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Ghislaine Maxwell Flexes Her Clout to Solicit Lesser Sentence

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Ryan DeLarme
June 22nd, 2022

Disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is now invoking her political connections in a bid to receive a lower sentence for the crime of trafficking underage girls.

Though Ghislaine Maxwell may be among the most reviled members of high society, you have to hand it to her, she’s done great things. After all, she’s tied to such prestigious organizations as the Clinton Foundation and even helped to launch the unquestionably benevolent Clinton Global Initiative.

The Daily Mail reports:

Ghislaine Maxwell used her connections to Bill Clinton in an effort to get herself a lower sentence for trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein.

The disgraced socialite pointed to her work for the former President’s philanthropic endeavors three times as she argued she should serve just four years in jail at her sentencing on June 28th.

Maxwell claimed that helping launch the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) demonstrated she has a ‘desire to do good in the world’.

Maxwell, 60, will be sentenced next Monday after she was found guilty of trafficking and sexually abusing underage girls last December.

It’s no secret that Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have intimate ties with the Clintons, particularly Bill Clinton. We know that the former president met with Epstein at least 17 times in the Whitehouse alone, not to mention 26 flights on the lolita express.

Is the Pope’s Resignation Impending? Catholics Speculate Amid Rumors

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 21st, 2022

Rumors began to circulate on Monday that Pope Francis’s resignation may be swiftly approaching.

Megyn Kelly shared a video to Twitter early Monday morning regarding the recent speculation. In the video, she sights multiple unusual occurrences at the Vatican while she and her family were there, in particular the presence of many Cardinals.

Speculation has been growing for months in wake of comments made by Pope Francis himself.

“When you are old,” the Pope said, “you are no longer in control of your body. One has to learn to choose what to do and what not to do.”

The Pope recently postponed an apostolic visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and south Sudan, citing advice from his doctor. On Monday, the Vatican announced that Francis would not participate in the Corpus Christi mass due to health concerns.

Further speculation has stoked the idea that Francis is on his way out.

The Pope announced an August gathering of all the world’s cardinals, which ordinarily occurs when it’s time to elect a new pontiff. The Vatican has also announced a papal trip to the central Italian city of L’Aquila for a feast first held by Pope Celestine V more than 700 years ago. 

The Visit to Celestine’s Tomb sets off alarm bells for many Vatican aficionados as it seems to follow a trend. Pope Benedict XVI visited Celestine’s tomb in 2009; he later became the first pope in nearly six centuries to step down. Before Pope Benedict VXI, the only other Pope to abdicate the position was Celestine, which occurred six centuries before. 

The strange activity at the Vatican coupled with the apparent poor health of the Pontiff is sufficient enough for onlookers to believe that the Pope is ready to abdicate and call on the Cardinals to appoint a new leader for the Catholic church.

GOP in Texas Add Referendum to Secede from US in 2023

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 21st, 2022

The Texas GOP agreed on Saturday to hold a referendum in 2023 on the matter of secession from the United States. Texas Republicans brought up the issue of secession and declared Joe Biden’s presidential win “illegitimate” during the final day of their State Party Convention at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston. 

According to The Daily Mail, the platform has a section titled “State Sovereignty” that reads “Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government. Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.”

The Texas GOP has drawn from the state’s eventful history and constitution when they wrote into their platform that, “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.”

Some may recall that Texas was once it’s own country after breaking from Mexico and becoming the Republic of Texas in 1836. In 1845 Texas became part of the United States and drafted a constitution decades later that reiterated its freedom and sovereignty.

The state has actually had several movements for secession over the years, most recently being “Texit”, which was aptly named after Britain’s successful breaking from the European Union. 

However, the Texas Tribune points out that the Lone Star State, like all states, cannot simply secede from the union, but the situation, at the very least, highlights a growing cultural bifurcation in America that doesn’t seem to have any solid solution.

In addition to the threat of secession, the party’s platform also declared Biden an illegitimate president by saying, 

“We believe that the 2020 election violated Article 1 and 2 of the US Constitution, that various secretaries of state illegally circumvented their state legislatures in conducting their elections in multiple ways, including by allowing ballots to be received after November 3rd 2020.”

Despite Democratic hopes of a purple Texas, the state has become increasingly Republican, many central American immigrants voting red has led to the historic win by Republican Mayra Flores who flipped a 150-year-old blue district red.

World’s Billionaires Watch $1.4 Trillion in Wealth Swirl Down the Crapper Amid Market Turmoil

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 16th, 2022

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, A daily ranking of the world’s richest individuals, shows a vast amount of wealth disintegrating this year as the Federal Reserve’s blunders -intentional or not– have triggered cross-asset implosions.

The 500 wealthiest people -on the books at least- lost a shocking $1.4 trillion this year alone. On Monday’s stock market rout, billionaires lost $206 billion.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao experienced the steepest losses amid the crypto meltdown. Bloomberg’s data shows he lost a whopping $85.6 billion as of Tuesday. His total net worth is now only $10.2 billion.

Only $10 billion? He might as well file for bankruptcy!

Jeff Bezos is next on the list, losing $66.8 billion this year, with a total net worth of $125.5 billion. Mark Zuckerberg lost $64.4 billion, now only worth $60.9 billion. Elon Musk lost $61.6 billion but still secured a solid $208.7 billion stockpile of wealth as the world’s richest person. Doesn’t your heart just ache for these guys?

Bezos, Musk, Bernard Arnault (top luxury designer and CEO of luxury goods company LVMH), Warren Buffet, and Bill Gates round out the top five spots for the world’s wealthiest people. 

In contrast, the largest gainers of net wealth this year include Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and Dubai-based Swiss billionaire entrepreneur Guillaume Pousaz. 

In a separate report via Capgemini World Wealth we see the monetary response by global central banks increased the world’s population of high-net-worth individuals jumped 8% in 2021. It showed that the US, Japan, China, and Germany are home to 64% of the world’s billionaires. 

Gains in net worth first began to reverse in late 2021 when the Federal Reserve and other central banks started to communicate to markets about how an inflation problem (now a stagflation caca-storm) would be met with hawkishness or rate hikes. Global stocks reversed in late December and have been spiraling lower ever since.

It will only take a few oversized rate hikes by the Fed this summer to get recession fears to flourish and market participants to start pricing in the next round of easing — that will be the moment when billionaires get richer.