Editor’s Note: The revelations in the article below by Michael Snyder are important. They aren’t “breaking” but very few outside of the most diligent news hounds are aware of them. They point to a deluge of information and evidence that could be used to investigate, charge, arrest, convict, and jail the evil perpetrators of unspeakable crimes against minors. The one major flaw Snyder has in his reasoning is that he assumes incompetence from government. This isn’t about incompetence. They don’t want to know the truth about Epstein. Or, to be more accurate, they don’t want US to know the truth about Epstein. Here’s Snyder…
(End of the American Dream)—Why does everything that happens in Washington have to be so complicated? If our leaders want to discover the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, they should just follow the money. If you follow the money, that will lead to the victims. If you talk to the victims, that will lead you to the perpetrators. It really is that simple.
According to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, a file on Epstein exists that details “4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks”…
Big news from my investigators on Epstein’s sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.
Why can’t we know what is in that file?
Wyden says that among the 4,725 transactions that are “payments to women from Belarus, Russia and Turkmenistan”…
The Oregon senator’s three-year-long investigation revealed a SAR on Epstein submitted in 2019 by JPMorgan for $1.1 billion, the Times reported.
The report included a total of 4,700 transactions dating back more than a decade, including payments to women from Belarus, Russia and Turkmenistan.
Wyden’s team found documents showing the next largest was by Deutsche Bank for about $400 million, followed by Bank of New York Mellon for $378 million and then Bank of America.
I am sure that these big banks are very frustrated that all of this information is in the news again.
Eight of Epstein’s victims alleged that JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank knew that Epstein and his powerful friends were abusing underage girls, and those banks shelled out millions of dollars to make their lawsuit go away…
Some of Epstein’s victims shared the same sentiments.
In 2023, they signed a $290 million settlement with JPMorgan and $75 million with Deutsche Bank after alleging the banks disregarded early signs of potential sex trafficking, according to the Times.
Those victims must have had a very strong case to get those banks to agree to such massive settlements. Why isn’t the government interested in talking to those victims?
Of course there were countless other victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, and a file that is located in the Treasury Department could lead investigators right to them. The following comes from the official website of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee…
Somewhere in the Treasury Department, locked away in a cabinet drawer, is a big Epstein file that’s full of actionable information — “follow the money” details about his financing and operations that await investigation.
Last year, the Biden administration allowed Finance Committee investigators to look at portions of the file in person over at the Treasury building.
Here is some of what it says.
Treasury’s Epstein file details 4,725 wire transfers adding up to nearly $1.1 billion flowing in and out of just ONE of Epstein’s bank accounts. If you ask me, that’s 4,725 potential lines of investigation right there.
Hundreds of millions more flowed through other accounts — that’s even more to investigate.
The file shows Epstein used multiple Russian banks, which are now under sanctions, to process payments related to sex trafficking. A lot of the women and girls he targeted came from Russia, Belarus, Turkey and Turkmenistan. You shudder to think about the kinds of people who must have been involved in trafficking these women and girls out of those countries and into Epstein’s web of abuse.
Again, these are all potential leads the Department of Justice ought to be digging into. This is about years and years of international sex trafficking. None of this is a hoax. None of it is a scam.
Boom. This is the key to the entire case.
It sounds like that file alone could blow this entire scandal wide open.
So let’s see it, because the American people deserve the truth.
The American people also deserve to hear from Ghislaine Maxwell, and I think that the fact that government investigators will soon be talking to her is a promising sign…
The Department of Justice said Tuesday it has reached out to Jeffrey Epstein’s former associate Ghislaine Maxwell for a meeting amid backlash over the administration’s handling of files related to Epstein.
“Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know? At @AGPamBondi’s direction, I’ve contacted her counsel. I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law—and no lead is off-limits,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in an X post.
Blanche added in a statement posted by Attorney General Pam Bondi on social media that if “Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say.” Blanche said he anticipates meeting with Maxwell soon.
Of course what we would really like to see is Maxwell testifying in front of Congress.
That may happen at some point, because the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee just voted to subpoena her…
Republicans voted to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice and longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell, teeing up a public spectacle on the financier’s sordid crimes in a move that could anger Donald Trump.
Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee – who has regularly bucked Trump’s agenda – pushed to have Maxwell subpoenaed after accusing the administration of hiding the full Epstein files.
He wants Maxwell to spill all on the details of Epstein’s crimes in a public setting so nothing remains shrouded in secrecy.
Can you imagine what would happen if Maxwell started naming names during a congressional hearing? That would be insane.
But we shouldn’t expect anything to happen for a while, because the House of Representatives will be shutting down for summer break early in order to avoid the Epstein mess for the time being…
House Republican leaders have canceled Thursday’s legislative session, deciding instead to recess after wrapping up business on Wednesday, according to Axios.
The House was originally scheduled to wrap up business on Thursday before heading out for a five-week August recess. But following eruptions within the GOP over how to handle the Epstein documents—and Massie’s discharge petition—leadership decided to flee town a day early, canceling Thursday’s session entirely. The chamber is not expected to return until September.
According to Axios, Massie’s petition now has over 10 Republican signatures—enough to bypass the Speaker and bring the measure to a vote.
I thought that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wanted “full transparency” on Epstein. What changed?
If members of Congress try to block the release of information related to this case, that is just going to make voters angry.
It is in everyone’s best interest to release all the evidence and let the chips fall where they may.
We want the truth about Epstein, and we aren’t going to stop until we get it.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
They’re rushing for a recess to make time to Epstein Maxwell.
And the Dems Biden had 4 years do bring it all out, but no!!!
Let me get this straight. The DOJ has thousands of hours of video they describe as child porn. Those videos were supposedly used to blackmail people. Well in order to blackmail someone, there has to be a way to identify the perpetrator from the video. In other words a face shot that then could be sent through facial recognition to get the identity of said person. So why don’t they? I think its because they know the identities of the persons involved. And if the identities come out the blackmail becomes worthless. And that why this investigation is yielding nothing but BS. They can generate a perp list anytime they want. They just don’t want to lose the blackmail value.
Where did Jeffrey Epstein get the money to have a private island, corporate jets, yachts and many large mansions without evidence of an income source?
I heard Epstein played the futures market with the help of a relatively unknown, but really, really great cattle future trader by the name of Hillary Rodham Clinton.