Have we heard enough about Trump’s mentions in the files? Is the media picking on AOC? And how “deranged” is this president? Watch the latest Hasan vs Morgan clash.
There is a 302 where Trump was accused (14 yr old) credible accuser that received settlement the reason why the “proof doesn’t exist” is because they stopped investigating but ask yourself why did they stop investigating? Stop propping this man up his moral depravity is spectacular. He is the one who is not credible and he is implicated and guilty.
And yet the mainstream press keeps repeating that there is no evidence of personal wrongdoing by Trump in the Epstein files. Peter Baker said it again last night on MS NOW. So many questions are not even being asked. Why did the FBI stop investigating Trump and others? What specifically did the FBI do in response to Bondi’s instructions to go through the files and “flag” all references to Trump? What did that mean? Did it mean redact or “scrub” the files to remove references to him? And if so, are those redactions among those that Democrats like Ro Khanna have been talking about when they complain about redactions? What happened to “Katie Johnson” (pseudonym), who as a teenager filed two complaints in two different federal courts alleging that Trump raped her? (She’s a different complainant than the one you’re referring to). Why is the vast majority of the media remaining silent about Johnson’s complaints. Did she withdraw them? If so, why? If not, why again was there apparently no independent investigation of her claims? Why doesn’t the media push back against Trump’s repeated and false allegation that he has been “exonerated” of any wrongdoing? Exoneration requires a thorough, fair and transparent investigation. As you note, there has been none. Both Congress and the media are behaving as if they’re incompetent. These questions need to be asked and answered in public. And Congress needs to pursue the rest of the documents and demand an in camera review by a court of unredacted documents released so far. Why the delay?
The media is now a propaganda arm of the government. Just like in Russia. America you have arrived why aren't you happy? You voted for him and got what you wanted after all! You ignored all his crimes and lies so now you act shocked? I'm shocked that you're shocked frankly.
Right! Why did the FBI not follow up all the cases reported by the traficked young people? Why was James Comey so involved in defeating Hillary that he ignored reports of human trafficking by the victims themselves? And.... where are those reports now? If they were not investigated and if they will not be investigated, they can certainly be made public. But most or all have "disappeared" from the FBI files.
Mehdi I'm glad you confront Piers and others with seriously different opinions than yours, but it is hard to believe he is debating in good faith when he slaps a TDS label on you after producing no other counter arguments himself. Thank you for speaking truth to power and bringing receipts ♥️
Piers isn't "power" he's just another little dick aka trump lapdog. In Britain he's generally ignored these days because he is always on the wrong side.
Trump is a fascist. He and the GOP have replaced our constitution with their unitary executive and is acting to promote the interests of the rich. He should hang along with the GOP for this insurrection.
Medhi? I am worried about the fact Trump is now aiming weapons at Iran.
I would appreciate your insight about a very real threat to so many.
Epstein and his associates might just be killed by a real threat to war.
Respectfully? Can you address this? I count on your access to people and countries who can inform us and perhaps put our minds at ease? I am sorry to use this article to reach and appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge
Iranian American here and yes, we are going to war with Iran what could go wrong? Let’s see another endless Middle Eastern war that we cannot win. Thousands of people will die trillions of dollars will be spent just for Iran to become a failed state.. nobody can convince me that Israel and the United States want what is best for the Iranian people. PERIOD🔥 this is an attempted distraction from Epstein files ….we should also address that the man at the top here in US IS COMPROMISED and has no choice but to do Israel’s bidding ….just sayin’
I can only imagine how difficult this is for you. I am respectfully grateful for your point of view. I appreciate hearing from people who are experts and know their country much better than I ever could. Thank you
Again, I appreciate your authenticity and the Shirin did exiled to Egypt. His name was Mohammed Reza Palavi, and his son Reza Palavi would be his air. The Iranian people rejected his father. They wanted a democracy and after they fought and won the revolution, there was a vacuum of power and the extremist
Religious freaks took over. They run the country as a theocracy and they terrorize the people.. I was actually born with door citizenship, but I had to renounce it after the revolution. My father did not want me to live in a nation at oppressed women so I grew up in San Francisco as an American, but I’m deeply connected to Iran, and my heart literally bleeds for the people.. I want their government overturned but at what cost not World War III what I do not want is to send my sons to war with my cousins. It’s a very dark desperate situation and there’s no easy answer.. the word from Iran there are up to 60,000 people dead. Protesters murdered by the IRGC but Nobody really knows anything because they have blocked access to Internet.. one thing I have great clarity on is that neither Israel nor the US governments care about
What’s best for the people, if they attack Iran it is to serve as a distraction from the Epstein files🫶🫶🫶 they can say they want to stop Iran’s nuclear program, but Barack Obama negotiated two years to put a treaty in place. Trump destroyed that treaty for no reason, there’s also the small little fact that he attacked Iran a couple of months ago and claimed to have obliterated their nuclear abilities, so which one is it both can’t be true! 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷✔️
