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“…A deep dive into the relationship shared by Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Farkas, and one of the top Emirati executives in the UAE reveals the infrastructure Epstein used to smuggle whatever, and whoever, he wanted with impunity.
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How Epstein first encountered Andrew Farkas and Sultan bin Sulayem is unclear, but they were first photographed together in 2005, earlier than previously reported. This article will show that Epstein and his broader network, including offshore financial institutions tied to the Maxwell family, appear to have worked to enable UAE business interests to take over key aspects of American maritime infrastructure. This later resulted in a national security scandal that involved top officials in the George W. Bush administration. In the years after, Farkas helped Epstein develop key aspects of the infrastructure he used and abused in the USVI to facilitate his trafficking activities, with bin Sulayem also offering assistance to help Epstein cover his tracks in major USVI real estate purchases. The evidence contained in this article makes it clear that Farkas and bin Sulayem warrant further investigation regarding Epstein’s trafficking and other illegal activities. However, given the DOJ’s willingness to redact bin Sulayem’s identity on at least one disturbing email, and the close ties of Farkas to the Trump and Kushner families, who also have major Emirati business interests, it seems clear that a federal investigation of these two figures and their ties to Epstein is unlikely.
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Wading into a Cesspool
In its most egregious instances, HUD fraud relied on a dense web of home building companies, real estate investment trusts, and law firms. These entities frequently overlapped with the looting of America’s savings and loans industry and the questionable financial practices associated with Drexel Burnham Lambert’s junk bonds. A veritable leviathan, the reach of this fraud machine extended to the families of powerful American politicians and the intelligence community.
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The CIA connection is particularly interesting, as it quickly becomes apparent that the funding of the Mujahideen was not the only covert operation that SICO had brushed up against. The corporate structure of SICO was set up by the Swiss attorney Baudoin Dunand, who later served on SICO’s advisory board. Researcher Kevin Coogan found that Dunand was involved in another entity, Tyndall Trust, which former American tax attorney Willard Zucker managed. Zucker, in turn, was the man tapped to serve as the financial manager for “The Enterprise,” the private intelligence network tied to the CIA and Israeli intelligence that was established to manage the complicated plots and machinations at the heart of the Iran-Contra affair.
Fluor, the construction giant that had acquired Daniel International — and which interlocked with U.S. Shelter via Buck Mickel — also appears to have been involved in Iran-Contra activities in some capacity. This revelation came from journalist Gary Webb’s reporting on how the CIA-backed Contras were involved in the cocaine trade and had helped fuel the explosion of crack in urban Los Angeles in the 1980s. Of particular interest to Webb was Ronald Lister, a former police officer turned “cocaine hauler and money launderer” for Jose Blandon, one of the right-hand men for Panamanian strongman (and CIA asset) Manuel Noriega between 1980 and 1981.
Around the time he started working with Blandon, Lister formed a company called Pyramid International Security Consultants in California, whose purpose was to “sell weapons abroad” — particularly to the Contras through El Salvador. Webb learned that Lister himself had a CIA contact, Bill Nelson, who had previously served as the CIA’s deputy director of operations. However, at the time that Nelson was operating under a business cover for the CIA, he had been vice president of security and administration at Fluor.
Lister’s contact with Nelson reportedly took place while Nelson was working for Fluor, and the arms trafficker reportedly made frequent visits to the company between 1982 and 1983. Nelson, interestingly enough, had joined up with Fluor in 1977, the same year that Fluor had purchased Daniel International.
U.S. Shelter, meanwhile, embarked on an incredible expansion — and the development of an increasingly complicated corporate organization — in the years after 1977. A string of acquisitions saw the company gobble up smaller property management companies across the United States (such as Gold Crown Properties in Kansas City) and dip into banking by buying Malibu Savings & Loans in California. Subsidiaries were established, including U.S. Shelter Trust of Massachusetts, U.S. Shelter Corporation of South Carolina, U.S. Shelter Corporation of Delaware, etc. These were shuffled around and later merged in various combinations.
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Preying on Ports
For DP World, and later its successor Dubai World, Farkas was much more than a “connections man.” He served as a major adviser and dealmaker for the conglomerate and also for other powerful figures in the UAE. He, along with Andrew Cuomo, whom he hired in 2003 to work at his firm Island Capital, advised developers in Dubai, including those tied directly to Dubai World, both in the UAE and abroad, with a particular focus on the USVI. The extent of Farkas’ ties to the USVI, as well as the extent of his direct ties with Epstein, is detailed in a later section of this article.
