Quote:Pilot had seizure that stiffened his legs & back, jamming his feet under rudder pedals on short final approach.

The captain immediately took over flying duties and there was no loss of aircraft control.

The relief pilot who was required to be on the flight deck during landing was able to remove the unconscious pilot from the seat.

This is the 4th Pilot Incapacitation in 2 weeks!!!

Recent Pilot incapacitations or deaths:

Nov.26, 2023 - Ryanair Flight FR-3472 (LTN-RZE) from London Luton, UK to Rzeszow (Poland) - one of the pilots became incapacitated, plane diverted to Krakow and landed safely. The aircraft was awaited by an ambulance. The pilot received medical assistance.

Nov.20, 2023 - Air Transat Flight TS-186 (YYZ-PUJ) from Toronto, Canada to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - pilot became incapacitated and was replaced by a pilot passenger 

Nov.16, 2023 - Air India Pilot Death - 37 year old Air India Pilot Captain Himanil Kumar had cardiac arrest at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport during training   

Oct.30, 2023 - Jet2 Flight LS-1711 (MAN-DLM) Manchester (UK) to Dalaman (Turkey) - First officer became incapacitated, pilot diverted aircraft to Budapest, landed safely   

Oct.18, 2023 - Austrian Airlines Pilot Death - 43 year old Christian Zimmerebner, AUA Austrian Airlines Pilot and member of Dorfgastein mountain rescue, died suddenly on Oct.18, 2023 due to "serious illness" 

Sep.24, 2023 - Austrian Airlines Flight OS-188 (STR-VIE) Stuttgart to Vienna The captain became incapacitated, first officer took control of aircraft   

Sep.23, 2023 - Alaska Airlines Pilot Death - 37 year old Captain Eric McRae died suddenly in his hotel room during layover, was to fly that morning   

Sep.22, 2023 - Delta Flight DL-291 (CDG-LAX) Paris to Los Angeles - Pilot became incapacitated, was taken to cabin for care, plane diverted to Minneapolis, pilot taken to hospital.

Pilot Incapacitation Trending or @MakisMD

One iconic artwork from every country in Europe.

1. Germany: "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" - Caspar David Friedrich (1818)



2. Albania: "Motra Tone" - Kolë Idromeno (1883)



3. Andorra: The apse fresco at the church of Sant Miquel d'Engolasters painted by Mestre de Santa Coloma during the 12th century (c.1160)



4. Austria: "The Kiss" - Gustav Klimt (1907-1908)



5. Belarus: "And the Saved World Remembers" - Mai Dantsig (1985)



6. Belgium: "The Triumph of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange" - Jacob Jordaens (1652)



7. Bosnia and Herzegovina: "Mountain Landscape" - Karlo Mijić (1924)



8. Bulgaria: "Rachenitsa Dance" - Ivan Mrkvička (1894)



9. Croatia: "Roman woman playing a mandolin" - Vjekoslav Karas (c.1847)




10. Cyprus: "Sleeping Adonis" - Andreas Charalambides (20th century)

Disney was recently forced to admit publicly due to an SEC filing that they had to provide to investors that their "Social & Environmental Agenda's" are at odd's with what consumers want.

How stupid do you have to be to intentionally destroy your historic brand in order to push an extreme agenda that your primary consumers see as what is described as "EVIL"?

https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/11/2...ec-report/

Quote:The SEC disclosure highlights the risks Disney faces concerning the potential misalignment with public and consumer preferences in entertainment, travel, and consumer products. 

It reads, “Generally, our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when our entertainment offerings and products, as well as our methods to make our offerings and products available to consumers, do not achieve sufficient consumer acceptance. Further, consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands.”

What happens when Progressives realize they are supporting everything they say they are against?

I do love videos like this when people wake up and realize that Democrats do not support Democracy and are steadily creeping towards complete authoritarianism.

I thought this short video was interesting so maybe you will too...Amazing what they can do with splicing and computer generated people.

