Super Bowl LX

I watched maybe 45 minutes of Super Bowl LX, and was lucky to see many of the scoring plays. Basically, I'd never go out of my way to watch such stuff, but I was following the winter Olympics at the same time, so did change channels from time to time. 

This was some of the worst football of any football code I've seen. How can anyone watch such rubbish? This was worse than rugby union, which has gone down the same road of incentivising less play while trying to look good doing it. For examples of football sports that actually play foot-ball, try rugby league or soccer. With these, the ball is in play almost continuously.

The big problem with American football for me is players being allowed to throw the ball out. In all other football codes that's not allowed. In soccer, you throw the ball in from out of bounds, but throwing it out is hand ball and a penalty, likewise in rugby it is also a penalty. The game is foot-ball, you kick the ball with your foot, if you want the ball out, you must kick it out. 

For the first time I saw the kick-offs where no-one can move after the ball is kicked, which is counter-intuitive, and looks silly. The ball has been kicked, but everyone waits like a field of pansies. And the scoring team kicking off is also silly, they tried this in rugby league and it failed back in the 90's. There is talk of bringing back some version of this again, but it's a bad idea, the scoring team usually receives the kick off in other football codes. To explain the thinking behind this, it prevents the team scored against ending up perpetually trapped in their own half. It is counter to the spirit of the game and would be very boring to watch, which American football is actually, very boring.

Anyway, back to the Winter Olympics for me, where athletes actually compete and do not stand around comparing their tutus.

Epstein Living in Israel?

The gaming community believe they have found Jeffrey Epstein. A profile he is said to have used is active in Israel.

The Mandelson Affair

The British government has hit rock bottom. How long can Prime Minister Keir Starmer remain in office?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q4jk5pnl9

The deepening scandal prompted an apology on Wednesday from Sir Keir to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein for believing Lord Mandelson's "lies" and appointing him when the peer's friendship with the paedophile was already public knowledge.

Despite the prime minister's attempt to defuse the row, some of his own MPs are calling on him to stand down.

Epstein Files - What Was Epstein up To?

Looking at the big picture, I've formed the conclusion that Jeffrey Epstein's principal goal was to obtain advanced technology. 

Epstein went out of his way to ingratiate himself with scientists, mostly physicists in fact, and he even had an office at Harvard University. His whole operation seems targeted at this area, academia, and their advanced research into areas many consider to be science fiction, but are not; science has moved on a long way over the last 40 years.

His obtaining kompromat on politicians, financiers, artists, and the like was intended to be the self-funding part of the operation. The proceeds from blackmail covered the cost of his lavish lifestyle. He had extremely poor taste, but this, together with the intimate services he offered, appeared to lure in enough people to gather the sources of funding he required to cover the operating cost of several aircraft, an island, ranch and residential buildings. 

Ghislaine Maxwell would be his handler, and then above her, senior intelligence people would be overseeing what was going on and storing away the information they gathered. If any advanced technology appeared useful, then it would be sent to tame scientists for evaluation. Epstein and Maxwell had enough education to identify potential, but they wouldn't be good enough to evaluate; thus, they'd hand this upstairs.

When he supposedly died, he was reported to be worth $500-600 million. This becomes difficult to explain as his investment record is patchy at best. He did not appear to have professional staff; who exactly was looking after all this money? I am inferring with this that he had other sources of funds, outside of commercial gains and losses, and the kompromat he used against people. 

I'll put it like this, bluntly: Epstein had a long list of contacts, all of whom he had something on, allegedly. How come his operation survived as long as it did? You may blackmail one or two individuals, but eventually someone is going to off you, get my drift? So, he has to have been protected, and at the highest level imaginable. 

In the files, a high-profile lawyer says that Epstein is a US and its allies' intelligence asset. It is said outright, explicitly, and the cumulative weight of evidence infers that he was an intelligence asset.

The next question, then; who is allowing this to become known? My thinking is that there is a power struggle going on within the US right now. Back and forth they go, but the forces of darkness appear on the back foot at this point.

How Did Epstein Get Rich?

The question still needs an answer; exactly how did Jeffrey Epstein get rich? Looking at it closely, his net worth doesn't add up. Face it, he was a moron. I see him as more of a middleman with no or very little forecasting skills. 

I found the video below, and it tries to answer the question.

Epstein Files Reveal Methods

With the Epstein Files release, can people now see these so-called elites for what they are?

Putin, Epstein and Trump

It makes sense that Jeffrey Epstein had deep Russian links. A lot of Soviet Jews emigrated to Israel after its creation in the late 1940's, thus, there are established relationships between Israel and Russia, at least at the business level.

Russia Collusion

I'm placing this here for balance. The allegation is that there was collusion with Russia by certain elements of the American right.

British Civil War

Has the civil war already started?

