March 15, 2026

04b Theory and Analysis

Originally published March 6, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence AdvisorSubscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!”Isaiah 10:1-2

“Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.”Nahum 1:15

The DNC-CCP has a news war machine now openly inciting violence with clearly untruthful declarations. It does so in a coordinated manner that reflects the will and purpose of the DNC-CCP.

They hide between the claim they are the free press, but laws already exist on the books that they are clearly violating, laws which prohibit the DNC-CCP news war machine from being a content marketer for a political party (without disclosing it) using terroristic threats and incitements of violence to do so.

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971 prohibits campaign advertising that is not labeled campaign advertising. There is a press exemption that excludes news stories, commentaries or editorials if the publisher is not owned/controlled by a candidate, party, or committee. As it is recognized as a potential loophole for abusers, the FEC does have some power to determine whether this is actual journalism and not a disguised political ad.

The Communications Act of 1934 has sections that requires broadcast publishers to disclose all sponsorships, political or otherwise. Broadcasters must maintain records available for public inspections disclosing those sponsorships. This affects TV, cable, satellite TV, radio, and satellite radio.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has some power to regulate advertising, though it mostly uses this power to regulate commercial advertising. Yet the power to act against political advertising is not explicitly forbidden. This power comes through Section 4 of the FTC Act on Native Advertising.

Under Brandeburg v. Ohio, 1969, SCOTUS established a precedent for the limits on government to restrict speech that is deemed as “inciting” in nature. The key framework is the speech must be “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and must also “likely… incite or produce such action.”

In 18 U.S.C. § 1038 (False Information and Hoaxes), spreading false information with the intent to incite violence is a criminal offense. Each penalty includes fines and usually up to 5 years in prison, but longer sentences are not prohibited.

This provision is mostly intended to target claims of terrorist or WMD attacks, such as claiming the Federal government was sending out Nazis to round up brown-skinned Americans.

These laws have been on the books for some time, available to every Department of Justice going back at least to the Nixon administration. Yet, every year since these laws have been on the books the corporate media became increasingly overtly partisan.

As media companies were absorbed, the partisanship became more pronounced. It has now come to the point that is apparent to the casual outsider that their narratives are coordinated between the corporate media outlets and the Democrat party. If this were proven to be true, many corporate media executives, journalists, and talking heads would face years in prison, as they justly should.

Today, 6 major companies control 90% of the news signal, and that number is headed to 5 soon enough with the announced merger of Paramount with Warner Bros. Discovery.

Today, these corporate news outlets have become, in part, disinformation war machines executing a brutal psychological war on American citizens, with the only major pushback coming in the form of lawsuits, mostly (with some exceptions) by the most powerful. President Trump has made media companies pay him millions for their intentional agit prop campaigns aimed at destroying his Presidency, again and again and again.

They represent Progmerica, a nation born from within us, starting in 1913, with the creation of the foundation that would build their nation, the creation of the income tax, the death of state legislative elections of the Senate, and the creation of the Federal Reserve.

With these three entities, using American language, but with changed terms, they built their Empire within, using tools that allowed them to circumvent the slow republican machine. They could appeal to the masses with emotional campaigns, promising them the moon but offering them only slavery (which they will blame on their adversaries).

They could create Wilson’s dream, a Democracy that rubber stands the true power, the regulator class, the “deep state” you’ve heard so much about.

We do understand Progmerica began as a pejorative, but nonetheless, the pejorative is accurate. Progmerica is the metastasizing Progressive parasite within America that began semi-officially in 1913. They are not Americans, but their rise depended entirely on American power to do so. The “merican” is the dead host body of America, the Prog is the parasite within now poking its head out of the corpse, becoming the new head of the new parasite nation.

Politicians are there to write vaguely-termed legislation that can be “adapted” on the fly by regulators, a power this writer presumes no founding father would approve of, an Empire of policy writers, bureaucrats, who themselves relied on corporate sponsorship and approval to rise to the ranks to be one of them someday.

Of course, it’s more complex than what I’m describing, but my description captures the overall reality of the system that has emerged since Wilson’s Hive.

These past few years, that Hive has come VERY CLOSE to fully transforming America to Progmerica, the fundamental transformation Barack Obama promised in 2008 to those who understood the dog whistle.

Their nation, however, without the American bones, will quickly dissolve into the Soviet, with no name attributed to the now-soulless land at all. It was Americanism that was allowing your profitless system to continue as long as it has so far.

Where lies are not censored, truth thrives. This is the secret power of America, not its diversity, its ability to unite disparate groups willing to let lies live to be silenced by truth alone, even when the lies are directed at themselves (something the conservatives are still not fully prepared to live out).

Just recently, the death of the Ayatollah Khamenei has revealed the seditious nature of a press whose spirit aligns with Progmerica. To the progressive, a powerful America is more of a threat to their global utopian fantasy than a powerful Ayatollah Khamenei will ever be. Within their country, the press is loyal and patriotic, but within America, they are quislings no longer hiding their treason.

Whatever you feel about America’s involvement in Iran or its support of Israel, you would not mourn the death of a bloodthirsty tyrant who only recently oversaw the slaughter of tens of thousands of his own citizens for daring to want to throw the shackles of his regime off.

If you hate America so much that you love the Ayatollah, you might be a Progmerican. The DNC 6 (the corporate media) chose violence, they chose the Ayatollah. They practically lauded this murderer-rapist. They chose to portray him as an avuncular character well-loved by his people. They knowingly spread misinformation intended to embolden the terror cells we know for a fact already exist, both Iranian and Progmerican ones.

They are reinforcing the sense of injustice in the hearts of killers who already want to murder Americans, and they are doing this intentionally. They want murder. They want chaos. They want to stop Trump. They want to finish America off once and for good.

The laws are there already to prosecute these traitors on multiple fronts. The discovery such investigations could yield will also get these corporate Progmericans life in prison (or worse), for this writer believes the connection between the DNC 6 and the CCP will be overwhelming. The depth of collusion between the CCP and our “American” (Progmerican) corporations will one day infuriate and grieve this nation.

The dilemma in Iran for the Americans and Israelis is figuring out how much of Iran’s military power you want to debase. If you leave them defenseless, you bring American soldiers to Iran, and nobody wants that. There would be no support for such an action. Therefore, the Trump administration must decide how much power to keep intact for the next regime, the next (hopefully) American-friendly regime.

This is the same dilemma Trump faces when he looks at the great sociocultural-engineering power built by Progmerica all around him. He has confidence his team will win, Trumpmerica will triumph, and if they destroy too much of Progmerica’s power, they might be defenseless against the next threat.

This, I believe, is why he is protecting the Epstein network from rightful accountability. This, also, is why I believe he is NOT using the laws on the books to dismantle the DNC-CCP’s agit prop “news” machine, because he wants to replace it, not kill it.

The merger of Paramount with Warner Discovery will put a Trump supporter in the seat of power of one of the remaining 5, but that 1 is not American, he is a Trumpian, for Americans would wish to see the whole system dismantled, the info-terrorists brought to justice, and their assets sold to Americans.

This could be done, today, if Trump didn’t want to preserve the sociocultural engineering agit prop news power for himself, or at least for his “progeny.”

Since its inception, the printed word as “news” has been used intentionally often to knowingly spread misinformation to incite violence against their enemies or raise soldiers for their cause. Our American journalistic tradition starts in England, during the English Civil War, when pamphleteers fired off sensationalist stories that the writers most likely knew were false or were based on the rumors that supported their cause.

Wherever there is news, there is some degree of deceptive content marketing going on, so governing news, in general, is difficult, until it gets so obvious that talking heads are on tv news shows telling their viewers Trump will re-enslave black people if he’s elected.

We’re supposed to believe the person(s) who said that didn’t know this wasn’t true. We’re supposed to believe that person(s) didn’t know such a statement would incite violence.

The bar to prove intentional dissemination of obviously false information should be very high. It should be so high that more people will get away with doing this than the people who would be successfully prosecuted for it.

Proving intent to incite violence should be equally difficult for the state, but not impossible. In some instance, intent is prima fasci, like telling listeners ICE agents are Nazis after ICE agents have been ambushed and attacked by terror cells (which are now including children).

If we get out of here alive, so to speak, “history” will marvel in horror at the level of psychological terror inflicted on the American people by their own corporations. Yet as horrible as that has been, and continues to be, what has been going on in state schools for children is far, far worse, and crosses over into war crime territory.

Telling white children their parents are the devil, and they now have sin skins is pure unadulterated evil, and many state agents, “teachers” deliver this terrorist assault on children every day, paid by taxpayers to do so.

If the motivation wasn’t evil from the start, the phenomenon of majorityism would be taught as a universal human problem, not an exclusively white one, as these teachers deceptively tell their children (to the detriment of that child’s psycho-social well-being).

But I will save that for another day.

In light of this reality, I am asking our readers to make it a habit to take in news from multiple sources. I aggregate news and archive blurbs, along with the ones I write, on mindfulintelligence.news. We analyze and write from an Americanist Christian perspective.

We speak in prophetic language, meaning we seek to unveil sterile terms to reveal the depravity these terms really conceal. Isaiah, Ezekial, and Jeremiah are our plumblines. For instance, we often call the DNC the DNC-CCP because, in spirit and most likely materially, these two factions are working together even as they also hope one day to be the hegemon of the same dream, ecumenical socialism.

You can go to mindfulintelligence.news and use the search to get an aggregate sample of news from the DNC 6, independent media, global media, regional global media, and conservative corporate media.

As surely as the Apostle Paul lauded the Bereans for checking his words against scripture, so I would ask you to never assume any news outlet, including ours, is speaking infallible truth. Do not take our word for anything until you’ve stewarded that belief for yourself. Be a Berean with the news.

In the midst of the aggregates alone, can one hope to find truth in today’s agit-prop heavy news environment.

The DNC has far more in common with the CCP than it does America (which members of this faction routinely call Nazi, Fascist, or dog whistles of white supremacism. BOTH are existentially threatened by Americanism, and both are most likely working to vanquish their common enemy, America.

“Dog Whistle” in the mouth of a Progmerican itself is a dog whistle for gnostic truth, truth based on the status of the individual, not the context of the individual’s truth claims within observable reality.

President Trump is not willing to end the deep state power because he wants to preserve it. He’s not brave enough to be called an American and he’s doesn’t hate America enough to be called a Progressive.

He is a liminal figure who has created space to change what was (An America slowly being taken over from within by Progmericans) to something new. That new thing can STILL BE to pivot to full-on Progressivism. Yet it can also change to an America restored and fulfilled or it can follow the Trumpmerican path he’s set us on (America-lite, which will collapse into full-on Progmericanism soon enough).

He can be the delay to the “inevitable takeover” by the progressives or he can be the path to full-on fulfillment of America’s promise.

Trump’s election, his power, represents indecision, a hedging of bets on the Progmerican emergent plan, but not a complete rejection of it. Let us hope there are far more of us Americans than there are Progmericans and Trumpmericans, for failure to restore and fulfill our republic will ultimately end in the disintegration of our unity and the rise of competing tyrant kingdoms desperately racing to build the one AI machine that will control them all.

America’s greatness is in her future potential to consistently live out her self-stewardship standards, not in her past struggles, failures, and even her successes. Failure to reach that potential will result in the failure of the American project.

So long as the news war machines continue to whir and spew disinformation campaigns intended to demoralize Americans, infuriate Progmericans, and incite violence in general, our future remains in grave doubt. Handing that power over to Trumpmerica will not save or fulfill America, it will only assure America is never fulfilled.

Blurb:

When Vice President J.D. Vance addressed the Munich Security Conference in February 2025, he delivered a blunt critique: Europe had retreated from fundamental values like free speech, pursued decades of progressive policies that eroded strength, and left the continent too weak to robustly defend the West. European leaders dismissed his criticism as “absurd” and “not acceptable.”

Yet the war against Iran has underscored Vance’s point.

The European Union has long-standing grievances against Tehran: decades of terrorism on European soil. Tehran has also taken numerous European visitors as hostages over the years, using them as leverage to extract concessions such as prisoner swaps, debt repayments, and asset releases. A striking example is the case of British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained in 2016 and was only freed in 2022 after the UK government repaid a long-standing debt of nearly £400 million.

Facing this persistent threat, Europe had a clear opportunity to unite with allies against a common foe. Instead, major nations delivered lackluster, divided responses — slow, sidelined, or obstructive.

Blurb:

In new book, gender studies professor says it’s time to abolish these labels

“Sexual identity” labels should be abolished because they “harm trans people” in their dating and sex lives, a UC Riverside professor argues in a new book.

Brandon Robinson, a professor of sociology, gender, and sexuality studies, wrote the book “Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom” based on interviews with men who identify as women (“trans women and trans femmes — trans people who identify with a feminine gender expression”) and their Reddit conversations about dating and sex.

The book documents these individuals’ experiences in “the bedroom,” “restaurants,” “dating apps,” and other typical dating spaces, and the discrimination that they often face, according to Robinson.

“… dominant understandings of sexual identities—which center desires around gender and genitals—harm trans people. They also limit how everyone can love and feel pleasure,” according to the book description.

Blurb:

There is little doubt in Washington that AI is a powerful technology that will help determine which country rules the 21st century. Policymakers from the Hill to the White House have made U.S. AI leadership a priority and invested significant resources towards staying ahead of competitors. Yet the United States is at perhaps greater risk than ever before of losing the broader global technology competition.

Despite growing investment in AI, U.S. policymakers have failed to prepare for its convergence with biotechnology, a fusion that will define economic and national power in the coming decades. While competitors are building coordinated AI-bio ecosystems, the U.S. biodata (biological data) environment remains fragmented, underfunded, and insecure. Without a federally led effort to build AI-ready biodata as national infrastructure, the United States risks ceding leadership in both AI and biotechnology at a critical moment.

The Strategic Importance of the AI-Biotechnology Nexus

Compute, talent, and capital are necessary for AI-enabled biotechnology, but biodata is the binding constraint. Without large, representative, and interoperable biological datasets, AI models cannot generalize, scale, or translate into real-world impact.

Originally published Feb 27, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence AdvisorSubscribe to get weekly issues.

STAFF

“Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.”Psalm 119:97-104

INTRODUCTION

This is not a full analysis of world events, but rather an analysis of bellwether events, regions, trends, and countries that tell the overarching story of the world in February 2026.

Our analysis is from an Americanist perspective, nested within our Christian belief system, using prophetic language.

The bellwether story of all bellwether stories ecumenically is the battle for the heart of governance in the land we currently call the United States of America. That story pits the Progmerican faction against the Trump faction, with the Progmericans wanting to replace individual liberty with social justice, and the Trump faction not fully understanding what true Americanism is (it’s not merely prosperity and military might).

Every nation in the world that is able to has its hands up America’s skirt, attempting to manipulate her towards their preferred outcomes. All of them have one thing in common, a need to see the American project end.

The rise of AI as the new world power defining resource has made Americanism even more of a liability to the nations of the world than it already was, especially now that America’s closest allies, Britian, Australia, and Canada, have all fallen to anti-American projects. Britain’s Gorton and Denton by-election gave the Islamist-courting Green Party a decisive win over both Reform and Labour, a sure sign the road back to western civilization will be a long one for our former closest ally.

The need for states to move rapidly in their AI machine building is what makes Americanism so dangerous, for it slows down the state more than any other existing project. The stories of the past month have only made that reality of power clearer.

A. AMERICA

  1. INSURRECTION -The symbol of the DNC’s hatred for America, and its true alienation from it, was crystalized in President Trump’s SOTU address, when he asked them to stand for Americans over illegal aliens. Afterwards, one Democrat accused the President of racism for even DARING to ask American politicians to stand for Americans over illegal aliens.

The open rebellion of the President is seen in the old guard’s former priest of culture, the celebrity, like Robert DeNiro, who openly calls for Americans to revolt (he’s really only talking to Progmericans, for Americans find him to be a stench in the land).

But the Democrats are still doing real damage beyond rhetoric, especially in Virginia where they hope to take guns, wealth, free thought, and the unborn in a bid to fully convert Virginia over to Progmerica.

More chilling though, might be the news that the FISA court (the de facto Star Chamber Court, a constitutional violation in and of itself), has selected Biden’s former disinformation lawyer to advise them on surveillance.

GO DEEPER ON DNC INSURRECTION

  1. EPSTEIN FILES – As we cover in our Bellwether of the month, (pg. 2), the Epstein Files saga is not going away, despite President Trump’s best efforts to make that happen. With more foreign countries arresting Epstein conspirators, Americans are wondering when we are going to see arrests. The DOJ recently backtracked a bit from its claim that the Epstein File releases were over. Now, they claim they MIGHT have been mistaken, there may be more files to release after all.

As a side note, BoingBoing’s headline for the news Larry Summers has resigned after showing up in the Epstein Files shows you their hierarchy of sin. In their hierarchy, being racist is worst than being a pedophile. Their headline read “Larry Summers used racist language in message to Epstein.”

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  1. 2026 ELECTIONS – So far, the 2026 midterm elections do not look good for the GOP. Even in Texas, DNC early voting in their primaries is outpacing Republicans. The racist anti-American “firebrand” Jasmine Crocket is leading that DNC primary by double digits.

The gerrymandering wars have mostly been won by the DNC, with Virginia hoping the people deliver what would be a decisive gerrymandering victory.

