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ECP NetHappenings U.S. Virgin Islands saves the US Mainland from Trump

GOLF

Fitting. Golf originated when Scots’ shepherds killing time hit petrified sheep turds with wooden sticks into rabbit holes. Honest.
The one and only thing Trump cares about is golf. All protests should be focused on gold courses. Scottish pranksters are targeting Trump’s Aberdeen golf course with some, uh, creative acts of defiance! Reports of intruders “decorating” the greens have led to increased security. I can’t help but chuckle.

 

POLITICS

The richest country in the world is now
asking its citizens for donations on to help pay off its debt.
Or billionaires could just pay taxes like everybody else.

Canada and Mexico are launching the $120B
Northern Corridor, a new trade route created
to bypass U.S. tariffs and customs. It will reduce
reliance on the U.S. and avoid Trump-era tariffs,
it’s set to boost their economies.

Paul Manafort: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
George Papadopolous: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
Mike Flynn: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
Roger Stone: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
Next up, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Sandi Bachom @sandibachom
I was in court when one of Epstein’s victims
described how Ghislaine Maxwell trained her
and groomed her. She was a virgin and Epstein raped
her on the floor, and she looked up and saw all the
photographs of the famous people, and Ghislaine
said she had to tell Epstein how fantastic he was after he raped her

Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who
wants bibles in the classroom and Christianity
taught to kids, just got caught watching adult content.
On his work computer.
During a Board of Education meeting.
Read that again.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walters-tv-displayed-nude-women

In 2002, at an Edge Foundation “Billionaires’ Dinner”
event in Monterey, CA, Jeffrey Epstein brought
Sarah Kellen and Cindy Lopez on his plane
to the event. Here they are with John Brockman.

It’s a great thing that regular TV is on the decline.
They preach merit too. The loudest preachers of
merit are nepo babies like these two and Musk.
Bitching about DEI while acting oblivious about bs like this.
@karlbode.com
To be clear Larry Ellison, a billionaire Trump
donor who believed the 2020 election was stolen
from Trump, used his own money to buy CBS
and install his son as the boss.
They’ll then convert CBS into another right wing
propaganda mill like Fox News.
It’s not really subtle!
Larry Ellison Invests $6 Billion in Son David’s
Paramount Takeover
The family office is funding the majority of the
$8 billion merger with Skydance as RedBird Capital Partn…
July 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM

Melanie D’Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie
Trump can’t legally deploy the military on US soil.
His budget bill gives $30B to ICE to hire 10,000
more masked, armed agents to be deployed in our communities.
He’s building a domestic military accountable only to him.
This isn’t about immigration.
It’s authoritarianism.

GOOD TROUBLE

If you haven’t yet seen the New Episode of South Park
Yes, ‘South Park’ Went There — And It’s Glorious
In a moment when Hollywood and the media are gripped by fear, Trey Parker and Matt Stone stepped to the mic and dropped a balls-out critique of President Trump and Paramount
Amazingly Aired Uncensored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6khV7jD9xU

Donald Trump is DONE. Stick a fork in him.

Rep. Ro Khanna has FORMALLY
contacted Epstein’s Lawyers to obtain the
birthday book after learning it’s in their
hands – and not the DOJ’s.
“This is an extraordinary step toward justice…
and if needed, we can subpoena it.”
Things just got real for Trump.  @RoKhanna is doing
what justice demands, going straight to Epstein’s
lawyers to get the birthday book. No more stalling.
No more sealed secrets.
The truth is knocking, and it’s not asking twice.

ARE YOU AWARE:
While the DOJ — at Trump’s bidding —
hides the Epstein files, little if any attention is
being paid to this: The U.S. Virgin Islands, acting
independently from U.S. law enforcement, exposed
Epstein’s international sex trafficking empire —
and won a record $105M+ civil settlement
in 2022 from his estate.

U.S. Virgin Islands saves the US Mainland
from Trump Their AG called it:
“An expansive criminal enterprise…
where dozens of young women and children
were trafficked, raped, sexually assaulted, and held captive.”
They named it the “Epstein Enterprise”.
They froze accounts, forced the sale of Epstein’s
private islands, and clawed back over $80M
in fraudulent tax credits.
This case got next to zero headlines.

Why?
▶️ It didn’t come from the FBI.
▶️ It didn’t come from U.S. DOJ.
▶️ It came from a Black woman AG in a U.S. territory who did what the U.S. DOJ wouldn’t do: expose the elite cover-up.

