(End of the American Dream)—What in the world was Jeffrey Epstein doing on the private island that he owned? As I discussed yesterday, the latest batch of Epstein documents has raised a lot of very alarming questions. In this article, I want to focus on one particular document from 2018. It is a wire transfer request form that is dated June 12th that shows that six 55 gallon drums of sulphuric acid were purchased for Epstein’s private island. Interestingly, June 12th was also the exact day when the FBI began investigating Epstein’s sex trafficking operation…
Documents within the Epstein files appear to show that 330 gallons of sulphuric acid were purchased for the paedophile’s island on the day the FBI opened its investigation into the billionaire’s trafficking charges.
According to a receipt and several email exchanges buried within the millions of files that were released on January 30, Epstein had six 55-gallon drums of the chemical delivered to Little St. James (LSJ) – his private island.
The sulphuric acid was purchased for £4,373 on June 12, 2018, coinciding with the date the FBI opened a federal investigation into Epstein’s trafficking activities.
That is an incredibly large amount of sulphuric acid.
Is it just a coincidence that Epstein placed such a large order just as the FBI was starting to look into his abuse of very young girls?
Sulphuric acid can be used to treat water, and some people are entirely convinced that Epstein was only using it for that purpose.
But others are speculating that Epstein used sulphuric acid “to dissolve bodies”…
The revelation about the sulphuric acid sparked wild speculation on social media as to what Epstein needed it for, including to ‘destroy evidence or even human remains’ – despite there being no evidence of criminal use.
‘One Epstein files email they requested 6 55 gallon drums of sulphuric acid, the only thing that is used for is to dissolve bodies,’ one social media user speculated.
But further emails in the documents, dating back to 2013, suggest Epstein used sulphuric acid on the private island to purify water.
I am not an expert on sulphuric acid, and so I decided to do some research.
I discovered that 330 gallons of sulphuric acid could treat approximately 6 million gallons of water.
Did Epstein and his elite friends really need that much water?
On June 12th, 2018 perhaps Jeffrey Epstein felt a sudden urge to do some long-term stocking up for his private island.
Or perhaps the fact that an FBI investigation was looming suddenly motivated him to destroy evidence.
I think that it is important to note that when authorities ultimately raided his island they didn’t find much of importance.
Thankfully, the latest release of the Epstein files contains more evidence than many of us originally anticipated.
Members of Congress that just had an opportunity to review the unredacted versions of the documents that were just released are telling us that they have discovered at least six men that appear to be guilty of crimes…
Two House members who led the effort to force the Justice Department to release more documents about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein said they discovered at least six more suspected accomplices.
The department began allowing lawmakers Feb. 9 to review millions of records that remain confidential. Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, and Ro Khanna, D-California, said they found additional suspects among names that had remained blacked out in publicly released records.
“What we want is the men who Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women to – we want those names published,” Massie told reporters. “In two hours, we found six men whose names have been redacted who are implicated in the way that the files are presented.”
No matter how important they are, any men that were involved in abusing young girls need to go to prison.
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is claiming that one document that he reviewed actually mentioned a 9-year-old girl…
Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who reviewed the unredacted materials, highlighted the youth of the victims: “You read through these files, and you read about 15-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls. I saw a mention of a 9-year-old girl today. I mean, this is just preposterous and scandalous.”
Such revelations underscore the depravity at the heart of Epstein’s operation, where minors were groomed and abused under the guise of massages and recruitment.
Bipartisan frustration boils over the redactions, which lawmakers argue shield at least six men potentially incriminated in the scandal. Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie, a key architect of the transparency law alongside California Democrat Ro Khanna, pointed to one redacted figure as “pretty high up in a foreign government.”
It is time for the truth to come out.
The American people deserve nothing less.
And anyone that has been lying to us needs to be held accountable.
Last October, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed that he visited Epstein only a single time…
In a New York Post podcast interview in October, Lutnick claimed he visited Epstein’s home in New York City only once, prior to the latter’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a prostitute and soliciting a minor. Lutnick said that he was so put off by “that disgusting person” that he had no contact with him after that. “That’s my story,” Lutnick added, “a one-and-absolutely-done.”
That was a lie.
According to documents included in the Justice Department’s latest legally mandated release of Epstein files, the largest batch to date, Lutnick regularly communicated with “that disgusting person” for years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction. He went into business with him. He even visited Epstein’s notorious island where many crimes allegedly took place.
Lutnick should have known that the truth would eventually come out.
The Epstein files show that Lutnick and Epstein actually had business dealings with one another as late as 2014…
Lutnick previously said that he cut off contact with Epstein after 2005 — years before Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to a state-level charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution, which required him to register as a sex offender.
But analyses of the latest batch of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice show Lutnick and Epstein were in communication years later.
In December 2012, Epstein invited Lutnick to lunch on his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the documents showed. The two men also had business dealings as recently as 2014, CBS News reported.
There is no way that Lutnick can continue serving as Commerce Secretary after this.
He must resign.
Of even greater concern is what the Epstein files tell us about Reid Hoffman…
This integrity contrasts sharply with Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder and major Democrat donor. As we previously reported in our coverage of David Sacks’ exposé, Hoffman is mentioned over 2,600 times in the Epstein files.
The records show a multiyear relationship, with Hoffman visiting Epstein’s infamous island, New York townhouse, and New Mexico ranch. They conducted deals together and referred to each other as “very good friends.”
There aren’t too many individuals that can boast of achieving the trifecta of visiting Epstein’s home, island and ranch.
So what was taking place during these visits?
Were they discussing football?
Were they going for bike rides?
I think that Reid Hoffman needs to answer some very difficult questions.
And I think that Les Wexner also needs to answer some very difficult questions.
Wexner appears thousands of times in the Epstein files, and for some reason his name had been redacted on one particularly sensitive document…
Rep. Thomas Massie on Monday revealed some of the names of people redacted by the DOJ in relation to torture and child sex trafficking cases, after looking at unredacted versions of the Epstein files at the Justice Department.
Appearing on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Massie revealed former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner’s name had been inexplicably redacted, despite him being listed as a co-conspirator and not a victim.
Just an hour earlier, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche had responded to Massie’s questions on X about redactions of Wexner’s name, explaining, “The document you cite has numerous victim names. We have just unredacted Les Wexner’s name from this document, but his name already appears in the files thousands of times. DOJ is hiding nothing.”
In the early years, it appears that nobody was closer to Epstein than Wexner.
Most people don’t know this, but Epstein’s super creepy home in New York was previously owned by Wexner…
According to The Times, Epstein was an important part of Wexner’s world. Wexner gave Epstein power of attorney, which meant he could hire people, sign checks, buy and sell properties, and borrow money on Wexner’s behalf. Wexner also passed on several of his major assets to Epstein, including his Manhattan mansion, a private plane, and a luxury estate in Ohio, The Times said.
The New York mansion, which is believed to be the largest private residence in Manhattan and was recently valued at $77 million by prosecutors, was bought by Wexner through one of his trusts for $13.2 million in 1989.
Epstein later moved in after Wexner and his wife, Abigail, moved to Ohio, where L Brands’ headquarters are. A person with knowledge of Wexner’s finances told The Times that Epstein paid $20 million for the property, but there are no publicly filed documents that recorded the transaction.
Why was Wexner so incredibly generous with Epstein?
Nobody has ever been able to explain this.
In many ways, Wexner helped to create Epstein.
So why isn’t Wexner being looked at more closely?
The more I dig into all of this, the more questions I have.
Hopefully we will start to get some more answers during the weeks ahead, but I am sure that those that are actively trying to cover up the truth will continue to do so.
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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.
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