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[Regnum] The names of at least 20 high-profile individuals who may be involved in crimes are in a classified section of files related to convicted pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. This was announced by Congressman Thomas Massie on November 16.
"I don't have to guess what's in those files. I've spoken to the survivors through their lawyer, and we know there are at least 20 people in those files," he told ABC.
According to the congressman, among them are politicians, film producers, and billionaires
…Bill Gates’ wife finally divorced him because he would not give up his friendship with Mr. Epstein…
who are involved in criminal offenses but have not been investigated.
In early August, Bloomberg reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had removed the names of current US President Donald Trump and other high-ranking officials from the Epstein case file. This decision was made because, at the time the investigation began in 2006, the White House chief was a private citizen and "played no official role in the situation." However, the presence of certain names in the investigation file does not necessarily imply their involvement in crimes, the agency's sources noted.
For instance, we know that Mr. Trump testified against Mr. Epstein for the FBI…
In September, the US House Oversight Committee released more than 33,000 pages of documents related to the Epstein case. Prior to publication, some documents were redacted to ensure "victim protection."
On November 16, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy stated that Trump was concerned about the possible release of files related to Epstein. He said Trump was becoming increasingly panicked as the release of materials that could contain compromising information about him approached.
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The Deep State has controlled all access to the "files" since they were created. Why should anyone give any credence to this "information" when years have gone by and have allowed any and all manner of data manipulation and date creation to be done by unknown and unknowable actors?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Another missive from Barron Trump.
BREAKING 🚨Youth mobs tried gearing up for another takeover of Navy Yard in DC but this time they ran straight into the wall. National Guard surged in. Local police backed them. The 8PM juvenile curfew hit and order was restored on the spot.
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Live the guard live ammo and let them shoot a few, this shit will stop.
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^ I can see the appeal, but that would just stir up more shit. Plus, there is some, shall we say, moral ambiguity involved.
On National People's Radio (NPR), they just announced that 200 members of the Guard are being pulled out of both Chicago and Portland. This was attributed to popular resistance to TrumpHitler both in the courts and on the street.
200 guys from each deployment sounds like troop rotation to me. There was no mention of replacements which I attribute to an act of 'journalism'.
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^^^ Y'all really need to get over this "we're not like them" bs. They showed their intentions with Trump assassination attempt and Kirk death. You'll wake up one day and wonder why nothing was done sooner, kinda like 9/11!
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This was attributed to popular resistance to TrumpHitler both in the courts and on the street.
[Hot Air] In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association. A fractured court, led by a conservative majority, held that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, signed into law in the final months of the George H.W. Bush presidency, was unconstitutional.
The practical effect of the Murphy decision was that sports gambling, the legal practice of which had been mostly confined to Nevada casinos, became ubiquitous in short order. A few weeks after the court's decision, Delaware became the first state other than Nevada to legalize sports gambling. Today, sports gambling is legal in 39 states plus Washington, D.C. And it's noticeable: It has become almost impossible to watch a football game or scroll through social media without being assaulted by the seductive advertisements of the sports gambling industry.
Much like our failed social experiment in marijuana, which commenced in earnest with Colorado's decision to legalize recreational use in 2012, America's experiment in legalized sports gambling has not gone well. On the contrary, it has been nothing short of disastrous for our nation's moral fabric and the legions of financially vulnerable young men who fall prey to the industry's temptations.
Many cheered the Murphy decision as a triumph of constitutional federalism and free-market principle. But ordered liberty rightly understood brooks no compromise with vice. Legalized sports gambling has not strengthened our civic order; it has corroded it. The consequences are both moral and financial, especially among young men. The online, mobile betting revolution means that the casino is no longer a distant building -- it's right in our pocket.
According to research tracking 7 million U.S. adults, states with legalized online sports betting have seen a 25%-30% increase in bankruptcy filings and an 8% rise in debt sent to collections compared to states without such easy access. Meanwhile, a survey of sports bettors found that one in four say they've missed a bill payment because of gambling, and 30% say they have debts they directly attribute to sports wagering. Another survey found more than half of sports bettors carry a credit card balance month to month.
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The technology of consumption and effect, and consequently the soical norms, is unchanged in the 5,000+ year history of alcohol consumption. legal digital gambling in the era of the i-phone, with no cultural curbs or markers, essentially an APP game one has been programmed to play for the last decade, is a bit different. but that's just me.
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[Regnum] Humanity could survive even if the closest supernova to Earth explodes. Astronomer Vladimir Surdin reported this to Gazeta.Ru on November 16.
According to his data, the nearest potential supernova is the red supergiant Betelgeuse, located approximately 550 light-years away. The star is unstable and, as the specialist noted, could enter the core collapse phase within 10,000 to 100,000 years.
