Epstein, Power, Money, Ubiquitous Corruption

We are being kept in the dark. We elect what is really a pretend government. The majority of the people calling the shots lurk in the shadows. We've always known that big donors and corporations have an outsize influence on our politicians, but it's much worse than we suspected. It's now clear that at least hundreds of rich and powerful people worked with Jeffrey Epstein on behalf of the US security state and the Israeli government. This has been true through many administrations, as evidenced by recently released documents connecting Jeffrey Epstein's power and money to the Clintons and to Obama's WH Attorney Kathryn Ruemmler. It involves many of the DNC's most powerful funders: Reid Hoffman, Glenn Dubin, Tom Pritzker, Leslie Wexner and Bill Gates. as well as some of Trump's highest-placed people, including Howard Lutnck, Steve Bannon, William Barr and Alan Dershowitz. It involves many hundreds of documented incidents where your voice as a citizen has been nullified. You did not vote for this corrupt and degenerate plutocracy. Nor will you ever be given the opportunity to get rid of it by any sort of vote. The people who have really been in charge don't care about you or me. They laugh at our Constitution.

And have you ever noticed how there are so many news media narratives that run counter to common sense? Those narratives are being driven by corrupt power and money.

I never thought I'd say this, but the U.S. government is more than corrupt. Our country has been completely occupied by unelected people (many of them operating through NGOs) who make many of the biggest decisions, including in the areas of domestic policy, public health, finance and foreign policy. In the area of foreign policy, we already knew this from years of US obeisance to the Israeli government's political arm, AIPAC, especially evidenced by our willingness to pour unlimited $ into wars at the direction of Israel. All of this has become distressingly more clear based on the recently released Epstein files. It is equally clear that we haven't yet seen the vast majority of the Epstein documentation. Most of Epstein's data has been meticulously and obediently redacted or withheld from U.S. Citizens by unknown people on behalf of their unknown bosses. See the post/video below (by Shadow of Ezra) for more on that.

An investigation has found that the Department of Justice has released just two percent of the material the FBI seized from Jeffrey Epstein’s properties.

The report says Epstein’s electronic devices, including computers, hard drives, and servers, are largely missing from the files made public.

It concludes that the three million and even six million figures shared with the public represent only a fraction of what authorities actually possess.

You might think that what I have written sounds crazy. I would agree with you that this sounds completely crazy. If you are brave and courageous, however, visit X, search for "Epstein" and start reading the who's who list of all the rich and famous people who have been exercising their political muscle in the shadows. The more you read, the more you will appreciate the courage of a handful of our elected representatives who know that we the citizens have a right to know what has been going on. Thank you to Thomas Massie, Ro Khanna, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Nancy Mace, who led or supported the bipartisan discharge petition and legislation to compel the Justice Department to disclose the Epstein files.

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Dave Smith: Tax-Free War Mongering

Dave Smith on US war-waging, tax-free:

In 25 years, we've spent close to $10 trillion on wars and they didn't tax the American people for that, as they know. They couldn't tax us enough to pay. We would put an end to it. If they tried to raise everybody's taxes enough to come up with $10 trillion because we want to go fight regime change wars all over the Middle East, the American people would have been like, "No, we're not doing that." But they didn't do that. They kept taxes where they were. I think they even cut some rates during those years, the top rates. And then they borrowed the rest. And they still couldn't borrow enough. So they just print the money.

And then essentially, what happens is that the price of everything just goes up and up and up. And you just put more money into the system. And then people start looking around and going like, "Geez, why is the price of housing and health care and energy and child care totally unaffordable?" And the answer is, because you're paying for the war in Iraq. And nobody thinks about it like that, but that's really what's going on.

For all the young people who are coming out of college now, and they're like, I'm 150 grand in debt. I have a gender studies major degree or whatever, you know, maybe something better than that, but they got an English degree or something. And they're working at Door Dash, and the average house is going for 600 grand, and they're like, "What am I possibly going to do?"

It's like, the reason why these kids are all demanding socialism, at least on the left, is because, what else are you going to do? The reason why that is the case is because your government decided to spend trillions of dollars on blowing up brown countries, and, in some cases, then rebuilding them to blow them up again. This is the actual cost of the thing.

I feel like it's the almost nobody outside of like the Ron Paul libertarians, the Austrian economics guys, almost nobody else ever makes this connection. This is the deal. You can't be a world empire without having a central bank that can print money for you, because otherwise it just doesn't work. Resources are finite, and you'll run out of them. And so you can't do that without having this monetary system.