I appreciate your openness. I actually read a graphic novel a few years ago called Persepolis. Your story is so close to hers, in the sense that your father, her family, wanted her to live but the cost to them was so high! Of course your heart bleeds! It is tragic. To have to contemplate sending your sons to war with their cousins? No one born in this country ever had to face anything close to this heartbreak.. I remember the woman who wrote the book. You remind me of her in how fearless you are!!! I'm sorry you had to leave. I also read about the Protesters. All I could feel is horror AND? How fearfully repressive that government is, and has been. HOWEVER? THis government? You are exactly right. I can't imagine what it is like for you to live here with THAT MAN. Our blood boils, at least mine does. What is worse is you are right. Distraction from Epstein but also? Distraction during the mid term and primary elections which will determine our future!! What angers me is Trump playing cat and mouse with Iran. He is always wicked and self serving. I can only imagine how it must feel to see THIS MAN play cat and mouse with your homeland! What he and most don't know if how much families, and people like you have suffered. I am lucky to have a few friends from the middle east. What is sad is most people here do not. What you say about Israel and the US government? I say THAT MAN, BIBI is the devil whispering into the ear of a fool, OUR MAN. I have a great deal of contempt for THAT MAN,
Obama was the sanest and most morally centered president in our history. Sadly, too many people were engaged because he was black. This is the backlash, what we are living through now. My take? Trump didn't do any kind of damage worth mentioning. He does things for show. He is dangerous because this country HAD a lot and now it does not. Thank you SO much for sharing with me! I am so interested. I can't believe I get to talk to you after reading the book! I am a bit of a fan girl now. I have to admit I am not like most people here but there ARE some of us! I feel for what you go through daily. I have another friend who bleeds daily also. Thank you for sharing and in spite of some really harsh comments to me? You made my day. I am technologically stupid but if you can think of a way to speak?
I can't believe I got to talk to you! I'm pinching myself! Thank you SO much!
Thank you for your kind words and unfortunately, my very large family is divided over this topic the elders long to return to their homeland and the younger generation have grown up in the US and adapted we are Americans What I do know: My people fought a war to overturn the western supported Shaw 53 years ago. Now the same people want to see his son ushered in as a savior and hope for a better outcome. I remain skeptical.!! The Iranian people are intelligent, amazing people, and they deserve better! 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷 GOD WILLING
I can't imagine what it is like to have family and friends divided over something as core as who guides the country. I do remember the Shaw, and I didn't know that his son was waiting in the wings!!! That kind of information helps me understand what is at stake and this countries endless efforts to rule the world by placing puppet leaders all over the world.
I think Iranian people are not only amazing but DO deserve better, especially from this country ALL THE TIME. God willing this will come to pass. THANK YOU. I don't know why everyone doesn't want to hear from the people who live in what we comment about? I really want to know what the people know. The conflicts the details no one can know outside the country and culture.
I feel such privilege that you trusted me with what is painful and difficult information!!! Thank you.
One thing I can promise from me is respect for what you all have gone through. NO ONE born in this country can grasp the division of immigration and the devastating affects on families.
Right on Amy. I keep saying that but people are obviously proving to be easily distracted, just as he thought. WW111 will be next because the bunker under the "ballroom" is almost refitted I think......just saying ('-')
I'm not Mehdi but why trump is wanting to do war with Iran or anyone for that matter is because he's running scared of what's going to be revealed in the JE files. Every time he's pushed, he pivots to declaring he's at war. Or raising illegal tariffs so you'll talk about that instead. World war 3 while be his next pivot as he's running out of things to distract the American people with. Why do you think he's refitting his bunker under that so-called "ballroom?"
I disagree with what is being said there about Trump. The Epstein files clearly show several allegations of child, rape, and potentially murder at the hands of Trump at the very least witnessing murders of other children.
No, there is no credible evidence linking Trump with crimes. Especially those. They appear to be wild fantasies. The problem here is, as with so many of these wild Satanic fantasies is that it is impossible to prove a negative. However that is not how justice works. Innocent until proven guilty, period. There is no credible evidence and lurid accusations against a well disliked, hated public figure like Trump don't count as evidence of crimes. There are, actually no 'files'. This is a dump of miscellaneous material which should never have been released to the public.
Biden and his DOJ has a chance to charge Trump with a real crime, insurrection on Jan 6th, they failed or slow walked it. There is no coming back from that with this conspiracy theory, they blew it. Trump is a danger to us all, to the USA, but this is not the road to dealing with that. Much as I wish there was an easy way...