Surdin emphasized that the processes surrounding supernova explosions are poorly understood, as stars erupt in different ways. According to preliminary estimates, if such an explosion occurred in the immediate vicinity of the Solar System, its impact would be comparable to that of a powerful solar flare.
The astronomer pointed out that the gamma radiation emitted by the explosion does not leave the solar system. He also reminded that the Earth's atmosphere reliably protects all life from such cosmic phenomena.
According to the scientist, a real threat could only arise if the supernova were located within the Solar System. However, he added that the Sun is incapable of ending its evolution with a supernova explosion, as its mass is insufficient.
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Sometimes you can get a jet of particles along the axis of rotation of the star, which would increase the particle density, and thus the dangerous range, in that direction.
For a discussion of a supernova in our solar system, check https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
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Why would I worry about a supernova? I'm more concerned about Tennessee drivers when it starts snowing.
[GEO.TV] A bridge collapsed at a cobalt mine in southeast Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , killing at least 32 wildcat miners, a regional government official said Sunday.
The bridge came down onto a flooded zone at the mine in Lualaba province on Saturday, Roy Kaumba Mayonde, the provincial interior minister, told news hounds. He said 32 bodies had been recovered and more were being searched for.
The DRC produces more than 70% of the world's cobalt supply, which is essential for batteries used in electric cars, many laptop computers, and mobile phones.
More than 200,000 people are estimated to be working in giant illegal cobalt mines in the central African country.
Local authorities said the bridge collapsed at the Kalando mine, about 42 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the Lualaba lovely provincial capital, Kolwezi.
"Despite a formal ban on access to the site because of the heavy rain and the risk of a landslide, wildcat miners forced their way into the quarry," said Mayonde.
He said that miners rushing across the makeshift bridge, built to get across a flooded trench, made it collapse.
A report by the SAEMAPE government agency which monitors and helps mining cooperatives said that the presence of soldiers at the Kalando mine had caused a panic.
The report said the mine had been at the heart of a longstanding dispute between the wildcat miners, a cooperative that was meant to organise digging there and the site's legal operators, who were said to have Chinese involvement.
The miners who fell "piled on top of each other, causing the deaths and injuries", the report said.
Images sent to AFP by the provincial office of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) showed miners digging out bodies from the trench, with at least 17 bodies laid out on the ground nearby.
CNDH provincial coordinator Arthur Kabulo told AFP that more than 10,000 wildcat miners operated at Kalando. Provincial authorities suspended operations at the site on Sunday.
Accusations over the use of child labour, dangerous conditions and corruption have long cast a shadow over the DRC's cobalt mining industry.
The DRC's mineral wealth has also been at the heart of a conflict that has ravaged the country's east for more than three decades.
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[FoxNews] No US service members were injured while protecting the embassy in Port-au-Prince
U.S. Marines protecting the American embassy in Haiti exchanged gunfire with suspected gang members last week, a Marine spokesman said.
Capt. Steven J. Keenan told Fox News Digital in an emailed statement Sunday that Marines supporting embassy security operations were fired upon by suspected gang members in the capital of Port-au-Prince and returned fire on the evening of Nov. 13.
No service members were injured in the incident, which was first reported over the weekend by The Washington Post.
Neither the State Department nor the U.S. Embassy in Haiti immediately responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
The Caribbean nation has been plagued by gang violence, with armed groups reportedly controlling up to 90% of Port-au-Prince, according to the United Nations. The groups block access roads, attack infrastructure, and terrorize civilians through kidnappings, rapes and killings.
There has been no elected government in Haiti since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.
The U.N. said a gang suppression force of 5,550 was set to begin operations in Haiti on Oct. 2, working alongside Haitian authorities to neutralize gangs, secure infrastructure and support humanitarian access.
The multinational mission, authorized by the U.N. Security Council, aims to "protect vulnerable populations from escalating violence and prevent the displacement that inevitably causes."
It remains unclear which countries will contribute personnel, though the force will be funded primarily through voluntary contributions from U.N. member states.
The State Department has a "Level 4: Do Not Travel" warning for Haiti on its website due to the risks of kidnapping, crime, terrorist activity and civil unrest.
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Arm the guards with SuperSoakers charged with Holy Water. It’s gotta feel like Omega Man or Road Warrior to be stationed there. Your retailer has gotta really hate you.
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What is the United States gaining from maintaining the embassy there, save to put American citizens and service members in harm's way? The embassy at present is maintaining minimal staff and operations, including such things as visa processing.
Maybe it's time to consider shutting the embassy down until some semblance of sanity returns to Haiti.
Jimmy Chérizier, widely known as "Barbecue," appeared in a video shared Sunday by an independent Haitian media outlet, urging people to stay home on Nov. 17 so they wouldn’t "be a victim," according to a brief translation of his remarks.
