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The Stanford Review, which I believe is a student publication at Stanford, they did their own research and they found that China is running this enormous spy operation in Stanford, which suggests it's probably in every major US college institution. And the way it works is that if you're a Chinese student whose nationality is Chinese, but it's also your country that you were born in, so not America…

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cement from OMG, the O'Keefe Media Group? James O'Keefe scored another big one and he's got some undercover video of a very close confidant to Prince Andrew. And the very drunken close confidant who was actually living with Prince Andrew's ex-wife and raising his kids. And he wasn't just close, he was as close as you could get. Like he was right in the middle of it. So this is somebody who definitely knows what was up. And according to him in his drunken babbling, he said that he confirmed that Prince Andrew was involved with Epstein and having sex with underage females.

Now on one hand that is a pretty amazing undercover discovery, and on the other hand it's the only thing about Epstein that I was sure I already knew. Did anybody have that feeling? Now just because it wasn't 100% confirmed that Prince Andrew had some sex with at least one person, was it Virginia Giuffre who was making that claim? I forget who recently passed away. But did you think it was just one? And did you think, I mean it's the only thing I knew about Epstein that I was completely certain I knew the whole story, which was Prince Andrew was a client of Epstein's or just a friend. But wouldn't you have been more surprised to find out that he wasn't doing it? I think it was exactly what it looked like and we all knew it for a long time. So on one hand, an amazing get to get the confirmation. On the other hand, why does all this Epstein stuff seem like we keep getting teased that we're going to hear something new and it's always something we already knew? Like when is the first new thing going to be dropped? I don't know. But still big accomplishment. Congratulations t

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o O'Keefe. Apparently the big victory that Trump got over the Houthis, getting them to say that they'll stop attacking shipping in the Red Sea, might be limited in its actual real world value because the shippers say, "Uh, we don't quite trust the Houthis." Now how many times have I told you that if you want to know what reality is, look at whatever the insurance companies are doing? And I said t…

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