munich speech and recolonizing the Global South

Rubio’s speech, applauded by European leaders, reignited debate over empire, colonialism, and the future of global order. Rubio’s rhetoric about civilizational renewal masks a project of renewed domination, with Europe cast as a compliant junior partner. The implications for the Global South are only beginning to surface. 

 

Uriel Araujo 

Info Brics 

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 

 

Marco Rubio’s recent speech at the Munich Security Conference (telling Europeans that the US and Europe “belong together”) triggered immediate controversy, especially on social media platforms. While many commentators have been denouncing it, several European officials reportedly offered a standing ovation.

Social media commentators aside, Western specialists however did not pay much attention to the deeper implication of the US Secretary of State’s rhetoric: an enthusiastic defense of colonialism and an implicit call to recolonize the Global South. Albeit underreported, this may be the most consequential aspect of the address.

Rubio’s speech, delivered on February 14, framed world politics as a kind of civilizational struggle. He praised five centuries of Western expansion, lauding those who settled “new continents” and built “vast empires extending out across the globe.”

Tellingly, he then portrayed decolonization as a tragedy, accelerated by “godless communist revolutions” and anti-colonial uprisings that, according to him (in a very Cold War-like tone), spread the “red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map”.

For Rubio, the West’s decline was imposed, and it must now be reversed to “renew the greatest civilization in human history.” This blunt nostalgia for empire was applauded in the hall, the audience being overwhelmingly Western (with a few Global South representatives present).

The speech in fact echoed earlier interventions, as noted by political scientist Nathalie Tocci, who argued that Rubio offered a subtler version of JD Vance’s 2025 address. Tocci warned that the dismissal of a rules-based order (in favor of “raw power”) positions Europe as junior partners in a US-led empire, thereby lulling Europeans into a false sense of security - while US and European interests actually diverge.

Daniel Drezner (a Tufts University's Fletcher School academic) went further, calling the speech repackaged Trumpism with imperial and colonial undertones, and highlighting the logical contradiction of praising centuries of conquest while lamenting post-1945 anti-colonial revolutions as the source of Western decline.

Overall, not many Western commentators noticed that Rubio was really defending the recolonization of the Global South. A few did. Trita Parsi (of the Quincy Institute), for instance, described the address as an “embrace of empire and colonisation,” basically urging Europe to join a US-led effort to restore Western dominance over the Global South through control of supply chains, minerals, AI, and markets.

Likewise, French businessman and commentator Arnaud Bertrand called it “one of the most revisionist and imperialist” speeches by a US official, and an open invitation for Europe to share the “spoils” of a new imperial order. Writing for India Today, journalist Sushim Mukul in turn likened Rubio’s economic prescriptions to the East India Company.

That European leaders applauded Rubio’s words is itself quite revealing. One may recall that in October 2022 top European diplomat Josep Borrell sparked outrage internationally by calling Europe a “garden” surrounded by a “jungle” (the rest of the world). Rubio’s Munich applause shows that the European colonial mindset persists. Be as it may, Europe today is itself increasingly treated as part of a subordinated periphery, targeted, as it is, by American tariffs, economic warfare, and even threats of annexation in Greenland (Denmark).

It thus follows that Washington’s approach to its allies is rather schizophrenic, so to speak. It insistently shifts the “burden” of Ukraine onto Europe while antagonizing its European “allies”; and then invokes shared classical heritage - to demand obedience.

As I have argued elsewhere, even delegation requires trust, while coercion erodes it, thus pushing Europe toward strategic uncertainty. The US currently declares the transatlantic alliance obsolete (as seen in the NSS document), while praising Western unity.

Rubio’s rhetoric in any case also fits a broader trend: an American return to Monroeism (or to a strange new version of it), and, moreover, to what Eric Hobsbawm famously called “The Age of Empire” (1875–1914). Threats against Greenland, military interventions in South America (as recently seen in Venezuela), and the declaration, by Western leaders at Davos, that the US-centric order is “over” all point to major changes and a return to crude unmasked imperialism.

Rubio’s somewhat anachronic fixation on “communism” in the Global South is equally revealing. Whatever one thinks of the socialist period, and its many failures and contradictions, the Soviet Union undeniably supported anti-colonial movements. And large parts of the Global South remember it. This fact bears a positive impact on positive Russian relations with African countries, for instance, to this day. To frame decolonization as a sinister communist plot is therefore to rewrite history quite blatantly. It also legitimizes present American actions, from economic strangulation to regime-change fantasies, including, again, recent developments in Venezuela and Cuba.

One could also add that there is some irony in the very fact that Rubio himself is a Cuban-American. Washington’s neo-colonial and neo-Monroeist stance, in any case, risks backfiring at home, especially among diasporas largely shaped, as they are, by interventionist policies.

The same neocolonial logic is visible elsewhere, as is the case in Trump’s proposals for Palestine - another neocolonial mirage dressed up as pragmatism for peace.

