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Höjlund rescata al Napoli con dramática victoria 3-2 sobre el Génova en la Serie A
Associated Press
GÉNOVA, Italia (AP) — Rasmus Höjlund anotó un penalti en el último suspiro mientras el Napoli, con diez hombres, ganó 3-2 en Génova en la Serie A, manteniendo la presión sobre los dos clubes principales de Milán.
Höjlund tuvo la suerte de que el portero del Génova, Justin Bijlow, no pudo detener su disparo bajo, a pesar de tocar el balón con el brazo en el quinto minuto del tiempo de descuento.
El penalti fue otorgado después de que Maxwel Cornet, quien acababa de entrar como sustituto, fuera considerado tras una revisión del VAR que había pateado el pie de Antonio Vergara, después de que el centrocampista del Napoli cayera dramáticamente al suelo.
El segundo gol de Höjlund en el partido colocó al Napoli a un punto detrás del AC Milan y a seis del Inter de Milán. Ambos tienen un partido menos.
El Napoli tuvo un mal comienzo con el portero Alex Meret derribando a Vitinha tras un pase atrás fallido de Alessandro Buongiorno apenas segundos después de comenzar el partido. Una revisión del VAR confirmó el penalti y Ruslan Malinovskyi anotó desde el punto en el segundo minuto.
Scott McTominay estuvo involucrado en ambos goles cuando el Napoli respondió con un doblete rápido. Bijlow detuvo su primer intento en el minuto 20, pero Höjlund aprovechó el rebote, y McTominay disparó desde unos 20 metros para poner el 2-1 un minuto después.
Sin embargo, McTominay tuvo que salir en el descanso con lo que parecía una lesión muscular, y otro error de Buongiorno permitió a Lorenzo Colombo anotar en el 57 para el Génova.
El defensa central del Napoli, Juan Jesus, fue expulsado en el 76 después de recibir una segunda tarjeta amarilla por sujetar al sustituto del Génova, Caleb Ekuban.
El Génova buscó un gol de la victoria, pero fueron los visitantes quienes celebraron tras un final dramático.
La Fiorentina, amenazada por el descenso, se enfrenta a Torino más tarde.
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Chicago Bulls lose a 2nd-round draft pick in the Coby White trade because of injury concerns
The Chicago Bulls gave up Coby White for an even lower return after their trade with the Charlotte Hornets was amended this weekend.
After White underwent his necessary on-boarding physical examination Friday, the Hornets determined he will need to miss part of this season because of his lingering calf issues. The injuries began with a right calf strain suffered in summer workouts and sidelined White for almost half of this season. Hornets President Jeff Peterson told reporters White will not play until after the All-Star break.
As a result, the Bulls and the Hornets amended the original trade from Wednesday to include two — rather than three — second-round picks in the deal (in addition to Collin Sexton). The determined picks for the revised trade are a 2031 second-rounder from the New York Knicks and a 2031 second-rounder from the Denver Nuggets, according to The Athletic.
This is a cautionary tale of the risks of being risk-averse. The Bulls could have — and should have — traded White last February when the guard’s value hit an all-time high as he thrived in a secondary-guard role alongside Josh Giddey and Zach LaVine.
But the Bulls front office remained wary of giving up one of their cornerstone young players too early, emphasizing the importance of “evaluating” their talent while refusing to take a step backward to pursue higher draft picks. Waiting ultimately meant taking another risk: that White could suffer an injury that would devalue him on the trade market.
Three second-rounders already felt like an undersell for White, who was one of the best player-development stories for the Bulls in recent years. Dropping that value to only two draft picks is a delayed gut-punch for a team attempting to begin a rebuild on the right foot.
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/07/chicago-bulls-coby-white-trade-injury/
Cuidado de la salud se perfila como tema ganador para los demócratas en elecciones
Por ALI SWENSON y JEFF AMY
COLLEGE PARK, Georgia, EE.UU. (AP) — El segundo mandato del presidente Donald Trump ha presentado una serie de oportunidades para la oposición, desde las redadas migratorias y la inflación persistente hasta los ataques a las instituciones independientes y las disputas con otros países.
Sin embargo, muchos demócratas se están centrando en la atención médica, un tema que alguna vez fue una desventaja política pero que se ha convertido en fundamental para el partido en las elecciones recientes. Insisten en que su estrategia ayudará al partido a recuperar el control del Congreso en las elecciones de noviembre y a tener un mejor desempeño que persiguiendo titulares sobre los últimos escándalos de la Casa Blanca.
El año pasado, los republicanos recortaron alrededor de un billón de dólares en una década de Medicaid y se negaron a extender los subsidios de la era COVID que habían reducido el costo de los planes de salud bajo la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible.
Los demócratas están filmando anuncios de campaña fuera de hospitales atribulados, con ciudadanos comunes que enfrentan aumentos en sus primas de seguros y compartiendo sus propias historias personales de atención médica.
El senador demócrata Jon Ossoff de Georgia declaró en un mitin el sábado, al que asistieron más de 1.000 personas en un suburbio de Atlanta, que la atención médica es parte del abandono de Trump hacia la clase trabajadora.
“Mientras los precios suben y los empleos son cada vez más difíciles de encontrar, decidieron permitir que las primas de seguros de salud se dupliquen para más de 20 millones de estadounidenses, incluidos más de un millón de georgianos”, denunció Ossoff, el único senador demócrata que busca la reelección este año en un estado que Trump ganó en 2024. Dijo que 200.000 personas en Georgia habían perdido su cobertura.
Brad Woodhouse, estratega demócrata y director ejecutivo del grupo de defensa Protect Our Care, apuntó que la atención médica es “un tema contundente para los demócratas”.
“Creo que será parte de cada campaña, en toda la boleta”, expresó.
Los republicanos defienden sus votos como una forma de controlar el gasto y combatir lo que llaman despilfarro, fraude y abuso. Trump lanzó recientemente un sitio web para ayudar a los pacientes a comprar medicamentos recetados con descuento.
