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Epstein's sexual crimes are a matter of "national security"--? whaat? some curious business here.
Speaker Mike Johnson claims the Epstein files can’t be released unredacted because they contain intelligence-agency material that falls under national security.
He says it’s dangerous to force the DOJ to declassify documents they didn’t create, especially when they involve other agencies like the CIA or NSA.
Johnson warns that releasing the Epstein files unredacted would put national security at risk.
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“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
Kurt Vonnegut, born on this day in 1922. His greatest book is his 1969 anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five, which drew on his real-life experience surviving the Allied firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war.
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The oldest sites in the Americas are likely underwater.
Some 18,000 years ago, sea levels were likely some 400 feet lower, essentially meaning Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and other states along all the US had some shorelines over a hundred miles out from today's coasts in some areas. Florida, for example, was twice as large then. Whatever evidence that still exists of the oldest sites in the Americas likely lies buried under sand and silt in the submerged areas. There is ongoing research in this area. Here is a bit: mfaught.org/wp-content/uploa…
July 15, 2026...
"And it makes me think that we have to be really thoughtful about what the other policy processes that are going to secure us because ultimately a lot of critical infrastructure today is secured by the threat of FBI prosecuting them. It's not secured by the fact that the infrastructure is secure. It's secured by the fact that they're afraid that, you know, DoD or DOJ or State Department is going to sanction another country."
-Jay Gazlay
The Future of AI-Driven Cyber Defense youtu.be/mjCM4X8GFqc?si=P5jX… via @YouTube
'He goes on to argue that even Palantir's founders don't quite understand the Palantiri seeing stones in The Lord of the Rings . Tolkien's orbs, he points out, didn't actually give their holders honest insights. "The Palantiri distort the truth," he says. And those who look into them, he adds, "only see what they want to see."'
-Andy Greenberg, Forbes
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Arthur Poulin, American
Big Sur, California
California poppies and blue lupines
September 1, 2018...
"I want to write realistic spy fiction; I don't want to write shoot 'em up James Bond car chases which I don't think are realistic; I want to write about what's really happening, and increasingly that does involve technology: a quantum computer, if it could be built, is as revolutionary as the atom bomb"
-David Ignatius
David Ignatius on "The Quantum Spy" at the 2018 National Book Festival youtu.be/aLDchP6ZYyM?si=VY6t… via @YouTube
October 14, 2026...
"The memo’s sharpest warning is about mortgages. If cover is restricted or withdrawn at scale, the authors see an economic shock that could precede a financial crash, much as sub-prime lending did before 2008. In the US, mortgage contracts generally require hazard insurance, so losing coverage can put homeowners at risk of losing their homes."
Insurers pressed to “manage down” climate numbers, insiders warn, as US non-renewals top two million insurancebusinessmag.com/us/…
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"no one thought of this beforehand! the war was just to deflect the media from the Epstein files...."
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great piece but can someone leak the actual transcripts of Peter Thiel's lectures so we can read the source material too! theverge.com/tech/1014252/pe…
Alex Karp & Elon Musk were both guests on the same Charlie Rose show back in 2009. How about that?
August 11, 2009...
Alex Karp; Elon Musk charlierose.com/videos/22612 via @CharlieRoseShow
October 3, 2013...
"Britpop was massively pushed by the government," he said. "Someday it would be interesting to read all the MI5 files on Britpop. The wool was pulled right over everyone's eyes there."
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"A German-American billionaire from South Africa is plotting with the Freemasons to raise up a Protestant antipope in Nashville" is the sort of thing you'd expect to find in a bad Walker Percy imitator, and yet the Lord Himself has written it on the canvas of history.
NEW: In leaked recordings, Peter Thiel argued that Nashville should be a moral alternative to Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church, which he called “a dubious ally” against a hypothetical future Antichrist Democratic president.
“America is the last and final form of the Roman Empire,” Thiel told a closed-door crowd in Nashville’s Masonic Temple. “There is no successor.”
He has attacked Pope Leo XIV at least four times this year, once calling him “a useful idiot for the CCP.” thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-…
June 5, 2026...
Daniel Lanois - Warp Sustain (Official Video) youtu.be/VJq3bn07xvw?si=Ewt0… via @YouTube
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