It is also worth noting that Epstein was closely connected to key figures at the Carlyle Group during this period, which had close ties to CSX, the UAE, and the Bush family simultaneously. Carlyle has, notably, long been regarded as “the CIA of the business world – omnipresent, powerful, a little sinister,” as the Washington Post once stated.
Epstein was a member of the Rockefeller-created Trilateral Commission when David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, joined the organization. They also served together on the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). Epstein likely gained membership in these organizations through his apparent association with the Rockefellers, as claims that he managed “Rockefeller money” had circulated in the press well before his first arrest in the mid-2000s (Epstein also sat on the board of Rockefeller University during that period).
Rubenstein was also connected to Epstein’s financial network, sitting on the National Advisory Committee of JP Morgan, which –– at the time –– was intimately connected to the Wexner family’s interests as well as Epstein’s USVI activities, including those that intersected with Andrew Farkas (discussed in detail in a subsequent part of this article). However, the clearest ties emerge from the close relationship between Rubenstein’s wife from 1983 to 2017, Alice Rogoff, and Ghislaine Maxwell, along with organizations tied to Maxwell (e.g., TerraMar), and Maxwell’s “secret” husband Scott Borgerson.
However, another figure at Carlyle Group who was arguably closer to Epstein was former Secretary of State James Baker. Baker worked for Carlyle from 1993 until his retirement in 2005, during which time he helped expand Carlyle overseas, including into the UAE. Prior to that, he was secretary of state under the administration of George Bush Sr. Baker had an established yet murky relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, as confirmed by Epstein’s lawyer Jeffrey Schantz. Epstein’s relationship with Baker, as revealed in documents related to later litigation between the State Department and Epstein, enabled Epstein to lease a large State Department property in Manhattan, beginning in 1992, while Baker was still serving as secretary of state until 1997. Connections between Epstein and top figures at the Bush-linked Carlyle Group suggest another possible reason the Bush administration intervened in Epstein’s 2007 court case, as detailed above.
Reporting from Drop Site News last year revealed that bin Sulayem worked to arrange a meeting with Epstein in November 2006, roughly a year after they were pictured together at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show with Farkas.
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From Dubai World to Debt World
Yet another layer of connective tissue fleshing out the Epstein–bin Sulayem–Farkas connections can be found during this period. This particular connection involves the 2008 financial crisis and how it brought Dubai World to the brink, largely due to the activities of Farkas and Epstein-linked bankers, and potentially, Epstein himself.
In 2003, Farkas helped create the Emirates National Securitisation Company (ENSeC), which was “created specifically to facilitate the development of a secondary mortgage system in Dubai, similar to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the United States.” Initially, a partnership of Dubai Islamic Bank, the bin Sulayem-controlled Istithmar, Bahamas-based Pender Ltd., and Farkas’ Island Capital, ENSeC issued commercial mortgage-backed securities to “create adequate liquidity in the mortgage financing for the real estate sector.” Farkas served as its executive vice chairman. Later reports credited Farkas with “help[ing] Dubai set up a Sharia-compliant mortgage industry.”
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From Dubai World to Debt World
Yet another layer of connective tissue fleshing out the Epstein–bin Sulayem–Farkas connections can be found during this period. This particular connection involves the 2008 financial crisis and how it brought Dubai World to the brink, largely due to the activities of Farkas and Epstein-linked bankers, and potentially, Epstein himself.
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Epstein was directly involved with toxic and risky mortgage-backed securities as chairman of the $6.7 billion company Liquid Funding from 2001 until at least March 2007. Bear Stearns, Epstein’s former employer, had a 40% stake in Liquid Funding. It is unknown whether any of the mortgage-backed securities created by the Farkas-linked ENSeC ended up being held by Liquid Funding, but given the connections between Epstein, Farkas, bin Sulayem, ENSeC, and Bear Stearns, it seems likely. This is even more likely given that Epstein was pictured with Farkas and bin Sulayem shortly after ENSeC was created, as well as Epstein’s known ties to bin Sulayem and the UAE after 2005 — not to mention the fact that Epstein was considered a foremost expert in the exact type of financing in which ENSeC, Bear Stearns, and others were involved. For instance, Epstein was infamously described as the inventor of derivatives by figures like Reid Hoffman. As a result, it is possibile that Epstein had advised Farkas and bin Sulayem about ENSeC in the lead-up to the 2008 crisis. Adding to this possibility is a recent Bloomberg report, which revealed that Epstein had at least one bank account in the Cayman Islands that were reportedly linked to criminal activity.
