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Jeffrey Epstein's company paid a Florida sheriff's office $128,000 during incarceration for prostitution charges

Merris Badcock
WPTV
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 20:07 UTC
Jeffrey Epstein accuser
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One of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers is urging victims to speak out against the wealthy financier as authorities prosecute him on sex trafficking charges.
A recently released financial record shows a money trail between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office.

The record, released to Contact 5 through a records request, shows Epstein's company, Florida Science Foundation paid PBSO $128,136 during his incarceration between 2008 and 2009.

Epstein pleaded guilty to lesser state charges in 2008, including solicitation of a minor. The guilty plea was part of the secret non-prosecution agreement which kept Epstein out of federal prison on numerous accusations that the part-time Palm Beacher allegedly ran a sex-trafficking ring out of his Palm Beach mansion.

The agreement also kept Epstein out of prison, and instead, allowed him to serve his sentence out at the local county jail, run by PBSO Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.

While there, the convicted sex offender was granted work-release benefits, and allowed to leave his cell six days a week, 12 hours a day to work at his Florida Science Foundation, located in a high-rise off Australian Ave. in West Palm Beach.

That foundation appears to be the same Epstein foundation which paid PBSO nearly $130,000 between October 2008 and May 2009. It's unclear if Epstein wrote off the payments, as financial records for the so-called non-profit were not immediately available.

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Report: Gulf Cartel leader 'El Diablo' arrested sneaking across Texas border

Ildefonso Ortiz & Brandon Darby
Breitbart
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:01 UTC
US border patrol migrant immigrant alien
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Federal authorities arrested a leading lieutenant with Mexico's Gulf Cartel in Texas after he illegally snuck across the Rio Grande to enter the United States. Law enforcement agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had their sights on the cartel cell leader for some time in connection with multiple drug shipments allegedly linked to him.

U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Rene "El Diablo" Garcia Cantu near La Paloma, Texas, after he illegally entered the country in a remote rural area. During a background check, agents determined that Garcia Cantu is the target of an ongoing DEA investigation into the Gulf Cartel and their marijuana smuggling operation.
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Deutsch Bank is exposed to 49 trillion dollars in derivatives - and is melting down right in front of our eyes

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
Deutsch Bank
Could it be possible that we are on the verge of the next "Lehman Brothers moment"? Deutsche Bank is the most important bank in all of Europe, it has 49 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives, and most of the largest "too big to fail banks" in the United States have very deep financial connections to the bank. In other words, the global financial system simply cannot afford for Deutsche Bank to fail, and right now it is literally melting down right in front of our eyes. For years I have been warning that this day would come, and even though it has been hit by scandal after scandal, somehow Deutsche Bank was able to survive until now. But after what we have witnessed in recent days, many now believe that the end is near for Deutsche Bank. On July 7th, they really shook up investors all over the globe when they laid off 18,000 employees and announced that they would be completely exiting their global equities trading business...
It takes a lot to rattle Wall Street.

But Deutsche Bank managed to. The beleaguered German giant announced on July 7 that it is laying off 18,000 employees — roughly one-fifth of its global workforce — and pursuing a vast restructuring plan that most notably includes shutting down its global equities trading business.

Though Deutsche's Bloody Sunday seemed to come out of the blue, it's actually the culmination of a years-long — some would say decades-long — descent into unprofitability and scandal for the bank, which in the early 1990s set out to make itself into a universal banking powerhouse to rival the behemoths of Wall Street.
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What was it all for? US vets have finally turned on America's endless wars

Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.
Antiwar.com
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
soldiers mourn
It is undoubtedly my favorite part of every wedding. That awkward, but strangely forthright moment when the preacher asks the crowd for any objections to the couple's marriage. No one ever objects, of course, but it's still a raw, if tense, moment. I just love it.

I suppose we had that ubiquitous ritual in mind back in 2007 when Keith - a close buddy and fellow officer - and I crafted our own plan of objection. The setting was Baghdad, Iraq, at the start of the "surge" and the climax of the bloody civil war the U.S. invasion had unleashed. Just twenty three years old and only eighteen months out of the academy, my clique of officers had already decided the war was a mess, shouldn't have been fought, and couldn't be won.

Me and Keith, though, were undoubtedly the most radical. We both just hated how our squadron's colonel would hijack the memorial ceremonies held for dead troopers - including three of my own - and use the occasion of his inescapable speech to encourage we mourners to use the latest death as a reason to "rededicate ourselves to the mission and the people of Iraq." The whole thing was as repulsive as it was repetitive.

