Sigal Mandelker ,
the Zionist Under Secretary of the Treasury in charge of enforcing sanctions and boycotts,
was one of the high-ranking Department of Justice officials who signed off on the
nonprosecution agreement with Jeffrey Epstein in 2008.
Was she the one who told Acosta to back off on Epstein, as he belonged to intelligence and
was above Acosta's pay grade?
"... After he became vice president in 1940, as Roosevelt was increasingly ill, Wallace promoted a new vision for America's role in the world that suggested that rather than playing catch up with the imperial powers, the United States should work with partners to establish a new world order that eliminated militarism, colonialism and imperialism. ..."
"... In diplomacy, Wallace imagined a multi-polar world founded on the United Nations Charter with a focus on peaceful cooperation. In contrast, in 1941 Henry Luce, publisher of Time Magazine, had called for an 'American century,' suggesting that victory in war would allow the United States to "exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit and by such means as we see fit." ..."
"... Foreign aid for Wallace was not a tool to foster economic dominance as it was to become, but rather "economic assistance without political conditions to further the independent economic development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries." He held high "the principle of self-determination for the peoples of Africa, Asia, the West Indies, and other colonial areas." He saw the key policy for the United States to be based on "the principles of non-interference in the internal affairs of other nations and acceptance of the right of peoples to choose their own form of government and economic system." ..."
"... The United States should be emulating China, its Belt and Road Initiative and Community of Common Destiny, as a means of revitalizing its political culture and kicking its addiction to a neo-colonial concept of economic development and growth. Rather than relying on militarization and its attendant wars to spark the economy, progressives should demand that the US work in conjunction with nations such as China and Russia in building a sustainable future rather than creating one failed state after another. ..."
This is as good a time as any to point to an alternative vision of foreign policy. One based on the principle of non-interference,
respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, and, above all, international law. One based on peaceful coexistence and mutual
cooperation. A vision of the world at peace and undivided by arbitrary distinctions. Such a world is possible and even though
there are currently players around the world who are striving in that direction we need look no further than our own history for
inspiration. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you one Henry A. Wallace, for your consideration.
(The following excerpts from an article by Dr. Dennis Etler. Link to the full article provided below.) --
The highest profile figure who articulated an alternative vision for American foreign policy was the politician Henry Wallace,
who served as vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1940-1944 and ran for president in 1948 as the candidate of the
Progressive Party.
After he became vice president in 1940, as Roosevelt was increasingly ill, Wallace promoted a new vision for America's
role in the world that suggested that rather than playing catch up with the imperial powers, the United States should work with
partners to establish a new world order that eliminated militarism, colonialism and imperialism.
Wallace gave a speech in 1942 that declared a "Century of the Common Man." He described a post-war world that offered "freedom
from want," a new order in which ordinary citizens, rather than the rich and powerful, would play a decisive role in politics.
That speech made direct analogy between the Second World War and the Civil War, suggesting that the Second World War was being
fought to end economic slavery and to create a more equal society. Wallace demanded that the imperialist powers like Britain and
France give up their colonies at the end of the war.
In diplomacy, Wallace imagined a multi-polar world founded on the United Nations Charter with a focus on peaceful cooperation.
In contrast, in 1941 Henry Luce, publisher of Time Magazine, had called for an 'American century,' suggesting that victory in
war would allow the United States to "exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit and
by such means as we see fit."
Wallace responded to Luce with a demand to create a world in which "no nation will have the God-given right to exploit other
nations. Older nations will have the privilege to help younger nations get started on the path to industrialization, but there
must be neither military nor economic imperialism." Wallace took the New Deal global. His foreign policy was to be based on non-interference
in the internal affairs of other countries and mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Sadly, since then, despite occasional efforts to head in a new direction, the core constituency for US foreign policy has been
corporations, rather than the "common man" either in the United States, or the other nations of the world, and United States foreign
relations have been dominated by interference in the political affairs of other nations. As a result the military was transformed
from an "arsenal for democracy" during the Second World War into a defender of privilege at home and abroad afterwards.
-- - Foreign aid for Wallace was not a tool to foster economic dominance as it was to become, but rather "economic assistance without
political conditions to further the independent economic development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries." He held high
"the principle of self-determination for the peoples of Africa, Asia, the West Indies, and other colonial areas." He saw the key
policy for the United States to be based on "the principles of non-interference in the internal affairs of other nations and acceptance
of the right of peoples to choose their own form of government and economic system."
--
Wallace's legacy suggests that it is possible to put forth a vision of an honest internationalism in US foreign policy that
is in essence American. His approach was proactive not reactive. It would go far beyond anything Democrats propose today, who
can only suggest that the United States should not start an unprovoked war with Iran or North Korea, but who embrace sanctions
and propagandist reports that demonize those countries.
Rather than ridiculing Trump's overtures to North Korea, they should go further to reduce tensions between the North and the
South by pushing for the eventual withdrawal of troops from South Korea and Japan (a position fully in line with Wallace and many
other politicians of that age).
Rather than demonizing and isolating Russia (as a means to score political points against Trump), progressives should call for
a real détente, that recognizes Russia's core interests, proposes that NATO withdraw troops from Russia's borders, ends sanctions
and reintegrates Russia into the greater European economy. They could even call for an end to NATO and the perpetuation of the
dangerous global rift between East and West that it perpetuates.
Rather than attempt to thwart China's rise, and attack Trump for not punishing it enough, progressives should seek to create new
synergies between China and the US economically, politically and socioculturally.
-- -
In contrast to the US policy of perpetual war and "destroying nations in order to save them," China's BRI proposes an open plan
for development that is not grounded in the models of French and British imperialism. It has proposed global infrastructure and
science projects that include participants from nations in Africa, Asia, South and Central America previously ignored by American
and European elites -- much as Wallace proposed an equal engagement with Latin America. When offering developmental aid and investment
China does not demand that free market principles be adopted or that the public sector be privatized and opened up for global
investment banks to ravish.
-- The United States should be emulating China, its Belt and Road Initiative and Community of Common Destiny, as a means of revitalizing
its political culture and kicking its addiction to a neo-colonial concept of economic development and growth. Rather than relying
on militarization and its attendant wars to spark the economy, progressives should demand that the US work in conjunction with
nations such as China and Russia in building a sustainable future rather than creating one failed state after another.
Media tycoon and former Labour MP Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey
Epstein's partner in crime) was given a state funeral in Jerusalem after *accidentally* falling
off his yacht – the unluckily named "Lady Ghislaine". Later it was revealed Maxwell Sr
was a Mossad asset who used his vast network of connections and publishing platforms to run
editorial interference over his purchased assets to influence enemies and friends alike,
ensuring their fealty to the foreign government that had enlisted him for its espionage
work.
His tabloid empire was the piss-colored propaganda organ of the interests he served,
overseeing its rapid growth and tentacled reach across the globe. More ominously, he was behind
the spy agency's successful attempt to install a trapdoor in software intended for government
use, allowing the Israelis a direct pipeline into a vast network of computers installed with
undectable malware.
At the time of his death, the disgraced magnate was under investigation for raiding his
companies' pension funds to cover the losses incurred from his multiple and reckless takeovers,
and finance a luxury lifestyle he enjoyed sharing with high profile pals like Henry Kissinger
and Barbara Walters. Curiously, many of these fossilized specimens from Robert Maxwell's roster
of friends from the Reagan era would circle around Epstein, most notably Donald Trump whose
Mar-a-Lago resort would later become a recruiting center for employer Epstein's underage
"massage therapists".
Fast forward a couple of decades since the days a casino mogul was gobbling down
canapés with the old guard denizens of the 'swamp'. Notice a similar, if not identical
MO in both Maxwell and Epstein's role in procuring technology for the Israelis, who in turn
sold it with undisclosed add-ons, providing an open window into its users' databases.
Like his predecessor, Epstein had a financial stake in a startup (headed by former Israeli
Defense Minister and later Prime Minister Ehud Barak) connected to Israel's defense industry
that provides infrastructure for emergency services as a call handling platform. Considering
the company's connection to military intelligence, it wouldn't be a stretch to speculate on
some of this software's other 'special' features. A variation of the early technology that
Maxwell was able to procure for his Israeli bosses was later sold to the Saudis, who leveraged
its sophisticated tracking features to assassinate Jamal Khashoggi.
Epstein, like Maxwell, was laying the groundwork for Israeli espionage activities through
his interests in companies with a political agenda concealed in products intended for
international export. If true, the playboy philanthropist feted and flattered his high profile
friends to ensnare them as complicit partners in what amounts to the legal definition of
treason. Epstein's covert activities have undiminished real world consequences for anyone on
Israel's international radar, especially those challenging the status quo policies in place
that prioritize "The Jewish State's" political and financial objectives over actual justice and
global stability.
If you have ever asked yourself why Israel's war crimes and settlement expansion go
unchallenged by US lawmakers, consider the career destroying consequences contained within
those dossiers compiled by the braintrust behind Epstein's 'suicide'. "We'll trade you one US
Embassy in Jerusalem for 10 minutes of hidden camera footage of you . . . let's say 'enjoying'
a rolled up Forbes magazine".
Were the surveillance apparatuses installed throughout Epstein's properties merely a
voyeur's tools, or did he use them to leverage the moral failings of his former friends for
purposes that might have risked exposure of more than the nether regions of wealthy
pedo-punters? Considering his connections to Israeli defense industries and his own Achilles
penis that required, by his own admission, "three orgasms a day", the answer points to an
unslakable addiction that dovetailed conveniently with his state-sponsored sex crimes.
Did Epstein make the same mistake of Maxwell (who had asked for nearly half a billion dollar
in "loans" from his Israeli backers to relieve him of his mounting debts) believing the dirt he
had in his possession would prove radioactive if released? By this time, the corpulent tycoon
was nicknamed the 'Bouncing Czech' a reference in most part to his worsening money woes. The
implication of this request, if turned down, was the exposure of Israel's state secrets.
Epstein could have also attempted to collateralize the cache of damning evidence still in his
possession to secure his his freedom with the same fatal consequences.
Both Maxwell and Epstein somehow evaded the electronics that linked them to the outside
world at the time of their deaths, even though the latter had reportedly made an attempt on his
own life while in custody. Both men, facing ruination and serious prison time gave their
executioners an alibi: They had nothing to left to live for. The establishment media is already
trotting out ancient, ding-a-ling conspiracy theories from obscure right wing sources
(attributed to Russia, of course) to highlight the absurdity and futility of questioning the
official story of Epstein's death. Verdict: Nothing to see here.
By now, it's a given that the parasitic and preferred daughter of the deceased tycoon,
made the fateful introduction between her new boyfriend and the Israeli operatives seeking an
entry level plutocrat to carry out their blackmail operations after the untimely death of his
predecessor. An impoverished socialite has to survive in pricey Manhattan somehow, and that
somehow was re-establishing the shady connections to the espionage underworld that had
recruited Maxwell Sr.
Ghislaine's later role as Epstein's Chief Procurement Officer (or pimp for short) gives
more credence to the rumors that she is more than just a debased, barnacle-like appendage to a
billionaire, desperate to please her platonic partner by "organizing his social life", but a
fully cognizant co-conspirator in an operation aimed at strengthening Israel's hand in all
matters pertaining to its national security interests, or more accurately, its overseas
criminal enterprises.
The recent raid on Epstein's Manhattan apartment was not the result of a so-called Justice
Department righting the egregious wrong it committed by letting Epstein off with a slap on the
wrist after his initial conviction that allowed him to serve his sentence largely outside the
minimum-security facility with an open door policy for its billionaire guest. More likely, the
reversal of Epstein's "sweetheart" deal was a joint operation between the oligarch cabal
informally known as the Mega-Group, and the state security apparatuses that do their
bidding.
It's seems likely that this sudden pivot towards justice from a Justice Department
initially spooked into inaction by the spook in his custody, was motivated by the need to
remove the most damning bits among Epstein's vast trove of physical evidence against the pervy
punters who visited his island getaway for unintended photo ops with underage girls.
Perhaps his own abuse of these minors was a perk he felt entitled to, and one that would
be overlooked in the service of "national security". It's hard for most people to differentiate
between the government he actually worked for and the ruling establishment on his home
turf.
It's possible that Epstein felt his serial transgressions were merely par for the plutocracy
and justified in the service of a higher calling.
The 'Israel First' philanthropist shared an unyielding ideological justification for his
own criminality as Robert Maxwell, whom the British Home Office had considered recruiting for
its own intelligence gathering in the mid 1960's. Having determined that the well-connected,
multilingual, rising star politician was strictly "Zionist", the spy agency withdrew his
candidacy.
Epstein's real crimes had little to do with raping children, despite the overturned plea
deal that came about when a federal judge ruled that prosecutors had violated the victims
rights by by concealing the agreement from them. The one time teflon-coated "member of
intelligence" who was "above the pay grade" of a powerful District Attorney (now a now
scandal-tainted former Labor Secretary) was ultimately (and lethally) penalized for not
destroying the contents of his secret-laden safes, leaving his handlers still vulnerable to
their explosive contents.
Had the doomed financier divested himself of the toxic assets still in his possession, he
might still be roaming the earth today, scouring it for new specimens to populate his underage
petting zoo. As a result of the Justice Department's decision to reverse the
non-prosecution deal meant to bury the most incendiary facts of the case, lower-rung punters
like former governor Bill Richardson and Senator George Mitchell are being publicly named for
their part in the sordid scandal. Someone has to take the fall. (Rule number one of PR crisis
management: Crucify the insignificant and let them hang out to dry until the public tires of
watching the slow motion spectacle of their undoing.) Meanwhile, documented and/or photographic
evidence against more powerful players like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump will have already
been destroyed in the pursuit of selective justice.
The fallout of Epstein's spectacular downfall predictably miss the mark as scandals
involving the rich and powerful tend to do. Much of the controversy will dissolve into a
Cheetoh dust maelstrom of disinformation, disseminated on Reddit and 4Chan by incel
info-warriors before shooting up a shopping mall or playground.
Subsequent reporting of the case will overlook decades of the elite-driven state craft
that elevated corrupt and ruthless entities like Epstein and Trump, both ring-kissing acolytes
in their youth of influential mob fixer/politcal power broker Roy Cohn – himself a serial
sexual predator who similarly caught the fancy of fellow deviants Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar
Hoover. Follow the money trail from Tel Aviv and you'll discover an ancestral link between the
corpse of Epstein and his ghostly godfathers waiting with his rewards in hell.
Along with the other disgraced and expendable patsies left in the wake of this ongoing
scandal is Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's octogenarian chief legal counsel and 'wing man' aboard
the Lolita Express. The now unemployable cable news pundit will live out the remainder of his
pointless life under a cloud of suspicion. Despite all the damning testimony against him, the
statutory rape allegations never quite stick, but follow him around like a sneaky fart, forcing
a distance between himself and the rest of humanity that will last until he is engulfed by the
sulfurous fumes of his own making.
The former Harvard law professor's lifelong service to Israel will go unrewarded – not
as a result of victim testimony placing him at multiple crime scenes, but in consideration of
his own inept self-defense strategy: "I'm a scurvy rat aboard a sinking ship eating its own
tail to stay alive. Pity me"! Dershowitz at this point will be lucky if he can achieve the same
pay grade and social status of Lindsay Lohan. Ditto for Prince Andrew who can at least be
relied on to expire slowly of gout in his time-out corner at Windsor Castle.
The moral of this story could be "Lie down with dogs and never wake up again with a
prison-issued sheet around your neck". A variation of the old "Lie down with dogs and and wake
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Seen some good Epstein links that commenters throw up here, thought I'd add some that I read
recently:
– A literary agent named John Brockman was pushing Epstein fairly brazenly:
"Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire science philanthropist showed up at this weekend's event
by helicopter (with his beautiful young assistant from Belarus) He also got into trouble and
spent a year in jail in Florida. If he contacts you it's probably worth your time to meet him
as he's extremely bright and interesting the cover of the NYpost had a full-page photo of
Jeffrey and Andrew walking in Central Park under the headline: 'The Prince and the Perv.'
(That was the end of Andrew's role at the UK trade ambassador.)" https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-intellectual-enabler
– Two sisters reported Epstein decades ago, nothing happened, even after one got
death threats from Ghislaine Maxwell:
@Wally Read the complete 4 part series at mint press. She outlines Israeli/Mossad
connections to the Mega group, organized crime connections to the mega group, Epstein
connections to the Mega group, Les Wexner connections to organized crime and CIA, Mossad
spying on Clinton, attempts by Mossad to install backdoor software to spy via PROMIS which
was sold by Robert Maxwell and was installed in Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, etc.
Also the connections of Epstein and Barak to Calybr software which is a potential spy
application.
Even more so is the attempt by Paul Singer to populate US technology firms with former
Israeli intelligence assets.
@wesmouch Agreed. Their obsessions blind them to the huge story unfolding before our
eyes. Have you looked at Gilad Atzmon's post about Gordon Thomas?
His interview is in the last 25 minutes of the TruNews video.
The beauty of Epstein is that they're only hiding the deeper story. They haven't created
some heroic counter-narrative. So everyone knows Epstein's name, and they know he was a
creep.
Gordon Thomas on Robert Maxwell/Mossad Espionage Project in the USA and Beyond
"... Biden thinks international agents, possibly Russian, who objected to his board membership with a Ukrainian gas company set up a fake account to discredit him. ..."
Last night we heard the best 'excuse' yet if you are caught with an Ashley Madison account, from
Dan Loeb - "due diligence." Today, not to be outdone by a married hedge
fund manager, Vice-President Joe Biden's son "Hunter" has unleashed his own set of excuses for member
ship of the extramarital affairs website,
as Breitbart reports - Biden thinks international agents, possibly Russian,
who objected to his board membership with a Ukrainian gas company set up a fake account to discredit
him. However, IP mapping suggests otherwise...
Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden's account on the extramarital dating website
Ashley Madison was used and likely created on the Georgetown University campus while Biden was
teaching there.
Business executive Robert "Hunter" Biden, reportedly an adviser to his father's political career,
told Breitbart News Monday that he suspected his enemies of creating a fake Ashley Madison account
for him in order to discredit him. The email address provided for "Robert Biden's" account
matched a personal email address once used by Biden, the vice president's son confirmed.
Biden thinks international agents, possibly Russian, who objected to his board membership
with a Ukrainian gas company set up a fake account to discredit him. A source close to
Biden
told People Magazine after the first Breitbart story ran that the IP address for the account
traces to Jacksonville, Florida.
But account information shows that the profile, which was confirmed by a credit card purchase
in 2014, was used at the latitude/longitude point of 38.912682, -77.071704.
That
latitude-longitude point just happens to exist on the Georgetown University campus, at an
administrative building on Reservoir Road. And Hunter Biden just happened to be teaching there
around the time the account was set up.
* * * Faced with the new information, representatives for Biden said that the vice president's
son would not comment on the story beyond his original statements to Breitbart News denying
that the account was his.
hedgeless_horseman
Biden's son discharged from Navy after testing positive for cocaine
He could be head of the ethics committee for the House of Lords.
At least his character flaws are in no way reflective of his father.
You know, apples never fall too far from the trees, stuff.
Hunter says: Hey, quit pickin' on me. Everybody has to try to get a head
somehow!
jcaz
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait until they find Joe's profile....
Manthong
"The truth about the conflict with Russia"
Aw c'mon..
Chevron, Shell, Monsanto, Cargill and others all had deals worth hundreds of
billions with Ukraine prior to the Nuland putsch.
When Yanukovych swung toward Russia's Trade Union instead of the EU, Nuland
used the $5 billion of NGO and western sympathizers she bought over the years, spent a little
more and engineered the violent coup and subsequent civil warfare.
The US sought to marginalize Russia and kick them out of Sevastopol but
surprise, surprise the locals would have none of that. Neither would Russia and the next thing
you know Crimea voted to be absorbed once again by Russia and Nuland is left with crap on her
face. Since the Donbass would have none of that either, 6,000 people are now dead and the
Ukraine is a basket case that the west will have to pay for.
There may be some ethnic animosities in play too, but the real motivations are
geo-political and economical.
ThanksChump
The most-credible bits of information I've found support your summary.
It's sad.
I doubt the West will pay for the cleanup in Ukraine without some form of ROI. That expense
will fall on their non-Russian neighbors who will be directly affected by starving neighbors
this winter, with Poland carrying the bulk.
I doubt the ethnic problems will play a significant role, aside from pro-Russia Ukrainians
feeling less charitable than otherwise.
ThanksChump
The most-credible bits of information I've found support your summary.
It's sad.
I doubt the West will pay for the cleanup in Ukraine without some form of ROI. That expense
will fall on their non-Russian neighbors who will be directly affected by starving neighbors
this winter, with Poland carrying the bulk.
I doubt the ethnic problems will play a significant role, aside from pro-Russia Ukrainians
feeling less charitable than otherwise.
JustObserving
Demented mass-murderer Putin is also a hacker and a blackmailer?
Since the beginning of the week, the three most influential mass circulation newsmagazines of
the United States, Britain, and Germany-Time, The Economist, and Der Spiegel-have published
cover stories that combine wild accusations against Vladimir Putin with demands for a showdown
with Russia.
The most striking and obvious characteristic of these cover stories is that they are virtually
identical. The CIA has scripted them all. The stories employ the same insults and the same
fabrications. They denounce Putin's "web of lies." The Russian president is portrayed as a
"depraved" mass murderer.
The question why the USA intelligence agencies were "unaware" about Epstein activities is an interesting one. Similar question can
be asked about Hillary "activities" related to "Clinton cash".
Actually the way the USA elite deal with scandals is to ostracize any whistleblower and silence any media that tryt to dig the story.
Open repression including physical elimination is seldom used those days as indirect methods are quite effective.
Notable quotes:
"... Either we root out every last source of rot by investigating, indicting and jailing every wrong-doer and everyone who conspired to protect the guilty in the Epstein case, or America will have sealed its final fall. ..."
"... If you doubt this, then please explain how 1) the NSA, CIA and FBI didn't know what Jeffrey Epstein was up to, and with whom; 2) Epstein was free to pursue his sexual exploitation of minors for years prior to his wrist-slap conviction and for years afterward; 3) Epstein, the highest profile and most at-risk prisoner in the nation, was left alone and the security cameras recording his cell and surroundings were "broken." ..."
"... America's ruling class has crucified whistleblowers , especially those uncovering fraud in the defense (military-industrial-security) and financial (tax evasion) sectors and blatant violations of public trust, civil liberties and privacy. ..."
"... Needless to say, a factual accounting of corruption, cronyism, incompetence, self-serving exploitation of the many by the few, etc. is not welcome in America. Look at the dearth of investigative resources America's corporate media is devoting to digging down to the deepest levels of rot in the Epstein case. ..."
Either we root out every last source of rot by investigating, indicting and jailing every wrong-doer and everyone who conspired
to protect the guilty in the Epstein case, or America will have sealed its final fall.
When you discover rot in an apparently sound structure, the first question is: how far has the rot penetrated? If the rot
has reached the foundation and turned it to mush, the structure is one wind-storm from collapse.
How deep has the rot of corruption, fraud, abuse of power, betrayal of the public trust, blatant criminality and insiders protecting
the guilty penetrated America's key public and private institutions? It's difficult to tell, as the law-enforcement and security
agencies are themselves hopelessly compromised.
If you doubt this, then please explain how 1) the NSA, CIA and FBI didn't know what Jeffrey Epstein was up to, and with whom;
2) Epstein was free to pursue his sexual exploitation of minors for years prior to his wrist-slap conviction and for years afterward;
3) Epstein, the highest profile and most at-risk prisoner in the nation, was left alone and the security cameras recording his cell
and surroundings were "broken."
If this all strikes you as evidence that America's security and law-enforcement institutions are functioning at a level that's
above reproach, then 1) you're a well-paid shill who's protecting the guilty lest your own misdeeds come to light or 2) your
consumption of mind-bending meds is off the charts.
How deep has the rot gone in America's ruling elite? One way to measure the depth of the rot is to ask how whistleblowers
who've exposed the ugly realities of insider dealing, malfeasance, tax evasion, cover-ups, etc. have fared.
America's ruling class has crucified whistleblowers , especially those uncovering fraud in the defense (military-industrial-security)
and financial (tax evasion) sectors and blatant violations of public trust, civil liberties and privacy.
Needless to say, a factual accounting of corruption, cronyism, incompetence, self-serving exploitation of the many by the
few, etc. is not welcome in America. Look at the dearth of investigative resources America's corporate media is devoting to digging
down to the deepest levels of rot in the Epstein case.
The closer wrong-doing and wrong-doers are to protected power-elites, the less attention the mass media devotes to them.
... ... ...
Here are America's media, law enforcement/security agencies and "leadership" class: they speak no evil, see no evil and
hear no evil, in the misguided belief that their misdirection, self-service and protection of the guilty will make us buy the narrative
that America's ruling elite and all the core institutions they manage aren't rotten to the foundations.
Either we root out every last source of rot by investigating, indicting and jailing every wrong-doer and everyone who conspired
to protect the guilty in the Epstein case, or America will have sealed its final fall.
Definitely there is lack of facts regarding Epstein, only plausible hypothesis. But it does
not make Epstein affair less dangerous or less sordid. For example, the role of Wexner in
it.
Notable quotes:
"... The issue is never whether Epstein was a criminal. The issue is whether Epstein was the mastermind of a vast pedophile conspiracy masquerading as the Democrat Party, whether he made his fortune as a pimp selling pre-pubescent little girls to Democrats, whether his extortion made him millions or even tens of millions, whether Epstein's services to the pedophile conspiracy of the Democrat Party turned the Democrat Party into a bunch a Zionist traitors. Those are the issues. Saying it's about minimizing the crime is a lie meant to ram through everything else. ..."
"... I am not convinced its Jews, I propose situs to be within the inter-sanctum of Economic Zionism, Jewishness is not required for admission... ..."
"... Epstein never took on young women with resources, he recruited those who had none. This whole scene has little to do with sexual norms and everything to do with the power of money over poverty, privilege over disenfranchisement, resource over hollowness. ..."
"... It's a class struggle, as with everything else. ..."
"... Whitney Webb at mintpressnews.com has described how Jewish gangsters provided blackmail services to CIA/FBI and how Epstein was connected to the 'Mega Group' of billionaire Jewish philanthropists (some with gangster pasts) as well as other groups and individuals that are likely to have connections to Mossad. ..."
"... People were talking about trafficking young women, most of them from impoverished backgrounds or dysfunctional families afflicted by violence or alcoholism, and recruited with promises of easy wealth and security, as prostitutes / sex slaves for wealthy men. No-one was talking about consent laws. ..."
"... Michael Chertoff, who ran Homeland Security under former president George W. Bush, serves on Carbyne's advisory board. Chertoff wrote the Patriot Act, which authorised sweeping digital surveillance of Americans. ..."
"... Given that Epstein spent only 13 months in jail for what appears to be a 38-year crime-spree, how did Epstein evade justice? The answer may lie in a gentlemen's agreement shaping the Israeli-US intelligence relationship. Essentially, spies can operate with impunity when both countries agree on the same security objectives. ..."
"... With a technology and espionage sector rife with criminals like Epstein, Chinese and Russian oligarch investors; there is more than meets the eye to Israel's intelligence. More critically, its security industry may be more compromised and unrestricted than the rest of the world is able to recognise. ..."
"... Victims' lawyers Lisa Bloom and David Boies used to work for Harvey Weinstein involving Black Cube - Lisa Bloom advised on how to smear the accusers. ..."
"... MIT establishes the trends in terms of nowadays Academia. US prestige. What is funded. Result: European and Arab sheeps aka decision makers going 100% technology, hard science and hyper-specialization. ..."
"... ben@67 somehow thinks that if I remind anyone that the goal of the Epstein re-run is to paint the Democratic Party, almost officially known as the Democrat Party by Republicans, as a monstrous pedophile conspiracy operated by Jew gangsters, I am endorsing this madness. ..."
"... Witney Webb at mintpressnews.com has described a history of blackmail ops by Jews in USA that preceded Epstein (Lewis Rosenstiel, Meyer Lansky, Roy Cohn). It's not antisemitic to take note of this anymore than it would be anti-Italian to note that the mafia is run by Italian families. And this history has nothing to do with partisan politics. ..."
BTW - the whole Epstein issue only creeped up again because one reporter at McClatchy
dug into the old files, spent some shoe lather and talked to witnesses. It had exactly zero
to do with Trump.
Journalists don't just "dig up" issues that had been closed 10 years ago. Julie K. Brown
worked for the Miami Herald in 2008 when the sweet deal was done. She did not start digging
then. Journalists (and photographers) go to work because someone gives them a tip that this
will be a huge story. The context is always political.
For ten years the Epstein issue had been successfully kept out of the news.
What had changed ?
When Julie K Brown of the Miami Herald approached a former police chief of Palm Beach,
Florida, in 2017, hoping to get him to open up about his investigation of the child sex
crimes for which the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein had been fleetingly jailed a decade
earlier, she was surprised by how unresponsive he was.
Michael Reiter told Brown he had been down this road many times and was sick of it. As
Brown recalled in a WNYC interview last month, Reiter said he had talked to many reporters
and told them precisely where to find damning evidence against Epstein. But nothing ever
came of it.
"He was convinced that a lot of media had squashed the story and he was fed up," she
said. Reiter warned Brown what would happen were she to continue digging: "Somebody's going
to call your publisher and the next thing you know you are going to be assigned to the
obituaries department."
Julie K. Brown obviously had the support from her paper in doing what she was
doing. Something seems to have happened in 2014 when
Virginia Giuffre got a first class pro bono lawyer . Successful pro bono cases are PR for
law firms, so David Boies likely had a hunch something was going to happen and this was
before Trump and before the Weinstein case.
So what had happened in 2014? I guess, some people had decided that Epstein needed to be
taken out.
That he was part of a (Israel run) blackmail campaign becomes obvious when one looks at
the connections.
@4 steven t johnson - check out some of George Webb's youtube videos pertaining to Epstein ..
he believe the pedophile angle is largely missing the point and that Epstein represented a
drug / weapons trade more than anything if i recall correctly.. interesting take at the very
least
"Connection" are Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. No, it is not at all certain Epstein was a spy.
Nor is it certain Epstein was pimping an army of girls or an extortionist, much less that
he made hundreds of millions from it. The allegations are that the girls were recruited by
other girls, who would be the ones turning their friends into prostitutes. It is amazingly
unclear that the recruiters were paid. It is clear Epstein was a customer, which is indeed
criminal.
I have no idea how you can honestly excuse the alleged accomplices (which you and everyone
else really do.) The girls were reportedly neglected and abused by their families but the
families get excused too, because apparently sexual purity is far more important than
anything else about these girls.
The issue is never whether Epstein was a criminal. The issue is whether Epstein was
the mastermind of a vast pedophile conspiracy masquerading as the Democrat Party, whether he
made his fortune as a pimp selling pre-pubescent little girls to Democrats, whether his
extortion made him millions or even tens of millions, whether Epstein's services to the
pedophile conspiracy of the Democrat Party turned the Democrat Party into a bunch a Zionist
traitors. Those are the issues. Saying it's about minimizing the crime is a lie meant to ram
through everything else.
Last the notion that Trump has nothing to do with the Justice Department as it started
what may have been a violation of double jeopardy to attack the Democrats for the upcoming
election is excessively naive. Acost wasn't even on good ground with Trump at the Labor
Department, either. The notion that Acosta wasn't concerned with Republican Party politics in
2008 is about as dubious.
Thank you for pouring some cold water on the "Jailbait Nostalgia Hour" discussion that was
simmering. Jesus...
~~
@ 42 dh - "...well brought up but ultimately one can only hope they are immune"
Of course they are immune - they have resources that you and your family have given them
to operate in this world. They are thus not helpless and vulnerable.
Epstein never took on young women with resources, he recruited those who had none.
This whole scene has little to do with sexual norms and everything to do with the power of
money over poverty, privilege over disenfranchisement, resource over hollowness.
Maybe Israel/Mossad tried to use their blackmail material after Russia blocked Obama from
bombing Syria? Isn't that when calls for a 'No-fly Zone' started?
Connections are to Iran-Contra.
The "connections" go well beyond Iran-Contra. Whitney Webb at mintpressnews.com has
described how Jewish gangsters provided blackmail services to CIA/FBI and how Epstein was
connected to the 'Mega Group' of billionaire Jewish philanthropists (some with gangster
pasts) as well as other groups and individuals that are likely to have connections to
Mossad.
A lot of this is conjecture. Epstein's funding a certain type of research certainly looks
like him acting as a kind of front possibly a CIA front.
The way he was shielded from the law in 2008 suggests he was a US secret service asset for
what other agencies he might have worked for or not.
It looks like Victoria Giuffre moving from Australia back to the United States made
all the difference .
Giuffre said she contacted the FBI in April 2014, months after she moved back to the United
States. "But, it seemed like the hands of [assistant U.S. Attorney Marie] Villafaña
and the FBI were always tied by someone else with more authority," she said.
No-one was talking about paedophilia on this comments thread until you decided to butt in
and mention it. What are you trying to insinuate?
People were talking about trafficking young women, most of them from impoverished
backgrounds or dysfunctional families afflicted by violence or alcoholism, and recruited with
promises of easy wealth and security, as prostitutes / sex slaves for wealthy men. No-one was
talking about consent laws.
The more you pontificate on this issue in the way you have done on past MoA comments
forums and elsewhere, as though to muddy the conversation with irrelevant information about
age of consent laws and how to slice-n-dice the definition of paedophilia, encourages people
to suspect you have a hidden agenda, and perhaps not a pleasant one at that.
bevin defends perversity with circular logic that will make your head spin.
40 year olds with 14 year olds? Its only natural, he claims. To think otherwise is
defending the wealthy who have imposed this outrage upon us . Yeah, the old scumbags
that want to bed 14 year olds TRICKED us into enacting bizarre laws that protect our children
from them. LOL.
It would all be devilishly clever, if we were stupid enough to believe bevin's outlandish
drivel.
Why are 4 or 5 MoA regulars defending Epstein - weeks after his demise?
Who would defend Epstein except hasbara propagandists? They know that Epstein is Jewish
and believed to be (with good reason!) a key member of a Mossad blackmail op.
It's almost comical to see them in action. @4 steven t johnson wraps his pro-Epstein views
in the colors of democracy but his STFU message comes through loud and clear.
bevin, who has previously been warned about his twisted views about child sex (as
Jen appropriately points out) , can't resist regaling us once again(!) with the
same crap.
donkeytale attempts to use bro culture to defuse the outrage.
Walter handles the historical angle. Would you defend child sacrifice Walter?
(Historical antecedents!)
Thank you jackrabbit #68, the combined effort of the apologist team is disgusting and totally
exposes their ulterior motive - to excuse the Maxwell and Wexner complicity in this ongoing
crime. THESE TWO above all else must be protected by lowering the Maxwell Smart cone of
silence.
Your succinct rebuttal is welcome as are the sane words of jen.
When I stumbled across the New Yorker article about the Epstein rock spider's control over
MIT Media Labs, the first thing which occurred to me was "that's interesting, WTF does this
MIT Media Labs thing do?"
After googling, duckduck going and yandexing this joint I am still none the wiser.
eg Check out this sleazy operation's wikipedia page & see if you become
enlightened.
No? Same here, I particularly like this piece of what used to be called guff:
"Some recurring themes of work at the Media Lab include human adaptability,[18] human
computer interaction, education and communication, artistic creation and visualization, and
designing technology for the developing world. Other research focus includes machines with
common sense, sociable robots, prosthetics, sensor networks, musical devices, city design,
and public health. Research programs all include iterative development of prototypes which
are tested and displayed for visitors"
.
Hmm not good, the news media is saturated with articles about how the rock spider would
turn up to meetings with a female child on each arm, a couple of scientist virtue signalled
how they would rescuse the children although none did, yet there isn't anything anywhere in
any article which specifically deals with what was discussed. Isn't that rather odd?
Nearly all the corporations listed had links to their web site conveniently included which
was handy since apart from Buzz Feed News I was unfamiliar with most.
I Haven't included any links altho the 'about page of Buzz Feed is an indication of their
propaganda bent and the Crowd Supply page had me wondering if MIT Media Labs was about
developing spy ware.
Well spyware and a lot of other nefarious shit I would say. No wonder MIT bosses rid
themselves of Joi Ito so fast, not doing so would almost certainly have caused investigation
of the Media Labs and could have caused some otherwise dutiful believers to wonder if MIT
really was into 'academic objectivity'.
A good guess would be research regime change and population control, foreign and
domestic.
From your wiki link ..
"The Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome
Wiesner, and is housed in the Wiesner Building (designed by I. M. Pei), also known as
Building E15. The Lab has been written about in the popular press since 1988, when Stewart
Brand published The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T., and its work was a regular
feature of technology journals in the 1990s. In 2009, it expanded into a second building"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte
"In August 2007, he was appointed to a five-member special committee with the objective of
assuring the continued journalistic and editorial integrity and independence of the Wall
Street Journal and other Dow Jones & Company publications and services"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal
"August 1, 2007, News Corporation and Dow Jones entered into a definitive merger
agreement.[31] The US$5 billion sale added The Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch's news
empire, ..."
Well that is interesting as it seems many posters prefer discussing tabloid gossip whose
effect is pretty much confined to the participants, than issues which could effect all of us.
Peter AU, one of the few who considered this highly relevant issue, has interpreted the
Media Lab mission statement or WTF it is as, "research regime change and population
control, foreign and domestic ", which it may well be that open ended guff at the site
certainly doesn't preclude it but it also doesn't satisfy my point about how it is that
everyone in journalism appears completely untroubled by the complete paucity of information
that an organisation which troubles them because of its close relationship with a notorious
rock spider, has been permitted to blithely skate through upon.
If this organisation is shady because it enabled Epstein's reprehensible behaviour surely
that organ of democracy, a free press would also check out what it was that this organisation
did to attract the largesse of a pedophile.
Incidentally FWIW, I have no doubt that the Epstein gang committed genuinely evil acts
against children.
There was a link here a coupla months back to a Whitney Webb article which detailed how
one of Epstein's 'girls' had been kidnapped off a NJ street when her mother went into a store
to pay for some takeaway pizza. That 'young adult' was 11 years old and she had to endure an
argument between Epstein & one of his clients about which one had the 'right'
to take her vaginal virginity after both had just sodomized her.
Tell me again this was just a bit of fun between some high spirited fellas.
I have known a few women 'on the game' in the course of my life and too many of them had
horror stories of pre-teen rape and other abuse in their past for me to believe that it is
all jolly hockeysticks and bluebells. I should also point out that where I live prostitution
has been legal for more than 20 years.
It makes no difference because although some women are smart and self-motivated enough to
dealt with the hypocrisy of a society which allows prostitution while is disparages the
prostitutes, reality is that a majority of women hawk their forks because they have been made
to feel that their vaginas are their sole marketable feature, and the disparagement they cop
from nearly every part of society reinforces that.
People who have been subjected to abuse as a child frequently have a substandard education
because for example, at the time other kids are asking their Dads to lend a hand with a
science project, they are having to devote their time and energy to ensuring that they are
never alone in a room with 'Dad'.
The MIT founder is associated with Murdoch who was a founding member of Reagan's perception
management. The MIT's founder was put in charge of Murdoch's propaganda purchase to ensure
editorial integrity.
MIT researches perception management.
The wheel revolves.
MIT are the techbros par excellence . From the very early days of the "internet"
and personal computers, they were at the forefront to popularises this thing (and making all
its surveillance / spying / controlling origins.
..."We will develop a scenario for obtaining private funding," ...
Drug trade + weapons trade + energy prime sources trade [petroleum and U235 + nuclear
reactors] operating under "cover of law" using "national security" as perfect cover to enable
secret/off-the-books operations by private groups without actual government oversight. The
surveillance/assassination state.
A. McCoy [Politics of Heroin in S Asia] explained how, under DeGaulle, France was able to
covertly fund secret operations after WW2 using opiate drugs. The above is the natural
extension of that successful policy.
That is Epstien's world. His pedophilia is a sensational attention grabber [Hey! Look at
that red herring!] albeit despicable, so we do not see the rest.
All of us have been programmed, some more spinny than others but most unable to confront
the utter lies of the collapse of WorkdTradeCenter Bldg. #7 or the JFK Magic Bullet or What
were we doing killing millions in Viet Nam and leaving the legacy of unexploded bomblets and
Agent Orange.
Jeffery Epstein was arrested on July 6 for the sex trafficking of minors within the US.
The billionaire shared the same personal network that included Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, infamous Blackwater founder
Erik Prince, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, UAE Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed,
Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
Israeli ties notwithstanding, the Carbyne investor and advisory board brought strong
ties to the US military-industrial complex.
Michael Chertoff, who ran Homeland Security under former president George W. Bush,
serves on Carbyne's advisory board. Chertoff wrote the Patriot Act, which authorised
sweeping digital surveillance of Americans.
Peter Thiel, one of the founders of Paypal, Facebook and Palantir, is also a Carbyne
investor.
Thiel is an avid Trump supporter, and is heavily invested in military and intelligence
companies. Thiel's Palantir is described as making use of "war on terror tools to track
American citizens".
Trae Stephens, another co-founder of Palantir, is on Carbyne's advisory board. Stephens
also served as the head of Trump's Department of Defense transition team.
....
Given that Epstein spent only 13 months in jail for what appears to be a 38-year
crime-spree, how did Epstein evade justice? The answer may lie in a gentlemen's agreement
shaping the Israeli-US intelligence relationship. Essentially, spies can operate with
impunity when both countries agree on the same security objectives.
With a technology and espionage sector rife with criminals like Epstein, Chinese and
Russian oligarch investors; there is more than meets the eye to Israel's intelligence. More
critically, its security industry may be more compromised and unrestricted than the rest of
the world is able to recognise.
For nations not in the know, it could mean their security and privacy. For authoritarian
leaders, the no-qualms approach Israel offers could be the opportunity of a lifetime.
Ref MIT lab MIT establishes the trends in terms of nowadays Academia. US prestige. What is funded.
Result: European and Arab sheeps aka decision makers going 100% technology, hard science and
hyper-specialization.
Best way to avoid dissent, critical reflection, creativity.
You taxpayers did not wonder where has all the education money gone? Why were social
sciences left deriving neuro? or humanities deriving statistics and computing?
ben@67 somehow thinks that if I remind anyone that the goal of the Epstein re-run is to paint
the Democratic Party, almost officially known as the Democrat Party by Republicans, as a
monstrous pedophile conspiracy operated by Jew gangsters, I am endorsing this madness.
It is
of course people who excuse all the accomplices and all the families in this, tacitly
insisting Epstein had demonic powers, while falsely equating rejection of this insane vicious
scheme with defense of pedophilia who are promoting antisemitic pedophile=Democrat Party
allegations. There is no decent motive for this. It is as contemptible as insisting the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a real expose.
The horrible story about kidnapping an eleven year old girl off the street after the mom
went into a pizzeria? This is an excellent example of the filthy hypocrites excusing all
sorts of criminals so they can Jew bait pedophile Democrat Party monsters. When the mother
walks out of the store, she reports a missing child.
Which police commander suppressed the report? When the girl resurfaces with this hideous
tale, which police commander suppressed the investigation into the kidnapping? If the mother
didn't report the rape at all, why not? Who transported the girl across state lines (the
revised Mann Act is what the "new" charges are supposed to be about?) Instead of even
wondering who did all these things---which Epstein didn't personally do---instead of caring
about these criminals also going to jail at all, these dirtbags only want to talk about
Trump's enemies being monsters and international Jewry, pretending that none of this can be
investigated because Epstein's files have been disappeared. This is despicable.
... people ... who are promoting antisemitic pedophile=Democrat Party allegations.
The only one associating the Democratic Party with Epstein is YOU. You appear to
be doing so as a device to intimidate and silence us.
But your bullshit doesn't work because:
>> Intelligence agencies don't care about political divisions. A large-scale
blackmail op like Epstein's would ensnare people across the political spectrum.
>> There are still suspicions regarding Trump despite no direct evidence that he got
"massages". The video of him scoping out girls with Epstein (and Ghislaine in the background)
is damning enough.
>> Jews are significant donors to BOTH parties.
>> US establishment support for Israel is bi-partisan.
>> Epstein, Ghislaine, Wexner, and Dershowitz are all Jewish. They are the
principals and most prominent people involved. I'd guess that billionaire Wexner is
republican while we know that Dershowitz is a Democrat.
>> Witney Webb at mintpressnews.com has described a history of blackmail ops by
Jews in USA that preceded Epstein (Lewis Rosenstiel, Meyer Lansky, Roy Cohn). It's not
antisemitic to take note of this anymore than it would be anti-Italian to note that the mafia
is run by Italian families. And this history has nothing to do with partisan
politics.
"... Epstein's arrest has been a shock really. I never thought the day would come where he would actually face the rest of his life in prison. Perhaps, as others have suggested, he's being thrown under the bus to protect the un-named co-conspirators who also received blanket immunity in his sweet-heart plea deal. (Clintons? Trump? Podesta? Hastert? Dershowitz? Summers? Spacey?...) ..."
Disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is being charged as a child molester molestation involving
"dozens of minor girls" as young as 14 between 2002 and 2005, according to an unsealed indictment
released by prosecutors.
This is a separate from last weeks court order for documents which may
contain the names of high-level individuals. The indictment says he
"sexually exploited and abused
dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan... and Palm Beach."
Epstein apparently used recruiters to help him create
"a vast network of underage victims for
him to sexually exploit in locations including New York and Palm Beach"
. Receruiters are how
these sex trafficking groups and sex cults like NXIVM work. Miami Herald Investigative Reporter Julie
K. Brown mentioned how there are many more victims who she hopes come forward.
"They were taken advantage of by someone who knew how to prey upon them and groom them to do
things he wanted them to do."
The Miami Herald previously exposed how the current U.S. labor secretary Alex Acosta violated
federal law he swore to uphold when he gave Epstein the deal without clearing it with his victims.
"The Miami Herald last year published a series of articles reporting that the top federal
prosecutor in southern Florida at the time, Alex Acosta, worked with Epstein's lawyers to fashion
the deal. Acosta, now the U.S. labor secretary, violated federal law when he failed to clear the
federal non-prosecution agreement with many of Epstein's alleged victims, a federal judge ruled in
February."
The Herald apparently found 60 victims, some who were 14 and 15 years old, who were also trafficked
with 25 to 30 others.
The sex trafficking network has connections to the CIA and DynCorp. A special report on
Occurrences: Foreign and Domestic identified Epstein's suspected trafficking vehicle, a small plane,
which had the
"same tail number as a State department Bronco used under contract by DynCorp."
This is the same plane that was involve din DynCorp sex trafficking of minors in the Balkans.
Most of the business DynCorp had by 2003 came from the CIA. Wired
wrote
of the importance of DynCorp in 2003:
DynCorp represents nothing less than the future of national security. While outfits like
Raytheon make their money developing weapons systems, DynCorp offers the military an alternative to
itself. In 2002, the company took in $2.3 billion doing what you probably thought was Pentagon
work. DynCorp planes and pilots fly the defoliation missions that are the centerpiece of Plan
Colombia.
Armed DynCorp employees constitute the core of the police force in Bosnia. DynCorp troops
protect Afghan president Hamid Karzai. DynCorp manages the border posts between the US and Mexico,
many of the Pentagon's weapons-testing ranges, and the entire Air Force One fleet of presidential
planes and helicopters. During the Persian Gulf War, it was DynCorp employees, not soldiers, who
serviced and rearmed American combat choppers, and it's DynCorp's people, not military personnel,
who late last year began "forward deploying" equipment and ammunition to the Middle East in
preparation for war with Iraq.
DynCorp inventories everything seized by the Justice Department's Asset Forfeiture Program, runs
the Naval Air Warfare Center at Patuxent River, Maryland, and is producing the smallpox and anthrax
vaccines the government may use to inoculate everyone in the United States.
It stands to reason that the CIA was involved in sex trafficking as part of their operations at the
time, possibly for their own operatives or other soldiers who had these perverted predilections. The
operation may have been multi-national, with who knows how many planes trafficking girls in various
areas of the world for sexual exploitation by the powerful rich or military men.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
v4vapid
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2
months ago
(edited)
Fun Fact: my very first post on Steemit was about Epstein and his connections to America's
oligarchy. Epstein is/was also a member of the Trilateral Commission, the CFR and very
closely connected to Harvard law school.
The connections to Dyncorp are tangible - for anyone interested in this connection fellow
steemian
@rebelskum
wrote a self published
e-book on the subject from his investigation into the contractor.
The Epstein case is a giant iceberg with much more below the surface, with tentacles connecting a seemingly unconnected network
of child abuse rings on an international scale.
Epstein's arrest has been a shock really. I never thought the day would come where he would actually face the rest of his life in
prison. Perhaps, as others have suggested, he's being thrown under the bus to protect the un-named co-conspirators who also
received blanket immunity in his sweet-heart plea deal. (Clintons? Trump? Podesta? Hastert? Dershowitz? Summers? Spacey?...)
Will be following this very closely, thanks for keeping us up to date!
theouterlight
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2
months ago
I forgot about that story about the tail number and the airplane, otherwise would have
talked about that in my last vid. Great article btw!
"Yet, as this report will show, all of these rings -- and more -- were connected to the
same network that involved key figures linked to the Reagan White House and linked to
Roy Cohn -- revealing the true scope of the sordid sexual blackmail operations and sex
rings that involved the trafficking of children within the U.S. and even in Central
America for their exploitation by dangerous and powerful pedophiles in the United
States.
Appalling for both the villainous abuse of children itself and the chilling
implications of government by blackmail, this tangled web of unsavory alliances casts a
lurid light on the political history of the United States from the Prohibition Era
right up to the present day and the Age of Trump, a fact made increasingly clear as
more and more information comes to light in relation to the Jeffrey Epstein case."
Whitney Webb,
Too Big to Fail: Government By Blackmail
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places."
There is nothing new about empires taking hostages and using them to put pressure on
whatever rebel group needs to reminded "who is boss". The
recent arrest in Italy of Alexander Korshunov , the director for business development at
Russia's United Engine Corporation (UEC), is really nothing new but just the latest in a long
string of kidnappings. And, as
I already mentioned in distant 2017 , that kind of thuggery is not a sign of strength but,
in fact, a sign of weakness. Remember Michael Ledeen's immortal words about how ""
Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country
and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business "? Well, you could
say that this latest spat of kidnappings is indicative of the same mindset and goal, just on a
much smaller, individual, scale. And, finally, it ain't just Russia, we all know about the
kidnapping of Huawei's CFO
Meng Wanzhou by the Canadian authorities .
By the way, you might wonder how can I speak of "kidnapping" when, in reality, these were
legal arrests made by the legitimate authorities of the countries in which these arrests were
made? Simple! As I mentioned last
week , words matter and to speak of an "arrest" in this case wrongly suggest
that 1) some crime was committed (when in reality there is ZERO evidence of that,
hence the talk of "conspiracy" to do something illegal) 2) that this crime was investigated and
that the authorities have gathered enough evidence to justify an arrest and 3) that the accused
will have a fair trial. None of that applies to the cases of Viktor Bout , Konstantin Iaroshenko , Marina Butina or, for that
matter, Meng Wanzhou or Wang
Weijing . The truth is that these so-called "arrests" are simple kidnappings, the goal is
hostage taking with the goal to either 1) try to force Russia (and China) to yield to US
demands or 2) try to "get back" at Russia (and China) following some humiliating climb down by
the US Administration (this was also the real reason behind the uncivilized seizure of Russian
diplomatic buildings in the USA).
This is not unlike what the Gestapo and the SS liked to do during WWII and their kidnapping
of hostages was also called "arrest" by the then state propaganda machine. By the way, the
Bolsheviks also did a lot of that during the civil war, but on a much larger scale. In reality,
both in the case of the Nazi authorities and in the case of the imperial USA, as soon as a
person is arrested he/she is subjected to solitary confinement and other forms of psychological
torture (Manning or Assange anybody?!) in order to either make them break or to at least show
Russia and China that the US, being the World Hegemon gets to seize anybody worldwide, be it
by a CIA kidnapping
team or by using local colonial law enforcement authorities (aka local police forces).
US politicians love to "send messages" and this metaphor is used on a daily basis by US
officials in all sorts of circumstances. Here the message is simple: we can do whatever the
hell we want, and there ain't nothing you can do about it!
But is that last statement really true?
Well, in order to reply to this we should look at the basic options available to Russia
(this also applies to China, but here I want to focus on the Russian side of the issue). I
guess the basic list of options is pretty straightforward:
Frankly, in the case of the USA, options one and two are useless: the AngloZionist leaders
have long given up any hope of not being hated and despised by 99% of mankind and they have
long dropped any pretense of legality, nevermind morality: they don't give a damn what anybody
thinks. Their main concern is to conceal their immense weakness, but they fail to do so time
and time again. Truly, when wannabe "empires" can't even bring an extremely weakened country
such as Venezuela to heel, there ain't much they can do to boot their credibility. If anything,
this thuggery is nothing more than the evidence of a mind-blowing
weakness of the Empire.
But that weakness in no way implies that Russia and China have good options. Sadly, they
don't.
Russia can engage in various types of sanctions, ranging from the petty bureaucratic
harassment of US representations, diplomats, businessmen and the like to economic and political
retaliations. But let's not kid ourselves, there is very little Russia can do to seriously hurt
the USA with such retaliations. Many would advocate retaliation in kind, but that poses a
double problem for the Kremlin:
some are more equal than
others " and that that which is "allowed" to the World Hegemon is categorically forbidden
to everybody else. Thus if Russia retaliates in kind, there will be an explosion of
hysterical protests not only by the western legacy corporate and state ziomedia, but also
from the 5 th columnist in the Russian "liberal" press.
And yes, unlike the USA, Russia does have a vibrant, diverse and pluralistic media and each
time when Putin agrees to a press conference (especially one several hours long) he knows that
he will be asked the tough, unpleasant, questions. But since he, unlike most western leaders,
can intelligently answer them he does not fear them. As for Dmitrii Peskov and Maria Zakharova,
they have heard it all a gazillion during the past years, including often the most ridiculously
biased, mis-informed and outright ridiculous "questions" (accusations, really) from the western
presstitute corps in Russia.
So yes, Russia could, in theory, retaliate by arresting US citizens in Russia (or by staging
Cold War type provocations) or by kidnapping them abroad (Russia does have special forces
trained for this kind of operation). But this is most unlikely to yield any meaningful results
and it would create a PR nightmare for the Kremlin.
ORDER IT NOW
The truth is that in most of these cases we always come down to the fundamental dichotomy:
on one hand we have a rogue state gone bonkers with imperial hubris, arrogance and crass
ignorance (say, the USA and/or Israel) while on the other we have states which try to uphold a
civilized international order (Russia, China, Iran, etc.). This is by logical necessity a
lop-sided struggle in which the thugs will almost always have the advantage.
I see that not everyone believes in an eye for an eye. Bless your religion sir. If I had the
power to call down blessings, which I don't, I'd have to make that a double order. You are
twice blessed for saying, out loud, publicly and all, that the Soviet Union did not fall, nor
did anyone push it over. It was not about the price of oil or the cost of wheat or even the
darkness that lurks in the depths of mens souls. It was dismantled by its own chief executive
officers and it fell apart precisely because its officials still did their jobs. People have
all sorts of strong feelings about this, understandably so, yet is it well to stick to the
truth. I agree with you on this matter thought it's difficult to endure such provocative and
insulting evils. In past struggles with Europe, Russia has proven itself capable and willing
to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve its aims. A determined stance on the part of the
leaders puts a burden on the people. But as well, it empowers them to. In this way they
succeed.
Captain Hook to Captain Kumar of the runaway oil tanker lol peter pan clowns running the
State Department.
"This is Brian Hook . . . I work for secretary of state Mike
Pompeo and serve as the US Representative for Iran," Mr Hook wrote to Akhilesh Kumar on
August 26, according to several emails seen by the Financial Times. "I am writing with good
news."
"With this money you can have any life you wish and be well-off in old age," Mr Hook wrote
in a second email to Mr Kumar that also included a warning. "If you choose not to take this
easy path, life will be much harder for you."
It is not vey clear for whom Epstein used to work. Mossad connection is just one hypothesis.
What sovereign state would allow compromising politician by a foreign intelligence service. This
just does not compute.
But the whole tone of discussion below clearly point to the crisis of legitimacy of
neoliberal elite. And Russiagate had shown that the elite cares about it and tried to patch the
cracks.
As Eric
Rasmusen writes: "Everybody, it seems, in New York society knew by 2000 that Jeffrey
Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were corrupting teenage girls, but the press wouldn't cover it."
Likewise, everybody in New York society has long known that Larry Silverstein, who bought the
asbestos-riddled white elephant World Trade Center in July 2001 and immediately doubled the
insurance, is a mobbed-up friend of Netanyahu and a confessed participant in the controlled
demolition of Building 7 , from which he earned over 700 million insurance dollars on the
pretext that al-Qaeda had somehow brought it down. But the press won't cover that either.
The New York Times , America's newspaper of record, has the investigative talent and
resources to expose major corruption in New York. Why did the Times spend almost two
decades ignoring the all-too-obvious antics of Epstein and Silverstein? Why is it letting the
absurd tale of Epstein's alleged suicide stand? Why hasn't it used the work of Architects and
Engineers for 9/11 Truth -- including the brand-new University of Alaska study on the controlled
demolition of WTC-7 -- to expose the biggest scandal of the 21 st century, if
not all of American history?
The only conceivable answer is that The New York Times is somehow complicit in these
monstrous crimes. It must be protecting its friends in high places. So who are those friends,
and where are those high places?
One thing Epstein and Silverstein have in common, besides names ending in "-stein," is
alleged involvement in the illicit sex industry. Epstein's antics, or at least some of them,
are by now well-known. Not so for Silverstein, who apparently began his rags-to-9/11-riches
story as a pimp supplying prostitutes and nude dancers to the shadier venues of NYC, alongside
other illicit activities including "the heroin trade, money laundering
and New York Police corruption." All of this was exposed in a mid-1990s lawsuit. But good
luck finding any investigative reports in The New York Times .
Another Epstein-Silverstein connection is their relationships to major American Jewish
organizations. Even while he was allegedly pimping girls and running heroin, Larry Silverstein
served as president for United Jewish Appeal of New York. As for Epstein, he was the boy toy
and protégé of Les Wexner, co-founder of
the Mega Group of Jewish billionaires associated with the World Jewish Congress, the
Anti-Defamation League, and other pro-Israel groups. Indeed, there is no evidence that
"self-made billionaire" Epstein ever earned significant amounts of money; his only investment
"client" was Les Wexner. Epstein, a professional sexual blackmailer, used his supposed
billionaire status as a cover story. In fact, he was just an employee working for Wexner and
associated criminal/intelligence networks.
Which brings us to the third and most important Epstein-Silverstein similarity: They were
both close to the government of Israel. Jeffrey Epstein's handler was Ghislaine Maxwell,
daughter of Mossad super-spy Robert Maxwell; among his friends was Ehud Barak, who is currently
challenging Netanyahu for leadership of Israel. Larry Silverstein, too, has friends in high
Israeli places. According to Haaretz , Silverstein has "close ties with Netanyahu"
(speaking to him on the phone every weekend) as well as with Ehud Barak, "whom Silverstein in
the past offered a job as his representative in Israel" and who called Silverstein immediately
after 9/11.
We may reasonably surmise that both Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Silverstein have been carrying
on very important work on behalf of the state of Israel. And we may also surmise that this is
the reason The New York Times has been covering up the scandals associated with both
Israeli agents for almost two decades. The Times , though it pretends to be America's
newspaper of record, has always been Jewish-owned-and-operated. Its coverage has always been
grotesquely
distorted in favor of Israel . It has no interest in exposing the way Israel controls the
United States by blackmailing its leaders (Epstein) and staging a fake "Arab-Muslim attack on
America" (Silverstein). The awful truth is that The New York Times is part of the same
Jewish-Zionist "
we control America " network as Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Silverstein.
Epstein "Suicide" Illustrates Zionist Control of USA -- and the Decadence and Depravity
of Western Secularism
Since The New York Times and other mainstream media won't go there, let's reflect on
the facts and lessons of the Jeffrey Epstein suicide scandal -- a national disgrace that ought
to shock Americans into rethinking their worldviews in general, and their views on the official
myth of 9/11 in particular.
On Saturday, August 10, 2019, convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was allegedly
found dead in his cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City, one of
America's most corrupt prisons. The authorities claim Epstein hanged himself. But nobody, not
even the presstitutes of America's corporate propaganda media, convincingly pretends to believe
the official story.
Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile pimp to presidents and potentates. His job was recruiting
young girls for sex, then offering them to powerful men -- in settings outfitted with hidden
video cameras. When police raided his New York townhouse on July 6-7 2019 they found locked
safes full of pornographic pictures of underage girls, along with piles of compact discs
labeled "young (name of girl) + (name of VIP)." Epstein had been openly and brazenly carrying
on such activities for more than two decades, as reported throughout most of that period by
alternative media outlets including my own Truth Jihad Radio and False Flag Weekly News . (Even
before the 2016 elections, my audience knew that both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were
blackmailed clients of Jeffrey Epstein, that Clinton was a frequent flyer on Epstein's "Lolita
Express" private jet, and that Trump had been credibly accused in a lawsuit of joining Epstein
in the brutal rape of a 13-year-old, to whom Trump then allegedly issued death threats.) It was
only in the summer of 2019 that mainstream media and New York City prosecutors started talking
about what used to be consigned to the world of "conspiracy theories."
So who was Epstein working for? His primary employer was undoubtedly the Israeli Mossad and
its worldwide Zionist crime network. Epstein's handler was Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of
Mossad super-spy Robert Maxwell. According to sworn depositions, Ghislaine Maxwell recruited
underage girls for Epstein and oversaw his sex trafficking operations. As the New Yorker
reported August 16: "In court papers that were unsealed on August 9th, it was alleged that
Maxwell had been Epstein's central accomplice, first as his girlfriend, and, later, as his
trusted friend and procuress, grooming a steady stream of girls, some as young as fourteen,
coercing them to have sex with Epstein at his various residences around the world, and
occasionally participating in the sexual abuse herself." Alongside Maxwell, Epstein's other
Mossad handler was
Les Wexner, co-founder of the notorious Mega Group of billionaire Israeli spies , who
appears to have originally recruited the penniless Epstein and handed him a phony fortune so
Epstein could pose as a billionaire playboy.
Even after Epstein's shady "suicide" mega-Mossadnik Maxwell continued to flaunt her impunity
from American justice. She no doubt conspired to publicize the August 15 New York Post
photograph of herself smiling and looking "chillingly serene" at In-And-Out-Burger in Los
Angeles, reading The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of C.I.A. Operatives .
That nauseating photo inspired the New
Yorker to accuse her of having "gall" -- a euphemism for the Yiddish chutzpah , a quality
that flourishes in the overlapping Zionist and Kosher Nostra communities.
Maxwell and The New York Post , both Kosher Nostra/Mossad assets, were obviously
sending a message to the CIA: Don't mess with us or we will expose your complicity in these
scandalous crimes. That is the Mossad's standard operating procedure: Infiltrate and compromise
Western intelligence services in order to prevent them from interfering with the Zionists'
over-the-top atrocities. According to French historian
Laurent Guyénot's hypothesis, the CIA's false flag fake assassination attempt on
President John F. Kennedy, designed to be blamed on Cuba, was transformed by Mossad into a real
assassination -- and the CIA couldn't expose it due to its own complicity. (The motive: Stop
JFK from ending Israel's nuclear program.) The same scenario, Guyénot argues, explains
the anomalies of the Mohamed Merah affair
, the Charlie Hebdo killings, and the 9/11 false flag operation. It would not be surprising if
Zionist-infiltrated elements of the CIA were made complicit in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual
blackmail activities, in order to protect Israel in the event Epstein had to be "burned" (which
is apparently what has finally occurred).
So what really happened to Epstein? Perhaps the most likely scenario is that the Kosher
Nostra, which owns New York in general and the mobbed-up MCC prison in particular, allowed the
Mossad to exfiltrate Epstein to Occupied Palestine, where he will be given a facelift, a
pension, a luxury suite overlooking the Mediterranean, and a steady stream of young sex slaves
(Israel is the world's capital of human trafficking, an honor it claimed from the Kosher Nostra
enclaves of Odessa after World War II). Once the media heat wave blows over, Epstein will
undoubtedly enjoy visits from his former Mossad handler Ghislaine Maxwell, his good friend Ehud
Barak, and various other Zionist VIPs. He may even offer fresh sex slaves to visiting American
congressmen.
This is not just a paranoid fantasy scenario. According to Eric
Rasmusen : "The Justice Dept. had better not have let Epstein's body be cremated. And
they'd better give us convincing evidence that it's his body. If I had $100 million to get out
of jail with, acquiring a corpse and bribing a few people to switch fingerprints and DNA
wouldn't be hard. I find it worrying that the government has not released proof that Epstein is
dead or a copy of the autopsy."
But didn't the alleged autopsy reportedly find broken neck bones that are more commonly
associated with strangulation murders than suicides? That controversy may have been scripted to
distract the public from
an insider report on 4chan , first published before the news of Epstein's "suicide" broke,
that Epstein had been "switched out" of MCC. If so, the body with the broken neck bones wasn't
Epstein's.
The Epstein affair (like 9/11) illustrates two critically important truths about Western
secularism: there is no truth, and there are no limits. A society that no longer believes in
God no longer believes in truth, since God is al-haqq, THE truth, without Whom the whole
notion of truth has no metaphysical basis. The postmodern philosophers understand this
perfectly well. They taught a whole generation of Western humanities scholars that truth is
merely a function of power: people accept something as "true" to the extent that they are
forced by power to accept it. So when the most powerful people in the world insist that three
enormous steel-frame skyscrapers were blown to smithereens by relatively modest office fires on
9/11, that absurd assertion becomes the official "truth" as constructed by such Western
institutions as governments, courts, media, and academia. Likewise, the assertion that Jeffrey
Epstein committed suicide under circumstances that render that assertion absurd will probably
become the official "truth" as recorded and promulgated by the West's ruling institutions, even
though nobody will ever really believe it.
Epstein's career as a shameless, openly-operating Mossad sexual blackmailer -- like the
in-your-face 9/11 coup -- also illustrates another core truth of Western secularism: If there
is no God, there are no limits (in this case, to human depravity and what it can get away
with). Or as Dostoevsky famously put it: "If God does not exist, everything is permitted."
Since God alone can establish metaphysically-grounded limits between what is permitted and what
is forbidden, a world without God will feature no such limits; in such a world Aleister
Crowley's satanic motto "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" becomes the one and
only commandment. In today's Godless West, why should men not "do what they wilt" and
indulge their libidos by raping young girls if they can get away with it? After all, all the
other sexual taboos are being broken, one by one. Fornication, adultery, homosexuality,
sadomasochism, gender-bending all of these have been transformed during my lifetime from crimes
and vices to "human rights" enjoyed by the most liberal and fashionable right-thinking Western
secularists. Even bestiality and necrophilia are poised to become normalized "sexual
identities" whose practitioners will soon be proudly marching in "bestiality pride" and
"necrophilia pride" parades. So why not normalize pedophilia and other forms of rape
perpetrated by the strong against the weak? And why not add torture and murder in service to
sexual gratification? After all, the secret bible of the sexual identity movement is the
collected works of the Marquis de Sade, the satanic prophet of sexual liberation, with whom the
liberal progressivist secular West is finally catching up. It will not be surprising if, just a
few years after the Jeffrey Epstein "suicide" is consigned to the memory hole, we will be
witnessing LGBTQBNPR parades, with the BNPR standing for bestiality, necrophilia, pedophilia,
and rape. (It would have been LGBTQBNPRG, with the final G standing for Gropers like President
Trump, except that the G was already taken by the gays.) The P's, pioneers of pedophile pride
parades, will undoubtedly celebrate Jeffrey Epstein as an ahead-of-his-time misunderstood hero
who was unjustly persecuted on the basis of his unusual sexual orientation.
It is getting harder and harder to satirize the decadence and depravity of the secular West,
which insists on parodying itself with ever-increasing outlandishness. When the book on this
once-mighty civilization is written, and the ink is dry, readers will be astounded by the
limitless lies of the drunk-on-chutzpah psychopaths who ran it into the ground.
Correct me if I am wrong but I thought Lucky Larry only leased the WTC buildings rather than
actually purchased them. I think I have read that his investment was in the region of 150
mill for which he has recouped a whopping 4 bill.
Would you please answer a preliminary question before I put finishing this on my busy agenda?
You stake a fair bit of your credit on what you say about Larry Silverstein and insurance. My
present understanding is that the insurance cover for WTC 1 and 2 was increased as a routine
part of the financing deal he had made for a purchase which was only months old. Not true?
Not the full story? Convince us.
As to WTC 7 my understanding is that he had owned the building for some years and had not
recently increased the insurance. Not true? And when did any clause get into his WTC7
insurance contract which might have had some effect on inflating the payout?
“Trump had been credibly accused in a lawsuit of joining Epstein in the brutal rape of
a 13-year-old, to whom Trump then allegedly issued death threats.)”
The “Katie Johnson” case collapsed in 2016 when it was revealed that
“she” was in fact a middle-aged man, a stringer for the Jerry Springer show. Just
another Gloria Allred fraud.
“a society that no longer believes in god no longer believes in the truth, since god is
the truth….blah blah blah”
This is thin gruel indeed…..just silly platitudes from a muzzie convert. There are at
least 100 billion galaxies in the universe with each galaxy containing as many as 100 billion
stars. And there is no telling how many universes there are. Does anyone really believe
Barrett’s preferred deity takes a time out from running this vast empire to service
Barrett’s yearning for “truth”? Just goes to prove that humans will believe
almost any idea as long as it’s sufficiently idiotic.
“The principal conclusion of our study is that fire did not cause the collapse
of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that
studied the collapse.”
“It is our conclusion based upon these findings that the collapse of WTC 7 was a
global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of all columns in the building and
not a progressive collapse involving the sequential failure of columns throughout the
building.”
Speaking of the truth v. parody I’d really rather work on the cause of
Epstein’s death –yes I think he’s dead– suicide or
strangulation ?
There are some things the Justice Dept. could do if they wanted to. Why they apparently
didn’t want to expose the corpse in greater detail, let media view the cell, have
correspondent(s) interview the ex- cellmate of Epstein, et.al just leads to suspicions.
This is something they should have to answer for . That includes AG Barr. Trump could make
it happen–like every thing else– if Barr says no. The President won’t.
Dostoyevsky with his “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.”
overlooked the Jewish God who permits much more when it comes to Jewish gentile relations.
The Jewish God is not limited by the Kant’s First Moral Imperative. The Jewish
God’s moral laws are not universal. They are context dependent according to the
Leninist Who, whom rule.
Not so for Silverstein, who apparently began his rags-to-9/11-riches story as a pimp
supplying prostitutes and nude dancers to the shadier venues of NYC, alongside other
illicit activities including “the heroin trade, money laundering and New York
Police corruption.”
I would like to see more about the beginnings of Silverstein’s career.
Good work Kevin, Irrelevant exactly what Silverstein did in way of insurance.The FACT is
that WTC7 DID NOT FALL due to fires. Neither did WTC1 or 2. The 6 million dollar question
is ‘WHO put the ‘bang’ in the building?’ to bring them down, by
what ever means. Im in favour of nukes for 1 and 2.
Answer that! Why isnt Silverstein arrested? I think Kevin provided the answer in the
article..
I just stumbled onto your article from a link on reddit, r/epstein. You make some
convincing arguments. I was thrilled that you brought 9/11 into this – because the
Epstein “suicide” and how it is being covered reminds me so much of how I felt
after 9/11 and the run-up to the war. -But you lost me at the end with the stuff about
Godless secularism. I’ve read the bible and it is not the answer to what’s
wrong with the world.
Why did the Times spend almost two decades ignoring the all-too-obvious antics of
Epstein and Silverstein? Why is it letting the absurd tale of Epstein’s alleged
suicide stand?
One thing cannot be denied : Epstein was arrested, denied bail and jailed awaiting trail
on a Federal indictment for much the same offence he had pleaded guilty to a decade ago,
which did not involve even a single homicide yet made him universally reviled and in as
much trouble with the legal system as a man could be (almost certain never to get out
again). Epstein was in far more trouble that anyone of his financial resources has ever
been, but then that was for paying for sex acts with young teen girls.
What an awesomely impressive testament to the impunity enjoyed by the Jewish
elite Epstein is. It is no wonder that Larry Silverstein was insouciant about the risks of
a Jewish lightning fraud controlled demolition killing thousands of people in a building he
had just bought and increased the insurance coverage of. After all, it wasn’t
anything serious like paying for getting hundreds of handjobs from underage girls. And it
is not like someone like the Pizzagate nut that fired his AR15 into underground child
molestation complex beneath the Dems restaurant/pedophile centre would take all those WTC
deaths seriously enough to shoot at him just because of inevitable internet accusations of
mass murder. Mr Barrett, why don’t you step up and do it, thereby proving you
believe the things you say .
@NoseytheDuke Yes, he leased the World Trade Center buildings one and two from the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey. He built World Trade Center building seven, having
acquired a ground lease from Port Authority.
I can’t imagine why you ask this question in a public venue. I found the answer in
less than one minute on the internet.
I assume the insurance policies were for the present value of his net profits for the
duration of the leases.
I recall reading about this guy prior to the event. I believe it was USATODAY . He and a
silent partner had bought the complex with a down of 63million and had it insured for
7billion. I thought it odd that the port authority would let go of the property at the
time.
As the building deficiencies became known afterwards,my thoughts were along the line of
insurance fraud.
I came across a copy of the rand Corp “state of the world 2000” which
accurately describes the scenario and resulting culture of terror as “one possible
future “…. funny how it’s taken all these years to discover this
website.
Indeed, there is no evidence that “self-made billionaire” Epstein ever
earned significant amounts of money.
Good thing that Wexner is Jewish so we can discount the possibility that he was telling
the truth the other month when he said that Epstein stole vast amounts of Wexner money
Alongside Maxwell, Epstein’s other Mossad handler was Les Wexner, co-founder of
the notorious Mega Group of billionaire Israeli spies
Wexner and his fellow Mossad spy Maxwell leaving Virginia Roberts alive to repeatedly
sue them, and use the world”s media to accuse them of sexually abusing, trafficking,
pimping her out to VIPs, and fiming the trysts was a brilliant way to keep everything a
secret.
Mossad handler Ghislaine Maxwell, his good friend Ehud Barak, and various other
Zionist VIPs.
Yes, they are the greatest covert operatives ever.
Epstein’s crimes are simple breaches of etiquette when compared to Silverstein. I
believe the term “Silverstein valleys” has been used to describe the melted
granite discovered beneath the former towers, Silverstein grins widely in interviews, while
so many suffered horribly.
One might even consider the 9/11 deaths to be something of a “holocaust”.
Certainly one of the most evil human beings to have walked the Earth.
@Wizard of Oz Silverstein said he gave the okay for wtc 7 to be “pulled”.
The building was on fire at the time. Either someone wired it to be pulled while it was on
fire and already damaged or it was wired for demolition beforehand. The second scenario
seems a lot more likely. In that case all the insurance contract details are largely
irrelevant to the bigger picture.
The idea that the CIA is somehow independent of Mossad and that Mossad would have to warn
the CIA off of the Epstein matter is implausible to me. Guyenot’s hypothesis tends to
give cover to the CIA in the assassination of JFK by claiming that the CIA plot was set in
motion as some sort of attempt to control JFK and that it was hijacked into an actual
assassination by Mossad. That just isn’t credible.
It’s much more accurate to observe that the CIA was erected by the same zionists
who oversaw the creation of Israel and later the forming of Mossad, and that the two
agencies have been joined at the hip ever since.
@WorkingClass Bad cop good cop. NYT is trying to destroy him . Israel says to him
:” send this , do this ,allow us to do this , increase this by this amount , and we
will make sure that in final analysis you don’t get hurt ”
Trump possibly knows that the only people who could hurt him is the Jewish people of power
.
Has NYT ever criticized Trump for relocating embassy , recognizing Golan, for allowing
Israel use Anerican resources to hit Syria or Gaza , for allowing Israel drag US into more
military involvement. for allowing Israel wage war against Gaza ,? Has NYT ever explored
the dynamics behind abrogation of JCPOA and application of more sanctions?
NYT has focused on Russia gate knowing in advance that it has no merit and no public
traction, Is it hurting Trump or itself ?
People with normal IQ would believe that Epstein killed himself, if the following took
place –
Media day and night asking questions about him from 360 degree of inquiries
1 why the surveillance video were not functioning despite the serious nature of the
charges against a man who could rat out a lot in court against powerful people
2 why the coroner initially thought that Epstein was murdered
3 how many guards and how many fell asleep?
4 who and why allowed the spin story around Epstein brilliance and high IQ build up over
the years ?
5 how does Epstein come to get linked to non -Jews people who have absolute loyalty to
Israel
6 how did Epstein get involved with Jewish leaders ?
7 How did Epstein continue to enjoy seat on Harvard and enjoy social celebrity status after
plea deal ?
8 Why did Wexner allow this man so much control over his asset ?
9 Media felt if terrorism were unique Muslim thing , why media is not alluding to the fact
that pedophilia is a unique Jewish thing ?
10 why the angle of Israel being sex slavery capital and Epstein being sex slave pimp not
being connected ?
11 how death in prison in foreign unfriendly countries often become causus celebre by US
media , politicians , NGO and US treasury – why not this death ?
@Fozzy Bear Not true. A respectable civil rights attorney, Lisa Bloom, handled Katie
Johnson’s case. Shortly before the scheduled press conference at which Johnson was to
appear publicly, she received multiple death threats: “Bloom said that her
firm’s website was hacked, that Anonymous had claimed responsibility, and that death
threats and a bomb threat came in afterwards.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13501364/trump-rape-13-year-old-lawsuit-katie-johnson-allegation
Johnson folded because she was terrified (and perhaps paid off).
@Twodees Partain In “Body of Secrets” by James Bamford, a newspaper article
from the Truman era is referenced where the OSS, predecessor of the CIA, is described as
“a converted vault in Washington used as an office space for 5 or 6 Jews working to
protect our national secrets” (or similar wording).
Going from memory and gave away my copy of the book….. sorry for the vague
reference, but you can look it up.
@nsa An atheist like “nsa” must concede Dosteovsky’s point from his
novel The Possessed that even for the atheist the concept of God represents the collective
consciousness, highest principles, and ontological aspirations of believers. Given this
sense, “nsa’s” real animus is more than likely an atavistic hatred of
Christians and Muslims, probably for just being alive in his paranoid mind. What imbecility
when this clown cites a multiverse of universes that has no proof and less plausibility for
its existence than the tooth fairy. I’d also bet “nsa” speaks algebra,
too, like the recently deceased mathematical genius, Jeffrey Epstein.
What’s Mr. Wexner’s, Mega’s, and Mossad/CIA’s involvement?
That’s the real question trolls like “nsa” and the Dems and Republicans
alike are crapping in their pants we’ll find out. When evidence starts to cascade out
of their ability to spin or suppress it, things will get interesting. Meanwhile, Fox News
is still doing its best from what I can tell to run cover for 911, now extended to the
suspiciously related perps in the Epstein affair.
“The Epstein affair (like 9/11) illustrates two critically important truths about
Western secularism: there is no truth, and there are no limits. A society that no longer
believes in God no longer believes in truth…..”
“While the Zionists try to make the rest of the World believe that the national
consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state,
the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn’t even enter their heads to
build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a
central organisation for their international world swindler, endowed with its own
sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted
scoundrels and a university for budding crooks.
It is a sign of their rising confidence and sense of security that at a time when one
section is still playing the German, French-man, or Englishman, the other with open
effrontery comes out as the Jewish race.”
More prophetic words were ever spoken or written by any of the statesmen of the
Twentieth Century than these, even though they themselves were insufficient to describe the
horrors that the Zionist state would bring upon the world if left unchecked- and its power
and influence have been unchecked since the 1960’s. The last time that the world
stood up to Zionist power in an appreciable way was during the Suez Crisis.
DOT.. Port loses claim for asbestos removal | Business Insurance https://www.businessinsurance.com › article
› ISSUE01 › port-loses-claim-… May 13, 2001 – The suit sought claim of the Port Authority’s huge cost
of removing asbestos from hundreds of properties ranging from the enormous World Trade
Center complex
DOT…Silverstein knew when he leased WTC 7 that he would have to pay out of pocket
for asbestos abatement removal in WTC 7, multiple millions, which is why the Port Authority
leased it so cheaply.
DOT…In May, 2000, a year before, signing the lease, he already had the design
drawn for a new WTC building. Silverstein had no plans to remove the asbestos as he already
had plans to replace it.
DOT… Larry Silverstein signs the lease just six weeks before the WTC’s twin
towers were brought to the ground by terrorists in the September 11, 2001, attacks.
DOT….After leasing the complex, Silverstein negotiated with 24 insurance
companies for a maximum coverage of $3.55 billion per catastrophic occurrence.
However, the agreements had not been finalized before 9/11.
DOT…..Silverstein tries to sue insurers for double the payout claiming 2
catastrophic occurrences because of 2 planes involved.
DOT….Silver loses that lawsuit but sues the air lines and settles for almost
another billion, $ 750,000,000.
Just another Jew insurance fire folks. He planned on tearing down WTC 7 to begin with.
The only missing DOT is who he hired to set the demolition explosives in WTC 7. Were they
imported from our ME ally?
Jeffrey Epstein may be dead, but there are still many stones to turn over while investigators sift
through his network of high-profile friends, some of whom may be guilty of sex crimes themselves.
The wealthy pedophile, transhumanist, and financier's circle of friends included Bill Clinton, Ehud
Barack, Prince Andrew, and Victoria's Secret boss Les Wexner.
It also included
billionaire hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin and his wife, Dr. Eva
Andersson-Dubin
- a former Miss Sweden who dated Epstein for three years before she
and Dubin married in 1994.
The Dubins and Epstein were close, and remained close after his 2008 conviction for pedophilia -
inviting him to their Palm Beach home for Thanksgiving the following year. Eva even wrote an email
to Epstein's probation officer insisting that she was "100% comfortable" with the pedophile and
registered sex-offender being around her minor children.
According to
Vanity
Fair
'
s William Cohan, several sources said that Epstein was the godfather to the Dubins'
three children - a claim which the family disputed ("The Dubins are Jewish and Jewish people do not
typically do godparents," said a spokesman).
Epstein, Dubin and Wall Street
In 2004, Epstein reportedly received a $15 million fee after JPMorgan Chase bought control of
Dubin's hedge fund, Highbridge Capital. Epstein had introduced Dubin to then-JPM Exec Jes Staley,
who is now CEO of Barclays. According to
Bloomberg
,
Staley "visited Epstein on the private island, accompanied by his wife Debora."
He
also
visited Epstein at his Palm Beach office while the Epstein was on prison
work-release.
Dubin, meanwhile, also directed some of Epstein's money
to at least two hedge
fund mangers;
Dan Zwirn and Joseph Kusnan
- both former Highbridge employees who
left to start their own firms.
"Glenn Dubin introduced me to Epstein as a new manager that he was familiar with and thought
highly of," Kusnan told
Vanity Fair
- insisting that he and Epstein only met once,
and
never communicated again
. Notably, Kusnan delivered "a good rate of return on his modest
investment."
The relationship between Epstein and Dubin also ventured into more controversial realms, if
one believes the depositions recently unsealed in an old court case between one of Epstein's
alleged victims,
Virginia Giuffre,
and Epstein's longtime companion and alleged
madam,
Ghislaine Maxwell.
According to Giuffre's May 2016 deposition, Dubin was
the "first" powerful person that Maxwell sent her to have sex with "after my training." She also
said that she was instructed by Maxwell to have sex with, among others,
Alan Dershowitz,
the
Harvard Law professor;
George Mitchell,
the former U.S. senator;
Bill
Richardson,
the former New Mexico governor; and
Jean-Luc Brunel,
a
French model scout. "My whole life revolved around just pleasing these men and keeping Ghislaine
and Jeffrey happy," Giuffre said in her deposition. "[Maxwell and Epstein's] whole entire lives
revolved around sex. They call massages sex. They call modeling sex." She said Maxwell told her
to give Dubin "a massage." (The Dubins categorically deny Giuffre's allegations. Their
spokesperson also provided evidence they say disproves Giuffre's account. Dershowitz, Mitchell,
Richardson, and Brunel have also denied her allegations.) -
Vanity
Fair
Did the Dubins bring in a 15-year-old girl?
Former Dubin chef and assistant Rinaldo Rizzo claimed in a recently unsealed June 2016
deposition that when he and his wife Debra worked for the Dubins, Andersson-Dubin brought home a
15-year-old Swedish girl who had been with Epstein and Maxwell during a visit to the Dubins' home.
The girl was "distraught," "upset," and "she was shaking" said Rizzo, who added that the girl
seemed "on the verge of crying."
According to the report, "[T]he girl told him and his wife that she worked for Epstein as his
"executive personal assistant," and when Rizzo expressed shock that such a young girl could have
that job, "she just breaks down hysterically."
Rizzo stated that the girl told him she was
involved in some
forced sexual activity
at Epstein's Caribbean island and was told by
Maxwell and Epstein not to discuss it.
"
But about
a month later, according to Rizzo, the Dubins, along with the girl and the
Rizzos, were on Dubin's private jet back to Sweden and the girl was returned home
. "We
flew to Sweden," Rizzo said in his deposition, "we stopped at an airport we didn't usually stop
at and she got off the plane." The Rizzos left the Dubins' employ in October 2005, following
those events, he said in his deposition. "
My wife and I had discussed these incidents,
and this last one was just, we couldn't deal with it,
" he said. -
Vanity
Fair
The Dubins have denied everything - stating through a spokesman who shared flight records "There
was never a 15-year-old Swedish nanny in the Dubins' home and flight records for trips to Sweden on
the Dubins' plane do not include any minors other than family members." The Dubins' longtime
live-in nanny also attested "with certainty" that they had never employed an underage nanny.
That said, the Dubins
did
confirm having traveled with Epstein on his private jet -
occasionally flying between Palm Beach and New York, where they all had homes. Maxwell, meanwhile,
flew on Dubin's plane twice along with his children; once in 2004 and again in 2010.
Pilot Jim Dowd who flew for both Epstein and the Dubins said that both men were "friends" who
liked "vacationing together."
Meanwhile,
a Russian model who worked for French modeling exec and accused rapist
Jean-Luc Brunel
was reportedly "friendly" with Andersson-Dubin. The model, Lana Pozhidaeva,
recently made headlines for having received a $55,000 donation from Epstein for her New York-based
nonprofit.
Dubins and Wexner
Last but not least,
Vanity Fair
's Cohan notes that the Dubins were close enough to
Victoria's Secret boss (and former Epstein pal) Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder and CEO of L
Brands. Wexner - Epstein's only known financial client -
allowed the Dubins and their
children to use their 316-foot, $100 million yacht,
Limitless,
for a Mediterranean
vacation
.
"Wexner's wife,
Abigail,
"graciously invited the Dubins to use their boat for
four days while Eva Dubin was recovering from breast cancer surgery," Dubin's spokesperson
explained," according to the report - which adds that it was "quite unusual for Wexner to let
anyone use
Limitless
when he was not on board."
Interestingly -
all parties have denied all wrongdoing, and many claim to have had no
knowledge of Epstein's proclivities despite hanging out with him during and following his
conviction for pedophilia
. What's wrong with these people?
"Interestingly -
all parties have denied all wrongdoing, and
many claim to have had no knowledge of Epstein's proclivities
despite hanging out with him during and following his conviction
for pedophilia
. What's wrong with these people"
It is the same as to why parents let their kids hang around
with Micheal Jackson. They get something from the relationship
which seems to be much more important than their kids mental and
emotional wellbeing.
I suppose they need to continue trotting out stories like this to
make it appear that someone is actually investigating something,
before the whole thing winds up in the memory hole.
A child of Holocaust survivors...he was born in Tel Aviv, Israel.
She worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York as
Assistant U.S. Attorney before becoming Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, where she
worked on national security and counterterrorism. She was Counselor to the Secretary of
Homeland Security before she worked in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice
as Deputy Assistant Attorney General.
What are Sigal Mandelker' connections to this illustrious group?
Even while he was allegedly pimping girls and running heroin, Larry Silverstein served
as president for United Jewish Appeal of New York.
As for Epstein, he was the boy toy and protégé of Les Wexner, co-founder
of the Mega Group of Jewish billionaires associated with the World Jewish Congress, the
Anti-Defamation League, and other pro-Israel groups.
Reads like the best of the best among Israel-firsters: Pimps, drug-dealers, thugs from the
ADL, major mafioso-philanthropists for Israel, WJC activists with a special fondness for the
illegal settlers' terrorism against native Palestinians, and the most active promoters of the
Wars for Eretz Israel, including a war-in-making against Iran.
While people do not agree of detail the main theme is common: government stories explaining
both 9/11 and Epstein death are not credible. And that government tried to create an "artificial
reality" to hide real events and real culprits.
Absence of credible information create fertile ground for creation of myths and rumors,
sometimes absurd. But that'a well known sociaological phenomenon studies by late Tamotsu Shibutani in the
context of WWII rumors ( Improvised News: A Sociological Study of Rumor (1966)).
Now we can interpret famous quote of
William Casey "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American
public believes is false as an admission of the fact that the government can create artificial
reality" much like in film Matrix and due to thick smoke of propaganda people are simply unable
to discern the truth.
A foreign policy of "maximum pressure" and swagger: tawdry bribes, heavy-handed threats,
and complete failure ..now what group does this remind me of?
US State Dept Program Offers $15 Million to Iran Revolutionary Guards September 4,
2019
The US State Department has unveiled a new $15 million "reward program" for anyone who
provides information on the financial inner workings of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, in an
attempt to further disrupt them.
The program comes after the US declared the Revolutionary Guards "terrorists," but remains
very unusual, in as much as it targets an agency of a national government instead of just
some random militant group.
The Financial Times reports on the farce that is our government's Iran policy:
Four days before the US imposed sanctions on an Iranian tanker suspected of shipping oil
to Syria, the vessel's Indian captain received an unusual email from the top Iran official at
the Department of State.
"This is Brian Hook . . . I work for secretary of state Mike
Pompeo and serve as the US Representative for Iran," Mr Hook wrote to Akhilesh Kumar on
August 26, according to several emails seen by the Financial Times. "I am writing with good
news."
The "good news" was that the Trump administration was offering Mr Kumar several million
dollars to pilot the ship -- until recently known as the Grace 1 -- to a country that would
impound the vessel on behalf of the US. To make sure Mr Kumar did not mistake the email for a
scam, it included an official state department phone number.
The administration's Iran obsession has reached a point where they are now trying to bribe
people to act as pirates on their behalf. When the U.S. was blocked by a court in Gibraltar
from taking the ship, they sought to buy the loyalty of the captain in order to steal it.
Failing that, they resorted to their favorite tool of sanctions to punish the captain and his
crew for ignoring their illegitimate demand. The captain didn't respond to the first message,
so Hook persisted with his embarrassing scheme:
"With this money you can have any life you wish and be well-off in old age," Mr Hook wrote in
a second email to Mr Kumar that also included a warning. "If you choose not to take this easy
path, life will be much harder for you."
Many people have already mocked Hook's message for its resemblance to a Nigerian prince
e-mail scam, and I might add that he comes across here sounding like a B-movie gangster.
Hook's contact was not an isolated incident, but part of a series of e-mails and texts that
he has sent to various ships' captains in a vain effort to intimidate them into falling in
line with the administration's economic war. This is what comes of a foreign policy of
"maximum pressure" and swagger: tawdry bribes, heavy-handed threats, and complete
failure.
The Committee of 300 is an evolution of the British East Indies Company Council of 300. The
list personally last seen included many Windsors (Prince Andrew), Rothchilds, other Royals.
Some of the Americans included some now dead and other still living: George HW Bush, Bill
Clinton Tom Steyer, Al Gore, John Kerry, Netanyahu, lots of bankers, Woolsey (ex CIA),
journalists like Michael Bloomberg, Paul Krugman, activists and politians like Tony Blair,
now dead Zbigniew Brzezinski, CEOs Charles and Edgar Bronfman. The list is long and out of
date but these people control much of what goes on whether good or bad. Their hands are
everywhere doing good and maybe some of this bad stuff.
Given the facts a 10 year-old child could see that the official 911 explanation was totally
flawed. Just three of these facts are sufficient, the 'dancing Israelis', Silverstein
admitting to the 'pull (demolish) it' order and the collapse of steel-framed WTC 7 in
freefall despite not being hit. It is not hyperbole to say that America is a failed state
given that the known perpetrators were never even charged. ZOG indeed.
A respectable civil rights attorney, Lisa Bloom, handled Katie Johnson's case.
"Respectable"?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
You do realize that Lisa Bloom is the daughter of Glora Allred and defender of Harvey
Weinstein do you not?
You people are so desperate to try to link Trump to Epstein it's pathetic.
I suggest you go back to your gatekeeping nonsense of trying to discredit the 9/11 Truth
Movement by spreading misinformation about nukes in the towers.
This article stakes out much important ground of information and interpretation Kevin
Barrett. The essay resonates as a historic statement of some of our current predicaments.
What about the comparisons that might be made concerning the mysteries attending the
disappearing corpses of Osama bin Laden and Jeffrey Epstein. And according to Christopher
Ketcham, the release of the High Fivin' Urban Movers back to Israel was partially negotiated
by Alan Dershowitz who played a big role in defending Epstein over a long period.
@anon The ultimate "nutjob quackery" of 9/11 is Phillip Zelikow's 9/11 Commission Report,
a document that stands as a testimony and marker signifying the USA's descent into a mad
hatter's imperium of lies. legend and illusion.
It is getting harder and harder to satirize the decadence and depravity of the secular
West, which insists on parodying itself with ever-increasing outlandishness. When the book
on this once-mighty civilization is written, and the ink is dry, readers will be astounded
by the limitless lies of the drunk-on-chutzpah psychopaths who ran it into the ground
@Kevin Barrett Adding to Junior's comment, I quit reading after you wrote of "credible
accusations" of Mr. Trump being involved "in the brutal rape of a 13 year old." And feminist
shakedown artist Lisa Bloom, daughter of the even more infamous feminist shakedown artist G.
Allred, is your "credible source?" Bloom has about as much credibility as the sicko democrat
women who tried to derail Judge Kavanaugh.
Regardless of how much one might hate Trump (and I'm no Trump supporter) levelling such
unfounded accusations is journalistic malfeasance. Did we elect the Devil Incarnate? Mr.
Barrett, I'm done reading you.
The special relationship between the CIA and the Mossad was driven partly by the efforts of
CIA officer James Angleton . Philip Weiss in his article in Mondoweiss entitled "The goy and
the golem: James Angleton and the rise of Israel." states that Angleton's " greatest service
to Israel was his willingness no to say a word about the apparent diversion of highly
enriched plutonium from a plant in Western Pennsylvania to Israel's nascent nuclear program "
The same program which JFK tried to curtail which efforts may have led to his assassination .
a confessed participant in the controlled demolition of Building 7,
For the love of God, this is stupid. Larry Silverstein was talking about the Fire
Commander , for fuck's sake. The Fire Commander made the decision to pull the
firefighters out of the building because they could not put the fire out and were in
unnecessary danger. That's all he meant. There is not one word in this that has anything to
do with a controlled demolition whatsoever.
In order to believe what the 9/11 Douchers would have you believe about this comment, you
would have to believe that 1) Building 7 was wired for demolition beforehand; 2) That the NYC
Fire Commander somehow knew about this; 3) That the NYC Fire Commander was perfectly okay
with allowing his men to spend hours inside a burning building in which he knew that
explosive charges had already been rigged to blow; 4) That the NYC Fire Commander had the
authority to decide when the charges should be blown and had access to the master switch that
would blow them all; 5) That after 7 hours of attempting to fight the fire, the NYC Fire
Commander (who by now can be nothing but a full-fledged member of the conspiracy) decides,
after briefly consulting with Larry Silverstein, "Oh, the hell with this! Let's just blow up
the building now!", to which Larry Silverstein agrees; 6) That after spending 7 hours in a
burning building that had fires burning randomly throughout it and that had been struck by
multiple pieces of debris, all of the explosive charges and their detonators were still in
perfect working order; 7) That none of the firefighters extensively searching the building
for survivors happened to notice any of the pre-placed explosive charges nor thought it
necessary to report about such; 8) That the NYC Fire Commander then proceeds to "pull" the
building after presumably giving some other order for the men to evacuate, which order was
never recorded because the "pull" order must have meant "blow up the building"; 9) And that
Larry Silverstein, after being part of a massive conspiracy involving insurance fraud,
murder, and arson which, if exposed, would send him to a federal death sentence, just decides
to casually mention all of this in a television interview for all and sundry to see, but it
is only the 9/11 Douchers who pick up on the significance of it.
Does any of this sound remotely believable? Did anyone subscribing to this nonsense stop
to think about the context in which this conversation took place? Do any of you 9/11 Douchers
even care that you're being completely ridiculous and grasping at nonexistent straws in your
vain attempt to establish some sort of case for controlled demolition? Do you even care that
everybody can see that what you are saying makes no sense at all? It is perfectly
obvious that Larry Silverstein is NOT talking about controlled demolition here. To
believe otherwise would require you to literally be insane, to not understand the plain
meaning of words and to have no awareness of conversational contexts; yet not only have you
swallowed all of this, you have been beating the drum of this insanity for nearly 20
years.
There is no point in reasoning with an insane person. There is, however, the possibility
that you don't really believe what you are saying and are just flogging a hobbyhorse, in
which case it is you who are engaging in mendacious journalism and trafficking in
lies. In either case, you need to be silenced. Neither lies nor insanity have any "right" to
be uttered in the public square. You 9/11 Douchers are really the ones doing everything you
accuse the mainstream media of doing, and worse. You have become a danger to the public weal
and must be stopped. Your conspiratorial nonsense just isn't cute anymore.
The official stories about the Kennedy assassination, Epstein's death, and 9/11 are
clearly suspect. No one with the capacity for critical thinking can seriously deny this.
Which elements of these stories are true and which are false will never be resolved.
Because:
The mainstream media including Fox News have abdicated their mission as fact finders and
truth tellers. They peddle entertainment and sell ad space. Rachel Maddow foaming at the
mouth about Trump's pee tape and Hannity fulminating about FISA abuse are the same product,
simply aimed at different demographics.
Nothing in the above two paragraphs is even remotely novel. It's all been said before
twenty bazillion times.
Being a feminist or Democrat (or nonfeminist or Republican) is irrelevant to a person's
credibility. It's possible that Lisa Bloom was part of a conspiracy to invent a fictitious
Katy Johnson story, in which case Bloom is guilty of criminal fraud as well as civil libel.
That would be quite a risk for her to take, to say the least. It's also possible that she was
somehow duped by others, in which case they would be running the civil and criminal
liabilities, while she would just get disbarred for negligence.
The same is true of Johnson's attorney Thomas Meagher.
It is also possible that Johnson's story is at least roughly accurate. There is supporting
testimony from another Epstein victim.
If you set aside your prejudices about Democrats-Republicans, feminists-antifeminists,
Trump-Hillary, etc., and just look at what's been reported, you'll agree with me that the
allegations are credible (but of course unproven). If you suffer emotional blocks against
thinking such things about a President, as so many did when similar things were reported
about Bill Clinton, I sympathize but also urge you to get psychiatric treatment so you can
learn to face unpleasant facts and then get to work cleaning up this country.
The release of Prof. J. Leroy Hulsey report on the finite element analysis of the WTC7
collapse should be a big news.
But won't be.
Democracy works this way. The ruling elite, via the media, Hollywood, etc., tell the
people what to think, the people then vote according to the way they think.
So the truth of 9/11 will never be known to the majority unless we have a public statement
from George W. Bush acknowledging that he personally lit the fuse that set off the explosions
that brought WTC 7 down at free-fall
speed .
This is fortunate for the intrepid Dr. Hulsey* who would, presumably, otherwise have had
to be dispatched by a sudden heart attack, traffic accident, weight-lifting accident suicide
with a bullet to the back of the head. As it is, hardly anyone will ever know what he will
say or what it means.
* Fortunate also for those who so rashly advocate for truth here and elsewhere on the yet
to be fully controlled Internets.
Nicely done. Article will not be featured on front page NYT & discussed on TV.
There are many highlights in your article. This is one.
Epstein's career as a shameless, openly-operating Mossad sexual blackmailer -- like the
in-your-face 9/11 coup -- also illustrates another core truth of Western secularism: If
there is no God, there are no limits (in this case, to human depravity and what it can get
away with). Or as Dostoevsky famously put it: "If God does not exist, everything is
permitted."
Please consult the following papers about the CIA/Mossad crimes against humanity and their
pimps who pose as 'politicians' of the fake Western 'democracy' where Epstein was their agent
serving their interest as a PIMP.
{from being the work of a single political party, intelligence agency or country, the
power structure revealed by the network connected to Epstein is nothing less than a criminal
enterprise that is willing to use and abuse children in the pursuit of ever more power,
wealth and control.}
"... Absolutely standard procedure in this case where the conduct took place openly over years would include: a. informants wearing wires; b. securing the crime scenes, including all the properties and the planes; c. simultaneous arrests of 20-50 co-defendants/conspirators ranging from Maxwell and Wexner at the top to most all staff at the properties where the crimes occurred, the pilots, etc. None of this happened. ..."
"... The Bureau of Prisons has two main operations: prisons for convicted offenders and "federal jails". They are completely separate lines of business. The purpose of the "jails" in the federal system, where each District has its own, is to obtain convictions from the detainees. The BOP staff in the jails are members of the prosecution team for all practical purposes. All mail in and out is read and copied. All calls are monitored and recorded. Detainees are placed in units after consultations among the BOP, U.S. Marshals and U.S. Attorneys for the District. ..."
"... Cooperating codefendants may all be placed on the same unit, for example, so that they get their stories straight, while those fighting cases are elsewhere. ..."
"... Snitching is rampant and good information is rewarded by downgrading of charges, lenient sentencing and assignment to sweet spots in the prison system. Berman and his team were involved in formulating and were continuously aware of the most minute details of the conditions of Epstein's confinement. ..."
skeptic23 says: September
3, 2019 at 1:00 am GMT 400 Words Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern
District of New York, is the only government official who is clearly trustworthy ,
because he could have stopped the 2019 Epstein indictment and he didn't. I don't think
Attorney-General Barr could have blocked it, and I don't think President Trump could have
except by firing Berman. I do trust Attorney-General Barr, however, from what I've heard of him
and because he instantly and publicly said he would have not just the FBI but the Justice Dept.
Inspector-General investigate Epstein's death, and he quickly fired the federal prison head
honcho.
The above statement re: Berman is exactly wrong. He is a Trump Appointee and transition team
member.
1. There was no real Epstein indictment/investigation , just a piece of paper
sufficient to take him into custody and institute a criminal proceeding.
Absolutely standard procedure in this case where the conduct took place openly over
years would include: a. informants wearing wires; b. securing the crime scenes, including all
the properties and the planes; c. simultaneous arrests of 20-50 co-defendants/conspirators
ranging from Maxwell and Wexner at the top to most all staff at the properties where the crimes
occurred, the pilots, etc. None of this happened.
They took computers and records from NY and visited Little St. James for a few hours 30 days
after the arrest. see Rusty Shackleford videos. The way they always build a case like this is
to get the little guys to talk and then move up the food chain to the big boys (and girls).
2. The Bureau of Prisons has two main operations: prisons for convicted offenders and
"federal jails". They are completely separate lines of business. The purpose of the "jails" in
the federal system, where each District has its own, is to obtain convictions from the
detainees. The BOP staff in the jails are members of the prosecution team for all practical
purposes. All mail in and out is read and copied. All calls are monitored and recorded.
Detainees are placed in units after consultations among the BOP, U.S. Marshals and U.S.
Attorneys for the District.
Cooperating codefendants may all be placed on the same unit, for example, so that they
get their stories straight, while those fighting cases are elsewhere.
Snitching is rampant and good information is rewarded by downgrading of charges, lenient
sentencing and assignment to sweet spots in the prison system. Berman and his team were
involved in formulating and were continuously aware of the most minute details of the
conditions of Epstein's confinement.
Berman was at the center of whatever it was that happened.
The author should use the word "neoliberal" instead of "debauched"
Notable quotes:
"... When talking about politics, we should be careful not to define "debauched" too narrowly. While debauchery is typically associated with over-indulgence of the sensual pleasures, a more fitting political definition is a general loss of self-control. ..."
"... In the political realm, debauchery is less characterized by the sensual vices than by an overzealous desire for power. ..."
"... The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein is all one needs to see that many elites are very debauched as regards social mores. Yet how might a debauched culture be reflected in the realms of domestic and foreign policy? ..."
"... Class warfare tends to resonate most broadly when the wealthy become self-indulgent and unworthy, and dissolute plutocracies are oft times defended by "conservatives." In the terminal phase of a democracy, this can portend domestic revolution. ..."
"... Belligerent intervention is not nationalism! It is Neocon Texas - Harvard Redneckism ..."
"... I'm not sure I agree with the author's thesis: that debauchery or gratuitous political leadership results in immoral foreign policy. Were the highly-disciplined and self-sacrificing Japanese militarists who bombed Pearl Harbor and aligned with the Axis (Hitler, Mussolini) guided by any more virtuous foreign policy than say, "debauched" Churchill and Roosevelt? I doubt it. ..."
"... The article lacks specifics on how America's leaders are debauched and how this debauchery influences foreign policy, other than to say they are "unrestrained". But is non-restraint debauchery? Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was running a gratuitous non-profit institute to shake down foreign rulers in return for promising political favors if elected. She was going to sell the country out. ..."
"... We stole Venezuela's assets in the U.S. and even denied their baseball players the ability to send money back to their families, we really love them. We have an oil embargo on Syria and we are the only reason the Saudis are able to starve Yemen. None of these countries have ever done anything to us but it feels good that we can do this and even get most of the world to support us. ..."
"... It drives me crazy that devout Protestants in govt who believe that human nature is corrupt act as if they are standing in the gap while being belligerent and never questioning their own judgment. ..."
"... The problem is that we are led by sociopaths. ..."
"... This current round of unprovoked aggression against small countries started when Clinton attacked Serbia even though he did not have authorization from the UN. He did it because he could -- Russia had collapsed by then so they were powerless to prevent NATO from attacking their ally. No one had the power to stop the hegemon so it was a short journey from the relative restraint of George W. Bush to going beserk all over the world (of course in the name of stopping genocide, ecocide, insecticide or whatever). Get absolute power, get corrupted. ..."
"... I think people like Epstein are state sponsored to use the warped values of the elites to gain political advantage for their masters. Destroying historic value sets is part of this package. ..."
TAC are no doubt familiar with the truism that "politics is downstream of culture." This maxim, which is undoubtedly true,
should not, however, only be applied to social issues. In fact, culture shapes our public policy very broadly, far more than do dispassionate
"policymakers" exercising careful reason and judgment. The nature of our governance tends to reflect the cultural and philosophical
orientation of our elites, and this orientation is increasingly debauched.
When talking about politics, we should be careful not to define "debauched" too narrowly. While debauchery is typically associated
with over-indulgence of the sensual pleasures, a more fitting political definition is a general loss of self-control.
All the great religious and philosophical traditions understood that there is a part of our nature that can get out of control
and a divine part that can exert control. A culture thus becomes debauched when elites lose the sense that they need to rein themselves
in, that "there is an immortal essence presiding like a king over" their appetites, as Walter Lippmann put it. In the political
realm, debauchery is less characterized by the sensual vices than by an overzealous desire for power.
The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein is all one needs to see that many elites are very debauched as regards social mores. Yet how
might a debauched culture be reflected in the realms of domestic and foreign policy?
Let's start with domestic policy. How would debauched elites govern a democracy at home? One might surmise, for example, that
their lack of self-control might cause them to spend federal money as a means of keeping themselves in power. They might also attempt
to bribe their constituents by promising a variety of domestic programs while also pledging that the programs will be funded out
of the pockets of others. If they were really debauched, they might even borrow money from future generations to pay for these incumbency
protection initiatives. They might run up staggering
debt for the sake of their expedient political needs and promise that "the rich" can provide for it all. In short, the hallmark
domestic policy of a debauched democracy is, and has always been, class warfare.
It should be pointed out that class warfare is not simply a creation of demagogues on the left. Class warfare tends to resonate
most broadly when the wealthy become self-indulgent and unworthy, and dissolute plutocracies are oft times defended by "conservatives."
In the terminal phase of a democracy, this can portend domestic revolution.
While most conservatives might agree about the dangers of class warfare, it is on the foreign policy front where they seem most
debauched themselves. They remain stuck in a vortex of GOP clichés, with standard references to Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill,
leaders who were closer in their time to the American Civil War than we are to them now. For many of these "conservatives," every
contemporary authoritarian leader is the progeny of Hitler and any attempt to establish cordial relations is a rerun of Munich 1938.
As with domestic policy, the true sign of a debauched foreign policy is a loss of self-control and an excessive will to power
reflected in attempts to exert dominion over others with no particular nexus to the national interest. A debauched foreign policy
might just look like the decision to invade Iraq -- a war whose supporters offered numerous justifications, including alleged weapons
of mass destruction, democracy promotion, and anti-terrorism. Yet in hindsight, its real cause seems to have been the simple desire
by our leaders to impose their will. In a debauched democracy, class warfare is the paradigmatic domestic policy and profligate war
making is the paradigmatic foreign policy.
Given that self-control and restraint are the hallmarks of a genuinely conservative foreign policy -- because they remain humble
about what human nature can actually achieve -- one should receive the recent conference on
national conservatism with some
skepticism . The
retinue of experts who spoke generally espoused a foreign policy that sought dominion over others -- in other words, a continuation
of the belligerent interventionism that characterized the second Bush administration. This may be nationalism, but it seems not to
be conservatism.
One hopes that the leaders of this new movement will re-consider their foreign policy orientation as they have increasingly formidable
resources to draw upon. The creation of the Quincy Institute and the rise of
an intellectually formidable network of foreign policy "restrainers" provide hope.
Given that culture is king, however, these intellectuals may want to keep top of mind that restraint is not simply a policy option
but a character trait -- a virtue -- that needs to be developed in leaders who are then elevated. Prudent policies are no doubt essential
but the most important challenge in politics is, and always will be, attracting and encouraging the best leaders to rule. Our system
often does the opposite. This is at root a cultural problem.
William S. Smith is research fellow and managing director at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the Catholic University
of America, and author of the new book
Democracy and Imperialism .
I'm not sure I agree with the author's thesis: that debauchery or gratuitous political leadership results in immoral foreign policy.
Were the highly-disciplined and self-sacrificing Japanese militarists who bombed Pearl Harbor and aligned with the Axis (Hitler,
Mussolini) guided by any more virtuous foreign policy than say, "debauched" Churchill and Roosevelt? I doubt it.
Moreover, has the author never heard of the concept "reasons of state"?: a purely political reason for action on the part of
a ruler or government, especially where a departure from openness, justice, or honesty is involved (e.g. "the king returned that
he had reasons of state for all he did"). In an existential emergency, would the leader of a nation be justified in using amoral
means to save his nation; but in all other circumstances should rely on conventional Christian morality as the default position?
This is what Pres. Truman apparently did when he dropped a-bombs on two Japanese cities. What Dietrich Bonhoeffer was apparently
involved with in the assassination attempt on Hitler. What Moses was embroiled with when he slayed 3,000 of his "debauched" followers
in the Exodus from Egypt.
The article lacks specifics on how America's leaders are debauched and how this debauchery influences foreign policy, other
than to say they are "unrestrained". But is non-restraint debauchery? Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was running a gratuitous
non-profit institute to shake down foreign rulers in return for promising political favors if elected. She was going to sell the
country out.
The opponent who beat her in the election promised the opposite and pretty much has delivered on his promises. Just
how is the current administration "unrestrained" other than he has not fulfilled pacifist's fantasies of pulling out of every
foreign country and conflict? Such pull outs have to be weighed on a case by case basis to determine the cost to human life and
world order. If the current administration has a policy it is that our allies have to fight and fund their own wars and conflicts
rather than rely on the U.S. to fight their wars for them.
The article is full of inflationary clichés ('politics is downstream of culture', 'class warfare', etc. And just how does the
author connect the dots between pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was elected to nothing and held no power over anyone, and our "debauched'
foreign policy? Correlation is not causation but there isn't even a correlation there.
The more one reads opinions of Intellectuals , and as anyone with half a brain knows, to never believe a Politician, I am always
reminded, after considerable research why I personally choose Realism . Realism is certainly not new and has some varied forms.
Realism re-surfaced leading up to and during WW 2.
"...the true sign of a debauched foreign policy is a loss of self-control and an excessive will to power reflected in attempts
to exert dominion over others"
I love this.
We stole Venezuela's assets in the U.S. and even denied their baseball players the ability to send money back to their families,
we really love them. We have an oil embargo on Syria and we are the only reason the Saudis are able to starve Yemen. None of these
countries have ever done anything to us but it feels good that we can do this and even get most of the world to support us.
This reminds me of a Nick Pemberton article when he wrote ...
"We still play the victim. And amazingly we believe it ... We believe we can take whatever we want. We believe that this world
does not contain differences to be negotiated, but foes to be defeated."
I could never get this out of my head.
It drives me crazy that devout Protestants in govt who believe that human nature is corrupt act as if they are standing in the
gap while being belligerent and never questioning their own judgment.
Trump the adulterer was the one who decided against bombing
because he did not have a taste for blood while the pious were eager for it.
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the Earth."
-Matthew 5:5
"Meek" is the wrong word/translation. In the original Greek, the word is "preais" and it does not mean docile and submissive.
Rather the word means gentleness blended with restrained strength/power.
The passage should read, "Blessed are those who have swords and know how to use them but keep them sheathed: for they shall
inherit the Earth."
There is a simpler explanation of what has happened to the US. When it comes to human beings, the only thing you need to remember
is Lord Acton's dictum: power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This current round of unprovoked aggression against small countries started when Clinton attacked Serbia even though he did
not have authorization from the UN. He did it because he could -- Russia had collapsed by then so they were powerless to prevent
NATO from attacking their ally. No one had the power to stop the hegemon so it was a short journey from the relative restraint
of George W. Bush to going beserk all over the world (of course in the name of stopping genocide, ecocide, insecticide or whatever).
Get absolute power, get corrupted.
The same thing is true domestically in the US. A small ethnic minority gave 50% and 25% of the money spent by the Democrats
and Republicans in the last presidential election. That gives them huge influence over the foreign policy of the country. Best
of all, no one else can question what is going on because classic tropes etc. Give a small group absolute power, get the swamp.
I think people like Epstein are state sponsored to use the warped values of the elites to gain political advantage for their masters.
Destroying historic value sets is part of this package.
The destruction of main core Christianity has not helped stem this tide
(subtle Happy Holidays, CE, BCE, etc.) . Brave women and men must arise and sewerize (drain the swamp) this mob of miscreants
defiling our belief system. .They have a right to exist but not dictate by subterfuge and fake news our values as they have been
doing.
Remove the OP pic of the Marines NOW, and fix the rest of your whine later.
This is America, we have no "betters" and our "gov't" has never, and will never, be comprised of anything other than our idiot
ay-whole neighbors who needed a job, whose sole job it is to govern the machinations of gov't and not us, as an un-self-governed
Society is otherwise un-governable.
And [due to human nature and physics (of which neither has or will change in the entire history of humanity)] sometimes you
have to go to war at the slightest of hints of provocation in order to achieve "illimitably sustainable conflict" of "Society"
[J.M. Thomas R., TERMS, 2012] not have to haphazardly fight minute to minute of every day.
“ If when Political objects are unimportant, motives weak, the excitement of forces small, a cautious commander tries
in all kinds of ways, without great crises and bloody solutions, to twist himself skillfully into peace through the characteristic
weakness of his enemy in the field and in the cabinet, we have no right to find fault with him, if the premise on which he
acts are well founded and justified by success;
still we must require him to remember that he only travels on forbidden tracks,
where the God of War may surprise him; that he ought always to keep his eye on the enemy, in order that he may not have to defend
himself with a dress rapier if the enemy takes up a sharp sword ”.
(Clausewitz, “On War” pg. 137)
Loosely paraphrased: " peaceable resolution to conflict is only effective, and should only be sought and relied upon, when
it is certain that the other party will never resort to arms, with the implication that that is never " [J.M.Thomas R., TERMS,
2012 Pg. 80]
Weakness is provocative don't provoke your enemies. Quit whining.
Let’s start with domestic policy. How would debauched elites govern a democracy at home?
Let's see. They'd likely repeatedly cut taxes on the wealthiest and on corporations and skyrocket deficits. They'd likely increase
military spending to insane levels to the benefit of the military industrial complex. They'd likely perform wide scale deregulation
on polluting industries. They'd ignore all inconvenient science, especially that which didn't support the fossil fuel industry.
They'd likely avoid meaningful action on a healthcare system that is more broken and expensive than any other OECD nation. Then
they'd look for targets, the "others", to bash and attack in attempt to hide the real world consequences of what they were doing.
Why would they do this? They do it for campaign contributions, "a means of keeping themselves in power."
I believe we are in the hands of:
The Demons of “Democracy”
The demons of “democracy” speak of “peace”
While their selling of weapons does not cease
Hypocrites from hell who posture on the world stage
When they should be in a gigantic prison cage
Evil reprobates in positions of power Anything that’s good they devour Destroying countries and families too This is the satanic work they do
Fancy titles are given to their names
Such is the state of a system insane
Madness and filth has become “normal”
Nobody speaks or asks: “Is it moral”?
Principals and ethics, they are of them, devoid Speaking of decency and truth has them annoyed Pimping for war is their diabolical expertise Killing and bombing is the forte of this demonic sleaze
Training and supporting terrorists, they do this as well
Will nobody arrest this treacherous crew from hell?
These people are devils and full of hypocrisy
We need to be freed from these, demons of “democracy”...
An attorney for Jeffrey Epstein confidant (and alleged groomer) Ghislaine Maxwell told a
judge on Wednesday that there are "hundreds" of people named in what is expected to be
approximately 2,000 pages of documents ordered unsealed by the federal appeals court in New
York, according to
Bloomberg .
The lawyer, Jeffrey Pagliuca, told U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska Wednesday that the
materials also include an address book with about 1,000 names . Preska is considering how to
carry out a ruling by the federal appeals court in New York that she must consider unsealing
some of the documents. There was no detail at the hearing as to the identity of the people
are named in the documents, and they may include women who say they are victims of Epstein,
his friends and others . -
Bloomberg
According to court filings, Maxwell was said to have hired, supervised and fired
household staff, while directing the visits of dozens of "massage therapists" to Epstein's
residence , according to the Journal .
In depositions taken in 2009 and 2010 as part of civil lawsuits against Mr. Epstein,
household employees said Ms. Maxwell was a central figure in Mr. Epstein's private life .
Several said Ms. Maxwell hired, supervised, and fired household staff, while directing the
visits of dozens of "massage therapists" -- typically young women.
Juan Alessi, who said in one of the depositions that he served as the Palm Beach house
manager from around 1992 through 2002, described a basket of sex toys in Ms. Maxwell's
bathroom closet . He said he would find them around when he cleaned up after visits from the
young women. -
WSJ
The document release stems from a 2015 defamation lawsuit in New York brought by Epstein
accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Maxwell. Giuffre says Maxwell helped Epstein traffic
herself and other underage girls to sex parties at the billionaire pedophile's many residences.
Maxwell has denied any wrongdoing and called Giuffre a liar.
The case was settled in 2017 and the records were sealed - however appeals by the Miami
Herald, Harvard Law professor (and former Epstein pal) Alan Dershowitz and right-wing blogger
Mike Cernovich were successful.
In August, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ordered the
partial release of Epstein documents, which revealed that Giuffre said that President Trump
was a "good friend of Jeffrey's," but that Trump 'didn't partake in any sex with any of us,"
adding "Donald Trump never flirted with me."
Epstein was found dead in federal lockup last month after his arrest on child
sex-trafficking charges. While the case was dismissed against Epstein, Judge Preska must now
consider how to release the sealed records - and from the looks of it, the possibility remains
that they may not be released at all.
The real question about that name list, and why it may or may not be released is:
How many other 'Epsteins' are still active? Observing that Epstein was a hedge fund
trader, one might posit that he 'traded' and 'hedged' with other 'non-financial traders'
so...
This was the same question I had for Penn State/Jerry Sandusky. My suspicion was there was
a vast network across sports with elite alums sponsoring these nefarious activities. Paterno
was sacked, an investigator killed and everything got very quiet.
This is just a hypothesis. Where are the facts ? The only facts that we have is that Epstein
always got a "special treatment" and the Maxwell and other accomplices were not arrested as is
usually ion such cases -- when prosecution tries to find "the weakest link" that starts telling
the story and will implicate others.
In most circles, the mystery of exactly how Epstein made his fortune was shrugged off as
simply part of his personal mystique. Epstein played the role of enigmatic billionaire 'to a
T', able to exude the persona of a man who could use his charm and wit to get anything he
wanted without revealing many of the nuts and bolts of how he rose to that position. He claimed
that he would only advise people whose personal wealth was over a billion, yet any 'evidence'
that he moved money around and made investments within the established industry markets were
small-time and insignificant.
... ... ...
Steve Pieczenik, who has a storied history as a psychiatrist and a terrorism expert with
important roles in foreign affairs with many U.S. administrations said the following about
Jeffrey Epstein in the video below:
I want to talk about the Epstein pedophilia ring, what
it really is, is a Mossad Israeli operative ring which goes back decades and decades.Jeff Epstein was picked out by the Mossad as the proper agent of influence, because, number
one, he was grandiose, two, he had some intelligence and he was so narcissistic that they could
manipulate him up and down and create a false front for him, which involved the fact that he
had multi-million dollars, multi-billion dollars.But to make sure that Jeffrey Epstein
was working properly, they had an operative from the Mossad who was named Maxwell, the daughter
of Robert Maxwell, one of the greatest crooks in the world, who was an Israeli Mossad
operative. When he died in 1991, he was either killed or he died, he was one of the biggest
contributors to Israeli national security than anybody else.What the Israelis did,
under the tutelage of two brilliant Mossad chiefs, both of whom used pedophilia as a honey trap
to encapsulate any one of our operatives in America. Jeff Epstein was a willing operative.
He
willingly was involved in pedophilia, the Israelis knew that, they created his story line, they
made believe he was a billionaire, Wexner was the theoretical backup man to him.Acosta,
the Secretary of Labor, was correct when he said that Epstein got off of the prosecutor's
indictment in Florida because he worked in the intelligence service. And it was not only the
Mossad who was involved, clearly the CIA was involved.
Blackmailer And Intelligence
Operative
In the clip below from the Collective Evolution Show on CETV (you can watch the full episode as part of your free 7-day trial
here ), Joe and I discussed not only Epstein's
role as a blackmailer and intelligence operative, but the fact that he is nothing more than one
person in a long line of people who have stepped in to play a role in these child sex
blackmailing operations.
Connecting Epstein's operations to current CIA and Mossad programs and
then further back even before the CIA existed, where these operations were formally being run
by the American mafia and other powerful figures, reveals important patterns that help us piece
together more accurately exactly what is happening in our world. If there is anything to pay
attention to regarding Epstein's death, it is the level of desperation on the part of these
powerful forces to squelch public attention around their very real organized criminal
conspiracy that operates between intelligence, government, law enforcement, mainstream media
and others, in which innocent women and children are taken, raped, and sometimes even tortured
and killed as mere casualties of the self-serving power struggles amongst factions of world
power.
Whitney Webb has done a ton of research on these issues: Barr, Mena airport,
Iran-Contra, guns and dope, and Clinton; he worked for Casey, CIA director under Reagan, as
they say, there are no ex-spies.
Epstein has a "history" that explains a lot. When you run through it, it's clear that the
Epstein story is about much more than young girls and political blackmail. In fact CIA
airfields, drug running, Clintons, money laundering, assassinations etc. The conclusion is
that Epstein is only the visible tip of the iceberg.
The Sott.net article is a 100% necessary article to print out and read carefully. It
explains better than anything else I've read about how and why the US is in the place it is
today.
@utu Jean-Luc Brunel is Jewish. He had a nasty reputation for drugging young women and
raping them once they became helpless. His "modeling agency" had offices in Paris, N.Y., and
Tel Aviv. He's in Israel right now, laying low.
While details on Epstein death are not interesting (he ended like a regular pimp) the corruption of high level officials his case
revealed in more troubling.
Notable quotes:
"... Epstein was released, and various lawsuits were filed against him and settled out of court, presumably in exchange for silence. The media was quiet or complimentary as Epstein worked his way back into high society. ..."
"... What would I do if I were Epstein? I'd try to get the President, the Attorney-General, or the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to shut down the investigation before it went public. I'd have all my friends and all my money try to pressure them. If it failed and I were arrested, it would be time for the backup plan -- the Deal. I'd try to minimize my prison time, and, just as important, to be put in one of the nicer federal prisons where I could associate with financial wizards and drug lords instead of serial killers, black nationalists, and people with bad breath. ..."
"... What about the powerful people Epstein would turn in to get his deal? They aren't as smart as Epstein, but they would know the Deal was coming -- that Epstein would be quite happy to sacrifice them in exchange for a prison with a slightly better golf course. What could they do? There's only one good option -- to kill Epstein, and do it quickly, before he could start giving information samples to the U. S. Attorney. ..."
"... Trying to kill informers is absolutely routine in the mafia, or indeed, for gangs of any kind. ..."
"... Famous politicians, unlike gangsters, don't have full-time professional hit men on their staffs, but that's just common sense -- politicians rarely need hit men, so it makes more sense to hire them on a piecework basis than as full-time employees. How would they find hit men? You or I wouldn't know how to start, but it would be easy for them. Rich powerful people have bodyguards. Bodyguards are for defense, but the guys who do defense know guys who do offense. And Epstein's friends are professional networkers. One reporter said of Ghislaine Maxwell, "Her Rolodex would blow away almost anyone else's I can think of -- probably even Rupert Murdoch's." They know people who know people. Maybe I'm six degrees of separation from a mafia hit man, but not Ghislaine Maxwell. I bet she knows at least one mafioso personally who knows more than one hit man. ..."
"... Or, if you can hire a New York Times reporter for $30,000 ( as Epstein famously did a couple of years ago), you can spend $200,000 on a competent hit man to make double sure. Government incompetence does not lend support to the suicide theory; quite the opposite. ..."
"... Statutory rape is not a federal crime ..."
"... At any time from 2008 to the present, Florida and New York prosecutors could have gone after Epstein and easily convicted him. The federal nonprosecution agreement did not bind them. And, of course, it is not just Epstein who should have been prosecuted. Other culprits such as Prince Andrew are still at large. ..."
"... Why isn't anybody but Ann Coulter talking about Barry Krischer and Ric Bradshaw, the Florida state prosecutor and sheriff who went easy on Epstein, or the New York City police who let him violate the sex offender regulations? ..."
"... Krischer refused to use the evidence the Palm Beach police gave him except to file a no-jail-time prostitution charge (they eventually went to Acosta, the federal prosecutor, instead, who got a guilty plea with an 18-month sentence). Bradshaw let him spend his days at home instead of at jail. ..."
"... In New York State, the county prosecutor, Cyrus Vance, fought to prevent Epstein from being classified as a Level III sex offender. Once he was, the police didn't enforce the rule that required him to check in every 90 days. ..."
"... Trafficking is a federal offense, so it would have to involve commerce across state lines. It also must involve sale and profit, not just personal pleasure. ..."
"... Here, the publicity and investigative lead is what is most important, because these are reputable and rich offenders for whom publicity is a bigger threat than losing in court. They have very good lawyers, and probably aren't guilty of federal crimes anyway, just state crimes, in corrupt states where they can use clout more effectively. Thus, killing potential informants before they tell the public is more important than killing informants to prevent their testimony at trial, a much more leisurely task. ..."
"... Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is the only government official who is clearly trustworthy, because he could have stopped the 2019 Epstein indictment and he didn't. I don't think Attorney-General Barr could have blocked it, and I don't think President Trump could have except by firing Berman. ..."
"... "It was that heart-wrenching series that caught the attention of Congress. Ben Sasse, the Republican senator from Nebraska, joined with his Democratic colleagues and demanded to know how justice had been so miscarried. ..."
"... President Trump didn't have anything personally to fear from Epstein. He is too canny to have gotten involved with him, and the press has been eagerly at work to find the slightest connection between him and Epstein and have come up dry as far as anything but acquaintanceship. But we must worry about a cover-up anyway, because rich and important people would be willing to pay Trump a lot in money or, more likely, in political support, if he does a cover-up. ..."
"... he sealing was completely illegal, as the appeals court politely but devastatingly noted in 2019, and the documents were released a day or two before Epstein died. Someone should check into Judge Sweet's finance and death. He was an ultra-Establishment figure -- a Yale man, alas, like me, and Taft School -- so he might just have been protecting what he considered good people, but his decision to seal the court records was grossly improper. ..."
"... Did Epstein have any dealings in sex, favors, or investments with any Republican except Wexner? ..."
"... Dershowitz, Mitchell, Clinton, Richardson, Dubin, George Stephanopolous, Lawrence Krauss, Katie Couric, Mortimer Zuckerman, Chelsea Handler, Cyrus Vance, and Woody Allen, are all Democrats. Did Epstein ever make use of Republicans? Don't count Trump, who has not been implicated despite the media's best efforts and was probably not even a Republican back in the 90's. Don't count Ken Starr– he's just one of Epstein's lawyers. Don't count scientists who just took money gifts from him. (By the way, Epstein made very little in the way of political contributions , though that little went mostly to Democrats ( $139,000 vs. $18,000 . I bet he extracted more from politicians than he gave to them. ..."
"... What role did Israeli politician Ehud Barak play in all this? ..."
"... Remember Marc Rich? He was a billionaire who fled the country to avoid a possible 300 years prison term, and was pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2001. Ehud Barak, one of Epstein's friends, was one of the people who asked for Rich to be pardoned . Epstein, his killers, and other rich people know that as a last resort they can flee the country and wait for someone like Clinton to come to office and pardon them. ..."
"... "intelligence" is also the kind of excuse people make up so they don't have to say "political pressure." ..."
"... James Patterson and John Connolly published Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him , and All the Justice that Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein . Conchita Sarnoff published TrafficKing: The Jeffrey Epstein Case. I never heard of these before 2019. Did the media bury them? ..."
"... There seems to have been an orchestrated attempt to divert attention to the issue of suicides in prison. Subtle differences in phrasing might help reveal who's been paid off. National Review had an article, "The Conspiracy Theories about Jeffrey Epstein's Death Don't Make Much Sense." The article contains no evidence or argument to support the headline's assertion, just bluster about "madness" and "conspiracy theories". Who else publishes stuff like this? ..."
"... The New York Times was, to its credit, willing to embarrass other publications by 2019. But the Times itself had been part of the cover-up in previous years . Who else was? ..."
"... Not one question involving Maurene Comey, then? She was one of the SDNY prosecutors assigned to this case, and her name has been significantly played down (if at all visible) in the reportage before or after Epstein's death. That she just "happened" to be on this case at all is quite an eyebrow raiser especially with her father under the ongoing "Spygate" investigation ..."
"... As important as it is to go on asking questions about the life and death of Jeffrey Epstein, I have to admit that personally I'm just not interested. I've always found people of his social class to be vaguely repulsive even without the sordid sex allegations. Just their demanding personalities, just the thought of them hanging around in their terrycloth jogging suits, sneering at the world with their irrefrangible arrogance, is enough to make me shudder. I want nothing of their nightmare world; and when they die, I couldn't care less. ..."
"... We are supposed to have faith in this rubbish? The cameras malfunctioned. He didn't have a cellmate. The guards were tired and forced to work overtime. ..."
"... One tiny mention of Jewish magnate Les Wexner but no mention how he & the Bronfmans founded the 'Mega Group' of ultra-Zionist billionaires regularly meeting as to how they could prop up the Jewish state by any & all means, Wexner being the source of many Epstein millions, the original buyer of the NYC mansion he transferred to Epstein etc the excellent Epstein series by Whitney Webb on Mint Press covering all this https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/ ..."
"... ex-OSS father Donald Barr had written a 'fantasy novel' on sex slavery with scenes of rape of underage teens, 'Space Relations', written whilst Don Barr was headmaster of the Dalton school, which gave Epstein his first job, teaching teens ..."
The Jeffrey Epstein case is notable for the ups and downs in media coverage it's gotten over the years. Everybody, it seems, in
New York society knew by 2000 that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were corrupting teenage girls, but the press wouldn't cover
it. Articles by New York in 2002 and
Vanity Fair in 2003 alluded to it gently,
while probing Epstein's finances more closely. In 2005, the Palm Beach police investigated. The county prosecutor, Democrat Barry
Krischer, wouldn't prosecute for more than prostitution, so they went to the federal prosecutor, Republican Alexander Acosta, and
got the FBI involved. Acosta's office prepared an indictment, but before it was filed, he made a deal: Epstein agreed to plead guilty
to a state law felony and receive a prison term of 18 months. In exchange, the federal interstate sex trafficking charges would not
be prosecuted by Acosta's office. Epstein was officially at the county jail for 13 months, where the county officials under Democratic
Sheriff Ric Bradshaw gave him scandalously
easy treatment , letting him spend his days outside, and letting him serve a year of probation in place of the last 5 months
of his sentence. Acosta's office complained, but it was a county jail, not a federal jail, so he was powerless.
Epstein was released, and various lawsuits were filed against him and settled out of court, presumably in exchange for silence.
The media was quiet or complimentary as Epstein worked his way back into high society. Two books were written about the affair, and
fell flat. The FBI became interested again around 2011 (
a little known fact
) and maybe things were happening behind the scenes, but the next big event was in 2018 when the Miami Herald published a
series of investigative articles rehashing what had happened.
In 2019 federal prosecutors indicted Epstein, he was put in jail, and
he mysteriously died. Now, after much complaining in the press about how awful jails are and how many people commit suicide, things
are quiet again, at least until the Justice Department and
the State of Florida finish their
investigation a few years from now. (For details and more links, see " Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein
"at Medium.com and " Jeffrey Epstein " at Wikipedia
.)
I'm an expert in the field of "game theory", strategic thinking. What would I do if I were Epstein? I'd try to get the President,
the Attorney-General, or the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to shut down the investigation before it went public.
I'd have all my friends and all my money try to pressure them. If it failed and I were arrested, it would be time for the backup
plan -- the Deal. I'd try to minimize my prison time, and, just as important, to be put in one of the nicer federal prisons where
I could associate with financial wizards and drug lords instead of serial killers, black nationalists, and people with bad breath.
That's what Epstein would do. What about the powerful people Epstein would turn in to get his deal? They aren't as smart as Epstein,
but they would know the Deal was coming -- that Epstein would be quite happy to sacrifice them in exchange for a prison with a slightly
better golf course. What could they do? There's only one good option -- to kill Epstein, and do it quickly, before he could start
giving information samples to the U. S. Attorney.
Trying to kill informers is absolutely routine in the mafia, or indeed, for gangs of any kind. The reason people call such talk
"conspiracy theories" when it comes to Epstein is that his friends are WASPs and Jews, not Italians and Mexicans. But WASPs and Jews
are human too. They want to protect themselves. Famous politicians, unlike gangsters, don't have full-time professional hit men on
their staffs, but that's just common sense -- politicians rarely need hit men, so it makes more sense to hire them on a piecework
basis than as full-time employees. How would they find hit men? You or I wouldn't know how to start, but it would be easy for them.
Rich powerful people have bodyguards. Bodyguards are for defense, but the guys who do defense know guys who do offense. And Epstein's
friends are professional networkers.
One reporter said
of Ghislaine Maxwell, "Her Rolodex would blow away almost anyone else's I can think of -- probably even Rupert Murdoch's." They know
people who know people. Maybe I'm six degrees of separation from a mafia hit man, but not Ghislaine Maxwell. I bet she knows at least
one mafioso personally who knows more than one hit man.
In light of this, it would be very surprising if someone with a spare $50 million to spend to solve the Epstein problem didn't
give it a try. A lot of people can be bribed for $50 million. Thus, we should have expected to see bribery attempts. If none were
detected, it must have been because prison workers are not reporting they'd been approached.
Some
people say that government incompetence is always a better explanation than government malfeasance. That's obviously wrong --
when an undeserving business gets a contract, it's not always because the government official in charge was just not paying attention.
I can well believe that prisons often take prisoners off of suicide watch too soon, have guards who go to sleep and falsify records,
remove cellmates from prisoners at risk of suicide or murder, let the TV cameras watching their most important prisoners go on the
blink, and so forth. But that cuts both ways.
Remember, in the case of Epstein, we'd expect a murder attempt whether the warden of
the most important federal jail in the country is competent or not. If the warden is incompetent, we should expect that murder attempt
to succeed. Murder becomes all the more more plausible. Instead of spending $50 million to bribe 20 guards and the warden, you just
pay some thug $30,000 to walk in past the snoring guards, open the cell door, and strangle the sleeping prisoner, no fancy James
Bond necessary. Or, if you can hire a New York Times reporter for $30,000 (
as Epstein famously did a couple of years ago), you can spend $200,000 on a competent hit man to make double sure. Government
incompetence does not lend support to the suicide theory; quite the opposite.
Now to my questions.
Why is nobody blaming the Florida and New York state prosecutors for not prosecuting Epstein and others for statutory rape?
Statutory rape is not a federal crime, so it is not something the Justice Dept. is supposed to investigate or prosecute. They
are going after things like interstate sex trafficking. Interstate sex trafficking is generally much harder to prove than statutory
rape, which is very easy if the victims will testify.
At any time from 2008 to the present, Florida and New York prosecutors could have gone after Epstein and easily convicted him.
The federal nonprosecution agreement did not bind them. And, of course, it is not just Epstein who should have been prosecuted. Other
culprits such as Prince Andrew are still at large.
Note that if even if the evidence is just the girl's word against Ghislaine Maxwell's or Prince Andrew's, it's still quite possible
to get a jury to convict. After all, who would you believe, in a choice between Maxwell, Andrew, and Anyone Else in the World? For
an example of what can be done if the government is eager to convict, instead of eager to protect important people, see
the 2019 Cardinal
Pell case in Australia. He was convicted by the secret testimony of a former choirboy, the only complainant, who claimed Pell
had committed indecent acts during a chance encounter after Mass before Pell had even unrobed. Naturally, the only cardinal to be
convicted of anything in the Catholic Church scandals is also the one who's done the most to fight corruption. Where there's a will,
there's a way to prosecute. It's even easier to convict someone if he's actually guilty.
Why isn't anybody but Ann Coulter talking about Barry Krischer and Ric Bradshaw, the Florida state prosecutor and sheriff who went
easy on Epstein, or the New York City police who let him violate the sex offender regulations?
Krischer refused to use the evidence the Palm Beach police gave him except to file a no-jail-time prostitution charge (they eventually
went to Acosta, the federal prosecutor, instead, who got a guilty plea with an 18-month sentence). Bradshaw let him spend his days
at home instead of at jail.
In New York State, the county prosecutor, Cyrus Vance, fought to prevent Epstein from being classified
as a Level III sex offender. Once he was, the
police didn't enforce the
rule that required him to check in every 90 days.
How easy would it have been to prove in 2016 or 2019 that Epstein and his people were guilty of federal sex trafficking?
Not easy, I should think. It wouldn't be enough to prove that Epstein debauched teenagers. Trafficking is a federal offense, so
it would have to involve commerce across state lines. It also must involve sale and profit, not just personal pleasure.
The 2019 indictment
is weak on this. The "interstate commerce" looks like it's limited to Epstein making phone calls between Florida and New York. This
is why I am not completely skeptical when former U.S. Attorney Acosta says that the 2008 nonprosecution deal was reasonable. He had
strong evidence the Epstein violated Florida state law -- but that wasn't relevant. He had to prove violations of federal law.
Why didn't Epstein ask the Court, or the Justice Dept., for permission to have an unarmed guard share his cell with him?
Epstein had no chance at bail without bribing the judge, but this request would have been reasonable. That he didn't request a
guard is, I think, the strongest evidence that he wanted to die. If he didn't commit suicide himself, he was sure making it easy
for someone else to kill him.
Could Epstein have used the safeguard of leaving a trove of photos with a friend or lawyer to be published if he died an unnatural
death?
Well, think about it -- Epstein's lawyer was Alan Dershowitz. If he left photos with someone like Dershowitz, that someone could
earn a lot more by using the photos for blackmail himself than by dutifully carrying out his perverted customer's instructions. The
evidence is just too valuable, and Epstein was someone whose friends weren't the kind of people he could trust. Probably not even
his brother.
Who is in danger of dying next?
Prison workers from guard to warden should be told that if they took bribes, their lives are now in danger. Prison guards may
not be bright enough to realize this. Anybody who knows anything important about Epstein should be advised to publicize their information
immediately. That is the best way to stay alive.
This is not like a typical case where witnesses get killed so they won't testify.
It's not like with gangsters. Here, the publicity and investigative lead is what is most important, because these are reputable and
rich offenders for whom publicity is a bigger threat than losing in court. They have very good lawyers, and probably aren't guilty
of federal crimes anyway, just state crimes, in corrupt states where they can use clout more effectively. Thus, killing potential
informants before they tell the public is more important than killing informants to prevent their testimony at trial, a much more
leisurely task.
What happened to Epstein's body?
The Justice Dept. had better not have let Epstein's body be cremated. And they'd better give us convincing evidence that it's
his body. If I had $100 million to get out of jail with, acquiring a corpse and bribing a few people to switch fingerprints and DNA
wouldn't be hard. I find it worrying that the government has not released proof that Epstein is dead or a copy of the autopsy.
"Beyond its isolation, the wing is infested with rodents and cockroaches, and inmates often have to navigate standing water
-- as well as urine and fecal matter -- that spills from faulty plumbing, accounts from former inmates and lawyers said. One lawyer
said mice often eat his clients' papers."
" Often have to navigate standing water"? "Mice often eat his clients' papers?" Really? I'm skeptical. What do the
vermin eat -- do inmates leave Snickers bars open in their cells? Has anyone checked on what the prison conditions really like?
Is it just a coincidence that Epstein made a new will two days before he died?
I can answer this one. Yes, it is coincidence, though it's not a coincidence that he rewrote the will shortly after being denied
bail. The will leaves everything to a trust, and it is the trust document (which is confidential), not the will (which is public),
that determines who gets the money. Probably the only thing that Epstein changed in his will was the listing of assets, and he probably
changed that because he'd just updated his list of assets for the bail hearing anyway, so it was a convenient time to update the
will.
Did Epstein's veiled threat against DOJ officials in his bail filing backfire?
Epstein's lawyers wrote in his bail request,
"If the government is correct that the NPA does not, and never did, preclude a prosecution in this district, then the government
will likely have to explain why it purposefully delayed a prosecution of someone like Mr. Epstein, who registered as a sex offender
10 years ago and was certainly no stranger to law enforcement. There is no legitimate explanation for the delay."
I see this as a veiled threat. The threat is that Epstein would subpoena people and documents from the Justice Department relevant
to the question of why there was a ten-year delay before prosecution, to expose the illegitimate explanation for the delay. Somebody
is to blame for that delay, and court-ordered disclosure is a bigger threat than an internal federal investigation.
Who can we trust?
Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is the only government official who is clearly trustworthy,
because he could have stopped the 2019 Epstein indictment and he didn't. I don't think Attorney-General Barr could have blocked it,
and I don't think President Trump could have except by firing Berman. I do trust Attorney-General Barr, however, from what I've
heard of him and because he instantly and publicly said he would have not just the FBI but the Justice Dept. Inspector-General investigate
Epstein's death, and he quickly fired the federal prison head honcho. The FBI is untrustworthy, but Inspector-Generals are often
honorable.
Someone else who may be a hero in this is Senator Ben Sasse.
Vicki Ward
writes in the Daily Beast :
"It was that heart-wrenching series that caught the attention of Congress. Ben Sasse, the Republican senator from Nebraska,
joined with his Democratic colleagues and demanded to know how justice had been so miscarried.
Given the political sentiment, it's unsurprising that the FBI should feel newly emboldened to investigate Epstein -- basing
some of their work on Brown's excellent reporting."
Will President Trump Cover Up Epstein's Death in Exchange for Political Leverage?
President Trump didn't have anything personally to fear from Epstein. He is too canny to have gotten involved with him, and the
press has been eagerly at work to find the slightest connection between him and Epstein and have come up dry as far as anything but
acquaintanceship. But we must worry about a cover-up anyway, because rich and important people would be willing to pay Trump a lot
in money or, more likely, in political support, if he does a cover-up.
Why did Judge Sweet order Epstein documents sealed in 2017. Did he die naturally in 2019?
Judge Robert Sweet in 2017 ordered all documents in an Epstein-related case sealed. He died in May 2019 at age 96, at home in
Idaho. The sealing was completely illegal, as the appeals court politely but devastatingly noted in 2019, and the documents were
released a day or two before Epstein died. Someone should check into Judge Sweet's finance and death. He was an ultra-Establishment
figure -- a Yale man, alas, like me, and Taft School -- so he might just have been protecting what he considered good people, but
his decision to seal the court records was grossly improper.
Did Epstein have any dealings in sex, favors, or investments with any Republican except Wexner?
Dershowitz, Mitchell, Clinton, Richardson, Dubin, George Stephanopolous, Lawrence Krauss, Katie Couric, Mortimer Zuckerman,
Chelsea Handler, Cyrus Vance, and Woody Allen, are all Democrats. Did Epstein ever make use of Republicans? Don't count Trump, who
has not been implicated despite the media's best efforts and was probably not even a Republican back in the 90's. Don't count Ken
Starr– he's just one of Epstein's lawyers. Don't count scientists who just took money gifts from him. (By the way, Epstein made very
little in the way of
political contributions
, though that little went mostly to Democrats (
$139,000 vs. $18,000
. I bet he extracted more from politicians than he gave to them.
What role did Israeli politician Ehud Barak play in all this?
Remember Marc Rich? He was a billionaire who fled the country to avoid a possible 300 years prison term, and was pardoned
by Bill Clinton in 2001. Ehud Barak, one of Epstein's friends, was one of the people
who asked for Rich to be pardoned
. Epstein, his killers, and other rich people know that as a last resort they can flee the country and wait for someone like Clinton
to come to office and pardon them.
Acosta said that Washington Bush Administration people told him to go easy on Epstein because he was an intelligence source. That
is plausible. Epstein had info and blackmailing ability with people like Ehud Barak, leader of Israel's Labor Party. But "intelligence"
is also the kind of excuse people make up so they don't have to say "political pressure."
Why did nobody pay attention to the two 2016 books on Epstein?
James Patterson and John Connolly published Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him ,
and All the Justice that Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein . Conchita Sarnoff published TrafficKing:
The Jeffrey Epstein Case. I never heard of these before 2019. Did the media bury them?
Which newspapers reported Epstein's death as "suicide" and which as "apparent suicide"?
More generally, which media outlets seem to be trying to brush Epstein's death under the rug? There seems to have been an
orchestrated attempt to divert attention to the issue of suicides in prison. Subtle differences in phrasing might help reveal who's
been paid off. National Review had an article,
"The Conspiracy
Theories about Jeffrey Epstein's Death Don't Make Much Sense." The article contains no evidence or argument to support the headline's
assertion, just bluster about "madness" and "conspiracy theories". Who else publishes stuff like this?
How much did Epstein corrupt the media from 2008 to 2019?
Even outlets that generally publish good articles must be suspected of corruption. Epstein made an effort to get good publicity.
The New York Times
wrote,
"The effort led to the publication of articles describing him as a selfless and forward-thinking philanthropist with an interest
in science on websites like Forbes, National Review and HuffPost .
All three articles have been removed from their sites in recent days, after inquiries from TheNew York Times .
The National Review piece, from the same year, called him "a smart businessman" with a "passion for cutting-edge science."
Ms. Galbraith was also a publicist for Mr. Epstein, according to several news releases promoting Mr. Epstein's foundations In
the article that appeared on the National Review site, she described him as having "given thoughtfully to countless organizations
that help educate underprivileged children."
"We took down the piece, and regret publishing it," Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review since 1997, said in an email.
He added that the publication had "had a process in place for a while now to weed out such commercially self-interested pieces from
lobbyists and PR flacks.""
Eric Rasmusen is an economist who has held an endowed chair at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and visiting
positions at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, the Harvard Economics Department, Chicago's Booth School of Business, Nuffield
College/Oxford, and the University of Tokyo Economics Department. He is best known for his book Games and Information. He has published
extensively in law and economics, including recent articles on the burakumin outcastes in Japan, the use of game theory in jurisprudence,
and quasi-concave functions. The views expressed here are his personal views and are not intended to represent the views of the Kelley
School of Business or Indiana University. His vitae is at http://www.rasmusen.org/vita.htm
.
Not one question involving Maurene Comey, then? She was one of the SDNY prosecutors assigned to this case, and her name has
been significantly played down (if at all visible) in the reportage before or after Epstein's death. That she just "happened"
to be on this case at all is quite an eyebrow raiser especially with her father under the ongoing "Spygate" investigation
Apparently, there will always be many players on the field, and many ways to do damage control.
So the problem was finding a motivated prosecutor in case of Jewish predator with very likely links to intelligence services
of several countries. The motivation was obviously lacking.
Your "expertise" in game theory would be greatly improved if you let yourself consider the Jewish factor.
As important as it is to go on asking questions about the life and death of Jeffrey Epstein, I have to admit that personally
I'm just not interested. I've always found people of his social class to be vaguely repulsive even without the sordid sex allegations.
Just their demanding personalities, just the thought of them hanging around in their terrycloth jogging suits, sneering at the
world with their irrefrangible arrogance, is enough to make me shudder. I want nothing of their nightmare world; and when they
die, I couldn't care less.
More generally, which media outlets seem to be trying to brush Epstein's death under the rug?
Not the National Enquirer:
Jeffrey Epstein Murder Cover-up Exposed!
Death Scene Staged to Look Like Suicide
Billionaire's Screams Ignored by Guards!
Fatal Attack Caught on Jail Cameras!
Autopsy is Hiding the Truth!
I don't hold AG Barr in the high regard this piece does. While I'm not suggesting he had anything to do with Epstein's
death I do think he's corrupt. I doubt he will do anything that leads to the truth. As for him relieving the warden of
his duties, I would hope that was to be expected, wasn't it? I mean he only had two attempts on Epstein's life with the second
being a success. Apparently the first didn't jolt the warden into some kind of action as it appears he was guilty of a number
of sins including 'Sloth.'
As for the publications that don't like conspiracy theories –like the National Review
-- they are a hoot. We are supposed to have faith in this rubbish? The cameras malfunctioned. He didn't have a cellmate. The
guards were tired and forced to work overtime. There was no camera specifically in the cell with Epstein.
In the end I think Epstein probably was allowed to kill himself but I'm not confident in that scenario at all. And yes the media
should pressure Barr to hav e a look in the cell and see exactly how a suicide attempt might have succeeded or if it was a long-shot
at best, given the materiel and conditions.
19. Why is the non-prosecution agreement ambiguous ("globally" binding), when it was written by the best lawyers in the country
for a very wealthy client? Was the ambiguity bargained-for? If so, what are the implications?
20. With "globally" still being unresolved (to the bail judge's first-paragraph astonishment), why commit suicide now?
21. The "it was malfeasance" components are specified. For mere malfeasance to have been the cause, all of the components would
have to be true; it would be a multiplicative function of the several components. Is no one sufficiently quantitative to estimate
the magnitude?
22. What is the best single takeaway phrase that emerges from all of this? My nomination is: "In your face." The brazen, shameless,
unprecedented, turning-point, in-your-faceness of it.
ER the answer is easy to you list of questions .. there is no law in the world when violations are not prosecuted and fair open
for all to see trials are not held and judges do not deliver the appropriate penalties upon convictions. .. in cases involving
the CIA prosecution it is unheard of that a open for all to see trial takes place.
This is why we the governed masses need a parallel government..
such an oversight government would allow to pick out the negligent or wilful misconduct of persons in functional government
and prosecute such persons in the independent people's court.. Without a second government to oversee the first government there
is no democracy; democracy cannot stand and the governed masses will never see the light of a fair day .. unless the masses have
oversight authority on what is to be made into law, and are given without prejudice to their standing in America the right to
charge those associated to government with negligent or wilful misconduct.
There are big questions this article is not asking either
The words 'Mossad' seems not to appear above, and just a brief mention of 'Israel' with Ehud Barak
One tiny mention of Jewish magnate Les Wexner but no mention how he & the Bronfmans founded the 'Mega Group' of ultra-Zionist
billionaires regularly meeting as to how they could prop up the Jewish state by any & all means, Wexner being the source of many
Epstein millions, the original buyer of the NYC mansion he transferred to Epstein etc the excellent Epstein series by Whitney
Webb on Mint Press covering all this https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/
Was escape to freedom & Israe,l the ultimate payoff for Epstein's decades of work for Mossad, grooming and abusing young teens,
filmed in flagrante delicto with prominent people for political blackmail?
Is it not likely this was a Mossad jailbreak covered by fake 'suicide', with Epstein alive now, with US gov now also in possession
of the assumed Epstein sexual blackmail video tapes?
We have the Epstein 'death in jail' under the US Attorney General Bill Barr, a former CIA officer 1973-77, the CIA supporting
him thru night law school, Bill Barr's later law firm Kirkland Ellis representing Epstein
Whose Jewish-born ex-OSS father Donald Barr had written a 'fantasy novel' on sex slavery with scenes of rape of underage
teens, 'Space Relations', written whilst Don Barr was headmaster of the Dalton school, which gave Epstein his first job, teaching
teens
So would a crypto-Jewish 'former' CIA officer who is now USA Attorney General, possibly help a Mossad political blackmailer
escape to Israel after a fake 'jail suicide'?
An intriguing 4chan post a few hours after Epstein's 'body was discovered', says Epstein was put in a wheelchair and driven
out of the jail in a van, accompanied by a man in a green military uniform – timestamp is USA Pacific on the screencap apparently,
so about 10:44 NYC time Sat.10 Aug
FWIW, drone video of Epstein's Little St James island from Friday 30 August, shows a man who could be Epstein himself, on the
left by one vehicle, talking to a black man sitting on a quad all-terrain unit
Close up of Epstein-like man between vehicles, from video note 'pale finger' match-up to archive photo Epstein
The thing that sticks out for me is that Epstein was caught, charged, and went to jail previously, but he didn't die .
The second time, it appears he was murdered. I strongly suspect that the person who murdered Epstein was someone who only met
Epstein after 2008, or was someone Epstein only procured for after 2008. Otherwise, this person would have killed Epstein
back when Epstein was charged by the cops the first time.
Either that, or the killer is someone who is an opponent of Trump, and this person was genuinely terrified that Trump would
pressure the Feds to avoid any deals and to squeeze all the important names out of Epstein and prosecute them, too.
The author professes himself "expert in the field of "game theory", strategic thinking," but he doesn't say how his 18 questions
were arrived at to the exclusion of hundreds of others. Instead, the column includes several casual assumptions and speculation.
For example:
"Probably the only thing that Epstein changed in his will was the listing of assets, and he probably changed that because
he'd just updated his list of assets for the bail hearing anyway, so it was a convenient time to update the will."
"President Trump didn't have anything personally to fear from Epstein."
"I do trust Attorney-General Barr, however, from what I've heard of him and because he instantly and publicly said he would
have not just the FBI but the Justice Dept. Inspector-General investigate Epstein's death, and he quickly fired the federal
prison head honcho. The FBI is untrustworthy, but Inspector-Generals are often honorable."
As to this last, isn't "quickly [firing] the federal prison head honcho" consistent with a failure-to-prevent-suicide deflection
strategy? And has Mr. Rasmusen not "heard" of the hiring of Mr. Epstein by Mr. Barr's father? Or of the father's own Establishment
background?
I hope to be wrong, but my own hunch is that these investigations, like the parallel investigations of the RussiaGate hoax,
will leave the elite unscathed. I also hope that in the meantime we see more rigorous columns here than this one.
...Also, subsequently, it should have been a top priority to arrest Ghislaine Maxwell but the government, justice and media
lack interest . Apparently, they don't know where she is, and they're not making any special efforts to find out.
Epstein was strategic in recruiting girls and he selected those who badly need money and were ready for moral compromises to get
to modeling career, or acting or massage therapy.
In a was this was a replay of how Hollywood treats starlets but a different set of "customers" for the girls. What is
unclear why Maxwell was in this dirty business. Was it for money ?
Another accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, said she was 17 when Maxwell allegedly
recruited her. Giuffre said she was told that she could have a career as a massage therapist, but she
instead became "a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and the horrible acts they committed
against me."
"I commend the prosecutors for the Southern District of New York for their ongoing pursuit
of justice," she said.
Maxwell, a British socialite, has been named in some court filings by women alleging abuse
by Epstein.
A cache of court papers relating to a separate 2015 federal defamation lawsuit filed by
Giuffre against Maxwell shows that she claimed in a 2016 deposition that Epstein and Maxwell groomed her
to become a "sex slave" for high-powered men starting when she was 16.
Maxwell has not been charged with a crime and has not commented
publicly since the papers were released earlier this month. Her lawyer also has
not previously returned a request for comment upon release of the documents
Friday and could not be immediately reached on Tuesday.
Previously, in a motion to dismiss the suit, Maxwell's lawyers
said Giuffre "produced no evidence substantiating any of her fantastical claims
that she had been trafficked by Epstein, or by Maxwell."
U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said Epstein's death was "a rather
stunning turn of events" and that giving the women a chance to speak was a matter
of law and "respect."
"I believe it is the court's responsibility and in its purview
that the victims in the case are dealt with, with dignity and with humanity," he
said.
That version does not explain presence of cameras in multiple Esptein homes. And the past
that in his NYC home their installation predate his acquisition (actually the house was gifted to
him by Wexner, who is the person who installed the cameras.) Camera is what is used to compromise
politicians. Is this a typical mafia activity, or a typical intelligence agencies activity. I
think the latter is more plausible.
Notable quotes:
"... Epstein wasn't the first Jewish sex trafficker. This seems like a good time to look back at Zwi Migdal, a Jewish global crime syndicate that operated a century ago and trafficked tens of thousands of Jewish women and under age girls as sex slaves. According to contemporary Jewish writer Giulia Morpurgo the Zwi Migdal had turned Argentina, "into a nightmare of prostitution and exploitation." ..."
"... The Zwi Migdal ..."
"... The Zwi Migdal organization operated from the 1860s to 1939. In its heyday, after the First World War, it had four hundred members in Argentina alone. Its annual turnover was fifty million dollars in the early 1900s. ..."
"... The recently released documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein affair suggest that Epstein and Maxwell were to be charged with child sex trafficking, and as the alleged procurer of underage girls. ..."
"... A very well-mannered and elegant-looking man would appear in a poor Jewish village in places such as Poland or Russia. He would advertise his search for young women to work in the homes of wealthy Jews in Argentina by posting an ad in the local synagogue. Fearful of pogroms and often in desperate economic circumstances, the trusting parents would send their naïve daughters away with these men, hoping to give them a fresh start." ..."
"... The last line recalls Virginia Giuffre's account of her encounter with the elegant British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell who allegedly lured her victims to 'escape' their misery. ..."
"... The Zwi Migdal Organization reached its peak in the 1920s when some 430 rufianos, or pimps, controlled 2,000 brothels trafficking around 30.000 Jewish women and girls in Argentina alone. "The largest brothels of Buenos Aires housed 60 to 80 female sex slaves. There were brothels all over Argentina, but most of them were in the big city, in the Jewish quarter, on Junin Street." ..."
"... One may wonder how all of that fit with Judaic tradition and Talmudic law. "In one brothel," the ACACA reports, "the Madam, an observant Jewish woman, would not let her women work on Fridays but instructed them herself in the art of lovemaking." ..."
"... Many commentators on the Epstein affair are amazed by the incapacity of America's law enforcement, legal system and federal agencies to bring justice to Epstein's victims and its failure to lock him away. Once again, that is not new. The JCACA writes of the Zwi Migdal criminality: "These activities went on undisturbed because they were frequented by government officials, judges, and reporters. City officials, politicians, and police officers were paid off. The pimps had powerful connections everywhere." ..."
"... The Jewish community didn't rush to save their abused daughters. "The prostitutes, who were mostly illiterate, destitute and despised by the mainstream Jewish community, banded together to form their own mutual-aid societies." However, rarely, some Jewish ethnic activists stood for the abused women and girls. "One night Nahum Sorkin, a well-known Zionist activist, stood outside the theatre and physically stopped the rufianos (Jewish pimps) from entering. Next, they were banned from the synagogues, and to top it all, they were refused burial in the Jewish cemetery." ..."
"... Her testimony led to an extensive investigation. The findings reached Dr. Rodriguez Ocampo, a judge who would not take Zwi Migdal bribes either. ..."
"... The lengthy trial ended in September 1930, with 108 detainees. "The very existence of the Zwi Migdal Organization directly threatens our society," the judge wrote in his verdict, handing down long prison terms." ..."
"... As with Epstein and his mobsters friends, things changed quickly and not in favour of justice let alone guided by ethical principles. The Zwi Migdal mobsters were at least as well connected as Epstein to politicians, judges and prosecutors. "While in prison, the pimps pulled some old strings, appealed their sentences in January 1931, and senior Justice Ministry officials left only three of the convicts in jail, discharging the rest." ..."
"... The JCACA sums up the Zwi Migdal saga by stating that the Jewish crime syndicate was "an organization that traded in women while its members wore tefillin (a Jewish religious garment) and built themselves a synagogue." I guess the same can be said about Epstein's ring. They may not be religious, they may not wear Tefillin but they are self identified Jewish Zionists who donate to Israel and vocally support Israel's criminal politics. ..."
The story of Jeffrey Epstein has lost its mystery as more and more commentators allow
themselves to express the thought that it is a strong possibility that Epstein was connected to
a crime syndicate affiliated with a Zionist political organisation or Israel and/or at least a
few compromised intelligence agencies.
Whitney Web and others have produced superb studies of possible scenarios, I would instead
like to attack the topic from a cultural perspective. Epstein wasn't the first Jewish sex
trafficker. This seems like a good time to look back at Zwi Migdal, a Jewish global crime
syndicate that operated a century ago and trafficked tens of thousands of Jewish women and
under age girls as sex slaves. According to contemporary Jewish writer
Giulia Morpurgo the Zwi Migdal had turned Argentina, "into a nightmare of prostitution and
exploitation."
During the first three decades of the 20th century Argentina was a rich country. It outgrew
Canada and Australia in population, total income, and per capita income. Just before the first
world war Argentina was the world's 10th wealthiest state per capita. When Argentina was a rich
country, large parts of its economy, culture and politics were controlled by crime syndicates
and particularly a Jewish organised crime apparatus named 'Zwi Migdal.'
In 2009 The International Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault (JCACA) published a
comprehensive article about the Zwi Migdal titled Understanding
the Zwi Migdal Society which I am about to quote from extensively.
The Zwi
Migdal , was an association of Jewish mobsters who were involved in the "sexual
exploitation of Jewish women and children, which operated globally." Apparently the Zwi Migdal
originally picked a pretty innocent sounding name: "Warsaw Jewish Mutual Aid Society." It does
indeed sound almost as innocent, humane and charitable as 'Anti Defamation League,' 'Jews
against Breast Cancer,' or even 'Jewish Voice for Peace' but the Warsaw Jewish Mutual Aid
Society wasn't innocent at all. It forced thousands of women and girls to become sex slaves and
destroyed their lives.
On May 7, 1906, the Jewish syndicate had to change its title after the Polish ambassador to
Argentina filed an official complaint to the Argentine authorities regarding the use of the
name 'Warsaw.' Clearly, the Polish government did not want to be associated with a Jewish crime
syndicate. In that line, it would be appropriate to ask how long is it going to take before the
American government and its politicians insist that AIPAC drop its first 'A' or before The
Neocon Project of the New American Century are ordered to drop American from their title.
"Zwi Migdal means 'strong power' in Yiddish and it also honoured Zvi Migdal, known as Luis
Migdal, one of the founders of the crime organization."
The Zwi Migdal organization operated from the 1860s to 1939. In its heyday, after the
First World War, it had four hundred members in Argentina alone. Its annual turnover was fifty
million dollars in the early 1900s.
Unlike Epstein and Maxwell who allegedly recruited non-Jewish underage women, the Zwi Migdal
specialised in trafficking Jewish women. "Most of the Jewish women and children who were
kidnapped were taken from impoverished shtetls (Jewish small towns) and brought to Buenos
Aires."
The recently released documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein affair suggest that
Epstein and Maxwell were to be charged with child sex trafficking, and as the alleged procurer
of underage girls. It seems none of that is really novel in the Jewish world: "The Zwi
Migdal Society lured decent girls and young women from Europe in many inventive and deceitful
ways. A very well-mannered and elegant-looking man would appear in a poor Jewish village in
places such as Poland or Russia. He would advertise his search for young women to work in the
homes of wealthy Jews in Argentina by posting an ad in the local synagogue. Fearful of pogroms
and often in desperate economic circumstances, the trusting parents would send their naïve
daughters away with these men, hoping to give them a fresh start."
The last line recalls Virginia Giuffre's account of her encounter with the elegant
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell who allegedly lured her victims to 'escape' their
misery.
The JCACA continues "The girls, aged mostly 13 to 16, packed a small bag, bade their
families farewell and boarded ships to Argentina, believing that they were on their way toward
a better future. However, they soon learned the bitter truth. Their period of training as sex
slaves, which began on the ship, was cruel and brutal. The young virgins were "broken in" ~
raped, beaten, starved and locked in cages."
The Zwi Migdal Organization reached its peak in the 1920s when some 430 rufianos, or
pimps, controlled 2,000 brothels trafficking
around 30.000 Jewish women and girls in Argentina alone. "The largest brothels of Buenos
Aires housed 60 to 80 female sex slaves. There were brothels all over Argentina, but most of
them were in the big city, in the Jewish quarter, on Junin Street."
Apparently "Prostitutes who failed to satisfy their clients were beaten, fined, or taken to
work in provincial houses. Every business transaction was logged. The rufianos 'held a meat
market' where newly arrived girls were paraded naked in front of traders in places such as
Hotel Palestina or Cafe Parisienne."
One may wonder how all of that fit with Judaic tradition and Talmudic law. "In one
brothel," the ACACA reports, "the Madam, an observant Jewish woman, would not let her women
work on Fridays but instructed them herself in the art of lovemaking."
Many commentators on the Epstein affair are amazed by the incapacity of America's law
enforcement, legal system and federal agencies to bring justice to Epstein's victims and its
failure to lock him away. Once again, that is not new. The JCACA writes of the Zwi Migdal
criminality: "These activities went on undisturbed because they were frequented by government
officials, judges, and reporters. City officials, politicians, and police officers were paid
off. The pimps had powerful connections everywhere."
The Jewish community didn't rush to save their abused daughters. "The prostitutes, who
were mostly illiterate, destitute and despised by the mainstream Jewish community, banded
together to form their own mutual-aid societies." However, rarely, some Jewish ethnic activists
stood for the abused women and girls. "One night Nahum Sorkin, a well-known Zionist activist,
stood outside the theatre and physically stopped the rufianos (Jewish pimps) from entering.
Next, they were banned from the synagogues, and to top it all, they were refused burial in the
Jewish cemetery."
From Rachel (Raquel) Lieberman to Virginia Roberts Giuffre
We learn that the rufianos' audacity eventually led to their demise. "It happened when they
refused to forgo their income from the work of one woman, Rachel Lieberman from Lódž,
Poland. She, like so many others, was tempted to travel to Buenos Aires answering a matrimonial
ad, but was taken to Jonin Street where she was forced to prostitute."
"After five years she had enough money to go into the antique furniture business to support
herself and her sons but the rufianos made it impossible for her. They did not want her to set
an example for their other slaves. But this woman had not been broken."
As was the case for Virginia Giuffre, it needed brave Rachel to come forward.
https://vimeo.com/124652938 In desperation,
Rachel Lieberman "contacted Superintendent Julio Elsogray. She had heard his name mentioned on
the street as one who would not take Zwi Migdal's money and was actually looking for ways to
destroy the organization. She slipped into his office one day and gave a detailed account of
the connections among the various pimps in the organization management.
Her testimony led to an extensive investigation. The findings reached Dr. Rodriguez
Ocampo, a judge who would not take Zwi Migdal bribes either.
The lengthy trial ended in September 1930, with 108 detainees. "The very existence of
the Zwi Migdal Organization directly threatens our society," the judge wrote in his verdict,
handing down long prison terms."
As with Epstein and his mobsters friends, things changed quickly and not in favour of
justice let alone guided by ethical principles. The Zwi Migdal mobsters were at least as well
connected as Epstein to politicians, judges and prosecutors. "While in prison, the pimps pulled
some old strings, appealed their sentences in January 1931, and senior Justice Ministry
officials left only three of the convicts in jail, discharging the rest."
As was the case with The Miami Herald's Julie Brown and many of us in the alternative media
who didn't allow the rotten. Epstein and his pedophile ring's crimes to be shoved under the
carpet, the 1930s Argentinian media didn't agree to turn a blind eye to the Jewish syndicate's
impunity.
When the media reported the release of the Zwi Migdal's mobsters from jail, "the public was
very upset and pressured the authorities to reverse the discharge decision. Thereafter,
hundreds of pimps were deported to Uruguay. "Over the years, they slowly returned one by one,
but the era of the huge brothels ended."
The JCACA sums up the Zwi Migdal saga by stating that the Jewish crime syndicate was "an
organization that traded in women while its members wore tefillin (a Jewish religious garment)
and built themselves a synagogue." I guess the same can be said about Epstein's ring. They may
not be religious, they may not wear Tefillin but they are self identified Jewish Zionists who
donate to Israel and vocally support Israel's criminal politics.
The JCACA proclaims that the Zwi Migdal's "history is an embarrassment to all decent Jews.
It involved loads of money, corrupt politicians, violent sex, international women trade, hard
brutality, rape, and cheating, all lightly spiced with yiddishkeit and God-fearing traditions.
Among those traditions, according to Jewish beliefs as expressed in the Torah, is that it is
perfectly fine to keep slaves so long as they are not Jewish. Yet these Zwi Migdal also
enslaved Jewish girls and a great many who ran the bordellos were Jewish women."
I find
myself admitting that except for Benjamin Netanyahu who denounced Ehud Barak for his ties with
Epstein for political opportunist reasons, I have yet to see a single Jewish organisation
express any embarrassment in regard to Epstein and his sex trafficking operation.
On the contrary, Epstein's lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, announced that he is actually
a victim of the #metoo movement . He also occasionally insists that Jews should never
apologise for using their strength. Maxwell has kept quiet.
Wexner has yet to apologise. Like Dershowitz, he adopted the victim path announcing that
Epstein 'misappropriated' a few shekels from his family and he regret being associated with the
sex trafficker. JVP that cares so much for Palestinians must be slightly less bothered by
Guiffre's plight.
I am left wondering, is it the fact that Zwi Migdal abused Jewish women and girls that
provoked Jewish discomfiture? I guess that, at least for the time being, it seems as if Jews do
not posses the cultural or psychological means to look refectively into Epstein and his ring.
The only question left open is whether the FBI has the cojones to do its job.
"... “According to Nigel Rosser, a British journalist who wrote in the Evening Standard in 2001, Epstein apparently for much of the 1990s claimed that he used to work for the CIA.” ..."
"... The Times of Israel reported that Epstein was an “active business partner with former prime minister Ehud Barak” until 2015, adding: “Barak formed a limited partnership company in Israel in 2015, called Sum (E.B.) to invest in a high-tech startup…. A large part of the money used by Sum to buy the start-up stock was supplied by Epstein.” Webb wrote he “was a long-time friend of Barak, who has long-standing and deep ties to Israel’s intelligence community.” On the board of their company sat Pinchas Bukhris, a former commander of the IDF cyber unit 8200 ..."
The protection of sex traffickers by intelligence agencies is especially interesting in the wake of Epstein’s
death. Like others, Epstein had long been
purported to have links
with spy agencies. Such allegations documented by Whitney Webb in her multi-part series were recently published in
Mintpress News.
Webb states that Epstein was the current face of an extensive system of abuse with ties to both organized crime and
intelligence interests. She told CNLive!that: “According to Nigel
Rosser, a British journalist who wrote in the Evening Standard in 2001, Epstein apparently for much of the 1990s claimed that he
used to work for the CIA.”
Vicky Ward,, who wrote on Epstein for Vanity Fair before his first arrest, and claimed
the magazine killed one of her pieces after Epstein intervened with editor Graydon Carter, said in a Tweet that one of Epstein’s
clients was Adnan Khashoggi, an arms dealer who was pivotal in the Iran Contra scandal and
was on the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence agency) payroll. This was also noted in a book “By Way of Deception” by former
Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky.
The Times of Israel reported that Epstein was an
“active business partner with former prime minister Ehud Barak” until 2015, adding: “Barak formed a limited partnership company
in Israel in 2015, called Sum (E.B.) to invest in a high-tech startup…. A large part of the money used by Sum to buy the
start-up stock was supplied by Epstein.” Webb wrote he “was a long-time friend of Barak, who has long-standing and deep
ties to Israel’s intelligence community.” On the board of their company
sat Pinchas Bukhris, a former commander of the IDF cyber unit 8200.
Epstein’s allegedly protected status was revealed by Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who gave Epstein an
infamously lenient plea deal in 2007. Acosta, who was forced to resign as President Donald Trump’s labor secretary because of
that deal, reportedly said of the case: “I was told Epstein
‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.”
Abe , August 25, 2019 at 22:09
US and Israeli spy agency activities in the United States are by no means limited to sex
trafficking.
Details about CIA and NSA surveillance activities conducted in the United States were
revealed in the disclosure by Edward Snowden in June 2013.
A top-secret document provided by Snowden also revealed that the SIGINT National Unit of
Israel routinely receives raw intelligence data (including those of U.S. citizens) from the
NSA.
An agreement between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart places no legally binding limits
on the use of the data by the Israelis.
Billions of dollars per year are spent by US government agencies to purchase software
systems, including intelligence programs developed by private companies with direct links to
Israeli intelligence agencies such as cyber warfare Unit 8200, which is subordinate to the
Israel Military Intelligence directorate.
In addition to enormous security risks embedded in US government tech platforms,
commercial systems and software produced by Israeli companies linked to Israeli intelligence
put US citizens at significant risk.
The political implications of these government and consumer tech security vulnerabilities
are staggering.
The fact that Israeli intelligence agencies have been given the means to spy on American
citizens is of major concern. Surveillance of US citizens by Israel, and the potential for
political blackmail of US government officials by Israel, should prompt immediate
investigation.
In addition, many pro-Israel Lobby organizations trying to influence US politics have
direct links to Israeli government ministries, military, and intelligence agencies.
In 2016, Al Jareeza installed an undercover journalist inside several
Washington–based pro-Israel Lobby propaganda organizations, including the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies (FDD), Stand With Us, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,
the Israel on Campus Coalition, the Zionist Organization of America's (ZOA) Fuel For Truth,
and The Israel Project (TIP).
The Al Jareeza documentary series, "The Lobby – USA" exposed a covert war waged by
the pro-Israel Lobby in America. News of the controversial documentary in October 2017
prompted efforts to censor its broadcast.
In February 2018, it was reported that Qatari leaders had reassured the leaders of Jewish
American organisations that Al Jazeera would not be airing the documentary series on the
Israel lobby in the United States.
According to Haaretz, the Qatari government had reportedly hired Republican Senator Ted
Cruz's former aide Nicolas Muzin to open communications channels with Jewish American
organisations. Earlier, the network had sent letters to several American pro-Israel
organisations informing them that their employees would appear in the documentary. These
letters generated speculation that the Qatari government had reneged on its earlier promise
to block Al Jazeera from screening the controversial documentary which, like the earlier
British series, had utilized clandestine footage and recordings of pro-Israel Lobby
propaganda activities.
In March 2018, a group of US lawmakers including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer,
Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin, and Ted Cruz penned a letter urging United States Attorney
General Jeff Sessions to investigate whether Al Jazeera should register as a foreign agent
under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. They also urged the Justice Department to
investigate reports that the network had infiltrated non-profit organisations and accused Al
Jazeera of broadcasting "antisemitic", "anti-Israel", and "anti-American" content.
In April 2018, the Zionist Organization of America's president Morton Klein claimed credit
for lobbying the Qatari government not to screen Al Jazeera's documentary series focusing on
American pro-Israel Lobby.
In late August and early September 2018, leaked portions of the documentary series were
aired by several outlets including The Electronic Intifada. In early November, The Electronic
Intifada released the four episodes of "The Lobby – USA".
Larry Shea , August 25, 2019 at 12:17
Adnan Khashoggi was not only an arms dealer, he was also a money launderer and a cocaine
kingpin who worked with and for the CIA. Please, see the article: "The Jeffrey Epstein Social
Network & the Container Ship Crime Wave." This excellent article can be found online at
Daniel Hopsicker's Madcow Productions. So, let's see; Donald Barr was former OSS, William
Barr (aka Robert Johnson) was CIA, Adnan Khashoggi was an asset of the CIA, and Jeffrey
Epstein Epstein claimed that he worked for the CIA in the 90's. Please, also see, "Creating a
Crime: How the CIA Commandeered the DEA." This article, which was written by Douglas
Valentine for Counterpunch (counterpunch.org), was published on September 11, 2015. Dennis
Dayle, who was the former chief of an elite DEA enforcement unit made the following statement
for the record: "In my thirty-year history in the Drug Enforcement Agency and related
agencies, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working
for the CIA." The quote is from "Causes and Cures National Campaign on the Narcotics
Epidemic: Final Report, (Washington, D.C., 1991) 9.
Epstein's private island was wired for video, literally everywhere, so that couples could
not take off somewhere for a private get-together. If that doesn't sound like an intelligence
service's elaborate "honey trap," I don't know what does.
Hard to see why Epstein and Company would record literally everyone, unless they were
creating compromising material for potential blackmail or political pressure. Who would be
interested in videos of a number homely, older men making love to young women, other than a
blackmailer or a spy agency? But we have no evidence or even suggestion of blackmail. Many of
Epstein's big-shot friends remained his friends for many years, returning for visits again
and again.
But there are suggestions, in the way his case was handled by prosecutors for his
conviction in 2008 and the highly unorthodox sentencing he received, of some kind of powerful
outside influence at work. There's just no question about that. And, of course, his sentence
allowed a complete return to the same arrangements he had had in New York to just continue on
a private island, perhaps only adding a certain new sense of exotic adventure for
visitors.
It's really automatic. Spy agencies recruit using blackmail, so their recruited members
are going to have unfashionable and illegal habits. Spy agencies know a lot of secrets, so
they have the material to engage in blackmail against leaders who try to subdue the agency.
Vicious circle.
CitizenOne , August 24, 2019 at 23:03
Well researched article on one of the key tactics that intelligence uses to blackmail
their targets they want to neutralize or hold a sword over their heads. Not only that but it
does not nor does it always involve children. Adults that are tools for anyone trying to gain
control over another person often use seduction and illicit sex as blackmail when the target
is confronted with evidence that the relationship is known about and that the details of it
if revealed would tarnish and perhaps severely damage the reputation of the targeted
individual. It is a tool used by not just intelligence agencies but also the mob and any
underhanded organization that hits below the belt.
That was the strategy of the FBI and its attempts to control MLK. They wiretapped his
telephone, bugged his hotel rooms and eventually got a sex tape. When nobody in the press
would publish it without sources that the FBI was unwilling to disclose they mailed the tape
with a suicide note to MLK saying he would be destroyed by the tape and rather than facing
his impending character assassination he should consider suicide to preserve his honor and
legacy.
The FBI told MLK to kill himself.
On April 3 1968 MLK delivered his last speech. Part of that speech was an open recognition
of the ruthless forces that tried to convince him he should kill himself rather than be
shamed by sexual indiscretions. In the speech he said the following, "Well, I don't know what
will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me
now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to
live – a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I
just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked
over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know
tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not
worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming
of the Lord"
The next day April 4th he was assassinated. The rest of the history of that crime is also
mired in controversy. James Earl Ray was arrested and convicted but tried many times from
jail to change his plea to innocent. His requests for a trial were never granted and he died
in prison. The King family believes that MLKs death was at the hands of the government to
this day.
Is it not feasible that the FBI upon failing to convince MLK to commit suicide would take
matters into their own hands?
The whole unraveling of events begins with information obtained by wiretapping and bugging
that King had committed illicit sex acts. The attempts to derail King and end his career or
in the end his life stemmed from the initial dirt the FBI had on him about sex.
Initially Hoover approached Bobby Kennedy with his demands that Bobby Kennedy should
authorize the wiretapping and bugging of King, which as Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy could
do. He initially refused Hoover's demands until Hoover produced evidence of JFK's sexual
improprieties and threatened to go public with the information in his possession. Upon
examining the evidence and fearing the damage it could do to the presidency, he changed his
mind and begrudgingly authorized the FBI to use whatever spy technology they had to eavesdrop
on every private conversation MLK had.
MLK was assassinated April 4th 1968 and Bobby Kennedy was assassinated June 8th 1968 two
months later. Mopping up operations for those who knew too much.
The point is that sex has been used as a tool by the powerful since the beginning of time
as a way to completely control individuals over allegations of sexual impropriety. It is one
of the most powerful means to control others and to get them to bend to ones will as are many
blackmail situations.
Given what we know of history, there is motive and opportunity for those who would like to
see a compromised and vulnerable Jeffery Epstein's voice silenced as he was one who knew too
much about the methods used by powerful people in high places to exercise control over
others.
That is why his activities were allowed for so many years and also why he is now dead.
Gregory Herr , August 25, 2019 at 01:03
I recommend William Pepper's research on the MLK assassination.
Monsters in suits they are the chosen ones and they can make their fantasies into reality
that allow abuse to happen on any unfortunate child they want their sickness to choose. .We
certainly do have a problem with mental illness in the world This is what the sick in power
have become and the rest of us are too busy struggling for survival to want to know or
believe or care. The disinterest is heartbreaking.we must mass socially to help human nature
turn this behaviour around. Thank you for making me to never forget
Spike , August 24, 2019 at 18:16
This is an astonishing piece. If true, that actual pedophilia -- the sexual molestation of
children who have not yet reached puberty -- is so common that it involves stunning numbers
of people in high positions, then the world is an even worse place than I thought it was.
But what has mostly been going through my mind these past few weeks is how taboos on
behaviors that really should not be so taboo have been used over the decades to extort,
blackmail and hold in check powerful figures. J. Edgar Hoover's famous files that presumably
noted adultery and homosexuality were used to hold and increase Hoover's power, and yet he
couldn't touch the Mafia because they had evidence of Hoover's own homosexual activity. So
the cost to society has been considerable.
It is not accurate to describe Epstein as a pedophile. Those girls were teenagers,
reproductively viable young adults. Need I say that when the entire history of the human race
is considered, most people were born to adolescents, because the luxury did not yet exist of
living beyond the age of 20 or 30, so if one wanted to procreate, one had to do it early.
Civilization has brought with it an extended period of preparation for adulthood, but that
has not changed human physiology or delayed the onset of sexual behavior. It has only been
since the 1980s that this fierce taboo against sex with teenagers has been a part of cultural
hysteria.
I, along with everyone else in the general public, have only the vaguest knowledge of what
transpired within the residences of Jeffrey Epstein. But it sounds like these girls were paid
generously for their services and they kept coming back week after week. I think I read that
one girl said she had been raped by Epstein twenty times. Did she not, after the first
'rape', go home to her parents, where she was presumably housed, fed, and clothed, where she
did not tell her parents what happened, and then the next week returned to chez Epstein a
second time, and then a third, and so forth? If that was the case, then every episode after
the first was not a rape, which means that the first episode was not a rape also.
Every sanctimonious hypocrite who refers to the infamous Epstein parties as 'sex
trafficking' 'pedophilia' should admit that, barring the need for discipline to avoid
cheating on one's wife or to protect an elite reputation, they would have been happy to be
given a consenting teenage girl as a party favor.
The point being made is that were there not this regressive cultural hysteria against teen
sex then this whole mess, with it's likely extortions, would not have happened. There is a
price society pays for this, and it's quite a bit more than just the death of one
unscrupulous billionaire.
Alan Ross , August 25, 2019 at 09:23
" should admit that, barring the need for discipline to avoid cheating on one's wife or to
protect an elite reputation, they would have been happy to be given a consenting teenage girl
as a party favor."
I think many men would have reservations about having sex with 13 year old girls. Just
because, at an earlier time in civilization it might have been necessary to procreate by
having sex with very young women does not justify it now. Does the reservation have to do
with the fact that 13 year-olds do not have fully developed personalities? Our criminal
justice systems are beginning to recognize that young men and women under 18 are not really
adults.
ML , August 25, 2019 at 12:07
Thank you, Alan Ross. I have made similar comments several times in the reply sections of
these articles. Thearche begins before menarche, often a couple years or more before
menarche. It can begin at 8, 9, or 10. That is puberty- therache followed by menarche.
Children's bodies are not completely matured enough at the young end of the teen years to
have sex. And of course, their minds, their judgement, their ability to see through deceit is
extremely compromised at young ages. That's why teens are generally so dangerous behind the
wheel of a car- lack of good judgment. The brain is still developing. When you add in the
poverty some of these kids experienced and the promises of money, clothing, food, you get
exploitation which people like "Spike" don't seem to see. Any person who thinks like he does
isn't safe around children- be they 7 or 17.
Taras77 , August 24, 2019 at 14:16
This is an excellent article.
The author mentions Whitney Webb and her excellent series on Mint Press; here is the last
of a four part serious:
Very long but well worth the read; as is well known, Bill clinton (slick) is up to his
eyeballs in mena drug traffic, etc.
Also, to state the obvious, current AG Barr does not come off as a leading charger on a white
horse for justice and accountability during his previous stint as AG under bush I. Could
cause some to link to reasons for long delay of doj in releasing fbi,doj files, now over 90
days since trump gave the go ahead to release.
Amanda , August 24, 2019 at 12:38
Excellent article. Yes, this seems to be standard operating procedure and how our
politicians are controlled behind the scenes.
The naive days of Joe McCarthy and the Lavender Scare are long over. Homosexuality and
marital affairs no longer serve as effective blackmail materials, replaced by the leverage of
filmed pedophilia, and torture and killing of sex objects.
Whitney Webb's coverage both historical through Epstein shows what America, or at least, its
Intelligence Agencies have become, closely invested in the Mafia and Israel, as well as our
financiers and politicians. Her last in her Epstein coverage: https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/
Zhu , August 24, 2019 at 03:25
A lot of "alleged" and "it is possible" here.
bardamu , August 23, 2019 at 23:29
Fine article.
Given that "intelligence" agencies with no functional oversight and regularly involved in
black ops use these things, and that a fresh use surfaces every few years, it seems
parsimonious to conclude that they are a regular part of some subsection of intelligence
community and, by extension, government operation. It makes little sense that this sort of of
business is forever starting and stopping: that would be difficult to do.
Given that neither of the two major US parties have shown any interest in pursuing such
connections, it seems clear that neither see any political advantage in pursuing it. A
parsimonious conclusion is that at least some powerful members of media and both parties are
involved, and that the connections are enough of an open secret that people know not to
pursue it.
By extension, do we avoid the conclusion that this is in some way a mafia-run
government?
Well, Criminal is criminal. No organization can match the war-making State for
criminality. As long as that's clear, make any comparison you like. The war-making State is a
terror organization and, as such, it's not going to shock us when we find it involved in
widespread abuse of children or anything criminal. War, then, isn't alone the health of the
State (Randolph Bourne.) Any darkness you may wish to think of will be found committed by the
State and its worshippers. This is the thought behind the expression that aggression of one
State toward another (par for the course with the United States) is the supreme crime,
including within that crime all others.
Edward Herman's thoughts about terrorism:
=== =
The really massive and significant growth of terrorism since World War II has been that
carried out by states Contrary to [Claire] Sterling's foolish remark about the "colossal"
armaments of retail terrorists, state military resources are vastly larger State terrorism is
also much more important than non-state violence because it is rooted in relatively permanent
structures that allow terror to be institutionalized ." -pg 83 of "The Real Terror
Network" by Edward Herman
= ===
Substitute "child abuse" for "terrorism" in the above quote and you'll find that it works.
Is the 'institutionalization' of child abuse not what we are seeing here?
John Wright , August 25, 2019 at 16:43
The Deep State is simply an international mafia of smaller mafias, the center of which is
the international banking cabal. While their various alliances may shift over time, their
primary interest, to remain in power, stays the same.
The vast global Ponzi scam that is international banking has swelled to its bursting point
and the current chapter of that fraud needs to be closed and restarted. Much of what we are
now seeing are the end games of the various mafias scrambling for the best positions as this
round of the game comes to a close.
Of course, none of this would be possible without the consent of the mostly ignorant
masses.
Most people just don't want to know.
Larry Shea , August 23, 2019 at 18:21
Yup, Check out former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert. See
the video clip on NewsBud, "The Hastert Scandal: What the Media Isn't Telling You." The title
of the piece is, The People's Campaign: The Real Hastert Case All in One Place. The
above-mentioned video clip can be accessed within this article. More elite deviance!
The Times of Israel reported
that Epstein was an "active business partner with former prime minister Ehud Barak" until 2015,
adding: "Barak formed a limited partnership company in Israel in 2015, called Sum (E.B.) to
invest in a high-tech startup . A large part of the money used by Sum to buy the start-up stock
was supplied by Epstein."
Webb wrote he "was a long-time friend of Barak, who has long-standing and deep ties to
Israel's intelligence community." On the board of their company
sat Pinchas Bukhris, a former commander of the IDF cyber unit 8200.
Epstein's allegedly protected status was revealed by Alexander Acosta, the former U.S.
attorney in Miami who gave Epstein an infamously lenient plea deal in 2007. Acosta, who was
forced to resign as President Donald Trump's labor secretary because of that deal, reportedly said of the
case: "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone."
"... Now she has set her sights on many millions and has a top notch team of lawyers behind her. ..."
"... The tens of millions in compensation that were paid out by Epstein to the schoolgirls in restitution has to be taken into account when considering if they got justice, or the system failed them in 2007. ..."
@Jeff Stryker Epstein
was never married to Maxwell although she desperately wanted him to make her his wife (she
could not have been forced to give evidence against him if she had been his wife of
course)...
Incidentally, Laing was 17 years old when she started in the business. Virginia Roberts/
Giuffre started working for Epstein at 17 and Tony Figueroa is described by court documents
as Epstein's former bodyguard who was dating Virginia Roberts/ Giuffre when she was employed
by Epstein, and being handsomely paid.
Now she has set her sights on many millions and has a top notch team of lawyers behind
her. Do not mix her and her lurid blackmail of prime ministers and presidents yarns (in
which she is the breathtakingly sexy centre of international Jet Set attention that no man
can resist of course) up with the thirty odd early teens from from Palm Beach High School
that Epstein's legal troubles stemmed from, none of who said they had sexual contact
with anyone but Epstein or saw anyone else there.
The tens of millions in compensation that were paid out by Epstein to the schoolgirls
in restitution has to be taken into account when considering if they got justice, or the
system failed them in 2007.
If he had beat the case, which Michael Jackson had just done with something not too
different, the girls would have got nothing. That would have been failing them totally I
think.
Netanyahu: "Listen, I've got a bit of bad news. A tape recording has recently
surfaced of you and Monica having phone sex. The good news is that one of my most trusted
lieutenants has tracked it down. He assures me that he has the original tape and that there
are no known copies. No one else knows about the tape but my lieutenant and me. Of course, I
ordered him to destroy the tape and to never speak of it again. It will be like it never even
happened. All that remains is our friendship."
Clinton: "Thank you, Bibi. Your friendship means the world to me."
Netanyahu: "I know, Bill. I feel the same way about you."
It's likely G-Max spent the spring in Manchester BTS, Ma. She left and where she is this
summer isn't public (yet). It does make sense in some minds that she is an informant.
And for that reason, private but not on the run from law enforcement.
After Epstein's death you would have thought that she would have moved to the top of the
list of people to be charged with related crimes to JE? If she has it's been very quiet.
@Tony Ryals Don't
forget that Maxwell's publishing empire started by getting publishing rights to much of
Germany's scientific papers.
As a British intelligence officer in Occupied Germany, he was in an excellent position to
blackmail or threaten any number of people in order to get his way. Shooting people himself
is not the easiest way of doing things. There are better ways in a country where people are
starving.
Curiously, Isabel followed in the family tradition of filing for bankruptcy in December 2015
despite having been a multi-millionaire. That move may have been related to the untimely demise
at age 56 of her third husband, the infamous con man Al Seckel who, she later found out, was
not legally her husband since he was still married to his first wife. In 2015, when he
reportedly died, he was potentially on the hook for millions
Seckel befriended and bewitched the Nobel Prize-winning physicists Richard Feynman and
Murray Gell-Mann among other neuroscientists, as well as academics and even magicians like
James Randi.
Seckel then used those contacts to sell rare books to prestigious customers who were often
hoodwinked out of thousands in bad deals. He moved on to co-opt the burgeoning field of optical
illusion, popularizing the art of manipulating images by using research from others in books he
wrote.
(His daughter, Elizabeth Seckel, has built on her father's work in optical illusion by
pioneering something called "mirror box therapy." Seckel brought her method, sponsored by the
Clinton Global Initiative, to Haiti after the earthquake in 2012 to help recent amputees with
their phantom limb pain.)
In 2010, Seckel hosted a scientific conference on Jeffrey Epstein's infamous private island
with Gell-Mann, Leonard Mlodinow, who was Stephen Hawking's co-author, and MIT's Gerald
Sussman.
Oppenheimer told The Daily Beast this week that there was "no evidence" that Seckel or any
of the scientists at the island party were involved in any sexual activity with young
girls.
In 2004 Seckel gave a TED talk that's been viewed almost 2.5 million times about "perceptual
illusions that fool our brains."
Because of Seckel's shady past, it was not surprising that vague reports of his death -- a
perceptual illusion perhaps? -- began popping up just weeks after Oppenheimer's July 2015 story
exposed him to hordes of creditors.
A paid obituary was published on Legacy.com, supposedly after appearing in the San Gabriel
Valley Tribune, but it does not appear on the paper's website. One report has circulated around
various Seckel-obsessed corners of the internet that his body was found at the bottom of a
cliff near the home in France where he had moved with Isabel.
But The Daily Beast could not locate any officials in the town where Seckel was last known
to live who had any report of his death. Oppenheimer and others said they have not yet found
proof, either. The Daily Beast was unable to reach Isabel Maxwell or Elizabeth Secker for
comment.
Wexner, owner of Bath and Body Works, Victorias Secret and The Limited, heads a group of
politically active Jewish billionaires intent on solving Israel's issues with American military
lives.
@Sean Good questions.
Answer: Chutzpah? Alternate answer: Dersh didn't find it radioactive when he went down to
Palm Springs and started digging up dirt on Epstein's accusers. At what point would he find
it radioactive?
After all, Jeff and Jizzaline were on a free pass for the next 15 years scooting about on
a magic carpet– ie.– they were accepted. Also, the recent Labor Secretary openly
stated he, as a prosecutor, was told to leave it alone– 'Epstein belonged to
intelligence.' What's not to like?
The only real surprise was the recent indictment. Why now? (needs research) NOW Dersh
finds it radioactive.
Comment on Wexner– Can you really take Wexner's excuses at face value? We recently
found out from Whitney Webb that Wexler installed monitoring equipment throughout the Upper
East Side mansion he then 'gave' to Epstein. There's evidently more to this case than Epstein
himself. Webb then connects Wexler to organized crime and well-heeled organized
Zionism– both sponsors of multi-farious sex/blackmail schemes stretching back decades
(as in Meyer Lansky and Roy Cohn). Jizzaline wasn't considered radioactive at Chelsea
Clinton's wedding. Looks like pedophilia is as Zio-American as apple pie.
Wexner, 81, is the only known client of Epstein's mysterious money management
firm registered in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He is also the former owner of Epstein's
45,000-square-foot residence on Manhattan's "Museum Mile."
Wexner hired Epstein to manage his multi-billion-dollar fortune in 1987. The relationship
was seen as highly unusual per Wall Street standards. "It's just not typical for someone of
such enormous wealth to all of a sudden give his money to some guy most people have never heard
of," a person who knew Epstein told the New Yorkmagazine in 2002.
But Wexner has said that he severed ties with Epstein a decade ago after he faced
allegations of sexually assaulting dozens of underage girls and running a sex trafficking
scheme targeting minors. Those accusations led to a criminal case in 2008, but a team
of skilled attorneys helped Epstein strike a controversially lenient plea deal with
prosecutors.
In February, a federal judge in Flordia (where Epstein has a large home) appealed the
verdict, saying prosecutors in the 2008 case had violated laws by allowing Epstein to plead
guilty before notifying victims.
Last Saturday, Epstein was arrested at a New Jersey airport on newly unsealed indictments
related to sex trafficking.
L Brands and the Wexner family haven't publicly commented on the new case against
Epstein.
In April 2003, a research report for the Wexner Foundation was leaked which was entitled
Wexner Analysis: Israeli Communication Priorities 2003 . The document was prepared by
the Luntz Research Companies and Israel Project. The document was a public relationship
document which provided communication strategies for American supporters of Israel, especially
those in the media, on how to sway U.S. public opinion in favor of Israel in the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and how to link Israel's interests with those of the United
States. It was considered controversial since it was seen as a covert communication campaign
for swaying the American public and showed a lack of good faith in resolving the conflict.
In October 2018, Israeli reporter Erel Segal and news outlets such as mida had reported that
US$2.3 million had been transferred to Ehud Barak for unknown work between 2004 and 2006 by the
Wexner foundation, which had described the money transfer as payment for research.
On October 29th Maariv (through its Israeli radio station) reported that Ehud Barak had been
given the funds while he was a private citizen and the fund transfer is under
investigation.
However, on November 6 a call for investigation by the attorney general of Israel had been
filed. The following day, it was reported that contrary to initial claims, the Wexner funds had
been transferred to Ehud Barak while he may not have been a private person.
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The Mega Group's role in the Epstein case has garnered some attention, as Epstein's main
financial patron for decades, billionaire Leslie Wexner, was a co-founder of the group that
unites several well-known businessmen with a penchant for pro-Israel and ethno-philanthropy
(i.e., philanthropy benefiting a single ethnic or ethno-religious group). However, another
uniting factor among Mega Group members is deep ties to organized crime, specifically the
organized crime network, which was largely led by notorious American mobster Meyer Lansky.
Even when he was 'sent down' to the cushy jail – he had it made easy. He was able to buy all he wanted. Including kiddie size
girl panties! In prison!!
His charitable work was supposed to be at a charity set up just before he went in prison guards accompanying him on his daily
escapades and multi 'chiropractory' appointments per day were paid by him and had to dress in business suits the records of who
met have been destroyed.
But the prison has had to release a whole bunch of records that still exist.
This is a exploding can of worms that doesn't look like stopping anytime soon.
The deal, which former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta struck with Epstein's attorney, ensured
Epstein only served 13 months in county jail. According to a Miami Herald investigation
, "potential co-conspirators" were granted immunity. Details of the deal were sealed until the
judge approved the deal. Plus, the non-prosecution agreement effectively ended an FBI probe
into "whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein's sex
crimes."
"This is the story of how Epstein, bolstered by unlimited funds and represented by a
powerhouse legal team, was able to manipulate the criminal justice system, and how his
accusers, still traumatized by their pasts, believe they were betrayed by the very prosecutors
who pledged to protect them," the Miami Herald's Julie K. Brown wrote.
Acosta was President Donald Trump's Labor Secretary until he was forced out in disgrace for
his role in cementing the Epstein deal.
At one time or another, Epstein's social circle intersected with former President Bill
Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Trump.
Documents unsealed on Friday contained
allegations from one of Epstein's most well-known accusers, Virginia Giuffre. They implicated
"former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, Hyatt hotels
magnate Tom Pritzker, hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, the late Massachusetts Institute of
Technology scientist Marvin Minsky, modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, Dershowitz, Prince Andrew,
another unnamed prince, plus 'a well-known Prime Minister.'"
America's criminal punishment system operates with one system for the wealthy and powerful
and one for the underclasses, especially people of color. Elites prevented a wide-ranging probe
but in 2019, the publicity along with the # MeToo -inspired shift in consciousness meant
they were no longer likely to escape accountability.
None of the above proves a conspiracy. However, it should give space to citizens to express
their reservations about what happened until authorities involved in an investigation can
transparently account for Epstein's death.
Some wild speculation which looks like third rate fiction. For example the episode describes as Barr meeting with Clinton looks
like pure fiction: " During the meeting, William Barr, who represented himself as the emissary of then-CIA Director Bill Casey told
Clinton: "The deal we made was to launder our money through your bond business but what we didn't plan on was you and your n****r here
start taking yourselves seriously and purposely shrinking our laundry."
In such talks only two people are present and there are no notes...
But still Wexner emerges as a very strange semi-criminal figure who mingled with some people closely connected to organized crime
and possibly intelligence agencies.
An interesting detail that is mentioned in this article is that Ghislaine Maxwell used to be closely connected with Chelsea Clinton.
Notable quotes:
"... Columbus Dispatch ..."
"... Epstein who orchestrated logistics for Wexner's business operations, including The Limited. As was revealed in the Arthur Shapiro murder file and in ties between SAT and The Limited, much of The Limited's logistics involved figures and companies connected to organized crime and U.S. intelligence. ..."
"... In addition, during this time period, Epstein had already begun to live in the now infamous New York penthouse that had first been purchased by Wexner in 1989. Wexner had apparently installed CCTV and recording equipment in an odd bathroom in the home after his purchase, and never lived in the home, as was noted in Part III of this series. ..."
"... In an exclusive interview, Bob Fitrakis told MintPress that Epstein and Wexner's involvement with SAT's relocation to Ohio had caused suspicion among some prominent state and local officials that the two were working with U.S. intelligence. ..."
"... Fitrakis specifically stated that then-Ohio Inspector General David Strutz and then-Sheriff of Franklin County Earl Smith had personally told him that they believed that both Epstein and Wexner had ties to the CIA. These claims further corroborate what was first reported by Nigel Rosser in the Evening Standard that Epstein had claimed to have worked for the CIA in the past. ..."
"... he believed that Wexner's association with SAT was related to his ties to elements of organized crime that were connected to the Lansky-created National Crime Syndicate. ..."
"... Catherine Austin Fitts -- the former investment banker and government official, who has extensively investigated the intersection of organized crime, black markets, Wall Street and the government in the U.S. economy -- was told by an ex-CIA employee that Wexner was one of five key managers of organized crime cash flows in the United States. ..."
"... As this series has noted in previous reports, Meyer Lansky was a pioneer of sexual blackmail operations and was deeply connected to both U.S. intelligence and Israel's Mossad. Furthermore, many members of the so-called Mega Group, which Wexner co-founded, had direct ties to the Lansky crime syndicate. ..."
"... Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism. ..."
During that same period of time, Epstein had already forged close ties to important Clinton White House officials and prominent
Clinton donors like Lynn Forester de Rothschild and made several personal visits to the official presidential residence.
Despite the involvement of these CIA-linked men, as well as the organized crime-linked Leslie Wexner, the then-president of SAT
told the Columbus Dispatch that the airline was "no longer connected to the CIA."
Notably, It was during this same time that Epstein exerted substantial control over Wexner's finances; and, according to Fitrakis
and his extensive reporting on Wexner from this period, it was Epstein who orchestrated logistics for Wexner's business operations,
including The Limited. As was revealed in the Arthur Shapiro murder file and in ties between SAT and The Limited, much of The Limited's
logistics involved figures and companies connected to organized crime and U.S. intelligence.
It is also important to note that SAT was well-known for being a CIA front company prior to the efforts of Wexner et al. to bring
the airline to Columbus, and that, a few years prior, Epstein himself had previously worked for intelligence-linked figures also
involved in Iran-Contra, such as Adnan Khashoggi.
In addition, during this time period, Epstein had already begun to live in the now infamous New York penthouse that had first
been purchased by Wexner in 1989. Wexner had apparently installed CCTV and recording equipment in an odd bathroom in the home after
his purchase, and never lived in the home, as was noted in
Part
III of this series.
In an exclusive interview, Bob Fitrakis told MintPress that Epstein and Wexner's involvement with SAT's relocation to Ohio
had caused suspicion among some prominent state and local officials that the two were working with U.S. intelligence.
Fitrakis specifically stated that then-Ohio Inspector General David Strutz and then-Sheriff of Franklin County Earl Smith
had personally told him that they believed that both Epstein and Wexner had ties to the CIA. These claims further corroborate what
was first reported by Nigel Rosser in the Evening Standard that Epstein had claimed to have worked for the CIA in the past.
Fitrakis also told MintPress that Strutz had referred to SAT's route between Hong Kong and Columbus on behalf of Wexner's
company The Limited as "the Meyer Lansky run," as he believed that Wexner's association with SAT was related to his ties to elements
of organized crime that were connected to the Lansky-created National Crime Syndicate. In addition, Catherine Austin Fitts
-- the former investment banker and government official, who has extensively investigated the intersection of organized crime, black
markets, Wall Street and the government in the U.S. economy -- was told by an ex-CIA employee that Wexner was one of five key managers
of organized crime cash flows in the United States.
As this series has noted in previous reports, Meyer Lansky was a pioneer of sexual blackmail operations and was deeply connected
to both U.S. intelligence and Israel's Mossad. Furthermore, many members of the so-called Mega Group, which Wexner co-founded, had
direct ties to the Lansky crime syndicate.
... ... ...
The Israel lobbying effort had considerable help from Mega Group member Michael Steinhardt as well as Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL), which was at the time heavily funded by Mega Group members, including Ronald Lauder and Edgar Bronfman.
There has been speculation for years that Clinton's decision to pardon Rich may have been the result of "leverage" or blackmail
that Israel had acquired on the then-president's activities. As was noted in
Part
III of this report, the Mossad-linked "Mega" spy scandal broke in 1997, whereby Israeli intelligence had been targeting Clinton's
effort to broker a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine and had sought to go to "Mega," likely a reference to the Mega Group,
to obtain a sensitive document.
In addition, Israel is known to have acquired phone conversations between Clinton and Monica Lewinsky before their affair was
made public. Author Daniel Halper -- relying on on-the-record interviews with former officials and hundreds of pages of documents
compiled in the event that Lewinsky took legal action against Clinton --
determined that
Benjamin Netanyahu told Clinton that he had obtained recordings of the sexually-tinged phone conversations during the Wye Plantation
talks between Israel and Palestine in 1998. Netanyahu attempted to use this information to get Clinton to pardon convicted Israeli
spy Jonathan Pollard. Clinton considered pardoning Pollard but decided against it after CIA Director George Tenet threatened to resign
if the pardon was given.
... ... ...
Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including
Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television
appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.
To state the obvious, current AG Barr does not come off in this excellent report as a stalwart defender of justice and accountability.
May explain why the DOJ is not exactly leading the charge in disclosing the pile of steaming ____ that is RussiaGate and the Brennan
coup attempt.
"... A few days ago Vanity Fair , the same outlet that once attempted to block the exposé of monster pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, published an article by Venessa Grigoriadis that provides some details of Epstein's friend and alleged 'co-conspirator' Ghislaine Maxwell. ..."
"... She would claim she had a phone job for them, 'and you'll make lots of money, meet everyone, and I'll change your life .'" Vanity Fair's source added: "When I asked what she thought of the underage girls, she looked at me and said, 'they're nothing, these girls. They are trash." ..."
"... The disregard of others and the dismissal of human life, symptomatic of the Epstein Orbit, extends beyond ethnicity, religious barriers and class. Indeed, we read in various outlets that Leslie Wexner, long standing patron of Epstein, is accused by some of having some connection to the murder of Arthur Shapiro -- a Jewish lawyer who was killed in a 1985 'mob-style murder ..."
"... According to Halper, Israel attempted to use tapes of former US president Bill Clinton's steamy sex chats with intern Monica Lewinsky to leverage the release of Jonathan Pollard. ..."
"... This horrific narrative of how Israel allegedly blackmailed an American president initially surfaced in 1999. In his book Gideon's Spies , author Gordon Thomas claimed that the Mossad had collected some 30 hours' worth of phone sex conversations between Lewinsky and Clinton and was using them to blackmail the US or to protect a deeply-embedded mole in the White House. ..."
"... I now believe that Epstein was just a player in a huge crime syndicate that often seems to operate in large parts of American life, its politics, culture, academia and, of course, finance. In such a vile apparatus Epstein ran an amusement park. He was never 'a financier.' He specialized in accumulating filth that could be used to extract dollars or other favours. ..."
"... In America in 2019 just about every politician at any level except probably Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib has been reduced into a Zionist puppet. Every prominent American is subject to direct or indirect Zionist pressure of one kind or another. ..."
"... "they're nothing, these girls. They are trash." ..."
"... This is another example of "the virtue of hate." These psychotic posers who insist on improving the world have given themselves carte blanche to perform any evil deed they like because they believe that their cognitive abilities are superior. ..."
"... The Epstein drama has instilled in me substantial doubt about the moral character of U.S. and Israeli elites which will probably come as no surprise to those reading this post who reached the same point I'm currently at some years or even decades ago. ..."
"... What we always see since inception of the CIA regime is that they keep their puppet rulers under tight control. Of course they use foreign intelligence assets to lower the boom. That gives CIA operational control protected by eyes-only intelligence liaison agreements, which are "compacts" judicially deemed* beyond the treaty-making powers of Congress. ..."
"... We have two criminal enterprises: the USG and the Jewish State. Reasonable people can differ about which is the henchman and which is the mastermind. But the crimes, in this case VIP kompromat, are indisputably collaborative efforts. Elected officials in the USA are puppets. But not Zionist puppets. They are puppets of Mossad and CIA. ..."
"... I understand what you are saying (because I have heard it so often) but I have a much different view of the CIA. I truly believe the CIA is a tool of statecraft, no different in its own way, than the marines or the special forces. If the CIA is guilty of doing lots of nasty stuff (which it is), it is only because it has been instructed to do so .by the powers that be. ..."
"... If you stop to think about it, it makes no sense, whatsoever, for the CIA to be allowed to act in an autonomous fashion. It does act with shadowy impunity, but the instructions for its all its "shadowy misdeeds" come from above. If you want to blame the CIA for all the dirty things it does, it is , in my perspective, a lot like blaming the "9 mm with silencer" for all the people it kills. ..."
"... One of the most fascinating aspect of Jewish culture and ID politics is the contradictory mixture of arrogance and sense of grandeur together with shameless victimhood. If this discrepancy could be fixed, Zionism would have prevailed in making the Jews 'ppl like all other ppl' as it vowed initially ..."
A few days ago Vanity
Fair , the same outlet that once attempted to
block the exposé of monster pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, published an article by
Venessa
Grigoriadis that provides some details of Epstein's friend and alleged 'co-conspirator'
Ghislaine Maxwell.
Multiple victims claim that Maxwell often brought girls to Epstein and that she was an
active sexual participant as well. According to Vanity Fair, "a source close to Maxwell says
she spoke glibly and confidently about getting girls to sexually service Epstein, saying this
was simply what he wanted, and describing the way she'd drive around to spas and trailer parks
in Florida to recruit them. She would claim she had a phone job for them, 'and you'll make
lots of money, meet everyone, and I'll change your life .'" Vanity Fair's source added: "When I
asked what she thought of the underage girls, she looked at me and said, 'they're nothing,
these girls. They are trash."
This is gossipy information, but it seems consistent with what we have learned about Epstein
and his ring. Those familiar with Maxwell family history won't be shocked that Maxwell is
quoted calling the girls "trash." Daddy Maxwell plundered
the lifetime pensions of his workers for his own use. He was alleged to be a Mossad agent.
Not many know that Daddy Maxwell was also under police
investigation for war crimes just before he drowned. Metropolitan Detectives were preparing
to interview Maxwell, once a decorated captain in the British army, about an allegation that he
murdered the unarmed mayor of a German City back in 1945.
One may say 'like father like daughter'. But the total dismissal of otherness and human life
is not limited to the Maxwells. Those of us who follow the unfolding Palestinian tragedy are
pretty familiar with the institutional disregard to human life that is symptomatic of Israeli
policy and is supported by its forceful lobby around the world. The saga of disgraceful conduct
on the part of Epstein and others in his orbit suggests that the dismissal of otherness is
characteristic of a wide circuit of those affiliated ideologically, politically and spiritually
with Zion.
During an interview with
Miami news station WPLG Alan Dershowitz not only bashed one of his accusers, calling her an
"admitted prostitute and a serial liar" but claimed that the then-teen was not victimized and
in fact "made her own decisions in life." I am not in a position to determine whether
Dershowitz is guilty of sex crimes (which he denies) but this kind of language is the last
thing you would expect from a retired Ivy League law professor. One wouldn't imagine that a law
'scholar' would refer to an alleged victim of sex trafficking as 'an admitted prostitute.' Nor
would one expect a veteran 'law scholar' to suggest that the child victim of sexual abuse by a
registered sex offender was actually 'making her own decisions in life.' But this is exactly
what we hear from Alan Dershowitz. No doubt one of the most vocal Zionist advocates around.
The disregard of others and the dismissal of human life, symptomatic of the Epstein
Orbit, extends beyond ethnicity, religious barriers and class. Indeed, we read in
various outlets that Leslie Wexner, long standing patron of Epstein, is accused by some of
having some connection to the murder of Arthur Shapiro -- a Jewish lawyer who
was killed in a 1985 'mob-style murder '. Shapiro's doomed soul was resurrected when the
Columbus, Ohio Police released the controversial -- and once believed destroyed -- document
investigating his death. Presumably Shapiro knew too much. And author
Daniel Halper claims that Israel and its operators within American politics have not
refrained from blackmailing even an American president.
According to Halper, Israel attempted to use tapes of former US president Bill Clinton's
steamy sex chats with intern Monica Lewinsky to leverage the release of Jonathan Pollard.
Halper claims that during the Wye Plantation talks between Israel and the Palestinian
Authority, held in Maryland in 1998, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled Bill Clinton
aside to press for Pollard's release. "The Israelis present at Wye River had a new tactic for
their negotiations–they'd overheard Clinton and Monica and had it on tape. Not wanting to
directly threaten the powerful American president, a crucial Israeli ally, Clinton was told
that the Israeli government had thrown the tapes away. But the very mention of them was enough
to constitute a form of blackmail," Halper wrote, "according to information provided by a CIA
source, a stricken Clinton appeared to buckle."
This horrific narrative of how Israel allegedly blackmailed an American president
initially surfaced in 1999. In his book
Gideon's Spies , author
Gordon Thomas claimed that the Mossad had collected some 30 hours' worth of phone sex
conversations between Lewinsky and Clinton and was using them to blackmail the US or to protect
a deeply-embedded mole in the White House.
The Clintons have often been referred to in relation to the Epstein affair. It is likely,
that as with the young women Epstein abused, the Clintons and other prominent Americans were
also 'victims' so to say.
I now believe that Epstein was just a player in a huge crime syndicate that often seems
to operate in large parts of American life, its politics, culture, academia and, of course,
finance. In such a vile apparatus Epstein ran an amusement park. He was never 'a financier.' He
specialized in accumulating filth that could be used to extract dollars or other
favours.
In America in 2019 just about every politician at any level except probably Ilhan Omar
and Rashida Talib has been reduced into a Zionist puppet. Every prominent American is subject
to direct or indirect Zionist pressure of one kind or another.
Igor Ogorodnev wrote yesterday on
Russia Today that, "the media has wilfully misinterpreted Donald Trump's words to portray
the most pro-Israel US president in history as an anti-Semite. It makes more sense to chide him
for sacrificing US interests to please Benjamin Netanyahu." Here is my practical advice for
Americans. Instead of accusing Trump of being an 'anti-Semite,' ask instead why your president
is more loyal to Israel than most Israelis, let alone Jews.
To follow the path that led to Jeffrey Epstein's plea deal listen to this spectacular Jake
Morphonios's podcast
This is another example of "the virtue of hate." These psychotic posers who insist on
improving the world have given themselves carte blanche to perform any evil deed they like
because they believe that their cognitive abilities are superior.
The mentality that calls
for copulating with a wall in Jerusalem also calls for taking the innocence away from
children and young teens. Dershowitz, Epstein, Maxwell, Weinstein, etc., can be sexual
deviants because they are giving the world things like trans-humanism, sodomy, abortion and
usury.
Gilad your idea in 'Nakba II' where you write that the, "Jewish State is making a real
effort to redefine the notion of Jewish 'kindness'" is the most on-point analysis you have
ever written. The "virtue of hate" is why the "Who" wanders. The group that speaks modern
Hebrew as well as the diaspora who seek Eretz Yisrael and Tikkun Olam will eventually destroy
themselves because their 42 volumes of theology is fatally flawed. The hate that they exude
always returns back on them.
Who tried to correct their behavior over 2000 years ago? Who was crucified for telling
them to "love your enemies?"
The Epstein drama has instilled in me substantial doubt about the moral character of U.S. and
Israeli elites which will probably come as no surprise to those reading this post who reached
the same point I'm currently at some years or even decades ago.
Notice that it happened at Wye Plantation. That's Aspen Institute's East Coast satellite
office. And as any minimally sentient pongid knows, Aspen is CIA. Is anybody dumb enough to
think CIA didn't know exactly what transpired? Staging the blackmail threat at a famous CIA
front is what you call messaging. The message is, We Know, Too.
Closed caption for the
hard-of-thinking: "according to information provided by a ► ► CIA ◄ ◄
source, a stricken Clinton appeared to buckle."
What we always see since inception of the CIA regime is that they keep their puppet rulers
under tight control. Of course they use foreign intelligence assets to lower the boom. That
gives CIA operational control protected by eyes-only intelligence liaison agreements, which
are "compacts" judicially deemed* beyond the treaty-making powers of Congress.
We have two criminal enterprises: the USG and the Jewish State. Reasonable people can
differ about which is the henchman and which is the mastermind. But the crimes, in this case
VIP kompromat, are indisputably collaborative efforts. Elected officials in the USA are
puppets. But not Zionist puppets. They are puppets of Mossad and CIA.
Purging all the bad Jew apples won't do you any good. The Mormons or the Family or some
other cult will take over, and you'll be just as fucked. Your problem is CIA impunity. Fix
that. Lock up some criminal spooks. They'll sing like John McCain in VC hands and you'll be
free.
/Those of us who follow the unfolding Palestinian tragedy are pretty familiar with the
institutional disregard to human life that is symptomatic of Israeli policy and is supported
by its forceful lobby around the world. /
Micocosms of that disregard appear regularly among the zionazis that slum about this
venue.
Here's a good example of it in your previous article's discussion thread:
Ah, you guys lost war after war. Had you won we would be gone. We won you are gone. Look
India just took over Kashmir. The Palestinians are losers, losers do not get to dictate the
right of who lives there and who doesn't
Robert Maxwell only won the George Medal, which is not for bravery in combat.
The disregard of others and the dismissal of human life, symptomatic of the Epstein
Orbit, extends beyond ethnicity, religious barriers and class.
That is very true, but there was something that made Epstein a predator of his fellow
Jews. Possibly because he hated the low social status in the Jewish community that his father
job as a city groundsman relegated the family to. In fact the father of Roberts/Giuffre had a
similar, but rather better job than Epstein's father.
I understand what you are saying (because I have heard it so often) but I have a
much different view of the CIA.
I truly believe the CIA is a tool of statecraft, no different in its own way, than the
marines or the special forces. If the CIA is guilty of doing lots of nasty stuff (which it is), it is only because it has
been instructed to do so .by the powers that be.
If you stop to think about it, it makes no sense, whatsoever, for the CIA to be allowed to
act in an autonomous fashion. It does act with shadowy impunity, but the instructions for its all its "shadowy misdeeds"
come from above. If you want to blame the CIA for all the dirty things it does, it is , in my perspective,
a lot like blaming the "9 mm with silencer" for all the people it kills.
To find the real culprit, look to the hand that pulls its trigger.
These are a lot of people on this site who seem quite normal until you mention the CIA then
their schizophrenia spectrum disorder becomes salient.
To find the real culprit, look to the hand that pulls its trigger.
The real culprit is the real world , which forces every country into subversion and
military menacing against every other country, forming alliances with them only to better
subvert and wage war on other alliances.
Comedian Bill Hicks explains the newly elected President's first day:
I have this feeling man, 'cause you know, it's just a handful of people who run
everything, you know, that's true, it's provable. It's not -- I'm not a fucking conspiracy
nut, it's provable. A handful, a very small elite, run and own these corporations, which
include the mainstream media.
I have this feeling that whoever is elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what
you promise on the campaign trail -- blah, blah, blah -- when you win, you go into this
smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there.
And you're in this smoky room, and this little film screen comes down, and a big guy with a
cigar goes, "Roll the film."
And it's a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before that
looks suspiciously like it's from the grassy knoll. And then the screen goes up and the
lights come up, and they go to the new president, "Any questions?"
As if Clinton did not prey on vulnerable and impressionable young Jewish girls. Or Hugh
Hefner. Or Larry Flynt.
The core difference is that there are less of them.
If a creepy older Gentile couple went into some poor Jewish borough in New York City that
was the equivalent of a trailer park, they would have any success getting 14 year old Jewish
girls to come stampeding out for $300.
There are not many Jewish girls roaming the roads of Miami at 1 am on drugs in rich
neighborhoods (What were these girls doing in a wealthy neighborhood even before they met
Epstein? What were they planning to do there?).
Where were these girls' parents? Why are Jewish girls better insulated? Is this a Zion
conspiracy?
Don't get me wrong. The world is full of trashy Jewish young women like Lewinsky or even
middle-aged ones like Sarah Silverman who will do anything with any Gentile who will advance
their careers. Porn has always been loaded with working-class Jewish girls.
But these are young women over 21 who have made a decision. Not kids.
So how are Jews protecting their children?
Why aren't Jewish girls pouring out trailer parks willing to do anything for $300?
In America in 2019 just about every politician at any level except probably Ilhan Omar
and Rashida Talib has been reduced into a Zionist puppet.
It is virtually impossible to think of any country, powerful or weak, wealthy or poor that
exercises such complete control over any other country, powerful or weak, rich or poor as
Zionist Israel does over our country, the US of A. To top it all, discussion on the issue of
liberation from this suffocating control and what in effect is annexation, has not even begun
because the gagging that prevents it reflects the complete level that such control has
achieved. It is a phenomenon that defies all logic. Anything short of a second war of
independence, will not move this country closer to the company of free and sovereign nations
of which, to be honest, are few and far between.
Do any of these revelations surprise you anymore, Gilad? The Ghislaine Maxwell statement,
"they're nothing, these girls. They're trash."? The Dersh comments calling a woman who was
abused as a child "admitted prostitute and serial liar" who was "making her own decisions in
life" when she was abused at age 15? Does any of it surprise you?
These people are informed, inculcated, immersed in this culture, thought, worldview:
Yossi Gurvitz: "The worst case, in my opinion, is the case of Maimonides, who decrees
– first of all, he decrees that it is permissible to have sexual relations with a
three-year-old girl. The age of consent is problematic. And second of all he decrees that if
a Jew rapes a three-year-old non-Jewish girl, then she must be executed. Her, not him –
because she tempted him to sin. And for this reason you have to treat her like an animal that
put obstacles in a person's way, and he quotes some verse about a bull or something like
that."
One of the most fascinating aspect of Jewish culture and ID politics is the contradictory
mixture of arrogance and sense of grandeur together with shameless victimhood. If this
discrepancy could be fixed, Zionism would have prevailed in making the Jews 'ppl like all
other ppl' as it vowed initially
"... MeToo overturns the presumption of innocence making one guilty until proven innocent, inciting mob rule. ..."
"... Antifa legitimizes force as speech, just what the fascists want. ..."
"... Intelligence and law enforcement are always infiltrating organisations seeking social change through legal means. In Britain an undercover policeman even married an organizer in the course of his duties. (a Stasi trick although one presumes the tactic is timeless). ..."
"... It looks for all the world that Epstein was basically pimping for the elitist of the insider elites throughout the capitalist universe. Sex trafficking has always been a big money-maker, even amongst street people, common reprobates and the clergy. The rich and powerful have fixers like Epstein to take care of all their nasty business. Does anyone think that muckety-mucks in high finance, the media monopoly, law enforcement, the courts, the highest levels of government and even some prominent female rainmakers may not have been among the beneficiaries of this service industry? ..."
"... A considerable factor in the Epstein case is not his individual perversity or crimes, but hierarchy and corruption, not just the corruption of the sexuality but the use of the sexuality in cementing, rewarding, and coercing corruption. ..."
"... There is no way that Epstein could have had the type of business that he is widely regarded as having had without the extensive and ongoing involvement of both major political parties and major media entities. ..."
"... The same corporate media behind the muted outrage response to the trafficking of girls and the anodyne narrative of Epstein's death just spent more than two years trying to convince the world that it was the Russians, not the fossilized Electoral College, that put Donald Trump into the Whitehouse based soley on rumor, suggestion, inference and accusations from well known liars and frauds ..."
"... "Over the past year," Haartez wrote, "a high number of powerful Jewish men have been accused of sexual misconduct. While it has provided fodder for anti-Semites, activists say addressing the problem is vital." ..."
"... Bronfman is the daughter of the legendary ultra Zionist billionaire Edgar Bronfman (1929 –2013) who was president of the World Jewish Congress. In his obituary, Edgar Bronfman was described by Haaretz as "prince of the Jews." His daughter has been ordered to pay a penalty of $6 million out of her $200 million fortune, and she faces up to two years in prison. ..."
"... Bloomberg, not exactly an 'anti-Semitic' outlet, dug into The Complicated Orbit of Jeffrey Epstein. Zionist enthusiast Leslie Wexner was identified as Epstein's 'patron'. The Jewish virtual library informs us that Wexner "often support[s] .. Jewish projects. He serves as Honorary Vice Chairman of the Board of Congregation Aguda Achim [And] established the Wexner Foundation, which runs both a Graduate Fellowship and an Israel Fellowship Program." ..."
"... Bloomberg lists the following as amongst Epstein's 'business partners': Harvey Weinstein, Mort Zuckerman, Donny Deutsch, Nelson Peltz, Ehud Barak and Ponzi aficionado Steven Hoffenberg. ..."
"... This raises critical questions, the most elementary of which is, why? Why are so many Jewish men currently in the news in connection with sexually predatory behaviour? What is it about these rich and influential people that pushes them over the edge? ..."
"... why hasn't Ghislane Maxwell been arrested yet? ..."
"... "Target" is the word. Franken was clearly an attempt by the Democratic leadership to push the party farther to the right. ..."
"... Not surprising if being compromised was a necessary preliminary to their careers being advanced. ..."
"... This only confirms what I suspected about the Me,Too movement from the very start – that it is not a genuine grassroots movement by women, but rather a political tool the "politically correct" Establishment party invented as a weapon to destroy powerful men of the Opposition. ..."
"... The missing howls can be explained easily. The military-industrial-congressional-corporate-media complex does not wish them to be. ..."
"... The monolithic, feckless "media" got the same memo Acosta did. "Congress" and conceptions of "justice" are as oil and water. And besides, they don't f*** with the "well-connected". ..."
"... The ruling elites (and CIA-Mossad) simply want this business buried so that the circus and the information flowing from it can continue through other means Me Too has no interest, nothing to be gained from, no ax to grind in this affair – apparently. Which would seem to indicate that it was as shallow and spiteful as it appeared in the main. ..."
"... That such as Epstein was allowed, given the nod and wink, to carry on as he had and that the Me Too movement has so far been silent about the whole business does indeed suggest that the women involved in that so-called movement were had motives other than really wanting a big change in socio-cultural attitudes toward and about male-female relationships, interactions, conceptions of each other. ..."
"... The reason for MeToo disinterest is because they are a CIA controlled operation. ..."
"... Lucianne Goldberg has been trying to get dirt on Democratic presidents from 1960 on, when she tried to get close to JFK before settling for Johnson. In 1972 she worked for the North American Newspaper Alliance, a CIA front, looking for dirt in the McGovern campaign. Lewinsky's "friend", Linda Tripp, has a military intelligence background. It appears to me that the Lewinsky scandal was planned to happen. ..."
"... I suspect that Bill was easy to hook for Epstein's operation. ..."
Why have the howls of outrage not echoed through the
media?
Why has the trumpet's call to action been silent? Why haven't
the
halls of Congress resounded with denunciation and the demands for
justice.
Sexual trafficking of women
and children is probably the century's
greatest
assault on girls and young women outside of Boko Haram's
rampages
and the crimes of the Islamic State against the Yazidis. In
terms
of sheer numbers, it exceeds those atrocities. High among the
malefactors
is the Epstein-Maxwell operation. Its foul activities went
on
for 25 years. It was known to law enforcement authorities for most
of
that time. The sole legal action taken was the one count lodged
against
Jeffrey Epstein in 2006 for "soliciting a minor." With the connivance of the highest authorities in Washington, it
was a genteel house
arrest
that was a mockery of supposed punishment.
U.S. lawmakers speak in support of End Demand
for Sex Trafficking Act, 2005. (Wikimedia Commons)
The most grotesque aspect
of this sinister criminal ring was the
knowing
participation of dozens of members of the highest echelons of
the
American elite – possibly including two occupants of the White
House.
Rape – both statutory and violent – was the order of the day.
So,
too, involuntary confinement, extortion, blackmail, intimidation
and
god knows what other heinous crimes.
Yet, the protests and cries
for punishment from our self-styled
militants
for women's rights have been muted – to understate things. A
brief
flurry of ritual shock in the weeks immediately after Epstein's
arrest
is all. Such condemnation as we heard or read placed the entire
affair
in the wadding of a general critique of the abuses carried out
by
privileged men since 1776. Now, just the usual titillation about
the
deplorable condition of Epstein's jail cell and tidbits about Lady
Ghislaine
– the socialite super madame.
Stunning
Discrepancy
Compare this soft murmuring
with the hell raised by so many about
garden
variety sexual harassment ascribed to public personalities. Al
Franken
driven out of the Senate. Garrison Keillor cast into the
wilderness
by NPR. Etc., etc. No rape, no violence -- an uninvited hand
on
the bare back of a decade-long acquaintance in the latter instance.
The
discrepancy is stunning.
We comb the news waiting to
hear of the reception held by Elizabeth
Drew
and U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi in the former's swank Manhattan apartment to
console
and honor the victims. We wait breathlessly for a special
issue
of MSM exposing who was involved and what happened. We imagine
deputations
flooding the Capitol to insist on a swift, no-holds-barred
investigation.
We peer into the gloom for Hillary bearing the torch
of
women's emancipation. We anticipate
The New York Times'
mea culpa
as
to why they ignored the story for a quarter century. Perhaps #MeToo
could
sponsor a benefit concert in Central Park to raise funds for the
hapless
victims from around the world. After all, these odious crimes
occurred
on American soil, committed almost exclusively by Americans.
The
Clinton Foundation would be the logical place to ask for financial
support.
There is an ancient Crusader saying: "first the feast, then
the
morals."
We comb the news.
Mirages all. Isn't
happening; won't happen
But why? The mind searches
for explanations. Were the professional
enforcers
of strict no-harassment codes who police the nation seeking
out
evidence of stray male hands – especially if the women are
well-educated,
upper middle class and live in safe neighborhoods – on
vacation?
Or did they repress knowledge of friends who likely were
implicated
in the Epstein-Maxwell crimes? Did they find intolerable
the
idea that some of their favorites among the high and mighty are
despicable
low-lifes? Is the fact that the chief operational officer
of
the criminal enterprise was a woman inhibiting of incisive
responses?
Let's also bear in mind
that taking on the power elites (Epstein/Maxwell/ clients – maybe the CIA/Mossad) would indeed be ahard and dangerous
business. By contrast, a Frankel or Keillor is a soft target. Those guys and their like are sensitive to their
self-image
and are not born fighters – moreover, their bosses have
long
practiced the art of the preemptive cringe.
Or, is it due to a core
ambivalence that touches deep sensitivities
about
the myths we live by – held by men as well as women? Is it
simply
unpalatable that numerous of the elites who rule us – we
America,
the last best hope of humankind – and whom we admire are in
fact
among the scum of the earth?
Michelangelo: they feel
that it is "better to nurse a delicious FANCY
Than
GAG ON TRUTH."
Powers of Sublimation
Hillary Clinton, as first lady, giving her
famous "women's rights are human rights" 1995 speech in Beijing.
(Sharon
Farmer/White House via Wikimedia Commons)
Finally, let's never
underestimate the powers of sublimation in
contemporary
America. When facilitated by a lax media, and encouraged
by
self-serving politicos, there seem to be no limits to their
capacity
for self-censorship. Consider the most recent example of President Donald Trump's sexual abuses: E. Jean Carroll's
highly graphic and persuasive
description
of Trump's assault on her
in Bergdorf's. It
survived
little more than one or two news cycles.
Consider this, too, re.
Epstein:
The New Yorker
gave us this bold
cover
story about the defense of Alan Dershowitz
the notorious legal
defender of unsavory types who was an
Epstein
attorney and who has been identified by at least one of
Epstein's
accusers as a participant in statutory rape. If you are
having
difficulty figuring out why the rush to provide him with
several
thousand words for self-justification and self-promotion, then
I
have a not-so-green island to sell you.
I personally have no
hypotheses to offer in way of explanation. The
silence
of the arch 'feminist' militants is a mystery to me.
Michael Brenner is
a professor of international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. [email protected].
Jill
,
August 24, 2019 at 12:35
Michael,
Women don't deserve "mild" unwanted touching either. I hope maybe next time, that part of
your article could be set aside. Also, I feel that your use of the term "arch "feminist" militants" is
a mistake. I think you are asking a good question but this article seems more like a pejorative swipe
at feminists than an actual inquiry when you use that phrase.
To answer your question plainly– women are neither worse nor better than men. As you must know, the
movement for racial equality in the 60s was full of incredible sexism and cruelty by revolutionary men
towards their sisters in the movement. Stokely Carmichael stated: 'the only position for women in SNCC
is prone." MLK had some real problems with women. In other words, these men were hypocrites. They were
both good and bad. Most movements for social change are filled with hypocrisy. There is freedom for
some but not for all. This is shameful and I believe it is why revolutions never achieve their aim.
Freedom must be for every person, not just one's chosen "worthy" group.
Women in the feminist movement also act shamefully when they fail to support justice for every
abuse victim. Notice that you have difficulty criticizing Keiller (who also supports torture) and
Franken because you like them. You are willing to minimize their actions because their politics and
person meet your approval. This is what Democratic women are doing and have done when confronted by
the victims of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Many Democratic women like this couple. They agree with their
politics and they are willing to ignore wrongdoing by them because of that fact.
Your piece in a very real way, answers your own question. People won't see injustice in those whom
they like. It's easier to pass it on by or minimize it. This is exactly the attitude we must all
challenge inside ourselves. Until we do, until we are willing to admit to wrongdoing by those whom we
like and agree with, abuse will continue.
Right, left or center– wrong is wrong. The abuse of women, men and children cannot be tolerated.
Truth
,
August 24, 2019 at 11:58
The pedophilia is satanic brought to usa by the past and present British Royals which epstein was and
Andrew still is. Clinto Kerry and Rodham families as well. Do some real background on their geneology
if you can. Scrubbing has eliminated most. Memory dates them all to B.C. druids and Earls in England.
Remember Stallones Movie Cobra? He was giving you hints. As he always has in the movies he writes.
Broward county, Fla is home to the leaders the Bronfmans and their protégé D Wasserman.
Guy
,
August 24, 2019 at 10:21
The arrest of Jeffrey Epstein was an opportunity for all Americans to have a good look at themselves
but it did not last long. Someone, some intelligence agency decided that it was too painful to expose
the higher ups and it will do to show the world the corruption involved in the whole affair .So
Epstein
is now gone. The whole sordid affair is no more .No more to be said .Move on folks ,what was the score
last night at that baseball game ?
Gerry L Forbes
,
August 24, 2019 at 05:21
Professor Brenner is a quick study, noticing the dog that didn't bark. Others have pointed out that
MeToo might not even be a dog (a well-trained poodle at best) but I am concerned that all these
extralegal groups might be part of a more insidious strategy: destroying the rule of law and the
protections it provides.
MeToo overturns the presumption of innocence making one guilty until proven
innocent, inciting mob rule.
Antifa legitimizes force as speech, just what the fascists want.
Counterprotests seek to restrict freedom of speech when the worst thing the speakers can do for
their cause is express their views.
Intelligence and law enforcement are always infiltrating organisations seeking social change
through legal means. In Britain an undercover policeman even married an organizer in the course of his
duties. (a Stasi trick although one presumes the tactic is timeless).
A possible scenario: one or more of Trump's strategies implodes causing civil unrest. Heavy-handed
response leads to full-blown riots. Americans do what they are supposed to and elect Biden whose
advancing dementia only makes things worse. Cities burn. Martial law is declared. Prison labour builds
walls paid for by Mexico and Canada (Seriously. We don't want millions of self-righteous refugees
blithering cluelessly about Thoreau's Civil Disobedience. Had enough of that during the Vietnam war.
And the Chinese and Indians won't stand for hordes of white, black and latino people diluting their
influence).
Good luck!
Realist
,
August 24, 2019 at 02:30
It looks for all the world that Epstein was basically pimping for the elitist of the insider elites
throughout the capitalist universe. Sex trafficking has always been a big money-maker, even amongst
street people, common reprobates and the clergy. The rich and powerful have fixers like Epstein to
take care of all their nasty business. Does anyone think that muckety-mucks in high finance, the media
monopoly, law enforcement, the courts, the highest levels of government and even some prominent female
rainmakers may not have been among the beneficiaries of this service industry?
It doesn't surprise me one bit that those who were saved by Epstain's demise would exercise their
power and influence to make sure things were quickly "resolved" and the public calmed. The tried and
true remedy has always been for the media to simply change the subject. There is certainly no way they
are pinning this one on Putin, so it will quickly be forgotten and lost down the memory hole. They
don't even need to put on a charade about reforming the system because the relevant laws are already
on the books. The real reform will be that Epstain's replacement will make sure that no future service
providers ever live long enough to file any legal complaints.
'Boko Haram's rampages and the crimes of the Islamic State against the
Yazidis'.
Aren't both products of the US. Second, surely a choice of just one American we'll-bring-you-democracy
action over the last 20 years is far worse than Boko Haram? Indications to date are Epstein has been
'protected' by Rep and Dem since the early 80s, if not before.
Amanda
,
August 23, 2019 at 20:00
Thanks for posting on this.
Well, I'm actually not surprised–I always had the sense that the whole
"MeToo" movement was controlled behind the scenes. Seems like it was quite useful when Kavanaugh was
nominated for the Supreme Court (and I'm not a supporter of him–he's a Bushy and I'm pretty sure he
had something to do with that Patriot Act), and Allyssa Milano was ready to go in telling us "we must
believe all women" with regard to Dr. Chrissy Fraud and Julie Swetnick.
But they are interestingly
quiet right now about the whole Epstein saga, and of course, there were no signs of support on the
Friday before Epstein's supposed death, when there was a document drop, which indicated his victims
named George Mitchell (D) and Bill Richardson (D) as men they were forced to have sex with. I think
they may have issued a quick denial and then the MSM quickly moved away from it,never to be heard of
again.
JWalters
,
August 23, 2019 at 18:13
Thanks to CN and Michael Brenner for maintaining attention on this extremely important topic. And
while the #MeToo people are an understandable focus, the silence is deafening across the board. The
politicians are all silent. The major news figures are silent. It's as if nobody had pulled back the
curtain on the sociopaths who rule our society.
For convenience in posting to other sites, here is a
link to the stunning CN interview with Whitney Webb on the Epstein case and its MANY ramifications.
"Whitney Webb in-depth history of Jeffrey Epstein"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBN7Xqf7rWI
Also, here is a series of in-depth reports on how the prosecution of Epstein was blocked by
higher-ups at the state and federal levels. Jake Morphonios is an excellent, experienced investigator
(so good he is being thrashed by YouTube).
https://www.blackstoneintel.com/podcast
bardamu
,
August 23, 2019 at 17:28
Just an idea --
A considerable factor in the Epstein case is not his individual perversity or crimes,
but hierarchy and corruption, not just the corruption of the sexuality but the use of the sexuality in
cementing, rewarding, and coercing corruption.
Perhaps not everyone who is concerned about sexual abuse is concerned about corruption and
hierarchy in general. Perhaps not everyone concerned about sexual abuse even considers that hierarchy,
with all its corruptions, is so much as unnecessary. For such people, the fact or apparent fact that
Epstein is dead resolves matters insofar as they might be resolved–with all the hierarchy and its
corruption in place, whatever such people may think of all that.
There is no way that Epstein could have had the type of business that he is widely regarded as
having had without the extensive and ongoing involvement of both major political parties and major
media entities.
So there will be no extensive and authentic push for investigation by Democrats, Republicans, or
the push-style mass media that are allied to them. There is not likely to be a lot of investigation by
foreign entities because those not allied with the above positions mostly do not find corruption in
the United States to be news.
It seems that some who concern themselves with hierarchy might be principally concerned not with
reducing hierarchy, but with changing which personnel or which demographics are favored.
It is a sad thing to recognize that one has fewer allies than one imagined. But it seems that for
very many of us, the discoveries of the last few years have all been in this direction.
Seasoned Skeptic
,
August 23, 2019 at 16:37
The same corporate media behind the muted outrage response to the trafficking of girls and the anodyne
narrative of Epstein's death just spent more than two years trying to convince the world that it was
the Russians, not the fossilized Electoral College, that put Donald Trump into the Whitehouse based
soley on rumor, suggestion, inference and accusations from well known liars and frauds
The same who brought us
non existent WMDs in Iraq and moderate rebels and White Helmet rescuers in Syria, just to name a few
more recent state sponsored fabrications. Justice and truth don't factor into the agenda of the swine
who run our plutocracy.
I believe this horror story will be papered over, many accusers and
collaborators will meet the same fate as Karen Silkwood and the think tanks and mainstream media
talking heads will continue to bandy about the conspiracy theory trope while continuing to endorse the
official false claims of the political establishment.
Gilad Atzmon's critique is far more substantive and more interesting, in part because he doesn't stoop
to blaming class or feminists for the "missing howls of outrage" and "dearth of MeToo denunciations".
"Not Just Weinstein: The Year #MeToo Rocked and Shocked the Jewish World" was the title of a 2018
Haaretz article that reviewed the large number of Jews involved in sex scandals that year. "Over the
past year," Haartez wrote, "a high number of powerful Jewish men have been accused of sexual
misconduct. While it has provided fodder for anti-Semites, activists say addressing the problem is
vital."
Haaretz listed some of the prominent Jewish men accused of predatory sexual behaviour. "In addition
to (Harvey) Weinstein and (Leon) Wieseltier, the list of Jewish men implicated in #MeToo over the past
12 months includes former Democratic senator Al Franken; ousted CBS chief Les Moonves; actors Dustin
Hoffman, Jeffrey Tambor and Jeremy Piven; directors Woody Allen, James Toback and Brett Ratner;
playwright Israel Horowitz; journalists Mark Halperin and Michael Oreskes; conductor James Levine; and
radio show hosts Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz."
Apparently someone decided to 'clean the swamp'. Harvey Weinstein was just an early bird. In 2018
we also learned about the Nxivm sex cult and the role of Clare Bronfman at its centre. The Jewish
Forward wrote that Nxivm's leader attracted "several prominent figures to his group, including heiress
Clare Bronfman, who pleaded guilty in April to credit card fraud and harbouring an undocumented
immigrant who provided unpaid "labor and services."
Bronfman is the daughter of the legendary ultra
Zionist billionaire Edgar Bronfman (1929 –2013) who was president of the World Jewish Congress. In his
obituary, Edgar Bronfman was described by Haaretz as "prince of the Jews." His daughter has been
ordered to pay a penalty of $6 million out of her $200 million fortune, and she faces up to two years
in prison.
When it seemed the Jewish universe couldn't cope with any more scandals involving predatory sexual
behaviour, the Epstein affair resurfaced. The Jeffrey Epstein spectacle is one of the biggest of its
kind in the history of America ensnaring presidents and prime ministers. Some of the world's most
influential men in cultural, financial and academic fields are allegedly implicated in predatory
behaviour with underage girls. And it doesn't take a genius to observe that the Epstein drama is,
unfortunately, a 'Jewish drama.'
Bloomberg, not exactly an 'anti-Semitic' outlet, dug into The Complicated Orbit of Jeffrey Epstein.
Zionist enthusiast Leslie Wexner was identified as Epstein's 'patron'. The Jewish virtual library
informs us that Wexner "often support[s] .. Jewish projects. He serves as Honorary Vice Chairman of
the Board of Congregation Aguda Achim [And] established the Wexner Foundation, which runs both a
Graduate Fellowship and an Israel Fellowship Program."
Bloomberg lists the following as amongst Epstein's 'business partners': Harvey Weinstein, Mort
Zuckerman, Donny Deutsch, Nelson Peltz, Ehud Barak and Ponzi aficionado Steven Hoffenberg.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of notorious Zionist pension plunderer Robert Maxwell, is described
by Bloomberg as Epstein's 'Inner Circle.' And then there is Alan Dershowitz who has been labouring
tirelessly to try to convince the American media and anyone else willing to listen that he didn't have
sex with underage girls.
Again I find myself admitting that the list of Jewish names surrounding an unsavoury character,
this time Epstein, resembles my Bar Mitzvah's guest list: a lot of Jewish names with just a few goyim
at the margin.
This raises critical questions, the most elementary of which is, why? Why are so many Jewish men
currently in the news in connection with sexually predatory behaviour? What is it about these rich and
influential people that pushes them over the edge?
And there are deeper questions that beg attention. Why is it that with so many Jews in academia and
media ordinarily so clever in explaining in a 'professorial manner' the psychology and sociology
behind every world development and political shift, not one has volunteered to explain the cultural,
ideological and spiritual continuum between Weinstein and Epstein and beyond? How is it that the
academics and think tanks that are so adept in analysing 'cultural clashes' and, as they call it,
'Islamofascism,' are unwilling to analyse the roots of the cultural crisis at the core of the Epstein
saga?
And I must extend this inquiry just one step further, why does the Jewish solidarity industry
that cares so much for Palestine, Immigrants, the Civil Rights Movement and LGBT issues remain silent
when it comes to the crimes committed, and on a mass scale, against underage girls just a few blocks
from JVP's New York headquarters?
Litchfield
,
August 23, 2019 at 17:08
Uh, wait just a minute.
Good post up until this:
"why does the Jewish solidarity industry that cares so much for
[1]Palestine, [2]Immigrants, the [3]Civil Rights Movement and [4]LGBT issues remain silent when it
comes to the crimes committed, and on a mass scale, against underage girls just a few blocks from
JVP's New York headquarters?"
Quick IQ test: of the four issues named, which one does not belong?
Yep, number 1.
These other groups are not known for their vocal or otherwise support of Palestine or, more
precisely, the civil, political, property, and human rights of Palestinians.
This sentence sure looks like a misdirection game. Unless "cares for Palestine" actually is
meant to mean, "cares for fighting indigenous rights in Palestine."
Anarcissie
,
August 23, 2019 at 12:57
This is all pretty stupid. #metoo was about people with legitimate complaints being ignored. 'Howls of
outrage' were appropriate to get the needed attention. The Epstein business is hardly being ignored
and involves so many bigwigs that its ramifications and effects are only beginning to be known. Cops,
lawyers, journalists, and conspiracy theorists are on the case. So what are you all, including the
author, talking about at such length?
Seamus Padraig
,
August 23, 2019 at 13:21
So, why hasn't Ghislane Maxwell been arrested yet? What's your theory there?
0ccupy on!
,
August 23, 2019 at 13:48
Dear Anarcissie, Puhleeze! You're comparing what Epstein 'allegedly' did with #MeToo's Al Franken's
'alleged' unwanted French kiss? Where is your sense of proportion?
Litchfield
,
August 23, 2019 at 15:26
In response to Anarcisse, all I can do is tell her to reread the article.
Why isn't #MeToo using
its political and PR muscle to keep the pressure on Bill Barr to conduct a genuine investigation,
which would include interrogating a number of big-wigs and also, Primus inter pares, Ghislaine
Maxwell?
Until we see Maxwell subpoena'd and compelled to appear for questioning, we in the media peanut
gallery will continue to assume that no serious investigation is to be espied in our crystal balls.
Re "Cops, lawyers, journalists, and conspiracy theorists are on the case. So what are you all,
including the author, talking about at such length?"
This sounds a bit trollish (and sarcastic) to me, in particular the grouping "cops, lawyers,
journalists and conspiracy theorists."
What we actually need is a wide-ranging and deep-delving investigation by the DOJ or by Congress.
We need to get to the bottom of Epstein's ties to various intelligence communities. We need see
chapter and verse as to how the sex trafficking interfaced with intelligence work. We need to know
what is hidden under concrete at Little Saint James Island. Among other things. A genuine
investigation, or multiple investigations, might allow the "ct" phrase to be retired in connection
with this complex of crimes as it would uncover genuine evidence. Failing such a genuine
investigation it can be inferred that evidence is being destroyed and/or suppressed and/or not
developed (e.g., via under-oath questioning).
It is decidedly odd that Anarcisse thinks that "the case" can be adequately pursued by the four
groups she names. "Cops"?
Karenvista
,
August 23, 2019 at 19:43
Unfortunately, of fortunately for some, William "Bill" Barr was involved in Iran-Contra and the
Reagan/Bush Administration's dirty wars that not only illegally funded our death squads in
Central America but also imported cocaine and promoted crack. As a side benefit, they also
captured and trafficked in kids from the region, so anyone counting on him will be sadly
disappointed.
Thank you for this. It's insane that the average person is not screaming for justice and for the
disbanding of sex trafficking rings and the jailing of those participating and running them. Simply
insane. And now, a woman who was going to Washington DC to testify against traffickers has
'disappeared'. I can't even find her disappearance, although reported by friends on social media, in
the news at all. Isn't that interesting?
Bob In Portland
,
August 23, 2019 at 12:32
"Target" is the word. Franken was clearly an attempt by the Democratic leadership to push the party
farther to the right. Better to have someone in the Senate to vote for wars and ignore social issues.
This cleansing, on the surface, looked like a right-wing attack on Franken, check out the
"complainants". But who did the DNC back during the primaries?
All sorts of veterans of the
military-industrial complex, from the CIA through the military Buttigieg is Naval intelligence and
worked in Afghanistan trying to track down the financing of the Taliban. Seems to me that the mystery
of where the money's coming from could be easily answered by asking the soldiers who are guarding the
opium fields. In the 2018 Democratic primaries the DNC backed over fifty "former"
intelligence/military/Department of State et al.
Much of the suspicions about the Epstein case involve really high-end politicians, to include two
Presidents. There are hints of Epstein's connections to Mossad. That information is even more valuable
to the CIA, who would rather embarrass someone out of office than kill them. Someone thought it was
time to pull the plug on him, and it didn't happen because of a sudden outrage by progressive women.
Even Gloria Steinem, the woman chosen by the CIA to lead their faction of the feminist movement, is
silent.
And, of course, many iconic feminist groups depend on the financing of the powerful. Realpolitik.
Compromise everybody.
The Me Too movement was an identity politics scheme initiated by elite bourgeois women actresses and
their wannabes. From its very beginning , these well-to-do so-called liberals in the Democratic party
had no interest in the plight of working class women. The working class victims of the neighbors and
the country-club set of the Me Too leadership did not fit into the desired profile of the rich and
spoiled.
Those on the roster of the status-seeking rich women do not have time for those who do not share
their glamour and Beverly Hills addresses. Those who suffer the mundane and daily sexual harassment
and outright sexual assault at their blue-color jobs just don't fit in with "right" crowd to be worthy
of the fake Me Too outrage.
Clark M Shanahan
,
August 23, 2019 at 11:47
You said it so well, Mr Brenner.
Thanks,
My disgust started with the DNC's copyrighting the term "RESISTANCE".
I agree totally w/ML on MeToo being a reactionary movement.
from an earlier comment I made on
exclusionary politics:
"What about that BS imbroglio over the Women's March and Farrakhan
Should we have asked all Jewish participants to denounce apartheid Israel, before being allowed to
take part..?"
(the DNC retracted their $$$ at that time.)
Pablo Diablo
,
August 23, 2019 at 11:31
HYPOCRISY? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
joel
,
August 23, 2019 at 11:17
The list of names in Epstein's black book reads like a who's who of the political, media, finance, and
entertainment establishment of the past thirty years. Virtually all of them are in there. The media
and politicians do not want the public dwelling on the revelation that the neoliberal ruling elite is
one big gang of child rapists.
Isn't it a little surprising that these who's who's didn't know that their sexually deviant
behavior wasn't being recorded for the purposes of blackmail. And these are supposed to be the
brightest the species has to offer.
lysias
,
August 24, 2019 at 07:59
Not surprising if being compromised was a necessary preliminary to their careers being advanced.
This only confirms what I suspected about the Me,Too movement from the very start – that it is not a
genuine grassroots movement by women, but rather a political tool the "politically correct"
Establishment party invented as a weapon to destroy powerful men of the Opposition.
ML
,
August 23, 2019 at 09:56
It is about class. #Me too was a reactionary moment at its core- not a movement, a moment of the
"better classes." In one telling comment on a recent Consortium News Epstein article, a poster sited a
Vanity Fair piece and claimed Lady Ghislaine had once called these poor girls "trash." You know,
throwaway children so a waif on a street corner late at night or working in a spa gets trafficked and
the bourgeoisie and the upper classes "don't really care, do you?" (Melania's jacket was a clue.)
But
a Hollywood starlet gets patted on her bum? The horrors. It's about class -- always has been, always
will be. If the burgeoning underclass in their precarity doesn't one day choose to rise up en masse, I
will be disappointed. And I am prepared for disappointment.
Ghost Ship
,
August 23, 2019 at 06:11
"we America, the last best hope of humankind"
Nah, not really, the United States is just like any other country and the sooner USians realize this
the better for everyone including USians.
#MeToo was silent against the Clintons whose past with Epstein and brought slavery back to Libya was a
crime against humanity.
Speaks volumes
Zhu
,
August 23, 2019 at 02:49
We Americans kill on an industrial scale; why wouldn't we F* ** on an industrial scale too? And the
victims are all poor people.
jsinton
,
August 23, 2019 at 00:50
The missing howls can be explained easily. The military-industrial-congressional-corporate-media
complex does not wish them to be.
LarcoMarco
,
August 23, 2019 at 00:45
It's been a month and a half since Nancy Pelosi's daughter said, "Quite likely, some of our faves are
implicated."
robert e williamson jr
,
August 22, 2019 at 23:42
Professor Brenner's choice of topic here is somewhat suspect as far as I can tell. Given his
professional background I would expect him to focus on Jeff Epstein's not so stellar career on Wall
Street and the resulting melt down of the world economy after the subprime mortgage debacle. Those
topics more aligned with his forte. But nothing on that.
Instead he turns his focus to criticize the
ME TOO movement and others, "Why no howling?". He blew it, he seems to have made a pretty grievous
error. I
He flirts with discussing MOSSAD and CIA and their potential involvement in this story quickly
moving on to provide a hot link to lend exposure to the extremely troubling history of Alan Dershowitz
and his ties to Jeff Esptein.
Chose the link and read the story. His effort here to me is puzzling, unless he sees this as him
"howling".
If in fact Brenner is virtue signaling he has failed himself miserably. What he has submitted here
seems to openly blame victims and their advocates and appears to be his attempt distance himself from
"elite status"by naming a few caught up in this story. Given his profile at The Globalist:
he seems to travel in some very elitist circles himself.
Craig rudholm
,
August 22, 2019 at 21:47
It breaks my heart that the only comment is about the article rather than the issue addressed. Sexual
predators, no matter their sex, economic or social stature, politics, nationality or racial background
are heartless, soulless, vampires. Blood suckers. My guess is that it is just hard to admit we humans
have a shadowy side, part of which is envy of those who appreciates to get away with it.
Gregory Herr
,
August 22, 2019 at 20:33
"Why have the howls of outrage not echoed through the media? Why has the trumpet's call to action been
silent? Why haven't the halls of Congress resounded with denunciation and the demands for justice?"
The monolithic, feckless "media" got the same memo Acosta did.
"Congress" and conceptions of "justice" are as oil and water. And besides, they don't f*** with the
"well-connected".
AnneR
,
August 23, 2019 at 08:33
In my opinion, admittedly not worth the time taken to express it, Mr Brenner has raised a
thought-provoking point. Where indeed is the pious Me Too lot. And as he indicates the vast
majority in/of the Me Too "movement" were among the privileged, the bourgeoisie. So too the Me
Too's much heralded victims.
