https://www.europesays.com/videos/107356/ Unweaving Jeffrey Epstein’s web: What the files have revealed • FRANCE 24 English #ABUSE #case #celebrities #DanielSiad #emails #EpsteinFiles #Evidence #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #GhislaineMaxwell #investigation #involved #JeanLucBrunel #JeffreyEpstein #Justice #KarynaShuliak #LeslieGroff #linked #media #network #news #photos #power #proof #Revelations #Scandal #SexScandal #SexualPredator #truth #updates #USA #web #WhoIsInTheEpsteinFiles
#sexscandal — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/66786/ ICC chief prosecutor removed from post over sexual misconduct allegations #Euronews #ICC #Justice #prosecutor #removed #SexScandal
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Edward Curtin: This “Happy Consciousness” Has Prevailed.
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | July 16, 2026
[Editor’s note: Mr. Curtin writes, “This ‘Happy Consciousness’ has prevailed, and today we find ourselves incapable of imagining significant political change as the latest American president, Donald Trump, of ‘grab them by the pussy’ fame, presides over multiple wars and growing internal repression.” … Edward Curtin has an extraordinary knack (A knack is a special natural ability or talent for doing something difficult or tricky with ease.) or skill for writing articles resulting in readers’ stopping to ponder (Ponder means to think about or reflect on something carefully and deeply.) about the current human condition on Earth. Peace.]
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Screwing in a Mirror While the World Smokes
July 16, 2026
We were screwing in a mirror when we realized our mistake. Since the handyman was unavailable, we had to do it ourselves. Certainly it was very pleasurable to know that we could, but we screwed-up.
Lurid sexual news is common these days; it grabs people’s attention. It titillates the public’s imagination like nothing else, even murders and celebrity scandals. Forget wars and genocide and a world teetering on the edge of nuclear annihilation when there is sexual news to keep you focused.
The bombs smoke the air with the smell of death rising everywhere. It’s the air we breathe.
But back to the screwing. Maybe I have reeled you in and you want more details. Okay, let me tell you.
As we were screwing in the mirror, we realized we had placed the drywall anchor too low, so it was behind the mirror and not slightly above. A simple measuring mistake. So relax. Perhaps you were getting too excited.
Let’s get to the smoke. No, we had not been smoking an intoxicant, we were just a bit incompetent.
Smoke comes from many directions; it’s usually meant to shroud our ability to see the truth of our situation, as in the phrase “smoke and mirrors” – the magician’s trick. Who are the magician’s running our show?
Sometimes it’s innocent smoke that turns day to night, such as the smoke that’s drifted down from Canada that has just forced me to turn lights on at midday.
Sexual titillation is not innocent smoke. That it is everywhere is obvious; it has been so for decades now. The German-American sociologist Herbert Marcuse posited this in 1964 in his book, One-Dimensional Man, in which he argued that a new totalitarianism was developing in the U.S. A. and Western Europe that “manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.”
This was happening both culturally and politically. This unification of seeming opposites – “democratic unfreedom” that prevents qualitative change – was facilitated by what he called “repressive modes of desublimation.” One important aspect of this method of social control was the offer of increased satisfaction of the sexual variety that would draw off instinctual energy from significant social change in societies where technological rationality was the underlying fact. Localized sexuality and the sexualization and titillation of everyday life would reduce genuine erotic living. This faux-sexuality would seem to many people like liberation from the then fading traditional religiously-based forms of sublimation, which were also repressive. But rather than freedom, Marcuse argued, it was the commodification of sex as another commercial product to keep people gratified and happy with their condition in a society of growing inequality and technical control.
This “Happy Consciousness” has prevailed, and today we find ourselves incapable of imagining significant political change as the latest American president, Donald Trump, “of grab them by the pussy” fame, presides over multiple wars and growing internal repression.
