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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSlovakia PM's national security adviser resigns over Epstein links
Robert Fico announced he had accepted Miroslav Lajčák's departure in a video message on Saturday, describing the adviser as "an incredible source of experience in diplomacy and foreign policy".
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In a text exchange, external from October 2018 - when Lajčák was serving as Slovakia's foreign minister - Lajčák and Epstein could be seen lightheartedly discussing women and a forthcoming meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
After Epstein sent an image, which cannot be seen in the record, Lajčák replies: "Why don't you invite me for these games? I would take the 'MI' girl".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvgljj1dygo
I can't help noticing that non-Americans associated with Epstein tend to resign, get sacked, stripped of titles etc., while Americans go on to be CBS news commentators, Secretary of Labor, the world's richest man, US president etc.
Lovie777
(22,170 posts)sop
(17,840 posts)No more. Absolute shamelessness is now a requirement for those in public life.
Plus they know that there are no repercussions these days. Of course, it helps that their leader is shameless and never apologizes.
malaise
(293,924 posts)I can't help noticing that non-Americans associated with Epstein tend to resign, get sacked, stripped of titles etc., while Americans go on to be CBS news commentators, Secretary of Labor, the world's richest man, US president etc.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,785 posts)
The director of the new documentary on US First Lady Melania Trump has appeared embracing a young woman in images released by the US Department of Justice on Friday.
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When the images were taken remains unclear, though they appear to have been taken in the same location as photos of Ratner and Epstein alongside the late French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel that were released in December.
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Brunel, who co-founded French modelling agency Karin Models in 1977 and MC2 Model Management in the US with funding from Epstein, was found hanged in his Paris prison cell in 2022 in an apparent suicide.
He had been under investigation on suspicion of the rape of minors and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation. Prosecutors suspected him of transporting young women for Epstein.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mk3v2k3r0o
You can, of course, add "dead in a prison cell" for the fates of the non-American Epstein friends. Or "live, in a low-security prison", for his British co-criminal.
malaise
(293,924 posts)BBC is all Epstein this morning
bucolic_frolic
(54,413 posts)Was it being used by some as part of spycraft? Is that part of the lukewarm documents release, everyone in the business of covering it up?
malaise
(293,924 posts)bucolic_frolic
(54,413 posts)Nuanced everything, an expert at talking at length without making waves.
malaise
(293,924 posts)They are well trained parrots of bullshit and they speak so well 😂
muriel_volestrangler
(105,785 posts)Between 2003 and 2004, Epstein appears to have sent three separate $25,000 payments referencing Lord Mandelson.
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Lord Mandelson said he had no record or recollection of receiving the sums and did not know whether the documents were authentic.
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Images of the former UK ambassador to the US in his underwear have also been uncovered in the latest tranche of Epstein files.
In a redacted pictures, he is seen standing next to a female, whose face is not visible.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn82elvzpz7o
txwhitedove
(4,357 posts)malaise
(293,924 posts)Rec
muriel_volestrangler
(105,785 posts)In a statement given to PA Media, he said he had written this evening to the general secretary of the Labour party, Hollie Ridley.
His letter said: I have been further linked this weekend to the understandable furore surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and I feel regretful and sorry about this.
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Pressure is mounting on Keir Starmer to take action to block any return of Mandelson to the Lords as a Labour peer, after the emails released on Friday also appear to show the then business secretary assuring Epstein in December 2009 that he was trying hard to change government policy on bankers bonuses at his request.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/01/mandelson-should-testify-before-us-congress-about-his-links-to-epstein-uk-minister-says
mopinko
(73,379 posts)cmon sen wyden. start putting it out.
PatSeg
(52,471 posts)I think it is likely that Putin was involved in some way.
paleotn
(21,806 posts)Epstein played one hell of a dangerous game and now he's dead because of it.
PatSeg
(52,471 posts)it would be considered too farfetched to be taken seriously. I'd probably walk out after 15 minutes.
If so many prominent men got away with this for so long, what else have they been doing?
paleotn
(21,806 posts)Tom Ed Bell in No Country for Old Men said it best.
PatSeg
(52,471 posts)and I couldn't come up with stuff like this. That said, anyone who COULD come up with such perversions probably is capable of committing them.
paleotn
(21,806 posts)There's no question in my mind that Epstein was working with or for nation state intel services. Too much opportunity to gather unbelievably rich intel from a veritable who's who globally. There's no way that wasn't the case.
