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We weren't blind to the National security issue with China and their rare earths. We knew about this since 2010, on their first embargo. The media has done a good job distracting us from the real issues facing both left and right Americans. Our politicians didn't have the political will to make themselves look bad for the good of the country in 2010, and China is playing the same shenanigans today.So what are the new areas where America and its allies are blind to global trends but the Communists are already preparing. Do we have a plan or are we just going to let Wall Street bungle this one also as they did with Rare Earths?
Political will to do what's right. I think climate change had something to do with Obama not taking action.Rare earth metals are not that rare but the isolation of them is difficult. It causes a lot of pollution. China was willing to take that on, as perhaps the most polluted and polluting country on the planet. Maybe we can do it better, now that prices are high, but maybe not.
Yes. Epstein and Maxwell were involved with Democratic campaigns, etc. He met with a senior aide of Clinton. When Clinton started his foundation, having been bankrupted by rapacious Republican attack dogs, he (or his team) used Epstein's private plane when setting up charitable projects in Asia and Africa. He never visited "the island." No wonder why he sleeps well at night.This is happening are you sure this is what you want?
This was posted by Max Brantley, retired editor in chief of Arkansas Times, very knowledgeable about Bill Clinton.
Since the House Oversight Committee dropped over 20,000 files from the Epstein estate this week, there have not only been renewed suspicions about Donald Trump - Bill Clinton has also re-entered the chat. Even though I’ve seen a lot of Dems say they don’t care if Clinton gets taken down with Trump, (including me), after digging around all afternoon, I don’t think it’s very likely to happen.
The Clinton-Epstein connection looks damning at first glance.
White House visitor logs show Epstein visited 17 times between 1993 and 1995. Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane 26 times. There’s photos of them together. But when you dig into the actual documents instead of the viral claims, a different picture emerges. One where Clinton’s real connection was to Ghislaine Maxwell through social circles, and Epstein was just the rich guy with the plane.
Here’s what actually happened. Maxwell arrived in New York in the early 1990s as the daughter of British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell. She already had connections to elite social circles from her father’s world. She met Jeffrey Epstein shortly after her father’s mysterious death in 1991, when she was reportedly looking for a fresh start and Epstein provided the money she needed to maintain her lifestyle. She introduced Epstein to wealthy and powerful people. That was the transaction.
So, let’s talk about those 17 White House visits that get cited as proof Clinton and Epstein were best friends. Visitor logs show Epstein wasn’t there to see Clinton. He was meeting with Mark Middleton, a Clinton aide whose job was literally maintaining contact with the president’s donors. Middleton authorized at least seven of those visits. This wasn’t two buddies hanging out. This was a fundraiser meeting with the fundraising guy. Epstein had donated to Clinton’s campaign and to the White House Historical Association. That bought him access to an aide, not to the Oval Office.
The connection between Clinton and Epstein’s social circle came later, after Clinton left office in 2001. Here’s the part people forget about early 2000s political reality. Most politicians weren’t millionaires yet. Clinton left office with legal debt from impeachment proceedings. When he started the Clinton Foundation and needed to do international humanitarian work, he didn’t have a private jet budget.
Doug Band, Clinton’s chief counselor and the architect of the Clinton Global Initiative, arranged for Epstein’s plane to be used for foundation trips in 2002 and 2003. The 26 flights that show up in the logs were actually four trips: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa for AIDS relief and economic development. Multiple staff members and Secret Service agents were on every leg of every trip. The work was documented by the foundation. This isn’t disputed.
What’s also documented is that Maxwell was on those flights. She was listed in the logs as “GM.” She attended Clinton Foundation events. She eventually became friendly enough with the Clintons to attend Chelsea’s wedding in 2010 - after Epstein had already pleaded guilty in Florida to procuring sex from a minor. That’s the judgment call that’s actually worth criticizing. But I assume no one knew yet the depth of Epstein’s crimes or her involvement.
The flight logs show Clinton stopped using Epstein’s plane in 2003, two years before Epstein’s first arrest. According to Doug Band in a 2020 Vanity Fair interview, he got bad vibes from Epstein during the Africa trip and advised Clinton to cut ties. Band said Epstein made ridiculous claims, like that he’d invented the derivatives market, and Band didn’t want Clinton associated with him. Whether Clinton listened immediately or not, the documented flights ended in 2003.
Now let’s talk about what makes the Clinton connection different from others in these files. Trump has been directly accused in documents im]n this week’s data dump. Emails show Epstein writing about Trump: “Of course he knew about the girls” and referencing incidents at Mar-a-Lago. Prince Andrew was accused by Virginia Giuffre in detailed testimony, settled a lawsuit, and lost his royal duties. Alan Dershowitz was named in victim statements. These are allegations with specifics: dates, locations, circumstances, victims naming them directly.
With Clinton, there’s proximity to evil but no accusation of evil.
Not one victim in five years of document releases has accused Clinton of anything. Multiple people under oath - including Epstein himself in a 2010 deposition and the pilot who flew the plane - said Clinton never visited the private island. The Secret Service found no records of Clinton visiting Little St. James.
The “28 island visits” claim exists nowhere in any official document. No flight log. No victim testimony. No deposition. It just started circulating online because it sounded plausible, and Trump repeated it. That’s how modern conspiracy theories work. Someone says something inflammatory, it gets repeated enough times, and suddenly it becomes “everybody knows” when nobody actually has proof.
