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The Epstein cabal

There’s a real curveball now in the Jeffrey Epstein affair for those of us with a natural cynicism on such matters. These charges now have me flummoxed, the ones last week against the two jailers who ignored their required rounds during Epstein suicide watch and then falsified their record-keeping. I feel like the guards surely would be in on any murder plot, and filing charges against them would seem to me to be putting them in a position to sing, a position of self-protection. It’s a sophisticated game if this is part of the plot. The grand jury testimony says they were the only two guards on duty. Is the only conspiracy in this death case the terrible dysfunction of the U.S. penal system?

I’m more inclined to believe now, as the murder stuff has blown up so big on our phones, that the Central Intelligence Agency has gotten involved in the process of inflaming it. We already know that agents from Langley engage civilians online, under pseudonyms, promoting oddball conspiracy theories-- with the purpose of discrediting all conspiracy theories. The Snowden archive revealed this disagreeable fact in 2014. The efforts are also frequently not in the act of policing potential terrorist threats, but are instead politically-motivated. Their “false flag” operations have helped compromise the entire integrity of the internet. Along with the agency’s well-known ability to impersonate other users online, and its general secrecy, it has turned the election-tampering charges against Russia into a burlesque.

The murder memes and so forth regarding Epstein’s death have become so popular that I smell a rotting fish. We’re so focused now on the possibility of his having been murdered that it’s easy to forget that we have a major scandal in Epstein to define our modern era even without him being murdered. It was already a giant government conspiracy to enable Epstein and his cohorts. Everybody who hung out with him knew what he was about. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, rushed to his side after the American financier became a convicted sex offender in 2010. Epstein was telling teenage girls that this particular seat on his airplane was where his buddy Bill Clinton liked to sit. Eye on the ball when dissecting what’s transpired here.

Prince Andrew and media coverage of the royal family is an example most gross. I’ve been reading some of those smutty UK tabloid stories online and the background suggests that Andrew, her second, was always Mum’s preferred. Andrew’s brother Charles never gave a shit about him. After a dismal and misguided television interview and attempt at defense, one lacking any expression of sympathy for Epstein's victims, Andrew got chopped off. Able to wait no longer, Buckingham Palace set him publicly adrift. He was separated, or separated himself, from 230 charities, or patronages. (He says it’s only temporary.) He will still live in the lap of luxury, of course. Let’s not get carried away. But he won’t keep a public profile. That will be his punishment. I’m trying to think of what would have to actually transpire for Phillip to ever be prosecuted in this case. I’m drawing blanks.

In the US, even as ABC and other corporate media outlets claim they never hushed anything up purposefully (despite a claim against ABC to the contrary caught on video by one of its own reporters), they are still actively in the process of hushing it up. Yes, Epstein himself is wormbait, but they’re still covering for Prince Andrew and his family through their general promotion of the monarchy. The family’s involvement should be a huge scandal. Harry and William and their wives are still golden gods to the American media. The nephews didn’t pal around with the rapist pimp that Uncle Andy did, but the minute the palace came out behind Andrew, backing his assertion that he never raped Virginia Roberts, the royal family became implicated. They are the church issuing their denials. It is only now the divine head of the Church of England doing it, rather than the Roman Catholic Church, as we’ve grown accustomed to seeing.

Andrew is being actively accused of rape and multiple times of it by Roberts, someone who has been found to be very reliable in her narrative by legal authorities and is very much alive to tell us her story. There is photographic and video evidence of Andrew with her (when she is underage) that is so indicting of him that his only public defense, as yet conceived, is to claim that the images have been manufactured. He now claims he only went to see Epstein in 2010 to tell him they could no longer “be seen together,” which is, in itself, an interesting way to put it. Would they now just sneak around instead? When he made this trip to visit Epstein in the Colonies and ostensibly to cut him off, he stayed for four days.

A royal source told CNN International last week that Andrew is stepping down from public duties at this time because nothing is more important to anybody in the family than the institution of the monarchy itself. Actually, something is more important than the institution of the monarchy-- the lives and health of the Epstein victims. There should be an all-hands-on-deck media assault upon the royal family, even as it tries to distance itself from these crimes directly related to their sense of entitlement. If I was the Pope, I would be pissed.

In England, the news media is doing its thing. It’s spending as much energy going after Andrew as it did first building him up years ago, just as they spread juicy rumors, of late, of conflict between members of the next generation of princes and princesses after first elevating that lot to literally a heavenly rank. The traditional news media there, as here, is ever happy to rock the boat, but never to sink it. And don't invest any trust in the other royals. They’re only trying to survive. Andrew’s ex, Fergie, wants to see his accuser face a most brutal questioning on British TV, and why shouldn’t she? Epstein once paid off her debts at Andrew’s urging.

Andrew still will get a big palace birthday party for his 60th year in February. The reporters just won’t get invited. “Yorkie,” the aging prince, who is also the former British trade ambassador and very likely a pedophile, will have more time for his golf game with a cleared engagement schedule and his private office cleared from the palace, but in the conceivable future, don’t expect justice for Virginia Roberts and also don’t expect, still at long last, the shift from monarchy to republicanism in Britain.

In the U.S., we also protect our elite. The photos aren’t as indicting, but both Donald Trump and Bill Clinton were regulars on the Epstein airship, the one that shuttled between New York and Palm Beach and came to be called “the Lolita Express.” Not that Clinton has anything to hide, but he issued a statement saying he had taken “a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane,” then flights logs revealed he had taken at least 26 trips aboard the vessel between 2001 and 2003. Also getting frequent flier miles was Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s former attorney and no small political figure in the U.S. when it comes specifically to the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The name of former national security advisor Sandy Berger appears on flight logs, as does the name of former Harvard president and U.S. Treasury secretary Larry Summers.

The murder of Epstein in prison has a plausibility to it, obviously, but the suicide does too. There have been plenty of other cases throughout history in which those in power don’t have to murder somebody to accomplish their insidious goals even if they can. The guy had been caught, and faced certain punishment to at least some level he would have deemed unpleasant, but there’s no reason to think he would have also wanted to take a bunch of people-- friends of a sort-- down the chute with him. He loved his access to power, obviously valued it, and taking their complicit crimes with him to his death was one way to still be the man. To not turn rat. I’m not going to pooh-pooh any murder conspiracies because I get it, but I’m not sure I’m willing to go down with the ship on the theory of murder. What’s important is that all possible information on his case still be made public. All of it. Hitler’s death did not mean the end of pursuit against other Nazis. If we are denied access to all the information that is available, then it will be time to revisit the murder angle.

posted by CM @ 7:25 PM