In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

🚨 BREAKING: After listening to testimony from Bill Clinton, Rep. Luna says she believes Jeffrey Epstein was running an "INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING OPERATION" She's also calling on four co-conspirators who are being falsely called "victims" to be subpoenaed: - Lesley Groth -… pic.twitter.com/iRHPOItJ93 — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 27, 2026 Rep Anna Paulina Luna asks a good basic question in the video embedded above, which I'll interpret as, "Precisely what was Epstein's grift?" She suggests it was an intelligence operation, but so far, Alan Dershowitz's informed view is that if Epstein had actually been a spy, he never would have gone to prison. But Rep Luna raises the issue of what Epstein's various women associates were there for, and that's a question worth pursuing. She lists four names, all of which I've covered in past posts here, Lesley Groth ( December 14, 2021 ), Nadia Marcinkova ( December 13, 2021 ), Adria...

What's puzzling about the whole Epstein affair is that in the US, it's looking like the last few reluctant pops of a batch of popcorn, while in the UK and Norway, it's buildng to a frenzy it never remotely reached in the US. Over the past week here, A board member of Beta Technologies resigned because he was mentioned somewhere in the last document dump Lawrence Summers resigned his last paid faculty gig at Harvard , having long since been fingered as an Epstein crony Hillary Clinton says "ask my husband" about any Epstein questions, while insiders worry Bill himself could "have a Biden moment" in his own testimony. But in the old country, it's become a much bigger deal: Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland was hospitalized following a suicide attempt days after being charged with "gross corruption" for his part in the Epstein scandal World Economic Forum CEO Børge Brende, another Norwegian, is res...

Now Bill Gates is undertaking a belated crisis management program, although the damage from his association with Epstein, as well as his sexual harassment of subordinates at Microsoft and his divorce, was done several years ago, and as more comes out from the latest tranche of Epstein files, the cleanup job just gets harder. The poor guy is just a creep. More than a year ago, February 1, 2025, he published a ghostwritten memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings , which as far as I can tell almost nobody noticed who wasn't paid to notice it. I asked Chrome AI Mode, which on the whole I think is quite a good product, better than Grok or ChatGPT, which charge for features Chrome provides for free, "Who was Bill Gates's ghostwriter in Source Code ?" It answered, Bill Gates's memoir, Source Code, was written with the assistance of Rob Guth. Guth is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who now works for Gates. Gates has described their collaborative process ...

A week or two ago, I was reading that the ongoing crisis over Andrew's relationship with Epstein was "the worst for the royals since 1936", referring to the events that led to Edward VIII's abdication over his intent to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Although there were rumors of Edward's intent prior to the crisis, without belaboring details, the entire matter was resolved in a ten-day period that December after it finally reached the press on December 1. Having abdicated on Deceember 10 in favor of his brother Albert, who became George VI, he left the country on December 12, and everything was over, long live the King. But as I noted the other day, the Andrew-Epstein scandal first reached the press in 2011, 15 years ago. It seems pretty clear that the royal family, the government, and the family's own advisers never anticipated how the matter would fester. In fact, in recent days in the UK (and Norway as well), having largely blown over in ...

More or less buried in yesterday's headlines: BREAKING: US played role in death of top Mexican cartel head: Mexican dept of defense White House Now Confirms, U.S. Provided Intelligence Support for Mexico's Jalisco Cartel Strike Now this morning: Trump quietly got Mexico to hand over 100 cartel leaders — including El Mencho’s brother — before Jalisco raid In other words, not only did the US provide intelligence to the Mexican army to catch El Mencho, it somehow transplanted the backbone into President Sheinbaum to get her to order it done. This goes a step or two beyond Woodrow Wilson's "I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men" or even his Mexican Punitive Expedition of 1916. Trump is telling Latin Americans to fix it or else . Though initially hesitant to cooperate with American forces and crack down on the cartels, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has adopted a tougher stance towards the crimin...

