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[REGNUM] In the last days of April, those who are commonly called conspiracy theorists once again had a reason to worry.
On the 25th, 41-year-old Virginia Giuffre was found dead - the one who is commonly called the first and key witness in the case of financier Jeffrey Epstein and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who provided sex services to the powerful.
It was Virginia who first threw off the veil of anonymity and directly accused both Epstein and several celebrities - including Britain's Prince Andrew - of sexually exploiting minors and described in detail what had happened to her.
In essence, Giuffre has condemned herself in advance to a bloody legal battle with her former offenders, the American media, and Western justice.
This is quite a serious step that requires courage, a strong character and fighting endurance. And it is even stranger that Virginia's own family calls her death a suicide, and law enforcement officials do not see any criminal motive in the incident.
ORGANIZERS AND CLIENTS
At the age of seven, Giuffre was molested by a close friend of her parents, later the girl was placed in foster families, she ran away from home, at 14 she lived on the streets, was repeatedly subjected to physical violence, and at one point even spent six months with an elderly sex trafficker.
And against the backdrop of such a life, she, working at a resort in Mar-a-Lago, met people who offered her to earn two hundred dollars a day from just one client instead of nine dollars a day. At first, just doing massages, and then not only massages.
According to Giuffre herself, one can conclude that she understood from the very beginning what the matchmakers wanted from her. She just decided that she could not refuse because of her life and financial situation.
The story unfolded in a way that was quite predictable for this “industry.” Ghislaine Maxwell sought out the right girls, persuaded them to cooperate, and, together with Epstein, taught them “how to properly handle wealthy clients.”
Epstein himself "tried out" girls together with his friends, and then rented them out to influential people for a while. One of Giuffre's "clients" was the younger brother of the current British king, Prince Andrew.
"They passed me around like a fruit platter," Giuffre said, describing her "work" for Epstein and Maxwell.
Several years later, Virginia, having lost most of her illusions, entered a massage school in Thailand, where she met her future husband and subsequently gave birth to three children.
In 2009, Giuffre filed her first lawsuit, against Maxwell, accusing the socialite of engaging in sex trafficking. Giuffre kept her name anonymous, appearing in the documents as " Jane Doe 102."
The lawsuit prompted several similar lawsuits from other victims — all of whom were satisfied with undisclosed compensation awards. In January 2022, it was reported that Giuffre had received about $500,000 in compensation.
However, after the birth of her daughter in 2010, Virginia decided that she could no longer remain anonymous.
In 2011, she gave her first scandalous interview, to which she attached a photograph of herself standing hugging Prince Andrew at Maxwell's house in Belgravia.
In 2014, Giuffre founded a nonprofit organization that brings together survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse.
In 2021, she filed a civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew. Giuffre denied the claims, but the following year the parties reached an out-of-court settlement that included a significant donation from the royal to a nonprofit headed by Giuffre.
Virginia's allegations led to Prince Andrew being suspended from his royal duties and charities, and reportedly being banished from Buckingham Palace.
CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH
In early April this year, Virginia Giuffre came forward with a statement that she had been in a car accident that left her with kidney failure, and doctors had "given her four days to live" and transferred her to a special urology hospital. Giuffre also posted a photo of herself with a bruised face.
A little later, authorities in Australia, where the car crash occurred, reported that they had no reports of casualties as a result of the incident.
Police, however, shared information that a "minor" collision between a car and a school bus occurred on March 24. The car was damaged, Virginia herself is in hospital, her life is not in danger.
The Giuffre family did not provide details, saying only that the mother of the family published the data thinking she was doing it for her personal page on a social network.
Then the media featured mutually exclusive stories: Virginia got worse, then everything was fine, then her condition was again stable and serious. Along the way, it turned out that the woman had previously accused her husband of domestic violence and before her death had fought for custody of the children.
On April 25, the world media was abuzz with news that Giuffre had been found dead. Given the notoriety of the deceased, the department specializing in the investigation of particularly serious crimes was immediately brought into the case.
However, investigators did not have any suspicions about Virginia's death in the first hours after examining the body. Her father expressed doubts that his daughter had committed suicide, and her lawyer publicly made it clear that "not everything is so clear-cut in the case."
However, a little later, Virginia Giuffre's family acknowledged the non-violence of her death, and also expressed regret that someone who "was a fighter all her life" still could not bear the burden of violence inflicted on her.
The lawyer, who until recently doubted that her client had committed suicide, began giving interviews in the style of “everyone misunderstood me,” and she says she doesn’t see anything suspicious in what happened, doesn’t criticize the police, doesn’t interfere in the personal affairs of the Giuffre family, and doesn’t advise others to do so.