But the victims of human trafficking (mainly for sex, though not
always), whether children, adolescents, young adults – well, they're clearly *not* from the same
social class, not of the bourgeoisie. They and the treatment, abuse of them matter less, it
would seem than straying hands on the backs, bums of adult females within the upper middle
classes. Especially when that abuse is at the hands of someone from the bourgeoisie,
particularly from that segment of the haute bourgeoisie within the ruling elites.
The ruling elites (and CIA-Mossad) simply want this business buried so that the circus and
the information flowing from it can continue through other means Me Too has no interest,
nothing to be gained from, no ax to grind in this affair – apparently. Which would seem to
indicate that it was as shallow and spiteful as it appeared in the main.
I'm not saying that sexual assault should ever be ignored, that females who are forced to
submit to sex – rape, surely?- in order to work, continue working should not have justice.
Indeed they should and the men who do such things should not only lose their jobs but also spend
a nice lengthy time in a real prison. But Me Too seemed to be more about identity politics
rather than really changing societal and police/court room attitudes toward rape and sexual
assault.
That such as Epstein was allowed, given the nod and wink, to carry on as he had and that the
Me Too movement has so far been silent about the whole business does indeed suggest that the
women involved in that so-called movement were had motives other than really wanting a big
change in socio-cultural attitudes toward and about male-female relationships, interactions,
conceptions of each other.
Steve
,
August 23, 2019 at 13:18
The reason for MeToo disinterest is because they are a CIA controlled operation.
Seamus Padraig
,
August 23, 2019 at 13:25
"#MeToo ignoring the Clintons was a huge oversight indeed."
Yup. It was about as big an
oversight as BLM giving Hillary "Super-predators" Clinton a pass during the 2016 campaign, while
protesting against Bernie Sanders.
Bob In Portland
,
August 23, 2019 at 18:17
Whether or not Clinton abused Lewinsky is debatable, the question being consensuality, but what
is clear is that there were intelligence operatives all around the case, which always points to
others beyond the stage actors the public sees pulling the strings. Lucianne Goldberg has been
trying to get dirt on Democratic presidents from 1960 on, when she tried to get close to JFK
before settling for Johnson. In 1972 she worked for the North American Newspaper Alliance, a CIA
front, looking for dirt in the McGovern campaign. Lewinsky's "friend", Linda Tripp, has a
military intelligence background. It appears to me that the Lewinsky scandal was planned to
happen.
I suspect that Bill was easy to hook for Epstein's operation.
Tom Kath, the message I took from the article is that there are too many third rails that can be
touched and there is not an attempt to find out the truth about possible widespread and heinous
criminality. The way Epstein did jail time in the first instance should have touched the antennae
of investigative journalists. Perhaps they will dig deeper but Mister Brenner is right to be
suspicious. In fairness it is too early to starting pointing fingers but it is probable that what
we know will be as far as it goes..
Maricata
,
August 23, 2019 at 12:32
Indignation at the failure of others might be suspect, but not rational criticism. In fact, lack of
rational critique is what is suspect.
In 2003 I saw it with my own eyes and the founder of this website founded it as a venue where the
truth could be told. Not madness, disinformation or no information but the real story. Robert Parry
left Washington "Journalism" after he saw a coalescing group think during the Iran Contra hearings as
a group think settled in Washington and all journalists that were not on point felt the sharp end of
it. At the end Bob had shown a great amount of evidence that CIA Chief Bush met with Iranian officials
in the fall of 1979 and arrangements were made to prolong the captivity of the hostages until after
the election.
The fact that the hostages were released to the exact minute that Reagan was sworn in was a gift
from the Iranians but not one paper asked one question. When the Iran Contra hearings got close to
figuring out that the arms for money to fight the Sandinistas in Nicaragua went way back and it was
becoming clear that the president and vice president might be involved both democrats and republicans
on the hearing abruptly shut it down without reason.
You might ask yourself then "Where is the public outcry". Well my own state of mind at the time
told me that what just happened was obviously not just a coincidence and the lame story that the
Iranians waited until the minute that Reagan was sworn in because they were afraid of him was a total
pile of dung. Why would the Iranians want in such a highly visible way for all to see their
capitulation to Reagan and show the World their fear. But that's the story they ran with and soon all
was forgotten.
If you still do not have a clue then you should read the many excellent articles in the archives of
Robert Parry and his quests to uncover the truth and tell the stories that official Washington just
refused to do.
"From "Spook Air" to the "Lolita Express": The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey
Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship"
by Whitney Webb
"Far from being the work of a single political party, intelligence agency or country, the
power structure revealed by the network connected to Epstein is nothing less than a criminal
enterprise that is willing to use and abuse children in the pursuit of ever more power,
wealth and control ..
in this four-part series, "The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail," MintPress has
revealed that Epstein's activities -- a sexual blackmail operation involving minors and
connected to intelligence agencies -- was one of many such operations that have taken place
for decades, developing from the nexus forged between the CIA, organized crime and Israeli
intelligence shortly after World War II .
.the final installment of this series will focus on Democratic politicians, namely the
Clinton family, and their ties to this same network as well as Jeffrey Epstein.
The Clintons' own involvement in Iran-Contra revolved around the covert activities at
Arkansas' Mena Airport, which involved the CIA front company Southern Air Transport and
occurred while Clinton was governor. Just a few years into the Clinton presidential
administration, Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein would play a major role in Southern Air
Transport's relocation to Columbus, Ohio, leading to concerns among top Ohio officials that
both men were not only working with the CIA, but that Wexner's company, The Limited, sought
to use the CIA-linked airline for smuggling.
During that same period of time, Epstein had already forged close ties to important
Clinton White House officials and prominent Clinton donors like Lynn Forester de Rothschild
and made several personal visits to the official presidential residence .."
The Webb article is a tour-de-force, as is the series itself. I'm not sure she connects
all the dots, but she certainly identifies a sh**load of them. Particularly noteworthy is her
discussion of the PROMIS software scandal in relation to Robert Maxwell and later events; few
people seem to know about that. She also makes clear that the Clintons have been up to their
eyeballs in slime since their days in Arkansas. Much more work to be done, but Webb throws
out many clues for future investigation. I'm sure the NYT will get right on it.
The outrage being expressed in reaction to Wexler and his company's implicit support for
organized pedophilia and abuse of young women is deafening - I can't hear anything. No
protest?
Where are the advocates for fair and just treament of women?
Seems that all goes to wayside when politics does not align.
Vote for the Pedocrats.
"She would tell me, I am going to take care of the house," Alessi said in the deposition,
adding later that he drove Maxwell to spas around South Florida to look for young women who
could do "massages" for Epstein -- their code for sexual acts.
"I remember one occasion or two occasions she would say to me, 'Juan, give me a list of all
the spas in Palm Beach County,'" Alessi said. "And I will drive her from one to the other
one."
In one of the lawsuits, Virginia Roberts Giuffre laid out in detail what was believed to be
Maxwell's role in Epstein's alleged sex trafficking ring, which other women have echoed in
similar claims. Giuffre, 15 at the time, says she was working at a Mar-a-Lago club when she was
approached by Maxwell about a way to earn good money: learn massage therapy and get to know
Epstein as a man who could give her a bright future.
Giuffre says in a sworn affidavit that she was trained by Maxwell and Epstein to become
"everything a man wanted me to be" and that she was flown on Epstein's private planes to his
properties in New Mexico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Paris, and New York.
Two criminal defense attorneys told The Epoch Times that if the government was investigating
Epstein to such a degree that they were able to make an arrest, it can be assumed that federal
prosecutors in New York were also gathering evidence on those in his inner circle.
One attorney specifically mentioned the disgraced financier's former girlfriend, British
socialite Ghislaine
Maxwell , who allegedly assisted Epstein in luring minors. He said Maxwell would be
prosecutors' next main target and she could potentially name others connected to the
multimillionaire.
"She's going down. She's going to take everybody with her," Jeffery Greco, a New York
criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor, said in a phone call. "They are going to ask
her, 'Who else did you provide these girls to?' I think that she is going to start
talking."
"Remember, it's just pieces to a puzzle, so she may not know everything. But they are going
to use her to place the people at those parties, so if she can say, 'I was there on this date
and this senator and so-and-so was there,' that will be enough for them to get them
involved."
Epstein often hosted parties at his
Upper East Side mansion in New York City . He owned the property, which has been valued at
$77 million, through an LLC. The seven-story building is located on East 71st Street, between
Fifth and Madison avenues.
Nearly 2,000 pages of documents relating to Epstein were unsealed on Aug. 9, revealing
allegations against a number of rich and powerful men, just a day before his apparent suicide.
The court documents, from a lawsuit by one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Giuffre, listed new
names allegedly involved in Epstein's trafficking ring and more information on the role Maxwell
played.
In a 2016 deposition, Giuffre claimed she was directed by Maxwell to have sex with a number
of powerful men.
Greco believes the biggest implication of Epstein's death is that there will be "more and
more indictments coming down." He said the government will be pressured to file "additional
charges" against "additional people" and will be more aggressive in their methods.
"I think there is this extra pressure on the government now to really focus on these
[unnamed] co-conspirators, no matter how high up because it's become so public," he said.
According
to court documents , Epstein sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his
homes in New York City and in Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations. Since his death,
a
slew of investigations have been opened or demanded into his death. The official autopsy
result has
been delayed , "pending further information at this time."
Julie Rendelman, a New York criminal defense attorney and former homicide prosecutor, said
those who helped Epstein or assisted him along the way are now going to be the "focus of the
future investigations" and will be "kind of the face of the Epstein case, instead of him."
"New evidence." An "assist" from journalists. Don't believe it.
The New York prosecutors didn't take action after reading a newspaper article about a
game-changing piece of evidence. Compare the 2007 non-prosecution agreement with the new
indictment. Both address sex trafficking of children. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has been
sitting on mountains of evidence confirming Epstein's abuse of young girls for more than 10
years.
The "assist" was instead a wave of public outrage upon the discovery of how the Justice
Department and Florida prosecutors protected a child sex offender with a lenient plea deal, hid
the details from the victims and the public, and failed to prosecute the women who helped
Epstein find, groom, and exploit children.
What did the Justice Department have on Epstein? The answers can be found in a 2008 lawsuit
in which two of Epstein's alleged victims in Doe v. U.S. sued the
United States for violating their rights under the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act. In
particular, they claimed the government violated their right to confer during the negotiation
of the non-prosecution agreement and failed to inform the victims that Epstein's state plea
would end the federal case. The victims also claimed the government "violated their right to be
treated with fairness" by concealing the non-prosecution agreement.
Judge Kenneth Marra sided with the victims on Feb. 21, ruling that the Justice Department
violated the victims' rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act. The opinion ( pdf ) set forth
the DOJ's conspiracy with Epstein's lawyers to deceive the victims. Some of those who
participated in the plea deal at the local level have offered justifications. As the Miami
Herald's Julie Brown reported :
"Assistant U.S. Attorney [Marie] Villafaña, in court papers, said that prosecutors
used their 'best efforts' to comply with the Crime Victims' Rights Act, but exercised their
'prosecutorial discretion' when they chose not to notify the victims.
"The reasoning went like this: The non-prosecution deal had a restitution clause that
provided the girls a chance to seek compensation from Epstein. Had the deal fallen through,
necessitating a trial, Epstein's lawyers might have used the prior restitution clause to
undermine the girls' credibility as witnesses, by claiming they had exaggerated Epstein's
behavior in hopes of cashing in."
These excuses fall flat. The volume of evidence that the DOJ had on Epstein and his criminal
enterprise was extensive. For example, privilege logs filed by the prosecutors in the
Doe case show they had records covering every part of Epstein's life, including his
finances, corporate records, flight logs, and phone calls with conspirators.
When it came to the victims, the evidence was overwhelming. The DOJ had an FBI file entitled
"Summary of Sexual Activity," containing an analysis of victim-specific information. This
included a chart showing phone calls, travel, and grand jury evidence relevant to possible
charges. Records show this involved at least nine potential victims. The DOJ was also in
possession of FBI reports of interviews of victims and witnesses in New York back in March
2008.
Court records also revealed the DOJ had jury transcripts, witness and victim interviews,
investigative files from the State of Florida and the Palm Beach Police Department, and records
on potential co-conspirators.
The evidence was there. What was missing was the institutional desire to prosecute child
sexual abuse. The institutions failed the victims. And the media has failed the public by not
demanding those in power answer a simple question: "Why?"
The answer to that question lies with the Department of Justice headquarters, also known as
"main Justice." They knew. Epstein's criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz has stated that
the plea deal "went through numerous levels of approval at main Justice."
The involvement of main Justice was confirmed in the court's Feb. 21 opinion, which states
"any requirement that Epstein carry out his obligations under the [non-prosecution agreement]
was delayed while he sought higher-level review within the Justice Department."
Further corroboration was provided by Acosta at his July 10 press conference, where he
stated that people from main Justice were involved early in the development of the Epstein case
and were aware of its progression. Acosta declined to state who at main Justice was involved in
the Epstein case. I have names.
Court records show that post-plea-deal decisions went up to Deputy Attorney General Mark
Filip, who, according to one former DOJ official, has a stellar reputation. Filip was informed
of reasons to approve the continued prosecution of Epstein if he didn't comply with the
non-prosecution agreement. Judge Marra noted that Filip reviewed the Epstein matter and
determined that federal prosecution of Epstein was appropriate if he did not "comply with the
terms and conditions of the agreement."
Another high-level Department of Justice official who had his fingerprints on the case is
Andrew Oosterbaan, then-chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. A privilege log
filed on June 23, 2015, references several emails from 2007 between the Florida federal
prosecutors and Oosterbaan regarding an "Epstein meeting" and "changes to the draft indictment
and status of plea negotiations."
The same document shows emails from 2008 with Oosterbaan concerning a "continued delay in
presenting case to grand jury due to failure to receive decision from D.C., the status of grand
jury presentation and ongoing investigation" and a "meeting in DC" concerning the
case.
Additionally, these records appear to show Epstein's attorneys reached out to Andy
Lourie in May 2007 to arrange a meeting to discuss the Epstein investigation. Lourie was the
acting chief of the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division in Washington in 2006,
before becoming the acting principal deputy assistant attorney general and chief of staff to
the Criminal Division by 2007. In 2007, he was also an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern
District of Florida. Lourie was kept in the loop on possible federal coercion and enticement
charges, proposed changes to the indictment, "finalizing details with State Attorney's Office,"
and "final revisions to indictment package." There are also notations of 2007 emails from
Florida federal prosecutors to Myesha Braden, who was serving as a trial attorney for the Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the DOJ's Criminal Division, regarding securing a
pre-indictment consultation contract. This correspondence took place months before Epstein
signed the non-prosecution agreement.
In other words, main Justice was well-informed with the investigation and status of the
case.
The involvement of main Justice raises the question of who made the ultimate decision on
Epstein's sweetheart deal. Was Acosta following orders from main Justice? If so, who issued the
orders and how high did it go? Who did Filip and Oosterbaan report to?
And why did main Justice have such an interest in a South Florida child sex offender?
This quote from Acosta, cited in a July 9, 2019, Daily Beast article, may provide the
answer: "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone."
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily
reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Jeffrey Epstein used his tangled web of shell companies as a "brazen and powerful organization"
to operate a sex-trafficking ring, according to three new civil lawsuits filed against his $578
million estate.
The new litigation was filed against the estate, its executors and the shell companies
themselves, asking for unspecified damages for medical and psychological expenses, trauma,
humiliation and other injuries suffered as recently as 2017, according to
Bloomberg
.
Among the companies named in all three suits are
one that owned Epstein's Manhattan
mansion until 2011
;
his money-management firm, Financial Trust Co.; and HBRK
Associates Inc., which allegedly helped arrange travel for Epstein's accusers between New York
and Florida
. A Richard Kahn was listed as the registered agent for HBRK in New York
state corporate filings in 2008.
Two of the complaints name as a defendant
the company that once owned Little St.
James
, the smaller of Epstein's private islands in the Caribbean.
Little St.
James was one of the locations from which Epstein ran a "
complex commercial sex trafficking
and abuse ring
,
" according to the lawsuits.
...
The defendants include the executors,
Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn
,
lawyers who were directors for a nonprofit Epstein had in the U.S. Virgin Islands called
Gratitude America. -
Bloomberg
Two of the women, "Katlyn Doe" and "Lisa Doe" claim to have met Epstein when they were
seventeen. The third, "Priscilla Doe" says she was 20. The three say Epstein used a "
vast
enterprise
" of associates working "in concert and at his direction, for the purpose of
harming teenage girls through sexual exploitation, abuse and trafficking. Notably, the new suits
claim that all of this happened
after his deal with federal prosecutors in Florida in
2007.
Katlyn and Priscilla claim they were flown to Florida so that Epstein could continue to sexually
abuse them
while he was on work release from jail
. Katlyn claims he promised to
pay for medical treatment, while he manipulated Lisa and Priscilla by promising to advance their
dance careers - which he did not do, according to the lawsuits.
Epstein's complicit associates include
"chefs, butlers, receptionists, schedulers,
secretaries, flight attendants, pilots, housekeepers, maids, sex recruiters, drivers and other
staff members,
" according to the suits.
Katlyn also alleges that in 2013
Epstein paid her $10,000 to marry an associate
in order for him to become a legal resident of the United States - stiffing her on another $10,000
she says she was promised upon their divorce. She says she agreed to come to Florida after Epstein
promised her a job at his office, and that
HRBK coordinated her travel
. She added
that Epstein forced her to "engage in sexual encounters" with him and another young female at the
headquarters of his Florida Science Foundation.
According to University of Oregon law professor Susan Gary, Epstein's death shouldn't serve as
an impediment to their civil claims.
"
They're still in a good position
," said Gary, adding that the challenge "is
proving as required by law that he injured them and they should get benefits for their injury."
After Epstein served 13 months in a Palm Beach jail,
he settled over two dozen lawsuits
with accusers who say he lured them when they were teenagers to his mansion, where they were
coerced into sex and paid to recruit others
.
Three of those cases, filed by clients of Brad Edwards,
settled for a total of $5.5
million
. Edwards is the lawyer for the women who filed the complaints Tuesday in
federal court in New York.
The plaintiffs aren't named because of the "sensitive sexual
nature" of the cases
, the suits say.
Late Tuesday, Edwards submitted arguments on behalf of VE, another client who last week sued
Epstein's estate and three of the same companies targeted by the latest suits, asking the court
to allow her to proceed anonymously.
"
Epstein's vast wealth and far reaching connections make it clear that retaliation
could be employed against individuals pursuing claims against the estate
" and could
deter witnesses, according to the filing. VE's anonymity will serve society as well, which "
has
an interest in eradicating the predatory practices of powerful men against vulnerable,
susceptible women.
" -
Bloomberg
According to Katlyn Doe, Epstein would often remind her of his "extraordinary power to reward
and punish."
Meanwhile, plaintiff Lisa Doe says she met Epstein in 2002 when she was 17, when he told her he
was "close personal friends with some of the most influential names in dance," and would help her
with her career if she taught a dance-based exercise class at the home of a wealthy New York man.
Instead,
Epstein forced her to engage in sexual encounters and derailed her career
aspirations
.
Lastly, Priscilla Doe says that an Epstein "recruiter" asked her if she wanted to give the
financier a massage in his Manhattan mansion in 2006 when she was 20-years-old.
An associate of his taught her the "exact way" he liked to receive oral sex
and Epstein "forced himself on her and took her virginity," according to the complaint. While
Epstein was receiving massages, the suit says, he took calls from four people, referred to in
the suit as "Important Business Person" 1, 2, 3 and 4.
The plaintiff says she was forced to "engage in commercial sex" on each of more than
20 trips to the Virgin Islands between 2006 and 2012
. -
Bloomberg
According to the lawsuits, "Each of the employees and associates were paid through companies
believed to have been funded by Jeffrey Epstein and, regardless of such funding, were disciples of
Jeffrey Epstein, constantly informing plaintiff and other victims of Jeffrey Epstein's power and
ability to improve or destroy a victim's life depending on her level of cooperation
The last good FBI agent was Ted Gunderson. That's why Van Decamp
gave the documentary that Bush Administration had buried to him.
We almost lost this documentary forever, but some heroic
individuals and fate kept it alive, hoping people would give a
****. It all ties to somebody controlling our politicians with
honeypots. Remember when NWO was a conspiracy theory people
laughed about? Not funny any more.
This is Gunderson after the
FBI. He KNEW. This is all honeypot. The Satanism is for leverage
and not real. People get detoured into that.
"He also investigated a
child
molestation trial
in Manhattan Beach, California. In a 1995
conference in
Dallas
,
Gunderson warned about the supposed proliferation of secret
occultist groups, and He also investigated a
child
molestation trial
in Manhattan Beach, California. In a 1995
conference in
Dallas
,
Gunderson warned about the supposed proliferation of secret
occultist groups, and the danger posed by the
New
World Order
, an alleged
shadow
government
that would be controlling the United States
government.
[8]
He
also claimed that a "slave auction" in which children were sold by
Saudi agents to men had been held in
Las
Vegas
, that four thousand ritual human sacrifices are
performed in
New
York City
every year, and that the 1995
bombing
of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
in
Oklahoma
City
was carried out by the US government.
[8]
Gunderson
believed that in the United States there is a secret widespread
network of groups who kidnap children and infants, and subject
them to
ritual
abuse
and subsequent human sacrifice.
[9]
[10]
)
,
Conspiracy of Silence
, a documentary listed for viewing
in TV Guide Magazine was to be aired on the Discovery Channel, on
May 3 1994. This documentary exposed a network of religious
leaders and Washington politicians who flew children to Washington
D.C. for sex orgies. Many children suffered the indignity of
wearing nothing but their underwear and a number displayed on a
piece of cardboard hanging from their necks when being auctioned
off to foreigners in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Toronto, Canada.
"At the last minute before airing, unknown congressmen
threatened the TV Cable industry with restrictive legislation if
this documentary was aired. Almost immediately,
the rights to
the documentary were purchased by unknown persons who ordered all
copies destroyed.
A copy of this videotape was furnished anonymously to former
Nebraska state senator and attorney John De Camp who made it
available to retired
FBI Agent Ted L. Gunderson
. While
the video quality is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster in
what is revealed by its participants involved."
Can you imagine what these heroic men would think of this
exposed Mossad honeypot? Its all exposed now, just needs to be
linked together.
So the Jews have another South America pedophile scandal
to their discredit.
We haven't forgotten the child
prostitution business run by Arie Scher and George
Schteinberg in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the 1990s
.
It was exposed in the early summer of 2000 by an infuriated
teenage girl who found a nude photo of herself online, after
Schteinberg had PROMISED her that he'd never show it to
anyone.
Schteinberg was arrested and given a slap on the wrist (they
went easy on him because he was Jewish) while Arie Scher
escaped to Israel, one step ahead of the authorities.
The Israeli government took away Scher's diplomat license
for five years (because he got caught being naughty,
presumably; properly trained Jews don't get caught, of
course).
When the five years were past, Israel proposed to send Scher
to Australia to replace Amir Laty, who'd made himself
unwelcome by committing espionage and by being very rude to
certain Australian women.
Somehow or other, the Australian public found out that the
spy was being replaced by a pedophile as Israel's official
ambassador to their country, and they got up in arms about
it. This persuaded Scher to decline the post, perhaps
keeping the cushy administrative job the Israeli government
gave him during the previous five years
So, looks like there were running another operation like
this in Brazil during the 90s (never heard of that one before)
Case 1:19-cv-07772 Document 1 Filed 8/20/2019 Page 1 of 52
PRISCILLA DOE, Plaintiff,
vs.
DARREN K. INDYKE AND
RICHARD D. KAHN AS JOINT
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
ESTATE OF JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN,
NINE EAST 71st STREET, CORPORATION,
FINANCIAL TRUST COMPANY, INC.,
NES, LLC, MAPLE,INC., LSJ,LLC,
HBRK ASSOCIATES, INC., JEGE, INC.,
Defendants.
64. In 2006, Jeffrey Epstein told Plaintiff she was going on a
trip with him to his island in the Unites States Virgin Islands.
65. On that trip was Jeffrey Epstein, Jean Luc Bruenel,
Ghislaine Maxwell, Associate 2, Associate 8, and two other victims
in addition to Plaintiff.
66. It was there that Ghislaine Maxwell taught Plaintiff the
"proper way to give a blow job," describing to her the exact way
that Jeffrey Epstein liked to be sexually serviced orally.
Case 1:19-cv-07772 Document 1 Filed 8/20/2019 Page 15 of 52
1) Authorities will NOT pursue, question or
charge any of Epstein's clients or associates (the very people the
entire trafficking operation catered to).
2) Authorities will NOT "follow the money."
3) Authorities will not arrest and prosecute any government
employee who obstructed justice or participated in this scheme.
The elites will have to get rid of people and evidence. The
Clintons know too much and are oftened named. Nail gun sale at
Home Depot. Those 2 geriatric fcuks must go.
They are a huge liability on countless fronts. That will leave
Chelsea to answer for any Clinton foundation questions, and she
has been involved. She can play stupid and elicit sympathy. The
Clintons are a huge problem.
Wexner is related to Mossad and the very beginnings of the
teaming up of Mossad with Dulles' CIA, after WWII, the OSS, the
Irgun and the Stern gruppe, who did the King David Hotel bombing.
The Boss of Wexner is Henry Kissinger the 'republican free
trader in favor of democracy'.
The Bosses of soldiers raping Kissinger in his Vietnam creation
are the Rockefellers.
Kissinger ordered the Phoenix program mass murdering Vietnamese
nationalist by the tens of thousands, which is a mere one feat in
his massive killing career, like Churchill,
Kissinger who ran the Republican president Richard Nixon like
fc*king a goat.
By the way, there are pictures in circulation of Republican
president Ronald Reagan being deeply ejaculated into the manhole,
enjoying that greatly (vehemently denied by his daughter at his
funeral, pffffffff),
the same anecdotes exist of Prince Philip, husband of fake
Queen Elisabeth, who requested to be manly penetrated by crew,
when he was onboard visiting the British fleet.
And it it was no accident that the Monica Lewinsky/ Clinton sex
scandal erupted into public view precisely at the moment
Clinton had scheduled meetings with Netanyahu and Palestinian
leader Yasir Arafat to revive the peace process by pressuring
Netanyahu.
This likely could be tied to Franklin child sex ring scandal and
Mossad will be there too. Watch this free documentary before
Jootube takes it down. Men died for you to know this. The show was
yanked before it could be played mainstream. Extremely disturbing
but VERY important. This was the last time they slipped through
your fingers and this type of thing will be what destroys this
evil.
Yeah and since Sir Pedo's death was termed a suicide, then one
would think his will dealy in US VI was planned, as was his death
and me thinks a good lawyer would negate the will, trust, etc by
simply terming this transfer of assets a fraudulent conveyance and
yank it back where those abused can take a slice.
"... However, while throughout Webb's articles she draws linkages that lead to the Mossad, she only suggests CIA connections. This is similar to but milder than a point made in an article written by Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist, " Did Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Work for Mossad? " Giraldi writes that the CIA "would have no particular motive to acquire an agent like Epstein." This makes no sense. Of course, it would. The CIA and the FBI have a long record of such activities, and to hold such a club over the heads of presidents, senators, et al to make sure they do their bidding is obviously a strong motivation. ..."
"... The CIA is organized crime, and if Epstein is Mossad connected, he is CIA also, which is most likely. Epstein could not have operated as he did for decades without being sustained and protected. ..."
"... no prosecution of the central operational cog in the gang, Ghislaine Maxwell, or her cohorts named in the fantastic settlement agreement ..."
"... “It is a mind game of extraordinary proportions, orchestrated by the perverted power elites who run the show and are abetted by their partners in the corporate mass media, even some in the alternative press who mean well but are confused, or are disinformation agents in the business of sowing confusion together with their mainstream Operation Mockingbird partners.” ..."
W hen phrases such as "the deep state" and "conspiracy theory" become staples of both the
corporate mainstream media and the alternative press, we know the realities behind these
phrases have outlasted their usefulness for the ruling elites who control the United States and
for their critics, each of whom uses them refutably or corroboratively. These phrases are
bandied about so often that they have become hackneyed and inane.
Everything is shallow now, in our faces, and by being in our faces the truth is taking place
behind our backs. The obvious can't be true since it's so obvious, so let us search for other
explanations, and when the searchers search, let us call them "conspiracy nuts." It is a mind
game of extraordinary proportions, orchestrated by the perverted power elites who run the show
and are abetted by their partners in the corporate mass media, even some in the alternative
press who mean well but are confused, or are disinformation agents in the business of sowing
confusion together with their mainstream Operation Mockingbird partners.
It is a spectacle of open secrecy, in which the CIA, which created the "conspiracy theory"
meme to ridicule critics of the Warren Commission's absurd explanation of the Kennedy
assassination, has effectively sucked everyone into a game of to and fro in which only they
win.
"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it
extra."
Outside the Narrative Frame
Only by stepping outside this narrative frame with its vocabulary can we begin to grasp the
truth here in our Wonderland of endless illusions.
Death, sex, power, intrigue, murder, suicide – these are the staples of the penny
press of the 19 th century, Joseph Pulitzer's New York World , Hearst's
New York Journal , the tabloids, today's mass media, and the CIA. People hunger for
these stories, not for the real truth that impacts their lives, but for the titillation that
gives a frisson to their humdrum lives. It is why post-modern detective stories are so popular,
as if never solving the crime is the point.
Robert Pfaller in 2016. (Suzie1212, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
To say "we will never know" is the mantra of a postmodern culture created to keep people
running in circles. (Note the commentaries about the Jeffrey Epstein case.) Elusive and
allusive indeterminacy characterizes everything in the culture of postmodernity. Robert
Pfaller, a professor at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria, and a
founding member of the Viennese psychoanalytic research group "stuzzicandenti," put it clearly
in a
recent interview :
"The ruling ideology since the fall of the Berlin Wall, or even earlier, is postmodernism.
This is the ideological embellishment that the brutal neoliberal attack on Western societies'
welfare (that was launched in the late 1970s) required in order to attain a "human",
"liberal" and "progressive" face. This coalition between an economic policy that serves the
interest of a tiny minority, and an ideology that appears to "include" everybody is what
Nancy Fraser has aptly called "progressive neoliberalism". It consists of neoliberalism, plus
postmodernism as its ideological superstructure."
The propagandists know this; they created it. They are psychologically astute, having
hijacked many intelligent but soul-less people of the right and left to do their handiwork.
Money Buys Souls
Money buys souls, and the number of those who have sold theirs is numerous, including those
leftists who have been bought by the CIA, as Cord Meyer, the CIA official phrased it so
sexually in the 1950s: we need to "court the compatible left." He knew that drawing leftists
into the CIA's orbit was the key to efficient propaganda. For so many of the compatible left,
those making a lot of money posing as opponents of the ruling elites but taking the money of
the super-rich, events like the JFK assassination are inconsequential, never to be broached, as
if they never happened, except as the authorities say they did.
By ignoring these most in-your-face events with their eyes wide shut, a coterie of
influential leftists has done the work of Orwell's crime-stop and has effectively succeeded in
situating current events in an ahistorical and therefore misleading context that abets U.S.
propaganda.
The debate over whether Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide or not is a pseudo-debate meant to
keep people spinning their wheels over nothing. It attracts attention and will do so for many
days to come. There are even some usually astute people suggesting that he may not be dead but
might have been secretly whisked off somewhere and replaced with a dead look-alike. Now who
would profit from suggesting something as insane as this? The speculation runs rampant and
feeds the spectacle. Whether he was allowed to kill himself or was killed makes little
difference.
(Christopher Dombres, CC0, Wikimedia Commons)
Debates to Nowhere
It's akin to asking who pulled the trigger that killed President John Kennedy. That's a
debate that was intended to go nowhere, as it has, after it became apparent that Lee Harvey
Oswald surely did not kill JFK. Kennedy's murder in broad daylight in public view is the
paradigmatic event of modern times. It is obvious to anyone who gives minimal study to the
issue that it was organized and carried out by elements within the national security state,
notably the CIA. Their message was meant to be unequivocal and clear: We can kill him and we
can kill you; we are in full control; beware. Then they went on to kill others, including RFK
and MLK. It takes little intelligence to see this obvious fact, unless you wish not to or are
totally lost in the neighborhood of make-believe.
As it was with Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald, so it is with Epstein. There will be no
trial. Nothing is really hidden except the essential truth. Guess, debate, wonder, watch, read
to your sad heart's content. You will have gotten nowhere unless you step outside the frame of
the reigning narrative.
New York Post: Reigniting the narrative.
A corollary example of another recent national headline grabber, the Mueller investigation,
is apropos here. Douglas Valentine, expert on the CIA and author of "The CIA as Organized
Crime," said in a recent interview that in all the endless mass media discussions of the
Mueller investigation, one obvious question was never asked: What is the CIA's role in it all?
It was never asked because the job of the corporate mass media is to work for the CIA, not to
expose it as a nest of organized criminals and murderers that it is.
What is important in the Epstein case is the deep back story, a tale that goes back decades
and is explored by Whitney Webb in a series of fine
articles for the Mint Press. Read her articles and you will see how Epstein is just the current
manifestation of the sordid history of the American marriage between various factions of the
American ruling elites, whose business is sexual exploitation as a fringe benefit of being
willing members of the economic and military exploitation of the world. A marriage of spies,
mafia, intelligence agencies, sexual perverts, foreign governments and American traitors who
will stop at nothing to advance their interests.
Destroys the Fairy Tale of Democracy
It is a hard story to swallow because it destroys the fairy tale that has been constructed
about American "democracy" and the decency of our leaders. Webb's articles are not based on
secret documents but on readily available information open to a diligent researcher. It's known
history that has been buried, as is most history in a country of amnesiacs and educational
illiterates. The average person doesn't have Webb's skill or time to pull it all together, but
they can read her illuminating work. Often, however, it is the will to truth that is
lacking.
While Webb places the Epstein matter in an historical context, she does not "solve" the
case, since there is nothing to solve. It is another story from a long litany of sex/espionage
stories openly available to anyone willing to look. They tell the same story. Like many
commentators, she draws many linkages to the Israeli Mossad's long-standing connections to this
criminal under and over world in the United States and throughout the world. She writes:
"Ultimately, the picture painted by the evidence is not a direct tie to a single
intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group [a secretive group of
Jewish billionaires, including Epstein's patron Leslie Wexner], politicians, and officials in
both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence
ties in both nations."
If anything is obvious about the Epstein case, it is that he was part of a sexual blackmail
operation tied to intelligence agencies. Such blackmail has long been central to the methods of
intelligence agencies worldwide and many arrows rightfully point to the Mossad.
However, while throughout Webb's articles she draws linkages that lead to the Mossad, she
only suggests CIA connections. This is similar to but milder than a point made in an article
written by Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist, " Did Pedophile
Jeffrey Epstein Work for Mossad? " Giraldi writes that the CIA "would have no particular
motive to acquire an agent like Epstein." This makes no sense. Of course, it would. The CIA and
the FBI have a long record of such activities, and to hold such a club over the heads of
presidents, senators, et al to make sure they do their bidding is obviously a strong
motivation.
Valentine's point about not asking the question about the CIA's involvement in the Mueller
investigation pertains. Does Giraldi believe that the Mossad operates independently of the CIA?
Or that they don't work in tandem? His statement is very strange.
The CIA is organized crime, and if Epstein is Mossad connected, he is CIA also, which is
most likely. Epstein could not have operated as he did for decades without being sustained and
protected. Now that he is dead there will be no trial, just as there will be no mainstream
media or justice department revelations about the CIA or Mossad. There will be a lot of
gibberish about conspiracy theories and the open secret that is the spectacle of secrecy will
roll on. There will, of course, be much sex talk and outrage. We will anxiously await the movie
and the TV "exposés." Most people will know, and pretend they don't, that the country is
ruled by gangsters who would pimp their mothers if it served their interests.
Those of us who oppose these criminals – and there are growing numbers all over the
world – must avoid being sucked into the Establishment narratives and the
counter-narratives they spawn or create. We must refuse to get involved in pseudo-debates that
are meant to lead nowhere. We must reject the language created to confuse.
If revolutionary change is to come, we must learn to tell a new story in language so
beautiful, illuminating, and heart-rending that no one will listen to the lying words of child
molesters, mass murderers, and those who hate and persecute truth tellers.
As John Berger said, "In storytelling everything depends on what follows what. And the
truest order is seldom obvious."
Educated in the classics, philosophy, literature, theology, and sociology, Ed Curtin is a
former professor of sociology. His writing on varied topics has appeared widely over many
years. He sees all his work as an effort to enhance human freedom.
Prince Andrew hung out with Epstein because he made a good tuna on rye. We are all conditioned to accept that powerful
people do not have to go to jail. Its just the way it is and will always remain so. There is not an honest person anywhere on
planet earth who believes that Bill Clinton and the others did not have sex with “those girls”. America and the west are
morally corrupt piles of garbage. No wonder the African Americans and others rage against an unbalanced system of justice.
Actually it is just poor people of any color who get the book thrown at them.
I saw the pictures yesterday on the telegraph of the young blond girl leaving Epsteins Manhattan home with Prince Andrew
poking his head out the door. The girl looked like she was no older than 14. The dear old Queen doesn’t represent justice
either.
Vera Gottlieb, August 20, 2019 at 11:29
Just curious…will the Epstein saga be as prolonged and boring as the Russiagate saga???
Litchfield, August 20, 2019 at 14:00
I don’t think so.
It is in the interest of the puppetmeister to let thing die out ASAP. Not so the Russiagate hoax: the idea was to prolong it
in the hopes of finally finding a smoking gun of some kind. With the Epstein story we are awash in smoking guns, but they are
being ignored.
Dan D. August 20, 2019 at 09:34
If there is no trial and further revelations about the nature of this operation, which should be expected, it won’t simply
be because Epstein is dead, but because there will be no prosecution of the central operational cog in the gang,
Ghislaine Maxwell, or her cohorts named in the fantastic settlement agreement. There are more than sufficient facts in
the public sphere to proceed.
Bob Van Noy, August 20, 2019 at 09:07
“It is a mind game of extraordinary proportions, orchestrated by the perverted power elites who run the show and
are abetted by their partners in the corporate mass media, even some in the alternative press who mean well but are
confused, or are disinformation agents in the business of sowing confusion together with their mainstream Operation
Mockingbird partners.”
“The CIA is organized crime,…”
Edward Curtin has summarized our contemporary hell as few others can. In the above comments he fully describes our dilemma
and underscores the necessity for sites like Consortiumnews to present the truth for citizens to be able to sort truth from
lies. Still we cannot forget that our democracy is “a criminal conspiracy”…
I actually believe knowing what happened to Epstein is knowable. It is also important because it will reveal who/what has
the power to make such a thing happen. However, while this information will take a long time to come out it is our job to
push on behalf of his victims right now.
There is information showing that Maxwell and several other people committed multiple rapes of children. We do not see her,
Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, just to name a few, hauled in for questioning. That really needs to happen. We
have built up the powerful into untouchable icons. This needs to full stop now. These are not icons, they are potential and
likely guilty child rapists of children. Our power system is held up by unspeakable cruelty to children and to others who
simply don’t have the power to fight back unless we offer our support and services to them. There is enough testimony and
other evidence to bring them in for questioning.
The conspiracy to commit rape should be ready to go. Investigators have had that information for a long time. I’m not buying
that they are too incompetent to move that case forward. We are going to need to push for this. Deliberate infliction of
human misery is evil and it is not acceptable to create one’s society on such a thing.
There is ground penetrating radar which can see under Jeff’s concrete pour. It can also show the tunnels on the islands.
“Lost” evidence can be relocated from it’s undisclosed location. The ranch in NM can be sealed off and also scanned by this
radar. No one should believe agencies with the resources of this government behind them are incapable of doing such things.
In the meantime, there is a tape of Jeff’s wing from that night. There’s one from the hospital and the investigators can
offer immunity to anyone guard or hospital/ambulance employee in exchange for their truthful explanation of what they were
doing and what they saw. This was not a series of incompetent actions which all went one way and one way only. It took a lot
of planning and a lot of resources. That means there are a lot of witnesses.
We do need to uncover and dismantle this chain of human misery. No More.
ML, August 20, 2019 at 11:27
Excellent comment, Jill. As a family medicine nurse practitioner for many years, I have witnessed and helped many teen
victims of adults who thought it somehow A-ok to sexually take advantage of them. I understand teen psychology. They are
wholly unprepared to deal with the often underhanded tactics of pedophiles who use charm, deceit, threats, flattery, physical
violence, tangible needed goods like money, clothing, or even a place to sleep, to get what they want— sex with a young
person.
It is truly evil and that is not too strong a word for it. Epstein apparently used all of these tactics on his victims.
How I wish there were a hell for the likes of him.
Litchfield, August 20, 2019 at 12:14
I agree with all you say, and thanks for putting it so clearly. There is NO EXCUSE for this case NOT to go forward and for
all the parties of interest to be interrogated, and not with velvet gloves on. Clinton, Andrew, Dersh, Wexner, Maxwell, just
for starters. Possibly Barr should recuse himself, as he seems to be too intertwined with the Epstein background story.
Brian Murphy, August 20, 2019 at 12:42
Is it really such a mystery what organizations acting together have the capability to have done this? They are identified
in the article. The western coalition of intelligence agencies, which includes the Mossad along with NATO powers. In the USA,
that includes the entire intelligence apparatus — CIA, NSA, MIA, FBI, Secret Service, as supported and defended by the DOJ.
Which of those entities placed someone in the jail cell to crack his neck is somewhat immaterial. The current President
and at least one former President were implicated, which justifies the use of the full arsenal in the minds of those
involved, as a “threat to national security,” which of course means strictly “threat to the profits of certain entities.”
Walter, August 20, 2019 at 06:56
There is sparse evidence and zero proof that the charming fellow committed suicide, and only claims (somebody said stuff)
that he’s actually dead. (Same for his girlfriend’s dad, same for Skirpal :–)
Whitney Webb at Mintpressnews is doing good job on Mr E.
"... When Trump was first elected, I tried to calm down friends with advanced TDS, who expected Kristallnacht to be directed at their favorite brunch spots, by saying that "This is what empires in decline look like." ..."
"... In this sordid world, girls/women have absolutely no value ..."
"... Don't forget the young boys who get traded around like fudge recipes. Something quick on the Hollywood angle on bent dicks. It applies almost everywhere in America now: https://news.avclub.com/corey-feldman-made-a-documentary-about-sexual-abuse-he-1834310252 ..."
"... My reinterpretation of your comment would be; In this sordid world, people without power have absolutely no value. ..."
"... Epstein's World was tied in with Hollywood and Wall Street. Both are homoerotic paedophile havens. The world of the Vatican is tied in to Wall Street; it has it's own bank, the Instituto per le Opere de Religioni. ..."
"... As is true with the continued withholding of key documents in the JFK assassination, I believe that if the lousy reporting and official screwups in the Epstein case persist, it will be perfectly fine for the public to conclude and believe the absolute worst and act accordingly. ..."
"... Given the spotiness and inadequacy of reporting on the Epstein affair I wonder if an avenue for exploration might be that of a more direct involvement of media moguls and highly placed media staff in being serviced by Epstein i.e., the decision-makers regarding what gets covered and published are themselves subject to exposure, embarrassment, and other things that befall men caught in such matters. ..."
I can't add much to Yve's excellent post and the follow-up comments, except to say that the events of recent days and weeks
have made Pizzagate (as deranged as it was) into some kind of weird Jungian premonition which is to say, the s&#* is out of control.
When Trump was first elected, I tried to calm down friends with advanced TDS, who expected Kristallnacht to be directed
at their favorite brunch spots, by saying that "This is what empires in decline look like."
In regard to this sordid tale, I'm reminded of Robert Graves' (and the superb BBC TV version of) "I, Claudius."
My reinterpretation of your comment would be; In this sordid world, people without power have absolutely no value.
Otherwise, I'm with you all the way. Abuse is abuse. No other definition is logical.
Epstein's World was tied in with Hollywood and Wall Street. Both are homoerotic paedophile havens. The world of the Vatican
is tied in to Wall Street; it has it's own bank, the Instituto per le Opere de Religioni.
Who knows? Perhaps there will be some Prelates unearthed from the Lolita Express passenger log.
As is true with the continued withholding of key documents in the JFK assassination, I believe that if the lousy reporting
and official screwups in the Epstein case persist, it will be perfectly fine for the public to conclude and believe the absolute
worst and act accordingly.
Given the spotiness and inadequacy of reporting on the Epstein affair I wonder if an avenue for exploration might be that
of a more direct involvement of media moguls and highly placed media staff in being serviced by Epstein i.e., the decision-makers
regarding what gets covered and published are themselves subject to exposure, embarrassment, and other things that befall men
caught in such matters.
Who covers the press and roots out its secret malefactions? Rogue reporters? And who publishes them? Indeed!
"... "The Mega Group's role in the Epstein case has garnered some attention, as Epstein's main financial patron for decades, billionaire Leslie Wexner, was a co-founder of the group that unites several well-known businessmen with a penchant for pro-Israel and ethno-philanthropy (i.e., philanthropy benefiting a single ethnic or ethno-religious group). [ ] another uniting factor among Mega Group members is deep ties to organized crime [ ] ..."
"... "By virtue of the role of many Mega Group members as major political donors in both the U.S. and Israel, several of its most notable members have close ties to the governments of both countries as well as their intelligence communities. [ ] the Mega Group also had close ties to two businessmen who worked for Israel's Mossad -- Robert Maxwell and Marc Rich -- as well as to top Israeli politicians, including past and present prime ministers with deep ties to Israel's intelligence community. ..."
"... "Years later, Maxwell's daughter -- Ghislaine Maxwell -- would join Jeffrey Epstein's 'inner circle' at the same time Epstein was bankrolling a similar software program now being marketed for critical electronic infrastructure in the U.S. and abroad. That company has deep and troubling connections to Israeli military intelligence, associates of the Trump administration, and the Mega Group. ..."
"... "Ultimately, the picture painted by the evidence is not a direct tie to a single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations." ..."
"one key aspect of Epstein's own sex-trafficking and blackmail operation that warrants
examination is Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence and his ties to the 'informal'
pro-Israel philanthropist faction known as 'the Mega Group.'
"The Mega Group's role in the Epstein case has garnered some attention, as Epstein's main
financial patron for decades, billionaire Leslie Wexner, was a co-founder of the group that
unites several well-known businessmen with a penchant for pro-Israel and ethno-philanthropy
(i.e., philanthropy benefiting a single ethnic or ethno-religious group). [ ] another uniting
factor among Mega Group members is deep ties to organized crime [ ]
"By virtue of the role of many Mega Group members as major political donors in both the
U.S. and Israel, several of its most notable members have close ties to the governments of
both countries as well as their intelligence communities. [ ] the Mega Group also had close
ties to two businessmen who worked for Israel's Mossad -- Robert Maxwell and Marc Rich -- as
well as to top Israeli politicians, including past and present prime ministers with deep ties
to Israel's intelligence community.
"One of those businessmen working for the Mossad, Robert Maxwell, { ] who was a business
partner of Mega Group co-founder Charles Bronfman, aided the successful Mossad plot to plant
a trapdoor in U.S.-created software that was then sold to governments and companies
throughout the world. That plot's success was largely due to the role of a close associate of
then-President Ronald Reagan and an American politician close to Maxwell, who later helped
aid Reagan in the cover-up of the Iran Contra scandal.
"Years later, Maxwell's daughter -- Ghislaine Maxwell -- would join Jeffrey Epstein's
'inner circle' at the same time Epstein was bankrolling a similar software program now being
marketed for critical electronic infrastructure in the U.S. and abroad. That company has deep
and troubling connections to Israeli military intelligence, associates of the Trump
administration, and the Mega Group.
"Epstein appears to have ties to Israeli intelligence and has well-documented ties to
influential Israeli politicians and the Mega Group. Yet, those entities are not isolated in
and of themselves, as many also connect to the organized crime network and powerful alleged
pedophiles [ ]
"Given that intelligence agencies in both the U.S. and elsewhere often conduct covert
operations for the benefit of oligarchs and large corporations as opposed to 'national
security interest,' Epstein's ties to the Mega Group suggest that this group holds a unique
status and influence in both the governments of the U.S. and of Israel [ ] This is by virtue
of their role as key political donors in both countries, as well as the fact that several of
them own powerful companies or financial institutions in both countries. Indeed, many members
of the Mega Group have deep ties to Israel's political class, including to Netanyahu and Ehud
Barak as well as to now-deceased figures like Shimon Peres, and to members of the American
political class.
"Ultimately, the picture painted by the evidence is not a direct tie to a single
intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and
officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and
intelligence ties in both nations."
M. Illoinen – I completely agree with you, innocent until proven guilty. I assume
that you are referencing my post. When the Powers finally arrested the slippery Al Capone,
they had him on tax evasion. They wanted him for a host of crimes. They had the evidence for
tax evasion and went with that. These characters have ruined many innocent lives and have
gotten away with it.
At this stage, I welcome any arrest of these greased pigs on any charges they want to file
against them. If it's the Epstein case, that's certainly O.K. with me.
"... Ehud Barak, 77, a former prime minister and defense minister, received some $2.3 million in payments from [the Wexner] foundation associated with Mr. Epstein from 2004 to 2006, and Mr. Epstein invested a reported $1 million in a limited partnership established by Mr. Barak in 2015 . . . ..."
"... Israeli news media has reported that the investment was about $1 million. Mr. Barak's company, Carbyne, formerly known as Reporty Homeland Security, specializes in emergency response geo-location and live video-streaming ..."
"... He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.) ..."
"... The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy ..."
"... One theory circulating among prominent Republicans is that Epstein was a Mossad agent. Another is that the George W. Bush White House directed Acosta not to prosecute Epstein to protect Prince Andrew on behalf of the British government, then the U.S.'s closest ally in the Iraq war. ..."
Epstein's relationship with Ehud Barak, the former PM who is now trying to stage a comeback
in Israel, has become
an issue in the Israeli campaign, the New York Times reports. Epstein made what
appear to be shadowy investments with Barak.
Ehud Barak, 77, a former prime minister and defense minister, received some $2.3 million
in payments from [the Wexner] foundation associated with Mr. Epstein from 2004 to 2006, and
Mr. Epstein invested a reported $1 million in a limited partnership established by Mr. Barak
in 2015 . . .
"I never took part in any party or event with women or anything like that," Mr. Barak
said, adding that in Mr. Epstein's house he had met the
heads of leading American universities, philanthropists, Nobel Prize winners , older
women from academia, business and law, and political figures from the Clinton, Obama and
Trump circles . . .
Mr. Barak does not dispute having received some $2.3 million in three installments from
the Wexner Foundation, an Ohio-based nonprofit, and its founder, Leslie H. Wexner, a retail
mogul and a former close
associate of Mr. Epstein's and an investor in his financial company.
Mr. Epstein was a trustee of the Wexner Foundation and one of its main donors.
The payments were registered as compensation for research, but Mr. Barak has refused to
divulge any details about the research, saying that doing so could harm his future
business
Rabbi Elka Abrahamson, the president of the Wexner Foundation, which provides development
training for Jewish volunteer leaders and Israeli public figures, has declined to say what
the research payments were for.
One of Epstein's investments in Barak, in 2015, would seem to have intelligence
applications.
Israeli news media has reported that the investment was about $1 million. Mr. Barak's
company, Carbyne, formerly known as Reporty Homeland Security, specializes in emergency
response geo-location and live video-streaming
This brings up the intelligence angle. Federal investigators found an Austrian passport in
Epstein's NY mansion with a fake name and listing an address in Saudi Arabia that Epstein
reportedly used to enter four countries, "France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Saudi
Arabia."
The scandal at the heart of the new prosecution is that Epstein served only a year or so in
jail on Florida solicitation charges in 2007-2008, even as his lawyers cut a non-prosecution
plea deal from the feds on more serious charges. Dershowitz
was a lawyer on that team . Former US attorney Alexander Acosta cut that deal, and resigned
as Labor Secretary last week when it became an issue.
As the Daily Beast
reports, Acosta said he went light on Epstein because of an intelligence connection.
He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had "been
told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. "I was told Epstein 'belonged to
intelligence' and to leave it alone," he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who
evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor
Department had no comment when asked about this.)
The speculation about Epstein's connections includes the fact that he was associated closely
with a woman who allegedly helped bring him girl victims, Ghislaine Maxwell, who (as this
news
aggregator notes ), "is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, the media mogul who died under
mysterious circumstances in 1991. Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh alleged in his book
The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy that Maxwell
was tied to the Israeli Mossad. Hersh was sued for the allegation, but then received
an apology ."
One theory circulating among prominent Republicans is that Epstein was a Mossad agent.
Another is that the George W. Bush White House directed Acosta not to prosecute Epstein to
protect Prince Andrew on behalf of the British government, then the U.S.'s closest ally in
the Iraq war.
In Epstein's
2004-2005 address book (published by Gawker) Israel has a listing among several countries
(including Switzerland, Italy, France, Kenya, and Brazil). The Israel file includes
future-prime-minister Ehud Olmert.
Several Israel supporters are in that address book, including former Murdoch news exec Gary
Ginsberg, who wrote speeches for
Netanyahu and is on the board of the Genesis Foundation, which gives prizes to Israel's
friends. Also Ron Perelman, a financier and supporter of Israel.
The only thing we can be sure of in this case is that more names are likely to come out, and
more speculation about how Epstein became such a wealthy international player when his
financial chops were questionable to say the least.
Thanks to David Samel, Donald Johnson, and Adam Horowitz.
When Jeffrey Epstein was arrested last week, prosecutors say authorities found an expired
1980s passport, issued by an undisclosed foreign country, with Epstein's photo, a different
name than his, and an address listed in Saudi Arabia, Stephnie Gosk reports.
Police Find Epstein Passport With Different Name And Saudi Arabia Residence | Hallie Jackson |
MSNBC
comment-renderer-text-content expanded"> Kudos to Miami Herald News You stuck to your
story you said your story and you never gave up To all the victims the little girls who were
in this ordeal God will be with you Stay strong and focused It's your turn for justice put
them behind bars
A safe in a $77 million home filled with cash, pedophilia, fake passports and diamonds...
Dude is a walking crime novel. I have no doubt that he's probably bribing the judge,
prosecutors and law enforcement right now as we speak.
In 2014 an onshore branch of Epstein(he is royal family also) was raided by local pd in
Miami. Everyone interviewed identified prince Andrew as the "boss". he was booked and a few
hours later doj showed up & drove him to airport where he left the country. The lady in
this article filed charges against Andrew for raping her at age 14 and after. A local Female
judge said her testimony was irrelevant and had had her statements stricken from the records.
All this was reported in Miami newspapers but the fake deep state media quashed it all.. I
read all this in the papers there as it happened. these are facts.
Epstein/Andrews activities went unchecked for over a decade as the operation contributed
millions from their profits to local and state police and protected the elected who
frequented this all pedophile operation, Hillary was also a customer.
The truth is that sexual abuse by the rich and famous transcends all political boundaries.
Bill Clinton was very frequently on Epstein's plane and Epstein joins the very long list of
those connected to the Clintons who died in dubious circumstances.
Two coincidences – the first being the bruise marks on the neck sustained in Epstein's
first "suicide attempt" in jail – remind me of the case of John Ashe, the senior official
very close to the Clintons who died with bruise marks on his neck, when he accidentally
dropped his barbell on his throat while bench-pressing alone at home.
Ashe was charged and awaiting trial for receiving corrupt funds from businessman Ng Lap Seng
while Ashe was serving in the USA's turn as president of the UN General Assembly. Ng Lap Seng,
a six-time visitor to the Clinton White House, had previously been accused of making very large
illegal
donations to Clinton campaign funds, and was subsequently arrested while entering the USA
with over $4 million in cash. Unlike the Clintons, Ashe was charged with taking Seng's money
and rather like Epstein may have had an interesting song to sing while going down, had he not
conveniently dropped the barbell on his throat.
I said that the first thing that jogged me to link the Epstein/Clinton and the Ashe/Clinton
cases was the bruise marks on the throat. The second is that both stories have been debunked by
self-proclaimed "conspiracy-busting" website Snopes – in a manner which shows that Snopes
has no regard for the truth whatsoever.
In the case of John Ashe, Snopes wrote an utterly
tendentious piece of "myth-busting" which stated that it was a myth that Ashe's death
occurred shortly before his trial and that he was not due to testify against the Clintons.
Snopes failed to mention that Ashe, a very senior Clinton appointee, was charged with taking
corrupt money from precisely the same man who had been very widely accused of giving corrupt
money to the Clintons. And while it was true his trial was not imminent, his pre-trial
deposition was.
In the Epstein/Clinton case Snopes wrote a piece debunking the
notion that this is a photograph of Bill Clinton on Epstein's private jet.
Snopes sets out to prove that this is not Epstein's private jet but that of another
billionaire, and that the girl is not Rachel Chandler. For the sake of argument I am prepared
to accept what they say on both counts. But is the sensible reaction to that photo to say "Oh
that's OK it's another billionaire's jet" or to say "Why is Bill Clinton on a billionaire's
private jet in an intimate pose with a worryingly young female?" As with the Prince Andrew
photo, although it has been circulating for years, no alternative innocent explanation is on
offer.
Passion for Sexual Exploitation
And the fact that this is another billionaire's plane should open again the much wider
question of networks of the rich and the powerful indulging each other's passion for sexual
exploitation of the young. It is a great shame that in the U.K., the Establishment has been
able to characterize the falsifications of Carl Beech as discrediting the entire notion of
historical child sexual abuse. It is as though one person making up stories about a bishop
would mean there was never child exploitation in the Catholic Church.
The deeper question is why such a significant proportion of the rich and powerful have a
propensity to want to assuage their sexual desires on the most vulnerable and powerless in
society, as opposed to forming relationships among their peers. I suspect it is connected to
the kind of sociopathy that leads somebody to seek or hoard power or wealth in the first
place.
It is not necessary to develop that idea further, to understand that the Epstein case had
given us a glimpse of criminal sexual behavior which, beyond doubt, involves many powerful
people. It is essential that the threads that can be grasped are now worked on assiduously to
uncover the entire network.
I am afraid to say I suspect the chances of that actually happening are very slim
indeed.
Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British ambassador
to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and rector of the University of Dundee from 2007
to 2010.
James Nelson , August 15, 2019 at 13:39
Famous people are asked to pose for pictures with others constantly. This is a rather thin
reed to base a murder for hire charge. Let's provide more information and less innuendo. The
rich and famous have left many shallow graves in their wake that warrant investigative
digging. I sometimes think this kind of diversion serves their interests
Bif Webster , August 19, 2019 at 12:23
True. However, why did the Clinton's continue to do "business" with Epstein AFTER he was
convicted?
The real question for me is why these people do not just pay for high priced beautiful
prostitutes of legal age rather than risk their reputation, standing in society and possible
jail time and law suits rather than by satisfying their sexual desires on underage and
vulnerable children. The only answer that comes to mind is that there are people out their
that are willing to provide these children for free in exchange for favors of money, power,
political policy or some gain from blackmail.
I have dated fairly wealthy women and some that were lobbyists. I was surprised at the
sense of entitlement from both the lobbyist and the veteran politicians in the way they did
business. I understood quickly it was very much of the culture in the environment in which
they worked. Every one was motivated to cower to each other for their own self interest
whether it was maintaining or furthering their political career or enlarging their money
interests by representing their clients that wanting to serve their own self interest in the
political process.
To me the whole underlying common denominator is that there is no accountability for their
actions and because of it they are able to maintain there behavior without any risk of
sacrifice.
I remember in school the saying laws exist to prevent chaos in society, but it matters not
if laws are enacted if they are not enforced to everyone equally. That statue of the lady of
justice wearing a blindfold to represent justice equally for all I never seen in person but I
have a feeling she is either a bundle of money behind her back or seeking a lucrative
political appointment.
John Drake , August 14, 2019 at 20:13
The fact that Slick Willy would let his picture be taken with his arm around that pathetic
young girl shows how above the law and social norms he thinks he is. On the other hand, if
Hillary sees it he might be in for another black eye from her.
Bradley Anbro , August 14, 2019 at 20:43
I doubt very much that Bill Clinton worries about what Hillary "thinks" -- if she had any
morals, she would have left him when
the Monica Lewinsky affair became public. She didn't -- because she's in it for the MONEY
U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, President Trump and National Security Advisor John Bolton at the NATO
Foreign Ministerial in Brussels, Belgium on July 12, 2018. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Matt Lee
reports
on the Trump administration obsessive
use of sanctions:
Call it the diplomacy of coercion.
The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an extent
unseen in decades, or perhaps ever. Many are questioning the results even as officials insist the penalties are
achieving their aims.
It is true that the Trump administration is using economic coercion as its default approach to almost everything, but
there doesn't appear to be any diplomacy involved. There is such a thing as "coercive diplomacy," but there is no
evidence that Trump and his officials understand the first thing about it. An administration that genuinely wanted to
secure lasting diplomatic agreements with other states would apply pressure only as a means to a specific, achievable
goal, but with this administration they are waging purely destructive economic wars that the targeted states cannot end
without capitulating. The "maximum pressure" description implies an unwillingness to relieve pressure short of the other
side's surrender.
It is not just that it is a "combination of more sticks and fewer carrots." The Trump administration's policies are
all punishment and no reward. In the case of Iran, it could hardly be otherwise when the administration chose to
penalize Iran with sanctions for daring to comply with a multilateral nonproliferation agreement. Iran behaved
constructively and acceded to the demands of the P5+1 four years ago, and in return for their cooperation they have been
subjected to a grueling economic war despite fully complying with their commitments. When our government punishes
another state for doing what previous administrations wanted them to do, no amount of punishment could force that state
to trust our government a second time.
The administration approaches each case in the same way: they impose penalties, they make threats, they offer no
incentives, and they make outrageous, far-fetched demands that no government would ever accept. Trump handles the trade
wars in much the same way that he handles the "maximum pressure" campaigns against intransigent governments, and he
fails every time because he can't conceive of a mutually beneficial agreement and therefore refuses to compromise.
Trump's "diplomacy" is no diplomacy at all, but a series of insults, sanctions, tariffs, and threats that achieve
nothing except to cause disruption and pain. Unsurprisingly, a pressure campaign that is aimed at toppling a government
or forcing it to give up everything it has cannot be successful on its own terms as long as the targeted government
chooses to resist, and the stakes for the targeted government will always higher than they are for the administration.
In a contest of wills, the party that is fighting to preserve itself has the advantage.
Someday, when everybody in the world hates America, these economic atrocities will come
back to the USA with violence. You can't do these things to people and not expect
retaliation. When people are hungry from sanctions and can't get medicine for their
children, they will fight back. Wouldn't you? But, it won't affect Wash., just innocent
people, like the innocent people abroad suffering from Wash. policy. Americans will reap
what Wash. sows.
Jewish economist Murray Rothbard contrasts "deep" conspiracy theories with "shallow" ones.
According to Rothbard, a shallow theorist observes an event and asks, who benefits? He or she
then jumps to the conclusion that the posited beneficiary is responsible for covertly
influencing events. Under this theory, Israel benefiting from the events of 9/11 made it into a
prime suspect. This is often a completely legitimate strategy and is exactly how detective and
investigative researchers operate. In order to identify the culprit, they may well ask who
would benefit from the crime. Of course this is only a first step towards substantiation.
According to Rothbard the "deep" conspiracy theorist begins with a hunch and then seeks out
evidence. Rothbard describes deep conspiracy theory as the result of confirming whether certain
facts actual fit one's initial 'paranoia.' This explanation pretty much describes a lot of how
science works. Any given scientific theory defines the realm of facts that may support or
refute its validity. Science is a deductive reasoning process, so that in science, it is the
theory that defines the relevance of the evidence. Would Rothbard describe Newtonian physics as
'deeply conspiratorial'? I doubt it. My guess is that, bearing Rothbard in mind, attributing a
'conspiratorial nature' to a theory is an attempt the deny the relevance of the evidence it
brings to light.
If for instance, the theory that Epstein was a Mossad agent is 'conspiratorial,' then the
facts that he was a business partner of Ehud Barak and
involved in a company that uses Israeli military intelligence tactics become irrelevant. The
same applies to former Federal Prosecutor Alex Acosta's admission that Epstein belonged to
intelligence and that was why he was the beneficiary of a laughable plea deal. If, for
example, the theory that it was the Jews who led the 1917 Bolshevik revolution is
'conspiratorial,' then the facts regarding the demography that led
the revolution and its criminal nature are of no
consequence.
The labelling of a theory as conspiratorial is an attempt to erase uncomfortable evidence by
reprioritising the relevance of certain facts.
"... Notice a similar, if not identical MO in both Maxwell and Epstein's role in procuring technology for the Israelis, who in turn sold it with undisclosed add-ons, providing an open window into its users' databases. ..."
"... Like his predecessor, Epstein had a financial stake in a startup (headed by former Israeli Defense Minister and later Prime Minister Ehud Barak) connected to Israel's defense industry that provides infrastructure for emergency services as a call handling platform. Considering the company's connection to military intelligence, it wouldn't be a stretch to speculate on some of this software's other 'special' features. ..."
"... Epstein, like Maxwell, was laying the groundwork for Israeli espionage activities through his interests in companies with a political agenda concealed in products intended for international export. ..."
"... Were the surveillance apparatuses installed throughout Epstein's properties merely a voyeur's tools, or did he use them to leverage the moral failings of his former friends for purposes that might have risked exposure of more than the nether regions of wealthy pedo-punters? Considering his connections to Israeli defense industries and his own Achilles penis that required, by his own admission, "three orgasms a day", the answer points to an unslakable addiction that dovetailed conveniently with his state-sponsored sex crimes. ..."
"... Epstein could have also attempted to collateralize the cache of damning evidence still in his possession to secure his his freedom with the same fatal consequences. ..."
"... The establishment media is already trotting out ancient, ding-a-ling conspiracy theories from obscure right wing sources (attributed to Russia, of course) to highlight the absurdity and futility of questioning the official story of Epstein's death. Verdict: Nothing to see here. ..."
"... the parasitic and preferred daughter of the deceased tycoon, made the fateful introduction between her new boyfriend and the Israeli operatives seeking an entry level plutocrat to carry out their blackmail operations after the untimely death of his predecessor. An impoverished socialite has to survive in pricey Manhattan somehow, and that somehow was re-establishing the shady connections to the espionage underworld that had recruited Maxwell Sr. ..."
"... Ghislaine's later role as Epstein's Chief Procurement Officer (or pimp for short) gives more credence to the rumors that she is more than just a debased, barnacle-like appendage to a billionaire, desperate to please her platonic partner by "organizing his social life", but a fully cognizant co-conspirator in an operation aimed at strengthening Israel's hand in all matters pertaining to its national security interests, or more accurately, its overseas criminal enterprises ..."
Media
tycoon and former Labour MP Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's
partner in crime) was given a state funeral in Jerusalem after *accidentally* falling off his
yacht – the unluckily named "Lady Ghislaine". Later it was revealed Maxwell Sr was a
Mossad asset who used his vast network of connections and publishing platforms to run editorial
interference over his purchased assets to influence enemies and friends alike, ensuring their
fealty to the foreign government that had enlisted him for its espionage work.
His tabloid empire was the piss-colored propaganda organ of the interests he served,
overseeing its rapid growth and tentacled reach across the globe. More ominously, he was behind
the spy agency's successful attempt to install a trapdoor in software intended for government
use, allowing the Israelis a direct pipeline into a vast network of computers installed with
undectable malware.
At the time of his death, the disgraced magnate was under investigation for raiding his
companies' pension funds to cover the losses incurred from his multiple and reckless takeovers,
and finance a luxury lifestyle he enjoyed sharing with high profile pals like Henry Kissinger
and Barbara Walters. Curiously, many of these fossilized specimens from Robert Maxwell's roster
of friends from the Reagan era would circle around Epstein, most notably Donald Trump whose
Mar-a-Lago resort would later become a recruiting center for employer Epstein's underage
"massage therapists".
Fast forward a couple of decades since the days a casino mogul was gobbling down
canapés with the old guard denizens of the 'swamp'. Notice a similar, if not identical
MO in both Maxwell and Epstein's role in procuring technology for the Israelis, who in turn
sold it with undisclosed add-ons, providing an open window into its users' databases.
Like his predecessor, Epstein had a financial stake in a startup (headed by former Israeli
Defense Minister and later Prime Minister Ehud Barak) connected to Israel's defense industry
that provides infrastructure for emergency services as a call handling platform. Considering
the company's connection to military intelligence, it wouldn't be a stretch to speculate on
some of this software's other 'special' features.
A variation of the early technology that
Maxwell was able to procure for his Israeli bosses was later sold to the Saudis, who leveraged
its sophisticated tracking features to assassinate Jamal Khashoggi.
Epstein, like Maxwell, was laying the groundwork for Israeli espionage activities through
his interests in companies with a political agenda concealed in products intended for
international export. If true, the playboy philanthropist feted and flattered his high profile
friends to ensnare them as complicit partners in what amounts to the legal definition of
treason. Epstein's covert activities have undiminished real world consequences for anyone on
Israel's international radar, especially those challenging the status quo policies in place
that prioritize "The Jewish State's" political and financial objectives over actual justice and
global stability.
If you have ever asked yourself why Israel's war crimes and settlement expansion go
unchallenged by US lawmakers, consider the career destroying consequences contained within
those dossiers compiled by the braintrust behind Epstein's 'suicide'. "We'll trade you one US
Embassy in Jerusalem for 10 minutes of hidden camera footage of you . . . let's say 'enjoying'
a rolled up Forbes magazine".
Were the surveillance apparatuses installed throughout Epstein's properties merely a
voyeur's tools, or did he use them to leverage the moral failings of his former friends for
purposes that might have risked exposure of more than the nether regions of wealthy
pedo-punters? Considering his connections to Israeli defense industries and his own Achilles
penis that required, by his own admission, "three orgasms a day", the answer points to an
unslakable addiction that dovetailed conveniently with his state-sponsored sex crimes.
Did Epstein make the same mistake of Maxwell (who had asked for nearly half a billion dollar
in "loans" from his Israeli backers to relieve him of his mounting debts) believing the dirt he
had in his possession would prove radioactive if released? By this time, the corpulent tycoon
was nicknamed the 'Bouncing Czech' a reference in most part to his worsening money woes. The
implication of this request, if turned down, was the exposure of Israel's state secrets.
Epstein could have also attempted to collateralize the cache of damning evidence still in his
possession to secure his his freedom with the same fatal consequences.
Both Maxwell and Epstein somehow evaded the electronics that linked them to the outside
world at the time of their deaths, even though the latter had reportedly made an attempt on his
own life while in custody. Both men, facing ruination and serious prison time gave their
executioners an alibi: They had nothing to left to live for. The establishment media is already
trotting out ancient, ding-a-ling conspiracy theories from obscure right wing sources
(attributed to Russia, of course) to highlight the absurdity and futility of questioning the
official story of Epstein's death. Verdict: Nothing to see here.
By now, it's a given that the parasitic and preferred daughter of the deceased tycoon, made
the fateful introduction between her new boyfriend and the Israeli operatives seeking an entry
level plutocrat to carry out their blackmail operations after the untimely death of his
predecessor. An impoverished socialite has to survive in pricey Manhattan somehow, and that
somehow was re-establishing the shady connections to the espionage underworld that had
recruited Maxwell Sr.
Ghislaine's later role as Epstein's Chief Procurement Officer (or pimp for short) gives more
credence to the rumors that she is more than just a debased, barnacle-like appendage to a
billionaire, desperate to please her platonic partner by "organizing his social life", but a
fully cognizant co-conspirator in an operation aimed at strengthening Israel's hand in all
matters pertaining to its national security interests, or more accurately, its overseas
criminal enterprises.
The recent raid on Epstein's Manhattan apartment was not the result of a so-called Justice
Department righting the egregious wrong it committed by letting Epstein off with a slap on the
wrist after his initial conviction that allowed him to serve his sentence largely outside the
minimum-security facility with an open door policy for its billionaire guest. More likely, the
reversal of Epstein's "sweetheart" deal was a joint operation between the oligarch cabal
informally known as the Mega-Group, and the state security apparatuses that do their
bidding.
It's seems likely that this sudden pivot towards justice from a Justice Department initially
spooked into inaction by the spook in his custody, was motivated by the need to remove the most
damning bits among Epstein's vast trove of physical evidence against the pervy punters who
visited his island getaway for unintended photo ops with underage girls.
Perhaps his own abuse of these minors was a perk he felt entitled to, and one that would be
overlooked in the service of "national security". It's hard for most people to differentiate
between the government he actually worked for and the ruling establishment on his home
turf.
It's possible that Epstein felt his serial transgressions were merely par for the plutocracy
and justified in the service of a higher calling.
The 'Israel First' philanthropist shared an unyielding ideological justification for his own
criminality as Robert Maxwell, whom the British Home Office had considered recruiting for its
own intelligence gathering in the mid 1960's. Having determined that the well-connected,
multilingual, rising star politician was strictly "Zionist", the spy agency withdrew his
candidacy.
Epstein's real crimes had little to do with raping children, despite the overturned plea
deal that came about when a federal judge ruled that prosecutors had violated the victims
rights by by concealing the agreement from them. The one time teflon-coated "member of
intelligence" who was "above the pay grade" of a powerful District Attorney (now a now
scandal-tainted former Labor Secretary) was ultimately (and lethally) penalized for not
destroying the contents of his secret-laden safes, leaving his handlers still vulnerable to
their explosive contents.
Had the doomed financier divested himself of the toxic assets still in his possession, he
might still be roaming the earth today, scouring it for new specimens to populate his underage
petting zoo. As a result of the Justice Department's decision to reverse the non-prosecution
deal meant to bury the most incendiary facts of the case, lower-rung punters like former
governor Bill Richardson and Senator George Mitchell are being publicly named for their part in
the sordid scandal. Someone has to take the fall. (Rule number one of PR crisis management:
Crucify the insignificant and let them hang out to dry until the public tires of watching the
slow motion spectacle of their undoing.) Meanwhile, documented and/or photographic evidence
against more powerful players like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump will have already been
destroyed in the pursuit of selective justice.
The fallout of Epstein's spectacular downfall predictably miss the mark as scandals
involving the rich and powerful tend to do. Much of the controversy will dissolve into a
Cheetoh dust maelstrom of disinformation, disseminated on Reddit and 4Chan by incel
info-warriors before shooting up a shopping mall or playground.
Subsequent reporting of the case will overlook decades of the elite-driven state craft that
elevated corrupt and ruthless entities like Epstein and Trump, both ring-kissing acolytes in
their youth of influential mob fixer/politcal power broker Roy Cohn – himself a serial
sexual predator who similarly caught the fancy of fellow deviants Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar
Hoover. Follow the money trail from Tel Aviv and you'll discover an ancestral link between the
corpse of Epstein and his ghostly godfathers waiting with his rewards in hell.
Along with the other disgraced and expendable patsies left in the wake of this ongoing
scandal is Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's octogenarian chief legal counsel and 'wing man' aboard
the Lolita Express. The now unemployable cable news pundit will live out the remainder of his
pointless life under a cloud of suspicion. Despite all the damning testimony against him, the
statutory rape allegations never quite stick, but follow him around like a sneaky fart, forcing
a distance between himself and the rest of humanity that will last until he is engulfed by the
sulfurous fumes of his own making.
The former Harvard law professor's lifelong service to Israel will go unrewarded – not
as a result of victim testimony placing him at multiple crime scenes, but in consideration of
his own inept self-defense strategy: "I'm a scurvy rat aboard a sinking ship eating its own
tail to stay alive. Pity me"! Dershowitz at this point will be lucky if he can achieve the same
pay grade and social status of Lindsay Lohan. Ditto for Prince Andrew who can at least be
relied on to expire slowly of gout in his time-out corner at Windsor Castle.
The moral of this story could be "Lie down with dogs and never wake up agan with a
prison-issued sheet around your neck". A variation of the old "Lie down with dogs and and wake
up as fish food".
Following the death of Jeffrey Epstein, his seedy network of friends and potential
co-conspirators alike have come into the spotlight.
One associate, considered to be Epstein's closest pal, is modeling maven Jean-Luc Brunel - who
has recently been accused of pimping underage women around the world through his Mc2 and Karin
modeling agencies, while former models have accused the 72-year-old of
drugging and
date-raping girls
,
according to the
Daily
Beast
.
How close were Brunel and Epstein?
Brunel was one of the financier's
most frequent male associates
. The agent
appears
more than 15 times on flight logs from Epstein's private plane
, jetting
everywhere from Paris to New York, often in the presence of young women.
He visited
Epstein nearly 70 times in jail
, according to visitor logs, and several more times
while the financier was on house arrest in Palm Beach. According to one of Epstein's housemen,
Brunel was comfortable enough to whip up his own meals in the financier's kitchen
,
and was one of Epstein's most frequent callers. -
Daily
Beast
Brunel's name appeared in a cache of court documents unsealed earlier this month, having called
and left a message to let Epstein know that he "just did a good one - 18 years" who reportedly told
him "I love Jeffrey."
"He has a teacher for you to teach you how to speak Russian," reads another note from September
2005, which adds "
She is 2 X 8 [16] years old not blonde
. Lessons are free and you
can have 1st today if you call."
Epstein also extended a $1 million letter of credit to Brunel which was used to invest in
Paris-based Elite Models. According to the
Beast,
"The venture, E Management, was first
registered by Epstein's attorney, who listed its address as 457 Madison Avenue -- the same as
Epstein's investment firm, J. Epstein & Co."
Brunel says the venture fell apart after Elite Models learned of Epstein's sex-trafficking
allegations - with the agent even suing Epstein in 2015 for tarnishing their reputation and causing
a "tremendous loss of business."
At least two people say Brunel not only knew about the
sex trafficking,
he was actively participating in it
.
Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre) -- one of the first alleged victims to speak out against Epstein
after he was granted a sweetheart plea deal -- claimed in legal filings that
Brunel was
one
of many powerful men
she was forced to sleep with in her years as Epstein's "sex slave."
She also accused Brunel of using his agency to find foreign girls, obtain visas for
them, and "farm them out to his friends, including Epstein
."
"A lot of the girls came from poor countries or poor backgrounds, and he lured them in with a
promise of making good money," Giuffre said in a 2015 affidavit. "
Jeffrey Epstein has
told me that he has slept with over 1,000 of Brunel's girls, and everything that I have seen
confirms this claim.
" -
Daily
Beast
"
My assumption was that Jean-Luc Brunel got the girls from Eastern Europe (as he
procured many young foreign girls for Epstein). They were young and European looking and sounding
,"
said Guiffre while describing an orgy she says she was forced to participate in on Epstein's 'pedo
island.'
In a 1988
60 Minutes
piece, several American models who worked with Brunel
spoke
of being plied with drugs
and taken to parties with older men
.
"My sense, based upon the allegations, is that Jean-Luc was a predator, his group was a
predator, and they used their tools of power and leverage to force sex from women who otherwise
might not be willing to engage in it," one of the reporters from the
60 Minutes
piece told
the
Daily Beast
.
Former model Thysia Huisman was 18-years-old when
she says Brunel sexually assaulted her
after giving her a spiked drink
.
"
I recall him lying on top of me, me trying to push him off,
" she said in an
interview. "I remember trying to move, but not really being able to. Like almost being paralysed. I
heard the sound of my blouse – a black blouse – ripping. I had a black skirt, too. I felt him –
this is difficult – between my legs. Pushing."
Huisman said the rest was a blur. She woke the next morning in a kimono that wasn't hers,
with soreness on her inner thighs. "I felt we had had sex," she said. "I knew. I know."
She gathered her things and fled while Brunel spoke on the telephone in the living room, she
said. Her modelling work never recovered and she embarked on a career in television, always
behind the camera.
...
"I was really ashamed," she said. Huisman said she began telling her current partner about
the incident eight years ago. He confirmed to the Guardian she then told him she was "molested"
by someone at her modelling agency, and added more details – including Brunel's name – over
time, explaining the full story about two years ago. -
The
Guardian
Another former model, Courtney Soerensen, says Brunel molested her when she was 19-years-old,
and "sabotaged" her career when she rejected him.
"He would get very handsy, start groping me, try to kiss me, try to get me to lay down on the
bed just to 'try it out'" said Soerensen. "He would try to untuck my shirt, wanting to 'see my
abs'.
He would grab my breasts and put his hand on my bottom. There was one time where he
rubbed himself up against me.
"
"
The guy was a vile pig"
says former Brunel photographer and scout Clayton
Nelson. "The girls who slept with him worked. The girls who didn't, he would tell bookers: 'I don't
want her booked for anything'."
Former MC2 bookkeeper Martina Vasquez has also accused Brunel of similar behavior, claiming that
Brunel employed scouts who would recruit teenage models from South America, Europe and the former
USSR. "
The most desirable of those teens were housed in Epstein's Upper East Side
apartments
and loaned out to wealthy clients for up to $100,000 a night, Vasquez alleged.
If they refused to be "molested," she said, they would not be paid.
(Brunel has
denied these claims and says Vasquez was fired from his agency for embezzling company funds.)"
according to the report.
Bloomberg
, meanwhile, reports that MC2 Model Management had a
growing list of
concerned corporate clients by 2014
after Brunel's ties to Epstein came to light.
By 2014, Brunel's business partner Jeff Fuller was concerned that the relationship with
Epstein could be damaging. In a letter reviewed by Bloomberg News,
Fuller told Brunel
that he was getting a "tremendous amount of worries from our clients" about the ties to Epstein
,
then went on to list as clients
Nordstrom Inc., Macy's Inc., Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman
Marcus, J.C. Penney Co., Kohl's Corp., Target Corp., Sears and Belk
. -
Bloomberg
Molesting children is an abominable crime, but using that
information to blackmail country leaders effects many more people.
Using blackmail to gain political control will destroy nations and
its citizens. It will destroy civilization. This Epstink plot will
destroy trust of government. Once trust is destroyed, our world is
destroyed.
Epstein dropped out of Cooper Union and NYU at age 20, but mysteriously got a job teaching
calculus and physics at the prestigious Dalton school in NYC. He was hired by then headmaster
Donald Barr (born Jewish converted to Catholicism), father of current AG William Barr. A year
later Donald Barr was forced out by a group of Dalton parents for not being "progressive"
enough and replaced by a guy named Dunnan, who was later accused of having an affair with a
teacher and also sexually molesting a 14 year old.
While at Dalton, Epstein taught the son of Bear Sterns CEO Ace Greenberg, and ended up
working at Bear Sterns. Five years later in 1981 he was fired from Bear Sterns for helping
Edgar Bronfman in an insider trading scandal, which Bronfman blamed on his (phantom) Italian
partner.
Bronfman' and his two daughters have been embroiled in the NXIVM sex scandal case.
Meanwhile, Epstein somehow got his start thanks to one major "investor", billionaire Les
Wexner, founder of the Limited, Abercombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret etc. Bronfman and
Wexner co-founded mega, a Jewish organization that promotes Israel.
Epstein-Bronfman smells like a giant international Jew crime network that involves
blackmailing of wealthy people, celebrities and politicians for having sex with underage
girls. It's how Epstein gained his wealth. He had no money to start out. His "hedge fund" is
nothing but a fake front for billionaires to wire their ransom money, which is why it is
established offshore and so secretive. There has been two huge fires at his private island in
BVI btwn 2018 and Jan. 2019. Speculation is that lots of incriminating video footage was
burnt, but of course Epstein kept copies, and Mossad most likely has them as well. Got to
keep the blackmailing of our political and economic elites going. Israhell has a right to
exist.
One just wonders (but I have read no-one raising this question) why Epstein stopped being useful, why was his "business" dismantled.
All further steps, "suicide" comprised, are standard operation.
The scandal is about the Mega Group [Bonfman and Wexner and the assorted group of other Israel-firsters with the ties to
Mossad], Maxwells [the old embezzler and his daughter the pimp, both tied to Mossad] and Mossad: "The Spy Story at the Heart
of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal."
The end: blackmail the "elite" clients on behalf of a foreign intelligence service.
Thanks for posting this most interesting and edifying story about Israeli decade-long, standard practice, of using sex trafficking
to blackmail and control politicians.
Although Shulamit Cohen's story is highly embellished by official historiography, she herself started working as a prostitute.
The Syrian military she trapped was Adib Al Shishkali, who went on to become Syria's president.
The young girl she used to bait her "clients" was a 14-year Armenian youngster called Lucy Kobelian.
One of Mossad' main modes of operation is prostitution. Not surprising. The Jewish tribe is
exceptional in having as its heroines a set of prostituting women -- Esther, Judith, Dalila.
No wonder that the orthodox Jews treat women like filth. All within the national tradition.
In 1967, Shulamit Cohen, Rachel Raffoul and two of the Jewish prostitutes were released
in a secret prisoner exchange after the Six Day War: they were exchanged against three
officers of the Syrian air force (the official version states that they were exchanged for
"over 500 prisoners").
Today Shula is a national hero of Israel and her story has been whitewashed and made
"apt for public consumption". She lives in the neighborhood of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish
fundamentalists, the Haredim, who are probably ignorant of her past.
And if a man and a woman are drowning in a river, first they'll save the man, "who is
obligated to perform more commandments," whereas a woman's "wisdom is only in the spindle."
In fact, "words of Torah should be burned rather than being given to women."
A man must say three blessings every day during morning prayers: He thanks God "that He
didn't make me a gentile, that He didn't make me a woman, that He didn't make me an
ignoramus."
mark
It seems obvious that Epstein was murdered, but in reality this is just a side issue.
The MSM will happily carry on sending people down rabbit holes for ever, and ignoring the real questions.
They would like nothing more than to turn this into another JFK, where people speculate endlessly, generating more heat than
light.
Just what motivated Epstein?
Money? Vice? Paedo sex? Spying and blackmailing for Israel? All of the above?
Where did his loyalties lie?
Was he just a hired hand, an intelligence operative, another Christopher Steele? Or
was he more of a gun for hire, an Erik Prince, serving Mossad, the CIA, the Zionist Lobby, or whoever would pay him? Or was he
more of his own boss, running his own organisation in his own interests?
What about Ghislaine Maxwell?
Was she just Epstein's pimp and loyal lieutenant, carrying out his orders? Or was she
his Mossad handler, calling the shots, with Epstein as front man?
The best way to get at some semblance of the truth is to follow the money. Epstein seems to have appeared virtually out of
nowhere as a made man. Wexner appears to have gifted him a $56 million heavily bugged mansion. What does this tell us?
Surprisingly, Maxwell has not gone to ground as expected. She made an exhibition of herself in LA a few days ago,
ostentatiously eating a burger in public with a little dog in tow, reading a book about the CIA.
I think the stage is being set for an Oprah or Anderson Cooper style interview, presenting herself as the victim. Now that
Epstein is dead, it will be in the interests of a lot of people to load everything on to his deceased shoulders. "I loved
Jeffrey .but he was a monster ..he made me do terrible things ..I was frightened of him ..I'm a victim too."
This will probably be coordinated with a smear campaign against the victims, trying to dig up dirt about things like drugs,
any criminal or mental health history, and any other issues.
One interesting detail to emerge from the search of Epstein's property is that he had a painting of Bill Clinton in drag,
wearing a blue dress, like that of Monica Lewinsky, on his toilet wall. This is probably a case of gloating over the entrapment
of Clinton. This somewhat grubby little episode occurred around the time of the Oslo peace deal, when Peres, Barak and Co. were
under some pressure to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians, and facing criticism over settlements. Clinton was also under
pressure from Zionist interests to release the Jewish/ Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, imprisoned for treason/ espionage. This is
reminiscent of the transvestite J. Edgar Hoover, who was being blackmailed by Meyer Lansky with photographs of him and Claude
Tolson wearing dresses.
Dershowitz is another highly dubious character whose involvement warrants serious scrutiny. He previously defended OJ Simson
and Spectre. He will probably spearhead a campaign to discredit the witnesses.
Fortunately, this can't be buried completely, even if Maxwell and others escape prosecution. There are a number of outstanding
civil claims which will generate even more publicity than would otherwise be the case.
Wells
Fargo's Computer Kept Charging 'Overdrawn' Fees On Supposedly Closed Accounts
(startribune.com)
43 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 18, 2019 @02:34PM from the
continuing-relationships dept. The New York Times explains a new issue by describing what
happened when Xavier Einaudi tried to close his Wells Fargo checking account. For weeks
after the date the bank said the accounts would be closed, it kept some of them active.
Payments to his insurer, to Google for online advertising and to a provider of project
management software were paid out of the empty accounts in July. Each time, the bank charged
Einaudi a $35 overdraft fee... By the middle of July, he owed the bank nearly $1,500. "I don't
even know what happened," he said.
Current and former bank employees said Einaudi was charged because of the way Wells
Fargo's computer system handles closed accounts: An account the customer believes to be closed
can stay open if it has a balance, even one below zero. And each time a transaction is
processed for an overdrawn account, Wells Fargo tacks on a fee. The problem has gone
unaddressed by the bank despite complaints from customers and employees , including one in
the bank's debt-collection department who grew concerned after taking in an estimated $100,000
in overdraft fees over eight months...
Most banks program their systems to stop honoring transactions on the specified date, but
Wells Fargo allows accounts to remain open for two more months, according to current and former
employees. Customers usually learn what happened only after their overdrawn accounts are sent
to Wells Fargo's collections department. If the customers do not pay the overdraft fees, they
are reported to a national database like Early Warning Services, which compiles names of
delinquent bank customers. That often means a customer cannot open a new bank account anywhere,
and getting removed from the lists can take hours' worth of phone calls.
It's bizarre. I doubt Wells Fargo has a handful of senators in their pocket or something,
as that would require a level of competence they've never demonstrated in any aspect of their
business, so why are they even still allowed to be a bank?
Wells Fargo's primary business, near as I can tell, is widespread fraud. They may also do
some banking on the side, but that seems like an afterthought. The entirety of their senior
management should be in prison.
Wells Fargo is worse than crooked. They're incompetent, too. Their online bill pay is
straight out of the 19th century.
That's why I closed my account with them about eight years ago . . . . or at least I think I
did.
5th/3rd bank did the same thing to me back in 2009. I closed my bank account when merging
accounts with my wife, but when transferring all of my recurring payments I missed two
magazine yearly payments. 5th/3rd essentially reopened my accounts and charged them, which
were obviously then overdrawn since they had $0 balances. Even after complaining they refused
to rescind the fees.
We then closed my wife's account too and moved over to Chase. I always had the feeling
that Chase would do the same thing to us to
Is that they all seem to work out in favor of the bank over the consumer. It's likely
survivorship bias - all the errors that hurt the bank's financial interests get fixed,
whereas the ones which help the bank don't and hang around forever. Imagine that.
At the very least deceptive. In a sane system, the bank has to give a final balance at a
certain day and it is legally prohibited from doing any transactions on that account
afterwards.
When you close an account, you are terminating your contract with the bank. You walk into
the bank, the bank rep looks at the account, sees how much money is in it at that
instant and cuts you a check for that remaining balance. That zeros out the account, and
the contract you made with the bank when you opened the account expires - it is as if
you never had an account with the bank. If the bank then decides to take "money" out of the
now-closed account, it's their own damn fault. They cannot claw back money from the customer
- there is no longer a contract between them. The customer correctly zeroed out the account
and closed it. Any error is the bank's own fault.
I can see it being a problem if you hold multiple accounts with the bank and you close
just one of them. Then the bank might be able to come up with a legal argument when you're
still liable. But that's why I hold accounts with multiple banks, and I generally close all
my accounts with one bank at once.
You're right legally, but the threat is that they will ruin your credit rating by
reporting you as delinquent to the credit agencies. And your recourse for getting that undone
is difficult at best.
It attracts attention and will do so for many days to come. There are even some usually astute people suggesting that he may not
be dead but might have been secretly whisked off somewhere and replaced with a dead look-alike.
Now, who would profit from suggesting something as insane as this?
The speculation runs rampant and feeds the spectacle. Whether he was allowed to kill himself or was killed makes little difference.
It's akin to asking who pulled the trigger that killed President Kennedy. That's a debate that was intended to go nowhere, as
it has, after it became apparent that Lee Harvey Oswald surely did not kill JFK. John Kennedy's murder in broad daylight in public
view is the paradigmatic event of modern times. It is obvious to anyone that gives minimal study to the issue that it was organized
and carried out by elements within the national security state, notably the CIA.
Their message was meant to be unequivocal and clear: We can kill him and we can kill you; we are in full control; beware. Then
they went on to kill others, including RFK and MLK. It takes little intelligence to see this obvious fact, unless you wish not to
or are totally lost in the neighborhood of make-believe.
As it was with Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald, so it is with Epstein. There will be no trial. Nothing is really hidden except
the essential truth. Guess, debate, wonder, watch, read to your sad heart's content. You will have gotten nowhere unless you step
outside the frame of the reigning narrative.
nottheonly1
Those of us who oppose these criminals – and there are growing numbers all over the world – must avoid being sucked into
the establishment narratives and the counter-narratives they spawn or create. We must refuse to get involved in pseudo-debates
that are meant to lead nowhere. We must reject the language created to confuse.
To arrive at this conclusion is an attest of the deepest truth a mind can grasp. If I could only talk to someone as astute
as You. This is not flattery, but the mere realization, that there is nobody in my surroundings that possesses Your ability to
make such a point.
That there are now so few people that can have this insight is the result of the absence of philosophy from our lives. It is
philosophy who opens the mind and therefore it had to be removed from society. People are well advised to look into it, to overcome
this barrage of fabricated narratives.
Tim Hall
We have little or no true understanding to the degree that propaganda has been scientifically applied (estimated number engaged
on this insidious activity 50,000 in 1991, under the all powerful Tavistock Institute) over 73 years to brainwashing and misdirecting
the populations perception of reality – your article reflects this fact. CIA, Deep State et al are simply agents of a far bigger
entity who's accumulated power and reach, built up assiduously over centuries, has now reached an unassailable level of control
over the world which it intends to effectively own.
I suggest all readers refer to the following link to appreciate the futility of humanity's current position in regard to it's
ability to resist the coming onslaught to its survival.
Edward, this sentiment is laudable, but they hold such a grip on mass psychological control that such sentiments represent
chaff on the wind.
If revolutionary change is to come, we must learn to tell a new story in language so beautiful, illuminating, and heart-rending
that no one will listen to the lying words of child molesters, mass murderers, and those who hate and persecute truth-tellers.
mark
In Britain, the post mortem, by a Home Office pathologist, would establish the physical cause of death.
Sometimes this is delayed in waiting for toxicology results.
Probably "Suspension" (Hanging.)
Any separate injuries or existing medical conditions would be noted in the post mortem report.
In the absence of any police criminal investigation, it would then be for a Coroner's Inquest, almost certainly sitting with
a jury, to give a verdict.
Suicide, accidental death, misadventure, unlawful killing, open verdict.
It is for the Coroner's Court to examine the evidence and arrive at a verdict.
If there is doubt or uncertainty, there is the option of an Open Verdict.
Hanging could lead to a verdict of accident or misadventure in certain circumstances.
There was a case where a group of youths saw that someone had left a noose hanging from a tree in a park. One of them, larking
around, put his head in the noose and accidentally hanged himself.
The US system seems to short circuit the decision making process of the Coroner's Court.
This appears to be no more than an opinion by the medical examiner, sometimes misleadingly referred to as the Coroner.
There seems to be no equivalent to the Coroner's Court.
William H Booby
He killed himself and the proof is the BBC said it, anyone who disagrees wears a tinfoil hat
"... His tabloid empire was the piss-colored propaganda organ of the interests he served, overseeing its rapid growth and tentacled reach across the globe. More ominously, he was behind the spy agency's successful attempt to install a trapdoor in software intended for government use, allowing the Israelis a direct pipeline into a vast network of computers installed with undetectable malware. ..."
"... Like his predecessor, Epstein had a financial stake in a startup (headed by former Israeli Defense Minister and later Prime Minister Ehud Barak) connected to Israel's defense industry that provides infrastructure for emergency services as a call handling platform. ..."
"... Epstein, like Maxwell, was laying the groundwork for Israeli espionage activities through his interests in companies with a political agenda concealed in products intended for international export. ..."
"... If you have ever asked yourself why Israel's war crimes and settlement expansion go unchallenged by US lawmakers, consider the career destroying consequences contained within those dossiers compiled by the braintrust behind Epstein's 'suicide'. "We'll trade you one US Embassy in Jerusalem for 10 minutes of hidden camera footage of you . . . let's say 'enjoying' a rolled up Forbes magazine". ..."
"... Epstein could have also attempted to collateralize the cache of damning evidence still in his possession to secure his freedom with the same fatal consequences. ..."
"... By now, it's a given that the parasitic and preferred daughter of the deceased tycoon, made the fateful introduction between her new boyfriend and the Israeli operatives seeking an entry level plutocrat to carry out their blackmail operations after the untimely death of his predecessor. An impoverished socialite has to survive in pricey Manhattan somehow, and that somehow was re-establishing the shady connections to the espionage underworld that had recruited Maxwell Sr. ..."
"... Ghislaine's later role as Epstein's Chief Procurement Officer (or pimp for short) gives more credence to the rumors that she is more than just a debased, barnacle-like appendage to a billionaire, desperate to please her platonic partner by "organizing his social life", but a fully cognizant co-conspirator in an operation aimed at strengthening Israel's hand in all matters pertaining to its national security interests, or more accurately, its overseas criminal enterprises. ..."
"... The recent raid on Epstein's Manhattan apartment was not the result of a so-called Justice Department righting the egregious wrong it committed by letting Epstein off with a slap on the wrist after his initial conviction that allowed him to serve his sentence largely outside the minimum-security facility with an open door policy for its billionaire guest. More likely, the reversal of Epstein's "sweetheart" deal was a joint operation between the oligarch cabal informally known as the Mega-Group, and the state security apparatuses that do their bidding. ..."
"... The 'Israel First' philanthropist shared an unyielding ideological justification for his own criminality as Robert Maxwell, whom the British Home Office had considered recruiting for its own intelligence gathering in the mid 1960's. Having determined that the well-connected, multilingual, rising star politician was strictly "Zionist", the spy agency withdrew his candidacy. ..."
"... Rule number one of PR crisis management: Crucify the insignificant and let them hang out to dry until the public tires of watching the slow motion spectacle of their undoing ..."
"... Meanwhile, documented and/or photographic evidence against more powerful players like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump will have already been destroyed in the pursuit of selective justice. ..."
"... Subsequent reporting of the case will overlook decades of the elite-driven state craft that elevated corrupt and ruthless entities like Epstein and Trump, both ring-kissing acolytes in their youth of influential mob fixer/politcal power broker Roy Cohn – himself a serial sexual predator who similarly caught the fancy of fellow deviants Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover. Follow the money trail from Tel Aviv and you'll discover an ancestral link between the corpse of Epstein and his ghostly godfathers waiting with his rewards in hell. ..."
Media
tycoon and former Labour MP Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's
partner in crime) was given a state funeral in Jerusalem after *accidentally* falling off his
yacht – the unluckily named "Lady Ghislaine". Later it was revealed Maxwell Sr was a
Mossad asset who used his vast network of connections and publishing platforms to run editorial
interference over his purchased assets to influence enemies and friends alike, ensuring their
fealty to the foreign government that had enlisted him for its espionage work.
His tabloid empire was the piss-colored propaganda organ of the interests he served,
overseeing its rapid growth and tentacled reach across the globe. More ominously, he was behind
the spy agency's successful attempt to install a trapdoor in software intended for government
use, allowing the Israelis a direct pipeline into a vast network of computers installed with
undetectable malware.
At the time of his death, the disgraced magnate was under investigation for raiding his
companies' pension funds to cover the losses incurred from his multiple and reckless takeovers,
and finance a luxury lifestyle he enjoyed sharing with high profile pals like Henry Kissinger
and Barbara Walters. Curiously, many of these fossilized specimens from Robert Maxwell's roster
of friends from the Reagan era would circle around Epstein, most notably Donald Trump whose
Mar-a-Lago resort would later become a recruiting center for employer Epstein's underage
"massage therapists".
Fast forward a couple of decades since the days a casino mogul was gobbling down
canapés with the old guard denizens of the 'swamp'. Notice a similar, if not identical
MO in both Maxwell and Epstein's role in procuring technology for the Israelis, who in turn
sold it with undisclosed add-ons, providing an open window into its users' databases.
Like his predecessor, Epstein had a financial stake in a startup (headed by former Israeli
Defense Minister and later Prime Minister Ehud Barak) connected to Israel's defense industry
that provides infrastructure for emergency services as a call handling platform. Considering
the company's connection to military intelligence, it wouldn't be a stretch to speculate on
some of this software's other 'special' features. A variation of the early technology that
Maxwell was able to procure for his Israeli bosses was later sold to the Saudis, who leveraged
its sophisticated tracking features to assassinate Jamal Khashoggi.
Epstein, like Maxwell, was laying the groundwork for Israeli espionage activities
through his interests in companies with a political agenda concealed in products intended for
international export. If true, the playboy philanthropist feted and flattered his high
profile friends to ensnare them as complicit partners in what amounts to the legal definition
of treason. Epstein's covert activities have undiminished real world consequences for anyone on
Israel's international radar, especially those challenging the status quo policies in place
that prioritize "The Jewish State's" political and financial objectives over actual justice and
global stability.
If you have ever asked yourself why Israel's war crimes and settlement expansion go
unchallenged by US lawmakers, consider the career destroying consequences contained within
those dossiers compiled by the braintrust behind Epstein's 'suicide'. "We'll trade you one US
Embassy in Jerusalem for 10 minutes of hidden camera footage of you . . . let's say 'enjoying'
a rolled up Forbes magazine".
Were the surveillance apparatuses installed throughout Epstein's properties merely a
voyeur's tools, or did he use them to leverage the moral failings of his former friends for
purposes that might have risked exposure of more than the nether regions of wealthy
pedo-punters? Considering his connections to Israeli defense industries and his own Achilles
penis that required, by his own admission, "three orgasms a day", the answer points to an
unslakable addiction that dovetailed conveniently with his state-sponsored sex crimes.
Did Epstein make the same mistake of Maxwell (who had asked for nearly half a billion dollar
in "loans" from his Israeli backers to relieve him of his mounting debts) believing the dirt he
had in his possession would prove radioactive if released? By this time, the corpulent tycoon
was nicknamed the 'Bouncing Czech' a reference in most part to his worsening money woes. The
implication of this request, if turned down, was the exposure of Israel's state secrets.
Epstein could have also attempted to collateralize the cache of damning evidence still in
his possession to secure his freedom with the same fatal consequences.
Both Maxwell and Epstein somehow evaded the electronics that linked them to the outside
world at the time of their deaths, even though the latter had reportedly made an attempt on his
own life while in custody. Both men, facing ruination and serious prison time gave their
executioners an alibi: They had nothing to left to live for. The establishment media is already
trotting out ancient, ding-a-ling conspiracy theories from obscure right wing sources
(attributed to Russia, of course) to highlight the absurdity and futility of questioning the
official story of Epstein's death. Verdict: Nothing to see here.
By now, it's a given that the parasitic and preferred daughter of the deceased tycoon,
made the fateful introduction between her new boyfriend and the Israeli operatives seeking an
entry level plutocrat to carry out their blackmail operations after the untimely death of his
predecessor. An impoverished socialite has to survive in pricey Manhattan somehow, and that
somehow was re-establishing the shady connections to the espionage underworld that had
recruited Maxwell Sr.
Ghislaine's later role as Epstein's Chief Procurement Officer (or pimp for short) gives
more credence to the rumors that she is more than just a debased, barnacle-like appendage to a
billionaire, desperate to please her platonic partner by "organizing his social life", but a
fully cognizant co-conspirator in an operation aimed at strengthening Israel's hand in all
matters pertaining to its national security interests, or more accurately, its overseas
criminal enterprises.
The recent raid on Epstein's Manhattan apartment was not the result of a so-called
Justice Department righting the egregious wrong it committed by letting Epstein off with a slap
on the wrist after his initial conviction that allowed him to serve his sentence largely
outside the minimum-security facility with an open door policy for its billionaire guest. More
likely, the reversal of Epstein's "sweetheart" deal was a joint operation between the oligarch
cabal informally known as the Mega-Group, and the state security apparatuses that do their
bidding.
It's seems likely that this sudden pivot towards justice from a Justice Department initially
spooked into inaction by the spook in his custody, was motivated by the need to remove the most
damning bits among Epstein's vast trove of physical evidence against the pervy punters who
visited his island getaway for unintended photo ops with underage girls.
Perhaps his own abuse of these minors was a perk he felt entitled to, and one that would be
overlooked in the service of "national security". It's hard for most people to differentiate
between the government he actually worked for and the ruling establishment on his home
turf.
It's possible that Epstein felt his serial transgressions were merely par for the plutocracy
and justified in the service of a higher calling.
The 'Israel First' philanthropist shared an unyielding ideological justification for his
own criminality as Robert Maxwell, whom the British Home Office had considered recruiting for
its own intelligence gathering in the mid 1960's. Having determined that the well-connected,
multilingual, rising star politician was strictly "Zionist", the spy agency withdrew his
candidacy.
Epstein's real crimes had little to do with raping children, despite the overturned plea
deal that came about when a federal judge ruled that prosecutors had violated the victims
rights by by concealing the agreement from them. The one time teflon-coated "member of
intelligence" who was "above the pay grade" of a powerful District Attorney (now a now
scandal-tainted former Labor Secretary) was ultimately (and lethally) penalized for not
destroying the contents of his secret-laden safes, leaving his handlers still vulnerable to
their explosive contents.
Had the doomed financier divested himself of the toxic assets still in his possession, he
might still be roaming the earth today, scouring it for new specimens to populate his underage
petting zoo. As a result of the Justice Department's decision to reverse the non-prosecution
deal meant to bury the most incendiary facts of the case, lower-rung punters like former
governor Bill Richardson and Senator George Mitchell are being publicly named for their part in
the sordid scandal. Someone has to take the fall. ( Rule number one of PR crisis
management: Crucify the insignificant and let them hang out to dry until the public tires of
watching the slow motion spectacle of their undoing .) Meanwhile, documented and/or
photographic evidence against more powerful players like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump will
have already been destroyed in the pursuit of selective justice.
The fallout of Epstein's spectacular downfall predictably miss the mark as scandals
involving the rich and powerful tend to do. Much of the controversy will dissolve into a
Cheetoh dust maelstrom of disinformation, disseminated on Reddit and 4Chan by incel
info-warriors before shooting up a shopping mall or playground.
Subsequent reporting of the case will overlook decades of the elite-driven state craft
that elevated corrupt and ruthless entities like Epstein and Trump, both ring-kissing acolytes
in their youth of influential mob fixer/politcal power broker Roy Cohn – himself a serial
sexual predator who similarly caught the fancy of fellow deviants Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar
Hoover. Follow the money trail from Tel Aviv and you'll discover an ancestral link between the
corpse of Epstein and his ghostly godfathers waiting with his rewards in hell.
Along with the other disgraced and expendable patsies left in the wake of this ongoing
scandal is Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's octogenarian chief legal counsel and 'wing man' aboard
the Lolita Express. The now unemployable cable news pundit will live out the remainder of his
pointless life under a cloud of suspicion. Despite all the damning testimony against him, the
statutory rape allegations never quite stick, but follow him around like a sneaky fart, forcing
a distance between himself and the rest of humanity that will last until he is engulfed by the
sulfurous fumes of his own making.
The former Harvard law professor's lifelong service to Israel will go unrewarded – not
as a result of victim testimony placing him at multiple crime scenes, but in consideration of
his own inept self-defense strategy: "I'm a scurvy rat aboard a sinking ship eating its own
tail to stay alive. Pity me"! Dershowitz at this point will be lucky if he can achieve the same
pay grade and social status of Lindsay Lohan. Ditto for Prince Andrew who can at least be
relied on to expire slowly of gout in his time-out corner at Windsor Castle.
The moral of this story could be "Lie down with dogs and never wake up again with a
prison-issued sheet around your neck". A variation of the old "Lie down with dogs and and wake
up as fish food".
"... While Epstein's extensive construction on the island is no secret, the timing of the cement mixer shipment - and the fact that it was express shipped, raises suspicion. ..."
"... "The shipment arrived Epstein's island on November 7th of 2018, 21 days before Julie Brown's expose was published in the Miami Herald and 23 days before Epstein allegedly began to try to pay off witnesses. Considering both the scope of Brown's article and the urgency of the shipment, the possibility that the cement mixer was used to literally cover up evidence cannot be discounted. " ..."
"... Perhaps due to the heat on from the Miami Herald reports, which Manhattan police said was instrumental in their investigation, Epstein sold his infamous 'lolita express' Boeing 727-200 just weeks before his arrest according to court filings. ..."
"... Epstein, who was arrested on July 6 after returning from Paris on his Gulfstream G550 per Bloomberg , sold "the other jet" in June, 2019 - prior to his arrest . ..."
"... On other words, it looks like the financier unloaded the potentially 'evidence-rich' aircraft - said to have had a bed installed where passengers reportedly had group sex with young girls - right before the hammer came down. ..."
"... On Monday, the FBI and NYPD raided Little St. James island last week, packing up evidence - however as Rusty Shackelford's videos reveal, some of it had already been moved prior to the raid. ( before , after - note the computer on the right is gone). Perhaps they should have raided the island the same day he was arrested? ..."
Approximately three weeks before a series of damning articles hit in the
Miami Herald
,
Jeffrey Epstein paid up front to have a
$100,000
cement mixe
r express-shipped to his infamous Little St. James 'pedo island' at great expense,
according to the
Daily
Mail
.
The pedophile, who was found dead by apparent suicide on Saturday while awaiting trial for
sex trafficking, got the Carmix 5.5 XL self loading concrete mixer delivered to Little St. James
on November 7 last year
.
Epstein was in such a hurry that he paid for the machine up front so it would arrive sooner -
even though it meant being responsible if it got damaged in transit.
Three weeks later the Miami Herald published a series of articles called 'Perversion of
Justice' on November 28, which eventually led to Epstein being arrested in July.
Shipping experts told DailyMailTV that
the possibility that it was 'used to literally
cover up evidence cannot be discounted'. -
Daily
Mail
The mixer can be seen in a drone video taken by YouTube user Rusty Shackleford. It appears
buried in a storage warehouse behind some other equipment, however its barrel drum and other
distinctive features can be made out.
While Epstein's extensive construction on the island is no secret, the timing of the cement
mixer shipment - and the fact that it was express shipped, raises suspicion.
"While the purchase of the cement mixer on its own is not suspicious, particularly given the
reported and approved repair of cisterns on Little St. James, both the timing of the shipment and
the fact that it's the only item in our records shipped with an express bill of lading do raise
concerns," said shipping data analyst William George.
"The shipment arrived Epstein's island on November 7th of 2018, 21 days before Julie Brown's
expose was published in the Miami Herald and 23 days before Epstein allegedly began to try to pay
off witnesses.
Considering both the scope of Brown's article and the urgency of the
shipment, the possibility that the cement mixer was used to literally cover up evidence cannot be
discounted.
"
Many have speculated that Epstein had underground tunnels or facilities on his island, while the
drone footage reveals what appear to be several hill-side doors.
The
Mail
also notes that Epstein had a complete dentist's chair shipped to the island,
while many have observed from Shackleford's videos that Epstein
had
an ambulance
as well - which seems odd for such a small island with no known medical
facilities.
Perhaps due to the heat on from the Miami Herald reports,
which Manhattan police said
was instrumental in their investigation, Epstein
sold his infamous 'lolita
express' Boeing 727-200
just weeks before his arrest according to court filings.
Epstein, who was arrested on July 6 after returning from Paris on his Gulfstream G550 per
Bloomberg
,
sold "the other jet" in June, 2019 -
prior to his arrest
.
On other words, it looks like the financier unloaded the potentially
'evidence-rich'
aircraft
-
said to have had a bed installed where passengers reportedly had
group
sex with young girls
-
right before the hammer came down.
According to investigative journalist Conchita Sarnoff - who first revealed the former
president's extensive flights on Epstein's "lolita express" in a 2010
Daily
Beast
exposé -
former president Bill Clinton flew on the 'lolita express' no fewer than
27 times.
Clinton claimed in a
July
statement
that he only took "a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane" in 2002 and
2003, and that Secret Service accompanied him at all times - which Sarnoff told
Fox News
was a
total
lie
.
On Monday, the FBI and NYPD raided Little St. James island last week, packing up evidence -
however as Rusty Shackelford's videos reveal, some of it had already been moved prior to the raid.
(
before
,
after
- note the computer on the right is gone).
Perhaps they should have raided the island the same day he was arrested?
Report: 3,000 Women
a Year Trapped in Sex Slave Industry (in Israhell)
A special Knesset committee has found that "3,000 women
are sold each year in Israel's sex industry, in transactions
with an annual volume of $1 billion." Exploitation of sex
workers includes imprisonment, and other forms of rank
coercion.
The special Knesset committee's interim report is to be
released today. It describes the sex industry as a "modern
form of slavery."
If U live on an island and U have access to a boat and some rocks
it is 1000x easier to make 'something' disappear than engaging in
a major concrete pour.
Epsteins deadmans switch have not been triggered yet. I bet you he
is still alive. All the evidence they give you are trying to make
you think he was assassinated on purpose. I hope he is being
tortured to give up all his hidden information.
JE is almost certainly alive. Decoy ambulances, no raids until
weeks afterward and not at all locations allowing cleanup after
he was extricated from 'prison' and debriefed.
Israel
involved (as are other countries) leadership and business top
guns.
Even Ghislaine (Gill-lane, silent s) has not been
interviewed as well as Wexner, Kushner(s)
et.al
..(can't forget Adnan Kasoggi
and the Jewish mob).
JE isn't stupid and has insurance policies. He's alive and
cut a deal not to use said insurance policies if allowed a
very quiet retirement.
This is as big if not bigger than 911 with close ties if not
involvement. Even Larry Silverstein is connected.
We can demand investigations until we become cyanotic but
will be given a ******** happy meal (**** sandwich) ending
served on a silver (MSM) platter.
Jared Diamond once wrote a book about this. Have you had
enough? Has public perception become a turning point?
I would safely assume Jared Diamond is Jewish. The point he
made in his book is things change after a certain percentage of
the public agree on a concept or idea.
Case in point:
Prior to Steven Spielberg making a movie about an idea
called The Holocaust. Anti Semitism was a worn out excuse used
for decades with no effect except for those in the Jewish
community.
After the film aired, public perception changed (perception
management) to favor the idea set forth in the film and now
anti-semitism is a weaponized term used for political purposes.
Anyone with any grey matter and synaptic activity should be
very concerned now. It's time.
The picture painted by the evidence
is not a direct Epstein tie to a single intelligence agency but a
web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians (Trump
included), and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an
organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties
in both nations.
"... There's no doubt in my mind that no jail will protect you when there's powerful people that want to reach you -- wherever you are. If he's going to implicate anyone in power that has the ability to reach in and somehow get to him – his life is definitely in jeopardy. ..."
"... Epstein was a high level asset; not a low level thug. If he was killed, it sends a disquieting message to other undercover high level assets. Then again, if he was rescued (i.e swapped out) then it sends a good message. BTW ask any psychiatrist if a true narcissist would commit suicide. ..."
" There's no doubt in my mind that no jail will protect you when there's powerful
people that want to reach you -- wherever you are. If he's going to implicate anyone in
power that has the ability to reach in and somehow get to him – his life is
definitely in jeopardy.
"I do question whether it was a true suicide attempt. I mean how do you choke
yourself? It doesn't make any sense."
Epstein is currently locked up in the Metropolitan Correctional Centre ahead of a trial
for charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls.
Epstein was a high level asset; not a low level thug. If he was killed, it sends a
disquieting message to other undercover high level assets. Then again, if he was rescued (i.e
swapped out) then it sends a good message. BTW ask any psychiatrist if a true narcissist
would commit suicide.
Can the Greatest Story Ever Told get any more bizarre? Why the endless drivel on
Epstein? I believe it's perception management and aimed at focusing on Epstein as a perverse
weirdo not to be believed, deflecting attention from the patrons of his debauchery.
Really ******* suspicious how they've moved the goal posts on that. Like that article
posted here yesterday about his former bodyguard back-tracking from a prior interview where
he stated Epstein liked younger girls and tried to stop him. Then this new interview a few
days ago the guy was saying Epstein didn't have a thing for underage girls, he just liked
women in their early-to-mid 20s. Guy was scared shitless and warned the reporter to back
off
This article contains content that some may find distressing.
Jeffrey Epstein "was" apparently a serial molester of children. He had manipulation down to an art form, as many molesters do.
He seemed to be an expert at figuring out a girl's weak point, whether it was poverty, a deceased family member, or feeling alienated
from her peers.
This is a common ploy. Many molesters seek out children or teens who have lost a parent and use this as a way to build a friendship.
Then, because children don't think like adults, they are manipulated, coerced, or threatened into sexual activity.
The story below could be told a hundred thousand times with only tiny changes. The names and the faces would be different. The
settings might not be a mansion in Manhattan or in Palm Beach but rather a quiet part of a church, a school, or some kind of activity
for teens. The setting could be in the house next door to you, where someone with evil intent befriends a vulnerable young person
with the stated goal of helping them, but an end result that couldn't be further from reality.
How 14-year-old Jennifer Araoz met Jeffrey Epstein
Jennifer Araoz was 14 years old when she first met her future rapist, Jeffrey Epstein. She wrote about how she was manipulated,
first by his recruiter, then by Epstein himself. There are many powerful lessons that we as parents can learn from her story.
During my freshman year, one of Epstein's recruiters, a stranger, approached me on the sidewalk outside my high school. Epstein
never operated alone. He had a ring of enablers and surrounded himself with influential people. I was attending a performing arts
school on the Upper East Side, studying musical theater. I wanted to be an actress and a singer. (
source )
Another
report based on court documents says that the recruiter befriended Jennifer, took her out to eat after school a few times, and
learned more about her, such as the fact that Jennifer's father had died from an AIDs-related illness and her family could barely
scrape by financially.
The recruiter told me about a wealthy man she knew named Jeffrey Epstein. Meeting him would be beneficial, and he could introduce
me to the right people for my career, she said. When I confided that I had recently lost my father and that my family was living
on food stamps, she told me he was very caring and wanted to help us financially. (
source )
The recruiter finally got Jennifer to go with her to meet Epstein. Court documents say that they all three met together for the
first month or so.
The visits during the first month felt benign, at least at the time. On my second visit, Epstein also gave me a digital camera
as a gift. The visits were about one to two hours long and we would spend the time talking. After each visit, he or his secretary
would hand me $300 in cash, supposedly to help my family. (
source )
Epstein claimed he was 'a big AIDS activist' which you can imagine would mean a lot to a 14-year-old whose father died of the
disease.
Soon the visits would take a dark turn.
By the second month of Jennifer's visits to the mansion, the recruiter no longer attended the visits., the manipulation began
in earnest.
But within about a month, he started asking me for massages and instructed me to take my top off. He said he would need to
see my body if he was going to help me break into modeling. I felt uncomfortable and intimidated, but I did as he said. The assault
escalated when, during these massages, he would flip over and sexually gratify himself and touch me inappropriately. For a little
over a year, I went to Epstein's home once or twice a week.
After that day, I never went back. I also quit the performing arts school -- the one I had auditioned for and had wanted so
badly to attend. It was too close to his house, the scene of so many crimes. I was too scared I would see him or his recruiter.
So I transferred to another school in Queens close to my home. Since I was no longer able to pursue my dream of performing arts
I eventually lost interest and dropped out. (
source )
Sure, we can say that she knew things weren't right when he asked her to take her top off. By this point, she was 15 years old.
Old enough to know right from wrong. But if she was getting $300 twice a week and helping her family with it, it's pretty easy to
see how she would want to continue helping her family despite her discomfort. Epstein knew exactly what he was doing.
Epstein's wealth, power, and connections would have made going against him seem like an insurmountable feat for a vulnerable 15-year-old
girl who had recently lost her father. Who would have believed her word against that of this presumed philanthropist?
A few days ago, Jennifer, now 32, filed a massive lawsuit against Epstein's estate, Ghislaine Maxwell, and 3 members of Epstein's
household staff. The complaint alleges that Maxwell and the staff "conspired with each other to make possible and otherwise facilitate
the sexual abuse and rape of Plaintiff."
Some of Epstein's victims recruited new girls for him.
Epstein's indictment explains how he manipulated some of the girls he sexually abused to bring other girls to him.
Prosecutors say he lured underage girls, some as young as 14, to his residences, promising them a cash payment in exchange
for giving him a massage. Instead, he would sexually abuse them -- groping them, making them touch him while he masturbated, and
using sex toys on the minors. Then, he would allegedly ask them to recruit other girls. (
source )
A detailed report in the Miami Herald referred to it as a "sexual pyramid scheme." One of Epstein's accusers, Courtney Wild, reiterates
the theme of the story told by Jennifer Boaz.
"Jeffrey preyed on girls who were in a bad way, girls who were basically homeless. He went after girls who he thought no one
would listen to and he was right,'' said Courtney Wild, who was 14 when she met Epstein. (
source )
Courtney's time spent with Epstein nearly destroyed her.
Before she met Epstein, Courtney Wild was captain of the cheerleading squad, first trumpet in the band and an A-student at
Lake Worth Middle School.
After she met Epstein, she was a stripper, a drug addict and an inmate at Gadsden Correctional Institution in Florida's Panhandle.
Wild still had braces on her teeth when she was introduced to him in 2002 at the age of 14.
She was fair, petite and slender, blonde and blue-eyed. (
source )
She began to recruit other girls for him in Palm Beach.
Wild said Epstein preferred girls who were white, appeared prepubescent and those who were easy to manipulate into going further
each time
"By the time I was 16, I had probably brought him 70 to 80 girls who were all 14 and 15 years old. He was involved in my life
for years," said Wild, who was released from prison in October after serving three years on drug charges.
The girls -- mostly 13 to 16 -- were lured to his pink waterfront mansion by Wild and other girls, who went to malls, house
parties and other places where girls congregated, and told recruits that they could earn $200 to $300 to give a man -- Epstein
-- a massage, according to an unredacted copy of the Palm Beach police investigation obtained by the Herald. (
source )
Epstein had it down to an art form.
Palm Beach police detective Joseph Recarey explains how Epstein insinuated himself into the girls' lives.
"The common interview with a girl went like this: 'I was brought there by so and so. I didn't feel comfortable with what happened,
but I got paid well, so I was told if I didn't feel comfortable, I could bring someone else and still get paid,' '' Recarey said.
During the massage sessions, Recarey said Epstein would molest the girls, paying them premiums for engaging in oral sex and
intercourse, and offering them a further bounty to find him more girls
Epstein could be a generous benefactor, Recarey said, buying his favored girls gifts. He might rent a car for a young girl
to make it more convenient for her to stop by and cater to him. Once, he sent a bucket of roses to the local high school after
one of his girls starred in a stage production. The floral-delivery instructions and a report card for one of the girls were discovered
in a search of his mansion and trash. Police also obtained receipts for the rental cars and gifts, Recarey said.
Epstein counseled the girls about their schooling, and told them he would help them get into college, modeling school, fashion
design or acting. At least two of Epstein's victims told police that they were in love with him, according to the police report.
( source )
You may look at these stories and scorn the victims. After all, they kept going back, didn't they? They liked the money, didn't
they?
But they were children. Many of them were isolated, vulnerable, and without support systems. Many of them felt ashamed but didn't
know how to extricate themselves. They were confused and scared, and Epstein was a pro at taking advantage of these emotions and
doubts.
The girls are not to blame here. The adults are.
Epstein is not the only predator out there.
While this article focuses on how Epstein was able to lure so many victims,
as Dagny Taggert recently wrote , there are
many more people in power out there preying on children. Clergy, priests, teachers, neighbors, musicians, and random people on the
internet are out there preying on and trafficking children.
Dagny wrote:
According to
The National
Center for Victims of Crime , the prevalence of child sexual abuse (CSA) is difficult to determine because it is often not
reported. Experts agree that the incidence is far greater than what is reported to authorities.
Statistics below represent some of the research done on child sexual abuse.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Children's Bureau report Child Maltreatment 2010 found that
9.2% of victimized children were sexually
assaulted (page 24).
1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse;
Self-report studies show that 20% of adult females and 5-10% of adult males recall a childhood sexual assault or sexual
abuse incident;
During a one-year period in the U.S., 16% of youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized;
Over the course of their lifetime, 28% of U.S. youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized;
Children are most vulnerable to CSA between the ages of 7 and 13.
According to Darkness to Light , a non-profit committed to empowering adults
to prevent child sexual abuse, only about one-third of child sexual abuse incidents are identified, and even
fewer are reported .
When my children's father passed away, it wasn't too long afterward that I left my corporate job. I volunteered when the company
began layoffs and took a small payment and my retirement fund to start a new life writing freelance. It wasn't long after that when
I started this website.
I wanted to be home when they got back from school every day. I didn't want them to seem like prey to those looking for children
with weak support systems. My own daughters could so easily have had a story like the one Jennifer has told.
I know that what I did is not possible for every family that suffers a loss. I was pretty fortunate to be able to find work from
home that paid enough to allow me to be there.
What you, as a parent, must understand are the things that make your child seem vulnerable.
Loneliness
Social isolation and few, if any, friends
Lack of a support system from parents and caregivers
Spending too much time on their own
Alienation from parents
Some signs that your child could be getting abused or groomed.
Sudden secretiveness regarding their phone or computer (a lot of grooming happens online
Spending a great deal of time alone with another adult
Signs of increased anger or fear
Lack of participation in things that used to bring them happiness
Withdrawal from family and friends
Obviously, these lists are not comprehensive, nor are they sure signs of abuse. What teenager doesn't seem angry and withdrawn
from time to time? But it's vital, no matter how hard they push you away, to stay involved, particularly after a traumatic event.
Teach your kids that some secrets should not be kept.
Predators manipulate children in all sorts of ways. One of the biggest ways is warning them to keep their "relationship" a secret
or else.
Or else what?
They'll hurt Mom or Dad
They'll hurt the child's pet
They'll hurt the child's siblings
They'll cause extreme financial problems for the family
Predators often put a burden on a child where they feel as though they must stay silent to protect the people they love.
Kids need to know that if anyone threatens them if they tell a secret, then they absolutely must tell that secret. Mom and Dad
will be safe and will protect them. People who ask children to keep their presence in their lives a secret are never to be trusted.
And finally, make sure your children know that whatever they tell you, you will believe them and you know it's not their fault.
But why Wexner and Maxwell were involved ? Wexner gave the power of attorney to Epstein, so
he essentially controlled Wexner fortune... Why such a level of trust ? Was later claims of abuse
on the part of Epstein of his privileges and stolen money 40 million of which was supposed return
to Wexner charity a part of cover-up
Philip Giralid's theory that Jeffrey Epstein was running his prostitution ring as a honeypot
operation that had his child prostitutes sexually seduce politicians so he could film the
politicians having sex with children so he could blackmail them into supporting Israel and
giving espionage information to the Mossad is ridiculous, to put it politely.
There is not only no evidence for this theory, there is also no reasonable or practical
motive for the alleged behavior, and the alleged behavior would not make sense because it is
very unlikely that any substantial number of politicians are pedophiles.
There is no reasonable or practical motive for the behavior because the Jewish political
establishment already owns our political leaders as its puppets, so it does not need to
blackmail them. T
he way it has establishment this amount of control is through forming a social network
where Jews recruit Non-Jews to do their bidding, Jews created Freemasonry as their political
agency to help them do this. Freemasonry is a political agency of Jewry, it allows Non-Jews
to join it in order to help increase Jewish political power in Non-Jewish societies, Non-Jews
who join it have to swear a loyalty oath to the organization and then form an in group
preference for other members of the Jewish led organization. Jews also use their control of
finance and banking to have this kind of political power. They do not need child prostitution
ring to sexually seduce politicians so they can blackmail them to achieve political power,
because they already control the political establishment.
Additionally, even if the Jewish political elites wanted or needed to blackmail our
political leaders, this would be a very stupid way to do it. Filming sex between an adult and
a child is a very serious crime, it actually in some cases is more serious than an adult
having sex with a child, the person threatening blackmail against the person with the film
would unless he had a very stupid victim have someone who would realize the person himself
would go to prison if he showed anyone the film, so it would not be a good way to blackmail
someone. There are much better ways to blackmail political leaders, such as finding out if
they committed financial or political crimes or if they murdered someone, that would not
involve such risks.
It is not plausible that any substantial number of politicians are pedophiles because
pedophiles usually have very limited intellectual ability, and are perhaps even borderline
mentally retarded, and pedophiles usually are mentally ill.
Dr. James Cantor, an expert on sexual perversion generally and pedophilia particularly,
stated in a YouTube video titled "The Pedophile's Brain" published on the YouTube channel
"TEDI BEAR Children's Advocacy Center" on July 19, 2015, that pedophiles on average, score
10-15 points below average on Intelligence Quotient tests.
That means that only between 16-25 percent of pedophiles are equally intelligent or more
intelligent than the average person in western countries like Britain and America. Cantor
also stated that pedophiles tend to have less white matter in their brains than the general
population does, white matter is responsible for a lot of the social understanding of the
brain and also for connecting brain regions to enable reasoning that requires connected
understanding of different topics together. He also said that 30% of pedophiles are left
handed while only 12% of the general population is left handed, this is what Darwin called a
"correlation of growth" when two phenotypic traits appear very frequently together in
biological organisms, another example cited by Darwin was that blue eyed cats are usually
deaf.
Cantor said that the only other population groups with this high rates of left handed are
autistics, schizophrenics and bipolars. Cantor concluded that what causes pedophilia is that
pedophiles have a mental problem that causes their brain to be cross wired, so that the
sexual responses are inappropriately connected with children whereas most people have a moral
inhibition against sexual attraction to children. There are two peer reviewed articles by
scientists I have read that discuss evidence autism is correlated in a causal way with
pedophilia.
They are "Paraphilic Disorder in a Male Patient with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Incidence
or Coincidence," by B. Kolta and G. Rossi, edited by A. Muocivic and J.R. Adler Cureus May
2018 and "Sexuality in autism: hypersexual and paraphilic behavior in women and men with
high-functioning autism spectrum disorder," by Daniel Schottle, Peer Briken, Oliver Tuscher
and Daniel Turner published in "Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience," in December 2017 In the
second article, the authors stated: ""Altogether, paraphilic sexual fantasies and behaviors
were reported more frequently in male patients with ASD than in male HCs [Health Controls;
that is people who are mentally healthy and do not have autism or another mental illness].
After correcting for multiple testing, significant differences were still present in the
number of individuals reporting masochistic fantasies, sadistic fantasies, voyeuristic
fantasies and behaviors, frotteuristic fantasies and behaviors, and pedophilic fantasies with
female children"
The authors of the first article wrote: "Fernandes et al. were able to demonstrate that
30% of the low-functioning ASD patients showed some kind of inappropriate sexual behaviors,
most frequently public masturbation, indecent exposure, and inappropriate heterosexual
behaviors .
When looking at higher functioning patients with autism spectrum disorder they reported
10% demonstrated inappropriate sexual behaviors . The study also revealed that 24% of
high-functioning individuals with ASD engaged in paraphilic sexual fantasies or behaviors
including classic presentations of paraphilic disorder such as pedophilia, voyeurism, and
sadomasochism " So pedophilia is linked to both low intellectual ability, and to mental
illness.
A person needs to be highly intelligent to be a political leader, George W Bush was on the
dumb side for a political leader and his Intelligence Quotient was 124, that is the 94th
percentile, that means George W Bush is more intelligent than 94 percent of other people.
During the Nuremberg Trials all of the Nazis leaders who did anything of real importance
scored at least 120 on the Intelligence Quotient test, which means they were smarter than 90%
of other people, and the Nazis were also known for being on the dumb side for political
leaders. The idea that any substantial number of politicians are pedophiles is ridiculous
because of this, so this makes Giraldi's claim obviously ridiculous.
The monotheism of the Jew, therefore, is in reality the polytheism of the many needs, a
polytheism which makes even the lavatory an object of divine law. Practical need,
egoism , is the principle of civil society , and as such appears in pure form as
soon as civil society has fully given birth to the political state. The god of practical
need and self-interest is money .
Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades
all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal
self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world –
both the world of men and nature – of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence
of man's work and man's existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships
it.
The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of
exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange.
The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and money is a real
contempt for, and practical debasement of, nature; in the Jewish religion, nature exists, it is
true, but it exists only in imagination.
It is in this sense that [in a 1524 pamphlet] Thomas Münzer declares it intolerable
"that all creatures have been turned into property, the fishes in the water, the birds in
the air, the plants on the earth; the creatures, too, must become free."
Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained
in an abstract form in the Jewish religion, is the real, conscious standpoint, the virtue of
the man of money. The species-relation itself, the relation between man and woman, etc.,
becomes an object of trade! The woman is bought and sold.
The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man
of money in general.
The groundless law of the Jew is only a religious caricature of groundless morality and
right in general, of the purely formal rites with which the world of self-interest
surrounds itself.
@Ron Unz The suicide
of Epstein when life as he had played it was over is less surprising than that Madoff hasn't
committed suicide. And incompetence or cynical negligence in the prison service is less
surprising than your admission of familiarity with the popular culture of film and TV!
On a more constructive note let me proffer the following as a source containing some
possibly relevant information about Epstein and his mysterious wealth.
"The relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Jewish philanthropist Leslie Wexner,
explained – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The intelligence connection seems plausible and Mossad as the key agency but possibly
having side deals with the CIA and FBI the most plausible. But, if so, Wexner's connection to
Israeli causes is well worth examining.
( JTA ) -- One of the most befuddling
questions surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein saga is why Leslie Wexner, a billionaire
entrepreneur, entrusted all of his money to Epstein, a secretive financier with no college
degree.
For those immersed in the Jewish world, there's an added question: How did Wexner -- a
prominent philanthropist seen as a champion of Jewish learning and ethical teaching, whose
foundation has trained waves of rabbis, Jewish professionals and volunteer board leaders -- end
up so enmeshed and enamored with a future convicted sex offender and alleged sex
trafficker?
Is Wexner connected to the sex abuse accusations against Epstein? Has the philanthropist
been accused of any wrongdoing? Does any of this taint Wexner's legacy or the beneficiaries of
his many programs?
Since the Epstein sex scandal resurfaced this year, these questions have dogged Wexner, the
owner of Victoria's Secret who at one point was Epstein's only known financial client. Wexner
was very close with Epstein and trusted him as a money manager and legal representative.
Epstein, who served a year in prison and registered as a sex offender more than a decade
ago, was arrested recently and charged with sex trafficking. He was found hanged in his jail
cell on Saturday in what officials are calling
a suicide .
As the scandal has unfolded, Wexner and his associates have put out a series of statements
on Epstein and their relationship. His connection with Epstein has also led to stormy
discussions among the recipients of his largesse about the ethical dilemmas they face.
Here's a primer on how the two became so close, and why their relationship poses a dilemma
for many in the Jewish community.
Who is Leslie Wexner?
He's an 81-year-old Jewish billionaire who lives in the Columbus, Ohio, area. Wexner made
his fortune by founding The Limited, a women's clothing brand, in 1963.
Wexner has since expanded his apparel empire to include other brands, like Bath & Body
Works, Pink and, most notably, Victoria's Secret, a once-obscure lingerie store that he turned
into an empire. It's all now under the umbrella of his company, L Brands. He is the
longest-running CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
He also ventured into real estate, developing the posh community of New Albany, Ohio, where
Wexner lives in a 60,000-square-foot mansion. According to Forbes, he's worth $4.6 billion .
How much has he given to Jewish causes?
Plenty. The Wexner Foundation is among the most prominent private Jewish charities in the
world. In 2017, according to tax documents, it gave $3.6 million in charity, much (but not all)
of it to Jewish educational causes, as well as more money for educational programs.
The foundation is best known in the Jewish world for its graduate fellowship, which awards
scholarships to 20 promising graduate students in Jewish fields, including rabbinical school,
cantorial school, Jewish educational school or another degree program. More than 1,800 people
have participated in its program aimed at providing volunteer board leadership with lessons in
Jewish history, thought, texts and contemporary issues. The foundation runs a variety of other
programs, including training for Israeli public officials.
What does all of this have to do with Jeffrey Epstein?
Nothing, and everything. For decades, if Wexner spent any money, Epstein was likely
connected to it somehow. Epstein, a former prep school teacher, had entered the finance world
and gained a reputation as an astute money manager for the super-wealthy. He met Wexner in the
1980s, and the two forged a close relationship. Epstein eventually received power of attorney
over Wexner's finances.
In a statement last week distributed by
his foundation, Wexner wrote that Epstein "had wide latitude to act on my behalf with respect
to my personal finances while I focused on building my company and undertaking philanthropic
efforts." In 2003, Wexner told Vanity Fair that Epstein
had "excellent judgment and unusually high standards."
Epstein also was involved with Wexner's charitable efforts. In 1990, the two helped fund the
construction of a new building for the Harvard Hillel. Two years later, after Wexner's mother
fell ill, Epstein replaced her on the Wexner Foundation board.
In his recent statement, Wexner insisted that Epstein "had no executive responsibilities in
the running of the Foundation" and "did not work directly with Foundation staff, and he did not
engage with leadership initiatives in any way."
Sounds like they were really close.
Yes, and their relationship was more than a typical professional one. They were invested
together in Wexner's Ohio real estate development. Epstein lived in Wexner's New York City
townhouse for years, eventually acquiring it, along with acquiring a private plane from
Wexner.
Epstein also supervised the construction of Wexner's yacht, Limitless, and was a frequent
guest at Wexner's Ohio parties, according to The
New York Times . The Times also reported that Epstein froze out some of Wexner's friends
and acquaintances from his life.
When Epstein was first investigated in the
mid-2000s, for unlawful sex acts with a minor, he denied the allegations. Eventually, however,
he accepted a deal under which he pleaded guilty for two counts of solicitation of prostitution
-- one with a minor. Wexner says he broke off his relationship with Epstein in 2007 and later
found out that Epstein had taken a lot of money from him.
"This was, frankly, a tremendous shock, even though it clearly pales in comparison to the
unthinkable allegations against him now," Wexner wrote in his recent message,
regarding the financial misappropriation. "I am embarrassed that, like so many others, I was
deceived by Mr. Epstein. I know now that my trust in him was grossly misplaced and I deeply
regret having ever crossed his path."
In 2008, Epstein made a
$46 million donation to one of Wexner's charities. Wexner wrote in his letter that
"payments Mr. Epstein made to the charitable fund represented a portion of the returned monies"
Epstein had misappropriated.
According to
CNBC , Wexner has provided documents showing the financial misconduct to federal
investigators.
So has anyone implicated Wexner in Epstein's crimes? And what does this have to do with Alan
Dershowitz?
Wexner's name has been dragged into an ongoing legal battle between Alan Dershowitz and one
of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, and her lawyers.
Dershowitz had his own personal and professional relationship with Epstein.
They were close (Dershowitz has said he loved talking with Epstein and would show him
drafts of his books) and the high-profile lawyer has helped represent Epstein. Epstein once
brought Dershowitz to one of Wexner's parties -- as, Dershowitz says, an " intellectual
gift " to Wexner.
Two of Epstein's alleged victims, including Giuffre, have accused Dershowitz of sexual
assault,
which he denies . Dershowitz claims that the accusations against him were part of a plot by
one of Giuffre's attorneys, David Boies, to extort money from Wexner.
According to a report in the Miami Herald ,
another of Giuffre's lawyers, Stanley Pottinger, submitted an affidavit saying his client said
that under Epstein's direction, she had sex with both Dershowitz and Wexner.
But New York
magazine reported that "Boies had three conversations with Wexner's lawyers in 2015, after
which the allegations were quietly dropped." Boies asserted in an affidavit that "no settlement
demand was ever made, or even discussed."
Some of Epstein's alleged abuse occurred at the Manhattan townhouse once owned by Wexner,
where Epstein lived. Another Epstein accuser, Maria Farmer, said Epstein hired her to work on a
mural at Wexner's home in Ohio in the summer of 1996, and assaulted her there. In an
affidavit , she asserted that "Wexner's security staff refused to let me leave the
property" and that she was held against her will for approximately 12 hours.
Farmer said that after returning to New York, she filed a report with the police and the
FBI.
Farmer's affidavit does not suggest Wexner himself was involved with or knew about the
incident.
Federal authorities thus far have not implicated Wexner in Epstein's crimes, according to
Bloomberg , but prosecutors are still investigating which if any of Epstein's business
associates were involved with his alleged crimes. In a statement posted in July,
Wexner insisted (in all caps) that "I was NEVER aware of the illegal activity charged in the
indictment."
The Wexner Foundation has not given interviews about the scandal and declined to speak to
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about the matter. JTA has asked the foundation specifically about
the allegations by Farmer and Giuffre, and also has reached out to Guiffre's lawyers, including
Pottinger, for comment.
According to The Times, Epstein also falsely represented himself as a talent scout for
Victoria's Secret, then used that identity to meet women whom he assaulted.
L Brands' stock price has
dropped as the Epstein scandal has unfolded.
"Nice guy(Bill Clinton) uhhh got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the
famous island with Jeffrey Epstein lot of problems."
-Donald Trump at 2015 CPAC conference
How does the Candidate Trump knew in 2015 that, "Nice guy(Bill Clinton) uhhh got a lot of
problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein lot of
problems."?
What does the above tell us about Candidate Trump and his foreknowledge to things to
come?
"... on the Lolita Express; was it really beyond him to order a hit? ..."
"... New York Times ..."
"... Are the Elites the arch villains from the comic books, probably not, but then again many of them operate corporations that cause suffering to economically deprived populations all over the world. ..."
"... Why is this surprising? Aristocrats have always behaved this way. ..."
"... The sexual abuse of children and kids in their early teens is a very democratic crime. While physical abuse and neglect are linked to lower-income parents, sexual abuse occurs in all strata of society. It is not confined to the elites or to money changers. Nor to Jews, if that is what you are implying. ..."
"... Unconcerned about negative consequences, these people have become increasingly brazen. They certainly know that the laws that apply to you and me do not apply to them. ..."
"... In the words of George Carlin, "it's a big club, and you ain't in it." I stopped reading after the first two para's on this, tone is exactly the same as the sneering disdain from the empire's various MSM propaganda arms aimed at those "not in the club." ..."
"... 1) Either our intelligence agencies knew what was going on with Epstein and did nothing to stop him. Or... ..."
"... 2) They had no clue .. ..."
"... Occam's Razor says Possibility No. 1 is more likely to be the truth. But what would such a truth tell us? ..."
"... "What I am saying is that Epstein's direct testimony – AND ONLY EPSTEIN'S DIRECT TESTIMONY – had the potential to create a Common Knowledge moment that could bring down – not just specific sociopathic oligarchs like Mob Boss Donald or Mob Boss Bill or Mob Boss Andrew if they were the specific targets of that testimony – but the entire Mob system of sociopathic oligarchy. ..."
"... One strongly suspects that Ghislaine Maxwell knows just as much as Epstein did. Her participation was just as important to the operation of this "trafficking" ring. She was the lead recruiter, handled logistics, "grooming" and also was Epstein's "in" to many of his VIP associates (who were really clients). If witness accounts are accurate, she was also a participant in a good number of these depraved, criminal acts. ..."
"... The fact she has not been charged is quite the tell about our system of "justice." ..."
"... This is a dangerous slope. People once bowed to the elites because there was a principle of enforcement called nobless oblige. Society felt that elites had to be held to a higher standard because they carried greater responsibilities and burdens for society and the welfare of the national good. ..."
"... Since the 1960s nobless oblige has been downgraded to sound bites and photo ops for publicity and marketing. The elites have all but abandoned their responsibilities to support religion, to support education (except to indocrinate), to support tradition and society and the national good. The elites have become inward looking, inbred and narcissistic with little to no outward focus except in a marxist totalitarian vein of thought which serves their interest, indulges their hungers, preserves their wealth and power. ..."
"... My point was that as popolo minuti transform into popolo grossi in terms of access to power, they tend to start to transform into them in terms of moral character as well. (Inequality of) power corrupts, and absolute (inequality of) power corrupts absolutely. Thus, it seems that the over-representation of psychopaths in positions of power is because the psychopathy is acquired (and plenty of studies show drastic declines in empathy with even a little priming for power), rather than because it is easier for psychopaths to rise to the top. The worst of the popolo grossi tend to be hereditary. ..."
"... I think we're a lot closer to 1789 France than we want to believe. Read some Chris Hedges to see how the socialists see the current situation. Here's an example. https://www.commondreams.or... ..."
"... "given that all available evidence points to gross negligence on the part of the jail." How is gross negligence different from deliberate negligence? ..."
In our tense populist moment, Jeffrey Epstein's crimes land like a grenade. •
August 15, 2019
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images) Hands up, those of you who
made a Fort Marcy Park joke last Saturday. Anyone? Surely there were a few. Fort Marcy Park was the Washington, D.C. woodland where
White House attorney Vince Foster was found dead in 1993, and while his demise was repeatedly ruled a suicide, certain conservatives
spent years afterwards hallucinating that the Clintons had him killed. Now, a quarter century later, both right and left are back
in conspiracy mode. Mere hours after pedo-to-the-stars Jeffrey Epstein was reported to have killed himself, the hash tag #ClintonBodyCount
began circulating on Twitter, followed closely by #TrumpBodyCount. Both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump had been associates of Epstein's;
both, the thinking went, might have been desperate for him not to take the stand.
It is wrong, of course, to publicly speculate that Epstein was whacked, given that all available evidence points to gross negligence
on the part of the jail. But can you really blame people? Twenty-five years ago, if you'd said that a roll call of America's elites,
everyone from a former president to the most famous lawyer in the country, would be implicated in a sex trafficking ring masterminded
by an enigmatic Wall Street financier who was also a member
of the Trilateral Commission , you would have been laughed into the darkest corner of the local subway platform (next to the
guy holding the "Vatican Hides Pedophiles" sign, presumably). Today, you'd be reading AP copy. Validate an improbable conspiracy
theory, and you grant license to all the related improbable conspiracy theories: Bill Clinton flew dozens of times on the Lolita Express; was it really beyond him to order a hit?
And if we know one thing about the Epstein story, it's that everything about it is utterly improbable. Epstein stands credibly
accused of assembling a
veritable underage harem . One of his victims, Virginia Guiffre, has already
implicated Prince Andrew
, the third-born of Queen Elizabeth II, and a picture has since emerged showing the royal with his arm around the then-teenager's
waist. Guiffre says she was also
ordered
to have sex with , among others, a "foreign president," a "well-known prime minister," and a "large hotel chain owner." Such
an open secret was all this perversion that the current president of the United States
made cheeky reference to it back in 2002. So invincible
did Epstein think himself that he discussed underage sex openly, telling a New York Times reporter that laws against pedophilia
were a
"cultural aberration."
That Epstein looked to other cultures to rationalize his behavior is nothing new -- Oscar Wilde wrapped his similar predilections
in lofty talk about the Greek ideal. What is different is that rather than being hunted and exposed by the powerful, as Wilde was,
Epstein was protected by them for decades. Even after he was convicted of soliciting an underage prostitute in 2008, he was sentenced
to only 18 months in prison, held in a
private
wing of the Palm Beach County stockade, and let out on generous "work release."
Study the Epstein case long enough and you end up at Alex Jones's favorite conclusion: they're all sons of bitches. Everyone who
was anyone seemed to be in on this, or at least acting at the behest of someone who was. The essence of the conspiratorial mindset
is that powerful shadowy forces are, first, capable of and engaged in the most dastardly skullduggery imaginable, and, second, in
cabal-like cooperation with each other across all levels of power. The Epstein case seems to affirm both planks. It makes our elites
seem like aliens, of a different culture, a different moral code, a different species -- how else could they have let slide what
none of us ever would? Mary Colum's remark to Ernest Hemingway, "The only difference between the rich and other people is that the
rich have more money," has rarely rang less true.
There's been for some time now a sense of drift between most Americans and their elites, driven by factors like income inequality,
geographic enclaving, and cultural differences. We are living in a populist moment, to be sure, an era when the usual purveyors of
class warfare sound more apt than they otherwise would. In such a fraught environment, the Epstein revelation lands like a grenade.
Not only are America's gentry hitching rides on the Acela while mumbling about deplorables -- so the feeling goes -- they're also
running cover for a Caligula who's preying on little Susie down the street. Suddenly the populist divide doesn't just run between
classes or races or regular toast versus avocado, but between ethical extremes, good and literal evil.
This is, of course, what most populists profess: the people as a group are wholesome, the elites as a group are venal, and the
former has to be vaulted over the latter in order for society to be made whole again. Yet Epstein's crimes are so wicked as to potentially
set this moral chasm ablaze like never before. That's why, though Trump may have associated with Epstein, he's unlikely to be damaged
by him: everything that's happened only confirms what he's been saying for years. In fact, you might view the Epstein fracas as a
dialectic between two of his former associates, Trump's throw-them-out populism versus Clinton's benevolent stewardship of society
by the smart set. And Trump won out.
Just as populisms aren't driven entirely by economic causes, so too are revolutions often about more than bread. Consider the
Russian Revolution, sparked at least in small part by the people's perception of Rasputin as a sexual deviant. Consider, too, the
French Revolution's rage against the profligate "Madame Déficit" Marie Antoinette. In such cases, the moral tends to get intertwined
with the economic; license is seen as enabling decadence while the people pray and starve. This can be a blind spot in traditional
conservative thinking. We rightly detest (most) revolutions and the tremors they cause, but we sometimes fail to notice that the
Jacobins have good reason to be angry and that the ruling classes they overthrow really are that loathsome.
America is nowhere near 1789 France, or armed revolution in general. But we are anxious, restive, hungry for justice. A republic
likes ours depends on the harmonious coexistence of its people and its elites, a matter that our Founders spent a good deal of time
worrying about. Now we have a hideous face f0r elite corruption, one that's enabled fever in the national mind and dehumanized those
around him. For those of us who prize stability and liberty in a polity, who think populism is always best in modest doses, the weeks
ahead may be reason for worry.
Because it seems there's only more to come. On Wednesday, another victim
came forward , alleging
that Epstein raped her when she was 14 after she turned down sex with him. That this carnal omega, this pathetic loser, this finger-sniffing
pervert from every teen comedy lurking outside the pretty girl's home longing for a piece of discarded lingerie was somehow elevated
into a Teflon-coated Wall Street sun god is beyond comprehension. My friend Michael Davis calls Epstein and company the
Hellfire Club , but
just how much will they torch on their way down?
When I started to see what was going on in this country, which was my journey, I was amazed to find out that there is sex trafficking
8 blocks from the White House and I learned of this in 2011. Lisa Ling did a great documentary on it. "Night time traffic greater
than the day time." Pimps attempting to recruit girls walking home from school. If you pay attention it is also a journey of
the food chain of Corporate America that supports this.
This is a Money Changer issue, that is about the closing of eyes from both parties. and please don't tell me this is not so.
I know better than that.
To be absolutely, clear there was speculation that Epstein was going to be assassinated weeks before it happened. For the most
part citizens aren't so much surprised, as disappointed that Justice is once again foiled.
Are the Elites the arch villains from the comic books, probably not, but then again many of them operate corporations that
cause suffering to economically deprived populations all over the world.
When the World's 26 richest people own as much as
poorest 50%, just how close do they seem to achieve a god like status when looking up from the bottom? Maybe that's one reason
that people are so angry when it seems that the most vulnerable among us, our children, are the victims of a limited number
of the Elites and their twisted and horrific appetites.
I personally doubt much will come of the Epstein affair it will most likely be just one more myth added to the tally of
injustice, and the people will have to bitterly swallow it whole. It will probably take many more cases like this being exposed
before the people actually have their fill, and decide to do something about it. In the meantime, prepare to see more of the
same by the laughing and mocking Elites
In this day and age, I doubt a reporter will touch this story, and if they did, the real story would never make it into
the Main Stream Media. And, most likely the reporter would be permanently black balled, and never work in Journalism again.
It's happened many times before, because it doesn't fit within the approved propaganda message.
Give the story a couple decades or more, and it may come out, but otherwise it will be handled as a whack-job Conspiracy
Theory.
The Fourth Estate is the only business that is protected by the Constitution, and yet it has been neutered, and those in
the Press, who were supposed to be the Watchdogs for the people, have become the Lapdogs of the Elites.
What passes as News today is formulaic programming, passed on from the Propagandist to the Media, both nationally
and locally.
Two Republican state senators and two New York City Policemen died violently within 72 hours ....
1. On June 4, former Arkansas Senator Linda Collins-Smith, 57, was found dead outside her home, her body unrecognizable
on discovery. Police are now investigating her death as a homicide. On June 5, the county prosecutor announced that the circuit
judge sealed the documents and statements obtained by police.
2. On June 5, Deputy Chief Steven Silks, 62, weeks away from retirement, was found in an unmarked police car with a gunshot
wound to the head. News reports reported indicate it seemed self-inflicted.
3. On June 5, former Oklahoma Sen. Jonathan Nichols, 53, was found shot dead in his home. Police have not announced whether
they are investigating a suicide or homicide..
4. On June 6, Detective Joseph Calabrese, 58, was found near his police car on a Brooklyn, NY beach, dead of a gunshot wound
in what one report called an apparent suicide.
RIP.
Many other Americans died violently this past week. Why link these four together?
The answer comes down to a dark suspicion and a few hard facts which suggest that one or more of these four deaths might
have had something to do with these individuals' work against pedophiles and human trafficking, or the official corruption
so often surrounding both.
The sexual abuse of children and kids in their early teens is a very democratic crime. While physical abuse and neglect are
linked to lower-income parents, sexual abuse occurs in all strata of society. It is not confined to the elites or to money
changers. Nor to Jews, if that is what you are implying.
Just about everyone in America has a family member who was sexually abused by someone who was usually not elite. Therefore,
I cannot get worked up about class issues because of Jeffrey Epstein.
What I can get worked up about are the way elites start wars for poor people to die in and the way poor people get cruel
sentences while the elite either walk or get the Epstein treatment--private wing, generous work release.
I agree. Young girls are trafficked in more circles than the elite. I don't understand the connection to any particular social
class. But better connected people do have better lawyers and can get away with more. Until like Mr. Epstein , they don't.
The true character of these people is starting to be revealed. This (lack of) character is not only displayed when these men
travel to Pedo Island, it's on display everywhere they go, in everything they do. Every organization they lead, or have anything
to do with, is likely rotten to the core.
Unconcerned about negative consequences, these people have become increasingly brazen. They certainly know that the laws
that apply to you and me do not apply to them.
If the system is so corrupt to have protected Epstein for decades, who else is being protected? Who else is getting away
with figurative rape in every department of government, or house of finance?
The sooner the public recognizes the "true face" of our elites and rulers the better. Left to their own devices,
these people - who think they have class but in reality are the worst kind of trash - can bring down a nation.
Literally no one I know thought this guy would make it to trial alive with the exception of me, as I still had some hope in
the system, and I was proven wrong. I've lost whatever remaining faith I had in the system.
In the words of George Carlin, "it's a big club, and you ain't in it." I stopped reading after the first two para's on this,
tone is exactly the same as the sneering disdain from the empire's various MSM propaganda arms aimed at those "not in the club."
1) Either our intelligence agencies knew what was going on with Epstein and did nothing to stop him. Or...
2) They had no clue ... which would mean our much vaunted intelligence community knew nothing about the travel habits of
the "ruling class" of the world, about Jeff Epstein's real activities, had received no tips, had no insiders, and were incapable
of "putting two and two together," etc. In short, Big Brother - with all its resources and intelligence and sources - with
capabilities that put the Gestapo or the KGB to shame - had no idea.
Occam's Razor says Possibility No. 1 is more likely to be the truth. But what would such a truth tell us?
The third possibility is that BigBrother was in on it and didn't object to sacrificing teenage girls to get compromising information
on people they wanted tp blackmail.
"What I am saying is that Epstein's direct testimony – AND ONLY EPSTEIN'S DIRECT TESTIMONY – had the potential to create a
Common Knowledge moment that could bring down – not just specific sociopathic oligarchs like Mob Boss Donald or Mob Boss Bill
or Mob Boss Andrew if they were the specific targets of that testimony – but the entire Mob system of sociopathic oligarchy.
Jeffrey Epstein was the Missionary to bring down the monsters behind the monster, to bring down the SYSTEM of monsters.
Jeffrey Epstein's books and records are not. The individual voices of Jeffrey Epstein's victims are not.
And that's what makes me angriest of all.
That while the individual victims of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes will maybe (maybe!) get some smattering of "justice" and recompense
from the show trial of a monster's estate, there will be no Justice served against the monsters behind the monster, that the
Mob system of sociopathic oligarchy that CREATED this Jeffrey Epstein and the next Jeffrey Epstein and the next and the next
will continue unabated. Untouched. Golden."
One strongly suspects that Ghislaine Maxwell knows just as much as Epstein did. Her participation was just as important to
the operation of this "trafficking" ring. She was the lead recruiter, handled logistics, "grooming" and also was Epstein's
"in" to many of his VIP associates (who were really clients). If witness accounts are accurate, she was also a participant
in a good number of these depraved, criminal acts.
The fact she has not been charged is quite the tell about our system of "justice."
Whether Epstein was killed or committed suicide I don't know. I would however like to know who these elites were who participated
in the rapes of these young girls. They are just as guilty as Epstein whether they knew the ages of these girls or not, it
was there responsibility to find out.
This is a dangerous slope. People once bowed to the elites because there was a principle of enforcement called nobless oblige.
Society felt that elites had to be held to a higher standard because they carried greater responsibilities and burdens for
society and the welfare of the national good.
Since the 1960s nobless oblige has been downgraded to sound bites and photo ops for publicity and marketing. The elites have
all but abandoned their responsibilities to support religion, to support education (except to indocrinate), to support tradition
and society and the national good. The elites have become inward looking, inbred and narcissistic with little to no outward
focus except in a marxist totalitarian vein of thought which serves their interest, indulges their hungers, preserves their
wealth and power.
What you are have been seeing since the 1960s is the veneer being pulled off the rich and powerful. I would say Nixon and
Princess Diana and Ted Kennedy did the most to pull down the veneer from the rich and powerful but it could be argued that
Nixon and Princess Diana and Ted Kennedy were accidental victims of circumstance. However Epstein's human trafficking of children
for sex and blackmail .... breaks the most because his crimes were no accident nor was he a victim of circumstance. Epstein
planned this and created an organization around it elevating his elitist crimes to a level no that I dont think anyone in modern
history can match.
I doubt that history's elites were ever any better. It's just that with far less transparency and access, it was much easier
for them to hide how awful they were. The 1960s was the start of mass media, and so the veneer started to crack.
I do think this COULD qualify as "the story of the century." That is, If the story was told in its entirety - all "names"
exposed.
If fully told, the swamp might, in fact, be "drained."
Now the people in said swamp have a strong incentive to protect their domain. Which is why so many of us are skeptical the
true story will ever be told.
If there was ever a time where brave and patriotic whistleblowers were needed ...
"This is, of course, what most populists profess: the people as a group are wholesome, the elites as a group are venal, and
the former has to be vaulted over the latter in order for society to be made whole again."
Sorry, but take a look at the average American. The so-called "people" are for the most part just as morally obtuse as the
"elites" but they carry the additional burden of being not only ignorant but also stupid. Just look around. Best recent example
of the utter stupidity of the American people: a recent survey shows they think 23% of the population is gay. Really.
But isn't the issue exactly that the "only difference between the rich and other people is that the rich have more money" comment
is perfectly true?
The rich and powerful are us, but corrupted by riches and power. Many of them behave the way many of us would quickly start
to behave if we found ourselves in their shoes. If the gap in power between you and most other people is so huge that you can
do anything to them and get away with it, your morals stop applying to them because you start to view them as somewhat subhuman.
In this sense, I'm sure Epstein never even thought of raping the underage daughters of other elites.
Thus, the issue is stratospheric inequality of power (by whatever fungible measure you choose - money, political, religious,
social, etc). And we see it happen ALL the time throughout history and across geographies - as soon as the power gap is in
excess of social boundaries, as soon as there is a group of people you can do pretty much anything you want to and get away
with it, you start going a little crazy. Exploitation, rape, torture, murder, slavery - everything starts looking justified.
Then it's just a matter of degree, with tin-pot dictators on one end and Epstein somewhere in the middle.
Read Machiavelli. He observed that the popolo minuti (regular folks) just wished to be left alone by authorities whereas popolo
grossi (fat cats) were of a different psychological composition: they delighted in deception, were vain, greedy and hungry
for power.
Centuries later, studies of psychopaths reveal these creatures are different from regular humans at the brain level. The elites
are psychopathic (the key ones are) and no, they ain't like regular people. They are literally a different kind.
My point was that as popolo minuti transform into popolo grossi in terms of access to power, they tend to start to transform
into them in terms of moral character as well. (Inequality of) power corrupts, and absolute (inequality of) power corrupts
absolutely. Thus, it seems that the over-representation of psychopaths in positions of power is because the psychopathy is
acquired (and plenty of studies show drastic declines in empathy with even a little priming for power), rather than because
it is easier for psychopaths to rise to the top. The worst of the popolo grossi tend to be hereditary.
In my opinion, there is nothing so dangerous as to believe that evil people are a different breed from the rest of us. Instead,
they tend to simply be us, but in different circumstances. History tends to show that revolutions aimed at replacing the evil
people with better people end up with corrupted revolutionaries, rather than a fundamentally less abusive system.
"It reminds me of a well known speech by a defense counsel, who pleaded his client's poverty as an excuse of robbing and murdering
six of his victims, on the lines that "My client's poverty drove him to murder six people, everybody else would have done the
same!"
Outstanding article. However, I think we're a lot closer to 1789 France than we want to believe. Read some Chris Hedges to
see how the socialists see the current situation. Here's an example.
https://www.commondreams.or...
Elites, that is those with more wealth and/or power than the rest of the masses have always been this way. Remember how decadent
the European aristocracy was with their sport of "wenching"? that is going around in groups raping young peasant girls. Also,
there was the Hellfire Club which you can research if you want details. This scandal will get less and less coverage in the
MSM until it fades away like all the others involving the rich and powerful.
The Global "Elite" control our Ruling Class by means of blackmail. A person does not get raised to high truly influential positions
of power(Politicians, Judges, Hollywood, etc.) unless they have enough dirt on you to know that they can control you without
question. The most powerful form of blackmail that they have is ped0filia because it is THE most abhorrent crime that someone
can commit, so much so that even criminals in prison refuse to allow ped0 scumbags to be housed near them.
Trump has an obvious penchant for beautiful WOMEN not kids. He was helping and somewhat part of the "Elite" in that he was
joining in with them to buy politicians for influence but Trump neutralized that being over his head by openly admitting to
buying politicians. They thought it was safe to allow him to run because they thought it was a joke and he would never get
elected. They were wrong. In my opinion, they don't have enough dirt on him to get him to go along with their agenda of selling
out the USA to the highest bidder hence the all-out attacks on him.
The key to understanding the "Elite"/Ruling Class dynamic is not conflating the two and realizing that blackmail is the
main tool used by the one to keep the other under their control.
*Sorry about the Trump tangent above but it's absolutely ridiculous that people are trying to tie Trump to Epstein even
though Trump has been trying to bring national attention to the Epstein case FOR YEARS.
"given that all available evidence points to gross negligence on the part of the jail."
How is gross negligence different from deliberate negligence?
You can tell? And btw the WaPo just came out with news that broken
bones in Epstein's neck are more usual in cases of homicide.
I generally see anyone who belittles
'Conspiracy theorists' as part of an Establishment that uses 'incompetence' as the perennial excuse for everything that goes
wrong.
The old accusation, that you are a 'conspiracy theorist' (a term invented by the CIA after the Kennedy assassination) is holding
less and less weight. The irrational kooks now seem to be the people who think Epstein committed suicide. Jokes were everywhere
about how 'we were shocked to hear about the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, next Tuesday' when a day later we hear, 'Jeffrey Epstein
committed suicide'.
By the way, this equivalence between Trump and Clinton is bogus, I believe. There isn't much evidence of any involvement
of Trump (some evidence to the contrary in fact), but there is a load of evidence suggesting 'Wild Bill' was availing himself.
Remember when Maxine Waters was labelled a kook for saying the CIA was bringing cocaine into her LA district? She was mocked
and ridiculed. Now we know she was right. You can't make this stuff up.
I'm sorry, but this case stinks to high heaven, and if you're ready to accept "gross negligence" as the explanation you're
likely to believe ANYTHING the authorities tell you. Epstein was either murdered, as the autopsy and reports of shrieking from
his cell indicate, or subbed out by intelligence services and replaced by a murdered homeless person who received plastic surgery.
Study the history of modern intelligence services: appearances are deceiving, and systemic disinformation is endemic to politics.
Careful public speculation, acknowledging where we're uncertain, is very much the responsible thing to do; otherwise there
is no hope of democratic accountability. The investigation we're being promised will be conducted by the exact same institution
-- the US Department of Justice -- that was responsible for keeping Epstein safe and securing his public testimony about his
criminal network. These are the people you want us to trust? Come on, a little critical reasoning, please!
The most ridiculous part is the idea that being rich and powerful gives you a predilection to turn a blind eye. My wife's family
turned a blind eye to a perverted uncle that molested multiple family members over decades. No one stood up, it would've been
a shame to them to admit it. How is this any different?
Kit Knightly at OffGuardian has a great commentary on how the Guardian is shaping
its coverage of this Epstein situation, particularly in regard to all us conjecturing
types:
> Maxwell was reading a book called "The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of
CIA Operatives"
You can't make this up. It's like they are doing everything possible to give conspiracy
theorists maximum ammo. All we need now is to find out that Maxwell's Twitter handle is
'#M0554d4g3nt4L1f3'
“Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s one-time girlfriend and alleged
co-conspirator, was spotted Monday at an In-N-Out Burger in Universal City, California, of
all places.”
I pass this place nearly every day…
Need me to grab her?
For what it is worth ( Not much), I have spoken to about a dozen people about Epstein's
death. Not one of them believes Epstein committed suicide. I asked a wide range of people
from small town mayors to Realtors to a commercial fisherman.
I have insufficient information to make a judgement, however I do consider it more likely
than not that Epstein was killed. My opinion is based on nothing more than 60 plus years of
paying attention to how things really work, it was a mighty convenient death.
"... This is doomed to dissolve. To a greater and significant degree, the public is finding true justice wanting, and thus holds no trust in Government, at All levels. ..."
Then you get a tame judge assigned (and that's nothing new, even Johnny Carson used to
joke "do you know how bad the economy is these days?" [sidekick] "no, Johnny, just how bad is
the economy?" "it's so bad, organised crime has had to lay off 5 judges this week ") to let
Epstein off with a slap on the wrist, a year at the Four Seasons low security penitentiary
and early release through time served.
Much simpler than any of the other notions and achieves exactly the same result (Epstein
is subject to "the full force of the law" but stays happily alive to tell the tale and keep
his finger off the Dead Mans Switch).
If you were in charge of all this, which solution would you try first? If you've ever
worked in a big, but incompetent, organisation (and if they're big, they're almost certainly
going to be incompetence personified), you wouldn't even need to ask yourself that
question.
This is doomed to dissolve. To a greater and significant degree, the public is finding
true justice wanting, and thus holds no trust in Government, at All levels.
But hey that's just conspiracy theory talk .. right ?
"... In the case of Epstein, I was thinking not that he was a principal who had to be offed because he ' knew too much ', but was more like the racehorse whose head winds up in someone's bed. ..."
If you consider social democrat types to be Left -- the 'near Left' -- then they've made
great progress during the reign of Trump. It is true they are nowhere near dominance as yet,
but in any case the stuff the Deep State factions are struggling over, war, empire, funny
money, and other con games, are inherently corrupt and corrupting, and formal dominance could
only mean submission to the rules of the Game. Probably better to lose influentially; victory
is death.
In the case of Epstein, I was thinking not that he was a principal who had to be offed
because he ' knew too much ', but was more like the racehorse whose head winds up in
someone's bed. Or hearing that someone has been given plutonium tea. 'We can do this,
sucker!'
If Trump were interested in "winning", as he likes to claim, he would push the DOJ to view
this as a RICO case, not one about a single rich pedophile. There was a criminal organization
at work here, with multiple conspirators and enablers. They should be indicted. Additionally,
there are enough people on the periphery -- ex-presidents, financiers, professors, etc --
that deserve to be dragged in front of a jury, where they can publicly plead the 5th.
This should have been the approach from Day 1, and hopefully, Epstein's suspicious death
will be a catalyst for it.
Craig Murray's sober, reflective note on Epstein begins and ends with corruption as its
main theme. I hope people find the time to read it. He doesn't delve deeply, but at base it
what is known as seigniory rights--the right of the lord to take and rape whomever he wants
with impunity, which is one of the most brutal forms of corruption imaginable. Epstein's
business was to facilitate that form of corruption. Yes, it's illegal and immoral, but the
primary fact is that its corrupt--it has no sanction whatsoever. And it's exactly that sort
of primal corruption that is visited upon the vast majority daily. Passing legislation that
will knowingly result in the poisoning of millions--stunting the brains of the young--which
was just done and signed into law by Trump is what I'm writing about. It's a different form
of rape, but it's rape nonetheless. But it seems that only bothers me, and Craig Murray.
So "it's all the fault of the Jews and the Israelis, no one else is ever involved in sex
trafficking of young "white" girls", sarcasm from me.
Why don't you drop your BS auto-anti-Semitism and look at everyone else documented to have
been involved.
/div>
For those who claim public view of Epsteins corpse,very understandably and necessary ,I
would say,that even then there's possibility of being misled.The film industry manages to
produce props that look very real,human face included.I stood once before a prop representing
the corpse of a shot down horse,even at fifty cm from it I thought it was real.There was no
smell of course,but even that can be staged.The people allowed to view Epsteins cadaver really
would need to put a knife in it,to assure its being real,and then try to pull off the mask that
could be his face.
For those who claim public view of Epsteins corpse,very understandably and necessary ,I
would say,that even then there's possibility of being misled.The film industry manages to
produce props that look very real,human face included.I stood once before a prop representing
the corpse of a shot down horse,even at fifty cm from it I thought it was real.There was no
smell of course,but even that can be staged.The people allowed to view Epsteins cadaver
really would need to put a knife in it,to assure its being real,and then try to pull off the
mask that could be his face.
willie , Aug 12 2019 11:11 utc |
84Taffyboy , Aug 12 2019 11:25 utc |
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Interesting list, sorry about the length of copy and paste, from Zerohedge then.
In 2016 CBS Las Vegas posted a list of Bill and Hillary Clinton associates alleged to have
died under mysterious circumstances.
Here is that list.
1- James McDougal – Clintons convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart
attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr's investigation.
2 – Mary Mahoney – A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a
Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown .. The murder happened just after she was to go public
w:th her story of sexual harassment in the White House.
3 – Vince Foster – Former White House counselor, and colleague of Hillary
Clinton at Little Rock's Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a
suicide.
4 – Ron Brown – Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to
have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that
there was a hole in the top of Brown's skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his
death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with
prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later the Air Traffic
controller commited suicide.
5 – C. Victor Raiser, II – Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising
organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992.
6 – Paul Tulley – Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead
in a hotel room in Little Rock , September 1992. Described by Clinton as a "dear friend and
trusted advisor".
7 – Ed Willey – Clinton fundraiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods
in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his
wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House.
Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.
8 – Jerry Parks – Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock
.. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock Park's son said his
father was building a dossier on Clinton He allegedly threatened to reveal this information.
After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.
9 – James Bunch – Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a
"Black Book" of people which contained names of influential people who visited prostitutes in
Texas and Arkansas
10 – James Wilson – Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging
suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater..
11 – Kathy Ferguson – Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found
dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide even
though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson
was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit Kathy Ferguson was a
possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.
12 – Bill Shelton – Arkansas State Trooper and fiancee of Kathy Ferguson.
Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancee, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot
wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiancee.
13 – Gandy Baugh – Attorney for Clinton's friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping
out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a convicted drug
distributor.
14 – Florence Martin – Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was
related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. He died of three
gunshot wounds.
15 – Suzanne Coleman – Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was
Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide.
Was pregnant at the time of her death.
16 – Paula Grober – Clinton's speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until
her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one car accident.
17 – Danny Casolaro – Investigative reporter, investigating Mena Airport and
Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparently, in the middle of his
investigation.
18 – Paul Wilcher – Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport with
Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise" was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993, in his
Washington DC apartment had delivered a report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.
19 – Jon Parnell Walker – Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust Corp.
Jumped to his death from his Arlington ,Virginia apartment balcony August 15, 1993. He was
investigating the Morgan Guaranty scandal.
20 – Barbara Wise – Commerce Department staffer. Worked closely with Ron Brown
and John Huang. Cause of death: Unknown. Died November 29, 1996. Her bruised, naked body was
found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce.
21 – Charles Meissner – Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang
special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash.
22 – Dr. Stanley Heard – Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care
Advisory Committee died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in
addition to serving on Clinton 's advisory council personally treated Clinton's mother,
stepfather and brother.
23 – Barry Seal – Drug running TWA pilot out of Mena Arkansas, death was no
accident.
24 – Johnny Lawhorn, Jr. – Mechanic, found a check made out to Bill Clinton in
the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. He was found dead after his car had hit a utility
pole.
25 – Stanley Huggins – Investigated Madison Guaranty. His death was a
purported suicide and his report was never released.
26 – Hershell Friday – Attorney and Clinton fundraiser died March 1, 1994,
when his plane exploded.
27 – Kevin Ives & Don Henry – Known as "The boys on the track" case.
Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport drug operation. A
controversial case, the initial report of death said, due to falling asleep on railroad
tracks. Later reports claim the 2 boys had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many
linked to the case died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury.
THE FOLLOWING PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE:
28 – Keith Coney – Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck,
7/88.
30 – Gregory Collins – Died from a gunshot wound January 1989.
31 – Jeff Rhodes – He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in
April 1989.
32 – James Milan – Found decapitated. However, the Coroner ruled his death was
due to natural causes".
34 – Richard Winters – A suspect in the Ives/Henry deaths. He was killed in a
set-up robbery July 1989.
THE FOLLOWING CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE ALSO DEAD
35 – Major William S. Barkley, Jr.
36 – Captain Scott J . Reynolds
37 – Sgt. Brian Hanley
38 – Sgt. Tim Sabel
39 – Major General William Robertson
40 – Col. William Densberger
41 – Col. Robert Kelly
42 – Spec. Gary Rhodes
43 – Steve Willis
44 – Robert Williams
45 – Conway LeBleu
46 – Todd McKeehan
And the most recent, Seth Rich, the DC staffer murdered and "robbed" (of nothing) on July
10. Wikileaks founder Assange claims he had info on the DNC email scandal.
Not Included in this list are the 4 heroes killed in Benghazi.
And now you can add multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein to the list...
"... With Epstein dead, four women accused of recruiting underage girls for sex with the pedophile financier are coming into focus, including British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell - who has denied all claims ..."
"... She was more of a partner in his obsession, really," said Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown , who spent more than two years looking into Epstein's controversial 2008 plea deal. "And there are allegations that she was involved in having sex with some of these girls as well ..."
"... Court documents from 2011 reveal Epstein controlled several apartments in a building just blocks from his $77 million New York townhouse and allegedly housed "underage girls from all over the world ..."
With Epstein dead, four women accused of recruiting underage girls for sex with the
pedophile financier are coming into focus, including British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell - who
has denied all claims.
On Monday, AG Barr said that Epstein's alleged co-conspirators "should
not rest easy" just because Epstein won't have his day in court.
"Let me assure you that case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with
Epstein," said Barr in remarks to a New Orleans law enforcement group, "Any co-conspirators
should not rest easy. Victims deserve justice and will get it."
Maxwell is said to be Epstein's ex-girlfriend turned business associate. Her current
location is unknown.
"She was more of a partner in his obsession, really," said
Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown , who spent more than two years looking into Epstein's
controversial 2008 plea deal. "And there are allegations that she was involved in having sex
with some of these girls as well."
Court documents from 2011 reveal Epstein controlled several apartments in a building just
blocks from his $77 million New York townhouse and allegedly housed "underage girls from all
over the world." -
CBS News
Daniel Benaim and Michael Walid Hanna
explain that the U.S. military presence in the Middle East hasn't changed much at all under
Trump, but there has been a reduction in diplomatic engagement:
For all the headlines, the U.S. military presence in the Middle East is fairly consistent.
Despite the administration's intention, laid out in the 2018 National Defense Strategy, to
refocus the U.S. military on great-power competition, the U.S. footprint in the Middle East
remains relatively constant, and seemingly permanent. Instead, what has changed is the scale
of civilian effort that, in most previous administrations, would have accompanied such a
military presence. The Trump administration has left numerous vacancies for key civilian
positions unfilled for long stretches, slashed aid programs, and focused on high-level
personal relations at the expense of broader ties. Altogether, its approach has not been
typified by either retrenchment or interventionism but by what Barry Posen, writing in
Foreign Affairs, has called "illiberal hegemony" -- military superiority shorn of diplomatic
stewardship.
Benaim and Hanna are right about this, and their article is a welcome corrective to the many
false claims that Trump is "retreating" from the region. The administration's disdain for
diplomacy and aid has been impossible to miss over the last two and a half years, and they have
combined that with more or less continuing the military deployments and missions that they
inherited. What that means in practice is that the U.S. remains entangled in the affairs of the
region, but our government's involvement leans even more heavily towards the military. That
leaves every other kind of engagement underfunded, understaffed, and neglected. Since our
foreign policy is already excessively militarized, this makes a bad problem worse. Benaim and
Hanna note this later in the article:
This approach also exacerbates the long-standing problem of overreliance on the military
as the central tool of U.S. Middle East policy. Even on a diplomat's best days, regional
leaders are well aware of the "consul effect" -- the contrast between well-resourced American
military commanders and their relatively impoverished diplomatic colleagues. Further
marginalizing diplomats costs them influence, access, and bargaining power, while positioning
the military and intelligence communities as the only effective U.S. institutional actors in
the region.
Given the reality that the U.S. military presence hasn't been reduced, and has actually
increased in some places over the last two years, how is it that we keep hearing about U.S.
"retreat" and "withdrawal" as if these were happening? Client states have an incentive to whine
about possible "abandonment" no matter what the U.S. does. Either they complain about an
"abandonment" that has supposedly already happened, or they warn against a possible
"abandonment" that might take place in the future. The whining serves the purpose of putting
pressure on every administration to maintain existing commitments and then to add more. Then
there are pundits and analysts at home that constantly fret about U.S. "withdrawal" as a way of
agitating for increased involvement. Then there are the supporters of the president that want
to pretend that the "withdrawal" is really happening in order to credit the president for doing
something he hasn't done. Add them all up, and you get an unfounded consensus that the U.S. is
"retreating" when virtually nothing has changed. In the case of Trump, there is an additional
factor of taking the president's rhetoric at face value while ignoring what his administration
is doing. Trump boasts about some things that never happened and never will happen, and for
some reason he is blamed/credited for things he never does while his real policies often escape
close scrutiny.
Put simply, U.S. military engagement in the Middle East is largely unchanged and has even
escalated to some degree under Trump, but all other kinds of engagement get short shrift. Far
from disentangling the U.S. from its excessive commitments in the region, Trump has embraced
our worst clients and deepened our government's involvement in the worst way for the sake of
arms sales and whipping up anti-Iranian sentiment. This is the exact opposite of what should be
happening, and it is antithetical to a foreign policy that extricates U.S. forces from the
region.
The Jeffrey Epstein
saga goes on even though convicted pedophile Epstein himself has been found hanged in his
jail cell in Manhattan. One has to wonder how he managed to kill himself, if that is indeed the
case, as he was reportedly on suicide watch at the prison and it is to be presumed that he had
been stripped of any clothing or accoutrements that would have been usable to that end. So, he
is dead but did he do it himself or was he helped? There are many prominent individuals and
powerful government agencies that will be very pleased that he is gone as most of his secrets
will have gone to the grave with him.
There was certainly a warning that something might happen. Two weeks ago, he was reportedly
found unconscious in his jail cell with marks around his neck. It was suggested that he
might have tried to kill himself or, alternatively, had been beaten up by another inmate. There
was also considerable speculation that some aggrieved part of the Deep State was trying to kill
him to silence him.
The subsequent press reports revealed that Epstein had been taken to a hospital, but there
has been no follow-up about his condition or status apart from
a brief note that he had been returned to the same jail under suicide watch. In any event,
the story had pretty much died, which is precisely what a lot of the high rollers and
politicians who became involved with Epstein would have liked to see happen. Nevertheless,
investigations of the "Affair Epstein" reportedly were continuing at the federal level as well
as in New York State and Florida.
The most recent elaboration of the Epstein saga prior to his death came from his former
patron Leslie Wexner, the canny Jewish business tycoon who built an Ohio based fashion empire
called L Brands from scratch. L Brands, by the way, includes Victoria's Secret, which features
young women strutting around in their underwear. The 81 year old Wexner claimed in a 564 word
letter that the wily Epstein "misappropriated vast sums of
money" from him. In the letter Wexner admitted to having lost at least $46 million from his
family money, but some media accounts are suggesting that the fraud amounted to much more,
possibly as much as $500 million. And the alleged theft also extended to property, to include
the series of transactions that left Epstein possessing the Upper East Side mansion where he
resided and did his filming of celebrities having sex with young girls, estimated to be worth
$56 million, as well as the commercial airliner that became the Lolita Express and a
yacht.
(Leslie Wexner. Credit: American Academy of Achievement/ YouTube)
Now, either sum of purloined money is not exactly pocket change even for multi-billionaire
Wexner, even if rag trade magnate was enamored of the massages he was getting at Epstein's
house. It would take an extremely poor businessman to be unaware of losing that kind of money
and that much property unless his name were Donald Trump.
Wexler claimed that he began to sever ties with Epstein in 2007, after Florida authorities
charged Jeffrey in early 2006 with multiple counts of molestation and unlawful sexual activity
with a minor. In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution
from a minor and was required to register as a sex offender, but he received an astonishingly
mild jail sentence of eighteen months with a private cell, unlimited visitors including young
women, and daily release so he could be picked up by his driver to go to work in his Palm Beach
office, a bit of incomprehensible leniency that is currently being subjected to criminal
investigation by the state of Florida. After the sentence was handed down the county sheriff
observed that "He was astonished that [Epstein] had to go to prison at all."
Indeed, the entire Florida side of the Epstein story seems to have disappeared down some
memory hole. Epstein was convicted for his involvement with prostitution, but the only
remaining issue was the consequences that he faced. That is where other players stepped in,
including Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, Palm Beach county state attorney
Barry Krischer, and the Miami office U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta.
My belief that Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence agent is based principally on Acosta's
comments when being cleared by the Trump transition team. He was asked "Is the Epstein case
going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?" "Acosta testified that he'd had just one
meeting on the Epstein case. He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys
because he had 'been told' to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. 'I was told
Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.'"
The questions about Epstein remain even though he is gone, but one fears that the
authorities will be disinclined to further investigate a dead man. It appears that no one in
the various investigative agencies or the mainstream media has been interested in what Acosta
meant, even though it would be simple enough to ask him. Who told him to back off? And how did
they explain it? And then there is Epstein's Austrian passport. Was it fake or real, with a
real name and photo substitution or alternation of both picture and name? How did he get it?
Austrian passports are highly desirable in intelligence circles because the country is neutral
and its holders can travel just about everywhere without a visa.
And there's more. As a former intelligence officer myself, there is little doubt in my mind
that what Epstein did and how he did it was an intelligence operation. There is no other viable
explanation for his filming of prominent politicians and celebrities having sex with young
girls. And as for the question of whom Epstein might have been working for, the
most likely answer is Mossad . The CIA would have had no interest in compiling dossiers on
prominent Americans, but American movers and shakers like Bill Clinton, with his 26 trips on
the Lolita Express , former Governor Bill Richardson, or former Senator George Mitchell
are
precisely the types of "agents of influence" that the Mossad would seek to coerce or even
blackmail into cooperation.
Other compelling evidence for a Mossad connection came from Epstein's relationship with
Ghislaine Maxwell, who reportedly served as his key procurer of young girls. Ghislaine is the
daughter of Robert
Maxwell , who died or possibly was assassinated in mysterious circumstances in 1991.
Maxwell was an Anglo-Jewish businessman, very cosmopolitan in profile, like Epstein, a
multi-millionaire who was very controversial with what were regarded as ongoing ties to Mossad.
After his death, he was given a state funeral by Israel in which six serving and former heads
of Israeli intelligence listened while Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized : "He has
done more for Israel than can today be said."
Israel and high-profile Jewish players also have
continued to turn up like bad pennies in the Epstein case, but no one seems to be
interested in pursuing that angle. Epstein clearly had contact with former Israeli Prime
Minister Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak and Wexner also had
close ties to the Jewish state and its government. Barry Krischer, who may have been the
source of the comments to Acosta, has received the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) award . Evidence also suggests that Krischer, cooperating with rabidly
pro-Israel Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz, played a key role in the failure to adequately
punish Epstein for his conviction for pedophilia. According to a recent New
Yorker story , the police investigators of the Epstein case observed that "the tone and
tenor of the discussions of this case with Krischer changed completely" after his meetings with
Dershowitz. At that point, the two detectives most involved in the case found themselves under
extreme pressure. They were surveilled constantly by private investigators and they even had
their household trash snatched and searched. And the resulting plea agreement with Krischer "
was due to the efforts of Dershowitz, who had proceeded to attack and smear the victims."
Krischer
claims that his office "subpoenaed witnesses took evidence to a Grand Jury, which returned
a single felony count indictment against Epstein of soliciting prostitution," but the reality
appears to be that he worked with the defense to get Epstein off. There was plenty of evidence
based on more than forty interviews with victims to convict Epstein, but instead of having him
arrested, Krischer instead set up the Grand Jury with no mention of underage victims to
mitigate the possible consequences. He also did not inform the victims of what he had arranged
so they could challenge the verdict and penalty, a violation of Crime Victims Rights Act.
The Palm Beach police who worked the case at the time told The Miami Herald as
part of an investigation published in November that they felt pressured by Krischer to
downgrade Epstein's case to a misdemeanor, or to drop it entirely. They said "the fix was in."
Acosta, more recently, did not refer to Krischer by name during an early July news conference,
but spoke of the Palm Beach County state's attorney. He described his own office as stepping in
to ensure Epstein faced some form of punishment. "Simply put, the Palm Beach State Attorney's
Office was willing to let Epstein walk free. No jail time. Nothing," Acosta said. "Prosecutors
in my former office found this to be completely unacceptable, and we became involved."
After thirteen months in country club jail in Palm Beach, Epstein was released. At his
mansion in New York City, he subsequent had an artist paint a mural of himself in jail,
evidently as an insider joke for those who knew about his time behind bars. End of story? Not
exactly, even though Epstein is now dead. But the key questions go unanswered including was he
a spy for Israel? And what about the Krischer-Dershowitz connection that kept him from being
punished commensurate with his crimes? Did those instructions also come from Israel or from its
friends in the U.S. Justice Department? Will the three simultaneous investigations currently
taking place even continue and ask the right questions now that the target of the investigation
is gone? Given the high stakes in the game, quite likely, there will be a cover-up both of how
Epstein lived and how he died. We the public will never know what Epstein was all about.
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We the public will never know what Epstein was all about.
Astute observation, which means of course that we can endlessly speculate with little fear
of contradiction.
Question: If I film a person having sex with an underage girl I have committed a major
felony. How many people would use that film as blackmail knowing that its release will land
him in prison?
For too many people, it's the ideal outcome. Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew
those are the ones we spotted.
Moreover, it's possible the pool was about to expand a lot. Drawn by the scent of
that supposed five hundred million dollar fortune, a law firm was searching for more of
Epstein's victims. Who knows who they would have named?
There would have been a welter of civil suits, All the beans could have been
spilled.
And gee now we'll never know. I doubt if much trace of that supposed fortune is ever going
to be found. It never was clear how Epstein made money, or even who he made it from, and yet
he had multiple fabulous estates -- including his own private island -- and a private Boeing
727. Whoever supplied the funds for all this is going to go away, leaving no trail behind
them.
I'm reminded of the considerably more obscure Zygier case.
Zygier was an Australian Jew who followed that familiar path for idealistic young Jews
from the diaspora : get smitten with Israel, make aliyah , and serve in
Israel's noble armed forces.
In Zygier's case, his service took the form of joining the Mossad. Evidently, he saw
something there that offended his refined ethical sensibilities; he was locked up and held
incommunicado pending trial. Sadly, he 'committed suicide' -- in a cell under
twenty-four hour suicide watch -- before he could appear in court.
@Colin Wright "a law
firm was searching for more of Epstein's victims. Who knows who they would have named?"
They can still sue his estate. Not like it matters much for civil suits if he is dead. His
testimony would not have been credible or helpful for either side.
I can't even understand why he came back to the states to be arrested. With all his
contacts he must have known that if he came here that would be the outcome. If the powers
that be wanted to get rid of him he would have had an accident ages ago. Maybe it was more
important to have him arrested and instill fear in all the people caught up by his honey trap
it certainly would help to exert pressure if there was a particular agenda that needed to be
accomplished. My feeling is that he has been whisked off to a new life with his awesome
retirement package.
TPTBs really, REALLY, don't care what the rest think or feel. Well, except for one thing,
maybe: "Look what we can do to one of us. Now .think a bit, what can we do to YOU?".
The "rest", at the same time, also don't care much. Most people won't simply register
this. So much for "informing/educating people to create a positive social change".
The very mechanisms of society which are supposed to prevent this, let alone investigate
and punish the perpetrators, obviously, won't do it. Independent ..hahahaha ..media.
Judiciary. Police. Famed security services.
If this had happened anywhere else in the world the USA media/public would've been shitting,
with reason, all over it. Not in the land of free. Well, that does prove that American
society is exceptional.
This is really "in your face". Scary, actually, how "they" really don't care. Not because
"they" are what they are. Because "we" are what "we" are.
It would be interesting to see what's going to happen to the plebs involved. My take: some
disciplinary action now. And, perhaps, the same guy(s) employed somewhere with much better
pay and perks.
"If I film a person having sex with an underage girl I have committed a major felony. How
many people would use that film as blackmail knowing that its release will land him in
prison?"
For the same reason people build nuclear weapons but don't ever use them: the potential
for MAD is there should anyone get out of line and attack so there is never an attack. The
money keeps flowing to Israel and no administration votes against them in the UN.* Besides,
if Epstein were contracted by Mossad, they presumably would have copies of this dirt and they
could easily release it through a third party. That's certainly a calculation the victims
would have made. We already know a former Israeli PM with high level contacts in the IDF and,
possibly, Mossad not only had personal contact with Epstein but also had a business
relationship with him through a company based in Israel. Wexner could have funneled money
through that company to conceal the operation's finances, which would have been beyond the
ability of US regulators to examine.
Personally, I find it incredulous that Wexner would have been unaware of missing $500
million. That's an extraordinary sum. We know Wenxer is an ardent Israeli nationalist who has
in the past organized fellow Jewish billionaires (Study Group / Mega Group) for the purposes
of promoting "Jewish charity" the perfect front to run an operation. Study this man's ties
and you will almost certainly find Mossad. Wexner was the perfect means to fund Epstein's
operation: wealthy, ethnocentric, and highly connected to other big time players in finance,
politics, and the entertainment industries (great for recruiting) – the perfect cover
to shield Israel from blow back in the unlikely event the operation became public. This was
Mossad. Count on it. it's what I would do.
*Sorta funny how American administrations stopped voting against Israeli interests around
the time when video cameras became widespread, isn't it? Further, has anyone ever wondered
what happens when all those freshly minted democrats join leadership in their freshmen luxury
tours of Israel? Seems like the perfect time to gather some dirt. I wonder if their hotel
rooms get special visits from young women? If I were honest CIA, I might have a problem with
this activity if I were honestly working for this country and not a certain other one, that
is.
So many questions and we are supposed to have confidence in the same FBI and DOJ that created
Russiagate to investigate another stinking pile of corruption? Why not appoint James Comey as
a special counsel to investigate the Epstein affair? That will keep everything hidden for a
few years.
Here's what bothers me. George Mitchell, Bill Richardson even Bill Clinton are has beens
and, let's face it, to a septuagenarian lecher the difference between an 16 year old and an
18 year old girl is a distinction without a difference. Epstein could have run his version of
the Playboy Mansion unhindered for the rest of his life had he just made sure his 'pleasure
units' had drivers licenses that said they were 18. Hell, Monica Lewinsky was 21 and Bill
Clinton risked his presidency to conceal that affair. If blackmail is your game you don't
need teenyboppers to ruin a political career. Ask Gary Hart or John Edwards!
There is something missing in this Epstein drama. Something so devastating that it goes
beyond any single person's survival. Something that would bring down an agency ( like the FBI
) were it to be revealed.
@peterAUS With all the
dystopian bills and laws passed in the last two years, with the current attack on the 1st and
2nd amendment, with the effective neutering of congress and its politicians reduction to
puppets for special interests and the lobby, finally with the attack on the internet, you
knew the West is moving into totalitarian mode. But the murder-suicide of Epstein outright
confirms it. Welcome to the USSA. It's a big club and YOU ain't in it!
Unless you are a billionaire, Zionist or top level agent useful to them of course.
But it does make you wonder what Americans will do. If the British crown had done a 1/10th
of what the current elite does You have to wonder if Ernst Zundel's prophecy will come true
in the end. Or if the people will really just go quietly into the night and slumber away
consuming superhero movies, junk food and second-hand memories of a time long passed and
dreams of a fake utopia that will never be and was a lie to begin with.
@Lot' They can
still sue his estate. Not like it matters much for civil suits if he is dead. His testimony
would not have been credible or helpful for either side.'
You assume they can find his estate. I imagine that -- the title to the plane, the island,
the imaginary stock portfolio -- is all going to prove remarkably evanescent.
Whoever was funding Epstein is going to roll up the carpet behind them as they go.
There'll be nothing to take.
@Muggles Both of those
deaths lead back to Mueller. Likewise the wrist slap for major kiddie porn distributor David
Asimov ( son of Isaac ). If you venture farther back you find Mueller butt deep in the BCCI
scandal.
As to how Epstein got his fake passport, it's highly likely he got it from Ronald Lauder, son
of Estée Lauder and currently President of the World Jewish Congress. At the time
Epstein received his fake Austrian passport, Lauder was US ambassador to Austria.
It's time Wexner's shady past received more scrutiny, as it would reveal everything about
the true nature and extent of Epstein's operation. Wexner has had both ties to the mob and
the CIA. He shared the same very private terminal for fueling and customs inspections at
Rickenbacker Airport with the CIA's Southern Air Transport airline (later Evergreen
Aviation), known for its "Torture Taxi" rendition flights and drug trafficking. Wexner used
Southern Air Transport to fly clothing in from Hong Kong, which back in the day was the main
heroin hub. It may be that Wexner received a cut of the CIA's drug money for serving as a
front, at a time when Epstein was doing the book keeping for Wexner.
One of Wexner's brands is called Express, which started out as Limited Express. No doubt
"Lolita Express" is a play on that, as there was a habit of using variations of the Limited
name. Wexner had a super yacht called "Limitless" that Epstein used.
Personally, I find it incredulous that Wexner would have been unaware of missing $500
million.
Wexner knew it , he just didn't do anything about it which begs the question why? There is
also the question of why Wexner gave Epstein a 'power of attorney' over his family charity
fund. A man in his position would have a dozen attorneys who would have told him not to do
that.
There were billions of dollars at risk on what Epstein could tell.
"Besides Lex Wexner of L Brands who now (15 years after the fact) says Epstein stole $45
million from him which he made no effort to get back there was Leon Black.
"Leon D. Black, head of Apollo Global Management one of the world's largest private equity
firms
Black's links to Epstein have become a source of concern to some Apollo employees and
investors, including the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which has committed
more than $5 billion to 11 Apollo funds and is its second-largest shareholder.
"Calpers takes this issue very seriously," Wayne Davis, a spokesman for the Sacramento-based
pension,"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/jeffrey-epstein-had-a-door-into-apollo-his-deep-ties-with-black
Black and Apollo would have been ruined forever if Calpers had withdrawn their pension
money because of links to Epstein sexcapades.
There are likely more WS and other financial figures linked to Epstein and there may have
been crimes beyond underage girls such as actual sex trafficking and money laundering .his
travel records included countries compatible with those activities.
@Lot' Maybe his
money isn't as well hidden as we imagine. After all, he kept a big child porn stash right in
NYC, and didn't move to a no-extradition country. So he was either expecting to get away with
his crimes or just really sloppy '
Intentionally or not, you seem to be determinedly missing my point.
Maybe the money never was Epstein's. Maybe it was given to him to run the operations he
ran. Epstein wasn't an independent operator so much as an employee.
Watch and see. If I'm right, everything will turn out to be in somebody else's name. There
won't be an estate to sue.
I read that Epstein had been taken off suicide watch, that the video camera surveilling him
had developed a technical malfunction, and that the guards assigned to him had been removed
for 3 hours related to some maintenance chore. If this is so, there will be some explaining
to do, and the internet will see to it that there is a lot of justified speculation. Even
minor prisoners are under video-surveillance 24-7 in more modern facilities.
Since Epstein had hundreds or thousands of videos of prominent people having sex with
minors, the state has a duty to the victims and the public to go through this material and
prosecute the clients where possible. This will naturally open up the discussion of a
possible blackmailing operation.
In a manner of speaking, God has done his part and the ball's in our court. If we don't do
what we can to get this investigated properly we have ourselves to blame. This is a golden
opportunity to expose the deep state. Don't be content to whine or listen to Hannity whine.
Whiners are losers.
Since Epstein appears to have no wife or children it will be interesting to see if he left
a will or if, like Howard Hughes, some Melvin Dummar type emerges claiming Epstein's estate.
Worth a try I suppose if you can get a lawyer to work on a contingency basis.
@iffen The point is
that this man was on suicide watch not for his own sake so much as because the investigation
and prosecution of his crimes and related ones were so important to the country.
I've recently been doing quite a lot of reading about the Syndicate gangsters of the
1930s-1940s, and another interesting historical parallel comes to mind
In 1941, Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, a senior figure in Brooklyn's Murder Inc. agreed to
testify against America's top Syndicate bosses, providing detailed evidence about the 1,000
or so nationwide killings that his organization had performed on their behalf.
Obviously, the federal prosecutors were concerned about his safety in any ordinary jail,
and stashed him in a suite of top-floor hotel rooms, where he was guarded 24-hours per day by
rotating groups of six specially-selected police officers, who would keep him under constant
surveillance. The doors were steel-plated and the rooms selected to preclude any long-range
sniper.
Oops! Poor "Kid Twist" somehow decided to jump out the 5th story window and kill himself
when all six of the on-duty guards happened to simultaneously doze off.
The Captain in command of the unit argued that it was accident rather than suicide, and
the poor fellow had deliberately climbed out the window, intending to rappel down to the
floor below, then walk back up the stairs and knock on the front door, thereby surprising his
erstwhile guards with a amusing practical joke.
Syndicate killers planning to implicate their bosses should definitely avoid playing such
"practical jokes"
@Ron Unz What is so
striking about the Epstein murder/suicide is not that high level witnesses like him would be
targeted and taken out to protect the powerful people implied in his testimony. But that even
the most casually informed observer of the case equipped with basic common knowledge would
know and anticipate in advance with certainty that he would be targeted.
The fact that Epstein could be killed in the prison which protected El Chapo and where,
allegedly, not a single inmate had comitted suicide under watch, with the dire warnings of
many voices and red flags in advance, and a "suicide attempt" just shortly before, which
already implied assault in his cell, can only mean two things:
That the US justice system is as inept and dysfunctional as that of a banana republic
– which is unlikely.
Or that the US political system from the presidents, over state attorneys down to the
common prison guard is so thoroughly corrupted to the point of evil that it was possible to
have Epstein assassinated.
Similar cases you have reported have been going on for almost a century now. And what was
speculative has now become iron certainty: that blackmail, assassination, human trafficking,
child abuse and pedophile-rings are an integral part of the true ruling elite of the USA.
Likely that of Europe aswell. And of South America. And the destinction between the ruling
elite and the mob it used and uses, is at best grey in nature. We are talking about people
who can destroy entire nations, have hundreds of thousands of people massacred as a
consequence and laugh about it, like Hillary Clinton did.
Yet the uncomfortable, undeniable certainty of this reality does still come somewhat as a
shock to me.
What was so special about the Epstein case was that it happened under the watchful and
anticipating eye of the public. The assasination, as described earlier, was a show of force
and smug mocking of the audience by the ruling elite. It almost felt like a bait to violent
retaliation. Like the true establishment had thrown down the gauntlet.
My pessimism leads me to believe that the Epstein assassination and implication with
Mossad and Ehud Barak as well as Benjamin Netanyahu will be memory-holed and drown in the
swamp of total apathy that rules post-historic, rootless, post-modern western man. But it is
hard to believe the potentially most esxplosive case in post-WW2 US history could just end
like a forgotten footnote.
@MLK I would import
everyone half-intelligent to ignore Giraldi's distraction arm-waving about the Jews. Apply
some common sense.
Whomever was powerful enough to resuscitate the "Epstein saga," surely could have quietly
suicided him in the many years before he was back in federal custody. Ergo, that wasn't the
plan.
According to the (sketchy) official story, Epstein recklessly flew back to Teterboro
Airport right when his malefactions were again in the spotlight and the subject of
litigation. Apparently all of his powerful protectors low these many years must have all been
on summer vacation, including Mossad to hear Giraldi tell it.
What makes a whole lot more sense is that he was, in a word, renditioned. We even got
the post-arrest photo of him looking much like Saddam (purportedly) pulled from his hiding
hole by some garden-variety US soldiers.
@TKK Except she was
not 15, but two years older, and was with him until 19, which is a difficult mistake to make
honestly. And once your testimony is proven to be unreliable in one detail about judge must
tell the jury all your evidence is tainted. She also had a druggie boyfriend at the time. And
she was a lot tighter with her family and deceived them a lot more than anyone would
understand from her account. She lied to her father and was taking money for sex as a 19 year
old. Her character not her consent would be the issue. The jury would be led to understand
that they were making her a millionaire by convicting Epstein. Epstein's acquittal would not
have been unprecedented, Michael Jackson's acquittal was probabally due to just such a
defence strategy. Both had a lot of money, and the criminal justice system is not designed to
cope with super rich defendants.
@Grizaby Evidently you
can't read. It said Clinton and the rest of his clients. Trump is owned by Israel but that
doesn't mean he was part of Epstein's inner circle like the Clintons were. You have no clue
to what you are talking about. If Trump was part of it he will be had. Look at the bull they
tried to run by the American people with Mueller investigation.
Epstein was a major player in the espionage industry which consisted of Israel running the
system with likes of British Intelligence along with the CIA. This stuff is as old as warfare
itself. Epstein survived because all these agencies and the Magic Jews with their money
protected him. The US court system protected him as well as the FBI and Mueller. The Mueller
investigation was just another smoke and mirror diversion for Israel and the CIA to use ISIS
as a proxy army to expand Israel's borders while for two years the Jew Controlled Media ran
24 hours a day the Russians influenced our election. Unfortunately, some of us know that
Jews, Soros and Adelson own both the Democrats and the Republicans and control our
elections.
There is nothing partisan here. If you knew anything about Israel you would know that they
have been "importing" girls from the Balkins and other places for their sex industry for
years which has been covered up. Whenever there is human trafficking, porn, sex slavery,
organ harvesting, and espionage using such domains you will find Israel. For some reason
Giraldi seems ignorant of such things.
@Sean Oh, poor
victimized Jeff and these bad-bad girls. Sean comes to rescue!
Well, if Sean is so mindful about the age of the girls, here is a morsel of information to
provide food for Sean's thoughts: "Jeffrey Epstein searched for two EIGHT-YEAR-OLD girls to
sexually abuse after enlisting the help of fixer pal, court docs suggest" https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9622107/jeffrey-epstein-eight-year-old-girls-sexually-abuse/
Messages left for the billionaire and convicted paedophile [Jeffrey Epstein] by friend
Jean-Luc Brunel, himself the subject of abuse allegations, describe a female "2 x 8 years
old" willing to give "Russian lessons".
Both had a lot of money, and the criminal justice system is not designed to cope with
super rich defendants.
with ties to Ehud Barak (of 9/11 fame).
US Attorney Acosta was told to "back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade." "I was
told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence'.
Which begs the question.. who told him that?
We can always discover where the rot meets the road by the thunderous silence when it
comes to asking certain questions.
Who provided the script to Fox News and the BBC for the story of building seven's
collapse?
Nobody has any interest in knowing -- this is where the rot meets the road.
Who told Acosta to lay off of Epstein? -- this is where the rot meets the road.
It's always the crickets who inform us, more than a thousand "journalists" and "reporters"
who know where the rot meets the road, and when to stop asking questions.
For instance, how did Epstein hang himself?
By what means was he able to do this? How was he found?
The only thing they're telling us is that " Epstein was found unresponsive in his
cell.."
And that he had been taken off suicide watch.
And so the rest of us, by dint of the avalanche of unasked questions, are supposed to have
trust in the authorities to get to the bottom of it. If we're told he hanged himself,
it's not up to us, and certainly not the job of 'journalists or reporters' to worry about
things like – how, exactly did he hang himself?
How was he found? I guess asking such questions would be 'beyond the Pale'.
He was found 'unresponsive in his cell. Oh, Ok. Wasn't he on suicide watch? No, he had
been taken off suicide watch. Oh, what about cameras? 'The cameras malfunctioned during his
'suicide'.
Ok, we have no more questions. We're satisfied that the FBI is going to "investigate".
Reminds me of the Las Vegas shooting, and how they couldn't discover a motive. The length
and breath of our vaunted FBI and all that NSA surveillance that knows when you're going to
fart before even you do, but they can't discover a motive for Las Vegas.
Michael Hastings was simply driving too fast. Case closed.
Jorg Haider was simply driving too fast.
Seth Rich died in a 'robbery' (where his wallet and expensive watch were not taken).
Gary Webb committed suicide by shooting himself in the head – twice.
If you're a professional whornalist, you're satisfied with these conclusions.
@annamaria Typical
female ad hominem fantasy projection.
For what is worth- there is no reliable Mossad connection (not that they are "good/evil
guys" or anything similar), but simply no proof for any interference on their side. It would
be interesting to see if they were- for instance, they certainly are behind assassination of
a Palestinian rocket scientist somewhere in the east (Indonesia? Malaysia?) a few months ago.
But with Epstein- there is no serious case for their involvement.
@Bardon Kaldian
Epstein was charged and had sexual contact with under age girls who could be more easily
numbered than named. Not a single one of the allegedly existent customers of Epstein were
charged. In fact the accusation by the girls is he gave them to his friends and even random
visitors to his mansion. The prosecutors charged Epstein with trafficking because that would
get him life, NOT because he was actually guilty of that by being any kind of pimp. Don't
take everything so literally.
@Bardon Kaldian I know
all about black street pimps and the teen girls they torture and murder.
You're just trying to obfuscate the issue which is
Procuring is against the law and Epstein was a procurer.
Like many, you probably have the fantasy of pampered happy escort girls making a lot of
money and living happily ever after don't you?
A lot of the escort girls get only cash tips from the customers. Some of the agencies keep
all the fees paid for with credit cards. Almost all the escort agencies cheat the girls when
it's time to pay them. The credit card companies haven't paid the escort agency yet. The 60
40 split is suddenly 70 for the agency 30 for the girls.
Suddenly the agency closes phones canceled and the girls who are owed a months pay are out
of luck as the pimps go off with all the money.
Some agencies don't really screen clients or provide body guards and the girls get beaten
and robbed . Many of the drivers and appointment makers sell drugs to the escort girls.
Hard to figure exactly your point. It appears you're claiming Epstein treated his
prostitutes better than the blacks do. True
But his blackmail financial fraud money laundering his financial services firm that did no
trading buying selling and investing are far worse crimes than running an escort service.
Even worse are the retard idiots who keep claiming that Epstein and his customers were
pedophiles.
Sex with 13 to 17 year olds for money or lust is not pedophilia.
Sex with children 12 and under is pedophilia
Wrong. Pedophiles seek sex with underage children whether 'paid for' or 'not'.
'Underage' varies by state statutes. 15 is the usual age.
Being sexually attracted to a 13 year old prostitute as opposed to 18 year old prostitute is
pedophilia.
Pedophilia is classified as a mental disease .and its not curable. It is treated in most
cases with drugs that erase the sex drive. If a pedophile stops taking the drug he will
resume preying on children.
So says my sister in law who is a psychiatrist on staff with a major hospital who has seen
a few although she treats mainly children, among whom have been a few victims of
pedophiles..
Pedophiles, like mentally deranged serial killers do know 'right from wrong' ,that is
why they hide it .they should be treated criminally the same way other offenders are.
In fact the accusation by the girls is he gave them to his friends and even random
visitors to his mansion.
Weird. Who they were, his zombie personal property so he could "give them"? No personal
will on their side?
As I see it, they were girls, both above & below 18, who were seduced by lavish
life-style & were not bound by any personal strict morality, family ties or anything
similar. Are we to believe that 15 or 16 years old girls were so clueless about life they
would not even think they live, eat, sleep in a grown man's mansions without even a hint of
giving, eh, something "in exchange"?
Are we to believe that those 15, 16, 17..years old girls were not human females, with
female sexual desires, ideas, projections & plans? That these girls did not have sexual
feelings or were totally clueless about them, like, say, about quantum algebra? That there
was not a suspicion on their side that something of a sexual nature was bound to happen,
sooner or later?
"How many other millionaires and billionaires were part of the illegal activities that he
was engaged in?" he asked. Even the BBC website has as its heading of a news story today "Jeffrey Epstein: Questions raised over financier's death."
@Corvinus Robert
Maxwell's role as "Israel's Super-Spy" was comprehensively and convincingly documented by
Gordon Thomas.
Maxwell's execution was carried out by Mossad because, as his business empire was
crumbling, he made the mistake to blackmail them for £400 millions.
Epstein's obvious link to Mossad is the background of Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as her
central involvement in organising and operating the blackmail paedophile ring.
Epstein's case was highly publicised in Europe, for many years, because of his association
with the UK's Duke of York; there never were any mention of President Trump.
I disagree re President Trump being blackmailed by Epstein: if that would have been the
case, the NeoCons wouldn't have needed to fabricate the ludicrous RussiaGate cock-and-bull
story.
While I have no problem believing that Mossad was Epstein's primary agency, I disagree with
Mr. Giraldi that CIA would have no reason to blackmail prominent Americans. Epstein's ties
with Maxwell certainly suggest a parallel career, but let's not overlook the obvious fact
that the CIA itself has long been a rogue agency ...
@YetAnotherAnon Just
read in a review of a Maxwell bio that it is thought that Maxwell thought he was headed for a
pickup of some cash he needed to cure his financial woes (that is the speculation of the
bio's authors, Gordon Thomas and someone else). Instead some Israeli ninjas boarded his
vessel, gave him a shot of something hehind the ear that took him out, and dumped him
overboard. This story, if true -- even if not true -- lends a certain piquance to the grand
guignol of the state funeral. Ghislaine may have known or suspected the truth. She hit the
grits for NY -- that is, left Israel. If I understand the story correctly. In one sense this
all sounds kind of weirdly sad, because that girl is obviously effed up bad from the get-go,
and one can't help wondering on what terms Zion owns her.
"... And at no point will there be any of the damage limitation that a trial, requiring and weighing evidence, would have put on the mushrooming of charges, rumours and speculations which has been taking and will continue to take place. ..."
"... In realistic terms the damage to the system of a few outliers, like Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew or Dershowitz being driven, red faced from public life, would be minimal. In fact it could easily be spun as am indication that the system worked and that, in the end, an obscure former masseur could be vindicated against Princes and ex-Presidents. ..."
The Epstein case is very simple: had a trial taken place-and proper trials are increasingly
rare in the USA, as the record of his Florida 'trial' shows- it had the potential of being
extremely embarrassing to a number of prominent and powerful people.
On the other hand, now that he is dead, there can be no limit to the enormous number of
allegations that can be made against him and them.
From the point of view of The Establishment, this death is far from convenient. It will
redound to the advantage of many individuals but in the long run it will contribute to an
increase in popular distrust of the entire system. And at no point will there be any of the
damage limitation that a trial, requiring and weighing evidence, would have put on the
mushrooming of charges, rumours and speculations which has been taking and will continue to
take place.
In realistic terms the damage to the system of a few outliers, like Bill Clinton, Prince
Andrew or Dershowitz being driven, red faced from public life, would be minimal. In fact it
could easily be spun as am indication that the system worked and that, in the end, an obscure
former masseur could be vindicated against Princes and ex-Presidents.
The danger is that this sordid but very routine 'scandal' will blot out real and important
matters that require public debate. How many US Presidents and English princes have not been
involved in the sort of things said to have been facilitated by Epstein? So far as Princes
go, I can think of none. And many of them, including future Kings, have done a lot worse
things than fuck teenage girls, though that has been routine for all who didn't prefer
boys.
It would be interesting to learn what lessons it is thought this affair should teach us?
Should the age of consent laws be revised to ban sexual relations between rich and poor? Or
to legislate against sexual partnerships involving an age differential of more than, say, ten
years?
Or should class society and the capitalist system, which commodifies everything and puts
the poor majority in positions in which they are vulnerable to prostitution, be abolished?
This would involve something a little more substantial than a lynch mob led by unprincipled,
loudmouth demagogues feeding off the obsessions and frustrations of the sexually
disfranchised.
These last we have had in America since the Pilgrim Fathers stumbled ashore, clutching
their Old Testaments angrily and looking for others to blame. And be punished.
As to the nonsense that Epstein has been spirited away, is not really dead and will, like
Merlin, one day return...that way madness lies.
"Mueller's Inquiry was never a serious search for truth is that at no stage was any independent forensic independence taken from
the DNC's servers, instead the word of the DNC's own security consultants was simply accepted as true. Finally no progress has been
made – or is intended to be made – on the question of who killed Seth Rich, while the pretend police investigation has "lost" his laptop.
"
"... Like the Wolfowitz explanation of the Iraq War, Russiagate is the idea around which varied interests can be organized. Cold Warriors like to hate on Russia. It justifies arms spending and their own importance. Clintonistas need an excuse to distract from her being a loser. The DNC needs an excuse for manipulating the candidate selection in favor of donor interests. "Moderates" need a distraction from their ongoing refusal to address the interests of voters. ..."
So, there we have it. Russiagate as a theory is as completely exploded as the appalling Guardian front page lie published by Kath
Viner and Luke Harding fabricating the "secret meetings" between Paul Manafort and Julian Assange in the Ecuadorean Embassy. But
the political class and the mainstream media, both in the service of billionaires, have moved on to a stage where truth is irrelevant,
and I do not doubt that Russiagate stories will thus persist. They are so useful for the finances of the armaments and security industries,
and in keeping the population in fear and jingoist politicians in power.
Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to
October 2004 and rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.
michael , August 12, 2019 at 19:53
So far there is as much evidence presented that Martians interfered in the 2016 Election as RUSSIANS!!!
Just a much needed excuse to blow on the dying embers of the Cold War and get the nuclear weapons ready.
I'm still waiting for Robert Mueller to be tried for lying to Congress (when asked who hired him, instead of saying "I have no
idea", he said "Bush!" It is a matter of public record that Reagan hired him, a blatant lie! Is Michael Flynn out of jail yet?)
Drew Hunkins , August 12, 2019 at 14:49
" and I do not doubt that Russiagate stories will thus persist. They are so useful for the finances of the armaments and security
industries, and in keeping the population in fear and jingoist politicians in power "
They are also extremely useful as a scapegoat for the corporate warmongering DNC to camouflage the genuine reasons they lost
to Trump of all people.
Mark Thomason , August 12, 2019 at 10:34
Like the Wolfowitz explanation of the Iraq War, Russiagate is the idea around which varied interests can be organized.
Cold Warriors like to hate on Russia. It justifies arms spending and their own importance. Clintonistas need an excuse to distract
from her being a loser. The DNC needs an excuse for manipulating the candidate selection in favor of donor interests. "Moderates"
need a distraction from their ongoing refusal to address the interests of voters.
"Those whom the gods would destroy they first drive mad".
Larry Mofield , August 12, 2019 at 08:41
If Russia actually wanted to help someone win I think it would be Hilary because Trump is a plain shooter from the hip and
takes nothing off of nobody.
If anything Sanders should had sued the DNC and Hilary for rigging the DNC
Go figure why he has kept his mouth shut.
Bif Webster , August 12, 2019 at 11:13
Putin preferred Obama to his running mates as well. But you won't ever hear that on the corporate "news" media.
Others sued on behalf of Bernie. That case died in south Florida, near Wasserman-Schultz's district yeah, and the excuse was,
"The DNC is a 'private organization" and do what they like, apparently. However, the "judge" did not find it odd that a private
entity can run a public election? And how there's an obvious conflict of interest involved?
Bernie kept his mouth shut because he's inside the Belly of the Beast.
Martin , August 12, 2019 at 11:54
i think there was something of a lawsuit, but the judge decided that the rigging was an inside thing to which no external laws
applied. if you got a non-profit or a company and there's no internal rules that forbid the rigging of votes, rigging is not illegal.
the superdelegates still exist.
Seer , August 12, 2019 at 12:04
He kept his mouth shut because advancing "My Revolution" was more important. And, because he's NOT a Democrat: he's only "allowed"
to run as one: he is therefore a little more constrained. Had he lashed out he'd have NOT been allowed to run again as a Democrat
-- bank on that!
Tulsi Gabbard, on the other hand, is a Democrat, in which case she really couldn't be kicked out: it was she who acted as Bernie's
mouth on this matter.
Trump is a piece of crap. There's nothing straight about him at all. He's a con-man of the highest order. Other than give money
to the rich he's done nothing: and "nothing," is probably the best that could have been hoped for given that he could have started
some wars (he hasn't found one that he feels safe would not undermine his presidency, otherwise he'd be lighting it up). The reason
the guy is so good at firing people is because he's so crappy about firing them.
Oh yeah, I have not cast a single vote for anyone I have mentioned here.
evelync , August 12, 2019 at 13:20
Interesting question, Larry Mofield!
Bernie's not a stupid guy and I believe (as does Cornel West and Noam Chomsky) he's dedicated to policies that serve working people
and sustainability.(as I see it – reversing the NeoLiberal agenda in order to restore a level playing field for working people and also to shift
to a democratic, non imperial foreign policy.)
So why didn't he, let's call him "David", not aim his slingshot at the DNC, let's call it "Goliath"?
Probably because a single stone in a slingshot was hopeless. He was up against a massive corrupt network of hangers on, IMO,
who rabidly shouted down the person who dared to question Clinton's policies.
For an even more recent example of a delusional grandiose, imperial mind set, let's take the 200+ people affiliated with the
JFK School of Government at Harvard. The ones who accepted the School's shameful withdrawal of Chelsea Manning's honorary fellowship
because Pompeo and Morrell attacked it with Cold War rhetoric. Manning's crime? Telling people the truth about horrific wrongdoing
she witnessed in Iraq. When I emailed 200 people at the JFK School a shame-on-you letter I heard back from only one who chastised
(threatened) me for not understanding "National Security" .say what????) Others chimed in to agree with her. (I shared that email
with Robert Parry at the time and he emailed back that he didn't blame me for being outraged. He was such a wonderful person.)
So Bernie had the whole MSNBC related propaganda machine at his throat.
– think Mimi Rocah's recent "he makes my skin crawl" comment, knowing surely, that her words would be applauded over there.
and think all the people who have accepted since 2016 that the Russians cost Hillary Clinton the election in denial over the truth
– a flawed candidate who seemed to consider her constituency the big banks and the polluters and the war machine.
I know lifelong conservative Republicans who liked Bernie in 2016 and like him now because they find him truthful but didn't
trust Clinton and some voted for Trump in order to beat her.
This country is filled with a patronage network of well off established people including Democrats who believe everything's fine
as it is and are willing to shut their eyes to what's not working – the financial crisis of the working class, the racism underlying
the for profit prison system and immigration system, the horrific endless regime change wars and the massive deregulation of banks
on Bill Clinton's watch and much more, including the Climate Crisis.
It's taken almost 3 years to discredit what apparently was a faux "excuse" why Hillary Clinton lost. Too many voters in key
states didn't trust her to serve their interests because she clearly was an apparatchik for the MICIMATT.
Enough of Trump's voters were willing to gamble on this "unknown" character who piggy backed off what Bernie was saying at
the time – too bad he was lying ..
rosemerry , August 12, 2019 at 15:39
The whole suggestion has ignored any words and actions of Pres. Putin, who is careful to keep to the truth. He often stated
that he would accept whoever the US population chose (ie did not even want to lean towards the one claiming to desire better relations,
let alone interfere) because the difference between US administrations was small and policies unlikely to change in 2016. Because
the US constantly causes "régime change" does not mean that Russia does. The quick decision to "blame Russia" immediately after
Trump's win, activated by Obama expelling diplomats and stealing their US property, set the ball rolling and it has not stopped.
T he AP and no doubt other media are setting the stage for claiming that if Trump is reelected in 2020, the Russians again
were responsible. As HItler learned, repeat a lie often enough and it will assume the appearance of truth. It's not surprising
that the Democrats led by Hillary are behind this maneuver. The Dems have been blaming Russia ever since Truman did so in 1945.
Sally Snyder , August 12, 2019 at 08:05
As shown in this article, key Western countries including the United States have put in place a mechanism that is supposed
to protect us from election meddling:
Given the anti-Russia bias that took root and has become pervasive in the West since 2014 and, in particular, since the Hillary
Clinton loss in 2016 which is blamed on Russian-sourced disinformation, it is interesting to see that the G7 has been driven to
take extreme moves to battle what they see as an "evil Russia".
jdd , August 12, 2019 at 07:05
Devastating. A cogent and insightful analysis of Judge Koeltl's decision. Thank you Ambassador Murray.
Michaelevan Hammond , August 12, 2019 at 02:16
What's hilarious is that Binney was able to discern that the download was later split in two and then transmitted state side.
Think of when you download a movie or a file .. it doesn't come in 2 parts, you either download the whole thing or it is an error/fail.
Binney is able to show that the whole thing is one download at 49mbps impossible speed for transatlantic transmission .he absolute
fastest you can achieve over the cable is 29mbps ..plus there are 6-12 NSA monitoring junctions added to the cable to capture
such things and not one had any Russians attempting to "hack"(2001 term). It was all just deflection for Hillary and she may we'll
have selfishly killed the Dems party.
Realist , August 12, 2019 at 00:37
Russiagate is not "dead." It has more lives than a cat bitten by a vampire. It is permanently undead. The antithesis of a dead
parrot.
How many times does Rachel Maddow have to tell you? Anyone who did not vote for Hillary Clinton and refuses to back her never-ending,
constantly metamorphosing coup against Trump has got to be a Putin agent even Mitch McConnell. Check back tomorrow for the latest
Maddowsplaining on this and other bad crazyness.
Seer , August 12, 2019 at 12:07
I agree. The FACT that the US has been sanctioning Russia for the better part of 100 years pretty much tells it all. It's about
the West's ruling elite keeping Their game going: but, nothing lasts forever, and this game is about to run out on them (the perpetual
growth model, which has given them their power, is ending).
Realist , August 12, 2019 at 00:18
Unless he was being sarcastic, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough tweeted that the Russians were probably behind Jeff Epstein's "suiciding"
in the high security NYC federal lockup!
Anyone who truly believes that Epstein actually took his own life probably does still have a severe case of Putin Derangement
Syndrome, aka Russophrenia, Russiagate-itis, -osis or whatever ya wanna call it. Their minds cannot co-exist within both the Deep
State Matrix and objective reality at the same time. Blaming all evil in the world on Russia gives them license to act outside
conventional morality with impunity.
Mark Stanley , August 12, 2019 at 11:32
Yes, they are endeavoring to tip-toe around this one. If Epstein had started squealing, the excrement would really have hit
the fan. After his purported suicide, the smokescreen "conspiracy" word popped up immediately in every mainstream mention of Epstein.
If the populace found out about the deranged sexual practices of too many of the world's elites it would certainly upset the apple
cart–to use an American expression.
Seer , August 12, 2019 at 15:51
This IS VERY DEEP! First three parts of this most excellent four part series is available, starting with this one (Mint Press
also needs supporting).
After reading this I now understand why Trump won't release his tax returns.
Realist , August 12, 2019 at 18:12
Seer,
Probably, because like Romney, he didn't pay any.
Dershowitz's client Leonna Helmsley explained the principle decades ago: "Only the little people pay taxes." Probably as truthful
a description of the American system as you will ever hear. Sadly, it went down the memory hole because the media will never mention
it again. Investigative reporters like David Cay Johnston have to write individually researched books on the subject and hope
that the swamp creatures don't seek retribution against him some dark night.
The most the public is ever going to get in this world is perhaps a brief glimmer of the truth through the hard work and suffering
of individuals like Assange, Manning and a few other brave altruistic souls, but never justice. The system is set up to sacrifice
the lives of millions for the benefit of dozens.
Hoarsewhisperer@ 73 said;"Buying politicians is the most lucrative investment of all..."
Yep, invest a million here and there, get a Billion back.
snake, thanks for the link. What a sordid mess of cretins.
@128: Interesting theory, but, IMO, DJT is just the latest, in a long line, that do the
bidding of the malignant oligarchs, who's vast wealth buys compliance to their needs.
The military is just the enforcement arm of their system..
I don't know Duch, but in Miro23 #200 comment I thought I heard the banker Ronald Bernard
(video) saying that after the Epstein episode, in the new batch of dollars printed the All
Seen Eye was shown in a new mode. In Murder We Trust and sometimes Suicide.
Despite strong evidence that he too participated in Epstein sex crimes, Alan Dershowitz
was allowed to lead the best legal dream team Mossad blackmail money could buy. Despite all
the proven facts surrounding this case, the Dershowitz dream team successfully "convinced"
the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida to neither charge Epstein nor any of his
pimp co-conspirators with sex trafficking underage girls across state lines, and of course
nor dare prosecute any of the other frequent flying VIP child molester
The pit-bullish Dershowitz gang included Kenneth Starr, chief investigator from the
Clinton-Lewinsky soap opera who never fails to evoke the religious high moral ground yet in
the next breath claims he's more than happy to have gotten a pedophile-trafficker off.
Other hotshot aces in the hole were Florida trial lawyer Roy Black and star attorney
Gerald Lefcourt among others. Dershowitz and Lefcourt's letter to Acosta's office prior to
their successful plea bargain emphasized Epstein's super close ties to Bill and Hillary
Clinton, touting how the billionaire pedophile "co-founded" the infamous Clinton Foundation,
accused by philanthropy law expert Charles Ortel of being "the largest unprosecuted fraud in
history." Speaking of which, a whistleblower at a Swiss bank has revealed that Jeffrey
Epstein used his Swiss bank account to send Bill Clinton $3.5 million shortly after his
pedophilia probe began in 2005.
The philandering and pedophilia of elites and politicians clearly gave intelligence againces
significant leverage over many movers and shakers within Western establishments
@Haxo Angmark Why
would anyone have to bring down Trump? The man is fully compromised, a puppet and the FBI has
already likely 15 years of material on him as revealed in Kushner, Inc.
There is the possibility that Epstein functioned as a pass to the highest echelons: you
would compromise yourself by having intercourse with minors, let Epstein record it, hand it
over to Mossad and possibly other agencies he worked with. To show that you can be trusted.
Not unlike Unz himself suggested and exemplified by McCain.
But that is not necessary for Trump. Netanyahu gets everything he wants. And the whole
Trump campaign was a distraction, bankrolled by Sheldon Adelson and managed by a former AIPAC
guy and Christian Zionist and personal friend of Adelson Steve Bannon no less. Anyone who
still believes Trump is not part of the deepest filth of "the swamp" is delusional and
ignores way too many facts.
There is no left, no right. There is no democracy. There is an unelected oligarchy and its
political puppets. Long since bought and paid for before you and I were even born
@peterAUS Well, the
particularity with Epstein is: Many people did and are paying attention. Millions.
And the elite knows that we know. As you said it yourself: this was not just a
cover-up. It was a demonstration of power directed at us.
And they are laughing at us; as they are getting away; as they are taking every bit of
freedom and sovereignty away which the patriot act hadn’t already devoured, through
bipartisan decision of the system which should (theoretically) serve the people.
The Dystopia is also already here: the cold-blooded apathy with which the ruling class in
Britain treated victims as in Rotherham, the Savile case and now Epstein exposing their true
characters, and those are also the leaders and elites who lecture us on morality: Ghislaine
Maxwell -- save nature! Clinton Foundation, Mother Merkel… It’s disgusting.
And so many unthinkable theories which were declared “conspiracy theories”
about WW2, the aftermath and our current reality turn out to be true.
But I agree: the internet allowed us to decode the illusion of the media Matrix and its
artificial reality. And it is those possibilities which the ruling class wants to snuff out
for good. So that the monopoly to manufacture consent, truth and reality goes back to
them
Systemic elite kompromat shielded with arbitrary acts spanning all levels of government. Now
anybody who tells you this is a democracy, or an open society, or a free country, or any of
that shit, is either a mental defective or a pedo CP star in Comey’s personal Playpen
stash.
You can’t pretend we’re ever going to vote our way out of this. We’re
deep in the forcible-overthrow zone. If you aspire to rights or rule of law lots of CIA
vermin are going to have to be Ceaușescued.
@Bardon Kaldian‘…All pimps are criminals. But not all criminals are the same.’
Indeed. Some grow up in circumstances at least as dreadful as those of their victims, and
while they indeed need to be locked up, are to be pitied as well.
Others have been given perfectly decent lives, and are even affluent — and yet still
commit acts of depravity and cruelty.
These I have no sympathy for at all. Who is worse: the person who has never known a decent
life, or the person who has been offered it, but prefers moral depravity?
Jeffrey Epstein enjoyed chewing up unfortunate children and spitting them out like
sunflower husks when he was done. There was nothing keeping him from being a reasonably
decent, moral man.
During the ensuing decade since Epstein’s conviction, the seedy truth has slowly
trickled out, exposing the dark, twisted, perverse sex slave trafficking operation that
Epstein and his bevy of co-conspirators recruited child victims as sex slaves from poor
neighborhoods in Florida, New York, South America, Europe and Russia, including three
12-year old girls from France as a birthday gift. Incredibly, his procuring pimp
co-conspirators and scores of powerful pedo patrons were all granted immunity…
Numerous Democrats, including former New Mexico Governor & Obama admin official Bill Richardson, 16 current Democrat Congressmen
identified as perpetrators by Epstein victims:
"... I am just now reading David Martin's new book "The Assassination of James Forrestal", about a 1949 murder by the Zionists disguised as suicide. ..."
"... He can sit around with the Skripals and talk over old times. ..."
"... He probably became more of a liability and/or stepped on some toes higher up in the food chain. How many former Israeli prime ministers will attend his funeral? Ghislaine's lawyers will be happy, she was a victim of Epstein too. Poor child. ..."
"... Well said. Indeed, loss of trust in governments is key, and this event utterly destroys the little trust that remained. Other western governments have the same problem also. ..."
Reports are that he was 'found dead' at 7:30 am local time, he was supposedly on suicide
watch, he was a tremendously valuable witness, he could trade his testimony for leniency, a
lot of very important people were worried.
No one will believe that Epstein committed suicide voluntarily, I certainly don't.
Not extraditing. I am just now reading David Martin's new book "The Assassination of James Forrestal",
about a 1949 murder by the Zionists disguised as suicide.
He probably became more of a liability and/or stepped on some toes higher up in the food
chain.
How many former Israeli prime ministers will attend his funeral? Ghislaine's lawyers will be happy, she was a victim of Epstein too. Poor child.
Why would anyone watch House of Cards? The real life soap called American politics is way
more fun and interesting.
Make no mistake, Ghislaine will never be extradited by TPTB, for they are still designating
her a "Madame"; just a very naughty lady who was adept at pleasing her clients and her
"partner". Not a spy, not a slave trader, just an independent and shrewd Mommy of sorts. "
Lady Madame Ghislaine". A glamour girl to the end. And without a doubt she'll get the
same state funeral as her father when her time comes. That is, if Israel is still a state
when she kicks the bucket.
Jeffry Epstein suicided- makes it obvious, that the deep state mafia regime in control was
feeling intense heat, some one(s) important in the deep state decided overt killing a
prisoner in federal prison and trying to defuse the news and public' obvious disbelief in
cause and method, is worth killing him and divert and defuse the mess. For sure the names
that would have become public was going to destabilize the DC regime. In next few days before
the news is buried, we will see how MSM will divert the narrative, away from the names it is
trying to protect. For sure at one time he was "made" and one the "Goodfellas" .
kooshy , Aug 10 2019 14:40 utc |
18Lysander , Aug 10 2019 14:40 utc |
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The only way his 'suicide' can be considered an actual suicide is if his handlers had so much
leverage over him that they could persuade that he (and any loved ones he might have) would
all be much better off if he did it himself than if he forces them to do it for him.
That's a possibility I suppose. But the idea that he did just because he couldn't handle
life anymore simply doesn't warrant any consideration at all.
I responded to Your last response to me on this thread:
The MoA Week In Review - OT 2019-45
It is the last entry on that thread. Just wanted to let You know.
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How convenient that Epstein is no longer in the perpetrator protection program. The
witness protection program was obviously never considered, or applied. Someone wrote that the
Epstein case proved that there are two justice systems in the US: one for the rich and one
for the suckers. Although that is not quite correct, as the one for the suckers must be
called Injustice System.
It also goes to show, that while people desperately attempt to change their 'elected
officials', they have no whatsoever control over the 'unelected officials'. Those decide over
the (In-)Justice system with impunity. How would the 'Supreme' Court look like if The
People would elect its members? Citizen United would have never happened? But that it did
- outside of any say of the population it affected the most - is one reason why the truth
about Epstein's Johns will never surface. How many of the supreme court justices visited
'penetrate-a-minor-girl island?
Correct. No evidence has yet to emerge. Your beliefs notwithstanding.
If I were Epstein I would have a powerful motive to commit suicide. And some may have
powerful motive to murder him. There is nothing yet to suggest her was murdered.
I cite this as an example of the disinformational slippery slope which in other contexts
leads to the election of Trump, for instance, or the passage of Brexit.
IOW, suicide is not the only form of self-inflicted self-harm.
That probably means he was just a really rich pervert whose luck ran out rather than a Mossad
or CIA asset tasked with collecting kompromat on influential people. A pampered twit
like Epstein, used to a life of luxury and leisure, in jail on a sex charge would be eaten
alive and quite possibly killed. I speculated after he was arrested that he would try to kill
himself if he faced a long stretch in jail and it looks like that's what happened. Of course
plenty of people will claim his suicide was faked etc. but unless they have credible evidence
to back that up I will go with 'Occam's razor' on this.
We live in a national security state run by criminals. Expecting justice from the legal
system is like expecting to elect a president who will drain the swamp. It is a democracy
theme park, where the levers and handles are not attached to anything.
Epstein's death - assuming he hasn't been "spirited" away to somewhere welcoming and
unwilling to extradite, ever, (I wonder which "country" that might be) - and its timing is
awfully convenient.
And the fact that he was supposedly on suicide watch after his "apparent" attempt some
days earlier gives one pause. Either the so-called suicide watch is really negligent and
Epstein was given/allowed both the "space" and the means (surely the means would, under
suicide watch, be rendered null?) or his death by *suicide* is questionable.
We forget that there are still other (((predators))) on the loose to include Polanski, Woody
Allen, and a list of others. I will not say that they are all jews because George Bush Sr,
was a known pedophile and he died at a ripe old age of 94 (and some people believe in
karma..yeah right). Of course he was also the head of the CIA and the Warren commission, so
he could afford to do what he did and get away with it. Don't believe me, check into the
Franklin Child Abuse scandal and this Washington Times article. http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_child_sex_coverup/franklin.htm
Unless "We the People" take these predators down, they will continue to destroy
children.
Since hollywood is so bankrupt for ideas i wonder if someone will do a citizen kane type
story based on epistein, For those who dont know citizen kane was basically an unflattering
biography about a thinly veiled william randolph hurst expry (Hurst did everything possible
to try to kill the film when he heard about it). This might be the only way we get anything
close to even an approximation of what the truth was behind Epistein
div> Can't help but think about Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the "D.C.
Madam," was also suicided.
I especially like how his suicide was staged on a Friday evening when people wont be paying
that much attention. That has always been the best time for governments to release bad news
I wonder if they will do an autopsy, or maybe he will get "cremated" right away? If the
former, I'd say maybe he actually did kill himself, if the latter, definitely not. Of course
autopsies don't have to be accurate either. "Who gets the remains?" is another good question.
"Why the heck did he show up to get arrested like that?" is another one.
Wow!! Those suckers at the BBC manage NOT to mention Maxwell or Prince Andrew (ok... they are
mentioned in some of the links they give, but come one!!) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49306032
Epstein, never married, no acknowledeged children. Odd for someone who wanted to populate the
world with his progeny... someone suggested that now his estate(s) canbe freely searched. We
will see if this all goes away or if some pitbulls in Miami keep after others who have been
implicated. When the DC Madam was murdered/committed suicide every lead went dark and her
little black book disappeared as I recall...
lysias 11
I read that book last month! The official story still stands but the truth is out there. And
it was not surprising to see that any evidence contrary to the official story of a paranoid,
crazy man committing suicide didn't go anywhere.
I expect the Epstein story and its details to fade as well because many in power want it
to. It's been interesting to read of the ties between Bill Browder, Robert Maxwell, and
Jeffrey Epstein. Very shady dealings with so much submerged.
does this require elaboration? I read your linked Daily News article. I have spent some
time behind bars myself (although not for sex crimes I hasten to add) and while not in
possession of as lavish lifestyle as Epstein I would probably have a difficult time
tolerating much of the rest of my life spent in similar conditions.
And I get that Club Fed is a much better living environment than pre-trial holding cells
but only by degrees...and he was going to be held in pre-trial for a long time while
the press and alt media had a field day with his story.
The Clinton conection of course leads to all sorts of rightwing created conspiracy
theorues which Barflies too love to swarm all over like a fresh batch of dogshit on the
sidewalk.
Clinton likes/liked having sex with young, possible underage girls?
They all say they cut ties with Epstein 12 years ago when the charges first surfaced. And
yet, Epstein still got around and hobnobbed with the rich and shameless ever since then.
Epstein by all recent accounts wasn't actually "smart", just pathologically driven and
well-funded. Someone gave him a leg-up very early on; just an undeniable fact if you study
his bio. He would not have any incriminating evidence stored at his properties or in his
personal effects, it would've been funneled to whoever he was working for long ago. Point is,
he trusted his bosses. His brain, Ghislaine's brain; those are the only two places outside of
Tel Aviv that the info was still stored.
If he had prepared a dead man's switch, he would have pulled it years ago.
I find the Pavlovian reactions shown here by quite a number of people very painful to
witness.
Like there can be any doubt Epstein would have more than enough reason to kill himself.
A sexual marauder, a high-roller, the world's no. 1 pimp, probably an "Intelligence" asset
in a class of its own, a guy who knew none of the boundaries us mortals usually face
– confined to a tiny cell and prison life. With the prospect of having your sad and
perverse life dissected in court, of having to explain and justify your actions, of having
to go through harrowing witnesses' statements. Yeah, what's not to look forward to in
there?
Yours is by far the most Pavlovian reaction to this news. Or is it 'news'?
Let me get this straight for your to think about it. The guy has enough money to spend
after he gets out of jail. How any years would he get in a Justice system that was lenient in
the first place? Different folks now in the Justice Department? Let's say he would get five
years, no make it ten. I seriously doubt he wouldn't get parole after some time for exemplary
behavior. And he promised to not continue his crimes. Remember that it suffices to confess to
the public and apologize for what you did - for the evangelical faction to forgive you. Hell,
make that 'Christian faction'. He would sign a confidentiality agreement in exchange for his
life to those who would take it otherwise. Lots of money to use in a corrupted society.
Jeffrey Epstein would know that the average attention span of Americans is as long as the
trail of a shooting star in the night. Another mass shooting and "Who? Epstein? Never heard
of him."
It is you, who fits the findings of Pavlov quite well. However, from personal experience
at the Humane Society, I know that there is no dog that cannot be re-trained, or
re-conditioned to be a friendly doggie.
My first thought. In fact, I had this thought as soon as I heard of the first Epstein
suicide "attempt." I am sure I am not alone. Just when we thought we were going to see whose
names actually were in her little black book, she conveninetly disappears, and the little
black book slides down the memory hole.
Remember it was Reagan who said: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on
me.
Oh, yes, and Gary Webb supposedly also committed suicide. And a number of the JFK
witnesses who planned to come forward some years/decades after his death---poof! Heart attack
the day before the planned interrogation (see Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable).
Anyone who believes this new (and richly predicted) suicide story is a fool. Gimme an
effing break!
The guy was on "suicide watch"! That can only mean that the people in charge of this supposed
watch were the ones who administered the tiny shot (leaves no trace in the skin) that brought
about heart failure.
How convenient, just after Florida opened its own investigation into the original plea
arraignment that threatened to unseal Epstein's financial records. But just because Epstein's
no more doesn't mean the investigation should end; others in the DoJ broke the law then, not
Epstein. Plus, his operation was what's known as a "ring", a conspiracy, a racketeering
operation involving numerous others, some known, some not. I wonder what his will says?
The flaw in your argument is that Epstein wasn't getting out this time and he knew it.
He may have been killed and he may have killed himself precisely because of what is to
follow.
I believe like Karlof1 that the investigation should definitely continue because of what
is to follow and also now should include whether or not Epstein was "suicided".
And if Clinton or Prince Andrew or wtf is found guilty of sex crimes then he should rot in
jail too.
After all, Bill Cosby, white Amerikkka's favourite black father figure went to jail didn't
he? Although granted he is black and he is also forgotten at this point in the ever rushing
news cycle....but he is still behind bars, isn't he?
willie , Aug 10 2019 16:37 utc |
88DontBelieveEitherPr. , Aug 10 2019 16:41 utc |
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To those who think "suicide watch" is some magical way to prevent suicide, and that his death
would imply some action by a third party to kill him, maybe i can shed some light on the
procedure, as it is handled in Germany (And very likely at least inspired from US
procedures):
1. The inmate does get a cell with a fellow inmate, so he is not alone, and is observed by
that inmate too.
2. Additionally, to normal security measures, the inmate gets taken away all things with
which he could harm himself
3. Wardens control the inmate visually in a pre determined interval of e.g. 15 minutes, 30
minutes, 60 minutes.
4. In special cases inmates are transferred into special cells with rubber walls and floors,
like one would think in a mental hospital (Gummizelle is the German term).
Now, in consequence:
1. When the other inmate does not look, sleeps or simply does not give a shit, this has no
effect
2. While belts, show laces and sharp things are removed, one can easily improvise a rope from
a piece of bed linen etc. to hand themselves on the water fountain or classically on the
window grille, jump from a double story bed head first breaking ones neck or bleeding
themselves, slitting the wrist to bleed to death (something sharp can always be found or
made, overdosing on drugs the inmate acquired from other inmates...
I myself have witnessed multiple people successfully kill themselves under suicide watch
in the pretty short times i myself was an inmate in a maximum security prison. And i myself
have been at times under suicide watch, and I know myself that if you want to do it, you got
plenty of options.
After some days you know how the system works, and have multiples options if you choose
so.
Plus, guards are always lazy, and cheat on the interval. E.g. checking only once an hour
instead of every 15 minutes.
But even the 15 minutes is plenty of time.
So him being on suice watch and still killing himself IS NO PROOF OF NOTHING.
That said, i dont exclude something like this.
Maybe he had a conscience. Maybe he felt ashamed. Maybe not, and only had not the balls to
face what he did.
Maybe some told him it would be better for him, or that there are actually people he loved
and that he got threatened that those people would be hurt.
Who knows? Not we certainly.
IMHO it is TYPICALL for such people as him to commit suicide.
He may have some smarts concerning the rich and famous, but in a federal jail, he is
FUCKED.
EVERYONE WILL TRY TO GET A PIECE OF HIS ASS AND MONEY!
JUST LIKE EVERY FUCKING PEDO IN EVERY JAIL ON EARTH!
And no solitary confinement (Already gone on suicide watch, where he is at least in a 2 man
cell) can protect him.
Taking a shower, free time, sport, work, visiting waiting cell.. Countless times to get that
mofo, and put a shank to his dick.
A pedo is already done in prison, but a prominent pedo???
He killed himself to not get assfucked till it bleeds, to not have to get abused like he
abused.
He had no future, and he doing himself was realizing he played out.
As chance would have it, AOC appears to have a House of Representatives oversight role
with regard to Epstein's 'suicide' and is loudly demanding answers; she sounds a lot more
sceptical than you!
This is a good opportunity to show if she has substance. Let's see what she does!
One self-proclaimed corrections officer said on Reddit that Epstein's suicide should
never have been possible.
I'm a corrections officer. This should never have been possible. During the intake
process due to the nature of his crimes and being famous he should have already been on
special watch. Then after the first attempt he would have been in a special cell. He
would be in what we call a "pickle suit" it's a green suit that you can't tear or tie to
anything. His blankets would be the same material. He would only get hygiene products
under supervision. Only thing allowed in his cell would be a book and court papers. Then
we would be monitored more closely. This is a huge failing on the jail. I want a massive
investigation on how this was able to happen.
/div> The NYT this morning is reporting that it is not known if Epstein was
on a suicide watch. Clearly, he should have been after the recent incident in which he was
found unconscious and with injury marks around his neck. I think it is not at all unlikely that
he did commit suicide, but also that he was allowed or even aided in doing so.
The NYT this morning is reporting that it is not known if Epstein was on a suicide watch.
Clearly, he should have been after the recent incident in which he was found unconscious and
with injury marks around his neck. I think it is not at all unlikely that he did commit
suicide, but also that he was allowed or even aided in doing so.
It's probably too early to draw the curtains on the Epstein nothing-burger. It's not at all
clear to me that ANY of the under age women were pre-pubescent children. Bonking under age
females with breasts and pubic hair is known as Statutory Rape in most Western countries; the
assumption being that the bonkee is deemed to be too young to give Informed Consent to sex
with an adult male. If there's no allegation or evidence of coercion by the bonker then it's
not a hanging offense.
The mystery surrounding Epstein's rags to riches good fortune has not yet been fully
explained, although if it's true that he had charisma then he was probably capable of
seducing/ charming males as well as females.
IF he was running a honey-trap blackmail scam as a sole trader then he will fade from
History surrounded by a blizzard of "???". If on the other hand he was a "useful idiot"
running the scam on behalf, and for the benefit of, powerful people then one suspects that he
will have left a "dead man's letter" so that he'd have the last laugh.
A dead man's letter is only as good as the entity one trusts to ensure that it's
disseminated. WikiLeaks would be my top pick for a trustworthy publisher and The Swamp is
moving Heaven and Earth to keep Assange incommunicado until he can be suicided.
I think you are missing the fundamental issue regarding the circumstances of Epstein's
death, it is no longer Epstein's crimes and that of his co-conspirators, it is a systemic
loss of Trust in the government and political elites. The allegations against Epstein and his
associates were extremely serious, at the absolute minimum they involved major political and
economic figures involved in sex trafficking and the sexual abuse of minors, the worst
allegations were that foreign individuals or governments had gained compromising information
about these figures and used it subvert the government policies for their benefits. I do not
know if all of these allegations were, but at least some of these allegations involving
sexual abuse were truth (Epstein himself admitted as much when he took the original guilty
plea).
In re-arresting Epstein under new charges, the government itself also asserted that 1)
they believed Epstein committed other crimes and 2) they were reasonably likely to get a
conviction at a trial (prosecutors are not supposed to bring charges against people unless
they think they can get a conviction at trial). Again, I do not know if all of these
allegations were true, but in bring a case the government said that they believed that they
were. Lastly, in refusing to grant bail to Epstein, the government clearly and publicly took
on the responsibility of protecting Epstein from ALL THREATS (including himself, other
inmates, guards, health issues, everything) while he was in their custody.
The fact that Epstein, allegedly, tried to commit suicide a week ago and was then moved to
the highest level of care and security by the government where he then dies after "allegedly"
committing suicide is a huge, public and devastating failure of the government to fulfill
their obligations to society, the courts and even Epstein (that is assuming Epstein really is
dead). This is made all the worst by the fact that many, many people (Zerohedge, moon of
alabama, RT, infowars, the Duran among others) had stated their fears that Epstein would be
murdered in such a way by powerfully forces within the government and political elites, in
the eyes of these people, their concerns have been fully vindicated. By failing to fulfill
their obligations in such a public way, especially after being warned repeatedly by people
concerned about just such a situation unfolding, the US government has hugely discredited
itself and legitimized the believe that the US government and the political elite is deeply,
systematically corrupt.
Now, undoubtedly the US government and society will not be fatally undermined by a single
event such as this. But for the prior 30 years (at least), the US government and society seem
unable to generate successes for anyone except the top 1% and indeed seems openly hostile to
the very idea that government should ever create a benefit for anyone except the 1% or that
the political and economic elite should ever be held accountable for any failure or crimes
they commit (the 2001 tech bubble, the Iraq war, the 2008 financial crisis, Libya, Syria,
Iran, Venezuela and now the Epstein scandal). At some point a critical threshold will be
breeched and people will slowly stop believing in the various government narratives on events
and public policies. Many American already reject the US government's narrative on 9/11, the
Iraq war, Syria now some of them will add the Epstein episode to their list of disbelieved
narratives. Unless the US government reverses course and starts rebuilding it's legitimacy
and trust, this rejection of US government narratives will spread to the most fundamental
government narrative, that the US government is the legitimate government of the people. Once
that narrative is disbelieved by as little as 1/3 of the population, the US (as it currently
exists) is doomed. When will that happen, that's the $64 question although I personally
believe it will be within the next 20 years unless some reforming figure arises
Since he was certainly a spook it makes sense that he knew he had to commit suicide by
himself. Suicided, yes, but by his owners who dropped him. The guy still thought recently he
could be released on bail.
Now what about the many pages missing from the published documents?? and those pages where
she starts talking about some big guys and have a lot of black on the lines??
The details of Trump's only ride on an Epstein plane, from Florida to NY, he 'hitched a
ride' - no girls. It is curious, as Ilargi, no Trump fan, points out the MSM has never
bothered to report this, plus keeps on suggesting that Trump is involved with Epstein,
insinuating guilt by association (sex trafficking, pedophilia, prostitution, abuse,
blackmail, etc.) Publishing that photo of Epstein w. Trump and Maxwell, Melania, over and
over.
Giuffre (> recent doc release) confirms - Trump never flirted with her, she never saw
Trump involved with any girls. (see also dan 77)
The MSM goes so far as to not report court cases, witness testimony, legal conclusions,
etc. from the US judiciary (itself notoriously corrupt!) -> even the minor attempts to
uphold say, the first amendment / some small parts of the rule of law.. are ignored, hidden,
flatly denied..
Circe might accuse me of supporting Trump! - NO, no..no...
Posted by: donkeytale | Aug 10 2019 16:55 utc | 103
You know what, you are right... I can't say 100 percent what exactly happened but this has
to have everybody's BS detector on full alert.
As Posted by: Kadath | Aug 10 2019 17:01 utc | 106
"At some point a critical threshold will be breeched and people will slowly stop believing in
the various government narratives on events and public policies. Many American already reject
the US government's narrative on 9/11, the Iraq war, Syria now some of them will add the
Epstein episode to their list of disbelieved narratives. Unless the US government reverses
course and starts rebuilding it's legitimacy and trust, this rejection of US government
narratives will spread to the most fundamental government narrative, that the US government
is the legitimate government of the people. Once that narrative is disbelieved by as little
as 1/3 of the population, the US (as it currently exists) is doomed. "
The lies haven't got so blatant that the narrative managers are asking to disregard any
logic to believe their stories. This Epstein case I have personally been following since
2015. From all that I read of the guy, suicide doesn't seem like his way. Ratting everyone
else out seemed more his style. Thus I lean more on a hit job more than anything.
I didn't really know Jeffrey. He was like Boo Radley in the corner of the room. After I met
him, he became Jeffrey Epstein, he had no interest in me. He knew right out of the box who
the players were, the people who would stay out all night, people who had interests in
extracurricular objectives, and who the hitters were. That wasn't me." ... The Wall Street
names in the book range from the highly prominent to the obscure, and, for some unknown
reason, a disproportionate number of names of bankers in it worked once upon a time at
Lazard, my old firm.
Cohan dutifully records passing events in the outside world, such as the near-bankruptcy of
New York, which Mr Rohatyn averted, and various mergers and acquisitions. But the
interesting action was taking place in Lazard's allegedly dingy (they never seemed that bad
to me) offices in the Rockefeller Center, where the "great men" who advised big companies
plied their trade.
The emphasis was on the "men". Cohan records that partners from Meyer to Mr David-Weill
and Mr Rohatyn imported a French attitude to extramarital liaisons and the first women who
worked there as bankers were apparently propositioned constantly. One young woman is even
said to have been raped by two junior bankers, and according to Cohan's account the
bankers were eased out to avoid embarrassment.
But just because Epstein's no more doesn't mean the investigation should end
Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 10 2019 16:11 utc | 78
This can't be stressed enough.
The Great US of A are absolutely FUCKEDUP. Remember what's at stake are proven and alleged
public order crimes, that it was not a victim that perished, that sex trafficking, of minors
or otherwise, are criminal organization type crimes. These crimes shall be prosecuted
under the law. Except there is no law to be under anymore.
We can all speculate on suicide vs "suicided" but in my opinion this is several degrees
below the bar, at this point I don't even think it matters that part of the discussion. I'm
slightly disappointed at today's comments, but since I can't myself bring up to par, I extend
it myself.
There isn't any hard evidence that Epstein was murdered, true. But if the death of the sole
named accused in arguably the most high profile case in decades, involving the most
well-connected elites, steeped foreign intelligence connections, in a federal prison, on
suicide watch, alone in a cell wearing a paper suit, with no shoelaces, under 24/7 watch
doesn't arose your suspicions, you are a special kind of obtuse. Suicide watch is designed
specifically to not allow what supposedly happened. At a minimum, it is a scandal in its own
right. But to happen to Epstein now, just as the trail was getting rolling, on Friday - the
day known to 'bury' stories, in a federal facility in Manhattan, is as fishy as fishy gets.
If you want to mock those who point that out, it reflects much more on your naivety than
anyone else's.
He wasn't just "bonking" underage women, he was trafficking them - internationally and on
a large scale. And he threatened them as well. These women were fearful.
If your daughter had been one of those "bonked", trafficked, and threatened at 15 or 16
years old maybe you wouldn't be so cavalier.
Furthermore, it's difficult to believe a wealthy person like Epstein would risk their
wealth and prestige so blatantly without some belief that they were protected. Many believe
that his protection came from Mega/Mossad. So the serial rapist was likely part of a criminal
conspiracy that was aided and abetted by a foreign government.
I used to think you had a functioning moral compass.
My BS detector has been bleeping almost non-stop since the US war on Serbia, as far as I'm
concern when the US makes an assertion they need to provide verifiable evidence to back up
their claims. my personal opinion is that Epstein didn't commit suicide, heck, I'm not even
sure if he's really dead but if he is dead, he was probably murdered.
Kadath @106 Well said. Indeed, loss of trust in governments is key, and this event utterly destroys the
little trust that remained. Other western governments have the same problem also.
Epstein was in custody of someone. Whether Epstien was "suicided" or his death was faked, in a functioning state that
someone would be brought to justice, and that would go up the chain of command until the highest culprit is found. But we live
in a system that is either a Banana Republic or a Mafia State
Had you given thought to: Banana Mafia State Democracy ?
Formerly T-Bear , Aug 11 2019 19:46 utc |
8james , Aug 11 2019 20:04 utc |
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false choices and a
load of shite.. how is a crony capitalism, banana mafia run country supposed to be a sovereign state?? personally i can't
see it.. pat lang as usual is for the most part, off his rocker..sovereign state my ass..
FWIW New Eastern Outlook is running a story by Gordon Duff on Epstein's murder including citing Bill Richardson and plutonium
theft from USA stockpile. Messad gets a mention.
I put investigative journalism between quotation marks because the editors of the NYT probably already know who killed Epstein.
"Playing along" with the investigative narrative would be the more appropriate term.
Even the New York Times is reporting that 2 guards who were supposed to check on Epstein every 30 minutes since he was in "protective"
custody didn't do their rounds, or not all of their rounds, on Friday night into Saturday morning:
Mr. Epstein was supposed to have been checked by the two guards in the protective housing unit every 30 minutes, but that
procedure was not followed that night, a law-enforcement official with knowledge of his detention said.
Nothing to see here, move along, don't care that the doctors at Parkland said publicly and unambiguously that day that JFK
was shot from the front.
If you look at Epstein, he was a cog in the one of the largest White Slave trade endeavors for a country that begins with I and
ends in an L (or better known as Occupied Palestine). Israel has been noted for years to have one of the largest white slave sex
trade operations in the world. Bringing in young white Estonian, Latvian, and other eastern european white girls for jobs as maids,
nanny's, and other domestic help, until upon arrival their passports are taken and they have to work in brothels for 16 hours
a day to pay off fees the fends impose upon them. I could provide sources from the UN to other bodies but look it up yourself.
