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Many Politicians Support Israeli Genocide Because They’re Being Blackmailed

The majority in most nations don’t support Israel’s genocidal bombing in Gaza but politicians by huge majorities do, and those who support Palestinians find themselves under constant attack.

Explanations for this tend to concentrate on how much money politicians receive from Israel supporters.

But there’s another reason for their support. Many of them are being blackmailed. The Epstein operation is instructive:

“What people don’t know is that every room in every one of those homes had cameras.

“One would ask, why would you have cameras in every single room? Well, as part of our investigation, we’ve established that Epstein had another room next to where all those cameras fed into, and there were industrial-sized Xerox machines.

“So whatever was taking place inside the four walls of his homes, he was recording it, and printing it out, and keeping DVDs.”

“As part of our investigation, we spoke to Ari Ben-Menashe, who is a former Israeli spy,” Howard said.

“He said, on the record, unequivocally, that Jeffrey Epstein was working for Israeli intelligence operations, the Mossad, and running a classic honey trap operation: that is, lure people inside, record their activities, and use it to blackmail them.

“This person was also the handler of Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend and ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

A (very) partial list of those who visited Epstein’s includes:

  • Donald J. Trump
  • Bill Clinton
  • Kevin Spacey
  • Chris Tucker
  • Bill Gates
  • Prince Andrew
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  • Violinist Itzhak Perlman
  • U.S. Sen. John Glenn
  • Former Senate majority leader George Mitchell

If you want someone to do what you say, both carrot and stick are best. “If you cooperate we’ll reward you. If you don’t, we’ll destroy you.”

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The reason that pedophilia accusations get so much traction in certain circles is that, well, there is a lot of underage and coerced sex among our leaders. It’s one of the perks of being powerful: you can do things which ordinary people are forbidden. Even if you’re not massively into whatever that thing is, it’s a rush to break rules and get away with it.

Epstein was protected, the first time he was charged, he was given a ridiculous plea deal. When the protection later failed, he committed “suicide”, and it just happened the cameras were off when he did so.

Yeah. Suicide.

So I’m quite sure that the reason a lot of politicians, CEOs and important or famous people either support Israel or keep their mouths shut is that Israel has blackmail material on them. I’d be rather surprised if Epstein was the only operative, he was just the one who was caught.

It’s impossible to keep up with just how vile and compromised many, if not most of our leaders are.

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  1. The police and FBI let Epstein off for a decade plus. Before Epstein could talk he was murdered in a high security Jail. This means the FBI, police and other organizations are in on it and are completely corrupted.
    The lesson is that our society and institutions are corrupted and we need to act accordingly.

  2. Carborundum

    If Ari Ben-Menashe said the sun rose in the east, I wouldn’t believe him. Using him as a source is the single best way of discrediting the notion of blackmail in official circles (particularly the Canadian intelligence community) I can think of.

  3. Feral Finster

    Duh. Surely there is a reason that none of Epstein’s client list has so much as been questioned by law enforcement.

    And only a fool believes Epstein killed himself.

  4. StewartM

    Interesting post. That could explain a lot–not only Epstein’s teflon immunity from prosecution, but how he went from nothing to riches.

    Moreover, I also suspect that Putin similarly has the goods on Trump (from when Trump visited Russia for beauty pagents) and moreover any sex didn’t even need to be illegal per se, as 16 is the age of consent in Russia. But a 1986 US Federal law criminalizes anyone who travels outside the US (or even between states) and has sex with anyone under 18. Moreover, this Federal law has *NO* statute of limitations.

    It’s a bad law for many reasons, as many states have age of consents lower than 18. Ergo, you could throw someone in prison decades later for an act they committed traveling from one state (where the sex was legal) to another state (where it was also legal). So the individual wouldn’t be either breaking the law of his/her own state nor the state they were in.

    My only question about these men–were they that stupid? Surely they had heard about Epstein, and whatever their inclinations you’d think they would act like Mitch McConnell does around Matt Gaetz–McConnell leaves the room whenever Gaetz steps in as he doesn’t want to be photographed near him.

