Notorious sex criminal Ghislaine Maxwell answered questions from Justice Department officials about "100 different people" linked to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, an attorney for the disgraced socialite claimed Friday following two days of interrogation led by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche during which she was reportedly granted limited immunity.

David Oscar Markus told reporters that his client, currently serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in Manhattan of federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges in December 2021, was "asked about every possible thing you could imagine - everything."

"This was the first opportunity she's ever been given to answer questions about what happened," Markus added. "The truth will come out about what happened with Mr. Epstein and she's the person who's answering those questions."

Blanche had "every single question" answered during the sitdown, Maxwell's attorney also said, with the British-born convict declining to plead the Fifth Amendment.

"If you can arrest a former president named Donald Trump, you can arrest a former president named Barack Obama."
— Peachy Keenan on "X"

Don't you think it's time for The New York Times to stop using the cliché "baseless" when referring to allegations — now, actually, official accusations — of the seditious conspiracy to run President Trump out of office after the 2016 election? Of all the fake "journalistic" blurts emanating from this bastion of degenerate sell-outs, "baseless" is the fakest, as if the word printed in a headline were so magically potent, the sheer assertion of it can make all your problems just — poof! — go away.

It's the thought process of wicked children who fail to develop a sense of true or false, right or wrong, who grow into adults specially licensed, by some new perversion of the social contract, to get away with anything. And those wicked children have become America's managerial class, the elite who are supposed to do your thinking for you op-ed style, the credentialed experts, such as Tony Fauci, "economist" Paul Krugman, DEI avatar and NPR honcho Katherine Maher, Harvard law prof Lawrence Tribe. . . the list is interminable, but you get the picture.

The records were related to grand juries convened in West Palm Beach.

A federal judge in Florida denied one of three Justice Department requests to unseal grand jury records tied to federal investigations into Epstein, according to a public order released Wednesday.

The request is one of three made by the Justice Department to judges in New York and Florida seeking to unseal records from federal investigations into Epstein.

US Director of National Intelligence claims top Democrats distorted intel to delegitimize Trump's presidency.

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday released a previously classified congressional report, which she claims debunks "Russia Hoax lies" - a coordinated effort by former President Barack Obama to distort intelligence regarding Moscow's alleged role in the 2016 election.

In a post on X on Wednesday, Gabbard called the report a "bombshell," asserting it reveals "the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history." She accused Obama and his senior officials of collaborating with media allies to delegitimize Trump through a deliberate disinformation campaign.

"They conspired to subvert the will of the American people," Gabbard wrote, claiming the effort amounted to a "years-long coup" against Trump.

The battle is fought on a field that must be chosen by the combatants; if you let the enemy choose, you risk being completely defeated with a giant bluff.

Bogota and the role of the Global South

On July 15-16, more than 30 countries gathered in Bogotá for the Emergency Summit of the Hague Group, the most ambitious multilateral initiative to date to denounce Israel's genocide in Gaza and the systemic impunity that has protected it since 1948.

The fact that the event was held in Colombia is emblematic, because under President Gustavo Petro, the country has broken with its traditional subordination to the U.S., taking an openly anti-imperialist and pro-Palestinian stance.

While the U.S. has threatened sanctions and accused the summit of "exploiting international law," Bogotá has openly defended UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese and the multilateral system. The presence of European countries such as Spain and Portugal — which have harshly criticized Israel — signals a growing rift in Europe as well. Madrid has suspended military agreements with Israeli companies and officially recognized Palestine.

The summit denounced war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank: over 57,000 civilians killed, the use of hunger as a weapon, attacks on hospitals, apartheid, and land confiscation. The occupation was described as a violation of international law according to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Never underestimate the incoming tsunami of disruptive "analysis" and predictive programming already embedded in the Hybrid War on China - and the larger war on BRICS.

Cue to the latest 128-page report by the Hudson Institute in D.C. titled oh so prophetically, China After Communism: Preparing for a Post-CCP China.

You are fully entitled to react in a "Knights Who Say 'Ni!'" Monty Pythonish way when confronting this inane absurdity. But make no mistake, they take it very seriously. US Think Tankland is a master of telegraphing regime change dreams and existential fears years in advance, in excruciating detail.

That was the case of that tawdry RAND report on blowing up Russia on several fronts, or that tawdry Brookings report on dismembering Persia, actually Iran. Now it's the turn of the most powerful of the new Primakov triangle (RIC) in BRICS: China.