While President Trump has hinted he might make ID mandatory for U.S. elections, one doubts he’ll have the courts to back him. The Republicans continue to hold rearguard protection of the DNC in the Senate, with their own majority leader refusing to act decisively, to force an oral filibuster that would ultimately force the DNC to break and allow for the passage of this vital legislation.

Failure to pass the legislation, or failure for Trump to triumph in the courts should he use an executive order, will most likely result in at least a DNC House majority, which will assure more rounds of impeachments, subpoenas, etc.

The one bright note is two republicans currently lead the polling in the California gubernatorial race.

GO DEEPER ON THE 2026 ELECTIONS

  1. DEPORTATIONS – The lawlessness of the DNC and its pathological hatred for America can be seen in its zeal for using violence, directly through paid and organized street fighters, and indirectly through agit prop campaigns orchestrated by DNC-controlled-aligned media.

The SOTU crystalized that alignment, not just in the stand for Americans moment, but for the fact that one democrat, Ilhan Omar, brought one of the street fighters to the SOTU (who was promptly arrested for alleged documented attacks on ICE agents). Another Democrat, Seth Moulton, brought an illegal alien to the SOTU, and then helped that illegal alien evade law enforcement.

The violent rhetoric of the press, left unchecked by the DOJ, is the real driver of the violence, that and the foreign money that is helping to fund this de facto DNC street army.

We are watching the expansion of the deportation operations and the growth of deportation centers with growing skepticism. A report soon on the full extent of the operation and its plans going forward might be forthcoming should events warrant it (and we suspect they will).

GO DEEPER ON TRUMP DEPORTATIONS

B. WORLD

  1. OUR NEIGHBORS – America is becoming more and more isolated from its neighbors at home and Europe abroad. Mexico and Canada are taking increasingly oppositional views to the U.S. on the world stage, while Mexico actively works to subvert us. Mexico itself is under siege as the cartels move aggressively to punish the Mexican government for killing one of their top generals.
  2. JAPAN – After their last parliamentary election, Japan is positioning itself to be a partner with America as a beacon of liberty, or perhaps one day the sole beacon. If America stays American, Japan will become America’s closest ally, at least until Britian can reclaim herself.
  3. ISRAEL – Trump ended the Gaza War, though his Board of Peace has failed to gain ground from any noted power in the West, a further testament to the gulf growing between Americans in general and the West as well. Though in the West, pro-American factions, or at least American-aligned factions (like Restore Britian), could change the conditions in a hurry should they ever throw off the shackles of the global leftist world order.
  4. UKRAINE – The Ukraine War is most likely headed for continuation, despite more promises and more talks that we suspect will fizzle to nothing. Neither side is reserved in their total war approach to the other, and neither side has the strength to decisively move the other. With Ukraine abutting against central European nations like Slovakia, risk of the war’s expansion remains high.
  5. IRAN – There are almost daily unsubstantiated reports of resistance in Iran to the current regime. China and Russia have maneuvered to protect Iran, a key geopolitical partner for both of them in the region. Trump has moved military assets into the region but has yet to pull the trigger. Some reports suggest America simply lacks the military power to do the job OR the presence of Chinese and Russian assets alone is deterring them, as they are not wishing to risk a dramatic escalation of the war.
  6. AGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN – On Thursday night, February 26, the Taliban of Afghanistan began a massive offensive campaign against Pakistani border positions along the Durand Line. Pakistan has returned with airstrikes on Taliban leadership targets, hitting military posts, headquarters, and ammunition depots. Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has declared “open war” with the Taliban.

Unsubstantiated rumors have claimed the Taliban leader has been killed. Accurate casualty numbers on both sides are not currently available, though the potential numbers could, for both sides, be in the hundreds.

  1. MYANMAR – We make a quick note of Myanmar here, though we intend on visiting it in more detail soon (perhaps even as a special supplement). As of now the Junta is now calling its first parliament after elections that we have little detail on (other than skepticism of its legitimacy). It now has a veneer of legitimacy it didn’t have before. This will surely adversely affect the resistance to the former junta’s now quasi-legitimate government.

C. CULTURE

  1. ABORTION – Life saw a victory in Puerto Rico where state law now recognizes the unborn as being individuals, human beings, but across the country death marches on. In Virginia, the DNC-controlled state is now pushing for abortion up to birth. The last election cycle they painted people who claimed Democrats want abortion up to birth as being misogynists using disinformation to scare people into supporting them. Now they want Virginians to cosign the bloody contract.

The unborn child murder pill is still readily available, even as more cases of men murdering their own unborn without the mother’s consent pile up.

Abortion continues to be an unrepentant sin of America that accounts for maybe a third of the DNC’s real political power. Without it, they would never win an election in a white majority state again. The white woman of “choice” is the backbone of the Democrat Party.

GO DEEPER ON ABORTION WATCH

  1. EUTHANASIA – Canada appears to be ground zero for the emergence and spreading of Euthanasia laws, laws that allow doctors to murder patients for an increasing variety of reasons. We all understand what euthanasia really is, eugenics, weeding out the liabilities by nudging them towards suicide.

Canada is exposing the spirit of euthanasia as it takes hold of institutions. The incentive to drive people to suicide grows as the profits rise and the expenses go down. In Canada, we have cases of families claiming their loved one was manipulated into killing themselves. The families themselves were isolated from the patient to allow the suicide groomers to do their work.

They’re now considering euthanasia for babies, euthanizing children without parental consent, and are already expanding the reasons to approve state-assisted suicide. For instance, seasonal affective disorder is enough to grant you the “right” to have a doctor murder you, for the good of the whole.

Canada herself is becoming a petri dish of the leftist global order virus. Her ruination will be a caution to us all, though she still has hope in her. She may one day soon return to the family of man. For now, she has chosen the anti-human path of the leftist global order, death.

GO DEEPER ON EUTHANASIA WATCH

  1. TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY – The phenomenon of a spike in transgender violence at the extreme of mass killer violence continues, with the most recent trans shooter, Blue Zeke Daly, 26, failing mercifully in their attempt to murder a U.S. border patrol agent. Yet outside of this extreme violence category, there appears to be no uptick in violence from the transgender community.

The transgendered expression itself is a challenge to Americanism. First, it assaults our liberty with “trans rights,” which is really coerced acceptance and coerced cultural framing to favor their reality over the binary sex reality; Second, it challenges Americans to extend to the transgendered individual an opportunity to demonstrate their Americanism without being classified outside of it because of the social group they belong to.

Transgenderism as an expression is not anti-American, but the forced framing of a transgendered reality on a binary people, along with the forced acceptance of and participation in that transgendered expression IS anti-American. This is the transgender ideology, which is a key part of DNC-CCP power that can be leveled against Americanism in the name of being “kind.”

Even if they are a minority, there ARE transgendered Americans. Not all transgendered people are transgendered ideologues, and most transgender ideologs are NOT transgendered themselves.

GO DEEPER ON TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY

  1. DEI/ESG – On the surface, it appears DEI is in retreat, but mostly because of President Trump’s pen, not through longer-lasting legislation to follow up on favorable SCOTUS rulings. More companies are ditching DEI, though Democrats have threatened that those who comply with Trump’s wishes, demands, will face potential criminal prosecution should they return to power.

The recent Vanguard settlement with Texas that will see the investment firm drop its ESG demands might be a more lasting victory than Trump’s XOs will prove to be. If the Dems gain back the White House, will Vanguard executives be arrested?

We suspect DEI is dead not because corporations developed an American conscience, but because of the AI arms race. Whatever power holds this land, Progmerica or America, either one needs excellent people to develop excellent AI. DEI was designed to clog up the institutions, to bring America down. But now the AI arms race will force the Progmericans to jettison the program just as surely as they have been quietly preparing, we believe, to jettison the global warming monster.

California Governor Gavin Newsome, whose state embraced DEI early and often, became the poster boy for the true pandering and patronizing nature of DEI to the communities it alleges to favor, the POC (people of color). He told a black audience that he was just like them, he scored low on his SAT’s and he “can’t read.”

Were the corporate press merely American alone, Gavin Newsome’s career would be done after this. The corporate media barely covered it, for Gavin is a possible 2028 Presidential contender.

GO DEEPER ON DEI

D. TARIFFS STRUCK DOWN

The Supreme Court Ruling that struck down much of President Trump’s tariffs under the emergency claim has sent the markets into a volatile state, though overall the markets continue to grow. Expect a full report on the Tariff ruling and the fallout from it in the next issue of MIA (March 6, 2026).

Overall, the world markets are trending generally upward, but with mostly modest growth reported. The tariff ruling is seen as an overall plus for markets by policy experts. What it means in the war between America and the leftist global order, however, might be another matter altogether.

The emergence and rapid evolution of AI is also changing world market parameters in ways that have yet to be fully realized. It is a process we are tracking, but there is not enough data for us to analyze it fully.

GO DEEPER ON TRUMP TARIFFS

E. AI

The pitfalls and opportunities of AI were highlighted this month. China tried to use ChatGPT to destroy the current Prime Minister of Japan’s reputation at home. The plan failed, but it is still noteworthy they tried.

More and more people are beginning to realize AI is humanity’s latest greatest challenge. Can the species survive the invention of AI? While a growing number of voices call for AI’s destruction, we doubt there is any real chance to do that. Slowing down AI’s development would require global power alone, never mind the power needed to stop it altogether.

As militaries seek to integrate with AI, the “ethics” of the AI they choose is essential to sustaining the military culture they hope to sustain. We see this friction with Anthropic, which is getting a rebuff from the military over its ethics parameters, which favor a leftist globalist order framing. Anthropic seems ready to jettison the safeguard, should the military wish to reconsider.

Data center plans are conflicting with local interests, and the battles are only going to heat up. One data center requires as much as 900 acres of land and uses more water daily than many small towns do. While technologies are emerging that might significantly reduce resource demand, for the foreseeable future, the push for those who are capable to build massively and quickly continues.

Countries with less individual rights offer great advantage over countries with more individual rights, though AI companies in the U.S. who might be tempted to build overseas where it’s easier to invade local stewardship, must consider their vulnerability to that same state that made their destruction of local wellbeing so easy in the first place.

We do not believe we are using hyperbole when we say EVERYONE who is able should be learning the principles of AI, AI structure, its physical components, and how to manage it as a resource.

One way or another, AI will touch your life, and if it touches your life as a digital pope, you are in danger of becoming its machine. If it touches you as a machine that you understand and can visualize (I visualize data centers and cooling pools intentionally when I interact with AI), it remains your machine.

Being grounded in yourself is more important than ever, lest you become the AI’s machine. For some of us, that grounding comes through our daily immersion in scripture. Our story is in that total story, not in the atomized presence of the now where AI machines become digital popes.

SYNTHESIS SUMMARY

Be sure to read our quarterly sitrep in our April 10, 2026, issue for our Predictive Analysis for the next quarter.

The world is in the last death throes of the old-world order, the U.S. pax, and is now entering uncertain world orders. Despite attempts to claw back the broken American pax by leftist global order disciples, including U.S. politicians, there is little doubt at this point that even a post-Trump world is incapable of returning to that now broken order.

The current major hotspots of the world, Ukraine, Iran, and now possibly Pakistan-Afghanistan, can quickly be joined by numerous potential hotspots, from the Koreas to Mexico (whose already in a near civil war state as it is.

While AI rises, the battle that began before its rise, the battle over global order versus nation-state order, is coming to its near-completion. Britain might be the bellwether of that battle, with the rise of the British nation-state disciples through Restore Britain serving as the opposition to overwhelming leftist global order power. How Britian goes may determine how the other nation-states go.

America, however, is uniquely positioned to both preserve the nation-state over the global order while undermining the ethnic essentialism found in most nation-state models today, including Britain, Japan, and Turkey, to name a few (which is nearly EVERY nation state).

Every aspect of human life in one way, shape, or form, is (or soon will be), confronted with a new human paradigm, AI in the wild, at the consumer level. In our quarterly sitrep, we will offer our predictions on the immediate worlds that will come because of both the potential in AI and the hearts of the people who build, maintain, and utilize its services.

We cannot stress to our readers enough the importance of grounding yourselves in a script, whether it’s the Vedas or scripture, whatever aligns with your current beliefs. The people who are without a cosmic narrative outside of creation itself are the most at risk to be subsumed by the rising AI spirit in the land.

If you don’t want to be absorbed, become self-stewarded in your beliefs and preferences, and anchor that stewardship in the script of those beliefs. For most of our staff, we choose the Protestant canon of scripture. Whatever you choose though, beginning daily meditating on that script today.

Originally published Feb 27, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence AdvisorSubscribe to get weekly issues.

By Bill Collier, Publisher

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”Romans 12:2

“… but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.”2 Kings 16:3

“I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.”John 17:14-16

ED. NOTE: In the beginning of this month, we did a Bellwether DeepDive on the Epstein Files data dump from the Department of Justice. This story is also our Bellwether story of the month. Our Publisher, Bill Collier, did a Bellwether DeepDive on the Epstein Files that challenges the Trump Administration’s current approach to this real scandal and provides a personally-experienced behind-the-curtains view at the backroom reality of the bloody winner-take-all “sport” of American politics. That view might dictate what we might see next in the Epstein Files saga.

In light of the recent  wanna-be Trump assassin’s alleged motivation coming from Trump’s handling of the Epstein Files, this Bellwether Deepdive is even more timely.

An emerging Bellwether story is SCOTUS’ Tariff rulings and the fallout from that. Expect an analysis of that fallout in an upcoming issue of MIA.

INTRODUCTION

Regardless of being guilty of crimes or not, the utter degeneracy of the “ruling class” in the US and the UK as revealed in the “Epstein files” is being exposed.

The depths of the cover-up are not a surprise to me. What is a surprise is how much has been revealed despite what appears to be a continuous effort to block the total truth from seeing the light of day.

If you think YOUR favorite leaders or your Party is innocent and only “they” are guilty, then you are part of the cover-up.

I do not expect justice. I am not sure this will bring anyone down because both sides are at once weaponizing this to take down the OTHERS while claiming virtue for themselves. If the masses on a non-partisan basis were to unite around accountability for all and transparency, then I would say we may see some kind of justice.

As it is, unless someone is easy prey for political gain to take them down by one side or the other, nobody will face justice.

The corruption may even include partisanship on the part of some of these victims who are decrying the current administration without decrying the previous one, aiming their anger only at the Republicans, while refusing to name any names. In other words, even the public known victims are refusing to reveal the truth they know.

If the victims actually drop the politics and just name names, regardless of whose ox gets gored, that could be substantive in regard to getting some justice.

It does appear that a significant portion of Epstein’s friends and co-conspirators in his many schemes (many of which would be considered legal but unethical, outside of the sex stuff) are Democratic party big shots and Uber rich leftists.

But who knows what tomorrow brings in terms of revelations, because Epstein was “smart” and seemed to maintain relationships with people on the right, also, including Steve Bannon, who, full disclosure, I know and have worked for and with, including when he was in the White House. I am not going to dish on Steve (or attempt to defend him), as it is not at all relevant to this mess he seems to be in with the public.

This connection, however, gives me a perspective that is relevant to what I see in the Epstein Files themselves.

A. THE HALLS OF POWER

My intention here is to show you how easy it is to become connected to evil without ever knowing it. It is also to show you, in part, how the most powerful operate, and what those who want some of that power have to do to share in some of that power.

My work in consultation, digital promotions/marketing, and research puts me in the company of MANY such persons as Bannon, who I always got along with. I am not their colleague, I’m not even their “ally.” I am just a bit player and a workhorse to them, nothing or no-one of consequence.

Some of the people I have also known or worked with or for are in those files behaving in ways that were certainly not known to me and, near as I can tell, my name never came up with anyone in an email.

As for Epstein, I would have avoided him like the plague if I had been offered a chance to meet him. I have on many occasions refused to meet with or be introduced to certain people I find detestable. But the nature of my work puts me within the orbit of a lot of people, some of whom turn out to be bad people.

In my own experiences being sort of like a fly on the wall barely being noticed while still needing to be in the room to do my job, I have never been “trusted” enough to be privy to any secret goings on connected to Jeffrey Epstein. In other words, just because I am sometimes “in the room” as an occasional bit player in a drama that has little to do with me, doesn’t mean I know much of anything about these people beyond the project I am working on. This is probably the case of MOST of the people mentioned in the Epstein Files (though this is speculation).

  1. HOW I GOT HERE – A little background about me is necessary here.

I have been engaged this political online work ever since 2008. I did sales, ran a few little local newspapers, became an insurance agent, did market research, was a youth pastor, and even did flea markets up until 2008 when I got back more heavily into politics. It was the rise of Obama and the push for single-payer healthcare that brought me in as an activist.

I became noticed when I worked with my mentor and friend Ralph, running the then largest social conservative activist site, Team Sarah, under the aegis of the Susan B. Anthony list.

After that, I started come into the orbit of such people after being involved in the Dontgo movement and breaking news on Nancy Pelosi’s conspiracies in Texas and California to profit from wind farms and a water scheme, all with T. Boone Pickens.

In the 2008 election cycle the powers that be took notice of me. I was flown places, all expenses covered by the host, to interact and sometimes train activists and citizen journalists. A lot of the people I met back then remain friends and many have risen in the ranks, hence why I know a lot of people, on both sides of the aisle, in politics. At the time, I had absolutely no idea some of the people I was interacting with would prove to an evil most of us find hard to comprehend.