    PS. I also think the crucial thing for the list of passengers is where Epstein’s private jet(s) (there were two) were flying. If exclusively to one of his properties, especially Little Saint James (his private island) then that’s suspicious. If they were just using his plane but not residing at his properties, I’d call that ‘dumb’ but not especially suspicious.

  5. DMC

    Indeed, this is what some of the more radical sites have been saying for some time, only to be dismissed as mere anti-semites. What will it take to get the Zionist influences off our wholly corrupted government? I’m thinking it will take convincing a simple majority to stop voting for Democrats or Republicans, that doing the same thing and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

  6. anon

    Why did the protection ultimately fail for Epstein and Maxwell? I don’t know enough about Epstein other than watching the Netflix documentary, which of course did not bring up the possible ties to the Mossad. Where can I find a full list of people who visited Epstein’s Island? The most common names brought up in the media are Trump and Clinton, but I’d like to know the celebrities who visited. Only two – Chris Tucker and Itzhak Perlman – are named on that list from Newsweek.

  7. anon

    Also, I’ll be listening to the audiobook of Dead Men Tell No Tales this weekend. Thanks for linking to that article.

  8. Curt Kastens

    I am not pissed off that someone is blackmailing these jerk offs. I am pissed off that these dick heads allowed themselves to be put in to a position that they can be blackmailed.
    Stupid. Such amatures.
    This is what we have (ok had) to work with. We were the real mission impossible agents for postive change.

  9. jump

    Definitely crossed my mind as well. I wouldn’t limit blackmail to the personal ‘honey trap’ kind though. I am sure there are many nefarious covert actions both foreign and domestic carried out by governments that could tarnish their international and domestic reputations.

  10. StewartM

    Carborundum

    If Ari Ben-Menashe said the sun rose in the east, I wouldn’t believe him.

    Having googled him, what in particular makes you say that? Ben-Menashe was one of the first to expose Reagan’s “October Surprise” deal with Iran, and that has turned out to look pretty much what had happened.

  11. Carborundum

    Ben-Menashe has been involved in a lot of questionable business / government relations dealings and many, many more questionable assertions. The Wikipedia article touches on only a very small subset of what he’s asserted over the years. He can always be relied on to give “good quote” to journos that don’t know where the bodies are buried, but the tales that he spins trend heavily towards the fantastical.

    As an example, I remember him spouting ad nauseam on how we were totally pwned by Mossad through supposed backdoors in software we didn’t even use – a key fact that he would have known if he was actually the guy he bills himself as. Basically, the guy’s a Mitt – he may have done some stuff back in the day, but the world has moved on and he’s spent a couple decades trading on mystique by association rather than operational achievements.

  12. mago

    Thank you Ian for speaking truth to the obvious. Perhaps it’s time.

    Many others have said the same and got shot down.

    But maybe now the tides are changing.
    Blackmail around power, sex and money is as old as “civilization”

    Send more money, guns and lawyers and you could have an 80’s hit song or at least more deaths and destruction.

    Anybody getting a good night’s sleep is suspect.

  13. StewartM

    Carborundum

    Ok but Ben-Menashe was only one of the sources that the journalist Dylan Howard used to write his book.

    My next question would be, “If Epstein was indeed recording everything inside all the rooms of his houses, then what happened to the DVDs?”

  14. different clue

    Would Mossad be able to do this within the borders of the US without US Intel and Gov even knowing about it?

    Or did US Intel and Gov know all about it and allow Epstein to carry on provided he shared every little thing, sound and image with US Intel and the relevant parts of Gov?

    Someone will always be running honey traps. The only way to make US elected officeholders and etc. immune to blackmail is for all the voting citizens to pre-forgive officeholders and etc. for everything they are ever discovered or disclosed to be doing.

    And now that we have A I and VideoShop and Deep Fakes, blackmail-info collectors don’t even need real footage or audio anymore. They can simply fake up anything they want to “blackmail” a target with. Maybe we will need a new word for the process of DeepFake blackmail. Something like “fakemail”. How many of the big public are yet ready to understand AI and VideoShop and DeepFakes?

    I doubt I will ever be famous or consequential enough to be worth blackmailing or fakemailing or any such thing. But I think I already know the best type of reply if it were to happen.