“Están trabajando todos los días para asegurarse de que llevemos asequibilidad a la gente”, señaló Joe Gruters, presidente del Comité Nacional Republicano.
Pero el partido, a pesar de controlar ambas cámaras del Congreso, no ha podido aprobar una legislación integral para compensar los costos de salud.
Ron Bonjean, estratega republicano, indicó que el tema seguirá siendo el “talón de Aquiles” de su partido hasta que sus líderes redacten propuestas realistas que puedan convertirse en ley.
La opinión pública sobre la atención médica no siempre estuvo a favor de los demócratas. Alguna vez se consideró una desventaja política para la izquierda.
En 2010, los demócratas perdieron su mayoría en la Cámara de Representantes después de que la política de salud emblemática del presidente Barack Obama, la ACA, se aprobara sin un solo voto republicano. En 2014, cedieron el Senado un año después de que su administración fallara en el lanzamiento de Healthcare.gov.
Esas mareas cambiaron cuando Trump “tocó la estufa” durante su primer mandato, sostuvo Woodhouse, al apoyar esfuerzos fallidos para derogar y reemplazar la reforma de salud, conocida como “Obamacare”, lo que potencialmente dejaría a millones de personas sin seguro y dificultaría que aquellos con condiciones médicas preexistentes obtuvieran cobertura.
El año pasado, los republicanos aprobaron una legislación para reducir el gasto en programas federales de salud y asistencia alimentaria, en gran parte al imponer requisitos de trabajo a las personas que reciben ayuda y al trasladar ciertos costos a los estados.
Los republicanos apuntaron que eso evitaría el abuso del programa Medicaid y agregaron una inversión de 50.000 millones de dólares en salud rural para compensar las pérdidas.
Unrig Our Economy, un grupo de izquierda, dijo que ha canalizado más de 12 millones de dólares en anuncios criticando a los republicanos sobre la atención médica desde principios de 2025.
Los demócratas vieron otra oportunidad para ganar el apoyo de los votantes el año pasado cuando los créditos fiscales de la ACA iban a expirar y forzaron un cierre del gobierno sobre el tema. La financiación no se restauró, pero el partido cree que ganó influencia política de cara a las campañas de este año.
“Ahora los republicanos tienen que responder por eso”, aseguró Eric Stern, estratega de medios demócrata. “Puedes estar seguro de que los demócratas van a hablar de eso”.
Los candidatos destacan historias emocionales. Stef Feldman, consultora demócrata que fue asistente del expresidente Joe Biden, aseveró que está escuchando de los candidatos que a los votantes les importa los gastos de salud “más que casi cualquier otra cosa”.
Una encuesta reciente de la organización KFF respalda esa observación. Encontró que alrededor de un tercio de los adultos están “muy preocupados” por el costo de la atención médica, en comparación con alrededor de una cuarta parte que siente lo mismo sobre el costo de los alimentos, la vivienda o los servicios públicos.
Para el senador estatal de Iowa Zach Wahls, que se postula para el Senado federal este año, aprovechar esas preocupaciones ha significado visitas a hospitales vulnerables y recorridos por farmacias. Para Rebecca Cooke, candidata a la Cámara de Representantes en Wisconsin, ha significado reuniones con líderes hospitalarios y contar historias personales, incluyendo sobre los costosos medicamentos para el cáncer de próstata de su padre y el aumento de 200 dólares en sus propias primas de la ACA.
Ossoff ha llamado a la atención médica “una cuestión de vida o muerte”.
Teresa Acosta, que frecuentemente hace campaña para candidatos demócratas, afirmó que su póliza de la ACA, que cubre a ella y a dos adolescentes, incluido un hijo con diabetes tipo 1, ahora cuesta 520 dólares al mes, siete veces más que antes de que desaparecieran los subsidios ampliados.
“En última instancia, Trump y los republicanos en el Congreso se negaron a actuar”, expresó Acosta en el mitin de Ossoff. “Se negaron a defender la atención de la que dependo yo y más de un millón de georgianos”.
Los planes de la ACA son muy utilizados en Georgia, uno de los 10 estados que no expandieron Medicaid. Los defensores han advertido que la expiración de los subsidios ampliados podría dejar a los residentes de Georgia sin seguro. Datos federales recientes muestran que alrededor de un 14% menos de georgianos se han inscrito en planes en 2026 en comparación con el año pasado, aunque esos números aún no son definitivos.
Los republicanos dicen que no quieren arrojar dinero a un “sistema roto”. Los representantes estadounidenses Mike Collins y Buddy Carter, dos de los principales oponentes republicanos de Ossoff, votaron en enero en contra de una extensión temporal del crédito fiscal de la ACA. Ambos ridiculizan la ACA como la “Ley de Cuidado Inasequible”, una frase utilizada por Trump, y favorecen una alternativa republicana más limitada.
Carter, que trabajó como farmacéutico, manifestó que una extensión equivalía a “echarle más dinero a un sistema roto, plagado de despilfarro, fraude y abuso, sin abordar la causa raíz de los costos en aumento”.
El representante Derrick Van Orden, el republicano de Wisconsin que enfrenta un desafío de Cooke, fue uno de los 17 republicanos que votaron a favor de la extensión temporal. Dijo que no apoyaba los subsidios, pero tuvo que votar de esa manera para proteger a sus electores. Señaló que fueron los demócratas los que establecieron la fecha de expiración.
Pero Van Orden también criticó a su propio partido por permitir que los créditos fiscales expiraran sin tener otra solución en su lugar.
“Durante los últimos 15 años, cuando decías atención médica, se lanzaban por la ventana y se escondían”, declaró Van Orden. “Somos el partido de la buena política, y por eso deberíamos estar escribiendo políticas, necesitamos encarar esto”.