I have seen good and bad. To me, politics was basically High School on steroids, for bigger stakes if you can become a cool kid. Of course, it was much worse, only I didn’t understand that at the time. This should color your understanding of my environment. I have not seen any criminal or ethical violations that would compel me to report someone, beyond doing background vetting (where I have sometimes had to report a crime).

I have played a role in vindicating innocent people and in exposing corruption, often seeing my work used without crediting me, and being thankful for that! I often say, “please don’t publicly acknowledge me, my pay is thanks enough” (publicity would have also impeded my work).

Through this, I want to convey that I have enough insights into the power structures, popping into and out of the presence of key players as a fly on the wall, to be able to say that things are pretty gnarly in our politics, in BOTH parties.

It is only germane because I happen to have engaged personally with some of these people in these files and this gives me a different perspective than the average person. But it would still be the Epstein Files that opened my eyes to the levels of horror that was mercifully concealed from me.

  1. MY CONTEXT IN VIEWING THE EPSTEIN FILES – Seeing these emails closed the loop for me on some things that I thought were not as they seemed. I play small ball but sometimes must engage those who play at the top and to whom I am little more than background noise. But even with such a tenuous level of access I see the degradation of leadership and of integrity in our political institutions and I now suspect much worse is yet to be exposed by these Epstein Files.

Again, my work often puts me in the room with people from most of the existing factions from time to time. It is not unusual for me to find myself working with a major player out of the blue, and then, after doing our shared thing, never hear from that person again.

The fact Epstein has connections in all the factions and was seen as an asset or vehicle to access by many does not surprise me. He wanted his hands in everything, and his fingers in every pie, and it appears he was the consummate influence peddler for whom such access was not only a drug in and of itself but a shield of protection, probably for decades.

That some of the people I know or knew occasionally, as a background bit player, had some sort of connection to Epstein who was the ultimate access king, is not a shocking surprise in general, but it was still an unsettling surprise. That this is being exposed is the surprise (one I welcome and want more of).

  1. STEVEN BANNON – Steve Bannon may be one of those liminal figures. The mentions of him don’t fully condemn him, but they potentially indict him. Regardless of what you think of him, I suspect his engaging with Epstein was simply being at the table with as many people as possible. Epstein was a center of power that almost everyone seemed to be drawn to (if not almost everyone, a significant portion of powerful players).

I strongly doubt there were ever any “sex things” in Bannon’s orbit, though what’s being questioned is how much he tolerated powerful people, like Epstein, that he KNEW were engaging in child sex acts, or “sex things.”

The things Bannon said about Epstein were not good, but ingratiation for access is a common thing, and one may believe with good cause that what Bannon was doing was little more than saying what Epstein wanted to hear to gain access. The question remains, was he gaining access to take him down or gaining access to pull from his power? Unfortunately for Bannon, there is no clear answer for that outside of his denial (which isn’t sufficient in and of itself).

This is not to suggest Bannon was acting in evil, but no evidence clearly exonerates him or indicts him. As I know him personally, it is naturally for me to NOT WANT to believe he was acting in a spirit of enabling evil. I would still be shocked if it were affirmed that he was acting in a spirit of enabling evil rather than deception to get in to destroy Epstein. For now, I assume he was acting with good intentions but reserve the possibility he wasn’t.

One may also come to other conclusions and take every word at face value but having been privy to how the influence and access game is played, I doubt Bannon was communicating truthfully. Nothing in my interactions with him would suggest otherwise, but anecdotal evidence is not objective evidence.

Bannon is a case study of either how merely rising in power in America will get you inadvertently connected to dark forces whether you want to or not, or how men of integrity starting out can make small compromises that end up leading to essentially enabling child rape and murder.

Suspecting the systemic evil in the halls of power causes one to question whether one should ever enter it. I believe, though, good men and women should be compelled to enter it, but not without understanding the cost of engagement, potentially being confronted with a choice between power (and maybe just self-preservation) and defying evil.

B. BEING IN THE EARTH BUT NOT OF IT

Politics is access and influence. If you can access the true shot-callers, you can influence them, and that is the path to becoming a player yourself. It is a game I understand but do not choose to play beyond doing my job and promoting my services on their merit.

If you work in politics long enough you will live to see people you worked with (including people you’ve worked with for years) be exposed for things you were certainly not privy to. This is probably why in all these things I have never ever been investigated for anything related to anyone I have worked with or for who was investigated.

Despite knowing the reality I live in, the nature of the people I deal with (which, when it comes to degeneracy, is rarely detected before the exposure), I, of course, have no intention to stop my work as I can still do GOOD things for the cause of liberty and sometimes even nudge things a bit here and there.

I have always seen my work as sort of trying to slow the flood so the people can get to safety. At the same time, I preach self-sufficiency and self-reliance with local family and friends and independence from the influence and control of the existing power structures as much as possible.

The truth may never be known by any of us, unless and until we all agree to drop the weaponizing of this mess to game elections and advance our party or our team. There are good and bad people in this system, but we must seek the exposure of the bad people no matter who they are or how much our side might be hurt if they are exposed.

When I do candidate and client vetting, I often say that if I find a crime or severely unethical things and must report them by law, I will not hesitate, so “before I hit the big red button and start vetting you, do you want to reconsider?”

A few have had to change their plans after I discovered something unethical but not illegal, but at least once legal action followed.

I’ll probably be doing research projects for the midterms, including vetting and opposition or corporate research projects. I believe if in 2007 I had been asked to vet or do opposition or corporate research on Epstein, I would probably have found enough to justify an investigation. I have found things that have sunk major candidates, which I cannot disclose. This fact alone causes me pause when I learn of the depth of the relations had with men and women who regularly investigate potential allies and enemies.

Because I understand the political game of influence and access, I can find the connections people don’t want found. So, it seems to me that Epstein and his orbiters were never seriously looked into by anyone like me and/or things were suppressed and covered up, things that might have alerted someone to investigate them for crimes.

Epstein could not have operated his access influence schemes, which enabled the deeper sex crimes against women and children, WITHOUT some form of protection from on high.

Against this backdrop, knowing what I knew, Donald Trump has more than once suggested the Epstein Files were nothing but a hoax, but I can clearly see now the systemic abuse and coverup that occurred thanks to BOTH political parties (let the historians determine which party enabled and protected Epstein the both).

C. DONALD TRUMP’S VIETNAM?

The Epstein Files are becoming an albatross about President Trump’s neck in the same way that the War in Vietnam became a cancer on Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency. Johnson never made it out of the Presidential primary.

Right now, the Trump administration has, to put it mildly, royally screwed the pooch on this whole thing, which is becoming a debacle and is tainting Trump’s reputation for “draining the swamp.” No prosecutions, arrests, or justice, have come, despite Kash Patel’s early promise. At this point, this has become, to many, a slap in the face. Whether or not the base will become demoralized or even turn on Trump in the polls remains to be seen, but it is an increasing possibility.

Were the left not so committed to an anti-American ethos (that places the social status of the individual above the individual’s own meritorious claims), this could have been an issue that united us. I know amongst Republicans and conservatives there is growing discontent and anger over the failure to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Claims President Trump partook directly in the evil have minimal credibility, but not none. Still, the most “credible claims” seem to be unsubstantiated anonymous claims coming from an FBI tipline. That tipline was filled with many wild, unsubstantiated accusations not just against Trump but others as well.

But this isn’t, for now, about the right’s suspicion Trump is guilty of partaking in the evil, it’s about the right’s suspicion Trump believes he must protect evil to protect American stability.

Trump should shift gears and go whole hog on this to expose whoever has dirty hands at any level, but especially to imprison those who trafficked in or utilized sex slaves, including adults but especially children, or who murdered and consumed them, as this was the alleged the fate of some of the victims.

If Trump wants to drain the swamp, now is the time; this is the smoking gun needed, and the fact he both views this as a distraction and a hoax and that his people, Bondi and Patel, continue to try to minimize exposure and redact names and details, is not helpful to the country.

Trump can do this without putting the brakes on anything else he is trying the accomplish. But Trump’s only strategy is to gain a position where success is totally guaranteed before he acts, as with Iran so with this. He is risk averse at times, especially when he may suffer loss. This delayed response and his inability to use every tool available to him comes from wanting to be almost 100% certain of success before acting. This the charitable take. The uncharitable take is he’d rather protect evil than risk destroying America’s international reputation.

Trump’s supporters may be forgiven if after years of lawfare against him they have grace over his hesitation in this matter but the time for grace is gone, in my opinion, because too much evil is being covered up.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

Spiritually speaking, I see this as a warning and an opportunity. It is an opportunity to unite as one People to demand justice and to want to expose all corruption and punish or at least shun and shame the bad people. It is a warning that God will punish the land for protecting such evil because the blood of the innocent cries out to Him for justice.

I am leaning toward the latter. Trump’s base will probably stick with him and downplay things as he has, and insist he is still going to drain the swamp. The left will downplay any democrats involved while taking the slightest hint or most outlandish false accusation to engage in lawfare and insist all republicans are pedophiles and all democrats are saints. I suspect the right will do the same to the left as well.

Indeed, the behavior of the latter informs the behavior of the former! Republicans know the courts will drop the hammer on any republicans without proof and likewise protect the democrats and even refuse to allow them to be prosecuted, which is established as fact in my mind. Just look at the corruption of the courts trying to protect gang members from deportation or the bad injunctions and insane ramblings of leftist and uniparty judges.

For Trump to fully engage in exposure and prosecution entails great risk. If a democrat is exposed, the courts will most likely protect them (but not always). If a false accusation is used by some DA to nail a republican, the courts will go most likely along with the lawfare.

As a Christian I have faith in God, in His justice, and so I would take that risk and do all I could to expose everything on everyone, regardless of party, and appeal to the American people when the courts engage in one-sided lawfare against republicans and protection of democrats. I would do what is right and make my appeal to Heaven for justice, because God is going to act against uneven scales of justice only if the right thing is done in the first place.

If Trump does not take the risk and do the right thing, going whole hog against those who were part of Epstein’s grand conspiracy, then God will judge this land for protecting evil and to avenge the innocent. If Trump goes whole hog this will be an invitation and appeal to heaven for justice and God will act to avenge the innocent without judging the whole land.

It is that simple for me. I have been close enough to the “beast” to know it’s real. I will NOT be gaslight into believing otherwise. The Vietnam War is immoral, and it is lost. Face the facts. Surrender. Release the Epstein Files, unredacted where it protects the perpetrators. This is the same as saying “bring our boys home.”

FURTHER RESOURCES:

Jeffrey Epstein: Names in the Dark – Inside the Unsealed Case Files – Boris Petrovic

Filthy Rich – The Jeffrey Epstein Story – James Patterson

Dead Men Don’t Talk: The Epstein Files – Campaign Justice

 

 

Blurb:

Recent developments in the Middle East, including U.S. military actions against Iranian targets and reported damage to key export infrastructure like Kharg Island, have once again drawn attention to the vulnerability of global energy supplies.

Iran’s threats to fire on tankers trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz have created an insurance crisis for shippers, forcing oil prices to rise. At the same time, Iranian attacks on Qatar’s LNG infrastructure led the world’s second largest exporter to suspend production.

A new analysis from Enverus Intelligence Research finds that these events introduce a significant risk premium to oil prices, with Brent crude potentially facing an additional $10 to $15 per barrel if disruptions escalate. The firm’s baseline forecast had Brent at around $63, but prolonged instability in the region could push prices higher as markets price in supply concerns. Given that the Brent price had already risen by more than $9/bbl as of Tuesday, this seems a conservative projection unless the situation is quickly resolved.

Blurb:

Editor’s Note: Ambassador (retired) Robert Ford served at the American Embassy in Algeria during that country’s civil war in the 1990s, and later for nearly five years in the Coalition Provisional Authority and then the American Embassy in Iraq after the U.S. invasion. He was U.S. Ambassador to Syria from 2011 to 2014 from the beginning of the Arab Spring into the civil war.

By Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow, Middle East Perspectives Project

The Trump administration has given a litany of reasons for launching a war on Iran in conjunction with Israel, from degrading Iran’s ballistic missile programs and further damaging nuclear sites bombed last June to sinking the Iranian navy.

Blurb:

Jeffrey Epstein was not a lone predator. He was an intelligence asset whose network reached into the highest levels of American and British power, and the just-released files barely scratch the surface.

Frank Wright lays out the case: Epstein’s rise through Leslie Wexner (who claimed to be possessed by a “dybbuk”), his connections to Harvard academics, billionaire Zionist donors, Clinton associates, and members of the Trump administration. The question is not who visited an island. The question is why an entire ruling class protected a known operative for decades — and why President Donald Trump resisted releasing the files that name his own friends.

Blurb:

If voter ID requirements truly threaten civil rights, it follows that many other civil rights are also threatened. Identification is needed throughout American society, including for transportation, accommodation, and housing — historical battlegrounds for civil rights.

The SAVE America Act would require documented proof of citizenship for voter registration and photo identification for voting in federal elections.  President Trump and Republicans support the legislation, and Americans overwhelmingly support voter ID, which is at the heart of the measure.  Democrats, on the other hand, overwhelmingly oppose the SAVE America Act and, by implication, the election integrity requirements it would implement.

Blurb:

Most observers predicted the recent Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling striking down President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs; however, the decision raises new doubts and questions about trade with the United States for exporters from countries like South Korea. This explainer discusses what the recent ruling means for trade between South Korea and the United States and how South Korea may respond to relations with the U.S. in the coming days.

Blurb:

Abortion bans will expose women giving birth to “44 to 70 times higher than the mortality risk from abortion,” according to a new study from the University of Maryland and Brown University.

The lead author, Maria Steenland, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health, claims, “Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.”

But what is the new evidence their analysis is based on?

Blurb:

Occasional California Governor Gavin Newsom, who keeps turning up anywhere but California, has continued his highly calculated descent into vulgar and insulting behavior this week. The performance still has the awkwardness of the first week of acting school. It’s like watching a character play a character, many times removed from an identifiable real person. Whatever he’s doing, he’s definitely pretending.

If you’ve missed it, Newsom is back to doing subtext-heavy locker room kneepad jokes like the one he did in Davos, and he’s bragging to audiences that he’s stupid like them, “a 960 SAT guy.” He’s playing a towel-snapper, a mean jock, not above hard words or a fist fight. His relentlessly horrible director of communications got in on the act, responding to questions from a journalist like this:

Blurb:

 

Geometric marks carved into Paleolithic tools and figurines were not random decoration. A new computational analysis shows that Ice Age humans used these repeated sequences of dots, lines, and notches to encode information.

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined more than 3,000 signs found on 260 objects dating between 34,000 and 45,000 years ago and found that the sequences follow consistent statistical patterns. Their informational structure is comparable to early proto-cuneiform tablets (some of the earliest known writing records from ancient Mesopotamia) — not because they represent spoken language, but because they share similar levels of repetition and predictability.

Blurb:

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. President Donald Trump is positioning the largest naval and air forces with submarines off the coast of Iran—in the Persian Gulf, in the Mediterranean, in the Red Sea—that we’ve seen since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. And there are pros and cons about striking Iran.

We’re not at war with them right now, so this is what we would call either a preventive war, long-term threat, or a preemptive war, that there’s a short-term threat that has to be precluded by the use of force.

Originally published Feb 20, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence AdvisorSubscribe to get weekly issues.

By Bill Collier, Publisher

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” – Matthew 5:43-48

“And he answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.’” – Luke 10:12

  1. NOTE: Satan wants us to hate the sinner, not the sin. God calls us to ONLY to hate the sin. In the wake of yet another mass shooting by a transgendered person, the temptation to vilify and demonize this whole group of people, transgendered people, is strong. The temptation to make the transgendered person the enemy, the “other” is strong as well.

But transgendered people are human beings, all with the image of God within them, all as sacred to God as non-trans people are. Our publisher, Bill Collier, shares a few thoughts on being a good neighbor to whoever the “other” is in your life. In this case, the “other” might become the transgendered person. Should you fall for this temptation from Satan, your list of “others” is only sure to grow, as Satan designed it.

Violent psychotics appear in every era, in every society under different psychosis, from religious fanatics to anarchists. Now, we are seeing climate alarmist fanatics, neo-Nazis, Islamists, and, especially more recently, trans extremist wackos.

Religion doesn’t make people psychotic.

Concern for the environment isn’t psychotic.

Islam as a religion doesn’t make people psychotic.

Neo–Nazism IS psychotic: there are no good neo-Nazis.

But trans people aren’t inherently psychotic.

I think people who have a propensity toward psychosis pick something as a cause. Right now, people who would likely have been psychotics for another reason are on the trans bandwagon, their
vehicle of power.”

The radical trans ideology is, in my opinion and estimation, a close cousin and “gateway drug” to transhumanism, which is as maleficent as Nazism or Stalinism.

We used to use the term “trans sexual” for people who believed they were the opposite sex to their biology. They didn’t try and force anyone to speak a certain way, to use their preferred pronouns, or to affirm them in any way.

Back in the 80s, in MY experience, trans sexual people were treated like anyone else. You weren’t compelled to call a man a woman, but you were expected to be polite and respectful. You were expected to not judge them as a human being, even if you disagreed with their life choices or their beliefs. In the 80s, the spirit of “mind your own business” was still strong in the American street.

Of course, there were the truly intolerant, the people who preyed on difference as a sport. The transgendered person was an easy target for them, though they didn’t get much support for their actions. They also suffered little consequence other than social disassociation.

