AUGUST 16, 2019
Media tycoon and former Labour MP
Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s partner in
crime) was given a state funeral in Jerusalem after *accidentally* falling off
his yacht – the unluckily named “Lady Ghislaine”. Later it was revealed, Maxwell
Sr was a Mossad asset who used his vast network of connections and publishing
platforms to run editorial interference over his purchased assets to influence
enemies and friends alike, ensuring their fealty to the foreign government that
had enlisted him for its espionage work.
His tabloid empire was the piss-colored propaganda organ of the
interests he served, overseeing its rapid growth and tentacled reach across the
globe. More ominously, he was behind the spy agency’s successful attempt to
install a trapdoor in software intended for government use, allowing the
Israelis a direct pipeline into a vast network of computers installed with
undetectable malware.
At the time of his death, the disgraced magnate was under investigation
for raiding his companies’ pension funds to cover the losses incurred from his
multiple and reckless takeovers, and finance a luxury lifestyle he enjoyed
sharing with high profile pals like Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters.
Curiously, many of these fossilized specimens from Robert Maxwell’s roster of
friends from the Reagan era would circle around Epstein, most notably Donald
Trump whose Mar-a-Lago resort would later become a recruiting center for
employer Epstein’s underage “massage therapists”.
Fast forward a couple of decades since the days a casino mogul was
gobbling down canapés with the old guard denizens of the ‘swamp’. Notice a
similar, if not identical MO in both Maxwell and Epstein’s role in procuring
technology for the Israelis, who in turn sold it with undisclosed add-ons,
providing an open window into its users’ databases.
Like his predecessor, Epstein had a financial stake in a startup (headed
by former Israeli Defense Minister and later Prime Minister Ehud Barak)
connected to Israel’s defense industry that provides infrastructure for
emergency services as a call handling platform. Considering the company’s
connection to military intelligence, it wouldn’t be a stretch to speculate on
some of this software’s other ‘special’ features. A variation of the early
technology that Maxwell was able to procure for his Israeli bosses was later
sold to the Saudis, who leveraged its sophisticated tracking features to
assassinate Jamal Khashoggi.
Epstein, like Maxwell, was laying the groundwork for Israeli espionage
activities through his interests in companies with a political agenda concealed
in products intended for international export. If true, the playboy
philanthropist feted and flattered his high profile friends to ensnare them as
complicit partners in what amounts to the legal definition of treason.
Epstein’s covert activities have undiminished real-world consequences for
anyone on Israel’s international radar, especially those challenging the status
quo policies in place that prioritize “The Jewish State’s” political and
financial objectives over actual justice and global stability.
If you have ever asked yourself why Israel’s war crimes and settlement
expansion go unchallenged by US lawmakers, consider the career-destroying
consequences contained within those dossiers compiled by the brain trust behind
Epstein’s ’suicide’. “We’ll trade you one US Embassy in Jerusalem for 10
minutes of hidden camera footage of you . . . let’s say ‘enjoying’ a rolled up
Forbes magazine”.
Were the surveillance apparatuses installed throughout Epstein’s
properties merely a voyeur’s tools, or did he use them to leverage the moral
failings of his former friends for purposes that might have risked exposure of
more than the nether regions of wealthy pedo-punters? Considering his
connections to Israeli defense industries and his own Achilles penis that
required, by his own admission, “three orgasms a day”, the answer points to an
unslakable addiction that dovetailed conveniently with his state-sponsored sex
crimes.
Did Epstein make the same mistake of Maxwell (who had asked for nearly
half a billion dollar in “loans” from his Israeli backers to relieve him of his
mounting debts) believing the dirt he had in his possession would prove
radioactive if released? By this time, the corpulent tycoon was nicknamed the
‘Bouncing Czech’ a reference in most part to his worsening money woes. The
implication of this request, if turned down, was the exposure of Israel’s state
secrets. Epstein could have also attempted to collateralize the cache of
damning evidence still in his possession to secure his freedom with the
same fatal consequences.
Both Maxwell and Epstein somehow evaded the electronics that linked them
to the outside world at the time of their deaths, even though the latter had
reportedly made an attempt on his own life while in custody. Both men, facing
ruination and serious prison time gave their executioners an alibi: They had
nothing to left to live for. The establishment media is already trotting out
ancient, ding-a-ling conspiracy theories from obscure right-wing sources
(attributed to Russia, of course) to highlight the absurdity and futility of
questioning the official story of Epstein’s death. Verdict: Nothing to see
here.
By now, it’s a given that the parasitic and preferred daughter of the
deceased tycoon made the fateful introduction between her new boyfriend and
the Israeli operatives seeking an entry-level plutocrat to carry out their
blackmail operations after the untimely death of his predecessor. The impoverished socialite has to survive in pricey Manhattan somehow, and that
somehow was re-establishing the shady connections to the espionage underworld
that had recruited Maxwell Sr.
