Details from US Attorney's office about arrest of Linda Sun, a former top aide to NY Governor Kathy Hochul, for acting as an undisclosed agent of China and the CCP. Her husband was arrested as well.

Quote:Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Matthew G. Olsen, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, Christie M. Curtis, Acting Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Thomas M. Fattorusso, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced the prosecution.

“As alleged, while appearing to serve the people of New York as Deputy Chief of Staff within the New York State Executive Chamber, the defendant and her husband actually worked to further the interests of the Chinese government and the CCP,” stated United States Attorney Breon Peace.  “The illicit scheme enriched the defendant’s family to the tune of millions of dollars.  Our Office will act decisively to prosecute those who serve as undisclosed agents of a foreign government.”

Mr. Peace expressed his appreciation to the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, the New York State Office of the Inspector General, the New York State Police and the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) for their work on the case.  He also thanked the New York State Executive Chamber for its cooperation with the investigation.

“As alleged in the indictment, Linda Sun, a former New York State government employee, acted as an undisclosed agent of the Chinese government while her husband, Christopher Hu, facilitated the transfer of millions of dollars in kickbacks for personal gain. Sun wielded her position of influence among executives to covertly promote PRC and CCP agendas, directly threatening our country’s national security. The FBI is committed to protect the American people from any threat actors who seek to influence officials at the direction of foreign entities,” stated FBI Acting Assistant Director Curtis.

“Sun is alleged to be an undisclosed agent of the PRC and CCP, using Chinese money and her influence within the state of New York to benefit the Chinese government. Sun and her husband then laundered millions of dollars for the foreign country and used the monetary benefits of this scheme to buy luxury vehicles and million dollars properties here in New York,” Thomas M. Fattorusso, Special Agent in Charge of IRS CI New York.  “It is with the unwavering determination of federal law enforcement to root-out foreign agents and their schemes that Sun and Hu will now face justice for their criminal acts.”

As alleged in the indictment, while working for the New York State government – including in high-ranking posts in the Executive Chamber of the New York State government and in multiple state agencies – Sun also acted as an undisclosed agent of the PRC and the CCP. Acting at the request of PRC government officials and the CCP representatives, Sun engaged in numerous political activities in the interests of the PRC and the CCP, including blocking representatives of the Taiwanese government from having access to high-level New York State officers; changing high-level New York State officers’ messaging regarding issues of importance to the PRC and the CCP; obtaining official New York State proclamations for PRC government representatives without proper authorization; attempting to facilitate a trip to the PRC by a high-level New York State politician; and arranging meetings for visiting delegations from the PRC government with New York State government officials.


Sun also repeatedly violated internal rules and protocols within the New York State government to provide improper benefits to PRC and the CCP representatives, including by providing unauthorized invitation letters from the office of high-level New York State officers that were used to facilitate travel by PRC government officials into the United States for meetings with New York State government officials.  Sun’s unauthorized invitation letters for the PRC government delegation constituted false statements made in connection with immigration documents and induced the foreign citizens into unlawfully entering the United States.

Sun never registered as a foreign agent with the Attorney General, and in fact actively concealed that she took actions at the order, request, or direction of PRC government and the CCP representatives. 

In return for these and other actions, Sun received substantial economic and other benefits from representatives of the PRC government and the CCP, including the facilitation of millions of dollars in transactions for the PRC-based business activities of Hu; travel benefits; tickets to events; promotion of a close family friend’s business; employment for Sun’s cousin in the PRC; and Nanjing-style salted ducks prepared by a PRC government official’s personal chef that were delivered to the residence of Sun’s parents.  Sun and Hu laundered the monetary proceeds of this scheme to purchase, among other items, real estate property in Manhasset, New York currently valued at $4.1 million, a condominium in Honolulu, Hawaii currently valued at $2.1 million, and various luxury automobiles, including a 2024 Ferrari.  Sun never disclosed any benefits she received from representatives of the PRC government and the CCP to the New York State government, as she was required to do as a New York State government employee. 

Hu also laundered unlawful proceeds through bank accounts opened in the name of a close relative but that were actually for Hu’s exclusive use.  To open these accounts, Hu unlawfully used an image of the relative’s driver’s license.

The charges in the indictment are allegations and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s National Security & Cybercrime Section.  Assistant United States Attorneys Alexander A. Solomon and Robert Pollack are in charge of the prosecution, with the assistance of Trial Attorney Scott Claffee from the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section and Litigation Analyst Mary Clare McMahon.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Mantell of the Office’s Asset Recovery Section is handling forfeiture matters.

The Defendants:

LINDA SUN
Age: 41
Manhasset, New York

CHRIS HU
Age: 40
Manhasset, New York

E.D.N.Y. Docket No. 24-CR-346 (BMC)

Quote:In this video I discuss a disturbing trend of social media influencers dying "suddenly and unexpectedly", mostly in their 30s and of heart conditions. I also discuss troubling statistics regarding turbo cancers, heart diseases in young people, along with recent changes in average life expectancy rates. 00:00 RIP influencers 01:45 Strange pattern 02:10 Troubling statistics 02:35 Double cancer 03:10 Spike in heart diseases 03:45 Life expectancy

The fix is in and expect more insanity from the vote and election fixers

https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/jc...6DApJh9TGI

Quote:A California bill that would ban local governments from requiring voter identification in their elections passed the state assembly, and now awaits the governor’s approval or veto.
The measure would ban local governments such as Huntington Beach—where voters recently gave the City Council the go-ahead to impose such a requirement—from enacting voter ID laws and makes clear the state has exclusive jurisdiction when it comes to the voter verification process.
Senate Bill 1174, authored by Sen. Dave Min, passed the Assembly in a 57 to 16 vote on Aug. 27.
“I have repeatedly told the Huntington Beach City Council members pushing this issue that if they were to produce any evidence of widespread voter fraud, I would lead efforts to change California’s voter eligibility rules. They have not produced any such evidence,” the Irvine Democrat said in an Aug. 30 press release following the Assembly vote.
In May the Senate approved the bill 30–8.
Min said his bill would protect against a “patchwork of varying election requirements” throughout the state, blocking all cities from requiring voters to present a government-issued identification to vote. The ban would include charter cities, which have more authority than general-law cities over such things as regulating local police and elections.

[/url]California Bill Blocking Local Voter ID Laws Passes Senate
[url=https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/california-bill-blocking-local-voter-id-laws-passes-senate-5658620?ea_src=author_manual&ea_med=related_stories]
“We cannot have 100 different charter cities making up 100 different sets of voting rules, based on fringe conspiracy theories,” Min said, referring to questions of election integrity in the 2020 presidential election.
In a May 21 Senate floor hearing, Min said SB 1174 would create a statewide standard that prevents cities from enacting their own policies, which he said could disenfranchise voters.
In a recent Assembly Local Government bill analysis, Min argued that voter ID requirements only create barriers for voters but don’t protect against fraud, as voters already must verify their identity when they register.
He said the state already automatically recounts some ballots, does signature verification checks, and allows voters to track their ballots.
“We will not concede to ploys of voter fraud while an overwhelming body of evidence proves our elections are safe, secure, and above board,” he said.
Voters in California are required to show identification only if they didn’t provide a driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number when registering, but the secretary of state also accepts credit or debit cards, student IDs, or an ID from a commercial establishment.
For mail-in ballots, those without proper identification are treated as provisional ballots per existing state law and election officials are supposed to request proof before counting them. In the 2022 statewide general election, 660 ballots were rejected because of identification issues.
During the March 5 primary election, voters in Huntington Beach, a charter city in Orange County, approved a charter amendment to allow voter ID requirements in city elections starting in 2026.
But according to Min, if SB 1174 is signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the bill would nullify the city’s Measure A before it takes effect.
Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates told The Epoch Times in a recent interview that Min’s bill is “pure political symbolism” in response to the city’s recently passed measure.
He said as a charter city, under Article XI, Section 5 (b) of the California Constitution, Huntington Beach has a right to have voter ID, and the state will lose any legal challenges it brings.
“The state is running headlong into another legal clash, which it will lose miserably. Huntington Beach has it right, the state has it completely wrong. And all Californians want election integrity. It’s common sense,” he said in a text message to The Epoch Times.
According to Huntington Beach Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark, residents have said they would feel more secure if IDs are checked at in-person polling stations.
“We put it out there on the ballot, they said we want this and the state is doing everything within their power to stop us from honoring what the voters have been asking us for,” she told The Epoch Times in a May interview when Min’s bill first cleared the Senate.
California is one of 15 states that doesn’t ask for photo ID at the ballot box, according to lawmakers.
Newsom has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the bill.
Travis Gillmore contributed to this report.

