Posted originally on Feb 27, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
The resignation of World Economic Forum President Borge Brende is being framed in the press as a simple leadership transition, but the underlying issue is far more revealing about the crisis of confidence now unfolding within global institutions. Brende stepped down after his past contacts with Jeffrey Epstein came to light.
According to reports, the disclosures showed that Brende had “three business dinners with Epstein” and exchanged emails and messages with him, which immediately triggered reputational pressure at the highest level of global governance circles. Brende ultimately stated he chose to resign after “careful consideration,” saying it was the right moment for the Forum to continue its work “without distractions.” That wording alone is telling, because institutions do not speak about “distractions” unless the damage is political and reputational rather than legal in nature.
What we are witnessing fits perfectly within the broader cycle of declining institutional credibility that I have warned about repeatedly. The World Economic Forum has positioned itself as a central pillar of global public-private governance, yet its leadership is now being scrutinized over associations that date back years. The Epstein files have already prompted investigations and fallout across Europe’s political elite, illustrating how deeply interconnected the global policy class has become.
Brende, who has led the WEF since 2017, admitted to contacts in a business context and said he was unaware of Epstein’s criminal background at the time, while an independent review reportedly found no additional concerns beyond what had already been disclosed. Yet in politics and global governance, perception is often more powerful than formal findings. Once confidence begins to erode, leadership changes become inevitable regardless of whether wrongdoing is established.
We are moving into a phase where global institutions from international organizations to multinational policy forums are losing the aura of untouchable authority they once enjoyed. The resignation is not just about one individual. It reflects the growing public distrust toward unelected globalist bodies that attempt to shape economic and political policy on a global scale.
Posted originally on Feb 27, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
German police in Heilbronn launched an investigation against a retired man who commented “Pinocchio is coming to HN” under a police Facebook post announcing a visit by Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Baden-Württemberg’s prime minister. The comment included a long-nosed emoji, yet authorities still initiated proceedings under Article 188 of the German Criminal Code, a law introduced in 2021 that criminalizes insults against politicians if they are deemed to hinder their public work and can carry penalties of up to five years in prison.
“When we come across cases of criminal activity during our monitoring of social media, we will file a suit or submit it to the public prosecutor’s office for review,” the police office’s social media team reported. You read that correctly—the police now have social media teams that are in charge of monitoring citizens’ online communications.
The investigation reportedly began after police monitoring of social media posts connected to the official announcement of Merz’s visit, demonstrating a proactive surveillance of public commentary rather than a reaction to a direct complaint. The poster said that his comment was “an ambiguous, symbolic, and satirical expression of opinion in a political context,” and yet, he is being charged as a criminal for likening the chancellor to a fictional character known for telling fables.
Merz recently said that he wants to destroy online anonymity. The government needs the ability to monitor every user in real-time. Western civilization is no better than traditional dictatorships that force civilians to live in fear of speaking out. Criticizing the “king” could result in criminal charges. Authoritarian control cannot tolerate free speech. We will see governments increasing their crackdown on any perceived dissent, increasing surveillance measures to ensure the masses do not question authority.
Posted originally on Feb 26, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
There have always been straight an homosexual since ancient times. The term “Philadelphus” was given to Ptolemy II because he married his sister. Of course, William Penn named his city Philadelphia with the Christian interpretation that I love my brother. He did not understand the ancient true meaning that existed long before Christianity. Not sure why this has become hate speech without a derogatory attack on someone. I asked ChatGPT how many genders are there and this was it’s answer. It seems they disregarded biological gender with gender identity which are two separate definitions. They are not the same.
Posted originally on Feb 26, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
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What this video shows is how brainwashed the LIBERAL voters truly are. To believe that ANYONE does not have ID and they are too poor to have one in order to vote is pure stupidity. The only people without ID can ONLY be illegal aliens. The Democrats are becoming so offensive all to retain power to force their failed Marxisy policies to destroy the country as those ideas destroyed China, Russia, and has reduced Europe to the lowest economic growth of any major country.
My father was a Democrat. There is absolutely NO WAY he would be voting Democrat today. He took me in 1960 to listen to JFK in Willingboro, NJ. Since I was just 10 years old, JFK as a politician, came to me to shake my hand. I guess in those days they use to kiss babies. I do recall people also uttering ignorant comments that JFK was a Catholic so the Pope would tell him how to run the country.