So it was that after a particularly depressing ceremony, perhaps our squadron's tenth or so, that we hatched our little defiant scheme. If (or when) one of us was killed, the other promised - and this was a time and place where promises are sacred - to object, stand up, and announce to the colonel and the crowd that we'd listen to no such bullshit at this particular ceremony, not this time. "Danny didn't believe in this absurd mission for a minute, he wouldn't want his death to rededicate us to anything," Keith would have said! Luckily it never came to that. We both survived, Keith left the army soon after, and I, well, toiled along until something snapped and I chose the road of public dissent. Still, I believe either of us would have actually done it - even if it did mean the end of our respective careers. That's called brotherhood...and love.
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AOC and 'The Squad' targeted in Facebook post, police officer allegedly suggests she should be shot

Elizabeth Thomas
ABC News
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 02:17 UTC
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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A police chief in Louisiana is promising to take action against one of his officers who reportedly posted on Facebook that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a "vile idiot" who "needs a round" but the chief said he didn't view the post as a threat.

"This vile idiot needs a round," officer Charlie Rispoli allegedly wrote on Facebook Thursday. "And I don't mean the kind she used to serve."

Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., worked as a bartender before she got elected.

A screenshot of the comments was obtained by nola.com, which reports on the greater New Orleans area. The website said the reported post and the officer's Facebook page have been taken down.
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Ivanka Trump gets dog-piled by liberals for gifting her daughter a white pooch


RT
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:03 UTC
Kushner
© Instagram / @ivankatrump
Winter, the Kushner family dog
President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka has faced the wrath of the eternally woke for gifting her eight-year-old daughter a white dog. Enraged liberals immediately saw Nazi symbolism in the cutesy image.

In a photo posted to Twitter on Sunday, Ivanka welcomed the first four-legged addition to the Trump clan: a snow-white pooch named Winter. "Meet Winter, Arabella's birthday dream come true and the newest member of the Kushner family!" Trump gushed on Twitter, after gifting the dog to her daughter Arabella as a birthday present.

Some commenters speculated on the dog's breed, suggesting Winter was part Pomeranian and part Husky. Others -seeing things through the rainbow-tinted goggles of wokeness- saw bare-faced white supremacy.

Comment: See also: Putin: 'The Liberal ideal has started to eat itself'

And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Radical Leftist Ideology and Totalitarianism

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Students say Obama immigration quote racist...when they think it's from Trump

Cabot Phillips
Campus Reform
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:39 UTC
students Campus Reform
President Donald Trump announced that he would use ICE to track down and deport illegal aliens who have been convicted of a crime.

The move prompted outrage from many on the Left who accused the practice of being anti-immigrant and unprecedented.

Proponents of the move pointed out this week that President Barack Obama gave his support to the same policy when he was in office and bragged of deportations of criminals having increased 80 percent during his tenure.

Comment: This demonstrates how easy it is to manufacture moral outrage in an age of subjective morality.

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Bristol: Extinction Rebellion protester tearful over man unable to reach dying father due to protest-blocked M32

Lara Keay
Daily Mail
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:29 UTC
Bristol activists
© SWNS
Activists blocking roads in Bristol, UK
A tearful Extinction Rebellion activist has apologised to a man who was denied the chance to see his father one last time before he died because of a climate protest that left him stuck in traffic.

The grieving man revealed how he had rushed to his father's bedside at Bristol Royal Infirmary after doctors told him he did not have long, but he could not get there in time because protesters were blocking the M32 into the city.

He rang his local radio station to tell his story yesterday afternoon, sparking fury among listeners who branded the demonstrations selfish.

After hearing the BBC Radio Bristol clip, Extinction protester Zoe Jones said she was 'incredibly sorry' but still believed she was 'doing the right thing'.

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French medics are outraged: Nurse denied citizenship for working 'too much'


RT
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:51 UTC
Medic protest France
© AFP/Georges Gobet
French medics hold placards, reading "We are not robots," as they march in the centre of Bordeaux.
France turned down a citizenship application from an immigrant nurse because she was working too many hours. The news angered fellow medical professionals who have to work overtime due to severe staff shortages in hospitals.

"We need to work more" to catch up with France's more industrious EU neighbors, President Emmanuel Macron recently stated.

A nurse who spends 59 hours at three jobs per week seems like just what the country needs, but it turned out the immigration services don't share the president's views. They rejected the woman's citizenship application over a "violation of working regulations in France"where 48 hours per week is the maximum allowed.

The nurse said she is going to appeal the decision and is fully backed by her colleagues, who shared their frustration online.

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Bizarro Earth

Macy's caves to anti-humor outrage police over funny portion plates

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:54 UTC
Macy's humor portion plates
Macy's has removed a line of portion control dinner plates from their stores after a social justice warrior whined about them on Twitter.

Ironically, Alie Ward, the SJW who lost her mind over the plates, claims to be a comedian. She is also a science correspondent for Innovation Nation on CBS.


The plates in question are from the brand Pourtions which makes dinnerware and drink glasses to help control how much you eat. The smallest circle on these particular plates reads "skinny jeans," while the middle circle reads "favorite jeans," and the largest says "mom jeans."

Ward claimed that the plates can "hurt people."
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