Scientists venture into the virtually unknown interior of Antarctica to explore a lake buried 3,600 feet beneath. It gets interesting from around the 38:00 mark.

Quote:NASA’S “DART” MISSION, ASTEROIDS, AND KINETIC IMPACT ...

August 28, 2024 / Joseph P. Farrell

You might recall that we began this week with a blog on Monday about the Chinese plans for a lunar catapult "cargo launcher", which, as I pointed out, was really a weapons technology that can be used for other "more peaceful" purposes. The principle which I articulated in the blog is worth repeating here, because it forms the core of much of what I've written on this and similar topics: in such cases, one is not dealing with a peaceful technology which can be weaponized, but rather, with a weapon which under certain circumstances be repurposed for peaceful uses. This is important, because in my opinion this is the principle under which space will be (and probably already has been) weaponized. With that in mind, this article was shared by J.Q., and we are particularly grateful that he spotted it and took the time to share it:

NASA’s asteroid-smashing mission has permanently knocked a moon off its orbit

This is a particularly intriguing article is one ponders it from the standpoint of the above principle as an interpretative template. Consider what the article states:

Quote:Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid last year? Well, the aftermath of that cosmic collision just got a whole lot more interesting.

In a groundbreaking study published in the Planetary Science Journal, scientists have uncovered some unexpected results from NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. It turns out that when DART slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in 2022, it didn’t just leave a dent – it completely reshaped the celestial body and potentially set it on a chaotic new path.

First, a quick refresher: DART was NASA’s test run for planetary defense. The idea was to see if we could change the course of an asteroid by hitting it with a spacecraft – kind of like a game of cosmic billiards. The target was Dimorphos, a small asteroid moon orbiting a larger asteroid called Didymos.

Now, here’s where things get interesting. According to Derek Richardson, a professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland and a lead researcher on the DART mission, the impact did more than just nudge Dimorphos off course. It dramatically altered its shape.

One notes that the article casts the whole NASA DART mission in the context of "planetary defense", and that means that kinetic impact itself is, primarily, a weapons technology. But what is intriguing to contemplate in this respect is that the DART mission is implying the emergence of something new: a "celestial impact mechanics" which will be based on the composition and make-up of a target object and how it responds to impacts in specific circumstances (vector of impact, velocity, shape of impacting object and so on), and how all this might influence special types of systems that are tidally locked, and so on.  In short, it is no longer feasible to imagine a kinetic impact simply destroying or nudging a target "off course". One might also be able to envision such a science as being the birth of a new kind of celestial materials and systems engineering.

In a sense, all the above amounts to the beginnings, perhaps, of the "second chapter" of ballistics. Just as the nineteenth century - with the improvements of forging technologies, materials and alloy engineering, chemistry, and so on - ushered in the whole field of ballistics and the enormous improvements in artillery weapons, projectiles, aerodynamics, propulsion powders and so on - that scientific development was quickly brought to a high pitch of development. The technologies and therewith the physics have been endlessly tweaked from then until now, but that is the point: the basic principles were quickly established, everything else was tweaking.

What NASA's DART mission seems to have done, in other words, is to suggest that we're on the verge of a similar period in "celestial ballistics," if I may so put it. The questions to be answered - at least from this "ballistics standpoint" - are intriguing, and the article has already indicated some of these. How many of these will be made public in the coming years remains to be seen, but for now rest assured that as the article avers, more missions are being planned, and the phenomenon is going to be studies closely, for in tidally locked systems, it's best to have a thorough understanding of the effects of kinetic bombardment before one actually begins the kinetic bombardment.

I wonder how many times something beneficial has been demonized along with singing the praises of stuff that is really bad for you ? Who you gonna trust ?
https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/75...qR3rKKOawt

Quote:Could something as common as table salt be the key to advancing cancer treatment?
Two new studies, published on Aug. 28 in Nature Immunology, find that increased salt levels can significantly enhance immune cells’ cancer-killing abilities.
One of the two studies also showed that mice who consumed a high-salt diet also had reduced tumor sizes as a result.

“We were very surprised to see that salt instead improved their vigor, metabolism, and killing function and that this also reduced tumor growth in [the] mouse model,” Dr. Christina Zielinski, lead author of one of the studies, told The Epoch Times in an email.
“Salt turned out to be a surprisingly simple [but] overlooked factor” in boosting cancer-killing cells’ effectiveness, Zielinski, who is also the Chair of Infection Immunology at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, added.
While research suggests a salt-based approach could become a valuable tool for enhancing cancer treatments, the researchers said in a press statement that they don’t recommend eating more salt in humans to activate the immune response against cancer.
Salt Enhances Killer T Cells
Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology–Hans Knöll Institute discovered that sodium, a component of table salt, can significantly boost T cell activity. T cells are a type of immune cell that fights cancer.

Killer T cells, specifically CD8+ T cells, are essential for identifying and destroying cancer cells. They recognize cancer cells by their cancer proteins and release toxic substances to kill them directly.
The study led by Zielinski showed that human breast cancer tumors have higher levels of sodium compared to healthy tissue, and adding salt helped T cells fight cancer, leading to better survival rates for patients.
T cells treated with salt were also added to tumors in cell cultures and in mice. Researchers found that salt helps T cells use sugar and amino acids better, resulting in a better ability to eliminate tumor cells.
“We were able to show that sodium enhances the immune response of CD8+ T cells,” said Chang-Feng Chu, a co-author of the study in a press release.
Further experiments showed that “pancreatic tumors shrank in the mice after we injected them with T cells pre-treated with salt,” said Chu. The salt improved T cells’ metabolism and energy levels by activating a special pump on the T cells.
“This pump enhances calcium entry into the cells, setting off signals that boost CD8+ T cell activation,” added Zielinski.
High Salt Diet Reduced Tumors in Mice
A separate study from IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy, led by Enrico Lugli, found that adding salt to cell cultures can awaken T cells, increasing their longevity and anti-tumor action.
Mice fed a high-salt diet also had reduced tumor growths due to improved T-cell activity, the researchers found.
Lugli stated in a press release that adding salt helps prevent cells from becoming exhausted too quickly. It also improves T cells’ metabolism and energy, making them more effective against cancer.
The researchers found that adding salt to T cells caused a similar effect as exposing the cells to immunotherapy drugs that enhanced their activity.
Study co-author, oncologist, and researcher Agnese Losurdo, said in the press release that a higher sodium level in the blood is associated with a better response to cancer immunotherapy.
However, the authors said that a high-salt diet “is not readily translatable to humans because of the consequences it could have on the cardiovascular system.”
They suggested that instead, T-cells can be exposed to high levels of salt for a short period of time before being transplanted into patients as a form of cancer therapy.
“Our results demonstrate that sodium chloride significantly impacts the functionality of CD8 T lymphocytes, crucial cells in the anti-tumor response,” Lugli said.
According to the team, while these findings are promising, they need to be confirmed in clinical settings.
Caution is Key
These findings add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that salt boosts the body’s immune response against cancer cells. A 2019 study from Belgium showed that a high salt diet in mice slowed tumor growth, compared to those that were not on a high salt diet.
However, caution is essential. Despite these promising results, Lugli stated that simply increasing dietary salt intake won’t have the same effects and could be harmful.
A recent study from earlier this year found that people who regularly added salt to food had a 41 percent higher risk for gastric cancer compared to those who rarely or never added salt. Research also shows that excessive salt intake can lead to cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, osteoporosis, and stomach cancer.
Lugli added that the benefits observed in the studies are about manipulating salt concentrations outside the body to boost immune cell activity. Zielinski agrees, adding that the focus is on exposing immune cells to higher salt concentrations in a controlled environment before injecting them into patients.
Both research teams are now exploring how these findings could be translated into clinical settings to advance immunotherapy.