Quote:say hello to Alex aosta from 2005 to 2009 he was the chief Federal prosecutor
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for southern Florida his job was to make sure criminals went to jail and he was
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vicious about it Alex aosta I believe is a person of complete Integrity an honorable guy aosta was so good as a
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prosecutor that he caught the attention of former president Donald Trump he has a lower degree from Harvard Law School
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had a tremendous career Trump eventually not nominated aosta to be the United States Secretary of Labor in 2017 the
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nominee for a secretary of the Department of Labor will be Mr Alex
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aosta but before he could assume his new prestigious role aosta had to go through
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an intense review process by the Senate Mr aosta so far you've refused to answer
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my questions a deep dive into every decision throughout his career to see if
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he really was the man for the job and there was one one particular case that they were concerned about a little case
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involving Jeffrey Epstein he's a friend of presidents in other high-profile lawyers arrested on new sex trafficking
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charges waiting trial on federal sex trafficking involving minors see back in
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2007 back when Epstein was first arrested and tried even though Alex
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aosta had more than enough evidence to put Epstein away for Life aosta gave
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Epstein the plea deal of the century the basically let him walk free they gave
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Epstein a plea deal that excused his underage sex trafficking Beyond a
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six-month you know basically home confinement like I mean it was a joke it was like no sentence at all but why
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would a tough prosecutor like aosta do this well the truth all came out when he
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was being interviewed for the job for Trump's labor secretary when he was asked about the questionable plea deal
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he said that he'd been ordered to stand hand down and back off immediately I was
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told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone he said Epstein
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was above his pay grade H he belonged to intelligence and was above his payg
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grade what did that mean constitutionally only the president and the Attorney General can order a US
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attorney to stand down the message can be delivered by a minion of the president or the Attorney General but it
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has to from one of those two positions in 2019 when Jeffrey Epstein was
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arrested for the second time everyone found out about this plea deal the the
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was it the prosecutor or whoever it was that cut him the deal literally was quoted as saying I was told he's above
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my pay grade and that he was Intelligence and people were Furious that the current US labor secretary
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helped America's most notorious people get away for a decade but even so aasta
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stood by his decision I wanted to help them he said about dozens of Epstein's
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victims because I know that my former colleagues the men and women of my office wanted to help them I wanted to
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help them a Costa swore his whole goal was to make Epstein serve jail time we
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did what we did because we wanted to see Epstein go to jail but at the end of the
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day his plea deal was nothing more than than Epstein's ticket to freedom the
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Palm Beach State Attorney's office was ready to let Epstein walk free no jail time nothing the Epstein case has been
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dirty from the very beginning this is Nick Bryan he's one of the foremost expert reporters on the Epstein case
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he's the guy who first published Epstein's Infamous black book on the internet and he has a lot to expose in
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this video so the question becomes who was powerful enough to tell aosta to
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stand down well if you look at the law only the president or an attorney
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general can order a US attorney to stand down from an investigation and if that's
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the case one has to wonder how deep does this Rabbit Hole go there's been four
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presidential ad administrations that have covered up uh the Jeffrey Epson case the Bush Administration has covered
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it up the Obama Administration has covered it up the Trump Administration has covered it up and now Biden is
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covering it up and the cover up is pretty Immaculate in the United States there are are 535 legislators there are
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435 in the House of Representatives and and then there's 100 senators and not one of the federal legislators has asked
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for an investigation of Jeffrey abstein when you cover up a crime you are Aid
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embedding that crime so the American government is aiding embedding child trafficking just what sort of
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intelligence did Epstein belong to how was it possible for one man to be
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protected and supported by the entire US Government well in this documentary
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we're going to analyze all the evidence that potentially connects Epstein to the CIA and Israel's mad intelligence
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agency welcome to how to get away with it and this is how he got away with it
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into Jeffrey Epstein the justice department had a list of 32 underage girls that were abused at Epstein's
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Mansion what happened in 2006 is that a 14-year-old told her
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mother and father that she had been by Jeffrey abin and they brought her down
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to the Palm Beach Police Department and the Palm Beach Police Department actually believed her because
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she was able to describe his house and and actually facets of his anatomy and they did not
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think that she was lying so they they investigated about a year ultimately
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they found five underage VCS of Jeffrey abstein and and they had uh 20 people that cooperated
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actually there was uh 12 corroborating people and the thing is they had five
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victims that were um on record and had been investigated but they knew about 17
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more so so estein should have been given
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perhaps a life sentence at at that point but the the case was yanked away from
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the Palm Beach Police Department and it it went to a grand jury and grand juries in Florida are
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almost unheard of unless it's a capital murder case grand juries have been Infamous to corrupt because a special
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prosecutor is chosen and Grand jurors are just people that have shown up for
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jury duty and the special prosecutor is responsible for showing the grand jurors the evidence that he deemed
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necessary and and calling the witnesses that he deems necessary and there was a
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New York Supreme Court Judge who said that um special prosecutors of grand juries have so much power over Grand
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jurors that they could get them to indict a ham swich so with that in
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mind the Palm Beach Police Department gave all the exting evidence to this uh
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grand jury what happened was Barry C
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that special prosecutor he called one victim underage victim of Jeffrey
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epsteins and he potentially could have called 23 and he certainly should have
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called the five that the Palm Beach Police Department had records on they called up one victim and then they
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skewered her credibility and and that's the thing about trafficking
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is these kids generally come from from dysfunctional backgrounds and then they're repeatedly
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molested a lot of the kids get into drugs I mean that is the carrot if they
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can withstand the abuse they can in so ultimately
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when these kids come forward you're looking at very damaged individuals and
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it's very easy to impeach your credibility um and that's what happened with the one victim that was called
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before that graduate it's almost like a perfect system because you can once
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these kids become unmarketable they're just expunged and what sure and and what
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they become a lot of the time is drug addicts and alcoholics and then they go
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about breaking laws and get in trouble with the law and thereby compromise their own credibility so it's almost a
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perfect system that way as far as keeping the per um protecting the pers
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when the grand jury didn't indict Jeffrey Epstein on a single count of child abuse the Palm Beach Police
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Department and especially the chief Michael Ryder went ballistic and he went to the feds and he
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told the Feds you have to investigate this that grand jury was a cover up and
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at that point the justice department the feds had a list of 32 victims anyone
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else would have gotten a one-way ticket to life in prison for this type of stuff but not the Mysterious Mr Epstein and
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ultimately what happened was they did not the the the justice department did
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not prosecute abstein um according to Alexander aosta the US attorney he was told to stand
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down because estein belonged to intelligence and it was above his p great and he's been asked about that
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after that and he's never uh he's never recanted that and and the cover up came
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from very high up because according to our
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constitution there's only two people in government that can tell a US attorney to stand down one is a president and one
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is the attorney general so those orders had to emanate from one of those two now
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they can be delivered by a minion of the president or of the Attorney General but
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ultimately the orders emanate from one of those two positions he was given the deal of a lifetime for seemingly no
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reason a deal where he was not prosecuted on a single count of child abuse all he had to do was plead guilty
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to the light charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor and spend a little over a year in the Palm Beach
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jail during his stay he got a private Wing so he never had to deal with other inmates and was even awarded Work
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Release privileges allowing him to leave the jail 6 days a week for up to 12
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hours a day so Jeffrey Epstein's version of timed served was going to jail for
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bed every night the plea deal included other stipulations too like how the
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stacks of evidence against Epstein for his sex crimes would be sealed even the victims wouldn't know that he got away
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with it and the cherry on top was that it included a federal non-prosecution agreement not just for Epstein but for
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any Anonymous unnamed co-conspirators too promising that Epstein and any
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co-conspirators would never be charged for the crimes in the future sure he had
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to register as a sex offender and spend a little time in the big house but it was nothing compared to the sentence he
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could have gotten the sentence he should have gotten it was the single craziest
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plea deal in modern American history it was unprecedented to put this into
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perspective people get longer sentences for shoplifting in Florida than Epstein
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got for organizing a well-oiled sex trafficking machine that seemed to have
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a lot of other Rich powerful people involved so you got a guy who is
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trafficking underage girls you got him nailed dead to rights and you give him
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the biggest sweetheart deal as a prosecutor anybody could ever imagine the point where it's it's not even done
