The only question I have is who will believe this story ? It is a shame there is not much faith in anything the government says.

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DOJ, FBI Find Epstein Committed Suicide, Had No ‘Client List’
The disgraced child sex trafficker ‘harmed over one thousand victims,’ said the review, which also reported that no record of his clients has been found.


Jeffrey Epstein on March 28, 2017. New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP


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Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide and had no “client list,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI.
On July 7, the two agencies released a memo stating that they would not release any further material related to the Epstein case.
“As part of our commitment to transparency, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted an exhaustive review of investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein,” the agencies stated in the memo, which was confirmed by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The review found that Epstein committed suicide in his cell as he was awaiting trial in August 2019. This concurs with an autopsy conducted at the time.
“The conclusion that Epstein died by suicide is further supported by video footage from the common area of the Special Housing Unit (SHU) where Epstein was housed at the time of his death,” the memo reads.
The review found that Epstein did not keep a list of clients as part of his sex trafficking activities.
Additionally, there is no evidence that Epstein blackmailed individuals, according to the memo.
Nonetheless, according to the review, Epstein “harmed over one thousand victims” as “each suffered unique trauma.”
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“To ensure that the review was thorough, the FBI conducted digital searches of its databases, hard drives, and network drives as well as physical searches of squad areas, locked cabinets, desks, closets, and other areas where responsive material may have been stored,” the memo reads.
“These searches uncovered a significant amount of material, including more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence.”
The Epstein files contain images of videos of those who appear to be minors and of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography, all reviewed while maintaining the privacy of victims. Most of the files are under seal.
“Only a fraction of this material would have been aired publicly had Epstein gone to trial, as the seal served only to protect victims and did not expose any additional third parties to allegations of illegal wrongdoing,” the memo reads.
Upon becoming attorney general, Pam Bondi pledged transparency in the Epstein case.
“This Department of Justice is following through on President Trump’s commitment to transparency and lifting the veil on the disgusting actions of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators,” she said in February upon the first release of files.
“The FBI is entering a new era—one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice,” FBI Director Kash Patel said at the time.
“There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned—and anyone from the prior or current Bureau who undermines this will be swiftly pursued.
“If there are gaps, we will find them. If records have been hidden, we will uncover them. And we will bring everything we find to the DOJ to be fully assessed and transparently disseminated to the American people as it should be.”

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Interesting concept.  I found the editor's note at the end to be schoolmarm-ish 

Late Terence McKenna interview with  Jeffrey Mishlove , about the nature of Aliens....what are they or how McKenna sees it . To me this is rather interesting view ...tempting...appealing  



To help jump to theme better, here is Skywatch Signal short synopsis :


Terence McKenna on UFOs: Not ETs, something stranger.
Most people think UFOs are spacecraft from another star system. Terence McKenna didn’t buy it. His take is that we’re not being visited. We’re being intruded upon.



    1/ McKenna told Jeffrey Mishlove: The idea of aliens arriving in nuts-and-bolts ships to trade, invade, or evangelize is just a modern myth. One that started after WWII, and it doesn’t hold up anymore.

    2/ There are too many encounters, too many types of encounters. Craft, orbs, abductions, missing time, telepathy, synchronicity, psychic residue. It doesn’t act like a physical investigation. It behaves like a psychological intervention.

    3/ Carl Jung wrote about this in 1953. He didn’t say UFOs were fake, he said they might be real dreams. Symbols with shape and light that speak to the unconscious. A “mandala in the sky” reflecting humanity’s yearning for wholeness.

    4/ McKenna pushes it further. He says if it were just psychological, that wouldn’t explain how real the experience feels. People don’t walk away from dreams with burns, radiation, or completely restructured belief systems

    5/ Why would “aliens” need thousands of visitations per year for decades? Even our crude probes can scan entire planets from orbit. McKenna goes on to state that this isn’t research, it’s something deeper.

    6/ What we’re seeing, he says, is a cross-dimensional bleed-through. A high-frequency penetration from an entirely different ontology. Not creatures from space, but intelligences from another order of being

    7/ McKenna called it “an alien dimension intruding on ours at an industrial scale.” It’s not about ships, it’s about our minds, symbols. The structure of thought itself. UFOs aren’t coming from somewhere. They’re erupting into somewhere, us!

    8/ McKenna suggests the phenomenon is closer to shamanism than space travel. He claims that contact happens in the mind. Through language, and symbols. They’re not here to land, they’re here to rewire us.