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You had to show two IDs in NYC just to shovel snow. This is a sad statement on the LIBERAL white youth in Berkley that they are this ignorant for what they think of African Americans being so ignorant to be able to get an ID, reflects on their own level of intelligence. I certainly would not hire such an individual with this level of stupidity.
Looking around the world, I have not found any major country where someone does not have ID.
Clinton is claiming that she didn’t know Jeffrey Epstein. However, a leaked photograph of the deposition shows the author of her statement likely sitting right next to her. They paused the deposition because the picture was made public.
Apparently, Cheryl Mills is still around as Clinton’s personal lawyer.
Posted originally on CTH on February 26, 2026 | Sundance
Watch the short statement from John Thune about the current DHS govt shutdown overlaid against the base demand for the Senate to vote on the SAVE Act.
In typical Republican fashion, it sounds like Leader Thune is leveraging the process of voting on the SAVE act as a negotiating tool to reopen government. ie. If Democrats will give on the DHS funding (open govt), then in sounds like… in exchange, Thune will just throw the SAVE act on the floor without the talking filibuster. WATCH:
🚨 BREAKING: John Thune says there are now discussions underway to ENFORCE the talking filibuster for the SAVE America Act
However, Thune is saying there are currently NOT 50 Republican Senators willing to go down that path — even though they’ve sponsored the bill
I hope I’m wrong, but this approach would be McConnell-esque. Meaning, typical. Thune is looking for a way to avoid the SAVE act presented as a talking filibuster.
Posted originally on CTH on February 26, 2026 | Sundance
According to the Cuban government: “It has been established that the neutralized speedboat, registered in Florida FL7726SH, was carrying 10 armed people, who, according to preliminary statements by the detainees, intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.”
The Cuban military opened fire on a speedboat with 10 passengers. According to established reports, 4 passengers were killed and six were wounded and captured by the Cuban coast guard forces. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the story as it surfaced yesterday (Associated Press). WATCH:
The Cuban government has released the names of those captured: “1-Amijail Sánchez González, 2-Leordan Enrique Cruz, Gómez, 3-Conrado Galindo Sariol, 4-José Manuel Rodríguez Castelló, 5-Cristian Ernesto Acosta Guevara, 6-Roberto Azcorra Consuegra. Among the deceased was Michel Ortega Casanova. Work is being done on the identification of the other 3.”
Cuba claims the boat, registered out of Florida, was carrying ten people intended to conduct terrorism in Cuba. Secretary Marco Rubio says the U.S. is conducting our own investigation to determine what took place.
In the press remarks above, Secretary Rubio also discussed the current status of U.S.-Iran negotiations.
Posted originally on CTH on February 26, 2026 | Sundance
Apparently, the World Economic Forum had launched an internal investigation of President and CEO Borge Brende following revelations of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Today, the former Norwegian Foreign Minister resigned from his position.
ZURICH, Feb 26 (Reuters) – The president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, said he was stepping down on Thursday, a few weeks after the forum launched an independent investigation into his relationship with late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Brende, who became president of the WEF in 2017, announced his decision in a statement following disclosures from the U.S. Justice Department that showed the Norwegian had three business dinners with Epstein and had also communicated with the disgraced financier via email and text message.
“After careful consideration, I have decided to step down as President and CEO of the World Economic Forum. My time here, spanning 8-1/2 years, has been profoundly rewarding,” said Brende, a former Norwegian foreign minister.
[…] In their own statement, Andre Hoffmann and Larry Fink, co-chairs of the Geneva-based WEF, said an independent review conducted by outside counsel into Brende’s ties with Epstein had concluded and had found no additional concerns beyond what has already been disclosed.
Brende told Norwegian business daily Dagens Naeringsliv that while the review had not uncovered any previously unknown issues relating to Epstein, the case risked drawing attention away from the forum’s work. He said he regretted he had not been more open about the dinners and subsequent communications he had with Epstein. (more)
Posted originally on CTH on February 26, 2026 | Sundance
The summary of the story basically circles back to that NSA/CIA whistleblower intercept they previously were using to attack DNI Tulsi Gabbard. Now that the whistleblower’s lawyer (same lawyer as last CIA whistleblower, Ciaramella) has leaked the subject of the conversation was Jared Kushner the democrats really want to know the details.