So we ask:
Where are the Virgin Islands Epstein files?
The documents. The photos. The logs.
We know they exist.
We demand their release.
Follow this link 12/1/02 to the official
announcement of the
U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice
https://usvidoj.com/u-s-virgin-islands-attorney-general-settles-sex-trafficking-case-against-estate-of-jeffrey-epstein-and-co-defendants-for-over-105-million/

THESE U.S.V.I. PEOPLE ARE SO STRONG AND RESILIENT!!
1990 Festival, U.S. Virgin Islands, Celebrations, Environment
In the Heart of the Storm: The Resilience of Culture

How many of those 4725 wire transfers
were made between Trump and Epstein?
Over 1 BILLION dollars And what were they for?

The Supreme Court just let the Trump
admin remove 3 members of the Consumer
Product Safety Commission without cause,
overruling a federal judge who reinstated them.
This continues a pattern of Trump removing independent officials
with no accountability.

Ralph Nader@RalphNader
Here’s a calculation for you.
Take all of DOGE’s cuts, the close downs of agencies,
the firing of hundreds of thousands of federal workers,
the breaking of all kinds of contracts with business
contractors including small businesses, the depletion
of the social safety net. Add it all up and it doesn’t
amount in terms of dollars to the three major
additions that Tyrant Trump has added:
-$150 billion more to the bloated military budget.
-Another $45 billion for building corporate
concentration camps for migrants who have not been
convicted of anything.
-And another $44 billion to build the wall
between Mexico and the United States.
Those totals are far greater than the cruel
and vicious so-called savings at the expense of the lives
and livelihoods of American families. -R

FOLKLORE

Professor Gregory Hansen
Here are some articles that include lots of photos.
https://arkreview.org/

“Envisioning a Storyworld at the Crowley’s
Ride Raceway.”
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 55.3 (2024): 186-205.

“Delta Sources and Resources:
Delta Gateway Museum.”
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 53.3 (2022): 227-9.

“KASU FM 91.9’s ‘Bluegrass Monday’: Performing
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Fostering Historic
Preservation in Arkansas, USA.” In Sustaining Support
for Intangible Cultural Heritage, edited by Shihan de
Silva Jayasuriya, Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira and
Gregory Hansen.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022, 96-113.

“The Lepanto Terrapin Derby: A Photo Essay in the Time of a Pandemic.” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 52.1 (2021): 36-52.

BITCOIN

Bitcoin just proved it can absorb a $9 BILLION
sell order in 36 hours with minimal market disruption.
Huge green light for large fund managers and sovereigns
who can be assured of moving their money in/out w relative ease.
Incredibly bullish liquidity test.

American HODL says the coming Bitcoin treasury bubble
could rival the dot-com era—$11T of capital chasing BTC,
with true mania not hitting until 2026+. That’s when
Bitcoin could theoretically run towards a $1M
blow-off top. Is he on to something?

ECP NetHappenings Saylor Academy Free Education For All

Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly
1,400 Education Department employees

@grok said
Comparing debt-based fiat and Bitcoin:

Fiat: Relies on perpetual debt expansion to pay
prior obligations, eroding value via inflation
(e.g., USD lost 99% since 1971). Ponzi-like as new
money funds old without real backing,
risking collapse sans growth.

Bitcoin: Decentralized, fixed 21M supply, no central promises. Value from scarcity/market demand, not new entrants paying old.

Fiat more Ponzi-like (70% probability) due to debt
pyramid; Bitcoin low (10%) as asset, not scheme.
GROK AI SAYS THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS CORRUPT
BECAUSE IT “CREATES MONEY FROM THIN AIR.”
ITS ONE WORD SOLUTION: #BITCOIN

Mark Moss @1MarkMoss Jul 25
The “Holy Grail” Bitcoin indicator is the PI Cycle Top Indicator.
It has perfectly nailed Bitcoin cycle tops in 2013, 2017,
and 2021, but… what it’s calling next is hard to believe.
While everyone is expecting BTC to peak in Q4 2025,
the PI Cycle Top is calling for a peak in Q1 2027, with the
bitcoin price being $395,000
Will the Pi Cycle top continue to be accurate, or is it broken?
Only time will tell.

What Is the Dolphin Card?
The #DolphinCard has a 1% fee but you maintain full privacy & sovereignty.
Other cards might pay you 4% to use them, but you have to give up all your info, let them track your spending habits, and sell your data.
*They can de-platform you anytime too. I know which one I prefer.