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in prosecutorial circles like this is is isn't even attack why would you ever do that why how regular rich people could
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only dream of having this type of PLL with the justice system this plea deal
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could have only been engineered by someone with seriously deep connection
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so what are we supposed to think it's never been more clear Epstein was an intelligence asset Not only was he
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working for the CIA Israeli intelligence maybe even Russia intelligence so is the
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American government allowing an asset to traffic and molest teenage girls all
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over the world for intell Epstein wasn't just collecting all this evidence for himself he was probably
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doing it for something bigger something like the CIA Stuart kaplan's a retired
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FBI special agent so Stuart this guy's an OP right um he was marked by our
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government as being a middleman Jeffrey Epstein was a professional con man he
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had access to people money and young girls and our government targeted him
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because he was in the game of exploiting people and blackmailing people and the
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government saw that as an asset Epstein was also meeting with Joe Biden's CIA director he wasn't CIA director at the
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time he was Barack Obama's deputy secretary of state William Burns was
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working for John KY at the state department and meeting with Jeffrey Epstein a known P I think Epstein was a
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going back many years what's interesting is he was a College Dropout and then got
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a job at Dalton which is a high school for very affluent pupils or or pupils
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that come from very affluent Families my guess on that is and this is I'm just
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extrapolating here my guess on that is is Epstein got busted an underage girl
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and he was turned at that point by intelligence I believe that that's the case in the book that I wrote there were
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two primary pimps and they were both in Southeast Asia at the same time during the Vietnam war one was in Thailand with
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the top security clearance and the other one was an ABC reporter and I think that they got turned at the same time I think
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they were probably busted molting children and because when they came back to the United States they had incredible
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jobs waiting for them and incredible connections so I believe that estein was
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probably recruited because of his predection for underage girls was smart
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and he was Charming and he was duplicitous and he was devious and he was a sociopath those ingredients make
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up a great child traffic and Epstein had those ingredients in Spades when you
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think about Epstein's case from the perspective that he might have been an intelligence operative everything starts
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making a lot more sense and this explains the sweetheart deal back in 2006 this explains the prison cell cover
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up and this explains why all the Epstein tapes went missing just look at what happened happened with the raid on
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Jeff's Caribbean island just a couple of days after his death the FBI actually
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did a I don't I don't remember the year but it was recent in the last few years they did a raid on his on his home this
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was in the FBI in the logs I me you can actually check this one they did a raid on his home and they came upon tapes
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okay they came upon what would we assume would be surance footage now we know we had the whole house miked up camera up
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the whole thing right including the rooms that were specifically meant for you know illicit activity you know the
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FBI agent on the commanding uh you know whatever is uh agent running the scene
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reached out to Epstein's lawyers and let Epstein lawyers come and decide what was
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privileged and what was able to be taken glain had told a former friend that
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Epstein was a blackmail artist who had completely rigged his Infamous island
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with cameras and microphones people think that his product was sex or Finance but it was silence pretty sure
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the fact that he had a lipstick camera pointed at me from an art object that he
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laid a table that was preposterously long and thin with a tablecloth made of
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an American flag to make it look like a coffin so that I would spill my coffee on the flag of my own country I mean the
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fact that he looked like a mutant Ralph Lauren with this kind of lubricious quality and he's talking all of the
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science and Market stuff and nothing adds up and there's an ays bounc on his
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knee to get her boobs to Jiggles to see whether it can distract I mean it's like one of these crazy scenes where nothing
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about it was normal there was just no there was no trace of a normal World Jeffrey obstein found me almost
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immediately he knew exactly where I was the location um and I knew then that I was
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being fed I was being watched 24/7 there were cameras all over the island Epstein
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himself once told a former girlfriend I collect people I own people I can damage
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people even after Epstein went down as a registered offender he was still surrounded by the upper echelon of
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society he was still going on about business as usual these people were
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politicians CEOs public figures people who should want nothing to do with a
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convicted pedo yet they continued to have relationships with him so when someone does something that doesn't make
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any sense maybe it's because they don't want to be doing what they're doing maybe it's because someone's telling
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them what to do and threatening to release the tapes if they don't I could think of a few people whose actions I
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can't explain but it wouldn't be fair of me to name names it would be appalling and it would be shocking for your
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viewers to suggest or to think that our government would condone that type of behavior but again uh in the interest of
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National Security uh sometimes those things may happen but how did a random teacher from NYC who didn't even have a
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college education end up working as a high-profile intelligence officer that could get away with anything well it all
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might have been through the
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Madam Blain Maxwell was Jeffrey Epstein's closest Confidant his
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associate girlfriend and partner in crime but what many people don't know is
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that Jeffrey was even closer with gala's Father Robert Maxwell it was Robert who
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actually introduced the pair back then Robert was the type of Rich that Jeffrey
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yearned to be he was one of the wealthiest men in the UK during his prime Robert created his fortune from
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nothing after starting a small publishing house that eventually became one of the biggest Publishers of the
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time pergamon press once he earned a steady flow of cash he started started
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purchasing other companies to expand his profit buying up things like media
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companies and newspapers he even bought a big chunk of the MTV television
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station and own two UK football teams Robert Maxwell became the king of a
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media Empire so much so that it catapulted him to billionaire status as
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they started getting closer it seemed like Robert's wealth was rubbing off on Epstein many people believe that it was
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actually Robert who helped Epstein start making ridiculous amounts of money in the world of the elite but then in 1991
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tragedy struck Robert was out at Sea on his $18 million yacht the lady galain
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near the Canary Islands when he mysteriously fell overboard to his death
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a fisherman had discovered his body floating lifeless in the ocean 15 mil
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away from his boat it was later discovered that half a billion dollar was missing from the Pension funds of
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Robert's businesses he was using all his employees hard-earned retirement money
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to fund his lifestyle and right before he died Robert was mere moments from
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financial and social collapse it looked like a simple story of a fraudster
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taking his own life before it all collapsed until it came out that there was a very high likelihood that he was
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working for Israel's version of the CIA Massad and that maybe he was even
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working for Russia's version of the CIA the KGB Frey Epstein was blackmailing
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some of the most powerful men in the world I all you got to do is look at his black book and Jeffrey Epstein was a
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College Dropout from workingclass Coney Island is Jeffrey Epstein going to be
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able to Blackmail Les Wexner who has connections to the mafia there's no way in hell I mean Jeffrey Epstein would
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have a very brief life expectancy if he did that but the thing about it is if
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he's got an intelligence apparati behind him mhm and
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and they make it known to whoever he's blackmailing no one touches Jeffrey Epstein or else pictures are going to
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come out I mean that's the only way that Jeffrey Epstein um is able to Blackmail
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you think that Jeffrey Epstein had an intelligence organization behind them oh absolutely no doubt about it the FBI
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spent a decade mon ing Robert to try and uncover his work as a double or even
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triple agent one report called Robert a thoroughly bad character and almost
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certainly financed by Russia but they couldn't nail him against the wall at least not publicly it wasn't just the
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FBI that had their suspicions about Robert being involved with intelligence shortly before he drowned a
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self-proclaimed Massad officer named Ari Ben manah was going to Media outlets and
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tell telling them that Robert Maxwell had been working for Israeli intelligence for years Ari claimed that
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in the mid 80s Maxwell told Israel about a nuclear scientist who had spilled info
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about the country's nuclear capabilities the scientist was then kidnapped brought to Israel and held prisoner for 18 years
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for treason but it didn't stop there after Robert's death six current and
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former members of Israeli intelligence Services the Prime Minister and the president of Israel at the time all
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showed up to his funeral the Prime Minister yzak Shamir even made a speech
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saying that Robert Maxwell had done more for Israel than can today be told many
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people believe to this day that Robert Maxwell worked for and was subsequently killed by mad he's even been accused of
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stealing one of America's most sophisticated intelligence gathering devices for the Israeli intelligence
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agency so some some speculate that it was maybe the CIA that had taken him out
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themselves when Robert died it only brought galain and Jeffrey Epstein closer together soon they were publicly
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dating and galain was managing a bunch of his properties for him yes the
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properties where all the crimes went down so Robert Maxwell could very well
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be the missing link between Jeffrey Epstein and his Sinister opulent life
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maybe Jeffrey had been in on the intelligence work with robertt and once Robert died he took the torch okay so
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people speculate that it was Israeli and not American but here's the thing about