Epstein was only doing God's work for the chosenites.
Responding to several questions in the last open thread, I mentioned the fact that Epstein's case reflects the great amount of
corruption prevalent within the Outlaw US Empire, and it's that aspect of the case that might be used as a campaign issue, particularly
since Sanders is going to great lengths to point to the utterly corrupt and immoral nature of "health" insurance and Big Pharma.
That was exactly the line he presented on today's
Face The Nation program, despite the primary fccus being gun control:
"'The American people are sick and tired of powerful corporate interest determining what goes on in Washington,' Sanders said.
'You know that's whether it's the healthcare industry, whether it is the fossil fuel industry, whether it is the NRA.'"
The other important point Sanders made was the divisive nature of Trump's rhetoric--that becoming more divided now isn't in
the nation's best interest:
"He is creating the kind of divisiveness in this nation that is the last thing we should be doing."
Ah, but that's exactly what the Current Oligarchy wants done--create an ever more divisive nation such that solidarity--and
thus Movement Building--becomes ever harder to attain and realize.
Any NYT reporting on Epstein is meant as a distraction -- to cover up the facts.
The NYT is the elites' protector, it punches down instead of up.
The NYT 'revelations' about guards are a) punching down to protect elites and b) a distraction to protect elites.
The NYT is one of the Augean Stables.
IMO, it matters not whether Epstein's alive or dead. What matters is that a person like Epstein was able to become what Epstein
became, which was enabled through the great, vast cesspool of corruption that the global elite inhabit. Epstein ought to become
the Poster Boy for ridding the nation of government and elite corruption that affects every aspect of life here and everywhere.
As many have said, Billionaires ought not to exist--no one individual should have that much wealth and power. The thesis embodied
within
Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth (PDF) ought to be made into law such that it's ensured that those fortunate enough
to become well-off thanks to the public--directly or indirectly via government--return a great proportion of that wealth to their
benefactors. IMO, had such a law been in force, the corruption that enabled Epstein would have had a more difficult time doing
what it did.
Yes, there are other factors/actors involved that aided Epstein's racket. We have an excellent idea of who and what--China
has the proper solution for such corruption. Ridding the world of those factors/actors ought to be equivalent to the Quest for
The Grail.
At least comfort can come from knowing that the evil within Syria is currently being eradicated, and that additional evil plans
are being thwarted thanks to the Forces of Resistance.
This does significantly strain the overall credibility of the system, among those who would like nothing more than to believe
in it, but still have some conscience and working brain cells.
Yet having been raised fairly rural, with a significant respect for the natural cycles, this is nothing so much as watching
necrotic tissue decay even further. Only for those raised in fairly sterile conditions, does it seem abnormal.
this corruption in US politics and DOJ is now so so pervasive hat I think only way to clear the cancer is for trump to use the
Military to replace CIA, FBI, DOJ , clean out the Judges , clean out the Media and start again with STRICT compliance to the Laws
of the US Constitution.
The FBI /DOJ is clearly infested with the cancer of corruption.
The DC and NY offices need to be fired in entirety and replaced by mid America new blood.
I was wondering when I would see a Trump supporter explicitly promoting a military coup in the US in a Trump supportive blog with
the alibi of returning to "Constitution and Law strict compliance"...
No wonder a military coup is anti-constitutional....
I always thought all these stories of the "deep state", the "borg", "drainning the swmp", "paedophilia conspiracy theories",
"Epstein case", "white supremacism terrorism", and attacks by Trump, and his ideologues, against any US institution, were designed
to sow the enough ammount of distrust and confussion amongst the US population so that they become more rone to allow such an
outrage...
"The FBI /DOJ is clearly infested with the cancer of corruption."
Mainly since both ends of the bipartisan system try to hijack the independence of some these powers by placing their ideologically
kindred men any time they grab presidency. This includes Trump.
"The DC and NY offices need to be fired in entirety and replaced by mid America new blood."
A public officers corps which reachs its position by merits independent from political filiation is the best gurantee for a
Constitutional rule and a vaccine against authoritarian aims/intends like coup d´etats.
"... Last time we were promised someone whose integrity was “beyond question” we got Robert Mueller and a team of Hillary donors investigating a GOP President ..."
Epstein's suicide--while on suicide watch in a prison--is simply too convenient for too many wealthy, politically powerful
people (of both parties) whom he might have implicated. The investigation must be thorough, transparent, and by someone whose
integrity is beyond question.
We won't get a special counsel in a case
like this, but if I had the power to appoint one the choice would be easy: Jack Goldsmith of Harvard Law School. We need a
person of his exceptional ability and integrity to get to the bottom of this and stop the further erosion of trust.
Last time we were promised someone whose
integrity was “beyond question” we got Robert Mueller and a team of Hillary donors investigating a GOP President
"... What hopefully happens now is called "diffusion of responsibility". The AG is suitably "appalled". We find that the dumbest prison guard in the history of New York was rostered on that night. He was called away to the telephone- by what proved to be an overseas telemarketing call. The paper records got jammed in the printer. The supervisor had a flat tire on the way to work. The computer broke down. You know the drill. ..."
What hopefully happens now is called "diffusion of responsibility". The AG is suitably "appalled". We find that the dumbest prison
guard in the history of New York was rostered on that night. He was called away to the telephone- by what proved to be an overseas
telemarketing call. The paper records got jammed in the printer. The supervisor had a flat tire on the way to work. The computer
broke down. You know the drill.
I said "hopefully" because if an investigation discovers a perpetrator, then they will be dead in short order too. You always
remove two links between victim and murderer. That way the crime is impossible to investigate.
What this now means in practical terms is that HRC is free to run again for President.
Epstein may have been lured back to the US with some cover story of a get-out-of-jail fake death -- only the powers that be had
decided to terminate his contract.
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Notable quotes:
"... Maxwell, who was a business partner of Mega Group co-founder Charles Bronfman, aided the successful Mossad plot to plant a trapdoor in U.S.-created software that was then sold to governments and companies throughout the world. That plot’s success was largely due to the role of a close associate of then-President Ronald Reagan and an American politician close to Maxwell, who later helped aid Reagan in the cover-up of the Iran Contra scandal. ..."
"... Years later, Maxwell’s daughter — Ghislaine Maxwell — would join Jeffrey Epstein’s “inner circle” at the same time Epstein was bankrolling a similar software program now being marketed for critical electronic infrastructure in the U.S. and abroad ..."
"... Epstein appears to have ties to Israeli intelligence and has well-documented ties to influential Israeli politicians and the Mega Group. Yet, those entities are not isolated in and of themselves, as many also connect to the organized crime network and powerful alleged pedophiles discussed in previous installments of this series. ..."
"... Associated Press ..."
"... Lauder, then-ambassador to Austria for the Reagan administration, would have been well-positioned to acquire such a passport, particularly for the reason cited by Epstein’s attorneys that Jewish-Americans could be targeted during travel, and in light of Lauder’s very public concerns over threats Jews face from certain terror groups. Furthermore, the passport had been issued in 1987, when Lauder was still serving as an ambassador. ..."
"... Though Epstein’s defense attorney declined to reveal the identity of the “friend” who provided him with the fake Austrian passport, Lauder was both well-positioned to acquire it in Austria and also deeply connected to the Mega Group, which was co-founded by Epstein’s patron Leslie Wexner and to which Epstein has many connections. These connections to both the Austrian government and to Epstein’s mentor make Lauder the most likely person to have acquired the document on Epstein’s behalf. ..."
"... Furthermore, Lauder co-founded the Eastern European broadcasting network CETV with Mark Palmer, a former U.S. diplomat, Kissinger aide and Reagan speechwriter. Palmer is better known for co-founding the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an organization often described as an accessory to U.S. intelligence, and one whose first president confessed to the Washington Post that “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” A 2001 report in the Evening Standard noted that Epstein once claimed that during the 1980s he worked for the CIA, but Epstein later backed away from that assertion. ..."
"... The Mega Group — a secretive group of billionaires to which Lauder belongs — was formed in 1991 by Charles Bronfman and Leslie Wexner, the latter of whom has received considerable media scrutiny following the July arrest of his former protege Jeffrey Epstein. Media profiles of the group paint it as “a loosely organized club of 20 of the nation’s wealthiest and most influential Jewish businessmen” focused on “philanthropy and Jewishness,” with membership dues upwards of $30,000 per year. Yet several of its most prominent members have ties to organized crime. ..."
"... When Edgar Bronfman died in 2013, long-time ADL Director Abe Foxman said , “Edgar was for many years Chair of our Liquor Industry Division, Chair of our New York Appeal, and one of our most significant benefactors.” Other Mega Group members that are donors and major supporters of the ADL include Ronald Lauder , Michael Steinhardt and the late Max Fisher . As previously mentioned, Roy Cohn’s father was a long-time leader of B’nai B’rith’s influential New England-New York chapter and Cohn was later a celebrated member of its banking and finance lodge. ..."
"... In addition, Mega Group members have also been key players in the pro-Israel lobby in the United States. For instance, Max Fisher of the Mega Group founded the National Jewish Coalition, now known as the Republican Jewish Coalition — the main pro-Israel neoconservative political lobbying group , known for its support of hawkish policies, and whose current chief patrons, Sheldon Adelson and Bernard Marcus, are among Donald Trump’s top donors. ..."
"... Sam Bronfman, as was detailed in Part I of this series, had long-standing deep ties to organized crime, specifically Meyer Lanksy’s organized crime syndicate. Yet, Bronfman’s private ambition, according to those close to him, was to become a respected member of high society. As a consequence, Bronfman worked hard to remove the stain that his mob associations had left on his public reputation in Canada and abroad. He accomplished this by becoming a leader in Canada’s Zionist movement and, by the end of the 1930s, he was head of the Canadian Jewish Congress and had begun to make a name for himself as a philanthropist for Jewish causes. ..."
"... Yet even some of Bronfman’s activism and philanthropy had hints of the mobster-like reputation he tried so hard to shake. For instance, Bronfman was actively involved in the illegal shipping of arms to Zionist paramilitaries in Palestine prior to 1948, specifically as a co-founder of the National Conference for Israeli and Jewish Rehabilitation that smuggled weapons to the paramilitary group Haganah. ..."
"... However, Edgar and Charles Bronfman were hardly the only members of the Mega Group with deep and long-standing ties to the Lansky-led National Crime Syndicate. Indeed, one of the group’s prominent members, hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, opened up about his own family ties to Lansky in his autobiography No Bull: My Life in and out the Markets , where he noted that his father, Sol “Red McGee” Steinhardt, was Lansky’s jewel fence of choice and a major player in New York’s criminal underworld. Sol Steinhardt was also his son’s first client on Wall Street and helped him jumpstart his career in finance. ..."
"... One surprise connection to Cohn involves Mega Group member, and former president of U.S. weapons firm General Dynamics, Lester Crown, whose brother-in-law is David Schine, Cohn’s confidant and alleged lover during the McCarthy hearings, whose relationship with Cohn helped bring about the downfall of McCarthyism. ..."
"... Leslie “Les” Wexner, the other Mega Group co-founder, also has ties to organized crime. Wexner’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein have come under scrutiny following the latter’s recent arrest, as Wexner was the only publicly acknowledged client of Epstein’s suspicious hedge fund, the source of much of this wealth, and the previous owner of Epstein’s $56 million Manhattan townhouse, which Wexner transferred to an Epstein-controlled entity for free. ..."
"... The 1996 Times article also noted that, after Wexner bought the residence for $13.2 million in 1989, he spent millions more decorating and furnishing the home, including the addition of the electronic equipment in the “James Bond” bathroom, only to apparently never live in it. ..."
"... Farmer’s account strongly suggests that, given the behavior of his personal security staff at his mansion following Epstein’s alleged assault on Farmer, Wexner was well aware of Epstein’s predatory behavior towards young women. This is compounded by claims made by Alan Dershowitz — a former lawyer for and friend of Epstein’s, who has also been accused of raping underage girls — that Wexner has also been accused of raping underage girls exploited by Epstein on at least seven occasions. ..."
"... The report, titled “ Shapiro Homicide Investigation: Analysis and Hypothesis ,” names Leslie Wexner as linked “with associates reputed to be organized crime figures” and also lists the names of businessman Jack Kessler, former Columbus City Council President and Wexner associate Jerry Hammond, and former Columbus City Council member Les Wright as also being involved in Shapiro’s murder. ..."
"... As to Wexner’s alleged links to organized crime, the report focuses on the close business relationship between Wexner’s The Limited and Francis Walsh, whose trucking company “[had] done an excess of 90 percent of the Limited’s trucking business around the time of Shapiro’s murder,” according to the report. Walsh was named in a 1988 indictment as a “co-conspirator” of Genovese crime family boss Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, whose long-time lawyer was Roy Cohn; and the Shapiro murder report stated that Walsh was “still considered associates of the Genovese/LaRocca crime family, and Walsh was still providing truck transportation for The Limited.” ..."
"... According to a source who viewed a copy of the NSA transcript of the conversation, the intelligence officer, speaking in Hebrew, said, ‘The ambassador wants me to go to Mega to get a copy of this letter.’ The source said the supervisor in Tel Aviv rejected the request, saying, ‘This is not something we use Mega for.’” ..."
"... Almost one year to the day after the “Mega” spy scandal broke, the Wall Street Journal was the first outlet to report on the existence of a little-known organization of billionaires that was “informally” called the Mega Group and had been founded years prior in 1991. The report made no mention of the spy scandal that had spread concerns of Israeli espionage in the U.S. only a year prior. However, the group’s distinctive “informal” name and the connections of its members to the Mossad and to high-ranking Israeli politicians, including prime ministers, raise the possibility that “Mega” was not an individual, as the FBI and NSA had believed, but a group. ..."
"... Netanyahu was close enough to Lauder that he personally enlisted Lauder and George Nader to serve as his peace envoys to Syria. ..."
"... Nader, who was connected to the Trump 2016 campaign and Trump ally and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, was recently hit with federal child sex trafficking charges last month, soon after Jeffrey Epstein had been arrested on similar charges. At the time Nader was picked to work with Lauder on Netanyahu’s behalf, he had already been caught possessing large amounts of child pornography on two separate occasions, first in 1984 and later in 1990. ..."
"... Maxwell was also a close associate and friend of Israeli “superspy” Rafi Eitan, who, as previously mentioned, was Jonathan Pollard’s handler and who had previously worked directly with Meyer Lansky. ..."
"... With Inslaw out of the way, Brian sold the software all over the world. Eitan later recruited Robert Maxwell to become another Promis salesman, which he did remarkably well, even succeeding in selling the software to Soviet intelligence and conspiring with Republican Texas Senator John Tower to have the software adopted by the U.S. government laboratory at Los Alamos. Dozens of countries used the software on their most carefully guarded computer systems, unaware that Mossad now had access to everything Promis touched. ..."
"... According to journalist Robert Fisk , Maxwell was also involved in the Mossad abduction of Israeli nuclear weapons whistleblower Vanunu Mordechai. Mordechai had attempted to provide the media with information on the extent of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, which was eventually published by the Sunday Times of London . Yet, Mordechai had also contacted the Daily Mirror with the information, the Mirror being an outlet that was owned by Maxwell and whose foreign editor was a close Maxwell associate and alleged Mossad asset, Nicholas Davies. Journalist Seymour Hersh alleged that Davies had also been involved in Israeli arms deals. ..."
"... Per Fisk, it was Maxwell who contacted the Israeli Embassy in London and told them of Mordechai’s activities. This led to Mordechai’s entrapment by a female Mossad agent who seduced him as part of a “honey trap” operation that led to his kidnapping and later imprisonment in Israel. Mordechai served an 18-year sentence, 12 years of which were in solitary confinement. ..."
"... According to authors Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, Maxwell had sealed his own fate when he attempted to threaten top Mossad officials with the exposure of certain operations if they did not help him rescue his media empire from crippling debt and financial difficulties. Many of Maxwell’s creditors , who had grown increasingly displeased with the media mogul, were Israeli and several of them were alleged to be Mossad-connected themselves. ..."
"... Another attendee of the Maxwell yacht party was former Secretary of the Navy and former Henry Kissinger staffer Jon Lehman, who would go on to associate with the controversial neoconservative think tank, Project for a New American Century. Prior to being secretary of the Navy, Lehman had been president of the Abington Corporation, which hired arch-neocon Richard Perle to manage the portfolio of Israeli arms dealers Shlomo Zabludowicz and his son Chaim, who paid Ablington $10,000 month. A scandal arose when those payments continued after both Lehman and Perle joined the Reagan Department of Defense and while Perle was working to persuade the Pentagon to buy arms from companies linked to Zabludowicz. Perle had been part of the Reagan transition team along with Roy Cohn’s long-time friend and law partner Tom Bolan (another Maxwell yacht guest). ..."
"... Even though Jeffrey Epstein appears to have had ties to the Mossad, this series has revealed that the networks to which Epstein was connected were not Mossad-exclusive, as many of the individuals close to Epstein — Lesie Wexner, for instance — were part of a mob-connected class of oligarchs with deep ties to both the U.S. and Israel. ..."
"... Ultimately, the picture painted by the evidence is not a direct tie to a single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations. ..."
A
s billionaire pedophile and alleged sex-trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein sits in prison, reports
have continued to surface about his reported links to intelligence, his financial ties to
several companies and “charitable” foundations, and his friendships with the rich
and powerful as well as top politicians.
While Part
I and Part
II of this series, “The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” have focused
on the widespread nature of sexual blackmail operations in recent American history and their
ties to the heights of American political power and the U.S. intelligence community, one key
aspect of Epstein’s own sex-trafficking and blackmail operation that warrants examination
is Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence and his ties to the “informal”
pro-Israel philanthropist faction known as “the Mega Group.”
The Mega Group’s role in the Epstein case has garnered some attention, as
Epstein’s main financial patron for decades, billionaire Leslie Wexner, was a co-founder
of the group that unites several well-known businessmen with a penchant for pro-Israel and
ethno-philanthropy (i.e., philanthropy benefiting a single ethnic or ethno-religious group).
However, as this report will show, another uniting factor among Mega Group members is deep ties
to organized crime, specifically the organized crime network discussed in Part
I of this series, which was largely led by notorious American mobster Meyer Lansky.
By virtue of the role of many Mega Group members as major political donors in both the U.S.
and Israel, several of its most notable members have close ties to the governments of both
countries as well as their intelligence communities. As this report and a subsequent report
will show, the Mega Group also had close ties to two businessmen who worked for Israel’s
Mossad — Robert Maxwell and Marc Rich — as well as to top Israeli politicians,
including past and present prime ministers with deep ties to Israel’s intelligence
community.
One of those businessmen working for the Mossad, Robert Maxwell, will be discussed at length
in this report. Maxwell, who was a business partner of Mega Group co-founder Charles Bronfman,
aided the successful Mossad plot to plant a trapdoor in U.S.-created software that was then
sold to governments and companies throughout the world. That plot’s success was largely
due to the role of a close associate of then-President Ronald Reagan and an American politician
close to Maxwell, who later helped aid Reagan in the cover-up of the Iran Contra scandal.
Years later, Maxwell’s daughter — Ghislaine Maxwell — would join Jeffrey
Epstein’s “inner circle” at the same time Epstein was bankrolling a similar
software program now being marketed for critical electronic infrastructure in the U.S. and
abroad. That company has deep and troubling connections to Israeli military intelligence,
associates of the Trump administration, and the Mega Group.
Epstein appears to have ties to Israeli intelligence and has well-documented ties to
influential Israeli politicians and the Mega Group. Yet, those entities are not isolated in and
of themselves, as many also connect to the organized crime network and powerful alleged
pedophiles discussed in previous installments of this series.
Perhaps the best illustration of how the connections between many of these players often
meld together can be seen in Ronald Lauder: a Mega Group member, former member of the Reagan
administration, long-time donor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s
Likud Party, as well as a long-time friend of Donald Trump and Roy Cohn.
From cosmetics
heir to political player
One often overlooked yet famous client and friend of Roy Cohn is the billionaire heir to the
Estee Lauder cosmetics fortune, Ronald Lauder. Lauder is often described in the press as a
“leading Jewish philanthropist” and is the president of the World Jewish Congress,
yet his many media profiles tend to leave out his highly political past.
In a
statement given by Lauder to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman in 2018, the
cosmetics heir noted that he has known Trump for over 50 years, going back at least to the
early 1970s. According to Lauder, his relationship with Trump began when Trump was a student at
the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which Lauder also
attended.
Image deleted: President-elect Trump walks with Ronald Lauder after meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Dec. 28, 2016,
in Palm Beach, Fla. Evan Vucci | AP
Though the exact nature of their early friendship is unclear, it is evident that they shared
many of the same connections, including to the man who would later count them both as his
clients, Roy Cohn. While much has been said of the ties between Cohn and Trump, Cohn was
particularly close to Lauder’s mother, Estee Lauder (born Josephine Mentzer). Estee was
even counted among Cohn’s most high-profile friends in
his New York Times obituary .
A small window into the Lauder-Cohn relationship surfaced briefly in a
2016 article in Politico about a 1981 dinner party held at Cohn’s weekend home
in Greenwich, Connecticut. The party was attended by Ronald Lauder’s parents, Estee and
Joe, as well as Trump and his then-wife Ivana, who had
a weekend home just two miles away. That party was held soon after Cohn had helped Reagan
secure the presidency and had reached the height of his political influence. At the party, Cohn
offered toasts to Reagan and to then-Senator for New York Alfonse D’Amato, who
would later urge Ronald Lauder to run for political office.
Two years later, in 1983, Ronald Lauder — whose only professional experience at that
point was working for his parent’s cosmetics company — was appointed to serve as United
States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs. Soon after his
appointment, he served on the
Dinner Tribute Committee for a dinner hosted by the Jewish fraternal and strongly pro-Israel
organization B’nai B’rith, the parent organization of the controversial
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), in Roy Cohn’s honor. Cohn’s influential father,
Albert Cohn, was the long-time
president of B’nai B’rith’s powerful New England-New York chapter and Roy
Cohn himself was a member of B’nai B’rith’s Banking and Finance Lodge.
The dinner specifically sought
to honor Cohn for his pro-Israel advocacy and his efforts to “fortify”
Israel’s economy, and its honorary chairmen included media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Donald
Trump and then-head of Bear Stearns Alan Greenberg, all of whom are
connected to Jeffrey Epstein.
During his time as deputy assistant secretary of defense, Lauder was also very active in
Israeli politics and had already become an ally of the then-Israeli representative to the
United Nations and future prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Lauder would go on to
be one of the most important individuals in Netanyahu’s rise to power, particularly
during his upset victory in 1996, and a major financier of
Israel’s right-wing Likud Party.
In 1986, the year that Roy Cohn died, Lauder left his post at the Pentagon and became the
U.S. ambassador to Austria, where his tenure was shaped by
his confrontations with the then-Austrian president and former Nazi collaborator, Kurt
Waldheim. Lauder’s interest in Austrian politics has continued well into recent years,
culminating in accusations that he sought
to manipulate Austrian elections in 2012.
After leaving his ambassadorship, Lauder
founded the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation in 1987 and later went on to run for Mayor of New
York against Rudy Giuliani in 1989. Lauder
was encouraged to run by then-Senator Alfonse D’Amato, who had close ties to Roy Cohn
and his long-time law partner Tom Bolan, who was
D’Amato’s adviser . At the aforementioned 1983 B’nai B’rith dinner
honoring Cohn, D’Amato was the featured speaker.
The likely reason was that Giuliani, though once an ally of the “Roy Cohn
machine,” was at the time
deeply disliked by the late Cohn’s associates for prosecuting Cohn’s former law
partner, Stanley Friedman, for racketeering, conspiracy and other charges. Giuliani also had a
history of bitter disagreements with D’Amato. Lauder’s primary campaign, though
unsuccessful, was noted for its viciousness and its cost, as it
burned through more than $13 million.
A few years later, in the early 1990s, Lauder would join a newly formed group that has long
evaded scrutiny from the media but has recently become of interest in connection with the
Jeffrey Epstein scandal: the Mega Group.
Lauder, Epstein and the mysterious Austrian
passport
Before getting to the Mega Group, it is worth noting one particular act apparently
undertaken by Lauder while he was U.S. ambassador to Austria that has recently come to light in
relation to the arrest in early July of Jeffrey Epstein, a finding first reported by journalist
Edward Szall. When police recently discovered an Austrian passport with Epstein’s picture
and a fake name after raiding his Manhattan residence, the source and purpose of the passport
came under media scrutiny.
According to the Associated Press ,
Epstein’s defense lawyers specifically argued that “a friend gave it to him
[Epstein] in the 1980s after some Jewish-Americans were informally advised to carry
identification bearing a non-Jewish name when traveling internationally during a period when
hijackings were more common.” This claim appears to be related to concerns that followed
the hijacking
of Air France Flight 139 in 1976 when Israeli and Jewish hostages were separated from other
hostages based largely on the passports in their possession.
Given that Epstein was unable to meet the conventional qualifications for an Austrian
passport — including long-term residency in Austria (the passport lists him as a resident
of Saudi Arabia) and fluency in German — it appears that the only way to have acquired an
Austrian passport was by unconventional means, meaning assistance from a well-connected
Austrian official or foreign diplomat with clout in Austria.
Image deleted: Ronald Lauder, right, and Austrian Chancellor Viktor Klima pose with students from the
Lauder Chabad School in Vienna, Austria in 1999. Martin Gnedt | AP
Lauder, then-ambassador to Austria for the Reagan administration, would have been
well-positioned to acquire such a passport, particularly for the reason cited by
Epstein’s attorneys that Jewish-Americans could be targeted during travel, and in light
of Lauder’s very public concerns over threats Jews face from certain terror groups.
Furthermore, the passport had been issued in 1987, when Lauder was still serving as an
ambassador.
In addition, Lauder
was well-connected to Epstein’s former patron — former head of Bear Stearns
Alan Greenberg, who had hired Epstein in the late 1970s immediately after the latter was fired
from the Dalton School — and Donald Trump,
another friend of Lauder and Greenberg who began his friendship with Epstein in 1987, the
same year the fake Austrian passport was issued. In 1987, Epstein also began his relationship
with his principal financier, Leslie Wexner, who is also closely associated with Lauder (though
some sources claim that Epstein and Wexner first met in 1985 but that their strong business
relationship was not established until 1987).
Though Epstein’s defense attorney declined to reveal the identity of the
“friend” who provided him with the fake Austrian passport, Lauder was both
well-positioned to acquire it in Austria and also deeply connected to the Mega Group, which was
co-founded by Epstein’s patron Leslie Wexner and to which Epstein has many connections.
These connections to both the Austrian government and to Epstein’s mentor make Lauder the
most likely person to have acquired the document on Epstein’s behalf.
Furthermore, Epstein and the Mega Group’s ties to the Israeli intelligence agency,
Mossad, also suggest Lauder was involved in procuring the passport, in light of his close ties
to the Israeli government and the fact that Mossad
has a history of using ambassadors abroad to procure false, foreign passports for its
operatives.
Lauder himself has been alleged to have ties to Mossad, as he is a long-time funder of IDC
Herzliya, an Israeli university
closely associated with Mossad and their recruiters as well as Israeli military
intelligence. Lauder even founded IDC Herzliya’s
Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy.
Furthermore, Lauder co-founded the Eastern European broadcasting network CETV with Mark
Palmer, a former U.S. diplomat, Kissinger aide and Reagan speechwriter. Palmer is better known
for co-founding the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an organization often described as
an accessory to U.S. intelligence, and one whose first president confessed to
the Washington Post that “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years
ago by the CIA.” A 2001 report in the Evening Standard noted that Epstein
once
claimed that during the 1980s he worked for the CIA, but Epstein later backed away from
that assertion.
The origins of the Mega Group Mafia
The Mega Group — a secretive group of billionaires to which Lauder belongs — was
formed in 1991 by Charles Bronfman and Leslie Wexner, the latter of whom has received
considerable media scrutiny following the July arrest of his former protege Jeffrey Epstein.
Media profiles
of the group paint it as “a loosely organized club of 20 of the nation’s wealthiest
and most influential Jewish businessmen” focused on “philanthropy and
Jewishness,” with membership dues upwards of $30,000 per year. Yet several of its most
prominent members have ties to organized crime.
Mega Group members founded and/or are closely associated with some of the most well-known
pro-Israel organizations. For instance, members Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt
formed
Birthright Taglit with the backing of then- and current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Steinhardt, an atheist, has stated that his motivation in helping to found the group was to
advance his own belief that devotion
to and faith in the state of Israel should serve as “a substitute for [Jewish]
theology.”
Other well-known groups associated with the Mega Group include the World Jewish Congress
— whose past president, Edgar Bronfman, and current president, Ronald Lauder, are both
Mega Group members — and B’nai B’rith, particularly its spin-off known as the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The Bronfman brothers were major donors to the ADL, with Edgar
Bronfman serving as the
ADL’s honorary national vice-chair for several years.
Image deleted: Former Israeli president Shimon Peres, second from left, listens to Edgar Bronfman during a
1995 lunch thrown in Peres’ honor. From left are: Laurence Tisch, Chairman, President and
Chief executive officer of CBS; Israeli Ambassador to the United States. Itamar Rabinowitz and
Bronfman. David Karp | AP
When Edgar Bronfman died in 2013, long-time ADL Director Abe Foxman said ,
“Edgar was for many years Chair of our Liquor Industry Division, Chair of our New York
Appeal, and one of our most significant benefactors.” Other Mega Group members that are
donors and major supporters of the ADL include
Ronald Lauder ,
Michael Steinhardt and the late Max
Fisher . As previously mentioned, Roy Cohn’s father was a long-time leader of
B’nai B’rith’s influential New England-New York chapter and Cohn was later a
celebrated member of its banking and finance lodge.
In addition, Mega Group members have also been key players in the pro-Israel lobby in the
United States. For instance, Max Fisher of the Mega Group
founded the National Jewish Coalition, now
known as the Republican Jewish Coalition — the main pro-Israel
neoconservative political lobbying group , known for its support of hawkish policies, and
whose current chief patrons, Sheldon Adelson and Bernard Marcus, are among Donald Trump’s
top donors.
Though the Mega Group has officially existed only since 1991, the use of
“philanthropy” to provide cover for more unscrupulous lobbying or business
activities was pioneered decades earlier by Sam Bronfman, the father of Mega Group members
Edgar and Charles Bronfman. While other North American elites like J.D. Rockefeller had
previously used philanthropic giving as a means of laundering their reputations,
Bronfman’s approach to philanthropy was unique because it was focused on giving
specifically to other members of his own ethno-religious background.
Sam Bronfman, as was detailed in Part
I of this series, had long-standing deep ties to organized crime, specifically Meyer
Lanksy’s organized crime syndicate. Yet, Bronfman’s private ambition, according to
those close to him, was to become a respected member of high society. As a consequence,
Bronfman worked hard to remove the stain that his mob associations had left on his public
reputation in Canada and abroad. He accomplished this by becoming a leader in Canada’s
Zionist movement and, by the end of the 1930s, he
was head of the Canadian Jewish Congress and had begun to make a name for himself as a
philanthropist for Jewish causes.
Yet even some of Bronfman’s activism and philanthropy had hints of the mobster-like
reputation he tried so hard to shake. For instance, Bronfman was actively involved in the
illegal shipping of arms to Zionist paramilitaries in Palestine prior to 1948, specifically as
a co-founder of the National Conference for Israeli and Jewish Rehabilitation that
smuggled weapons to the paramilitary group Haganah.
At the same time Bronfman was abetting the illegal smuggling of weapons to the Haganah, his
associates in the criminal underworld were doing the same. After World War II, close aides of
David Ben-Gurion, who would later become the first prime minister of Israel and was
instrumental in the founding of Mossad, forged tight-knit
relationships with Meyer Lansky, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, Mickey Cohen and
other Jewish gangsters of the period. They used their clandestine networks to establish a vast
arms smuggling network between the United States and Zionist settlements in Palestine, arming
both the Haganah and the Irgun paramilitary groups. As noted in Part I of this report, at the
same time these gangsters were aiding the illegal arming of ZIonsit paramilitaries, they were
strengthening their ties to U.S. intelligence that had first been formally (though covertly)
established in World War II.
After Israel was founded, Sam Bronfman worked with future Israeli Prime Minister
Shimon Peres to negotiate the sale of Canadian armaments at half-price to Israel and the
bargain weapons purchase was paid for entirely by a fundraising dinner hosted by Bronfman and
his wife. Many years later, Peres would go on
to introduce another future prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, to Jeffrey Epstein.
The rest of the Bronfman family’s march on “the road to respectability”
was undertaken by Bronfman’s children, who married into aristocratic families such as
the
European Rothschilds and the Wall Street “royalty” of
the Lehmans and the Loebs .
The Bronfmans’ newfound respectability did not mean that their association with the
Lansky-led criminal empire had dissolved. Indeed, prominent members of the Seagrams dynasty
came under fire in the 1960s and 1970s for their
close association with Willie “Obie” Obront, a major figure in Canadian
organized crime, whom Canadian professor Stephen Schneider has referred to as the Meyer Lansky
of Canada.
However, Edgar and Charles Bronfman were hardly the only members of the Mega Group with deep
and long-standing ties to the Lansky-led National Crime Syndicate. Indeed, one of the
group’s prominent members, hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, opened up about his own
family ties to Lansky in his autobiography No Bull: My Life in and out the Markets ,
where he noted that his father, Sol “Red McGee” Steinhardt, was Lansky’s jewel
fence of choice and
a major player in New York’s criminal underworld. Sol Steinhardt was also his
son’s first client on Wall Street and helped him jumpstart his career in finance.
The ties between the Mega Group and the National Crime Syndicate don’t stop there.
Another prominent member of the Mega Group with ties to this same criminal network is Max
Fisher, who has been described as Wexner’s mentor and is also alleged
to have worked with Detroit’s “Purple Gang” during Prohibition and
beyond. The Purple Gang were part of the network that smuggled Bronfman liquor from Canada into
the United State during Prohibition, and one of its founders, Abe Bernstein, was
a close associate of both Meyer Lansky and Moe Dalitz. Fisher was a
key adviser to several U.S. presidents, beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as to
Henry Kissinger.
Image removed: Max Fisher, center, and Henry Kissinger, right, meet with leaders of Jewish organizations
prior to Kissinger’s 1975 Middle East trip. Henry Burroughs | AP
In addition to Fisher, Mega Group member Ronald Lauder was connected to Roy Cohn and Tom
Bolan, both of whom were closely associated with this same Lansky-led crime network (see
Part
I and
Part
II ) and who regularly represented top Mafia figures in court. Furthermore, another member
of the Mega Group, director Steven Spielberg, is
a
well-known protege of Lew Wasserman, the mob-connected media mogul and long-time backer of
Ronald Reagan’s film and later political career, discussed in
Part
II of this series.
One surprise connection to Cohn involves Mega Group member, and former president of U.S.
weapons firm General Dynamics, Lester Crown, whose brother-in-law is David Schine, Cohn’s
confidant and alleged lover during the McCarthy hearings, whose
relationship with Cohn helped bring about the downfall of McCarthyism.
Another member of the Mega Group worth noting is Laurence Tisch, who owned CBS News
for several years and founded Loews Corporation. Tisch is notable for his work
for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA, where Donald Barr,
who hired Epstein at the Dalton School, also served and which forged ties with Lansky’s
criminal empire during World War II.
Wexner’s mansions and the Shapiro murder
Leslie “Les” Wexner, the other Mega Group co-founder, also has ties to organized
crime. Wexner’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein have come under scrutiny following the
latter’s recent arrest, as Wexner was the only publicly acknowledged client of
Epstein’s suspicious hedge fund, the source of much of this wealth, and the previous
owner of Epstein’s $56 million Manhattan townhouse, which Wexner transferred to an
Epstein-controlled entity for free.
Before Epstein received the townhouse, Wexner appears to have used the residence for some
unconventional purposes, noted in a 1996 New York
Times article on the then-Wexner-owned residence, which included “a bathroom
reminiscent of James Bond movies: hidden beneath a stairway, lined with lead to provide shelter
from attack and supplied with closed-circuit television screens and a telephone, both concealed
in a cabinet beneath the sink.” The Times article does not speculate as to the
purpose of this equipment, though the allusion to famous fictional superspy James Bond suggests
that it may have been used to snoop on guests or conduct electronic surveillance.
The 1996 Times article also noted that, after Wexner bought the residence for $13.2
million in 1989, he spent millions more decorating and furnishing the home, including the
addition of the electronic equipment in the “James Bond” bathroom, only to
apparently never live in it. The Times , which interviewed Epstein for the piece, quoted
him as saying that “Les never spent more than two months there.” Epstein told the
Times , which identified Epstein as Wexner’s “protege and one of his
financial advisers,” that the house, by that time, already belonged to him.
That same year, Epstein was commissioning artwork for Wexner’s Ohio mansion. A
recent
article from the Times noted that:
In the summer of 1996, Maria Farmer was working on an art project for Mr. Epstein in
Mr. Wexner’s Ohio mansion. While she was there, Mr. Epstein sexually assaulted her,
according to an affidavit Ms. Farmer filed earlier this year in federal court in Manhattan.
She said that she fled the room and called the police, but that Mr. Wexner’s security
staff refused to let her leave for 12 hours.”
Farmer’s account strongly suggests that, given the behavior of his personal security
staff at his mansion following Epstein’s alleged assault on Farmer, Wexner was well
aware of Epstein’s predatory behavior towards young women. This is compounded by claims
made by Alan Dershowitz — a former lawyer for and friend of Epstein’s, who has
also been accused of raping underage girls — that Wexner has also been accused of raping underage
girls exploited by Epstein on at least seven occasions.
The presence of the electronic equipment in his home’s bathroom, other oddities
related to the townhouse, and aspects of the links between Epstein and Wexner suggest there is
more to Wexner, who has rather successfully developed a public image of a respectable
businessman and philanthropist, much like other prominent members of the Mega
Group.
Image removed: Leslie Wexner and his wife Abigail tour the “Transfigurations” exhibit at the
Wexner Center for the Arts. Jay LaPrete | AP
However, bits and pieces of Wexner’s private secrets have occasionally bubbled up,
only to be subjected to rapid cover-ups amidst concerns of “libeling” the powerful
and well-connected billionaire “philanthropist.”
In 1985, Columbus (Ohio) lawyer Arthur Shapiro was murdered in broad daylight
at point-blank range in what was largely referred to as a “mob style murder.” The
homicide still remains unsolved, likely due to the fact that then-Columbus Police Chief James
Jackson ordered the destruction of key documents of his department’s investigation into
the murder.
Jackson’s ordering of the documents’ destruction came to light years later in
1996, when he was under investigation for corruption. According to the Columbus Dispatch ,
Jackson justified the destruction of one “ viable and valuable ” report
because he felt that it “was so filled with wild speculation about prominent business
leaders that it was potentially libelous.” The nature of this “wild
speculation” was that “millionaire businessmen in Columbus and Youngstown were
linked to the ‘mob-style murder.’”
Though Jackson’s efforts were meant to keep this “libelous” report far
from public view, it was eventually obtained by Bob Fitrakis —
attorney, journalist, and executive director of the Columbus Institute for Contemporary
Journalism — after he was “accidentally” sent a copy of the report in 1998 as
part of a public records request.
The report, titled “ Shapiro Homicide Investigation: Analysis and
Hypothesis ,” names Leslie Wexner as linked “with associates reputed to be
organized crime figures” and also lists the names of businessman Jack Kessler, former
Columbus City Council President and Wexner associate Jerry Hammond, and former Columbus City
Council member Les Wright as also being involved in Shapiro’s murder.
The report also noted that Arthur Shapiro’s law firm — Schwartz, Shapiro, Kelm
& Warren — represented Wexner’s company, The Limited, and states that
“prior to his death, Arthur Shapiro managed this account [The Limited] for the law
firm.” It also noted that, at the time of his death, Shapiro “was the subject of an
investigation by the Internal Revenue Service because he had failed to file income tax returns
for some seven years prior to his death, and he had invested in some questionable tax
shelters.” It also stated that his death prevented Shapiro from his planned testimony at
a grand jury hearing about these “questionable tax shelters.”
As to Wexner’s alleged links to organized crime, the report focuses on the close
business relationship between Wexner’s The Limited and Francis Walsh, whose trucking
company “[had] done an excess of 90 percent of the Limited’s trucking business
around the time of Shapiro’s murder,” according to the report. Walsh was named in
a 1988 indictment as a “co-conspirator” of Genovese crime family boss Anthony
“Fat Tony” Salerno, whose long-time lawyer was Roy Cohn; and the Shapiro murder
report stated that Walsh was “still considered associates of the Genovese/LaRocca crime
family, and Walsh was still providing truck transportation for The Limited.”
Notably, the Genovese crime family has long formed a key part of the National Crime
Syndicate, as its former head, Charles “Lucky” Luciano, co-created the criminal organization
with his close friend Meyer Lansky. Upon Luciano’s imprisonment and subsequent
deportation from the United States, Lansky took over the syndicate’s U.S. operations and
his association with Luciano’s successors continued until Lansky’s death in
1983.
The “Mega” Mystery and the Mossad
In May 1997, the Washington Post broke
an explosive story — long since forgotten — based on an intercepted phone call
made between a Mossad official in the U.S. and his superior in Tel Aviv that discussed the
Mossad’s efforts to obtain a secret U.S. government document. According to the
Post, the Mossad official stated during the phone call that “Israeli Ambassador
Eliahu Ben Elissar had asked him whether he could obtain a copy of the letter given to
[Palestinian leader Yasser] Arafat by [then-Secretary of State Warren] Christopher on Jan. 16,
the day after the Hebron accord was signed by Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu.”
The Post article continued:
According to a source who viewed a copy of the NSA transcript of the conversation, the
intelligence officer, speaking in Hebrew, said, ‘The ambassador wants me to go to Mega
to get a copy of this letter.’ The source said the supervisor in Tel Aviv rejected the
request, saying, ‘This is not something we use Mega for.’”
The leaked communication led to an investigation that sought to identify an individual
code-named “Mega” that the Post said “may be someone in the U.S.
government who has provided information to the Israelis in the past,” a concern that
subsequently spawned a fruitless FBI investigation. The Mossad later claimed that
“Mega” was merely a codeword for the U.S.’ CIA, but the FBI and NSA were
unconvinced by that claim and
believed that it was a senior U.S. government official that had potentially once been
involved in working with Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. naval intelligence analyst later
convicted of spying for the Mossad.
Almost one year to the day after the “Mega” spy scandal broke, the Wall
Street Journal was the first outlet to report on the
existence of a little-known organization of billionaires that was “informally”
called the Mega Group and had been founded years prior in 1991. The report made no mention of
the spy scandal that had spread concerns of Israeli espionage in the U.S. only a year prior.
However, the group’s distinctive “informal” name and the connections of its
members to the Mossad and to high-ranking Israeli politicians, including prime ministers, raise
the possibility that “Mega” was not an individual, as the FBI and NSA had believed,
but a group.
In 1997, when the “Mega” spy scandal broke, Netanyahu had recently become prime
minister of Israel after an upset victory, a victory that was
largely credited to one well-connected Netanyahu backer in particular, Ronald Lauder.
Beyond being a major donor, Lauder had brought Arthur Finklestein on to work for
Netanyahu’s 1996 campaign, whose strategies were credited for Netanyahu’s surprise
win. Netanyahu was close enough to Lauder that he personally enlisted Lauder and George Nader
to serve as his peace envoys to Syria.
Image removed: Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara with Ronald Lauder in 1997. Photo | Reuters
Nader, who was connected to the Trump 2016 campaign and Trump ally and Blackwater
founder Erik Prince, was
recently hit with federal child sex trafficking charges last month, soon after Jeffrey
Epstein had been arrested on similar charges. At the time Nader was picked to work with Lauder
on Netanyahu’s behalf, he had
already been caught possessing large amounts of child pornography on two separate
occasions, first in 1984 and later in 1990.
This strong connection between Netanyahu and Lauder during the time of the 1997
“Mega” spy scandal is important considering Mossad answers directly to
Israel’s prime minister.
Another possible connection between the Mega Group and the Mossad owes to the Mega
Group’s ties to Meyer Lansky’s criminal network. As was detailed in Part I, Lansky
had established deep ties to U.S. intelligence after World War II and was also connected to the
Mossad through Mossad official Tibor Rosenbaum, whose bank was frequently used by Lansky to
launder money. In addition, Lansky collaborated on at least one occasion with notorious Mossad
“superspy” Rafi Eitan, who he
helped acquire sensitive electronic equipment possessed only by the CIA but coveted by
Israeli intelligence. Eitan is best known in the U.S. for being the Mossad handler of Jonathan
Pollard.
Notably, Eitan was the main source of
claims that the code-word “Mega” used by the Mossad officials in 1997 referred to
the CIA and not to a potential source in the U.S. government once linked to Pollard’s
spying activities, making his claims as to the true meaning of the term somewhat dubious.
Given that the organized crime network tied to the Mega Group had ties to both U.S. and
Israeli intelligence, the “Mega” codeword could plausibly have referred to this
secretive group of billionaires. More supporting evidence for this theory comes from the fact
that prominent members of the Mega Group were business partners of Mossad agents, including
media mogul Robert Maxwell and commodities trader Marc Rich.
The mysterious Maxwells
The Maxwell family has become a source of renewed media interest following Jeffrey
Epstein’s arrest, as Ghislaine Maxwell, long described in the media as a British
“socialite,” was publicly cited as Epstein’s long-time “on and
off” girlfriend, and Epstein’s victims, as well as former wives of Epstein’s
friends, have claimed that she was Epstein’s “pimp” and procured underage
girls for his sexual blackmail operation. Ghislaine Maxwell is also alleged to have
engaged in the rape of the girls she procured for Epstein and to have used them to produce
child pornography.
Ghislaine was the favorite and youngest daughter of media mogul Robert Maxwell. Maxwell,
born Jan Ludvick Hoch, had joined the British Army in World War II. Afterwards, according to
authors John
Loftus and Mark Aarons , he greatly influenced the Czechoslovakian government’s
decision to arm Zionist paramilitaries during the 1948 war that resulted in Israel’s
creation as a state, and Maxwell himself was also involved in the smuggling of aircraft parts
to Israel.
Around this time, Maxwell was approached by British intelligence outfit MI6 and offered a
position that Maxwell ultimately declined. MI6 then classified
him as “Zionist — loyal only to Israel” and made him a person of interest. He
later became an agent of the Mossad, according to several books including Seymour Hersh’s
The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, and
Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy by Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon.
Mossad was financing many of its operations in Europe from money stolen from
Maxwell’s newspaper pension fund. They got their hands on the funds almost as soon as
Maxwell made the purchase of the Mirror Newspaper Group with money lent to him by
Mossad.”
In exchange for his services, the Mossad helped Maxwell satisfy his sexual appetite during
his visits to Israel,
providing him with prostitutes, “the service maintained for blackmail
purposes.” It was later revealed that the hotel in which he stayed in Israel was bugged
with cameras, allowing the Mossad to acquire “a small library of video footage of Maxwell
in sexually compromising positions.” As with the CIA, the Mossad’s use of blackmail
against both friend and foe is well-documented
and known to be
extensive .
Maxwell was also a close associate and friend of Israeli “superspy” Rafi Eitan,
who, as previously mentioned, was Jonathan Pollard’s handler and who had previously
worked directly with Meyer Lansky. Eitan
had learned of a revolutionary new software being used by the U.S. government known as
“Promis” from Earl Brian, a long-time associate and aide to Ronald Reagan. Promis
is often considered the forerunner to the “Prism” software used by spy agencies
today and was developed by William Hamilton, who leased the software to the U.S. government
through his company, Inslaw, in 1982.
Image removed: Ariel Sharon (right)meets with Robert Maxwell in Jerusalem on Feb. 20, 1990. Photo | AP
According to author and former BBC investigative journalist Gordon Thomas, Brian
was angry that the U.S. Department of Justice was successfully using Promis to go after
organized crime and money-laundering activities and Eitan felt that the program could aid
Israel. At the time, Eitan was the director of the now defunct Israeli military intelligence
agency Lekem, which gathered scientific and technical intelligence abroad from both public and
covert sources, especially in relation to Israel’s nuclear weapons program.
A plan was hatched to
install a “trapdoor” into the software and then market Promis throughout the
world, providing the Mossad with invaluable intelligence on the operations of its enemies and
allies while also providing Eitan and Brian with copious amounts of cash. According to the
testimony of ex-Mossad official Ari Ben-Menashe, Brian
provided a copy of Promis to Israel’s military intelligence, which contacted an
Israeli American programmer living in California who then planted the “trapdoor” in
the software. The CIA was later said to have installed its own trapdoor in the software
but it is unknown if they did so with a version of the already bugged software and how widely
it was adopted relative to the version bugged by Israeli intelligence.
After the trapdoor was inserted, the problem became selling the bugged version of the
software to governments as well as private companies around the world, particularly in areas of
interest. Brian first attempted to buy out Inslaw and Promis and then use that same company to
sell the bugged version.
Unsuccessful, Brian turned to his close friend, then-Attorney General Ed Meese whose Justice
Department then abruptly refused to
make the payments to Inslaw that were stipulated by the contract, essentially using the
software for free, which Inslaw claimed to be theft. Some have speculated that Meese’s
role in that decision was shaped, not only by his friendship with Brian, but the fact that his
wife was a major investor in
Brian’s business ventures. Meese would later become an adviser to Donald Trump when he
was president-elect.
Inslaw was forced to declare bankruptcy as a result of Meese’s actions and sued the
Justice Department. The court later found that
the Meese-led department “took, converted, stole” the software through
“trickery, fraud and deceit.”
With Inslaw out of the way, Brian sold the software all over the world. Eitan later
recruited Robert Maxwell to become another Promis salesman, which he did remarkably well, even
succeeding in selling the software to Soviet intelligence and conspiring
with Republican Texas Senator John Tower to have the software adopted by the U.S.
government laboratory at Los Alamos. Dozens of countries used the software on their most
carefully guarded computer systems, unaware that Mossad now had access to everything Promis
touched.
Whereas the Mossad’s past reliance on gathering intelligence had relied on the same
tactics used by its equivalents in the U.S. and elsewhere, the widespread adoption of the
Promis software, largely through the actions of Earl Brian and Robert Maxwell, gave the Mossad
a way to gather not just troves of counterintelligence data, but also blackmail on other
intelligence agencies and powerful figures.
Indeed, Promis’ backdoor and adoption by intelligence agencies all over the world
essentially provided the Mossad with access to troves of blackmail that the CIA and FBI had
acquired on their friends and foes for over half a century. Strangely, in recent years, the FBI
has sought to
hide information related to Robert Maxwell’s connection to the Promis scandal.
According to journalist Robert
Fisk , Maxwell was also involved in the Mossad abduction of Israeli nuclear weapons
whistleblower Vanunu Mordechai. Mordechai had attempted to provide the media with information
on the extent of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, which was eventually published by the
Sunday Times of London . Yet, Mordechai had also contacted the Daily Mirror with
the information, the Mirror being an outlet that was owned by Maxwell and whose foreign
editor was a close Maxwell associate and alleged Mossad asset, Nicholas Davies. Journalist
Seymour Hersh alleged that Davies had also been involved in Israeli arms deals.
Per Fisk, it was Maxwell who contacted the Israeli Embassy in London and told them of
Mordechai’s activities. This led to Mordechai’s entrapment by a female Mossad agent
who seduced him as part of a “honey trap” operation that led to his kidnapping and
later imprisonment in Israel. Mordechai served an 18-year sentence, 12 years of which were in
solitary confinement.
Then, there is the issue of Maxwell’s death, widely cited by mainstream and
independent media alike as suspicious
and a potential homicide . According to authors Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, Maxwell
had sealed his own fate when he attempted to threaten top Mossad officials with the exposure of
certain operations if they did not help him rescue his media empire from crippling debt and
financial difficulties. Many of Maxwell’s
creditors , who had grown increasingly displeased with the media mogul, were Israeli and
several of them were alleged to be Mossad-connected themselves.
Thomas and Dillon argue in their
biography of Maxwell’s life that the Mossad felt that Maxwell had become more of a
liability than an asset and killed him on his yacht three months after he demanded the bailout.
On the other extreme are theories that suggest Maxwell committed suicide because of the
financial difficulties his empire faced.
Image removed: Ghislaine Maxwell, far right, Robert Maxwell’s daughter, looks on his casket is
unloaded from a plane in Jerusalem, Nov. 8, 1991. Heribert Proepper | AP
Some have taken Maxwell’s funeral held in Israel as the country’s
“official” confirmation of Maxwell’s service to the Mossad, as it was likened
to a state funeral and attended
by no less than six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence. During his funeral
service in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized him and
stated : “He has done more for Israel than can today be said.” Other
eulogies were given by future Prime Ministers Ehud Olmert (then Health Minister) and Shimon
Peres, with the latter also praising
Maxwell’s “services” on behalf of Israel.
Swimming in the same
swamp
As he built his business empire — and even became a member of Parliament, Maxwell was
also doing work for Israeli intelligence, as several of the Israeli companies in which he
invested became fronts for the Mossad. In addition, as he became a media mogul, he developed a
bitter rivalry with Rupert Murdoch, a close friend of Roy Cohn and an influential figure in
American and British media.
Maxwell also partnered with the Bronfman brothers, Edgar and Charles — key figures in
the Mega Group. In 1989 Maxwell and Charles Bronfman
partnered up to bid on the Jerusalem Post newspaper and the Post described
the two men as “two of the world’s leading Jewish financiers” and their
interest in the venture as “developing The Jerusalem Post and expanding its
influence among world Jewry.” A year prior, Maxwell and Bronfman
had become top shareholders in the Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva.
Maxwell also worked with Charles Bronfman’s brother Edgar in the late 1980s to
convince the Soviet Union to allow Soviet Jews to immigrate to Israel. Edgar’s efforts in
this regard
have received more attention , as it was a defining moment of his decades-long presidency
of the World Jewish Congress, of which Ronald Lauder is currently president. Yet, Maxwell had
also made considerable
use of his contacts in the Soviet government in this effort.
Maxwell also moved in the circles of the network previously described in Parts I and II in
this series. A key example of this is the May 1989
party Maxwell hosted on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine — named for his youngest
daughter and Epstein’s future “girlfriend.” Attendees of the party included
Roy Cohn’s protege Donald Trump and his long-time law partner Tom Bolan. A close friend
of Nancy Reagan was also present, journalist Mike Wallace, as was literary agent Mort Janklow,
who represented Ronald Reagan and two of Cohn’s closest friends: journalists William
Safire and Barbara Walters.
The CEO of what would soon become Time Warner, Steve Ross, was also invited to the exclusive
event. Ross’ presence is notable, as he had built his business empire largely through
his association with New York crime lords Manny Kimmel and Abner “Longy”
Zwillman. Zwillman was a close friend of Meyer Lansky, Michael Steinhardt’s father, and
Sam Bronfman, father of Edgar and Charles Bronfman.
Another attendee of the Maxwell yacht party was former Secretary of the Navy and former
Henry Kissinger staffer Jon Lehman, who would go on to associate with the controversial
neoconservative think tank, Project for a New American Century. Prior to being secretary of the
Navy, Lehman had been president of the Abington Corporation, which hired arch-neocon Richard
Perle to manage
the portfolio of Israeli arms dealers Shlomo Zabludowicz and his son Chaim, who paid
Ablington $10,000 month. A scandal arose when those
payments continued after both Lehman and Perle joined the Reagan Department of Defense and
while Perle was working to persuade the Pentagon to buy arms from companies linked to
Zabludowicz. Perle had been part of the Reagan transition team along with Roy Cohn’s
long-time friend and law partner Tom Bolan (another Maxwell yacht guest).
In addition to Lehman, another former Kissinger staffer, Thomas Pickering was present at
Maxwell’s yacht part. Pickering played a minor role in the Iran-Contra affair and, at the
time of the Maxwell yacht party, he was U.S. ambassador to Israel. Senator John Tower (R-TX),
who allegedly conspired with Maxwell in the Mossad-bugged Promis software at the Los Alamos
laboratories, was also present. Tower died just months before Maxwell in
a suspicious plane crash .
Ghislaine Maxwell was also at this rather notable event. After her father’s mysterious
death and alleged murder on the same yacht that bears her name in 1991, she quickly packed her
bags and moved to New York City. There, she soon made the acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein and,
a few years later, developed close ties to the Clinton family, which will be discussed in the
next installment of this series.
Jeffrey Epstein and the new “Promis”
After it was revealed that Epstein had evaded stricter sentencing in 2008 due to his links
to “intelligence,” it was the Mossad ties of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father that
have led many to speculate that Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation was sharing
incriminating information with the Mossad. Former CBS executive producer and current
journalist for the media outlet Narativ , Zev Shalev, has since claimed that he
independently confirmed that Epstein was tied directly to the Mossad.
Image removed: Donald and Melania Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago club,
Palm Beach, Florida in 2000. Photo | Davidoff Studios
Epstein was a long-time friend of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who has
long-standing and deep ties to Israel’s intelligence community. Their decades-long
friendship has been the source of recent political attacks targeting Barak, who is running in
the Israeli elections against current Prime Minister Netanyahu later this year.
Barak is also close to Epstein’s chief patron and Mega Group member Leslie Wexner,
whose Wexner Foundation
gave Barak $2 million in 2004 for a still unspecified research program. According to Barak,
he was first introduced to Epstein by former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who eulogized
Robert Maxwell at his funeral and had decades-long ties with the Bronfman family going back to
the early 1950s. Peres was also a
frequent participant in programs funded by
Leslie Wexner in Israel and
worked closely with the Mossad for decades.
In 2015, a few years after Epstein’s release from prison following his conviction for
soliciting sex from a minor in 2008, Barak formed a company with Epstein with the chief purpose
of investing in an Israeli start-up then known as Reporty. That company, now called Carbyne,
sells its signature software to 911 call centers and emergency service providers and is also
available to consumers as an app that provides emergency services with access to a
caller’s camera and location and also runs any caller’s identity through any linked
government database. It has specifically been marketed by the company itself and the Israeli
press as a
solution to mass shootings in the
United States and is already being used by at least two U.S. counties.
Israeli media reported that Epstein and Barak were among the company’s largest
investors. Barak poured millions into the company and it was recently revealed by Haaretz
that a significant amount of Barak’s total investments in Carbyne was funded by Epstein,
making him a “ de facto partner” in the company. Barak is now Carbyne’s chairman .
The company’s executive team are all former members of different branches of Israeli
intelligence, including the elite military intelligence unit, Unit 8200, that is often likened
to Israel’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Carbyne’s
current CEO, Amir Elichai, served in Unit 8200 and tapped
former Unit 8200 commander Pinchas Buchris to serve as the
company’s director and on its board. In addition to Elichai, another Carbyne co-founder,
Lital Leshem , also
served in Unit 8200 and later worked for Israeli private spy company Black Cube. Leshem now
works for a subsidiary of Erik Prince’s company Frontier Services Group, according to the
independent media outlet Narativ .
The company also includes several tie-ins to the Trump administration, including Palantir
founder and Trump ally Peter Thiel — an investor in Carbyne. In addition,
Carbyne’s board of advisers
includes former Palantir employee Trae Stephens, who was a member of the Trump transition team,
as well as former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.
Trump donor and New York real-estate developer Eliot Tawill is also on Carbyne’s board , alongside Ehud Barak and
Pinchas Buchris.
Narativ , which wrote the first expose on Carbyne after Epstein’s arrest, noted
that the Chinese government uses a smartphone app very similar to Carbyne as part of its mass
surveillance apparatus, even though the original purpose of the app was for improved emergency
reporting. According to Narativ , the Chinese Carbyne-equivalent “monitors every
aspect of a user’s life, including personal conversations, power usage, and tracks a
user’s movement.”
Given the history of Robert Maxwell — the father of Epstein’s long-time
“girlfriend” and young-girl-procuring madam, Ghislaine Maxwell — in promoting
the sale of Carbyne’s modified Promis software, which was also marketed as a tool to
improve government efficacy but was actually a tool of mass surveillance for the benefit of
Israeli intelligence, the overlap between Carbyne and Promis is troubling and warrants further
investigation.
It is also worth noting that Unit 8200-connected tech start-ups are being widely integrated
into U.S. companies and have developed close ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex, with
Carbyne being just one example of that trend.
As MintPress
previously reported , Unit 8200-linked outfits like Team8 have recently hired former
National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers as a senior advisor and gained prominent
Silicon Valley figures, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, as key investors. Many
American technology companies, from Intel to Google to Microsoft,
have merged with several Unit 8200-connected start-ups in recent years and have been moving
many key jobs and operations to Israel with
backing from key Republican donors like Paul Singer . Many of those same companies,
particularly Google and Microsoft, are also major U.S. government contractors.
Who was
Epstein really working for?
Even though Jeffrey Epstein appears to have had ties to the Mossad, this series has revealed
that the networks to which Epstein was connected were not Mossad-exclusive, as many of the
individuals close to Epstein — Lesie Wexner, for instance — were part of a
mob-connected class of oligarchs with deep ties to both the U.S. and Israel. As was discussed
in Part I of this series, the sharing of “intelligence” (i.e., blackmail) between
intelligence agencies and the same organized crime network connected to the Mega Group goes
back decades. With Leslie Wexner of the Mega Group as Epstein’s chief patron, as opposed
to a financier with direct ties to the Mossad, a similar relationship is more than likely in
the case of the sexual blackmail operation that Epstein ran.
Given that intelligence agencies in both the U.S. and elsewhere often conduct covert
operations for the benefit of oligarchs and large corporations as opposed to “national
security interest,” Epstein’s ties to the Mega Group suggest that this group holds
a unique status and influence in both the governments of the U.S. and of Israel, as well as in
other countries (e.g., Russia) that were not explored in this report. This is by virtue of
their role as key political donors in both countries, as well as the fact that several of them
own powerful companies or financial institutions in both countries. Indeed, many members of the
Mega Group have deep ties to Israel’s political class, including to Netanyahu and Ehud
Barak as well as to now-deceased figures like Shimon Peres, and to members of the American
political class.
Ultimately, the picture painted by the evidence is not a direct tie to a single intelligence
agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and officials in both the
U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in
both nations.
Though this series has so far focused on the ties of this network to main Republican Party
affiliates, the next and final installment will reveal the ties developed between this web and
the Clintons. As will be revealed, despite the Clintons’ willingness to embrace corrupt
dealings during the span of their political careers, their mostly friendly relationship with
this network still saw them use the power of sexual blackmail to obtain certain policy
decisions that were favorable to their personal and financial interests but not to the
Clintons’ political reputation or agendas.
Editor’s note | The original version of this article incorrectly stated that Rafi
Eitan was interested in repurposing the American-made Promise software to restore his standing
in Israel’s intelligence community caused by the fall-out from the Pollard Affair. The
Pollard Affair occurred three years after Eitan had succeeded in repurposing the software and
MintPress has removed that incorrect information from the article and regrets the
error.
This article also originally neglected to mention that Eitan, at the time of his
collaboration with Earl Brian to repurpose the Promis software, was the director of the
now-defunct Israeli military intelligence agency Lekem at the time of those events and that
information has been added to the story.
Feature photo | Graphic by Claudio Cabrera
Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to
several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute
and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and
is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in
Journalism.
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"... Malcolm Wallace and LBJ had been closely linked. In the early 50’s, LBJ had gone to great extents to save Wallace’s life after he shot down a professional golfer who was having an affair with LBJ’s alcoholic sister. Although guilty of murder, Wallace ended up with a minor sentence. ..."
"... Interestingly, a Wallace fingerprint was apparently found at the TSBD “Sniper nest” from where Oswald allegedly shot JFK. Probably some insurance taken against LBJ by his co-conspirators… ..."
This reminds me a little of a almost forgotten incident from the 1960s
Some government inspector in Texas had agreed to testify about the details of a gigantic
corruption ring that was closely connected with LBJ. I can't remember the exact details, but
not long afterward, he was found dead, shot seven times.
The local Texas court ruled it an apparent suicide and that's exactly how it was reported
in the Washington Post and the other national newspapers
In 1984, Billie Sol Estes told a grand jury investigating the 1961 shooting death of Henry
Marshall, an official with the Department of Agriculture, that LBJ’s associate Malcolm
Wallace was Marshall’s murderer.
Malcolm Wallace and LBJ had been closely linked. In the early 50’s, LBJ had gone
to great extents to save Wallace’s life after he shot down a professional golfer who
was having an affair with LBJ’s alcoholic sister. Although guilty of murder, Wallace
ended up with a minor sentence.
Interestingly, a Wallace fingerprint was apparently found at the TSBD “Sniper
nest” from where Oswald allegedly shot JFK. Probably some insurance taken against LBJ
by his co-conspirators…
@Iris Shortly before
he died, Estes collaborated with a French journalist on a book called “Le dernier
temoin” (“The Last Witness”) in which Estes claimed that he had
participated in a meeting with LBJ in which the JFK assassination was planned. The book was
published in French (I have a copy), but no English translation has ever appeared.
"... A black man's body is found wrapped in chains at the bottom of the Detroit River. The police were saying it was an accidental death caused by him stealing more chains than he could swim with. ..."
The likelihood of Epstein committing suicide reminds me of two other "suicide" stories.
... ... ...
Finally, there is a greatly modified joke from my long ago misspent youth. A black man's
body is found wrapped in chains at the bottom of the Detroit River. The police were saying it
was an accidental death caused by him stealing more chains than he could swim with.
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is hardly a billionaire, according to the financial
disclosure form his lawyers filed in seeking bail for him.
The single-page document had been kept under seal away from the public until the Manhattan
federal judge overseeing Epstein's sex-trafficking case released it Monday, dismissing it as
"cursory."
Epstein lists in the filing that he has:
Cash: $56,547,773
Fixed income: $14,304,679
Equities: $112,679,138
Hedge funds and private equity: $194,986,301
Properties: 9 E. 71st St., Manhattan, worth $55,931,000; 49 Zorro Ranch Rd., Stanley,
N.M., $17,246,208; 358 El Brillo Way, Palm Beach, Fla., $12,380,209; 22 Avenue Foch, Paris,
France, $8,672,823; Great St. James Island in the Virgin Islands, $22,498,600; and Little St.
James Island, V.I., $63,874,223.
The value of the assets listed adds up to $559,120,954.
The feds are arguing that Epstein -- who is accused of sex trafficking -- shouldn't be given
bail pending trial because of the superconnected former moneyman's potential ability to buy his
way to freedom.
Epstein's lawyers did not respond to a request for comment.
Millionaire
pedophile Jeffrey Epstein remained in the good graces of Wall Street titans
both
during and after
his 13-month work-release jail stint in 2008 - 2009, who only
severed ties with the registered sex offender when the heat was back on, according to
Bloomberg
.
For example, Barclays CEO and longtime associate Jes Staley "visited Epstein on the private
island, accompanied by his wife Debora," in 2015 -
seven years after everyone knew Epstein
was a pedophile
. They would sever ties months later
as new accusations of sexual
abuse were levied against the financier
, while weeks later the now-defunct Webstie Gawker
published his "little black book" containing over 1,000 names of prominent individuals and their
contacts.
Within months of the Bequia sailing from Little St. James,
Staley cut ties to Epstein
,
according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
The banker was in the running for
the top job at Barclays, a position that required interviews and approvals by U.K. regulators.
The wisdom of breaking from Epstein became apparent when the British press reported on their
relationship. -
Bloomberg
While not accused of participating in any of Epstein's illegal activities, Staley -
who
visited Epstein at his Palm Beach office while the Epstein was on prison work-release,
has
come under fire by those who want to know exactly how close the two were. By all accounts,
Epstein
played a pivotal role in Staley's rise
while running JP Morgan's private bank - referring
wealthy clients to the banker
and helping to arrange the bank's 2004 acquisition of
Highbridge Capital Management
.
Staley left JPMorgan in 2013 before joining hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management. In
December 2015 joined Barclays as CEO.
Going back about two decades, Epstein regularly brought Staley business when he ran
JPMorgan's private bank and the two were close professionally, according to a person familiar
with the matter. One of those introductions Epstein made was to hedge fund billionaire Glenn
Dubin, the New York Times reported. -
Bloomberg
Staley aside, Epstein somehow managed to maintain his relationships on Wall Street despite his
sex-offender pedophile lifestyle,
including billionaire Leon Black, former Israeli Prime
Minister (and current candidate for the job)
Ehud Barak
- and was able to secure preferable stock allocations in dozens of IPOs. Via
Bloomberg:
Apollo Global Management
's Black met with Epstein at the company's New York offices. Black
dispatched Apollo co-founder Marc Rowan to attend a meeting at Epstein's Manhattan mansion with
representatives of Edmond de Rothschild Group to discuss how the two firms could work together
more closely, people with knowledge of the meeting said. Florence Gaubert, a spokeswoman for
Edmond de Rothschild, said she wasn't aware of any meeting and that the bank has no business
links with Apollo or Epstein.
BV70 LLC, a charity controlled by Black, donated $10 million to Epstein's foundation
Gratitude America, even as the New York Attorney General's Office questioned whether another of
Epstein's foundations was complying with state registration requirements.
Epstein invested in a partnership started in 2015 by Barak, prime minister from 1999 to
2001, according to the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz
.
Meanwhile, Epstein's travel became far more frequent in 2015 - as he flew between New York, the
US Virgin Islands, New Mexico (where he owns a compound), and Paris.
In 2017
, filings for Epstein's Gratitude America charity reveal
investment
income of $899,417
from 52 trades -
most of which involved IPOs
.
Clearly
nobody had a problem associating with the pedophile or his money.
"The IPO trading is evidence of Mr. Epstein's level of access to the offerings," said Jacob
Frenkel, chair of government investigations and securities enforcement at Dickinson Wright.
Enter the Miami Herald
In 2018, Epstein became truly radioactive after the
Miami Herald
published a series of
reports beginning in November - titled Perversion of Justice. Not only did the
Herald
catalogue
Epstein's many accusers - the series focused on the
sweetheart deal he was given
by
former Trump Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta despite dozens of accusers levying claims. Acosta
resigned last month amid the controversy.
Meanwhile,
Deutsche Bank fired Epstein as a client earlier this year
, and has
been actively assisting the case against him, according to court filings.
Epstein blackmailed Parliament into accepting Staley. I have been
trying to publish the FOIA that proves it fro two years, but
nobody in mainstream press will touch it.
John Mann MP and Mark Garnier MP lied to the Daily Mail to
cover up the facts. The FOIA proves it. No politician will get
back to me to provide an explanation.
Don't think many will be going behind bars. The indictment is
limited to actions that took place in NYC and his smallish
house in Palm Beach. No mention whatsoever of Little St.
James Island in the USVI where most of the action seems to have
taken place. Also unmentioned, his large Zorro Ranch in New
Mexico.
And it is being handled by the business corruption
SDNY squad and not the Sex Crimes group one might have
expected.
Oh, and Comey's daughter who is on the prosecution team is
married not just to a jewish guy but to one who taught at the
University of Tel Aviv.
Billionaire Victoria's Secret owner Leslie Wexner says that Jeffrey Epstein misappropriated over
$46 million of his fortune, according to the
Wall
Street Journal
.
The L Brands founder revealed in a Wednesday letter to the Wexner Foundation that the missing
funds were uncovered after a
2007 falling out
he had with the pedophile financier
following allegations involving the sexual abuse of underage girls.
Of note, Epstein allegedly ran a
'casting couch' operation
for aspiring Victoria's Secret models out of his Manhattan townhome
whereby he would promise young girls jobs with the fashion company.
"
We discovered that he had misappropriated vast sums of money from me and my family
,"
wrote Wexner, adding "
This was, frankly, a tremendous shock
, even though it
clearly pales in comparison to the unthinkable allegations against him now."
In January 2008, Mr. Epstein transferred $46 million worth of investments to a Wexner
charitable fund, tax records show. Mr. Wexner said the transfer was only a portion of the funds
that his money manager had allegedly misappropriated. "All of that money -- every dollar of it -- was
originally Wexner family money," he wrote. -
Wall
Street Journal
Wexner provided no evidence for his claim, which certainly adds distance between he and
Epstein.
Last month, the Wexner told employees in an internal email that he "
was NEVER aware of
the illegal activity
" Epstein is accused of committing. "As you can imagine, this past
week
I have searched my soul ... reflected ... and regretted that my path ever crossed his.
"
said the 81-year-old mogul of Epstein.
After launching a business relationship in the 1980s, Wexner and Epstein formed 'a financial and
personal bond that baffled longtime associates,' according to the
New
York Times
.
"
I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns
," Wexner told
Vanity
Fair
in 2003. "But Jeffrey sees patterns in politics and financial markets, and I see patterns
in lifestyle and fashion trends."
Wexner would go on to open doors for Epstein - who managed "many aspects of his financial
life."
By 1995,
Epstein was a director of the Wexner Foundation and Wexner Heritage
Foundation and president of Wexner's N.A. Property Inc
., which developed the Ohio town
of New Albany, where Wexner lives.
Epstein also was involved in Wexner's superyacht,
"Limitless,"
attending meetings at the London studios of the firm that designed the
vessel. -
Bloomberg
Epstein is currently sitting in a Manhattan jail cell awaiting trial on allegations of
sex-trafficking minors in what federal prosecutors allege was a multi-decade scheme to procure and
sexually abuse scores of girls. If convicted, he faces up to 45 years in prison.
An old Epstein trick. He got Wexler so excited looking at the
Victoria's Secret models, he forgot to look in his pocket book. He
had his hands in the wrong pockets.
STFU Wexler. If that money went to finance his activities you
could presumably be a facilitator who is now trying to desert that
sinking ship. The secret is out. Everyone knows.
ROY COHN was the Mentor of Donald Trump and Roger Stone.
Part of the controlled
anti-communist opposition that was known as the McCarthy investigations.
Benard Baruch was the
man behind this operation as not only hyping the 'Red scare' psyop and controlled oppposition.
Cohn himself was a homosexual and alleged pedophile that died of AIDS. Central figure at famed
drug and orgy room at nightclub Studio 54.
According to James Rothstein, Cohn admitted that he
was part of a sexual entrapment operation that including compromising politicians with child
prostitutes.
His father was a New York State Supreme Court Justice. Donald Trump and Rupert
Murdoch were honored guest chairmen for a B'nai B'rith tribute dinner for Cohn.
LES WEXNER Protegé of Max Fisher (Mega group) Secretive Billionaire Jewish
Supremacist of Russian descent Chairman and CEO of L Brands. His companies Victoria Secrets,
A&F used MC2 models. Connected to cotton plantations and sweatshops Allegedly operates a
huge international drug running operation previous run by Max Fisher. His name and addresses
are listed and highlighted as a person of interest in Epstein's little black book. He invited
Epstein and Dershowitz to his 60th birthday party along with former Israeli PM Shimon Peres.
Runs Wexner Foundation that finance pro-Jewish and Israeli 'causes'. Financed the JFK School at
Harvard University, Connected to major figures at Harvard. Russian Jewish descent with family
ties to Chabad Lubavitch. Connected to serious organised crime figures implicated in a
mob-style hit on Arthur Shapiro, an attorney of Limited (now L Brands)
"... Except in a few Nevada counties, being a prostitute of any age, being a customer of a prostitute, procuring and arranging contacts between prostitutes and customer, running a prostitution business and soliciting sex for money are crimes no matter what the age of the prostitute in every state and territory of the United States including Little St James Island and the states of New York and Florida. ..."
@Fran TaubmanExcept in a few Nevada counties, being a prostitute of any age, being a
customer of a prostitute, procuring and arranging contacts between prostitutes and customer,
running a prostitution business and soliciting sex for money are crimes no matter what the
age of the prostitute in every state and territory of the United States including Little St
James Island and the states of New York and Florida.
The girls were prostitutes paid for sex. Epstein, Maxwell, the pilot Nadia and others were
procurers and arrangers of the prostitution.
He was was engaged in his pedo activities that he probably did not have any time to engage in financial speculations. Especially
as risky as currencies trades.
Epstein going to jail for 20 or more years? Epstein being killed? Think again.
Roger Stone, in his book on Clinton's War on Women, pp. 122-123 states as follows:
"He was manipulating currencies for the CIA", said Hoffenberg, former owner of the New
York Post and collections business genius, who flamed out in a multi-million dollar Ponzi sam
in the 80's.
"His pal Larry Summers hooked him up.", Hoffenberg said of then then secretary
of the Treasury. "He destabilized Middle Eastern currencies to help Israel. He's protected.",
he told us.
From the Daily Beast:
In the 1995 letter, Forester de Rothschild writes, "Dear Mr. President (Clinton) : It was
a pleasure to see you recently at Senator Kennedy's house. There was too much to discuss and
too little time. Using my fifteen seconds of access to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and currency
stabilization, I neglected to talk to you about a topic near and dear to my heart. Namely,
affirmative action and the future."
She then goes on to note that she's sending him a memo on
the latter subject, which George Stephanopoulos had asked her to write, and signs off,
"Sincerely, Lynn Forester."
"... all these scientists could not have not noticed that there were young girls running around and all kinds of pornographic art and photographs and art on the walls even if they kept their underpants on for the massages. ..."
"... So we have the worlds most powerful politicians, actors, bankers, lawyers, media moguls, heads of industry, and now scientists [possibly] participating in pedo-orgies with good old Jeff Epstein. ..."
Trunews (55′) gets into how Epstein was flying Nobel prize winning scientists to
his pedo island, Zoro Ranch, Palm Beach, and Manhattan. Many of these "scientists" were
transhumanists and Physicists. Stephen Hawkings even visited him after his guilty plea for
pedophilia.
Mr. Epstein attracted a glittering array of prominent scientists. They included the
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who discovered the quark; the theoretical
physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking; the paleontologist and evolutionary
biologist Stephen Jay Gould; Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and best-selling author; George
M. Church, a molecular engineer who has worked to identify genes that could be altered to
create superior humans; and the M.I.T. theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek, a Nobel
laureate.
Rick and gang point out that all these scientists could not have not noticed that
there were young girls running around and all kinds of pornographic art and photographs and
art on the walls even if they kept their underpants on for the massages.
So we have the worlds most powerful politicians, actors, bankers, lawyers, media
moguls, heads of industry, and now scientists [possibly] participating in pedo-orgies with
good old Jeff Epstein.
Meanwhile these same "scientists" all sing the exact same tune: global warming is the
planet's biggest threat, on 9/11 three massive buildings crashed after 2 were hit by jets, 6
gorillian were gassed, MH17 was hit by a Russian missile, 5G is as harmless as vaccinations,
dozens of HAARP stations spread across the planet are only for "research" and those
chem-trails you see in the sky are merely "contrails".
What I find most disgusting is how self-proclaimed "intellectuals" and "scholars" like Ron
Unz instantly circle their "peer reviewed" wagons around all these other owned "scientists"
and "nobel prize winners" and then scream their "It's Science" war cry whenever their
preferred narrative is threatened.
"... No publicly released details should be naively accepted. For example, it makes no sense to me that he just happened to be flying back to the US. I assume he was effectively renditioned. ..."
"... Acosta is anything but a mystery. He was told to make this go away. You'll note that no one asked Robert Mueller about the case when he testified last week even though he was FBI Director at the time. Maybe he was suffering from dementia back then too! ..."
A few comments on Epstein. First, exercise some common sense. The timing of the resuscitation
of his case is anything but coincidental. Whomever made that happen -- like flipping a light
switch -- is sending a message and applying leverage. My guess would be in the context of the
conspiracy against the duly elected POTUS. The malefactors will take some hostages as they're
exposed and indicted.
No publicly released details should be naively accepted. For example, it makes no sense to
me that he just happened to be flying back to the US. I assume he was effectively
renditioned.
Acosta is anything but a mystery. He was told to make this go away. You'll note that no
one asked Robert Mueller about the case when he testified last week even though he was FBI
Director at the time. Maybe he was suffering from dementia back then too!
All I know is that I correctly predicted right after Epstein's arrest that Weissmann and
the other Mueller staff wouldn't testify behind closed doors as they were scheduled to.
Mueller's testimony was delayed for a week. In my view to arrange a deal so that he wasn't
asked anything about this under oath and to otherwise act like he could no longer knew how
tie his shoes.
That said, it really is a fool's errand to try to find out a high level play like this.
Usually there are many moving parts.
it is quite intriguing that so many of these cases involve the sort of criminal or
sexual misbehavior that would be ideally suited for blackmailing powerful individuals who
are less likely to be vulnerable to other influences. So perhaps many of the elected
officials situated at the top of our democratic system merely reign as political puppets,
dancing to invisible strings.
I would invite Ron Unz and readers to look up the recent case of a Mark W. Levin
(b.1944 or '45). He has a murky background, but by the 2000s was apparently involved closely
with some outer-tier DC organizations and by the 2010s at a small DC graduate school aimed at
aspiring intelligence agents.
Levin pressured young men for sex, used blackmail and threats, though the stick was mixed
in with carrots. In a word, he appeared to be part of an operation with some striking
similarities to the kinds of political blackmail operations (or the gaining of 'compromised'
people) alleged/proposed in this article.
The Mark W. Levin story was reported in mainstream media (see some excerpts, below; Google
or Bing or DuckDuckGo for much more), but there are some questions have deserved asking since
the scandal broke in spring 2017, such as: What was the source of Levin's money, with which
he paid for some students' tuition? Do we know for sure that Levin was "acting alone"? Did he
have any political objectives? The story was fairly extensively reported on, but I don't
think any of these questions were answered.
It's possible Mark W. Levin was just a lone, sick con-artist acting alone for
homosexual-gratification and power, which is what the media depicted him as. It is also
possible that he really was (at least at one time) part of a blackmail operation, and that
after years of service he finally went down or was discarded, messily (a lawsuit against him
was made public in spring 2017).
This is really a small-time case compared to Epstein, but it may be useful for comparative
purposes.
Excerpts from some press reports in the case:
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In the late 1990s, Levin began attending the institute's public lectures. Then he
started handing over checks to pay for the tuitions of certain students, though the source
of the money was a mystery
By late 2012, the alleged victim said, Levin told him that if he wanted to remain a
candidate for Levin's covert group, he needed to avoid marriage, children, sexually
transmitted diseases and relationships with Muslim women. Levin warned him, he said, that
his "guys" would constantly watch him and that if he didn't follow instructions, he would
be blacklisted from government jobs.
Levin began inviting his protege back to his Arlington apartment building to practice
drawing a weapon – shirtless. Soon, the man said, Levin began fondling him and giving
him prostate exams, telling him the inspections were key to his recruitment. Levin also
bathed him in the shower under the pretext of helping him with his hygiene, according to
the alleged victims' lawsuit [ ]
Although Levin told him that he was free to refuse, the Arlington man said he did not
want to imperil his candidacy for the clandestine organization or risk losing out on
government jobs.
When the Falls Church man applied for his internship in July 2016, Levin told him "The
Watchers" or "my guys" had been surveilling him.
"Then, Mark told me: 'I've killed 38 people. We have people killed all the time. And we
cover our tracks,' " he said. "I was intimidated."
John Doe recalls following Levin's instructions him to masturbate and ejaculate on his
own stomach.
"Levin proceeded to play with the semen on Mr. Doe's stomach, and then informed Mr. Doe
that his semen output was insufficient and could have damaging effects on Mr. Doe's
'candidacy,' and this exercise would therefore need to be repeated in the future," the
complaint states.
Though the men say they found such treatment degrading, they say they trusted Levin's
credentials and believed his threats, some veiled and some explicit, about his ability to
harm them.
Similar rumors swirl around events much farther back in history as well, sometimes with
enormous consequences. Well-placed contemporary sources have claimed that Samuel Untermyer, a
wealthy Jewish lawyer, purchased the secret correspondence between Woodrow Wilson and his
longtime mistress, and that the existence of that powerful leverage may have been an
important factor behind Wilson's astonishingly rapid rise from president of Princeton in 1910
to governor of New Jersey in 1911 to president of the United States in 1912. Once in office,
Wilson signed the controversial legislation establishing the Federal Reserve system in 1913
and also named Louis Brandeis as the first Jewish member of the U.S. Supreme Court despite
the public opposition of nearly our entire legal establishment. Wilson's swiftly changing
views on American involvement in the First World War may also have influenced by such
personal pressures rather than solely determined by his perceptions of the national
interest
When writing of the Protocols in the "International Jew" Henry Ford discussed the blackmail
issue, referring anonymously to three political figures, one of whom was clearly Wilson, that
were then under control of the hidden hand. Don't know who the other two were.
Re Wilson and Untermyer, my understanding was that Unternyer simultaneously represented Mrs.
Peck, the wife of one of Wilson's fellow professors with who Wilson had an affair, in a
(potential) alienation of affections claim against Wilson, and represented Wilson in the same
matter, and supplied the money to Wilson to settle the claim, thereby cementing control over
him. (Don't remember where I read this.)
Re the pedophilia issue, don't rule out that there is an element of Evil involved in
this.
Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a registered sex offender's infamous jet than previously reported,
with flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips aboard the "Lolita Express" -- even apparently ditching his
Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records obtained by FoxNews.com.
Clinton's presence aboard Jeffrey Epstein's Boeing 727 on 11 occasions has been reported, but flight logs show the number is more
than double that, and trips between 2001 and 2003 included extended junkets around the world with Epstein and fellow passengers identified
on manifests by their initials or first names, including "Tatiana." The tricked-out jet earned its Nabakov-inspired nickname because
it was reportedly outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls.
"Bill Clinton associated with a man like Jeffrey Epstein, who everyone in New York, certainly within his inner circles, knew was
a pedophile," said Conchita Sarnoff, of the Washington, D.C. based non-profit Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking, and author
of a book on the Epstein case called
"TrafficKing." "Why would a former president associate with a man like
that?"
... ... ...
Virginia Roberts, 32, who claims she was pimped out by Epstein at age 15, has previously claimed she saw Clinton at Epstein's getaway
in 2002, but logs do not show Clinton aboard any flights to St. Thomas, the nearest airport capable of accommodating Epstein's plane.
They do show Clinton flying aboard Epstein's plane to such destinations as Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, China, Brunei, London, New
York, the Azores, Belgium, Norway, Russia and Africa.
Among those regularly traveling with Clinton were Epstein's associates, New York socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein's assistant,
Sarah Kellen, both of whom were investigated by the FBI and Palm Beach Police for recruiting girls for Epstein and his friends.
Official flight logs filed with the Federal Aviation Administration show Clinton traveled on some of the trips with as many as 10
U.S. Secret Service agents. However, on a five-leg Asia trip between May 22 and May 25, 2002, not a single Secret Service agent is
listed. The U.S. Secret Service has declined to answer multiple Freedom of Information Act requests filed by FoxNews.com seeking
information on these trips. Clinton would have been required to file a form to dismiss the agent detail, a former Secret Service
agent told FoxNews.com.
In response to a separate FOIA request from FoxNews.com, the U.S. Secret Service said it has no records showing agents were ever
on the island with Clinton.
Jeffrey Epstein became an FBI INFORMANT to secure sweetheart deal
and shut down federal probe into the pedophile's abuse of underage girls, government records
reveal
The FBI closed out their probe of Jeffrey Epstein in September 2008 after two years of
interviewing victims and speaking to witnesses
The last report, on September 18, 2008, notes that Epstein 'provided information to
the FBI as agreed upon', according to the case agent
It further states that 'no prosecution will occur in this matter as long as Epstein
continues to uphold his agreement with the State of Florida'
No agents visited Epstein in jail so it is unclear when he spoke to them, but his
assistant Story Cowles visited almost every day and acted as his emissary
Cowles would claim to be a paralegal when he signed in, as only lawyers and doctors
were approved to visit the convict
Jeffrey Epstein managed to shut down a federal probe into his illicit and illegal activities
with underage girls and secure his sweetheart plea deal by providing information' to the
government, FBI reports confirm.
A federal investigation into the pedophile led by the FBI was closed out on September 18,
2008 when Epstein 'provided information to the FBI as agreed upon' according to the case
agent.
That investigation had been underway for two years at that point, but it was noted in the
final report that 'no prosecution will occur in this matter as long as Epstein continues to
uphold his agreement with the State of Florida.'
The investigation had been dormant for seven months by then, with FBI records obtained by
DailyMail.com showing that the lead agent had not filed a report since February 11 at the time
he closed the case.
That February report notes that 'that the criminal investigation into activities of Jeffrey
Epstein is ongoing,' and that the case agent had been told the matter was 'highly sensitive' by
the United States Attorney's Office.
This There was a 53-page indictment that the federal agents were prepared to bring to a
grand jury at that time, and the asset forfeiture investigator had met with Assistant US
Attorney Antonia J Barnes several times. Epstein was spared from future forfeiture as well, as
noted in the report that closed out the case.
EPSTEIN'S INFO ON BEAR STEARNS EXECS
It has been reported that Epstein got his light sentence in part because of information he
traded on Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin. The two men had bet
very heavily on the Florida housing market, and found themselves with a target on their backs
when the subprime market started to implode. The SEC settled with the men and suspended them
from the securities industry while the government launched a federal case. Eopstein was said to
have given information by some, though others have questioned what information he would have
been able to give in the case. In the end, both men were acquitted.
It is unclear when Epstein spoke with agents, as no one registered with the FBI signed into
see him once he began serving his time in July.
One source told DailyMail.com that Epstein was using his assistant Story Cowles to serve as
his emissary at this time, and prison records obtained by DailyMail.com do show that the young
man visited Epstein almost every single day prior to his being granted work release. Cowles
would arrive in the morning on most days, stay for a few hours and then leave around lunch
time.
He would then return a second time and leave again around 7pm, generally logging six or
seven hours in jail each day as a result, despite he himself having committed no crime.
Epstein tried to hide his association with Cowles by having him sign in as a paralegal, as
only lawyers and a doctor were among the 20 approved visitors at the jail.
Epstein also managed to get what was a two-year sentence in the non-prosecution agreement
cut down to 18 months, and in the end was released 13 months after he reported to the Palm
Beach Barracks. was five months after Epstein signed his non-prosecution agreement, but four
months before it would be presented in court during his sentencing on two charges related to
solicitation of a minor.
Epstein relied on a network of high school students to provide him with many of the two to
three girls he needed for his daily 'massages' at the time of his arrest.
Incidents reports and probable cause affidavits filed by members of the Palm Beach Police
Department during their 2005 investigation do not name any of these women with the exception of
one - Haley Robson.
She was a student at Royal Palm High School when she herself was recruited to give Epstein a
massage, but when he started to molest her she objected to being touched by the pedophile, who
worked out another deal with the teenager.
Epstein informed Robson that she would be paid $200 for every girl she brought in, an offer
the student could not refuse.
It is unclear if she even knew what she was doing was illegal, with the 19-year-old college
student wrapping up one police interview by boasting: 'I'm like Heidi Fleiss.'
That remark came after she willingly provided police with the names and ages of all the
girls she had bought to Epstein, thus implicating herself in a number of crimes.
Robson told police she had provided Epstein with at least six girls over a two-year period,
with the youngest being 14 and the oldest a 23-year-old woman.
She said that she was chided for the latter, with Epstein informing her the woman was too
old.
Robson did not groom the victims, who were mostly her classmates, and was instead very
straightforward about what was going to happen once the girls were alone with Epstein.
'During a sworn taped interview, SG stated that Haley Robson, a cousin of SG's boyfriend and
classmate at Royal Palm Beach High School worked for a wealthy man and did sexual favors for
him,' reads a probable cause affidavit obtained by DailyMail.com.
'She also admitted that Robson had offered her an opportunity to make money. During the
beginning of the month of February 2005, SG explained that she was first approached by Robson
to go with her to Epstein’s house.'
The victim was 14 at the time, while Haley was 18.
The parents of SG learned what had happened however after a fight at school, and soon after
contacted police thus launching the criminal investigation.
With parental consent, SG then contacted Robson as police recorded the call.
'SG spoke with Robson in an attempt to arrange another meeting with Epstein, SG asked
Robson, what did she need to do to make more money,' reads the affidavit.
'Robson stated, "the more you do, the more you get paid."
That call was in April, but it was not until October that police questioned Robson.
She is remarkably forthcoming in her interviews with police, and the affidavit suggests she
willingly volunteered all information she had about Epstein and her role in proving minors.
Robson also revealed to police that she too was a victim.
'I began the interview by asking Robson how she became acquainted with Epstein. Robson
stated that approximately two years ago, just after she turned 17 years of age, she was
approached by a friend named Molly at the Canopy Beach Resort in Rivera Beach,' notes the
affidavit.
'Robson was asked if she wanted to make money. She was told she would have to provide a
massage and should make $200.00. Robson thought about the offer and agreed to meet with
Jeffrey.'
Things changed however once she got in the room with Epstein, and explains why Robson never
hid what was going to happen when the girls she was providing were alone with the
pedophile.
'Jeff entered the bedroom wearing only a towel. He removed the towel and laid nude on the
massage table. He laid on the table onto his stomach and picked a massage oil for Robson to rub
on him,' reads the affidavit.
'During the massage, Robson stated "He tried to touch me and I stopped him ." I asked how he
tried to touch her. Robson stated that Epstein grabbed her buttocks and she felt uncomfortable.
Robson told Epstein I'll massage you but I don’t want to be touched. Robson stated she
performed the massage naked.'
That is when Epstein offered to pay her if she brought girls, which she did, providing six
between the ages of 14 and 16 to Epstein, plus the seventh woman he rejected for being too
old.
Robson provided police with the name and addresses of each girl, and seems to truly believe
she was helping them by setting up these appointments with Epstein.
'Robson stated every girl she brought knew what to expect when they arrived. They were told
they would provide a massage, possibly naked, and allow some touching,' states the
affidavit.
'I asked her if SG was aware. She stated every girl she brought knew what to expect She
explained she knew that SG wanted to make money. She approached SG and explained about going to
work for Jeff, SG agreed and arrangements were made to bring her to Epstein’s house on a
weekend.'
Robson stopped speaking to Epstein after arranging that February appointment with SG, though
it is unclear if that was of her own fruition or fear of arrest.
She was set to be charged with Lewd and Lascivious Act on a victim under 16 in the second
degree, but ultimately avoided charges.
Police did not name any of the other students and Robson has now become linked to Epstein
despite only meeting the man a handful of times.
She could again become a key witness in the new trial too, as she and Epstein's longtime
assistant Sarah Kellen would speak by phone according to police prior to Epstein's arrival in
Palm Beach.
MaxHat ,
Fairfield, United States, about 7 hours ago
I don't care who is involved in all of this but everyone who is should be imprisoned for
life. Absolutely ridiculous that this guy has been doing this for years and no one stopped
him.
Last Friday, Bradshaw announced the internal affairs investigation after reports emerged
that Epstein -- while on work release in Palm Beach -- was allowed female visitors to his
office, including at least one visit that led to a sexual encounter. The terms of Epstein's
incarceration were detailed by the Herald as part of a series published last year about
Epstein's case, Perversion of Justice.
Jack Scarola, who represents several of Epstein's victims, said it is ludicrous to think
that Bradshaw is able to investigate his own department.
"The allegations are against the sheriff and there's no way a credible investigation can be
conducted by the sheriff's office when the allegations extend to the very top of the
organization,'' Scarola said.
Book, whose father, Ron Book, is perhaps the most powerful lobbyist in Florida, said she
intends to pressure the governor for a full and thorough investigation.
"The privileges that Epstein received in Palm Beach County were outside the scope of what
anyone else would receive. We need an independent body to identify whether this was an issue of
individual failures or systemic failures. And if it was an individual failure, we need to hold
those individuals accountable,'' she said.
Bradshaw, who is running for his fifth term, wields tremendous power in Palm Beach, where
the agency has also been the lead law enforcement detail assisting the Secret Service during
President Donald Trump's visits to Mar-a-Lago. The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office spent $5.6
million for Trump's 2017-2018 trips, the Palm Beach Post reported in April. The
department is reimbursed for the work.
Epstein was found on the floor of his jail cell with injuries to his neck, according to a
report from NBC New York late Wednesday.
The television station said another inmate had been questioned and that Epstein is on
suicide watch. A source told CBS News the injuries were not life threatening. The New York
Post reported that Epstein was taken to a nearby hospital and may have intentionally hurt
himself in order to win a transfer out of the federal facility.
Quoting unnamed law enforcement officials, The New York Times said prison officials
were treating the incident, which left Epstein with "bruising around the neck," as a possible
suicide attempt.
The jet-setting financier was denied bail last week after a federal judge said he posed a
danger to young women. His lawyers have filed their intent to appeal, saying he should be
released to his palatial Upper East Side Manhattan townhouse.
Epstein, who has pleaded not guilty, roamed the halls of power before dozens of underage
girls accused him of sexual assaults. After preparing a 50-plus-page indictment on sex
trafficking charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida shelved
the charges and allowed Epstein to plead guilty to minor charges in state court. That's how
Epstein ended up in the Palm Beach County Jail -- and then on work release approved by Sheriff
Bradshaw.
The Next Chapter of the Epstein Story
Ghislaine Maxwell, the financier's longtime companion, has been accused of participating in
his abuses. Thousands of sealed records involving her may soon be released.
Hosted by Michael Barbara, produced by Adizah Eghan and Theo Balcomb, and edited by Lisa
Tobin
As the Times goes on to note, even after his 2008 conviction on charges of soliciting
prostitution from a minor, Epstein was able to ingratiate himself with the scientific community
, attracting a "glittering array of prominent scientists."
They included the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who discovered the
quark; the theoretical physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking ; the paleontologist
and evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould; Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and best-selling
author; George M. Church, a molecular engineer who has worked to identify genes that could be
altered to create superior humans; and the M.I.T. theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek, a
Nobel laureate. - New York
Times
Scientists had regular parties at Epstein's Manhattan mansion, drinking Dom Pérignon
and other expensive libations. The wealthy financier also hosted buffet lunchest at Harvard's
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics - to which he contributed $6.5 million in order to get it off
the ground.
Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker says he was invited to "salons and coffee
klatsches" at which Epstein would 'hold court.'
While some of Mr. Pinker's peers hailed Mr. Epstein as brilliant, Mr. Pinker described him
as an "intellectual impostor."
"He would abruptly change the subject, A.D.D.-style, dismiss an observation with an
adolescent wisecrack," Mr. Pinker said.
Another scientist cultivated by Mr. Epstein, Jaron Lanier, a prolific author who is a
founding father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science,
in that they did not lend themselves to rigorous proof. Mr. Lanier said Mr. Epstein had once
hypothesized that atoms behaved like investors in a marketplace.
Mr. Lanier said he had declined any funding from Mr. Epstein and that he had met with him
only once after Mr. Epstein's 2008 guilty plea. - New York
Times
So.... Epstein lied " in an effort to worm his way into the 'upper echelons of society.'
"
So the "upper echelons of society" include Lanier, "the virtual-reality creator and
author," two unnamed "award winning" scientists, and one unnamed "advisor" to large companies
and wealthy individuals.
So, what "awards" did these unnamed scientists win? Employee of the Month, entitling them
to a reserved parking space for a week? As for "advisor," ****, I can claim to be an advisor
to wealthy individuals. ("Trust me. Go with the pink toenail polish.") I have also from time
to time offered my advice to large companies. ("Go **** yourself.")
Further, Epstein didn't "worm his way" into anything. His mode of operation was apparently
to entice/entrap his "victims" and keep them on a short leash forever after.
This whole piece is one of the most transparently disingenuous things I've ever read. They
make the guy sound like he was waiting tables in SoHo and social climbing (apparently among
people of little or no importance) to try to get a part in an off-Broadway production--by
telling funny stories.
Kuvin speculated whether Epstein would "survive" to make his upcoming trial, comparing the
situation to the 1959 Profumo affair, where socialite Stephen Ward was put on trial for
procuring young women for the British elite but killed himself before the verdict was
announced.
"We know that Mr Ward, who was involved in that affair and the procurement of women for
some notable people, was given bail and committed suicide while out on bail – so it'll
be interesting to see whether or not Mr Epstein attempts again to get out on bail and if he
does whether he survives between now and the date of his trial," said Kuvin.
The lawyer also noted that Eyes Wide Shut-style sex parties attended by masked men had been
taking place for over 50 years
Too obvious. They'll probably find some brother in prison to inject him with the AIDS and
then let him die with poor healthcare. Probably delay the trial a few times until he is
dead
Anyone who buys the narrative that's been promoted need to learn the value of
skepticism.
The fact that Epstein voluntarily turned himself in and that he's not sitting in a luxury
mossad safe-house in IsraHell, should be a obvious red flag that a hell of a lot more is
going on that (((They))) are going to keep hidden.
This is all about having the screws to turn to get the behavior and control on those they
own.
If Oberführer Müeller can get Whitey whacked in a Fed pen the Clinton Foundation
will have no problem Arkansiding Epstain in the Manhattan lockup or Riker's
When we met in 1986, Epstein's double identity intrigued me -- he said he didn't just
manage money for clients with mega-fortunes, he was also a high-level bounty hunter.
Sometimes, he told me, he worked for governments to recover money looted by African
dictators. Other times those dictators hired him to help them hide their stolen money.
"... Evidence has emerged that the U.S. State Department is tied to a child trafficking operation involving Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. shared the tail number of his Bell Long Ranger 206L3 helicopter (tail number N474AW) with a U.S. State Department OV-10D Bronco ..."
"... . Descriptions of sex between adult males and underage females by XXX company employees in Bosnia in the 2000-2002 time frame coincides with descriptions of sex . on .. aircraft and [at] residences in Palm Beach, Florida; New Mexico; and on the island of Little Saint James in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Among the "Jane Does" filing suit against the U.S. government for concluding can anyone get the details of these suits? ..."
"... So so disgusting. First there was the catholic church pedophile scandal. Then there is the Epstein scandal ..."
Evidence has emerged that the U.S. State Department is tied to a child trafficking operation involving Billionaire pedophile
Jeffrey Epstein. shared the tail number of his Bell Long Ranger 206L3 helicopter (tail number N474AW) with a U.S. State Department
OV-10D Bronco. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) registration database. Descriptions of sex
between adult males and underage females by XXX company employees in Bosnia in the 2000-2002 time frame coincides with descriptions
of sex . on .. aircraft and [at] residences in Palm Beach, Florida; New Mexico; and on the island of Little Saint James in the
U.S. Virgin Islands. Among the "Jane Does" filing suit against the U.S. government for concluding can anyone get the details of
these suits?
"... That was while Robert Mueller ran the Bureau, which means everything about Epstein's blackmail and kompromat operation has been tucked safely away out of sight in FBI files for at least a decade. Much longer, new evidence shows. ..."
"... *CIA Acknowledged in 2003, It Knew that Ghislaine Maxwell's Late Father was a Major Foreign Intelligence Agent Operating Inside the U.S. ..."
"... That Robert Maxwell was a ruthless, corrupt, tax-dodging international businessman who served as an Israeli agent is highly probable. ..."
"... For the first time, Maxwell had failed to get his own way. He started to threaten and bluster. He then demanded that, for past services, he should receive immediately a quick fix of £400million to bale him out of his financial difficulties. ..."
"... Instead of providing the money, a small group of Mossad officers set about planning his murder. They feared that he was going to publicly expose all Mossad had done in the time he worked for them. They knew that he was gradually becoming mentally unstable and paranoid. He was taking a cocktail of drugs - Halcion and Zanax - which had serious side effects. ..."
"... Then Maxwell was contacted. He was told to fly to Gibraltar, go aboard the Lady Ghislaine and sail to the Canary Islands. There at sea he would receive his £400million quick fix in the form of a banker's draft. Maxwell did as he was told. ..."
"... As Victor Ostrovsky, a former Mossad agent told us: "On that cold night Mossad's problems with Robert Maxwell were over." ..."
"... The incontrovertible facts about his murder are contained in a previously-unseen autopsy report by Britain's then-leading forensic pathologist Dr Iain West and Israel State Pathologist Dr Yehuda Hiss. Of all the documents in our possession, these reports confirm the truth about Maxwell's death. ..."
"... Boy that Mueller has had a busy career hasn't he? Didn't he start out in Chicago where he gave Whitey Bulgar cover for being a mob boss? Then there's his cover up before and after 9/11. The weapons of mass destruction that he said Saddam had. The anthrax prosecution, Epstein's pedophilia cover up, HSBC and now he is trying to cover Hillary's buttocks. And maybe Obama's? I'm sure I've missed a few things that he did or didn't do. ..."
"... Acosta was told to stand down by someone at the top of the food chain. Mueller. Ugh what a slimy piece of work he is. But not to the Russia Gaters. Oh no. "He is a highly decorated marine who takes no guff from anyone. ..."
"... In that time, he had free access to Margaret Thatcher's Downing Street, to Ronald Reagan's White House, to the Kremlin and to the corridors of power throughout Europe. ..."
"... Inquiring minds want to know did Maxwell have access to Margaret and Ron because they liked him or because he had something on them? ..."
"... Epstein is the destruction of the Deep State. ..."
"... That pedophelia and politics scandal, better known as the Franklin Coverup, made the papers for a few months, too, before it was made to go away. Similarly, a couple of the operators served some time on reduced charges after that one. ..."
"... The two main suspects in the Bush, Sr. White House child ring were Craig Spence and Lawrence E. King Jr. King sang the National anthem at two GOP national conventions. He served time in jail for bank fraud. Spence was a Republican lobbyist before he committed suicide. Several of his partners went to jail for being involved in the adult part of the homosexual prostitution ring. ..."
"... Mueller's scrupulous avoidance of the CIA link in his prosecution of Manuel Noriega and his diversion of the PanAm 103 bombing and framing of two Libyans. Bobby Mueller has been a real go to guy when the security establishment needs a phony investigation. ..."
"... Bobby Mueller has been a real go to guy when the security establishment needs a phony investigation. ..."
"... The anthrax investigation is the most serious of his crimes. Mueller is being sued by his lead investigator in that case. ..."
"... Every now and then, here and there the curtain lifts for a moment and the political elite of a country, the business elite, the spy services, the military, and organized crime are revealed to be all working together, indeed practically joined at the hip ..."
"... partnership started during the early Cold War with US intelligence officers facilitating the drug trade out of Turkey and Burma through Europe. That soon spread to the Americas and globally. Covert operations such as Gladio, Condor, and the Safari Club, and associated banks (Franklin National Bank, BCCI, Riggs Bank, HSBC, etc.) produced massive human rights violations, transnational terrorism and governmental corruption. The CIA's secret wars provided funds and official cover for private-public sector alliance of criminals, bankers and spooks around the world. ..."
"... The CIA, MI6 and Mossad ran overlapping coordinated operations using privateers, paramilitaries and organized crime networks that consumed vast amounts of cash generated by money laundering mechanisms. Enriched by the looting of the former Soviet Union, along with the infusion of Arab oil money (the Saudi Yamamah slush fund), the "Octopus" became the instrument of Oligarchs that have thoroughly corrupted western governments and secret services. ..."
"... The Snowden release included a number of documents that illustrate the on-line entrapment and political disruption activities run by the two main communications intelligence agencies. ..."
"... Epstein recruits young girls, throws parties where he invites potential hedge fund clients, lets nature take its course and films the proceedings, extracts blackmail in the form of investments to his (largely fake) hedge fund, which actually just buys an index fund (no actual fund management required). He takes a percentage from the coerced investments. Nobody talks because they have too much to lose. No suspicious payments to raise eyebrows at the IRS. ..."
"... Epstein brought in the clients. The CIA/MI-6/Mossad provided necessary cover from the FBI and local cops - then, three or four agencies shared the intelligence take, as they had for decades from Robert Maxwell's operations. ..."
"... For Ghislaine, it was simply carrying on the family business for fun and profit. For the spooks, it was business as usual going back to the Green House, the Berlin bordello founded in the the 1870s by Wilhelm Steiber, a Prussian Police section chief, to provide useful intelligence to Bismarck's Military Intelligence, which he reorganized. ..."
"... Epstein is also well acquainted with University President Lawrence H. Summers. The two serve together on the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, two elite international relations organizations. ..."
"... Epstein's relationships within the academy are remarkable since the tycoon, who has amassed his fortune by managing the wealth of billionaires from his private Caribbean island, does not hold a bachelor's degree. ..."
"... There's a rocky road ahead for Larry Summers. Summers introduces Epstein into the Harvard fold, but becomes reckless with his newly-refined Neoliberalism and his opinions concerning "lady scholars." ..."
That was while Robert Mueller ran the Bureau, which means everything about Epstein's blackmail and kompromat operation
has been tucked safely away out of sight in FBI files for at least a decade. Much longer, new evidence shows.
The real question is, why did the FBI wait for more than a decade to bust Epstein and Maxwell?
Epstein and Maxwell came to the attention of the FBI in 1996, when, curiously, the Bureau never acted on an accusation that
they had together sexually abused a 15 year old girl in a bedroom inside Epstein's Manhattan townhouse. Documents in a recent
law suit filed by an alleged victim, Maria Farmer, show that the FBI had been aware of Epstein and Maxwell's child abuse activities
in New York for at least a dozen years before Epstein was finally charged in 2008 with much-reduced Florida state offenses.
https://www.yourtango.com/2019323698/who-maria-farmer-latest-woman-accus...
Farmer claims she reported her sexual assault to New York police and the FBI in 1996. "To my knowledge, I was the first
person to report Maxwell and Epstein to the FBI," she wrote in her affidavit."
*CIA Acknowledged in 2003, It Knew that Ghislaine Maxwell's Late Father was a Major Foreign Intelligence Agent Operating
Inside the U.S.
Previously, Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's father, had for many years been known to have been involved in high-level espionage
in the United States, as detailed in a 2003 publication of the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, The Intelligence Officer's
Bookshelf . Therein, the CIA reviewer of a biography by British author Gordon Thomas acknowledged about Maxwell:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-pub...
That Robert Maxwell was a ruthless, corrupt, tax-dodging international businessman who served as an Israeli agent is
highly probable.
For the deeper background to the Epstein-Maxwell multinational blackmail, coverup and kompromat operation, we have to
look at the events that led up to the 1991 death of Robert Maxwell. A summary of the Maxwell bio by its authors recounts:
British Publisher Robert Maxwell
Was Mossad Spy
By Gordon Thomas And Martin Dillon
The Mirror - UK
12-6-2002
[ . . .]
Eleven years after former Daily Mirror owner Robert Maxwell plunged from his luxury yacht to a watery grave, his death still
arouses intense interest.
Many different theories have circulated about what really happened on board the Lady Ghislaine that night in May 1991.
[ . . . ]
The Jewish millionaire and former Labour MP [born Ludvik Hoch
in Czechoslovakia] died the way he had lived - threatening.
He had threatened his wife. Threatened his children. Threatened the staff of this newspaper.
But finally he issued one threat too many - he threatened Mossad.
He told them that unless they gave him £400million to save his crumbling empire, he would expose all he had done for them.
In that time, he had free access to Margaret Thatcher's Downing Street, to Ronald Reagan's White House, to the Kremlin and
to the corridors of power throughout Europe.
On top of that he had built himself a position of power within the crime families of eastern Europe, teaching them how to
funnel their vast wealth from drugs, arms smuggling and prostitution to banks in safe havens around the globe.
Maxwell passed on all the secrets he learned to Mossad in Tel Aviv. In turn, they tolerated his excesses, vanities and insatiable
appetite for a luxurious lifestyle and women.
He told his controllers who they should target and how they should do it. He appointed himself as Israel's unofficial ambassador
to the Soviet Bloc. Mossad saw the advantage in that.
[ . . . ]
The more successful Maxwell became the more risks he took and the more dangerous he was to Mossad. At the same time, the
very public side of Maxwell, who then owned 400 companies, began to unwind.
He spent lavishly and lost money on deals. The more he lost, the more he tried to claw money from the banks. Then he saw
a way out of his problems.
He was approached by Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB. Spymaster and tycoon met in the utmost secrecy in the Kremlin.
Kryuchkov had an extraordinary proposal. He wanted Maxwell to help orchestrate the overthrow of Mikhail Gorbachev, the reformist
Soviet leader. That would bring to an end a fledgling democracy and a return to the Cold War days.
In return, Maxwell's massive debts would be wiped out by a grateful Kryuchkov, who planned to replace Gorbachev. The KGB
chief wanted Maxwell to use the Lady Ghislaine, named after Maxwell's daughter, as a meeting place between the Russian plotters,
Mossad chiefs and Israel's top politicians.
The plan was for the Israelis to go to Washington and say that democracy could not work in Russia and that it was better
to allow the country to return to a modified form of communism, which America could help to control. In return, Kryuchkov would
guarantee to free hundreds of thousands of Jews and dissidents in the Soviet republics.
Kryuchkov told Maxwell that he would be seen as a saviour of all those Jews. It was a proposal he could not refuse. But
when he put it to his Mossad controllers they were horrified. They said Israel would have no part in such a madcap plan.
For the first time, Maxwell had failed to get his own way. He started to threaten and bluster. He then demanded that,
for past services, he should receive immediately a quick fix of £400million to bale him out of his financial difficulties.
Instead of providing the money, a small group of Mossad officers set about planning his murder. They feared that he
was going to publicly expose all Mossad had done in the time he worked for them. They knew that he was gradually becoming mentally
unstable and paranoid. He was taking a cocktail of drugs - Halcion and Zanax - which had serious side effects.
The group of Mossad plotters sensed, like Solomon, he could bring their temple tumbling down and cause incalculable harm
to Israel. The plan to kill him was prepared in the utmost secrecy. A four-man squad was briefed.
Then Maxwell was contacted. He was told to fly to Gibraltar, go aboard the Lady Ghislaine and sail to the Canary Islands.
There at sea he would receive his £400million quick fix in the form of a banker's draft. Maxwell did as he was told.
On the night of November 4, 1991, the Lady Ghislaine, one of the world's biggest yachts, was at sea.
[ . . . ]
As Victor Ostrovsky, a former Mossad agent told us: "On that cold night Mossad's problems with Robert Maxwell were over."
The incontrovertible facts about his murder are contained in a previously-unseen autopsy report by Britain's then-leading
forensic pathologist Dr Iain West and Israel State Pathologist Dr Yehuda Hiss. Of all the documents in our possession, these
reports confirm the truth about Maxwell's death.
Gordon Thomas & Martin Dillon are authors of The Assassination of Robert Maxwell: Israel's Super Spy, published by Robson
Books.
The obvious question, why did the U.S. government let these intelligence crimes continue for decades, isn't being asked. The
answer is almost self-evident. Information and leverage obtained by Maxwell-Epstein and Co. was far too valuable to its several
operators to let it all end too soon.
leap out at me as suggesting how Epstein connects to much bigger subjects. First is the assertion that Maxwell was
... teaching them how to funnel their vast wealth from drugs, arms smuggling and prostitution to banks in safe havens around
the globe.
This area of trafficking and money laundering directly connects to Mueller and his essential exoneration of
HSBC .
The other quotation that suggests the importance of money laundering is here:
The plan was for the Israelis to go to Washington and say that democracy could not work in Russia and that it was better
to allow the country to return to a modified form of communism, which America could help to control.
The life's work of
Antony Sutton at Stanford's Hoover Institution shows that American industry was ALWAYS controlling communism as well as Soviet
industrial development, and that a trend toward social democracy, represented by Gorbachev, would have put an end to that control.
@Linda Wood his money laundering and blackmailing activities. While the review confirms that Robert Maxwell was for decades
a major Mossad agent actively setting up operations and cover in the United States and the UK, I can only surmise that the spreading
political influence of Eastern European organized crime networks and child honey traps are things that the Agency didn't want
to discuss publicly in 2003.
As for Mueller, let's not forget that he was FBI Director and before that the head of the Criminal Division at Main Justice
at the time that global "black finance" grew along with the catastrophic spread of multinational crime and terrorism. BCCI, Iran-Contra,
9/11, and the rise of transnational Oligarchs happened on his watch. As the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in the United States
at the time, it is hard to imagine anyone more responsibility for the ultimate consequences than Robert Mueller. There is perhaps
someone who bears ultimate responsibility, the President who appointed Mueller: George Herbert Walker Bush and his lesser son,
Shrub, who promoted him.
... wouldn't you assume that this entire affair is an ongoing Mossad operation, which may or may not have concluded? The US
IC is just another operative inside the envelope, but Mossad owns the assets and the intellectual property. I think we could assume
that some of this is automated and Mossad has ongoing leverage still in play.
The obvious question, why did the U.S. government let these intelligence crimes continue for decades, isn't being asked.
The answer is almost self-evident. Information and leverage obtained by Maxwell-Epstein and Co. was far too valuable to its
several operators to let it all end too soon.
.
Mossad's legendary blackmail traps ensnared even high-level deep state authorities and made them pliable. The recent history
of United States foreign policy is an enigma that can only be solved when that assumption is inserted. Once the assumption is
in place, it opens like a Pandora's box. Don't you find that to be the case?
In a recent investigation I presented the case that British banking and financial giant HSBC conspired with banking institutions
with documented links to terrorist financing, including those responsible for helping bankroll the 9/11 attacks.
SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2012
Black Dossier: HSBC & Terrorist Finance
Moral equivalencies abound. After all, when American secret state agencies manage drug flows or direct terrorist proxies
to attack official enemies it's not quite the same as battling terror or crime.
Pounding home that point, a new report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations accused HSBC of exposing "the
U.S. financial system to a wide array of money laundering, drug trafficking, and terrorist financing risks due to poor anti-money
laundering (AML) controls."
That 335-page report, "U.S. Vulnerabilities to Money Laundering, Drugs, and Terrorist Financing: HSBC Case History," (large
pdf file available
here ) was issued after a year-long Senate investigation zeroed-in on the bank's U.S. affiliate, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., better
known as HBUS.
Drilling down, we learned that amongst the "services" offered by HSBC subsidiaries and correspondent banks were sweet deals
with financial entities with terrorist ties; the transportation of billions of dollars in cash by plane and armored car through
their London Banknotes division; the clearing of sequentially-numbered travelers checks through dodgy Cayman Islands accounts
for Mexican drug lords and Russian mafiosi.
From richly-appointed suites at Canary Wharf, London, the bank's "smartest guys in the room" handed some of the most violent
gangsters on earth the financial wherewithal to organize their respective industries: global crime.
A case in point. In 2008 alone the Senate revealed that the bank's Cayman Islands branch handled some 50,000 client accounts
(all without benefit of offices or staff on Grand Cayman, mind you), yet still managed to ship some $7 billion (£10.9bn) in
cash from Mexico into the U.S. Now that's creative accounting!...
@Linda Wood HSBC, huh--there must be some clever name for it, which deserves no research.
what an eloquent article you presented. Brief but right on target. It isn't just sex, drugs and rock and roll. Now it is drugs
- money -sexual perversion--and perhaps worse? Rumors are flying about what video on the Weiner laptop showed. It is strictly
heresay, but a core of folks seem to believe the suspicions are possible.
snoopydawg on Thu, 07/11/2019 - 8:48pm
Boy that Mueller has had a busy career
hasn't he? Didn't he start out in Chicago where he gave Whitey Bulgar cover for being a mob boss? Then there's his
cover up before and after 9/11. The weapons of mass destruction that he said Saddam had. The anthrax prosecution, Epstein's pedophilia
cover up, HSBC and now he is trying to cover Hillary's buttocks. And maybe Obama's? I'm sure I've missed a few things that he
did or didn't do.
Acosta is saying that if he hadn't made the plea deal then Epstein would never have served any time in
prison. Well he actually only slept there since he got to leave every day for work and then there's the massages he got after
his busy day at work. But there were more than 80 pages that the Feds wrote on his escapades so I think that story he told congress
is true. Acosta was told to stand down by someone at the top of the food chain. Mueller. Ugh what a slimy piece of work he
is. But not to the Russia Gaters. Oh no. "He is a highly decorated marine who takes no guff from anyone.
In that time, he had free access to Margaret Thatcher's Downing Street, to Ronald Reagan's White House, to the Kremlin
and to the corridors of power throughout Europe.
Inquiring minds want to know did Maxwell have access to Margaret and Ron because they liked him or because he had something
on them?
Great information! The more I learn the more I need a shower.
is how I've been feeling all week from reading about this, just more and more demoralized when I think about the depravation
of our so-called "leadership." What is it that we're supposed to think of as the new normal after this behavior?
That pedophelia and politics scandal, better known as the Franklin Coverup, made the papers for a few months, too, before
it was made to go away. Similarly, a couple of the operators served some time on reduced charges after that one.
The two main suspects in the Bush, Sr. White House child ring were Craig Spence and Lawrence E. King Jr. King sang the
National anthem at two GOP national conventions. He served time in jail for bank fraud. Spence was a Republican lobbyist before
he committed suicide. Several of his partners went to jail for being involved in the adult part of the homosexual prostitution
ring.
Mueller's scrupulous avoidance of the CIA link in his prosecution of Manuel Noriega and his diversion of the PanAm 103
bombing and framing of two Libyans. Bobby Mueller has been a real go to guy when the security establishment needs a phony investigation.
Bobby Mueller has been a real go to guy when the security establishment needs a phony investigation.
The anthrax investigation is the most serious of his crimes. Mueller is being
sued by his lead investigator in that case.
Because researchers in our biological weapons labs went public with what they were doing, and where such research was being
done in the U.S., we learned the CIA was one of several outfits doing biological weapons research.
But Mueller exonerated all of them, including the CIA, with no explanation and only focused on a lone vaccine researcher at
the Army lab when journalists began to ask why no one had been indicted after seven years of investigation, at which point the
FBI attempted to harass the suspect into committing suicide.
Every now and then, here and there the curtain lifts for a moment and the political elite of a country, the business elite,
the spy services, the military, and organized crime are revealed to be all working together, indeed practically joined at the
hip.
partnership started during the early Cold War with US intelligence officers facilitating the drug trade out of Turkey and
Burma through Europe. That soon spread to the Americas and globally. Covert operations such as Gladio, Condor, and the Safari
Club, and associated banks (Franklin National Bank, BCCI, Riggs Bank, HSBC, etc.) produced massive human rights violations, transnational
terrorism and governmental corruption. The CIA's secret wars provided funds and official cover for private-public sector alliance
of criminals, bankers and spooks around the world.
This "dark alliance" assumed a political and economic life of its own beyond its original intent to counter communist movements.
By the Vietnam War, Agency operators were running most of the heroin trade in the world through proprietary airlines, banks and
logistics companies. In the mid-1970s, CIA Director Bush expanded privatization with Saudi funding in his Safari Club deal that
eventually morphed into Al Qaeda and ISIS.
The CIA, MI6 and Mossad ran overlapping coordinated operations using privateers, paramilitaries and organized crime networks
that consumed vast amounts of cash generated by money laundering mechanisms. Enriched by the looting of the former Soviet Union,
along with the infusion of Arab oil money (the Saudi Yamamah slush fund), the "Octopus" became the instrument of Oligarchs
that have thoroughly corrupted western governments and secret services.
Multinational honey trap operations such as Maxwell-Epstein & Co. are an inevitable and continuing part of this privatization
and criminalization of intelligence that stretches back to the days of Tom Braden and Cord Meyer handing out stacks of greenbacks
to Mafiosi on the Corsican Docks.
The Snowden release included a number of documents that illustrate the on-line entrapment and political disruption activities
run by the two main communications intelligence agencies.
"Honey-trap; a great option. Very successful, when it works" (GCHQ, UK training program slide)
Without quoting the whole thing (which is worth a read):
Epstein recruits young girls, throws parties where he invites potential hedge fund clients, lets nature take its course
and films the proceedings, extracts blackmail in the form of investments to his (largely fake) hedge fund, which actually just
buys an index fund (no actual fund management required). He takes a percentage from the coerced investments. Nobody talks because
they have too much to lose. No suspicious payments to raise eyebrows at the IRS.
There's no need to invoke the Mafia/Russia/Mossad/CIA/etc, that's just needlessly overfitting.
Except such an operation would be quite attractive to intelligence services. Maybe they were in on the ground floor, maybe
they made Epstein an offer he couldn't refuse once they heard about it.
Epstein brought in the clients. The CIA/MI-6/Mossad provided necessary cover from the FBI and local cops - then,
three or four agencies shared the intelligence take, as they had for decades from Robert Maxwell's operations.
For Ghislaine, it was simply carrying on the family business for fun and profit. For the spooks, it was business as usual
going back to the Green House, the Berlin bordello founded in the the 1870s by Wilhelm Steiber, a Prussian Police section chief,
to provide useful intelligence to Bismarck's Military Intelligence, which he reorganized.
Steiber is considered the father of modern espionage. His methods were vastly influential, and he attracted students from London,
St. Petersburg to Tokyo. Each put their own national spin on the science of sexual blackmail. As for the Japanese, they are among
the most interesting and innovative in their use of a parallel network of privatized intelligence services incorporating underworld
Yakuzi groups alongside conventional military intelligence units. Using compromise, they gained and maintained control over Imperial
Japan and its Colonies: https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2019/03/15/eastern-peril/
To realize these divinely inspired ambitions, Japan needed a modern espionage system. Adopting the German model, Japanese
officials were sent to study under Wilhelm Stieber in the mid-1870s. Over the next decade Japan built up separate army and
naval intelligence services, each with an accompanying branch of secret military police (Kempeitai for the army and Tokeitai
for the navy). These latter organizations also provided an excellent counter-espionage service. However, where the Japanese
were unique was in the use of spies belonging to unofficial secret societies working alongside or independently of the official
intelligence agencies. These shadowy institutions were ultra-nationalist by nature, drawing their membership from a cross-section
of Japanese society, including the military, politics, industry and Yakuza underworld. Under ruthless leadership, their henchmen
would spy on, subvert and corrupt Japan's Far East neighbours.
For more on Steiber and his superior, von Hinckeldey, methods of international counter-insurgency, espionage, and political
policing included deception and a forerunner of today's internet surveillance:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/11/29/275653/-
While armies are essential to the maintenance of autocracy, the preservation of dynastic rule and the prevention of democracy
requires an effective secret police. The suppression of its middle-class constitutionalists [during the 1840s] was followed
by the expansion of the Prussian political police under Karl Ludwig Friedrich von Hinckeldey.
Appointed police president of Berlin in late 1848, Hinckeldey was an innovator of many of the features of modern systematic
political policing. Among the tactics that he introduced with his new police system in Berlin was the "Litfass columns". Named
for Ernst Litfass, Frederick William's court printer, he had dozens of these large poles erected in strategic spots around
Berlin. The public posting of political notices was then banned. By application to a state office for a waiver, however, the
columns could be used to display messages. The police dutifully recorded the names of all who had applied. A. Richie, Faust's
Metropolis: A History of Berlin, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998 at p.134.
LEGACY OF THE LITFASS COLUMNS: A similar ploy was later adopted by the People's Republic of China. In the mid-1980s, the
Communist authorities at first appear to tolerate the operation of a so-called Democracy Wall, where "dissidents" in Beijing
could post political writings, initially, without being arrested. Similar walls then sprung up under the noses of the authorities
in other Chinese cities. For this apparent opening to democracy, the Deng regime much applauded, particularly by some in the
Reagan-Bush Administration, eager to legitimize the regime and its growing commercial ties with U.S. corporations. Eventually,
many of those who had availed themselves of the wall to post political messages were, of course, arrested in the roundup of
hundreds of thousands of democracy supporters that followed the Tienamen Square massacre. The impression of anonymity and "freedom"
conveyed by the Internet, of course, presents a similar opportunity for police to cast a wide net for identifying persons and
organizations who may not hold favor for the regime in power, or may not in the future.
Hinckeldey also founded the Police Union, the first recorded international network of counterrevolutionary police spies
in modern times. Primarily made up of police officers from Prussia and the German states, the Union operated throughout Europe,
Britain and in the United States. The Union was run by his deputy, the notorious police provocateur, Wilhelm Steiber, who would
later reorganize the Okhrana along similar lines. Internationally active from 1851-1866, the Police Union, according to Mathieu
Deflem, was "one of the first formal initiatives in industrial society to establish an organized police system across national
borders."13
I disagree with the Alternet view on this. See, this is the norm. A purely private sexual blackmail ring of any scale would
be the historical exception. It certainly wouldn't survive very long.
...authorities at first appear to tolerate the operation of a so-called Democracy Wall, where "dissidents" in Beijing could
post political writings.... Similar walls then sprung up under the noses of the authorities in other Chinese cities. Eventually,
many of those who had availed themselves of the wall to post political messages were, of course, arrested in the roundup of
hundreds of thousands of democracy supporters....
The impression of anonymity and "freedom" conveyed by the Internet, of course, presents a similar opportunity for police
to cast a wide net for identifying persons and organizations who may not hold favor for the regime in power, or may not in
the future.
But why should one avoid the thought? If the situation looks like the people are going to lose the war for their minds, and
are unwilling to back a publisher like Assange who has given his all to try to empower them, why should anyone put themselves
at risk by expressing their opinions? It's a honeypot of our own making, just as Facebook is where people go to write their own
dossiers for the Authorities.
@Pluto's Republic an enemy of the status quo, you raise the calculated costs of the eventual crackdown, pushing back the
day of reckoning. Keep it up! Visible rebellion is the only defense of the people.
...from which to leverage access to the elite, Harvard University would be a top choice.
Jeffery Epstein actually entered the social salons of the elite through many doors. He was, of course, a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations. One would have to be to rub shoulders with the political elite. From there he matriculated to the Trilateral
Commission becoming friendly with Harvard President, Larry Summers. **
Becoming a surprise mystery philanthropist at Harvard, with Summers help, was a booster rocket for Epstein. In the Havard Crimson , in
June 2003, Epstein's involvement with Harvard was celebrated.
People in the News: Jeffrey E. Epstein
Elusive financier Jeffrey E. Epstein donated $30 million this year to Harvard for the founding of a mathematical biology
and evolutionary dynamics program.
While the mathematics teacher turned magnate remained unknown to most people until he flew President Clinton, Kevin
Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa to explore the problems of AIDS and economic development facing the region, Epstein
has been a familiar face to many at Harvard for years.
Networking with the University's leading intellectuals, Epstein has spurred research through both discussions with and dollars
contributed to various faculty members.
Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn, former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky and Frankfurter Professor
of Law Alan M. Dershowitz are among Epstein's bevy of eminent friends that includes princes, presidents and Nobel
Prize winners.
Epstein is also well acquainted with University President Lawrence H. Summers. The two serve together on the Trilateral
Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, two elite international relations organizations.
Epstein's collection of high-profile friends also includes newly-recruited professor Martin A. Nowak, who will run Harvard's
mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program.
Like Kosslyn, Rosovsky and Dershowitz, Nowak praises Epstein's numerous relationships within the scientific community.
"I am amazed by the connections he has in the scientific world," Nowak says. "He knows an amazing number of scientists.
He knows everyone you can imagine."
Epstein's relationships within the academy are remarkable since the tycoon, who has amassed his fortune by managing
the wealth of billionaires from his private Caribbean island, does not hold a bachelor's degree.
Yet, friends and beneficiaries say they do not see Epstein merely as a man with deep pockets, but as an intellectual equal.
Dershowitz says Epstein is "brilliant" and Kosslyn calls Epstein "one of the brightest people I've ever known."
Epstein's beneficiaries say they are particularly appreciative of the no-strings-attached approach Epstein takes with his
donations.
"He is one of the most pleasant philanthropists," Nowak says. "Unlike many people who support science, he supports science
without any conditions. There are not any disadvantages to associating with him."
Friends and associates say Harvard stands to benefit from its evolving relationship with Epstein.
"I hope that he will, over time, become one of the leading supporters of science at Harvard," Rosovsky writes in an e-mail.
__________________________________________
** A footnote on Larry Summers seems important here:
Harvard-trained economists have been running the US economy for a very long time, and continue to do so. Summers began his ascent
as a professor of economics at Harvard University, leaving shortly before Bill Clinton won the Presidency. He was clearly the
Neoliberal seed planted for the New American Century.
In 1993, Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs of the United States Department of the Treasury
under the Clinton Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under his long-time political
mentor Robert Rubin. In 1999, he succeeded Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury.
While working for the Clinton administration Summers played a leading role in the American response to the 1994 economic
crisis in Mexico, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the Russian financial crisis. He was also influential in the Harvard
Institute for International Development and American-advised privatization of the economies of the post-Soviet states, and
in the deregulation of the U.S financial system, including the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act.
At This Point the Ball is Passed to the Bush Team Republicans, while the Democrats Sit Back and Wait for 2008.
There's now a Treasury surplus to transfer to the wealthy, and the necessary deregulation for Wall Street empowerment is in
place. The Soviet era had ended and Russia is ended forever. The world is finally primed to be seized by the One Exceptional Power.
It's 2001, and we are standing on the threshold of the New American Century . Time to throw a flash-bang of chaos onto the world
stage and trigger the booming War Economy that will carry us directly to global control.
There's a rocky road ahead for Larry Summers. Summers introduces Epstein into the Harvard fold, but becomes reckless with
his newly-refined Neoliberalism and his opinions concerning "lady scholars."
Following the end of Clinton's term, Summers served as the 27th President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006.
Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of a no-confidence vote by Harvard faculty, which resulted in large part
from Summers's conflict with Cornel West, financial conflict of interest questions regarding his relationship with Andrei Shleifer,
and a 2005 speech in which he suggested that the under-representation of women in science and engineering could be due to a
"different availability of aptitude at the high end", and less to patterns of discrimination and socialization. Remarking upon
political correctness in institutions of higher education, Summers said in 2016:
Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of a no-confidence vote by Harvard faculty, which resulted in large
part from Summers's conflict with Cornel West, financial conflict of interest questions regarding his relationship with
Andrei Shleifer, and a 2005 speech in which he suggested that the under-representation of women in science and engineering
There is a great deal of absurd political correctness. Now, I'm somebody who believes very strongly in diversity, who
resists racism in all of its many incarnations, who thinks that there is a great deal that's unjust in American society
that needs to be combated, but it seems to be that there is a kind of creeping totalitarianism in terms of what kind of
ideas are acceptable and are debatable on college campuses.
After his departure from Harvard, Summers cooled his jets on Wall Street, positioning himself to be called back into the game
when it was Team Democrat's turn in 2008.
Summers worked as a managing partner at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co., and as a freelance speaker at other financial institutions,
including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. Summers rejoined public service during
the Obama administration, serving as the Director of the White House United States National Economic Council for President
Barack Obama from January 2009 until November 2010, where he emerged as a key economic decision-maker in the Obama administration's
response to the Great Recession.
Jeffery Epstein continued to weave himself into the fabric of government like a good psychopath would. He was by no means the
only one.
I had hoped we would learn from today's hearings more regarding Epstein's source of wealth - and exactly how much it was. Plus
more info on his doctored passport. More about the money trail between him and various Florida officials.
Anyone new calling
the tip line - especially from during his time as a teacher at that prep school in NY? And more about the Dershowitz and Starr
involvement back 12 years ago.
Unfortunately the food fight between Trump and the four frosh sucked all the air out of the media.
Came across this site with the court documents .The FBI travelled to Australia in 2011 and interviewed ms Roberts at the american
consulate in Sydney.9 years ago then in 2015 she sued Epstein and maxwell. Only now in 2019 did Epstein fly back from Paris knowing
he was going to be arrested.
Some of those girls were collecting info for him and getting paid. The whole thing stinks time
to call in the plumbers.
Many things are disposed of by plea Bargaining. With high profile crimes, it is always difficult to know if you did the right
thing. Here, it is fairly obvious it wasn't. Acosta is a Harvard College/HLS, a very able and connected guy and his error here
has damaged his life.
The part that I haven't seen being reported or discussed:
"The federal non-prosecution agreement Epstein's legal team negotiated with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District
of Florida immunized all named and unnamed "potential co-conspirators" in Epstein's child trafficking network, which includes
those who allegedly procured minors for Epstein and also any powerbrokers who may have molested them."
Thanks for the link to the NPA I didn't realize it was in the public domain, it is an astonishing read. I'm not familiar with
NPA's (having never been party to one!) so forgive me if the following questions are uninformed:
To what extent are NPA's legally binding upon the USG, are there circumstances where a court can set one aside for reasons
other than breach of contract?
The NPA appears to try and indemnify Epstein and both known and unknown co-conspirators (Ghislaine Maxwell?) in both the offenses
prosecuted and any other offenses subject to the joint USAO/FBI investigation . In fact on page 5 the indemnity given uses
the wording "the [US] also agrees it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators
of Epstein included but not limited to.." (my emphasis) i.e. scope here appears to be unlimited. This cannot be legally enforceable
surely?
I thought NPA's were used to go after people further up the food chain. This one seems to have given carte blanche immunity
to all involved at every level. I'm astonished Acosta had the authority, merely with "consultation" within DOJ to do this. This
is a travesty and is starting to make FISA abuse look like chicken feed.
Epstein's NPA was limited to the Florida district of federal courts, hence another branch of the federal courts, the Southern
District of New York, was free to re-open the issue..and did.
Acosta says he acted in accordance with his superior's wishes at the DOJ. Plausible, but lets see some corroborating evidence.
If he agreed to negotiate this NPA without getting his boss's orders in writing he is a remarkable fool.
Was Acosta making an "error"? Looks to me he was a fully paid up member of the Swamp, doing what swampians do and he will no doubt
settle back into a Swamp law firm or Professorship somewhere. Weep not for him.
Arkancide? Epstein is linked with E Barak, and Nicole Junkermann, per flight logs. Presumably that is the intelligence link
Acosta was babbling about. https://carbyne911.com/team/
yes. I con't see him living much longer. On Morning joe today, Joe and his imbecile consort went on at length about a party
in 1992 at Mar A Lago for a bunch of NFL cheerleaders. Trump, Epstein and other me stood around ogling the ladies. So what! Not
a word was said about the absent Bill Clinton.
Doubt if Bubba Bill was involved in any of Epstein's sexual shenanigans after being burnt by Lewinsky. Clinton always had
the proverbial ability to "talk a dog off a gut wagon" and could most likely find an agreeable partner elsewhere. Might be wrong
but doubt it.
Ogling NFL cheerleaders, big deal. That seemed pretty normal to me. I'm waiting for more to come out about the 1992 private party
at Mar a Lago with Trump, Epstein and 28 calendar girls. I get the feeling Trump is going tweet crazy right now primarily to change
the subject. With Trump, Clinton, the DOJ enablers who protected Epstein and probably a host of others, Epstein is bound to be
whacked as you and walrus said.
Yes, the MSM are predictably silent about Bill Clinton and other leftists who are/were buddies with Epstein. I guess with all
of his money, he could murder someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and...
If I understand correctly, Epstein broke the agreement. Would it follow that the WTF!? immunity deal is now nixed?
What a rotten underbelly oozes out. This foul beast needs to be wrestled into the light. Where is the people's champion?
There must be some good people in there somewhere.
The sweetheart deal that Epstein received from Acosta and the DOJ seems rather unusual for the felony that is such a social
taboo as you note. Not only did he get off extremely lightly but his co-conspirators were completely let off the hook. The way
the children who were raped were also treated by the courts was also shameful.
This case epitomizes the travesty of the current state of the rule of law. Sexual predators of children are typically thrown
the book and quickly taken off the streets to serve a long sentence. Not only did that not happen but even worse he was allowed
to continue his despicable behavior out in the open even when he was supposed to be serving his sentence. Clearly he had some
powerful friends in the Bush administration, but even with these connections when such execrable behavior is shown repeatedly
there were none with a conscience. A sad testament to the state of our justice system.
Do you think the current case will also just be another white wash or do you think the DOJ will pursue the investigation with
vigor to get to the bottom of his finances and all the other sexual predators of children in his orbit?
You are perceptive about the Epstein plea bargain / non-prosecution agreement (NPA). The one for Epstein is the complete opposite
of what happens in federal criminal cases. Yes, agreements between the Justice Department and defendants are often used "to go
after people further up the food chain". There will be a plea bargain with a cooperation section in it. If cooperation is not
part of the arrangement, that section is left out.
They have a standard form they use for plea bargains, and some sections may be in or out of it depending on the situation.
Classic examples are those that were used by "special counsel" Robert Mueller when he went around putting the squeeze on people.
Here is the agreement between the Mueller group and Richard Gates, who was around Paul Manafort during the Trump campaign--
The usual plea agreement requires the defendant to plead guilty to some federal criminal offense. The Epstein agreement
did not require him to plead to a federal crime. It also did not require him to debrief or provide them with information. To the
contrary, it required that the federal government do nothing to him or to other people who helped him or conspired with him to
commit federal crimes!
I'm not a Trump supporter, but you have to say this for Trump: he banned Jeffery Epstein from his properties and made him PNG
when Trump had complaints about the man's conduct on site.
ChanceIs
Pinto Currency
Feb 19, 2017 4:24 PM I think that PizzaGate is for real. I will take the "safer" position
that there is reason for investigation, but there is nothing which John Q Public can observe
that makes a very firm case for prosecution (of John Podesta). Dave Seaman gives a "credible"
update on PizzaGate evert few days. This from Sunday afternoon, Feb 19:
At least 30 in congress for pedogate. Wahooo
ronaldwilsonreagan
Feb 19, 2017 1:04 PM No fan of Drumpf's bi-polar behavior but it pales in comparison to
obama's clear insanity. We actually had a president who bragged he was good at killing people.
That's as insane as it comes. DownWithYogaPants
Wahooo
Feb 19, 2017 1:12 PM Any usage of the name "Drumpf" will get you a downvote from me. It's a
name. It has no bearing but yet it appears you think it has some sort of magical powers when
you use. The fact it was popularized by a weak comedian also brings a ding. vulcanraven
DownWithYogaPants
Feb 19, 2017 1:54 PM Drumpf=The regressive liberal crybaby callsign
I don't use Social Media myself, but near the end of the 2016 presidential campaign, I
gradually began seeing more and more Trump supporters referring to something called
"Pizzagate," a burgeoning sexual scandal that they claimed would bring down Hillary Clinton and
many of the top leaders of her party, with the chatter actually increasing after Trump was
elected. As near as I could tell, the whole bizarre theory had grown up on the far-right fringe
of the Internet, with the utterly fantastical plot having something to do with stolen secret
emails, DC pizza parlors, and a ring of pedophiles situated near the top of the Democratic
Party. But given all the other strange and unlikely things I'd gradually discovered about our
history, it didn't seem like something I could necessarily dismiss out of hand.
At the beginning of December, a right-wing blogger produced a lengthy exposition of the
Pizzagate charges, which finally gave me some understanding of what was actually under
discussion, and I soon made arrangements to republish his article. It quickly attracted a great
deal of interest, and some websites pointed to it as the best single introduction to the
scandal for a general audience.
Pizzagate Aedon
Cassiel • December 2, 2016 • 3,100 Words
A couple of weeks later, I republished an additional article by the same writer, describing
a long list of previous pedophilia scandals that had occurred in elite American and European
political circles. Although many of these seemed to be solidly documented, nearly all of them
had received minimal coverage by our mainstream media outlets. And if such political pedophile
rings had existed in the relatively recent past, was it so totally implausible that there might
be another one simmering beneath the surface of today's Washington DC?
Those interested in the details of the Pizzagate Hypothesis are advised to read these
articles, especially the first one, but I might as well provide a brief summary.
John Podesta had been a longtime fixture in DC political circles, becoming chief of staff
to President Bill Clinton in 1998, and afterward remaining one of the most powerful figures in
the Democratic Party establishment. While serving as as chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016
presidential campaign, his apparent carelessness with the password security of his Gmail
account allowed it to easily be hacked, and tens of thousands of his personal emails were soon
published on WikiLeaks. A swarm of young anti-Clinton activists began scouring this
treasure-trove of semi-confidential information, seeking evidence of mundane bribery and
corruption, but instead they came across some quite odd exchanges, seemingly written in coded
language.
Now use of coded language in a supposedly secure private email account raises all sorts
of natural suspicions regarding what might have been under discussion, with the most likely
possibilities being illegal drugs or sex. But most of the references didn't seem to fit the
former category, and in our remarkably libertine era, in which political candidates compete for
the right to be Grand Marshal at an annual Gay Pride Parade, one of the few sexual activities
still discussed only in whispers would seem to be pedophilia, with some of the very strange
remarks possibly hinting at this.
The researchers also soon discovered that his brother Tony Podesta, one of the wealthiest
and most successful lobbyists in DC, had extremely odd taste in art. Major items of his very
extensive personal collection seemed to represent tortured or murdered bodies, and one of his
favorite artists was best known for paintings depicting young children being held captive,
lying dead, or suffering under severe distress. Such peculiar artwork obviously isn't
illegal, but it might naturally arouse some suspicions. And oddly enough, arch-Democrat Podesta
had long been a close personal friend of former Republican Speaker and convicted child-molester
Dennis Hastert, welcoming him back into DC society after his release from prison.
Furthermore, some of the rather suspiciously-worded Podesta emails referred to events
held at a local DC pizza parlor, greatly favored by the Democratic Party elite, whose owner was
the gay former boyfriend of David Brock, a leading Democratic activist. The public Instagram
account of that pizza-entrepreneur apparently contained numerous images of young children,
sometimes tied or bound, with those images frequently labeled by hashtags using the traditional
gay slang for underage sexual targets . Some photos showed the fellow wearing a tee-shirt
bearing the statement "I Love Children" in French, and by a very odd coincidence, his possibly
assumed name was phonetically identical to that very same French phrase, thus proclaiming to
the world that he was "a lover of children." Closely connected Instagram accounts also
included pictures of young children, sometimes shown amid piles of high-value currency, with
queries about how much those particular children might be worth. None of this seemed illegal,
but surely any reasonable person would regard the material as extremely suspicious.
DC is sometimes described as "Powertown," being the seat of the individuals who make
America's laws and govern our society, with local political journalists being closely attuned
to the relative status of such individuals. And oddly enough, GQ Magazine had ranked that
gay pizza parlor owner with a strange focus on young children as being one of the 50 most
powerful people in our national capital, placing him far ahead of many Cabinet members,
Senators, Congressional Chairmen, Supreme Court justices, and top lobbyists. Was his pizza
really that delicious?
These few paragraphs provide merely a sliver of the large quantity of highly-suspicious
material surrounding various powerful figures at the apex of the DC political world. A vast
cloud of billowing smoke is certainly no proof of any fire, but only a fool would completely
ignore it without attempting further investigation.
I usually regard videos as a poor means of imparting serious information, far less effective
and meaningful than the simple printed word. But the overwhelming bulk of the evidence
supporting the Pizzagate Hypothesis consists of visual images and screen shots, and these are
naturally suited to a video presentation.
Some of the best summaries of the Pizzagate case were produced by a young British
YouTuber named Tara McCarthy, whose work was published under the name of "Reality Calls," and
her videos were viewed hundreds of thousands of times. Although her channel was eventually
banned and her videos purged, copies were later reloaded to other accounts, both on YouTube and
BitChute. Some of the evidence she presents seemed rather innocuous or speculative to me and
other elements were probably based upon her unfamiliarity with American society and culture.
But a great deal of extremely suspicious material remains, and I would suggest that people
watch the videos and decide for themselves.
Around the same time that I first became familiar with the details of the Pizzagate
controversy, the topic also started reaching the pages of my morning newspapers, but in an
rather strange manner. Political stories began giving a sentence or two to the "Pizzagate
hoax," describing it as a ridiculous right-wing "conspiracy theory" but excluding all relevant
details. I had an eery feeling that some unseen hand had suddenly flipped a switch causing the
entire mainstream media to begin displaying identical signs declaring "Pizzagate Is False --
Nothing To See There!" in brightly flashing neon. I couldn't recall any previous example of
such a strange media reaction to some obscure Internet controversy.
Articles in the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times also suddenly
appeared denouncing the entirety of the alternative media -- Left, Right, and Libertarian --
as
"fake news" websites promoting Russian propaganda , while urging that their content be
blocked by all patriotic Internet giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Prior to that
moment, I'd never even heard the term "fake news" but suddenly it was ubiquitous across the
media, once again almost as if some unseen hand had suddenly flipped a switch.
I naturally began to wonder whether the timing of these two strange developments was
entirely coincidental. Perhaps Pizzagate was indeed true and struck so deeply at the core of
our hugely corrupted political system that the media efforts to suppress it were approaching
the point of hysteria.
Not long afterward, Tara McCarthy's detailed Pizzagate videos were purged from YouTube. This
was among the very first instances of video content being banned despite fully conforming to
all existing YouTube guidelines, another deeply suspicious development.
I also noticed that mere mention of Pizzagate had become politically lethal. Donald Trump
had selected Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, as his
National Security Advisor, and Flynn's son served as the latter's chief of staff. The younger
Flynn happened to Tweet out a couple of links to Pizzagate stories, pointing out that the
accusations hadn't yet been actually investigated let alone disproven, and very soon afterward,
he was
purged from the Trump transition team, foreshadowing his father's fall a few weeks later.
It seemed astonishing to me that a few simple Tweets about an Internet controversy could have
such huge real-life impact near the top of our government.
The media continued its uniform drumbeat of "Pizzagate Has Been Disproven!" but we were
never told how or by whom, and I was not the only individual to notice the hollowness of such
denunciations. An award-winning investigative journalist named Ben Swann at a CBS station in
Atlanta broadcast a short television segment summarizing the Pizzagate controversy and noting
that contrary to widespread media claims, Pizzagate had neither been investigated nor debunked.
Swann was almost immediately purged by CBS but a copy of his television segment remains
available for viewing on the Internet.
There is an old wartime proverb that enemy flak is always heaviest over the most important
target, and the remarkably ferocious wave of attacks and censorship against anyone broaching
the subject of Pizzagate seems to raise obvious dark suspicions. Indeed, the simultaneous waves
of attacks against all alternative media outlets as "Russian propaganda outlets" laid the basis
for the continuing regime of Social Media censorship that has become a central aspect of
today's world.
Pizzagate may or may not turn out to be true, but the ongoing Internet crackdown has
similarly engulfed topics of a somewhat similar nature but with vastly stronger documentation.
Although I don't use Twitter myself, I encountered the obvious implications of this new
censorship policy following McCain's death last August. The senator had died on a Saturday
afternoon, and readership of Sydney Schanberg's long 2008 expose quickly exploded, with
numerous individuals Tweeting out the story and a large fraction of our incoming traffic
therefore coming from Twitter. This continued until the following morning, at which point the
huge flood of Tweets continued to grow, but all incoming Twitter traffic suddenly and
permanently vanished, presumably because "shadow banning" had rendered those Tweets invisible.
My own article on McCain's very doubtful war record simultaneously suffered the same fate, as
did numerous other articles of a controversial nature that we published later that same
week.
Perhaps that censorship decision was made by some ignorant young intern at Twitter, casually
choosing to ban as "hate speech" or "fake news" a massively-documented 8,400 word expose by one
of America's most distinguished journalists, a Pulitzer-prize winning former top editor at
The New York Times .
Or perhaps certain political-puppeteers who had spent decades controlling that late Arizona
senator sought to ensure that their political puppet-strings remained invisible even after his
death.
"... I guarantee you, they want Epstein gone. There is no doubt about that. I don't know why the Bureau of Prisons put Epstein in a jail cell with a cop that killed four people and buried them in his back yard. ..."
"... Epstein should have been in solitary confinement under watch. So, whoever made that decision, it was a complete error in judgment, if not intentional. That should not have happened in the first place ..."
"... U.S. Attorney (and former Labor Secretary) Alexander Acosta would not have said this if it were not true. It is true. There are intelligence connections. Is this a blackmail operation? We know Epstein has a 'black book.' We know Epstein probably has video of massages by young girls of high profile people, including politicians... ..."
"... There are going to be some big names that are going to be connected to Epstein and his pedophile child trafficking ring. There is no question about it. ..."
Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says there are big stories with
big
implications for America that are unfolding now.
One of the biggest earthquakes that is going off will be the high ranking Deep State elite
surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.
Shipp says,
"Oh my goodness gracious, the Deep State is darn well scared, and some of its political top
participants, I guarantee you, they want Epstein gone. There is no doubt about that. I don't know
why the Bureau of Prisons put Epstein in a jail cell with a cop that killed four people and buried
them in his back yard.
Epstein should have been in solitary confinement under watch. So, whoever made that decision, it
was a complete error in judgment, if not intentional. That should not have happened in the first
place."
Shipp goes on to point out, "
It looks pretty clear to me that the Deep State intelligence
Shadow government was involved,
and it gets worse..."
"
Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Epstein's alleged recruiter for young girls, was the
daughter of Robert Maxwell, (Correction: Shipp said John by mistake) who was a known Mossad Agent.
He bilked pension funds to cover losses in his business... He was
found dead floating
next to his yacht from an alleged heart attack. So, there are some strange connections to the Deep
State.
U.S. Attorney (and former Labor Secretary) Alexander Acosta would not have said
this if it were not true. It is true. There are intelligence connections.
Is this a
blackmail operation? We know Epstein has a 'black book.' We know Epstein probably has video of
massages by young girls of high profile people, including politicians...
. There are going to be some big names that are going to be connected to Epstein and his
pedophile child trafficking ring. There is no question about it."
Another huge story unfolding is the investigation into the "hoax" and "witch hunt" of
Russian collusion
with President Trump that has now been totally disproven. The real story is
how traitors in the U.S. government made up a crimes to frame the President, his campaign and his
Administration.
People high up in the Obama Administration committed massive crimes, only to
fail badly in removing Trump from office
. Kevin Shipp says,
...for President Trump, "This is a fight to the death. . . . Trump has to win. . . .
There is no question about it.
They want Donald Trump gone anyway that they can. We know
the Shadow Government, including the CIA, and I studied this in detail, were responsible for the
assassination of JFK using the Mafia, and that's how far they will go.
You are talking
trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars they could lose if the President isn't in their pocket
.
. . . They want him dead, and he is under serious risk right now. . . . He has got to push this
forward. He has to win for the Constitution and for his family that might be assassinated."
Yet another big risk, says Shipp, is
the global economic system suffering a financial
calamity.
This includes the U.S. Shipp contends,
"
Russia and China are stocking up on gold . . . as they agree to stop using the U.S.
dollar and go to the yuan and ruble, which means they will stop recognizing the U.S. dollar.
The dollar will lose its value because of that. We have a huge debt, and by 2025, our
deficit will be $30 trillion. It is impossible to pay that off. The global deficit is $245
trillion. This thing has got to burst, and it's going to burst...
Donald Trump has come out against the Deep State and Shadow Government in ways I could
only dream of. I am a Trump supporter, but what he has got on his hands is a coming catastrophe.
You cannot stop the collapse caused by the deficit
...
Trump will take some significant action. This is a national security issue, and he can step in
and make some changes.
This is a huge catastrophe, and Americans are not aware of what is
coming . . . and are not ready for a financial calamity.
"
Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Former CIA Officer and whistleblower
Kevin
Shipp.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/KG3nliHdYmg
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At
the very top of the page is a new section called "The Shipp Brief." Shipp gives a new "brief" every
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"... The Epstein conspiracy grows worse. One of the victims filed a federal lawsuit. Once filed, this is public record. The only redactions allowed are social security numbers and the like. ..."
"... When the Miami Herald went to obtain the Motion for Summary Judgment, it was completely redacted. 137 pages of blacked out paragraphs. ..."
"... This type of redaction is unheard, unprecedented- appalling. ..."
"... If the redactions stand, we should riot in the street. We knew justice was bought, but pedophilia usually will stir up some dregs of bureaucratic slugs to action. ..."
"... Once you start researching the Epstein matter - not for the lurid details - but the unprecedented, jaw dropping preferential treatment of an actual human sex trafficker ( not this fake #metoo hysteria) – all hope is lost. ..."
"... Dozens of little girls – all poor and from fatherless backgrounds marred by parental drug abuse, suicides and physical abuse- selected and sexually devastated by Epstein- not a word. ..."
The Epstein conspiracy grows worse.
One of the victims filed a federal lawsuit. Once filed, this is public record. The only
redactions allowed are social security numbers and the like.
When the Miami Herald went to obtain the Motion for Summary Judgment, it was completely
redacted. 137 pages of blacked out paragraphs.
A motion for summary judgment is basically saying there are no material issues in dispute-
nothing to litigate. This document would contain all relevant facts about the case. This type of redaction is unheard, unprecedented- appalling.
The only reason the Herald is in pursuit ( and any other MSM) is because they believed it
would destroy Trump.
It's now on appeal. If the redactions stand, we should riot in the street. We knew justice
was bought, but pedophilia usually will stir up some dregs of bureaucratic slugs to
action.
And with a parallel to McCain, if Clinton slithers out of this- with over 27 flights on
the Lolita Express- he is officially the most untouchable man in history.
Once you start researching the Epstein matter - not for the lurid details - but the
unprecedented, jaw dropping preferential treatment of an actual human sex trafficker ( not
this fake #metoo hysteria) – all hope is lost.
Note the strange silence from Hollywood and the elites regarding Epstein's victims, when
they were wearing hair shirts over Christine Fords 30 year old accusation.
A wealthy smug scold, who looks like an exploded can of rotten biscuit dough had them
weeping on camera.
Dozens of little girls – all poor and from fatherless backgrounds marred by parental
drug abuse, suicides and physical abuse- selected and sexually devastated by Epstein- not a
word.
"... top national figures merely being attractive front-men selected for their popular appeal and their political malleability, a development that may eventually have dire consequences for the nations they lead. As an extreme example, a drunken Boris Yeltsin freely allowed the looting of Russia's entire national wealth by the handful of oligarchs who pulled his strings, and the result was the total impoverishment of the Russian people and a demographic collapse almost unprecedented in modern peacetime history. ..."
"... An obvious problem with installing puppet rulers is the risk that they will attempt to cut their strings, much like Putin soon outmaneuvered and exiled his oligarch patron Boris Berezovsky. One means of minimizing such risk is to select puppets who are so deeply compromised that they can never break free, knowing that the political self-destruct charges buried deep within their pasts could easily be triggered if they sought independence. ..."
"... I have sometimes joked with my friends that perhaps the best career move for an ambitious young politician would be to secretly commit some monstrous crime and then make sure that the hard evidence of his guilt ended up in the hands of certain powerful people, thereby assuring his rapid political rise. ..."
"... In The Dark Side of Camelot , famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh claimed that secret blackmail evidence of JFK's extra-marital affairs probably played a crucial role in having his administration overrule the unanimous verdict of all top Pentagon advisors and award the largest military procurement contract in U.S. history to General Dynamics instead of Boeing, thereby saving the former company from likely bankruptcy and its major organized-crime shareholders from devastating financial losses. Hersh also suggests that a similar factor likely explains JFK's last-minute reversal in the choice of his Vice President, a decision that landed Lyndon Johnson on the 1960 ticket and placed him in the White House after Kennedy's 1963 assassination. ..."
"... Similar rumors swirl around events much farther back in history as well, sometimes with enormous consequences. Well-placed contemporary sources have claimed that Samuel Untermyer, a wealthy Jewish lawyer, purchased the secret correspondence between Woodrow Wilson and his longtime mistress, and that the existence of that powerful leverage may have been an important factor behind Wilson's astonishingly rapid rise from president of Princeton in 1910 to governor of New Jersey in 1911 to president of the United States in 1912. ..."
"... Without naming any names, since 2001 it has been difficult to avoid noticing that one of the most zealous and committed supporters of the Neocon party-line on all Middle Eastern foreign policy matters has been a leading Republican senator from one of the most socially-conservative Southern states, a man whose rumored personal inclinations have long circulated on the Internet. The strikingly-sudden reversal of this individual on a major policy question certainly supports these suspicions. There have also been several other such examples involving prominent Republicans. ..."
"... There are lurid rumors that the Syndicate possessed secret photos of Hoover wearing a dress and high-heels, but just a few years ago Rep. Mike Honda of San Jose desperately placed his eight-year-old transgendered grand-daughter front-and-center in his unsuccessful attempt to win reelection. ..."
"... There seems to be a great deal of evidence that powerful organizations and individuals have successfully managed to suppress credible accusations of that practice for very long periods of time if no group with substantial media influence chose to target the offenders for unmasking. ..."
"... There is also the intriguing example of Dennis Hastert. As the longest serving Republican Speaker of the House in U.S. history, holding office during 1999-2007, Hastert was third in line to the Presidency and even ranked as our nation's top Republican elected official during some of that period. Based upon my newspaper readings, he had always struck me as a rather bland and ordinary individual, with journalists sometimes even strongly hinting at his mediocrity, so that I occasionally wondered just how someone so unimpressive could have risen to such extremely high national office. ..."
"... During the summer of 2007, the Internet was ablaze with claims that Sen. John Edwards, a runner-up in the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, had just fathered a child with his mistress, and those reports were backed by seemingly-credible visual evidence, including photos showing the married senator holding his new-born baby. Yet as the days and even the weeks went by, not a whiff of this salacious scandal ever reached the pages of any of my morning newspapers or the rest of the mainstream media although it was a top conversation topic everywhere else. ..."
"... Probably one reason I paid so little attention to the topic was the exceptionally lurid nature of the claims being made. Epstein was supposedly an enormously wealthy Wall Street financier of rather mysterious personal background and source of funds, who owned a private island and an immense New York City mansion, both regularly stocked with harems of underage girls provided for sexual purposes. He allegedly hobnobbed on a regular basis with Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, and numerous other figures in the international elite, as well as a gaggle of ordinary billionaires, frequently transporting those individuals on his personal jet known as "the Lolita Express" for the role it played in facilitating illegal secret orgies with young girls. When right-wing bloggers on obscure websites claimed that former President Clinton and the British Royals were being sexually serviced by the underage girls of a James Bond super-villain brought to life, I just assumed those accusations were the wildest sort of Internet exaggeration. ..."
"... The author of a long 2003 Epstein profile that had appeared in Vanity Fair explained that she had personally spoken to some of his victims and included their highly-credible accounts in her article, but that those portions had been stricken and removed by her timorous editors. ..."
"... As presented by these media outlets, Epstein's personal rise also seemed rather inexplicable unless he had benefited from some powerful network or similar organization. Lacking any college degree or credentials, he had somehow gotten a job teaching at one of New York City's most elite prep schools, then quickly jumped to working at a top investment bank, rising to partner with astonishing speed until he was fired a few years later for illegal activity. Despite such a scanty and doubtful record, he was soon managing money for some of America's wealthiest individuals, and keeping so much of it for himself that he was regularly described as a billionaire. According to newspaper accounts, his great specialty was "making connections for people." ..."
"... Obviously, Epstein was a ruthlessly opportunistic financial hustler. But extremely wealthy individuals must surely be surrounded by great swarms of ruthlessly opportunistic financial hustlers, and why would he have been so much more successful than all those others? Perhaps a clue comes from the offhand remark of Epstein's now-disgraced prosecutor, saying that he had been told to go very easy on the sex-trafficker because he "belonged to intelligence." The vague phrasing of that statement raises questions about whether the intelligence service may not have been one controlled by the U.S. government. ..."
"... Philip Giraldi, a highly-regarded former CIA officer, put things very plainly when he suggested that Epstein had probably been working for the Israeli Mossad, operating "honey traps" to obtain blackmail information on all the wealthy and powerful individuals whom he regularly plied with underage girls. Indeed, longtime Canadian journalist Eric Margolis recounted his early 1990s visit to Epstein's enormous NYC mansion, in which he had barely crossed the threshold before he was offered an "intimate massage" by one of the many young girls there, presumably in a bedroom well-stocked with hidden cameras. ..."
"... Given my personal lack of interest in the Epstein case, then or now, perhaps a few of these details may be garbled, but it seems undeniable that he was exactly the sort of remarkable renegade often faced by Agent 007 in the movies, and the true facts will presumably come out at his trial. ..."
"... John Podesta had been a longtime fixture in DC political circles, becoming chief of staff to President Bill Clinton in 1998, and afterward remaining one of the most powerful figures in the Democratic Party establishment. While serving as as chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, his apparent carelessness with the password security of his Gmail account allowed it to easily be hacked, and tens of thousands of his personal emails were soon published on WikiLeaks. A swarm of young anti-Clinton activists began scouring this treasure-trove of semi-confidential information, seeking evidence of mundane bribery and corruption, but instead they came across some quite odd exchanges, seemingly written in coded language. ..."
"... Now use of coded language in a supposedly secure private email account raises all sorts of natural suspicions regarding what might have been under discussion, with the most likely possibilities being illegal drugs or sex. But most of the references didn't seem to fit the former category, and in our remarkably libertine era, in which political candidates compete for the right to be Grand Marshal at an annual Gay Pride Parade, one of the few sexual activities still discussed only in whispers would seem to be pedophilia, with some of the very strange remarks possibly hinting at this. ..."
"... The researchers also soon discovered that his brother Tony Podesta, one of the wealthiest and most successful lobbyists in DC, had extremely odd taste in art. Major items of his very extensive personal collection seemed to represent tortured or murdered bodies, and one of his favorite artists was best known for paintings depicting young children being held captive, lying dead, or suffering under severe distress. ..."
"... Furthermore, some of the rather suspiciously-worded Podesta emails referred to events held at a local DC pizza parlor, greatly favored by the Democratic Party elite, whose owner was the gay former boyfriend of David Brock, a leading Democratic activist. The public Instagram account of that pizza-entrepreneur apparently contained numerous images of young children, sometimes tied or bound, with those images frequently labeled by hashtags using the traditional gay slang for underage sexual targets ..."
"... Closely connected Instagram accounts also included pictures of young children, sometimes shown amid piles of high-value currency, with queries about how much those particular children might be worth. None of this seemed illegal, but surely any reasonable person would regard the material as extremely suspicious. ..."
"... oddly enough, GQ Magazine had ranked that gay pizza parlor owner with a strange focus on young children as being one of the 50 most powerful people in our national capital, placing him far ahead of many Cabinet members, Senators, Congressional Chairmen, Supreme Court justices, and top lobbyists. Was his pizza really that delicious? ..."
"... Some of the best summaries of the Pizzagate case were produced by a young British YouTuber named Tara McCarthy, whose work was published under the name of "Reality Calls," and her videos were viewed hundreds of thousands of times. Although her channel was eventually banned and her videos purged, copies were later reloaded to other accounts, both on YouTube and BitChute. Some of the evidence she presents seemed rather innocuous or speculative to me and other elements were probably based upon her unfamiliarity with American society and culture. But a great deal of extremely suspicious material remains, and I would suggest that people watch the videos and decide for themselves. ..."
...The Arizona senator had traded on his national reputation as our best-known former POW to
bury the story of those abandoned prisoners, permitting America's political establishment to
escape serious embarrassment. As a result, Sen. McCain earned the lush rewards of our generous
ruling elites, much like his own father Admiral John S. McCain, Sr., who had led the cover-up
of the deliberate
1967 Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty , which killed or wounded over 200 American
servicemen.
As publisher of The American Conservative , I ran Schanberg's remarkable piece as a cover
story, and across several websites over the years it has surely been read many hundreds of
thousands of times, including a huge spike around the time of McCain's death. I therefore find
it rather difficult to believe that the many journalists investigating McCain's background
might have remained unaware of this material. Yet no hints of these facts were provided in any
of the articles appearing in any remotely prominent media outlets as can be seen by searching
for web pages containing "McCain and Schanberg" dated around the time of the Senator's
passing.
Schanberg's journalistic stature had hardly been forgotten by his former colleagues. Upon
his death a couple of years ago, the Times ran a very long and
glowing obituary , and a few months later I attended the memorial tribute to his life and
career held at the New York Times headquarters building, which more than two hundred
prominent journalists mostly from his own generation, including those of the highest rank.
Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. gave a speech describing how as a young man he
had always so greatly admired Schanberg and had been mortified by the unfortunate circumstances
of his departure from the family's newspaper. Former Executive Editor Joseph Lelyveld recounted
the many years he had worked closely with the man he had long considered his closest friend and
colleague, someone whom he almost seemed to regard as his older brother. But during the two
hours of praise and remembrance scarcely a single word was uttered in public about the gigantic
story that had occupied the last two decades of Schanberg's celebrated career.
This same blanket of media silence also enveloped the very serious accusations regarding
McCain's own Vietnam War record. A few years ago, I drew upon the Times and other fully
mainstream sources to strongly
suggest that McCain's stories of his torture as a POW were probably fictional, invented to
serve as a cover and an excuse for the very real record of his wartime collaboration with his
Communist captors. Indeed, at the time our American media reported his activities as one of the
leading propagandists of our North Vietnamese foes, but these facts were later flushed down the
memory-hole. McCain's father then ranked as one of America's top military officers, and it
seems likely that his personal political intervention ensured that the official narrative of
his son's wartime record was transmuted from traitor to war-hero, thereby allowing the younger
McCain to later embark upon his celebrated political career.
The story of the abandoned Vietnam POWs and McCain's own Communist propaganda broadcasts
hardly exhaust the catalog of the major skeletons in the late Senator's closet. McCain was
regularly described by reporters as being remarkably hot-headed and having a violent temper,
but the national press left it to the alternative media to investigate the real-life
implications of those rather suggestive phrases.
In a September 1, 2008 Counterpunch expose later published online ,
Alexander Cockburn reported that interviews with two emergency room physicians in Phoenix
revealed that around the time that McCain was sucked into the political maelstrom of the
Keating Five Scandal, his wife Cindy was admitted to her local hospital suffering from a black
eye, facial bruises, and scratches consistent with physical violence, and this same situation
occurred two additional times over the next few years. Cockburn also noted several other highly
suspicious marital incidents during the years that followed, including the Senator's wife
appearing with a bandaged wrist and her arm in a sling not long after she joined her husband on
the 2008 campaign trail, an injury reported by our strangely incurious political journalists as
being due to "excessive hand-shaking." It's an odd situation when a tiny leftist newsletter can
easily uncover facts that so totally eluded the vast resources of our entire national press
corps. If there were credible reports that Melania Trump had been repeatedly admitted to local
emergency rooms suffering from black eyes and facial bruises, would our corporate media have
remained so uninterested in any further investigation?
McCain had first won his Arizona Congressional seat in 1982, not long after he moved into
the state, with his campaign bankrolled by his father-in-law's beer-distributorship fortune,
and that inheritance eventually elevated the McCain household into one of the wealthiest in the
Senate. But although the Senator spent the next quarter-century in public life, even nearly
upsetting George W. Bush for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, only in late 2008 did
I
learn from the Times that the Phoenix beer-monopoly in question, then valued at
around $200 million, had accrued to a man whose lifelong business partner Kemper Marley had
long been deeply linked to organized crime . Indeed, close associates of that latter
individual had been
convicted by a jury of the car-bomb assassination of a Phoenix investigative crime reporter
just a few years before McCain's sudden triumphal entrance into Arizona politics. Perhaps such
guilt-by-association is improper, but would our national press-corps have remained silent if
the personal fortune of our current president were only a step or two removed from the car-bomb
assassins of a nosy journalist who died while investigating mobsters?
As I gradually became aware of these enormities casually hidden in McCain's background, my
initial reaction was disbelief that someone whose record was so deeply tarnished in so many
different ways could ever have reached such a pinnacle of American political power. But as the
media continued to avert its eyes from these newly revealed facts, even those disclosed in the
pages of the Times itself, I gradually began to consider matters in a different light.
Perhaps McCain's elevation to great American political power was not in spite of the
devastating facts littering his personal past, but because of them. As I
wrote a few years ago:
Today when we consider the major countries of the world we see that in many cases the
official leaders are also the leaders in actuality: Vladimir Putin calls the shots in Russia,
Xi Jinping and his top Politburo colleagues do the same in China, and so forth. However, in
America and in some other Western countries, this seems to be less and less the case, with
top national figures merely being attractive front-men selected for their popular appeal and
their political malleability, a development that may eventually have dire consequences for
the nations they lead. As an extreme example, a drunken Boris Yeltsin freely allowed the
looting of Russia's entire national wealth by the handful of oligarchs who pulled his
strings, and the result was the total impoverishment of the Russian people and a demographic
collapse almost unprecedented in modern peacetime history.
An obvious problem with installing puppet rulers is the risk that they will attempt to cut
their strings, much like Putin soon outmaneuvered and exiled his oligarch patron Boris
Berezovsky. One means of minimizing such risk is to select puppets who are so deeply
compromised that they can never break free, knowing that the political self-destruct charges
buried deep within their pasts could easily be triggered if they sought independence.
I have
sometimes joked with my friends that perhaps the best career move for an ambitious young
politician would be to secretly commit some monstrous crime and then make sure that the hard
evidence of his guilt ended up in the hands of certain powerful people, thereby assuring his
rapid political rise.
In physics, when an object deviates from its expected trajectory for inexplicable reasons,
we assume that some unknown force has been at work, and tracing the record of such deviations
may help to determine the characteristic properties of the latter. Over the years, I've
increasingly become aware of such strange ideological deviations in public policy, and although
some are readily explained, others suggest the existence of hidden forces far beneath the
surface of our regular political world. This same situation may have occurred throughout our
history, and sometimes the political decisions that so baffled contemporaries eventually came
to light decades later.
In The Dark Side of Camelot , famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh claimed that
secret blackmail evidence of JFK's extra-marital affairs probably played a crucial role in
having his administration overrule the unanimous verdict of all top Pentagon advisors and award
the largest military procurement contract in U.S. history to General Dynamics instead of
Boeing, thereby saving the former company from likely bankruptcy and its major organized-crime
shareholders from devastating financial losses. Hersh also suggests that a similar factor
likely explains JFK's last-minute reversal in the choice of his Vice President, a decision that
landed Lyndon Johnson on the 1960 ticket and placed him in the White House after Kennedy's 1963
assassination.
As I recently
mentioned , in the 1950s Sen. Estes Kefauver shifted the focus of his Organized Crime
Hearings after the Chicago Syndicate confronted him with the photographs of his sexual
encounter with two mob-supplied women. A decade later, California Attorney-General Stanley Mosk
suffered much the same fate, with the facts remaining hidden for over twenty years.
Similar rumors swirl around events much farther back in history as well, sometimes with
enormous consequences. Well-placed contemporary
sources have claimed that Samuel Untermyer, a wealthy Jewish lawyer, purchased the secret
correspondence between Woodrow Wilson and his longtime mistress, and that the existence of that
powerful leverage may have been an important factor behind Wilson's astonishingly rapid rise
from president of Princeton in 1910 to governor of New Jersey in 1911 to president of the
United States in 1912. Once in office, Wilson signed the controversial legislation establishing
the Federal Reserve system in 1913 and also named Louis Brandeis as the first Jewish member of
the U.S. Supreme Court despite the public opposition of nearly our entire legal establishment.
Wilson's swiftly changing views on American involvement in the First World War may also have
influenced by such personal pressures rather than solely determined by his perceptions of the
national interest.
Without naming any names, since 2001 it has been difficult to avoid noticing that one of the
most zealous and committed supporters of the Neocon party-line on all Middle Eastern foreign
policy matters has been a leading Republican senator from one of the most socially-conservative
Southern states, a man whose rumored personal inclinations have long circulated on the
Internet. The strikingly-sudden reversal of this individual on a major policy question
certainly supports these suspicions. There have also been several other such examples involving
prominent Republicans.
But consider the far different situation of Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who in 1987
became the first member of the Congress to voluntarily admit that he was gay. Not long
afterward, a notorious scandal erupted when it was
revealed that his own DC townhouse had been used by a former boyfriend as headquarters for
a male-prostitution ring. Frank claimed to have had no knowledge of that sordid situation, and
his liberal Massachusetts constituents apparently accepted that, since he was resoundingly
reelected and went on to serve another 24 years in Congress. But surely if Frank had been a
Republican from a socially-conservative district, anyone possessing such evidence would have
totally controlled his political survival, and with Frank spending several years as Chairman of
the very powerful House Financial Services Committee, the value of such a hold would have been
enormous.
This demonstrates the undeniable reality that what constitutes effective blackmail material
may vary tremendously across different eras and regions. Today, it is widely accepted that
longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover lived his life as a deeply-closeted homosexual and there
seem to be serious claims that he also had some black ancestry, with the secret evidence of
these facts probably helping to explain why for decades he stubbornly refused to admit the
existence of American organized crime or focus his G-men on efforts to uproot it. But in
today's America, he surely would have proudly proclaimed his sexuality and racial ancestry in
an New York Times Magazine cover-story, rightly believing that they enhanced his
political invulnerability on the national stage. There are lurid rumors that the Syndicate
possessed secret photos of Hoover wearing a dress and high-heels, but just a few years ago Rep.
Mike Honda of San Jose
desperately placed his eight-year-old transgendered grand-daughter front-and-center in his
unsuccessful attempt to win reelection.
The decades have certainly softened the effectiveness of many forms of blackmail, but
pedophilia still ranks as an extremely powerful taboo. There seems to be a great deal of
evidence that powerful organizations and individuals have successfully managed to suppress
credible accusations of that practice for very long periods of time if no group with
substantial media influence chose to target the offenders for unmasking.
The most obvious example is the Catholic Church, and the failings of its American and
international hierarchy in that regard have regularly made the front pages of our leading
newspapers. But until the early 2000s and the breakthrough reporting of the Boston Globe
as recounted in the Oscar-winning film Spotlight , the Church had routinely fended off
such scandals.
Consider also the remarkable case of British television personality Sir Jimmy Savile , one of his country's most
admired celebrities, eventually knighted for his public service. Only shortly after his death
at age 84 did the press begin revealing that he had probably molested many hundreds of children
during his long career. Accusations by his young victims had stretched back across forty years,
but his criminal activities had seemingly been protected by his wealth and celebrity, along
with his numerous supporters in the media.
There is also the intriguing example of Dennis Hastert. As the longest serving Republican
Speaker of the House in U.S. history, holding office during 1999-2007, Hastert was third in
line to the Presidency and even ranked as our nation's top Republican elected official during
some of that period. Based upon my newspaper readings, he had always struck me as a rather
bland and ordinary individual, with journalists sometimes even strongly hinting at his
mediocrity, so that I occasionally wondered just how someone so unimpressive could have risen
to such extremely high national office.
Then a few years ago, he was suddenly thrust back into the headlines, arrested by the FBI
and charged with financial crimes relating to what apparently had been his past history of
abusing young boys, at least one of whom had committed suicide, with the federal judge who sent
him to prison denouncing him as "a serial
child molester" at sentencing . Perhaps I've led an overly sheltered life, but my
impression is that only a tiny sliver of Americans have had a long record of child molestation,
and all things being equal, it seems rather unlikely that someone of such a background but who
possesses no other great talents or skills would rise to near the absolute top of our political
heap. So perhaps not all things were otherwise equal. If some powerful elements held the hard
evidence that placed a particular elected official under their total control, making great
efforts to elevate him to Speaker of the House would be a very shrewd investment.
At times the unwillingness of our national media to see major stories in front of their very
noses reaches ridiculous extremes. During the summer of 2007, the Internet was ablaze with
claims that Sen. John Edwards, a runner-up in the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, had
just fathered a child with his mistress, and those reports were backed by seemingly-credible
visual evidence, including photos showing the married senator holding his new-born baby. Yet as
the days and even the weeks went by, not a whiff of this salacious scandal ever reached the
pages of any of my morning newspapers or the rest of the mainstream media although it was a top
conversation topic everywhere else. Eventually, the National Enquirer , a notorious
gossip tabloid, scored a journalistic first ,
by receiving a Pulitzer Prize nomination for breaking the story that no other outlet seemed
willing to cover. Would our media have similarly averted its eyes from a newborn baby Trump
coming from the wrong side of the bed?
Over the years, it became increasingly obvious to me that nearly all elements of our
national media were often quite willing to enlist in a "conspiracy of silence" to minimize or
entirely ignore stories of tremendous potential interest to their readership and major public
importance. I could easily have doubled or tripled the number of such notable examples I
provided above without much effort. Moreover, it is quite intriguing that so many of these
cases involve the sort of criminal or sexual misbehavior that would be ideally suited for
blackmailing powerful individuals who are less likely to be vulnerable to other influences. So
perhaps many of the elected officials situated at the top of our democratic system merely reign
as political puppets, dancing to invisible strings.
Given my awareness of this remarkable track-record of major media cover-ups, I'm ashamed to
admit that I had paid almost no attention to the Jeffrey Epstein case until it exploded across
our national headlines earlier this month, suddenly becoming one of the biggest news stories in
our country.
For many years, reports about Epstein and his illegal sex-ring had regularly circulated on
the fringes of the Internet, with agitated commenters citing the case as proof of the dark and
malevolent forces that secretly controlled our corrupted political system. But I almost
entirely ignored these discussions, and I'm not sure that I ever once clicked on a single
link.
Probably one reason I paid so little attention to the topic was the exceptionally lurid
nature of the claims being made. Epstein was supposedly an enormously wealthy Wall Street
financier of rather mysterious personal background and source of funds, who owned a private
island and an immense New York City mansion, both regularly stocked with harems of underage
girls provided for sexual purposes. He allegedly hobnobbed on a regular basis with Bill
Clinton, Prince Andrew, Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, and numerous other figures in the
international elite, as well as a gaggle of ordinary billionaires, frequently transporting
those individuals on his personal jet known as "the Lolita Express" for the role it played in
facilitating illegal secret orgies with young girls. When right-wing bloggers on obscure
websites claimed that former President Clinton and the British Royals were being sexually
serviced by the underage girls of a James Bond super-villain brought to life, I just assumed
those accusations were the wildest sort of Internet exaggeration.
Moreover, these angry writers did occasionally let slip that the fiendish target of their
wrath had already been charged in a Florida courtroom, eventually pleading guilty to a single
sexual offense and receiving a thirteen month jail sentence, mitigated by very generous
work-release provisions. This hardly seemed like the sort of judicial punishment that would
lend credence to the fantastical accusations against him. If Epstein had already been
investigated by law enforcement authorities and given the sentence one might expect for writing
a bad check, I found it quite unlikely that he was actually the Goldfinger or Dr. No that
deluded Internet activists made him out to be.
Then these same wild, implausible claims previously found only on anonymous comment-threads
were suddenly repeated as solid fact on the front pages of the Times and all my other
morning newspapers, and the former federal prosecutor who had signed off on Epstein's legal
slap-on-the-wrist was forced to resign from the Trump Cabinet. Epstein's safe had been found to
contain a huge cache of child-pornography and other highly suspicious material, and he was
quickly rearrested on charges that could send him to federal prison for decades. Prestigious
media outlets described Epstein as the mastermind of a huge sex-trafficking ring, and numerous
underage victims began coming forward, telling their stories of how he had molested, raped, and
pimped them. The author of a long 2003 Epstein profile that had appeared in Vanity Fair
explained that she had personally spoken to some of his victims and included their
highly-credible accounts in her article, but that those portions had been stricken and removed
by her timorous editors.
As presented by these media outlets, Epstein's personal rise also seemed rather inexplicable
unless he had benefited from some powerful network or similar organization. Lacking any college
degree or credentials, he had somehow gotten a job teaching at one of New York City's most
elite prep schools, then quickly jumped to working at a top investment bank, rising to partner
with astonishing speed until he was fired a few years later for illegal activity. Despite such
a scanty and doubtful record, he was soon managing money for some of America's wealthiest
individuals, and keeping so much of it for himself that he was regularly described as a
billionaire. According to newspaper accounts, his great specialty was "making connections for
people."
Obviously, Epstein was a ruthlessly opportunistic financial hustler. But extremely wealthy
individuals must surely be surrounded by great swarms of ruthlessly opportunistic financial
hustlers, and why would he have been so much more successful than all those others? Perhaps a
clue comes from the offhand remark of Epstein's now-disgraced prosecutor, saying that he had
been told to go very easy on the sex-trafficker because he "belonged to intelligence." The
vague phrasing of that statement raises questions about whether the intelligence service may
not have been one controlled by the U.S. government.
Philip Giraldi, a highly-regarded former CIA officer, put things very plainly when
he suggested
that Epstein had probably been working for the Israeli Mossad, operating "honey traps" to
obtain blackmail information on all the wealthy and powerful individuals whom he regularly
plied with underage girls. Indeed, longtime Canadian journalist Eric Margolis recounted his early
1990s visit to Epstein's enormous NYC mansion, in which he had barely crossed the threshold
before he was offered an "intimate massage" by one of the many young girls there, presumably in
a bedroom well-stocked with hidden cameras.
Given my personal lack of interest in the Epstein case, then or now, perhaps a few of these
details may be garbled, but it seems undeniable that he was exactly the sort of remarkable
renegade often faced by Agent 007 in the movies, and the true facts will presumably come out at
his trial. Or perhaps not. Whether he lives to see trial is not entirely clear given the
considerable number of powerful individuals who might prefer that hidden facts remain hidden,
and the Friday newspapers
reported that Epstein had been found injured and unconscious in his prison cell.
When one seemingly implausible pedophilia scandal has suddenly jumped from obscure corners
of the Internet to the front pages of our leading newspapers, we must naturally begin to wonder
whether others might not eventually do the same. And a very likely candidate comes to mind, one
that seemed to me far better documented than the vague accusations being thrown about over the
last few years against a wealthy financier once given a thirteen-month jail sentence in Florida
a decade earlier.
I don't use Social Media myself, but near the end of the 2016 presidential campaign, I
gradually began seeing more and more Trump supporters referring to something called
"Pizzagate," a burgeoning sexual scandal that they claimed would bring down Hillary Clinton and
many of the top leaders of her party, with the chatter actually increasing after Trump was
elected. As near as I could tell, the whole bizarre theory had grown up on the far-right fringe
of the Internet, with the utterly fantastical plot having something to do with stolen secret
emails, DC pizza parlors, and a ring of pedophiles situated near the top of the Democratic
Party. But given all the other strange and unlikely things I'd gradually discovered about our
history, it didn't seem like something I could necessarily dismiss out of hand.
At the beginning of December, a right-wing blogger produced a lengthy exposition of the
Pizzagate charges, which finally gave me some understanding of what was actually under
discussion, and I soon made arrangements to republish his article. It quickly attracted a great
deal of interest, and some websites pointed to it as the best single introduction to the
scandal for a general audience.
Pizzagate Aedon Cassiel • December 2, 2016
• 3,100 Words
A couple of weeks later, I republished an additional article by the same writer, describing
a long list of previous pedophilia scandals that had occurred in elite American and European
political circles. Although many of these seemed to be solidly documented, nearly all of them
had received minimal coverage by our mainstream media outlets. And if such political pedophile
rings had existed in the relatively recent past, was it so totally implausible that there might
be another one simmering beneath the surface of today's Washington DC?
Those interested in the details of the Pizzagate Hypothesis are advised to read these
articles, especially the first one, but I might as well provide a brief summary.
John Podesta had been a longtime fixture in DC political circles, becoming chief of staff to
President Bill Clinton in 1998, and afterward remaining one of the most powerful figures in the
Democratic Party establishment. While serving as as chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016
presidential campaign, his apparent carelessness with the password security of his Gmail
account allowed it to easily be hacked, and tens of thousands of his personal emails were soon
published on WikiLeaks. A swarm of young anti-Clinton activists began scouring this
treasure-trove of semi-confidential information, seeking evidence of mundane bribery and
corruption, but instead they came across some quite odd exchanges, seemingly written in coded
language.
Now use of coded language in a supposedly secure private email account raises all sorts of
natural suspicions regarding what might have been under discussion, with the most likely
possibilities being illegal drugs or sex. But most of the references didn't seem to fit the
former category, and in our remarkably libertine era, in which political candidates compete for
the right to be Grand Marshal at an annual Gay Pride Parade, one of the few sexual activities
still discussed only in whispers would seem to be pedophilia, with some of the very strange
remarks possibly hinting at this.
The researchers also soon discovered that his brother Tony Podesta, one of the wealthiest
and most successful lobbyists in DC, had extremely odd taste in art. Major items of his very
extensive personal collection seemed to represent tortured or murdered bodies, and one of his
favorite artists was best known for paintings depicting young children being held captive,
lying dead, or suffering under severe distress. Such peculiar artwork obviously isn't illegal,
but it might naturally arouse some suspicions. And oddly enough, arch-Democrat Podesta had long
been a close personal friend of former Republican Speaker and convicted child-molester Dennis
Hastert, welcoming him back into DC society after his release from prison.
Furthermore, some of the rather suspiciously-worded Podesta emails referred to events held
at a local DC pizza parlor, greatly favored by the Democratic Party elite, whose owner was the
gay former boyfriend of David Brock, a leading Democratic activist. The public Instagram
account of that pizza-entrepreneur apparently contained numerous images of young children,
sometimes tied or bound, with those images frequently labeled by hashtags using the traditional
gay slang for underage sexual targets. Some photos showed the fellow wearing a tee-shirt
bearing the statement "I Love Children" in French, and by a very odd coincidence, his possibly
assumed name was phonetically identical to that very same French phrase, thus proclaiming to
the world that he was "a lover of children." Closely connected Instagram accounts also included
pictures of young children, sometimes shown amid piles of high-value currency, with queries
about how much those particular children might be worth. None of this seemed illegal, but
surely any reasonable person would regard the material as extremely suspicious.
DC is sometimes described as "Powertown," being the seat of the individuals who make
America's laws and govern our society, with local political journalists being closely attuned
to the relative status of such individuals. And oddly enough, GQ Magazine had ranked
that gay pizza parlor owner with a strange focus on young children as being one of the 50 most
powerful people in our national capital, placing him far ahead of many Cabinet members,
Senators, Congressional Chairmen, Supreme Court justices, and top lobbyists. Was his pizza
really that delicious?
These few paragraphs provide merely a sliver of the large quantity of highly-suspicious
material surrounding various powerful figures at the apex of the DC political world. A vast
cloud of billowing smoke is certainly no proof of any fire, but only a fool would completely
ignore it without attempting further investigation.
I usually regard videos as a poor means of imparting serious information, far less effective
and meaningful than the simple printed word. But the overwhelming bulk of the evidence
supporting the Pizzagate Hypothesis consists of visual images and screen shots, and these are
naturally suited to a video presentation.
Some of the best summaries of the Pizzagate case were produced by a young British YouTuber
named Tara McCarthy, whose work was published under the name of "Reality Calls," and her videos
were viewed hundreds of thousands of times. Although her channel was eventually banned and her
videos purged, copies were later reloaded to other accounts, both on YouTube and BitChute. Some
of the evidence she presents seemed rather innocuous or speculative to me and other elements
were probably based upon her unfamiliarity with American society and culture. But a great deal
of extremely suspicious material remains, and I would suggest that people watch the videos and
decide for themselves.
Around the same time that I first became familiar with the details of the Pizzagate
controversy, the topic also started reaching the pages of my morning newspapers, but in an
rather strange manner. Political stories began giving a sentence or two to the "Pizzagate
hoax," describing it as a ridiculous right-wing "conspiracy theory" but excluding all relevant
details. I had an eery feeling that some unseen hand had suddenly flipped a switch causing the
entire mainstream media to begin displaying identical signs declaring "Pizzagate Is False --
Nothing To See There!" in brightly flashing neon. I couldn't recall any previous example of
such a strange media reaction to some obscure Internet controversy.
Articles in the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times also suddenly
appeared denouncing the entirety of the alternative media -- Left, Right, and Libertarian --
as
"fake news" websites promoting Russian propaganda , while urging that their content be
blocked by all patriotic Internet giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Prior to that
moment, I'd never even heard the term "fake news" but suddenly it was ubiquitous across the
media, once again almost as if some unseen hand had suddenly flipped a switch.
I naturally began to wonder whether the timing of these two strange developments was
entirely coincidental. Perhaps Pizzagate was indeed true and struck so deeply at the core of
our hugely corrupted political system that the media efforts to suppress it were approaching
the point of hysteria.
Not long afterward, Tara McCarthy's detailed Pizzagate videos were purged from YouTube. This
was among the very first instances of video content being banned despite fully conforming to
all existing YouTube guidelines, another deeply suspicious development.
I also noticed that mere mention of Pizzagate had become politically lethal. Donald Trump
had selected Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, as his
National Security Advisor, and Flynn's son served as the latter's chief of staff. The younger
Flynn happened to Tweet out a couple of links to Pizzagate stories, pointing out that the
accusations hadn't yet been actually investigated let alone disproven, and very soon afterward,
he was
purged from the Trump transition team, foreshadowing his father's fall a few weeks later.
It seemed astonishing to me that a few simple Tweets about an Internet controversy could have
such huge real-life impact near the top of our government.
The media continued its uniform drumbeat of "Pizzagate Has Been Disproven!" but we were
never told how or by whom, and I was not the only individual to notice the hollowness of such
denunciations. An award-winning investigative journalist named Ben Swann at a CBS station in
Atlanta broadcast a short television segment summarizing the Pizzagate controversy and noting
that contrary to widespread media claims, Pizzagate had neither been investigated nor debunked.
Swann was almost immediately purged by CBS but a copy of his television segment remains
available for viewing on the Internet.
There is an old wartime proverb that enemy flak is always heaviest over the most important
target, and the remarkably ferocious wave of attacks and censorship against anyone broaching
the subject of Pizzagate seems to raise obvious dark suspicions. Indeed, the simultaneous waves
of attacks against all alternative media outlets as "Russian propaganda outlets" laid the basis
for the continuing regime of Social Media censorship that has become a central aspect of
today's world.
Pizzagate may or may not turn out to be true, but the ongoing Internet crackdown has
similarly engulfed topics of a somewhat similar nature but with vastly stronger documentation.
Although I don't use Twitter myself, I encountered the obvious implications of this new
censorship policy following McCain's death last August. The senator had died on a Saturday
afternoon, and readership of Sydney Schanberg's long 2008 expose quickly exploded, with
numerous individuals Tweeting out the story and a large fraction of our incoming traffic
therefore coming from Twitter. This continued until the following morning, at which point the
huge flood of Tweets continued to grow, but all incoming Twitter traffic suddenly and
permanently vanished, presumably because "shadow banning" had rendered those Tweets invisible.
My own article on McCain's very doubtful war record simultaneously suffered the same fate, as
did numerous other articles of a controversial nature that we published later that same
week.
Perhaps that censorship decision was made by some ignorant young intern at Twitter, casually
choosing to ban as "hate speech" or "fake news" a massively-documented 8,400 word expose by one
of America's most distinguished journalists, a Pulitzer-prize winning former top editor at
The New York Times .
Or perhaps certain political-puppeteers who had spent decades controlling that late Arizona
senator sought to ensure that their political puppet-strings remained invisible even after his
death.
John McCain was a leading American neocon who always advocated war and ever greater
military spending for a growing worldwide empire. This made him a successful politician and
explains why our neocon corporate media praises him and refuses to reports facts about his
life. By several accounts ("The Nightingale Song" for example) he only got into the Naval
Academy for a free college degree because dad and grandfather were admirals, and should have
been kicked out several times. He graduated near the bottom of his class and was a lousy
pilot who got into trouble often and crashed two aircraft because of neglect. He was shot
down on his first tour over Vietnam while bombing a civilian power plant, and getting
captured is not heroic.
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What happened in captivity is controversial, but upon returning from POW status he passed a
physical and regained flight status as a pilot. Yet after he finished 20 years of service
that allowed generous retirement pay, he obtained a 100% VA disability rating allowing him to
collect some $40,000 a year tax free too! The LA Times mentioned this when McCain insisted he
was fit to serve as President. For the past two decades, he hauled in over $240,000 a year
from the Feds for military retirement, 100% VA disability, social security retirement, while
working full-time in the US Senate. He was paid for being retired, disabled, and gainfully
employed! This is textbook case of why our system needs reform to protect taxpayers from rich
welfare kings like McCain.
McCain's loyal wife was disabled in a serious auto accident while he was a POW. Soon after
he returned, McCain dumped her for a wealthy woman 20 years younger. The Reagans were so
angry they never spoke to him again. He then married his new babe before he officially got
divorced, so there's that bigamy thing. McCain used his wife's family money to run for
Congress and quickly got into trouble with the Keating Five scandal. McCain got $112,000 in
"campaign contributions" and an equal amount of luxury perks from one of our nation's leading
fraudsters. In return, he helped change laws and threatened regulators to allow this
multi-billion real estate scam to grow.
I don't know why any Arizonian voted for this crazed man, especially since he was a big
advocate for open borders. At a union meeting, he told workers illegals are needed because
Americans are too lazy to work farm fields, even for $50 an hour. McCain never labored his
entire life, always on the government dole earning ten times minimum wage worker pay, whose
increase he opposed.
McCain grew up wealthy and enjoyed free government health care his entire life, yet
thought it nothing workers deserve. While running for President and attacking programs for
the poor, a reporter asked how many houses he owned. He was unsure, but thought maybe seven.
But his worst damage was to oppose any attempt at world peace, often demanding that the USA
bomb the neocon designated villain of the year, currently Iran. McCain was a key player in
the senseless deaths of thousands of American GIs and a million foreigners over the past two
decades. He will not be missed.
Sep 2, 2018 -- John McCain Will Not Be Missed
As a follow-up to my Aug 27th blog, I ask people to name McCain's most important
accomplishment during his long political career. They can think of none, but the TV tells
them McCain was great because he was a neocon. Senator Paul Laxalt saw more combat than
McCain and had an equally long and distinguished career. He was not a crazed neocon so our
media barely reported his death last month.
Here are two examples of McCain's bad character just this past year. McCain had always
opposed Obamacare and campaigned against it. The Republicans had tried to repeal it for
years. The election of President Trump also brought in more Republican congressmen. The House
easily repealed it, and the Senate finally had a majority to vote for a partial repeal. This
would be a big victory for the Republicans led by President Trump. When the vote was held,
McCain shocked everyone and voted against it, thus abandoning his principles and backstabbing
his party! This was applauded by the Democrats and the insurance companies who profit from
Obamacare. They praised McCain as a "maverick", although everyone knows this was done just to
thwart a Trump victory.
On his deathbed, McCain directed his staff not to invite his Presidential running mate
Sarah Palin to his funeral. She campaigned for him as a loyal teammate and never said a bad
word about McCain during the campaign or after their loss. McCain blamed her for his loss and
expressed this in a childish manner. Allow me to summarize his life. John McCain was a
selfish, spoiled brat who had no sense of decency.
One of the most blatant examples of news media's silence on a topic of great national
interest is the lack of coverage of closed-door "globalist" meetings like Bilderberg (which
is attended by employees of such publications as The New York Times and Washington
Post .)
The overheard conversation between Angela Merkel and Mark Zuckerberg on what Facebook can do
to further her immigration agenda also received astonishingly little coverage from the
establishment press:
If you look closely at Hoover's pictures it's hard to miss the kinky hair, broad nose and
just something about the bone structure of his face that reveals some negro ancestry. There's
a high school picture of him in some kind of band or cadet uniform that makes his bit of
black blood obvious.
That Mayor Moscone of San Francisco who was shot had a thing for 11-13 black girls, small
ones. He liked to beat them up a bit too. Probably not as badly as the bearings their mothers
face them all their lives. His driver was a district attorney investigator who had to drive
him to the projects and Protero Silver Av neighborhoods to meet his little friends. He met
them at their mothers homes. I assume the mothers consented and some pimps arranged
things.
One time Mayor Moscone drive himself to the Sunnyvale projects. While he was inside with
his little friend some black guys removed all the tires from his city car and he had to call
the police to drive him home.
He had 4 or 5 kids, Catholic Church attendance catholic schools the whole ostentatious
Italian Catholic thing but he liked sex with those really young black girls in their project
homes.
But as the media continued to avert its eyes from these newly revealed facts, even those
disclosed in the pages of the Times itself, I gradually began to consider matters in a
different light. Perhaps McCain's elevation to great American political power was not in
spite of the devastating facts littering his personal past, but because of
them.
Agree with this. The message from the McCain funeral was that the blackmailed US political
class would be well looked after -right to the end -- if they remained docile and obedient
and followed their scripts.
For "War Hero" McCain, it was his unswerving hard line calling for the destruction of
Iran.
But, the Zio-Glob still failed to get their war through McCain, and they also failed to
get it through Hillary Clinton. Both of them were rejected by voters despite massive media
support. This points to a basic problem that the Empire's has with Democracy. The public
clearly doesn't want another ME war, and is now aware that it was tricked into Iraq (WMD),
and significantly, their (the public's) resistance to war is sufficiently strong enough to
overcome massed MSM propaganda pushing the other way.
If the MSM can't swing it, then they need to get a compromised candidate elected on an
anti-war and immigration control platform, who then does a 180º turn when in office.
Trump wasn't their candidate (which suggests that he's clean), and (so far) he hasn't enabled
a war with Iran, so what happens with him is an open question.
Also agree that the media reaction to the Pizzagate (pedophilia) story was one of extreme
sensitivity -- almost panic, with a massive and coordinated overreaction. This suggests that
Pizzagate is in fact the nightmare subject at the root of American politician's worst
dreams.
The most obvious example is the Catholic Church, and the failings of its American and
international hierarchy in that regard have regularly made the front pages of our leading
newspapers. But until the early 2000s and the breakthrough reporting of the Boston Globe as
recounted in the Oscar-winning film Spotlight, the Church had routinely fended off such
scandals.
I'm an investigator in Boston. Just to put things in perspective, Globe's Spotlight
investigation really only involved 8 priests (3 of them no longer in the priesthood- one in
prison- at the time of the Spotlight piece) and went back 30 years. I don't have numbers on
minors involved in this Epstein scandal but I would guess they are much higher.
I always found it curious that Marty Baron decides to launch a major expose of the Boston
Catholic Church right after arriving from Miami. Seriously? A dozen priests out of thousands
in the Boston Archdiocese? I really would like to know who was behind this concerted
operation to take down the heart of American Catholicism. They make the folks behind the
Trump-Russia collusion plot look like amateurs.
Don't forget the arrest of Ars Technica writer Peter Bright, @DrPizza on twitter (account
still up), who was arrested last month for soliciting sex with children and admitted to
abusing an 11 year old girl. A guy named 'Dr Pizza' who had a pizza emoji next to his name,
who tweeted often that Pizzagate was completely made up and once to the effect that "why
would pedophiles put badges that could identify them up online" was arrested for being a
pedophile and then subsequently came out he had constantly argued for relaxations on things
like child porn and sexual-related issues. If this doesn't at least give doubters cause for
concern that maybe something is up I don't know what will.
This is a well-known weakness of Representative Democracy -- in all its versions.
The Balfour Declaration which led eventually to the creation of the state of Israel was
undoubtedly the result of complex blackmail and bribery. Perhaps the USA would not have
entered into WW1 unless Jews were promised Palestine in a deal.
Democracy is supposed to be a negative-feedback system -- like all control system. The
only way to make it function properly is to have Direct Democracy -- where people vote on all
issues and at the lowest level commensurate with the matter to be decided.
Journolist is probably weak sauce compared to the major editors of the largest television
networks and newspaper syndicates deciding amongst themselves "whats news". Ive thought this
for years. We know the CIA has people placed in media organizations, and probably has dirt on
highly placed people in media organizations who are not CIA.
McCain must have been susceptible to pressure from Russians or Chinese who certainly knew
everything McCain did in Vietnam? Or is KGB/FSB also run form Tel Aviv?
Alex Jones -- yes, Alex Jones -- gave a coherent argument about the pedophilia accusations
that avoided Satanism and the like but was still coherent. And its the same as the one you
talk about.
Simple Kompromat .
Basically, national intelligence agencies identify up-and-comers in media and politics,
then either get kompromat on them early or, if they can find nothing, set up a scenario where
kompromat is created. In this latter scenario, the up-and-comer is invited to dinner,
drugged, and then wakes up with either a dead body next to him or is shown pictures of him
either killing someone or else molesting children. Then the up-and-comer is trapped for
life.
Remember The Godfather, Part II ? They got the Nevada Senator to become their slave
when they drugged him in a whorehouse and Neri killed the girl he was sleeping with, and the
senator wakes up confused next to the girl and doesn't know if he did it or not -- and
Michael promises to keep it all quiet -- for a price, of course. That's how it happens to
these folks.
Then they own you for years.
Which makes you really scared -- not only is the FBI and NSA and CIA spying on us all
illegally and spying on Trump at Obama's behest and allowing Hillary to skate -- they're
running murder and child sex rings themselves. To gain leverage.
@Jimmy R Surprisingly, the Globe's in-bad-faith attack on the Church might have begun a a
greater renewal in it. Once it came out, people who had faith started noticing that almost
all the priests doing the abuse were -- gay men abusing teenage boys. 81% of the cases
weren't "pedophilia", they were homosexuals getting sexually mature but underage, vulnerable
boys behind closed doors and taking advantage of them.
Catholics like Michael Voris at Church Militant have put 2 and 2 together. The problems in
the Church isn't pedophilia, its homosexuals -- and Voris has exposed a ton more, including
many bishops, and called them out harshly. The Church is supposed to purge homosexuals from
the priesthood (by Catholic dogma), but haven't -- because higher-up homos have protected the
lot.
But now many Catholic lay groups are organized and pushing to attack the illegal gay
priests and get them out of the cloth. The homomafia is now proven to exist -- and, much like
when the original Mafia was admitted to exist by the Kefauver hearings, an organized rounding
up can occur.
I learn from the Times that the Phoenix beer-monopoly in question, then valued at around
$200 million, had accrued to a man whose lifelong business partner Kemper Marley had long
been deeply linked to organized crime.
Jim Hensley the beer baron and McCain father in law was convicted of liquor related
federal crimes (stealing from warehouses) but must have had a friendly judge lol cause he
didn't do jail time , got probation and paid a big fine. He was working for Kemper Marley at
the time.
So liar McCain married into a crime family .makes sense for a career fuck up who once his
father died would start failing downward instead of upward.
Organized crime loves beer and liquor distributorships cause its a all cash business .the
retailer pays you for the beer before it goes on their shelves or in their bar. no credit, no
billing, pay up front. I bought a beer distributorship in 1975 so I know a bit about it .and
Hensley had to have had some state officials in his pocket or his friend Marley had them
cause is no way the state is going to give you a license if you've been convicted on anything
worse than a speeding ticket.
You've got to be investigated by your state FBI for starters, account for every year of your
life, your schools, your wife's life, your parents and relatives, list people you associate
with in business or socially, then they go interview people who know you,,,in fact they do
that before they even personally interview you and you have to give them your financial
records, what your source of money is and all your tax returns. All of this is to make sure
you have no ties to any kind of organized crime and the money purchasing the distributorship
isn't coming from any shady figures.
Hensley or his backer had some very serious political pull and pay offs.
The number one career choice for aspiring crooks and fuckups is politics .McCain with his
punk complex temper couldn't have held on to job anywhere else.
Over the years, it became increasingly obvious to me that nearly all elements of our
national media were often quite willing to enlist in a "conspiracy of silence" to minimize or
entirely ignore stories of tremendous potential interest to their readership and major public
importance.
Yes, how about an update on the investigation into the killing of Seth Rich -- does that
count as a 'cold case' at this point?
Also media interest in the Las Vegas mass shooting seemed to fizzle -- as did the
investigation.
This is the concept of Kakistocracy. I always found McCain getting a pass on what he did to
the left behind POWs hard to fathom -- this explains it. Before I read this article I thought
that Pizzagate was just some kind of lunacy/nothing and had heard some guy went and shot up a
restaurant over it (probably the creeps involved in it arranged that themselves to discredit
those exposing them?) and it was since faded away discredited, I see it attacked by the same
people who are always using the CIA created term "Conspiracy Theory" seems it is in fact the
opposite of what I thought (due to the Globalist Propagandist Media) and its creepy players
are "running" things and highly protected by the Propagandist Globalist NWO Media, seems
Obama himself is in deep if the video is correct? hard to even look at the video as to these
creatures .So Question? Is the Q thing also for real? I have never really followed it and
seen it "debunked" on a site that made it sound like lunacy but this makes me wonder .
@Jimmy R Sometimes ago, the Mexican Bishops Conference, when speaking about Mexican
monopolistic oligarches, said they were like contemporary slave-owners .
About one year later, one of theses oligarches, Carlos Slim, bought a part of the NYTimes.
Then the NYT started its own crusade against Catholic priests paedophilia.
At the time, I noticed the coincidence, but it was like I was the only one noticing
it.
Is J. Gutierez around? He may confirm the story.
I appreciate your telling "the rest of the story" regarding the actual (as opposed to
purported) extent of the Boston sex abuse scandal.
The same abuse exaggerations also occurred in Pennsylvania."Grossly misleading,
irresponsible, inaccurate, and unjust" is how former New York Times religion reporter Peter
Steinfels described last August's grand jury report in its sweeping accusations that
Pennsylvania Catholic bishops refused to protect children from sexual abuse.
BTW, some time ago our patron Ron off-handedly accepted as factual the Globe narrative.
When contrary opinion and facts were brought to his attention, he appeared to have accepted
that they were at least worthy of consideration. (Or that's the way I vaguely remember what
transpired.)
I did not know anything about any physical violence that may or many not have been present in
McCain's marriage. I certainly did feel, that much of the senator's last days were being
carefully orchestrated in order to maintain the highest degree of hero status possible. His
wealthy wife certainly had the resources to leave if she wanted to. She always seemed to me
extremely loyal and attentive.
I would say it was similar concerning Bush 41. Perfectly understandable that negative
stories wouldn't be brought up during his long wake/funeral -- in Tx and DC -- but how about
never? Several books have said that Bush's -- and campaign manager W. Casey -- CIA
connections helped Reagan get elected by keeping the hostages in Iran .
The Vice-Pres was also up to his neck in the Iran/Contra affair in spite of him saying he
was "out of the loop (he wasn't)." A sexual affair is unimportant. But the family says it
never happened. Others have said otherwise. Jesse Ventura and his writer Dick Russell have
done a nice job laying out some things that you will never hear from the Bush flack John
Meacham. Or pretty much anyone else in on- air media.
The Corporate Fascist Military Industrial-Intelligence Police State will tell us who our
heroes, presidents, and icons are. It has already been decided. McCain was commonly known as
"crash" for all the incidents he had. He was a terrible pilot and would have never been one
except for his father. His beatings of his wife were widely known but covered up because of
his "War Hero Status." Our entire society is nothing more than a projection by the
"controllers."
Examples of this are of course Obama and his wife. The media asked him almost no questions
and he was guided by the Jew Axelrod to the Media's satisfaction. What Obama and his wife got
away with in Chicago would embarrass the Mafia. Michele Obama had to surrender her law
license to the Illinois State Disciplinary Committee. The files have been sealed.
Just look at the group running for President. All basically selected by the same
controllers. They will not make a mistake in letting another Trump spoil their plans. Our
entire democracy is just a mirage. The founder fathers were afraid that this would happen but
their plans in the Constitution to protect the nation have become "gang banged" by the
Marxist Mobs whose heroes are icons like Obama who bombed seven Muslim countries, murdered
thousands of innocent people, destroyed the middle class and started wars and lied to the
nation yet these people are on their knees to his royal presence.
We have no chance of getting to the truth on anything because to even ask a question is
now an act of racism, antisemitism, and hatred.
One of the more extreme accusers in Britain has revealed to be a fantasist, his claims went
well beyond other claims and included such unlikely characters as Field Marshall Lord
Brammal, and this is being used to Bury the paedophile scandal in Britain. Greville Janner's
children have been given prominent coverage to suggest this shows their father is innocent
despite the fact that the evidence against their father is very substantial and has little to
do with the fantasist.
There is an old wartime proverb that enemy flak is always heaviest over the most
important target, and the remarkably ferocious wave of attacks and censorship against
anyone broaching the subject of Pizzagate seems to raise all sorts of dark suspicions.
I guess we can look forward to another day of heavy DDoS of unz.com.
How is it we don't yet have a Grand Unifying Theory that links the seemingly unconnected
paedophelia stories that have simmered simultaneously in D.C., Westminster, and Brussels over
the past couple of decades? The Church would seem to fit right in in this NWO orgy, but has
instead been hung out to dry.
One of the elite one worlder groups is the (in)famous Skull and Bones society at Yale. Its
membership included both president Bushes as well as John Kerry and a multitude of other
politicians. Anthony Sutton carried out an expose in his book America's secret establishment.
Part of the inition occurs in a crypt surrounded by skulls , including Geronimos's skull
while lying in a coffin. If that isnt weird enough part of the initiation includes something
around sexual misadventure. According to Kay Riggs, whose husband was a colnel in the
intelligence services the sexual side of the initiation involves the person being sodomised
by an member of the society. According to her , in order to enter the higher levels of many
parts of government this is not an uncommon practice.
In the murky world of american political elites the truth is impossible to be certain
of.
The skull and bones society has been well publicised so presumably now the power has been
withdrawn from it.
I've had much enjoyment over the years by asking McCain worshipers to give me the name of one
Vietnamese with as many confirmed kills of American military as John McCain.
Another long-winded & annoyingly inchoate ramble raising several important but seemingly
disparate subjects, each of which could & probably should have been pursued
independently. Is there really any viable connection between Sydney Schanberg & Epstein,
between the Catholic Church & John McCain, between Berezovsky & Pizzagate, etc.? What
a jumbled mishmash that leaves you more confused than when you started. "Perhaps" this &
"perhaps" that, doesn't help very much. The most urgent question though is why are so many
high & mighty tempted by pedophilia in the first place, where does that psychosis come
from & why are the power games more important than the pawns, the poor kids, that are
used to play it? Hanging is much too good for an unspeakable filth like Epstein & whoever
aided him. There is no punishment or torture ever devised that would be sufficient, if found
guilty, for the crimes for which he stands accused. That should come first, the rest is
chickenfeed.
We have progressed (here we laugh) from the times of Gentlemen and Ladies to so-called
emancipated men and women with human rights fit for animals. Just to refresh your memory
The last big VA scandal where many Veterans died waiting to get medical treatment
happened in Arizona. You cannot tell me that McCain did not know that Veterans were dying
while waiting to get help at the Phoenix VA. In my opinion McCain was a worthless human
being.
The most devastating victory the North Vietnamese had over the US was the return of McCain
alive.
I'm not convinced by the evidence against Comet Ping Pong, but I am intrigued by the possible
connections that the Podesta brothers have to the disappearance of the British girl,
Madelaine McCann, in Portugal over a decade ago. John Podesta is known to have been in
Portugal around the time of Madelaine's disappearance. There is also a description eerily
similar to Anthony Wiener.
I've long been convinced, and who can deny, that most of the wars the US has been involved
in, and all of the ones Zionists and Communists have been involved in, have roots in
outrageous sadistic psychopathology like this.:
Major items of his very extensive personal collection seemed to represent tortured or
murdered bodies, and one of his favorite artists was best known for paintings depicting
young children being held captive, lying dead, or suffering under severe distress
.
As for the slime, McCain, and the rest of the political establishment, none of it
surprises me. The type was recognized long ago.
(1) Roy Cohn (1927-86) allegedly ran child sex and blackmail operations for decades,
operating out of locales such as New York's Plaza Hotel
(2) Robert Keith Gray (1921-2014), USA lobbyist, "specialist in homosexual blackmail
operations for the CIA and reported to have collaborated with Roy Cohn"
(3) Bruce Ritter (1927-99), Roman Catholic priest and founder of Covenant House for
homeless teenagers, "eventually accused of having sexual relationships with many of the
underaged boys he had taken in", Ritter supported by Cardinal Spellman closely tied to Roy
Cohn, and tied to George H W Bush's Yale room-mate
(4) Craig Spence (1941-89), another USA lobbyist; "in June 1989, it was revealed that he
had been pimping out children to the power elite in the nation's capital throughout the 1980s
in apartments that were bugged with video and audio recording equipment reports on Spence's
child sex ring also reveal his close ties to none other than the ubiquitous Roy Cohn
"Spence had been able to enter the White House late at night during the George H.W. Bush
administration with young men whom the Washington Times described as 'call boys' Spence often
boasted that he was working for the CIA Not long after the Washington Times report on his
activities was published, Spence was found dead in the Boston Ritz Carlton and his death was
quickly ruled a suicide."
(5) Lawrence E. King Jr, lobbyist and credit union banker, key figure in the "infamous
Franklin child sex abuse and ritual murder scandal run out of Omaha, Nebraska Larry King and
his Nebraska-based call boy ring, was discovered by looking through the credit card chits of
Spence's ring King and Spence were essentially business partners as their child trafficking
rings were operated under a larger group that was nicknamed 'Bodies by God' the rings run by
both King and Spence were connected to each other and both were also connected to prominent
officials in the Reagan and subsequent George H.W. Bush administrations, including officials
with ties to the CIA and Roy Cohn and his network"
(6) Jeffrey Epstein (born 1953) then comes in on the scene, convicted of the same kinds of
activities, and linked to the networks reflected in the above
By the way, the 'police break-in' to Epstein's New York City 27,000 square foot mansion,
is regarded as a staged fake event by many, because as was clear, Epstein had multiple
live-in staffers, there was always a butler or someone present 24/7, who would simply have
opened the door for the police. The crowbar damage to the door would not have opened the
high-security portal, and would have set off massive alarms. The people walking out with
cheap rubbish bags of alleged 'evidence' did not even look like police or feds on a
high-profile operation.
Epstein always had lots of aides & helpers such as Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of
'Israeli super-spy Robert Maxwell', allegedly helping procure all the young girls etc., yet
somehow not yet so touched by these events when a 'serious' prosecution would certain quickly
dragnet all such people. What is really going on, remains yet to be seen.
That some, if not many US politicians have degenerate backgrounds and bizarre tastes can't be
brushed off as some coincidence.
If you're a tiny ME nation that is doing a good job of occupying the most powerful
military on Earth or if you're some bankster gangster that wants to keep your fraudulent fiat
money scheme afloat, our corrupt politicians are just what the doctor ordered.
A guy named 'Dr Pizza' who had a pizza emoji next to his name, who tweeted often that
Pizzagate was completely made up and once to the effect that "why would pedophiles put
badges that could identify them up online" was arrested for being a pedophile and then
subsequently came out he had constantly argued for relaxations on things like child porn
and sexual-related issues.
The bastards just love molesting our minds as well. Who can deny that they enjoy it even
more when they ply their perversions in our faces? It should also be crystal clear that the
gratuitous Isreali sniping and crippling and a thousand other outrageous crimes against
humanity stimulate the hell out of the perverts.
When will people finally get it through their heads that politics is all about
domination , most often in perverted and sadistic forms?
@Jimmy R I'm no Catholic, but it's long been obvious that the incessant harping on the
Church's pedophilia is a twofer; it's not only a huge smear campaign, but it's no doubt worth
$$ to the usual suspects. Look what the Commies did to religious folk in the former USSR and
to the largely Christian Germany, and tell me that there's no connection.
Sadistic perverts rule with the consistent support of the "great" US moneyed ruling
classes while the drooling rubes and dupes do their part as well.
@Jimmy R It is all about stopping the Catholic Church from having a voice to oppose Zion
BC wars and coups. The Jewish Zionists want to continue the mass destruction of our planet
without any back talk.
Planted Memories is a good trick to silence any organization and a big one like the
Catholic Church.
Planted memories have used since the 1990s against the Catholic Church in a big way. After
the end of the cold war, the ZUS wanted wars for Zion mania. No back talk allowed from any
one or group is "allowed". This planted memories games works like a charm and has been used
over and over again on the Catholic Church to silence it. It allows the wars and the coups
for Zion BC go on and on endlessly with no back talk. It is a common trick for many cases
these days.
"There is no credible scientific support for the idea that we can take eleven years of
brutalization and banish it into the unconscious and then undergo some therapy which is
going to make us aware of it," Dr. Loftus reported as she discussed the Holly Ramona case,
"and yet these kinds of things were being introduced into court cases throughout the 1990s
and into the 2000s and still today." While her outspoken opposition to recovered memory has
led to her being targeted by feminist and victims' rights groups over the years (including
the controversial "Jane Doe case"), Dr. Loftus continues to stand by her own research into
false memory.
Regarding the fabled photos of J Edgar Hoover in a woman's dress and with his gay lover, held
as successful blackmail by the Jewish mob & Meyer Lansky, Ms Whitney Webb says in her
Mint Press News series on Epstein connections:
Anthony Summers, former BBC journalist and author of 'Official and Confidential: The
Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover', has argued that it was not Lansky, but William Donovan,
the director of the OSS, who obtained the original photos of Hoover and later shared them
with Lansky.
Ms Webb argues for a quite long series of connections between the USA-Canadian Jewish
& Italian mobs going back a century, the paedophile and under-age-sex-slave blackmail
groups, and the USA & Israel intel agencies. Her series is quite something, the first two
installments: https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/ https://www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/
Many connections are indeed striking. Trump's current USA Attorney General Barr (born 1950)
& his father Donald Barr (1921-2004), were both CIA-intel officers & both linked to
Epstein. William was CIA officer 1973-77, the CIA supporting him going to law school, father
Donald with OSS & Bill Donovan the CIA predecessor during WW2.
Barr's later law firm Kirkland & Ellis represented Epstein; Donald Barr, when NYC
Dalton School headmaster, gave Jeffrey Epstein his first job, teaching teen-age girls &
boys 1973-75, whilst William Barr was at the CIA. Father Donald Barr was fascinated by sex
slavery as much as Epstein apparently, Barr authoring a 1973 fantasy novel on the subject,
'Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale" book published when Jeffrey Epstein
was his underling & school-teacher of teens.
Ms Webb recounts multiple child molestation and political blackmail groups -- which had a
collective name, 'Bodies from God' -- all linking ultimately with Jeffrey Epstein, intel
agencies, and Jewish mobsters; Lansky etc., and such as the Bronfmans of Canada, the
Bronfmans in 1991 joining with Epstein's patron & the original buyer of his New York City
mansion, Les Wexner, to found the 'Mega Group' of 20 or so Zionist Jewish billionaires who
are now often perceived to be the Mossad-backed money source for Epstein. A short list of
these groups and persons mentioned by Webb
[MORE]
(1) Roy Cohn (1927-86) allegedly ran child sex and blackmail operations for decades,
operating out of locales such as New York's Plaza Hotel
(2) Robert Keith Gray (1921-2014), USA lobbyist, "specialist in homosexual blackmail
operations for the CIA and reported to have collaborated with Roy Cohn"
(3) Bruce Ritter (1927-99), Roman Catholic priest and founder of Covenant House for
homeless teenagers, "eventually accused of having sexual relationships with many of the
underaged boys he had taken in", Ritter supported by Cardinal Spellman closely tied to Roy
Cohn, and tied to George H W Bush's Yale room-mate
(4) Craig Spence (1941-89), another USA lobbyist; "in June 1989, it was revealed that he
had been pimping out children to the power elite in the nation's capital throughout the 1980s
in apartments that were bugged with video and audio recording equipment reports on Spence's
child sex ring also reveal his close ties to none other than the ubiquitous Roy Cohn
"Spence had been able to enter the White House late at night during the George H.W. Bush
administration with young men whom the Washington Times described as 'call boys' Spence often
boasted that he was working for the CIA Not long after the Washington Times report on his
activities was published, Spence was found dead in the Boston Ritz Carlton and his death was
quickly ruled a suicide."
(5) Lawrence E. King Jr, lobbyist and credit union banker, key figure in the "infamous
Franklin child sex abuse and ritual murder scandal run out of Omaha, Nebraska Larry King and
his Nebraska-based call boy ring, was discovered by looking through the credit card chits of
Spence's ring King and Spence were essentially business partners as their child trafficking
rings were operated under a larger group that was nicknamed 'Bodies by God' the rings run by
both King and Spence were connected to each other and both were also connected to prominent
officials in the Reagan and subsequent George H.W. Bush administrations, including officials
with ties to the CIA and Roy Cohn and his network"
(6) Jeffrey Epstein (born 1953) then comes in on the scene, convicted of the same kinds of
activities, and linked to the networks reflected in the above
By the way, the 'police break-in' to Epstein's New York City 27,000 square foot mansion,
is regarded as a staged fake event by many, because as was clear, Epstein had multiple
live-in staffers, there was always a butler or someone present 24/7, who would simply have
opened the door for the police. The crowbar damage to the door would not have opened the
high-security portal, and would have set off massive alarms. The people walking out with
cheap rubbish bags of alleged 'evidence' did not even look like police or feds on a
high-profile operation.
Epstein always had lots of aides & helpers such as Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of
'Israeli super-spy Robert Maxwell', allegedly helping procure all the young girls etc., yet
somehow not yet so touched by these events when a 'serious' prosecution would certain quickly
dragnet all such people. What is really going on, remains yet to be seen.
Pizzagate" is a debunked conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 United States
presidential election cycle.[2][3][4] It has been extensively discredited by a wide range
of organizations, including the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of
Columbia.[3][4][5]
Some of Pizzagate's proponents, including David Seaman and Michael G. Flynn (Michael
Flynn's son), have evolved the conspiracy into a broader government conspiracy called
"Pedogate". According to this theory, a "satanic cabal of elites" of the New World Order
operates international child sex trafficking rings.[27]
One of the victims filed a federal lawsuit. Once filed, this is public record. The only
redactions allowed are social security numbers and the like.
When the Miami Herald went to obtain the Motion for Summary Judgment, it was completely
redacted. 137 pages of blacked out paragraphs.
A motion for summary judgment is basically saying there are no material issues in dispute-
nothing to litigate. This document would contain all relevant facts about the case.
This type of redaction is unheard, unprecedented- appalling.
The only reason the Herald is in pursuit ( and any other MSM) is because they believed it
would destroy Trump.
It's now on appeal. If the redactions stand, we should riot in the street. We knew justice
was bought, but pedophilia usually will stir up some dregs of bureaucratic slugs to
action.
And with a parallel to McCain, if Clinton slithers out of this- with over 27 flights on
the Lolita Express- he is officially the most untouchable man in history.
Once you start researching the Epstein matter- not for the lurid details- but the
unprecedented, jaw dropping preferential treatment of an actual human sex trafficker ( not
this fake #metoo hysteria)
-- all hope is lost.
Note the strange silence from Hollywood and the elites regarding Epstein's victims, when
they were wearing hair shirts over Christine Fords 30 year old accusation.
A wealthy smug scold, who looks like an exploded can of rotten biscuit dough had them
weeping on camera.
Dozens of little girls -- all poor and from fatherless backgrounds marred by parental drug
abuse, suicides and physical abuse- selected and sexually devastated by Epstein- not a
word.
Ron Unz says: " ..at the core of our hugely corrupted political system .."
So whats to be done? Isn't that the big question here?
I believe that its only with the an understanding of the true, 100% corrupt nature of the
state, that real-world solutions to the massive [ and progressively worse] problems it causes
in society can be worked out and then implemented.
Ron, the big picture here that you, like most, either genuinely don't see [ or
conveniently refuse to see] is this:
The True Nature of All Governments:
"Because they are all ultimately funded via both direct and indirect theft [taxes], and
counterfeiting [via central bank monopolies], all governments are essentially, at their very
cores, 100% corrupt criminal scams which cannot be "reformed","improved", nor "limited" in
scope, simply because of their innate criminal nature." onebornfree
"Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way
to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those
of a professional-criminal class." Albert J. Nock
"Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure." Robert LeFevre
Without an generally accepted understanding of the true nature of all states and
governments, we are lost, as far as I can see.
@Jimmy R Also, there is a major distinction: child abuse in the Catholic Church is
committed by isolated individuals whose sole responsibility is involved when the crime is
committed. It is not institutionalised, pre-planned and organised by a group, as it is within
the political establishment.
It is the same difference as between a criminal and organised crime, and it is a major
difference, in magnitude and in nature.
I actually highly reccomend a film called "Eyes Wide Shut."
The film, which stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, was directed by the late Stanley
Kubrick and released back in 1999. It was extremely hyped at the time, especially given that
Kubrick died several days after completing the film.
While I won't summarize the entire film, there is one very important scene in which Tom
Cruise's character sneaks into a large New York mansion and stumbles upon a Satanic sexual
ritual/orgy. At the ritual/orgy, there are various individuals in costumes&masks who
engage in debauched sexual practices with sex slaves. Later in the movie, one of the men
there (who happens to be a prominent local Jewish socialite) tells Tom Cruise's character
that the Satanic sexual gathering was full of very important and powerful local figures. Tom
Cruise's character is ominously threatened into silence. At the end of the film, Tom Cruise
and Nicole Kidman allow their young daughter to be taken by the Satanic sexual abusers.
After he was finished with the movie, Stanley Kubrick showed it to execs from Warner
Brothers for the first time. They ended up getting into a contentious argument over the film.
The next day, Kubrick (who was a very healthy man) was announced dead of a heart attack.
Around 30 minutes of the film was later edited out by Warner Brothers before it was released.
Supposedly (and this has NOT been confirmed) there were scenes of child sexual abuse in the
original that Kubrick made, but this was edited out.
The movie would go on to become very popular in "conspiracy" circles. Many of these people
said that Kubrick (who was notoriously reclusive, enigmatic, and fond of "conspiracy
theories") was exposing the secret world of the Illuminati and their debauched sexual
practices, including their sexual enslavement of children.
There are very interesting similarities between the movie's Satanic sexual gathering and
an eerie real life Rothschild ball held back in 1972 (at one of the family mansions). The
movie even used a Rothschild mansion (Mentmore Towers) as the setting for the Satanic sexual
orgy.
When you hear all the allegations being made against Epstein, it makes you wonder. The New
York mansion. The weird Occult/Satanic temple on his island. The really young women coerced
into orgies. The hordes of wealth, famous, and powerful people who "partied" with Epstein.
The threats made against journalists and accusers who've come forward. The Jewish connection.
The Rothschild connection (Dershowitz was introduced to Epstein by the Rothschilds). The
Royal family and Prince Andrew connection ("Eyes Wide Shut" had a character with the surname
"Windsor"). There are many similarities to "Eyes Wide Shut."
If we assume that the Illuminati (or a similar elite society) actually exists, maybe it
makes sense that they would invite powerful people to attend their parties and engage in
debauched sexual acts, especially with the underaged. By encouraging this, the society would
get blackmail material on the elite of society. Once those elites were under blackmail,
they'd be puppets. These compromised elites would also be willing to recruit more new members
and bring them to the sexual parties.
So perhaps Epstein started off by befriending a few of the elite (with the Mossad helping
facilitate the social interaction). He then invited them to some type of perverse sexual
party. Once Epstein got tapes and pictures of them, these elites then became Israeli pawns
and also became willing to invite their elite friends to the parties.
That may explain why Epstein became so popular and why no one was willing to take him
down. That may also explain why everyone quoted in news articles always used to mention his
supposed "brilliance."
Even Newsweek noted the similarity between "Eyes Wide Shut" and the Epstein situation.
If you're interested in seeing the ritual that I mentioned above, here's a short video
from the movie. I wouldn't be surprised if Epstein was doing something similar to this in his
Occult/Satanic temple on his island.
What this article should convince everyone of is that 'rules but no rulers' makes perfect
sense. That's what real anarchism means -- rules but no rulers. If your immediate mental
picture was of a bomb thrower, then your mind has been successfully infiltrated by the powers
that shouldn't be.
Why is it that one person with the title of 'President' can declare things that affect the
lives of millions of USians and billions world wide. No one should have that much power.
"The way to get rid of corruption in high places is to get rid of high places." -- Frank
Chodorov
If the deep state has managed to install their puppets in positions of authority shouldn't
we all be trying to get rid of the positions of authority instead of rotating through that
position replaceable candidates offered up by the deep state political parties?
If you vote, you are tacitly approving of a system that has enslaved your mind.
If you're not an anarchist, you are part of the problem.
Kudos, Ron Unz. Excellent article and a useful tutorial on the hidden control mechanism of
what the late Paul A. Samuelson called our "democratic oligarchy".
I applaud your parlor joke:
" that perhaps the best career move for an ambitious young politician would be to
secretly commit some monstrous crime and then make sure that the hard evidence of his guilt
ended up in the hands of certain powerful people, thereby assuring his rapid political
rise."
A great French investigative reporter crafted an unfunny version:
"Indeed, under our putative system of democracy, especially since JFK, the oligarchy
will not allow the election of any candidate who cannot be blackmailed."
-- Thierry Meyssan, Before our very eyes -- fake wars and big lies from 9/11 to Donald
Trump , p. 146.
He had just described the 911 caper as a Cheney-led deep-state coup to activate the secret
but long-standing CoG procedure to sideline the Constitution. It succeeded when clueless
Dubya was reinstated as figure-head president within 24 hours after agreeing to the clique's
CoG (continuity of government) agenda, including the planned wars.
No wonder the shenannigans of compromised office-holding puppets (actors, really) and
their shadowy string-pullers never seem to be known to their spear-carriers in MSM.
McCain was a psycopath and a traitor and proof of the zionists love of war and killers was
their praise for this psycopath in his death and funeral and on the other hand no mention was
ever made about the crime committed against the crew of the USS Liberty by the joint Israeli
and zio/US attack on the Liberty, this shows how f##ked up this zionist ruled country has
become!
Get and read the book Blood in the Water by Joan Mellen about the joint Israeli and zio/US
attack on the Liberty, who McCains father participated in the cover up of this war crime!
The number one career choice for aspiring crooks and fuckups is politics .McCain with
his punk complex temper couldn't have held on to job anywhere else.
Perverts and psychopaths as well.
" nobody is going to be a thief with me as his accomplice,
and that right there is why I'm going in no governor's entourage."
Juvenal, Satires, Volume 3, (3.41-48) ~100 AD
Now do not be vexed with me when I speak the truth. For there is no human being who will
preserve his life if he genuinely opposes either you or any other multitude and prevents
many unjust and unlawful things from happening in the city. Rather, if someone who
really fights for the just is going to preserve himself even for a short time, it is
necessary for him to lead a private rather than a public life.
@Jimmy R The Diocese of Rockville Centre, where I live, has released a list of 61 priests
accused of sexual misconduct. The Diocese of Newark, NJ has released a list of 82 priests.
The Diocese of Brooklyn, NY has released a list of 108 priests. The Diocese of NY has
released a list of 120. That's a lot more than eight, and I think if the Church is willing to
give us this many names, there are probably quite a few who managed to fly under the radar.
I was raised a Catholic and really wish I didn't have to accept this reality. I've read
stories that the Church was infiltrated in the 20th century, and perhaps it's true, but maybe
it's been going on for a very long time. It does seem to be a bit unnatural for a man to
become celibate, and that might be one of the reasons so many deviants were attracted to the
priesthood, I don't know. I do know I never trusted any of them alone with my kids and I'd
advise others to do the same.
It's a shame, because as a society we need some kind of moralistic code, but the Church
has failed, or is at least failing, at this time in its history.
'He bragged she was his sex slave': Jeffrey Epstein 'purchased Nadia Marcinkova as a girl from her
family, shot child porn of her with underage teen and forced her into threesomes'
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Nada Marcinkova, who now goes by Nadia, was one of Epstein's victims as well as
an enabler according to interviews with victims back in 2005
An incident report obtained by DailyMail.com reveals she was as young as 15
when she first began having sex with Epstein and other victims
She was forced to have sex with at least three other women, two of whom were
underage, while Epstein would watch and perform sex acts on himself
'Epstein had purchased her from her family in Yugoslavia,' wrote Detective
Joseph Recarey after his interview with one victim
'Epstein bragged he brought her into the United States to be his Yugoslavian
sex slave,' Detective Recarey said after speaking to that same victim
She was granted immunity as part of Epstein's 2008 plea deal, despite never
being identified as a person to criminally charge in the case
The foreign-born model who many have identified as an accomplice in
procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein is just as much a victim of the serial pedophile, according
to official reports.
Incident reports from the Palm Beach Police Department's 2005 investigation
that were obtained by DailyMail.com claim that Epstein told at least one underage victim that Nada
Marcinkova was his 'Yugoslavian sex slave.'
Multiple girls also state that Epstein made them engage in sexual acts with
Marcinkova, which eventually turned into threesomes with both himself and the model.
'Epstein had purchased her from her family in Yugoslavia,' wrote Detective
Joseph Recarey after his interview with one victim.
'Epstein bragged he brought her into the United States to be his
Yugoslavian sex slave.'
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... ... ...
Scene: An incident report obtained by DailyMail.com reveals she was as young
as 15 when she first began having sex with Epstein and other victims at his Palm Beach home (above)
Marcinkova would have been underage during most of the alleged incidents
described by the victims to Detective Recarey.
She was no older then 16 when she and another underage victim were
allegedly forced to stimulate each other manually, orally and with toys while Epstein watched them and
pleasured himself in the bed.
That same unnamed girl broke down in tears while revealing she had been to
Epstein's Palm Beach mansion hundreds of times in a two-year period and made thousands of dollars.
At first she was paid extra to perform an oral sex act on Marcinkova, then
each week 'things continued to escalate', states the incident report.
She said that she was 'adamant... that no vaginal penetration would occur
with [Epstein],' but then that too did occur while she was underage, she told Detective Recarey.
On one occasion, the date of which he could not recall, Epstein allegedly
raped that victim after she and Marcinkova had engaged in an oral sex act to completion.
'She said her head was being held against the bed forcibly... she screamed
no and Epstein stopped,' said the report.
Soon after this, the victim said that Epstein purchased a '2005 Doge [sic]
Neon, blue in color for her personal use.'
'Epstein bragged he brought her into the United States to be his Yugoslavian sex slave,' Detective Recarey said after speaking to that same victim (Epstein above in 2008)"
Another woman also detailed a similar progression of events, starting with
massages and leading into sexual encounters with Marcinkova.
That victim, who was of age during all visits to the house as she first met
Epstein at 18, told Detective Recarey she also performed oral sex acts on Epstein but refused his
directive to bring around other young girls.
She also claimed that she was once directed to perform a manual sex act on
herself while watching Epstein have sex with Marcinkova.
Another victim, who told police she began having sexual relations with
Marcinkova at 16, said that Epstein took pictures of the two and actually displayed them around his
home.
These incidents make it clear that Marcinkova was also an alleged victim of
Epstein.
She would later move into more of a procurement role, according to court
documents, and eventually cut ties with Epstein.
Marcinkova was granted immunity as part of Epstein's 2008 deal despite the
fact that no charges would likely have been filed against her based on the police investigation.
She was actually born in the former Czechoslovakia just four years before
the Velvet Revolution, which precipitated the non-violent transition of power in the country.
At some point she and her family did move to Yugoslavia. In recent years,
she has changed her surname and Americanized her first name, going by Nadia.
Jeffrey Epstein's longtime personal pilots have been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, according to the
Wall Street Journal . The grand jury subpoenaes were served earlier this month following Epstein's July 6 arrest at Teterboro
Airport in New Jersey on charges of sex-trafficking minors. He has pleaded not guilty to the yearslong scheme in which prosecutors
allege the wealthy financier sexually abused dozens of young girls from 2002 to 2005, some of whom recruited other victims.
It is unknown how many of Epstein's pilots were subpoenaed, or whether they are cooperating witnesses. According to court documents
from prior cases, Epstein employed David Rodgers, Larry Visoski, Larry Morrison and Bill Hammond as pilots and flight engineers.
Rogers, Visoski and Morrison have previously testified in civil depositions.
Testimony from the pilots could be used by federal investigators in their efforts to corroborate accounts from Mr. Epstein's
accusers. They could also provide detail on Mr. Epstein's travels and his associates. Some of the pilots were responsible for
keeping flight logs of passengers who flew on Mr. Epstein's private jet, according to court filings. -
Wall Street Journal
While prosecutors claimed that Epstein owns two private jets, the registered sex offender's attorneys said in a court filing earlier
this month that he owns one private jet, and "sold the other jet in June 2019." Considering that he was arrested after returning
from Paris in his Gulfstream G550, per Bloomberg , it suggests that Epstein sold his infamous and evidence-rich Boeing 272-200 known
as the "Lolita Express"
weeks
before his arrest .
Women in civil lawsuits have accused Mr. Epstein of conspiring with his pilots and other associates from at least 1998 to 2002
to facilitate sex abuse and avoid law-enforcement detection . One woman has said in court filings that when she was a minor in
2000, Mr. Epstein transported her regularly on his private jet to be sexually exploited by his associates and friends . -
Wall Street Journal
According to flight logs, former President Bill Clinton flew on the "Lolita Express" a total of 27 times . "Many of those times
Clinton had his Secret Service with him and many times he did not," according to investigative journalist Conchita Sarnoff - who
first revealed the former president's extensive flights on Epstein's "lolita express" in a 2010
Daily Beast exposé.
Clinton claimed in a statement earlier
this month that he only took "a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane" in 2002 and 2003, and that Secret Service accompanied
him at all times - which Sarnoff told Fox News was a
total lie
.
"I know from the pilot logs and these are pilot logs that you know were written by different pilots and at different times that
Clinton went, he was a guest of Epstein's 27 times ," said Sarnoff.
Other famous guests include actor Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, who flew with Clinton to Africa to tour HIV/AIDS project sites,
according to New York Magazine in 2002, which notes how
much Epstein revered the former president.
Lawyers for some of Epstein's accusers alleged in a 2015 court filing that flight logs provided by Epstein pilot Rodgers were
incomplete, and that they will corroborate their accusations of being trafficked by Epstein and his associates when they were underage
.
"It would not be surprising to find that some of these flight logs were likely designed to hide evidence of criminal activity
-- or perhaps later cleansed of such evidence," wrote the lawyers.
Investigators may be interested in asking Mr. Epstein's pilots whether they witnessed any efforts by Mr. Epstein to interfere
with law enforcement, according to legal experts. In recent court filings, prosecutors have
accused Mr. Epstein of tampering with witnesses , an allegation that Mr. Epstein's lawyers denied in court.
Federal prosecutors in Miami and Mr. Epstein's lawyers in 2007 negotiated over the possibility of Mr. Epstein pleading guilty
to obstruction of justice, including for an incident involving one of his pilots, according to emails that became public in civil
lawsuits. -
Wall Street Journal
Interestingly, prosecutors confirmed that there are " uncharged individuals " in Epstein's case. Aside from his close associate
and Clinton pal Ghislaine Maxwell - his 'madam,' could the pilots be on that list?"
"... A reporter at Wired tried to look into Marcinko's past to parse whether she was a willing, or unwilling, participant in Epstein's crimes, and whether she was also one of his youngest victims. Some of Epstein's other victims told police that Marcinko pressured them to sleep with both her and Epstein. Though her history of flying with Epstein is harder to pin down due to Epstein's record-keeping practices (he only recorded the first names of underage girls in flight logs, if at all), but it's become clear that during her first decade in the country, from roughly 2000 to the beginning of Epstein's prison sentence, she frequently flew between Epstein's properties in New York, Palm Beach, Monterey, Columbus, Ohio and the Azores. A pilot who once worked for Epstein testified that she had flown with him hundreds of times. ..."
"... Marcinko's relationship with Epstein presumably ended when she was given immunity from prosecution in 2008 after being named an accomplice. It's still not entirely clear how she came to live with Epstein. Was she 'sold' to him by family members in Bratislava? Or did she run away with him willingly, hoping for a more glamorous life? ..."
"... Whatever happened, as Wired claims, Marcinko is part of a small group of people who are both victims of Epstein and possible abusers. ..."
While anybody even remotely familiar with the Epstein story knows that his actions were irredeemably heinous, there are other
characters in Epstein's orbit - characters who may have participated in what appears to be a global sex-trafficking ring - who are
more complicated.
One of those characters is a 32-year-old model named Nadia Marcinko. Marcinko, who was once described in court documents as Epstein's
"in-house sex slave" was ferried out of Slovakia on Epstein's private jet when she was just 15, and lived with the billionaire for
years after,
Wired reports.
Now working as a commercial pilot, Marcinko is clearly hoping the media will gloss over her involvement with Epstein. She refuses
to talk to reporters, and even uses a slightly modified version of her last name (she was once known as Nadia Marcinkova).
A reporter at Wired tried to look into Marcinko's past to parse whether she was a willing, or unwilling, participant in Epstein's
crimes, and whether she was also one of his youngest victims. Some of Epstein's other victims told police that Marcinko pressured
them to sleep with both her and Epstein. Though her history of flying with Epstein is harder to pin down due to Epstein's record-keeping
practices (he only recorded the first names of underage girls in flight logs, if at all), but it's become clear that during her first
decade in the country, from roughly 2000 to the beginning of Epstein's prison sentence, she frequently flew between Epstein's properties
in New York, Palm Beach, Monterey, Columbus, Ohio and the Azores. A pilot who once worked for Epstein testified that she had flown
with him hundreds of times.
Marcinko's relationship with Epstein presumably ended when she was given immunity from prosecution in 2008 after being named
an accomplice. It's still not entirely clear how she came to live with Epstein. Was she 'sold' to him by family members in Bratislava?
Or did she run away with him willingly, hoping for a more glamorous life?
Whatever happened, as
Wired claims, Marcinko is part of a small group of people who are both victims of Epstein and possible abusers.
Her testimony could again be useful. That is, if she ultimately avoids being implicated as a 'rape facilitator'.
This type of adult behavior is really common among prior child sex victims, even younger than what they are stating here.
If children get sex instead of parenting and nurturing they equate sex with love and their only value. They later often turn
into over sexualized 'desperate attention whores'. They could easily help abuse others to stay in the game for their desperation
for attention validation.
This is probably the closest thing Epstein had to a mate. You can see that he cant bond with people, there is only sex, narcissism
and objectifying. Business deal is as close as he gets.
Read the Wired article. She is portrayed as both not necessarily in that order. They theorize she may have been sold to JE
or maybe he simply took her before eh engaged in recruitment and abuse herself. They conclude with:
"It's all too sad, and anyone who is said to have entered bondage at 15, and was forced to act as a sex slave, deserves much,
much better."
No its Mossad. His partner chick Maxwell's father even had an Mossad Israeli state funeral. Although the CIA is subservient
to Mossad, so same thing in the end.
That's why the Israeli Mossad guys caught in Sept 11 were eventually released.
Australia has become the first country in the world to recognise so-called orphanage trafficking as a form of modern-day slavery.
The vast majority of children living in "orphanages" in developing nations are not true orphans. About 80%
have a living parent or family .
Such institutions are often run for the profit of their owners. They are sustained by well-meaning western tourists who visit
to donate or volunteer their time.
We have a very short summary this time, but the GTRP Diagram is the Value. In this post we look at the information available
pertaining to Roy Cohn. We look at his relationships with Ronald Reagan, Rupert Murdoch, Nicaraguan Rebel propaganda. Cohn's
leadership role in the Western Goals Foundation, Larry McDonald, and the Council for National Policy. Cohn's admitted role
in CIA pedophile ring, referred to by some as Human Compromise operations. Cohn's pedophile network continued by Edwin Wilson's
pedophile network uncovered and investigated by Sen. John DeCamp. Cohn law practice ties to Organized Crime and the Catholic
Archdiocese of New York. Cohn's mentorship of bot...
Sexual Blackmail" "Pedophile Ring" "Roy Cohn and Rupert Murdoch" "Pizzagate" "John Podesta" "Iran-Contra" "Edwin Wilson"
"Roger Stone" (
https://gtrpweb.com/featured_content )
"Historically, one of Wilson's Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary .
Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasies in the flesh . A remembrance of these occasions
[was] permanently recorded via selected cameras . The technicians in charge of filming were TSD [Technical Services Division
of the CIA]. The unwitting ***** stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office." (Qtd. in
DeCamp 179)
Cohn also had a protégé of his own: a young, up-and-coming real-estate developer named Donald J. Trump. And though Trump
and Cohn's relationship spanned from the early 1970s until a few months before Cohn's death, in 1986 (Trump abandoned his mentor
as Cohn lay dying), there seemed to be a lot of information of contemporary significance contained within their bizarre partnership
This girl is all over the internet profiling her piloting of planes.........
Narcissism in a woman is twice as bad as in a man............
The story of Narcissus dates back to ancient Greece. It was said that this young man was the son of a nymph named Liriope,
and the river deity and personification of the river, Cephissus. Narcissus was raised in Boeotia (a region in central Greece)
and grew into an extremely handsome youth. However, he never found anyone he thought was as attractive as he was; he left a string
of broken-hearted girls (and a few young men) everywhere he went.
until one day Narcissus happened to see his own reflection in the water. He had finally found someone he found truly attractive:
himself. He tried to kiss the image, but only created a ripple in the water that hid the reflection. Obsessed with his love for
his own image, but never able to touch it, he wasted away and eventually died of hunger and thirst.
The term and the Greek story are not connected. Narcs actually hate themselves deep down and tend to only associate with those
who either make them look good or they can dominate.
A nitro story, and from what seems already apparent, one of breathtaking dimension. This would be the swamp dam break. The
scumbags who would go down ... limited only by one's imagination. True justice in this case would be the correction the U.S. needs
to really get back to greatness. It would be the story of our times ... for the ages.
Any networks covering this? Are the masses being informed? Does the guy sitting next to you, standing behind you, mowing your
lawn, stocking the shelves .... do they know who Epstein is? Nope, and the story is getting buried.
If the Clintons have the most to lose over a thorough investigation of Epstein's sexual abuse of minors then Epstein does not
have long. People posing a threat to Team Clinton usually have accidents and disappear. This is going to get much uglier for swamp
dwellers.
"Epstein also made E.W. perform oral sex on him and was to perform sex acts on Nadia Marcinkova [pictured above, on right]
(Epstein's live-in sex slave) in Epstein's presence."
Case 09-34791-RBR Doc 1603-3 Filed 04/08/11 Page 7 of 39
the Palm Beach Police Department also began investigating Epstein's sexual abuse of minor girls. They also collected evidence
of Epstein's involvement with minor girls and his obsession with training sex slaves, including pulling information from Epstein's
trash. Their investigation showed that Epstein ordered from Amazon.com on about
September 4, 2005, such books as: SMI 01: A Realistic Introduction, by Jay Wiseman; SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude
- Principles, Skills, and Tools, by Guy Baldwin; and Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Erotic Slaves and Their Owners,
by Christina Abernathy. See Receipt for Sex Slave Books (Exhibit "I")
Case 09-34791 -RBR Doc 1 603-3 Filed 04/08/1 1 Page 1 1 of 39
further, how "convenient" the synchronicity as the Virgin Islands have just been hit this week with a MOSSAD CIA MI6 FSB bleach
bit "ransom ware" "hack" huh huh.
Jeffrey Epstein
was found injured in his New York City jail cell while awaiting federal sex abuse charges,
according to multiple reports.
The multimillionaire financier, who is accused of sex trafficking underage girls, was found semi-conscious at
the Metropolitan Correctional Center with marks on his neck,
local station NBC New York first reported
, citing sources close to the investigation.
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It's not yet clear whether the injuries, which were incurred Tuesday, were self-inflicted or the result of an
assault.
The injuries were not described as serious and prison officials were treating it as a possible suicide attempt,
a law enforcement official who had been briefed on the matter
told The New York Times
.
A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in an email to HuffPost on Thursday said Epstein remains
housed at the jail facility, denying reports that he had been taken to a local hospital for treatment.
"As with all inmates, for privacy and security reasons, we do not share information on an inmate's medical
status or their conditions of confinement," the spokesperson added.
Jeffrey Epstein, seen in a photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, was reportedly found
injured in his jail cell after arrested on sex trafficking charges.
The 66-year-old was arrested on July 6 and last week
denied bail by a judge after prosecutors
labeled him an "extraordinary" flight risk. He has pleaded not
guilty to the charges.
A lawyer for Epstein had said that his client was willing to post up to $100 million to secure his release.
This followed his defense team asking that he be
allowed to await trial under house arrest
in his $77 million Manhattan mansion with electronic monitoring.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Rossmiller argued against his release, reasoning that investigators found
"piles
of cash," "dozens of diamonds"
and an expired passport with an alias and a Saudi Arabian address during
a search of his mansion.
Epstein's attorneys argued
that the passport had been expired for more than 30 years and had been only used for "personal protection"
while traveling abroad, in case he came upon potential kidnappers, hijackers or terrorists.
Prosecutors noted
that the passport appeared to have been used during entry into France, Spain, the United Kingdom and Saudi
Arabia.
Appalling for both the villainous abuse of children itself and the chilling implications of government by blackmail, this tangled
web of unsavory alliances casts a lurid light on the political history of the U.S. from the Prohibition Era right up through the
Age of Trump. This report, Part II of this series titled "The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big To Fail," will delve into Cohn's
close ties to the Reagan administration, which was also closely tied to the same organized crime network led by the infamous mob
figure Meyer Lansky, which was discussed in Part I.
Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire who now sits in jail on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors, has continued to
draw media scrutiny in the weeks after his arrest on July 6. Part of the reason for this continued media interest is related to
Epstein's alleged relationship to the intelligence services and new information about the true extent of the sexual blackmail
operation Epstein is believed to have run for decades.
As MintPress
reported last week , Epstein was able to run this sordid operation for so long precisely because his was only the latest incarnation
of a much older, more extensive operation that began in the 1950s and perhaps even earlier.
Years later, documents released
by the FBI would show that Epstein became an FBI informant in 2008, when Robert Mueller was the Bureau's director, in exchange
for immunity from then-pending federal charges , a deal that fell through with Epstein's recent arrest on new federal charges.
In addition, former FBI Director Louis Freeh would be hired by Alan Dershowitz, who is accused of raping girls at Epstein's
homes and was once a character witness for Roy Cohn, to intimidate Epstein's victims. As previously mentioned, Freeh's past
appointment as a judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York was orchestrated by Cohn's
law partner Tom Bolan.
Thus, the FBI's cover-up of the Franklin case is just one example of the Bureau's long-standing practice of protecting these
pedophile rings when they involve members of the American political elite and provide the Bureau with a steady supply of blackmail.
It also makes it worth questioning the impartiality of one of the main prosecutors in the Jeffrey Epstein case,
All of this has taken place with the full knowledge and blessing of top figures in the world of "philanthropy" and in the U.S.
government and intelligence communities, with great influence over several presidential administrations, particularly since the
rise of Ronald Reagan and continuing through to Donald Trump.
There is no way to properly excerpt the article without leaving out important information so you can read it yourselves. Whitney
Webb has done an outstanding job piecing together the numerous players who have been involved in child sexual abuse going back
to the prohibition era with the full knowledge of many people high up in government. Reagan, George H.W Bush, many members of
congress, the state department, the FBI and CIA and the Catholic Church. These people turned a blind eye to the suffering of countless
boys and girls just so they could advance whatever sick ..... they wanted.
Epstein was found in his cell in a fetal position with marks on his neck. There are some very powerful people who don't want
him to talk and that he wasn't under protective control already and on suicide watch is unfuckingbelievable. Unless of course
the people who have a lot to lose did it on purpose.
Start with part one of this heinous saga to see how long the PTB have deliberately turned a blind eye to child abuse.
@Fishtroller
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I did a quick "print preview" in FireFox and it looked good. I see FF has a "simplify page" setting now that reduced the size
by a factor of three.
in copy instead of online.... I hate reading long stuff online.
I am reading a a page-turner about the Manson case, CHAOS, by Tom O'Neil. I am only 130 or so pages into it but one thing is
clear: Vincent Bugliosi suborned perjury, concealed evidence and his "helter skelter" theory of the case, the theory on which
The Family were convicted, was an invention.
How does this connect with Epstein? Well, first off it confirms that Bugliosi has been a liar most of his adult life, as while
this is the first book-length criticism of his handling of the case, I think it goes far to show that his role has been the generation
of false narratives for many cases. It also suggests the the LADA office has been infiltrated by people with an amoral violence
who have no allegiance to the truth. And I suspect, by the time I get to the end of the book, that the lines of power will have
extended to many of the other large scandals over the last half-century, meaning that the deepest corridors of power have been
entertaining the American public with gruesome psyops that push the public this way or that.
This is not the first book to criticize Bugliosi's body of work. Jim DiEugenio wrote and then revised a book on all the lies
perpetrated in Bugliosi's "masterpiece" on the JFK murder and its investigation. Lisa Pease hasn't been kind to Bugliosi. Nor
have I. He wrote a foreward to Mark Fuhrman's and then wrote a book of his own on the Brentwood murders, which should make anyone
suspicious of the official prosecution story of that double homicide.
What needs to be reiterated is that the CIA, born out of corrupt Wall Streeters, insanely right-wing generals and a coven of
Nazi war criminals, have performed as one would expect.
The CIA has infiltrated every government agency, allowing the criminals like Stein to operate. Not only allowing them to operate
but to use them as part of their larger goals.
Right now I am on my computer, which is collecting all my information. It has a camera which can get live videos of me without
my say so. We have one of those Alexa thingies that can record things we talk about in our home. I've got a Samsung TV with an
ear open. There are surveillance cameras on every block of our cities.
Can I say this? We are fucked. Grab some popcorn and watch America's rapid demise into full-control fascism.
Heck, how do we know what you've been reading hasn't been a smear campaign to discredit another true enemy of Morgoth?
I am reading a a page-turner about the Manson case, CHAOS, by Tom O'Neil. I am only 130 or so pages into it but one thing
is clear: Vincent Bugliosi suborned perjury, concealed evidence and his "helter skelter" theory of the case, the theory on
which The Family were convicted, was an invention.
How does this connect with Epstein? Well, first off it confirms that Bugliosi has been a liar most of his adult life, as
while this is the first book-length criticism of his handling of the case, I think it goes far to show that his role has been
the generation of false narratives for many cases. It also suggests the the LADA office has been infiltrated by people with
an amoral violence who have no allegiance to the truth. And I suspect, by the time I get to the end of the book, that the lines
of power will have extended to many of the other large scandals over the last half-century, meaning that the deepest corridors
of power have been entertaining the American public with gruesome psyops that push the public this way or that.
