[ZeroHedge] revelations, Bondi then declared that she had been bamboozled by the FBI’s New York field office. Regardless of how we slice Bondi’s actions, she has to shoulder the blame for the fiasco, because either she lied on national television, or she didn’t diligently review the documents on her “desk.” I’m a charitable person, so I’ll ascribe her actions to incompetence instead of mendacity.
On February 21, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk” for review. On February 26, she proclaimed on national television that the “Epstein files” would be released the following day: “What you’re gonna see tomorrow is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.” But when the highly anticipated tranche of documents was released, her words had been much ado about nothing.
I uploaded Epstein’s Black Book on the internet in 2015, and I believe that’s the closest we’ve come to an Epstein List, because the Black Book contains the names of numerous perps. I also uploaded flight logs from Epstein’s various sojourns, which contain the names of perpetrators, too. In fact, I singlehandedly released more information about the Epstein case in 2015 than Bondi released last month.
In the Epstein List narrative, I’m surmising, Epstein kept a list of his child molesting clients as if he were a travel agent at the Jeffrey Epstein Travel Agency. The List narrative is problematic, because he had their names and numbers in his Black Book.
At best, the Epstein List is wishful thinking. At worst, it’s a contrived meme.
Now … the news cycle is on to the next bright, shiny object, which is the recently released JFK files. But let’s step back and take a hard look at the Epstein case: I’ll demonstrate that we don’t need the fictitious, vaunted Epstein List to have a list of Epstein perpetrators that’s fully grounded in reality.
According to July 8, 2019, New York Times article, federal authorities seized “hundreds—possibly thousands—of sexually suggestive photographs of girls who appear underage, as well as hand-labeled compact discs with titles like ‘Girl pics nude,’ and, with the names redacted, ‘Young [Name] + [Name].’”Judging by the titles on the discs, Epstein was a purveyor of child rape material. The latter disc named by the New York Times is perhaps an indication of blackmail? Moreover, Business Insider reported that an FBI agent later confessed that “hard drives” were taken from the safe.
Lots of previously released names and their stories discussed.
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[ZeroHedge] The man was released from prison after serving sentences for sex offences, but was subsequently charged again after assaulting a teenage girl.
The Home Office issued a deportation order, however, the guy successfully appealed it using the European Convention on Human Rights whilst serving another one year sentence in prison.
His legal representatives argued that without proper treatment for his addiction in Pakistan, his “uncontrollable” alcoholism could worsen and potentially lead to “further suffering.”
Respondents on X expressed disbelief at the UK justice system, with many pointing out that there are people currently serving longer prison sentences for spicy tweets.
This case follows similar incidents, including one just last month where another Pakistani pedo was permitted to remain in the UK with a judge ruling that deportation would be “unduly harsh” owing to the fact that his family in Pakistan took a “dim view” of his crimes.
Conservative MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke urged that “The Government needs to stop dangerous criminals being allowed to stay in this country.”
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By all means; let's Join the Commonwealth.
Maybe everyone outside UK, Canada, and A/NZ is sick of this too. Entertaining to think of joining, running and getting club president, and dismissing those three to 3rd tier status.
UK: we are outraged, outraged! with these accusations of the government sponsoring assault on children and we....
US: sh sh shhhsh...Eswatini has the floor
Eswatini: we, the Eswatini, believe pe3dr enablers should be burned at the stake as well.
[DM] The return of Donald Trump to the White House in January unsurprisingly heralded a raft of rapid policy changes.
But the US President's fixation on subsuming Greenland - the world's largest island adrift in icy seas - has the potential to fundamentally reshape the landscape of global security and trade as we know it.
Trump has refused to rule out using military or economic action to acquire the island, leading some analysts to warn that Washington could even attempt to annex the territory in a move shockingly similar to that of Russia wresting control of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office yesterday, the US President made an alarming, if somewhat ambiguous, statement of intent.
'We need Greenland for national security and international security - so I think we'll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark,' he said.
'If we don't have Greenland, we can't have good national security,' he concluded as his Vice President JD Vance geared up for a visit to a US military base at Pituffik in the island's north.
The Vice President had planned to tour the island and attend a popular dog sled race tomorrow with his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance - but the event was cancelled after widespread anti-American protests from locals and claims the Vances' vacation-like engagements were concealing more sinister motives.
Trump recently said his administration was working with 'people in Greenland' who 'want something to happen' with the US, claiming: 'They're calling us - we're not calling them.'
But opinion polls have shown that nearly all Greenlanders oppose becoming part of the United States, and in recent weeks anti-American protesters have staged some of the largest demonstrations ever seen on the Arctic island.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who has firmly opposed Trump's overtures since his return to office, praised Greenlanders' defiance of Washington amid the historic protests.