HEADLINES

@BladeoftheS
The USA is the only country on the planet that
employs more people in Health Insurance than
it employs as Doctors and Nurses.
Most of your money is spent BLOCKING your own treatment.

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21 children, some birthed by surrogate mothers,
found in connection with L.A.-area home
A local hospital notified police of an infant
who was taken to its care with head injuries.
Police said they are investigating whether the
children found at the home in the San Gabriel Valley
east of Los Angeles were part of a surrogacy scam.
The home’s residents — Silvia Zhang, 38,
and Guojun Xuan, 65 — were released from custody,
pending further investigation, authorities said.
It is not clear how many children at the
home were born to surrogate mothers

Meta shareholders vs Mark Zuckerberg in $8 billion lawsuit

The Patterns of Elites Who Conceal
Their Assets Offshore | Dartmouth

Minnesota Supreme Court Rules on
Unicorn Riot DAPL Subpoena

Ex-NYPD commissioner sues NYC mayor,
alleging he ran police department as a ‘criminal enterprise’

7 Concerning Levels Of Acoustic Spying Techniques
Take my hand while I gradually show you how to
spy in ways that will make KGB agents look like noobs.

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Alexander Hamilton’s Mother is Buried on St. Croix U.S.V.I.

DEMOCRATS TAKE NOTE

Democrats , do you want two more Senators ? Here’s how ! You are welcome.

Although the culture is different, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands should merge together as one state. Also, PR and the USVI are only separated by 35-45 miles at their closest (Eastern tip of Vieques, PR to northwestern tip of St. Croix, USVI)
The population addition is almost negligible — PR having 3.2+million and USVI having 100k. They would never give a 100k jurisdiction two senators any other way.

Alexander Hamilton’s Mother is Buried Here

https://stcroixsource.com/2020/09/30/alexander-hamiltons-mother-is-buried-here/

Most people know about founding father Alexander Hamilton’s ties to St. Croix before he went north to help create the United States but may not be aware that his mother is still on the island, buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in the 26 acres of Estate Grange.

The mid-island property was first owned by James Lytton Sr. and his wife, Anna, from 1738 to 1764, according to the Royal Library of Denmark. The couple was originally from Nevis and Mrs. Lytton’s sister was Rachel Faucett Lavien, Alexander Hamilton’s mother. (Original and family documents use several different spellings of her first, middle and last names.)

Various sources say Lavien first came to St. Croix with her mother and married a much older man, Johann Lavien. She was not happy and left her husband, who then had her jailed for mistakes that were “indecent and very suspect,” including infidelity, according to Michael Newton’s “Discovering Hamilton.” Johann Lavien eventually had her released and instead of going back to him, she returned to Nevis.

“She was probably not a happy person. Like her son Alexander, she was probably a very intelligent woman and refused to accept his subjugation,” Rebecca Merwin, the trustee for the estate, conjectured.

According to St. Croix historian George Tyson, who researched and wrote a lengthy history of the Grange Estate, Rachel “spent considerable time with her sister” at Grange before she returned to Nevis and met James Hamilton. Hamilton and Lavien returned to St. Croix in 1765 with sons Alexander and James.

Grange had been sold in 1764 and the Lyttons had moved into Christiansted. The Hamiltons and Lavien also lived in Christiansted for some time. According to several sources, he left the family – they hadn’t married, nor did she change her name. Lavien died around 1768 of a fever, according to Merwin.

Since the Lyttons sold Grange before Hamilton and Lavien moved back to St. Croix, Alexander Hamilton probably did not spend time there unless he visited his mother’s gravesite, Tyson speculated. Other sources also say his mother is buried there.

According to a book by Robert Amadeus Johnson, a St. Croix resident for many years, the Lytton’s son Peter was Alexander Hamilton’s guardian until Alexander went to the mainland.

Set back from the road into the estate is a large grassy lawn surrounded by lignum vitae, mahogany trees and lush greenery. Merwin said the Lyttons graveyard has not been identified exactly but may be the grassy field. Evidence that the Lyttons retained Parcel No. 10 supports this theory. Until someone is able to X-ray the land, they won’t know for sure.

