The Rolling Stones, "If I Was A Dancer"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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Friday, February 6, 2026
"A Look to the Heavens"
"How do clusters of galaxies form and evolve? To help find out, astronomers continue to study the second closest cluster of galaxies to Earth: the Fornax cluster, named for the southern constellation toward which most of its galaxies can be found. Although almost 20 times more distant than our neighboring Andromeda galaxy, Fornax is only about 10 percent further that the better known and more populated Virgo cluster of galaxies.
Fornax has a well-defined central region that contains many galaxies, but is still evolving. It has other galaxy groupings that appear distinct and have yet to merge. Seen here, almost every yellowish splotch on the image is an elliptical galaxy in the Fornax cluster. The picturesque barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 visible on the lower right is also a prominent Fornax cluster member. "
"It Strikes Me..."
“It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can’t get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. There are people, particularly dumb people, who are in terrible trouble and never get out of it, because they’re not intelligent enough. It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry - or laugh.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
"The Long Dark"
"The Long Dark"
by Chris Floyd
"We are in the Long Dark now. Both hope and despair are the enemies of our survival. We must live in the awareness that we might not see the light come back, without ceasing to work - with empathy, anger and knowledge - for its return.
We must be here, in the moment, experiencing its fullness (whatever its horrors or joys), yet be elsewhere, removed from the madness pouring in from every side, the avalanche of degradation. We must be here, now, but also in a future we can’t see or even imagine.
We must see that we are lost, with no clear way forward, no sureties or verities to cling to, no roots to anchor us, no stru
ctures within or without that will always keep their coalescence in the chaotic, surging flow.
We must live in discrete moments of illumination and connection, pearls hung on an almost invisible string winding through the darkness. Striving, always striving, but not expecting; striving without hope, without despair, without any certainty at all as to the outcome, good or bad.
These are the conditions of the Long Dark, this is what we have to work with, this is where we find ourselves in the brief time we have in this vast, indifferent, astounding universe. As I once wrote long ago, quoting the old hymn: “Work, for the night is coming.”
So do we counsel fatalism, a dark, defeated surrender, a retreat into bitter, curdled quietude? Not a whit. We advocate action, positive action, unstinting action, doing the only thing that human beings can do, ever: Try this, try that, try something else again; discard those approaches that don't work, that wreak havoc, that breed death and cruelty; fight against everything that would draw us down again into our own mud; expect no quarter, no lasting comfort, no true security; offer no last word, no eternal truth, but just keep stumbling, falling, careening, backsliding, crawling toward the broken light.
And what is this "broken light"? Nothing more than a metaphor for the patches of understanding – awareness, attention, knowledge, connection – that break through our darkness and stupidity for a moment now and then. A light always fractured, under threat, shifting, found then lost again, always lost. For we are creatures steeped in imperfection, in breakage and mutation, tossed up – very briefly – from the boiling, chaotic crucible of Being, itself a ragged work in progress toward unknown ends, or rather, toward no particular end at all. Why should there be an "answer" in such a reality?
What matters is what works – what pulls us from our own darkness as far as possible, for as long as possible. Yet the truth remains that "what works" is always and forever only provisional – what works now, here, might not work there, then. What saves our soul today might make us sick tomorrow.
Thus all we can do is to keep looking, working, trying to clear a little more space for the light, to let it shine on our passions and our confusions, our anger and our hopes, informing and refining them, so that we can see each other better, for a moment – until death shutters all seeing forever."
“There Is No Reality Anymore…”
“There Is No Reality Anymore…”
by Thad Beversdorf
“I‘d love to change the world, but I don‘t know what to do,
so I’ll leave it up to you…”
“What a great lyric that is from the late 60′s, early 70′s English band “Ten Years After.” I believe this describes that uneasy feeling of discontent that sits deep in the stomach, beneath the day to day exteriors, of so many people today. The world is like a black hole in that it seems to be getting smaller and smaller as the years go by but also heavier and heavier with each passing day.
When I was a teenager and my friends and I were taking reality obscuring substances, one of my buddies (this means you Nichol) would stop us at certain points throughout the night for a reality check. This was just a few moments where we ‘d all gather our senses to make sure the world was still right and then we’d venture back into obscurity. I feel that reality is an old world term. There is no reality anymore. With advances in technology came unending possibilities of if you can dream it they can make it so. The ubiquitous flow of information ensures that the truth is always available but never known with certainty. It means there is no such thing as a reality check. It’s like that dream inside a dream inside a dream. Which reality is real anymore? How deep does the rabbit hole go?