Once many people smoked one or more packs of cigarettes a day. Doctors recommended them as good for your health. One of my sisters used to smoke in the shower and our family doctor smoked as he examined us kids. He was the team doctor for a major university’s basketball team. In times past, many a man went out for Lucky Strikes or Camels and never came back.
Do they still go out? For what? Do they ever come back?
In my little town of Great Barrington in western Massachusetts there are ten or so pot shops, which is approximately one shop for every 700 people. I wonder if they have read Baudelaire’s “Be Drunk”? “You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.”
Simon and Garfunkel once asked:
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you,
wo wo woWhat’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson
‘Joltin Joe’ has left and gone away,
hey hey heyJoe, the mythical man, is long dead. Yet dreams of mythical men perdure and they will be dredged up with the next elections. Sexual scandals will follow. What’s new pussycat?
We think we have come to our senses, that the smoke does not get in our eyes. But that’s an extreme form of mental myopia. The neo-fascist vulgar Trump is our present nightmare, but his presence has a past and a future, which Chris Hedges correctly notes in “Requiem for America on the Fourth of July”:
Neoliberals peddle their own form of magical thinking. Neoliberalism is as absurd and infantile as the Christian Rapture and Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. Trump lies like he breathes, but so did previous presidents including Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Trump embraces fantasies, but so did they. Trump, like his Democratic predecessors, enriches himself and his family, although with far more ostentation and greed. He, like them, facilitates the ongoing pillage by the billionaire class. Trump is the fascist iteration of the neoliberal con. [my emphasis]
This is Marcuse’s point about the unification of ostensible opposites. But most people still don’t get it, for one-dimensional thinking is the norm. And in a digital world the tyranny of the moment dominates peoples’ attention, even as the moment itself is immediately superseded by the next. As the Red Queen said to Alice in Through the Looking-Glass, “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
So we rush on, getting nowhere fast, forgetting that we are all getting screwed in a looking-glass world.
Edward Curtin: Sociologist, researcher, poet, essayist, journalist, novelist….writer – beyond a cage of categories. His latest book is AT THE LOST AND FOUND: Personal & Political Dispatches of Resistance and Hope (Clarity Press) edwarcurtin.com
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(Source: https://scheerpost.com/2026/07/16/screwing-in-a-mirror-while-the-world-smokes/)
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Sexual Scandal: Wave of Arrests in Parisian Schools
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while reading press reports on the last umpteenth #SexScandal in Italy - a relic of #Berlusconi's #BungaBunga with an #Epstein twist - think about the fact that while Italy was drowning in the #BungaBunga scandals, #Italy was transformed into this:
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as the last umpteenth #SexScandal unfolds in #Italy - a relic from the #Berlusconi's #BungaBunga era, with an #Epstein twist - I think that while #Italy drowned in the #BungaBunga scandals, my country was transformed into this:
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https://www.europesays.com/people/41474/ The Gates Foundation is reviewing its Jeffrey Epstein ties as released emails raise questions for funders | National News #BillGates #GatesFoundation #JeffreyEpstein #JeffreyEpsteinScandal #national #SexScandal
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The “Gladiators’ case”: A 1955 underage sex trafficking in the USSR exposed the political and intellectual elites
https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/the-gladiators-case-a-1955-underage-sex-trafficking-in-the-ussr-exposed-the-political-and-e0ff896d3b1b
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Britain’s scandal-hit former Prince Andrew is facing renewed calls to testify in a US Epstein investigation after fresh allegations surfaced from a second woman. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/jeffrey-epstein-case-new-claims-against-prince-andrew-sbhg9p5u?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PrinceAndrew #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #SexScandal
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Kevin Spacey says he is HOMELESS, seven years after sexual assault scandal: ‘I literally have no home’ |
Hollywood star, Kevin Spacey has claimed that he is currently homeless and shuttling between hotels and rentals.In a…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #AU #Australia #Entertainment #homelessness #KevinSpacey #legalbattles #sexscandal #sexualassaultallegations
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Hyper-sexed and Corrupt, Senator Joni Earnst, Iowa.
