News coming out today that the unredacted files mention victims aged 9 and 10 years old.

Maybe it's a bit premature to rubbish the allegations Epstein was a paedophile.

I think he was just charged with soliciting sex from one 14 year old. And abuse of someone aged 14 is not defined as paedophilia because the victim is too old for that classification. Fair enough on the definition, I'm no expert. I'm no expert on Epstein either, but I suspect he tampered with more ...

Bubblypop wrote: ↑Sun Feb 08, 2026 9:28 pm When was he convicted on charges of paedophilia?

Not sure if it is the same thing as being convicted on charges of paedophilia but he did plead guilty to soliciting sex from 14 year old girls.…login to view the rest of this post

All the talk about the semantics of investigations is a bit pointless. The attorney general said the review of the files is over and there will be no further investigations let alone prosecutions.

Crazy scenes in Madrid near the airport.

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One drove a vehicle at an officer. The other deliberately sought out federal agents to provoke them while armed. These were not accidents. These were decisions. Bad ones. And those decisions are why they are dead. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes is not cruelty. It is a blunt description of rea...

It gets even zanier. Apparently ICE/Border Patrol tried to forcibly gain entry to the Ecuadorean Consulate in Minneapolis. Which is blatantly illegal as Consulates under international law constitute foreign sovereign grounds. The Ecuadorean Consulate have registered a formal letter of protest to th...

He jumped a step to his right, he shouted “whoa” indicating surprise and still got hit by the car. He had about 1 second to get out of the way in an icey road after they told her to get out of the vehicle. The original framing by schmittel and others was that the officer “stood” in front of the car...

You keep making up lies, I never praised them and I never said either person had it coming. If you have to make up lies to make your points you’ve lost long ago buddy. I predicted the death of Alex pretti after the deaths of Renee good based on what was happening, the lawlessness, the confusion, th...

Your definition of lauding is very different to mine. praise (a person or their achievements) highly. Logically, if officers were “trigger‑happy” or poorly trained , you’d expect shots during an active scuffle as soon as a gun was visible, but we don’t see that. That is a matter of fact, whether yo...

Immediately after you saw the footage of what happened your instinctive (and understandable) reaction was one of disbelief that he was shot after they had relieved him of the gun, and you thought it likely he had a second gun: That looks like a gun was taken off him, I can’t be sure. Are you sure he...

It's extremely obvious from where he was standing and where the vehicle was when he shot into it, that it was no further risk to him after his first shot. If the officer broke the law, and acted illegally, then he should be dealt with correctly and in accordance with law. I don't believe these peop...

Look I’m clearly seeing something different to you. I’ll let someone else to it. The only thing I’ll say is, watch the video. When she started reversing he was in the right hand side front of the car. Watch the white lines in the road and you’ll see the only reason he was stood. in front of the car...

I agree with you, it’s terrible to train people to do that. The SUV did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of it. That is real and actually happened. However, if you rewatch the video, you’ll notice officer was on the right hand front side of the car when Good reversed her car, she turn...

So he was in danger, at least in the moment he fired the first shot. He fired all three shots successively. It takes humans time to pull triggers, respond to stimulus and make decisions. I’m sure if you slow down the Nkenchu video you will see that after the second or third or fourth or fifth that ...

But the crucial point in all these cases is that Nkenchu wasn’t shot simply for resisting arrest or failing to succumb to pepper spray. He was shot because he lunged at Gardaí and they feared for their lives — a point bubblypop has emphasized. The DHS has already stated that the ICE officer in Minn...

What do you think about Nkenchu, were six shots justified there? How about the Nahel Merzouk case? This is an issue being debated all over the world, so calling it embarrassing for me or some other nonsense is just being a dick. Do you want an echo chambers where you don’t hear other opinions or do...

Why did he fire multiple shots? Because his training told him to do that. If another officer fires only one shot but fails to stop an assailant they will be questioned as to why they shots only one time. They are not questioned over multiple shots because that is what they are trained to do. He was...

If you can justify the first the others become justified by default because of the time involved. .3 seconds between shots. Lewinski & Hudson (2003): Officers reacting to a simple light stimulus and pulling the trigger averaged about 0.31 seconds. With a more complex decision (e.g., choose whet...

I never said that. I said Gardai will shoot at vehicles if they need to. If a vehicle is driving towards them, or putting them or others in danger. If a Garda did what that ICE officer did, he would be charged. Apologies I must have misunderstood what you meant when you said "Actually it could...

The officer must justify every single shot. So while, it absolutely happens in the blink of an eye, and he doesn't have much time to think, when these things are investigated, they are broken down small piece by small piece. They could easily find his first shot justified and find subsequent shots ...

Garda Ombudsman investigates Louth shooting https://share.google/hHZiXL3V1RCx9Ru3T Garda fires gun at stolen truck in dramatic chase across County Cork https://share.google/rPI3MUvip1Mrmsanj Armed gardai 'fire shots' at Kinahan gunmen on way to hit - Dublin Live https://share.google/JdjSB6YIARiL29q...

Actually it could easily happen here, if someone was driving towards Armed Gardai or in a manner that Gardai felt was going to injure or kill them or someone else, then they would shoot at the vehicle also. It has happened a number of times in Ireland I guarantee a lot more obviously threatening an...

There's nothing inevitable in it as there is not only an under supply, but an undersupply leading into the next fifteen years at least. It's peculiar form, (and mathematically impossible form), of undersupply in the areas of Dublin with vacancy rates running at 15%. Among other things (aside from t...

And the obvious solution is what? And vacancy rates in Dublin don't address affordability. Which was one of the two reasons i stated. By introducing measures to decrease the vacancy rates in areas over 10% you will inevitably increase the rates in areas under 3%. That's obvious. And in doing so, by...