We are raised with pretty standard ideals of what the world is meant to be but these ideals seem to take place only in the movies. It must be incredibly difficult for our young people to reconcile the two worlds, I know it is for me. That which they learn as a child and that which they find has replaced it as a young adult. Our leaders are despicable, arrogant and egotistical fools who pretend we elect them because we don’t see them for what they are. But we elect them because we feel we have no choice. We know what we want the world to be. We know what it should look and feel like. And we know it is not the world in which we live today. I know I’d love to change the world but I don’t know how and so I’ll leave it up to you. And so we continue to move forward down this path, each step uneasy as though something ungood is lurking just around the next corner.
We are able to put that feeling out of our minds for the most part but our subconscious is always aware that things are off. We have all kinds of self help books and new age theories that attempt to make sense of it all and explain why we just aren t happy the way we envision happy should be. Perhaps the only reality is the reality that the world isn’t what we had hoped it would be and we don’t know how to make that right. I’d love to say that if we just stand up and do the right thing, act from our hearts and have good intentions that it could change the world. But quite honestly there are ill-intentioned people that are constructing this new world in which we sub-exist.It is them and us, but they’d never say it that way. Certainly though their intention is not for us to co-exist along side them.
But so we carry on and we, move forward, to the best of our abilities. We accept the good with the bad and acknowledge that everything is a trade off. We believe that if we go to college we stand a better chance in life and so we borrow our first 10 years of post college wages to get an edge over the next guy who is doing the same. When we get out of school we know that it is time to buckle down and get serious. We put our lives on hold in order to focus on the future with the idea that one day we will be sitting on the porch with the person we love, the one we put on hold for all those years, and we will then enjoy our life’s work then.
But then we get further in debt because we need a sleeker car and we need a bigger house but it’s ok because we can just work a little more. And then the kids come and as far as we got to know them they are great, I think. But it’s ok because they just finished college and now they’ve moved back in as the job market is tough out there and so we’re paying off their student loans. Eventually they get away and begin their life’s journey and they take their debt with them. And then we realize, god I’m almost 60. But it feels great because that means soon I’ll be there on the porch getting to know the one I love again and life will be grand at that point.
But then we turn 65 and we realize all those policies that were implemented by all those well-intentioned decision makers have actually left us with very little. And we say it’s ok because we’d be bored anyway just sitting on the porch. And so we take a job waving at people in Walmart but feel like OMG how did I get here. But the shift ends and we go home anxious to spend time with the one we love because, although it’s a terrible thought, we are aware we’re both getting long in the tooth. And so we arrive home only to realize the one we love is now sick and that it’s too late for our days sitting on the porch getting to know each other again. We do everything we can but we cannot afford to help that person who stood quietly behind us all those years as healthcare costs are unrealistically out of touch with reality. And then it hits us that despite taking all the right steps to ensure we have a great life we failed to ever really be happy, to really love and to really accept love. And then it really hits us, this world provides but one shot.
Well, then that feeling of uneasy discontent that shadowed us when we were young is now an intense pain in our heart. And we look out at the world and we ask ourselves how could this have happened? I did everything they told me I was supposed to do, I did everything right! And it becomes clear that life was a chance to change the world, but we didn’t know what to do, and so we left it up to…”
Ten Years After, "I'd Love to Change the World"
John Wilder, "What Do You Value?"
"What Do You Value?"
by John Wilder
“I have been in the service of the Vorlons for centuries, looking for you. Diogenes, with his lamp, looking for an honest man, willing to die for all the wrong reasons. At last, my job is finished. Yours is just beginning. When the darkness comes, know this; you are the right people, in the right place, at the right time.” – "Babylon 5"
"What is the most common question asked by philosophers nowadays? “Do you want fries with that?” Diogenes is dead. When he was up and kicking around, he lived in a wine barrel at the end of town, and often was caught on the streets stark naked. Sometimes he was, um, enjoying himself. Oddly, he was also thought of as a respected philosopher. When I try to emulate him, though, all I get is a restraining order and some embarrassing YouTube® videos.
The reason we remember Diogenes is for two reasons: First, he invented the chicken nugget, but sadly was unable to invent any tasty dipping sauces. Second, he walked around making pithy little statements like this: “We sell things of great value for things of very little, and vice versa." It’s a very short, and very wickedly to the point piece of advice. Frankly, it points out many of the problems we are facing as a society today.
Let’s take consooming for today’s topic.Billions of dollars are spent attempting to convince people to purchase one product or another. These advertisements are hard to avoid – and they have one thing in common – a desire to get the consumer to spend money. In some cases, the ads provide the ability to match a need with a product. If I’m cutting down trees using axes and handsaws, knowing that a thing called a chainsaw exists is providing me a real value. So, ads inform.
