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Monday, March 09, 2026

An inmate housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York told the FBI he overheard guards talking about covering up Jeffrey Epstein's death on the morning he died. read more


Sunday, March 08, 2026

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is taking all the credit for pushing President Trump to launch his unauthorized war with Iran. read more


U.S. military investigators reportedly believe American forces were likely responsible for a strike on an Iranian school in Minab, in what analysts and human rights officials believe is the deadliest incident for civilian casualties since Donald Trump's administration and Israeli forces began attacking the country. read more


The body in charge of selecting a new supreme leader for Iran says it has reached a decision " although the name was not immediately announced.

Israel has warned it would target any figure chosen to replace Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint US-Israeli strikes on the first day of the war with Iran.

"The most suitable candidate, approved by the majority of the Assembly of Experts, has been determined," Mohsen Heydari, a member of the selection body, said on Sunday, according to Iran's ISNA news agency.


Friday, March 06, 2026

A new study found that older adults who consistently listened to music reduced their risk of developing dementia by nearly 40 percent.


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"A female guard replied "If he is dead, we're going to cover it up and he's going to have an alibi " my officers," the FBI notes said. The inmate claimed the whole wing overheard the exchange.

Later, after learning Epstein had died, he said inmates said "Miss Noel killed Jeffrey."

He identified the female guard as Tova Noel, one of two correctional officers who were later charged with falsifying reports so that it appeared from their records that they had made their rounds that night " when they had not.

The charges against her and the other officer, Michael Thomas, were later dropped, but both were fired."

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"The New York Post also reported on Saturday that Noel's bank flagged a $5,000 cash deposit she made to her Chase Bank account on July 30, 2019 " a week after Epstein was found in his cell in what prison officials concluded was a suicide attempt on July 23, 2019.

The official reports into that incident show that Epstein initially told prison officials that his cellmate had tried to kill him after extorting him for money.

Moscow has girls': Inside Epstein's network from Palm Beach to the Kremlin
The Post also reported that on the morning of Epstein's death on Aug. 10, Noel searched the term "latest on Epstein in jail" twice " once at 5:42 a.m. and again at 5:52 a.m., about 40 minutes before the other guard, Michael Thomas, found Epstein.

Her bank records, which are in the files, showed that Noel received thousands of dollars in cash and Zelle payments in the months before Epstein died. She has not been charged with any crime. The Miami Herald was unsuccessful in reaching her attorney on Saturday.

Epstein's former cellmate, Efrain Reyes, told prison officials that he told Epstein he would be safer if he paid inmates and guards for protection. Sources have told the Herald that Epstein did make protection payments.

Noel's bank records also reveal that she was making payments on a brand new Range Rover.

But she was not asked about the cash during her DOJ interview."

more at the link

"Sure. And actually you don't need to leave clinical neuroscience to make that
observation. Um, one of the reasons being things like near-death experiences
that have arisen um, with the arrival of resuscitation
capabilities.

So, people who have had gone into cardiac arrest have
been able to be resuscitated from a a state of essentially being dead. you know, their heart has stopped and once
your heart has stopped for more than about 3, four, five minutes, you know,
your brain stops functioning as well.

And and people um have been resuscitated
and said that actually when they were clinically dead, they were in fact vividly conscious.

Um so that that would
be an interesting data set that that is an interesting data set to look at that we now have sort of 50 to 60 years of
data that perhaps in its early stages you could take to be a bit more anecdotal
but we have actually several decades of of um publications in things like the
Journal of Near-Death Studies and the Handbook of Near-Death Experiences.

And they're taken seriously now in a way that they weren't perhaps a couple of
decades ago. Yes. and you have um academic papers being written on them and you also have
um people who have changed their views on the mind body relationship based on
their own near-death experience.

So we could take someone like Eban Alexander who was a former Harvard neurosurgeon and used to be a strict physicist that um you know if you don't have a functioning neoortex you can't be
conscious

until um and in fact his patients after
he'd operated on them would come and tell him they'd had NDEs and he would kind of dismiss it until he himself
developed a severe bacterial menitis at the age of 54 went into a coma His family were told to put their affairs in order. He was not expected to survive and yet extraordinarily he did and he
made a full recovery and recounts an extremely vivid conscious experience.

Um that is so vivid that it's very hard to explain. Yeah. And the one of the
go-tos often is that it's residual brain activity. And of course we can't rule
that out. I mean all we can say is there's no detectable activity in the brain using the current technologies
that we have but but at the same time the kinds of experience that people report
don't seem to be consistent with a brain in its last seconds of life you know
just kind of petering out these are there's a disproportionality
to the kinds of things people are reporting and what's happening in the brain.

Um and of course the fact that
someone would change their mind, change their viewpoint to a view arguably that
is considered much less popular amongst Harvard neurosurgeons
um than the predominant physicalist view that you are your brain.

Um prompts you
to ask well why would you do that unless you actually believed what happened to you was very genuine. It's amazing it happened
to him right after spending so many years working on it. Exactly. So I think it's fascinating.

I don't see it as a proof that we have a soul. I don't see it as a proof that there's a heaven or even that God
exists. But if we are just our brains, data like this makes no sense.

And all you need is one genuine instance of someone having an out-of body authentic near-death experience to really bring strong challenge to the view that you are just your brain.

from the above link, starting about 18 mins in

"Trump's Holy War

As many of us have heard by now, U.S. military commanders have reportedly been justifying America's attack on Iran by invoking Bible prophecy " this according to a series of complaints made to a religious watchdog group.

But what if I told you that these military commanders are not only misunderstanding what the Bible teaches us, but that they actually helping to spread evil? Here's what I mean."

www.youtube.com

(scroll down for the Transcript if you like, but the video is compelling)

Situation is worse than even I thought, with Drinky Peter installing members of his white nationalist 'church' in the high command, and the wicked witch in the WH telling people that if they disobey Trump, they are disobeying God.

But it is actual Christians like the Archbishop in the thread article and the religious Military service members group that is spotlighted in the video defending the troops who object to being used this way.

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