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🚨 Frog Theory – February 16 2026

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Lead: Peace by the Perpetrator?

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Israel was named to the Board of Peace, the body tasked with rebuilding Gaza. So…the country that systematically destroyed Gaza will help oversee the rebuilding of it.

Meanwhile, Israel is busy not upholding the peace deal in Gaza. Over the weekend, Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday. They were reportedly in a civilian tent for displaced people. Israel says that they were Hamas.

Israel also approved a proposal to register large areas of the West Bank as "state property." This means that Israel is moving forward with its plan to annex the West Bank, despite the Trump administration's strong warnings that they had better not.

Taking bets on what the Trump administration will do about this? My money is on "nothing."

So…this is the government that was named to the Board of Peace. What does that say about the Board of Peace?

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Putin’s Deadly Frogs?

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A British lab says that Alexei Navalny, the former Russian politician and felon who died two years ago, was poisoned by…frog poison?

The Telegraph concludes that it was President Putin's frog poison. As if President Putin has a stash of deadly frogs that he keeps for just such an occasion!?

Well, let's consider the source here. The report is from a lab in the U.K., the same place that claimed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, were poisoned by Novichok nerve agent in 2018. That case was never proven.

First, the Soviets abandoned making Novichok in 1987 but Ukraine, the U.K., and the U.S. DO make it. Second, a leaked report from the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) showed that the Skripals did NOT have Novichok and their deaths were possibly consistent with shellfish poisoning.

Further, Western governments have yet to retract the official story that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok despite MANY holes in that story, which I went over in detail shortly after his death.

And yet, we are being asked to believe that Navalny, who posed no threat to the Russian government, while imprisoned, was slipped deadly frog venom on the orders of President Putin? This is even more suspicious when you consider the assertion by American foreign policy expert Gilbert Doctorow that the British may have had a hand in the death of Navalny.

So…deadly Russian frogs? The “mad scientist with secret killer frogs” imagery feelss far more cinematic than biological reality.

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Maya Hawke is trending because the actress got married on Valentine's Day in New York City.

Ramadan is trending because the holy period for Muslims will begin on Tuesday, depending on the moon cycle.

Ariana Grande is trending because her Wicked co-star addressed rumors that the two were in a romantic relationship in this new interview. She says that they were not.

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This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris.
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