    9/ This is why McKenna turned to psychedelics. DMT visions mirrored the same phenomena, the entities and telepathy The impossibility of what you saw. He called them “self-transforming machine elves.” Same game, different medium according to him.

    10/ If what McKenna says is true, UFOs aren’t alien objects, they’re alien ideas, trying to become real. A virus of consciousness. Rewriting human perception to allow the other in. Is it wise to be trying to contact the phenomenon if this is the case?


    11/ Jacques Vallée reached a similar conclusion: UFOs may be a control system, an intelligence that guides us by interfering with belief itself. McKenna called it the cosmic trickster. A puzzle with no solution, because you are the piece being moved.


    12/ Whatever UFOs are, they’re not simple. They defy category because they aren’t meant to fit in one. They’re not craft, they’re catalysts. The phenomenon is real. But the nature of that reality is up for grabs!

Skywatch Signal


The truth is out there , or here ....as has been a very long time ? Are we too blind...or too modern so can't see the forest for the trees ? I dont know exactly final truth , but i think it`s not rational not having explicit evidence about the UFOs with the claimed number of sightings. With the new AI tech i dont trust any video anymore either , they can make so good fake videos & pictures that can fool people.



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From the official live stream the culmination of yesterdays celebration of the legendary Black Sabbath a 35 minute final set from  , Ozzy , Bill , Tony and Geezer.
 

War Pigs.
NIB.
Iron Man.
Paranoid.

Tears of sadness and joy ran down my face , sadness for Ozzy performing from a throne but joy for the celebration of the iconic band , Aston Villa fan Geezer with AVFC on his bass was as awesome as ever , Bill was understandably a bit rusty and Tony was Tony kicking out the riffs.

Don't know how long the video will be available so if your a Sabbath fan catch it while you can.

Russia-Azerbaijan Going To War After This...
Actually this is a good move by everyone (Turkey, USA, Israel, and ?? ) except Russia and it's allies who manage to piss everyone off ! 

He said he'd do it if the bill was passed and now he's doing it.

Quote:I am officially forming the America Party

Will you support the America Party?
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Quote:Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?
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Or UFO dematerialises , dependant on the observer.

Quote:An Alberta couple captured something on camera Wednesday evening that they can't explain. But they believe it could be a rare weather phenomenon called ball lightning.

“After a rather vicious lightning strike, we saw a ball of fire kind of … about 20 feet above the ground,”  Ed Pardy recalled. “And it kind of stayed there in a big round ball.”

Kabi Moulitharan spoke to the couple as well as a scientist about what the video shows.

As a warm up to tomorrows Black Sabbath tribute at Villa Park Priest have released their version of War Pigs , they're currently on tour and couldn't make tomorrows show so this is their tribute to Ozzy and the boys.
 

A little note about Rob Halford.

Back in the day a friend from another band had a recording studio in his garage at home , he was putting together an album and more in jest than anything else invited Rob to come down and do some vocals , if you don't ask you don't get.

As it happens Rob turned up , he was a bit taken aback at the setup but nevertheless did the recording , mate said Rob was good humoured and a really nice bloke and judging from the recordings I heard on top form.

Every time the Air Force says they want to retire the A-10 Warthog the Army says give it to us !! Never gonna happen unfortunately even though it would be great in supporting our ground troops... Better than a helicopter IMO.

Quote:The U.S. Air Force wants to send its remaining 162 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs to the boneyard in 2026, marking the end of this legendary air support jet’s nearly half-century spanning service life. Sending the Warthog out to pasture, the Air Force says, will free up funds for more modern and survivable aircraft that can fly the Close Air Support Mission as well as other high end operations, like the F-15EX and, to a lesser extent, the F-35.

Quote:Trump Sends Terrifying Message To CJNG After EL Mencho Killed Super Cop Who Jailed His Son Donald Trump has reportedly sent a chilling message to the CJNG cartel following the suspected killing of Mexico’s top "super cop" by El Mencho, the cartel’s ruthless leader. The cop had previously arrested El Mencho’s son, and his death has sparked major tension between the U.S. and cartel forces. Trump isn’t holding back, and his strong warning could mean serious consequences for the CJNG. This video breaks down what Trump said, why it matters, and what it could mean for future U.S.-Mexico cartel crackdowns. Watch now to get the full story and all the shocking details.