"Those who don't need to, do not go out into the streets. Leave the streets to 'Viv Ansanm' and the police so that we can confront them," "Barbecue" is quoted as saying, according to HaitiLibre, an independent Haitian news site based in Port-au-Prince.
Secured embassies also provide havens for 'unaffiliated operatives' with communication channels, lender motor pools and offsite safehouses as well as arms rooms and medical facilities.
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[Regnum] Researchers have detected narrow beams of unknown origin emanating from the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb reported this on his blog on November 16.
Or, possibly, we don’t know quite as much as we think we do. You know, the sciencey thing where we’re but children picking up pebbles on the seashore…
Loeb noted that such structures should appear blurry due to the object's rotation, but in the image obtained on November 9, 2025, by astronomers F. Niebling and M. Buchner, highly focused beams are clearly visible that stretch for more than a million kilometers.
According to the researcher, the hypothesis that gas emissions could have slowed the rotation of 3I/ATLAS is unlikely: asymmetric outgassing typically accelerates the rotation of such bodies. Loeb suggested that the observed rays could be traces of evaporated fragments separated from the object's core. However, their true origin has not been determined.
"In any case, the post-perihelion images add a new anomaly to a list that currently includes 12 mysteries regarding 3I/ATLAS," Loeb said.
However, he also considers another version: the preservation of the beams' directionality can be explained by the work of certain "engines" that maintain a stable orientation, which could theoretically indicate the possible artificial origin of 3I/ATLAS.
Possible? Of course — very little is not possible. But how probable is it, and how can we test the hypothesis— that’s the question he needs to ask.
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The aliens will show up and ask where the Heavens Gate folks are that they are supposed to pick up.
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Avi Loeb, very sharp in his blazer
Improved by wife's knife, might appraise her
With starry-eyed gaze,
Propose, 'Alien rays!
From a probe! [plays with globe] Occam's laser!"
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Whatever it is, I would suggest that there is nothing new about this sort of phenomenon except that now we have the technology to observe it...which is kinda cool.
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Such strange orbits. It is slinging around planets in similar ways that we do with our satellites to increase velocity without using additional fuel.
Despite the spectacular images, experts say no spacecraft will be able to sample the anti-tail directly. Even at its closest approach on 19 December 2025, when 3I/ATLAS comes within 269 million kilometres, the jets remain far beyond reach.
NASA's Juno mission will pass 53 million kilometres from the comet in March 2026, while ESA's Juice probe sits about 64 million kilometres away. Neither will get close enough to intercept particles.
The sheer size, slow velocity, and extraordinary structure of the jets make 3I/ATLAS unlike any comet previously observed within our Solar System.
Avi Hodja jumped up in a fright:
"That celestial object's too bright!
It's appearance is weird!"
[rubs his eyes, pulls his beard]
"And you found it..."
"Right under... the light. Er... never mind. And could you maybe not mention this to the other donkeys? I mean, you've got a lot to lose, too. Who buys your hay, eh?"
"Yeah, and my raki and lokum and..."
"Okay, okay. Point taken. Say, are we lost again?"
"Not to worry, boss. I know this quadrant like the back of my hoof."
[AFRICANEWS] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... said it had begun experiments to induce rain after a long drought created a water crisis in the country.
A cloud-seeding flight was conducted on Saturday over the country's largest lake, officials said.
The process involves spraying particles such as silver iodide and salt into clouds from aircraft to trigger rain. For the technology to work, it needs existing clouds.
The water scarcity has been described by some as the worst in a decade. Public service announcements have been urging people to use water sparingly.
In the capital Tehran, some users say their taps have been dry for days. Restrictions on water use have created a scramble for storage tanks with fears that the shortage might last for months to come.
Tehran is now in its sixth year of drought. High temperatures over the summer led to power outages and an enforced public holiday.
Israel's attacks on Iran in June also damaged critical water infrastructure, according to the energy ministry.
Officials have said that the reservoirs that the capital depends on for water are now at only 5% of their reserve capacity.
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Maybe they should try chemtrails.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
11/17/2025 6:07 Comments ||
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no rain forecast for Tehran for the next 10 days
likewise for Mashhad
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11/17/2025 12:24 Comments ||
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^ Juice Weather Control!
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11/17/2025 12:30 Comments ||
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Now if instead of wasting money toward spreading terrorism and building a bomb, they could have built legit reactors to power extensive desalination plants and pipelines.
#6
well Iran does have an extensive water pipeline network
however,
the pipes leak
many people tap into the pipeline and take water for their own use
both of these problems relate back to the IRGC who own the company that builds pipelines and gets (probably solicits) bribes from the people stealing the water
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Maybe if Iran as a whole will turn to and accept Jesus as their savior, They might see improvement in their lives in term of increasing rainfall and improved crop yields?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
