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Epstein, Mossad, and the question we are not allowed to ask but must do (www.thecanary.co)

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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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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 hours 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.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 21 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 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 15 hours ago

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

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day 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 2 points 12 hours 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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[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

and the FSB

[–] enterpries@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

4chan was right and reddit was wrong.

The world really is run by [REDACTED]

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours 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 5 hours ago

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

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago

you're on lemmy dude, you can say it

[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day 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.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whitney Webb: EPSTEIN, Intelligence & the Global Network of Power | Peter McCormack Show

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Outstanding story

[+] BigBolillo@mgtowlemmy.org -11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago

The ruling class own and control the entire world. Billionares and C-suite corporate executives. Some of them are jewish, many are not. The ruling class use the USA and Israel as tools in their game of global hegemony. They want you to blame everything on the Jews because that distracts you from the truth, that capitalism exploits us all. Please wake up.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Zs*

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't spread this misinformation. Israel is a puppet state of the US, not the other way around. It's tempting to want to blame a foreign nation for the terrible crimes we see in Israel and in the US but unfortunately it all comes back to the US and the UK.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't really know who is whose puppet all I care is all of them are cunts

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You rightly don't care but the misinformation that Israel controls the US is extremely dangerous and will lead to terrible antisemitic atrocities if it is allowed to take root.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Israel deverves that wholly, because it does control a whole lot via proxies, blackmail and antisemitism threats.

If Romania din terrible things, you call out Romania, you don't loiter around worrying about what will happen to diaspora citizens of Romania before calling out atrocities commited by Romania.

If Romania meddled in the US admin, building up blackmail and using it as leverage, you call out Romania.

The world already knows zionism is the issue, not jews, and if they don't they will be told until they understand.

But you can't just bend over and give Israel your other hole just because you may get called a racist undeservedly.

I can't be bothered to give a damn about a country that I see online constantly celebrating and threatening deaths of children, on every platform that doesn't censor it.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not what I'm saying, hear me out here. Fuck Israel, it should 100% be dissolved and their leaders should be tried for crimes against humanity and executed.

But you gotta realize you are replying to a thread which literally blames all jews. Not zionists, not even israeli jews, just all jews. We are on the precipice of repeating the events of the 20th century and while your anger is valid it is enabling it.

Israel does not control the US. It is 100% true that Israel has a powerful lobby and many in the ruling class have ties to Israel, but geopolitically speaking, Israel furthers the foreign policy interests of the United States, not the other way around.

Israel exists to ensure the middle east remains destabilized and ripe for colonial extractive interests. That's why the US sends Israel so much aid and weapons, because Israel is a weapon of US imperialism.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I didn't read the linked post admittedly, just the op on lemmy, but yea I agree, jews shouldn't all be bundled in this

Maybeb I'm just blind but I don't see a mention of all jews on the lemmy op text post

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Sorry for being unclear, not the original post, but the original comment that started this thread:

Js are the real owners of the USA

Obviously they removed a couple of letters there to try and sidestep censorship but the meaning is clear. Comments like this are extremely prolific and regularly well received on many online platforms.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm just sick of and was responding to the tendency for people to conflate jews with zionists -- which is very intentional on the part of zionists so they can use "antisemitism" as an excuse to silence and punish those who oppose them.

I'm absolutely in agreement with you. I'm not sure exactly who the puppet is, but I know the problem is rampant capitalism and the disparity of wealth concentrating power among the ruling class.

I just don't want people to think that because I am Jewish I must be a zionist or that "jews run the world" as the user I was responding to said. They are separate things and I don't believe anyone has a divine right to land and I'm very much not part of the ruling class. It's not jews that run the world, it's the absurdly wealthy, and there's a lot of zionists among them because it, just like white supremacy, is a tool of capitalism and cannot be separated from it, hence why I said "Zs".

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Some of us non-Jews have been fighting for that distinction: the "Not in Our Name" Jews ABSOLUTELY prove that Netanyahu's "Israel" isn't identical with Jews.

