[FOX] Jeffrey Epstein, the sex-trafficking financier who died in federal custody while awaiting trial, had a network of groomed girls in Palm Beach, Florida, recruiting victims for him as far back as 2005, according to newly unsealed grand jury transcripts from a child trafficking case that he largely escaped with a slap on the wrist nearly 20 years ago.
The 176-page document contains new details about Epstein's crimes, including specifics about cash payouts to teens who recruited one another for Epstein's misdeeds, firsthand accounts from child sex-assault victims, and allegations of rape.
Palm Beach police initially opened the case after a fight between girls at a local high school, according to the transcript. One, just 16, had been accused of prostitution by a classmate, and a school official later found $300 in her purse, which originally came from Epstein, according to the documents.
She testified that she had been instructed to concoct a fake life story and pretend to be 18 to get $200 to give Epstein a massage before the first time she met him. Then she revealed she was asked to strip down to her underwear and had a graphic sexual encounter with him.
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Comment: Isn't it amazing that Epstein made it to jail, Maxwell was convicted and not a single person on the client list has been prosecuted or the client list still hasn't been made public... curious isn't it?🤔
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No comment from our 51 friends or the Klingon Public Affairs office. This wasn't a long-running crime. This was a long-running project.
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I found in my life story that by age 16 you are either shady or not. So I dont think you can groom a 16 who drives herself to the airport to catch a flight to be around a bunch of older richer dudes with private islands and airplanes and mega yachts - certain chicks I knew at 16 who I was trying to bang but werent into me because they were already gold digging older men. Grooming, ha! Chicks I knew were social engineering access.
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A kid can’t consent to having sex with a geezer. The ones that are seeking sex with old men as a power play are doing it because they have already been molested. Read Ashley Biden’s diary.
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[FoxNews] The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) found 200 missing children during the course of a six-week national sting that ended last week.
The second of its kind, "Operation We Will Find You 2," was conducted in seven federal judicial districts and geographic locations across the U.S. from May 20 to June 24, focusing on areas with an increased number of critically missing children.
In a press release, the USMS said the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (USMEC) assisted in the operation, which led to the recovery and removal of 123 children from dangerous situations, as well as another 77 missing children who were located and found in safe locations.
Out of the 200 children, 173 were endangered runaways, 25 were considered missing, a family member abducted one, and one was a non-family abduction.
Additionally, 14 of the recovered children were located outside the city where they were reported missing, and the youngest was 5 months old.
About 57% of the missing children were recovered within seven days of the USMS helping out with the cases.
"There are no words to describe the terror felt by missing children, their families, and their communities," Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said. "I am grateful to the dedicated professionals of the U.S. Marshals Service and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who worked to find 200 critically missing children during this six-week operation, and who work every day to keep children safe."
The operation was executed in several locations, including Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon and New York City.
U.S. Marshals worked with federal, state and local law enforcement, NCMEC, the Department of Children and Family Services and other agencies to locate the missing children.
Many of the children were considered to be in challenging recovery cases, including child sex trafficking, child exploitation, sexual abuse, physical abuse and suffering from medical or mental health conditions.
McDonald's has given up on its bid to sell meat-free beef burger in America.
US president Joe Erlinger has said the McPlant has been ditched because customers did not want fake meat.
The chain had been testing the McPlant at several hundred restaurants in California and Texas since trials began in late 2021. Developed with Beyond Meat, it was made from pea and rice proteins. While it has flopped in the US, it has been a hit in the UK, Germany, Holland and Portugal.
But there is little chance of a return to America.
McDonald's is now shifting its focus to chicken, which has become more popular among its customers than beef, partly due to its lower cost.
Salads, which were taken off US menus at the start of the pandemic, will also not return, Erlinger said. Those that want salads are going to dedicated sala chains like Chopt, Sweetgreen and Cava.
'If people really want salads from McDonald's, we will gladly relaunch salads,' Erlinger said at the Global Food Forum, according to Bloomberg.
'But what our experience has proven is that's not what the consumer's looking for.'
It is the second bit of major menu news in a week - the other being about the return of an item with a cult following.