    The Blackmailer/Prosecutor/Reporter/whatever: ” So . . . Mister Clue . . . how did all that kiddie porn get onto your computer?”

    Mister Clue: ” You tell me. You put it there.”

  15. anon

    StewartM, I have the same question. Have any recordings been destroyed or do people in the US and/or Israeli government have the originals or copies?

  16. Carborundum

    Looking at the book, the assertion that Epstein was an asset (witting or unwitting) rests squarely on Ben-Menashe. Phil Giraldi is enlisted to suggest that it’s possible and consistent with Mossad strategy and interests, but he doesn’t seem to bring any specific knowledge to the table.

    I don’t know whether there’s any state sponsorship of blackmail going on here (it defies my common sense that there wasn’t some sort of at least implicit blackmail going on), but I damned sure know how anything mentioning Ben-Menashe is viewed in official circles here by anyone with half a brain and more than 15 minutes on a NatSec file. (There are burn notices and then there are “towering infernos of incandescent flame inconsistent with further career progression, hope you like overwintering in CFS Alert if you ever come into my office again with stuff like this” notices…)

  17. StewartM

    DC

    The Blackmailer/Prosecutor/Reporter/whatever: ” So . . . Mister Clue . . . how did all that kiddie porn get onto your computer?”

    Actually, that has been a real problem, for a variety of reasons. One, it’s hard to tell between what’s legal and what’s not (18 is not a good biological dividing line) , and it’s possible just to go to an internet site that has porn and some may be kiddie porn (and you won’t know before you’ve seen it and therefore “possess” it). Getting rid of it may require a knowledge of how your operating system and its programs handle and stash files (sometimes they make copies elsewhere!) and even if you find them, and simply delete them, the file may be recovered by an undelete program and thus you’re proven to have “possessed” it.

    That’s why I think that decriminalizing simple possession is best. You can still make it illegal to buy, sell, distribute or even solicit to remove any financial incentive, as doing all those are knowing, voluntary actions. But going after people who accidentally or unknowingly download it is nuts, plus it gives law enforcement a justification to snoop on our devices. In fact, there have been allegations of malware that downloads it and stashes it without one’s knowledge (blackmailware, perhaps?).

  18. DMC

    If I was leading an investigation into Epstein’s nefarious activities, I’d start with Leslie Wexner of Victoria’s Secret, who had Epstein manage his billions, and Ehud Barack, former Israeli Prime Minister, who was in business with Epstein for years.

  19. Mark Level

    Mostly good info, but one aspect neglected in the commentary– this honeypot blackmail (& murder) ring is inter-generational & spans a long time period. Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of the corrupt tycoon Robert Maxwell, who was killed & thrown naked off his yacht after somehow crossing his Mossad handlers. Oh, & a big “coincidence”, she dated Boris Johnson at University in England. (The same BoJo who ordered Zelensky not to agree to peace in March 2022, when Ukraine would’ve gotten something beyond destruction and loss of 20% or more of their territory.) Before he was killed, Maxwell’s main “confidant and attorney” was Anthony Blinken’s “step-father” Samuel Pisar (after mom cuckolded his biological dad and ran to France to live with Pisar.) The untalented Epstein (dropped out of college before completing a math degree) was recruited to teach math for the tony Dalton School on Manhattan’s upper east side by Donald Barr, a former OSS (therefore CIA later) agent and the father of Bush Junior’s attorney general William P. “Bill” Barr. Then Epstein was promoted up the ladder to be the cut-out for his massive blackmail op, which was clearly run by much smarter people than the dopey, sex-obsessed Epstein (who reportedly had to ejaculate 3x daily minimum even in later life.) This is just the tip of the iceberg, but it reminds me of the old chestnut from George Carlin, “It’s a small club & you ain’t in it.”

    These people have no scruples or empathy, they live only for Control, power & money, they are psychopaths. As Ian said, nice to create some “sticks” for those unwilling to rape, murder, extort (etc.) others with a clear conscience. They do recognize one another as part of the Master class, & consider the rest of us sheep to be used as they will. Good on Ghislaine for stashing lots of evidence somewhere her former pals can’t find it, so she lives in jail without meeting the patsy Jeffrey’s miserable (but fully earned) ending.

