Vote Fraud in California
February 17th, 2026Via: Nick Shirley:
As Refineries Close, California Needs to Get Gasoline Transhipped Through the Bahamas
February 16th, 2026This is so painfully retarded that I struggled to read all of it.
Via: Bloomberg:
US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending up in California, a state battling shrinking fuelmaking capacity and high pump prices.
Shipments on the circuitous route are increasing. California imported more gasoline in November than ever before, with more than 40% coming from the Bahamas.
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After Phillips 66 shuttered its Los Angeles refinery in October, gasoline imports climbed in 2025 to the highest level since at least 2016, Vortexa data show. With Valero Energy Corp. set to close a Northern California refinery this spring, and no fuel pipelines connecting the US Gulf’s oil-producing powerhouse to the West Coast, the nation’s most populous state will likely depend on imports to bridge the gap.
JeffTube: All Videos Released by the DOJ from the Epstein Files
February 16th, 2026Check it out here https://t.co/W3gCV58rrN – You can watch all videos, like and comment, and even watch them in shorts format if you want pic.twitter.com/SqBYToKclz
— Matheus (@whosmatu) February 5, 2026
And Now… Seagate and Western Digital Sell Out of Hard Drives
February 16th, 2026Seagate’s Hard Drives Are Sold Out Through 2026 as AI Storage Boom Continues:
The company’s nearline storage capacity is completely sold out through calendar 2026, with orders for 2027 opening soon and discussions already underway for 2028.
Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital:
Looking to buy a new hard drive? Get ready to pay even more this year.
According to Western Digital, one of the world’s biggest hard drive manufacturers, the company has already sold out of its storage capacity for 2026 with more than 10 months still left in the year.
“We’re pretty much sold out for calendar 2026,” said Western Digital CEO Irving Tan on the company’s recent quarterly earnings call.
PsiQuantum Using Photons for Quantum Computing
February 16th, 2026Via: Dr. Ben Miles:
Discord’s Disturbing Ties to Global Surveillance
February 16th, 2026Via: Gamers Nexus:
Thomas Massie: “I Am Not Suicidal”
February 15th, 2026I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 13, 2026
Google Saving Video From Nest Cameras Even When Users Don’t Have Subscriptions
February 14th, 2026Via: Glenn Greenwald:
Those concerns escalated just a few days later in the context of the Tucson disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of long-time TODAY Show host Savannah Guthrie. At the home where she lives, Nancy Guthrie used Google’s Nest camera for security, a product similar to Amazon’s Ring.
Guthrie, however, did not pay Google for a subscription for those cameras, instead solely using the cameras for real-time monitoring. As CBS News explained, “with a free Google Nest plan, the video should have been deleted within 3 to 6 hours — long after Guthrie was reported missing.” Even professional privacy advocates have understood that customers who use Nest without a subscription will not have their cameras connected to Google’s data servers, meaning that no recordings will be stored or available for any period beyond a few hours.
For that reason, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos announced early on “that there was no video available in part because Guthrie didn’t have an active subscription to the company.” Many people, for obvious reasons, prefer to avoid permanently storing comprehensive daily video reports with Google of when they leave and return to their own home, or who visits them at their home, when, and for how long.
Despite all this, FBI investigators on the case were somehow magically able to “recover” this video from Guthrie’s camera many days later. FBI Director Kash Patel was essentially forced to admit this when he released still images of what appears to be the masked perpetrator who broke into Guthrie’s home. (The Google user agreement, which few users read, does protect the company by stating that images may be stored even in the absence of a subscription.)
Confirmed: U.S. Covertly Sent Thousands Of Starlink Terminals Into Iran Amid Unrest
February 12th, 2026From, Iran: “What Are Demonstrators’ Demands?”:
What we’re seeing in Iran is economic collapse that is now being operationalized by CIA and Mossad for regime change. The old PNAC/Neocon operation never died. It continues to jump between U.S. regimes as necessary.
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I can’t imagine that anyone believes that what’s happening in Iran is totally organic… Rest assured, U.S. and Israeli spooks are deeply involved with this.
With regard to forcing the Internet into areas targeted for regime change, this is from 2019: USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology:
“We could bring secure, trusted data to every human being on planet Earth, underpinned by American values and the American Constitution.”
Via: ZeroHedge:
The Trump administration has confirmed what was already long suspected –the US sent Iranian protesters thousands of Starlink terminals amid last month’s raging economic protests and unrest.
The mainstream media had claimed the whole time that the demonstrations were both purely peaceful and completely spontaneous, but a Thursday Wall Street Journal piece greatly muddies this MSM narrative.
“After Iranian authorities smothered mounting unrest in January by killing thousands of protesters and severely cutting internet connectivity, the U.S. smuggled roughly 6,000 of the satellite-internet kits into the country, the first time the U.S. has directly sent Starlink into Iran,” WSJ writes.
This also contradicts earlier claims from weeks ago that it was merely activist non-profit NGO groups which got a small amount of Starlink systems to protesters. That was perhaps the ‘cover’ narrative. But later it became evident the SpaceX-made comms equipment was more ubiquitous.
Skeptical observers questioned how that amount of sophisticated equipment could so easily get across Iran’s borders at a moment security forces were on a high state of alert. They concluded, reasonably, that it must have had the involvement of Western intelligence services.
Kathy Ruemmler and “Uncle Jeffrey”: Top Lawyer Goldman Sachs Lawyer, and Former White House Counsel to President Barack Obama, Announces Resignation
February 12th, 2026Via: AP:
Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer at storied investment bank Goldman Sachs (GS) and former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, announced her resignation Thursday, after emails between her and Jeffrey Epstein showed a close relationship where she described him as an “older brother” and downplayed his sex crimes.
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While Ruemmler has called Epstein a “monster” in recent statements, she had a much different relationship with Epstein before he was arrested a second time for sex crimes in 2019 and later killed himself in a Manhattan jail. Ruemmler called Epstein “Uncle Jeffrey” in emails and said she adored him.