The McRib - seasoned boneless pork dipped in tangy BBQ sauce and topped with chopped onions and pickles - is returning to America later this year. The sandwich, which has been dropped and then added back to the menu dozens of times over the years, polarizes fast food fans- some love it but others hate it.
McDonald's knows the McRib brings customers into restaurants and drive-thrus. Its return will be its latest weapon, along with its $5 value meal deal this summer, in the battle to win customers back in 2024.
'Bringing the McRib back for a limited time will spur some interest and foot traffic for McDonald's at a time when performance is flagging,' retail expert Neil Saunders, managing director of Global Data, told DailyMail.com. But he explained why McDonald's only sells it for limited times - rather than having it as a permanent fixture on the menu.
'The uplift is usually only temporary, so the chain still has work to do on areas like pricing if it wants to secure a better performance,' he added.
McRib - which has been described as the 'fast food sandwich that went viral before viral was a thing' - debuted nationally in the US in 1982. It was discontinued in 1985 after low sales, but then returned in 1989 and was broadly available in the US and other countries until 2005. It was then periodically reintroduced until disappearing again in 2012 for eight years. It didn't return until December 2020, when it came back for a limited time. At the time, it was a bid to lure back customers after the pandemic left its dining rooms sparsely populated or closed.
Another item also returned earlier this year. In April, we reported how McDonald's has brought back bagels to its breakfast menu. Bagels are not yet nationwide but they are in at least 1,200 restaurants - and could return to all 14,300 US outlets later this year. Bagels were first introduced to McDonald's in late 2019 but were cut soon after when bosses simplified the menu in spring 2020 during the pandemic.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A man was shot and hospitalized after a violent brawl broke out at Washington Square Park during New York City's Pride Parade.
The 20-year-old is now recovering from multiple gunshot wounds following the shooting as police dashed to the scene to break up the intense fighting that began in the early hours of Monday morning.
Both 5th Avenue and East 8th Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, were shut down just after 2am, with bullet markers visible on the ground.
Cops swarmed the area as they worked to piece together just what went wrong at the march, and who was responsible for firing the shots that left the unnamed man wounded in his buttocks and right hand.
'The first one, I was running. I heard two, but I didn't know if it was a shot or not, I thought it was like a firework or something because it's Pride, you know,' one witness told ABC7.
The victim was dashed to a local hospital, with police continuing their hunt for the gunman.
Footage from the weekend's Pride celebrations showed multiple fights breaking out late on Sunday and into Monday morning, as massive crowds of unruly revelers turned up to take part in the festivities.
Some 22 people were arrested during Pride and the disastrous aftermath - with 16 people receiving desk appearances and release, while six remain in custody with charges pending.
'This is really crazy, Pride is not supposed to be like this,' a witness told the news outlet.
'We're supposed to come out and enjoy and you know just love one another and come together. And we hope moving forward there will be no more violence and craziness going on.'
Video from the jaw-dropping scenes shows large groups of partygoers embroiled in fist-fights and hair-pulling battles as they tackled each other to the ground.
Crowds gathered around to watch the chaos unfold, while others pulled out their phones to record the Lower Manhattan showdowns.
Shards of smashed glass could be seen littered across the ground where people walked barefoot after having their shoes ripped off during fights.
But before the violence took over the celebrations, separate footage captured multiple women twerking on top of a whit vehicle and one person grinding against a light pole he had climbed to the top of.
As nighttime crept in, the NYPD played a loudspeaker recording declaring Washington Square Park's closure and ordered revelers to leave the site - causing a stir between cops and rowdy partygoers.
It was not immediately clear if any arrests took place as a result of the fighting.
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[Regnum] The world has reached a stalemate with the US national debt. This opinion was expressed to a Regnum News Agency correspondent on July 1 by Yuri Tverdokhleb, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Finance and Banking at RANEPA, commenting on the opinion of analysts William Ruger and Thomas Savage. In an article for the American magazine The National Interest, they suggested that an increase in budget expenditures and national debt could lead to serious problems in the US economy, which would directly affect the country's defense capability.
In January, the US Treasury reported that the national debt had exceeded $34 trillion, increasing by $4 trillion during 2023.