I have been investigating conspiracy theories for years. Several in recently years have been non existent on examination. Why do you suggest I look into them, in that smug know all way, when I have? One, in my old country, near my home in fact resulted in the imprisonment of innocent people, cleared in time and an attack by a mob of morons on a pediatricians home. Pediatrician = pedo get it?
Just for the record on Satanic panics, though the general tone here seems to be 'accept the "Xstein files narrative" or be out of the loop and ignore any counter evidence or point of view. Any deviation from even the terminology is met by some with almost visceral contempt; 'disgusting' and accusations of involvement or support of the crimes, making intervention uncomfortable and for most, not something worth taking the flak for. in fact I am almost sorry I intervened myself really.
I have no skin in the game, don't use prostitutes and so on. I do think sex work should be legalized outside Nevada though.
The most recent Satanic Panic started in the 70s. 'Victims' seemed to be 'remembering' scenes from the "Omen", "Rosemary's Baby" and other films of the "Satanic" genre popular then; as I say, encouraged, like I believe a lot of Epstein's accusers have been, by therapists, hypnotists, lawyers and other motivated people. Any of the Epstein women who have been thru the therapist industry, and I don't know if any have been actually, well I don't trust their testimony.
By 1994, out of 12,000 'Satanic' accusations none had been substantiated by police.
It is of course true that abuse of children does occur, as do beatings, subjecting them to religion and cranky lifestyles and so on. The vast proportion of those crimes is not conducted by the 'Epstein Class', but take place at all levels of society and the bulk within the nuclear family itself. To some extent recognized even regarding Epstein's victims.
My advice to Mehdi and Team Zeteo, would be tread far more carefully on this topic than risk the credibility of one of the few reliable outlets regarding the Middle East now.
Which is as stupid a reply as yours is and begging the question.
I have spoken to people who have, by highly motivated 'therapists' had false memories implanted.
I have had false memories myself. I was 'gobsmacked' when it was proved to me they were false. In fact the house I could 'remember' certain events having taken place in had never existed and could never have been built where I thought it was. Memory is just not a kind of 'video' of the past, it is recreated and altered all the time.
Some people do seem to be more easily manipulated than others: especially when massive pay outs are involved.
Again, though as I said there is no doubt that Epstein committed crimes, this has become a BlueAnon Grand Conspiracy Theory: it will occupy whack a doodles for decades. However mere association, or having corresponded with Epstein is no evidence of any crime or presents no reason to even suspect one. Epstein's character, his ability to deceive especially, is legendary but frankly I am not that interested in the details beyond what I have said and looked at to date. There is also no doubt that some of the correspondence reflects badly on some, not all, of the correspondents regarding attitudes to women. But even on this site, sheer nonsense has been linked and 'sensationalized'.
Partly I am losing interest because I don't take the rather prurient interest in other people's sex lives that seems to partly drive this and QAnon too. Which is a rather disturbing and glaring aspect of this palaver. Like the Yellow press in the UK, always some 'sex scandal', giving an opportunity for gleeful and thrilling detail while "tut tutting".
This is all very different from what I thought when first presented with this 'moral panic' by MSM and other sources by the way, I swallowed it whole, partly due to the President's hypocrisy and personal behavior in general. But I found massive mis-quotes, quotes taken out of context, brief replies with the rest of the emails missing, literally in some cases and so on, almost immediately.
A similar, a very similar case in Italy, Involving Silvio Berlusconni, flopped dramatically in court, when none of the women, being under very different financial incentives in my view, would testify in the way the prosecution wanted. There was zero overlap between anybody involved and the "Epstein Class". No MSM outlet has even mentioned that curious fact. So much for an international 'ring'.
It is still totally unacknowledged in the tittle tattle round this that Ro Khanna 'fingered' four totally innocent men, who were just put in a photo ID line up. Another can of worms where people identify perps wrongly all the time.
Sure and there is a Santa Claus and a tooth fairy. Are you sure you don't study eugenics on the side because you sound oddly like a weirdo. Blame Biden for all trumps crimes seems to be the only argument that fits the facts for you nutters.
Zero relevance to anything I have said and actually illustrates my points.Random, 'string it together' assumptions and implied accusations with no basis, as it happens, in reality.
The points about the 'tooth fairy' are pointless and silly and in fact support what I say regarding the grand conspiracy theory Epstein's crimes have sparked, or rather allowed to merge with QAnon fantasies. Yeah you believe in these conspiracy theories you might as well believe in Santa. I don't think that was your point though?
I didn't blame Biden for Trump's crimes. I said he should have prosecuted the insurrection, not slow walked it and pretended everything was now 'back to the rules'. He should also have resigned years before he did, and Kamala should have run a campaign better than the flaccid 'corporate friendly' one she was forced into.