In the late 80s, a dear friend of mine had AIDS. He was treated as a pariah by his own family, and many of his friends. He was dying in a hospice with few visitors. When someone did visit, they wouldn’t hug him, wouldn’t eat with him.

My Mother and I were the last two people regularly visiting him. We already knew AIDS was not as contagious as people feared, so we happily hugged him and ate with him. He was a homosexual. He was a family friend. That latter point weighed far more than the former point did. Back then, I was a Christian as I still am today. He understood clearly that I did not approve of his lifestyle, but I was still his friend, and he was mine.

Near the end, I was able to give him a gospel message, and in the last few weeks of his life he became a Christian like me. My time with him in those last few months was precious, and through him I learned a lot about myself, life, and my God, for it was not my stone heart, but my heart of flesh, that compelled me through God’s love to follow God’s commands, to love your neighbor, even your enemy, as yourself.

It was in spite of me that God blessed this man through me, just as surely as it will be in spite of you that you will do the same, if you haven’t already (and most of you probably have similar stories to tell).

While my friend had to face people rejecting him, people being bigoted towards him (and far beyond committing “micro-aggressions”), he also had us. And most of my friends back then were like us. It was OK to say you believe in certain things and disagree with others, but when it comes to doing life together, you still had to be decent and kind to everyone. The spirit of “mind your own business” was still strong in these American streets.

Being transgendered doesn’t make you a trans ideologue. THIS is where the psychosis comes from, NOT from transgenderism in and of itself. The trans ideology imposes conformity, celebrates transness and vilifies “cis-gendered” people (which is 95 plus percent of humanity). The trans ideology, not transgenderism, is as psychotic as Nazism, and has the same outcome, it produces serial killers, people who shoot up schools, churches, and even hockey games.

Their vision for society could not happen without canceling the entirety of the Judeo-Christian way of life and civilizational paradigm. It would mean the corrupting of children as official policy in every school. It is mentally destabilizing and dangerous.

Transgendered people do not necessarily embrace the current extremist version of trans ideology (especially not the older ones), but when they do, they become ticking time bombs. Just as people feared all gays would give them AIDS, now people fear all transgendered people will become violently deranged and shoot the place up.

The response from the Trans Ideologues to credible concerns about the ideology has been to accuse people of being bigots, transphobes, worthy of economic assassination, for even expressing concern at this growing violent trend (on the margins of extreme violence, but not overall). These accusations are tiring, and only serve at this point to harden hearts against ALL transgendered people.

If you truly hated transgendered people, you’d want the Trans Ideologues to continue to respond to critique just the way they have, knowing they are winning converts over to your own dark ideology of unrighteous and anti-American hate.

Their reactions make it appear to be more of a cover-up and a way to shame people rather than a good faith effort to address the underlying fears.

It is a denial of reality to say that back in the 80s gay people weren’t more likely to get AIDS, and that getting AIDS was most likely a death sentence; therefore, it was not paranoia or bigotry that led Americans to believe AIDS was something to avoid.

People had a legitimate fear that they might catch this. It was irrational when it became “all gays” and when people thought merely shaking someone’s hand or hugging a person could give you AIDS. It became more and more irrational as evidence piled up showing AIDS wasn’t so contagious, and as treatment for AIDS became more effective.

As a sidenote, we do understand the dark history of the “development” of treatment for AIDS and how it ties to Dr. Anthony Fauci, but we’ll save that rabbit hole for another time.

It is also a denial of reality to say that the extremist version of trans ideology doesn’t exist, and that transgendered people are NOT more drawn to it than anyone else. It is not transphobic to acknowledge this ideology causes real harm, which includes leading trans ideologues to target heterosexuals, especially kids, for assassination.

That fear becomes irrational, and maybe transphobic, when you start to think every trans person is out to kill you, or even that EVERY trans person is a trans ideologue (not even the majority are) or that EVERY trans person is psychotic (crime statistics, outside of the extreme category of mass murder, do not back up such claims).

Some ideologies are inherently evil, like Nazism and Communism. There are no good nazis or communists. But there are good transgendered people. There are good religious people. I mean good in an American sense, not in a Christian sense (in that sense, none of us are good, Psalm 53).

The modern trans ideology being pushed by the corporate world, entertainment, and education institutions, and by every HR department, is inherently evil, but it isn’t the predominant ideology of transgendered people. There are far more “cis-gendered” adherents to this ideology than transgendered ones.

I think a perfect litmus test is to ask someone if they think people who refuse to use alternative pronouns should be canceled or even punished by the law. Anyone who says yes to that might just be a ticking time bomb and a real danger you need to avoid.

If someone cannot simply agree that there are only two natural genders and all else is a social construct, they are on the spectrum toward the trans ideology and could become a danger to society.

Most transgendered people are not trying to force you to comply with their alternative ideas on sex, sexuality, and gender, they just want you to respect their beliefs and treat them as a human being. Seeing another transgendered shooting should not be the basis for hating transgendered people any more than watching Roots, a mini-series about the REAL hell of American slavery, should make you hate all white people.

We should be aware that some ideologies are inherently dangerous but also, we should be aware that radical ideologies that may champion a group are rarely ever followed by most people in that group. Some versions of Christian Nationalism, for instance, claim to champion Christianity but most all Christians reject these ideologies.

Unless you want to outlaw my dissent from the idea that gender can be a social construct, I’m fine with you being what you see as your authentic self. If you act in that ideological militancy, I’m just going to avoid you and consider you a potential hazard to others.

In times of upheaval, the fear of the other winning leads us to make our neighbors (the transgendered person) our enemies (the trans ideologue), and our enemies an “other” we are exempt from loving, exempt from still seeing as humans.

Be wise, be awake, carry two swords, but remember to love your neighbor as yourself, even if they’re your enemy. If we can resist the temptation Satan has set before us, to lead us to hate the whole of humanity by first hating our transgendered neighbors, we as a people can get through this dark valley to the other side, where dry bones will come to life and our land will be revitalized with hope.

The transgendered person has become a bellwether for our own hate, our own love. What comes next will follow as a result of the spirit we allow this time to create for us. Love breaks the cycle of violence, hatred of the other (not hatred of sin, which is good and righteous) keeps it going.

Let us love in truth, not hate in fear.

Originally published Feb 13, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence AdvisorSubscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“… the state cannot take authority over men that God himself has chosen not to. Free will must be preserved lest you be spitting into the face of God.” – Paul Gordon Collier

“Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx’s Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism…. I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.”James Traficant, former Democrat U.S. representative, one of the last American Democrats to serve in congress (maybe Senator John Fetterman of PA is the last?)

I had originally planned on listening to the “competing” Halftime Shows of this year’s Superbowl, the championship game of America’s premiere professional sport, football, and that sports’ premiere football league, the NFL (National Football League).

My original intention was to analyze the content of each performance, with the TPUSA halftime show taking up the space of “America” and the Bad Bunny OFFICIAL halftime show representing Progmerica (which the NFL also represents).

The fact that the Bad Bunny songs were all in Spanish made that last part a bit of a challenge. The fact that, even if you remove the political context completely, I have no interest to listen to the types of music being played in either halftime show, sealed my decision. I could not bring myself to watch the totality of either show. Therefore, I won’t be talking too specifically about the content of each show, but rather about the bellwether elements of both shows as they represent the zeitgeist of America today.

First of all, right from the start, the felt NEED for conservatives to have their own halftime show reveals the existential divide in this land between those who embrace the progressive nation and those who refuse to bend their knee to it.

The NFL highlighted that divide, as they have done again and again, by having TWO “national” anthems, one for the POC (Person of Color, the High Priests of Progmerica, the progressive nation) and one for the country they hate, the American nation.

They performed the American anthem not because they wanted to, but because they had to. They understand that Progmerica has risen from within America, that it has hijacked America’s symbols and terminology, and converted them into something wholly and completely unamerican, though Progmerica cannot as of yet stand on its own until the legal definition of America changes (and they’re working on that).

The word racism is the bellwether of their tactics. It is a word that is born from America’s rightly felt guilt for sub humanizing the African race and allowing them to be legally bought and sold as property. It is a word that helped us understand the nature of our sin, our willingness to sub humanize the other, and conquer the possible fatal flaw of our constitution, that it began with a wild hypocrisy.

As a matter of fact, our ideal of the divine right of self-stewardship is what made American slavery so vicious. Having a principle that protected ALL HUMANS from the tyranny of the state that JUSTIFIES that state’s very authority meant either slavery had to die, or the black man had to become a gorilla, or worse (anything but human).

The NFL has taken to use its space as political agit prop, and the Superbowl was no exception, though thankfully the NFL’s most violent slogan wasn’t used, “End Racism.” Instead, they chose the Motte in opposition to rounding up illegal aliens with “Choose Love” and “It Takes All of Us,” leaving out the violent looting Bailey, the fact that those who support the illegal aliens do so at the expense of their neighbors, who aren’t’ given a choice as to whether or not they want to sacrifice their wealth (and their lives, in many instances, especially the lives of their children) for the benefit of foreigners.

They are not advocating love, they are using the word love in replacement of what they REALLY support, CONQUEST. This is the punishment of the haves at the benefit of the have-nots, with the ultimate haves being WHITE American citizens, and the have nots being the poor POC from the “Global South,” their new victim class shield they’ve been developing these last few years.

Yet those slogans were nowhere near as bad as the slogan “End Racism” if you understand how the NFL terms racism. This bears taking a bit of a detour before we get back to our main point, because it clarifies the spirit of the NFL even better than the Superbowl Halftime show did (it also helps explain how an “American” institution could make such anti-American choices).

I asked Grok how the NFL defines racism, and in that answer Grok revealed it’s just as racist in its assumptions as the NFL is. Grok summarized its report to me with this paragraph:

“The NFL aligns its stance with recognizing both individual prejudice and systemic/institutional forms of racism, as seen in condemnations of discriminatory practices (e.g., hiring biases, racial tropes, or policies disadvantaging Black players/employees). This mirrors broader contemporary understandings (e.g., post-2020 dictionary updates emphasizing systemic oppression and power imbalances), but the league frames it through commitments to equality, inclusion, diversity, and anti-discrimination policies rather than a precise dictionary-style definition.”

I asked Grok what the definition of racism is post-2020, and it revealed dictionary definitions that don’t go as far as progressive definitions, but most of these definitions prepare the ground for them. They also don’t contradict the progressive definitions.

The closest they come to the progressive definition is in Merriam-Webster, which makes “racism” social, not individual, calling it “the systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of another.” That definition is JUST about where the progressive definition is, the one that would be used by Progmerica.

Grok did tell me, “The prevailing definition of racism in major American dictionaries today (as of February 2026) emphasizes both individual beliefs/prejudice and systemic or institutional aspects, reflecting updates made around 2020 in response to evolving usage.”

Let’s make this clear, this isn’t evolving usage, it’s nudging. The dictionaries aren’t reflective of common usage, they’re reflecting Academia’s WILL for common usage. They’re engaging in political information terrorist action intended to overthrow America’s justification for existence, INDIVIDUAL justice, not SOCIAL justice.

There is no individual racism definition in the progressive lexicon. Grok’s answer on what the progressive academic definition of racism is reveals EXACTLY what racism is to Progmericans, living while being white.

Grok wrote, “The prevailing definition of racism in progressive academic scholarship – particularly in fields like sociology, education, critical race theory (CRT), ethnic studies, and anti-racism activism-centers on racism as a systemic phenomenon rather than merely individual prejudice or hatred. This view, dominant since the late 20th century and especially post-2010s in progressive circles, often frames racism through variations of ‘prejudice plus power’ (or ‘power + prejudice,’ sometimes stylized as R = P + P) …

Racism requires the combination of such prejudice with social, institutional, or structural power to enforce it systemically, resulting in oppression, unequal outcomes, and advantage for the dominant racial group (typically white people in Western contexts) …

It is a system of advantage/oppression based on race, often described as a ‘white supremacy system’ or hierarchy that benefits whiteness at the expense of people of color.”

If you walk out that definition, you realize the ONLY PEOPLE CAPABLE of being racist are white people in America, and the progressive will tell you the white man can’t HELP but be racist (since they invented racism in the first place, according to Progmericans), perpetually.

When the NFL puts out that label on their endzones, “End Racism,” they are creating a violent heuristic against the white race, engaging in ACTUAL systemic racism, by sending the subtle message “End the White Race,” because, to the progressive, so long as the white race lives, so does evil.

The NFL also represents the tactic of a virus that invades a cell, clones its structures, but uses them to attack the body itself. It’s red-white-and-blue American shield remains unchanged, but the principles of the league are no longer American. The NFL was an American institution, born from American values, coopted by progressives who turned the vehicle of power that is the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, bar none, and turned it into a violent vehicle of power intended to overthrow the very country that gave birth to it.

This brings us back to the Superbowl Halftime Show.

Building an American answer to the Progmericans’ hijacked NFL (the national part is Progmerican, not American anymore) is impossible, especially because many Americans, including this writer, still enjoy NFL games (though this might be the last straw for me at this point). But building an alternative to the NFL’s halftime show is NOT impossible ESPECIALLY if you have a central rallying point, which Americans thought they did in TPUSA.

We thought we had an American rallying point in Donald Trump as well, though this writer never fully supported that assumption. TPUSA is a perfect symbol of the type of power President Trump truly represents, thin Americanism, which is no real Americanism at all.

The headliner for the TPUSA halftime show was a talent-broke has-been named Kid Rock who has revitalized his dead career making thin pandering “Murica” songs that exploit hot headlines. His songs are built to make money now and never be played again (and I doubt 50 years from now ANY of the songs he wrote in this era will be remembered by anyone).

Kid Rock contrasted against Bad Bunny, a man who has genuine fans and real talent. Bad Bunny’s music isn’t remotely my cup of tea, but my gauge of the culture is he is respected as a real talent, an innovator in his genre. Kid Rock has none of that cultural power, and justifiably so.

As a result of this halftime show, Bad Bunny has a lot of political fans now as well, like Kid Rock, people who would otherwise not like his music one iota but now see it as a social power signal that needs boosted by their public displays of fandom.

Bad Bunny put a middle finger up to America and called it “love.” He sang in Spanish to symbolize the eventual conquering of white America by the global south. He did this as an American citizen, which makes this treasonous in spirit, at the very least.  I doubt Bad Bunny understands this is essentially what he did, heuristically, for he’s more an instrument of propaganda than the actual propagandists are.

Kid Rock lied to his audience right from the start by letting them believe he was performing live when he later revealed his performance was prerecorded and parts of it were even lip-synced. Hearing snippets of his songs, I heard what I expected, cartoon-simple chord progressions designed for cliched emotional effects, with lyrics a 10-year-old child of average intelligence could write.

He didn’t create art, he created art-like structures designed to give his political supporters enough suspension of disbelief that this is an art they are purchasing because they enjoy it and not what it really is, AI-music-level quality slop they’ve purchased to own the progressives at the benefit to only Kid Rock and his bank account.

I listened to excerpts of Bad Bunny’s performance, and, while it isn’t my cup of tea, I recognize art, craft, excellence in his work I doubt I will ever see again in Kid Rock’s.

The halftime shows were competing social power signals that were followed up by pushes to sell the songs connected to the shows. Kid Rock “won” that race, allegedly, and made tens of thousands of dollars (or more) I am sure will be used to fight Progmericans (note the sarcasm I intend in this sentence).

TPUSA is leaning into the cartoon-simple Murica spirit to grift off the well-meaning Americans who somehow believe if we get more views on our low-quality halftime show we will beat the progressives. If Kid Rock outsells Bad Bunny and outranks him on the music charts, AMERICA WINS, only it doesn’t. For every TPUSA halftime show viewing, the heuristic is being sent to the viewer who saw both, Progmerica is more real than America.

As a result, America’s credibility continues to decline as young people can clearly see Progmericans offer art and Americans offer Kid Rock, only Kid Rock and TPUSA are only as American as Donald Trump, which is “just barely,” and “not enough to end Progmerica.”

While TPUSA had a stage and a few dancers with the performers, Progmerica had a grand epic stage with a cast of thousands working in complex, organized, aesthetically pleasing harmonies with one another. One was slapped together; one took months to perfect. To the young, Progmerica offers a better future.

The problem as I see it is progressivism is the default moral code of MOST PEOPLE in America, including self-identifying conservatives, and DEFINITELY among self-identifying MAGAs. The most powerful counters to Progmerica today are progressive-Americans at best. Few self-stewarded Americans have any real power in this land today.

While they intellectually value individual liberty, individual rights, they operate under social justice moralities all the time. Think of how President Trump is ready to ban ALL Somalis from coming to America because of what’s going on in Minnesota. This is social justice, not American justice.

American justice would mean we assess individuals based on their individual experiences, not their social identities. President Trump is a social justice warrior, in part, though unlike Progmericans he walks more inconsistently in that he still also genuinely acts in an American justice spirit as well, as does TPUSA.

The reason for this is few people in this country fully understand what Americanism is, why it’s being threatened as a bridging standard for diverse peoples with unity, and what might be done to restore this bridging standard. Individual liberty was justified by the shared belief that an external creator has limited the power of the state to respect that creator’s sacred creations the way the creator intended.

The sacred creations are us, and self-stewardship is what the creator endows in all of us (grants us, allows us). This is free will, this is so men come to Christ consensually in love, not as automatons responding the only way they can.

This is the heart of our unity, and without it, Progmerica is fully unbounded and unmasked, and America and all its symbols will be burned, blown up, and buried, her history erased, her people forgotten (should the Progmerican project come into full fruition).