The title says international Child trafficking but which is true but the video is more USA focused . Epstein is discussed along with our lack of a justice system when it come to certain topics. Yep a long video so listen to the first 15 minutes and see if you are interested.

Quote: 0:01
I don't know about you guys but I always find it very interesting on how
0:06
mainstream media will just completely 100%
0:11
disregard certain news stories it's almost like they're controlled like somebody's telling them exactly what
0:19
they can cover what they can't cover how to cover it and what their opinion should
0:24
be now on the contrary this show is rapidly Bec known
0:30
as a beacon of Truth and I wear that as a badge of honor so thank you in our
0:37
next episode we're covering one of the subjects that mainstream just
0:45
refuses to cover but it's something everybody wants to know about so we are diving in to the mysterious
0:53
life of Jeffrey Epstein that's right going into his backstory people that
1:00
we're involved as much as we possibly can and we brought in the Resident expert to do
1:06
it I have never seen this many facts on the subject all
1:14
compiled into one piece of content like what we've just
1:19
made ladies and gentlemen if you get anything from this show please head over
1:25
to Apple podcast head over to Spotify leave us a review tell us how we're doing like comment and subscribe to the
1:33
YouTube channel please like comment and subscribe to the YouTube channel we need
1:39
it we just hit 2 million followers or subscribers excuse me thank you it is an
1:46
honor to be able to do this and bring these stories to you guys and one last thing I know a lot of you know this
1:53
there is a link in the description with thousands of raw cut reels take them
1:59
download them spread them everywhere you can monetize them make money all we ask
2:06
is that you tag the show ladies and gentlemen without further Ado please
2:12
welcome investigative journalist Nick Bryant to the Shawn Ryan Show love you
2:19
all enjoy the [Music]
2:25
show Nick Bryant welcome to the show well thanks for having Sean appreciate it it's an honor to have you here it's a
2:33
honor to be on your show so we I guess I should say we I have been fascinated
2:40
with the Jeffrey Epstein topic ever since it kind of came to light and um I've been looking for somebody that
2:46
really knows the ins and outs and all the little details of what was going on in there took a it took a little bit for
2:54
us to find somebody but you are the perfect fit and um I just I cannot wait
2:59
wait to dive in and see what kind of information you've uncovered
3:04
unfortunately it's the government that's with abstein we have the government aiding betting child trafficking which
3:11
is ultimately very sorted but uh but it's something and and it goes against
3:17
our grain the values of Americans it's it's an athma to our values but it's
3:22
something that we have to straighten out um as a society to make sure that this doesn't happen again
3:30
yeah the uh the US government seems to be at the center of a lot of issues today yes but uh I want to give you a
3:37
quick intro here so Nick Bryant you're an advocate and published writer focused
3:42
on topics such as the plight of disadvantaged children in the US you spent seven years investigating Coast to
3:49
Coast child trafficking networks author of the Franklin Scandal which we'll get
3:55
into a little bit an investigator of the Epstein Network and published Epstein's
4:02
little black book that uh we all hear all about and
4:08
um what so before we kind of really get going I'm just curious what got you
4:13
started in in the trafficking genre bringing awareness to
4:19
to that what happened i' uh I'd written a lot about children's issues that's a a
4:25
topic that's near and dear to my heart is children's issues uh mostly lower
4:31
socioeconomic children and the travails and I ultimately co-authored a book called America's children Triumph for
4:37
tragedy um that looked at a lot of the shortcomings that are our our country
4:43
pays great lip service to children as its most precious resource but as I showed in America's children trium for
4:49
tragedy um the resources aren't allocated to for children that the way
4:55
that they should be and uh so I that's an issue that's very very very close to
5:00
my heart and I was and I'm I was a
5:05
writer and journalist in Minnesota for a number of years and then I ultimately moved to New York City and um I started
5:12
writing for magazines there and um and I was pitching an editor at Rolling Stone
5:19
and um I said well you know what do you want me to write an article about and he goes pit me dark stories and you know I
5:29
I didn't had no idea what how I said you know I kind of threw my arms up in there I said Nazis satanists you know I mean
5:38
how dark you want to get and uh and I'd written some dark stories before that's
5:44
maybe why he thought I'd specialized in darkness so um so he and you can kind of
5:51
tell editors their eyes you know there's a little Sparkle when you when you when you hit something that they and and when
Rolling Stone editor’s story request
5:58
I said Satan Satanism and he goes satanists and um I I could see that
6:03
little glint in his eye so um I wasn't really well versed in the subject but I
6:10
started looking into the ult fraternities and the the
6:16
darker ult fraternities and um and then I I talked to various satanists very
6:23
stripes and um I found them to be kind of an unsavory group um but my job was
6:30
to write an article and I kind of had a simple plan um I was going to cultivate
6:36
a relationship with some of these people and then
6:41
ultimately attend a dark Mass write a book about it or black mass and and then write an article about it and um and
6:48
then I came across this us customers report when you're a writer and a lot of
6:54
writers will talk about this when you're a writer you're although you're looking at a certain subject you're always
7:01
serving the net for stuff that's tangental to it or or or that's related
7:06
to it and I came across this US Customs report about a cult called the finders
7:12
um they had a couple of warehouses in Washington DC and two finders had been
7:17
busted in talahasse Florida with six children and the six children were like regam muffins and some concerned
7:24
citizens called the Talahassee police department and then the Talahassee Police Department went to that Park and
7:31
saw the kids and saw the two finders and
7:36
they arrested the finders and put the kids in child protective uh services and
7:43
what happened there was and and then these two finders were charged with multiple counts of child abuse and the
7:48
US Customs got involved because there was uh child pornography and um and the
7:55
DC police the finders had warehouses in DC and the D DC police had been interested in the finders for quite some
8:02
time are the finders the folks involved in the Frank Franklin Scandal no no it's
8:07
it was kind of my segue into the into the Franklin Scandal so with the finders
8:12
the DC police and the US Customs executed a search warrant on the warehouses of the finders and they
8:20
found really very incriminating stuff and the kids were being held in
8:26
Tallahassee and actually a doctor had said that two of the kids have been sexually abused so what happened was I
8:35
I've got the US customer report and the US customer report is so mindboggling that I put the entire US Customs report
8:41
in the back of the Franklin Scandal so what happens is that investigation is
8:46
going Full Throttle you've got the talahasse police department involved you've got US Customs involved you've
8:51
got uh DC police involved and then you had the FBI involved and then all of a sudden and and it said this on the
8:58
report report that the investigation of the finers to become a quote unquote CIA internal matter and there'll be no more
9:05
investigation so I read that document and I was just stunned I was thinking
9:11
this does not match the world that I live in and that opened my mind up to
9:18
looking for other scenarios that might be like that where there might be trafficking children and then
9:25
intelligence was involved and then that led me to the Frank Scandal um it was it
9:32
was on the internet there was a lot of
9:37
uh talk about a lot of postings about this pedophile Network in Omaha Nebraska
9:44
and this former state senator his name was John de Camp he had written a book about it and I read the book I didn't
9:51
the book um I didn't think was really well done I
9:56
mean it wasn't it wasn't like a regular journalist but actually um Yorkshire television in the UK had
10:01
made a documentary about it and that documentary had been quashed so and and you could get the
10:09
documentary on the internet so I got the documentary and you know I had a bunch
10:16
of my friends come to my apartment and I like gave showings of it and I say am I losing my mind or is you know does this
10:23
look ominous to you and um they all said you know this is very ominous so I went to OHA I knew that something had
10:30