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Swenson reportó desde Nueva York. El corresponsal Marc Levy contribuyó desde Harrisburg, Pensilvania.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Republicanos critican a Trump por publicación racista en redes sociales
Por MATT BROWN
WASHINGTON (AP) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, recibió una inusual reacción negativa de los legisladores republicanos debida a un video publicado en las redes sociales que incluía una imagen racista del expresidente Barack Obama y su esposa, Michelle Obama, representados como primates.
Desde el regreso de Trump a la Casa Blanca, los legisladores republicanos se han mostrado cautelosos al discrepar del presidente, a menudo comunicando sus preocupaciones en privado por temor a sufrir su ira.
Pero los rápidos llamados a eliminar la publicación, en la que también se repetían falsas teorías conspiratorias sobre las elecciones de 2020, fueron un inusual momento de rechazo bipartidista a las acciones del mandatario por parte de los legisladores en el Capitolio.
Varios miembros del Partido Republicano en el Senado y la Cámara de Representantes se unieron a sus colegas demócratas para expresar su disgusto y crítica a la publicación y urgieron al presidente a eliminarla.
Trump se negó a disculparse, diciendo que no vio la parte racista del video cuando lo pasó a su personal.
Cómo reaccionaron los legisladores republicanos
Tim Scott de Carolina del Sur, el único senador republicano negro y presidente del brazo de campaña del Partido Republicano en el Senado, criticó la imagen y urgió al presidente a eliminarla.
“Rezo para que sea falsa porque es lo más racista que he visto de esta Casa Blanca. El presidente debería eliminarla”, escribió Scott en las redes sociales.
Otros senadores republicanos compartieron el sentimiento.
“Incluso si esto fuera un meme de El Rey León, una persona razonable ve el contexto racista en esto”, escribió en las redes sociales el senador Pete Ricketts de Nebraska. “La Casa Blanca debería hacer lo que cualquiera hace cuando comete un error: eliminar esto y disculparse”.
La senadora Susan Collins de Maine calificó la imagen de “espantosa”. Roger Wicker, el senador senior de Mississippi, la denunció como “totalmente inaceptable”.
“El presidente debería retirarla y disculparse”, escribió Wicker.
El senador John Curtis de Utah calificó la publicación de Trump como “abiertamente racista e inexcusable. Nunca debió haberse publicado ni dejarla publicada durante tanto tiempo”.
En la Cámara, el representante Mike Lawler de Nueva York calificó la publicación de Trump como “incorrecta e increíblemente ofensiva, ya sea intencional o un error, y debería eliminarse de inmediato con una disculpa”. El representante Don Bacon de Nebraska, un crítico frecuente de Trump, bromeó en las redes sociales sobre las explicaciones cambiantes de la Casa Blanca sobre el origen y la eliminación del video.
Elogios por la eliminación de la publicación
Más republicanos expresaron sus objeciones a la publicación después de que el video fuera retirado.
“Este contenido fue eliminado correctamente, nunca debió haberse publicado, y no es lo que somos como nación”, escribió la senadora republicana de Alabama, Katie Britt.
El representante republicano de Michigan, John James, que se postula para gobernador del estado, dijo que estaba “contento de ver que esa basura ha sido retirada”. James, uno de los cuatro republicanos negros de la Cámara, se dijo “conmocionado y horrorizado por esa publicación” pero defendió el carácter de Trump.
“Conozco al presidente. No es racista”, dijo James, quien promovió a Trump en comunidades negras durante la campaña presidencial de 2024.
Aun así, algunos de los aliados más cercanos del mandatario lo defendieron. Laura Loomer, una activista de extrema derecha y personalidad de los medios, llamó a sus seguidores en las redes sociales a señalar a cualquier legislador republicano que “ataque a Trump hoy con falsas acusaciones de racismo”.
“Estoy compilando una lista de cada senador republicano que atacó al presidente Trump hoy, y la imprimiré y la entregaré al presidente Trump antes de la reunión de invierno del @NRSC en Palm Beach, Florida, este fin de semana”, escribió Loomer, quien ha influido en la política de la administración y ha amenazado con represalias a los legisladores republicanos en el pasado, refiriéndose al Comité Senatorial Republicano Nacional por sus siglas en inglés.
Una narrativa cambiante de la Casa Blanca
Trump ha criticado a los Obama desde hace mucho tiempo. Antes de entrar en política, ganó fama entre los conservadores como un defensor de la teoría de la conspiración que afirmaba falsamente que el presidente Obama no nació en Estados Unidos.
Los funcionarios de la Casa Blanca hicieron distintas declaraciones cambiantes sobre cómo el video animado, que ha circulado entre los conservadores en línea durante meses, llegó a ser publicado por la cuenta del presidente.
La secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, Karoline Leavitt, dijo al principio que la publicación, que parece ser generada por IA, representaba a Trump como “Rey de la selva” y a los Obama y otros demócratas como personajes de “El Rey León”. Pero el clásico animado de Disney no incluye ningún personaje representado como simio, y está ambientado en una sabana africana, no en una selva.
Más tarde, los funcionarios de la Casa Blanca dijeron que el video fue publicado erróneamente por un miembro del personal.
“Me gustó el principio. Lo vi y simplemente lo pasé, y supongo que probablemente nadie revisó el final”, dijo Trump a los periodistas en el Air Force One. Cuando se le preguntó si condenaba las partes racistas del video, Trump dijo: “Por supuesto que sí”.
Demócratas se solidarizan con la antigua pareja presidencial
Los seguidores de los Obama también acudieron a las redes sociales no solo para condenar la publicación del presidente, sino también para celebrar a la antigua pareja presidencial.
“Deberíamos estar TODOS indignados”, publicó en las redes sociales Pete Souza, exfotógrafo jefe de la Casa Blanca durante la administración de Obama. “No publicaré una captura de pantalla del video aquí. En su lugar, pensé que lo mejor era responder con algunas de mis fotografías de Barack y Michelle”.