But ads also are used to create desire in customers, playing on emotions to drive purchase decisions for things that aren’t needs, but frivolities. I have plenty of those! I’m a sucker for some things in particular. In the sitting room (where I’m typing this now) I look around and see a map I bought as artwork a few years ago. It shows all the undersea telegraph cables in around 1871. So very cool! I walked into the store, saw it, and bought it. I consoomed. I can’t cut down a tree with it. I can’t drive it to work. It’s just... there, stuck to my wall.
Is the map of great value? No. It’s a print. It doesn’t make me better, more complete, important, or accomplished. We can look in terms of multiple ways to value things. Dollars are only one. In this case, the picture cost about what I made in about an hour or two. Was it worth an hour of my life to own that map? Yeah, I guess so. But when I start to value objects that I own, and look at how much of my life I traded for them, my equation starts to change.
If I didn’t spend that hour at work, what could I have spent that hour on? How could I have changed my life? Could I have spent more time brushing my teeth, so they were 2.3% brighter? Should I have spent that time waxing my dog? What did I overlook or not spend time on? And which of those things might have been more valuable?
I understand that money is important – those who say that money isn’t important haven’t gone without it. But money isn’t the goal, it’s what can be done with it that’s important. The true currency of our lives isn’t gold, silver, or even PEZ™. It’s time. Each of us on this planet have a finite number of hours left on this rock, and that number goes down by one each hour that we spend. It goes down by one if I spend it at a job I don’t like. It goes down if I spend it writing the best post I’ve ever written. It goes down by one if I’m sleeping. It goes down by one every hour.
Yes, I know, exercising and other positive things might extend that life, but I’m still going to die. In the endless summer of a life when I was, say, 12, I didn’t think much about time and how I spent it. Even then, though, I didn’t try to just “pass the time” since there was so much to do and see and learn in the world. Now as I’m on the back side of life, I can see that those hours I have left cannot be wasted.
They’re all I have. And learning is great, but now it has to have purpose. Will it help me write? Will it help me crack a puzzle that I can share? Will it help me with some project I’m working on? Can it help me change the world?
Again, as I get older, it ceases to be about me. It’s now about what I can do to help others, how I can help make the world a better place. Thankfully, during my career I’ve been able to do work on things that matter, and have made the world a slightly better place. If I’m trading my life for my work, I’m glad that it’s work that matters.
Diogenes? He’s still dead, but he changed the world, just a little bit. And I can, too. And so can you. Time is still all we have, but it’s up to us to make the most of it, each and every day, just like Diogenes showed us. But, I don’t recommend you do it naked. Now, I wonder how Diogenes dealt with the restraining orders?"
"Americans Put On High Alert, Regional War Is Imminent"
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Snyder Reports, 2/6/26
"Americans Put On High Alert,
Regional War Is Imminent"
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Dan, I Allegedly, "Print is Dead! No More Newspapers"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 2/6/26
"Print is Dead! No More Newspapers"
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"A Perpetual Illusion..."
"Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion. Man is then only disguise, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in himself and in regard to others. He does not wish any one to tell him the truth; he avoids telling it to others, and all these dispositions, so removed from justice and reason, have a natural root in his heart."
- Blaise Pascal
"Mass Psychosis: How Society Lost Its Mind"
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"Mass Psychosis: How Society Lost Its Mind"
"What if the world around you slowly slipped into a trance - a shared illusion so powerful that even the smartest people you know started repeating the same script, no matter how false it was? What if questioning it made you the enemy? This is mass psychosis - a phenomenon as old as civilization itself, now amplified by technology, media, and global communication. In this full documentary-style deep dive, we’ll break down how it starts, how it spreads, and most importantly… how to get out before it swallows you whole.
Explore the eerie quiet of a world facing a potential civilizational collapse, as this video illustrates the haunting reality of empty spaces and solitary figures. Reflect on what truly matters when society as we know it faces a population collapse and previously trusted systems begin to fail. Consider the future prediction as you observe the stark imagery of abandoned places."
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"Mass Psychosis -
We Are Surrounded by Stupid People, How to Escape"
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in
groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
"We live in an age where the crowd worships individuality - yet demands conformity like never before. This video dives deep into mass psychosis, the hidden psychological traps of groupthink, and the dangerous comfort of blind conformity."
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"How It Really Is"
"If only"... you don't stop because you can't stop.
If you do it's all over. It's all over anyway, you're just buying time.
Tell me I'm wrong...
