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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Well, it's another cloudy winter's day. So far, we have been exempted from any of the nor'easters off the East Coast, thank you G-d. I guess the microclimate here on the Niagara Peninsula is back to normal for February: 25°F to 46°F range. We have a dusting of snow, which appears to be melting. I pray 🙏 that the Ukrainians will soon have milder weather; they could use it. Please join me in this prayer if you wish.

Just poured me some fresh coffee and retired to the Newsroom to scan the latest shenanigans on the net; amazing what you can stumble on just idly asking -Google Search- random questions. The AI portion of Google Search is the best thing they have come up with on the Internet since browsers. I learned that AI is meant to be a tool for informing and acquiring new knowledge in one brief sitting.

Now, the problem may be some geek programming their own information using AI, which could amount to fake news and conspiracy theories, or to copying intellectual property. AI is no worse than before; there's cow shit all over the place in the cow pasture called the Internet. You just have to learn where to step when walking there, and to recognise what is fake and what isn't. After one has been surfing and mining the Internet for some years, one grows an instinct for B.S. We need to be more alert about what we're reading, and if we're uncertain, check it out with Google Search, SNOPES, or other neutral fact-checker.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Truth, Reality and AI:

Well, well, well, for once, Trumpo The Typo did something right. Drug cartels and any other corporate thieves are the dregs of humanity, blood suckers. A cancer to all societies and governmental systems.*_

Mexican forces kill top cartel boss 'El Mencho' - What's the magnitude of his death? | DW News

The Mexican army has killed a powerful cartel boss *"El Mencho"*. He was one of the most wanted men in both Mexico and the United States. The US had offered a $15 million bounty for his capture and said it provided intelligence to Mexican special forces for the operation.

WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU, MA'AM! Keep up the good work, President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum. That drug money should go back into helping the *We, the people, of Mexico.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqqRs6uTwXA

I firmly believe that if all nations cleaned up their own corporate theft from their federal funding systems, there would be more than enough for each country to keep the system running smoothly, without some crook trying to figure out a way to bring home more than they can honestly earn. "Effing greed, subversion, deceit, and lies, and now the new Gestapo's on the block, Trupo's Dunce Cadets." Those clowns will never be true Gestapo; they're just too stupid to be truly effective in a real riot or mob control situation.*_

A thug's specialty is usually to bust a leg or an arm or take you out in the desert in your own car with a bullet hole in the forehead. But these thugs are like wolves, cowards by nature, unless they are in a pack. It doesn't mean they won't actually shoot if outnumbered. Will they be able to use their weapons effectively if they faced a gathering of citizens protesting the presence of the thugs and their violence, as I know they will? With all the suffering that these armed thugs will have inflicted upon We, the People, by springtime, it ain't gonna help the situation any, melting snow along with blood, mud, and guts? What do you think? Or do We, the People, have a different plan for preventing such bloodshed?

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump’s approval rating with independents hits a new low ahead of the State of the Union

When President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address Tuesday, he will face a public that increasingly questions his priorities and expresses broad doubts about whether his proposed policies are helping the nation, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Adding to the pile of alarming indicators for the president’s party heading into this year’s midterms, Trump’s approval rating among political independents has dipped to a new low in CNN polling.

Just 32% of Americans now say that Trump has had the right priorities, while 68% say he hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems. That’s the president’s most negative reading on that question to date during either of his terms in office. At the same time, Americans say, 61% to 38%, that Trump’s policies will move the country in the wrong direction rather than the right one. And Trump’s job approval rating among all adults remains mired at 36%...

CHART | CNN poll conducted by SSRS Donald Trump Approval.*

From 48% from last February down to 36% as of February 17, 2026 Aproval.

• Americans want to hear about the economy and cost of living:

More than 6 in 10 say Trump SHOULD FOCUS ON ECONOMIC ISSUES in his Address Tuesday.

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PUBLISHED February 23, 2026, 5:00 AM ET - 5 hr ago

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Supreme Court to decide if Colorado city can sue oil companies for climate change

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a major environmental appeal from fossil fuel producers who are hoping to shake off a lawsuit from a Colorado city that wants to hold them responsible for climate change. The court’s decision could have broad implications for numerous other lawsuits filed by state and local governments seeking billions of dollars in damages.

The appeal follows a decision from the Colorado Supreme Court last year that rejected an effort by Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil to get the lawsuit from Boulder, Colorado, tossed out on the grounds that such state-law claims are preempted by the Clean Air Act.

