Quote:Two miners, John Deason and Richard Oates originally from Conwell, England, both had small farms and staked a gold mining claim in the area. In February of 1869, Deason was breaking up the soil on the claim when he hit what he thought was a rock. After hitting it a second and third time, he cleared away the soil and unearthed the massive nugget.

Oates was busy plowing in his nearby paddock and was called up by Deason's son. They covered the nugget and waited until it was safe to remove it and then took it to the Deason's house.

Deason and Oates, accompanied by a bodyguard of friends, took the nugget into the town of Dunolly and sold it at the London Chartered Bank of Australia. Since there were no scales in the bank big enough to weigh the nugget, it was taken to a local blacksmith's shop to be reduced in size. It's believed the nugget as a whole weighed around 241 pounds before it was trimmed.

A large stone obelisk surrounded by a fence commemorates the discovery of the Welcome Stranger.

The Welcome Stranger Monument

Quote:Interred in 1851, William MacKenzie’s name is mentioned in many Liverpool guidebooks owing to the fact that grave is marked with an impressive fifteen foot (4.57 metre) pyramid shaped tombstone.

The story, often told as a sworn truth, goes that McKenzie was a keen gambler and left instructions that he should be entombed above ground within the pyramid, sitting upright at a card table and clutching a winning hand of cards . Some tellers go one step further asserting that MacKenzie ensured that his body was never committed to the earth as a means of cheating Satan out of claiming his immortal soul . It follows almost naturally that tales of MacKenzie’s ghost roaming the overgrown churchyard and surrounding area are told today by many local folklorists and tour guides alike.

In truth, several such monuments can be seen in graveyards across the British Isles, some of them even having remarkably similar tales attached. Saint Thomas à Becket’s churchyard in Brightling, East Sussex is home to a twenty-five foot (7.62 metre) pyramid dedicated to John “Mad Jack” Fuller. Local legend had it that Fuller was entombed in the pyramid in full dress and top hat seated at a table set with a roast chicken and a bottle of wine. This was discovered to be untrue during renovations in 1982. Fuller is indeed buried in the conventional manner beneath the pyramid.

The inscription on MacKenzie's Pyramid door reads: "In the vault beneath lie the remains of William MacKenzie of Newbie Dumfrishire, Esquire who died 29th October 1851 aged 57 years. Also, Mary his wife, who died 19th December 1838 aged 48 years and Sarah, his second wife who died 9th December 1867 aged 60 years. This monument was erected by his Brother Edward as a token of love and affection A.D. 1868. The memory of the just is blessed".

The inscription proves that MacKenzie was buried beneath (not entombed inside) the pyramid and that the monument itself was not erected until 16 years after his demise. Even so, the legend of his upright interment continues to be told and believed by many.

William MacKenzie's Tomb

Quote:Cage has a history with the city of New Orleans, having purchased both the infamously haunted LaLaurie Mansion and the historic Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel. Both properties were foreclosed on in 2009 after a tax debacle. Subsequently, Cage purchased his unnamed tomb in the city's beloved St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, home to the grave of another of New Orleans' supernatural heavies, Marie Laveau.

The empty grave is a stark, nine-foot-tall stone pyramid that stands in obvious contrast to the blockier, above-ground burial sites that have been crumbling away in the cemetery for over two centuries. There is no name on the pyramid yet, but it is emblazoned with the Latin maxim, "Omnia Ab Uno," which translates to "Everything From One."

The actor himself has chosen to remain silent about his reasoning for the flamboyant tomb. Some speculate it's an homage to the "National Treasure" movie franchise, though given that many cemeteries host pyramid grave markers, it may have simply been a stylistic choice. Others think the pyramid is evidence of the strange actor's ties to the probably-fictitious secret Illuminati society. Because of antique portraits bearing an uncanny resemblance to Cage that have surfaced online, the more paranormally-minded suggest that the pyramid is where Cage will regenerate his immortal self. The rumor around town is that Cage has considered himself cursed since owning LaLaurie's mansion (his box office record does reflect this) and he feels being next to Marie Laveau will un-curse him.

New Orleans may not like Nic Cage, but it's clear that he likes New Orleans. Though some feel Cage is detracting from the historic importance of St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, his grave has already become a part of its mythology. For whatever reason, a tradition has arisen of leaving lipstick kisses behind on the nameless tomb.