This is not the first book to criticize Bugliosi's body of work. Jim DiEugenio wrote and then revised a book on all the
lies perpetrated in Bugliosi's "masterpiece" on the JFK murder and its investigation. Lisa Pease hasn't been kind to Bugliosi.
Nor have I. He wrote a foreward to Mark Fuhrman's and then wrote a book of his own on the Brentwood murders, which should make
anyone suspicious of the official prosecution story of that double homicide.
What needs to be reiterated is that the CIA, born out of corrupt Wall Streeters, insanely right-wing generals and a coven
of Nazi war criminals, have performed as one would expect.
The CIA has infiltrated every government agency, allowing the criminals like Stein to operate. Not only allowing them to
operate but to use them as part of their larger goals.
Right now I am on my computer, which is collecting all my information. It has a camera which can get live videos of me without
my say so. We have one of those Alexa thingies that can record things we talk about in our home. I've got a Samsung TV with
an ear open. There are surveillance cameras on every block of our cities.
Can I say this? We are fucked. Grab some popcorn and watch America's rapid demise into full-control fascism.
@The Liberal
Moonbat Didn't read it, but I'd already pretty much figured out that Dubya was deep into the Deep State. And using "al
Qaeda" as a reaon to attack Iraq wasn't too hard to figure out his bullshit. Plus, he used Mueller to cover up 9/11.
Bugliosi is labeled as a liberal, and as such provides margins to what people on the left side of the imaginary aisle are allowed
to think. He's a thought leader, very important in social control. It wouldn't do for a Billy Graham Jr. to be used as a thought
leader of the left, would it?
But a prosecutor who suborns perjury and writes volumes supporting the Warren Commission should raise suspicions by those following
him and his positions. DiEugenio, who wrote THE JFK ASSASSINATION about all of Bugliosi's JFK BS in the JFK assassination, is
a good place to start. CHAOS looks like another place to go.
I'll look up to see what Morgoth is, but attaching some kind of satanic creature to an atheist's analysis of deep politics
smells a little like bad-jacketing.
@Bob In
Portland Morgoth is the Supreme Evil (as in, above Sauron) of Tolkien's Middle-Earth - I simply meant it, as I have invoked
it before, as a half-sardonic synonym for the Deep State/Military-Industrial Complex.
#4.1 Didn't read
it, but I'd already pretty much figured out that Dubya was deep into the Deep State. And using "al Qaeda" as a reaon to attack
Iraq wasn't too hard to figure out his bullshit. Plus, he used Mueller to cover up 9/11.
Bugliosi is labeled as a liberal, and as such provides margins to what people on the left side of the imaginary aisle are
allowed to think. He's a thought leader, very important in social control. It wouldn't do for a Billy Graham Jr. to be used
as a thought leader of the left, would it?
But a prosecutor who suborns perjury and writes volumes supporting the Warren Commission should raise suspicions by those
following him and his positions. DiEugenio, who wrote THE JFK ASSASSINATION about all of Bugliosi's JFK BS in the JFK assassination,
is a good place to start. CHAOS looks like another place to go.
I'll look up to see what Morgoth is, but attaching some kind of satanic creature to an atheist's analysis of deep politics
smells a little like bad-jacketing.
I am reading a a page-turner about the Manson case, CHAOS, by Tom O'Neil. I am only 130 or so pages into it but one thing
is clear: Vincent Bugliosi suborned perjury, concealed evidence and his "helter skelter" theory of the case, the theory on
which The Family were convicted, was an invention.
How does this connect with Epstein? Well, first off it confirms that Bugliosi has been a liar most of his adult life, as
while this is the first book-length criticism of his handling of the case, I think it goes far to show that his role has been
the generation of false narratives for many cases. It also suggests the the LADA office has been infiltrated by people with
an amoral violence who have no allegiance to the truth. And I suspect, by the time I get to the end of the book, that the lines
of power will have extended to many of the other large scandals over the last half-century, meaning that the deepest corridors
of power have been entertaining the American public with gruesome psyops that push the public this way or that.
This is not the first book to criticize Bugliosi's body of work. Jim DiEugenio wrote and then revised a book on all the
lies perpetrated in Bugliosi's "masterpiece" on the JFK murder and its investigation. Lisa Pease hasn't been kind to Bugliosi.
Nor have I. He wrote a foreward to Mark Fuhrman's and then wrote a book of his own on the Brentwood murders, which should make
anyone suspicious of the official prosecution story of that double homicide.
What needs to be reiterated is that the CIA, born out of corrupt Wall Streeters, insanely right-wing generals and a coven
of Nazi war criminals, have performed as one would expect.
The CIA has infiltrated every government agency, allowing the criminals like Stein to operate. Not only allowing them to
operate but to use them as part of their larger goals.
Right now I am on my computer, which is collecting all my information. It has a camera which can get live videos of me without
my say so. We have one of those Alexa thingies that can record things we talk about in our home. I've got a Samsung TV with
an ear open. There are surveillance cameras on every block of our cities.
Can I say this? We are fucked. Grab some popcorn and watch America's rapid demise into full-control fascism.
Bob In Portland on Fri, 07/26/2019 - 11:36am Bob In Portland on Fri, 07/26/2019 - 11:39am
is capable of anything. Is assassination of politicians by the government too far fetched? Maybe this is why the democratic
party is the way it is today.
When Alex Stamos announced that the Internet Research Agency's ad buys were a drop in
the ocean, Zuckerberg was promptly taken to the Congressional Woodshed and told to report
to the Atlantic Council. Those two billion-odd fake accounts may be a fraud perpetrated on
the advertisers, but they are invaluable to US "law" enforcement and to US propaganda, where
the ability to open a fake account on Facebook gives the illusion of privacy.
With all due respect to Mr. Greenspan and his Lowell House creds, I think he fails to
understand that Facebook is now an NSA asset.
This is a fascinating article and it certainly put a smile on my dial. As an asset for use
by governments around the world, Facebook may be too invaluable to just let sink. One guy
reported that he was in a meeting with Facebook’s top brass including the Zuck when a
head honcho of the FBI came into the meeting and sang Zuck’s praises for all the help
that Facebook gave the FBI. So the question remains. Just how many “real” Facebook
accounts does Facebook have? Ones that people check on daily. Now that is the killer
question.
"... And according to the Beast , "Clinton also failed to mention the intimate 1995 fundraising dinner at the Palm Beach home of Revlon mogul Ron Perelman, where Clinton hobnobbed with the likes of Epstein, Don Johnson, and Jimmy Buffett. (Nearby, at Epstein's own Palm Beach mansion, the money man allegedly abused hundreds of underage girls.)" ..."
"... Meanwhile, Clinton's college friend A. Paul Prosperi visited Epstein at least 20 times while he was in the Palm Beach county jail after pleading guilty to procuring an underage prostitute in 2008. Prosperi was also present at a 1995 Perelman fundraiser at which both Clinton and Epstein were present. ..."
"... Over that same time period, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Beast, Middleton met with Epstein in the White House at least three times . It is unclear what they discussed, or for how long. Middleton did not respond to repeated calls and emails for comment, or to a reporter who visited his home in Arkansas. ..."
Bill Clinton's attempts to distance himself from convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have
taken yet another blow - after a
Daily Beast investigation reveals that the financier - who came highly recommended by Lynn
Forester de Rothschild - visited the Clinton White House multiple times .
As early as 1993, records show, Epstein donated $10,000 to the White House Historical
Association and attended a donors' reception hosted by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Around the
same time, according to a source familiar with the connection, Epstein visited presidential
aide Mark Middleton several times at the White House . Two years later, businesswoman Lynn
Forester de Rothschild wrote a personal letter to Clinton thanking him for their talk about
the financier . -
Daily Beast
On July 8, the former president sought to distance himself from Epstein, claiming that the
two crossed paths just six times beginning in 2002; "four flights on the billionaire's private
jet, a single trip to his Harlem office, and one "brief visit" to his New York apartment, all
with staff and security detail in tow," per the Beast .
"President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to
in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York,"
Clinton spokesperson, Angel Ureña, told the Beast. " Any suggestion to the contrary is
both factually inaccurate and irresponsible."
Clinton's denial flies in the face of flight logs from Epstein's now-sold 'Lolita Express'
727 jet at least
26 times .
When the president released his initial statement on Epstein, he did not explain the
multiple other trips he appears
to have taken on the financier's plane -- including one flight to Westchester with
Epstein, his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell, and an "unnamed female." -
Daily Beast
And according to the Beast , "Clinton also failed to mention the intimate 1995 fundraising
dinner at the Palm Beach home of Revlon mogul Ron Perelman, where Clinton
hobnobbed with the likes of Epstein, Don Johnson, and Jimmy Buffett. (Nearby, at Epstein's
own Palm Beach mansion, the money man allegedly abused hundreds of underage girls.)"
While Politico claimed in a piece last week that the Clintons and Epstein connected through
Epstein's longtime confidant and alleged
procurer of young women - Ghislaine Maxwell, after Clinton left office, documents in
the Clinton Library attest to much earlier links .
In late September of 1993, Bill and Hillary Clinton hosted a reception for supporters who
had contributed to recent White House renovations. The nearly $400,000 overhaul -- which
included new gold draperies and a 13-color woven rug for the Oval Office -- was funded
entirely by donations to the White House Historical Association, a private organization that
helps preserve and promote the White House as a historical monument.
The reception took place at the White House residence from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., according to
a copy of the president's daily schedule. White House Social Secretary Ann Stock -- who
appears in Epstein's
little black book of phone numbers -- was listed as the point of contact . According to
multiple attendees, the evening included an intimate tour of the newly refurbished residence,
followed by a receiving line with the president and first lady. Dessert was served in the
East Room, where the couple thanked everyone for attending and announced the Committee for
the Preservation of the White House.
Guests for the event , according to the invitation list, included the journalist and
philanthropist Barbara Goldsmith, heiress Jane Engelhard, political consultant Cynthia
Friedman, and " Mr Jeffrey Epstein and Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell ." Epstein and Maxwell do not
appear on the 'regret list,' and there is a letter 'A' next to both of their names,
indicating they planned to attend . A press release from the event, put out by Hillary
Clinton's office, lists Epstein as a White House Historical Association donor. -
Daily Beast
Meanwhile, Clinton's college friend A. Paul Prosperi visited Epstein at least 20 times
while he was in the Palm Beach county jail after pleading guilty to procuring an underage
prostitute in 2008. Prosperi was also present at a 1995 Perelman fundraiser at which both
Clinton and Epstein were present.
Another Clinton connection with Epstein comes through White House aide Mark E. Middleton - a
friend of Clinton's from his beginnings in Arkansas who joined the administration in 1993 as
special assistant to Chief of Staff Mack McClarty (another Arkansas insider, per the Beast ).
Middleton would rise to the level of "Deputy to the Counselor" in 1994.
Over that same time period, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Daily
Beast, Middleton met with Epstein in the White House at least three times . It is unclear
what they discussed, or for how long. Middleton did not respond to repeated calls and emails
for comment, or to a reporter who visited his home in Arkansas.
Middleton and Epstein also appear to have shared a famous friend in common. Donald Trump
-- who once called Epstein a "terrific guy" -- sent Middleton a signed copy of his book , The
Art of the Deal , while the lawyer was working in the White House. The inscription read, " To
Mark -- Best wishes. Your mom is the best ."
Hobnobbing with businessmen like Epstein and Trump was part and parcel of Middleton's
White House job , according to a 1999 report from the House Committee on Government Reform.
("In the course of his duties, Middleton was in contact with many prominent business people
and contributors to the President," the report states.) But it also got the lawyer in trouble
with the administration once he left. -
Daily Beast
Rothschild letter
In 1995, Lynn Forester de Rothschild writes ""Dear Mr. President: It was a pleasure to see
you recently at Senator Kennedy's house. There was too much to discuss and too little time.
Using my fifteen seconds of access to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and currency stabilization, I
neglected to talk to you about a topic near and dear to my heart. Namely, affirmative action
and the future."
Of note, former Epstein attorney and pal Alan Dershowitz previously said that Forester de
Rothschild introduced him to Epstein at a party on Martha's Vineyard for Lord Rothschild in the
summer of 1996.
"He was feisty, he was utterly politically incorrect," said Dershowitz in a recent interview
with New York magazine. "He was interesting to be with."
Bill Clinton and that vicious evil **** of a wife Hillary have done more to **** this
country up and the entire world than any other human beings. No contest.
Remember when Harvey Weinstein was the "scum" of the moment? During these "15 minutes,"
director Quentin Tarantino acknowledged his regret in not exposing Weinstein. Basically, he
gave an interview where he admitted he knew what his producer friend had been doing - or must
have been doing - all these years, and yet Taratino did nothing. Taratino gets credit in my
book for acknowledging this. In other words, he COULD have done something to stop his
activities/crimes, but did not.
Compare and contrast Tarantino's "mea culpa" to the HUNDREDS of VIPs who must have known
what Epstein was doing - for decades. And remained silent and never considered going to
authorities.
Scores or hundreds of people COULD have stopped this, but did not.
This tells us much about our system and the "leaders" who rule us. Also about our
"watchdog" press corps, which had no interest in exposing this person or his operation.
Affirmative action? Ha! 1 year later Clinton signs into law permission for the Attorney
General to traffic in little kids without Judicial oversight;
SEC. 604. ASYLUM REFORM.
(a) Asylum Reform.--Section 208 (8 U.S.C. 1158) is amended to read as follows: ... (D) No
judicial review.--There shall be no judicial review of a determination of the Attorney
General under subparagraph (A)(v). ..." - excerpt from https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-104publ208/html/PLAW-104publ208.htm
Bill Richardson seems to be getting a pass so far on this story. While he has been
identified as being in Epstein's "black book" and receiving a couple of $50,000 campaign
donations from Epstein, what hasn't been mentioned is Richardson's key role as a Clinton
"fixer" and sycophant. Typically, he is identified only as a "former New Mexico
governor."
But prior to being elected governor of New Mexico, he served (if memory is correct) as the
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under Bill Clinton. It was in this role that he "found" a job for
Monica Lewinsky, when Clinton had to move her out of the White House.
No telling what he did for Clinton before he was rewarded with this plum appointment.
I'm sure if a real investigation ever occurred we would learn that New Mexico leaders were
as "bought off" as the U.S. Virgin Island leaders had to be.
Epstein bought his 7,500 acre "ranch" from a former New Mexico governor. Richardson admits
he visited this place one time (yeah right). The "ranch" has no cattle and has its own air
strip. Hasn't anyone in this state, or this county, investigated what was going on at this
place?
But if Richardson and Clinton are both involved (and they are), we know they were both up
to no good, and we're trying to keep something secret.
" Clinton's college friend A. Paul Prosperi visited Epstein at least 20 times while
he was in the Palm Beach county jail . . ."
Just checking on Epstein's well-being and morale. A true humanitarian. There is no chance
that Mr. Prosperi was acting as a cut-out for the Clinton family. /S
Paul must have visited him at night since Epstein was hardly in his cell during the
daytime due to the allowance of liberal furloughs 6.5 days per week and "business trips" he
was allowed to take that lasted several days.
Virginia Roberts is on the record - in sworn affidavits - of saying she had sex with
Prince Andrew on three occasions. She even mention the places and time frames she was at
these places with Prince Andrew.
Can't reporters or investigators simply see if Prince Andrew was at these places at the
same time she was? Wouldn't this corroborate (or disprove/impeach) her story?
Absolutely not. "Journalists" have no time to check on the Prince Andrew story, or the
allegation that Bill Clinton flew with Epstein 26 times. They are too busy pursuing false
allegations against Trump and putting spin on Mueller's train-wreck testimony from
yesterday.
This story intimates that Bill Clinton and Jeff Epstein knew one another long before
Clinton says they knew one another. And were much closer to one another than we have been led
to believe.
And anyone who spent a lot of time with Epstein knew exactly what commodity/service
Epstein offered.
Even if Clinton never availed himself of the services offered by one of Epstein's girls,
he had to know exactly what business Epstein "trafficked" in. Of course, the notion that
Clinton never "sampled the product" is laughable.
The little voice inside my head , 7 minutes ago
link
The story also opens the door to a vast amount of connections previously unknown, you
could follow the people mentioned in the article and see what became of them and start
building a web... Many posts here are starting to do that. Hopeful
This was some real investigative journalism. All reporters had to do was check White House
records that show who attended what events. This story PROVES Clinton was lying if he indeed
said he didn't know Epstein until after he was out of office. This alone is grounds to
investigate him further. (Things he said in the past have now been proven to be lies -
Investigation 101).
Reporters then showed Clinton's long-time buddy (who ran his political campaign at
Georgetown) was also an associate of Epstein. And this person visited Epstein 20 times (!)
while Epstein was in jail (over a 13-month period).
These CAN'T be coincidences.
Anyway, most of these people will say "no comment" or will refuse to respond to requests
for comments. But this doesn't mean reporters can't find incriminating sources or stories
from other avenues.
For example, Vanity Fair reporters simply interviewed people who worked at the Virgin
Islands airport. They then asked these people: "Did you happen to see a large number of young
girls boarding or getting off Epstein's planes?"
Answer: Yes. Definitely. All the time.
I mean, what are we to make of this?
Why were so many young girls traveling to and from Epstein's island?
"... When scanning the news most days, I see a constant amplification of wedge issues by mass media, blue-check pundits and even many in the so-called alternative media. I see people increasingly being encouraged to demonize and dehumanize their fellow citizens. Anyone who voted for Trump is automatically a Nazi, likewise, anyone who supports Sanders is an anti-American communist. The reality is neither of these things is even remotely true, so why are people so quick to say them? ..."
"... The Epstein case shines a gigantic spotlight on just how twisted and sociopathic the highest echelons of U.S. society have become. This is exactly what happens when you fail to put wealthy and powerful super predators behind bars. They get more brazen, they get more demented and, ultimately, they destroy the very fabric that holds society together. We are in fact ruled by monsters. ..."
Perhaps, at long last, a serial rapist and pedophile may be brought to justice , more than a dozen years after he was first
charged with crimes that have brutalized countless girls and women. But what won't change is this: the cesspool of elites, many
of them in New York, who allowed Jeffrey Epstein to flourish with impunity.
For decades, important, influential, "serious" people attended Epstein's dinner parties, rode his private jet, and furthered
the fiction that he was some kind of genius hedge-fund billionaire. How do we explain why they looked the other way, or flattered
Epstein, even as they must have noticed he was often in the company of a young harem? Easy: They got something in exchange from
him , whether it was a free ride on that airborne "Lolita Express," some other form of monetary largesse, entrée into the extravagant
celebrity soirées he hosted at his townhouse, or, possibly and harrowingly, a pound or two of female flesh.
An honest assessment of the current state of American politics and society in general leaves little room for optimism regarding
the public's ability to accurately diagnose, much less tackle, our fundamental issues at a root level. A primary reason for this
state of affairs boils down to the ease with which the American public is divided against itself and conquered.
Though there are certain issues pretty much everyone can agree on, we simply aren't focusing our collective energy on them or
creating the mass movements necessary to address them. Things such as systemic bipartisan corruption, the institutionalization of
a two-tier justice system in which the wealthy and powerful are above the law, a broken economy that requires both parents to work
and still barely make ends meet, and a military-industrial complex consumed with profits and imperial aggression not national defense.
These are just a few of the many issues that should easily unite us against an entrenched power structure, but it is not happening.
At least not yet.
We currently find ourselves at a unique inflection point in American history. Though I agree with Charles Hugh Smith's assessment
that " Our Ruling
Elites Have No Idea How Much We Want to See Them All in Prison Jumpsuits, " we have yet to reach the point where the general
public is prepared to do something about it. I think there are several reasons for this, but the primary obstacle relates to how
easily the citizenry is divided and conquered. The mass media, largely owned and controlled by billionaires and their corporations,
is highly incentivized to keep the public divided against itself on trivial issues, or at best, on real problems that are merely
symptoms of bipartisan elitist plunder.
The key thing, from a plutocrat's point of view, is to make sure the public never takes a step back and sees the root of society's
problems. It isn't Trump or Obama, and it isn't the Republican or Democratic parties either. These individuals and political gangs
are just useful vehicles for elitist plunder. They help herd the rabble into comfortable little tribal boxes that results in made
for tv squabbling, while the true forces of power carry on with the business of societal pillaging behind the scenes.
You're encouraged to attach your identity to team Republican or team Democrat, but never unite as one voice against a bipartisan
crew of depraved, corrupt and unaccountable power players molding society from the top. While the average person living paycheck
to paycheck fashions themselves part of some biblical fight of good vs. evil by supporting team red or blue, the manipulative and
powerful at the top remain beyond such plebeian theater (though they certainly encourage it). These folks know only one team -- team
green. And their team keeps winning, by the way.
When scanning the news most days, I see a constant amplification of wedge issues by mass media, blue-check pundits and even
many in the so-called alternative media. I see people increasingly being encouraged to demonize and dehumanize their fellow citizens.
Anyone who voted for Trump is automatically a Nazi, likewise, anyone who supports Sanders is an anti-American communist. The reality
is neither of these things is even remotely true, so why are people so quick to say them?
Why is most of the anger in this country being directed at fellow powerless Americans versus upward at the power structure which
nurtured and continues to defend the current depraved status quo? I don't see any upside to actively encouraging one side of the
political discussion to dehumanize the other side, and I suggest we consciously cease engaging in such behavior. Absolutely nothing
good can come from it.
Which is partly why I've been so consumed by the Jeffrey Epstein case. For once, it allows us to focus our energy on the depraved
nature of the so-called American "elite," rather than pick fights with each other. How many random Trump or Sanders supporters do
you know who systematically molest children and then pass them off to their wealthy and powerful friends for purposes of blackmail?
The Epstein case shines a gigantic spotlight on just how twisted and sociopathic the highest echelons of U.S. society have
become. This is exactly what happens when you fail to put wealthy and powerful super predators behind bars. They get more brazen,
they get more demented and, ultimately, they destroy the very fabric that holds society together. We are in fact ruled by monsters.
Unfortunately, by being short-sighted, by fighting amongst ourselves, and by taking the easy route of punching down versus punching
up, we allow such cretins to continue to rape and pillage what remains of our civilization.
If we can truly get to the bottom of exactly what Epstein was up to, I suspect it has the potential to focus the general public
(beyond a few seconds) on the true nature of what's really going on and what makes the world tick. Revelations of such a nature could
provide the proverbial tipping point that's so desperately needed, but this is also why the odds of us actually getting the whole
story is quite low. There's simply too much at stake for those calling the shots.
* * *
Side note: I've been consistently updating my
Epstein twitter thread as I learn new information.
I suggest checking back in from time to time.
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If we can truly get to the bottom of exactly what Epstein was up
1. We can't.
2. Epstein was in the business to set up people with kompromat material ...
3. ...and did it for someone else , it appears as he was protected from above for many years.
4. These " elses " won't allow that the support of the Americans to forever fight Israels wars gets shattered.
5. I expect operation diversion & coverup soon. My hunch is that they will pull a 9/11 hoax as a last resort if things get out
of hand fast.
6. They did it in the past, they will do it in the future.
7. Human lives don't matter to them.
Michael Krieger said: "It's sad and mind-boggling how easy it is to divide and conquer the American public. Manipulating the
masses in this country is trivial. The next few years will not be pretty".
Despite all the news of how the elites have manipulated the American public, it still goes on, unabated. Americans, for the
most part, are dumb and fat couch potatoes. They are not going to rise up against their elite masters, because they don't have
the wherewithal to do so. So, the show continues on, and the elites don't seem to have anything to worry about, and do as they
will.
If Americans were truly energetic about reigning in the abuses of the elites, they would have done so back in the 1870's, when
Mark Twain wrote about the Gilded Age Elites. Here it is, 149 years later, and nothing has changed in America today. The elites
still rule, and everyone else is an indentured servant. Of course, there are benefits for the elites to keep the American masses
dumbed down, and letting them lead couch potato life styles. Doing so, keeps them in power.
I suspect it was the CIA or FBI. But the goal was to keep Acosta from investigating Virginia Roberts' claims. If authorities
did this they would have had to investigate Prince Andrew.
If they found her to be truthful, they might even have to arrest Prince Andrew (can you imagine this happening?). Or at least
ask him to testify in a trial.
If the truth came out, this would humiliate the British nation, and Great Britain was (still is) one of America's most important
allies in the "war on terror" and all our other neocon initiatives.
Acosta was essentially told to "back off" Prince Andrew (not necessarily Epstein, who was best buddies with "Andy.")
This doesn't mean Israel intelligence was not involved in some way. It just means that American intelligence was involved,
or wanted to protect key people. Hell, they still do.
We can be almost certain that the exact same thing that happened with Acosta is happening right now. Some prosecutor is being
told to "back off. Don't go here. Focus only on Epstein and Epstein only."
This is why Ghislaine Maxwell has not been charged and will not be charged. This is why the FBI has not raided Pedo Island
or Pedo Ranch. This is why Epstein's four "co-accomplices" have not been charged.
Prosecutors have again been told that "intelligence" is saying that it's okay to do this (charge Epstein with sex crimes),
but NOT okay to do this (investigate and arrest any fellow predators).
It isn't just the elites and we need to stop pretending it is
"Child sex trafficking which is the buying and selling of women, young girls and boys for sex, some as young as 9 years old,
has become big business in America. It is the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second-most-lucrative commodity
traded illegally after drugs and guns.
Adults purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year in the United States.
It's not just young girls who are vulnerable to these predators, either.
According to a 2016 investigative report, "boys make up about 36% of children caught up in the U.S. sex industry (about 60% are
female and less than 5% are transgender males and females)."
Who buys a child for sex?
Otherwise, ordinary men from all walks of life. "They could be your co-worker, doctor, pastor or spouse."
If Epstein was muslin would this be a crime? Of course not it would be part of Muslim Culture. Look into the Abuse done to
young girls in the Rotherham abuse case. BTW I am no sticking up for Epstein but the ruling elites and certain minorities are
treated different from Joe and Jane Public
"The Epstein Case Is A Rare Opportunity To Focus "On The Depraved Nature Of America's Elite"
This IS a "rare opportunity' for Americans to do just this (focus on how deprived our elite leaders really are).
If Americans really started to do this, for an extended period of time, and got, you know, kind of pissed off about this state
of affairs, we might even throw all the bums out. We might really "drain the swamp."
So this is a BIG story. Potentially.
Of course, the Powers that Be are going to do everything they can to make sure Americans do NOT focus on this story for too
long. Or that the "narrative" is controlled. (For example by focusing only on Epstein, not his hundreds of depraved buddies and
corrupt institutions).
I've been posting for 10 days that there are "too many" of these people. And they are too powerful.
Seems to me if authorities went after one of the "johns," they would have to go after ALL of the "Johns." And this includes
Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, former senators, governors, CEOs, secretaries of the treasury, bankers, etc.
It's the massive numbers of possible offenders that is probably keeping all of these people "safe."
And I still think Prince Andrew is the biggest fish the authorities don't want to humiliate/charge.
Even more so than Clinton. Half the country would throw a party if Clinton was charged. But in the UK, 90 percent of British
citizens would be mortified and greatly embarrassed if one of their Princes was proven to have done all the things that have been
alleged he did.
Note how just as the Epstein story was gaining steam, Trump easily pulled the spotlight
back on himself through racist obnoxious tweets. Playing the role of the heel, much as he did
when in actual pro wrestling and reality tv show.
"In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a rudo in lucha libre) is a wrestler who
portrays a villain or a "bad guy" and acts as an antagonist[1][2][3] to the faces, who are
the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters. Not everything a heel wrestler does must be
villainous: heels need only to be booed or jeered by the audience to be effective characters.
To gain heat (with boos and jeers from the audience), heels are often portrayed as
behaving in an immoral manner by breaking rules or otherwise taking advantage of their
opponents outside the bounds of the standards of the match. Others do not (or rarely) break
rules, but instead exhibit unlikeable, appalling and deliberately offensive and demoralizing
personality traits such as arrogance, cowardice or contempt for the audience. Many heels do
both, cheating as well as behaving nastily." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel_(professional_wrestling)
Maff , Jul 23 2019 19:00 utc |
81O , Jul 23 2019 19:02 utc |
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Uncle Jon @67, I heard from a reputable British source that BoJo had a fling with Ghislane
Maxwell, so there's your tie in. I agree that the Epstein Affair is the key to unlocking many
mysteries.
And as if the 'voters' had an actual choice between BoJo and Jeremy Hunt
"UK's Jeremy Hunt: Israel Is 'an Inspiration,' 'Beacon of Democracy'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naLX3DBvrFg
I've been flogging this article intermittently for years without much positive feedback,
but I still consider the "wrestling fan"'s perspective to be a perfect analogy to the way
most US residents, including self-identified progressives and leftists who profess to be
skeptical/cynical, regard electoral politics.
Something Governmental built-up that Orgy Island, if Not directly then known about,
Epstein had just purchased nearby Great St. James Island, and nearby Dog Island is suspect,
plus ( not very far away ) Water Island has an old Submarine base that has a
underground/underwater Fort !
The Maxwell Manhattan property, which is close to Epstein's mansion, is owned by Lynn
Forester de Rothschild , wife of the British financier Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild.
It is also listed as the base of the Terramar project
Chum for fish and likely just dug holes for things like plastics, much like boats sort
their trash !
Plus whatever is in Maintenance yard across from Giganic Generator Building used 600amps
with huge exhaust vents and 6" water piping, that entire area was sea level some 20 Years ago
! Note 200amp runs any house and small businesses, whatever needed 600amps and built like a
bomb shelter also vented a kiln of sorts or a massive incinerator !
Agreed' But their are three 200amp intakes side by side on the building, how much power
the Generator Building could output is unknown ( arial pictures ) because the wires are all
underground and generator itself is unknown !
Their are Wild guesses about the maintenance building across from building with a
generator system because it is massive, with pallets of Concrete Blocks on drive-on roof and
about 150 foot above sea-level that was a beach some 20 years ago !
Some trucked off by barge in the beginning of first drone video. See 15 yard dump truck
parked by barge at beginning. Another video that just surfaced shows 2 underground entrances
and a dumps with fuel barrels, pallets and wood. Lot's of big bonfires I guess.
Generator is housed in a new huge building with doors closed, only the conduit entrenceway
is visible Three side by side at no less than 200amp each go to building equipped with 6"
plumbing lines!?!
I can only explain by having you watch excellent videos on YouTube so ignore if it's
outside your interest!
Go to We The People Insider [Be Ready] 6.3k views Streamed a day ago ( todays Video has a
little more ) and In The Matrixxx [Be Ready] 5k Views Streamed a day ago ( todays video has a
little more ) and find their Video explanations !
I myself 100% believe every word from Both sources, you must decide for yourself!
And 'In the Pursuit of Truth' "Child Mind" 79k views since yesterday and "Be Ready" 68k
views 17 hours ago ! Excellent !
. . . but it is unclear whether the report was ever filed with the Treasury Department's
financial-crimes division.
Unclear?? What a load of ******* ********. Of course it was never filed. That's because a
Stein was involved and he was part of the gang. This info would never have seen the light of
day if the creep wasn't busted again and the only reason we're seeing it now is a cover your
*** move on the part of DoucheBag.
Deutsche Bank uncovered suspicious transactions in which Jeffrey Epstein moved money out of the
United States, according to the
New
York Times
.
The bank reported the transactions to a federal agency in charge of policing financial crimes
after
the bank began to look for signs that Epstein was using his funds for sex trafficking
,
according to the report.
Epstein is said to have moved his moey to Deutsche Bank's private-banking division after JP
Morgan Chase cut ties with himn in 2013, five years after he pleaded guilty to state prostitution
charges - one of which involved a minor.
Deutsche Bank executives are still trying to understand the depth and scope of the bank's
relationship with Mr. Epstein,
who has been a client of its private-banking division
since at least 2013 -- years after his conduct became public in a prostitution case involving a
teenage girl.
Deutsche Bank has been contacted by prosecutors and other government authorities
investigating Mr. Epstein.
Joerg Eigendorf, a Deutsche Bank spokesman, said the bank was
"absolutely committed to cooperating with all relevant authorities."
-
New
York Times
Following a series of investigative reports by the
Miami
Herald
earlier this year, Deutsche Bank followed suit, severing ties with the wealthy
financier. Doing so proved difficult for the bank, as its antiquated systems. "
On a number
of occasions, Deutsche Bank executives had thought they had shut down all of Mr. Epstein's accounts
,
only to learn that there were others that they had not previously been aware of," according to the
Times
.
By late spring, there were still transactions occurring in Epstein's Deutsche Bank accounts,
however company officials now believe they have closed them all down.
Epstein, who is currently sitting in a Manhattan jail cell pending trial, has been accused of
operating a sex-trafficking ring involving dozens of victims - some as young as 14.
He has a byzantine network of businesses and personal holdings, which include real estate, an
island and private planes valued at more than $500 million. -
New
York Times
Deutsche Bank first flagged Epstein's accounts in 2015 and 2016
, after
anti-money laundering compliance officers in the bank's New York and Jacksonville, FL offices
raised a wide spectrum of concerns over the bank's relationship with the financier.
The employees were concerned that the bank's reputation could be harmed if it became public
that Mr. Epstein was a client, according to the people familiar with the internal processes.
In addition,
the compliance officers on at least one occasion noticed potentially
illegal activity in one of Mr. Epstein's account
s, including transactions in which
money was moving outside the United States, the people said. The compliance officers produced a
so-called suspicious activity report, but it is unclear whether the report was ever filed with
the Treasury Department's financial-crimes division.
Despite the compliance officers' misgivings, the bank continued to do extensive business with
Mr. Epstein. -
New
York Times
"We're still trying to get our arms around it," said a bank employee.
"Following a series of investigative reports by the
Miami
Herald
earlier this year, Deutsche Bank followed suit,
severing ties with the wealthy financier. Doing so proved
difficult for the bank, as its antiquated systems. "
On a number
of occasions, Deutsche Bank executives had thought they had shut
down all of Mr. Epstein's accounts
, only to learn that there
were others that they had not previously been aware of," according
to the
Times
. By late spring, there were still transactions
occurring in Epstein's Deutsche Bank accounts, however company
officials now believe they have closed them all down." They had no
investigative people working for them, and somehow did not read
newspapers from Miami at the time. They also have, and always have
had, antiquated systems even though they are a large bank. Who
does this make sense to?
"... In a suit filed in 2015, Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed that in 1999, when she was 15 years old, Epstein's friend and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, approached Giuffre at her summer job at Mar-a-Lago, and offered the teen professional training in massages. Giuffre says she was then brought to Epstein's Palm Beach home, where she was repeatedly sexually abused by him, and that over the next few years, he "loaned her out to rich and influential men around the world," as the Guardian reported in 2015. ..."
"... Among these men, Prince Andrew, who Giuffre said she was forced to have sex with on three occasions while she was 17, once in London, at Maxwell's home, once in New York, and once on Epstein's private Caribbean island as part of an "orgy with numerous other under-aged girls." ..."
"... According to court filings submitted in 2015 as part of a long-running lawsuit challenging Epstein's plea deal, Giuffre said Epstein ordered her at the time to "give the prince whatever he required" and report back to him with details of the abuse after. Per the filing, obtained by the Guardian : ..."
"... "Epstein's purposes in 'lending' Jane Doe (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain," the document alleged, "as well as to obtain potential blackmail information". ..."
"... Buckingham Palace strenuously denied the allegations after they were published in the Guardian , calling them "categorically untrue," and denying "any form of sexual contact or relationship" between the prince and Giuffre. ..."
"... Flight logs, however, appear to confirm that the prince was in the locations Giuffre claimed he was at the relevant times, the Telegraph reported in 2015. ..."
Wealthy financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested at an airport in New Jersey on Saturday for allegedly
trafficking dozens of underage girls between 2002 and 2005. Epstein, who received a lenient and widely criticized plea deal for similar
charges back in 2007, is extremely well-connected. His "
little black book
" included presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Richard Branson, Michael Bloomberg, Courtney Love, and 16 phone numbers
for Britain's Prince Andrew (Queen Elizabeth's third child, and Prince Charles's younger brother). Prince Andrew and Epstein have
been friends for a while, and, according to court documents, Epstein allegedly forced a teenage girl to have sex with him on three
separate occasions, including during what she described as an orgy with other underage girls. Buckingham Palace has vehemently denied
the allegations, but as Epstein is back under the spotlight, we're likely to hear more about the prince's relationship to him. Here's
everything we know so far.
"... According to multiple court filings reviewed by the Miami Herald , lawyers for one of Epstein's alleged victims have claimed that Epstein and Maxwell acted as the leaders of an "organized crime family" and that Maxwell helped traffic girls and women to powerful figures. Per the documents, Maxwell lured the alleged victims into the sex ring by offering them modeling, fashion, and educational opportunities. Furthermore, in 2009 depositions, two former house managers testified that Maxwell kept photos of young women in sexual acts. ..."
"... Maria Farmer, said in a sworn affidavit that Maxwell and Epstein sexually assaulted her in 1996 while she was working on an art project at the Ohio Mansion of L Brands CEO Les Wexner . ..."
"... Additionally, in 2017, a woman named Sarah Ransome alleged in a lawsuit that Maxwell and Epstein had threatened to physically hurt her or ruin her career were she to refuse to have sex with the pair's clients. Ransome withdrew the suit in December 2018 for reasons that were not made public ..."
"... Sanford L. Bohrer, the Miami Herald 's attorney , has urged the New York appeals court to prioritize unsealing the approximate 2,000 pages of documents related to the 2015 defamation case, as the allegations against Maxwell are "an issue of critical public concern." ..."
"... On July 2 of this year, though, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered that some of the aforementioned sealed documents be unsealed. But, predictably, Maxwell would prefer that the 2,000-some documents remain sealed. ..."
They were the glamorous Jeffrey Epstein aides who refused to testify about Prince Andrew's visits to the 'House of Sin'.
Sarah Kellen and Nadia Marchinova both pleaded their right to silence under the US Fifth Amendment when asked if the royal had
sex with teenage girls – earning themselves the nickname the 'blondes who took the Fifth'.
Today, Epstein's former PA Miss Kellen and Miss Marchinova – his on-off girlfriend – have reinvented themselves as Sarah Kensington
and Nadia Marcinko.
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Sarah Kensington - formerly Sarah Kellen - and her racing driver boyfriend Brian Vickers (left) and Nadia Marchinova, who is now
Nadia Marcinko (right)
Miss Kensington, 34, is an interior designer who boasts of renovating corporate apartments in New York, the Caribbean and Paris
– and dating a handsome racing car driver.
Miss Marcinko, 29, is a pilot and the chief executive of Aviloop, a company selling discounted flying lessons.
Intriguingly, they both operate from £1.5million addresses in a Manhattan building majority-owned by Mr Epstein's brother Mark.
Neither woman seems keen to draw attention to their past work for the billionaire paedophile.
Both women were given immunity from prosecution in a controversial deal fixed by Epstein when he was jailed for soliciting prostitution
from underage girls.
Miss Kellen was named as the chief fixer who travelled the world with Epstein and was accused by lawyers in legal filings of 'bringing
girls to Epstein's mansion to be abused'.
Quizzed under oath, she had an opportunity to deny Andrew had sex at the £6million Florida mansion, dubbed the 'House of Sin',
but chose to remain silent.
Citing the Fifth Amendment, Miss Marchinova also declined to say if she had sex with Andrew.
Since those scandal-engulfed days, both women have led dramatically different lives, a Mail investigation has discovered.
Both women were given immunity from prosecution in a controversial deal fixed by Epstein (left and right). He is said to have
gone to huge efforts to cover-up his crimes, promising to 'look after' those who kept quiet +8 <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/08/2461C72500000578-0-image-a-12_1420680664559.jpg"
height="910" width="634" alt="When quizzed under oath, Ms Kellen had an opportunity to deny Andrew (pictured left with Epstein) had
sex at Epstein's £6million Florida mansion, dubbed the 'House of Sin', but chose to remain silent" />
When quizzed under oath, Ms Kellen had an opportunity to deny Andrew (pictured left with Epstein) had sex at Epstein's £6million
Florida mansion, dubbed the 'House of Sin', but chose to remain silent
Buckingham Palace denies Prince Andrew sex case claim
Miss Kellen moved to Hawaii for a number of years where she married and took her husband's surname Bonk, before taking on her
current identity. On her interior design website, sarahkensington.net, she describes being 'fortunate to say that I've been able
to travel to many locations around the world, which in turn has broadened my designing skills'. She is in a relationship with a successful
Nascar driver, stating on her website that 'most of my fans know that I am Brian Vickers' girlfriend'.
Slovakia-born Miss Marcinko's biography on the Aviloop website now states: 'Over the years, she has proven herself to be a distinguished
entrepreneur'.
Virginia Roberts (pictured) claims in court she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York three times while underage"
Prince
Andrew pictured in 2001 with Virginia Roberts. She is said to be planning a book about her life
She also penned an online blog under the name 'Gulfstream Girl' which more than 77,000 people 'liked', until the company Gulfstream
objected and she changed it to 'Global Girl'.
She described how she started her flight training at Palm Beach Airport before accepting 'an offer from a friend' to obtain her
Gulfstream II pilot rating.
Epstein, 61, is said to have gone to extraordinary efforts to cover-up his vile crimes, promising to 'look after' people who kept
quiet.
His brother Mark told The Guardian newspaper he owned 'the majority of the units in the Manhattan building' and had never heard
of the two women's companies.
The Duke (pictured) fiercely denies any sexual contact with underage girls, while Epstein's lawyer has described the claims as
lies
He said Jeffrey did not own any of the units in the building, adding: 'They're rentals. The ones I own, I rent all of them out.'
It was also claimed yesterday that Epstein intimidated a pregnant journalist by asking where she was due to give birth.
British-born writer Vicky Ward was so afraid of the US financier that she had security put on the intensive care ward where her
premature twins were being treated.
The Cambridge-educated journalist, 45, said he tried to 'control' her when he learned she was writing an in-depth article about
him for Vanity Fair magazine in 2002.
Describing how Epstein 'spooked' her, she said he feared he was 'coming for my little ones' when he asked at which hospital she
was giving birth.
The Duke fiercely denies any sexual contact with underage girls, while Epstein's lawyer has described the claims as lies.
Where Are Jeffrey Epstein's Alleged Accomplices Now?
When prosecutors gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart plea deal in 2007, they agreed not
to charge four women allegedly involved in recruiting dozens of underage girls for abuse.
Updated
07.09.19
1:49PM
ET
/
Published
07.09.19
4:41AM
ET
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty/YouTube
For decades,
financier Jeffrey Epstein
allegedly abused dozens of underage girls in a sex-trafficking enterprise,
according to a new federal indictment unsealed in the Southern District of New York.
But in order to successfully "create a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit" and
expand his network of possible targets, he relied on the loyalty and organizational skills of his employees,
prosecutors claim.
According to the
14-page indictment
filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday, the 66-year-old hedge-fund
manager/convicted sex offender "worked and conspired with others, including employees and associates" to run
a sex-trafficking enterprise between 2002 and 2005, preying on "dozens" of girls as young as 14 at his
mansions in New York and Palm Beach, Florida.
During each encounter listed in the indictment -- which charges Epstein with one count of sex trafficking
and one count of sex-trafficking conspiracy -- girls were taken to a room to perform "massages" nude or
partially nude before Epstein would escalate the encounter to "include one or more sex acts."
"Epstein typically would also masturbate during these sexualized encounters, ask victims to touch him
while he masturbated, and touch victims' genitals with his hands or with sex toys," the indictment states,
adding the money man knew that the girls were minors.
After the assault, prosecutors allege, Epstein or his associates would pay each girl hundreds of dollars
in cash and often would turn the victim into a recruiter of new girls to abuse.
"In this way, Epstein created a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit," the
indictment said. The indictment goes on to detail three anonymous victims and refers to three unnamed
employees who allegedly assisted Epstein in the enterprise, including by making calls to arrange for
"massages" for Epstein.
It's not the first time that Epstein's employees and associates have been accused of helping procure
underage girls for his abuse.
In Epstein's controversial 2008 plea deal in Florida -- which was granted by then-prosecutor and
now-Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta and other DOJ attorneys, without informing the billionaire's alleged
victims -- four women are named as possible accomplices. Epstein's non-prosecution agreement, which sentenced
him to 18 months in prison, also granted immunity to the four women and any other "potential
co-conspirators," identified in the
document
as "including but not limited to Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, or Nadia
Marcinkova."
"While Epstein was at the head of the international sex trafficking organization, that conspiracy could
not have functioned without many others playing their part," attorney Paul Cassell, who represents multiple
victims of Epstein,
told The Daily Beast after Epstein's arrest on Saturday
. "Jane Doe 1 and 2 will continue to fight for
all of Epstein's co-conspirators to be held accountable in New York, Florida, and anywhere else they
committed crimes."
Details of Epstein's alleged trafficking in Monday's indictment mirror the accounts of scores of underage
women in Florida, who described several "schedulers" who organized his alleged sex sessions and one young
woman, described as Epstein's "sex slave," who would allegedly participate in the abuse while the
billionaire watched.
Sarah Kellen, Epstein's former assistant who allegedly kept a Rolodex of young girls to recruit for her
employer, is now
married
to NASCAR driver Brian Vickers. Along with traveling with her husband, the 39-year-old (who also
goes by the name
Sarah Kensington)
is the owner of an interior-design firm,
SLK Designs
.
"Sarah Kensington makes a living doing what she loves in life, interior design,"
a Facebook page connected to SLK Designs states
. "She is the owner of SLK Designs LLC. and has studies
at several schools including the University of Hawaii and New York School of Interior Design." The
social-media page also details Sarah's interests, which include "fashion, photography, travel, delicious
cuisine, and anything design related."
The page also notes that Sarah "is working with a number of clients on various projects including
renovating several corporate apartments in New York, the Caribbean, and Paris. For the houses that Sarah
manages, she does a number of duties which can involve organizing staff schedules, looking for and
interviewing housekeepers and chefs, purchase and source items that are needed for the household (flatware,
dishes, furniture, art, etc.), design floral arrangements, and interior design."
Epstein also owns homes in New York, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Paris.
According to public records
, SLK Designs once operated from a building in Midtown Manhattan owned by
Epstein's property-manager brother, Mark Epstein. The condominium listed to take SLK Designs deliveries, at
301 E. 66th St., is the same address
where Epstein allegedly rented units
to house
models
.
Though not directly named in Monday's indictment, Kellen has been accused in court documents related to
the Florida case of booking the "massages," often calling girls to ensure they "were available for
encounters" when Epstein would travel to Palm Beach. Several alleged victims in Florida told authorities
they were led to and from the upstairs room in Epstein's mansion by a woman named Sarah, after she lined up
the oils on his massage table. According to
one police report
, Kellen also warned the girls not to talk to authorities about the encounters.
Monday's indictment contains similar allegations about unnamed Epstein employees. "When a victim
initially arrived at the Palm Beach Residence, she would be escorted to a room, sometimes by an employee of
Epstein's, including, at times, two assistants who, as described herein, were also responsible for
scheduling sexual encounters with minor victims," the Monday indictment states.
Kellen, who has properties in North Carolina, New York, and Miami Beach, did not respond to The Daily
Beast's request for comment. A NASCAR spokesperson told The Daily Beast the organization does "not have a
comment" about Kellen's alleged misconduct.
Nadia Marcinkova
Nadia Marcinkova, Epstein's alleged "sex slave" who
was accused of
participating in sexual encounters with underage girls, is now an FAA-certified
commercial pilot and flight instructor. Marcinkova, 33, who was allegedly brought from the former Yugoslavia
to live with Epstein, now goes by the named "
Global
Girl
" on social media, and has changed her last name.
"Global Girl (
Nadia
Marcinko
) spent many years in the international marketing and advertising world as an international
fashion model and spokesperson, with clients including Chanel, Christian Dior, Valentino,
Vogue
and
MTV. After many successful years in the modeling industry, she was ready for longer runways and became a
licensed commercial pilot," her
Facebook account states
, adding that she is an "FAA certified flight instructor and Gulfstream II, III &
IV pilot."
Marcinkova also is the founder and CEO of Aviloop, a website selling discounted flying lessons and other
deals related to aviation. Since 2011, Aviloop provides a slew of services, including designing custom pilot
team and "organizing team building events." As with Kellen, the aviation company is
registered
at the building once owned by Mark Epstein and allegedly used as a model clubhouse by his
brother.
Though Marcinkova originally started calling herself "Gulfstream Girl," she was sued in 2013 by
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. for trademark infringement. On Jan. 6, 2014, the lawsuit filed in a New York
Southern District court was settled after Marcinko changed her online name to Global Girl.
According to
written testimony by several alleged victims
, Marcinkova is described as having "encouraged and engaged
in sexual acts" with young girls while Epstein watched. According to police, Epstein told one victim
Marcinkova was his "sex slave" and that he'd purchased her from her family in the former Yugoslavia when she
was 15. Marcinkova is not directly named in Monday's indictment.
Marcinkova, who lives in New York, did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast's request for comment.
Adriana Ross
Adriana Ross, a former model from Poland who allegedly helped organize Epstein's predatory sessions,
moved to Florida in 2002 and was hired to work at the financier's mansion. Ross, who often went by Adriana
Mucinska and is not directly named in Monday's indictment, also frequently flew on Epstein's
private jet alongside Bill Clinton
, according to flight records.
Along with her fellow alleged co-conspirators, Ross was questioned in 2010 about whether Britain's Prince
Andrew participated in Epstein's alleged sex enterprise. Refusing to answer questions about the inner
workings of the alleged scheme, Ross repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment rights,
according to previous reports
. As previously reported by The Daily Beast, Ross also lived at the East
66th Street building in Manhattan.
Ross' current profession or address was not immediately clear and she could not be reached for comment.
Lesley Groff
Lesley Groff
was another Epstein assistant who allegedly coordinated travel for young girls, often calling to schedule
"massages." Though not directly named in Monday's indictment, the 51-year-old has been previously named as
one of Epstein's three female assistants. According to a
2005
Chicago Tribune
story about executive-assistant pay
, Epstein divulged his assistants made
about $200,000.
"They are an extension of my brain. Their intuition is something that I don't have," Epstein told the
Tribune
. According to public records, Groff currently lives in Connecticut and did not respond to The
Daily Beast's request for comment.
Without a doubt, the absolutely raunchiest part of the Epstein affadavit stars a mysterious young woman named "Nada Marcinkova."
Lesbian strap-on raunchiness, ending in something that sounds to us a little bit like rape. We get all the details but no explanation
of who Marcinkova is or what her relationship with Epstein was.
She's not one of his high school victims, and doesn't seem to have talked to the police. But it somehow seems fitting that this
mysterious money manager to the billionaires would have an unknown Czech sex puppet lying around somewhere.
Gawker identified her in a
NY Social Diary photo
where Nadia (far left) is palling around with Epstein's pimp assistant Sarah Kellen (right).
Here she looks very respectable. Not at all like the "large rubber penis" wielding girl we know from the affadavit. Surely there's
a more representative photo.
Of course there is. After the jump, check out Nadia looking a little more, uhm, severe, sexy and ready to get it on. And we'll
throw in the raunchy portion of the affadavit below for your, uhm, reading pleasure.
[Note: Nadia, of course, couldn't be reached to confirm that this is her. But we're pretty sure it is.] Here's the relevant part
of the affidavit.
[Annoying redacting ink blot covering up girl's name] advised that things escalated within the home as Epstein would instruct
and pay [ink blot] to have intercourse with his female friend, Nada Marcinkova.
[Ink blot] explained the intercourse included strap on dildos, large rubber penis' [sic] and other devices that Epstein had
at his disposal. Epstein would watch them have intercourse and masturbate himself. Occasionally, Epstein would then join in during
the female on female intercourse and provide oral sex to both [ink blot] and Marcinkova.
This occured during the time [ink blot] was sixteen years of age.
[Ink blot] advised that this continued to escalate during two years. The routine became familiar to [ink blot]. Epstein's assistant
Sarah [Kellen] would telephone her every time Epstein was in the Town of Palm Beach and would place appointments for her to visit
and work for Epstein.
[... Ink blot] stated during one visit to Epstein's house in which she provided a massage to Epstein, his female friend, Nada
Marcinkova, was also present. [Ink blot] provided the massage in which Marcinkova and her would fondle each others breasts and
kiss for Epstein to enjoy. Towards the end of this massage, Epstein grabbed [ink blot] and turned her over onto her stomach on
the massage table and forcible insterted his penis into her vagina.
[Ink blot] became upset over this. She said her head was being held against the table forcibly, as he continued to pump inside
her. She screamed "No!" and Epstein stopped. She told him that she did not want to have his penis inside of her. Epstein did not
ejaculate inside of her and apologized for his actions and subsequently paid her a thousand dollars for that visit.
[Ink blot] stated she knows he still displays her photographs throughout the house.
"... Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is ..."
"... You're overspecializing. Epstein, like all of the characters in the Mueller mess, is an international fixer and blackmailer. All of these dudes work for EVERY nation and mob at one time or another, and betray EVERY nation and mob at other times. Israel is just one of the nations that hire these creatures. The only difference is that the fixers are less likely to betray Israel. Mossad is more serious and competent than MI6 or CIA. ..."
"... I suggest that everyone half intelligent exercise some common sense when it comes to Epstein. Only an (anti-Israel) idiot believes that Epstein/Mossad were running blackmail operations for years with American intelligence cowed into turning a blind eye. ..."
"... While it will certainly be a hard row to hoe due to many factors, not the least of which is that the Zionists have taken the long-view on many matters and this approach has given them the upper hand, it is imperative for the prosperity and well-being of the non-Zionist U.S. citizens. ..."
"... By the way, amid all this Maxwell=Mossad business, both Maxwell and Trump procured their opulent yachting yachts from the Khashoggi brothers. And Khashoggi, whoever else he works for, is a big skin on the wall at CIA... ..."
Some journalists in the Jewish media are
starting to complain that President Donald Trump is "loving Israel" just a little too much
since he keeps citing his concern for the Jewish state as the driving force behind some of his
erratic behavior. It is a viewpoint that I most definitely share, though I would describe the
apparent White House lovefest with the Israel as a "lot too much." When the President of the
United States calls a congresswoman an anti-Semite and
demands that she apologize to him personally and also to Israel it is definitely a lot too
much.
So Israel is always in the news, or so it seems, though it is often not in the news when the
story might be derogatory. The story disappears from sight as soon as it is determined that
Israel might be involved, as is currently the case with Jeffrey Epstein, or Israeli activity is
excised completely as was the case with the Mueller investigation where Russiagate should have
really been called Israelgate as it was Israel that was seeking favors from the incoming Trump
Administration, not Russia. As Noam Chomsky
put it , Israeli interference in American politics "vastly overwhelms" anything Russia has
done.
I have recently written about how the Jewish state works hard to brainwash the American
people and limit the foreign policy options of the U.S. government, to include aggressive
efforts to obtain what the intelligence agencies would call "agents of influence." Agents
of influence live and work in one country while simultaneously and treacherously advancing the
interests of another nation. It is what George Washington warned about in his Farewell Address
when he counseled "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe
me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history
and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican
government."
Foreign influence as a potential national security threat is also a status defined in legal
terms by the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA), which requires anyone working on
behalf of a foreign government to register and make transparent sources of income.
Uniquely, no foundation or individual working in America to advance the interests of the
Jewish state has ever been required to register under FARA even though many, like the odious
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), boast unambiguously on their websites that they are "America's pro-Israel Lobby."
Many of the foundations are regarded as educational or charitable 501(c)3 tax exempt
non-profits, which means the U.S. taxpayer is helping support their activity. But being a
non-profit charity does not necessarily mean austerity, as the salaries of top employees are
generous. Canadian Jew Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a
501(c)3, is paid $560,000 in salary and benefits. FDD has for many years been calling for war
against Iran.
The most recent foundation being set up by Israel's friends to promote the interests of the
Jewish state is the Edmund Burke Foundation, which hosted a conference on "Nationalism" last
week. The conference was interesting in that the Burke Foundation is headed by an Israeli and an
American Jew who has served as Executive Director of the Christians United For Israel (CUFI).
The event was held at the Washington D.C. Ritz-Carlton, suggesting that the Burkeans are not
short of cash. Pro-Israel groups always seem to have plenty of Benjamins.
A number of traditional conservatives and even some organizations were
fooled by the promotional material and speakers' list into thinking that the program was
legitimate and would focus on supporting national interests as well as foreign policy
restraint, but some at least had their eyes opened when John Bolton, as featured speaker, was
vigorously applauded by at least half of the audience .
Some potential critics of the agenda were not invited or even
deliberately
denied tickets to limit dissent, and several attendees were appalled by what they had
witnessed, which was essentially an affirmation of status quo foreign policy, to the benefit
of the hawks in Washington and Israel. Inevitably, some delusional dimwits were unable to
understand that they were being used and were oddly entranced by what they were seeing and hearing . And don't
worry if you are among those who missed the event. It will probably be replayed in a few months
under a different name and with a slightly different cast of characters.
The most visible Israeli tool for generating contacts with Americans that might prove useful
is the all- expenses-paid VIP junkets that are arranged for Congressmen. New Congressmen
routinely travel to Israel for a dog-and-pony show within months of their taking office. One of
Congress's leading cheerleaders for Israel, Maryland's Steny Hoyer has visited the Jewish state
many times and can be relied on
to pressure freshman congressmen to make the trip. Other Americans who might be influential in
the future are also feted by the Israeli hospitality machine. American military cadets from the
service academies and colleges are now being brought to Israel to
learn a fictional version of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Undoubtedly, some of them are
set up for intelligence approaches after they are commissioned.
Which brings us to the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein story and how it is being handled by
government and covered in the media since the story exploded two weeks ago. No one outside the
alternative media seems to be interested in the possibility, or rather likelihood, that Epstein
was working for a foreign intelligence service, which would most likely be Israel. In the media
the Epstein story died almost immediately, submerged in the tale of Donald Trump telling
several congresswomen to go back where they came from.
It is unlikely that the spying aspect of Epstein's alleged crimes will even be investigated
both because it involves the Jewish state and also becomes it appears to include participation
by leading politicians from both parties and other public figures. The Deep State will make the
story die, which just might also be what happens to Epstein in jail.
The evidence that Epstein was involved in intelligence work most likely bribing or
blackmailing prominent individuals to act on behalf of Israel, derives both from the statement
made by former U.S. Attorney for Miami Alexander Acosta
that "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone" and from other
external evidence. Epstein was making videos of his guests having sex with his young girls,
which is a version of a classic intelligence entrapment technique referred to as a "honey trap"
that is employed by every major spy agency worldwide. And the Acosta quote – will it ever
be fully investigated? Who told him that Epstein was "intelligence" and what were the
circumstances?
Jeffrey's sources of income have also been questioned. Epstein's sole identified business
connection was Ohio billionaire Les Wexner, who maintained very close ties to the upper echelons of the
Israeli diplomatic and intelligence establishment .
Epstein served as Wexner's trustee when the latter was forming the Mega Group, created by
Wexner and Edgar Bronfman to generate positive views of Israel as a
cover for Israeli propaganda dissemination in America.
Epstein's lack of an identifiable income stream rather suggests that he might have been
supported by a government agency of some kind. He had hidden in his Manhattan house a great
deal of cash, diamonds and an Austrian passport. The diamonds might have represented payment in
kind from Israel, which is capital of the world diamond trade, and the existence of the
passport is intriguing. It has been described in the media as "fake" but that can mean
anything. The passport, dating from the 1980s, was
apparently authentic with a photo of Epstein and a fake name inserted in it, but it might
plausibly be the product of a government document forgery lab. Why Austria? Because Austria was
at the time politically neutral and the passport would be a good one for traveling anywhere. It
would be much preferred by spy agencies or by agents who wanted to travel anonymously.
That Epstein would be linked to Israel rather than to some other intelligence service is due
to his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell ,
whose father Robert, a Czech Jew who became a naturalized British citizen, was believed by
C.I.A. and other intelligence services to be a long-time agent of Mossad. After he died under
mysterious circumstances, he was given a state funeral in Israel that was attended by every
current and former head of the Jewish state's intelligence service as well as by the country's
prime minister Yitzhak Shamir. Ghislaine was reportedly Epstein's close friend and a procurer
of his young girl victims.
As most of Israel's agents of influence are now on Martha's Vineyard where they gather in
July and August, it would be wonderful to cut off all transportation and communication with the
island and leave them there, but that would be unfair to the genuine year-round residents.
Alternatively, I would be happy just to see Israel's dire influence over the United States
exposed by the media and discussed in public fora by the more than 20 Democratic Party
presidential wannabes. As that is not likely to happen, I would settle for a real honest-to-God
investigation of Epstein and what he was doing coupled with a move by the Treasury and Justice
departments against all the hundreds of pro-Israel groups that have never registered under
FARA. It's a big job to uncover Israeli subversion, but somebody needs to start doing it.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National
Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that
seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is
councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its
email is[email protected]
I would settle for a real honest-to-God investigation of Epstein
Dershowitz "would publish an online essay preemptively attacking Bruck's (Connie)
unpublished article and accusing New Yorker editor David Remnick of ordering up a "hit
piece" aimed at "silencing my defense of President Trump , Prime Minister
Netanyahu , and the State of Israel ." (Remnick declined to comment.)
Rice,NYM 7/19
Dersh' is claiming this forthcoming Bruck piece -in particular- will do permanent damage
to his career. We can only hope it will be that effective. Yes, forces are out there trying
to quash investigations.
I think there will be some significant efforts to do the job that many had badly fell
short on. But there should be much more. Like 60 Mins and Frontline to name
two. As for the prosecutors, that question has to be answered too. This is a very big story.
As serious as the crimes against the young girls are, the Epstein case is about much
more.
Are you kidding? The truth will never come out. You were supposedly a counterintelligence
expert at the CIA? Epstein's links to Maxwell, Israel, the Mossad, MI5 and the USA's own CIA
are so blatant that Acosta was told that he was part of the Intelligence Network and to leave
him alone. All Jewish organizations (they do not have to register as lobbying groups) are
nothing more that money launders for various illegal Jewish activities and form pathways for
Jews to do anything they want in America.
Yeah. Vanity Fair is reporting that some "prominent Republicans" believe that Epstein is a
Mossad agent. And so it begins. The Narrative: the only people that believe THAT tinfoil hat
blood libel about Epstein-Israel are the Nazi Alt-right-wingers. It's basically the Birthers
all over again. Nothing to see here. Move along.
You're overspecializing. Epstein, like all of the characters in the Mueller mess, is an
international fixer and blackmailer. All of these dudes work for EVERY nation and mob at one
time or another, and betray EVERY nation and mob at other times. Israel is just one of the
nations that hire these creatures. The only difference is that the fixers are less likely to
betray Israel. Mossad is more serious and competent than MI6 or CIA.
Thank you, Philip Giraldi, for an important and insightful article.
Another major hurdle blocking a genuine investigation of Israeli influence and its
highly-paid and deeply-embedded agents of influence, is that Israel just happens to have
'friends' at all levels of elite American media. Israelis and crypto-Israelis dominate
America's Fourth Estate.
Pro-Israel infiltration of US news institutions, social media organs, search engines, and
entertainment media cannot be overestimated. Yet it's ignored. Deliberately. Certain facts
may not be noticed.
But it is a fact that hard-core Zionists own/manage/influence most American news and
entertainment media; from Hollywood to Chicago to DC to NYC–and most everything in
between.
In the rare instance when an independent news outlet does do its job and pursues a story
that upsets organized Jewry, it is commonly met with threats of boycott (economic warfare)
and/or Zionist-friendly lawsuits ('lawfare'). As Gilad Atzmon has noted (I paraphrase):
'Jewish power is the power to make unacceptable the close examination of Jewish power'.
Isn't the main problem double citizenship, the rotten US empire has enforced all over its
vassal states?
You can't serve two masters, double citizenship has to be removed.
Giraldi appears to be speaking truth to (Jewish) power but don't believe it.
It ain't coincidental that he's engaged in this distracting arm-waving, mentioning the
previously obscure and notoriously unenforced FARA twice.
the DOJ National Security Division, intentionally never prosecuted for FARA violations
because they used the appearance of FARA violations to get FISA electronic surveillance
warrants against any DC entity they wanted to watch.
I suggest that everyone half intelligent exercise some common sense when it comes to
Epstein. Only an (anti-Israel) idiot believes that Epstein/Mossad were running blackmail
operations for years with American intelligence cowed into turning a blind eye.
It's positively depressing to see Giraldi, someone I thought honorable, deployed to
distract attention from seditious filth like Brennan. Will Giraldi even mention his name
anymore? I half expect Giraldi one of these days to tell us Brennan et. al. "were keeping us
safe." Which is why Epstein and Mossad were molesting minors right under their honorable
noses.
Am I the only one (mostly) noting the pitch perfect similarity of Epstein to the Dennis
Hastert scandal 13 years ago?
I encourage you to continue to write pieces exposing the Israeli connection to much of
what ails us here in the U.S. (and the rest of the world, too).
While it will certainly be a hard row to hoe due to many factors, not the least of which
is that the Zionists have taken the long-view on many matters and this approach has given
them the upper hand, it is imperative for the prosperity and well-being of the non-Zionist
U.S. citizens.
As an aside, when I hear our rulers utter the phrase "National Security" I have to wonder
which nations security they are referring to because it sure doesn't seem to be mine.
By the way, amid all this Maxwell=Mossad business, both Maxwell and Trump procured their
opulent yachting yachts from the Khashoggi brothers. And Khashoggi, whoever else he works
for, is a big skin on the wall at CIA...
Jeffrey Epstein's Nadia, who learnt to fly at the same Mossad-linked airfield as the
Hebrew-speaking Mohamed Atta.
What links Jeffrey Epstein to 9 11 and to Mossad?
The mainstream media is so thoroughly controlled by Mossad and its friends that the general
public is unlikely to find out.
Virginia Roberts became Jeffrey Epstein's sex slave in 1999.
Epstein's Black Book lists a number of people whom Mossad and its friends may have wanted
to blackmail and control prior to the events of 9 11 .
Jeffrey Epstein's girl Nadia Marcinko/Marcinkova (above) learned to fly at Florida's Lantana Airport at about
the same time as the Hebrew-speaking Mohammad Atta, who is thought to have been a Mossad agent.
A FOIA of the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office work-release and visitor logs for the financier
turned up some troubling inconsistencies.
Jeffrey
Epstein 's lenient 2008 conviction for his sexual assaults on adolescent girls may be
described as one of the greatest travesties of justice in recent history. Brad Edwards, an
attorney for many of Epstein's victims,
announced last week that Epstein continued to prey on young women while serving his
sentence in Palm Beach. Unlike other sex offenders in Florida, Epstein had his own wing of the
Palm Beach County jail and liberal work-release policies. Due to this new information, the
Miami Herald reported, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office (PBSO) has suddenly opened
an internal-affairs
investigation of Epstein's incarceration.
As part of my research on the Epstein case, I sent an FOIA request earlier this summer to
the PBSO concerning Jeffrey Epstein (inmate No. W35755). I asked for two records: Work-Release
List entries and the Visitor Information Log. Six days later, I received an email requesting
that I phone to clarify my request. I thought this was strange because "Work-Release List" and
"Visitor Information Log" are the exact names of documents that I already knew the PBSO
maintained.
The officer I spoke to on the phone seemed reluctant to provide the records. He intimated
that they were for an older inmate and probably not kept. When I pressed him, he then described
the records as possibly hand-written and difficult to obtain. It seemed as if there might be no
records, but then inexplicably, several days later, an email with three PDF attachments arrived
in my inbox.
The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office sent me 149 pages of "Work Release" sign-in sheets in two
"batches." Additionally, they returned a single-page Visitor Log. (However, I already had other
Visitor Logs for Epstein from other sources, which suggests they did not release all the
records to me.) Many of the Work Release forms were duplicates and not 149 separate records for
each of his work-release days. If someone did not comb through each page carefully, they might
falsely believe all the relevant records were provided.
Another document I obtained (separately from this FOIA) was of a fax sent by the PBSO (Media
Relations division) that contained work-release sign-in/sign-out sheets for 10 days in July
2009, plus "Extra Duty" records for several days when Palm Beach Sheriff's officers provided
private security for Jeffrey Epstein. The documents in this fax were not included in the
response to my FOIA request.
In total, the records I assembled contained 77 actual days of Jeffrey Epstein's work
release from October 2008 through July 2009. The top of the form identifies it as a "Work
Release Log," the day of the week, and the date. Below is the name of the prisoner (Jeffrey
Epstein) with his sign-out time (8 a.m. or 10 a.m.) and his sign-in time for when he returns
from work. Both the sheriff's deputy and Epstein were required to sign separately each day when
he left and when he returned.
"... Two women questioned about Prince Andrew in 2010, operating businesses from New York property years after appearing to have left Epstein's entourage ..."
"... Sarah Kellen and Nada Marcinkova, questioned by lawyers about whether Prince Andrew had any involvement in Epstein's abuse, have reinvented themselves as Sarah Kensington and Nadia Marcinko. Photograph: the guardian Two of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged accomplices are running businesses from a Manhattan property linked to the wealthy sex offender under new identities, years after appearing to have left his scandal-plagued entourage. ..."
"... Virginia Roberts, who has long claimed that she was Epstein's "sex slave", alleged in a US court filing last week that she was forced to have sexual relations with Andrew. The prince vehemently denies the allegation against him and is under intense pressure to fully account for his friendship with Epstein. ..."
"... Kellen was accused by lawyers in legal filings of "bringing girls to Epstein's mansion to be abused". According to police files, a series alleged victims of Epstein told investigators that they were led to a massage room in Epstein's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, by a woman named Sarah. ..."
"... One alleged victim claimed to police that she was told Marcinkova had been bought from her parents in eastern Europe by Epstein when she was 15, according to detectives. One alleged that she was made to have sex with Marcinkova and to watch her have sex with Epstein. ..."
"... Sarah Kellen, now Kensington, with boyfriend Brian Vickers. Kellen was accused by lawyers in legal filings of 'bringing girls to Epstein's mansion to be abused'. ..."
"... Attorneys for Epstein did not respond to an email asking whether Epstein had assisted his former associates in any way in securing their new identities, establishing their businesses or in maintaining the property. ..."
"... Marcinkova and Kellen did not respond on Tuesday to telephone calls, voicemails, emails and text messages seeking comment. Attorneys who represented them when they were questioned in 2010 did not respond to queries about whether they still spoke for the women. ..."
Sarah Kellen and Nada Marcinkova, questioned by lawyers about whether
Prince Andrew had any involvement in Epstein's abuse, have reinvented themselves as Sarah Kensington and Nadia Marcinko. Photograph:
the guardian Two of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged accomplices are running businesses from a Manhattan property linked to the wealthy
sex offender under new identities, years after appearing to have left his scandal-plagued entourage.
Nada Marcinkova and Sarah Kellen, who were questioned by lawyers about whether Prince Andrew had any involvement in Epstein's
abuse of underage girls, have since reinvented themselves as Nadia Marcinko and Sarah Kensington.
Marcinkova, 29, is now a pilot and the chief executive of Aviloop, a website selling discounted flying lessons and other deals
related to aviation. Kellen, 34, states that she is the owner of SLK Designs, a renovations firm.
However according to public records, both businesses have operated from addresses in a building on East 66th Street in Manhattan
majority-owned by Epstein's brother Mark, a wealthy property magnate. Two condominiums in the building sold last year for $2.5m and
$1.85m.
Nada Marcinkova, left and Sarah Kellen, second from right. Via
newyorksocialdiary.com
Photograph: newyorksocialdiary.com
Marcinkova's company is officially registered with New
York authorities at the building. Import records show that Kellen's company takes deliveries there.
Jeffrey Epstein , a friend of Andrew's who was
jailed in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor, was accused in 2011 court documents of using the building to house young
women. Several rented condominiums in the building have been lived in by Epstein associates, according to public records.
Mark Epstein said in a brief telephone interview on Tuesday: "I own the majority of the units in the building, but I've never
heard of those companies," referring to the firms run by Marcinkova and Kellen.
Virginia Roberts, who has long claimed that she was Epstein's "sex slave", alleged in a US court filing last week that she was
forced to have sexual relations with Andrew. The
prince vehemently
denies the allegation against him and is under intense pressure to fully account for his friendship with Epstein.
Marcinkova and Kellen were among four named Epstein associates identified by US government prosecutors as "potential co-conspirators"
who would avoid charges under the controversial plea deal Epstein struck in 2007, which saw him serve just over year in jail for
his offences.
The two women both cited their right under the US constitution to avoid incriminating themselves when they were asked a series
of questions by lawyers for alleged victims of Epstein under oath in 2010 – including whether underaged girls were forced to have
sex with Andrew.
Kellen was accused by lawyers in legal filings of "bringing girls to Epstein's mansion to be abused". According to police files,
a series alleged victims of Epstein told investigators that they were led to a massage room in Epstein's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida,
by a woman named Sarah.
One alleged victim claimed to police that she was told Marcinkova had been bought from her parents in eastern Europe by Epstein
when she was 15, according to detectives. One alleged that she was made to have sex with Marcinkova and to watch her have sex with
Epstein.
Marcinkova's biography on the Aviloop website now states: "Over the years, she has proven herself to be a distinguished entrepreneur".
In addition to carrying out international design work, Kellen is in a relationship with a successful Nascar driver, stating on her
website that "most of my fans know that I am Brian Vickers' girlfriend".
Sarah Kellen, now Kensington, with boyfriend Brian Vickers. Kellen was accused by lawyers in legal filings of 'bringing girls to
Epstein's mansion to be abused'.
The domains for both websites are registered through the same Arizona-based service that allows the identities and contact details
of the website owner to be shielded from public view.
Attorneys for Epstein did not respond to an email asking whether Epstein had assisted his former associates in any way in securing
their new identities, establishing their businesses or in maintaining the property.
Marcinkova and Kellen did not respond on Tuesday to telephone calls, voicemails, emails and text messages seeking comment. Attorneys
who represented them when they were questioned in 2010 did not respond to queries about whether they still spoke for the women.
Mark Epstein said that his brother did not own any of the units in the building. Asked how it came to be that associates of his
brother lived in the building, Mark Epstein said: "They're rentals. The ones I own, I rent all of them out." Asked whether he owned
the units where associates of his brother lived or registered businesses, Mark Epstein said: "I don't know, and even if I knew, that's
not information I'm giving you."
"I don't keep track, I've owned them for 20-something-odd years and I don't know," Mark Epstein said, when asked if he owned a
unit that according to public records Kellen once used. "There's only a few people I know who live there, such as friends," he said.
Fisten, a 30-year law enforcement veteran, said he was shocked and disgusted by what he
uncovered. In a
wide-ranging interview with CNN , the P.I. said that he was able to identify two young
women who have arranged access to girls for Epstein in recent years. He and Edwards have handed
over the names and "associated information" over to federal authorities, he said, though he did
not name the alleged fixers to CNN.
Fisten also said that his investigations led to the discovery of countless lapses in
security during the time Epstein was on work release from the Palm Beach county jail -- in a
cushy deal that allowed the convicted sex offender out of confinement 12 hours a day, six days
a week. On Friday, the Palm Beach sheriff's office announced that it had
opened its own internal investigation into whether deputies, who often referred to Epstein
as a "client" instead of an inmate in logs kept at the sheriff's office, had broken with
procedure.
Fisten told CNN that he was angered that Epstein was allowed to go to a luxury office
instead of remaining behind bars. Fisten said he was disgusted when he saw "lavish lunches
being brought into the office and a parade of young females going in and out of the place."
The Palm Beach sheriff's office now admits that Epstein was also allowed to go to his luxury
mansion and spend time there unsupervised.
Fisten tried to obtain the sheriff's office logs that should have documented the names and
ages of everyone who came into contact with Epstein during work release, but the logs "have
inexplicably vanished," he said to CNN.
"We wanted to get those logs so we could see who the girls were," Fisten said. "They're
missing. No one knows where they are."
Fisten also repeated previous claims that Epstein wielded his power to silence his accusers
during and after his incarceration, even hiring his own private investigators who were paid to
harass his victims. "They were former Miami cops," Fisten told CNN. "He paid an extremely large
retainer to them and all their job to do was to follow the girls around and intimidate
them."
Fisten even ran into Epstein's private investigators first hand. Once, when driving
one of Epstein's accusers home, he told CNN he saw one of Epstein's detectives parked across
from her house filming her comings and goings. Fisten said the father of another of Epstein's
accusers was "run off the road" by one of the former cops in Epstein's employ.
Of Epstein's alleged victims, Fisten noted, "Once these girls lost their braces and their
pubescent look and started becoming 16-years old or 17-years old, they were too old for
him."
"So then he started using them as recruiters to bring the younger girls."
Epstein was
denied bail on Thursday as he faces federal sex
trafficking charges in New York. Fisten says the victims finally feel that justice could be
served. "They couldn't be happier," he told CNN. "It's all they ever wanted."
So
rumors are now circulating that there will be a sordid if not downright horrific
Epstein-Weiner-Clinton revelation in the coming days that will finally bring down the Clintons.
Perhaps the powers behind the scenes have decided it's time to get rid of this toxic bitch.
Apropos to that, I've been looking into this Epstein character. His lawyer and best friend
is Allan Dershowitz (Dersh, under suspicion himself, now claims they were never close, despite
previous statements).
Epstein's black book contains the personal phone numbers of several former Israeli prime
ministers.
When Epstein was arrested the rumor in NY was that he was going to flee to Israel.
The pre-scandal vanity fair article expresses puzzlement over how Epstein built his fortune
(the "hedge fund manager" title may be a cover). A huge fortune it is: he lives in the most
expensive apartment in NY -- eight floors.
J. Epstein Company was set up via a 1 billion grant from Victoria's Secret owner Leslie
Wexner, who's father Harry Wexner (changed from Hagan Wexelstein) was a secretive
billionaire.
Epstein's other partner in crime was Ghislane Maxwell, the daughter of a notorious Mossad
agent named Robert Maxwell.
When Epstein was busted he was given the sweetheart deal of a lifetime.
Hidden cameras were found throughout his Florida home. Presumably hidden cameras were/are
also present on the "lolita express" (on which Bill took two dozen flights) and "sin
island."
The entranceway to his NY apartment is decorated with glass eyeballs -- an inside joke about
the cameras behind the walls?
This seems pretty cut and dried to me: Epstein was recruited by Mossad to run a honey pot
operation in order to ensnare and blackmail US and international elites. The bait was underage
girls ("forbidden fruit") and possibly even children, given the frequent trips to Thailand
etc.
Hillary Clinton should be barred from office on the grounds that she is blackmailable by the
Israelis. We might as well be electing Netanyahu to the White House. Perhaps this is an open
secret. Hillary's top five donors are Zionists.
Oddly, Epstein has claimed that he "helped found" the Clinton Foundation. Was he just
bragging about his relationship with Bill? Or could the CF itself be involved in trafficking
child sex slaves?
Like lone_geek says - if he's not Mossad, he's part of something . I knew about the
Wexner connection, but not Harry Wexner/Hagan Wexelstein (isn't that one of the villains in
Frozen?).
See - Safari Club -- a 1974 group of multiple intelligence agencies formed after the Church
Committee investigations. Formed specifically to bypass over-site / legal considerations from
governments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_Club --
You have a parallel intelligence service operating outside the knowledge of the official
intelligence services. Now posit that this parallel intelligence service never shut down,
they just went corporate. If you're a part of a company you could have company "offices" all
over the globe, your travel would not be scrutinized, etc.
Whether Mossad or something else, I'm on board with all you've written. Only question is WHO
he was working for. The Ghislane Maxwell connection is telling, though.
Right - however is Ghislane Maxwell working for the "official Mossad" or the "unofficial
Mossad" -- or a shell company that works as a cut-out for either of the official or
unofficial groups.
Exactly. I was just banned from another board today for posting the same thing.
Every single politician who spent time partying with Epstein should be removed from
office. We have to assume that each one represents a security threat.
Yes, I've thought Epstein, Monica Lewinsky, the new Congressman junkets to Israel, the
israelis caught with foreign passports, are all Mossad gathering blackmail evidence to
control our leaders. "Through deception thou shalt do war."
"... What Epstein has been up to is so obscene that it is now toxic to be associated with him. Everyone who claimed to be his friend are now running a mile from him. ..."
"... But what if it is revealed that he had created this cesspool at the direction of Israel i.e. that the main motivation for this honey-pot was to provide Israel with blackmail material. ..."
"... If that happened then a politician would run a mile at the mere sight of a lobby bag-man, because to be associated with them is to be tarred in a way that no amount of money could ever overcome. ..."
"... I am certain that there are still honest people in the US intelligence community, and I would bet very good money that they are looking very closely at this as a chance to stab the Israel lobby through the heart with a wooden stake. ..."
The thing I find most intriguing about the Epstein affair is possibility that it provides a
"hook" for the US intelligence community to really go after the Israeli lobby.
After all, going up against the *money* of the lobby is a forlorn hope - there is no way
to fight them on that battlefield.
But this? No, this is different.
What Epstein has been up to is so obscene that it is now toxic to be associated with
him. Everyone who claimed to be his friend are now running a mile from him.
But what if it is revealed that he had created this cesspool at the direction of Israel
i.e. that the main motivation for this honey-pot was to provide Israel with blackmail
material.
If that happened then a politician would run a mile at the mere sight of a lobby
bag-man, because to be associated with them is to be tarred in a way that no amount of
money could ever overcome.
I am certain that there are still honest people in the US intelligence community, and I
would bet very good money that they are looking very closely at this as a chance to stab
the Israel lobby through the heart with a wooden stake.
Jeffrey Epstein's Private Pilot Dishes On All The Famous Men Who Flew On The Lolita
Express Photo: Getty Leah
Scher Editor Entertainment And News July 21, 2019 He
was Epstein's main pilot for the past two decades.
Meet Larry Visoski, the pilot of the Lolita Express, Jeffrey Epstein's private fleet of
planes. For the past 20 years, Visoski (or Capt Big Dawg, as Instagram affectionately knows
him) has flown Epstein around the world, including the trips that shuttled underage girls
between his two mansions in New York and Palm Beach. Recently, photos of the luxury aircrafts'
updated interior were released, bringing Visoski to prominence and shedding light on Epstein's
jet-setting travels. What is there to know about this man? Who is Larry Visoski?
1. Visoski has shuttled celebs
like President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker
Most notably, Visoski flew Epstein's 50-year-old 727 jetliner, n
icknamed the Lolita Express , which is worth $80M! The 727-31 aircraft, tag number N908JE,
was repainted on the outside from it's early silver and black color. Today it's all white with
thin stripes. Visoski still flies two of Epstein's private planes, as well as a helicopter. One
Instagram friend of his asked how long he's been flying 727s and he replied, "Flying the three
wholer (sic) about 14 years now, includes three times around the world, she's got the
room!"
2. The luxury aircraft, which was built in 1969,
was modernized around 2014
The updated interior features a circular lounge with recessed lighting,
comfy plush beige chairs , and a spacious bedroom with an open closet. In another room that
looks like an office, an Apple laptop and iPad sit on a desk surrounded by red velvet chairs
and a sofa. In the kitchen area, photos show a blender, coffee machine, sandwich grill, oven
and microwave.
3. This aircraft has allegedly shuttled Epstein's underage victims
In 2015, Virginia Roberts filed a lawsuit against the billionaire claiming that he recruited
her as a sex slave when she was 15. She says he sexually abused her for years on his private
jet as well as in his various homes in New York, New Mexico, Florida, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. According to FAA records, the aircraft was registered to JEGE INC, Epstein's Delaware
firm. As of 2018, the registration was still active. However, a more recent report showed that
Epstein sold the aircraft weeks before his July 6 arrest. Visoski has not been accused of any
role in Epstein's crimes.
4. The 727 is often referred to as a "three holer"
because of its three engines clustered around the tail
The aircraft's full name is actually Boeing 727. It's a narrow, three-engined vehicle built
by Boeing Commercial Airplanes from the early 1960s to 1980s. A combination of comments made
and photos taken by Visoski show repeated trips to many locations between 2014 and 2019, such
as: St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands; the Exuma chain and Eleuthera in the Bahamas; St.
Bart's in the Caribbean; Seattle, Washington; Manhattan Beach, California; Paris, France;
Germany; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Cabo San Lucas in Mexico. The
Washington Examiner also notes a trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi that isn't
photographed.
5. Visoski, an avid photographer, used a GoPro to capture some shots of the
aircraft
In addition to the Boeing 757, some of Visoski's
now deleted Instagram captions specifically mention a Gulfstream 550 and a Bell 430
helicopter. According to the Washington Examiner , the post that (likely) spurred
Visoski to delete his Instagram account was a selfie he posted in late 2016, with then-top
Trump presidential transition team member and now counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway,
at Palm Beach International Airport, which drew attention on Twitter earlier this week. Some of
his captions included #MAGA hashtags. He described Conway as "a very Humble and gracious Lady,
#kellyanneconway #kellyanne #trump #election2016."
6. Epstein was deemed a flight risk by a federal
judge (pun intended).
The federal judge presiding over Epstein's case denied him bail,
agreeing with prosecutors that "the seriousness of his crimes, his mysterious wealth,
international travel, and possession of a foreign passport with a fake name from the 1980s make
him a threat to the community."
What do you think? Is Visoski is totally innocent? Did he who he was shuttling? He was
definitely complicit -- but should he face consequences? Leave your thoughts in the
comments!
Leah Scher is an ENFP finishing her degree at Brandeis University. She's an alumna of the
Kenyon Review Young Writer's Workshop the Iowa Young Writers' Studio. She's passionate about
Judaism, poetry, film, satire, astrology, spirituality, and sexual health.
"... I thought all these foreign countries were international." He explained that "international" means countries that are not really countries. They're Liberia and Panama, countries that only use the US dollar, not their own currency. So the oil industry doesn't have a currency risk. They are flags of convenience and they don't have any income tax. ..."
"... He explained to me that Standard Oil sold its oil at a very low price from the Near East to Liberia or Panama or Lagos, or wherever they have a flag of convenience and no income tax. Then they would sell it at a very high price to its refineries in Europe and America, at such a high price that these "downstream" affiliates don't make any income. So there's no tax to pay. ..."
"... Standard Oil and other U.S. oil companies – and also mining companies – don't earn an income there, because they sell it so low, all the profits are reported to be taken in Liberia or Panama. These are non-countries. ..."
"... Here is a report. I'm from the State Department (I assumed that this meant CIA). "We want to calculate how much money the US could get if we set up bank branches and became the bank for all the criminal capital in the world." He said, "We figured out we can finance, (and he said this in an elevator), we can finance the Vietnam War with all the drug money coming into America, all of the criminal money. Can you make a calculation of how much that might be?" ..."
"... I found that the entire US balance of payments deficit in the 1960s, since the Vietnam War, the entire balance of payments deficit was military spending abroad. The private sector's trade and investment was exactly in balance; tourism, trade and investment were exactly in balance. All the deficit was military. ..."
"... Mr. Barsanti said that McNamara said that Arthur Andersen would never get another government contract if it published my report. ..."
"... There were three people, known as the Columbia Group, saying the Vietnam War was going to destroy the American monetary system as we know it. The group was composed of Terence McCarthy, my mentor; Seymour Melman, a professor at Columbia University's School of Industrial Engineering where Terence also taught; and myself. We would basically go around the New York City giving speeches. ..."
I worked at Chase Manhattan until 1967, then finally I had to quit to finish the
dissertation. I spent a year on that. At Chase I had become the specialist in the oil
industry's balance of payments. When the Vietnam War began and escalated, President Johnson
in January 1965, right after I joined the bank in December 1964, passed the voluntary –
in reality, compulsory – foreign investment rules blocking American companies from
investing more than 5% of the growth of the previous year's investment. The oil industry
objected to that. They came to David Rockefeller and said we've got to convince the
government that we're ripping off other countries so fast, we're able to exploit them so
rapidly, that it really helps the US balance of payments to let us continue investing more
abroad. Can you help us show this statistically?
So David Rockefeller asked me to do a study of the balance of payments of the oil
industry. Rockefeller said, "We don't want to have Chase's oil and gas department do it,
because they would be thought of as lobbyists. Nobody knows who you are, so you're neutral.
We want to know what the real facts are, and if they're what we think they are, we'll publish
what you write; if we don't like it we'll keep it to ourselves, but please just give us the
facts." He said, "You can ask the oil companies all the questions you want. They will fill
out the forms you design for a statistical accounting format. We'll give you a year to write
it all up." To me this was wonderful. Oil was the key sector internationally. It turned out I
found out that the average dollar that actually was invested abroad by oil companies was
recaptured by the US economy within 18 months. The payback period was that fast.
The report that I wrote was put on the desk of every senator and every representative in
the United States and I was celebrated for being the economist of the oil industry. So this
taught me everything about the balance of payments which, as I said, is a topic that's not
taught in any university. So I finished that, finished the dissertation, and then I developed
a methodology for the overall US balance of payments. Most of the balance of payment
statistics were changed when they designed the gross national product accounts. The accounts
now treat exports and imports as if they were paid for fully for cash. So if you make a
million dollars worth of grain exports, you are assumed to bring a million dollars into the
economy. And if you export a million dollars of arms, of military, it all comes back.
What I found out is that only a portion actually of exports actually comes back. And
imports have an even lower balance-of-payment costs as compared to their nominal valuation.
For instance, all of America's oil imports are from American oil companies, so if you pay a
hundred dollars for oil, maybe thirty dollars of that is profit, thirty dollars is
compensation to American management, thirty dollars is the use of American exports to
physical equipment, oil drilling equipment and others to produce the oil.
The closest people that I worked with for the study were at the Standard Oil Company,
which was always very close to the Rockefellers, as you know. So I went over the statistics
and I said, "In the balance of payments, I can't find where Standard Oil makes the profit.
Does it make the profit by producing oil at the production end? Or does it make it selling it
at the gas stations, at the retail sales end?" The treasurer of Standard Oil said, "Ah I can
tell you where we make them. We make them right here in my office." I asked how. "What
countries could I find this in? I don't find it in Europe, I don't find it in Asia, I don't
find it in Latin America or Africa." He said, "Ah, do you see at the very end of the
geography headings for international earnings, there's something called international?"
I said, "Yes that always confused me. Where is it? I thought all these foreign countries
were international." He explained that "international" means countries that are not really
countries. They're Liberia and Panama, countries that only use the US dollar, not their own
currency. So the oil industry doesn't have a currency risk. They are flags of convenience and
they don't have any income tax.
He explained to me that Standard Oil sold its oil at a very
low price from the Near East to Liberia or Panama or Lagos, or wherever they have a flag of
convenience and no income tax. Then they would sell it at a very high price to its refineries
in Europe and America, at such a high price that these "downstream" affiliates don't make any
income. So there's no tax to pay. For all US oil investment in Europe, there's no tax to pay
because the oil companies' accountants price it so high, and pay so little per barrel to
third world countries such as Saudi Arabia, that they only get a royalty. Standard Oil and
other U.S. oil companies – and also mining companies – don't earn an income
there, because they sell it so low, all the profits are reported to be taken in Liberia or
Panama. These are non-countries.
That gave me the clue about what people these days talk about money laundering. In the
last few months that I worked for Chase Manhattan in 1967, I was going up to my office on the
ninth floor and a man got on the elevator and said, "I was just coming to your office,
Michael. Here is a report. I'm from the State Department (I assumed that this meant CIA). "We
want to calculate how much money the US could get if we set up bank branches and became the
bank for all the criminal capital in the world." He said, "We figured out we can finance,
(and he said this in an elevator), we can finance the Vietnam War with all the drug money
coming into America, all of the criminal money. Can you make a calculation of how much that
might be?"
So I spent three months figuring out how much money goes to Switzerland, from drug
dealings, what's the dollar volume of drug dealings. They helped me with all sorts of
statistics on that, and said, "We can become the criminal capital of the world and it'll
finance the dollar and this will enable us to afford the spending to defeat communism in
Vietnam and elsewhere. If we don't do that, the bomb throwers will come to New York."
So I became a specialist in money laundering! Nothing could have better prepared me to
understand how the global economy works! I had all the statistics, I had the help of the
government people explaining to me how the CIA worked with drug dealing and other criminals
and kidnappers to raise the money so it would be off the balance sheet funding and Congress
didn't have to approve it when they would kill people and sponsor revolutions. They were
completely open with me about this. I realized they'd never done a security check on me.
So I wanted to do a study of the balance of payments of the whole United States. I went
to work for Arthur Andersen, which was at that time was one of the Big Five accounting firms
in the United States. Later it was convicted of fraud when it got involved in the Enron
scandal and was closed down. But I was working before the other people went to jail, before
they closed down Arthur Andersen. So I spent a year applying my balance of payments analysis
to the US balance of payments. When I finally finished, I found that the entire US balance of
payments deficit in the 1960s, since the Vietnam War, the entire balance of payments deficit
was military spending abroad. The private sector's trade and investment was exactly in
balance; tourism, trade and investment were exactly in balance. All the deficit was
military.
So I turned in my statistics. My boss Mr. Barsanti, came in to me three days later and
he said, "I'm afraid we have to fire you." I asked, "What happened?" He said, "Well, we sent
it to Robert McNamara." (who was the Secretary of Defense and then became an even more
dangerous person with the World Bank, which probably is more dangerous to the world than the
American military. But that's another story). Mr. Barsanti said that McNamara said that
Arthur Andersen would never get another government contract if it published my report.
In all of the Pentagon Papers that later came out of McNamara's regime, there's no
discussion at all of the balance-of-payments cost of the Vietnam War. This is what was
driving America off gold. At Chase Manhattan from 1964 until I left, every Friday the Federal
Reserve would come out with its goal, its weekly statistics. We could trace the gold stock.
Everybody was talking about General de Gaulle cashing in the gold, because Vietnam was a
French colony and the American soldiers and army would have to use French banks, the dollars
would go to France and de Gaulle would cash it in for gold.
Well, Germany actually was cashing in more gold than de Gaulle, but they didn't make
speeches about it. So I could see that the war spending was going to drive America off gold.
There were three people, known as the Columbia Group, saying the Vietnam War was going to
destroy the American monetary system as we know it. The group was composed of Terence
McCarthy, my mentor; Seymour Melman, a professor at Columbia University's School of
Industrial Engineering where Terence also taught; and myself. We would basically go around
the New York City giving speeches.
"... The golden boy of Manhattan and Palm Beach society now sits in a grim jail cell accused of having sex with underage girls. He's been doing this in plain view since the early 1990's but, until recently, he seemed bullet-proof. ..."
"... More important than indelicacy, as an old observer of intelligence affairs, to me this offer reeked of ye old honey trap , a tactic to ensnare and blackmail people that was old when Babylon was young. A discreet room with massage table, lubricants and, no doubt, cameras stood ready off the main lobby . ..."
"... Besides sexual frolics, Epstein and Maxwell were up to many odd things. The FBI found diamonds, cash and a fake passport when raiding his mansion and documents showing his net worth at $559,120,954.00. The IRS tax people will be eager to review the sources of this income. ..."
"... It seems likely that political influence was brought to bear on then US attorney Alexander Acosta (he just resigned under fire last week) to make a sweetheart deal with Epstein, who had been charged by Florida with child molestation. Epstein got off with a token, 13-month jail sentence that allowed him to work from his office much of the day. ..."
"... Were Trump or Clinton involved? How much did they "party" with Epstein and revel in his fleshmart? There was talk of some sort of "intelligence" angle to the affaire Epstein that spared him a harsh sentence. ..."
"... A respected former CIA official, Phil Giraldi has come right out and accused Epstein of being an Israeli agent of influence. ..."
"... To Giraldi and this writer, the Epstein "massage" operation was a classic intelligence operation designed to blackmail men of influence into doing Israel's bidding. Clinton had reportedly already fallen into this trap years earlier while still president. ..."
"... Trump is a Mafia punk, protege of Roy Cohn, dead of AIDS in 1986. Only the brain dead would believe Trump is the lamb in this orgy. As for Epstein being a Mossad asset, probably. As for the CIA & NSA not knowing, absolutely impossible! This operation was most probably overseen, if not created, by the CIA, with NSA help, and tit bits handed to Mossad for European and ME operations. ..."
"... Trump was likely warned about Epstein by his mobster mentors/friends from the start. No doubt Trump did tell his buddy Epstein to keep that **** out of his properties, who wouldn't? ..."
"... Clinton knew as well but never gave a crap because He and HRC were probably protected CIA assets extending back to the AR drug smuggling days. ..."
"... Because it is a strange business, costing lots of money and achieving ..... what exactly? Ah ...., national security -- ain't that nice!! ..."
"... Anyone taking bets that Epstein will not live to tell all his tales? He probably has two years because he cannot be removed before all the excitement's died down but removed he will be. ..."
I've had many strange experiences in my decades of covering intelligence affairs.
These run from being invited to KGB HQ in Moscow, Chinese intelligence in Beijing, US
intelligence in Virginia, Libyan intelligence in Tripoli, South African intelligence, and even
Albanian intelligence in Tirana.
But none was odder than the day I was invited to lunch in New York City with the by now
notorious figure Jeffrey Epstein.
The golden boy of Manhattan and Palm Beach society now
sits in a grim jail cell accused of having sex with underage girls. He's been doing this in plain
view since the early 1990's but, until recently, he seemed bullet-proof.
Soon after I walked into the entrance of Epstein's mansion on E 71st Street, said to be the
city's largest private home, a butler asked me,
"would you like an intimate massage, sir,
by a pretty young girl?"
This offer seemed so out of place and weird to me that
I
swiftly declined
.
More important than indelicacy, as an old observer of intelligence affairs,
to me
this offer reeked of ye old honey trap
, a tactic to ensnare and blackmail people that
was old when Babylon was young. A discreet room with massage table, lubricants
and,
no doubt, cameras stood ready off the main lobby
.
I had arrived with Canada's leading lady journalist who was then close to Epstein's sometime
girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell and, it was said, procuress – something Maxwell denies.
Bizarrely, Maxwell believed that I could get KGB Moscow Center to release satellite photos that
showed the murder on his yacht of her father, the press baron Robert Maxwell, who was a
well-known double agent for Israel and KGB, and a major criminal.
Also present was the self-promoting lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who had saved the accused murderer
Claus von Bulow, as well as a titan of the New York real estate industry (not Trump) and assorted
bigwigs of the city's elite Jewish society. All sang the praises of Israel.
Epstein reportedly had ties to Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Britain's Prince Andrew and
repeatedly flew them about in his private jet, aka "the Lolita Express." All guests deny any sexual
activity. I turned down dinner with Prince Andrew.
Epstein's residence in Manhattan and Palm Beach, both of which I visited, were stocked
with young female "masseuses."
All were working class girls making big money in their
spare time. I did not see any interactions between these girls and the guests.
Epstein and Maxwell became too big for their britches. They flaunted their sexual adventures and
laughed at New York society.
Everyone wondered about the source of Epstein's lavish income
but no one knew its origins.
He claimed to be an exclusive money manager for a group of
secretive millionaires. But the only one identified was billionaire Leslie Wexner, the owner of L
Brands and Victoria's Secret. Wexner denied any knowledge of Epstein's alleged crimes.
Besides sexual frolics, Epstein and Maxwell were up to many odd things. The FBI found diamonds,
cash and a fake passport when raiding his mansion and documents showing his net worth at
$559,120,954.00. The IRS tax people will be eager to review the sources of this income.
It seems likely that political influence was brought to bear on then US attorney Alexander
Acosta (he just resigned under fire last week) to make a sweetheart deal with Epstein, who had been
charged by Florida with child molestation. Epstein got off with a token, 13-month jail sentence
that allowed him to work from his office much of the day.
Were Trump or Clinton involved? How much did they "party" with Epstein and revel in his
fleshmart? There was talk of some sort of
"intelligence" angle
to the affaire
Epstein that spared him a harsh sentence.
A respected former CIA official, Phil Giraldi has come right out and accused Epstein of
being an Israeli agent of influence.
Epstein was let off with a slap on the wrist on his
first child abuse charge, says Giraldi, because of his powerful Israel connections.
To Giraldi and this writer,
the Epstein "massage" operation was a classic intelligence
operation designed to blackmail men of influence into doing Israel's bidding.
Clinton had
reportedly already fallen into this trap years earlier while still president.
Now watch this stinking pile of corruption be hurriedly covered up. Talk about draining the
swamp.
Trump is a Mafia punk, protege of Roy Cohn, dead of AIDS in
1986. Only the brain dead would believe Trump is the lamb in
this orgy. As for Epstein being a Mossad asset, probably. As
for the CIA & NSA not knowing, absolutely impossible! This
operation was most probably overseen, if not created, by the
CIA, with NSA help, and tit bits handed to Mossad for European
and ME operations.
Trump was likely warned about Epstein by his mobster
mentors/friends from the start. No doubt Trump did tell his
buddy Epstein to keep that **** out of his properties, who
wouldn't? 'Don't **** where I eat'. Clinton knew as well but
never gave a crap because He and HRC were probably protected
CIA assets extending back to the AR drug smuggling days.
Because it is a strange business, costing lots of money and
achieving ..... what exactly? Ah ...., national security -- ain't
that nice!!
Anyone taking bets that Epstein will not live to
tell all his tales?
He probably has two years because he cannot be removed
before all the excitement's died down but removed he will be.
"... A court filing in a civil case in Florida last week included new allegations against Jeffrey E. Epstein, a businessman who pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution, and two other high-profile men: a member of the British Royal family and an American lawyer. ..."
"... About the royal: Some of you may argue that if there was an encounter, the Prince may have been unaware of the girl's age. He has people . People who make arrangements for him. One can see how such a fellow might hear the same knock on the door that Neil Bush once heard. Perhaps, upon opening the door, his first reaction was something other than "May I see your ID, Miss?" ..."
"... On Saturday, Mr. Dershowitz said he "categorically and unequivocally" denied all of the allegations. He said he would file disbarment proceedings against the lawyers who filed the motion, Bradley J. Edwards, a lawyer in Florida, and Paul G. Cassell, a former federal judge and a law professor at the University of Utah. ..."
"... The full court filing was published on Mondoweiss a couple of days ago. We learn that the complainant, Jane Doe #3, was 15 years of age, and that she was recruited by an Epstein associate named Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of Robert Maxwell (the late news tycoon and known Mossad asset). The photo to the left shows the Prince with the girl who seems to have been Jane Doe #3. ..."
Underaged sex with Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew...and Bill Clinton...? (If the claims are true, Hillary is OVER.)
Wow.
A court filing in a civil case in Florida last week included new allegations against Jeffrey E. Epstein, a businessman
who pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution, and two other high-profile men: a member of the British Royal family and an American
lawyer.
The motion filed in United States District Court in the Southern District of Florida alleges that Mr. Epstein forced a teenage
girl to have sexual relations with several men, including Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth's second son, and Alan M. Dershowitz,
a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. Both men have denied the allegations.
Jeffrey Epstein is not just a businessman. He's a billionaire, and he has already been convicted of soliciting underaged prostitution.
About the royal: Some of you may argue that if there was an encounter, the Prince may have been unaware of the girl's age.
He has people . People who make arrangements for him. One can see how such a fellow might hear the same knock on the door
that Neil Bush once heard. Perhaps, upon opening the door, his first reaction was something other than "May I see your ID, Miss?"
That scenario seems plausible. However, as we shall see, that scenario is not what has been alleged.
We will get to the Prince in a bit. For now, let's focus on Dershowitz.
On Saturday, Mr. Dershowitz said he "categorically and unequivocally" denied all of the allegations. He said he would file
disbarment proceedings against the lawyers who filed the motion, Bradley J. Edwards, a lawyer in Florida, and Paul G. Cassell,
a former federal judge and a law professor at the University of Utah.
"They are lying deliberately, and I will not stop until they're disbarred," Mr. Dershowitz said in a phone interview.
The very predictability of that furious reaction means that no lawyer would have filed such charges against Dershowitz frivolously.
Cassell has an impressive resume. He's not a young go-getter out to make a name for himself.
I understand that there are a lot of women who have made iffy claims against famous people. But this case seems different. Epstein
has already pled guilty. Moreover, Dershowitz was part of Epstein's legal team.
The full court filing was published on
Mondoweiss a couple of days ago. We learn
that the complainant, Jane Doe #3, was 15 years of age, and that she was recruited by an Epstein associate named Ghislaine Maxwell,
daughter of Robert Maxwell (the late news tycoon and known Mossad asset). The photo to the left shows the Prince with the girl who
seems to have been Jane Doe #3. Allegedly, the shot was taken by Epstein. (Note: In what follows, the term NPA refers
to non-prosecution agreement .)
Epstein then became enamored with Jane Doe #3, and with the assistance of Maxwell converted her into what is commonly referred
to as a "sex slave." Epstein kept Jane Doe #3 as his sex slave from about 1999 through 2002, when she managed to escape to a foreign
country and hide out from Epstein and his co-conspirators for years. From 1999 and 2002, Epstein frequently sexually abused Jane
Doe #3, not only in West Palm Beach but also in New York, New Mexico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, in international airspace on Epstein's
private planes, and elsewhere.
Epstein also sexually trafficked the then-minor Jane Doe, making her available for sex to politically-connected and financially-powerful
people. Epstein's purposes in "lending" Jane Doe (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself
with them for business, personal, political and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information.
One such powerful individual that Epstein forced then-minor Jane Doe #3 to have sexual relations with was former Harvard Law
Professor Alan Dershowitz, a close friend of Epstein's and well-known defense attorney. Epstein required Jane Doe #3 to have sexual
relations with Dershowiz on numerous occasions while she was a minor, not only in Flroida but also on private planes, in New York,
New Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition to being a participant in the abuse of Jane Doe #3 and other minors, Dershowitz
was an eye-witness to the sexual abuse of many other minors by Epstein and several of Epstein's co-conspirators. Dershowitz would
later play a significant role in negotiating the NPA on Esptein's behalf. Indeed, Dershowitz helped negotiate an agreement that
provided immunity from federal prosecution in the Southern District of Florida not only to Epstein, but also to "any potential
co-conspirators of Epstein." NPA at 5. Thus, Dershowitz helped negotiate an agreement with a provision that provided protection
for himself against criminal prosecution in Florida for sexually abusing Jane Doe #3. Because this broad immunity would have been
controversial if disclosed, Dershowitz (along with other memebers of Epstein's defense team) and the Government tried to keep
the immunity provision secret from all of Epstein's victims and the general public, even though such secrecy violated the Crime
Victims' Rights Act.
There's a third named participant in these doings, one Jean Luc Brunel, a close Epstein friend and a scout for various modelling
agencies.
He would bring young girls (ranging from ages as young as twelve) to the United States for sexual purposes and farm them out to
his friends, especially Epstein. Brunel would offer the girls "modeling" jobs. Many of the girls came from poor countries or impoverished
backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money.
The Government was well aware of Jane Doe #3 when it was negotiating the NPA, as it listed her as a victim in the attachment to
the NPA. Moreover, even a rudimentary investigation of Jane Doe #3's relationship with Epstein would have revealed the fact that
she had been trafficked throughout the United States and internationally for sexual purposes. Nonetheless, the Government secretly
negotiated a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein precluding any Federal prosecution in the Southern District of Florida of
Epstein and his co-conspirators. As with Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #2, the Government concealed the non-prosecution agreement from
Jane Doe #3 -- all in violation of her rights under the CVRA -- to avoid Jane Doe #3 from raising powerful objections to the NPA
that would have shed tremendous light on Epstein and other powerful individuals that would likely have prevented it from being
conlcuded in the secretive manner in which it was.
The document also mentions a Jane Doe #4, an impoverished sixteen year old who was told that she could make $300 by giving a "massage"
to an old man in Palm Beach.
This matter seems very serious. We have too many details, too many corroborating witnesses (in the form of four Jane Does). We
have a photo. We have reports of the existence of many, many more photos. The hugger-mugger involving the NPA seems downright ghastly
-- yet all too credible.
Frankly, I would not rule out the possibility that Epstein was working for an intelligence agency -- either Mossad or one of our
own. The Maxwell connection points to Mossad.
This whole business has "honeytrap" written all over it.
The Clinton connection.
The
Daily Mail discloses that one of Epstein's, er, protegees was a woman named Johanna Sjoberg. Since the story links her to Prince
Andrew, it is tempting suppose that she is the aforementioned Jane Doe #3. However, British newspapers have named another young woman,
Virginia Roberts.
Miss Sjoberg worked for Epstein for four years, often massaging him as he lay on a couch in his giant bathroom making phone calls
to friends such as Bill Clinton and Cate Blanchett.
He kept a little black book, containing the numbers of all his masseuses by a phone in the bathroom, she said. She left after
he started becoming 'more aggressive' in his demands that she 'do sexual things to him'.
She said she was aware that the girls recruited by Epstein and his acolytes were not paid just for massages but for 'sexual
favours'.
Virginia Roberts revealed that as a 17-year-old 'erotic masseuse', she was flown by Epstein to London to meet Prince Andrew,
Miss Sjoberg said: 'I'm not surprised he was sending girls abroad. I just did not think they were so young.'
The Prince strongly denies any claim of impropriety, of course.
What about Epstein and Clinton? Obviously, there is nothing wrong in taking a man's phone call, even a call from someone like
Epstein. However...
Bill Clinton was also named dozens of times in lawsuits against Epstein and was alleged to have flown on his private jet more
than 10 times.
Flight logs in lawsuits detailed that between 2002 and 2005 the former US President traveled around the world courtesy of his
friend and stopped at Epstein's Caribbean island Little St James where young girls were supposedly kept as sex slaves.
Clinton was deemed to be so close to Epstein that he was nearly deposed during the investigation into his paedophilia.
Before he was jailed Epstein's other acquaintances are said to have been former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; former New
Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
Let's make the obvious point. If there is any evidence of wrongdoing against Bill Clinton, then Hillary's chances at the nomination
are over . A candidacy can withstand many things, but a statutory rape scandal involving one's spouse? No.
Over the years, the casually-dressed, globe-trotting financier, who was said to log more than 600 flying hours a year, has been
linked with Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker and Manhattan-London society figure Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late
media titan Robert Maxwell.
Epstein reportedly flew Tucker and Spacey to Africa on his private jet as part of a charitable endeavour. Clinton, meanwhile,
flew on multiple occasions in the same plane to Epstein's private Caribbean island, Little St James, between 2002 and 2005 as
he developed his philanthropic post-presidential career. It would later be alleged in court that Epstein organised orgies on that
same private island in the US Virgin Islands.
Reports in the US media say many of the A-list names broke off any links with the former maths teacher after his arrest and conviction
in 2008 of having sex with an underage girl whom he had solicited. His arrest followed an 11-month undercover investigation at
a mansion in Florida's Palm Beach that Epstein owned.
In 2008, he pleaded guilty to a single charge of soliciting prostitution and was handed a 18-month jail sentence. He served
13 months in jail and was obliged to register as a sex offender. A 2011 report in the New York Post said that he celebrated his
release from jail and his return to a property he maintains in New York – a 45,000-sq-foot eight-storey mansion on East 71st Street
– with Prince Andrew.
The story goes on to give much useful information about Epstein's business dealings.
The financier, who was jailed for 18 months in 2008 after pleading guilty to solicitation for prostitution, kept a sickening stash
of images on a computer seized at his Palm Beach mansion in 2006.
The six-year-old papers, seen by the Sunday People, state: "Some of the photographs in the defendant's possession were taken
with hidden cameras set up in [Epstein's] home in Palm Beach.
"On the Day of his arrest, police found two hidden cameras and photographs of underage girls on a computer in the defendant's
home.
"[He] may have taken lewd photographs of Jane Doe 102 with his hidden cameras and transported [them] to his other residences
and elsewhere."
Court papers also allege that Maxwell presented nude pictures of her she had taken herself to Epstein as a birthday present.
They add that Roberts' claims that she was forced to tell Epstein all about her sexual encounters so he could use the information
to "blackmail" the royal.
She further claims she was sex-trafficked to "many other powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful
business executives, foreign presidents, a well known Prime Minister, and other world leaders".
And now let's play our game: Who was that Prime Minister?
To- neeeeee...! If that's you, you're gonna have to say so many rosaries that even the Virgin Mary will get sick of hearing
your voice.
This scandal places our right-wing media in a bind. Obviously, the right-wingers will want to leap on anything that dirties the
Clinton name. On the other hand, anything that reeks of Mossad involvement is untouchable.
"... As the Jeffrey Epstein case continues to unfold, a laundry list of celebrities, business magnates and socialites who have flown anywhere near the registered sex offender's orbit are now tainted with pedo-polonium. Many of them, such as Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak , and Victoria's Secret boss Les Wexner have sought to distance themselves from Epstein and his activities - however their attempts have fallen on deaf ears considering their extensive ties to the pedophile. ..."
"... As Vanity Fair 's Gabriel Sherman notes, "The questions about Epstein are metastasizing much faster than they can be answered: Who knew what about Epstein's alleged abuse? How, and from whom, did Epstein get his supposed $500 million fortune? Why did Acosta grant Epstein an outrageously lenient non-prosecution agreement? (And what does it mean that Acosta was reportedly told Epstein " belonged to intelligence "?)" ..."
"... "There were other business associates of Mr. Epstein's who engaged in improper sexual misconduct at one or more of his homes. We do know that," adding " In due time the names are going to start coming out. " ..."
"... What's more, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will release of approximately 2,000 pages of documents, likely over the next several days, which may reveal sex crimes committed by "numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders," according to the court's three-judge panel. ..."
"... According to one source, Epstein had a steady stream of who's who's flowing into his Manhattan mansion, including Bill Gates, Larry Summers, and Steve Bannon . ..."
"... Please, please let it be Tony Blair, whenever he appeared on the TV he always got my Spidey-senses tingling just like that other POS Sir Jimmy Savile. ..."
"... WJClinton is in it a LOT. On pp.13, there's one with Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, and two shown by initials... ..."
As the Jeffrey Epstein case continues to unfold, a laundry list of celebrities, business magnates and socialites who have
flown anywhere near the registered sex offender's orbit are now tainted with pedo-polonium. Many of them, such as Bill Clinton, Ehud
Barak , and Victoria's Secret boss Les Wexner have sought to distance themselves from Epstein and his activities - however their
attempts have fallen on deaf ears considering their extensive ties to the pedophile.
As Vanity Fair
's Gabriel Sherman notes, "The questions about Epstein are metastasizing much faster than they can be answered: Who knew what about
Epstein's alleged abuse? How, and from whom, did Epstein get his supposed $500 million fortune? Why did Acosta grant Epstein an outrageously
lenient non-prosecution agreement? (And what does it mean that Acosta was reportedly told Epstein " belonged to intelligence "?)"
Also illuminating is a statement by attorney Brad Edwards, who said during a Wednesday press conference seated next to Epstein
accuser Courtney Wild that "There were other business associates of Mr. Epstein's who engaged in improper sexual misconduct at
one or more of his homes. We do know that," adding " In due time the names are going to start coming out. "
What's more, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will release of approximately 2,000 pages of documents, likely
over the next several days, which may reveal sex crimes committed by "numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business
executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders," according to the court's three-judge panel.
The documents were filed during a civil defamation lawsuit brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a former
Mar-a-Lago locker-room attendant, against Epstein's former girlfriend and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell. "Nobody who was around
Epstein a lot is going to have an easy time now. It's all going to come out," said Giuffre's lawyer David Boies. Another person
involved with litigation against Epstein told me: "It's going to be staggering, the amount of names. It's going to be contagion
numbers." - Vanity
Fair
Other famous names associated with Epstein include LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman , Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg , who Musk
introduced to the registered sex-offender. Zuckerberg spokesman told Vanity Fair "Mark met Epstein in passing one time at a dinner
honoring scientists that was not organized by Epstein," adding "Mark did not communicate with Epstein again following the dinner."
Musk told the magazine "I don't recall introducing Epstein to anyone, as I don't know the guy well enough to do so, Epstein is
obviously a creep and Zuckerberg is not a friend of mine. Several years ago, I was at his house in Manhattan for about 30 minutes
in the middle of the afternoon with Talulah [Riley], as she was curious about meeting this strange person for a novel she was writing.
We did not see anything inappropriate at all, apart from weird art. He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined."
According to one source, Epstein had a steady stream of who's who's flowing into his Manhattan mansion, including Bill Gates,
Larry Summers, and Steve Bannon .
"Jeffrey collected people. That's what he did," the source told Vanity Fair .
Thus far, the name most publicly associated with Epstein's alleged crimes is famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who's been waging
a public battle with David Boies for years. In April, Boies's client Giuffre sued Dershowitz for defamation after Dershowitz called
her a liar (a strategy similar to that of seven of Bill Cosby 's
accusers
). In the days since the FBI arrested Epstein at Teterboro Airport a week and a half ago, Dershowitz has been going on television
and dialing up friends and reporters to profess his innocence and label Giuffre and Boies liars. "I want everything to come out!
I'm not afraid of anything because I did nothing wrong," Dershowitz told me on the afternoon of July 15.
He called me a minute after I had emailed him for comment. He said he'd been friends with Epstein since 1996, when they were
introduced at a party on Martha's Vineyard by Lynn Forester de Rothschild. "She begged me to meet him. She told me, 'here's this
smart academic.'" A few days later, Epstein invited Dershowitz to Les Wexner 's 59th birthday party at Wexner's mansion in New
Albany, Ohio. "It's a tradition that Jeff invited the smartest person he met that year. He told them I was the smartest." They
remained close for years.
Dershowitz strenuously denied ever participating in Epstein's underage sex ring and said he'd only been in Epstein's presence
with his wife. "I got one massage!" he told me. "It was from a 50-year-old Russian woman named Olga. And I kept my shorts on.
I didn't even like it. I'm not a massage guy." -
Vanity Fair
DC on edge
"Epstein bragged about his contacts in Washington," said attorney David Boies.
According to the report, "One theory circulating among prominent Republicans is that Epstein was a Mossad agent. Another is that
the George W. Bush White House directed Acosta not to prosecute Epstein to protect Prince Andrew on behalf of the British government."
"The royal family did everything they could to try and discredit the Prince Andrew stuff," said Boies. "When we tried to follow
up with anything, we were stonewalled. We wanted to interview him, they were unwilling to do anything. "
And now we await those documents. Meanwhile, Epstein's bail hearing is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. remove Share
link
Copy Apparently Ghislaine Maxwell is a Mossad agent who is licensed to pilot Jet planes and even Submarines.
About 30 minutes in they begin to discuss Epstein, the Maxwell's, and Mossad
How big of an event will be required to divert attention from this? What will it be? Terrorist attack, complete financial meltdown,
assassination, war? I find it almost inconceivable that the full extent of the truth will come out or that justice will not only
be done but seen to be done. This Epstein affair personifies all that is wrong in our societies (not just the USA).
Recall Trump's executive order 13818 Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption. He is going for the jugular
Another "document dump" eh... How depressing... knowing you'll be spending the next 10++ years of your life watching too much of the greatest scum on the
planet escape the Rule of Law.
Trump attacked Hillary during 2016 elections campaign using change of Bill connection with Epstein. This was too dangerous move
if he himself was implicated.
Notable quotes:
"... Why would intelligence services want to make an intelligence op out of someone so sleasy and easily compromised? ..."
"... The wealthy class has defeated the poor class. What we are seeing now is a civil war in the wealthy class. The Epstein business is just one of the skirmishes in that civil war. ..."
"... Trump is fighting for his life and money. Lose the next election and spend the rest of both fighting imprisonment. What makes me think its time to remind people that the office of POTUS has teeth? ..."
"... "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," ..."
"... does not say he "worked for intelligence". It might just mean that "intelligence" made the deal with him in return for information and that they then estimated the fall out and cleaned up (ie took people that could be blackmailed out of sensitive positions). ..."
"... But as to the "why now" of Epstein, surely it is 2020. As for Barr being a CIA kid, that does give some pause, except he is working for Trump, and so presumably he is playing his part in the 2020 event. ..."
"... From what I have read and heard, Trump is not tainted by the Epstein story. The attempts of those on the left or whatever (I can't even call it the left anymore) to associate Trump with the Epstein story are very belabored. "Grabbing pussy" of adult women who cluster around is not the same as recruiting young girls and teenagers and running sex camps for grown-up boys such as Randy Andy, RAndy Bill, and other Randy boys. ..."
"... AFAIK Trump did not ride the Lolita Express. The rumors about raping a 13-year-old in Epstein's apartment will have to become more than rumor to harm Trump, no matter how much the left pushes an Epstein = Trump narrative. ..."
"... As they pushed the Weinstein = Trump narrative. I.e., whenever you see Weinstein's name, think "Trump." But I don't think that really worked except with the very ones who were pushing that equation in the first place. In other words, auto-suggestion. ..."
"... "...every good gamblers knows to hedge their bets. ..."
"... Defense Department computers are among the top distributors of child pornography. An untold number of Department of Defense (DOD) employees and contractors have subscriptions to child pornography websites, and the problem is apparently so pervasive it requires new technical solutions to address it. ..."
"... "Hundreds of DoD-affiliated individuals" were recently identified as suspects in child pornography cases, according to an investigation by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service. ..."
"... Last year, an investigation by the National Criminal Justice Training Program found DOD computers were among the top networks nationwide for peer-to-peer sharing of pornographic images of minors. DOD's network ranked 19th out of 2,891 computer networks studied. ..."
"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNue92Gta3s 2014 Aerial drone video of Little St. James. The island is owned privately by Jeffrey Epstein and is located southeast of St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands. ..."
Interesting post in that it raises many of the key issues and how they may fit together.
Generally agrees with my initial (or maybe secondary) impression that this is result of Trump triggering backmail clause by
failing to act as required by those running the show.
But, I have I think a better theory more fits the situation. Acosta (the human "sh*t-grenade) was hired because he knew stuff
and knew people who knew stuff. Trump was being blackmailed with Epstein affair - dems/cia/etc... It almost work, he almost attacked
Iran, was led to believe it could be done in a way that would not lead to war - likely by you-know-who.
He balked and called their "bluff". They were not bluffing. Problem for them is that Trump can maybe weather the sh*t-storm
they can bring - comey/brennan/clapper/et al... For now, I am inclined to side with Trump.
I don't know why but in spite of his lack of polish, he's brought some crude and interesting results.
Epstein was just a young "dirty old man". Trump is innocent - can anybody point to any incident where Trump committed a real felony,
not some breach of landlord regulations, For all the accusations of him being the capo di tutti capi, nothing has really stuck,
so he gives the impression of being a criminal but really isn't but it's good theatre. So my guess is that Trump told Barr to
go to it and bring Epstein in and bang him up for life. Reasons:
Trump was getting bored with Acosta
Epstein may drag down others - the Clintons being prime candiadates
This is a poke in the eye for Obama
Trump looks good when Epstein does the time he deserves
Meanwhile the anti-#resistance investigations role on and implicate Hillary for making false statements and Obama for trying
to fix the 2016 election.
Trump'll romp home in 2020. If Adelson, etc. tries to push another Republican candidate, Trump'll run as an independent and probably
still win. Trump now has his main "problems" by the balls.
'Appalled' does not suffice any longer. All this shit is more than a mentally healthy Human Being can bear - and in that fact
lies also a motive to bombard the population 24/7 with shit like that. Therefore it appears that this, too is part of an orchestrated
effort to rile up people against each other and destroy whatever peace still exists.
You could call it 'distraction' from insurmountable problems created by this specific sub-species of Homo Sapiens. But I am
not commenting about that.
I am as pissed as a decent person can get without losing its temper. But I am utterly disgusted that this childfucker Epstein
has soiled the name of one of my favorite Human Beings in history:
Brian Epstein - the one person that gave Humanity The Beatles.
I can not emphasize enough how effed up this is. There must be a court order to rename him into Jeffrey Childfucker, in order
to protect the name of one of the greatest music managers ever.
But I do concede to the fact, that this kind of damage might as well limited to people who know who The Beatles were.
The wealthy class has defeated the poor class. What we are seeing now is a civil war in the wealthy class. The Epstein business
is just one of the skirmishes in that civil war.
Today's CJR media feed focuses on Acosta and the 2007 plea deal without mentioning either Bush or Obama. Focus is still on Trump.
Of course Acosta is now a member of the Trump administration. But Trump was not in charge with this particular POS went down.
Trump is fighting for his life and money. Lose the next election and spend the rest of both fighting imprisonment. What makes
me think its time to remind people that the office of POTUS has teeth?
"I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone,"
does not say he "worked for intelligence". It might just mean that "intelligence" made the deal with him in return for
information and that they then estimated the fall out and cleaned up (ie took people that could be blackmailed out of sensitive
positions).
They don't care about the fall out any longer, so this now is allowed to blow up.
"The left is going wild thinking that this will "get Trump" but quite the opposite is happening. . .
Now this story will run into 2020 largely damaging democrats into the 2020 election. Trump's DOJ is running the operation."
That is my perception, although I am not a qualified observer.
But as to the "why now" of Epstein, surely it is 2020. As for Barr being a CIA kid, that does give some pause, except he
is working for Trump, and so presumably he is playing his part in the 2020 event.
From what I have read and heard, Trump is not tainted by the Epstein story. The attempts of those on the left or whatever
(I can't even call it the left anymore) to associate Trump with the Epstein story are very belabored. "Grabbing pussy" of adult
women who cluster around is not the same as recruiting young girls and teenagers and running sex camps for grown-up boys such
as Randy Andy, RAndy Bill, and other Randy boys.
To me the big question is why Dersh was part of the FOIA action to unseal the docs. If just appearing in a photo with Epstein
is enough for "the left" to try to hang Trump, the Dersh is in a lot more image trouble, with him name on the plane manifest.
Is Trump's name on the plane log? I don't think so. So, imagewise Dersh is going to take a big hit. And, by defending Trump
last summer as he did, he has now associated himself with both Trump and Epstein. Trump comes out clean. Dersh comes out Derty.
PS. Why is so much blacked out on the plane logs that have been published?
the Macow sounds "about right" to me, but only "about." I can very well imagine that Dersh is taking orders from the JSP, but
if he rode the Lolita Expres, he is in trouble.
AFAIK Trump did not ride the Lolita Express. The rumors about raping a 13-year-old in Epstein's apartment will have to
become more than rumor to harm Trump, no matter how much the left pushes an Epstein = Trump narrative.
As they pushed the Weinstein = Trump narrative. I.e., whenever you see Weinstein's name, think "Trump." But I don't think
that really worked except with the very ones who were pushing that equation in the first place. In other words, auto-suggestion.
O @110 sez: "...every good gamblers knows to hedge their bets.
You bet equally on both wrestlers in the ring? You don't make much profit that way. Much better to arrange who wins ahead of
time with the competitors and the referee and then just bet on the one everyone agrees to make the winner.
Sure, Trump was in on the fix, so even if he won the power elites still win, but that is true for all of the other contestants
in the primaries as well, with the possible exception of Sanders. The problem is that the power elites have very specific plans,
and those plans depended upon their tool in the White House being Clinton, not Trump. It isn't that Trump would be their enemy
or anything silly like that, but rather that a Trump victory would not resonate; would not synergize with the megatrends they
were manufacturing within the population.
On the contrary, the Trump victory introduced a societal forcing function that is 180° out of sync with the larger narrative
the power elites were trying to create. Trump was chosen to be the loser in the 2016 elections because his defeat would have had
the opposite effect, damping trends in society that the power elites wanted quashed and reinforcing the ones that they wanted
amplified. Hundreds of $billions in entertainment-base narrative generation that have been fed to the public since 2016, and had
been in the production pipeline from years prior, were supposed to be reflected in the real world by the victory of the first
woman president. Instead that media is being fed to the public while the top office in the world is occupied by an unrepentant
pussy grabber. The messaging is diametrically opposed and interferes with itself rather than reinforcing itself.
Sure, Trump is still the tool of the power elites, but he is not the tool they were planning on.
"I am trying to link Wexner with the Bronfman's (Seagrams Liquor Family) via a source other than the Mega Group (which may
not be credible, IDK)."
The existence of the Mega Group was revealed in the Wall Street Journal in 1998 under the headline 'Titans of Industry Join
Forces To Work for Jewish Philanthropy'. According to the Journal , it was founded in 1991 by Wexler and Charles Bronfman.
Membership included Edgar Bronfman, the chairman of the World Jewish Congress, Charles Bronfman, Edgar's brother and a top
executive of the family's flagship Seagrams Corp.; Leslie Wexler of Limited, Inc.; Charles Schusterman, chairman of Samson Investment
Co. of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff, Baltimore real estate magnate; Laurence Tisch, chairman of Loews Corp.; Max Fisher,
the Detroit oil magnate and Republican Party powerhouse; bagel magnate Max Lender; Leonard Abramson, the founder of U.S. Healthcare;
and hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt.
One of its so-called 'philanthropic' projects entitled "Wexner Analysis: Israeli Communication Priorities 2003," was leaked
to Electronic Intifada.
"...when they met in the Edgar Bronfman mansion in Manhattan. The head of the World Jewish Congress hosted a meeting of
the fifty richest and most powerful Jews of the US and Canada. There was no press coverage, no limelight, just a few lines
in the newspapers. The gathered multibillionaires discussed the ways to achieve Jewish unity, and strengthen the Jewish identity
of American Jews, tersely reported Shlomo Shamir for Haaretz. They also agreed to launch a PR program under the Orwellian codename
of 'Truth' with the purpose of influencing American public opinion regarding Israeli policies.
The megabucks call themselves 'Mega group'. This name appeared in the media a couple of years ago, as a name for the secret
Israeli mole in the upper reaches of the US establishment. It came up in an overheard phone conversation, later denied by the
Israeli embassy in Washington, DC. The newshounds and spook watchers got it wrong. 'Mega' was not an agent, Mega was the boss."
Defense Department Computer Network Among Top Sharers of Child Pornography
Defense Department computers are among the top distributors of child pornography. An untold number of Department of Defense
(DOD) employees and contractors have subscriptions to child pornography websites, and the problem is apparently so pervasive it
requires new technical solutions to address it.
"Hundreds of DoD-affiliated individuals" were recently identified as suspects in child pornography cases, according to
an investigation by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service.
So far, authorities have only looked into about 20 percent of these cases. But already, they've found "several" individuals
"using their government devices to download or share said pornographic material."
Last year, an investigation by the National Criminal Justice Training Program found DOD computers were among the top networks
nationwide for peer-to-peer sharing of pornographic images of minors. DOD's network ranked 19th out of 2,891 computer networks
studied.
To prevent such widespread abuse going forward, the "End National Defense Network Abuse Act" would "crack down on this activity
by upgrading the training and technical capacity of military criminal investigative organizations to confront the misuse of DoD
computers, facilities, and equipment," according to a press release. It would also arrange for DOD authorities to work more closely
with civilian law enforcement on these cases.
"The notion that the Department of Defense's network and Pentagon-issued computers may be used to view, create, or circulate
such horrifying images is a shameful disgrace, and one we must fight head on," said Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D -- Va.), who co-sponsored
the bill with Rep. Mark Meadows (R -- N.C.).
A companion bill in the senate has been introduced by Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R -- Alaska) and Brian Schatz (D -- Hawaii).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNue92Gta3s
2014 Aerial drone video of Little St. James. The island is owned privately by Jeffrey Epstein and is located southeast of St.
Thomas, United States Virgin Islands.
"... If you haven't heard of him, Epstein's the super-sleazy Palm Beach billionaire who was busted some time back and convicted for conspiring to bring underage foreign girls to his estates in the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Or as his 2008 plea deal put it, to "knowingly and willfully conspiring with others known and unknown to persuade, induce, or entice minor females to engage in prostitution." ..."
"... I've previously written about Epstein's ties to Bill Clinton and to Donald Trump . Neither Clinton nor Trump look come out of it looking good, to put it mildly, but in this case Clinton looks a lot worse. ..."
"... "Flight logs show Bill Clinton traveled at least 10 times on Epstein's private jet, dubbed the 'Lolita Express,' by tabloids, and he is widely reported to have visited Little St. James, Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands," I've previously written. "That's where, according to attorneys for Epstein's victims, many of the worst crimes against minors were committed by Epstein and friends who traveled there with him." ..."
"... In a 2011 interview with her attorneys, Virginia Roberts, one of the teenagers preyed upon by Epstein, said he had told her he had "compromising" information on Bill Clinton and that the former president "owes me a favor." ..."
"... Oh yeah, and by the way Epstein donated to the Clinton Foundation and multiple Democratic Party causes before and after being convicted for pedophilia. ..."
"... Federal and state investigators amassed a mountain of evidence against Epstein, but in the end Black and his other attorneys were able to draft and negotiate a bizarre plea deal. The terms of the agreement, which was secret at the time, capped damages against Epstein - reportedly worth about $2 billion - to between $50,000 and $150,000, depending on what year he had abused the girl, an attorney with direct knowledge of the case told me. ..."
"... So why write about Epstein now? First, as just noted, this creep got off easy. Second, Page Six recently spotted Epstein on the Upper East Side with young Russian "playmates." ..."
"... He said that Karin had two departments, one that was legal and sent girls to New York and elsewhere, and an illegal side that recruited underage girls for Epstein and other global clients. "They lured young girls [to Orgy Island], mostly from small towns in Brazil and Eastern Europe – with the promise of a fat modeling contract," this person said. "They told them they'd go to the island and meet the head of the modeling agency. Instead, they were coerced into pleasuring Epstein, Brunel and their guests." ..."
"... This source said Epstein's entire sex procurement operation was laid out to him by a former Karin bookkeeper, a Cuban-American woman who worked for the modeling agency's Miami office during the relevant period. ..."
Before heading out for the weekend, let's discuss Jeffrey Epstein, America's best connected political pedophile, shall we?
If you haven't heard of him, Epstein's the super-sleazy Palm Beach billionaire who was busted some time back and convicted for
conspiring to bring underage foreign girls to his estates in the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Or as his 2008 plea deal
put it, to "knowingly and willfully conspiring with others known and unknown to persuade, induce, or entice minor females to engage
in prostitution."
I've previously written about Epstein's ties to
Bill Clinton and to
Donald Trump . Neither Clinton nor Trump look come out of it looking good, to put it mildly, but in this case Clinton looks a
lot worse.
"Flight logs show Bill Clinton traveled at least 10 times on Epstein's private jet, dubbed the 'Lolita Express,' by tabloids,
and he is widely reported to have visited Little St. James, Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands," I've previously written.
"That's where, according to attorneys for Epstein's victims, many of the worst crimes against minors were committed by Epstein and
friends who traveled there with him."
In a 2011 interview with her attorneys, Virginia Roberts, one of the teenagers preyed upon by Epstein, said he had told her he
had "compromising" information on Bill Clinton and that the former president "owes me a favor."
Oh yeah, and by the way Epstein donated to the Clinton Foundation and multiple Democratic Party causes before and after being
convicted for pedophilia.
Lately, however, the party has reportedly shunned Epstein. Indeed, he's so toxic,
recently released emails show , that Team Obama rejected the idea of having Epstein's chief attorney, Roy Black, host a fundraiser.
Black, by the way, is perhaps best known for winning an acquittal for William Kennedy Smith for allegedly raping a Palm Beach teenager.
Following that trial Black married a juror in the case.
Federal and state investigators amassed a mountain of evidence against Epstein, but in the end Black and his other attorneys were
able to draft and negotiate a bizarre plea deal. The terms of the agreement, which was secret at the time, capped damages against
Epstein - reportedly worth about $2 billion - to between $50,000 and $150,000, depending on what year he had abused the girl, an
attorney with direct knowledge of the case told me.
The agreement also barred victims from seeking any future financial redress. Roberts and a number of other "Jane Does" - Epstein's
underage victims- are currently suing to overturn the settlement. A number of attorneys with ties to the Obama administration were
involved in negotiating the deal, which was highly criticized and never publicly explained. (The astonishing story of the "sweetheart"
plea deal is laid out in
this article in the Palm Beach Daily News.)
Third, James Patterson, the best-selling writer, is
authoring a book about Epstein
that's coming out in October. It's a great time to pile on.
Fourth, I've been looking into the Epstein affair for over a year. I've interviewed dozens of sources in Florida, including several
of the Miami-area lawyers for the Jane Does, and have a lot of material in my files.
Interviews with key sources, documents and previously published accounts show that Epstein's closest friends and collaborators
included Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced British newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, and Frenchman Jean-Luc Brunel. The
latter ran a modeling agency called Karin, which is based in Paris but also has offices in New York, Miami, and Brazil.
Brunel, whose role in the Epstein case has been covered by Jezebel and others,
has a long and sordid record of abusing and pimping out young women. Back in 1988, 60 Minutes aired a segment that featured a dozen
models who said they had been sexually assaulted by Brunel.
Craig Pyes, an associate producer and chief investigator of the segment, said various witnesses told him that Brunel was "heavily
into cocaine and sex with young girls," and that he set-up parties for "his rich playboy friends" and invited girls to weekend parties
that "operated as meat markets for older men." Several models told 60 Minutes they had been drugged and raped by Brunel or his friends.
What's especially outrageous, attorneys tell me, is that neither Brunel nor Maxwell ever testified in Epstein's case. Both fled
the United States on the eve of their respective depositions with the flimsiest of excuses. (Page Six
recently reported
that Maxwell was finally going to be forced to testify in the ongoing Jane Doe trial, but I haven't been able to confirm that.)
Brunel lined up underage girls for Epstein's Virgin Islands hideaway through his modeling agency, several of the victims' attorneys
I interviewed said. A private investigator involved in the case backed those accounts.
He said that Karin had two departments, one that was legal and sent girls to New York and elsewhere, and an illegal side that
recruited underage girls for Epstein and other global clients. "They lured young girls [to Orgy Island], mostly from small towns
in Brazil and Eastern Europe – with the promise of a fat modeling contract," this person said. "They told them they'd go to the island
and meet the head of the modeling agency. Instead, they were coerced into pleasuring Epstein, Brunel and their guests."
This source said Epstein's entire sex procurement operation was laid out to him by a former Karin bookkeeper, a Cuban-American
woman who worked for the modeling agency's Miami office during the relevant period.
I've unsuccessfully tried to track this woman down. Anyone with information please email me at
[email protected].
I've reached out to Epstein, Brunel, Maxwell and Black on various occasions and never heard back from any of them.
Steve Pieczenik additional video on "Lolita express" HRottenC enabled/participated in pedophilia as well, more intel leaks to
come from US gov. insiders:
"... A blockbuster book detailing the exploits of the infamous billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein hits shelves on Monday. Sources close to the 63-year-old Brooklyn native have advised him to be "unreachable and out of the country" this weekend when the preliminary media blitz gets underway. ..."
"... Epstein is far deeper scum than a mere pedophile, while the Koch bros and Pence may have a truly fundamentalist moral streak. The period of time between now and the election could be very dangerous for Epstein. ..."
Lolita Express Monday - just another tequila sunrise:
A blockbuster book detailing the exploits of the infamous billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein hits shelves on Monday.
Sources close to the 63-year-old Brooklyn native have advised him to be "unreachable and out of the country" this weekend when
the preliminary media blitz gets underway.
"Filthy Rich," a collaborative effort between best-selling author James Patterson and investigator John Connolly, is set to
reopen old wounds for Epstein, who served 13 months in prison following a 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a teenage
girl.
Epstein has reportedly settled numerous similar cases out of court. The blockbuster book is also expected to further embarrass
celebs who once partied with Epstein.
An absolutely remarkable aspect of this "news" article is that while it mentions Trump as a celebrity who partied with Epstein,
the name "Bill Clinton" is entirely missing. That's despite documentary proof that "Bill" took 21 flights on the Lolita Express.
Just another MSM advertorial for Hyena Rodent Clinton.
Hey Jim, I've got a comment in moderation that touches on this. Specific to Epstein, I'll say the Koch brothers are as close
to the White House as they will ever get, and that Epstein was adamant about getting evidence about the people he serviced.
Epstein is far deeper scum than a mere pedophile, while the Koch bros and Pence may have a truly fundamentalist moral streak.
The period of time between now and the election could be very dangerous for Epstein.
Now that the Politics of Personal Destruction are in full play, certain parties had better hope that Epstein's settlements,
compelling his victims to silence in exchange for hush money, hold up.
After all, if one of them has already spent all her settlement money, she's effectively judgment proof in case she tells her
story in violation of the settlement.
As ol' Saddam Hussein used to say, " Anything is possible now, my brothers. "
Pharisee Conservative Scold Ken Starr Got a Billionaire Pedophile Off Many believe Jeffrey Epstein could have
been jailed for life for violating scores of underage girls, but Ken Starr and the rest of his legal team got him a deal. 5:55 AM
ET
It was supposed to be a probe into the first family's finances. But when independent counsel Judge Ken Starr mounted an investigation
into the Clintons' real-estate deals , the "Whitewater" probe took a
peep-show turn
. Starr and his team began to obsess over every lurid detail of Bill Clinton's philandering, issuing a 473-page report that was
a catalog of misuse of funds but mostly torrid sexcapades in the White House and the president accused of committing perjury to cover
it up.
The Starr Report came out in 1998. And all of this would be history, if it weren't for the fact that Starr, the legendary moral
ninny now serving as the
chancellor
at Baylor University , was handpicked nearly a decade later to negotiate a sweetheart plea deal with state and federal prosecutors
for
billionaire pederast and Clinton crony Jeffrey Epstein.
On Wednesday, some of Epstein's lawyers were back in court, arguing that the negotiations over that deal must remain secret.
"I had given [Epstein] a list of lawyers I worked with in the past that had been exceptionally able and Jeffrey picked from the
list," Alan Dershowitz, the world-famous criminal attorney and Harvard professor, told The Daily Beast. He also worked on Epstein's
behalf. "Starr had experience in investigating sex investigations," Dershowitz said. "He had experience as the solicitor general
and as a judge. He had all the bases covered."
The acquisition proved to be a panacea. In 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was hauled in by Palm Beach police for violating scores of underage
girls for years and was facing federal charges for trafficking them across state lines. He was formally sentenced to 18 months prison,
but only served 13 of them and was allowed to travel between his various mansions frequently. He was also forced to register as a
sex offender.
Many believe Epstein dodged certain doom -- he could have remained behind bars for the rest of his life given the number of alleged
victims (some say it's as many as hundreds, while his attorneys suggest it's barely double-digits). But ask the client and he believes
the plea agreement was lousy.
"Jeffrey didn't think it was a good deal," Dershowitz said. And that may have been because Epstein's all-star legal team -- which
included Starr, Dershowitz, Miami lawyer Roy Black, New York power esquires Jay Lefkowitz and Gerald Lefcourt, and Martin Weinberg
in Boston -- apparently couldn't seal an even sweeter deal.
Epstein issue and his connection to Clinton mafia was raised by press in 2016 but went nowhere.
The fact that Trump campaign targeted Clinton for his connection with Epstein means that Trump is probably was not involved as a client of
Epstein brothel with underage prostitutes for high ranking politicians .
Notable quotes:
"... Now Bill Clinton is back in the press and not for his controversial relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but rather his friendship with Epstein. In fact, flight records indicate that Bill would frequent the island paradise during the 2002 and 2005 era while Hillary, Bill's wife, was a Senator in New York. ..."
"... The woman went on to say how orgies were a regular occurrence and that she recalled two young girls from New York who were always seen around the five-house compound but their personal back-stories were never revealed. ..."
"... Moreover, Epstein was invited to Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010 amongst 400 other guests, demonstrating his close friendship with the Clinton family. ..."
"... To top it all off blue blood, "Prince Andrew was allegedly one of the house's visitors. On Friday, the Duke of York was named in a federal lawsuit filed against Epstein, whom the FBI once reportedly linked to 40 young women. Filed in 2008 in the Southern District of Florida, the $50 million lawsuit claimed Epstein had a "sexual preference and obsession for underage minor girls gained access to primarily economically disadvantaged minor girls in his home and sexually assaulted these girls,"reported the Washington Post. ..."
Back in 2005 police conducted an 11 month-long undercover investigation into Epstein and his estate after the mother of a 14-year-old
girl went to police after suspecting her daughter was paid $300 for at least one sexual act on the island in which she was ordered
to strip, leaving on just her panties, while giving Epstein a massage.
Although police found tons of photos of young women on the island and even interviewed eyewitnesses, Epstein was hit with a mere
slap on the wrist after "pleading to a single charge of prostitution". Epstein later served 13-months of his 18-month service in
jail.
In 2008, Epstein was hit again, this time with a $50 million civil suit after another victim filed in federal court claiming that
she was "recruited" by Epstein to give him a "massage" but was essentially forced into having sexual intercourse with him for $200
which was payable upon completion. The women were coming out of the woodwork.
Now Bill Clinton is back in the press and not for his controversial relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but rather his friendship
with Epstein. In fact, flight records indicate that Bill would frequent the island paradise during the 2002 and 2005 era while Hillary,
Bill's wife, was a Senator in New York.
'I remember asking Jeffrey what's Bill Clinton doing here kind of thing, and he laughed it off and said well he owes me a favor,'
one unidentified woman said in the lawsuit, which was filed in Palm Beach Circuit Court.
The woman went on to say how orgies were a regular occurrence and that she recalled two young girls from New York who were
always seen around the five-house compound but their personal back-stories were never revealed.
"At least one woman on the compound was there unwillingly," reported the Daily Mail in a recent article. The woman was allegedly
forced to have sex with "politicians, businessmen, royalty, academicians" at the retreat. Just one of "more than 40 women" that have
come forth with claims against Epstein, showing the vast scale of the man's dark operations, which aren't limited only to Little
St. James.
Moreover, Epstein was invited to Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010 amongst 400 other guests, demonstrating his close friendship
with the Clinton family.
To top it all off blue blood, "Prince Andrew was allegedly one of the house's visitors. On Friday, the Duke of York was named
in a federal lawsuit filed against Epstein, whom the FBI once reportedly linked to 40 young women. Filed in 2008 in the Southern
District of Florida, the $50 million lawsuit claimed Epstein had a "sexual preference and obsession for underage minor girls gained
access to primarily economically disadvantaged minor girls in his home and sexually assaulted these girls,"reported the Washington
Post.
"... "I wanted to tell you that I have compiled a list of 34 confirmed minors," Villafana wrote to Lefkowitz. "There are six others, whose name [sic] we already have, who need to be interviewed by the FBI to confirm whether they were 17 or 18 at the time of their activity with Mr. Epstein." ..."
"... Epstein agreed to a 30-month sentence, including 18 months of jail time and 12 months of house arrest and the agreement to pay dozens of young girls under a federal statute providing for compensation to victims of child sexual abuse. .the U.S. Attorney's Office promised not to pursue any federal charges against Epstein or his Named and Un-Named co-conspirators. ..."
"... His legal team? Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black, Ken Starr, and Alan Dershowitz. ..."
"... The federal non-prosecution agreement Epstein's legal team negotiated immunized all named and unnamed potential co-conspirators in Epstein's child trafficking network, which includes those who allegedly procured minors for Epstein and any powerbrokers who may have molested them." ..."
LOLITA EXPRESS...ORGY ISLAND...ELITE PEDOPHILE RING ?-2006
* George W Bush President: January 20, 2001 – Jan. 20, 2009
* Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General USA: Feb. 3, 2005–Sept. 17, 2007
* Michael Bernard Mukasey, AG. USA: Nov. 9, 2007 – Jan. 20, 2009
* Eric Holder, A G. USA: Feb. 3, 2009 – April 27, 2015
* Loretta Lynch, Attorney General USA: April 27, 2015 – Present
* Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafana
* Epstein's Attorneys: Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black, Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz.
+ "He (Epstein) is an enthusiastic member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations."
+ Bill Clinton...26 trips aboard the "Lolita Express"
Jeffrey Epstein's Boeing 727 is equipped with the necessary hardware for him to wake up, roll out of bed, and start trading.
+ Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually
service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.
+ Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen -- have been repeatedly accused in court filings
of acting as pimps. Oxford-educated Maxwell, recently seen dining with Clinton at Nello's on Madison Avenue. Manhattan-London
G. Maxwell, daughter of the mysteriously deceased media titan Robert Maxwell.
+ A new lawsuit has revealed how Clinton took multiple trips to Epstein's private island where he 'kept young women as sex
slaves'
+ Clinton was also apparently friends with a woman who collected naked pictures of underage girls for Epstein to choose from
+ Clinton invited her (pimp) to Chelsea's wedding
+ According to former child sex slave Virginia Roberts and a class action lawsuit against convicted billionaire pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein, former President Bill Clinton was present during sex parties involving up to twenty underage girls at Epstein's secluded
island in the Caribbean.
+ 20 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 said were sexually abused by Epstein, Palm Beach Police and FBI
+ 35 female minors sexually abused, Epstein settled lawsuits from more than 30 "Jane Doe" victims since 2008; the youngest
alleged victim was 12 years old at the time of her abuse.
..............................Source: FBI & Federal Prosecutors
+ flights on Epstein's planes 1997 to 2005, include Dershowitz (FOX NEWS, Harvard Law), former Treasury Secretary and Harvard
president Larry Summers, Naomi Campbell, and scientist Stephen Pinker.
+ In the most recent court documents, filed on December 30, Roberts further claims she was sex-trafficked to "many other powerful
men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister,
and other world leaders." Roberts said Epstein trafficked children to politicians, Wall Streeters and A- listers to curry favor,
advance his business, and for political influence.
The FIX
2015 Doc Release by Judge:
Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafana wrote to Epstein lawyer Jay Lefkowitz in a Sept. 19, 2007, email. "I will include our
standard language regarding resolving all criminal liability and I will mention 'co-conspirators,' but I would prefer not to highlight
for the judge all of the other crimes and all of the other persons that we could charge ... maybe we can set a time to meet, if
you want to meet 'off campus' somewhere, that is fine. I will make sure that I have all the necessary decision makers present
or 'on call' as well."
"I wanted to tell you that I have compiled a list of 34 confirmed minors," Villafana wrote to Lefkowitz. "There are six
others, whose name [sic] we already have, who need to be interviewed by the FBI to confirm whether they were 17 or 18 at the time
of their activity with Mr. Epstein."
In a December 2007 letter, the prosecutor acknowledges some notifications of alleged victims but says they were sent after
the U.S. Attorney's Office signed the plea deal and halted for most of the women at the request of Epstein's lawyers.
"Three victims were notified shortly after the signing of the Non-Prosecution Agreement of the general terms of that Agreement,"
Villafana wrote, again to Lefkowitz. "You raised objections to any victim notification, and no further notifications were done."
On Sept. 24, 2007, in a deal shrouded in secrecy that left alleged victims shocked at its leniency,
Epstein agreed to a 30-month sentence, including 18 months of jail time and 12 months of house arrest and the agreement
to pay dozens of young girls under a federal statute providing for compensation to victims of child sexual abuse. .the U.S. Attorney's
Office promised not to pursue any federal charges against Epstein or his Named and Un-Named co-conspirators.
"In 2006 the FBI counted at least 40 underage girls who had been molested by Epstein. Authorities searched his Florida mansion
and found two computers containing child *********** and homemade video and photographs from cameras hidden in bedroom walls which
had been used to film sex acts. The case was airtight for many counts of sexual crimes but Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer
and the Justice Department stepped in and offered Epstein a plea deal. In 2008 Epstein pleaded guilty in a Florida court to one
count of soliciting underage girls for sex. His punishment was 13 months of "8 hour nights only" at a halfway house. No other
charges about raping underage girls nor running an underage sex trafficking ring were mentioned in the plea. His legal team?
Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black, Ken Starr, and Alan Dershowitz.
The federal non-prosecution agreement Epstein's legal team negotiated immunized all named and unnamed potential co-conspirators
in Epstein's child trafficking network, which includes those who allegedly procured minors for Epstein and any powerbrokers who
may have molested them."
Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-flying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor financier lives in New York's largest
private residence, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and flies celebrities including Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey
on his Boeing 727. But pierce his air of mystery and the picture changes. Vicky Ward explores Epstein's investment career, his
ties to retail magnate Leslie Wexner, and his complicated past.
Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery
So how do termite grouping patterns fare as an investment strategy? Again, facts are hard to come by. A working day for Epstein
starts at 5 a.m., when he gets up and scours the world markets on his Bloomberg screen -- each of his houses, in New York, St.
Thomas, Palm Beach, and New Mexico, as well as the 727, is equipped with the necessary hardware for him to wake up, roll
"... The **** smell of all of this is simply overwhelming. He is not just a pedophile. He was and probably still is a Mossad agent whose purpose it was to entrap mainly US politicians and power bookers with the extremely compromising film evidence he was later found to be obtaining from the various elite junkets to his little island. ..."
Just posting this for posterity, as I've seen this information before:
"Bill Clinton was one of the most famous and frequent passengers on Epstein's "Lolita Express" and a guest on his private island.
When Roberts asked Epstein about Clinton's presence on the island, he simply laughed it off, and said, "Well, he owes me a favour."[37]
Epstein also donated money to the Clinton Foundation even after his conviction. In early 2015, a photo emerged showing Ghislaine
Maxwell at the wedding of Chelsea Clinton to Jewish investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in July 2010.
An annotated copy of the address book turned up in court proceedings after Epstein's former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez
tried to sell it in 2009. Rodriguez characterized it as containing the "Holy Grail" or "Golden Nugget" to unraveling Epstein's
child-sex network."[38] The book, which was eventually obtained by the FBI, listed well-known political figures such as Prince
Bandar of Saudi Arabia, Tony Blair, Senator Edward Kennedy, and Henry Kissinger, Ehud Barak, John Kerry, David Rockefeller and
even Donald Trump."
So...Kraft goes down, and there are supposedly even more "interesting" names on the list of those who were serviced by those
toothless asian whores. Could this be part of some unreal blackmail scheme against Trump?? Or is this **** TRUE, and we have a
pedophile in our highest office??
I don't know what the truth is any more. Maybe someone smarter than me can make sense of this ****. I sure can't.
The **** smell of all of this is simply overwhelming. He is not just a pedophile. He was and probably still is a Mossad
agent whose purpose it was to entrap mainly US politicians and power bookers with the extremely compromising film evidence he
was later found to be obtaining from the various elite junkets to his little island.
He and his Israeli handlers simply have too much on too many people for Epstein to really pay for any of his crimes, which
crimes many spy agencies around the world engage in frequently. However, what should really piss Americans off is that Epstein
was doing his dirt mainly against Americans for Israel, and Israel was supposed to be a trusted friend and ally of the US, working
in close concert with US spy agencies and forces in destroying nations like Iraq and Syria and pulling off false flag operations
like 9/11.
"... The children in some of these poor third-world 'orphanages' aren't really orphans as we understand the term but are just from poor families who can't take care of them. ..."
"... That a person with the stature of being a former president would hang around with a low-life like Epstein is really telling. He flew perhaps twenty-seven times on Epstein's plane which makes him more than just a passing acquaintance. Birds of a feather flock together. ..."
"... If a country next to us, so similar to ours in many ways but with a fraction of our population, has so many that can be exposed at one time then how many could the US have? ..."
"... The Burning Platform has featured a series of posts over the last few weeks that provide a volume of evidence that is impossible to discount. ..."
"... I have no doubt whatsoever that child sex abuse, trafficking and even sex-related murder may well be hung around the necks of very, very famous persons, and the horrors so bad that those persons (if still alive) will not even make it to trial before they're hung from a street lamp. ..."
"... What is clear is that the contention that there is "no evidence", a contention that is asserted or implied in seemingly every mainstream media discussion, is flatly false. There is a vast array of pertinent evidence, much of it circumstantial, but much of it also suggesting something of the mindset of some of the central figures. Anyone who denies this is utterly oblivious, or a liar, or a fool. ..."
"... As to what the evidence establishes, that is a different question. If skilled and intelligent investigators fail to take it up, then motivated and fervent - if not entirely competent - inquirers will surely rise up in their stead. ..."
"... Watch for the "fake news" sources' standard method for dealing with a large set of serious allegations like these from the internet's "real news" sources. They will take the most absurd/least likely allegations and dispose of them. They will then unobtrusively fail to address harder to dismiss allegations. Instead they will argue to the effect that, some of these allegations are false so obviously all must be. ..."
"... The "truther" site Snopes once had a perfect example, since taken down, I suspect because it made the technique so obvious ..."
The children in some of these poor third-world 'orphanages' aren't really orphans as we understand the term but are just
from poor families who can't take care of them. These international adoptions are a business where everyone along the line
gets paid with the child being the commodity being sold to the end purchaser, people in the west seeking to adopt a child to make
themselves feel good. As in the mentioned case, the agencies move around from country to country where people are poor and desperate
and legal safeguards are weak. Although the end receivers seem to be mostly naive and well-meaning people there's no telling how
many aren't.
That a person with the stature of being a former president would hang around with a low-life like Epstein is really telling.
He flew perhaps twenty-seven times on Epstein's plane which makes him more than just a passing acquaintance. Birds of a feather
flock together.
The Canadians pulled in over three hundred people. If a country next to us, so similar to ours in many ways but with a
fraction of our population, has so many that can be exposed at one time then how many could the US have? Yet we hardly ever
hear much, just of a few lone wolves here and there. Look at how Sandusky got away with it for so many years. People didn't want
to know, turned a blind eye to it, because he was too valuable.
This entire bunch who hobnob with each other have a very creepy vibe. There's all these 'coincidences' that seem to gather
together in one place.
This 'story' is complete horseshit / random confirmation bias. Scan the full social media accounts of any group of 100+
people and you could find just as much 'evidence' if you were determined to do so. This is scary -- the day that any social
media post involving children that uses the word "chicken" anywhere in it counts as evidence of pedophilia is the day anyone
could be smeared.
Ron Unz should be ashamed of himself for giving this kind of unhinged paranoid fear-mongering space.
Do some of your own research on this topic and you will come to a different conclusion if you can get beyond your massive bias.
The Burning Platform has featured a series of posts over the last few weeks that provide a volume of evidence that is impossible
to discount.
Most people cannot accept something like this would be real because they cannot fathom the depths of evil that exist in this
world ..why, I don't know. You'd think the fact that many of the people implicated have also been the ones fully on board with
unprovoked wars that have killed, maimed and displaced millions of people, including children, would be evidence enough.
Kudos to Ron Unz for exposing more people to this tragic, disgusting, horrendous story.
Socionomic Theory documents that the public's appetite for scandals is low when stocks and high and high when stocks are low.
Case in point: The "news" about Enron was favorable all the way down, until the stock had lost way over 90%. Only then did
"news" about criminality and malfeasance gain traction.
This being the case, with stocks at All Time Highs after an astonishing 7 year vertical rally, pizzagate's very existence
here tells us that when the next bear market (in social mood, as revealed by stock prices) is in full swing, the level of
sociopathic, demonic behaviors emerging into public consciousness will be unimaginable.
I have no doubt whatsoever that child sex abuse, trafficking and even sex-related murder may well be hung around the necks
of very, very famous persons, and the horrors so bad that those persons (if still alive) will not even make it to trial before
they're hung from a street lamp.
Public disgust with those who ran (and run) the Federal Government will in all likelihood be so pervasive that it will undermine
the very political cohesion of the United States.
This is by far the best survey of this topic that I've read.
What is clear is that the contention that there is "no evidence", a contention that is asserted or implied in seemingly
every mainstream media discussion, is flatly false. There is a vast array of pertinent evidence, much of it circumstantial, but
much of it also suggesting something of the mindset of some of the central figures. Anyone who denies this is utterly oblivious,
or a liar, or a fool.
As to what the evidence establishes, that is a different question. If skilled and intelligent investigators fail to take
it up, then motivated and fervent - if not entirely competent - inquirers will surely rise up in their stead.
Watch for the "fake news" sources' standard method for dealing with a large set of serious allegations like these from
the internet's "real news" sources. They will take the most absurd/least likely allegations and dispose of them. They will then
unobtrusively fail to address harder to dismiss allegations. Instead they will argue to the effect that, some of these allegations
are false so obviously all must be.
The "truther" site Snopes once had a perfect example, since taken down, I suspect because it made the technique so obvious.
One popular right-wing internet site claimed to link 100 or so suspicious deaths to the Clintons. Snopes attacked the obviously
absurd linkages and was left with about twenty cases of persons who (1) were involved or rumored to be involved with nefarious
activities involving the Clintons; (2) were scheduled to testify against the Clintons or rumored to be brokering plea deals; and
(3) died under suspicious circumstances soon after. Snopes dismissed these with a comment to the effect that all public figures
had numbers of known associates die like this; let's just move on, folks; nothing to see here.
200 Words @MQ This 'story' is complete
horseshit / random confirmation bias. Scan the full social media accounts of any group of 100+ people and you could find just
as much 'evidence' if you were determined to do so. This is scary -- the day that any social media post involving children that
uses the word "chicken" anywhere in it counts as evidence of pedophilia is the day anyone could be smeared.
Ron Unz should be ashamed of himself for giving this kind of unhinged paranoid fear-mongering space.
In one of my many different careers I worked for a couple of years as an outside consultant to the FBI's ViCAP (now VICAP)
program. About the time I was thus delving the depths of human depravity - and they are far deeper than the more fortunate readers
of this are ever likely to learn - a scandal similar to this broke in Belgium, involving the highest levels of society, politics,
and the EU bureaucracy in criminal conspiracies to kidnap children, sexually violate them, torture them, and even use them in
the production of snuff films. A full investigation dead-ended after many suicides and suspicious deaths and disappearances. IMHO,
based on some experience with criminal conspiracies of this type, the mass of material presented here is a pretty overwhelming
indication that something very bad is happening. That the MSM ("fake new") sources are not paying more attentionto this is scandalous.
I'm not going to commit myself to the idea that this is going to be as huge as Rotherham was.
Sorry, but you are deluded if you believe Rotherham was "huge" in the media - even after the story broke, the English media
did its best to downplay and underreport it - when they did report it, especially the BBC, it was always in a professional monotone,
with no hint of outrage, or how disgusting and appalling all of it was, including/especially the behavior of the authorities -
however let the BNP or EDL protest in front of the court where some of the Paki scum were being tried, and there you saw and felt
media outrage - at this point, Rotherham has practically disappeared from the news - which is pretty sad because as everyone knows,
it was just the tip of the iceberg.
And as currently being framed and investigatively fleshed out, if Rotherham was "huge", then Pizzagate will be a scandal of
positively galactic dimension.
People will not let this go the way they did with the Jeffrey Epstein sleaze.
Thank you for this article. It is well written and makes the point I have been trying to make. That the Wikileaks taken together
with the Instagram photos warrant an investigation. A person with a predilection to pedophilia (based on the Instagram photos,
choice of music, and music recordings at the Pizza Parlor premises) at the least, should not be running a "child-friendly" pizza
parlor without some kind of societal due diligence to ensure the safety of our children.
On the one hand, what is lost if an investigation occurs and it turns out there is no wrong doing? We would have wasted some
tax dollars and time of the law enforcement teams, but James Alefantis would in fact benefit from being exonerated. If
however, there is ANY truth and any harm has and is occurring to children, then the greater good resulting from the investigation
would be without price.
@Jus' Sayin'... In one of my many different
careers I worked for a couple of years as an outside consultant to the FBI's ViCAP (now VICAP) program. About the time I was thus
delving the depths of human depravity -- and they are far deeper than the more fortunate readers of this are ever likely to learn
-- a scandal similar to this broke in Belgium, involving the highest levels of society, politics, and the EU bureaucracy in criminal
conspiracies to kidnap children, sexually violate them, torture them, and even use them in the production of snuff films. A full
investigation dead-ended after many suicides and suspicious deaths and disappearances. IMHO, based on some experience with criminal
conspiracies of this type, the mass of material presented here is a pretty overwhelming indication that something very bad is
happening. That the MSM ("fake new") sources are not paying more attentionto this is scandalous.
The Belgian case, among other high-profile quashed investigations, is summarized here:
Furthermore, Tony Podesta's favorite artist is Biljana Djurdjevic, whose art heavily features images of children in BDSM
-esque positions in large showers.
Psychopathy in the Pedophile (From Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal, and Violent Behavior, P 304-320, 1998, Theodore Millon,
Erik Simonsen, et al, eds.--See NCJ-179236)
This paper argues that pedophilia may represent a special case or subcase of psychopathy and that the main aims of both
the psychopath and the pedophile are to dominate, to use, and to subjugate another person in service of the grandiose self.
[...] It notes that the major differences between psychopaths and pedophiles are that the object of the predation for the
pedophile is a child and that the overt behavioral manifestation of the pathology is sexual.
I just wanted to reemphasize Scott Adams' statement about the scandal:
Over on his blog, Scott Adams asks us to keep in mind cases where confirmation bias did lead to false allegations of
institutional pedophilia, to caution against excessive confidence.
These types of investigations and scandals can easily lead to 'witch hunts' and 'panics' and need to be handled with the greatest
care, prudence, and levelheadedness possible.
----
I wanted to add the following study/information, because as the study states ' These results provide further evidence
of the importance of distinguishing between these groups of offenders. '
This might just be an irrelevant distinction for most people appalled by this potential/alleged abuse of power and authority
of 'our' elites; but I believe we might mostly be looking at and dealing with psychopathy and not necessarily 'just' pedophilia
in this Pizzagate scandal.
This has several different implications for how this scandal might be handled or be covered up, etc., because psychopaths are
master liars, deflectors, charmers, etc., i.e. 'pillars of the community,' 'movers and shakers,' etc.
There is another curious connection here; Professor Robert Hare – the father of psychopathy research – said this:
Hare considers newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell to have been a strong candidate as a corporate psychopath.[10]
Robert Maxwell is the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is close friends with Jeffery Epstein:
In an American court case that was made public in January 2015, a woman identified as 'Jane Doe 3′ said she was approached
by Maxwell in 1999, and claimed that Maxwell procured under-age girls to have sex with Epstein. Maxwell has always denied any
involvement in Epstein's crimes.[10] She said: "She [Ghislaine] said she'd hit hard times. Jeffrey offered her a job
and then, I guess, because of her ability to procure girls, she became a vital asset to him.
Abstract OBJECTIVE :
Among men who commit sexual offenses against children, at least 2 distinct groups can be identified on the basis of the age
of the primary targets of their sexual interest; pedophiles and nonpedophiles. METHOD :
In the present report, across 2 independent samples of both types of child molesters as well as controls, a total of 104 men
(53 pedophilic and 51 nonpedophilic) who had sexually offended against a child age 13 or younger were compared to each other
(and to 49 non-sex offender controls) on psychopathy as assessed by the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI). RESULTS :
In both samples of child molesters, the nonpedophiles scored as significantly more psychopathic than the pedophiles. CONCLUSIONS :
These results provide further evidence of the importance of distinguishing between these groups of offenders.
500 Words @MQ This 'story' is complete
horseshit / random confirmation bias. Scan the full social media accounts of any group of 100+ people and you could find just
as much 'evidence' if you were determined to do so. This is scary -- the day that any social media post involving children that
uses the word "chicken" anywhere in it counts as evidence of pedophilia is the day anyone could be smeared.
Ron Unz should be ashamed of himself for giving this kind of unhinged paranoid fear-mongering space.
Your comment sounds familiar to me. Are you writing from the UK perchance?
Back in the mid-Aughts I was surprised by how often I saw commenters at MSM news sites talking about the grooming and abduction
of white girls in cities in England. At the time I was regularly reading BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, and Times. The stories where
these comments appeared were diverse in topic.
Sometimes other comments would share similar experiences. Some would say they talked to someone who claimed similar experience.
Others would say they'd heard murmurs of such things.
These voices repeatedly called on the MSM outlet to investigate, or they wondered why no response was forthcoming from
elected officials or policymakers.
This was after–I later learned–Ann Cryer (MP for Keighley) had bravely stepped forward on behalf of girls whose parents had
approached her for help. IOW, the cat was emerging from the bag, but the MSM were trying to stuff it back in.
Dismissive responses to these comments frequently were framed as yours is here: nothing to see here, move along, it's confirmation
bias, you people are nuts, mods, step in and censor them!
In the Rotherham/etc. case, racism, Islamophobia, etc., were trotted out to inflict silence.
What was most noteworthy to me, and creepy, was how these comments would be removed from the comment streams of these outlets.
Sometimes the comments would be deleted but the response calling them racists or Islamophobes allowed to stand.
By the late Aughts I was convinced some sort of coverup was underway of something terrible indeed.
We now know that the MSM were key players in that.
Similar murmurings were afoot in Pennsylvania for many years prior to the revelations of the sexual abuse of children by Penn
State coach Sandusky. I knew men who steered their sons away from football in general, guiding them instead to hockey or lacrosse,
because the word on the street was that football camp was not a safe place for boys anymore. (Nor, increasingly, Boy Scouts or
church camps.)
The gig is up for the MSM acting as panderers and pimps in the Cathedragogue of their own degenerate Narrative-religion.
They won't go down without a fight. They have more power and money to lose than any of the kids victimized by pedocidal perverts.
But what those kids have to lose is a treasure of vastly more importance than power and money.
Thing is, truth and goodness of spirit will win. This is part of why these degenerates fight back as they do. They can put
truth and goodness on the run for only so long. They fight back not because they are losing, but because, by nature, they can
never join the winning side of truth and goodness. It's just not in them.
All the more reason they need to be found out and reined in hard.
One last thing, regarding some people's assertion that these symbols, in-jokes, etc., are all "just a game." Or, worse, "art."
(Which implies getting money and power by representing degeneracy to decorate rich people's businesses, homes and bedrooms.)
If pedophilia, grooming, and child rape are now matters to take lightly as shibboleths of entrance to circles of power, then
those circles of power need to be napalmed.
"In the beginning there were the swamp, the hoe, and Jussi."
I think the crux of the problem is that most people find two different things equally plausible.
1) That the people who are talking about this (pizzagate) are lunatics.
or
2) That Podesta and the rest actually are involved in things like this.
Personally I think a nation that has reached this point, that it is totally believable that our leaders and elites are a bunch
of monsters well that's a real problem.
Another problem is that the UK article a poster above linked to is two years old. Has anyone heard anything about that since?
Expect to?
How many members of the media political class, that are dismissing this as fake news have enjoyed "pizza" at Besta or at a
similar place?
What if criminal deviancy rather than disqualifying a person, is not instead some weird prerequisite for elite status? Don't
have to worry about rock throwers if they're inside the same glass house.
Blackmail seems as good an explanation as any for things like John Roberts sudden change of heart on the constitutionality
of the Obama care mandate.
This is a very good summary; thank you for publishing it.
The speed with which the old media have declared the entire thing false, far sooner than they possibly could have explored
all the latest information and come to that conclusion, is astonishing. In other cases of conspiracy theories they think are false,
they are willing to stand back and ridicule the theorists. Obama Birthers, 9/11 Truthers, Boston Bombing hoax, Sandy Hook . all
certainly called false and ridiculed, but that's all. I don't think I've ever seen them try to squelch an entire line of discussion
from the start like this before, even threatening lawsuits and prosecution.
There may be something to pizzagate but I'm very skeptical of accusations of widespread institutional pedophilia. I initially
fell for the "Satanic panic" of the 1980s; I learned my lesson.
I see that this case relies a lot on cryptic symbols. Reminds me of the people who see swastikas and white supremacy runes wherever
they look and try to make a case for a vast neo-Nazi underground. But the author states that 470,000 children "disappear" each
year in the US alone. Really? The link goes to "reported missing" which is a whole different thing. I once reported one of my
kids missing; he turned up shortly afterwards at a friend's house. He hadn't even run away, just overstayed and not informed us
where he was. That sort of thing happens all the time, but genuine disappearances? I don't know of a single case and I know plenty
of people with kids. In some third world country in a war, tens of thousands of missing kids might be believable, but even in
most such countries (Syria for example) 470,000 disappearances per year would be a stretch.
In the U.K., all the abuse took place by people in power. Catholic clergy over choirboys. Celebs over their fans. Pakistanis
targeted girls from broken homes. The wealthy and 'noble' preyed on the lesser born.
The worst though are the politicians, who have maximum power. I'm not sure I believe the pizzagate thing – the evidence is
not conclusive (show me a victim or witness). But I certainly believe it is possible.
The reliably excellent John Helmer provides an oblique reference to Pizzagate in the following linked piece about Propornot
and its marvellous 200 Putin Stoogesites:
200 Words @utu "What 'relatively obscure
charge'?" - Making payments in a manner hiding the detection of payments. Payments were not illegal but he was doing it in amounts
below the amounts that automatically would require reporting. In my opinion he did nothing illegal. The crimes he allegedly committed
were beyond the statute of limitation and paying hush money is not illegal either.
I kinda thought that's what you were referring to, but wanted to make sure.
His real crime was something else.
He was a high school coach years ago and was raping underage boys in his charge. The cash he was withdrawing was for payments
to one of the boys to keep him quiet. If memory serves, another one of his victims had committed suicide (not sure though). But
the one Hastert was paying off wanted to burn him.
In addition, Sibel Edwards, when she was working for the FBI and translating foreign language intercepts, picked up some conversations
by Turkish officials, who were bribing Hastert, and claimed they "owned him". He reportedly got $500K, but not sure for what.
FBI had courts put a gag order on Sibel, so she could not reveal any more details. The story was buried: probably because too
many high ranking swine were involved.
Hastert pleaded guilty to a Mickey Mouse charge so that there would no public child-rape trial, where the public might learn
all the lurid details of what the filthy swine did to those underage boys.
Hastert got away with destroying the lives of many boys.
Hopefully he will be savagely beaten and crippled in prison – but not killed – so he can suffer for years.
Like a lot of people I have gone from completely ignoring this story, thinking it was Alex Jones type fantasy to starting to
wonder if there might not be some truth to it after all. So far I haven't seen any definitive evidence that kids are actually
being molested, or worse. And because the accusations are so damning I would want to be very cautious about casually tossing them
around.
That being said, a lot of the stuff that's surfaced; the artwork, the cryptic messages, Spirit cooking, the odd choices of
entertainment for a family friendly pizza restaurant and the Instagram pictures are just flat out creepy .
Even with a presumption of innocence I wouldn't allow anyone under the age of 18 anywhere near the Podesta brothers, Alefantis
and everyone else involved without adult supervision.
I'm glad Unz has decided to publish this. I'm interested to see if anything more will come of it. It certainly warrants further
investigation.
@DanC Rotate the old logo for Besta Pizza
180 degrees. It is the pedophile BLogo symbol.
That's why when it got publicised, Besta's management immediately deleted the old one and converted to a new, BLogo-free symbol
on all their website and printed materials.
What is interesting to note in mainstream media "debunkings" of PizzaGate is that they focus on the doubtful evidence, things
that could be "interpreted either way" and they leave out the glaringly obvious pedophilia links, like the Besta Pizza logo.
Just look at all the "debunking articles." Do any of them mention the old Besta logo? I haven't seen any.
It seems to me this is the way to wean the public off the mainstream media. Hammer on the fact that the MSM insists on leaving
out the clear, obvious evidence and tries to imply that everything is doubtful and open to interpretation. Then people will start
to associate them with coverup and BS. The MSM can't recover from that.
Actually the logo issue is a prominent part of this Washington Post article (and a tweet by the fairly well-known Dave
Weigel highlighted that part in particular):
100 Words @Johnny Smoggins Like a lot
of people I have gone from completely ignoring this story, thinking it was Alex Jones type fantasy to starting to wonder if there
might not be some truth to it after all. So far I haven't seen any definitive evidence that kids are actually being molested,
or worse. And because the accusations are so damning I would want to be very cautious about casually tossing them around.
That being said, a lot of the stuff that's surfaced; the artwork, the cryptic messages, Spirit cooking, the odd choices of
entertainment for a family friendly pizza restaurant and the Instagram pictures are just flat out creepy .
Even with a presumption of innocence I wouldn't allow anyone under the age of 18 anywhere near the Podesta brothers, Alefantis
and everyone else involved without adult supervision.
I'm glad Unz has decided to publish this. I'm interested to see if anything more will come of it. It certainly warrants further
investigation.
Podesta is a creepy fuck period.
How did such a dweeb get to be such a big person in our national conversation?
He is an obvious hack , but not a particular clever one. He just comes off so "are you fucking kidding me?". Where do they get
these dudes? James Carville. Paul Begala. Bill Burton. Robby Mook. Even right has George Will, Buckley. Strange unnormal people.
I confess I don't get it. I can understand pizzagate as a brutal and nasty last minute campaign tactic, but the election is
over, drop it. A mighty tissue of "coincidences" woven together in a manner that would make Glenn Beck envious. I guess I need
to fashion a tin foil hat and then re-read the article. I think it just discredits the source more than the target.
If someone is actually raping children, then where are the children? The kids related to the socialite that she is bringing
to a pool party? Come on, that is what plebes are for. How are the children procured? Where do they live? There is necessarily
logistics to this kind of activity, and zero evidence of logistics, just some weird emails and weird art. Its like saying someone
is a coke head because they had a runny nose. tweet at early hours in the morning, and behave very alpha.
500 Words @Anonymous "Every aspect of
British society seems to have ties to pedophilia, from Parliament, to the elites, the City of London, the government, public schools,
Oxbridge, the universities, all the way down to Paki immigrant communities and even British soccer."
Why do pedos gain such power? Same reason why homos do? Since many of them don't have families and since they resent the Normal
World(from which they must hide their deviance or sickness), do they have extra time/energy for gaining power? Are they fueled
by resentment toward Normal Society? It seems like homos had a kind of revenge streak, and it all came out with New Normal. Homos
really want to rub our faces in their feces. They want to force us to accept the New Normal or be totally destroyed. They want
to turn us into their bitches. They are into Bitch-Hunting.
Working in the shadows, homos and pedos seemed to gained considerable power. And since they are associated with Vice Industry,
they have the dirt on everyone else and can blackmail them. Bill Clinton prolly never had sex with a minor, but surely homos and
pedos have a lot of dirt on him about his many affairs and orgies. And since they have many connections, they serve as essential
middlemen for those who seek power.
Also, there is a code of silence among the powerful. They watch out for one another. And homos and pedos are both pushy and
gushy. They are very demanding but also accommodating and supportive of the powerful and ambitious. They go all out to serve the
powerful and those on the up-and-up, but they also demand a cut of the pie.
The ambitious care most about power and privilege than about right and wrong. If their power depends on a coterie of people
committed to them 24/7, they will look the other way even when they know something is up. Also, there is the human factor. People
who work together closely develop an emotional bond. It's team politics, us vs them. And loyalty must be favored.
Since homos and pedos have more time on their hands and more energy(fueled by resentment), they might be more available to the
powerful or those who seek power.
Hollywood made the media the hero in the movie SPOTLIGHT. But the media seem eager to bury this as fast as possible.
Why did it take so long for the Hastert and Sandusky cases to come to light?
Homos seem to be closely allied with pedos, and the trajectory of our culture is to normalize pedophilia by sexualizing young
girls and boys. If young ones are sexualized, it means they can be objects of sexual desire. And then what?
And the scientific community is arguing pedophilia should be treated as a condition than a crime. This may be legit as long
as pedos didn't act on their impulses. But if they did, how can it not be a crime?
Rape is 'natural' too given that sexual feelings are natural. But we can't treat rape itself as a condition and not a crime.
Regrettably, though one may have grown old without ever feeling the wish to have sexual contact with a pre-adolescent or of
anyone of the same sex it hasn't been possible for a long time to deny the prevalence of socially disapproved sex drives and behaviours.
So one finds that the nice young presenter on the antique show has been arrested for downloading and keeping pedophile images.
And so on But isn't the idea of a large network, and what is needed to keep it covered up, a bit much to swallow? Nasty minds?
Conspiracy theories?
Well I suppose not. Sex as a drive and the perverse varieties of expression that we know to manifest themselves are enough
to make one accept the pedophile reality. Then the network and the cover up? The cover up, however difficult to make it reliable,
is just a consequence of the danger their behaviour exposes them to. And the network? Easy enough to explain once you are in it
– like knowing that you could attend mass in a number of aristocratic Elizabethan households. But the detail of why and how it
should grow from a very small group is obviously more complex. I guess that there are organisers and facilitators who seek various
rewards, some financial, some in young flesh, some in the obtaining of blackmailing power.
It's the age difference and the power equation that matters. If a fifteen year old is sexting a thirteen year old it's quite
different than a grown man like Anthony Wiener. I couldn't blame any father who administered a sound beating to an adult creep
who was sexting a minor. What kind of a society doesn't protect children?
"IMO this is yet another Jimmy Savile case: i.e. literally Satanic pedophilia on a vast scale, with the active collusion
of our political and media elites"
Savile case wasn't that at all – more like famous DJ/charity fundraiser with great PR taking advantage of his status with teenage
girls. How many of the post-death allegations are true, who knows, but we know some definitely aren't true – we know because long-time
blogger Anna Raccoon was a resident of a small children's home where Savile was claimed to have abused girls. She has a whole
series of seven posts called "Past Lives and Present Misgivings" on the allegations.
More "active collusion" is likely in the cases of Cyril Smith and Greville Janner, two pretty high-profile and connected MPs,
who seem to have managed to go to their graves scot free.
Flynn's tweet regarding this story was perfectly reasonable.
The story has been stamped "bogus" without any kind of investigation.
No response to questions about the weird content of emails by Podesta and others.
Stonewalling.
Makes one think the shotgun blast at Comet might even have been a false flag!!
For those wondering about the authenticity of the FBI document, here is the wikileaks page where it was revealed in 2007 and
they say "Wikileaks has verified the document":
I remember watching an excellent Australian film years ago that covered this very topic. It portrayed in a very realistic way
the whole homo/ pedo underground in the upper rungs of society, from posh public schools to university, where grooming of youngsters
occurred, to Parliament and Finance, where the powerful pederasts/homosexuals ruled. In this world, the shortest way to power
and riches for a young man was to seek out the protection and guidance of an older and powerful homo/pederast lover. It was shot
in Australia and in Australian settings and institutions, but it's all so British you'd think the film makers really intended
the story to reflect British society and were using Australia as a legal cover.
Sorry, I can't remember the title of the movie or the director. It was quite disturbing to watch but very interesting.
Perhaps Pat Hannagan or some other knowledgeable Australian reader can help.
Let's say there was no pedo-ring. I'm rather skeptical of it myself.
But just look at that pizzeria. What kind of freako place is that?
And why are some of the 'most powerful' people in DC such downright perverts and degenerates?
The fish rots from the head. Degenerates run government, institutions, and culture.
Government and judges push homo agenda. College push porn and 50 genders. Hollywood pushes drugs and tattoos. Disney turns
girls into whores.
And this isn't just a 'left' vs 'right' problem. A lot of Trump voters were ass-tattoo freaks. The working class grew up on
Jerry Springer, WWE, mentally deranged metal music, or Goth freakery.
And middle class kids grew up on the nerdy black magic of Harry Potter whose teacher is a happy ass-man.
Whether it's elites and their Pervert Pizza or the underclass with their degeneracy, it's ugly all around.
I'm not sold on the pedo-ring. Too much risk, though I think those 'elites' are a bunch of pervs.
If anything, this pedo-issue takes our eyes off the ball.
The real issue should be that the governing elites of this nation in government, colleges, cultural institutions, media and
even military(look at those tranny freaks) are a bunch of decadents, even degenerates. We are seeing the normalization of freakery
and grossness.
The fact that it is considered NORMAL for Hillary to invite Lena Dunham to the DNC speaks for itself. The fact that Newsweek
celebrated Obama with a gay 'halo' speaks for itself. The fact that churches hang 'homo flags' speaks for itself.
It is a sick nation.
A tolerant nation has room for decadence and even degeneracy. It belongs in the underground. They always existed.
But now, this underground stuff is the bobo cultural fixation of the elites who consider themselves 'hip' and 'edgy'.
And they even introduce their kids to this stuff from a young age.
Indeed, even without overt pedophilia, introducing sexuality to kids at a very young age is a kind of indirect pedophilia.
When homo-ness is promoted among kids, what is being done? Kids will ask 'what is homo stuff?' And an honest answer will have
to be, "some guys wanna stick pee pee into poo poo". But then, the kids will have to be told THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT,
and if anything, WE SHOULD BLESS THE HOMOS. But why? What is so great about pee pee in poo poo?
We really need Culturegate. The whole culture is a rotten scandal, and the fact that US globo-imperialism spreads this filth
around the world speaks volumes about how sick America has become. We don't need real pedo-rings of 'pizzagate' to accuse the
elites of filth and vileness. Their cultural life is garbage.
Just look at this: 'mainstream' culture has no problem with it. If anything, it is promoted as the New Norm.
As John Helmer points out, the new digital news business model doesn't provide any funds for investigative journalism.
So who is going to pay for a serious journalist to do the legwork and paperwork and FOIA requests, etc.?
Re "And why are some of the 'most powerful' people in DC such downright perverts and degenerates? "
I thought you were going to say:
What are the most powerful people in DC doing hanging out at this creepy pizza parlor and doing fundraising events there?
We all know where Hillary goes for "real" money: The Saudis, Goldman Sachs, billionaires' glitzy summer compounds in the Hamptons,
places like that-you know, where the money is.
So WTF is she doing in one of these pizza joints? Why would there be any real money there?
With creepy, tawdry "artwork" on the walls?
Something here does not pass the smell test.
I'm intrigued by the Anna Racoon stuff, but I found it completely incoherent. Could you explain what these claims are, and
why they should be taken seriously?
Re Sir Savile and Satanic child sex abuse, at least two victims gave entirely credible and consistent accounts. Here's a mainstream
source:
Agreed. Often one wonders why such outrageous decisions are made in politics that clearly contradict the public good and one
wonders, why? This topic goes a long way to explaining the why. I'm not so sure if the investigating of it is the hard part or
the broad exposure, but it needs to happen.
I am probably more tolerant of 'deviates' than most on here. Queers don't bother me much, though I would recommend that they
be more discreet and stop the promotion of their peccadilloes as normal. When it comes to children, even teenagers, I am very
strict about them not being able to give consent and should be treated with respect, if not revered, by all adults with no exceptions.
There is enough smoke here for a thorough investigation to be demanded and carried out. I hope nothing less ensues.
The fact that it is considered NORMAL for Hillary to invite Lena Dunham to the DNC speaks for itself. The fact that Newsweek
celebrated Obama with a gay 'halo' speaks for itself. The fact that churches hang 'homo flags' speaks for itself.
It is a sick nation.
Yep. I don't have to look any further then this perv Alefantis. This is what you get when sodomy is legal. Of course this craven
bastard makes all kinds of snarky degenerate comments about children on his instagram
Society has been desensitized to homosexuality- so they have moved on to the "prize".
You have hit it out of the park as usual, I enjoy and concur with your assesments.
I believe I saw the instagram account of Alefantis before it came down. The girl pictured in several images seems to be the
child of a family friend. I thought the taped to the table image and the other pic with #chickenlover tag were at a minimum indicators
of a dark humor or innuendo. Who finds this sort of thing funny?
There were more pics of infants and a doll with creepy tags like #hoetard and suggestive comments, again, indicating a level of
casual comfort with making implied references to pedophilia. ..wink wink.
Gross, at a minimum. But evidence of a ring? I don't understand why Alefantis doesn't just acknowledge that there is an "appearance"
of sick humor.
Regarding the use of supposedly known pedo symbols- I'm skeptical. These are shapes and motifs we see everywhere. It could
be that the pedo symbol inventors purposely chose designs that would easily coincide with innocent use so as to hide in plain
sight. Or hmm ?
Podesta is definitely using code in his emails but my read was that he's talking about drugs and partying. Didn't we all use
"pizza" at one time or another as a reference to party favors back in the day?
The Podestas have bad taste in art. Not a crime, just a general indicator of regular degenerately "hip" tastes so as to impress
the cool kids?
And yet no one clears the air. And this is disturbing. I have yet to read one Wapo or nyt article denouncing the "witch hunt"
but acknowledging that, yes, it looks bad. Because it really does.
Incidentally, if they haven't been faked, one of Alefantis' instagram commenters is the maker of child sized coffin coffee
tables. Nice.
"What if criminal deviancy rather than disqualifying a person, is not instead some weird prerequisite for elite status? Don't
have to worry about rock throwers if they're inside the same glass house.Blackmail seems as good an explanation as any for things
like John Roberts sudden change of heart on the constitutionality of the Obama care mandate."
This fits Occam's Razor. I would go so far as to say that pedophilia blackmail appears to have been a method of political control
since the days of the British Empire. Much like gang membership, participation is required for entrance into the inner circles
of political power, then used as blackmail to enforce conformity and secrecy.
Interestingly, there is a recent episode of "The Black Mirror," a Netflix show, that addresses this very psychology.
There is a rather informative article in the WaPo about Pizzagate and its potential (mass-)psychological origins.
It actually indirectly and temporarily "blames" over-zealous feminists with being the originators of the this moral panic. Quite
interesting, but of course the article/author reverts back to Trump-bashing, etc. in the end.
What the Pizzagate conspiracy theory borrows from a bogus satanic sex panic of the 1980s
Second, in both cases, social movements were involved in the weaponization of suspicion, although the political center of
gravity has shifted from one episode to the next. In the late 1970s, social workers and feminist activists had focused on
combating child sexual abuse; they sometimes developed extremely broad definitions of abuse or floated exaggerated estimates
of its occurrence in this quest. Such efforts have left deep cultural residues, and these include the acceptance of exaggerated
claims about the number of child trafficking victims, and the incidence and forms of organized child sexual abuse. Pizzagate
relies on these inflated fears to seem plausible, and it similarly relies on a viewpoint marked by extreme suspicion (of the
media, Washington "elites," politicians and the Clinton camp specifically) to decode ordinary events and statements into extraordinary
claims.
A moral panic is a feeling of fear spread among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society.[1][2]
A Dictionary of Sociology defines a moral panic as "the process of arousing social concern over an issue – usually the work of
moral entrepreneurs and the mass media."[3] – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic
We know all about "Hysteria", but why did the artist use a decapitated male if not to possibly conflate this in the
viewers mind with the atrocities of Dalmer?
What about the other degenerate art, such as the child bondage spankees posing in the easy- to -clean tiled torture chambers?
Some of us will never accept homosexuality as an "alternative" lifestyle.
The fact that Alefantis is a homo; who by dint of his perverse sexuality- has achieved some level of notoriety prior to pizzagate-
is certainly part of the underlying rancor towards him.
Incredibly generous of you to quote WaPo as a credible source. I would have done the same at one time but that was ages ago.
BB753 asks why haven't the Posdestas sued? I would ask why haven't they at the very least stepped forward to offer a simple
explanation for what most agree is code in the emails?
I would suggest a possibility that blowing the lid off on this exposes exactly how certain "lobby" groups maintain control
of the wheelhouse of the US ship of state, and have consistently steered it into troubled waters against the national interest.
Wiz, a simple typo that my computer ran with (very observant of you).
Pizzagate is not "fake news" at all. It needs to be investigated.
The MSM says it does not disseminate "fake news". However, the MSM will often simply not cover events that ARE real news.
Thus, the MSM is disseminating the opposite of "fake news", namely NO NEWS. The MSM keeps people in the dark because there
things that it does not want people to know about. For example, the MSM will often not cover stories about how the LGBTQ movement
is brainwashing kids in even the lowest grade in public elementary schools. That's because the MSM does not want people to become
upset at the penetration (no pun intended) of the LGBTQ agenda.
In reality, there is relatively little "fake news" out there. Most alternative websites that people visit, such as Unz, simply
provide a different perspective on issues that the MSM won't cover at all, or cover in a cursory manner.
Classic disinfo technique, to seed the truth with a few lies that are provably false so that then the whole thing can be claimed
to be false and written off.
I don't know about the Podestas but as others here have rightly stated, there's enough smoke for a thorough, open investigation.
Coincidently, the anti-Russian rhetoric has escalated to an even more absurd degree alongside the Pizzagate news. I wonder
if the result will be even less people believing the blatant lies of mass media or if people will just demonstrate that there
are no limits to gullibility.
I saw a headline on CNN.com claiming Russia was attempting to smear people by 'planting' child pornography on their computers.
I didn't bother reading it, as CNN is a Gawker level news source these days, but it seems like they may attempt to blame this
stuff on Russia – along with everything else.
Here's another sex scandal (and a certifiably real one) involving a prominent Canadian who turned out to be a pedaphile. There's
a lot in this story that's revealing and fascinating.
Such a disturbing story. But instructive. In particular the information, or perhaps it is a speculation, that the pedophiliac
sexual drive develops early on. This drive must be incredibly strong-stronger than what would be considered normal sexual desire?
I don't know. But I have read that it is so strong that pedophiles make major life choices in terms of finding a way to get access
to children to use sexually. Such as marrying: so they can father their own children and have them handy for abuse. Or entering
a profession, such as the priesthood, or pediatrics, or education, etc. so that they have access to children. Or becoming sports
coaches, where they spend a lot of time in locker rooms and also have blandishments to offer young boys such as sports career
advances. Etc.
I think this point-the power of the drive-should be taken into account when people such as some commenters on this thread say:
"These people [such as Podesta} are too intelligent to risk their careers blah blah." If the pedophilia drive is as strong as,
say, a heroin addiction, then the addiction is in the driver's seat, not "intelligence." The more you feed an addiction, the stronger
it gets, and the more stimulation it takes to get the charge.
As for the sprinkling of a few lies in with a story that is targeted for debunking: In a normal police investigation the police
solicit leads from the public. (It is true that in this case there is not an obvious victim, so that must also be taken into account;
but this was also the situation with the Ben Levin [Toronto] case; nevertheless what he did was criminal and dangerous.) They
examine the leads and follow them up. This is detectives' job.
Often an obscure lead does lead to further useful information needed to build a hypothesis of the motive-means-opportunity
for the crime and widen the scope of an investigation. Every American with a TV set has seen hundred of such police procedurals
showing how crimes have been solved, often cold cases. Bona fide detectives who get leads from the public don't immediately start
to smear the source of leads as looney-tunes. In this case the public, in the face of apparent inaction by law enforcement to
follow up on this case, is responding by posting ideas and hypotheses and possible leads.
An honest law enforcement agency would be conducting an aggressive investigation and checking out any useful info and ideas
that members of the public come up with, whether online or off. Honest news outlets should either be calling for a thorough investigation,
or staying mum if they have been informed that an investigation is ongoing. The fact that the MSM, absent any sign of an investigation,
are blaring out the "nothing here; move on; blogger are rabid fools" message is in itself suspicious and suggests that someone
is being protected. The MSM have put out just enough info to warn the possible wrongdoers to get their act together, change their
signage, and run for cover.
The fact that the MSM, absent any sign of an investigation, are blaring out the "nothing here; move on; blogger are rabid
fools" message is in itself suspicious and suggests that someone is being protected. The MSM have put out just enough info
to warn the possible wrongdoers to get their act together, change their signage, and run for cover.
My feeling exactly. Too much volume, no doubts, too orchestrated and nothing being investigated, in fact just like WMD, and
9/11.
I believe that Pizzagate is a Trojan Horse being pushed into Alt-Right internet circles by Hillary/Soros' former CTR trolls
in order to help the Democrats and the MSM continue to flog the "fake news" narrative. The idea behind it is to enable them to
say, "Look, you see what kind of crazy conspiracies those Alt-Righters consume and repeat amongst themselves? This is the kind
of fake news believing nutjobs we're up against." If you think back upon the history of the meme (I hate that word, but I have
no other to use in its place), you'll find that its original and most vocal proponents were exhibiting clear trolling behavior.
Given their flaky commenting histories, their pretended expertise on this then-obscure topic, their ostentatious expressions of
optimism that this breaking news would ensure a Trump victory (itself a rather obsequious and scarcely believable attempt to paint
themselves as one of our number), and their single-minded determination to talk about (and to get us talking about) nothing else,
one can only suspect the presence of some sort of agenda behind their sudden exuberance over Pizzagate.
I believe we are up against a new and rather sophisticated sort of Concern Troll here-a veritable Stuxnet of concern trolling.
A perfect example here at the Unz Review is the poster "anonguy". Look at his commenting history. Look at the sudden acceleration
of his offerings as Election Day neared. And then look at his militant megaphoning of the Pizzagate narrative all over Sailer's
blog in the days immediately preceding the election. Furthermore, pay attention to his unusual style, i.e. how he structures
his comments as detached musings about the goings-on in the "infosphere" (his word), how he jejunely assures us the "the narrative
is forming" (yes, he actually said that, and at a time when there was no narrative to speak of), and his links to literally
fake news sites (the Denver Guardian? Give me a break). Now tell me that this is the behavior of someone who actually has
the health of the body politic as his primary objective.
Now, after having sifted all that, do try to remember that the larger general public really doesn't know or care anything at
all about Pizzagate, and that the leaked Podesta emails (all 37,000 of them, or whatever the final tally was) influenced the vote
of precisely no one who did not have the time or inclination to read through them all, which is practically every one of us. Remember
that the only people talking about this in the first place are the Alt-Right bloggers and their followers, the very venues of
"fake news" whom the Left is attempting to discredit and sully. Remember that the Clintons and Soros specialize in public deception
and that they employ all sorts of people for that very purpose. Now consider who is rendered vulnerable by all of this. It isn't
going to be the Clintons or Podesta. If Hillary Clinton was not prosecuted for trafficking in state secrets from her private server-a
crime for which she should have been executed- then Podesta is not going to be investigated for this. But you all, on the other
hand, have been tainted with it. You have been successfully associated in the public mind with a "conspiracy theory," with the
"fake news."
My conclusion: Pizzagate is a "thought worm" designed to infect, distract, and destroy the Alt-Right, and most of you have
been infected with it. This is not to say that there is no pedophilia going on in Podesta's circle. There may be or there may
not be, I really don't know. The point is that there isn't anything you can do about it. The accusations will be turned
against the accusers instead-classic Clinton behavior. It would be better not to take the bait anymore. Recent history has demonstrated
over and over again that the public is not going to rise up with one voice and clamor for the punishment even of credibly accused
child molesters unless there is something more to be gained from doing so, and in this case there clearly isn't. What this says
about the spiritual state of the modern West or the psychology of fallen mankind are subjects I will leave for another discussion.
For now it is simply a fact of life with which we have to account. The only way to beat these people is the Chicago Way: hit them
harder than they hit you. We dealt them a stunning blow by electing Donald Trump, but now we are in danger of losing our advantage
by immersing ourselves in a mire of toothless recriminations, and this is exactly what they want. Let's not fall for this again;
let us rather rekindle the spirit that got us this far, and take these vile people down once and for all.
The Washington Post found the funds to assign 27 investigative reporters for over a year to dig dirt on Trump, and bragged
about it. Judging by what they came up with, it wasn't too fruitful.
First you say the entire pizzagate meme is fake and it's fakery will undo the alt-right. Then you say that you can't do anything
about pedophilia anyway, pizzagate or otherwise.
Which is it? Is the story fake and thereby discrediting to those who support it, or is it real but pointless to cover because
you can't do anything about it?
Then you suggest we do this "the Chicago way" which is hitting harder than them whatever that means. If you are not going to
open investigations against these people, then what does "hitting harder" entail?
There is no way that Soros or anyone else is going to construct an elaborate criminal conspiracy out of whole cloth and tag
one of his own loyal operatives.
I agree.
Intelligent's comment looks to me like an elaborate misdirection.
All such blah blah gets no one any closer to an answer as to what is behind the coded language in the Wikileaks emails.
It is a classic example of throwing up a convolution of dust to obscure the smoking emails.
Stick to the evidence.
Ignore irrelevant baroque musings.
You make some good points but have missed the real issue entirely. Whilst I and many others here DO care about pedos and want
them locked away from society, what makes this matter much more important is that it involves many top level power brokers in
politics.
Pedophilia is more of a compulsion rather than addiction, why matters less than the fact that recidivism is the norm and society
deserves protection both from the crime itself and from the crimes of blackmail that can result from knowledge of it..
Blackmail is a very powerful tool in the work of pure evil and is the reason why even Marines and Embassy guards have restrictions
on who they may or may not consort with whilst on active foreign postings. I would estimate that there is no greater threat of
exposure than one of sexually exploiting children. Even hardened criminals have contempt for such perverts who are usually granted
special protection when incarcerated.
I would venture the suggestion that people with a compulsion towards sexual contact with children are identified early in their
careers and consequently put forward for rapid progress within government institutions by those working behind the scene to exercise
control over others with decision making capacity in the highest levels of government.
This is not a matter to be swept away if the swamp is to be drained, rather, this may well be where the "plughole" to the swamp
itself is to be uncovered. It will require a special investigation team but not one like the Warren Commission or 9/11 "Investigation",
a real investigation. Americans should settle for nothing less and it is incumbent of them to demand it.
This is not a matter to be swept away if the swamp is to be drained, rather, this may well be where the "plughole" to the
swamp itself is to be uncovered.
I'm willing to believe something pretty sordid is required to keep the bung hole as tightly plugged as it is and I can't imagine
anything else creating a more tightly woven, impenetrable web of mutual blackmail. Imagine what they have on each other, and imagine
what foreign intelligence services could do with same if they got hold of it. Come to think of it, maybe they have
America must get to the bung, dislodge it and deal with the stench that will cover the country for a generation. Until then,
America can't hope to be great again.
This makes a lot of sense.
That string pullers are on the lookout for rising political stars who can be compromised along the way.
Hmmmmm . . .
Seems like a lot of political families have dynastic aspirations. That would mean that such offspring might be natural targets
for monitoring for any "quirks."
Craig Spence's call boy business in Washington clearly involved high civilian and military officials. And Spence was able to
take friends on midnight tours of the White House.
Spence's house was provided by the Japanese ruling party. The house they provided him had at least one bedroom wired for audio
and video. I'm sure the Japanese didn't know that.
The Washington Times covered it for two or three weeks and it was never mentioned again.
Kids from Boys Town in Nebraska were allegedly used.
Unpack that and hope your hair doesn't turn white.
"Nobody is suggesting a rush to judgement here but clearly a prompt and thorough investigation is called for especially given
the supporting evidence, as other commenters have pointed out."
Really.
If the putative "circumstantial evidence" that Russia-no! Putin himself!!-interfered in the American election suffices to launch
the CIA on a nutty investigation whose purpose is, obviously, to "prove" that this is the case to the satisfaction of enough electors
for them to become "faithless," then I think the Pizzagate emails plus "circumstantial" Pizzagate evidence are by comparison much
more compelling and really scream for an investigation. In the Pizzagate case the investigating agency would presumably be the
FBI. Which *might* be grounds to expect a genuine investigation.
No reasonable person would think that the emails really are about Podesta's playing dominos and having cheese for dinner. quite
apart from the fact that cheese is usually mixed in with pasta!! Come on. I bet Podesta doesn't know how to play the game of dominos.
What are these people really emailing about?
For U.S. readers to gauge whether something like this COULD be happening in an advanced country, look to other countries where
such incidents ARE known to have happened.
In Belgium, the Marc DUTROUX scandal led to political consequences and appears to be ongoing.
In the UK, the claims against Ted Heath and Cyril Smith (see picture of both in article linked below) are broadly seen as having
at least some factual basis, and were reported in a number of newspapers including the Independent, the Guardian and the Daily
Mail (see link below). Other names were rumored about.
There were also years of investigations and cover-ups involving various orphanages such as KINCORA (in Northern Ireland) and
HAUTE GARENNE (on the Isle of Jersey). Both were conveniently located in somewhat remote locations outside the direct reach of
English law.
There were also extensive rumors regarding several locations in London. Investigations were accompanied by the usual fortuitous
deaths of potential witnesses, mysterious disappearance of documents, etc.
To reiterate a point that should be clear to the more astute reader, my goal in this series (part 1, part 2) has not been
to defend "Pizzagate" as such. My goal has been to defend the people who want to investigate it against specific accusations
levied against them by people who think Pizzagate has revealed no intriguing information at all-for a specific reason, which
I will be honing in and focusing on much more directly in this closing entry.
Whereas the mainstream critics of Pizzagate would have you believe that the world is divided between paranoid conspiracy
theorist followers of "fake news" and level-headed people who follow trustworthy news sources and rely on cold, hard reason
to determine the truth, my goal has been to show that-whatever is or is not happening with Pizzagate itself-this framing of
the issue is arrogant, insulting, and the product of extremely narrow tunnel vision. [...]
And if the media is telling you only about the most bizarre, reaching accusations without telling you any of the more
interesting points that have been uncovered (which it is), it is not doing its proper job."
If in fact making all the "elite" blackmailable is the object of the exercise and at the same time being blackmailable is the
requisite entry ticket to the elite, then not all the people taking part in all this sinister deviancy need be actual pedophiles!
Some of them could be "merely" psychopaths furthering their careers. (Not that that makes them any better.)
If this story is what it appears to be – the tip of a very nasty and very large iceberg, then it could be the mechanism by
which the "Deep State" keeps its control of the US government. That would make getting an investigation by official investigators
going, very difficlt indeed.
If in fact making all the "elite" blackmailable is the object of the exercise and at the same time being blackmailable is
the requisite entry ticket to the elite, then not all the people taking part in all this sinister deviancy need be actual pedophiles!
Some of them could be "merely" psychopaths furthering their careers.
Well, I don't really have anything to contribute to the "Pizzagate" discussion myself, except to say that some of the supposed
evidence plus the behavior of the media makes me very, *very* suspicious.
However, here's a somewhat related paragraph from one of the articles I published a year or two ago:
An obvious problem with installing puppet rulers is the risk that they will attempt to cut their strings, much like Putin
soon outmaneuvered and exiled his oligarch patron Boris Berezovsky. One means of minimizing such risk is to select puppets
who are so deeply compromised that they can never break free, knowing that the political self-destruct charges buried deep
within their pasts could easily be triggered if they sought independence.
I have sometimes joked with my friends that perhaps the best career move for an ambitious young politician would be to secretly
commit some monstrous crime and then make sure that the hard evidence of his guilt ended up in the hands of certain powerful
people, thereby assuring his rapid political rise.
This is ALL about the child trafficing that the Clinton-Bush Foundation was doing in Haiti. It is the weakpoint in a global
child trafficing network and it is why the Clinton-Bush Foundation has taken down their website and are attempting to cover up
any traces of it as we speak. Trump knows.
Anyone who believes that it is ludicrous to think that pizzerias could be used for such nefarious operations, I 'd like to
point out to you the case of "The French Connection" which later became known as "The Pizza Connection" in which a huge global
network of pizzerias were being used to distribute drugs in the 1980′s.
Anyone who believes that the pedophile code is purely circumstantial needs to take a look at the Katy Perry video "This Is
How We Do" which appears to be an homage to Comet Pizza. It is absolutely rife with the code words from the Podesta emails revealed
by Pizzagate. They prance around with convicted sex offender, who plea bargained out of a child porn charge, Pee-Wee Herman(
http://people.com/celebrity/pee-wee-actor-settles-kiddie-porn-case/
) singing about "this is how they do" and "it's no big deal".
Here is a video "Kids" by the group MGMT. The quote at the beginning of the video is from the quintessential Satanist Nietzsche("Free
spirits", by contrast to the philosophers of the past, are "investigators to the point of cruelty, with rash fingers for the ungraspable,
with teeth and stomach for the most indigestible"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil ). The video shows them bragging about how prevalent they are through our
community. The "do as thou wilt" bastards are laughing at us about how they control positions of authority like policemen(3:36
of video) and how childrens TV programs are filled with their garbage of wolves in sheeps clothing(4:24 of video). And of course
the Pizza and Hot Dog symbology throughout the end which culminates with them eating the child. This trash has 77 million views
on Youtube.
Here is the video "Criminal" by Fiona Apple. It is all about placing the blame on the victim, by saying that the victim enticed
the pedo scum, instead of the perpetrator. This homage to Child Porn makes great pains to highlight Pizza(:21 and :38 of the video)
and tiled kill rooms with easy clean-up(:45 of the video and blood stains on carpet at :48 and :54).
The lyrics from "In Bloom":
Sell the kids for food. Weather changes moods. Spring is here again. Reproductive Glands. We can have some more. Nature is
a whore. Bruises on the fruit. Tender age in bloom . But he don't know what it means when I say "Yummmmmm"
It should be noted that there are two versions of this song. The original one has the Yummmmm heard at the end at 4:15 in this
version.
Some potential victims of James Alefantis have been identified and one gave an anonymous testimony.
What James Alefantis allegedly did here is not illegal, but speaks volumes about his character, in my opinion, if the story
indeed is true:
[...]
It turns out that Carole's son, who is +/-18 at this time, is also working at the restaurant. I think his name is Dylan/Dillon.
He grew up without a father and turned to James Alefantis often for advice.
One night Carole walked into the comet pizza kitchen, and saw James Alefantis fucking her son in the kitchen. She was furious
because she immediately knew how completely James had taken advantage of her son. She quit immediately and denounced James
viciously in private, unwilling to do so publicly for professional reasons.
The story checks out, so far: Carole Greenwood is a single mom and has a son named Dylan, who was 13 years old/young in
2003. [...] [–] daj 16 points (+16|-0) 11 hours ago (edited 10 hours ago)
Disclaimer : I have absolutely no idea if this person is authentic, but since many Pizzagate critics argue
that the scandal has not a leg to stand on, because no victims have come forward so far, I believe this testimony is important
to share.
[...]
This is how he answered one of the questions on a voat comment thread. He seems to know/be aware of Dylan Greenwood
[...]
Here is one of the email exchanges between he and James Alefantis, that he did not delete:
http://archive.is/8423t
[...]
After a little while when it was nearing the final exams, I was stressed out, exhausted and let my guard down and went out
for some drinks with James a few times after work to get stuff off my chest. James would drug me up and then take advantage
of me. When I threatened to go to the police he implied that he would harm me physically and said he would sue me. He had so
many friends around DC that I believed him, I really was afraid, and just kept it all bottled up. I ended up getting PTSD,
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, from what were effectively rapes, and later I began to realize that I likely had Stockholm
Syndrome. I eventually quit the job, but James would send me lewd photos and texts for another 2 or three years at the rate
of once about every 2 to 3 months, I think 6 months was the longest in that period. I had to kick him out of the place I worked
when he came in every other month or so for about a year. Let this be a lesson: do not trust sociopaths and pathological liars.
Note: I have personally verified this person's identity and backstory. I obviously cannot verify his accusations. He
wishes to remain anonymous.
By now, most people are at least vaguely familiar with the so-called "fake news" story known as Pizzagate. For those that
aren't, the brief version is that self described "internet investigators" caught wind of some strange wording in the John Podesta
emails released by Wikileaks, and went down the largest internet rabbit hole in recent history.
The story was quickly written off as mass hysteria, a conspiracy theory, and fake news by nearly all of mainstream media,
and censored from the internet forum site Reddit. The theory, which has a plethora of circumstantial evidence, lacked one key
factor: a victim. [...] The anonymous nature of internet forums leads to skeptics demanding proof of any seemingly outrageous
claim. The publication of these emails adds credibility to his story.
"... A judge threw out Guiffre's motion in 2015, but Guiffre stands by her claims and is suing Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she claims acted as Epstein's madam. ..."
"... Buckingham Palace has also denied the allegations against Prince Andrew, calling them "categorically untrue. ..."
"... Requests for comment to Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Clinton Foundation were not returned. The former president, who flew on the "The Lolita Express" at least 26 times from 2001 to 2003, has never addressed his ties with Epstein, a onetime major Democratic donor, according to Federal Election Commission records, who also gave millions to the Clinton Foundation even after his arrest for abusing underage girls. ..."
Trump's supporters have long wondered whether he'd use billionaire sicko Jeffrey Epstein as ammo against the Clintons-until a
lurid new lawsuit accused The Donald of raping one of Epstein's girls himself. Editor's note: This article has been updated to
reflect the withdrawal of Virginia Roberts Guiffre's allegations against Alan Dershowitz and the striking of the allegations from
the court record by a federal judge. For Jeffrey Epstein and his famous friends, the Aughts were a simpler time, when the businessmen,
academics, and celebrities who counted themselves among the playboy philanthropist's inner circle could freely enjoy the fruits of
his extreme wealth and connections. Epstein's
little black book
and flight
logs read like a virtual Who's Who: Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Larry Summers, Kevin Spacey,
Prince Andrew , and Naomi Campbell all hitched rides on Epstein's private planes. Socialites and distinguished scientists went
to visit Epstein's island in St. Thomas, and cavorted at
epic dinner parties at his palatial townhouse-then
the largest privately owned residence in New York, as
he liked to brag .
There, they picked at elaborate meals catered by celebrity chefs like Rocco DiSpirito, marvelled at Epstein's opulent decor, and
noted the pack of very, very young model-types with whom Epstein always seemed to surround himself. But a darker story was going
on underneath the glamour. In 2008, Epstein was convicted of soliciting
sex from an underage girl and quietly paid settlements to scores of alleged victims who said he serially molested them.
But the girls kept coming out of the woodwork-in 2014, another young woman filed a lawsuit claiming that Epstein used her as a sex
slave for his powerful friends-and that she'd been at parties on his private island with former President Clinton. And just last
week, yet another "Jane Doe" filed a suit in New York accusing Epstein and Donald Trump of raping her at a series of sex parties
when she was only 13.
... ... ...
By the time Epstein was arrested in 2008, police in Palm Beach County, Florida, had already
spent months monitoring his movements, rifling through his trash, and interviewing potential victims and witnesses. Police
reported to prosecutors that they had gathered
enough evidence to charge the money manager with several felonies: lewd and lascivious molestation and four counts of unlawful sexual
activity with a minor. Epstein's freedom, his wealth, his little black book full of famous folk-including princes, presidents, and
prime ministers-all were seemingly at stake.
So Epstein did what the mega-rich do in these situations: hired star attorneys Gerald Lefcourt and Alan Dershowitz, who defended
their client vigorously, reportedly having witnesses followed and discrediting the alleged victims by offering their MySpace pages
as evidence of supposed drug use and scandalous behavior.
Prosecutors said Epstein's dream team made successful prosecution unlikely. "Our judgment in this case, based on the evidence
known at the time, was that it was better to have a billionaire serve time in jail, register as a sex offender, and pay his victims
restitution than risk a trial with a reduced likelihood of success," U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta explained in a 2011 letter.
And so, despite a decade of alleged serial sexual abuse and rape of an unknowable number of girls, some as many as 100 times according
to court filings, the notoriously secretive financier was offered a deal. For the alleged systematic victimization of young girls-most
of whom were plucked by Epstein's assistants from Palm Beach's poorer neighborhoods and groomed to adore or acquiesce to him-he was
slapped with a 2008 conviction on a single charge of soliciting a minor; and sentenced to an 18-month stay in a Palm Beach county
jail-of which he served only 13 months and was allowed to leave six days out of every week for "work release." He also agreed to
a few dozen confidential, out-of-court payoffs to his accusers, the most recent of which was finalized in 2011.
Epstein's "potential co-conspirators," as the U.S. Attorney called them-women who allegedly procured girls for Epstein-also received
immunity from prosecution as a condition of the 2007 agreement that enraged the local police force for its leniency. As of 2015,
according to The Guardian, two of these women had changed their names, and were operating businesses out of a building owned by Epstein's
brother, where it was alleged in court documents that Epstein had housed young women.
Though Epstein must register as a sex offender for life, and arguably suffer the world's most revolting Google presence, he has
seemingly retained his collection of elite academic and media friends as well as his fortune. Since his release in 2009, Epstein
has gone about his business, running a mysterious money management firm (clients unknown, income unknown, investments and activities
unknown) from his private 70-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and spending time at his Uptown stone mansion. The palace was
gifted to Epstein, some say, by its previous owner-Epstein's guardian angel and the founder of The Limited Inc., Leslie Wexner.
... ... ...
In December 2014, just as the Palm Beach lawsuits were winding down, another alleged victim emerged and her claims were salacious:
Epstein, she said, had loaned her out as an underage sex slave to his famous friends -- including Britain's Prince Andrew and Epstein
defense attorney Dershowitz (both men denied the charges). Coming forward in Britain's
Daily Mail in 2011, Virginia Roberts Guiffre-called Jane Doe #3 in a related lawsuit (
PDF )-claimed that
Epstein and his "girlfriend,"
alleged
madame Ghislaine Maxwell, forced her to have sex with the pair's powerful pals and gather intel that Epstein could later
use. In court documents,
Guiffre testified, "Epstein and Maxwell also told me that they wanted me to produce things for them in addition to performing
sex on the men. They told me to pay attention to the details about what the men wanted so I could report back to them."
Guiffre noted that
Epstein appeared to be collecting information on Prince Andrew-particularly on his alleged foot fetish-and claimed, "Epstein also
trafficked me for sexual purposes to other powerful men, including politicians and powerful business executives. Epstein required
me to describe the sexual events I had with these men presumably so that he could potentially blackmail them. I am still very fearful
of these men today." A judge threw out Guiffre's motion in 2015, but Guiffre stands by her claims and is suing Ghislaine Maxwell,
whom she claims acted as Epstein's madam. Meanwhile, the men named by Guiffre seem eager for her to go away. "It's as if I've
been waterboarded for 15 months," Dershowitz told the
Boston Globe after the settlement of a defamation case related to Guiffre's claims. "This has taken a terrible
toll on my family, on my friends " Buckingham Palace has also
denied the allegations against Prince Andrew, calling them "categorically untrue."
UPDATE: This April, Giuffre's lawyers withdrew her allegations against Dershowitz and said that it was a "mistake" to have
filed the accusations in the first place. A federal judge later struck her allegations against Dershowitz from the court record.
At Dershowitz's request, Louis Freeh, the former head of the FBI, also conducted an independent investigation of her claims and published
a statement noting, "Our investigation found no evidence to support the accusations of sexual misconduct against Professor Dershowitz."
In her lawsuit, Guiffre had claimed that during trips to Epstein's private island, she'd also encountered another very famous
person: former President Bill Clinton. Guiffre
alleges the former
U.S. president visited Epstein's "Orgy Island" when there were underage girls present, but added that she never had sex with him
and never saw him have sex with any of the young women. Still, it's these sorts of allegations that have journalists and Clinton-haters
circling. Just last month, pundits on MSNBC's
Morning Joe were speculating about Bill Clinton's oft-discussed friendship with Epstein and whether it would
be the go-to play for a Trump campaign looking to combat Hillary Clinton's claims that Trump is
bad for women .
Requests for comment to Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Clinton Foundation were not returned. The former president, who
flew on the
"The Lolita Express" at least 26 times from 2001 to 2003, has never addressed his ties with Epstein, a onetime major Democratic donor, according
to Federal Election Commission records, who also
gave
millions to the Clinton Foundation even after his arrest for abusing underage girls.
"I invest in people-be it politics or science. It's what I do," Epstein has
reportedly said to friends. "There's a 100 percent
chance [Trump] is going there," said former McCain strategist Steve Schmidt on Morning Joe , referring to Clinton's friendship
with the pervy moneyman.
"... The Jeffrey Epstein case is an asteroid poised to strike the elite world in which he moved. No one can yet say precisely how large it is. ..."
"... The questions about Epstein are metastasizing much faster than they can be answered: Who knew what about Epstein's alleged abuse? How, and from whom, did Epstein get his supposed $500 million fortune? Why did Acosta grant Epstein an outrageously lenient non-prosecution agreement? (And what does it mean that Acosta was reportedly told Epstein "belonged to intelligence"?) But among the most pressing queries is which other famous people might be exposed for committing sex crimes. "There were other business associates of Mr. Epstein's who engaged in improper sexual misconduct at one or more of his homes. We do know that," said Brad Edwards, a lawyer for Courtney Wild, one of the Epstein accusers who gave emotional testimony at Epstein's bail hearing. "In due time the names are going to start coming out." (Attorneys for Epstein did not respond to a request for comment.) ..."
"... Epstein remained a fixture in elite circles even after he was a registered sex offender. A few years ago, for example, he was a guest at a dinner in Palo Alto hosted by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden. At the dinner, Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. ("Mark met Epstein in passing one time at a dinner honoring scientists that was not organized by Epstein," Zuckerberg spokesman Ben LaBolt told me. "Mark did not communicate with Epstein again following the dinner.") ..."
Jeffrey Epstein "It's Going to Be Staggering, the Amount of Names": As the Jeffrey Epstein Case Grows More Grotesque, Manhattan
and DC Brace for Impact
The disgraced financier "collected people," said a source. Could some of them be implicated in his crimes? Meanwhile, Alan Dershowitz
("He's a bad person") and David Boies ("He's a liar") are already at war over the case.
The Jeffrey Epstein case is an asteroid poised to strike the elite world in which he moved. No one can yet say precisely how large
it is. But as the number of women who've accused the financier (at least, that's what he claimed to be) of sexual assault grows to
grotesque levels -- there are said to be more than 50 women who are potential victims -- a wave of panic is rippling through Manhattan,
DC, and Palm Beach, as Epstein's former friends and associates rush to distance themselves, while gossiping about who might be ensnared.
Donald Trump 's labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, architect of the original 2007 non-prosecution agreement that let Epstein off
with a wrist slap, has already been forced to resign.
The questions about Epstein are metastasizing much faster than they can be answered: Who knew what about Epstein's alleged abuse?
How, and from whom, did Epstein get his supposed $500 million fortune? Why did Acosta grant Epstein an outrageously lenient non-prosecution
agreement? (And what does it mean that Acosta was
reportedly
told Epstein "belonged to intelligence"?) But among the most pressing queries is which other famous people might be exposed for
committing sex crimes. "There were other business associates of Mr. Epstein's who engaged in improper sexual misconduct at one or
more of his homes. We do know that," said Brad Edwards, a lawyer for Courtney Wild, one of the Epstein accusers who gave emotional
testimony at Epstein's bail hearing. "In due time the names are going to start coming out." (Attorneys for Epstein did not respond
to a request for comment.)
Likely within days, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will release almost 2,000 pages of documents that could reveal
sexual abuse by "numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister,
and other world leaders," according to the three-judge panel's ruling. The documents were filed during a civil defamation lawsuit
brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a former Mar-a-Lago locker-room attendant, against Epstein's former girlfriend
and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell. "Nobody who was around Epstein a lot is going to have an easy time now. It's all going to come
out," said Giuffre's lawyer David Boies. Another person involved with litigation against Epstein told me: "It's going to be staggering,
the amount of names. It's going to be contagion numbers."
Epstein remained a fixture in elite circles even after he was a registered sex offender. A few years ago, for example, he was
a guest at a dinner in Palo Alto hosted by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden. At the dinner, Elon
Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. ("Mark met Epstein in passing one time at a dinner honoring scientists that was not organized
by Epstein," Zuckerberg spokesman Ben LaBolt told me. "Mark did not communicate with Epstein again following the dinner.")
In an email, Elon Musk responded: "I don't recall introducing Epstein to anyone, as I don't know the guy well enough to do so,
Epstein is obviously a creep and Zuckerberg is not a friend of mine. Several years ago, I was at his house in Manhattan for about
30 minutes in the middle of the afternoon with Talulah [Riley] , as she was curious about meeting this strange person for a novel
she was writing. We did not see anything inappropriate at all, apart from weird art. He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island.
I declined." A Musk spokesperson also emailed: "Elon never introduced Jeffrey Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg and does not know either
person well enough to do so. They simply happened to be guests at a neuroscience dinner organized by Reid Hoffman." Advertisement
One source who's done business with Epstein told me that Epstein's 21,000-square-foot townhouse on East 71st Street welcomed a steady
stream of the Davos crowd in the past decade. The source said Bill Gates, Larry Summers, and Steve Bannon visited the house, which
has been called one of the largest private residences in Manhattan. "Jeffrey collected people. That's what he did," the source said.
Gates and Summers did not respond to requests for comment.
Thus far, the name most publicly associated with Epstein's alleged crimes is famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who's been waging a
public battle with David Boies for years. In April, Boies's client Giuffre sued Dershowitz for defamation after Dershowitz called
her a liar (a strategy similar to that of seven of Bill Cosby 's
accusers
). In the days since the FBI arrested Epstein at Teterboro Airport a week and a half ago, Dershowitz has been going on television
and dialing up friends and reporters to profess his innocence and label Giuffre and Boies liars. "I want everything to come out!
I'm not afraid of anything because I did nothing wrong," Dershowitz told me on the afternoon of July 15.
He called me a minute after I had emailed him for comment. He said he'd been friends with Epstein since 1996, when they were introduced
at a party on Martha's Vineyard by Lynn Forester de Rothschild. "She begged me to meet him. She told me, 'here's this smart academic.'"
A few days later, Epstein invited Dershowitz to Les Wexner 's 59th birthday party at Wexner's mansion in New Albany, Ohio. "It's
a tradition that Jeff invited the smartest person he met that year. He told them I was the smartest." They remained close for years.
Dershowitz strenuously denied ever participating in Epstein's underage sex ring and said he'd only been in Epstein's presence with
his wife. "I got one massage!" he told me. "It was from a 50-year-old Russian woman named Olga. And I kept my shorts on. I didn't
even like it. I'm not a massage guy."
Dershowitz said he secretly (and legally) tape-recorded settlement conversations with Boies and that the phone calls capture Boies
admitting that Giuffre's allegations aren't true. "Boies is a bad person," he told me.
"I never said that," Boies responded when I asked about Dershowitz's version of the phone calls. "What Alan does is he plays a
second or two out of context; he never lets anybody listen to the whole thing." Boies also dismissed Dershowitz's claim that he never
met Giuffre at Epstein's house. According to Boies, Epstein's former employees said in sworn depositions that they saw Dershowitz
at the house multiple times without his wife. "This Olga woman doesn't exist. Epstein's barely kept women around who were over 25.
It's a figment of Alan's imagination," Boies said. On Wall Street, Epstein is a subject of mystery -- and fear. "I knew Jeff. He
came across as very smart, very sophisticated," one hedge fund manager told me. "He always had a good read on people. But manipulative
people are good at that." Another person who's been in meetings with Epstein told me: "He's very clever."
How Epstein obtained his fortune is a matter of feverish speculation. His claim to a billionaire-only client list now seems laughable
to the bankers I spoke with. One Wall Street source with direct knowledge of Epstein's business said one source of Epstein's income
was providing "tax advice and estate planning" to rich clients, like Apollo Global Management founder Leon Black , presumably because
Epstein had experience with offshore funds after basing his office in the Virgin Islands. In 2015 Black made a $10 million
donation to Epstein's
foundation. (Black declined to comment.) Advertisement In the absence of much other information, the reigning theory on Wall Street
currently is that Epstein's activities with women and girls were central to the building of his fortune, and his relations with some
of his investors essentially amounted to blackmail.
Similarly, DC is on edge. "Epstein bragged about his contacts in Washington," Boies said. Reporters are likely to dig into why
the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Epstein and kept the deal secret from his victims. One theory circulating among prominent
Republicans is that Epstein was a Mossad agent. Another is that the George W. Bush White House directed Acosta not to prosecute Epstein
to protect Prince Andrew on behalf of the British government, then the U.S.'s closest ally in the Iraq war. "The royal family did
everything they could to try and discredit the Prince Andrew stuff," Boies told me. "When we tried to follow up with anything, we
were stonewalled. We wanted to interview him, they were unwilling to do anything." (Prince Andrew could not be reached for comment).
Of course, the two Epstein friends that people are most curious about are Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, both of whom have denied
anything untoward. During the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton 's campaign consulted Bill's post–White House Secret Service
logs because they were worried Trump would bring up Bill's close association with Epstein and wanted to get ahead of the story, a
source told me.
For those in Epstein's orbit, the stakes of exposure are bound to get higher as more and more women come forward. Every day seems
to bring new horrors about Epstein's alleged depravity. At a press conference on Tuesday, Courtney Wild's lawyer Brad Edwards said
that after interviewing dozens of Epstein's accusers, it appeared Epstein spent almost all of his time abusing underage girls. "It
was his full-time job," Edwards said. "We have not found anyone who has provided information about a legitimate business he was engaged
[in]."
This article has been updated to include a comment from Elon Musk, and to clarify Epstein's relationship to Leon Black.
Jeffrey D. Sachs Trump is often called
an isolationist, but he is as interventionist as his predecessors. His strategy is simply to rely more heavily on US economic power
than military might to coerce adversaries, which creates its own kind of cruelty and destabilization – and embodies its own brand
of illegality.
NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump has based his foreign policy on a series of harsh economic blockades, each designed to frighten,
coerce, and even starve the target country into submitting to American demands. While the practice is less violent than a military
attack, and the blockade is through financial means rather than the navy, the consequences are often dire for civilian populations.
As such, economic blockades by the United States should be scrutinized by the United Nations Security Council under international
law and the UN Charter.
When Trump campaigned for office in 2016, he rejected the frequent US resort to war in the Middle East. During the years 1990-2016,
the US launched two major wars with Iraq (1990 and 2003), as well as wars in Afghanistan (2001), Libya (2011), and Syria (2012).
It also participated in many smaller military interventions (Mali, Somalia, and Yemen, among others). While the Syrian War is often
described as a civil war, it was in a fact a war of regime change led by the US and Saudi Arabia under a US presidential directive
called Timber
Sycamore .
None of these US-led wars (and others in recent history) achieved their political objectives, and the major conflicts have been
followed by chronic violence and instability. The attempt to force Syria's Bashar al-Assad from power led to a proxy war – eventually
involving the US, Syria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Turkey, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates – that displaced over ten
million Syrians and caused around a half-million violent deaths.
While Trump has so far eschewed a new war, he has continued US regime-change efforts by other means. Trump is often called an
isolationist, but he is as interventionist as his predecessors. His strategy, at least so far, has been to rely more heavily on US
economic power than military might to coerce adversaries, which creates its own kind of cruelty and destabilization. And it constantly
risks flaring into outright war, as occurred with Iran this month.
The Trump administration currently is engaged in three attempts at comprehensive economic blockades, against North Korea, Venezuela,
and Iran, as well as several lesser blockades against countries such as Cuba and Nicaragua, and an intensifying effort to cut off
China's access to technology. The blockade against North Korea is sanctioned, at least in part, by the UN Security Council. The blockade
against Iran is in direct opposition to the Security Council. And the blockade against Venezuela is so far without Security Council
engagement for or against. The US is attempting to isolate the three countries from almost all international trade, causing shortages
of food, medicines, energy, and spare parts for basic infrastructure, including the water supply and power grid.
The North Korean blockade operates mainly through UN-mandated sanctions, and includes a
comprehensive list of
exports to North Korea, imports from North Korea, and financial relations with North Korean entities. The UN Food and Agriculture
Organization reports that ten million North Koreans are
at risk of hunger, partly owing to sanctions. "[T]he unintended negative impact sanctions can have on agricultural production, through
both direct and indirect impacts, cannot be ignored," the FAO warns. "The most obvious are restrictions on the importation of certain
items that are necessary for agricultural production, in particular fuel, machinery and spare parts for equipment."
The draconian US sanctions on Venezuela have come in two phases. The first, beginning in August 2017, was mainly directed at the
state oil company PDVSA, the country's main earner of foreign exchange; the second round of sanctions, imposed in January 2019, was
more comprehensive, targeting the Venezuelan government. A recent
detailed analysis
of the first round of sanctions shows their devastating impact. The US sanctions gravely exacerbated previous economic mismanagement,
contributing to a catastrophic fall in oil production, hyperinflation, economic collapse (output is down by half since 2016), hunger,
and rising mortality.
US sanctions against Iran have been in place more or less continuously since 1979. The most recent and by far most draconian measures,
introduced in August 2018 and intensified in the first half of this year, aim to cut Iran off from foreign trade. The US sanctions
are in direct contravention of UN Security Council Resolution
2231 , which endorsed the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran. The effects have been devastating. The International Monetary Fund
forecasts that Iran's economy will shrink by 10% between 2017 and 2019, with inflation reaching 30% this year. Medicines are in
short supply .
One might expect that other countries would easily circumvent US sanctions. But the US has threatened to punish foreign companies
that violate the sanctions and has used the dollar's global clout as a bludgeon, threatening to sanction foreign banks that finance
trade with Iran. European companies have fallen into line, despite the European Union's express desire to engage economically with
Iran. Over the longer term, it is likely that more ways will be found to circumvent the sanctions, using renminbi, ruble, or euro
financing, yet the erosion of US sanctions will only be gradual.
Despite the intense economic pain – indeed calamity – inflicted on North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran, none of them has succumbed
to US demands. In this sense, sanctions have proved to be no more successful than military intervention. North Korea has maintained,
and most likely is expanding, its nuclear arsenal. The Iranian regime rejects US demands concerning its missile program and foreign
policies. And Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro remains in power.
The US blockades have been carried out by presidential decree, with almost no public debate and no systematic oversight by Congress.
This has been a one-man show, even more so than in the case of president-led wars, which trigger vastly more public scrutiny. Trump
realizes that he can impose crippling sanctions abroad with almost no direct costs to the US public or budget, and with virtually
no political accountability.
Military blockades are acts of war, and therefore subject to international law, including UN Security Council oversight. America's
economic blockades are similar in function and outcome to military blockades, with devastating consequences for civilian populations,
and risk provoking war. It is time for the Security Council to take up the US sanctions regimes and weigh them against the requirements
of international law and peacekeeping. Jeffrey D. Sachs , Professor of Sustainable
Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, is Director of Columbia's Center for Sustainable
Development and of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. His books include
The
End of Poverty ,
Common
Wealth , The Age of
Sustainable Development ,
Building the New American
Economy , and most recently, A New
Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism .
As long as a country neither conducts a genocide, nor attacks other countries, nobody should interfere in its internal affairs.
If a country like Venezuela or Cuba goes broke due to its incompetent leadership, it should get help from the IMF etc. in exchange
for reforms as happens with any other country. Other than that it is their business whether they want to be socialist, capitalist
or whatever. That whole ideological crusade against leftist countries has to stop, it has cost millions of lives already.
And there is a simple way to stop Iran's activities in the Middle East: let's finally solve the conflict there after decades
during which the West simply looked the other way when land, water and oil were stolen from the Palestinians and others.
In my view the US has long turned into a rogue state. The rest of the world has to prune that country by working together and
isolating it. For instance, let's create a new global currency for commodities, the Com, in order to drive the dollar out.
Let's move the UN out of the US to a neutral, peaceful country, Switzerland for instance.
Sanctions are legal and based on national sovereignty and not a proper subject of scrutiny by an international body. Blockades
are subject to international law. By calling something which is legal by another term which may involve illegality one is guilty
of shedding false light.
Sachs thinks that if sanctions have the same effect as a blockade then sanctions are blockades. This is foolish. It is like
saying 'since a woman can get pregnant either through consensual sex or through rape, it follows that all fathers are rapists'.
Trump is carrying on policies previously applied. He has made no great innovation. It appears likely that no 'regime change'
will occur. That is why there is no real 'geopolitical' risk here. The effect of sanctions is to create a widening chasm between
regime 'insiders' and the great mass of the people. This has a demoralizing effect and reduces the ability of the regime to use
its brain-washed subjects for an aggressive purpose. In other words, sanctions reduce, not increase, the threat potential of a
bitter adversary.
Current sanctions attempt to effectively have jurisdiction over third parties, i.e. not the US, who would trade with Iran. ( that,
in full compliance with international law and a binding prior agreement to which the US is a party.) I am curious how you square
that with "national sovereignty", unless that is something over which the US has a higher priority than third parties.
As in all other times that are precursors to War, the laws of disparate nations mean nothing. We all have our own laws, to rule
our own geopolitical nations, which disserve the interests of other geopolitical nations.
Most recently, the WTO admits it is insufficient to resolve trade disputes among nations, and must change its hypotheses. This
is only another precursor admission that binding international laws are becoming irrelevant, and that we must "Start all over
again", i.e. the rule of the strongest, which means one state must conquer another before we can reestablish "Common Rule."
Economic sanctions are not tantamount to acts of war and should not be treated that way at the UN Security Council or anywhere
else. To do that would just leave acts of war as the only alternative in the case of serious disputes. But neither should nations
necessarily cooperate with sanctions they see as poorly motivated or poorly designed. In those cases, the best response is usually
technical -- new institutional arrangements that raise the costs or limit the effects of poorly justified unilateral sanctions.
it is the beginning of the end for the special role of the US$ in the world economy. Dethroning the US$ has now become a matter
of national security for 95% of the planet. Not that this would not have happened anyway, nothing lasts forever, but present events
accelerate the process.
This can be good for the US in the long run, if painful at first. One sometimes quips about the curse of natural resources.
US suffers from the similar curse of the Dollar, which is a natural resource of sorts, as it can be printed out of thin air, seemingly
without consequences. The dethroning of the US$ will cause a pretty significant, perhaps shocking, drop in living standards given
US social inequalities, but it may be beneficial in the long run by imposing some sobriety and discipline upon the political system.
Then, it could also break up the country for good. May you live in interesting times, as the saying goes.
Fortunately, the ability of the U.S. to do this is fading fast, as it loses its economic domination to China. So far, China has
shown rather less tendency to meddle in the affairs of other countries, with the notable exceptions of certain territories which
it regards as part of its territory. The world is slowly becoming fairer.
Cornell professor, and long-time friend, David Collum recently appeared on an episode of
the
Quoth the Raven podcast
to talk all things
conspiracy. Collum is an economic commentator, chemist, Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and
Chemical Biology at Cornell University and is known for writing his "Year in Review", which appears
here on Zerohedge
at the end of every year.
On the episode, host Chris Irons notes that
Collum's appearance was prompted by a recent Tweet he put out, in defense of being a conspiracy
theorist which sparked a massive social media response and outpouring of reactions, both pro and
con.
On the podcast, Collum and host Chris Irons tap into every major conspiracy theory over the last
couple of decades, as well as several current events and the world of finance.
Some highlights:
Collum Thinks Jeffrey Epstein Could Have Been Working For "Powerful People" And "Setting
People Up"
The discussion starts with analysis of the current Jeffrey Epstein fiasco and Collum ponders
what "can of worms" could open for Bill Clinton and Donald Trump as a result of Epstein going to
trial and documents relating to his indictment coming to light.
"It's going to be bi-partisan," Collum says about the Epstein allegations. "Epstein was working
for powerful people, to get dirt on powerful people. Epstein wasn't just a dirtball, he was setting
people up," he continues.
Collum comments:
"Nowadays getting photographed on a boat with a blonde sitting on your lap doesn't even
cause you to lose a vote. Now they gotta get you with something much dirtier. I think that's
where the underage kids come in. I think Epstein has been building a portfolio of dirt, like J.
Edgar Hoover."
"What if that crazy ass pizzagate conspiracy turns out to be true?" he asks.
* * *
Collum Doesn't Buy The 9/11 Narrative - "Physics Tells Me There's Problems"
Collum then discusses why he doesn't believe the mainstream narrative behind the 9/11 attacks.
He cites physics, Building 7 and the lack of video footage of the plane crashing into the Pentagon
as two of the big reasons that he questions the official story.
"I think there's problems with 9/11, but no one wants to say that because they're embarrassed
to say that. But the laws of physics tell me there's problems. I don't give a shit about the
squibs or Larry Silverstein saying they decided to pull the building. When I watch two towers
come down perfectly and I go 'chaos theory alone says they should have gone asymmetric and
stopped tumbling'..."
Collum continues:
""
I can't believe Building 7 should have fallen
. There's really not a shred of
footage of the plane hitting the pentagon. Not one frame. The official frame isn't a frame. If
someone's got the footage, let me see it."
There's conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact... important
distinction... The Congressional 9/11 Inquiry strongly points to
CIA- FBI collaboration with the Saudis (the 28 pages redacted by
Bush) to stage the 9/11 Terror Spectacle...
I am a "conspiracy theorist". I believe men and women of wealth
and power conspire. If you don't think so, then you are what is
called "an idiot". If you believe stuff but fear the label, you
are what is called "a coward".
I was on Yahoo commenting on a stupid article about Trump and some
Kurdish lady asking for asylum. All the comments were anti-Trump.
I posted a couple of above board comments and they were all
erased. Yahoo articles are heavily censored and bots are posting
most of their liberal views. I wonder how long before sites like
ZeroHedge will last.
Jeffrey Epstein's former IT contractor, Steve Scully, says that he ended his business
relationship with the 66-year-old pedophile over hordes of young women all over his infamous
private island, as well as an extensive collection of photographs depicting topless women
displayed in the island's various compounds , according to Good Morning America.
... ... ...
Scully told ABC News that he owned and operated a telecommunications business
on nearby St. Thomas island when he was hired by Epstein to set up a communications network on
Little St. James, also known as 'Pedo Island.' He visited the island over 100 times, and says
that his memories of Epstein are 'vivid.'
" He was the most intense person I ever met ," said Scully.
Epstein wanted phone or internet access nearly everywhere on the 72-acre island, Scully
said, including in a secluded cove that the financier referred to as "the grotto." Given his
work in high-volume financial trading, Scully said, Epstein "never wanted a call to drop"
because of weak digital coverage on the island .
The island's primary compound was arranged in a "Danish style" layout -- with individual
bedroom suites in individual buildings surrounding a courtyard, Scully recalled, including a
pair of large cockatoo statues lording over the island's gardens. He said that at one point,
he recalled Epstein wanting to change the name of the island from "Little St. James" to
"Little Saint Jeff."
According to Scully, that the strange 'temple' structure was actually a gym , which
contained a massive framed photo of a topless woman.
Yes, Epstein and Maxwell were obviously operating a major "sex trafficking" operation that
involved plenty of girls who were underage.
But Epstein was also, in effect, operating a bordello. A whore house. One assumes that any
man who "paid" to be in Epstein's company, had his choice of women or girls.
This is why these places are so "out of the way" and secluded. The island and the ranch in
New Mexico.
On season St Thomas is awash in bimbo tourists from all over the US & Europe
Ask the St Thomas police how many are reported missing and the estimate of those never
reported. Cruise ships don't care..they leave. Airplane don't wait. The assumption is that
they got drunk or went native. If they don't show up somewhere looking for a ride home, is
any one really looking for them ? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Offer them a party on a PRIVATE Island !..A helicopter or boat ride ! Keep em fed..$2.00 a
quart duty free rum...keeping the island stocked with bimbos is the easy part...especially
for his less discerning quests. Now the " prime stock " of young uns is a different matter
but just keeping a " horde " of bimbos in stock is a breeze for his staff.
When they get stale or become troublesome...drop them back on St Thomas and let the
authorities send them back to whence they came with a nice annual retainer to the local
constabulary. Rounding up drunks and miscreants and putting them on airplanes is routine duty
in island life
I'm sure New Mexico offers the same opportunities and that has its own airstrip.
It seems that Vanity Fair is taking the lead in producing informative articles about
Epstein's "world."
I gather from a recent story that The Miami Herald might, in fact, be trying to "follow
the money."
Both good developments. The more "mainstream" journalists who get involved - and score
"scoops" and produce content with big audiences - the more other news organizations might
say, "Let's join in and do the same thing."
That's when big stories get exposed - when a pack of journalists and news organizations
are simultaneously pursuing different avenues of the same story.
... I still haven't seen a story where authorities explain why they haven't arrested
Ghislaine Maxwell or raided the islands or the ranch in New Mexico . So it's not like the
press is actually "fishing where the (big) fish are." At least not yet.
... But they might be getting closer to going here.
Vanity Fair: You started digging into Jeffrey Epstein after writing The Franklin
Scandal. What are some of the similarities you found?
Nick Bryant: That book is a template for what's happening now and how high up it
goes. A major parallel between the two stories is that Lawrence King, who was one of the
primary pimps of this pedophile network I wrote about, and Jeffrey Epstein, they were both
flying children interstate, and they had both done it with impunity for a number of years. In
both instances you have officials who were unwilling to back down. In Epstein, you had the Palm
Beach Police Department that was unwilling to back down, and in Lawrence King, you had the
Nebraska Senate that was unwilling to back down. Epstein had an island, and I'm sure he had
these parties also at his place in Manhattan and elsewhere, and there were hidden cameras. In
this particular venue in Washington, DC, where the Nebraska victims were trafficked, there were
also hidden cameras. The individual who owned the house in Washington, DC, he had intelligence
affiliations. We're seeing with Epstein that he also had alleged intelligence connections. King
and Epstein collected children in the same type of fashion. King would have kids conscript
other kids, just like Epstein would have kids conscript other kids. In both cases the victims
were threatened and hassled. Both Jeffrey Epstein and Lawrence King had lavish lifestyles, but
there wasn't an obvious explanation for their wealth, and both were prominently associated with
power brokers of the highest order. [Editor's note: A grand jury concluded there was no
evidence to charge King with any sex crimes.]
... ... ...
What was your first impression when you read through it and saw all the
names?
I'd seen this exact same thing before with The Franklin Scandal. It was like
déjà vu. I felt like, well, here's another power broker pedophile network.
Definitely.
What stood out to you the most?
His lofty social connections were pretty mind-boggling. There were approximately 22 contact
numbers for Bill Clinton. And the names of the people the house manager had circled were pretty
stunning. Did you just start calling everyone?
I started calling victims. And they were very, very hard to talk to at that point.
How many did you call?
I called as many as I could call. A lot of the numbers were disconnected, but I was able to
talk to some of them, and they essentially corroborated what I thought, that Epstein was the
pimp of a very large network.
... ... ...
Did it get any traction at that point?
Gawker got a lot of hits. They published his flight manifest too. But ultimately I was
stunned that no one in the mainstream media was willing to touch the subject matter.
Now, this is arguably the biggest story in the mainstream media, and the narrative is
starting to turn to, who else in Epstein's network might this touch? How important is the black
book as a piece of evidence, and what does it actually tell us? It's not a crime to be in
someone's Rolodex even if that someone is an accused serial pedophile.
Well, the black book shows that Epstein had connections to Mount Olympus. He was hanging out
with the gods. Why would he have 20-something contact numbers for Bill Clinton? Why did the
house manager circle Donald Trump's name? Why did he circle Ehud Barak's name? Alan
Dershowitz's name? The house manager's credibility is questionable, no? He got busted for
trying to turn a profit on the book.
In these types of investigations, you're gonna deal with some very sordid people. Even the
victims, their credibility can be problematic, because they can come from lower socioeconomic
backgrounds, repeatedly molested at a very young age, some turn to drugs to assuage their pain.
That's what makes this type of thing perfect for the perpetrators. The victims' credibility is
easy to compromise.
To your mind, which are the most interesting names that appear in the book, or that might
prove to be relevant to the current legal proceedings?
There are people in that book whose names aren't circled who I've been told are
perpetrators. One of them is a former U.S. senator.
Who told you that?
One of the lawyers. The black book provides the scaffolding so people can start digging into
Epstein's life. His life is contained in that black book, and a lot of those people have
nothing to do with molesting children, but it just shows the diversity of Epstein's life and
the power brokers he hung out with.
What's your sense of the extent to which the black book might be used as an investigative
road map?
I haven't talked to law enforcement about it, but I'd say the book would be hugely helpful.
Although the majority of the individuals in the book aren't perps, some will invariably be
privy to inconvenient truths about Epstein. Plus, the black book also contains perps who law
enforcement can compel to disclose the particulars of Epstein's network.
To your mind, which
are the most interesting names that appear in the book, or that might prove to be relevant to
the current legal proceedings?
There are people in that book whose names aren't circled who I've been told are
perpetrators. One of them is a former U.S. senator.
Who told you that?
One of the lawyers. The black book provides the scaffolding so people can start digging into
Epstein's life. His life is contained in that black book, and a lot of those people have
nothing to do with molesting children, but it just shows the diversity of Epstein's life and
the power brokers he hung out with.
What's your sense of the extent to which the black book might be used as an investigative
road map?
I haven't talked to law enforcement about it, but I'd say the book would be hugely helpful.
Although the majority of the individuals in the book aren't perps, some will invariably be
privy to inconvenient truths about Epstein. Plus, the black book also contains perps who law
enforcement can compel to disclose the particulars of Epstein's network.
Do you have any reporting about Epstein that hasn't yet been made public?
Most of it has been corroborated and confirmed at this point. I was one guy against a
machine, and now there's all kinds of news entities with all kinds of reporters digging into
it.
Where does this whole thing go from here? What are your predictions?
I don't know. In The Franklin Scandal, there were two primary pimps. One committed
suicide, the other did 10 years in prison for embezzlement, and he's had a pretty comfortable
life since. It all depends on whether Epstein's gonna talk or not. If Epstein talks, there's
gonna be a lot of powerful people who could go down. It's really contingent upon how far the
Department of Justice wants to take this. But like I said earlier, the Epstein scandal will
also go all the way up to Mount Olympus.
"... Edwards said during the press conference that he raised the accusation to challenge the idea that Epstein was a model citizen while in jail. Edwards also said that Epstein was in his office most of the day during his 18-month sentence, of which he served 13 months, and that he had female visitors under the age of 21 . ..."
"... Edwards said Epstein had sexual interactions with the female visitors that constituted abuse and were similar in nature to the abuses described in the indictment and charges Epstein faces in court, which are one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors. - Business Insider ..."
The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office has launched an internal affairs investigation into how it handled
convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's work release following a 2007 plea agreement that allowed him
to work out of his Palm Beach office for up to 12 hours per day, according to the
Miami
Herald
- which has been instrumental in Epstein's arrest 12 years later.
Specifically, it will look at the decision more than a decade ago to
allow Epstein to be free 12 hours a day on work release while serving a short sentence in the
county stockade on a prostitution-related charge.
On Friday, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw -- the same sheriff who oversaw the
controversial work release arrangement -- ordered the investigation be done.
"
Sheriff Bradshaw takes these matters very seriously
and wants to determine if any actions taken by the deputies assigned to monitor Epstein during
his work release program violated any agency rules and regulations, during the time he was on
PBSO work release program," a news release said. -
Miami
Herald
Epstein was given a slap on the wrist
over allegations
that he sexually abused girls as young as 14 - many of whom were coerced into sex acts after being
told they were there to offer massages.
The US Attorney's office, headed by disgraced former Labor Secretary
Alexander Acosta,
scrapped a 53-page sex-trafficking indictment against Epstein
,
instead allowing him to plea guilty to solicitation of a minor - a much lesser charge. He served 13
months in the county stockade
vs. the decades-long sentence he faced under the federal
indictment
, according to the
Herald
.
Epstein has been accused of sexually abusing girls while on work
release
, according to attorney Brad Edwards, who represents some of Epstein's accusers.
During a Tuesday press conference in New York City, Edwards introduced a woman named Courtney
Wild, who says Epstein began abusing her when she was 14-years-old, according to
Business
Insider
.
Edwards said
during the
press conference that he raised the accusation to challenge the idea that Epstein was a model
citizen while in jail. Edwards
also
said
that
Epstein was in his office most of the day during his 18-month sentence, of
which he served 13 months, and that he had female visitors under the age of 21
.
Edwards said
Epstein
had sexual interactions with the female visitors that constituted abuse
and were similar
in nature to the abuses described in the indictment and charges Epstein
faces
in
court, which are one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in
sex trafficking of minors. -
Business
Insider
Wild appeared in court on Monday during Epstein's bail hearing, saying "I was sexually abused by
Jeffrey Epstein starting at the age of 14," while standing just feet from the pedophile money
manager.
Epstein was
denied bail on Thursday
, with Wild's appearance cited in Judge Richard M. Berman's decision.
I wouldn't say "blame" is the right word at all. In fact, I
wasn't even posting that coming from the
viewpoint/consideration of the girls.
But, for the sake of being the devil's advocate, let's
take that route:
Let's say you are a 14 or 15 year old child. Why would
an older, rich man even be approaching you
for.....anything? Further, why would you them give them the
time of day, let alone go to their house/apartment.
Further, why would you then allow yourself to be in the
position of being alone with them? Further still, why would
you then "agree" to "give them a massage?"
The only reasons I can come up with are: 1)
Homelessness/Poverty/Hunger/some other extreme condition of
life or health, 2) Attention/the promise of gifts or money,
3) Wanting to **** an older guy and/or daddy issues.
#1 and #3 = vulnerable, which is why our culture has
decided to protect this age group.
I have step
daughters. At 16, I had one who was dressed to kill,
going to a party with a lot of older men. I sat her down
and explained to her how she looked and the attention she
would draw. I did not judge her, I flattered her and told
her it was a responsibility. Later, I was made the bad
guy for being mean and "scaring her." She cried that I
had spoiled her party, that men were not really like
that. I had to back off.
My point? So many parents don't talk to their girls
about this stuff. And by the time you get to them, if
they have not been gently brought along, they think you
are trying to control them, and may actually rebel.
The real investigation should be into Barry Krischer, the jewish
democrat State Prosecutor who only charged his fellow *** Epstein
with solicitation despite the mountains of child molestation
evidence provided by the Palm Beach PD.
Florida Dem Who Gave
Epstein a Pass is Providing "Training" on Prosecuting Sexual
Violence Crimes
"... Mr. LLargi, you need to ask, "Why did this Epstein thing go public now?" This is hard core betrayal of an arrangement Epstein had with government entities and it was done for a reason. Probably a political reason. ..."
"... Epstein seems to be a fairly smart guy, academic-wise, even without the formal degrees. But his inclinations and then being adopted by Mossad entirely corrupted his being. ..."
"... Chances are few elites will go down with Epstein. However, it is very likely the Blackmail material changed hands on who controls it. When it comes to the power structure of the western world, that is a very big deal. ..."
This I found interesting, Fox, also from July 18, because it targets Prince Andrew. Is MI6
going to be able to muffle away the obviously very strong and long-term connection between
Epstein and Andrew? I'm thinking they'd probably have to get those 2,000 pages re-sealed. Or,
you know, burned down. Nuked.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DQ1JQvi3GSA
And then there's George Webb. Now he is, I understand, someone who's known as a conspiracy
theorist, but then many people are in some circles, including myself, This video was posted on
July 8 2019, 2 days after Epstein's arrest. My thought while watching this is he may be wrong
on some things, he may even be making a few points up, but when you're that detailed on events
that occurred over such a long time, you're either on very powerful drugs or you're not
entirely wrong. Check for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RZlDb6vG6XM
To summarize my thoughts on this, and the reason I started writing this, I can't see Epstein
living much longer. There are too many people who would rather see him dead, including perhaps
himself. And there are very few people who want him to get into lengthy talks with prosecutors
who are actually looking for the truth.
Now of course we must wonder if any prosecutor wants that truth. Alex Acosta left his US
government job because "Epstein is intelligence" was not enough to let him keep his job. And if
we can believe some of the stories about the CIA, the State Dept and Mossad being linked to
Epstein (and we got worse than that), it looks like he's just got to go. Unless someone, or
some party involved, has a reason to protect him against all odds. If only to handicap some
other people.
After this piece I really hope I never have to write about this topic again. My hopes of
that are not overly high, but I do have to say I have a very hard time thinking about child
-sex- abuse. I also think we must think much harder about why it is that we pick predators to
lead our societies. Because this hardly ever fails, doesn't it? A bunch of sexual deviants rise
to the top everywhere.
Sexual predation appears to be some inevitable part of political power. Not everywhere and
not all the time, but far too much for comfort.
Let's hope enough of those predators are exposed through the Jeffrey Epstein case. But, you
know, listening to George Webb, you think of the oil sheikhs and the girls being trafficked by
Epstein and others, from the Balkans and dirt poor African countries, and you ask yourself,
what are the odds of full exposure?
Mr. LLargi, you need to ask, "Why did this Epstein thing go public now?" This is hard core
betrayal of an arrangement Epstein had with government entities and it was done for a reason.
Probably a political reason.
There has to be some systemically critical reason to expose
certain people on that list. Epstein never imagined he would be used as criminal evidence
against them. Lured back to America, he goes from mega rich with money from unknown sources
to a super-max where he can never speak the truth to anyone. I'd guess #2.
There seems to be an attempt to rewrite Epstein's history of attendance at Dalton School
as a math's teacher. Changing the dates of Epstein's attendance and who employed him. Not
sure why, but must be something behind it.
Don Barr was headmaster there and put his resignation in Feb 1974 and left in June 1974.
He hired Epstein apparently, though the assertion now is that Epstein started in Sept 1974.
Barr as the story in the news back then goes had a habit of employing effective smart people
for the job rather than just relying on qualifications.
And stories of Epstein's tenure at Dalton School showed that he was charismatic and a very
effective teacher, though some kids have since reported being uncomfortable at times, most
liked him., so of the students said though that they saw Epstein flirting with the girls.
Don Barr was the absolute opposite of Epstein in every way imaginable (video interviews of
the1970s) and had trouble with the school board for being too strict and conservative when
they wanted progressiveness (NY Times of the day). After Barr quit many members of the school
committee wanted him re-employed and had a lot of support for him, but the Admin didn't offer
it back to him.
The guy that replaced Barr as Headmaster then got into trouble for pedophilia accusation,
getting some familys' daughter to 'live in' in his home and provide housework support for the
family, in exchange for him paying for her school admittance.
It seems that Epstein has had an early predilection for under age girls? and one wonders
if that new headmaster introduced him to the world, or it was coincidence that they both
ended up in the school together.
Epstein seems to be a fairly smart guy, academic-wise, even without the formal degrees.
But his inclinations and then being adopted by Mossad entirely corrupted his being.
Its very clear now why the British government, American government and the Catholic Church
were stacked with pederasts.
Mossad and their puppet CIA run everything. Edit: You can see the dominoes fall by
following ownership of currency. There is no global power that they wont target.
Chances are few elites will go down with Epstein. However, it is very likely the Blackmail
material changed hands on who controls it. When it comes to the power structure of the
western world, that is a very big deal.
"The Epstein story touches everywhere, discredits American justice, American media, reaches into the White House, perhaps through
numerous occupants and eventually settles in, a continuing mystery, still protected by a controlled media as it leads us to not
one but 20 billionaires, a secret society tied to Epstein, that represents the power of Israel over the governments of the US,
Britain and Canada."