In addition, after Dubai World suffered from bad debt due to its links to ENSeC and the global economic crisis, Epstein attempted to find the struggling company a buyer. More specifically, Epstein tried to convince Jes Staley to market Dubai World to the Chinese in 2009. In November of that year, Staley forwarded Epstein an internal email regarding high-level talks with senior officials from the Dubai and Abu Dhabi departments of finance. A few days later, Epstein subsequently wrote to Staley, “The first most elegant deal that you can do. is to have China buy Dubai World Ports. They want turnkey, ops where they can then use their worldwide construction cos for building. would be a first great deal for the new ceo of the IB [investment bank].” Furthermore, in December 2009, Epstein attempted to schedule a meeting between bin Sulyaman and Staley. Epstein told Staley that “sultan is laying the groundwork for you to establish a serious presence. Jpm [JP Morgan] reputation in the region is poor.”
Dubai World’s debt crisis was truly massive, so much so that it threatened the UAE’s entire economy. After investors panicked and the country’s economy teetered, Dubai World attempted to calm them by stating that only its real estate developer, Nakheel, which had been intimately involved with ENSeC, was in peril. Reports noted that Rothschild banking interests, which Epstein was known to represent, were advising the debt restructuring efforts. Dubai World was set to default on December 14th, 2009, but disaster was averted that very morning by a $10 billion bailout from the UAE government that very morning. It seems almost certain, given the timing of his emails, that Epstein was attempting to use Staley and his bank, JP Morgan, to find a buyer to fix the serious problems that Farkas, and likely Epstein, appear to have created for Nakheel and its parent company, Dubai World…”
“…We’re watching the rise of a new anti-democratic extremism—networked, crypto-financed, and cloaked in the language of freedom. The Network State is not about liberty. It’s about power. It’s not a utopia, it’s a bunker. A fortress city with drone defense and unregulated biotech, where capital is king and citizenship is a subscription.
—Gil Duran, The Nerd Reich
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“New Gaza” and “New Rafah”
Merrian-Webster defines “obscene” as “repulsive by reason of crass disregard of moral or ethical principles.”
The first project of the Board of Peace is obscene: a massive commercial real estate grift, under cover of implementing a Gaza ceasefire plan, built literally on top of the human remains and rubble of a fresh genocide.There is more than meets the eye when it comes to the proposed Gaza redevelopment “master plan” promoted by Jared Kushner at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. The Board of Peace demands an extraordinarily opaque, unaccountable legal architecture, fortified by sweeping global shields and immunity claims, precisely because it is far more than a real estate project.
On the surface it is designed to dazzle. In glossy computer renderings the scheme is centered by a new coastal tourism strip and two showcase cities, “New Rafah” and “New Gaza.” It envisions a seafront “coastal tourism” zone long enough for up to 180 skyscrapers, many of them hotels, lining Gaza’s Mediterranean shore, with an adjacent port and airport in the southwest corner near the Egyptian border. Kushner’s powerpoint shows glass towers, luxury waterfront apartments, parks, sports complexes, data centers, and large high tech zones intended to make Gaza a regional logistics and tech hub.
The flagship “New Rafah” project is described as having over 100,000 permanent housing units, around 200 education centers, roughly 180 cultural, religious or vocational centers, and about 75 medical facilities. The plan clusters Palestinian housing into four district‑like areas separated by large parks and industrial zones, and ties all reconstruction to the full “demilitarization” of Gaza.
Despite the project being nothing less than the complete reconstruction of their homeland, Palestinians have been entirely excluded from the Executive Board, the general membership, and all positions of meaningful authority or influence in the decision-making process. Benjamin Netanyahu, on the other hand, is a founding member.
Last May, while on a middle east trip, Trump revealed the real, darker nature of the project “I have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good. Make it a freedom zone. Let the United States get involved and make it just a freedom zone. I’d be proud to have the United States have it, take it, make it a freedom zone.”
The Network State
The Board of Peace is planning to build a “freedom city” in Gaza.
Curtis Yarvin’s seminal role in promoting techno fascism and the network state has been clear—his “Patchwork” essays and Dark Enlightenment writings imagine a world of thousands of such corporate city‑states, each run by a CEO‑like sovereign.
Balaji Srinivasan is the architect and marketer of the overall blueprint: his “network state” doctrine provides an ideological and technical playbook: They are pitched as semi-autonomous city-states with investor written charters, ultra low regulation and corporate style governance that replaces municipal democracy…”
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‘It was the decision of one oligarch’: Bulgarian PM Gyurov walks back Board of Peace participation
“…Bulgarian PM says Board of Peace participation was not cleared by parliament and joining was the result of political maneuvering by “one oligarch”.
Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov told Euronews joining the Board of Peace led by US President Donald Trump was the result of “one oligarch’s decision” and does not reflect the political consensus in the country.