    And of course just like the JFK assassination, they control the “rules” so the original 50 years after which all the gov’t. evidence was supposed to be released was extended past 60 years & will likely never be shared. There are a lot of “conspiracy” claims I have been skeptical about. Recently I learned that the evidence of how Seth Rich who worked for the Clintons died will be in a black box for 99 years. This tells me enough, I was born on a Wednesday but it wasn’t yesterday.

    In closing, one good investigator of this type of thing is a woman named Whitney Webb, who I have seen on various podcasts. Of course, some sources are deliberately spreading distraction or disinformation, so best always to check links & facts of even those (like Webb in my case) who one generally trusts.

  20. StewartM

    Carborundum

    Looking at the book, the assertion that Epstein was an asset (witting or unwitting) rests squarely on Ben-Menashe.

    Just curious. Have you read Dylan Howard’s book?

    Another question—if Epstein was just a sole actor, and it comes from another source had every room in his house under video surveillance, unbeknown to the people staying there—why? I would have assumed that information didn’t come from Ben-Menashe.

    The use of honeypots like this possible one to blackmail people is akin to what was said about the torture techniques at Abu Ghraib–kids in Iowa don’t sit around and think this stuff up on their own. Intelligence agencies, by contrast, do.

  21. Tony Wikrent

    See picture at link.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9552613/Melinda-Gates-warned-Bill-association-Jeffrey-Epstein.html
    “Melinda Gates warned her husband Bill against any further contact with Jeffrey Epstein after the couple had an uncomfortable meeting with the convicted sex offender, according to a new report . Bill Gates is pictured at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion in 2011, from left: James E. Staley, at the time a senior JPMorgan executive; former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers; Epstein; Gates and Boris Nikolic, who was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s science adviser”

  22. Anthony K Wikrent

    Don’t ignore the role of British intelligence.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am

    In 1987, Towers Financial Corporation, led by its CEO Steven Hoffenberg and his consultant Jeffrey Epstein, unsuccessfully tried to take over Pan Am in a corporate raid with Towers Financial as their raiding vessel.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg
    In 1987, he met Jeffrey Epstein through a British defense contractor named Douglas Leese (died 2011), who Hoffenberg claimed was an arms dealer.[15] Leese was, with Saudi Adnan Khashoggi and Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, architect in the billion dollar Al-Yamamah arms deal, Britain’s biggest arms deal ever concluded – earning the prime contractor, BAE Systems, at least GBP 43 billion in revenue between 1985 and 2007.[16] Leese told Hoffenberg about Epstein: “The guy’s a genius, he’s great at selling securities. And he has no moral compass.” Hoffenberg hired Epstein about 1987 and 1993 to help with the Towers Financial Corporation, paid him $25,000 a month and gave him a $2 million loan in 1988 that Epstein would never have to pay back.[17][3] During this period, Hoffenberg and Epstein worked closely together and traveled everywhere on Hoffenberg’s private jet.[3][18][19] Hoffenberg began using Towers Financial funds to pay off earlier investors and pay for a lavish lifestyle that included a Locust Valley, New York, Long Island mansion, as well as homes on Sutton Place (in Manhattan) and in Florida, and a number of cars and planes.[3][20]
    ….
    In court documents, Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein was intimately involved in the Ponzi scheme.[21][22] Epstein left Towers Financial before it collapsed and was never charged for being involved with the massive investor fraud committed.[23][24]

    In 2016, Hoffenberg and some of his victims sued Epstein, seeking restitution. He asserted in court that Epstein had been intimately involved in Tower’s financial practices and called Epstein the “architect of the scam”.[17] In July 2019, following Epstein’s arrest on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, Hoffenberg again claimed that Epstein was his “uncharged co-conspirator” in the Ponzi scheme.[25] Former Towers investors made similar allegations in a lawsuit filed in August 2018. The lawsuit also alleged that the millions in stolen investments were the seed capital for Epstein’s hedge fund, which it valued at $50 billion.[26]

  23. Anthony K Wikrent

    https://unlimitedhangout.com/2019/07/investigative-series/government-by-blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trumps-mentor-and-the-dark-secrets-of-the-reagan-era/

    “Government by Blackmail: Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s Mentor and the Dark Secrets of the Reagan Era
    “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.