happened in Omaha Nebraska but I wasn't sure exactly what had happened I thought that there had been some kids molested
10:37
in Omaha but the internet was talking about kids being flown from coast to
10:42
coast intelligence involved um boy toown students which boy toown is probably the
10:47
most famous orphan Edge in in the world talked about all these things and I was
10:53
I was skeptical I mean I really tried to keep my mind open but I was skeptical but when I got
10:59
there um I started to talk to people well let's we'll get into that in just a
11:07
second sure I wanted um I want to ask why
11:12
is mean it's it's a fairly obvious question I guess it should be near and
11:18
dear to everybody's heart but what is it specifically
11:23
that Drew you to Bringing exposure to child trafficking and so and sex
11:29
exploitation and all of that well because with the Franklin Scandal and
11:35
also with the Epstein Scandal you've got child trafficking that's being covered up and as I I came
11:44
across the Franklin Scandal 21 years ago and as I've dug deeper and deeper into
11:51
this I have I've been embraced by anti-trafficking organizations and I've
11:56
spoken at anti-trafficking conferences and I've met a lot of people that have been trafficked and no one has paid for
12:02
it yeah and that's just something there there has to there has to be Justice the
12:09
government cannot be covering up child trafficking on any level local state
12:15
federal no one should be covering up child trafficking you know you had mentioned something earlier I can't
12:21
remember your exact words but you were saying that basically I think in essence you're
12:26
saying that the government doesn't take this seriously and the the allotted funding and and and the focus on
12:36
trafficking is it's almost not even there I mean I I
12:43
went to a a fundraiser for one of those organizations recently and there was a
12:49
gentleman that spoke he was the head of Homeland Securities division in this and
12:55
he said there are only 8,000 agents only 8,000 agents out there that are
13:04
combating sex trafficking and sex exploitation for children meanwhile it's
13:11
a $150 billion a year business that we know about there are
13:19
366 million videos out there of children being sexually exploited that we know
13:26
about and there's only 8,000 and I'm not talking about 8,000 in the
13:31
United States 8,000 in the entire world
13:36
are working on this stuff 8,000 in the entire
13:41
world that shows you right there that this is not a priority for any
13:48
government any agency I mean it's ridiculous which
13:53
makes me think they're all in on it well there's a lot of child
13:59
trafficking that has been covered up I mean we know of child trafficking that's been covered up in the United States we
14:04
know of child trafficking a huge I'm talking huge networks that have been covered up in the UK that have been
14:09
covered up in Belgium that have been covered up in Spain that have been covered up in Argentina I'm I mean that
14:15
have been covered up in Mexico there's a lot of child trafficking networks that have been
14:21
covered up and we need and we see this Epstein is right in our face I mean we
14:27
know that Epstein was trafficking all kinds of girls to numerous perpetrators
14:34
and only one person has been indicted for those crimes and that's glan Maxwell when we know that there's scores of
14:40
people that were involved in those crimes so we our government has to have the
14:46
will to go after traffickers and child pornography and our government just
14:52
doesn't show the will now but it's going to be up to the American people ultimately um the American people have
14:58
to put put their foot down and say no more did you know that one in five
15:05
Americans have learn a new language on their bucket list it's true if that's you check it off your bucket list this
15:12
year because with Babble you can start speaking a new language foreign language
15:18
in about 3 weeks why Babble because it works instead of paying hundreds of
15:24
dollars for a private tutor or fooling yourself with language apps that are a little more than games babbles quick
15:31
10-minute lessons are designed by over 150 language experts to help you start
15:37
speaking a new language just like I said in as little as 3 weeks here's a special
15:44
limited time deal for our listeners to get you started right now get 55% off
15:49
your Babel subscription but only for our listeners at babel.com
15:55
SRS with over 10 million Subs subscription sold Babel is real language
16:01
learning for real conversations get 55% off babel.com
16:07
SRS that's spelled b a bb.com SRS rules and restrictions apply
16:16
visit babel.com for terms and
16:21
details I don't talk much about money or the economy let's face it ignoring it
16:27
doesn't help either because believe the government screws up all the time I think they let down veterans ship jobs
16:32
overseas they help their rich friends make even more money it is insane do you really think they care about helping us
16:39
out with our money I don't think so that's one of the reasons why a lot of folks are stepping away from the
16:44
government run systems and starting to diversify their money into real assets like gold and silver if you're concerned
16:50
about your finances in the future of your finances like I am there's a damn good play you can make check out gold Co
16:58
gold Co will hook you up with a free 2023 gold Ira kit this kit will teach you how to help Safeguard your savings
17:04
with real gold and silver at the very least it makes sense to get educated about your options so get your free kit
17:11
at Gold code.com ran or call 855 936
17:16
Gold Plus for qualified orders they'll send you up to $110,000 in free silver
17:21
as a bonus while supplies last quit waiting around for politicians to rescue your finances help take control and
17:28
handle your business yourself so go ahead and check out gold code.com raner
17:33
call
17:59
because there's been other networks that have been covered up and this is something that the government should not
18:04
be involved in is covering up child trafficking that which is essentially Aid and ab betting child trafficking so
18:11
we're at a point now where we have to put our foot down and say that's it no more we we need those Este steam
18:18
perpetrators indicted we need those epsteam procurers indicted and we're not
18:23
going to settle for anything less that's what we need let's talk a little bit about
18:29
the Franklin Scandal before we get into Epstein cuz that was your first big book
18:35
um Franklin Scandal book it's about an alleged child prostitution ring out of
18:41
Omaha Nebraska that took place in around 1988 um managed by Lawrence King if I'm
18:49
correct there were there were two primary pimps Lawrence king of Omaha Nebraska and Craig Spence of Washington
18:56
DC the victim's age from R the victim the victim's ages range from 18 or I'm
19:03
sorry 8 years old to 14 years old and let's just let's just start there well
19:11
with the Franklin Scandal I went to Omaha I knew that something had gone
19:16
down with the Franklin Scandal um but there was there was all kinds of Internet speculation and I didn't know
19:22
how much of that was Apocrypha and how much of it wasn't so when I went to
19:27
Omaha the first time and I went there a number of times um but when I went to
19:32
Omaha the first time I knew that something had going on but I thought it was a local pedophile ring not like a a
19:39
nationwide Network um I didn't think it was involved in blackmail um I thought that local law enforcement had probably
19:46
covered it up and not federal law enforcement so when I got to Omaha the first time I
Death threats
19:53
realized that it was much bigger and uglier than I ever could have imagined
19:59
and I took some heat I I had like a death threat and um and I was followed
20:06
from who um a woman it was funny I was staying with a friend of mine I I I told
20:12
my friend you know I'm going to look into this thing and I'd known him for many years since I was a teenager and um
20:18
I said I'm going to look into this thing and we hadn't hung out in a while so I'm going to look into this thing and you
20:24
know see what's what's happening and then um you know then we'll hang out and go do some stuff and um so I told him I
20:32
went the first night I was there we were having dinner I told him about what I was looking into do you know and he he looked at me like you know are you sure
20:40
and I said well yeah I'm I'm going to check this out so I was staying at his
20:45
place when a woman came to the door and said uh and and and you know he was
20:53
there so and she said you're in a great deal of danger and they're going to kill
20:58
you and and she was a freaky looking woman and uh now my buddy had started
21:05
I'd been there for about a week and my buddy had started to come around with some of the stuff that I was reporting back to him but then that woman coming
21:12
to his door um and dispensing that um
21:17
well you know it made both of us uh we didn't sleep very easily that
21:23
night but here's the thing by that time I'd come to the conclusion this was a
21:29