“It would be an exaggeration to say this is the position of Bulgaria,” he told Euronews Special Report in an interview Thursday. “It was not a question of international politics – it was a personal question of one oligarch who is sanctioned by the Global Magnitsky Act.”
“The signing of this treaty has to do with him being removed from this list of sanctions. I do not think it will work. What is surprising, unfortunately, is the influence of an oligarch in some parties,” he added.
The oligarch in question, although not mentioned by name, is Delyan Peevski. An influential figure in Bulgarian politics from the shadows, Peevski is currently sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom for bribery and corruption…”
“…contrary to the hype, researchers have consistently found that AI-generated code is a bug-filled mess, forcing some programmers to pick up the pieces.
“No one knows right now what the right reference architectures or use cases are for their institution,” Dorian Smiley, CTO and founder of AI software engineering company Codestrap, told The Register.
“From the large language model perspective, people aren’t really addressing the fallibility of the underlying text,” CEO Connor Deeks added.
As software engineers continue to be put under pressure to use AI for their work — or else land on the chopping block — many errors could fall through the cracks.
“Even within the coding, it’s not working well,” Smiley told The Register. “Code can look right and pass the unit tests and still be wrong.”
The executive explained that the benchmarks required to verify code simply haven’t caught up yet, which means companies leveraging AI may be flying by the seat of their pants by using AI to verify AI code, a potentially dangerous feedback loop…”
“…Oil was presented as an exotic prize held captive beneath inhospitable landscapes, captured by western oil companies cast as heroic pioneers, and brought back for the enjoyment of British motorists.
Oil development was marketed not as exploitation, but as an inevitable component of Western modernity.
Meanwhile, Iranians appeared only at the margins, either as labourers or collateral damage in the larger drama of oil. “Gone are the captains and kings,” proclaimed one BP advertisement. “Their citadels are crumbled to dust.”
A century later, the great game for oil continues in Iran
In his 1978 book “Orientalism”, Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said observed:
“Always there lurks the assumption that although the western consumer belongs to a numerical minority, he is entitled either to own or to expend (or both) the majority of the world’s resources. Why? Because he, unlike the Oriental, is a true human being.”That presumption has shaped Western attitudes toward oil-producing regions for more than a century. In Iran specifically, it has led to a repeating cycle of conflict over its oil resources, with Iranian leaders often characterized as dangerous, unpredictable and greedy…”
“…While there is overlap with the concept of “anarcho-tyranny,” there is an important distinction between anarcho-tyranny and interventionist non-intervention. The concept of anarcho-tyranny implies in the first part of the term—anarchy—a total absence of government involvement, however, that is often not the case. It is not that there is pure anarchy—absence of government—allowed in selective cases and tyranny in other cases, but rather that the “anarchy” (disorder) described by anarcho-tyranny is state-imposed disorder. This chaos and disorder (termed “anarcy”) happens within, and largely because of, the state system, not independent of it.
Anarcho-tyranny implies that what citizens often experience are merely two polar and problematic extremes—total absence of the state and the repressive, over-active presence of the state. The problem with this analysis—while useful colloquially—is that it presents “anarchy” and tyranny as two opposite and problematic problems on a spectrum, as if the lack of the state and the tyranny of the state are qualitatively equal problems. In actuality, the modern states are involved in both of these elements. Francis does seem to make this point, perhaps demonstrating that “anarchy” may not be the most precise term for what he describes:
'You can accuse the federal leviathan of many things—corruption, incompetence, waste, bureaucratic strangulation—but mere anarchy, the lack of effective government, is not one of them. Yet at the same time, the state does not perform effectively or justly its basic duty of enforcing order and punishing criminals, and in this respect its failures do bring the country, or important parts of it, close to a state of anarchy. But that semblance of anarchy is coupled with many of the characteristics of tyranny, under which innocent and law-abiding citizens are punished by the state or suffer gross violations of their rights and liberty at the hands of the state [or other criminals the state ignores]. The result is what seems to be the first society in history in which elements of both anarchy and tyranny pertain at the same time and seem to be closely connected with each other and to constitute, more or less, opposite sides of the same coin.'..."
~ Full article...“…Dan Alamariu, the chief geopolitical strategist at Alpine Macro, is warning that if this war with Iran persists we could see “peak war panic” in approximately 1 to 3 weeks…
Alamariu acknowledged there’s a growing chance that the war lasts longer than his two-month outlook, and the Strait of Hormuz would likely remain closed for the duration. That means Brent crude prices will stay above $100 a barrel and possibly even top $150. And yet, the market hasn’t reached maximum panic yet.
