Epstein Secrets

sident in Bedminster continuing to threaten North Korea— and also, inexplicably to almost everyone on his staff, threatening military intervention in Venezuela—Spencer called for an evening protest. At 8:45 p.m.—with the president in for the night in Bedminster—about 250 young men dressed in khaki pants and

the star. He had a television gig at Fox Business Channel. He was a famous partier every year at Davos, once exuberantly dancing alongside the son of Muammar Gaddafi. As for the presidential campaign, when signing on with Donald Trump—after he had bet big against Trump—he billed himself as a version of Trump, and

3, 8, 24, 127-28, 140, 159, 195-97, 205, 217, 223, 237, 272, 284, 298 Franken, Al, 151-52 Freedom Caucus, 161, 171 Fusion GPS, 37, 99 G20 summit, 257 Gaddafi, Muammar, 270 Gamergate, 59 Gawker, 308 Gaza, 6 Gazprom, 101 Geffen, David, 12, 178 General Electric (GE), 88 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020126 General M

ispheric energy independence are extraordinary and are already creating significant policy changes — and ruptures globally (i.e. Russia, Middle East, Venezuela, China, Iran). > Case in point: If the Ukrainian crisis has done anything, it has intensely focused Washington (and Mexico City and Ottawa) on the n

there any hope for peace or will it become a hub for regional instability and violence? No and yes -The US/EU/NATO toppling of long-time strongman Muammar Gaddafi has led to a cycle of instability and continuous violence. - It has also led to severe cuts in oil production and loss of significant revenue. - Mo

cle of instability and continuous violence. - It has also led to severe cuts in oil production and loss of significant revenue. - More importantly, Gaddafi’s massive weapons stocks have directly flowed to Boko Haram in Nigeria, terrorist groups in Mali and to arm other movements in Tunisia — as well as f

only because the major oil players were not prepared to pretend that there was agreement on output quotas. With Iran chairing the meeting, an annoyed Venezuela in attendance and an embattled Libya looking on, it was much harder to get the group to put aside their differences and smile for the cameras. The Sa

gs for nondemocratic regimes are always preferable to hard ones, even if the process takes some time. A moral argument can be made that monsters like Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya and Kim Jong-il in North Korea should be overthrown any way they can, as fast as we can, regardless of the risk of short-term chaos. But tha

e required to hold the state together. To be sure, Egypt's Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali neither ran police states on the terrifying scale of Libya's Qaddafi and Syria's Assad nor stifled economic progress with such alacrity. But while Mubarak and Ben Ali left their countries in conditions suitable for the