These battling Superbowl Halftime shows reveal the paltry state of America and what Americans’ next tactics should be to attempt to stem the tide of the ready-to-burst Progmerican nation that has been gestating within us for the last 100 plus years.

Americans are un-stewarded in their beliefs and thus are unaware of the progressive spirits that guide their thoughts. Progmericans can sense the time is soon for them to fully throw off the old cell their virus hijacked, and openly declare this land their own, come what may, for they may never have the chance they have now to make that happen.

COUNT THE COST OF YOUR BELIEF! Be Self-Stewarded:

‘“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and COUNT THE COST, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’”- Luke 14:26-30

The concentration of oppositional power is currently in the hands of grifting opportunists like TPUSA and narcissistic madmen like Donald Trump, who equates American greatness with material bounty, not spiritual soundness that binds authority, so the individual does not disappear in the social.

If you agree with that assessment, then you might agree that it is time for Americans to give up the institutions (for now) they cannot duplicate, including the ones that only Progressive-infested “conservatives” can duplicate. Sponsoring the pallid progressive-American imitations only supports Progmerica in the end.

It’s time for Americans to recognize what “social justice” really means so they can understand when they hear it in the mouths of conservatives like Trump, who slips into social justice spirits all the time.

Ideally, the Holy Spirit delivers us through a great revival of the fear and love of the Lord. This miraculous delivery would preserve Americanism under the previous justification, that the state cannot take authority over men that God himself has chosen not to. Free will must be preserved lest you be spitting into the face of God.

Outside of that, our bridging standard can only be justified pragmatically, amongst competing groups that agree they will limit their efforts to make their neighbors in their own image in exchange for being allowed to openly be wrong in public space. This agreement can only be made among groups that have no mandate to use violence to win converts or punish the unbeliever. It cannot include the groups that cannot come to this agreement.

We should remove ourselves from fellowships from groups and individuals that reject our Americanism, in whole or in part (as TPUSA and Trump do) and seek out fellowships with groups and individuals brave enough to allow themselves to lose a fair war of ideas against their neighbor.

This means we simply must sacrifice our pleasures, our joys that cannot be met by Americans. This includes America’s college and NFL football entertainment, for both are now vehicles of power of Progmerica, enemies of our republic, a republic that still lives within the hearts of we remaining Americans.

We cannot give up necessities provided by Progmericans or Progressive Americans, but we CAN give up the pleasures, the joys they alone provide us.

Bad Bunny and Kid Rock are competing for personal power disguised as causal power. They are both exploiting emotions, but Bad Bunny is providing the better product because, in part, his art is aligned with his Progmerican values while Kid Rock walks in both Progmerica and America, equally, completely oblivious to his un-stewarded habits of being that operate in progressive values, not American ones.

Neither man represents the rock of Americanism, individual liberty, but the Progmericans are TRUER to themselves than the “Americans” are, and as such are bound to produce a better product. Passion alone makes them better. They are both bad rocks performing bad rock (with Kid Rock’s being far worse).

This is not to say there aren’t Americans out there producing great art reflective of self-stewarded American values, it’s only to say that these Americans have been frozen out of the top slots of entertainment power by the Progmericans on one side, and the Kid Rockians on the other side, the progressive Americans (which are BARELY American at all).

Blurb:

No AI data centers, no AI revolution.

Or to be less dramatic, slowing the buildout of these sprawling server farms will slow technical advances and the economywide spread of generative artificial intelligence, which is shaping up to be a powerful new general-purpose technology. As such, a new survey from Politico suggests Silicon Valley shouldn’t take voter tolerance for granted.

Let’s start with the good news for AI companies: Just 28 percent of 2,000 surveyed would oppose the building of a new data center in their area. That, versus 37 percent who would support construction and 28 percent who would neither support nor oppose.

Blurb:

In the wake of 9/11, the newly established Office of the Director of National Intelligence produced the nation’s first National Intelligence Strategy, a document explicitly intended to guide reforms to the intelligence community and help prevent another terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland. The challenges U.S. intelligence faces today are no less dramatic. While crises in Ukraine, Iran, and Venezuela have each been driven by their own internal logics, together they reflect profound shifts in the balance and nature of power as a new international order begins to take shape. These shifts — a more contested strategic environment; accelerating technology competition; and eroding faith in international rules, norms, and institutions — have significantly increased uncertainty in world politics and elevated the risk and potential costs of strategic surprise.

Blurb:

Reading Matt Shumer’s viral essay about artificial intelligence was like stepping back in time to roughly six years ago, when the world started going insane over Covid-19.

It hits all the same beats as those viral essays from 2020, when we were told “something big was coming” and “life will never be the same.” It is written with the same insider tone, like the author is doing us a favor by telling us how horrible life is about to become. And the intent is clearly the same: to so unsettle a population that they will begin to feel powerless in the face of what is about to come.

Originally published Feb 13, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence AdvisorSubscribe to get weekly issues.

By STAFF

The average man does not want to be free, he simply wants to be safe.” – H. L. Mencken

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”Patrick Henry

  1. NOTE: This report was completed February 12, 2026. Any major breaking updates will be covered in our next MIA issue.

INTRODUCTION

Canada was struck with the news of a mass shooting that left 8 victims dead, and scores more injured. The dead included five students from the location of the second part of the mass shooting, Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, near Vancouver, Canada.

The shooter would then turn the gun on himself.

The motive for the shooting, so far, remains unclear. The shooter, Jesse van Rootselaar, was originally reported as a female shooter, but it would later be revealed “she” was a male presenting as a female.

It might turn out the motive for the shooting had nothing to do with the shooter’s transgenderism, but we suggest you could rightly assume it had something to do with it, though we would not recommend you make that conclusion until more information comes out (which might have by the time this report is published).

For this bellwether analysis, we want to look at this event in the context of Canada’s current governing spirit. We will bracket off the motive. What we want to consider is the promise Canada has offered to Canadians, that if they lay down their arms and shut their mouths in submission to the state orthodoxy, their lives will be safe from hate. Lose your guns, lose your tongues, and you will be safer.

They gave up Christ in the public square in part to protect the very person that murdered their children.

A. THE DETAILS

On February 10, 2026, 18-year-old Jesse van Rootselaar kicked off a killing spree in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. He killed his mother and his stepbrother at his residence, with a young female relative escaping. She ran to a neighbor to seek help, who then alerted the police. The shooting happened at 2:20PM. The police did not arrive until 15 minutes later.

While the police were going to the residence, Rootselaar was on his way to the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, with a shotgun and a modified handgun. The school is a gun-free zone. There was no armed security. There were no armed teachers.

By the time the Rootselaar arrived at the school it was 2:30PM, just 10 minutes after he killed his mother and stepbrother. The shooting was reported at 2:32 PM, another team of officers arrived two minutes later. By the time the officers who were called to his residence arrived, he was already dead in the school.

Rootselaar would have just 4 minutes to do his worst. His victims were powerless to stop him. The police were also powerless to stop him. By the time they arrived, Rootselaar was already dead by suicide, but so were six others, one adult teacher and five students (three females and two males aged 12-17). Along with the dead were 27 more injured, mostly students.

The motivation for the killings is not clear, but Rootselaar has a years-long history of causing disturbances at his home, some of which involved firearms. At one point, law enforcement confiscated the weapons, but later returned them after a petition was started. The firearms do not appear to be owned by Rootselaar, however.

Rootselaar began the process of “transitioning” to a “female” four to six years ago (we have conflicting information on this point), at the age of 13. He was on anti-psychotic drugs, in addition to transitioning drugs at the time of the shooting. His transgendered status was concealed from the public as long as it could be by both the Canadian government and the international corporatist press.

While the motive is not clear, the presence of anti-psychotic drugs in the shooter has become a tragically well-earned trope of mass shootings that this event follows as well. His transgenderism as a factor is ambiguous, though one wonders if the transgender “solution” was masking a much deeper problem transitioning only made worse (as this writer suspects is happening a lot in the age of trans mania).

B. THE IMMEDIATE REPORTING

We asked Grok to give us the headlines that were immediately shared by the international corporatist press after the shooting, and Grok’s answer revealed these cherry-picked headlines:

  • CBC News: “10 dead, including suspect, following shooting in Tumbler Ridge
  • The Globe and Mail: “Ten killed, including suspect, in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.”
  • Vancouver Sun: “LIVE: Nine dead, 27 injured in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge
  • National Post: “Canada in shock after one of the country’s worst mass shootings
  • CTV News: “C. RCMP give an update in their investigation into a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge
  • BBC News: “At least seven dead after school shooting in British Columbia, Canada, police say
  • The Guardian: “Canada shooting: 10 dead including suspect in attack on Tumbler Ridge high school, police say

All of these answers provided a pretty generic telling of the event, but what Grok gave me was not indicative of the REAL spirit international corporatist media chose to operate within.

After these headlines, Grok started listing headlines acknowledging the shooter was transgendered. Grok would leave one with the impression the international corporatist media acted responsibly, with no political agenda. However, that was not reality; we believe that was programming protecting the disenfranchised class over simply answering a question truthfully.

Here are some of the headlines we found when we did time-based searches:

  • Collingwood Today – “‘Beyond devastating’: 10 dead, including female suspect, in B.C. school shooting
  • MSN – “10 dead, including female suspect, in ‘devastating’ shootings at BC school and home.”
  • MSN – “Female Identified as Suspect in Worst Canada School Shooting in Decades That Killed 10 and Injured at Least 25
  • Reuters – “Ten dead, including female suspect, after Canada school shooting – as it happened

A Royal Mounted Police officer at a press conference just after the shooting referred to the shooter as a “woman.”

C. THE BACKGROUND

We have created a special news tag in our aggregation process called “Canada Soviet” to tag all the stories that cover Canada’s lurch into authoritarianism. A trans person in Canada has more personal power as a normal private citizen than most people have in America today. A trans person in Canada cannot have their identity challenged. A trans person in Canada can destroy competition with a false accusation that won’t dare be challenged lest the challenger face hate speech charges.

You can call Christ the devil in public, but you can’t call abortion murder.

As for guns, Canada has effectively criminalized gun defense, along with most gun possessions. The shooter violated Canada’s gun laws, yet was able to accomplish his dark deed, nonetheless.

  1. LEGAL TRANS PRIVILEGE – In June of 2017 Canada introduced the now-famous bill C-16, which launched psychologist Jordan Peterson into the stratosphere as he stood as one of the few Canadians warning against the intolerance pregnant in this bill.

The bill was an amendment to Canada’s Orwellian-named Human Rights Act, which sought to limit liberty in the name of protecting the disenfranchised from being insulted in public. This amendment added “gender identity or expression” as a protected expression that ALL Canadians must comply with, regardless of whether they believed men could become women or not.

The Criminal Code already protected certain groups from what it calls “hate propaganda.” This bill added transgenders to that protected class. In other words, it de facto ennobled the transgender class as a protected class that should no longer be expected to hear opinions that invalidated their assertions that a man could become a woman, a woman could be a man, or that genders even existed at all. If they said it, you better parrot it, end stop.

In January 2022, a bill that was passed in 2021 took effect, Bill C-4. That bill made it illegal to attempt to persuade anyone, including children, that they should be heterosexual or “cis” gendered (a pejorative attempting to both vilify conventional binary gender constructions and invalidate them).

The fact that the bill included a phrase most humans would consider hate speech at this point, “cis gendered” shows the futility in allowing the state to define what “hate” is (as if hate, in and of itself, is a bad thing, unless you want to argue that hating murder is evil).

These are the two major acts, though provinces and local governments have their own “protections” for the ennobled trans class (except in the case of Alberta, which seems to be fighting back against the ennobled trans class).

ED. NOTE: While we join our readers in their concern over “trans mania,” we hold the view that some people might very well need transgender “therapy.” We also want to make it clear the evidence for the rise in trans violence is ambiguous. The majority of transgendered people should not be stigmatized by the minority ‘bad actors.’ We believe in individual justice, not social justice, and that applies to transgendered people as well.

2. ANTI-GUN LAWS – Canada has some of the strictest anti-gun laws in the nation. It began in 1995, one year before the UK began the process of surrendering their guns.

The Firearms Act of 1995 added a host of new requirements for gun ownership, which included licensing, background checks, safety training, and rules that effectively made it illegal to use your gun to defend yourself in your own home (outside of the most bizarre circumstances).

The only non-restricted weapons Canadians can currently own are bolt-action rifles and pump action shotguns. Any weapon capable of semi-automatic firing is highly restricted or prohibited altogether.

In 2022, Canada’s Bill C-21 took effect, which put a freeze on the sale, purchase, transfer, or import of handguns. It also ended ALL conceal carry for civilians, with some limited open carry allowances which basically allowed Canadians to hunt with their non-semi-automatic long guns.

While an unidentified adult in his household was legally able to possess the firearms the shooter used to kill 8 people, the shooter was not. The shooter violated multiple gun laws, appeared to use limited-action firearms (still unconfirmed), and was yet able to kill 8 people and himself in the span of 14 minutes, and that included the time it took him to get to the school from his residence.

  1. ANTI-SPEECH LAWS – During our research, we used Grok to search for Canada’s anti-speech laws. Grok began its results for me with this dystopian, unreal statement: “Freedom of expression in Canada is protected as a fundamental freedom under section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (part of the Constitution Act, 1982). This includes freedom of thought, belief, opinion, expression, and the press and other media of communication.”

What followed next was a complete disconnect from that opening statement.

Grok would “clarify,” not realizing (or being allowed to realize) that this next statement wholly invalidates the first one and makes Grok read like an Orwellian propagandist delivering the new definitions of the day and the new list of friends and enemies.

Grok “clarified,” “However, these rights are not absolute. Section 1 of the Charter allows ‘reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.’ Courts apply the Oakes test to assess such limits, requiring the objective to be pressing/substantial, the means rationally connected and minimally impairing, and the benefits outweighing the harm.”

Grok also buried the lead. In 1985, C-46 was passed, which created a new Criminal Code called “Hate Propaganda and Related Offences.” This bill was challenged in the courts where it was “validated” by their Supreme Court on numerous cases, the two key ones being R. v. Keegstra (1990) and Saskatchewan (Human Rights Commission) v. Whatcott (2013).

Here are some of the vaguer, and thus more disturbing parts of the criminal code (from Grok):

Section 319(1): Public incitement of hatred – Communicating statements in a public place that incite hatred against an identifiable group where likely to lead to a breach of the peace (up to 2 years).

Section 319(2): Wilful promotion of hatred – Communicating statements (other than in private conversation) that wilfully promote hatred against an identifiable group (up to 2 years). Defences include truth, public interest discussion, good faith religious opinion (under subsection 319(3)(b)), and good faith belief on religious grounds.

Section 319(2.1): Wilful promotion of antisemitism – Specifically condoning, denying, or downplaying the Holocaust (added in recent amendments; up to 2 years).

Had the shooter lived, he might “enjoy” the “extra” protections his ennobled class might soon receive should Bill C-9 pass. This bill hopes to remove religious exemptions from speech restrictions, as well as add new offenses for displaying hate symbols. It also seeks to eliminate the need for the Attorney General to consent to speech violation prosecutions. In other words, they want more people to be subject to their thought control, and they want to make it EASIER to prosecute them.

D. BELLWETHER ANALYSIS

  1. NOTE: This is a new feature we have created. Unlike a PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS, this type of analysis is about understanding the context of the “present,” not predicting what might come next. Unlike a SUMMARY, it is not simply a synthesis of the facts as a review, it is an analysis of the spirit of the whole event as a bellwether.

A somewhat simplistic, but mostly accurate timeline of events will show the kernel of Wokeness was most closely created by the Frankfurt School starting in the early 20s. The kernel of wokeness was born in Europe.

Under the label, “critical theory,” the notion of social justice over economic justice began to emerge. By the 60s, American leftists decided to exploit that path, having realized capitalism wasn’t going to collapse anytime soon, and, unlike their predictions, was continuing to offer greater prosperity to more people in society than communism ever did (or would).

Wokeness, long before we used the term, was infiltrating American academia, which in turn spread its wokeness to other nations. As it infiltrated direct government power, the American state began to export wokeness to the rest of the world. They offered cash to the compliant and interference (to put it mildly) to the non-compliant.

Unfortunately for Canada, they got our wokeness in spades. As our next-door neighbor, Canada was most affected by the U.S.’s new woke promotions.

In America, the battle for the spirit of the land continues, with wokeness currently taking major hits (but hardly dead). In other countries like Canada, the UK, and Australia, wokeness has ended their status as a traditional Western “democratic” power. There is no free speech in any of these lands.

Wokeness may have started in Europe, but America gave it international strength, poisoning the rest of the world with an ideology that hates its citizens. Yet, America is still holding out while the others seem to have fallen (at least for now).

Why is that? It is because America’s right to rule is based on the premise that we are endowed by an authority outside the state with certain rights, rights that enable us to define and choose our own paths to happiness and prosperity.

Canada and Australia are no longer directly under the rule of the British crown, so the monarchy does not justify their rule. For these two countries, the right to rule is from “popular sovereignty,” the approval of the people, which is just mob rule with extra steps if that is your own right to rule principle.

In Britian, the monarch is the final authority, not God, so there are no absolute restrictions on government power.

Canada, Australia, and Britain all quickly gutted the public of guns starting around the same time, the late 90s, as it became apparent that technology was beginning to advantage small-scale resistance over large-scale conquest.