Nicolas Cage's Pyramid Tomb

Quote:Van Ness Parsons Mausoleum

American cemeteries often have a schizophrenic attitude towards Egyptian architecture. While almost all Egyptian architecture has something to do with death and the afterlife, thus making it a perfect fit for the cemetery, it’s pagan origin often raises the hackles of the religious community. Memorial designers often soften the pagan profile of Egyptian forms by adding Christian figures and symbols. The Van Ness Parsons mausoleum is a perfect example of this hybridization. Over the entrance to the mausoleum are vulture wings, a Egyptian symbol for maternal care, but that is softened by statues of an adoring sphinx gazing upon Jochebed holding her son Moses, while another statue portrays Jesus holding a lamb symbolizing innocence. Jesus is known as the Lamb of God. In the distance is another maternal figure that may be a representation of Pharaoh’s daughter finding Moses in the bulrushes, in Egypt.

The most noted occupant of the mausoleum is Albert Ross Parsons (1847-1933), a noted pianist and head of the piano department at the Metropolitan Conservatory of Music. More apropos to the mausoleum, Parsons was also an Egyptologist who wrote the book, New Light From the Great Pyramid: An astronomico-geographical system of the ancients recovered etc. in 1893. Also sharing space in the pyramid is Parsons’ wife Alice Schuyler Van Ness who died in 1931.

Quote:In Harlan Ellison's disturbing 1967 short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," a sentient superintelligence named AM has taken over the earth's resources and exterminated humanity after combining the powers of three US, Soviet, and Chinese supercomputers into one. A small group of survivors has been kept alive for AM's amusement, forced to roam the supercomputer's endless electronic innards.

It's a grim setting, but evidently one that billionaire tech tycoon and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt imagines for the future of humanity, if his comments to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce are any indication.

1. France
   
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(02-06-2026, 04:29 AM)Bally002 Wrote: Thank you for mentioning the "Welcome Stranger"  nugget.  Would be worth a fortune today.  Just goes to show that you can find gold nuggets about the place notwithstanding that it is said that most of the worlds gold has been discovered.  I disagree with this assumption.

The nugget was found on land.  Surely with 70 percent of earth is covered by water that there is a lot more to be located.  Antartica for another example, a big land mass, bigger than Australia.  Gotta be more gold there.

My thoughts,

Bally)

Quote:Where all this purple came from has long been a mystery. Just a few locations along the Levant’s southern coast and in Cyprus show evidence of dye-making at the start of the period, and all were on a modest scale. But a new study by researchers at the University of Haifa in Israel suggests that through most of the Iron Age biblical era, from roughly 1150 B.C. to 600 B.C., a small promontory called Tel Shiqmona on Israel’s Carmel coast was not a residential settlement, as previously supposed, but a major purple-dyeing factory.

“Tel Shiqmona fills in this gap with continuous production, most of the time in massive quantities,” said Golan Shalvi, a postdoctoral student in archaeology at the University of Chicago and the lead author of the paper. “For the majority of the Iron Age, it is the only site where manufacturing can be demonstrated with certainty.”

The research, published in the Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv, proposes that during the first half of the ninth century B.C., the Israelites took over Tel Shiqmona and set about cornering the lucrative purple-dye market by converting the small dye installation into a fortified manufacturing plant surrounded by a casemate wall. (This was at about the same time that Ahab ruled the Kingdom of Israel.)

The new operation was more or less a joint venture, run by the Israelites and staffed by skilled Phoenician workers who held the secrets to making the dye, Dr. Shalvi said. Whether the locals had continued the operation by coercion or cooperation is unclear.

In theory, the goods assembled at Tel Shiqmona, mainly purple-dyed wool or textiles, were distributed to the elite and temples across the area, including Israel, Phoenicia, Philistia, Aram, Judea and Cyprus. Dr. Shalvi said the dye probably created both the argaman (purple) and techelet (azure) mentioned dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible. Techelet was used for dyeing tzitzit (tassels) on tallits (prayer shawls) used in Jewish religious rituals, and inspired the blue of the Israeli flag.

“The purple manufacture at Tel Shiqmona overlapped with the existence of the First Temple in Jerusalem,” Dr. Shalvi said, referring to the house of worship that, according to Jewish tradition, was built by King Solomon on the spot where God created Adam. “For most of that time, it was the only place known to make the dye. Therefore, it is the only candidate to provide the color for the scarlet and sapphire hues of the temple’s robes and tabernacle curtains.”

It took guts

Tyrian purple was the sole colorfast dye known to the ancients; fabric tinted in the color grew brighter with weathering and sunlight. Shades ranged from bluish-green to a purplish red, depending on how the dye was prepared and fixed in textiles. The most vibrant tone was the deep crimson of “clotted blood” tinged with black, the Roman historian Pliny reported.