Two foreign nationals (unknown countries) were discussing the U.S. position toward Iran. In their conversation they talked about Jared Kushner. Their conversation was intercepted by NSA/CIA using an “exceptionally sensitive surveillance method.” The intercept was written, evaluated and determined to be “gossip” but given to the ODNI, Gabbard.
The whistleblower was upset the intercept was not shared with the larger intelligence apparatus. Thus, they were angry at Gabbard. The ODNI followed the distribution for the whistleblower complaint, but not the underlying intercepted details of the conversation.
The White House has now asserted “executive privilege” over the content of the intercept, thereby bolstering the position of not sharing what was previously determined to be gossip. The DNI was asked for the details, and Gabbard has told the Democrats the White House has asserted privilege. The House and Senate Intelligence committee democrats are now big mad they don’t get to read the gossip.
(VIA WSJ) – WASHINGTON—The Trump administration told Congress it won’t share with lawmakers the classified intelligence that led to a whistleblower complaint against U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard, citing presidential claims of executive privilege.
In an email to Democratic congressional staffers sent on Feb. 13 and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Gabbard’s office said it was unable to provide the unredacted intelligence that underpinned the complaint “due to the assertion of executive privilege to portions” of the intelligence itself.
In a Tuesday letter to Gabbard, Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrats on the congressional intelligence committees, asked who asserted privilege over the intelligence report and on what basis.
[…] A spokeswoman for Director of National Intelligence Gabbard declined to directly address the decision to not share the underlying intelligence with Congress. She instead referred to a previous letter to lawmakers from the office’s general counsel that said Gabbard had met her requirements concerning notification to Congress about the complaint.
[…] The intelligence, which is at least in part about Iran, is said to derive from an exceptionally sensitive surveillance method. Officials have said any disclosure of the collection method could damage U.S. national security. Gabbard’s office ultimately shared the complaint with select lawmakers earlier this month, but redacted significant portions of it, also chiefly on grounds of executive privilege.
In the new letter, Warner and Himes said they weren’t able to confirm whether the discussion at issue was about Kushner because the version of the complaint they received was so heavily redacted. (more)
If I had to hazard a guess as to what is going on, based entirely on the current state of politics and what we know about how the IC and Democrats operate, overlaid against the domestic IC influence provocations currently underway, here’s my suspicion:
Bad actors within the CIA organized two friendly foreign intel officials to have a conversation. The script is about U.S. policy toward Iran, and the ‘gossip’ is that Jared Kushner is an Israeli intelligence asset, a blue sparrow, previously inserted into the Trump family. That ‘intercept’ would send everyone in the USA bananas regardless of truth or merit.
It sounds crazy, but that’s the level of conspiratorial nuttery, the sort of thing the IC would feed, to bolster the currently swirling year of crazy and further divide Trump’s base of support.
Whatever the underlying intercept consists of, it’s coming out of a highly political U.S. intelligence system; therefore, I would not give it any merit – unless, of course, you choose to cling to their prior construct of Trump colluding with Russia.
Posted originally on CTH on February 26, 2026 | Sundance
According to media reports and statements from FBI Director Kash Patel, both Patel and Susie Wiles had their telephone records subpoenaed by the FBI in 2022 and 2023 when both were private citizens. This is during the time when Donald Trump was being investigated by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Within the reporting by Reuters, at least one phone call between Susie Wiles and her attorney was recorded by the FBI without her knowledge. As the story is outlined Wiles’ attorney was working with the FBI and knew the conversation was being captured, Wiles did not.
FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly fired 10 FBI agents who were involved in the process of reviewing and intercepting communications as part of their work on the Jack Smith case. Internal FBI offices are not happy with Patel’s action against those officials.
(REUTERS) – The FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by Kash Patel and Susie Wiles, now the FBI director and White House Chief of Staff, when they were both private citizens in 2022 and 2023 during the federal probe of Donald Trump, Patel told Reuters on Wednesday.
Reuters is the first to report on the FBI’s actions that took place during the Biden administration, largely when Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating whether Trump had interfered with the 2020 election and had hidden classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, according to Patel. Smith was appointed to take over that probe in November 2022.
[…] “It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records – along with those of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight,” Patel said in a statement to Reuters.