This Winter Is About To Take A Historic Turn"
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Max Velocity - Severe Weather Center, 2/6/26 10:11 AM EST
"This Winter Is About To Take A Historic Turn"
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Planet's Fury and Precision Weather US, 2/6/26
"Polar Vortex Collapse Kills 150+,
Nashville to NYC FROZEN -40°F"
Historic Polar Vortex 2026 - 150+ Deaths, -40°F Wind Chills Hit Eastern US. Dangerous arctic blast slams Northeast with life-threatening cold. Wind chills plunging to -40°F across 12 states from New York to Carolina. Over 150 confirmed deaths, 230,000 without power for 11+ days, and 4 homes collapsed into Atlantic Ocean. This is NOT a one-day event - the pattern persists through mid-February 2026."
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Adventures with Danno, "Groceries At Walmart Are Getting Expensive!"
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Adventures with Danno, 2/6/26
"Groceries At Walmart Are Getting Expensive!"
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Jim Kunstler, "Blood In The Water"
Big Bad Bunnies Toy with Baby Bunny
"Blood In The Water"
by Jim Kunstler
“Subversion works by importing an inverted moral frame and
getting the target population to install it as its own conscience.”
- Yuri Bezmenov’s Ghost on X
"Even in the deep-frozen fastness of midwinter, events and tensions surge, and America awaits... Bad Bunny! You perceive that there is some message in the genderfluid Puerto Rican songster’s upcoming Superbowl halftime gig, but what is the message? A 180-degree counterpoint to the earnest bashing and mashing of giants on the field? The official annunciation of Reconquesta? A thumb in the eye of President Donald Trump and the white supremacist horse he rode in on?
This bread and circuses routine is looking pretty played out. The bread, of course, is pizza, the Soylent Green of these seeming end-times, underwriting the nation’s romance with morbid obesity (and perhaps with degenerate sex). The circuses - last week’s Grammy Awards, the Winter Olympics tonight, Sunday’s looming Superbowl - give off an odor of utter cultural exhaustion. What will it finally take for Western Civ, and its avatar, the USA, to stop embarrassing itself before God and history, and find better things to do?
You have been following the Epstein papers, no doubt. The sordidness grows like a yeast infection in the body politic, and yet to date hardly one prosecutable crime? What gives with that? Last week’s release of the final super-batch of Epstein papers brought on a harvest of reputations, at least. The docs revealed Microsoft zillionaire Bill Gates conniving with the late (possibly) Jeffrey Epstein to turn pandemics and vaccines into a profitable enterprise, with a spate of email discussions years before Covid got sprung on the world.
Then, it just happened that Mr. Gates sponsored the Event 201 pandemic exercise in October 2019 (with Johns Hopkins and the World Economic Forum), around the same time that the first outbreaks of Covid-19 occurred in Wuhan China with the World Military Games, a sort of Olympics for soldiers. Many athletes from various countries (including the U.S., France, Germany, and others) fell ill with a respiratory infection.
Naturally, you wonder how long, exactly, was the Covid prank in the works and among whom? If Mr. Gates was involved with Johns Hopkins planning Event 201, wouldn’t you suppose he was also in contact with US NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency, and with Dr. Fauci himself? Dr. Fauci had a special talent for augmenting taxpayer funding of his activities with money from outside government, and Bill Gates certainly had a lot of it, plus an obsessive drive equal to Dr. Fauci’s for messing around with viruses. And 2019 was exactly the time that scientists at the Wuhan Virology Institute happened to be experimenting with corona viruses associated with bats. Whoops.
It happens that Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight Committee now looking into the Epstein matter, indicated this week that he was interested in calling Bill Gates to testify about his activities with Jeffrey Epstein. Wouldn’t it be nice to hear from Bill about his adventures in virology? Bill Gates is not a doctor or an accredited medical researcher, by the way. Virology is his hobby.
As a sort of tail on the donkey, an email written by Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 surfaced this week stating that Bill Gates said he caught a sexually transmitted disease from Russian girls and sought help from Epstein getting antibiotics to secretly dose his then-wife Melinda with. It blew up the Internet, but do you detect a whiff of a cockamamie story (no pun intended)? Bill Gates surely had the resources to virtually buy a doctor and have him prescribe whatever Mr. Gates wanted. In any case, Bill Gates’s long-running consort with Jeffrey Epstein has apparently sunk his reputation as a medical philanthropist, so expect him to look for another hobby as he skulks off into the gloaming of ignominy.
Lord Peter Mandelson, Baron of Foy, in Briefs, with Epstein Girl
Then, there is the case over in the UK of Lord Peter Mandelson (Baron Mandelson of Foy), erstwhile UK ambassador to the USA, lately cashiered out of the job for his relations with Jeffrey Epstein. Photos emerged of Lord M less than fully clothed with others in Jeffrey Epstein’s troupe, also less than fully clothed. In the notorious 2003 birthday book, he wrote that Epstein was “my best pal.” He received payments from JE over the years and, in return, it appears, Mandelson, then working as a senior minister after the 2008 financial crisis, allegedly forwarded to JE confidential UK government emails, market-sensitive details (e.g., on EU bailouts for Greece, banker bonus taxes, and notes from meetings with US officials in Britain for JE’s investment purposes. Bottom line: Mandelson ruined. Ambassadorship terminated... resigned from the House of Lords... King Charles III reportedly looking to revoke his title (Baron of Foy), leaving him a mere commoner in ruin.