I honestly don't know why you bother to talk to Piers! Listening to him is like listening to trump. No fair, it's my show, I get to ask the questions not you, wah-wah-wah. Btw if there's "no evidence of wrong doing" by trumpilstiltskin then release all the damn files. As Maxwell says, if trump gives me a pardon then I'll tell you he's completely innocent. So if he doesn't it's because he's guilty. I mean how much more evidence do you have to see? Maybe those close to one million mentions she'll claim was her saying what a great man you are Donald. There IS evidence of him committing the crime of pedophilia but the republicans simply don't care. They want to bring down the country before he leaves and build it back up in their image. They's waited decades for a greedy, narcissistic guy like this to be running the country so that they can use him. They aren't going to let this once in a lifetime chance pass them by.
Medhi THANK you so much for your update on Iran. As you say, what Trump says on any subject is babble and no policy, plan or action follows. What I do appreciate is the word ILLEGAL.
AND comparison to the inanity that was Iraq. I appreciate your insight. In just a few minutes, I understood what some of his babbling on Iran meant. Nothing as usual, thank God. Ramadan Kareem.
Well well Mehdi, there's you yukking it up with Piers Morgan. Dear me, and you were all about Noam yukking it up with Bannon as some kind of breech of decorum.
The difference would be... ? I am fine and you do a good job. Get away from the Files though. Both you and Piers would now 'believe any conspiracy theory' related to the Epstein files, you both concurred. Really? think it over. I wouldn't.
Mehdi can't laugh at people who bring up conspiracy theories any more: well I can and do. There are conspiracies, there is also, as Naomi Klein recently said to Mehdi, conspiracy grifts, grand conspiracies I call them. This is one of them, it will leave Trump untouched anyway and is already. Ro Khanna managed to 'finger' four men who had literally nothing to do with Epstein recently.
Social media, if one posts a Zillow level picture of a swimming pool is then full of comments by half wits of "How creeeepy, imagine what happened there, creeepy, eeeew!" and on and on.
I was totally taken in initially by this careless across-the-aisle moral panic. Every time I look at something in detail though, there is nothing there really.
Nothing like is being constructed by the narrative, MSM and clickbait anyway. I am tired of it and it is all in lieu of real change in my view. No doubt some crimes but there are half a million every year in the USA most unpunished.
It turns out The Andrew formerly known as Prince shared some trade information with him.. oh my, what a naughtly boy! but who cares really. The Crown will fall though according to MSM and somehow this is commented on by the families of victims with a kind of 'at last justice is done' tone.
Like Russiagate nothing there and frankly what more do people need to know about Trump himself? They still vote for him and his hard base will continue to do so.
The one real issue, Jan 6th insurrection, was allowed to slip away by Biden's GOP. Other cases against Trump, however valid were way too obscure and complicated to affect anything really. I hardly remember what the ones involving 'election law' in New York were about.
I don't even care what Piers thinks, he is an all round reactionary and would support Trump whatever... By the way Mehdi, are sure you should be having anything at all to do with him? Him being a member of the Epstein Class or whatever?
We are the only country not investigating the network of crooks in the Epstein ring. We need to immediately investigate and take action in at the least the following:
1. All the rich men who had any relationship with Epstein - suspend all those under investigation until the financial, social and sexual relationships are cleared (human trafficking is a horrible crime against humanity and must be taken more seriously than we have thus far)
2. All the countries with which Epstein had financial arrangements and where money changed hands
3. Follow the babies - where did the disappeared babies born to the young women disappear to?
4. Where did the youn boys and disappeared young people go to? Investigate the New Mexico ranch and ALL Epstein properties.
5. Make a list of all his accounts all over the world and trace where he transferred money and to and from whom it went.
This is out and out grand consiracy thinking on the lines of QAnon, it should be curbed here or at least moderated. 'disappeared babies', nonsense and ridiculous.
'Human trafficking' is a broad term. Over used and quite misleading at times as a substitute for 'prostitution' which is, it must be said, unfortunately illegal in all US States except for Nevada, leaving sex workers very vulnerable.
Ironically Epstein himself, did trace a lot of money in the global system of shell companies and tax avoidance tricks. Better than anybody else in some cases.
'make a list'... yeah. Why not just impose a 97% tax and even better, nationalize a tranche of industries. That is all that will ever work.
There is a 302 where Trump was accused (14 yr old) credible accuser that received settlement the reason why the “proof doesn’t exist” is because they stopped investigating but ask yourself why did they stop investigating? Stop propping this man up his moral depravity is spectacular. He is the one who is not credible and he is implicated and guilty.