After the guns fell, the tongue followed behind, in all three countries, with Canada and the UK fighting neck-and-neck to be the most Soviet western nation of them all.

Now, here Canadians sit, having been promised security in exchange for surrendering dangerous freedom but getting neither. They sit in a world in which the press and the government must lie about the basic facts of a shooter to protect a special class of people from free tongues, enslaving all, including the special class (which are now desperately dependent on the state to protect them from mean thoughts, a protection they’ve been propagandized to militantly expect).

The “security” through disarming your neighbors’ guns and tongues has made Canada fundamentally less safe than it was before. A madman grew up among them, indulged by the system, protected from reality (you have a mental illness, you’re not a girl), and medically conditioned to be predisposed to even greater psychotic breaks with reality.

While children’s bodies were yet cold, the “authorities” were doubling down on the toxic lie that this boy was a girl. They were probably more frightened of the authorities sending them to jail for violating the psychotic safe space of transgendered people than they were of anything that happened at that school.

This bellwether event shows what happens when a government is too afraid of its citizens to let them have the tools to defend their children from a 4-minute execution by a mentally ill child indulged by the same system that took Canadians’ guns away. They created the beast and they disarmed its victims.

For we Americans, this should compel us even more to resist any effort to confiscate our guns. Vast swathes of American land are occupied by Progmerican overlords who seek to do to us what Canada has done to its citizens, disarm us while they raise beasts to kill us.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

The Origins of Woke – Rochard Hanania

Woke: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology – Jon Mills

Woke Ideology Critique and Counter Proposal – Frank Kaufman, David Burgess, Christ Kenedy

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“If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the Lord speaks, that will I speak? And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days.”-

Numbers 24:13-14

INTRODUCTION

Just as we were wrapping up our monthly MIA report for January 2026, news broke that the Department of Justice had released over 3 million documents related to the massive conspiracy surrounding the now-deceased Jeffrey Epstein. This was a sort of prophetic utterance on the land from the highest echelons of power. It was meant for a curse, a curse by omission. It kept the black hole mystery alive but offered no clear justice. It keeps the land unsatisfied and unsecure.

When the Israelites were about to enter into the promised land, Balaam of Peor, a prophet of Ba’al, was enticing Israelites to worship the god that calls you to sacrifice your child. He was preparing to give a curse to the Israelites, but instead, God compelled him to give them a blessing, which he did.

Balaam’s reward was to later be killed by Joshua for the crime he committed of bringing Israelites to worship Ba’al.

The Israelites were about to enter their Promised Land, which was a Hope Exit of their time from Egyptian and Wilderness bondage when a curse was about to befall them. But that curse was turned into a blessing by the supernatural intervention of God, who was compelled to speak blessings on Israel and curses on Moab.

We Americans are about to enter our Hope Exit (hopefully) as well, as the division between American and Progmerican becomes clearer and clearer over the coming months. Just as we face this challenge, we see once again the Ba’al priests protected by the establishment. It seems they hold the high places still and they mean to protect their child-sacrificing god, come what may.

Yet, even as Balaam hoped to pronounce a curse with his mountaintop declarations, what might have been meant as a form of a curse on the land in the Epstein files release will yet be a blessing on the land, though it might be difficult to see that now.

After the releases, the partisan information warriors scampered off to their platforms and produced agit prop and content marketing condemning the other and protecting the ingroup. There were some, mostly outside of the Progmerican left (but not exclusively), that took measured wait-and-see takes, but, for the most part, Trump was exonerated or condemned, Bill Clinton was exonerated or condemned. There was little ground in between being created by the info warriors in the partisan camps.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche made the announcement, not Attorney General Pam Bondi, which might be telling in and of itself. He gave a measured statement, exclaiming these documents only represented half of the documents the government had yet not released. He claimed these files were held back because they identified victims, exposed medical files, had child pornographic images, or showed death, or showed abuse.

Right from the start he made it clear we were getting a sanitized look at the madness, which might be to our favor, but then again, it might be a demon we need to look at to see that the demon was fed by us as well. THIS might lead us to the repentance we have yet, as a nation, to experience, the repentance against our worshiping of Ba’al, the god who calls a nation to sacrifice their children to his fire.

Remember, many of the highest-level leaders of our country, in all sectors of life, were part of this child rape-murder-sacrifice-torture cabal. None, so far, have faced criminal consequence for their actions. Most of them continue to walk amongst us, our masters, dictating our terms of existence to us from behind a veil of moral supremacism concealing child sacrifice at its heart.

If it’s not them, it’s their adult children, who, by now, have most likely been initiated into the family affair, the family “business.”

These same leaders were the ones making deals with China that sold our vitality to the Chinese Communist Party for a promise of an Eldorado that would never come (the burgeoning consumer class in China that would one day dwarf America’s).

While they sold our vocations to China, at home they were browbeating us with a morality they used to justify corporate censorship and the unpersoning of the unorthodox. While they were browbeating us in public, in private, they were stealing life to satisfy Ba’al’s fire within them all, a fire that is never quenched, which is an eternal torment to the worm that never dies.

The documents were only released in what we imagine is a “minimal” adherence to a law ordering the DOJ to release the Epstein Files. The Deputy Attorney General stated, “We comply with the act, and there is no ‘protect President Trump.’ We didn’t protect or not protect anybody.”

The statement itself is a minimal affirmation of the Act, which would support our theory the DOJ “minimally” complied with the law. As for the claim they didn’t protect anyone, let us see if we find this statement to be accurate after our analysis.

It should be noted that this release was six weeks past the due date outlined in the November 19, 2025 Act signed into law by President Donald Trump.

The releases include 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The two biggest names everyone was looking for, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, failed to deliver the proverbial smoking gun, as these releases largely did (with some noted exceptions).

First, we will look at the two biggest names and what these Epstein Files say about them, then in general at who was most damaged and who escaped any serious harm, and finally we’ll analyze what this type of release tells us about the Reality of Power at the global scale, behind closed doors, where the children are most likely still being used as elixirs of youth and deification.

A. DONALD TRUMP

Shortly after the Epstein Files release, President Donald Trump told the press on Air Force One, “I didn’t see (the files) myself, but I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me, it’s the opposite of what people were hoping.”

He was referring specifically to what he alleges the Epstein Files show, a conspiracy between Jeffrey Epstein and author Michael Wolff to besmirch Trump’s name out of revenge. This charge has some suggestions through the email correspondence between Wolff and Epstein that might corroborate that claim, but there is no smoking guns affirming the claim. Trump has threatened to sue Wolff, who expressed no alleged fear at such possibility.

Progmerican Info Warriors have taken to sharing a meme that says “Donald Trump was mentioned more times in the Epstein Files than Jesus was mentioned in the Bible.” As usual, category “errors” abound in that narrative, the first of which is that one category is the Holy Word of God, and the other category is criminal child sex trafficking investigation files.

The meme itself reveals that the Progmericans have no hoped-for smoking gun from the Epstein files. The most damaging files are anonymous complaints that are filled with horrifying details. However, most of the other high-profile people, including Bill Clinton, suffer from this same circumstance.  These are mostly unsubstantiated claims by anonymous sources that were either followed up on and ruled out as uncredible or ruled out as uncredible from the start.

The “best” attack the left had was to malapropistically use Christ as a bludgeon against Trump’s presumed Christian base. Not understanding scripture at all, they had no idea such comparisons would ring hollow, especially for those who hold to the rather orthodox belief that ALL of scripture points to Christ. Where His name is not spoken, the Word yet points to Him.

It also cheapens the profundity and sacredness of scripture by comparing it to child pornographic criminal records. THIS was not by accident.

While the DOJ says Trump has been mentioned over 5,000 times in the files, Bill Clinton’s number of mentions hasn’t been released. When you do a search for Bill Clinton in the DOJ’s Epstein Files library, you get 1,230 mentions. When you do a search for Donald Trump, you get 1,478 results.

B. BILL CLINTON

Bill Clinton will find nothing even suggesting an exoneration like President Trump did in this release, nor was there a smoking gun condemning him. The evidence against him still remains circumstantial, which includes the new photos of him with Jeffrey Epstein, including some with young women, sometimes in questionable (but not obviously so) positions.

When the U.S. House Oversight Committee subpoenaed both Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary to testify under oath, the Clintons initially refused. Now, they have agreed, in principle, to testify in the face of potential criminal charges of contempt for continuing to refuse to comply to the subpoena.

Perhaps the most damaging evidence against the Clintons, in general, is Jeffrey Epstein’s deposition in 2016 when he invoked the Fifth Amendment numerous times to avoid answering questions about the nature of his involvement with Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. Outside of that, this release introduced no real new information about the Clintons and their relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.

C. THOSE MOST AFFECTED

This category excludes, of course, the ones obviously most affected from this whole operation (one probably still going on in one way, shape, or form), the victims of these little gods, the men and women consuming the future to preserve the illusion of the eternal now.

  1. KIER STARMER – The UK Prime Minister was not originally on this list, but circumstances have changed. Momentum continues to grow for the PM to resign after it was revealed Starmer KNEW about Peter Mandelson’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein BEFORE he approved of Mandelson becoming the U.S. ambassador.

His own intelligence service flagged Mandelson, but Starmer overruled the flag. The only reason this was discovered was because the second person on this list, Peter Mandelson, was exposed in the Epstein Files in a way that led British authorities to discover this fact.

  1. PETER MANDELSON – After the Epstein Files were released, Peter Mandelson was exposed as having leaked sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein that could result in criminal charges. The fallout was immediate, as Mandelson was forced to resign from the Labour Party and from the House of Lords. He had already been forced to resign as the UK ambassador to the U.S. It was the notification from the Epstein Files that Mandelson had leaked this information that led to an investigation exposing the initial flag by the intelligence community on Mandelson and Starmer’s direct override of the flag.
  2. MIROSLAV LAJCAK – Slovakia’s National Security Adviser was forced to resign after the Epstein files release revealed he had numerous parties and meetings with Epstein back in 2018. The opposition party pounced on the releases, while Lajcak claimed he had done no wrong.
  3. STEVE TISCH – The Co-owner of the New York Giants, Steve Tisch, showed up in this new batch release 400 times, and that includes emails from him using terms like “working girl” that made it highly probable he was referring to sexual activity, though not underage activity.

While the NFL has announced plans to investigate Steve Tish, so far, he hasn’t been forced to resign, nor has he offered to.

  1. BILL CLINTON – While no smoking gun was revealed in the release, they did help to fuel the House Oversight Committee’s efforts to get the Clintons to testify under oath (something they wanted to do for some time).
  2. OTHERS – Some lesser affected include Harvey Weinstein, Leon Black, Casey Wasserman, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The last one is most noteworthy, with Lutnick showing up for an Epstein Island lunch visit years after he claimed he last contacted Epstein.

ED.NOTE: We consider one Democrat hard hit by the Epstein Files release, Stacey Plaskett, a minor actor. What she has alleged to do, text Jeffrey Epstein during U.S. House hearings, indicts the system. Her removal as an actor, however, is almost inconsequential.

While Donald Trump doesn’t appear to have the clear exoneration he claims, he has taken no real damage beyond what he’s already received from his handling of the Epstein files in general.

D. WHAT’S MISSING

At the now culturally irrelevant Grammy Awards, British actor and comedian Trevor Noah made a joke about Donald Trump, saying, “That’s a Grammy that every artist wants — almost as much as Trump wants Greenland. Which makes sense because, since Epstein’s gone, he needs a new island to hang out with Bill Clinton. I told you, it’s my last year! What are you going to do about it?”

Upon hearing this, President Trump responded on Truth Social, “The host, Trevor Noah, whoever he may be, is almost as bad as Jimmy Kimmel at the Low Ratings Academy Awards. I can’t speak for Bill, but I have never been to Epstein Island, nor anywhere close, and until tonight’s false and defamatory statement, have never been accused of being there, not even by the Fake News Media. Noah, a total loser, better get his facts straight, and get them straight fast. It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty$. Ask Little George Slopadopolus and others how that all worked out. Also, ask CBS!” added Trump. “Get ready, Noah, I’m going to have some fun with you!”

This exchange right here might be the most amount of action these file releases have generated far. A far-left anti-American British citizen on an American television show to an American audience made a joke about a former and current President going to an island that is known for child rape (and probably child murder as well).

The CURRENT President responded to this jokester by threatening to sue him, demonstrating a critical unawareness of basic first amendment constitutional law, or an indifference to it. Either way, the most dramatic exchange to come after this mega-release turns out to be between an anti-American agit prop activist properly exploiting American freedom and the sitting President not properly understanding it.

What’s missing is evidence that leads to criminal prosecution for anyone, which we can only surmise includes a high proportion of leaders in all segments of society. Hundreds, if not thousands, of powerful men and women who participated in consuming children to satisfy their little god fires, are still among us, still holding social, cultural, political, and even sacred leadership and gatekeeping positions.

What’s missing is accountability, what’s missing is a transparent assurance the operation is actually shut down and is not being continued with different Epsteins and Maxwells.

E. THE CASE FOR SEEING MORE

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche let us know this release was only half of the files the DOJ still has. We suggested he complied as minimally as he thought he could get away with, and the fruit of this release suggests to us he wasn’t being truthful when he said he wasn’t protecting anyone.

We don’t presume he is protecting President Trump, or NOT protecting President Trump. We don’t presume Trump is guilty beyond turning a blind eye to something he AT LEAST should have figured out a lot sooner than he did (if he’s even guilty of that).

We don’t even suggest this for President Clinton as well. For all we know, both these men could be innocent. For all we know, both these men could be guilty of comparable crimes.

Blanche revealed the released files did not include those files that showed child pornographic images, or showed death, or showed abuse. He also cited medical records concerns and victim identities; both seem credible enough. However, those first three categories don’t, especially because sensitive areas can be blurred to at least expose the criminal, something we must assume has already been done, but led to no arrests.

As stated above, we have no idea who walks among us that is part of this Satanic cult, and the cost of shocking Americans with the awful sins of our leaders is overshadowed by the much costlier consequence of continuing to protect the criminals of Epstein Island. Protect no one, not even Donald Trump (if it’s needed at all).

Failure to let Americans see the horrifying truth will only further erode the state’s legitimacy of rule, which is already on life support as it is. Release the Kraken, come what may, for the guilty can no longer be protected if the state in its current form (officially still American) hopes to continue to exist.

SUMMARY

The Department of Justice, under the direction of Pam Bondi, did the minimum it felt it had to do to at least give the political leadership of both parties plausible deniability that yet did not remove the Epstein fangs pointed at one another.

The goal here, it would seem, was to sustain the status quo between the real competing factions. These competing main factions are Trump’s elites now hedging their bets on the China model and leaning towards an America-lite model, and the “China Model through the Woke Vehicle of Power” elites who have been the center of power until recently.

We see here King Kong versus Godzilla, fighting over our city, with the Epstein files being performative missiles shot off now and then by the city security forces, who assure us the monsters are under control. We Americans find ourselves rooting for King Kong, the American-like monster, for at least this monster won’t completely destroy our city, whereas we KNOW Godzilla wants to destroy us completely.

We have a real chance in the post-Kong victory world to fully live out our Americanism. We have little chance to fully live out our Americanism if Godzilla wins. Still, we see the monster that King Kong is clearly for ourselves, and we are not prepared to bend our knee to him anymore than we would be prepared to bend our knee to Godzilla. Or so the metaphor goes.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

The latest attempt by the Trump administration and the DNC to placate the masses without giving too much safe harbor to the enemy has served only to delay the soon-to-be louder voices demanding the real damaging files get released, come what may.

We can’t imagine anyone seriously thought this would put the Epstein files to bed, and possibly that was never the intended outcome. For as much as we want to know the full truth of the child sex ring designed to blackmail thought leaders in multiple countries, we also understand the black hole mystery that is the Epstein Files.

This black hole mystery can gobble up minds, resources, that might otherwise have discovered practical paths to blunt centralized control over human action. This is not to suggest the effort to expose the truth shouldn’t continue, but only that the continuation of this black hole mystery is not completely disadvantageous to the elites.

This is especially true of the elites who continue to be part of the blackmailers group, not the blackmailed leaders group Clinton, Trump, etc., are candidates for being in. The blackmailers have every reason for the mystery to continue, and our passion to continue to be absorbed by it, for, even as we speak, most likely they’ve long moved on to their new centers of child sacrifice.

We always allow for God’s intervention, but outside of that, this black hole mystery is set to continue at least for another year, maybe longer.

We doubt the Clinton hearings will yield much more than body language videos and montages of “I plea the Fifth,” which is assuming the hearings happen at all, something far from certain at this point. If they do, the Clintons will try to look hard and determined in the same way Hillary did during the Benghazi hearings (presaging Trump).

Trump has standardized the bluster, the WWE promotion-style savaging, which the Clintons will try to manifest in their outfits and their demeanor.

They will address the Republicans curtly, with a tinge of contempt. Bill could be a wildcard if he gets caught in a logic trap and says more than he should. The DNC criminal media will cover them with plaudits and heap shame on the Republicans daring to question their integrity.

The press will carry headlines comparing Trump’s 5K mentions to Bill’s “fewer” mentions as proof this is merely a political witch hunt. The girls at the View may offer this as proof that the Department of Justice is protecting Donald Trump by going after the Clintons to distract them from Trump, who, after all, is mentioned more

The net result will be a blunting of the Epstein Files as a uniquely Republican or Democrat problem, which is not a good overall net result for America, because it means less creators will find incentives in producing content keeping the pressure on these people to release files (since it doesn’t exclusively hurt the other faction).