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that and I try to explain it to people there's no way that American intelligence is going to let Israeli
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intelligence compromise American politicians without getting a cut of that intelligence but there's another
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key player in Epstein that no one talks about EP ste's lawyer the most infamous
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lawyer in
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America when Jeffrey Epstein was being investigated for his crimes he knew exactly who to hire as his lawyer if he
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wanted to get off his good friend Alan dtz you see Alan dtz is one of the best
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lawyers in America and one of the best connected lawyers in America and he's
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got a lust for winning high-profile cases with a ton of evidence against the defendant he's even helped overturn
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Court decisions through the appeals process dtz represented guys like OJ
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Simpson Mike Tyson and most recently former president Trump fast forward to
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2006 and dtz jumped on the opportunity to represent Jeffrey Epstein as well
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sure it was Alex aasta who who gave the green light on Epstein's plea deal but it was dtz who outlined and negotiated
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the whole thing he was the one who set everything in motion dtz did his job as
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a lawyer and discredited the victims he did everything in his power to get Epstein the lightest sentence possible
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and he probably even impressed himself with how successful he was Alan dtz is
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also really good friends with Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu break news from uh Jerusalem
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Israel um I spent part of the afternoon today with uh prime minister Benjamin
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nanyu he's not yet prime minister but he has been elected over and over again
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Epstein got away with his crimes but unfortunately for him all that protection from the government started
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making him feel invincible and It ultimately led to his downfall I think
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there's a couple of reasons why EP was ultimately arrested in 2019 I believe
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that he was getting too big for his Bridges he was contravening things that were told him and and he he thought that
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he had the power to circumvent uh someone that gave him an order the other reason is Jeffrey Epstein was a
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blackmail artist and blackmail artists have to be in the background once people
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knew that Jeffrey Epstein was a blackmail artist articles came out about him in the Miami Herald there's no way
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that he could be a blackmail artist anymore everybody knew what he was up to Epstein had outlived his usefulness and
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we all know what happened then once Epstein died the masses set their sights
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on the next best thing glain but too bad they would get nothing out of
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her today we announced charges against gain Maxwell for helping Jeffrey Epstein
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sexually exploit and abuse multiple minor girls Maxwell has been taken into
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custody with Epstein gone she was the one who was going to Spill the answers that everyone had been waiting for the
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world was finally going to know exactly what happened with Jeffrey Epstein and
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how he got away with it all do you uh concur with the the opinion that it was a suicide I think that's crazy I'm aware
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of at least three Epstein investigations you got a whole bunch of women who were Red by this guy this guy had evidence
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he's got co-conspirators and there are victims out there who want to know where the evidence has gone but that's not
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what happened galain went through an intense month-long trial and she was
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eventually convicted of you know what trafficking conspiracy and transportation of a minor for a legal
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sexual activity Maxwell found guilty on five of six counts related to sexual
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abuse and trafficking of underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein her former boyfriend and longtime associate she was sentenced
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to 20 years in prison in 2021 which seems like a win but once again no one
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else has been named no other co-conspirators have been charged the trial of gain Maxwell was a joke the
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prosecutors called four victims and none of those victims had been pandered to powerful people so they did not know the
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extent of Jeffrey Epstein's Network they just locked her away and expected everyone to stop asking questions not a
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single person that I can think of have we been told is the actual Target of this blackmail because if it ever came
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out that the CIA and US Government aided and abetted child trafficking it would
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kill the last shred of the people's belief in the
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system to this day the public has zero clue who Jeffrey Epstein really was we
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still don't even know the most basic things about him like how Epstein got so
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rich in the first place felt rich in a movie Sense which is not something that you find among actually rich people no
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one seems to know how he made money well the $7 million Penthouse that he had in
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Manhattan was given to him right given to him who the gives someone a $70 million house we still can't even nail
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down a real job title for Epstein to this day he only ever had two known
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clients Leslie Wexner the questionable former CEO of the Victoria's Secret
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lingerie brand and Leon black the billionaire co-founder of AP poo Global
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Management which controls over $600 billion and the work he did for them is
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vague at best many people believe that Epstein didn't have any money of his own
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and that instead he was using his client's money but when you dig into his relationship with his biggest client Les
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Wexner even that starts pointing suspiciously to the CIA Lex Wexner gave
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Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney over his multi-billion Dollar Empire I believe it was in 1992 or 93 so Jeffrey
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Epstein basically could do whatever he wanted with les wexner's money it's very
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interesting Les Wexner was hooked up with the mafia there were
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elements of the genovesi crime family that transported his Goods around the
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country the person that he used was Walsh Trucking Frank Walsh and he was
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heavily implicated in Mafia in the mafia so when we get to the CIA he brought uh
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Southern Air transport which was in Florida and the CI had been using that
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forever now he brought Southern Air transport to Ohio and ostensibly at the
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Rick and maker Air Force Base the reason the rationale that was given for him
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buying this or using this CI proprietary Airline was that it was going to be used
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to ship limited merchandise throughout the country so Les Wexner is using the
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mafia to ship his merchandise around the country and then he's using a CI proprietary airline to ship his
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merchandise around the country now that's very strange I've read that Jeffrey Epstein was integral in getting
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Southern Air transport to Ohio people that have written about it said that Epstein was the one that ultimately did
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the logistics of transferring the CI proprietary Airline Southern Air
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transport to Rick and Bacher base in Ohio I think that that's definitely
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plausible B it wouldn't surprise me and actually actually I'm leaning that way but I just haven't seen the proof the
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name of the game is compromise or compromise if you want to use the Russian terminology Wexner I believe was
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already compromised Epstein was hooked up with Wexner estein was compromised himself and then estein went on to
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become the interstate pimp that he became but it was all done with wexner's
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mind no matter what thread in Jeffrey Epstein's life you follow it eventually
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ends up back with the CIA even his very existence seems like a CIA construct
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it's almost like he didn't even exist like he was a madeup character this is
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not an actual human this is a construct of someone's someone has created a fake
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human being called Jeffrey Epstein who's a mysterious currency trading Finance
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here with Crazy rules so that no one would ever invest with him and I think that was to keep people from seeking his
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Investment Services I mean he you know he's labeled disgraced Finance here but
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nobody has a record of trading with him today glain Maxwell is serving time in a low security prison in Florida where
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inmates also get to enjoy movie nights and relaxing yoga sessions where she's said to have become fast friends with
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narcy Novak the Florida woman serving life for orchestrating the murders of her millionaire husband and his mom zero
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effort has been made to go after Epstein's other co-conspirators while a lot of effort has been made to keep the
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victims we know about from making too much noise David boy I should say David
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Black Cube Boy he was intergal to setting up the parameters of the victims
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of the Epstein victims compensation fund he has acted as a gatekeeper as Jordana
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Feldman has too she's the one that oversees it although boys was really instrumental in setting up the
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parameters it's ultimately overseen by Jordana Felman 225 women have come forward and
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settlements have been granted to 150 75 have been declined two of those victims
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that have been declined were trafficked by Epstein they're represented by esteemed therapists or I should say they
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have their clients of esteem therapists and their therapists firmly believed that Epstein was trafficking them when
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they were under the age of 10 now they went before the Epstein victims compensation fund and they were declined
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because they did not fall in the parameters the government and the media have tried assiduously to say that the
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youngest Epstein victim was 14 years old but there are younger victims out there
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of Jeffrey EP and the victim's compensation fund has been a very good
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tool for the cover up because if you do get money from that compensation fund you cannot Sue any of your perpetrators
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you make a deal that you cannot Sue any of your perpetrators so the EPC victims compensation fund is accomplishing
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something that the government can't it is preventing these girls or women now
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from pursuing the various perpetrators that have abused them the government and the media are going to continue to cover
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up Jeffrey Epstein and all the perpetrators and all the prec carers we know that already but we've established
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an organization called Epstein justice.com Epstein justice.com and it
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will serve as a vehicle for us to create a movement to take back our government
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because children should not be molested with impunity and the government should not Aid an bet child trafficking we have
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to As Americans we have to take care of this ourselves and it's going to require
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a lot of mobilization but we can do this we do not want a government that a in
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A's child TR there's a link to the Epstein Justice website in the description for those of you who want to
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learn more about how you can help hold the people protecting Epstein
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accountable

