The British newspaper Daily Mail is out with a deeply researched investigative report, the result of a long collaboration between columnists Glen Owen and Dan Hodges, along with Mark Hookham (Assistant Editor Investigations), and Daisy Graham-Brown (Investigative Reporter).It’s shocking in its detai...

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Intelligence sources believe Epstein was running ‘the world’s largest honeytrap operation’ on behalf of the KGB when he procured women for his network of associates.

  • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    4 hours ago

    Weak damaged man, weak damaged president, weak damaged nation.

    The office of the president is far too powerful, just as the anti-federalists feared:

    Holly Brewer, the Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland and the brief’s main author, told ABC News that historical writings from key figures, including Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and others as well as the records from the states as they ratified the Constitution explicitly show they were against “another runaway monarchy” after suffering under Great Britain’s King George III.

    And now, Putin is our defacto president. Disgusting.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      4 hours ago

      The office of the president is far too powerful

      The office of the Republican president is far too powerful.

      The office of the Democratic president is impotent and feeble.

      Putin is our defacto president

      It’s so funny to see the US intelligence services working overtime for sixteen years to do regime change in Russia. And because they keep fucking it up, the presumption is that we’re in Russia’s thrall.

      Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu takes flights out to DC every few years to give joint chamber speeches at our own capital building. He gives his minions in our legislature explicit marching orders, while his affiliates in AIPAC drop billions of dollars into primary and national congressional races, influence peddle to affect judicial appointments, and lobby states to outlaw criticism of the Israeli state, and we’re just like “Oh yeah, this is normal, nothing to see here”.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        4 hours ago

        Trump didn’t nail up a pic of him and natanyahu on the white house wall a few weeks ago, but he did putin. Besides they can all be in bed together, which is probably the most likely.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          4 hours ago

          Trump didn’t nail up a pic of him and natanyahu on the white house wall a few weeks ago

          Trump shaking hands with Netanyahu doesn’t Own The Libs. It’s one of those issues Chuck Schumer races Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson to applaud him on.

          Besides they can all be in bed together

          I don’t think for a second that anyone believes Democrats are in bed with Putin. And the urgency to take the fight to Russia is a major dividing line between MAGA Republicans and Neocon leftovers. (One that Trump was on the other side of as late as 2019)

          It would be safer to say Netayahu is in bed with Putin, pulling strings on his behalf, than that the Trump GOP is aligned with Putin directly and not just playing Ukraine and Russia off against one another for their own benefit.

            • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              3 hours ago

              I think the situation is more complex than that. These are three expansionist imperial powers in a very loose coalition, perfectly happy to stab the other two in the back if it suits them.

              The idea that Putin “owns” Trump is American media fiction. It’s not Devin Nunes sitting in the VP chair and its not Aleksandr Dugin operating as his Homeland Security Advisor. The folks that have their hooks deepest into Trump are 100% American.

                • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  3 hours ago

                  Also research Cambridge Analytica

                  Cambridge Analytica Ltd. (CA), previously known as SCL USA, was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It was founded in 2013, as a subsidiary of the private intelligence company and self-described “global election management agency” SCL Group by long-time SCL executives Nigel Oakes, Alexander Nix and Alexander Oakes, with Nix as CEO. Cambridge Analytica was hired by a variety of political actors, including the Trinidadian government in 2010 and the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

                  Nigel John Oakes (born July 1962) is a British businessman, and the founder and CEO of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group

                  Alexander James Ashburner Nix (born 1 May 1975) is a British businessman who was the former CEO of Cambridge Analytica

                  Alexander Waddington Oakes (born November 1968) is a British businessman, and the co-founder and an executive of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group

                  So, I’m seeing a country’s name come up over and over again. But it’s not Russia.

                  The firm maintained offices in London, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

                  Cambridge Analytica (SCL USA) was incorporated in January 2013 with its registered office being in Westferry Circus, London and consisting of just one staff member, director and CEO Alexander Nix (also appointed in January 2015).[13] Nix was also the director of nine similar companies sharing the same registered offices in London, including Firecrest technologies, Emerdata and six SCL Group companies including “SCL elections limited”.[14] Nigel Oakes, known as the former boyfriend of Lady Helen Windsor, had founded the predecessor SCL Group in the 1990s, and in 2005 Oakes established SCL Group together with his brother Alexander Oakes and Alexander Nix; SCL Group was the parent company of Cambridge Analytica.[15] Former Conservative minister and MP Sir Geoffrey Pattie was the founding chairman of SCL; Lord Ivar Mountbatten also joined Oakes as a director of the company.[12] As a result of the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Nix was removed as CEO and replaced by Julian Wheatland before the company closed.[16] Several of the company’s executives were Old Etonians.

                  Yeah, I’m seeing a whole lot of Brits show up in this article.

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      They also fought tooth and nail against fiat currency/central banking…

      So of course we have the FED, the king of all central banking!

      They also fought tooth and nail against the federal government being a moral arbiter with too much power…

      So of course we now have a goliath super surveillance state working hand in hand with megachurches and companies!

      They also fought tooth and nail against military/police power abuse…

      So of course now we now have asset forfeiture and immunity to prosecution!

      etc., etc.

      The problem with ignoring the constitution for decades is you can’t decide it counts now and try to enforce it…