On one hand this might be good if those same creators start showing their audiences how to build Americanist communities right where they live, starting in their own homes. But this seems less likely, as that type of content is not nearly as monetizable as Epstein content that eviscerates the opposing faction.

On the other hand, if this is swept under the rug, it will only embolden the elites to do more, which means more victims than ever before, for surely, they haven’t stopped Jeffrey Epstein’s work. What this means is they haven’t stopped offering children for power to the people who will still rule over us as if WE were the ones that needed THEIR moral authority for our lives to be “good.”

There is a Goldilocks zone for our engagement with this black hole mystery, and it’s not silence or indifference, nor is it where the bulk of our energies should be spent.

The blackmailers would ultimately be happy with either/or extreme, total obsession that saps restorative energies to total crickets allowing the conspiracy to operate in silence. The blackmailers prefer to see the pendulum swing wildly from the obsession extreme to the cricket extreme. This assures the blackmailed still feel threatened while also assuring the blackmailers continue to remain invisible (as they mostly still are).

A consistent, steady approach to investigating the Epstein files is what is needed amongst us Americans (see Whitney Webb), but only a handful of us.

Unless a brave whistleblower manages to get the irrefutable proof of the dark sins of our leaders, expect the black hole mystery of the Epstein Files to continue to burn, for good and for ill, against a backdrop of an America struggling to find her people amongst peoples who have long ago forgotten what America is.

Our ability to confront these sins, to bring to account the main criminals, will most likely be what finally determines if the spirit of Americanism prevails in this land or the spirit of Progmericanism, child sacrifice, prevails in this land.

The Epstein Files release has not fooled the Americans, it is only helping us to clarify whose clearly with us and whose clearly against us. In other words, the Epstein Files release is already proving to be a blessing, not the curse it was intended to be. If you are too partisan in your defense of ANY suspected politician, including Trump, we have reason to question your Americanist credentials.

Will Ba’al replace Christ, officially, as the centerpiece of the “new Progmerican republic” or will Christ remain muted under an American-lite MAGA banner, or will Christ be unbounded in a restored Americanist nation? So far, the release hasn’t had its intended results, which bodes well for the Americanists.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein – Whitney Webb

Virginia Giuffre: Epstein’s Masseuse Who Took Down the Rick – Nigel Cawthorne

Filthy Rich: The Jeffrey Epstein Story – James Patterson

Epstein: The Man Behind the Scandal – Terry Hall

Blurb:

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’m trying to make one of my haphazard appearances, depending my energy level, after all these medications they put me on, after this lung cancer surgery. But I’m here on the farm, and I’m doing my best.

I wanna talk a little bit about the open defiance of the federal government. I’ve mentioned that earlier, but when you collate everything that Attorney General of Minnesota Keith Ellison has said, Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, it’s unabashed, unapologetic, insurrectionary rhetoric.

Originally published Jan 16, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence AdvisorSubscribe to get weekly issues.

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INTRODUCTION

This is not a full analysis of world events, but rather an analysis of bellwether events, regions, trends, and countries that tell the overarching story of the world in January 2026, which is still the struggle to define the new order as the old order comes crashing down around them.

Our analysis is from an Americanist perspective, nested within our Christian belief system.

Our last Bellwether report in our December 2025 issue began with the announced resignation of Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum. This month, President Trump’s invasion of Davos marks the official death of the globalist project. This was not just done with speeches, but, leading up to Davos, with an action against Venezuela that made it clear America was playing solely in its own self-interest, not in the interest of the global order.

At home, America versus Progmerica is beginning to form, and the battle between ICE agents and Progmerican insurrectionists is clarifying that division. DNC media outlets are openly spreading provable knowable lies about ICE agents that are clearly intended (in our opinion) to incite more violence against them and their family members.

As the ICE wars rage, good economic news for the American republic is buried by this criminal press. Trump’s tariff strategy, for instance, is bringing in billions in revenue and helping to restore American industry (especially the steel industry). The news is not all good on the economic front as major companies continue to announce tens of thousands of layoffs ahead for 2026.

The inchoate state of the American republic compared to the Progmerican Empire is what has advantaged the Progmericans for a while now. Progmericanism has been smuggled in, from on top, using American words with Progmerican definitions. Americans were mostly partly Progmericans, without realizing it, so they could no longer clearly see how antithetical to American values Progressivism is.

We are beginning to see that inchoate state more clearly form as people in this land are being forced to discover the differences between Progmerican values and American ones, and, fortunately, so far, most are choosing America. Let us hope that continues and accelerates in the coming weeks and months.

This report was completed on January 29, 2026

A. AMERICA

The ICE Wars now dominate the American landscape with media outlets becoming increasingly overt in their war messaging, a war message aimed directly at the heart of the American republic. So far, no conservative leader, including President Trump, has openly called the media an information terrorist organization illegally campaigning for the Democrat Party even though it is obvious at this point what the media is doing.

This fact alone makes one question how much of the old Progmerican infrastructure this regime wants to hold on to. To us, it would seem he wants to hold on to more than we had hoped for. He wants to hold on to the potential for media power for his faction is what we suspect.

We keep getting teases of serious 2020 election investigations, and we get another tease this month after FBI agents seized the ballots and ballot records from Fulton County, GA for that election. This could be what leads to the final undoing of the DNC in America, but this writer will believe it when the DNC leadership is convicted and punished.

Should the election be proven to have been fraudulent, this would give President Trump the power to do what we have been calling him to do since 2017, declare a state of insurrection, follow that up by declaring the Democrat Party a terrorist organization, seize its assets (its media, its corporations), remove Democrats from all state institutions, including government and the schools, arrest the leaders and punish the leaders that are duly convicted (through a Rule of Law process).

The 2026 election will obviously look radically different should the 2020 election be rightly overturned. Barring that, the DNC has a better-than-average chance at retaking both the U.S. House and Senate, which would mean more terror, more chaos for Americans should that happen.

For a taste of what’s to come, look no further than New York and Virginia, where Democrats coming in to power have moved swiftly to cement Progmerica as the Rule of Law in the land over American Rule of Law.

Mayor Mamdani is already opening the coffers to illegal aliens and telling New Yorkers they need to “renegotiate their relation to the state,” and Governor Spanberger is already moving to confiscate Virginians’ guns. Progmerican Virginia is also moving to double their politicians’ pay immediately, as government grifters are wont to do.

Both seem fully committed to violating the constitution openly for as long as they can get away with it, hoping to establish Progmerican Rule of Law (social-based justice) so the final impediment to full Progmerican power, individual-based Rule of Law, becomes precedented out of existence.

A 2020 Election Overturn and the criminalization of the DNC would end their reigns, but short of that, their terms will be filled out by violence, hate, and economic disaster, leaving both the state and the city husks of their former glory.

Right now, the 2026 election looks tight, but should the economic boom happen that some think is coming, the Democrats might be struggling for an effective competing message outside of promising more murdering of babies and confiscating of guns. Their days of sinking campaigns with charges of racism and homophobia are over, they’ll have to stand on their own apocalyptic record (which will be seen in the regions in which they continue to rule).

B. WORLD

The state of the world in our December 2025 SitRep was radically different than the state of the world today. As a news analyst and aggregator (see our aggregation work at mindfulintelligence.news), never have there been more major news events happening daily in my 20-plus years of work. Stories that don’t show up in our Global Outlook reports would have been top stories in more stable times.

While everyone saw the writing on the wall, now they know for sure; unless they can topple American power, the UN project is dead. China is still desperately trying to save it, for it understands the UN is an American carburetor, an intentional impediment to her real power/

With the capture of Maduro from underneath China’s protection by the U.S., the global order was served notice.

That notice was cemented in Davos as Trump and his team continue to serve notice to the global order that America was taking its proverbial ball and heading home and also NOT heading home.

Greenland continues to serve as a Bellwether of the struggle between Europe’s hopes for moral restraint that only serves their interests and America’s hopes of having a secure homeland in the wake of weak “allies” whose values are increasingly anathema to ours.

Before the next issue, we might see TWO significant regime changes, one in China and one in Iran, though we might also see more internal violence as Xi in China and Khamenei in Iran murder their way to consolidated power (but at great cost to both nations).

In China, we could see Xi fall but the CCP still retain power, though we believe if Xi is replaced, even if by the CCP, the CCP’s hold on the country will be even more tenuous than it already is unless it makes drastic reforms that will effectively end its complete police-state power.

  1. VENEZUELA – When the United States quickly invaded Venezuela and surgically removed their President, Nicholas Maduro, China and Russia lost a potential future base and the global order lost its illusion of parity with the United States. The capture of Maduro, though, wasn’t just about shutting down what Trump is alleging is a Cartel state, it was about getting information about Maduro’s connections to the Dominion voting machines involved in counting the ballots for the 2020 election.

News of the FBI’s investigation into Fulton County Georgia’s 2020 election ballots legitimizes those claims. Since Maduro’s capture, the U.S. has received greater cooperation from the current regime, but the administration warned them recently that they need to do more or risk further punitive action.

  1. DAVOS – This was our bellwether story, which you can read about on pg. 2. Davos was the official death of the global world order and a scramble for a new one that yet contains the raw power of the United States. This could push Europe towards China, which some view as a real threat to America but we view as a gift.

What is becoming more and more apparent is that the EU’s values are increasingly becoming aligned with China’s and less aligned with America’s, though the natives on the streets would far prefer American values over Chinese, or Progmerican (they’re virtually the same at this point) values.

  1. CHINAChairman Xi has his hands full at home as conflicting reports overall suggest China’s leader has barely survived, so far, an ongoing coup attempt. He is doing so by eviscerating his top experts, including military experts, which are causing many to question the real power of China in its current state.

His second in command, Zhang Youxia, was the leader of the coup, but was captured and arrested. He hasn’t been killed yet because his father was one of the founders of the People’s Liberation Army and he is the ONLY General in the Chinese military that has EVER seen combat. He is a national treasure. Experts within China suggest he is far more popular than Xi, so simply disappearing him would be a risky move.

Even as Xi struggles at home, he continues to aggressively work against American interests, pressuring nations to continue to rely on the Old World Order, international law defined by the United Nations, a plea Europeans might be tempted to listen to, but one that further makes America’s point about how useless it has become to American interests.

If they do, this will only help America in the long-term, should Europe rise as a rival to her power. China will be to Europe what the Ottoman Empire was to the allies in World War Two, an albatross draining resources and offering little to nothing in return.

  1. IRANWhat started as a hope for the end of a bloodthirsty regime has so far turned into a slaughter that tops 30,000 dead. In our last issue, we covered the dilemma Trump has, having promised the protestors “help is on the way,” but so far not delivering that help.

An Armada is on the way, the Gerald R. Ford Carrier group, and Trump is offering the regime one last chance to negotiate a peace that does NOT include nuclear arms for Iran.

Should the regime fall, the source of the EXPLOSION of Islamist terror in the world would be gone. Russia and China would suffer a far greater geopolitical defeat with the loss of Iran than they did with Venezuela. Israel would find itself in a much more secure position, with her neighbors most likely being more inclined to normalize relations (without fear of terror sponsored by Iran from within their own nations).

  1. SOUTH KOREAIt is becoming increasingly apparent that South Korea may be viewed as a write-off for the Trump administration. The seizure of South Korea by their Democrat Party invited the CCP into the country, with the proof coming in the form of new censorship laws.

Expect U.S. troop downsizing in South Korea soon as the President just informed South Korea, they will have to fend for themselves against all conventional threats. This could be an opportunity for the CCP or another liability, another expense that could help accelerate their demise.

It goes without saying that the end of the CCP in China would make the Democrats in South Korea vulnerable to the pushback that might come their way, a pushback a new China might help rather than hinder.

  1. GAZA WAR/MIDDLE EASTThrough the Gaza Peace Deal, President Trump is hoping to start what looks increasingly like a replacement for the UN he is calling the Board of Peace. So far, many Middle East countries have joined while European ones are passing, for now. It seems there is still hope for the UN to continue (but without the U.S.) after its death was announced at Davos.

Hope for Hamas preserving power is diminishing, with even Turkey now attempting to help negotiate Hamas’ disarmament. Mahmood Abbas of the Palestinian Authority has announced Hamas would not be on the ballot.

The finality of the war was punctuated when the remains of the last Israeli hostage was returned, setting off demonstrations of grieving, relief, and celebration.

  1. UK – America’s mother country, Britain, is speed-running through the same anti-human dark ideology of Progmerica’s Democrat Party, “wokeness.” But as it is doing this, while continuing to import violent men from violent countries explicitly to inflict harm on the English devil, the English are finding themselves and realizing they still overwhelmingly outnumber the invaders.

So far, though, their commitment to remaining unarmed persists despite the clear evidence that the one country infected with wokeness that has managed to beat back its onslaught had armed citizens fully comfortable with well-armed neighbors. That country, of course, is America.

Starmer appears to be doing everything he can to further antagonize the English, even cancelling local elections because he knows his party will be gutted as a result. But it’s not just cancelling elections, it’s continuing to harass, prosecute, and arrest British citizens for saying hurty words online even as he pushes to effectively make speaking against Islam a criminal offense.

One can only imagine Starmer is not aware of his country’s own history, or that Starmer imagines the English spirit is dead. Signs point to that spirit being reignited again, especially among young boys who can see for themselves how their schools teach good things about Islam and bad things about their own country.

Rather than programming them, however, the schools are saying the quiet parts out loud, at long last, and even the children are now noticing.

As they lurch into full-on totalitarianism, Starmer is also handing over London to China, betting on an alliance with China to offset his growing antagonism to the U.S. This foreign policy is wildly unpopular with the English, as is Keir Starmer. Never has a PM been more unliked than this PM since polling began. His recent trip to Beijing yielded token reductions of a few tariffs, nothing more.

B. CULTURE

The Minneapolis Church Ambush by Don Lemon and his horde of insurrectionists crossed an American cultural line that the Democrats will not be able to walk back from so easily, especially given their reaction to the violation of private worship for violent political means (and there was violence, intimidation, and the terrorizing of children).

They compared it to Jesus turning over the tables in the Temple, not realizing what they were saying, which is that they are Jesus and the temple is theirs. THAT is the authority Christ operated in, NOT the authority of violent political insurrectionists at war with America. Not only was the temple his, HE is the temple.

They continue to own this violation as their judges protect the criminals, either by refusing to charge them or giving them a cashless bail. For now, this is to their favor, but when the dust settles, we will surely revisit the left’s efforts to normalize political violence in private places of worship. Nothing symbolizes the depth of treason in Progmericans’ hearts than their gleeful support of this thuggery.

In Progmerican states, abortions are on the rise, mostly through the unborn baby murder pill that is still being sold over the counter despite numerous health risks. Another dangerous effect of allowing anyone to buy this dangerous drug is the ease with which it can be used by others to murder unborn children they don’t want by slipping the death pill in the mother’s food or drink.

Shockingly, after JUST taking power, Progmerican Virginia wants to pass an amendment to allow the murdering of unborn children up to birth.

While euthanasia’s spread to France was halted (for now), Canada continues to relax its rules on its own euthanasia laws despite increasing evidence some people are manipulating family members to kill themselves.

C. MARKET

President Trump continues to use tariffs as geopolitical tools in much the same way they were used until the 20th century, with mixed results. On one hand, a lot of economic indicators are up, including inflation (which is down, which is an up for the economy). On the other hand, there are major layoffs coming from Amazon and UPS.

If the tariffs deliver the promised tax rebates, their popularity may be secured, and SCOTUS might have a harder time ending a program that could be shown to have powerfully positive effects for America (though the jury is still out on that).

Overall, though, signs point to an economy about to take off after a lot of first-round infrastructure work is coming online as a result of President Trump’s “Marshall Plan” for the U.S. in the form of $18 trillion in foreign investments. Even the World Bank has now taken notice and anticipates an economic acceleration.

The month ended with the finalization of the transfer of power of TikTok to primarily American interests from CCP interests. While the CCP loses its access to American data, and affecting TikTok’s algorithm, they will continue to make money they can use to fund the military they hope one day to defeat us with.

Should the CCP collapse, China’s profiting off of TikTok would most likely not be such a threat.

D. SCI-TECH

If you “Trust the Science,” you really “Trust the Ideology” says Breakthrough Institute, who claims academic journals have a strict ideological filter that allows sloppy work for the ideologically pure to get peer-reviewed. That same ideological filter blocks excellent work of the ideologically unorthodox or neutral from getting peer reviews. The findings only affirm what we could see for ourselves for decades, Progmerican “scientists” are political activists, not scientists.

The international global network may face even more challenges as “Big Social” is set to be hemmed in by parochial nationalist interests the world over, especially in growing totalitarian states like the UK (who view the free discourse of human thought as an existential threat to the power they built with the lie that the Englishman invented evil).

One great innovation done by President Trump was the insistence that America’s new AI infrastructure include power plants built right where the AI infrastructure is built. The plan is for rapid AI expansion to be fed by power outside the grid, meaning it will not be an energy tax on the land. The President has yet to address the high-water demand of AI, which is not as easy a fix as energy.

SYNTHESIS SUMMARY

Be sure to read our quarterly sitrep in our April 10, 2026, issue for our Predictive Analysis for the next quarter.