'The attention is overwhelming and the pressure is great, but it is in times like these that you show what you are made of,' she wrote in an address to the island's inhabitants. 'You have stood up for who you are.'
Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen later piled on, declaring his nation 'would not let the United States decide what the Danish realm, including Greenland, should look like in the future'.
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We need Greenland for national security and international security - so I think we'll go as far as we have to go
So since Putin looks to be getting away with invading another country, Trump is going to give it a shot?
Assuming you're not stupid enough to actually use military force, a word of warning, Mr. President: The Obnoxious New Yorker Persona has a lot of drawbacks.
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I appreciate the Daily Mail going to the trouble of laying it all out for us in such nice detail. But I wonder:
Is GCHQ is trying to get back at Trump for not playing along in Ukraine?
I can't help notice one of the tells for when the DM is trying to sell something: Person X has refused to rule out doing crazy stuff.
Of course Trump has refused to rule out invading Greenland, since that would shut down the conversation. The story stays in the news only if it is about the impending destruction of the current World Order. The Greenland independence movement is just not sexy.
Trump's super power is making deals, not playing armchair general. Although, it is interesting to imagine the New York real estate market with armies and warlords.
A pity we don't have a Rantburg Futures Market for predictions. I would go all in on "Trump doesn't invade Greenland".
[FoxNews] Ezra Klein said the Obama administration was '0-for-3' on the most ambitious proposals in his stimulus package like high-speed rail
New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein said Wednesday liberals need to get upset over the failed promises of the Biden and Obama presidencies.
Klein joined California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's podcast where he talked about his new book with The Atlantic's Derek Thompson, "Abundance," which examines why liberal government isn't delivering and finds it's often their own well-intentioned policies and regulations getting in the way. He said the Obama and Biden administrations suffered from this problem.
"So much of the political theory of the Biden administration was that if you can show liberal democracy can deliver, you will pull people out of wanting these strongmen who say they're going to burn the whole thing down and give you something out of the ashes," Klein said.
He gave the example of the Biden administration celebrating the $42 billion for rural broadband passed in the 2021 infrastructure bill. But with all the multi-stage processes and red-tape, "By the end of the administration, of the 56 states and jurisdictions that were trying to apply for the money, three had made it through."
"If the things don't move fast enough, if they don't get to the people fast enough, it's much harder for liberal democracy to make the case that it delivers," he said.
Klein then recalled a conversation he had with former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau about California’s high-speed rail effort, which has been in the works for almost two decades with little progress.
"I was saying that, the stimulus bill under Obama, that had three big headline projects for reinvestment," he said. "It had high-speed rail, it had smart grid, and it had a nationwide system of interoperable health records."
"I remember those days," Newsom responded.
"Yeah. 0-for-3," Klein said. "At some point, we gotta be upset about this, you know?"
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It's easy to promise stuff when somebody else has to do it.
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actually the USA has made some progress on 'smart grid' which actually started under W - a long way still to go
The Cal HSRail is under construction and has gobbled up billions of $ so far. It is likely to carry passengers by 2030 or so but ridership is likely to be far below expectations.
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Will it be like BART and be illegal...sorry...require a film permit in order to video the happenings because you are a bigot?
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It is likely to carry passengers by 2030 or so but ridership is likely to be far below expectations.
There is no business model when LA or SD to SFO flights are <$100. Currently only a mid-central valley segment is under construction with NO actual track laid (other than a single siding...with great fanfare). California high-speed rail project needs $7 billion by next summer
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If Trump blocks the import of 200-300k students from China paying a full ride at American colleges, that will change some stuff in American academia.
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what was supposed to collapse?
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[FoxNews] Attempted Chinese southern border crossings spiked between 2022 and 2025
U.S. adversaries such as China and Russia have started to target the northern U.S. border with Canada, FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers Wednesday.
During testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee, Patel told lawmakers that the "effective resolution" to the crisis at the southern border has caused adversaries such as China, Russia and Iran to shift their resources to targeting the U.S. northern border.
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China has fentanyl labs in Canada. And chinese fentanyl precursors are shipped to Canada to be manufactured and shipped across the formerly porous northern border into the Unites States.
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One could be forgiven for thinking that Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China. It does explain their reaction to Trump's demand to kill the fentanyl trade or get some tariffs. I hear the ports have a lot of Chinese "influence" too.
[ZeroHedge] That's what Balaji Srinivasan argues in the post below. First, for those unfamiliar with him, here's why his opinion is worth considering here. In a nutshell, it’s because he combines deep technical expertise with a strong track record of predicting where technology is headed.
Srinivasan is a tech entrepreneur, investor, and futurist known for his influential ideas at the intersection of technology, society, and decentralization. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms. With a background in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. from Stanford, he’s been a vocal thought leader on trends like blockchain, AI, and the future of governance.
What prompted Balaji's post, was this question on X, about why China was essentially giving away its new AI models.
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.