Next up (looks like): Bill and Hillary Clinton are called by subpoena to testify before Mr. Comer’s House Oversight Committee on Feb 26 and 27. They’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do about how Jeffrey Epstein helped them construct the fabulous engine of wealth known as the Clinton Foundation and its various spinoffs such as the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Clinton Family Foundation, and the Clinton Presidential Library.
This followed a months-long tussle to get the Clinton’s to submit to in-person interviews under oath in closed session. The Clintons wanted to just hand in some written bullshit of their own and leave it at that. They were on the verge of being voted in contempt of Congress - like other political luminaries, Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon recently were, with months of jail time - when they gave in. Hillary got all snippy about it yesterday, demanding the hearing go pubic on TV so she could grandstand. Denied. Curiously, no one is rushing to the Clintons’ defense. You might suspect their many friends and associates smell blood in the water and nobody wants to get wet.
Speaking of things wet and bloody, the final super-batch of Epstein papers has revived rumors of a dastardly Satanic child abuse cult among the anointed... all kinds of horrifying activities, such as those represented in Tony Podesta’s art collection. Even the cuckoo story of PizzaGate is back up for review. I can’t state that I actually believe any of it, but the chatter is deafening so you are advised to stand by and see what turns up."
Bill Bonner, "Nietzsche, and Fed Policy Mistakes"
"Nietzsche, and Fed Policy Mistakes"
by Bill Bonner
"I was told Epstein ‘belongs to intelligence’ and to ‘leave it alone."
- Alexander Acosta
Cork, Ireland - "Back in Ireland! And with the new trove of Epstein documents comes some remarkable news. “You made the list,” reports a friend. “What list?” “The Epstein list. You’re in the files, apparently.” “Oh no...”
Until that moment, it was pretty clear. Jeffrey Epstein was a lowlife grifter. There are poor sleazeballs and rich sleazeballs. Epstein began in the first group and ended in the second. The whole story is fascinating, salacious, and (putting aside the pedophilia) entertaining. The Great Men involved - Trump, Clinton, Lutnick - claim to have cut off all ties with Epstein after his conviction for pimping out an under-age girl. Then, more documents come out...and they have more ‘splaining to do.
But while the major newspapers focused on sex, the real story was about power, corruption and treason. Epstein was not a currency trader. He was not a fund manager. He was a hustler who was given billions of dollars by Les Wexner and other Israel-first supporters. He used it to ingratiate himself to world leaders and influencers and entrap them on behalf of Israeli intelligence. His video cameras were everywhere. And after many years, the fake fund manager had “dirt on everybody.” Jonathan Cook:
"Once again, the fingerprints of intelligence services – particularly Israel’s – are to be found in the latest dump of files. But the clues were there long before. There was, of course, his intimate, preternatural bond with Maxwell, whose media tycoon father was exposed after his death as an Israeli agent. And Epstein’s long-standing best buddy, Ehud Barak, a former head of Israeli military intelligence who later served as prime minister, should have been another red flag. An active Israeli military intelligence officer, Yoni Koren, was a repeated houseguest at Epstein’s Manhattan apartment between 2013 and 2015. An email also shows Barak asking Epstein to wire funds to Koren’s account." But the latest release offers additional clues. A declassified FBI document quotes a confidential source as saying Epstein was “close” to Barak and “trained as a spy under him”.
This espionage connection was so obvious, even we saw it. But rather than follow up with serious reporting on the most explosive story of the 21st century - Two American Presidents Blackmailed! - the mainstream press turned to a cartoon villain. The Daily Mail: "Epstein’s sex empire was ‘KGB honeytrap’: Paedophile financier had multiple talks with Putin after conviction - with Russian girls flown in to harvest ‘kompromat’ on world-famous figures."
But it was Wexner, not Putin, who gave Epstein his money. Wexner also formed a group of super-rich Israel-first supporters called the Mega Group. The Group, incidentally, includes Ronald Lauder as its president. We’re sure it’s a total coincidence, but the designated new head of the Fed, Kevin Warsh, just happens to be married to Lauder’s daughter. And now, the slaughter in the Levant goes on, and no person of any significance, who was caught up in Epstein’s web – Clinton, Blair, Trump, dares to criticize.
What a shame Epstein never got to spill the beans. Overcome with remorse, apparently, he decided to take his own life at the very time his guards took a smoke break. Another coincidence!