The world is only accelerating its exit from the old world and its step into the new. Even as we speak, nations are scrambling to not be left behind in the great race for AI resource control. At the heart of every enterprise, be it a microfactory or a restaurant, AI will be what separates the winners from the losers. This scales all the way up to the national level.

Davos was like a Starter Pistol to the world that the Great Race is on. The bloom of moral power is gone, replaced by killing power. For good or for ill, President Trump gave the rest of the world notice that America was beginning the race, to secure its position in the emerging world no matter the cost to others that might oppose her.

In many ways, the ICE Wars, while they present very real catastrophic outcomes that could upset what might be emerging, are the last vestiges of the old order’s power, a power now reduced to physical violence, directly, at long last, having had their moral power stripped from them in this land.

The DNC criminal media is depriving America of so much positive news, especially economic news. We are on the verge of becoming perhaps the fastest growing economy in the world while our geopolitical enemies, mainly Russia and China, are reeling from the loss of great geopolitical power in America’s hemisphere.

Overseas, we have seen the collapse of Hamas in Palestine, something normal Americans would celebrate (while not necessarily celebrating how that collapse happened), the Iranian regime tottering on the verge of collapse (which would further devastate Chinese and Russian geopolitical power). If that’s not ENOUGH GOOD NEWS, China herself potentially faces the end of the reign of the CCP.

Instead of giving Americans hope, the DNC criminal media either ignores or downplays Trump’s foreign policy victories while it barrages Americans with intentional lies designed to trigger violent action against Federal law enforcers. It holds back America’s hope while lying about its law enforcers.

Yet, even with that barrage of violent and seditious agit prop by the DNC criminal media, Americans support ICE action by a 10-point margin, a margin that surely would be 30 or more if Americans had a free corporate press. He also now holds a 9-point approval rating advantage among Hispanics.

The only hope the DNC has is its criminal press, which seems to be aggressively attempting to incite a violent civil war. At this point, though, Americans have already figured out Progressives have always wanted them dead, jailed, or economically boycotted.

What the media does not understand, what leftists do NOT understand is Americans are done with progressives. Americans are convinced they will never allow them to live in peace as Americans, that they will always riot, that they will always assassinate, that they will always seek to use authority to oppress dissent. When they cry for American Rule of Law, Americans have no real sympathy for them anymore, since they spent the last decade aggressively trying to destroy it.

You cancelled Americans. These Americans lost careers, college degrees, and fun places to hang out. You’ve been brutalizing Americans for years, and now, Americans view you as enemy combatants, not Americans, not citizens. A criminal in the process of executing a crime has no rights until he or she is detained.

Americans don’t care if ICE “violates” your rights because they view you as outlaws, insurrectionists in active war against Americans, with your intended goal of killing every American you can.

Right now, the DNC criminal media is keeping the emerging booming American economy from Americans. While this booming economy may allegedly be in the mail, it hasn’t arrived in our mailboxes yet, though signs point to that happening soon.

We will be watching the emerging 2020 Election Investigation revitalization, Iran, and China first and foremost in the coming month, as all three could fundamentally alter, once again, the geopolitical landscape in the coming weeks ahead.

Our next sitrep will be published in the February 27, 2026, issue of MIA.

Originally published Jan 16, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence AdvisorSubscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Sovereignty is your borders. You’re entitled to have borders. You shouldn’t offshore your medicine. You shouldn’t offshore your semiconductors. You shouldn’t offshore your entire industrial base and have it be hollowed out beneath you. You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation. And if you’re going to be dependent on someone, it darn well better be your best allies.”Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at WEF’s Davos 2026

INTRODUCTION

Across the world, from the U.S. to China, it seems the turmoil, the instability is only increasing. At home, the Progmericans are fighting to defend non-citizens from American law enforcement officers. In China, Chairman Xi is engaged in a bloody war to the death with some of his previously dearest friends (many of whom are now dead).

All these rumblings, however, point back to the same source, the death of the weak ruling the strong through “international order.”

The WEF has become the symbol of a global world order than began after World War II as a way for the Americans to assure they had the vast majority of the “West” strongly in their camp against their main rival, the Soviet Union. The arrangement was simple, we protect the seas and you affirm our world policy.

Abuses abounded in that relationship on both sides, but the net result is the global world order has become a fecund bed for anti-Americanism, both globally and here at home. That globalism has left America bereft of her market independence, but not bereft of her military power. The World Order that once protected America from Soviet expansion has become its own foreign-dominated entity hellbent on one singular goal, dismantle, neutralize American power.

The U.S. military budget in 2024 was almost $1 trillion. China’s military budget was $314 billion. Russia’s military budget was $149 billion. The entire EU military budget, which includes its joint efforts and the budgets of the member states was $380 billion in 2024. If you add up all the budgets of the EU, China, and Russia, you still fall short of America’s military budget. If they hope to work together, currently, they can only do that with American logistical support.

The U.S. now finds itself in the position of having the world’s greatest military, by far and away (especially at this moment with the political turmoil in China which makes ICE protests look innocuous by comparison), but constrained by a global world order that has proven to be disastrous for Americans as a whole.

This is only considering the economic damage that has been done to America; this speaks nothing about the subversive activity foreigners from the CCP to Somalia have funded and participated in on American soil, all under the programs of the global world order.

While President Trump’s speech may have been the real statement of power, the plain speak version spoken by Howard Lutnick would serve as the succinct notice to the world that the ultimate real power behind that world order, the United States, was done sustaining it.

The time is now for nations to take responsibility for themselves, and the reality of power to be known. It’s time for the paper tigers to burn and the fortresses of steel to advance, come what may, in a new global interregnum where all bets are off for what the new world order will be, if there is any world order at all.

A. THE WRITING ON THE WALL

  1. SOMALIA’S UN – Before Davos, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres intentionally or unintentionally telegraphed what was going to take place at Davos, Switzerland, the home of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.

The Secretary General could see the writing on the wall through America’s current avatar, Trump, who vowed to come into Davos as a vanquisher, not a partner.

In a meeting of the UN Security Council convened by the Somal contingency (which holds the Presidency until then end of January 2026) Guterres told his audience, “The rule of law is a cornerstone of global peace and security.”

The Secretary General said the quiet part out loud right here, without meaning to, when he declared, For smaller and less-powerful countries, particularly those affected by historical inequities and the legacies of colonialism, international law is a lifeline promising equal treatment, sovereignty, dignity and justice.”

This is the language of America’s former enemy, the Soviet Union. The agreement has come full circle so that the power it creates for the weak is being used in the same way the Soviet Union would have used it, to destroy the American republic.

This part here appeals to moral restraint alone to check great power against small power. But in the case of the UN, we have a vehicle of power that is being used by collective small power to destroy great power from within their own countries. It is only fitting that the Somalis (who sent us a Minnesota fraud community that was stealing billions from American citizens) presided over this self-own disaster of a speech.

This is like handing over the controls of a 747 to a blind man because it was his turn to fly (and that would be the “democratic” thing to do).

ED.NOTE: Somali culture goes back centuries, and some of it is rich with governance innovation the West has yet to learn, let alone understand. Somalia is the southern region of the land Somalis occupy. Somaliland to the North is radically different than the south. What we have in Minnesota is hardly the Somali peoples’ best, even in the South.

He offered a token gesture to the great powers to convince them that an arrangement that creates an imbalance of power favoring small nations over the great is somehow still good for the great. He claimed, “For powerful countries, it is a guardrail defining what is acceptable – and what is not, in times of disagreement, division and outright conflict.”

The guardrail is there to check their power against their own interest. It’s not there to help great powers.

After Davos, the weak power’s vehicle of power, the UN, and even NATO (weak Europe checking American great power), have de facto lost their reason for existing at all. The UN was an engine of peace that turned out to be an anti-American poison pill largely funded by Americans. NATO was American protection of Europe while Europe undermined Americanism.

As Europe lurched further and further away from individual liberty, the incentive for America to continue to pay for their protection ended.

While International Rule of Law seems good as a Motte, its bailey is filled with violent political papercut fights that allow petty tyrants from barely existing countries to wield international power over far greater powers.

The Secretary General warned that rule of law was being replaced by the law of the jungle, but what he didn’t dare say, or face, was the fact that the UN has enabled a de facto law of the papercut jungle to rule over great powers for the bulk of its disgraceful existence.

Standards, for instance, are not followed consistently, they’re applied to target the UN’s main enemies, America, Russia, and Israel (not necessarily in that order). This speech by the UN’s CEO was a last desperate plea to preserve corrupt weak power over great power. It appears Trump was not impressed.

  1. THE INDEPENDENCE COPE – Before Davos, President Trump’s bellicose language demanding Greenland become part of America emerged as the bellwether of the upcoming event and would ultimately prove to be the enduring bellwether of the event. Before the event, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen responded to Trump’s threats, calling them a “mistake.”

She then added, “It shows that our northern NATO members have Arctic-ready forces right now. And above all, that Arctic security can only be achieved together. And this is why the proposed additional tariffs are a mistake, especially between long-standing allies. The European Union and the United States have agreed to a trade deal last July, and in politics, and in business, a deal is a deal, and when friends shake hands, it must mean something.”

Europe rushed a few troops in for a few days, then pulled them back out in an empty display that defies the reality of power, which is this; Europe, as of right now, is more of a liability to America than an asset, and her paltry response to Trump’s shocking (even to this writer) suggestions he might use the military (which he later walked back), reveals just how little real power Europe has.

She called for Europe to become more independent, to not rely on American power for their defense, but, in point of fact, for the foreseeable future, Europe has NO EFFECTIVE defense outside of America.

B. THE END OF THEIR HISTORY

President Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, in a conversation on the WEF stage, may have delivered the most meaningful moment of the whole event, topping even Trump, even if not in authority (though one presumes he spoke with Trump’s authority).

What Lutnick did was spell out to Europe why it is that America has no interest in being shackled by a global order that produced a total gutting of American vitality in return. Of course, the story isn’t as simple as that, but this writer believes it is largely accurate (though complex, for the same “Americans” that also gutted other nations through this whole system were also doing this to their own country as well).

He starts off making it clear why the American arrived like never before to Davos this year. He declared, “Okay. We are in Davos, at the World Economic Forum, and the Trump administration—and myself—we are here to make a very clear point.

Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It’s a failed policy. It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export offshore, far-shore, find the cheapest labor in the world and the world is a better place for it.”

When the world order looks to the “good of the whole,” they do so at the sovereign expense of their member nations. This is fine in fat times, but the cost is overbearing in lean times, and even more costly when the payoff is the constant shaming and erosion of American vitality and sovereignty.

Lutnick spells it out plainly here, stating, “The fact is, it has left America behind. It has left the American worker behind. And what we are here to say is that America First is a different model—one that we encourage other countries to consider—which is that our workers come first. We can have policies that impact our workers.”

This isn’t a rebuke of the notion of international rule of law, this a rebuke of the current one and a demand that any new ones respect the sovereign rights of states. It encourages sovereign states to look after the interests of its own citizens first, but within the boundaries of their reality of power.

He makes it clear when he means sovereignty, he’s not just talking about borders. He exclaimed, “Sovereignty is your borders. You’re entitled to have borders. You shouldn’t offshore your medicine. You shouldn’t offshore your semiconductors. You shouldn’t offshore your entire industrial base and have it be hollowed out beneath you.”

This next comment is the ultimate indictment of the whole project, and it’s true not just of America but most of the nations of the west. The UN project shifted real market power through international law to China at the detriment of the West (including the US).

Lutnick brings home the point that indicts the whole globalist project, “You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation. And if you’re going to be dependent on someone, it darn well better be your best allies.”

Any system that leads any nation to violate that standard is an existential threat to that same nation, and that includes the U.S.

The UN pushed the Global Warming hoax that was used to justify maddening energy policies from sovereign nations that makes them utterly dependent on an authoritarian state that even now is in the midst of a political purge that hasn’t been seen since Mao.

Lutnick highlighted the foolishness of their green scheme, pointing out, “Why would Europe agree to be net zero in 2030 when they don’t make a battery? They don’t make a battery. So if they go 2030, they are deciding to be subservient to China, who makes the batteries. Why would you do that?”

You would only do that if you were in on the sabotage of your own nation-state, as EU, UN, and even NATO leaders are.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

Before Rome established an Empire, she managed Greece in much the same way America manages her spheres of influence, expecting little more from them than economic cooperation and submission to Roman foreign policy. After a century or two of violations of Rome’s foreign policy, and even an incursion by one Greek King, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Rome decided to use its military advantage to once and for all absorb Greece into its Empire.

This was accomplished with the fall of Corinth in 146 BC, and it would set Rome on a course of gutting their republic and creating a world Empire that would last for centuries. There are significant differences between Rome and America today, but yet we now find ourselves at a similar crossroads to Rome, finding itself sponsoring its own enemies and seeing its own power limited by rules effectively designed to neuter it. This transition from the republic to the empire is Part 3 of our Transitions series, which is scheduled to be published in the June 5 edition of MIA.

Rome chose flat-out conquest, which I am not suggesting America will choose, outside of perhaps Greenland, Canada, and maybe Mexico. It is doubtful America wants to absorb the rot that they view as Europe today. It would be like taking in an old man with a contagious disease.

I am not suggesting America will be conquering Canada and Mexico anytime soon, but the door is now open to do so (not that I recommend we do so).

We are going back to the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), where sovereignty was assumed only for those who could field an army to defend it and a professional class to manage it. Failure on any front would justify conquest from a stronger power. It laid the groundwork for an international order even as the global order would subvert its initial principles.

That treaty was replaced by the post-WWII agreement that afforded weak governments the “right” to hold land and be supplemented by the great powers through a global de facto redistribution of wealth system, one that awarded warlords for compliance with the world order.

The next domino to fall which could ignite a new round of conquest, absorption, and consolidation (sometimes voluntarily) will be the nullification of nuclear missiles through effective missile defenses. This writer believes we are close to seeing something like this happen. Trump’s Golden Dome moves us towards that direction (and it is why, in part, he wants Greenland).

Until then, for all the threats by Trump, Europe has nuclear arms, so they are safe, for now (and probably for some time to come afterwards, should they mind their own business). Canada and Mexico, however, do not have nuclear missiles. The new world order means territory is once again valuable (because they need land and water for AI centers). This makes possession of Canada and Mexico a potential vital need for the continuation of the American state.

If I am right, and Trump is sowing the seeds for that eventuality, see if pro-Americanist groups in Mexico don’t start sprouting up. They already are in Canada. Conservatives in Canada would feel far better under American authority with American rights than they do under Canada’s laws, ESPECIALLY if Canada can sustain its own identity (like Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales do in the UK).

Perhaps the mere offer of becoming American citizens with American rights will be enough to “conquer” Canada and Mexico.

The new American Empire would have more difficulty integrating Mexico than Canada, so phasing in their citizenship and voting rights will be generally longer than Canadians. Mexico’s Americanist population (people who understand and want dangerous liberty for themselves AND their neighbors) is much smaller (but not non-existent) than Canada’s (which might be as much as 25% of the country).

What we are seeing on the streets of Minneapolis are, most likely, the last violent gasps of a global world order desperately trying to reel America back into its heeled place, providing the power while being sabotaged by it.

The 2026 Midterm Elections may be the last stand for the globalist world order or the beginning of their counter-reformation. Let us hope for the sake of the human race they are vanquished by the end of this year. If they are not, expect a Progmerican revival that will not long last as even America’s energy will finally flicker out and the world will be filled with violence for decades to come.

Whether they want to accept it or not, the globalist project is dead. The resources are gone. The myths are destroyed. Even if they “win,” they will have nothing left to complete their project. America is putting it out of its misery before it can completely break her, and thus the world.

A strong, independent America is the best hope for stability for most of the world in the decades ahead. A weak America is war for the world and great pain and suffering for us here at home.

To our Christian subscribers, let us pray for repentance in America, especially of the sin of murdering our children, both in the womb and in the classroom, both physically and spiritually. And barring that, that the Lord might tarry in our deserved judgment and give us more time to lead our nation to repentance, forgiveness, and restoration.

Let us hope there are 10 of us found for God to spare our country.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

World Economic Forum, Davos 2024 – Thomas C. Sanchez

A Patriot’s History of Globalism (It’s Rise and Decline) – Larry Schweikert

United Nations (A History) – Stanley Meisler

The New World Order Book – Nick Redfern

 

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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (In preparation for a whirlwind book tour, the Sine Qua Non Sequitur is compiling a comprehensive list of foreign translations of “wainscoting.”)

We’ve been hearing it seemingly forever. Donald Trump’s a fascist. Trump’s a dictator. Trump’s targeting those who disagree with him.

If only.

OK, I’m kidding about that. Sort of. My Minneapolis fatigue is making me a bit cranky.

Democrats are having a field day creating an alternative reality that — once again — blames law enforcement for everything. Those paying close attention will remember that we were just discussing this… yesterday. I wrote that the Democrats really got going with their hatred of law enforcement “when Barack Obama was shooting off his mouth about the police during his vapid vanity presidency. ”

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Eric Schwalm, who identified himself as a former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier, says the tactics being employed in Minneapolis by leftists agigators are reminiscent of insurgency tactics he witnessed in Afghanistan.

His comments came in response to the reported infiltration of a Signal group chat being used by leftists to track and thwart Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis, Fox News reported.

Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams, who is on the ground in Minneapolis, posted Sunday on social media, “I’ve covered a lot of protests. Never seen anything quite like this. Organized is an understatement.”