La representante demócrata de Massachusetts, Ayanna Pressley, publicó imágenes de los Obama y elogió su “brillantez, elegancia y belleza”.
“Quiero que los estadounidenses, particularmente nuestros jóvenes, sepan que la gran mayoría de nuestro país los apoya y los eleva a pesar de la inmundicia que emana de la Oficina Oval”, escribió la representante demócrata de California y expresidenta de la Cámara de Representantes Nancy Pelosi a los Obama en las redes sociales.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Republicans rarely criticize Donald Trump in his second term. A racist post briefly changed that.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump received rare blowback from Republican lawmakers over a video posted to social media that included a racist image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, depicted as primates.
Since Trump’s return to the White House, Republican lawmakers have treaded carefully when disagreeing with the president, often communicating their concerns in private for fear of suffering his wrath.
But the swift calls to remove the post, which also echoed false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, represented a rare moment of bipartisan backlash to Trump’s actions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Multiple GOP members of the Senate and House joined their Democratic colleagues in voicing disgust and criticism at the post and urged the president to remove it.
Trump declined to apologize, saying he did not see the racist portion of the video when he passed it on to staff.
How Republican lawmakers reacted
South Carolina’s Tim Scott, the only Black Republican senator and chair of the Senate GOP’s campaign arm, criticized the image and urged the president to remove it.
“Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it,” Scott wrote on social media.
Other Republican senators echoed the sentiment.
“Even if this was a Lion King meme, a reasonable person sees the racist context to this,” Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, wrote on social media. “The White House should do what anyone does when they make a mistake: remove this and apologize.”
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine called the image “appalling.” Roger Wicker, the senior senator from Mississippi, denounced it as “totally unacceptable.”
“The president should take it down and apologize,” Wicker wrote.
Sen. John Curtis of Utah called Trump’s post “blatantly racist and inexcusable. It should never have been posted or left published for so long.”
In the House, Rep. Mike Lawler of New York called Trump’s post “wrong and incredibly offensive—whether intentional or a mistake—and should be deleted immediately with an apology offered.” Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, a frequent Trump critic, quipped on social media about the White House’s shifting explanations for the video’s origin and deletion.
Praise for the post being removed
More Republicans lodged their objections to the post after the video was taken down.
“This content was rightfully removed, should have never been posted to begin with, and is not who we are as a nation,” wrote Sen. Katie Britt, an Alabama Republican.
Rep. John James, a Michigan Republican running for governor, said he was “glad to see that trash has been taken down.” James, one of four Black Republicans in the House, said he was “shocked and appalled by that post” but defended Trump’s character.
“I know the President. He is not racist,” said James, who campaigned for Trump in Black communities during the 2024 presidential campaign.
Still, some of Trump’s closest allies defended him. Laura Loomer, a far right activist and media personality, called on her social media followers to highlight any Republican lawmakers “attacking Trump today with false accusations of racism.”
“I am compiling a list of every single GOP Senator who attacked President Trump today, and I am printing it out and giving it to President Trump ahead of the @NRSC Winter Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida this weekend,” wrote Loomer, who has influenced administration policy and threatened retribution against GOP lawmakers in the past.
A shifting White House narrative
Trump has been a longtime critic of the Obamas. Before entering politics, he earned fame among conservatives as a champion of the “birther” conspiracy theory that falsely claimed that President Obama was not born in the U.S.
White House officials made multiple shifting statements about how the animated video, which has circulated among conservatives online for months, came to be posted by the president’s account.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at first said the post, which appears to be AI-generated, depicted Trump as “King of the Jungle” and the Obamas and other Democrats as characters from “The Lion King.” But the Disney animated classic does not include any characters depicted as apes, and is set in an African savanna not a jungle.
White House officials later said that the video was erroneously posted by a staffer.
“I liked the beginning. I saw it and just passed it on, and I guess probably nobody reviewed the end of it,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. Asked if he condemned the racist parts of the video, Trump said, “Of course I do.”
Democrats rally to former first couple
Supporters of the Obamas also took to social media not only to condemn the president’s post, but also to celebrate the former first couple.
“We should ALL be outraged,” Pete Souza, the former chief White House photographer during the Obama White House, posted to social media. “I will not post a screenshot of the video here. Instead, I thought it best to respond with a few of my photographs of Barack and Michelle.”
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., posted images of the Obamas and praised their “brilliance, elegance, and beauty.”
“I want Americans, particularly our young people, to know that the vast majority of our country supports and uplifts you despite the filth spewing from the Oval Office,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote to the Obamas on social media.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/07/republicans-criticize-trump-racist-post/
All Is Well… Or Is It?
All Is Well… Or Is It?
Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
“If you depreciate the money, it makes everything look like it’s going up.” – Ray Dalio
“People don’t realize how hard it is to speak the truth to a world full of people who don’t realize they’re living a lie” – Edward Snowden
My government overlords and their legacy media propaganda outlets tell me the economy is booming because GDP is between 4% and 5%, the stock market is near all-time highs, inflation is declining, unemployment is low, and AI is going to transform our world for the better. According to their narrative, All is Well. Meanwhile, all hell is breaking loose in every facet of our everyday lives. We are seeing 6 sigma (once in 500 million) events in multiple markets (gold, silver, JPY bonds) within one week. Well functioning non-manipulated markets based on price discovery do not crash by 40% in one day, like silver did last week.
Government shutdowns, ICE shootings, massive welfare program fraud, passing more bloated spending bills, fake staged shutdowns, violent upheaval in Democrat run urban shitholes, uncovering and ignoring the 2020 election fraud, Democrats (with RINO support) desperately trying to stop the SAVE Act voter ID bill to continue their election fraud scheme, and Trump tariffing and threatening every country on earth if they don’t do what he says, makes every day seem like an exhausting slog towards perdition.
