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Kid Berwyn

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August 30, 2023

Jeffrey Epstein set up meetings with Trump allies before 2016 election

by Alex Henderson
Alternet.org, August 30, 2023

Four years have passed since wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, facing federal sex trafficking charges involving minors, was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell. A medical examiner ruled that Epstein, on August 10, 2019, had died from suicide by hanging.

Epstein, who was 66 when he died, associated with a lot of famous people. According to the Wall Street Journal, Epstein set up meetings with some of Donald Trump's supporters before the 2016 presidential election.

Those supporters included Thomas Barrack and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel (a major donor to MAGA Republicans), WSJ journalists Khadeeja Safdar and David Benoit (not to be confused with the jazz musician) report.

Another was the late Vitaly Churkin, who was Russia's ambassador to the United Nations at the time.

Forbes reporter Sara Dorn, in a separate article on Epstein, notes, "The New York Times reported in May that e-mails from Epstein's assistant show he planned to meet with Thiel at least three times in 2014, but the paper did not confirm whether the meetings occurred and Thiel declined to comment at the time."

(Emphasis mine.) SOURCE w/links to WSJ: https://www.alternet.org/jeffrey-epstein-set-up-meetings-with-trump-allies-before-2016-election/



Well, that's nice.

August 29, 2023

Born to Trigger

Or in Vivek's case: Built to Trigger. And by built, I mean "To Order."



‘He’s an insider’: Ramaswamy’s deep ties to rightwing kingpins revealed

Republican candidate brands himself as an ‘outsider’ but has close links to prominent figures Leonard Leo and Peter Thiel


by Martin Pengelly
The Guardian, Aug. 23, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy has described himself as an “outsider”, accusing rivals for the Republican presidential nomination of being “bought and paid for” by donors and special interests.

But the 38-year-old Ohio-based venture capitalist, whose sharp-elbowed and angry display stood out in the first Republican debate this week, has his own close ties to influential figures from both sides of the political aisle.

Prominent among such connections are Peter Thiel, the co-founder of tech giants PayPal and Palantir and a rightwing mega-donor, and Leonard Leo, the activist who has marshaled unprecedented sums in his push to stock federal courts with conservative judges.

Ramaswamy is a Yale Law School friend of JD Vance, the author of the bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy who enjoyed success in finance before entering politics. At Yale, Vance and Ramaswamy attended what the New Yorker called an “intimate lunch seminar for select students” that was hosted by Thiel. Last year, backed by Thiel and espousing hard-right Trumpist views, Vance won a US Senate seat in Ohio.

CONTINUES...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/25/vivek-ramaswamy-rightwing-elite-close-ties-leonard-leo-peter-thiel



As demonstrated at work for pay and on DU, you got a good nose, Yavin4.
August 29, 2023

When Gaetz is done filling sandbags...



...he should be go back to his other job.
August 25, 2023

"Thug" is how John Bolton put it.

John Bolton Has A 4-Letter Word To Describe Trump's Mug Shot

Ed Mazza
HuffPost, August 25, 2023

John Bolton didn’t hesitate when asked to describe Donald Trump’s glowering mug shot, released after the former president was booked on Thursday in the Georgia election interference case.

“He could’ve smiled. He could’ve looked benign. Instead he looks like a thug,” Bolton said on CNN, using a racially charged word.

Bolton, who served as national security adviser under Trump, said the image was likely carefully staged, as most things are around Trump.

“I think it’s intended to be a sign of intimidation against the prosecutors and the judges,” he told CNN.

Continues…

https://www.yahoo.com/news/john-bolton-4-letter-word-062031367.html
August 24, 2023

Historic photograph of a traitor's chief of staff.

Confederate greedhead by nature and upbringing, an imbecilic NAZI for eternity.

August 22, 2023

Entangled Photons are so Tao



Visualizing the mysterious dance: Quantum entanglement of photons captured in real-time

by University of Ottawa, Aug. 21, 2023

Researchers at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with Danilo Zia and Fabio Sciarrino from the Sapienza University of Rome, recently demonstrated a novel technique that allows the visualization of the wave function of two entangled photons, the elementary particles that constitute light, in real-time.

Using the analogy of a pair of shoes, the concept of entanglement can be likened to selecting a shoe at random. The moment you identify one shoe, the nature of the other (whether it is the left or right shoe) is instantly discerned, regardless of its location in the universe. However, the intriguing factor is the inherent uncertainty associated with the identification process until the exact moment of observation.

The wave function, a central tenet in quantum mechanics, provides a comprehensive understanding of a particle's quantum state. For instance, in the shoe example, the "wave function" of the shoe could carry information such as left or right, the size, the color, and so on.

More precisely, the wave function enables quantum scientists to predict the probable outcomes of various measurements on a quantum entity, e.g. position, velocity, etc.

CONTINUES...

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-visualizing-mysterious-quantum-entanglement-photons.html



Pretty amazing universe, ours.
August 18, 2023

Indict the Shite

The nation's news media need to make clear: If you support Trump, you're a traitor too.



Trump's supporters deserve to be indicted as co-conspirators in insurrection, election theft, corrupt practices, and all the rest outlined in the four multi-count criminal indictments he faces at this writing. While there may not be enough prison cells to hold all who stand with the defendant, we can record their names for posterity where they can be shamed in the history of the United States of America.

Most importantly: Each is a potential threat to the nation as their allegiance is to a failed TV show host in the thrall of Putin, Deutsche Bank, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and everyone else holding his IOUs and pulling his strings. Just from the perspective of national security, We the People need to know who puts allegiance to a con artist/politician ahead of the Constitution.

The fact the nation's news media talk Trump 24/7, yet largely fail to mention his negative impact on the Constitution, makes one wonder what side their owners are on.

August 16, 2023

Da. Is name 'Tiny Teflon.'



"When you can't subjugate people using the appeal of your own model, you have to undermine the allegiance of the citizens [of foreign countries] to their own system," Rudy Reichstadt explained. And the conspiracy scene, this machine for hating existing elites and democratic institutions, is a perfect channel.

Source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/03/02/conspiracy-theorists-the-kremlin-echo-each-other-s-disinformation_6017960_8.html
August 15, 2023

University of Georgia Law School -- Prof. Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.

The late UGA law school professor investigated one Georgian’s connections to the assassination of President Kennedy: Joseph Adams Milteer, who had been taped weeks before Dallas describing how professional marksmen would shoot the president from a high-rise office building and the authorities would pick up a patsy to blame. After the assassination, J Edgar Hoover’s FBI cleared Milteer. Decades later, one of the agents spoke up about that Big Lie.

A Miami Police Informant, A Prophetic Racist And Fresh Questions About JFK’s Death

https://www.wlrn.org/politics/2013-11-14/a-miami-police-informant-a-prophetic-racist-and-fresh-questions-about-jfks-death

More information on Milteer:

The Georgian Who Knew a Sniper Would Kill JFK

https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1182&context=fac_pm

https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_pm/103/

Predictions of Joseph Adam Milteer

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Predictions_of_Joseph_Milteer.html

Additional writings of Prof. Donald E. Wilkes

https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/do/search/?q=author_lname%3A%22Wilkes%22%20author_fname%3A%22Donald%22&start=0&context=80428&facet=

Don’t mean to sidetrack thread. Want to point out importance of University of Georgia Law School and Prof. Wilkes for truth, justice and US democracy.

August 13, 2023

Skull & Bones Division

Detailed connections, courtesy of Little Sis, the antidote to Big Brother:

https://littlesis.org/org/37557-Skull_&_Bones

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