    BY
    WHITNEY WEBB
    JULY 25, 2019

    “….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.

    “Starting first with mob-linked liquor baron Lewis Rosenstiel and later with Roy Cohn, Rosenstiel’s protege and future mentor to Donald Trump, Epstein’s is just one of the many sexual blackmail operations involving children that are all tied to the same network, which includes elements of organized crime, powerful Washington politicians, lobbyists and “fixers,” and clear links to intelligence as well as the FBI.

    “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. Of particular importance is the “Iran Contra” network, a group of Reagan officials and associates who played key roles in the Iran Contra scandal. Though it has remained relatively unknown for years, many key figures in that same network, and several fronts for the CIA that were involved in funneling money to the Central American Contra paramilitaries, were also trafficking minors for their sexual exploitation and use in sexual blackmail rings.

    “Several of these rings made headlines at one point or another over the years — from the “call boy ring” run by Washington lobbyist Craig Spence, to the Franklin child-sex and murder ring run by Republican operative Larry King, to the scandal that enveloped the Catholic charity Covenant House in the late 1980s.

    “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. ”

    And don’t forget that Roy Cohn mentored Donald Trump.

  24. mago

    Kashoggi says it all.
    Google the name.
    Queen Nora as well.

  25. Hairhead

    I have been watching and noting political sex scandals for over 50 years now. I know that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. Why? Because it matches the pattern. Take a look at the “brothel expose” news stories over these last decades. Time and time again, brothel keeper, procurers, and pimps have been dragged out into the public and have claimed that they have books and names to publicize . . .

    And all of these people committed suicide.

    It’s a pattern. The rich and the powerful truly enjoy their suzerainty over the quivering bodies of our children, and will absolutely will kill anyone who gets in their way (though they will make it look like suicide).

  26. Carborundum

    I read the chapter asserting that Epstein was associated with intelligence organization(s) in some way and did a keyword search on a few names. The issue isn’t whether Epstein was collecting on an industrial scale (he sure seems to have been), the issue is whether he was doing so as some sort of controlled asset.

    Boil it down, the evidence for that seems to me to be pretty unspecific and relies heavily on guilt by association with stuff that doesn’t actually have a great evidentiary base. I’ve been around a long time – I remember when Maxwell took his header off his yacht and I’ve observed how much stuff, ever more sensationalistic and thinly sourced, has been accreted to him over the years. The notion that he was deeply, operationally involved with Mossad and that Epstein was thus also so involved has a lot more face validity to someone coming late to the story than it does to me.

    One of the things experience has drilled into me is that repeating something originating from the same source 100 times doesn’t magically make it better evidence and a lot of the Epstein / intelligence nexus smells like that to me. Is it plausible? Sure. But a lot of other things are pretty plausible too.

  27. Anthony K Wikrent

    Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist and dissident who was assassinated in October 2018.

    Billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi is the figure of interest here.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Khashoggi

    “…he established companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein to handle his commissions as well as developing contacts with notables such as CIA officers James H. Critchfield and Kim Roosevelt and United States businessman Bebe Rebozo, a close associate of U.S. President Richard Nixon….

    “…In the 1960s and 1970s, Khashoggi helped bring together Western companies and the Saudi Arabian government, to satisfy its infrastructure and defense needs.[18][20] Between 1970 and 1975, Lockheed paid Khashoggi $106 million in commissions. His commissions started at 2.5% and eventually rose to as much as 15%. Khashoggi “became for all practical purposes a marketing arm of Lockheed….

    “Khashoggi was implicated in the Iran–Contra affair as a key middleman in the arms-for-hostages exchange along with Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar and, in a complex series of events, was found to have borrowed money for these arms purchases from the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) with Saudi and United States backing.[2] His role in the affair created a related controversy when Khashoggi donated millions to the American University in Washington DC, to build a sports arena which would bear his name.[27] Khashoggi was a member of the university’s board of trustees from 1983 until his indictment on fraud and other charges in May 1989.[28] Khashoggi was “principal foreign agent” of the United States and helped establish the supranational intelligence partnership known as the Safari Club….

