"The Metropolitan Police investigation into Peter Mandelson over the leaking of sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein has established an unambiguous principle: those who seek to compromise the UK’s secrets to a foreign intelligence-linked sexual predator forfeit their access to power.

Mandelson was sacked as US Ambassador, has resigned his membership of the Labour Party, and has been forced to quit the House of Lords over ongoing revelations about his relationship to Epstein.

He now faces potential criminal charges for misconduct in public office.

Yet, the same convicted sex offender who received state secrets from Mandelson, was simultaneously a “co-owner” through a significant limited partnership investment of a Silicon Valley venture fund controlled by Peter Thiel – the billionaire founder of defence analytics giant Palantir Technologies, which now holds more than £670 million in UK Government contracts spanning nuclear weapons systems, NHS patient records, Ministry of Defence operations, and police intelligence databases.

More than 100 documents from the files released by the US Department of Justice, seen by Byline Times, reveal that Thiel personally solicited and maintained a business partnership with Epstein that stretched from 2014 through 2019, all the way up to Epstein’s final arrest.

During this period, Epstein was a “co-owner” of Thiel’s Valar fund..."

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/jeffrey-epstein-and-peter-thiel-co-owned-venture-fund-as-thiels-palantir-entered-uk-government/

#UK #Palantir #Thiel #Valar #VentureFund #NHS #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Goku x Gandalf — quem vence?

Goku x Gandalf: quem ganha de verdade? 🤔🔥

- Minha opinião direta: ouso dizer que Goku NÃO teria chance contra Gandalf. 🧙‍♂️⚡
- Por quê? Pesquise sobre Gandalf, Saruman e Galadriel — estamos falando de magia, autoridade dos Valar e poderes ancestrais que extrapolam força física. 🌌📜
- Diferença de eixo: Goku = poder físico, ki e combate corpo a corpo. Gandalf = magia cósmica,...

#Goku #Gandalf #SenhorDosAnéis #Valar #DebateNerd #AnimeVsFantasy #MorningCrypto

This is my newest divinatory drawing, started under the conjunction of Venus with the Trans-Neptunian Object Varda in Sagittarius last week, and finished as Mercury was applying to a conjunction with Varda that perfected on New Year's Day.

Varda is named for the Tolkienian "star-enkindler" and Queen of the Valar, called Elbereth Gilthoniel in the Sindarin elvish language. She is said to have created the Sun and Moon, to have arranged the constellations, and to have placed the star Eärendil in the heavens. Based on the timing of its appearances at the horizon in morning or evening, Eärendil most likely corresponds to the planet Venus. Varda is invoked for protection from evil, and it is the light of Eärendil that is contained in the flask given by Galadriel to Frodo and wielded against Shelob.

More information about this art and these astrological transits is available in this public post on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/inspirations-and-146990208

#Art #Astrology #Drawing #Tolkien #Valar #Varda

Q: Does Nienna Have A Personality?

ANSWER: I have never written anything about Nienna, the Vala. I received this question about Nienna in September 2024:

Is Nienna a person suffering from depression or a personification of “grief”?

When you read articles on Nienna, it is all about grief and pity and nothing else. She has her own Hall to grieve in, her music brought grief into the world, […]

https://middle-earth.xenite.org/does-nienna-have-a-personality/

Damn, these black mini nukes with the white logos look like they are straight out of the built environment of #Cyberpunk2077.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/valar-atomics-comes-out-of-stealth-with-19m-and-a-pilot-reactor-site/

#Valar #NuclearPower

[caption id="attachment_14424" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Although the War of Wrath was an apocalyptic event that J.R.R. Tolkien reused in several of his mythologies, he never wrote an account that was consistent with the Middle-earth of ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Readers cannot agree on whether the Valar played a direct, active role in the war and the destruction of Beleriand. Here is […]

https://middle-earth.xenite.org/did-the-valar-fight-in-the-war-of-wrath/

[caption id="attachment_14385" align="alignright" width="720"] The Teleri built Alqualondë on the northern shores of Aman in Eldamar. But was this Swan-haven considered to be a part of Valinor, too? Here is what we know.[/caption]

Q: Is Alqualondë Formally Considered To Be Part of Valinor?

ANSWER: I received the following question in December 2023:

Is Alqualondë formally considered to […]

https://middle-earth.xenite.org/is-alqualonde-formally-considered-to-be-part-of-valinor/

▸ Hvaldimir är död. Den vita kändisvalen hittades av Per Harald Pedersen, 50.

Hvaldimir är död. Den vita kändisvalen hittades av Per Harald Pedersen, 50. – Jag trodde först han sov, säger han till VG.#hvaldimirvitval #valar #döden
Hvaldimir är död

#tolkien #middleearth #fantasy
Q: Why Were the Valar So Hands Off When It Came To Middle-Earth?
ANSWER: This question was submitted in September 2022. The full comment reads:
Why were the Valar so hands off when it came to Middle-Earth especially after they defeated and captured Morgoth for a second time? Morgoth was the initial reason for all the […]

https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-were-the-valar-so-hands-off-when-it-came-to-middle-earth/