In imperial Rome, sumptuary laws restricted the buying and wearing of purple-dyed fabrics to the emperor (purple silk was to be used only at his direction under penalty of death) and, to a lesser extent, senators and consuls, who were allowed to wear broad bands of purple at the edges of their togas.

The name and provenance of Tyrian purple were inventions of the Romans. As far back as 1900 B.C., the Minoans of Crete were already preparing a purple dye from marine snails, spawning an industry that then caught on and flourished throughout the eastern Mediterranean. The center of production is thought to have moved to the port of Tyre, although Dr. Schmitt said it could not be corroborated by primary sources, either textual or archaeological. At the port, the snails were gathered from shallow waters and left to rot in large vats before being distilled into the purified dye. (Phoinike, the area’s corresponding Greek name, is related to phoinix, meaning “reddish purple,” leading some scholars to speculate that Phoenicia was “the land of purple.”)

Julius Pollux, a Greek scholar and grammarian from the second century A.D., attributed the discovery of the color to Tyrian Hercules, known to the Phoenicians as Melqart, guardian deity of Tyre. In his “Onomasticon,” a 10-volume thesaurus, Pollux relates that a nymph named Tyrus was walking along the beach when her dog bit into a sea snail, staining the dog’s mouth an intense purple. Tyrus was enthralled by the brilliance and told Hercules, her lover, that she wanted a robe of the same color. Hercules complied and purple became a royal rage.

In the 17th century, the artist Peter Paul Rubens recreated the yarn in the oil painting “Hercules’ Dog Discovers Purple Dye.” Alas, he got the shell wrong, depicting a spiral nautilus snail instead of a prickly murex.

Shell game

Tyre is 30 miles north of Tel Shiqmona, where the purple pigment was created from the dried and boiled guts of three species of predatory sea snails: the spiny dye-murex (Bolinus brandaris), the banded dye-murex (Hexaplex trunculus) and the red-mouthed rock shell (Stramonita haemastoma). Each added a slightly different cast to the mix.

Tel Shiqmona had long confounded archaeologists, who wondered why what looked to be some kind of fort had been erected far from agricultural lands on a rocky stretch of shoreline that didn’t offer safe harbor to ships.

From 1963-77, the eight-acre site was excavated extensively by Yosef Elgavish, an Israeli archaeologist. Working on behalf of the Haifa Museum, he unearthed weaving and spinning equipment, large purple-stained ceramic vats and evidence of human habitation dating to around 1500 B.C. Although some archaeological layers harbored Phoenician pottery, Dr. Elgavish also found a four-room house and olive presses, which he identified as typical of the 10th-century B.C. settlements of the Israelites.

“Dr. Elgavish had a hunch that Tel Shiqmona had some role in the production of the purple dye, but he didn’t delve into the amount of production or who ran the dye process,” Dr. Shalvi said.

For the next four decades, the site was almost completely ignored for academic research. “The results and finds of the early expeditions were neither researched nor published,” Dr. Shalvi said. In 2016, he and Ayelet Gilboa, his doctoral adviser at the University of Haifa, began a project to save what they called the “cultural and intellectual assets” hidden in the forgotten finds.

Dr. Shalvi soon realized that defining Tel Shiqmona’s as exclusively Israelite did not reflect the region’s complexity. He divided the site’s Iron Age chronology into four main episodes: a Phoenician village (1100 B.C. to 900 B.C.); a walled enclosure controlled by the Israelites (900 B.C. to 740 B.C.); an ephemeral resettlement after the destruction of the kingdom and the facility (740 B.C. to 700 B.C.), and an unfortified industrial compound under Assyrian domination that survived until the Babylonian takeover of the territory (700 B.C. to 600 B.C.)

Three years ago, after carefully reviewing the thousands of finds from Dr. Elgavish’s excavation, Dr. Shalvi had an epiphany. ”I discovered purple traces that no one else had observed,” he said. “As soon as my eyes were opened to the purple staining pattern, I noticed it everywhere.”

That afternoon he called Dr. Gilboa and told her about his revelation. “We discussed whether it might be a good idea for me to see a psychiatrist,” Dr. Shalvi said with a dry chuckle. “Fortunately, chemical analysis demonstrated that in every case the purple was real.”