Quote:On today’s episode, Katarina breaks down a recently released Justice Department report detailing how the Sinaloa cartel hired a hacker in 2018 to track FBI personnel and informants in Mexico City. The hacker accessed phone data and surveillance cameras to monitor the movements of an FBI attaché and identify individuals meeting with U.S. officials. Some of those individuals were later targeted by the cartel. The episode explores how cartels are using digital tools to support their operations and what this means for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence efforts abroad.

Quote:DEA Agent Reveals CJNG Conducted Surveillance at US Court Hearings of Menchito & Murdered Witnesses, Even After Sentencing

By Socalj 6/29/2025 07:37:00 PM  75 comments
"Socalj" for Borderland Beat




The message that Mexican drug cartels want to send to the United States is clear: “We are here. We are among you.” This is how Special Agent Matthew W. Allen of the DEA, the U.S. anti-narcotics agency, explained it when he was asked about the risk posed by Mexican criminal organizations in the United States.

Allen, head of the agency’s Los Angeles division, said at a hearing before the U.S. Senate that members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) were monitoring DEA agents and witnesses during the trial of Rubén Oseguera González, "El Menchito," the son of cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera "El Mencho."

At the hearing, Allen recounted how the criminal group retaliated against family members of informants, an example of the violence this group routinely employs and the threat it poses to American citizens.



The DEA special agent asserted that they have evidence that cartel members are monitoring DEA agents in the United States and that some of these operations occurred in parallel with the Menchito trial. 

“In my 22 years-plus in the DEA in the Los Angeles area, and in other areas of the world, I’ve experienced several instances of cartels and criminal organizations surveilling our people, both in Mexico and the United States,” he explained. 

Allen asserts that these activities “are frequent,” and that his agents notice they are being spied on when they go out to execute a search or arrest warrant. When they realize they are being followed, they must notify local police so they can stop the suspect car and initiate an investigation. The agent used this activity as an example to demonstrate the danger that the men and women who work for the DEA face every day in their operations, even in their own country. “I’ve personally lost several friends on this job,” he lamented.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee convened a hearing on Tuesday titled “The Thin Blue Line Protecting America from the Cartels” to assess the danger Mexican criminal organizations pose to its law enforcement.

Witnesses & Family Killed

To illustrate the violence they face, Allen stated that after the capture of "El Mencho’s" son and his prosecution in the United States, his father’s cartel retaliated in Mexico. “One of our major CJNG cases involved a key witness who was later executed in Mexico along with his wife. Separately, the daughter of a cooperating witness was murdered soon after the sentencing,” he added. “This horrific act of revenge underscores the threat these terrorists pose to U.S. security: adversaries who kill without hesitation and who reach across borders with impunity.”


Ivan Morales and his wife were slain in May 2025.

The witness and his wife executed was Ivan Morales. Morales was a highly decorated federal police officer who survived a fiery helicopter crash in 2015 during a raid where authorities tried to capture El Mencho. The downing of the helicopter was ordered by Menchito and part of the charges against him. Morales traveled to the US to testify about the attack.




Last month, he and his wife were executed 10 years to the day of the helicopter crash, while driving about 60 miles outside of Mexico City. Morales Corrales was gunned down in a neighborhood in the municipality of Temixco, in the state of Morelos. He had no security, not even an armored truck. The gunmen intercepted his black pickup truck and fired a dozen bullets at it. Both the former police officer and his companion, his wife, died instantly. The killers fled on a motorcycle toward Cuernavaca and have not yet been arrested.

The daughter of the cooperating witness who was killed in Mexico is still unnamed. 

According to the Los Angeles DEA agent’s statement, the woman was killed after the April 2025 sentencing of “Menchito” and was the daughter of one of the cooperating witnesses against Ruben.

Several prominent Mexican drug traffickers testified at his trial including his relative, Oscar “El Lobo” Nava Valencia of the Milenio Cartel, Elpidio "El Pilo" Mojarro Ramírez who worked with early iterations of CJNG, as well as Sinaloa/Juarez killer Jose Antonio “El Jaguar” Torres Marrufo and former Gulf Cartel leader Mario “X20/Pelon” Ramirez Trevino.

Shortly before the murders, Rubén Oseguera González had been sentenced to life in prison and ordered to forfeit over $6 billion in proceeds from the cartel’s drug trafficking by the District of Columbia Court in Washington.