    “In January 2003, Seymour Hersh reported in The New Yorker magazine that former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle had a meeting with Khashoggi in Marseille in order to use him as a conduit between Trireme Partners, a private venture capital company of which he was one of three principals, and the Saudi government.[34] At the time, Perle was chair of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, a Defense Department advisory group, which provided him with access to classified information and a position to influence defense policy.[34] Khashoggi told Hersh that Perle talked to him about the economic costs regarding a proposed invasion of Iraq. “‘If there is no war,’ he told me, ‘why is there a need for security? If there is a war, of course, billions of dollars will have to be spent.'”[35]”

  28. Feral Finster

    @Curt Kastens

    If you cannot be blackmailed, then you cannot be allowed power. (This is one of the many reasons why the russiagate conspiracy theory was obviously so much malarkey, because even pussygate didn’t deter Trump or Trump voters, because everyone already knows, that’s just how Trump rolls).

    In fact, if Putin had half the intelligence that russiagate conspiracy theorists routinely ascribe to him, he’d have enough sense to pick a patsy with less obvious baggage. Putin certainly wouldn’t let said patsy do bonehead things like pay porn stars out of campaign funds or give the foreign policy establishment the vapors by calling for rapprochement with Russia – certainly not before he got elected.

    Instead, he’d pick a flunky that looks and talks too good to be true, charming and devoted wife and 2.43 well-scrubbed and seemingly well-adjusted kids. He’d pick a flunky that says all the right things on the campaign trail, one that doesn’t set a million internet Russia experts and amateur spy hunters and MSM talking heads frothing at the mouth with crackpot conspiracy theories.

    He’d also pick a patsy who reserves his true passions for eleven year old Polynesians of either sex.

  29. Curt Kastens

    Feral Finster,
    I have often wondered if that was the case.
    I do wonder if you have a typo in your last sentence though. Did you mean11 year old Polynesians or did you mean 11 Palestinians?
    In either case I agree with your assertions about Russiagate and Trump brewing the beer for Putin.

  30. Mark Level

    Hey Feral Finster–

    It seems to me that you are implying that IF Putin were allowed to pick the next U$ Prez Manchurian Candidate style, it’d be Pete Buttigieg? Am I reading that right?

  31. different clue

    @Feral Finster,

    What if Putin was a master of reverse psychology? What if Putin already knew all the considerations that you raise about the quality of Trump as an asset, and was aware that others would think the same way about it, and therefor decided that since Trump would be the most anti-plausible person to pick as an asset, that therefor Trump would be the most effective hidden-in-plain-sight asset there could ever be? Because no one, but no one would ever believe it?

    That is just a self-amusing reverse-psychology counter-factual question on my part, to be sure . . . .

  32. StewartM

    Feral Finster

    Instead, he’d pick a flunky that looks and talks too good to be true, charming and devoted wife and 2.43 well-scrubbed and seemingly well-adjusted kids.

    From what I know of espionage, the typical spy IS the kind of the blackmail-able patsy with a lot problems and issues (that’s why they are lured into espionage, and why many eventually get caught). They start doing outrageous and stupid things, instead of lying low. Heck, you could apply that description to Epstein himself.

    Their handlers, however, can be incredibly cool (as in keeping their wits about them).

  33. different clue

    @Stewart M,

    I suspect the same “rat hackers” ( ratfuckers who hack) who could put their kiddieporn on my computer to create the impression of simple possession on my part could go right ahead and remotely instruct my computer to sell the kiddieporn to others in my name, setting me up for accusations of myself having dunnit.

    I am not famous enough or enough of a threat to anyone to worry about being rat hacked that way. But some people are. The issue may have to be faced and defeated head-on. Decriminalizing “simple possession” may not be enough if the rat hackers can remotely instruct your computer to buy and sell the kiddieporn so that the Legal Enforcement System can then come along and convict you for having dunnit.

  34. BC Nurse Prof

    Ian you missed one on that list: Justin Trudeau.

  35. Steve

    Seems to explain RFK Jr.’s nearly unhinged fealty to Israel. It is so contrary to his otherwise anti-imperialist stances and has had many people scratching their heads. Well, wonder no more.

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