huge Network it had been in operation for at least a decade and multiple
21:35
children were destroyed and I don't have a family I'm not married I don't have children I can
21:42
take risks that that other people wouldn't be comfortable taking risks and I just said you know this is too evil
21:49
um and it was covered up by both federal and state law enforcement and
21:55
authorities and and I I just said this what was done here was just too evil I'm
22:01
not going to quit um you know
22:06
if if I get killed I get killed I mean but I'm I'm not going to quit doing this
22:11
I'm I'm going to expose this to the best of my ability and that started my Odyssey did
22:18
you did this go on the harassment from whoever it was continue There was
22:25
harassment I think a lot of harassment was through at me the first time I was there and they thought well you know
22:31
he's probably a journalist from New York and you know we'll never see him again but there was
22:39
harassment subsequently um but nothing like it was initially I mean that was
22:45
the only time I had like an over death thread was was the first time I was there but I was so committed to doing it
22:53
at that point that whatever whatever difficulties I was going to have um I I
23:00
was I was willing to endure them to get this story out um because as I said this
23:07
network that I wrote about in the Franklin scale it had been in operation for about 10 years and it had D
23:14
destroyed scores of children and um and it had been covered up by federal and
23:21
state law enforcement and I just said this cannot this cannot stand I mean
23:27
something something has to be done about this and I'm going to write a book about it and hopefully I can get it
23:34
published and I was represented by a relatively big literary agent at that
23:39
point and I gave them the book proposal and then within two weeks I was no
23:45
longer a client of theirs and then um and then um I knew James Fitzgerald he
23:53
was an agent he's since passed away and then and he ran a good agency I mean he
23:59
had a he had published a number of popular books or facilitated the publishing a number of popular books and
24:06
he couldn't sell it I mean I'd met with some Publishers and they were just
24:11
concerned about liel and um finally there was a small publisher outside of
24:18
Eugene Oregon that was willing to and by that time there were um and I don't know
24:25
if your uh listeners and viewers are familiar with the mations of a grand jury but with a grand jury grand juries
24:32
are notorious for covering stuff up because a special prosecutor is show is
24:37
picked to prosecute a grand jury and Grand jurors are just citizens that have shown up for jury duty that have been
24:44
funneled to a grand jury so and and the special prosecutor calls the witnesses and also
24:51
picks the evidence that's shown to the Grand jurs and it's not adversarial it's just one-sided and and and then
24:58
everything is sealed and it's against the law to talk about it so um there was a New York judge that said uh Supreme
25:05
Court judge that said special Pro special prosecutors have so much power over Grand jurors that they could get
25:11
them to indict a ham sandwich and so with this case the Franklin case I
25:17
managed to get the sealed grand jury and testimony one of the grand juries and I bring the view the reader right into
25:24
that grand jury and and I show how corrupt it is and cuz that grand jury declared that all these kids getting
25:32
abused was a carefully crafted hoax but it didn't even name who the hoaxers were it it kind of pinned like the hoax on a
25:39
bunch of drug adult kids um which uh was
25:44
I mean and then a Federal grand jury said the same thing that was that was equally corrupt and and there again you
25:52
just need one guy one special prosecutor who's corrupt and then he can get the
25:57
grand jurors to do whatever they want them to do so these two grand juries had said that there was no child abuse and
26:03
then but after I got the sealed testimony and Exhibits of one of those grand juries I I mean at that point I
26:10
was really able to write the book um because it the exhibits gave me a lot of information and then I was able to show
26:17
just exactly how one of the grand jurries had been co-opted Wow Let's talk about a little
26:23
bit about what was going on there so there uh there was alleged abuse it was
26:29
widespread series of crimes including devil worship cannibalism drug trafficking and ca's arm deals okay so
26:37
that comes from the Wikipedia page okay and the Wikipedia page
26:43
is farle um I've if if you go on my website
26:50
I go to the W I've got a link to the Wikipedia talk page cuz you've got like the Wikipedia page and then you've got
26:56
like the talk section and that uh Wikipedia page has been taken over by people that want to make
27:04
this nonsensical okay and there's pages and pages and pages of
27:11
debate and actually I called Jimmy Wales who started uh Wikipedia I'm a pretty
27:17
good investigator I was able to get his private cell phone number and um I called him up and I said you know you're
27:24
my last hope for making this w IIA page read realistically and um and he was
27:32
completely unwilling to help me um I'm actually I'm going to release that conversation um on my website in the in
27:39
the relatively near future what did he say why would he why wouldn't he um he said that well I'm going to look into it
27:45
send me some emails and uh so I sent him some emails and um and then he said that
27:52
he didn't get them I texted him I just I don't understand why there are so many
27:57
people in powerful positions that protect pedophiles why would you not want to
28:03
protect the children why does everybody in a power I guess I shouldn't say
28:09
everybody but it it seems to me the more I dive into this
28:14
subject the more I see the the more Elite status you have the more compliant
28:22
you are with pedophiles and sex trafficking and sex
28:27
exploitation is it what is it well I think people um reach a certain Plateau socioeconomic plateau
28:36
and they're afraid of losing what they have and they're afraid of not getting
28:42
what they want I mean I I think it's that simple and when I saw like some of the
28:51
so you're just saying that it's GRE money if you're not into pedophilia it's
28:57
fear the the fear that you I mean you place more important you have more value
29:03
on money than you do on little kids absolutely and your status and your house payments and your car payments and
Blackmail
29:10
your kids college there were some people that covered this up that were definitely compromised pedophiles and
29:16
that that's one thing about our political system is that Americans and that's why there's so much blowback on
29:24
that Wikipedia page is the people that are in control of the Wikipedia page on
29:30
the Franklin Scandal um they want to make sure that it doesn't come out that
29:36
the government has covered up that pedophile Network and they want to make
29:42
sure that blackmail because blackmail plays an integral role and I've been at
29:47
this for 21 years and Epstein had cameras in all of his homes I mean
29:52
Epstein was definitely a blackmail artist and the government wants to make sure sure that that is not does not come
30:00
out um that a huge part of our political system is predicated on blackmail and
30:05
especially if that dark malignant corner of the intelligence that is using blackmail
30:12
against our politicians and other people if they were using children I mean that would make some that would make the
30:18
American people erupt so that's why that Wikipedia page is locked down and that's
30:24
why this is important this is um for them dark corner of intelligence this is
30:30
Omaha Beach um you know they're not going to give an inch because this is
30:36
the last thing that they want out and it's amazing how the Epstein Scandal has been
30:41
able has been covered up if you look at all the victims and all the perpetrators
30:48
and all the procurers involved in the Epstein Network I mean we're talking score and and and the people that
30:54
facilitated it like the pilots and like Epstein's house managers and and the
31:01
cooks and everybody else we're talking scores and scores of people and no one's
31:08
been indicted except for glain Maxwell um and and that really shows that our
31:14
government unfortunately wants to stop it there our government does not I mean although
31:21
Americans do I think are are coming around to the belief that AB was taking part in blackmail or or a lot of them um
31:28
it doesn't make sense why is our government eating and betting child
31:34
trafficking and unless they're protecting some very powerful people and a a political
31:42
process it doesn't make sense yeah I mean that's the only way that it makes sense yeah and I saw that with the
31:47
Franklin Scandal too um that's and actually I think the Franklin Network might have been bigger
31:54
than Epstein's Network how many kids were involved in the Franklin Scandal um it's difficult to know but it was it was
32:03
operational for about 10 years and it was getting kids from like boy toown and
32:09