But what about us? Did Epstein have dirt on us? A moment of panic came over us. How could we forget something like that? ‘Dirt’ begins as fun. It’s the kind of stuff that sticks in your brain...brightening up those long, lonely hours. But we could not remember ever having met the man...or his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwelll...or any of the sexy girls he used to bait the trap. We spent the evening in quiet contemplation, heavy drinking and light prayer. People come to think what they must think when they must think it. And little by little we recovered the memory that was never there.
Jeffrey Epstein? Fine fellow. Great investor. What a guy. He invited us onto his private plane for a visit to his private island. Wasn’t that nice of him? And then we met his ‘assistants.’ Wonderful women. Scholars. Athletes. So bright. We spent almost the entire weekend discussing Nietzsche and Fed policy mistakes! We enjoyed every wholesome minute of it.
But what a drag; now the evil Democrats are turning the tragedy into a public spectacle...a political hoax whose only purpose is to harm Jeff’s best friend for many years, Donald Trump. Sad! “Wait, Bill...” our friend picked up. “You’re in the files only because you wrote about Epstein. You never got an invitation to his parties...or visited his Romp-in-the-Hay Island. “It looks like you weren’t that important.” “Oh...thanks.”
"Another CME Coming February 8! AR4366 Fires 14 More M-Flares in 24 Hours"
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Horizon Feed, 2/6/26 4:54 AM EST
"Another CME Coming February 8!
AR4366 Fires 14 More M-Flares in 24 Hours"
"Sunspot AR4366 continues to unleash relentless solar activity, firing 14 M-class flares in just 24 hours, including a powerful M7.2 that nearly crossed into X-class territory. Multiple coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are now racing toward Earth, with arrival windows extending through February 8, raising the risk of compound geomagnetic storms and extended aurora displays.While many were focused on recent northern lights, this solar region kept hammering Earth with electromagnetic radiation, triggering radio blackouts, communication disruptions, and geomagnetic disturbances — often overlapping before the previous effects could even clear. Since emerging less than two weeks ago, AR4366 has already produced:
• 21 C-class flares
• 38 M-class flares
• 5 X-class flares, including an X8.1
This sunspot now spans an area equivalent to 6.5 Earths, featuring an intensely complex magnetic structure and flanked by coronal holes that could amplify incoming CME impacts. With 80% daily odds of M-class flares and a 40% chance of X-class flares, this is not a quiet phase - it’s a sustained solar assault. Multiple CMEs may arrive in close succession, creating stacked geomagnetic impacts capable of producing multi-night auroras and pushing activity farther south than single-event forecasts suggest. While a Carrington-level event remains unlikely, the ingredients for elevated risk are firmly in place.
This is not surface-level reporting. This is deep-dive space weather intelligence - tracking solar activity as it unfolds, in real time. The Sun is aimed directly at Earth. The next 72 hours could be incredible. Stay alert. Stay prepared. And keep watching the skies."
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"AR4366 Now 6.5 Earths Wide! CME Hitting Today - Aurora Watch Extended"
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Horizon Feed, 2/6/26 3:06 AM EST
"AR4366 Now 6.5 Earths Wide!
CME Hitting Today - Aurora Watch Extended"
"Active Region 4366 has grown to a massive 6.5 Earth diameters wide and just unleashed a significant coronal mass ejection (CME) headed our way! The CME from AR4366 is expected to reach Earth TODAY, triggering geomagnetic storm conditions. This means enhanced aurora displays are possible at lower latitudes than normal! While this solar activity creates beautiful auroras, it can also affect satellites, GPS, and power grids. We’ll explain what precautions to take."
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Thursday, February 5, 2026
"Alert! They're Selling Everything! Major SHTF Event About To Happen!"
Prepper News, 2/5/26
"Alert! They're Selling Everything!
Major SHTF Event About To Happen!"
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"Sun’s Energy Is Building Up - A Massive Release Is Upcoming"
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CosmoWhisper, 2/5/26
"Sun’s Energy Is Building Up -
A Massive Release Is Upcoming"
"A massive active region is producing powerful flares while keeping most of its energy trapped inside complex magnetic structures. Instead of releasing pressure through strong mass ejections, the region continues to accumulate tension, creating an unstable equilibrium. In this video, we analyze the physics behind this anomaly, the “overheated boiler” effect, its possible evolution, and the potential impact on satellites, power grids, and Earth’s environment."
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The Calm Scientist, 2/4/26
"Massive Sunspot Now Aimed Directly at Earth –
Why It's Not Looking Good"
"Something extraordinary happened on the sun this weekend, something that has solar physicists using words they rarely allow themselves to say out loud. Over the span of just seventy two hours, a sunspot emerged from nothing and grew into a magnetic behemoth that now rivals half the size of the most infamous sunspot in recorded history. The one that, in eighteen fifty nine, brought civilization to its knees when civilization had barely begun to wire itself together."
