Weekly News-Feb-28-2024
Here are our top 5 stories of the week.
#1 – FBI Releases Incomplete Set of Files on Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Triggering Public Outcry
By | LifeSite News
The FBI released about 200 pages of files on Thursday pertaining to sex trafficker and reported intelligence asset Jeffrey Epstein, a mere fraction of the thousands of pages of files said to be in the FBI’s possession.
After a request by the recently created Congressional “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets” for the complete declassified Epstein files, the FBI issued to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office what she described as “approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein’s list of contacts, and a list of victims’ names and phone numbers.” Read full article >
#2 – Ukraine Reverses Stance, Agrees to U.S. Minerals Deal After Initial Rejection by Zelensky
By Belle Carter | Natural News
Ukraine has agreed to a contentious minerals deal proposed by the United States, according to reports.
The deal, which could be signed as early as Friday, Feb. 28, marks a pivotal moment in the relationship between the two countries, particularly given the tense dynamics surrounding aid and security guarantees. The agreement comes after a series of negotiations and a dramatic initial rejection by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Read full article >
#3 – Trump Signs Executive Order to Expand DOGE’s Spending Review Powers
In a newly issued executive order (EO), the Trump administration has instructed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Elon Musk-advised initiative to reduce federal spending, to create a “centralized technological system” in every agency to record contract and grant awards.
As part of the ramp-up of these systems, agency employees who approved individual contract and grant payments will have to submit a written justification for their approvals. Agency heads will be able to “pause and rapidly review” any payment for which approving employees haven’t submitted a justification, per the EO. Read full article >
#4 – Tulsi Gabbard Fires 100+ NSA Officials Involved in Sexually Graphic Secret Group Chat
By Matt Lamb | LifeSite News
Around 100 intelligence community officials who participated in a secret sex group chat on a National Security Agency platform while ostensibly on the clock will be fired and lose their security clearances, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced.
Gabbard’s statement follows a new report from investigative journalist Christopher Rufo that exposed a National Security Agency chatroom where polyamory and transgender surgeries were discussed while fantasizing about having hermaphrodite babies and condemning Christians, as LifeSiteNews recently reported. Read full article >
#5 – Trump Posts Bizarre AI Video of ‘Trump Gaza’ Featuring Elon Musk, Netanyahu Lying on Beach
By Andreas Wailzer | LifeSite News
Donald Trump has posted an AI-created video showing the new “Trump Gaza” featuring bearded belly dancers, Elon Musk and Benjamin Netanyahu lying on the beach.
Trump posted the video depicting a golden future of the new “Trump Gaza” on his Truth Social platform (warning: graphic video). The video appears to be a vision of how the Gaza Strip is supposed to look after the U.S. takes over the territory and evicts all the Palestinians living there. Read full article >
#5 (tie) – Trump Shuts Down National Police Misconduct Database — That He Helped Create
In a move that has transparency advocates outraged, the Trump administration has shut down the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD)—a crucial resource designed to track police misconduct and prevent problem officers from quietly moving between agencies.
While many conservatives were right to reject the “woke” policies of the left, which often prioritized letting criminals walk free over actual justice, removing transparency and accountability from those who claim to ‘serve and protect’ is not the answer. If anything, history has shown that when the government is allowed to hide its own crimes, it will only commit more of them. Read full article >
Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.
#1 – 17 Signs That America’s Long Economic Slide Threatens To Become An Economic Avalanche
Are you better off than you were four years ago? If you are, you should consider yourself to be extremely fortunate, because the vast majority of the population is not. The U.S. economy has been sliding the wrong direction for a very long time, and now our economic momentum in the wrong direction is accelerating. Retail sales are slowing down, the housing market is in a depressed state, mass layoffs are happening all over the nation, stores are closing at a staggering pace, the cost of living has become extremely painful, and debt levels have soared to unprecedented heights. Four years of deteriorating economic conditions have brought us to a breaking point, and now we are witnessing quite a bit of shaking in the financial markets. Even though many in the mainstream media are still trying to deny it, the truth is that we are in an enormous amount of trouble. The following are 17 signs that America’s long economic slide threatens to become an economic avalanche… Read full article >
#2 – Dow Wipes Out its Gains Since Trump’s Inauguration as ‘Stagflation’ Fears Return
By William Watts | MarketWatch
U.S. stocks ended the week on an ugly note Friday, posting their worst day of 2025 — and a run of soft economic data was getting much of the blame.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 748.63 points, or 1.7%, for its lowest close since Jan. 16, which was two trading sessions before President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. The S&P 500 also shed 1.7% — marking the biggest one-day percentage fall for both indexes since Dec. 18, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Read full article >
#3 – You May Be Spending More Time Alone and Unemployed in 2030, Bank of America Says
By Josh Fellman | Quartz
Technological disruption will accelerate over the coming five years amid widespread adoption of AI, a change that will require more of everything, especially electricity and infrastructure, but possibly not your labor, according to Bank of America Institute’s (BAC+0.13%) “The World in 2030, Part I” report.
Up to 2 billion jobs could be displaced worldwide by tech over the period, requiring a massive re-skilling push for up to a third of the global workforce. People may instead spend time on social media by themselves — Americans were, on average, alone more than half the time in the 2019-2021 period. Read full article >
#4 – Hackers Steal $1.5 billion from Exchange Bybit in Biggest-ever Crypto Heist
By MacKenzie Sigalos | CNBC
Bybit, a major cryptocurrency exchange, has been hacked to the tune of $1.5 billion in digital assets, in what’s estimated to be the largest crypto heist in history.
The attack compromised Bybit’s cold wallet, an offline storage system designed for security. The stolen funds, primarily in ether were quickly transferred across multiple wallets and liquidated through various platforms. Read full article >
#5 – RFK Jr.
By Clare Marie Merkowsky | LifeSite News
Nicole Shanahan being baptized, Source X @nicoleshanahan
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate and entrepreneur, Nicole Shanahan, announced her conversion from Judaism to Christianity.
In a February 25 article posted on X, Shanahan revealed how she discovered Christ and ultimately decided to be baptized as a Christian along with her partner, Jacob Strumwasser, on January 19.
“Faith is not about having all the answers but about trusting in the One who does,” she wrote. “And when you find Him, you will know you are finally home.” Read full article >
#5 (tie) – Elon’s Grok 3 AI Provides “Hundreds of Pages of Detailed Instructions” on Creating Chemical Weapons
By | Futurism
Elon Musk has boasted that his AI efforts will be “maximum [sic] truth-seeking” — and true to form, xAI’s new chatbot Grok 3 came out of the box ready to provide detailed and explicit instructions on how to create chemical weapons.
“Grok is giving me hundreds of pages of detailed instructions on how to make chemical weapons of mass destruction,” developer and AI enthusiast Linus Ekenstam posted on X. “I have a full list of suppliers. Detailed instructions on how to get the needed materials.” Read full article >