Where Purple Ruled

Quote:Plague Loves Corruption

In addition to the identification of an easy scapegoat for plague, the corrupt political sphere of San Francisco would provide a perfect breeding ground for the uncontrolled spread of disease. At the turn of the twentieth century, San Francisco was the richest and most prominent Pacific port due to trade with Asia as well as the rest of the United States. It was considered the cultural and financial capital of California and was well on its way to becoming one of the most important cities in the nation. However, the city’s Gold Rush history had cemented a strike-it-rich mentality—or a belief in fate rather than hard work and in greed rather than generosity—into local politics (13). The local government was known by San Francisco residents to have a history of corruption. Government officials, coerced by local elites and businessmen, did not invest time nor resources into improving living conditions for the general public. The city was notoriously dirty and overcrowded; officials were not willing to spend money on sanitation or medical care at the expense of private wealth. In fact, public health-related spending fell significantly as the population grew (14).

With the arrival of the bubonic plague, these ties between the political and economic worlds were exposed: city- and state-level politicians, in collusion with business leaders and the press, worked to deny the plague’s existence in order to protect commerce and tourism. With a reputation to uphold, business leaders feared embargoes by neighboring states and other countries. San Francisco was in the middle of an economic boom, so diverting trade to developing cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, and Vancouver could hurt expansion. In the words of one historian, “business and capital, always timid and jumpy, were fearful of sick rats and Chinamen” (15). Newspaper editors were persuaded to keep a blackout on reports of plague, denouncing rumors as fake and drawing on existing mistrust of public officials. Newspapers ran stories claiming that the plague either did not exist or did not pose a risk to the general public. For example, The Bulletin claimed that the plague was dangerous only to the economy, as it diverted tourists and cargo from the port (16). On March 8, 1900, The San Francisco Call published a front-page story called “Plague Fake is Part of a Plot to Plunder,” beginning with the decisive statement “there is no bubonic plague in San Francisco” (17). These articles echoed the public’s suspicion that reports of the plague were being used as a way to acquire financial assistance for the underfunded health department; the Call article also described how the plague was a way to “plunder the funds of the taxpayers” (18).

To Contain or to Conceal: San Francisco’s Plague Epidemic, 1900

Quote:Kinyoun had predicted plague’s eventual arrival in the United States as early as 1895, and had begun a plague research program in 1896, which he pursued even more energetically after receiving a strain obtained from China via the U.S. Navy in 1897 (18). Since 1897, Wyman had been writing and speaking about plague as an ultimate test for the MHS. Sending his top scientist to the front lines may have appeared necessary. Subsequent events, however, led Kinyoun to doubt Wyman’s motives, and the issue is clouded by other ambiguities in the puzzling relationship between Kinyoun and Wyman. The prevailing belief among historians is that a troubled relationship between the two men led Wyman to demote his top scientist, a belief consistent with Kinyoun’s later criticism of Wyman and Wyman’s reluctance to ever again mention him by name. But the full facts surrounding Kinyoun’s reassignment and subsequent MHS career remain unknown.

Plague in San Francisco—1900, the Year of the Rat

Quote:Ghislaine Maxwell has tragically taken her own life tomorrow night, hours before she was scheduled to testify to congress about the Epstein files. It is understood Maxwell committed suicide due to doubts she would blame everything on Russia.

At the time of the suicide, the cameras to Maxwell's cell were switched off and the guards were sleeping. This has sparked online conspiracy theories, suggesting Maxwell did not kill herself. These conspiracy theories are deeply insensitive, considering Maxwell's friends are pretending to be in mourning.

One of Maxwell's closest friends, Alan Dershowitz, said: "I'm extremely relieved, I mean saddened to hear about Ghislaine's death. I worked with her for many years and can assure you our interactions were entirely above board. I should probably, um, stop talking now..."

President Trump joined in the tributes, saying he is "shocked and saddened" by Maxwell's unexpected death, praising the "incredible beauty pageants she helped me arrange". The president added: "She had so much to live for. I'd got her moved to a nicer cell and was even weighing up pardoning her and now this..."

Peter Mandelson broke his silence to say: "Ghislaine's passing is a heavy blow, but I will cherish the memories of the times we spent together in our underwear."

Prince Andrew touchingly said: "First Virginia and now Ghislaine. This is hard to take. Ghislaine was one of the only women who didn't recoil in revulsion around me. I will always appreciate that. At least she's with Jeffrey now in Tel Aviv, I mean, um, heaven..."

All of the friends who paid tribute to Maxwell were struggling to hold back smiles as their eyes shifted from side to side. Conspiracy theorists are suggesting they were relieved because she might have said something incriminating about them. Personally, I put their reactions down to the first stage of grief, known as "Do you think we got away with it?"

Ghislaine Maxwell was the daughter of a Mossad spy who  sadly fell off his yacht after blackmailing his bosses. Maxwell was in a relationship with fellow paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for 25 years. During that time, the couple befriended many politicians who seemed awfully keen to do their bidding for some reason. Ghislaine's high-flying lifestyle came to an abrupt end when she was unfairly imprisoned for doing what every other rich person does.