And now we know for a fact the world is run by Satan worshiping, vile, child molesting pedophiles, powerful sadistic billionaires, who use politicians, bankers, and their propaganda media whores to coverup their crimes against humanity. The information which has seen the light of day is revolting, disgusting, criminal, and makes any normal person physically ill. Imagine the material they haven’t released or have already destroyed. The evilness, degeneracy, and immorality of their acts is incomprehensible to the average person trying to live a moral life, earn a living and raise a family.
What is really stupefying to me is no one other than Epstein and Maxwell have been arrested. And it is pretty clear the Trump DOJ has absolutely no plans to arrest anyone for the most heinous crimes ever documented. Meanwhile, Trump rages against Thomas Massie, who was solely responsible for forcing the release of these incriminating documents, while being completely silent regarding the evil men who committed these despicable depraved acts upon children.
More revealing is the complete blackout on all the legacy media outlets of the Epstein file release. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. It’s almost as if they have been instructed to circle the wagons and pretend the Epstein files don’t exist. Remember the videos of dozens of news anchors mouthing the exact same propaganda slogans during the covid scamdemic? Our government and media are completely controlled by evil men wielding undue influence and power over every aspect of our lives. Without Twitter and some dedicated alt-media websites, the truth about the true nature of how our world actually runs would be completely silenced.
Our overlords use the CIA, Mossad, NSA, FBI and other means to control the narrative and lead the ignorant masses to their demise. It is absolutely true the MSM being silent about the Epstein files means at least 80% of the population has absolutely no idea they were even released. And even if they know, after decades of government school indoctrination, they are incurious and incapable of critical thought, just as the pedophile psychopaths planned. Aldous Huxley was right about so many things, especially how our masters deal with the truth.
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth” – Aldous Huxley
Silence about the truth is their plan and they continue to implement it with deceptive gusto, while manipulating the propaganda levers of mind control through the media, Wall Street, the DC swamp, billionaire funded NGOs creating chaos across the land, and bought off social media influencers pushing whatever narrative they are instructed to spew by Israel and their child sacrificing co-conspirators throughout the government, finance, media, and entertainment industries. The narrative is ALL IS WELL, when anyone capable of examining the facts knows all is not well. In fact, our current situation is awful and deteriorating by the minute. I will briefly examine whether things are well in the markets, the economy, personal finances, politics, and global relations.
The standard response by those promoting the ALL IS WELL narrative is the stock market being within 2% of an all-time high. Scott Bessent and his band of hedge fund acolytes know they can manipulate the market upward whenever Trump does or says something astoundingly stupid. It can work in the short term because daily moves are based on emotion and momentum trading, but over the long term, earnings, valuations and reality will always win the day. The stock market valuation is currently 3 standard deviations above the long-term average and 45% above the Dotcom bubble valuation. We appear to be in a bubble seeking a pin.
There is nothing like having the most overvalued market in history with margin debt at an all-time high as Wall Street has lured the suckers in at the top. Smart money exiting and selling to the noobs who have leveraged themselves in this “can’t miss opportunity of a lifetime”, is par for the course this century, as we pop our 4th bubble in 25 years. The engineered take down of gold and silver last week was violent and rapid, with no escape for the leveraged. The bloodbath when the margin calls begin to cascade during the coming stock market collapse will be a sight to see. It will be blood in the streets once again. Some people never learn.
Charts become out of date pretty quickly when markets move as crazily as they have over the last month. Despite the USD only falling by about 1% since Powell’s August 21 speech confirming more rate cuts and the initiation of QE to infinity when markets were at record highs and the economy was supposedly booming, gold and silver took notice by soaring by 46% and 120% respectively. And this is after last week’s crash. When gold and silver act like meme stocks, all is not well beneath the surface of this economic system. Something is broken, on par with September 2019.
When you hear the bubble headed bimbos on CNBC cackle like Kamala about the all-time high in the S&P 500, you might want to keep the chart below in mind. The stock market measured in gold is at a 12 year low and is exactly where it was during the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. Those vacuous nitwits will never tell you gold has been the investment of the 21st century, going up by a factor of 17.5 versus a factor of 5 for the S&P 500. Gold isn’t really going up, the value of your perpetually printed fiat is going down.
If you want to know the real reason gold and silver have soared and inflation numbers have begun to go higher, look no further than Powell and his Fed cronies firing up the old fiat printer by printing like we are in a financial crisis. Why would the Fed need to rapidly expand the money supply, cut rates by 175 basis points, and begin new QE bond purchases if ALL WAS WELL? Because all is unwell. This Potemkin economy is nothing but kabuki theater smoke and mirrors, with the average person struggling to survive, seeing utility, food, rent, insurance, taxes, tolls, and all daily living expenses continuing to outpace their income.
While Trump, his minions, and the banking cabal pretend the USD is solid as a rock, the rest of the world (mostly China) is in the midst of de-dollarizing their holdings. The tide has turned as the tsunami of inflation unleashed in 1913 has already wiped out 97% of the purchasing power of the USD. This flailing empire of debt is completely dependent upon the USD being the world’s reserve currency and will do anything (including war and kidnapping other world leaders) to maintain that supremacy. But, $2 trillion annual deficits, a $38.6 trillion national debt, over $200 trillion in unfunded welfare liabilities, and trying to provoke World War 3 should make the final 3% depreciation of the USD a real extravaganza of wealth destruction, bloody war, and societal collapse.
If ALL IS WELL, why has Trump used every possible means to bully Powell into cutting interest rates drastically, even demanding 1% rates again? If the economy is as fantastic as he says and the stock market is at all-time highs, why would we need much lower rates? The Fed began cutting in September of 2024, reducing rates by 1.75%. The 10 Year Treasury was at 3.65% when Powell began cutting. Today it is at 4.27%. For the math challenged, that is a .62% INCREASE since the Fed started cutting. The cuts have done nothing to make housing more affordable, while drastically reducing the interest income senior citizens and conservative savers were earning on their money market accounts.