what's boy toown it's a Catholic orphanage it's probably the most famous orphanage in in the world and it was it
32:17
was getting kids that fell between the cracks I mean people like ebstein and and and then like the uh the Catholic
32:24
church has a long history of being involved in this of stuff yeah you know so that's I mean unfortunately I hate to
32:31
say it I was raised Catholic but you know it's no I guess it's it doesn't
32:36
come to me as a surprise although probably wouldn't come to me as a surprise if it was any
32:42
other you just have seen I've seen so many you know this Minister this guy
32:48
this priest this you know it's all it's all they've all partaken unfortunately
32:55
the number two guy at uh boy toown Father James Kelly he molested a bunch of kids in Upstate New York and then the
33:03
Catholic church and its Infinite Wisdom moved him to Boy town where he molested a bunch of other kids and then
33:09
eventually they moved him to uh a prison in Las Vegas so because I have come across a
33:17
lot of kids that were molested by Father Kelly or James Kelly at at boy toown and
33:24
I think that he was part of that net work because if the priests um gave the
33:30
kids privileges no one would argue with that so I think that Kelly was a compromised
33:37
pedophile and that he gave King at all
33:42
access to the boy toown kids and then I and then I've got um I've got a paper
33:48
trail between boy toown and Lawrence Z King one of the the primary pimps of the
33:54
of of the Franklin Scandal Network so um there's there's a lot of connections there but I think Father Kelly was and
34:01
then there was another priest there that was uh sent to Argentina you know I mean
34:07
at a certain point sent to Argentina yeah so um but Father James Kelly was uh
34:13
I mean he was a major predator and he prayed on God knows how many boys in
34:20
Upstate New York and and prayed on God knows how many and and with boy toown
34:26
you know these are lower socioeconomic kids from lower socioeconomic backgrounds dysfunctional
34:32
families and at BO toown they're being taken care of you know they're being fed
34:38
well they're they're getting a good education a lot of them want to stay there because it's the safest place
34:44
they've ever been and a predator like Father James Kelly knows that and it just it gives
34:54
him cart launch to to pray on kids and and actually boytown has gone to bat for him because there's been people that
35:00
have tried to litigate against Kelly um and the only reason why boytown hasn't
35:05
paid out substantial settlements is because of the statute of limitations they've hid behind the statute of
35:11
limitations and and they're making millions of dollars in donations
35:16
boy toown how how how did this network work who all was involved so there were
Franklin trafficking network
35:25
two primary pimps uh Lawrence King and Craig Spence
35:31
King King and Spence were in Southeast Asia during Vietnam King was in Thailand with a top
35:39
security clearance I don't know exactly what he was doing but he had a top security clearance and Spence was an ABC
35:47
reporter in Vietnam so I'm surmising
35:53
that both of them now and they both came from workingclass blue hler families um and
36:01
I'm surmising that they both both of them got busted um molesting kids in
36:07
Southeast Asia and that's where they were turned because as soon as they came back to the United States their careers
36:14
just became it was like a Skyrocket um Lawrence C king became the
36:20
uh manager of the Franklin credit union and went from like $117,000 a year to
36:28
making millions I mean a lot of that was it begotten and Craig Spence went from
36:34
uh ABC correspondent in Vietnam to a major power broker in Washington DC as
36:39
soon as he got back and Craig Spence would have these huge parties at his
36:45
place he's he's very much like the Epstein character in the Franklin Scandal um he his house was wired for
36:52
audiovisual blackmail and um what would happen happen at those parties is it would be
36:59
like uh a bunch of power Brokers would be invited um you name I mean it was a
37:05
who's who of Washington DC in the 1980s would go to Craig fen's place and there
37:11
would be a lot of times if if there wasn't just like outright pedophilic
37:17
orgies or orgies I mean it would be like a a cocktail party a Washington DC
37:23
cocktail party and people would be plied with alcohol and um and then maybe at 10
37:29
or 11: something sexually inappropriate would happen or someone would fire up a
37:35
joint or break out a line of coke or or whatever and the people that were you
37:40
know didn't want any part of that would leave but the people that wanted to be part of that would stay and then his
37:48
entire house was weed for audiovisual blackmail so if you stayed you got blackmailed that was
37:55
it and I wrote a second book about I I wrote a book called
38:00
confessions of AD DC Madam um the politics of sex lives and blackmail with Henry Vincent and Henry Vincent used to
38:07
give uh um Craig Spence used to get gay escorts from Henry Vincent he ran a gay
38:13
escort service um and we're talking in the mid1 1980s Craig Spence was spending
38:18
$25,000 a month on gay escorts for for him and his
38:23
buddies and and Spence ran this pedophile Network together and um and they would
38:32
get Henry they Vincent and and Henry was and and actually there's there is some
38:38
comedic elements to this Henry was a mortician he was um he had grown up in
38:45
Southwest West Virginia in a very religious home and and he was gay and he
38:52
had to repress that and um and he ultimately became a funeral director
38:57
mortian and moved to Washington DC for his Mortuary fortuns and then through
39:02
just a weird set of circumstances he he there was a couple
39:08
of game morticians that would hang out at this bar which was kind of like the gay equivalent to Chip andales and Henry
39:16
met one of the dancers and they went out for dinner and the dancer told Henry
39:21
that um that a escort service was up for sale um because the guy was dying of
39:27
AIDS and and Henry said well you know how much can you make and the guy said
39:32
well you know I can make like a thousand uh a night if everything is right and
39:38
then Henry said well how much is the is he selling it for and it was like
39:44
$133,000 so Henry went from and and Henry is a very shy guarded guy who um
39:52
had lived in the closet for all these years and he just it was completely out
39:58
of character for him to do this but he did it and he's was a very brilliant
40:04
marketer um what he did was after he bought it he called all the numbers in
40:10
the DC Yellow Pages under escorts male escorts and most escort agencies are Fly
40:15
by Night and they don't pay their phone bill so Henry would dial one of the
40:21
numbers and if the number was disconnected he would call the phone company and say I will pay the AAR on
40:28
that phone number so he ended up with half the numbers in the Yellow Pages of
40:33
of of escort services he's very brilliant that way with marketing but anyway so and everything was going
40:41
really well for him he was working as a funeral director and he was making a lot of money at this gay escort service and
40:47
then he got a call from Craig Spence that CI asset and um and they and then
40:53
King and Spence would have Henry come to his home and they would pressure Henry
40:58
to get him children and he wouldn't do it he said you know I'm not I'm not going to I I want no part of that and um
41:05
and and this is kind of interesting um and there's a lot of corroboration about blackmail in the Franklin scan not just
41:12
this but um so King and Spence were there and Henry was there and and Henry
41:19
didn't like King at all um and Spence was I mean they're both sociopaths but
41:24
um but Spence started to ask Henry about his life um you know where did you grow
41:30
up and what college did you go to and about his and Henry because Spence was
41:36
so narcissistic he had seismic narcissism Henry thought like he was watching the Red Sea party that you know
41:43
this narcissist was actually taking an interest in him so and Spence started
41:48
asking him about his escort service and how he ran his escort service and um and
41:54
then all of a sudden Spence stood up and EM motioned him and um and Spence went
42:00
into a closet and behind the closet was this uh this compartment and then behind
42:07
the compartment was a room and it was all monitors and Henry was there next to
42:14
Spence and then Spence hit a couple of buttons and then Henry is there on a monitor talking about his escort service
42:23
and Spence basically said to him I blackmail people you're blackmailed so that was how Henry
42:31
got indoctrinated into that but you know to his credit he would not get them children he just wouldn't he wouldn't do
42:38
it and that ultimately I think began Le led to his demise um because the uh
42:44
Department of Justice came after him pretty hard wow wow
42:51
what was there any justice served the there none none whatsoever um that
42:58
Franklin network no one got uh indicted for molesting any children and then
43:04
