Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Drokova then put forward multiple women she thought might serve as assistants to Epstein, and she introduced him to technology entrepreneurs and investors including her former boss Serguei Beloussov, a tech entrepreneur who helped establish a 🇷🇺 Russian government quantum computing initiative.” 3/

“According to the prosecutor's office, the suspected spies were trying to "capture satellite data from [X owner Elon Musk's] Starlink network, as well as data from vital entities, notably military, in order to retransmit them to their country of origin, 🇨🇳 China".

Sergei Tropin, a former deputy minister of justice in the Yeltsin years, and a person known to have voiced criticism of Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, mysteriously drowned in his own bathtub in his Moscow apartment, Izvestia reports.

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

Sovereign State of Ireland serving ICE! Shannon Airport used for refuelling by US deportation flights carrying Palestinians to Israel jrnl.ie/6949867

A crash is coming - Engelsberg ideas David Roche Quantum Strategy, October 2025. engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-cra...

China's drive to turn the Renminbi into a global currency may run into structural barriers. Dollar v Renminbi | @quantumstrategy.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/dol...

Drewry’s Intra-Asia Container Index (IACI) decreased 4% in the first week of February to $575 per 40ft container. At nearly $100 below last year’s level, the current rates are squeezing the margins of carriers. www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...

Epstein was a frequent flyer... to Moscow and St Petersburg.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: "More and more leads, more and more information, and more and more commentary in the global press all relate to the suspicion that this unprecedented paedophilia scandal was co-organised by Russian intelligence services." www.reuters.com/world/poland...

5 people told Politico “the planned 🇺🇸🇩🇪 meeting collapsed after State Department officials told the German Embassy in Washington that it was prepared to receive only Christian Democratic and AfD lawmakers, excluding the SPD and the Greens.“ Norbert Röttgen (CDU) rejected that idea. Good on him!

Drewry's World Container Index (WCI) decreased 7% to $1,959 per 40ft container for the fourth consecutive week. www.linkedin.com/posts/drewry...

“🇳🇴 Norway's economic crime police unit, Oekokrim, said on Thursday it has opened an investigation into former prime minister and chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, on suspicion of aggravated corruption.” It also asked that his immunity be lifted.

Let's call it what it is: A Russian Asset has participated in seizing local voting records: www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...

China’s clean power energising economy, adding a Brazil’s worth of GDP: report www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

In a post-literate world, reading is treated more like an assumed good than a skill to be actively practised. My latest for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social: engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

China has the will and the means to replace the dollar in trade. It will overcome the obstacles and do so. The result will be a significant step down in the dollar's international role and in US power projection associated with the "Exorbitant Privilege".

To be replaced by the ‘CIA Alternative Factbook’?

⚡️ Russians doesn't even have a problem on the fronts, the enemy has a disaster. All command of the troops has collapsed. Assault operations have been stopped in many areas, — Flash It was found out from our troops that there were problems with those who did not promptly submit lists for Starlinks.

Russian forces are facing a frontline crisis due to mass Starlink disruptions, according to Serhii Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine’s defense minister. He said command and control of occupation forces has collapsed and assault operations have stopped in many areas. #Ukraine

🇺🇸🇺🇦 US Permanent Representative to NATO Matthew Whitaker announced that USA will continue to send weapons to Ukraine through the alliance, including offensive systems, until a peace agreement is signed.

“As Euromaidan Press reported in 2017, the central Labour Party apparatus's contacts with the KGB remain "one of the major taboos in Norwegian politics," according to Norwegian journalist Alf R. Jacobsen.” This is their 2017 report ⬇️ 3/

“In June 2016, before Trump's electoral victory later that year, Jagland wrote to Epstein: "If Trump wins in US I'll settle on your island." 🏝️ That island was Epstein's Caribbean estate, where prosecutors said he trafficked minors.”

The Department of Homeland Security has been quietly demanding tech companies turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration, according to reports. techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...

Interesting to see how EU equates this with achieving strategic autonomy rather than swapping rare earth dependence on china for dependence upon an untrustworthy US. EU to Offer US Critical Minerals Partnership to Check China www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Cold War: China has the will & means to replace the dollar in trade. It will overcome the obstacles and do so. The result will be a significant step down in the dollar's international role and in US power projection associated with the "Exorbitant Privilege". engelsbergideas.com/notebook/dol...

Garry Kasparov: “There is a strong negative proof for 🇷🇺 Russian intelligence involvement as well, since as far as can be seen, there are no Russian targets mentioned in the files despite extensive Russian involvement and discussion. They were the hunters, not the hunted.” 🔗 x.com/Kasparov63/s...

Interesting to see how EU equates this with achieving strategic autonomy rather than swapping rare earth dependence on china for dependence upon an untrustworthy US. EU to Offer US Critical Minerals Partnership to Check China www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Cold War: China has the will & means to replace the dollar in trade. It will overcome the obstacles and do so. The result will be a significant step down in the dollar's international role and in US power projection associated with the "Exorbitant Privilege". engelsbergideas.com/notebook/dol...

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

🕵️ Christopher Steele, former head of the Russia desk at the 🇬🇧 MI6, says Jeffrey Epstein was 'very likely' recruited by the 🇷🇺KGB during the Cold War to run a blackmailing scheme against the West’s elite.He said US intel agencies had been tracking the US financier's activities going back to the 1970s.

Drewry's Airfreight Price Index recorded a 16% drop in the average global airfreight rate from December to $3.31 in January, but remains 2% higher than the average price in January 2025. Rates out of Asia to Europe and North America fell 21% month-on-month. www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...