The real reason Powell has cut rates and Trump wants them cut more is because they are both beholden and controlled by the banking cabal and billionaire financiers. The titans of finance are sitting on hundreds of billions of unrealized losses due to their purchase of government bonds when interest rates were 0%. In a financial crisis, those unrealized losses would become realized losses due to forced selling. Trump, Powell and Warsh know what is coming and will do anything to protect their billionaire brethren, while throwing grandma and you under the bus.
The selection of Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chairman is a bit of a head scratcher, because he has spent years criticizing Yellen and Powell about keeping interest rates too low and implementing QE to infinity in response to the Fed/Wall Street created financial debt disaster in 2008. He is supposedly a hawk, when Trump wants an ultra-dove who will slash rates. Trump has also done a 180 on home prices, as he declared during his campaign he wanted them 30% lower to help young people, and now he wants them higher to keep Boomers rich and his Wall Street pals richer.
We currently have the most overvalued home prices in history, 60% higher than the 2005 bubble, and Trump wants the bubble to get bigger. After the last bubble, prices fell 30% over the next seven years, until the Fed, their Wall Street owners, and the government colluded to drive prices up by having hedge funds buy up the excess inventory, initiating the current bubble. I don’t know what will prick this bubble, but it is clearly unsustainable, as the average person can no longer afford to buy a home. A 50% decline over several years would be a best case scenario, but I believe the coming financial crisis will ignite a contagion that can’t be stopped.
The housing market is currently frozen, as sellers refuse to reduce prices and buyers can’t afford the current prices. This is why Trump desperately wants 3% mortgage rates again. Ain’t happening. The devastating inflation created by the Fed’s ZIRP has not been unwound. Inflation helps the banking cabal and billionaires, but destroys the standard of living for the average American. The curious selection of Warsh seems like a setup for when they “pull it”. Does Trump want a fall guy for when it all goes to hell, or is this all part of the Great Taking/CBDC plan to subjugate the masses in poverty, while the satanic demon child sacrificers reap the riches and increase their power and control over the world?
While financial and housing markets are simultaneously the most overvalued in world history, the average person trying to just live their life, raise a family, maintain a decent standard of living, and go on a modest annual vacation to the beach or mountains, is more financially stressed than they have ever been. The people who are not stressed are the 0.1% who rule the world (aka Epstein friends and family). They control over 14% of the country’s net worth, up from less than 9% in 2003. This has happened under the rule of both parties. The ruling class has engineered the financial system in way that siphons the riches to them, while steadily depleting the wealth of the masses.
Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset vision is materializing before our very eyes. The bottom 80% own nothing, have less and less to spend, but they aren’t very happy. When 80% of the population is seeing their standard of living decline rapidly, while observing the wealthy getting wealthier, and the evil elite normalizing pedophilia, child mutilation, and degeneracy as a lifestyle, the groundwork for violent revolution should be underway, with guillotines and gallows being constructed across the land.
The average person has depleted their savings and now lives month to month on their credit card, paying 20% interest to the Wall Street cabal. This is the way our overlords want it. The plebs are so busy trying to survive, while AI replaces their jobs, they have no time or hope, keeping them from ever revolting. The proles will never revolt because they don’t even know they are oppressed.
“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed” – Orwell’s 1984
No matter how hard the propaganda machine insists the economy is great, the average person knows they are being screwed over by the ruling class and lied to by their president and his government apparatchiks. Consumer confidence is at a 12 year low, and falling, because consumers are out of money. When, even using the massively manipulated CPI promulgated by your government overlords, your dollar purchases 26% less than it did in 2019, while your income rose 15%, your confidence might be eroding. In reality, we all know prices are up at least 50%, no matter what Big Brother declares with certitude.
When it comes to consumers, especially the young, does the following chart seem to support the ALL IS WELL narrative? The Biden student loan “pause” is over and 3.6 million young adults who were lured into believing a degree in Transgender African Lesbian Studies would get them a high paying job FAFO. This is just student loan debt. Charts showing auto loan debt, credit card debt, and mortgage debt are all showing delinquency rates at the highest rates in over a decade. Yes, the richest of the rich are doing fabulously well as their stock portfolios soar and their AI scam continues to rake in more fools, but the average working stiff knows they have been abandoned by the people they elected, like always. Satanic Pedophiles rule!!!!
I believe the only thing keeping this shitshow from crashing down immediately is the no hire – no fire jobs market which has been in effect for the last year. If you still have some sort of job and can make the minimum payment on your credit card and your monthly rent payment, financial Armageddon is temporarily delayed. It is defaults on debts that begin the banquet of consequences for the economy, corporations, politicians, and bankers. We are essentially in an extend and pretend phase which is transitioning into another debt debacle crisis. Job cuts will be the spark that ignites the powder-keg of debt. Job cuts in January were 35% higher than last January and double the number in December. Not supportive of the ALL IS WELL narrative.
Meanwhile, on an annual basis the Challenger, Gray & Christmas job cut announcements in 2025 were 58% higher than 2024, and the highest in a decade, excluding the Covid scam year of 2020. The trend is not Trump’s friend.
The number of recently announced job cuts by major employers does not bode well for 2026:
US Government: 307,000 employees
UPS: 78,000 employees
Amazon: 30,000 employees
Intel: 25,000 employees
Nissan: 20,000 employees
Nestle: 16,000 employees
Microsoft: 15,000 employees
Bosch: 13,000 employees
Dell: 12,000 employees
Verizon: 13,000 employees
Accenture: 11,000 employees
Ford: 11,000 employees
Novo Nordisk: 9,000 employees
The consumer confidence of AI and robots is probably at all-time highs, if they measured such stuff.