The implications globally if this thing really unraveled are mind boggling. And that's why Epstein is dead, Maxwell apparently has one hell of a "dead woman" switch, and no one wanted to properly prosecute this. Not even Dem DoJs'. Not foreign law enforcement services. No one. It's an intel gold mine and the implications for a wide range of rich and powerful people are staggering.
Time to blow it up. Let the implications fall where they may. If anyone is left who gives a damn about justice and rule of law, this has got to be prosecuted to the full extent and I don't give a shit who ends up going to jail or getting crushed because of it.
travelingthrulife
(4,766 posts)malaise
(293,924 posts)bucolic_frolic
(54,413 posts)Amazing these upper crust folks can't fund their own osteopathy course. I mean, really.
malaise
(293,924 posts)At the established church pulpits on special occasions to tell us peons how to live and how great they art.
Fuck the collective pack
niyad
(130,319 posts)or dinner). I had thought "Fergie" was a decent person. Looks like I was wrong.
malaise
(293,924 posts)so they and their spouses will never disappoint me.
niyad
(130,319 posts)cookbook. .it looked like she was actually trying to do something.
malaise
(293,924 posts)😀
niyad
(130,319 posts)malaise
(293,924 posts)😀
But look what I found. - they pulped her childrens book
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/19/sarah-ferguson-new-childrens-book-pulped-jeffrey-epstein-links
Thousands of copies of Sarah Fergusons new childrens book have reportedly been withdrawn from sale and pulped in the wake of the renewed scrutiny over her links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The book had been due for publication on 9 October, but was postponed until 20 November. It has now been removed entirely from publication schedules, and publishing sources have claimed that printed copies are being sent for recycling.
Its not been delayed, its being pulped, one publishing insider told the Daily Mail. Its an acknowledgment of the inevitable. No one is going to want to buy it.
The news follows a period of scandal for Ferguson, 66, who earlier this month lost the title Sarah, Duchess of York after King Charles stripped Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of his remaining titles. She is also expected to lose her long-term home at Royal Lodge in Windsor, where she has lived for decades with her former husband, despite their separation.
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All scum
OldBaldy1701E
(10,563 posts)Because we refuse to accept that it is our society which has been, and is still being, set up to be this way.
We can change this. However, the rich people who will lose their position in our society will not allow it, and have been tweaking our society for decades to ensure that they will not lose their position by any 'changes'. As well as fighting any attempt to alter the means of correcting this crap.
So, here we are.
malaise
(293,924 posts)Rec
barbtries
(31,197 posts)it tells me that elsewhere in the world there is still some kind of normalcy and accountability, which have been shitcanned here in the USA. republicans and the maga cult have simply destroyed us. In Slovakia a man can still feel shame for his depravity.
after it's all over, will it have been worth it? I don't think so.
Joinfortmill
(20,402 posts)THIS IS NOT GOING AWAY.
malaise
(293,924 posts)The dam is about to break
erronis
(23,007 posts)The most honorable thing they could do.
(Of course, in the US it would involve a gun.)
yardwork
(69,057 posts)We had that once.
FakeNoose
(40,594 posts)It's a huge undertaking, going through all this stuff. I don't know. It seems like our own US media are sitting back and letting the Brit journalists do all the work.
What's CBS doing these days? They aren't wasting their time investigating, that's for sure.
thinkingagain
(1,326 posts)They cant be sent to the international Crimial Court
And be released rom there ?
I bet there is more than one copy and or the victims can go there and tell their stories and be released that way
malaise
(293,924 posts)thinkingagain
(1,326 posts)Have citizens that are involved. So unless American citizens cant be mentioned because of that fact it would work.
Geez it must be nice to commit crimes but not be held accountable by the world because youre not part of the group. Seems like there should not be an opt out feature on international crimes and crimes against humanity
malaise
(293,924 posts)But the US doesnt give a damn
thinkingagain
(1,326 posts)and thank you again!
muriel_volestrangler
(105,785 posts)Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes which are grave breaches of the Geneva conventions, and the crime of aggression (use of armed force).
https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works
thinkingagain
(1,326 posts)🙂
Wonder Why
(6,621 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(105,785 posts)The latest tranche of Epstein files, released on Friday by the US justice department, appear to include nearly 1,000 mentions of the crown princess, Mette-Marit.
The files include scores of emails traded between the two, suggesting they were in contact from 2011 to 2014, the Norwegian daily VG reported. Mette-Marit married the future king of Norway in 2001.
The revelations come at a sensitive time for the royal family. The trial of Mette-Marits son, Marius Borg Høiby for rape is due to begin on Tuesday. He was born from a relationship before she married Crown Prince Haakon
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/01/norway-crown-princess-contact-epstein-files-appear-to-show