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With everyone distracted by China, skyrocketing crime and inflation, a nonexistent Southern border, and rapidly increasing authoritarianism in Washington, the Islamic State (ISIS) has taken the opportunity to strike again in North America. ... An attack on a transit bus in Surrey, B.C. over the weekend is being treated as terrorism after RCMP national security police took over the investigation.” It seems that the perpetrator, a manifestation of Canada’s deep commitment to diversity and multiculturalism named Abdul Aziz Kawam, was “initially charged with attempted murder for allegedly slashing a bus passenger’s throat on Saturday morning, but prosecutors added four counts...

Former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that President Joe Biden was delivering even though he inherited a “mess” from former President Donald Trump. When asked how Biden should combat falling poll numbers, Boxer said, “I think the answer is pretty straightforward with Joe Biden, just keep putting one foot in front of the other, and deliver for the American people.”

Ghislaine Maxwell, the close confidant and alleged madam of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is reportedly being guarded by former Navy SEALs as she moves locations to evade both death threats and the FBI. According to a friend of Maxwell, she is currently located in the Midwest and remains in hiding due to “credible death threats,” according to The Daily Mail. **SNIP** The insider also said that there was another side to the story and that at some point, Maxwell will be ready to tell all. However, it should be noted that in the meantime, Maxwell has not been willing to...

Since Jeffrey Epstein’s latest arrest on sex trafficking charges, a who’s who of the rich and powerful - notably Donald Trump, Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton - have rushed to downplay their associations with the financier who is accused of abusing underaged girls. Now Chelsea Clinton has joined her ex-president father on this who’s who list. Her representative issued a statement to Politico over the weekend denying reports that the former First Daughter was close friends with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and the alleged “madam” who has been accused of helping him procure underaged girls for sex. **SNIP** Politico said...

The British socialite accused of recruiting Virginia Roberts as a a 'sex slave' for Jeffrey Epstein has denied calling her a liar - and says the defamation lawsuit against her should be dropped. Maxwell and Roberts' lawyers have been arguing over statements made by Maxwell, who is accused of saying Roberts' allegations were 'untrue' and 'obvious lies' Roberts began legal action against Maxwell in September, saying the daughter of disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell has defamed her by denying her claims of abuse.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3400831/British-madam-accused-recruiting-teenage-sex-slave-Virginia-Roberts-Prince-Andrew-s-friend-Jeffrey-Epstein-denies-calling-liar.html

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz may be getting another wave of scandals flooding his presidential bid very soon. New allegations have arisen that Cruz’s phone number may be on the former District of Columbia madam’s escort service contact list, known as the “black book,” according to a report by the London Telegraph. The D.C. madam Deborah Palfrey, who killed herself in 2008 after being convicted of racketeering and money laundering, maintained a black book that allegedly contains 15,000 pages of phone records. When the escort service was operating, a night with a prostitute would cost about $300 an hour. Palfrey’s attorney...

A lawyer who represented the so-called “D.C. madam” says he has phone records that could influence the outcome of the presidential election, and he’s threatening to release one or more names on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court if he’s denied a hearing on his right to distribute them. Montgomery Blair Sibley, the late madam Deborah Palfrey’s colorful attorney, has been subject to a restraining order since 2007 barring him from releasing the information, which he says includes 815 names, addresses and Social Security numbers of Verizon Wireless customers. “Time is of the essence because people are casting votes...

Attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley has sued senators and Supreme Court justices. He*s been a write-in presidential candidate. He represented the *D.C. Madam,* whose black book included a sitting senator. Now Sibley claims that some never-before-aired information found in the records of said madam *could be relevant* to the upcoming presidential election. How so? Well, he can*t say.

NEW YORK -- A prostitute working for alleged "Monroe madam" Anna Gristina told investigators she was paid to have sex with former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards while he was on a fund-raising visit to New York, local news website DNAinfo reported Thursday. The prostitute alleged that she slept with Edwards at an Upper East Side hotel in 2007 and that it was arranged through an Edwards aide with the assistance of a New Yorker familiar with Gristina's network, the report said. An attorney for Edwards issued a statement denying the allegations Thursday and asked DNAinfo to retract the story....

Who says politics isn't a circus? Kristin Davis, the one-time Manhattan madam who says she supplied call girls to El- iot Spitzer when he was New York's governor, shares a stage tonight with state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and all the o ther candidates in the only debate of New York's gubernatorial race. Davis is running for governor as the candidate of the Anti-Prohibition Party. She was guaranteed a place tonight when Republican Carl Paladino demanded that Cuomo debate all the third-party hopefuls, and Cuomo agreed. "It won't be hard to stand out in a crowd of middle-aged white men...