DIARIES OF THE DECEASED
However, the brand that Virginia Giuffre's name has become will live on. Her brother and sister-in-law have announced their desire to continue the deceased's work and plan to advocate for the victims of Epstein and Maxwell.
They did this by “accidentally leafing through” the deceased’s diaries and finding there many “words of support for the victims.”
Apparently, one should not be surprised if the recordings also contain circumstances of her “interaction” with Epstein and Co. that were not voiced by the deceased herself.
A SERIES OF SUICIDES
The history of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes has long attracted attention due to the mysterious suicides of key participants in the criminal process.
Epstein himself - according to the official version - committed suicide while in prison, just at the moment of questioning about the most interesting thing about his work - the list of clients.
It is worth recognizing that people like Epstein die “just like that” extremely rarely, and rumors about “difficult deaths in this case” have some basis.
In May 2023, Caroline Andriano, who also came forward with allegations against Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein, who raped her when she was 14, died of a drug overdose.
Even earlier, in 2017, another victim of Epstein, Lee Sky Patrick, also died from drug use.
In both cases, the deaths were ruled the result of accidental drug overdoses, which both girls were heavily addicted to "trying to forget the stress of the violence they had experienced."
American criminologists and psychologists do not see anything suspicious in such situations, since crimes against sexual inviolability can seriously damage the psyche and cause “worse things.”
But what to make of the fact that one of Epstein's accomplices, modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, committed suicide in Paris's Sante prison in 2022?
THERE WAS NO SENSATION
When he took office, US President Donald Trump promised not only to reveal secrets about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 9/11, or UFOs. He also guaranteed to tell the public what the FBI covered up in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
In February, US Attorney General Pam Bondi declassified the first batch of documents, which included copies of Epstein's private jet logbooks, a list of 254 "masseuses," and an address book.
The case also included a list of 150 pieces of evidence, including sex toys, massage tables, nude paintings and the like.
However, journalists immediately realized that all these lists and logbooks in one form or another had been circulating on the Internet for several years. There was no sensation.
The Prosecutor General's Office stated that so far they have only been able to obtain 200 pages on this criminal case, but they do not intend to stop and will continue to put pressure on the FBI.
Of course, we can wait a little longer, but there is an opinion that the public will not receive any “extra” information even under Trump. And all the inconvenient characters – victims, criminals, and investigators – will gradually be taken out of the game.
Some will (or have) gone into honorable retirement, and some will go to the next world. The American political machine will never shoot itself in the foot by telling truly inconvenient facts.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Scientists have made a shocking discovery in Antarctica that has climate change deniers claiming there's now proof global warming is just a hoax.
Researchers from Tongji University in Shanghai found the frozen continent suddenly reversed its decades-long trend of catastrophic melting and actually gained record amounts of ice in recent years.
Although the Antarctic Ice Sheet had been losing ice at an alarming rate for nearly two decades, between 2002 and 2020, that trend sharply changed in 2021.
From 2021 through 2023, the study found unusually 'intense snowfall' in Antarctica helped build up layers of fresh ice, an event that also caused sea level rise to slow as well.
The world's sea levels have been growing in height as ocean temperatures rise and more glaciers melt due to global warming, threatening to flood major coastal cities worldwide.
Overall, scientists found that this three-year climate reversal cut the annual rise in global sea level rise by nearly 15 percent, a significant difference.
Before this recent change in Antarctica, the study calculated that the ice sheet lost about 120 billion tons of ice per year over the previous two decades. Between 2021 and 2023, the continent gained roughly 108 billion tons of ice each year.
While the researchers noted that the surprising results only reflect a temporary change in Antarctica's weather patterns that could eventually change back, climate change skeptics quickly pounced on the findings on social media.
The scientists who made the discovery found that, between 2021 and 2023, abnormal weather patterns brought more moisture to the continent, especially the Eastern half of Antarctica.
These patterns were likely caused by shifts in winds or storms, possibly influenced by climate changes, but the study authors made sure to note that this change was an 'unprecedented' event.
Despite the historic gains in ice growth throughout Antarctica from 2021 to 2023, the study revealed that the continent suffered a net loss of 1.848 trillion tons of ice over the last two decades.
This ice loss added about 5.99 millimeters (roughly a quarter of an inch) to global sea levels by February 2020.
The connection between snow melting and sea level rise has real consequences. Rising sea levels can flood coastal cities, erode beaches, and harm ecosystems.