Ghislaine’s later role as Epstein’s Chief Procurement Officer (or pimp
for short) gives more credence to the rumors that she is more than just a
debased, a barnacle-like appendage to a billionaire, desperate to please her
platonic partner by “organizing his social life”, but a fully cognizant
co-conspirator in an operation aimed at strengthening Israel’s hand in all
matters pertaining to its national security interests, or more accurately, its
overseas criminal enterprises.
The recent raid on Epstein’s Manhattan apartment was not the result of a
so-called Justice Department righting the egregious wrong it committed by
letting Epstein off with a slap on the wrist after his initial conviction that
allowed him to serve his sentence largely outside the minimum-security facility
with an open door policy for its billionaire guest. More likely, the reversal
of Epstein’s “sweetheart” deal was a joint operation between the oligarch cabal
informally known as the Mega-Group, and the state security apparatuses that do
their bidding.
It seems likely that this sudden pivot towards justice from a Justice
Department initially spooked into inaction by the spook in his custody, was
motivated by the need to remove the most damning bits among Epstein’s vast
trove of physical evidence against the pervy punters who visited his island
getaway for unintended photo ops with underage girls.
Perhaps his own abuse of these minors was a perk he felt entitled to,
and one that would be overlooked in the service of “national security”. It’s
hard for most people to differentiate between the government he actually worked
for and the ruling establishment on his home turf.
It’s possible that Epstein felt his serial transgressions were merely
par for the plutocracy and justified in the service of a higher calling.
The ‘Israel First’ philanthropist shared an unyielding ideological
justification for his own criminality as Robert Maxwell, whom the British Home
Office had considered recruiting for its own intelligence gathering in the mid
1960’s. Having determined that the well-connected, multilingual, rising star the politician was strictly “Zionist”, the spy agency withdrew his candidacy.
Epstein’s real crimes had little to do with raping children, despite the
overturned plea deal that came about when a federal judge ruled that
prosecutors had violated the victim's rights by concealing the agreement from
them. The one-time Teflon-coated “member of intelligence” who was “above the
pay grade” of a powerful District Attorney (now a now scandal-tainted former
Labor Secretary) was ultimately (and lethally) penalized for not destroying the
contents of his secret-laden safes, leaving his handlers still vulnerable to
their explosive contents.
Had the doomed financier divested himself of the toxic assets still in
his possession, he might still be roaming the earth today, scouring it for new
specimens to populate his underage petting zoo. As a result of the Justice
Department’s decision to reverse the non-prosecution deal meant to bury the
most incendiary facts of the case, lower-rung punters like former governor Bill
Richardson and Senator George Mitchell are being publicly named for their part
in the sordid scandal. Someone has to take the fall. (Rule number one of PR
crisis management: Crucify the insignificant and let them hang out to dry until
the public tires of watching the slow-motion spectacle of their undoing.)
Meanwhile, documented and/or photographic evidence against more powerful
players like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump will have already been destroyed in
the pursuit of selective justice.
The fallout of Epstein’s spectacular downfall predictably miss the mark
as scandals involving the rich and powerful tend to do. Much of the controversy
will dissolve into a Cheetoh dust maelstrom of disinformation, disseminated on
Reddit and 4Chan by incel info-warriors before shooting up a shopping mall or
playground.
Subsequent reporting of the case will overlook decades of the
elite-driven statecraft that elevated corrupt and ruthless entities like
Epstein and Trump, both ring-kissing acolytes in their youth of influential mob
fixer/political power broker Roy Cohn – himself a serial sexual predator who
similarly caught the fancy of fellow deviants Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover.
Follow the money trail from Tel Aviv and you’ll discover an ancestral link
between the corpse of Epstein and his ghostly godfathers waiting with his
rewards in hell.
Along with the other disgraced and expendable patsies left in the wake
of this ongoing scandal is Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s octogenarian chief legal
counsel and ‘wingman’ aboard the Lolita Express. The now unemployable cable
news pundit will live out the remainder of his pointless life under a cloud of
suspicion. Despite all the damning testimony against him, the statutory rape
allegations never quite stick, but follow him around like a sneaky fart,
forcing a distance between himself and the rest of humanity that will last
until he is engulfed by the sulfurous fumes of his own making.
The former Harvard law professor’s lifelong service to Israel will go
unrewarded – not as a result of victim testimony placing him at multiple crime
scenes, but in consideration of his own inept self-defense strategy: ”I’m a
scurvy rat aboard a sinking ship eating its own tail to stay alive. Pity me”!
Dershowitz at this point will be lucky if he can achieve the same pay grade and
social status of Lindsay Lohan. Ditto for Prince Andrew who can at least be
relied on to expire slowly of gout in his time-out corner at Windsor Castle.
The moral of this story could be “Lie down with dogs and never wake up
again with a prison-issued sheet around your neck”. A variation of the old “Lie
down with dogs and wake up as fish food”.
Jennifer Matsui is a writer living in Tokyo and a columnist for
the print edition of CounterPunch magazine.
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