In revelation caught on hidden camera by O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), American businessman and long-time royal insider John Bryan has come forward with damning claims about Prince Andrew’s personal relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Bryan, a trusted advisor to the Duke of York, also alleged that Prince Andrew lied to him about his involvement in sexual misconduct with minors.
“I knew he [Prince Andrew] saw him [Jeffrey Epstein],” said Bryan, “But he lied to me that he was such a close friend,” revealed Bryan, referring to Prince Andrew’s personal relationship with Epstein.
I am not anti-trans except when it is taught to children or children are encouraged to ‘become’ trans. I am not convinced trans is a mental illness, especially when it is held lightly, but I am convinced it is a mental illness and a legal travesty to require others to accept it. If a man wants to dress and act like a woman, he will be accepted as a woman if he is a good actor, or he will be accepted among others who know his preferences and are fine with indulging him. Same for women who want to dress and act like men. I am completely fine with that.
From a Buddhist POV, no one should take their identity so seriously they actually believe it is a basis of reality. Buddhism is more or less against all strenuous identity beliefs, and definitely against them when they are clung to. For example, Buddhism does not generally use the word soul, but if someone wants to use the word and believe they have a soul, Buddhism is fine with that philosophically as long this soul is an entity subject to change.
The cultural talk on sexual orientation over the past few decades has done some good and some bad. Buddhism is the Middle Way; so when adults are using drugs or surgeries on children because ‘they are in the wrong body’, they have strayed very far from the Middle Way and have fallen into a deep and destructive delusion which brings great harm to themselves and even worse harm to the children.
When anyone learns anything valuable about themselves from conversations on sexual orientation, that’s good. For Buddhists, it’s still best to keep in mind that information like that is good when it’s good and harmful when it is not good. Like all things in life, most of us most of the time know when a desire or belief is excessive. Excess is a good way to measure your distance from the Middle Way. ABN
UPDATED: All American laws are ultimately pragmatic. This includes SCOTUS rulings on the Constitution as well as district prosecutors deciding how to work a case. Legal pragmatics include ethics and precedents, while also recognizing the urgency of, say, removing millions of illegal immigrants in USA. The legal remedy in this case properly must fit the crime, which was treasonous importation of millions of illegals. Sending a plane-load of violent illegals to El Salvador was a pragmatic decision as it removed some of the worst and also sends a strong message to others of their ilk to get out of the country. It’s a pragmatic application of the law. ‘Legal’ objections to it are absurd in the face of the massive offense (treason) and massive harm (tens of millions of illegals ushered in to USA under Biden). Below is an illustration of the problem. ABN
I get this sense from what he has done and said as well. He’s smart and will be a great ally if that is what he wants to be. In politics you want smart people who pursue good policies, nothing more or less. ABN
As the deadline set in a letter of impasse the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights had sent to Maine state officials two weeks ago drew down to its final hours, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey’s office issued a response saying the state would neither sign a resolution agreement nor propose an alternative, setting into motion a referral to the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Nothing in Title IX or its implementing regulation prohibits schools from allowing transgender girls and women to participate on girls’ and women’s sports teams,” Maine Assistant Attorney General Sarah Forster wrote to the regional director of the U.S. DOE’s Office of Civil Rights. Her letter chided the federal agency for wrongly interpreting the statute and added that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution also justified Maine’s policy — in direct defiance of the federal instruction.
That letter prompted a fast response from the DoE’s civil rights office:
“Accordingly, OCR has determined compliance cannot be secured by informal or voluntary means,” it wrote, adding: “OCR now refers this matter to the Department of Justice with a recommendation for appropriate proceedings to enforce all legally available remedies.”
The response to Maine’s attorney general went on to notify the state that it is “initiating administrative proceedings to suspend, terminate, defer final approval, and/or refuse to grant or continue Federal financial assistance to the MDOE.
Ms. Barrett told the senators that she was a faithful Catholic, and that her religious beliefs would not affect her decisions as an appellate judge. But her membership in a small, tightly knit Christian group called People of Praise never came up at the hearing, and might have led to even more intense questioning.
Some of the group’s practices would surprise many faithful Catholics. Members of the group swear a lifelong oath of loyalty, called a covenant, to one another, and are assigned and are accountable to a personal adviser, called a “head” for men and a “handmaid” for women. The group teaches that husbands are the heads of their wives and should take authority over the family.
Current and former members say that the heads and handmaids give direction on important decisions, including whom to date or marry, where to live, whether to take a job or buy a home, and how to raise children.
Legal scholars said that such loyalty oaths could raise legitimate questions about a judicial nominee’s independence and impartiality. The scholars said in interviews that while there certainly was no religious test for office, it would have been relevant for the senators to examine what it means for a judicial nominee to make an oath to a group that could wield significant authority over its members’ lives.
The Department of Education Is Referring the Case to the Department of Justice; Initiating Federal Funding Termination Proceeding
April 11, 2025
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) referred its Title IX investigation into the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for further enforcement action. Simultaneously, ED will initiate an administrative proceeding to adjudicate termination of MDOE’s federal K-12 education funding, including formula and discretionary grants.
These actions are a direct result of MDOE’s continued refusal to comply with Title IX. ED issued a noncompliance finding on March 19, and sent a final warning letter to the state on March 31.
“The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. “The Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department. Governor Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom—be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.”
I hope this means Sundance also understands we have experienced several generations of savage covert warfare. Since the battlefront has been covert, it is slightly difficult to see what has been happening. Use your imagination for a few hours, maybe less. Consider the gains compared to costs of a covert war against USA. There are trillions at stake, plus the most powerful military the world has ever known. How to win control of all of it? Infiltrate, takeover, attack strong boys and young men especially. In three or four generations all will be yours. Once you conceive of this strategy, you will begin to see the evidence. Lobotomies in Tibet and wherever young men are incarcerated for nothing. Lobotomies in USA without incarceration. Poison, sensory damage, done covertly. It’s a very simple strategy employing very simple tactics. I hope Sundance sees this and spends some time thinking about it. Many things will become clear, even obvious. Our enemy has long ago gotten ‘brutally, harshly mean’ with us. Remove ‘delicate sensibilities’ from your imagination and it will all become clear. ABN
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