Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Friday, July 11, 2025
“What the Epstein case shows is that powerful men preying on the very young is condoned by high society, whether they’re a Republican or Democrat, an American or an Afghan warlord."
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“There are some bizarre theories about Epstein out there, my personal favorite being the notion that Epstein never actually died in prison and that the man who did was a body double.
But you don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to see there’s more here than we were told before. You just have to read the Justice Department’s review carefully — which the media evidently did not.
It’s as if no one in power wants to deal with the substance of this scandal: that an industrial scale child abuse operation was taking place right under the noses of the countless household names with whom Epstein socialized. Now those same household names are ever so happy to cast the battle as a war between conspiracy nuts and the sober-minded adults, completely gliding over the obvious indictment here of the very high society of which they are a part.
What the Epstein case shows is that powerful men preying on the very young is condoned by high society, whether they’re a Republican or Democrat, an American or an Afghan warlord. And that’s why prominent people, from the government to the news media, seem to want this to go away.
As for Trump’s law enforcers and self-styled truth tellers who claim to be ending an era of politicization of the FBI and intelligence? It is entirely possible that in all the material they possess, there is no information about the johns. That’s because decades ago, they weren’t told to go after the men, or they decided not to. Either way, that’s the true cover-up, that no one was predisposed to investigate the perpetrators beyond Epstein and his staff, not in the Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden or Trump administrations.
— Edited by William M. Arkin”
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Ken Klippenstein
Jeffrey Epstein Had 1,000+ Victims
Industrial scale abuse enterprise far larger than previously believed is revealed in new document
Saturday, July 5, 2025
I never heard of a hurricane forming in the Atlantic just off the coast of Georgia. On July 8 Chantal will be at Norfolk VA. Will it go up the overheated Chesapeake to Chester County PA like Hurricane Hazel?
NOAA predicts above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
Above-average Atlantic Ocean temperatures set the stage
May 22, 2025
Chantel is headed towards Norfolk VA. Will it go up the overheated Chesapeake Bay to Pennsylvania as Hurricane Hazel did?
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
My family sat in the living room of our home on Black Horse Hill in Coatesville. After ½ of a 100 foot high tree just missed the small porch where our collie dog sat. My dad let her stay inside for the first time.
Later I surmised that if the tree hit our home square on it would have gone as far as the second story of our 3 story home.
We listened as Hurricane Hazel took down 3 more apple trees.
Later I saw a National Guard helicopter land in Central Park bringing medical supplies.
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest, second-costliest, and most intense hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed at least 469 people in Haiti before it struck the United States near the border between North and South Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane. After causing 95 fatalities in the US, Hazel struck Canada as an extratropical storm, which raised the death toll by 81 people, mostly in Toronto. As a result of the high death toll and the damage caused by Hazel, its name was retired from use for North Atlantic hurricanes.
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"Something like this was bound to happen,” Michael Mann, director of Philadelphia’s Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, told me, as he noted that the Pacific Ocean near Acapulco was unusually warm for this time of year, the result of both record temperatures linked to fossil-fuel pollution as well as the El Niño weather pattern. “It’s going to happen to Miami. It’s going to happen to Tampa,” Mann said."
I'm concerned it's going to happen again in Coatesville PA.
“Nearly a week after Hurricane Otis blew up like an atomic bomb and then slammed into Mexico’s iconic Pacific resort city of Acapulco with 165-mile-per-hour winds, grief-stricken residents are still pulling dead bodies from the city’s main harbor.
“It was really horrible,” Luis Alberto Medina, a fisherman, told the Reuters news service. “We’ve already found the bodies of others.” But six other people that Medina knew or worked with on the waterfront are still lost, as authorities now concede the toll of the dead or missing on the Mexican coast is nearing 100 and could go higher, as thousands continue to suffer without power or provisions.
In normal times, such death and destruction in a North American city that’s long been a hugely popular tourist destination for U.S. citizens would be a Page 1, top-of-the-hour story. But in a crazy, mixed-up world from Maine to the Middle East to Capitol Hill, Hurricane Otis barely dented American news media. And that’s a shame — not only because of the human tragedy getting ignored, but because the massive storm may have been nature’s most powerful warning yet that climate change has quickly shifted from a scientific theory to a five-alarm emergency.