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Horizon Feed, 2/5/26
"Most Active Sunspot of Solar Cycle 25:
The Crazy Numbers Behind AR4366"
"AR4366 has earned its place in solar history as the most productive sunspot region of Solar Cycle 25. In this video, we break down the incredible statistics that made this sunspot region truly exceptional."
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Listen to what he says... "Knowing"
God help us if this happens... and it could.
"People Are Losing Everything As Bitcoin And Crypto Crash; My Grocery Bill Today Was Alarming"
Jeremiah Babe, 2/5/26
"People Are Losing Everything As Bitcoin And
Crypto Crash; My Grocery Bill Today Was Alarming"
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"Crash Across The Financial System, What's Next?"
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Gerald Celente, 2/5/26
"Crash Across The Financial System, What's Next?"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
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"Walmart Store Shelves Go Empty As Winter Panic Buying Frenzy Begins"
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Epic Economist, 2/5/26
"Walmart Store Shelves Go Empty
As Winter Panic Buying Frenzy Begins"
"Winter storms are hitting the US, and Walmart stores are confirming total blackouts with empty shelves from coast to coast. But what we're seeing isn't just about weather preparation – it's revealing something much deeper about how Americans feel about the companies they're forced to depend on. In this video, I'm sharing real footage from people across the country showing the current state of Walmart stores. Empty milk aisles, no bread, missing essentials, and folks driving store to store just trying to find basic supplies. But here's what's really happening behind these scenes that nobody's talking about.
While families are struggling to find affordable groceries, Walmart is raising prices on everyday items and blaming it on tariffs. We're talking about 50% increases almost overnight on basic necessities. Coffee, milk, kitchen supplies – everything's going up while they report record profits quarter after quarter. Their own former CEO even came out saying retailers don't have to pass tariff costs onto consumers, but that's exactly what they're doing.
And it gets worse. People are discovering serious price gouging on meat and deli products – we're talking about items being weighed incorrectly, charging customers for pounds more than what they're actually getting. When folks tested the scales themselves, the difference was shocking.
But the real concern is food safety. Expired products sitting on shelves, strange ingredients showing up in basic items like marshmallows and syrup, contamination issues that are making people sick. One family had to rush their daughter to the hospital after buying expired food that was covered in mold.
The panic buying we're seeing isn't really about the storms – it's about people losing faith in the system. When you can't trust that prices will be fair, that food will be safe, that stores will be properly stocked, people feel like they have to grab what they can when they can. And that creates this cycle where families who can't prepare in advance get left with empty shelves and inflated prices.
This affects every single one of us, whether we shop at Walmart or not. When the biggest retailer in the country operates this way, it sets the standard for everyone else. We're all paying the price for corporate greed that puts profits over people. I want to hear your experiences. Have you noticed these changes at your local stores? Are you seeing the same price increases and quality issues? How are you and your family dealing with all of this? Share your thoughts in the comments below."
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"A Look to the Heavens"
"Slide your telescope just east of the Lagoon Nebula to find this alluring field of view in the rich starfields of the constellation Sagittarius toward the central Milky Way. Of course the Lagoon nebula is also known as M8, the eighth object listed in Charles Messier's famous catalog of bright nebulae and star clusters.
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Close on the sky but slightly fainter than M8, this complex of nebulae was left out of Messier's list though. It contains obscuring dust, striking red emission and blue reflection nebulae of star-forming region NGC 6559 at right. Like M8, NGC 6559 is located about 5,000 light-years away along the edge of a large molecular cloud. At that distance, this telescopic frame nearly 3 full moons wide would span about 130 light-years."
"From Stardust to Sapiens: A Stunning Serenade to Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation"
"From Stardust to Sapiens: A Stunning Serenade to
Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation"
By Maria Popova
"We were never promised any of it - this world of cottonwoods and clouds - when the Big Bang set the possible in motion. And yet here we are, atoms with consciousness, each of us a living improbability forged of chaos and dead stars. Children of chance, we have made ourselves into what we are - creatures who can see a universe of beauty in the feather of a bird and can turn a blind eye to each other’s suffering, creatures capable of the Benedictus and the bomb. Creatures who hope.
A generation after Maya Angelou held up a cosmic mirror to humanity with “A Brave and Startling Truth,” Pattiann Rogers - who writes with uncommon virtuosity about the intersection of the cosmic and the human, and whose poems have therefore been a frequent presence in "The Universe in Verse" - offers a poignant cosmogony of our self-creation in the stunning final poem of her book "Flickering" (public library).