And yet the mainstream press keeps repeating that there is no evidence of personal wrongdoing by Trump in the Epstein files. Peter Baker said it again last night on MS NOW. So many questions are not even being asked. Why did the FBI stop investigating Trump and others? What specifically did the FBI do in response to Bondi’s instructions to go through the files and “flag” all references to Trump? What did that mean? Did it mean redact or “scrub” the files to remove references to him? And if so, are those redactions among those that Democrats like Ro Khanna have been talking about when they complain about redactions? What happened to “Katie Johnson” (pseudonym), who as a teenager filed two complaints in two different federal courts alleging that Trump raped her? (She’s a different complainant than the one you’re referring to). Why is the vast majority of the media remaining silent about Johnson’s complaints. Did she withdraw them? If so, why? If not, why again was there apparently no independent investigation of her claims? Why doesn’t the media push back against Trump’s repeated and false allegation that he has been “exonerated” of any wrongdoing? Exoneration requires a thorough, fair and transparent investigation. As you note, there has been none. Both Congress and the media are behaving as if they’re incompetent. These questions need to be asked and answered in public. And Congress needs to pursue the rest of the documents and demand an in camera review by a court of unredacted documents released so far. Why the delay?
Cover up. Protecting the rich men.
Ain't that always the way? sigh...
The media is now a propaganda arm of the government. Just like in Russia. America you have arrived why aren't you happy? You voted for him and got what you wanted after all! You ignored all his crimes and lies so now you act shocked? I'm shocked that you're shocked frankly.
Right! Why did the FBI not follow up all the cases reported by the traficked young people? Why was James Comey so involved in defeating Hillary that he ignored reports of human trafficking by the victims themselves? And.... where are those reports now? If they were not investigated and if they will not be investigated, they can certainly be made public. But most or all have "disappeared" from the FBI files.
Mehdi I'm glad you confront Piers and others with seriously different opinions than yours, but it is hard to believe he is debating in good faith when he slaps a TDS label on you after producing no other counter arguments himself. Thank you for speaking truth to power and bringing receipts ♥️
Piers isn't "power" he's just another little dick aka trump lapdog. In Britain he's generally ignored these days because he is always on the wrong side.
Trump is a fascist. He and the GOP have replaced our constitution with their unitary executive and is acting to promote the interests of the rich. He should hang along with the GOP for this insurrection.
Medhi? I am worried about the fact Trump is now aiming weapons at Iran.
I would appreciate your insight about a very real threat to so many.
Epstein and his associates might just be killed by a real threat to war.
Respectfully? Can you address this? I count on your access to people and countries who can inform us and perhaps put our minds at ease? I am sorry to use this article to reach and appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge
Iranian American here and yes, we are going to war with Iran what could go wrong? Let’s see another endless Middle Eastern war that we cannot win. Thousands of people will die trillions of dollars will be spent just for Iran to become a failed state.. nobody can convince me that Israel and the United States want what is best for the Iranian people. PERIOD🔥 this is an attempted distraction from Epstein files ….we should also address that the man at the top here in US IS COMPROMISED and has no choice but to do Israel’s bidding ….just sayin’
I can only imagine how difficult this is for you. I am respectfully grateful for your point of view. I appreciate hearing from people who are experts and know their country much better than I ever could. Thank you
Again, I appreciate your authenticity and the Shirin did exiled to Egypt. His name was Mohammed Reza Palavi, and his son Reza Palavi would be his air. The Iranian people rejected his father. They wanted a democracy and after they fought and won the revolution, there was a vacuum of power and the extremist
Religious freaks took over. They run the country as a theocracy and they terrorize the people.. I was actually born with door citizenship, but I had to renounce it after the revolution. My father did not want me to live in a nation at oppressed women so I grew up in San Francisco as an American, but I’m deeply connected to Iran, and my heart literally bleeds for the people.. I want their government overturned but at what cost not World War III what I do not want is to send my sons to war with my cousins. It’s a very dark desperate situation and there’s no easy answer.. the word from Iran there are up to 60,000 people dead. Protesters murdered by the IRGC but Nobody really knows anything because they have blocked access to Internet.. one thing I have great clarity on is that neither Israel nor the US governments care about
What’s best for the people, if they attack Iran it is to serve as a distraction from the Epstein files🫶🫶🫶 they can say they want to stop Iran’s nuclear program, but Barack Obama negotiated two years to put a treaty in place. Trump destroyed that treaty for no reason, there’s also the small little fact that he attacked Iran a couple of months ago and claimed to have obliterated their nuclear abilities, so which one is it both can’t be true! 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷✔️