Recent studies have argued that climate change is the major driving factor for flooding problems in major cities like New Orleans, which is now sinking as that entire Gulf Coast area erodes.
In fact, climate scientists have warned that the rising sea levels triggered by melting Antarctic glaciers has now put over two dozen cities at higher risk of sinking over the next three decades.
Despite the evidence that climate change is doing widespread damage, a University of Cambridge professor said skeptics still have a valid argument about so-called 'climate alarmists.'
Mike Hulme told DailyMail.com that climate alarmists have created so much distrust and ill will among the public by blaming almost all of society's issues on the climate emergency.
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'Climate change is cited as the sole explanation for everything going wrong in the world. Drought, famine, flooding, wars, racism – you name it. And if it's bad, it's down to global warming caused by humans,' Professor Hulme said.
'I disagree with the doom-mongers. Climate change is not like a comet approaching Earth. There is no good scientific or historical evidence that it will lead to human extinction or the collapse of human civilization,' the professor of human geography added.
To Hulme's point, the new study revealed a much more complicated picture of what's happening at the South Pole.
While this study and others have uncovered trends linked to climate change, such as ice melting speeding up and oceans becoming hotter, the same research can find wild swings where temperatures drop and appear to debunk those trends.
From 2021 through 2023, scientists said the main reason Antarctica was able to rebuild so much of its ice was because of 'large precipitation anomalies' - or massive snow totals that can't be counted on year after year.
Just like in other regions that get snow throughout the world, blizzards don't strike every single year like clockwork, which is why the scientists believe this reversal may be a temporary event.
While climate deniers are taking a victory lap right now, the study published in Science China Earth Sciences still showed a concerning trend developing throughout the 21st century.
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They are not deniers. They recognize 'natural' climate change. What they deny is the cult religion that man-mad climate change is radically effecting the planet.
[Townhall] There’s a university where Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthi leaders are welcome — but Israeli academics are not. This particular ivory tower is also the largest recipient of U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) money outside the United States. Welcome to South Africa’s University of Cape Town (UCT). The funding of a 'white' genocide appears to be once again permissible. But let's not talk about it, shall we ?
The NIH announced on April 21 that it would no longer provide awards to domestic recipients that engage in discriminatory boycotts against Israel. The NIH should swiftly extend this directive to apply to foreign recipients like the University of Cape Town.
U.S. taxpayers provide $350 million annually to South Africa for medical research — 70 percent of the country’s total yearly spending for the cause. A leaked March 2025 NIH memo listed South Africa and China as "countries of concern" poised for funding cuts.
Good.
The university’s extremism dates back years. In March 2023, just months before Hamas’s October 7 atrocities against Israel, the student group UCT Palestinian Solidarity Forum (PSF) welcomed representatives from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as well as Hezbollah spokesperson Ibrahim al-Mousawi via video conference. A Marxist - Islamic Jihad reality the West was instrumental in creating. The final blow came in 1995. Jy oes wat jy saai (You reap what you sow).
Promoting another al-Mousawi event in September 2023, PSF announced, "A video message will be recorded by the participants that will be sent directly to the Palestinian resistance Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad! Come out and show South Africa’s support for the mujahedeen in Palestine!" PSF hosted al-Mousawi again in March 2024, this time alongside a Houthi representative, via Zoom.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
If Trump's intent was to keep the sea lanes open and shipping free from attack by the Houthis, I frankly don't see this as an L for the US.
[ColonelCassad] Yesterday, the US effectively pulled out of the Yemen war by concluding a separate agreement with the Houthis.
The US will stop bombing Yemen, and the Houthis will stop attacking US ships and vessels in the Red Sea and off the coast of Yemen. Which they started doing after the US attacks on Yemen. At the same time, the Houthis retain the freedom to strike Israel and ships heading to Israel. Which is what they did before the US attack on Yemen. Yesterday, Israel went into hysterics about this, saying that Trump didn’t warn anyone and pulled out of the Yemen war, while missiles and drones from Yemen continue to hit Israel.
In fact, the US has not achieved anything significant. The total losses for the entire campaign, started by Biden, amounted to 2 F/A-18, 1 MQ-1 Gray Eagle and 22 MQ-9 Reapers, not counting everything else, including the supposedly damaged aircraft carrier.
The Houthis continued to pound Israel at the beginning of the war, and they continue to do so. And they will continue to do so. Today, the Houthi command once again announced that having dealt with the American aggressors, they will continue to support the Palestinians and strike the Zionists in order to strengthen the naval and air blockade of Israel. The bombing of the US and the Zionists does not scare them.
