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Epstein and the Dalai Lama: a case study in lies and social media toxicity

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| Tibet & Tibetan Buddhist archive | Abstract : On 30 January 2026 the Epstein Files were released by the United States Department of Justice. Despite being heavily redacted, the more than 3.5 million pages of mostly email correspondence and flight logs revealed the true horror of Jeffrey Epstein's activities. Within this large cache of recorded, a preliminary DOJ index noted that His Holiness the Dalai Lama was mentioned 169 times, primarily within ten items of correspondence. Following an obviously superficial analysis of this material, less than a week later - on 5 January 2026 - social media podcaster DrWeberSpeaks posted the interpreted falsehood that the Dalai Lama therefore " ...visited Epstein on his island 159 times. " This was a lie, and a gross distortion of the information available within the Epstein Files. It clearly reveals the dangerous, toxic nature of social media in the current era, unrestrained by the norms of research and reporting upon ...

Jefferson and Adam's letter to Congress re Barbary Muslims' jihad 1786

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Islam | 7 October 2023 | Alaa & Randa Abdel Fattah | Ashin Wirathu - Buddhist Monk | Australia | Barbary pirates 1796 |  Battle of Broken Hill 1915 | Charles III and Islam | Francesca & Anthony Albanese | Genocide | Grace Tame | Hate speech laws 2026 | Ilhan Omar | Iran school bombing | Islamophobia | Jihad | Justine Damon killing | Life of Muhammad | Mosqueing | Muslim Brotherhood, Australia | NAZI collaboration | Pauline & the burqa | Politics | Qatar | Qur'an quotes | Rape is Resistance | Rational fear of Islam | Recolonization | References | Zorhan Mamdani |   U.S. Enterprize capturing the Ottoman Tripolitan vessel Tripoli , 1 August 1801. The first war On 28 March 1786 United States ambassadors to France and England Thomas Jefferson and John Adams addressed the following letter to Congress, arising out of a meeting the previous year with Tripoli'...

The Church of England "Brain Dump" affair - a corrupt "interfering fixer", a woke feminist archbishop and suicide

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Dame Sarah Mullally & King Charles III Contents Introduction Characters Chronology Did she read the report? Discussion References ----------------- 1. Introduction The Church of England "Brain Dump" affair of 2019 has repercussions affecting the role of Dame Sarah Mullally, on 28 January 2026 proclaimed the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, and the future of the church itself, raising concerns over its internal operations and the lengths to which it will go to keep secret actions in dealing with difficult issues, including the treatment of its own clergy and the inappropriate revelation of aspects of their personal lives. King Charles III's personal preference for Islam over Christianity also bodes ill for the future of the Church of England under a Mullally and Mountbatten-Windsor coalition in which neither is a "Defender of the Faith" according to their respective oaths of office. ----------------- 2. Characters Mar...

Islamic "mosqueing" and the appropriation of public spaces

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Islam | 7 October 2023 | Alaa & Randa Abdel Fattah | Ashin Wirathu - Buddhist Monk | Australia | Barbary pirates 1796 |  Battle of Broken Hill 1915 | Charles III and Islam | Francesca & Anthony Albanese | Genocide | Grace Tame | Hate speech laws 2026 | Ilhan Omar | Iran school bombing | Islamophobia | Jihad | Justine Damon killing | Life of Muhammad | Mosqueing | Muslim Brotherhood, Australia | NAZI collaboration | Pauline & the burqa | Politics | Qatar | Qur'an quotes | Rape is Resistance | Rational fear of Islam | Recolonization | References | Zorhan Mamdani |  | Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan and others, Trafalgar Square, London, 16 March 2026. Contents Jerusalem to London Pact of Umar Discussion References ---------------- 1. From Jerusalem to Trafalgar Square mosqueing , adj., appropriating a public or private space through the Islami...