[ProPublica] : Politics. Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her CommitteeErnst, an Iowa Republican, is one of the most influential voices in Congress on military topics. Ethics and military experts say her relationships with top Air Force and Navy officials created potential conflicts of interest.
https://www.propublica.org/article/joni-ernst-congress-military-relationships
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Japan’s Fuji Media tries to defuse ex-Smap member Nakai’s #sexscandal, but it all backfires
"Corporate governance experts told The Straits Times that the #FujiTV #debacle exposes the dangers of poor #governance. #Japan #CorporateGovernance Network president Shin Ushijima noted that the absence of #independent #directors on Fuji Media’s board means a lack of different perspectives that cld have prevented the missteps which plagued the company along the way" #WorkInProgress
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japans-fuji-media-tries-to-douse-fire-over-ex-smap-member-nakais-sex-scandal-but-it-all-backfires -
This marks the 1st time that sworn #testimony has been referenced in public court filings alleging that the #congress member attended one of the long-rumored parties tied to an alleged #underage #SexScandal. Previous reports have revealed details of ex-politician & #MattGaetz friend Joel Greenberg’s confession letter that was never made public, which described how #Gaetz would allegedly pay him to arrange several sexual encounters w/young women—incl a 17-yr-old girl.
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HD Revanna arrested by SIT for investigation, search for Prajwal Revanna still going on
https://newswatchindia.com/hd-revanna-arrested-by-sit.../
#karnataka #Karnatakanews #KarnatakaPolitics #KarnatakaCongress #bjpvscongress #prajwalvideos #sexscandal #karnatakalatestnews #BreakingNews #PrajwalRevanna #karnatakbjp #JdsKarnataka #jds #JDSParty #jdsbjpalliance -
Karnataka News Update Today: Sex scandal brings political turmoil in Karnataka!
https://newswatchindia.com/karnataka-news-sex-scandal.../
#karnataka #Karnatakanews #KarnatakaPolitics #karnatakalatestnews #karnatakatodaynews #prajwalvideo #sexscandal #karnatakviral #viralvideoシ#prajwalrevannavideo -
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise. Or not - who's shocked by an ongoing (or yet another) #SexScandal from the #GOP, this time the lingering reports of Matt Gaetz paying for sex with at least one underage girl.
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The #Fall of the House of #BridgetZiegler: #MomsforLiberty, a #threesome, and a #failed #political #dynasty
The Zieglers were #Florida's #Republican #powercouple, until a #sexscandal and #allegations of #rape pushed them out of the #GOP #hierarchy.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.advocate.com/news/zieglers-republican-florida-fall
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.@laurenboebert Has Another Weird #SexScandal in the Family;
More details are emerging about #TylerBoebert’s arrest for a #crime spree.https://newrepublic.com/post/179448/lauren-boebert-son-tyler-sex-tape-arrest
The story around Tyler #Boebert’s arrest just keeps getting worse.
Representative #LaurenBoebert’s 18-year-old son allegedly made a #sextape with a #minor, according to an affidavit following his #arrest on Tuesday. -
#DickMorris used to be an adviser to #POTUS #BillClinton. He was forced to resign after a #SexScandal. He is now a #MAGA cult member and a frequent guest commenting on #USpoli for #NewsMax. The ‘second banana’🍌 in this on-air commentary is unnamed. 👀 ⬇️ 😂
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/newsmax-dick-morris-underwear-man_n_65a740b8e4b041f1ce63e61b
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#GOP #BiggestLoser of 2023 #the #Farright #AntiLGBTQ #HateGroup #MomsforLiberty has us asking: How many #sextapes are there?
"You #deserve to be #fired": Amid a growing #sexscandal, #founder #BridgetZiegler was just #confronted by a #gay #student.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
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#MomsforLiberty #cofounder caught having #sex with a #woman in new #video.
