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Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts (www.theguardian.com)
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Independent experts appointed by human rights council speak of ‘grave’ nature regarding scale of atrocities against women and girls

Millions of files related to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a “global criminal enterprise” that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the United Nations human rights council has said.

The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls.

“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,” they said in a statement.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

How TF could having a bunch of girls' corpses buried "out back" POSSIBLY "not" be in the crimes-against-humanity category?!

"It's time for a crusade." goes the meme?

( that utterly-perfect image of the guy pushing his glasses on .. with the arms going through the helmet's eye-holes.. : )

THIS IS LIKE THE UN'S SITTING-OUT THE POLICING-RESPONSIBILITY DURING THE RWANDAN HOLOCAUST.

Idiocy.

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 36 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Can we stop talking about how horrible these crimes are and actually arrest some people?

[–] Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the only arrest trump is ever gonna get is cardiac.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Let’s all root that the next Big Mac will do it

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Since there is no such actual thing as "law" when it comes to power and wealth, the best we can do right now is keep the horrors fresh enough for long enough that when hopefully the administration collapses (likely) or that we see the current legislative and judicial branch decide to take action (a snowball's chance in hell) so no, no arrests will happen until the fascies are out of office. And even then, it will hinge on the political will for a new administration or new set of representatives to take on.

There is a very strong chance it will never go anywhere. There are a lot of Epsteins out there and they're not going to face justice for the exact reason that nobody has wanted to release Epstein's files, which is it's tied to too many people and massively destabilizing to governments. We want that, they don't.

Even if we get an amazing new administration with progressive, law-abiding values, just touching the Epstein files is going to be political suicide because of the political warfare that will be leveled on anyone who tries to dig into it, so every potential leader is going to have to decide if they want to dedicate their entire time in office to fighting a raging river of opposition and legal threats and physical threats for trying to get rich, powerful people brought to justice.

[–] rushmonke@ttrpg.network 43 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

“global criminal enterprise”

This is the kind of stuff that causes people to believe Qanon.

In this post, I'm not blaming Q or the people who believed it. I'm blaming the actual cabal of pedophiles because their existence is enough to make conspiracy theories like Q seem credible.

It turns out the hippies were right; people really are being herded like animals.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I’m blaming Q fuckheads for completely disappearing as soon as it became irrefutable that Trump is a child rapist. It was clearly never about protecting children.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Q was manufactured by Epstein's goons

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 38 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Epstein met Moot(4chan owner) and drove him home, he created the /pol/ board on 4 chan the same day. A couple years later Q anon would be created on that board.

It's the strategy the UFO guys use of mixing ridiculous bullshit with the truth so if anything leaks it sounds like that half ridiculous load of shit you proved was fak to the public.

[–] lemming@anarchist.nexus 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It’s the strategy the UFO guys use of mixing ridiculous bullshit with the truth so if anything leaks it sounds like that half ridiculous load of shit you proved was fake to the public.

Hmmmm... 🤔

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'll take the opposite tack from the other guy, Bob Lazar comes off as a skilled liar, and aliens and time travelers require actual evidence.

The US government did fake 90% of the UFO movement.

Most of the fucked up story is told here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8F1HnpeQTo

That's a Behind the Bastards episode, Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind.

The actual truth is more fucked up than the made up conspiracies, but also more boring. Weapons and Weapon Systems. That's it. Bad ideas and worse coverups.

[–] lemming@anarchist.nexus 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Now that sounds way more plausible than Obamas secret Alien Bob Lazers or whatever that other guys was saying.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, the story is wild, but also it's always tied back to nukes.

An example is cattle mutilation. See, there was a project called "Plowshare" where some people, wanting to have more nukes, tried to find "peaceful" uses for nukes. So, the detonated a nuke, deep underground in the South West, in an effort to fracture the rock and release natural gas.

This worked, except for the little fact that all the gas was contaminated with radioactive isotopes and was rendered unusable.

But this gas was leaky, because the ground was nuked, so in order to track the cancers caused, government agents secretly vivisected cattle, mostly to remove lymph nodes to track a common radiation linked cancer. As always, they didn't tell anyone local that they were doing this, which prompted local authorities and farmers to investigate.

