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And an FBI report included in the DOJ's release includes a source who claims that an Italian cybersecurity figure described as "Epstein's Hacker" may have held a Vatican City passport.

Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's good-for-nothing oligarchic father, was suspected by the UK security services as spying for both Russia and Israel. He taught his creepy daughter well. American traitor Jonathan Pollard also shopped his services to Israel and another country.

Both Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein had Israeli passports in their possession when arrested.

Link:

FBI CHS: Vatican City Penetrated

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) pledged that he would order the NYPD to arrest ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu should he step into NYC jurisdiction. NYPD detectives would take the INTERPOL Red Notice for Netanyahu which is diffused into the NCIC/NLETS system to a judge who would then issue a bench warrant for his arrest in accordance with international law. If NYPD detectives go to a federal judge, the same process applies, except the US Marshal Service or other federal agencies would then effect the arrest should the magistrate sign the bench warrant.

Mayor Mamdani pledged the same treatment would apply to ICC-indicted war criminal Russia President Vladimir Putin. Canada PM Mark Carney also stated he would order the arrest of these two international malefactors should they step foot onto Canadian soil in accordance with international law.


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On 12 March 2025 in Albany NY, then-NYS Assemblyman and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani shouted at the repugnant Tom Homan, "border czar," over the Trumpf junta's inhumane crackdown on illegal immigration and the unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian Samaritan.

"How many more New Yorkers will you detain? How many more New Yorkers without charge?" the Bronx High School of Science yelled.

"Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Homan?"

Zohran said the obnoxious lickspittle Homan smirked at him when confronted.

Below, wafer-thin Zohran Mamdani tries to get past burly New York State police troopers while rebuking the cheap fascist who took a tawdry $50,000 bribe from someone seeking a contract with the Trumpf junta. (Albany, 12 March 2025)

Principle, character, and morality matter.

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interesting story

clean link for the top post:
archive.is
(mediaite)

U.K.-based broadcaster Channel 4 News reported that internal emails seen by its journalists
-wait, how did they get these internal emails?

U.K.-based broadcaster with internal us gov emails. hmm.

clean link for the UK spyrag channel:
archive.is

Spyrag video:
www.youtube.com

Oh look, pictures of the stolen emails! Now we're getting somewhere!
But wait- they're ...redacted

Honk

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Jeffrey Epstein On His Majesty Putin's Secret Service :

www.thetimes.com - Jeffrey Epstein took a leaf from Vladimir Putin's playbook
Amassing embarrassing photos and damaging information was strikingly similar to Russian kompromat operations
- 2026-02-06

|------- Polish, French and British intelligence agencies are scrambling to establish whether this was, indeed, the "world's largest honeytrap operation": how much dirt Epstein amassed on whom, whether he did so for Moscow's benefit, what that material may have been used for and how much profit he extracted from his many Russian connections.

There are grubby Russian fingerprints all over the Epstein files, which contain 1,056 mentions of Putin and more than 9,000 references to Moscow: requests for flights to take escorts and models from Moscow to Paris and New York; a 2012 message to Epstein offering "2 Russian girls for you to meet, one 21, another 24. One skinny, another curvy and super cute"; a dinner companion offered to Prince Andrew with a recommendation that she was "Russian, beautiful and trustworthy". (The former prince denies any wrongdoing, as does everyone else mired in this swamp, including the Kremlin.)

... Epstein visited Russia multiple times and made arrangements to meet Putin (it is unclear if he ever did). He arranged Russian visas for others and left the bulk of his fortune, two days before his suicide, to a mysterious 36-year-old Belarusian dentist. His links to the Russian elite were many, varied and highly dubious.
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www.yahoo.com - Epstein's Russia connections, explained - 2026-02-05

dossier.center - Jeffrey Epstein's Russian Connection: Billionaire's ties with FSB Academy graduate revealed - 2026-02-14

unherd.com - Russia loves the Epstein files Nationalists delight in Western debauchery - 2026-02-04

|------- The honeypot approach is still used because it's blunt but effective. It uses kompromat sometimes in exotic, outrageous forms, but just as often in banal, almost bureaucratic ways that resemble those of the Soviet era. ...