Mexico Cartels and corruption around the world.. How organized crime gains control of a country.... Do not think this is just a Mexican problem. The last election cycle Mexico had 150 politicians killed because they were not Cartel members.

They have another writers contest at ATS...My entry

The Great Queen

“They are nothing more than mere hairless apes that have a propensity to wage war and kill each other for any perceived insult or threat; they will be perfect for our plans,” was First Breeder's reply to his Royal Queen.


The Queen studied the information that had been gathered on this target species for her review and was satisfied that First Breeder was correct in his assessment of this galactic outer arm species.


“What will we call this race?” was her only question.


“They call themselves Human,” Great Queen.


Her mandrills clacked as she tried to form the word “human” with he mouth parts. She finally succeeded in making a sound that came out as a hiss of Hue-Mon. Verbalization was never easy when trying to pronounce a different species language.


“Have we coded one of our translators to decipher their language,” the Great Queen asked?


First Breeder's antenna drooped from their normal erect posture in the Queen's presence as he said, “ Great Queen there is a problem as they do not have one universal language but instead have many home spun regional languages. We have managed to install only 7 of their many languages from intercepted radio transmissions but we do estimate we have achieved at least a 79% accuracy rate with two of the languages.”


“How Primitive they truly are,” was the Great Queens only reply.


The End

Best review I've seen so far...

Quote:Cammisa explains the engineering behind Tesla's controversial pickup truck, including its stainless-steel ("HFS") exoskeleton construction, enormous aluminum castings and structural battery pack. He attends a live side-impact crash test in Tesla's Crash Lab that demonstrated how tough the skin is. And then, of course, tries to dent it with a sledgehammer. Or BFH, for those who know.

The similarities with the DeLorean go way beyond the stainless exterior — in fact, the Cybertruck most closely resembles the famed Lamborghini LM002 pickup — a V12-powered dogleg 5-speed off-roader, dubbed "Rambo Lambo," that was as fast as a sports car. In fact, Jason reads an excerpt from the original Car and Driver magazine review of the LM002, and everything said applies directly to the Cybertruck.