In general, the US under Trump decided to intensify the half-extinguished war, spent a lot of money on strikes, did not achieve any of the strategic goals and shamefully merged. The idea of organizing a land invasion of Yemen also failed - the Saudis flatly refused. They remember how their Houthis got drones at one time. And without the Saudis, the Emiratis alone will not be able to survive a new round of ground war. Even with the support of Israeli and US air forces, there is no guarantee that the Emiratis and the forces of the Southern Transitional Council under their control will be able to take Hodeida, which they have already broken their teeth on before.
In general, the Houthis confidently won this round of the US war and significantly increased their military and political prestige, once again showing that at the current stage they are the most sensible of the Arabs in terms of military affairs. The bet on an asymmetric war against a superior enemy in the form of the US, Britain and Israel has fully justified itself. Well, Trump has de facto lost face, although now he is trying to boast of "successes" in the form of agreements with the Houthis not to shoot at American aircraft carriers. Now that's a victory, so be it.
In March, by the way, it was 10 years since the beginning of the Yemen war, which continues with short pauses to this day.
This war perfectly shows that it is practically impossible to win a war with aviation and missiles alone - wars in the overwhelming majority of cases are won on the ground. And in the case of the Houthis - there are not very many who want to fight them in the Yemeni mountains.
So the honored Fremen of the Middle East have bent over the greedy Baron Donald Harkonnen. Donald Harkonnen is a partial reference to a character in the Dune sci-fi series.
The character is murderous, corrupt, decadent — utterly vile in in every possible way. Interesting, though, that in the Russian translation the name is Donald; in the original English, written during the Cold War, the Baron’s name is Vladimir.
Rozhin, being the Stalinist that he is, isn't too fond of Donald Trump, so he substituted an incorrect given name with Donald.
Another US Navy fighter jet has fallen from the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea. This was reported by CNN citing informed sources.
The incident was likely caused by a malfunction in the braking system during the landing of the F/A-18 Super Hornet on the aircraft carrier.
According to the channel's source, the pilot and officer managed to eject. They received only minor injuries. A rescue helicopter lifted them aboard the aircraft carrier. The sunken fighter has not yet been found.
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The Houthis clarified again yesterday that the agreement was only with America for American ships, Snowy Thing. It didn’t seem worth posting an article about it,. And then they shot off another missile at Israel, which exploded in mid-air at about halfway to Israeli territory.
#4
As near as I can tell, they got off the phone saying "ceasefire" and then launched a missile at Israel. AFAICT they didn't even have a written agreement.
Alinsky rules 4 and 5: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
[HotAir] Mark Carney Could Tear Canada Apart
In an election that seemed all but guaranteed to land Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in government, Canada instead re-elected Mark Carney’s Liberal Party for another four years. Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, first became Canadian prime minister in March, taking over from the scandal-mired Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North... . The increasingly unpopular Liberals were set to be tossed by the populist-leaning Poilievre, until US president Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... ’s threats to annex the country. This derailed the national discourse and caused liberal-left voters to rally behind Carney.
The Liberals’ victory, however, was extremely narrow, and their fourth term in government is set to be a rough ride. For starters, Carney will have to form a minority government. It will also have to contend with the fact that Poilievre’s Conservatives made significant gains among younger voters. For those aged between 18 and 34, support for the Conservatives outpaced Liberal support by 44 per cent to 31 per cent. Young Canadians remained impervious to Carney’s anti-Trump appeals — only 18 per cent of 18- to 29-year-olds were worried about Trump, compared with 45 per cent of voters over 60.
The youth were not the only group the Liberals failed to win over. In Western Canada, Trump’s threat to make Canada the 51st state provoked little concern, and Alberta and Saskatchewan remained Conservative strongholds. In fact, voters in these provinces were far less fearful of Trump than they were of Carney’s green agenda.
The Trudeau government — in power since 2015 — had already done its best to alienate the Canadian West with its unpopular federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act 2018, more commonly referred to as the carbon tax. As the biggest oil-producing provinces in the country, Alberta and Saskatchewan were most affected by this. Although Carney scrapped the carbon tax ahead of the election, he has shown every indication that he intends to continue with every other aspect of Trudeau’s Net Zero agenda. After all, in 2021, Carney said he believed that half of the world’s oil reserves need to stay in the ground.
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A Canadian friend of mine, who become an American citizen after her father died, explained that they are taught in school to despise everything about America and to consider themselves — oh so politely — superior in every way.
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.
...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