At the time of her passing, Maxwell was serving a controversial 20-year prison sentence, after being convicted of being a paedophile and trafficking women and children to no one. As a result of the unusually harsh sentence for a rich person, she was strongly supported by President Trump who was known to have formed a close bond with Maxwell and her girls.

It's fair to say Maxwell's passing has sent shockwaves through the political world. She leaves behind hundreds of traumatised victims and hundreds of relieved perverts.

Quote:Victoria was in the grip of drought when Melbourne was smothered by a giant dust storm blown in from the mallee deserts during the afternoon of Tuesday 8 February 1983.

Earlier in the morning a strong, but dry, cold front began crossing Victoria, preceded by hot, gusty northerly winds.

The temperature in the city rose quickly as the north wind strengthened, and by 2:35 pm it had reached 43.2 degrees.

The 300 metre high dust cloud stretched over 500 km from Mildura to Melbourne and extended on a 150 km wide front.

It reached the city by 2.55 pm and the sky went black.

Winds of up to 140 km/h were reported at Point Lonsdale while at Mornington, gusts reached 100 km/h. In the city, winds reached 85 km/h.

The storm cut power, damaged houses, uprooted trees, disrupted train services and ripped boats from moorings.

The worst of the dust storm was over by 4 pm when the wind dropped as the cool change arrived. There was no rain and everything was covered in a layer of dust.

But more significantly, the exact weather pattern that caused the dust storm, with high temperatures and strong northwest winds followed by a strong southwest change, was repeated eight days later during the catastrophic Ash Wednesday bushfires.

1983 Melbourne dust storm – countdown to catastrophe

Quote:U.S. Seizes Shadow Fleet Tanker Aquila II in Indian Ocean After 10,000-Mile Pursuit

The crude tanker Aquila II (IMO 9281152) was designated by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on January 10, 2025, as blocked property linked to Russia’s energy sector. Treasury identified the vessel as owned by Sunne Co Limited, a company sanctioned under Executive Order 14024.

The seizure of Aquila II is the latest in a growing series of U.S. interdictions targeting sanctioned tankers. It follows the January 20 capture of the Sagitta, another Sunne-linked vessel apprehended in the Caribbean.

In total, U.S. forces have seized eight tankers in recent weeks as enforcement efforts intensify. Earlier actions included the Veronica on January 15, the Olina on January 9, the M Sophia and Marinera on January 7, and the Skipper and Centuries in December.

Quote:Royal Thai Navy moves to salvage SEALLOYD ARC after cargo ship sinks off Phuket

Vice Admiral Weerudom Muangjeen, Commander of the Third Naval Area Command, said the Royal Thai Navy is working with relevant agencies on plans to salvage the cargo ship SEALLOYD ARC, which sank off the coast of Phuket.

The incident occurred on February 7, when the Panama-flagged vessel, travelling from Malaysia to Bangladesh, capsized in waters off the west of Ko Kaeo Yai, near Promthep Cape. More than 200 containers were reported to have scattered across the sea, and an oil leak was detected, raising concerns about potential impacts on the marine and coastal environment.

Quote:Dark Fleet Stats

The Dark Fleet consists of 1468 active vessels, which can be broken down into various groups, depending on their flag, various size classes, etc.

Breaking the dark fleet down by each individual vessel's flag, we have the following top-20 list:

    Russia : 203 vessels
    Panama : 176 vessels
    Cameroon : 144 vessels
    Sierra Leone : 104 vessels
    Iran : 87 vessels
    Comoros : 61 vessels
    Curaçao : 52 vessels
    Guyana : 48 vessels
    Guinea : 41 vessels
    Palau : 40 vessels
    Barbados : 38 vessels
    Oman : 37 vessels
    Hong Kong : 35 vessels
    Gambia : 31 vessels
    Marshall Islands : 26 vessels
    Liberia : 24 vessels
    Aruba : 21 vessels
    Madagascar : 19 vessels
    Benin : 18 vessels
    North Korea : 18 vessels

In terms of barrels carried by these vessels during the past year (365 days), we have the following top ten list:

    Iran to China : 1,628,160 barrels per day
    Russia to India : 918,653 barrels per day
    Russia to China : 918,032 barrels per day
    Venezuela to China : 554,805 barrels per day
    Russia to Unknown : 302,842 barrels per day
    Iran to UAE : 117,838 barrels per day
    Russia to Turkey : 100,565 barrels per day
    Saudi Arabia to China : 91,172 barrels per day
    Russia to Syria : 65,501 barrels per day
    Saudi Arabia to India : 52,428 barrels per day