Including that the Cybertruck Cyberbeast is the quickest-accelerating pickup truck in history. Watch as it leaves the previous champion (the Rivian R1T) for dead, hitting 60 mph in just 2.6 seconds and blasting through the quarter-mile in 11.0 seconds at 119 mph. Cammisa reran the test on untreated (non-VHT) asphalt and got the same numbers — and marvels at how consistently the Cybertruck accelerated. Even with the Battery SoC in the mid-30-percent range after hours of consecutive runs, it still hit 60 in 2.6 seconds, and had only lost 0.3s at the quarter mile.

That newfound consistency is partially due to the new 4680 Gen 2 batteries, which are far larger than Tesla's previous 18650 and 2170 batteries, and are manufactured in-house.

The Cybertruck is nearly twice as efficient as the Hummer EV, thanks to a Lotus-like obsession with efficiency. With a battery pack of just 123 kWh, it's expected to receive an EPA Range of over 310 miles.

And the Cybertruck is even lighter than the Rivian R1T, Hummer, and Lightning — Cammisa weighed them all.

CURB WEIGHT:
Cybertruck Cyberbeast  6717 lb
Rivian R1T Quad-Motor AWD 6777 lb
Ford F-150 Lightning 6813 lb
GMC Hummer EV First Edition 9316 lb
Lamborghini LM002 6499 lb (with 20 gallons of fuel)

Chapters:
0:00 Cybertruck Is Real!
1:18 Why The Cybertruck Looks Like It Does
2:18 Drag Race: CyberBeast vs Rivian R1T Quad-Motor
3:50 Drag Race: CyberBeast vs GMC Hummer EV
4:25 Quickest Pickup In History: 0-60 in 2.6!
5:20 Tesla's Engineering Efficiency
6:23 Refrigerator Aerodynamics
7:35 New 4860 Gen 2 Batteries
8:11 Tesla's Price Cuts — Vertical Integration
9:25 Jason Fenske on the Benefits of High Voltage
10:14 48 Volts!
11:07 How To Engineer a 48 Volt Vehicle
11:24 Steer By Wire
12:06 Turning Radius and Steering Demonstration
13:07 Cybertruck vs. Go-Kart (maneuverability demo)
16:02 One Million Pre-Orders
16:33 Similarities to Delorean DMC-12
17:44 Sledgehammer Door Ding Test
18:08 Bulletproof HFS: "Hard F-ing Steel"
18:44 Cybertruck Crash Test
19:28 Tesla's Safety Record
20:06 Pedestrian Impact Protection
20:38 I hate it. I love it.
21:09 Cybertruck Interior & Build Quality
21:40 Dynamic Review
22:10 Rearview mirror
22:31 Lamborghini Owner's Suburban Assault Daily Driver
22:50 DeLorean Time Machine // Car and Driver
23:44 Lamborghini LM002
24:54 Cybertruck vs F-150 Lightning vs Rivian R1T
25:13 Tesla's From-Scratch Vehicle
25:41 You've Made Up Your Mind: Fingerprints, Broken Glass, & Panel Gaps
26:08 Tesla Didn't Learn Its Lesson
26:59 The Future Ain't Gonna Invent Itself

Long blog post but thought it was worth sharing.

Quote:The tinfoil hat, the country bumpkin, the cork board strewn with a tangled web of string- these are examples of images used in the old stereotyping of UFO enthusiasts. Mass media and pop culture have promoted these tropes for ages, with the cumulative effect of minimizing the subject in the broader public consciousness. Likewise, the existence of ghosts, magic powers, and cryptozoological specimens has traditionally been pushed to the margins which, perhaps, may be the best place for them. For those who have had an experience with any of these mysteries, or those who seek to investigate them, a minefield lays ahead in the no-man's land of alleged expertise on these matters. Traversing the field becomes a perilous journey, full of pitfalls and explosive revelations. Without a guide, a map, or markers to go by, one must trust one's intuition.

At the time of this writing it seems that public opinion has softened on these once shunned topics, but the old problems still persist. In the field of UFOlogy, for example, this broader acceptance seems to be a result of government hearings and a push toward that ever-elusive, amorphous old chestnut Disclosure. In the minds of many passive observers, "the Government said" that aliens are real. Those who have a vested interest in full Disclosure celebrate these events as minor victories on the road toward revelations of alien bodies and reverse-engineered technology from another world- and among these advocates, nothing short of that will be satisfactory, regardless of the facts. In the never-ending quest toward Disclosure, whatever that might mean to whomever might be interested in such a thing, there is the persistent idea that the subject is made more credible by the involvement of authority figures. Luis Elizondo himself, the de facto figurehead for the current crop of UAPology Disclosurists, said in no uncertain terms that he wished to dismantle the field of UFOlogy. Scorching the earth, relieved of the crackpots and amateurs of old- along with the experiences of everyday people- a new Utopia seemingly awaits in this worldview. Once the Government tells us what it knows, a new day will dawn: A New Age of peace and prosperity, and all we need to do is approve funding for military programs to look into it.

This is, of course, hogwash of the highest order. UFOs are and always will be obscured by the eclipse of their own mythical shadow in the public consciousness. The tinfoil hat of old always cautioned us to question authority figures, but the modern more accepted cranks grasp desperately for authorities to confirm or deny the truth for them. So hungry are they for confirmation, they seek to be legitimized by whatever authority is advantageous at the moment. The trouble is that UFOs answer to no authority. They are tricky things, airborne pookas turning expectations upside-down and inside-out, inspiring even skeptics like Phillip Klass to lay a "curse" on the pursuit of them. We would never know more about them, he said, than we did during his time. This subversion- the arch-debunker and materialist resorting, albeit jokingly, to something as spooky as a curse- is a classic example of the UFO deftly eluding our attempts to rationalize it. By extension, the other aforementioned mysteries of the world are quite adept at remaining mysterious. Perhaps that is their entire function.