Paula Froelich on People

With the latest Epstein Files release, the former deputy editor of Page Six talks about people mentioned in those files.

Melania (Movie)

I have noticed critics of Donald Trump claiming that the documentary on his wife has been a failure. So, I checked, and found this is not the case.

Melania (the movie) has been out three days. According to Box Office Mojo, it debuted third, despite being in half the number of theatres of its two competitors with bigger numbers. After three days it has grossed $7 million dollars, making it the biggest documentary of the last ten years. Bear in mind that documentaries generally do not do well. However, across America, Melania (the movie) debuted third, then went to fifth, and now back to third. This is a strong performance, and given it will no doubt be released to television and other platforms, it may actually recoup budget.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/melania-trump-documentary

Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary has reportedly beaten box office expectations and recorded the strongest start of any documentary in over a decade, taking $7m at the US box office during its lavishly-promoted opening weekend. But it also cost quite more than a typical documentary, at $40m to make and $35m to promote.

Divide and Rule

Asmongold goes on an epic rant, but can anyone say he's wrong? He points out that Occupy Wall Street was the closest America has come to an awakening, but that the culture wars destroyed it. Victor Davis Hanson points out something similar, saying that Barack Obama did a lot of damage to American society by pitting people against one another. 

As people closely examine the Epstein Files that have recently become available, it is obvious that very dark forces have been at work. 

Walls Closing In

The former prince, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, may yet have to answer questions put to him by the US over what he knows about Jeffrey Epstein and his victims. The latest batch of Epstein Files, available to anyone online, are truly horrifying.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/31/keir-starmer-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-testify-us-jeffrey-epstein-links

Keir Starmer has said Andrew Mounbatten-Windsor should testify before the US Congress about his links to the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The prime minister, who is in Japan for a meeting with its premier, Sanae Takaichi, was asked by journalists if the former prince should apologise to the disgraced financier’s victims and give evidence about what he knew about his crimes.

Mounbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his titles last year amid the fallout from his friendship with the billionaire, features heavily in the latest tranche of Epstein files, released on Friday by the US justice department.

Tulsi Gabbard in Atlanta

The everything about 2020 was free and fair, nothing fixed, not ever, we won so there brigade are sounding desperate as the walls slowly close in. It's good to see Tulsi Gabbard present in Atlanta as the FBI conducted its Fulton County raid. That's because she seems to appreciate the global significance of the rigging that occurred in 2020. 

Make no mistake, it appears arrests are imminent, and about time. The four years of the criminal Biden regime have to result in individuals being held accountable.

In New Zealand in 2020, their rigged general election was held two weeks prior to the rigged election in the US. However, all ballots from that election in NZ have been destroyed. Yeah, very suspicious, eh. Consider that the NZ election was a practise run, before the main act in America.

Lydia Ko at Millbrook

Lydia Ko is such a wonderful person. Here she is in New Zealand playing a round of golf with friends at the Millbook Resort, near Arrowtown in Otago, the South Island of New Zealand. 

US Make Demands

The USS Abraham Lincoln strike group has arrived near Iran and the US has renewed its demands; it looks as if an attack on Iran will come soon.

Al Jazeera are operating this live feed of updates: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/1/28/live-iran-says-it-will-respond-like-never-before-after-trumps-threats

• President ⁠Donald Trump ​has revived a threat that the United States is ready to launch a military attack against Iran as he demands Tehran make a deal over its nuclear programme.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that the Iranian government’s “days are numbered”.
• Iran’s mission to the United Nations said the country will deliver an unprecedented retaliation to any US attack.
• Iran’s currency has fallen to a record low of 1.6 million to $1, a month after the start of nationwide protests sparked by the country’s economic woes, according to local currency traders.

Silver Price on the Rise

The markets generally know where things are headed and right now there is a rush to delivery of the physicals. China is leading the charge.

Board of Peace

California Governor, Gavin Newsom, posted this imagining of what Donald Trump's Board of Peace would look like:

Board of Peace Imagined

Kyle Kulinski Rant

Quality rant, brilliant, but Kyle Kulinski criticises Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is also right. However, what he doesn't say is that Donald Trump appears prepared to go to any lengths to avoid releasing the Epstein Files. He'll push the button and go to WWIII if he feels it necessary. 

The whole world is being held to ransom; forget the Epstein Files or get torched. It is insane. Remember, we were all told there was nothing in those files? Now we find out that there are 20 million records, and they're much worse than anyone thought. 

We need those files to be released, and arrests made, and we need it done right now.

Now It's AI, Forget Net-Zero

Have you noticed how, suddenly, no one is pushing all that net-zero nonsense? Yeah, turns out priorities have changed and none of that matters. Now, the new shiny thing is AI. It requires huge amounts of energy, so let's burn more coal. You cannot make this up; it is that shameless and utterly corrupt.