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Report: Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Sex Trafficking and Conspiracy….

Via The Conservative Treehouse

Several media outlets are reporting on the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein on new charges relating to his prior controversial Florida arrest and conviction of sex crimes.

(Via Daily Beast) Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was arrested for allegedly sex trafficking dozens of minors in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005, and will appear in court in New York on Monday, according to three law enforcement sources. The arrest, by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force, comes about 12 years after the 66-year-old financier essentially got a slap on the wrist for allegedly molesting dozens of underage girls in Florida.

For more than a decade, Epstein’s alleged abuse of minors has been the subject of lawsuits brought by victims, investigations by local and federal authorities, and exposés in the press. But despite the attention cast on his alleged sex crimes, the hedge-funder has managed to avoid any meaningful jail time, let alone federal charges.

The new indictment—which, according to two sources, will be unsealed Monday in Manhattan federal court—will reportedly allege that Epstein sexually exploited dozens of underage girls in a now-familiar scheme: paying them cash for “massages” and then molesting or sexually abusing them in his Upper East Side mansion or his palatial residence in Palm Beach.

***NOTE – if you have the time, read the comments, much excellent insight there***

Read the entire article HERE

So the Epstein bust means Democratic ‘faves’ may roll out of the woodwork?

Via The American Thinker

The bust of Bill Clinton’s buddy and airplane-mate Jeffrey Epstein, monickered by Forbes as “Palm Beach pervert,” for sex trafficking in underage girls, is a complex one. The news is speculative about whether Epstein was being protected by Robert Mueller’s special counsel’s office, and why the Department of Justice acted now, given that he’s been problematic for years. There’s also his role as a bigfoot Democrat donor, same as Ed Buck and other perverts who’ve financed the Democrats. A while back, I made a list here. But one thing’s pretty clear, based on a tweet by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Christine: Democrats knew.

Why would Christine, who’s probably tweeting as a proxy to her mother the way daughter Alexandra also seems to do, say something like that? Up until now, most of us thought it was just Bill and Jeff, a disgusting partnership based on trips to the Dominican Republic.

Christine reveals that Democratic “faves” are involved, and not only were they involved, Pelosi & Co. knew about it… and did nothing. That may not be what Christine meant to reveal. But it sure looks like that’s what’s coming down the pike.

What kind of a disgusting picture is this? Not just perverts in the ranks but the Democratic leadership covering for them.

Read the entire article HERE.

Due to ‘Unforeseen Circumstances,’ Hillary No Longer Giving Keynote at Cyber Security Summit

Via Townhall

You may vaguely recall our report on Hillary Clinton giving the keynote speech at a cyber security summit hosted by FireEye, Inc in Washington, D.C. this fall. The irony was lost on no one, except, it seems, the organizers and the keynote speaker.

Clinton was under scrutiny for the better part of her 2016 presidential campaign for using a private server for sensitive State Department activity during her tenure as secretary of state. It was worthy of an FBI investigation. While former FBI director James Comey found no reason to pursue criminal charges against Clinton, he did say she had been “extremely careless” with her emails and her treatment of classified material. So, FireEye invited her to offer some advice on a subject with which she clearly struggled.

Now, due to “unforeseen circumstances,” or perhaps the circumstances mentioned above, Clinton will not be addressing the cyber security crowd.

Read the entire article HERE.

Did Zuckerberg Really Create Facebook?

Via Collective Evolution

Our story starts with a project called ‘LifeLog,’ the handiwork of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) which is the research arm of the U.S. Defense Department. In the spring of 2003, DARPA brought LifeLog into the public eye, after having undoubtedly worked on it in secret for a number of years. LifeLog “aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received. Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences. LifeLog’s backers said the all-encompassing diary could have turned into a near-perfect digital memory, giving its users computerized assistants with an almost flawless recall of what they had done in the past.” (source)

If the unveiling of LifeLog was a litmus test as to whether it would be met with public acceptance, it failed miserably. According to a Wired article entitled ‘Pentagon Kills Lifelog Project,’ “civil libertarians immediately pounced on the project, arguing that LifeLog could become the ultimate tool for profiling potential enemies of the state.” The article went on to announce the cancellation of the project, able to give only scant details behind this decision:

Researchers close to the project say they’re not sure why it was dropped late last month. Darpa hasn’t provided an explanation for LifeLog’s quiet cancellation. “A change in priorities” is the only rationale agency spokeswoman Jan Walker gave to Wired News.

The article was dated February 4th, 2004, less than a year after it had been launched. Remember that date.

Read the entire article HERE.

When Does the Deep State Morph into the Police State in Our Country?

Via The American Thinker

We must acknowledge that we have an increasingly radicalized and left-leaning Big-Government Democratic Party relentlessly driven to assume power by any means possible. The Democrats’ host of twenty-plus presidential candidates is campaigning on platforms dedicated to imposing on our country socialist political agendas of various types.

Most alarming, the majority of policies advocated by Democrats involves the federal government becoming more involved in an increasingly pervasive way in our lives. Underlying their support of the Green New Deal, identity politics, a socialist-style economy, government control of health care, open borders, and attacks on the First and Second Amendments all add up to a substantial loss of our personal freedoms.

These policies involve moving daily decision-making from an individual to a government imposing ever increasing numbers of laws to regulate behavior. Creating new government rules and regulations brings along mechanisms for compliance and enforcement and an increased stratification of society between an elite that rules and masses that must obey the rules. This will grow the power of a larger and permanent Washington administrative bureaucracy.

More government means less accountability, unsustainable levels of spending, inefficient and inadequate delivery of basic services, inadequate economic growth, an increasingly stratified society offering fewer choices for people on a daily basis, and an inevitably increasing level of official corruption. This accurately describes what occurred under the Obama administration.

What makes the Democrats especially dangerous these days is that they are highly united in their attempt to impose in an increasingly totalitarian fashion their progressive and socialist agenda by any means possible. They often use the tactics of overtly attempting to silence and eliminate conservative opposition and practicing the policy of personal destruction of their opponents.

Read the entire article HERE.

Georgetown Univ. prof compares Betsy Ross flag to swastika and KKK cross

Via Campus Reform

A Georgetown University professor compared the Betsy Ross American flag to a Nazi swastika and a burning Ku Klux Klan cross on Wednesday.

Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson made the comparison on an MSNBC panel discussing Nike’s recent decision to pull a Fourth of July-themed shoe. He made the comparison after host Hallie Jackson asked why people might be upset at the flag’s inclusion on the shoe.

Words matter. Symbols matter, too. Why don’t we wear a swastika for July 4th?” Dyson asked. “‘Cause, I don’t know, it makes a difference. The cross burning on somebody’s lawn? Why don’t we just have a Nike celebration of the [cross]? Well, because those symbols are symbols of hate.”

The Betsy Ross flag is one of the earliest iterations of the American flag, containing 13 stars to represent the original 13 colonies.

Dyson earlier explained that the flag is offensive because “it hails from the Revolutionary period…which was deeply embroiled in, you know, enslavement,” citing George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as examples of slaveholders. He then explained that “right-wing white supremacists have used it as a rallying cry for their own cause.”

Read the entire article HERE.

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