there was a DC grand jury that covered it all up basically uh Spence had killed
43:10
himself he's like abstein um I I do think now there's people that on the
43:16
internet that speculate that Spence um was murdered I I think Spence was
43:23
told either you kill yourself or will'll kill you you can pick the time and the
43:29
place if you kill yourself um cuz his suicide was pretty bizarre he was in the Boston Ritz Carlton dressed in a tuxedo
43:36
and he overd drove St an antidepressent called n tripoline but anyway so there were all
43:42
these articles about blackmail going down by the Washington times and then the Washington Post was covering up for
43:48
the government saying that there was no blackmail and uh but Henry Vinson who
43:53
the guy was just running a gay escort service and he was indicted on a 46 count Rico indictment he was looking at
44:00
295 years in prison CU what the government was doing was leveraging
44:05
him they said we know what you saw and we know that you could hurt us
44:14
but if you talk you're going to spend 295 years in prison so the government
44:20
made a deal with him if you talk you're going to spend 295 years in prison
44:26
if you keep your mouth shut we'll just send you away for five so he ultimately kept his mouth shut and it's amazing um
44:35
because I needed he was a very important interview for me when I was doing the Franklin Scandal and um and then he
44:42
ultimately decided to write a book with me about it which really gets into the Washington DC side of
44:49
things wow that's um I want to do a whole episode on that
44:56
because I think it's important but I really want to I just there's so much
45:01
going on with the Epstein stuff and it's it's it's it's timely it's right now and
45:07
so I want to concentrate on that for the for the majority of the time here and um I'd like to move into that but I
45:14
mean I'm going to be honest Nick I
45:19
was I'm worried to take the interview I'm I'm not gonna you I mean
45:25
I'm a former seal former CIA guy been all over the world
45:31
doing dangerous and but this I mean
45:37
I mean they they tried to assassinate the judge that was on the Epstein trial correct there was uh there was someone
45:45
who uh killed her husband and and Son yeah he was a he was posed as a UPS D
45:52
yeah and that was covered up pretty quickly we never I I never never really had the time to get to the bottom of
45:57
that um but that's something I'd like um the thing with this is I've written two
46:03
books about it I've been screaming about it from the rooftops for quite some time
46:10
um until Epstein came along no one was taking me seriously but once Epstein came along and once I published that
46:16
black Epstein's black book on the internet people did started to take me seriously um it's something the
46:24
toothpaste is coming out of the tube now um and that's why people are are willing
46:30
to take it on I mean no one has been more vocal
46:36
about Epstein than me and I'm still kicking so I mean and
46:41
that's the thing the government can't kill all of us I mean if the government kills me they have a martyr the last
46:49
thing that they want is a martyr mhm so
46:54
I mean there was a time when I was writing the Franklin Scandal I mean I think that that's when I was at my most
47:01
vulnerable but once the book came out I I felt pretty safe um and then what I
47:09
did is every time I got a document I disseminated it every time I
47:14
got an interview I disseminated it so if something did happen to me um there was
47:21
going to be a record of what I was doing did you did you feel like that with the upen stuff with the Epstein stuff you
47:27
know I'd been like I was kind of an Old Pro at it by the time I came across Epstein um when I got his black book you
47:36
know I knew that that was a little dicey um for sure um but then here's the thing
47:44
I went to the mainstream media and I tried to get them to publish the black book and no one would do it and then it
47:51
took me 3 years to finally get someone to publish that black book because because our media is so it's either
47:58
compromised or just unbelievably corrupt who did publish it uh Gawker which uh
48:05
and and Gawker was a website that would take on all kinds of crazy stuff and they ultimately got sued into Oblivion
48:11
um by uh Peter teal who's a billionaire founded PayPal and they outed Peter teal
48:18
as as a closed uh gay guy and um and then Peter teal let it be known that
48:24
anybody that litigates against Gawker he was willing to pay them pay their entire litigation and then Gawker ultimately
48:33
released a video of Hulk Hogan having sex with um I I believe a
48:39
friends of a friend of his wife and um but I'm not don't quote me on that but
48:45
ultimately uh Hulk Hogan got a huge multi-million dollar judgment against Gawker that caused him to crumble but
48:53
they were willing you know they did stuff like that but they were also willing to take stories from guys like
48:58
me where where no one else would touch it and once we published that black book
49:05
I mean it was huge I mean it got tens of thousands of hits really quickly all bet
49:11
and then I was able to write some articles about it and um and no one else in the mainstream media would have given
49:17
me that opportunity I saw you had a decent article on Vanity Fair it seemed like yeah about me yeah but um well
49:24
before we dive too deep into the epine stuff let's take a quick break and uh when we come back we'll just dig in
49:32
sounds good those of you that have been around SRS for a while know that we take mental
49:39
health very seriously here so seriously that in almost every episode you'll find
49:45
a segment where we discuss how to improve your mental health and part of
49:50
improving your mental health is keeping your mind sharp and part of keeping your mind Sharp
49:56
is giving it the fuel that it needs to balance energy Focus cognition
50:03
and just regenerating your brain that triggered me to go on a journey to find the supplement that supports brain
50:09
health with the cleanest of ingredients on the planet and I found it I was
50:15
actually going to start my own company and do this but I found lared superfoods I've partnered with them now I'm a
50:22
partial owner and I really believe in these products here's my favorite product performance
50:30
mushrooms by lared superfoods brain fuel you put this in your coffee you can put it in your tea
50:36
you can drink it raw you can mix it with their greens you can do all kinds of stuff bottom line is this is the best
50:42
possible supplement with the cleanest ingredients all sourced in the United
50:48
States that supports brain health and here's two other products that I'm a fan
50:53
of lard super Foods creamer guess what contains functional mushroom extracts
51:00
put this in your tea or coffee and most of you know I'm not a caffeine or coffee drinker but a lot of you are and they
51:08
just happen to have layered superfoods coffee organic perian coffee with you
51:14
guessed it functional mushrooms that support and regenerate your brain go to
51:20
lard superfoods.com use the promo code SRS you'll get 20% off guys this is the
51:27
real deal these are the finest of ingredients check it out lared superfoods.com promo code SRS 20%
51:54
off
52:04
all right Nick we're back from the break we're going to dive into everything that you can tell us
52:09
about Jeffrey Epstein just a couple of quick things so you've been you've been following Epstein since 2012 2011 2012
52:18
yeah Epstein was arrested on July 6th 2019 ironically today's the day of the
52:24
interview was July 6th that's weird coincidence uh he died August 10th 2019
52:31
roughly 1 month later and Epstein pleaded guilty to
52:36
soliciting underage girls for sex in 2008 he served only 13 months in a
52:44
County Jail yeah just just 13 months and um and one one count the um again this was a a a grand
52:53
jury and the prosecutor of that gr area was Barry kersner and the Palm Beach
52:59
Police Department had the statements of five miners who had been molested by abstein but they also knew and and then
53:06
there were a number of corroborating statements but they knew of 23 underage girls that had been molested by Jeffrey
53:11
Epstein and Barry kersner the Florida attorney only called
53:17
one and and he totally deconstructed her I mean he could have called 25 that's
53:23
and and actually that grand inury didn't even indict him for uh molesting any
53:29
girls um it indicted him on one count of adult pandering and what happened was
53:36
Michael Ryder who is really one of the unsung heroes in the Epstein story he was the chief of the Palm be Police
53:42
Department he completely exploded and uh you know he called this
53:48
the greatest miscarriage of Justice in recent history and he went to the feds
53:54
and because he knew of 23 victims and then he had taken heat too I mean he'd
54:00
taken a lot he'd been harassed and I I think found a dead animal or something
54:06
like that on his uh front doorstep um but he's really a good guy and um the
54:13
first time I was in Florida I I talked to him and uh he looked me up on the internet and he saw that I was um you