I appreciate your openness. I actually read a graphic novel a few years ago called Persepolis. Your story is so close to hers, in the sense that your father, her family, wanted her to live but the cost to them was so high! Of course your heart bleeds! It is tragic. To have to contemplate sending your sons to war with their cousins? No one born in this country ever had to face anything close to this heartbreak.. I remember the woman who wrote the book. You remind me of her in how fearless you are!!! I'm sorry you had to leave. I also read about the Protesters. All I could feel is horror AND? How fearfully repressive that government is, and has been. HOWEVER? THis government? You are exactly right. I can't imagine what it is like for you to live here with THAT MAN. Our blood boils, at least mine does. What is worse is you are right. Distraction from Epstein but also? Distraction during the mid term and primary elections which will determine our future!! What angers me is Trump playing cat and mouse with Iran. He is always wicked and self serving. I can only imagine how it must feel to see THIS MAN play cat and mouse with your homeland! What he and most don't know if how much families, and people like you have suffered. I am lucky to have a few friends from the middle east. What is sad is most people here do not. What you say about Israel and the US government? I say THAT MAN, BIBI is the devil whispering into the ear of a fool, OUR MAN. I have a great deal of contempt for THAT MAN,
Obama was the sanest and most morally centered president in our history. Sadly, too many people were engaged because he was black. This is the backlash, what we are living through now. My take? Trump didn't do any kind of damage worth mentioning. He does things for show. He is dangerous because this country HAD a lot and now it does not. Thank you SO much for sharing with me! I am so interested. I can't believe I get to talk to you after reading the book! I am a bit of a fan girl now. I have to admit I am not like most people here but there ARE some of us! I feel for what you go through daily. I have another friend who bleeds daily also. Thank you for sharing and in spite of some really harsh comments to me? You made my day. I am technologically stupid but if you can think of a way to speak?
I can't believe I got to talk to you! I'm pinching myself! Thank you SO much!
I followed you on Substack we can continue conversation if you like
Yes! We will talk there!
Sorry for typos I was out to dinner and dictated the message to Siri who doesn’t understand what I say. Laugh out loud.
My typos are worse!! I wish I had a good excuse!!!
Thank you for your kind words and unfortunately, my very large family is divided over this topic the elders long to return to their homeland and the younger generation have grown up in the US and adapted we are Americans What I do know: My people fought a war to overturn the western supported Shaw 53 years ago. Now the same people want to see his son ushered in as a savior and hope for a better outcome. I remain skeptical.!! The Iranian people are intelligent, amazing people, and they deserve better! 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷 GOD WILLING
I can't imagine what it is like to have family and friends divided over something as core as who guides the country. I do remember the Shaw, and I didn't know that his son was waiting in the wings!!! That kind of information helps me understand what is at stake and this countries endless efforts to rule the world by placing puppet leaders all over the world.
I think Iranian people are not only amazing but DO deserve better, especially from this country ALL THE TIME. God willing this will come to pass. THANK YOU. I don't know why everyone doesn't want to hear from the people who live in what we comment about? I really want to know what the people know. The conflicts the details no one can know outside the country and culture.
I feel such privilege that you trusted me with what is painful and difficult information!!! Thank you.
One thing I can promise from me is respect for what you all have gone through. NO ONE born in this country can grasp the division of immigration and the devastating affects on families.
Thank you again.
Right on Amy. I keep saying that but people are obviously proving to be easily distracted, just as he thought. WW111 will be next because the bunker under the "ballroom" is almost refitted I think......just saying ('-')
I'm not Mehdi but why trump is wanting to do war with Iran or anyone for that matter is because he's running scared of what's going to be revealed in the JE files. Every time he's pushed, he pivots to declaring he's at war. Or raising illegal tariffs so you'll talk about that instead. World war 3 while be his next pivot as he's running out of things to distract the American people with. Why do you think he's refitting his bunker under that so-called "ballroom?"
Why bother with Piers Morgan. He's ridiculous. He gets worse as he ages.
Trump is a Racist and a Nazi
Period
I disagree with what is being said there about Trump. The Epstein files clearly show several allegations of child, rape, and potentially murder at the hands of Trump at the very least witnessing murders of other children.
No, there is no credible evidence linking Trump with crimes. Especially those. They appear to be wild fantasies. The problem here is, as with so many of these wild Satanic fantasies is that it is impossible to prove a negative. However that is not how justice works. Innocent until proven guilty, period. There is no credible evidence and lurid accusations against a well disliked, hated public figure like Trump don't count as evidence of crimes. There are, actually no 'files'. This is a dump of miscellaneous material which should never have been released to the public.
Biden and his DOJ has a chance to charge Trump with a real crime, insurrection on Jan 6th, they failed or slow walked it. There is no coming back from that with this conspiracy theory, they blew it. Trump is a danger to us all, to the USA, but this is not the road to dealing with that. Much as I wish there was an easy way...
I suggest you look into child torture cults. You’ll find they’re much more rude spread than you think.