"What is the real story? First of all, sex with children is nothing new in America. Child sex was the norm when the Pilgrims
landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 and little changed other than it becoming a convenient tool to smear political opponents.
For two centuries, girls as young as 12 were regularly married off, sometimes forcibly, to men as old as 70 while others were
sold into slavery to work in the mills or join the endless hordes serving in America's brothels."
"... Is it just me, or is this pedo-Epstein op starting to look like a Bibi op to take Barak out of the election? Yes, Bibi might just be piling on to an existing situation as an opportunity to take out Ehud, but... ..."
"... That has seemed to be one thing it is being used for, to get Barak to retire again. And both Barak and Dershowitz seem to be seriously spooked by the Epstein case. ..."
"... Years later, Samuel Bronfman's children and grandchildren, their family's ties to the criminal underworld intact, would later go on to associate closely with Leslie Wexner, allegedly the source of much of Epstein's mysterious wealth, and other mob-linked "philanthropists," and some would even manage their own sexual blackmail operations , including the recently busted blackmail-based "sex cult" NXIVM. ..."
"... The significant amount of overlap between Epstein's and Cohn's covert activities in sexual blackmail and their ties to many of the same powerful individuals and circles of influence strongly suggest that Epstein was one of Cohn's successors . ..."
"... As will be shown in the final installment of this report, Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to the modern-day equivalents of organized crime, making it a racket truly too big to fail. ..."
"... Epstein's remaining in jail will make many powerful people nervous. They must be wondering if Epstein will get special treatment from the intelligence agencies once again , or if Epstein will make a deal to save himself. ..."
"... Speaking of Epstein, thought some here may find this very long, detailed article of interest. I can't vouch for it but damn if it doesn't provide background on the folks Epstein has surrounded himself with such as Ghislane Maxwell as well as ties to Israel and how he likely made a ton of dough - ..."
"... The Most Valuable Commodity Today: Human Data – Robert Maxwell Understood Data - https://www.abeldanger.org/the-most-valuable-commodity-today-human-data-robert-maxwell-understood-data/ ..."
Is it just me, or is this pedo-Epstein op starting to look like a Bibi op to take Barak out of the election? Yes, Bibi might
just be piling on to an existing situation as an opportunity to take out Ehud, but...
casey @9: That has seemed to be one thing it is being used for, to get Barak to retire again. And both Barak and Dershowitz
seem to be seriously spooked by the Epstein case. But of course you can't take that at face value either. Dershowitz is practically
beshitting himself, the big-shot lawyer, hmm, do we believe that? "I kept my undies on." This guy saved OJ?
On the other hand atacking Barak with it looks sort of opportunistic to me, I don't think it is the reason Epstein got outed
again. That seems to be about some sort of war in the "elites" and spook communities whose details remain obscure, but I expect
we will learn a lot more about it as time goes on.
A good article by Whitney Webb from MintpressNews:
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case
...
Years later, Samuel Bronfman's children and grandchildren, their family's ties to the criminal underworld intact, would
later go on to associate closely with Leslie Wexner, allegedly the source of much of Epstein's mysterious wealth, and other
mob-linked "philanthropists," and some would even manage their own sexual blackmail operations , including the recently busted
blackmail-based "sex cult" NXIVM.
...
The significant amount of overlap between Epstein's and Cohn's covert activities in sexual blackmail and their ties
to many of the same powerful individuals and circles of influence strongly suggest that Epstein was one of Cohn's successors
.
As will be shown in the final installment of this report, Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more
extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to the modern-day
equivalents of organized crime, making it a racket truly too big to fail.
casey @9: starting to look like a Bibi op to take Barak out
bemildred @14: That has seemed to be one thing it is being used for
Epstein's remaining in jail will make many powerful people nervous. They must be wondering if Epstein will get special
treatment from the intelligence agencies once again , or if Epstein will make a deal to save himself.
What people that matter would dare to publicly object to war with Iran when they know that they could be named by Epstein
as part of a plea bargain (that includes Trump, of course).
Ultimately, it may all turn out to be a farce as the intelligence agencies will likely insist on another sweetheart deal
(or, more likely, that the former sweetheart deal must be honored) . But the timing of Epstein's time in jail seems very advantageous
to Israel's goal to spark a US-Iran war.
Now USA downs an Iranian drone - just as Paul starts a peace initiative. LOL.
Speaking of Epstein, thought some here may find this very long, detailed article of interest. I can't vouch for it but
damn if it doesn't provide background on the folks Epstein has surrounded himself with such as Ghislane Maxwell as well as ties
to Israel and how he likely made a ton of dough -
"... At the center of it all is former President Bill Clinton, listed twenty-six times on the Lolita Express's flight manifest -- though the ex-Prez said last week in a statement that it was only four times. (Consider the source.) ..."
"... A raft of unsealed documents in the matter has been court-ordered to drop any day, and power-players all over the world -- especially in our nation's capital and on Wall Street -- are rumored to be chewing their fingernails down to the nubbins as they wait for it. ..."
... Every candidate in the first Democratic “debate” raised a hand in favor of providing free medical
care to illegal border-jumpers. I wonder how that sits with the Americans who now pay
$12,000 a year for health insurance with a $5,000 deductible.
Of course, this policy of
unfettered illegal immigration does not economically favor the sizable demographic of poor
Americans, many of whom are people-of-color. In theory, the border-jumpers are taking
away an awful lot of jobs. But I think the argument there is that 300 years of slavery gives
bonafide US citizens-of-color a pass on manual labor - so it is not against their interests to
ally with the open border advocates - while both groups have an interest in getting any free stuff
the government may offer.
... ... ...
Finally, there is the walking time-bomb known as Jeffrey Epstein, Democratic Party poohbah
and impresario of an underage sex racket featuring the "Lolita Express" airplane service to his
private "Orgy Island" in the Caribbean, with auxiliary party shacks in New York City and the
New Mexico Desert. Rogue reports have been styling Epstein's doings as an international
blackmailing operation associated with the CIA and other Intel outfits, including the UK's MI6
and Israel's Mossad, for the purpose of keeping international bigshots on a short leash. Who
knows?
At the center of it all is former President Bill Clinton, listed twenty-six times on the
Lolita Express's flight manifest -- though the ex-Prez said last week in a statement that it
was only four times. (Consider the source.)
A raft of unsealed documents in the matter has been court-ordered to drop any day, and
power-players all over the world -- especially in our nation's capital and on Wall Street --
are rumored to be chewing their fingernails down to the nubbins as they wait for it.
What a cargo of wickedness is borne by the garbage barge called the Democratic Party as it
chugs out to sea toward a sickening, slightly radioactive orange sunset for what is looking
like its final voyage.
Have been studiously avoiding all things Epstein but it seems metastasising everywhere to the extent it eliminates all from
serving jury duty at any trial.
Consider this: The timing is such that suggests an attempt to 'hole below the waterline' the Clinton machine [Billary is prime
example that the species Homo Sapiens is the only one that is best led by the smallest protrusion below the waistline]. Recent
U.S. history records the Clintons used the DLC (Democratic Leadership Committee) to ascend to the WhiteHouse.
The DLC subsumed
and subverted the existing DNC (Democratic National Committee), replacing it entirely and still holds control over the Democratic
Party itself. I think verification might be obtained by examining the makeup if the Democratic National Finance Committee and
look at the membership of that committee and discern their loyalties.
In whom controls the money, you will find the control of
the party. The re-emergence of the Epstein saga cannot help but expose the Clintons to that limelight and what would follow. This
may be the only method to liberate the Democratic Party before the time removes the actors from the stage. Just my opinion - helpfully
offered.
Obviously Hillary could not use the Epstein case during her campaign since she had her own Anthony Weiner. And too many pictures
of Bill with prostitutes around the net (one is said to be taken at Epstein resort in St James).
"What the Epstein case reveals about the US is that either this country is so poor that it finds completely normal to have dozens,
or rather hundreds, of 15 years old girl going directly from school to an old pervert's apartment 'give a massage' or more for
200 bucks or it wants to impose this kind of society as a model. "
Mina@99
That is it Mina: the problem, however, is not 'poverty' (the USA is very rich in relative terms) but inequality.
Prostitution is the very essence of capitalism: the teenager selling his/her transient sexual attractions; the 'loyal worker'
tugging his forelock and thanking the Boss for 'giving him employment'; the NYTimes or Torstar journalist faithfully recording
the propaganda leaked by the CIA; the politician...etc.
In a system in which everything is for sale why would not a nubile 15 year old sell the only thing that she can sell-in a seller's
market?
The bases of the Epstein scandal are these: Capitalism and Hypocrisy. Capitalism forces people to sell themselves or starve, hypocrisy-of
the sort exemplified in the mass pretense that young women only become sexually attractive after their 18th, 16th or twenty first
birthdays (depending upon jurisdictions). It is hypocrisy that vastly increases the value of these liaisons, thus making it possible
to persuade a man to betray his country rather than have it generally known that he employed a nubile young woman to 'massage'
him.
It is a weird society in which Epstein is widely reviled for his sleazy practices while veterans of the appalling attack on Fallujah-including
the Commanding Officer- are held to be honourable men.
As Robert Burns said "I'd rather give the life to one than be the death of twenty."
Mina @99: What the Epstein case reveals about the US ...
Bevin @114: Prostitution is the very essence of capitalism ...
The Epstein case is not about inequality, prostitution, or capitalism and doesn't "reveal" anything except how corrupt/corrupting
ideologues (in this case, Zionists) are.
The women were lured with the prospect of giving massages and then coerced into sex and groomed for use in an influence operation
- likely with Mossad knowledge and blessing. To blame anyone except those directly involved: Epstein, Ghislane/Mossad is finger-pointing
that benefits the culprits.
A smart minority group that seeks to push a country into illegal wars for their own purposes would anticipate some degree
of backlash. Epstein compromised "people that matter" who might lead a backlash or could be useful to quell it.
The Mega Group sought to safeguard their position in American/Western society against a backlash - exactly what Epstein
said his job was.
"Given that organized crime had apparently played a far greater national role in twentieth
century American history than I had realized from my readings of mainstream newspapers and
magazines, I recently decided to expand my knowledge in that area. Someone brought to my
attention the work of investigative journalist Gus Russo, a prominent author on that topic.
Russo had worked as a lead reporter for the award-winning PBS Frontline series and filled
similar roles at other television networks, while being nominated for a 1998 Pulitzer Prize
for his book on the JFK-Mafia alliance against Castro."
"Over a dozen years ago, Russo published a pair of massive volumes on the history of
organized crime focused on two particular regions, with The Outfit in 2001 discussing Chicago
and Supermob in 2006 dealing with California. Taken together these two works of deep
investigative research run more than 1100 pages and over a half million words, apparently
dwarfing almost anything else in that subject area. By the 1990s declassification of a vast
quantity of government documents, including FBI wiretaps and Congressional files, allowed
Russo access to this previously unavailable material. He supplemented this crucial archival
research with the secondary source material contained in hundreds of books and articles, as
well as more than 200 personal interviews, and his especially extensive second volume
references this wealth of source material with more than 1500 footnotes. The numerous
laudatory cover-blurbs by prominent prosecutors, former law enforcement agents, and experts
on organized crime strongly attest to the credibility of his research, which certainly must
have absorbed many years of concentrated effort."
Sure explains a lot to me how we wound up with thugs like Bolton and Pompeo. We have
separation of church and state, who knew we needed separation of state and organized crime
too?
Billionaire and former Jeffrey Epstein associate Les Wexner told his employees Monday that he regrets ever crossing paths with
the disgraced pedophile financier, according to
Bloomberg .
Wexner, founder of L Brands Inc. which owns Victoria's Secret, said in an internal email that he " was NEVER aware of the illegal
activity " Epstein is accused of committing. "As you can imagine, this past week I have searched my soul ... reflected ... and regretted
that my path ever crossed his. " said the 81-year-old mogul of Epstein.
After launching a business relationship in the 1980s, Wexner and Epstein formed 'a financial and personal bond that baffled longtime
associates,' according to the
New York Times .
"I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns," Wexner told Vanity Fair in 2003. "But Jeffrey sees patterns in politics
and financial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends."
Wexner would go on to open doors for Epstein - who managed "many aspects of his financial life."
By 1995, Epstein was a director of the Wexner Foundation and Wexner Heritage Foundation and president of Wexner's N.A. Property
Inc ., which developed the Ohio town of New Albany, where Wexner lives. Epstein also was involved in Wexner's superyacht, "Limitless,"
attending meetings at the London studios of the firm that designed the vessel. -
Bloomberg
In the email to employees originally reported by the Columus Dispatch , Wexner says that he severed ties with Epstein nearly 12
years ago - after the financier pleaded guilty to a sex crime involving a teenage girl.
"I would never have guessed that a person I employed more than a decade ago could have caused such pain to so many people," Wexner
said in the email. "I would not have continued to work with any individual capable of such egregious, sickening behavior as has been
reported about him."
Yet, Epstein portrayed himself as a way for young models to perform sexual favors in exchange for a backdoor into Victoria's Secret
. According to a former Manhattan-based modeling agent cited by the
New York Post
, " Some of those girls got in. "
"It was still significant cash for a young model doing the catalog," an agent told the Post . "They weren't making hundreds of
thousands but they could make about $5,000 a week modeling for the campaigns or the catalog. Not all the girls sent to him got jobs,
but a lot of them did."
In short, Wexner had an extremely close business relationship with Epstein - who allegedly engaged in sexual favors with girls,
some of whom later worked for Wexner, yet the 81-year-old knew nothing of Epstein's proclivities.
Others have distanced as well, reports Bloomberg .
Others have also sought to distance themselves from Epstein in recent days, including hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin and his
wife Eva Andersson-Dubin.
Andersson-Dubin, a former model who became a physician, previously dated Epstein and continued to socialize with him after
his time in jail. Epstein had invested in Dubin's hedge fund and was also considered a friend. -
Bloomberg
" The Dubins are horrified by the new allegations against Jeffrey Epstein," they said in a statement. " Had they been aware of
the vile and unspeakable conduct described in these new allegations, they would have cut off all ties and certainly never have allowed
their children to be in his presence."
And despite Epstein being a registered sex offender and pedophile, Andersson-Dubin thought he had rehabilitated himself and deserved
a second chance.
"She is mortified that she, like so many others, was deceived by him, and feels terrible for the young women who have been harmed
by his actions," reads their statement.
Former President Bill Clinton similarly 'disavowed' Epstein , claiming on Monday that he "knows nothing about the terrible crimes
Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York."
Clinton also claimed that he's only been on Epstein's recently-sold 'Lolita Express' a total of four times , despite flight logs
and pilot records clearly indicating otherwise.
According to research by investigative journalist Conchita Sarnoff,
Clinton
" was a guest of Epstein's 27 times, " adding "many of those times Clinton had his Secret Service with him and many times he
did not."
And as the New York Times points out, despite Epstein's status as a registered sex offender beginning in 2008, and his 13 month
work-release sweetheart prison stay, many people continued to associate with him.
Powerful female friends served as social guarantors: Peggy Siegal, a gatekeeper for A-list events, included him in movie screenings,
and Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin, a champion of women's health, maintained a friendship that some felt gave him credibility. Mr. Epstein
put up a website showing Stephen Hawking and other luminaries at a science gathering he had organized.
" If you looked up Jeffrey Epstein online in 2012, you would see what we all saw ," Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College,
said in an interview. He seemed "like an ex-con who had done well on Wall Street," who was close to the Clintons and gave money
to academic pursuits, Dr. Botstein said. That was why, he noted, Bard accepted an unsolicited $50,000 in 2011 for its high schools,
followed later that year and in 2012 by another $75,000 in donations. -
NYT
Now that Epstein is decidedly radioactive, none of his past associates seemingly knew anything - and are horrified at the monster
they never saw coming.
An archived link of the now-discontinued Terra Mar Project website reveals that members of the world's most wealthy families
collectively threw in their support for Ghislaine Maxwell's Terra Mar project, a charity allegedly supporting the health of our
oceans around the world. According to their website:
The TerraMar Project is a nonprofit ocean organization dedicated to building a global community built around our mutual
love of the ocean and the need to protect and conserve the seas. We will use the power of our global community to be the voice
that leads the clarion call for change on how we manage the ocean and the creatures that call it home.
Endorsements at the Bottom of the page came from members of several billionaire families, including:
Sir Richard Branson, David De Rothschild, Francesca von Habsburg, Shepard Fairey, Lord Peter Mandelson, Nick Pritzker, Leon
Koffler, Jonathan Soros, Jacqueline and Mortimer Sackler (Purdue Pharma), Richard Rockefeller, Barry Diller.
Many of these names have been previoiusly named by Pizzagate researchers, including the Sackler family, who held events in
Washington DC attended by Tony Podesta and James Alefantis. Ghislaine Maxwell is particularly interesting because her father,
Robert Maxwell, has been associated with Mossad and MI6.
Fabien, a square-jawed 40-something, beseeched a young policy wonk/socialite crowd at the Kalorama home of writer David
Brock and restaurateur James Alefantis Monday night to open their wallets as "armchair divers" for his new cause. Plant a Fish
launched this month, in time for the original Cousteau's 100th birthday, with Fabien leading Brooklyn schoolchildren in a dive
to seed new oyster beds in the Hudson.
Now what did Earth Echo International do in DC? They organized
UNDERGROUND TOURS OF THE SEWER SYSTEM , meaning that a Rothschild-linked
charity hosted an opening event at the Brock-Alefantis residence for programs hosting underground tours:
Join EarthEcho International and DC Water for a truly behind-the-scenes look at how the nation's capital is combatting its
storm and wastewater pollution problems. Engineer James Wonneberg will take you 100 feet underground to explore Washington,
DC's new stormwater tunnels: over 13 miles of massive tunnels that hold and treat storm and wastewater before it pollutes local
waterways."
"Wow. Just wow." Pizzagate never died, it just got bigger.
I disagree. The past 18 crowd cared very much about themselves. Saying that the young girls knew what he was, is why we have
laws against that kind of thing. Most young people are not smart enough yet to make life decisions, and every single one should
be afforded equal protection as decided by State.
Something interesting search engines will not allow right now. Barr's father resigned as headmaster of Dalton Feb. 4th, 1974.
Epstien got hired as a math teacher in the fall. We need a Way Way back machine here!
There is a great deal of 4D Chess-beating that Epstein is "Trump's revenge against the
DNC" (Hillary) Steele dossier attempted coup, and 'now we'll drain the swamp!' Hoo-ahh!
I find that boast problematic. Trump could not (would not) have ordered Epstein's arrest.
Those who serve the DNC within FBI (CIA-NSA) would have informed Epstein in advance, and no
doubt, bleached Hillary and Bill and Clinton Foundation's servers before the arrest. So the
order didn't come from Trump. And the 'lone prosecutor' and 'honest judge' theory is simply
not possible in that district, where human trafficking, fashion industry and sex slavery is
one of their biggest profit pipelines.
It has to be a DNC Hail Mary. DNC needs to impeach Trump so badly, they've already
committed treason! The 2011 Budget Control Act keeps the lid on Federal spending, but only
until 2021. That's why DNC is desperately trying to seize the reins of power for 2020-2024,
when the budget caps come off, then it's laissez les bon temps roulez! and $5,000
BILLION a year Fed bleedout, at 10% increase every year Open Boarders Green New Steal,
...until USA folds under the sheer grift of the Social Democrats.
That griftfest was actually their plan way back in 2016 with Rodham. But wait! There's
MOAre!
Not once in 80 years has a president who supported Pentagon-MIC-AIPAC **NOT** been
re-elected!
- Kennedy: refused to start a war with Cuba -- assassinated
- Johnson: could not stomach Kissinger-Pol Pot -- gone
- Carter: refused to start a war in Iran -- gone
- George HW Bush: tried to cut Pentagon budget in half after Soviets fell -- gone
Since Roosevelt in 1933, every president who supported Pentagon-MIC-AIPAC got
re-elected!
So Democrats have an APPROACHING ZERO chance of winning in 2020. Biden is their one shot,
and he's a perv peacenik! DNC are using Epstein virus to white-wash Old Joe, and to flog
Trump in a desperate attempt to lure the Single White Female block, after an astounding poll
came out that 69% of Democrat voters are TURNED OFF BY SOCIAL DEMOCRATS and their 'Free
Stuff' and 'Open Borders' Antifa Bolshevism.
2020 will be the End of Days for one Party or the other. Whoever wins will ride the Golden
Chariot of Blowout Spending, but the loser ... the loser gets only a mouthful of sand. DNC's
only chance to survive is to impeach (or assassinate) Trump, by hook or by crook.
Paging Ms. Clinton, please come to the Red Phone! /s
During a Tuesday press conference in New York City, Edwards introduced a woman named Courtney
Wild, who says Epstein began abusing her when she was 14-years-old, according to
Business
Insider
.
Edwards said
during the
press conference that he raised the accusation to challenge the idea that Epstein was a model
citizen while in jail. Edwards
also
said
that
Epstein was in his office most of the day during his 18-month sentence, of
which he served 13 months, and that he had female visitors under the age of 21
.
Edwards said
Epstein
had sexual interactions with the female visitors that constituted abuse
and were
similar in nature to the abuses described in the indictment and charges Epstein
faces
in
court, which are one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in
sex trafficking of minors. -
Business
Insider
Wild appeared in court on Monday during Epstein's bail hearing, saying "I was sexually abused by
Jeffrey Epstein starting at the age of 14," while standing just feet from the pedophile money
manager.
Meanwhile,
Bloomberg
reveals that
Epstein paid millions of dollars to silence accusers -
including
Wild.
Some of Epstein's civil settlements exceeded $1 million, according to a person with knowledge
of the matter.
Three were for a total of $5.5 million, court records show
. The
total amount of Epstein's civil payments is unknown, but it's likely a small fraction of the
$559 million that prosecutors say Epstein has claimed as his net worth.
...
More than two dozen lawsuits were ultimately resolved in private settlements
after Epstein signed a non-prosecution agreement in 2008 that allowed him and four accomplices
to avoid federal charges. -
Bloomberg
Epstein's attorneys also used
aggressive tactics
with the women, according to
the report - interviewing friends, neighbors and employers in abusive ways. The girls were grilled
about their lives - including criminal records, drug use, and in one case - a history of
abortions.
"Does it give you any, any emotional pain that you aborted three fetuses?" asked Epstein
attorney Mark Luttier. "Wouldn't you agree with me that aborting three fetuses would be far more
traumatic than giving a man a massage in the nude?" he asked.
Meanwhile, Epstein's publicist fed stories to the media "impugning the credibility of the
victims" which suggested that their "allegations of abuse were made solely to extract money."
According to the
New
York Post
, Epstein also approached New York City publicist R. Couri Hay several years ago
to 'beg for help with his image,' allegedly saying "I don't want 'billionaire pervert' to be the
first line of my obituary."
Hay's advice? Go to a mental-health facility for a year, donate to charity, meet the Pope and go
meet with his rabbi. Now that he faces up to 45 years in the slammer, he may also want to engage a
prison
coach
.
Remember, Trump signed his Exec.Order allowing the federal gov't
to confiscate (attainture) the assets of persons who commit
trafficking in persons and pedo' crimes; I don't remember
the specifics.
Confiscating Epstein's and the Clinton's wealth
WILL be GLORIOUS!
Yep, and you know an interesting factoid about that EO that was
signed late Dec 2017? Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google resigned the
next day. Maybe unrelated but there had been no prior
announcement that he was going to.
To prove that Epstein was involved in "trafficking" at his
Virgin Island islands and at his New Mexico ranch, it seems to
me the government would need to secure search warrants and
thoroughly search and inspect these properties. Something that
has not happened to date (as far as I know).
But, yes, under
the law, any property involved in trafficking can be forfeited
to the government. So why not also investigate what was going
on at these places?
Of course to do this the government would also have to
investigate the people who were visiting these places.
I just watched the NBC footage of Epstein and Trump laughing it up
together at Mar-A-Lago in 1992. One take-aways from this video:
Epstein is much thinner (less muscle-bound) than he later
became.
This adds credence to what one of his alleged victims
said - that Epstein was probably a steroid user. This girl noted
that he was real "built up" or "thick" from weight-lifting.
So the guy is calling girls for massages up to three times a
day, and also apparently pumping a lot of iron. When did the guy
have time to be a "hedge fund money manager?" I thought this was
supposed to be some time-consuming job.
Anyway, note the difference in his physique - circa 1992 and
circa 2008.
If he is/was a droid head, this probably affected his
behavior/personality.
Epstein looks like he put on at least 30 pounds. But not of
fat, muscle. Just like Barry Bonds or just like Tiger Woods,
who once was a string bean and then one day he suddenly looked
like an NFL free safety.
So I'd also investigate any
potential steroid dealers in Epstein's life/circle of friends.
"In 2002, Mr. Trump described Mr. Epstein as "a terrific guy." "He's a lot of fun to be
with," Mr. Trump told New York Magazine. "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as
much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." I wonder how this will play with
Trump's base and the Oh so holy evangelicals. Any comment Senator McConnell ?
"Terrific guy." - Donald J. Trump Alex Acosta, current Labor Secretary, allowed Epstein to
walk. There's more to this pedophile ring. The public demands a complete investigation. Just
don't give it to Congress.
Of course he is a flight risk. Owner of a private jet recently returned from Paris. He could
just fly away to some non extradition country or his private island and say 'see ya later
suckers'. Child pornography was found at his home. He's been free since 2011. What does
anyone think this criminal has been up to? I'm sorry we are just not That stupid.
Full disclosure of all proceedings is only one small part of the 'justice' that must
finally be applied to this creep. No secret deals. That mansion is serious, pricey NYC real
estate. We are talking major, major bucks. Epstein will use that wad to buy the best defense
he can which is his right. But he should not be allowed to buy secrecy.
Treat him like any other perp. Put him in an orange jumpsuit and try him in a public
court. I do not care who his disgusting pals are. No more hiding. Sunlight is the only
disinfectant that can begin to wash away the appalling stain of the Epstein case for the past
decade.
So many "terrific guys" and gals surround trump. He must be overwhelmed by the brilliance of
these friends. Cohen, Manafort, Epstein, Acosta, Sanders, Conway, Miller, Bannon, Flynn,
Pruitt, Gorka, Price, Zinke, DeVos, Duke, Kushner, et al - all fine people, like the white
supremacists in Charlottesville. Not fine to trump: Pres. Obama, Robert Mueller, Sen. McCain,
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, VP Biden, NYT, Washington Post, the press, all democrats in the United
States, James Comey, Frank Bruni...on and on and on.
@Greg Jones And Ken Starr, who served as an Epstein defense lawyer along with Dershowitz. The
very man who spent millions of taxpayer money publicizing each lurid detail of Clinton's
affair with above legal age of consent Lewinsky was paid well to cover up Epstein's sexual
abuse of underage girls. The epitome of hypocrisy. His affair with Lewinsky wasn't illegal;
his denial of the affair to Congress was, but Starr had a political vendetta under the guise
of "morality". Not that Clinton's role, if any, in this story is known - hopefully the truth
will emerge and he will be either cleared or convicted.
What's so incredibly vile about this is that he got off with a light wrist slap in Florida
and - wait for it - he's still doing it. He is so arrogant that he kept pictures of his
victims to this day. Many thanks to SDNY for pursuing this case. Please, please nail him and
all who participated/enabled him. This sordid case is a metaphor for our Gilded Age II.
I'm surprised the reporting here is so light on the web of friends that Epstein has and
their involvement in the sexual assaults of these girls. Epstein kept a book of contacts-
basically, a 92 page Who's Who of people who attended his parties in Florida and New York and
flew to his island on his private jet. Hollywood actors, financiers, attorneys, a prince,
Trump, Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, among many, many others.
It also kept details of the likes and dislikes of his buddies. It was known that at these
parties that the girls were sent upstairs and guests were brought up by a handler to supply
towels, lotions, etc. This book can be viewed quite easily if you Google it.
Trump indeed is involved and there is an affidavit filed by two women- one the victim of a
brutal rape and beating of a then 13-year-old-girl first by Trump, next by Epstein. It was
all witnessed by another young girl. The affidavit itself is quite horrific. For more
detailed reporting, read the three-part series from the Miami Herald. These journalists kept
this story alive because they believed in these young women. James Patterson also wrote a
book, Filthy Rich, about Epstein and his web of girls.
Many were homeless or from very poor families and were lured in with the promise of money
for school clothes and books.
Little did they know that they were being groomed for rape by Epstein and his dozens and
dozens of high-powered friends.
Again, news that makes you wonder how deep this boys club goes. In his Playboy interview in
1987, Gore Vidal said that the genius of our ruling class is that "they're so brilliant that
no one knows they even exist." He went on to defend himself from accusations that he's a
conspiracy theorist. "'You think they get together at the Bohemian Grove and run the United
States.' Well, they do get together at the Bohemian Grove and do a lot of picking of
Secretaries of State, anyway. But they don't have to conspire. They all think alike." Don't
know what the Bohemian Grove is? Look it up.
Labor trafficking is a horrific crime. Sex trafficking is more horrific whether it is
occurring a strip mall "spa" in Jupiter, Florida or the mansion of some rich white guy in New
York City. How do the men who participate in this not understand that?? Girls are NOT play
toys. Meanwhile back in January, the President of the United States said, "This is an urgent
humanitarian issue. My administration is committed to leveraging every resource we have to
confront this threat, to support the victims and survivors, and to hold traffickers
accountable for their heinous crimes." Except when they are your friends. And you have a
Secretary of Labor who, as a prosecutor, let at least one trafficker off with a hand slap.
@Dennis W The slap on the wrist was administered by Miami's top federal prosecutor Alex
Acosta (today trump's Labor secretary) who ironically is responsible for monitoring human
trafficking.
A man is involved in casino ownership and construction, two of the dirtier businesses--- and
he has a history of going broke and stiffing his contractors. He also owned a modeling agency
and beauty pageant and was known for spontaneously entering the changing rooms between events
and ogling the (sometimes) underage participants. Many women have come forward accusing him
of sexual crimes, including that of rape. This man has an associate that now is under
indictment for sex trafficking charges. Can someone help me connect these dots?
This case conclusively demonstrates that the rule of law does not prevail in America. Law
enforcement and the courts operate two separate justice systems: One for the powerful and
rich and another for the 99% per cent. AG Acosta not have cut the same deal a poor citizen,
charged with just one instance of Epstein'[s conduct. Instead, for a single instance, it
would be 10 years in prison, without an office furlough at 85% per cent (15% reduction in
time for good behavior).
Hopefully Epstein is finished now, and the other powerful persons
sweat. In my view, Acosta should be charged with misprision, US Code Title 18, Part 1,Chapter
1, Section 4 "Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a
court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to
some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
The court has
already found the Epstein Agreement negotiated by Acosta violated the law. So much for the
"rule of law", just words on paper, like the Constitution. us army 1969-1971/california jd
A trove of lewd photographs of girls, discovered in a safe inside the financier
Jeffrey
Epstein's
Manhattan mansion the same day he was arrested, is deepening questions about why federal prosecutors in Miami
had cut a deal that shielded him from federal prosecution in 2008.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged
Mr.
Epstein
on Monday with
sex
trafficking
, dealing an implicit rebuke to that plea agreement, which was overseen by Alexander Acosta, then the United
States attorney in Miami and now President Trump's labor secretary.
The indictment in Manhattan could prompt a moment of reckoning for the Justice Department, which for years has wrestled
with accusations that it mishandled the earlier case and has faced a barrage of litigation from
Mr.
Epstein's accusers
. In February, the Justice Department
opened
its own internal review
into the matter.
Attorney General William P. Barr said on Monday during a trip to South Carolina that he had recused himself from the case
because Mr. Barr's former law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, had represented M
r.
Epstein
.
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The financier, long accused of sexually assaulting underage girls, has been shielded from federal charges for
decades. Now, in the #MeToo era, a new indictment has revived the case.
... ... ...
Archived Recording (Geoffrey Berman)
Epstein is charged in a two-count indictment -- first, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, and second,
the substantive crime of sex trafficking of underage girls.
Patricia Mazzei
According to prosecutors, Epstein created this network between 2002 and 2005.
Archived Recording (Geoffrey Berman)
The victims were all underage girls at the time of the alleged conduct.
Patricia Mazzei
In which he invited girls -- underage girls -- into his mansion in New York and in Palm Beach, and he paid
them to give him nude massages.
Archived Recording (Geoffrey Berman)
These massages became increasingly sexual in nature and would typically include one or more sex acts, as
specified in the indictment.
Patricia Mazzei
Those encounters often ended in masturbation, oral sex and, in at least one case, rape.
Archived Recording (Geoffrey Berman)
As alleged, Epstein also paid certain victims to recruit additional girls to be similarly abused.
Patricia Mazzei
And he also paid them to recruit more girls that could come to his house, therefore creating this sort of
ever-expanding network of sex trafficking.
Archived Recording (Geoffrey Berman)
The alleged behavior shocks the conscience. And while the charged conduct is from a number of years ago,
it is still profoundly important to the many alleged victims, now young women. They deserve their day in
court, and we are proud to be standing up for them by bringing this indictment.
Patricia Mazzei
And the prosecutors said that even though some of these encounters happened a long time ago, that some of
this is old, these girls, who are now women, deserve their day in court.
Archived Recording (Geoffrey Berman)
Thank you.
Michael Barbaro
So the prosecutor in New York makes a point of saying, this alleged behavior dates back years and years --
basically to 2002. So why are we just seeing these charges today?
Patricia Mazzei
That's the key question, Michael. Because what is stunning about this case when you listen to the U.S.
attorney in New York on Monday is that it sounded so familiar to allegations made against Jeffrey Epstein in
Florida more than a decade ago. In that case, the girls in Florida did not get their day in court. But the
story of how the Florida case against Epstein unraveled is one of the reasons why we are here today talking
about this case against him in New York.
Michael Barbaro
So what exactly is the story of what happened in Florida?
Patricia Mazzei
The story begins in 2005 when a girl and her parents go to the police in Palm Beach and tell them that she
has been molested by Epstein and paid for it. And the police start investigating. And what they find is not
just one girl, but many girls with stories about being molested by Epstein. And some girls just lead to more
girls. And so they wind up with what they think is a very big case on their hands. They take it to the state
attorney, but, eventually, the police feel like Epstein might not get as harsh of a charge as they would
like, given the number of victims that they have seen. And concerned about that, they take the case to the
F.B.I. and say, help us. We think there is a big case here.
Michael Barbaro
And why do the local police have that suspicion, that Epstein will not be appropriately charged? What
exactly did they fear?
Patricia Mazzei
They become anxious that either because of Epstein's wealth or name in the community or the fact that he
didn't have a criminal history, that he just might not be charged as strongly as they think he should be
charged. For example, that instead of some sort of sex abuse charge, he might end up with something like
soliciting prostitution that would elicit a less harsh penalty.
Michael Barbaro
So what does the F.B.I. do when the police bring this case to them?
Patricia Mazzei
The F.B.I. starts investigating and finds more victims and victims corroborating the stories that the police
had found. Stories about massages and nude massages and payment for these massages that ended up in various
sex acts and a web of recruitment where one girl would be paid by Epstein and his associates to bring in
more girls to his Palm Beach house for these massages. And, eventually, the U.S. attorney's office in Miami,
which, at the time, was run by a man named Alex Acosta, drafts a 53-page indictment against Epstein.
Michael Barbaro
And what does this indictment say?
Patricia Mazzei
The indictment lays out these allegations of sex trafficking against minors and carries a potential
punishment of up to life in prison.
Michael Barbaro
It's a serious indictment.
Patricia Mazzei
Yeah, it was pretty thorough.
Michael Barbaro
And so what happens?
Patricia Mazzei
So weeks go by and then months go by. And finally, in 2008, the victims learn that there will be no federal
criminal indictment against Epstein. Unbeknown to the victims, behind the scenes, Epstein and his
high-powered defense lawyers had negotiated with federal prosecutors so that they would not charge him in
federal court. They negotiated what is called a non-prosecution agreement. And so in the end, Epstein
pleaded guilty to a single count of soliciting prostitution in state court. He had to register as a sex
offender. He had to pay financial restitution to some of his victims. And he got 18 months in county jail,
in which he could leave six days a week to go to work.
Michael Barbaro
Leave prison six days a week -- just kind of walk out of jail and go to work?
Patricia Mazzei
Yeah, it was an extraordinary arrangement. It raised eyebrows even at the time, but the prosecutor said it
was how they were going to guarantee that Epstein served some time in jail and that he register as a sex
offender, which they viewed as important to help the community around him.
Michael Barbaro
So the local police brought this case originally to the F.B.I. because they were worried that the state
attorney would be rolled over by Epstein -- by his wealth, by all his connections, and his fancy lawyers --
and that he would get a sweetheart deal.
Patricia Mazzei
Prosecutors would tell you that they did their best, and that meant sending Epstein to jail. But, in the
end, he faced a prostitution charge in state court and not a sex trafficking charge in federal court. And
that's exactly what the Palm Beach police worried could happen at the start of the case.
Michael Barbaro
But with the F.B.I. and the federal prosecutors.
Patricia Mazzei
Right -- the people who they had turned to for help.
Michael Barbaro
Pati, you said that this was unknown to the victims. Why would that be?
Patricia Mazzei
The victims were not given a chance to speak up against this agreement before it was signed. It was
essentially just negotiated between Epstein's attorneys and the prosecution. And so the victims didn't find
out until after the fact and after Epstein had already agreed to the plea deal.
Michael Barbaro
And what's the reaction from the victims who have been cut out of this plea agreement and are now learning
that he's going to be facing an unusually light sentence?
Patricia Mazzei
The victims are outraged. And as soon as they find out about this non-prosecution deal in 2008, they go to
court asking for the agreement to be nullified -- for them to get their day in court. And this argument turns
into years of legal battles over what was negotiated in secret that the victims did not know about.
Michael Barbaro
And what's going on with Epstein during this time -- as this battle over the plea agreement is playing out in
courts?
Patricia Mazzei
Epstein gets out of jail about five months early. He reportedly has a party to celebrate his return to
society. And he has to register as a sex offender. But, other than that, he basically goes back to his old
life. He had his lavish lifestyle that he continued -- traveling between his properties in New York and Palm
Beach and the Virgin Islands. And the case kind of receded from public view for years, until President Trump
asks Alex Acosta, the former top prosecutor in Miami who reached the secret deal not to indict Epstein with
federal charges, to be his labor secretary.
... ... ...
Archived Recording
You are aware that Mr. Epstein served that 13 months. He was allowed out during the day, and he had to
sleep at a county jail, but he was basically allowed to move and go around the community and do whatever
he wants. And then that became a subject of significant criticism.
Archived Recording (Alexander Acosta)
And I am on record condemning that, and I think that was awful.
Patricia Mazzei
Despite those questions, Acosta gets confirmed by the Senate and becomes the labor secretary, which he still
is now. But The Miami Herald, his hometown paper, decides that it's going to dig even deeper into the
Epstein case and see what happened, especially now that not only is Acosta the labor secretary, but that the
#MeToo movement has happened. And that, perhaps, these victims, who are now young women, might be willing to
talk publicly for the first time.
Michael Barbaro
And what does The Herald find?
Archived Recording
The Herald is reporting that Acosta gave a sweetheart deal to a wealthy man accused of sex crimes,
including sexually abusing underage girls.
Patricia Mazzei
The Herald's investigation, which was published in late 2018, found a trove of documents showing how the
secret non-prosecution agreement was negotiated.
Archived Recording
The paper found that as a U.S. attorney in Florida in 2007, Acosta and another federal prosecutor struck
a plea deal with Epstein's legal team.
Patricia Mazzei
And the documents show Epstein's defense lawyers being chummy with prosecutors on a first-name basis, while
the victims didn't know anything about what was going on.
Archived Recording
I was young. I was scared. I knew these people were powerful. I didn't know what would happen if I said
no. I didn't know what would happen if I reported them. That 16-year-old girl just let it happen.
Patricia Mazzei
In addition to that, The Herald finds more victims, and victims who are going on the record for the first
time now that they're adults.
Archived Recording
It takes a long time to start the healing process. I mean, I will never heal. There are pieces for me
that can never be put back together.
Patricia Mazzei
And the combination of the behind-the-scenes communications about this agreement and the additional victims
and the victims putting a face and details to these allegations starts to build new public pressure for
something to be done in the case. And it's not long after that Miami Herald report that something else
happens. That lawsuit that the victims in Florida had filed seeking to invalidate the secret non-prosecution
agreement, a judge finally issues a ruling. And he rules in the women's favor. He says the prosecutors made
a mistake in not letting them know that this was being negotiated.
Michael Barbaro
And by prosecutors, you mean Alex Acosta, who is now the United States labor secretary.
Patricia Mazzei
That's correct. The judge ruled that Acosta and his office violated the victims' rights by not letting them
know about this secret deal that they had negotiated with Epstein. And that's where everything was until we
got to Monday in New York.
Michael Barbaro
Is that what led the U.S. attorney in New York to bring these charges on Monday?
Patricia Mazzei
We don't know, exactly. That case is still pending in Florida. What we do know is that the prosecutor in New
York apparently found a new victim in his jurisdiction. And that seems to be a primary driver in his
decision to pursue this case now. And it's possible for him to also draw in some of the allegations from
Florida into his case. We know that he went out of his way to say on Monday that the non-prosecution
agreement in Florida does not apply to them in New York. But it is key to note that they have found a victim
there, and so that gives a new dimension to their findings.
Michael Barbaro
So it's possible that these girls, now women, in Florida, who alleged that Jeffrey Epstein had done these
things to them and who were kind of boxed out of this non-prosecution agreement, that they may be drawn into
this case and have their day in court here in New York.
Patricia Mazzei
Possibly. We're going to have to wait and see, given this sort of tricky dynamic between having somebody in
the Justice Department in New York signing off on a new case that had been sort of closed and done by
somebody in the Justice Department in Miami.
Michael Barbaro
It seems like the U.S. attorney in New York is saying something about how the case was handled in Florida.
Patricia Mazzei
It sounded like the U.S. attorney in New York was implying that this case maybe wasn't handled so well the
first time around, either by his predecessors in New York or by his colleagues in Florida. And that now, he
has another shot. They get a do-over here, and they plan to take it. And they have a chance to make things
right for all these victims after all these years.
Michael Barbaro
Pati, you've been covering this case as a reporter in Florida for years. What do you make of these latest
developments?
Patricia Mazzei
To me, it's an illustration of how society has changed in the time since this case first came up and now. I
think between the #MeToo movement that has exposed some very powerful men and their behavior towards women,
I think some of society's impatience now with, perhaps, wealthy people having a bigger say in the criminal
justice system than people who don't have money. And it's also just interesting that the charge Epstein
faced was for soliciting prostitution.
Michael Barbaro
Right. I'm so struck by the fact that the resolution of that first Florida case was a prostitution charge,
which meant that prosecutors there essentially labeled a minor, who was allegedly paid for sex by Jeffrey
Epstein, as a prostitute, not a victim.
Patricia Mazzei
Actually, the former police chief in Palm Beach, whose department first started investigating this, has said
that what he would really like to see here, in addition to an apology to the victims, who did not get what
he would consider timely justice, he would like to see lawmakers keep that from happening again. He would
like to make it impossible for prosecutors to treat minors like prostitutes in future cases like this one,
to prevent what he considers was a miscarriage of justice.
Michael Barbaro
Pati, where is Jeffrey Epstein right now?
Patricia Mazzei
He is in jail in New York -- and not the kind of jail where you could leave every day to go to work like he
was in Florida. And he faces the prospect of up to 45 years in prison if this case moves forward and he's
found guilty.
Michael Barbaro
Pati, thank you very much.
Patricia Mazzei
Thank you, Michael.
Michael Barbaro
On Monday, federal investigators said they had found hundreds of photographs of nude and partially nude
young women and girls inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York home. After reviewing the photos, prosecutors said
that Epstein, quote, "is not reformed. He is not chastened. He is not repentant. Rather, he is a continuing
danger to the community." Shortly after, Epstein pleaded not guilty in federal court. Later on Monday,
Attorney General Bill Barr was asked about how Alex Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Florida and now the
president's secretary of labor, had handled the original Epstein case in Florida. Barr declined to comment.
We'll be right back. Here's what else you need to know today. In a highly unusual move, the government
lawyers defending the president's efforts to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census have left the case,
apparently in protest. The lawyers had been asked to defend the question despite a recent ruling by the
Supreme Court that found that there was no legal basis for including the question. And in Sudan, military
leaders and protesters have reached an unexpected agreement to share power after the military carried out a
deadly crackdown on the protesters. Under the agreement, an army general will run Sudan for nearly two
years, followed by a civilian leader for the next year and a half. The plan offers the possibility of an
eventual transition to democracy after 30 years of dictatorship. That's it for "The Daily." I'm Michael
Barbaro. See you tomorrow.
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Eric Holland, the deputy assistant secretary of labor for public affairs, said on Monday that Mr. Acosta had no comment.
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said late Monday night that
Mr.
Acosta should resign because of the "unconscionable agreement"
that he made with Mr. Epstein in 2008.
Late on Tuesday morning, Mr. Acosta, writing on Twitter, defended his actions a decade ago. With the evidence available at
the time, he said, his prosecutors had insisted Mr. Epstein go to jail and register as a sex offender. He called the
financier's crimes "horrific."
"Now that new evidence and additional testimony is available, the N.Y. prosecution offers an important opportunity to more
fully bring him to justice," he wrote.
With the evidence available more than a decade ago, federal prosecutors insisted that Epstein go to jail,
register as a sex offender and put the world on notice that he was a sexual predator.
Accusations of sexual predation have dogged Mr. Epstein for decades. Until his arrest on Saturday, his case had been held
up as a prime example of how insulated, powerful men can escape accountability.
Mr. Epstein
, a hedge fund manager, avoided the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence, largely because of a secret
agreement his lawyers struck with federal prosecutors in 2008. His social circle is filled with the rich and famous,
including former President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of Britain.
Mr. Clinton's office said in a statement on Monday that he knows nothing about "the terrible crimes" connected to Mr.
Epstein.
In 2002, Mr. Trump described Mr. Epstein as "a terrific guy," telling
New
York Magazine
, "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger
side."
As he unsealed an indictment charging Mr. Epstein with sex trafficking on Monday, the United States attorney in Manhattan,
Geoffrey S. Berman, made an appeal to other women who may have been abused by him to come forward.
"They deserve their day in court and we are proud to stand up for them by bringing this indictment," Mr. Berman said.
He declined to say why his office decided to pursue charges against Mr. Epstein now, since federal prosecutors knew about
his potential crimes in New York a decade ago. Mr. Berman said his office had been "assisted by some excellent
investigative journalists," an apparent reference to The
Miami
Herald's reporting from November
.
The indictment said that Mr. Epstein and his employees engaged in a sex-trafficking scheme, bringing dozens of vulnerable
girls, some as young as 14, to his Upper East Side mansion and to his palatial compound in Palm Beach, Fla., between 2002
and 2005.
Mr. Epstein, 66, then engaged in sex acts with the young women during naked massage sessions, paying them hundreds of
dollars in cash, prosecutors said. He also asked some of the girls to recruit other girls, many of whom prosecutors say
were underage, and paid them for bringing in new victims, the indictment said.
"This conduct, as alleged, went on for years and involved dozens of young girls, some as young as 14," Mr. Berman said.
"The alleged behavior shocks the conscience."
Mr. Epstein is charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy, and faces a combined maximum sentence of up to
45 years in prison if convicted.
Mr. Epstein's lawyer, Reid Weingarten, said the allegations in the indictment had already been settled in 2008. "To us this
indictment is essentially a do-over," he said. "This is old stuff. This is ancient stuff."
Mr. Epstein, looking disheveled in a navy blue jumpsuit, pleaded not guilty. He stared silently ahead as prosecutors
outlined the charges, never glancing at the packed courtroom behind him. He is expected back in court on Thursday.
The discovery of the photo trove was detailed by prosecutors as they argued against allowing Mr. Epstein to be freed on
bail. His wealth and means -- including six homes and two private jets -- made him a significant flight risk, they said.
Secretary Acosta, now calling Epstein's crimes 'horrific", but let Epstein plead to a charge of prostitution, carrying a much
lesser sentence. Epstein was allowed to leave jail 6 days a week for 12 hours a day. No child of the age of 14 can be a
prostitute, no matter if money was exchanged for sex. These girls were raped and abused. Secretary Acosta needs to step down
immediately. No one can give an incredibly generous plea deal to a remorseless child molester and still expect to hold the
public's trust. He failed Jeffrey Epstein's victims. He failed the people of South Florida. He cannot continue to serve. Why is
every single republican such a hypocrite?
So, if they were able to go back into a previously settled case and retry Bill Cosby, who is now in jail, then they should be
able to do the same to Mr. Epstein. Bill Cosby was also once 'untouchable' and received some dubious legal deals, but , in the
end, he got his just desserts. And even now, some question the legality of how Mr. Cosby was retried and subsequently received
jail time. If it was good for Mr. Cosby, who was also rich and influential, then it should be good for Mr. Epstein. He should
also finally face his long overdue day of reckoning.
Thank goodness for brave reporters. But we have all protected the Epsteins of the world for too long. We all protect the
Epsteins of the world when we show that we value riches and status over all else. Our churches, our legal system, our
colleges, our very laws, do more to protect the rich than the vulnerable. Someone without status in our country can suffer
more for public urination than Epstein has so far for his horrific crimes. The way we, as a culture, value status above all
else, paves the way for the Epsteins of the world to thrive. We can clutch our pearls all we want to, but when we clamor for
admission to an elite school, buy houses and cars we can't afford, buy knockoff designer goods we know were made by foreign
children, because we are desperate to show that we have status, we create a culture where status is the only protection; we
show that we value perceived status over integrity, financial solvency, decency, justice, peace, even over the safety of our
children. The fact that status is our number one value lay the path for Trump to be elected. The fake billionaire promised to
restore status to those who felt that the little they had had been robbed from them by minorities, women, gays. And while many
of us are horrified with the results, everything we do that shows that we, too, value perceived status over anything else,
makes us part of this problem. If we did not adore the rich and powerful, they would not have so much power.
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I've more than a few questions; but my main one is why we continue to put up with a government that has shielded this
pedophile, headed by a President accused of sexual assault himself? Trump & Acosta would resign if there were a shred of
decency in either of them. Putting up with their leadership is unequivocally abusive to over half of the population of the
United States.
If you can afford Epstein's lawyers his sentence is the kind of outcome you expect. His lawyers dictated to Acosta the
sentence they would accept. Acosta was rewarded and part of the service was to insure everything was kept quiet all those
years.
The Epstein saga reminds me of that long-running joke (and movie) The Aristocrats. A joke so filthy and disgusting that it's
been told, retold and embellished for decades. What's that saying about many a truth told in jest? Epstein shows there's moral
debauchery that comes with obscene wealth. The 1 per cent have lost their ethical bearings. Good journalism has shined some
antiseptic light on this perversion of justice. Well done.
SHAKINSPEAR
In a Thoughtful state
July
9
Times Pick
I have no confidence in the validity of this investigation that appears to me to be a retaliation against Democrats by the
political Trump Justice Department. The motive is glaringly apparent. Aside from the political motivations of this case, the
Press conference was clearly an attempt at tampering with the potential Jury pool, national in scope.
Let no one be above the law. Victims need to have their day in court. Search his other homes and hide-outs, and don't let him
post bail or plea out. Sordid to say the least. I hope there is justice.
@Richard This is not a Democratic or Republican issue... in spite of many political comments to this article. This is about
wealthy, well-connected men and boys who are sexual predators with perverse predilections for girls and young women. This is
about wealthy and well-connected predators who, when caught, may never face trial... and who, if tried and found guilty, are
handled with kid gloves, usually receiving inappropriately weak sentences.
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They really threw the book at him the first time, didn't they? Are you in jail, and able to leave six days a week. It's almost
as if they didn't see it as a serious offense, except for the year in jail and being able to leave six days a week. I wonder
if the girls he molested back then are able to work six days a week.
He was allowed to leave the Palm Beach County jail 6 days a week to work????? What kind of sentence is that????? He is
obviously not just a predator but a very bold and unconcerned one, to have kept all this evidence showing apparently under-age
girls in his Manhattan home. When you have that much money, and you have gotten away with such filth and corruption your
entire life, you think that you will always be able to buy your way out of trouble. And most of these kinds of people do. I do
hope that this time he pays dearly for what he has done. It is hard to imagine what kind of a mind preys on children like
this.
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Well done to the current law enforcement officers, investigators and prosecutors who were willing to go after this rich
connected man, who should spend years in prison for such terrible crimes against children. Keep the coverage in the news, so
his victims this time see justice served.
Re: the deal that Acosta cut. According to a February 2017 NYT article, "...As part of the agreement, Mr. Acosta's office
agreed not to bring federal charges against Mr. Epstein or any of his potential co-conspirators, court papers show..." Who
comes to an agreement with a defendant promising not to charge other "potential" co-conspirators? Who else was Acosta
protecting??? This stunk to high heaven then and stinks now.
As a sex trafficking survivor and advocate for others caught up in the traps set for us (sex trafficking is sexual activity
instigated through fraud, force, and/or coercion) most of us would point to the privileged and fraudulent deal Epstein got as
a reason to logically have zero trust in the Lord and social process. This action taken by New York Federal Prosecutors
against Epstein challenges our logical distrust. I want to believe in this new day. The trick Epstein and his lawyers used was
to twist the narrative - fraudulently procured women engaged in an act of prostitution - viola - the act of prostitution (even
through fraud my friends) has socially conferd the identity of prostitute.... And could these young corrupt prostitutes be
seen as lilly white witnesses for the prosecution? This twisted reframing of identity for the exploitation of Epstein legal
team was yet another crime. Then, third hit was not informing victims - how was this justice. I want to believe.
This case is local to me, live in Palm Beach, and one I've followed from day 1. The case and the treatment of Epstein never
made sense. Obviously the Feds were in charge of the deal that was brokered, but local officials played a part as well. Former
Palm Beach State Attorney Krischer signed off on this deal. PBSO sheriff Bradshaw signed off on the sweetheart jail deal. Both
of these offices need to be investigated as well.
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As an attorney, it is misleading to the public to suggest that one can be prosecuted twice for the same crime. First, there is
the issue of the scope of the Florida disposition. Rest assured Epstein's attorneys will focus on cramming all the "new"
evidence into the Florida package. Second, Berman will have to prove the "new" evidence post-dates the Florida matters. Third
-probably most critical- Berman must convince the court that probable cause to look into Epstein's alleged behavior arose from
something OTHER than the mere fact of the Florida matter.
I grew up in NYC in the 60's. My sister brother and myself all went to the school Birch Wathen. I have nothing but the fondest
memories of my early school years. It sickens and saddens me that a place where so many children received an amazing education
devolved to a place where hundreds or thousands of young girls were victimized and sexually abused. 9 east 71st St use to be a
place of learning and love. I hope the building in its next incarnation will returns to an institution that will teach and
nurture children.
So the Justice Department gets a 'do-over' after bungling their first try over a decade ago. A slap on the wrist was
administered to this predator who has continued to prey on young women. Let's see if money, power and connections once again
win the day and put him back on the street. One would think justice will certainly prevail, but look at all the people who are
not even prosecuted due to influence and wealth.
My only concern with the MeToo movement is our loss of the presumption of innocence. It's fundamental to our judicial system.
But if he IS found guilty -- AFTER due process -- then he should be punished to the full extent of the law. These sorts of
crimes are far too common and no one should be given a plea bargain, no matter how far up it reaches.
Epstein and his wealthy powerful covert treated girls as disposable playthings to be passed around and used up, with no
concern for their autonomy or humanity. Even when caught, he had enough connections that he served virtually no time, and his
case was sealed. And the guy that brokered the deal, Acosta, was rewarded mightily for that. Is there any wonder we have such
and abysmal record of abuse of females and femicide? Is it any wonder that rape kits go untested? That our full health care s
up for debate and decided by panels made up of men alone, with no female input? These abusers protect each other and continue
to keep females under their thumbs because they can and because they themselves benefit from female oppression.
I was pretty impressed by both the NYC prosecutor and the FBI during this morning's press conference. They seemed firmly in
the corner of the young women who were sexually abused by doing a good job explaining why this was criminal abuse by Epstein,
not choice on the part of the victims. The press conference participants also made a point of showing a display with Epstein's
photo and an FBI contact number for other victims to call. The FBI went so far as to explain what buttons to push when victims
called in. I would like to see wide dissemination of Epstein's photo and the FBI number in the press so that victims know
where to call to lodge their complaints
Clinton was involved is not he? So was it Clinton who advised Mueller to list Epstein as an
intelligence asset.
Notable quotes:
"... As a sex trafficking survivor and advocate for others caught up in the traps set for us (sex trafficking is sexual activity instigated through fraud, force, and/or coercion) most of us would point to the privileged and fraudulent deal Epstein got as a reason to logically have zero trust in the Lord and social process. ..."
"... he trick Epstein and his lawyers used was to twist the narrative - fraudulently procured women engaged in an act of prostitution - viola - the act of prostitution (even through fraud my friends) has socially conferd the identity of prostitute.... ..."
"... This twisted reframing of identity for the exploitation of Epstein legal team was yet another crime. Then, third hit was not informing victims - how was this justice. I want to believe. ..."
"... So much truly disgusting, criminal, evil behavior. Acosta catered to a pedophile while he threw the child victims under the bus. He should be behind bars as an accomplice. A president whose "modeling" agency served as a model for Epstein's "modeling" agency. ..."
Re: the deal that Acosta cut. According to a February 2017 NYT article, "...As part of the
agreement, Mr. Acosta's office agreed not to bring federal charges against Mr. Epstein or any
of his potential co-conspirators, court papers show..." Who comes to an agreement with a
defendant promising not to charge other "potential" co-conspirators? Who else was Acosta
protecting??? This stunk to high heaven then and stinks now.
This case is local to me, live in Palm Beach, and one I've followed from day 1. The case and
the treatment of Epstein never made sense. Obviously the Feds were in charge of the deal that
was brokered, but local officials played a part as well. Former Palm Beach State Attorney
Krischer signed off on this deal. PBSO sheriff Bradshaw signed off on the sweetheart jail
deal. Both of these offices need to be investigated as well.
Epstein and his wealthy powerful covert treated girls as disposable playthings to be passed
around and used up, with no concern for their autonomy or humanity. Even when caught, he had
enough connections that he served virtually no time, and his case was sealed. And the guy
that brokered the deal, Acosta, was rewarded mightily for that. Is there any wonder we have
such and abysmal record of abuse of females and femicide? Is it any wonder that rape kits go
untested? That our full health care s up for debate and decided by panels made up of men
alone, with no female input? These abusers protect each other and continue to keep females
under their thumbs because they can and because they themselves benefit from female
oppression.
I was pretty impressed by both the NYC prosecutor and the FBI during this morning's press
conference. They seemed firmly in the corner of the young women who were sexually abused by
doing a good job explaining why this was criminal abuse by Epstein, not choice on the part of
the victims. The press conference participants also made a point of showing a display with
Epstein's photo and an FBI contact number for other victims to call. The FBI went so far as
to explain what buttons to push when victims called in. I would like to see wide
dissemination of Epstein's photo and the FBI number in the press so that victims know where
to call to lodge their complaints
@Richard This is not a Democratic or Republican issue... in spite of many political comments
to this article. This is about wealthy, well-connected men and boys who are sexual predators
with perverse predilections for girls and young women. This is about wealthy and
well-connected predators who, when caught, may never face trial... and who, if tried and
found guilty, are handled with kid gloves, usually receiving inappropriately weak sentences.
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He was allowed to leave the Palm Beach County jail 6 days a week to work????? What kind of
sentence is that????? He is obviously not just a predator but a very bold and unconcerned
one, to have kept all this evidence showing apparently under-age girls in his Manhattan home.
When you have that much money, and you have gotten away with such filth and corruption your
entire life, you think that you will always be able to buy your way out of trouble. And most
of these kinds of people do. I do hope that this time he pays dearly for what he has done. It
is hard to imagine what kind of a mind preys on children like this. 16 Replies
"Under the agreement, Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to state prostitution charges and spent
about a year in a Palm Beach jail. He was permitted to leave the facility six days a week for
12 hours a day to work." "The agreement was negotiated in part by Alexander Acosta, a former
federal prosecutor who is now President Trump's secretary of labor." As Labor Secretary,
Acosta is responsible for monitoring human trafficking. Trump placed the fox Acosta in charge
of the henhouse. Trump needs to be held accountable, for his links to Epstein and Acosta, and
we need to know what kind to backroom deals were made. Unfortunately we have a two tiered
justice system, one for the super wealthy and one for the rest.
As a sex trafficking survivor and advocate for others caught up in the traps set for us
(sex trafficking is sexual activity instigated through fraud, force, and/or coercion) most of
us would point to the privileged and fraudulent deal Epstein got as a reason to logically
have zero trust in the Lord and social process.
This action taken by New York Federal Prosecutors against Epstein challenges our logical
distrust. I want to believe in this new day. T he trick Epstein and his lawyers used was
to twist the narrative - fraudulently procured women engaged in an act of prostitution -
viola - the act of prostitution (even through fraud my friends) has socially conferd the
identity of prostitute....
And could these young corrupt prostitutes be seen as lilly white witnesses for the
prosecution? This twisted reframing of identity for the exploitation of Epstein legal
team was yet another crime. Then, third hit was not informing victims - how was this justice.
I want to believe.
So the Justice Department gets a 'do-over' after bungling their first try over a decade ago.
A slap on the wrist was administered to this predator who has continued to prey on young
women. Let's see if money, power and connections once again win the day and put him back on
the street. One would think justice will certainly prevail, but look at all the people who
are not even prosecuted due to influence and wealth. 8 Replies
So much truly disgusting, criminal, evil behavior. Acosta catered to a pedophile while he
threw the child victims under the bus. He should be behind bars as an accomplice. A president
whose "modeling" agency served as a model for Epstein's "modeling" agency. A president
who praised Epstein and winked at his penchant for girls "on the young side." Lawyers,
including Alan Dershowitz, who ran interference for Epstein so that he was free to molest so
many other children. Dershowitz stands accused, in civil suits, of being a party to the
horrors. He claims he's innocent. Whether or not he committed a felony, he committed a crime
against morality by helping to keep Epstein on the prowl for years. As yet unnamed big shots
who wallowed in the swamp with Epstein and also belong behind bars. Anyone and everyone
associated with Epstein in his felonies needs to be named and exposed to the light of day,
whoever they are. They ALL deserve punishment and universal condemnation.
Again, news that makes you wonder how deep this boys club goes. In his Playboy interview in
1987, Gore Vidal said that the genius of our ruling class is that "they're so brilliant that
no one knows they even exist." He went on to defend himself from accusations that he's a
conspiracy theorist. "'You think they get together at the Bohemian Grove and run the United
States.' Well, they do get together at the Bohemian Grove and do a lot of picking of
Secretaries of State, anyway. But they don't have to conspire. They all think alike." Don't
know what the Bohemian Grove is? Look it up.
I told my 14 yr old daughter what this monster has been accused of and she looked like she
was going to vomit. Dirty old men have been around for centuries, time to expose them and
protect our daughters!!!
@MS "In a particularly unusual provision of that agreement, Acosta agreed that prosecutors
would “not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of
Epstein” and would “suspend” the grand jury investigation. That provision
suggests that Epstein was seeking to protect others beyond himself." This stinks! Acosta
should be disbarred and indicted as an accomplice. Justice was not served here!
As an attorney, it is misleading to the public to suggest that one can be prosecuted twice
for the same crime. First, there is the issue of the scope of the Florida disposition. Rest
assured Epstein's attorneys will focus on cramming all the "new" evidence into the Florida
package. Second, Berman will have to prove the "new" evidence post-dates the Florida matters.
Third -probably most critical- Berman must convince the court that probable cause to look
into Epstein's alleged behavior arose from something OTHER than the mere fact of the Florida
matter.
Yes, great injustices occur in this country on a daily basis, now we'll have to watch and see
how many scums will be revealed... Full blown banana republic, where sexual predators flying
all over the world on their private jets, living in a most exclusive mansions in NYC, sailing
on their luxury yachts and avoiding justice for decades with non prosecution deal constructed
in hush-hush dark rooms of shadow justice. I wonder how Barr's DOJ will twist itself in
pretzels to include the question of citizenship on 2020 census. Nothing will shock me
anymore.
Secretary Acosta, now calling Epstein's crimes 'horrific", but let Epstein plead to a charge
of prostitution, carrying a much lesser sentence. Epstein was allowed to leave jail 6 days a
week for 12 hours a day. No child of the age of 14 can be a prostitute, no matter if money
was exchanged for sex. These girls were raped and abused. Secretary Acosta needs to step down
immediately. No one can give an incredibly generous plea deal to a remorseless child molester
and still expect to hold the public’s trust. He failed Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.
He failed the people of South Florida. He cannot continue to serve. Why is every single
republican such a hypocrite?
Thank goodness for brave reporters. But we have all protected the Epsteins of the world for
too long. We all protect the Epsteins of the world when we show that we value riches and
status over all else. Our churches, our legal system, our colleges, our very laws, do more to
protect the rich than the vulnerable. Someone without status in our country can suffer more
for public urination than Epstein has so far for his horrific crimes. The way we, as a
culture, value status above all else, paves the way for the Epsteins of the world to thrive.
We can clutch our pearls all we want to, but when we clamor for admission to an elite school,
buy houses and cars we can't afford, buy knockoff designer goods we know were made by foreign
children, because we are desperate to show that we have status, we create a culture where
status is the only protection; we show that we value perceived status over integrity,
financial solvency, decency, justice, peace, even over the safety of our children. The fact
that status is our number one value lay the path for Trump to be elected. The fake
billionaire promised to restore status to those who felt that the little they had had been
robbed from them by minorities, women, gays. And while many of us are horrified with the
results, everything we do that shows that we, too, value perceived status over anything else,
makes us part of this problem. If we did not adore the rich and powerful, they would not have
so much power.
I’m a lifelong cynic. Poor folks, minority folks and women never get full justice.
Harvey Weinstein paid up but was there justice? Was there full restitution? I’m saying
here that the defendant—white, male, wealthy and a friend of the president—walks.
Because money talks. I dare justice to prove me wrong. Just once. These girls had mothers.
These girls had a future. Once upon a time.
@Paul Kramer you are citing textbook law but this is not a textbook case. A federal judge
ruled the 2008 deal was illegal. The NY prosecutors are NOT saying they are limited to
post-2008; stuff they are saying that deal only binds the Southern District of Florida. That
could easily be a reference to the illegality finding.
The Prosecutors in Florida may say they don't see a reason to recharge after that finding
of illegality, but since the agreement has no force or effect the NY feds could conclude
otherwise. Especially because there was always criminal conduct with SDNY and they should not
be bound by an illegal deal entered into by prosecutors elsewhere.
The Epstein saga reminds me of that long-running joke (and movie) The Aristocrats. A joke so
filthy and disgusting that it's been told, retold and embellished for decades. What's that
saying about many a truth told in jest? Epstein shows there's moral debauchery that comes
with obscene wealth. The 1 per cent have lost their ethical bearings. Good journalism has
shined some antiseptic light on this perversion of justice. Well done.
@Paul Kramer In case you didn't read the article, these are entirely New York charges. No
Florida here. He also had porn of young girls and that is also something very bad for a
registered sex offender. You seriously underestimate the league that these prosecutors have
been playing in.
News reports say that in the Florida case co-conspirators were kept secret and not charged.
Hopefully this list becomes public soon. Could there be an orange colored dude currently in
Washington on that list?
My 13-year-old just read the article in The York Times. Here are her questions: “Mommy,
is it true our president was accused of raping a teenager?” “Mommy, why would a
lawyer allow Jeff Epstein who hurt teen girls to go to work everyday instead of being in
jail?” “Mommy, what’s masturbation and sex toys?” “Mommy, what
happens to the photos of naked girls? Do they know he has them? Do their parents and friends
know? You said once a photo is on-line, it can be on other people’s computers forever.
What’s going to happen to them?” “Mommy, why would this man’s
girlfriend help him find girls to give him naked massages?” Innocent Children! This man
corrupted the innocence of children—those he directly abused—and every child
exposed to his disgusting perversions via the news. I want justice now, as does every single
adult who cares about our youth!
@Elin Minkoff said "It is hard to imagine what kind of a mind preys on children like this." A
very sick mind, one that is self-important, egotistical, unconcerned with the interests or
rights of anyone else, and has no regard for the law or for societal norms. Doesn't that
sound just like a man who has been a public servant since January 20, 2017?
The real hero here is Julie Brown of the Miami Herald. The evidence was there all the time
and law enforcement knew about it. By publishing the long piece in the Herald, she made it
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"Seeking to detain" -- does that mean that they are considering the possibility that this man
should be let out on bail AGAIN. Poor and minority Americans languish in the mass
incarceration-industrial-complex for minor infractions for years, or for not having the
ability to pay fines or bail, but this serial pedophile might go free again because he has
money? There should be no chance that this creep receives a "get out of jail free" card
again, unless we want to highlight to the world -- over and over -- how thoroughly corrupt
and morally bankrupt our system of justice is in America.
Epstein didn't get his sweetheart deal in 2008 because he is one of those "insulated,
powerful men [who] can escape accountability." He got it because he has information, damning
information, about a slew of other powerful men, who then intervened to protect him. The US
attorney for the SDNY has unwittingly opened a can of doo-doo which will either be quickly
closed again with some clever lawyering and strained legalistic parsing or, if not, will
reveal a dark underbelly at the highest ranks of society that I think even those calling for
Epstein's scalp might wish had never been exposed.
That he would still be in possession of child pornography illustrates just how insulated and
safe he felt in his position. And why wouldn't he? Protected on all sides by powerful
political and financial connections. As E.J. Dionne said in his column today, we are in the
Age of Impunity. Well, maybe no more for this arrogant perverted abuser. Next up, Acosta's
day of reckoning. Noted in a different publication is his accomplice for over a decade, a
woman, Ghislaine Maxwell, who facilitated many of the girls' victimization. Not sure why she
is not mentioned in this article.
@Dennis W This case was not "bungled." The prosecutor made a deal behind closed doors, the
terms of which we are not privy to. It is not surprise to find this slimeball Acosta working
in te Trump administration. There was a quid pro quo we do not yet know about, and there were
co-conspirators not charged, also powerful, wealthy individuals. There is an entire iceberg
beneath this dirty tip.
"... More money buys more formidable lawyers (in Epstein's case, Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr). More money usually means friends with more money, and with the influence that goes with having more money. It's just a fact of life that more money sometimes means getting away with -- or at least getting off easier for -- things would put you or me in jail for a long, long time ..."
"... "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone." ..."
"... Suppose you were a wealthy and influential man with wealthy and influential friends -- not just celebrities, but business moguls and politicians -- from around the globe. Suppose you held wild sex parties on your private island and invited those wealthy and influential friends, even ferrying some of them to the island on your personal Boeing 727 airliner. ..."
"... Suppose those wild sex parties included the presence, voluntary or coerced, of young (perhaps illegally so) women. ..."
"... That's pretty good extortion material, isn't it? Now suppose a government intelligence agency offered to protect you from prosecution for your escapades -- perhaps by leaning on a federal prosecutor to make the matter go away with minimal punishment -- in return for that extortion material? ..."
"... Since World War Two, the United States has built itself into a "national security state" which recognizes no ethical or legal constraints. It's doesn't exist to protect the American public. It exists to protect itself. And, too often, it protects the predators among us. ..."
In 2008, billionaire asset manager Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers negotiated a very favorable
plea bargain in Florida, under which he served a mere 13 months in jail -- in his own private
wing, with 12 hours of daily "work release" -- on a single charge of soliciting prostitution
from a minor (the FBI had identified 40 alleged victims of sexual predation on his part).
Epstein's in jail again, this time in New York, on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy
to traffic minors for sex. Again, prosecutors allege at least 40 victims.
A prospective 41st casualty of the case, perhaps not an undeserving one, is Alexander
Acosta. As US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Acosta negotiated that sweetheart
2008 plea agreement. Now he faces calls for his resignation as US Secretary of Labor.
How did the plea agreement come about? For an easy explanation, look to a (supposed)
exchange between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s:
Fitzgerald: The rich are different from you and me.
Hemingway: Yes, they have more money.
More money buys more formidable lawyers (in Epstein's case, Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr).
More money usually means friends with more money, and with the influence that goes with having
more money. It's just a fact of life that more money sometimes means getting away with -- or at
least getting off easier for -- things would put you or me in jail for a long, long time.
But another possibility rears its ugly head. In an article for The Daily Beast,
investigative journalist Vicky Ward quotes a former senior White House official, in turn
quoting Acosta's response to questions about Epstein during his interview with President Donald
Trump's transition team:
"I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone."
Yes, we're getting that quote at third hand. Unfortunately, yes, it sounds plausible.
Suppose you were a wealthy and influential man with wealthy and influential friends -- not
just celebrities, but business moguls and politicians -- from around the globe. Suppose you held wild sex parties on your private island and invited those wealthy and
influential friends, even ferrying some of them to the island on your personal Boeing 727
airliner.
Suppose those wild sex parties included the presence, voluntary or coerced, of young
(perhaps illegally so) women.
That's pretty good extortion material, isn't it? Now suppose a government intelligence agency offered to protect you from prosecution for
your escapades -- perhaps by leaning on a federal prosecutor to make the matter go away with
minimal punishment -- in return for that extortion material?
Is that how things happened? Your guess is as good as mine. But if so, it would be far from
the first time that innocent men, women and children have been sacrificed to the false idol of
"national security."
Since World War Two, the United States has built itself into a "national security state"
which recognizes no ethical or legal constraints. It's doesn't exist to protect the American
public. It exists to protect itself. And, too often, it protects the predators among us.
Thomas L. Knapp is director and senior news analyst at the William Lloyd Garrison Center
for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism ( thegarrisoncenter.org ). He lives and works in north
central Florida.
"... For her own part, Maxwell, who has been largely overlooked, was granted immunity from prosecution as part of Epstein's prosecution deal. It turns out that Ghaislaine Maxwell has a spectacular past in the UK that has gone altogether ignored by the U.S authorities and systematically obfuscated by the U.S. media, which has repeatedly spiked stories about the pair. ..."
"... I spent many months on his trail in 2002 for Vanity Fair and discovered not only that he was not who he claimed to be professionally, but also that he had allegedly assaulted two young sisters, one of whom had been underage at the time. Very bravely, they were prepared to go on the record. They were afraid he'd use all his influence to discredit them -- and their fear turned out to be legitimate. ..."
"... Not until after the rearrest of Epstein in July 2019 have details about Maxwell and the Farmer sisters started to reemerge. In reality, Ghislaine Maxwell has a history of entanglement with political sex scandals that goes back to when she was 23 ..."
"... An extraordinary 1986 front-page British tabloid story in a British tabloid revealed that Ghislaine had a relationship with a Conservative Member of Parliament reportedly involving compromising photos taken of him with naked boys whom the MP had beaten with a cane ..."
"... It's still a pretty damned strange story though ... the claim is that some unknown person threatened to "expose" an inappropriate liaison between GM and a young Marquis, Lord Granby (son of a Duke, I guess), unless Maxwell's paper laid off a series of stories about the Tory MP's sex life ..."
"... Even if she was 23 at the time, for Robert Maxwell to use his daughter in this way was a form of abuse. He was capable of worse, and did worse ..."
"... bottom line: Ghislaine Maxwell has a 30 year history of involvement in political sex scandals and compromise operations that the corporate media has missed. ..."
Despite her 30 year career in political kompromat operations, the FBI and major media have ignored Ghislaine Maxwell.
Here's where she got her start, as detailed in 1986 on Page One of one of her father's tabloids. Complete with canes and school
boys:
For decades, the US and UK governments knew about Epstein and Maxwell's sexual kompromat operations. Maxwell and her
famous father, it turns out, have made them a family business. But, the FBI and Scotland Yard did nothing to stop them. Why? For
details - SEE FULL UPDATED REPORT:
https://caucus99percent.com/content/epstein-turned-informant-muellers-fb...
As was previously reported:
In 1996,
the FBI failed to act on an accusation that they had together sexually abused a 15 year old girl and her older sister in a
bedroom inside Epstein's Manhattan townhouse. Documents in a recent law suit filed by an alleged victim, Maria Farmer, show
that the FBI had been aware of Epstein and Maxwell's child abuse activities in New York for at least a dozen years before Epstein
was finally prosecuted in 2008 under much-reduced Florida state offenses.
https://www.yourtango.com/2019323698/who-maria-farmer-latest-woman-accus...
For her own part, Maxwell, who has been largely overlooked, was granted immunity from prosecution as part of Epstein's
prosecution deal. It turns out that Ghaislaine Maxwell has a spectacular past in the UK that has gone altogether ignored by the
U.S authorities and systematically obfuscated by the U.S. media, which has repeatedly spiked stories about the pair.
Here is some additional background and new details.
For years the rape of the Farmer sisters and the larger child sex scandal was publicly ignored by the authorities and the media.
A story intended to expose it in Vanity Fair was spiked by the editor. According to reporter Vicky Ward:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-played-out-for...
I spent many months on his trail in 2002 for Vanity Fair and discovered not only that he was not who he claimed to be professionally,
but also that he had allegedly assaulted two young sisters, one of whom had been underage at the time. Very bravely, they were
prepared to go on the record. They were afraid he'd use all his influence to discredit them -- and their fear turned out to
be legitimate.
As the article was being readied for publication, Epstein made a visit to the office of Vanity Fair's then-editor, Graydon
Carter, and suddenly the women and their allegations were removed from the article. "He's sensitive about the young women,"
Carter told me at the time.
Not until after the rearrest of Epstein in July 2019 have details about Maxwell and the Farmer sisters started to reemerge.
In reality, Ghislaine Maxwell has a history of entanglement with political sex scandals that goes back to when she was 23.
An extraordinary 1986 front-page British tabloid story in a British tabloid revealed that Ghislaine had a relationship with
a Conservative Member of Parliament reportedly involving compromising photos taken of him with naked boys whom the MP had beaten
with a cane. English public school kinky. Extraordinarily, The People tabloid was controlled by the Mirror press syndicate,
owned by Ghislaine's father, Robert Maxwell, whose picture appears on the masthead above his daughter's Page One photo.
Robert Maxwell was himself a Member of Parliament for the opposing Labour Party . . .
Talk about spinning a story and flipping the narrative . . . extraordinary. Very Old School.
There's no implication of any connection between GM and the kinky Tory MP.
It's still a pretty damned strange story though ... the claim is that some unknown person threatened to "expose" an inappropriate
liaison between GM and a young Marquis, Lord Granby (son of a Duke, I guess), unless Maxwell's paper laid off a series of stories
about the Tory MP's sex life.
The strange part of the business is that ... I'm not sure what would be inappropriate about any particular relationship between
GM and Lord Granby. Was he married? If not, then ... what? I mean, yeah, it was 1986, but that's not the same as 1956, and they
were both in their early 20s. Really weird. And presumably there never was any follow-through on the threat so ... huh!?!?
@UntimelyRippd
@UntimelyRippd under the guise of defense of Ghislaine Maxwell's character. I don't buy that a telephone call was received
at the editorial office of The People from a mysterious blackmailer, at all. Smells like a smear job against an opposition
politician that Maxwell's daughter, GM had gotten to know, intimately, as insinuated.
The tabloid's "investigation" was an exceptionally nasty smear job, but that's not terribly unusual for British tabloids and
politics. We're just beginning to catch up over here.
The references to a man claiming to be a homosexual partner giving the tabloid compromising photos of "naked boys" four months
earlier, and to the Conservative MP caning them, is at least intriguing and potentially significant (particularly in light of
Ghisaile's later activities), but, as far as I know were never substantiated. Would not be surprised, nonetheless, if the Marquis
was not returned to Parliament.
The ongoing scandal this fed into was enough, apparently, to disaffect the poor MP's constituents and backers. Read the last
paragraph. "IN THE NAME OF GOD, GO!"
Even if she was 23 at the time, for Robert Maxwell to use his daughter in this way was a form of abuse. He was capable of worse,
and did worse.
The Marquis in question is young Lord Ganby, who is not Harvey Proctor, the Tory MP accused of caning boys.
I agree with you on one point: I don't think anybody called The People and threatened them with exposing "compromising"
photos of GM and Lord Ganby. I think the editor of The People made the whole damned thing up, probably on RM's instructions,
in order to increase the hype around their ongoing expose of the Harvey Proctor sex scandal (with caning etc.). Which is probably
why the scandalous relationship supposedly being used as a threat isn't actually very scandalous at all -- they wouldn't want
to create a really scandalous fictitious relationship, because juicy rumours are hard to put down once you've created them.
In other words, nothing in any of this connects Ghislaine Maxwell to the alleged caning of boys by Harvey Proctor.
@UntimelyRippd and bottom line: Ghislaine Maxwell has a 30 year history of involvement in political sex scandals and compromise
operations that the corporate media has missed.
down which one could easily get lost. Ghislaine Maxwell's father (
Robert Maxwell ) was a publisher who had strong ties
to Israel and was buried there after his mysterious drowning death. There have been
rumors that Maxwell worked for the Mossad.
Maxwell, 57, comes from money. Her father was publisher Robert Maxwell - who himself faced accusations of being a Mossad
double (and possibly triple) agent and a "bad character" who was "almost certainly financed by Russia," according to the British
Foreign Office. Robert Maxwell died in 1991 when he fell from his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine - however the circumstances surrounding
his demise have been rife with speculation (including that it was a Mossad assassination - a theory which attorney and longtime
Epstein associate Alan Dershowitz slammed in a 2003 op-ed).
Ghislaine Maxwell is a good friend of the Clintons too and
was pictured having attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding . Thus far, Ghislaine Maxwell has been protected and if she continues
to be protected, then we will know that she is definitely a government asset, (CIA or Mossad?).
No one really knows what is the real story of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, but this is more than just what it appears
to be. There are many questions about
how Jeffrey Epstein acquired
his vast fortune and how he was able to become friendly with many high level politicians and influential people, including
the British royal family.
One more item: the most amusing thing about Epstein is that not a single source/person can say how he made his money. That's
a topic for a next essay, but there's this: 20 years after -ostensibly-, leaving Bear Stearns Epstein turns up as a director
for one of their SIV's.The vehicle was called Liquid Funding Ltd, and Epstein is listed as a director and chairman. The entire
vehicle went stone dead, as did Bear. But Jeffrey did not.
Leveymg, thank you for having the nerve to broach this subject because Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and their sex
peddling business may have far greater ramifications than any of us can imagine, if the truth is ever allowed to come out. I wrote
most of my comment before reading your linked essay thoroughly and I apologize for duplicating some of the content. Blackmail
is a great form of control.
We should keep a watchful eye on this story because this may be the tip of a very large and dirty iceberg that has infected
our government for a long time. Finally, Zero Hedge has an interesting editorial article up today by "Tyler Durden" that
asks a very puzzling question.
Why did Epstein fly back to the United States when he knew that the courts were unsealing 2,000 pages of his previous case?
@gulfgal98 Why, indeed did Epstein fly back into the U.S.? He should have suspected that Barr would arrest him on orders
from the Chief. Or, is JE being presented as a sacrificial lamb, being led before the rest of the herd, to succumb as a bloody
example of who calls the shots (pardon the horrible mixed metaphors, but, hey. These do occur).
I am reminded of an old FarSide cartoon in which two bears are walking on their hind legs and one of the bears has a red and
white target painted on his back. That bear-with-target would be JE, if I'm not mistaken. Wexner and associates will not take
lightly to the pressure of the klieg lights being constantly upon them.
He went right back to being accepted in the high society. Not long after he got out he had dinner with Katie Couric and George
Stephanopoulos and started right back up where he left off. You'd think that his friends would want to put some distance between
them and his perversions.
But when people talked about his registering as a sex offender he said this:
"I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,' Epstein told The New York Post in 2011. "It's the difference between a murderer
and a person who steals a bagel."
Uh no.. Jeff you are a sexual predator and you should be still sitting in a regular prison cell for a few more years or decades
if the original case had gone to the original conclusion.
In 2010, the year after he got out of a Florida prison, Katie Couric and George Stephanopoulos dined at his Manhattan mansion
with a British royal. The next year, Epstein was photographed at a "billionaire's dinner" attended by tech titans like Jeff
Bezos and Elon Musk. A page popped up on Harvard University's website lauding his accomplishments, and superlative-filled news
releases described his lofty ambitions as he dedicated $10 million to charitable causes.
Powerful female friends served as social guarantors: Peggy Siegal, a gatekeeper for A-list events, included him in movie
screenings, and Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin, a champion of women's health, maintained a friendship that some felt gave him credibility.
Epstein put up a website showing Stephen Hawking and other luminaries at a science gathering he had organized.
"If you looked up Jeffrey Epstein online in 2012, you would see what we all saw," Leon Botstein, president of Bard College,
said in an interview. He seemed "like an ex-con who had done well on Wall Street," who was close to the Clintons and gave money
to academic pursuits, Botstein said. That was why, he noted, Bard accepted an unsolicited $50,000 in 2011 for its high schools,
followed later that year and in 2012 by another $75,000 in donations.
Siegal threw the dinner party at Epstein's Upper East Side mansion for Prince Andrew, giving Couric, Stephanopoulos, Chelsea
Handler and others a chance to speak to a member of the royal family a few months before the much-anticipated wedding of Prince
William and Kate Middleton.
"It was just one of those strange nights," Handler said in an interview. Siegal had not emphasized who was hosting, several
guests recalled. "The invitation was positioned as, 'Do you want to have dinner with Prince Andrew?'" Siegal said. Epstein
did not speak much. Andersson-Dubin was there, but others said they barely knew who Epstein was or what he had been convicted
of.
People close to Epstein had to know what his true history was and yet they all welcomed him back in their fold.
By throwing millions of dollars at the legal system, Epstein successfully enlisted Alex
Acosta, a sitting U.S. Attorney who just resigned as Trump's Labor Secretary, to grant the
admitted sex offender a non-prosecution and an immunity agreement.
That deal, that a federal judge has since ruled illegal, helped conceal a vast child-sex
trafficking operation that targeted vulnerable minors by offering them $300 and then employed a
kind of pyramid scheme where victims were recruited to find new victims.
For decades now, as a general assignment reporter, I have had front row seats for a
procession of these kinds of defendants. I have seen the likes of Epstein before.
Over my life as a journalist, as the whirlwind of wealth concentration stripped so many
threadbare, these guys have prospered on an unprecedented scale. In our era of late-stage
vulture-capitalism, it is these most ruthless predators that are elevated before their fall by
our corporate media as living deities.
Rogues Rushmore
The elevation of Donald Trump to the Presidency marks the high-water mark for this
underworld crew who masterfully play the compliant corporate media that's transfixed by great
wealth and confer upon those that hold it all sorts of intellectual prowess so as to cultivate
proximity to them.
As we saw in the Federal prosecution and conviction of
Michael Cohen for his role in facilitating the payoff of Stormy Daniels, Trump knows
everybody has a price.
These great white men are their own law. They see themselves as the smartest guys in the
room. They have the cunning to know how to hollow out others so that they can own their souls.
With the precision of an acupuncturist, they pinpoint that pressure point that's the nexus of
desire, sexual pleasure or ambition.
These must be done with sleight of hand but even if you are caught red-handed, as long as
you have high priced representation on retainer, you can outmaneuver
prosecutors.
Weaponized Sex
Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner, President Trump's senior advisor, is another
case in point.
Kushner, the real estate mogul and major Democratic campaign donor, was appointed by
Governor McGreevey to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 2002 and was nominated
by the Governor to be the chairman of the board of the sprawling bi-state multi-billion-dollar
enterprise in 2003.
McGreevey had to withdraw that nomination and
Kushner had to resign when allegations surfaced that the developer's massive donations to
his campaign might have run afoul of campaign finance and conflict of interest laws.
The year before Kushner's appointment, while on a trip to Israel, McGreevey crossed paths
with Golan Cipel, who was in his early 30s. Subsequent press reports boiled down the young
Israeli's bio to his being a former member of the Israeli Navy and a published poet.
In 2002, it was
Kushner who sponsored Cipel, for a hard to obtain work visa in the U.S. and gave him a
$30,000-a-year job in his northern New Jersey office after Cipel had worked on the McGreevey
campaign.
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, Cipel was nominated by McGreevey to a
$110,000 job to lead the state's freshly minted Homeland Security office. Cipel's status as an
Israeli citizen and his lack of executive-level counter-terrorism experience sent up multiple
flares which McGreevey ignored.
The young Governor doubled down, as he blew through his very limited 'honeymoon' political
capital trying to make the appointment stick. But the Governor's wild overstatement of Cipel's
work experience doomed the pick and Cipel handed in his resignation in March of 2002. Yet, he
was kept on at the same salary as a "policy counselor" a position he would resign from a few
months later.
In August of 2004
McGreevey resigned from office disclosing that he was "a gay American", explaining he was
compelled to make the bombshell disclosure because Cipel, with whom he had an affair, was
threatening to sue him unless he was paid $5 million (McGreevey reportedly called the U.S.
Attorney Chris Christie to report the alleged extortion).
But as Cipel tells it on his own website he was the victim of sexual harassment.
"All those things that I rationalized to myself seemed very logical at the time, but the sad
truth is that I was acting out of confusion and fear," Cipel writes. "Like many other victims
of sexual harassment, I chose to deny what had happened."
The Art of the Deal
In August of 2004 the elder Kushner, a towering figure in both American and Israeli politics
and philanthropy, pled guilty to a long list of corruption charges that could have sent him to
jail for many years if he had been your run of the mill federal defendant of color in a drug
conspiracy case.
Kushner admitted to hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, who was working with
federal investigators against him, then videotaping that sexual rendezvous and sending it to
his brother-in-law's spouse, who was Kushner's sister.
But Kushner and his lawyers would ultimately outmaneuver U.S. Attorney
Chris Christie , whose major vulnerability was his own infinite ambition for power as we
saw with Bridgegate. The night before Kushner was supposed to be in court to plead guilty, the
U.S. Attorney leaked the still un-inked deal to reporters.
But as the media waited in Newark the next day for the official deal to be confirmed in the
federal courtroom, the appointed time came and went. Behind the scenes, Kushner's lawyers and
Christie's team were going back and forth over the terms and conditions of the deal.
By the end of the day, Kushner would enter a guilty plea as advertised, but he made no
commitment to cooperate with the government or to offer up any potential co-conspirators.
According to the Department of Justice's press release, Kushner pleaded guilty to 18 counts of
filing false tax returns, one count of retaliating against a cooperating witness and one count
of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission.
By the evening news cycle, the morning's news of a plea deal was finally true, and Christie
could bask in the glory. "This is a great victory for the people of New Jersey," said the
federal prosecutor who would soon run for governor. "No matter how rich and powerful any person
may be, they will be held accountable for criminal conduct by this office."
Each of Kushner's 18 tax counts carried a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a
fine of $100,000, according to the DOJ; the witness retaliation count carried a maximum penalty
of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000; and the
false statement charge provided for a maximum prison term of five years and a fine of
$250,000.
Scroll forward to March of 2005, though, and Kushner was sentenced to just two years --
which,
The New York Times reported at the time, was the most he "could have received under a plea
agreement reached last September," with Christie.
It was clear that Christie's office had been out-lawyered by the Kushner team. And the
Christie-approved leak -- before he had closed the deal -- definitely hadn't helped. Before
sentencing, the Department of Justice wrote a letter to the judge observing that, in the final
analysis, Kushner showed a "failure to
accept responsibility" for a long litany of criminal acts that could have landed him in
federal prison for decades."
Without a truly thorough prosecution, the House of Kushner would endure and prosper and
Kushner would see his son go on to greater things sitting in the star chamber of ultimate power
deciding who the U.S. should bomb or sell weapons to.
Equal Justice Not
Our collective attention span is so short and the non-contextual way the news is reported
assures we lose track of the narrative thread so when types like Epstein and Kushner cut their
deals we miss it.
Without the candle power of the Miami Herald 's probe
of the Epstein plea deal, we remain in the dark about how every day great wealth can insulate
the guilty, no matter heinous their crime, from really being held accountable.
Meanwhile, those without means, who are innocent, are chewed up and spit out by a criminal
justice system that is neither blind nor fair.
"We have a system of justice in this country that treats you much better if you're rich and
guilty than if you're poor and innocent," said civil rights attorney
Bryan Stevenson in his TED Talk. "Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes. And yet, we
seem to be very comfortable. The politics of fear and anger have made us believe that these are
problems that are not our problems."
"... I cannot verify whether Robert Maxwell was a Mossad agent or if association with the Mossad is an hereditary trait, but the possible conjecture that Epstein and Maxwell were running an intelligence operation makes sense of the questions surrounding this gruesome spectacle. ..."
"... This intelligence postulate raises a crucial question. If Epstein was a spy, who did he work for? Was it the Russians? I only ask because every time Tel Aviv comes up as a likely suspect American media tends to blame the Russians . ..."
"... Another possibly is that this affair is a classic MI6 operation and Epstein is actually the paedophile model of 007. ..."
"... it is difficult to believe that the Mossad acting by itself was powerful enough to procure for Epstein his remarkably lenient plea deal. ..."
"... If it was the Mossad, they likely enjoyed significant support from within the American intelligence community. ..."
"... Something is just not quite right about Epstein's 'career'. Hugh Hefner could live the 'Playboy' life into his nineties and never run afoul of the law or public opinion because his 'girls' driver's licenses said 18. ..."
"... As a practical matter, to a 40 or 50 year old man looking for some young flesh being 16 or 18 is a distinction without a difference but it makes a world of difference if your goal is blackmail but this begs another question. ..."
"... If you are Prince Andrew, a billionaire or an ex POTUS do your really need the services of Epstein and Maxwell to get laid- even by a teeny bopper? ..."
"... The biggest item missing from Gilad Atzmon's look at Jeffrey Epstein, is Epstein's historically biggest financial partner, Les Wexner ..."
"... In 1988 Jeffrey Epstein declared net worth of only USA $20 million where did he get the huge fortune after that? ..."
"... Wexner's trust bought the New York mansion Epstein lives in, which was raided the other day, Wexner turning it over to Epstein around 1995 ..."
"... On 30 June during the USA 2016 election, The Daily Beast ran a story about how the Jeffrey Epstein files, could destroy either the Clintons or Donald Trump https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-billionaire-pedophile-who-could-bring-down-donald-trump-and-hillary-clinton ..."
It is possible that Epstein is just an ordinary paedophile, a slave to his own sick depravity. But this now seems unlikely, it
leaves too many questions unresolved: why did Epstein build a sex trafficking network? Why did he seek the company of the world's
most influential characters? Why did he schlep all those royals, once and future presidents, Harvard professors and movie
stars around the world in his 'Lolita Express'? And then we get to the big question: how did he get away with it all? Back in 2007,
registered sex offender Epstein was supposed to spend the rest of his life behind bars. Instead he spent a mere thirteen months
in a VIP prison.
The Daily Beast reported yesterday that when Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who
infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea deal back in 2007 , was being interviewed for the job of US labor secretary by
the Trump administration's transition team, Acosta's conduct in the Epstein affair came under scrutiny. In that interview Acosta
allegedly said, "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone."
The more we look into this registered sex offender's saga, the more it appears to have the characteristics of a gargantuan espionage
operation. If so, then Epstein was running a multi-million intelligence apparatus set to accumulate dirt on some of the world's
most influential people. The walls of his Caribbean island palace were rigged with cameras, and likely for reasons other than his
personal libidinal gratification. Epstein didn't work alone. Press reports allege that Ghislaine Maxwell functioned as Epstein's
'madam.'
Multiple court filings reviewed and reported on by the Miami Herald reveal that lawyers
for one of Epstein's alleged victims claim that Maxwell helped traffic girls and women to powerful figures. The same documents report
that the alleged victims were lured into the sex ring by offers of modelling, fashion, and educational opportunities.
Ghislaine is the youngest child of the flamboyant Jewish media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who died under mysterious circumstances
in November 1991. Shortly before he died, a self-proclaimed former Mossad officer named
Ari Ben-Menashe
had approached a number of news organisations in Britain and the United States with the allegation that Maxwell was a long-time
agent for the Israeli intelligence service.
I cannot verify whether Robert Maxwell was a Mossad agent or if association with the Mossad is an hereditary trait, but the possible
conjecture that Epstein and Maxwell were running an intelligence operation makes sense of the questions surrounding this gruesome
spectacle.
This intelligence postulate raises a crucial question. If Epstein was a spy, who did he work for? Was it the Russians? I only
ask because every time Tel Aviv comes up as a likely suspect
American media tends to blame the Russians
.
Maybe Epstein was working for the Iranians, all indications are that the Trump's administration is desperate for a pretext
for a war with Iran. Another possibly is that this affair is a classic MI6 operation and Epstein is actually the paedophile model
of 007.
If the espionage conspiracy theory is correct, then the Mossad and the CIA would be the natural suspects. Yet it is difficult
to believe that the Mossad acting by itself was powerful enough to procure for Epstein his remarkably lenient plea deal.
It is almost
impossible to imagine that Acosta, acting as the federal prosecutor, would take instructions from Israel. If it was the Mossad,
they likely enjoyed significant support from within the American intelligence community. I assume that Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's
former attorney, may be able to answer some of these questions. He seems to know the details:
Could there be a connection to Starr's role in covering up the Vince Foster murder? See "Was Vince Foster's Murder PizzaGate-Related?
http://dcdave.com/article5/161213.htm . Maybe Starr is an
all-purpose Deep State fixer when it comes to pedophilia.
Gangbangers are known to be extremely stimulated by teens on the young side. Epstein sent invitations to socially acclaimed
gangbangers letting them know that dozens of young teens were going to be at his parties. Epstein's was a voyeur, his reward
was to enjoy watching the high and mighty descend into depravity. He masturbated while watching the orgy.
Epstein has been pegged for more than a decade in my books as a MOSSAD agent running a global, THE global pedo ring used
to blackmail and bribe powerful, connected people for his masters. It was NO secret.
I know that Gilad knows the VT crew, they
reported on this many years ago I think. besides which you'd have to be a retard not to have put 2 and 2 together years ago
from what was public knowledge.
Unless of course one is naive and doesn't understand the nature of 'intelligence agencies' and
their methods. Particularly MOSSAD/CIA. Circumstantial evidence alone would just about convict him.
What I am wondering is if Trump is dirty or clean. This will be hugely significant going forward. If Trump is dirty, then
Epstein is in the right place at the right time for his masters to make sure Trump dances to their tune without fail. Only remaining
queston besides who are his masters? Do they want war with Iran, or not? Guess we will know when the next false flag in the
Gulf goes off.
@Tono Bungay Sure, the 'international man of mystery' , Epstein, is the issue but the labeling of him as a paedophile by
the media is not an accident. Almost 30 years ago, Rep. Gerry Studds could stand on the floor of the House of
Representatives and defend his pouring vodka down the gullet of a 16 year old page boy before sodomizing him as 'consensual
sex'. Studds was not called a paedophile by the Washington Post or the NYTs.
Raúl Ilargi Meijer has an interesting article at his website ( https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2019/07/why-did-jeffrey-epstein-fly-back-to-the-us/
) that asks the important question of why did Epstein come back to the US knowing he was going to be indicted?
Something is just not quite right about Epstein's 'career'. Hugh Hefner could live the 'Playboy' life into his
nineties and never run afoul of the law or public opinion because his 'girls' driver's licenses said 18.
As a practical matter, to a 40 or 50 year old man looking
for some young flesh being 16 or 18 is a distinction without a difference but it makes a world of difference if your goal is
blackmail but this begs another question.
If you are Prince Andrew, a billionaire or an ex POTUS do your really need the services
of Epstein and Maxwell to get laid- even by a teeny bopper? None of this story makes much sense save for the fact that Epstein
has fallen out of favor and must have feared for his life had he stayed in Paris.
The biggest item missing from Gilad Atzmon's look at Jeffrey Epstein, is Epstein's historically biggest financial partner,
Les Wexner
Wexner the lead figure in a group of about 20 aggressive Zionist Jewish billionaires named as the 'Mega Group' in the 1990s
Wexner possibly the main funder & creator of the whole 'blackmail via under-age girls on an island' scheme
Did Les Wexner, with his fierce wish to destroy the enemies of Zionism, along with his fellow 'Mega Group' billionaires,
fund the expensive show of 'Jeffrey Epstein billionaire with private jet' all in order to create a Mossad honeypot blackmail
scheme abusing under-age girls, in order to entrap major politicians into being compelled to support Israel? To 'save &
protect Jewish lives'?
In 1988 Jeffrey Epstein declared net worth of only USA $20 million where did he get the huge fortune after that?
Wexner's trust bought the New York mansion Epstein lives in, which was raided the other day, Wexner turning it over to Epstein
around 1995
Les Wexner has himself been named as the paymaster of kidnappers of a menaced young woman, in a court filing involving Ghislaine
Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, Alan Dershowitz etc
Dershowitz admits he had a massage at Epstein's place, tho by an 'older Russian woman' and Dersh 'kept his underwear on'
maybe this 'Russian' a girl who looked older with all her make-up?
In the 2008 'deal' after Epstein's 2007 indictment, ultra-Zionist Alan Dershowitz was a leading lawyer brokering that deal
Now Dershowitz seems to have sabotaged Epstein, Dershowitz arguing in court that Epstein files should be unsealed and made
public Dershowitz won that battle in a US federal appeals court 2 July, 4 days before Epstein was arrested
Dershowitz claimed he was trying to defend himself but that seems silly Epstein files cannot 'prove a negative' that Dershowitz
never raped children, there can only be a lack of evidence and files show Dershowitz deeply connected with Epstein
Daily Beast is the media leading the charge against Epstein now with 'insider scoops' from prosecutors
Daily Beast was founded in 2008 by Jewish media kingpin Barry Diller, & Tina Brown 'who has Jewish grand-father'
The 'prosecution' of Jeffrey Epstein is ... involving prosecutors connected to both Trumps & Clintons
Lead prosecutor of Epstein is Jewish Geoffrey Berman, law partner of Rudy Giuliani 'Mr 9-11' who is now Donald Trump's top
personal lawyer
Assisting Berman, is Maurene Comey, daughter of Hillary ally & former FBI Director James Comey, fired by Trump, Maurene Comey
married into the Zionist Issacharoff family, her new father-in-law having taught at Tel Aviv University
Wikipedia, run by CIA-Mossad ex-pornographer Jimmy Wales, close friend of Israeli presidents, has edited Epstein's biography
to delete the USA Democrats connected with Epstein and to delete references Epstein is Jewish
Epstein made the same claim as Jimmy Wales, of getting their mysterious money by 'foreign currency trading', which crushes
most people who try to do it it seems this is a cover story for getting political money from Jewish sources
At the age of 20, university drop-out Jeffrey Epstein, was hired to teach maths & physics to teen-age girls & boys, at the
prestigious private Dalton School in Manhattan, where he worked from 1973-75
The headmaster who hired Epstein, was Jewish convert to Christianity Donald Barr (1921-2004), who is the father of Donald
Trump's current Attorney General William Barr (born 1950) who thus has Jewish ancestral heritage
@Brabantian hind all these accusations
by the woman who has accused Wexner of having sex with her. Her unpublished manuscript for a book did not mention Dershowitz,
he was a very late addition. She also originally claimed to have been 15 when she started work with Epstein but now acknowledges
she was 17.
No one in their right mind is going to involve their lawyer or allow his to have knowledge of the very crimes that the lawyer
is defending him on. First of all, you cannot expect a lawyer to stand up police pressure. Secondly, lawyers are far more effective
if they believe their client is innocent.
@Brabantian llionaires named as the 'Mega
Group' in the 1990s Wexner possibly the main funder & creator of the whole 'blackmail via under-age girls on an island' scheme
This works better than either the 'jus' a feller who liked 'em young' or the 'Mossad agent' extremes.
Epstein, Wexner, et al would be like Sheldon Adelson; 'mighty warriors for Yahweh.' They're taking their money and talents
and using them to fight the good fight for Israel.
Certainly Israel's happy to benefit -- and no doubt she cooperates fully -- but she's not really the driving engine of this
scheme.
I'm not convinced of this myself -- but it makes a better working hypothesis than anything else I've read yet.
' If you are Prince Andrew, a billionaire or an ex POTUS do your really need the services of Epstein and Maxwell to get
laid- even by a teeny bopper? '
If you think through the practical scenarios, the answer might be 'yeah, you do.'
that is, unless you shortly want to read all the details about your weekend together with your love-toy in the National
Enquirer.
Lawyers need brains, but also to have a lot of the actor about them to be good in court. They suspend their disbelief, and
don't expect the fourth wall to be broken. Even after an acquittal, it is considered very bad form for the client to tell the
lawyer he was guilty.
Supposing they are found guilty, there is then less reason than before the trial to make even implicit admissions, because
they have one last hope of a successful appeal. So no one is going to give their their lawyer any reason to think they are guilty.
Prison is full of innocent convicts.
@Colin Wright liked older women, as with
Sarah Ferguson (he went gay for a while after that) and Koo Stark. Before that he astounded the the Queen by asking out a friend
of hers who was decades older than him.
Anyway the woman fabricating all these these allegations was at least 17 years old at the time. He could have had young looking
18 or 19 year olds as a single man if that was his thing. He could have married a 16 year old if he wanted. Andrew official
position at the time was to drum up business for UK exporters, so he hung out with moneyed Wall Street figures. The allegation
against him is bullcrap.
@Sean beaten 5-3 by Portugal in the World
Cup of 1966 after leading 3-0. This occurred on July 23rd, 1966, 5 days after my fifteenth birthday. (53 years ago.)
I would never confuse that with hearing about the first man walking on the moon on July 20th 1969, 2 days after my eighteenth.
Even if her memory is not as good as mine, she would surely know how old she was and what grade she was in high school when
she started working at Mar-A-Lago, and even if she didn't, making legal depositions is not the same as a casual conversation
after a few drinks when a slip of the tongue might give the wrong year.
You have had a real field day, more like a feast on Epstein for your diet of champions: SCAPEGOATING JEWS.
How delicious it must be for you to have someone so loathed a defense is non existent.
A billionaire pedophile with secret money. Check every box. So easy my poodles could write this feast of Scapegoat crap.
The true test of a lazy mind to figure 3 articles about this guy. Have you done Kabbalah numerology to decipher the meaning
of his name in the Torah, or did they find the protocols amongst his belongings, or secret nuclear codes with notes to take
over the world? You are a true mental midget Gilad, to weaponize this guy among the Jew hating crowd. But that is your true
calling article after article pin the tail on the Jewish scapegoat artist, feed the frenzy.
I leave you with this article by Hirshi Ali, talking about the white elephant in the room. Baked into the DNA of muslims. Interesting
how she points out the myth of the Jews buying power, vs the Islamist. https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-ilhan-omar-overcome-her-prejudice-11562970265
The allegation that Jewish or Zionist money controls Congress is nonsensical. The Center for Responsive Politics estimates
that the Israeli government has spent $34 million on lobbying in Washington since 2017. The Saudis and Qataris spent a combined
$51 million during the same period. If we include foreign nongovernmental organizations, the pro-Israel lobbying figure
rises to $63 million -- less than the $68 million spent lobbying for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Hirsi Ali
Islamists have understood well how to couple Muslim anti-Semitism with the American left's vague notion of "social justice."
They have succeeded in couching their agenda in the progressive framework of the oppressed versus the oppressor. Identity
politics and victimhood culture also provide Islamists with the vocabulary to deflect their critics with accusations of
"Islamophobia," "white privilege" and "insensitivity." A perfect illustration was the way Ms. Omar and her allies were able
to turn a House resolution condemning her anti-Semitism into a garbled "intersectional" rant in which Muslims emerged as
the most vulnerable minority in the league table of victimhood.
@Sean depressing that he spent his time
securing acquittals for people who not only were guilty, but were usually very bad actors to boot. After all, first-time offenders
can usually do alright with the public defender. By the time anyone hired Spencer, they were usually repeat offenders, had done
something horrific again , and were looking at some serious time unless the family threw money into the kitty and paid
Spencer's fee.
The other lawyer was a guy who'd gone back to teaching high school after his kids were grown up -- he thought other lawyers
sucked. Thinking back over his career, he could think of one client he'd had who was convicted that he genuinely thought
was innocent.
There is no defense of him. You never comprehend what I wrote. My point being, the only reason he is being written about
is that he is Jewish. So you can imprint all your Jewphobia on to him.
IE: All Jewish men are pedophiles. Its called racism and scapegoating, you are always so slow to understand.
My fault is with Gilad posting every criminal Jew he can get his hands on. "look, look a criminal Jew."
No, Epstein is not being written about because he is Jewish. He is being written about because he variously seduced and raped
girls as young as thirteen and trafficked in them to the rich and famous, including almost certainly a former US president.
It's all incredibly corrupt and lurid, including suborned courts and government officials, hints of involvement on the part
of a member of the British Royal family, a personal 737 equipped with a bed, and a private island.
This guy would be a story no matter what he was. Face it. If the Jewish angle is having any impact at all, it's probably
making some people back off.
@Colin Wright l their mothers that he
had duped them (he paid out tens of millions in compensation as part of the deal). He could have had 18 year olds galore, paid
them properly, and even if they went to the press he could say. "So What!"
Instead he is a convicted sex offender who had to agree to register as such to get his plea deal, now any charge against
him will be a slam dunk. And the trafficking a 14 year old charge is going to get him life in prison, and because of the previous
deal the judge will specify a real prison, which is somewhere Epstein will have to be isolated and soon wish himself dead.
And the focus will stay on Epstein so that all the Elites who were sexually assaulting 11-16 year old girls and boys on that
island will remain covered up. So far, they have only mentioned the same names they have already mentioned the first time this
story broke; Clinton, Prince Andrew, and a couple others.
So, it is likely that much more powerful people who were involved will be protected from indictment.
Because Jewsus loves all the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight.
We all bleed red, man! "He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth." (Acts 17:26)
@Sean hey'd have a hell of a time if they
started trying to make sure he never got drunk and fired off his assault rifle in the camp ground.
My point here is that like the N.R.A., Israel can command the allegiance of quite an army of supporters. It's not, however,
a very disciplined army, and Israel can't actually keep many of these troops from acting like idiots if they feel like acting
like idiots. They're allies, actually; not servants. Israel goes to them, and says 'would you,' or they come to Israel and say
'I could' -- but then they go off on their own and have that hot little shiksa who wouldn't even look at them when they
were a pimply adolescent. There's nothing Israel can do about that.
A) As part of a sophisticated secret service operation for compromising VIPs, Epstein became a self confessed child molester
who pled guilty to specimen charges. He then helpfully left thousands of photos of victims he had not faced charges about strewn
around his properties, so that investigators could easily frame new charges that would–will–put him in prison for the rest of
his life.
B) Epstein got his dick caught in his zipper. No one can understand how a financial conjurer of considerable personal charm
could have been so stupid, so it is being assumed that there was much more to it than other sex scandals like Weinstein, Luis
K . But the accounts of Epstein's victims are in fact very similar to the aforementioned cases. Epstein liked mastubating in
front of the girls as much as if not rather more rather than actually having sex with them. The assertion that Epstein 'belonged
to intelligence' and the prosecutor was told to "to leave it alone" (although Epstein was sent to prison amid huge publicity)
came from the prosecutor himself, Acosta, who was bullshitting.
"... "Epstein is a weapon being used by one faction of the oligarchy to dispossess another faction of an important tool, to wit - Donald Trump, so that the one faction can either co-opt this important tool or insert their own important tool into the White House to gain control over the U.S. military." ..."
"... Well revenge is a dish best served cold so maybe the Clinton cabal is about to finally get those much talked about orange jumpsuits? ..."
"... You don't get rich people to come to your parties without seed money and recommendations from other wealthy people beyond your dealings as a bank employee . You also don't get someone like Maxwells daughter to recruit the young girls without someone behind you. ..."
"... The Jeffrey Epstein case opens up a huge can of worms that is only just beginning to unravel. It has the potential to set Wall Street against Israel, if anyone thought that was possible. ..."
Hillary Clinton attempted a soft coup against trump that was aided by the US intellIgence
community and the sitting president (obama). But she couldn't handle a lone blackmailer
(epstein). No i don't think so. Keep in mind that Hillary was also backed by incredibly
powerful interests who would also literally burry Epstein if need be.
MI6 was allowing Prince Andrew to be blackmailed by mr nobody, lone blackmailer?
There is more to this story. Epstein was (is) protected by someone or an entity of
enormous power.
Yes. We should see more in the next few weeks/months.
uncle tungsten #100
The big players are not on the boards of the listed corporations. The board members are
flunkies - important flunkies but flunkies nevertheless. The big players stay behind the
scenes.
"Epstein is a weapon being used by one faction of the oligarchy to dispossess another
faction of an important tool, to wit - Donald Trump, so that the one faction can either
co-opt this important tool or insert their own important tool into the White House to gain
control over the U.S. military."
Posted by: JasonT | Jul 14 2019 0:07 utc | 94
I agree with Epstein being a weapon, but whose is the question, Barr is running this
remember so my guess is Epstein may be Trump's weapon. If so, who is his target? Well
revenge is a dish best served cold so maybe the Clinton cabal is about to finally get those
much talked about orange jumpsuits?
This act of revenge wouldn't negate the possibility he is going to be used to get sign-off
from congress for an attack on Iran. I hope not, but I have a very, very bad feeling about
this.
@ uncle tungsten who wrote about the unknown elite
"
There has been a lot of discussion on various threads as to who the big players are.
"
I have written here multiple times about how misleading it is to have a Fortune 500 of the
richest people but knowing what we all do about Trusts, how come there isn't ongoing
reportage of the Fortune 500 biggest Trust funds in the world and their owners?
reply to
frances @93 & JasonT @94: The problem is Trump doesn't look like one of the most likely
targets, and he is not blabbering uncontrollably about it now. It seems unlikely to work...If
Epstein is really in the middle of a war among the elites, I expect we will see more evidence
of it soon,"
Posted by: Bemildred | Jul 14 2019 0:24 utc | 96
I don't think Trump is the target, I think Congress is the target and the one(s) running
the play is Israel and its Zionist supporters. Trump if forced/supported by Congress
concurrent with a False Flag or two will probably attack but only if they guarantee him a
second term. The only possible fail safe is the US military who know a meat grinder when they
see one and might refuse.
As I think someone else mentioned, it seems very plausible that Epstein played a game like
the one described. But I don't think you can play that game on the level he seems to have
done without some heavy backing. Alphabet agency? Or something deeper than that?
karlof1 @97: Yes, I just read a story where he (Dershowitz) claims there is sealed evidence
that will exonerate him. I dunno if I believe it, but it does explain it. And he does seem to
think better of speaking out now.
For the larger question of who is out to get whom, it's clear some people want to use it
to get Trump, it's not clear that Trump is afraid. I think we need more evidence for that.
Right now it looks to me like more of the Trump Show(tm).
You don't get rich people to come to your parties without seed money and
recommendations from other wealthy people beyond your dealings as a bank employee . You also
don't get someone like Maxwells daughter to recruit the young girls without someone behind
you.
You also find yourself dead or in jail pretty quick blackmailing too many rich and
powerful people unless you have serious muscle behind you. My money is the blackmailing was
done by intelligence agencies who warned them what happens if anything happens to their pal
Jeffrey
But if you want to propose a theory where intelligence agencies that Dershowitz and Acosta
believed were involved weren't involved, then go for it. Many people will believe anything if
it comes from someone they trust.
As for Mike Cernovich's outlook on this affair, he retweeted this cartoon implying he
agrees with its message: Taking down Epstein somehow gets Bill Clinton. Recall I provided
grounds for such angst/motivation by DNC tactics against Trump during election campaign, and
Cernovich is clearly a Trumpster. Indeed, IMO Cernovich is the unknown entity in this, his
motivation he has yet to provide, although he somewhat hints at it in this post from his blog, which
includes a rough timeline of the court proceedings. In reading a few more of Cernovich's blog
entries, I still don't get a clear indication of his motivation to join Dershowitz in 2017.
Perhaps given his stated disappointment in the charges filed, he wanted to get to the bigger
fish that Epstein catered to, which is a good reason....
div> frances @103 & 105: Yes I've seen that theory too, and it works
better, but still lots of speculation.
The CIA gets the bulk of its financing from trafficking in drugs, weapons, and people (a lot
of sex slaves but also weird stuff like live organ donors). All of the large cartels have
been destroyed yet the volume of cocaine entering the US has remained the same, so clearly
the CIA has largely cornered the market on cocaine trafficking.
Yet for some reason law enforcement has suddenly started busting large shipments. `Till
now the CIA has had no difficulty bringing in cocaine by the ton, but something seems to have
changed recently. What could that be?
A large scale CIA kompromat operation has been effectively shut down with the arrest of
Epstein. Why now?
It could just be that the CIA has lost its mojo and is now fumbling everything.
Considering the current crop of delusional cricket-fearing youngsters that have been
replacing the crusty oldsters in the CIA, this is entirely possible if not probable.
Or it could be that someone has amassed some power and is retaliating for Russiagate and
is hitting the CIA where it hurts the most in order to bring them to heel.
Either way, things are starting to look tough for the empire's kneecappers.
The Jeffrey Epstein case opens up a huge can of worms that is only just beginning to
unravel. It has the potential to set Wall Street against Israel, if anyone thought that was
possible. Posted by: Lochearn | Jul 13 2019 22:32 utc
Can we make a small bet that the story will peter out without huge sensations? Preposition
A: the story does not have much potential. So nothing much will happen, JE will probably
serve some time. Preposition not A: the story hides explosive aspect. Well, such stories have
a tendency to be buried (or prosecutors have a tendency to bury them). So either way, we can
enjoy some speculations, but earth will not shake.
Concerning "setting Wall Street against Israel", it is more probable to see a civil war in
Israel before that will happen. Perhaps I did not catch that this is a joke.
To me this is the most plausible explanation from Dr. Steve Pieczenik who was Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance and James Baker.[2] His
expertise includes foreign policy, international crisis management and psychological
warfare.[7] He served the presidential administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald
Reagan and George H. W. Bush in the capacity of deputy assistant secretary.[8]
The fact that the federal reserve has seen Powell and Shelton, both goyim, is connected to
Epstein being taken down. We are witnessing the slow dismantling of Jewish influence and
power in this country.
I wonder what Epstein would think of all this time and energy spent on his predicament? What
might he say to us regarding where to look. IMO, if we can dig up the roots, we can determine
what made his tree grow. The clues are likely in all that documentation that was just
unsealed but not yet released to the public.
Not so plausible: MI6 was allowing Prince Andrew to be blackmailed by mr nobody, lone
blackmailer?
Notable quotes:
"... If CIA/Mossad/MI6 got wind of a whole bag full of influential people being extorted by Epstein how long until they wanted in on the game? ..."
"... A clever, high dollar blackmail scheme as described could very easily draw the attention of the CIA/Mossad. Very useful to them. Important government officials involved - along with those that fund them. ..."
"... I am thinking one has to be a little careful about blackmailing billionaires - I hear the price to have someone eliminated is not very high but I really have no knowledge in that area. People would have to fear the guy. Likely he would have to be pretty well connected with people who are taken seriously. ..."
"... An intel connection is far and away the best explanation of the kid-gloves treatment Epstein got. ..."
"... It seems clear that there's an effort to paint Epstein as simple blackmailer accompanied by wringing of hands over the rich vs. poor dynamic. Epstein's connections to wealthy Jewish Zionists and possible connections to intelligence agency(s) (as per Acosta) is being played down. A good example of this is provided by a link from the last thread: The case of Jeffrey Epstein and the depravity of America's financial elite where: ..."
"... The idea that the CIA/Mossad/FBI etc. might be involved in the Epstein affair isn't new. In fact such tactics are as old as the hills. Such tactics are known in the trade as "honey traps." What may separate the Epstein affair is its extensive reach. ..."
"... The most important question has to be What role played the intelligence agencies, the FBI, the legislative and the executive in this 'poor/abducted-children-sex-slave-market'? ..."
"... I find it totally unbelievable that Epstein was not a front for a bigger organization or he would be dead by now. ..."
"... AFAIK, the unsealing had nothing to do with Epstein's recent arrested. Instead, it appears that the arrest was based on a new allegation that resulted in a search of his NY home which turned up evidence of child sex. ..."
"... Trump seems unworried to me, Luongo seems to think Trump is behind it, and Barr runs DOJ these days, Trump's own private St. Bernard dog AG. ..."
"... I ask you to explain how Epstein's large jet, a Boeing 737, shares a tail number with one used by the Department of State? That's like my car sharing the same plate number as Mike Pompeo. Life just doesn't work like that. But, with a tail number that corresponds to Epstein's aircraft being identified at the tower as Mike Pompeo's the benefits to that are huge ..."
"... Yes. The Monica honey trap pushed Bill Clinton into attacking Yugoslavia by way of creating a distraction from the Monica honey trap. Of note is that Hillary boasts (in a Clinton biography) about her persuasive efforts in getting Bill to bomb civilians in Belgrade. ..."
"... it is like throwing a bomb into the usa political theatre a little over a year before the next usa election circus.. Acosta is now gone and the question is, who is next?? the fact Epstein came back suggests he is a puppet on a string.. whose string?? i am leaning towards jrs view this is aimed at trump, but don't have the same conviction as jr.. we'll see how it unfolds.. ..."
"... If the stories about the CIA's participation in the drug trade are correct, they have essentially unlimited sums of money to throw around. ..."
"... To me, this seems like the 2 sides who are fighting for control of DC have both invoked their nuclear options and now both sides are fighting to control the narrative so that it smears their opponents more than them. I say that because this happened from 2 different directions. You had the Cernovich lawsuit about unsealing and the sudden rush to do something in NY. ..."
"... Epstein's climb up the greasy pole was too easy for a lazy pervert. But he was of high value as a honey trap maestro. ..."
"... So I don't see this as a simple case of blackmail for profit. It's a nice scam, and perhaps that was also involved. But sooner or later - especially with Maxwell's involvement - Israel's Mossad and other intelligence agencies would see this as the perfect way to get dirt on tons of people in the US elites. ..."
"... Quantian's theory looks neat and elegant, as would be expected of someone who studies mathematics, but it does lead MoA barflies (a few of whom have done so) to ask how Epstein could have got his scheme started in the first place, even given that he'd worked for Bear Stevens in the past and already had a tiny financial pile from which to launch his blackmailing scheme. Epstein would not have been the only person spruiking a very exclusive boutique hedge fund in the early 1980s, when he first started it and when there were few billionaires in the US and beyond. ..."
"... Clinton could be the sacrificial fall guy to close up this case and put it to bed. I do not expect much out of a Republican DOJ other than to cover its friends asses. Either way I expect the Democrats to take the bigger hit. ..."
"... The Jeffrey Epstein case opens up a huge can of worms that is only just beginning to unravel. It has the potential to set Wall Street against Israel, if anyone thought that was possible. ..."
"... What happens to Israel if it's proven that Epstein was running a honey pot operation involving pedophiles for the benefit of Mossad blackmail of the most powerful people - including Presidents - in the US and elsewhere? ..."
"... People don't generally continue to hang out with someone who is blackmailing them. Epstein maintained relationships for almost two decades with his clients. They only distanced themselves after the bust and probably not even then. ..."
"... Epstein provided VIPs with a service and they trusted and protect him to this day. They even rehabilitated him after his jail time. ..."
For an introduction to the Epstein case please read
this .
A question that no one could so far answer is how Epstein got as rich as he appears to be.
A person who calls himself Quantian has an interesting theory of what
Epstein was actually doing.
Here is the short version:
Epstein offered the post puberty teenyboppers he seduced and/or bribed to the rich people
he knew. He invited lots of interesting people - artists, scientists, politicians, rich
businessman - to his exclusive parties. There were always these young girls around. There was
always a free bedroom. There were also cameras in place. When one of the rich guys messed
with a girl Epstein would blackmail him.
But instead of taking cash he asked them for investments in his offshore hedge fund. For
someone who owns billions it is peanuts to put a few dozen millions into a fund. It is legal.
The money isn't gone. It will even bear interests.
Epstein is not known for having done much currency trades or other larger Wall Street
transactions. His company is small, he didn't work a lot. It is likely he mostly re-invested
the money in a simple index stock fund which follows the S&P 500. Those type of funds
brought over the years quite a good profit.
Epstein would have taken the typical hedge fund fee of 2/20 which is 2% of the investment
per year plus 20% of the profits. The hedge fund would be completely legal and there would be
no tax troubles. The entrapped people would simply have to stay invested to keep Epstein
quiet and the video tapes off the broadsheet market. Some billionaires might have invested
upfront to gain access to the girls.
For Epstein the scheme would have been a very elegant way to pursue his personal 'hobby'
while creating an ever growing income.
Quantian's theory sounds
very plausible to me. It conforms with everything that is publicly known about Epstein and
about what he was doing. It does not require any additional conspiracy theory about
Mossad/Mafia/CIA involvement. But it also doesn't exclude that there is some.
Posted by b
at
17:30 UTC |
Comments (114) Invariably some CIA, Mossad or other deep cover employees and assets would
have been caught up in such a scheme, attended a party etc. I still think Epstein himself was
at one time such an asset.
When there are other avenues of revenue generation available, these will be exploited by a
con man like Epstein.
A clever, high dollar blackmail scheme as described could very easily draw the
attention of the CIA/Mossad. Very useful to them. Important government officials involved -
along with those that fund them.
No reason why Epstein would not find himself suddenly involved and much appreciated.
There is much more credible evidence that Epstein was/is simply a scammer.
Note this lawsuit from a convicted felon, accusing Epstein of enjoying the spoils of a
pyramid scheme run by said felon .
@b
That sounds like the official version, nobody at fault, nobody hurt. I think the blackmail
part is a little bit illegal and the person on giving end would not be too happy about it.
Also I am thinking one has to be a little careful about blackmailing billionaires - I
hear the price to have someone eliminated is not very high but I really have no knowledge in
that area. People would have to fear the guy. Likely he would have to be pretty well
connected with people who are taken seriously.
You would think the fine people in the intelligence service would have sucked-down all
that info would probably lead to some interesting people and endeavors, but that does not
appear to be what happened. Did Acosta just make that up about he is an asset of IC? Is Trump
(or others) worried about the guy being in custody?
The time line is worth considering, he is let go ten years ago and no fuss is made, now a
reporter investigates and suddenly all breaks loss and Lindsey is horrified. So they pry into
his home and can you believe they find pictures of criminal activity on his coffee table
(like passport of terrorists - leave them at home guys). And suddenly they don't care where
it will lead.
Separately if anybody isn't aware, kidnapping of children and slavery of all kinds is
widespread - it appeared they were on track to legalize it - think Oxfam, sexual tourism, not
to mention I don't think guys check ID when using prostitutes and that is now legitimate
(taxable) profession - they advertise in my local paper.
Weird story has me thinking: When I was getting married many years ago, my "friends" throw
bachelor party for me involving gambling hookers and hotel room. I was not interested in the
hookers (scared of that) but girls starts dancing around the room to get everyone excited (Im
not sure her age) and while this is happening one of the instigators (a "friend" who also
happens to be federal employee) pulls out an SLR and starts snapping away. Through drunken
fog I am thinking this is too weird and left. I feel like most people in government are
seriously screwed-up.
It seems clear that there's an effort to paint Epstein as simple blackmailer
accompanied by wringing of hands over the rich vs. poor dynamic. Epstein's connections to
wealthy Jewish Zionists and possible connections to intelligence agency(s) (as per Acosta) is
being played down. A good example of this is provided by a link from the last thread:
The case
of Jeffrey Epstein and the depravity of America's financial elite where:
> no mention is made of Acosta's "belonged to intelligence" claim;
> no mention is made of the billionaire Jewish Zionists that were Epsein's
pals/clients; and
> no mention is made of his compatriot Ghislane Maxwell.
Anyone that's unsure if such suspicions have merit should take note of the
transparent manipulation.
Here's another example:
Commenter 'somebody' has taken the misdirection to new heights with his concern-trolling
about child poverty. 'somebody' would probably give Epstein a medal for his humanitarian
efforts.
div> Harvey Swinestein and Jeffry Epstein: just two more lecherous rich jews
caught with their pants down.
Posted by: Young American , Jul 13 2019 18:35 utc |
8
Harvey Swinestein and Jeffry Epstein: just two more lecherous rich jews caught with their
pants down.
Posted by: Young American | Jul 13 2019 18:35 utc |
8
A fluff and distraction piece that doesn't' bother (really!) to bring in the 'Hidden in Plain
Sight' occult component.
Symbolism and ritual is rife with the Uber-Elite -- partly (and I would say partly)
because they have so much time on their hands. He was chosen for some reason by whom we may
or may not find out to do any heinous act they asked of him. He obviously got paid very well
for doing it -- as well as being extremely protected -- until now -- maybe? By the way,
wondering where Maxwell is?
Another explanation is that this operation was the product of a consortium of rich and
powerful pedos. In exchange for parking your money with Epstein you gained access to his
girls in NY and the pedo fantasy island. The blackmail material as such was collected in
order to insure that no one could snitch out others without implicating themselves.
"Revealed: Jeffrey Epstein Entered Partnership Worth Millions With Ehud Barak in 2015"
"In 2015 Barak set up a limited partnership, in which he is the sole shareholder. That
company invested in Reporty Homeland Security, established in 2014, becoming a major
shareholder. Last year Reporty changed its name to Carbyne. The company develops
call-handling and identification capabilities for emergency response services."
"One of Epstein's prominent clients was Leslie Wexner, founder and chairman of the parent
company of Victoria's Secret's and other companies. Epstein financed and managed the Wexner
Foundation, a philanthropic organization that operates training programs to advance
leadership and excellence in Israel and among North American Jews."
Please don't forget that many of the so called blackmailed subjects certainly had access to
INSIDE INFORMATION that they could have shared and thus much higher profits.....
The idea that the CIA/Mossad/FBI etc. might be involved in the Epstein affair isn't new.
In fact such tactics are as old as the hills. Such tactics are known in the trade as "honey
traps." What may separate the Epstein affair is its extensive reach.
The US Secretary of Labor has already resigned and it may be likely that many more will be
implicated in one way or another. There are already rumors that former US President Bill
Clinton and current President Donald Trump may be involved. In any case, we may learn that
this scandal is like a proverbial iceberg: 10 percent in view, 90 percent below the water.
This may be a Titanic-like scandal and like that ill-fated ship, many will be dragged down
and there won't be enough life boats.
The gist of the money laundering allegation is that parents made fake "charitable
contributions" to the foundation, ostensibly to help "underprivileged children" but
actually as payment in exchange for somebody helping them cheat on the ACT or SAT, or to
bribe athletic coaches and officials at the "highly selective" universities to which the
parents (and/or their children) aspired. The charity substantiated the "contribution" by
issuing letters attesting that "no property or services" were given in exchange for the
"contribution."
Epstein started out as a teacher for rich kids, so he would know what parents would do to
get their kids to universities, jobs, art projects whatever, especially if tax
deductable.
The guests at his island seem to have come from science, universities, the arts, politics
- they were groomed to be corrupt, to receive money, not blackmailed to give money.
Sounds plausible. The IC connection may be a good guess if the harvesting of young flesh is a
recruiting tool, both for future assets of enticement as well as dark-channel ops support.
Given the reach of both the Epstein case and the Mueller investigation, the delay in
Mueller's appearance on Capitol Hill might be to clear the public palate of one scandal in
order to not steal thunder from another, or some re-orchestration of who owes whom given the
threat of pending revelations. Just a thought.
They will one day ask you to kill your closest friends. Who said that?
The most important question has to be What role played the intelligence agencies, the
FBI, the legislative and the executive in this
'poor/abducted-children-sex-slave-market'?
It is also interesting that people point to Libya, while referring to the outcome of a
Clinton/Obama campaign to sodomize Colonel Qaddafi, that ended up creating a flourishing
slave-market.
"Would you like to buy a young Bedouin girl? She is really pretty. We have ways for her to
get to you in New York. We'll take care of the procedure..."
The bucket stops here. It didn't stop with the organ-snatchers obviously. Or with water
boarding, torture, DU, war crimes and crimes against what goes for Humanity.
This much more than the personal sexual preferences of a con artist. It is the con artist
of the agencies and the deep state. There are more rich people who fantasize about a
manga-like teenager than is allowed to allure. But that's how it is. It is culture to have
naked young women everywhere. Just set your search engine to 'no filter' and you will
see.
Do you know how many music industry hits exist that feature a 'sweet young girl'? A sweet
16? And what would they do with a sweet 16? Looking at the stamp collection? Playing
Wolfenstein 3D?
This is the final call to destroy the network of organized crime with government
participation. In a very odd way one could say that they might snatch your young daughter,
too, if you don't stop them from doing it. That's called 'preventative measures'. The time to
protect the people from their out- and above law government agencies.
This will be a global revolt. Because one thing these people have forgotten about. Like
they forget about the arctic dynamics. The 'self-dynamics' of life/the universe. Things turn
always out different from what one wanted them to. There will be more attempts to put grey
noise over this vast conspiracy to exploit the working class/poor.
The implications are incomprehensibly multifaceted.
This nickel and dime theory doesn't add up. Epstein allegedly refused any investment under a
billion dollars. Epstein was mossad connected vis Ghislaine Maxwell and the "Mega Group".
Epstein's contact with the Israeli intelligence service may have plausibly come through
his associations with Ghislaine Maxwell, who allegedly served as his key procurer of young
girls. Ghislaine is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, who died or possibly was assassinated
in mysterious circumstances in 1991. Maxwell was an Anglo-Jewish businessman, very
cosmopolitan in profile, like Epstein, a multi-millionaire who was very controversial with
what were regarded as ongoing ties to Mossad. After his death, he was given a state funeral
by Israel in which six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence listened while
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized: "He has done more for Israel than can today be
said".
It does not require any additional conspiracy theory about Mossad/Mafia/CIA involvement.
It does get a bit tiresome to inform b that his use of the term "conspiracy theory" is not
only counter-productive but false. A theory is a theory and not a conspiracy, unless proven
otherwise. Moreover, he is falling once again into that old trap laid by the CIA in the
60s
"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what
you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to
them to be otherwise."
I concur with most that the hypothesis cited by b isn't complete as it doesn't account for
how Epstein was "seeded."
Furthermore, there's a big problem with people thinking this just suddenly happened now
when the lawsuit to unseal Epstein's trial and plea agreement was filed on 27 JAN 2017 just
after Trump became POTUS. Additionally, Epstein was one of Mueller's Russiagate sources, and
Mueller was part of the BushCo DoJ team involved with the plea bargain.
So, people in the know knew the Epstein case was going to be reopened on some level;
however, the Miami Herald didn't start its reinvestigation until recently, although
Mike Cernovich--the co-plaintiff along with Alan Dershowitz--doesn't try to say its efforts
were worthless.
No, something bigger is at work here as it's already cost one former BushCo DoJ member his
high position within TrumpCo, which makes the seemly simple, Occam's Razor-like, explanation
an attempt to sweep it all back under the rug.
I suspect Epstein used blackmail to gain his millions rather similar to the MO of Jerad
Kushners father.....
Jerad Kushners father Charles was jailed for illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion
and witness tampering, the witness-tampering charge arose from Kushner's act of retaliation
against William Schulder, his sister Esther's husband, who was cooperating with federal
investigators; Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranged to record an
encounter between the two, and had the tape sent to his sister. He was sentenced to two years
in prison,[ and served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery in Alabama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner
I find it totally unbelievable that Epstein was not a front for a bigger organization
or he would be dead by now.
The timing of this kabuki in the middle of all the other geo-political stuff going on says
tons about how deep Epstein is in the "management of the puppets"
Do MoA barflies know about the movie Wag the Dog? This has Wag the Dog written all over
it.
I continue to posit that the crime at the bottom of all this is global private finance
that has been running the show for centuries. They are pulling the Epstein situation out of
the bag now for one or more reasons, deflection being a big one.....deflection from what?
Maybe it relates to Trump and his immigration stomp in America tomorrow?
Epstein is a symptom of a structural problem in the social contract of the West having
private finance instead of public. Global private finance is the cancer and all the rest are
symptoms of this cancer
Bemildred @21: Why Did Jeffrey Epstein Fly Back To The US?
karlof1 @25: something bigger is at work here
There's nothing 'bigger' than war with Syria or Iran. Trump said he called off an attack
on Iran. Maybe Israel didn't like that and feels the need to exert additional pressure?
@karlof1: Bemildred's link @21 provides a good review of the unsealing of records. The
unsealing was first rejected, then an appellate court order the unsealing of only a small
portion: apparently only "summary judgement" material. But releasing redacted versions of the
summary judgement material could take a long time.
AFAIK, the unsealing had nothing to do with Epstein's recent arrested. Instead, it
appears that the arrest was based on a new allegation that resulted in a search of his NY
home which turned up evidence of child sex.
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Many (mostly trolls) are saying that this could be bad for the Democratic Party
because Bill Clinton was close to Epstein. But AFAICT, Bill Clinton is no long active in the
Democratic Party (except indirectly as Hillary's husband and private political consultant).
It's unlikely that Israel cares much about Bill Clinton's already-tarnished reputation.
As the current President, Trump has much more to lose from ANY association with Epstein.
Epstein's arrest sets up a new blackmail: do what we say (war!) or Epstein will spill the
beans via a plea bargain. IT DOESN'T MATTER if Trump partook in the sexual abuse - if Epstein
names him then Trump loses the 2020 election and the 'Trump' reputation at the core of his
lucrative licensing business. A loss of value that could easily be in the hundreds of
millions of dollars.
This is perfect leverage against a man that we all know to be very ego-centric and
money-motivated.
I recently learned that China only has government banks, not privately held banks. This is
enough to explain why they are beating us so badly economically. Unless we learn lessons from
their success, they will continue to beat us.
Jack Rabbit @31: Well that is the question, who is trying to get whom here? Are there perhaps
more than one effort to get someone going on here? Epstein seems to have precipitated his own
arrest, did he risk one more quick trip and get caught, or did he walk into it knowingly?
What is all that incriminating evidence doing still there in his mansion? He doesn't look
that sentimental about his victims. Maybe that is what he came back for?
Trump seems unworried to me, Luongo seems to think Trump is behind it, and Barr runs
DOJ these days, Trump's own private St. Bernard dog AG.
I'm not taking any position on it, I'm just not happy with what I'm being told. Waiting
for the other shoe to drop.
The author makes it all seem less than it really is. I ask you to explain how Epstein's
large jet, a Boeing 737, shares a tail number with one used by the Department of State?
That's like my car sharing the same plate number as Mike Pompeo. Life just doesn't work like
that. But, with a tail number that corresponds to Epstein's aircraft being identified at the
tower as Mike Pompeo's the benefits to that are huge .
Was he able to avoid international customs when he traveled? Probably. Could he transport
illicit items, or people without fear of scrutiny? Probably. Use your imagination. This guy
is connected, and it wouldn't surprise me if he's a member of Mason Lodge P2.
Yes. The Monica honey trap pushed Bill Clinton into attacking Yugoslavia by way of
creating a distraction from the Monica honey trap. Of note is that Hillary boasts (in a
Clinton biography) about her persuasive efforts in getting Bill to bomb civilians in
Belgrade.
Epstein is a man who has the means to live anywhere in the world he choices. Why would he
risk a return to the US at this time, shortly after a court rules that his court record be
unsealed? Why would he keep highly incriminating evidence in his home? He is either
breathtakingly arrogant and stupid or something else is going on.
as for quantians theory on epsteins money - it is a viable hypothesis...but to me the money
focus is a complete distraction.. all of these freaks are insane kleptomaniacs + more to
begin with.. almost no one with vast amounts of money has gotten it legally, or they've
written the laws to make what they do legal..
why now? it is like throwing a bomb into the usa political theatre a little over a
year before the next usa election circus.. Acosta is now gone and the question is, who is
next?? the fact Epstein came back suggests he is a puppet on a string.. whose string?? i am
leaning towards jrs view this is aimed at trump, but don't have the same conviction as jr..
we'll see how it unfolds..
@31 Epstein's arrest sets up a new blackmail: do what we say (war!)
That line nails it. More disturbingly what Epstein reveals could all be bullshit and the
Trump campaign would still be seriously wounded.
Netanyahu wants a war. The western financial elite needs a war/scapegoat to distract
public attention in their desperation to hold onto global financial power
I do not believe Epstein was simply a con man with an elegant scheme. A simple con man does
not get away with blackmailing extremely powerful people on his own. Something big was behind
him - exactly what is open to debate and speculation.
"In 1982, according to those who know Epstein, he set up his own shop, J. Epstein and Co.,
which remains his core business today. The premise behind it was simple: Epstein would manage
the individual and family fortunes of clients with $1 billion or more. Which is where the
mystery deepens. Because according to the lore, Epstein, in 1982, immediately began
collecting clients. There were no road shows, no whiz-bang marketing demos -- just this: Jeff
Epstein was open for business for those with $1 billion–plus."
and
"From the get-go, his business was successful. But the conditions for investing with
Epstein were steep: He would take total control of the billion dollars, charge a flat fee,
and assume power of attorney to do whatever he thought was necessary to advance his client's
financial cause. And he remained true to the $1 billion entry fee. According to people who
know him, if you were worth $700 million and felt the need for the services of Epstein and
Co., you would receive a not-so-polite no-thank-you from Epstein.
Yet according to Forbes:
In 1982 there were 13 billionaires; in 1983 15; in 1984 12; in 1985 13;
So in the first 4 years of Epstein and Co. there were only a dozen or so American
billionaires qualifying for his services. The notion that a significant percentage were
pedophiles and also came in to contact with Epstein is, well, ludicrous.
Even if one lowers the bar to extremely wealthy individuals who have a couple of hundred
million in liquid assets kicking around, the number who were both pedos and acquaintances of
Epstein would be exceedingly small and unlikely to account for Epstein's wealth.
This makes me wonder if this isn't part of the reason Trump refuses to release his tax
returns. Having investments with Epstein would be hard to explain away for the non-cult
members.
To me, this seems like the 2 sides who are fighting for control of DC have both
invoked their nuclear options and now both sides are fighting to control the narrative so
that it smears their opponents more than them. I say that because this happened from 2
different directions. You had the Cernovich lawsuit about unsealing and the sudden rush to do
something in NY.
Part off the bigger question around this is the timing... why now?
IMO Distraction.
With Barr in motion the intelligence apparatus appears to be uniting and willing to
sacrifice one of it's own- Epstein- with implicit ties to trump & co, in order to send
the message that if Barr is unleashed (threatening FBI, CIA etc) the intelligence guys will
unleash Epstein and take out the politicians on both sides of the aisle.
The political scandal of intelligence documented pedophilia will utterly bury and
trivialize their Russiagate misdemeanors, will rebuild trust in them to hold politicians
accountable and functionally be a coup against US political leadership
This case is such a dog's breakfast of unconfirmed rumours and innuendo that I'd like to see
some actual evidence that Epstein is a pedophile. Quantian's theory is quaint but
implausible. Imo, a career based on blackmailing one billionaire would be hazardous but a
career based on blackmailing many billionaires would be virtual suicide.
There are lurid rumours about Epstein's perversions such as kidnapping and rape. But logic
suggests that if Epstein's Honey Pot Kingdom was based on kidnap victims then it would have
been necessary to kill some of them to shut them up. I think I'll just wait for the result of
his trial, if any.
...
It's incidentally funny that Michael Wolff wrote an Epstein white-wash article which
wasn't published due to fact-checking flaws. I'd say his Fire And Fury smear-campaign book on
Trump should have been spiked because of all the rumours and asinine drivel in it.
Plenty of details about Epstein's pedophilic misdeeds in "Filthy Rich" by James Patterson,
which appears largely to be based on testimony by the victims.
I've been reading Techno_Fog's
Twitter for almost 2 years now as he's a dogged follower of many criminal cases beyond
the Russiagate Hoax involving US DoJ. I just spent quite awhile scrolling through his tweets
and retweets (searching twitter is very difficult beyond the first page) to get to your request .
As you see, it's a tweet from May 2018, and note who its paired with: Mike Cernovich!
I currently don't have the time to continue scrolling through tweets to provide further
evidence of linkage between Mueller and Epstein, sorry. I do suggest taking more than a
cursory look at the material Techno_Fog posts as it unveils numerous cases of DoJ illegality
going back to Enron.
His current focus is on the Flynn case, although he clearly follows others, including
Epstein. I recall providing some basic info about Techno_Fog back when I first happened upon
his Twitter but few seem to have added him to their reading list.
IMO, he's an Old-school Conservative fighting for Justice and against
Injustice--particularly that perpetrated by the Federal Government. Here's the last one I'll
post ; what's interesting is the thread as it implies that Cernovich jumped in well after
the initial suit was filed by Dershowitz along with various assessments of Cernovich's
character.
Vicky Ward, who wrote the 2003 Vanity Fair piece on Epstein (with his sex proclivities edited
out of the story) had an interview with Chris Hayes (MSNBC) a couple of nights ago. From the
transcript:
... he (epstein) gave a deposition and in a different suit in the - I think late 1980s saying
that really what he was doing – and he lived by the way, in a quite a humble apartment
back then, was running a round recovering stolen money for the government and for private
clients.
And the interesting thing about that is if you know how to recover stolen money, you
also know how to hide money. And the reason I mentioned that is that what I did discover
is that before Les Wexner his mentor who I went to meet within jail at the time, the man
called Steve Hoffenberg was serving a 20-year jail sentence for what was then the biggest
Ponzi scheme in American history.
The Ponzi scheme ran from 1988 to 1993. The money, some $475 million, was never
recovered.
So a number of years after Epstein launched his vaunted 'golden goose' company, he was
living in 'a quite humble apartment' and if his deposition is to be believed 'recovering
stolen money for the government and for private clients'. Not quite the success story we were
led to believe. It also seems to indicate his wealth was acquired after the 'late 80s
deposition' as 'humble apartment' and 'Epstein' seems like a contradiction in terms.
> blackmailing many billionaires would be virtual suicide.
> Why would he risk a return to the US at this time, shortly after a court rules that
his court record be unsealed? Why would he keep highly incriminating evidence in his
home?
Hmmm... WHAT IF....
Mere speculation, but what if there came a threat to Epstein so real, that he now
considers American jail to be his safe haven? Especially if that would be the same kind of
"jail" that he enjoyed under his "sweet deal" sentence? Blackmailing billionaires is not the
only job that can lead you to grave. Sometimes being witness in the know is enough to it
I'm reposting the following in bold so maybe most will read it and understand what it means:
There's a big problem with people thinking this just suddenly happened now when the
lawsuit to unseal Epstein's trial and plea agreement was filed on 27 JAN 2017 just after
Trump became POTUS.
Cernovich filed his appeal to unseal @ 6 MAR 2019. There was no need to gather any further
evidence as plenty was on hand at DoJ to arrest Epstein although an additional complaint was
filed.
Why Epstein chose to return to USA is an outstanding question. Also, his sudden wealth
occurred at a time when CIA was fueling the Crack Epidemic, was awash in drug money and
needed as many ways to launder it as possible. Some may have seen the film Less Than
Zero ; Epstein strikes me as being able to figure out a way to avoid becoming the victim
in that film by turning the outcome on its head.
@56 under this speculation, because mansion in USA is better than jail in USA, but both are
better than grave outside USA.
Remember, there were speculations that both Skrypal and Berezovski negotiated their return
to Russia short before they were delt with. So, in such a thought line, Epstein got the
lesson and decided to return first, negotiate later
"Any connection between this Mega Group and the Mega superspy that Israeli/Jewish messages
said they only contacted on supremely important matters?"
Israel Shamir and others believe it to be one and the same. In other words there was no
superspy. It was an erroneous assumption based the conversation.
Shamir: The megabucks call themselves 'Mega group'. This name appeared in the media a
couple of years ago, as a name for the secret Israeli mole in the upper reaches of the US
establishment. It came up in an overheard phone conversation, later denied by the Israeli
embassy in Washington, DC. The newshounds and spook watchers got it wrong. 'Mega' was not an
agent, Mega was the boss."
Yes, it is the biggest issue for Israel; it is an obsession. If only the ISIS Caliphate
had worked as planned and the Jihadists had moved on to Lebanon to smash Hezbollah after
gaining control of Iraq and Syria. Maybe the plan was for the Jihadists to take on Iran after
that.
It hadn't occurred to me to link Iran and Epstein in a move to get at Trump. I have seen
photos of the two looking like good buddies. Epstein's climb up the greasy pole was too
easy for a lazy pervert. But he was of high value as a honey trap maestro.
In that other sex scandal case, namely the Harvey Weinstein one, he had produced a film
called "Miral" which was considered, according the American Jewish Committee, to have
"portrayed Israel in a very negative light." It was back in 2011 but these things take
time!
Except when they don't. After the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission found Israel guilty
of war crimes in Nov, 2013, the Malaysian MH370 just happened to disappear without trace in
March, 2014. Then a few months later we had the Malaysian MH17 shot down over Ukraine.
Powerful people who have blackmail problems do one of two things: 1) they hire a hit man to
make the problem go away by forcing the guy to give up the blackmail material before wasting
him, or 2) they go to other powerful people who are not under the thumb of the blackmailer
and get them to get the guy to stop (which may or may not involve wasting him as well.)
So I don't see this as a simple case of blackmail for profit. It's a nice scam, and
perhaps that was also involved. But sooner or later - especially with Maxwell's involvement -
Israel's Mossad and other intelligence agencies would see this as the perfect way to get dirt
on tons of people in the US elites.
Quantian's theory looks neat and elegant, as would be expected of someone who studies
mathematics, but it does lead MoA barflies (a few of whom have done so) to ask how Epstein
could have got his scheme started in the first place, even given that he'd worked for Bear
Stevens in the past and already had a tiny financial pile from which to launch his
blackmailing scheme. Epstein would not have been the only person spruiking a very exclusive
boutique hedge fund in the early 1980s, when he first started it and when there were few
billionaires in the US and beyond.
Plus such a scheme would need a personality with considerable, er, balls to carry it off -
unless Epstein had support from other people. Intelligence and security agencies could have
given him that support indirectly through front organizations or representatives.
There is also the issue of what Epstein was doing with all the pictures collected over the
decades - he surely wasn't stashing them away in digital photo albums just to look over once
in a while or to share with, er, friends. They had to have more active, ongoing value than
merely an archival purpose for a future one-off blackmailing proposition, especially for
someone whose main motivation in life is to continuously make money.
Again, I would urge you to read the link @21 ("Why did Jeffrey Epstein fly back to
US?").
AFAICT the lawsuit to unseal and the ruling for unsealing is irrelevant to what is
happening now. In fact, the ruling was not necessarily very damaging to Epstein (he's already
a known sex offender) - the vast majority of the material remains under seal.
The conviction in 2008 settled the matter up to then. AFAICT that can not be
re-opened.
A new case was started (in 2013, I think) but was SETTLED. The unsealing motions are only
related to this 2013 case. Unsealing was denied by a lower court but a LIMITED unsealing was
approved on appeal (recently) which ONLY unseals "summary judgments" in the case. Apparently
that's a small amount of material compared to the whole. Such judgments are essentially
fact-based and probably not very controversial. Nevertheless, there will still be some
redaction and that process could take weeks or months.
What appears to have happened here, is that there was an entirely NEW complaint that
prompted a searching of Epstein's NYC home, which turned up child sex material.
Instead of focusing on the long-standing request to unseal or the (apparent) failure to
avoid arrest by returning; we should be questioning why Epstein would put himself in jeopardy
by fooling around with young girls in USA and keeping evidence at a home in USA.
It seems very convenient that a new allegation is made and Epstein had evidence in his NYC
home. If not for that, he would be free to roam the world with his millions, doing whatever
he pleases. Is Epstein that dumb/sick that he would put himself at such risk? Or, could it be
that someone wants this song bird in jail, ready willing and able to sing?
Thanks for a very informative comment. The CNN narrative caught my attention for some
reason:
The Miami Herald reported in 2018 that it had identified about 80 women who say they were
molested or sexually abused by Epstein between 2001 and 2006. The newspaper's continued
reporting on the case, including articles about Epstein's 2008 plea deal that kept him from
being prosecuted for federal crimes, caught the attention of federal prosecutors in New York
who brought the new charges against him.
Given the reach of both the Epstein case and the Mueller investigation, the delay in
Mueller's appearance on Capitol Hill might be to clear the public palate of one scandal in
order to not steal thunder from another, or some re-orchestration of who owes whom given
the threat of pending revelations. Just a thought.
A decent theory but pretty sure there is a clearer explanation for the Mueller delay.
Mueller will show contempt for the court if during his testimony he claims once again
that the Russian Government was behind the Facebook ads "used to influence our 2016
election".
Mueller and the Democrats are gobfkd. Half of Russiagate was sunk by a judge just last
week. Only the supposed hacking of servers by the Russians remains usable in Russiagate.
So what kind of testimony can Mueller give to the salivating Democrats now that the
Facebook ad claims are an embarrassment to Mueller (AND the MSM)(AND the Democrats)?
A US District court judge has dealt a major blow to special counsel Robert Mueller's theory
that the Kremlin engaged in "sweeping and systematic" meddling in the 2016 US election.
Judge Dabney L. Friedrich ruled this week that the Special Counsel's indictment of a
Russian troll farm "does not link the defendants to the Russian government," and "alleges
only private conduct by private actors."
...
Judge Friedrich writes "It is significant and prejudicial that the government itself drew a
link between these defendants and the Russian government," adding "In short, the Court
concludes that the government violated Rule 57.7 by making or authorizing the release of
public statements that linked the defendants' alleged activities to the Russian
government..."
Do not be surprised if the Mueller testimony is postponed indefinitely. The only other
option is for Mueller to withdraw the law suit against the Russians, and **that** would be
amazing to even think about!
Various mentions of "Wag the Dog" up there. The real one to me was using the Iraq war to
cover up Tony Blair's affair with Wendi Deng. We need a paternity test on Chloe, and maybe
Grace also. Ooo, boy! That will topple Big Ben!
1) Where did Epstein get money to set this up?
2) Where are the videos of the perps?
3) You really think you can blackmail such powerful people without blow back or death?
4) Epstein is connected to some vile zionists with Mossad ties (Wexner, Bronfman, Maxwell,
etc.)
5) The weird temple?
6) Too many levels of gov stepped in to help Epstein. That suggests high level protection.
Mueller, Acosta and Ken Star did not step in to protect Bill Clinton's good name.
7) This was an entrapment scheme of some of the most powerful and influential politicians
around. The legacy media is completely ignoring this facet of the case.
Epstein was (is) likely working for Jewish billionaires who happen to be rabid Zionists.
There was likely support from Mossad.
Acosta's breezy dismisal of his handling of the Epstein case, with the excuse that he was
advised to back off, during his background check suggests that he believed that there
wouldn't be any repercussions because higher authority was at work which would protect him as
well. At least that is how I see it. This is not compatible with an explanation of 'simple
blackmail'. The people involved weren't just rich, but politically powerful.
So is his island in the British or US VI? There are rumored to be secrets stored there in
a room with a special safe. Wonder if a search warrant has been served there...
It is not that I love Trump but we must look at the plausible turns of events whether he
be friend or foe.
It is interesting that Trump was one of the first one's invited into the Manhattan
apartment given to Epstein in 2002. Trump was always floating in those party circles and I
suspect they were using each other for inside information as the Quantian thesis speculates.
As word got out in those largely democrat NY social circles I am sure it was like drawing
flies to shit. The background of the giver was posted by others and that speaks for
itself.
Trumps tightness with him ended after that. Trump is Israel's boy so Epstein is not going
to out him and I do not think there is anything to out anyway. In the 80's and 90's Trump was
a straight arrow party follower and chaser of women not little girls. He did not drink.
Bunches of that crowd were snorting coke but he was high on business. He loved sex, money,
and business. That was his drug.
The attorney of one of the lead girls that has been suing Epstein for a long time says
Trump was the only one that helped him. Trump helped him contact all the people that
he wanted to subpoena and he dropped Trump's subpoena as he provided all the information he
needed voluntarily.
Another aspect is that the reason why Acosta took the case. The District Attorney for that
county in Florida refused to take the case. He was eager until the police chief turned it
over to him and he found out it was Epstein. The police chief begged the FBI to get involved
as the DA refused an open and shut case. The District Attorney is purported to be in articles
a big time Democrat and an ADL awardee.
Trump's DOJ is retaking the case. Where are the heavily democrat NY DA's in this? Trying
to get Trump and ignoring Epstein. They just quietly dropped another canard case against him.
Again the State DA does nothing and heavily supports one side. This shit went on for decades
in NY high echelon party circuits and NYPD intelligence units never got a whiff of it?
Really? Does anyone really believe this shit could happen and go down quietly for
decades?
Clinton could be the sacrificial fall guy to close up this case and put it to bed. I
do not expect much out of a Republican DOJ other than to cover its friends asses. Either way
I expect the Democrats to take the bigger hit.
There is way to much smoke for it not to he an intelligence operation supported by the big
ones. There are way to may power players involved for a deal not to be made. That deal could
be for the next four years after 2020.
The Jeffrey Epstein case opens up a huge can of worms that is only just beginning to
unravel. It has the potential to set Wall Street against Israel, if anyone thought that was
possible. He was involved with jailed junk bond king Michael Milken in the 1980s where
he met Leon Black of Apollo Management, a private equity mafia scam boss, who may be about to
fall due to close association with Epstein.
While the financial world has been puzzling over the question for years, it is really not
that complicated, according to Steven Jude Hoffenberg, Epstein's former mentor. Epstein
used fraudulently gotten funds as seed money, he told Quartz.... In 1997, Hoffenberg -- the
head of bill-collection firm Towers Financial -- was sentenced to 20 years in jail for
running one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in US history. Thousands of investors were bilked
of more than $450 million.
Hoffenberg now tells Quartz that Epstein was deeply involved in the fraud. Epstein was
never charged in the case, but he was "totally in the mix," Hoffenberg said. He added that
Epstein helped him set up the Ponzi scheme.
"He was my colleague daily, seven days a week," Hoffenberg added.
Hoffenberg said Epstein's connection to the crime didn't come up at the time because he
pled guilty. "When you plead guilty you don't go in for elaborate discovery."
I wrote a comment in response to another at the end of the last Epstein thread that I am
going to share here as well. I will also provide a link to the song at the end
"
@ Richard (S)teven Hack who wrote
" What happens to Israel if it's proven that Epstein was running a honey pot operation
involving pedophiles for the benefit of Mossad blackmail of the most powerful people -
including Presidents - in the US and elsewhere?
"
If you replace Israel with the unknown those that own global private finance I would agree
100% and it is why
this is happening now.......Go listen to the jaunty blues song by James Taylor titled
"Steamroller Blues" and think of China singing that song to the West.......I do
To Grieved and karlof1
I am a butterfly flapping its wings madly in tune to the song mentioned above.
Mr. Morosky, the executive who worked for Mr. Wexner, says he was perplexed by his boss's
relationship with Mr. Epstein. Mr. Wexner told him that Mr. Epstein could "introduce him to
important people," Mr. Morosky recalls.
@47 sarz. One question that comes to mind reading your essay is why the crypto game?
NY (and the US by extension) is shock full of the chosen ones & dual-citizenship Israelis
so why pretend?
People don't generally continue to hang out with someone who is blackmailing them.
Epstein maintained relationships for almost two decades with his clients. They only distanced
themselves after the bust and probably not even then.
Those VIP people run in the same circles. If Epstein was really black mailing them then
the entire social circle would have known, making his scam impossible.
Epstein provided VIPs with a service and they trusted and protect him to this day.
They even rehabilitated him after his jail time. That's not how people treat
blackmailers. If anything investment in his fund paid for access to said service. The VIPs
probably found out about the videos and some the age of the girls after his indictment. The
videos were an insurance policy for epstein's backers (mossad?).
Busting Epstein now is a crude way of letting sitting politicians know Epstein (Mossad,
AIPAC) have them by the balls. And said organizations want war with iran.
This sort of wild speculation based on scant, if any, evidence, is not what I expect to find
on MoA. How about everyone (including b) stepping back and waiting for facts to emerge?
Yes. It's unclear if Trump was ever involved with under-age women. It doesn't really seem
like Trump has such a proclivity.
But that will hardly matter if Epstein chooses to name him in a plea deal. The press will
drag Trump through the mud. They will note that Trump was known to have been associated with
Epstein and Trump ran the Miss America Contest (featuring young, but not under-age women) for
many years.
And that is the point I was making @31. Epstein is a threat to Trump - even if Trump
happens to be completely innocent. One must ask: who might benefit? and why now? Those
questions naturally lead to Israel's desire for USA to eliminate it's Iran problem.
I imaging that Israeli leaders are fed up with USA cautiousness. Obama didn't bomb Syria
in 2013, and Trump didn't attack Iran after Iran downed the drone a few weeks ago.
Maybe CIA will eliminate Epstein in jail so that Trump and others are not blackmailed into
starting a war? Or maybe Mossad will eliminate Epstein because Trump demands to be free of
blackmail potential before he starts the war they want?
As some here, I was also wondering about the opportunity of reviving this case, when
everybody knows that no rich person in the US ends in jail, and thus, Epstein will go again
scot free.
I think that this is a great distractor to keep the US populace busy while other events
are in the cooking. But which events those could be....I was thinking that the reviving of
this case could well lead to the definitive implosion of the US political system, and after
seeing the strong opposition this current administration has managed to build in its first
mandate, thye are most probably sure thye would never win the elections again, all the more
when Trump bases are getting nothing from electoral promises...
What if the demolition of the US parliamentary system is needed to cop with coming events
and the reviving of this case comes to help on this, so as to facilitate, for example, the
take over by the military in an escenario of chaos, like the resulting of the mother of all
crisis?
Wall Street reaches record highs, the fall is imminent
The markets are euphoric. Wall Street reaches record highs, driven upwards, in
particular, by low interest rates. This week, for the first time in its history, the
Standard and Poor's index, the reference for investors, has exceeded 3,000 points. The Dow
Jones is also at the highest level.
It is the "paradox of tranquility." Everything seems to be going well when investors
take more and more risks and, therefore, more speculative securities develop until a
disturbance of growth or interest rates causes a change and, immediately, a financial
crisis.
The markets seem more and more disconnected from a growth that slides on the bottom of
the commercial war. The real economy is stagnant. In the United States, growth is not
expected to reach 2.5 percent next year. The slowdown is even more pronounced in Europe.
Even China is lagging behind.
But stock exchanges are more interested in interest rates than in real growth. Interest
rates will fall further, as the Central Bank of the United States will announce a cut in
interest rates during the next week.
If the central banks, both in the United States and in Europe, keep interest rates low,
it is because of the pressure of the speculators, because if the rates rise they could
cause a collapse.
Low interest rates encourage speculators to borrow. In 10 years the global debt of
companies, states and families has increased by 50 percent. If we take the public debt of
all the countries of the G20, the figure of 135,000 million dollars is reached, a huge
bubble.
The capitalist crisis reduces interest rates to maintain the illusion of growth and that
reduction is the fuel of a new crisis, even greater.
lysias 51
That's the answer to
Hoarsewhisperer 48.
And there are lots of details in the Miami Herald investigation. Some of it reads like
child porn with girls 14+ giving details of the inside of the West Palm Beach mansion as well
as his "body parts."
A coworker told me about being on a jury that convicted a couple of abusing their
children. The young women had to testify with details which he said made jurors sick.
@ Alaric who wrote
"
Busting Epstein now is a crude way of letting sitting politicians know Epstein (Mossad,
AIPAC) have them by the balls. And said organizations want war with iran.
"
I am pleased to be reading more and more of this analysis but still assert we really don't
know who owns global private finance and so attributing these actions to those that you did
is questionable in my understanding.....the elite WANT you to focus your ire on people rather
than structure so they can deflect the misdirected passion.
I agree that there is far too much circumstantial evidence for Epstein to not have had
powerful, violent if need-be, backers (ie intelligence agencies). It's trivial to eliminate
an individual who tries to blackmail the rich and/or powerful so he had to have some form of
state sanctioned protection.
What so many who use Trump volunteering information as his proof of innocence forget, is
that he has a pathological inability to STFU. Of course he'd talk to the prosecutor to
control the narrative if nothing else. Being willing to talk to anyone is his political
schtick, too. It's his "Art of the Deal".
What nobody can explain is why or how Acosta got a plum Cabinet position if there was no
Epstein connection. Sure seems like yet another "crazy" coincidence.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is an Israeli attempt to force Trump's hand against
Iran.
"It does not require any additional conspiracy theory about Mossad/Mafia/CIA involvement. But
it also doesn't exclude that there is some." NOT or SOME ya think? So are you seriously
suggesting that it's possible that MI6, Mossad and the CIA turned a blind eye and just stood
by idle while a Royalty, PM of Israel, POTUS and Secretary of State, dignitaries and famous
Academics got themselves entangled in a billionaire pedophiles blackmail web? "Conspiracy
theory's" aside, ya think that even after PA Acosta admitted that he was forced to take his
hands off and stand down and let Epstein of the hook because he was their "intelligence
Asset"?
JR @ 81
There is evidence Trump likes young girls. He even bragged about walking in on contestants in
pageants he owned. He owned Miss Teen USA as well as Miss USA and Miss Universe. He bragged
about using his position to see contestants naked in the latter 2. That takes a certain type
of individual.
Why was Dershowitz involved in the 2017 suit to get the Epstein deal partially unsealed? For
some sort of selective release of information for what? It would not seem to be in Dershowitz
interest to bring all that up again, he appearing to be one of the protected parties. It is
noticeable that he felt compelled to come out with a statement now.
MSM seems to be making hay with the story too. Not suppressing it. Not all following the
same script (yet at least).
It seems that I may have been wrong about a new allegation. I might have confused new victims
coming forward with "new allegations" if past conduct to mean a recent offence.
SDNY seems to be prosecuting for activity that occurred during the same time period as
covered by the non-prosecution agreement.
Thank you Jackrabbit #7, I do appreciate your cold water wake up critical analysis and
commentary. I accept that the simple analysis of what Epstein was doing was correct, but only
in part. Epstein was building capital and potential in many resources through the investment
front: he could sell his data to any bidder.
The simplistic front made him wealthy for sure but the combination gave him power and
access that $ wealth could not reach.
Many writers seem reluctant to go near any semitic discourse. The piece I linked to by
Elizabeth Voss in Consortium news, and the WSWS piece are examples. They desperately avoid
writing an multi dimensional storyline that might enrage the ADL.
"...This was an entrapment scheme of some of the most powerful and influential politicians
around. The legacy media is completely ignoring this facet of the case.
Epstein was (is) likely working for Jewish billionaires who happen to be rabid zionists.
There was likely support from Mossad."
Posted by: alaric | Jul 13 2019 22:22 utc | 70
I agree completely, this answers why he was able to blackmail so many for so long and
live.
I think he was brought back now, and a new case started, to put pressure on said politicians
to get them behind a war on Iran.
A very nasty war; probably with a bunker buster swarm leveling the country and probably to
start soon, my guess is in August.
For if Trump can continue to resist those pressuring him and gets reelected without
Adelson and co's support, it is the end of Israel's dreams of middle east conquest for 4
years at least. Can't have that.
The oligarchy has thoroughly defeated the peasants in the grasp for power. The oligarchy
is now fighting among themselves to see who will be king.
Epstein is a weapon being used by one faction of the oligarchy to dispossess another
faction of an important tool, to wit - Donald Trump, so that the one faction can either
co-opt this important tool or insert their own important tool into the White House to gain
control over the U.S. military. After all, neither faction of the oligarchy can be successful
at naming the king if they do not have control over the world's most destructive
military.
Ah yes, my old buddies (from The Oil Drum days) at The Automatic Earth still produce good
work. The only logical reason IMO for Epstein to return right on the heels of the unsealing
is to show he's worthy of being allowed to post bail, and do another plea bargain so he still
has some life to live and enjoy the riches he's accumulated. Of course, maybe he was ordered
so his case pushes that of
George Nader under the rug ("Since the arrest of George Nader on June 3 in New York
relating to child porn offences – and his story being unearthed by investigative
journalists – we are witnessing a wising up of Trump.) provided Epstein has genuine
Intel links.
"There's more - what evidence did the FBI/DOJ have on Epstein?
"An FBI file entitled 'Summary of Sexual Activity,' containing an analysis of
victim-specific information chart showing phone calls, travel, and grand jury evidence."
On that thread, there's speculation that then DCI Hayes was involved, may have even told
everyone what to do.
frances @93 & JasonT @94: The problem is Trump doesn't look like one of the most likely
targets, and he is not blabbering uncontrollably about it now. It seems unlikely to work. Of
course these are Neocons and Zionists involved so that doesn't necessarily matter. And he is
an actor. But nevertheless, Barr seems totally un-upset by all this noise too. Go for it
boys. If it's an attempt to get Trump, he seems very un-Trump-like in his attitude towards
it, amused not worried or blathering on twitter. If Epstein is really in the middle of a war
among the elites, I expect we will see more evidence of it soon,
As I noted when I went to find Dershowitz's explanation for his filing, he ceased using
his Twitter after 5 July, the day
prior to Epstein's return and arrest. His last Facebook entry is from 26 FEB 2019, and he
seems to have mostly disappeared from news stories--certainly nothing within the past 48 hrs.
He's 80, so his health is telling him something, perhaps.
"... To me, it starts with Wexner, and goes through the Mega Group. They were/are powerful deep interests out to help themselves and their pet cause Israel. Powerful non-state actors who could benefit Israel while still maintaining an arm's length relationship. Perhaps Bush wasn't the only state leader surprised on 9/11. It would seem a safe bet that Larry Silverstein moves in the same socioeconomic circles as the Mega Group. ..."
"... I find this suspiciously implausible. After the first blackmail attempt no one would visit him again and he'd be dead. There are proven/known repeats. This fact kills the blackmail facade. ..."
Epstein's Mossad connection is becoming more clear - it's an 'open secret' that blackmailing
'influential' individuals is a simple modus operandi used by the 'government' of 'israel',
for decades, in order to push its agenda and control those who 'support' it. It's also an
'open secret' that israel and a number of its 'citizens' are the most active of all states in
the 'white slave trade' - as well as the black market for human organs.
Of course, this won't be noted in the west's controlled media - but it's discussed quite
frequently in the alternative media around the world. Americans are ignorant of these facts,
so it's not really surprising that the epstein operation appears shocking to the average
person. It's actually par for the course in the u.s. since the late 50s-early 60s - epstein
is only one of many involved with this type of 'nwo' operation of control.
Posted by: pierrep | Jul 13 2019 18:41 utc | 12
"Please don't forget that many of the so called blackmailed subjects certainly had access to
INSIDE INFORMATION that they could have shared and thus much higher profits....."
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Agreed, safe insider 'win-win' trading (until it blows up).
The 'b' scenario is indeed very plausible, but it does not need to necessarily rely on
blackmail. These rapacious predatory fiat money 'elites' are quite capable of scoring a bit
of fluff anytime they want it. Just ask the doorman and slip a $100 note etc.
What they could equally have desired was an 'in' on a little exclusive Jewish-run
"Hellfire" club which, along with mutual investment opportunities (as the ticket in), simply
made Jeffrey Epstein a convenient host and 'Pimp/Madam' for quality kiddy fluff.
Doing all this via the likes of Epstein is simply a form of financial and moral'off
shoring.'
Lastly, why now? Another mass distraction campaign no doubt. And as odious as the Epstein
(and Clinton) types are I don't necessarily automatically buy into the 'evil' mass hysteria
meme. Sure, if 16 is the age of consent then younger than that is a legal matter. But in
other aspects, on a case-by-case basis, there are well mature 14-15 year olds biologically
ready for sexual experiences. At first glance I thought the 'pedo' label was referring to
7-10 year olds like the Catholic priest variety etc. Not so, it seems. Or have I missed
something? And was it only young females? Are none of these billionaire class homosexual? Or
was Epstein homophobic and only interested in a privileged hetero niche market?
Here is another thought. This case may authentically be resurfacing because of the work of
Julie K Brown at the Miami Herald and said pubs court victory to unseal court documents
related to Virginia Guiffre's suit of Epstein.
This was not sought after by the powers that be and the establishment is on the defensive
so they're trying to redirect this into a case about Trump, notably while ignoring a lot of
facts.
Maybe that's why this case has been assigned to SDNY which is full of democrats and even
Comey's daughter...maybe.
In any case i doubt much will come of it. Epstein's victims might get a little more
justice but not much and the higher ups will be protected.....except trump but i doubt they
have much on him.
I don't believe the lone blackmailer operation but more information will emerge and we can
all reassess. What is valuable is that this case will further erode the credibility of the
political, moneyed and media classes (often one if the same).
The problem with this theory is that it posits an improbably large and ongoing pay off.
Mutual self interest is much stronger in the long run. Do you really believe that Les Wexner
and his security team are going to allow some nobody like Epstein to blackmail them?
To me, it starts with Wexner, and goes through the Mega Group. They were/are powerful
deep interests out to help themselves and their pet cause Israel. Powerful non-state actors
who could benefit Israel while still maintaining an arm's length relationship. Perhaps Bush
wasn't the only state leader surprised on 9/11. It would seem a safe bet that Larry
Silverstein moves in the same socioeconomic circles as the Mega Group.
... Look at Trump. Do you think he would have won the election if he campaigned as a
Zionist promising to do all he could for big finance and Israel?
He ran as a heritage American promising to save his supposed fellows from their dire
straits -- unemployment, heroin addiction, suicide, and being overrun by strange immigrants
displacing them...
Look up Kevin MacDonald's research to understand how Jews look at the issue.
I find this suspiciously implausible. After the first blackmail attempt no one would
visit him again and he'd be dead. There are proven/known repeats. This fact kills the
blackmail facade.
Have commentators touched too close to the truth on the previous thread? Terrible
backtrack that was most assuredly planned by someone/people really out of touch with internet
discussions.
According to investigative journalist
Vickie Ward -- who has been covering the Jeffrey Epstein case since 2003 -- Alexander Acosta, the
former U.S. attorney who cut Epstein a sweetheart plea deal back in 2007, did so because he had
been told to "back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade."
"I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," Acosta, who
resigned as Secretary of Labor on Friday, reportedly claimed.
"The case is getting uglier and more weird the more we look into it," said Glenn Beck on
Friday's radio program. "Back in 2007, the charges brought against [Epstein] were brutal. I
want you to listen to
this quote . 'The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office determined that from 2001 to September
2007, Epstein had conspired to persuade minors to engage in prostitution, conspired to
transport minors across state lines for the purpose of illicit sexual conduct, and recruited a
minor across state lines to engage in a commercial sex act'."
"Despite what appeared at the time to be a slam-dunk case, the government chose to offer
Epstein a plea deal," Glenn continued. "They slapped him on the wrist with a lesser charge and
serving minimal time. Now, not only did this deal get him off easy, but it also immunized him
and his co-conspirators from prostitution."
Epstein's name, I was told, had been raised by the Trump transition team when Alexander
Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who'd infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea
deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for the job of labor secretary. The plea deal put a
hard stop to a separate federal investigation of alleged sex crimes with minors and
trafficking.
"Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?" Acosta had
been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he'd had just one
meeting on the Epstein case. He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys
because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. "I was told
Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," he told his interviewers in the
Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired
Acosta. (The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.)
"... That Epstein would try and intimidate witnesses and victims is a central part of the argument made by prosecutors to keep him in jail until trial. ..."
Federal prosecutors said Friday that accused sex-trafficker
Jeffrey Epstein should stay locked up until trial because he's willing to use "intimidation
and aggressive tactics" to tamper with witnesses -- including recent payments totaling $350,000
in an effort to silence two associates who allegedly helped him.
"Epstein's efforts to influence witnesses continue to this day," the U.S. Attorney's Office
said Friday evening in a court filing in response to the financier's request to be released on
bail. A hearing before Judge Richard Berman is scheduled for Monday.
That Epstein would try and intimidate witnesses and victims is a central part of the
argument made by prosecutors to keep him in jail until trial.
Prosecutors noted the payments were part of a pattern that stretched back to November 2018,
when the Miami Herald started publishing its investigation of the pedophile
billionaire.
Just two days after the stories began to appear Epstein "wired $100,000 from a trust account
he controlled to an individual named as a possible co-conspirator" in the Florida
non-prosecution agreement, the prosecutors wrote.
Three days later, they noted, he "wired $250,000 from the same trust account to another
individual named as a possible co-conspirator" in the Florida agreement who is also identified
an Epstein employee in the indictment.
The extent of Israeli spying directed against the United States is a huge story that is
only rarely addressed in the mainstream media. The Jewish state regularly tops the list for ostensibly friendly countries that
aggressively conduct espionage against the U.S. and Jewish American Jonathan Pollard, who was imprisoned in 1987 for spying for
Israel, is now regarded as the most damaging spy in the history of the United States.
Last week I wrote about how
Israeli spies operating more-or-less freely in the U.S. are rarely interfered with, much less arrested and prosecuted, because there
is an unwillingness on the part of upper echelons of government to do so. I cited the case of Arnon Milchan, a billionaire Hollywood
movie producer who had a secret life that included stealing restricted technology in the United States to enable development of
Israel's nuclear weapons program, something that was very much against U.S. interests. Milchan was involved in a number of other
thefts as well as arms sales on behalf of the Jewish state, so much so that his work as a movie producer was actually reported to
be less lucrative than his work as a spy and black-market arms merchant, for which he operated on a commission basis.
That Milchan has never been arrested by the United States government or even questioned about his illegal activity, which was
well known to the authorities, is just one more manifestation of the effectiveness of Jewish power in Washington, but a far more
compelling case involving possible espionage with major political manifestations has just re-surfaced. I am referring to Jeffrey
Epstein, the billionaire Wall Street "financier" who has been arrested and charged with operating a "vast" network of underage girls
for sex, operating out of his mansions in New York City and Florida as well as his private island in the Caribbean, referred to
by visitors as "Orgy Island." Among other high-value associates, it is claimed that Epstein was particularly close to Bill Clinton,
who flew dozens of times on Epstein's private 727.
Alex Acosta (L) Jeffrey Epstein (R)
Epstein was arrested on July 8th after indictment
by a federal grand jury in New York. It was more than a decade after Alexander Acosta, the top federal prosecutor in Miami, who
is now President Trump's secretary of labor, accepted a plea bargain involving similar allegations regarding
pedophilia
that was not shared with the accusers prior to being finalized in court. There were reportedly hundreds of victims, some 35 of whom
were identified, but Acosta deliberately denied the two actual plaintiffs their day in court to testify before sentencing.
Acosta's intervention meant that Epstein avoided both a public trial and a possible federal prison sentence, instead serving
only 13 months of an 18-month sentence in the almost-no-security Palm Beach County Jail on charges of soliciting prostitution in
Florida. While in custody, he was permitted to leave jail for sixteen hours six days a week to work in his office.
Epstein's crimes were carried out in his $56 million
Manhattan mansion and in his oceanside villa in Palm Beach Florida. Both residences were equipped with hidden cameras and microphones
in the bedrooms, which Epstein reportedly used to record sexual encounters between his high-profile guests and his underage girls,
many of whom came from poor backgrounds, who were recruited by procurers to engage in what was euphemistically described as "massages"
for money. Epstein apparently hardly made any effort to conceal what he was up to: his airplane was called the "Lolita Express."
The Democrats are calling for an investigation of the Epstein affair, as well as the resignation of Acosta, but they might well
wind up regretting their demands. Trump, the real target of the Acosta fury, apparently did not know about the details of the plea
bargain that ended the Epstein court case. Bill and Hillary Clinton were, however, very close associates of Epstein. Bill, who flew
on the "Lolita Express"
at least 26 times , could plausibly be implicated in the pedophilia given his track record and relative lack of conventional
morals. On many of the trips, Bill refused Secret Service escorts, who would have been witnesses of any misbehavior. On
one lengthy trip
to Africa in 2002, Bill and Jeffrey were accompanied by accused pedophile actor Kevin Spacey and a number of young girls, scantily
clad "employees" identified only as "massage." Epstein was also a major contributor to the Clinton Foundation and was present at
the wedding of Chelsea Clinton in 2010.
With an election year coming up, the Democrats would hardly want the public to be reminded of Bill's exploits, but one has to
wonder where and how deep the investigation might go. There is also a possible Donald Trump angle. Though Donald may not have been
a frequent flyer on the "Lolita Express," he certainly moved in the same circles as the Clintons and Epstein in New York and Palm
Beach, plus he is by his own words roughly as amoral as Bill Clinton. In June 2016, one
Katie Johnson filed lawsuit in
New York claiming she had been repeatedly raped by Trump at an Epstein gathering in 1993 when she was 13 years old. In a 2002
New York Magazineinterview
Trump said "I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy he's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful
women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life."
Selective inquiries into wrongdoing to include intense finger pointing are the name of the game in Washington, and the affaire
Epstein also has all the hallmarks of a major espionage case, possibly tied to Israel. Unless Epstein is an extremely sick pedophile
who enjoys watching films of other men screwing twelve-year-old girls the whole filming procedure smacks of a sophisticated intelligence
service compiling material to blackmail prominent politicians and other public figures. Those blackmailed would undoubtedly in most
cases cooperate with the foreign government involved to avoid a major scandal. It is called recruiting "agents of influence." That
is how intelligence agencies work and it is what they do.
That Epstein was perceived as being intelligence-linked was made clear
in Acosta's comments when being
cleared by the Trump transition team. He was asked "Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?" "Acosta
had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he'd had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He'd cut the non-prosecution
deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had 'been told' to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. 'I was told Epstein
belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.'"
Questions about Epstein's wealth also suggest a connection with a secretive government agency with deep pockets. The New York
Timesreports that
"Exactly what his money management operation did was cloaked in secrecy, as were most of the names of whomever he did it for. He
claimed to work for a number of billionaires, but the only known major client was Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder of several
retail chains, including The Limited."
But whose intelligence service? CIA and the Russian FSB services are obvious candidates, but they would have no particular motive
to acquire an agent like Epstein. That leaves Israel, which would have been eager to have a stable of high-level agents of influence
in Europe and the United States. Epstein's contact with the Israeli intelligence service may have plausibly come through his associations
with Ghislaine Maxwell, who allegedly served as his key procurer of young girls. Ghislaine is the
daughter of Robert Maxwell , who
died or possibly was assassinated in mysterious circumstances in 1991. Maxwell was an Anglo-Jewish businessman, very cosmopolitan
in profile, like Epstein, a multi-millionaire who was very controversial with what were regarded as ongoing ties to Mossad. After
his death, he was given a state funeral by Israel in which six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence listened while Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized
: "He has done more for Israel than can today be said"
Trump (left) with Robert Maxwell (right) at an event
Epstein kept a black
book identifying many of his social contacts, which is now in the hands of investigators. It included fourteen personal phone
numbers belonging to Donald Trump, including ex-wife Ivana, daughter Ivanka and current wife Melania. It also included Prince Bandar
of Saudi Arabia, Tony Blair, Jon Huntsman, Senator Ted Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, David Koch, Ehud Barak, Alan Dershowitz, John Kerry,
George Mitchell, David Rockefeller, Richard Branson, Michael Bloomfield, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Elizabeth, Saudi King Salman and
Edward de Rothschild.
Mossad would have exploited Epstein's contacts, arranging their cooperation by having Epstein wining and dining them while flying
them off to exotic locations, providing them with women and entertainment. If they refused to cooperate, it would be time for blackmail,
photos and videos of the sex with underage women.
It will be very interesting to see just how far and how deep the investigation into Epstein and his activities goes. One can
expect that efforts will be made to protect top politicians like Clinton and Trump and to avoid any examination of a possible Israeli
role. That is the normal practice, witness the 9/11 Report and the Mueller investigation, both of which eschewed any inquiry into
what Israel might have been up to. But this time, if it was indeed an Israeli operation, it might prove difficult to cover up the
story since the pedophile aspect of it has unleashed considerable public anger from all across the political spectrum.
Senator Chuck Schumer , self-described
as Israel's "protector" in the Senate, is loudly calling for the resignation of Acosta. He just might change his tune if it turns
out that Israel is a major part of the story.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational
foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is
councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is[email protected]
aanirfan.blogspot.com in an article entitled " Epstein , Trump, 9/11 ' has identified Epstein's links not only to Mossad
but to his business relationships with CIA controlled airlines and perhaps to the false flag attacks on 9/11 .According to Aangirfan
, Epstein is a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. The CIA and Mossad have strong
ties resulting from the efforts , according to the Wall Street Journal no less, of former CIA chiefs William Casey and James
Angleton . As Acosta has confirmed , Epstein has links to "intelligence " .
The presence of Ghislaine Maxwell is proof of Mossad's ownership of Epstein's kompromat operation. Ghislaine's father, Robert
Maxwell, created the Neva network -- a consortium of technology companies, banks, and Russian and Bulgarian organized crime
networks -- for his Mossad masters. Keeping up the family business, Ghislaine was running Epstein for the Israelis.
Speculation or scenario: the highest levels of the CIA and Mossad have been closely allied since the late 1940s (see especially
the role of James Angleton) and are pursuing common strategic objectives.
The New York Post remarked in March 2000:
"Epstein is an enigmatic figure. Rumors abound -- including wild ones about a career in the Mossad and, contrarily, the CIA."
Perhaps Epstein has been sponsored, funded, directed and protected by both agencies working in combination.
"Those blackmailed would undoubtedly in most cases cooperate with the foreign government involved to avoid a major scandal.
It is called recruiting "agents of influence." That is how intelligence agencies work and it is what they do."
But would not a single intelligence agency typically target and trap one isolated person, not a whole set of interconnected
people? That is, this is more like the way the P2 lodge worked in Italy, that is, a society.
With all the mystery surrounding how Epstein obtained such great wealth, I can't help but think it may be a global money
laundering operation connected to the global drug trade.
Books have been written about the CIA's involvement in cocaine and heroin distribution. Whether it's HW Bush and Iran Contra(cocaine)
and Bill Clinton with Mena, AR airport complicity in same or the explosion in poppy (HW's nickname just a coincidence ) production
in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion, drugs seem to connect all these dots and more.
And, let's not forget the Israeli "Art Student" operation that targeted DEA offices.
A way for Epstein to get out from under this with the CUFI crowd might be to point out Mary, mother of Jesus, was pregnant
out of wedlock at 14 so what's the big deal?
NYT and Bloomberg have been writing about the mysterious source of Epstein's wealth. Epstein's hedge fund is established
offshore and has a hush-hush list of "clients". He was once sued by a guy named Michael Stroll who said he lost all $450k of
his money investing with Epstein, and he told an interviewer that everyone thought Epstein "was some kind of genius, but I never
saw any genius, and I never saw him work. Anyone that wealthy would have to work 26 hours a day, Epstein played 26 hours a day."
Bloomberg estimated that at best his net worth is $77m, which obviously is not enough to support his lavish lifestyle with 12
homes, a private island, private jet, 15 cars.
Epstein was "let go" by Bear Sterns because of his involvement in an insider trading case involving Edgar Bronfman, whose
firm Seagram was in a hostile takeover bid of another firm. Bronfman, former president of World Jewish Congress, and his two
daughters are investors in NXIVM which was recently charged with sex trafficking and other corruptions. Bronfman and Les Wexner,
the single largest investor in Epstein's "hedge fund", were co-founders of the Zionist org. Mega. All these people are in one
way or another connected with Israel.
I suspect Epstein and Bronfman were in fact running an international sex trafficking-racketeering ring on behalf of Mossad.
That would explain his mysterious source of wealth. His little black book is rumored to include 1,500 names of who's who in
politics, business and arts, and includes royalty, several foreign presidents and a famous prime minister.
Acosta needs to show some integrity and resign. But of course, if he had any, he would never have signed that plea bargain
to begin with.
First Mueller, now Epstein, two chances for Barr to turn the Deep State inside out, upside down once and for all. Will he
do it? I have my doubts. William Barr's father, Donald Barr, was the one who recruited Jeffrey Epstein, a two time college dropout,
to be a calculus and physics teacher at the prestigious Dalton School in NYC when he was the headmaster there. Donald Barr,
born Jewish but "converted" to Catholicism, was later ousted by a group of "progressive" parents at Dalton for being too conservative.
But he was the one who gave Epstein the foot in the door. From there he got to teach the son of Bear Stern's CEO Ace Greenberg,
and was recruited by the latter to work at Bear Sterns.
I wouldn't count out the CIA here. It is telling that one of Epstein's havens was overseas, several of them. These are locations
where the CIA could legally operate. After collecting dirt, they could then funnel some of it selectively to the Israelis for
distribution so the CIA could maintain plausible deniability while having a wall of separation between themselves and the Mossad-picked
third party that leaked the info.
In fact, this is the most plausible scenario; it fits with everything we know: 1) "intelligence" reportedly told Acosta to
back off 2) Epstein has been linked to the CIA 3) some of these locations were overseas, giving the CIA a legal justification
for spying 4) these were largely American politicians and American allies 5) the CIA reportedly threatened Trump when he came
into office by implying they would leak stuff on him: the Micheal Wolfe book, Fire and Fury I believe it was, related a story
of Trump being pressured to set up a meeting with the CIA where he'd speak to them and, essentially, pledge loyalty to them
because they would be his enemies otherwise (that's treason, btw); Trump dutifully complied 6) Epstein's mysterious wealth and
property management would have attracted CIA attention long ago, meaning they should have been aware of this unless they helped
set it up, including the guy's fake wealth (a front to get close to the powerful) anyone got a tax return for this guy?
This smells like CIA-Mossad joint op. If it were solely Mossad, the CIA should have stepped in and broken up this guy's little
operation considering his targets. They should have followed up by either eliminating Epstein as a message to Mossad not to
leak any of their dirt or threatened Epstein with punishment if he leaked or continued his activities. Tellingly, they covered
for the guy.
Also, does this sorry state of affairs make it more likely that Trump will "Wag the Dog" on Iran? Would the Epstein arrest
have even happened if Trump had done Bibi's bidding and attacked Iran when the False Flag of the drone shoot down had been teed
up for him like a driver smacking a golf ball. Conspiracy Theories is all we have left in the crumbling Empire of Lust and Greed.
Perhaps I'm just paranoid.
Milchan was involved in a number of other thefts as well as arms sales on behalf of the Jewish state
One of many apparently.
The scum described here was rewarded with becoming the mayor of Jerusalem.
We've been involved in everything we've been asked to do [re Israel].
[Dad] went and he bought all of the equipment from the plant. It ended up being shipped to Israel. Because you know at
that time, there was a complete embargo from the United States, and what little [the Israelis] got– well Most of what
they got were smuggled in.Most of them were illegal, all the arms. That's what Teddy Kollek did. That was his job before
he became a mayor [of Jerusalem]. He was a master smuggler. And he was good. Oh was he good! [laughter]
The honey trap is one of the most powerful (and legitimate) ways to compromise public officials, including heads of state.
Epstein is almost certainly Mossad.
This has been the talk and pretty obvious conclusion now for some time. Of COURSE Epstein was/is a MOSSAD asset if not agent.
What's more his usefullness to them isn't over yet, especially if Trump is one of the names he has.
I think if Trump caves next false flag and has a go at Iran, it will imply that Trump is dirty and Epstein can prove it.
I'm saying MOSSAD could be behind Epstein going down now as it makes his blakmail potential an imperitive. Hopefully Trump is
clean and there are indications he is. If not then he just lost any ability to resist whatever the zippers now want of him.
The sort of influence Zionist "Israel" needs to wield and does requires exactly such an interconnected and multilayered stable
of highly placed assets. Redundancy built in and how else do you think they manage to control so much AND avoid accountability?
They cast a wide net. But you knew that I think.
@Tired
of Not Winning deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay
grade. "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," he told his interviewers'
#4 Offshore Tax Schemes / Money Laundering
Deutsche Bank seems to be the Gordian Knot of financial filth and corruption. Epstein was a client of Deutsche Bank's 'special
services department' same as Trump and Kushner ..same Deutsche bank as already fined for money laundering.
Possible Epstein and whoever was behind him engaged in all of these. If congress is going to question Acosta .first question
should be who told him Epstein belonged to intelligence.
That 2002 New York piece Phil mentioned has some great tid-bits:
For more than ten years, he's been linked to Manhattan-London society figure Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the mysteriously
deceased media titan Robert Maxwell
He is an enthusiastic member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Indicative of globalism, Zionism and Jewish group interest.
those close to him say the reason he quit his board seat at the Rockefeller Institute was that he hated wearing a suit.
Obviously a falsely contrived reason, wonder what the deal was here
"I invest in people – be it politics or science. It's what I do," he has said to friends. And his latest prize addition
is the former president [Bill Clinton].
Certainly suggestive of an intelligence operative mindset.
Before Clinton, Epstein's rare appearances in the gossip columns tended to be speculation as to the true nature of his
relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell. While they are still friends, the English tabloids have postulated that Maxwell has
longed for a more permanent pairing and that for undetermined reasons Epstein has not reciprocated in kind. "It's a mysterious
relationship that they have," says society journalist David Patrick Columbia. "In one way, they are soul mates, yet they
are hardly companions anymore. It's a nice conventional relationship, where they serve each other's purposes."
Friends of the two say that Maxwell, whose social life has always been higher-octane than Epstein's, lent a little pizzazz
to the lower-profile Epstein. Indeed, at a party at Maxwell's house, her friends say, one is just as apt to see Russian
ladies of the night as one is to see Prince Andrew.
Another interpretation is that his combination with Ghislaine was bringing a bit too much public attention to Epstein and
his activities and therefore it was decided to let things die down a bit.
in 1976, he dropped everything and reported to work at Bear Stearns, where he started off as a junior assistant to a
floor trader at the American Stock Exchange. His ascent was rapid.
At the time, options trading was an arcane and dimly understood field, just beginning to take off. To trade options,
one had to value them, and to value them, one needed to be able to master such abstruse mathematical confections as the
Black-Scholes option-pricing model. For Epstein, breaking down such models was pure sport, and within just a few years he
had his own stable of clients. "He was not your conventional broker saying 'Buy IBM' or 'Sell Xerox,' " says Bear Stearns
CEO Jimmy Cayne. "Given his mathematical background, we put him in our special-products division, where he would advise
our wealthier clients on the tax implications of their portfolios. He would recommend certain tax-advantageous transactions.
He is a very smart guy and has become a very important client for the firm as well."
In 1980, Epstein made partner, but he had left the firm by 1981. Working in a bureaucracy was not for him
Obviously, important facts are being left out. He is a talented options analyst but they have him advising clients on investment
structures to save taxes? Why wouldn't they put him on principal trades for Bear if he was such an options whiz?
And why did he leave? Trading firms are notoriously NOT bureaucracies, and anyone with a talent for making money, especially
in the early 80s, would find few fetters. Whole story not given here.
In 1982, according to those who know Epstein, he set up his own shop, J. Epstein and Co., which remains his core business
today. The premise behind it was simple: Epstein would manage the individual and family fortunes of clients with $1 billion
or more. Which is where the mystery deepens. Because according to the lore, Epstein, in 1982, immediately began collecting
clients. There were no road shows, no whiz-bang marketing demos – just this: Jeff Epstein was open for business for those
with $1 billion–plus.
Getting clients in asset management is a cut-throat business. But Epstein did not even have to make a pretense of competing
for business?
His firm would be different, too. He was not here just to offer investment advice; he saw himself as the financial architect
of every aspect of his client's wealth – from investments to philanthropy to tax planning to security to assuaging the guilt
and burdens that large sums of inherited wealth can bring on.
the conditions for investing with Epstein were steep: He would take total control of the billion dollars, charge a flat
fee, and assume power of attorney to do whatever he thought was necessary to advance his client's financial cause. And he
remained true to the $1 billion entry fee. According to people who know him, if you were worth $700 million and felt the
need for the services of Epstein and Co., you would receive a not-so-polite no-thank-you from Epstein.
Minimum $1b invested, no track record by the asset manager, and he claims the clients give him carte blanche? This is not
normal wealth management.
Turning down giant new stakes just because they fall short of $1b? Nonsense. The name of the game on the buy side on Wall
Street is size, because that gives you negotiating power with the sell side.
Epstein runs a lean operation, and those close to him say that his actual staff – based here in Manhattan at the Villard
House (home to Le Cirque); New Albany, Ohio; and St. Thomas, where he reincorporated his company seven years ago (now called
Financial Trust Co.) – numbers around 150 and is purely administrative. When it comes to putting these billions to work
in the markets, it is Epstein himself making all the investment calls – there are no analysts or portfolio managers, just
twenty accountants to keep the wheels greased and a bevy of assistants – many of them conspicuously attractive young women
– to organize his hectic life. So assuming, conservatively, a fee of .5 percent (he takes no commissions or percentages)
on $15 billion, that makes for a management fee of $75 million a year straight into Jeff Epstein's pocket.
Epstein makes all the daily investment decisions on $15b, yet no one on the sell side knows him? In other words Epstein does
not invest in new issues. But new issues are the gravy for making money on the buy side – think IPO discount. This is not normal
asset management.
some have speculated that Wexner is the primary source of Epstein's lavish life – but friends leap to his defense. "Let
me tell you: Jeffrey Epstein has other clients besides Wexner. I know because some of them are my clients," says noted m&a
lawyer Dennis Block of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. "I sent him a $500 million client a few years ago and he wouldn't
take him. Said the account was too small. Both the client and I were amazed. But that's Jeffrey."
You can always trust the word of an M&A lawyer. They would never mislead anyone for advantage.
he found himself spending there [in Santa Fe], talking elementary particle physics with his friend Murray Gell-Mann,
a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and co-chair of the science board at the Santa Fe Institute.
his covey of scientists that inspires Epstein's true rapture. Epstein spends $20 million a year on them
Gerald Edelman won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine in 1972 and now presides over the Neurosciences Institute
in La Jolla. "Jeff is extraordinary in his ability to pick up on quantitative relations," says Edelman. "He came to see
us recently. He is concerned with this basic question: Is it true that the brain is not a computer? He is very quick."
Stephen Kosslyn, a psychologist at Harvard. Epstein flew up to Kosslyn's laboratory in Cambridge this year to witness
an experiment that Kosslyn was conducting and Epstein was funding. Namely: Is it true that certain Tibetan monks are capable
of holding a distinct mental image in their minds for twenty minutes straight?
Epstein has a particularly close relationship with Martin Nowak, an Austrian biology and mathematics professor who heads
the theoretical-biology program at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Nowak is examining how game theory can
be used to answer some of the basic evolutionary questions – e.g., why, in our Darwinian society, does altruistic behavior
exist?
Danny Hillis, an MIT-educated computer scientist whose company, Thinking Machines, was at the forefront of the supercomputing
world in the eighties, and who used to run R&D at Walt Disney Imagineering
An intelligence operative would certainly have no interest in cultivating, buying or blackmailing scientists in the fields
of nuclear physics, controlling human behavior or supercomputers!
And by the way, the need to explain "altruism" in terms of game theory is a tip-off that Epstein and Nowak have no spiritual
life and cannot comprehend of it in other people. No surprise to find "do what thou wilt" as his guiding principle.
Strangely enough, given his scientific obsessions, he is a computer-phobe and does not use e-mail.
Before taking a big position, Epstein will usually fly to the country in question. He recently spent a week in Germany
meeting with various government officials and financial types, and he has a trip to Brazil coming up in the next few weeks.
On all of these trips, he flies alone in his commercial-jet-size 727.
Friends of Epstein say he is horrified at the recent swell of media attention around him
He has never granted a formal interview, and did not offer one to this magazine, nor has his picture appeared in any
publication.
The final straws. If he's not an intelligence operative, he's doing everything he can to give that impression!
He "flies alone." LOL! Poor Jeffrey, he so ronery!
When Bob Maxwell died at sea or disappeared it turned out that he had used or stolen every penny of ALL the pensions of his
employees .which were never recovered. After her father was given a state funeral in Israel (not England where he and his family
lived and worked) there followed a 2 year court case in which his 6 children were finally excused from any responsibility for
these pensions, despite inheriting his money and two of them working in his companies.
And now Ghislaine turns up as a US socialite, multi-decade pedophile procurer and international human trafficker. Nice family
.nice values! ...
Since the Little SAINT James pedo-island
that was allegedly owned by Jeffery Epstein did not have an airport (the closest one being
Curil E King airport in St. Thomas (about ten miles away)) that
means the 'guests' would either have to take a boat trip or a helicopter trip. Since Little SAINT James does have a
clearly marked helicopter landing site at the north central east part of the island (when viewed on google maps in satellite
view) one would suspect that is how these so-called 'guests' arrived at this pedo-island.
Those activities are not mutually exclusive. It could be #5: All of the above. We all know how Mossad operates. Nothing is
beyond them. The end justifies the means.
Acosta is a distraction .and possibly innocent since he did what he was told which was to go easy on an intelligence asset.
Forget the small fry and concentrate on the real criminals please.
Senator Chuck Schumer, self-described as Israel's "protector" in the Senate, is loudly calling for the resignation of
Acosta. He just might change his tune if it turns out that Israel is a major part of the story.
Schumer would already have been tipped of if is was an Israeli operation. It's an anti Trump thing.
The fact that the case has been moved to the Southern District of New York validates your cynicism.
Has the Only Democracy in the Middle East decided to sacrifice Epstein (he can be sprung later, his jig was up anyway) so
that an Epstein circus can replace Russiagate?
From renfro, the following great point:
"If congress is going to question Acosta .first question should be who told him Epstein belonged to intelligence."
, renfro! Thanks & my respect.
Because I have special enthusiasm for renfro's advice to "Congress," such will not fly with "congress."
Quote: "It will be very interesting to see just how far and how deep the investigation into Epstein and his activities goes."
Reply: We'll get a glistening kabuki show, with lots of wailing [walls], thunder and lightening, twists and turns, but, in
the end [as this case will go on and on – Harvey Weinstein, anyone?] people will forget about it.
I fear that this is all rapidly turning into a modified limited hangout. A whole lot of dirt will be inconclusively exposed
and, even though everyone will have a pretty good idea of what happened, there won't be enough will to do anything about it.
The caveat will be when the financial system finally implodes. A horde of jobless and desperate people will rapidly lose
their patience for being governed by a bunch of incompetent pedophile oligarchs, but until then everyone will just go with the
flow.
@Rabbitnexus
ut it looks more like a millionaire club. Intelligence agencies prefer to use secretaries and other less visible people as spies.
I would look for some association of friends of Israel, something that has lots of money, wants lots of power, spies on people,
both enemies and friends, and has some special love for Israel.
I maybe wrong, but this does not seem to me to be a single intelligence agency of any country. It operates in an age old
method of a secret society, like mafia or masons. It is neither mafia nor masons, but some that especially likes to help Israel
and probably created it. I guess there are such friends of Israel organizations, several.
In social science it is often assumed that people are selfish. The attempt to show that altruism contributes positively to
the prospects for survival and reproduction is important in defeating the presumption of underlying selfishness. It's not a
very deep idea. If ten people carry a gene that causes one of them to throw himself on a hand-grenade, thereby saving the other
nine, that gives the gene a better chance of being passed along than if the grenade goes off and most or all of the carriers
are killed. If interested, see the book Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms.
First a question: who says the telephone numbers were the sort only an intimate or ultimate insider would have? Queen Elizabeth's
would surely have had to be the Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Sandringham or Balmoral switchboard.
Then there is what a sleazy or dangerous guy like Epstein might be expected to do, namely toss in a whole lot of names (with
or without true up to date direct line numbers) to confuse and provide diversion and cover. Cute though isn't that he was supposed
still to be using an old fashioned address book in the 21st Century rather than an encrypted or at least password protected
smartphone.
The Palm Beach mansion Epstein owned was rigged with hidden cameras in some of the guest bedrooms according to an article
I read a couple of years back.
Im glad we have forums like this so the word can get out: honeypot operations are not a thing of just the KGB/Cold War past,
but of the Soros/intel orgs/globalist/Establishment present.
Future politicians and wealthy businesspersons need to be aware of this. The Bible has a great old verse that goes something
like, "Be sure your sins will find you out".
"Pedophilia"? Has anyone accused Epstein of mistreating pre-pubescent girls? I don't think so. If Mr. Giraldi wants to deplore
what Epstein is accused of, fine. But don't try to confuse us by suggesting that he attacked children rather than underage teens.
@follyofwar
even Israel understand this would not be regime change business as usual.
U.S. war gamers for years have been saying there's no way the U.S. could significantly "win" the war. It would surely drive
gas prices way up, and wake up the American public, creating a probably insurmountable political problem for Trump. Israel is
liable to get pelted from all sides -- Hezbollah has promised to attack in the event of war, and there are probably ways of
striking from Syria and Iran. Then there are the wild cards of Russia and China. No one knows for sure what Putin would do if
Iran were attacked, but he could certainly turn Israel into a parking lot very quickly if he wanted to.
Well founded scepticism. Still, now we know the extent of what Bernie Madoff got away with perhaps someone who was clever
and charming and appealed to those who wouldn't have invested with Madoff just might have put together enough billion dollar
portfolios to be able, as long as he managed his tax affairs well to become very rich during the 80s. It would be interesting
to know how he handled the October 1988 melt down.
One aspect of this entire Epstein Talmudic child abuse saga that really p*sses me off is the active participation of the
IRS. It was the same with Madoff and Maxwell. None of these talmudic ponzi's could have gotten off the ground if these gangsters
had been correctly filing all the correct tax forms like all the other goy schmucks.
Since 2012, with the Statute of Limitations retroactively extended 3 years to a total of 6 years backwards to 2006, all undeclared
foreign bank accounts of US persons or green card holders on IRS FBAR forms (Foreign Bank Account Report), and since 2012 form
8948 (Statement of Specified Foreign Financial Assets), which is even more intrusive, face IRS penalties of 50% of the highest
annual balance, and many tax sinners have been forced to pay more in taxes than these bank accounts ever contained. This is
the tip of the iceberg compared to jewish charity and foundation and estate fraud.
Epstein supposedly was "gifted" the NY mansion from his "mentor" at the defunct and fraudulent money changer Bear Stearns
for what must have been more than 50 Million. Rick Wiles drilled down in detail into this gift on
Thursday .
These kinds of shenanigans, like flying "friends" around the world to your various child abuse temples in your private jets,
are taxable gifts. In fact double taxed, taxed first as income and second with the gift tax. The Lolita Express could never
be declared as a business expense either.
The entire rotten affair stinks on every level and it gets more putrid at every layer of talmudic control is peeled bank.
At each level more Jews and Zionists come wiggling out and scurrying off to disappear from social and dinosaur media. But also
as each layer gets peeled bank we get closer to the core, which with ever more certainty is ritual child sacrifice used for
talmudic control.
Forget the small fry and concentrate on the real criminals please.
It's going to be difficult
Maurene Comey, one of the lead prosecutors who is handling the Epstein case, happens to be James Comey's daughter, the ex
FBI boss.
It remains to be seen if she will be giving Bill Clinton special treatment, just like her father gave to Hillary's "lock her
up".
Moreover, Judge Berman who preside the case, happens to be also a Clinton appointee (in 1998).
In 1982, according to those who know Epstein, he set up his own shop, J. Epstein and Co., which remains his core business
today. The premise behind it was simple: Epstein would manage the individual and family fortunes of clients with $1 billion
or more. Which is where the mystery deepens. Because according to the lore, Epstein, in 1982, immediately began collecting
clients. There were no road shows, no whiz-bang marketing demos – just this: Jeff Epstein was open for business for those
with $1 billion–plus.
The fly in the ointment of this carefully cultivated cover story:
"Statistics published in Forbes magazine's annual survey of America's billionaires expose this little known but shocking
reality. In 1982 there were 13 billionaires; in 1983 15″
There's no need for anything so crude as either the head of the CIA or FBI reporting directly to the Mossad when both agencies
are riddled from top to bottom with de facto Israeli espionage agents.
It's a Fool's Errand to think you can solve Epstein like a puzzle. Most, like Giraldi, are engaged in bias confirmation.
That isn't to say his speculations are entirely wrong but that we're all part of the play in one way or another.
In my view timing is rarely if ever coincidental. That seems glaringly obvious here. The Epstein scandal was resurrected
now for a reason. I suspect that like the Academic Admissions scandal the Permanent Government is throwing its weight around.
Warning (once again) that it can inflict casualties if exposing its 2016 malefactions is taken too far.
Weinstein served the same function -- with poor Meryl Streep the Sgt. Schultz headliner.
Put yourself in the mind of the various filth (e.g. Brennan) implicated in attempting to throw the election to Hillary and,
failing that, frame-up and destroy the duly elected POTUS. They think they're entitled to a pass given all they've turned a
blind eye to over the years.
Epstein's arrest strikes me as a shot across the bow in the context of the upcoming IG Report/Durham Investigation. I'm not
picking on Giraldi but all of his fans here should note he's been Mumble Mouth at best on those malefactions. Nor am I saying
that isn't the wise move for him.
The scandal that needs to be buried is that they built a global surveillance (and storage) apparatus, including of the American
people. There was widespread, systematic abuse of it during the Obama Administration ('000s of people). Whatever limitations
there were, effectively Mutually Assured Destruction with the establishment factions keeping an eye on each other, collapsed
as they all united to stop Trump.
Epstein, like Weinstein and the Academic Admissions scandal, is both distraction and a warning to the Governing and Business
Classes -- keep you heads down and mouths shut about these powerful intelligence/national security entities.
I generally think waiting to see how matters fall out is a very good idea. But when I read the information of Mr. Acosta's
interview, I sank a bit. Because it strongly suggested vested interest by the government – not to get to the truth.
That even the circus that usually comes to surround even credible cases will so muddy the waters as to avoid a rendering
of what actually took place.
And given how compromised the collusion matter is was or will continue to be – the stakes may be higher here such that muddying
the waters will be some relief for those involved.
Myth of brilliance has been created to explain origin of his wealth . But even that shit was not enough , more myths had
to be created like capacity of having brilliant discussions with Nobel laureate ( Physics) or with great educators , and with
world renowned economist .
I guess authorities can get away with saying what F lies they can say until it blows up on their faces . Jew thinks goym
are stupid , so tell them whatever come to mind like having a great autonomous brain that doesn't depend on education or training
or publicly visible job to figure out the finances , economy, hard computer , physical and cognitive sciences and earning millions
,
while busy with
1 taking nude picture and storing them in 3-4 different areas
2 ferrying big guns from 3 different continents to Orgy Islsnd
3 Getting their intimate information , charting them connecting them and storing them
4 having parties with semi nude girls but attended by celebrities
5 holding message parkour parties from girls procured from shanty , trailer park ,
6 having serial girl friends
– there are more .
Oh yeah!!! No wonder people under pressure , lack of information , from removal of connecting dots , undue respect for glory
money power , fear for being seen as ' naysayer ' or pessimist or low IQ uninformed , and fear of public ridicule can believe
or can feign to believe the wildest whoopers / lies/ plaint shit dished out by the upper echelon of the society .
( then we wonder why people believe in UFO , big foot ,
, personal angels , apparitions, or America is a force for good )
Epstein in my opinion is a mossad officer whose agenda is to compromise zio/US politicians for the benefit of Israel and
in this he is just one of many in the zio/US and in fact the zio/US gov is infested with dual Israeli citizens whose first and
only loyalty is to Israel.
Read the book Blood in the Water by Joan Mellen about the attack on the USS Liberty by Israel and the US government to see
how intertwined the mossad and the CIA are and remember the joint Israeli and zio/US gov attack on the WTC on 911, the zionists
rule America!
"CIA and the Russian FSB services are obvious candidates, but they would have no particular motive to acquire an agent like
Epstein."
This is an assertion with nothing to back it up. The CIA, in particular, has every reason to use an 'Epstein' for its nefarious
purposes as it IS the deep state or at least a major part of it.
The CIA owns the drug trade in Afghanistan and Mena, Arkansas can easily be connected to CIA activities along with gun running
in Mexico. The CIA is the official criminal organization within the US gov't and it went rogue decades ago. It can afford to
have multiple 'Epstein' clones running around to make sure it can control the US political class to not investigate its activities
too closely.
The CIA and Israel are indistinguishable from each other. Israel runs US foreign policy via the CIA and their own Mossad.
Come on, Phil Giraldi. Do you believe in an independent American justice system? What a joke. It's corrupt to the bone. Weinstein,
Epstein, Maxwell, Adelson, Saban, Koch you name it, have America in their pocket like Sharon used to say. During a furious beef
between Sharon and Shimon Peres, Sharon turned toward Peres, saying "every time we do something you tell me Americans will do
this and will do that. I want to tell you something obvious, don't worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people,
control America, and the Americans know it."
Could anyone but an intelligence agency get away with all of the following: 1) harassing witnesses (forcing their cars off
the road public highways), 2) searching the trash of police officers in an attempt to find dirt on the officers and 3) obtaining
a sweet heart plea bargain when the police had dozens of victims (who didn't even know each other) telling the exact same story
and ready to testify – as well as photos of nude adolescents seized in a search.
Who could have done such things and got away with it.
Epstein must have been an operative. The only question is: for whom did he work?
Gasp!!! Are you suggesting sweet, innocent Monica was blowing Slick Willie for reasons other than his taking advantage
of her?
In his book Gideon's Spies the late Welsh author Gordon Thomas claimed Mossad had tapes of the same for blackmail
reasons. However, this has never been confirmed.
Epstein will "cop a plea" and avoid a trial. That is certain.
A couple of things I'd like to ask the brilliant Epstein: Why did you engage in your nefarious sexual activity in New York
State and Florida? The "age of consent" in both states is 18. In New Jersey, PA and other states, it's 16. Now US federal law
prohibits sex between people 12 to 16 if one of the participants is 4 years or more older than the other. The law says "between"
not inclusive of 16. So 16 might be OK. That's young enough.
Also Jeffrey, why didn't you take your "Lolita Express" to Tel Aviv? It's legal in Israel and no one checks up of the actual
ages of the "working girls." And most are the tall blond/blue and slim types from Eastern Europe.
"Pedophile" is incorrect, as a commenter noted. The age cutoff is 13 for pedophilia. DSM-5. These escapades comprise different
serious felonies. However, the Epstein colleagues can rest easy, if Rush's instinct about prosecuting Hillary is correct. Rush
has said that prosecuting Hillary will not happen, because it would "roil" the nation. Same here. I expect to see a lot of MSM
passive voice, and intransitive verbs, but no roiling. "The car drove off the side of the bridge."
Asimov's father once wrote a book called "The Sensuous Dirty Old Man." Hmm .
More seriously, did it ever occur to you that someone might want to know your source before accepting your claim that Mueller
"supposedly classified Epstein as an informant"? Supposed by whom?? Eh????
believes Epstein allegedly preyed on Araoz when she was 14 because she was vulnerable.
"She had just transferred to a new school and didn't know anybody," attorney Kimberly Lerner said in an interview. "She
didn't have a father. Her mother was very poor. She was from a single-parent home. She was really struggling, and she wanted
to be a model and an actress. He absolutely preyed upon the most vulnerable."
@Lou123
n Ring' which supposedly was providing child prostitutes to high level US politicians who in turn were then being blackmailed
by the existence of surreptitious recordings having been made of these incidents by US intelligence agencies.
The below newspaper article explains what ultimately happened to the lead investigator of the case. Gary Caradori had been
hired by the Nebraska state legislature to find out what had actually transpired regarding the alleged Nebraska based ring.
Needless to say his investigation was unexpectedly 'cut short'.
What if .Acostoa is just a stooge, In fact he probably insisted on SOME jail time here. Otherwise the rest of the US "justice"
system could care less. Even NYC is complicit. It's a snow job of theater, this democracy is. It's a joke. It only looks like
a democracy on tv.
Mossad, CIA, FBI, MI5, who cares? All of these are criminal enterprises, just like the governments providing them cover and
"legitimacy".
Really interesting aspect of any elite in-fighting is that it exposes an "uncomfortable truth" that there is only one elite
running the show. That there is only Republicratic party, which regularly organizes (for the benefit of sheeple still believing
in "democracy") puppet shows called elections, where ostensibly Democrats battle Republicans. In fact, both are just two hands
of the same puppet master. That's why the same criminals are prominent at all "Republican" and "Democratic" functions.
The other thing that the story of that Epstein character clearly shows is that all those "respectable people" are nothing
more than rich criminals, and the only reason they aren't in jail is that they have enough money to get away with any crime.
@Talha
refully scripted to identify girls who could be vulnerable to manipulation, have a chaotic family life, need money, need social
connections for career advancement . The female procurer would report to Epstein and receive instructions to abandon or continue
to recruit the "candidate". A female procurer is used as she will not arouse suspicion in a young girl. These are simple techniques
that have been used for centuries worldwide. A father must cultivate a close relationship with his daughter, know when she is
OK or not OK, and most importantly be an example of a quality man that his daughter will compare to every man she meets(being
overprotective merely makes her more vulnerable).
Meh. Get ready for a tidal wave of MSM articles talking about how the deranged, alt-right internet conspiracy theorists are
having a field day with the Epstein case, after which your average American moron will be programmed to just smirk and roll
his eyes whenever the facts touched on in this article are brought up.
Ms. Aroaz's father was deceased before she met the female procurer
Well, then I take back what I said – obviously can't blame a dead man for not being there.
A father must cultivate a close relationship with his daughter, know when she is OK or not OK, and most importantly be
an example of a quality man that his daughter will compare to every man she meets
I don't know if Giraldi is a plant or not. However, the first law of understanding "intelligence agents" or ex spooks is
to always be suspicious of everyone. The group he belongs too seems legitimate enough but we have been set up before. I've be
reading Giraldi a long time and he has a similar "theme" in every piece but he also leaves small things out that should be in
his articles. The Devil is in the Details and man with his experience should be "Detailed Oriented."
He should know about Epstein and Muller and a few other things since this is the stock and trade of all intelligence agencies.
The interesting thing about this case is, the left wants it exposed because they think it'll take down Trump, the right wants
it exposed because they think it'll take down Bill Clinton. My guess is, more Dems will go down than Republicans. Trump was
a Democrat and a big supporter of Clintons and Chuck Schumer before he decided to run as a GOP in 2016. He could've gone either
way.
Sex scandals tend to plague the left, especially sexual perversions like porn, prostitution, child sex or gay sex. It's coz
the left is dominated by Jews who are prone to sexual perversion, and also because liberals believe feelings and passion trump
all, anything you do is not your fault as long as you are just following your feelings.
One reason Trump is so pro-Israel and hell bent on attacking Iran could be because the Jews have something on him, which
is not too hard since he's been in business with them for a lifetime and is as unctuous and unscrupulous as any of them. They
might be getting impatient with him on Iran and wants someone who can get the job done like Mike Pence to take over. Epstein
could take down both Clinton and Trump, Clinton has outlived his usefulness to them since Hillary didn't win, he'll be the sacrificial
lamb while they take out Trump for Pence.
Republic asked the following critical question which should not be cast away:
"If Epstein worked for Mossad, why wasn't he tipped off in Paris not to return to the US?"
! Mossad deception is sophisticated & patterns of telling a lie upon another improved lie ar characteristic.
Also, Mossad's implemented practices/techniques are adaptable to circumstances which seem supportive of what dumb goyim consider
"justice served," but they actually benefit Israel.
A thought. I figure Epstein knew what fate awaited him prior to landing at Teterboro Airport tarmac.
Well, Giraldi did work there and would have heard people complaining about the presence and influence of Israeli spies. Colonel
Kiatowoski's book about the presence of Israeli spies in the Pentagon made it clear Pentagon personnel resented the Israeli
spies but could do nothing about it.
@Talha
ing to a recently divorced man whose x-wife hates him (nothing new), and who has two teenage daughters. The x has poisoned the
daughters against him, (nothing new), and because he was trying to be strident with his elder daughter vis-a-vis drugs, (nothing
new), he now is not allowed to have any contact with them via the skewed courts, (nothing new).
They're doing a Weimar regime redux. That was the apex of their heyday, when the children of Germany were their playthings,
and Berlin was a giant brothel- girls and boys for sale, especially the ones whose fathers had died in their holocaust
that was WWI.
@j2
has maybe 10 Israeli immigrants or American Jews who work for him. Each has 10-15 American Jews who can be called upon. So it's
a wide network.
You're right that clerks secretaries accountants have great access to information. But the Israeli system is widespread.
Plus, the information needn't always come from Jews.
It really does exist. There's an Israeli who hosts sabbath dinners in Los Angeles. He invites American Jews to be briefed
on what's going on in Israel. I'm positive he also recruits agents in place he spots at those dinners. Guests who have no access
to anything useful at least get to feel they're participating in the cause.
@AnonFromTN
he only reason they aren't in jail is that they have enough money to get away with any crime.
True. And this Epstein coverage is bringing out more nooks and crannies of how the really rich control systems for their
own benefit.
Like why was Epsteins tax rate on his NY mansion only 0.6% .why is Bill de Blasio tax rate on his mansion only 0.2% ..when
other NY'ers taxrate is 12%.
@ChuckOrloski
howed the original twelve members in indecent poses . At the entrance to the abbey, there was an inscription which read Fay
ce que voudras – do what thou wilt – a term which Aleister Crowley borrowed nearly 200 years later. "
Ben Franklin likely would have been a prominent visitor to Little St. James, just as he was to
West Wycombe in his day.
Thomas Paine too.
There is regular sex and "deviation", pornography, pedophilia
There is drugs, illegal and legal, hard and soft
Then there is finance, always pimping, always on exploitation, abuse of minors, as young as not yet born, globally, and to
be comitted legally. Pedophilia and drugs are soft core, barely leveling at the sock suspenders of our financiers.
A few hundred of the top tier Wall Street-ers belong in jail, as rats eating their own tail, they only can be administered
there. Starting with Mnuchin. Epstein should be let alone, so he can decoy a little longer, and await his turn, pecking order
obliges. Ah, the public sector, the ones with faces, real fungi are minding the dark.
Linked on this same site today, Michael Hudson, seems to attribute Empire and financial capitalism, debt, the demise of the
dollar, to Trump. ?. Of all men, another scripted clown gets the blame. The shredding is spoiling the carpet.
If unz.com is so willingly pointing out the third liners, as Maya sacrifices to the deities in the shades, then there you
have one more reason the rag is impervious to censorship.
Gardner's and retail store clerks have personal phone numbers of the rich and famous. For instance, clerks at high
end retail clothing stores are supposed to cultivate shoppers on a personal level so they can call them up with the great news
of items they'd like to buy.
Actors producers directors numbers and home addresses can be obtained from people who work at their agents accountants PR
and attorney offices
Police departments have access to all phone numbers. Most of the Find a Number websites don't have the private number of
celebrities. But there are plenty of people who can access all the cell phone records.
How to get away with blackmailing without blackmailing.
First, you need to recruit people in. Have lots of massive parties at your spacious home for wealthy men. Have lots of women
mostly teens and under aged.
Sooner or later there will be some mingling going on. Some billionaire will get handsy and end up in a room with a girl ..and
hidden cameras.
Epstein informs him later the girl was really 15, but offers him a nice, neat way to buy silence: a large allocation to his
hedge fund, which charges 5% ..with power of attorney for himself.
To ease the pain for the black mailee Epstein puts the money in something as safe as treasury notes or money market fund.
Then Epstein collects his 'fees' ..x millions on the interest from treasury notes or etc..
Soooo no traceable blackmail payoff checks or wire transfers from his fellow pedos.
Epstein may also try this on other important political figures, mayors, prosecutors, etc. He doesnt blackmail them to 'invest'
in his fund but has them in his pocket.
The evidence would probably be in a deposit box in his offshore Caribbean bank.
One reason Trump is so pro-Israel and hell bent on attacking Iran could be because the Jews have something on him, which
is not too hard since he's been in business with them for a lifetime and is as unctuous and unscrupulous as any of them.
They might be getting impatient with him on Iran and wants someone who can get the job done like Mike Pence to take over.
Epstein could take down both Clinton and Trump, Clinton has outlived his usefulness to them since Hillary didn't win, he'll
be the sacrificial lamb while they take out Trump for Pence.
Just what I was going to write, but you got there first.
Thank you very much. pedophilia stops at the victims 13th birthday. Then it's various degrees of molestation of a minor .
It's usually 13 and 14, then 15. Then 16 and 17. In some states the age of consent is 16. Epstein's activities weren't just
molestation of minors. They were procuring for prostitution as well.
I have been meaning to ask this for a while, Dr. Giraldi, let’s say stuff you write about Israel is all true, you are ex-CIA,
then can we assume there are many like you or is that not the case? If that’s the case, then why none of them stand up and oppose?
Or are they too afraid of standing up for their country?
There are at least nine factions in the CIA concerning Israeli politics:
1. anti-Israel for emotional reasons (instinctive hostile feelings towards Jews, Judeophobia)
2. anti-Israel for ideological reasons (reasoned opposition towards Judaism and Zionism as doctrines)
3. anti-Israel for strategic reasons (bad for long-term American interests)
4. pro-Israel for emotional reasons (warm feelings towards Jews)
5. pro-Israel for ideological reasons (for instance, Christian Zionists)
6. pro-Israel for occult reasons (the world’s most powerful secret society mandates support as part of a grand mystical scheme)
7. pro-Israel for reasons of personal self-interest (issues concerning bribery, blackmail, careerism, etc.)
8. pro-Israel for strategic reasons (good for long-term American strategic interests)
9. pro-Israel for strategic reasons AND hostile to Jews (Jewish nationalists provide a counterweight to Jewish leftists in
the Diaspora, divide and conquer tactics)
Since the late 1940s, the pro-Israel factions in the CIA have easily dominated the anti-Israel (or Israel-skeptical) factions.
By the way, most CIA employees, including many high level employees, don't have a full understanding of what is going on
in the CIA, including knowledge of the most influential players and operations and their connections.
+ There have long been rumors of Epstein's possible ties to what Dick Cheney so memorably
described as the "dark side." As Vicky Ward disclosed in an excellent piece for the
Daily Beast , Alex Acosta told the Trump's vetting team that he was told to go lightly on
Epstein because he was "above his pay grade" and that " he belonged to
intelligence ." Given Epstein's enduring relationship with Dershowitz, we can perhaps
deduce the intelligence agency with which Epstein was allied
+ According to the NYT, Jeffrey Epstein keeps a framed photo of
MBS in his mansion. (Is anyone checking the flight logs of Air Lolita for Netanyahu's
travels?)
+ There's a lot of giddy talk about how the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein is a sign of the
collapse of the Establishment. I don't know. The Establishment started to crumble during the
French Revolution. It's been a slow, gravity-defying fall.
Interesting post in that it raises many of the key issues and how they may fit together.
Generally agrees with my initial (or maybe secondary) impression that this is result of
Trump triggering backmail clause by failing to act as required by those running the show.
But, I have I think a better theory more fits the situation. Acosta (the human
"sh*t-grenade) was hired because he knew stuff and knew people who knew stuff. Trump was being
blackmailed with Epstein affair - dems/cia/etc... It almost work, he almost attacked Iran, was
led to believe it could be done in a way that would not lead to war - likely by
you-know-who.
He balked and called their "bluff". They were not bluffing. Problem for them is that Trump
can maybe weather the sh*t-storm they can bring - comey/brennan/clapper/et al... For now, I am
inclined to side with Trump.
I don't know why but in spite of his lack of polish, he's brought some crude and interesting
results.
Epstein was just a young "dirty old man". Trump is innocent - can anybody point to any incident
where Trump committed a real felony, not some breach of landlord regulations, For all the
accusations of him being the capo di tutti capi, nothing has really stuck, so he gives the
impression of being a criminal but really isn't but it's good theatre. So my guess is that
Trump told Barr to go to it and bring Epstein in and bang him up for life. Reasons:
1. Trump was getting bored with Acosta
2. Epstein may drag down others - the Clintons being prime candiadates
3. This is a poke in the eye for Obama
4. Trump looks good when Epstein does the time he deserves
Meanwhile the anti-#resistance investigations role on and implicate Hillary for making false
statements and Obama for trying to fix the 2016 election.
Trump'll romp home in 2020. If Adelson, etc. tries to push another Republican candidate,
Trump'll run as an independent and probably still win. Trump now has his main "problems" by the
balls.
As for the Daily Beast they have an
article claiming that there was co-ordination between Trump and Russia instead of collusion
. I'd love some of the shit the author's been smoking, 'cos it's up there with S T Coleridges
Kubla Khan as a work of fantasy.
'Appalled' does not suffice any longer. All this shit is more than a mentally healthy Human
Being can bear - and in that fact lies also a motive to bombard the population 24/7 with shit
like that. Therefore it appears that this, too is part of an orchestrated effort to rile up
people against each other and destroy whatever peace still exists.
You could call it 'distraction' from insurmountable problems created by this specific
sub-species of Homo Sapiens. But I am not commenting about that.
I am as pissed as a decent person can get without losing its temper. But I am utterly
disgusted that this childfucker Epstein has soiled the name of one of my favorite Human Beings
in history:
Brian Epstein - the one person that gave Humanity The Beatles.
I can not emphasize enough how effed up this is. There must be a court order to rename him
into Jeffrey Childfucker, in order to protect the name of one of the greatest music managers
ever.
But I do concede to the fact, that this kind of damage might as well limited to people who
know who The Beatles were.
The wealthy class has defeated the poor class. What we are seeing now is a civil war in the
wealthy class. The Epstein business is just one of the skirmishes in that civil war.
Today's CJR media feed focuses on Acosta and the 2007 plea deal without mentioning either Bush
or Obama. Focus is still on Trump. Of course Acosta is now a member of the Trump
administration. But Trump was not in charge with this particular POS went down.
Trump is fighting for his life and money. Lose the next election and spend the rest of
both fighting imprisonment. What makes me think its time to remind people that the office
of POTUS has teeth?
"I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone,"
does not say he "worked for intelligence". It might just mean that "intelligence"
made the deal with him in return for information and that they then estimated the fall out
and cleaned up (ie took people that could be blackmailed out of sensitive
positions).
They don't care about the fall out any longer, so this now is allowed to blow up.
"The left is going wild thinking that this will "get Trump" but quite the opposite is
happening. . .
Now this story will run into 2020 largely damaging democrats into the 2020 election.
Trump's DOJ is running the operation."
That is my perception, although I am not a qualified observer.
But as to the "why now" of Epstein, surely it is 2020. As for Barr being a CIA kid,
that does give some pause, except he is working for Trump, and so presumably he is playing
his part in the 2020 event.
From what I have read and heard, Trump is not tainted by the Epstein story. The
attempts of those on the left or whatever (I can't even call it the left anymore) to
associate Trump with the Epstein story are very belabored. "Grabbing pussy" of adult women
who cluster around is not the same as recruiting young girls and teenagers and running sex
camps for grown-up boys such as Randy Andy, RAndy Bill, and other Randy boys.
To me the big question is why Dersh was part of the FOIA action to unseal the docs. If
just appearing in a photo with Epstein is enough for "the left" to try to hang Trump, the
Dersh is in a lot more image trouble, with him name on the plane manifest.
Is Trump's name on the plane log? I don't think so. So, imagewise Dersh is going to take
a big hit. And, by defending Trump last summer as he did, he has now associated himself
with both Trump and Epstein. Trump comes out clean. Dersh comes out Derty.
PS. Why is so much blacked out on the plane logs that have been published?
the Macow sounds "about right" to me, but only "about." I can very well imagine that
Dersh is taking orders from the JSP, but if he rode the Lolita Expres, he is in
trouble.
AFAIK Trump did not ride the Lolita Express. The rumors about raping a 13-year-old in
Epstein's apartment will have to become more than rumor to harm Trump, no matter how much
the left pushes an Epstein = Trump narrative.
As they pushed the Weinstein = Trump narrative. I.e., whenever you see Weinstein's
name, think "Trump." But I don't think that really worked except with the very ones who
were pushing that equation in the first place. In other words, auto-suggestion.
O @110 sez: "...every good gamblers knows to hedge their bets.
You bet equally on both wrestlers in the ring? You don't make much profit that way. Much
better to arrange who wins ahead of time with the competitors and the referee and then just
bet on the one everyone agrees to make the winner.
Sure, Trump was in on the fix, so even if he won the power elites still win, but that is
true for all of the other contestants in the primaries as well, with the possible exception
of Sanders. The problem is that the power elites have very specific plans, and those plans
depended upon their tool in the White House being Clinton, not Trump. It isn't that Trump
would be their enemy or anything silly like that, but rather that a Trump victory would not
resonate; would not synergize with the megatrends they were manufacturing within the
population.
On the contrary, the Trump victory introduced a societal forcing function that is
180° out of sync with the larger narrative the power elites were trying to create.
Trump was chosen to be the loser in the 2016 elections because his defeat would have had
the opposite effect, damping trends in society that the power elites wanted quashed and
reinforcing the ones that they wanted amplified. Hundreds of $billions in
entertainment-base narrative generation that have been fed to the public since 2016, and
had been in the production pipeline from years prior, were supposed to be reflected in the
real world by the victory of the first woman president. Instead that media is being fed to
the public while the top office in the world is occupied by an unrepentant pussy grabber.
The messaging is diametrically opposed and interferes with itself rather than reinforcing
itself.
Sure, Trump is still the tool of the power elites, but he is not the tool they were
planning on.
"I am trying to link Wexner with the Bronfman's (Seagrams Liquor Family) via a source
other than the Mega Group (which may not be credible, IDK)."
The existence of the Mega Group was revealed in the Wall Street Journal in 1998 under
the headline 'Titans of Industry Join Forces To Work for Jewish Philanthropy'. According to
the Journal , it was founded in 1991 by Wexler and Charles Bronfman.
Membership included Edgar Bronfman, the chairman of the World Jewish Congress, Charles
Bronfman, Edgar's brother and a top executive of the family's flagship Seagrams Corp.;
Leslie Wexler of Limited, Inc.; Charles Schusterman, chairman of Samson Investment Co. of
Tulsa, Oklahoma; Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff, Baltimore real estate magnate; Laurence Tisch,
chairman of Loews Corp.; Max Fisher, the Detroit oil magnate and Republican Party
powerhouse; bagel magnate Max Lender; Leonard Abramson, the founder of U.S. Healthcare; and
hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt.
One of its so-called 'philanthropic' projects entitled "Wexner Analysis: Israeli
Communication Priorities 2003," was leaked to Electronic Intifada.
"...when they met in the Edgar Bronfman mansion in Manhattan. The head of the World
Jewish Congress hosted a meeting of the fifty richest and most powerful Jews of the US and
Canada. There was no press coverage, no limelight, just a few lines in the newspapers. The
gathered multibillionaires discussed the ways to achieve Jewish unity, and strengthen the
Jewish identity of American Jews, tersely reported Shlomo Shamir for Haaretz. They also
agreed to launch a PR program under the Orwellian codename of 'Truth' with the purpose of
influencing American public opinion regarding Israeli policies.
The megabucks call themselves 'Mega group'. This name appeared in the media a couple of
years ago, as a name for the secret Israeli mole in the upper reaches of the US
establishment. It came up in an overheard phone conversation, later denied by the Israeli
embassy in Washington, DC. The newshounds and spook watchers got it wrong. 'Mega' was not
an agent, Mega was the boss."
Defense Department Computer Network Among Top Sharers of Child Pornography
Defense Department computers are among the top distributors of child pornography. An
untold number of Department of Defense (DOD) employees and contractors have subscriptions
to child pornography websites, and the problem is apparently so pervasive it requires new
technical solutions to address it.
"Hundreds of DoD-affiliated individuals" were recently identified as suspects in child
pornography cases, according to an investigation by the Defense Criminal Investigative
Service.
So far, authorities have only looked into about 20 percent of these cases. But already,
they've found "several" individuals "using their government devices to download or share
said pornographic material."
Last year, an investigation by the National Criminal Justice Training Program found DOD
computers were among the top networks nationwide for peer-to-peer sharing of pornographic
images of minors. DOD's network ranked 19th out of 2,891 computer networks studied.
To prevent such widespread abuse going forward, the "End National Defense Network Abuse
Act" would "crack down on this activity by upgrading the training and technical capacity of
military criminal investigative organizations to confront the misuse of DoD computers,
facilities, and equipment," according to a press release. It would also arrange for DOD
authorities to work more closely with civilian law enforcement on these cases.
"The notion that the Department of Defense's network and Pentagon-issued computers may
be used to view, create, or circulate such horrifying images is a shameful disgrace, and
one we must fight head on," said Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D -- Va.), who co-sponsored the
bill with Rep. Mark Meadows (R -- N.C.).
A companion bill in the senate has been introduced by Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R -- Alaska)
and Brian Schatz (D -- Hawaii).
2014 Aerial drone video of Little St. James. The island is owned privately by Jeffrey
Epstein and is located southeast of St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands.
This debauchery is a part of the crisis of neoliberalism. It does increases the level of de-legitimization of neoliberal elite.
As one commenter pointed out: we need the names of scum, wealthy perverts from the United States who travelled to Epstein
island-sized rape dungeon off the coast of Saint Thomas.
Notable quotes:
"... This appears to be something of a pattern. "What is so amazing to me is how his entire social circle knew about this and just blithely overlooked it," Ward says of Epstein's pederasty. "While praising his charm, brilliance and generous donations to Harvard, those [I] spoke to all mentioned the girls as an aside." ..."
"... The Epstein case is first and foremost about the casual victimization of vulnerable girls. But it is also a political scandal, if not a partisan one. It reveals a deep corruption among mostly male elites across parties, and the way the very rich can often purchase impunity for even the most loathsome of crimes ..."
"... our elites still love Epstein, even if he does rape little girls ..."
"... This is how America is. This is how our ruling class works: Democrat, Republican, whatever. As the inimitable Matthew Walther points out , there's a reason people believe in Pizzagate. The Hellfire Club is real. And for decades, we've emboldened them considerably. ..."
"... Surely I'm not the only one who noticed that the Epstein sex abuse timeline is nearly identical to the Catholic Church sex abuse timeline. Both investigations were initiated in the early 2000s. Both revealed that the exploitation of children was an open secret in the highest echelons of power. Both investigations were closed a few years later, though not resolved. We assumed justice would take its course, and slowly began to forget. And then within two years of each other, both scandals emerged again, more sordid than ever. And on both occasions, we realized that nothing had changed. ..."
"... Of course, we know where that leads us. For two centuries, conservatives have tried to dampen the passions that led France to cannibalize herself circa 1789. ..."
"... Yes: those passions are legitimate. We should feel contempt for our leaders when we discover that two presidents cavorted with Epstein, almost certainly aware that he preyed on minors. We should feel disgust at the mere possibility that Pope Francis rehabilitated Theodore McCarrick. And we should be furious that these injustices haven't even come close to being properly redressed. ..."
"... This isn't about politics. This is about common decency and respect for the most vulnerable. Clinton? Trump? Who cares? If--and that's a big "if"--it comes to pass that either or both were involved in the Epstein festivities then either or both are scum and should be punished accordingly --along with the rest of their playmates at the Epstein playground. ..."
"... Does the author have some evidence to prove that President Trump is a pedophile, as he suggests in this article? Are all persons who may have been friends with Epstein perverts and criminals? ..."
"... If our decadent elite falls at all, it will be from imperial over-reach and losing a major foreign war, not from pedophilia, which is rapidly being normalized along with the rest of LGBTQWERTYUIOP. ..."
"... The so called elites seem above reproach. Our morality has been skewed through the soul. ..."
"... I applaud the courageous outliers like Ryan Dawson and Phil Giraldi that have considerably more guts than me. Blessings ..."
"... I don't think there is going to be a revolution, whether in UK or US, at most people would be outraged for couple of weeks and then forget. ..."
"... Excellent article. But off the mark on one key point. The corruption of the elites and Ruling Class -- and they are sickeningly corrupt -- is only a reflection of, or if you will a leading indicator, of a related corruption of the body politic. ..."
"... So Trump simply makes a comment, has no record of any flights, attendance or participation and this article would have you believe that it equates as despicable as a frequent flyer on the Lolita Express? This author is no different than the fake news. ..."
"... Trump did allegedly make one flight on the plane, from the NY area to Florida. No records show him flying to the "orgy island". ..."
"... Actually, the logs don't show that he was on the plane. Epstein's brother CLAIMS he was on the plane...the most anybody else has said to support that is that Trump looked at the plane on the ground. ..."
"... It's a Trump problem insofar as he continues to defend Acosta. This is the Sec of Labor who effectively let Epstein walk and who now oversees anti-human trafficking efforts (which he has repeatedly tried to gut the funding for). ..."
"... Did you see Acosta's press conference? The local State DA wanted to let Epstein walk - on a lesser state charge through a Grand Jury. Acosta's US Attorney office stepped in to get the charges increased as much as they could so that Epstein would do SOME jail time and - more importantly - have to register as a sex offender. ..."
"... I agree. As much as I detest Trump, I don't think that he was involved with Epstein's debauchery. However, I do believe the women that claim being assaulted, because he is on tape claiming to do what they describe. And there is so many of them. And he has had multiple documented affairs while married to every one of his wives. But no evidence yet of him with underage girls. ..."
"... Right, because those Kavanaugh accusers were so credible, right? No evidence, decades later? Nope. Unlike Kavanaugh, Trump was on a big stage for decades and was a pretty easy target with the tabloids looking for dirt...but none of them came forward. ..."
"... Trump owes America an apology, reading his comments it is obvious he was aware of, and disapproved of, Epstien proclivities, but didn't have the guts to stand up. (I do not believe the stories of Trump being involved, but if it turns out I am wrong on that, fry him ) ..."
Our elites cavorted with a pedophile, almost certainly aware of what he was up to. This is how revolutions begin.
Bill Clinton (Wikipedia Commons); Jeffrey Epstein mugshot (public domain) and Donald Trump
(Gabe Skidmore /Flickr)
For once, I'm with New York Times writer Michelle Goldberg: Jeffrey Epstein is the ultimate symbol of plutocratic rot.
In her
latest column , Goldberg interviews Vicky Ward, who covered the 2003 revelations of Epstein's sex abuse for Vanity Fair
. Ward's editor, Graydon Carter, allegedly ran interference for the high-flying pervert, nixing her discussion with two women
who claimed to have been assaulted by Epstein. "He's sensitive about the young women," Carter explained to Ward.
This appears to be something of a pattern. "What is so amazing to me is how his entire social circle knew about this and
just blithely overlooked it," Ward says of Epstein's pederasty. "While praising his charm, brilliance and generous donations to
Harvard, those [I] spoke to all mentioned the girls as an aside."
Back to Goldberg:
The Epstein case is first and foremost about the casual victimization of vulnerable girls. But it is also a political
scandal, if not a partisan one. It reveals a deep corruption among mostly male elites across parties, and the way the very rich
can often purchase impunity for even the most loathsome of crimes. If it were fiction, it would be both too sordid and
too on-the-nose to be believable, like a season of "True Detective" penned by a doctrinaire Marxist.
Of course, Goldberg -- being a Democrat -- doesn't want us to think of this as a partisan scandal. Yet Nancy Pelosi's daughter
conspicuously tweeted that it's "quite likely
that some of our faves are implicated." We all know by now that President Bill Clinton was a
frequent flyer on the Lolita Express, Epstein's
private jet, which ferried wealthy perverts from the United States to his island-sized rape dungeon off the coast of Saint Thomas.
Still, a few Republicans will almost certainly be implicated, too. Now, look: I voted for President Donald Trump in 2016. If
I don't vote for him in 2020, it will be because I've lost faith in the whole democratic process and have moved to a hole in the
ground to live as a hobbit. Having said that, Trump is definitely tainted by Epstein. In a 2002 interview with New York Magazine
, the president called him a "terrific guy." "It
is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do," Trump said, "and many of them are on the younger side."
Don't pretend that's an innocent remark. It's like when Uncle Steve passes out face-down on the kitchen floor at the family Christmas
party and Uncle Bill says, "I guess that one likes to drink." We still love Uncle Steve, even if he does overdo it on the
fire water. And our elites still love Epstein, even if he does rape little girls. None of us is perfect, after all.
This is how America is. This is how our ruling class works: Democrat, Republican, whatever. As the inimitable Matthew Walther
points out ,
there's a reason people believe in Pizzagate. The Hellfire Club is real. And for decades, we've emboldened them considerably.
Remember how Democrats and centrist Republicans mocked conservatives for making such a stink about Monica Lewinsky's blue dress?
The media elite competed to see who could appear the most unfazed by the fact that our sax-playing president was getting a bit on
the side. "I mean, heh heh, I love my wife, but, heh, the 1950s called, man! They want their morality police back."
Well, look where that got us. Two confirmed adulterers have occupied the White House in living memory; both are now under fire
for cavorting with a child sex slaver on Orgy Island. Go ahead and act surprised, Renault.
♦♦♦
Surely I'm not the only one who noticed that the Epstein sex abuse timeline is nearly identical to the Catholic Church sex abuse
timeline. Both investigations were initiated in the early 2000s. Both revealed that the exploitation of children was an open secret
in the highest echelons of power. Both investigations were closed a few years later, though not resolved. We assumed justice would
take its course, and slowly began to forget. And then within two years of each other, both scandals emerged again, more sordid than
ever. And on both occasions, we realized that nothing had changed.
Whew. Now I get why people become communists. Not the new-wave, gender-fluid, pink-haired Trots, of course. Nor the new far Left,
which condemns child predators like Epstein out one side of its mouth while
demanding
sympathy for pedophiles out the other.
No: I mean the old-fashioned, blue-collar, square-jawed Stalinists. I mean the guy with eight fingers and 12 kids who saw photos
of the annual Manhattan debutantes' ball, felt the rumble in his stomach, and figured he may as well eat the rich.
Of course, we know where that leads us. For two centuries, conservatives have tried to dampen the passions that led France to
cannibalize herself circa 1789.
Nevertheless, those passions weren't illegitimate -- they were just misdirected. Only an Englishman like Edmund Burke could have
referred to the reign of Louis XIV as "the age of chivalry." Joseph de Maistre spoke for real French conservatives when he said
the decadent, feckless aristocracy deserved to be guillotined. The problem is, Maistre argued, there was no one more suitable to
succeed them.
Yes: those passions are legitimate. We should feel contempt for our leaders when we discover that two presidents cavorted
with Epstein, almost certainly aware that he preyed on minors. We should feel disgust at the
mere
possibility that Pope Francis rehabilitated Theodore McCarrick. And we should be furious that these injustices haven't even
come close to being properly redressed.
"Us Democrats"??? This isn't about politics. This is about common decency and respect for the most vulnerable. Clinton? Trump?
Who cares? If--and that's a big "if"--it comes to pass that either or both were involved in the Epstein festivities then either
or both are scum and should be punished accordingly --along with the rest of their playmates at the Epstein playground.
The only question is whether or not those who participated in this apparent debauch will ever be brought to justice--so,
on that note--let the dissembling begin!
Does the author have some evidence to prove that President Trump is a pedophile, as he suggests in this article? Are all
persons who may have been friends with Epstein perverts and criminals?
You are as my grandfather told me repeatedly: "You are your associates & colleagues, their morality or lack thereof, will
in time infect you as well, despite all protests to the contrary; choose wisely."
If our decadent elite falls at all, it will be from imperial over-reach and losing a major foreign war, not from pedophilia,
which is rapidly being normalized along with the rest of LGBTQWERTYUIOP.
In France, the generation of aristocrats and especially
the royal family who were guillotined were relatively conservative in their sexual habits compared to the bloodthirsty sexual
revolutionaries who murdered them. And the libertine aristocrats of Great Britain (I believe that's where the actual hellfire
club was from) led the war against Napoleon and the temporary victory of the old order which followed his defeat.
The so called elites seem above reproach. Our morality has been skewed through the soul. Tribalism is alive and well. Wars,
diversity, erasing of our most cherished values, and a mainstream media that is in lockstep the rulers and those who see fit
to erase Freedom of Speech and make arbitrarily decisions as to what we can and cannot say. It is like living a bad dream.
I
applaud the courageous outliers like Ryan Dawson and Phil Giraldi that have considerably more guts than me. Blessings
It's the mainstream media that forced this into the light. The elites and the justice system did all they could to cover
it up, same as with the Catholic Church.
As for "our most cherished virtues", this has all been going on forever. Kings and courtiers, masters and slaves, the son
of the manor and the serving girls. Give me a break.
The only thing that is changing it is a shift in power to women.
"Paederasty" is better reserved for relationships between patrician
men, and boys, in which there was an expectation that the boy would
eventually approximate the social rank of his lover. Not to be applied
to a man running a little-girl brothel.
In UK thousands of girls were raped and nobody lost their job over it. Well, correction, people who tried to bring attention
to the horrific crimes happening lost their jobs or were prosecuted. After the scandal could no longer be contained and arrests
were finally made, there was no reckoning. No people marching in the streets, demanding heads of the goverment. I don't think
there is going to be a revolution, whether in UK or US, at most people would be outraged for couple of weeks and then forget.
Or might possibly be that upon examination, it became abundantly clear that the allegations were highly exaggerated as is
typically the case in these matters.
It might be a good idea to keep a clear head and hope that evidence "actual evidence" will determine events as opposed to
the salacious hysetria that usually surrounds these cases.
"...the decadent, feckless aristocracy deserve to be guillotined. The problem is...there is no one suitable to replace them."
100%. And I work as a psychiatric RN in a busy Emergency Room. Believe me, depravity in this country is not in the least
bit confined to 'elites'. They just make convenient scapegoats. I can tell you hundreds of stories. But conservatively, I would
estimate that anywhere from 50% to 75% of the women I care for were abused as children. And I have cared for literally thousands
of women over the years.
"This is how revolutions are born."
Not so fast. The French peasants were rioting over bread, not aristocratic decadence. In 21st Century America, no one is
starving. The poor in this country are obese, for Chr-sakes! And half the country is implicated in so-called 'aristocratic decadence',
through online porn.
And like John Lennon once wrote, "You say you want a revolution?" Be careful what you wish for...
Prosecutors will tiptoe around anything that puts them in an awkward position vis-a-vis the rich and powerful.
These are people that prosecutors want to owe you favors, and these are also people that can ruin the lives and career prospects
of law enforcement.
This explains why, to give instance, Comey engaged in comically tortured legal reasoning to justify not bringing charges
against HRC for servergate, when she would be cooling her heels in a SuperMax if she were a normie. According to conventional
wisdom, HRC was going to be the next president, already anointed practically, and that meant that she was someone that would
be in a position to do Comey big favors, and at the same time, someone that you did not want to make an enemy of.
Excellent article. But off the mark on one key point. The corruption of the elites and Ruling Class -- and they are sickeningly
corrupt -- is only a reflection of, or if you will a leading indicator, of a related corruption of the body politic.
The Clintons, for example, have been getting away with sordid and even criminal behavior for a long time. It didn't stop
a major political party from putting one of them at the top of its presidential ticket only a few years ago nor a majority of
voters from pulling the lever for her.
In fact, going back to the Lewinsky saga, it was not only the elites who pooh-poohed the whole thing; it was also the citizenry.
Check the record. Yeah, the Clintons are Exhibit A of the Real Problem. Anyway, there ain't gonna be a revolution, at least
not the kind that Michael Warren Davis warns of.
"In fact, going back to the Lewinsky saga, it was not only the elites who pooh-poohed the whole thing; it was also the citizenry.
Check the record. "
The equivalent today would have been if Mueller's replacement spent a few more years 'investigating' Trump, only to set him
up with a perjury trap over whether or not he committed adultery.
This piece at the very least is not well researched hit piece on Trump but seems more to be a rabble rousing class warfare
type click bait filler. James Patterson reports that Trump kicked Epstein out of Maro-a-Lago 15 years ago after there were complaints
that he was abusive to women and more recently has said he is not a fan of Epstein. I've seen no evidence that Trump participated
in the abuse of underage girls with Epstein. Trump is no saint but sensationalizing this story and implicating Trump to sell
your copy is not journalism.
So Trump simply makes a comment, has no record of any flights, attendance or participation and this article would have you
believe that it equates as despicable as a frequent flyer on the Lolita Express? This author is no different than the fake news.
And it was a comment made three years before the first known report to police about Epstein's behavior.
I read Trump's comment as Trump being Trump. Unless he is responding to a personal attack, Trump tends to layer on the compliments
and tries to speak positive about people.
Trump did allegedly make one flight on the plane, from the NY area to Florida. No records show him flying to the "orgy island".
Actually, the logs don't show that he was on the plane. Epstein's brother CLAIMS he was on the plane...the most anybody else
has said to support that is that Trump looked at the plane on the ground.
The author throws around "revolution" so casually... The guillotine definitely needs a resurgence; unfortunately, it's not just the aristocracy that needs it; moreover, there
are still none better suited to take over after they chopping has stopped.
And throws without not even a thought but also without care to learn or now.
It is funny that American journo is now invoking Stalin's ghost, but.... Stalinists were COUNTER-revolutionaries.
And he says he is sure he knows who they felt?
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Inflation, words means nothing today for journos, being merely a click-bait
It's a Trump problem insofar as he continues to defend Acosta. This is the Sec of Labor who effectively let Epstein walk
and who now oversees anti-human trafficking efforts (which he has repeatedly tried to gut the funding for).
Also, Trump supposedly told a campaign aide that he barred Epstein. Perhaps that's true. Hard to know with this inveterate
liar.
Did you see Acosta's press conference? The local State DA wanted to let Epstein walk - on a lesser state charge through a
Grand Jury. Acosta's US Attorney office stepped in to get the charges increased as much as they could so that Epstein would
do SOME jail time and - more importantly - have to register as a sex offender.
Now, should the Feds have interfered in a State case is a matter for another discussion. But Actosta's office did MORE than
what they should and everything they could with the evidence at the time.
As to Trump banning Epstein - it isn't "Trump told some aide", it is in the court records of the trial. Trump was subpoenaed
and talked voluntarily to the attorney for the girls. The attorney for the girls researched it and he says, and it is in the
court record, that Trump banned Epstein.
This is not a "Trump problem" as the media is trying to make it...this is a Dem problem.
I agree. As much as I detest Trump, I don't think that he was involved with Epstein's debauchery. However, I do believe the
women that claim being assaulted, because he is on tape claiming to do what they describe. And there is so many of them. And
he has had multiple documented affairs while married to every one of his wives. But no evidence yet of him with underage girls.
Right, because those Kavanaugh accusers were so credible, right? No evidence, decades later? Nope. Unlike Kavanaugh, Trump
was on a big stage for decades and was a pretty easy target with the tabloids looking for dirt...but none of them came forward.
THAT is your biggest clue that their claims are, as the judge recently said in dismissing one of these laughable cases, ""As
currently stated, the Complaint presents a political lawsuit, not a tort and wages lawsuit,"
Then, of course, the Trump lawyers just released a video of what happened that shows he gave her a peck on the cheek during
a conversation as he was leaving. She lied.
I think some conservative, maybe Rubio, needs to stand up and simply state they are going to lead on this, and then do so.
Simply go after anyone that is involved and make the casual nature of peoples knowledge of this kind of behavior into a something
that has to be repented of.
Trump owes America an apology, reading his comments it is obvious he was aware of, and disapproved of, Epstien proclivities,
but didn't have the guts to stand up. (I do not believe the stories of Trump being involved, but if it turns out I am wrong
on that, fry him )
For a republican leader to stand up as I am suggesting, would force the left to make a decision. Either abandon their current
attitudes towards sexual permissiveness, or defend them. Either way conservatives win.
That comment was from three years before Epstein was charged. But YOUNG does not mean TOO young, always, and Trump was obviously
speaking of what OTHERS say, not what he knew for a fact.
Davis--and many TAC readers--voted for Trump even though the then-candidate sexually assaulted women and got caught bragging
about it.
While I welcome conservatives to the #metoo era, it must be acknowledged that their "outrage" didn't come to life until they
could attach the dirty deeds to Bill Clinton and other "elites" (whatever that overused term means).
No, it came with Weinstein...who proved what Trump ACTUALLY said on the bus to be true. Not that HE, Trump, HAD grabbed women,
but that young women seeking fame would LET the rich and famous grab them. Shortly after we found out that this was true when
we found out about Weinstein and what those young starlets allowed. What people knew, all good Hollywood liberals and Dems,
and LET continue while accepting Weinstein's political contributions and working with him professionally.
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Occams_Razor_Trader_Part_Deux 3 hours ago removelink
If that freeeking punk is still breathing- it makes me question the existance of a GOD!
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Kefeer 4 hours ago removelink
I suspect much of his wealth deals with the acquisition of control files on wealthy
people. Blackmail for sale, which is "pay if you have been played".play_arrow 5
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NAV 2 hours ago removelink
And then there's blackmail for power. The American Anti-Defamation League has long made it a
practice for decades to tail all Congressmen – liberal or conservative -- as was brought
out in allegations in the San Francisco trial of its head operative Roy Bullock on charges of
buying blackmail information from members of the San Francisco Police Department as reported by
the San Francisco Examiner. Bullock had collected information and provided it to the ADL as a
secretly-paid independent contractor for more than 32 years.
Can it be that there's a connection between data of this kind and the unbelievable
unification of almost every congressman behind every Israeli position?
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Mah_Authoritah 4 hours ago (Edited) removelink
Lex Wexner is a big time pro Israeli with ties to the mob. Bet he was never caught on
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PKKA 4 hours ago removelink
According to Fox News, the plane was called the Lolita Express. It is noted that the owner
of the aircraft was convicted of pedophilia. On the plane of a man who even organized an
"island of sex slaves," even flew Hillary Clinton.