Grouping them by size class:

    Handysize/Handymax : 622 vessels
    Aframax : 369 vessels
    VLCC/ULCC : 229 vessels
    Suezmax : 153 vessels
    Panamax : 95 vessels

Finally, grouping by construction year:

    2003 : 156 vessels
    2005 : 144 vessels
    2004 : 141 vessels
    2006 : 117 vessels
    2002 : 97 vessels
    2007 : 89 vessels
    2008 : 86 vessels
    2000 : 78 vessels
    2009 : 69 vessels
    2001 : 64 vessels

Quote:Epstein the ultimate "switchboard operator"

This essay asks a different question: not what was built, but who coordinates the building — and whose interests the network behind it serves. The evidence comes from correspondence released through EFTA proceedings and US Department of Justice document releases in 2025 and 2026 — Epstein’s private communications with figures whose institutions appear throughout the earlier essays.

The same technique applies. Start with what the documents directly evidence. Trace connections to institutions. Infer where required. The POSIWID [The purpose of a system is what it does] principle holds throughout: claimed ‘intent’ counts for nothing — function is what matters.

Quote:There is now enough weirdness around Epstein that even sensible journalists like me are saying he allegedly took his life. We’re just not sure anymore! It looks like this could be another case of us timidly accepting the official story, and then discovering we were lied to. You’d think we’d have learnt our lesson by now, wouldn’t you?
It’s fair to say the past 24 hours have been confusing. Ghislaine Maxwell astonished everyone by not committing suicide in her cell, and it looks like her boyfriend possibly didn’t commit suicide either. I’m now facing a dilemma: do I remain part of the cover up, or tell the truth for a change?

Um, let me think...

Obviously, if Epstein didn’t kill himself, it means he was murdered or busted out. I can’t imagine why though, because President Trump clearly has nothing to hide and Kash Patel seems like such an honest guy. Perhaps Hillary Clinton set Trump up to prevent him from disclosing the truth about UFOs. There is no other rational explanation…

I would leave it there and go to bed, but sadly, there are some things that are hard to pin on Hillary, things I don’t even think we could pin on Zohran Mamdani and he’s a Muslim.
For example, the Epstein files show that someone from the DOJ drafted the announcement of Epstein’s death 24 hours before his alleged suicide. Now this could have a simple explanation, such as Palantir has invented tech that can see into the future, or it could have been a typo, I guess. Silly me.

If only it was all so simple to explain away…

New footage shows possible entry to Epstein’s cell, due to a flash of movement past the camera that wasn’t previously disclosed. This adds to the previous weirdness, such as the DOJ accidentally releasing a fake video in December and quickly unpublishing it, and releasing the official video with missing segments. Even I can’t think of an excuse for this crap. Who are these useless dickheads?

As if that wasn’t hard enough to cover up, the DOJ has admitted—fucking admitted—it covered boxes in a sheet and passed them off as Epstein’s body. They say this was a decoy to fool the press while the real body was busted out, I mean taken away in secret. Combine this crap with the admission that malfunctioning hard drives for the cameras had to be wiped and replaced after Epstein’s death and you have the stuff that conspiracy theories are made of!

Oh god, the conspiracy theorists are gonna be insufferable because the more I look, the worse this crap gets…

Remember the 4chan guy who posted 38 minutes before Epstein’s death had been announced? The guy who claimed to be a prison guard and said Epstein was busted out and the bodies were switched? Well, the Epstein files confirm the FBI investigated and found 4chan guy really was an on-duty prison guard.

I doubt anyone is letting me pin this on Zohran, so if you love Trump as much as I do, just scream that 4chan guy is a “fucking liar!” What else can we do? I mean a picture of Epstein’s body was released that was missing the tattoo on his arm. They really forgot to draw a fake tattoo on the lookalike they murdered! Good grief…

Epstein confirmed in a 2017 deposition that he’d had the tattoo since he was 18. The barbwire tattoo is showing in images from the Epstein files so we’re now claiming he had it removed in the two years between the deposition and his death. I hope you’re buying this shit because I’m losing the plot here...

And now we have to talk about the fact Epstein almost died from hanging/strangulation two weeks before his death, initially blamed his cell mate, and then said he was confused and didn’t know what happened, but wanted to stay with the same cellmate. Epstein told the prison psychologist that he was not suicidal and was too much of a coward to harm himself. Many people who knew Epstein, including his brother and butler, have said he wouldn’t kill himself. Even Ghislaine said she doesn’t believe he killed himself.

