Source: The Hill
“Børge Brende resigned as president and CEO of the World Economic Forum (WEF) amid revelations regarding his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Brende wrote in a WEF release he decided to step down ‘after careful consideration’ from a role he has occupied since 2017. He did not mention the late convicted sex offender. … The WEF launched a probe into Brende earlier this month, after documents released by the Department of Justice revealed he attended multiple ‘business dinners’ with Epstein and exchanged emails and text messages with the sex offender, years after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.” (02/26/26)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5756220-epstein-brende-world-economic-forum-resigns/
Source: Underthrow
“Broken People Shouldn’t Try to Fix the World,” (02/26/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/broken-people-shouldnt-try-to-fix
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“There are people who are peddling the lie that sexual abuse – Jeffrey Epstein, Howard Rubin, Harvey Weinstein – is about sexual liberalism run amok. … it is not. It’s about POWER. Successful abusers know who to abuse. They know when to abuse. They find vulnerable people and make sure they’re not able to leave before they start abusing them. Howard Rubin didn’t rape [h]is assistant Jennifer Powers. He didn’t rape his kids’ dance instructor or his wife or daughter. He had Jennifer find women in desperate financial need and offered them $2,000 for a night and $5,000 for a great night (according to Rubin). She told them it would involve ‘light fetish work.’ They’d establish a safe word. Then, when they were alone in a room Rubin would tie them up, gag them, and rape and torture them (allegedly?!).” (02/26/26)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/lessons-from-wall-street-sex-trafficker
Source: Fox News
by Pat Toomey & Kevin Brady
“Americans are rightfully concerned about affordability. From healthcare and housing to groceries and utility bills, Americans have been finding these everyday necessities difficult to afford for far too many years. In response, President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are pursuing multiple policies meant to lower costs for the American people. While the President and our former Republican congressional colleagues usually have good economic and regulatory instincts, there are some policies worth reconsidering, as they could exacerbate the affordability crisis. For example, as Congress assesses the proposed 10% price cap on credit, Republicans should follow their instincts by recognizing price controls like this have a long history of producing harmful unintended consequences for working families and small businesses. When governments mandate an artificially low price for a product or service in a competitive market, the result is always the same: reduced supply.” (02/26/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-capping-credit-card-interest-rates-kill-credit-working-families
Source: CNBC
“Hungary has accused Ukraine of disrupting oil supplies it gets from Russia and has stationed troops at critical energy facilities across the country as Prime Minister Viktor Orban ramps up the rhetoric around energy and national security ahead of parliamentary elections in April. Orban on Wednesday accused Kyiv of imposing an ‘oil blockade’ on Hungary by delaying the reopening of the Druzhba pipeline which supplies it, and neighboring Slovakia, with Russian oil. Ukraine shut the pipeline a month ago, saying a Russian strike had damaged it, but Hungary’s leader accused Kyiv of deliberately keeping the pipeline closed for ‘political’ rather than ‘technical’ reasons.” (02/26/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/hungary-ukraine-oil-blockade-soldiers-energy-facilities-orban-elections-russia-.html
Source: SFGate
“A rare outbreak of infant botulism that sickened dozens of babies who drank recalled ByHeart formula is over, with no new cases reported since mid-December, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. In all, 48 babies were sickened since 2023. That’s actually down from the previous case count, because three infants were ultimately diagnosed with other illnesses not tied to botulism, health officials said. All of the children who got sick were hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. It’s still unclear exactly how, when or where the organic, whole-milk powdered baby formula became contaminated with the type of bacteria that can cause serious illness, paralysis and death in children younger than 1, health officials added. Most of the cases had occurred since August, when officials at California’s Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention program detected an alarming rise in reports of the illness in babies who consumed ByHeart formula.” (02/26/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/byheart-infant-botulism-outbreak-ends-with-48-21943214.php
Source: The Atlantic
“What the Pentagon Fears in Iran.” (02/26/26)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/02/why-pick-a-fight-with-iran-now/686140/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vance Ginn
“Polls show skepticism is rising, yet the moral and economic case for free markets has never been stronger.” (02/26/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/capitalisms-coalition-is-cracking-and-that-should-worry-us/
Source: The Dispatch
by Timothy Sandefur
“Hating the rich has been a popular pastime since democracy was invented. The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes even played on this fact in his comedy Ecclesiazusae, written four centuries before Christ, in which the idealistic Praxagora proposes building a utopian community in which ‘there will no longer be either rich or poor,’ but ‘all property [will] be in common.’ When a friend asks her ‘But who will till the soil?’ Praxagora unselfconsciously replies: ‘The slaves.’ The rhetoric hasn’t improved much since.” (02/26/26)
https://archive.is/icdAT
Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum
“‘We did not protect President Trump.’ That is what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on January 30, after what he described as the final release of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It turns out that was not true. According to a new report by NPR, the DOJ is withholding ‘more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, as well as notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.’ The New York Times also reported Wednesday that the DOJ withheld summaries of three FBI interviews with the woman about her interactions with Trump. They released a fourth FBI interview, where the woman made allegations about Epstein.” (02/26/26)
https://popular.info/p/the-missing-epstein-files