Epstein is known in the States as the organizer of the search for underage girls for private
parties, the media said, citing a source.
According to some data, in 2016 in the United States 52,147 children were illegally imported
from other countries. All these children are imported into the United States unaccompanied, but
with the constant sponsorship of a well-known family foundation.
I even wondered if Hilary's old pan loves little boys or girls? play_arrow 2Blondboys 4
hours ago removelink
He supposedly was part of the Tri Lateral Commission. Also never reported in to NYC cops
every 90 days as ordered. So while authorities have been watching him for years, nothing ever
was done. Comey's daughter is a prosecutor on this case? play_arrow
Anunnaki 4 hours ago removelink
Epstein was furious he had to register as a sex offender. ay_arrow 1
Proudly Unaffiliated 4 hours ago removelink
Ladies and Gentlemen, behold. This is the face of the Clinton wing of the Democratic party.
Pedophiles.
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FKTHEGVNMNT 5 hours ago (Edited) removelink
He will be broke AND EVERYTHING IS COMING OUT REGARDLESS IF HE TALKS.
In January, the state legislature passed the Child Victims Act
, which expanded the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases to give survivors more
time to seek criminal charges or sue their abusers -- or both.
Clear case. Epstein tricked men with capital into sex with minors. Had it all on tape.
Blackmail.
Forced them into investing into his firm or sell for ridiculous prices.
Then he ran with the money.
The more men were tricked, the mightier he became. Politicians, investment bankers, you name
it.
The honey trap. Blackmail. Makes no sence otherwise. play_arrow 8 play_arrow VWAndy 5
hours ago removelink
Not possible without state backing. As proof look at the courts handling of it.
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Captain Chlamydia 5 hours ago removelink
I did not say he worked alone.
It's standard Deep State protocol. play_arrow 8 play_arrow Berspankme 4
hours ago removelink
he had to have deep state backing or one the guys he blackmailed would have had him offed
long ago
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hours ago removelink
Another reason I think Epstein is a dead man walking.
Here's another fun exercise. When do we get to the point that the same crew surrounding
Epstein also filters into that Florida mess they barely covered up with the likes of Robert
Kraft?
They're better than you... And that's what they are trying to tell you and codify.
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Truth 5 hours ago removelink
Robert Kraft can be identified and charged. Bill Clinton or Prince Andrew or Tony Blair or
the CEO of Google - nope.
If I was Kraft's attorneys, I'd be screaming "What the hell? Why is my client arrested and
shamed and not these people?" play_arrowplay_arrow darkstar7646 4
hours ago removelink
A question I've been asking since he was one of the first ones named! play_arrowplay_arrow
Occams_Razor_Trader_Part_Deux 4 hours ago removelink
For a tug job no less!
It all depends who your friends are- Kraft was a Trump supporter, go figure.
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hours ago removelink
I'm more concerned on why so many rich ***** were rooting around a place like that than the
tug job -- especially with the caliber of women involved...
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ThorAss 5 hours ago removelink
We really should get the terms right. Having sex with a 14 year old is a crime, known as
statutory rape under some jurisdictions. It's not paedophilia. Lusting after a 14 year old is
also not paedophilia, which is reserved for pre-pubescent children. [E phebophilia
refers to the sexual preference for mid-to-late adolescents, hebephilia refers to the sexual preference
for earlier pubescent
individuals, and paedophilia refers to the primary or
exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children .] Adapted from Wikipedopedia
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FKTHEGVNMNT 5 hours ago removelink
More names-----& Juan Alessi, a long time Epstein household employee, has confirmed that
Dershowitz visited Epstein "pretty often. I would say at least four or five times a year" and
that he would "typically" stay two or three days. Similarly, Alfredo Rodriguez who worked for
Epstein approximately only six months confirmed that during that six months period Dershowitz
visited Epstein twice....... Find these ppl please, and do more than that.
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Anunnaki 5 hours ago removelink
Rodriguez got more time in jail from stealing from Epstein then Epstein did for molesting
underage girls.
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FKTHEGVNMNT 5 hours ago removelink
Good sleuthing. More please play_arrow 3 play_arrow
Anunnaki 4 hours ago removelink
And he died in prison. play_arrow 2 play_arrow
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Truth 5 hours ago removelink
Can one picture a scenario where Epstein DID tell the whole truth? Named all the names, all
the activities, exactly what happened, all the blackmail, all the spy agencies involved, all
the laundered money, all the officials who were bought off with his last pleas deal or went
along with his "sweetheart" deal, all the people who looked the other way, etc.
Imagine for a moment how mind-blowing such a story probably would be. How many revered
figures would be exposed as the most detestable people. How many businesses and government
organizations would be exposed as shams.
I don't know. I find it hard to believe any high-level person in government would allow such
a story be told to every person in the world.
In fact, after hearing such a story, some FBI agent would probably pause two seconds, and
then shoot Epstein between the eyes.
He would later be given a medal ... for "protecting national security."
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Truth 5 hours ago removelink
This scenario also explains why the government doesn't want Epstein to "talk." They don't
want to know. The more people who hear him talk, the more people who could tell this story.
Everyone assumes the government might offer Epstein a "deal" if he "talks." But that's the
last thing they want to happen. One reason they won't offer him a deal.
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hours ago removelink
Agreed, because it would probably implicate every economic, social, societal, political,
business, sports, entertainment, etc. major player and expose that there is an initiation to
the classic Carlin "Club" that you aren't a part of which involves such unspeakable acts (and
means that the girls have the same initiation to any degree of real relevance in our society)
in the name of "They're better than you." ay_arrow
PKKA 5 hours ago removelink
I already said this, I absolutely do not understand why such a wave of indignation is
coming? After all, everything is proceeding normally and consistently. Mr Epstein need to
reward! For example, you need to make him a knight, like Sir Elton John. After all, pedophilia
and pederasty, it is so fashionable now in the West. And right now a number of Western
countries are in favor of the legalization of pedophilia. So sir knight pedophile Epstein fits
perfectly into this fashionable concept. Don't forget to reward Prince Andrew. And Bill
Clinton, in general, you need to reward as much as 2 times! And all pedophiles should now be
welcomed and rewarded. y_arrow 1
SummerSausage 5 hours ago (Edited) removelink
I'm not defending Epstein - pedos deserve death - however there's one aspect of the story
the news refuses to tell and it explains how he got away with being a pedo for all those years
and why getting a conviction in 2007 was so tough.
Epstein selected poor girls. He paid them $200 for giving him a "massage" - even with no sex
- and up to $1,000 if they let him do more. None of the girls interviewed said her raped or
forced them. Then, he paid the girls $200 for each girl they brought. He insisted the girls
know what they were getting into - no surprises.
Some of these girls came back for years.
You can see how a defense attorney would have torn these girls apart in 2007 and how a jury
may have said "They were young but if they came back time and again they're just hookers. If
they brought their friends to him for money they're guilty pimps."
This information is from the book "TrafficKing" by Conchita Saffron - a crusader against
child sex trafficking and "Filthy Rich" by best seller and Palm Beach resident James Patterson.
It's taken from the Palm Beach County police files and interviews with the girls.
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Occams_Razor_Trader_Part_Deux 5 hours ago (Edited) removelink
Sex with a girl under age is rape- statutory rape.
An adult has an undue influence on a minor plain and simple, which may cause her to do
something that she may not really want to do.
As for solicitation of a prostitute- the prostitute was 14!! That's not prostitution it's
pedophilia.
But I get your point- it has a different feel then the Podesta brothers passing around an 8
year old boy to be 'abused'. lay_arrow 1 Give Me Some
Truth 5 hours ago removelink
At least one girl did say he raped her.
Yes, he just "groomed" them. Probably had it down to a science. play_arrow 4
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SummerSausage 5 hours ago (Edited) removelink
He did have it down to a science. I'm not excusing his behavior - just explaining why
getting a conviction would have been so difficult in 2006.
Remember that Hillary laughed about getting a rapist off that she KNEW was guilty. The girl
he raped was 12 and he left her in a coma. Hillary told the judge she heard the girl was
attracted to older men.
If Hillary got him acquitted by doing that, imagine hearing in 2006, that the girls were
making more in an hour than the jury members made in a day and they kept going back.
Acosta said that kind of victim shaming would not be allowed now but it was common then.
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Anunnaki 5 hours ago removelink
Ghislaine Maxwell and the Marcincova gal played roles too. play_arrow 1
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ago (Edited) removelink
Even if we were to buy the story that the girls had no better means of support than hooking
up with Epstein, the whole video taping high profile/powerful people having sex with underage
girls/boys in order to blackmail those people into doing your bidding is still a heinous crime
that needs prosecuting. For years, the population at large has seen people who rise to power
suddenly flip-flop, propose and pass the most insane, corrupt, backhanded legislation with
little excuse for why these people in power would do such things. If Epstein was pulling the
strings behind the scenes using his powers of blackmail, that would explain a lot.
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SummerSausage 5 hours ago removelink
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just providing the whole picture so you'll understand why
getting a conviction in 2007 was so dicey so having Epstein plead guilty, register forever as a
sex offender and pay restitution to the girls was considered a "win".
It would have been a different story if Epstein raped every girl and threw her out the door.
He was much smarter than that and compromised them to protect himself.
I hope everyone who had sex with any one of these girls is found out, stands trial and gets
punished. ay_arrow
Anunnaki 5 hours ago removelink
I read Filthy Rich. Dooshewitz harvested raunchy posts from the girls Myspace accounts and
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SummerSausage 5 hours ago removelink
Another reason why Acosta was so reluctant to put the girls on the stand. As he said, there
would have been victim shaming. Their lives would have been publicly destroyed.
Getting Epstein to plead guilty, register and pay restitution was better for the girls.
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Anunnaki 4 hours ago (Edited) removelink
Compounding the shame by having Epstein plead guilty of one count of soliciting
prostitution. These victims weren't prostitutes. But they were children of "white trash" and
Hispanic immigrants. Totally disposable.
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Moving and Grooving 3 hours ago removelink
I concur with your argument. Think of the difference between a full sentence served in a
tight, medium-security prison, under strict supervision, required to work, in gen pop, and the
short stay, only there from sundown to sunup, private security detail setup Epstein was allowed
to create last time he 'went to prison'.
As it is he's in a 10X10 unit 23.5 hours a day, with little hope of getting bail. Big
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ReflectoMatic 5 hours ago removelink
All those beautiful young people who flock to Hollywood year after year. Most of them get
scooped up into this awful machine of carnage by "wolves" who walk the blvd and bus station
looking for them. They get offers of modeling jobs and parts in movies, it's the gateway to
hell. Old Phil Marx is probably long dead and gone by now, he was one of the very few who
seeked out the worthy and opened doors of possibility in all directions. Thank-You Philsie,
Rest in Peace.
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FKTHEGVNMNT 5 hours ago removelink
Boom **** you CNN. FUCKIN PEDO LOVERS DIE DIE DIE!!! play_arrow 1 play_arrow
Occams_Razor_Trader_Part_Deux 5 hours ago removelink
I think Dersho-shitz saw the writing on the wall and quit laying into the President on a
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SummerSausage 5 hours ago removelink
According to James Patterson's book "Filthy Rich" Guiffre was coached to implicate
Dershowitz as part of a shakedown. She wanted $1 billion from Wexner (of The Limited &
Victoria Secret and close friend of Epstein). She wanted to show Wexner the kind of publicity
she could get against him if he didn't pay up. She was to get 1/3, her lawyers were to get 1/3
and a non-profit she set up (with her lawyers money) against sex trafficking would get 1/3.
Dershowitz was one of the attorneys who sued to get the records from 2007 unsealed when he
was one of Epstein's lawyers. If he had sex with any of the girls - especially Guiffre who had
been with Epstein for several years and who provided him with girls - she would have said
so.
There's no doubt big names and wealthy people are being protected but in this case I think
Dershowitz is being railroaded.
Guiffre was sexually abused as a child, lived on the streets and was sexually active before
meeting Epstein. She's a victim of domestic abuse as well. Not the most stable.
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Occams_Razor_Trader_Part_Deux 5 hours ago (Edited) removelink
You do mean James Patterson, the same James Patterson who took Bill Clinton under his wing
and co-wrote books with him??
The book is no whitewash. play_arrow 1 play_arrow 1
SummerSausage 5 hours ago removelink
Read the book and compare it to Sarnoff's. He did good, straight reporting on this book.
I hated that he co wrote with Clinton, too, but his book stands on its own. The facts and
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Occams_Razor_Trader_Part_Deux 5 hours ago removelink
So what was likely a (c) Intelligence Agency- blackmail scheme- was being black mailed by
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Mineshaft Gap 4 hours ago removelink
We'll know in good time (or we won't), but your thesis about Dershowitz being railroaded
looks possible to me for a couple of reasons.
One, he's seen in liberal land as having betrayed the team over Trump. The knives are out,
doubly so as the election season deepens and the Mueller hoax evaporates in an expensive
mist.
Two, the failure of the legal system to stop the monster Epstein is creating one of those
crises of faith in the hoi polloi.
These roll around whenever the official lies become so glaring that ordinary folk see
through the mirages of justice. They begin to grumble, in their unapproved ways, that things
just aren't on the level in the best of all possible nations.
To remedy this outbreak of clarity, the old playbook calls for sacrificing some scapegoats.
There are easier scapegoats to find than Dershowitz, though, who isn't going to be easily led
to the gallows. Hence the hapless Acosta.
This is taking place in an America coming apart at the seams culturally, with nothing
certain about her future as we get further from any idea of being a nation that can agree on
anything. If anything, the hall of mirrors is only growing longer. play_arrowplay_arrow
Occams_Razor_Trader_Part_Deux 3 hours ago removelink
"in an America coming apart at the seams culturally"
Not really just an illusion of unraveling by the committed Bolshevik media (who some say are
all led by the (C) Intelligence Agency). Nothing easier to control then a divided populace.
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hours ago removelink
Any grown man with a 14 year old girl is in most cases wrong. The handlers Epstein and the
bunch used knew the age and experience and maturity of these girls. I'm old now and don't want
anything to do with any of it, and will say that 21 year olds look like little kids to me.
But, but one time when I was 21 I was dating a young lady for a few weeks, and we had drank
and had sex, she spent the night and so forth. She lived with her sister. I was working
construction and this gal and her sister were moving so I just loaned her my truck during the
day, no problem as I had insurance. I never thought to ask if she had a drivers license as she
had driven to my place a few times. This was a mature looking woman.
She and I were coming back from having dinner at a nice restaurant and we were both having
drinks, several drinks. I was driving home and a cop pulled me over for a tail light out. He
came to my window and asked for our ID's which we handed him, and he took them to his patrol
car to run them. The gal next to me says, " I have to tell you something". And in my head I'm
thinking what, warrants or something? She says, " I'm only 15". And I ******* near screamed
nooooooooooooo, nooooooooooo. this can't be, look at you, the restaurant we were just drinking
at never even thought of asking you for ID, we've been out to bars, dancing. Why in gods world
did you keep that from me? Now I'll be going to pedo prison, god dammit, you just killed
me.
The cop comes back to my window, hands us our ID's [hers was from Idaho, apparently at that
time they could get dl's at 14?] and the cop says to me, " I think you better take her home". I
said, I agree. It was like letting the air out of a dirigible, a long continuous psssssss, as
the blood returned and my heart started beating again. I don't know how any 15 year old could
look that mature, but no one ever even thought of asking her for ID. I was horrified. Never
again, would I come close to making that mistake. But the truth is, I did. She was good in bed
to, but it shrinks my **** if I even think of that moment. I was horrified, because what
average, real, decent man wants to knowingly bed a 15 year old? Not me. My conscience haunted
me for a few months afterward, knowing I had bedded a kid. But she didn't look like no kid I
ever saw before. play_arrow Give Me Some
Truth 5 hours ago removelink
If you read the story in the Miami Herald, Epstein was looking for girls that looked as
young as possible. In fact when they got older, or if their breasts were "too developed," he
got rid of them.
We've just heard of the girls his "recruiters" found in NY and Florida. Another part of this
was he partnered up with a guy who had an "international modeling agency." These models, not
from America, were often 12, 13, 14, 15.
And one doesn't have to use his imagination to figure out why a ranch in the middle of no
where in New Mexico was so desirable as one of his compounds. play_arrow 1
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SummerSausage 5 hours ago removelink
You're correct but the girls were the primary suppliers of girls. According to their own
testimony, they recruited their friends asking "do you want to make a lot of money" then they
were told what they would have to do.
Not excusing Epstein or condoning in any way. Just informing that he had the system down
pat. Yes, he invested $1 million in the modeling agency EM2 and brought in young girls with
promises of modeling careers. But he also targeted poor American girls and paid $200 - $1,000
for sex and a $200 commission for every girl they brought to him. play_arrow 1
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Truth 5 hours ago removelink
No doubt, many (most) of the girls ended up going along. They voluntarily kept coming
back.
The crime is that these were "girls." Easily manipulated and intimidated. If they were 18 or
older, I guess all you could charge them with was prostitution and him with soliciting
prostitutes.
Of course, he did "give" the girls to all his friends with orders to "give so and so what he
wants." play_arrowplay_arrow
Occams_Razor_Trader_Part_Deux 5 hours ago removelink
Ray Chandler owned the modelling agency- short for Rachel, a chick. play_arrow
makinbacon 4 hours ago removelink
Put myself through college driving school buses and occasionally a 13-teen year old girl
would get on dressed like a hooker....
You be be hard pressed to guess she was under 20.
I would just look at her and say , " Parents are out of town huh? " ....Her reply , " Yep! "
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hours ago removelink
You are a goy with a conscience. A *** has no soul or conscience and has no consideration
for goyim as people/human beings. Jews are sociopathic reptiles. play_arrow 1
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Truth 6 hours ago removelink
It's worth highlighting that the only reason the Palm Beach Police detectives presented
their info to the FBI and the Feds, is that they had first presented it to state prosecutors,
who suddenly stopped returning their calls and clearly weren't going to file charges against
Epstein (at least all the charges that should have been filed).
So the Republican attorney, Acosta, and the Democratic State prosecutor, both wimped out and
covered for Epstein and his associates.
But note how all the focus is only on Acosta, the Republican. play_arrow 2
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Ms No 6 hours ago removelink
The lights have been flipped on the evil. Its all there for anyone with functioning
cognition, a soul or basic instincts.
The evil is exposed for exactly what and where it is. We have done our part and now its up
to the world what they do. play_arrow 9 play_arrow 1
heads_and_thales 6 hours ago removelink
Connected with Abercrombie and Fitch founder? Shocker. play_arrow 5 play_arrow
ReflectoMatic 5 hours ago (Edited) removelink
Wow! That is an amazing find.
"Once known for its sexualised ad campaigns, the company has toned down its imagery and no
longer displays nearly nude models in their advertisements. According to then-chairman Arthur
Martinez, these changes provide the hopes that the audience will see the company is evolving
along with its consumers, and boost sales. [4] Abercrombie
& Fitch is now targeting an older consumer, from ages 21 to 24
"Finally, in 1988, Oshman's sold the company name and operations to The Limited , a clothing-chain operator"
" L Brands, Inc. (formerly known as Limited Brands, Inc. and The Limited,
Inc. ) is an American fashion retailer based in Columbus, Ohio.
Of course, they have connections to modeling agencies for those children, and we know all
about the "casting couch". play_arrow 1 play_arrow Give Me Some
Truth 6 hours ago (Edited) removelink
Shouldn't this headline read: "Esptein's lackof Wall Street ties
revealed"
For a billionaire "money manager" there's no evidence he's managing anyone's money.
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Ms No 5 hours ago removelink
He is a front for Mossad and Rothschild banker fuckery. So is Soros.
Soros is just more overt about his activities making it more important that distance is
perceived between entities. All they usually have to do is have Bibi and Soros say bad things
about each other, because people are literally all that stupid.
Thank God murder detectives arent usually so easily thrown off or not one murder would ever
be solved. play_arrow 9 play_arrow 1 gilhgvc 6 hours
ago removelink
the connections between them???....THEY ARE PEDOPHILES, LIKE EPSTEIN. Trust me they may
start with 16 yr olds, but they will eventually need more danger and excitement and they WILL
move on to younger and younger kids...if you think this stopped at some runaway girls, you are
a bigger idiot than Bernie Sanders play_arrow 3 play_arrow
Ms No 5 hours ago (Edited) removelink
Epstein likes pre teens and teens. He certainly provided children. That will be more hidden
because its more dangerous. Thats likely what the island is for. Cant wait to find out who
provides security for island.
Epstein is tied to Clinton and Clinton is tied to child traffickers in Haiti after
earthquake.
Mossad has long been known by many of us to be primary international player in child and
organ trafficking. Just waiting for it to be spelled out to our dumb society by Anne Coulter
and MSM, which means they will figure it out after the fact.
Clintons probably helped but would have liked to have replaced Epstein but they cant. They
are just willing victims of leverage and not Jewish banking oligarchs, despite marrying-in
their daughter. They could never be more. They rose as high as Goy can. Look what happened too.
They got everybody caught. Epstein was noticed most because of Bill Clinton. play_arrow
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hillbilly 6 hours ago (Edited) removelink
You... can't even work a second job at $15/hr without it being immediately transparent to
gov. God forbid you do a side job for cash.
How... can a known criminal of the worst sort hide and access at will 100's of millions of
$$?
If this guy and all his "friends" fold away quietly into the night, then all is lost my
fellow Americans.
A country ruled by sexual deviants/predators isn't worth defending.
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FKTHEGVNMNT 6 hours ago removelink
More poop to scoop, more names for y'all
Jane Doe #43 vs. Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff, and Natalya
Malyshev, is the second pending civil lawsuit filed against Maxwell by a sex trafficked
survivor.
Prosecutors DID name names in the Kraft case. One of the "Johns" was identified. Actually
all of them were.
This happens in cities all the time when some undercover female police officers pose as
prostitutes and then arrest about 20 "Johns" in one night. These people's names and photos are
published in the newspaper and on websites. The entire idea is to shame these people, which
presumably serves as a deterrent to other would-be customers.
One assumes the government could also name all the "Johns" in the Epstein case too, right?
Who actually got "massages" from children?
Name them. Arrest them. Take their picture as a mug shot and publicize it.
But if you are Prince Andrew or Bill Clinton or Tony Blair or some Fortune 500 CEO or Alan
Dershowitz you don't have to worry about such an outcome.
It's called "equal justice for all." play_arrow 2 play_arrow
Moving and Grooving 3 hours ago removelink
+1 for not adding President Trump to the list. play_arrowplay_arrow
AAPL Slayer 6 hours ago removelink
Here's an idea,start hauling in every pilot every person that worked on any of these flights
clear down to the mechanics it took to keep it faa legal including whoever recorded these
flight logs they are all complicit they may as well have been driving the getaway car for a
bank robbery and see what they have to say from a cell play_arrow 9 play_arrow 1
ToSoft4Truth 6 hours ago removelink
Trump shooting Epstein with a *** made Glock "in the middle of Fifth Avenue" would get my
vote. play_arrow 2 play_arrow 1
Rusticus2.0 6 hours ago (Edited) removelink
I'm sure that option has been looked at.
Since Epstein hasn't suicided himself, one has to assume he's got an insurance policy .
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Truth 6 hours ago removelink
It would actually be great if Epstein talked and told all. Named names, gave details,
etc.
Not that he's going to do this. Not that the government is even going to ask him to do this.
They won't.
Essentially Epstein run a brothel for influential politicians and other stars. Girls were paid so they were hired prostitutes.
That fact that he did it with impunity for so long suggest state sponsorship.
Notable quotes:
"... In fact, the case against Epstein seems so overwhelming that it's already been reported , albeit not confirmed, that his lawyers are seeking a plea bargain. Yet even if Epstein doesn't "flip," it's a cinch that many luminaries -- in politics, business, and entertainment -- will at least be named, if not outright inculpated. ..."
"... Yet perhaps the most aching parallel to Epstein is the NXIUM sex slave case, which has already led to guilty pleas and entangled not only Hollywood stars but also heirs to one of North America's great fortunes, the Bronfmans. ..."
"... In 1944, film legend Charlie Chaplin, too, found himself busted on a Mann Act rap. Chaplin was accused of transporting a young "actress" across state lines; he was acquitted after a sensational trial, but not before it was learned that he had financed his lover's two abortions. Chaplin's career in Hollywood was effectively over. ..."
"... In fact, if one takes all these horrible cases in their totality -- Varsity Blues, NXIUM, Epstein -- one might fairly conclude that the problem is larger than just a few rich and twisted nogoodniks. ..."
"... Hardly. It merely puts it into historical perspective. Epstein is but one of a long line of serial sexual predators through the ages. ..."
"... Biological parentage is no guarantee of virtue towards children. Predatory behaviour towards children is most likely to come from within the family. ..."
"... Bill Clinton had at least 26 international trips on Epstein's private plane, including 18 to Epstein's private Caribbean island, which was reportedly staffed with dozens of underage women, mostly from Latin America. It was referred to as "Orgy Island" or "Pedo Island" by the locals. ..."
"... I disagree show me where the Progressives have any morals after all look at Clinton. Even the so called fake republicans are guilty. Our country is in the toilet . The schools are hotbeds of moral decay teaching kids LGBT sex education etc. ..."
"... Marx himself understood, capitalism is a fundamentally chaotic, disruptive, even revolutionary force that destroys everything that conservatives value the most (and want to "conserve.") The free-market fundamentalism that so many conservatives accept as gospel truth really is nothing more than a "false consciousness." ..."
"... If ever a situation called for rendition, this is it. I've been following this since 2007, and my intuition tells many more important people are involved than those we know. ..."
"... Be very skeptical. Why is DOJ suddenly resurrecting a case that was settled 10 years ago? I can't help to wonder if this isn't yet another part of the coup attempt. ..."
"... Trump also gave other evidence and information he had gleaned to prosecutors during the first Epstien trial. ..."
"... We should point this out as often as possible because liberal media is trying to smear Trump by including his name next to Epstien in every article. ..."
Jeffrey Epstein's trial may do what no other could: Bring populists and progressives together against predatory elites.
By JAMES P. PINKERTON •
July 10, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein mugshot (public domain)
The legal proceedings against financier Jeffrey Epstein are going to be spectacular. The sober-minded New York Times is
already running
headlines such as "Raid on Epstein's Mansion Uncovered Nude Photos of Girls," describing the victims as "minors, some as young
as 14." So, yes, this story is going to be, well, lit .
Epstein is the pluperfect "Great White Defendant," to borrow the phrase from Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities.
In Epstein's case, even the left, normally indulgent on crime, is going to be chanting: lock him up.
In fact, the case against Epstein seems so overwhelming that it's already been
reported , albeit not confirmed, that
his lawyers are seeking a plea bargain. Yet even if Epstein doesn't "flip," it's a cinch that many luminaries -- in politics, business,
and entertainment -- will at least be named, if not outright inculpated.
Which is to say, the Epstein case is shaping up as yet another lurid look at the lifestyles of the rich, famous, and powerful,
sure to boil the blood of populists on the right and class warriors on the left. In this same vein, one also thinks of the "Varsity
Blues" college admissions scandal, as well as the post-Harvey Weinstein #MeToo movement.
Yet perhaps the most aching parallel to Epstein is the
NXIUM sex slave case, which has already led to guilty pleas and entangled not only Hollywood stars but also heirs to one of
North America's great fortunes, the Bronfmans.
In that NXIUM case, it's hard not to notice the similarity between "NXIUM" and "Nexum," which was the ancient Roman word for
personal debt bondage -- that is, a form of slavery.
The Romans, of course, were big on conquest and enslavement, and such aggression always had a sexual dimension, as has been the
case, of course, for all empires, everywhere. Thus we come to a consistent theme across human history, namely the importation of
pretty young things from the provinces for the lecherous benefit of the rich and powerful.
It's believed that Saint Gregory the Great, the pope in the late sixth and early seventh centuries, gazed upon English boys at
a Roman slave market and remarked, non Angli, sed angeli, si forent Christiani ; that is, "They are not Angles, but angels,
if they were Christian." Gregory's point was that such lovely beings needed to be converted to Christianity, although, of course,
others had, and would continue to have, other intentions.
If we fast-forward a thousand years or so, we see another kind of enslavement, resulting, at least in part, from profound economic
inequality. William Hogarth's famous prints , "A
Harlot's Progress," follow the brief life of the fictive yet fetching Moll Hackabout, who comes from the provinces to London seeking
employment as a seamstress -- only to end up as a kept woman, then as a prostitute, before dying of syphilis.
Interestingly, a traditional song about descent into earthly hell, "House of the Rising Sun,"
made popular again in the '60s , also makes reference
to past honest work in the garment trade -- "my mother was a tailor."
If we step back and survey civilization's sad saga of exploitation, we see that it occurs under all manner of political and economic
systems, from feudalism to capitalism to, yes, communism. As for ravenous reds, there's the notorious case of Stalinist apparatchik
Lavrenti Beria, whom one chronicler
says enjoyed "a Draculean sex life that combined love, rape, and perversity in almost equal measure."
In the face of such a distressing litany, it's no wonder that there have been periodic reactions, some of them violent and extreme,
such as the original "bonfire of the vanities" back in the 15th century, led by the zealously puritanical cleric, Savonarola.
Yet for most of us, it's more cheering to think that prudential reform can succeed. One landmark of American reform was the
White-Slave Traffic Act , signed into law in 1910
("white slavery," we might note, is known today as "sex trafficking"). That law, aimed at preventing not only prostitution but also
"debauchery," is known as the Mann Act in honor of its principal author, Representative James R. Mann, Republican of Illinois, who
served in Congress from 1897 to 1922.
Mann's career mostly coincided with the presidential tenures of two great reformers, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. And
it's hard to overstate just how central to progressive thinking was the combatting of "vice." After all, if the goal was to create
a just society, it also had to be a wholesome society; otherwise no justice could be sustainable. Thus when Roosevelt served
as police commissioner of New York City in the mid-1890s, he focused on fighting vice, rackets, and corruption.
Of course, Mann, Roosevelt, and Wilson had much more on their minds than just cleaning up depravity. They saw themselves as reformers
across the board; that is, they were eager to improve economic conditions as well as social ones.
So it was that Mann also co-authored the Mann-Elkins
Act , further regulating the railroads; he also spearheaded the
Pure Food and Drug Act
, creating the FDA. It's interesting that when Mann died in 1922, The New York Times ran an entirely admiring
obituary , recalling him as "a dominating figure in the House [a] leader in dozens of parliamentary battles." In other words,
back then, the Times was fully onboard with full-spectrum cleanup, on the Right as well as the Left.
To be sure, the Mann Act hardly eradicated the problem of sex-trafficking, just as Mann's other legislative efforts did not put
an end to abuses in transportation and in foods and drugs. However, we can say that Mann made things better .
Of course, the Mann Act has long been controversial. Back in 1913, the African-American boxer Jack Johnson was convicted according
to its provisions. (Intriguingly, in 2018, Johnson was posthumously
pardoned
by President Trump.)
In 1944, film legend Charlie Chaplin, too, found himself busted on a Mann Act rap. Chaplin was accused of transporting a
young "actress" across state lines; he was acquitted after a sensational trial, but not before it was learned that he had financed
his lover's two abortions. Chaplin's career in Hollywood was effectively over.
Cases such as these made the Mann Act distinctly unpopular in "sophisticated" circles. Of course, criticism from the smart set
is not the same as proof that the law is not still valuable. That's why, more than a century after its passage, the Mann Act is
still on the books, albeit much amended. Lawmakers agree that it's still necessary, because, after all, there's always a need to
protect women
from wolves .
Now back to Epstein. If we learn that he was actually running something called the "Lolita Express," that would be a signal that
prosecutors have a lot of work to do, rounding up the pedophile joyriders. So it was interesting on July 6 to see Christine Pelosi,
daughter of the House speaker, posting a stern
tweet : "This Epstein case is horrific and the young women deserve justice. It is quite likely that some of our faves are implicated
but we must follow the facts and let the chips fall where they may -- whether on Republicans or Democrats."
So we can see: the younger Pelosi wants one standard -- a standard that applies to all.
In fact, if one takes all these horrible cases in their totality -- Varsity Blues, NXIUM, Epstein -- one might fairly conclude
that the problem is larger than just a few rich and twisted nogoodniks.
That is, the underlying issues of regional and social inequality -- measured in power as well as wealth -- must be addressed.
To put the matter another way, we need a bourgeoisie that is sturdier economically and more sure of itself culturally. Only then
will we have Legions of Decency and other
Schlafly-esque activist groups to function as counterweights to a corrosive and exploitative culture.
Of course, as TR and company knew, if we seek a better and more protective American equilibrium, a lot will have to change --
and not just in the culture.
Most likely, a true solution will have "conservative" elements, as in social and cultural norming, and "liberal" elements, as
in higher taxes on city slickers coupled with conscious economic development for the proletarians and for the heartland. Only with
these economic and governmental changes can we be sure that it's possible to have a nice life in Anytown, safely far away from beguiling
pleasuredomes.
To be sure, we can't expect ever to solve all the troubles of human nature -- including the rage for fame that drives some youths
from the boondocks. But we can at least bolster the bourgeois alternative to predatory Hefnerism.
In the meantime, unless we can achieve such structural changes, rich and powerful potentates will continue to pull innocent angels
into their gilded dens of iniquity.
James P. Pinkerton is an author and contributing editor at . He served as a White House policy aide to both Presidents
Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
"Most likely, a true solution will have "conservative" elements, as in social and cultural norming, and "liberal" elements,
as in higher taxes on city slickers coupled with conscious economic development for the proletarians and for the heartland."
Neither of which will happen with the blue megacities having political control.
"(T)here's always a need to protect women from wolves." It should be noted that boys who are sex-trafficked also fall under
the Mann Act. This may not be clear from Wikipedia.
Wow! What a wonderful article! The compassion for the young victims just jumps off the screen along with the disgust at the
corruption that has allowed this predator to damage so many lives over at least three decades.
No, the fact is that your dispassionate, detached, political assessment objectifies and dehumanizes the girls that
were abused by Epstein and by the stupidly named "justice system" and reflects the obnoxious rot at the root of our society
when it comes to the abuse of women and children.
When it comes right down to it, this doesn't really matter to you, it is just another political amusement.
"Most likely, a true solution will have "conservative" elements, as in social and cultural norming, and "liberal" elements,
as in higher taxes on city slickers coupled with conscious economic development for the proletarians and for the heartland.
Only with these economic and governmental changes can we be sure that it's possible to have a nice life in Anytown, safely far
away from beguiling pleasuredomes."
Liberal "social and cultural norming" (as in feminism, consent, discussion of sexual matters (gasp!) in the public sphere,
#MeToo, etc.) is what is making a difference more because such things are encouraging victims and giving them support. The (cough)
"justice" system needs reform so that rape kits get processed, victims are listened to instead of shamed, cases are actually
investigated, rapists aren't let off because "he comes from a good family" etc. The Nevada Legislature with it's recent legislation
is leading the way, because it has a female majority. THAT is what will change things FINALLY.
His "historical perspective" is just more of the same sh*t we have heard for millennia as are his prescriptions for solutions.
A key conclusion of the article is that Epstein and other recent scandals about the abuse of power mean "issues of regional
and social inequality -- measured in power as well as wealth -- must be addressed."
So if all regions and all social classes were equal, this would go away? First, gifts have always been and will always be
distributed unequally, so this egalitarian utopia will never be obtained -- leading to the indefinite justification "we have
more work to do" to force people and society into an unattainable intellectual ideal, and justifying endless injustices in the
process. Second, the article itself points out that the Soviets who ostensibly pursued an egalitarian state had a famous abuser
among the ranks of their political bosses (and likely had others we don't known about).
Ultimately, kids are best cared for and defended in family with their biological parents -- the very unit of society that's
been under unceasing attack for decades. Support the family and support small business which is responsible for something like
80% of new jobs created in the US. Then vigorously enforce the laws that are already on the books. A key problem with Epstein
was the law was for years or decades not enforced against him, I strongly suspect because he had very highly placed political
connections, probably several of which were sexually abusing young girls (and/or boys?) Epstein "introduced" them to. What amount
of social engineering or experimentation is going to eliminate that kind of political corruption? I highly doubt any will. Once
it's discovered, everyone involved should be prosecuted and exposed -- and any other cases of sex slavery rings discovered in
the process likewise have all their members prosecuted & exposed.
Lavrenti Beria as the prescient symbol of Soviet Babbitry v. worldwide immorality! So was Ernst Rohm! Thank god for the KGB
and SS as harbingers of true moral concern over sex abuse!
"Ultimately, kids are best cared for and defended in family with their biological parents "
LMAO. Historically the family and biologoical parents were part and parcel in many of the deals involved with these trades.
Biological parentage is no guarantee of virtue towards children. Predatory behaviour towards children is most likely
to come from within the family. I can't remember the family name but there was a family that made a big thing of their
"Proper Christian Family" even while one son was abusing his younger sister/s and the Parents protected and shielded him.
"In Epstein's case, even the left, normally indulgent on crime, is going to be chanting: lock him up." - You almost lost
me on that one. The Left is not normally 'indulgent on crime'. However, The Left is resistant to making 'immorality' (pot smoking,
sodomy, gambling, gay marriage, etc) criminal, given how driving 'vice' underground and making it illegal has unintended consequences
(such as creating the mafia and Latin American drug cartels) that are worse than 'the crime', but I decided to read on.
"That is, the underlying issues of regional and social inequality -- measured in power as well as wealth -- must be addressed."
- All in for that one. Glad to see your 'wokeness'. Please send a check to Bernie.
"In the meantime, unless we can achieve such structural changes, rich and powerful potentates will continue to pull innocent
angels into their gilded dens of iniquity" - Like Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, Roy Moore, David Vitter, Dennis Hastert, Chris
Collins, Duncan Hunter, Michael Grimm, and on and on.
The Democrats have shown they are more than willing to ostracize members of their own team (Al Franken) for alleged and actual
wrongdoing. The Republicans, not so much, since they usually overlook all kinds of deviance if a politically expedient. Such
as Tim Murphy from PA and Scott DesJarlais from TN, both married 'anti-abortion' zealots caught urging their mistresses to have
abortions.
"The Democrats have shown they are more than willing to ostracize members of their own team (Al Franken) for alleged
and actual wrongdoing."
Like Bill Clinton. The same Team D Wokemon champions who insisted that any form of sexual or romantic contact between a male
supervisor and a female subordinate was by definition sexual harassment suddenly changed their tune when Bill Clinton was the
supervisor.
Not only that, but they came up with the most hilarious tortured redefinitions of "perjury" in order to justify their hero.
For the record: I am not a Team R fan either, but I am not so naive as to think the problem is limited to one team.
It is not. Bill Clinton was a cad. No doubt. But I find it very interesting that Juanita Broaddick recanted her allegations
against Clinton when Ken Starr put her under oath.
The only outrage Democrats will actually express over Epstein is to again tar and feather Trump in the usual fashion: Nibble
at the toes of hapless political operatives and bureaucrats like Acosta, and then accuse the President of colluding in his own
purported ignorance and self-enrichment.
There is an elephant in the room I think many conservatives are ignoring right now. A real big one...
"President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, the 66-year-old hedge fund manager charged this week with sex trafficking and
conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, were the only other attendees to a party that consisted of roughly two dozen women at
his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, according to a New York Times report."
"In 1992, the women were reportedly flown in for a "calendar girl" competition that was requested by Trump, The Times said.
"At the very first party, I said, 'Who's coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming,'" former Trump associate George Houraney
reportedly said. "It was him and Epstein."
"I said, 'Donald, this is supposed to be a party with VIPs. You're telling me it's you and Epstein," he recalled saying."
"Houraney claimed to have warned Trump about Epstein's behavior and said the real estate tycoon did not heed his notice.
Houraney, a businessman, reportedly said Trump "didn't care" about how he had to ban Epstein from his events."
This is an old elephant. It raised its head during the campaign and did not make much in the way of waves. Will it come back
to bite the president today -- one hopes that its all rumor hearsay and gossip.
I am willing to grant that the president may have been a "masher" in his day. Whether that means relations with children
is another matter.
Bill Clinton had at least 26 international trips on Epstein's private plane, including 18 to Epstein's private Caribbean
island, which was reportedly staffed with dozens of underage women, mostly from Latin America. It was referred to as "Orgy Island"
or "Pedo Island" by the locals.
One is a retired politician. The other is the current POTUS. If Bill is guilty, lock him up. If Trump is guilty - we need
to know ASAP and he can no longer be the president.
If Jeffery Epstein is such a monster then what is one to make of a man who has been quoted as saying "You can do what ever
you want, grab them by the *****." and then during a presidential debate shamelessly state "I have great respect for women.
Nobody has more respect for women than I do."?
Laughing good grief --- First I have to get passed the suggestion that guys bragging nonsensically about their female conquests
is the same hiring teens to for relations.
Good grief . . . these types of issues are ripe for hysterics.
excuse my politically incorrect suggestion of making the categorical distinctions
I disagree show me where the Progressives have any morals after all look at Clinton. Even the so called fake republicans
are guilty. Our country is in the toilet . The schools are hotbeds of moral decay teaching kids LGBT sex education etc.
Cultural Marxism is at play and next they will soften up and normalize pedophile. As far as the women's movement they are bitter
progressives who on there Facebook moaning about how they make less money then men. Who is taking of the kids? There are no
real men any more they have become boys!! Sex is every where and no one cares they all going along with the new world order!
You forgot to mention our current thrice divorced President who cheats on his wife with porn stars and pays them to stay
quiet. Strong moral leadership....
If this happened, my faith in the "rule of law" and in prosecutors and law enforcement treating everyone equally might be
restored. But, alas, we all know this is not going to happen.
"...the younger Pelosi wants one standard -- a standard that applies to all."
Don't we all. But if history teaches us anything it teaches that the higher up the socioeconomic food chain we go, the more
"flexible" that standard becomes.
So we'll see about Epstein--and all the other big shots who were in on this debauch.
"...the younger Pelosi wants one standard -- a standard that applies to all."
Does she want that single standard to apply to people that flaunt our laws by having, say, a clandestine and illegal email
server that was used for classified correspondence?
Mr. Pinkerton apparently (like many) needs to learn what the definition of pedophile is (hint: It's doesn't mean any and
all sex under he legal age of consent). However illegal (to say nothing of distasteful and immoral) Epstein's actions may have
been, based on the claims I've seen, he is not a pedophile.
I also find it hard to believe that Clinton and others didn't know. Rumours of Epstein's proclivities, and his plane being
called "Lolita Express," have been around for along-time, but Epstein has been protected by his connections and wealth. Clinton
flew nearly 30 times on Epstein's private jet. Is he the only person in the world who never heard the stories about him? What
did he know and when did he know it?
If you're asking that question about Clinton- a 90s has-been politician whose own party has moved on past him, then I hope
you're also asking it about the current president who was also a bosom buddy to Epstein.
According to flight manifests, Trump flew one time, from New York to Palm Beach, on Epstein's plane. Clinton took at least
26 international trips on the Lolita Express, including 18 trips to Epstein's private Caribbean island, where he supposedly
had dozens of underage women from Latin America kept. The locals referred to it at 'Orgy Island" and "Pedo Island". We're not
exactly comparing apples to apples here, are we?
Compare the Mueller soap opera. The characters in that story were sleazy international fixers and blackmailers who worked
for everyone. Same type as Epstein. They worked for KGB, CIA, Clinton, Trump, Mossad, Saudi. Despite the universality of the
crimes, Mueller meticulously "saw" only the crimes that involved Trump and Russia. FBI always works that way. Any accusation
or evidence that doesn't fit the predefined story disappears.
Muller had a specific investigatory mission. He was not empowered to look into every government scandal since Alexander Hamilton
was blackmailed by Maria Reynolds.
Part of what doomed the post-WWII "Right" was the "fusionism" between conservatism and capitalism. While the latter got real
policy results, the former was merely pandered to during elections but otherwise ignored. As a result, leftists and centrists
mistakenly came to believe that being "right-wing" means being a corporate shill lobbying to cut taxes for the rich and pay
for it by cutting programs for the poor.
At the same time,
as Marx himself understood, capitalism is a fundamentally chaotic, disruptive, even revolutionary force that destroys
everything that conservatives value the most (and want to "conserve.") The free-market fundamentalism that so many conservatives
accept as gospel truth really is nothing more than a "false consciousness."
Many traditionalists (such as Russell Kirk) resisted fusionism for placing too much emphasis on markets and not enough on
the conservative commitment "to religious belief, to national loyalty, to established rights in society, and to the wisdom
of our ancestors." And many libertarians (such as F.A. Hayek) explicitly rejected conservatism for being too nationalistic
and hostile toward open systems.
If conservatives want any political future in this country, then they're going to have to "de-fuse," so to speak, with capitalism,
which has been exploiting their support in order to advance policies against their own interests and values. If
"Woke Capitalism" isn't the final straw, then what will it take? Conservatives could learn a lot from the Progressive Movement
of the 1890s-1920s, which despite its name was far more conservative than the David-Frenchist National Review is nowadays.
Indeed, the Progressives' reformist playbook (which recognized that the rapid changes brought by industrialization, immigration,
and urbanization had caused corruption, poverty, and vice) could and should be dusted off for today.
As far as Epstein goes, I'm rather pessimistic that he'll ever be punished and that the public will ever learn the full extent
of his crimes. While Nancy Pelosi's daughter may be principled (and good for her), the fact that so many wealthy and powerful
people may be incriminated is precisely why he'll be let off easy and the evidence will be covered up, just like last time.
I have zero confidence in our justice system, particularly in the hyper-politicized SDNY.
If ever a situation called for rendition, this is it. I've been following this since 2007, and my intuition tells many
more important people are involved than those we know. Anyone involved would be terrified; they'll have to break someone
to get the facts. As someone who was almost abducted at age 9, I say get on it.
Be very skeptical. Why is DOJ suddenly resurrecting a case that was settled 10 years ago? I can't help to wonder if this
isn't yet another part of the coup attempt.
Twisted sisters will do what they do with or without social disparities. All you can do is bury them when you catch them.
If the rich and famous get caught up, no ones fault but their own.
The Mann Act mainly served to enforce Roman Catholic ideas about marriage's being somehow special. The Bible offers no such
thing as an example of a religious marriage, whether Muslim, Catholic or Protestant, unless it be that of Job.
You expect a free pass for this term paper theory that downright American types are going to unite to stop sexual predation,
and their brains will swirl with reminiscences of St. Gregory and Sen. Mann?
I am unaware that Chaplin's career was "effectively over" after his sex trial. Chaplin made "Monsieur Verdoux" in 1947 in
good time after the modern Bluebeard of France, Marcel Petiot made headlines (this predator swindled Jews of safe passage money
out of France, poisoned them, and burned their bodies in his home. No time of reckoning for France or Francophiles here). Five
years later he released "Limelight", which could be called a loving tribute to vaudeville and silent film at the same time (Buster
Keaton appeared, and it is said that many omitted segments were his finest hour in the sound era. Note that financially and
at box office, Keaton was as ruined and burned out as countless others, but was in the end a hard working trouper who even made
it to Samuel Beckett!). Chaplin flagged thereafter, but made films at exactly the pace he wished, as characterized by the slow
linger from "Modern Times" to "The Great Dictator".
Errol Flynn on the other hand was boosted by his sex scandal as alleged with a 15 year old. His release "They Died With Their
Boots On" made reference to the allegation that Flynn was naked except for a pair of boots. And remember the original Hollywood
Confidential scandal that rounded up dozens of celebrities including Lizbeth Scott in a prostitution ring? All forgotten.
So if your going to make big analogies between Hollywood, celebrity, and yet another paroxysm of soon to evaporate Puritan
righteousness, at least know what you're talking about.
For the record, I believe that if Epstein punched 8 years above his weight in his choice of femmes, he might never have been
caught.
The article is way to long and I read the first paragraph and after the words "The sober-minded New York Times" I jumped
to the comments. The headline was enough for me...I agree, Lock Him Up.
"... Bear Stearns -- the bank that had given Mr. Epstein his start -- was still among his investments when the crisis hit. According to a lawsuit he later filed against the bank, Mr. Epstein controlled about 176,000 shares of Bear Stearns, worth nearly $18 million, in August 2007. ..."
"... Mr. Epstein sold 56,000 shares at $101 each that month. He sold the remaining 120,000 shares in March 2008 as the firm was collapsing -- 20,000 at $35 and the rest at $3.04, losing big. He also lost about $50 million in one of Bear's hedge funds. ..."
"... By the time Bear Stearns came apart, Mr. Epstein was at the center of his first abuse case. He pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in 2008, receiving a jail sentence that allowed him to work at home during the day but also required him to register as a sex offender ..."
"... The court document alleges: "Epstein also sexually trafficked the then-minor Jane Doe (a name used in US legal proceedings for people with anonymity), making her available for sex to politically connected and financially powerful people. ..."
"... "Epstein's purposes in 'lending' Jane Doe (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information. ..."
"... Journalist George Webb, watch his Youtube channel, has been following Epstein 'activities' for decades, connecting him all the way back to the Bush Sr. and Jr. Boys Town White House peadophile ring. Epstein was the 'go to guy' for rat line trafficking missions, into Kosovo, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, every war zone across the world one can think of, to move dark ops in and out of, closely linked to DynCorp, which core business is 'aviation security services' and infamous for enabling and promoting underage transgressions of all of its personnel in Yugoslavia where Bill Clinton has murdered many thousands unbeknownst to the gullible and rather retarded Americuh public ..."
Jeffrey Epstein's wealth has long been a topic of discussion since becoming known as a 'billionaire pedophile' and other similar
monickers. Described by prosecuitors this week as a "man of nearly infinite means," a
2011 SEC filing has
provided a window into the registered sex offender's elite Wall Street links, according to the
Financial Times .
Epstein, who caught a lucky break tutoring the son of Bear Stearns chairman Alan Greenberg before joining the firm, left the
investment bank in 1981 to set up his own financial firm. While he reportedly managed money for billionaires for decades, most of
Epstein's dealings have been done in the shadows.
A 2011 SEC filing reveals that Epstein's privately held firm, the Financial Trust Company , took a 6.1% stake in Pennsylvania-based
catalytic converter maker Environmental Solutions Worldwide (ESW) backed by Leon Black, the billionaire founder of Apollo Global
Management .
ESW itself has a checkered past. In 2002, its then-chairman Bengt Odner was accused by the SEC of participating with others in
a $15 million "pump and dump" scheme with ESW stock. The case was settled a year later according to FT , with Odner ordered to pay
a $25,000 civil penalty. Of note, ESW accepted Epstein's investment several years after he had registered as a sex offender in a
controversial 2008 plea deal in Florida.
Epstein's connection to Black doesn't stop there - as the financier served as a director on the Leon Black Family Foundation
for over a decade until 2012 according to IRS filings. A spokeswoman for the foundation claims that Epstein had resigned in July
2007, and that his name continued to appear on the IRS filings "due to a recording error" for five years. A 2015 document signed
by Epstein provided to the Financial Times appears to confirm this.
Epstein also built his wealth with Steven J. Hoffenberg and Leslie H. Wexner, the former of whom was convicted of running a giant
Ponzi scheme, and the latter a clothing magnate.
Mr. Epstein's wealth may have depended less on his math acumen than his connections to two men -- Steven J. Hoffenberg, a
onetime owner of The New York Post and a notorious fraudster later convicted of running
a $460 million Ponzi scheme , and Leslie H. Wexner, the billionaire founder of retail chains including The Limited and the
chief executive of the company that owns Victoria's Secret.
Mr. Hoffenberg was Mr. Epstein's partner in two ill-fated takeover bids in the 1980 s, including one of Pan American World
Airways, and would later claim that Mr. Epstein had been part of the scheme that landed him in jail -- although Mr. Epstein
was never charged. With Mr. Wexner, Mr. Epstein formed a financial and personal bond that baffled longtime associates of the
wealthy retail magnate, who was his only publicly disclosed investor. -
New York Times
"I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns," Wexner told Vanity Fair in 2003. "But Jeffrey sees patterns in politics
and financial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends."
Those around Wexner were mystified over Wexner's affinity for Epstein.
" Everyone was mystified as to what his appeal was ," said Robert Morosky, a former vice chairman of The Limited. "I checked
around and found out he was a private high school math teacher, and that was all I could find out. There was just nothing there."
As the New York Times
noted on Wednesday, Epstein's "infinite means" may be a mirage, as while he is undoubtedly extremely rich, there is "little
evidence that Mr. Epstein is a billionaire."
While Epstein told potential clients he only accepted investments of $1 billion or more, his investment firm reported having
$88 million in capital from his shareholders, and 20 employees according to a 2002 court filing - far fewer than figures being reported
at the time.
And while most of Epstein's dealings are unknown, his Financial Trust Company also had a $121 million investment in DB Zwirn
& Co, which shuttered its doors in 2008, and had a stake in Bear Stearns's failed High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced
Leverage Fund - the collapse of which helped spark the global financial crisis.
Epstein was hit hard by the financial crisis a decade ago, while allegations of sexual abuse of teenage girls caused many associates
- such as Wexner - to sever ties with him.
Bear Stearns -- the bank that had given Mr. Epstein his start -- was still among his investments when the crisis hit.
According to a lawsuit he later filed against the bank, Mr. Epstein controlled about 176,000 shares of Bear Stearns, worth nearly
$18 million, in August 2007.
Mr. Epstein sold 56,000 shares at $101 each that month. He sold the remaining 120,000 shares in March 2008 as the firm was
collapsing -- 20,000 at $35 and the rest at $3.04, losing big. He also lost about $50 million in one of Bear's hedge funds.
By the time Bear Stearns came apart, Mr. Epstein was at the center of his first abuse case. He pleaded guilty to prostitution
charges in 2008, receiving a jail sentence that allowed him to work at home during the day but also required him to register
as a sex offender. -
New York Times
In trying to determine what Epstein is actually worth, Bloomberg notes that " So little is known about Epstein's current business
or clients that the only things that can be valued with any certainty are his properties. The Manhattan mansion is estimated to
be worth at least $ 77 million , according to a federal document submitted in advance of his bail hearing."
He also has properties in New Mexico, Paris and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he has a private island, and a Palm Beach
estate with an assessed value of more than $12 million . He shuttles between them by private jet and has at least 15 cars, including
seven Chevrolet Suburbans, according to federal authorities. -
Bloomberg
Deutsche Bank, meanwhile,
severed ties with Epstein earlier this year - right as federal prosecutors were preparing to charge him with operating a sex-trafficking
ring of underage girls out of his sprawling homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, according to Bloomberg , citing a person familiar
with the situation. It is unknown how much money was involved or how long Epstein had been a client.
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FKTHEGVNMNT , 1 hour ago
That black book is still missing, it is actually a meticulous journal. His butler who died at 60 due to mesothelioma kept
it as insurance, those snippets was just him saying " I got the goods.
Dr.Strangelove , 1 hour ago
The Feds should do what they did with Al Capone, and put him in the slammer on tax evasion charges. I'm sure Epstein has
reported all of his ill gotten billions to the IRS tax man.....NOT.
CheapBastard , 43 minutes ago
I wonder how many human assets, aka, slave girls, he owns? I guess they could value the slave child based on how much revenue
they brought in.
FKTHEGVNMNT , 2 hours ago
The court document alleges: "Epstein also sexually trafficked the then-minor Jane Doe (a name used in US legal proceedings
for people with anonymity), making her available for sex to politically connected and financially powerful people.
"Epstein's purposes in 'lending' Jane Doe (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself
with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information.
I wonder if Prince Andrew has deleted him from Facebook
marcel tjoeng , 3 hours ago
Journalist George Webb, watch his Youtube channel, has been following Epstein 'activities' for decades, connecting him
all the way back to the Bush Sr. and Jr. Boys Town White House peadophile ring. Epstein was the 'go to guy' for rat line
trafficking missions, into Kosovo, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, every war zone across the world one can think of, to move dark
ops in and out of, closely linked to DynCorp, which core business is 'aviation security services' and infamous for enabling
and promoting underage transgressions of all of its personnel in Yugoslavia where Bill Clinton has murdered many thousands unbeknownst
to the gullible and rather retarded Americuh public.
Trafficking underage girls from Ukraine back and forth to the USA to pimp out to every diplomat from every country that bought
and sold state secrets, flying underage girls to the Middle East to peddle to oil sheiks, involved with obtaining and exchanging
state secrets of for instance American DARPA, the top secret military research giant, to any 'diplomat' connected to the secretive
network of an 'Illuminati' type deep state collusion, the power brokers of war and sex.
The Irgun of Menachem Begin, the Mossad of Moshe Dayan were infamous for their poolside parties where all the jewish female
'pretty' Israeli agents were used and trained to be honey pot sex objects, with mandatory sex orgies that lasted for days, the
worst of a James Bond type environment but without the glitter.
on the contrary, the secret world of parasites that practice and trade in massive scale rape, war, torture, sex aberrations,
***********, blackmail, extortion, paedophilia, child trafficking, international orphan trafficking, drugs, trafficking underage
sex slaves to be used as dolls and much much worse,
that is who is Jeffrey Epstein is.
The front cover of rape, murder and mayhem international Inc., the go-to-boy of sick Wall Street, Washington DC, the CIA,
NSA, Dyncorp, the power brokers within the DNC and the GOP,
all the usual sick subjects whose code mantra is 'we have unlimited funding', which means the FED, Wall Street, the BIS,
the whole of the Central Bank System that originated in Europe in Venice, and then spread to Amsterdam, the Dutch House of Orange,
London, New York, the British paedophile Empire,
Epstein lives in what is reputed to be the largest private dwelling in New Mexico, on an $18 million, 7,500-acre ranch
which he named Zorro.
Jeffrey Epstein's palatial New Mexico home is relatively near to a top military base. The Epstein home is in Stanley
in New Mexico.
Albuquerque now has a variety of Jewish synagogues and a Chabad house.
Mossad sex party, according to former Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky
There were about 25 people in and around the pool and none of them had a stitch of clothing on.
The second-in-command of the Mossad -- today, he is the head -- was there.
Hessner. Various secretaries. It was incredible. Some of the men were not a pretty sight, but most of the girls were
quite impressive. I must say they looked much better than they did in uniform! Most of them were female soldiers assigned
to the office, and were only 18 or 20 years old.
Some of the partiers were in the water playing, some were dancing, others were on blankets to the left and the right
having a fine old time vigorously screwing each other right there...
It was the top brass all right, and they were swapping partners. It really shook me. That's sure not what you expect.
You look at these people as heroes, you look up to them, and then you see them having a sex party by the pool.
-- Ostrovsky, Victor, By Way of Deception, (1990), pg. 96
ReflectoMatic , 2 hours ago
Because what George Webb is saying is so important in expanding the scope of understanding what is going on:
George Webb on youtube
JSBach1 , 3 hours ago
Researcher Wayne Madsen: Trump's Connection to Epstein Needs to Be Exposed
I like Miles' work a lot, but I don't always agree with the results of his studies. There are a great many fabricated events.
Events like those are cover for other very real events. The clowns will fake (or real) blow up townships just to prevent a case
from going to trial or getting news feed, OKC comes to mind. And there's always more than one reason for it behind the BS cover
story. It's tactical. Ep is just another arm of the octopus: Ep is definitely a middle man, a bag man, a front man, an intel
asset (for several agancies no doubt) and he got his cover job as a "financier" along with a client that got rich selling women's
underwear and kids clothes as whitewash. A guy who wrote a paper on how America perceives Israel and how to influence that perception.
That is the definition of magic and it's intel.
Ep definitely uses his own product... He had to be sure he could bounce those children off his clients, for one. Years of
grooming, investing in an asset, categorizing each one. It's an industry, for sure. I don't think the numbers are fabricated.
I don't think his black book was fabricated. Bloomberg was in there, btw, along with Bronfman, and Murdoch. The remoteness of
7500 acres in New Mexico, an Island, the planes, all neon signs that say "SECRET". But, you have to recruit from large population
areas to find suitable victims, er, individuals. I think it's more likely that this is real world and not a manufactured event.
Look: there are theories. I collect theories. Miles is a great researcher and he makes distinctions and observations that
are all very good. Reading him, I throw a lot of theories and music and vomit in the trash after. But when you peel back all
the fake events... the "Kansas"... One day Kansas is gone. Once and for all. What's left is this: there's some very real ****
on the down-low going on that has, until now, been permitted and some people who liked it that way are gonna be on the news
for it. Pelosi's kid tweeted it. What about, say, what might a sheriff of a certain New Mexico county know? Santa Fe is totally
compromised because it's an "Art" hub, for one. The unincorporated location is called "Stanley" which ought to ring bells. Right
by a military base, Kirtland and Los Alamos Demo Army base, god knows what else. It's the perfect M.O. of the fake events Miles
writes about. Miles sees patterns.
There is everything that is not real, and then there is everything that is real. For me it comes down to the Cartesian Brain
in a Vat theory, that, indeed, is "the Matrix" pop culture go-to of today, err, 20 years ago. Red pilled means you can't go
back. Get blue pilled you Get woke and go broke. It doesn't mean that everything is fake, but for all I know 2012 was real and
we live on this timeline now and maybe I am a brain in a vat. So cogito ergo sum. And that is kind of a statement of faith or
belief. It's the deep irony of philosophy. It's the glitch.
Ep is not the psyop. He's the guy you do the psyop to cover up. It's a better question to ask what generation MK Ultra are
we on? What subset? What might Cathy O'Brien have to say about it? Don't flame the victims, or make Miles look stupid because
you think it's all fake. Andrew Breitbart didn't think this **** was fake and he's dead. God bless him.
Theosebes Goodfellow , 3 hours ago
~Those around Wexner were mystified over Wexner's affinity for Epstein.~
Apparently those around Wexner were not familiar with the term "fourteen year-old spinner".
Lumberjack , 3 hours ago
...
Dershowitz was one of several heavy-hitters on Epstein's first legal defense team. Epstein's lead attorney in the Florida
case was Jack Goldberger, who now represents New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. His legal team also included Roy Black,
Jay Lefkowitz, Gerald Lefcourt, former U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis and Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor who investigated Bill
Clinton's sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Asked why he took Epstein as a client, given the unsavory nature of his alleged crimes, Dershowitz stated bluntly, "That's
what I do."
"I take controversial cases and I will continue to do so," he told Sinclair Broadcast Group in a Tuesday interview. "I defended
Jeff Epstein for the same reason John Adams defended the people accused of the Boston Massacre
On that note, Schumer said he'll give the money he received to help children and women.
I'd bet twice that amount it goes to Israeli causes. Not to real victims and the kahkzucker gets another nice write off.
Epstein's intel connections must be brought forth. My guess is when Kraft got busted that there were really big names that
are still being hidden. A long time and VERY TRUSTED ZH member that I know a bit and collaborated a bit with on the Linda Green
fiasco caught on and commented about it including providing solid evidence.
Maybe they should stop blaming Iran and Russia and look at Linda herself.
"... Pretty uncomfortable for him while its all being exposed. He knew. He stated that Epstein liked young girls. He said this so not to threaten them when running against long term ZOG apparatchik Clintons. ..."
"... This is what they were afraid of all along. Epstein exposes fifth column completely. It was already exposed before the race and Clinton, who would shelter them 100%, was unelectable. They were vulnerable and paranoid. Paranoid that this would happen. Trump isn't doing this. It us just happening around him. ..."
And Bonespurs, by his own admission, is the best friend the Jews ever had. That tells you
all you need to know about him and this **** mess.
vienna_proxy , 6 hours ago
he betrayed us on Syria by not removing American soldiers, all to serve israel
Ms No , 6 hours ago
Pretty uncomfortable for him while its all being exposed. He knew. He stated that Epstein
liked young girls. He said this so not to threaten them when running against long term ZOG
apparatchik Clintons.
Its as if he was saying "Dont worry I wasn't your first choice but I am no threat to you.
I will fill positions with Goldman Sachs and Jews just like every other ZOG puppet. My
daughter is also married in and you finance my ****."
This is what they were afraid of all along. Epstein exposes fifth column completely. It
was already exposed before the race and Clinton, who would shelter them 100%, was
unelectable. They were vulnerable and paranoid. Paranoid that this would happen. Trump isn't
doing this. It us just happening around him.
Talk is ( My Understanding ) that Epstein had only One Billionaire client, the guy that
owns Victoria Secret and more, who gave Epstein the Eastside New York Mansion for $1.00 ( my
guess Is Blackmailed ) revealing all the Epstein lifetime earnings being Child Prostitution
related' including Blackmailings and other dastardly deeds, just a Con Man extraordinaire,
when Epstein Blackmailings tie into Hugh Hefner ( Bill Mahers best friend ) Blackmailings
their will Not be enough Rocks on the Planet Earth for the Deep State to find and hide under,
because Ray(chel) Chandler Obamas squeeze filmed for Blackmailing the goings-on at Orgy
Island, Note' Chandler became a common term for Child that works at being a Child Handler, or
Ray Chandler could be a boy or assorted Raychel Chandler girls, the actual Ray(chel) Chandler
was often pictured with Obama thru the years and took the Lolita Express arm in arm with Bill
Clinton at 15 years old, she trained underagers sex and liked taking pictures !
Epstein Island has No Airport and Richard Branson has an Island next to Epstein's
Pedo-Island, I heard Branson's Island is mostly undeveloped except for one area with a big
fancy Hotel where the Beach allows swimmers to walk out to Sea for a roundabout a Mile in
Four foot deep water, see Picture Comey took with Bill Clinton and Four others standing in
Four foot deep water posing, second picture identifies James Comey standing near small boat,
( Raychel Chandler is supposed to be one of the Two girls on the Boat Not standing in Ocean
Shallows posing for the pictures ) the Hotel and developed neighborhood is seen in background
!
Xingqiwu , 7 hours ago
Does anyone know if Judge Roberts ever flew on the plane?
fersur , 7 hours ago
Have Not heard his name being tied in, most of the next release about Epstein Island will
relate to who was there in 2011 when the 16 pictures were taken, it will take at least a year
for some information release !
Xingqiwu , 7 hours ago
And Comey's own daughter will be "prosecuting" Epstein, is that right?
Congress and the courts are the enablers of America's destruction. Legislation is
morality; it's the definition of how you live together, where people can live together and
raise their families. Our Congress instead serves the sex industry, whether it be in our
schools and universities or in our homes via television and the internet and magazines.
Yvonne Ridley in "**** in the USA" wrote on June 2, 2011:
"In Obama's Apple Pie America, cable and satellite companies pump *********** into
millions of homes where the American Dream has, for some, become X-rated.
"And the Americans are keen to share – I remember one of the first things that
followed the arrival of US forces in Afghanistan was the sex industry. Scores of channels
promoting straight and gay **** suddenly became readily available on television sets without
even the need to subscribe ."
And, our media, upon arrival, gleefully subjected small children to **** just to watch
their innocence torn asunder.
*********** and its consequences in America wears a Supreme Court robe... ***********
is the law of the land.
"... Of course the types who perpetrated this horror should go down but if you are naive enough to believe the lie that zionists pull all the greedies (jew/gentile/saudi) strings instead of the blindingly obvious, that all the greedies pull the strings of everyone they can, including those of the stupid & ignorant israeli settlers, then the odds of you anon, finding any 'truth' in the machinations of empire are slim. ..."
anon , Jul 11 2019 6:36 utc | 134 whatever, coward. I won't be staying long I see
little point is spending time at a place taken over by nonce's who can only read stuff that
adheres to their tiny world view. Otherwise they lose their sh1t.
Even worse few do more than hunt out anything, including stuff from the very same msm they
profess to eschew, which buttresses that view in an odd and pointless game of "see what I just
read, one upmanship". Actually getting out and involved helping even one of the humans whose
life is sh1t thanks to the empire is never even considered.
Of course the types who perpetrated this horror should go down but if you are naive
enough to believe the lie that zionists pull all the greedies (jew/gentile/saudi) strings
instead of the blindingly obvious, that all the greedies pull the strings of everyone they can,
including those of the stupid & ignorant israeli settlers, then the odds of you anon,
finding any 'truth' in the machinations of empire are slim.
If there weren't any twisted Clintons or Trumps prepared do do any damn thing just to
sodomise a preadolescent girl, no one would abduct the girls in the first place.
Every f++ker who went to edelsteins island should be locked up for the rest of their lives
unless they can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they only cut the grass/washed the
dishes.
ps if 'the jews' control everything why are so many of em on the bones of their arses?
Surely any jew who was stuck with driving a cab/pushing a pen/ or even robbing a bank would
just manipulate the nearest billionaire 'goy' into handing over his/her dosh?
(((Debisdead))) comes back from the dead to tell everyone the rampant child abuse is the
fault of anyone except the jewish names actually involved...
You said it.
What brought me here at 3:30 am was an Amber Alert on my phone, with an incredibly obnoxious
alarm, for a child apparently abducted 500kms away. I've received three such alerts in the past
hour so I know everyone in Ontario will be talking about it tomorrow.
"... Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?" Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he'd had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. ..."
"... "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.) ..."
Epstein's name, I was told, had been raised by the Trump transition team when Alexander
Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who'd infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea
deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for the job of labor secretary. The plea deal put a
hard stop to a separate federal investigation of alleged sex crimes with minors and
trafficking.
" Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?" Acosta
had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he'd had
just one meeting on the Epstein case. He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's
attorneys because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay
grade.
"I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," he told his
interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and
went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor Department had no comment when asked about
this.)
'Belongs to intelligence' makes a lot of sense. The question is to which one. A lot of
people will says "Mossad" but I don't believe that to be the (full) truth.
Some commenters have an impression that this is the result of Trump triggering backmail clause by failing
to act as required by those running the show.
Notable quotes:
"... So Epstein is a pimp. In the employ of blackmailers? Why is the New York AG after his ass now? After all these years. Who is the target if not Trump? I doubt the Justice Department is out to get the Mossad. ..."
"... Well, it was certainly supported by _some_ intelligence agency or agencies of _some_ country or countries. After all, gathering blackmail information on prominent public/private figures around the world is part of their job description. ..."
"... This renewed prosecution of Epstein isn't about protecting young girls from billionaire predators, it's an excuse to subpoena any human who ever stepped foot into Maralago so that the Democrat staffed SDNY can find other unrelated info on Trump to accuse him of bad deeds. It's more GetTrump and anyone who ever breathed near him. ..."
"... What evidence is there that Mueller, as FBI Director, would have issued such a stand-down order to U.S. Attorney Acosta? Wouldn't it have been much more likely to have come from AG Mukasey or his deputy? (Who was the Deputy AG then?) ..."
"... What's good is that most people commenting on the threads understand just how deep the rot goes and that it's not confined to North America. ..."
So Epstein is a pimp. In the employ of blackmailers? Why is the New York AG after his ass now? After all these years.
Who is the target if not Trump? I doubt the Justice Department is out to get the Mossad.
Vicky Ward's new piece in the Daily Beast said that Acosta explained his signing off on the nonprosecution agreement
by saying he had been told by a superior that Epstein was intel's deal and above his pay grade, so he should back off. I
take it the NYT left that out?
Epstein's criminal enterprise was a CIA operation.
Well, it was certainly supported by _some_ intelligence agency or agencies of _some_ country or countries. After all,
gathering blackmail information on prominent public/private figures around the world is part of their job description.
This renewed prosecution of Epstein isn't about protecting young girls from billionaire predators, it's an excuse to
subpoena any human who ever stepped foot into Maralago so that the Democrat staffed SDNY can find other unrelated info on Trump
to accuse him of bad deeds. It's more GetTrump and anyone who ever breathed near him.
In addition to the phenomenal work
that Miami Herald has done to revive this scandal and the inherent injustice there in, TruNews ran a expose on this back in
March of this year (watch the video and start from 23:12 onward):
Alan Dershowitz was one of Epstein's lawyers who constructed the lenient deal with Acosta (surprise, surprise):
"Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?" Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained,
breezily, apparently, that back in the day he'd had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He'd cut the non-prosecution
deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. "I was
told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who
evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta.
[ ]
After the one meeting with then-U.S. Attorney Acosta, where presumably "intelligence" was mentioned, the indictment was
shelved and, instead, Epstein signed a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors, pleading guilty to one count
of solicitation of prostitution and one count of procurement of minors for prostitution, which earned him a cushy 13
months in county jail, from where he was allowed to leave to work at his office and go for walks.
The deal granted immunity to "any potential co-conspirators." Most significantly, federal prosecutors agreed to keep
the deal secret from Epstein's victims, which meant they would not know to challenge it in court. As it turned out, this
actually broke the law, because victims have a right to know of such developments, under the Crime Victims' Rights Act.
Wayne Madsen wrote some interesting pieces on Jeffrey Epstein:
[MORE]
[ ]
Epstein served a mere 13 months in prison on prostitution charges, not the longer term he would have seen had he been
convicted on pedophilia counts . The deal worked out between Epstein's attorneys and Florida prosecutors also involved
the Florida Attorney General at the time, then-Republican and close Bush friend Charlie Crist. Republican Attorney General
Bill McCollum actually signed a sweetheart plea deal with Epstein's attorneys in 2007 . Crist, of course, is no stranger
to sex scandals involving underage individuals, but in Crist's case, they were individuals of the same sex.
[ ]
Justice for the teens abused by Epstein, and allegedly by his friends Andrew and others, may be elusive. Florida prosecutors
who worked for both Jeb Bush and, later, GOP Governor Charlie Crist , arranged for a "non-prosecution agreement" (NPA)
that shielded Epstein and any "potential co-conspirators" from federal prosecutions after Epstein agreed to the plea deal
that saw him plead guilty to a single state charge of soliciting prostitution, without any mention of the age of the so-called
"prostitutes." The no-further-prosecution deal was worked out between Epstein's lawyers and Florida and the federal government.
Epstein's lawyers happened to be Alan Dershowitz; Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel of "Monicagate" fame; and Miami
celebrity trial lawyer Roy Black. The terms of the NPA were called into question in a letter written in 2011 by former
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, R. Alexander Acosta, and the dubious deal-making with Epstein's lawyers
during Bush's and Crist's tenure is clearly apparent:
[ ]
It is noteworthy that Attorney General William Barr , seen as Trump's personal lawyer and hatchet man, may have known
Epstein in the 1970s. In 1973, Donald Barr , the headmaster of Manhattan's elite Dalton Schoola private school for
children of some of New York's wealthiest families, hired Epstein, who did not even possess a college degree, to teach
mathematics, physics, and calculus . Students attending Dalton at the time included the son of Alan Greenberg, the chairman
of the now-defunct Wall Street firm Bear Stearns. In 1976, Greenberg hired Epstein to be a trader at Bear Stearns and
the degree-less math teacher soon became a billionaire . Others attending Dalton during Epstein's tenure include actresses
Jennifer Gray and Tracy Pollan and television's "Bizarre Foods" chef Andrew Zimmern. Epstein's association with Barr have
some observers jokingly referring to the matter as the "Epstein-Barr" case.
"Mueller issued the stand-down order to Acosta under the Bush regime. My gut instinct: the cover-up of Prince Andrew
and the open border cartel human/narco/Weapons smuggling was driving Bush, owned by the Koch's and Brits and the rest of
the coverup was the Dims. Both are globalists."
All that cover-up occurred during BushCo with Mueller involved up to his eyes. The amount of dirt and dead bodies covered
by this is likely quite large and implicates Current Oligarchy actors.
2.
What evidence is there that Mueller, as FBI Director, would have issued such a stand-down order to U.S. Attorney Acosta?
Wouldn't it have been much more likely to have come from AG Mukasey or his deputy? (Who was the Deputy AG then?)
3.
As Cernovich notes:
"Cy Vance – Democrat, gave Epstein a pass on sex offender status.
Acosta – Republican, approved plea deal.
Muller – Republican, signed off on FBI closing file on Epstein.
Schumer – Took money from Epstein.
Bill Clinton – Travel.
This isn't partisan. Corruption at all levels."
What's good is that most people commenting on the threads understand just how deep the rot goes and that it's not confined
to North America.
"... Bill's close association with this t--d raises questions in light of his Marc Rich pardon caper. ..."
"... I suspect that he is an asset of some foreign government and handled their money as Rich did. ..."
"... I believe you are on to something. At least Marc Rich was an oil trader. With Epstein there doesn't seem to be any information on his trading activity. ..."
"... I suppose his role was not money management but blackmail or something more nefarious. Could this foreign government be our "staunchest ally" in the ME? ..."
"... The prediction here is that Epstein will offer to cooperate sooner rather than later. It would not surprise me at all if hasn't already been given the opportunity and wanted to wait to see what cards the government was holding, try to figure out who from his old team had turned and were witnesses against him. ..."
"... A big question now is that if and when he does cooperate, what kind of corroborative materials he would be able to bring along with him to bolster the victim testimony which will be recollections of abuse from women when they were adolescents that happened quite a while ago. ..."
"... if you ask around the trading desk in nyc Epstein and his org is unknown. how is it a billionaire finance guy is unknown on the trading desks? ..."
"... his fortune did not come from trading or investment or anything typically understood to be finance related. ..."
"... perhaps epstein and his sexual predilections was a way for....say... the mossad........ to aggregate wealthy powerful and political figures into revealing the stuff needed to control them in the future as favors are needed. ..."
"... Nobody knows what Epstein is really worth. The $billions figure comes from a single source; a stipulation in his original trial. He would say what his worth was and the prosecutors asked "$billions?" and E's lawyers said "sure". That's it ..."
"... The guy is a sleazy con artist. He's probably happy to have people think he has way more than he does for various reasons. ..."
"... Some will recall the name "mega" surfacing during and after the Pollard contretemps. An as-yet unidentified Israeli spy operating at a high level. Now consider the following quote: ..."
"... "Epstein, who recently loaned his jet to President Clinton, is usually seen in the company of Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of deceased publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell. After Maxwell fell or was pushed off his yacht in 1991, it was revealed that he was working for the Israeli government and the Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence service ..."
"... While Maxwell's ties to the Mossad are well-documented, Epstein's connections are less well known. The London Sunday Times quoted a New York social observer describing Epstein as follows: "He's Mr. Enigmatic. Nobody knows whether he's a concert pianist, property developer, a CIA agent, a math teacher or a member of Mossad." New York Magazine claims Epstein is the man who moves Wexner's billions around the globe. ..."
"... Wexner's philanthropic side is more public. In 1998, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wexner was part of the "'Mega Group,' a loosely organized club of 20 of the nation's wealthiest and most influential Jewish businessmen." The Mega Group meets purportedly to discuss "philanthropy," but others have speculated that their charitable interests are often a cover for lobbying activities on behalf of Israel." ..."
"... The link optimax provides below (and reproduced here ) to an EIR (LaRouche) piece on "Mega" is very interesting. It pulls a lot of this together and seems to be the main source for your linked article. The title quote; "'Mega' was not an agent, Mega was the boss" refers to the NYC-based Mega Group of Jewish billionaires (incl. Wexner) who actually run the show. Epstein's operation looks to me like an subsidiary SPV to manufacture kompromat, as you say. ..."
"... The EIR piece is frustratingly lacking in links/citations, but the crucial one backing up this quote does check out (link below). I have taken the liberty of saving it into the Internet Archive in case it now 'disappears' due to the publicity. The author refers to Mega Group as "the Megabucks" and describes an interesting twist on the traditional Mossad-run Z0G narrative. He asserts that they are actually out for themselves and influence/buy politics in Israeli every bit as much as in the US to further their own ends. Israel to them is merely a useful too ..."
"... EIR quotes the WSJ article (paywall) saying Wexner and Charles Bronfman founded the Mega Group in 1991. Charles' brother; Edgar Bronfman is also listed as a member. I came across someone on reddit ) saying that Hillary basically handed over Libya to the Bronfmans. Edgar's daughter Sara and her husband; Basit Igtet ( http://basitigtet.com) appear to have run the coup (see their wikis on Libya). Basit is coincidentally chairman of an energy co. now looking to exploit Libyan oil and apparently had/has ambitions to become president. ..."
"... It may be antisemitic to characterize Jews as power-hungry money-obsessed world dominators, but this group sure seem to fit the characterization rather well. ..."
"... There's more about the Mega Group in this LaRouche website before 9/11. I know, LaRouche had some crazy ideas but this article is well referenced and jibes with other sources. Seymour Hersh claimed Epstein was Mossad. ..."
The Twitter stream linked up-thread by rho seems plausible as a description of the
"business model" of his "hedge fund." Here's the link again for convenience:
Would a foreign govt really utilize someone with Epstein's life style to handle their
money? The guy doesn't exactly fly under the radar. It was only a matter of time before he was
busted. Seems highly irresponsible and stupid of whichever government(s).
I believe you are on to something. At least Marc Rich was an oil trader. With Epstein
there doesn't seem to be any information on his trading activity.Would a foreign government or intelligence agency keep a
depraved loose cannon as an asset? I suppose his role was not money management but blackmail or something more
nefarious. Could this foreign government be our "staunchest ally" in the ME?
We haven't seen anything yet of which I'm aware to allow for a determination of what led
to Epstein's serial abuses getting revisited. I very much doubt that it was a political
appointee new to the system who came into the job while harboring a determination to right a
wrong if given the chance. I think it more likely that it's a bottom up initiative, a witness
having developed as a result of having gotten jammed up in another case and offering up a
bigger fish, a newspaper story, new victims coming to light as a result of civil process, the
review process prior to releasing the disclosure materials triggering outrage, something
along these orders. Whatever it was, once the case was underway, in the era of #MeToo and
with new political appointees in place, there would be no stopping it.
It will be interesting to see who will be the ultimate targets. It was a travesty that in the
original case Epstein was the only person charged, unless I missed something. It's obvious
that there had been a facilitating organization that he was running and boatloads of cash
coming and going. No curiosity about that?
The prediction here is that Epstein will offer to cooperate sooner rather than later. It
would not surprise me at all if hasn't already been given the opportunity and wanted to wait
to see what cards the government was holding, try to figure out who from his old team had
turned and were witnesses against him.
A big question now is that if and when he does cooperate, what kind of corroborative
materials he would be able to bring along with him to bolster the victim testimony which will
be recollections of abuse from women when they were adolescents that happened quite a while
ago.
The indictment forecloses on any opportunity to use Epstein actively; and what kind of deal
do you offer to this guy anyway who right now appears to be the principal malefactor in order
to get to others, culpable users of his scheme surely, but not integral to his organization
per se, largely because they are newsworthy figures of one sort or another. Not an easy call,
but I would argue Epstein should take a major hit even if it means risking not getting his
cooperation.
"We haven't seen anything yet of which I'm aware to allow for a determination of what led
to Epstein's serial abuses getting revisited."
An important figure pushing for the re-opening of the case is Mike Cernovich. He along
with Breitbart are the main cheerleaders for the conviction -- the draining of the swamp.
They
are Trump's mouthpieces who talk directly to his base. I believe the Trump admin is
completely supporting the re-trial.
AG Barr's father had to leave the posh school where he
had worked as a principal for a decade, soon after he employed college dropout Epstein as a
Math teacher.
The guy who replaced Barr Sr was a pedo (perhaps appointed with Epstein) and
left under a cloud. I think there is some personal revenge angle here as well.
if you ask around the trading desk in nyc Epstein and his org is unknown. how is it a
billionaire finance guy is unknown on the trading desks?
answer:
because his fortune did not come from trading or investment or anything typically
understood to be finance related.
perhaps epstein and his sexual predilections was a way for....say... the mossad........ to
aggregate wealthy powerful and political figures into revealing the stuff needed to control
them in the future as favors are needed.
whats is a service like that IF epstein was indeed just a pimp for the
deviant.........worth?
how many billions to have a file on a who's who of international power would you pay?
Nobody knows what Epstein is really worth. The $billions figure comes from a single
source; a stipulation in his original trial. He would say what his worth was and the
prosecutors asked "$billions?" and E's lawyers said "sure". That's it.
He manages money held in off-shore accounts. Forbes thinks he has a fraction of that.
The guy is a sleazy con artist. He's probably happy to have people think he has way more
than he does for various reasons.
Pollard was an amateur. Is Epstein the professional?
Some will recall the name "mega" surfacing during and after the Pollard contretemps. An
as-yet unidentified Israeli spy operating at a high level. Now consider the following quote:
"Epstein, who recently loaned his jet to President Clinton, is usually seen in the company
of Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of deceased publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell. After Maxwell
fell or was pushed off his yacht in 1991, it was revealed that he was working for the Israeli
government and the Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence service.
While Maxwell's ties to the Mossad are well-documented, Epstein's connections are less well known. The London Sunday
Times quoted a New York social observer describing Epstein as follows: "He's Mr. Enigmatic.
Nobody knows whether he's a concert pianist, property developer, a CIA agent, a math teacher
or a member of Mossad." New York Magazine claims Epstein is the man who moves Wexner's
billions around the globe.
Wexner's philanthropic side is more public. In 1998, the Wall Street Journal reported that
Wexner was part of the "'Mega Group,' a loosely organized club of 20 of the nation's
wealthiest and most influential Jewish businessmen." The Mega Group meets purportedly to
discuss "philanthropy," but others have speculated that their charitable interests are often
a cover for lobbying activities on behalf of Israel."
This could be entirely coincidental. Or is Epstein (or Wexner) mega? It sure looks like
his operation was all about getting kompromat for Mossad. Whether that comes out with any
veracity remains to be seen.
The link optimax provides below (and reproduced here ) to an EIR (LaRouche) piece
on "Mega" is very interesting. It pulls a lot of this together and seems to be the main
source for your linked article. The title quote; "'Mega' was not an agent, Mega was the boss"
refers to the NYC-based Mega Group of Jewish billionaires (incl. Wexner) who actually run the
show. Epstein's operation looks to me like an subsidiary SPV to manufacture kompromat, as you
say.
The EIR piece is frustratingly lacking in links/citations, but the crucial one backing up
this quote does check out (link below). I have taken the liberty of saving it into the
Internet Archive in case it now 'disappears' due to the publicity. The author refers to Mega
Group as "the Megabucks" and describes an interesting twist on the traditional Mossad-run Z0G
narrative. He asserts that they are actually out for themselves and influence/buy politics in
Israeli every bit as much as in the US to further their own ends. Israel to them is merely a
useful tool. From the article:
" Israel for them is only a means to Jewish unity, on a par with the Holocaust
propaganda. The idea is to keep Jews together, away from hanging with other folks. The heads
of the American Jewish community need it, as they have a fair chance to find themselves
without soldiers, all chiefs, and no Indians. "
EIR quotes the WSJ article (paywall) saying Wexner and
Charles Bronfman founded the Mega Group in 1991. Charles' brother; Edgar Bronfman is also
listed as a member. I came across someone on reddit
) saying that Hillary basically handed over Libya to the Bronfmans. Edgar's daughter Sara and
her husband; Basit Igtet ( http://basitigtet.com) appear to have run the coup (see their
wikis on Libya). Basit is coincidentally chairman of an energy co. now looking to exploit
Libyan oil and apparently had/has ambitions to become president.
It may be antisemitic to characterize Jews as power-hungry money-obsessed world
dominators, but this group sure seem to fit the characterization rather well.
There's more about the Mega Group in this LaRouche website before 9/11. I know, LaRouche
had some crazy ideas but this article is well referenced and jibes with other sources. Seymour Hersh claimed Epstein was Mossad. https://larouchepub.com/other/2001/2833mega_spy.html
"... Third, if the legalities are any obstacle at all, the fact that the CIA's legal remit is for foreign intelligence matters. How and why the CIA works domestically needs to be explained. If the agency is supposed to be Mossad, how the Mossad can expect impunity needs to be explained, not assumed on the grounds International Jewry secretly rules the world. ..."
"... Ransacking the biographies is a lot of sampling. The more sampling the more random correlations can be made, which is not, not, not the same as demonstrating causal connections. Causal connections is what justifies saying a model is correct. ..."
"... Robert Maxwell was a Mossad agent. He was assassinated in a slick Mossad operation but did get the Jerusalem burial that he so coveted. He biggest contribution to Zionism- achieved with the complicity of Mrs Thatcher- was his facilitation of the mass emigration of Russian Jews to Israel. ..."
"... Ghislaine and Jeffrey make a fascinatingly suspect couple. Vast wealth acquired nefariously, the manipulation of power through contrived sexuality, the cultivation of social elites, and an inviolable sense of exceptionalism. And in the background, only darkness. There's bound to be some kind of intelligence agency connection there somewhere. Methinks that Ghislaine's role as pimp was quite creative. ..."
"... Think recent Epstein news may be part of plan to impeach Trump or worse, JFK Trump. CIA/Mossad asset Epstein was/is working with Mueller. ..."
"... Acosta was put in his current position to further link Trump admin to Epstein story. Don McGhan, the most cited person in the Mueller report according to Wikipedia was the person who recommended Acosta for his current job ..."
"... Trump, Macron, Obama, May, Blair, Bush, the Clintons, Pelosi, Walker, and all too many more are the manifestations of the evil spoken of above. And there is no God for them to fear; so, they must be taught to fear their fellow humans who must decide to no longer abide their behavior ..."
"... list of evidence, sensible account, explain impunity, explain relationship Epstein to agencies , demonstrate facts support the proposition by: steven t johnson @ 66 <=thanks ..."
"... Now this story will run into 2020 largely damaging democrats into the 2020 election. Trump's DOJ is running the operation. My question is will creepy Joe Biden figure into this? Those videos with his hands all over other people children are beyond weird and creepy. ..."
Those who want to go all medieval with the lurid fantasies about invincible conspiracies
of sexually depraved people who enjoy killing, be it Jews or witches, should at least get
modern.
First, blackmail evidence doesn't have to be tapes (Betamax? VHS?) or DVDs. It can be
semen stained sheets, used condoms thrown into the waste basket, pubic hairs and possibly a
child who passes the paternity test. The disappearance of this evidence needs to be accounted
for. If it was never collected
Second, there needs to be a sensible account of where and when this blackmail evidence is
stored and how the approach is made. The usual thing so far as I can tell is the use of
lawyers. Intermediaries with legal privilege are invaluable. In particular, if Epstein is
supposedly an extortionist for some intelligence agency, it is the agency which will have the
materials, not Epstein.
Third, if the legalities are any obstacle at all, the fact that the CIA's legal remit
is for foreign intelligence matters. How and why the CIA works domestically needs to be
explained. If the agency is supposed to be Mossad, how the Mossad can expect impunity needs
to be explained, not assumed on the grounds International Jewry secretly rules the
world.
Fourth, in either case, someone needs to explain what Epstein is doing for these agencies
with all this stuff. The great problem here is not just proving that none of these
politicians are doing things they don't already want to do. The implicit idea that they would
suffer somehow by an independent policy is enough of a stretch. You have to show the
extortion is necessary to achieve whatever the alleged goal is, so vital to success the risk
of provoking the enmity of wealthy and powerful people, or getting caught at it, must be
taken.
Fifth and most important, all these propositions and other "facts" need to be demonstrated
strongly enough to rule out, or at least compete with alternative explanations. For a single
example, to make much of Epstein teaching at the Dalton School you should have an idea how
often uncertified teachers worked at the Dalton School, how important the right social
background (as in recommendations from influential figures,) is for their hiring and not
least how long Epsteing even worked at Dalton.
News reports demonstrate very little about complex propositions. Even simple facts that
aren't verified by scrutiny from different parties can be unreliable. Generally the best
thing is to rely on evidence that is actually sound enough to introduce in court without
being blasted apart by an attorney.
In a complex proposition, which can be view as a proposed model, the probability of the
whole model being correct equals the probability of the least likely new element. The
difficulty there is that the probability of any given element---such as the likelihood of
Barr's father getting Epstein a job and this establishing a meaningful connect between Barr's
son and Epstein---depends on the amount of sampling. Ransacking the biographies is a lot
of sampling. The more sampling the more random correlations can be made, which is not, not,
not the same as demonstrating causal connections. Causal connections is what justifies saying
a model is correct.
Robert Maxwell was a Mossad agent. He was assassinated in a slick Mossad operation but
did get the Jerusalem burial that he so coveted. He biggest contribution to Zionism- achieved
with the complicity of Mrs Thatcher- was his facilitation of the mass emigration of Russian
Jews to Israel. There is even a "6 degrees of difference" association between Maxwell
and Bin Laden, but that requires research.
Ghislaine and Jeffrey make a fascinatingly suspect couple. Vast wealth acquired
nefariously, the manipulation of power through contrived sexuality, the cultivation of social
elites, and an inviolable sense of exceptionalism. And in the background, only darkness.
There's bound to be some kind of intelligence agency connection there somewhere. Methinks
that Ghislaine's role as pimp was quite creative.
Alexander Acosta, the US labor secretary under fire for having granted Jeffrey Epstein
immunity from federal prosecution in 2008, after the billionaire was investigated for
having run a child sex trafficking ring, is proposing 80% funding cuts for the
government agency that combats child sex trafficking .
Acosta's plan to slash funding of a critical federal agency in the fight against the
sexual exploitation of children is contained in his financial plans for the Department of
Labor for fiscal year 2020. In it, he proposes decimating the resources of a section of
his own department known as the International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB) .
Think recent Epstein news may be part of plan to impeach Trump or worse, JFK Trump.
CIA/Mossad asset Epstein was/is working with Mueller.
Acosta was put in his current position to further link Trump admin to Epstein story.
Don McGhan, the most cited person in the Mueller report according to Wikipedia was the person
who recommended Acosta for his current job .
Appears Trump may be on the other end of someone-else's maximum pressure campaign after
balking on Iran.
The thread before this one was about Russia, and I just now made a
comment saying that in my view, not all intelligence services throughout the world or
throughout history have been degraded in the way that out western agencies appear very
clearly to be.
I made the claim that the service which Putin led was one with a culture of honor and
uprightness in its institutional fiber, which explains much about how he came to be leader of
his nation.
One could look at the almost unthinkably corrupt and degenerate "leaders" in the west and
surmise much about their intelligence services.
~~
In some ways this is an interesting thread but in others an unsatisfactory one because the
team is still performing forensics on the situation. I'm reading you and rooting for you, but
otherwise have nothing to offer.
It's a dirty business being dissected here. But it's a necessary dissection. I offered a
glimpse of honor and morality just to keep up the spirits of the team.
There is a thick layer of something very bad in the world, and it intends nothing good for
children. To destroy one's own children seems to me the ultimate decadence. One hopes that
the future holds the massive revealing of this layer. And that the global mind of humanity
will change from this.
Please, don't mis-construe this as exculpating the culpable. Simply, that awareness is the
beginning of change.
Your indictment immediately brought Dickens and the US Congress's 1926 vote allowing of
lead --a well known destroyer of youthful and adult brains at the time -- to be spewed all over
creation via the tailpipes of internal combustion engines; Rachael Carson and the trio of
Our Stolen Future authors all to mind. Sadly, there are many more. I'm currently
taking a course about Trauma; and it's the criminally immoral trauma children are subjected
to that rightfully resurrected debsisdead.
To put an end to most such trauma, the systems of unaccountable power must be
eviscerated-- All of Them , Clerical included. Someone up the thread alluded to the
fact that most children are raped via corporations and are born with their own a priori
trauma, pollution being universally ubiquitous. All of the above is the main reason I
vehemently oppose the status quo, attempt to educate people about its evils, and work for its
demise. I believe that all here at the MoA bar share that goal--except the trolls. I wonder
if the trolls understand just how morally compromised they are through their support of evil,
if they have children who're already carrying their own trauma which will afflict them
sometime if they live long enough.
Trump, Macron, Obama, May, Blair, Bush, the Clintons, Pelosi, Walker, and all too many
more are the manifestations of the evil spoken of above. And there is no God for them to
fear; so, they must be taught to fear their fellow humans who must decide to no longer abide
their behavior .
list of evidence, sensible account, explain impunity, explain relationship Epstein to
agencies , demonstrate facts support the proposition by: steven t johnson @ 66
<=thanks
KC@73 thinks running Epstein as Charles Augustus Milverton isn't a black op. I do. CIA
agents helping the FBI get around domestic laws on intelligence gathering isn't the same
thing at all, even if deplorable. Turning pretty much all US nationals abroad they can into
assets is also deplorable, but still not the same. by: steven t johnson @ 83
After years of study and many many books I believe the Mossad and CIA are one and the
same. The Mossad is very useful when leaving sovereign footprints is verboten--and vice
versa. by: last day of grace @ 79
the interests of American, British, Israeli and other nations' intelligence agencies are
surely so entwined that picking them apart is impossible. One thing for sure though: none of
them serve the interests of the nations they supposedly work for. Posted by: Jen @ 80
awareness is the beginning of change. by: Grieved @ 116
In my opinion Grieved captured the essence.. if you are human then you will rebel that a
poor sap holds up a liquor store for $100 to buy his girl friend a fix, gets 10 years, but
the Intelligence agencies, kill millions, to pay bastards like those mentioned here millions
and promote to President people none of us would want to be associated with, and provides
life of Riley status to scum with get out of jail free cards.. BS.. we humans are better than
animals. where is our pride, where is our humanity, I say get the prosecutors that do not
imprison these low life for eternity.. blame the prosecutors.. and leave the victims and the
perpetrators alone.. get the prosecutors make them do their job.. concentrate on that and
that alone..
The left is going wild thinking that this will "get Trump" but quite the opposite is
happening. It appears to me to be a "limited hang out" of an operation that has lost its
usefulness long ago. It surfaced during the election to damage the Clinton's but did not
receive widespread acclaim.
Now this story will run into 2020 largely damaging democrats into the 2020 election.
Trump's DOJ is running the operation. My question is will creepy Joe Biden figure into this?
Those videos with his hands all over other people children are beyond weird and
creepy.
Trump and some of the other socialites dumped Maxwell and Epstein after finding out what
was going on. That is part of the record. The anti-goyim activists that own much of the
mainstream media will trim the record accordingly as Trump appears to be their boy. They do
not need to blackmail him.
The true sponsors of the operation will be left out of the mainstream accounts and the
focus will be on the salacious details of sex with whomever and little girls. The "limited
hang out" will bolster Trumps election opportunities into 2020. Once again, the Left will be
Left with unconsumed egg on their faces. Like the idiots they are, they are driven by their
hate and their ideology and not by intelligence, understanding, and facts.
This is a great opportunity to understand how the world works behind the scenes, use
it.
One reason he was able to bargain and got light sentence was his connection with
intelligence. There were diplomats even high ranking officials, foreign dignitaries attending
his special party and service. He had a trump card with several videos. More likely he is an
Israeli Asset.
see, not even a speed bump. A slight slow down before everyone gets back to where they were,
continuing the exploitation of these once children to further their own ends. With Trump,
Clinton and the Windsor creep, their 'excuse' was that their innate instinct to spread their
genes has become corrupted - no doubt as punishment for all their good works.
I dunno how anyone who has parented a daughter - no matter how long ago, can reduce this
story down to dispassionate elements such as "Its mossad" or "no it aint, its those decadent
brits/the cia/kgb blah blah". I think most of us know that 'it' could be any/all of the
above.
Given the probably correct supposition that today's exploitation hasn't resulted in even a
minor jism rush, what is the justification?
It's capitalism/communism/fascism?
I'll say it again. It doesn't matter what story about the forces behind this is portrayed
as the truth, bugger-all is going to happen as long as the issue is which crooked pol took
money from which crooked banker, or which two bit amerikan owned ME colony put the pimp up to
kidnapping children and perverting them.
Insult to injury in addition to getting anally raped, at least one of these 11 year old
girls then had to put up with a shouting match between Edelstein and a US prez about who had
'the right to take her virginity'
Deep down, even if they won't even admit it to themselves people already know that all
pols are crooks, just as they know israel and saudi are a pair of manipulative pseudo-states
run by corrupt asshats prepared to fight their indigenous population down to the last remnant
of nato cannon-fodder.
As long as the issue is about allegedly omnipotent remote figures, everyone will shrug
their shoulders and say "Yuk! - that's what you get eh, anyway I better get back to putting
food on the table,"
On the other hand if ordinary humans are presented with the story of 11 year old girls
being snatched off the street outside a pizza joint while mom is inside ordering the evening
meal, the story stops being remote and becomes something so real they desperately search
around to make sure the all young girls in their family are safe.
Do that while making sure the initial victims are adequately protected from thugs and
exploitative 'journalists' and many many more victims will appear creating a situation mass
media cannot 'massage' or ignore.
Another example of Occam's Razor? The thing that makes the most sense in a complex situation
is probably the right answer. Seems like Epstein, a world class pimp, sexual predator and
bagman for Mysterious Moneymen has been teed up this time to snare Trumptard, to sing a song
or compose one (as they say in interrogation rooms) on the uncontrollable narcissist.
Epstein and the Unmentionables were protected by the Cuban-American hack malpracticer
Acosta in Fla. The message today to Epstein is: You are not protected this time unless... Do
not be surprised to hear one day before too long that Epstein is swimming with the fishes,
not unlike the fate met by Robert Maxwell (father of Epstein's Number 1 recruiter and
gatekeeper of his secrets).
The Mystery Men can always find another pimp and bagman on the dirty boulevard.
Former Palm Beach County state's attorney, Barry Krischer, says that Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta's account of a 2008 plea
arrangement his office cut with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein is
"completely
wrong,"
and
that Acosta "
should
not be allowed to rewrite history,"
according
to a Wednesday statement by Krischer.
Earlier in the day Acosta held a
press
conference
in which he
vehemently
defended
the deal to serve just 13 months in county jail - saying that Krischer would have let Epstein walk otherwise.
"Simply put, the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office was willing to let Epstein walk free. No jail time. Nothing," said Acosta.
"Prosecutors in my former office found this to be completely unacceptable, and we became involved."
Not true
says Krischer - who said that Acosta abandoned a 53-page federal indictment "
after
secret negotiations between Mr. Epstein's lawyers and Mr. Acosta,
" according to
The
Hill
.
READ IT HERE: Former Palm Beach (FL) State Atty Barry Krischer challenges Acosta's characterization
of why Acosta pursued a plea deal for Epstein: "I can emphatically state that Mr. Acosta's
recollection of this matter is completely wrong."
The Miami U.S. Attorney's Office had prepared a federal indictment against Epstein, but it was never filed. Acosta has
also faced criticism for failing to disclose the plea deal to Epstein's victims, something he said would have
jeopardized the agreement.
Krischer downplayed his office's role in the eventual plea deal, and alleged the U.S. Attorney's Office abandoned its
federal indictment after "secret negotiations between Mr. Epstein's lawyers and Mr. Acosta."
"
If
Mr. Acosta was truly concerned with the State's case and felt he had to rescue the matter, he would have moved forward
with the 53-page indictment that his own office drafted
," Krischer said. -
The
Hill
That said, Palm Beach police told the
Miami
Herald
that they felt pressured by Krischer to downgrade Epstein's case to a misdemeanor or to drop it entirely
While Epstein has allegedly victimized up to
60
girls, many of them underage
according to the
Miami
Herald
, his sweetheart deal for just
two
counts of solocitation of prostitution
(one with a minor), and included
working
from his West Palm Beach office for as much as 12 hours a day
for up to
six
days a week.
He was also required to register as a sex offender, and was given immunity from federal prosecution.
Acosta avoided mentioning Krischer by name on Wednesday, referring only to the Palm Beach County state's attorney.
"Everything that the victims have gone through in these cases is horrific, and their response is entirely justified," said
Acosta. "At the same time, I think it's important to stand up for the prosecutors of my former office and make clear that
what they were trying to do was help these victims. They should not be portrayed as individuals that just didn't care."
Everything Acosta has said on the subject is a blatant lie. He, himself should be investigated,
then given a fair trial and, finally disemboweled along with Epstein and the entire Clinton
family.
Sorry, I've had two cups of coffee this morning. Was that a little too harsh?
boattrash
,
3 minutes ago
I'm sure that protecting the Clintons didn't play into the decision making.
Strawboss
,
4 minutes ago
Acosta is selling the idea that he didnt have a strong case and there was concern that they wouldnt
be able to win it in front of a jury...so they went along with a deal that included at least some
jail time...
I call ******** for 2 reasons.
Firstly - the victims deserve to have their day in court and to have our justice system fight for
them. Acosta wants us to believe that he is convinced that Epstein is dangerous and needed to be
locked up. IF that were true...why the **** didnt he take it to trial - put his best prosecutor on
it and fight for it with everything hes got? Thats what honorable people do in order to protect our
most vulnerable citizens. You fight for whats right.
Secondly - I cant decide whether its corruption that led to the sweetheart deal (secret payoffs or
maybe Epstein had dirt on Acosta...who knows...) OR...its a problem with our current system where
prosecutors only bring cases that are slam dunks because they want their record to show a 99%
conviction rate (mostly plea deals) so when they later go into public office - they have their
resume already padded...
**** Acosta. He even looks and talks slimy...
Put him and Epstein in a cell with Bubba and T-bone...after we have extracted all the confessions
from Epstein about who all was raping kids.
These sick fuckers need to just die. They need to be exterminated - like cockroaches. Or rats...
They are a clear and present danger to the national security of our country.
swmnguy
,
5 minutes ago
Nice try, Acosta. But nobody is criticizing the other attorneys in your former office. Everybody
is criticizing YOU. You Personally.
I wonder who Acosta is really protecting, and who is continuing to protect Acosta. Epstein and
Trump aren't wealthy or important enough to merit this level of protection, going back decades.
There's way more to this, which we'll probably never see.
Fishthatlived
,
47 seconds ago
"They're" criticizing him to deflect blame. The DOJ ran this.
Anunnaki
,
5 minutes ago
Acosta even looks like a ******* loser. Cut your losses Orange Jewlius. No one cares about Secy of
Labor. He means nothing but is becoming a millstone.
dont let that gas bag Pelousy and the rest of the perverted Dem hypocrites keep gaslighting you.
ZekeSwampZombie
,
5 minutes ago
It's obvious Epstein is being protected because he is an "intelligence" apparatchik. What a joke
this world is.
Roger Ramjet
,
5 minutes ago
The truth will be found by following the money. Follow the money!
Sofa King Confused
,
4 minutes ago
Hang Acosta right next to Epstein !!
More-Cowbell
,
6 minutes ago
Swamp that drain, swamp that drain.
takeaction
,
5 minutes ago
Just my thoughts....
What I don't understand is that the MSM is running with this story. Yet they are not mentioning who
is involved.....they keep trying to drag Trump into it with all kinds of twists, but I don't think
he is involved. He may have "almost" got involved, but I think he saw what was going on and said
"Screw you guys, this is going to bite you in the ***".....so with the planes logs of Bill Clinton
being on the plane 27 times, and the Black Book showing so many famous people involved, I think that
the prosecutors in this case are just letting it build, and then BOOM. They will flip Epstein for a
lighter sentence and many many many people go down.
These 2 paeopple bother me....I don't understand how Pelosi's daughter keeps coming up, and then
Comey's daughter is one of the prosecutors in this case. Many this swamp is deep.
Anunnaki
,
7 minutes ago
Why isn't Ghislaine Maxwell arrested? Sick of (((Amish))) exceptionalism.
bigdumbnugly
,
12 minutes ago
apparently Epstein's crimes don't rise to the level of what i got for rolling through a stop sign
last month.
ScreaminLib
,
9 minutes ago
Yeah, but you're not Jewish nor are you an Israeli blackmail agent so there's that.
DudleyjouWrite
,
10 minutes ago
Bullshid "apartheid-state-of-Israel" psychos' political propaganda(?)
19 hours ago - In the
Netanyahu
-Barak
mudslinging over Jeffrey
Epstein
, the
real winner is . The arrest of Jeffrey
Epstein
shortly
after Ehud Barak announced that he was returning to Israeli political life was a much-needed lucky
break for Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu
. ...
Spearheading the ...
WHATDIFFERENCEDOESITMAKE
,
9 minutes ago
Acosta would have been a dead man if he so bolden himself to move forward. That's the facts mame!
Fishthatlived
,
15 minutes ago
The DOJ ran this case. Their embarrassment is what you are seeing now.
notfeelinthebern
,
14 minutes ago
Everything under Obama was a sham. Including everything about him.
Rusticus2.0
,
8 minutes ago
The deal was cut by the Bush DOJ but don't let facts get in the way.
Fishthatlived
,
6 minutes ago
True. Robert Mueller's FBI.
Anunnaki
,
10 minutes ago
In James Patterson's book Filthy Rich, Acosta was intimidated by Epstein's legal team of Roy Black,
Ken Starr and Allen Douchewitz.
The Douche had harvested some of the girls' raunchy posts from their Myspace pages and was
vociferously attacking their character.
Acosta, the ****, lost his nerve and cut and run
PanApollo
,
12 minutes ago
There is so much more to this whole case; Mossad, CIA are just a couple that comes to mind. The
"Dome of the Rock Temple" on Little St. James Island is too convenient and an eyesore. This hole
charade is playing out like a movie. It is as if "all the world's a stage, and we are merely
players," but most of us are just spectators.
44magnum
,
2 minutes ago
yes, and they make us pay for the tickets
notfeelinthebern
,
13 minutes ago
The average person would not know what to make of anything anymore. Clearly, some evil forces are at
work from behind the scenes but just who is the force is, is impossible to ascertain. Lawyers are
ALL ******* weasels - Hillary and Bill being primary examples.
I watched the clip later, and was a bit pissed when Mr Acosta disregarded a legitimate question
about Epstein being used by a foreign agency as "going down a rabbit hole".
In that piece, I shared many lesser known, but extremely bizarre facts about Jeffrey Epstein and the people around him.
I also noted that it appeared his real job was to run a blackmail operation to ensnare some of the most wealthy and
powerful people on earth. I alluded to the possibility that he was collecting this priceless information on behalf of a
third party, and then just today we learn the following
via
the
Daily
Beast
:
"Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?" Acosta had been asked. Acosta had
explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he'd had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He'd cut the
non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above
his pay grade.
"I
was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone,"
he told his interviewers in the Trump
transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor
Department had no comment when asked about this.)...
For almost two decades, for some nebulous reason, whether to do with ties to foreign intelligence, his billions of
dollars, or his social connections, Epstein, whose alleged sexual sickness and horrific assaults on women without
means or ability to protect themselves is well-known in his circle, remained untouchable.
It should be noted the reason I attach credibility to the above is based on who wrote it, Vicky Ward. She has an
extensive history of digging into Epstein, and wrote one of the
earliest
profiles
on him back in 2003. As she notes in today's article:
I
spent
many months on his trail in 2002 for Vanity Fair
and discovered not only that he was not who he claimed to be
professionally, but also that he had allegedly assaulted two young sisters, one of whom had been underage at the
time. Very bravely, they were prepared to go on the record. They were afraid he'd use all his influence to discredit
them -- and their fear turned out to be legitimate.
As the article was being readied for publication, Epstein made a visit to the office of Vanity Fair's then-editor,
Graydon Carter, and suddenly the women and their allegations were removed from the article.
"He's sensitive
about the young women," Carter told me at the time. (Editor's Note: Carter has previously denied this allegation.)
He also mentioned he'd finagled a photograph of Epstein in a swimsuit out of the encounter. And there was also some
feeble excuse about the article "being stronger as a business story." (Epstein had also leaned heavily on my
ex-husband's uncle,
Conrad
Black
, to try to exert his influence on me, which was particularly unwelcome, given that Black happened to be my
ex-husband's boss at the time.)
Many people had assumed Epstein was untouchable merely because he had so much dirt on so many powerful people, but it
increasingly looks far bigger than that.
It
appears he may have been untouchable because he was systematically collecting this information on behalf of an
intelligence agency.
If so, we need to find out precisely who he was working for.
This should be the number one story in the country right now. Blackmail at this level is a genuine national security
issue.
If we can somehow get to the bottom of Epstein I suspect we'll learn a lot about how the world
of the powerful really works, and why everything is so fked and corrupt.
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ZD1
,
1 minute ago
Multiple Democrat socialists have been involved in child sex scandals over the years.
Democratic Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned after more allegations of child sexual abuse
surfaced after a fifth allegation of child sexual abuse surfaced -- this time from a
family member.
Anthony Weiner? The ex-husband to Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin had a long
history of sexual misconduct. Weiner became involved in an online sexual relationship
with a 15-year-old girl. Weiner pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a
minor.
Jacob Schwartz, 29, was an up-and-coming young Democrat who worked on New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio's staff until he was arrested in on child *********** charges in
which he allegedly kept more than 3,000 images and 89 videos of pornographic acts
committed by children.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was on trial facing federal corruption charges, which
started in 2012 over allegations that he and another man were having sex with underage
prostitutes.
Convicted sex offender and longtime friend of former Democratic President Bill Clinton,
Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was accused in January in a federal lawsuit of luring a woman
into "his elaborate sex trafficking enterprise," the Daily Mail reported. "The lawsuit
alleges that Epstein had a compulsive sexual preference for little girls as young as
13-years-old."
The co-owners of
backpage.com
,
a website allegedly directly linked to child prostitution and trafficking, gave lots of
money to Democrats recently, including donations to:
David Garcia -- a Democratic candidate for governor in Arizona
A political action committee backed by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
The Arizona State Democratic Executive Committee
The Colorado Democratic Party
The Democratic Party of New Mexico
Two separate donations to Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO)
Two separate donations to Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)
Democratic Connecticut Councilman Scott Chamberlain was forced to step down after
photographs of him allegedly emerged on a private website for "furries," a weird
subculture of people who dress up in furry costumes for sexual gratification.
Here's a bombshell for you- Whatever they discover, the mainstream media won't report
it.
Ban KKiller
,
7 minutes ago
Compromising elected officials? This is a time honored system, isn't it? Gee, who does
that kind of thing? My oh my!
**** this ****. I voted to blow the place up.
Captain Archer
,
58 seconds ago
I imagine the intellegence agencies spend half their time ******* with each other.
DarthVaderMentor
,
18 minutes ago
To find out whether Epstein was working for or even associated with anyone in the US or UK
Intelligence Community should be a trivial task for the DOJ. The question is whether the Trump DOJ
has the political will to investigate this and whether they would make the resulting answer public
knowledge or not. So far, Trump's DOJ hasn't shown much backbone and hasn't really delivered for the
Trump constituency in other matters. let's face it, essentially
every
single
issue that Trump pandered to his base on when campaigning he has either
intentionally
thrown
the issue in a way that is
guaranteed
to
result in a loss or failed to prosecute the issue in the first place. He hasn't proven himself yet
when it comes to legal challenges.
IMHO, Epstein was assisted by some politician who threatened Acosta by using the intelligence
community as the reason to back off on Epstein. This would have been the perfectly natural excuse,
especially in the years just after 9/11.
I'm pretty sure that Trump had no "collusion" or helped Epstein in anyway. This is a golden
opportunity for Trump to really inflict damage to the "Deep State" he claims is against him. Let's
hope he actually gets someone in DOJ to DO SOMETHING. So far Barr, Durham, Horowitz and Huber
haven't done anything. Is it a matter of timing or is Trump not getting things done but putting up a
good show?
Although the Epstein affair is probably a huge Democratic exposure, I believe the Globalist RINOs of
the GOP and their mega donors are also involved here.
Wild Bill Steamcock
,
23 minutes ago
Is it then end, though? This is going in front of the Southern District of New York....they've
been fairly hostile toward Trump and have a vested interest in shielding these filthy democrat
cocksuckers.
I see this as a way to diffuse the bomb, sweep it away, and try to take a swipe at Trump all the
while.
I want this ****** and all of his associates and buddies to burn, but I'm not holding my breath
His last go-round with the law ended in a "NON-PROSECUTORIAL AGREEMENT" Let that sink in,
folks. He spent time in the COUNTY JAIL, with 12 hours of work time at his OFFICE, six days a
week and was taken back and forth by LIMO.
This guy is ******* garbage, and will weasel right out and fly off to some foreign destination
just like Roman Polanski
Wild Bill Steamcock
,
13 minutes ago
Anyone one else would've spent DECADES in PRISON, but this guy, a level 3 sex offender-
highest probability to re-offend, and he got a sweetheart deal of the millenium.
Question is, why?
jeff montanye
,
10 minutes ago
like imran awan, a mossad get out of jail free card? apparently meant more to g.w. bush
and obama than it does to trump.
Wild Bill Steamcock
,
5 minutes ago
That guy...there's some really dirty business there....not Mossad, I'm pretty sure
he's Pakistani ISI...those guys don't **** around
And these Presidents you've mentioned? None of them worth a ****
Wild Bill Steamcock
,
24 minutes ago
That smarmy lispy **** will walk. Just watch.
Pardero
,
16 minutes ago
If the trail leads to Mossad and Israel, Trump may be compelled to pardon him, lest the whole
ugly system be revealed. I imagine that a lot of sinister minds are scheming on ways to shut in
this blowout.
Wild Bill Steamcock
,
15 minutes ago
This guy will some how skip out and fly off to some country without an extradition agreement
with the US.
Jaded and cynical? Sure am.
jeff montanye
,
5 minutes ago
but don't forget that jonathan pollard spent thirty years in prison.
Wild Bill Steamcock
,
3 minutes ago
He was originally given a life sentence. Then released and sent to Israel. He's a
national hero over there
Equinox7
,
36 minutes ago
A Zionists, Jewish Moussad agent gathering information on US political leaders? Highly plausible
and highly possible.
I'm sick to death with these Zionist Christians and Jews screaming "anti semite" every time some
truthful statement with merit criticizes Israel.
Just today I saw some independent large tow truck owner riding around with the words "Trump,
Christian, God, Pro-Life, Israel" written on the large crane arm of the tow truck.
I am pro-Trump, a Christian, believer in God, Pro-Life, but I'm not pro-Israel. What in the Hell
does Israel have to do with the first four things written? I am pro-USA and proud US patriot. My
allegiance is to the country of my birth, which is the USA. I owe absolutely no allegiance to
Israel.
Those Zionist Jewish bastards murdered US service men on the USS Liberty on June 8th, 1967.
My brothers and sisters in Christ in the Southern Baptist and non denominational faiths have been
brainwashed to believe they should and must support Israel. That Israel shares our values and are
more Godly than the USA.
Really? Would it shock the Hell out of those brainwashed Christians to know that Israel openly
believes in and has no problem with abortion?
Would it shock the Hell out of those brainwashed, Zionist US Christians to know how intolerant the
Zionist Israelis are becoming toward Christian brothers and sisters in Israel?
We, in the US, hear all the time from these evangelical Zionist Christians the USA is an unGodly
nation that God will not allow to stand much longer, while God protects and watches over Israel.
What a misrepresentation of facts and truth.
With all that said, it is highly plausible and believable to conceive that a Jewish billionaire
pedophile, and close friend to the Clintons, is also a secret Moussad agent gathering blackmail
information on US political leaders and business leaders.
Equinox7
,
30 minutes ago
Your not going to sit there and attempt to change the narrative away from Israel. The Arab
Muslims are an entirely different issue. I have issues with Arab Muslims running around
trying to sever heads, stab people to death, and blow people up with explosives.
The issue is America's sick undevoted, unquestionable obsession with Israel.
PJBloggs
,
37 minutes ago
The elites control the politicians, judges, CEOs etc via paedophile rings for blackmail purposes.
POTUS Clinton may have given Epstein access to the Intel Community in order to employ a very complex
Black Mail OP! Why would a prosecutor with scads of evidence back off and give Epstein a slap on
the wrist? Clinton is the ONLY common denominator. NOT POTUS Trump! Trump was actually a
Whistleblower! Clinton and Epstein were partnered up! Epstein was protected by the Clinton Body
Count.
Jackprong
,
52 minutes ago
Former POTUS Clinton and Epstein were PARTNERS!
TheSharpenedPen
,
37 minutes ago
Yep, Epstein bragged that he was a cofounder of the corrupt Clinton Foundation.
Respect_The_Cock
,
51 minutes ago
Implications of the
"Chosen People" Myth | "Goyim Were Born Only to Serve Us"
Reading Yosef's remarks I also thought of Netanyahu's 2001 interview, leaked last July, in which
he frankly discussed his intention to ignore the Oslo Accords, continue settlements and launch a
"total assault" on the Palestinian Authority. When asked about a possible negative U.S.
reaction, he exclaimed: "Especially now, with America, I know what America is. America is a
thing that can be easily moved, moved in the right direction. They will not bother us. Let's
suppose that [the Americans] will say something . . . so they say it Eighty per cent of the
Americans support us. It's
absurd!
We
have such support there! And we say what shall we do with this?" He was virtually
ridiculing
the
pathetic manipulability of the U.S. public and Congress.
And then there was that statement by former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon (also known as
the "butcher of Sabra and Shatila" due to his complicity in the annihilation of up to 3500
Palestinians refugees in Beirut during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982) to Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres in October 2001: "Every time we do something you tell me America will do
this and will do that I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American
pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
Last March Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel to pledge the U.S.'s undying loyalty to the
Jewish state. His message was that, despite President Obama's request -- based on U.S.
geostrategic interests -- that Israel freeze settlement on occupied Palestinian land, and
Israel's refusal to do so more than partially and temporarily, U.S. support would continue as
always. The Israeli Interior Ministry (headed by Shas Party member Eli Yishai) used the occasion
of the visit to announce the construction of 1,600 new homes for Jews in occupied East
Jerusalem. The insult was so brazen that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "condemned" the move
which she said "undermined trust and confidence in the peace process." Zionists responded with
their typical indignation. (The Anti-Defamation League called Clinton's remarks a "gross
overreaction" towards a "policy." Former New York City mayor Ed Koch accused Obama of wanting to
"make Israel into a pariah" and called Clinton's comments "outrageous.")
Then as Biden was addressing the Jewish Federations of North America two weeks ago assuring them
that U.S. support for Israel was "literally unbreakable," and would "continue forever," and
dismissing the recent rift as being "only tactical" in nature, Israel's cabinet announced
more
illegal
settlement housing construction plans.
Is all this mere chutzpah? Or is it the behavior of a true effendi? Is it not amazing that a
regime claiming to represent the Jews in Israel (under 0.01% of the total global human
population) or even all the Jews on the planet (under 0.02% of humankind) can boast of its
ability to arm-twist U.S. presidents? That officials in a country with a stagnant economy with
no raw materials dependent annually on two or three billion dollars in direct U.S. aid (matched
by private U.S. donors) to sustain a First World type living standard (for Jews if not for the
Palestinians in the occupied territories) can claim to "control America"? That it has been able
since 1972 to count on the U.S. to veto practically every UN resolution even mildly critical of
its behavior, often supported by all other member states except Israel itself?
Is it not amazing that such Zionists enjoy free license to provoke, thorough their occupations
and aggressions, the outrage of 1.57 billion Muslims (23% of the world's population), some of
whom predictably vent their rage on the U.S. as Israel's unconditional friend?
And is it not amazing that agents for Israel within AIPAC (Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman)
could spy in the U.S., obtain classified documents pertaining to Iran (which Israel demands the
U.S. bomb), get arrested by the FBI and charged with serious crimes in 2005, only to have all
charges dropped in 2009? Or that ranking Congresswoman Jane Harmon, who agreed to "waddle in" to
that case in an FBI-intercepted call with an Israeli agent, could escape any charges?
It could all be as simple as a wholly corrupt man taking advantage of all his corrupt connections.
There may be a foreign connection, but there might not be as well. It could be that "he belongs to
intelligence" was said simply because the person that said it risked blackmail, or a case of simple
cowardice in the face of influence and money.
"He smells dirty" - a line from the Fugitive movie, applies here. Hopefully the prosecutors will
expose the entire rat's nest, wherever it leads. Hopefully the prosecutors have bodyguards.
ZD1
,
1 hour ago
Every Democrat presidential candidate in the last 25 years has had pedophilia ties.
Take Obama for example.
Two weeks after the 2014 election, Terry Bean was busted in Portland. Bean was the co-founder of the
Human Rights Campaign, the most effective gay rights lobby in the country, whose donors included
Harvey Weinstein.
Bean was a big donor to Obama, Kerry and Gore.
At the Human Rights Campaign, Obama had directed a remark to "my great friend and supporter, Terry
Bean." Bean had raised over $1 million for Obama's political career.
Bean was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy. Bean's boyfriend, who had been brought along
to the White House to meet Obama, was also arrested. The boyfriend's mother accused Bean of using
him to "get young kids" by grooming them with gifts of alcohol and Viagra.
According to prosecutors, the Obama backer had engaged in this sort of behavior as far back as '79
when he had sex with a 16-year-old boy and plied him with alcohol and drugs. The victim, who is now
a middle aged doctor, had come out so that Bean would not be able to "keep on abusing young boys."
Despite denying the charges, Bean attempted to settle out of court with the boy. The prosecutor
stated that Bean had offered the victim at least $200,000.
That's a good deal of money. But only a fifth of what Obama got.
The boy declined to testify. Bean walked free.
Since then, Bean appears to have maxed out his donations to Hillary Clinton. There is no evidence
that Hillary or her people have returned them.
You are a moron because there is no left or right bent to corruption, corruption is an equal
opportunity opportunist depends on the context of that situation presents itself of that
particular time like a market, just like when you go shop a car maybe that particular time a
Ford mustang was on sale so you picked it up and then some others times its a chevy camaro
beemasters
,
1 hour ago
Acosta said that had his office not been involved, Epstein would have only faced one charge from
state prosecutors.
"Without the work of our prosecutors, Epstein would have gotten away with just that state
charge," Acosta said. "He was and is a sexual predator."
During a press conference on Wednesday, Acosta gave no indication he would resign after days of
calls by Democrats for him to step down and said he has the support of Republican President
Donald
Trump
.
"My relationship with the president is outstanding," Acosta said.
The labour secretary would not say if he would make the same decision regarding Epstein again
today.
Best-selling author Vicky Ward reported Tuesday that Alexander Acosta told the Trump transition team
when asked about his handling of Jeffrey Epstein's case that "I was told Epstein 'belonged to
intelligence' and to leave it alone."
Jeffrey Epstein's madame was Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of Robert Maxwell - a Mossad Agent. What
are the odds Epstein was also working for Mossad, CIA, and MI6? I mean the guy was blackmailing the
top politicians/businessmen in the USA via underage sex.
Here's a clue as to what intelligence agency may be behind Epstein via
The
Memory Hole
:
Epstein's pals include heads of state, entrepreneurs, academics and research scientists,
celebrities, and numerous beautiful women, notably Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of media mogul
Robert Maxwell (né Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch). Robert Maxwell, head of the Mirror Group
Newspapers, was alleged to be a Mossad agent by Seymour Hersh in his 1991 book on Israel's
nuclear program,
Expendable Container
,
1 hour ago
Was/is Epstein working for the Mossad?
July 9 2019 – The David Duke Show: Dr Duke & Andy Hitchcock Expose The Epstein Island International
Sex Ring & Reveal The Evidence It Is A Mossad Operation!
From 1989 up until 2003, Epstein donated more than $139,000 to Democratic federal
candidates. Notable recipients included former President Bill Clinton.
From 1999 to 2003, Epstein donated $77,000 to Democrats John Kerry, Richard Gephardt, Chris Dodd,
and other high-profile politicians and committees.
Epstein gave to independent Connecticut House candidate Gwendolyn Beck in 2014 and U.S. Virgin
Islands Democratic Delegate Stacey Plaskett both in 2016 and the most recent midterms.
Most recently, Epstein contributed $10,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in
October 2018.
Epstein was one of the largest investors in the hedge fund managed by Bear Stearns and a key federal
witness in the criminal prosecution of two of Bear Stearns' top executives in 2008 -- the same year a
non-prosecution agreement between federal prosecutors and Epstein's legal team was negotiated. It
isn't clear if Epstein's involvement in the Bear Stearns case played a role in his plea deal.
Of course Epstein contributed to Bubba...dat was a regular customer, [gee was it 26 times or only
four? only Clintons hairdresser and Epstein know for sure] and Epstein also got a fabulous amount of
black mail footage on Bubbs, which then allowed Esptein to leverage this, to allow him to peddle to
diddlers at will, as well as doing his own diddling, while becoming fabulously rich
Here is a theory you may want to think about...say your Epstein (I know ******* repulsive to think
about) but still...say you know that they all know you have the drop on all of them, you know you
are surely going to get whacked fairly quickly (with Horowitz report weeks away from hitting the
streets). You run to the feds and say "take me in by the hairs on my pedo chinny chin chin", and Ill
spill the beans...I will look those deep state ***** right in the eye and say goodbye pedo, nice to
know you....
This whole thing could be a movie production orchestrated by Trump as the ultimate **** you in the
*** with the magic mushroom head revenge moment...You folks fucked with the wrong President, this
aint no Nixon you can roll over
WOW...This is MAJOR forest fire, and if it does not get shut down, will burn those sick ***** to the
mother ******* ground....the chief architect pyro for this conflagration (Epstein)...gotta be
getting taken out by some amazing "accident" in prison, a la Whitey Bulger style, unless (as always)
the screen play has a plot twist.
Burn away bitches I say, let the fire fry your ******* ball sacks off you sick *****...when that is
over, you can look forward to swimming in the lake of fire with the Clintons for eternity
PKKA
,
1 hour ago
Stop advertising the Mossad. Mossad is not so omnipotent as you think. More empty advertising than
real affairs. For all the time they caught and stole only one old Nazi alcoholic Eichmann, who did
not occupy such a big post in the 3rd Reich. For the stench and advertising was, to the whole world!
Jews can do advertising, and you immediately believe everything. Hezbollah also stole Israeli
military Gilad Shalit. Look at the failure of the Mossad and Israel in the second Lebanon war of
2006. It was Lebanon and Hezbollah.
At 9 am on July 12, Hezbollah militants from Lebanon struck a rocket and mortar attack on the
fortified Nurit point and the border village of Shlomi, wounding 11 people. Simultaneously with this
distracting action, a group of militants crossed the border and attacked two Humvi patrol vehicles
from an ambush. Three soldiers were killed, two captured - Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. The
operation to free the captives after two hours resulted in the loss of 5 more Israeli soldiers.
And in the future, the events unfolded for Israel is very unfortunate
Johnbrown
,
1 hour ago
They did 9/11, and still not prosecuted.
PKKA
,
1 hour ago
What is your evidence? Are you the director of the CIA or the FBI?
ZD1
,
1 hour ago
A-List Democrats and left wing journalists partied with Jeffrey Epstein who was a raging Democrat.
Epstein was let out of jail, Palm Beach County jail, after serving 10 months, but he was allowed to
leave for 12 hours a day and then basically spend the night. He was allowed to go to his Palm Beach
house and do whatever he was doing, ankle bracelet kind of thing, and then go back and spend the
night in the jail. Obviously a sweetheart deal for 10 months and then he was released for a time
with I think home whatever.
When he got out of jail, he has a dinner party and at the dinner party,
Katie
Couric
,
George
Stephanopoulos
, all of these A-list, left-wing journalist and socialite A-listers that show up
at cocktail parties, they're all there, and they know what the guy did, they know who he is, they
know what he does.
Another woman, Sarah Ransome, also submitted an affidavit with the lawsuit with new details
about sex she claims she had with Dershowitz.
Ransome says that she was introduced to Epstein when she was 22 years old and living in New
York. She claims that she spent time at Epstein's mansion and was "lent out" by him to his
friends for sex. Among those friends was Dershowitz, she said in the affidavit. She alleges she
had a three-way sexual encounter with Dershowitz and Nadia Marcinkova, who also worked for
Epstein.
"I recall specific, key details of his person and the sex acts and can describe them in the
event it becomes necessary to do so," Ransome said in the affidavit.
When I hear that Jews are too powerful, my response is, we are not powerful enough. When I hear
that AIPAC is too influential a lobby, I say it must become even more influential. When I hear
that Jews contribute too much money to support pro-Israel causes, I say we must contribute more.
When I hear that Jews control the media, I ask "Why is so much of the media so anti-Israel?"
When I hear that Jews have too much influence on the outcome of elections, I say we need to
increase our influence. We aren't doing enough. We must do more.
Jews have contributed enormously -- disproportionately -- to America's success. Along with other
immigrants, Jews have helped change our country for the better: academically, scientifically,
economically, politically, militarily, medically, legally, technologically and in so many other
ways. We have earned the right to act as first-class citizens. No other group is ever accused of
having too much power and influence. That false claim -- dating back to times and places where
Jews had little or no influence -- is an anti-Semitic trope that tells us more about the
anti-Semites who invoke it that it does about the Jews.
History has proven that Jews
need
more
power and influence than other groups to secure their safety.
Doesnt occur to him that the perpetual Jewish effort to grab disproportionate power as a hostile
minority elite is WHY they need 'safety.' Or the ways in which Judaism teaches Jews to regard their
non-Jewish ethnic host.
Stacey Plaskett, the delegate to the U.S House of Representatives from the Virgin Islands, is
unlikely to return the thousands of dollars donated to her campaign by Jeffrey Epstein, a
billionaire sex offender recently arrested for child sex trafficking.
Plaskett, a black Democrat, has served as the island territory's representative to Congress since
first being elected in 2014. Throughout her tenure, Plaskett has received $8,100 from Epstein, who
owns his own private island in the Virgin Islands territory called Little Saint James. The majority
of the money, $5,400, was donated during Plaskett's 2016 reelection campaign when she faced a strong
primary opponent. Epstein's latest donation of $2,700 -- the maximum contribution allowed at the time
under FEC guidelines -- was during the 2018 campaign cycle.
Prior to his 2008 conviction, Epstein was an influential political donor, noted for his support of
Democrat candidates and causes. From 1989 to 2003, he donated more than $139,000 to Democrats
running for federal office, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
The Epstein case looks like a 'honeypot' operation
Involve the rich and powerful in degenerate liaisons then (if need be) blackmail them.
Was it a Mossad or a Deep State operation is irrelevant
The big question is ...was Trump partaking in these sordid deeds or not?
I would hazard a yes
Can't believe philandering Trump would turn down an offer of underage beaver.
Needless to say the whole shebang of East Coast Dem/wall st pantheon must have some partaking
beemasters
,
2 hours ago
Pedophilia isn't a partisan issue. All on Epstein's black book should be investigated!
philosophers bone
,
2 hours ago
At the end of his press conference, Acosta was asked if he said that Epstein was owned by
intelligence.
Listen closely to his answer. He beats around the Bush and does not ever answer the question.
consider me gone
,
2 hours ago
Well, don't tell anyone but I heard...now don't tell anyone! But I heard....Trump is a Russian mole.
I believe it. I mean come on, very important people say so. But unfortunately I can't mention any
names.
Rhal
,
2 hours ago
It's about time the people knew the CIA has gone rogue.
They made it official on March 31 1981.
Their blackmail library must be massive by now. Some ambitious sobs in Washington even volunteer
into the Brownstone just to have the deepstate promote them on a promise.
Deal with the Devil.
Taras Bulba
,
2 hours ago
Why is this a bombshell? Clickbait headline. Anyone looking at this for more than, say 30 seconds,
would agree that this is a foreign power blackmail operation.
ken
,
2 hours ago
So nothing has been done about it, why? Because War/Slaughter-for-Profit in the Middle East is so
profitable for American warmongers, and so beneficial for Israel? Is that why? Which foreign
government is behind the Jeffrey Epstein Hedge Fund/Child Trafficking Front?
toady
,
3 hours ago
It's completely bizarre to me that "someone" can just tell a high level prosecutor "don't prosecute
that guy, he's too important" and they just say "okay".
Walking Turtle
,
3 hours ago
Shouldn't BE that way. But it sure WAS and in many, many current instances still IS.
Damn shame. But nonetheless, it still is far better to light even a single candle than ever it was
to sit and curse the Darkness. Been that way for thousands of years of Human Life on Earth, in
fact. So now the Truth is coming to Light. Beds and bridges are BURNING. Enjoy!
Please take time to remember to breathe, now and then, and give up some gratitude to Heaven in those
little moments if at all so inclined. And that is all. 0{;-)o[
Generation O
,
3 hours ago
You'll remember the film, "Sex, Lies, and Videotape", and the Mob reference to a videotape that Jon
Voight wanted in the 1998 "Enemy Of The State" (which laid out the 911 attacks three years
beforehand, such as at 1:54:00 in the film). These two widely separated references both stem from
the same case which involved the FBI and stretch back to Israeli actions in the 1970's. And yes,
there is (so much) more to say. What did you think of that nuclear missile fired at Hawaii? How do
you think Trump got the files on this case from Netanyahu? The same way Netanyahu got historical
recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Take some deep breaths before going on here, because
there is more. Much more.
El Vaquero
,
3 hours ago
It really looks like Epstein is potentially the stopper that needs to be pulled to start draining
the swamp. If true that Epstein is an intel asset, which I won't get my hopes up for but would
absolutely believe, that has even deeper implications than just a pedo billionaire blackmailing
powerful people around the world. Though the latter is still something that if understood by the
general populace, would be ground-shattering in its own right. But if this goes back to the CIA or
Mossad or Five Eyes, HOLY ****, the fallout will be beyond epic.
Real Estate Guru
,
3 hours ago
After what we just saw with Obama/Clinton/the FBI, CIA, 911, etc, etc, etc.. etc nothing is
impossible. In fact, it is almost a certainty at this point that all of our worst fears are
going to be realized.
The **** is about to hit the fan. or should I say pizza....
El Vaquero
,
3 hours ago
If the CIA wasn't dirty since its inception in 1947, it only took a few years for it to
become absolutely corrupt. There was some seriously fucked up human experimentation done in
the '50s by the CIA under MKULTRA that goes well beyond just dosing people with LSD. Just
understanding that an organization which deals in the trade of lying, cheating and stealing
is going to be corrupt by its very nature will get you a long way. Do I have evidence that
the CIA put a pedo billionaire up to ensnaring rich and powerful people and using that for
blackmail? No. Do I find it plausable that such an organization would do such a thing?
Absolutely.
sbin
,
2 hours ago
Start calling the "intelligence agencies" by the correct name unaccountable secret police then
declassify everything so those responsible can be held accountable.
Bush sr was an evil person.
JSBach1
,
3 hours ago
Another piece per Wayne Madsen:
It is noteworthy that Attorney General William Barr, seen as Trump's personal lawyer and hatchet
man, may have known Epstein in the 1970s. In 1973,
Donald
Barr, the headmaster of Manhattan's elite Dalton School
a private school for children of some
of New York's wealthiest families,
hired
Epstein, who did not even possess a college degree, to teach mathematics, physics, and calculus.
Students
attending Dalton at the time included the son of Alan Greenberg, the chairman of the now-defunct
Wall Street firm Bear Stearns. In 1976, Greenberg hired Epstein to be a trader at Bear Stearns
and the degree-less math teacher soon became a billionaire
. Others attending Dalton during
Epstein's tenure include actresses Jennifer Gray and Tracy Pollan and television's "Bizarre
Foods" chef Andrew Zimmern. Epstein's association with Barr have some observers jokingly
referring to the matter as the "Epstein-Barr" case.
...
What is most interesting is the fact that the
SDNY's
Public Corruption Unit (PCU) is handling the case against Epstein. This has raised eyebrows
among experienced former federal prosecutors because it indicates that the Epstein case may
involve malfeasance in office by government officials
. Also, one of the SDNY prosecutors
handling the Epstein case in Maureen Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, who
Trump fired in 2007 during a fit of rage. Ms. Comey, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has been
with the SDNY since 2015 and is with the Office's Violent and Organized Crime Unit. WMR has
compiled a 'massive database showing thousands of Trump links to organized crime elements in New
York and elsewhere'.
...
Epstein victim, Giuffre, represented by David Boies, the chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner,
has
a pending lawsuit against Maxwell, claiming that Epstein's assistant turned her into a "sex
slave."
The suit also involves making public sealed court documents that not only implicate
Maxwell in Epstein's trafficking ring but also Dershowitz and other VIPs.
The involvement of British citizen Maxwell and Prince Andrew in the Epstein matter is drawing
attention to another recent story concerning
top
secret cables sent to London from Washington by British ambassador to the United States Kim
Darroch
. Among the recipients of Darroch's cables was Mark Sedwill, the British national
security adviser and Cabinet Secretary.
Darroch
warned in one dispatch to London that, with Trump, "we could also be at the beginning of a
downward spiral, rather than just a roller coaster: something could emerge that leads to
disgrace and downfall."
With the FBI involved in the renewed criminal probe of Epstein that links to Maxwell and Prince
Andrew, the
British
ambassador would have, as a matter of course, been briefed by federal authorities on prominent
UK citizens being in legal extremis in the United States
.
1970??? so 50 years ago he was doing this? lol!...
Buck Johnson
,
4 hours ago
I have people saying in the comments that the Mossad couldn't have gotten the federal prosecutor to
back off and other things in regard to America the CIA did it, yes and no. I'm going to bring up 2
movies one a real movie called Safehouse and the other a documentary. Remember Safehouse with
Denzel Washington, you remember when he went to that bar in the beginning to get blackmail
information to protect himself and/or have leverage over others that want him dead. There was a
scene toward the end with Brendan Gleeson talking to Vera Farmiga *(both CIA agents) before he
killed her about having to do your job but having people following you and always watching and
recording what you do. I think this comment was essentially a dig at the Mossad and how they do
their work. The Mossad are used to help CIA or other world intelligence organizations and when they
do help they make sure to keep record, tapes, information on the people and what happened so they
can essentially blackmail those agents at a later time to help them and then when they do they
become more compromised and eventually their own agents are afraid of being outed to their superiors
and maybe the Mossad say look we will help you to get up in your boss position so those agents help
to take down their bosses and such and now you see how those agents are so beholden to the Mossad
and have done so much both privately and helping the Mossad that they don't dare go against them and
end up doing life in some dark hole somewhere for being a traitor.
This is classic, classic spy 101 to slowly get them so buried in that hole that their only way out
is to stay on the Mossad team and there was no way out. Also the second film which was a
documentary of sorts I need help with, so anybody that can find this documentary that was on
HBO/encore please tell me the name I was flipping channels when I stopped on the channel to watch
it. In this documentary it was in a part of India where there was alot of white/european hippies,
but as the documentary continued you started to noticed that the ones being filmed where Israeli and
they even had one that actually said (Older guy) he was retired Mossad. It was essentially them
living around in this area but while they lived there one older guy acted like a watcher/fixer for
the group. Because one of the crowd of Israeli (youngish guy I would say 27 but they wouldn't show
his face), started to spout about conspiracy **** that we have heard and kept on going and going as
if he did things real bad and was trying to clear his soul in some ways. Well this "fixer" was able
to get in contact with some Israeli govt. official that "happen" to fly into that part of India for
some state issue. The camera man was able to video tape this Israeli watcher/fixer taking the
official to the side and talking to him with his hand over his mouth and later in the documentary we
found out that the same young guy that was talking and saying all that stuff was put on that private
plane that flew in and flew out with that govt. official.
Remember everyone over 6 years ago that Mossad hit team that was shown by video surveillance taking
out a Hamas weapons dealer in Dubai or some other country (first time seeing this ever) and forensic
put it all together. Where do people like this and others who do black back or blackmail or steal
or do whatever the Mossad wants where do they retire or go to get away? Not all of them can be
wealth, nope they can't. I think that documentary that I saw showed a Mossad spy (not retirement
home) but a place for them to essentially chill out for awhile. But as it was pointed out why was a
documentary film person filming this, who knows.
But I do know that what little bits and pieces that we have put together, it's possible for them to
have circumvented intelligence agencies. Remember, they are only men and women with the same
problems we have working in those important places.
Minnie brings them individual cups of chocolate mousse. Rosemary passes out and experiences a
dreamlike vision in which
she
is
raped
by a demonic presence
in front of Guy, the Castevets, and other Bramford tenants, all of them
naked
.
Drugged and raped . . . a familiar theme.
In the wiki article, the Catholic Church is mentioned
Anunnaki
,
4 hours ago
SCOOP FOR YOU TYLER
From my Mom's Fartbook Page. Since Tyler hates memes this is what it says
According to sources CNN Pres. Jeff Zucker has ordered CNN employees to downplay Bill
Clinton's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. "We have to make it look like Epstein was Trump's
partner in all this. Don't mention the Clinton's. This could kill us in 2020!"
karp4cy
,
4 hours ago
Sexual exploitation of children is the addicts' drug of choice for many of the global elite. As the
effects of the drug use lessen with time, a more potent (taboo, violent) concoction is required to
achieve a comparable high. Names will be forthcoming, hopefully.
youshallnotkill
,
5 hours ago
Before everybody gets onto the rabid-hole express for why this case is again opened and this time in
NYC. There are new victims identified outside of Florida. They were abused at Epstein's NYC mansion.
Clinton flew on Epstein's private plane on at least 26 occasions between 2002 and 2003, including as
many as ten flights without his secret service detail, according to flight logs
published
by Fox News
in 2016
. Clinton
distanced himself from the accused pedophile and characterized the 26 flights as representing just
"four trips," all of which he took in the company of his secret service detail, in a statement
issued Monday evening.
Michael Musashi
,
5 hours ago
Although I voted for Trump, and probably will in the next election, it looks like he may have been
into young girls, too. There's an excellent tweet stream by @iansmadrig back in 11/2018 that makes a
persuasive case for the Trump/Epstein relationship.
That said, myself having done the tour in SE Asia, there's nothing worse than seeing these types of
perverts roaming the streets of the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Real freak'n
losers--mostly old, fat, and German or Scandinavian though.
There's nothing wrong with prostitutes--I had some great times with them, BUT you have to be one
limp ****, lame retarded ******* to want to sleep with underage kids. The inexperience factor along
is enough to make a real man cringe, not to mention the lack of physical and mental maturity.
Sick bastards all of them! I hope they burn, and if Uncle Trump is guilty too, well, I hope he get
what's coming, too.
beemasters
,
5 hours ago
Although I voted for Trump, and probably will in the next election, it looks like he may have
been into young girls, too. There's an excellent tweet stream by @iansmadrig back in 11/2018
that makes a persuasive case for the Trump/Epstein relationship.
@iansmadrig is a partisan hack. He runs his page to attack Trump and Republicans.
There is no evidence that prostitute was 13 years old. Just her and another prostitutes word.
In the first video she posted she said she was HIRED as a prostitute for a rape fantasy. She
participated willingly.
Her lawyer is Lisa Bloom. That right there is suspect.
I've been watching the MSM since Epstein's arrest and not a single credible mention of Bill Clinton.
Alot of 'he's Trump's best friend" though.
Democrats will stop at nothing to take power.
Chuckster
,
5 hours ago
Epstein is also connected to Flynn. Holy ****! Israel is probably involved but Israel involvement
may be mouse piss in the total scheme of things. Weapons and drugs sales and transportation added
to the list of adventures. Where is Donald in all this???? Does he have a part or being a genius
was he blinded by light and totally unaware? Was Donald the only one in Washington to be left out?
When the smoke clears....we may have a new government with a whole lot of new rules for the turds
given power to rule. Maybe this should have happened 100 years (or more) ago.
Chuckster
,
5 hours ago
Go watch some George Webb on You Tube and you will be shocked. He is kind of a wild card but I
know much of his information is dead accurate so the things he brings up that I didn't know are
probably accurate as well. Remember Flynn putting up a go fund me page to pay his attorneys?
****!
UBrexitUPay4it
,
5 hours ago
Two possibilities as I see it: either Epstein was caught with his pants down, but some agency
thought he might be useful, or his billions bought him agency protection, along with the power of
being part of the inner sanctum.
Personally, I don't believe that word didn't get around very, very quickly that Epstein was a dodgy
paedophilic blackmailer, so his use would have been limited unless no action was ever taken against
his "victims". On balance, the third and most likely option is this is disinformation put out by
Epstein to give himself some validity. Don't forget: everybody lies.
Versengetorix
,
5 hours ago
James Jesus Angleton brought the fledgling Mossad into the CIA in the 1950s. After the Kim Philby
defection, in whom he was heavily invested - he came to lean on his new Jewish friends with
increasing devotion. By the time he left - the Mossad had infiltrated the entire Agency. After the
USS Liberty, they set their sights on the NSA. Today they own the apparatus of the US Intelligence
community. People have no idea about the depth and perversion of the Synagogue of Satin. These
people murder for sport and it is thier deeply held belief that all non-Jews are here for their
pleasure and use - nothing more.
Call me Al
,
4 hours ago
You guys had that with this Pizza Scandal, the UK had it with the Paedophile Information Exchange
(PIE) -
Now strangely enough the
UK government is conducting an investigation on the scum AS WE SPEAK, are they (the investigation)
connected ?.
Respect_The_Cock
,
5 hours ago
Spying for Israel Is
Consequence Free Hollywood billionaire was a spy, an illegal arms merchant and a corrupter of
politicians
I asked "Why is this scumbag still making movies in Hollywood? Why isn't he in jail?" before
concluding that the federal government clearly regards spying for Israel as a victimless crime,
rarely arresting anyone and almost never prosecuting any of the numerous easily identifiable
Israeli intelligence agents roaming the country.
Milchan was an active Israeli spy in the U.S., working for the Mossad technology theft division
referred to as LEKEM. The Mossad frequently uses so-called sayanimin its espionage, which means
diaspora Jews that it recruits on the basis of a shared religion or concern for the security of
Israel. The threat coming from Israeli Embassy operatives inside the United States is such that
the Department of Defense once
warned
that
Jewish Americans in government would likely be the targets of their intelligence approaches.
President John F. Kennedy had tried to stop the Israeli nuclear weapons program but was
assassinated before he could end it. By 1965,
the
Jewish state had nevertheless obtained
the raw material for a bomb consisting of U.S.
government owned highly enriched weapons grade uranium obtained from a company in Pennsylvania
called NUMEC, which was founded in 1956 and owned by Zalman Mordecai Shapiro, head of the
Pittsburgh chapter of the Zionist Organization of America. NUMEC was a supplier of enriched
uranium for government projects but it was also from the start a front for the Israeli nuclear
program, with its chief funder David Lowenthal, a leading Zionist, traveling to Israel at least
once a month where he would meet with an old friend Meir Amit, who headed Israeli intelligence.
Look at the special prosecutor for this one too Mr. Barr...
it all ties in..... epstien, mossad, 9/11 promis software, muellar, comey, and even trump is some
how in this mix.
JSBach1
,
5 hours ago
I encourage all interested people to watch this piece by Rick Wiles of TruNews on Epstein,
Maxwell (this is his goy name), Vanunu. It ties the connections to Epstein, child sex
trafficking, promis software, Mossad, illicit Israeli Nuclear program stolen from the US
Hardly a bombshell! The CIA has been running similar operations since the 1950s. This will end the
same way.
You want proof?
"What you have to
understand, John, is sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at
stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about
them
,
no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how much
evidence you have. This is simply one of the hard facts of life you have to face."
Former CIA Director William Colby to Senator John Camp, concerning the Franklin child abuse
cover-up.
geo_w
,
5 hours ago
Acosta didnt make that deal. He was just the stooge that got stuck with his signature on the
paperwork. I want to know who made Acosta give the deal. That's the guy we should be hearing from.
beemasters
,
5 hours ago
According to the Miami Herald, Acosta secretly negotiated with Jay Lefkowitz, a partner at
Kirland & Ellis. Acosta was previously a partner in that same law firm. Ken Starr is another
Kirkland attorney.
It was all planned...including having Acosta involved. All in the family.
JamesinNM
,
6 hours ago
Yes, the deep state only allows people "in" who have a closet full of skeletons so they can control
them. Read John Perkins' book Secret History of the American Empire and Confessions of an Economic
Hit Man. Research interviews with Dutch entrepreneur Ronald Bernard on the Luciferian deep state
pedophiles and their child sacrificing rituals. Pray for Christ's return and the destruction of all
evil.
JSBach1
,
7 hours ago
Per Wayne Madsen:
Former President Bill Clinton's
inane
accusation that Russian intelligence is behind news
reports concerning the involvement of
Duke of York, Prince Andrew, in an underage sex slave ring run by convicted pederast and Florida
billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, is a last-ditch attempt by the former president to salvage the
flagging 2016 presidential prospects of his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Justice for the teens abused by Epstein, and allegedly by his friends Andrew and others, may be
elusive.
Florida
prosecutors who worked for both Jeb Bush and, later, GOP Governor Charlie Crist, arranged for a
"non-prosecution agreement" (NPA) that shielded Epstein and any "potential co-conspirators
"
from federal prosecutions after Epstein agreed to the plea deal that saw him plead guilty to a
single state charge of soliciting prostitution, without any mention of the age of the so-called
"prostitutes."
The
no-further-prosecution deal was worked out between Epstein's lawyers and Florida and the federal
government. Epstein's lawyers happened to be Alan Dershowitz; Kenneth Starr, the independent
counsel of "Monicagate" fame; and Miami celebrity trial lawyer Roy Black
. The terms of the
NPA were called into question in a letter written in 2011 by former U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of Florida, R. Alexander Acosta, and the dubious deal-making with Epstein's
lawyers during Bush's and Crist's tenure is clearly apparent:
Police Dismantle Massive
Child Sex Slavery Ring Run By Israelis, Fmr IDF Soldier -- MSM Silent
MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA --
(MPN)
A
large child sex slavery ring overseen by Israelis
was
dismantled
by Colombian police earlier this week, in a story that has shocked Colombia and
much of Latin America but received minimal coverage from mainstream Western media outlets. The
network had been active since 2011 and expressly "recruited" young, underage females in
situations of economic hardship or domestic abuse to work as "sex slaves" catering to Israeli
tourists visiting Colombia.
According to judicial sources
cited
by
El Colombiano
, the tourism
packages sold by Mush and his cohorts involved taking Israeli men – most of them businessmen or
men who recently ended their compulsory military service in the IDF – to parties at a variety of
locales such as hostels, hotels, farms and yachts, where the main attraction was the sexual
exploitation of underage women and the mass consumption of narcotics and alcohol. The sites
where the exploitation occurred offered lodging or services exclusively to Israeli tourists, a
practice that is surprisingly common in frequented tourist destinations throughout South
America.
Mush was expelled from Colombia in November of last year after a massive sex party was broken up
by police and illicit drugs were found at the scene. By that time, authorities had already
determined the existence of the network and his accomplices.
jews enslaving the world, the talmud according to plan
Psadie
,
7 hours ago
Twitter investigative sources saying the 11th hr witness coming forward may be Rachel Chandler who
took photos of underground rooms at Lolita Island & Bill Clinton with his arm around her on the
plane. This kid will take them all down.
PopeRatzo
,
7 hours ago
Just so you know: Acosta was just asked about this directly in his press conference - whether he
was ever told Epstein was "with intelligence" - and he denied it.
So once again, Zerohedge reports on a story that's complete ******** because it fits some Qanon
jackoff agenda.
JSBach1
,
7 hours ago
According to those who have accused Epstein of sexual abuse, Maxwell's predilection for managing
his life extended to his sex life as well. In 2018,
Epstein
and Maxwell
settled
a lawsuit brought against them by a woman named Sarah Ransome
, who alleged that Maxwell
hired her to give Epstein massages at his home. Between 2006 and 2007, Ransome alleged,
the
two promised to pay her tuition to FIT in exchange for Ransome providing sexual favors to
Epstein and his friends,
including
lawyer Alan Dershowitz
. (Dershowitz has repeatedly denied the charges;
Ransome's
suit was settled in 2018
under undisclosed terms.)
Last April, another woman and former Epstein employee, Maria Farmer, alleged that
Maxwell
and Epstein
had
sexually
abused her and her 15-year-old sister on two separate occasions
in the mid-1990s. She also
alleged that
she
frequently saw a "number of school-age girls" come to Epstein's New York City home
. "When I
asked Maxwell why these young girls were coming over to the house so often she said that the
girls were interviewing for modeling positions," Farmer
said
.
"At the time, based on my observations at the home, it did not seem credible to me that these
young girls were interviewing for modeling positions."
Farmer's allegations surfaced as the result of a
defamation
lawsuit filed against Dershowitz by Virginia Giuffre, who also named Maxwell
in
a
2015 civil suit against Epstein. In the suit, Giuffre (then identified as Jane Doe 3)
alleged
that during the summer of 1999,
when
she was 16 years old and working as a towel girl at Trump's Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago,
Maxwell recruited her to serve as Epstein's massage therapist. Giuffre alleged that Maxwell and
Epstein instructed her to have sex with him and his friends, including Dershowitz
.
Dershowitz publicly denied her claims and accused Giuffre of making them up, prompting Giuffre
to sue him for defamation. Last week, Dershowitz filed a motion for a federal judge to
dismiss
the defamation suit
.
When Acosta says "intelligence" he means CIA. That's the missing link here folks. However much the
Mossad was running Epstein, the Mossad doesn't get the FBI to ignore complaints for decades, and the
Mossad doesn't get prosecutors and judges to give sweetheart deals, not in the USA, in the USA the
CIA does that.
The Mossad often does the dirty work for Israel's creator, the British, so they can maintain their
"special relationship" with US on the one hand while playing hardball on the other. Given the Queen
was on the list for pedo-island too, it's probably all three: MI6, Mossad and CIA. My point is that
in the USA, the Mossad would have had to have at least gotten the CIA in on it in order to call off
the FBI for decades, and then finally get the sweetheart deal from Acosta and the judge. (Don't
forget, a judge had to sign off on the plea deal too; I don't see the judge mentioned?)
dibiase
,
6 hours ago
the five eyes are just one agency in real life. although they are compartmentalized. sometimes
even going against one another. they are owned by bankers...
beemasters
,
7 hours ago
When Acosta says "intelligence" he means CIA. That's the missing link here folks. However much
the Mossad was running Epstein ....
Or possibly, there was no "intelligence" at all - at least not on Acosta's part-, but just some
powerful individuals or state-sponsored program. The entire deal was unprecedented. No one should
have agreed to a deal that would have given immunity to all his pedophile clients ("known AND
unknown" - possibly to include future clients?), while officially labeling the victims "whores."
JaxPavan
,
7 hours ago
Who was the judge who signed off on it? Did he have a visit from two FBI agents on behalf of
the CIA? That's how this usually works. What powerful individuals kept the rank and file,
bright eyed and bushy tailed FBI agents from investigating complaints for decades?
beemasters
,
7 hours ago
Yeah...I'm not sure. There's been little mention of the judge. That judge was either
compromised too or lied to.
666D Chess
,
7 hours ago
The big question is... why did Trump appoint Acosta in the first place? What has Acosta got on
Trump? I've got the feeling that Epstein is going to commit suicide by stabbing himself 35 times in
the back one of these days...
beemasters
,
7 hours ago
Epstein is going to commit suicide by stabbing himself 35 times in the back one of these
days
Dead man's switch would prevent that. And Epstein isn't stupid not to have one. His associate,
Maxwell, on the other hand, may not have any. She might have to go first especially now that she
is reported to be showing signs of turning against Epstein.
HoPewGassed
,
7 hours ago
Live: Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta holds press conference
Gordon Duff hates Trump and has accused Melania of being a hooker at the time she met Trump. The
problem with Duff is that he's got a murky past himself. Jeff Rense has had to distance himself from
Duff a couple of times since Trump took office.
JoeBattista
,
7 hours ago
To anyone with an inquiring mind Epstein has always been someone's tool. My early guess is CIA and
Mossad. Where his wealth originated has never been properly explained. The people who flew the
Lolita Express have to be really stupid or Sexual deviants unable to control their impulses. a
combo of both is likely. How does Epstein's jet share a tail number with a jet registered to the US
Dept. Of State?
fuglysheepleco
,
7 hours ago
Dyncorp
Psadie
,
7 hours ago
Ghislaine Maxwell is a jet pilot and certified submersible pilot. Last week actress Ellen Barkin
tweeted that GM told her she trafficked children. Barkin who was married to Ron Perelman just
implicated herself for she never reported GM. These crimes are deep and wide...not enough space to
hold all of them.
There were many cases, but they were never prosecuted: Young girls from Romania, Ukraine, Moldova
and other Eastern European countries being brought in to service the UN and military bases as
sex-slaves. The cases involved the officers from many foreign countries, including the USA,
Pakistan, Germany, Romania, Ukraine, government contractors, and local organized criminals.
The human rights investigators were never allowed to fully investigate, the suspects were
immediately removed from the mission or transferred to other missions. The young women were simply
sent back to their home countries."
Layman Economist
,
7 hours ago
So, who told Acosta that Epstein worked for intelligence? Acosta broke the law, and this excuse
without any evidence or name trail doesn't get him off the hook in any way. Time to arrest Acosta
and get him to assist in working up the chain of command.
There is a world wide network of these creeps in my country former victims have claimed Prime
Ministers,an attorney general,high profile media celebrities and others in high places were
involved,select kids get flown around the world one on you tube as 'Candy girl' claims both Nixon
and Billy Graham were in on it at the Bohemian grove so this sort of crap has been going on for
decades we are run by people with filthy habits and sick minds and the prosecution of this case is
only the tip of the iceberg and a test case as to whether any cahones still exist in law
enforcement.
JSBach1
,
8 hours ago
Alex Acosta had the temerity to tweet this little gem yesterday (for which he took a beating in the
replies to his tweet):
EPSTEIN WAS (IS) MEMBER OF THE
CFR
AND
TRILATERAL
COMMISSION
Epstein used his money to construct a worldwide network of contacts. He donated large sums
toward neuroscience research at Harvard and a California lab. He invited researchers to his New
York house and talked math with them over equations scrawled on a blackboard in his dining room.
He flew former president Bill Clinton and actor Kevin Spacey to Africa to promote AIDS
awareness.
He was a
member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Failing TDS magazine Rolling Stone, founded by a sexual predator, Jann Wenner displays perfectly the
(((Alinsky))) coverage of the embarassment of Dem donor Jeffrey Epstein.
They put Trump above rapist Bill Clinton in their political connections story. Been a subscriber
since '79. Will not be renewing.
I read Wexner gave JE $$$millions while Epstein was a college dropout twice. He wasn't that smart
but someone offered him a juicy gig. Q posted awhile back that they are saving Israel for last. Uh
oh.
Blankenstein
,
8 hours ago
This article has a lot of info about Epstein, including his dealings with Wexner.
"Wexner, through a trust, bought the town house in which Epstein now lives for a reported $13.2
million in 1989. In 1993, Wexner married Abigail Koppel, a 31-year-old lawyer, and the newlyweds
relocated to Ohio; in 1996, Epstein moved into the town house. Public documents suggest that the
house is still owned by the trust that bought it, but Epstein has said that he now owns the house."
lay_arrow
1
BigWhiskey
,
9 hours ago
Let's assume Epstein was running a blackmail op; this may explain
his wealth. But, that is only money. The real prize would be an
abundance of blackmail material on someone before he/she becomes
powerful. The real prize would be absolute control over the most
powerful man in the world. Anyone on that list who became powerful?
One would think that continuing the blackmail would be preferable
to ending such a once in a lifetime windfall to save the
blackmailer, no? Epstein will never play his trump card. He has
nothing to gain and everything to lose by flipping on Trump. In the
meantime, y'all can fill in the blanks for your choice of a
name....
SummerSausage
,
9 hours ago
Epstein was a major player before this came out. He was on the Trilateral Commission with Henry
Kissinger, he was on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation, he was a major donor to Harvard. All
the press about him wrote of how brilliant and what a philanthropist he was.
His rolodex included EVERYBODY and his motto was to have everyone owe him a favor.
He never spilled the beans on who he provided girls to and his accomplices walked away just like
Hillary's did in the email scandal.
Names came out in depositions but those were sealed until a judge ruled them to be released a few
days ago. We should have some interesting reading by the end of the month.
SummerSausage
,
9 hours ago
Just finished reading Conchita Sarnoff's book on Epstein "Traffic King". She's a journalist who is
also a crusader against children sex trafficking.
Epstein undoubtedly had big names in compromising sexual situations but he also was a major child
sex trafficker which is big business in the US.
He brought young girls in through a modeling agency, promising them and their parents modeling jobs.
There have been tough Federal laws against child sex trafficking since 2000. Epstein wasn't charged
under that.
These girls had to have visas. Immigration was never asked to look into the girls' status.
Acosta didn't have the juice to shut those investigations down or ignore the violations.
Makes you wonder if one of the reasons the Dems don't want the borders secure is it will make child
sex trafficking more difficult???
Posa
,
9 hours ago
Would be no surprise that Epstein had ***** immunity. This was no ordinary perv. He has quite the
social pedigree... "Epstein was on the board of the
Rockefeller
Foundation
, a member of the
Trilateral
Commission
and the
Council
on Foreign Relations
, and was a major donor to
Harvard
University
."... was tied to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies (the US residence of
Einstein and his circle)... pals with Price Andrew... Sen George Mitchell... media people etc (see
Wiki article)
MrBoompi
,
9 hours ago
"If so, we need to find out precisely who he was working for."
Even if I would like to find this out as well, I won't be holding my breath. His handlers sure
won't be providing info on that. I'm sure Epstein knows when to keep his mouth shut and any sweet
deal he gets now would still rely on him keeping his mouth shut. Chances are these same folks are
the ones telling him who he can and can't rat on. If Epstein was was of the first to "invest" in
the Clinton Foundation, this also adds another piece to the puzzle since the CF also seems to be a
protected entity. Like I said before I detect the stench of CIA/Mossad/MI6.
Arizona1234
,
9 hours ago
The "service" that Epstein provided for human scum is simple. You have a plane you provide a human
and drug shipping service. By Epstein putting scum bags like a rapists Clinton or some EU fucktard
on the plane is then they put diplomat immunity bags on the plane. So they could move drugs and
human sex slaves without security (customs) looking too close. For this Epstein was paid. Let's say
your one of these Elite scum bags and you want to move a large quantity of cash. Call Epstein. Want
to move drugs call Epstein. Then depending on the secrecy of your move depended on cost of what scum
bag political fucktard he would put along to cover your ****. Maybe there were more than one
intelligence agency that also was paying Epstein. Probably CIA, Mossad , MI6 ,DGSE and SVR .
mendigo
,
9 hours ago
Appears republicans are now realizing that what Acosta did was wrong:
Suspect that Epstein was an blackmail operative for a cooperative program between Israel's Mossad
and CIA/FBI to collect compromising material on certain targeted Congress members to maintain
control over them.
Suspect it is also related to US Congress members who work for Israel as "DUAL" citizens. Those
Israeli DUALS who scream loudest for Acosta to quit as Labor Secy on the top of the list for
involvement in the blackmail operation as Handlers within Congress.
"Above then US Attorney Acosta's pay-grade" would be the Chiefs of FBI and CIA at the time. 2007 was
Genl Hayden / CIA and Mueller/ FBI. DOJ boss of Acosta was either Mukasey or Gonzales.
Just a guess...
Real Estate Guru
,
10 hours ago
This guy is a setup by the deep state all the way. No doubt about it.
"In that piece, I shared many lesser known, but extremely bizarre facts about Jeffrey Epstein and
the people around him. I also noted that it appeared his real job was to run a blackmail operation
to ensnare some of the most wealthy and powerful people on earth. I alluded to the possibility that
he was collecting this priceless information on behalf of a third party, and then just today we
learn the following
via
the
Daily Beast
:"
Nobody can figure out where he got his $Billions. And he was connected to the Clinton
"Foundation".
You do the math
freedommusic
,
10 hours ago
Italy arrests 18 for
allegedly brainwashing and selling children
Italian police have arrested 18 people including a mayor, doctors and social workers for
allegedly brainwashing vulnerable children into thinking their parents had abused them so they
could then be sold to foster parents.
"If we can somehow get to the bottom of Epstein I suspect we'll learn a lot about how the world of
the powerful really works, and why everything is so fked and corrupt."
Then may I suggest you are NOT as good a researcher as you make out. As most of that information is
already out there
This came up through the state courts and was fully exposed by the Miami Herald, and it blindsided
Barr and Trump. A lot of people here think this is Trump cleaning the swamp. I suggest you recheck
the facts. Paul Cessell reopened this case at the state level. Trump's relationship with Epstein
will need to be looked at closely, especially the timelines. I'm especially interested in what Trump
knew about Epstein, 4 years before he was arrested in 2008 for child trafficking. Holding back
information about a crime is a crime.
This looks like Israel, and we all can see with open eyes that Trump has given Israel more than most
before him. It doesn't look good and we need to ask the hard questions. This is a national security
issue and it befuddles me why Epstein is not at Guantanamo at this very moment. Instead, he is
enjoying constitutional rights. This stinks to high heaven.
libertysghost
,
11 hours ago
So why didn't Mueller bring this up in his investigation? That would have been prime time to do
so...if...if what you "think" is the circumstance, is really the circumstance that is. Mueller would
know it all since he was behind letting ol' Jeffrey off the first time. Wouldn't letting him off the
first time be a crime of obstruction too...on Mueller? He is the one whose job it was in the first
place.
Trump had his suspicions, I'm pretty certain about that...but if you have no "evidence", what can
you do...but get SUED or "Arkancided" given all the players we DO KNOW are more likely involved
because of some pretty overwhelming "coincidences" in their ties to Epstein.
You're reaching here...anything is possible in this world and nothing can be proven to "not have
happened"...but this is pure conjecture at this point on your part regarding Trump compared to where
more solid conjecture could be placed toward others we KNOW were already involved in relationships
with extensive relationships with Epstein and covering for him after the fact
MushroomCloud2020
,
10 hours ago
Just a few simple questions. Why did Trump unfriend Epstein? Was Epstein a bad golfer? Was he always
late paying his club dues. What upset Trump to go from "he is a terrific guy" to "I am not a fan of
Epstein"?
Mind you, this all happened, according to Trump, 15 years ago. That is 4 years before the
investigation into Epstein started. And by the way, the person who informed the police was a mother
of one of the victims.
If Trump knew about Epstein activities, then distancing himself was not
enough. He had knowledge of a crime and didn't report it. That is illegal, and more so if children
are involved.
I highly doubt that Epstein case will result in any arrests of high powered politicians or
major celebrities (maybe they'll arrest a few pilots or chauffeurs, but no billionaires). I
also remember all the talk of Anthony Wiener's laptop and his "Insurance folder", but that
didn't lead to anything.
If even 1/10 of all the rumors surrounding these people were true, it would rank as the
greatest political scandal in the last 200 years and would be nothing less than a
geopolitical earthquake that would totally reshape the Western world. It would certainly
destroy the current Neoliberal international world order, as nations would become terrified
that their political stability would harmed if their national elites would become enmeshed in
another international scandal
We do not know why Epstein resurfaced, there was no need to re-open the case unless 'they'
wanted it to be reopened. Thus, there is definitely a deeper political purpose behind this.
As I know the higher ups in both Democrat and Republican Party are in one way or another
involved in this (both Clinton and Trump visited his island and I am sure many more prominent
high ranking US career politicians), this could indeed be equally dangerous for either
political party.
However, I don't think Trump needs convincing with regard to Iran he has been all in on
that from day 1 of his presidency and never hesitated a moment to tear up the JCPOA. Bibi was
right when he said there was never a US president as friendly towards Israel than Donald
Trump. His actions have spoken louder than words. So for this case, we will just have to wait
and see what pieces of information they allow the MSM to publish and we will know who they
are after or what bigger political goal is at play.
Something does not smell right about this.
It's not like Epstein was some obscure issue or that Trump was uninformed about the case.
Who would allow a person with such baggage on the team?
And the issue was raised so no possibility it was over-looked.
Congress (including the now concerned repubs) had their shot at him, where was the
indignation?
Looks like people were told to disregard the issue, until now.
Now like good soldiers they are all barking alert.
Looks like this guy was a plant, an insurance policy maybe.
Now that policy has been triggered - has Trump failed in playing his role?
Trumps ex-pal Epstein linked to intelligence. Makes sense given he has Robert Maxwell's
daughter doing the procuring. His was likely a black mail operation run by the intelligence
agency
Trumps other ex-pal (partner) was also linked to intelligence. Bayrocks Felix Sater. I
imagine some of their business practices could have landed Trump in jail unless like Felix he
cooperated
Could Trump himself be a an intelligent asset? Perhaps under duress through his activities
with Jeffrey and Felix.
If so, indeed the question is if its Israels or the US agency, or is there any difference
now.
I don't pretend to know the answers.
Whats the end game?. Comeys daughter is one of the NY prosecutors.Dershowitz is an Israeli
puppet and was behind getting the sealed files opened. Is Clinton and the Dems the target or
is it meant to pressure Trump to go hard on Iran or risk something coming out? Something
else?
I cant help but wonder why nobody choses to remind us about the case filed against Trump
in 2016, where a woman claimed rape at age 13 at Epstein's apartment. Is wasn't covered much
at the time either. Apparently silently withdrawn. Curious no? Not even the so called Deep
State Media that everyone believes was against Trump. Theydon't seem to want to touch it now
either. Maybe its just BS.
Of course, maybe just more distraction as they continue fleecing the bottom 90%
Billionaire, $6 B, Les Wexner, L Brands, Victoria's Secret.
from Wiki
Wexner had a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who managed Wexner's financial
assets. Wexner and Epstein parted when Epstein went to prison.[25] Wexner was believed to be
the primary source of Epstein's wealth. [26]
I am trying to link Wexner with the Bronfman's (Seagrams Liquor Family) via a source other
than the Mega Group (which may not be credible, IDK).Clare Bronfman and NEXIVM.
Looks like Epstein was running a high powered honey trap to ensnare Politicians, Lawyers,
Government employees for the express purpose of promoting the "Greater Israel Project".
@fastfreddy - While I hesitate to engage in the ubiquitous Israel is at the root of all
debacles conjecture, I think you might be onto something there. Sure would be interesting
(now or when whatever shakes out of this) to compare the record on votes of importance to
Israeli interests of any politician who gets implicated or indicted with who doesn't.
Protecting Epstein and his clients is secondary. The main goal is to protect his
billionaire, Jewish, sponsors and whatever state sponsored him. The pleabs cannot know that
their gov is corrupt but the bigger secret that must be kept is who is pulling the strings
and how they are doing it.
Regarding questions on Acosta by Jared at #27, here's a 2017 article showing that the
facts were out about Acosta when the Senate confirmed him: "Did Trump Labor Pick Protect
Trump, Rich Rapists, Tax Cheats, Crooked Bankers? Do We Find Out Wednesday?" March 14, 2017.
http://ow.ly/hk8b309Uerm
Regarding MSM reluctance to mention rape of 12 and 13 year olds by Trump, as several
commentators noted, here's a January 2017 wrap up of those matters with leading to other
links: "Welcome To Waterbury: The city that holds secrets that could bring down Trump," Jan.
9, 2018.
http://www.justice-integrity.org/1445-welcome-to-waterbury-the-city-that-holds-secrets-that-could-bring-down-trump.
My colleague Wayne Madsen and I filed a FOIA action today at the U.S. Justice Department
seeking further records.
Our view is that this is an intelligence / foreign policy operation and it's likely that
Epstein's time has run out, an occupational hazard in that field. Further, Madsen and I have
written separate books years ago documenting that all U.S. presidents after Carter -- but not
yet Trump as proven -- have been covert assets of the CIA or FBI before -- stress that --
they entered politics. That's the way it is, and helps explain a lot of the complaints in
comments above. Trump is in his own category of a corrupt stooge -- that's not necessarily
better.
Can recommend excellent 2008 book "Flat Earth News" by longtime UK journalist Nick Davies
that describes the deeply flawed nature of MSM from his perspective as a Guardian and other
UK journalist, who aptly describes why lies and quarter-truths get printed. That's a longer
story but the gist is what many here are suggesting.
After years of study and many many books I believe the Mossad and CIA are one and the
same. The Mossad is very useful when leaving sovereign footprints is verboten--and vice
versa.
"...'Belongs to intelligence' makes a lot of sense. The question is to which one. A lot
of people will says "Mossad" but I don't believe that to be the (full) truth ..."
At the level that Jeffrey Epstein is operating, he is loyal primarily to himself but
happily takes his reward from whichever intel agency at any time offers him the most or whose
interests might prove the most lucrative for him.
And the interests of American, British, Israeli and other nations' intelligence agencies
are surely so entwined that picking them apart is impossible. One thing for sure though: none
of them serve the interests of the nations they supposedly work for.
The function of the CIA/Mossad is to make sure the agenda and the narrative of the Deep
State gets served. In that case one could truly blame Epstein's actions on individuals, or
groups of individuals who dictate orders to the Mossad/CIA.
Epstein reminds me of the Bill Browder affair. And the statement: To know who are the
rulers not which are the ones you are not permitted to criticize. Or somethinh like that.
If indeed they are after Trump as he failed them on 'Iran', then it makes absolute sense that
Dershowitz and Cernovich had the records unsealed as both are strong, strong Zionists and
supporters of Israel. Getting a judge do the thing they need is just a formality. I agree
with some writer above who asked, why the publicity if pressure can be applied in secret
without the media being involved? But this may be the stated goal to bring Trump either
completely in line now or publicly topple his presidency.
I get why @94 Really? and others would be sceptical at this stage but I know strong
powers in the Zionist/Neo-con deep state want a direct confrontation with Iran for myriad
number of reasons (stop the BRI, deal a blow to Syria and Hizbollah, take out Israel's No 1
enemy etc, shore up the Petrodollar), and Trump was still the most likely candidate to follow
through with this, given his proximity to Zionism. So far he also has dully followed through
with everything imaginable, except for actually attacking Iran.
Interesting development indeed. B. Clinton could be collateral damage, at this stage their
power is overestimated in my opinion.
Okay, An "intelligence op," but which one? The Epstein/Mueller link was made several
months ago. I don't see any irregularities in the court judgement to order the unsealing as
it's been ongoing for almost 2.5 years and involves odd bedfellows. Was Mueller even aware of
the attempt to unseal Epstein's case? So many questions!
Arnon Milchan? He was Israeli. Should he be punished, absolutely. But you know who should
be hung? Robert DeNiro. He knew Arnon Milchan was a spy and kept his mouth shut for decades.
He is a POS of epic proportions.
Insofar as Epstein is concerned. It is all about timing. Mueller is set to testify and
probably has skeletons in his closet with regards to Epstein's case. He is likely being told
implicitly via the Epstein arrest to be on his best behavior by Barr, and Barr at this age
probably can care less that Epstein is being sacrificed so he can make his point,
particularly since Barr is probably the 2nd most powerful person in the USA right now.
Epstein was extremely likely an Israeli asset. The Israelis have through political power
and force convinced many in the US IC that their ship is sailing in the same direction, and
that they should be allowed to serve as the US's dog on a leash, and once in a while be
unleashed to do what the US won't. So while he was an Israeli asset, his resources (that is
compromising material) was often made available to the CIA, and thus Acosta was told that he
is an intelligence asset.
The fireworks will start to fly if and when Epstein realizes he is being hung out to dry
and won't be saved. But like almost every other case involving such rich and powerful people,
don't hold your breath for justice to be served in the US.
What does protecting adolescent teenagers from predatory adults have to do with
puritanism? Am I understanding this correctly that you advocate sex with minors as long as
they have reached biological puberty? Never mind their mental maturity? So sexual relations
involving young women is ok what about sexual relations with young men? This has nothing to
do with a false pretentious morality but with the fact that teenagers have not yet reached
the level of mental maturity that protects them from sexual exploitation that will haunt them
for the rest of their lives, never mind their biological functions and ability to conceive or
sire children. It is really puzzling that I even need to make these elaborations in here!
In many ways this thread is as sickening as the subject it discusses. All sorts of types left
and right competing to show that they have the most insight into the forces behind the anal
rape of a 12 year old girl See Andrew Kreig's excellent piece which does consider the horror
of the acts, rather than just whether or not it plays into the particular vision of 'power
politics' each poster invokes). In no instance does anyone express disgust at the actions of
these low life scum other than for the corruption of the pols such as Acosta.
The glee which so many have displayed jumping into this horror story because it can be
twisted and forced into their own particular theory about "how the world really works" while
totally ignoring that these humans who were abducted at age eleven or twelve & then sold
like cattle, now inhabit the netherworld of 'the great society' living in the fringes of
prosperous cities in a ramshackle 'double wide', reveals a psychic corruption not a million
miles away from that of the rapists.
This story is those young boys & girls, anyone who claims to want to use it to force
the greedy rapists and warmongering grubs to face justice, will not succeed as long as they
waste time speculating who works for who and who is really in control.
Prince Andrew still bludges off taxpayers despite being photographed with his arm around
one of his victims, if you're english & really care about stopping this scum, instead of
speculating on which shadowy 'palace spokesman suggested that the
Daily Mail include the line "There is no suggestion that the duke had any sexual contact
at the house, or knew what was allegedly going on there" you will find out how the at the
time 17 y.o. Virginia Roberts feels about her public destruction now (A child the Mail
described as an erotic masseuse - presumably to reduce the horror a normal human reacts to
that pic whilst ensuring the victim is so humiliated she causes no further problem for "the
royal family's" number one arms salesman). This victim first hung out with the andrew sleaze
when she was 17 at the pimp's Florida hell hole where the age of consent is 18.
Concentrating on the effect on victims while protecting them from further harm will bring
the creeps undone - nothing else will. It was only once people began to see past the priests
claims that "the victims led me on" and considered the huge power imbalance that the catholic
church came unstuck.
Most of all without humanity, there is no difference between any of us and the scum we
criticise.
Now, to be on topic, why the insistence that Epstein finally getting outed for real is
some mysterious intel op? The CIA has been screwing up left, right and center for years, so
is it any surprise that one of their major kompromat operations is getting exposed? Their
foolproof plan to install their tool Clinton in the White House in 2016 failed spectacularly
and blew up in their faces, so tell me again how great they are at running covert ops? The
CIA's own version of James Bond gets snuffed by the CIA's own death squads in Benghazi, but
people still think the CIA has a clue what they're doing? The CIA's operatives in multiple
embassies are being incapacitated by freakin' crickets and people think these clowns
still somehow maintain some vestigial link to reality?
No, this is simply another massive screw-up by the establishment. This blind-sided the
Deep State and so much took them by surprise that they were too late to get it clamped down
in the mass media. If Epstein dies before the real dirt starts getting exposed then it proves
me right and proves wrong all those who worship at the alter of the omnipotent Deep
State.
"Cy Vance - Democrat, gave Epstein a pass on sex offender status.
Acosta - Republican, approved plea deal.
Muller - Republican, signed off on FBI closing file on Epstein.
Schumer - Took money from Epstein.
Bill Clinton - Travel.
This isn't partisan. Corruption at all levels."
What's good is that most people commenting on the threads I've read, including
Cernovich's, understand just how deep the rot goes, and that it's not confined to North
America.
It would be a most salutary outcomoe if Obama were dethroned and exposed for the lying
lounge lizard he is. Scales reallyl need to fall from eyes. I am surprised that Trump doesn't
embark on this enterprise with gusto.
Puncture the Obama-Clinton BS balloon once and for all.
"... Five years later in 1981 he was fired from Bear Sterns for helping Edgar Bronfman in an insider trading scandal, which Bronfman blamed on his (phantom) Italian partner. ..."
"... While many are focusing on Clinton or Trump the _big_ story on Epstein is that he had blackmail material on a wide range of politicians and business people from around the world. We do not yet know their names. ..."
"... He could have sold that information to the highest bidders (intelligence agencies, corporations, organized crime)–but if he were sharp he would have sold the same information to multiple bidders. ..."
"... He has the ultimate "get out of jail" free cards if he was smart enough to handle them wisely. ..."
"... All the circumstantial evidence supports the allegations that Epstein was operating a "honeypot" to entrap celebrities and politicians such as Bill Clinton , the larger question is was he running this operation for the Mossad , CIA and MI6 or other deep state intelligence agencies . ..."
"... 'All the circumstantial evidence supports the allegations that Epstein was operating a "honeypot" to entrap celebrities and politicians such as Bill Clinton , the larger question is was he running this operation for the Mossad , CIA and MI6 or other deep state intelligence agencies .' ..."
"... Finally, to literally reduce her to a commodity to be sold or traded in exchange for favors if not simply large cash payments is yet a fourth thing. ..."
Credit must be given to the Miami Herald which unearthed many of the sordid details pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein's deal struck
between his defense lawyers–who dictated the terms of the deal–and Alexander Acosta, now Trump's Labor Secretary.
Here is some background from the
series dating back to last year.
Now, there is public pressure
building up to either force Alexander Acosta to resign his Secretary of Labor Post or force Trump to fire him. It will be
interesting what becomes of that
Miami Herald also released some other tid bits on the unsealed incitement:
[ ]
Three days before Epstein's arrest, a federal appeals court in New York ordered the unsealing of up to 2,000 pages of documents
that are expected to show evidence relating to whether Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, were recruiting underage
girls and young women as part of an international sex trafficking operation. Maxwell, 57, has never been charged ..
As part of its investigation, the Miami Herald was able to identify nearly 80 girls who allegedly were molested by
Epstein. Four of the victims, now in their late 20s and early 30s, spoke on video about how they were traumatized first
by Epstein, then by his lawyers and private investigators, who delved deeply into their backgrounds and social media accounts,
and finally by the prosecutors themselves, who disposed of the case without telling them.
Also a possibly related story of a former Israeli soldier Assi Ben-Mosh who headed a child prostitution ring in Columbia was
arrested in Portugal after initially being deported back to Israel where he continued to run the child prostitution ring:
Ben-Mosh is wanted by Colombian authorities for running a child prostitution ring in the small fishing village of Taganga,
located on the South American country's Caribbean coast. He, along with a group of ex-Israeli soldiers, reportedly turned
the luxury Benjamin Hostel into a "sex and drug den" in which more than 250 underage girls were subjected to sexual exploitation.
The Benjamin Hostel became known to locals as "little Israel", and acted as a base from which Ben-Mosh ran similar clubs
exploiting children in Cartagena, Medellín and the Colombian capital Bogotá. His empire is also thought to have extended to
Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil .
Wasn't Israel the place where a lot of Eastern European girls were enticed by phony job offers only to be turned into sex slaves
and sold into prostitution? I guess that is what they call a mitzvah.
@tac on Business Insider but I understand
Google is depressing this "algorithm" as they and the Media try and create a Trump/Epstein "scandal" where there is no there there
and ignore Clinton/Epstein and more than 20 trips to Lolita Island -- it is stated that Trump booted Epstein out of his club for
involvement with an underage girl –so it seems the "journalists" at the Miami Herald are just more of the same as to the Globalist
Propaganda Media Dem Complex– seems a Mike Cernovich did much to bring light on Epstein but that isn't mentioned in all the praise
of the Miami Herald Dem propagandists/concealers .
Epstein dropped out of Cooper Union and NYU at age 20, but mysteriously got a job teaching calculus and physics at the prestigious
Dalton school in NYC. He was hired by then headmaster Donald Barr (born Jewish converted to Catholicism), father of current AG
William Barr. A year later Donald Barr was forced out by a group of Dalton parents for not being "progressive" enough and replaced
by a guy named Dunnan, who was later accused of having an affair with a teacher and also sexually molesting a 14 year old.
While at Dalton, Epstein taught the son of Bear Sterns CEO Ace Greenberg, and ended up working at Bear Sterns. Five years later
in 1981 he was fired from Bear Sterns for helping Edgar Bronfman in an insider trading scandal, which Bronfman blamed on his (phantom)
Italian partner.
Bronfman' and his two daughters have been embroiled in the NXIVM sex scandal case. Meanwhile, Epstein somehow
got his start thanks to one major "investor", billionaire Les Wexner, founder of the Limited, Abercombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret
etc. Bronfman and Wexner co-founded mega, a Jewish organization that promotes Israel.
Epstein-Bronfman smells like a giant international Jew crime network that involves blackmailing of wealthy people, celebrities
and politicians for having sex with underage girls. It's how Epstein gained his wealth. He had no money to start out. His "hedge
fund" is nothing but a fake front for billionaires to wire their ransom money, which is why it is established offshore and so
secretive. There has been two huge fires at his private island in BVI btwn 2018 and Jan. 2019. Speculation is that lots of incriminating
video footage was burnt, but of course Epstein kept copies, and Mossad most likely has them as well. Got to keep the blackmailing
of our political and economic elites going. Israhell has a right to exist.
The Kincora Orphan house all over again. Certainly ,Junkie with no hope ever to stop his addiction. Even when one pedofile
crimes are abused politicaly by feminists and thrown on all men. Propaganda long time in schools.
Anne Coulter sets the record straight on scumbag Epstein and those who shielded him from due process years ago.
BTW, Epstein claimed the charges were 'anti-semitic', of course.
The Jerusalem Post has reported that Netanyahu has started campaigning against Ehud Barak on Barak's ties to Jeffrey Epstein
. Christopher Bollyn claims that Barak is the "architect of 9/11 " . Will those responsible for the false flag attacks on 9/11
ever be brought to justice ?
The British Royal family still wields considerable power in the UK and has extensive land holdings throughout the World , to
be seated in Parliament a M.P. has to swear an oath of allegiance to the monarch , the last M.P. who refused to do so was not
permitted to take their seat ! Like the US , the UK is not a democracy ,whereas the US is a plutocracy / kakistocracy / pathocracy
it appears that the UK is closer to being a monarchy .
With Prince Charle's close ties to the pedophile Jimmy Savile and Prince Andrew's ties to Jeffrey Epstein the death of the
"beloved" Queen Elizabeth could present real problems to the future of the British monarchy.
While many are focusing on Clinton or Trump the _big_ story on Epstein is that he had blackmail material on a wide range
of politicians and business people from around the world. We do not yet know their names.
He could have sold that information to the highest bidders (intelligence agencies, corporations, organized crime)–but if he
were sharp he would have sold the same information to multiple bidders.
I am amazed he served any time in jail, and will be even more amazed if he serves any more time.
He has the ultimate "get out of jail" free cards if he was smart enough to handle them wisely.
@Colin Wright the girls are not the
kind of thing he would have revealed by offering to others, and it's a minority interest.
The masseuse/ assistant former employee
making all the allegations now says she was 15 at the time instead of 17 and is accusing Prince Andrew and anyone else.
It's probably an attempt to get money by selling her story, but the prosecution are not biting. If everything is true he is
being accused of in the current case is very basically Epstein paying underage girls for sex.
The sex trafficking network charge
is basically a way to get him serious time for little more than he has already admitted to.
ays off big time because people
will help others with a good reputation but not those with a bad reputation. But as with the satirical song be careful not to
do good deeds when others are not watching. Hence his philanthropy,
I really do not think Epstein would have let anyone get the slightest hint his disgusting behaviour, he liked to portray himself
as a Great Gatsby combined with Hugh Hefner figure.
His wealth comes from his ideas about creative tax evasion, and billionaires
are not going to trust someone with their money that cannot control themselves with little girls. .
All the circumstantial evidence supports the allegations that Epstein was operating a "honeypot" to entrap celebrities and
politicians such as Bill Clinton , the larger question is was he running this operation for the Mossad , CIA and MI6 or other
deep state intelligence agencies .
'All the circumstantial evidence supports the allegations that Epstein was operating a "honeypot" to entrap celebrities
and politicians such as Bill Clinton , the larger question is was he running this operation for the Mossad , CIA and MI6 or other
deep state intelligence agencies .'
If so, it's interesting that he's been arrested -- and that it's getting play.
Any bets on whether he shortly 'commits suicide'?
I can't see him spilling all. It's not just Trump he may have stuff on. Clinton was obviously a big fan.
@Wally omething else entirely to do
something about it.
and it's still a third thing to not merely engage in sex with her but to chew her up and discard her when you've had your week
or whatever of fun.
Finally, to literally reduce her to a commodity to be sold or traded in exchange for favors if not simply large cash payments
is yet a fourth thing.
We all get off this bus at some point. There aren't very many of us who would ride with ol' Jeffery all the way to stop four.
Sean's rather strange attempt to defend him notwithstanding, Jeffery's a pretty disgusting character. In fact, he's a very disgusting
character.
I hate being politically correct and all, but sometimes vile really is vile.
Could Murdoch survive one day without kowtowing to Jewish ? No , he can't . As long as Murdoch could provide what's the Jewish
need – Iraq war , Syria war and Iran war or sanctions and promote the paid Israeli agents in Congress , he doesn't need to be
a born Jews.
Actually the logic – he is not Jew – works for the Jew , helps the Jew to counter any attempt to locate the perfidious influences
the Jews play .
Thanks for that video, it was well worth the 30 mins. I had never heard of Amazing Polly before but can see why she is so described.
I agree with her that this is a web of crime and deceit that should be picked over very, very carefully and thoroughly.
I never understood why people claimed Podesta had child abuse links until I read that article. It is enough to make even a
hardened Podesta supporter cringe.
We are about to open up a can of worms that could turn our entire country completely upside down by the time it is all
said and done.
Billionaire Jeffrey
Epstein's
horrific crimes have been well known for a very long time,
and I have been writing about them for many years.
In fact, there were some people that really, really didn't like it when I wrote about Bill Clinton's connections to
Jeffrey Epstein and "the Lolita Express" during the 2016 presidential election. Flight records show that Bill Clinton
took 26 trips on board Jeffrey Epstein's infamous private plane, and Clinton also spent an enormous amount of time on
Epstein's secluded private "sex island" where underage girls were routinely abused. Of course Jeffrey Epstein had lots
of other very famous friends as well, and it has been documented that
his
"black book" was absolutely filled with marquee names from Hollywood, Wall Street and Washington
.
But despite everything that we knew about what was going on,
for
a very long time it looked like justice would never be served.
Epstein got an absolutely ridiculous sweetheart
deal from prosecutors in 2008, and none of his famous friends were ever charged with anything. They all probably thought
that they had escaped the grasp of law enforcement forever, but this month everything has suddenly changed.
In recent days, authorities apprehended Epstein after his plane returned from an overseas trip, they raided his home,
and they formally charged him with
sex
trafficking and conspiracy
Fund manager Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth and power to sexually abuse dozens of young girls for years at one of
the biggest mansions in Manhattan, paying them hundreds of dollars in cash for each encounter and hundreds more if
they brought in more victims, U.S. prosecutors said.
Now, federal prosecutors are charging him with sex trafficking and conspiracy. They're seeking to send him prison
for years and seize that Manhattan home.
The indictment unsealed on Monday against the well-connected financier came days after his arrest upon returning
from overseas and just hours after federal agents used a crowbar to enter the townhouse.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is prosecuting Epstein, and they don't mess around.
They
win more than 90 percent of the cases that actually go to trial, and Epstein has good reason to be shaking in his boots
at this point.
Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, is reportedly a prosecutor in the new criminal case
against convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. This details comes out of a new CNN report. The source is described as
a person "with knowledge of the case."
Will that turn out to be significant?
We shall see as this drama plays out.
In the legal community, everyone has an agenda, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York
certainly has an agenda in this case.
But what is their goal?
Why have they decided to pursue this specific case at this specific time?
Perhaps the primary goal is to nail Epstein to the wall once and for all. If Epstein is convicted of all the charges
against him, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. And if that is all there is to this story, it won't be an
enormous national scandal.
However, it could also be possible that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York wants to use
Epstein to get to one or more of his famous friends, and that is where things could get very "interesting".
Second, what should we make of reporting that Epstein's prosecution is being overseen by the Public Corruption Unit
of the SDNY? Short answer: It's too soon to say. It could mean that a public official is being investigated or will
be charged with Epstein. That could be a minor public figure or a major one. It could mean that SDNY is
investigating misconduct in the plea that Epstein was given in 2008. Or it could mean none of those things.
After everything that Epstein went through in 2008, you would think that he would clean up his life and get rid of all
the stuff that got him into so much trouble in the first place.
But when authorities raided his home, they discovered a
"vast
trove"
of photographic evidence
Prosecutors said a search of Epstein's Manhattan mansion after his arrest turned up a "vast trove" of nude photos of
what appeared to be underage girls. Officials said in court papers that the pictures included some on CDs with
handwritten labels, including "Misc nudes 1," "Girl pics nude" and the names of specific young women.
It has also
previously
been reported
that in the old days Epstein would actually record "the sordid orgies he threw for VIPs at his luxury
homes using cameras hidden in the walls of guest bedrooms", but it is not known if those recordings still exist or if
authorities were able to find any such recordings when they raided Epstein's home.
In any event, there is clearly an enormous amount of evidence against Epstein already, and that means his only hope of
avoiding prison for the rest of his life is to cooperate with authorities.
And as former federal prosecutor Elie Honig
has
pointed out
, Epstein's former friends from Hollywood, Wall Street and Washington should be quite scared right now
We do not know if Epstein will cooperate, but even if he does not, others will very likely be implicated. It seems
clear from the indictment that others helped Epstein run his alleged sex trafficking operation and otherwise
participated in it. At least some of those names will come out in court proceedings, public filings, potentially
trial and perhaps additional indictments. And it's worth noting that the Epstein case is being handled by
the
SDNY's Public Corruption Unit
-- in my experience, human trafficking cases usually are handled elsewhere in the
office -- which strongly suggests that public officials could be under a microscope here. Anybody who helped Epstein
in any way needs to get a lawyer and
get
scared
.
Of course Epstein could choose to sacrifice himself and protect his friends by not talking, but that isn't likely to
happen. In fact,
Jack
Posobiec is reporting
that
Epstein's
lawyers have already made it clear to the SDNY that their client will cooperate as long as he can get a reduced
sentence
SCOOP: Epstein's lawyer has already made a proffer to SDNY. Epstein will agree to cooperate with the investigation,
including giving up the names of individuals that paid for activities with underage girls in exchange for a maximum
sentence not to exceed 5 years
This news comes just days after a judge ordered the unsealing of nearly 2,000 pages of records related to a civil
case that could reveal how he and his accused accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly trafficked underage girls
The documents that will be unsealed are from a defamation case that was settled after Epstein entered a guilty plea
guilty to a single charge of soliciting and procuring a person under age 18 for prostitution.
Records in the defamation case contained descriptions of sexual abuse by Epstein along with new allegations of
sexual abuse by 'numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a
well-known prime minister and other world leaders.'
We will talk about who some of those individuals might be in the second part of this series which I will post later
tonight on
The
Most Important News
.
I have been writing about corruption in the political world
for
a long time
, but this could be the scandal of all scandals.
So stay tuned, because I believe that things are about to get extremely interesting.
rosiescenario
,
just now
There
appears to be a link to our state department and potentially the cia based on the plane that was used. More
should be exposed on that in the coming days.
Basaltie2017
,
2 minutes ago
Where was Secret Service when Clinton was on these trips with Epstein? Did he ditch them? If so,
he should be stripped of the detail because he clearly doesn't need them.
If the detail was with him and observing heinous crimes and did nothing then they should be
prosecuted as well.
vienna_proxy
,
41 seconds ago
(((secret service))) weren't they involved in raping girls in columbia under obama
pippi68
,
27 seconds ago
At least 5 times he left them behind.
HardAssets
,
3 minutes ago
The question is: Will the American people have the courage to look at and face some very nasty,
inconceivably horribl stuff ? (And how about the British people ? This has been going on there too
for a very long time.)
Archeofuturist
,
4 minutes ago
Potential? Sure. But obviously this guy isn't paying attention to how **** actually goes down. In my
lifetime I can count the amount times justice was served on politically connected scumbags like
this on one hand. I'd bet money he walks..... again. He just has way too much dirt on everybody.
TotalMachineFail
,
9 minutes ago
Doom and gloom is suddenly expecting a turn around in the control grid fraud of a criminal
hierarchy?
Somehow unregistered foreign agents without and exemption working in conjunction with the same of
both sides of the pervbial aisle of the fraudulent criminally rigged now no longer existent
JUdiciary is going to expose and round up the long lists including many chosed and put the screws to
them are publicly?
Harvey's story dropped off the front page after about a week.
The investigation is going to have to start from the beginning and be done independently. There's a
lot of criminals missed and many in the Federal fraud that's been eliminated. All are already
expecting consequences for the sedition and treason. Adding the involvement or covering up of sex
trafficking of minors, prostitution, ritual murder sacrifices and more has to be done
completely outside the hierarchy and it's influence.
What a coincidence Comey's daughter is allegedly prosecuting. Wrong.
tripletail
,
12 minutes ago
********! This redo-fake-crisis won't amount to shite, legally. Epstein was the front man for a
Mossad honeypot operation - the results of which were shared with other western intelligence
agencies. Will Epstein be ultimately sacrificed? In a carefully orchestrated public way, perhaps.
Yet behind the scenes, not likely. IMHO.
ya_right
,
12 minutes ago
And what about the parents of these minors that allowed or even put their kids into this danger?
JBLight
,
11 minutes ago
Many of them orphans, kidnapped, or brought illegally into the country. They had this operation
down to a science. Look at Syria. After the war finally calmed down, they find that tens of
thousands of children are missing from orphange
bustdriver
,
15 minutes ago
You don't hide cameras to photo yourself. There has to be a blackmail part of this. Where did his
money come from? With all of the photographic evidence found he is not the only one that is quaking
in their boots...
Let the sunshine in.
vienna_proxy
,
16 minutes ago
sdny is deep state. and now that comey's daughter is working the case everyone knows everyone will
skate free
SmilinJackAbbott
,
13 minutes ago
Yep he then racks his brains for the reason the SDNY are suddenly acting on this. They have no
choice. Thanks to Cernovich the stuff they've been hiding from the public will soon
be
public
& would've exposed them as corrupt cover up artists for a pedophile network.
JerseyJoe
,
8 minutes ago
And he used is own money. Cernovich is a hero and because he is an alt media blogger the media
pimps will never mention him.
charlewar
,
17 minutes ago
Will slick willy, when convicted in this action, as a former president get the upper or lower bunk
in the slammer?
But the MSM will celebrate P*ssy Riot attempting to hack elections in Alabama.
Justapleb
,
12 minutes ago
The first youtube video I watched claiming to be "news" introduced one of the principle witnesses as
a girl who worked at Mar a Lago.
Not that she was being raped by Clinton and whomever on Epstein's island. No, she was a Trump
employee.
Another mentioned Epstein as having powerful connections, like Clinton and Trump. See? One
sodomized her, and one paid her appropriate compensation for the job she did. That's the same
thing, right?
Patriot Eke
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28 minutes ago
Sex trafficking should be punishable by death. So many young women (and men) disappear each year
just in the USA, and they cannot all possibly be runaways. Plenty of evidence you're guilty of
kidnapping and forcing children and young adults into sex? Stand against the wall. I'll gladly put
a bullet in you. There would be no problem getting volunteers, and bullets are cheap.
JoeTurner
,
27 minutes ago
Molloch and Lucifer would not be pleased if child trafficking were abolished.
And it's not just about the lucrative trafficking. A large portion of these children become ****
"actors" after years of sexual trauma. Thus making the pigs even more money. This is why this
operation has been so heavily guarded and protected.
buzzsaw99
,
36 minutes ago
scandal, yeah right. i doubt it will even make it into the msm. the evidence will be gathered and
destroyed by comey's daughter. like father, like daughter. his crimes in florida have already been
whitewashed. zhers are the only people in this country who even know this is going on. go ahead,
ask someone if they've ever heard of epstein, they'll probably say welcome back kotter or some ****.
Eighty percent of the abuse (caveat: one case of any is too much); wasn't "pedophilia" but more
properly homosexual behavior. That it happened there was your first clue that it was everywhere.
In my relatively small area, there's been something like 8 or ten cases of middle 20's
teachers-messing around with students. If they are boys, everybody says "lucky stiff". My mother
(long, long ago) went to school with a girl who got knocked up by the gym teacher.
Now its organized and promoted.
romanmoment
,
34 minutes ago
Just like "drain the swamp" and "lock her up", I have my evidence based doubts that anything will
happen to anyone. I have just lost faith in accountability in the United States....no, I've lost
faith in accountability in the world.
Here's the thing. I'm as perverted as the next guy, at least the next average American male. I
appreciate beautiful women and if they're particularly enthusiastic about sex then I appreciate them
even more.
But, and I mean this sincerely, I would never, ever physically or sexually harm a child. In fact,
at 53 years old, I look at a 25 year old woman as more child than adult. The people who prey on
children for sexual or physical domination are sick motherfuckers and are not men, I'd kill everyone
of them willingly if I could. There's no rationale, no excuse and no forgiving people who hurt or
exploit children. People like Epstein are rodents.
TheABaum
,
11 minutes ago
I know we just got over Pride month, but digging chicks is normal for males, not perverted.
bunkers
,
50 minutes ago
This will be bait and switch... Start with Epstein. Switch to Trump
Comey is the prosecutor
The judge is a Clinton appointee.
AG Barr and Rosen recused themselves.
The investigations are in Trump home towns, Manhattan and Palm Beach.
Yup, Bait and Switch.
Know thy enemy
,
51 minutes ago
Good article but I did not find the deeper more insidious information that other media sources have
determined was actually going on, i.e. Jeffery Epstein's business was blackmail.
Calling himself a Money Manager gave him the toolbox to invite his wealthy friends to his Island,
get them very fucked up, and then let them have sex with his underage victims. Everyone of these
very important and wealthy people were secretly filmed and subsequently blackmailed, for large sums,
disguised as quarterly payments to his money management firm.
Many of these wealthy men and women are now themselves 'victims' are their own stupidity, sense of
superiority, and misguided belief that they were above the law.
This is going to be historic........
Mustafa Kemal
,
40 minutes ago
"This is going to be historic......."
If you really pull on this thread, you are going to uncover ALOT.
we have a huge, not just pedophile problem, but sado pedophelia industry dominated by the US and the
UK.
Peak Finance
,
1 hour ago
LOLZ
SDNY is where evidence goes to die
Just ask Weiner and the laptop with all of the secrets that just "disappeared"
This case will be closed by Monday, Maybe next Friday the latest
Remember these people investigated 30,000 emails in 72 hours somehow, and then just simply declared
everyone involved innocent, and then dared anyone to do anything about it
dead hobo
,
1 hour ago
So, according to the little black book, Hillary did not find her way to Orgy Island?
Makes sense to me.
Good way to clear an island.
El Vaquero
,
1 hour ago
The little black book was a list of contact information for people. Lots of means of getting
contact info and lots of reasons to have it. A name being in it doesn't imply much. It's the
flight logs of the Lolita Express that people should be interested in.
William Dorritt
,
1 hour ago
NSA if you are listening
If you are not actively monitoring every
Key Elected official
Every Federal Judge
Every Senior Manager at the FBI, DOJ
and others
And key Business Leaders
Failure to intercept the Extortion and Blackmail calls that are coming in is a total failure to
defend the US.
There is little to no doubt Epstein works for a State actor.
PGR88
,
1 hour ago
yeah, Epstein is bad - but I'd rather see John Brennan hanging from a lamppost for an attempted coup
and treason against the Constitution. We won't see justice in either case.
Give Me Some Truth
,
1 hour ago
Epstein will NOT be offered a deal. Whether he "gives up names" or doesn't give up names, he is
going to prison for a significant amount of time.
Those he could "give up" will not be exposed.
I'm not saying that authorities couldn't offer him a deal if they wanted to, they could. But if they
let Epstein make a deal, they would have to also investigate and prosecute all of the men who used
the services of Epstein's army of underage "massage therapists."
Alas, the government does not want to go down this road, a road that would show the world the true
nature of so many of our iconic "leaders."
If authorities really wanted to nab these people, they would have arrested and put pressure on his
top assistant, Ms. Maxwell. They have not done this. Probably will not do this. This tells us they
are not really seeking to "out" any of the Johns.
Epstein alone is the fall guy and perhaps a few officials that went along with that sham plea deal
10 years ago will get some kind of slap on the wrist.
Now, I guess Epstein could still "talk." Write a letter from jail or agree to a Barbara Walters
interview in the pen if the prison system allowed such an interview (which they would not). But even
if he did this, it wouldn't reduce his sentence ... so why do this?
Everyone breathes easier if a "deal" is NOT offered.
ZIRPY
,
1 hour ago
If Eps has proof of sex with underage girls then he will get a deal.
Give Me Some Truth
,
1 hour ago
The prosecutors also don't want to face the charge that they are "making a deal" with one of the
world's most infamous sex traffickers and pedophiles. It's easy for them to not offer such a
person a deal (especially after the "deal" he got last time).
Any "leverage" Epstein had disappeared when he was arrested. My guess is they are not going to
let him out (even on bail) for a long, long time, if ever. He's too dangerous on the outside.
They can control what he says or doesn't say a lot easier in a jail cell.
Even if he wanted to talk at this point, I'm not sure how he would get any words out to the
world. He's kind of like Julian Assange was. He has no real way to communicate with the world.
Epstein thought he had all this leverage and in the end he didn't have any. Actually, his best
hope might be if his former assistant threatened to "sing." He could threaten: You give me what
I want or I'm going to make sure that Maxwell brings everyone down, etc.
But she ain't playing along and is keeping her distance from this guy. And, as noted, she hasn't
even been arrested. She is as free as the breeze.
21st.century
,
1 hour ago
it's a 20yr minimum for possession of any underage , **** images . I had unenviable duty to serve
as a jury member on just such a case .
images in a footlocker of a guilty a-hole that possessed the locker ... piles of pictures ( not
underage , but equally as bad ) stuck on walls
computer HD's jammed with images .... but the criminal images were found too.
keep in mind-- JE doesn't have to implicate others --- if others can be linked by evidence found--
then sdny has only one duty -- to arrest them too.
Anonymous IX
,
45 minutes ago
If I remember correctly, las, the Jerry Lee marriage to his cousin was an enormous scandal. Most
people, in that day and age, disapproved, and Jerry Lee suffered from their censure.
What's the difference between "having sex" and using someone for sex? Here's how Ms. Ward described
the account from her sources:
What I had "on the girls" were some remarkably brave first-person accounts. Three on-the-record
stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix. The oldest daughter, an
artist whose character was vouchsafed to me by several sources, including the artist Eric
Fischl, had told me, weeping as she sat in my living room, of how Epstein had attempted to
seduce both her and, separately, her younger sister, then only 16.
He'd gotten to them because of his money. He'd promised the older sister patronage of her art
work; he'd promised the younger funding for a trip abroad that would give her the work
experience she needed on her résumé for a place at an Ivy League university, which she
desperately wanted -- and would win.
The girls' mother told me by phone that she had thought her daughters would be safe under
Epstein's roof, not least because he phoned her to reassure her, and she also knew he had
Ghislaine Maxwell with him at all times.
When the girls' mother learned that Epstein had, regardless, allegedly
molested
her 16-year-old daughter, she'd wanted to fight back. "At the time I wanted to go after him. I
mean, physically, mentally, you know, in every way, shape, and form. And the advice I was given
was, you know, he is so wealthy, he can fight you, he can make you look ridiculous, he can make
your daughters look ridiculous, plus he can hurt them.
And
that was the thing that frightened me was that he would know where they lived and could possibly
just send somebody when they walk the dog at night or something around the corner, and we'd
never hear from them again," she told me.
When I put their allegations to Epstein, he denied them and went into overdrive. He called
Graydon. He also repeatedly phoned me. He said, "Just the mention of a 16-year-old girl carries
the wrong impression. I don't see what it adds to the piece. And that makes me unhappy."
Most guys don't "get it." We aren't talking "having sex." We are talking about using your power to
gain physical and emotional control over a young girl, who may think she can handle herself, but
allow me to disabuse of that antiquated notion. No matter how mature or sophisticated a young girl
of 13-15 thinks she is, she cannot in the remotest stretch of anyone's imagination compete against
an Epstein. Once he's convinced her to take off her clothes and do what he desires, she realizes
how dumb she was. I was lucky. I was basically an out-of-control 13-15 (two alcoholic parents)
years old, but I didn't care about money, fame, and material objects. I was just dumb lucky. And I
hated to be controlled. And I was in rebellion against my parents and living situation at the time.
I've had guys masturbate in front of me because I wouldn't give them what they wanted. I've seen a
lot.
Reference Variable
,
1 hour ago
Poor Bob Menendez. Poor Bill Clinton. Poor Tony Podesta.
Who will be implicated first? Who will roll first? LOL!
This is only happening to Epstein now because the Clintons are now dispensable, and none of the
other federal prosecutor abuse could get anyone to sing anything credible against Trump. Epstein
will
compose
not just sing, at the
request of the SDNY.
Clashfan
,
1 hour ago
CONNECTION TO AIRCRAFT SHARED BY JEFFREY EPSTEIN, THE CIA, AND DYNCORP
Voat user Freed0mFighter uncovered a special report on Occurrences: Foreign and Domestic (archived)(original
PDF)identifying the fact that one of Jeffrey Epstein's suspected trafficking aircraft shared the
same tail number as a State department Bronco used under contract by DynCorp. The use of the tail
number can be corroborated by official government records.[9]This would mean that Jeffrey Epstein
trafficked underage girls using aircraft of the same tail number and during the same time period as
DynCorp when they trafficked minors in Bosnia and other parts of the Balkan states. If issued by
some sort of accident or if one of the two planes was decommissioned, the statistical odds of just
two planes sharing the same number would still be over 1 in over 900,000.[10] Special thanks to
User:PeterVenkman, and see also section on Connection to identified criminal activities in Bosnia
detached.amusement
,
1 hour ago
GO AHEAD MAUREEEN, JUST TRY IT!!!!!!!!!
Samual Vimes
,
1 hour ago
They fucked uo the secondary issues in the Weiner case pretty well.
Sp4Ce F@rCe
,
42 minutes ago
Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, is reportedly a prosecutor in the
new criminal case against convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
If his daughter has as much integrety as James....Epstein will walk.
alfbell
,
23 minutes ago
They aren't investigating Epstein's whole sphere of activity. Not even looking into his island sex
paradise. Plus, the judge is a Clinton appointee and one of the prosecutors is Comey's daughter.
Rigged.
"... The cover up & sweetheart deal Epstein got in 2008 is very similar in handling to the sweetheart deal Hillary got from the DOJ/FBI in 2016. ..."
"... Epstein helped start the Clinton Foundation in 2005 with $4 million and made continuous contributions in addition to shuttling Bill to Orgy Island 27 times ..."
"... Blaming it on Acosta is shutting down any investigation is negation of the truth. He was too low on the totem pole to cut this deal. He had to have approval from Main Justice. Mueller was FBI head at the time. ..."
"... Sex trafficking of children is a big business in the US & Epstein was involved according to TrafficKing: Jeffrey Epstein human trafficking case by Conchita Sarnoff. ..."
"... She is right. Pretty obvious. If not a state sponsor this punk would have been dead a long time ago. Someone is protecting him ..."
"... Lots of someones. Epstein had cameras in his home. He cultivated powerful people. Got himself on the Trilateral Committee with Henry Kissinger and on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation. Donated $30 million to Harvard & was friends with Larry Summer who was then Harvard president. He held fundraisers for prominent Democrats and donated to their campaigns. ..."
"... Bill Clinton was just one of his powerful "friends". This goes deep ..."
"... So according to Ann, it was some lawyer named Paul Casel (not sure of the last name spelling) that was responsible for reopening this case. So, this has nothing to do with Trump draining the swamp. In fact, it reads that the Miami Herald did more foot work than the current justice department. ..."
"... It is strange. But remember, it's the Miami Herald. Not the NY Times or the Washington Post. They probably didn't fell the need to control the Miami Herald as tightly, and a real reporter slipped through the cracks. ..."
"... Mike Cernovich - a lawyer and independent blogger who also uncovered the Congressional sex slush fund and got Conyers to resign - sued to have the records unsealed. ..."
"... Paul Cassell, former Federal District Judge from 2002-2007 represents some of the victims. He and Brad Edwards, also representing victims, have been instrumental in the civil cases and keeping this alive. ..."
"... Read the whole story from Conchita Sarnoff, an anti sex trafficking crusader who has investigated this story for years and wrote: TrafficKing: Jeffrey Epstein human trafficking case ..."
The cover up & sweetheart deal Epstein got in 2008 is very similar in handling to the
sweetheart deal Hillary got from the DOJ/FBI in 2016.
In both years, Hillary was the presumed Dem nominee and shoo in for president.
Epstein helped start the Clinton Foundation in 2005 with $4 million and made continuous
contributions in addition to shuttling Bill to Orgy Island 27 times.
That could have been
very embarrassing for Hillary in 2008. May also explain Obama's sudden rise by the same
people who covered up the Epstein affair.
Blaming it on Acosta is shutting down any investigation is negation of the truth. He was too low on
the totem pole to cut this deal. He had to have approval from Main Justice. Mueller was FBI
head at the time.
Even after Epstein did time and was registered in NY as a level 3 sex offender (highest
classification) George Stephanopolous, Katie Couric, Chelsea Handler and Woody Allen came to
his house for dinner and he kept thousands of pictures of nude children. Epstein felt
protected.
Sex trafficking of children is a big business in the US & Epstein was involved
according to TrafficKing: Jeffrey Epstein human trafficking case by Conchita Sarnoff.
Dems must know that cartels are trafficking kids for the sex trade over the southern
border.
Berspankme , 34 minutes ago
She is right. Pretty obvious. If not a state sponsor this punk would have been dead a long
time ago. Someone is protecting him
SummerSausage , 20 minutes ago
Lots of someones. Epstein had cameras in his home. He cultivated powerful people. Got
himself on the Trilateral Committee with Henry Kissinger and on the board of the Rockefeller
Foundation. Donated $30 million to Harvard & was friends with Larry Summer who was then
Harvard president. He held fundraisers for prominent Democrats and donated to their
campaigns.
Bill Clinton was just one of his powerful "friends". This goes deep.
MushroomCloud2020 , 31 minutes ago
So according to Ann, it was some lawyer named Paul Casel (not sure of the last name
spelling) that was responsible for reopening this case. So, this has nothing to do with Trump
draining the swamp. In fact, it reads that the Miami Herald did more foot work than the
current justice department.
Trump even stated he knew nothing about the case. Strange that
the media, which we all love to call fake, did its job pretty good this time???
Chupacabra , 10 minutes ago
It is strange. But remember, it's the Miami Herald. Not the NY Times or the Washington
Post. They probably didn't fell the need to control the Miami Herald as tightly, and a real
reporter slipped through the cracks.
SummerSausage , 9 minutes ago
Mike Cernovich - a lawyer and independent blogger who also uncovered the Congressional sex
slush fund and got Conyers to resign - sued to have the records unsealed.
As he got low on funds the Miami Herald came in to assist.
Paul Cassell, former Federal District Judge from 2002-2007 represents some of the victims.
He and Brad Edwards, also representing victims, have been instrumental in the civil cases and
keeping this alive.
Read the whole story from Conchita Sarnoff, an anti sex trafficking crusader who has
investigated this story for years and wrote: TrafficKing: Jeffrey Epstein human trafficking
case
"... Well, one big happy family they all are. I bet there are reunion photos of them all together somewhere on an island. ..."
"... can't wait until uniCRIME Bush Clan is brought down along with uniCRIME Clinton Clan in their Epstein crime caper...oh wait, its all in the wash. ..."
"... The President of the Mukasey, Acosta, Epstein deal?: George W. Bush. "I only hire the best." MOSSAD CIA handled Donald Trump. ..."
"... Mueller was FBI Director then. Do you think he would have passed up the chance for a super informant like that? Mueller's wet dream to have such information on the Elite and Powerful. Epstein certainly was working for the FBI, at least after his first arrest. ..."
According to the Miami Herald, Acosta secretly negotiated with Jay Lefkowitz, a partner at
Kirland & Ellis. Acosta was previously a partner in that same law firm. Ken Starr is
another Kirkland attorney.
MushroomCloud2020 , 1 hour ago
Well, one big happy family they all are. I bet there are reunion photos of them all
together somewhere on an island.
June 12 1776 , 1 hour ago
can't wait until uniCRIME Bush Clan is brought down along with uniCRIME Clinton Clan in
their Epstein crime caper...oh wait, its all in the wash.
Michael B. Mukasey, Eighty-First Attorney General, 2007-2009 Department of Justice,
appointed by George W. Bush.
In 2005, Alexander Acosta appointed as the U.S. Attorney for Southern District of Florida
by George W. Bush.
In 2008 after cutting Epstein deal, Alexander Acosta was named 100 most influential
individuals in business ethics.
Alexander Acosta nominated by Donald Trump 2017, to fill the position of United States
Secretary of Labor.
Michael Mukasey is Rudy Giuliani's former law partner.
Michael Mukasey also was the judge in the litigation between developer Larry Silverstein
and several insurance companies arising from the destruction of the World Trade Center.
The DOJ & FBI operate under the EXECUTIVE; the "President" is the ultimate boss of
them both, wink wink nod nod.
The President of the Mukasey, Acosta, Epstein deal?: George W. Bush. "I only hire the best." MOSSAD CIA handled Donald Trump.
Vitam Impendere Vero
Thom Paine , 2 hours ago
Mueller was FBI Director then. Do you think he would have passed up the chance for a super informant like that? Mueller's wet dream to have such information on the Elite and Powerful. Epstein certainly was working for the FBI, at least after his first arrest.
Savvy , 2 hours ago
Top politicians, adolescent girls, what could go wrong?
Good grief.
Mouldy , 3 hours ago
Epstein - links to elites
Douchbank collapse
China defaulting
JPM/CIA coke bust
These are mostly deep state operations, is there a war going on we aren't aware of ?
"... Powerful elites enabled the financier accused of trafficking underage girls ..."
"... Over the last couple of months, Ward told me, she's started going through transcripts of the interviews about Epstein she did more than 16 years ago. "What is so amazing to me is how his entire social circle knew about this and just blithely overlooked it," she said of his penchant for adolescents. While praising his charm, brilliance and generous donations to Harvard, those she spoke to, she said, "all mentioned the girls, as an aside." ..."
"... Both sides are likely right. The Epstein case is first and foremost about the casual victimization of vulnerable girls. But it is also a political scandal, if not a partisan one. It reveals a deep corruption among mostly male elites across parties, and the way the very rich can often purchase impunity for even the most loathsome of crimes. ..."
"... In the deal he never admitted having actual sex with any of the girls, and he insists he thought they were over 18, so basically all he has ever got a deal on was acts well short of sex with 16-18 years olds who were paid. ..."
"... Some of them named in the old indictment are now saying they were 2 years younger and had sex with all these VIPs. Doubt it. Still, Epstein's previous admissions mean nobody will believe him if a girl says she was 14 not 18, and he is a tempting target tor civil suits which testifying in a criminal case are a basis for. ..."
"... Cernovich and Dershowitz filed their suit on 19 JAN 2017, 10 days after Trump's inauguration. Obama's DoJ screwed up and the judge ruled in their favor 2.5 years later. Then Epstein's immediately arrested. ..."
"... This RT article reminds us the Republicans tried to use Bill's links with Epstein during the 2016 election, while providing other details. ..."
"... Perhaps Trump is the target? Time will tell. ..."
"... If Epstein was Mossad, then what is arch-zio Dershowitz doing in the trap? ..."
"... Mobster jeffrey epstein's wealth didn't come from being a "financier" ( he is a dull wit w/o market knowledge), it came from his fellow co-mobster , steven hoffenberger , swindling over $650 million from gullible goys in Towers Financial. ..."
"... Possible Mossad connection via Ghislaine Maxwell. https://www.unz.com/isteve/jeffrey-epstein-and-foreign-intelligence/ ..."
Originally from THE NEW YORK TIMES • JULY 9, 2019 • 17
COMMENTS
Powerful elites enabled the financier accused of trafficking underage
girls
In 2003, the journalist Vicky Ward profiled Jeffrey Epstein
, the financier indicted Monday on charges of sexually abusing and trafficking underage
girls, for Vanity Fair. Her piece painted him as an enigmatic Jay Gatsby type, a boy from a
middle-class family in Brooklyn who had scaled the rungs of the plutocracy, though no one
could quite figure out how he made his money. It detailed dubious business dealings and
mentioned that Epstein often had lots of beautiful young women around. But it left out Ward's
most important finding.
Twelve years later,
in The Daily Beast , Ward wrote about how, in the course of her reporting, two sisters
allegedly preyed upon by Epstein, as well as their mother, had spoken to her on the record.
But shortly before the story went to press, Ward wrote, the Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter
cut that section, saying, of Epstein, "He's sensitive about the young women." (
In a statement on Monday , Carter said Ward's reporting hadn't been solid enough.)
Over the last couple of months, Ward told me, she's started going through transcripts of
the interviews about Epstein she did more than 16 years ago. "What is so amazing to me is how
his entire social circle knew about this and just blithely overlooked it," she said of his
penchant for adolescents. While praising his charm, brilliance and generous donations to
Harvard, those she spoke to, she said, "all mentioned the girls, as an aside."
On Saturday evening, more than a decade after receiving a sweetheart plea deal in an
earlier sex crime case, Epstein was arrested after getting off a private flight from Paris.
He has been accused of exploiting and abusing "dozens" of minor girls, some as young as 14,
and conspiring with others to traffic them. Epstein's arrest was the rare event that
gratified right and left alike, both because it seemed that justice might finally be done,
and because each side has reason to believe that if Epstein goes down, he could bring some of
its enemies with him.
Both sides are likely right. The Epstein case is first and foremost about the casual
victimization of vulnerable girls. But it is also a political scandal, if not a partisan one.
It reveals a deep corruption among mostly male elites across parties, and the way the very
rich can often purchase impunity for even the most loathsome of crimes. If it were fiction,
it would be both too sordid and too on-the-nose to be believable, like a season of "True
Detective" penned by a doctrinaire Marxist.
The funny thing about the Trump quote in the original NYMag article on Epstein is that
it's probably the most honest description of the guy, with a none-too-subtle nod to the man's
predilections.
"The Ultimate Symbol"? I beg leave to doubt it! I suspect that the plutocratic rot is very
wide and very deep and "Kiddy fiddling" which is what Jeffrey Epstein seems to be accused of,
is only a small (and not the worst) part of it. If he "sings" I think there is no telling how
far it will go, but probably he won't and this whole evil mess will slink back into the
shadows and silence, with the active help of the media.
Come to think about it, probably even if he does sing, that too will be supressed.
Ward wrote about how, in the course of her reporting, two sisters allegedly preyed upon
by Epstein, as well as their mother, had spoken to her on the record.
They said they were all over 18 in other words. He certainly had young women about but
Michael Wolff said they ones he say on his plane were visibly late teens or twenty.
No way in hell would someone be trusted with billionaire's money who had ovbiously under
age girls around him and was heading for a plea deal in which he might be under so much
pressure he would reveal his clients' financial crimes . And it is hardly in keeping
with the Gatsby image so important to him. I think he had the young but legal girls for show,
no one saw the obvious children but him. He kept the criminal conduct away from visitors,
especially ones he posed as a philanthropist to. Someone in his position could not afford to
get a reputation for having criminal culpability in anything. He was tax scam artist, and
secret sex offender.
On Saturday evening, more than a decade after receiving a sweetheart plea deal in an
earlier sex crime case, Epstein was arrested after getting off a private flight from Paris.
He has been accused of exploiting and abusing "dozens" of minor girls, some as young as 14,
and conspiring with others to traffic them.
People with his money rarely plead guilty. He admitted guilt to get the deal. The new
charges he is arrested on say he was the only customer or client , so "trafficking" is
quite deceptive.
In the deal he never admitted having actual sex with any of the girls, and
he insists he thought they were over 18, so basically all he has ever got a deal on was acts
well short of sex with 16-18 years olds who were paid.
Some of them named in the old indictment are now saying they were 2 years younger and had
sex with all these VIPs. Doubt it. Still, Epstein's previous admissions mean nobody will
believe him if a girl says she was 14 not 18, and he is a tempting target tor civil suits
which testifying in a criminal case are a basis for. I don't see him as being all that
powerful because money makes you a continuing target of people wanting financial restitution
from people down on their luck and no longer able to make money from their looks.
Getting a
sweet plea deal for those things was just storing up trouble for the future for someone as
rich as him.
Cernovich and Dershowitz filed their suit on 19 JAN 2017, 10 days after Trump's
inauguration. Obama's DoJ screwed up and the judge ruled in their favor 2.5 years later. Then
Epstein's immediately arrested.
This RT article
reminds us the Republicans tried to use Bill's links with Epstein during the 2016
election, while providing other details. Maybe the stories used in the Steele Dossier on
Trump aren't from Russia at all but were collected through Epstein's operation?
Epstein, being richer, gets to act out Weiner's fantasy for approximately the same price as
the fantasy. If Epstein was Mossad, then what is arch-zio Dershowitz doing in the
trap?
"Jeffrey Epstein shipped a shredder from the U.S. Virgin Islands to his Palm Beach home in
July 2008, shortly after reaching a non-prosecution agreement with then-U.S. Attorney Alex
Acosta, maritime records show. Then, in March of this year, shortly after a Florida federal
judge invalidated that agreement, Epstein shipped a tile and carpet extractor from the Virgin
Islands to his Manhattan townhouse, the records show."
Mobster jeffrey epstein's wealth didn't come from being a "financier" ( he is a dull
wit w/o market knowledge), it came from his fellow co-mobster , steven hoffenberger ,
swindling over $650 million from gullible goys in Towers Financial.
I believe nearly all of these ((( "financiers" and "hedge fund managers" ))) are just
money laundering for the massive Israhell mob. Most are operated from offshore banks, without
auditing, I.e. soros' quantum fund.
"... This Tom Luongo guy has the naïveté of a 6 year old. He actually believes that Trump has enough courage and political power base to challenge the well connected high profile pedophile ring where the CIA and the FBI may well have been a principal participant. ..."
"... I've suspected there are two factions in DS, one pushing the NWO death and destruction route, the other more sane side pushing end of empire, conciliation and fixing the homeland. It would explain the weird reversals, half-hearted military strikes, contradictions in policy, stunning non sequiturs that come out of the White House, the crazy then sane tweets, obviously written by different people. We may never know. ..."
"... I'm still waiting to find out what was on Weiner's laptop. ..."
I can see this slicing the Gordian knot in multiple ways.
First, I know someone who does basically what Epstein does, so I get how it works. He's at
a slightly lower level, I suppose, but part of his job is clearly to lure prominent people,
and those on a strong upward trajectory, into compromising situations in order to blackmail
them. He tried to do this to me, twice. I told my wife, at the time. She was somewhat
incredulous (she has met him many dozens of times, as well, and he's charming), but,
ultimately, she agreed there was no other explanation.
I've had time to contemplate all this, and one thing struck me - I still talk to this
person. He's extraordinarily well connected. He's fun to be around, even if I haven't visited
certain locations with him. I would never, in a million years, want him to be my enemy, and
that's why I've never disclosed to anyone other than my wife any specifics.
I'm hopeful it will all come out, as this type of thing has been used to facilitate
corruption, but I also feel sorry for the people whose lives will be ruined, and especially
for their wives and children. For what it's worth, people should go easy on them. I was
lucky. I enjoy drinking, at least enough of one to definitely know how I respond to alcohol.
The first time this happened, I was sharing a glass of ridiculously expensive and delicious
scotch with the individual I referenced. I suddenly realized I was far more drunk than I
should have been based on what I'd had. It was from his private stash, and I'm positive he'd
slipped something in the drink. He'd been asking some odd questions, and had just invited me
to a mansion, in NYC, for a sort of "party" (it could easily have been at Epstein's house, as
we are in similar circles). I was about to agree to go when I realized just how odd the
situation was. I excused myself, immediately ordered an Uber, and abruptly left without a
proper goodbye to get into the car. I passed out on the drive back to my apartment, but the
driver woke me up and I managed to stumble inside and get to bed.
If I hadn't had that moment of clarity, or if there'd been no Uber and he'd simply offered
to have his driver take me home on his way to the party, I could very easily have ended up in
one of those CDs full of compromising information. I got lucky. These other guys didn't. When
their names are dragged through the mud, we should cut them a little slack.
napper , 8 hours ago
This Tom Luongo guy has the naïveté of a 6 year old. He actually believes that
Trump has enough courage and political power base to challenge the well connected high
profile pedophile ring where the CIA and the FBI may well have been a principal participant.
Expect some suicides and mysterious accidents when things begin to get saucy.
The scandal is too big to be uncovered.
YAMAHA32073 , 8 hours ago
Donald was signing along to Mc Hammer, cant touch this!
Trump did F*** all. Epstein has been arrested for one reason only. Mike Cernovich started
a legal case to get the documents on his trial unsealed. It would have looked too bad if the
contents of that hit the headlines and nothing was done. Trump can get f****d
dickbutt down-under , 11 hours ago
pelosi's daughter is unveiling her top twenty fave child rapists.
Good article but as usual, one must seek the lie by omission by Luongo.. in that case it
should be that Epstein is israeli agent and this law suit should brake some shakles from
'foreign interference' is us policies..
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𝑼𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒆 , 14 hours ago
I wonder if Epstein will even make it to trial? My thought is there is, or will be a price on his head. There are too many Elites, with too much to lose, to ever risk Epstein squealing.
Shift For Brains , 12 hours ago
Watch for signs like MSM news stories that say:
"those closest to Epstein say he is despondent;"
"confided last week to a business associate he didn't feel there was a way out:'
"over the last two weeks, he has been observed with a visible shaking and looking drawn
and pale;"
"his investment empire now appears to be collapsing as investors remove their assets
under management."
If you see those types of stories, Unca Jeffy's lifespan will be measured in days or a few
weeks. He'll be found dead of an overdose, bullet to the head or massive (induced) heart
attack.
"So tragic, we could have broken open this case and caught a lot of bad people but now
(sigh) we'll just never know."
ChaoKrungThep , 15 hours ago
Trump is a punk. He doesn't allow; he is sometimes allowed. He follows orders; his own
orders are ignored. Just watch his mumbling about events obviously beyond his ken. He's led
by the nose the whole time. Which's safe. That fool could start a war over cold coffee.
yogibear , 16 hours ago
Photos of Bill Clinton a under-aged girls somewhere? Drunk with power.
Rubicon727 , 17 hours ago
Is this another piece of "journalism" by Tom Tuongo? If so, beware.
He's the same writer
who heralded Italy's Salvino because he had started the domino effect with "Mini-Bots" in
Italy. WRONG!! Luongo reminds my well informed sources in Europe as someone, a foreigner
looking afar at an issue. As a result. Luongo was wrong about Mini-bots.
He's committed the
same OOPS ..... errors, repeatedly, over the last few months.
The guy doesn't even understand how the US Legal System is largely paid off by the 1%
Billionaires, like Epstein, and/or, the judges who have won lucrative positions high in the
court system based on their allegiance to the top 5% super wealthy.
Is-Be , 11 hours ago
Goodness! Is there no hope then? May I suggest nuclear war to rid the planet of all this evil life?
Totally_Disillusioned , 17 hours ago
Make no mistake about Epstein's arrest...he's the sacrificial lamb to get Trump. Epstein
is expendable - he was sloppy and arrogant.
Even if he takes a few Dimwits with him, it will
be worth it if they get Trump.
The Deep State has run out of options eliminating Trump...he's
too well protected, mil intel has tightened up the loose bolts and POTUS favorability ratings
are on the move upward - now over 50%.
They'e tried everything from trying to gin up war with
Russia, Syria, NoKorea and Iran - didn't work. So it's back to the fake innuendo and false
smearing.
ChaoKrungThep , 15 hours ago
I've suspected there are two factions in DS, one pushing the NWO death and destruction
route, the other more sane side pushing end of empire, conciliation and fixing the homeland.
It would explain the weird reversals, half-hearted military strikes, contradictions in
policy, stunning non sequiturs that come out of the White House, the crazy then sane tweets,
obviously written by different people. We may never know.
Smi1ey , 17 hours ago
I'm still waiting to find out what was on Weiner's laptop.
Also, this time of year we remember Seth Rich.
Maybe there should be a vigil.
Drop-Hammer , 18 hours ago
Uh, don't be too sure. The Deep State/D.C. Swamp/(((Elites))) protect their own. Jeffrey
is expendable and will very soon suffer a Seth Rich 'suicide' with two bullets in his back or
have an Acme safe falling on his head type accident.
The idea is that they need to get rid of
Jeffrey, so they can bury away the whole thing in time for the 2020 election. No sense in
having a loose cannon pedo out there causing controversy.
SirBarksAlot , 15 hours ago
But do they need Jeffrey, now that they have the vault of photos labeled with the names of
the pedos participating in the ****???
Generation O , 18 hours ago
Nobody is commenting on the shallowness of sexual allegations as determinative of national
and global policies. Can we please discuss the theft of tens of trillions of dollars for the
elites' survival facilities, inexcusable military waste, and for ridding nations of their
children for oil, Sumerian artifacts, and cozy alliances with thugs who are on their way out
in historical terms?
If you only knew how issues such as paedophilia have formed the
secretive fabric of American intelligence agencies' obsessions as expressed in their
collusively-produced films. What a bloody curiousity to behold impassioned and suggestive
rhetoric regarding allegations of paedophilia when there has not been anywhere near the
impassioned interest in - for example - the annihilation of more than 600,000 Iraqi boys and
girls for oil and Sumerian artifacts. And that number apparently pales - if you listen to
statements by the Speaker of Iraq
's Parliament - to the number of Christian children who have
been beheaded and otherwise slaughtered by America's ISIS terrorists. If it turned out that
Tony Blair delighted himself with teenagers down in the Caribbean (although with the $50
million given to him for the Iraq sellout, he should have been able to buy anything he
wanted), how does that compare to having supported the Bushes in what was done to the Iraqi
people and nation?
They even bombed Iraq's only facility that produced baby products. And
then there was Serbia, Rwanda, Yemen, etc. etc. etc. where American "intervention" or the
lack of it (Rwanda) cost hundreds of thousands more lives for no good reason. But yeah, leave
the kids alone.
We may need them in a decade or two to kill other peoples' kids. The older I
get, the less I am averse to the role of a pariah, watching a nation dutifully satiate itself
with films profiting from Government's cruel crimes.
ComradeChe , 19 hours ago
Epstein will roll over and start singing. There was stash of Lolita happy snaps in his
safe, and likely there are moving pictures-- videos-- stashed somewhere. Given his guest list
on Pedo Island there are likely to be a few surprises.
The question is-- will Epstein even make it to his trial. Whitey burger was an
embarrassment to the FBI, and he didn't last six hours in the General Population. If you
think it was an "administrative oversight" that put him there you are living under the wrong
rainbow.
If Jeffery lives through the next six months, I'll be astounded. In the mean time,
some of his friends will soon be heading for their nuclear bolt holes in the south
pacific.
AKKadian , 19 hours ago
Well I'll be damned. Luongo being objective at least a little bit! It's about the filth in
high places. Taking money is one thing, child rape well that is evil and that cannot be
tolerated.
Stop Bush and Clinton , 19 hours ago
Unfortunately, this is just wishful thinking.
Trump has nothing to do with Epstein's arrest (remember that Trump is also on the list of
Epstein's passengers!). He has been arrested because there's some people in the justice
system who aren't totally corrupted (the arrest happened because a judge decided a previous
judge's verdict was invalid), and Trump couldn't do anything to stop it.
Epstein will either be released quickly with an apology saying the arrest was in error, or
else he'll be found dead in his cell (of "natural causes" of course) before he can spill the
beans on either Clinton or Trump, or any of the other criminals who joined him.
FreedomWriter , 11 hours ago
I doubt that, Epstein's arrest is the latest in a major sweep of human traffickers and
pedos within the US and worldwide. The more they arrest, the more will squeal. And the gloves
are off now. Don't forget Trump's EO from 2017:
The order rightly singles out the national security implications of high-level blackmail
and will allow the seizure of assets. A lot of bricking right now in DC, I suspect.
This was tailor-made to take down people like Epstein, particularly when the blackmail
material is recovered (likely already the case). Expect high-level resignations, arrests,
suicides and worse.
Enjoy the show.
Stop Bush and Clinton , 7 hours ago
I hope you're right, but I don't think so.
That executive order can be read in 2 ways.
Read it as someone who likes Trump, and you see an executive order designed to go after
the likes of Epstein and possibly even Clinton.
Read it as someone who strongly distrusts Trump (I think he's the lesser evil compared to
Hitlery Clinton and he'll likely be the lesser evil in 2020 again, but especially after his
embassy move, his warmongering in Syria, his backing out of the Iran deal [one of 2 things
Obama did in 8 years that I agreed with], his failure (at least so far) to drain the swamp
and lock her up, etc., I think he can't be trusted), and you see an executive order designed
to go after Putin, Xi, Rouhani, Maduro and other foreign leaders the Deep State doesn't like
(it's rather easy to make some exaggerated claim of Russia, China, Iran or Venezuela being
involved in human rights violations, and then apply the EO to their leaders).
I can't tell for sure which reading is the intended one -- of course those who trust Trump
will argue that he wrote it in a way that could be read to be all about Putin and friends to
keep the Epsteins in the dark, and equally Never Trump-ers will argue he wrote it in a way
that can be read to be all about Epstein to keep his supporters in line. Again either side
could be right, so far we don't know what the real intention is.
The fact that Comey's daughter is on the Epstein case makes me think they're out to
destroy the blackmail material instead of recovering it - but of course I could be wrong or
she could have been assigned to the case by someone other than whoever opened it.
I hope there will be a lot of high-level arrests and resignations - but I fear all that
will happen is Epstein's sentence will be reduced to a slap on the wrist in exchange for
destroying the blackmail material and some statement that all the "crazy conspiracy
theorists" are wrong, he never met Clinton, and "Bill Clinton" on his flight logs is actually
a code name for someone else. ("Vladimir Putin thought it was funny to go by the codename
Bill Clinton...")
Boing_Snap , 19 hours ago
Some wishful thinking, but the political hatchet material in keeping Epstein roasting in
this stew of legality makes the most sense I've heard so far.
FreedomWriter , 11 hours ago
When the names start leaking out, the political blowback will be epic. Voters will be
watching who sides with who.
So far only Christine Pelosi seems to be making (stupid) noises. Imagine what will happen
if Bill Clinton is dragged in?
TomGa , 20 hours ago
It seems obvious that this is a big reason why the deep state has been so fixated on
removing Trump by any means necessary and initiated a coup against him. Thus it makes ANYONE
who is or actively supports Never-Trumpers, Democrats, the DNC, etc (McCabe, Comey, Clapper,
Brennan, Bill, Hillary, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, etc., and the entire MSN come to mind)
complicit in the attempted cover up of years of pedophilia and sexual exploitation and
trafficking of minors and possibly of obstruction. Hell, maybe even RICO statutes apply.
"... US gives Israel billions each year. Israel gives some of that money to Epstein for a hedge fund front. Epstein buys island, planes, mansions, power and influence. Hires attractive under age girls for sexual acts with elites. Tapes the sexual acts. Sends tapes back to Mossad. Blackmails elites for money and favors. Sends money and favors back to Mossad. Epstein keeps the vig. Elites just **** their pants. Elites suicide rate increases dramatically over the next six months. ..."
"... Yes, the blackmailing would not just be for money but foreign policy actions too. And it isn't just the US, it's the UK too. Hence both suckers are trying to start a war with Iran. ..."
"... CCI has the goods on a third of congress and the whole msm. ..."
"... I am not holding my breath for your prediction xbkrisback. Appointing Comey's daughter as the chief prosecutor tells a sorry tale. And Comey and Mueller are best buds. ..."
"... Epstein will not give up the big names. Bubba took 26 trips to Pedo Island on the Lolita Express to refresh his tan. ..."
"... The power structure runs on pedophilia. And the horror of it is that pedophilia is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the abuse of children. Where is Carlos Danger's laptop with Huma's huge "life insurance" file on it? You know, the one that made grizzled NYPD detectives puke when they opened it. ..."
"... Epstein outdoes Berlusconi ..."
"... Have another look at Tony Podesta's art collection. http://ibankcoin.com/zeropointnow/2016/11/26/sick-lets-revisit-the-podesta-penchant-for-pedophilic-cannibalistic-and-satanic-art/#sthash.6jj0GpQo.dpbs ..."
"... I never understood why people claimed Podesta had child abuse links until I read that article. It is enough to make even a hardened Podesta supporter cringe. ..."
"... Coulter's take on this sounds very plausible, because there certainly was evidence gathering by Epstein. ..."
"... By the way, that was the favorite tactic of the old pervert that ran the FBI ... J. Edgar Hoover. He would gather evidence, then have a couple of his agents pay the offender a visit, warning them to be careful, while delivering the clear message that the Director has the goods on you. ..."
"... If Epstein goes to prison (a real prison) for any length of time, that would negate the idea of state sponsorship, would it not? Conversely, if he gets another sweetheart deal, that would confirm it. ..."
I think I figured this scam out. US gives Israel billions each year. Israel gives some of that money to Epstein for a
hedge fund front. Epstein buys island, planes, mansions, power and influence. Hires attractive under age girls for sexual acts
with elites. Tapes the sexual acts. Sends tapes back to Mossad. Blackmails elites for money and favors. Sends money and favors
back to Mossad. Epstein keeps the vig. Elites just **** their pants. Elites suicide rate increases dramatically over the next
six months.
smacker , 1 hour ago
Yes, the blackmailing would not just be for money but foreign policy actions too. And it isn't just the US, it's the UK too.
Hence both suckers are trying to start a war with Iran.
cayman , 46 minutes ago
CCI has the goods on a third of congress and the whole msm. It's why elections haven't mattered in decades. It's why congress
can have a 9% approval rating and yet nothing changes. CIA has so many offshore sources of revenue now, it is sovereign now.
RoyalDraco , 17 minutes ago
I am not holding my breath for your prediction xbkrisback. Appointing Comey's daughter as the chief prosecutor tells a sorry
tale. And Comey and Mueller are best buds.
Epstein will not give up the big names. Bubba took 26 trips to Pedo Island on the
Lolita Express to refresh his tan.
5 years at Club Fed and a list of names no one ever heard of. The power structure runs on
pedophilia. And the horror of it is that pedophilia is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the abuse of children. Where is
Carlos Danger's laptop with Huma's huge "life insurance" file on it? You know, the one that made grizzled NYPD detectives puke
when they opened it.
HideTheWeenie , 1 hour ago
Epstein outdoes Berlusconi ... Takes bunga bunga parties to the next level - and on the road - in the air - island hopping
Coulter is right ... Nobody in financial circles ever bumped into Epstein. Nobody, nobody knows the guy outside of the teenage
***** connection.
I never understood why people claimed Podesta had child abuse links until I read that article. It is enough to make even
a hardened Podesta supporter cringe.
I need some mind bleach after reading that.
RayUSA , 1 hour ago
Obviously, the more powerful people that are involved, the less chance this has of going anywhere.
Coulter's take on this sounds very plausible, because there certainly was evidence gathering by Epstein.
There would be no reason for that unless it was going to be used in the future for black mail.
By the way, that was the favorite tactic of the old pervert that ran the FBI ... J. Edgar Hoover. He would gather evidence,
then have a couple of his agents pay the offender a visit, warning them to be careful, while delivering the clear message that
the Director has the goods on you.
herbivore , 2 hours ago
If Epstein goes to prison (a real prison) for any length of time, that would negate the idea of state sponsorship, would
it not? Conversely, if he gets another sweetheart deal, that would confirm it.
"... The Epstein case has all the earmarks of CIA protection of an asset. ..."
"... Successful entry into politics requires candidates to first "tag themselves" with a "corrupted and venerable" "CAV" badge? ..."
"... Is the CAV Badge the weapon that has corrupted the intelligence services and stable of politicians in nearly every nation in the world? Did Colin Powell flash a CAV badge as he spoke to UN focus about the most likely presence of non existent WMDs that led to w__ in Iraq? ..."
Journalism. =>has disclosed the tunnel, and a few of its investigators are exploring
its contents, expecting to find at the end of this tunnel Successful entry into politics
requires candidates to first "tag themselves" with a "corrupted and venerable" "CAV"
badge?
Wonder if this has traction in the persons involved in Grace I, the failure of JCPOA.
Is the CAV badge the weapon that has corrupted nearly every nation state in the western
world?
Politicians make promises, and then within hours for unexplained reasons, reverse
them..Hmmm?
Is the CAV Badge the weapon that has corrupted the intelligence services and stable of
politicians in nearly every nation in the world? Did Colin Powell flash a CAV badge as he
spoke to UN focus about the most likely presence of non existent WMDs that led to w__ in
Iraq?
How can CAV badge victims be identified and isolated from politics?
The CAV badge could explain so many USA positive, American negative events?
Gabbard is NOT a member of the CFR. She has by her own admission, attended some meetings
as an invited guest. According to her, it was to engage members and find out what their
inside game is. I don't know if Gabbard is for real. I voted for Trump because I perceived
him to be the anti-war and anti-intervention candidate. Period. So, as I said, I don't know
what to think about the lady. I do now understand however, why some individuals in olden
times became hermits.
beemasters , 22 hours ago
Epstein's arrest tells me he's now out for blood.
Dotard has no control over what Epstein will say. Mossad does and it is the one out for
blood.
Justapleb , 22 hours ago
Mike Cernovich got records unsealed that prove Epstein got away with serial raping and
pimping for elites that were then blackmailed.
It is not because Trump is out for blood. It is because nothing could stop the criminal
conduct of prosecutors being exposed.
The #Metoo crowd knew Clinton was a violent rapist, and sent uniformed, armed officers out
to retrieve interns for sex whie governor. Smoking a cigar while having his cigar smoked by
Monica Lewinsky, while talking to a Chinese official on the phone.
So no, this won't do anything but continue proving how the #Metoo movement are just
leftist hypocrites.
ZD1 , 22 hours ago
"The news is speculative about whether Epstein was being protected by Robert Mueller's
special counsel's office, and why the Department of Justice acted now, given that he's been
problematic for years. There's also his role as a bigfoot Democrat donor, same as Ed Buck and
other perverts who've financed the Democrats. But one thing's pretty clear, based on a tweet
by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's daughter Christine: Democrats knew.
All kinds of Democrats are going to be found in Epstein's little black book of clients,
not just Bill Clinton.
President Trump, by contrast, banned the pervert from his Mar-a-Lago club years ago. So
much for pinning the scandal on Trump as Democrats had hoped."
The photo provides further proof of Epstein and his associates' close ties to the Clinton
dynasty.
Epstein's pimp Maxwell, whose social circle includes members of the UK royal family, has
been named in several lawsuits as the woman who helped procure and transport underage girls
which provided the billionaire massages and ultimately sexual favors.
The Miami Herald has
more on Maxwell's connections to Epstein:
Lawyers for Epstein's victims, in court filings, have often likened Epstein's sex
operation to an organized crime family, with Epstein and Maxwell at the top, and below them,
others who worked as schedulers, recruiters, pilots and bookkeepers.
For her part, Maxwell, whose social circle included such friends as Bill and Hillary
Clinton and members of the British Royal family, has been described as using recruiters
positioned throughout the world to lure women by promising them modeling assignments,
educational opportunities and fashion careers. The pitch was really a ruse to groom them into
sex trafficking, it is alleged in court records.
At least one woman, Sarah Ransome, claimed in a lawsuit that Maxwell and Epstein
threatened to physically harm her or destroy any chance she would have of a fashion career if
she didn't have sex with them and others.
Maxwell has thus far managed to escape charges, but a lawyer for one of the women suing
Epstein predicts she'll eventually be swept up in the sex trafficking litigation.
"The one person most likely in jeopardy is Maxwell because the records that are going to
be unsealed have so much evidence against her," said David Boies, the attorney for Epstein
accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre. "She is in a particularly vulnerable position and will have
an interest in cooperating, even though she may have missed that opportunity."
Those 26 trips by Billy Boy on the Lolita Express are only the ones in the log book. How
many were there that were not logged? Isn't it amazing that the mainline press never picked
up on this. It just shows how corrupt and fraudulent they are. I hope there is a deal and
Epstein furnishes the names of his associated scum with proof. I wonder how many congressmen,
senators, Judges, etc. There are.
And Hillary went to the sex slave island at least six times .
my new username , 21 hours ago
Wikileaks had a Hillary email about Chelsea bringing a young Haitian girl into the USA,
past immigration, on one of those CGI/State Department/Haiti Earthquake flights from Port au
Prince.
8iron , 21 hours ago
so Trump is now deciding who to prosecute AND tell the SDNY to do it? This author is as
retarded as the Left.
Epstein's case is being unsealed. SDNY knew this was coming so as to not look like idiots,
they found some "new" victims. This guy makes most the ***-pedo-sex perverts (but I repeat
myself) look like Rabbi's and he needs his d*ck connected to 'ol sparky but WTF?
Something else is going on...clearly nothing being reported or guessed (like above)
Spectorman , 22 hours ago
There are so many ways for these mutually guilty power rapists to cut deals with each
other and avoid the real rap. Some patsys might get snipped, but thinking this will be the
stake in the heart seems wishful thinking. These guys are busy raping America with an
information/internet/media chokehold and a money printing press. That's probably bigger than
child rape, and it will take more than a federal prosecutor to stop it.
beemasters , 22 hours ago
The author's theory doesn't make sense at all. They are all Lolita Island visitors. They
are friends. Dotard would have implicated himself if he was the one taking Epstein route to
get to Killary. Killary is much more vicious and vindictive and will drag him down along with
Epstein. Dotard wouldn't dare!
There is already enough evidence to throw the Clintons in jail by the private-server case
alone.... if Dotard wanted them them in jail. He really doesn't.
Buck Johnson , 23 hours ago
So true, it's hard to justify ******* and having sex with 14 year old girls. That is why
no one is defending this piece of **** and when he starts to sing it's going to take down
alot of people (ALAN DERSHOWITZ, hate the ******).
I totally agree that this guy has blackmail material on everyone, everyone. A man like
this that was able to do what he was doing for years and still get the president, Alan and
alot of others to go to his private island knowing what he did.
Nope, this man is a dirt bag that thought he had the fix in and he went ham in having sex
with these girls. Not realizing that someone else in power could go after him and force him
to rat out any and everyone.
With this so public there is no way that the fed is going to give him anything light, he's
going away for decades unless he could out people to help his case.
Mr. Barr said he is recused because he once worked for one of the law firms that
represented Epstein "long ago," the report said. He did not name the law firm.
bobcatz , 23 hours ago
Tom Luongo is filtering this event through a deep-seated hope that Trump the Potus is not
too far from Trump the candidate he voted for.
Hate to tell you, Tom, you just got played. Nothing of your estimation will occur. If
anyone goes down, it'll be some insignificant nobodies.
CNN reported this morning that Epstein's arrest ropes in Trump's Labor Secretary,
Alexander Acosta, who evidently was Epstein's Florida attorney who let Epstein walk.
swmnguy , 23 hours ago
No, Acosta was the US Attorney in Florida during the GW Bush Administration, who let
Epstein walk over the full-throated objections of every attorney on his staff. Acosta went
around behind their back, behind the court's back, to give Epstein a sweetheart deal that
raised eyebrows throughout the legal community at the time, in early 2008.
Epstein's actual attorney was somebody else, who wrote Acosta a very grateful letter
thanking Acosta for going beyond even what Epstein's own attorney was hoping for in terms of
clemency.
There's a reason Acosta did that; beyond the insipid excuses Acosta has gotten away with
until now. Just as there's a reason Attorney General William Barr just recused himself on all
matters Epstein; above and beyond the stupid and unconvincing reasons Barr just gave.
SummerSausage , 23 hours ago
Acosta worked for the DOJ and the way Epstein's case was handled is almost identical to
the way they handled Hillary a few years later.
Only difference is Mueller was head of FBI for the Epstein investigation.
Acosta didn't have the authority to give the deal on his own. It had to come from higher
up
j0nx , 22 hours ago
Agreed. US attorneys don't do **** unless the AG tells them to. It's preposterous to think
the SDNY is some rogue agency running around prosecuting who they want. If Bill Barr says no
then they say yes sir. Of course all of this comes from up high. It's either that or Bill
Barr like Jeff Sessions has lost all control of his department.
June 12 1776 , 23 hours ago
A pathetic useless attempt to appease status quo uniCRIME, uniPARTY chimp army.
"But something had to be done to keep our faith in our political and social
institutions intact. Because otherwise that way leads to only chaos and collapse."
Wrong, through out all human history, all criminal, unconstitutional outlaw, political and
social institutions natural law and faith of nature is COLLAPSE AND DESTRUCTION, one way or
another.
bobcatz , 23 hours ago
Tom Luongo is filtering this event through a deep-seated hope that Trump the Potus is not
too far from Trump the candidate he voted for.
Hate to tell you, Tom, you just got suckered. Nothing of your estimation will occur. If
anyone goes down, it'll be some insignificant nobodies.
SirBarksAlot , 23 hours ago
Maybe.
But I think this is the big payback for their failed attempt to impeach him via a
fabricated "dossier." This is the first chance he has been out from under the shadow of that
witch hunt that was supposed to prevent this investigation into the Satanists from going
forward.
He's just playing Bolton and his buddies by keeping them by his side. Letting them think
they're running the show, like they did under Bush, then deciding not to invade Iran at the
last minute. Where is Bolton now? Mongolia? He gives a little with the space program, then
takes away from the expensive, endless wars to nowhere.
That's why the British tanker is stuck at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz instead of
running right though it. Britain royally fucked up.
Solio , 1 day ago
George Washington: "If the laws are to be trampled upon with impunity and a minority is to
dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government."
September 9, 1774 at the beginning of the Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania, from Ron
Chernow's book "Alexander Hamilton," 2004, p. 473
Nunyadambizness , 1 day ago
I most certainly hope that the author is correct, and this vile corrupt sewer in DC gets
weeded out--forcefully if necessary.
We the People have allowed unelected bureaucrats to ru(i)n our lives for far too long,
protected by those who lust for power and who will do anything for it--yes Cankles, I'm
speaking of you AND your former boss Barry Obozo, among dozens (if not hundreds) of others in
the sewer. Protected by a wink-and-a-nod to those in power, they've done whatever they wanted
knowing that they were untouchable. Here's hoping that this is just the first of dozens of
arrests and ultimately convictions of these scumbags and their kin.
