FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people.

But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.

h/t patthedog

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Canada delays destroying WW2 pistols while Ukraine figures out if it wants them

The Canadian military has destroyed 2,000 Second World War pistols but is still waiting to hear from Ukraine on whether it wants the rest of the guns for its arsenal.

The latest update from the Department of National Defence on the fate of the Browning Hi-Power pistols reveals a topsy-turvy strategy for the aging handguns.

In October 2022, the Canadian Forces decided that it would destroy the almost 11,000 sidearms since a new handgun was being purchased.

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‘White saviors’: Delicious infighting among ICE protesters

Fox News Digital published a lengthy piece Saturday morning entitled “‘White saviors’ use of whistles causes bitter internal rift inside anti-ICE movement.” It’s a festival of exactly the kind of “white privilege” you’d expect from these ‘60s burnouts and wannabes. It would be funny if it weren’t all so criminal, and cringe.

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Stop setting unrealistic ‘aspirational’ targets

One of the many ways governments deceive the public on the progress they’re making in implementing their policies is through the setting of so-called “aspirational” targets.

What that really means is that the government is setting a target it knows it can’t achieve when it announces it.

A glaring example of this was evident in the climate policies of the federal government under Justin Trudeau. Even Prime Minister Mark Carney has criticized the practice, describing it as “too much regulation, not enough action.”

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MAGA will win the media war The European insurrection is doomed

In the 20th century, it was customary for Latin American military juntas to start a putsch by seizing control of the national broadcasting company. This often happened during the night or in the early hours of the morning. On 11 September 1973, Augusto Pinochet and his troops took over the radio and TV stations in Chile by 8am. On 24 March 1976, the leader of the Argentinian military junta captured Isabel Perón at 1am. By 3.10am, all TV and radio stations started to play military marches.

The actors have changed since then and so have their methods. What is unchanged is the idea that political power is about the control of the media. This is why the US and the EU have been engaged in a raging dispute over social media regulation and content moderation since JD Vance criticised the Europeans at last year’s Munich Security Conference for suppressing free speech.

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Ontario admits Jews are unsafe in public schools, but fights them anyway

“If Jewish students ever needed a secure path to Jewish education, we need it now more than ever.” That’s the basic argument that the group Grassroots for Affordable Jewish Education has advanced in court in hopes of changing Ontario’s unique school-funding situation: public boards, English and French, get funding, as do Catholic boards, English and French — but no others.

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No, it is not Islamophobic to criticise the Islamic Republic

A couple of years ago, in my book, A Heretic’s Manifesto, I envisioned a situation where Iran’s female warriors against theocracy might one day come to the West only to find themselves branded ‘Islamophobic’. In my dystopic foretelling, these valiant hijab-burners would be accused by the pious pricks of the woke of such blasphemous sins as ‘hijabophobia’ – a real word, meaning ‘hostility to the hijab’. They might look to the West for refuge and wind up not being celebrated but being shouted down, charged with the thoughtcrime of Islamophobia.

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How Canada squandered its most valuable national asset

At the height of U.S.-Canada tariff tensions in early 2025, Ontario Premier Doug Ford famously threatened to cut off Canadian electricity exports to the United States.

“If the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely,” Ford told a press conference. He added that he felt “terrible for the American people” in such a scenario, but that his hand would be forced.

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Heavily-armed robbers block Italian highway and blow up armoured van before firefight with police and car chase

Heavily-armed robbers posing as police blocked an Italian highway and blew up an armoured van during a brazen raid in southern Italy, before exchanging gunfire with police.

The attack unfolded on State Road 613 in the Puglia region, where masked gunmen armed with Kalashnikov rifles shut down the road in front of shocked motorists.

The gang blocked the road by setting a truck on fire, while using vehicles with flashing lights to impersonate police and move in on the armoured van.

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Germany’s Decline Is a Warning Canada Should Heed Now

The results of Germany’s energy and immigration failures have been rising costs, falling competitiveness, social disorder, and political backlash.

Germany was postwar Europe’s greatest economic success story. Today it is a cautionary tale. Once the continent’s industrial engine, Germany has spent the past decade dismantling the foundations of its prosperity through energy and immigration policies driven more by ideology than evidence or good sense. The results have been rising costs, falling competitiveness, social disorder, and political backlash.

Canada should study this record closely—because we are pursuing many of the same policies.

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Renaud Camus: The Man Who Was Wrong To Be Right

Two journalists have just embarked on the exercise of writing a ‘biography,’ or rather a damning pamphlet, against the writer Renaud Camus, on whom they intend to heap all the ignominy of having invented and popularised the phrase ‘the great replacement.’”

But what crime is this when the expression is now swallowed and spat out by everyone, including and especially on the Left, by certain MPs and politicians who today make it a point of pride and a programme?

To feed its fundamental need to feel useful, the Left needs scapegoats. As Le Figaro editorialist Eugénie Bastié points out, Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead, so a ‘replacement’ must be found. Renaud Camus is the ideal candidate for the role.

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Trump threatens to block opening of new bridge between Windsor and Detroit

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge, poised to become the newest border crossing between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit.

“I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve,” Trump wrote in the post on Monday.

Interesting …

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