Tverdokhleb agreed that the national debt is a serious problem for the US economy. He noted that the approaches to managing the foreign debt of US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump differ greatly. Thus, during the recent debates, Trump proposed reducing the US debt by stimulating aggregate demand and production through tax reform and reducing the tax burden, including on large businesses. In his opinion, this could lead to economic revival and income growth due to increased production activity. These proposals of Trump are more rational and reasonable, the economist believes.
[ReMix] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, and Austrian opposition leader Herbert Kickl said the new alliance would hopefully entice others to join and become the largest nationalist political group in the European Parliament.
"Today we are creating a political formation that will ’forge ahead’ and very quickly become the strongest grouping and largest faction of the European right," Orbán said.
The Hungarian prime minister expects this to happen within days, and then the "sky will be the limit."
Orbán pointed out that the situation in Europe is clear, that European politics must change and change is needed in Europe.
He underlined that in 20 of the 27 EU member states, parties that promised change to the citizens won the European Parliament elections.
The Hungarian leader revealed the parties had adopted the Patriots’ manifesto, which summarizes the ideals and goals around which they are organizing their work.
According to Orbán, the European economy is in crisis, its weight is diminishing and the threat of terrorism and migration is constant. He warned of the ongoing war in Europe’s backyard that the European liberal elite had not been able to prevent from breaking out or from stopping.
"Today is a historic day, as we will present the group of three parties and their representatives, which aims to bring about a political change in Europe at the inaugural session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on July 16. It will be an era of freedom, sovereignty, peace, prosperity, and values," said Herbert Kickl.
"We will not stand idly by and watch the emergence of a European superstate in which the parliaments of the member states degenerate into a kind of folklore, where sovereignty and the self-determination of individual states are empty phrases. We want a Europe that once again shows itself and develops with pride, values, traditions, and diversity," said the FPÖ President. He added that "Europe does not want to be left to Macron, Von der Leyen or some left-wing experiment."
At the press conference, Andrej Babiš stressed that EU environmental policy should take more account of economic development in order not to jeopardize the competitiveness of the Community. Technically sound, economically viable, and socially just solutions must be found.
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[Regnum] On June 25, the world's leading media outlets were filled with footage of Kenyan protesters storming the parliament, and today the protests are already becoming segmented and sluggish. One can see the protests dying down as suddenly as they first appeared. However, this is only at first glance. The fate of the financial law, which has provoked such fierce resistance from society and especially from young people, has not yet been decided - parliament will return to its consideration after the holiday season, on July 23. Moreover, the “spontaneous” protests in Nairobi and other major cities in Kenya have too many markers that suggest a subtle technological game and the presence of an interested party.
[FoxNews] First Solar executives donated at least $2 million to Democrats in the 2020 cycle, with a majority of that amount going to Biden’s presidential campaign, according to The Associated Press.
The company, the largest manufacturer of solar panels in the U.S., was "perhaps the biggest beneficiary" from $1 billion in Inflation Reduction Act spending geared toward environmental concerns.
[Breitbart] Former Vatican emissary Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has refused to obey a summons to the Vatican to face charges of schism, restating he does not recognize Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church.
“As I stated in my Communiqué of June 20, I do not recognize the authority of the tribunal that claims to judge me, nor of its Prefect, nor of the one who appointed him,” Archbishop Viganò said in a statement.
“This decision of mine, which is certainly painful, is not the result of haste or a spirit of rebellion; but rather is dictated by the moral necessity which, as Bishop and Successor of the Apostles, obliges me in conscience to bear witness to the Truth, that is, to God Himself, to Our Lord Jesus Christ,” he declared.
Pope Benedict XVI appointed Archbishop Viganò as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States in 2011 and the archbishop served in this role for five years, from 2011 to 2016.
Viganò became something of a conservative superstar in 2018, when he published an explosive report accusing Pope Francis of reinstating homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to a position of prominence despite knowing of McCarrick’s serial abuse.
In his 11-page affidavit, Archbishop Viganò asserted that Pope Benedict had imposed “canonical sanctions” on Cardinal McCarrick in 2009-2010 forbidding him from traveling, celebrating Mass in public, or participating in public meetings, but that Pope Francis later lifted these sanctions and made McCarrick a close personal advisor.
“Francis is abdicating the mandate which Christ gave to Peter to confirm the brethren. Indeed, by his action he has divided them, led them into error, and encouraged the wolves to continue to tear apart the sheep of Christ’s flock,” Viganò stated, before calling on the pope to resign.