[…] At least 10 current FBI employees have been dismissed as a result of the revelations about the targeting of Patel, Wiles and others connected to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, according to three FBI officials.
[…] In 2023, the FBI recorded a phone call between Wiles and her attorney, according to two FBI officials. Wiles’ attorney was aware that the call was being recorded, and consented to it, but Susie Wiles was not.
[…] The FBI discovered the phone records in files categorized as “Prohibited,” which makes them difficult to discover on the bureau’s computer systems. Patel said he recently ended the FBI’s ability to categorize files as “Prohibited.” (read more)
I have mixed emotions about this. On one hand it is infuriating to yet again see the audacity and clear weaponization of the DOJ and FBI under the prior administration. On the other hand, duh! Non-pretending people knew all along this malicious network of DOJ and FBI lawfare operations included surveillance of everyone around President Donald Trump.
Remember, Donald Trump was accused of criminal wrongdoing by the twisted lawfare logic of Smith and his crew. Accepting the reality of a criminal investigation, fraudulent though it was, it was entirely predictable that the DOJ and FBI would leverage all available tools to conduct continued surveillance and monitoring.
The secondary frustrating aspect to this story is how Director Patel has only just now fired those 10 FBI agents involved. This is a big part of the criticism that many of us have with Patel and his soft glove approach upon taking the position as FBI Director.
Any FBI official who was involved in the originating Crossfire Hurricane and/or Robert Mueller investigations should have been fired for cause on Day One! 40 FBI agents worked for more than two years on the Mueller probe investigating a fictitious claim about President Trump colluding with Russia in the 2016 election.
Those FBI agents should have been identified and terminated immediately, with prejudice; thereby sending a loud message that weaponized FBI activity was the immediate focus of the new leadership and would not be tolerated.
Yes, it’s good to see a few dozen being removed bit-by-bit a year later, but the lack of urgency IN IDENTIFYING THE FBI BAD ACTORS early on only makes the situation more difficult for other cabinet members who are genuinely trying to weed out the corrupt and nefarious activity. I know this, because I can see first-hand how so much of the intelligence community reform energy is being expended defending itself from silo activity fueled by these corrupt FBI embeds.
A year has been wasted on weak internal housecleaning, and Director Kash Patel still does not have his arms around the scale of corrupt activity underneath him; if he did, these stories would not be the headlines.
Patel just removed 10 agents who were investigating him. Great. Thank you.
Now, about the thousands of corrupt agents who were investigating everyone else…. Oh wait, “prohibited access files ” again. May 2025:
The FBI intentionally hid information as to ensure the public never knew about it?
Think about what that indicates about how the institution operates.
REFORM? …Try this.
#1) Send out an email to every field office, agent, division and contractor within the FBI asking every participant in Crossfire Hurricane or the Mueller investigation to report to the auditorium in DC on XXX date.
#2) Have big buffet and coffee set up. Now, with all of them seated in the audience, take their cell phones, laptops and electronic devices away, and give each of them a piece of paper and ask them to write down the names of every single person they interacted with during their investigative duty. Give them one hour to complete the task.
#3) Retrieve their notes. Send them to lunch (provided), as you review the lists. [Cell phones, laptops and electronic devices remain on side of the room where they placed them.]
#4) When they return, tell them all to stand up as you read the names from the lists. As their name is called, they can sit down.
#5) At the conclusion of reading the list, almost everyone should be seated, correct? Those who remain standing are unknown to the FBI investigators in the room. Tell those standing people to leave and assemble in an adjacent room, under watch.
#6) After the small group departs (if any), ask these questions:
A) If you were aware, or if you suspected, you were participating in a fraudulent investigation motivated by politics, please stand up.
=> Announce those people are fired for cause. Fired for violating their oath of office.
Escort them out.
Turn back to those remain seated.
A) If you *DID NOT KNOW* you were participating in a fraudulent FBI investigation, motivated by politics, please stand up.
=> Announce those people are fired for cause. Fired for not being smart enough to carry out their oath of office.
Escort them out.
The room should be empty.
#7) Wait, one more final detail. Perhaps you now have an adjacent room with a person(s) that no one in the FBI knows, nor understands exactly what they were doing there at the meeting. These people were not named on any list created by the FBI employees who conducted “Crossfire Hurricane” or the “Mueller probe.” Well, that’s the CIA plant(s) in the room.
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