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Tranche of Epstein Files Released. Here’s What We Learned (and Didn’t Learn)

On Thursday, following through on a campaign promise, the Trump administration released documents related to the notorious predator Jeffrey Epstein. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously described the scale of Epstein’s abuse as “sick,” confirming over 250 victims. Trump signed an executive order on his third day in office ordering the release of the Epstein files, and many have been wondering when they’d come out, or even if they would. The delay in the release of the files, Bondi explained, is due to efforts to protect victims’ identities, but she assured that flight logs and names would be released.

Numerous high-profile figures have been linked to Jeffrey Epstein, with records and reports confirming that many flew on his private jet to his infamous island, Little St. James. Among them is former President Bill Clinton, who took multiple flights on Epstein’s plane—though he insists he never visited the island—along with Prince Andrew. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has also been suspected of making the trip.

So, what do the documents say?

Well, unfortunately, this drop doesn’t appear to have what many of us were hoping for. 

We were expecting to see flight logs indicating which celebrities, politicians, and other high-profile individuals flew on the “Lolita Express” to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, as well as other evidence linking these individuals to crimes against victims. We did not get that. We got newspaper clippings and a lot of redacted documents that gave no information about alleged predators who visited the island. Bondi is now accusing the FBI of withholding documents from her.

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Rise of the Resistance?

Over at the Free Press, River Page has his morning news roundup for today. Below the fold, Page notes that protests are beginning to appear around the country. True, the Left spent considerable time recovering from November and has been trying to keep up with the flurry of activity from the White House. But it would appear that in some sectors, the progressives are getting their feet back under them and dusting off the old outrage.  

Page notes:

After a month characterized by a notable dearth of protests, the crowds are beginning to show up. Students—like at Stanford this past week—are shouting down conservative speakers, and Democrats nationwide are seeing a surge in fundraising as they begin to launch legal battles against the administration. Overflow crowds have inundated Bernie Sanders’ rallies. His adviser said, “There is a lot more anger building, such that we are seeing in deep-red Republican-held districts that people are coming out.”

The Stanford Review reported that on Tuesday, ten-plus protesters shouted down and disrupted a debate between Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez and former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Lawrence Summers and took over the stage for around 20 minutes. On Wednesday, around 50 anti-Israel protesters took over a building at Barnard College in New York City. Their ire stemmed from the expulsion of two students for storming buildings at Columbia and handing out pamphlets laden with anti-Jewish propaganda. One employee was assaulted in yesterday’s collective tantrum.

Part of this is because the Left is finally over its shock, and it has things like USAID to use as red meat. And then there is the faction of people who continue to mouth the anti-Trump mantra, no matter the topic at hand. And the weather is getting better. Today’s generation is nowhere near as strong as their counterparts who lived through the Battle of the Bulge, stormed Omaha Beach, or went through the grueling process of island-hopping in the South Pacific. To put it in terms of historical warfare, it is campaigning season again. The weather will soon be nice enough to get out and break a few things in the name of justice. 

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New Search for Flight MH370 Underway

Nearly 11 years after Malaysian Airlines flight 370 mysteriously disappeared, a new search is underway in the hopes of finally locating the lost passenger plane. The curious case captivated the world in March of 2014 when the Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members vanished shortly after departing Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing. The unfathomable nature of a passenger plane simply disappearing in this day and age became all the more confounding in the years that followed after multiple exhaustive searches for the missing aircraft failed to find the lost flight. Now, for the first time since 2018, a new expedition has reportedly been launched in the hopes of solving the MH370 mystery at last.

Six years ago, maritime robotics company Ocean Infinity conducted a sizeable search of a specific area of the Indian Ocean where it was believed that the remains of the airliner might be found. Although that expedition ultimately came up short, the group eventually convinced the Malaysian government that new insights from the flight data had provided a more promising picture of where it likely went down. This led to an agreement wherein Ocean Infinity would once again look for the lost passenger plane with the understanding that they would only recoup their costs if the airliner is found.

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Study: Majority of EBT-Eligible Food Products Are Ultra-Processed

We’ve all been there: you’re waiting in the checkout line at your local Save money. Live better™ Walmart, or wherever fine groceries are sold, and in front of you is a family of four — all obese if not morbidly so — with a cart chock full of Dr. Thunder (Walmart’s Dr. Pepper knock-off) and Hot Pockets and stuff like that.

