only 300 gigabytes have been released, about 1.5% of the total.
 
Posted by: suzan | Feb 15 2026 7:21 utc | 203
 
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The disproportionate amount of data revealed makes a huge leak a statistical certainty.   There is no getting out in front of the coming tsunami.  No one implicated is even trying.  They are just stalling for time while we are waiting for the dam to break.
 
 

Posted by: too scents | Feb 15 2026 8:11 utc | 204

Posted by: suzan | Feb 15 2026 7:21 utc | 203
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 15 2026 8:03 utc | 206
Posted by: too scents | Feb 15 2026 8:11 utc | 207
 
Most of the stuff released are text documents. I bet most of the remainder are video evidence from the Island or other properties and whistleblower submissions. These take up far more space and are harder to selectively redact which is why they haven’t been released.
 
Given the media landscape, video clips would be easier to spread via social media and be far more damaging.
 

Posted by: Jules | Feb 15 2026 9:03 utc | 206

BEN NORTON
 
This is insane. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio just gave one of the most explicitly pro-colonialist speeches I have seen in the 21st century.
 
The US empire wants Europe to help it recolonize the Global South.
 
Rubio praised Western colonialists for “settl[ing] new continents, build[ing] vast empires extending out across the globe”.
 
Then Rubio complained about the Global South’s decolonization, portraying it as a sinister communist plot.
 
Rubio lamented: “The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come”.
 
Rubio delivered this speech at the Munich Security Conference, surrounded by European leaders, who gave him a standing ovation. They loved the pro-colonialist diatribe.
 
The US secretary of state insisted that North American and European imperialists should unite in order to reverse “the West’s managed decline”, to revive “the West’s age of dominance”, to “renew the greatest civilization in human history”.
 
This is a blatant call by the US empire to resuscitate Western colonialism and recolonize the Global South (which represents the Global Majority).
 
What the US empire did to Gaza, Venezuela, and currently Cuba is what it wants to do to the entire Global South. This is from the official transcript published by the US State Department: https://state.gov/releases/offic…
 
https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2022877849300988392
 

Posted by: Menz | Feb 15 2026 10:43 utc | 208

Ah, memory, that fickle thing.
 
So, let’s recap.
 
The first terrorist attacks in the Sahel date back to 2000-2003 in Niger. Even then, many suspected that the Tuareg rebels were being used as leverage by France in its negotiations regarding uranium mining.
 
Then, after Gaddafi’s death, jihadists entered Mali in force in 2011-2012, occupying entire regions.
This served as the basis for France’s first serious intervention with Operation Serval in 2013, which became a regional operation with Operation Barkhane in 2014.
 
Burkina Faso was the last Sahel country affected by terrorism with the attacks of 2016.
 
Following the military coups in these countries (Mali in 2020, Burkina Faso in 2022, and Niger in 2023), France’s withdrawal was first requested by Mali in 2022, after 10 years of unsuccessful struggle.
 
The same scenario then repeated itself in Burkina Faso in 2023 and finally in Niger.
 
Unfortunately, the security situation did not improve after the departure of French troops. Attacks continued and claimed more victims than before.
 
But it remains anachronistic to say that terrorist attacks began after France’s withdrawal from the Sahel.
Just as it is incorrect to say that the situation improved after that.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 15 2026 11:30 utc | 210

This was obvious right from the beginning. Nice to see it being officially called out. Covid was actually probably developed as a bioweapon against China and Iran and a boon to the vaccine industry but at least this is a start.
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” The COVID response was a symptom of replacing the culture of questioning in science and medicine with a culture of authority It didn’t matter what was actually true… what mattered was whether you were aligned with authority. ” – Jay Bhattacharya, NIH Director.

Posted by: financial matters | Feb 15 2026 13:14 utc | 212

No, that’s not right. Numbers like 4.16, 4.05 are interest rates … percent per annum, quotes as the “market maturity”. There’s an inverse relation between interest rates and bond prices. It’s explained at the link below. 
Posted by: Tel | Feb 15 2026 2:03 utc | 181
 
I know that. I looked up a chart on the PRICE of the 10 year bond during that yield price drop and it was about 2 or 3 bucks from $102 to $99. 

Posted by: arby | Feb 15 2026 13:30 utc | 214

@208 Jules
 
Sbego@186: “And some people here don’t understand why I’m not happy, why I won’t applaud their lies…” This post clearly illustrates why. Thanks. Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 15 2026 5:01 utc | 191 Does it? I hope not. This is coming from a guy who in all seriousness believes Ibrahim Traore has no local support in Burkina Faso and that Russians have outsized control of Burkina mining (it doesn’t, still majority Anglo owned).  The gist of his posts as a supposed “African” is that terrorists are threatening his country, but he himself won’t take up arms to fight them and yet he is resentful of Russian mercenaries doing what he should’ve been doing.  I also find it amazing he dares to say he is “not happy with lies” while lying about Russian statements that he himself linked. Eg. There is no Ivanov quote about “under Russia” unlike what Sebgo said. The Ivanov comments is about Paris brazenly arming militants after been kicked out and the coup been done so badly its a false flag to incite regional tensions.
 
