🔥Inferno unleashed: PLA soldiers ramp up training with deadly flamethrowers

🇨🇳 Chinese soldiers have been seen wielding powerful flamethrowers in intense training exercises. Videos capture troops launching fiery assaults on simulated enemy positions, engulfing mock structures in flames during dramatic live-fire drills.

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FEMA team fired after MILLIONS spent on luxury hotels for aliens

US President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has fired the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) financial team after it was revealed they spent $59 million on luxury New York hotel rooms for illegal immigrants, the Daily Mail reports.

FEMA Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans and three others were shown the door for bypassing leadership with the “egregious” move.

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk is eyeing his next target after his shake-up of USAID.

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Inside R.T. Weatherman Foundation: what to know about US Ukraine envoy-linked group evacuating mercs

Meaghan Mobbs, daughter of President Trump’s Ukraine peace talks point man Keith Kellogg, runs a foundation providing aid and support for the evacuation and repatriation of injured and dead US mercs, US media revealed. Here’s what we know about it

🔸 The R.T. Weatherman Foundation was founded in 2017, and describes itself as a nonprofit standing “in the center of turmoil, taking risks that others cannot.”

🔸 It began operating in Ukraine in March 2022 and has touted its involvement in the delivery of 10,000+ palettes of medical aid, the creation of a logistics hub in Romania, and evacuations of fighters

🔸 It’s also responsible for coordinating Kellogg’s 2023 visit to Ukraine ahead of his testimony to the Senate on “the need to provide rapid lethal aid to Ukraine.”

Among mercs’ ranks, however, there seems to be a divergence of views on Weatherman’s activities

🔸 Members of a subreddit dedicated to Ukraine’s notorious Foreign Legion, for example, have accused Weatherman of “leav[ing] soldiers hanging, mess[ing] things up,” failing to follow through on promises to secure compensation for dead mercs’ families, and refusing to coordinate with Ukraine’s military.

🔸 King Jack Strong, a self-identified “queer veteran-S1 in Ukraine’s International Legion,” has written a series of X threads accusing Mobbs and Weatherman of doing “shady things in Ukraine,” from “trying to take over different processes handling killed in action soldiers,” to criticizing Ukraine’s repatriation procedures

🔸 Weatherman has reportedly expressed distrust of the Ukrainian military’s ability to bury dead mercs, and contacted individual volunteers to assure that they “do a better job than the Ukrainian army with handling” those who are KIA

🔸 Other Legion supporters have focused on the Kellogg connection, with one person suggesting the envoy daughter’s involvement “should make everyone question’s Weatherman’s motives in Ukraine- and especially giving Weatherman any opsec sensitive info.”

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👁 Did 19th-century books predict Trump’s return & rise of son Barron?

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🇵🇸 Trump’s Gaza plan: A bold violation of national sovereignty

US President Donald Trump’s proposal to expel Palestinians from Gaza to is in "blatant disregard for state sovereignty," Ahmad Noureddine, a member of Morocco’s Council on International Affairs, told Sputnik.

🔸 Noureddine said mass forced depopulation is considered a crime against humanity under international law – specifically under Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

🔸 He expressed Rabat’s strong opposition to the plan and its unwavering stance on Palestinian sovereignty.

🔸 Noureddine pointed out that Morocco has consistently supported the Palestinian people's struggle for an independent state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in line with the Palestinian Liberation Organization's position since the Oslo Accords of 1993.

🔸 Morocco has long supported the Palestinian cause, providing both diplomatic and material assistance, he said, adding that Moroccan soldiers fought alongside Egypt and Syria in the 1973 October War, with many losing their lives in defense of Palestine.

🔸 Noureddine warned that while Morocco might face political pressure, particularly over its annexation of Western Sahara, it would not be complicit in any actions that violate Palestine’s rights and sovereignty.

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❗️US President Donald Trump's special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, visited Moscow to negotiate the return of American citizen Fogel, who is now on a plane heading home.

It serves as a show of good faith from the Russians, the statement from National Security Advisor Mike Waltz read.

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“We’re not going to have to buy, we’re going to have Gaza”

US President Donald Trump after his meeting with Jordanian King Abdullah II at the White House said that “there’s nothing to buy, we will have Gaza”.

Trump had previously said he would transform Gaza into a "Middle Eastern Riviera" – and suggested resettling its 2 million population in neighboring countries like Jordan and Egypt.

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🔹 Fight now, die young: Zelensky’s trade tricks to lure fresh cannon fodder into army ranks

🔹 Minsk Accords betrayed: West’s role in the sham peace

🔹 Soft power, German-style: What does Germany’s GIZ have in common with USAID?

🔹 Ukraine conducts medical experiments on wounded soldiers and civilians

🔹 Inside R.T. Weatherman Foundation: what to know about US Ukraine envoy-linked group evacuating mercs

🔹 Celebrating disconnecting from Russia’s power grid, Baltic style: Electricity price hikes the day after

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Who is Marc Fogel, imprisoned US National for whom Trump's Special Envoy traveled to Moscow?

