Dubai is either getting wrecked already or is about to, and they are going to extreme lengths to cover it up. Any influencer who lives there or has financial ties to the country should have their takes on the war heavily scrutinized. They have a vested interest in downplaying the damage and may even be under pressure to do so.
❗️⚠️🇲🇽 - The scenic resort city of Puerto Vallarta in Jalisco state is facing a sudden wave of cartel-related violence today, with gunmen torching vehicles — including public buses — and erecting barricades on major roads and highways.
Thick columns of black smoke have been reported rising across the city as public transportation has been suspended and traffic has ground to a halt in several areas.
The unrest began after a federal security operation in the nearby municipality of Tapalpa, prompting the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) to respond with coordinated “narco-blockades.”
Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro activated a statewide Code Red alert, confirming that criminals burned vehicles and used them to obstruct authorities in Puerto Vallarta, the Guadalajara metropolitan area, and other parts of the state.
Local officials have urged residents and tourists to stay indoors, while hotels and businesses have advised guests to remain inside for safety.
Puerto Vallarta has long served as a strategic financial stronghold for the CJNG, where the cartel launders money through tourism-related businesses and runs sophisticated fraud schemes.
Just three days ago, on February 19, 2026, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Kovay Gardens — a timeshare resort in the Bahia de Banderas area near Puerto Vallarta — along with 22 linked individuals and companies for orchestrating timeshare scams that have defrauded numerous American victims. Officials explicitly tied the operation to CJNG financing networks.
As of this afternoon, authorities are working to clear the roads and restore order, with no confirmed reports of civilian casualties in Puerto Vallarta itself.
Travelers are strongly advised to monitor local alerts, avoid unnecessary movement, and follow instructions from Mexican authorities and their embassies.
The situation remains fluid.
The Drive for Forever Profits
• Corporate Motive: Tate argues that large companies and globalist elites are solely focused on achieving "forever profits," leading them to intentionally decimate the standard of living for the average person to increase their own wealth.
• Ownership of Everything: He points out that a handful of companies own almost everything, including the vast majority of brands found in stores, allowing them to manipulate the market for their own benefit.
• Benefit from Inflation: For those who own significant assets, inflation is not a threat but a tool for profit, as it increases the value of their holdings (like land, houses, and stocks) while the common man's spending power is destroyed. -@Cobratate
Global Consequences of Forever Profits
• The Decimation of Europe: Tate suggests that globalists are now "decimating Europe on purpose" by encouraging unchecked immigration to bring in "slaves" who will work for low pay and don't demand the high standards of living or working hours that Europeans have come to expect.
• Avoidance of Mess: The elites chasing these profits are not tied to any specific land; they will move to wherever is safe and profitable, like Saudi Arabia or Mumbai, while leaving the average citizen to deal with the resulting economic mess and rising crime rates.
• A "Failed Society": He characterizes Western society as having fallen, where even the wealthy aren't safe and must "live like a hermit" to protect themselves, while the average person continues to pay for this "clown show" through their taxes. @Cobratate
a handful of companies own almost everything, including the vast majority of brands found in stores, allowing them to manipulate the market for their own benefit- @Cobratate
Former Minister of Defense of Israel Yoav Gallant: Striking Iran is not just a political decision. It's an operational one. And the conditions are coming together.
All of these things are peaking at the same time:
-Conflict everywhere/ current or pending
-Artificial general intelligence emergence
-Economic uncertainty/ debt/ dedollarization
-Political division/ civil unrest
-Robotics inflection point
-Multipolarity
-AI gen video passes Turing test/ indistinguishability
-AI gen bioweapon threat
-Automation induced unemployment
-Metals hoarding
-End of nuclear treaties
-Nuclear weapons testing/ renewed arms race
-Surveillance state/ turnkey totalitarianism
-War mobilization/ global record military spend
-Cybersecurity risks
-Climactic extremes
-Global water shortages
-Peak of solar cycle 25
-Peak alienation and social isolation
-Population implosion
OMG I cannot believe my eyes
5 Million ounces of physical silver have been just taken out from the Comex Registered inventories and the banksters crashed the price over 10%?!
93m oz of silver are now left at the Comex against over ~300m oz of futures OI approaching settlement
🚨 The guy who built Anthropic’s defenses against AI bioterrorism just quit.
Mrinank Sharma led Anthropic’s Safeguards Research Team. His job was literally making sure Claude doesn’t help bad actors do bad things.
His resignation letter: “The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises.”
He also said he “repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions” inside the organization.
This is the company that positioned itself as the “safe” AI lab. The one founded specifically because OpenAI wasn’t careful enough.
Now their safety lead is walking away, saying the pressure to “set aside what matters most” is real.
He’s leaving to study poetry. Not joining a competitor. Not starting a startup. Poetry.
When your AI safety researcher chooses poems over production, that tells you something about what’s happening behind closed doors.
🚫 WhatsApp and YouTube have been fully blocked in Russia
The WhatsApp domain has disappeared from the National Domain Name System, created under the «sovereign Runet» law. The messenger now works only through a VPN.
On February 10, YouTube’s data was removed from the same system — the platform also stopped working without bypass tools.
Regulators have begun widely using a new restriction method — deleting DNS records. Previously this was done selectively, now it is being applied on a larger scale.
Despite earlier claims by authorities that YouTube was only being «slowed down», not blocked.
A person familiar with the matter said the FAA shutdown was a result of a disagreement over the Pentagon's desire to use or test counter-drone capabilities, including high powered lasers, and the FAA's move caught the administration as a whole by surprise.
⚡️✈️ According to Chinese Satelitte imagery, US Air Force's most important Reconaissance Plane deployed in the region (13 days ago) has started gathering intelligence on Iran in the past 24 hours (with transponders switched off).
Considering the movement of F-35A to the region, it indicates the U.S. is increasing its readiness to attack Iran. (Illustrative img)
🇷🇺🇧🇾🇨🇳❌🇺🇸 Putin will not attend the first summit of Trump’s proposed “Peace Council” in the United States, scheduled for February 19, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
According to him, Russia’s position on participating in the new structure is still under discussion within the Foreign Ministry.
The Kremlin has previously signaled that both Moscow and Beijing view the United Nations as the legitimate framework for global diplomacy, rather than alternative formats like Trump’s “Peace Council.”
It was also reported that Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko will not attend the summit either, despite earlier agreeing in principle to take part.
IRAN HAS DETAINED PROMINENT REFORMIST POLITICAL FIGURES IN A BROADENING CRACKDOWN ON DISSENT, TARGETING SENIOR OPPOSITION LEADERS AFTER THEY CONDEMNED THE GOVERNMENT’S DEADLY RESPONSE TO RECENT PROTESTS AND CALLED FOR CURBS ON THE SUPREME LEADER’S POWER.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio just told Tucker Carlson that central bank digital currencies are coming:
"There will be no privacy... all transactions will be known... and if you're politically disfavored, you could be shut off."