“EBT,” they say when the cashier reports their bill.

Then you realize — with a disparate mix of revulsion, empathy, and helplessness — that you have just subsidized their slow-burning suicide and the homicide of their equally fat children.

One advocacy group recently attempted to quantify this phenomenon.

Via GoCoCo (emphasis added):

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has come under increasing scrutiny for how its benefits are spent. Critics point out that the program may be “encouraging families to eat highly processed, unhealthy junk food” rather than nourishing them with wholesome options. This concern prompted us to conduct a detailed investigation into the foods eligible for purchase with Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards (which deliver SNAP benefits) at one of the nation’s largest grocery retailers…

Our analysis of more than 13,000 SNAP-EBT eligible products reveals a stark nutritional reality. The vast majority of items that SNAP recipients can buy are highly processed. Notable findings include…

62% of EBT-eligible products studied are ultra-processed foods…

Nearly half (47%) of the products contain artificial flavorings…

8% of products contain additives that are banned in California or in California schools…

Over 160 products contain Red Dye No. 3, which has been recently banned by the FDA.

Of course, one of the biggest reasons this mass-scale human tragedy is allowed to play itself out is the influence of big food lobbyists in Washington (and at the state level) who bribe politicians and policymakers to include ultra-processed foods manufactured by mega-corporations like Nestle, Coca-Cola, et al. in the EBT program.

Often, these lobbyists go as low as weaponizing accusations of racism against anyone who objects.

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Manifest Destiny in the Histories of the US and Israel

For Palestine and Palestinians, 14 May 1948 was a fateful day in its 4,000-year history.   It was also historically pivotal for the United States.  Paraphrasing British author, George Orwell, it is essential to rediscover the past in order to gain control of the present and save the future.

Eleven minutes after David Ben-Gurion, head of the Jewish Agency, declared Israel a state in May 1948, President Harry S. Truman recognized his claim, giving legitimacy to Ben-Gurion’s bogus declaration.

In 1947, thirty-three members of the newly-created United Nations General Assembly (57 then) voted in favor of Resolution 181, recommending the partition of historic Palestine into Jewish and Palestinian states.  Truman, undeterred by the fact that the UN Security Council had not voted on the resolution, which would have made it binding on all members, threw the full weight of the United States behind it.

Truman’s decision to position Israel as a citadel of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East has boomeranged and has resulted in the United States being despised in much of the world.  Rather than protect U.S. interests in the region as planned, Israel has imperiled them.

As we have seen since the 7 October 2023 insurrection, there are no limits on U.S.-Israeli brutality and on the suffering they have been willing to inflict on the Palestinians in order to preserve their imperium in the region.

Imperial arrogance on the part of American presidents is, of course, not new.  It reached new heights, however, when President Donald J. Trump threatened to take over, “to own” Gaza and remove (euphemism for ethnically cleanse) Palestinians from their ancestral land to foreign destinations. The Zionist colonizing baton in Gaza would essentially be passed to American imperialists.

Trump revealed his illegal plan for Gaza during a recent (11 February) White House press conference.  As humiliated King Abdullah of Jordan looked on, he said:  “We’re going to hold it; we’re going to cherish it… It’s fronting on the sea. It’s going to be a great economic development job.” When asked by a reporter under what authority are you permitted to take the sovereign territory of Gaza; he smugly responded, “U.S. authority.”

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‘Fraud On A Mass Scale’ – Why Trump Should Repeal Real Estate Tax

This is the short version of the Amicus created for ZeroHedge. For the full print version of the Amicus Brief Supporting Property Owners and School Districts and Accounting Fraud, both of which are being delivered by hand to President Trump click here and here.

Introduction of Argument 

The Home Affordability and Probability of Bankruptcy graphic below shows Taxation of Unrealized Gains, which is a violation of the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Market Value is the mechanism in Texas and most States in the Union, from which the Assessed Value is created. 

Under current Texas Law you can protest your Market Value but not the Assessed Value. If the Market Value is fraudulent, then so is the Assessed Value. 