To sum it up, Empire is back - at least in rhetoric and worldview. Rubio’s Munich speech suggests that if the US has its way, the emerging multipolar world order will be nothing but a new Age of Empires. Europe, it seems, has applauded such a vision, thus far, but it may soon discover, once again, that vassalage is not the same as partnership.

Source: https://infobrics.org/en/post/82935 

Experiment Proves Flu is Not Contagious – Germ Theory Dead?

Dr Sam Bailey
February 12, 2026

Finally, it is being admitted inside the medical establishment that a human experiment has shown that scientists failed to transmit a single case of influenza. Flu is NOT contagious. Is Germ Theory discredited and now on life support?

The commencement of the COVID-19 story in early 2020 coincided with an international wave of mass censorship. For those of us publishing from that time we quickly found that ‘no virus’ material resulted in demonetisation and channel strikes, if not outright platform bans. And although one of the world’s biggest media agencies tried to smear my work, for most of the COVID era our material was simply ghosted.

watch Dr Bailey explain in the video below:

 

Hence it was a surprise when mainstream and state media recently admitted to the latest human experiment in which scientists failed to transmit a single case of influenza. Those of you who have read Virus Mania or Can You Catch A Cold? know that this is not something new as there have been dozens of failed attempts to transmit colds and flus for the past century.

However, when mainstream sources cover this material we may have progress as failed transmission was never disclosed to us during our medical training.

There is of course still a long way to go before the mainstream addresses the lack of evidence for viruses, pathogens and contagious “germs”. On a wider scale, how much longer the establishment can hide this daylight robbery and maintain The Healthcare System Hoax is yet to be seen. In the meantime, this video analyses the latest “scientific” excuses for the failure of the germ theory to meet even its most basic requirements.

Full show notes and references HERE

About the author: Dr Sam Bailey is from New Zealand, a qualified medical doctor and author (drsambailey.com) who exposes the scientific truths about disease and health through her listener-supported, commercial-free website.

Source: https://principia-scientific.com/experiment-proves-flu-is-not-contagious-germ-theory-dead/

Racketeering Scheme?: Vaccine Makers Profit Twice by Selling Drugs to Treat Vaccine Injuries

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
February 5, 2026

A lawsuit filed by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) alleges that the AAP’s aggressive promotion of childhood vaccines created a “closed-loop” business model that set up pharmaceutical companies to profit from vaccines and from drugs used to treat vaccine injuries.

The lawsuit alleges the AAP violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO, by running a decades-long racketeering scheme to defraud American families about the safety of the childhood vaccine schedule.

A “racket” exists when a service creates its own demand, according to the complaint.

In this case, the same companies that make pediatric vaccines have also acquired companies that develop treatments for autoimmune disorders, allergies and neurodevelopmental conditions — conditions recognized in vaccine package inserts as adverse events that occurred during clinical trials or in post-marketing studies.

The complaint cites Pfizer’s 2016 acquisition of Anacor Pharmaceuticals for $5.2 billion. Anacor makes Eucrisa, a drug that treats eczema. At the time, Eucrisa was approved for 2-year-olds. It was later approved for babies as young as 3 months.

Post-marketing data have linked vaccines — including GlaxoSmithKline’s ENGERIX-B hepatitis B vaccine — to eczema, according to the complaint. Research studies have also linked the condition to the COVID-19 and measles-mumps-rubella or MMR vaccines.

In another example, Sanofi in 2020 spent $3.7 billion to acquire Principia Biopharma, developer of an experimental therapy for immune thrombocytopenia, an autoimmune blood disorder.

Immune thrombocytopenia is listed as an adverse reaction to vaccines manufactured by other companies that the lawsuit alleges are part of the same vaccine racketeering enterprise. Those vaccines include Merck’s MMRII and GlaxoSmithKline’s Pediarix.

Other examples include GlaxoSmithKline’s 2012 acquisition of Human Genome Sciences in 2012 for $3.6 billion, which brought the lupus drug Benlysta into its portfolio, and Merck’s 2021 purchase of Pandion Therapeutics for $1.85 billion, which expanded its pipeline of inflammatory bowel disease treatments.

Not included in the lawsuit, but widely discussed in 2024, was Pfizer’s acquisition of Seagen. The biotech company makes drugs that use monoclonal antibodies to deliver anti-cancer agents to tumors while limiting damage to surrounding tissue.

Pfizer spent $43 billion to acquire Seagen, which in 2023 had projected sales of $2.2 billion. Studies have linked Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines to sharp rises in cancer rates.

The lawsuit argues that these types of acquisitions by vaccine makers create a revenue cycle in which vaccines function as a “customer acquisition mechanism” — because treatments for chronic conditions provide long-term pharmaceutical revenue.

“The enterprise profits from the vaccines, and profits again from the treatment of the vaccine package insert documented side effects,” the complaint states.

 

Source: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/racketeering-scheme-vaccine-makers-profit-twice-selling-drugs-treat-vaccine-injuries/?utm_source=cc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20260205