Damn you are right.  I clicked on the link that Sbego provided.  What he claimed was in the link is a complete lie.  So he is just another US / NATO plant feeding us lies.
 
Sbego’s link:  https://tass.com/defense/2086255
 
 

Posted by: Woke American | Feb 15 2026 13:38 utc | 216

So he is just another US / NATO plant feeding us lies. Sbego’s link:  https://tass.com/defense/2086255 
Posted by: Woke American | Feb 15 2026 13:38 utc | 219

Quite the accufession. Question is, which is the plant.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 15 2026 14:36 utc | 218

This is insane. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio just gave one of the most explicitly pro-colonialist speeches I have seen in the 21st century.
 
Posted by: Menz | Feb 15 2026 10:43 utc | 211
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Trump figures he’s the 21C 
William Mckinley
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbrn_zr96fE
 
Tariff, Manifest Destiny and all that jazz…
 
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Posted by: denk | Feb 15 2026 16:27 utc | 220

Macron
‘We should slap another Plaza Accord to China’

Posted by: denk | Feb 15 2026 16:52 utc | 222

From Mali, Libya , Africom and beyond, its all about….
 
Uncle sham leading from behind.
 
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_65346.shtml
 

Posted by: denk | Feb 15 2026 17:16 utc | 224

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 15 2026 14:36 utc | 221
 
The contracts for “communication” about the Sahel countries are worth millions of dollars, free of charges.
 
Maybe this can explain that.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 15 2026 17:44 utc | 226

Posted by: Menz | Feb 15 2026 10:43 utc | 211 The next step of course is to ask, where did Marco Rubio come from? He came from Donald Trump, of course. Trump has made him, as I last recall, not just Secretary of State, but also National Security Advisor, the de-facto head of USAID (admittedly shorn of any actual humanitarian programs, the subversions remain I believe,)  In the last week he finally stepped down as National Archivist. If one wonders why a big shot like Rubio would deign to become a sort of librarian (albeit part-time as he juggles all his other duties,) one should remember that National Archives include documents generated by the White House and the disposition of documents sent to the White House. Whether said documents end up in Mar-a-Lago or Joe Biden’s garage, retrieving them and presumably taking action on misfeasance in their storage and/or dissemination would be matters under the National Archivist’s discretion. If one thinks, ah, Trump appointed Little Marco to take care of certain problems, I couldn’t dismiss the thought. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 15 2026 18:12 utc | 228

There are 100 million Satoshis in one bitcoin. For the entire float of bitcoin of 21 million the number of satoshis is 2 quadrillion or 2 million billion.

Posted by: arby | Feb 15 2026 19:55 utc | 230

Posted by: Jules | Feb 15 2026 21:36 utc | 234 Just finished reading Lan Xiaohan’s book How China Works (trans. Gary Topp) to be more firmly convinced than ever that that PRC is not a capitalist state yet. But I do so because Lan Xiaohan is I think making a covert case for the necessity to remove the obstacle of a workers’ state, in the name. He pretty explicitly explains that the methods used thus far to build up a capitalist sphere are being exhausted, and that Reform and Opening Up still have far to go. The repeated insistence that the path forward involves deepening Reform and Opening Up is, as you note, partially contradicted by reservations, caveats, caution and so on. The thing is, it’s somewhat disorienting and demoralizing to borrow the class enemy’s language in the name of pragmatism. Who are these mice being caught by that non-descript cat? The assumption that public property will protect itself seems a trifle premature. And the expansion of the planned part of the economy—the part that is production for use not profit—seems at times to be a secret project. Fortunately despite the wretched numbers of such bourgeois economists infesting Chinese universities, they are like most professors, powerless….unless they are specifically paid to produce policy papers by rich people, as in the US. Those professors are powerful employees of the bourgeoisie. 
 
Also, on the specific issue of Wang Yi, for me the point is that Wang Yi wasn’t being cordial to his hosts, he was spouting outright BS on their behalf. And I don’t think his flattery wins a damn thing. It just encourages their self-righteousness so far as I can see. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 16 2026 0:13 utc | 232

It’s almost as if PRC has rejected Marxism so completely they don’t even comprehend such categories as imperialism and fascism any more.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 15 2026 18:03 utc | 230
 
While I can’t say about the CPC, it does make me think at times about the rest of the Chinese internet.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are considered a war crime by the Russian government, and as such Japan’s subservience to the USA is seen as an object of ridicule/scorn among part of the Russian netizenry.
Meanwhile, a rather vocal part of the Chinese netizenry trivializes or glorifies the bombings as if the US were justified in using them in response to Japan’s war crimes and/or that they brought about Japan’s surrender. While I have yet to hear the CPC’s opinion on the bombings beyond Mao Zedong condemning them, one is left with the impression that in China they are not recognized as war crimes like in Russia, or that Russia’s defeat of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria is memory-holed due to US influence.
This was one difference between Russia and China that I learned about in 2021. I’m surprised I still haven’t jumped off the bandwagon after nearly five years.

Posted by: joey_n | Feb 16 2026 1:22 utc | 234

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Posted by: Kester | Feb 18 2026 1:03 utc | 236