Daily News Digest - Summary for February 17, 2026

100,000 Dead. Canada Ignored the World, and It Shows

Daily News Digest - Summary for February 17, 2026

100,000 Dead. Canada Ignored the World, and It Shows

Canada is about to kill its 100,000th citizen through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) this spring.

by Kelsi Sheren

Canada is about to kill its 100,000th citizen through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) this spring.

Not in a war. Not on a battlefield. Not in a medical accident. Killed by policy, by a government that wants you dead.

Let’s say this by name, call it the truth. A systemic failure dressed up as compassion.

MAiD was sold as a narrow option for the terminally ill, a rare mercy. That fiction collapsed long ago. Today, assisted death is a routine outcome for people struggling with disability, isolation, poverty, and mental health challenges and when the world looked at what we’re doing, it didn’t nod approvingly. It recoiled…


BREAKING: The Epstein Files Illuminate a 20-Year Architecture Behind Pandemics as a Business Model—With Bill Gates at the Center of the Network

Inside the JPMorgan–Gates–Epstein Pipeline: Donor-Advised Funds, Vaccine Finance, and the Architecture of Pre-Positioned Profit - Part 1 of 4 Parts

by Sayer Ji

[This is Part 1 of a Series. You can view Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4]

Read, share, and comment on the X thread dedicated to this story.

The latest DOJ batch of Epstein files reveal that by the time the world encountered COVID-19, the financial, philanthropic, and institutional machinery to manage—and profit from—a pandemic was already firmly in place.

While the Epstein files have reignited scrutiny around specific relationships, their deeper significance lies in how they intersect with a much longer and largely unexamined timeline. Public records, institutional initiatives, and financial instruments indicate that the conceptual foundations of pandemic preparedness as a managed financial and security category began to take shape in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as philanthropic capital, global health governance, and risk finance increasingly converged. Following the 2008 financial crisis, this framework rapidly accelerated—expanding through reinsurance markets, parametric triggers, donor-advised funding structures, and global simulations—years before COVID-19 made the architecture visible to the public…


Was Jeffrey Epstein an Israeli Spy?

The evidence SCREAMS yes.

Was Jeffrey Epstein an Israeli Spy? Oh yeah, Baby!

by 🐺The Wise Wolf

While everyone focused on the sex trafficking aspect of Epstein’s story, almost nobody knows that Epstein, Elon Musk’s BFF Peter Thiel, and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak started a company that monitors Americans through their smartphones and delivers all that data directly to Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service.

Yep. This story just gets more f*cked up the deeper I dig.

The company is called Carbyne. It monitors 911 emergency calls in American cities right now. It’s staffed almost entirely by former Unit 8200 operatives (Israel’s NSA). When you call 911 in certain cities, it turns on your phone camera, pulls your GPS coordinates, runs you through government databases. Former Israeli military intelligence officers can watch you through your phone while you’re calling for help…

New Coalition Aims to Ban Vaccine Mandates Across US

The effort is targeting measures the group says violate medical freedom, including vaccine and mask mandates.

New Coalition Aims to Ban Vaccine Mandates Across US
A registered nurse measures out a monkeypox vaccine shot at a vaccination site in Miami on Aug. 15, 2022. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

By Zachary Stieber

A new coalition composed of 15 groups, including an organization founded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is taking aim at vaccine and mask mandates across the United States.

Children’s Health Defense, the Kennedy-founded group, and other members of the Medical Freedom Act Coalition say they want every state to introduce and pass medical freedom bills.

“I think it’s the first time we’ve seen this kind of effort in the kind of freedom and health movement,” Leslie Manookian, who founded the Health Freedom Defense Fund, told The Epoch Times…


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