A column by Miranda Devine in the New York Post last week illustrates the continuing misunderstanding of AI promoted in the media. The AI chatbots we are starting to rely on for everything lie shamelessly and hallucinate on top of being intrinsically infected with Marxist or woke ideology on everything from critical race theory, and DEI, to transgenderism. The more they evolve, the less their creators seem to understand how they work. As I've been saying, the best analogy for AI is a talking crow. The crow doesn't understand the words it's speaking. If you ask it, "Where's Walter?" and it replies, "Dunno!" is it telling a lie? Does it actually know where Walter is or not? That's a meaningless question. She attributes "evolution" to AI, which implies that it's some sort of developing life form, but that's incorrect, AI is a machine with an on and off switch. She also suggests AI's creators are losing touch with h...

THE BILL GATES FILES. Over the past day, I have read some of the most insane things I have read in my life. I cannot believe it. Gates said he had "several meetings" with Jeffrey Epstein. The documents show at least 205 dates with meetings or dinners and at least 93 of… — Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) February 21, 2026 Over the past weeks, I've been making the point that by and large, the Epstein files are yesterday's news, but a few people like Rep Thomas Massie keep expecting that there are still big revelations to be made. But let's put even the biggest headlines in perspective. According to Chrome AI, the news about the current Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor first broke 15 years ago: February 2011: The first public report appeared in The Mail on Sunday , featuring an interview with [Virginia] Giuffre and the now-infamous photograph of Andrew with his arm around her waist. While the initial article did not name the prince for legal reasons, the photo made the ...

Via the New York Post : President Trump announced Thursday that he will order top administration officials to identify and release government files related to UFOs and aliens. “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. But some people smell a rat : United States President Donald Trump's announcement of releasing government files on “aliens” and unidentified flying objects (UFO) did not sit well with a Congressman of his own party, who sought to remind that even with this new release, the Epstein files “are not going away”. Thomas Massie, a Rep...

PM Starmer just killed the UK-US "Special Relationship. demoting the UK to the status of unreliable US allies like Turkey. https://t.co/9qRiFVDQ2i — Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) February 19, 2026 There's a dog that isn't barking here, and nobody, at least at Real Clear Politics, seems to have noticed. Just to be sure I wasn't completely out of touch with conventional wisdom, I asked Chrome AI Mode, "Has Russia previously objected to US aggressive moves in Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela? Is there currently a difference?" It replied, Yes, Russia has a long history of objecting to U.S. "aggressive moves"—including sanctions, military threats, and diplomatic pressure—in Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. Traditionally, Moscow has used these nations as strategic partners to counter U.S. global influence. However, there is currently a significant difference in how Russia responds to these moves: while its rhetoric remains sharply critical, its practical...

Elon Musk just identified which jobs go first, and it destroys every assumption about who’s safe. Musk: “AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning. Anything that is digital, which is like just someone at a computer doing something.” Not factory workers. Office workers.… pic.twitter.com/J3MljMlgp9 — Dustin (@r0ck3t23) February 17, 2026 So Elon has passed down his wisdom from on high. The jobs that AI will replace are Analyst, accountant, paralegal, programmer, anyone producing files and documents, automates first because digital work is exactly what AI does natively. But back in June 2022, he sang a different tune : Elon Musk has told Tesla employees to come back into their respective offices at least 40 hours a week or leave the company. Similar emails were sent to SpaceX, according to The New York Times. Musk said in two separate emails that people must show up for at least 40 hours per week in a main Tesla office. “If you don’t show up, we will assume y...

The best point about the fallout from the final tranche of Epstein files was made by Eric Florack at PJ Medioa last week: Backfire: Epstein Files Hitting Everyone Except The Left's Original Target . If anything, one of the documents released by the Justice Department went further to exonerate Trump : CNBC reports Trump personally called the then-Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter “to tell him ‘thank goodness you’ [are] stopping [Epstein], everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Reiter told the FBI in October 2019, according to the FBI document, known as a 302. The document stated whistleblower Trump “was one of the very first people to call” the police when word spread Epstein was under investigation. . . . The outlet notes, “Reiter’s name is redacted from the 302. But the document identifies the interview subject as the person who had been Palm Beach’s police chief at the time of the department’s investigation of Epstein, who was Reiter.” Reiter told the Miami ...