I have been investigating conspiracy theories for years. Several in recently years have been non existent on examination. Why do you suggest I look into them, in that smug know all way, when I have? One, in my old country, near my home in fact resulted in the imprisonment of innocent people, cleared in time and an attack by a mob of morons on a pediatricians home. Pediatrician = pedo get it?
The rest of my point was also ignored by you.
Then perhaps talk to the thousands of victims of torture cults. Your inability to understand is not my problem.
Just for the record on Satanic panics, though the general tone here seems to be 'accept the "Xstein files narrative" or be out of the loop and ignore any counter evidence or point of view. Any deviation from even the terminology is met by some with almost visceral contempt; 'disgusting' and accusations of involvement or support of the crimes, making intervention uncomfortable and for most, not something worth taking the flak for. in fact I am almost sorry I intervened myself really.
I have no skin in the game, don't use prostitutes and so on. I do think sex work should be legalized outside Nevada though.
The most recent Satanic Panic started in the 70s. 'Victims' seemed to be 'remembering' scenes from the "Omen", "Rosemary's Baby" and other films of the "Satanic" genre popular then; as I say, encouraged, like I believe a lot of Epstein's accusers have been, by therapists, hypnotists, lawyers and other motivated people. Any of the Epstein women who have been thru the therapist industry, and I don't know if any have been actually, well I don't trust their testimony.
By 1994, out of 12,000 'Satanic' accusations none had been substantiated by police.
It is of course true that abuse of children does occur, as do beatings, subjecting them to religion and cranky lifestyles and so on. The vast proportion of those crimes is not conducted by the 'Epstein Class', but take place at all levels of society and the bulk within the nuclear family itself. To some extent recognized even regarding Epstein's victims.
My advice to Mehdi and Team Zeteo, would be tread far more carefully on this topic than risk the credibility of one of the few reliable outlets regarding the Middle East now.
And you talk to the thousands unjustly accused.
Which is as stupid a reply as yours is and begging the question.
I have spoken to people who have, by highly motivated 'therapists' had false memories implanted.
I have had false memories myself. I was 'gobsmacked' when it was proved to me they were false. In fact the house I could 'remember' certain events having taken place in had never existed and could never have been built where I thought it was. Memory is just not a kind of 'video' of the past, it is recreated and altered all the time.
Some people do seem to be more easily manipulated than others: especially when massive pay outs are involved.
Again, though as I said there is no doubt that Epstein committed crimes, this has become a BlueAnon Grand Conspiracy Theory: it will occupy whack a doodles for decades. However mere association, or having corresponded with Epstein is no evidence of any crime or presents no reason to even suspect one. Epstein's character, his ability to deceive especially, is legendary but frankly I am not that interested in the details beyond what I have said and looked at to date. There is also no doubt that some of the correspondence reflects badly on some, not all, of the correspondents regarding attitudes to women. But even on this site, sheer nonsense has been linked and 'sensationalized'.
Partly I am losing interest because I don't take the rather prurient interest in other people's sex lives that seems to partly drive this and QAnon too. Which is a rather disturbing and glaring aspect of this palaver. Like the Yellow press in the UK, always some 'sex scandal', giving an opportunity for gleeful and thrilling detail while "tut tutting".
This is all very different from what I thought when first presented with this 'moral panic' by MSM and other sources by the way, I swallowed it whole, partly due to the President's hypocrisy and personal behavior in general. But I found massive mis-quotes, quotes taken out of context, brief replies with the rest of the emails missing, literally in some cases and so on, almost immediately.
A similar, a very similar case in Italy, Involving Silvio Berlusconni, flopped dramatically in court, when none of the women, being under very different financial incentives in my view, would testify in the way the prosecution wanted. There was zero overlap between anybody involved and the "Epstein Class". No MSM outlet has even mentioned that curious fact. So much for an international 'ring'.
It is still totally unacknowledged in the tittle tattle round this that Ro Khanna 'fingered' four totally innocent men, who were just put in a photo ID line up. Another can of worms where people identify perps wrongly all the time.
I'm happy to ignore you too ('-')
Sure and there is a Santa Claus and a tooth fairy. Are you sure you don't study eugenics on the side because you sound oddly like a weirdo. Blame Biden for all trumps crimes seems to be the only argument that fits the facts for you nutters.
Zero relevance to anything I have said and actually illustrates my points.Random, 'string it together' assumptions and implied accusations with no basis, as it happens, in reality.
The points about the 'tooth fairy' are pointless and silly and in fact support what I say regarding the grand conspiracy theory Epstein's crimes have sparked, or rather allowed to merge with QAnon fantasies. Yeah you believe in these conspiracy theories you might as well believe in Santa. I don't think that was your point though?
I didn't blame Biden for Trump's crimes. I said he should have prosecuted the insurrection, not slow walked it and pretended everything was now 'back to the rules'. He should also have resigned years before he did, and Kamala should have run a campaign better than the flaccid 'corporate friendly' one she was forced into.
