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BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019284.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…- sion has had wide repercussions in Central Europe, a region that had expected a secure alignment with the democratic world after the end of the Cold War. Poland, for example, had achieved something quite remarkable prior to 2014, given its history of domina- tion by outside po...

Except for Russia, no other country’s efforts to influence American politics and society
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020462.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ted by China. The appendices survey China’s quite diverse influence activities in other democratic countries around the world. Among the report’s findings: e¢ The Chinese Communist party-state leverages a broad range of party, state, and non-state actors to advance its influenc...

regime does in fact survive, Iran would become increasingly emboldened
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018205.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ts in the Middle East. Denuding U.S. forces in the region to enable a pivot to Asia 1s also risky. Nowhere else in the world is America more likely to deploy forces than in the Persian Gulf in opposition to Iran, and nowhere else is it of utmost importance that any potential con...

Iran Threatens to Close the Strait of Hormuz Division
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026952.txt Aug 6, 2018 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…f Hormuz: April 2019 Crude Oil Production Per Country and Export Flows Arabia ; (85%) (9.8) Others 15%) = A third of world’s LNG and a fifth of global oil production goes through the Strait of Hormuz. = “Tran relies on the Strait not only for its oil exports, but also for the...

212 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015902.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…a general-purpose computing machine: the forerunner of all modern computers. At the time, only a handful people in the world could assess Turing’s paper. One of them, Alonzo Church, was based at the Institute of Advanced Mathematics in the USA on the Princeton University campus,...

I can choose to type any word I like
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015731.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…s were inevitable. We all want free will to mean actual freedom to make conscious choices. We would like to affect the world in which we live; not the other way around. I dislike making definitions — I find they take away from the core argument and only result in linguistic jous...

just oblivious to what others are thinking: a willful and
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024234.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…usiness and household infrastructure. One woman, on an afternoon when I was there, had just returned from an around-the-world honeymoon that Epstein had arranged for her. Some are, or have been, his romantic interests. His present girlfriend, whom he met four years ago at a dinne...

audible disbelief (everybody makes their own particular odd noise). Press
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022731.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…old infrastructure. One woman, on an afternoon when I was there, recently married, had just returned from an around the world honeymoon that Epstein had arranged for her. Some are his romantic interests. His present girl friend is in dental school. One former girlfriend, Eva Ande...

Punishment in humans is emblematically promiscuous. We castigate others whenever they
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012760.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ill personal needs or to help others. We all desire good health, fulfilling relationships, and knowledge to explain the world. Some also desire great wealth and power, each culture weighing in on its signature vision of what counts: money, land, livestock, wives, and subordinate...

“Mika and Joe totally love this. It’s big ratings for them,” said the president, with
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020073.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…weets—the uncouthness and verbal abuse demonstrated by the president, his serious lack of control and judgment, and the worldwide censure heaped upon him for it—had already far receded, wholly overshadowed by more Trump eruptions and controversy. But before moving on to the next...

just an economic imperative. It was seen as deeply symbolic, signifying Jews
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027865.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… few hours each afternoon and on the Jewish Sabbath, we were with our parents. But otherwise, we lived and learned in a world consisting almost entirely of other children. Everything around us was geared towards making us feel like a band of brothers and sisters, and as part of...

piecemeal renovations—as well as a famous roach and rodent problem—to be vexing and
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019948.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…me with a cheeseburger, watching his three screens and making phone calls—the phone was his true contact point with the world—to a small group of friends, among them most frequently Tom Barrack, who charted his rising and falling levels of agitation through the evening and then c...