Drain the SEWER. FLUSH DC STARTING AT THE TOP.
SummerSausage , 1 day ago
Just a reminder - Mueller was head of the FBI during the Epstein investigation. If Trump
had been involved in any way Mueller would have found a way to put it in the Mueller
report.
turbojarhead , 23 hours ago
I think Kunstler is exactly right-this is the Trump faction counterstrike.
Conservative Treehouse actually caught something I did not in the indictment:
While these items were only seized this weekend and are still being reviewed, some of the
nude or partially-nude photographs appear to be of underage girls, including at least one
girl who, according to her counsel, was underage at the time the relevant photographs were
taken. Additionally, some of the photographs referenced herein were discovered in a locked
safe, in which law enforcement officers also found compact discs with hand-written labels
including the following:
The defendant, a registered sex offender, is not reformed, he is not chastened, he is not
repentant;6 rather, he is a continuing danger to the community and an individual who faces
devastating evidence supporting deeply serious charges." ( cloud
– pdf link )
Notice the young Name + NAME------gee, you think that NAME might be the creeps Epstein was
blackmailing? Hahahahhh
SummerSausage , 23 hours ago
That info didn't come from the indictment I don't think. It came from the letter to the
judge about bail.
The indictment was drawn up to arrest Epstein. The search of his home took place at the
same time as the arrest or just after.
Reportedly, Epstein had quite a few surveillance cameras in his homes. It will be
interesting to know what's on the CD's. Hard to believe he didn't have some "insurance"
tucked away for a rainy day.
SummerSausage , 23 hours ago
Acosta wasn't Epstein's lawyer. He was US Attorney for S Fl.
The Epstein treatment reads like a dress rehearsal for the Hillary FBI/DOJ whitewash -
except instead of just the associates getting of scot-free Hillary did, too. (read the Miami
Herald series from Nov https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html
Since Trump hasn't fired him but this story has been circulating for more than 6 months,
Acosta was probably ordered to follow the deal cut at the highest levels of Mueller's FBI and
the DOJ bureaucracy.
Acosta may well know where the bodies are buried.
NumberNone , 1 day ago
The people in the 'deviant' circles got comfortable after the Obama election. They put the
people they wanted in power and the Evil Queen Hillary was guaranteed to be President to
reside over 8 years of destroying their enemies. Life was going to be good. There was no
reason to hide or be afraid.
Look at Epstein, the guy got off with a handslap and was so fearless rather than destroy
his kiddie-****...he still kept in the open.
Now they are in a panic and throwing everything they can at Trump. If you are facing the
death sentence, nothing is off-limits to save yourself.
If you are right or left in your political beliefs and think that this sort of absolute
evil needs to be weeded out then please shut the hell up about Trump or Clinton and simply
demand that no stone be unturned in the pursuit of justice. A golden opportunity has been
placed in front of all of us to purge this scum.
Occams_Razor_Trader_Part_Deux , 1 day ago
Pelosi's daughter:
Christine Pelosi warns it's 'quite likely that some of our faves are implicated' in
'horrific' Epstein case.
What does it say when some of your "faves" are pedophiles?
jutah , 1 day ago
BullFuckinShit. He's had 3 years as President and many years prior to that where he was
aware of exactly what was going on and did and said nothing . Oh, correction, he did say
something when he praised Epstein; ""I've known Jeff (Epstein) for fifteen years. Terrific
guy. He's a lot of fun to be with . It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as
I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
It's too late for that ****. That ship has sailed. These traitors should have been
executed on day 1. All the evidence of criminal activities was well documented before you
even became president. You are a sorry sack of **** coward to let this continue for so long
and in my book an accomplice to it- you and ever other neo-zio-con who went along with it.
Now, youre all worried about your re-election campaign, image and being indicted yourself.
**** off you Orange Clown. Go ahead and bomb Iran as a distraction as your masters order you
to do
Kafir Goyim , 1 day ago
There's video of Trump saying Clinton would have trouble because of his frequent and
suspicious (no Secret Service) associations with Epstein. There is a record of Trump helping
prosecutors going after Epstein. There is record of Trump barring Epstein from Mar a
Lago.
I think you are a little confused ... or engaged in purposeful disinformation, which is
more likely.
Next time, don't quote Fusion GPS. The article that quote came from was a puff piece about
Epstein from 2002. It extolled his brilliance and philanthropy with quotes from the Dem Sen
Leader, Harvard scientists and just about everyone they could find.
At the time, Epstein served on the board of the Trilateral Commission with Kissinger,
Summers and a dozen CEO's of Fortune 50 companies, the Rockefeller Foundation and
Harvard.
SirBarksAlot , 23 hours ago
No kidding!
He really does have a blackmail racket going on there!!!!!!!
WhackoWarner , 22 hours ago
Let's not disregard Prince Andy. (old article from Guardian but still...)
Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were running a Mossad blackmail operation.
Rahm Emmanuel was kicked out of the Clinton WH by the FBI. They had a file on him
"Security Risk"...then he got back in with Obama ?
Trump is too smart for the blackmail ****. Roy Cohn taught him that.
BUT Jared Kushner is Trumps Achilles heel. Kushner's father spent two years in prison for
blackmail/extorsion.
ZD1 , 1 day ago
Epstein hung with Democrats and donated to them.
No doubt Epstein found what the commie muzzie *** from Kenya craved?
Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, and Woody Allen are some
of the celebrities who reportedly traveled and partied with Epstein in the past.
Even Stephen Hawking made a visit to Epstein's island.
Props to Michael Cernovich, and then there's the make-up Queen Shep Smith who show's
Epstein and Trump together, Trump banned this Fukk Epstein from his club and the Clinton's
had enough frequent flyer on Epstein's plane to Lolita Island for 2 round trip tickets to
Paris. Shepp & the golden sperm seed piss punks of Murdoch must share something in common
wonder what it is?
JBLight , 1 day ago
As this continues to pour out, I look forward to seeing the faces of the people I know who
voted for Hillary. They voted for child trafficking.
John Law Lives , 1 day ago
This article sounds like speculation, but I am ready to see privileged scumbags get their
due. This has been a long time coming (imo).
BandGap , 1 day ago
This is the opening of the portal to hell for a lot of kids' agonies, even deaths.
Watch the names of the rich and famous tumble out. If you read previous articles you know
that they also seized tapes Epstein was holding of young girls with older men. This is what
fuels the blackmail, and hence the corruption.
The Weiner laptop is also in play with the NXVIUM convictions.
The Clintons remain free and Trump keeps elitists like Ross, Pompeo and Bolton in the
White House. Comey's daughter is one of the prosecutors for Epstein and Epstein is already
claiming immunity. He might go to jail again, he might not. But nothing is going to happen
with the Epstein thing as far as the fall of the banksters. Nothing.
pmc , 1 day ago
I don't think Trump is behind his arrest. I think it's the head NY prosecutor trying to
make a name for himself in order to run for president at a late time! We'll see where this
all goes but my money is on the procecutor!
onewayticket2 , 1 day ago
Trump should be "out for blood" but it's the SDNY...and we KNOW they are "out for
blood"....trump's. So my read is the opposite. The SDNY is never going to do something that
will harm the clintons. The ONLY goal is keeping Trump out of office for these guys. all
roads lead to trump at the SDNY...it's job 1.
evoila , 1 day ago
It's ahead of muellers testimony for a reason.
yaright , 1 day ago
Agree, timing is everything
Snípéir_Ag_Obair , 1 day ago
Pedosadist Elites Panic: Congress Bill Wants To End Child **** In Pentagon Networks;
Epstein Arrested, Files To Be Unsealed On Powerful Clients
America is receiving a hell of a Christmas in July present – a bill in Congress is
being pushed to end child **** sharing in Pentagon networks, and Jeffrey Epstein was
arrested for child trafficking. Additionally, an appeal court ordered that all files
pertaining to Epstein's case of wealthy powerful clients will be released to the press and
public.
Congress is aiming to halt child **** distribution within Pentagon networks according to
a bipartisan bill (The End
Network Abuse Act) that was introduced by Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Mark
Meadows (R-N.C.)
The National Criminal Justice Training Center, one of the groups that has thrown its
weight behind the bill, reported in 2018 that DOD's network was ranked 19th out of almost
3,000 nationwide networks on the amount of peer-to-peer child *********** sharing.
Spanberger described the issues of child sexual exploitation and abuse as "horrific
crimes."
"The notion that the Department of Defense's network and Pentagon-issued computers may
be used to view, create, or circulate such horrifying images is a shameful disgrace, and
one we must fight head on," Spanberger said in statement. (Source:
The Hill )
So... if I send child **** to anyone the entire law enforcement apparatus on planet Earth
descends upon my location with the full weight of every alphabet agency. Yet, when child ****
is trafficked within a government agency we need to pass a bill thru Congress in order to
stop it. WTF.
Nekoti , 22 hours ago
Rules for thee, not for me.
chunga , 1 day ago
That's some pretty wild speculation there, but I hear angels singing just the same.
caconhma , 1 day ago
<Epstein's Arrest Tells Me Trump Is Now Out For Blood> Wrong.
Trump and Bill Clinton were willing participants in these crimes.
Don't be surprised when Trump's name will appear in all legal documents. Remember, the
lead prosecutor is from Demo New York and Epstein will behave no different from Trump's loyal
lawyer Cohen. After all, this case was not resurrected from dead to promote justice in
Americ
Friedrich not Salma , 1 day ago
Do a Youtube search for * Trump BBC 1998 * and jump 5 minutes into the vid. You will
realize Trump will be out for blood. He waits until the right time.
BBC: "You talk in your book about getting even. The importance of getting even. Is revenge
sweet?"
Trump: "I believe strongly in getting even. If someone has hurt you. If someone's gone out
of their way to hurt you. I think that if you have the opportunity, you should certainly go
out of your way to do a number on them."
I didn't believe in the "the indictments are coming from Jeff Sessions" lines, but I do
believe Trump will nail these people when the time presents itself and that time is coming up
fast.
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter says that sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had a "state sponsor" backing him and that his
operation was a way to blackmail powerful men.
During an appearance on 790 KABC, Coulter suggested that Epstein is merely the front man for a far more powerful network.
"Epstein according to both the girls accounts, he wanted them to have sex with powerful men, come back to him and report on it,
describe what they wanted what their fetishes were and he had cameras throughout the house so this is obviously for blackmailing
purposes," said Coulter.
"It just seems to me something much bigger is behind this -- perhaps a state sponsor -- powerful enough people it just seems
to me there's something a very powerful force behind what's going on here and I am still nervous about this not coming to a conclusion,
somehow this getting compromised," she added.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/eNbK-hkZMLY
Coulter said that it remained a mystery as to how Epstein became a billionaire and that the source of his money should be investigated.
Former President Bill Clinton attempted to distance himself from Epstein last night, claiming he only flew on the infamous 'Lolita
Express' private jet four times despite flight logs showing at least 26 trips.
As we
reported yesterday, speculation is swirling that Epstein may give up names of influential people who used his network in order
to secure a maximum prison sentence of no more than five years.
"... Serial pederast Jeffrey Epstein is going to be arrested again. The big questions are why? And why now? I never doubted Donald Trump's sincerity in wanting Hillary in jail. But the reality is that Trump was not in any position to do so. Until a few months ago. ..."
"... Mueller, his staff of hatchetmen, the Obama administration and the rest of the corrupt old-guard in D.C. fully expected to be allowed free rein to convict Trump politically of Obstruction of Justice based on an interpretation of Federal Statutes that could only be justified in the world of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report. When that didn't happen, they are now looking at potential blowback from a vain and vindictive man occupying the supposedly most powerful office in the world. ..."
"... It seems John Bolton has been more president than Trump recently. ..."
"... I was cautiously optimistic that Trump would turn the corner on his presidency now that Mueller, impeachment and the rest of it would lift from his shoulders. His foreign policy maneuvers didn't fill me with much, if any, confirmation of this hope. ..."
"... Because this goes directly to the heart of the matter. Trump left the Clintons' social circle in disgust and I'm convinced he ran to stop her corrupt sell out of the U.S. Never forget that, while corruption is rampant in D.C., it is not all-pervasive. It's not a black and white thing. ..."
"... The level of corruption of the Departments of Justice, State, Treasury and the intelligence agencies needed to coordinate the RussiaGate hoax all to serve as Hillary's revenge porn was too much for enough people. ..."
"... And there are still plenty of people in all of those departments willing to step up now that the board state has changed. Remember back when Trump said we should just leave Hillary be, she's been through enough? That wasn't him capitulating to the Deep State, that was him offering her a way out. He knew then what was going on but thought he was powerless to stop it, politically. ..."
"... And Robert Mueller is up to his neck in this. Because it was Mueller who helped Epstein mostly get off the hook the last time and had the court documents sealed. ..."
"... Even if Barr and Trump have a marriage of convenience here, it doesn't matter. What matters is that Epstein will no longer be able to hide behind Clinton bag men and will this time have to cut a real deal to stay out of gen pop. ..."
"... This Epstein arrest is a testament to what happens when the pendulum swings too far in one direction. Where despicable people get away with the most heinous acts simply because they are connected in a web of corruption and venality. ..."
"... Maybe this is the moment of Peak Swamp? Maybe it's the moment where we can see things begin, ever so slightly to improve. Is it too little, too late? Likely. But something had to be done to keep our faith in our political and social institutions intact. Because otherwise that way leads to only chaos and collapse. ..."
"Bernie Birnbaum is a horse of a different color, ethics-wise that is...
...as in he ain't got none!"
-- Johnny Caspar, "Miller's Crossing"
Serial pederast Jeffrey Epstein is going to be arrested again. The big questions are why? And why now? I never doubted Donald Trump's sincerity in wanting Hillary in jail. But the reality is that Trump was not in any position to
do so. Until a few months ago.
When Attorney General William Barr ended the Mueller investigation back in February that was a turning point. I talked about
it back then in a piece called "
The Old Political Order is Just
Old ."
Mueller, his staff of hatchetmen, the Obama administration and the rest of the corrupt old-guard in D.C. fully expected to
be allowed free rein to convict Trump politically of Obstruction of Justice based on an interpretation of Federal Statutes that
could only be justified in the world of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report. When that didn't happen, they are now looking at potential blowback from a vain and vindictive man occupying the supposedly
most powerful office in the world.
But is that really the case anymore? It seems John Bolton has been more president than Trump recently.
I was cautiously optimistic that Trump would turn the corner on his presidency now that Mueller, impeachment and the rest of
it would lift from his shoulders. His foreign policy maneuvers didn't fill me with much, if any, confirmation of this hope.
But domestically signs were there that he had stabilized the battlefield.
Epstein's arrest tells me he's now out for blood.
Because this goes directly to the heart of the matter. Trump left the Clintons' social circle in disgust and I'm convinced he
ran to stop her corrupt sell out of the U.S. Never forget that, while corruption is rampant in D.C., it is not all-pervasive. It's not a black and white thing.
William Barr may not be a Boy Scout or anything but even he, like Trump,
has a disgust circuit.
And that circuit has a threshold.
The level of corruption of the Departments of Justice, State, Treasury and the intelligence agencies needed to coordinate the
RussiaGate hoax all to serve as Hillary's revenge porn was too much for enough people.
And there are still plenty of people in all of those departments willing to step up now that the board state has changed. Remember back when Trump said we should just leave Hillary be, she's been through enough? That wasn't him capitulating to the
Deep State, that was him offering her a way out. He knew then what was going on but thought he was powerless to stop it, politically.
To go after her you go after the person who is her Achilles' heel, Epstein through his association with Bill. Because what if
this isn't just about Bill's antics? But this is more than just Hillary and Bill. This is likely far deeper a rabbit hole than anyone in D.C. wants to admit. Don't think for a second that Epstein hasn't been
blackmailing very prominent people for years. Because he has. And they are all now scared to death.
And Robert Mueller is up to his neck in this. Because it was Mueller who helped Epstein mostly get off the hook the last time
and had the court documents sealed.
Now that Mike Cernovich worked to get those documents unsealed, we have an arrest warrant a week later by a Justice Department
led by someone, at this point, loyal to Trump.
Even if Barr and Trump have a marriage of convenience here, it doesn't matter. What matters is that Epstein will no longer be able to hide behind Clinton bag men and will this time have to cut a real deal
to stay out of gen pop.
This process will be slow and painful, but it will grind to the kind of conclusion that will only benefit Trump's re-election
bid. It will be an epic drip feed of leaks, innuendos, implications, indictments and the rest.
Because there comes a point where the Alinsky method of accusing your enemy of the thing you do backfires when it's raping 14-year-old
girls.
Once this thing gets a head of steam, once the #MeToo crowd gets a hold of this, there won't be anyone left standing. I always
said Hillary would indict herself. Her insane lust for power and revenge against her obstacles led us here. And it will lead her
to the kind of shame and disgrace that befits her avarice.
When Nancy Pelosi's daughter is out there
signaling for her mother on this immediately, you know this is bad. Pelosi doesn't roll over for nothing folks. Think what you want
about her but she's a pitbull. And she rolled over on border wall funding last week.
This Epstein arrest is a testament to what happens when the pendulum swings too far in one direction. Where despicable people
get away with the most heinous acts simply because they are connected in a web of corruption and venality.
Maybe this is the moment of Peak Swamp? Maybe it's the moment where we can see things begin, ever so slightly to improve.
Is it too little, too late? Likely. But something had to be done to keep our faith in our political and social institutions intact.
Because otherwise that way leads to only chaos and collapse.
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"... Huxley died at 5:20pm, London time, on 22 November 1963. About ten minutes later, CS Lewis died. Just under an hour after that, of course, JFK was shot and killed in Dallas. There may never have been a deadlier 70 minutes for celebrity ..."
"... Fifty years ago, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. In 1982, philosophy professor Peter Kreeft imagined the three of them in conversation after their deaths. ..."
"... I think there's a good deal to be said for this this point of view in in regard to the permanence of any dictatorship. " ..."
Poor old Aldous Huxley. In other circumstances, his name would be all over the place today, the 50th anniversary of his death.
Yet, just moments after his demise, the Brave New World author had the misfortune, if that's the right word, of becoming a key
member of the "eclipsed celebrity death club".
Huxley died at 5:20pm, London time, on 22 November 1963. About ten minutes later, CS Lewis died. Just under an hour after that,
of course, JFK was shot and killed in Dallas. There may never have been a deadlier 70 minutes for celebrity
A book has been written about these three deaths on the same day by Peter Kreeft. He imagines them talking together in the heavens.
Fifty years ago, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. In
1982, philosophy professor Peter Kreeft imagined the three of them in conversation after their deaths.
Positioning Lewis as a proponent of ancient Western theism, Kennedy as a modern Western humanist, and Huxley as an ancient Eastern
pantheist, Kreeft wrote a conversational book entitled Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F.
Kennedy, C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley. "
Aldous Huxley said something that points exactly what happening in the world now. We are lead by a wild species. The Zios don't
want to be domesticated by freedom of speech. Spare the rod ( of freedom of speech) spoil the child. The Zios want to be wild forever.
They want to do whatever they want on earth with no scolding feedback.
This question and answer talk was at Berkeley Univ. on March
20 1962. This fear of being domesticated is why the ADL went crazy on 6/6/19, closing down websites and videos all over the internet.
Another point which was made by Sir Charles Darwin in his book "The Next Million Years" which I think was one would with
in different terms .
I envisaged in brave new world .I mean here
he points out that the human species is still a wild species, it has never been domesticated .
I mean domesticated species is
one which has been tamed by another species. Well, until we get an invasion from Mars we shall not be tamed by another species.
All we can do is to try to tame ourselves.
An oligarchy tries to tame ourselves but the oligarchy still remains wild. I mean
however much it succeeded in taming the domesticating the rest of the race it from it must remain wild. And this was the part
of the fable the dramatic part of the fable of brave new world is that the people in the upper hierarchy who were not ruthlessly
conditioned could break down.
I mean this Charles Darwin insists that because man is wild he can never expect to domesticate
himself because the people on top would always be undomesticated sooner or later always run wild. I think there's a good deal
to be said for this this point of view in in regard to the permanence of any dictatorship. "
"... Brand's fast-talking, plain-speaking criticism of the existing political order, calling it discredited, unaccountable and unrepresentative, was greeted with smirking condescension by the political and media establishment. Nonetheless, in an era before Donald Trump had become president of the United States, the British media were happy to indulge Brand for a while, seemingly believing he or his ideas might prove a ratings winner with younger audiences. ..."
"... Then he overstepped the mark. ..."
"... Instead of simply criticising the political system, Brand argued that it was in fact so rigged by the powerful, by corporate interests, that western democracy had become a charade. Elections were pointless . Our votes were simply a fig-leaf, concealing the fact that our political leaders were there to represent not us but the interests of globe-spanning corporations. Political and media elites had been captured by unshored corporate money. Our voices had become irrelevant. ..."
"... But just as Brand's rejection of the old politics began to articulate a wider mood, it was stopped in its tracks. ..."
"... These "New Labour" MPs were there, just as Brand had noted, to represent the interests of a corporate class, not ordinary people. ..."
"... It wasn't that Corbyn's election had shown Britain's political system was representative and accountable. It was simply evidence that corporate power had made itself vulnerable to a potential accident by preferring to work out of sight, in the shadows, to maintain the illusion of democracy. Corbyn was that accident. ..."
"... The system was still in place and it still had a chokehold on the political and media establishments that exist to uphold its interests. Which is why it has been mobilising these forces endlessly to damage Corbyn and avert the risk of a further, even more disastrous "accident", such as his becoming prime minister. ..."
"... Listing the ways the state-corporate media have sought to undermine Corbyn would sound preposterous to anyone not deeply immersed in these media-constructed narratives. But almost all of us have been exposed to this kind of " brainwashing under freedom " since birth. ..."
"... The initial attacks on Corbyn were for being poorly dressed, sexist, unstatesmanlike, a national security threat, a Communist spy – relentless, unsubstantiated smears the like of which no other party leader had ever faced. But over time the allegations became even more outrageously propagandistic as the campaign to undermine him not only failed but backfired – not least, because Labour membership rocketed under Corbyn to make the party the largest in Europe. ..."
"... As the establishment's need to keep him away from power has grown more urgent and desperate so has the nature of the attacks. ..."
In the preceding two years, it was hard to avoid on TV the figure of Russell Brand, a
comedian and minor film star who had reinvented himself, after years of battling addiction, as
a spiritual guru-cum-political revolutionary.
Brand's fast-talking, plain-speaking criticism of the existing political order, calling it
discredited, unaccountable and unrepresentative, was greeted with smirking condescension by the
political and media establishment. Nonetheless, in an era before Donald Trump had become
president of the United States, the British media were happy to indulge Brand for a while,
seemingly believing he or his ideas might prove a ratings winner with younger audiences.
But Brand started to look rather more impressive than anyone could have imagined. He took on
supposed media heavyweights like the BBC's Jeremy
Paxman and Channel 4's Jon
Snow and charmed and shamed them into submission – both with his compassion and his
thoughtful radicalism. Even in the gladiatorial-style battle of wits so beloved of modern TV,
he made these titans of the political interview look mediocre, shallow and out of touch. Videos
of these head-to-heads went viral, and Brand won hundreds of thousands of new followers.
Then he overstepped the mark.
Democracy as charade
Instead of simply criticising the political system, Brand argued that it was in fact so
rigged by the powerful, by corporate interests, that western democracy had become a charade.
Elections were pointless
. Our votes were simply a fig-leaf, concealing the fact that our political leaders were there
to represent not us but the interests of globe-spanning corporations. Political and media
elites had been captured by unshored corporate money. Our voices had become irrelevant.
Brand didn't just talk the talk. He started committing to direct action. He shamed our do-nothing
politicians and corporate media – the devastating Grenfell Tower fire had yet to happen
– by helping to gain attention for a group of poor tenants in London who were taking on
the might of a corporation that had become their landlord and wanted to evict them to develop
their homes for a much richer clientele. Brand's revolutionary words had turned into
revolutionary action.
But just as Brand's rejection of the old politics began to articulate a wider mood, it was
stopped in its tracks. After Corbyn was unexpectedly elected Labour leader, offering for the
first time in living memory a politics that listened to people before money, Brand's style of
rejectionism looked a little too cynical, or at least premature.
While Corbyn's victory marked a sea-change, it is worth recalling, however, that it occurred
only because of a mistake. Or perhaps two.
The Corbyn accident
First, a handful of Labour MPs agreed to nominate Corbyn for the leadership contest,
scraping him past the threshold needed to get on the ballot paper. Most backed him only because
they wanted to give the impression of an election that was fair and open. After his victory,
some loudly regretted having assisted him. None had
thought a representative of the tiny and besieged left wing of the parliamentary party stood a
chance of winning – not after Tony Blair and his acolytes had spent more than two decades
remaking Labour, using their own version of entryism to eradicate any vestiges of socialism in
the party. These "New Labour" MPs were there, just as Brand had noted, to represent the
interests of a corporate class, not ordinary people.
Corbyn had very different ideas from most of his colleagues. Over the years he had broken
with the consensus of the dominant Blairite faction time and again in parliamentary votes,
consistently taking a minority view that later proved to be on the
right side of history . He alone among the leadership contenders spoke unequivocally
against austerity, regarding it as a way to leech away more public money to enrich the
corporations and banks that had already pocketed vast sums from the public coffers – so
much so that by 2008 they had nearly bankrupted the entire western economic system.
And second, Corbyn won because of a recent change in the party's rulebook – one now
much regretted by party managers. A new internal balloting system gave more weight to the votes
of ordinary members than the parliamentary party. The members, unlike the party machine, wanted
Corbyn.
Corbyn's success didn't really prove Brand wrong. Even the best designed systems have flaws,
especially when the maintenance of the system's image as benevolent is considered vitally
important. It wasn't that Corbyn's election had shown Britain's political system was
representative and accountable. It was simply evidence that corporate power had made itself
vulnerable to a potential accident by preferring to work out of sight, in the shadows, to
maintain the illusion of democracy. Corbyn was that accident.
'Brainwashing under freedom'
Corbyn's success also wasn't evidence that the power structure he challenged had weakened.
The system was still in place and it still had a chokehold on the political and media
establishments that exist to uphold its interests. Which is why it has been mobilising these
forces endlessly to damage Corbyn and avert the risk of a further, even more disastrous
"accident", such as his becoming prime minister.
Listing the ways the state-corporate media have sought to undermine Corbyn would sound
preposterous to anyone not deeply immersed in these media-constructed narratives. But almost
all of us have been exposed to this kind of " brainwashing under freedom
" since birth.
The initial attacks on Corbyn were for being poorly dressed, sexist, unstatesmanlike, a
national security threat, a Communist spy – relentless, unsubstantiated smears the like
of which no other party leader had ever faced. But over time the allegations became even more
outrageously propagandistic as the campaign to undermine him not only failed but backfired
– not least, because Labour membership rocketed under Corbyn to make the party the
largest in Europe.
As the establishment's need to keep him away from power has grown more urgent and desperate
so has the nature of the attacks.
There were no Jews anywhere around most native Britons. And yet the Empire was banked most
importantly by Jews back to at least the post-Glorious Revolution closing the 17th century,
and that pattern of Jewish bankers being indispensable to the UK and the Brit WASP Empire
goes back to Oliver Cromwell.
There are almost 5,000 criminal gangs in the UK. But the old family firms are gone –
today's big players are multinational, diversified and tech-savvy.
By Duncan
Campbell Main image: Underworlds old and new: Curtis Warren, John Palmer, the Hellbanianz
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W ho rules the underworld today, and where do they conduct their business? Once there were
the familiar mugshots and Runyonesque nicknames, the clubs and pubs where the usual suspects
gathered, plotted and schemed. Now organised crime is run like any other business, and its
leading figures look like every other broker or tycoon. We have entered into a world of what
Sir Rob Wainwright, until recently Europe's most senior police officer, calls "anonymised"
crime. The underworld has become the overworld.
The National Crime Agency has estimated that £90bn of criminal money is being
laundered through the UK every year, 4% of the country's GDP. London has become the global
capital of money-laundering and the beating heart of European organised crime. English is now
the international underworld's lingua franca. Crime is an essential part of the British
economy, providing hundreds of thousands of jobs, not just for professional criminals –
the NCA reckons there are
4,629 organised crime groups in operation – but for police and prison officers,
lawyers and court officials, and a security business that now employs more than half a million
people.
Just as the names of familiar shops have been departing from the high street, the old family
firms of criminals are disappearing, whether in London, Glasgow, Newcastle or Manchester. And
just as British football fans have had to learn how to pronounce the names of the legions of
new foreign players, detectives have had to learn to do the same for the increasing number of
new criminals. Britain was once dealing with drugs imports from half a dozen countries; now it
is more than 30. A young person who would in the past have sought an apprenticeship in a trade
or industry may now find that drug dealing offers better career prospects. And, apart from
drugs and guns, British trading channels now facilitate the trafficking of women from eastern
Europe and Africa for prostitution and children from Vietnam as low-level drug workers.
The underworld's modus operandi has shifted in the past quarter century. "The international
nature of crime and technology are probably the two biggest changes," says Steve Rodhouse, the
NCA's head of operations. Speaking at the NCA's unprepossessing headquarters in Vauxhall, south
London, Rodhouse explains how the agency's work has mushroomed. "Pretty much all of the NCA's
most significant 'high-harm' operations now involve people, commodities or money transferring
across international borders. The days of having a drugs gang, a firearms gang or a
people-trafficking gang have changed because of the concept of polycriminality. Groups
satisfying criminal markets, whatever they may be, is now much more common. These are
businesses and people are looking to exploit markets, so why confine yourself to one
market?"
Wainwright, who served as Europol chief for nine years, has also noted this
internationalisation of crime. Addressing a Police Foundation gathering just after his
retirement last year, he said that Europol, the European equivalent of Interpol, having
expanded since its foundation in 1998 when "it consisted literally, of two men and a dog
– admittedly, a sniffer dog – in Luxembourg," now dealt with 65,000 cases a year.
By 2018, he reckoned that 5,000 organised crime groups were operating across Europe and the
mafia model had been replaced by a "more nimble" model, with 180 different nationalities
operating, mixing legal with illegal business and working with between 400 and 500 major
money-launderers. This was multinational business with specialists in recruitment, movement,
money-laundering and the forging of documents.
The internet, of course, is a major factor. Wainwright likened its effect on crime to that
of the motorcar in the 1920s and 30s, when suddenly criminals could escape at speed and take
advantage of new markets. He cited the dark web, which he said was selling 350,000 different
illegal items – 60% of which were drugs – but including everything from guns to
pornography and even operating a ratings system for speed of dispatch and quality. The
combination of new faces of whom the British police – and often Interpol and Europol
– were unaware, along with an increasingly tech-savvy pool of criminals able to disguise
their identities, made for a toxic cocktail. Crooks anonymous.
O ne group with little interest in anonymity are the Hellbanianz, a gang of cocky young
Albanians based in Barking, east London. They went online in spectacular fashion in 2017 via
Instagram and YouTube rap videos to flaunt their ill-gotten wealth and firepower.
Their most prominent member, Tristen Asllani, who lived in Hampstead, was jailed for 25
years in 2016 for drug dealing and firearms offences which included possessing a
Škorpion submachine gun. He was caught after a police chase in north London which ended
when he crashed his car into a computer repair shop in Crouch End. A photo of Asllani, showing
him stripped to the waist after he had apparently spent long hours in the prison gym, appeared
on a social media page called My Albanian in Jail, with a caption saying "Even inside the
prison we have all conditions, what's missing are only whores".
The flashy cars and bundles of banknotes on display in the Hellbanianz videos were the
result of the importation of cocaine and cannabis, but the gang was also involved in the
weapons trade. The pictures showed £50 notes wrapped around a cake and their HB logo
written in cannabis. After they were arrested and jailed, other gang members have posted
pictures of themselves, taken with smuggled mobile phones, from inside prison where they
cheerfully inscribe their gang name on the walls.
Muhamed Veliu, an Albanian investigative journalist, who knows London well, says that the
Hellbanianz have been on the crime scene in east London for many years. "They are sending a bad
message to young Albanians. By seeing such photos, they think the streets of UK are paved with
gold Bizarrely, despite the fact they are in the prison, they show the outside world photos of
their life behind the bars." He said that there was a concern that the British media
stereotyped all Albanians as criminals but, he added, the 2006 Securitas robbery, in which two
Albanians played key roles in the theft of
£53m from a depot in Kent, was regarded with some national pride back home. "It was 'the
crime of the century', it was seen as very different from making money from prostitution, which
is the lowest form of crime. It is wrong, of course, but they did need bravery to get involved,
and at least they went for a bank – that was the feeling in the Albanian community."
There are currently around 700 Albanians in British jails.
"Albania is Europe's largest producer of cannabis," says Tony Saggers, the former head of
drugs threat and intelligence at the NCA. "It is important not to stereotype, but the Kosovan
war led to Albanians pretending to be Kosovan in order to get asylum in the UK. Many of the
people who came just wanted a better life, but there were criminals among them who were able to
set up illicit networks The UK criminal has a get-rich-quick mentality while the Albanians'
strategy was get-rich-slow, so they have driven down the price of cocaine in the UK. They knew
that if they expanded, they could undercut the market." It helped that their reputation
preceded them. "The Albanian criminals may be ruthless and potentially murderous when
controlling their organised crime," said Saggers, "but when they come to the UK they try to be
more charismatic and they use fear – 'We're here, we need to get on,' that sort of
approach. So there is little violence from the older Albanian criminals in the UK, because they
know that violence attracts more attention."
The Albanians had already established themselves in a darker fashion when 26-year-old Luan
Plackici was jailed in 2003 and said to have made more than £1m from trafficking "poor,
naive and gullible" young women who thought they were on their way to jobs as waitresses or
barmaids. Some had to service up to 20 men a day to pay for the £8,000 "travel bill" from
Romania and Moldova.
The international nature of people-trafficking was exposed fully in 2014 by a trial of a
gang that imported more than 100 women into Britain. The trial ended with the gang leader,
Vishal Chaudhary, being jailed for 12 years. Chaudhary, who lived the high life in Canary Wharf
in London, contacted young women through social networks in Hungary, the Czech Republic and
Poland, offering work as receptionists, nannies or cleaners in England. But when they got to
the UK, the women were forced to work in brothels. Chaudhary's team, all of whom were jailed,
consisted of his brother, Kunal, who worked for Deloitte in Manchester, a Hungarian heavy
called Krisztian Abel and the latter's sister, Szilvia, who helped recruit the women.
A cannabis farm discovered in a house in Oldham in 2013. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The
Guardian
There are numbers of young people involved in what the legal system terms "forced
criminality". The lawyer Philippa Southwell has specialised in such cases, which apply in
particular to
young Vietnamese people brought illegally into the UK by traffickers and forced to work in
cannabis farms to pay back debts of up to £30,000 that their parents have undertaken in
order for them to have a new life in Europe.
"The modus operandi of criminal organisations is to target children or young adults,
trafficking them across the world in a journey that can take months," Southwell says. "Those
being trafficked from Vietnam, often transit via Russia, Germany and France, by boat, lorry and
even by foot. Once at their destination, they will be locked in a premises and made to tend the
cannabis plants, by watering them and ensuring the lighting is on. These cannabis grows are
sophisticated multi-million-pound drug operations, with the electricity often being extracted
illegally and high-value equipment used. The windows of the buildings may be nailed shut. The
farms normally operate in rural areas where the chance of detection is reduced."
The boys and young men were in a form of debt bondage, but no matter how hard they worked,
their debt never seemed to be paid off. "There is a misconception within the criminal justice
system that they are free to leave because the doors may not always be locked," says Southwell,
"but the reality is that they have nowhere to go – they are controlled through threats of
violence, debt bondage, isolation, fear and other complex control methods that are regularly
used by traffickers."
F rom the Chinese opium dealers in the 1920s, the Italian gangsters in the 30s, the Maltese
pimps in the 50s, the West Indian Yardies in the 60s, the Turkish heroin dealers in the 70s to
the east Europeans gangsters and Nigerian fraudsters today, there has long been an unfair
tendency to blame foreigners as dominant figures in the underworld. While they may have all had
their parts to play, the homegrown British villain – whether artful dodger or ruthless
kingpin – has always been the bedrock of the underworld.
"Everyone wants to be a gangster," says BX, a young former gang member from north-west
London. "Everyone's seen it on TV and that's what they want to be. They look at music videos
and it looks like the people in them are making hundreds of thousands of pounds, although the
reality is that they are still living at their mum's house. Most of them come from estates and
they see their parents going to work, struggling to pay the bills. They come home, their mum's
not there, and all the places where kids could play are closing down. Nine times out of 10,
they leave school without qualifications. So if you're broke, if you can't get a job, you're
going to take the opportunity. My parents had no clue what I was up to – I didn't come
back with any marks on my face."
The recent upsurge in knife attacks has focused attention on gangs. At one stage last year,
there were six separate knife murder trials underway at the Old Bailey, all gang-related, all
involving more than one defendant, none older than 22. "It's not a black thing, it's not a
white thing, everyone's doing it," says BX. "There's no: 'I'm black, he's white, we can't get
along' any more." There were still ample opportunities for smaller-time dealers: "You can make
a grand a week."
An organised gang carrying out robberies on scooters in London in 2018. Photograph: MET
Police
The hierarchy of gangs remained a key factor. "If you're a drug dealer, you have to find
people who will do your dirty work for you. The way it works is the elders, who are, say, 24 or
25, they see you doing well, so they might take you under their wing. The young kids acting as
look-outs, they're thinking: 'I'm part of that guy's enterprise. That could be me in however
many years, I could get promotion.' As they say, loyalty brings forth royalty."
Territory is important commercially. "If you're doing five keys (kilos) a week and then
suddenly you're only doing three a week, it doesn't take long to realise that someone's out
there taking your customers. So you have to eliminate the opposition. How do you do that? By
either taking them out, or tipping off the police. You are never supposed to snitch, but I know
one guy, from Southall, who's a millionaire now; he was in competition with a guy from the same
area so he informed the police." There's a not-unfounded suspicion that some informers have
continued to commit crimes while under police protection. "All the old-school rules –
they're gone. I know people who work with the police to get immunity for themselves. I know one
who everyone knows works with the police, he's even been shooting people, but you type his name
into Google you won't find anything about him and, believe me, his record is way longer than my
arm."
The risks are high. "Of the people I grew up with, only three of us haven't been to jail,
although I've been arrested many times. My older brother has been in and out of jail –
nine months here, six weeks there. But there are less police than ever, so that gives you the
incentive, and even if you get arrested, you're not going to do that long."
While the young gangs have largely replaced the old family-based crews, so have young,
helmeted, scooter-riding robbers smashing their ways into jewellers and mobile phone shops
taken on the role of the old sawn-off shotgun-wielding bank robbers.
W hile those smalltime home-grown villains may still thrive, an increasing number of members
of the British underworld have followed old imperial traditions and headed abroad to cut out
the middle-man, establishing themselves not only in the traditional bolt-hole of Spain, but in
the Netherlands, Thailand and South Africa. The person who was to rewrite the rulebook on drug
dealing is the street-smart Liverpudlian Curtis Warren, better known by his nicknames Cocky or
the Cocky Watchman. Born in 1963, his criminal career started at the age of 12 with a
conviction for car theft. By 16, he was on his way to borstal for assaulting the police. Other
offences followed, but it was only when he moved into the drugs business, working out of
Amsterdam, that he established his reputation as one of the most prolific traffickers of modern
times – Interpol's "Target One" and the subject of a joint British–Dutch
investigation codenamed Operation Crayfish.
While Warren's move to Amsterdam, where fellow British dealers also established themselves,
seemed like a smart idea in that he was less exposed to the British police, it was also a
weakness, because the Dutch authorities were able to tap his phone without restriction and
secure the evidence they needed. (Although they also required English help in translating
Liverpudlian for them.) In October 1996, police in the Netherlands seized 400kg of cocaine,
60kg of heroin, 1,500kg of cannabis, handguns and false passports. Nine Britons and a Colombian
were arrested, and Warren was soon portrayed as the biggest fish in the net. He was jailed for
12 years for a conspiracy to import what was claimed to be £125m of drugs into Britain.
The Observer suggested he was "the richest and most successful British criminal who has ever
been caught", and he was the only drug dealer to make it on to the Sunday Times rich list.
T-shirts with an old mugshot of Warren on them were still for sale in Liverpool 20 years after
Operation Crayfish.
Curtis Warren. Photograph: PA
After his release from jail in the Netherlands in June 2007, Warren was only a free man for
five weeks. He headed to Jersey, but was under constant surveillance and soon arrested. In
2009, he was convicted of conspiring to import £1m of cannabis into Jersey and jailed for
13 years. Warren was alleged to have invested his wealth in everything from petrol stations to
vineyards, football clubs to hotels. A Jersey court ordered him to pay £198m after he
failed to prove his business empire was not built on the proceeds of cocaine trafficking.
Detectives had secretly recorded him boasting during a 2004 prison visit of funnelling huge
amounts of cash via a money launderer. "Fuckin' 'ell, mate, sometimes we'd do about £10m
or £15m in a week," he told some of his visitors. "I was bragging like an idiot and just
big-talking in front of them," was Warren's explanation later. The Jersey attorney general,
Timothy Le Cocq QC, described him as "one of Europe's most notorious organised criminals". His
failure to pay the money resulted in a further 10 years' jail time.
He told Guardian journalist Helen Pidd, when she interviewed
him in jail in Jersey, that he disapproved of drugs: "I've never had a cigarette in my life
or a drink. I've never tasted alcohol or anything. No interest." His ambition after he was
freed was to leave England – "and never come back". He added: "I just wish I'd not been
such a worry to me mum."
Few people were better qualified to comment on Warren than former NCA man Tony Saggers, who
was an expert witness in Warren's trial and proceeds hearing. "Curtis Warren was a forerunner,"
he said. "You get people like him who come from a tough background, a council-house
environment, and he had a sort of bare-faced courage in some respects, to put himself in places
like Venezuela and Colombia, which were probably even more dangerous then than they are now. He
put himself at the other end of the supply chain, and in a way established that pattern for the
elite drug trafficker. But nowadays, high-level, high-profile criminals play less and less of a
role, and make use of others below them in a detached way."
Other British criminals have also cast their nets wide during the past two decades. One of
the best-known was Brian Wright, once one of Britain's most active cocaine smugglers, who was
nicknamed The Milkman – because he always delivered. He operated from both
Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus and Spain. In 1998, he was alleged to have imported almost
two tonnes of the drug, with the result, according to one customs investigator, that "the
cocaine was coming in faster than people could snort it". The Dublin-born Wright owned a villa
near Cadiz, which he named El Lechero – the Spanish for milkman – and had a box at
Ascot, a flat in Chelsea's King's Quay and used some of his proceeds to fix races on which he
then bet, thus laundering his drug profits. Finally arrested in Spain, he was brought back to
England and, in 2007, at the age of 60, found guilty at Woolwich crown court of conspiracy to
supply drugs and jailed for30 years
.
Some very successful scams have been perpetrated on elderly Britons. John Palmer, who had
been involved in the Brink's-Mat bullion robbery (from
whence he got his nickname "Goldfinger") made his fortune in a crooked timeshare business in
Tenerife. A ruthless operator, he took advantage of thousands of gullible souls, many of them
elderly holidaymakers, who believed his spiel about the fortunes they could make by investing
in timeshare apartments that were never built. Outwardly, he appeared to have it all: the
yacht, the cars with the personalised number plates, dozens of properties. He even made it to
No 105 in the Sunday Times rich list. "Remember the golden rule," was the motto he loved to
quote, "he who has the gold makes the rules." But in 2001, he was convicted of a timeshare
fraud in which 16,000 victims lost an estimated £33m and served eight years in
prison.
Then, in 2015, Palmer was
shot dead by a hitman in his garden in Essex. There were rumours that he was killed because
he might have been cooperating with the Spanish police over another fraud case. His co-accused
were convicted in Spain in May this year and the police in Britain have duly issued a fresh
appeal for help to find his killer – with a reminder that there is a
£100,000 reward on offer in case that tempts an elderly underworld grass.
Any notion that Spain might still be a safe haven for expat criminals was dispelled in 2018
when Brian Charrington – a close associate of Curtis Warren and regarded as one of the
major international drug dealers of his generation – was jailed for 15 years
for trafficking and money-laundering in Alicante in 2018. Described in the Spanish press as "
el narco que escribia en Wikipedia ", because of his reputation for updating and
correcting his Wikipedia entry, the former car-dealer from Middlesbrough had been arrested in
2013 at his villa in Calpe, on the Costa Blanca, an area where some estate agents offer
bulletproof glass as a special feature along with the spa bath and barbecue area. There had
been wild rumours of crocodiles in his swimming pool, but disappointingly, the police found
none.
Charrington was alleged to have brought vast quantities of drugs into Spain via a yacht
docking in Altea, north of Benidorm. He claimed his money came legitimately. "I buy and sell
villas and I pay my taxes," he told the court, but was still fined nearly £30m. Following
a lengthy investigation involving Spanish, British, Venezuelan, Colombian and French police,
his assets, including a dozen houses and his cars and boats, were impounded. After his
sentence, his Wikipedia entry was speedily updated.
T he titles of true crime memoirs published in the past decade or so tell their own tale.
The Last Real Gangster by Freddie Foreman came out in 2015; The Last Gangster: My Final
Confession by Charlie Richardson arrived just after his death in 2012; The Last Godfather, the
Life and Crimes of Arthur Thompson, was published in Glasgow in 2007. A requiem for the old
British underworld.
In many ways, it was already slipping into a haze of nostalgia. The television series Peaky
Blinders has spawned its own fashion accessory industry. You can now buy Peaky Blinders
cufflinks shaped like razor-blades, or wear a Peaky Blinders cap and waistcoat from the new
David Beckham clothing line , something that might have prompted a dark smile from the
ruthless and acquisitive 1920s Birmingham gang on whom the series was based. The website
henorstag.com even recommends "the Peaky Blinders look" as perfect for a stag night: "For a
theme the ladies will love, you will need to capture the stylish world of the early 20th
century with black peak caps, stylish grey or black suits with waistcoat, as well as a dusty
black coat and shoes in order to complete the look." (Add a cosh and a cut-throat razor and
you'll really slay 'em.)
While the Kray twins brand continues as the underworld's equivalent of Marks & Spencer
– a framed letter from Ronnie Kray in Broadmoor is currently on offer on eBay for
£650 – changes in the law have made criminals less prepared to boast about past
crimes. In the old days, under the "double jeopardy" rule, once you were acquitted of a murder,
you could never be tried for it again. That rule was overturned with the 2003 Criminal Justice
Act, so the days when a villain could explain in their memoirs how they got away with a crime
have gone. The 2009 Coroners and Justice Act made it an offence for criminals to profit from
accounts of their crimes, so they could no longer sell their stories, or at least officially.
The 2002 Proceeds of Crime
Act and its increasing use against career criminals has meant that illicit incomes can be
seized.
No wonder the Hatton Garden burglary of 2015 – that "
one last job " carried out by the elderly "diamond wheezers" – received such
attention. Even one of the "last of the last", Fred Foreman, was hoping he was going to be
offered a role in it. "I heard that Terry (Perkins, one of the ringleaders) was looking for me,
not long before the burglary took place, so I presume that would have been what it was about,"
he says.
Perkins
died in his cell in Belmarsh prison last year. Foreman, who made his name with the Krays in
the 1960s, now lives in sheltered accomodation in west London. He doubts that the current
generation of gangsters will ever write their memoirs: "I don't think that anyone who has
turned to crime these days is going to live long enough to build up a reputation, are
they?"
But the recruiting sergeants of the underworld – poverty, greed, boredom, envy, peer
pressure, glamour – will never be short of volunteers, whether they live long enough to
make a name for themselves or not.
Underworld : the
Definitive History of Britain's Organised Crime by Duncan Campbell is published by Ebury Press
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"... As I documented on March 9 on this platform in my article " What Makes Gavin Run ?" Williamson knows no shame or integrity and is the living embodiment of the repulsive, two-faced backstabber, intriguer and liar Sammy Glick in the great writer Budd Schulberg's legendary 1941 novel of Hollywood "What Makes Sammy Run?" So he is a natural fit for Johnson, whose entire career has been dictated by similar shameless, reckless lies, opportunism and crass incompetence. ..."
"... According to many UK media reports – which Williamson understandably denies – his most effective weapons are bullying, bluster and threats. These are patterns of behavior which those who have worked for him or who have bothered following his career over the years find extremely convincing and in character (or, rather, lack of it). ..."
"... Putting Williamson in charge of such a delicate, nervously balanced and ultra-sensitive province is like appointing a Sith Lord as head of the Jedi Knights in "Star Wars" or putting the late Boston underworld mass murderer Whitey Bulger in charge of the FBI. ..."
"... Because like attracts like, competent honorable people in any country and culture seek to promote and advance others with the same qualities and empty, shallow sociopaths and confidence tricksters similarly admire and advance people exactly like themselves. ..."
As I documented on March 9 on this platform in my article "
What Makes Gavin Run ?" Williamson knows no shame or integrity and is the living embodiment
of the repulsive, two-faced backstabber, intriguer and liar Sammy Glick in the great writer
Budd Schulberg's legendary 1941 novel of Hollywood "What Makes Sammy Run?" So he is a natural
fit for Johnson, whose entire career has been dictated by similar shameless, reckless lies,
opportunism and crass incompetence.
No one gets every, or usually most, professional predictions right, and in the news business
sensible people make the best of their brilliant insights – or lucky guesses – when
they can. But I have seldom hit a hole-in-one prediction that came true as quickly as my column
on Williamson did.
On March 9, Williamson, after only a decade in the UK main chamber of parliament, the
ancient House of Commons was still riding high and making a fool of himself insulting major
nations from Russia to China and also the UK's badly-needed European allies as the most
incompetent defense chief in the modern history of his nation.
On May 1, less than two months after my article appeared – and with no causality that
I could see – Williamson was humiliatingly sacked by his benefactor, Prime Minister
Theresa May after being accused of leaking highly confidential national security information to
the media.
Williamson immediately turned on his long-time benefactor Mrs. May savagely and helped drive
her from office – which was admittedly long overdue. She resigned on June 7, just over a
single month after sacking him.
Williamson then joined May's arch-enemy, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, who had
relentlessly schemed to topple her for years and joined Johnson's own campaign to win the
leadership of the rapidly disintegrating Conservative Party and thence become prime
minister.
At the time of writing, Johnson remains far in the lead in the contest to replace May as
prime minister despite repeated attacks on his character, utter lack of political consistency,
convictions or achievement and his entertainingly squalid private life.
Johnson is twice divorced with neither marriage lasting longer than five years and he is now
being accused of screaming rows with his 20-years-younger girl friend that may or may not have
involved him hitting her, which he naturally denies.
Through all this Williamson, who like Johnson himself does not lack for energy in the
service of his own ambition, has been rounding up support for his new master among Conservative
Party Members of Parliament.
According to many UK media reports – which Williamson understandably denies –
his most effective weapons are bullying, bluster and threats. These are patterns of behavior
which those who have worked for him or who have bothered following his career over the years
find extremely convincing and in character (or, rather, lack of it).
Reports are also circulating in the UK media – which are usually well-connected and
informed on such matters – that Williamson is holding out to be reappointed as the UK's
defense chief or as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland is my native land and is tiny in size. But over the past century and more
it has repeatedly displayed an infinite capacity for generating wars, embarrassment and
catastrophe for both Ireland and the UK, which otherwise get along easily and well.
Putting Williamson in charge of such a delicate, nervously balanced and ultra-sensitive
province is like appointing a Sith Lord as head of the Jedi Knights in "Star Wars" or putting
the late Boston underworld mass murderer Whitey Bulger in charge of the FBI.
Therefore it will probably happen.
Because like attracts like, competent honorable people in any country and culture seek to
promote and advance others with the same qualities and empty, shallow sociopaths and confidence
tricksters similarly admire and advance people exactly like themselves.
On Monday, June 24, without mentioning Williamson once, one of the UK's most experienced and
respected journalists, war correspondents and historians, Sir Max Hastings wrote a scathing
article in the liberal "Guardian" newspaper entitled "I was Boris Johnson's boss: he is utterly
unfitted to be prime minister."
Therefore Johnson will re-elevate Williamson, either to drive Northern Ireland back into
civil war or destroy the remaining security of the entire UK as defense secretary once again.
And Williamson will remain loyal, until he in his turn sees the chance to stab Johnson in the
back and briefly rule as prime minister until he in his own turn is politically knifed and
toppled by one of his own hand-picked sociopaths.
And Sammy Glick will rise again – on the suffering and smashed lives of everyone
else.
"... Jeffrey Epstein's story is similarly abusive. The convicted sex offender prostituted dozens of underage girls and should have spent the rest of his life in jail. Again this is no 'one-off' abuse of an underage child, he was a serial sex predator. ..."
"... According to Joseph Recarey, the lead Palm Beach detective on the case, Epstein was essentially operating a "sexual pyramid scheme." ..."
"... The Vox writes that the girls and women who reported abuse by Epstein, meanwhile, were markedly powerless. Most of them "came from disadvantaged families, single-parent homes or foster care, Many of the girls were one step away from homelessness." ..."
Jeffrey Epstein's story is similarly abusive. The convicted sex offender prostituted dozens of underage girls and should have
spent the rest of his life in jail. Again this is no 'one-off'
abuse of an underage child, he was a serial sex predator.
According to Joseph Recarey, the lead Palm Beach detective on the case, Epstein was essentially operating a "sexual pyramid scheme."
The Vox
writes that the girls and women who reported abuse by Epstein, meanwhile, were markedly powerless. Most of them "came from disadvantaged
families, single-parent homes or foster care, Many of the girls were one step away from homelessness."
In November 2017 the genius comedian Larry David was criticized in the
Jewish press for admitting on Saturday Night Live that many of those
accused of sexual harassment in Hollywood are Jewish.
... Alan Dershowitz , who was a member
of Epstein's legal team and was later accused by one of the victims' lawyers of himself participating in the
sex trafficking ring .
"... Trump treats int'l matters like acrid biz negotiations (see art of the deal) - you pressure your carpet installer for your mega hotels with nasty e-mails, bellowing threats on the phone, rustling up the competition, getting a bunch of staff on your side to shore up da ego, etc. When the carpet-seller makes some bigly concessions on price (all understand the game that is played) you relent and make nicey, and the wives get together for tennis and a ruccola crab lunch and later some mega bash with smiling faces is pictured. ..."
Trump strove for some foreign policy triumphs. The art of the deal!
He tried his hand with N. Korea. What happened? (Besides perhaps improved NK-SK
relations ) Nothing.
Syria .. (though there is still plenty going on there) what gave Trump / the USA some
kind of 'victory'? Zilch, disounting missile attacks on a runway in an airport and on an
empty research and teaching facility.
Symbolic moves, as proposed to Iran (a deal, heh) to save face (see b's posts.)
Next, ho ho, regime change in Venezuela, that might be great, get some extra voters in
Florida. Result? The status quo ante, perhaps stronger than before, with the
Dauphin, Random Guaido, shown up to be a cynical petty fraudster, and not even
challenging enough to jail!
Iran? Note the pressure has been building up since last year when The Donald withdrew
the US from the JCPOA.
Real men go to Teheran!
Except Trump and US forces aren't going anywhere at all and most certainly not to Iran. A
real war in that theatre cannot be fought and won by the US. Nor can it be instigated and
subsequently 'let drop' or 'become unimportant, trivial, with some claims of victory' for ex.
Afghanistan. (very costly btw)
Iran has made it clear that economic sanctions are part of hybrid war, rightly so (but
not, as I still claim, by making some minor attacks on tankers round about, to provoke a
reaction, NO) -- at some point, one engages, if not: backing down is the only option.
Trump treats int'l matters like acrid biz negotiations (see art of the deal) - you
pressure your carpet installer for your mega hotels with nasty e-mails, bellowing threats on
the phone, rustling up the competition, getting a bunch of staff on your side to shore up da
ego, etc. When the carpet-seller makes some bigly concessions on price (all understand the
game that is played) you relent and make nicey, and the wives get together for tennis and a
ruccola crab lunch and later some mega bash with smiling faces is pictured.
I think he got on super well with Kim (NK) who understood all this.
Leaves begging what-who-why is the projected aim, potential hoped result of the hybrid
attack on Iran, and which parties (USA MIC, Fin. Trade Cos., Banking, FF industry, many other
industries; Israel, KSA) support it (again, for what precise aim?) Or are against
sanctions...
It's no wonder the US is so screwed up these days. Somehow the NeoCons, before and after
stealing the 2,000 election for Bush, with the help of abundance of Liars 4 Hire think tanks
like CATO, CEI, AEI, Heritage Foundation blah, blah, blah, bankrolled by the likes of the
Koch Bros, The Scaifes, Exxon, Monsanto, Dow, Dupont the Nuke Industry etc. were, and are
still able to convince low intelligence people that wrong is right, bad is good, meanness is
"compassion" and abuse is "tough love".
But it only works if those being duped are already predisposed to hateful philosophy, and
that they got in spades with careful conditioning (brainwashing) from bastards like Rush
Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch, people with no moral scruples whatsoever.
Thus the right today (actually for a long while now) is no more than a collection of
racists and bigots, pathological liars and scammers, charlatans and greedmeisters.
It's why they care nothing for the poor, nothing for protection the environment, nothing
for anyone or anything but themselves. They are the cult of mean.
As former right-wing operative Allen Raymond famously said: "this is not about morality,
this is about winning"
"... Mr. Macri has slashed subsidies for electricity, fuel and transportation, causing prices to skyrocket, and recently prompting Ms. Genovesi, 48, to cut off her gas service, rendering her stove lifeless. Like most of her neighbors, she illegally taps into the power lines that run along the rutted dirt streets. ..."
"... "It's a neoliberal government," she says. "It's a government that does not favor the people." ..."
"... The tribulations playing out under the disintegrating roofs of the poor are a predictable dimension of Mr. Macri's turn away from left-wing populism. He vowed to shrink Argentina's monumental deficits by diminishing the largess of the state. The trouble is that Argentines have yet to collect on the other element the president promised: the economic revival that was supposed to follow the pain. ..."
"... But as Mr. Macri seeks re-election this year, Argentines increasingly lament that they are absorbing all strife and no progress. Even businesses that have benefited from his reforms complain that he has botched the execution, leaving the nation to confront the same concoction of misery that has plagued it for decades. The economy is contracting. Inflation is running above 50 percent, and joblessness is stuck above 9 percent ..."
"... Poverty afflicts a third of the population, and the figure is climbing. ..."
"... Mr. Macri sold his administration as an evolved form of governance for these times, a crucial dose of market forces tempered by social programs. ..."
"... In the most generous reading, the medicine has yet to take effect. But in the view of beleaguered Argentines, the country has merely slipped back into the rut that has framed national life for as long as most people can remember. ..."
"... "We live patching things up," said Roberto Nicoli, 62, who runs a silverware company outside the capital, Buenos Aires. "We never fix things. I always say, 'Whenever we start doing better, I will start getting ready for the next crisis.'" ..."
"... "When our president Cristina was here, they sent people to help us," she says. "Now, if there's problems, nobody helps us. Poor people feel abandoned." ..."
On the ragged streets of the shantytown across the road, where stinking outhouses sit alongside shacks fashioned from rusted sheets
of tin, families have surrendered hopes that sewage lines will ever reach them.
They do not struggle to fashion an explanation for their declining fortunes: Since taking office more than three years ago, President
Mauricio Macri has broken with the budget-busting populism that has dominated Argentina for much of the past century, embracing the
grim arithmetic of economic orthodoxy.
Mr. Macri has slashed subsidies for electricity, fuel and transportation, causing prices to skyrocket, and recently prompting
Ms. Genovesi, 48, to cut off her gas service, rendering her stove lifeless. Like most of her neighbors, she illegally taps into the
power lines that run along the rutted dirt streets.
"It's a neoliberal government," she says. "It's a government that does not favor the people."
The tribulations playing out under the disintegrating roofs of the poor are a predictable dimension of Mr. Macri's turn away
from left-wing populism. He vowed to shrink Argentina's monumental deficits by diminishing the largess of the state. The trouble
is that Argentines have yet to collect on the other element the president promised: the economic revival that was supposed to follow
the pain.
Mr. Macri's supporters heralded his 2015 election as a miraculous outbreak of normalcy in a country with a well-earned reputation
for histrionics. He would cease the reckless spending that had brought Argentina infamy for defaulting on its debts eight times.
Sober-minded austerity would win the trust of international financiers, bringing investment that would yield jobs and fresh opportunities.
But as Mr. Macri seeks re-election this year, Argentines increasingly lament that they are absorbing all strife and no progress.
Even businesses that have benefited from his reforms complain that he has botched the execution, leaving the nation to confront the
same concoction of misery that has plagued it for decades. The economy is contracting. Inflation is running above 50 percent, and
joblessness is stuck above 9 percent.
Poverty afflicts a third of the population, and the figure is climbing.
Far beyond this country of 44 million people, Mr. Macri's tenure is testing ideas that will shape economic policy in an age of
recrimination over widening inequality. His presidency was supposed to offer an escape from the wreckage of profligate spending while
laying down an alternative path for countries grappling with the worldwide rise of populism. Now, his presidency threatens to become
a gateway back to populism. The Argentine economy is contracting. Inflation is running above 50 percent, and joblessness is stuck
above 9 percent. Poverty afflicts a third of the population. Credit Sarah Pabst for The New York Times
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The Argentine economy is contracting. Inflation is running above 50 percent, and joblessness is stuck above 9 percent. Poverty afflicts
a third of the population. Credit Sarah Pabst for The New York Times
As the October election approaches, Mr. Macri is contending with the growing prospect of a challenge from the president he succeeded,
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who faces a
series of criminal indictments for corruption . Her unbridled spending helped deliver the crisis that Mr. Macri inherited. Her
return would resonate as a rebuke of his market-oriented reforms while potentially yanking Argentina back to its accustomed preserve:
left-wing populism, in uncomfortable proximity to insolvency.
The Argentine peso lost half of its value against the dollar last year, prompting the central bank to lift interest rates to a
commerce-suffocating level above 60 percent. Argentina was forced to secure a $57 billion
rescue from the International
Monetary Fund , a profound indignity given that the fund is widely despised here for the austerity it imposed in the late 1990s,
turning an economic downturn into a depression.
For Mr. Macri, time does not appear to be in abundant supply. The spending cuts he delivered hit the populace immediately. The
promised benefits of his reforms -- a stable currency, tamer inflation, fresh investment and jobs -- could take years to materialize,
leaving Argentines angry and yearning for the past.
In much of South America, left-wing governments have taken power in recent decades as an angry corrective to dogmatic prescriptions
from Washington, where the Treasury and the I.M.F. have focused on the confidence of global investors as the key to development.
Left-wing populism has aimed to redistribute the gains from the wealthy to everyone else. It has aided the poor, while generating
its own woes --
corruption and depression in
Brazil , runaway inflation and financial ruin in Argentina. In Venezuela, uninhibited spending has turned the country with the
world's largest proven oil reserves into a land where
children starve .
Mr. Macri sold his administration as an evolved form of governance for these times, a crucial dose of market forces tempered
by social programs.
In the most generous reading, the medicine has yet to take effect. But in the view of beleaguered Argentines, the country
has merely slipped back into the rut that has framed national life for as long as most people can remember.
"We live patching things up," said Roberto Nicoli, 62, who runs a silverware company outside the capital, Buenos Aires. "We
never fix things. I always say, 'Whenever we start doing better, I will start getting ready for the next crisis.'"
Cultivating wealth
... ... ...
In the beginning, there was Juan Domingo Perón, the charismatic Army general who was president from 1946 to 1955, and then again
from 1973 to 1974. He employed an authoritarian hand and muscular state power to champion the poor. He and his wife, Eva Duarte --
widely known by her nickname, Evita -- would dominate political life long after they died, inspiring politicians across the ideological
spectrum to claim their mantle.
Among the most ardent Peronists were Néstor Kirchner, the president from 2003 to 2007, and his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,
who took office in 2007, remaining until Mr. Macri was elected in 2015.
Their version of Peronism -- what became known as Kirchnerism -- was decidedly left-wing, disdaining global trade as a malevolent
force. They expanded cash grants to the poor and imposed taxes on farm exports in a bid to keep Argentine food prices low.
As the country's farmers tell it, Kirchnerism is just a fancy term for the confiscation of their wealth and the scattering of
the spoils to the unproductive masses. They point to Ms. Kirchner's 35 percent tax on soybean exports.
"We had a saying," Mr. Tropini says. "'For every three trucks that went to the port, one was for Cristina Kirchner.'"
reduction in export taxes.
"You could breathe finally," Mr. Tropini, the farmer, says.
He was free of the Kirchners, yet stuck with nature. Floods in 2016 wiped out more than half of his crops. A drought last year
wreaked even more havoc.
"This harvest, this year," he says, "is a gift from God."
But if the heavens are now cooperating, and if the people running Buenos Aires represent change, Mr. Tropini is critical of Mr.
Macri's failure to overcome the economic crisis.
A weaker currency makes Argentine soybeans more competitive, but it also increases the cost of the diesel fuel Mr. Tropini needs
to run his machinery. High interest rates make it impossible for him to buy another combine, which would allow him to expand his
farm.
In the first years of Mr. Macri's administration, the government lifted controls on the value of the peso while relaxing export
taxes. The masters of international finance delivered a surge of investment. The economy expanded by nearly 3 percent in 2017, and
then accelerated in the first months of last year.
But as investors grew wary of Argentina's deficits, they fled, sending the peso plunging and inflation soaring. As the rout continued
last year, the central bank mounted a futile effort to support the currency, selling its stash of dollars to try to halt the peso's
descent. As the reserves dwindled, investors absorbed the spectacle of a government failing to restore order. The exodus of money
intensified, and another potential default loomed, leading a chastened Mr. Macri to accept a rescue from the dreaded IMF.
Administration officials described the unraveling as akin to a natural disaster: unforeseeable and unavoidable. The drought hurt
agriculture.
Money was flowing out of developing countries as the Federal Reserve continued to lift interest rates in the United States, making
the American dollar a more attractive investment.
But the impact of the Fed's tightening had been widely anticipated. Economists fault the government for mishaps and complacency
that left the country especially vulnerable.
.... ... ...
Among the most consequential errors was the government's decision to include Argentina's central bank in a December 2017 announcement
that it was raising its inflation target. The markets took that as a signal that the government was surrendering its war on inflation
while opting for a traditional gambit: printing money rather than cutting spending.
... ... ...
The government insists that better days are ahead. The spending cuts have dropped the budget deficit to a manageable 3 percent
of annual economic output. Argentina is again integrated into the global economy.
"We haven't improved, but the foundations of the economy and society are much healthier," said Miguel Braun, secretary of economic
policy at the Treasury Ministry. "Argentina is in a better place to generate a couple of decades of growth."
... ... ...
Their television flashes dire warnings, like "Danger of Hyper Inflation." Throughout the neighborhood, people decry the sense
that they have been forsaken by the government.
Trucks used to come to castrate male dogs to control the packs of feral animals running loose. Not anymore. Health programs for
children are less accessible than they were before, they said.
Daisy Quiroz, 71, a retired maid, lives in a house that regularly floods in the rainy season.
"When our president Cristina was here, they sent people to help us," she says. "Now, if there's problems, nobody helps us.
Poor people feel abandoned."
... ... ...
Daniel Politi contributed reporting from Buenos Aires. Peter S. Goodman is a London-based European economics correspondent.
He was previously a national economic correspondent in New York. He has also worked at The Washington Post as a China correspondent,
and was global editor in chief of the International Business Times. @
petersgoodman
"... The Gulf of Credibility - I really cannot begin to fathom how stupid you would have to be to believe that Iran would attack a Japanese oil tanker at the very moment that the Japanese Prime Minister was sitting down to friendly, US-disapproved talks in https://t.co/P1wE1Y886i ..."
"... When the ruling elite wanted a war with Iraq they invented incubator babies and WMD programs that didn't exist. Their inventions were far fetched, but not unbelievable. However, the idea that the paranoid dictator Saddam was just going to hand over his most powerful weapons to religious fanatics that hated his guts, was laughably stupid. ..."
"... When the ruling elite wanted a war with Libya they invented a genocidal, Viagra-fueled, rape army. Their invention was far fetched, and bit lazy, but you could be forgiven for believing that the Mandarins believed it. ..."
"... This latest anti-Iran warmongering is just plain stupid. It's as if they don't really care if anyone believes the lies they are telling. For starters, look at the shameless liar who is telling these lies. ..."
"... Looking at this incident/narrative from any/every angle leaves one to conclude "false flag". ..."
"... As for the "most obvious culprit is usually responsible for the crime" that also happens to be "bazaar-level conspiracy theories involving a false-flag operation by Israel's Mossad". Because Mossad actually does that. ..."
"... If El Trumpo was going to drain the swamp, why did he take these cretins, Bolton, Pompeo, Haspel, Abrams into his cabinet? Is the tail, wagging the dog as usual? ..."
"... The elite are both lazy and stupid. Even the Orange Man will not be sucked into another Douma style false flag operation. The reasons why this is a basic false flag is obvious. If anybody reading about this doesn't understand the culprits responsible weren't Iranian, then they should be interviewed for mental competency. ..."
"... But Pompous Mike and Bolt-on Bolt-off need to be removed from any semblance of governmental authority. I could go on but this whole affair is making me tired...I'm going back to my swamp. ..."
The Gulf of Credibility - I really cannot begin to fathom how stupid you would have to be to believe that Iran would attack
a Japanese oil tanker at the very moment that the Japanese Prime Minister was sitting down to friendly, US-disapproved talks in
https://t.co/P1wE1Y886i
When the ruling elite wanted a war with Iraq they invented incubator babies and WMD programs that didn't exist. Their inventions
were far fetched, but not unbelievable. However, the idea that the paranoid dictator Saddam was just going to hand over his most
powerful weapons to religious fanatics that hated his guts, was laughably stupid.
When the ruling elite wanted a war with Libya they invented a genocidal, Viagra-fueled, rape army. Their invention was far
fetched, and bit lazy, but you could be forgiven for believing that the Mandarins believed it.
This latest anti-Iran warmongering is just plain stupid. It's as if they don't really care if anyone believes the lies they
are telling. For starters, look at the shameless liar who is telling these lies.
You mean "Mr. We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole"? What a disgraceful character...
pic.twitter.com/pMtAgKaZcG
Then there are the many problems of their "proof".
Where is the video of the Iranians PLACING explosives & detonating them? Removal would be prudent by any Navy/CG. Also location
of explosives is VERY high off waterline ...Weird. It's not a limpet mine, it's a demo charge. Had to be put on by fairly high
boat w/ a long gaff/pole https://t.co/3qzB7TrrYv
The distress call went out at 6 am. So, according to CENTCOM's analysis of this video, they're suggesting that 10 hours after
the tanker was hit, the IRGC just casually pulled up to the tanker to remove unexploded limpet mine in broad daylight?!
The Japanese company that owns the ship has refused to cooperate in this
false flag mission.
But in remarks to Japanese media, the president of the company that owns the ship said the vessel wasn't damaged by a mine. "A
mine doesn't damage a ship above sea level," said Yutaka Katada, president of Kokuka Sangyo, the owner and operator of the vessel.
"We aren't sure exactly what hit, but it was something flying towards the ship," he said.
Looking at this incident/narrative from any/every angle leaves one to conclude "false flag".
Finally, there is the question of "why"?
What would Iran hope to accomplish by this? I found one
establishment source that tried to rationalize.
Iran denied responsibility, with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif descending to bazaar-level conspiracy theories involving a false-flag
operation by Israel's Mossad.
If you're not inclined to believe the Trump administration – and such skepticism is entirely reasonable – most detectives would
still tell you that the most obvious culprit is usually responsible for the crime.
To those seeking logic behind the attacks, though, it may be hard to see why Iran would do this – but that assumes that the
regime in Tehran is a rational actor.
The Gulf of Oman attacks are especially hard to explain: targeting Japanese shipping on the very day that Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe was meeting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on a well-publicized peace mission would seem extraordinarily counterproductive, even
for a regime with an almost fanatical commitment to self-harm.
Have you ever noticed that everyone that we want to start a war with is crazy? Regimes that stand solid for generations under
hostile conditions are always run by maniacs. You'd think that insanity would prevent them from taking power in the first place,
but that seems to only be true with our allies.
As for the "most obvious culprit is usually responsible for the crime" that also happens to be "bazaar-level conspiracy theories
involving a false-flag operation by Israel's Mossad". Because Mossad actually does that.
Since the U.S.'s tightening of sanctions has squeezed Iranian oil exports, nobody else's should be allowed to pass through
waters within reach of the IRGC.
The Iranians know that these threats, if repeated, can lose their power if not followed with action. The attacks on the tankers,
then, can be explained as a demonstration that Khamenei's attack dogs have some teeth.
There is another rationale. If Iran does eventually agree to negotiate with the U.S., it will want to bring some bargaining
chips to the table – something it can exchange for the removal of sanctions. In the negotiations over the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran
was able to offer the suspension of its nuclear program. It doesn't have that particular chip now, although Tehran has recently
threatened to crank up the centrifuges again.
Meanwhile, the regime may have calculated that the only way to secure some kind of negotiating position is blackmail: End the
sanctions, or we take out some more tankers, and send oil prices surging.
This almost sounds logical, except for one thing: Iran tried that in 1988 and it didn't work. It only caused the one thing the
U.S. was itching for: to kill some Iranians.
Do you think that they've forgotten? Or that the U.S. is less warlike? Oh wait. Iranians are crazy and can't be reasoned with, amirite?
US public radio @NPR does not mention it was Iranians
who saved the crew. That's how terrible they are at journalism
-- boomerWithaLandline (@Irene34799239)
June 14, 2019
The only real question is, why such a transparent lie? Has the ruling elite gotten lazy or stupid? Or do they think that we are
that lazy and stupid? I have an alternative
theory .
For the last two years, as you've probably noticed, the corporate media have been not so subtly alternating between manufacturing
Russia hysteria and Nazi hysteria, and sometimes whipping up both at once. Thus, I've dubbed the new Official Enemy of Freedom
"the Putin-Nazis." They don't really make any sense, rationally, but let's not get all hung up on that. Official enemies don't
have to make sense. The important thing is, they're coming to get us, and to kill the Jews and destroy democracy and something
about Stalin, if memory serves. Putin is their leader, of course. Trump is his diabolical puppet. Julian Assange is well, Goebbels,
or something. Glenn Greenwald is also on the payroll, as are countless "useful idiots" like myself, whose job it is to sow division,
discord, racism, anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism, anti-Hillaryism, collusion rejectionism, ontological skepticism, and any other
horrible thing you can think of.
Their bullsh*t lies have gotten lazy and stupid because real effort isn't required to start a war and kill a lot of people.
That is the question, I ask thee? If El Trumpo was going to drain the swamp, why did he take these cretins, Bolton, Pompeo,
Haspel, Abrams into his cabinet? Is the tail, wagging the dog as usual?
The elite are both lazy and stupid. Even the Orange Man will not be sucked into another Douma style false flag operation.
The reasons why this is a basic false flag is obvious. If anybody reading about this doesn't understand the culprits responsible
weren't Iranian, then they should be interviewed for mental competency.
My money, the little that I have, is on either the Saudis or the Israelis; maybe even both.
But Pompous Mike and Bolt-on Bolt-off need to be removed from any semblance of governmental authority. I could go on but
this whole affair is making me tired...I'm going back to my swamp.
Gina Haspel is
facing a Congressional grilling as her confirmation hearings for the CIA director's position
get underway.
Should she overcome it, she'll be the first woman to hold the director's job. It's a high
profile position, but Haspel has been a pretty low profile person up until this point. So who
is Trump's nominee to run the government's spy agency?
Haspel, who would replace new secretary of state Mike Pompeo , has been
with the agency since 1985, spending much of her career undercover. She has received several
awards, including the George H. W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism and the
Presidential Rank Award, the highest award in the federal civil service. She also has overseen
the
torture of some terror suspects , which is what critics and former ambassadors are worried
about.
A 2017 New York Times report says Haspel, in 2002, oversaw the torture of two
suspects at a secret prison in Thailand and later was involved in the destruction of videotapes
documenting that torture.
One of those prisoners was waterboarded 83 times in a
single month, had his head repeatedly slammed into
walls , and endured other harsh methods before interrogators decided he had no useful
information to provide, says the Times .
As a result of such torture, she was shifted out of her role as head of the CIA's
clandestine service.
Haspel was picked to run the CIA's clandestine operations unit in 2013, but Senator
Dianne Feinstein , who was the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee at the
time, blocked the promotion because of Haspel's history of torture.
Within the agency, though, Haspel is reportedly widely respected – and has support
from members of both the Bush and Obama administrations. Where she stands personally on issues
such as extreme interrogation techniques is an unknown, as she has not offered any public
comments on policy, as you would expect for an undercover officer.
And that's what Senators are hoping to learn more about as their questioning gets
underway.
"... Kushner was initially denied a security clearance by career officials when he joined Trump's administration. A whistleblower has told Congress it was blocked due to concerns about Kushner's outside business interests and "foreign influence". Kushner was later granted a clearance, allegedly after a Trump appointee intervened. ..."
"... Richard Painter, a former ethics lawyer in Bush's administration who ran for the Democratic US Senate nomination in Minnesota last year, said he was troubled by the lack of disclosure around some of Cadre's funding. "The problem with Kushner – and with Trump – is that we have all these corporate entities, and often nobody knows who is invested in them and where those investors borrowed their money. We simply have no idea," said Painter. ..."
Overseas investment flowed to Cadre while Trump's son-in-law works
as US envoy, raising conflict of interest questions
in New York
Jared Kushner, who is married to Donald Trump's elder daughter Ivanka, kept a stake in Cadre
after joining the administration. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters A real estate company
part-owned by Jared
Kushner has received $90m in foreign funding from an opaque offshore vehicle since he
entered the White House as a senior adviser to his father-in-law Donald Trump.
Investment has flowed from overseas to the company, Cadre, while Kushner works as an
international envoy for the US, according to corporate filings and interviews. The money came
through a vehicle run by Goldman Sachs in the Cayman Islands , a tax haven that
guarantees corporate secrecy.
Kushner, who is married to Trump's elder daughter Ivanka, kept a stake in Cadre after
joining the administration, while selling other assets. His holding is now valued at up to
$50m, according to his financial disclosure documents.
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Cadre's foreign funding could create hidden conflicts of interest for Kushner as he performs
his work for the US government, according to some ethics experts, who raised concerns over the
lack of transparency around the investments.
"It will cause people to wonder whether he is being improperly influenced," said Jessica
Tillipman, a lecturer at George Washington University law school, who teaches government ethics
and anti-corruption laws.
Kushner resigned from Cadre's board and reduced his ownership stake to less than 25% after
he joined the White House, according to his attorneys. He failed to list Cadre on his first
ethics disclosure, later adding the company and saying the omission was inadvertent. Cadre says
he is not actively involved in the company's operations.
The names of the foreigners investing in Cadre via Goldman Sachs are not disclosed by the
companies, which are not required to make the information public. Two sources familiar with the
firm said much of the money came to the Cayman Islands vehicle from a second offshore tax
haven, while some came from Saudi Arabia.
Kushner was initially
denied a security clearance by career officials when he joined Trump's administration. A
whistleblower has told Congress it was blocked due to concerns about Kushner's outside business
interests and "foreign influence". Kushner was later granted a clearance, allegedly after a
Trump appointee intervened.
The White House and Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Kushner, did not respond to questions about
the foreign investors and Kushner's stake in Cadre.
A spokesman for Cadre declined to comment on the record. A spokesman for Goldman Sachs,
Patrick Scanlan, said: "Cadre does not have access to any information about the Goldman Sachs
clients who have invested in these vehicles."
Cadre was founded in 2014 by Kushner, his brother Joshua and their friend Ryan Williams, who
previously worked for Goldman Sachs. The company operates from a building in Manhattan owned by
the Kushner family's real estate corporation.
The company styles itself as an online marketplace where investors can come together to buy
property. But it has also built a real estate investment fund, now worth more than half a
billion dollars, that is used to buy properties across the US. The fund's value has risen
fivefold since 2017, when Kushner was appointed a White House adviser, following earlier slower
growth.
The offshore Goldman Sachs vehicle began collecting funds for Cadre in August 2017,
according to a
securities filing . The bank
announced in January last year that it had struck a deal for clients to invest up to $250m
in total with Cadre.
The vehicle is managed by accountants in the Cayman Islands and is owned by another offshore
Goldman Sachs entity. The arrangement is legal. Offshore jurisdictions have come under
increased scrutiny in recent years from international authorities concerned about their
secrecy.
Funding from the Cayman Islands vehicle goes into Cadre's real estate purchases in the US,
according to sources familiar with the company's work. Cadre charges an annual fee and takes a
cut of profits made from the properties.
This funding is separate from ownership stakes in Cadre itself bought by venture capitalists
in Silicon Valley and foreign billionaires, including the Chinese technology tycoon Jack Ma and
the Russian investor Yuri Milner. Cadre last year held talks with a fund backed by money from
the Saudi Arabian government, but no deal was done.
Trump and several members of his administration, including Kushner, have bucked precedent by
retaining business interests after entering the government. George W Bush and Bill Clinton
moved their wealth into "blind trusts", while Barack Obama had few assets beyond savings
accounts and investments in index funds.
Richard Painter, a former ethics lawyer in Bush's administration who ran for the
Democratic US Senate nomination in Minnesota last year, said he was troubled by the lack of
disclosure around some of Cadre's funding. "The problem with Kushner – and with Trump
– is that we have all these corporate entities, and often nobody knows who is invested in
them and where those investors borrowed their money. We simply have no idea," said
Painter.
Government officials are barred by law from being involved "personally and substantially" in
actions that benefit them financially, and are obliged to ensure they do not create an
appearance of bias.
Kushner says he has excluded himself from government policy on real estate. A footnote to
his financial disclosure form said he was recused from "particular matters in the
broker-dealer, real estate, and online financial services sectors to the extent they would have
a direct and predictable effect on Cadre".
The conflict of interest law treats spouses' financial interests as combined. Ivanka Trump
has been credited by Trump with advocating for an administration policy that promises to be
lucrative for real estate developers and investors. She denies any impropriety.
Kushner's own recusal on real estate matters in front of the government would not in itself
prevent him from taking actions in other policy areas that could entice foreign investors to
Cadre.
In all, Cadre's investment arm manages more than $522m in assets, according to its latest
filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which was submitted at the end of March.
Kushner has had financial ties to several different countries. His family's single most
expensive purchase, a skyscraper on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, was last year refinanced by a
fund backed by the Qatari government. In an
article for the Washington Post defending the family's businesses, Kushner's father,
Charles, said foreign investments were "a legal and appropriate stream of funding".
As Trump's special representative in the Middle East, Kushner has developed a close
relationship with Saudi Arabian officials, particularly the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
Cadre says it does not have any sovereign wealth funds among its investors.
Sources familiar with Cadre's setup said a small amount of money in the Goldman-Cadre
vehicle, estimated at about $1m, came from Saudi Arabia. Other funding arrived through vehicles
based in the British Virgin Islands, adding another layer of offshore secrecy to its
origins.
Virginia Canter, the chief ethics counsel at the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility
and Ethics in
Washington, said the opaque investments in Cadre would continue raising concerns as Kushner
carried out his government duties.
"It was one of the only assets that Kushner retained and it continues to collect foreign
investors without transparency," said Canter, a former White House attorney for Obama and
Clinton.
Kushner owns a stake worth between $25m and $50m in a "holding company for" Cadre, according
to his most recent financial disclosure form, which he filed in May 2018. Kushner and his wife
estimate their total wealth at between $235m and $812m.
Cadre was one of dozens of holdings added to a revised version of Kushner's 2017 financial
disclosure form that corrected his original filing.
Williams, Cadre's chief executive, has said the firm is "democratizing" real estate
investment. The small print of its website says its offerings are intended only for people who
earn at least $200,000 a year or have a net worth of $1m excluding the value of their home. The
company requires a minimum investment of $50,000.
Cadre recently announced plans to raise multimillion-dollar funds to invest in real estate
developments in parts of the US covered by the Trump administration's "opportunity zones"
program, which offers valuable tax breaks to developers and investors.
The program was championed by Ivanka Trump, according to her father, who said at the White
House that Ivanka had been "pushing this very hard". The remarks
raised allegations that policy she worked on could benefit her husband financially. She has
denied any impropriety.
"Mueller supposedly has forwarded
some material to federal and New York State prosecutors who have clear legal authority in those domains.
It has been known for at least two years, though, that substantial grounds (and evidence) already
existed to bring several cases to a grand jury.
That suggests that serious action never will be taken.
For one things, a number of prominent people would be exposed: e.g. Bibi Netanyahu, the heads of the
Russo-Israeli mafias, Felix Sater, the twice convicted felon and Trump 'counsellor' who avoided a second
prison term by agreeing to inform for the FBI and CIA but in fact worked both sides of the street, and
God knows who else.
Just as the Panama Papers scandal disappeared over the horizon, and the big 5
financial families got away with massive money-laundering for the drug cartels, and Deutsche Bank was
granted immunity by Angela Merkel despite their multiple criminal activities, so will the Trump affair
die out in obscurity."
In this interview we discuss
Trump-Russia and the deep state, disagree about 9/11, but agree that high-level corruption is out of
control.
Michael Brenner is Professor of
International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh; a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic
Relations, SAIS-Johns Hopkins (Washington, D.C.), contributor to research and consulting projects on
Euro-American security and economic issues. He publishes and teaches in the fields of American foreign
policy, Euro-American relations, and the European Union.
Trump did business with cement companies run by mafioso thugs because they also controlled the unions
and would call strikes if crossed. He was basically a target for shakedowns, and Trump knew those people
were not anyone to profitably do business with. I am sure Russian-Israeli organised crime would be the
same.
Anything to do with the Mafia back in the days of Gotti was massively investigated Trump is too
wary and careful with his money to get burned that way.
As Halifax observed, men often mistake
themselves but they never forget themselves, so I would think it is neither conspiracy as Barrett says
or the incompetence which Brenner suggests.
You did not need to be in the CIA to have an inkling. In
fact the whole plan was virtually public knowledge beforehand. It was broadcast on the BBC well before
9/11 that mullahs in London mosques were advocating the highjacking of airplanes and crashing them into
American skyscrapers. This fact was subsequently alluded to by BBC reporters in the aftermath of 9/11.
I think it is becoming clear that a disproportionate amount of FBI and NY DA's resources were put
into chasing the Mafia instead of Muslim terrorism.
Giuliani made such a reputation on the back of
prosecuting the Mafia, and then the FBI had a household name like Gotti to go after, that the careerists
in law enforcement doubled down on a bunch of low level racketeers, even after the first WTC attack.
The belief that somehow the Mafia was more of a threat to New York than al Qaeda -- that caused
the FBI to let their guard down on the bin Laden threat. [ ]
There is now little doubt that if the Feds had devoted as much energy to a surveillance of Sphinx
as they had to the Ravenite Social Club, they would have been in the middle of the 9/11 plot months
before Black Tuesday. Because in July of 2001, Khalid al-Midhar and Salem al-Hazmi got their fake
I.D.'s delivered to them in a mailbox at the identical location the FBI had been onto in the decade
since El Sayyid Nosair had killed Meier Kahane. The man who supplied those fake ID's that allowed
al-Midhar and al-Hazmi to board A.A. Flight #77 that hit the Pentagon, was none other than Mohammed
El-Attriss the co-incorporator of Sphinx with Waleed al-Noor – whom Patrick Fitzgerald had put on
the unindicted co-conspirators list along with bin Laden and Ali Mohamed in 1995.
@anon26_
that, and the fact that it's race-realist throughout. Note, for instance, the early juxtaposition of the
2 rich "Russian" mafia Jew sisters (played to the hilt by 2 Jewesses, Gal Gadot and Kate Winslett)
reading to the half-'groid kid (while getting their feet manicured) with the elementally poor-but-good,
White cop's wife reading to their White kid. It's full of subtle stuff like this, but you have to see it
a few times to pick it all out. I also like the way they got actual spic 'bangers playing spic 'bangers.
That worked.
@Haxo Angmark
I saw this film a year ago and I can tell you exectly why it got no distribution:
It was a shitty,
mean-spirited story of horrible people robbing, stealing, killing for no good reasons. Yeah there were
reasons but none of them were good ones.
Furthermore the tragic ending made absoutely no sense and was just a stupid contrivance. Despite good
acting from Gal Gadot, Woody and Alfeck, nothing could save this movie.
I needed to shower and scrub myself 10 times after watching this horrible nonsense.
Horrible in every respect.
I know that wasn't what you were expecting. It's because of the Jews. Ugh. Had nothing to do with
that, but a lot to do with how the movie tested and it tested poorly because if you watch it, you hate
humanity and yourself just from this movie.
That remind me how old Kushner tried to smear his relative...
Notable quotes:
"... They are told that the daughter of a Russian billionaire plans large investments in Austria. It was said that she would like to help his party. The alleged daughter of the Russian billionaire, who is actually also Austrian, and her "friend" serve an expensive dinner. Alcohol flows freely. The pair offers a large party donation but asks for returns in form of mark ups on public contracts. ..."
"... The "Russian" female is notably very attractive with a slender build. There is a honey-trap angle here as well. This would likely inspire the boasting (in order to impress her) on the part of the wingnut politician. ..."
"... The far-right is the Troy Horse of transnational corporations and capital and already discredited neoliberal stablishment which comes now disguised under the softening label of "populists". Beware, there seems to be a coordinated effort at several blogs in the ten previous days of the European elections to whitewash the far-right. ..."
"... So this very much hints something more. Right now there is a debate of cocain being visible on the table but this accusation points more towards schnickle with a babe imho. The babe to his right is not that ugly, admittely. ..."
"... As expected the hysteria of "russian" meddling have now publicized to weaken FPÖ in the EU election. Winners? NATO/US parties. ..."
"... Seems indeed to be a honeypot aspect to the entrapment, and it's quite possible Strache stepped down at once to avoid that part to come to light, so that the public revelations would be limited to the economic shenanigans and influence-peddling level. ..."
"... Also, this goes to show that the bulk of our Western politicians, across all the political spectrum, are a bunch of mediocre and quite corrupt fools. For him not to smell that this was a setup from the very first minute, it must be that such proposals are common place all across the board - which will only reinforce my suspicion that our societies, peoples and mankind as a whole would only benefit if we fully wiped out our economic, financial and political establishment and started from scratches. ..."
"... Blackmail, smear campaigns, various traps via honey or corruption, hookers and blow, gay sex, paedofilia, or what-have-you, - all or in combination. Politicians are "all" compromised in these ways. Buck the system or threaten the status quo - whereby it gets somebody's serious attention and the shite hits the fan. ..."
"... The savages in this neoliberal order use the secret services to subvert democracy. Deception and manipulation are the means used to corrupt the public domain. They would push the most pliable and ruthless leaders into office. Catastrophe and violence and disinformation are their most powerful weapons. But I still think that political processes and elections do matter; and what counts is a struggle to improve and reform the system of government. Doing our best to protect and maintain the integrity of electoral processes is something that requires both protests and political campaigns. ..."
"... The very strong implication certainly seems to be that there may be further video of Strache sleeping with the honey pot. He obviously knows what happened that night. If there were video cameras hidden everywhere, that was obviously one of the intentions behind the sting from the outset. ..."
"... B, please do an article on the Nazi penetration of the German security services, Interior Ministry, Army, CDU etc, and links to the NSU affair, shredding of millions of documents by the Interior Ministry when demanded by the courts as evidence, links with the Board members and advisory board members of German big business especially Siemens and Deutche Bank and Bayer, etc. ..."
"... It is a wonder Strache's remark "Journalists are the biggest whores on the planet" and how he says he can subvert an entire media outlet to his political agenda by even firing the few remaining fringe elements. ..."
"... I don't think Strache is as harmless as you portray him, B. You fall for his defence strategy if you attribute all his statements to the influence of alcohol. At that time, the man was very confident that he would soon be at the levers of power, which then materialized. It remains to be proven whether he did not put into practice anything of what he talked about at that house in Ibiza. After all, he was talking about the by far most influential newspaper in Austria. ..."
"... Of course it is true that it is the neoliberal globalisers who have brought us to where we stand today. But that doesn' make people like Strache and Salvini any less dangerous. If they rise to total power, the result will be a naked dictatorship. Strache was beaten with his own weapons, you don't have to be under any illusions. ..."
"... Who could have ordered such an elaborate sting operation? ..."
"... The sophisticated operation using actors and a villa prepared with hidden cameras and microphones shows that this is hardly a normal case of dirty campaigning by political opponents. Most likely, either it was an action by a secret service or someone with deep pockets hired former secret agents. ..."
"... If it was an action by secret services, the most plausible explanation seems to be that Western secret services targeted Strache because FPÖ is one of the parties who is in favor of restoring normal relations with Russia ..."
"... François Fillon comes to mind, a French conservative candidate who also had a quite a friendly attitude towards Russia - shortly before the elections, it was revealed (at least claimed) that Fillon had given his wife ficticious employment, and Fillon lost popularity, which helped Macron enormously. ..."
"... Probably, some of the things Strache said during this sting operation were inacceptable, and Fillon may also not be innocent, but if there is a systematic selective targeting of European politicians who want to normalize relations with Russia by secret services, that would be a huge problem for democracy. ..."
"... In 2016, Joseph Mifsud invited George Papadopoulos to Rome and introduced him to "Putin's niece" with the intent of smearing Trump as "Russian puppet" and destroying his election chances. In 2017, someone (who?) invited Heinz-Christian Strache to Ibiza and introduced him to "Russian billionaire's niece" with the intent of smearing Strache as "Russian puppet" and destroying his party's election chances. Notice a pattern? ..."
"... This is a clear case of Germany interfering in Austrian elections. Austria should deport 60 German diplomats, shut down German embassy in Vienna, and impose sanctions on Germany. Also put a German girl interested in Austrian politics in jail for 18 months. ..."
"... Thinking about it, after revealing e-mail of HRC, Podesta etc. were published, their core supporters were enraged about the dirty trick and did not pay attention to the disclosed content, while for the core opponents of HRC she was already sufficiently vilified so the net change in voting intentions that can be attributed to that incident was modest. ..."
"... Anyone who does not directly have his or her family's nose in the EU trough at this point knows that the policies espoused by transatlantic puppets like Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron push our countries and our continent towards self-destruction. Life in Europe, post-1968 and pre-2013, has been pretty damn good. There's absolutely no good reason for us to rip up our traditions or turn into a continent of immigrants and mobile job seekers. ..."
"... As Strache explains in the video, Austrian dirty tricks are done "via another country". ..."
"... To those who fill that politics of Strache are obnoxious and that justifies entrapment, remembers that methods of that type are not improvised, and that means that there is an apparatus that does it. We noted similarities with provocations against George Papadopoulos. In the latter case the target was cautious, after all, we had to be well aware of such methods. But anyone who is despised by NATO establishment are similar group can be on the receiving end, think about Assange. ..."
During the last days a right wing politician in Austria was taken down by using an elaborate
sting. Until Friday Heinz-Christian Strache was leader of the far right (but not fascist)
Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) and the Vice Chancellor of the country. On Friday morning two
German papers, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Der Spiegel
published (German)
reports (English) about an old video that was made to take Strache down.
The FPOe has good connections with United Russia, the party of the Russian President Putin,
and to other right-wing parties in east Europe. It's pro-Russian position has led to verbal
attacks on and defamation of the party from NATO supporting and neoliberal circles.
In July 2017 Strache and his right hand man Johann Gudenus, who is also the big number in
the FPOe, get invited for dinner to a rented villa on Ibiza, the Spanish tourist island in the
Mediterranean. They are told that the daughter of a Russian billionaire plans large investments
in Austria. It was said that she would like to help his party. The alleged daughter of the
Russian billionaire, who is actually also Austrian, and her "friend" serve an expensive dinner.
Alcohol flows freely. The pair offers a large party donation but asks for returns in form of
mark ups on public contracts.
Unknown to Strache the villa is professionally bugged with many hidden cameras and
microphones.
A scene from the video. Source: Der Falter (vid, German)
During the six hour long party several schemes get proposed by the "Russian" and are
discussed. Strache rejects most of them. He insists several times that everything they plan or
do must be legal and conform to the law. He says that a large donation could probably be
funneled through an endowment that would then support his party. It is a gray area under
Austrian party financing laws. They also discuss if the "Russian" could buy the Kronen
Zeitung , Austria's powerful tabloid, and use it to prop up his party.
The evening goes on with several bottles of vodka on the table. Starche gets a bit drunk and
boosts in front of the "oligarch daughter" about all his connections to rich and powerful
people. He does not actually have these.
Strache says that, in exchange for help for his party, the "Russian" could get public
contracts for highway building and repair. Currently most of such contracts in Austria go to
the large Austrian company, STRABAG, that is owned by a neoliberal billionaire who opposes the
FPOe. At that time Strache was not yet in the government and had no way to decide about such
contracts.
At one point Strache seems to understand that the whole thing is a setup. But his right hand
man calms him down and vouches for the "Russian". The sting ends with Strache and his companion
leaving the place. The never again see the "Russian" and her co-plotter. Nothing they talked
about will ever come to fruition.
Three month later Strache and his party win more than 20% in the Austrian election and form
a coalition government with the conservative party OeVP led by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. Even
while the FPOe controls several ministries, it does not achieve much politically. It lacks a
real program and the government's policies are mostly run by the conservatives.
Nearly two years after the evening on Ibiza, ten days before the European parliament
election in which Strache's party is predicted to achieve good results, a video of the evening
on Ibiza is handed to two German papers which are known to be have strong transatlanticist
leanings and have previously been used for other shady 'leaks'. The papers do not hesitate to
take part in the plot and publish extensive reports about the video.
After the reports appeared Strache immediately stepped down and the
conservatives ended the coalition with his party. Austria will now have new elections.
On Bloomberg Leonid Bershidsky opines
on the case:
Strache's discussion with the Russian oligarch's fake niece shows a propensity for dirty
dealing that has nothing to do with idealistic nationalism. Nationalist populists often
agitate against entrenched, corrupt elites and pledge to drain various swamps. In the videos,
however, Strache and Gudenus behave like true swamp creatures, savoring rumors of drug and
sex scandals in Austrian politics and discussing how to create an authoritarian media machine
like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's.
I do not believe that the people who voted for the FPOe (and similar parties in other
countries) will subscribe to that view. The politics of the main stream parties in Austria have
for decades been notoriously corrupt. Compared to them Strache and his party are astonishingly
clean. In the video he insists several times that everything must stay within the legal realm.
Whenever the "Russian" puts forward a likely illegal scheme, Starche emphatically rejects
it.
Bershidsky continues:
Strache, as one of the few nationalist populists in government in the European Union's
wealthier member states, was an important member of the movement Italian Interior Minister
Matteo Salvini has been trying to cobble together ahead of the European Parliament election
that will take place next week. On Saturday, he was supposed to attend a Salvini-led rally in
Milan with other like-minded politicians from across Europe. Instead, he was in Vienna
apologizing to his wife and to Kurz and protesting pitifully that he'd been the victim of a
"political assassination" -- a poisonous rain on the Italian right-winger's parade.
...
This leaves the European far right in disarray and plays into the hands of centrist and
leftist forces ahead of next week's election. Salvini's unifying effort has been thoroughly
undermined, ...
This is also a misreading of the case. The right-wing parties will use the case to boost
their legitimacy.
Strache was obviously set up by some intelligence services, probably a German one with a
British assist. The original aim was likely to blackmail him. But during the meeting on Ibiza
Strache promised and did nothing illegal. Looking for potential support for his party is not a
sin. Neither is discussing investments in Austria with a "daughter of a Russian oligarch." Some
boosting while drunk is hardly a reason to go to jail. When the incident provided too little
material to claim that Strache is corrupt, the video was held back until the right moment to
politically assassinate him with the largest potential damage to his party. That moment was
thought to be now.
But that Strache stepped down after the sudden media assault only makes him more convincing.
The right-wing all over Europe will see him as a martyr who was politically assassinated
because he worked for their cause. The issue will increase the right-wingers hate against the
'liberal' establishment. It will further motivate them: "They attack us because we are right
and winning." The new far-right block Natteo Salvini
will setup in the European Parliament will likely receive a record share of votes.
Establishment writers notoriously misinterpret the new right wing parties and their
followers. This stand-offish sentence in the Spiegel story about Strache's party
demonstrates the problem:
In the last election, the party drew significant support from the working class, in part
because of his ability to simplify even the most complicated of issues and play the common
man, even in his role as vice chancellor.
The implicit thesis, that the working class is too dumb to understand the "most complicated
of issues", is not only incredibly snobbish but utterly false. The working class understands
very well what the establishment parties have done to it and continue to do. The increasing
vote share of the far-right is a direct consequence of the behavior of the neoliberal center
and of the lack of real left alternatives.
Last week, before the Strache video appeared, Craig Murray put his finger on the
wound:
The massive economic shock following the banking collapse of 2007–8 is the direct cause
of the crisis of confidence which is affecting almost all the institutions of western
representative democracy. The banking collapse was not a natural event, like a tsunami. It
was a direct result of man-made systems and artifices which permitted wealth to be generated
and hoarded primarily through multiple financial transactions rather than by the actual
production and sale of concrete goods, and which then disproportionately funnelled wealth to
those engaged in the mechanics of the transactions.
...
The rejection of the political class manifests itself in different ways and has been diverted
down a number of entirely blind alleys giving unfulfilled promise of a fresh start –
Brexit, Trump, Macron. As the vote share of the established political parties – and
public engagement with established political institutions – falls everywhere, the
chattering classes deride the political symptoms of status quo rejection by the people as
"populism". It is not populism to make sophisticated arguments that undermine the received
political wisdom and take on the entire weight of established media opinion.
If one wants to take down the far right one has to do so with arguments and good politics
for the working class. Most people, especially working class people, have a strong sense for
justice. The political assassination of Christian Strache is unjust. What was done during the
2007-8 banking crisis was utterly corrupt and also unjust. Instead of going to jail the bankers
were rewarded with extreme amounts of money for their assault on the well being of the people.
The public was then told that it must starve through austerity to make up for the loss of
money.
While I consider myself to be a strong leftist who opposes the right wherever possible, I
believe to understand why people vote for Strache's FBOe and similar parties. When one talks to
these people issues of injustice and inequality always come up. The new 'populist' parties at
least claim to fight against the injustice done to the common men. Unlike most of the
establishment parties they seem to be still mostly clean and not yet corrupted.
In the early 1990s Strache actually flirted with violent fascists but he rejected their way.
While he has far-right opinions, he and his like are no danger to our societies. If we can not
accept that Strache and his followers have some legitimate causes, we will soon find us
confronted with way more extreme people. The neoliberal establishment seems to do its best to
achieve that.
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b - thanks .. i agree "elaborate sting" and "the video was held back until the right
moment"... clearly this was a set up.. strache says he is going to pursue this legally..
"working class people, have a strong sense for justice. The political assassination of
Christian Strache is unjust." injustices are being done on a constant basis now and being
justified by the msm regularly.. i think this is part of the reason people are seeking
alternatives - whatever they might be... power to the people..screw the neoliberal agenda and
blackmail artists that are so rampant at present...
Funny thing is e.g.- a German comedian Jan Böhmerman knew before. Already in April he
said in a Video call live in Austian television duringthe TV-prize-giving of the trophy
"Romy" that he couldn´t attend personally to receive the price because right know he
was sitting together with some FPÖ-buddies in a Russian oligarch-villa on Ibiza,
sniffing cocain, drinking and negotiating the takeover of the "Krone-Zeitung" (the biggest
rag in Austira, smth like the "Bild" in Germany or "The sun" in Britain).
Your article here raises a number of important issues. More or less at random:
* If I understand your characterization of your political leanings, based on this and on
the perspectives MoA offers, I share many of your views. And whereas there may be a certain
Schadenfreude at seeing a right-wing, B-team operator reveal himself, I agree that the forces
behind the sting itself are of potentially far greater interest (and danger)..
* For every sting and smear such as this that we see, how many others take place sub rosa,
corrupting our political and social landscapes, leaving no evidence that might trigger
criticism or resistance?
* I'm not sure of how this plays out legally, but this seems not just to have been a
sting, but entrapment, in which (if these were law enforcement agents) we could protest that
the only illegal activity being proposed, was by those conducting the sting.
* If this was, as you suggest, authored by the BND, then this would be a clear instance of
election "meddling" -- though not of the sort that our shining democracies are now being
warned against. (At least President Putin will not be accused of conducting it, for once.
That oligarch's daughter could have come from anywhere, but of course Russia.) Russia gets
smeared is probably the larger aim, rather than this particularly Austrian politician.
The "Russian" female is notably very attractive with a slender build. There is a honey-trap
angle here as well. This would likely inspire the boasting (in order to impress her) on the
part of the wingnut politician.
I think the word is protofascist. b. you have got a blind spot seeing geopolitics everywhere. Truth is most of this is
simply a battle of billionaires. The key to understand the Ibiza video is the product placement. Everybody there drinks Red
Bull plus alcohol (I am not sure about the alcohol the loss of control of the politicians who
are present suggests cocaine).
The owner of Red Bull is an Austrian billionaire called Dietrich Mateschitz.
Mateschitz is a right wing crank building a media empire in Austria including an
"investigative platform" called addendum that is something like the Austrian version of
Breitbart.
For some reason "addendum" began to shoot against Rene Benzko, an Austrian real estate
billionaire, who intends to take over Kronenzeitung.
And guess what, Rene Benzko was mentioned in the video "as a friend", and a large part of
the conversation centered on taking over Kronenzeitung something Rene Benzko is involved
in.
Strache, Vice Chancellor of Austria, explained in the video for every Austrian to
understand, that his party's scheme is based on accepting illegal contributions via a ngo,
and lowering taxes in return.
According to what he says in the video he also intends to charge for water by selling the
right to the Latvian/Russien "niece of a Russian oligarch" or someone else prepared to pay to
his party's ngo.
Anybody who is not a billionaire voting for FPÖ after this must be braindead.
> with United Russia, the party of the Russian President Putin
Putin himself though stresses his non involvement in that party, he also tried to
bootstrap organizations that could supplant or even challenge U.R. at least in some
niches.
While U.R. probably is party of Russian ruling elites, it is hardly one-man-show of
LDPR/Zhirinovsky kind and whether Putin is "gray cardinal" of U.R. is very questionable.
It is said that children and drunk people always say the truth...
Why is it not to be taken into account what he said once drunk enough?
For to be a strong leftist, b, you spend a great effort in discharging this man, while
whitewashing the far-right saying they are no danger for our societies and assuring that they
are clean, when that is a thing you do not know since they have not had yet the possibility
to rule.
They are neither cleaner nor inocuous for our societies. For starters they have chosen as
scapegoat the migrants when who is to blame for the wave of migration is the US, NATO and
their imperial ambitions, so as to throw poor against poor and that way the elites could
continue quietly looting us, while we fight each other. You will never heard anything agsint
banks ans elites from anybody in the far-right.
FYI, it is not Matteo Salvini who is forming a coalition of the far-right to conflude to
European elections, but it is Bannon from his HQ in a Cisterciense monastery in Italy who is
commanding this operation. Salvini is really a piece, having supported Guiado and the
Venezuelan coup intend, and said what he would do with the Yellow Vests , "I don't go to the
Yellow Vests with Molotov cocktails, if anything, I put them in prison" ...
Then it is AfD, who goes also in the block, whose members have claimed the Germans should
be proud of the performance of the German Army during both WW....
Then Vox, financed by MEK and Israeli lobby and promoted by Bannon and the WH, who only wear
clear neoliberal economic policies in their, for the rest, confusing program.
The far-right is the Troy Horse of transnational corporations and capital and already
discredited neoliberal stablishment which comes now disguised under the softening label of
"populists". Beware, there seems to be a coordinated effort at several blogs in the ten
previous days of the European elections to whitewash the far-right.
"Glaubt er, man wäre bei Alkohol nachsichtiger? Offenbar schien er sich betrunken kaum
mehr im Griff zu haben - und dies ist wohlgemerkt seine Erklärung für die
Äußerungen im Video. Erst gegen Ende beginnt er eigenes Fehlverhalten
einzuräumen und bittet insbesondere seine Frau um Verzeihung, mit der er ein wenige
Monate altes Kind hat. Kenner Straches ahnten an dieser Stelle bereits, dass dieser sich
bereits für Dinge entschuldigt, die zu diesem Zeitpunkt der Öffentlichkeit noch gar
nicht bekannt sind."
Does he (Strache) really assume he would get more indulgence by blaming it on the
alcolhol? Obviously when being drunken he wasn´t in control of himself anymore - and
this is actually his explanation for his statements in the video. Somehow at the end he
finally begins admitting own misconduct and especially asks his wife for forgiveness, with
which he has a few months old child. Experts on Strache suspected from this moment on, that
he apologized for things which at this moment are not known to the public, yet"
So this very much hints something more. Right now there is a debate of cocain being
visible on the table but this accusation points more towards schnickle with a babe imho. The
babe to his right is not that ugly, admittely.
battle of billionaires.... Anybody who is not a billionaire voting for FPÖ after
this must be braindead.
Anyone who believes voting will change anything is braindead. Only supporting protest Movements (like Gillet Jeune) and free press/citizen journalism
(Wikileaks/Assange) will have any real effect.
Great piece - I dont see how Strache actually made anything wrong or atleast nothing not
normal to politicians that constantly seek out support by big, powerful people. Most likely
the deep state in Austria struck FPÖ just like FBI struck Trump.
As expected the hysteria of "russian" meddling have now publicized to weaken FPÖ in the
EU election.
Winners? NATO/US parties.
Not some very close relative like daughter or sister, which may be fearsome, as "russian
mafia" oligarch could be expected to "protect" her of ladykillers viciously. But also not some far relative who would be seen alien and have no financial support.
Just enough distance to be safe to hit on and try to share the oligarch's money. It was both honey&gold trap.
If voting would be such a waste, why would had taken so hard and long to achieve voting
for minorities and women?
Why the parties go to such efforts to campaign and disguise themselves as wolves with
sheepskin like the far-right?
Why would certain forces need to go to such editorial coordinated efforts through their
several blogs out there to give an impression of certain candidates which is opposite to what
they really are? Wikilieaks/Assange are part of this efforts, btw
Seems indeed to be a honeypot aspect to the entrapment, and it's quite possible Strache
stepped down at once to avoid that part to come to light, so that the public revelations
would be limited to the economic shenanigans and influence-peddling level.
Also, this goes to show that the bulk of our Western politicians, across all the political
spectrum, are a bunch of mediocre and quite corrupt fools. For him not to smell that this was
a setup from the very first minute, it must be that such proposals are common place all
across the board - which will only reinforce my suspicion that our societies, peoples and
mankind as a whole would only benefit if we fully wiped out our economic, financial and
political establishment and started from scratches.
Spanish Colonel ( ret.) Pedro Baños, who was postulated for head of the CNI by the
Socialist government of Pedro Sanchez, was object of slander campiagn as "pro-Russian" by the
Spanish cluster of Integrity Initiative, only for declarations on the prejudice of sanctions
for Spain, and nobody made such noise....
Blackmail, smear campaigns, various traps via honey or corruption, hookers and blow, gay sex,
paedofilia, or what-have-you, - all or in combination. Politicians are "all" compromised in
these ways. Buck the system or threaten the status quo - whereby it gets somebody's serious
attention and the shite hits the fan.
Enforcement and and penalties are selective. Selective enforcement. It's how "The Law" operates. Not defending the wingnut pig in the article. I appreciate Sasha's Trojan Horse allegory above.
wow...a bunch of elitist neoliberals with contempt for anyone lacking 10 zeroes on their
paychecks and zero useful policies use "russian collusion" to entrap and embarrass a
pseudo-right wing politician. who could ever imagine such a scenario? and why learn from the
masses you represent when james o'keefe gives you all the inspiration you need?
but at least they blocked the ascension of someone who would trade political favors for
money. that kind of nonsense simply won't do in western society.
Thanks for this explanation, b! I first saw this reported at Geroman's Twitter and used
machine translation of the article he linked, but it lacked the context which you provided.
This incident is subsumed within the larger conflict that's trying to keep EU from combining
with BRI/EAEU, which means its roots/culprits are NATO/Outlaw US Empire--it points to
desperation on their part.
Sorry, you don't see the Latvian/Russian woman. You see Gudenus' wife who is from
Serbia. Whatever the publishing papers got, it was a copy. More will come out.
The savages in this neoliberal order use the secret services to subvert democracy. Deception
and manipulation are the means used to corrupt the public domain. They would push the most
pliable and ruthless leaders into office. Catastrophe and violence and disinformation are
their most powerful weapons. But I still think that political processes and elections do
matter; and what counts is a struggle to improve and reform the system of government. Doing
our best to protect and maintain the integrity of electoral processes is something that
requires both protests and political campaigns.
So this very much hints something more. Right now there is a debate of cocain being
visible on the table but this accusation points more towards schnickle with a babe imho. The
babe to his right is not that ugly, admittely. Posted by: Bratislav Metulski | May 19, 2019 2:20:38 PM | 8
The very strong implication certainly seems to be that there may be further video of
Strache sleeping with the honey pot. He obviously knows what happened that night. If there
were video cameras hidden everywhere, that was obviously one of the intentions behind the
sting from the outset.
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On the issue of "populism" and right-wing parties I confess I have a problem. I certainly
want to see the Establishment thrashed, and especially in next week's EU elections, and there
is no question that at the moment the right-wing parties have far more potential to upset the
establishment than the left. If "Populist" parties are able to radically upset the EU
Parliament, that should bring a much-needed hammer and axe to the anti-populist activities of
the EU, and hopefully lead to the breakup of the EU.
On the other hand, unlike B, I do have extremely strong worries about the rising power of
the far right and their connections to Nazis and neo-Nazis. I am concerned - even without the
involvement of Bannon, but far more so with - that the rise of "populism" is a calculated
policy of a Nazi segment of the Establishment that is designed specifically to usher in an
international Nazi movement across Europe and Latin America under the leadership of and
proxies of the - ever more and more Nazi behaving - US (which itself is in so many very real
ways descended from Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and the Japanese war criminals including Bush's
family, tight connections with Nazi war criminals in the CIA, and historical leadership
figures in the CIA). The large scale and extremely high level infiltration of hardcore Nazis
in the German security services, Interior Ministry, Army, and CDU politics is a ticking
timebomb waiting for its moment. There seems to be similar high level Nazi infiltration in
many other countries.
We have to be careful what we wish for!
B, please do an article on the Nazi penetration of the German security services, Interior
Ministry, Army, CDU etc, and links to the NSU affair, shredding of millions of documents by
the Interior Ministry when demanded by the courts as evidence, links with the Board members
and advisory board members of German big business especially Siemens and Deutche Bank and
Bayer, etc.
Colonialism is a leech with two suckers, one of which sucks the metropolitan proletariat
and the other that of the colonies. If we want to kill this monster, we must cut off both
suckers at the same time. If only one is cut off, the other will continue to suck the blood
of the proletariat, the animal will continue to live, and the cut–off sucker will
grow again. The Russian Revolution has grasped this truth clearly. That is why it is not
satisfied with making fine platonic speeches and drafting "humanitarian" resolutions in
favor of oppressed peoples, but it teaches them to struggle; and helps them spiritually, as
proclaimed by Lenin in his theses on the colonial question. To the Baku Congress,
twenty–one Eastern nations sent delegates. Representatives of Western workers'
parties also participated in the work of this congress. For the first time, the proletariat
of the conquering Western States and that of the subject Eastern countries fraternally
joined hands and deliberated in common on the best means to defeat their common enemy,
imperialism .
Following this historic congress, despite internal and external difficulties,
revolutionary Russia has never hesitated to come to the help of peoples awakened by its
heroic and victorious revolution. One of its first important acts was the founding of the
University of the East.(...)
The sixty–two nationalities represented at the University form a "Commune." Its
chairman and functionaries are elected every three months by all the students.
A student delegate takes part in the economic and administrative management of the
University. All must regularly and in turn work in the kitchen, the library, the club, etc.
All "misdemeanors" and disputes are judged and settled by an elected tribunal in the
presence of all comrades. Once a week, the "Commune" holds a meeting to discuss the
international political and economic situation. From time to time, meetings and evening
parties are organized where the amateur artists introduce the art and culture of their
country.
The fact that the Communists not only treat the "inferior natives of the colonies"
like brothers, but that they get them to participate in the political life of the country,
is highly characteristic of the "barbarity" of the Bolsheviks. Treated in their native
country as "submissive subjects" or "protéges," having no other right but that to
pay taxes, the Eastern students, who are neither electors nor eligible for election in
their own country, from whom the right to express their political opinion is withdrawn, in
the Soviet Union take part in the election of the Soviets and have the right to send their
representatives to the Soviets. Let our brothers of the colonies who vainly seek a change
of nationality make a comparison between bourgeois democracy and proletarian
democracy.
These students have suffered themselves and have witnessed the sufferings of others.
All have lived under the yoke of "high civilization," all have been victims of exploitation
and oppression by foreign capitalists . Moreover, they passionately long to acquire
knowledge and to study. They are serious and full of enthusiasm. They are entirely
different from the frequenters of the boulevards of the Latin Quarter, the Eastern students
in Paris, Oxford, and Berlin. It can be said without exaggeration that under the roof of
this University is the future of the colonial peoples.
The colonial countries of the Near and Far East, stretching from Syria to Korea,
cover an extent of more than 15 million square kilometers and have more than 1,200 million
inhabitants. All these immense countries are now under the yoke of capitalism and
imperialism. Although their considerable numbers should be their strength, these submissive
peoples have never yet made any serious attempts to free themselves from this yoke. Not yet
having realized the value of international solidarity, they have not known how to unite for
the struggle. Relationships between their countries are not yet established as they are
among the peoples of Europe and America. They possess gigantic strength and do not yet
realize it. The University of the East, assembling all the young, active, and intelligent
leaders of the colonized countries, has fulfilled a great task, namely:
-It teaches to the future vanguard militants the principles of class struggle,
confused in their minds by race conflicts and patriarchal customs.
-It establishes between the proletarian vanguard of the colonies a close contact with the
Western proletariat, thus preparing the way for the close and effective cooperation which
will alone ensure the final victory of the international working class.
-It teaches the colonized people, hitherto separated from one another, to know one another
and to unite, by creating the bases of a future union of Eastern countries, one of the
wings of the proletarian revolution.
-It sets the proletariat of colonialist countries and example of what they can and must do
in favor of their oppressed brothers .
This is why it is needed to throw the workers from the West against the migrants from the
East and South, to avoid the invincible force they would constitute together.
This dirty work is made by the far-right in the name of corporate liberal elites.
They can play that they fight each other, but as soon as they get seats at the European
Parliament, you will find the previous allegedly opponents all together aligned in the same
Eurogroup. Time to time.
It is a wonder Strache's remark "Journalists are the biggest whores on the planet" and how he
says he can subvert an entire media outlet to his political agenda by even firing the few
remaining fringe elements. Yet here we can still talk about he was drunk, how his being set
up was unjust, and how the poor guy will have to miss his lovers' right cause in Italy. Those
vulgar masses are at it again! There can be no justification about the masses' support of
far-right causes and the clowns like him. If you think otherwise it is the likes of moonofalabama next in line to be "fired", or eliminated. Legitimize their causes and it is
Germany in 1920s all over again.
"Left/right", I agree, is nearly without semantic value. Nevertheless class interests
remain...how is it that this is so? Think about that, comrades.
And then consider wsws report about "At the annual meeting of the Bundeswehr reserve in
autumn 2016, Veith announced: "I dream that in 2026 there will be a provincial regiment in
each state with a charismatic commander, a troop flag and an organization of between 800 and
2,000 reservists to support the police and the Bundeswehr in emergency situations." " see>
"German government prepares troops for domestic missions" @ wsws.org
Considering the overall aspects, it's rational to expect all parties in Europe to make
plans, is it not? Of course the working class is not permitted to make such plans...is
it?
I don't think Strache is as harmless as you portray him, B. You fall for his defence strategy
if you attribute all his statements to the influence of alcohol. At that time, the man was
very confident that he would soon be at the levers of power, which then materialized. It
remains to be proven whether he did not put into practice anything of what he talked about at
that house in Ibiza. After all, he was talking about the by far most influential newspaper in
Austria.
Of course it is true that it is the neoliberal globalisers who have brought us to where we
stand today. But that doesn' make people like Strache and Salvini any less dangerous. If they
rise to total power, the result will be a naked dictatorship. Strache was beaten with his own
weapons, you don't have to be under any illusions.
I agree with you that this is not the big setback for the right the mainstream parties dream
of. But it won't help the fascists in spe in the future either.
Who could have ordered such an elaborate sting operation?
A first association might be the dirty, deceptive campaigning SPÖ used against
Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) - the Silberstein affair -, but I think the methods that were
chosen are too different to make a common source likely, Strache was targeted in a much more
sophisticated way. The Silberstein affair may, however, be the reason why the tapes have
partially been published now rather than before the last Austrian elections - at that time,
dirty campaigning might have been discredited too much for the tape to have the desired
effect,
The sophisticated operation using actors and a villa prepared with hidden cameras and
microphones shows that this is hardly a normal case of dirty campaigning by political
opponents. Most likely, either it was an action by a secret service or someone with deep
pockets hired former secret agents.
If it was an action by secret services, the most plausible explanation seems to be that
Western secret services targeted Strache because FPÖ is one of the parties who is in
favor of restoring normal relations with Russia.
François Fillon comes to mind, a
French conservative candidate who also had a quite a friendly attitude towards Russia -
shortly before the elections, it was revealed (at least claimed) that Fillon had given his
wife ficticious employment, and Fillon lost popularity, which helped Macron enormously.
Probably, some of the things Strache said during this sting operation were inacceptable, and
Fillon may also not be innocent, but if there is a systematic selective targeting of European
politicians who want to normalize relations with Russia by secret services, that would be a
huge problem for democracy.
In the case of Strache and FPÖ, a different motive may also be plausible. There are
connections between FPÖ and neonazis, and there are, in my view, legitimate concerns
that Strache is too close to such far-right networks. I don't think it is good when
right-wing populists whose rise is mainly due to the unpopularity of the neoliberal elites
are equated with Nazis too quickly.
But in the case of FPÖ, this is less far-fetched
than in the case of other European right-wing parties - historically, Nazis played an
important role in FPÖ in post-war Austria, and it is one of the current right-wing
parties that probably has more connections to the extreme right (e.g. via Burschenschaften)
than others. I could imagine that someone might have ordered and financed the sting operation
out of antifascist principles. While I may recognize the motivation as ethical and even
partially agree with it, I don't think the right means were chosen, and such dirty methods
can backfire.
"While I consider myself to be a strong leftist who opposes the right wherever possible, I
believe to understand why people vote for Strache's FBOe and similar parties"
Quite. It seems to me that only the Right and the Left have a clue right now, because they
have an instinctive mistrust of what they are told in the media.
People like "b" and Craig Murray are to be thanked for explaining that to us middling
voters.
You miss the most glaring "injustice". That which shows that GDP in most western countries
had doubled in the last 30 odd years, that earnings for the top quartile have gone up by
factors of 3 or 4. But that median earnings in US are unchanged, and in say UK are only up
10% or so (unless one is seeking to buy one's own house or flat).
All the improvements in inequality from 1930s to 1980s have been reversed in full.
"Populists" (or better "anti-elitists") are driven mostly by sheer anger at how a small group
had taken all the Economic gains of the last 35 years.
I don't know what b. saw in the video what I saw was a discussion of an Orban like take
over of Austria by FPÖ.
In other news people are arguing the following
- who will profit most - ÖVP
- why was the video not published after it was produced in 2017 - because ÖVP wanted a
coalition with FPÖ
- why was it published now - ÖVP has been renting advertising space for weeks for an
election in September (renting before the video came out), Sebastian Kurz will be the saviour
who will get the disappointed FPÖ vote
add
- why the emphasis on Kronenzeitung,
who were the people producing the video
why Red Bull everywhere - Red Bull media empire billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz publicly
announced that he would back Sebastian Kurz in 2017
ÖVP/Kurz/Mateschitz have moved so far to the right that there is not much space for
FPÖ anyway. His problems will return when he needs another coalition.
While the right wing parties in Europe don't have a problem with Putin, it does seem that
much of the Western European establish has gone full McCarthyite hysterical where they see
any contact for any reason with a Russian is automatically criminal. Aside from being a setup
it relied the underlying false flag of presenting the woman as a Russian (and hence guility
of some crime against the Austrians).
In fact, a suggestion for a column--personal impressions on whether everyday Europeans are
falling for anti-Russian propaganda. Polls in the US indicate that Americans simply do not
care (they could believe it, but not effecting their daily lives).
1. The ER (United Russia) party was founded by Sergey Shoygu, Yuriy Luzhkov, and Mintimer
Shaymiev. Its chairman is Dmitriy Medvedev, not Vladimir Putin. Putin is not even a member of
ER. Putin is the leader of ONF (All-Russia People's Front), which is a nation-wide discussion
platform for politicians, professionals, and NGOs.
2. Russian billionaire Igor Makarov denies having a niece: "I was the only child in the
family." (
Forbes.ru , in Russian).
3. In 2016, Joseph Mifsud invited George Papadopoulos to Rome and introduced him to
"Putin's niece" with the intent of smearing Trump as "Russian puppet" and destroying his
election chances. In 2017, someone (who?) invited Heinz-Christian Strache to Ibiza and
introduced him to "Russian billionaire's niece" with the intent of smearing Strache as
"Russian puppet" and destroying his party's election chances. Notice a pattern?
4. This is a clear case of Germany interfering in Austrian elections. Austria should
deport 60 German diplomats, shut down German embassy in Vienna, and impose sanctions on
Germany. Also put a German girl interested in Austrian politics in jail for 18 months.
Thinking about it, after revealing e-mail of HRC, Podesta etc. were published, their core
supporters were enraged about the dirty trick and did not pay attention to the disclosed
content, while for the core opponents of HRC she was already sufficiently vilified so the net
change in voting intentions that can be attributed to that incident was modest.
Leaving aside the discussion of of various factors in that election, this public reaction
is typical. Actually, in both cases the core supporters may be energized by the suspicion
that this trick was performed by a foreign government. I do not think that there is a
particular hostility toward Germany in Felix Austria, but the to the right wing Merkel
government is like red cape for a bull. The women who unleashed a wave of refugees. On top of
that, traditionally major parties of Austria gained reputation of dirty patronage, so the
voters who care about that issue probably do not vote for them.
I do not expect Austrians to demand expulsions of German diplomats -- interference in our
democracy -- or other sanctions, but nevertheless it stinks. Making sting operations on
politicians has corrupt potential even if it is done by domestic law enforcement, but foreign
intelligence services really do not have any excuse.
Thinking about it, the stings against George Papadopoulos described in his book were
remarkably similar.
That said, Austrians have a reputation of good manners etc., they will not unload their
frustration on a girl. BTW, why there are suspicions of Germany being involved? Again, even
extremist Austrians probably would like to have some proof before doing anything. I guess,
America is indeed exceptional.
For all those of you whining about the corruption of Strache, this is how business and
politics is done in Austria. Strache was just talking about the FPÖ's fair share after
an election which they would win.
This all starts with Austrian's Presidential Election of 2016. The FPÖ won the
presidential election a couple of years ago in May 2016. After the bell, postal votes
overturned it! – postal votes more than 90% in favour of the establishment candidate
Van der Bellen. Some constituencies full of Van der Bellen votes turned out to have 148% turn
out. There was a court case by the FPÖ about procedure and hinting at ballot
falsification. The case was judged by a (non-corrupt but under serious pressure) judge to
have enough merit that the elections had to
be annulled and the election rerun six months later . Austria went without a
president at all for six months!
For six months the mainstream Austrian media campaigned non-stop against the FPÖ and
Norbert Hofer. Huge efforts were made for voter turnout (it included huge bussing of
potential anti-FPÖ constituencies and bribing pensioners to vote against the FPÖ
via parties and cakes). With all of that, Van der Bellen scraped in on 4 December 2016, by
348,231 votes. Despite the non-stop anti-FPÖ propaganda and banging on drums, votes for
Hofer's fell by less than 100,000 (95,993 votes to be exact). It's just that with six months
to prepare the establishment had found enough "dead souls" to win the second round.
In the parliamentary elections of 15 October 2017, the FPÖ were set to win a strong
majority in parliament. To defeat the FPÖ and Strache, the conservatives
(Völkspartei) were forced to elect a male model non-university graduate 30 year old sex
symbol with no work experience outside of politics as party leader. Of course Sebastian Kurz
was mainly a figurehead for establishment figures in the venerable Völkspartei. Kurz
does have a mind of his own though (I had the opportunity to interact with him personally at
a local political discussion group in 2015) and it's hard to know exactly how much of his
policy is dictated to him and how much is off his own bat.
Going back to Austrian corruption, there are enormous sums at stake. There is a long
entrenched system of corruption in the establishment parties, the Völkspartei and the
SPÖ. Strabag does win most of the government contracts. Favour is regularly granted on
quid pro basis. The media landscape is very partisan and mostly for sale. Kurz's spiritual
predecessor as a powerful head of the Völkspartei if not direct predecessor Wolfgang
Schüssel was forced to retire from politics in 2011 due to never-ending corruption
scandals. Schüssel's longstanding finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser was caught carrying
bags of cash to Lichtenstein and is still under investigation. If his mother-in-law were
not the richest woman in Austria (Swarovski Crystal) and devoted to her daughter (Grasser's
wife), he would long ago have been in jail.
Politically, Grasser knows where a lot of the bodies are buried from the Schlüssel
political machine so either he has to be kept out of jail or he may take others down with
him. In elite Austrian circles turning informant would be considered unsportsmanlike so
there's an uneasy truce still fought to this day in the courts where Grasser is kept out of
jail via procedural methods (detect a pattern) and Grasser doesn't rat out the others.
Strache's sin is not planning to use the advantages which accrue to the governing Austrian
party but getting caught out talking about it. Strache is something of a lout, not terribly
loyal (he was the Brutus who threw Jörg Haider under the bus in 2005 in a palace
putsch). He's a smoker in power who used his power to overturn some very positive
anti-smoking laws. But he's less corrupt than any of his equivalents in the Völkspartei
and is only a nose ahead of the his equivalents in the SPÖ. His politics and policies of
Austria for Austrians are pretty simple. Hence people vote for these policies.
Here's a sample of the SPÖ's wares in the 2010 Vienna elections:
Zu viel Fremdes tut niemandem gut. (Too many foreigners [or more literally: Too much
foreign] does nobody well.)
Wir bewahren unsere Heimatstadt. Die SPÖ macht sie uns fremd. (We maintain our
homeland-city. The SPÖ makes it foreign.)
Wir glauben an unsere Jugend. Die SPÖ an Zuwanderung. (We believe in our youth.
The SPÖ in immigration.)
Wir schützen freie Frauen. Die SPÖ den Kopftuchzwang (We protect free women.
The SPÖ protects the compulsory veil.)
Mehr Mut für unser Wiener Blut (More courage for our Viennese blood.)
Uns geht's um die Wiener (To us, it's about the Viennese)
The FPÖ has historically been weakest in Vienna but in 2010 they took 27% of the vote
in this SPÖ stronghold, their first step in what has been a steady march to power.
Anyone who does not directly have his or her family's nose in the EU trough at this point
knows that the policies espoused by transatlantic puppets like Angela Merkel and Emmanuel
Macron push our countries and our continent towards self-destruction. Life in Europe,
post-1968 and pre-2013, has been pretty damn good. There's absolutely no good reason for us
to rip up our traditions or turn into a continent of immigrants and mobile job seekers. We
instinctively abhor what is happening to our nations. By nature Strache is inclined this way
himself (he's no great thinker) and has the good sense to ride the wave.
For all those of you whining about the corruption of Strache, this is how business and
politics is done in Austria. Strache was just talking about the FPÖ's fair share after
an election which they would win.
So why did he step down?
Here's a sample of the SPÖ's wares in the 2010 Vienna elections:
...
"This stand-offish sentence in the Spiegel story about Strache's party demonstrates the
problem:"
In the last election, the party drew significant support from the working class, in
part because of his ability to simplify even the most complicated of issues and play the
common man, even in his role as vice chancellor.
"The implicit thesis, that the working class is too dumb to understand the "most
complicated of issues", is not only incredibly snobbish but utterly false..."
I can't agree that Spiegel's attitude to Strache's party is condescending toward the
working class. Right-wing parties tend to spout a lot of aggressively authoritarian spin tank
bullshit to encourage voters to tune out when a R-w politician is telling them what to think.
If Strache is adept at separating fact from fiction and superfluous verbiage, then people
would appreciate his candor.
In a Democracy, and in theory at least, politicians are supposed to represent and defend the
views of the people who voted for them, not vested intere$t$. Or so we've been led to
believe...
I'll always remember Spiegel as the folks whose photo-journalists torpedoed Crooked
Hillary's feeble-minded Cheonan (NK-SK) bullshit. That story vanished overnight. It's not
even referred to in NK smear campaigns. Dead & buried.
In a Democracy, and in theory at least, politicians are supposed to represent and
defend the views of the people who voted for them, not vested intere$t$. Or so we've been led
to believe...
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish
Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,
That's it.
The German constitution is absolutely clear that members of parliament represent all of
the people (ie different views and interests) and are bound by their own judgement and
conscience only.
As we are discussing Austria, lets see what the Austrian constitution says.
Austria has "linguistic and cultural diversity" and the protection of its grown native
peoples in its constitution, this means Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, Slovakian, Roma and
Hungarian.
So the Austrian constitution has a concept of a multinational state where different peoples
grow and are protected even if the Viennese "Stammtisch" does not like them.
There is no "democratic theory" that suggests representatives should follow the uninformed
and prejudiced views of their electorate against their better judgement.
Strache seems to have specialized in "fake news" - ie mostly invented stuff claiming
Muslims, immigrants or whoever were treated in a better way than native Austrians or
threatened native Austrians.
It is a very convenient technique when you plan to cut social services, you have someone to
blame.
To those who fill that politics of Strache are obnoxious and that justifies entrapment,
remembers that methods of that type are not improvised, and that means that there is an
apparatus that does it. We noted similarities with provocations against George Papadopoulos.
In the latter case the target was cautious, after all, we had to be well aware of such
methods. But anyone who is despised by NATO establishment are similar group can be on the
receiving end, think about Assange.
"... The neocon faction in the US is usually (and reasonably) regarded as the motivator behind much of the western aggression in the Middle East. ..."
"... Granted the US has been looking for excuses to intervene ever more overtly in Syria since 2013, and in that sense this Douma "initiative" is a continuation of their longterm policy. It's also true Russia was warning just such a false flag would be attempted in early March. But in the intervening month the situation on the ground has changed so radically that such an attempt no longer made any sense. ..."
"... A false flag in early March, while pockets of the US proxy army were still holding ground in Ghouta would have enabled a possible offensive in their support which would prevent Ghouta falling entirely into government hands and thereby also maintain the pressure on Damascus. A false flag in early April is all but useless because the US proxy army in the region was completely vanquished and nothing would be gained by an offensive in that place at that time. ..."
"... The US media has been similarly, and uncharacteristically divided and apparently unsure. Tucker Carlson railed against the stupidity of attacking Syria. Commentators on MSNBC were also expressing intense scepticism of the US intent and fear about possible escalation. ..."
"... The official story is a hot mess of proven falsehoods, contradictions, implausible conspiracy theories, more falsehoods and inexplicable silences were cricket chirps tell us all we need to know. ..."
"... The UK government has lied and evaded on every key aspect. ..."
"... Indeed if current claims by Russian FM Lavrov turn out to be true, a "novichok" (whatever that precisely means in this case) may not have been the only substance found in those samples, and a compound called "BZ", a non-lethal agent developed in Europe and America, has been discovered and suppressed in the OPCW report (more about that later). ..."
"... The Skripals themselves were announced to be alive and out of danger mere days after claims they were all but certain to die. Yulia, soon thereafter, apparently called her cousin Viktoria only to subsequently announce, indirectly through the helpful agency of the Metropolitan Police, that she didn't want to talk to her cousin – or anyone else – at all. ..."
"... She is now allegedly discharged from hospital and has "specially trained officers helping to take care of" her in an undisclosed location. A form or words so creepily sinister it's hard to imagine how they were ever permitted the light of day. ..."
"... If a false flag chemical attack had taken place in Syria at the time Russia predicted, just a week or two after the Skripal poisoning, a lot of the attention that's been paid to the Skripals over the last month would likely have been diverted. Many of the questions being asked by Russia and in the alt media may never have been asked as the focus of the world turned to a possible superpower stand-off in the Middle East. ..."
"... So, could it be the Skripal event was never intended to last so long in the public eye? Could it be that it was indeed a false flag, or a fake event, as many have alleged, planned as a sketchy prelude to, or warm up act for a bigger chemical attack in Syria, scheduled for a week or so later in mid-March – just around the time Russia was warning of such a possibility? ..."
"... This would explain why the UK may have been pushing for the false flag to happen (as claimed by Russia) even after it could no longer serve much useful purpose on the ground, and why the Douma "attack" seems to have been so sketchily done by a gang on the run. The UK needed the second part to happen in order to distract from the first. ..."
"... If this is true, Theresa May and her cabinet are currently way out on a limb even by cynical UK standards. Not only have they lied about the Skripal event, but in order to cover up that lie they have promoted a false flag in Syria, and "responded" to it by a flagrant breach of international and domestic law. Worst of all, if the Russians aren't bluffing, they have some evidence to prove some of the most egregious parts of this. ..."
"... But even if some or all of our speculation proves false, and even if the Russian claims of UK collusion with terrorists in Syria prove unfounded, May is still guilty of multiple lies and has still waged war without parliamentary approval. ..."
"... The UK were the most vocal about Syria, and desperately tried to drum up support over Skripal, but it all came to nothing much in the end. ..."
"... Theresa May's political career still hangs by a thread, and her "Falklands moment", at best, staved off the inevitable for a few months. A washout in the EU elections, a very real threat from Farage's Brexit party, and rumblings inside her own party, make her position as unstable as ever. ..."
"... In the US, generally speaking, it seems that the Trump admin – or at least whichever interested parties currently have control of the wheels of government – have called time on war in Syria. Instead, they've moved on to projects in Venezuela and North Korea, and even war with Iran. ..."
"... The failure of the Douma false flag to cause the war it was meant to cause, and the vast collection of evidence that suggests it was a false flag, should be spread far and wide. Not just because it's a truth which vindicates the smeared minority in the alternate media. ..."
In view of the latest revelations from the leaked report, which seem to prove that at least some elements of the Douma "chemical
attack" were entirely staged, we want to take look back at the chaotic events of Spring 2018.
What was the agenda behind the Douma false flag?
Why was the US response seemingly token and ineffective?
Why was the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired?
What agenda tied the Skripal case to the Douma attack?
The following is an extract from an article by Catte originally published April 14th last year, which takes on a greater weight
in light of certain evidence – not only that the Douma attack was faked, but that the OPCW is compromised.
The neocon faction in the US is usually (and reasonably) regarded as the motivator behind much of the western aggression
in the Middle East.
Since at least 2001 and the launch of the "War on Terror" the US has led the way in finding or creating facile excuses to fight
oil wars and hegemonic wars and proxy wars in the region. But this time the dynamics look a little different.
This time it really looks as if the UK has been setting the pace of the "response".
The fact (as stated above) that Mattis was apparently telegraphing his own private doubts a)about the verifiability of the
attacks, and b)about the dangers of a military response suggests he was a far from enthusiastic partaker in this adventure.
Trump's attitude is harder to gauge. His tweets veered wildly between unhinged threats and apparent efforts at conciliation.
But he must have known he would lose (and seemingly has lost) a great part of his natural voter base (who elected him on a no-more-war
mandate) by an act of open aggression that threatened confrontation with Russia on the flimsiest of pretexts.
Granted the US has been looking for excuses to intervene ever more overtly in Syria since 2013, and in that sense this
Douma "initiative" is a continuation of their longterm policy. It's also true Russia was warning just such a false flag would
be attempted in early March. But in the intervening month the situation on the ground has changed so radically that such an attempt
no longer made any sense.
A false flag in early March, while pockets of the US proxy army were still holding ground in Ghouta would have enabled
a possible offensive in their support which would prevent Ghouta falling entirely into government hands and thereby also maintain
the pressure on Damascus. A false flag in early April is all but useless because the US proxy army in the region was completely
vanquished and nothing would be gained by an offensive in that place at that time.
You can see why Mattis and others in the administration might be reluctant to take part in the false flag/punitive air strike
narrative if they saw nothing currently to be gained to repay the risk. They may have preferred to wait for developments and plan
for a more productive way of playing the R2P card in the future.
The US media has been similarly, and uncharacteristically divided and apparently unsure. Tucker Carlson railed against
the stupidity of attacking Syria. Commentators on MSNBC were also expressing intense scepticism of the US intent and fear about
possible escalation.
The UK govt and media on the other hand has been much more homogeneous in advocating for action. No doubts of the type expressed
by Mattis have been heard from the lips of an UK government minister. Even May, a cowardly PM, has been (under how much pressure?)
voicing sterling certitude in public that action HAD to be taken.
Couple this with the – as yet unverified – claims by Russia of direct UK involvement in arranging the Douma "attack", and the
claims by Syria that the perps are in their custody, and a tentative storyline emerges. It's possible this time there were other
considerations in the mix beside the usual need to "be seen to do something" and Trump's perpetual requirement to appease the
liberal Russiagaters and lunatic warmongers at home. Maybe this time it was also about helping the UK out of a sticky problem.
THE SKRIPAL CONSIDERATION
Probably the only thing we can all broadly agree on about the Skripal narrative is that it manifestly did not go according
to plan. However it was intended to play out, it wasn't this way. Since some time in mid to late March it's been clear the entire
thing has become little more than an exercise in damage-limitation, leak-plugging and general containment.
The official story is a hot mess of proven falsehoods, contradictions, implausible conspiracy theories, more falsehoods
and inexplicable silences were cricket chirps tell us all we need to know.
The UK government has lied and evaded on every key aspect.
It lied again and again about the information Porton Down had given it
Its lawyers all but lied to Mr Justice Robinson about whether or not the Skripals had relatives in Russia in an unscrupulous
attempt to maintain total control of them, or at least of the narrative.
It is not publishing the OPCW report on the chemical analyses, and the summary of that report reads like an exercise in
allusion and weasel-wording. Even the name of the "toxic substance" found in the Skripals' blood is omitted, and the only thing
tying it to the UK government's public claims of "novichok" is association by inference and proximity.
Indeed if current claims by Russian FM Lavrov turn out to be true, a "novichok" (whatever that precisely means in this
case) may not have been the only substance found in those samples, and a compound called "BZ", a non-lethal agent developed in
Europe and America, has been discovered and suppressed in the OPCW report (more about that later).
None of the alleged victims of this alleged attack has been seen in public even in passing since the event. There is no film
or photographs of DS Bailey leaving the hospital, no film or photographs of his wife or family members doing the same. No interviews
with Bailey, no interviews with his wife, family, distant relatives, work colleagues.
The Skripals themselves were announced to be alive and out of danger mere days after claims they were all but certain to
die. Yulia, soon thereafter, apparently called her cousin Viktoria only to subsequently announce, indirectly through the helpful
agency of the Metropolitan Police, that she didn't want to talk to her cousin – or anyone else – at all.
She is now allegedly discharged from hospital and has "specially trained officers helping to take care of" her in an undisclosed
location. A form or words so creepily sinister it's hard to imagine how they were ever permitted the light of day.
Very little of this bizarre, self-defeating, embarrassing, hysterical story makes any sense other than as a random narrative,
snaking wildly in response to events the narrative-makers can't completely control.
Why? What went wrong? Why has the UK government got itself into this mess? And how much did the Douma "gas attack" and subsequent
drive for a concerted western "response" have to do with trying to fix that?
IS THIS WHAT HAPPENED?
If a false flag chemical attack had taken place in Syria at the time Russia predicted, just a week or two after the Skripal
poisoning, a lot of the attention that's been paid to the Skripals over the last month would likely have been diverted. Many of
the questions being asked by Russia and in the alt media may never have been asked as the focus of the world turned to a possible
superpower stand-off in the Middle East.
So, could it be the Skripal event was never intended to last so long in the public eye? Could it be that it was indeed
a false flag, or a fake event, as many have alleged, planned as a sketchy prelude to, or warm up act for a bigger chemical attack
in Syria, scheduled for a week or so later in mid-March – just around the time Russia was warning of such a possibility?
Could it be this planned event was unexpectedly canceled by the leading players in the drama (the US) when the Russians called
them out and the rapid and unexpected fall of Ghouta meant any such intervention became pointless at least for the moment?
Did this cancelation leave the UK swinging in the wind, with a fantastical story that was never intended to withstand close
scrutiny, and no second act for distraction?
So, did they push on with the now virtually useless "chemical attack", botch it (again), leaving a clear evidence trail leading
back to them? Did they then further insist on an allied "response" to their botched false flag in order to provide yet more distraction
and hopefully destroy some of that evidence?
This would explain why the UK may have been pushing for the false flag to happen (as claimed by Russia) even after it could
no longer serve much useful purpose on the ground, and why the Douma "attack" seems to have been so sketchily done by a gang on
the run. The UK needed the second part to happen in order to distract from the first.
It would explain why the US has been less than enthused by the idea of reprisals. Because while killing Syrians to further
geo-strategic interests is not a problem, killing Syrians (and risking escalation with Russia) in order to rescue an embarrassed
UK government is less appealing.
And it would explain why the "reprisals" when they came were so half-hearted.
If this is true, Theresa May and her cabinet are currently way out on a limb even by cynical UK standards. Not only have
they lied about the Skripal event, but in order to cover up that lie they have promoted a false flag in Syria, and "responded"
to it by a flagrant breach of international and domestic law. Worst of all, if the Russians aren't bluffing, they have some evidence
to prove some of the most egregious parts of this.
This is very bad.
But even if some or all of our speculation proves false, and even if the Russian claims of UK collusion with terrorists
in Syria prove unfounded, May is still guilty of multiple lies and has still waged war without parliamentary approval.
This is a major issue. She and her government should resign. But it's unlikely that will happen.
So what next? There is a sense this is a watershed for many of the parties involved and for the citizens of the countries drawn
into this.
Will the usual suspects try to avoid paying for their crimes and misadventures by more rhetoric, more false flags, more "reprisals"?
Or will this signal some other change in direction?
We'll all know soon enough.
* * *
Back to today...
...and while things have moved on, we're still puzzling over all the same issues.
What was the purpose of the Skripal attack?
What was the original plan of the Douma attack?
Is there, as it appears, an internal power struggle in the Trump administration?
Has that resolved? Who is running the United States?
Seeing as the OPCW has been shown to cover-up evidence in Douma, can we trust them on Skripal? Or anything else?
Speaking of which, where on Earth IS Sergei Skripal?
All these questions stand, and are important, but more important than all of that is the lesson: They tried it before, and just
because it didn't work doesn't mean they won't try it again.
Last spring, the Western powers showed they will deploy a false flag if they need too, for domestic or international motives.
And they have the motives right now.
The UK were the most vocal about Syria, and desperately tried to drum up support over Skripal, but it all came to nothing
much in the end.
Theresa May's political career still hangs by a thread, and her "Falklands moment", at best, staved off the inevitable for
a few months. A washout in the EU elections, a very real threat from Farage's Brexit party, and rumblings inside her own party, make
her position as unstable as ever.
Britain had the most to gain, of all NATO countries, and that is still true. We don't know what they might do.
This time they might even receive greater support from France this time around – since Macron is facing a revolution at home and
would kill (possibly literally) for a nice international distraction.
In the US, generally speaking, it seems that the Trump admin – or at least whichever interested parties currently have control
of the wheels of government – have called time on war in Syria. Instead, they've moved on to projects in Venezuela and North Korea,
and even war with Iran.
That's not to say Syria is safe, far from it. They are always just one carefully place false-flag away from all-out war. Last
year, Mattis (or whoever) decided war with Syria was not an option – that it was too risky or complicated. That might not happen
next time.
Clearly, the US hasn't totally seen sense in terms of stoking conflict with Russia – as seen by the decision to pull out of the
INF Treaty late last year. And further demonstrated by their attempts to overthrow Russia's ally Nicolas Maduro. Another ripe candidate
for a false flag.
The failure of the Douma false flag to cause the war it was meant to cause, and the vast collection of evidence that suggests
it was a false flag, should be spread far and wide. Not just because it's a truth which vindicates the smeared minority in the alternate
media.
But because recognising what they were trying to do last time , is the best defense when they try it again next time .
Neoliberal corruption in full display. As we see forms of nepotism evolve with time...
Notable quotes:
"... Two years of investigations by journalist Peter Schweizer has revealed that Joe Biden may now have a serious China problem. And just like his Ukraine scandal , it involves actions which helped his son Hunter, who was making hand over fist in both countries. ..."
"... Schweizer, the author of Clinton Cash and now Secret Empires discovered that in 2013, then-Vice President Biden and his son Hunter flew together to China on Air Force Two - and two weeks later, Hunter's firm inked a private equity deal for $1 billion with a subsidiary of the Chinese government's Bank of China , which expanded to $1.5 billion, according to an article by Schweizer's in the New York Post . ..."
"... Hunter Biden and his partners created several LLCs involved in multibillion-dollar private equity deals with Chinese government-owned entities. ..."
"... Perhaps most damning in terms of timing and optics, just twelve days after Hunter and Joe Biden flew on Air Force Two to Beijing, Hunter's company signed a "historic deal with the Bank of China ," described by Schweizer as "the state-owned financial behemoth often used as a tool of the Chinese government." To accommodate the deal, the Bank of China created a unique type of investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). According to BHR, Rosemont Seneca Partners is a founding partner ..."
"... It was an unprecedented arrangement: the government of one of America's fiercest competitors going into business with the son of one of America's most powerful decisionmakers . ..."
"... It doesn't stop there. While Hunter Biden had "no experience in China, and little in private equity," the Chinese government for some reason thought it would be a great idea to give his firm business opportunities instead of established global banks such as Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs. ..."
"... The following August, Rosemont Realty, another sister company of Rosemont Seneca, announced that Gemini Investments was buying a 75 percent stake in the company. The terms of the deal included a $3 billion commitment from the Chinese, who were eager to purchase new US properties. Shortly after the sale, Rosemont Realty was rechristened Gemini Rosemont. ..."
"... "We see great opportunities to continue acquiring high-quality real estate in the US market," said one company executive, who added: "The possibilities for this venture are tremendous." ..."
"... Then, in 2015, BHR partnered with a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned military aviation contractor Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) in order to purchase American precision-parts maker Henniges - a transaction which required approval from the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the same rubber-stamp committee that approved the Uranium One deal. ..."
"... The vice president was bringing with him highly welcomed terms of a United States Agency for International Development program to assist the Ukrainian natural-gas industry and promises of more US financial assistance and loans. Soon the United States and the International Monetary Fund would be pumping more than $1 billion into the Ukrainian economy. ..."
"... The next day, there was a public announcement that Archer had been asked to join the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural-gas company. Three weeks after that, on May 13, it was announced that Hunter Biden would join, too. Neither Biden nor Archer had any background or experience in the energy sector. - New York Post ..."
"... Then Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees to Ukraine unless President Petro Poroshenko fired his head prosecutor, General Viktor Shokin, who was leading a wide-ranging corruption investigation into natural gas firm Burisma Holdings. ..."
"... Biden bragged about the threat last year, telling an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations: "I said, ' You're not getting the billion .' I'm going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ' I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money, '" bragged Biden, recalling the conversation with Poroshenko. ..."
"... As we head into the 2020 elections, it will be interesting to see how Joe Biden dances around his son's lucrative - and very potentially daddy-assisted deals around the world. ..."
Two years of investigations by journalist Peter Schweizer has revealed that Joe Biden may now have a serious China problem.
And just like his
Ukraine scandal
, it involves actions which helped his son Hunter, who was making hand over fist in both countries.
Schweizer, the author of Clinton Cash and now
Secret Empires discovered
that in 2013, then-Vice President Biden and his son Hunter flew together to China on Air Force Two - and two weeks later, Hunter's
firm inked a private equity deal for $1 billion with a subsidiary of the Chinese government's Bank of China , which expanded to $1.5
billion, according to an article by Schweizer's in the
New York Post .
" If it sounds shocking that a vice president would shape US-China policy as his son -- who has scant experience in private
equity -- clinched a coveted billion-dollar deal with an arm of the Chinese government, that's because it is " -
Peter Schweizer
Perhaps this is why Joe Biden - now on the 2020 campaign trail - said last week that China wasn't a threat.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took a shot at Biden's comment during a speech at the Claremont Institute's 40th anniversary gala,
saying "Look how both parties now are on guard against the threat that China presents to America -- maybe except Joe Biden."
Back to Hunter...
Schweizer connects the dots, writing that "without the aid of subpoena power, here's what we know :"
Hunter Biden and his partners created several LLCs involved in multibillion-dollar private equity deals with Chinese government-owned
entities.
The primary operation was Rosemont Seneca Partners - an investment firm founded in 2009 and controlled by Hunter Biden, John
Kerry's stepson Chris Heinz, and Heniz's longtime associate Devon Archer. The trio began making deals "through a series of overlapping
entities" under Rosemont.
In less than a year, Hunter Biden and Archer met with top Chinese officials in China , and partnered with the Thornton Group
- a Massachusetts-based consultancy headed by James Bulger - son of famed mob hitman James "Whitey" Bulger.
According to the Thornton Group's Chinese-language website, Chinese executives "extended their warm welcome" to the "Thornton
Group, with its US partner Rosemont Seneca chairman Hunter Biden (second son of the now Vice President Joe Biden."
Officially, the China meets were to "explore the possibility of commercial cooperation and opportunity," however details of
the meeting were not published to the English-language version of the website.
"The timing of this meeting was also notable. It occurred just hours before Hunter Biden's father, the vice president, met
with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Washington as part of the Nuclear Security Summit ," according to Schweizer.
Perhaps most damning in terms of timing and optics, just twelve days after Hunter and Joe Biden flew on Air Force Two
to Beijing, Hunter's company signed a "historic deal with the Bank of China ," described by Schweizer as "the state-owned financial
behemoth often used as a tool of the Chinese government." To accommodate the deal, the Bank of China created a unique type of
investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). According to BHR, Rosemont Seneca Partners is a founding partner .
It was an unprecedented arrangement: the government of one of America's fiercest competitors going into business with the
son of one of America's most powerful decisionmakers .
Chris Heinz claims neither he nor Rosemont Seneca Partners, the firm he had part ownership of, had any role in the deal with
Bohai Harvest. Nonetheless, Biden, Archer and the Rosemont name became increasingly involved with China.
Archer became the vice chairman of Bohai Harvest, helping oversee some of the fund's investments. -
New York Post
National Security implications
As Schweizer also notes, BHR became an "anchor investor" in the IPO of China General Nuclear Power Corp (CGN) in December 2014.
The state-owned energy company is involved with the construction of nuclear reactors.
In April 2016, CGN was charged by the US Justice Department with stealing nuclear secrets from the United States , which prosecutors
warned could cause "significant damage to our national security." CNG was interested in sensitive, American-made nuclear components
that resembled those used on US nuclear submarines, according to experts.
More China dealings
It doesn't stop there. While Hunter Biden had "no experience in China, and little in private equity," the Chinese government
for some reason thought it would be a great idea to give his firm business opportunities instead of established global banks such
as Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs.
Also in December 2014, a Chinese state-backed conglomerate called Gemini Investments Limited was negotiating and sealing deals
with Hunter Biden's Rosemont on several fronts. That month, it made a $34 million investment into a fund managed by Rosemont.
The following August, Rosemont Realty, another sister company of Rosemont Seneca, announced that Gemini Investments was
buying a 75 percent stake in the company. The terms of the deal included a $3 billion commitment from the Chinese, who were eager
to purchase new US properties. Shortly after the sale, Rosemont Realty was rechristened Gemini Rosemont.
"Rosemont, with its comprehensive real-estate platform and superior performance history, was precisely the investment opportunity
Gemini Investments was looking for in order to invest in the US real estate market," said Li Ming, chairman of Sino-Ocean Land Holdings
Limited and Gemini Investments. "We look forward to a strong and successful partnership."
That partnership planned to use Chinese money to scoop up US properties.
"We see great opportunities to continue acquiring high-quality real estate in the US market," said one company executive,
who added: "The possibilities for this venture are tremendous."
Then, in 2015, BHR partnered with a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned military aviation contractor Aviation Industry Corporation
of China (AVIC) in order to purchase American precision-parts maker Henniges - a transaction which required approval from the Committee
of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the same rubber-stamp committee that approved the Uranium One deal.
Tying it back to Ukraine
While we have previously reported on the Bidens' adventures in Ukraine, Schweizer connects the dots rather well here ...
Consider the facts. On April 16, 2014, White House records show that Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner in the Rosemont
Seneca deals, made a private visit to the White House for a meeting with Vice President Biden. Five days later, on April 21, Joe
Biden landed in Kiev for a series of high-level meetings with Ukrainian officials . The vice president was bringing with him
highly welcomed terms of a United States Agency for International Development program to assist the Ukrainian natural-gas industry
and promises of more US financial assistance and loans. Soon the United States and the International Monetary Fund would be pumping
more than $1 billion into the Ukrainian economy.
The next day, there was a public announcement that Archer had been asked to join the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural-gas
company. Three weeks after that, on May 13, it was announced that Hunter Biden would join, too. Neither Biden nor Archer had any
background or experience in the energy sector. -
New York Post
Hunter was paid as much as $50,000 per month while Burisma was under investigation by officials in both Ukraine and elsewhere.
Then Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees to Ukraine unless President Petro Poroshenko fired
his head prosecutor, General Viktor Shokin, who was leading a wide-ranging corruption investigation into natural gas firm Burisma
Holdings.
Biden bragged about the threat last year, telling an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations: "I said, ' You're not getting
the billion .' I'm going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ' I'm leaving in six hours.
If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money, '" bragged Biden, recalling the conversation with Poroshenko.
" Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."
Joe Biden says that he had no idea Hunter was on the board of Burisma (for two years after he joined), and that the two never
spoke about the Burisma investigation. The former VP claims that Shokin's removal was required due to his mishandling of several
cases in Ukraine.
As we head into the 2020 elections, it will be interesting to see how Joe Biden dances around his son's lucrative - and very
potentially daddy-assisted deals around the world.
Biden is another scumbag Democrat Lawyer who's the original 'pay for play' politician...A 40+ year history in Political Office
with Zero accomplishments except enriching himself and his family...A complete fraud and hypocrite liar.....Lawyers should have
never been allowed to run for Office at any level.....Look at all the corruption that has been and is being exposed at the different
bureaucracies...Virtually all the corruption has been willfully committed by Lawyers....Pathetic....
Interesting.... I put: "The Steele Dossier has so many British agents involved it sounds like a British failed coup to overthrow
an elected President because he stands in " the way of "profiting goals of " international goals" of global monopoly run by unelected
councils and retired instigators as facilitators of discord.
But came out:The Steele Dossier has so many British agents involved it sounds like a British failed coup to overthrow an elected
President because he stands in the profiting goals of " international goals" of global monopoly run by unelected councils and
retired instigators as facilitators of discord.
To make it sound as if it is Trump profiting.... By no means is that true... Its the " long term" Washington officals that
have been profiting. Not a possible 8 year President.
My phone also wont let me thumbs up people i would like to but only a few and also replying is " verboten".
These algorhythms and blocks and censorship is an abuse of constitutional rights which is bad enough, but even worse is that
these rights got monopolized by various corporations who bought stock in facebook/ googles options that was stolen from Leader
technologies source code ( which Mark zukerberg couldnt write on a good day... He is a front guy and again we have British privy
council involed with Clegg head of facebook now voice for Mark... Because Mark is a cut out).
This whole social media internet thing has been hijacked and weaponized by Washingtons same people as Dossier scandel... James
Chandeler attorney and backstaber of Leader technology.
See leader technology vs facebook..... But i digress.
Michael T. McKibben's career spans two phases: international Christian music ministry, and technology innovation. In 2006,
he was awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,139,761 for what is now called "social networking."
Biden & Kerry aren't the only ones with a China problem. "Secret Empires" also listed Mitch McConnell having a huge China problem
through his wife's shipping company. I bet he doesn't run for re-election. Winning.
they all own one another - that's the essence of the problem in politics. and why they have tried so hard to get that outsider,
trump, out of the country club.
China funded Bill Clinton's election campaigns through James Riady, an Indonesian Chinese man involved in hard drug smuggling
and arms trafficking. The money was laundered through Little Rock banks and corporations. (See Victor Thorn's Hillary and Bill
, all three volumes.)
"Come on man! This is a joke! He's my son and he's a great buddy. I mean yeah he was drummed out of the Naval Reserve because
of his cocaine habit, but come on man, you know, everybody does it! Just ask my good friend Barack, he's a clean, good looking
darkie whose done his share of blow. And yeah Hunter fucked his dead brother's widow, but come on man! Have you seen her ****
and ***. I might have made a move on her myself, but hey man I'm married."
Joe Biden, From the endless Fear and Mongering Presidential campaign of 2020.
IRS/SEC/FBI are not investigatory agencies. They are barrier agencies. They protect the anointed, letting them do as they wish,
and stomp on anyone else who tries to get in on the gravy train.
Sociopaths are the reason all governments, regardless of the particular 'ism', eventually fail...
Looking at human history, fascism is the most common form of government for humans. At least it is the most honest - that the
sociopaths are ******* everyone else.... These days we try to hide it by lofty idealism that is incompatible with a predator/prey
real world.....
Representative democracy, socialism and communism all fail and all fail for the same reason - sociopaths...
We should be honest with ourselves that there is a small, but statistically significant percentage of the human population
that are sociopaths (and more are being born every generation). We can call them predators and we are the prey...any concentration
of power attracts sociopaths regardless of the fancy label we put on the political system. Within a short time the system is inundated
with sociopaths who invariably game the system to death for their own individual benefit....
Don't like the reality in which you find yourself? Stop voting for sociopaths, stop giving them power...
What political party or system even acknowledge the sociopath problem? That's right, none...so don't expect anything to change
after the reset...the pleubs will chose a new sociopath for their leader, who will **** them, and things will go on as they always
have...
Only way to combat this is to decentralize power as much as possible...this doesn't solve the sociopath problem, but it does
spread them out and keeps them from ganging up together to **** over the peasants...but I won't hold my breath....
Is this a good time to take a look at 1) Front Men 2) Front Companies 3) Shell Companies 4) Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV/SPE)
5) Offshore Accounts, Offshore Donations, Offshore Campaign or PAC or Party Contributions, Paradise Papers, Panama Papers 6) USA
as Tax Haven for foreign accounts 7) USA as an Empire 8) The Rise Of The Fourth Reich notes in book by Jim Marrs
In this case he looks like Bill Clinton impersonalization ;-) That's probably how Adelson controls Bolton ;-)
Notable quotes:
"... Larry Flint had offered a Million dollars to anyone who had proof of republican sexual exploits. He was quickly fingered by someone who attended those clubs. He was forced to accept a temporary position and quietly resigned after a few months so as to avoid facing questions. ..."
@FB Yeah brother,
that POS was called out during his confirmation hearings during baby Bush's presidency. Larry Flint had offered a Million
dollars to anyone who had proof of republican sexual exploits. He was quickly fingered by someone who attended those clubs. He
was forced to accept a temporary position and quietly resigned after a few months so as to avoid facing questions.
Someone said they saw him proposition a teenage girl outside one of the swinger clubs he frequented.
Speaking of getting led around by the nose, we come to one Gina Haspel's great deceptions.
This deception plays directly into the hands of Russiagaters. This woman, supposedly brought
into CIA leadership in order to demolish the agency, is proving quite adept in perpetuating its
reign of terror. Again, we have a neocon undermining Trump's prestige and authority.
(EIRNS) -- The New York Times ran a story yesterday titled, "Gina Haspel
Relies on Spy Skills To Connect with Trump. He Doesn't Always Listen." Based on interviews with
former and current CIA agents who worked with CIA Director Haspel (but not interviewing her),
the Times praises her skills and attempts to denigrate Trump, but they also retail a story
about her and Trump which could cost Haspel deeply.
Following the March 2018 breaking of the Skripal poisoning story in England, the Times
writes, Trump had initially "written off the poisoning as part of legitimate spy games,
distasteful but within the bounds of espionage." Haspel, on the other hand, was backing
London's demand for Trump to blame Russia immediately and expel dozens of Russian
diplomats.
Writes the Times:
"During the discussion, Ms. Haspel, then deputy CIA director, turned toward Mr. Trump. She
outlined possible responses in a quiet but firm voice, then leaned forward and told the
President that the 'strong option' was to expel 60 diplomats.
"To persuade Mr. Trump, according to people briefed on the conversation, officials
including Ms. Haspel also tried to show him that Mr. Skripal and his daughter were not the
only victims of Russia's attack.
"Ms. Haspel showed pictures the British government had supplied her of young children
hospitalized after being sickened by the Novichok nerve agent that poisoned the Skripals. She
then showed a photograph of ducks that British officials said were inadvertently killed by
the sloppy work of the Russian operatives."
This appeal reportedly swayed Trump to go along with Haspel's advice.
If it sounds like the British "White Helmet" terrorists in Syria faking pictures of children
being hit with chemical weapons to convince Trump to bomb Syrian targets, it is indeed
precisely the same.
Former British Ambassador Craig Murray, an outspoken critic of these British imperial lies
and atrocities, posted a response today to the Times garbage on his blog. He states first that
yet another truth behind the Skripal lies was revealed recently by police, acknowledging that
"the perfume bottle Charlie Rowley found was sealed and could not have been the container used
on the Skripals." He goes on: "It took nine months for us to learn that, by a truly wonderful
coincidence, the first person to find the Skripals ill on the bench was the Chief Nurse of the
British Army."
But on the Haspel story in the Times, Murray is furious. "The problem is," he writes,
"there were no hospitalized children. No children have been reported as becoming ill
following their duck feeding with the Skripals. We have heard from one of the parents that
they were shown by the police extremely clear [closed-circuit surveillance] CCTV footage of
the duck feeding, which has never been made public. Surely if the child had been
hospitalized, the parent would have mentioned it?"
He quotes Dr. Stephen Davies of Salisbury Hospital, who wrote to the New York Times on March
14 stating clearly that no children had been hospitalized, and that every person who came to
the hospital fearing they had been contaminated had no symptoms and tests turned out negative.
Murray states:
"We also know that the duck feeding was the time that Boshirov and Petrov [the alleged
Russian culprits] were physically closest to the Skripals. But this is the first time there
has ever been any mention of any harm to the ducks. Dead ducks would have been noticed by the
public."
It appears that the British Empire is the dead duck in this myth.
"... It's the US ruling elite that are the true deplorables. ..."
"... The war on civilization is never a failure for as long as the invader wins. Winning in this case means toppling a government, destabilizing an economy and dividing a population then leaving a country in chaos. It's not a foreign policy failure for the U.S. That is the policy working exactly as intended. All the talk later, where they claim that they had "bad intel" or they "made mistakes" or "miscalculated" is complete bullshit. They know what they're doing. If they didn't, they wouldn't keep doing it over and over in the exact same way. ..."
"... {A titular ruler, or titular head, is a person in an official position of leadership who possesses few, if any, actual powers. Sometimes a person may inhabit a position of titular leadership and yet exercise more power than would normally be expected, as a result of their personality or experience} ? ..."
"... They'd follow the money if they really wanted to end the terrorism. In that regard, bombing Raqqa to hell was sure convenient as USA destroyed all the evidence - or at least they can make that claim. ..."
"... So he gets trotted out just in time to revive the "ISIS threat", and take the blame for various recent funny-smelling terrist attacks, people going to odd places like New Zealand and Sri Lanka to vent their spleens at Muslims and Christians, respectively. I have half-a-suspicion somebody is trying to get a religious war of some sort going. ..."
"... we're talking 1 and a half million dead so far in Iraq and Afghanistan...and that's being conservative. ..."
"... Where? Where was it published? On what platform? Is it really that hard to trace the IPs? Turkey is really determined to get those S-400s. The Empire first threatened to withhold F-35s, then to impose sanctions, then to expel Turkey from NATO, then to move its bases to Greece. Still, Turkey wouldn't budge. Time to deploy some good old terrorism, so that the Empire will be obliged to come in and "help". ..."
"... I have long believed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi actually is associated either with Moss ad or the CIA. That's why he's had so many miracle escapes. That's why they never catch him and often don't even know where he is. And we know that his ISIS never, never attacks Israeli targets or fat Saudi Prince targets. ..."
"... Those would in fact be the targets of choice for any genuine jihad movement. Not Syria or Iraq, which are two states Israel has wanted to harm or eliminate for years. ISIS has always been a fraud, a very complex and deadly one, but a fraud. ..."
"... Many years ago, even before this character posed as a "Syrian rebel" who was photographed meeting with John McCain, he was outed as a Mossad agent by the name of Simon Elliot. ..."
"... Al Jazeera "can't confirm the authenticity of the video." ..."
"... A history of Wahhabism which is a problem for the globe; https://ahtribune.com/religion/155-a-history-of-wahhabism.html The KSA, whose ass the empire kisses daily, is the main funder for these clowns. ..."
What's the Wonder my dear?
Duh!
He is in CIA safe house in Al-Anbar.
ISI is looking for this CIA's "Patsy" hide out. Watch this space, he has blood of 14
Pakistani soldiers on his hands via Iran hit. We will end this MOSSAD Agent.
The one hundred thousand people that died in Iraq and Afghanistan due to terrorist
activities would certainly agree that the trillions of dollars that have been spent on the
War on Terror has done very little to remove the spectre of terrorist activities from their
homes, cities and nations.
Sally Snyder: The war on terror is a war of terror and in that sense, though morally
reprehensible and costly, has been success. Regime change and the destabilization of the
Middle East has been the goal.
It's the US ruling elite that are the true deplorables.
War on terror was the war on an entire civilization. Association/Replacement of the word
terror was just for the public consumption. It's a simple strategy that makes the
aggressors appear like the good guys who are there to defend themselves or the values they
hold.
The war on civilization is never a failure for as long as the invader wins. Winning in
this case means toppling a government, destabilizing an economy and dividing a population
then leaving a country in chaos. It's not a foreign policy failure for the U.S. That is the
policy working exactly as intended. All the talk later, where they claim that they had "bad
intel" or they "made mistakes" or "miscalculated" is complete bullshit. They know what
they're doing. If they didn't, they wouldn't keep doing it over and over in the exact same
way.
War on the civilizations yields massive benefits. It's the shortcoming of the model of
the western civilization that it continuously requires massive input that can't be achieved
by the legal means of business and trade.
Auntie Gina the tit ular head of Al-CIA-duh/ Al Qaeda/ ISIS?
{A titular ruler, or titular head, is a person in an official position of leadership
who possesses few, if any, actual powers. Sometimes a person may inhabit a position of
titular leadership and yet exercise more power than would normally be expected, as a result
of their personality or experience} ?
They'd follow the money if they really wanted to end the terrorism.
In that regard, bombing Raqqa to hell was sure convenient as USA destroyed all the
evidence - or at least they can make that claim.
So he gets trotted out just in time to revive the "ISIS threat", and take the blame for
various recent funny-smelling terrist attacks, people going to odd places like New Zealand
and Sri Lanka to vent their spleens at Muslims and Christians, respectively. I have
half-a-suspicion somebody is trying to get a religious war of some sort going.
They don't seem to be having that much success with getting that war going, so I expect
the attacks will go on.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self declared caliph of ISIS, appeared in new video
published today.
Where? Where was it published? On what platform? Is it really that hard to trace the
IPs? Turkey is really determined to get those S-400s. The Empire first threatened to withhold
F-35s, then to impose sanctions, then to expel Turkey from NATO, then to move its bases to
Greece. Still, Turkey wouldn't budge. Time to deploy some good old terrorism, so that the
Empire will be obliged to come in and "help".
I have long believed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi actually is associated either with Moss ad
or the CIA. That's why he's had so many miracle escapes. That's why they never catch him and often don't even know where he is. And we know that his ISIS never, never attacks Israeli targets or fat Saudi Prince
targets.
Those would in fact be the targets of choice for any genuine jihad movement. Not Syria
or Iraq, which are two states Israel has wanted to harm or eliminate for years. ISIS has always been a fraud, a very complex and deadly one, but a fraud.
Many years ago, even before this character posed as a "Syrian rebel" who was photographed
meeting with John McCain, he was outed as a Mossad agent by the name of Simon Elliot.
The guy in recent picture looks like one of Rita Katz's actors.
It is a show to threaten Turkey with the same as Sri Lanka (where they refine lots of
Iranian crude...and more...look it up). Many ties to Iran/Sri Lanka....and to Turkey.
Typical nazi thugs....bribes, arson, dynamite...and patsies...in this case maybe mossad
actor? Why not> Cui Bono?
As to the locus of the actor? Paramount? Warner Bros? Probably not. Does it matter?
They're parading a ringer...don't fall for the gag. Erdo won't fall for it either.
Baghdadi has nice toys by his side and not just the AK-47 with the camo bit over the
barrel. It looks like a camo case on night vision gear (or vidcam?) just below that, too.
To quote the Joker: "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
Ahh a new game of "where in the world is ..." except instead of bin Laden (or his
stand-in) the guest in Pakistan living near a military base we have Baghdadi. Maybe
Baghdadi lives in that area, too. (awaiting his execution for the media and masses). I
doubt it though. I'm thinking Turkey or even Saudi Arabia.
... This move by Baghdadi could backfire in a big way. Got my popcorn ready. Posted by: Jackrabbit | Apr 29, 2019 5:06:26 PM | 19
It does seem unnecessarily cheeky/ fishy.
If 'they' had fiendishly brilliant plan, why wouldn't they'd just do it and leave it to the
intel wonks to figure out what went wrong?
It's big news in the J-C International media.
Al Jazeera "can't confirm the authenticity of the video."
Considering that this 'study' is an overblown version of the Real Men Go to Tehran
delusion (which is STILL in the pondering phase) it's hard to ignore the trepidation revealed
in an assessment divided into pseudo business-like categories of...
1. Likelihood of Success
2. Benefits
3. Costs & Risks
...when there are sufficient unresolved uncertainties to be fine-tuned to keep this plan
bogged down in the pondering phase for even longer than the unconsummated Real Men Go To Iran
nothing-burger.
"... Sadly, Brennan's propaganda coup only works on what the Bell Curve crowd up there would call the dumbest and most technologically helpless 1.2σ. Here is how people with half a brain interpret the latest CIA whoppers. ..."
"... Convincing Americans in Russia's influence or Russia collusion with Trump was only a tool that would create pressure on Trump that together with the fear of paralysis of his administration and impeachment would push Trump into the corner from which the only thing he could do was to worsen relations with Russia. What American people believe or not is really secondary. With firing of Gen. Flynn Trump acted exactly as they wanted him to act. This was the beginning of downward slope. ..."
"... Anyway, the mission was accomplished and the relations with Russia are worse now than during Obama administration. Trump can concentrate on Iran in which he will be supported by all sides and factions including the media. Even Larry David will approve not only the zionist harpies like Pam Geller, Rita Katz and Ilana Mercer. ..."
"... The only part that is absurd is that Russia posed a bona fide threat to the US. I'm fine with the idea that he ruined Brennen's plans in Syria. But thats just ego we shouldn't have been there anyway. ..."
"... No one really cares about Ukraine. And the European/Russian trade zone? No one cares. The Eurozone has its hands full with Greece and the rest of the old EU. I have a feeling they have already gone way too far and are more likely to shrink than expand in any meaningful way ..."
"... " ..factions within the state whose interests do not coincide with those of the American people." ..."
"... All the more powerfully put because of its recognisably comical. understatement. Thank you Mr Whitney. Brilliant article that would be all over the mainstream media were the US MSM an instrument of American rather than globalist interests. ..."
"... A sad story, how the USA always was a police state, where the two percent rich manipulated the 98% poor, to stay rich. When there were insurrections federal troops restored order. Also FDR put down strikes with troops. ..."
"... The elephant in the room is Israel and the neocons , this is the force that controls America and Americas foreign policy , Brennan and the 17 intel agencies are puppets of the mossad and Israel, that is the brutal fact of the matter. ..."
"... "The absence of evidence suggests that Russia hacking narrative is a sloppy and unprofessional disinformation campaign that was hastily slapped together by over confident Intelligence officials who believed that saturating the public airwaves with one absurd story after another would achieve the desired result " ..."
"... But it DID achieve the desired result! Trump folded under the pressure, and went full out neoliberal. Starting with his missile attack on Syria, he is now OK with spending trillions fighting pointless endless foreign wars on the other side of the world. ..."
"... I think maybe half the US population does believe the Russian hacking thing, but that's not really the issue. I think that the pre-Syrian attack media blitz was more a statement of brute power to Trump: WE are in charge here, and WE can take you down and impeach you, and facts don't matter! ..."
"... Sometimes propaganda is about persuading people. And sometimes, I think, it is about intimidating them. ..."
"... The Brit secret service, in effect, created and trained not merely the CIA but also the Mossad and Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency. All four are defined by endless lies, endless acts of utterly amoral savagery. All 4 are at least as bad as the KGB ever was, and that means as bad as Hell itself. ..."
"... Traditional triumphalist American narrative history, as taught in schools up through the 60s or so, portrayed America as "wart-free." Since then, with Zinn's book playing a major role, it has increasingly been portrayed as "warts-only," which is of course at least equally flawed. I would say more so. ..."
"... Anyway, the mission was accomplished and the relations with Russia are worse now than during Obama administration. ..."
"... That pre-9/11 "cooperation" nearly destroyed Russia. Nobody in Russia (except, perhaps, for Pussy Riot) wants a return to the Yeltsin era. ..."
"... The CIA is the world largest criminal and terrorist organization. With Brennan the worst has come to the worst. The whole Russian meddling affair was initiated by the Obama/Clinton gang in cooperation with 95 percent of the media. Nothing will come out of it. ..."
"... [The key figures who had primary influence on both Trump's and Bush's Iran policies held views close to those of Israel's right-wing Likud Party. The main conduit for the Likudist line in the Trump White House is Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, primary foreign policy advisor, and longtime friend and supporter of Netanyahu. Kushner's parents are also long-time supporters of Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank. ..."
"... Another figure to whom the Trump White House has turned is John Bolton, undersecretary of state and a key policymaker on Iran in the Bush administration. Although Bolton was not appointed Trump's secretary of state, as he'd hoped, he suddenly reemerged as a player on Iran policy thanks to his relationship with Kushner. Politico reports that Bolton met with Kushner a few days before the final policy statement was released and urged a complete withdrawal from the deal in favor of his own plan for containing Iran. ..."
"... Putin's dream of Greater Europe is the death knell for the unipolar world order. It means the economic center of the world will shift to Central Asia where abundant resources and cheap labor of the east will be linked to the technological advances and the Capital the of the west eliminating the need to trade in dollars or recycle profits into US debt. The US economy will slip into irreversible decline, and the global hegemon will steadily lose its grip on power. That's why it is imperative for the US prevail in Ukraine– a critical land bridge connecting the two continents– and to topple Assad in Syria in order to control vital resources and pipeline corridors. Washington must be in a position where it can continue to force its trading partners to denominate their resources in dollars and recycle the proceeds into US Treasuries if it is to maintain its global primacy. The main problem is that Russia is blocking Uncle Sam's path to success which is roiling the political establishment in Washington. ..."
"... Second, Zakharova confirms that the western media is not an independent news gathering organization, but a propaganda organ for the foreign policy establishment who dictates what they can and can't say. ..."
"... Such a truthful portrait of reality ! The ruling elite is indeed massively corrupt, compromised, and controlled by dark forces. And the police state is already here. For most people, so far, in the form of massive collection of personal data and increasing number of mandatory regulations. But just one or two big false-flags away from progressing into something much worse. ..."
"... Clearly the CIA was making war on Syria. Is secret coercive covert action against sovereign nations Ok? Is it legal? When was the CIA designated a war making entity – what part of the constitution OK's that? Isn't the congress obliged by constitutional law to declare war? (These are NOT six month actions – they go on and on.) ..."
"... Syria is only one of many nations that the CIA is attacking – how many countries are we attacking with drones? Where is congress? ..."
"... Close the CIA – give the spying to the 16 other agencies. ..."
Sadly, Brennan's propaganda coup only works on what the Bell Curve crowd up there would call
the dumbest and most technologically helpless 1.2σ. Here is how people with half a
brain interpret the latest CIA whoppers.
Again Mike Whitney does not get it. Though in the first part of the article I thought he
would. He was almost getting there. The objective was to push new administration into the
corner from which it could not improve relations with Russia as Trump indicated that he
wanted to during the campaign.
Convincing Americans in Russia's influence or Russia collusion
with Trump was only a tool that would create pressure on Trump that together with the fear of
paralysis of his administration and impeachment would push Trump into the corner from which
the only thing he could do was to worsen relations with Russia. What American people believe
or not is really secondary. With firing of Gen. Flynn Trump acted exactly as they wanted him
to act. This was the beginning of downward slope.
Anyway, the mission was accomplished and the relations with Russia are worse now than
during Obama administration. Trump can concentrate on Iran in which he will be supported by
all sides and factions including the media. Even Larry David will approve not only the
zionist harpies like Pam Geller, Rita Katz and Ilana Mercer.
The only part that is absurd is that Russia posed a bona fide threat to the US. I'm fine
with the idea that he ruined Brennen's plans in Syria. But thats just ego we shouldn't have
been there anyway.
No one really cares about Ukraine. And the European/Russian trade zone? No one cares. The
Eurozone has its hands full with Greece and the rest of the old EU. I have a feeling they
have already gone way too far and are more likely to shrink than expand in any meaningful
way
The one thing I am not positive about. If the elite really believe that Russia is a
threat, then Americans have done psych ops on themselves.
The US was only interested in Ukraine because it was there. Next in line on a map. The
rather shocking disinterest in investing money -- on both sides -- is inexplicable if it was
really important. Most of it would be a waste -- but still. The US stupidly spent $5 billion
on something -- getting duped by politicians and got theoretical regime change, but it was
hell to pry even $1 billion for real economic aid.
" ..factions within the state whose interests do not coincide with those of the American
people."
All the more powerfully put because of its recognisably comical. understatement. Thank you Mr Whitney. Brilliant article that would be all over the mainstream media were
the US MSM an instrument of American rather than globalist interests.
I am reading Howard Zinn, A Peoples History of the USA, 1492 to the Present.
A sad story, how the USA always was a police state, where the two percent rich manipulated
the 98% poor, to stay rich.
When there were insurrections federal troops restored order.
Also FDR put down strikes with troops.
You should be aware that Zinn's book is not, IMO, an honest attempt at writing history. It
is conscious propaganda intended to make Americans believe exactly what you are taking from
it.
The elephant in the room is Israel and the neocons , this is the force that controls America
and Americas foreign policy , Brennan and the 17 intel agencies are puppets of the mossad and
Israel, that is the brutal fact of the matter.
Until that fact changes Americans will continue to fight and die for Israel.
"The absence of evidence suggests that Russia hacking narrative is a sloppy and
unprofessional disinformation campaign that was hastily slapped together by over confident
Intelligence officials who believed that saturating the public airwaves with one absurd story
after another would achieve the desired result "
But it DID achieve the desired result! Trump folded under the pressure, and went full out
neoliberal. Starting with his missile attack on Syria, he is now OK with spending trillions
fighting pointless endless foreign wars on the other side of the world.
I think maybe half the US population does believe the Russian hacking thing, but that's
not really the issue. I think that the pre-Syrian attack media blitz was more a statement of
brute power to Trump: WE are in charge here, and WE can take you down and impeach you, and
facts don't matter!
Sometimes propaganda is about persuading people. And sometimes, I think, it is about
intimidating them.
Whitney is another author who declares the "Russians did it" narrative a psyop. He then
devotes entire columns to the psyop, "naww Russia didn't do it". There could be plenty to write about – recent laws that do undercut liberty, but no,
the Washington Post needs fake opposition to its fake news so you have guys like Whitney in
the less-mainstream fake news media.
So Brennan wanted revenge? Well that's simple enough to understand, without being too
stupid. But Whitney's whopper of a lie is what you're supposed to unquestionably believe. The
US has "rival political parties". Did you miss it?
The US is doing nothing more than acting as the British Empire 2.0. WASP culture was born of a Judaizing heresy: Anglo-Saxon Puritanism. That meant that the
WASP Elites of every are pro-Jewish, especially in order to wage war, physical and/or
cultural, against the vast majority of white Christians they rule.
By the early 19th century, The Brit Empire's Elites also had a strong, and growing, dose
of pro-Arabic/pro-Islamic philoSemitism. Most of that group became ardently pro-Sunni, and
most of the pro-Sunni ones eventually coalescing around promotion of the House of Saud, which
means being pro-Wahhabi and permanently desirous of killing or enslaving virtually all Shiite
Mohammedans.
So, by the time of Victoria's high reign, the Brit WASP Elites were a strange brew of
hardcoree pro-Jewish and hardcore pro-Arabic/islamic. The US foreign policy of today is an
attempt to put those two together and force it on everyone and make it work.
The Brit secret service, in effect, created and trained not merely the CIA but also the
Mossad and Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency. All four are defined by endless
lies, endless acts of utterly amoral savagery. All 4 are at least as bad as the KGB ever was,
and that means as bad as Hell itself.
Fair enough. I didn't know that about the foreword. If accurate, that's a reasonable
approach for a book.
Here's the problem.
Back when O. Cromwell was the dictator of England, he retained an artist to paint him. The
custom of the time was for artists to "clean up" their subjects, in a primitive form of
photoshopping.
OC being a religious fanatic, he informed the artist he wished to be portrayed as God had
made him, "warts and all." (Ollie had a bunch of unattractive facial warts.) Or the artist
wouldn't be paid.
Traditional triumphalist American narrative history, as taught in schools up through the
60s or so, portrayed America as "wart-free." Since then, with Zinn's book playing a major
role, it has increasingly been portrayed as "warts-only," which is of course at least equally
flawed. I would say more so.
All I am asking is that American (and other) history be written "warts and all." The
triumphalist version is true, largely, and so is the Zinn version. Gone With the Wind
and Roots both portray certain aspects of the pre-war south fairly accurately..
America has been, and is, both evil and good. As is/was true of every human institution
and government in history. Personally, I believe America, net/net, has been one of the
greatest forces for human good ever. But nobody will realize that if only the negative side
of American history is taught.
"There must be something really dirty in Russigate that hasn't yet come out to generate
this level of panic."
You continue to claim what you cannot prove.
But then you are a Jews First Zionist.
Russia-Gate Jumps the Shark
Russia-gate has jumped the shark with laughable new claims about a tiny number of
"Russia-linked" social media ads, but the US mainstream media is determined to keep a
straight face
Most of that group became ardently pro-Sunni, and most of the pro-Sunni ones eventually
coalescing around promotion of the House of Saud, which means being pro-Wahhabi and
permanently desirous of killing or enslaving virtually all Shiite Mohammedans.
Thanks for the laugh. During the 19th century, the Sauds were toothless, dirt-poor hicks
from the deep desert of zero importance on the world stage.
The Brits were not Saudi proponents, in fact promoting the Husseins of Hejaz, the guys
Lawrence of Arabia worked with. The Husseins, the Sharifs of Mecca and rulers of Hejaz, were
the hereditary enemies of the Sauds of Nejd.
After WWI, the Brits installed Husseins as rulers of both Transjordan and Iraq, which with
the Hejaz meant the Sauds were pretty much surrounded. The Sauds conquered the Hejaz in 1924,
despite lukewarm British support for the Hejaz.
Nobody in the world cared much about the Saudis one way or another until massive oil
fields were discovered, by Americans not Brits, starting in 1938. There was no reason they
should. Prior to that Saudi prominence in world affairs was about equal to that of Chad
today, and for much the same reason. Chad (and Saudi Arabia) had nothing anybody else
wanted.
'Putin stopped talking about the "Lisbon to Vladivostok" free trade area long ago" --
Michael Kenney
Putin was simply trying to sell Russia's application for EU membership with the
catch-phrase "Lisbon to Vladivostok". He continued that until the issue was triply mooted (1)
by implosion of EU growth and boosterism, (2) by NATO's aggressive stance, in effect taken by
NATO in Ukraine events and in the Baltics, and, (3) Russia's alliance with China.
It is surely still true that Russians think of themselves, categorically, as Europeans.
OTOH, we can easily imagine that Russians in Vladivostok look at things differently than do
Russians in St. Petersburg. Then again, Vladivostok only goes back about a century and a
half.
Anyway, the mission was accomplished and the relations with Russia are worse now than
during Obama administration.
I generally agree with your comment, but that part strikes me as a bit of an exaggeration.
While relations with Russia certainly haven't improved, how have they really worsened? The
second round of sanctions that Trump reluctantly approved have yet to be implemented by
Europe, which was the goal. And apart from that, what of substance has changed?
It's not surprising that 57 percent of the American people believe in Russian meddling.
Didn't two-thirds of the same crowd believe that Saddam was behind 9/11, too? The American
public is being brainwashed 24 hours a day all year long.
The CIA is the world largest criminal and terrorist organization. With Brennan the worst
has come to the worst. The whole Russian meddling affair was initiated by the Obama/Clinton
gang in cooperation with 95 percent of the media. Nothing will come out of it.
This disinformation campaign might be the prelude to an upcoming war.
Right now, the US is run by jerks and idiots. Watch the video.
Only dumb people does not know that TRUMP IS NETANYAHU'S PUPPET.
The fifth column zionist jews are running the albino stooge and foreign policy in the
Middle East to expand Israel's interest against American interest that is TREASON. One of
these FIFTH COLUMNISTS is Jared Kushner. He should be arrested.
[The key figures who had primary influence on both Trump's and Bush's Iran policies held
views close to those of Israel's right-wing Likud Party. The main conduit for the Likudist
line in the Trump White House is Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, primary foreign
policy advisor, and longtime friend and supporter of Netanyahu. Kushner's parents are also
long-time supporters of Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank.
Another figure to whom the Trump White House has turned is John Bolton, undersecretary of
state and a key policymaker on Iran in the Bush administration. Although Bolton was not
appointed Trump's secretary of state, as he'd hoped, he suddenly reemerged as a player on
Iran policy thanks to his relationship with Kushner. Politico reports that Bolton met with
Kushner a few days before the final policy statement was released and urged a complete
withdrawal from the deal in favor of his own plan for containing Iran.
Bolton spoke with Trump by phone on Thursday about the paragraph in the deal that vowed it
would be "terminated" if there was any renegotiation, according to Politico. He was calling
Trump from Las Vegas, where he'd been meeting with casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, the third
major figure behind Trump's shift towards Israeli issues. Adelson is a Likud supporter who
has long been a close friend of Netanyahu's and has used his Israeli tabloid newspaper Israel
Hayomto support Netanyahu's campaigns. He was Trump's main campaign contributor in 2016,
donating $100 million. Adelson's real interest has been in supporting Israel's interests in
Washington -- especially with regard to Iran.]
Putin's dream of Greater Europe is the death knell for the unipolar world order. It
means the economic center of the world will shift to Central Asia where abundant resources
and cheap labor of the east will be linked to the technological advances and the Capital
the of the west eliminating the need to trade in dollars or recycle profits into US
debt. The US economy will slip into irreversible decline, and the global hegemon will
steadily lose its grip on power. That's why it is imperative for the US prevail in
Ukraine– a critical land bridge connecting the two continents– and to topple
Assad in Syria in order to control vital resources and pipeline corridors. Washington
must be in a position where it can continue to force its trading partners to denominate
their resources in dollars and recycle the proceeds into US Treasuries if it is to maintain
its global primacy. The main problem is that Russia is blocking Uncle Sam's path to
success which is roiling the political establishment in Washington.
American dominance is very much tied to the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency,
and the rest of the world no longer want to fund this bankrupt, warlike state –
particularly the Chinese.
First, it confirms that the US did not want to see the jihadist extremists
defeated by Russia. These mainly-Sunni militias served as Washington's proxy-army
conducting an ambitious regime change operation which coincided with US strategic
ambitions.
The CIA run US/Israeli/ISIS alliance.
Second, Zakharova confirms that the western media is not an independent news
gathering organization, but a propaganda organ for the foreign policy establishment who
dictates what they can and can't say.
They are given the political line and they broadcast it.
The loosening of rules governing the dissemination of domestic propaganda coupled with
the extraordinary advances in surveillance technology, create the perfect conditions for
the full implementation of an American police state. But what is more concerning, is
that the primary levers of state power are no longer controlled by elected officials but by
factions within the state whose interests do not coincide with those of the American
people. That can only lead to trouble.
At some point Americans are going to get a "War on Domestic Terror" cheered along by the
media. More or less the arrest and incarceration of any opposition following the Soviet
Bolshevik model.
On the plus side, everyone now knows that the Anglo-US media from the NY Times to the
Economist, from WaPo to the Gruniard, and from the BBC to CNN, the CBC and Weinstein's
Hollywood are a worthless bunch of depraved lying bastards.
Such a truthful portrait of reality ! The ruling elite is indeed massively corrupt,
compromised, and controlled by dark forces. And the police state is already here. For most
people, so far, in the form of massive collection of personal data and increasing number of
mandatory regulations. But just one or two big false-flags away from progressing into
something much worse.
The thing is, no matter how thick the mental cages are, and how carefully they are
maintained by the daily massive injections of "certified" truth (via MSM), along with
neutralizing or compromising of "troublemakers", the presence of multiple alternative sources
in the age of Internet makes people to slip out of these cages one by one, and as the last
events show – with acceleration.
It means that there's a fast approaching tipping point after which it'd be impossible for
those in power both to keep a nice "civilized" face and to control the "cage-free"
population. So, no matter how the next war will be called, it will be the war against the
free Internet and free people. That's probably why N. Korean leader has no fear to start
one.
All government secrecy is a curse on mankind. Trump is releasing the JFK murder files to the public. Kudos! Let us hope he will follow up with a full 9/11 investigation.
The objective was to push new administration into the corner from which it could not
improve relations with Russia as Trump indicated that he wanted to during the campaign.
Good point. That was probably one of the objectives (and from the point of view of the
deep-state, perhaps the most important objective) of the "Russia hacked our democracy"
narrative, in addition to the general deligitimization of the Trump administration.
And, keep in mind, Washington's Sunni proxies were not a division of the Pentagon; they
were entirely a CIA confection: CIA recruited, CIA-armed, CIA-funded and
CIA-trained.
Clearly the CIA was making war on Syria. Is secret coercive covert action against sovereign
nations Ok? Is it legal? When was the CIA designated a war making entity – what part of the constitution OK's
that? Isn't the congress obliged by constitutional law to declare war? (These are NOT six
month actions – they go on and on.)
Are committees of six congressman and six senators, who meet in secret, just avoiding the
grave constitutional questions of war? We the People cannot even interrogate these
politicians. (These politicians make big money in the secrecy swamp when they leave
office.)
Syria is only one of many nations that the CIA is attacking – how many countries are
we attacking with drones? Where is congress?
Spying is one thing – covert action is another – covert is wrong – it
goes against world order. Every year after 9/11 they say things are worse – give them
more money more power and they will make things safe. That is BS!
9/11 has opened the flood gates to the US government attacking at will, the various
peoples of this Earth. That is NOT our prerogative.
We are being exceptionally arrogant.
Close the CIA – give the spying to the 16 other agencies.
Assuming that it is correct, who might be the most likely culprit?
Making that assumption, I want to focus on this part:
The U.S. embassy in Kuwait contacted a contracted private company to send the
package to the U.S. on board of an American airline.
Government is evil. Therefore hiring enough vetted US citizens to run an embassy is to be
avoided if a Private Company can be paid to do the same job. It's been done in the Military.
NASA. National Intelligence has been "privatized". (think Edward Snowden)
What shocked me most from the recent story here about Torturer Gina Haspel lying to Trump
wasn't that she did it. The woman has no scruples at all, and her misbehavior is hardly a
surprise. The NYT piece was just another story about an ignorant old man who can be easily
managed. No, here is the part which jumped out at me.
"Houseflies buzzing around the Oval Office were drawing his attention, and ire.
After reading that I'd be surprised if there is a competent core of White House GOVERNMENT
workers remaining there. Nobody to manage the flying vermin. It took the director of the CIA
to send over some flypaper!
I doubt if the Trumpies could organize a 1-float parade, so the lax security could be
almost anywhere in the chain of events. But my present vote is on a Private Company. It might
be the transport company. If they don't have junior staffers in the Embassy to run simple
missions like delivering a package, they probably don't have an in-house cleaning staff,
either. So they may hire some locals to come in and mop and sweep the joint. Inexpensive
Outsiders.
For Western world, especially people of the USA, the collapse of the USSR was really geopolitical catastrophe, as Putin
once put it. It unleaseshed cannibalistic instincts of neoliberal elite.
" "Can you imagine what the world would be like today if there was still a Soviet Union?"
remarked Zbigniew Bzezinski "
Yeah, I can.
There never would have been a war on Iraq in 1991 nor an obliteration of Iraq in 2003,
which has lasted until the present day. The destruction of Yugoslavia never would have taken
place and the wars and proxy wars on Syria and Libya would have only existed in the twisted
and depraved imaginations of the Zionist and militarist psychos in our midst.
TINA never would have been an imperative and the working people of the Western world
(primarily the U.S.) wouldn't be in a race to the bottom as it comes to wages, healthcare
insurance, poverty levels, infant mortality, life-expectancy, union power in the workplace,
secure retirements, and outlandish housing costs. With the demise of the USSR the millionaire
capitalist-investor class really took the gloves off and saw no reason to provide the working
masses with certain life-affirming policies, it was time to really sock it to the bottom
90%.
Despite some its faults, the world's people have been paying dearly for the demise of the
USSR.
For further reading on what I've outlined above:
"Blood Lies" by Grover Furr
"Blackshirts and Reds" by Michael Parenti
"Fool's Crusade" by Diana Johnstone
"Against Empire" by Michael Parenti
essays and articles by Paul Craig Roberts
essays and articles by Andre Vltchek
Al Pinto , April 18, 2019 at 13:31
In short, without an antidote, the US does what the neocons and Israel decide to do.
Welcome to the world of "my way, or the highway" cowboy mentality
Actually, people in the USSR lived lives of constant fear (they call it the “Time of
Terror”) that their friends, relatives, neighbors, strangers, even their children,
would “tattle” on them and they would wind up in the torture chambers. They lived
in stark, nearly unbearable poverty; the only comfort was that they all were in the same
godforsaken boat. Communism might be a good idea on paper, but in reality, because of the
ignorance of the bureaucratic leadership, it was a dismal failure.
The demise of the USSR would have no effect whatsoever on the hegemonic madness of the US
which, under the guiding light of the Monroe Doctrine (established way before the USSR),
carries on destroying one country after another. I would ask, “What would the world do
without the USA?” Live in a much more peaceful world for sure. As for Omar, I wish her
the fortitude to continue telling the truth. Again, Max Blumenthal proves himself one of the
world’s best reporters.
OlyaPola , April 19, 2019 at 05:33
“constant fear”
The years of 1928 to 1953 were not constant since there were the years 1954 and
subsequent.
That’s not true Rob Roy. You’re parroting Western capitalist talking points. A whole host of brand new scholarly literature
has hit the shelves in just the last few years proving the USSR was nowhere near as horrible as the Washington imperialist
media made it out to be. In fact, under Stalin the Soviet Union made substantial gains in women’s rights, literacy, healthcare
and industrial wages. Also, had it not been for Stalin’s agrarian plan there would have been more famines and more severe
famines.
And as everyone knows, if
Stalin never crash course industrialized the country they never would have defeated Nazi
Germany.
Far from the USSR being a police-state it was often seen as a giant trough in which, for
example, rent wouldn’t be paid and no one would come around to collect it.
Please see the following books for a truth trip: “Blood Lies” by Grover Furr and
“Stalin, Waiting for the Truth” by Grover Furr. Also, Michael Parenti’s
“Blackshirts and Reds is excellent.
Dump Pelousy , April 18, 2019 at 20:52
Micheal Perenti is the best. He was the Truth To Power voice before 9/11, before all the
yuppie reporters sold their souls for “access” and a talking heads show. I
watched it happen in slow motion with great dismay.
mp66 , April 18, 2019 at 22:23
Spot on. The western owner class was forced to share at least one plate with the rest of
the population to make the west appear superior in material terms, and with that incentive or
threat gone, there is no more need for a plate, few crumbs under the table should be
sufficient. But as usual, greed goes along with stupidity, they forgot that doing so for
decades undermines the stability of the system. Trump, Brexit, trade wars, abrogations of
treaties, blatant disregard for bare basics of international law etc. are just symptoms of
deeper discontent across the globe.
For Western world, especially people of the USA, the collapse of the USSR was really geopolitical catastrophe, as Putin
once put it. It unleashed cannibalistic instincts of neoliberal elite.
" "Can you imagine what the world would be like today if there was still a Soviet Union?"
remarked Zbigniew Bzezinski "
Yeah, I can.
There never would have been a war on Iraq in 1991 nor an obliteration of Iraq in 2003,
which has lasted until the present day. The destruction of Yugoslavia never would have taken
place and the wars and proxy wars on Syria and Libya would have only existed in the twisted
and depraved imaginations of the Zionist and militarist psychos in our midst.
TINA never would have been an imperative and the working people of the Western world
(primarily the U.S.) wouldn't be in a race to the bottom as it comes to wages, healthcare
insurance, poverty levels, infant mortality, life-expectancy, union power in the workplace,
secure retirements, and outlandish housing costs. With the demise of the USSR the millionaire
capitalist-investor class really took the gloves off and saw no reason to provide the working
masses with certain life-affirming policies, it was time to really sock it to the bottom
90%.
Despite some its faults, the world's people have been paying dearly for the demise of the
USSR.
For further reading on what I've outlined above:
"Blood Lies" by Grover Furr
"Blackshirts and Reds" by Michael Parenti
"Fool's Crusade" by Diana Johnstone
"Against Empire" by Michael Parenti
essays and articles by Paul Craig Roberts
essays and articles by Andre Vltchek
Al Pinto , April 18, 2019 at 13:31
In short, without an antidote, the US does what the neocons and Israel decide to do.
Welcome to the world of "my way, or the highway" cowboy mentality
Actually, people in the USSR lived lives of constant fear (they call it the “Time of
Terror”) that their friends, relatives, neighbors, strangers, even their children,
would “tattle” on them and they would wind up in the torture chambers. They lived
in stark, nearly unbearable poverty; the only comfort was that they all were in the same
godforsaken boat. Communism might be a good idea on paper, but in reality, because of the
ignorance of the bureaucratic leadership, it was a dismal failure.
The demise of the USSR would have no effect whatsoever on the hegemonic madness of the US
which, under the guiding light of the Monroe Doctrine (established way before the USSR),
carries on destroying one country after another. I would ask, “What would the world do
without the USA?” Live in a much more peaceful world for sure. As for Omar, I wish her
the fortitude to continue telling the truth. Again, Max Blumenthal proves himself one of the
world’s best reporters.
OlyaPola , April 19, 2019 at 05:33
“constant fear”
The years of 1928 to 1953 were not constant since there were the years 1954 and
subsequent.
That’s not true Rob Roy. You’re parroting Western capitalist talking points. A whole host of brand new scholarly literature
has hit the shelves in just the last few years proving the USSR was nowhere near as horrible as the Washington imperialist
media made it out to be. In fact, under Stalin the Soviet Union made substantial gains in women’s rights, literacy, healthcare
and industrial wages. Also, had it not been for Stalin’s agrarian plan there would have been more famines and more severe
famines.
And as everyone knows, if
Stalin never crash course industrialized the country they never would have defeated Nazi
Germany.
Far from the USSR being a police-state it was often seen as a giant trough in which, for
example, rent wouldn’t be paid and no one would come around to collect it.
Please see the following books for a truth trip: “Blood Lies” by Grover Furr and
“Stalin, Waiting for the Truth” by Grover Furr. Also, Michael Parenti’s
“Blackshirts and Reds is excellent.
Dump Pelousy , April 18, 2019 at 20:52
Micheal Perenti is the best. He was the Truth To Power voice before 9/11, before all the
yuppie reporters sold their souls for “access” and a talking heads show. I
watched it happen in slow motion with great dismay.
mp66 , April 18, 2019 at 22:23
Spot on. The western owner class was forced to share at least one plate with the rest of
the population to make the west appear superior in material terms, and with that incentive or
threat gone, there is no more need for a plate, few crumbs under the table should be
sufficient. But as usual, greed goes along with stupidity, they forgot that doing so for
decades undermines the stability of the system. Trump, Brexit, trade wars, abrogations of
treaties, blatant disregard for bare basics of international law etc. are just symptoms of
deeper discontent across the globe.
Assuming that it is correct, who might be the most likely culprit?
Making that assumption, I want to focus on this part:
The U.S. embassy in Kuwait contacted a contracted private company to send the
package to the U.S. on board of an American airline.
Government is evil. Therefore hiring enough vetted US citizens to run an embassy is to be
avoided if a Private Company can be paid to do the same job. It's been done in the Military.
NASA. National Intelligence has been "privatized". (think Edward Snowden)
What shocked me most from the recent story here about Torturer Gina Haspel lying to Trump
wasn't that she did it. The woman has no scruples at all, and her misbehavior is hardly a
surprise. The NYT piece was just another story about an ignorant old man who can be easily
managed. No, here is the part which jumped out at me.
"Houseflies buzzing around the Oval Office were drawing his attention, and ire.
After reading that I'd be surprised if there is a competent core of White House GOVERNMENT
workers remaining there. Nobody to manage the flying vermin. It took the director of the CIA
to send over some flypaper!
I doubt if the Trumpies could organize a 1-float parade, so the lax security could be
almost anywhere in the chain of events. But my present vote is on a Private Company. It might
be the transport company. If they don't have junior staffers in the Embassy to run simple
missions like delivering a package, they probably don't have an in-house cleaning staff,
either. So they may hire some locals to come in and mop and sweep the joint. Inexpensive
Outsiders.
"... That fact is a very sad and disturbing commentary on what America is or has become. Tolerating torture and excusing such an activity in the name of national security is the same justification that Stalin and Castro employed to punish dissidents. ..."
"... Let me be clear about my position. If Gina was in fact the Chief of Base and oversaw the application of the waterboarding and other inhuman treatment then she lacks the moral authority to head the CIA. Unfortunately, the United States has a long history of overlooking human rights violations and war crimes. ..."
"... Students of WW II will recall that US military intelligence recruited and protect Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, as an asset after the war. He murdered Jews and sent others to Auschwitz. He should have been hung. Instead, we turned a blind eye and gave him a paycheck. ..."
"... I've read that she enjoyed torture and mocked a prisoner who was drooling by accused him of faking it. I never knew anything about her sexual orientation but now I have to consider if she's so cruel because she hates men. ..."
"... Yes, waterboarding is torture. We considered it so egregious that we prosecuted Japanese military officers after WWII for using it on POWs. ..."
"... just reinforces the feeling that those at the upper echelons are completely out of touch or alternatively are just lying/posturing to present themselves in a better light. ..."
"... A torturer is a torturer, no matter how one try to glaze it, or sugar coat it. If one is against torture, or the fancy name for it EIT, one should come out and say it like it is. This lady is accused of torturing captives ( enemy combatant) that can't and will not go away unless she come clean. ..."
Before Gina became the Chief of Staff for Rodriguez, what role did she play in the waterboarding of two AQ operatives in Thailand?
It appears that she was at least witting of what was going on. Did she have the authority to decide what measures to apply to the
two? Did she make such decisions?
Those are facts still to be determined. I am inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt. But there are others who I respect
that are adamant in opposing her nomination. The only thing I know for sure is that her nomination will be a bloody and divisive
political battle. If it comes down to embracing waterboarding as an appropriate method to use on suspected terrorists, then a majority
of Americans are supportive of that practice and will cheer the appointment of Haspel.
That fact is a very sad and disturbing commentary
on what America is or has become. Tolerating torture and excusing such an activity in the name of national security is the same justification
that Stalin and Castro employed to punish dissidents. It is true that one man's terrorist is another woman's freedom fighter.
Let me be clear about my position. If Gina was in fact the Chief of Base and oversaw the application of the waterboarding
and other inhuman treatment then she lacks the moral authority to head the CIA. Unfortunately, the United States has a long history
of overlooking human rights violations and war crimes.
Students of WW II will recall that US military intelligence recruited and protect Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon,
as an asset after the war. He murdered Jews and sent others to Auschwitz. He should have been hung. Instead, we turned a blind eye
and gave him a paycheck.
I've read that she enjoyed torture and mocked a prisoner who was drooling by accused him of faking it. I never knew anything about her sexual orientation but now I have to consider if she's so cruel because she hates men.
IIRC, Haspel was the chief of staff to whom Rodriguez refers. That does not sound like a bit player. Would you say that Kelly
is a bit player in the Trump admin? As you say, we should know the facts, but so far it looks like she both participated in torture
and in its cover-up.
With all the crap going on at the FBI, the last thing we need now is a divisive candidate for any top level government position
(torture advocacy is divisive for many of us).
A woman, a lesbian, who cares as long as they are a capable and decent law-abiding
individual.
Yes, waterboarding is torture. We considered it so egregious that we prosecuted Japanese military officers after WWII for using
it on POWs.
And where do you get "admitted" terrorists from? In America, even with suspected terrorists, there is the principle
of innocent until proven guilty. At least we once believed in that standard.
And I very much respect you for your position on this (it is this American's view as well).
What amazes me (and yet doesn't) is the example of Rodriguez's supposed introspection "How bad could this be?" Really?!? That
just strikes me as not having any feel for the media, US citizenry, or even common sense, and just reinforces the feeling that
those at the upper echelons are completely out of touch or alternatively are just lying/posturing to present themselves in a better
light.
PT -- Thank you. Much to consider in these times. I come down on the "no torture and waterboarding is torture" side of the debate
but am also just eager for some competence and professional experience in key positions.
That these positions may be mutually
exclusive says a great deal about our current situation. Again, thank you, for your opinions and information.
A torturer is a torturer, no matter how one try to glaze it, or sugar coat it. If one is against torture, or the fancy name for
it EIT, one should come out and say it like it is. This lady is accused of torturing captives ( enemy combatant) that can't and
will not go away unless she come clean.
At the end of the day that don't matter, since as a policy, and base on your own statement,
this country's government will prosecut and punish for liking of torture but not torture and tortures. And, furthermore, is not
even willing to do away with it, per it's elected president. Trying to show a clean, moral, democracy on the hilltop image, is
a BS and a joke.
Yeah, my eyes almost popped out of my head as I read it in the news. Direct brazen
manipulation of your boss, who happens to be a commander in chief of a nuclear power. And
no, I don't hear any howls about treason and conspiracy from across the pond.
"Haspel showed pictures the British government had supplied".
This would indicate, if true, that the Brits desired to manipulate and used the CIA here
mainly as conduit to influence Trump. It would make more sense, historically as well,
interpreting causality and motive this way.
"... The idea that Trump was kidded along in this way with photos of suffering children is similar to that which allegedly persuaded him to bomb Syria (along with the UK and France) after the more recent also alleged Douma chemical weapons attacks. So who actually was telling him porkies and why or is this just another myth to prove Trump's crassness – in which case there is no need to make anything up. ..."
"... Trump doesn't give a toss about suffering children or suffering anyone else, so it's not likely that he was persuaded by the kind of argument that runs from injured children to the need for US diplomatic action. ..."
"... Trump forgets he lies in minutes. He'd not heard about Julian Assange? If I was reporter I would have played him his words from my laptop and ask: Mr President is this you or a fake President? ..."
"... Actually he is a fake President as most US Presidents are. The man's a dunce. I thought after George W Bush US Presidents couldn't get any worse but know history hits us up the backside with a banjo yet again. ..."
I took note when I read that on the Guardian website late last night. What struck me was
the treatment of the statement as if it could be true, but in more than one way.
The idea that Trump was kidded along in this way with photos of suffering children is
similar to that which allegedly persuaded him to bomb Syria (along with the UK and France)
after the more recent also alleged Douma chemical weapons attacks. So who actually was
telling him porkies and why or is this just another myth to prove Trump's crassness –
in which case there is no need to make anything up.
Even if the story is true, the article accepts it as fact and in no way qualifies it,
which is just plain misrepresentation as Craig points out.
The reference to the two Russian operatives at that time is certainly a give away one way
and another – but nothing in the article to highlight that inconsistency.
Strange timing too for the appearance of the article too. No doubt there will be a
response from the Russian Embassy.
Trump brings together stupidity, narcissistic mental illness and obnoxiousness such that
when an official has to deal with him their attitude must surely be to tell the moron
whatever gets him to do what they want as soon as possible, so they don't have to spend any
more time than necessary in a room with him.
He lies all the time – the guy can't stop
lying – nobody wants to spend time with a person like that – even his wife can't
stand the sight of him – and it doesn't matter what it is that you tell him or show
him.
Trump doesn't give a toss about suffering children or suffering anyone else, so it's not
likely that he was persuaded by the kind of argument that runs from injured children to the
need for US diplomatic action.
The question is who was behind the anti-Russian side of the
Skripal story and why. Not much progress will be made without looking at the British
defence review and the huge increase in military spending that warfare interests have
moved Gavin Williamson's lips to call for.
"(E)xtremely clear CCTV footage of the duck feeding"? So there are fixed cameras watching
where the ducks swim in Queen Elizabeth's Park in Salisbury, are there? Because I haven't
been able to find even some lamp posts they might be secured to. (
Some images .) Which is not to say the Skripals weren't photographed. And how's the
Nikolai Glushkov inquest going?
Trump forgets he lies in minutes. He'd not heard about Julian Assange? If I was reporter I would have played him his words from my laptop and ask: Mr President
is this you or a fake President?
Actually he is a fake President as most US Presidents are. The man's a dunce. I thought after George W Bush US Presidents couldn't get any worse but know history hits
us up the backside with a banjo yet again.
Simple really: Show the video of the Skripal actively feeding the ducks – blank the
kids faces and we'll be able to see them in all of their pre poisoned glory.
All this has been done before by the MS – The London Bridge attackers – 7/7
and so on.
So why not show the video? Because it shows something(s) which they want to hide. I have my views as to why, as do others but once you start lying you have to develop a
good memory and ' British Intelligence ' is a misnomer.
Let us not for one moment forget: Yulia musty be alive somewhere. I reckon they did in
Sergei – serve him right for being a double (or triple) agent – but Yulia must
still be around. She TOLD US in her video she was fine and getting better.
Thank god for Craig Murray and the Off-Guardian, they have preserved our sanity over this mad
story, this maddest of British Intel cockups.
@Nicholas – I'd advise delaying the conclusion that it was a cockup, except in the
sense that in most military and intelligence operations something cocks up –
until we hear what happens with British military spending plans.
Someone said to me on Twitter that confirmation of Novichock was from a Mass Spec of the
nerve agent bound to some enzyme (probably acetyl cholinesterase). Is this really the
official line? If so it's rubbish. Whoever made such a claim was clearly no chemist. Acetyl
Cholinesterase weighs about 66700 Daltons and the nerve agent weighed, say between 200 and
400 daltons. Firstly a mass spectrum of the protein would be that of the protein plus or
minus anything upto about 300 water molecules Which makes the mass (69400 +/- 2700) and a
multitude of other possible ions or other factors bound to it. The error in the mass of the
protein clearly exceeds the mass of the nerve agent. Given that, because of the blinding
uncertainties as to what species are actually hitting the detector in the mass spectrometer,
no-one anywhere attempts to study ligands bound to proteins by mass spec and certainly not
one of this size, why would they do it in this case?
The CIA Director tells outright lies to her boss, who as a result approves a stern
national rebuke.
In a cartoon version of life where Dick Dastardly gets to be an intelligence supremo, and
a total dummy gets to be President, this would be highly likely. Needless to say, to believe
such a scenario would exist in the real world requires a massive suspension of logic.
More likely there's something coming down the track that requires Haspel, and or the CIA,
to be discredited prior to its becoming visible to the public ?
What could possibly be coming down the track that isn't comparable to what we already know
about Haspel and the CIA though?
If you can straight faced maintain support for an admitted and documented human rights
abuser who heads a non accountable government spy agency that has been extra judicially
torturing, assassinating and over throwing any who stands in its way for 70 years; what on
earth could be about to come out that's suddenly going to convince our bought and paid for
media, and by extension the general public, that these monsters have been discredited?
UK spooks are switching to damage limitation mode, with the help of the Deborah Haynes of
Sky and II:
"Update: UK security sources say they're unaware of children hospitalised because of
#novichok or wildlife killed in #Skripal attack. May have been a photo of a dead swan though
not evidence swan was killed by #Novichok. If that's true, I wonder what these images used by
CIA were! "
"... I was not in the least surprised at reports that a known torturer was slated to head the CIA, and I expected quick confirmation. Such is my opinion of our ruling classes. ..."
"... Whatever Haspel may be, we can be sure the CIA will continue to torture, detain people without charge, assassinate and terrorize with its own drone force, and cause mayhem around the world and at home. No one can be trusted with the Ring of Power. ..."
"... American Exceptionalism is perhaps the most toxic ideology since Nazism and Stalinism. It says that the United States is always virtuous even when it tortures, when it bombs towns, villages, cities in the name of "freedom or installs dictators, military governments, trains torturers, and, yes, rapes and loots in the name of "democracy." ..."
"... Fast forward to January, 2017 and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer telling MSNBC's Rachael Maddow that President-elect Donald Trump is "being really dumb" by criticizing the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia's cyber activities: Shumer: "Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you, So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this." No, Shumer wasn't joking. He was serious. ..."
"... There won't be a 'Nuremberg' tribunal because Al Qaida didn't defeat the United States, and you'd have to convict not just Ms. Haspel, but a sizeable portion of the U.S. Government. ..."
"... If nothing else, the appointment of Bloody Gina as CIA head finally drives a wooden stake through the heart of the myth that "we're The Good Guys(tm)!" or its cousin "all we gotta do is elect Team D and we can be The Good Guys(R) again!" ..."
"... I do not know whether to admire Mr. van Buren's idealism or be astonished at his naivete. Has he never heard of the School of the Americas, of sinister reputation, or the Condor Plan, aided and abetted by U.S. intelligence? People in Latin America know better than to believe the U.S. protestations of virtue. They know about torturers, and the U.S. support for them. ..."
"... She was put in charge there not long after and oversaw the waterboarding of at least one prisoner, and later followed orders to destroy the tapes of waterboarding at that site. Your claim that " She had nothing to do with torture anywhere" is incorrect. ..."
"... furbo: your contention that " US extreme interrogation techniques are not equivalent to forcible sodomy, beating the genitals, pounding the kidneys, or breaking bones" is wrong. The UN Convention against Torture, to which the US is a signatory, states " For the purposes of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person " Ask anyone who has been waterboarded whether that fits the official definition? ..."
"... Ceterum censeo: given that the Iraq invasion and occupation was an act of aggressive war in violation of the UN Charter and thus illegal under US law, it is not just torturers but also war criminals in government and general staff that have to be considered in the contexts of these words. ..."
Nothing will say more about who we are, across three American administrations -- one that demanded torture, one that covered it
up, and one that seeks to promote its bloody participants -- than whether Gina Haspel becomes director of the CIA.
Haspel oversaw the
torture of human beings in Thailand as the chief of a CIA black site in 2002. Since then, she's worked her way up to deputy director
at the CIA. With current director Mike Pompeo slated to move to Foggy Bottom, President Donald Trump has proposed Haspel as the Agency's
new head.
Haspel's victims waiting for death in Guantanamo cannot speak to us, though they no doubt remember their own screams as they were
waterboarded. And we can still hear former CIA officer
John Kiriakousay : "We did
call her Bloody Gina. Gina was always very quick and very willing to use force. Gina and people like Gina did it, I think, because
they enjoyed doing it. They tortured just for the sake of torture, not for the sake of gathering information."
It was Kiriakou who exposed the obsessive debate over the effectiveness of torture as false. The real purpose of torture conducted
by those like Gina Haspel was to seek vengeance, humiliation, and power. We're just slapping you now, she would have said in that
Thai prison, but we control you, and who knows what will happen next, what we're capable of? The torture victim is left to imagine
what form the hurt will take and just how severe it will be, creating his own terror.
Haspel won't be asked at her confirmation hearing to explain how torture works, but those who were waterboarded under her stewardship
certainly could.
I met my first torture victim in Korea, where I was adjudicating visas for the State Department. Persons with serious criminal
records are ineligible to travel to the United States, with an exception for dissidents who have committed political crimes. The
man I spoke with said that under the U.S.-supported military dictatorship of Park Chung Hee he was tortured for writing anti-government
verse. He was taken to a small underground cell. Two men arrived and beat him repeatedly on his testicles and sodomized him with
one of the tools they had used for the beating. They asked no questions. They barely spoke to him at all.
Though the pain was beyond his ability to describe, he said the subsequent humiliation of being left so utterly helpless was what
really affected his life. It destroyed his marriage, sent him to the repeated empty comfort of alcohol, and kept him from ever putting
pen to paper again. The men who destroyed him, he told me, did their work, and then departed, as if they had others to visit and
needed to get on with things. He was released a few days later and driven back to his apartment by the police. A forward-looking
gesture.
The second torture victim I met was while I was stationed in Iraq. The prison that had held him was under the control of shadowy
U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces. Inside, masked men bound him at the wrists and ankles and hung him upside-down. He said they
neither asked him questions nor demanded information. They did whip his testicles with a leather strap, then beat the bottoms of
his feet and the area around his kidneys. They slapped him. They broke the bones in his right foot with a steel rod, a piece of rebar
ordinarily used to reinforce concrete.
It was painful, he told me, but he had felt pain before. What destroyed him was the feeling of utter helplessness, the inability
to control things around him as he once had. He showed me the caved-in portion of his foot, which still bore a rod-like indentation
with faint signs of metal grooves.
Gina Haspel is the same as those who were in the room with the Korean. She is no different than those who tormented the Iraqi.
As head of a black site, Haspel had sole authority to halt the questioning of suspects, but she allowed torture to continue.
New information
and a redaction of earlier reporting that said Haspel was present for the waterboarding and torture of Abu Zubaydah (she was
actually the station chief at the black site after those sessions) makes it less clear whether Haspel oversaw the torture
of all of the prisoners there, but pay it little mind. The confusion arises from the government's refusal to tell us what Haspel
actually did as a torturer. So many records have yet to be released and those that have been are heavily redacted. Then there are
the tapes of Zubaydah's waterboarding, which Haspel later pushed to have destroyed.
Arguing over just how much blood she has in her hands is a distraction from the fact that she indeed has blood on her hands.
Gina Haspel is now eligible for the CIA directorship because Barack Obama did not prosecute anyone for torture; he merely signed
an executive order banning it in the future. He did not hold any truth commissions, and ensured that almost all government documents
on the torture program remained classified. He did not prosecute the CIA officials who destroyed videotapes of the torture scenes.
Obama ignored the truth that sees former Nazis continue to be hunted some 70 years after the Holocaust: that those who do evil
on behalf of a government are individually responsible. "I was only following orders" is not a defense of inhuman acts. The purpose
of tracking down the guilty is to punish them, to discourage the next person from doing evil, and to morally immunize a nation-state.
To punish Gina Haspel "more than 15 years later for doing what her country asked her to do, and in response to what she was told
were lawful orders, would be a travesty and a disgrace,"
claims one of
her supporters. "Haspel did nothing more and nothing less than what the nation and the agency asked her to do, and she did it well,"
said Michael Hayden,
who headed the CIA during the height of the Iraq war from 2006-2009.
Influential people in Congress agree. Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which will soon review
Haspel's nomination,
said , "I know Gina personally and she has the right skill set, experience, and judgment to lead one of our nation's most critical
agencies."
"She'll have to answer for that period of time, but I think she's a highly qualified person,"
offered Senator
Lindsey Graham. Democratic Senator Bill Nelson
defended Haspel's
actions, saying they were "the accepted practice of the day" and shouldn't disqualify her.
His fellow Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, signaled her likely acceptance,
saying , "Since my concerns were raised over the torture situation, I have met with her extensively, talked with her She has
been, I believe, a good deputy director." Senator Susan Collins
added that Haspel "certainly has the expertise and experience as a 30-year employee of the agency." John McCain, a victim of
torture during the Vietnam War,
mumbled only that Haspel would have to explain her role.
Nearly alone at present, Republican Senator Rand Paul says he will
oppose Haspel's nomination. Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich, both Democrats, have told Trump she is unsuitable and will
likely also vote no.
Following World War II, the United States could have easily executed those Nazis responsible for the Holocaust, or thrown them
into some forever jail on an island military base. It would have been hard to find anyone who wouldn't have supported brutally torturing
them at a black site. Instead, they were put on public trial at Nuremberg and made to defend their actions as the evidence against
them was laid bare. The point was to demonstrate that We were better than Them.
Today we refuse to understand what Haspel's victims, and the Korean writer, and the Iraqi insurgent, already know on our behalf:
unless Congress awakens to confront this nightmare and deny Gina Haspel's nomination as director of the CIA, torture will have transformed
us and so it will consume us. Gina Haspel is a torturer. We are torturers. It is as if Nuremberg never happened.
Peter Van Buren, a 24-year State Department veteran, is the author of
We Meant Well : How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People andHooper's War : A Novel of WWII Japan. He tweets@WeMeantWell.
Covering up torture is quite possibly the worst thing Obama did. (I'd put it neck-and-neck with targeted killing.) This nation
desperately needs a president who will expose all of these horrors, and appoint an attorney general who will prosecute these acts
as war crimes.
Trump likes waterboarding. He said so himself. One assumes he meant, being a whimpering coward himself, when someone else does
it to someone else. But who knows? Enjoy judge Gorsuch.
"doing what her country asked her to do, and in response to what she was told were lawful orders"
To complete the parallel, we would need to prosecute and punish those who asked her to do it, and those who told her those
orders were lawful. Instead, some are doing paintings of their toes, some are promoted to be Federal judges, and some are influential
professors at "liberal" law schools. Why punish *only* her?
I was not in the least surprised at reports that a known torturer was slated to head the CIA, and I expected quick confirmation.
Such is my opinion of our ruling classes. I am in full support of Mr. Van Buren's thesis. However, Pro Publica, which seems
to have been the source of much reporting of Haspel's torture record, has retracted the claim that Haspel had tortured in Thailand.
Mr. Van Buren quotes another source from his blog that supports the thesis that Haspel is a torturer. How does one know what to
believe? Whatever Haspel may be, we can be sure the CIA will continue to torture, detain people without charge, assassinate
and terrorize with its own drone force, and cause mayhem around the world and at home. No one can be trusted with the Ring of
Power.
Its because we lost our sense of what makes us who we are. We are an empire that dances for private interests. In Rome they were
called families and led by patricians, they had money private guards, gladiators, and even street people supporting them. In the
Modern USA they are called Interest Groups and/or Corporations. They are lead by CEOs and instead of gladiators they have Lawyers.
Our being better matters less then their own squabbles which is why a torturer could reach the highest seat in intel. The majority
of Americans have lost their sense of being Americans instead they are Republicans, Democrats, etc, etc. Things that once use
to be part of an American have come to define us.
American Exceptionalism is perhaps the most toxic ideology since Nazism and Stalinism. It says that the United States is always
virtuous even when it tortures, when it bombs towns, villages, cities in the name of "freedom or installs dictators, military
governments, trains torturers, and, yes, rapes and loots in the name of "democracy."
At least this appointment along with the election of Trump shows the true face of the United States in international affairs.
When we face the fact we are (a) an oligarchy and (b) a brutal Empire we might have a chance to return to something more human.
Few readers, even of TAC, will want to look at our recent history of stunning brutality and lack of interest in even being in
the neighborhood of following international law.
CIA has purposefully refused to disclose Haspel's role for a decade+ They have selectively released information last week to discredit
those criticizing her. I don't think we should play their game, letting them set the agenda. Instead, I declaim torture itself
and any role she played in it, whether she poured the water or kept the books.
Does Peter Van Buren's criticism of the CIA's Haspel put him at risk?
In the 2003 film "Love Actually" the British Prime Minister (played by Hugh Grant) jokes with a Downing Street employee Natalie
(Martine McCutcheon):
"PM: You live with your husband? Boyfriend, three illegitimate but charming children? –
"NATALIE: No, I've just split up with my boyfriend, so I'm back with my mum and dad for a while.
"PM: Oh. I'm sorry.
"NATALIE: No, it's fine. I'm well shot of him. He said I was getting fat.
"PM: I beg your pardon?
"NATALIE: He said no one's going to fancy a girl with thighs the size of big tree trunks. Not a nice guy, actually, in the end.
"PM: Right You know, being Prime Minister, I could just have him murdered.
"NATALIE: Thank you, sir. I'll think about it.
"PM: Do – the SAS are absolutely charming – ruthless, trained killers are just a phone call away."
It's just a film. It's just a joke. But the joke works because the public knows that – in reality – the security services have
the skills-sets and the abilities, to do damage anyone they want to do damage to -- and to probably get away with it.
Fast forward to January, 2017 and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer telling MSNBC's Rachael Maddow that President-elect
Donald Trump is "being really dumb" by criticizing the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia's cyber activities:
Shumer: "Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you, So even
for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this." No, Shumer wasn't joking. He was serious.
Fast forward again to yesterday, March 17, 2018: Former CIA Director John Brennan wasn't joking when he reacted to the firing
of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe -- and President Donald Trump's tweeted celebration of it -- by tweeting this attack against
Trump:
"When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful
place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America America
will triumph over you."
Obama UN Representative Samantha Power followed up on the Brennan tweet with this:
"Not a good idea to piss off John Brennan."
When public officials and former public officials -- like Shumer, Brennan and Power -- make such public statements it must
necessarily have a chilling effect on public criticism of the security services.
After all, none of the three are joking. They're serious. And the American people know that they're serious.
Does Peter Van Buren's criticism of CIA operative Haspel put him at risk?
New information makes it less clear whether Haspel oversaw the torture of all of the prisoners at her black site, but pay it little
mind. The confusion is because the government refuses to tell us what Haspel actually did as a torturer. Arguing over just how
much blood she has on her hands is a distraction when she indeed has blood on her hands.
The idea is her participation on any level at the black site is sufficient to disqualify her from heading the Agency. If the
Agency wishes to clarify her role, as was done via trial for the various Nazis at Nuremberg, we can deal with her actions more
granularly.
Since we have not had any more successful attacks on the scale of 9-11, it is very easy to be scrupulous regarding rough treatment
of terrorists.
But if we had suffered a dozen or more such attacks, of increasing magnitude and maybe involving nuclear weapons, how many
of you would still be condemning Mrs Haspel et al.? Or would you then be complaining they had not used water-boarding enough?
The 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, was caught weeks before 9-11. Investigators figured out he was up to no good, tried
to get permission to search his computer, but were denied. The U.S. Government carefully protected his privacy rights. So are
you pleased with the outcome, Mr van Buren?
I'm sorry – this whole piece is a massive non sequitur. Ms. Haspel has no 'blood' on her hands as US extreme interrogation techniques
(sleep deprivation, uncomfortable positions, waterboarding) didn't draw any. They are not equivalent to forcible sodomy, beating
the genitals, pounding the kidneys, or breaking bones. US techniques might have been bad policy – won't argue – but lets not fall
for a false equivalency.
Ms. Haspel was an agent of her government, acting on it's orders under it's policies and guidelines. Which leads to
Nuremberg. The Nuremberg tribunals (they were military tribunals – not trials) were conducted by a victorious military force
against a defeated military force. They were widely criticized as vengeance even by such august people as Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court Stone and associate Justice Douglas. There won't be a 'Nuremberg' tribunal because Al Qaida didn't defeat the
United States, and you'd have to convict not just Ms. Haspel, but a sizeable portion of the U.S. Government.
And lastly there's this from a comment of the authors: "The idea is her participation on any level at the black site is sufficient
to disqualify her from heading the Agency." Utter nonsense. That was the mission of the Agency at that time. It's like saying
a 33yr old Drone Pilot who takes out an ISIS/Al Qaida operative as well as 15 civilians is disqualified to be the Sec Def 2 decades
later.
If nothing else, the appointment of Bloody Gina as CIA head finally drives a wooden stake through the heart of the myth
that "we're The Good Guys(tm)!" or its cousin "all we gotta do is elect Team D and we can be The Good Guys(R) again!"
We demonize Russia at every opportunity, but I don't see Russia rewarding torturers by appointing them to high office.
I didn't know too much about this woman's background until I read that Rand Paul opposes her nomination. I tend to take notice
whenever Rand Paul holds forth on any subject. All I can say is that if her actual record even approximates what has been alleged,
then this woman is unfit for the post–Nuremberg or no Nuremberg.
"As we've proved, we're not better than them. Any of them." Oh, -PLEASE-, spare us the hyperbole! WE burn alive captives held
in cages? WE saw off their heads?
Thousands of US Navy and Air Force pilots have been waterboarded as part of their Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape
(S.E.R.E.) training programs.
All of the torturers should be brought to justice. So should all of the officials who ordered or authorized torture.
There is no statute of limitations on capital Federal crimes. For a U.S. citizen to kill via torture is a capital Federal crime,
no matter where the torture took place. If statutes of limitations make it too late to prosecute some acts of torture, it is not
too late to bring about some measure of justice by making torturers pariahs. As many sexual harassers have recently learned, there
is no statute of limitations in the court of public opinion.
The story linking her to torture has been formally retracted. She had nothing to do with torture anywhere. How about a retraction
of this story and an apology.
I do not know whether to admire Mr. van Buren's idealism or be astonished at his naivete. Has he never heard of the School
of the Americas, of sinister reputation, or the Condor Plan, aided and abetted by U.S. intelligence? People in Latin America know
better than to believe the U.S. protestations of virtue. They know about torturers, and the U.S. support for them.
Personally,
I prefer that the cruelty should be, as Lincoln once put it, "unalloyed by the base metal of hypocrisy"
bob sykes: you should read Pro Publica's retraction (
https://www.propublica.org/article/cia-cables-detail-its-new-deputy-directors-role-in-torture
) of the claim that Haspel was in charge of the Thai black site when Abu Zubaydeh was tortured. She was put in charge there
not long after and oversaw the waterboarding of at least one prisoner, and later followed orders to destroy the tapes of waterboarding
at that site. Your claim that " She had nothing to do with torture anywhere" is incorrect.
Winston: why do you suppose "thousands of US Navy and Air Force pilots have been waterboarded as part of their Survival, Evasion,
Resistance and Escape (S.E.R.E.) training programs"? Is it not to prepare them for the possibility of what we call torture when
used by our adversaries?
furbo: your contention that " US extreme interrogation techniques are not equivalent to forcible sodomy, beating the genitals,
pounding the kidneys, or breaking bones" is wrong. The UN Convention against Torture, to which the US is a signatory, states "
For the purposes of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental,
is intentionally inflicted on a person " Ask anyone who has been waterboarded whether that fits the official definition?
Wilfred, the problem was not that the Feds protected Zacarias Moussaoui's right to privacy. The problem is that it let any of
the 20 Arab Muslims into the US in the first place. Closing our borders and mass deportations would have been the best thing to
do in the aftermath of 9/11, not torture and invasions.
Very well put. Lest we forget: Bush also delivered the stern warning that "war crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be
punished, and it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders'."
Ceterum censeo: given that the Iraq invasion and occupation was an act of aggressive war in violation of the UN Charter
and thus illegal under US law, it is not just torturers but also war criminals in government and general staff that have to be
considered in the contexts of these words.
Chris Mallory (Mar 19 @1:47 p.m.), I agree with you. We shouldn't be letting them in.
But if someone had sneaked-a-peek at Moussaoui's laptop during the 3 weeks they had him before 9-11, we might have been able
to thwart the attack altogether. (And the Press has been strangely incurious about investigating whoever it was who issued the
injunction protecting Moussie's precious computer). This type of hand-wringing cost us 3,000 lives. Even more, considering the
Afghan & 2nd Iraq wars would never have been launched, were it not for 9-11.
"... Haspel is not the "underling" . Trump is the underling. Sure, being that he is also an oligarch makes Trump's role in the show complicated, but Presidents are installed in order to serve the oligarchy, and the CIA are top level strategists/enforcers for the oligarchy. ..."
"... In the real organization chart for the empire the CIA is above the President. This has been the case in the US since Kennedy. ..."
"... Trump will not fire Haspel. He can't. He's just an actor playing a role in a show, and Haspel is one of the producers/writers of that show. If she doesn't put firing in the script then Trump cannot say those lines. I doubt he really wants to anyway. ..."
"If Trump were not in on the schemes he would just fire his underlings!"
This sentiment indicates a failure to understand the power dynamics at play here. Haspel
is not the "underling" . Trump is the underling. Sure, being that he is also an
oligarch makes Trump's role in the show complicated, but Presidents are installed in order to
serve the oligarchy, and the CIA are top level strategists/enforcers for the oligarchy.
In the real organization chart for the empire the CIA is above the President.
This has been the case in the US since Kennedy.
Trump cannot fire Haspel or Pompeo. They can fire him, though, and with a sniper's bullet
if they want.
Unfortunately for the oligarchy, that would cause additional complications at a time when
they have lots of tricky and inexplicably unstable (for them) operations ongoing, which is
why they are just steering Trump around instead of replacing him. And Trump is willfully
cooperating, even if they are not filling him in on the plans.
Trump will not fire Haspel. He can't. He's just an actor playing a role in a show, and
Haspel is one of the producers/writers of that show. If she doesn't put firing in the script
then Trump cannot say those lines. I doubt he really wants to anyway.
"... What's the real agenda though behind that article? It's to put Gina Haspel in a favourable light at the same time as it's criticising Trump. Is the NYT promoting Gina Haspel as someone who deserves a more influential position than the nation's top torturer? She wouldn't be the first such criminal being subtly encouraged to try for DJT's job in the future. ..."
"... I see it as a complex exercise in CYA. They need to reinforce certain narratives. ..."
"... As of almost 8 PM, there are 35 comments. In a national newspaper on a story like this? There must be a committee cherry picking them for "suitability" - the collection is as fake as the article. Wonderful Haspel at the head of an amazing CIA tutoring a clueless moron of a POTUS. The third part they got right. ..."
"... Why are they fluffing the torturer and the out-of-control CIA? Is something planned where they want both to shine in their future stories on that "something"? ..."
The New York Times article seems whiffy to me. (Is anything from the NYT not whiffy?) The
article is the work of no fewer than five writers and the part about Donald Trump being
swayed by pictures of sick children in hospital and dead ducks seems a bit like a game of
Chinese whispers.
What's the real agenda though behind that article? It's to put Gina Haspel in a favourable
light at the same time as it's criticising Trump. Is the NYT promoting Gina Haspel as someone
who deserves a more influential position than the nation's top torturer? She wouldn't be the
first such criminal being subtly encouraged to try for DJT's job in the future.
Better not play too many of those
"Call of Duty" video games either. You might find that being a pretend mercenary shooting
up innocent people in foreign lands is not just for the purpose of wasting a half of day on
mindless entertainment.
I see it as a complex exercise in CYA. They need to reinforce certain narratives.
>> The media was right about Trump: he has a soft spot for Russia.
>> Trump cares about people (and even ducks) - remember how he bombed Syria because
of the babies? Now Trump is super concerned about the people of Venezuela. What a
humanitarian!
>> Russia has no reason to oppose USA (in Venezuela or elsewhere) - they could just
contact their friend Trump! To do otherwise demonstrates malicious intent.
As of almost 8 PM, there are 35 comments. In a national newspaper on a story like this?
There must be a committee cherry picking them for "suitability" - the collection is as fake
as the article. Wonderful Haspel at the head of an amazing CIA tutoring a clueless moron of a
POTUS. The third part they got right.
Why are they fluffing the torturer and the out-of-control CIA? Is something planned where
they want both to shine in their future stories on that "something"?
"Assange was reduced from one of the few towering figures of our time – a man who will
have a central place in history books, if we as a species live long enough to write those
books "
-- The presstituting crowd of stenographers (MSM) and the zionized X-tian war profiteers
have made everything in their power (inadvertently) to ensure that Assange is and will be a
towering figure of our time.
Even in distress, Assange has been fighting for truth and dignity; the ongoing show of
lawlessness exposes the rot. The moral and creative midgets constituting the core of MSM and
the satanic deciders are upset. Good!
The idiotic Senior District "Judge" Emma Arbuthnot (a wife and beneficiary of a mega-war
profiteer Lord Arbuthnot -- Arbuthnot served as Chairman of the Defence Select Committee from
2005 to 2014) and the no less idiotic District "Judge" Michael Snow have entered the history
books as well. As scoundrels: http://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/1555064882.html
Snow does his best to bring the Judiciary into disrepute by playing to the gallery. He
comments on the extradition in the same vein in a totally unprofessional manner. He is of
course in a long line of disreputable members of the judiciary Snow's place in history is
now secured – he chose to abuse the defendant rather than perform his role which was
really quite straightforward. He is the narcissist and guilty of self interest not Julian
Assange.
@Si1ver1ock For every pronouncement against Assange by the US/UK government and
judiciary, there should be an immediate question about the leniency shown towards the
pedophiles and rapists in the UK (see Savile and the sudden "disappearance" of files re the
high-placed pedophiles) and the story of Lolita Island and Lolita Express in the US.
One of the hurdles in investigating the claims is the Official Secrets Act, which
prevents the disclosure of state secrets and "sensitive" information. "It is clear there
are a lot of people who could provide a lot of information to support ongoing criminal
investigations But they are not doing so because of the Official Secrets Act. They are
fearful of not only breaking the law but the potential effect on their pension. This is
absolutely crucial if we are to get some of these ex-officers coming forward and to get
prosecutions of some of the former MPs." He has asked Home Secretary Theresa May to
lift the restrictions, allowing former officials to speak up about what they know about the
case, but so far there is no indication that this has been done.
The protection of the high-placed pedophiles and rapists in the US:
In the Epstein case, as well, there are numerous questions surrounding the possibility
of high-level cover up. In recent weeks it has emerged that Epstein struck a remarkable
secret deal with the US Attorney's Office that barred more than 500 pages of documents
detailing negotiations of the deal and a staggering 13,000 documents from the investigation
into Epstein's activities that were shelved as a result of the bargain.
Let the scoundrels talk about Assange to see how the concocted fraud is backfired.
Mrs. Clinton in particular should have been more circumspect:
It has since been revealed that Epstein had 21 different phone numbers for contacting
his friend Bill Clinton, who, court records allege, "frequently flew" on Epstein's private
jet between 2002 and 2005.
Also, perhaps you need to ponder why you are not treated the same way as the courageous,
talented, principled, and dignified Assange is treated. Perhaps, something is missing in your
character.
The documents are thought to shed light on the years of ongoing pedophilia and child
abuse within Westminster and contained names of "several" high-level politicians in the UK
and US who are connected to an elite pedophile ring.
In the case of the Westminster "pedophile ring," the mounting sentiment that Britain's
establishment serves its own interests and conceals its wrongdoing may be well founded.
Until recently only seven police officers were working on Operation Fernbridge; Scotland
Yard announced today the figure is now 22.
By fraudulently accusing Assange, Theresa May reminds the world about her role in the
protection of the wealthy and influential Westminster pedophiles (the real rapists).
-- The gang is also very stupid. From Halper-the-spy and his incompetent handler Brennan
to the obnoxious zionists of Ledeen kind they, the members of the "gang", show incompetence
and the self-endangering and stupid amorality.
By destroying whatever decent has been in the western civilization so far, and by
spreading the rot around, the gangsters have been destroying their children's &
grandchildren's future.
"... On June 12, 2018 The Washington Post ran an overlooked story where they disclosed that National Security Advisor John Bolton had accepted money from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Deutsche Bank and HSBC to return for his participation in speeches and panel discussions ..."
"... John Bolton accepted $115,000 from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation to speak at multiple events hosted by the Foundation including one in September 2017 where Bolton assured his audience that President Donald Trump would not radically change US foreign policy despite his explicit campaign promises to do so. ..."
"... More broadly, John Bolton's work for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, HSBC and Deutsche Bank shows that while he preaches hardline foreign policy approaches towards nations such as Iran and North Korea he has no issue tying himself to those who openly flaunt American sanctions and diplomatic attempts to pressure these states. For an individual who is the President's National Security Advisor to have taken money from banks who provide financial services to terror groups who have murdered thousands of Americans is totally unacceptable. ..."
On June 12, 2018 The Washington Post ran an overlooked story where they
disclosed that National Security Advisor John Bolton had accepted money from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Deutsche Bank and HSBC
to return for his participation in speeches and panel discussions. These three entities have been linked to various kinds of corruption
including sanctions evasion for Iran, money laundering on behalf of drug cartels, provision of banking services to backers of Islamic
terror organizations and controversial donations to the Clinton Foundation.
The financial ties between Bolton and these institutions highlight serious ethical concerns about his suitability for the position
of National Security Advisor.
I. Victor Pinchuk Foundation
John Bolton accepted $115,000 from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation to speak at multiple events hosted by the Foundation including
one in September 2017 where Bolton assured his audience that President Donald Trump would not radically change US foreign policy
despite his explicit campaign promises to do so.
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation was blasted in 2016 over their donation of $10 to $25 million to the
Clinton Foundation between 1994 and 2005. The donations lead to accusations
of influence peddling after it emerged that Victor Pinchuk had been invited
to Hillary Clinton's home during the final year of her tenure as Secretary of State.
Even more damning was Victor Pinchuk's participation in activities that constituted evasions of sanctions levied against Iran
by the American government. A 2015 exposé by Newsweek highlighted the fact
that Pinchuk owned Interpipe Group, a Cyprus-incorporated manufacturer of seamless pipes used in oil and gas sectors. A now-removed
statement on Interpipe's website showed that they
were doing business in Iran despite US sanctions aimed to prevent this kind of activity.
Why John Bolton, a notorious war hawk who has called for a hardline approach to Iran, would take money from an entity who was
evading sanctions against the country is not clear. It does however, raise serious questions about whether or not Bolton should
be employed by Donald Trump, who made attacks on the Clinton Foundation's questionable donations a cornerstone of his 2016 campaign.
II. HSBC Group
British bank HSBC paid Bolton $46,500 in June and August 2017 to speak at two gatherings of hedge fund managers and investors.
HSBC is notorious for its extensive ties to criminal and terror organizations for whom it has provided illegal financial services.
Clients that HSBC have laundered money for include Colombian drug traffickers
and Mexican cartels who have terrorized the country and recently
raised murder rates to the highest levels in Mexico's history . They have
also offered banking services to Chinese individuals
who sourced chemicals and other materials used by cartels to produce methamphetamine and heroin that is then sold in the United
States. China's Triads have helped open financial markets in Asia to cartels
seeking to launder their profits derived from the drug trade.
In 2012, HSBC was blasted by the US Senate for for allowing money from
Russian and Latin American criminal networks as well as Middle Eastern terror groups to enter the US. The banking group ultimately
agreed to pay a $1.9 billion fine for this misconduct as well as their involvement
in processing sanctions-prohibited transactions on behalf of Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma.
Some of the terror groups assisted by HSBC include the notorious Al Qaeda. During the 2012 scrutiny of HSBC, outlets such as
Le Monde , Business Insider
and the New York Times revealed that HSBC had maintained ties to Saudi
Arabia's Al Rajhi Bank. Al Rajhi Bank was one of Osama Bin Ladin's "Golden Chain" of Al Qaeda's most important financiers. Even
though HSBC's own internal compliance offices asked for the bank to terminate their relationship with Al Rajhi Bank, it continued
until 2010.
More recently in 2018, reports have claimed that HSBC was used for illicit
transactions between Iran and Chinese technology conglomerate Huawei. The US is currently seeking to extradite Huawei CFO Meng
Wanzhou after bringing charges against Huawei related to sanctions evasion
and theft of intellectual property. The company has been described as a "backdoor" for elements of the Chinese government by certain
US authorities.
Bolton's decision to accept money from HSBC given their well-known reputation is deeply hypocritical. HSBC's connection to
terror organizations such as Al Qaeda in particular is damning for Bolton due to the fact that he formerly served as the chairman
of the Gatestone Institute , a New York-based advocacy group that purports
to oppose terrorism. These financial ties are absolutely improper for an individual acting as National Security Advisor.
III. Deutsche Bank
John Bolton accepted $72,000 from German Deutsche Bank to speak at an event in May 2017.
Deutsche Bank has for decades engaged in questionable behavior. During World War II, they
provided financial services to the Nazi Gestapo and financed construction
of the infamous Auschwitz as well as an adjacent plant for chemical company IG Farben.
Like HSBC, Deutsche Bank has provided illicit services to international criminal organizations. In 2014
court filings showed that Deutsche Bank, Citi and Bank of America had all
acted as channels for drug money sent to Colombian security currency brokerages suspected of acting on behalf of traffickers.
In 2017, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay a $630 million fine after working with
a Danish bank in Estonia to launder over $10 billion through London and
Moscow on behalf of Russian entities. The UK's financial regulatory watchdog
has said that Deutsche Bank is failing to prevent its accounts from being used to launder money, circumvent sanctions and
finance terrorism. In November 2018, Deutsche Bank's headquarters was raided
by German authorities as part of an investigation sparked by 2016 revelations in the "Panama Papers" leak from Panama's Mossack
Fonseca.
Two weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, the Bush administration signed
an executive order linking a company owned by German national Mamoun Darkazanli to Al Qaeda. In 1995,
Darkazanli co-signed the opening of a Deutsche Bank account for Mamdouh
Mahmud Salim. Salim was identified by the CIA as the chief of bin Laden's computer operations and weapons procurement. He was
ultimately arrested in Munich, extradited to the United States and
charged
with participation in the 1998 US embassy bombings.
In 2017, the Office of the New York State Comptroller opened an investigation into accounts that Deutsche Bank was operating
on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The PFLP is defined by both the United States and the European
Union as a terrorist organization. It is ironic that Bolton, who is a past recipient of the "Guardian of Zion Award" would accept
money from an entity who provided services to Palestinian groups that Israel considers to be terror related.
IV. Clinton-esque Financial Ties Unbecoming To Trump Administration
Bolton's engagement in paid speeches, in some cases with well-known donors to the Clinton Foundation, paints the Trump administration
in a very bad light. Donald Trump criticized Hillary Clinton during his
2016 Presidential campaign for speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs that were
labeled by her detractors as "pay to play" behavior. John Bolton's acceptance of money from similar entities, especially the Victor
Pinchuk Foundation, are exactly the same kind of activity and are an embarrassment for a President who claims to be against corruption.
More broadly, John Bolton's work for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, HSBC and Deutsche Bank shows that while he preaches
hardline foreign policy approaches towards nations such as Iran and North Korea he has no issue tying himself to those who openly
flaunt American sanctions and diplomatic attempts to pressure these states. For an individual who is the President's National
Security Advisor to have taken money from banks who provide financial services to terror groups who have murdered thousands of
Americans is totally unacceptable.
It is embarrassing enough that Donald Trump hired Bolton in the first place. The next best remedy is to let him go as soon
as possible.
Money quote: "The Russian collusion investigation was based solely on the dodgy Steele Dossier that was discredited here from
the get-go. This was a product of British Intelligence Community. The intent was to keep and then to get Donald Trump out of the White
House. It failed but they did succeed in turning him into a neo-lib-con fellow traveler. There are clear parallels between the end stages
of the Soviet Union and the American Empire. My take since the Iraq Invasion is that they are insane. The ruling elite is detached from
reality, incompetent and arrogant. Sooner or later someone with their facilities still intact will lead a middle-class revolt against
the global plutocracy to restore democracy and reverse the rising inequality. We were lucky that the fall of the Soviet Union did not
lead to a nuclear war. The next time a nuclear armed Empire crashes we may not be so fortunate."
Notable quotes:
"... Among interesting dates, it appears that Stefan Halper was already trying to reach out to Lokhova in January-February 2016 – a lot earlier than his approaches to Papadopoulo s and Page. This was done through Professor Christopher Andrew, co-convenor with Halper and the former MI6 had Sir Richard Dearlove of the ‘Cambridge Intelligence Seminar.’ ..."
"... Meanwhile, Lokhova has set up a blog on which she has posted a some interesting relevant material, with perhaps more to come. It is very well worth a look.(See https://www.russiagate.co.uk .) ..."
"... Of particular interest, to my mind, is the full text of her – unpublished – May 2017 interview with the ‘New York Times.’ This points us back to is the fact – of which Lokhova shows no signs of awareness – that the idea that the Western powers and the Russians might have a common interest in fighting jihadist terrorism has been absolute anathema to many key figures on both sides of the Atlantic, with Dearlove certainly among them. ..."
"... ‘AN APOLOGY: Yesterday, I compared @nytimes journalists, who smeared @GenFlynn and accused me of being a Russian spy, to cockroaches. In good conscience, I must apologize to the cockroaches for the distress caused to them for being compared to @nytimes #Russiagate hoaxers. Sorry!’ ..."
"... The centerpiece of this is a proposal submitted to the FCO in August last year by what seems to be essentially the same consortium whose existence as a government contractor has now been made public. The ‘Institute for Statecraft’ has vanished, and one consortium member, ‘Aktis Strategy’, has gone into liquidation. But other key members are the same. ..."
"... A central underlying premise is that if anyone has any doubts as to whether the ‘White Helmets’ are a benevolent humanitarian organisation, or the Russians were responsible for the poisoning of the Skripals or the shooting down of MH17, the only possible explanation is that their minds have been poisoned by disinformation. ..."
"... In fact, what is at issue an ambitious project to co-ordinate and strengthen a very large number of organisations in different countries which are committed to a relentlessly Russophobic line on everything. (The possibility that it might not be very bright to push Russia into the arms of China, the obviously rising power, does not seem to have occurred to these people – perhaps they need less ons from Sir Halford Mackinder, or indeed Niccolò Machiavelli, on ‘statecraft.’) ..."
"... The clear close integration of other cyber people from the ‘Atlantic Council’ into Orwellian ‘information operations’ sponsored by the British Government simply puts these facts into sharp relief. ..."
"... There has to be a strong possible ‘prima facie’ case that anyone in authority prepared to accept the ‘digital forensics’ from ‘CrowdStrike’ is complicit in the conspiracy against the constitution, and/or the conspiracy to cover-up that conspiracy. This certainly goes for Comey, and I think it also goes for Mueller." ..."
"... I'd recommend for reading Alexei Yurchak's "Everything Was Forever, Until It was No More: The Last Soviet Generation." Its about a class of apparatchiks and bureaucrats and hangers on who spoke this arcane, abstract dogmatic language that anyone normal had long since given up trying to understand. It had long ceased to have any relevance or attachment to the lives lived by ordinary, increasingly suffering people, who started talking to each other in practical and direct language. ..."
"... The Russian collusion investigation was based solely on the dodgy Steele Dossier that was discredited here from the get-go. This was a product of British Intelligence Community. The intent was to keep and then to get Donald Trump out of the White House. It failed but they did succeed in turning him into a neo-lib-con fellow traveler. ..."
"... There are clear parallels between the end stages of the Soviet Union and the American Empire. My take since the Iraq Invasion is that they are insane. The ruling elite is detached from reality, incompetent and arrogant. Sooner or later someone with their facilities still intact will lead a middle-class revolt against the global plutocracy to restore democracy and reverse the rising inequality. We were lucky that the fall of the Soviet Union did not lead to a nuclear war. The next time a nuclear armed Empire crashes we may not be so fortunate. ..."
"Dan, Thanks for the reference, which I will follow up. Unfortunately, although Bongino has produced a lot of extremely valuable
material, a lot of it is buried in the 'postcasts', searching through which is harder than with printed materials. It would greatly
help if there were transcripts, but of course those cost money.
I am still trying to fit the exploding mass of information which has been coming out into a coherent timeline. Part of the
problem is that there is so much appearing in so many different places. In addition to trying to think through the implications
of the information in this post and the subsequent exchanges of comments, I have been trying to make sense of evidence coming
out about the British end of the conspiracy.
An important development here has been rather well covered by Chuck Ross, in a recent ‘Daily Caller’ piece headlined ‘Cambridge
Academic Reflects On Interactions With 'Spygate’ Figure’ and one on ‘Fox’ by Catherine Herridge and Cyd Upson, entitled ‘Russian
academic linked to Flynn denies being spy, says her past contact was “used” to smear him.’ However, the evidence involved has ramifications
which they cannot be expected to understand, as yet at least.
At issue is the attempt to use the – apparently casual – encounter between Lieutenant-General Flynn and Svetlana Lokhova at a
dinner in Cambridge (U.K.) in February 2016 to smear him by, among other things, portraying her as some kind of ‘Mata Hari’ figure.
Among interesting dates, it appears that Stefan Halper was already trying to reach out to Lokhova in January-February 2016
– a lot earlier than his approaches to Papadopoulo s and Page. This was done through Professor Christopher Andrew, co-convenor with
Halper and the former MI6 had Sir Richard Dearlove of the ‘Cambridge Intelligence Seminar.’