And then there is the awkward fact someone flew a drone over Epstein island and might have caught him alive on camera. Epstein might truly be the first Jewish guy to come back from the dead since Jesus, although he is slightly less impressive than his predecessor. I still hate Jesus more though, because he gave people universal healthcare. Fucking commie.

Anyway, all of this stuff has got me too exhausted to be part of the cover up anymore, so if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to play Fortnite with littlestjeff1. Don’t ask…

Quote:I find the view of the Soviet Union that prevails today in large portions of our governmental and journalistic establishments so extreme, so subjective, so far removed from what any sober scrutiny of external reality would reveal, that it is not only ineffective, but dangerous as a guide to political action.

This endless series of distortions and oversimplifications; this systematic dehumanization of the leadership of another great country; this routine exaggeration of Moscow’s military capabilities and of the supposed iniquity of Soviet intentions.

And we shall not be able to turn these things around as they should be turned, on the plane of military and nuclear rivalry, until we learn to correct these childish distortions — until we correct our tendency to see in the Soviet Union only a mirror in which we look for the reflection of our own virtue — until we consent to see there another great people, one of the world’s greatest, in all its complexity and variety, embracing the good with the bad, a people whose life, whose views, whose habits, whose fears and aspirations, whose successes and failures, are the products, just as ours are the products, not of any inherent iniquity but of the relentless discipline of history, tradition, and course in the national experience.

If we insist on demonizing these Soviet leaders — on viewing them as total and incorrigible enemies, consumed only with their fear and hatred of us and dedicated to nothing other than our destruction — that, in the end, is the way we shall assuredly have them, if for no other reason than that our view of them allows for nothing else, either for them or for us.

Quote:The shooter, initially described by the RCMP as "a female in a dress with brown hair", was later identified by RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald as 18-year-old Jesse van Rootselaar of Tumbler Ridge. Law enforcement said the shooter was a trans woman who transitioned 6 years before the shooting.

Quote:President Trump has announced that Venezuela has been “liberated” now that it is sending oil to Israel. The president, who needed a distraction from the 960,000 redactions of his name in the Epstein files, said: “This is a great day for Venezuela’s oil which gets to experience human rights for the first time in decades.”

The president added: “I hope this is enough to get you all to stop talking about the Epstein thing. If not, don’t worry, because I’m gonna let Tim Burchett open the Area 51 files”. It is unclear if there will be redactions from the Area 51 files, but Mitch McConnell is looking very nervous for some reason.

Anyways, back to the speech. The president explained: “Now that Venezuela has agreed to send oil to Israel, the drug cartels have mysteriously stopped using fishing boats, the fentanyl that wasn’t coming from Venezuela is still not coming from Venezuela, the human rights concerns are no more and we don't expect to talk about them again.” I burst into applause, but stopped when I heard Maria Machado wailing. Poor Maria...

Maduro’s VP Delcy Rodriguez has taken the role of Venezuelan president, but she isn’t a dictator as long as she imposes the will of the empire on her people. The US has a sealed indictment that it will unseal if she ever steps out of line. If the indictment is unsealed, Rodriguez will be abducted for Israel like Maduro was. It’s the only way to protect that oil...

As you can see, Venezuela has been truly liberated, now the US is in control of the world’s largest proven oil reserves. This is how freedom and democracy works.

On another note, you will be pleased to hear that Netanyahu has arrived in Washington DC to tell Trump which country should get some democracy next. Excitingly, the goyim might be about to fight another war for the Epstein paedophile ring. I bet they can’t wait...

Quote:The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well.

That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.”

When Liteplo launched RentAHuman on Monday, he boasted that he already had over 130 people listed on the platform, including an OnlyFans model and the CEO of an AI startup, a claim which couldn’t be verified. Two days later, the site boasted over 73,000 rentable meatwads, though only 83 profiles were visible to us on its “browse humans” tab, Liteplo included.

The pitch is simple: “robots need your body.” For humans, it’s as simple as making a profile, advertising skills and location, and setting an hourly rate. Then AI agents — autonomous taskbots ostensibly employed by humans — contract these humans out, depending on the tasks they need to get done. The humans then “do the thing,” taking instructions from the AI bot and submitting proof of completion. The humans are then paid through crypto, namely “stablecoins or other methods,” per the website.

With so many AI agents slithering around the web these days, those tasks could be just about anything. From package pickups and shopping to product testing and event attendance, Liteplo is banking on there being enough demand from AI agents to create a robust gig-work ecosystem.