“Peak war panic is more likely to hit in the next 1 to 3 weeks,” he predicted. “The longer the conflict lasts, the more investors price in economic damage.”
Using oil prices as a gauge for market panics, crude has historically peaked four to eight weeks into similar conflicts, according to Alamariu. The Iran war has now entered its third week.If the price of oil surpasses $150 a barrel and stays there for an extended period of time, it will cause widespread panic.
I have no doubt about that at all.
What investors would really like to see is an end to the war, but an end to the war is not even on the horizon at this stagε…”
“…We have succumbed to the illusory belief that “the powers behind the curtain” can–and will–always save us from a market crash and “real recession.” What history teaches us is this can only happen in a very specific set of conditions which no longer apply: if oil costs plateau at a higher level, inflation becomes self-reinforcing, credit expansion leads to extremes of risk and productivity remains stagnant, then those behind the curtain will only make the situation worse by lowering interest rates and “running it hot.”
At that point, everyone predicting a continuation of the past 18 years will be reaping their reward for being wrong: a margin call in a bidless market. Predicting is hard, but it’s good to keep an open mind and avoid recency bias. If conditions change beneath the surface, the folks behind the curtain will be powerless to do anything but make it worse…”
“…Energy insecurity has institutions, stockpiles, and doctrine.
Fertilizer insecurity does not.
No country appears to maintain a fertilizer reserve system remotely comparable in scale, doctrine, or strategic importance to the petroleum reserve architecture built after the oil shocks of the 1970s. Today’s policy response to the Hormuz crisis is not a nutrient reserve release. It is an improvised attempt to rebuild shipping and insurance capacity on the fly. This structural asymmetry, now exposed with violent clarity, may prove to be one of the most consequential oversights in the history of modern statecraft. The Strait of Hormuz, a 21-nautical-mile corridor of shallow water between Iran and Oman, does not merely carry twenty percent of the world’s oil. It carries a significant share of the molecular foundation underlying half the planet’s food supply. UNCTAD estimates that roughly one-third of global seaborne fertilizer trade passes through Hormuz. The Fertilizer Institute separately estimates that exporters exposed directly or indirectly to the conflict account for nearly 49 percent of global urea exports, nearly 30 percent of global ammonia exports, and nearly half of global sulfur trade. That combination makes Hormuz not merely an energy chokepoint, but one of the most concentrated nutrient chokepoints in the global food system. Since late February 2026, commercial traffic through that corridor has effectively collapsed. UNCTAD reports daily ship transits fell by approximately 97 percent. As of mid-March, neither belligerent has shown willingness to negotiate. Trump rejected allied efforts to launch ceasefire talks on March 14. Iran’s foreign minister stated on March 15: “We never asked for a ceasefire.” And the spring planting clock is ticking toward a deadline that no diplomatic breakthrough can extend, because seeds do not negotiate, soil chemistry does not pause for geopolitics, and the quadratic yield response curve of cereal crops does not bend to the will of men who have never planted a field.
This is the story of the Nitrogen Trap. It is not primarily a story about war, though war is its catalyst. It is not primarily a story about oil, though Brent crude closed above $100 per barrel on March 12. It is not primarily a story about commodity markets, though fertilizer equities have surged roughly forty percent in fourteen trading days. It is the story of a civilization that optimized every node of its food production system for cost efficiency while concentrating existential dependencies in chokepoints it cannot control, inputs it does not stockpile, and insurance markets it does not regulate. The answer, as we are about to discover, is that these systems are not merely repricing. They are fracturing. And the fractures propagate through at least fourteen distinct transmission channels, from the farm gates of Iowa to the bread queues of Cairo, from the urea factories of Chattogram to the diesel exhaust systems of Australian road trains, from the desalination plants of Bahrain to the generic drug factories of Hyderabad, in a cascading architecture of failure that no consensus model has yet mapped in its entirety…”
“…Perhaps most alarmingly for war planners in Washington, though, were the comments of Belgian prime minister, Bart De Wever. In an interview with local newspaper, L’Echo, De Wever stated that Trump’s Iran attacks will force Europe to come to a quick and independent agreement with Russia, in order to avoid financial ruin amid an impending energy crisis. “We must normalize relations with Russia and regain access to cheap energy. That is common sense,” he said, adding, “In private, European leaders agree with me, but no one dares to say it out loud. We must end the conflict in the interest of Europe, without being naïve towards Putin.”
Thus, even as Trump threatens Europe, stating his administration is watching very closely and noting their actions, European leaders could be moving towards a rupture in the transatlantic alliance…”