" What the hosts do is more like placement. ...At the door, a host will procure a man’s credit card and his I.D. and quote him what the minimum will be at a certain table. Table minimums are usually around $1,500 at clubs in Manhattan, but a prime spot can go for as much as $30,000. And Uchitel has seen bills of $245,000 and higher for patrons who are buying huge Methuselahs of Champagne—the equivalent of eight standard bottles in one—or, in their schnockered magnanimity, have decided to treat other tables to rounds of Cristal."

Man, Ed Rendell is so screwed -- literally. I don't normally listen to Opie & Anthony looking for breaking news, but astonishingly that's what I just got. A few minutes ago, the cast of the show on Sirius XM radio were interviewing Kristin Davis -- not the one from Sex and the City, the former Manhattan Madam who spent four months in Rikers in connection with the Eliot Spitzer hooker scandal from last year. There's been quite a bit of speculation that her operation at one time serviced another high-profile governor, besides Spitzer, and up until now she's been largely...

Mickey Rourke, Charlie Sheen, Jose Canseco, Courtney Love and several Playmates are among those whose names have turned up in records provided to authorities. Braun, aka “Nici,” is due to be arraigned Monday in federal court as part of an agreement to “cooperate fully”. The mother of two is alleged to have taken the escort business to new levels of profitability by introducing the most desirable Playmates, Pets and porn stars to men who didn’t blink at paying $500,000 for a “girlfriend.” But, after an impressive 15-year run (she always paid her taxes), Braun slipped up when an FBI agent...

Former Hollywood madam and current rural Nevada small businesswoman Heidi Fleiss was turned away from Hillary Clinton's appearance in Pahrump last week, but she doesn't hold a grudge. Fleiss, who is running a laundromat while she continues to dream of opening a brothel for women, is backing Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y., for president with all her might, she said. By the time Fleiss and two neighbors got to the Skate Zone where Clinton was appearing, it was filled to capacity. "Naturally, I was disappointed, but it's exciting that so many people came out to see her," Fleiss said. "I don't hold...

(CNSNews.com) - A Republican senator has been caught in the "D.C. madam" snare. Sen. David Vitter's telephone number was listed in the records kept by Deborah Jeane Palfrey - the woman accused of running a prostitution ring. Palfrey insists it was a legitimate escort service. On Monday, she posted her clients' telephone numbers - but no names -- online. "This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible," Vitter said in a statement released to the Associated Press on Monday. "Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and...

The accused D.C. madam has a new criminal lawyer, and he's defended some of the area's most high-profile clients. A federal judge has appointed Preston Burton to represent Deborah Jeane Palfrey in her federal racketeering and money laundering case. [Snip] Burton represented Monica Lewinsky during the President Clinton impeachment, and he's represented the FBI's Robert Hanssen and former CIA agent Aldrich Ames in their spying cases. Palfrey had butted heads with her previous federal public defender A.J. Kramer. Last week, District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ruled she would assign a new attorney, since Palfrey's and Kramer's differences were "irreconcilable."

There was an almost audible sigh of relief in parts of America's capital this weekend after a TV network said it would not reveal the identities of scores of clients of the alleged "DC madam" because they were not well enough known to be "newsworthy".

During several weeks of calls to possible clients of the woman dubbed the D.C. Madam, Brian Ross of ABC confirmed that some fairly important people had used her escort service. But when he put together last night's segment for "20/20," the network's chief investigative reporter decided against outing anyone beyond the two people who already had been identified. "They just weren't newsworthy enough," ABC's Brian Ross said of the names. (By Donna Svennevik -- Abc) "Their names won't mean anything to our audience," Ross said in an interview. "They just weren't newsworthy enough." Instead, he said, "what we really wanted...

Deborah Jeane Palfrey was blunt at times, rambling and conspiratorial at others in a 1991 letter explaining to a judge why she jumped bail and skipped out on her trial for prostitution-related charges in California. "Prison is an absurd and unthinkable horror for me to embrace for simply being an enterprising business person," she wrote. "For God's sake, I was only running an escort service!" Now, 16 years later, Palfrey, 51, of Vallejo, Calif., is accused in federal court of running a Washington, D.C.-based prostitution ring. Prosecutors fear history will repeat itself, now that a judge has rescinded a requirement...

First, a prediction about the impending release of the D.C. madam’s client list: Barney Frank will not be implicated in this sex scandal. But when will these fools in Washington ever learn? They think they’re so damn smart, but they gave their cell phone numbers to a madam - a convicted pimp, no less, whose boyfriend once had a restraining order out on her. Two words, smart guys: trade up. Never do, or say, anything incriminating to anyone who can trade you up to the prosecutors if or when, and it’s always when, they get lugged. Don’t they teach such...