When we seek out experts, when we seek to legitimize anomalous phenomena, and when we promote "serious" inquiry into these subjects we are simply flailing around in a minefield hoping someone will show us the way. Many are the traps and dangers associated with the idea of credibility. Investigators have long favored reports that come from "trained observers", ranging from military personnel to law enforcement individuals and those with a background in science. As a corollary to this, cases are often downplayed or discarded when the report comes from an average Joe. The underlying presumption is that military pilots, for instance, are incapable of making mistakes about what they see in the air. Military and law enforcement professionals, we are told, are also more trustworthy by virtue of their career paths and less likely to lie, or suffer mental illness. This of course is entirely bogus. All the same, when in search of that coveted credibility, reports from the military or police tend to be prioritized. It's too risky to rely on reports from everyday people, and why would you? Especially when someone with a PhD or government clearance is available to offer their own unimpeachable truths. The country bumpkin of old is left to wonder at his own experiences, and defer to the "experts".

This mentality naturally results in a discourse beyond parody, as we see in the world of UAPology today. The testimony of David Grusch, which amounts to little more than a litany of very tired UFO myths that have been relentlessly debated or debunked over the course of decades, being considered a form of whistleblowing is simply ludicrous. It amounts to little more than gossip, ultimately, and does nothing to further the truth- quite the opposite, it reinforces poppycock that only muddies the waters. And yet, paradoxically, stunts like that bring a veneer of credibility to the outside observer. Similarly, this appeal to authority in a misguided attempt to locate reliable sources leads folks to books by really problematic old heads who happen to have "Dr" attached to their names. For those who don't know the history, a book by Dr. David Jacobs might sound more credible than one by John Keel simply because one of them has an academic background and the other, none. The trouble of course is that Jacobs has been repeatedly revealed to have been a fraud and a creep, his "research" methods are shown to have been highly flawed, and his ouevre rendered thus virtually worthless. It is human nature, perhaps, to be less critical when an author, investigator, or correspondent has a title such as Doctor, Lt. Commander, or Officer attached to his or her name. It is nevertheless wrong to assume their authority on any given matter is uncontaminated by ulterior motives, craziness, or judgment errors.

It is difficult to talk about these distinctions in our polarized age. A false dichotomy is prominent in the world of UFOs, which pits believers against debunkers. In truth there is a broad spectrum of belief and opinion, all of which exists within the tiny fraction of the overall population that even cares to discuss the subject. Dismissing this or that piece of evidence, or questioning the stories of alleged authorities promoting UAPs does not necessarily indicate a belief that UFOs are bogus. For the part of this writer, a cursory glance at other posts on this very site will give you all the evidence you need about where I stand. The point is quite moot, though; suffice to say, UFOs are empirically real. What they are- and who is qualified to authoritatively determine that- is indefinitely a matter of speculation. Many are attracted to the so-called field of UFOlogy because it is such a loosely defined area of study. Similarly, the methods of Paranormal Investigators vary wildly, and there as many divergent approaches to cryptozoology as there are methods to develop wild talents of the psychical kind. This is neither a good or bad thing. It is simply a thing to realize, to be wary of, and to figure into one's personal calculus when presented with fantastical tales of the improbable. Astrophysicists may indeed have good insights on the UFO phenomenon, but reliance on their ideas seems to presuppose that UFOs come from outer space. Science has a role to play in unraveling some of these "Woo" mysteries, as they increasingly seem to become less "Woo"- but one should be ever cautious, as science itself is an evolving system of thought and is also a layer of the minefield.

To illustrate the tricky nature of science, authority, and truth as it pertains to the mysterious, you are invited to consider the tale of Eusapia Palladino, a spirit medium Houdini referred to as the "greatest deceiver of them all." Her recorded feats were many, and were studied by scientists throughout Europe between the late 1800s and the early 20th century. Along with the standard parlor tricks for mediums of her time, such as producing raps and ethereal music, table tipping, and levitation, Palladino was also said to have been able to read through her ear and emit a frigid breeze from a scar on her forehead. In an issue of FATE Magazine from 1961, Cheiro reports having been present for a powerful display of her abilities. He claims that while staying at the Naples property of a wealthy American, one Major Davis in 1904, Palladino was brought in to showcase her abilities as a 'furniture mover'. The Major leaned against an oak chest smoking a cigar, expecting light amusement more than genuine paranormal performance. However, in Cheiro's account, Palladino's head whipped back, her eyes became white, and in a trance her arms projected white, ectoplasmic appendages in the direction of a heavy table with a marble top. The table steadily slid across the floor until it pinned the Major against the chest, and several men pushing against it failed to relieve him. Cheiro finally pulled away the medium herself, which broke the trance and the commotion of the table. Upon touching the marble top, it gently and swiftly returned to its original place in the room. All of this occurred in broad daylight, according to him- and the wealthy American did not wish to see any further demonstrations of her powers.

These kinds of demonstrations began in her youth, and soon the illiterate, unassuming peasant girl mystified the greatest scientific minds in Europe. Pierre and Marie Curie, Sir Oliver Lodge, and Charles Richet were among the befuddled scientists who recorded supernatural events in laboratory sittings. In her home country of Italy, however, it was Cesare Lombroso who first analyzed her abilities and found her to be genuine. Lombroso was internationally renowned for his work in the study of criminals. He is called by some "the Father of Criminology" for his ground-breaking studies into understanding the societal and cultural conditions that produce lawlessness. He was held in high esteem at the time of his sitting and examination of Palladino, and when he publicly declared her to be genuine his colleagues and the public turned on him. How could someone so shrewd be taken in by common parlor tricks and hocus pocus? The more generous among them excused his conclusions by declaring that his mental faculties had diminished with age. Still, by Lombroso's account, he encountered the ghost of his mother during a sitting with Eusapia. The medium sat in full view at one end of the table when Lombroso recognized the warm embrace of his own mother, in spirit form.

Lombroso's rise to prominence began with an epiphany during the autopsy of a convicted criminal, combined with his interest in the brand new theory of evolution. He noticed an anomaly in the skull of his subject, of a type he would later call a stigmata, which suggested to him biological markers found in lemurs and rodents. In his words, "like a large plane beneath an infinite horizon, the problem of the nature of the delinquent was illuminated which reproduced in our time the characteristics of primitive man right down to the carnivores." In short, he believed that some percentage of criminals were evolutionary throwbacks. The work that gained him international renown was largely predicated on the idea that biological markers could identify subjects as "born delinquents", and that such "criminaloids" were beyond rehabilitation. Crime, to Lombroso, could be understood in physiologic and genetic terms, and all of this naturally ties into problematic ideas on race and also eugenics. His archive of criminal studies is now a museum in Turin, and includes his own head which was preserved for study.