But the cost of this monetary system is that prices always go up and up and up and up, and that rigs the entire economy against the working class and the middle class in favor of the rich. It's just the way it is. When the value of assets is going up and up and up and up, that's great if you own stuff. That's great if you own stuff and you're selling it. If you got a billion dollars in the bank, inflation is your best friend. But if you're on a fixed income or you're a working class person, it just destroys you.

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Limited Hangout Week re Epstein “Disclosures”

If the phrase "limited hangout" is not yet part of your vocabulary, it's time to add it to your repertoire. Grok offers this definition:

A limited hangout is a strategy, often used in espionage, politics, or public relations, where a partial truth or selected information is disclosed to the public or investigators to prevent the discovery of more damaging or sensitive facts, effectively acting as a form of damage control when a full cover-up is no longer viable. The term originates from CIA jargon, as described by former official Victor Marchetti, who explained it as admitting "some of the truth when tight lips have slipped" but withholding the key details to mislead further inquiry.

Here is the only thing you can do to make sure you are not a victim of limited hangouts: Repeatedly ask: "What else have you not yet told me?" Ask this repeatedly, especially when dealing with people, government officials and corporate news outlets you have previously trusted. Consider these recent examples:

DOJ under Pam Bondi redacted a photo of Benjamin Netanyahu with Jeffrey Epstein from the files.

Redactions are admittedly an imperfect way of engaging in limited hangouts, but they work well enough often enough, given the limitations of human attention and memory.

DNC mega-donor Reid Hoffman was mentioned 2,600 times in the Epstein files. David Sachs: "The NYT story on Epstein & Silicon Valley has paragraphs on Elon, Peter Thiel … Reid Hoffman barely gets mentioned despite having the deepest Epstein relationship and having lied about it."

New York Times forgot to mention that one of its own reporters worked closely with Epstein well after Epstein was a known child sex trafficker. And see here.

The DOJ briefly uploaded — then removed — an 86-page document titled “Investigation into Potential Jeffrey Epstein Co-Conspirators.”

Amidst all the chaos, Rep Thomas Massie emerges: with some common sense:

Rep. Thomas Massie says he’s ready to use the nuclear option if the DOJ refuses to un-redact the names of Epstein’s clients. He warns he will simply start reading Epstein’s client names publicly if Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice does not release them. “If the victims want to give them to me, I’ve expressed that I’m willing to do that.” See also here.

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DNC’s Position on Immigration and Many Other Policies: Not Organic

I offer this set of quotes along with my personal view that immigration is a fraught and complex subject, one filled with difficult to formulate policy. It results in many instances of heartbreak and unfairness. What I can conclude is that anyone who has a simplistic view of immigration is not being thoughtful or honest. Take a look at these quotes by prominent Democrats.

What is stunning about these quotes is that they represented the clear consensus of the DNC Complex (DNC, corporate media and most sense-making institutions in the US) for decades. Then, all of a sudden, all of these politicians have flipped 180° without any explanation. Nor any interest in the reason for the 180 by the Corporate media. In my article, I provide links to dozens videos featuring these same politicians, and others, offering opinions completely contrary to their current positions. This is further evidence that the DNC position is completely contrary to what it appears to be today. Again, without any explanation of why the DNC has flipped its position entirely.

The only thing I can say for certain is that these unexplained flips are direct evidence that this process of flipping is not organic. I suspect the following: NGO or donor money, power, attempts to pad the voter rolls (and see here and here and here and here and here and here) and tribalism. This much is certain: Normal honest people don't completely flip their opinions on major long-held positions without explanation.

Consider further, the video excerpts of prominent Democrats who are stating policy positions most people today would characterize as "Republican":

Obama: https://x.com/travelingflying/status/2012918038262059446

https://x.com/patriot_savvy/status/2012886820627845452

https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2012741729128997280

https://x.com/Michele_Tafoya/status/1997087112315752780

https://x.com/LightOnLiberty/status/2012954668838588585

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1975688443167711654

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1973899222253776988

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2012937860056232415

https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2012704936518132153

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1974106435563954436

https://x.com/patriot_savvy/status/2012886820627845452

Joe Biden:

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1975695044939292736

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1932389659281363170

Nancy Pelosi

https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2011168208238129466

https://x.com/america/status/1972679649810382927

Bernie Sanders

https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2012774949446893597

https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1996236734246388211

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/2011870591004131714

Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton

https://x.com/CoVet_81/status/2011149382763368737

https://x.com/Gitmo99/status/201082956535506144

https://x.com/adamcarolla/status/1972688228697395593

https://x.com/newtgingrich/status/1972659456363188320

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