Inside The Terrifying Legends Of The Goatman That’s Been Seen In Maryland And Texas For Decades
By Austin Harvey | Edited By Maggie Donahue
Published August 27, 2024
Half-man and half-goat, the mysterious beast known as the Goatman is said to stalk forests and lurk beneath bridges waiting for the next victim in his murderous rampage.
Goatman
Cryptid Wiki
Maryland and Texas each have their own tales of the Goatman — but the legends are very different.

At face value, the Goatman isn’t all that different from other cryptozoological urban legends. A mythical half-man, half-goat, the Goatman’s name has been used to instill fear in locals for decades.

And like many urban legends, the Goatman’s origins are muddy, with multiple variations of the tale, some involving dangerous scientific experiments, others claiming that he was a vengeful goat farmer.

Even the region in which his story originated is up for debate. While the Goatman has supposedly been seen in the woods of Maryland, folk in Alton, Texas seem to have as much claim to the story as their East Coast counterparts. Some argue that there are, in fact, two Goatmen, who share little more than a name.

In either case, the Goatman legend has become a pervasive staple of American mythology — and the legends are frightening enough to make even the most stubborn skeptic look over their shoulder if they find themself alone in the woods at night.

The Goatman Of Prince George’s County, Maryland
While Maryland’s Goatman was allegedly first spotted in 1957, when some people claimed to have seen a giant, hairy monster in Forestville and Upper Marlboro, the Washingtonian reports that one of the most popular legends involving the Goatman began on October 27, 1971 with an article in Maryland’s Prince George’s County News.

In the article, County News writer Karen Hosler mentions a few creatures from the University of Maryland Folklore Archives, including the Goatman and another figure, the Boaman, both of whom are said to haunt the wooded area surrounding Fletchertown Road.



The piece was a fairly in-depth exploration of the folklore of Maryland, without alleging that the Goatman or the Boaman were real.

But two weeks later, a local family’s puppy went missing. And a few days after that, they found the missing puppy near Fletchertown Road. It had been decapitated.

Hosler followed up with a new article, the headline reading, “Residents Fear Goatman Lives: Dog Found Decapitated in Old Bowie.”

Supposedly, her article claimed, a group of teenage girls heard strange noises on the night the puppy went missing — and other locals had reported seeing an “animal-like creature that walks on its hind legs” along Fletchertown Road.

On Nov. 30 that year, the Goatman was introduced to a national audience when The Washington Post published an article on the incident titled, “A Legendary Figure Haunts Remote Pr. George’s Woods.”

R
Eventually, rumors about the Goatman’s origins started making the rounds. One popular story says that a doctor at the United States Department of Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville was conducting experiments, attempting to merge human and animal DNA.

The doctor allegedly tried to merge goat DNA with the DNA of his assistant, a man named William Lottsford, resulting in the creation of the Goatman — who has been on a murderous rampage ever since. Some say he was responsible for the 1962 murders of 14 hikers, whom he allegedly hacked to pieces while letting out unearthly screams.

Maryland folklore expert Mark Opsasnick first became interested in the Goatman legend as a child, having known of the legend growing up and gone on “Goatman hunts” with his friends.

In 1994, while working on a piece for Strange Magazine, Opsasnick managed to get in contact with April Edwards — the owner of the decapitated puppy.

“People came here and called it folklore, and the papers made us out to be ignorant hillbillies who didn’t know any better,” she told him. “But what I saw was real and I know I’m not crazy… Whatever it was, I believed it killed my dog.”



April Edwards isn’t the only person to claim to have encountered the Goatman. Goatman sightings were a common feature of three distinct locations in Prince George’s County: a forest behind the St. Mark the Evangelist Middle School in Hyattsville, beneath the “Cry Baby” Bridge in Bowie, and in College Park.

In each instance, witnesses reported hearing devilish screams. Some claim that they have found bones, knives, saws, and leftover food in these locations.

Others claimed to have actually seen the Goatman near Governor Bridge, more commonly known as “Cry Baby” Bridge. The story goes that if you park beneath the bridge once the sun has set, you can hear the sounds of a baby crying, or possibly a braying goat.

Then, suddenly, the Goatman will be upon you, leaping onto your car, attempting to get inside and attack you or rip you out of your seat. It is said that he targets couples more often, and some people say that he kills pets and breaks into houses, dragging his victims back into the forest.



Still, Opsasnick told the Washingtonian that while he believes the locals he’s talked to about Goatman really did see something, he doesn’t believe Goatman exists.

“I can’t believe in something until I see it with my own eyes,” he said. “Anything is possible in this world… Maybe there is a half-man, half-animal creature out there.”

For its part, the United States Department of Agricultural Research Center has shot down the rumors that Goatman originated there. “We just think it’s stupid,” spokesperson Kim Kaplan told Modern Farmer in 2013.

“Don’t you think he would have retired by now?” she added. “Is his great-grandson a Goatman? Is he collecting Social Security?”

But Maryland is not the only state where locals speak of the Goatman. The other Goatman lives further south, in the town of Alton, Texas — and his story is one of racist intolerance that has haunted the area for almost a century.

The Legend Of Old Alton Bridge In Texas
In the mid-19th century, Alton, Texas was a small town that served as the seat of Denton County. It sat on a high ridge between Pecan Creek and Hickory Creek, but despite being the county seat, no public buildings were ever built.

In fact, according to Legends of America, the only residence in the area belonged to W.C. Baines, whose farm had existed since long before Alton’s new designation. As a result, Baines hosted many public discussions in his yard until November of 1850 when it was decided that the county seat would move to a new location.

This new location kept the name Alton, and within a few years was populated by a small citizenship, a blacksmith, three stores, a school, a saloon, a hotel, two doctors, and a few lawyers. In 1855, the town welcomed the Hickory Creek Baptist Church, which remains there to this day.



Unfortunately, Alton didn’t remain the county seat for long, and by 1859, most of its residents had packed their bags and moved to the new seat, Denton.

If it weren’t for the construction of the Old Alton Bridge in 1884, the town would have likely been nothing more than a footnote in history. However, most people now know the Old Alton Bridge by another name: Goatman’s Bridge.

This Goatman, however, did not live his life as a half-man, half-goat mutant. He was, according to local legend, a perfectly normal Black man named Oscar Washburn who happened to make a living raising goats.

Washburn was actually a fairly successful businessman, and had become so popular among the locals that they started referring to him affectionately as “the Goatman.” Washburn too, it seemed, took a liking to the monicker.

One day, Washburn put up a sign near the Old Alton Bridge that read, “This way to the Goatman.” Unfortunately, this drew the ire of local Ku Klux Klan members who hated to see a Black man be successful.

In August 1938, KKK members got in a car, drove it to the Old Alton Bridge, and turned off their headlights.

From there, they walked to Washburn’s home and dragged the Goatman to the bridge where they tied a noose around his neck and threw him over the edge.



The legend goes that when they peered over the edge to see if Washburn was dead, they saw nothing but rope. Washburn’s body was never seen again. The KKK weren’t done, though — they returned to Washburn’s home and slaughtered his family.

Now, if the tales are to be believed, it is said that anyone who drives across the Goatman’s bridge at night with their headlights off will find him waiting on the other side.

Some say they see only a ghostly figure of a man herding some goats. Others say the Goatman stares them down, a goat head under each of his arms.

People have also reported seeing a half-goat, half-man figure, hearing the sound of hooves on the bridge or inhuman screams and laughter coming from the forest and creek below, or seeing a pair of glowing eyes at the end of the bridge.

It’s hard to say how much of the Texas Goatman’s legend was true — historical records don’t show that an Oscar Washburn ever lived in the area. But the story has certainly been powerful enough to draw people to the Old Alton Bridge to find out for themselves.



https://allthatsinteresting.com/goatman

Attached Files

Thumbnail(s)
   

Some of the dumbest, sickest, treasonous stuff I have heard like forever! I give up on ever thinking anything good and right can come out of the present state department

Quote:The channel has recently added a lot of new subscibers and I feel like a lot of people do not know who I am or where I come from. I want people to know my personal story. I want to feel like this community understands what my intent is with these videos. I do not want to promote war. I want to promote the understanding of war. I feel like the more we know of its horrors and uselessness the more likely we are, hopefully, to avoid it. EDIT: thank you guys for the supportive emails you sent me and the stories you all shared with me everywhere. The kind words have been overwhelming.