They are really playing 'Light my Fire' on steroids, believing a "sudden regime collapse in China is not entirely unthinkable." They hark back to the old OSS - the precursor to the CIA - and its ops in China during WWII to suggest that "US special operations forces (SOF) can help stabilize a post-CCP China."

Mediocre Sinophobe Extraordinaire Gordon Chang advises D.C. to "get American businesses and citizens out of China" and to "remove" Beijing "entities" from important sectors of the US economy.

There's the inevitable call for the US to "protect human rights during a transitional period" and US intervention "to prevent ethnic violence, civil wars, and political retribution, with a special focus on China's five autonomous regions - Guangxi, Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia." Yes, let's build a Disneyland in Tibet.

After the color revolution/regime change op is on a roll, "post-Communist China can establish a constitutional democracy and draft a new constitution". All supervised by the Empire of Chaos, of course, which will define "China's relationship with Taiwan" and even "what the new country's name should be".

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, R-Ark., is confirming that Russia gathered dirt on Hillary Clinton worthy of a hard rock song — including tranquilizers, mood swings and outbursts — but withheld it during the 2016 election in hopes of using it against her if she were elected president.

"The fact is, there was never an association with Russia" and Donald Trump, Crawford said Wednesday on the Just the News, No Noise TV show. "What this document shows is that, if anything, they had a preference for a President Hillary Clinton, because they had information on her that they could exploit after the fact.

"They were counting on a President Hillary Clinton, and then they would have her over a barrel because of the information that they had on her," he added.

Ukraine closed out its third round of direct talks with Russia on Wednesday with a proposal to hold a "leaders' summit" by the end of August with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Trump.

The proposed summit would be held between Zelensky and Putin, and it would include the "participation" of the U.S. and Turkish presidents, according to a statement from Andriy Yermak,the head of Zelensky's office.

Zelensky on Tuesday had again renewed his offer to meet with Putin to negotiate an end to the war, but Putin has rejected previous offers.

Ukraine made the proposal in Turkey during the latest round of talks, which yielded few results and left delegations from both countries feeling far away from a deal on a cease-fire or end to the war.

"It is clear that Russia is still not ready to end the war — but there is still time to reconsider and put an end to this madness," Yermak said in the statement.

He said progress was made on humanitarian issues, including on prisoner exchanges and retrieving Ukrainian children who were kidnapped during the war.

It seems difficult to imagine, yet Israel is now embarking on an expansion project that is expected to soon lead to the annexation of the Syrian capital, Damascus. The self-proclaimed president, the jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa, has already taken refuge in Idlib under the protection of Turkey.

At the time of the "Biden Collective" - an imposter group in the White House that made up for the former president's failings, handicapped by the "auto-pen" (apocryphal automated signature) as illegal as it was fraudulent - the geoeconomic corridor project planned from India, through the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia (SA) to Israel and Europe was diverted by the strange attack of the Palestinian guerrilla Hamas, today decimated to the maximum.

The US-backed India-UAE-SA-Israel-Europe geo-economic corridor announced at the G-20 summit in Delhi was intended to "rival China's New Silk Road [ 1 ] ." It is assumed that one of the objectives of the 12-day war waged by Israel and the US against Iran was to sabotage the Persian country's geo-economic hub, the soul of BRICS, in order to disconnect it from both the Silk Road with China and the North-North International Transport Corridor, which runs from Russia through Azerbaijan/Iran to India [ 2 ] .

The Middle East is in the throes of the collision of the geoeconomic corridors of the three superpowers EU/Russia/China that will define the tricontinental connectivity of Asia/the Middle East (including Africa) and Europe. In parallel, the regional power Israel, supported like never before in the history of the United States by Trump, seeks to impose its "David Corridor [ 3 ] " which aims to connect its two ethnic and theological allies: the Druze and the Kurds of northeastern Syria (the Rojava region [ 4 ]

A month after the Trump-declared ceasefire between Iran and Israel which ended the 12-day war, officials in Iran are increasingly concerned that Israeli intelligence may be engaged in covert sabotage operations on Iranian soil.

Iran has for over two weeks been experiencing a wave of unexplained fires and explosions, occurring almost daily, and sometimes multiple times a day. While Iranian authorities have officially publicly blamed these incidents on outdated gas infrastructure, industrial accidents involving improper handling of gas containers, or faulty water heaters and electrical wiring, many within Iran's leadership privately suspect Israeli involvement, according to The New York Times.

"For more than two weeks, mysterious explosions and fires have erupted across Iran, setting ablaze apartment complexes and oil refineries, a road outside a major airport and even a shoe factory," the Times report begins.
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