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The Gold At Fort Knox Was Stolen From Americans

In recent days, President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Senator Rand Paul, and some others have pressed for an audit of the US gold reserves, with a special focus on the gold at Fort Knox. This is perfectly reasonable given that the US gold reserves – which are the property of the US Treasury and not the Federal Reserve – have not undergone even a partial audit in at least forty years.

Part of the reason for the audit is to discover if any of the gold has been stolen. The US Mint, the government agency that acts as custodian of the gold, has reported for many years that the official size of the gold reserve is 8,133.46 metric tons of gold. Since there has been no audit in so many decades, though, the Mint’s position is essentially “trust us, bro.” Trusting federal bureaucrats has never been a particularly wise policy, and this is why there are ongoing demands for some sort of transparent audit.

If the total size of the US’s gold holdings is revealed to be a number below the official number, then it will just be the latest reminder that there a great many thieves and incompetents among the people running the US federal government. After all, if there is less gold than reported in the US gold reserves, it was presumably stolen at some point.

This would be a fitting destiny for the US government’s gold since much of that was stolen to begin with. When I say “stolen,” I don’t even mean in the sense that “taxation is theft” and that the US bought the gold using tax dollars. In truth, the way the US Treasury acquired much of its gold hoard is even more underhanded than ordinary taxation.

Rather, it is likely that most of the gold at Fort Knox, as with the US regime’s gold in general, is gold stolen from ordinary Americans as a part of Franklin Roosevelt’s efforts to end the gold standard and confiscate private gold holdings in the United States. That is, the US gold reserves are a legacy of the way the US government reneged on its promises to redeem US dollars in gold. Rather than pay out the gold that was owed to holders of US dollars, the US government hoarded it instead. That stolen gold is what the auditors will be counting if the US government ever allows an honest accounting of the Treasury’s gold reserves.

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Trump deletes database of federal police officer misconduct

The first database to track misconduct of federal officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump.

The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database was first proposed by Trump during his first term in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s death. It wasn’t until 2022 that the database was created under an executive order from former President Joe Biden.

The U.S. Justice Department confirmed the website was taken down and said that agencies could not look for or add any information to the database.

As of September 2024, there were 4,790 records of federal police misconduct between 2018 and 2023 in the database, according to a DOJ report released in December.

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Drone incursions target ‘Plant 42,’ said to be the birthplace to top secret tech

 In August 2024, alarming drone encounters were documented for seven nights above a highly secretive desert facility, according to new reports.

While mysterious drone incursions have made headlines in recent months, documents are now coming to light highlighting disturbing incidents around restricted airspace, including a desert facility known as “Plant 42,” said to be the birthplace of top-secret technology.

The facility, located in Palmdale, CA, is an aerospace brain trust with distinct ties to Area 51 in Nevada. Most notably, it uses JANET, the nickname of the hush-hush airline that shuttles workers from Las Vegas to Area 51 or to Area 52 near Tonopah. Plant 42 is described as a Mojave Desert enclave of brilliant engineers and aerospace brainiacs working on projects for  NASA, the US Air Force, and the CIA.

Plant 42 is the birthplace of many amazing machines, including the soon-to-be-unveiled B-21 Raider and the next generation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). All the big names are present at Plant 42. From Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works to Northrop Grumman to McDonnell Douglas, the cutting-edge technologies deemed vital to national security come through the facility.

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Alina Habba says there will ‘absolutely’ be new criminal prosecutions from Epstein list release

Americans should expect to see new criminal prosecutions brought against individuals revealed to be involved in Jeffrey Epstein‘s pedophilic sex trafficking ring.

Counselor to the President Alina Habba said those on the client list and who protected their friends from being outed as rapists and pedophiles need to be held accountable.

She also said that the ‘incredibly disturbing’ documents include flight logs and information with names of clients who engaged in the illegal activity.

Asked if the government will be pursuing criminal charges against these individuals, Habba said: ‘Absolutely.’

‘I think it would be negligent for us not to,’ she told Piers Morgan on his show Uncensored. ‘You have to hold individuals who are indeed rapists accountable. We have to have them tried, in my opinion.’

‘Nobody should be just dismissed,’ she went on. ‘You have to have your time in court, and your case will be heard.’

‘But to hide lists, to protect political friends, all of that – we don’t have time for that.’

But the New York Post reports that a client list is not among the information that will be included in the initial release.

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