This suggests that this was not simply a case Halper acting on his own. It also I think brings us back to the central importance
of Flynn’s visit to Moscow in December 2015.
Meanwhile, Lokhova has set up a blog on which she has posted a some interesting relevant material, with perhaps more to come.
It is very well worth a look.(See https://www.russiagate.co.uk
.)
Of particular interest, to my mind, is the full text of her – unpublished – May 2017 interview with the ‘New York Times.’ This
points us back to is the fact – of which Lokhova shows no signs of awareness – that the idea that the Western powers and the Russians
might have a common interest in fighting jihadist terrorism has been absolute anathema to many key figures on both sides of the Atlantic,
with Dearlove certainly among them.
Some of Lokhova’s comments on ‘twitter’ are extremely entertaining. An example, with which I have much sympathy:
‘AN APOLOGY: Yesterday, I compared @nytimes journalists, who smeared @GenFlynn and accused me of being a Russian spy, to
cockroaches. In good conscience, I must apologize to the cockroaches for the distress caused to them for being compared to @nytimes
#Russiagate hoaxers. Sorry!’
Meanwhile, another interesting recent ‘tweet’ comes from Eliot Higgins, of ‘Bellingcat’ fame. He is known to some skeptics as
‘the couch potato’ – perhaps he should be rechristened ‘king cockroach.’ It reads:
‘Looking forward to gettin g things rolling with the Open Information Partnership, with @bellingcat, @MDI_UK, @DFRLab, and @This_Is_Zinc
https://www.openinformation...’
There is an interesting ‘backstory’ to this. The announcement of an FCO-supported ‘Open Information Partnership of European Non-Governmental
Organisations, charities, academics, think-tanks and journalists’, supposedly to counter ‘disinformation’ from Russia, came in a
written answer from the Minister of State, Sir Alan Duncan, on 3 April.
In turn this followed the latest in a series of releases of material either leaked or hacked from the organisations calling themselves
‘Institute for Statecraft’ and ‘Integrity Initiative’ by the group calling themselves ‘Anonymous’ on 25 March.
The centerpiece of this is a proposal submitted to the FCO in August last year by what seems to be essentially the same consortium
whose existence as a government contractor has now been made public. The ‘Institute for Statecraft’ has vanished, and one consortium
member, ‘Aktis Strategy’, has gone into liquidation. But other key members are the same.
A central underlying premise is that if anyone has any doubts as to whether the ‘White Helmets’ are a benevolent humanitarian
organisation, or the Russians were responsible for the poisoning of the Skripals or the shooting down of MH17, the only possible
explanation is that their minds have been poisoned by disinformation.
An interesting paragraph reads as follows:
‘An expanded research component could generate better understanding of the drivers (psychological, sociopolitical, cultural
and environmental) of those who are susceptible to disinformation. This will allow us to map vulnerable audiences, and build scenario
planning models to test the efficiency of different activities to build resilience of those populations over time.’
They have not yet got to the point of recommending psychiatic treatment for ‘dissidents’, but these are still early days. The
‘Sovietisation’ of Western life proceeds apace.
In fact, what is at issue an ambitious project to co-ordinate and strengthen a very large number of organisations in different
countries which are committed to a relentlessly Russophobic line on everything. (The possibility that it might not be very bright
to push Russia into the arms of China, the obviously rising power, does not seem to have occurred to these people – perhaps they
need less ons from Sir Halford Mackinder, or indeed Niccolò Machiavelli, on ‘statecraft.’)
Study of the proposal hacked/leaked by ‘Anonymous’ bring out both the ‘boondoggle’ element – there is a lot of state funding available
for people happy to play these games – and also the strong transatlantic links.
A particularly significant presence, here, is the ‘DFRLab’. This is the ‘Digital Forensic Research Lab’ at the ‘Atlantic Council’,
where Eliot Higgins is a ‘nonresident senior fellow.’ The same organisation has a ‘Cyber Statecraft Initiative’ where Dmitri Alperovitch
is a ‘nonresident senior fellow.’
It cannot be repeated often enough that it is difficult to see any conceivable excuse for the FBI to fail to secure access to
the DNC servers. One would normally moreover expect that, on an issue of this sensitivity, they would have the ‘digital forensics’
done by their own people.
There can be no conceivable excuse for relying on a contractor selected by the organisation which is claiming that there has been
a hack, when an alternative possibility is a leak: and the implications of the alternative possibility could be devastating for that
organisation.
To rely on a contractor linked to the notoriously Russophobic ‘Atlantic Council’ is even more preposterous.
The clear close integration of other cyber people from the ‘Atlantic Council’ into Orwellian ‘information operations’ sponsored
by the British Government simply puts these facts into sharp relief.
There has to be a strong possible ‘prima facie’ case that anyone in authority prepared to accept the ‘digital forensics’ from
‘CrowdStrike’ is complicit in the conspiracy against the constitution, and/or the conspiracy to cover-up that conspiracy. This certainly
goes for Comey, and I think it also goes for Mueller."
OT but related, just watched a former naval Intelligence officer, now working for the Hoover Institute interviewed on FOX about
the Rooshins in Venezuela. Said, the 100 Russians are there to protect Maduro because he cannot trust his own army. Maduro's days
are numbered because he is toxically unpopular.
Got me thinking, our Intelligence services are good at psy-ops and keeping our gullible MSM in line but God help us if we ever
actually needed real Intelligence about a country. I remember about a month ago how all of these 'Think Tank Guys' were predicting
how the only people loyal to Maduro were a few of his crony Generals, that the rank and file military hated him and there were
going to be mass defections.
It didn't happen and we are all just supposed to forget that.
[not a socialist, don't have any love for Maduro, I just know that I will never learn anything of about Venezuela from these think
tank dudes, we are just getting groomed]
Venezuela isn't about "socialism," or even Maduro--it's about the oil. They have the largest proven reserves in the world, though
much of it is non-conventional and would need a ton of investment to exploit. But it's their oil, not ours, and we have no right
to meddle in their internal affairs.
Venezuela is neither about socialism nor oil in my opinion. It is everything to do with the neocons. And Trump buying into their
hegemonic dreams. Notice the resurrection of Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame as the man spearheading this in a triumvirate
with Bolton & Pompeo. IMO, a perfect foil for Putin & Xi to embroil the US in another regime change quagmire that further weakens
the US.
"There can be no conceivable excuse for relying on a contractor selected by the organisation which is claiming that there has
been a hack, when an alternative possibility is a leak: and the implications of the alternative possibility could be devastating
for that organisation.
To rely on a contractor linked to the notoriously Russophobic 'Atlantic Council' is even more preposterous."
True; and true. It is also true that the Clinton e-mail investigation was faux, a limp caricature of what an investigation
would look like when it is designed to uncover the truth. Allowing a subject's law firm to review the subject's e-mails from when
she was in government for relevancy is beyond preposterous. An investigation conducted in the normal way by apolitical Agents
in a field office would not walk away from a trove of evidence empty handed.
The inter-relatedness and overlapping of DoJ, CIA, and FBI personnel assigned to the Clinton e-mail case, the Russophobic nightmare
of a 'case' targeting Carter Page, and by extension, the Trump presidential campaign, and yes, the Mueller political op, all reek
of political bias and ineptitude followed by more political bias; and then culmination in a scorched earth investigation more
characteristic of something the STASI might have undertaken than American justice.
Early morning raids, gag orders, solitary confinements, show indictments that will never see adjudication in a court room - truly
unbelievable.
In your opinion was this surveillance, criminal & counter-intelligence investigation as well as information operations against
Trump centrally orchestrated or was it more reactive & decentralized?
There are so many facets. Fusion GPS & Nellie Ohr with her previous CIA connection. Her husband Bruce at the DOJ stovepiping
the dossier to the FBI. Brennan and his EC. Clapper and his intelligence assessment. Halper, Mifsud, Steele along with Hannigan
and the MI6 + GCHQ connection. Downer and the Aussies. FISA warrants on Page & Papadopolous. The whole Strzok & Page texting.
Comey, Lynch & the Hillary exoneration. McCabe. Then all the Russians. And the media leaks to generate hysteria.
I'd recommend for reading Alexei Yurchak's "Everything Was Forever, Until It was No More: The Last Soviet Generation." Its
about a class of apparatchiks and bureaucrats and hangers on who spoke this arcane, abstract dogmatic language that anyone normal
had long since given up trying to understand. It had long ceased to have any relevance or attachment to the lives lived by ordinary,
increasingly suffering people, who started talking to each other in practical and direct language.
And yet the chatterati
continued to chatter and invent ludicrously unreal worlds and analyses of the actual world they lived in until... bang... it was
no more.
I'd skip the first few chapters which are full of impenetrable marxist jargon.
The Russian collusion investigation was based solely on the dodgy Steele Dossier that was discredited here from the get-go.
This was a product of British Intelligence Community. The intent was to keep and then to get Donald Trump out of the White House.
It failed but they did succeed in turning him into a neo-lib-con fellow traveler.
There are clear parallels between the end stages of the Soviet Union and the American Empire. My take since the Iraq Invasion
is that they are insane. The ruling elite is detached from reality, incompetent and arrogant. Sooner or later someone with their
facilities still intact will lead a middle-class revolt against the global plutocracy to restore democracy and reverse the rising
inequality. We were lucky that the fall of the Soviet Union did not lead to a nuclear war. The next time a nuclear armed Empire
crashes we may not be so fortunate.
"... This entire article fleshes out one central truth – capitalism as practiced by the US Government inevitably involves war by any and all means, seeking total domination of every human being on the planet, foriegn or native to the US Hegemon. It seeks total rule of the rich and powerful over everyone else. ..."
"Russia is an inalienable and organic part of Greater Europe and European civilization. Our citizens think of themselves as
European. That's why Russia proposes moving towards the creation of a common economic space from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean,
a community referred to by Russian experts as 'the Union of Europe' which will strengthen Russia's potential in its economic pivot
toward the 'New Asia.'" Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, February 2012
The allegations of 'Russian meddling' only make sense if they're put into a broader geopolitical context. Once we realize that
Washington is implementing an aggressive "containment" strategy to militarily encircle Russia and China in order to spread its tentacles
across Central Asian, then we begin to understand that Russia is not the perpetrator of the hostilities and propaganda, but the victim.
The Russia hacking allegations are part of a larger asymmetrical-information war that has been joined by the entire Washington political
establishment. The objective is to methodically weaken an emerging rival while reinforcing US global hegemony.
Try to imagine for a minute, that the hacking claims were not part of a sinister plan by Vladimir Putin "to sow discord and division"
in the United States, but were conjured up to create an external threat that would justify an aggressive response from Washington.
That's what Russiagate is really all about.
US policymakers and their allies in the military and Intelligence agencies, know that relations with Russia are bound to get increasingly
confrontational, mainly because Washington is determined to pursue its ambitious "pivot" to Asia plan. This new regional strategy
focuses on "strengthening bilateral security alliances, expanding trade and investment, and forging a broad-based military presence."
In short, the US is determined to maintain its global supremacy by establishing military outposts across Eurasia, continuing to tighten
the noose around Russia and China, and reinforcing its position as the dominant player in the most populous and prosperous region
in the world. The plan was first presented in its skeletal form by the architect of Washington's plan to rule the world, Zbigniew
Brzezinski. Here's how Jimmy Carter's former national security advisor summed it up in his 1997 magnum opus, The Grand Chessboard:
American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives:
"For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia (p.30) .. Eurasia is the globe's largest continent and is geopolitically
axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive regions.
. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its
enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for 60 per cent of the world's GNP and about three-fourths of the world's
known energy resources." ("The Grand Chessboard:American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives", Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic
Books, page 31, 1997)
14 years after those words were written, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took up the banner of imperial expansion and
demanded a dramatic shift in US foreign policy that would focus primarily on increasing America's military footprint in Asia. It
was Clinton who first coined the term "pivot" in a speech she delivered in 2010 titled "America's Pacific Century". Here's an excerpt
from the speech:
"As the war in Iraq winds down and America begins to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, the United States stands at a pivot
point. Over the last 10 years, we have allocated immense resources to those two theaters. In the next 10 years, we need to be
smart and systematic about where we invest time and energy, so that we put ourselves in the best position to sustain our leadership,
secure our interests, and advance our values. One of the most important tasks of American statecraft over the next decade will
therefore be to lock in a substantially increased investment -- diplomatic, economic, strategic, and otherwise -- in the Asia-Pacific
region
Open markets in Asia provide the United States with unprecedented opportunities for investment, trade, and access to cutting-edge
technology ..American firms (need) to tap into the vast and growing consumer base of Asia The region already generates more than
half of global output and nearly half of global trade. As we strive to meet President Obama's goal of doubling exports by 2015,
we are looking for opportunities to do even more business in Asia and our investment opportunities in Asia's dynamic markets."
("America's Pacific Century", Secretary of State Hillary Clinton", Foreign Policy Magazine, 2011)
The pivot strategy is not some trifling rehash of the 19th century "Great Game" promoted by think-tank fantasists and conspiracy
theorists. It is Washington's premier foreign policy doctrine, a 'rebalancing' theory that focuses on increasing US military and
diplomatic presence across the Asian landmass. Naturally, NATO's ominous troop movements on Russia's western flank and Washington's
provocative naval operations in the South China Sea have sent up red flags in Moscow and Beijing. Former Chinese President Hu Jintao
summed it up like this:
"The United States has strengthened its military deployments in the Asia-Pacific region, strengthened the US-Japan military
alliance, strengthened strategic cooperation with India, improved relations with Vietnam, inveigled Pakistan, established a pro-American
government in Afghanistan, increased arms sales to Taiwan, and so on. They have extended outposts and placed pressure points on
us from the east, south, and west."
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been equally critical of Washington's erratic behavior. NATO's eastward expansion has convinced
Putin that the US will continue to be a disruptive force on the continent for the foreseeable future. Both leaders worry that Washington's
relentless provocations will lead to an unexpected clash that will end in war.
Even so, the political class has fully embraced the pivot strategy as a last-gasp attempt to roll back the clock to the post war
era when the world's industrial centers were in ruins and America was the only game in town. Now the center of gravity has shifted
from west to east, leaving Washington with just two options: Allow the emerging giants in Asia to connect their high-speed rail and
gas pipelines to Europe creating the world's biggest free trade zone, or try to overturn the applecart by bullying allies and threatening
rivals, by implementing sanctions that slow growth and send currencies plunging, and by arming jihadist proxies to fuel ethnic hatred
and foment political unrest. Clearly, the choice has already been made. Uncle Sam has decided to fight til the bitter end.
Washington has many ways of dealing with its enemies, but none of these strategies have dampened the growth of its competitors
in the east. China is poised to overtake the US as the world's biggest economy sometime in the next 2 decades while Russia's intervention
in Syria has rolled back Washington's plan to topple Bashar al Assad and consolidate its grip on the resource-rich Middle East. That
plan has now collapsed forcing US policymakers to scrap the War on Terror altogether and switch to a "great power competition" which
acknowledges that the US can no longer unilaterally impose its will wherever it goes. Challenges to America's dominance are emerging
everywhere particularly in the region where the US hopes to reign supreme, Asia.
This is why the entire national security state now stands foursquare behind the improbable pivot plan. It's a desperate "Hail
Mary" attempt to preserve the decaying unipolar world order.
What does that mean in practical terms?
It means that the White House (the National Security Strategy) the Pentagon (National Defense Strategy) and the Intelligence Community
(The Worldwide Threat Assessment) have all drawn up their own respective analyses of the biggest threats the US currently faces.
Naturally, Russia is at the very top of those lists. Russia has derailed Washington's proxy war in Syria, frustrated US attempts
to establish itself across Central Asia, and strengthened ties with the EU hoping to "create a harmonious community of economies
from Lisbon to Vladivostok." (Putin)
Keep in mind, the US does not feel threatened by the possibility of a Russian attack, but by Russia's ability to thwart Washington's
grandiose imperial ambitions in Asia.
As we noted, the National Security Strategy (NSS) is a statutorily mandated document produced by the White House that explains
how the President intends to implement his national security vision. Not surprisingly, the document's main focus is Russia and China.
Here's an excerpt:
"China and Russia challenge American power, influence, and interests, attempting to erode American security and prosperity. They
are determined to make economies less free and less fair, to grow their militaries, and to control information and data to repress
their societies and expand their influence." (Neither Russia nor China are attempting to erode American security and prosperity."
They are merely growing their economies and expanding their markets. If US corporations reinvested their capital into factories,
employee training and R and D instead of stock buybacks and executive compensation, then they would be better able to complete globally.)
Here's more: "Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries
around the world." (This is a case of the 'pot calling the kettle black.')
"Today, actors such as Russia are using information tools in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of democracies. Adversaries
target media, political processes, financial networks, and personal data." (The western media behemoth is the biggest disinformation
bullhorn the world has ever seen. RT and Sputnik don't hold a candle to the ginormous MSM 'Wurlitzer' that controls the cable news
stations, the newspapers and most of the print media. The Mueller Report proves beyond a doubt that the politically-motivated nonsense
one reads in the media is neither reliably sourced nor trustworthy.)
The Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community is even more explicit in its attacks on Russia. Check it out:
"Threats to US national security will expand and diversify in the coming year, driven in part by China and Russia as they respectively
compete more intensely with the United States and its traditional allies and partners . We assess that Moscow will continue pursuing
a range of objectives to expand its reach, including undermining the US-led liberal international order, dividing Western political
and security institutions, demonstrating Russia's ability to shape global issues, and bolstering Putin's domestic legitimacy.
We assess that Moscow has heightened confidence, based on its success in helping restore the Asad regime's territorial control
in Syria, ·Russia seeks to boost its military presence and political influence in the Mediterranean and Red Seas mediate conflicts,
including engaging in the Middle East Peace Process and Afghanistan reconciliation .
Russia will continue pressing Central Asia's leaders to support Russian-led economic and security initiatives and reduce engagement
with Washington. Russia and China are likely to intensify efforts to build influence in Europe at the expense of US interests
" ("The Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community",
USG )
Notice how the Intelligence Community summary does not suggest that Russia poses an imminent military threat to the US, only that
Russia has restored order in Syria, strengthened ties with China, emerged as an "honest broker" among countries in the Middle East,
and used the free market system to improve relations with its trading partners and grow its economy. The IC appears to find fault
with Russia because it is using the system the US created to better advantage than the US. This is entirely understandable given
Putin's determination to draw Europe and Asia closer together through a region-wide economic integration plan. Here's Putin:
"We must consider more extensive cooperation in the energy sphere, up to and including the formation of a common European energy
complex. The Nord Stream gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea and the South Stream pipeline under the Black Sea are important steps
in that direction. These projects have the support of many governments and involve major European energy companies. Once the pipelines
start operating at full capacity, Europe will have a reliable and flexible gas-supply system that does not depend on the political
whims of any nation. This will strengthen the continent's energy security not only in form but in substance. This is particularly
relevant in the light of the decision of some European states to reduce or renounce nuclear energy."
The gas pipelines and high-speed rail are the arteries that will bind the continents together and strengthen the new EU-Asia superstate.
This is Washington's greatest nightmare, a massive, thriving free trade zone beyond its reach and not subject to its rules. In 2012,
Hillary Clinton acknowledged this new threat and promised to do everything in her power to destroy it. Check out this excerpt:
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described efforts to promote greater economic integration in Eurasia as "a move to
re-Sovietize the region." . "We know what the goal is and we are trying to figure out effective ways to slow down or prevent it,"
she said at an international conference in Dublin on December 6, 2012, Radio Free Europe."
"Slow down or prevent it"?
Why? Because EU-Asia growth and prosperity will put pressure on US debt markets, US corporate interests, US (ballooning) national
debt, and the US Dollar? Is that why Hillary is so committed to sabotaging Putin's economic integration plan?
Indeed, it is. Washington wants to block progress and prosperity in the east in order to extend the lifespan of a doddering and
thoroughly-bankrupt state that is presently $22 trillion in the red but continues to write checks on an overdrawn account.
But Russia shouldn't be blamed for Washington's profligate behavior, that's not Putin's fault. Moscow is merely using the free
market system more effectively that the US.
Now consider the Pentagon's 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) which reiterates many of the same themes as the other two documents.
"Today, we are emerging from a period of strategic atrophy, aware that our competitive military advantage has been eroding. We
are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order -- creating a
security environment more complex and volatile than any we have experienced in recent memory. Inter-state strategic competition,
not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security."
(Naturally, the "security environment" is going to be more challenging when 'regime change' is the cornerstone of one's foreign
policy. Of course, the NDS glosses over that sad fact. Here's more:)
"Russia has violated the borders of nearby nations and pursues veto power over the economic, diplomatic, and security decisions
of its neighbors ..(Baloney. Russia has been a force for stability in Syria and Ukraine. If Obama had his way, Syria would have wound
up like Iraq, a hellish wastelands occupied by foreign mercenaries. Is that how the Pentagon measures success?) Here's more:
"China and Russia want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model
"China and Russia are now undermining the international order from within the system .
Get the picture? China and Russia, China and Russia, China and Russia. Bad, bad, bad.
Why? Because they are successfully implementing their own development model which is NOT programed to favor US financial institutions
and corporations. That's the whole thing in a nutshell. The only reason Russia and China are a threat to the "rules-based system",
is because Washington insists on being the only one who makes the rules. That's why foreign leaders are no longer falling in line,
because it's not a fair system.
These assessments represent the prevailing opinion of senior-level policymakers across the spectrum. (The White House, the Pentagon
and the Intelligence Community) The USG is unanimous in its judgement that a harsher more combative approach is needed to deal with
Russia and China. Foreign policy elites want to put the nation on the path to more confrontation, more conflict and more war. At
the same time, none of these three documents suggest that Russia has any intention of launching an attack on the United States. The
greatest concern is the effect that emerging competitors will have on Washington's provocative plan for military and economic expansion,
the threat that Russia and China pose to America's tenuous grip on global power. It is that fear that drives US foreign policy.
And this is broader context into which we must fit the Russia investigation. The reason the Russia hacking furor has been allowed
to flourish and spread despite the obvious lack of any supporting evidence, is because the vilifying of Russia segues perfectly with
the geopolitical interests of elites in the government. The USG now works collaboratively with the media to influence public attitudes
on issues that are important to the powerful foreign policy establishment. The ostensible goal of these psychological operations
(PSYOP) is to selectively use information on "audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately
the behavior of organizations, groups, and individuals."
The USG now sees the minds of ordinary Americans as a legitimate target for their influence campaigns. They regard attitudes and
perceptions as "the cognitive domain of the
The emerging Euro-Asian power block is very heterogeneous. Russia, China, and the smaller affiliated players like Central Asia,
Iran, Syria, Turkey don't agree on almost anything. They have different cultures, religions, economies, demographic profiles,
even writing systems. The most rational strategy to prevent the Euro-Asian block from consolidating would be to get them to fight
each other. Alternatively, find the weakest link and attack it in an area where its reluctant allies don't share its interests.
Exactly the opposite has happened in the last 5-10 years: US has seemingly worked overtime to get China-Russia alliance of
the ground. They used to distrust each other, today, after Ukraine, South China See, etc they have become close allies. Same with
Iran and Syria: instead of letting them stew in their own internal problems – mostly religious and having a nepotistic elite –
US has managed to turn the fight into an external geo-political struggle, literally invited Russia to join in, and ended up losing.
Bush turned Iraq from a fanatically anti-Iran bastion to a reliable ally of Iran and started an un-winnable land war in Afghanistan
(incredible!). Obama turned Libya, the richest and most stable African country that threatened no-one and kept African migrants
far away, into a chaotic hellhole where slave trade flourishes and millions of Sub-Saharan Africans can use it to move on to Europe.
Then Obama tried to coup-de-etat Erdogan in Turkey, and – even worse – failed miserably. This gang can't shoot straight
– whatever they put in their position papers is meaningless drivel because they are too stupid to think. They have no patience
to wait for the right time to move, no ability to manage on the ground allies, and an aversion to casualties that makes winning
a war impossible. Today Trump threatens Germany over its energy security (pipelines), further antagonises Turkey and Erdogan,
watches helplessly as EU becomes the next UN (lame and irrelevant), and bets everything on a few small allies like Saudi Arabia
and Izrael that are of almost no use in Euro-Asia.
A guy who says about the Russia-gate collusion fiasco that ' maybe I had bad information ' is no master of the universe.
And he run the joint under Obama. Complaining about Russia saying bad stuff about you – or ' information warfare ' – is
a pathetic sign of weakness. Maybe the testosterone levels have dropped more than we have been told.
the russophobia is just drama to keep the MIC spending at $700+ billion per year
there is no way to justify that level of spending and pretend they don't have $25 billion one time to actually help solve the
real problem for the U.S.
"The USG now sees the minds of ordinary Americans as a legitimate target for their influence campaigns. They regard attitudes
and perceptions as "the cognitive domain of the battlespace" which they must exploit in order to build public support for their
vastly unpopular wars and interventions. "
Here is a short guide on how to detect subversion of the mind by the media and their handlers by a former military intelligence
officer.
If one recognizes that Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard, American Primacy & Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997)" in replacing
"Lebensraum" with "control over Eurasia", "Tausendjähriges Reich" with "American Primacy" and providing our 'elite' with an "realist"
and "amoral" excuse to act completely and consistently immoral one has to recognize too that this "Grand Chessboard" is an amalgamation
of 'Mein Kampf' and 'Il Principe".
Reluctant to use that Hitler comparison one ought to read the Introduction of the "Grand Chessboard" in which Brzezinki himself
proudly refers to both Hitler and Stalin sharing his ideas about control over Eurasia as a prerequisite for that "American Primacy".
Recognizing this however one can't escape the conclusion that this "Grand Chessboard" with its consistent 'amoral realist imperatives'
is serving up inherently immoral 'imperatives' as inescapable options dressed up in academic language and with absolutely abhorrent
arrogance.
Stating that Brennan's Russophobia is somehow a degeneration of Brzezinki's "Grand Chessboard" is completely overlooking how
difficult it would be to outdo Brzezinki's own total moral degeneration.
One has to recognize that by now the only bipartisan aspect of US policy can be found in sharing these despicable and immoral
'imperatives' to maintain that "American Primacy" at all cost (of course to the rest of the world).
"The allegations of 'Russian meddling' only make sense if they're put into a broader geopolitical context. Once we realize that
Washington is implementing an aggressive "containment" strategy to militarily encircle Russia and China in order to spread its
tentacles across Central Asian, then we begin to understand that Russia is not the perpetrator of the hostilities and propaganda,
but the victim. The Russia hacking allegations are part of a larger asymmetrical-information war that has been joined by the entire
Washington political establishment. The objective is to methodically weaken an emerging rival while reinforcing US global hegemony."
TRUE!
I would suggest that the initials 'US' in the final sentence be changed to: Anglo-Zionist Empire.
"Now the center of gravity has shifted from west to east, leaving Washington with just two options: Allow the emerging giants
in Asia to connect their high-speed rail and gas pipelines to Europe creating the world's biggest free trade zone, or try to overturn
the applecart by bullying allies and threatening rivals, by implementing sanctions that slow growth and send currencies plunging,
and by arming jihadist proxies to fuel ethnic hatred and foment political unrest. Clearly, the choice has already been made. Uncle
Sam has decided to fight til the bitter end."
Just like the Brit Empire – of which the Yank Empire is merely Part 2, the part where it becomes obvious that it is the Anglo-Zionist
Empire, which, like a band of screeching Pharisees standing on the walls of Jerusalem hurling curses at the Romans they inform
that Jehovah will soon wipe out all Romans to save His Chosen Race, would choose utter destruction for all over any common sense
backing down to prevent mass slaughter.
Nothing harmed US more than Brzezinski's ideology. US did build up far east with their investments, while neglecting their own
backyard. US should have build up rather North and South America and make it the envy of the world. Neglecting particularly South
America now created Desperate south American people, who have no jobs and no future and these people are now invading US.
A guy who says about the Russia-gate collusion fiasco that 'maybe I had bad information' is no master of the universe. And
he run the joint under Obama. Complaining about Russia saying bad stuff about you – or 'information warfare' – is a pathetic
sign of weakness. Maybe the testosterone levels have dropped more than we have been told.
Testosterone plus steady, unrelenting decline and corruption of American "elites" most of who have no background in any fields
related to actual effective governance especially in national security (military) and diplomatic fields. Zbig's book is also nothing
more than doctrine-mongering based on complete lack of understanding of Russian history.
Reluctant to use that Hitler comparison one ought to read the Introduction of the "Grand Chessboard" in which Brzezinki
himself proudly refers to both Hitler and Stalin sharing his ideas about control over Eurasia as a prerequisite for that "American
Primacy".
Zbig was a political "scientist" (which is not a science) by education, fact aggravated by his Russophobia, and thus inability
to grasp fundamentals of military power and warfare–a defining characteristic of American "elites". He, obviously, missed on the
military-technological development of 1970s through 1990s, to arrive to the inevitable conclusion that classic "geopolitics" doesn't
apply anymore. Today we all can observe how it doesn't apply and is made obsolete.
(Jan.1998) US history – "How Jimmy Carter I Started the Mujahideen" – Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor 1977-1981
"Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services
began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security
adviser to President Carter.
Zbigniew Brzezinski Taliban Pakistan Afghanistan pep talk 1979
In 1979 Carters National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski went into Pakistans border regions with Afghanistan to give
a little pep talk to some prospective majehadeen (Holy Warriors). In a 1997 interview for CNN's Cold War Series, Brzezinski hinted
about the Carter Administration's proactive Afghanistan policy before the Soviet invasion in 1979, that he had conceived.
@DESERT FOX Why was it that the Brit Empire kept acting throughout the later 18th, the 19th and early 20th centuries to harm
Russia, even when it technically was allied with Russia? Why the Crimean War, for example?
Why, for example, was Brit secret service all over the assassination of Rasputin and tied in multiple ways to most non-Marxist
revolutionary groups?
This entire article fleshes out one central truth – capitalism as practiced by the US Government inevitably involves war by
any and all means, seeking total domination of every human being on the planet, foriegn or native to the US Hegemon. It seeks
total rule of the rich and powerful over everyone else.
@anon Like the Ukranians, the 'Balts' virtually always are controlled by somebody else. When Russia does not control the Baltic
states, they are controlled by either Poles or Germans. Russians know what that means: the Baltic states are then used as weapons
to attack Russia.
The region is much calmer when Russia controls the Baltic states, and that is before taking into consideration how the Polish-Lithuanian
Empire turned its Jews lose to terrorize all Orthodox Christians and how Germanic states later used Lutheranism as a force in
the Baltics to ignite war with Russia and, under the queer Frederick the Great also used Jewish bankers to finance wars against
Russia.
@JR ssaid:
If one recognizes that Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard, American Primacy & Its
Geostrategic Imperatives (1997)" in replacing "Lebensraum" with "control over Eurasia",
"Tausendjähriges Reich" with "American Primacy" and providing our 'elite' with an
"realist" and "amoral" excuse to act completely and consistently immoral one has to recognize
too that this "Grand Chessboard" is an amalgamation of 'Mein Kampf' and 'Il Principe".
Except that Germany did not send Germans into the conquered territories during WWII,
though they wanted to do so.
"... I believe that the current GLOBAL elites do understand exactly what they are doing and the potential consequences to the ongoing existence of private finance. ..."
"... The war that is being waged is an attempt to keep private finance in charge of our world ..."
"But current American elites have no concept of own actions having consequences."
I believe that the current GLOBAL elites do understand exactly what they are doing and the
potential consequences to the ongoing existence of private finance.
The war that is being waged is an attempt to keep private finance in charge of our world
and they are losing I am pleased to report
Wealthy politicians and businessmen suspected of corruption in their native lands are fleeing to a safe haven where their wealth
and influence shields them from arrest.
They have entered this country on a variety of visas, including one designed to encourage investment. Some have applied for asylum,
which is intended to protect people fleeing oppression and political persecution.
The increasingly popular destination for people avoiding criminal charges is no pariah nation.
It's the United States.
An investigation by ProPublica, in conjunction with the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University, has
found that officials fleeing prosecution in Colombia, China, South Korea, Bolivia and Panama have found refuge for themselves and
their wealth in this country, taking advantage of lax enforcement of U.S. laws and gaps in immigration and financial regulations.
Many have concealed their assets and real-estate purchases by creating trusts and limited liability companies in the names of lawyers
and relatives.
American authorities are supposed to vet visa applicants to make sure they are not under active investigation on criminal charges.
But the ProPublica examination shows that this requirement has been routinely ignored.
One of the most prominent cases involves a former president of Panama, who was allowed to enter the United States just days after
his country's Supreme Court opened an investigation into charges that he had helped embezzle $45 million from a government school
lunch program.
Ricardo Martinelli, a billionaire supermarket magnate, had been on the State Department's radar since he was elected in 2009.
That year, the U.S. ambassador to Panama began
sending diplomatic cables warning
about the president's "dark side," including his links to corruption and his request for U.S. support for wiretapping his opponents.
Soon after Martinelli left office in 2014, Panamanian prosecutors conducted a widely publicized investigation of corruption in
the school lunch program, and in mid-January 2015, forwarded their findings to the country's Supreme Court.
On Jan. 28, 2015,
just hours before
the Supreme Court announced a formal probe into the charges, Martinelli boarded a private plane, flew to Guatemala City for a
meeting and then entered the United States on a visitor visa. Within weeks, he was living comfortably in the Atlantis, a luxury condominium
on Miami's swanky Brickell Avenue. He is still here.
The State Department declined to comment on Martinelli's case, saying visa records are confidential and it is the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection that decides who is allowed to enter the country. CBP said privacy regulations prevent the agency from commenting
on Martinelli.
Efforts to reach Martinelli, including a registered letter sent to his Miami address, were unsuccessful.
In September this year, Panama asked to extradite Martinelli, but the former president is fighting that request, arguing there
are no legal grounds to bring him back to his home country where the investigation has broadened to include insider trading, corruption
and abuse of authority. Last December, Panama's high court issued a warrant for his arrest on charges that he used public funds to
spy on over 150 political opponents. If found guilty, he could face up to 21 years in jail.
Rogelio Cruz, who is defending Martinelli in Panama's Supreme Court, said that the former president "will return to Panama once
adequate conditions exist with respect to due process, where there are independent judges -- which there aren't."
The United States has explicit policies that bar issuing visas to foreign officials facing criminal charges in their homelands.
In 2004, President George W. Bush issued a proclamation
designed to keep the United States from becoming a haven for corrupt officials. Proclamation 7750, which has the force and effect
of law, directed the State Department to ban officials who have accepted bribes or misappropriated public funds when their actions
have "serious adverse effects on the national interests of the United States."
Under the rules implementing Bush's order, consular officers do not need a conviction or even formal charges to justify denying
a visa. They can stamp "denied" based on information from unofficial, or informal sources, including newspaper articles, according
to diplomats and State Department officials interviewed for this report.
The State Department declined to provide the number of times Proclamation 7750 has been invoked, but insisted that it has been
used "robustly."
But numerous other foreign government officials, including former presidents and cabinet ministers, have slipped through the cracks,
according to court documents, diplomatic cables and interviews with prosecutors and defense attorneys in the United States and abroad.
The charges involved a wide range of misconduct, from stealing public funds to accepting bribes.
Six months before Martinelli entered the United States, a former Colombian agriculture minister and onetime presidential candidate,
Andres Felipe Arias, fled to Miami three weeks before he was convicted of funneling $12.5 million to wealthy political supporters
from a subsidy program that was intended to reduce inequality in rural areas and protect farmers from the effects of globalization.
The U.S. embassy in Bogota had been following Arias' trial closely and
reporting on the scandal in cables to Washington.
The trial
featured documents and witnesses saying that under Arias' watch, the agriculture ministry had doled out millions in subsidies
to affluent families, some of whom, according to media reports, had donated to Arias' political allies or his presidential campaign.
Subsidies went to relatives of congressmen, companies owned by the richest man in Colombia, and a former beauty queen. One powerful
family and its associates received over $2.5 million, according to records released by prosecutors. Another family, which included
relatives of a former senator, received $1.3 million. Both families had supported Arias' chief political ally, former Colombian President
Alvaro Uribe, with campaign contributions.
The law that
established the program did not ban wealthy landowners from getting grants, but some elite families had received multiple subsidies
for the same farm. They gamed the system by submitting multiple proposals in the names of different family members and by subdividing
their land so they could apply for grants for each parcel, court records indicate.
Yet, in November 2013, while the trial was going on, the U.S. embassy in Bogota renewed Arias' visitor visa. The State Department
refused to discuss the case, saying that visa records are confidential. But a
recent filing in federal court
showed that the U.S. embassy had flagged Arias' application, and asked him to provide documents to support his request to leave the
country while charges were pending. Arias submitted documents from the Colombian court, including a judicial order that allowed him
to travel. In the end, the embassy issued a visa because he had not yet been convicted.
Andres Felipe Arias, a former Colombian agriculture minister, who fled to the United States before he could be convicted
of funneling money from a subsidy program (GDA via AP Images)
On the night of June 13, 2014, three weeks before the judges convicted him of embezzlement by appropriation, a Colombian law that
penalizes the unauthorized use of public funds to benefit private entities, Arias packed his bags and boarded a plane. The following
month, the U.S. embassy in Bogota revoked the visa. But Arias hired an immigration attorney and applied for asylum.
"If you looked up 'politically motivated charges' in the dictionary, there would be a picture of Andres Arias next to it," said
David Oscar Markus, Arias' lead attorney. "The case [against him] is absurd and not even one that is recognized in the United States."
Over the next two years, Arias built a new life in South Florida with his wife and two children, opening a small consulting company
and renting a house in Weston.
On August 24, he was
arrested by U.S.
authorities in response to an extradition request from Colombia. He spent several months in a detention facility until his release
on bail in mid-November. Arias argues that the United States cannot extradite him because it has no active extradition treaty with
Colombia, but the U.S. Attorney's Office disagrees. A plea for asylum does not shield defendants from extradition if they are charged
in Colombia with a crime covered by the treaty between the two countries.
The agency that administers the program, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, has adopted regulations designed to prevent
fraud, including requiring foreign investors to submit evidence, such as tax returns and bank statements, to prove they obtained
their money legally.
But these safeguards did not stop the daughter-in-law and grandsons of former South Korean dictator Chun Doo-hwan from using Chun's
ill-gotten gains to get U.S. permanent residency.
In 1996, a Korean court convicted Chun of receiving more than $200 million in bribes while in office in the 1980s, from companies
such as Samsung and Hyundai. He was ordered to return the bribes, but refused.
Part of Chun's fortune was funneled into the United States through his son, who purchased a $2.2 million house in Newport Beach,
California, according to South Korean prosecutors and real-estate records.
Millions of dollars from Chun's bribery proceeds were hidden in bearer bonds, which are notoriously difficult to trace. Unlike
regular bonds, which belong to registered owners, there is no record kept about the ownership or transfer of bearer bonds. The bonds
can be cashed out by whoever has them.
Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan addresses the press at the White House in 1985. Chun's relatives later gained
permanent residency in the United States by using money Chun obtained through bribes. (Bettmann via Getty Images)
In 2008, Chun's daughter-in-law, a South Korean actress named Park Sang-ah, applied for an immigrant investor visa. Park listed
her husband's bearer bonds as the source of her funds without mentioning that the money had been initially provided to him by Chun.
Eight months later, Park and her children received their conditional U.S. permanent residency cards in the mail.
In 2013, at the request of South Korean prosecutors, the U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation into the Chun family's
wealth in the United States and subsequently
seized $1.2 million of the family's U.S. assets in the United States. The money was returned to South Korea. Despite that, Chun's
family members have retained their residency status.
Chun's relatives obtained their permanent residency by investing in an EB-5 project managed by the Philadelphia Industrial Development
Corporation, a nonprofit company. The PIDC pooled Chun's $500,000 with money from 200 other foreign investors to finance an expansion
of the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia.
The same project in Philadelphia also helped to secure permanent residency for Qiao Jianjun, a Chinese government official accused
of embezzling more than $40 million from a state-owned grain storehouse, according to reports in the People's Daily, the Chinese
Communist Party's newspaper. Qiao had divorced his wife, Shilan Zhao, in China in 2001, a fact he did not disclose to U.S. immigration
authorities. When Zhao applied for an EB-5 visa, Qiao qualified for U.S. permanent residency as an applicant's spouse.
The Justice Department launched an investigation only when it was tipped off by Chinese authorities. In January 2014,
a federal grand jury indicted Zhao and her ex-husband, Qiao, for immigration fraud, money laundering and internationally transporting
stolen funds. Zhao was arrested and released on bail. Federal authorities are pursuing Qiao, whose whereabouts remain unknown.
A trial has been set for February 2017. U.S. government attorneys have filed asset forfeiture cases to recover real estate linked
to Qiao and Zhao in Flushing, New York, and Monterey Park, California.
In April 2015, Qiao appeared on the Chinese
government's list of 100 "most wanted" officials who fled abroad after being accused of crimes such as bribery and corruption.
He and 39 other government officials and state-owned enterprise leaders on the list allegedly fled to the United States.
The list, called "Operation Skynet," is part of Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign, which has vowed to take
down what Chinese officials describe as corrupt "tigers" and "flies" within the country's ruling Communist Party.
Fengxian Hu was another fugitive on China's list. A former army singer and radio broadcaster, Hu headed the state-owned broadcasting
company that had a joint venture with Pepsi to distribute soft drinks in Sichuan province. In 2002, The Washington Post and The Wall
Street Journal
reported that Pepsi had accused Hu of looting the joint venture and using company funds to buy fancy cars and go on European
tours.
The same year, in a widely publicized move, Pepsi filed a case with international arbitrators in Stockholm, asking that the joint
venture be dissolved. Despite this, Hu was given a visa that allowed him to fly regularly to Las Vegas, where he was a VIP client
at the MGM casino.
In January 2010, Chinese authorities investigated Hu for corruption. But the month before, Hu had entered the United States on
a B1 visitor visa, joining his wife, a U.S. citizen living in New York.
Hu tried to obtain a green card through his wife, but the petition was rejected by U.S. immigration authorities. He applied for
asylum instead.
Meanwhile, he had gotten into trouble in the United States for losing millions in a Las Vegas casino and failing to pay a $12
million gambling debt. In 2012, he was indicted in a Nevada court on two counts of theft and one count of intentionally passing a
check without sufficient funds.
Hu pled not guilty to the charges; his lawyers claimed that his checks bounced because his bank account had been closed by Chinese
authorities. The charges against him in the U.S. were considered an aggravated felony, which is a common basis for deportation. Hu,
however, had a pending asylum case and so could not be deported.
In August 2015, a New York immigration judge denied the asylum claim. But Hu's lawyers argued that he would be tortured if he
returned to China and invoked the United Nations Convention
Against Torture , which says that an alien may not be sent to a country where he is likely to be tortured. In the end, the immigration
court suspended Hu's removal order, allowing him to remain in the United States and work here indefinitely. He will not, however,
be given permanent residency or be allowed to travel outside the country.
The absence of an extradition treaty -- coupled with a high standard of living -- makes the United States a favored destination
for Chinese officials and businessmen fleeing corruption charges.
In April 2015, Jeh Johnson, the Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security , made a 48-hour trip to Beijing. The visit
was intended to pave the way for Chinese President Xi Jinping's U.S. visit in September 2015, according to a memorandum Johnson wrote,
which was obtained through a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
In the memo, Johnson said the Chinese government is seeking 132 people it said have fled to the United States to avoid prosecution.
This represents a greater number of fugitives than Chinese authorities have publicly acknowledged.
"I'm told that in prior discussions, the Chinese have been frustrated by the lack of any information from us about the 132 fugitives,"
Johnson wrote.
The Chinese request for assistance posed a dilemma for the United States. American officials are concerned about a lack of fairness
in China's criminal justice system. Human rights groups say that China continues to use torture to extract false confessions from
suspected criminals. Torture has also been documented to be part of shuanggui -- a secretive discipline process reserved for
members of the Chinese Communist Party.
Some analysts see the crackdown on corrupt officials as part of a purge aimed at the current regime's political rivals and ideological
enemies. U.S. officials say this makes returning corrupt officials to China a delicate issue for the United States.
In 2003, headlines around the world reported
widespread
street protests in Bolivia that led to security forces killing 58 people, most of them members of indigenous groups. Not long
afterward, as protesters massed up on the streets of La Paz demanding his resignation, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
resigned and fled his country along with his defense minister, Jose Carlos Sanchez Berzain.
The two men flew to the United States, where they continue to reside. In 2006, Berzain applied for political asylum, which he
was granted in 2007. On
his application, when the form asked, "Have you or your family members ever been accused, charged, arrested, detained, interrogated,
convicted and sentenced, or imprisoned in any country other than the United States?" Berzain checked the box "no," even though by
then he and de Lozada had been formally accused of
genocide by Bolivia's attorney
general. The indictment was approved
by Bolivia's Supreme Court in 2007. Berzain also stated on his application that the State Department had arranged for his travel
to the United States.
The de Lozada administration was vocally pro-American. Before it was ousted, officials had announced they would facilitate gas
exports to the United States.
After their departure, Bolivia's attorney general
publicly stated
that the administration had embezzled millions from government coffers, but did not formally file charges. He said de Lozada
had taken some $22 million from the country's reserve funds before fleeing.
De Lozada and members of his administration have dismissed the allegations as part of a politically motivated smear campaign,
but there is evidence to suggest irregularities may have occurred in the handling of the reserve funds. The former president signed
a decree shortly before leaving office authorizing the interior and finance ministers to withdraw money from Bolivia's reserve funds
without going through the normal approval process. De Lozada's former interior minister
pleaded guilty in 2004 to embezzlement after $270,000 in cash was found in an associate's home.
De Lozada, a mining mogul before he became president, moved to Chevy Chase, Maryland, an upscale suburb of Washington, D.C. He
now lives in a two-story brick house bought for $1.4 million by Macalester Limited, a limited liability company that was formed in
the British Virgin Islands and lists a post office box in the Bahamas as its principal address.
De Lozada's immigration status is unclear. He said in a sworn deposition in 2015 that he was not a U.S. citizen. His son-in-law,
who spoke to ProPublica on his behalf, would not say whether de Lozada had applied for asylum.
Berzain, meanwhile, settled in South Florida. Records show that he and his brother-in-law personally own or are listed as officers
or members of business entities that together control around $9 million worth of Miami real estate.
Some of the purchases were made in the names of entities that appear to list different variations of Berzain's name in business
records.
In addition, in the purchase of two properties, Berzain's name was added to business records only after the deal had gone through.
Berzain's brother-in-law incorporated a company called Warren USA Corp in October 2010, for example, and the company purchased a
$1.4 million residential property the following month. Three weeks after Warren USA Corp became the owner of an elegant Spanish-style
villa in Key Biscayne, Berzain was added as the company's secretary.
The following year, in May 2011, Berzain's brother-in-law created Galen KB Corp and registered as the company's president. A month
later, Galen KB Corp purchased a $250,000 condo. In August, Berzain replaced his brother-in-law as the company's president, according
to business records. Berzain is no longer listed as a company officer in either company.
During an interview in January, Berzain told ProPublica "I don't have any companies." When asked about several of the companies
associated with his name or address in public records, the former defense minister said he had a consulting firm that helped clients
set up companies and that he was sometimes added to the board of directors. Efforts to reach Berzain's brother-in-law, a wealthy
businessman and the owner of a bus company in Bolivia, were unsuccessful. Berzain's brother-in-law has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
The practice of purchasing real estate in the name of a business entity like a limited liability company, or LLC, is a common
and legal practice in high-end real-estate markets, and one that enables celebrities and other wealthy individuals to protect their
privacy.
But the practice also allows foreign officials to hide ill-gotten gains. U.S. regulations allow individuals to form business entities
like LLCs without disclosing the beneficial owner. The LLCs can be registered in the names of lawyers, accountants or other associates
-- or even anonymously in some states -- and used to purchase real estate, making it nearly impossible to determine the actual owner
of a property.
Government investigators and lawmakers have pointed out persistent gaps in U.S. policy that have enabled corrupt officials to
evade justice and hide their assets in this country. But little has changed.
Last year, a U.S. Government Accountability Office investigation
said it can be "difficult" for immigration officials to identify the true source of an immigrant investor's funds. Immigration
officials told the government auditors that EB-5 applicants with ties to corruption, the drug trade, human trafficking and other
criminal activities have a strong incentive to omit key details about their financial histories or lie on their applications.
"It's very easy to get lost in the noise if you're a bad person," said Seto Bagdoyan, the accountability office's director of
forensic audits, who co-authored the GAO report.
Immigration officials, he added, have an "almost nonexistent" ability to thoroughly evaluate investors' backgrounds and trace
their assets.
Despite such weaknesses, Congress has continually
extended the EB-5
program with minor changes. The program is backed by
real-estate lobbyists who argue that it is a crucial source of financing for luxury condos and hotels. The program is
expected to thrive in a
Trump presidency because the president-elect is a developer and his son-in-law Jared Kushner received $50 million in EB-5 funds to
build a Trump-branded tower in New Jersey.
In 2010, a Senate report described how powerful foreign officials and their relatives moved millions of dollars in suspect funds
into the United States. The report said investors bypassed anti-money laundering regulations with help from U.S. lawyers, real-estate
agents, and banking institutions. Last year, ABC News
reported that lobbyists for real estate and other business groups spent $30 million in 2015 in an effort to protect the EB-5
program.
Senate investigators proposed legislation that would require companies to disclose their beneficial owners and make it easier
for authorities to restrict entry, deny visas and deport corrupt foreign officials.
A few of the proposals have been adopted, but they have not made much difference. Banks have stepped up their efforts to identify
corrupt officials and monitor their accounts. Professional groups such as the American Bar Association have issued non-binding guidelines
for their members on compliance with anti-money-laundering controls. The U.S. government has also worked with the
Financial Action Task Force , an international body set up
to fight money laundering, to bring its anti-corruption controls in accordance with the body's guidelines.
In May, the Treasury Department enacted a new rule that will take full effect in 2018 and will require financial institutions
to identify the beneficial owners of shell companies. Some advocates see the rule as a step backward. The new rule allows shell companies
to designate the manager of the account as the beneficial owner, concealing the identity of the person ultimately exercising control.
The State Department declined to say what progress, if any, it has made on the Senate subcommittee's recommendation to more aggressively
deny visas through Proclamation 7750. "The Department takes seriously congressional recommendations and devotes resources to addressing
corruption worldwide," a State Department official wrote in response to questions.
In 2010, then-Attorney General Eric Holder launched the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative. The small unit, which has grown
to include 16 attorneys, aims to recover assets in the United States that are tied to foreign corruption and return the money to
the looted countries.
Over the past six years, the unit has filed around two dozen civil asset forfeiture cases in an attempt to seize money, real estate
and other assets tied to government officials from 16 countries. Assets have ranged from a lone diamond-encrusted glove worn by Michael
Jackson that was purchased by Equatorial Guinea's Vice President, Teodoro Obiang, to a $1 billion fund tied to Malaysian Prime Minister
Najib Razak.
Yet most of the money the Department of Justice has pursued remains in limbo. The case involving Chun, the former president of
South Korea, is one of only two instances in which corrupt gains have been returned to the home country through the Justice Department's
efforts. The other arose when Justice Department officials
returned $1.5 million to Taiwan from property bought with bribes paid to the family of Chun Shui Bian, the former president of
Taiwan.
The agency faces myriad challenges when attempting to seize and return assets acquired by corrupt foreign officials, including
a lack of witnesses, said Kendall Day, head of the Department of Justice's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section. These officials
often shield their transactions through shell companies, offshore companies or a network of associates.
"The mission of the Kleptocracy Initiative is really to target what we call grand foreign corruption that impacts the U.S. financial
system," Day said, citing the Chun case as an example.
The 2012 Magnitsky Act gives the government power to deny visas and freeze the assets of Russian nationals accused of corruption
or human rights violations. The Global Magnitsky Act would extend the same sanctions to the rest of the world, but it has yet to
be passed by Congress. Unlike Proclamation 7750, the Magnitsky laws require the government to publish a list of foreign government
officials who are barred from the United States.
In addition, the Treasury Department imposed regulations this year that aim to crack down on the use of shell companies to purchase
real estate in places like Miami and Manhattan. Title insurance companies are now required to identify the real owners of companies
purchasing high-end real estate without a mortgage. These regulations, however, are temporary.
Under neoliberalism any regime change is necessary followed by an economic rape. That was the case with the USSR in 1991,
that was the case in Ukraine in 2014. Only the size and length of the looting varies depending of the strength of new government.
Both the size and the length is maximal if in power are marionette like Yeltsin or Yatsenyuk/Poroshenko.
Saying "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts" now should sound as "Beware of Americans who bring you color revolutions." They bring the
economic rape (aka "Disaster
capitalism") as the second phase. That's the nature of neocolonialism -- now you do not need to occupy the country.
It's enough to make it a debt slave using IMF and install compradors to endure the low of money and continuing impoverishment of the
population.
With such crooked and greedy friends as Biden and Kerry and their narcoaddicts sons you do not need enemies. But the main
danger are not individual sharks but Western financial institutions like IMF and World bank. Those convert countries into debt slaves
and that means permanently low standard (Central African in case of Ukraine, something like $2 a day) of living for generations
to come.
What is interesting is that unlike say German nationalists in 30th, the Ukrainian nationalists proved to be completly
useless in defending the Ukraine from looting. They actually serves as supplementary tool of the same looting.
The standard of living of Ukrainians dropped 2-3 times since 2014. How pensioners survive, on $50 a month pension I simply do not
understand. In any case Neoliberalism proved to be very effecting is keeping "developing" nations economic growth down and converting
them into debt slaves. The fact that Biden use loans as a tool of extortion (as in threat to cancel one billion loan) to close criminal
investigation of his sons company is just an icing on the cake. Poroshenko and his camarilla should be tried in the court of law for
his corruption and pandering to the Western sharks, who were happy to steal from Ukraine as much as then can.
To pay $166K a month for Biden's son cocaine is way too much to such impoverished country as Ukraine.
Notable quotes:
"... "I said, ' You're not getting the billion .' I'm going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ' I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money, '" bragged Biden, recalling the conversation with Poroshenko. ..."
"... " Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time," Biden said at the Council on Foreign Relations event - while insisting that former president Obama was complicit in the threat. ..."
"... The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden's younger son, Hunter, as a board member. ..."
"... U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden's American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts -- usually more than $166,000 a month -- from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia. - The Hill ..."
"... And before he was fired, Shokin says he had made "specific plans" for the investigation - including "interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden." "I would like to emphasize the fact that presumption of innocence is a principle in Ukraine," added Shokin. Joe Biden "clearly had to know" about the probe before he insisted on Shokin's ouster . Via The Hill: ..."
"... The U.S. Embassy in Kiev that coordinated Biden's work in the country repeatedly and publicly discussed the general prosecutor's case against Burisma; ..."
"... President Obama named Biden the administration's point man on Ukraine in February 2014 ..."
"... Remember Victoria Nuland's famous phone recording of "**** the EU?" This was nothing more than another CIA destabilization campaign carried out of another Sovereign Country. With the goal of breaking the Bush Senior & Jim Baker agreement of not surrounding Russia with NATO countries after their Collapse. ..."
"... Let's face it. If Ukrainians loved it's Country, Joey, Hunter and the Choco-**** would have wound up like Mikhail Lesin during an all night party in an upscale grotto in Kiev by now! ..."
"... At last some questions for this dirt ball-burisma is tied in with one of the most if not the most corrupt oligarch, Koloimiski. Biden is up to his eyeballs in some dodgy deals in china as well-this guy and his son are walking corruption personified. ..."
"... Didn't Hillary teach Joe that a tax free foundation is better than using your son's LLC for laundering the bribes... This is basic stuff. ..."
"... Joe "the Conqueror" "Caesar Magnus" Biden. Joe of Ukraine, the best bud of $oro$. ..."
Originally from:
Forget 'Creepy'
- Biden Has A Major Ukraine Problem Joe Biden appears to have made a major tactical error last year when he bragged to an
audience of foreign policy experts how he threatened to hurl Ukraine into bankruptcy if their top prosecutor, General Viktor Shokin,
wasn't immediately fired, according to
The Hill 's John Solomon.
In his own words, with video cameras rolling,
Biden described
how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in
U.S. loan guarantees , sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn't immediately fire Prosecutor General
Viktor Shokin. -
The Hill
"I said, ' You're not getting the billion .' I'm going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at
them and said: ' I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money, '" bragged Biden, recalling
the conversation with Poroshenko.
" Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time," Biden said at the Council
on Foreign Relations event - while insisting that former president Obama was complicit in the threat.
Interviews with a half-dozen senior Ukrainian officials confirm Biden's account, though they claim the pressure was applied
over several months in late 2015 and early 2016, not just six hours of one dramatic day . Whatever the case, Poroshenko and Ukraine's
parliament obliged by
ending Shokin's tenure as prosecutor. Shokin was facing steep criticism in Ukraine, and among some U.S. officials, for not
bringing enough corruption prosecutions when he was fired. -
The Hill
And why would Biden want the "son of a bitch" fired?
In what must be an amazing coincidence, the prosecutor was leading a wide-ranging corruption investigation into a natural gas
firm - which Biden's son, Hunter, sat on the board of directors.
The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm
Burisma Holdings
that employed Biden's younger son, Hunter, as a board member.
U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden's American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers
into one of its accounts -- usually more than $166,000 a month -- from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period
when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia. -
The Hill
The Hill 's Solomon reviewed the general prosecutor's file for the Burisma probe - which he reports shows Hunter Biden, his business
partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont Seneca, as potential recipients of money.
And before he was fired, Shokin says he had made "specific plans" for the investigation - including "interrogations and other
crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden." "I would like to emphasize the fact
that presumption of innocence is a principle in Ukraine," added Shokin. Joe Biden "clearly had to know" about the probe before he
insisted on Shokin's ouster . Via The Hill:
Although Biden made no mention of his son in his 2018 speech, U.S. and Ukrainian authorities both told me Biden and his office
clearly had to know about the general prosecutor's probe of Burisma and his son's role. They noted that:
Hunter Biden's appointment to the board was widely reported in American media;
The U.S. Embassy in Kiev that coordinated Biden's work in the country repeatedly and publicly discussed the general prosecutor's
case against Burisma;
Great Britain took very public action against Burisma while Joe Biden was working with that government on Ukraine issues;
Biden's office was quoted, on the record, acknowledging Hunter Biden's role in Burisma in a New York Times article about the
general prosecutor's Burisma case that appeared four months before Biden forced the firing of Shokin. The vice president's office
suggested in that article that Hunter Biden was a lawyer free to pursue his own private business deals.
President Obama named Biden the administration's point man on Ukraine in February 2014 , after a popular revolution ousted
Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych and as Moscow
sent military forces into Ukraine's Crimea territory.
***
Key questions for 'ol Joe:
Was it appropriate for your son and his firm to cash in on Ukraine while you served as point man for Ukraine policy? What work
was performed for the money Hunter Biden's firm received? Did you know about the Burisma probe? And when it was publicly announced
that your son worked for Burisma, should you have recused yourself from leveraging a U.S. policy to pressure the prosecutor who
very publicly pursued Burisma?
Remember Victoria Nuland's famous phone recording of "**** the EU?" This was nothing more than another CIA destabilization
campaign carried out of another Sovereign Country. With the goal of breaking the Bush Senior & Jim Baker agreement of not surrounding
Russia with NATO countries after their Collapse.
Let's face it. If Ukrainians loved it's Country, Joey, Hunter and the Choco-**** would have wound up like Mikhail Lesin
during an all night party in an upscale grotto in Kiev by now!
Amazing that all 3 of them are still alive and that "Song Bird" McCain (#4) was allowed to die from his brain cancer instead
of joining them or being dismembered and put on display when he made these visit(s) (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbfsTcJCKDE ) along
with General Vallely (#5)!!!
Taras Bulba , 1 hour ago
At last some questions for this dirt ball-burisma is tied in with one of the most if not the most corrupt oligarch, Koloimiski.
Biden is up to his eyeballs in some dodgy deals in china as well-this guy and his son are walking corruption personified.
CarifonianSeven, 2 hours ago
Didn't Hillary teach Joe that a tax free foundation is better than using your son's LLC for laundering the bribes... This
is basic stuff.
Pernicious Gold Phallusy, 1 hour ago
Joe cheated his way through undergrad and law school. He would be unable to understand any of that.
whittler, 1 hour ago
What? You mean folks will finally care about little Hunter hiring Azov neo-Nazi fighters (oops! security I mean) to protect
his fracking site just north of the 'troubles' in the eastern Ukraine? I'm sure they were working for free and that no Biden money
was ever used to payoff (oops again! I mean pay the wages of) a bunch of Nazis (dang it again, I mean neo-Nazis, it sounds so
much warmer and fuzzier when you add 'neo').
Creepy Joe and all D's agree, 'Nazi' = bad, neo-Nazi = warm, fuzzy and good; heck, they even like to kill Russians Russians
Russians!!!
Cracker 16 , 1 hour ago
Joe "the Conqueror" "Caesar Magnus" Biden. Joe of Ukraine, the best bud of $oro$.
"... Russiagate became a convenient replacement explanation absolving an incompetent political establishment for its complicity in what happened in 2016, and not just the failure to see it coming. ..."
"... Because of the immediate arrival of the collusion theory, neither Wolf Blitzer nor any politician ever had to look into the camera and say, "I guess people hated us so much they were even willing to vote for Donald Trump ..."
" Russiagate became a convenient replacement explanation absolving an incompetent
political establishment for its complicity in what happened in 2016, and not just the failure
to see it coming.
Because of the immediate arrival of the collusion theory, neither Wolf
Blitzer nor any politician ever had to look into the camera and say, "I guess people hated us
so much they were even willing to vote for Donald Trump ."
As a peedupon all I can see is that the elite seem to be fighting amongst themselves or
(IMO) providing cover for ongoing elite power/control efforts. It might not be about
private/public finance in a bigger picture but I can't see anything else that makes sense
Thanks for the Taibbi link. I hadn't seen it, and found him to be in good form. I do think
he ought to have spoken more about how bad Trump's Primary opponents were.
Most of those reporters were going to slant their stories the way their bosses wanted.
Their jobs are just too nice to do otherwise. Getting Trump as Hillary's opponent had to have
been a goal for the majority of them. He was the patsy who would become squished roadkill in
the treads of The Most Experienced Presidential Candidate In History. More on that for people
with strong stomachs:
Hillary Clinton is a knowledgeable, well-prepared, reasonable, experienced, even-tempered,
hardworking candidate, while her opponent is a stubbornly uninformed demagogue who has been
proven again and again to be a liar on matters big and small. There is no objective basis
on which to equate Hillary Clinton to her opponent.
The author had it half right. Turns out the voters knew quite a bit about Trump,
and still preferred him to the Butcher of Libya.
"I don't know why you don't listen. You're making me hurt you. I'm doing it for your own
good! -- but it's your fault!"
Does that sound eerily familiar to you? When I look at America and Britain, I see the rise
of what I'll simply call mafia politics. It sums up Trumpism and Brexit in a nutshell: abuse
gone mega-scale, the search absolute power through the threat of violent aggression,
legitimized as "democratic" -- but bullying, threats, intimidation, harassment,
and extortion are not democracy, my friends. What are they? Mafia-ocracy.
Democracy is degenerating into mafia-ocracy, and mafia-ocracy goes something like this.
Step one: intimidation. "Listen. Wise up. Do what's good for you. Do what we say! Or else!"
Or else what?
Step two: threat. "Or else well it'd be a shame if something happened to that nice democracy
you've got there!" Like what?
Step three: violence. "People might just rise up. You might get hurt, you know. In fact,
it's pretty likely. It's not what we want, of course. But "
Step four: victim blaming. But what? "It's what you'll make happen!" Me? Wait: what will I
make happen?
Step five: dominance. "What's coming to you, if you thwart us! Nobody can blame us, after
all -- it's your fault! For not doing what's good for you!"
What the? Do you see the bizarre contradictory logic? The pattern? I see it every single day
now, in Anglo politics. You're quite right if it reminds you of abusive relationships --
it is one, at a social scale. If the sudden proliferation of angry, bellowing men in
ill-fitting suits, sneering and jeering with dull, brutish expressions, isn't evidence enough,
first let me give you a few concrete examples.
Brexiters -- the politicians -- explicitly invoke this chain of
logic. They warn of all kinds of things if their wish isn't carried through --
everything from mass civil unrest to riots to all out war. Riots? War? Really?
Brexiters -- the individuals -- explicitly say: "I'll never vote
again!", as if to reinforce the threat, that they'll resort to cruder means of carrying out
their wishes. Or maybe you read, as I read, recently, that chants of "AOC sucks!" broke out at
a recent rally -- adding to the usual "Lock her up!" Do I really need to explain
how those exemplify the logic above?
The logic above, my friends, has no place in a democracy. You see, a democracy is not a
place for any of the above. When the line is crossed, we're not really practicing democracy
anymore. What are we practicing?
Mafia-ocracy.
All the above is the logic every mafia from the beginning of time has used to
extort, shake down, bully, harass, and destabilize. "Sure be a shame if something happened to
that nice democracy you got there. Who knows what might end up happening? It'd be your fault,
though."
Do you see what's happening here? Here's what that logic isn't. Policy. Vision. Ideas. An
agenda. A plan to deal with real problems. Laws to expand freedom, justice, and equality. The
line above -- the essence of mafia-ocracy -- is outside the bounds
of democracy.
Democracies were centered around "parliaments" for a very good reason. "Parliament"
literally means "talking it out." But we are not talking our issues out if you are threatening
me. If you are trying to intimidate me. If you are victim blaming me for the implied violence
you will do me.
We are "talking it out" in democracies when we discuss issues of substance. Issues of, as
Americans say, "policy." What is "policy"? Have you ever thought about it? "Policy" is just
something like: 'laws we hope to make to solve very real problems in our society." Policy is
not: "ways I will intimidate and punish you for failing to obey me." If that is what policy is,
we are not in a democracy anymore, my friends.
Where are we? We are in a twilight zone between authoritarianism, fascism, and false
democracy, democracy used as a weapon. That is why I call it mafia-ocracy. It is the
institutions of democracy used for anti-democratic purposes, to destroy and shatter
democracy.
You can use a "parliament", a place to "talk it out", to issue threats and intimate and
bully. Just as you can use a local street to intimidate and extort shop-owners. But just as
that mafias stalking shop owners is not legitimate commerce, but only harassment, so too,
threats and intimidation in parliaments or other democratic fora (like town halls or rallies
and so on) are not democracy. Do you see the parallel I am drawing?
Mafia-ocracy uses the institutions of democracy as weapons. Its intent is to destroy the
very essentials of true democracy. There are three. Freedom, equality, and justice. But when
the Brexiter or Trumpist says, "Hey, there might be riots, upheaval, a civil war --
and it's your fault. Why don't you just give in?", those three things are being
undermined.
There is less equality, every time that one group in society uses threats and intimidation
to overpower others. There is less freedom, every time one group in society threatens another
with violence or harm to get their way. And there is less justice when these things happen, of
course, too -- in enduring ways.
In that way, mafia-ocracy is a strange thing, a new thing. It isn't quite classical
authoritarianism or fascism -- it's democracy weaponized. It's using the basic
institutions of democracy, Congresses, the idea of "parliament", town halls, courts, and so
forth, to tear democracies apart, as weapons for one group to overpower all the others, with
threats, intimidation, bullying, and harassment.
Hence, it's supporters can call it "democracy" -- and usually do. Nobody has
taught them that a democracy has red lines -- within them lie issues of
substance, policy, and outside them lie the threat, the wish to harm, the intimidation, the
intent to do real injury. Nobody seems to have taught the true believers of mafia-ocracy that
trying to extort and shake down their neighbors and colleagues isn't democracy --
but it's undoing.
And why would anyone be surprised by that? The forces that rule our world --
capitalism, neoliberalism, supremacy -- all these say: the strong survive,
and the weak perish, and that's fair, right, and just. Everyone for themselves. You're predator
or prey, burden or "self-reliant" indvidual", somebody -- or nobody. It's not a
surprise, given this binary logic that much of the world is turning to Mafia-ocracy. They're
only really doing what capitalism, neoliberalism, and supremacy have taught them is perfectly
acceptable, legitimate, even morally right: the shakedown, the threat, bullying, extorting.
Hence, the striking parallels of Brexit and Trumpism. Both are movements where the idea that
we should bully, intimidate, threaten, and shake down our neighbours -- both
inside and outside our societies -- is the right, best, necessary, and only thing
to do. If we cannot do it -- we might be the weak ones, and they might be the
strong ones. We might be the prey, and they might be the predators.
Hence, democracy used as a weapon, as a hammer -- one that destroys freedom,
justice, and equality, not to mention trust, decency, and humanity, in the aggressive search
for the power to abuse, demean, dehumanize, and devalue.
Because, my friends, when we threaten, intimidate, and vilify, that is what we are really
doing: we are saying that you are not really as human as I am. Therefore, I deserve to have
more power than you. That is the only logic whereby one can conclude: "you made me do it! It's
your fault I hurt you!"
"It's your fault I hurt you!" Is also, of course, the logic of the abuser. Abusers believe
they are more than perfectly justified -- it's something like their moral duty to
abuse their victims. "It's your fault I hurt you!" also means "you're better off being being
hurt!" This rule out the possibility of a genuine relationship of equals, seeking
greaterfreedom, granting each other justice -- which is what democracy really is.
Just as a democratic relationship is not an abusive one, so too an abusive society is not a
democratic one -- no matter how much the abusers cry that it is.
Again, it's not a surprise that the dynamics of abuse have gone mega-scale, have come to
conquer even our political systems, have corroded our democracies. That's because, again,
capitalism, neoliberalism, and supremacy all justify abuse -- treat it as a duty.
Not paying your workers as little as possible? Letting them have bathroom breaks? You're
violating your duty to shareholders! Abuse is hardwired into capitalism because the division
into people who "own" things and people who don't of course creates power imbalances that
cannot yield freedom, equality, or justice, only abuse. It's not a surprise, then, that the
abused have become abusive. It is all they have ever known -- the quest for the
power to abuse, when they were not being abused themselves. Can anyone teach there is a
different world?
Mafia-ocracy is democracy being used as a weapon, abusive relationships going mega-scale,
threats, intimidation, extortion, regarded as legitimate forms of democratic discourse, "It's
your fault I hurt you! You made me do it!!" What it isn't is democracy.
Democracy is a lever, not a hammer. When democracy is used as a hammer, it is not democracy
at all. The lever lifts. Democracy is greater freedom, justice, equality, by "talking it out",
parlez, parley. If we are at the point that me telling you: "You are going to make me hurt you,
for your own good, and it will be all your fault!", then, my friends, we are not upholding the
great tradition and enacting the sacred and noble idea of democracy. We are becoming little
versions of the mafias who have abused us all our lives long -- even if we have
been taught to call them "elites."
The thirty three year old member of the Kushner real estate family, Jared Kushner , is married to Ivanka
Trump, Donald Trump's daughter. His Kushner Companies and Donald Trump's Trump Organization have announced plans for a joint venture to
build a 447 unit rental apartment building in Jersey City, New Jersey.
The new development is located next to Trump Plaza Residences at 88 Morgan Street, a
55-story condominium completed six years ago. It will be called Trump Bay Street and is
expected to cost $193.5 million.
The two companies will be joined by the KABR Group of New Jersey.
The site went through a series of owners during the recession before being purchased by the
Kushner and KABR partnership. Kushner chose to use the Trump name due to the success of the
neighboring Trump Plaza. They bought the debt on the property for $6 million in 2011. It was
valued at $35 million at the time.
Kushner-KABR will be putting up $38.5 million of its own equity for the project, according
to reports. Another $90 million will be acquired through a construction loan and another $65
million will come from a mezzanine loan tied to a Federal visa program. This was reported in
the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal says that the details of Trump Organization's involvement in the development
have not yet been made public. Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal, ""Jared is a very
talented young man. It is going to be a great project."
Senators, Please Ask Jared Kushner About 666 Fifth Avenue
A Chinese financier has pulled out of a bailout for Trump's son-in-law. Now let's talk about his meetings with a
Russian bank.
In a happy moment in the otherwise cloudy world of the Trump family and the flood of financial conflicts
they've carted into Washington, a major
Chinese investor
has decided not to pour billions of dollars into a Manhattan skyscraper owned by the
Jared
Kushner
clan.
Had this deal gone forward -- the effect would have been to bail Kushner out of a huge,
misbegotten investment
while letting his family take home at least
$400 million
and retain a minority ownership stake in the building -- it would have compromised President
Donald Trump's diplomacy with China.
The background: Anbang, an insurer and prolific deal-maker close to China's government, had considered
investing $4 billion in 666 Fifth Avenue. Kushner had overpaid for the building in 2007, when he bought it with
the help of bank loans for $1.8 billion. The financial crisis ensued, occupancy rates plummeted and Kushner had to
be rescued by outside investors to keep the troubled building afloat. Anbang's investment would have valued the
building at a handsome $2.85 billion, and also refinanced about $1.15 billion in debt.
The possibility of a transaction brought scrutiny from two Bloomberg news reporters, Caleb Melby and David
Kocieniewski, as well as from Congress and the
New York Times
. I discussed it in a column
here
two weeks ago. And for good reason: Kushner is a senior White House adviser who has Trump's ear on
foreign policy. The math of Trump's 36-year-old son-in-law being saved from a reckless investment by China
presented all sorts of conflicts of interest and the potential for disastrous policy moves by the White House.
So Anbang is now gone and all has been made right? Well, no.
Kushner's family still owns a building that needs a financial lifeline, so 666 Fifth Avenue presents something
that Congress may want to examine more closely when Jared Kushner
meets with the Senate Intelligence Committee
as part of an inquiry into possible collusion between Trump's
campaign team and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also investigating the Trump-Russia connection, its director, James
Comey, confirmed during a congressional hearing last week. There has been no suggestion that Kushner is part of
the FBI probe, but the Senate's decision to question him makes him, as the Times
pointed out
when it broke the story of Kushner's upcoming testimony, "the closest person to the president to
be called upon in any of the investigations, and the only one currently serving in the White House."
Kushner's meetings with Russian bankers during the presidential transition last fall and winter apparently help
explain why the Senate is interested in speaking with him.
The timeline matters. Kushner began talking with Chinese investors about 666 Fifth Avenue last summer, around
the time that Trump locked up the Republican nomination. Then he spearheaded more serious talks that took place in
New York about a week after his father-in-law was elected in November.
According to the Times, Kushner met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, in early December as
part of what appeared to be normal presidential transition meetings. A second Kislyak meeting with a Kushner
deputy followed in December, as well as another, brokered by Kislyak, between Kushner and the head of a Russian
bank, Vnesheconombank. The U.S. had imposed financial sanctions on that bank because of Russian President Vladimir
Putin's military incursions in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.
Vnesheconombank has close ties to the Kremlin and its chief executive, Sergey Gorkov, attended a training
academy for members of Russia's security and intelligence services.
A Trump spokeswoman described Kushner's meetings with the Russians as routine, which they may have been given
his role at the time as Trump's liaison to foreign powers.
But given how important 666 Fifth Avenue was for Kushner at the time, it's also possible that he saw the
Russians as potential investors alongside the Chinese. Or as financial backups should the Chinese walk away from a
deal.
The Times, citing a government source, said that the Senate plans to ask Kushner if financial help for 666
Fifth was part of his chats with Gorkov and Vnesheconombank.
Kushner's responses to questions about Russian and Chinese financing for his family's building may clarify what
inspired him to negotiate so diligently with foreign lenders at a time when he surely understood the negotiating
value of having his father-in-law on the cusp of assuming power in the White House.
His appearance in the Senate will also offer a chance to quiz him about the intersection of personal financial
dealings and public policymaking. That's an issue that remains troubling because Kushner, and his wife Ivanka
Trump, and the president himself, have avoided adequately separating themselves from their private business
interests even as they wield power.
Family real estate company fined $210,000 for filing fake construction permits by New York City regulators as tenants rights watchdog
says former Trump lawyer engaged in same practice. Earlier this week, the city's Department of Buildings fined Kushner Companies
a total of $210,000 (£163,00) for 42 instances in which it says the company falsified construction permits at 17 residential buildings,
where many of the tenants were protected by rent regulations from steep rent increases and eviction.
Cohen may not be the only one involved in campaign finance violations. A spokeswoman for Kushner Companies said that the violations
were "paperwork errors". The company can contest the citations before an administrative judge.
"In no case did the company act in disregard of the safety of our tenants," said Christine Taylor.
Tenant activists also issued a report based on city and state records that suggested that an investment group led by Mr Cohen
had also falsified construction permits by claiming that three buildings in Manhattan were vacant or without rent-regulated tenants,
when they were occupied and many tenants had rental protections.
Landlords are required in New York City to disclose whether tenants in their buildings are rent regulated to obtain a construction
permit. This requirement is designed to safeguard rent-regulated tenants from harassment.
Unscrupulous landlords sometimes push out rent-protected tenants so they can sharply increase rents on those units.
In a deal that eases the financial pressure on the Kushner Companies, Brookfield Asset
Management said on Friday that it had taken a 99-year lease on 666 Fifth Avenue, the
troubled Midtown tower owned by the family of Donald Trump's son-in-law.
Jared Kushner, now a top White House adviser, paid a record-setting $1.8 billion for the
building in 2007, and it has been a drag on his family's real estate company ever since.
The deal, in which Brookfield paid the rent for the entire 99-year term upfront, helps
remove the family's biggest financial headache: a $1.4 billion mortgage on the office portion
of the tower that was due in February next year. The Kushners have spent more than two years on
an international search for new partners or fresh financing that stretched from the Middle East
to China.
The deal would enable the Kushners to pay off at least a large portion of what they owe
lenders and retain ownership of the land beneath the tower. But they may not make any money
from it.
While the deal relieves some of the Kushners' troubles, difficulties persist across their
real estate empire, at least in part because of their connection to the White House. "If you do
business with the Kushners, there's a headline reality," said Kenneth Pasternak, executive
chairman of the real-estate firm KABR Group and an investing partner of the Kushner family in
multiple developments. "I don't want to say it's a headline risk," he added. "There's a
headline reality."
In the 666 Fifth Avenue deal, Brookfield paid about $1.1 billion in upfront rent, according
to an executive who requested anonymity because he had been briefed on the deal but was not
authorized to discuss it. Charles Kushner, Jared's father, who now runs the company, in turn,
negotiated with his lenders to pay less than the company owed to satisfy the debts, the
executive said.
Analysts have long said that 666 Fifth was worth less than its debts. The building was 30
percent vacant and only generated about half the annual mortgage payments. In recent months,
the building's largest remaining tenant, Millennium Management, signaled that it too planned to
leave.
A spokeswoman for Kushner Companies declined to comment on the Brookfield deal.
The purchase of the aluminum-clad tower was intended to vault the Kushners into the top
ranks of New York real estate from their perch in New Jersey, where they were known for a huge
portfolio of garden apartment complexes. They moved their company headquarters to 666 Fifth,
from where they presided over a new and rapidly expanding empire that included former
industrial buildings in Brooklyn, apartments in Maryland and development sites in Jersey City,
N.J.
But they ran into trouble almost immediately. They were unable to get the office rents they
expected in 2007, making it difficult to pay the initial $1.75 billion debt on the building.
Then the recession hit.
As a political wonk and news junkie, I was not surprised by KUSHNER,
INC., but Vicky Ward's well-sourced book is nonetheless a fascinating and maddening read. If
this were a work of fiction, I would deem it unbelievable: a grade B story of political
intrigue. How can this be happening, unchecked, before my eyes? How serendipitous that the
book's release coincided almost exactly with news that Congressman Elijah Cummings requested
details of the Kushner Kouple's use of private email and WhatsApp. And as I sit in anticipation
of what I might soon learn from Robert Mueller. And as I hope for additional criminal
indictments.
I assume that the majority of Vicky Ward's audience is comprised of anti-Trumpers who will
be further inflamed by the chutzpah of Javanka. The tale of 666 Fifth Avenue in itself should
infuriate everyone who has a mortgage: after a few missed payments, the lender stands at the
front door with a foreclosure notice. On the other hand, no penalties are incurred on a $1.2
billion loan, AND a bank will lend more money if your last name is Kushner, no matter that one
of the principles has been convicted of financial crimes related to real estate deals.
My takeaway from KUSHNER, INC.: not only are the Kushners sleazy, greedy, and imperious (and
more than a little creepy), but they are dangerous. Jared, in particular, will go to any length
to find money, even if it means secretly negotiating with actors like Qatar, while he sits in
the West Wing. The amount of money the Kushner Kouple continues to make while working for the
taxpayers is staggering. They follow no rules. The irony of their use of private email and
WhatsApp is not lost on me, but rather than LOCK THEM UP, their defenders see nothing amiss
about their chitchat with the despotic MBS and others.
Vicky Ward does nothing in her book to assuage my distrust of the Kushners and my disgust
that nothing has been done to stop them. I have no doubt that any pro-Trumper who reads
KUSHNER, INC. will deem the book to be a hit job, but based on Vicky Ward's sourcing (how big a
role does Steve Bannon play, as he does in Michael Wolff's FIRE AND FURY?) and news reports
from reputable media, I find her account to be credible. Is it any wonder that the offspring of
two corrupt real estate moguls not only found one another and married, but also followed in
their fathers' footsteps?
The Kushner Companies has finally struck a deal to get the building that was supposed to
be the centerpiece of its portfolio, but instead had weighed it down for years, off its
hands.
Brookfield Properties announced Friday afternoon that it has acquired a 100% leasehold
interest in the building, a 1.5 million square foot property at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan,
for 99 years through one of its funds. The financial terms of the agreement were not
disclosed.
Brookfield, which has major real estate holdings around the world, said it's planning a
significant redevelopment of the building.
The Kushners bought the Fifth Avenue skyscraper in 2007 for a then-record $1.8 billion. It
was supposed to have been the crown jewel of their real estate empire, and Jared Kushner, the
president's son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, played a prominent role in the
deal.
But the property didn't bring in as much revenue as expected, making it difficult to repay
loans on the building.
The building carries $1.4 billion in debt, the bulk of which comes due in February 2019.
Kushner Companies and Brookfield declined to comment.
Special counsel interest
CNN
previously reported in February that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators were
looking into Kushner's efforts to shore up financing for 666 Fifth Avenue during the
presidential transition, according to people familiar with the special counsel
investigation.
One line of questioning from Mueller's team involved discussions Kushner had with Chinese
investors, according to the sources familiar with the inquiry.
A week after Trump's election, Kushner met with the chairman and other executives of Anbang
Insurance, the Chinese conglomerate that bought the Waldorf
Astoria in 2014, according
to The New York Times.
At the time, Kushner and Anbang's chairman, Wu Xiaohui, were close to finishing a deal for
the Chinese insurer to invest in 666 Fifth Avenue. Talks between the two companies collapsed a
few months later, according to the Times.
Mueller's team also asked about Kushner's dealings with a Qatari investor regarding the same
property, according to one of the sources. Kushner and his company were negotiating for
financing from a prominent Qatari investor, former prime minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani,
according to The Intercept. But as with Anbang, these efforts stalled.
In February, Kushner attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement, "Another anonymous source
with questionable motives now contradicts the facts -- in all of Mr. Kushner's extensive
cooperation with all inquiries, there has not been a single question asked nor document sought
on the 666 building or Kushner Co. deals. Nor would there be any reason to question these
regular business transactions."
Troubled property
The 666 Fifth Avenue purchase in 2007 was supposed to be a big break for Kushner Companies,
which has roots buying middle-income housing in the tri-state area.
But it came under financial pressure during the housing crisis.
In 2011, Vornado Realty Trust stepped in with financing, taking on a 49.5% stake in the
building. Vornado agreed to sell its stake back to Kushner Companies in June.
Charles Kushner, Jared's father,
told CNN in April that his son expressed reservations about buying the office tower.
"I pushed Jared to do the deal," Charles said.
In the interview, the elder Kushner called the decision to purchase the property "bad timing
and bad judgment."
New York federal prosecutors have reportedly subpoenaed Kushner Companies, the New York real estate business owned by the
family of Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
The subpoenea concerns the company's use of the controversial EB-5 visa programme to finance its development in New Jersey
called One Journal Square, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The EB-5 programme allows wealthy foreign investors to effectively buy US immigration visas for themselves and their families
by investing at least $500,000 (£378,000) in US development projects.
"... The Qatari wealth fund was not involved in the 666 Fifth Avenue deal, a source close to Brookfield Asset Management told Reuters . There was no requirement for Brookfield to inform the QIA beforehand. ..."
Mr Kushner was chief executive of Kushner Companies when it acquired 666 Fifth
Avenue in 2007.
( Getty )
When news emerged that
Qatar
may have unwittingly helped bail out a
New York
skyscraper owned by the family of Jared
Kushner
, Donald
Donald Trump
's son-in-law, eyebrows were raised in
Doha
.
Mr Kushner, a senior White House adviser, was a close ally of Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman
- a key architect of a regional boycott against Qatar, which
Riyadh
accuses of sponsoring terrorism. Doha denies the charge.
Brookfield, a global property investor in which the Qatari government has placed investments, struck a deal last
year that rescued the
Kushner Companies
' 666 Fifth Avenue tower in Manhattan from financial straits.
The bailout, in which Doha played no part and first learned about in the media, has prompted a rethink of how the
gas-rich kingdom invests money abroad via its giant sovereign wealth fund, two sources with knowledge of the matter
told the
Reuters
news
agency.
The country has decided that the
Qatar Investment Authority
(QIA) will aim to avoid putting money in funds or other investment vehicles it does
not have full control over, according to the sources, who are familiar with the QIA's strategy.
"Qatar started looking into how its name got involved into the deal and found out it was because of a fund it
co-owned," said one of the sources. "So QIA ultimately triggered a strategy revamp."
The QIA's strategic shift was made late last year, according to the sources. It offers a rare insight into the
thinking of one of the world's most secretive sovereign wealth funds.
The revamp could have significant implications for the global investment scene because the QIA is one of the
world's largest state investors, with more than $320bn (£248bn) under management.
The wealth fund has poured money into the West over the past decade, including rescuing British and Swiss banks
during the 2008 financial crisis and investing in landmarks like New York's Plaza Hotel and the
Savoy
Hotel and
Harrods
store in London.
Qatari boycott
Mr Kushner was chief executive of Kushner Companies when it acquired 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007 for $1.8bn, a record
at the time for a Manhattan office building. It has been a drag on his family's real estate company ever since. The debt-laden skyscraper was bailed out by Brookfield last August, when it took a 99-year lease on the property,
paying the rent for 99 years upfront. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The QIA bought a 9 per cent stake in Brookfield Property Partners, which is known as BPY and is listed in Toronto
and New York, for $1.8bn in 2014.
BPY has about $87bn in assets, part of more than $330bn managed by its parent Brookfield. The stake purchase by
QIA was in line with its strategy to boost investments in prime US property. The investment gave QIA no seat on the
board of BPY.
The Qatari wealth fund was not involved in the 666 Fifth Avenue deal, a source close to Brookfield Asset
Management told
Reuters
. There was no requirement for Brookfield to inform the QIA beforehand.
The news broke this Saturday afternoon that Donald Trump, Jr.
had met George Nader, an emissary from Saudi Arabia and UAE , along with Erik Prince,
Stephen Miller, and Joel Zamel, an Israeli social media expert on Aug. 3, 2016 in Trump Tower:
During the Trump Tower meeting, the Times said, George Nader, the emissary for the two crown
princes, indicated that leaders in Saudi Arabia and the UAE wished to help
Trump. Nader, the Times said, is now cooperating with Mueller It is not known if anything came
of the alleged offer for assistance. The Times stated that Trump Jr responded
"approvingly".
This report raises many enormous questions. But it also connects back to another explosive
story last week: Brookfield, an enormous fund linked to Qatar, was negotiating to buy Kushner's
disastrous $1.8 billion investment in 666 5th Ave. I've written a blogpost and a
Google Doc timeline connecting Qatar as the possible intermediary between the Russia-Trump
quid pro quo deal of lifting sanctions in return for Rosneft sale commissions. I've also
written about Kushner's terrible real estate investment , and how he allegedly escalated a
Gulf crisis against Qatar, which coincidentally was followed by a Qatar-linked loan of $184
million. The Brookfield deal could save Kushner from an upcoming balloon payment that his
family cannot afford, which could mean financial ruin. I addressed the Qatar links in the
Brookfield deal in detail at p. 11-12 of my time line
here, with public sourcing. Qatar is the
largest outside investor in BPY, even though that's only 9%, and I cite Wendy Siegelman's
research showing how Qatar is often a lead manager in some major Brookfield projects in New
York and London. We need to see the details of the deal.
And it turns out that Brookfield is also linked to the United Arab Emirates.
Brookfield Property Partners (BPY) is the unit of Brookfield Assets Management that is
negotiating the deal. Its
annual report shows that BPY has eight directors, one of which is Soon Young Chang. See
p. 109: "Dr. Chang is a member of the board of directors of Dubai World . Dr. Chang serves as
Senior Advisor to the Investment Corporation of Dubai, providing strategic counsel and
lending his global perspective to the investment arm of the Dubai Government. Dr. Chang is
the founder and chairman of Midas International Asset Management Company, an international
asset management fund which manages over $5 billion. He is also a founding partner of
Sentinel Advisor, a New York-based arbitrage fund."
Chang is a director of Dubai World , the investment company for the Government of Dubai,
one of the two most powerful emirates in the UAE. Wikipedia summarizes: "As a subsidiary of
Dubai Inc. , it is the
emirate's flag bearer in global investments and has a central role in the direction of
Dubai's economy. Assets include DP World , which caused considerable controversy
when trying to take over six US ports " It is chaired by Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum ,
the youngest son of Dubai's former ruler Saeed bin Maktoum bin Hasher Al
Maktoum, the half-brother of Dubai's former ruler Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum ,
and the uncle of Dubai's ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum .
Chang advises the Investment Corporation of Dubai, the state-owned holding company, a
sovereign
wealth fund owned by the government. Its chair is Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
"the ruler of Dubai," and the Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE . He offers some
interesting remarks about the 2016 election addressing conspiracy theories here
."Yes, I believe in some conspiracy theories Even during the US elections there was talk
about conspiracies, but if a country says we are victims of a conspiracy and then stops
working, this is a mistake. Here in the UAE we have faced conspiracies, media campaigns,
economic wars. But we never stopped, it only made us more determined."
Brookfield (BPY) lists (at p. F-60) one of its most significant developments as ICD
Brookfield Place in Dubai, UAE ($163 million).
Brookfield Asset Management's
annual report states: "We currently have approximately 6 million square feet of active
development projects, including properties in New York, London and Dubai." Again, BAM
highlights Dubai. One of their eight corporate offices is in Dubai.
There was excellent coverage of the Saudi Arabia/UAE meeting over the weekend. I highly
recommend Chris Hayes's interview of Middle East expert Dexter Filkins
here . Filkins explains the axis of conflict in the Middle East of Saudi/UAE/Egypt (plus
Israel) vs. Iran/Syria/Lebanon, with Qatar getting caught in between. One might wonder if UAE
and Qatar are at odds, why would they both be involved in the same deal to help Kushner? If UAE
had made an arrangement with the Trump campaign, Qatar had even more incentive to be helpful
and not get frozen out. The Saudi/UAE blockade of April 2017 show the risks of not being in
with the Trump administration. (Filkins puzzles at how Kushner knew all about this blockade
before it happened, while Tillerson and Mattis were in the dark ) It is conceivable that Qatar
was either cooperating with UAE or competing with UAE in assisting the Trump campaign. The
Brookfield negotiations might reflect Qatar's response to the blockade "stick" by offering
cooperating now with UAE in return for a carrot.
Another innocent explanation is that both Qatar and UAE have so much cash, and they are
often in the middle of massive energy and real estate deals around the world. It may actually
be a coincidence that Qatar and UAE keep showing up in these events. But the number of
coincidences are remarkable, and it is a problem that anyone has a reasonable doubt that the
Trump administration is compromised by massive debts, foreign bailouts, and rampant conflicts
of interest.
I am speculating from public reports and connecting dots. Nader is reportedly
cooperating with Mueller, but so far we see no smoking gun. I don't have any conclusions here,
just three observations and three questions: It is clear that Soon Young Chang has significant
relations with UAE's upper-most leadership. It is clear that Brookfield has a significant
relationship with UAE. And it is now reported that UAE sent an emissary to the Trump campaign
to discuss assisting it. What does Soon Young Chang know? And when did he know it? What does
George Nader know? And when did he know it? What does Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
know? And when did he know it? Brookfield's annual report states under "conflicts of interest":
"While Brookfield acts in good faith to resolve all potential conflicts in a manner that is
fair and balanced taking into account the facts and circumstances known to it at the time,
there can be no assurance that any determination made by Brookfield will be most beneficial to
us, favorable to us or would not have been different if additional information were available
to it." I'd like to hear Brookfield address this massive conflict of interest, from the UAE and
Soon Young Chang, to Qatar, and to Kushner. Maybe their investors would like an explanation,
too.
According to a report by
NBC News , special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators are looking at multiple efforts
made by Kushner to obtain financing for the project from the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar,
but they were rejected. Later Qatar's neighbors in the Persian Gulf, including Saudi Arabia,
began a blockade against Qatar, alleging that the state was a supporter of terrorism. As a
Trump adviser on Middle East policy, Kushner, with close ties to Saudi Arabia, was a party to
launching this blockade. This and other attempts to get financing for 666 Fifth from Russia,
China, and Turkey have drawn the investigators to scrutinize what seem to be Kushner's serious
conflicts of interest.
"... Another house manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, told Recarey that very young girls were giving Epstein massages at least twice a day, and in one instance, Epstein had Rodriguez deliver one dozen roses to Mary, at her high school. ..."
"... Palm Beach prosecutors said the evidence was weak, and after presenting the case to a grand jury, Epstein was charged with only one count of felony solicitation of prostitution. In 2008, he pleaded guilty and nominally served 13 months of an 18-month sentence in a county jail: Epstein spent one day a week there, the other six out on "work release." ..."
"... Today, Jeffrey Epstein is a free man, albeit one who routinely settles civil lawsuits against him, brought by young women, out of court. As of 2015, Epstein had settled multiple such cases. ..."
In 2005, the world was introduced to reclusive billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, friend to princes and an American
president, a power broker with the darkest of secrets: He was also a pedophile, accused of recruiting dozens of underage girls into
a sex-slave network, buying their silence and moving along, although he has been convicted of only one count of soliciting prostitution
from a minor. Visitors to his private Caribbean island, known as "Orgy Island," have included Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Stephen
Hawking.
According to a 2011 court filing by alleged Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre, she saw Clinton and Prince Andrew on the
island but never saw the former president do anything improper. Giuffre has accused Prince Andrew of having sex with her when she
was a minor, a charge Buckingham Palace denies.
"Epstein lives less than one mile away from me in Palm Beach," author James Patterson tells The Post. In the 11 years since Epstein
was investigated and charged by the Palm Beach police department, ultimately copping a plea and serving 13 months on one charge of
soliciting prostitution from a 14-year-old girl, Patterson has remained obsessed with the case.
"He's a fascinating character to read about," Patterson says. "What is he thinking? Who is he?"
Patterson's new book,
"Filthy Rich:
A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal That Undid Him, and All the Justice That Money Can Buy," is an attempt to answer such
questions. Co-authored with John Connolly and Tim Malloy, the book contains detailed police interviews with girls who alleged sexual
abuse by Epstein and others in his circle. Giuffre alleged that Epstein's ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late media
tycoon Robert Maxwell, abused her. Ghislaine Maxwell has denied allegations of enabling abuse.
Epstein has spent the bulk of his adult life cultivating relationships with the world's most powerful men. Flight logs show that
from 2001 to 2003, Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's private plane, dubbed "The Lolita Express" by the press, 26 times. After Epstein's
arrest in July 2006, federal tax records show Epstein donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation that year.
Bill Clinton in 1994. AP
Epstein was also a regular visitor to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago, and the two were friends. According to the Daily Mail, Trump
was a frequent dinner guest at Epstein's home, which was often full of barely dressed models. In 2003, New York magazine reported
that Trump also attended a dinner party at Epstein's honoring Bill Clinton.
Last year, The Guardian reported that Epstein's "little black book" contained contact numbers for A-listers including Tony Blair,
Naomi Campbell, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Bloomberg and Richard Branson.
In a 2006 court filing, Palm Beach police noted that a search of Epstein's home uncovered two hidden cameras. The Mirror reported
that in 2015, a 6-year-old civil lawsuit filed by "Jane Doe No. 3," believed to be the now-married Giuffre, alleged that Epstein
wired his mansion with hidden cameras, secretly recording orgies involving his prominent friends and underage girls. The ultimate
purpose: blackmail, according to court papers.
Britain's Prince Andrew in 2012 AP
"Jane Doe No. 3" also alleged that she had been forced to have sex with "numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business
executives, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders."
"We uncovered a lot of details about the police investigation and a lot about the girls, what happened to them, the effect on
their lives," Patterson says.
"The reader has to ask: Was justice done here or not?"
Epstein, now 63, has always been something of an international man of mystery. Born in Brooklyn, he had a middle-class upbringing:
His father worked for the Parks Department, and his parents stressed hard work and education.
'We uncovered a lot of details about the police investigation and a lot about the girls, what happened to them, the effect
on their lives.'
- James Patterson
Epstein was brilliant, skipping two grades and graduating Lafayette High School in 1969. He attended Cooper Union but dropped
out in 1971 and by 1973 was teaching calculus and physics at Dalton, where he tutored the son of a Bear Stearns exec. Soon, Epstein
applied his facility with numbers on Wall Street but left Bear Stearns under a cloud in 1981. He formed his own business, J. Epstein
& Co.
The bar for entry at the new firm was high. According to a 2002 profile in New York magazine, Epstein only took on clients who
turned over $1 billion, at minimum, for him to manage. Clients also had to pay a flat fee and sign power of attorney over to Epstein,
allowing him to do whatever he saw fit with their money.
Still, no one knew exactly what Epstein did, or how he was able to amass a personal billion-dollar-plus fortune. In addition to
a block-long, nine-story mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Epstein owns the $6.8 million mansion in Palm Beach, an $18 million
property in New Mexico, the 70-acre private Caribbean island, a helicopter, a Gulfstream IV and a Boeing 727.
"My belief is that Jeff maintains some sort of money-management firm, though you won't get a straight answer from him," one high-level
investor told New York magazine. "He once told me he had 300 people working for him, and I've also heard that he manages Rockefeller
money. But one never knows. It's like looking at the Wizard of Oz -- there may be less there than meets the eye."
Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach home Splash News
"He's very enigmatic," Rosa Monckton told Vanity Fair in 2003. Monckton was the former British CEO of Tiffany & Co. and confidante
to the late Princess Diana. She was also a close friend of Epstein's since the 1980s. "He never reveals his hand . . . He's a classic
iceberg. What you see is not what you get."
Both profiles intimated that Epstein had a predilection for young women but never went further. In the New York magazine piece,
Trump said Epstein's self-professed image as a loner, an egghead and a teetotaler was not wholly accurate.
Donald Trump in 1990 AP
"I've known Jeff for 15 years," Trump said. "Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful
women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it -- Jeffrey enjoys his social life."
Three years after that profile ran, Palm Beach Police Officer Michele Pagan got a disturbing message. A woman reported that her
14-year-old stepdaughter confided to a friend that she'd had sex with an older man for money. The man's name was Jeff, and he lived
in a mansion on a cul-de-sac.
Pagan persuaded the woman to bring her stepdaughter down to be interviewed. In his book, Patterson calls the girl Mary. And Mary,
like so many of the other girls who eventually talked, came from the little-known working-class areas surrounding Palm Beach.
A friend of a friend, Mary said, told her she could make hundreds of dollars in one hour, just for massaging some middle-aged
guy's feet. Lots of other girls had been doing it, some three times a week.
Mary claimed she had been driven to the mansion on El Brillo Way, where a female staffer escorted her up a pink-carpeted staircase,
then into a room with a massage table, an armoire topped with sex toys and a photo of a little girl pulling her underwear off.
Ghislaine Maxwell Getty Images
Epstein entered the room, wearing only a towel, Mary said.
"He took off the towel," Mary told Pagan. "He was a really built guy. But his wee-wee was very tiny."
Mary said Epstein got on the table and barked orders at her. She told police she was alone in the room with him, terrified.
Pagan wrote the following in her incident report:
"She removed her pants, leaving her thong panties on. She straddled his back, whereby her exposed buttocks were touching Epstein's
exposed buttocks. Epstein then turned to his side and started to rub his penis in an up-and-down motion. Epstein pulled out a purple
vibrator and began to massage Mary's vaginal area."
Palm Beach assigned six more detectives to the investigation. They conducted a "trash pull" of Epstein's garbage, sifting through
paper with phone numbers, used condoms, toothbrushes, worn underwear. In one pull, police found a piece of paper with Mary's phone
number on it, along with the number of the person who recruited her.
On Sept. 11, 2005, detectives got another break. Alison, as she's called in the book, told Detective Joe Recarey that she had
been going to Epstein's house since she was 16. Alison had been working at the Wellington Green Mall, saving up for a trip to Maine,
when a friend told her, "You can get a plane ticket in two hours . . . We can go give this guy a massage and he'll pay $200," according
to her statement to the police.
Alison told Recarey that she visited Epstein hundreds of times. She said he had bought her a new 2005 Dodge Neon, plane tickets,
and gave her spending money. Alison said he even asked her to emancipate from her parents so she could live with him full-time as
his "sex slave."
She said Epstein slowly escalated his sexual requests, and despite Alison's insistence that they never have intercourse, alleged,
"This one time . . . he bent me over the table and put himself in me. Without my permission."
Alison then asked if what Epstein had done to her was rape and spoke of her abject fear of him.
An abridged version of her witness statement, as recounted in the book:
Alison : Before I say anything else . . . um, is there a possibility that I'm gonna have to go to court or anything?
Recarey : I mean, what he did to you is a crime. I'm not gonna lie to you.
Alison : Would you consider it rape, what he did?
Recarey : If he put himself inside you without permission . . . That, that is a crime. That is a crime.
Alison : I don't want my family to find out about this . . . 'Cause Jeffrey's gonna get me. You guys realize that, right? . . . I'm
not safe now. I'm not safe.
Recarey : Why do you say you're not safe? Has he said he's hurt people before?
Alison : Well, I've heard him make threats to people on the telephone, yeah. Of course.
Recarey : You're gonna die? You're gonna break your legs? Or --
Alison : All of the above!
Alison also told Recarey that Epstein got so violent with her that he ripped out her hair and threw her around. "I mean," she
said, "there's been nights that I walked out of there barely able to walk, um, from him being so rough."
Two months later, Recarey interviewed Epstein's former house manager of 11 years, documented in his probable-cause affidavit as
Mr. Alessi. "Alessi stated Epstein receives three massages a day . . . towards the end of his employment, the masseuses . . . appeared
to be 16 or 17 years of age at the most . . . [Alessi] would have to wash off a massager/vibrator and a long rubber penis, which
were in the sink after the massage."
Another house manager, Alfredo Rodriguez, told Recarey that very young girls were giving Epstein massages at least twice a
day, and in one instance, Epstein had Rodriguez deliver one dozen roses to Mary, at her high school.
In May 2006, the Palm Beach Police Department filed a probable-cause affidavit, asking prosecutors to charge Epstein with four
counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor -- a second-degree felony -- and one count of lewd and lascivious molestation of
a 14-year-old minor, also a second-degree felony.
Today, Jeffrey Epstein is a free man, albeit one who routinely settles civil lawsuits against him, brought by young women,
out of court.
Palm Beach prosecutors said the evidence was weak, and after presenting the case to a grand jury, Epstein was charged with
only one count of felony solicitation of prostitution. In 2008, he pleaded guilty and nominally served 13 months of an 18-month sentence
in a county jail: Epstein spent one day a week there, the other six out on "work release."
Today, Jeffrey Epstein is a free man, albeit one who routinely settles civil lawsuits against him, brought by young women,
out of court. As of 2015, Epstein had settled multiple such cases.
Giuffre has sued Ghislaine Maxwell in Manhattan federal court, charging defamation -- saying Maxwell stated Giuffre lied about
Maxwell's recruitment of her and other underage girls. Epstein has been called upon to testify in court this month, on Oct. 20.
The true number of Epstein's victims may never be known.
He will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life, not that it fazes him. "I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,' "
Epstein told The Post in 2011. "It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel."
"... I read this book over two nights and it unfortunately brought back my own experiences of working for a narcissist to the point of causing sleeplessness and indigestion. ..."
"... However the pattern of behavior at Theranos was ingrained and consistent - "an orchestrated litany of lies" as a judge has said in another matter. ..."
"... This is a similar personality type with a different set of risks. These people are common in finance and medicine: https://www.theatlantic.com... ..."
"... In the absence of a moral filter, says Martha Stout[1], "Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths...That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow–but it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one." ..."
I wrote in
2010 at SST on the characteristics and dangers associated with narcissistic leadership. "Bad
Blood' by John Carreyrou chronicles the rise and fall of Theranos, a Silicon Valley healthcare
startup founded and run by Elizabeth Holmes, a card carrying narcissist if ever I saw one.
This
book, in my opinion, paints such a detailed and comprehensive picture of the way these
creatures operate that I thought it worthwhile to bring it to the attention of SST members who
may doubt my warnings of the dangers of allowing such folk near the levers of power in business
and, worse, Government.
I read this book over two nights and it unfortunately brought back my
own experiences of working for a narcissist to the point of causing sleeplessness and
indigestion.
Under the direction of the charismatic Holmes, Theranos burned through some $900
million in investors funds before being found out in 2015. Their blood testing business was a
sham that endangered patients. The company's key business strengths were the "reality
distortion field" Elizabeth Holmes projected over investors and directors and the twin weapons
of secrecy and fear they wielded over their employees.
Disbelievers my argue that start up
companies sometimes require desperate measures to stay afloat and that you cannot make an omelette, etc. etc. However the pattern of behavior at Theranos was ingrained and consistent -
"an orchestrated litany of lies" as a judge has said in another matter.
In the absence of a moral filter, says Martha Stout[1], "Politicians are more likely than
people in the general population to be sociopaths...That a small minority of human beings
literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow–but it
does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one."
My study of Chinese government revealed an important truth -- one that explains much about
that country's rapid rise: they find our amateur, promise-driven, personality-based
governance repulsive. They would no more vote for amateur politicians than for amateur brain
surgeons. To them charm, good looks, quick wits and rhetorical skill signify shallowness,
instability and glibness. Altruistic politicians have been fundamental to Chinese governance
for two millennia.
Their political stars have always been experienced, scholarly, altruistic problem-solvers
chosen on merit after decades of testing.
In 1000 AD, during our Dark Ages, with just one scholar-official for every eight thousand
citizens, China was harmonious, technologically advanced and prosperous. Emperors and
dynasties came and went while loyal, disciplined–often courageous–civil servants
lived far from family, serving in remote regions under terrible conditions.
Confucius'[2] moral meritocracy and the rigors of the job discouraged sociopaths and
officials integrity, efficiency and entrepreneurial energy made China the most advanced
civilization on earth.
So highly do the Chinese esteem their best politicians that they deified one whose legacy,
a water diversion project, has repaid its capital investment every twenty-four hours for
2,270 years. Millions visit his shrine, which is built overlooking his masterpiece, every
year to offer incense and sincere thanks.
The altruistic tradition is remembered in a Singapore Government White Paper, "The concept
of government by honorable men who have a duty to do right for the people and who have their
trust and respect fits us better than the Western idea that government power should be as
limited as possible."
And would-be members of China's Communist Party take an oath to "Bear the people's
difficulties before the people and enjoy their fruits of their labors after the people". They
often fail, obviously, but at least they've got something to shoot for–and a standard
that the other 1.3 billion non-members can hold them to.
[1] The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout Ph.D.
[2] The Doctrine of the Mean
RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran's Alex Christoforou take a quick look at the college admissions scam revolving around
William Rick Singer, who was running a for-profit college-counseling program, where according to federal prosecutors, has a goal
focused on helping "the wealthiest families in the U.S. get their kids into school."
Arrest warrants for Hollywood stars, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, were delivered on Tuesday following their alleged involvement
in a college-entrance-exam cheating scandal.
According to CNN,
the women were two of around 50 people who were the subject of
federal indictment
following an extensive FBI investigation named "Operation Varsity Blues."
Loughlin's husband, Mossimo Giannulli, was also implicated, and was arrested early on Tuesday morning.
TMZ reported
that Huffman was arrested by seven armed FBI agents. Her husband, William H. Macy, has not been charged in connection to the case.
Loughlin, Giannulli, and Huffman are all facing charges of felony conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.
Huffman is accused of spending $15,000 on an organization that allegedly helped her daughter cheat on her SATs. Loughlin and Giannulli
are accused of paying $500,000 to get their daughters into University of Southern California as recruits for the crew team for which
neither of Loughlin's daughters rowed crew.
All three were recorded by the FBI on phone calls discussing their plans to alter or lie about their children's college applications.
Is there anything left in this country that has not been deeply tainted by corruption?
By now you have probably heard that dozens of people have been arrested for participating in a multi-million dollar college admissions
scam. Enormous amounts of money were paid out in order to ensure that children from very wealthy families were able to get into top
schools such as Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Texas and the University of Southern California.
And as The Economic Collapse blog's Michael Snyder writes, we should certainly be disgusted by these revelations, but
we shouldn't be surprised. Such corruption happens every single day on every single level of society in America. At this point our
nation is so far gone that it is shocking when you run into someone that actually still has some integrity.
The "mastermind" behind this college admissions scam was a con man named William Rick Singer. He had been successfully getting
the kids of wealthy people into top colleges for years using "side doors", and he probably thought that he would never get caught.
But he did.
There were four basic methods that Singer used to get children from wealthy families into elite schools. The first two methods
involved bribes
Bribing college entrance exam administrators to allow a third party to facilitate cheating on college entrance exams, in some
cases by posing as actual students,' is the first.
Bribing university athletic coaches and administrators to designate applicants as purported athletic recruits – regardless
of their athletic abilities, and in some cases, even though they did not play the sport,' is the second.
Because many of these kids didn't even play the sports they were being "recruited" for, in some cases Photoshop was used to paste
their faces on to the
bodies of real athletes
In order to get non-athletic kids admitted to college as athletes, Singer often had to create fake profiles for them. Sometimes
this involved fabricating resumes that listed them having played on elite club teams, but to finish the illusion Singer and his
team would also use Photoshop to combine photos of the kids with actual athletes in the sport.
A number of college coaches became exceedingly wealthy from taking bribes to "recruit" kids that would never play once they got
to school, but now a lot of those same coaches are probably going to prison.
'Having a third party take classes in place of the actual students, with the understanding that the grades earned in those
classes would be submitted as part of the students' application,' is the third.
The fourth was 'submitting falsified applications for admission to universities that, among other things, included the fraudulently
obtained exam scores and class grades, and often listed fake awards and athletic activities.'
Of course the main thing that the media is focusing on is the fact that some celebrities are among those being charged in this
case, and that includes
Lori Loughlin from "Full House"
It was important to "Full House" star Lori Loughlin that her kids have "the college experience" that she missed out on, she
said back in 2016.
Loughlin, along with "Desperate Housewives" actress Felicity Huffman, is among those
charged in a scheme in which parents allegedly bribed college coaches and insiders at testing centers to help get their children
into some of the most elite schools in the country, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Despite how cynical I have become lately, I never would have guessed that Lori Loughlin was capable of such corruption.
After all, she seems like such a nice lady on television.
But apparently she was extremely determined to make sure that her daughters had "the college experience", and so Loughlin and
her husband shelled out
half a million dollars in bribes
Loughlin and Giannulli 'agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits
to the USC crew team – despite the fact that they did not participate in crew – thereby facilitating their admission to USC,'
according to the documents.
As bad as this scandal is, can we really say that it is much worse than what is going on around the rest of the country every
single day?
Of course not.
We are a very sick nation, and we are getting sicker by the day.
William Rick Singer had a good con going, and he should have stopped
while he was ahead
"This book is full of secrets," he said in Chapter 1 before dispensing advice on personal branding, test-taking and college
essays.
But Singer had even bigger secrets, and those would cost up to $1.2 million.
But like most con men, Singer just had to keep pushing the envelope, and in the end it is going to cost him everything.
The ironic thing is that our colleges and universities are pulling an even bigger con. They have convinced all of us that a college
education is the key to a bright future, but meanwhile the quality of the "education" that they are providing has deteriorated dramatically.
I spent eight years in school getting three degrees, and so I know what I am talking about. For much more on all this, please see
my recent article entitled
"50 Actual College Course Titles That Prove That America's Universities Are Training Our College Students To Be Socialists" .
I know that it is not fashionable to talk about "morality" and "values" these days, but the truth is that history has shown us
that any nation that is deeply corrupt is not likely to survive for very long.
Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through
a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Today, we are neither moral or religious.
What we are is deeply corrupt, and America will not survive if we keep going down this path.
What makes "Gangster Capitalism" so worthwhile is that it helps in understanding what has
led us to the 2007-8 financial meltdown. As the book shows, like during the 1920's,
deregulation led the way for powerful companies to allow the very wealthy to get wealthier at
the expense of average people by using poor working conditions, low wages, etc, plus at the
same time supporting supposedly moral movements (against gambling, alcohol, drugs, etc)
which mainly served the purpose of making these trades more profitable to crooks and
therefore created rampant gangsterism there. The result was such a society wracked
with gangsterism at all levels, but because most people felt they were prospering, few
complained.
But, then it all collapsed with the 1929 crash and resulting Depression, which led the way
for FDR and the New Deal programs which increased regulation of corporations, repeal of
Prohibition, etc. Though the Depression lingered until WWII, the New Deal was successful in
restructuring our laws and public infrastructure to create a better footing for the
prosperity which would follow.
The book effectively traces how much of this regulation was reduced piece by piece,
beginning in earnest with Nixon, using Cold War fears to tilt the nation toward more
corporate power and away from reform, support of right-wing dictators around the world,
re-energizing a 'moral crusade' especially by beginning the War on Drugs, thereby making the
illegal drug trade super profitable, etc.
The nation had shifted Right and even Democratic presidents like Carter who was
instrumental in deregulating industry and Clinton who signed into law the repeal of
Glass--Steagle weren't able to stop the shift. Then, the 'Gangster Capitalism" went on
steroids with G. W. Bush. By 2003, corporate taxes only amounted to 7% of revenues,
while payroll taxes amounted to 40%.
Of note, the book makes clear it is opportunity which leads to much crime, so the approach
of massive deregulation of corporations, plus focusing on arrests and imprisonment for
victimless crimes ends up with the wrong results, more entrenched crime, even allowing
corporations to capitalize on a prison industry.
The book is also good at highlighting how corporations and outright gangsters were able to
corrupt legal drugs (price-fixing), tobacco, asbestos, body parts, autos (Pintos), etc. Some
other things in the book, of note: Hamid Karzai included drug traffickers in his Afghan
administration.
And, our support of Suharto (Indonesia), Mobuto (the Congo), and Marcos (the Philippines)
allowed 'looting' of these countries.
A corrupt financial infrastructure included the BCCI bank and offshore banking to evade
taxes also developed. Plus, laundering money from illegal arms sales, drugs, and so many
other illegal activities passed through our financial system.
The book is definitely tilted toward a liberal way of looking at things, therefore it
doesn't go into the good things about capitalism, but there are disturbing patterns which are
important to understand, and this book does that very well.
Despite the fact that I was
predisposed to agree with many of the author's views, this book was a huge disappointment.
First, the basic premises:
American business enterprise is singularly corrupt;
Most of the crime that Americans suffer from is corporate crime;
American methods of fighting crime focus on lurid fantasies of underworld
conspiracy;
The USA exports criminality through its foreign & trade policies.
Each of these premises could have been, and in other venues have been, well-argued. The
first three suffer from a lack of generally accepted, objective measures, but experts on
criminology have overcome worse obstacles. What we get instead is an unfocused, rambling
listing of claims (plausible, but very poorly documented) about the criminal underworld,
anecdotes about corporate crime, and extreme statements. No doubt "legitimate" business
enterprise does rip off more money from customers each year than do gangsters or mafiosi; but
the latter also account for a tiny fraction of the total US labor force. And comparing deaths
from industrial accidents to mob hits is just over the top.
Woodiwiss says that the book
"had its inception during a seminar series on transnational organized crime run by
Adam Edwards and Peter Gill... Adam and Peter put together several of the best academic
researchers from Europe and North America...."
Yet the book is exasperatingly badly substantiated. I noticed almost no original research.
Woodiwiss's footnotes, which--like cops--are never around when you need them (viz., when he
is actually saying something that requires documentation), are almost exclusively from
articles in the *Guardian* or from other sensational exposes. Radical literature has its
place, of course, but saying, "US capitalism is just like organized crime... see, it says so
in 'The New Left Review'" is just a harangue, not evidence.
The back cover declaims:
"..[T]he position of large multinational corporations...actually provide the most
enticing opportunities for illegal profit... Gangster Capitalism shows how respectable
businessmen and revered statesmen have seized these opportunities in an orgy of fraud and
illegal violence that would leave the most hardened mafiosi speechless."
In fact, it's a disappointing pile of clippings. With the exception of his
claims--again, plausible but unsubstantiated--you are not going to find any surprises
here.
As I mentioned, he attacks conventional wisdom regarding the mafia and J. Edgar Hoover
(who comes off surprisingly well); unfortunately, Woodiwiss offers almost no support for
those contentions that are likely to be controversial.
For example, on p.78 he mentions President [Nixon]'s Advisory Council on Executive
Organization, "Organized Crime Strike Force Report" [1969], which included a vaguely worded
remark that the reliance on legal sanctions to fight drug abuse was actually causing
organized crime to flourish." This is footnoted.
Then he says that Nixon was so horrified by this that he ruthlessly suppressed the report.
This is not footnoted.
The next paragraph (p.49) includes a quote from a law enforcement officer claiming that
gambling arrests were made just to pad the arrest numbers; this is footnoted. The next
paragraph declares that gambling is no more corrupt than the rest of the economy. A
surprising observation, it is predictably not footnoted.
The result: lots of footnotes documenting that water is a bit on the damp side, but
nothing to support the controversial stuff. Only a small part is devoted to crime; the rest
is a paste-up job from two dozen radical critiques of the USA.
Anything from the 1971 ditching of the gold exchange standard to the various covert
activities of the CIA are brought up, with no more compelling a connection to Woodiwiss'
original point than being bad things that Americans did.
The conclusions are so insipid (it calls for "fair trade" with no further specification of
how that would be any different... capital punishment for corporations--evidently Mr.
Woodiwiss has never heard of 'money laundering,' in which a vehicle corporation commits
suicide), that it is pointless to spend any time on them.
Woodiwiss needs to actually learn something about economics; ironically enough, for
someone who claims business is closely tied to crime, he knows almost nothing about it. He
needs to know, and say what he knows, about law enforcement and business practices abroad, so
he can make a comparison. And finally, he needs to actually learn how to write.
"... Trump's "opposition" in the Democratic Party is no less hostile to democratic rights. They have focused their anti-Trump campaign on bogus allegations that he is a Russian agent, while portraying the emergence of social divisions within the United States as the consequence of Russian "meddling," not the crisis of capitalism, and pushing for across-the-board internet censorship. ..."
"The finance aristocracy, in its mode of acquisition as well as in its pleasures, is nothing
but the rebirth of the lumpenproletariat on the heights of bourgeois society ." -- Karl
Marx, The Class Struggles in France
What Marx described, in his analysis of the corruption of the bourgeoisie in France
leading up to the 1848 revolution, applies with even greater force to the United States of
2019, where the bourgeoisie faces its own rendezvous with social upheaval and explosive class
battles.
That is how a Marxist understands the spectacle of Wednesday's hearing before the House
Oversight Committee, in which Michael Cohen, the former attorney and "fixer" for Donald Trump
for more than a decade, testified for six hours about how he and his boss worked to defraud
business partners and tax collectors, intimidate critics and suppress opposition to Trump's
acitvities in real estate, casino gambling, reality television and, eventually, electoral
politics.
What Cohen described was a seedier version of an operation that most Americans would
recognize from viewing films like The Godfather: Trump as the capo di tutti capi, the
unquestioned authority who must be consulted on every decision ; the children, Donald Jr.,
Ivanka and Eric, each now playing significant roles in the ongoing family criminal enterprise;
Allen Weisselberg, CFO of the Trump Organization, the consigliere in charge of finance,
mentioned by Cohen more than 20 times in the course of six hours of testimony as the man who
facilitated Trump's schemes to evade taxes, deceive banks or stiff business partners.
Cohen himself was an enforcer. By his own account, he threatened people on Trump's behalf at
least 500 times in a ten-year period, including business associates, politicians, journalists
and anyone seeking to file complaints or gain reimbursement after being defrauded by one or
another Trump venture. The now-disbarred lawyer admitted to tape recording clients -- including
Trump among many others -- more than 100 times during this period.
The incidents recounted by Cohen range from the farcical (Trump browbeating colleges and
even his military prep school not to release his grades or test scores), to the shabby (Trump
having his own "charitable" foundation buy a portrait of himself for $60,000), to the brazenly
criminal (deliberately inflating the value of properties when applying for bank loans while
deflating the value of the same properties as much as twenty-fold in order to evade
taxation).
One of the most remarkable revelations was Cohen's flat assertion that Trump himself did
not enter the presidential race with the expectation that he could win either the Republican
nomination or the presidency. Instead, the billionaire reality television "star" regularly told
his closest aides, the campaign would be the "greatest infomercial in political history," good
for promoting his brand and opening up business opportunities in previously closed
markets.
These unflattering details filled the pages of the daily newspapers Thursday and occupied
many hours on the cable television news. But in all that vast volume of reporting and
commentary, one would look in vain for any serious assessment of what it means, in terms of the
historical development and future trajectory of American society, that a family like the Trumps
now occupies the highest rung in the US political system.
The World Socialist Web Site rejects efforts by the Democrats and the corporate media
to dismiss Trump as an aberration, an accidental figure whose unexpected elevation to the
presidency in 2016 will be "corrected" through impeachment, forced resignation or electoral
defeat in 2020. We insist that the Trump administration is a manifestation of a protracted
crisis and breakdown of American democracy, whose course can be traced back at least two
decades to the failed impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998-99, followed by the stolen
presidential election of 2000.
The US political system, always dominated by the interests of the capitalist ruling class
that controls both of the major parties, the Democrats as much as the Republicans, is breaking
down under the burden of mounting social tensions, driven above all by skyrocketing economic
inequality. It is impossible to sustain the pretense that elections at two-year and four-year
intervals provide genuine popular influence over the functioning of a government so completely
subordinated to the financial aristocracy.
The figures are familiar but require restating: over the past three decades, virtually all
the increase in wealth in American society has gone to a tiny layer at the top. Three
mega-billionaires -- Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates -- now control more wealth than
half the American population. This process of social polarization is global: according to the
most recent Oxfam report, 26 billionaires control more wealth than the poorer half of the human
race.
These billionaires did not accumulate their riches by devising new technologies or making
new scientific discoveries that increased the wealth and happiness of humanity as a whole. On
the contrary, their enrichment has come at the expense of society. Bezos has become the world's
richest man through the emergence of Amazon as the greatest sweatshop enterprise in history,
where every possible second of labor power is extracted from a brutally exploited
workforce.
The class of billionaires as a whole, having precipitated the global financial collapse of
2008 through reckless speculation and swindling in the sale of derivatives and other obscure
financial "products," was bailed out, first by the Republican Bush, then by the Democrat Obama,
to the tune of trillions of dollars. Meanwhile, the jobs, living standards and social
conditions for the great mass of working people sharply declined.
As for Donald Trump, the real estate swindler, casino con man and reality television mogul
is a living demonstration of the truth of Balzac's aphorism: "Behind every great fortune is a
great crime."
Trump toyed with running for president on the ultra-right Reform Party ticket in 2000 after
a long stint as a registered Democrat and donor to both capitalist parties. When he decided to
run for president as a Republican in 2016, however, he had shifted drastically to the right.
His candidacy marked the emergence of a distinctly fascistic movement, as he spewed
anti-immigrant prejudice and racism more generally, while making a right-wing populist appeal
to working people, particularly in de-industrialized areas in the Midwest and Appalachia, on
the basis of economic nationalism.
As World Socialist Web Site editorial board Chairman David North explained even
before the 2016 elections:
The Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States did not emerge from an
American version of a Munich beer hall. Donald Trump is a billionaire, who made his money in
Manhattan real estate swindles, the semi-criminal operations of casino gambling, and the
bizarre world of "reality television," which entertains and stupefies its audience by
manufacturing absurd, disgusting and essentially fictional "real life" situations. The
candidacy of Donald Trump could be described as the transfer of the techniques of reality
television to politics.
The main development in the two years since Trump entered the White House is the emergence
of the American working class into major struggles, beginning with the wave of teachers'
strikes in 2018, initiated by the rank and file in defiance of the bureaucratic unions. The
reaction in the American ruling elite is a panic-stricken turn to authoritarian methods of
rule.
The billionaire in the White House is now engaged in a systematic assault on the foundations
of American democracy. He has declared a national emergency in order to bypass Congress, which
holds the constitutional "power of the purse," and divert funds from the military and other
federal departments to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Whether or not he is immediately successful in this effort, it is clear that Trump is
moving towards the establishment of an authoritarian regime, with or without the sanction of
the ballot box. As Cohen observed in his closing statement -- in remarks generally downplayed
by the media and ignored by the Democrats -- he is worried that if Trump loses the 2020
election, "there will never be a peaceful transition of power."
Trump's "opposition" in the Democratic Party is no less hostile to democratic rights. They
have focused their anti-Trump campaign on bogus allegations that he is a Russian agent, while
portraying the emergence of social divisions within the United States as the consequence of
Russian "meddling," not the crisis of capitalism, and pushing for across-the-board internet
censorship.
The defense of democratic rights and genuine resistance to Trump's drive toward
authoritarian rule must come through the development of an independent political movement of
the working class, directed against both big business parties, the Democrats as much as the
Republicans, and against the profit system which they both defend.
"... Erdogan has used it in Turkey ( less than three years ago ) and it was a common line in the forgotten 1930s used by none other than Mussolini. And now I quote Trump's US secretary of state Michael Pompeo on Maduro : "Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side either you stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Maduro and his mayhem." ..."
"... Rigged elections? No doubt about it, although al-Sisi still maintains that his last triumph at the polls – a cracking 97 per cent – was a free and fair election. President Trump sent his "sincere congratulations" . Political prisoners? Well, the total is 60,000 and rising . Oh yes, and Maduro's last victory – a rigged election if ever there was one, of course – was a mere 67.84 per cent. ..."
"... Now the Americans are negotiating with the "terrorist" Taliban in Qatar so they can get the hell out of the Graveyard of Empires after 17 years of military setbacks, scandals and defeats – not to mention running a few torture camps which even Maduro would cough to look at. ..."
Erdogan has used it in Turkey ( less than
three years ago ) and it was a common line in the forgotten 1930s used by none other than
Mussolini. And now I quote Trump's US secretary of state
Michael Pompeo on Maduro : "Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side either you
stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Maduro and his mayhem."
You get the point. Now is the time for all good people to stand alongside the United States,
the EU, the nations of Latin America – or do you support the Russkies, Chinese, Iranian
headbangers, the perfidious Corbyn and (of all people) the Greeks? Talking of the Greeks,
European pressure on Alexis Tsipras to conform to the EU's support for Guaido – proving
that the EU can indeed bully its smaller members – is a good argument for Brexiteers
(though far too complex for them to understand).
But first, let's take a look at our favourite tyrant, in the words of all who oppose him.
He's a powerful dictator, surrounded by generals, suppressing his people, using torture, mass
arrests, secret police murders, rigged elections, political prisoners – so no wonder we
gave our support to those who wish to overthrow this brutal man and stage democratic
elections.
Not a bad precis of our current policy towards the Maduro regime. But I am referring, of
course, word-for-word, to the west's policy towards the Assad regime in Syria. And our support
for opposition democracy there wasn't terribly successful.
We were not solely responsible for the
Syrian civil war – but we were not guiltless since we sent an awful lot of weapons to
those trying to overthrow Assad. And last month the notepad of US national security advisor
John Bolton appeared to boast a plan to send
5,000 US troops to Colombia
And now let's tick the box on another Maduro-lookalike – at least from the west's
simplistic point of view: the military-backed elected field marshal-president al-Sisi of Egypt,
whom we love, admire and protect. Powerful dictator? Yup. Surrounded and supported by generals?
You bet, not least because he locked up a rival general before the last election. Suppression?
Absolutely – all in the interest of crushing "terrorism", of course.
Mass arrests? Happily yes, for all the inmates of Egypt's savage prison system are
"terrorists", at least according to the field marshal-president himself. Secret police murders?
Well, even forgetting the young Italian student suspected by his government to have been
allegedly tortured and bumped off by one of Sisi's top Egyptian cops, there's a roll call of
disappeared activists.
Rigged elections? No doubt about it, although al-Sisi still maintains that his last
triumph at the polls – a cracking 97 per cent – was a free and fair election.
President Trump sent his
"sincere congratulations" . Political prisoners? Well, the total is
60,000 and rising . Oh yes, and Maduro's last victory – a rigged election if ever
there was one, of course – was a mere 67.84 per cent.
As the late sage of the Sunday Express , John Gordon, might have said: it makes you
sit up a bit. So, too, I suppose, when we glance a bit further eastwards to Afghanistan, whose
Taliban rulers were routed in 2001 by the US, whose post-9/11 troops and statesmen ushered in a
new life of democracy, then corruption, warlordism and civil war.
The "democracy" bit quickly came unstuck when "loya jurgas", grand councils, turned into
tribal playpens and the Americans announced that it would be an exaggeration to think that we
could achieve "Jeffersonian democracy" in Afghanistan. Too true.
Now the Americans are negotiating with the "terrorist" Taliban in Qatar so they can get the hell out
of the Graveyard of Empires after 17 years of military setbacks, scandals and defeats –
not to mention running a few torture camps which even Maduro would cough to look at.
Now all this may not encourage you to walk down memory lane. And I haven't even listed the
sins of Saddam, let alone our continuing and cosy relationship – amazing as it still
seems – with that Gulf state whose lads strangled, chopped up and secretly buried a
US-resident journalist in Turkey.
Now just imagine if Maduro, tired of a journalist critic slandering him in Miami, decided to
lure him to the Venezuelan embassy in Washington and top the poor guy, slice him up and bury
him secretly in Foggy Bottom. Well now, I have a feeling that sanctions might have been applied
to Maduro a long time ago. But not to Saudi Arabia, of course, where we are very definitely not
advocating democracy.
"Now is the time for democracy and prosperity in Venezuela," quoth John Bolton this week.
Oh, yes indeed. Maduro runs an oil-soaked nation yet its people starve. He is an unworthy,
foolish and vain man, even if he's not Saddamite in his crimes. He was rightly described by a
colleague as a dreary tyrant. He even looks like the kind of guy who tied ladies to railway
lines in silent movies.
So good luck to Guaido. Palpably a nice guy, speaks eloquently, wise to stick to aid for the
poor and fresh elections rather than dwell on just how exactly Maduro and his military chums
are going to be booted out.
In other words, good luck – but watch out. Instead of pleading with those who will not
support him – the Greeks, for example – he might take a closer look at who his
foreign friends are. And do a quick track record on their more recent crusades for freedom,
democracy and the right to life. And by the way, I haven't even mentioned Libya.
Looks like events have complex dynamics and Washington did not fully understand possible blowback from its actions to unseat Maduro.
As usual Trump administration actions are not consistent with the rule of law and elementary knowledge of international
relations. It's pure imperial bulling and as such it might well backfire. In addition to the albatross of John Bolton
around his neck, the neocons put Elliott Abrams? looks like there are no decent diplomats/ bureaucrats willing to work (and risk
their careers) with Trump...
Notable quotes:
"... Furthermore, Venezuelans will perceive any sign of economic recovery under a Guaidó government as made possible by aid, if not handouts, from Washington, designed to discredit Maduro's socialist government, though such assistance will undoubtedly be used to further U.S. economic and political interests. In fact, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has indicated that he is already calling on oil companies to opt for investments in Venezuela once Maduro is overthrown. ..."
"... The U.S. effort to encourage the military to step in was again made evident on Wednesday in a tweet by John Bolton . ..."
"... The Wall Street Journal ..."
"... The Trump administration's blatant and undisguised interventionism may in fact backfire and help Maduro counter his sagging poll numbers, which last October the polling firm Datanálisis reported was 23 percent. Maduro recently lashed out on Twitter at the close nexus between Washington and the opposition, saying "Aren't you embarrassed at yourselves, ashamed at the way every day by Twitter Mike Pence, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo tell you what you should do." ..."
"... Anti-imperialism is, of course, a major cornerstone of the Chavista movement, born from resentment of U.S. interventionism and heavy-handedness that had for decades controlled many of Venezuela's resources and dictated its economic policies. The maneuvers of the Trump administration and its allies only double down on this narrative, and are counterproductive at best when it comes to solving the crisis. Their actions also risk fanning the flames of anti-Americanism throughout the continent ..."
"... Meanwhile, President Donald Trump appointed neocon Elliott Abrams as special envoy to Venezuela. As a longtime U.S. diplomat, Abrams has in many ways personified the application of the Monroe Doctrine with his blatant disregard for human rights violations and the principle of non-intervention in Guatemala , Nicaragua, and El Salvador in the 1980s and his alleged involvement in the 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez. ..."
"... While condemning anti-democratic actions and fraudulent elections in Venezuela, these sanctions ignore the rule of law. The Maduro government was never given the opportunity to defend itself and legal procedures were not followed ..."
"... Yet regardless of short-term results of U.S. support for Guaidó, the final outcome will be negative. There are a number of reasons why: first, it bolsters the position of the most radical elements of the opposition led by the VP party, thus contributing to the fragmentation of the anti-Chavista movement. Second, it attaches a "made in U.S.A." label to those positioned to govern should Maduro fall. ..."
"... the appeal to the military to save Venezuela has terrifying implications for a continent with a long history of military rule. And finally, the seizure of Venezuelan assets, which have then been turned over to a political ally, violates sacred norms of property rights, and in the process erodes confidence in the system of private property ..."
"... NACLA: Report on the Americas ..."
"... Latin American Perspectives ..."
"... The intention behind the pressure directed at Venezuela is quite clear: the current government is being told to resign and hand power over to a selected member of the opposition. To advance this strategy, various degrees of, frankly, organized crime style threats of punishment or positive inducement are daily publicized, iterated by US public officials. ..."
Trump's backing of Juan Guaidó's shadow government could weaken the opposition's longstanding support among the majority of Venezuelans,
writes Steve Ellner.
Since its outset, the Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Venezuela and
radicalized its positions. In the process, the Venezuelan opposition has become more and more associated with -- and dependent on
-- Washington and its allies. An example is the opposition protests that occurred last week. The actions were timed to coincide with
the European Union's "
ultimatum ," which stated they would recognize the shadow government of Juan Guaidó if President Nicolás Maduro had not called
elections within a week's time.
The opposition's most radical sectors, which include Guaidó's Voluntad Popular party (VP) along with former presidential candidate
María Corina Machado, have always had close ties with the United States. Guaidó, as well as VP head Leopoldo López and the VP's Carlos
Vecchio, who is the shadow government's chargé d'affaires in Washington, were educated in prestigious U.S. universities -- not uncommon
among Latin American economic and political elites. The ties between the opposition and international actors are strong: last weekend,
Vecchio called the campaign to unseat Maduro "an international
effort ." At the same time, Guaidó, referring to opposition-called protests, stated "today, February 2, we are going to meet
again in the streets to show our gratitude to the support that the European Parliament has given us." In doing so, Guaidó explicitly
connected the authority of outside countries to his own assumption of leadership.
The outcome of Washington's actions is bound to be unfavorable in a number of ways, regardless of whether or not they achieve
regime change. Most importantly, a government headed by Guaidó will be perceived both by Venezuelans and international observers
as "made in U.S.A." Further, the opposition's association with foreign powers has enabled the Maduro leadership to keep discontented
members of the Chavista movement in their ranks.
Furthermore, Venezuelans will perceive any sign of economic recovery under a Guaidó government as made possible by aid, if
not handouts, from Washington, designed to discredit Maduro's socialist government, though such assistance will undoubtedly be used
to further U.S. economic and political interests. In fact, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has indicated that he is already
calling on oil companies to opt for investments in Venezuela once Maduro is overthrown. As he
told
Fox News , "we're in conversation with major American companies now It will make a big difference to the United States
economically if we could have American oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela."
Washington Dictating Strategy
Either explicitly or implicitly, Washington is dictating strategy, or at least providing input into its formulation. One of the
challenges the opposition faces is the need to demonstrate to rank-and-file Venezuelans that the current offensive against Maduro
will be different from the disastrous attempts of 2014 and 2017, when anti-government leaders assured protesters that the president
would be toppled in a matter of days. The opposition leadership claims that this time is different for two reasons. First, the regional
Right turn has deepened, and the opposition is more able than ever to rely on decisive support from Washington and other governments,
regardless of how democratic they are -- see the neofascist credentials of
Brazil's
Jair Bolsonaro .
Second, the opposition is counting on the backing of military officers, particularly lower-ranking ones who have allegedly lost
patience with Maduro. In addition to some defections, junior officers attempted to
stage a military coup just two days before
mass opposition protests on Jan. 23 when Guaidó declared himself president. Previously, the Venezuelan opposition expressed a degree
of contempt for military officers for their unwillingness to defy the Chavista government. The opposition's new perspective dates
back to Trump's three
meetings with
military rebels and his
statement
, made alongside President Iván Duque of Colombia in September of last year, that the Maduro government "could be toppled very quickly
by the military if the military decides to do that." The U.S. effort to encourage the military to step in was again made evident
on Wednesday in a tweet by
John Bolton .
Recently, Guaidó made a similar offer to military officers, implying continuity and closeness between Washington and the shadow
government.
Also noteworthy is that Guaidó and other VP leaders are closer to Washington than the rest of the opposition. The Wall Street
Journal reported that Guaidó consulted Vice President Mike Pence the night before his self-proclamation as president on Jan.
23. According to ex-presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski the majority of the
opposition parties were not aware of Guaidó's intentions
and in fact did not support the idea.
Calling on Military
To make matters worse, the VP-led opposition is openly working hand-in-glove with Washington. Last week Guaidó announced that
he would attempt to transport
humanitarian aid the United States has deposited on the Colombian and Brazilian borders into Venezuela. He called on the Venezuelan
military to disobey orders from the Maduro government by facilitating the passage of goods, while Maduro ordered it blocked. While
playing political benefactor, Washington was clearly manipulating the optics of the situation to discredit Maduro and rally more
international support for Guaído. In an apparent rebuke to Washington and Guaidó, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Wednesday
insisted that the humanitarian aid be "
depoliticized. "
Opposition leaders and the Trump government are also working together to isolate Venezuela economically throughout the world.
Julio Borges, a leading member of the opposition, has campaigned to convince international financial institutions to shun Venezuelan
transactions and has
urged Great Britain to refuse to repatriate Venezuelan gold stored in London. President Maduro has responded by calling on the
attorney general to open judicial proceedings against Borges on grounds of treason. Along similar lines, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Steven Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross are currently attempting to convince international business interests to
deny the Venezuelan government access to national assets in their possession.
The Trump administration's blatant and undisguised interventionism may in fact backfire and help Maduro counter his sagging
poll numbers, which last October the polling firm Datanálisis reported was 23 percent. Maduro recently
lashed out on Twitter at the close nexus between Washington and the opposition, saying "Aren't you embarrassed at yourselves,
ashamed at the way every day by Twitter Mike Pence, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo tell you what you should do."
Cornerstone of Chavista Movement
Anti-imperialism is, of course, a major cornerstone of the Chavista movement, born from resentment of U.S. interventionism
and heavy-handedness that had for decades controlled many of Venezuela's resources and dictated its economic policies. The maneuvers
of the Trump administration and its allies only double down on this narrative, and are counterproductive at best when it comes to
solving the crisis. Their actions also risk fanning the flames of anti-Americanism throughout the continent. It wouldn't be
the first time: In 1958, then-Vice President Richard Nixon was attacked by a riotous crowd in Caracas, and a decade later Nelson
Rockefeller's fact-finding tour arranged by then-President Nixon faced off with angry disruptive protests. Both incidents were responses
to Washington's self-serving support for regimes that came to power through undemocratic means, in some cases with U.S. involvement.
In its strategy towards Venezuela, Washington is invoking not only its Cold War policy but the
Monroe
Doctrine and its view of Latin America as the U.S.' "backyard," -- a claim that is especially anathema throughout the region.
Indeed, Pence told
Fox News
, in answering a question about why Trump is withdrawing troops from Syria and Afghanistan while intervening in Venezuela: "President
Trump has always had a very different view of our hemisphere. He's long understood that the United States has a special responsibility
to support and nurture democracy and freedom in this hemisphere and that's a longstanding tradition."
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump appointed neocon Elliott Abrams as special envoy to Venezuela. As a longtime U.S. diplomat,
Abrams has in many ways personified the application of the Monroe Doctrine with his blatant disregard for human rights violations
and the principle of non-intervention in
Guatemala , Nicaragua, and El Salvador in the 1980s and his alleged involvement in the 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez.
Finally, Trump's decision regarding CITGO, a U.S.-based company owned by Venezuela's state oil company, speaks to a dangerous
precedent. Last week he declared that jurisdiction over CITGO would be turned over to the shadow government, and appealed to other
countries to follow similar steps. While condemning anti-democratic actions and fraudulent elections in Venezuela, these sanctions
ignore the rule of law. The Maduro government was never given the opportunity to defend itself and legal procedures were not followed.
It is always a dubious exercise to guess at Trump's intentions. His actions in Venezuela could be designed to divert attention
from the multiple probes into his own unethical behavior, or they may be a way to draw attention away from the utter fiasco of U.S.
interventions in the Middle East, from Libya to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Trump may also view his Venezuela policy as a quick
fix to Make America Great Again. Along similar lines, Trump evidently sees the downfall of the Maduro government as the ultimate
proof that socialism doesn't work. He indicated as much in his
State of the Union address when he used the topic of Venezuela as a springboard for declaring: "We are born free, and we will
stay free America will never be a socialist country."
Yet regardless of short-term results of U.S. support for Guaidó, the final outcome will be negative. There are a number of reasons
why: first, it bolsters the position of the most radical elements of the opposition led by the VP party, thus contributing to the
fragmentation of the anti-Chavista movement. Second, it attaches a "made in U.S.A." label to those positioned to govern should Maduro
fall.
The stigma would undoubtedly scuttle their chances of maintaining longstanding majority support and in doing so would undermine
their authority and ability to govern. Third, the appeal to the military to save Venezuela has terrifying implications for a continent
with a long history of military rule. And finally, the seizure of Venezuelan assets, which have then been turned over to a political
ally, violates sacred norms of property rights, and in the process erodes confidence in the system of private property. These four
considerations are an indication of the multiple adverse impacts that the Trump administration's rash approach to the Maduro government
will have on the United States, Venezuela, and the rest of the region.
Steve Ellner is a retired professor from Venezuela's University of the East, a long-time contributor to NACLA: Report on the Americas , and currently associate managing editor
of Latin American Perspectives . Among his over a dozen
books on Latin America is his edited "The Pink Tide Experiences: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings in Twenty-First Century Latin America"
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).
jaycee
,
February 12, 2019 at 1:34 pm
The intention behind the pressure directed at Venezuela is quite clear: the current government is
being told to resign and hand power over to a selected member of the opposition. To advance this
strategy, various degrees of, frankly, organized crime style threats of punishment or positive
inducement are daily publicized, iterated by US public officials.
The government-in-waiting is
supposedly preparing new elections, at least that's wha they say – but Guaido's representative in
Washington told reporters last week that such elections might happen by the end of the year, maybe
not, but a new government's priorities would be changing the structural underpinnings of the country's
economy.
So the new government will be installed and will swiftly dismantle all of the popular
programs instituted by the Chavistas over the past twenty years. That is, a political platform which
has lost elections consistently for these past twenty years will be engaged without popular mandate,
and before any new elections will be permitted. That's a coup, not a restoration of democracy.
"... Indeed, a year later, Trump built a pro-war team that includes the most bloodthirsty, hawkish neocons. And then, he ordered a second airstrike against Syria, together with his neocolonial friends. ..."
"... Trump conducted the longest experiment on neoliberals' ultimate goal: abolishing the annoying presence of the state. And this was just a taste of what Trump is willing to do in order to satisfy all neoliberals' wet dreams. ..."
"... And perhaps the best proof for that is a statement by one of the most warmongering figures of the neocon/neoliberal cabal, hired by Trump . As John Bolton cynically and openly admitted recently, " It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela. " ..."
"... Donald Trump is the personification of an authoritarian system that increasingly unveils its true nature. The US empire makes the Venezuelan economy 'scream hard', as it did in Chile in 1973. The country then turned into the first laboratory of neoliberalism with the help of the Chicago Boys and a brutal dictatorship. So, as the big fraud is clear now, neoliberalism is losing ground and ideological influence over countries and societies, after decades of complete dominance. ..."
Government shutdown, Venezuela: Donald Trump evolves into the best propagator of neoliberal fascism that tends to become a
normFebruary
07, 2019by system failure
Even before the 2016 US presidential election, this blog supported that Donald Trump is
apure sample of neoliberal barbarism . Many almost laughed at this perception because Trump was being already promoted,
more or less, as the 'terminator' of the neoliberal establishment. And many people, especially in the US, tired from the economic
disasters, the growing inequality and the endless wars, were anxious to believe that this was indeed his special mission.
Right after the elections, we supported that the
US establishment
gave a brilliant performance by putting its reserve, Donald Trump, in power, against the only candidate that the same
establishment identified as a real threat: Bernie Sanders.
In 2017 , Trump bombed Syria for the first time, resembling the lies that led us to the Iraq war disaster. Despite the fact that
the US Tomahawk missile attack had zero value in operational level (the United States allegedly warned Russia and Syria, while the
targeted airport was operating normally just hours after the attack), Trump sent a clear message to the US deep state that he is
prepared to meet all its demands - and especially the escalation of the confrontation with Russia.
Indeed, a year later, Trump built a pro-war team that includes the most bloodthirsty, hawkish neocons. And then, he ordered
a second airstrike against Syria, together with his neocolonial friends.
In the middle of all this 'orgy' of pro-establishment moves, Trump offered a controversial withdrawal of US forces from Syria
and Afghanistan to save whatever was possible from his 'anti-interventionist' profile. And it was indeed a highly controversial action
with very little value, considering all these US military bases that are still fully operational in the broader Middle East and beyond.
Not to mention the various ways through which the US intervenes in the area (training proxies, equip them with heavy weapons, supporting
the Saudis and contribute to war crimes in Yemen, etc.)
And then , after this very short break, Trump returned to 'business as usual' to satisfy the neoliberal establishment with a 'glorious'
record. He achieved a 35-day government shutdown, which is the
"longest shutdown in US history"
.
Trump conducted the longest experiment on neoliberals' ultimate goal: abolishing the annoying presence of the state. And this
was just a taste of what Trump is willing to do in order to satisfy all neoliberals' wet dreams.
And now, we have the Venezuela issue. Since Hugo Chavez nationalized PDVSA, the central oil and natural gas company, the US empire
launched a fierce economic war against the country. Yet, while all previous US administrations were trying to replace legitimate
governments with their puppets as much silently as possible through slow-motion coup operations, Trump has no problem to do it in
plain sight.
And perhaps the best proof for that is a statement by one of the most warmongering figures of the neocon/neoliberal cabal,
hired by Trump . As John Bolton cynically and openly
admitted recently, " It will make
a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities
in Venezuela. "
Therefore, one should be very naive of course to believe that the Western imperialist gang seriously cares about the Venezuelan
people and especially the poor. Here are three basic reasons behind the open US intervention in Venezuela:
The imperialists want to grab the rich oil fields for the US big oil cartel, as well as the
great
untapped natural resources , particularly gold (mostly for the Canadian companies).
Venezuela must not become an example for other countries in the region on social-programs policy, which is mainly funded
by the oil production. The imperialists know that they must interrupt the path of Venezuela to real Socialism by force if
necessary. Neoliberalism must prevail by all means for the benefit of the big banks and corporations.
Venezuela must not turn to cooperation with rival powers like China and Russia. Such a prospect may give the country
the ability to minimize the effects of the economic war. The country may find an alternative to escape the Western sanctions in
order to fund its social programs for the benefit of the people. And, of course, the West will never accept the exploitation of
the Venezuelan resources by the Sino-Russian bloc.
So, when Trump declared the unelected Juan Guaido as the 'legitimate president' of Venezuela, all the main neoliberal powers of
the West rushed to follow the decision.
This is something we have never seen before. The 'liberal democracies' of the West - only by name - immediately, uncritically
and without hesitation jumped on the same boat with Trump towards this outrageously undemocratic action. They recognized Washington's
puppet as the legitimate president of a third country. A man that was never elected by the Venezuelan people and has very low popularity
in the country. Even worse, the EU parliament
approved this action
, killing any last remnants of democracy in the Union.
Yet, it seems that the US is finding increasingly difficult to force many countries to align with its agenda. Even some European
countries took some distance from the attempted constitutional coup, with Italy even
trying to
veto EU's decision to recognize Guaido.
Donald Trump is the personification of an authoritarian system that increasingly unveils its true nature. The US empire makes
the Venezuelan economy 'scream hard', as it did in Chile in 1973. The country then turned into the first laboratory of neoliberalism
with the help of the Chicago Boys and a brutal dictatorship. So, as the big fraud is clear now, neoliberalism is losing ground and
ideological influence over countries and societies, after decades of complete dominance.
This unprecedented action by the Western neoliberal powers to recognize Guaido is a serious sign that neoliberalism returns
to its roots and slips towards fascism. It appears now that this is the only way to maintain some level of power.
Is anyone else tired of the longest, least productive waste of war in American history ? What
have we achieved, where are we going with this ? More war.
We are being fed a fairy tale of war about what men, long dead, did. And the reason they did
it. America is being strangled by the burden of belief that now is like then.
By the patrician men and women administrators, posturing as soldiers like the WW2 army, lie
for self profit. Why does anyone believe them ? Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, each an economic
decision, rather than a security issue.
Capitalists need their options regulated and their markets ripped from their control by the
state. Profits must be subject to use it to a social purpose or heavily taxed. Dividends
executive comp and interest payments included
Well done! Much clearer than your usual. There are several distinct motivations for taxes. We
have been far enough from fairness to workers, for so long, that we need to use the tax
system to redistribute the accumulated wealth of the plutocrats.
So I would say high marginal rates are a priority, which matches both objectives. Wealth
tax is needed until we reverse the massive inequality supported by the policies of the last
40 years.
Carbon tax and the like are a different thing, use of the tax code to promote a particular
policy and reduce damage to the commons.
"...we need to use the tax system to redistribute the accumulated wealth of the plutocrats.
So I would say high marginal rates are a priority..."
Forgive me, but high marginal rates (which I hugely favor) don't "redistribute the
accumulated wealth" of the plutocrats. If such high marginal rates are ever enacted, they'll
apply only to the current income of such plutocrats.
You merged paragraphs, and elided the next one. The way I see it, high rates are a
prerequisite to prevent the reaccumulation of obscene wealth, and its diversion into
financial gambling.
But yes that would be a very slow way to redistribute what has already accumulated.
Didn't mean to misinterpret what you were saying, sorry. High rates are not only "a
prerequisite to prevent the reaccumulation of obscene wealth," they are also a reimposition
of fair taxation on current income (if it ever happens, of course).
Wealth tax is needed until we reverse the massive inequality supported by the policies of the
last 40 years. Carbon tax and the like are a different thing, use of the tax code to promote
a particular policy and reduce damage to the commons.
"
more wisdom as usual!
Although wealth tax will be unlikely, it could be a stopgap; could also be a guideline to
other taxes as well. for example, Elizabeth points out that billionaires pay about 3% of
their net worth into their annual tax bill whereas workers pay about 7% of their net worth
into their annual tax bill. Do you see how that works?
it doesn't? this Warren argument gives us a guideline. it shows us where other taxes
should be adjusted to even out this percentage of net worth that people are taxed for. Ceu,
during the last meltdown 10 years or so ago, We were collecting more tax from the payroll
than we were from the income tax. this phenomenon was a heavy burden on those of low net
worth. All this needs be resorted. we've got to sort this out.
and the carbon tax? may never be; but it indicates to us what needs to be done to make
this country more efficient. for example some folks, are spending half a million dollars on
the Maybach automobile, about the same amount on a Ferrari or a Alfa Romeo Julia
quadrifoglio, but the roads are built for a mere 40 miles an hour, full of potholes.
What good is it to own a fast car like that when you can't drive but 40 -- 50 miles an
hour? and full of traffic jams. something is wrong with taxation incentives. we need to get a
better grid-work of roads that will get people there faster.
Meanwhile most of those sports cars just sitting in the garage. we need a comprehensive
integrated grid-work of one way streets, roads, highways, and interstates with no traffic
lights, no stop signs; merely freeflow ramp-off overpass interchanges.
Jesus Christ said, in so many words, that a man's worth will be judged by his generosity and
his avarice.
" 24And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, "Children,
how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25It is easier for a camel to pass through the
eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." 26They were even more
astonished and said to one another, "Who then can be saved?"
The freezing of Venezuelan gold by the Bank of England is a signal to all countries out of
step with US interests to withdraw their money, according to economist and co-founder of
Democracy at Work, Professor Richard Wolff. He told RT America that Britain and its central
bank have shown themselves to be "under the thumb of the United States."
"That is a signal to every country that has or may have difficulties with the US, [that
they had] better get their money out of England and out of London because it's not the safe
place as it once was," he said.
"... Many of us, actually most of us, were pleased with candidate Trump's declared intent to end our involvement in endless foreign interventions. He would put America first and refrain from sending our troops where they don't belong. Once elected, his record was mixed. ..."
"... PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: [W]e spent a fortune on building this incredible base. We might as well keep it. And one of the reasons I want to keep it is because I want to be looking a little bit at Iran because Iran is a real problem. ..."
"... There also appears to be an effort to keep the Rojava Kurds as a proxy force after our troops withdraw to Iraq. We continue sending combat and engineering equipment into Rojava and fully intend to continue providing air support to the YPG. We just can't let it go. ..."
"... I see a confrontation in our future, especially with all the Iraqi PMS units in western Iraq. ..."
Many of us, actually most of us, were pleased with candidate Trump's declared intent to end our involvement in endless foreign
interventions. He would put America first and refrain from sending our troops where they don't belong. Once elected, his record was
mixed.
We launched an ineffective volley of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in response to a trumped up gas attack, but we never
sought to establish a no fly zone and risk war with Russia. For a while we were well on our way to establish an enduring client state
in east Syria. We assumed this was all the doing of the cabal of manipulating neocons that Trump surrounded himself with. His call
for immediate withdrawal of troops from Syria surely proved this true. Finally Trump was allowed to be Trump. He was even seeking
a way out of Afghanistan, after a literal lifetime of war in that godforsaken land.
The neocons are fighting back bigly. The pace of withdrawal from Syria was slowed and there is no indication we would ever
give up our outpost on the Baghdad-Damascus highway at Tanf. Why? I think Trump laid out HIS thoughts on the matter during the traditional
pre-super bowl presidential interview.
-- -- -- --
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We have to protect Israel. We have to protect other things that we have...
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you want to keep troops there [Iraq] now?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: [W]e spent a fortune on building this incredible base. We might as well keep it. And one of the
reasons I want to keep it is because I want to be looking a little bit at Iran because Iran is a real problem.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Whoa, that's news. You're keeping troops in Iraq because you want to be able to strike in Iran?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, because I want to be able to watch Iran. All I want to do is be able to watch. We have an unbelievable
and expensive military base built in Iraq. It's perfectly situated for looking at all over different parts of the troubled Middle
East rather than pulling up. And this is what a lot of people don't understand. We're going to keep watching and we're going to
keep seeing and if there's trouble, if somebody is looking to do nuclear weapons or other things, we're going to know it before
they do.
-- -- -- --
So, We are staying in Iraq to keep an eye on Iran and we are doing this to protect Israel. It was not any of the neocons who said
this. It was Trump himself. So much for America first. There also appears to be an effort to keep the Rojava Kurds as a proxy force
after our troops withdraw to Iraq. We continue sending combat and engineering equipment into Rojava and fully intend to continue
providing air support to the YPG. We just can't let it go.
However, Baghdad has thrown a monkey wrench into this developing Trump doctrine. Iraqi President Barham Salih has told Trump to
slow his roll.
-- -- -- --
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Monday that President Donald Trump did not ask Iraq's permission for
U.S. troops stationed there to "watch Iran."
Speaking at a forum in Baghdad, Salih was responding to a question about Trump's comments to CBS about how he would ask troops
stationed in Iraq to "watch" Iran. U.S. troops in Iraq are there as part of an agreement between the two countries with a specific
mission of combating terrorism, Salih said, and that they should stick to that. (Reuters)
-- -- -- --
I see a confrontation in our future, especially with all the Iraqi PMS units in western Iraq.
"... In the report, Mr de Zayas recommended, among other actions, that the International Criminal Court investigate economic sanctions against Venezuela as possible crimes against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute. ..."
"... The US sanctions are illegal under international law because they were not endorsed by the UN Security Council, Mr de Zayas, an expert on international law and a former senior lawyer with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said. ..."
"... My guess would be if there's anything being done, it's probably somebody instigating a coup as opposed to a direct military intervention. ..."
"... Imperial madness is not so mad, after all: greedy mega-thieves made the US overextend itself, spending way more than it has on military adventures benefiting those mega-thieves. Now they want to keep the value of the US dollar, which is not backed by anything the US government has or is likely to have, because their loot is mostly denominated in the US dollars. They know deep down that when this house of cards folds, competing mega-thieves supporting Chinese and Russian governments would have the upper hand. ..."
"... Given Kuchner's influence, I'd be much surprised if Trump were trying to evade rather than accomodate Israel's wishes. Several decades past, Mossad agent Mike Harari's name kept popping up in Central America, in connection with Iran-Contra and Noriega, and now there are vague reports that Israeli "advisors" have been sent to Brazil. So Mazeltov to the Venezuelan op! ..."
"... I myself haven't given much thought to what stake Israel might have in Central America, but it might be time to take a closer look at the details ..."
The first UN rapporteur to visit Venezuela for 21 years has told The Independent the US
sanctions on the country are illegal and could amount to "crimes against humanity" under
international law.
Former special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas, who finished his term at the UN in March, has
criticized the US for engaging in "economic warfare" against Venezuela which he said is
hurting the economy and killing Venezuelans.
Mr De Zayas, a former secretary of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and an expert in
international law, spoke to The Independent following the presentation of his Venezuela
report to the HRC in September. He said that since its presentation the report has been
ignored by the UN and has not sparked the public debate he believes it deserves.
"Sanctions kill," he told The Independent, adding that they fall most heavily on the
poorest people in society, demonstrably cause death through food and medicine shortages,
lead to violations of human rights and are aimed at coercing economic change in a "sister
democracy".
In the report, Mr de Zayas recommended, among other actions, that the International
Criminal Court investigate economic sanctions against Venezuela as possible crimes against
humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute.
The US sanctions are illegal under international law because they were not endorsed by
the UN Security Council, Mr de Zayas, an expert on international law and a former senior
lawyer with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said.
"When I come and I say the emigration is partly attributable to the economic war waged
against Venezuela and is partly attributable to the sanctions, people don't like to hear
that. They just want the simple narrative that socialism failed and it failed the
Venezuelan people," Mr de Zayas told The Independent.
Alfred de Zayas is the author of "A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East
European Germans, 1944 -- 1950" und "The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945".
The Trump administration has launched a large political project to remake several states
in Latin America. The Wall Street Journal headlines:
"U.S. Push to Oust Venezuela's Maduro Marks First Shot in Plan to Reshape Latin
America
The Trump administration's broader aim is to gain leverage over Cuba and curb recent
inroads in the region by Russia, Iran and China"
The plan includes regime change in Venezuela, Nicaragua and eventually Cuba. The removal
of any Russian or Chinese interest is another point. It is a multiyear project that has
bipartisan support. It will likely require military force.
The project seems to echo the "New Middle East" plan then Secretary of State Condeleeza
Rice launched in 2006.
That the U.S. is going for such a wide ranging plan in the western hemisphere might
explain why Trump is pressing to end the other military projects in the Middle East and
Afghanistan.
5000 troops isn't 5000 fighters, that would seem like an extremely light package to me*, so
I'm inclined to believe that isn't what anybody's preparing for (and our side doctrinally
prefers and overwhelming advantage, preferably 3 to 1 odds). On our side, there's nobody
mobilizing heavy equipment (pictures of vehicles on rail heads or convoys would already be
circulating). SOF is already in country with agencies; you could RDF a light force into
country fairly quickly (out of the 82nd, 101st, 10th mt., etc), but it wouldn't be a long
term occupation force (which goes back to the first couple lines above).
As to how we'd do there, hard to say. If the military sheds their uniforms and dissolves
into the population, insurgency style, that's one thing (Middle Eastern counter-insurgency is
a nut the Pentagon deliberately declined to crack, as it would have required addressing
Islam). If the Venezuelan military decides to fight in uniform, nobody on our side has any
compunctions about killing them and it would go badly for the host nation forces.
My guess would be if there's anything being done, it's probably somebody instigating a
coup as opposed to a direct military intervention.
*caveat -- you could have 5000 trigger pullers deploy, but you're talking a maximum of 72
hours before they're out of food, bullets, etc. 5000 trigger pullers requires at least
another 10,000 people in a logistics and support tail and those people aren't as rapidly
deployable.
@yurivku You are making a pretty common mistake: confusing intelligence with education.
These are two different things, and neither correlates with other aspects of character,
including moral fiber. American school and college system is specifically designed to keep
people uneducated beyond their narrow professional area. Maybe 2% of colleges teach students
anything beyond their profession (they call it distribution requirements). That's what the
elites do, and it is more effective than censorship Soviet system used, after actually
educating people.
There were two Americans among my top three graduate students. Both were woefully
undereducated in everything outside of their major. But both were smart, hardworking, and
nice people to have in the lab. Both were receptive to info, too, except in their case myself
(and with one of them -- her husband) were the sources of info they've encountered for the
first time in their lives.
So, there is no contradiction between being naturally smart and grossly uneducated, or
between being anywhere on the intelligence scale and being nice or nasty. To give you an
example from Russia, colonel Kvachkov is likely not as smart and educated as Chubais, but he
is a good person, whereas Chubais is scum.
@NoseytheDuke There is a common thread/pattern: greedy fat cats. While each one of them
would readily slash the throat of another for money, they have better class solidarity than
deliberately confused "deplorables". Besides, they know that monopoly give the best
opportunity to rob "deplorables" blind, so they do not undermine each other's monopoly.
Another tool they use is the Empire. Unlike Ukrainian morons, they know that you need the
protection of a strong state, otherwise competing thieves would gladly steal your loot.
Collectively they control the government of the Empire, and through it, the governments of
all its vassals.
So, there are no coincidences: globalist mega-thief class is well organized, controls
through direct ownership all MSM that spew the lies they are told to disseminate, and control
through their venality the politicians, who via government agencies generate the lies for MSM
to spread and conduct imperial [policies that benefit those fat cats.
While some Russian and Chinese mega-thieves are compardores, others support their
countries in the stand-off with the Empire. However, they do it out of their personal
pecuniary interests, not because of the goodness of their hearts.
@Harold Smith You are making the mistake of Lenin (Marx made the same one in his later
years), considering ideology as something separate. Ideology, like religion, is a tool fat
cats use to fool the "deplorables" and manipulate them. Their only sincere feeling is greed,
and their true ideology boils down to "I have the right to steal this, not the other guy".
Imperial madness is not so mad, after all: greedy mega-thieves made the US overextend
itself, spending way more than it has on military adventures benefiting those mega-thieves.
Now they want to keep the value of the US dollar, which is not backed by anything the US
government has or is likely to have, because their loot is mostly denominated in the US
dollars. They know deep down that when this house of cards folds, competing mega-thieves
supporting Chinese and Russian governments would have the upper hand.
Now then. Squirted out of Syria and Afghanistan like shit through a goose, CIA tries to look
tough someplace else, someplace where they might not get their ass kicked this time --
Venezuela! That'll do the trick!
So how's that workin' out for ya?
Despite sitting in Daddy's chair at the OAS, talking big, Pompeo couldn't pass his
bullshit resolution to knock over Venezuela. Even at the OAS. Luis Almagro, Pompeo's
ventriloquist dummy at the OAS pep rallies, got himself kicked out of his party at home for
blowing Pompeo too much.
CIA stuffed DO with dumbshit jarheads, because nobody else was stupid enough to do
universal-jurisdiction crimes for Lloyd Blankfein, and now the whole agency is mongoloid,
totally inept. A laughingstock.
was not cooked up or launched by Sec/NSA Rice. She's intelligent and smart, fortuitous and
intense, -- loyal --
But the project regarding US primacy is advancing capitalism and democracy by force of
necessary was developed and launched prior to the Bush Admin. The public got its first real
taste after 9/11.
@wayfarer Odd, that: if Venezuelans are truly starving, do the opposition protesters look
so well-fed because the US is providing secret aid?
Styx' video has a very myopic view of the situation. He totally neglects the economic
sabotage being practiced by internal and international financial parties. Opposition parties
have been boycotting elections so they can declare them illegitimate, and generally sticking
spokes in the wheels of the state by inaction within the government, violent protests in the
streets, and a general refusal to engage in constructive dialog with Maduro. The US is
applying sanctions of all sorts, both to Venezuela and international trading partners, an is
diverting Cisco revenue to Guaido; the Bank of England tells Maduro he can't have his gold.
The endgame of the neoliberal elites behind the opposition, likely including Guaido's prof at
Georgetown, are working for social austerity and privatization of national resources. (As
Bolton and Pompeo have proudly asserted.)
The problems of the Chavista gornment are due to a hopelessly-tangled combination of elite
international economic (and possibly covert military) warfare, Maduro's mismanagement, and
maybe even the structure of socialism itself as libertarian free-marketers will assert.
However, socialist governments encounter so much economic hostility from international
capitalism that it's surprising that any exist at all.
Try this video, for a more nuanced, and much better informed, view of the situation.
In contrast to guessing the size of demonstrations from youtube videos as Styx does, Piva
reports on street conditions from direct experience. By comparison, I'm afraid Styx's report
comes across as an uninformed rant. But it's not surprising since that's how our MSM is
portraying the situation.
Missing from all this are any reports of possible activities of China and Russia.
@Harold Smith I think your folly is that you are trying to rationalize greed. Greed is
irrational, we inherited it from our irrational aggressively territorial cousins, monkeys.
Remember Soros: he looks like he died a couple of weeks ago (I wish he did), but still grabs
for more loot and resents those who get in his way, including Trump. When greed is powerless,
it is simply ridiculous. When greed has power, it becomes evil.
That's the downside of so-called market economy: the driving force is greed (apologists
like to call it profit, bit semantics don't change the matter). Unregulated greed, like
unregulated power of wind (hurricanes) and water (floods), is destructive, whereas properly
regulated it can produce some good.
You also ignore the fact that all those MIC profiteers don't really want WWIII. They want
to keep stealing huge amounts of taxpayers' money on military contracts. For that they scare
the common folk with dangers that do not exist and regale them with "patriotic" BS they don't
believe in. Deep down they know that to enjoy their loot they must stay alive: unlike
pathetic politicians, the gods do not take bribes.
As to those people throwing rocks from the overpass of I-75, I think "Beavis and
Butt-Head" answers your question. Hopeless stupidity of people totally lacking imagination,
when it becomes active, is evil. But the people themselves are just unimaginative morons.
So, my point is there is no such thing as evil per se, there is greed and stupidity (often
the combination of the two) that leads to evil actions.
@Authenticjazzman Here you go: "hundred million victims" is a lie, which you apparently
bought. Just count the humans murdered in different ways for the glory of capitalism,
starting with millions of Indians starved to death by the Brits, countless American Indians
murdered by the settlers, or Africans murdered by the colonial powers, proceeding to Japanese
fried alive in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and in fires in several other cities bombed by
conventional munitions, to more than a million Indonesians murdered as "communists" by
US-backed Suharto regime, or millions of Koreans murdered by the US army, and 2.5 million
Vietnamese you like to boast about, etc. The sum total would stun you, and it would be much
greater than imaginary 100 million killed by the communists (the true number is likely ~10
million, most of them killed by Mao regime in China).
Now, tell your stories about dead eyes to someone who does not know the truth. They might
believe it. I lived in the USSR for 33 years, and the eyes of the people there were certainly
no deader than the eyes of Americans I see for the last 28 years.
But you are welcome to cling to your beliefs: most people believe all sorts of untrue
ridiculous things, and just live with it, many of them happily.
Trump now can say to Netanyahu: We cannot attack Iran because we are too busy in
Venezuela.
Given Kuchner's influence, I'd be much surprised if Trump were trying to evade rather
than accomodate Israel's wishes. Several decades past, Mossad agent Mike Harari's name kept
popping up in Central America, in connection with Iran-Contra and Noriega, and now there are
vague reports that Israeli "advisors" have been sent to Brazil. So Mazeltov to the Venezuelan
op!
I myself haven't given much thought to what stake Israel might have in Central
America, but it might be time to take a closer look at the details .
Small military groups of resistance could move around indefinitely killing American
interests.
Perhaps making common cause with the FARC in Columbia? Wouldn't that be a welcome
development!
Small counties in LA are essentially defenseless against 300 pound gorilla -- the USA. And neoliberalism still can take
revenge, as it recently did in Argentina and Brazil.
Notable quotes:
"... Agence France-Press ..."
"... As monarchs were forced to realize, they served a function to society, in order to be served by it. It was a two way street. Now finance is having a, "Let them eat cake." moment, as they become more predator than organ of society. It is the heart telling the hands and feet they don't need so much blood and should work harder for what they do get. As well as telling the head it better go along, or else. ..."
"... As this regime change process unfolds, it is difficult not to feel deep sadness for Venezuelans. Chavez failed to lift the poor into a permanent middle class, Maduro failed to protect the accomplishments that had been achieved, and now, the state seems unprepared to cope with what was inevitable. ..."
"... It's a tragic moment in Latin American history. Though Maduro has some backing from the four most Resistant of all Resistors, Russian, China, Cuba and Iran, the nation's geography is too distant for them to flex their full restraint. The lesson of Nicaragua in the 80's should have been learned. ..."
"... "The wealthy few have declared war on the many poor. They should not be allowed to lose their bet and maintain their stakes. The world doesn't work that way. " Unfortunately Bevin I think that is exactly how the world works. The real never ending war is between the haves and have nots. ..."
"... I'm a bit more pessimistic. Washington seems united on getting rid of Maduro and installing a friendly regime. While Maduro can hang in there for awhile, the economic sanctions and covert operations (including sabotage, killings, bribery etc.) will cause severe problems for the government. Maduro is not Assad and lacks friendly neighbors--in fact, Latin America has pretty much returned to direct Washington rule. ..."
"... Like with the attacks on Syria, Trump becomes presidential when he attacks the likes of Iran and Venezuela. ..."
"... I wonder how many of the pro-USA protesters, willing to take the US coin to protest on the street, are also willing to take the US coin to die on the street. ..."
"... A U.S. military incursion could have significant unintended consequences, "including a deterioration of our relationship with currently supportive countries in the region." -- Gustavo Arnavat, a former Obama administration official and a senior advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. ..."
"... I don't justify intervention anywhere (except in D.C. where the Tyranny and Hegemon resides). I point to missed opportunities, failures, corruption and not taking advice from your closest friends (China, Russia, Cuba). If they had brought in the Chinese petroleum experts and Russian economic experts, much of the disaster would have been avoided. When you have a huge enemy and you are weak and relatively small, you need help. Maduro waited until too late. ..."
"... Self-evidently all the governments which have followed the US are not only agreeing but are acting in compliance with a pre-set US timetable. They all waited for the US to give the signal, then like synchronized swimmers performed according to choreography pre-determined by the US. ..."
"... Maduro to his navy --- "Today the future of Venezuela is decided: if it becomes one more star of the United States flag or if it will continue to fly its eight tricolor stars," said the president. ..."
"... As usual, the AZ regime change machine is mightily backed up by billions of puff dollars (printed out of thin air), but among the puppets, the tie-eating Saakashvili is Optimus Prime compared with the Murky Guy's leadership. ..."
"... Ha, how 40 tons of the "barbaric relic" which disappeared from Ukraine after a similar "revolution" got to be mentioned also in relation to Venezuela. ..."
"... Well, the headline of this post is kinda problematic now ("U.S. Coup Attempt In Venezuela Lacks International Support"). I think it was problematic from the start, b, because 1) several countries had already joined with USA; 2) Europe's falling in line was never really in doubt. Note: The EU poodles have toed the line on Russia, Iran*, and now Venezuela. ..."
"... Instead, Guaido called for further "pressure", which is at this point limited to a further tightening of the economic isolation of the country. Canada seems to have anticipated this position by announcing a $53 million aid package which will be focussed on assisting current and future "refugees" headed to Columbia and Brazil. ..."
"... Hugo Chavez has repatriated most of Venezeulan gold whilst still alive. This is how the CIA and the Venezuelan Central Bank could invent the story that a part of this gold is being sent to Russia by Maduro. The 41 ton of Venezuelan gold still remain in Bank of England was a necessary collateral for buying naphtha (for pre-processing oil for export) and subsidised food for the Venezurlan population. ..."
U.S. Coup Attempt In Venezuela Lacks International SupportZanon , Feb 3, 2019
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There is little doubt where 'western' media stand with regards to the U.S. led
coup-attempt (vid) in Venezuela. But their view does not reflect the overwhelming
international recognition the Venezuelan government under President Nicolás Maduro
continues to have.
The Rothschild family's house organ, the Economist , changed the background of
its Twitter account to a picture of the Random Dude™, Juan Guaidó, who the U.S.
regime changers
created to run the country.
The supposedly neutral news agencies are no better than the arch-neoliberal
Economist . The Reuters ' Latin America office also changed its header
picture to Random Dude. It reverted that after being called out.
Agence France-Press stated at 11:10 utc yesterday that "tens of thousands" would
join a rally.
Cont. reading: U.S. Coup Attempt In Venezuela Lacks International Support "Lacks
international support" unfortunately doesnt matter much. Regardless, even if a majority of
nations backed the coup doesnt mean its right. Also remember Ukraine coup, majority didnt
support that - but it didnt matter.
Empire is testing the waters of support by its DazzleSpeak about the spinning plate of
Venezuela. I hope it is learning that much of the world no longer wants to live in a world
motivated by fear.
Threat of US global default on Reserve Currency is coming soon because empire is out of
ammunition to maintain and extend supremacy. It will be interesting to see what the fall back
status will be and how maintained....the last thralls of Might-Makes-Right.....one would
hope.
The Bank of England should be holding closer to 30 tonnes of Venezuela's gold, not the 14
tonnes they're holding from Marudo under U.S. orders. The Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) just
closed a huge gold swap with someone and now should have a total of maybe 2500 gold bars in
the BoE dungeons with their original serial numbers and weights. Custodians of gold like this
can't melt it down and make new bars - that's why state depositors stamp all of them with
serial numbers and precise weights. They want to be sure THEIR gold is there and THEIR gold
is returned.
The news isn't the U.S. demand that it won't be returned. The real news is that neither
the BCV nor the BoE will show anyone the original or current gold bar inventory list.
Usually, nobody cares. But with the U.S. and BoE chosing a new, rightful owner (Random Guy),
they should at the very least provide the inventory list.
It shouldn't be a secret - there is absolutely no security risk. The gold belongs to the
(starving) people of Venezuela. Or at least it did. What are the BoE and Rothschild BCV
hiding? Did they melt it down or sell it to someone else?
I think the deeper conceptual issues need to be considered, that would place the political
and social situations going on around the world, from France, to Venezuela, in perspective.
That money is the social contract enabling mass societies to function, not a commodity to
be mined from society and stored as government debt, to finance militaries, as well as making
the entire economy subservient to the gambling addictions of Wall St.
Humanity went through s similar evolutionary process, when monarchies, as private,
hereditary governments, reached the limits of their effectiveness. As the executive and
regulatory function, government is the central nervous system of society, while finance is
its circulation mechanism, basically the head and heart.
As monarchs were forced to realize, they served a function to society, in order to be
served by it. It was a two way street. Now finance is having a, "Let them eat cake." moment,
as they become more predator than organ of society. It is the heart telling the hands and
feet they don't need so much blood and should work harder for what they do get. As well as
telling the head it better go along, or else.
As it is now, all this government debt is setting the world up for predatory
lending/disaster capitalism, when the governments cannot run up more debt and those holding
the old debt start trading it for more public properties, from mineral rights to roads.
After watching the whole central meeting in Bolívar Avenue, Caracas,live
broadcasted by RTSpanish, which extended for several hours, in which were projected images of
other regions´meetings as well, and after watching live too, broadcasted by the same
channel, the pro-Random Dude meeting only in that rich neighborhood, which extended for about
half an hour and dispersed itslef very fast, I would calculate the numbers at both meetings
just in reverse as you have done.
I would say 200-300 thousands for Maduro´s supporters ( and i would say I get it
short..) and 20-30 thousands ( in the best case )for the Random Dude....
I notice that that photo you are basing your estimations on corresponds only to the front
of the square where the tribune for speechers of the pro-Maduro rallie was placed, but other
people has showed the whole Bolívar Avenue ( the longest and largest in Caracas ) full
of pro-Maduro people as long as the sight can catch ....See for example, Abby Martin´s
capture:
Blooming Barricade , Feb 3, 2019 1:31:10 PM |
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The European Parliament voted on the Venezuela issue a few days ago, and naturally, the
centre-right wing European People's Party (Merkel, Tusk), the Liberals (Macron), and most of
the so-called Socialists voted to recognise the US coup minion as president. The European
United Left and most of the Greens along with the far-right wing voted against this, which
just shows you that the so-called liberal democrats are bought and paid for employees of
US/NATO multinational imperialism.
With the "Electoral College" method determining winners not in current favor, perhaps the US
MSM may wish to state that by world population, Maduro beats Guaidó by a factor of at
least 4 to 1 in public opinion.
thanks b... it is interesting @5 sashas comments if they can be verified..
@3paveway - it is much as @4 john merryman says, with the additional note that the boe are
essentially stealing venezualas gold in a might makes right type of undemocratic and
undignified way.. i always thought the federal reserve was an extension of the boe... both of
them are privately run, with some minor face saving image that they belong to the respective
gov'ts.. they don't... they are controlled and run by the 1% that are quite okay starving off
venezuala, or going to the next step - military intervention.. they are one sick group of
predators only focused on the god of mammon.. we have to figure out a way to get rid of them
before they completely destroy the planet..
Other than Russia../China/Iran....practically the entire world is under uncle sham's
thumb now.
The outlook is very depressing indeed.
Don't worry, China has an enormous amount of leverage:
"
Boeing predicts China will need more than 7,200 new aircraft worth over $1 trillion in
the 20 years through 2036."
Trump slaps some tariffs, here and there, on a few billion dollars of China's products.
But this is trivial compared to what China can do to Boeing, if Trump really annoys Xi. And
Boeing is just of many US companies that the Chinese can retaliate against.
Juan Guaido enjoys legislative immunity to arrest but Venezuela's Supreme Court barred him
from leaving the country, and the court also approved a request that all of Guaido's
financial assets be frozen.
As we have seen he's rather harmless, without any real power in the country, and so the
longer he's free and obviously ineffective the better. Plus it enables Maduro to appear
reasonable and unafraid of the young man.
The 800 lb elephant in the room here is the reality of class struggle in Caracas. Those
backing the imperialists seem to constitute the majority of Venezuela's small elite of rich
people. Despite their complaints, continual sabotage of the economy and outright treason in
their collaboration with its enemies they have been allowed to hold onto their ill gotten,
and inherited, wealth.
How long is that likely to last?
On the other side of the divide are millions of poor people, their livelihoods and their
democracy at risk. Many of them are having difficulty finding food to feed their families-
the deliberate result of sanctions supported by the wealthy, and the light skinned. Many are
finding it impossible to find the medicines their sick people desperately need.
If Venezuela is to maintain its independence it will do so because the poor refuse to give
it up. Their rewards and the means of rebuilding the economy lie in the wealth of the
rich.
The wealthy few have declared war on the many poor. They should not be allowed to lose
their bet and maintain their stakes. The world doesn't work that way.
As this regime change process unfolds, it is difficult not to feel deep sadness for
Venezuelans.
Chavez failed to lift the poor into a permanent middle class, Maduro failed to protect the
accomplishments that had been achieved, and now, the state seems unprepared to cope with what
was inevitable.
To assume that the Hegemon would keep its hands off the nation, return the gold, leave the
assets in the US untouched, not use the neighboring countries to mount an insurgency, seems
naive at best. The lessons learned from Cuba's 60 year fight for dignity taught the regime nothing.
Watching the tear down of Brazil's socialist leadership (two of them) taught the regime
nothing. Stupidity atop corruption atop a blind belief in an ideology that destroyed the wealth of
the nation (or at least crippled it) has led to the moment of truth. Will enough poor people
and some middle class defend the sovereignty of the nation? And will the military leadership and rank and file remain patriots?
It's a tragic moment in Latin American history. Though Maduro has some backing from the four most Resistant of all Resistors, Russian,
China, Cuba and Iran, the nation's geography is too distant for them to flex their full
restraint. The lesson of Nicaragua in the 80's should have been learned.
Now he faces invasion of convoys of aid on three borders. He must control his borders. The
odds are very long he can.
I am not sure if anyone has posted about this, my apologies if it is redundant. I was
wondering where our Random Dude was now located and what he was up to:
"For the role of President they chose a "poster boy" who doesn't represent anything and
who shouted out something at a meeting with 30,000-40,000 protesters, and after this he
immediately ran to the Embassy of Colombia, where he still sits to this day.
This boy refuses
any contact with the authorities. But since you are being informed by "different media
agencies" and certain authors on "Aftershock" – he communicated with army Generals on
twitter however the Generals are unaware of this but he communicated "in secret". Or he
appointed a certain official from among the immigrants in the US also on twitter "
Your analysis of the economic problems is too harsh directed at Chavez/Marduro and their
"ideology". Nafeez Ahmed's piece in Medium, which has been shared on this forum, does a much
better job describing the perfect storm of coinciding events which have combined to sink
Venezuela's economy. Short of two or three of these events, and the situation could be bad
but not as terrible as it is.
The programs instituted by the government over the past twenty
years remain extremely popular, as was acknowledged yesterday when Guaido made a vague
promise of government "subsidies" to those in need.
The aid caravans will be entirely symbolic, and offer little to nothing to a population of
over 30 million people. The sponsors of the aid caravans are also the same people who have
placed harsh economic sanctions on the country, a fact which will not be lost.
"The wealthy few have declared war on the many poor. They should not be allowed to lose their
bet and maintain their stakes. The world doesn't work that way. " Unfortunately Bevin I think that is exactly how the world works. The real never ending war
is between the haves and have nots.
Why don't the coup mongers name Hillary president of Venezuela. The biggest sore loser of all
time is currently "resting", as they say of out-of-work actors, and desperately wants to be
president of SOMETHING. Not being a native Venezuelan should be no drawback in her case. She
would simply trade her old Cubs/Yankees hat for a big V and probably discover some Venezuelan
great-great-grandmother hanging on her family tree. The coup mongers' current choice, the
sock puppet "Guido" Guadio, is about as legit as a Confederate nickel. And coups are by
definition NOT legit. So haul out those unused "I'm With Her" signs and ship them down there.
In the meantime, she can head for the Venezuelan Embassy and hole up there (a la Julian
Assange?) while awaiting the moment to parachute into Caracas. Mission Accomplished!
Let's remember that the US position is that Guaido is only the interim president of a
transitional government, which suggests that (1) the US has its real choice under cover in
Miami somewhere, possibly a Rubio house guest, or (more likely) (2) the US really doesn't
have a clue about what to do next. Hey, humanitarian aid, that's a good regime change
strategy (??).
Meanwhile they can demonstrate all they want, it never accomplishes anything (MLK
attendance the exception).
I'm a bit more pessimistic. Washington seems united on getting rid of Maduro and installing a
friendly regime. While Maduro can hang in there for awhile, the economic sanctions and covert
operations (including sabotage, killings, bribery etc.) will cause severe problems for the
government. Maduro is not Assad and lacks friendly neighbors--in fact, Latin America has
pretty much returned to direct Washington rule.
I suspect the Trump admin does have a plan for Venezuela and will push it through no
matter what anybody thinks. Trump's opinion of the bobbling heads or trained seal lot that
call themselves heads of state is about the same as he showed the Iraqi's when visiting the
US base in Iraq.
Trumps plans will only be stopped by the likes of Russia, China, Iran ect. No matter how
outlandish the claims of the lies of Bolton or himself are, MSM seems to take it up with all
seriousness.
Like with the attacks on Syria, Trump becomes presidential when he attacks the likes of Iran
and Venezuela.
USAMO . Same Old. First, engineer sanctions through compliant UN, then squeeeeze the
population until they understand the changing electoral requirements and their howl reaches
pitch
-in the meantime picking a favourite pony to front the 'peoples will' regime change op;
training him/her up in latest provocateur methodology and introducing them to their master
racketeers back in DC
then,
with malevolent mercenary gangs helping stirring street protest
offer emergency security assistance and food AID thru sanctified UN allowing your chosen
one to ride the front of the food wagon, saving the day.
Democracy, Yankee Doodle Dandy style.
Scotch Bingeington , Feb 3, 2019 7:16:18 PM |
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jayc | 33
"The aid caravans will be entirely symbolic, and offer little to nothing to a population
of over 30 million people." Yes, and also those of the 30 million who support the Anti-Maduro movement are probably
not in need of basic foodstuffs, but will want their iPhone and their Netflix account.
I think this is the guy they would like to install--Leopoldo Lopez
Yes, good chance of that, if they could work it somehow (unlikely) and it would tie into
Guaido's reference to Feb 12.
wiki--During the crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela, Leopoldo Lopez called for protests in
February 2014. López, a leading figure in the opposition to the government, began to
lead protests. . .He was arrested on 18 February 2014 and charged with arson and conspiracy;
murder and terrorism charges were dropped. Human rights groups expressed concern that the
charges were politically motivated. . .Leopoldo López, a leading figure in the
opposition to the government, began to lead protests.. .
In September 2015, he was found
guilty of public incitement to violence through supposed subliminal messages, being involved
with criminal association, and was sentenced to 13 years and 9 months in prison. He was later
transferred to house arrest on 8 July 2017 after being imprisoned for over three years.
re: Trump's state of the union speech Tuesday night.
on VZ-- from WaPo Trump will
"... actively intervene in the political upheaval in Venezuela, aides said in previewing the
speech Friday."
here
I wonder how many of the pro-USA protesters, willing to take the US coin to protest on the
street, are also willing to take the US coin to die on the street.
I suspect these protests
are paper thin at best, the poor are unlikely to support the rich without financial
inducement, but the one thing the coup organisers have is plenty of money. If these are
indeed poor people protesting (who knows) then it would be interesting to know what quantity
of cash was offered to the participants. Maybe 30 USD for half a day of protesting? Decent
money for the protesters, easily affordable to the USA.
A countries domestic issues need to be kept separate from US attacks on a country. US is
not attacking Venezuela for humanitarian reasons. This is aside from the fact as Jen pointed
out, that Venezuela's economy has been under attack from the US for some time.
The expectations that a country that is under US attack should have a leader that is far
above average in terms of ability to withstand the economic attack of a superpower with
perfect, far seeing decisions is unreasonable. People lie that are rare and only occurred
occasionally in history.
What does matter is that the Maduro government is doing the best it can for its people,
rather than working in the interests of a foreign power to the detriment of its people.
As for a better leader - one that will resist the US and provide a better economy for
Venezuela while under US sustained attack....
Bart Hansen@20 - Oil production costs are complex, secret and mostly lies. With that caveat,
Venezuela was thought to have about $10 - $15 production costs on average. That includes
their light and medium crude, and zero investment in repair of their distribution networks.
Well over half of Venezuela's reserves are Orinco extra-heavy, sour crude. Essentially tar
sands, but buried 500m - 1500m deep that require solvent or steam extraction. So (guess)
maybe $30-range/bbl for production. Those tar sand oils produced are so heavy that they need
pre-processing and dilution before they can be refined or exported. Naphtha or other refined
products are used as dilutent and cost maybe $55/bbl today, but were around $75/bbl last
October.
U.S. refineries were pretty much the only ones paying cash for their 500,000 b/d of
Venezuelan crude. Trump's sanctions not only ban those imports, but also ban the 120,000 b/d
of naphtha and other dilutents we sold them.
Interesting to note that part of Trump's beat-down of the Venezuela little people is a ban
on the 120,000 b/d of dilutent last week. That will completely shut down their exports. They
could find another source of naphtha, but that source will be looking for $6.6 million a day
hard cash for it.
Maduro needs to sell Venezuela's gold to buy naphtha to export oil for ANY revenue. The
$2.5 billion the Bank of England can't find and won't deliver is meant to hasten the food
riots and CIA-orchestrated coup. But Mercy Corps is setting up concentration camps on the
Colombian border and we're delivering food aid, so the U.S. is really the hero, here. God
bless America! Obey, or die.
expectations that a country that is under US attack should have a leader that is far above
average
I appreciate your discussion of leaders, but let's not forget the people. It has been the
goal of the US to demonize leaders and go after them. Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Bashar
Assad, Osama Binh Laden etc. etc.
But it's the people not the leaders that have formed the most resistance. It took the US Army
little time to track down big bad Saddam Hussein, but Baghdad wasn't pacified (controlled)
for four years, and people elsewhere in Iraq fought the "liberators" like the very devil.
Apply that to Venezuela. Heck, you and me, we'd all respond the same way given a foreign
invasion, right?
There are some warnings about avoiding dialogue and pushing a Venezuelan military option. The
opposition's courting of military officers carries potential dangers. If it leads to a schism
in the armed forces, that could be disastrous for the country, said Michael Shifter,
president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington policy anti-VZ forum.
A U.S. military incursion could have significant unintended consequences, "including a
deterioration of our relationship with currently supportive countries in the region." --
Gustavo Arnavat, a former Obama administration official and a senior advisor to the Center
for Strategic and International Studies.
Juan Guaido hopes that the United States will not use force in Venezuela, instead limiting
pressure on Maduro's government to diplomatic and economic measures, the Colombian newspaper
Tiempo reported Monday. . . here
If corruption or mismanaging a country's economy were justification for foreign
intervention to remove a leader, Israelis should be lobbying Washington DC to remove Binyamin
Netanyahu as their prime minister since he and his wife Sara have been charged by police for
fraud and bribery.
Indeed, depending on how it defines corruption, whether vaguely or narrowly, and on what
criteria, the US would have its work cut out for decades hunting down "corrupt"
politicians.
If I'm not mistaken the front page of the Washington Post, today showed a picture of a large pro-government protest, and
claimed that it was an opposition protest.
This will be something to watch and may be part of the answer to why now, why did the US go
after Venezula at this point. I think it is because Venezuela was historically captive to US
refineries, but no longer. India is capable of refining Venezuela oil and has a significant demand for it. If India
decides to do ignore the sanctions, I wonder if the US will impound tankers going to
India?
And tankers to China as China is building a refinery just for Venezula oil, it isn't
scheduled to come online until 2020, but perhaps China will push to make it happen asap?
to Paveway lV and Bart Hansen. It doesn't really matter the breakeven point for Venezuelan
oil if they can't access the money. I just read (15 minutes ago) on Seeking Alpha, that Trump
et al is blocking payments for Venezuelan oil. He is trying to force the payments into a
blocked account such that Maduro's gov cannot access it but Guido can. There are still
refineries in the US which need Venezuelan heavy crude to blend w/ the frack=crap. Volero is
stated to have two tankers which it cannot unload due to the payments issue. This is an
unusual way to provide "humanitarian aid."
Sorry I cannot give a link - the Seeking Alpha site seems to be done.
Re the Indian refineries, I believe they are currently buying Iranian oil so they may
resist sanctions against Venezuela. However, according to Paeway lV, without naphtha
Venezuela cannot pump oil. Maybe a swap with someone?
The aid caravans will be entirely symbolic, and offer little to nothing to a population
of over 30 million people.
I agree, Guaido's aid caravans will probably be something like 5% humanitarian and 95% for
smuggling arms into Venezuela.
However, China has the largest container ships in the world. Just one visit from a vessel
like the COSCO Shipping Universe could deliver more than 20,000 truckloads of stuff, which
would probably dwarf anything Guano is envisaging (even if his "humanitarian" caravans were
totally legitimate).
Would the Empire let it happen? I have little doubt that Bolton's sick enough to want to
stop a true humanitarian effort, but as I'm not as sick as Bolton is (at least I hope so), I
have a hard time imagining what excuse he could use to stop it -- especially after Guano's
caravans.
I don't justify intervention anywhere (except in D.C. where the Tyranny and Hegemon
resides). I point to missed opportunities, failures, corruption and not taking advice from your
closest friends (China, Russia, Cuba).
If they had brought in the Chinese petroleum experts and Russian economic experts, much of
the disaster would have been avoided. When you have a huge enemy and you are weak and relatively small, you need help. Maduro waited until too late.
There were many object lessons for better practices and better preparation for the
inevitable. Now, we can hope and pray that the Venezuelan people demonstrate their own will to resist
against intervention and regime change. Because if it comes, their wealth will be stolen
completely.
A sane government which really wanted the best for the people would've launched a crash
program to break free of the oil dependency which not only guarantees one remains at best a
US-colonized power, but which requires the physical destruction of one's own land and the
basis of one's future life.
I'm not just saying this about Venezuela, although destroying the Orinoco rain forest
necessary for our very lives in order to extract heavy oil is perhaps the most extreme
example on Earth of the self-destroying paradigm.
But any country afflicted with the oil curse ought to treat the deposits like very hot
radioactive waste and enforce at all costs a Chernobyl-type non-go zone. This also would
conserve critical ecological zones like the Amazon. If enough places did that simultaneously
it would prevent the US from "opening them up" by force and accelerate the collapse of the
empire and its globalization system. But any place which doesn't do this automatically
becomes a de facto colony and a target for aggression intended to turn them into a de jure
colony, as we see in this case.
From the evidence it seems that in the end a thing like Bolivarianism isn't offering any
real alternative to the US paradigm. Both equally want to burn every last fossil BTU's worth,
pump every last CO2 molecule, hack down and burn every last acre of forest. Both are on the
same mass murder-suicide ride.
Do the Venezulean people really want a better life than this? The American people sure
seem to want the worst.
It's my understanding that when Chavez was President, he did bring Chinese and Vietnamese
agriculture experts to Venezuela to study the country's potential for growing food staples.
The Vietnamese experts identified areas which originally had been considered by their former
wealthy owners as unproductive but which turned out to be ideal for growing rice.
Although Venezuela imports huge quantities of wheat from Russia, it's doubtful that
Russians can give much agricultural advice as Venezuela lies in the tropics and Russia does
not.
On the other hand, the way the Venezuelan government appears to be dealing with Juan Guaido, allowing him to shout in the wilderness and making himself look a fool, seems similar
to the way Russia treats Alexei Navalny, letting him make an idiot of himself, and might
suggest that Venezuela is taking advice from or copying Russia in this respect. Russia also
sold two S300 anti-missile defence systems to Venezuela though I do not know how often the
Venezuelans maintain them.
Thanks for the correction. I tend to skim history. I think the point still stands, that
politicians can't be left in control of the money supply. The impulse to abuse it is strong
The Maduro demo seems to have taken place on the Avenue Bolivar which is about 20 meters wide
and about 1.25 km long. The demo crowd appears to be packed so there could be 50 to 80
thousand people there. I haven't been able to locate the Guiado demo but it is possibly in
the upscale Las Mercedas district not far from the US Embassy. The photos of the Guiado are
generally close in and from a low angle which tends to exagerate the numbers. Even so, it
does not appear to be as densely packed / extensive as the Maduro event.
More disgraceful news:
Major EU nations recognize Guaido as Venezuela's acting president
Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands and Germany's
coordinated move came after the expiry of an eight-day deadline set last weekend for Maduro
to call a new election. Austria and Lithuania also lined up behind the self-declared
interim president Guaido.
Self-evidently all the governments which have followed the US are not only agreeing but
are acting in compliance with a pre-set US timetable. They all waited for the US to give the
signal, then like synchronized swimmers performed according to choreography pre-determined by
the US.
These European governments already were illegitimate in that they had surrendered
sovereignty to the EU. Now they're doubly illegitimate in that they've openly exposed
themselves as nothing but extensions of US policy. These are puppet governments.
So I'm not just joking when I say that any truly radical parties in Europe, "right" or
"left", should declare these fake national governments illegitimate and set up their own
shadow presidencies/premierships and governments.
Maduro to his navy --- "Today the future of Venezuela is decided: if it becomes one more star of the United
States flag or if it will continue to fly its eight tricolor stars," said the president.
"You saw the failed coup plotters yesterday ... with the gringo flag behind them. They no
longer hide, they no longer hide their identity. They no longer hide what they have inside,
they want to deliver our country, in pieces, to the gringo empire and the local
oligarchies."
Haiti is one of the countries that recognize Guano as president of Venezuela---
"Haiti's economy is reeling as unemployment & hunger is on the rise due to corruption
& mismanagement under #PHTK ruling party. On Jan. 31 many businesses shuttered in many
parts of the country as exchange rate of HT Gourd to US Dollar reached highest inflation
yet.
Exactly. They are US puppets.
Most obviously what we see is the most obvious top puppets in the EU; nordic, western europe
and the baltics. The meddling is apparent, still the corrupt EU/US governments keep on with their
aggression:
Russ: "So I'm not just joking when I say that any truly radical parties in Europe, "right" or
"left", should declare these fake national governments illegitimate and set up their own
shadow presidencies/premierships and governments."
This, so totally this, so absolutely and definitively this.
All these governments should be discarded and sued for breaching international norms.
Spain is specially ridiculous. Isn't Sanchez supposed to be "left", and not liberal scum?
I would not call the puppet character a Random Guy because he was clearly groomed for the
role over a number of years. Yet, he is obviously not a very capable guy because his claim to
fame is, for example, stringing a metal wire across the road to kill random motorbike riders
in a poor part of Caracas. Selection of such an untalented Murky Guy is another sign of the
desperation of the AngloZionist empire to grab resources after the Syrian debacle.
As usual,
the AZ regime change machine is mightily backed up by billions of puff dollars (printed out
of thin air), but among the puppets, the tie-eating Saakashvili is Optimus Prime compared
with the Murky Guy's leadership.
Ha, how 40 tons of the "barbaric relic" which disappeared from Ukraine after a similar
"revolution" got to be mentioned also in relation to Venezuela. And nobody even remembers
what happened to all the Ghadaffi's gold. You do not really think that hippo's Wooden Puppet
Guido (lol) will ever get to even touch this banksters' secret favorite? It will just
disappear into the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Guido. Just as carpenter Mastro Geppetto
carved his Pinocchio out of block of wood, so did the hippo carve his Guido out of another
block of rotting wood. This is why only the Italians, of all Europeans, could see through the
mischievous acts of the long-nosed Guido and his puppet master.
Yesterday I linked to an AP article
here on Charge d' Affaires James "Jimmy" Story who manages the US embassy in Caracas. In
the article was: "Chief among his interlocutors is Rafael Lacava, governor of the central
state of Carobobo, who presented him with a painting of two joined fists in the colours of
the U.S. and Venezuelan flags that now hangs in the entrance to Story's official residence in
Caracas."
So I looked up Rafael Lacava's twitter here which includes some glimpses of local
life in the small state of Carabobo just west of Caracas. Carabobo State was the site of the
Battle of Carabobo on 24 June 1821, a decisive win in the war of independence from Spain, and
was led by Simón Bolívar. The capital city of this state is Valencia, which is
also the country's main industrial center.
The tweets include some from Nicolas Maduro, including warnings that Trump wants another
Vietnam in Venezuela.
Russia has no choice than to boost the military to stand with Maduro. That may bring violence
including possibly the physical elimination of Guaido. That may trigger the West to intervene
militarily like in Libya without a UNSC approval.
That would rally the Venezualians around Maduro and the army.
As the american ( except the neocons) are against a war at their borders, Trump will have to
find a compromise.
Ultimately the Russians may push for a military takeover once they identified a military
leader.
Trump will have to accept that if he does not want to invade Venezuela
Well, the headline of this post is kinda problematic now ("U.S. Coup Attempt In Venezuela
Lacks International Support"). I think it was problematic from the start, b, because 1) several countries had already
joined with USA; 2) Europe's falling in line was never really in doubt. Note: The EU poodles have toed the line on Russia, Iran*, and now Venezuela.
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* EU countries pretend to support JCPOA but have dragged their feet. Most commercial
interests will not cross USA and the EU states have done little to discourage that. It has
been announced that EuroSWIFT will be for humanitarian aid only.
It is important to remain as properly informed and nuanced as possible given the difficulties
of access to reliable information in the world of today. I, therefore, contribute this link
in which a Venezuelan sociologist presents a different view of the support Maduro has in the
country : https://therealnews.com/stories/defusing-the-crisis-a-way-forward-for-venezuela.
I have no way of knowing the de facto situation, as most of us. I do, however, have
experience of such turmoil, divisions, rallies and counter-rallies, lies, threats, etc. from
a country, my country, that, sadly, no longer exists. I would say - we should listen to the
people on the ground, always with a critical mind.
The implications of this barbaric assault for our world as whole, for South America and,
of course, for Venezuela, are far reaching. The role of the EU and its largest states in this
barbarism has been consistent and in the service of the US and European ruling class. The EU
has been supporting, promoting and awarding the Venezuelan opposition for a long time. Now it
is recognising the self-proclaimed person who wants to make Venezuela great again. Yet, my
fellow Europeans are more or less silent, more or less indifferent and very badly informed.
Being European is becoming a source of deep shame and we Europeans are starting to make
excuses when we introduce ourselves, just like the better informed Americans have been doing.
But there is a good side to this - all the masks have fallen off now. Everyone can see what
the US and the EU really are.
If not today, tomorrow their barbarism will be recognised as their defining feature. One
would think that change is then inevitable, even if long overdue.
One piece in the article you linked to does not seem to match events. Maduro was elected
president in what international observers said were a fair election. A number of opposition
figures chose, of there own accord not to run in the election.
Your article says the majority of Venezuelans do not want Maduro as president, yet on a few
weeks ago he was elected as president in a fair election.
@3 PavewayIV The Bank of England gold issue is pretty crazy to think about. If the Bank of
England can just give the Gold of a nation to a guy who just declares himself President
without running for office than their is no rule of law regarding the gold stored by BoE from
other countries. Surely any country that has assets held by other major UK, US banks should
be moving towards retrieving their gold after this fiasco. Its very scary to see the highest
parts of the banking sector; use of the Swift system; access to the US dollar and seizure of
assets by the US courts being increasingly used in the aggressions of the empire. If Maduro
is able to weather this storm and Venezuela is returned to some degree of stasis than Maduro
will ask to repatriate all of the gold held in Europe in order to prevent its future seizure
in case a Chavista is elected again next election. The BoE can't possibly just steal it based
on politics can it?
One sure sign of Maduro's popularity in Venezuela is the calls for a new election in which
Maduro is not allowed to participate. This was the same for Assad in Syria. The US know that
in any free and fair election, both Assad and Maduro would at anytime gain the most
votes.
Although Maduro was only recently inaugurated, the elections were May 2018. Maduro received
67.8 percent of the vote with a 46 percent voter turnout the next runners received 20.9 and
10.8 percent of the vote.
The wikipedia page has the vote numbers, but the article mostly goes on about Maduro blocking
opposition. If this were correct, then the US would not be vehemently opposed to Maduro even
running in another election.
What an embarrassment - Canada refused press credentials to Sputnik, RIA Novosti, and Telesur
for its multi-national celebration of "smart power".
"Richard Walker, a spokesman for Canada's foreign ministry, explained to Sputnik's
correspondent that the agency was denied accreditation because it "hasn't been cordial" with
Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland in the past."
That is, the Russian media published factually correct information which demonstrated
Freeland as less than candid regarding her family history. Her feelings were hurt, and her
feelings apparently take precedent in her position as Foreign Minister.
The rational and sensible way forward in Venezuela - international mediation - continues
to be rejected by the "interim president", the USA, and Canada's pet Lima Group project.
Instead, Guaido called for further "pressure", which is at this point limited to a further
tightening of the economic isolation of the country. Canada seems to have anticipated this
position by announcing a $53 million aid package which will be focussed on assisting current
and future "refugees" headed to Columbia and Brazil.
Hugo Chavez has repatriated most of Venezeulan gold whilst still alive. This is how the
CIA and the Venezuelan Central Bank could invent the story that a part of this gold is being
sent to Russia by Maduro. The 41 ton of Venezuelan gold still remain in Bank of England was a
necessary collateral for buying naphtha (for pre-processing oil for export) and subsidised
food for the Venezurlan population.
Once Western sanctions are imposed on a country, the only
way anyone would trade with such credit-worthless country, is if hard assets are used as
collateral. Maduro will probably be forced to send a part of the repatriated gold to Shanghai
gold market, forcing the Venezuelan Centeral Bank by military force to dispatch, or the
Venezuelans will go hungry. Having national gold under the Central Bank control is only
second worst to having it under control of the Central Bank's foreign masters in BoE.
I cannot think of one Central Bank in all the countries of the World which is not under
the control of the international (Jewish) banking cartel. If the "revolution" succeeds, the
gold inside Venezuela will disappear just as the gold in BoE. Since 2017 Bolshevik
Revolution, the revolutions are fueled by gold.
@Peter AU 1 | Feb 4, 2019 1:28:47 PM | 85 Maduro was elected president in what international observers said were a fair
election.
The May 20, 2018 election it self was declared "free and fair" here by four independent committees who had
camped outside the polling places but (as in the US and other "democratic" countries) the
shenanigans leading up to the election called the fairness into question.
The elections were boycotted by the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) coalition of opposition
parties and dismissed as illegitimate by the United States, the European Union (EU), and14
Western Hemisphere nations (the Lima Group). So we can say for sure that the boycott was a
tool to later call the elections illegitimate .
[How ironic since the US doesn't even (de facto) allow "opposition parties" (plural) but
restricts the quadrennial show to two look-alike parties, which Ralph Nader referred to as
tweedledum and tweedledee. Obviously neither of the two parties would ever boycott an
election.]
UN rapporteur to Venezuela and expert on international law Alfred de Zayas:
"I believe in democracy. I believe in the ballot box. If you believe in democracy, you can
not boycott an election. The name of the game is that you actually have to put your candidate
out and expect that the people will vote for you or against you," he said, referring to the
Venezuelan opposition's decision to boycott the recent presidential election, which saw
Maduro re-elected. . . here
Secretary of state John Kerry. "During my most recent visit to Kyiv, I was deeply impressed
by all you have accomplished in the more than two years since the Revolution of Dignity."
Secretary of state Pompeo. "The United States stands with the brave people of Venezuela as
they strive for a return to dignity and democracy."
This lot haven't much of an imagination. Just reading thev lines that were printed for the
Ukraine show.
The whole US and vassal States plan was for a swift removal of Maduro, that did not happen
thus time now runs in Maduro's favor. There won't a military invasion of Venezuela, there is
no apetite for that in Latin America at all, nor the vast majority of the Latin Americans
would support any sort of military intervention, even if head of States would promote it,
thus leaving two options for the US:
1) A cruise missile attack to destroy Venezuela Military and Government building, following a
false flag prepared and conducted by CIA's and Guaidó's supporter, such an attempt
would be received worldwide as an aggression, though the false flag would be used as
justification, that would not be tolerated by many many countries and could escalate in a
ugly way, and or
2) An attempt to assassinate Maduro to be blamed on the Venezuelan Military thus leaving
Guaidó out of it to legitimize him for power.
The second is a very likely scenario and may be in progress as of now.
Seriously, Ron Paul or Tulsi Gabbard speaking of democracy is one thing, but having
gangsters and psychopathic thugs like Pompeo, Bolton or Abrams in charge really sends a message
and that message is that we are dealing with a banal case of highway robbery triggered by two
very crude considerations:
First, to re-take control of Venezuela's immense natural
resources. Second, to prove to the world that Uncle Shmuel can still, quote , " pick up some small crappy
little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business ",
unquote.
The obvious problem is that 1) nobody takes the US seriously because 2) the US has not been
capable of defeating any country capable of resistance since many decades already. The various
US special forces, which would typically spearhead any invasion, have an especially appalling
record of abject failures every time they stop posing for cameras and have to engage in real
combat. I assure you that nobody in the Venezuelan military cares about movies like "Rambo" or
"Delta Force" while they carefully studied US FUBARs in Somalia, Grenada, Iran and elsewhere.
You can also bet that the Cubans, who have had many years of experience dealing with the (very
competent) South African special forces in Angola and elsewhere will share their experience
with their Venezuelan colleagues.
US Sanctions as a Tool To Perpetuate Neocolonialism
by Nauman
Sadiq Posted on
February 02, 2019 January 31, 2019 It's an evident fact that neocolonial powers are ruled
by behemoth corporations whose wealth is measured in hundreds of billions of dollars, far
more than the total GDP of many developing nations. The status of these multinational
corporations as dominant players in international politics gets official imprimatur when the
Western governments endorse the congressional lobbying practice of so-called "special
interest" groups, which is a euphemism for corporate interests.
Since the Western governments are nothing but the mouthpiece of business interests on
international political and economic forums, therefore any national or international entity
which hinders or opposes the agenda of corporate interests is either coerced into accepting
their demands or gets sidelined.
In 2013, the Manmohan Singh's government of India had certain objections to further
opening up to the Western businesses. The Business Roundtable, which is an informal
congregation of major US businesses and together holds a net wealth of $6 trillion, held a
meeting with the representatives of the Indian government and literally coerced it into
accepting unfair demands of the Western corporations.
The developing economies, such as India and Pakistan, are always hungry for foreign direct
investment (FDI) to sustain economic growth, and this investment mostly comes from the
Western corporations. When the Business Roundtables or the Paris-based International Chamber
of Commerce (ICC) form pressure groups and engage in "collective bargaining" activities, the
nascent and fragile developing economies don't have a choice but to toe their line.
State sovereignty, that sovereign nation states are at liberty to pursue independent
policies, particularly economic and trade policies, is a myth. Just like the ruling elites of
the developing countries which maintain a stranglehold and monopoly over domestic politics;
similarly, the neocolonial powers and multinational corporations control international
politics and the global economic order.
Any state in the international arena which dares to transgress the trade and economic
policies laid down by neocolonial powers and multinational corporations becomes an
international pariah like Castro's Cuba, Mugabe's Zimbabwe; or more recently, Maduro's
Venezuela.
Venezuela has one of the largest known oil reserves in the world. Even though the
mainstream media's pundits hold the socialist policies of President Nicolas Maduro
responsible for economic mismanagement in Venezuela, fact of the matter is that
hyperinflation in its economy is the effect of US sanctions against Venezuela which have been
put in place since the time of late President Hugo Chavez.
Another case in point is Iran which was cut off from the global economic system from 2006
to 2015, and then again after May last year when President Donald Trump annulled the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), because of Iran's supposed nuclear ambitions. Good for
Iran that it also has one of the largest oil and gas resources, otherwise it would have been
insolvent by now.
Such is the power of Washington-led global financial system, especially the banking
sector, and the significance of petrodollar, because the global oil transactions are pegged
in the US dollars all over the world, and all the major oil bourses are also located in the
Western financial districts.
The crippling "third party" economic sanctions on Iran from 2006 to 2015 have brought to
the fore the enormous power that the Western financial institutions and the petrodollar as a
global reserve currency wields over the global financial system.
It bears mentioning that the Iranian nuclear negotiations were as much about Iran's
nuclear program as they were about its ballistic missile program, which is an equally
dangerous conventional threat to Israel and the Gulf's petro-monarchies, just across the
Persian Gulf.
Despite the sanctions being unfair, Iran felt the heat so much that it remained engaged in
negotiations throughout the nearly decade-long period of sanctions, and such was the
crippling effect of those "third party" sanctions on Iran's economy that had it not been for
its massive oil and gas reserves, and some Russian, Chinese and Turkish help in illicitly
buying Iranian oil, it could have defaulted due to the sanctions.
Notwithstanding, after the brutal assassination of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate
in Istanbul on October 2, and the clear hand of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in the
murder, certain naïve political commentators of the mainstream media came up with a
ludicrous suggestion that Washington should impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia.
As in the case of aforementioned Iran sanctions, sanctioning Saudi Arabia also seems
plausible; however, there is a caveat: Iran is only a single oil-rich state which has 160
billion barrels of proven oil reserves and has the capacity to produce 5 million barrels per
day (mbpd) of crude oil.
On the other hand, the Persian Gulf's petro-monarchies are actually three oil-rich states.
Saudi Arabia with its 266 billion barrels of proven oil reserves and 10 mbpd of daily crude
oil production, and UAE and Kuwait with 100 billion barrels of proven reserves, each, and 3
mbpd of daily crude oil production, each. Together, the share of the Gulf Cooperation
Countries (GCC) amounts to 466 billion barrels, almost one-third of the world's 1477 billion
barrels of total proven oil reserves.
Therefore, although imposing economic sanctions on the Gulf states might sound like a good
idea on paper, the relationship between the Gulf's petro-monarchies and the industrialized
world is that of a consumer-supplier relationship. The Gulf states are the suppliers of
energy and the industrialized world is its consumer, hence the Western powers cannot sanction
their energy suppliers and largest investors.
If anything, the Gulf's petro-monarchies had "sanctioned" the Western powers in the past
by imposing the oil embargo in 1973 after the Arab-Israel War. The 1973 Arab oil embargo
against the West lasted only for a short span of six months during which the price of oil
quadrupled, but Washington became so paranoid after the embargo that it put in place a ban on
the export of crude oil outside the US borders, and began keeping sixty-day stock of reserve
fuel for strategic and military needs.
Recently, some very upbeat rumors about the shale revolution have been circulating in the
media. However, the shale revolution is primarily a natural gas revolution. It has increased
the probable recoverable resources of natural gas by 30%. The shale oil, on the other hand,
refers to two starkly different kinds of energy resources: firstly, the solid kerogen –
though substantial resources of kerogen have been found in the US Green River formations, the
cost of extracting liquid crude from solid kerogen is so high that it is economically
unviable for at least a hundred years; secondly, the tight oil which is blocked by shale
– it is a viable energy resource but the reserves are so limited, roughly 4 billion
barrels in Texas and North Dakota, that it will run out in a few years.
More than the size of oil reserves, it is about per barrel extraction cost, which
determines the profits for the multinational oil companies. And in this regard, the Persian
Gulf's crude oil is the most profitable. Further, regarding the supposed US energy
independence after the purported shale revolution, the US produced 11 million barrels per day
(bpd) of crude oil in the first quarter of 2014, which was more than the output of Saudi
Arabia and Russia, each of which produces around 10 million bpd. But the US still imported
7.5 million bpd during the same period, which was more than the oil imports of France and
Britain put together. More than the total volume of oil production, the volume which an
oil-producing country exports determines its place in the hierarchy of petroleum and the
Gulf's petro-monarchies constitute the top tier of that pyramid.
Nauman Sadiq is an Islamabad-based attorney, columnist and geopolitical analyst focused
on the politics of Af-Pak and Middle East regions, neocolonialism and
petro-imperialism.
This article from 2017 looks like it was written yesterday. Trump betrayal of his elctorate on multiple levels, essentially on all
key poin of his election program mkes him "Republican Obama".
What is interesting about Trump foreign policy is his version of neoliberal "gangster capitalism" on foreign arena:
might is right principle applied like universal opener. Previous administrations tried to put a lipstick on the pig. Trump
does not even bother.
In terms of foreign policy, and even during the transition before Trump's inauguration, there were other, more disturbing signs
of where Trump would be heading soon. When Fidel Castro died on November 25, 2016,
Trump seemed jubilant as if he had somehow been vindicated, and took the opportunity to slander Castro as a "brutal dictator" who
"oppressed his own people" and turned Cuba into a "totalitarian island".
Notable quotes:
"... However, when he delivered his inaugural address on January 20, 2017, Trump appeared to reaffirm his campaign themes of anti-interventionism. In particular he seemed to turn the government's back on a long-standing policy of cultural imperialism , stating: "We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone". In addition he said his government would "seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world," and he understood the importance of national sovereignty when he added, "it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first". ..."
"... Yet when it came to Russia, Trump could have instantly removed sanctions that were imposed by Obama in his last weeks in office -- an irresponsible and dangerous act by Obama, where foreign policy was used as a partisan tool in the service of shoring up a crummy conspiracy theory about "Russian hacking" in order to deny the Democrats any culpability in their much deserved defeat. ..."
"... The entire conflict with Russia that has developed in recent years, on the US side, was totally unnecessary, illogical, and quite preventable. ..."
"... Just two weeks after violating his promise to end the US role as the world's policeman and his vow to extricate the US from wars for regime change, Trump sold out again. "I love WikiLeaks -- " -- this is what Trump exclaimed in a speech on October 10, 2016. Trump's about-face on WikiLeaks is thus truly astounding. ..."
"... AP: If I could fit a couple of more topics. Jeff Sessions, your attorney general, is taking a tougher line suddenly on Julian Assange, saying that arresting him is a priority. You were supportive of what WikiLeaks was doing during the campaign with the release of the Clinton emails. Do you think that arresting Assange is a priority for the United States? ..."
"... AP: But that didn't mean that you supported what Assange is doing? ..."
"... AP: Can I just ask you, though -- do you believe it is a priority for the United States, or it should be a priority, to arrest Julian Assange? ..."
"... While there is no denying the extensive data about the severe impacts of NAFTA on select states and industries in the US, witnessed by the closure of tens of thousands of factories and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, there is little support for the claim that Canada and Mexico, as wholes, have instead fared well and that the US as a whole has been the loser thanks to them. ..."
"... Since NAFTA was implemented, migration from Mexico to the US skyrocketed dramatically. US agricultural industries sent millions of Mexican farmers into food poverty, and ultimately drove them away from agriculture ..."
"... As for per capita GDP, so treasured by economists, NAFTA had no positive impact on Mexico -- in fact, per capita GDP is nearly a flat line for the entire period since 1994. Finally, Trump does not mention that in terms of the number of actual protectionist measures that have been implemented, the US leads the world . ..."
"... To put Trump's position on NAFTA in bold relief, it is not that he is decidedly against free trade. In fact, he often claims he supports free trade, as long as it is "fair". However, his notion of fairness is very lopsided -- a trade agreement is fair only when the US reaps the greater share of benefits. ..."
"... As argued in the previous section, if Trump is to be the newfound champion of this imperialism -- empire's prodigal son -- then what an abysmally poor choice he is ..."
"... On the one hand, he helped to unleash US anti-interventionism (usually called "isolationism" not to call it anti-imperialism, which would then admit to imperialism which is still denied by most of the dominant elites). On the other hand, in trying to now contain such popular sentiment, he loses credibility -- after having lost credibility with the groups his campaign displaced. ..."
"... As for Trump's domestic opposition, what should be most pertinent are issues of conflict of interest and nepotism . Here members of Trump's base are more on target yet again, when they reject the presence of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in the White House ("we didn't elect Ivanka or Jared"), than are those distracted by identity politics. ..."
"... As Trump leverages the presidency to upgrade the Trump family to the transnational capitalist class, and reinforces the power of US imperialism which that class has purchased, conflict of interest and nepotism will be the main political signposts of the transformation of the Trump presidency, but they could also be the targets for a refined strategy of opposition. ..."
Trump could have kept quiet, and lost nothing. Instead what he was attacking -- and the irony was missed on his fervently right
wing supporters -- was someone who was a leader in the anti-globalist movement, from long before it was ever called that. Fidel Castro
was a radical pioneer of independence, self-reliance, and self-determination.
Castro turned Cuba from an American-owned sugar plantation and brothel, a lurid backwater in the Caribbean, into a serious international
actor opposed to globalizing capitalism. There was no sign of any acknowledgment of this by Trump, who instead chose to parrot the
same people who would vilify him using similar terms (evil, authoritarian, etc.). Of course, Trump respects only corporate executives
and billionaires, not what he would see as some rag-tag Third World revolutionary. Here Trump's supporters generally failed, using
Castro's death as an opportunity for tribal partisanship, another opportunity to attack "weak liberals" like Obama who made minor
overtures to Cuba (too little, too late).
Their distrust of "the establishment" was nowhere to be found this time: their ignorance of Cuba and their resort to stock clichés
and slogans had all been furnished to them by the same establishment they otherwise claimed to oppose.
Just to be clear, the above is not meant to indicate any reversal on Trump's part regarding Cuba. He has been consistently anti-communist,
and fairly consistent in his denunciations of Fidel Castro. What is significant is that -- far from overcoming the left-right divide
-- Trump shores up the barriers, even at the cost of denouncing others who have a proven track record of fighting against neoliberal
globalization and US interventionism. In these regards, Trump has no track record. Even among his rivals in the Republican primaries,
senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul had more of an anti-interventionist track record.
However, when he delivered his inaugural address
on January 20, 2017, Trump appeared to reaffirm his campaign themes of anti-interventionism. In particular he seemed to turn the
government's back on a long-standing policy of
cultural imperialism
, stating: "We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone". In addition he said his government would "seek friendship and goodwill
with the nations of the world," and he understood the importance of national sovereignty when he added, "it is the right of all nations
to put their own interests first".
Russia
Yet when it came to Russia, Trump could have instantly removed sanctions that were imposed by Obama in his last weeks in office
-- an irresponsible and dangerous act by Obama, where foreign policy was used as a partisan tool in the service of shoring up a crummy
conspiracy theory about "Russian hacking" in order to deny the Democrats any culpability in their much deserved defeat.
Instead, Trump continued the sanctions, as if out of meek deference to Obama's policy, one founded on lies and antagonism
toward Trump himself. Rather than repair the foul attempt to sabotage the US-Russian relationship in preparation for his presidency,
Trump simply abided and thus became an accomplice. To be clear,
Trump has done precisely nothing
to dampen the near mass hysteria that has been manufactured in the US about alleged -- indeed imaginary -- "Russian intervention".
His comments, both during the electoral campaign and even early into his presidency, about wanting good relations with Russia,
have been replaced by Trump's admissions that US relations with Russia are at a low point (Putin agreed: "I would say the level of
trust [between Russia and the US] is at a workable level, especially in the military dimension, but it hasn't improved. On the contrary,
it has degraded " and his spokesman called
the relations " deplorable ".)
Rather than use the power of his office to calm fears, to build better ties with Russia, and to make meeting with Vladimir Putin
a top priority, Trump has again done nothing , except escalating tensions. The entire conflict with Russia that has
developed in recent years, on the US side, was totally unnecessary, illogical, and quite preventable. Russia had actively facilitated
the US' war in Afghanistan for over a decade, and was a consistent collaborator on numerous levels. It is up to thinking American
officials to honestly explain what motivated them to tilt relations with Russia, because it is certainly not Russia's doing. The
only explanation that makes any sense is that the US leadership grew concerned that Russia was no longer teetering on the edge of
total socio-economic breakdown, as it was under the neoliberal Boris Yeltsin, but has instead resurfaced as a major actor in international
affairs, and one that champions anti-neoliberal objectives of enhanced state sovereignty and self-determination.
WikiLeaks
Just two weeks after violating his promise to end the US role as the world's policeman and his vow to extricate the US from
wars for regime change, Trump sold out again.
"I love WikiLeaks --
" -- this is what Trump exclaimed in a speech on October 10, 2016. Trump's about-face on WikiLeaks is thus truly astounding.
After finding so much use for WikiLeaks' publication of the Podesta emails, which became incorporated into his campaign speeches,
and which fuelled the writing and speaking of journalists and bloggers sympathetic to Trump -- he was now effectively declaring WikiLeaks
to be both an enemy and a likely target of US government action, in even more blunt terms than we heard during the past eight years
under Obama. This is not mere continuity with the past, but a dramatic escalation. Rather than praise Julian Assange for his work,
call for an end to the illegal impediments to his seeking asylum, swear off any US calls for extraditing and prosecuting Assange,
and perhaps meeting with him in person, Trump has done all of the opposite. Instead we learn that Trump's administration may
file arrest charges against Assange
. Mike Pompeo ,
chosen by Trump to head the CIA, who had himself
cited WikiLeaks as a reliable source of proof about how the Democratic National Committee had rigged its campaign, now declared
WikiLeaks to be a "
non-state hostile intelligence service ," along with vicious personal slander against Assange.
Trump's about-face on WikiLeaks was one that he defended in terms that were not just a deceptive rewriting of history, but one
that was also fearful -- "I don't support or unsupport" WikiLeaks, was what Trump was now saying in his dash for the nearest exit.
The backtracking is so obvious in this
interview
Trump gave to the AP , that his shoes must have left skid marks on the floor:
AP: If I could fit a couple of more topics. Jeff Sessions, your attorney general, is taking a tougher line suddenly on
Julian Assange, saying that arresting him is a priority. You were supportive of what WikiLeaks was doing during the campaign with
the release of the Clinton emails. Do you think that arresting Assange is a priority for the United States?
TRUMP: When Wikileaks came out never heard of Wikileaks, never heard of it. When Wikileaks came out, all I was just saying
is, "Well, look at all this information here, this is pretty good stuff." You know, they tried to hack the Republican, the RNC,
but we had good defenses. They didn't have defenses, which is pretty bad management. But we had good defenses, they tried to hack
both of them. They weren't able to get through to Republicans. No, I found it very interesting when I read this stuff and I said,
"Wow." It was just a figure of speech. I said, "Well, look at this. It's good reading."
AP: But that didn't mean that you supported what Assange is doing?
TRUMP: No, I don't support or unsupport. It was just information .
AP: Can I just ask you, though -- do you believe it is a priority for the United States, or it should be a priority, to
arrest Julian Assange?
TRUMP: I am not involved in that decision, but if Jeff Sessions wants to do it, it's OK with me. I didn't know about that decision,
but if they want to do it, it's OK with me.
First, Trump invents the fictitious claim that WikiLeaks was responsible for hacking the DNC, and that WikiLeaks also tried to
hack the Republicans. Second, he pretends to be an innocent bystander, a spectator, in his own administration -- whatever others
decide, is "OK" with him, not that he knows about their decisions, but it's all up to others. He has no power, all of a sudden.
Again, what Trump is displaying in this episode is his ultimate attachment to his class, with all of its anxieties and its contempt
for rebellious, marginal upstarts. Trump shuns any sort of "loyalty" to WikiLeaks (not that they ever had a working relationship)
or any form of gratitude, because then that would imply a debt and therefore a transfer of value -- whereas Trump's core ethics are
those of expedience and greed (he admits that much).
This move has come with a cost , with members of Trump's support base openly denouncing the betrayal. 6
NAFTA
On NAFTA , Trump claims he has not changed his position -- yet, from openly denouncing the free trade agreement and promising
to terminate it, he now vows only to seek modifications and amendments, which means supporting NAFTA. He appeared to be
awfully quick to obey the diplomatic pressure of Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and Mexico's President, Enrique Peña
Nieto. Trump's entire position on NAFTA now comes into question.
While there is no denying the extensive data about the severe impacts of NAFTA on select states and industries in the US,
witnessed by the closure of tens of thousands of factories and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, there is little support
for the claim that Canada and Mexico, as wholes, have instead fared well and that the US as a whole has been the loser thanks to
them.
This really deserves to be treated at length, separately from this article. However, for now, let's keep in mind that when
Trump complains about Canadian softwood lumber and dairy exports to the US, his argument about NAFTA is without merit. Neither commodity
is part of the NAFTA agreement.
Moreover, where dairy is concerned, the problem is US overproduction.
Wisconsin alone has more
dairy cows than all of Canada . There is a net surplus , in the US' favour, with respect to US dairy exports to Canada.
Overall,
the US has a net surplus in the trade in
goods and services with Canada. Regarding Mexico, the irony of Trump's denunciations of imaginary Mexican victories is that he
weakens his own criticisms of immigration.
Since NAFTA was implemented,
migration from Mexico to
the US skyrocketed dramatically. US agricultural industries sent millions of Mexican farmers into food poverty, and ultimately
drove them away from agriculture.
As for per capita GDP, so treasured by economists, NAFTA had no positive impact on Mexico -- in fact,
per capita GDP is nearly a flat
line for the entire period since 1994. Finally, Trump does not mention that in terms of the number of actual protectionist measures
that have been implemented, the
US leads the world .
To put Trump's position on NAFTA in bold relief, it is not that he is decidedly against free trade. In fact, he often claims
he supports free trade, as long as it is "fair". However, his notion of fairness is very lopsided -- a trade agreement is fair only
when the US reaps the greater share of benefits.
His arguments with respect to Canada are akin to those of a looter or raider. He wants to block lumber imports from Canada, at
the same time as he wants to break the Canadian dairy market wide open to absorb US excess production. That approach is at the core
of what defined the US as a "new empire" in the 1800s. In addition, while Trump was quick to tear up the TPP, he has said nothing
about TISA and TTIP.
Mexico
Trump's argument with Mexico is also disturbing for what it implies. It would seem that any
evidence of production
in Mexico causes Trump concern. Mexico should not only keep its people -- however many are displaced by US imports -- but it should
also be as dependent as possible on the US for everything except oil. Since Trump has consistently declared his antagonism to OPEC,
ideally Mexico's oil would be sold for a few dollars per barrel.
China
Trump's turn on China almost provoked laughter from his many domestic critics. Absurdly, what figures prominently in most renditions
of the story of Trump's change on China (including his own), is a big piece of chocolate cake. The missile strike on Syria was, according
to Wilbur Ross, the "
after-dinner entertainment ". Here, Trump's loud condemnations of China on trade issues were suddenly quelled -- and it is not
because chocolate has magical properties. Instead it seems Trump has been willing to settle on
selling out citizens' interests , and
particularly those who voted for him, in return for China's assistance on North Korea. Let's be clear: countering and dominating
North Korea is an established favourite among neoconservatives. Trump's priority here is fully "neocon," and the submergence of trade
issues in favour of militaristic preferences is the one case where neoconservatives might be distinguished from the otherwise identical
neoliberals.
North Korea
Where North Korea is concerned, Trump chose to manufacture a "
crisis ". North Korea has actually done nothing
to warrant a sudden outbreak of panic over it being supposedly aggressive and threatening. North Korea is no more aggressive than
any person defending their survival can be called belligerent. The constant series of US military exercises in South Korea, or near
North Korean waters, is instead a deliberate provocation to a state whose existence the US nearly extinguished. Even last year the
US Air Force publicly boasted of having
"nearly destroyed" North Korea -- language one would have expected from the Luftwaffe in WWII. The US continues to maintain roughly
60,000 troops on the border between North and South Korea, and continues to refuse to formally declare an end to the Korean War and
sign a peace treaty
. Trump then announced he was sending an "armada" to the Korean peninsula, and boasted of how "very powerful" it was. This was in
addition to the US deploying the THAAD missile system in South Korea. Several of his messages in Twitter were written using highly
provocative and threatening language. When asked if he would start a war, Trump glibly replied: "
I don't know. I mean, we'll see ". On another occasion Trump stated, "There is a chance that we could end up having a
major, major conflict with North
Korea. Absolutely". When the world's leading military superpower declares its intention to destroy you, then there is nothing you
can do in your defense which anyone could justly label as "over the top". Otherwise, once again Trump posed as a parental figure,
the world's chief babysitter -- picture Trump, surrounded by children taking part in the "Easter egg roll" at the White House, being
asked about North Korea and responding "they gotta behave". Trump would presume to teach manners to North Korea, using the only tools
of instruction that seem to be the first and last resort of US foreign policy (and the "defense" industry): bombs.
Syria
Attacking Syria , on purportedly humanitarian grounds, is for many (including vocal supporters) one of the most glaring contradictions
of Trump's campaign statements about not embroiling the US in failed wars of regime change and world policing. During the campaign,
he was in favour of Russia's collaboration with Syria in the fight against ISIS. For years he had condemned Obama for involving the
US in Syria, and consistently opposed military intervention there. All that was consigned to the archive of positions Trump declared
to now be worthless. That there had been a change in Trump's position is not a matter of dispute --
Trump made the point himself :
"I like to think of myself as a very flexible person. I don't have to have one specific way, and if the world changes, I go
the same way, I don't change. Well, I do change and I am flexible, and I'm proud of that flexibility. And I will tell you, that
attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me -- big impact. That was a horrible, horrible thing. And I've been watching
it and seeing it, and it doesn't get any worse than that. And I have that flexibility, and it's very, very possible -- and I will
tell you, it's already happened that my attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much. And if you look back over the last
few weeks, there were other attacks using gas. You're now talking about a whole different level".
Bending to the will of the prevailing Cold War and neo-McCarthyist atmosphere in the US, rife with anti-Russian conspiracy theories,
Trump found an easy opportunity to score points with the hostile media, ever so mindful as he is about approval ratings, polls, and
media coverage. Some explain Trump's reversals as arising from his
pursuit
of
public adulation -- and while the media play the key role in purveying celebrity status, they are also a stiff bastion of imperialist
culture. Given his many years as a the host of a popular TV show, and as the owner of the Miss Universe Pageant, there is some logical
merit to the argument. But I think even more is at work, as explained in paragraphs above.
According to Eric Trump it was at the urging of Ivanka that Donald Trump decided to strike a humanitarian-militarist pose. He
would play the part of the Victorian parent, only he would use missiles to teach unruly children lessons about violence. Using language
typically used against him by the mainstream media, Trump now felt entitled to pontificate that Assad is "evil," an "
animal ," who would
have
to go . When did he supposedly come to this realization? Did Assad become evil at the same time Trump was inaugurated? Why would
Trump have kept so silent about "evil" on the campaign trail? Trump of course is wrong: it's not that the world changed and he changed
with it; rather, he invented a new fiction to suit his masked intentions. Trump's supposed opponents and critics, like the Soros-funded
organizer of the women's march Linda Sarsour, showed her
approval of even more drastic
action by endorsing messages by what sounded like a stern school mistress who thought that 59 cruise missiles were just a mere "slap
on the wrist". Virtually every neocon who is publicly active applauded Trump, as did most senior Democrats. The loudest
opposition
, however, came from Trump's
own base , with a number of articles
featuring criticism from Trump's
supporters , and one conservative publication calling him outright a "
weakling
and a political ingrate ".
Members of the Trump administration have played various word games with the public on intervention in Syria. From unnamed officials
saying the missile strike was a "one off," to named officials
promising more if there
were any other suspected chemical attacks (or use of barrel bombs -- and this while the US dropped the biggest non-nuclear bomb in
existence on Afghanistan); some said that
regime change was not the goal,
and then others made it clear that was the ultimate
goal ; and then Trump saying, "Our policy is the same, it hasn't changed.
We're not going into Syria " -- even
though
Trump himself greatly increased the number of US troops he deployed to Syria , illegally, in an escalation of the least
protested invasion in recent history. Now we should know enough not to count this as mere ambiguity, but as deliberate obfuscation
that offers momentary (thinly veiled) cover for a
renewal of neocon policy .
We can draw an outline of Trump's liberal imperialism when it comes to Syria, which is likely to be applied elsewhere. First,
Trump's interventionist policy regarding Syria is one that continues to treat that country as if it were terra nullius ,
a mere playground for superpower politics. Second, Trump is clearly continuing with the
neoconservative agenda and its hit list of
states to be terminated by US military action, as famously confirmed by Gen. Wesley Clark. Even Trump's strategy for justifying the
attack on Syria echoed the two prior Bush presidential administrations -- selling war with the infamous "incubator babies" myth and
the myth of "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs). In many ways, Trump's presidency is thus shaping up to be either the seventh term
of the George H.W. Bush regime, or the fifth straight term of the George W. Bush regime. Third, Trump is taking ownership of an extremely
dangerous conflict, with costs that could surpass anything witnessed by the war on Iraq (which also continues). Fourth, by highlighting
the importance of photographs in allegedly changing his mind, Trump has placed a high market value on propaganda featuring dead babies.
His actions in Syria will now create an effective demand for the pornographic trade in pictures of atrocities. These are matters
of great importance to the transnational capitalist class, which demands full global penetrability, diminished state power (unless
in the service of this class' goals), a uniformity of expectations and conformity in behaviour, and an emphasis on individual civil
liberties which are the basis for defending private property and consumerism.
Venezuela
It is very disturbing to see how Venezuela is being framed as ripe for US intervention, in ways that distinctly echo the lead
up to the US war on Libya. Just as disturbing is that Trump's Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, has a clear conflict of interest
regarding Venezuela, from his recent role as CEO of
Exxon
and its conflict with the government of Venezuela over its nationalization of oil. Tillerson is, by any definition, a clear-cut
member of the transnational capitalist class. The Twitter account of the
State
Department has a battery of messages sternly lecturing Venezuela about the treatment of protesters, while also pontificating
on the Venezuelan Constitution as if the US State Department had become a global supreme court. What is impressive is the seamless
continuity in the nature of the messages on Venezuela from that account, as if no change of government happened between Obama's time
and Trump's. Nikki Haley, Trump's neocon ambassador to the UN, issued
a statement that read like it had been written by her predecessors, Samantha Power and Susan Rice, a statement which in itself
is an unacceptable intervention in Venezuelan internal affairs. For Trump's part, from just days
before the election, to a couple of weeks
after his inauguration, he has sent explicit
messages of support for anti-government
forces in Venezuela. In February, Trump
imposed sanctions on Venezuela's
Vice President. After Syria and North Korea, Venezuela is seeming the likely focus of US interventionism under Trump.
NATO
Rounding out the picture, at least for now (this was just the first hundred days of Trump's presidency), was Trump's outstanding
reversal on NATO -- in fact, once again he stated the reversal himself, and without explanation either: "
I said it was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete ". This came just days after the US missile strike against Syria, and just as
Ivanka Trump was about to represent
his government at a meeting of globalist women, the
W20 . NATO has served as
the transnational military alliance at the service of the transnational capitalist class, and particularly the military and political
members of the TCC. 7
Saving Neoliberalism?
Has Trump saved neoliberal capitalism from its ongoing demise? Has he sustained popular faith in liberal political ideals? Are
we still in the dying days of liberalism
? If there had been a centrally coordinated plan to plant an operative among the ranks of populist conservatives and independents,
to channel their support for nationalism into support for the persona of the plant, and to then have that plant steer a course straight
back to shoring up neoliberal globalism -- then we might have had a wonderful story of a masterful conspiracy, the biggest heist
in the history of elections anywhere. A truly "rigged system" could be expected to behave that way. Was Trump designated to take
the fall in a rigged game, only his huge ego got in the way when he realized he could realistically win the election and he decided
to really tilt hard against his partner, Hillary Clinton? It could be the basis for a novel, or a Hollywood political comedy. I have
no way of knowing if it could be true.
Framed within the terms of what we do know, there was relief by the ousted group of political elites and the liberal globalist
media at the sight of Trump's reversals, and a sense that
their vision had been vindicated.
However, if they are hoping that the likes of Trump will serve as a reliable flag bearer, then theirs is a misguided wishful thinking.
If someone so demonized and ridiculed, tarnished as an evil thug and racist fascist, the subject of mass demonstrations in the US
and abroad, is the latest champion of (neo)liberalism, then we are certainly witnessing its dying days.
Is Trump Beneficial for Anti-Imperialism?
Once one is informed enough and thus prepared to understand that anti-imperialism is not the exclusive preserve of the left (a
left which anyway has mostly shunned it over the last two decades), that it
did not originate with the
left , and that it has a long and distinguished history
in the US itself , then we can move
toward some interesting realizations. The facts, borne out by surveys and my own online immersion among pro-Trump social media users,
is that one of the
significantreasons
why Trump won is due to the growth in popularity of basic anti-imperialist principles (even if not recognized under that name): for
example, no more world policing, no transnational militarization, no more interventions abroad, no more regime change, no war, and
no globalism. Nationalists in Europe, as in Russia, have also pushed forward a basic anti-imperialist vision. Whereas in Latin America
anti-imperialism is largely still leftist, in Europe and North America the left-right divide has become blurred, but the crucial
thing is that at least now we can speak of anti-imperialism gaining strength in these three major continents. Resistance against
globalization has been the primary objective, along with strengthening national sovereignty, protecting local cultural identity,
and opposing free trade and transnational capital. Unfortunately, some anti-imperialist writers (on the left in fact) have tended
to restrict their field of vision to military matters primarily, while almost completely neglecting the economic and cultural, and
especially domestic dimensions of imperialism. (I am grossly generalizing of course, but I think it is largely accurate.) Where structures
such as NAFTA are concerned, many of these same leftist anti-imperialists, few as they are, have had virtually nothing to say. It
could be that they have yet to fully recognize that the transnational capitalist class has, gradually over the last seven decades,
essentially purchased the power of US imperialism. Therefore the TCC's imperialism includes NAFTA, just as it includes open borders,
neoliberal identity politics, and drone strikes. They are all different parts of the same whole.
As argued in the previous section, if Trump is to be the newfound champion of this imperialism -- empire's prodigal son --
then what an abysmally poor choice he is. 8
On the one hand, he helped to unleash US anti-interventionism (usually called "isolationism" not to call it anti-imperialism,
which would then admit to imperialism which is still denied by most of the dominant elites). On the other hand, in trying to now
contain such popular sentiment, he loses credibility -- after having lost credibility with the groups his campaign displaced.
In addition to that, given that his candidacy aggravated internal divisions in the US, which have not subsided with his assumption
of office, these domestic social and cultural conflicts cause a serious deficit of legitimacy, a loss of political capital. A declining
economy will also deprive him of capital in the strict sense. Moreover, given the kind of persona the media have crafted, the daily
caricaturing of Trump will significantly spur anti-Americanism around the world. If suddenly even Canadian academics are talking
about boycotting the US, then the worm has truly turned. Trump can only rely on "hard power" (military violence), because "soft power"
is almost out of the question now that Trump has been constructed as a barbarian. Incompetent and/or undermined governance will also
render Trump a deficient upholder of the status quo. The fact that nationalist movements around the world are not centrally coordinated,
and their fortunes are not pinned to those of Trump, establishes a well-defined limit to his influence. Trump's antagonism toward
various countries -- as wholes -- has already helped to stir up a deep sediment of anti-Americanism. If Americanism is at the heart
of Trump's nationalist globalism, then it is doing all the things that are needed to induce a major heart attack.
As for Trump's domestic opposition, what should be most pertinent are issues of conflict of interest and nepotism
. Here members of Trump's base are more on target yet again, when they reject the presence of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner
in the White House ("we didn't elect Ivanka or Jared"), than are those distracted by identity politics.
As Trump leverages the presidency to upgrade the Trump family to the transnational capitalist class, and reinforces the power
of US imperialism which that class has purchased, conflict of interest and nepotism will be the main political signposts of the transformation
of the Trump presidency, but they could also be the targets for a refined strategy of opposition.
"... To this point, there is essentially zero evidence of the promised investment boom. There was respectable growth in investment in the first two quarters of 2018, but growth slowed to just 1.1 percent in the third quarter. ..."
"... In any case, there is zero evidence that the tax cut is leading to the sort of investment boom that will qualitatively boost the rate of productivity and GDP growth and provide workers with substantially higher pay. ..."
"... (irrational) confidence level is an important economic factor. ..."
"... What has been destructive in major recessions has not been "misdirected investment", it has been the leveraged and/or fraudulent financial manipulations which maximize profit but which cause rapid collapse when conditions turn bad. Again, interest rates have in practice not been a main factor in this. ..."
"... Keynes was adamantly against high interest rates and he favored usury laws: "the rate of interest is not self-adjusting at a level best suited to the social advantage but constantly tends to rise too high, so that a wise Government is concerned to curb it by statute and custom and even by invoking the sanctions of the moral law." The General Theory, p. 351. ..."
"... "The evidence is not consistent with the idea that central banks can control economies with interest rates." ..."
"... A much larger threat to world economies (than interest rates) is the huge capital investments in petroleum assets. At some point, those investments will need to be unwound in an orderly fashion but it doesn't seem that anyone is considering how to do that. ..."
(This piece was originally posted on my Patreon page .)
Jim Tankersley had a nice piece
in the New York Times last week pointing out that the tax cut pushed through by the Republicans in 2017 is leading to a sharp drop
in tax revenue. While this was widely predicted by most analysts, it goes against the Trump administration's claims that the tax
cut would pay for itself.
Looking at full-year data for calendar year 2018, Tankersley points out that revenue was $183 billion (5.6 percent) below what
the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had projected for the year before the tax cut was passed into law. This is a substantial falloff
in revenue by any standard, but there are two reasons the picture is even worse than this falloff implies.
The first is that we actually did see a jump in growth in 2018 pretty much in line with what the Trump administration predicted.
The tax cut really did stimulate the economy. It put a lot of money in the economy (mostly going to those at the top) and people
spent much of this money. The result was that the growth rate accelerated from around 2.0 percent the prior three years to over 3.0
percent in 2018. (We don't have 4 th quarter data yet, which may be delayed by the shutdown, but growth should be over
3.0 percent.)
The jump in growth in 2018 means that the drop in revenue was not due to the economy being weaker than expected, it was due to
the fact that the tax rate had fallen by a larger amount than the boost to growth. In fairness to the Trump administration, they
had also projected a falloff
in revenue due to the tax cut in 2018, but not one that was as large as what we saw.
... ... ...
To this point, there is essentially zero evidence of the promised investment boom. There was respectable growth in investment
in the first two quarters of 2018, but growth slowed to just 1.1 percent in the third quarter. It is likely to be even weaker
in the fourth quarter due to the drop in world oil prices (less oil drilling), although we won't get these data until the shutdown
is over. In any case, there is zero evidence that the tax cut is leading to the sort of investment boom that will qualitatively
boost the rate of productivity and GDP growth and provide workers with substantially higher pay.
In this context, the deficits from the Trump tax cut are a problem. If the economy is bumping up against its limits and the labor
market is close to full employment, it means a much larger share of output is going to the consumption of the wealthy. That both
means less private consumption for everyone else, and it makes it more difficult to have major initiatives that involve substantial
spending, such as a Green New Deal or Medicare for All.
The long and short is that the revenue data for 2018 looks pretty bad on its face. It looks even worse on a closer examination.
...and perhaps this funny (American?) idea - that economics only exist in order to have some ''Boom'' going -- forever -- and
ever - (which everybody knows is NOT possible) - is the root of US problem??!
Deficits are not a problem, period. They are a benefit because they keep the boom going, just as lower interest rates forestall
a recession. Keynes pointed this out 80 years ago: "Thus the remedy for the boom is not a higher rate of interest but a lower
rate of interest! For that may enable the so-called boom to last. The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing
booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom."
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, p. 322.
Keeping us out of a recession/slump ought to be the focus of economic policy, not hypothetical questions about the economy
"bumping up against its limits" which anti-Keynesians have been obsessed with for years.
Keeping out of bubbles is what keeps us out of slumps (in most cases). The usual pattern is that as conditions improve people
put confidence where it does not belong and extend leverage, then financial collapse makes things look bad for everyone - the
general (irrational) confidence level is an important economic factor.
Interest rates have an effect on speculation - when rates are low people have to turn to riskier things to make money, and
leverage is cheap. Stock prices were very low in 1981 because interest rates were very high and they are very high now partly
because interest rates have been very low. The effect on speculation may be a valid reason to raise rates - of course the imaginary
threat of inflation is not.
But history indicates it is not a huge effect. The Fed did raise discount rate through 1928 and 1929 up to 6% and this did
not seem to slow the development of the stock-market bubble. It is unlikely that the Fed can kill a bubble or boom now by raising
at much lower levels. The housing bubble of 2006 was a matter of bad regulation. The Fed was involved in encouraging and then
disregarding the bubble, but not by manipulating interest rates. Greenspan was always a cheerleader of deregulation.
"Moreover, even if over-investment in this sense was a normal characteristic of the boom, the remedy would not lie in clapping
on a high rate of interest which would probably deter some useful investments and might further diminish the propensity to consume,
but in taking drastic steps, by redistributing incomes or otherwise, to stimulate the propensity to consume.
"It may, of course, be the case -- indeed it is likely to be -- that the illusions of the boom cause particular types of capital-assets
to be produced in such excessive abundance that some part of the output is, on any criterion, a waste of resources; -- which sometimes
happens, we may add, even when there is no boom. It leads, that is to say, to misdirected investment." The General Theory p.321
"Thus an increase in the rate of interest, as a remedy for the state of affairs arising out of a prolonged period of abnormally
heavy new investment, belongs to the species of remedy which cures the disease by killing the patient." The General Theory p.323.
Causing a recession in order to kill a bubble is madness.
I am not recommending killing a boom or bubble with interest rates. On the contrary I am always recommending against relying
on manipulating interest rates to regulate the economy, whether it is to prevent inflation, real or imaginary, or to stimulate
the economy in case of recession. While Keynes conjectured that interest rates could have effects, he certainly was very clear
in not expecting that they would be sufficient to control the business cycle - see pp. 319-320, the end of Ch. 12 and ch. 24.
What has been destructive in major recessions has not been "misdirected investment", it has been the leveraged and/or fraudulent
financial manipulations which maximize profit but which cause rapid collapse when conditions turn bad. Again, interest rates have
in practice not been a main factor in this.
"While Keynes conjectured that interest rates could have effects, he certainly was very clear in not expecting that they would
be sufficient to control the business cycle"
Really? Then why did he include "Interest" in the title of his magnum opus?
Keynes was adamantly against high interest rates and he favored usury laws: "the rate of interest is not self-adjusting
at a level best suited to the social advantage but constantly tends to rise too high, so that a wise Government is concerned to
curb it by statute and custom and even by invoking the sanctions of the moral law." The General Theory, p. 351.
Further, he railed against using high interest rates to limit the boom: "The austere view, which would employ a high rate of
interest to check at once any tendency in the level of employment to rise appreciably above the average of, say, the previous
decade, is, however, more usually supported by arguments which have no foundation at all apart from confusion of mind." The General
Theory, p. 327-8.
The rate of interest is critical to economic growth which is why the Fed's role is so important.
The evidence is consistent with what Keynes said about high interest rates - the high rates in the 70's to 80's failed to prevent
inflation but caused unemployment to go to 10.8%. The Fed failed utterly in both of its two objectives during that time. Since
2008 record low rates have not produced the claimed boost in investment and growth. This is especially obvious in Europe and Japan
where conditions are worse than in the US despite negative interest rates. This is also consistent with Keynes' expectation that
interest rates would not be sufficient to overcome variations in the perceived marginal efficiency of capital. The evidence is
not consistent with the idea that central banks can control economies with interest rates, or even that their actions are always
constructive. That idea was not Keynes'.
"The evidence is not consistent with the idea that central banks can control economies with interest rates."
That is a bridge too far, and Keynes disagrees:
"There is, indeed, force in the argument that a high rate of interest is much more effective against a boom than a low rate
of interest against a slump." The General Theory, p. 320.
Slowing a boom with higher interest rates is indeed feasible and that has been Fed doctrine for decades. Obviously, higher
interest rates reduce consumption and investment so growth must slow. The high inflation of the 1970s was due to the OPEC oil
shocks, not excessively rapid growth of the economy. In fact, growth had been faster in the 1960s with much lower inflation.
I understand why this economic discussion focuses only on interest rates but it leaves out a larger issue. That fact that,
on CNBC and elsewhere, financial analysts obsess over interest rates, taxes, and the price of oil in relation to the market illustrates
the cluelessness of the financial community. They all applaud "deregulation" without ever specifying which regulations. Do they
mean all regulations?
Trump's deregulation of methane emissions, for example, will create future costs that are exponentially larger than any immediate
savings to frackers and oil companies. That's just one example. Trump's environmental deregulatory agenda is stupidity writ large.
A much larger threat to world economies (than interest rates) is the huge capital investments in petroleum assets. At some
point, those investments will need to be unwound in an orderly fashion but it doesn't seem that anyone is considering how to do
that. Eventually, probably sooner than expected, a tipping point will be reached when mass realization of the threat climate
change poses to our survival generates a mass panicked exit from petroleum assets which will create a financial crash that dwarfs
what we saw in 2008.
Do you remember "Limits to Growth"? Doomsday scenarios have been around for a long time especially in regard to the national
debt which supposedly will cause the collapse of our economy sometime soon. I am skeptical about that.
The MSM and its allies in the controlled alternative media, and the global private-interest
financial, investment and banking system, are a tag-team, indispensable to each other.
Control of money and control of information. The first narrowly concentrates wealth and thus
power and influence. The second through agenda-driven selection, lies, censorship, spin,
misdirection and so on – disinformation – controls people's sense of what is real
and possible, thus dis-empowering them.
The American military and CIA have provided most of the overt and covert 'muscle' for that
control system.
The combined effort of narrowly controlled and narrowly advantaging globe straddling
finance, media, and muscle has facilitated the development of a near global Empire. In common
with traditional Empires this new Empire had totalitarian ambitions: but since its reach was
global, this is really a first attempt at global totalitarian control.
Russia under Putin – leaving aside China – has developed enough strength to
attempt alternative modes of communication and finance and development, not as adjuncts or
subordinates to the Empire's efforts in those regards. And their military is antidote and
opposition to the totalitarian project.
The forgoing is pretty obvious stuff, but I think that the Saker's concluding paragraph
provides a limiting summary of how the issue can play out.
"But fundamentally the Russian people need to decide. Do they really want to live in a
western-style capitalist society (with all the russophobic politics and the adoption
of the terminally degenerate "culture" such a choice implies), or do they want a
"social society" (to use Putin's own words) – meaning a society in which social and
economic
justice and the good of the country are placed above corporate and personal profits.
You could say that this is a battle of greed vs ethics."
This is a simplistic way of looking at the choices available. We are all caught up in
transitional culture processes, no matter where we live. The conjunction of the cornucopia of
new technology and unprecedented environmental and social challenges is everywhere at play,
leading who knows where?
What the Russian people have been given, and this is near singular on Earth, is a
protected and enhanced opportunity of developing a culture in which honest national discourse
is a predominant feature. This is in complete contrast to the predominant 'fake news' system
of discourse control that is in place in so many countries. And full and honest discourse
will create its own original cultural developments.
The Russian adoption of more honest discourse is already having global influence. An
example is Russia Today, which far from perfect and all that, still provides an enormous
advance over the extremely controlled western mass media, and a powerful foe to 'fake
news'.
Perhaps the most visible exemplar of rationale discourse has been Putin himself, with for
example his marathon annual Q and A with the Russian people, or his articulate well
considered sallies on many issues
And with that – if Russia can use unfettered reason writ large as a prime ingredient
of cultural and political development, as a basic developmental 'steering tool' – then
the simple dichotomy of "western-style capitalist society" vs "a society in which social and
economic justice and the good of the country are placed above corporate and personal profits"
, as much as I'm sympathetic to the latter, seems to me to be a limiting way of expressing
the range of potential beneficent possibilities.
Free market is possible only under strict government regulation. Without government regulation free market quickly
deteriorates into the law of jungles. Such a paradox ;-)
And if financial oligarchy gets to power as they got via coup d'état in the USA in late 7th, it is only a matter of time before
the society collapses. They are very destructive to the society at large. Probably more so then organized crime. But wait. They
actually can be viewed as special type of organized prime as is "The best way to rob the bank is to own it".
Notable quotes:
"... Idiots on here are always going on about how we don't got capitalism, if we only had capitalism, we don't got free markets, if only we had free markets, then everything would be hunky-dory. Without any proof, of course, because there never was and never will be a "free" "market." The US has plenty capitalism. And everything sucks. And they want more. Confused, stupid, disingenuous liars. ..."
"... Free markets are crookedness factories. As a PhD from Chicago Business School told me, "Free markets?! What free markets?! There is no free market! It's all crooked!" ..."
Idiots on here are always going on about how we don't got capitalism, if we only had
capitalism, we don't got free markets, if only we had free markets, then everything would be
hunky-dory. Without any proof, of course, because there never was and never will be a "free"
"market." The US has plenty capitalism. And everything sucks. And they want more. Confused,
stupid, disingenuous liars.
Look, what you call "capitalism" and "free markets" just means scams to make rich people
richer. You read some simple-minded description of some pie-in-the-sky theory of some perfect
world where rational actors make the best possible decisions in their own interest without
any outside interference, and you actually think you are reading a description of something
real.
I'll tell you what's real. Crookedness. Free markets are crookedness factories. As a
PhD from Chicago Business School told me, "Free markets?! What free markets?! There is no
free market! It's all crooked!"
The Last but not LeastTechnology is dominated by
two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt.
Ph.D
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