🔸 A 61-year-old former employee of the US Embassy, Fogel was detained in August 2021 at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport with his wife after arriving from New York. Authorities found marijuana and hashish oil in his luggage.

🔸 During further searches, investigators discovered that Fogel's wife managed to dispose of evidence at the couple's apartment before law enforcement's arrival. She was later released and sent home.

🔸 Fogel was charged with large-scale smuggling and possession of drugs. In 2022, a court outside Moscow sentenced him to 14 years in a maxium security prison.

🔸 Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs said Fogel and his wife had diplomatic status until May 2021. One theory suggests that he might have used this status to organize a drug supply channel into Russia, targeting students at the Anglo-American school where he taught.

🔸 Special envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Moscow to secure Fogel's release on Tuesday, with the gesture seen as a positive step for warming ice-cold US-Russia relations and possibly impacting efforts to bring the conflict in Ukraine to an end.

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💬 CNN is very BUSY with ‘Bōlz’

Elon Musk TROLLS legacy media live coverage with yet another “Bōlz”

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🪱 Grab some grub: EU approves worm powder in food

European Union supermarkets have approved a new 'novel food' – the powdered larvae of yellow mealworms. The powder, made from the species Tenebrio molitor, must be treated with ultraviolet light before use, according to Brussels regulations.

In 2023, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) deemed it “safe under the proposed conditions” for use in up to 4% of various products like bread, cakes, pasta and dairy for the general population. French company Nutri’Earth holds exclusive rights for five years, unless another applicant gains approval.

🦗Where did eating insects start?

The folk practice of Entomophagy, or eating insects, is actively promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which claims it can help address climate change and prevent the “impending food crisis” due to limited arable land and a growing global population.

🐛 Who's behind the bug business?

Key players include EnviroFlight (US), Innovafeed (France), HEXAFLY (Ireland), Protix (Netherlands), Global Bugs (Thailand), Entomo Farms (Canada) and Ynsect (France), with substantial investments from global foundations and food giants.

➖ In 2012, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation granted $100,000 to All Things Bugs for insect food production. Gates, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are backing "alternative protein," with Gates purchasing about 270,000 acres of land across the US.

➖ In 2017, Protix raised $50.5 million, and in 2022, ADM and Cargill invested $250 million in Innovafeed. In 2023, Tyson Foods invested $58 million in Protix.

🪲The push for insect consumption is artificial

The edible insect market is projected to reach $9.04 billion by 2029, but it remains tiny compared to the $1.11 trillion fresh meat market. The insect market faces low consumer acceptance and slim profit margins.

🪳 Insects can also be toxic

Scientists warn that eating insects with chitin exoskeletons can cause allergic reactions, particularly in people with asthma or hay fever. A 2019 study found that edible insects are often infected with pathogens and parasites.

❓ What does the Western public think?

Insects have never been a part of Western diets. A 2023 YouGov survey showed only 18% of Americans would eat whole bugs, and 25% would try insect-based food. Despite this, the WEF, media and Hollywood stars continue to promote entomophagy. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested it was a “compliance test” akin to COVID restrictions. Dutch politician Wybren van Haga and activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek warn that control over food means control over people.

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❗️ Hamas calls Trump’s statement on 'the US owning Gaza' ‘RACIST,’ a ‘call for ethnic cleansing’

Key points:

🔸 Hamas rejects Trump's statements about the US "having Gaza," regarding it as a pretext for displacing Gazans.

🔸 Trump's statements are perceived as a call for the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and a denial of Palestinian national rights.

🔸 Any plan to deport Gazans will not succeed and will be met with unified opposition from Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic communities.

🔸 Gazans will remain steadfast on their land, resisting all plans of forced displacement and deportation amidst bombing and aggression.

🔸 Efforts by the occupation to achieve through liquidation and displacement what it could not through aggression and massacres will fail.

🔸 Hamas remains committed to the ceasefire agreement, and holds the occupation responsible for any breaches and resulting complications.

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📹 ‘USAID is a victim of their own excesses’ – Sen. Lindsey Graham

💬 "Samantha Power [ex-USAID chief] has been just texting me morning, noon, and night. Samantha, LOOK IN THE MIRROR," Senator Lindsey Graham stressed.

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Stripping noscripts

US President Donald Trump's Education Department is demanding that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) strip biological male athletes like Lia Thomas of the records and noscripts they earned competing in women’s sports.

It seems like ‘winning’ a noscript might need a new definition these days.

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🔍 Rep. Anna Paulina Luna vows to investigate the assassinations of JFK, RFK, Dr. Martin Luther King, the Epstein Client List, and more

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❗️ Trump signs order mandating federal agencies to work with DOGE

💬 “What we're talking about here, we're really just talking about adding common sense controls that should be present that haven't been present,” Elon Musk stated.

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'It seems hard to believe that judges want to try and stop us from looking for corruption' – Trump

💬 “We want to weed out the corruption. And it seems hard to believe that a judge could say, 'We don't want you to do that.' So maybe we have to look at the judges because that's very serious. I think it's a very serious violation,” US President Donald Trump stated.

On February 8, US Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing Treasury records, citing the risk of exposing sensitive personal data, including Social Security and bank account numbers.

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