Lombroso's theories on the atavistic nature of the criminal mind were borne of a misunderstanding of, and misapplication of, the Theory of Evolution. On the Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin's initial book on the subject, was careful not to approach the idea of human evolution too directly for fear of controversy. It is interesting to consider the more spooky and spiritual elements of evolution as an idea. Darwin was a cautious and thoughtful scientific mind, cataloguing examples of what he saw as evidence for natural selection and adaptation within species. While at work on the book, in another part of the world, Alfred Russel Wallace was busy identifying new species of birds. Of all known bird species, Wallace was responsible for identifying 2% of them. He contracted malaria during his expedition, and in a fever dream conceived of the very same ideas Darwin had been working to elucidate. It was fate that brought him to Moluccan Islands where this occurred- his prior expedition had met with disaster when his ship full of specimens sunk on its way back to England, forcing him to start over in Indonesia. Fate again played a hand by bringing him his fever dream of survival of the fittest- and by choosing to write to Darwin, rather than a journal, he forced Darwin's hand in releasing the work to the scientific community. Wallace and Darwin both presented their ideas together, bringing the former a new dimension of celebrity and renown.

Darwin continued to refine his ideas about evolution, and while he was cautious about the origin of humans Wallace was not. Wallace came to believe that a spiritual evolution of sorts was responsible for the dominance of humanity on earth, and further that the world of science itself would never be complete until the spirit world was better understood. His interest in spiritualism, and also hypnosis / mesmerism, caused consternation among his peers. He was notoriously bad with money, and wasted a good deal of it on an insane wager with a Flat Earther. Darwin had to arrange for his friend Wallace to receive a pension to help keep him afloat.

All the while, Wallace insisted his colleagues in the scientific community include spiritualism in with the other natural sciences. He of course got nowhere with them; the established authority of the time had decided it was all bunk. T. H. Huxley responded by saying "I never cared for gossip in my life, and disembodied gossip, such as those worthy ghosts supply their friends with, is not more interesting to me than any other. As for investigating the matter, I have half-a-dozen investigations of infinitely greater interest to me which any spare time I may have will be devoted. I give it up for the same reason I abstain from chess- It's too amusing to be fair work, and too hard work to be amusing."

We may put this in contrast with a well-known quote from the very same Huxley: "The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in each generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and to the solidity of our possessions." The references here to land, and to solidity, exemplify well the materialist mindset of hard data that still dominates today. It stands to reason that when there's infinitely more mystery than there is certainty in our world, the priority should be on the most immediately verifiable; but to Wallace, if the ethereal realm were understood, it would fill in all of the gaps. Perhaps a Lombroson illuminating horizontal plane would rise up and displace water from Huxley's illimitable sea of inexplicability, causing the imponderables to become quite matter of fact. And perhaps its all a daydream, or a fever dream brought on by the malaria of cognitive biases. 

Lombroso's work included the idea that other regressed, atavistic types included the insane and the geniuses. Evolutionary deviants, if not of the criminaloid type, may present staggering intellects but would pay for the benefits in the form of degraded organs and possibly madness. Similarly, there is a fine line between brilliance and crazy talk. It's difficult, as we get away from Huxley's illimitable ocean and back to the minefield, to conclude definitive answers on any of these mysteries and further, to discard or idolize any of the players and theories completely. It is a complicated and tangled mess. Lombroso's phylogenetic ideas have mostly, and rightly, been relegated to the garbage bins of quack science but the underlying idea that criminalism has underlying causes has evolved to include the social sciences of today. His reasoning as to what those causes were is wrong, but he paved the way for systematic and holistic ways of looking at society, which has led to beneficial reforms. The irony is that during his time his terribly problematic ideas were celebrated, and he was panned for allowing for the reality of ghosts. While we may have reclaimed more ground in the past century plus, it should be kept in mind that we are still very much surrounded by the inexplicable- and that the authority of today stands a good chance of looking foolish in the future.

Palladino herself has gone down in history as a fraud. By Houdini's account, the unassuming Italian ghost conjuror who fooled the greatest scientists in Europe was revealed as a mountebank by the magicians in America. Houdini, the great debunker of mediums, declared that all the laboratory investigations of her powers were worthless, as she was allowed to dictate the settings. He could explain the parlor tricks, and he did give her credit as the greatest deceiver of them all for her inventiveness. He noted that Hereward Carrington, the man who brought Eusapia to New York, even admitted that she would invariably resort to magic tricks if not watched carefully. He claimed she did this as a way of avoiding the strain of the "real" phenomena. Houdini had his own biases; he was on a crusade of sorts to discredit fraudulent spirit mediums. Carrington was actively profiting off of Palladino's American tour. As for Eusapia herself, who can say what her motivations were or what, if any, of her powers were genuine? Assuming Cheiro's account was true, how would Houdini explain that? The skills attributed to her range from pedestrian prestidigitation to the startlingly impressive, and occasionally downright bizarre as in the chilly forehead breeze. They culminate in a portrait of a woman, reflecting the contradictions within the cultural and scientific milieu of the era. In many ways, things haven't changed.

The error of hubris is all-pervasive in any era. Instead of thinking in terms of being surrounded by the inexplicable, as Huxley did, we often proceed as though we know most things and that there's only a handful of mysteries out there to solve. We really don't have authorities to whom we can appeal on the subject of life after death- it's more a matter of faith. Likewise, UFOs represent a challenge to preconceived notions about how the rest of reality, which we tend to take for granted, works. Opening ones' self to the myriad possibilities, and the weirdest possible scenarios- and hell, even the impossible ones- may not get us more ground, but on the other hand, it just might. We must realize our institutions, and models for the nature of reality, are imperfect and incomplete. There are other dimensions, other ways of contextualizing the anomalous and bizarre. Any sleight-of-hand trickster can tell you that point of view is crucial to pulling off a trick- and as you navigate the minefield, you must always be aware of the illusions around you. Step softly, ask questions, and above all stay curious. Certainty often leads to trouble.