Based on the facts, not narratives, ALL IS NOT WELL and it will never be well again. So what does this mean for you and me? The mid-term elections are in ten months. Based on history, the president’s party loses seats 90% of the time. Based upon this do nothing GOP congress accomplishing nothing beneficial to the average person, Trump will surely lose the 6 seat majority House by at least 25 seats and at least a couple Senate seats. The GOP will not even pass the SAVE Act to secure honest elections. The Uni-party doesn’t seem to want honest elections. Trump’s approval rating continues to plummet and his daily unhinged posts on Truth Social are not helping. I expect Trump to act in an even more authoritarian manner as the elections approach. The MAGA NPCs will approve.
The real question in my mind is whether they “pull it” before or after the mid-terms. Based on Trumps actions, totally contrary to what he campaigned on and promised his voters, I have begun to believe he was installed to usher in another global financial collapse, with his “solution” being totalitarian government control of everything and everyone. The First and Second Amendment will be discarded. When the financial system enters collapse mode, they will bail-in (take) your 40lks, investment accounts and bank accounts in order to “Save the System”. All good patriots will go along, just like they did during the Covid plandemic. Your beloved overlords will dole out a certain amount of CBDC tokens to replace the money they stole from you.
Trump is one of them, as revealed by the Epstein files. When your government redacts the names of the pedophiles who raped children rather than the victims, you know your government does not represent you. The release of these monstrously despicable documents, with no effort to prosecute or arrest anyone, is meant to make us feel helpless and powerless to hold these fiends accountable. We are ruled by demonic, child sacrificing, satanists and we are not voting our way out of this. They seem to want violent upheaval, war, and chaos across the globe because they think it will benefit them. No one is coming to rescue us, because they are all in on it. After listening to Putin’s assessment of the West, you know why they are trying to destroy Russia.
“The West is being run by satanic pedophiles. They want to normalize pedophilia. They got accustomed for centuries to filling their bellies with humans flesh and their pockets with money. But the vampire ball is coming to an end.” – Vladimir Putin
We are truly in an existential battle between good and evil. The sinister psychopaths and their fiendish acolytes wield their power and wealth like a cudgel against the common man. They take joy in the misery and suffering of others. This is nothing but a game to them, and we are all expendable pieces on their board. Time is growing short and trust in any and all politicians, bankers, academics, and media personalities has dissolved. Our future as a country and a people will depend on the individual choices of millions of good people over the next few years. We outnumber these Satan worshiping deviants by millions. The law does not matter, because they wrote the law. They need to pay for their crimes by any means necessary. Buy more guns and ammo. Prepare for the ultimate battle.
“The greedy elite would rather be extremely rich in a suffering nation than modestly rich in a successful nation. The greater the misery, the greater their power, since power is the difference in wealth and influence between one person and another.” –Jesse, September 2012
Tyler Durden
Sat, 02/07/2026 – 15:10
Shooting Stars regresa al evento del sábado del All-Star de la NBA
Associated Press
INGLEWOOD, California, EE.UU. (AP) — Por primera vez desde 2015, el evento Shooting Stars de la NBA regresa al fin de semana del All-Star.
La liga hizo ese anuncio el sábado, revelando las alineaciones para dos de los tres eventos que tendrán lugar en la Noche del Sábado del All-Star el próximo fin de semana en la casa de los Clippers de Los Ángeles en Inglewood, California.
Shooting Stars — un evento con tres jugadores por equipo — tomará el lugar de la competencia de habilidades, que se pospone al menos por este año.
Allan Houston — un campeón pasado de Shooting Stars — regresará al evento este año para el Equipo Knicks, con los jugadores actuales de Nueva York Jalen Brunson y Karl-Anthony Towns uniéndose a él en ese equipo. También en el evento de tiro: Equipo Harper (Ron Harper Sr. y sus hijos, Dylan Harper de San Antonio y Ron Harper Jr. de Boston), Equipo All-Star (Richard Hamilton, Scottie Barnes de Toronto y Chet Holmgren de Oklahoma City) y Equipo Cameron (un guiño a Duke, con Corey Maggette, Kon Knueppel de Charlotte y Jalen Johnson de Atlanta en ese equipo).
Los últimos tres eventos de Shooting Stars fueron ganados por el mismo trío — Chris Bosh, Swin Cash y Dominique Wilkins.
El evento Shooting Stars tiene un formato de dos rondas, con los cuatro equipos compitiendo en la primera ronda y los dos mejores avanzando a la ronda final. Los equipos tienen 70 segundos para anotar puntos mientras rotan por siete ubicaciones designadas de tiro alrededor de la cancha, con los tres jugadores de un equipo disparando en cada lugar en un orden establecido.
Habrá un nuevo campeón de mates este año, ya que el tres veces ganador Mac McClung no está en el campo de este año. McClung dijo al entrar en el evento de mates del año pasado que esperaba que fuera su último.
Los participantes de mates de este año: Keshad Johnson de Miami, Carter Bryant de San Antonio, Jase Richardson de Orlando y Jaxson Hayes de los Lakers de Los Ángeles.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Cuba Shutters Beach Resorts As Fuel Crisis Spreads Economy-Wide
Cuba Shutters Beach Resorts As Fuel Crisis Spreads Economy-Wide
President Trump’s pressure campaign on Cuba is gaining serious momentum as the Caribbean island’s energy crisis deepens, unleashing rampant fuel shortages and prolonged power blackouts. The government rolled out new conservation measures late Friday to preserve energy, but large parts of the economy are already imploding.
Bloomberg reports that Trump’s move to curb fuel shipments to Cuba is spilling over into the tourism sector, with energy shortages forcing two large beach resorts to shut down as early as this weekend.
Here’s more from the outlet:
At least two large beach resorts on Cayo Coco, on the northern coast of the Caribbean nation, will be closing as soon as this weekend due to gasoline shortages, employees reported Friday.
A worker at Mojito Cayo Coco said the resort was shutting down because there wasn’t enough fuel for employees to get to work. Instead, about 200 guests will be transferred to Sol Cayo Coco about 30 miles away.
