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The conclusion, then, is not a lurid morality tale about “bad people doing bad things,” nor the tired revelation that royals, celebrities, or billionaires behave with impunity. That much is already obvious. Child abusers exist across every class and every society. What does not exist everywhere is a system that records, archives, weaponises, and protects that abuse for strategic ends.

The Epstein case points not to isolated depravity, but to structured leverage: an architecture of blackmail in which sexual crimes become instruments of power rather than grounds for prosecution. That is why the fixation on individual scandal – princes, parties, and gossip – functions as misdirection.

The real scandal is the evidence of an intelligence-linked operation in which Mossad repeatedly appears as a point of reference, protection, and utility; an operation that embedded itself across politics, finance, media, and celebrity culture.

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[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 95 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If Mossad was doing it then the CIA was at the very least complicit.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like all governments that are a part of the 5 eyes should have been naturally, aithenticly, and genuinely overthrown by any person that claims to give any fucks about the human race. Maybe eventually an honest war will start.

I couldn't live without my sports, iPhone, and Hollywood though. Soooo worth it throw it all away for some other entity to completely own humanity. /S It's time to do our best detox from what is not truly necessary.

All the main intelligence agencies own the world.

We aren't coming back from this as a species and we didn't just start to lose touch, we've been running on an arrogant and ignorant high for decades.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

we’ve been running on an arrogant and ignorant high for decades

Only decades? I'd go back centuries.

We aren’t coming back from this as a species

I disagree. I still believe in us. We are the most co-operative animal on the planet. We can do better. We need to abolish capitalism and other forms of coercive power, but once we have done that, I genuinely believe that the human race can be an incredible force for good.

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[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

and the FSB

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mossad is a terrorist organization. What can you expect from them? Law and Order? Mossad is opposite of Law and Order. They blackmail or kill, whatever is more beneficial for them.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I believe this corroborates exactly what you just said, properly:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/rise-and-kill-first

( & that I know-of, EVERY major-geopolitics-player does the same thing, to some degree: NONE of this world is truly "clean" )

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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Besides the speculations about Israel and Russia having some relation to Epstein's "work" (which sure looks like a honeypot, even if typically the operator of a honeypot doesn't dive into honey) there is another avenue of extortion open currently.

It is imaginable that US special services could offer people "deals" worded like:

  • "would you like your name to be redacted from, or published with the Epstein files?"

...and it's foreseeable that some people would do a lot to have their name redacted. I hope that in the DoJ, it's a large crew of many people doing the redactions, since that would reduce risk of someone trading favours.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Plus, with a large group of people, the chance of a leak is much higher.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

With all the powerful people behind this though, any leaker would commit suicide according to the authorties within a week.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Epstein might not have been the main operator. Ghislaine was there as well, and not quite as stupid as him.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can't say that. That's antisemitism!

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That and people are trying to put entire blame on Russia

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well yes, because Russia is Evil, everything that our own oligarchs do is clearly the fault of Russia.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

How else are we gonna justify US defense spending?

We tried the war on terror, that didn't keep the public scared for much more than a few years. Now Russia, THAT'S an enemy you can propagandize against! They're godless commies AND they hate gays!

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

It's so jarring to me to hear a sentence structured like that, and I can put my finger on why. It sounds like it was written by Charlie Kelly.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

I've started thinking that it's not so much about blackmail after all, instead it's about connections and relationships.

Consider this: Epstein clearly had thousands of customers. I don't have any actual number in my head, but clearly it must have been a lot and seemingly everybody knew about it. Like, if you look at how many people are related to all this, it's impossible to think that nobody knew anything. Probably, a very large number of people knew what was going on; but nobody bothered to do anything about this. Why? Because they didn't care. To them, it was just business as usual, everybody's all in on this anyways, those that aren't have no actual power, so who's gonna do anything?

Like, even if it did get public, i'm pretty sure most of the people involved felt certain enough that nothing bad would happen anyways. Considering there were mostly no consequences till today, they're mostly right, i'd say.

Instead, they just used the parties and connections as a networking platform, getting to know other influential people and stuff. That's IMHO the bigger reason why mossad is involved in all of this. Not for blackmailing purposes, but to be in the center of a network of connections that gives them a lot of strategic influence in the world.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I highly suggest everybody give the woman a listen. She is on point.

What's happening is bigger then simply the ICE issue, and bigger than trump and the Republicans or the democrats... We are fucked and need to get serious.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

We are at war with Israel and we are losing

[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is an opinion piece and should at least marked as such.

[–] doben@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 months ago

All you do is post Western propaganda and should at least be marked as such.

Interesting at which kind of posts you find the need to comment on.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, Epstein's Fortnite account is active again in Israel.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because he's not dead? Did they pull a swordfish?

[–] enterpries@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

4chan was right and reddit was wrong.

The world really is run by [REDACTED]

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"4chan was right " is a funny lesson to take when the files show Epstein was behind /pol and Pizzagate.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I mean the details were largely true, just the perpetrators were different. Super projection

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

you're on lemmy dude, you can say it

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ex anti-Russian Brit spy who publishes unsourced and discredited Russian rumors claims it's Russia. Story at 11.

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Steele's work is excellent. I read the dossier he produced on Trump and it was highly accurate. It also specified when sourcing was not confirmed, such as the claim Trump had had prostitutes urinate on a Moscow hotel bed the Obamas had once slept in (what is colloquially called the pee tape). But his prediction ROSNEFT would split off 20% and sell this to an intermediary buyer for Trump and the Republicans actually did happen. And that was the real meat of his report.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Outstanding story

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