"Homo Sapiens: Creating Themselves"
by Pattiann Rogers, Read by Maria Popova
I.
"Formed in the black-light center of a star-circling
galaxy; formed in whirlpool images of froth
and flume and fulcrum; in the center image of herring
circling like pieces of silver swirling fast, a shoaling
circle of deception; in the whirlpool perfume of sex
in the deepest curve of a lily’s soft corolla. Created
within the images of the creator’s creation.
Born with the same grimacing wrench of a tree-covered
cliff split wide suddenly by lightning and opened
to thundering clouds of hail and rain.
Cured in the summer sun as if in a potter’s oven,
polished like a stone rolled by a river, emboldened
by the image of the expanse beyond earth’s horizon,
inside and outside a circumference in the image
of freedom.
Given the image of starlight clusters steadily silent
above a hillside-silence of fallen snow… let there be sleep.
II.
Inheriting from the earth’s scrambling minions,
images of thorn and bur, fang and claw, stealth,
deceit, poison, camouflage, blade, and blood…
let there be suffering, let there be survival.
Shaped by the image of the onset and unstoppable
devouring eclipse of the sun, the tempestuous, ecliptic
eating of the moon, the volcanic explosions of burning
rocks and fiery hail of ashes to death… let there be
terror and tears. Let there be pity.
Created in the image of fear inside a crawfish
skittering backward through a freshwater stream
with all eight appendages in perfect coordination,
both pincers held high, backing into safety beneath
a fallen leaf refuge… let there be home.
III.
Made in the image of the moon, where else
would the name of ivory rock craters shine
except in our eyes… let there be language.
Displayed in the image of the rotting seed
on the same stem with the swelling blossom…
let there be hope.
Homo sapiens creating themselves after the manner
and image of the creator’s ongoing creation - slowly,
eventual, alert and imagined, composing, dissembling,
until the right chord sounds from one brave strum
of the right strings reverberating, fading away
like evening… let there be pathos, let there be
compassion, forbearance, forgiveness. Let there be
weightless beauty.
Of earth and sky, Homo sapiens creating themselves,
following the mode and model of the creator’s creation,
particle by particle, quest by quest, witness by witness,
even though the unknown far away and the unknown
nearby be seen and not seen… let there be goodwill
and accounting, let there be praise resounding."
Complement with astronomer-poet Rebecca Elson’s ode to dark matter and the mystery of being, “Let There Always Be Light,” non-speaking autistic poet Hannah Emerson’s astonishing “Center of the Universe,” and Jane Hirshfield’s “To Be a Person,” then revisit Pattiann Rogers’s harmonic of the human and cosmic perspectives, read by David Byrne and illustrated by Maira Kalman."
"You Are Not Alone"
"You Are Not Alone"
by Chris MacIntosh
"Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone." - Kurt Vonnegut
"To all my friends out there who know what’s really going on…To all my conspiracy theorist friends…Yes, sometimes it’s a curse and not always a blessing to be awake. Awakening is the most liberating, alienating, excruciating, empowering, lonely, confusing, freeing, frightening, expansive journey. If you find yourself struggling as you try to process all this insanity, you are not alone. No one talks about the darkness that accompanies awakening, or the GRIEF.
Not only grieving the life and illusions you once had but the realization that almost everything you thought you once knew, is a LIE. The beliefs you’ve held, people you’ve trusted, principles you were taught - ALL LIES. Shattering illusions is RARELY an enjoyable experience. There is a considerable amount of discomfort that comes with growth and the grieving process doesn’t stop there.
With these newfound realizations, you then find yourself grieving all over again. Grieving the loss of many relationships with people who just don’t “get it”. Feeling alone; being ridiculed and shamed, not only by the masses but for many of you, your very own family and friends too. Feeling like you no longer have much in common with the people you are surrounded by.
Struggling with carrying on bullsh*t, shallow conversations that lack substance with those who are still fast asleep. Even feeling disconnected from your entire support system because they can’t see what you see. Some even grieve the loss of their ignorance- because “ignorance is bliss” and reality is harsh. Awakening can be a lonely road and you will often find yourself journeying alone.
There is no way to sugarcoat it - awakening to the realities of this world is brutal. It will have you running through the entire gamut of human emotions. You have to master the art of diving down the darkest of rabbit holes only to come out and still function in daily life, and that’s a skill people don’t talk about enough. Some of you are struggling with feeling disconnected from family and friends, it’s as though they exist in another world.
Please know you are not alone, and not only are you not alone, you have an entire tribe standing with you. We may be separated by miles, but we are DEEPLY connected; in purpose and in spirit."
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"When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as important, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absolutely nothing about you." - Maria Popova
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