With some careful prodding, a few hints, and a placed agent or two, the guy investigating was convinced that it was aliens doing experiments.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub -1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Aliens(or time travelers) are probably real. Obama even said so in an interview just the other day. There's a DEFCON talk on commonalities and national security implications of UFOs from a few years ago for more information. Also Bob Lazar who's life makes no sense unless he's real or the most complex and well done psyop in history.

Probably doesn't change your day to day life any in the face of fascism 🫤

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

He said it's a big universe so there's probably something out there. But there's nothing hidden away in an area 51 basement or anything.

[–] lemming@anarchist.nexus 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Rrrrright. You're in the realm of flat earth run by lizard people now.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for illustrating my point

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Exactly. I'm not the person you were speaking with, but I agree he's illustrating your point: even though I don't directly believe any of that stuff, I've been around long enough to know that it's all blatantly untrue and patently ridiculous until it's not, and that when it comes right down to it I cannot possibly know what I don't know.

So I leave space for what I don't know even while marking it as unreliable in my own mental index, and in the meantime I try to look for whatever can be physically proven. There is actually quite a lot of documented whatthefuckery in our natural world, and the way you get to proving it one way or another is by throwing hypotheses at the group of facts until one starts to fit.

In everything you've mentioned there's nothing that has been definitively disproven. And what the security people are doing by looking for commonalities is exactly what they should be doing, not hiding their heads in the sand and pretending nothing strange has ever happened while they call other people easy names for noting that it exists.

Imagine if all Epsteins accusers so easily "deemed not credible" were actually heard the first time. There was a reason he went after the most vulnerable, the least protected, many of them with problems of their own: they are easy to disregard, easy to write off, even easy to blame for their own abuse. And that asshole was right.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yeah. There are caves in India I cannot for the life of me make fit into any narative that doesn't conjure scifi or magic. They and 3d scans of Egyptian granite vases have me looking at the ancient aliens series with dread. That shit is so goofy and yet here I am looking at stone machined with compound symmetric curves to tollerances of ±0.02mm I think some of the vases were like ±0.003mm. Nuts and I have no idea what to with the information but adjust my tables of what is possible

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's funny, I think you're very wrong about aliens, but you've actually picked a perfect example. The US government encouraged alien beliefs to ensure that anyone who saw secret tests would assume aliens and not experimental aircraft or radio experiments. And then even if someone didn't say such things they'd be lumped in with those beliefs. It created a lot of noise and created an environment where they could deny something completely different from what they were doing.

The elites harvesting adrenochrome from children in a massive shadow world government as a part of pagan rituals is ridiculous and easy to dismiss in a way that "a wealthy power broker connected a lot of the worst and most powerful people in the world by acting as a drug hookup and pimp specializing in children and the ability to engage in violence. And even better they couod mske it partisan, and claim that one of the most involved people was the solution if given the power of a fascist dictator.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Look dude, math says there are aliens out there, you are smart enough to conceed that point. I was not sold by witness reports it was the military interactions, the videos, the pattern of interacting with nuclear sites, bob lazar specifically and the law enforcement responses he generated.

The Franklin scandal really gave it's self away having the FBI do a large scale raid on the investigator's office the day after he died with his son in a plane crash. Same day he met an informant and got the photos needed to prosecute. It's that kind of thing that i find telling.

Now you could say it's all a psyop to make Russia think the US has captured tech they don't really have but that gets wildly complex and more and more nonsensical the further back you go in history. Like we have foo fighters from WWI and II, the bell, etc...

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

dude

captain lesbian

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 1 points 8 hours ago

There are no girls on the internet. I know the rules

[–] I_Am_Lying@lemmy.org 1 points 21 hours ago

I think looking at it as a cabal of pedophiles is incorrect. It's more a cabal of blackmailers funded by multiple intelligence agencies that set up a pedophile ring in order to create said blackmail. Sure some of the pedophiles are on both sides of that line. But many of the pedophiles were committing crimes of opportunity. That opportunity was just engineered by the blackmailers.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 56 points 23 hours ago

Unfortunately, Humanity lacks an enforcement mechanism.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 22 hours ago

I think any abuse against children is a crime against humanity by definition.

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 4 points 16 hours ago

Epstein's very existence was a crime and all those that were even remotely associated with him should be treated as vile scum that should never see the light of day, also why the FUCK does child rape not "meet the legal threshold" for crimes against humanity?