Another witness in the trial recently passed, however it is believed he died naturally. Mario Ramírez Treviño, known as "El Pelón" or "X20," former leader of the Gulf Cartel, died on March 13, 2025, while in custody in a U.S. federal prison. He had also been a witness against Menchito in his trial. It was reported by the BOP that "El Pelón" died of natural causes at 63 years old.

In his statement, filed in September 2024, he recounted having met "El Menchito" at the Altiplano Prison in 2014. According to his testimony, Oseguera González asked him for help in obtaining weapons, including an M60 machine gun and a .50-caliber rifle, and arranging a cocaine purchase with his father.

Carlos Almada Castrillo was found hanged in his prison cell in Puente Grande in 2020. He was due to be extradited to the US and believed to have been set to testify against "Menchito" having essentially grown up in the cartel with him.





Later in 2020, Mexican Judge Uriel Villegas Ortiz and his wife were executed. The magistrate had overseen one of the Amparo cases involving "Menchito" including his prison transfer.

Several accusations against Menchito in court filings prior to the trial included accusations from a "jailhouse snitch." According to the defense, the witness, who was in custody with "Menchito" testified in court in February 2021 that he either was told or overheard the proffered evidence.

El Mencho’s Son-in-Law in California

At the hearing, the DEA agent detailed how some members of El Mencho’s family lived in a gated community in Riverside, California, “just down the street from the Chief of Police.” 

The home of Cristian Fernando Gutiérrez, "El Guacho," and his wife, who is the daughter of Nemesio Oseguera, was searched by the DEA, and they found garbage bags overflowing with Rolex luxury watches, exclusive designer handbags, and $1 million in cash. 

In total, the seized goods were valued at $2.25 million. 

“These cartel figures were living in luxury, embedded in our communities, hiding in plain sight. They not only live in our communities, but they also sneak their deadly products into our homes under false pretenses,” the agent emphasized.

El Guacho fled to the United States to live a life of luxury after faking his own death in Mexico, where he was involved in the kidnapping of two Mexican marines in November 2021. The crime was the CJNG’s response to the capture of Rosalinda González Valencia, "El Mencho’s" wife, in the Guadalajara metropolitan area. When he was finally arrested late last year, U.S. authorities accused him of being one of the cartel’s leaders and recounted how "El Mencho’s" son-in-law assumed a false identity to “evade justice and live a life of luxury in California.”

Last week, he struck a deal with US authorities to plead guilty to money laundering charges instead of the drug trafficking he was also accused of. It is not believed he is cooperating beyond the plea deal. The primary charge of money laundering involved the Riverside, California home that was purchased by a Mexican Pasión Azul Tequila firm allegedly tied to the CJNG. The tequila company's owner denied associations with the cartel via lawyer Victor Beltran Garcia who has been sanctioned by the US OFAC for representing CJNG figures, including "Menchito" during his detention in Mexico.

Laisha has not been arrested and is believed to still operate a small coffee shop in nearby Perris, California.

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Sinaloa Cartel Used Hacked FBI Phone Data & Mexico City Cameras to Find and Kill Informants

By Socalj 6/29/2025 06:25:00 PM  22 comments
”Socalj” for Borderland Beat

From a Reuter’s Article

A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday.

The incident was disclosed in a Justice Department Inspector General's audit of the FBI's efforts to mitigate the effects of "ubiquitous technical surveillance," a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.
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The report said that the hacker worked for a cartel run by "El Chapo," a reference to the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was extradited to the United States in 2017.

The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attaché's phone number "to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data." The report said the hacker also "used Mexico City's camera system to follow the (FBI official) through the city and identify people the (official) met with."

The report said "the cartel used that information to intimidate and, in some instances, kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses."

The report did not identify the alleged hacker, attaché or victims.

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico referred questions to the State and Justice departments, who did not immediately return messages seeking comment. The FBI and a lawyer for El Chapo did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

The collection of granular location data from people's phones by a wide variety of commercial and official actors, combined with ever-growing coverage of surveillance cameras, has posed a thorny problem for intelligence and law enforcement officials, many of whom rely on confidential informants.

The report said that recent technological advances "have made it easier than ever for less-sophisticated nations and criminal enterprises to identify and exploit vulnerabilities" in the global surveillance economy. It said the FBI had a strategic plan in the works for mitigating those vulnerabilities and made several recommendations, including more training for bureau personnel.