"We have nothing, my dear sir, to depend on, but the protection of a kind Providence and unanimity among ourselves."
George Washington to John Adams, 1776
Intelligence, Irreverence, Evil and Overweening Pride are a bad combination in any man.
Epstein was shrewd and cunning as well as evil. Twenty-four federal exhibits from the January 2026 DOJ EFTA release tell a complete story of eugenic dreams come to life. The evidence documents not a sudden Epstein obsession but a sustained, eight-year private pursuit: active correspondence with George Church — one of the world’s most prominent geneticists — as early as November 2011; a 2014 exchange with a major healthcare executive who asked casually for “cloning updates”; the circulation of Church’s transhumanist writings under the subject line “my friend george” in 2015; and then, beginning in July 2018, a fully operational investment relationship with a biohacker running an overseas surgical laboratory, toward a company whose stated objectives included the first live birth of a human designer baby or human clone within five years.
Among those operations: the legal ...
March 9, 1959: The commercial debut of the Barbie doll. Measurements: 36-18-38. The first mass-produced, adult-looking toy doll in the United States, Barbie was created as a racy gag gift to adult men in tobacco shops, but it became popular with children thanks to Mattel’s groundbreaking advertising to little girls on the “Mickey Mouse Club” TV program.
The Muslims conquered the Iberian peninsula, but as they pushed forward into southern France, their advance was halted at Poitiers by Charles Martel in 745 A.D., thus keeping all of Western Europe except for that Iberian peninsula safe from Muslim conquest. This could, however, not prevent incessant Muslim attacks on coastal villages, especially along the coasts of Italy and France, though such attacks also reached as far as Ireland (the raid on the village of Baltimore in 1631, in which everyone was seized and taken back, as slaves, to Algiers) and, in one famous case, the Muslim corsairs reached as far as Iceland, resulting in the kidnapping and enslavement of the entire population of Grindavik in 1627 by Muslims from Algiers and Salé. The Muslims vandalized and destroyed the Christian villages, and seized their inhabitants, bringing them back to North African shores. The men were used as galley slaves, as laborers on construction sites, and as house slaves, while the women and girls ...