“Boulder, Colorado, cannot make energy policy for the entire country,” an attorney for the industry told the Supreme Court, adding that justices should step in to “clarify that state law cannot impose the costs of global climate change on a subset of the world’s energy producers chosen by a single municipality.” ...

Video Included: IOC Spokesperson: Climate is "Reshaping winter sports and threatening winter Olympics." ...

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PUBLISHED February 23, 2026, 9:38 AM ET - 1 hr 12 min ago

- CNN -

Ukraine is becoming a nation of widows and orphans as it confronts a demographic ‘catastrophe’

Kyiv:

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Olena Bilozerska and her husband always knew they wanted children. She was 34, and they were ready to start trying when the war erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The couple joined the fight and decided a baby would have to wait. By the time Bilozerska left the military, she was 41 and told by doctors her chances of conceiving were next to none. It was too late.

With the war in Ukraine about to mark its fourth anniversary, Ukraine’s birth rate is collapsing, with increasing number of people struggling with fertility or putting off the decision to have children. At the same time, losses are mounting on the frontlines, and millions of people who have fled as refugees have now settled abroad. The result is one of the world’s worst demographic crises. “It’s a catastrophe,” Ella Libanova, a leading Ukrainian demographer, told CNN. “No country can exist without people. Even before the war, Ukraine’s population density was low (and) very unevenly spread.” ...

CHART | Ukraine population Decline:

• A country of widows:

At this point, I had to stop and take abreak for I couldn't see the keyboard for tears. This is so heartbreaking, yet my heart swells even more for their pride, heroism, and determination to keep their freedom and peace.

Ukraine's fertility rate has plunged with the full-scale invasion

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Updated Feb 22, 2026, 11:48 AM ET

- CNN -

WHAT IN THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU FOLKS IN THE U.N., NATO, E.U., and Allies? HUH? Bunch of cowards.

The "Fn Hell!" with Trumpo The Typo, The rest of you, you are supposed to be HUMANITARIANS! SO YOU CALL YOURSELVES? AND YET YOU JUST SIT ON YOUR HANDS AND DO F NOTHING AT ALL? What kind of Hen-Pecked organization are you, anyway? Micky Mouse as chief, and Daffy Duck as vice president, servant, influencer, and advisor, and shity diaper cleaner to Your Hinnyness Kink. Micky Mouse could do a better job; at least he wears shorts, not a diaper.

40 NATIONS STRONG!

CANADIAN NEWS:

Security minister says 25 died after operation targeting El Mencho; Global Affairs Canada warns of shootouts

The Latest:

• Mexico's Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch said 25 members of the National Guard were killed in Jalisco state after the death of "El Mencho," leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
• More than 30 cartel operatives have died in the violence, officials said.
• Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said this morning the country was "calm" with no roadblocks by daybreak today.
• Global Affairs Canada is advising people to exercise a high degree of caution if they are in Mexico, avoid non-essential travel in several states, and that the security situation "could deteriorate rapidly" across the country.
• Airlines have cancelled flights, and thousands of Canadians are stranded.
• There is a shelter-in-place order in Puerto Vallarta, where Canadians are being advised to keep a low profile, monitor media reports, and follow orders from local authorities.
• Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is speaking now.

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Updated February 23, 2026 - 20 minutes ago

22 minutes ago

More than 26,000 Canadians in Mexico

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Updated February 23, 2026 - 20 minutes ago

- CBC -

Travel 'nearly impossible' in parts of U.S. northeast, with thousands of flight cancellations

Canada's largest airport advises travellers to check with their airlines amid wave of cancellations

Millions of people in New York City and a large swath of the northeastern U.S. were stuck at home under road travel bans and blizzard warnings on Monday as heavy snow and strong winds intensified, creating whiteout conditions in the densely populated region.

Snow fell at a rate of five to 7.6 centimetres an hour early Monday from New York through Massachusetts. Some areas have gotten well over 30 centimetres of snow since Sunday, along with wind gusts of more than 48 km/h and low visibility. Long Island MacArthur Airport reported 50 centimetres of snow as of Monday morning. Freehold, N.J., had 48 centimetres...

*CHART |* Latest three day snow forecast:*

• Power outages reported:
• Bomb cyclone potential:

Posted: Feb 23, 2026 4:56 AM EST | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

- CBC -

DRUG LORDS KILLING SPARKS WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN MEXICO

Some Americans are now stuck in Puerto Vallarta amid the violence and are trying to return home. Wendy Gillette reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mkWmsDmvWM