Jeffrey Epstein helped Russian spies collect blackmail 'kompromat'

 The CIA has deleted the CIA World Factbook(a popular almanac about the countries of the world) from the web. Fuck this. All these assholes do is pillage & destroy.

Epstein Emails Expose How America’s Elites Really See the Rest of Us Egberto Off The Record

 

Who entered Epstein’s jail tier the night of his death? Newly released video logs appear to contradict official accounts. CBS News. “An orange-colored shape.”

 

From Putin’s Kiss to Jeffrey Epstein The After-Action Report. Another alleged blackmail ring, this one operating in Silicon Valley.

Epstein received ‘not a girl not yet a woman’ photos from friend in Sydney

Epstein received ‘not a girl not yet a woman’ photos from friend in Sydney Michael Koziol

February 6, 2026 — 

Washington: Paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein received photos from a friend who was living in Sydney and described the pictures as “the most sensual and ‘im not a girl not yet a woman’ style photos” she had ever taken. Emails released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files reveal the convicted sex offender was contacted by a female friend – whose name was redacted – in March 2012, seemingly while she was studying in Sydney.

Jeffrey Epstein helped Russian spies collect blackmail 'kompromat' on western elites for DECADES says former MI6 agent Steele

The Mandelson-Epstein scandal is also the Mandelson-Palantir scandal. MP @alexburghart asks why Keir Starmer’s visit to Palantir’s office in Washington - arranged by Mandelson while his firm repped Palantir - was kept off books.

The Mandelson affair: inside the scandal of a century The New Statesman

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

Epstein Geopolitics And the Age of Primitive Accumulation Un-Diplomatic

Putin envoy dismisses Polish PM’s claim Epstein scandal was Russian operation Polskie Radio

Newly released Epstein files reveal further ties to Israel Mondoweiss

Effective tax rates for billionaires

A blueprint for a coordinated minimum effective taxation standard for ultra-high-net-worth individuals

The Library of Congress at a Crossroads: Executive Overreach and the Future of Public Knowledge

Street, Leslie and Runyon, Amanda, The Library of Congress at a Crossroads: Executive Overreach and the Future of Public Knowledge (January 25, 2026). U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 26-07, Seattle University Law Review Online & Seattle Journal of Technology, Environment, & Innovation Law, forthcoming, 2026, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6155010 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6155010 

In May 2025, President Trump’s removal of the Librarian of Congress and attempted removal of the Register of Copyrights precipitated a constitutional crisis that exposed fundamental structural vulnerabilities in the nation’s knowledge infrastructure. This Article argues that the Library of Congress faces a dual threat: a constitutional breach of separation of powers and a cultural threat to the preservation of America’s intellectual heritage. The Library’s structural ambiguity — its simultaneous identity as a legislative library, national library, and copyright agency — has left it vulnerable to executive overreach that threatens both constitutional integrity and its role as custodian of national memory. 

Drawing on separation-of-powers doctrine, mandatory deposit jurisprudence, and the emerging Supreme Court framework on presidential removal authority, this Article demonstrates that the Copyright Office’s exercise of executive functions within a legislative institution creates irreconcilable constitutional tensions. The D.C. Circuit’s decision in Valancourt Books further undermines the mandatory deposit system that has sustained the Library’s comprehensive collections for over 150 years. To resolve these crises, this Article proposes a comprehensive three-part legislative solution: 

(1) modernizing mandatory deposit to authorize electronic submissions and create constitutional protections through voluntary compliance mechanisms; (2) codifying the Library’s status as a wholly legislative branch entity with congressional appointment of the Librarian; and (3) severing the Copyright Office from the Library and relocating it to the Executive Branch. Without decisive congressional action, the erosion of the Library’s statutory independence threatens the constitutional balance of powers, the preservation of American cultural heritage, and the future of public knowledge in a democratic society.

The not-yet coup: ‘Everything Angus touches turns to shit’ 

Karen Barlow  As Liberal leadership tensions spill into a third week, Sussan Ley’s camp says a challenge is ‘baked in’ and may help the party reset. 

Exclusive: Accenture contracts reach $6.5 billion 

Jason Koutsoukis  Analysis of tender documents shows Accenture is now the largest consultancy working for government, with much of its work coming from extraordinary cost blowouts in aged care.