The real scandal here is simpler and more boring than the conspiracy version. Clinton had terrible judgment about his associates. He accepted help from a billionaire who turned out to be a monster because his foundation needed resources. He maintained a social connection to Maxwell longer than he should have because she was connected to his daughter and his foundation work. His aide Doug Band eventually tried to bar Maxwell from Clinton events in 2011 when the allegations became public, but by then she’d already attended Chelsea’s wedding.
By the time Clinton stepped on Epstein’s plane - he had already been through an impeachment for an inappropriate relationship. It’s highly unlikely that he used one of his foundation’s trips to let it all hang loose with his staff and other people he did not know very well. The actual question is why this particular rumor has so much staying power when the documents don’t support it. Maybe it’s because Clinton is already associated with sexual misconduct from his own actions with Monica Lewinsky and others. Maybe it’s because people don’t trust powerful men to tell the truth about powerful men. Maybe it’s because the Epstein case is so horrifying we want to believe everyone connected to him must have been part of it.
Or maybe it’s because people, like me, don’t do any research before they post photos like the one in the post right before this one.
That photo is real and it does look bad. But here’s the important context: Chauntae Davies herself, the Epstein victim in the photo, said Clinton was “a perfect gentleman” and she “saw absolutely no foul play involving him.” The massage happened during a refueling stop in Portugal during that documented 2002 Africa humanitarian trip. Maxwell suggested it as a joke when Clinton complained about stiffness from sleeping in his chair, and Davies said everyone laughed but Maxwell insisted.
Davies has been very clear in multiple interviews that while Epstein raped and abused her repeatedly for four years, nothing happened with Clinton on that trip. She actually said it was “the single most amazing moment of my life” and she had a “false belief that the abuse had stopped” during the Africa trip because Epstein didn’t assault her while Clinton and the others were there.
This is exactly the kind of thing that looks terrible in a photo but the actual victim says wasn’t misconduct. It’s awkward, it shows terrible judgment about who Clinton was traveling with, but it’s not evidence of Clinton participating in Epstein’s crimes. The victim herself has never accused Clinton of anything.
So - yeah - my bad.
#ratcepsteinfiles
I would say it's commandments also. It's not like we're just here living a Christian life casually and reading the Bible, no, we're supposed to have a mission. Christianity is all about a mission and the mission is to get souls saved.
I do believe in a place of torment, but eventually every person in hell is annihilated, but that takes lots of scripture and words to explain.Adam was God's son. A PART of God Himself.
Your attempt starts right out the gate trying to "divide" that fact from Adam and everyone else.
People really are God's children, when all is said and done. A generally accepted fact within larger orthodoxy.
So notions that God has children that fail and He is then forced to burn them alive forever is not only bizarre, but patent nonsense. Just another lie of the devils in the carriers. I don't think the people who get sucked into that kind of vortex have given it much thought myself. IF they did they'd have a better opinion of God and His Capabilities to actually be their SAVIOR.
You are not addressing the question: “Why is satan wondering around and/or in people?I would suggest that is where the interesting parts reside. The classic theodicy realm.
You have to admit that the scriptures DO present a world of invisible actors overlaid upon people. It's pretty much beyond denial for a legitimate believer is it not?
An "antiChrist" spirit is, let's say, a unique but temporary thing kind of beyond our definite grasp other than the disclosures we have in scripture and what we can "see and perceive" in reality, even within our own minds.
Haven't you ever been blindsided by a "bad thought" seemingly out of nowhere? I'd dare say it's a "universal" experience to people. Take it from there.
Just because some people refuse God’s Love/charity/salvation does not mean Jesus is not their savior. The gift can be refused.iirc Jesus IS The Savior of the world. I actually believe He gets the job done. My bad?
What petulant child is "Junior".Note the asterisk.
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You arent even on the playing field when you just do an AI dump. Thats more like sending in an autonomous drone you bought off the shelf.Framing in ones own words and being able to articulate things in a certain "convincing" style are/were the bread & butter of the likes of Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, and the late Charlie Kirk.
I would presume that you'd agree that just because they all can "beat" a random 22 year old college liberal in a debate, that doesn't mean they actually have the right answer, correct?
AI levels that playing field. (Leveling the playing field is a liberal virtue, is it not?)
Im fine with you using AI as a study tool to direct you to various sources you can examine and assimilate.If I had to debate Ben Shapiro on the topic of the Gaza conflict in a public setting, strictly based on the facts that we both had committed to memory and could rattle off quickly, he'd own me. (A - Because he has something of an identic memory, and B - because he has more practice at public speaking in front of large crowds -- less nervous, able to project confidence, etc...)
If he and I had a text-based debate where I could leverage AI as a tool for retrieving valid, cited information, I can beat him, because on the Gaza conflict topic, the actual facts are on my side.
That should really be the goal of any debate that's substantive (and not purely performative), right? Finding the right answer.
Not in court. Wherever else they may win is not the business of We The People.The liberals will be out in the cold, the "Ten Commandments" will win!
while there is enough evidence to show it is not a simulation.
FBI fires longtime employee and agent trainee who displayed Pride flag, sources say
In a previous non-agent role with the FBI, the employee, who received multiple awards for service during his career, had also been a field office diversity program coordinator and displayed a Pride flag at his workstation, sources said.