The #AntiLGBTQ #Hategroup #MomsforLiberty is known for its #rabid #opposition to #LGBTQ+ #rights. But its co-founder has been embroiled in a #queer #sexscandal.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
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#MomsForLiberty co-founder #BridgetZiegler gets absolutely owned by #activists for getting caught in a #sexscandal with her husband that involved #sexually #assaulting another woman. Ziegler is known for advocating against #school teachings of #lgbtqRights and #criticalracetheory. Protestors point out her #hypocrisy, call her out for having a #threesome with another woman and demand she step down from the #Florida #schoolboard.
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#Activist #ZanderMoricz from the #SEE #Alliance urges #MomsforLiberty #leader to #resign from #schoolboard, citing #incompetence rather than her alleged #SexScandal. Moricz emphasizes her poor #jobperformance in his request.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/18/moms-for-liberty-zander-moricz/
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#politics #florida #sexscandal #republicans #momsforliberty #hypocrisy
Florida's GOP Sex Scandal Gets Ugly
Threesomes, hypocrisy, sexual violence, and Moms for Liberty.https://therickwilson.substack.com/p/floridas-gop-sex-scandal-gets-ugly?utm_campaign=post
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#politics #florida #sexscandal #republicans #momsforliberty #hypocrisy
Florida's GOP Sex Scandal Gets Ugly
Threesomes, hypocrisy, sexual violence, and Moms for Liberty.https://therickwilson.substack.com/p/floridas-gop-sex-scandal-gets-ugly?utm_campaign=post
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#politics #florida #sexscandal #republicans #momsforliberty #hypocrisy
Florida's GOP Sex Scandal Gets Ugly
Threesomes, hypocrisy, sexual violence, and Moms for Liberty.https://therickwilson.substack.com/p/floridas-gop-sex-scandal-gets-ugly?utm_campaign=post
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#FarRight #FarRightHypocrits #ReligiousZealots
The pool attendant at the center of America’s craziest #sexscandal |
#60MinutesAustralia
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@melissabeartrix
Look no further than the #FacebookRefriendedAustralia story. Australia could have snapped out of the #fakebook trance, but it was decided that #Facebook and #Google would bribe our media, and that was that, the next day it was Parliament House #sexScandal story time.The #WizardOfOz in #JoshFrydenberg says don't look behind the algorithms and #Australia didn't have a proper debate re #BigTech, because <SEX_SCANDAL>
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"GB News Star Dan Wootton Unmasked in Cash-for-Sexual Images Catfishing Scandal"
The allegations levelled against Wootton are now far more than social media tittle-tattle.
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Five officers fired as sex scandal roils Tennessee police department
An investigation found the officers participated in "Girls Gone Wild"-type parties, heavy drinking and having sex while on duty; three others were suspended without pay.Full investigation :
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@Humpleupagus
Also a great way to #divideandRule.Imagine being able to #divide the population in half. Its very interesting that after #Facebook #cyberAttacked #Australia in Feb, a poor woman apparently commits #suicide over something that happened in the 1980s and an office #sexScandal in #Canberra is plastered across the #legacyMedia.
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@downey
Doesn't everyone make stupid, coy, and tongue-in-cheek remarks in chat rooms.To us this is just another #sexScandal, over the past few weeks they are rolling them out thick and fast, especially here in #Australia to distract from #Facebook #EstablishmentMedia #Bribery laws.
Meanwhile people in China have woken up to #privacy concerns in #Tesla drivingDevices.
To us those are the real news items. Innuendo and he said, she said, are distractions.
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Isn't it convenient that right at that moment #Australia was starting to have a national debate about #Facebook's dominance, and the #conflictsOfInterest that might arise while #journalists are paid by #socialMedia giant…
…sex scandals popped up.
#sexScandal #distraction #emotionalDrivenNarratives #identityPolitics #divideAndRule