Russia does not primarily seek to attack the West by surgically extracting targeted information, as traditional espionage would. Instead, it seeks to embarrass, humiliate, and degrade Western societies into destroying themselves by widening existing political fissures and disagreements and watching as a story-hungry media and viral social media storms do the hard work.

From Moscow's perspective, it doesn't matter so much whether the latest poisonous claims in the Epstein files are true. Even if the most sensational claims about who is (or who isn't) a Russian agent collapse under scrutiny, the story itself will please Putin immensely. It will fuel suspicion that, regardless of their political orientation, the rich and powerful in the West can commit moral aberrations with impunity, and that institutions will shield them from consequence, instead of investigating them.

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Dr. Ian Garner is assistant professor of totalitarian studies at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw. His latest book is Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth
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Epstein was collecting compromat for Russian FSB and himself.
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"Super-billionaire Thomas Pritzker sniveled that he has "regret" over his connection to the notorious Jeffrey Epstein and his disgusting accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

Epstein plead guilty to state criminal charges related to soliciting prostitution, including one charge involving a minor, in Florida in 2008. In 2019, he allegedly killed himself in nearly impossible circumstance in a federal prison cell after being arrested for federal child sex trafficking charges.

Recently released files show Pritzker and Epstein exchanged friendly emails after the disgraced financier's 2008 plea deal. Being part of the release of thousands of documents and photos does not imply any wrongdoing.

"I exercised terrible judgment in maintaining contact with them, and there is no excuse for failing to distance myself sooner," Pritzker whined. "I condemn the actions and the harm caused by Epstein and Maxwell and I feel deep sorrow for the pain they inflicted on their victims."


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In a legal deposition, the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre accused Thomas Pritzker of serious sexual allegations, naming him as one of several men she was trafficked to have sex with. In her book Nobody's Girl, Virginia wrote about "Billionaire One" and "Billionaire Two," but omitted their names out of fear for her mortal life and the lives of her family. Thomas Pritzker is one the wealthiest men on the planet and cousin to JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois.


Mega-oligarch Thomas Pritzker, who never worked a day in his life, inherited a massive fortune, attended the best schools, ate the finest foods, and traveled the world in First Class or Concorde. This good-for-nothing reprobate lavishes himself with a net worth of $3.1 billion dollars.

Below, the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she was an underage sex slave for Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. One of Virginia's last wishes was that the monstrous Ghislaine Maxwell never see the light of day again.


The Iranian regime and their nuclear program today is what it is thanks to the West.

Huh?

Iran is a multi-ethnic country (Persian, Azeri, Turkmen, Kurd, Armenian, Baluch, Assyrian) that is a predominantly Shia with a Sunni minority and smaller Christian, Zoroastrian, and Jewish communities.

To keep this oil-rich, post-World War Two artificial construct a viable pro-West country together without ethnic fracturing required an authoritarian system.

When a socialist won the national election in 1953 and threatened to national the oil industry for the benefit of the Iranian people, CIA and the UK overthrew Mohammad Mossadegh and installed the Shah of Iran.

This puppet now sitting atop the Peacock Throne then stylized himself as the "Kemal Ataturk" of Iran and underwent a modernization program for his country.

But Kemal Pasha was not an installed satrap of Turkiye like the Shah. Ataturk was a beloved war hero ("ghazi") who saved the country from dismemberment by the Allies and the Greeks. Ataturk's later repressions against occasional flare-ups by the Zazas, Whirling Dervishes, or the Kurds were easily forgiven by his own people.

So from 1953 to 1978, the US looked away from the Shah's brutal intolerance of dissent. He had seen Ataturk do the same in neighboring Turkiye, but to a lesser degree. The US and the Mossad trained his secret police, the SAVAK. This is why the Mossad and the IRGC-QF knew each other quite well.

The SAVAK's crushing of dissent from 1953 to 1978 led to a vacuum of academics, socialists, and civil society intermediaries, leaving only religious leaders intact. One firebrand was previously exiled to France named Khomeini. When the decrepit Peacock Throne finally collapsed, only theocrats were around to replace the Ancien Regime and the Ayatollah arrived in Tehran on 1 Feb 1979 (from memory).

The Iranians have a nuclear program?

How did that happen?

The US Atoms for Peace initiative.


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