The worker, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, blamed Trump’s sanctions and said many of his colleagues were losing their jobs. In more than two decades at the hotel, he said he’d seen temporary shutdowns for multiple hurricanes but never for non-weather-related disasters.
On Friday night, Cuba’s government warned that its entire tourism sector was under a “consolidation plan” amid fuel supply disruptions that are rocking the island’s economy.
“Cuban authorities have unilaterally decided to regroup certain travelers in hotels with higher occupancy levels to help ensure service continuity and overall service quality,” Canadian airline and vacation provider Transat AT wrote in a statement. “They have confirmed that these properties remain operational and continue to meet their usual standards.”
Canada recently updated its travel guidance on Cuba to “exercise a high degree of caution,” warning, “The situation is unpredictable and could deteriorate, disrupting flight availability on short notice.”
Havana has drastically reduced public transportation services, shortened the workweek (Monday through Thursday), and moved university classes online.
As of Friday night, the projected total power output for the nation’s grid covered less than half of peak demand (3,100 MW).
Last month, Venezuelan-born political commentator Eduardo Menoni said Cuba’s power grid “has completely collapsed in Havana after more than 20 hours of blackouts.”
Menoni said, “Cuba’s electrical system has completely collapsed in Havana. Communism is a shitty deal.”
🇨🇺 | URGENTE — Cacerolazo masivo en la zona sur de La Habana, Cuba.
Esto es ahora mismo en Arroyo Naranjo. pic.twitter.com/gfMsIZsUGl
— Agustín Antonetti (@agusantonetti) February 6, 2026
With an economic crisis compounded by an energy crunch clearly worsening, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel was likely forced, due to growing risks of social instability, to begin negotiations with the Trump administration late in the week.
“Cuba is willing to engage in dialogue with the United States,” Díaz-Canel announced on Thursday. He made clear it can be a “dialogue on any topic… but without pressure or precondition.”
What piqued our interest about a week ago was a sanctioned Russian Ilyushin Il-76, operated by Aviacon Zitotrans, touching down at a Cuban military airfield. The jet can carry up to 50 tons of cargo or roughly 200 personnel, but there has been no official word on its cargo.
This leaves us with a report from the Russian-military-focused Telegram channel Rybar on Tuesday that only suggests that Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0 could be in the making.
Trump recently said, “We’re starting to talk to Cuba,” and explained his view that “It doesn’t have to be a humanitarian crisis. I think they probably would come to us and want to make a deal. So Cuba would be free again.”
Tyler Durden
Sat, 02/07/2026 – 14:35
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cuba-shutters-beach-resorts-fuel-crisis-spreads-economy-wide
Donald Trump praises Nexstar-Tegna broadcast television deal he once opposed
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion purchase of broadcast rival Tegna, an apparent reversal from earlier criticism of the deal.
“We need more competition against THE ENEMY, the Fake News National TV Networks,” Trump wrote on social media. “Letting Good Deals get done like Nexstar – Tegna will help knock out the Fake News because there will be more competition. … GET THAT DEAL DONE.”
The acquisition, which Nexstar announced in August and requires regulatory approval, would bring together two companies with significant holdings in local broadcast media. Nexstar oversees more than 200 owned and partner stations in 116 markets nationwide and also runs networks like The CW and NewsNation. Meanwhile, Tegna owns 64 news stations across 51 markets.
In November, Trump had criticized the purchase. “If this would also allow the Radical Left Networks to ‘enlarge,’ I would not be happy,” he wrote then.
But the companies operate independently of the large broadcast networks such as ABC and NBC. In September, Nexstar, along with the right-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC late-night talk show for about a week after Kimmel’s comments on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The deal has occurred as the Federal Communications Commission is seeking to reform rules that limit local TV station ownership. Some court decisions have also struck down regulations that limited the number of top TV stations in a single market that one company could own.
Nexstar has sought to portray the deal as consistent with the Trump administration’s deregulatory moves.
“The initiatives being pursued by the Trump administration offer local broadcasters the opportunity to expand reach, level the playing field, and compete more effectively with the Big Tech and legacy Big Media companies that have unchecked reach and vast financial resources,” Nexstar’s CEO, Perry Sook, said when announcing the deal.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/07/trump-nexstar-tegna-broadcast-television-deal/
Syria and Saudi Arabia sign multibillion-dollar investment deals to boost economy
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria and Saudi Arabia signed multibillion-dollar investment agreements on Saturday, including a major telecommunications project, a low-cost joint airline and an international airport in northern Syria.
Syria is trying to improve its economy after a long war that killed nearly half a million people and caused widespread destruction. Most of the crippling Western sanctions on Syria were lifted after a new leadership took power following the ouster of former President Bashar Assad in December 2024, opening the way for investments to flow into the country.
Abdulsalam Haykal, Syria’s minister of communications and information technology, said the nearly $1 billion telecommunications development will take place in two stages lasting between 18 months and two years.
“The project contributes in making Syria an international telecommunications hub,” he said, adding the SilkLink project will involve thousands of kilometers (miles) of cables being laid to boost internet connectivity between Asia and Europe.
Saudi Investment Minister Khalid al-Falih said the project will be led by Saudi Telecom Company, or STC Group.
Al-Falih said that the Energy Ministry in Syria also signed a water agreement with Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power, which is known for running projects in power generation and desalinated water production plants in the Middle East and beyond.
Also part of the investment agreements was a new low-cost airline called Flynas Syria, the two sides said. The value of the investment was not disclosed.
The oil-rich kingdom, a main backer to Syria’s new government led by interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, will also launch an investment fund to develop the international airport in the northern city of Aleppo that will serve 12 million passengers annually, according to the two governments.
In July, Syria and Saudi Arabia announced 47 investment agreements valued at over $6 billion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/07/syria-saudi-arabia-investment-deals/