& .. I hope that the real Jews understand the warnings put in Jeremiah & Isaiah about what happens when "Israel" turns against the Jewish G-D: it gets torched.

https://www.frametheglobenews.com/p/is-israel-the-bankrupt-colony?triedRedirect=true

That is evidence that Netanyahu's days are numbered.

In my view, what Hamas did was consciously .. incompetent, but unconsciously was brilliant, if nihilist:

All they had to do was sacrifice Palestine & Palestinians, & get Netanyahu to take the bait, & then .. "Israel" would eradicate its-own "deterrent" from the region, by making the region not care what "Israel" did to them: annihilating "Israel" had to happen at any cost.

It was a book on kenjutsu which explained the concept:

IF all one's martial-arts training presumed that the opponent would block one's strikes, to protect their life ..

THEN one will automatically strike at them, to force them into blocking, as a means of breaking-off their attack of oneself, see?

BUT .. if THIS opponent doesn't even care if they live, & the don't divert from attacking to block, to protect themselves.. then both of you die, guaranteed.

IOW, without "deterrent", then the whole rules-of-the-game are different.

& Netanyahu's "Israel" is eradicating "deterrent" from the relationship between Netanyahu's "Israel" & the surrounding-region, as fast as they can.

Which means that .. its annihilation is building in probability.

All this to say, if you've loved-ones who're in Netanyahu's "Israel", please invest in getting them out, before that annihilation happens, for your & their sakes.

I'd rather good-people of all religions NOT be the ones butchered in the next stage of our world's process, when rampaging "conquering" is all that's happening.

& that means the good people need to "get off the tracks", & then when those tracks have been destroyed, get off the next tracks which will then be emerging, & keep agilely doing this until this whole century is done.

The context this-century is, is kinda unique: karma^3.

It's all coming-home to "roost" on us, now.

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Oh, & hopefully this may help you re some Christians, some day:

their Gospel of John kept calling their root-guru benJoseph "rabbi"/"Rabbi" ( no idea if that should be capitalized, sorry ), while attacking the "Jews".

I'm putting falsifying-quotes on the term:

he didn't have the option, back then, because they hadn't been invented yet.

John's identifying of both-sides, was attacking ONLY false-Jews, NOT real Jews.

Christianity ignored that, for millenia.

Even though their later book, Rev, made that distinction absolutely-explicit.

It is Christiandom's ignoring of John's using of both terms, that both-terms use which was showing the real intent.

Ideologues won't know that evidence, but if you're ever discussing it with real Christians, they may well see that evidence, in their own bible, & understand.

Which would make them more Jews' allies, see?

& if they're using biblegateway for their bibles, ask them to try CJB ( using AMP & EXB for decrypting Jewishisms, & also for sometimes evading over-interpretation.. usually one has to go to CJB to get out from overinterpretation, but sometimes it's the other-way-around ), to get a cleaner view..

Anyways, do well, & yes, this actually is the "End Times" that Judaism ( Daniel 7+, some Isaiah, etc, ) has been talking about for millenia, & seeing-through all the culturally-bound/limited truths, to the underlying-universal Truths, is more required now, than it ever has been, before, since the FLOOD when the Laurentide Ice-Sheet melted into the North Atlantic, 6 "Days as a 1000 years" & 6 "Nights as a 1000 years" ago.

Agility & proactivity both are required, now.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's all good, I'm totally with you, agree with everything you wrote. Sorry for snapping at you, I am also very frustrated with the constant conflation of zionism/Israel with Jewish people, and the whole "Israel controls the US!!!" stuff is so frustrating because it's so obvious that they're both just aligned sharing a common goal it barely matters which is in control of the other really, they're both terrible, doing terrible things, in support of each other.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

100% and no worries I completely understand the frustration around misinformation in today's political climate and generally online. No harm done. Keep fighting the good fight.