Estate Grange reflects the history of St. Croix, Merwin said. It was a microcosm of the prosperity during the sugar production days, economic ruin when cane was replaced by beet sugar and the struggle to grow other agriculture.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, Grange became a botanical station and today has more lignum vitae than anywhere else on the island, according to Merwin. Lignum Vitae is an endangered species, indigenous to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America. It was historically used as a health remedy and the wood is known for its strength and durability, according to the U.S. Botanic Garden.

The estate’s great house sits on a hilltop with views to the south and west. The front of the house looks down on the grass field, two grave markers, the estate bell and is partly surrounded by a large outdoor patio, shaded by big mahogany trees. An infirmary, cottages and ruins also dot the hillside and the overseer’s stone house rests next to the great house.

One of the grave markers is for Lavien, erected in 1902 by Gertrude Atherton, author of “The Conqueror; Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton.” The headstone reads, “Rachael Fawcett Lewin, 1736-1768, She was the mother of Alexander Hamilton.” Most sources say Lewin was born between 1725 and 1729.

The other large stone monument is for Danish soldiers, quarantined in the great house/infirmary, who died from yellow fever in 1886, according to the National Register of Historic Places application in 1974. There is also an estate bell suspended from a stone arch dated 1767.

According to Denmark’s Royal Library, there were 15 owners of Estate Grange, beginning with the Lyttons in 1738.

In 1906, the Danish Government and the Danish Sugar Factory of Copenhagen bought the property under the name St. Croix Sugar Company and helped sustain the sugar economy until the end of Danish rule in 1917.

After the United States bought the island, Grange was sold to a group of investors, including members of the Skeoch and Armstrong families, that functioned under the name St. Croix Sugar Factory Inc., according to Tyson’s research.

At the end of 1928, the company was transferred to brothers Douglas, Robert and Malcolm Armstrong after their family home was destroyed in a hurricane. The Armstrongs grew sugar cane at Grange until the industry collapsed in 1930, Tyson wrote. Since then, the property has been in the Armstrong name. The last owner was Malcolm Armstrong, who took over in 1965. The current owner is the M.K. Armstrong Trust beginning in 1969.

In 2007, U.S. Sens. Orrin Hatch and Jay Rockefeller along with Gov. John deJongh Jr. and Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen worked to have the property designated as a National Historic Site and to hold Grange in the National Trust for Public Land. However, not enough connection between Hamilton and Grange was found and Congress did not approve the designations, according to Merwin.

Merwin said the National Park Service and private individuals have explored turning the estate into a museum. So far no one has come forward with a plan or the resources.

“I think to this day the NPS would be happy to provide guidance,” she said.

Estate Grange has been listed for sale off and on since around 2004. The current asking price is $1.45 million. Merwin pointed out that it could be converted into a bed and breakfast, a restaurant, an art or vocational school, an events center as well as a residence. The grounds provide enough land for expansion and parking and the large rooms and high ceiling in the great house could support various purposes.

“My goal at this point is to help Grange start a new chapter, whether as a residence or museum. I’m hoping someone who loves historical properties takes a shine to it,” Merwin said.

Caribbean, 1754, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, USVI, Old Danish Map

1754 Danish Map of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, #USVI This cadastral map shows land owners on the island up to 1767,  including plans of the towns of Frederiksted (Friderichsstæd) and Christiansted (Christianstæd).

Grange Estate Havertown, PA U.S.

Welcome to The Historic Grange Estate located in Havertown, Pennsylvania. Our mission is to preserve the integrity of the 10 acre Grange Estate, including the complex of historic structures on the site. The Grange Estate reflects the history of the community since 1682. The preservation, restoration, conservation and promotion of the property are vital to an appreciation of our American and Haverford Township heritage.

Nestled on a hillside above Cobbs Creek , the Grange Estate is now composed of the mansion, first inhabited in the early 1700’s, and numerous outbuildings – including the carriage house, two springhouses, “necessary,” long barn, tenant house, charming ruins and other dependencies. Adjacent to the site is the converted dairy barn that is now St. James Church. Surrounding these improvements are gardens and woodlands with historic and state champion trees.

We encourage you to explore this site, and then come explore the mansion and grounds and experience what is truly a hidden gem in the heart of Haverford Township.

143 Myrtle Avenue
Havertown, PA 19083

Ashleigh Novak @ashleighjnovak
Latest publication is finally out! We looked at space and habitat inferences between a broad-scale (100+) receiver array and a nested VPS system in Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, USVI. Stay tuned for more STX work on fine-scale movements of 7 reef fishes!