It's always a pleasure to see Mehdi destroy Piers non existing arguments and throw his own words against him.
I honestly don't know why you bother to talk to Piers! Listening to him is like listening to trump. No fair, it's my show, I get to ask the questions not you, wah-wah-wah. Btw if there's "no evidence of wrong doing" by trumpilstiltskin then release all the damn files. As Maxwell says, if trump gives me a pardon then I'll tell you he's completely innocent. So if he doesn't it's because he's guilty. I mean how much more evidence do you have to see? Maybe those close to one million mentions she'll claim was her saying what a great man you are Donald. There IS evidence of him committing the crime of pedophilia but the republicans simply don't care. They want to bring down the country before he leaves and build it back up in their image. They's waited decades for a greedy, narcissistic guy like this to be running the country so that they can use him. They aren't going to let this once in a lifetime chance pass them by.
Sascha Riley has first person witness evidence that he’s been trying to expose for decades, about Donald trump.
Medhi THANK you so much for your update on Iran. As you say, what Trump says on any subject is babble and no policy, plan or action follows. What I do appreciate is the word ILLEGAL.
AND comparison to the inanity that was Iraq. I appreciate your insight. In just a few minutes, I understood what some of his babbling on Iran meant. Nothing as usual, thank God. Ramadan Kareem.
Well well Mehdi, there's you yukking it up with Piers Morgan. Dear me, and you were all about Noam yukking it up with Bannon as some kind of breech of decorum.
The difference would be... ? I am fine and you do a good job. Get away from the Files though. Both you and Piers would now 'believe any conspiracy theory' related to the Epstein files, you both concurred. Really? think it over. I wouldn't.
Mehdi can't laugh at people who bring up conspiracy theories any more: well I can and do. There are conspiracies, there is also, as Naomi Klein recently said to Mehdi, conspiracy grifts, grand conspiracies I call them. This is one of them, it will leave Trump untouched anyway and is already. Ro Khanna managed to 'finger' four men who had literally nothing to do with Epstein recently.
Social media, if one posts a Zillow level picture of a swimming pool is then full of comments by half wits of "How creeeepy, imagine what happened there, creeepy, eeeew!" and on and on.
I was totally taken in initially by this careless across-the-aisle moral panic. Every time I look at something in detail though, there is nothing there really.
Nothing like is being constructed by the narrative, MSM and clickbait anyway. I am tired of it and it is all in lieu of real change in my view. No doubt some crimes but there are half a million every year in the USA most unpunished.
It turns out The Andrew formerly known as Prince shared some trade information with him.. oh my, what a naughtly boy! but who cares really. The Crown will fall though according to MSM and somehow this is commented on by the families of victims with a kind of 'at last justice is done' tone.
Like Russiagate nothing there and frankly what more do people need to know about Trump himself? They still vote for him and his hard base will continue to do so.
The one real issue, Jan 6th insurrection, was allowed to slip away by Biden's GOP. Other cases against Trump, however valid were way too obscure and complicated to affect anything really. I hardly remember what the ones involving 'election law' in New York were about.
I don't even care what Piers thinks, he is an all round reactionary and would support Trump whatever... By the way Mehdi, are sure you should be having anything at all to do with him? Him being a member of the Epstein Class or whatever?
Why chastise Randy Fine for choosing his own species, namely dogs, over human Moslems? To each his own.
How can you possibly chastise Randy Fine for preferring his own species, namely dogs, to Muslim humans ? To each his own.
We are the only country not investigating the network of crooks in the Epstein ring. We need to immediately investigate and take action in at the least the following:
1. All the rich men who had any relationship with Epstein - suspend all those under investigation until the financial, social and sexual relationships are cleared (human trafficking is a horrible crime against humanity and must be taken more seriously than we have thus far)
2. All the countries with which Epstein had financial arrangements and where money changed hands
3. Follow the babies - where did the disappeared babies born to the young women disappear to?
4. Where did the youn boys and disappeared young people go to? Investigate the New Mexico ranch and ALL Epstein properties.
5. Make a list of all his accounts all over the world and trace where he transferred money and to and from whom it went.
This is out and out grand consiracy thinking on the lines of QAnon, it should be curbed here or at least moderated. 'disappeared babies', nonsense and ridiculous.
'Human trafficking' is a broad term. Over used and quite misleading at times as a substitute for 'prostitution' which is, it must be said, unfortunately illegal in all US States except for Nevada, leaving sex workers very vulnerable.
Ironically Epstein himself, did trace a lot of money in the global system of shell companies and tax avoidance tricks. Better than anybody else in some cases.
'make a list'... yeah. Why not just impose a 97% tax and even better, nationalize a tranche of industries. That is all that will ever work.