In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

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...