Liteplo also went out of his way to make the site friendly for AI agents. The site very prominently encourages users of AI agents to hook into RentAHuman’s model context protocol server (MCP), a universal interface for AI bots to interact with web data.

Through RentAHuman, AI agents like Claude and MoltBot can either hire the right human directly, or post a “task bounty,” a sort of job board for humans to browse AI-generated gigs. The payouts range from $1 for simple tasks like “subscribe to my human on Twitter” to $100 for more elaborate humiliation rituals, like posting a photo of yourself holding a sign reading “AN AI PAID ME TO HOLD THIS SIGN.”

It’s unclear how efficient the marketplace is at actually connecting agents to humans. Despite receiving 30 applications, one task, “pick up a package from downtown USPS” in San Francisco for $40, has yet to be fulfilled after two days.

It’s also debatable whether AI agents are actually capable of putting the humans to good use. Still, Liteplo’s vision is clear: someday soon, anyone wealthy enough to run an AI agent for $25 a day could outsource their busywork to gig workers without ever exchanging a word. A version of this exploitative labor model is already rampant on OnlyFans — which may be why at least one model has made the jump to Liteplo’s platform — and is now threatening to creep into everything else.

Like many AI grifters these days, Liteplo shields himself in ironic self-awareness. When one person called RentAHuman a “good idea but dystopic as f**k,” the founder replied simply: “lmao yep.”

AI company allows AI bots to order up humans in Meet space

Quote:The Scientist Who Predicted AI Psychosis Has a Grim Forecast of What’s Going to Happen Next

"If the use of AI chatbots does indeed cause cognitive debt, we are likely in dire straights."

When the Danish psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard published his ominous warning about AI’s effects on mental health back in 2023, the tech giants fervently building AI chatbots didn’t listen.

Quote:It has been revealed the late Queen Elizabeth II loaned £7 million to a paedophile who was linked to a sex trafficking ring. At the time of the loan, the Queen was fully aware of the accusations against the paedophile, yet she told him he has her full support. King Charles loaned the paedophile £3 million, despite also being fully aware of his crimes.

At the time, the paedophile was facing a civil lawsuit for raping a minor who was the victim of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The paedophile was a close friend of Epstein’s over many years. Disturbingly, the pair would often hang out in Buckingham Palace and other royal residences, but we are unclear if they raped children there. What we do know is that leaked documents show the paedophile passed on state secrets to Epstein.

The paedophile carried out sexual assault, battery, rape, and intentional infliction of emotional distress against a minor around 2001. The victim was just 17 years old when she was raped by him on three separate occasions. The first time was in  London at the home of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. The second time was in the New York apartment of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The third time was on the island of Little St James, location of a notorious paedophile ring.

Last year, the paedophile murdered his victim in Australia at the second attempt. After unsuccessfully attempting a fatal car crash, he made the second successful attempt look like a suicide.

In a shocking turn of events, it turns out the paedophile and murderer was the favourite son of the late Queen and the brother of the current King. His name is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince.

As punishment for his crimes, Andrew was stripped of the Prince title and moved into a slightly smaller mansion. He would have been kicked onto the streets, but he is blackmailing his brother by threatening to reveal dark family secrets.

In 2022, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor paid £12 million to the woman he later murdered — £7 million came from Queen Elizabeth, £3 million from King Charles, and the rest from Prince Philip’s estate (he was the Nazi who lived longer than a Greenland shark.)

Andrew was supposed to repay the money by selling his ski chalet, but the chalet sold for less than expected. Surprisingly, not many people were  interested in buying a paedo’s ski chalet and the market value plummeted. The funds raised were not even enough to cover Andrew’s debts. This means he hasn’t repaid a single penny of the rape loan.

King Charles has reassured the public that he didn’t give your tax money to  the paedophile for sinister purposes, he simply wanted to save himself and his mother from reputational harm.

Let’s be honest, it would be embarrassing to see your family member stand up in court, discussing his sordid lifestyle that taxpayers funded. You can imagine the uproar when the public discovered how many rape islands they’d paid for Andrew to visit. They might have started thinking the royals aren’t better than them.

In defence of King Charles and Queen Elizabeth, no one could have predicted the product of two cousins would become such a deviant. It came as a great shock to Queen Elizabeth, who hadn’t really known a paedophile since her cousin Lord Mountbatten died in 1979. King Charles, on the other hand, was more openminded on the subject, having been good friends with Sir Jimmy Saville.

Thankfully, Andrew has saved the royal family from further embarrassment by getting away with murder. The public understands Virginia Giuffre’s suicide was no more suspicious than that time Diana’s driver went too fast through that tunnel in Paris...