“In this extremely dramatic moment for the universal Church, he must acknowledge his mistakes and, in keeping with the proclaimed principle of zero tolerance, Pope Francis must be the first to set a good example for cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick’s abuses and resign along with all of them,” the archbishop said.
Over the intervening years, Viganò has continued making ever more incendiary claims, leading many of his former admirers to part ways with him. He has not only rejected the authority of Pope Francis, but has also refused to accept the validity of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), an important ecumenical council highly commended by Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.
In June, the Vatican’s doctrinal office, headed by Argentinean Cardinal Víctor “Tucho” Fernández, ordered the former Vatican diplomat to appear in Rome to undergo an extrajudicial penal trial for the crime of schism for having denied the legitimacy of Pope Francis and Vatican II.
The Code of Canon Law defines “schism” as “the withdrawal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or from communion with the members of the Church subject to him,” declaring that a schismatic “incurs a latae sententiae [automatic] excommunication.”
“I face this trial with the determination that comes from knowing that I have no reason to consider myself separate from communion with the Holy Church and with the Papacy, which I have always served with filial devotion and fidelity,” Viganò wrote in response.
“I could not conceive of a single moment of my life outside this one Ark of salvation, which Providence has constituted as the Mystical Body of Christ, in submission to its Divine Head and to His Vicar on earth,” he added.
Since it is not “theologically tenable” that the Church and the papacy are instruments of perdition rather than of salvation, he said, we must necessarily “conclude that the heterodox teachings conveyed by the so-called ‘conciliar church’ and the ‘popes of the Council’ from Paul VI onwards constitute an anomaly that seriously calls into question the legitimacy of their magisterial and governing authority.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Three men have been brutally caned 42 times today for consuming alcohol and breaking Sharia law on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Pictures showed an intimidating executor, or 'algojo', gripping a rattan before carrying out the public caning against four men in front of Islamic court officials.
Dressed in brown robes, the algojo struck the backs of the convicts with the wooden cane in the centre of a white, tiled room.
Two of the convicts were seen dressed in white tunics, while the other two wore red tops printed with the name of the district attorney's office.
They were led into the middle of the room to sit on a blue rug, their heads bowed, before each taking their turn to receive their respective punishments.
Banda Aceh is the capital and largest city in the Indonesian province of Aceh, and is located on the island of Sumatra - home to the Acehnese people.
Aceh is the only province in Indonesia that has implemented Sharia law and considers gambling, alcohol, lesbian, gay and bisexual relationships and sex outside of marriage as violations of the law.
Punishments for breaking the draconian laws include caning, fines, and imprisonment. In 2009, there was a legal push to also allow stoning, but this was vetoed by the governor of Aceh at the time.
The four Acehnese men received 19 to 42 lashes for drinking alcohol, known as 'khamar' in sharia law. A police officer with a microphone oversaw the punishments.
The three men to receive the 42 lashes were named in local press as M. Fais Akbar, Aulia Syahputra, and Yusdi, while Cukri Ramadhan received 19.
Before the punishment was out, all men underwent a health check by a team of medics. They were all deemed ready to serve their sentence. When they were dosed with pain killers.
The executing prosecutor then called the convicts into the middle of the room one by one, where the caning sentence was carried out.
Kompas reported that the caning was paused for one of the men after he groaned in pain after 10 lashes. He was given something to drink by the medics, who also checked on his condition, before the punishment continued. His dose was adjusted.
'Today, the execution of the caning sentence for four people convicted of violating khamar or being drunk has been completed,' said the Head of the Banda Aceh District Prosecutor's Office after the process.
Supporters of the Islamic criminal law argue that such punishments are legal under the special autonomy that is granted to Aceh.
Amnesty International, which has urged the region to stop the practice of caning gay men, said 108 canings were carried out in 2015 and 100 in 2016.
It said that sharia law applied to non-Muslims for the first time in 2016 when a Christian woman was sentenced to 28 strokes for selling alcohol.
In 2022 it was reported that a woman had received 100 lashes for adultery, while the man she had the affair with only received 15 lashes.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Former Vatican emissary Archbishop 