Less than a day out, weather forecasters were describing Otis as a tropical storm that might bring heavy rain to Acapulco, but little more. But in the course of 12 hours over the overheated Pacific waters — in what some meteorologists are calling the most extreme example of “rapid intensification” they’ve ever seen — Otis gained an astonishing 115 mph in wind speed to become a major hurricane, in what National Hurricane Center forecaster Eric Blake called “a nightmare scenario.”
“Something like this was bound to happen,” Michael Mann, director of Philadelphia’s Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, told me, as he noted that the Pacific Ocean near Acapulco was unusually warm for this time of year, the result of both record temperatures linked to fossil-fuel pollution as well as the El Niño weather pattern. “It’s going to happen to Miami. It’s going to happen to Tampa,” Mann said."
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
A Category 5 hurricane in Mexico revealed the dangers of climate change. Nobody noticed.
Will Bunch. Oct. 31, 2023, 11:03 a.m. ET
Posted by James Pitcherella at 8:16 PM
Friday, July 4, 2025
Death by rain in Texas is named a “natural disaster.” Death by rain is a man made disaster caused by global warming.
- "Catastrophic flash flooding in central Texas has killed at least 13 people, with more missing—some possibly children from nearby summer camps—after up to 10 inches of rain caused rivers to rise rapidly overnight.
- Rescue efforts are ongoing, with washed-out roads and limited warning complicating evacuations; local officials and camp staff are working urgently to locate and assist unaccounted-for individuals.
- Elon Musk is floating launching a new political party, the “America Party,” on July 4, aiming to disrupt the two-party system by targeting a small number of key House and Senate races to gain influence in Congress.
- Musk publicly slammed Trump’s massive spending bill, calling it “pork-filled” and “a disgusting abomination,” citing its projected $3.9 trillion deficit impact and perceived favoritism toward outdated industries at the expense of green energy."
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BREAKING: Donald Trump Signs Republican Budget Bill Into Law
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“Why MAGA WAGES WAR on HISTORY” Heather Cox Richardson. I knew well a man who was a 1930s high ranking KKK member. I shot clay birds at his gun club. He & the men with him were frightening. Maybe that's why I have a bloodhound nose for white supremacists.
I was told by an extremely angry man who as a child was at the Lynching of Zachariah Walker that the young man who in 1911 pushed Zachariah Walker back into the flames in Coatesville PA is the man I knew at the gun club.
The lynching was so heinous an event that the City of Coatesville was removed from maps.
Heather Cox Richardson
July 3, 2025
And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
For all the fact that the congressmen got around the sticky little problem of Black and Indigenous enslavement by defining “men” as “white men,” and for all that it never crossed their minds that women might also have rights, the Declaration of Independence was an astonishingly radical document. In a world that had been dominated by a small class of rich men for so long that most people simply accepted that they should be forever tied to their status at birth, a group of upstart legislators on the edges of a continent declared that no man was born better than any other.
America was founded on the radical idea that all men are created equal.
What the founders declared self-evident was not so clear eighty-seven years later, when southern white men went to war to reshape America into a nation in which African Americans, Indigenous Americans, Chinese, Mexicans, and Irish were locked into a lower status than white Americans. In that era, equality had become a “proposition,” rather than “self-evident.”
“Four score and seven years ago,” Abraham Lincoln reminded Americans, “our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” In 1863, Lincoln explained, the Civil War was “testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
It did, of course. The Confederate rebellion failed. The United States endured, and Americans began to expand the idea that all men are created equal to include Black men, men of color, and eventually women.
But just as in the 1850s, we are now, once again, facing a rebellion against our founding principle as a few people seek to reshape America into a nation in which certain people are better than others.
The men who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, pledged their “Lives, [their] Fortunes and [their] sacred Honor” to defend the idea of human equality. Ever since then, Americans have sacrificed their own fortunes, honor, and even their lives, for that principle.
Lincoln reminded Civil War Americans of those sacrifices when he urged the people of his era to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Words to live by in 2025.