ONE NATION UNDER BLACKMAIL pt. 2 - WHITNEY WEBB

First and foremost, hats off to Whitney Webb. She did it. When Epstien died in 2019 there seemed to be pretty universal agreement, in a way that is suprising in our hyper-partisan era, that something very fucked up had been going on with that guy. It was a clear if quick glimpse into a much darker world that supports and undergirds our world and one we’re not supposed to know about. Well, it’s almost 4 years later and there’s basically been no follow up in the mainstream media. No hard questions for the deeply implicated like Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton, or the administration of Harvard, or Dershowitz or any number of silicon valley ghouls, the list is really endless. No investigations from any part of our government into very serious and credible allegations of blackmail and intelligence ties (and this isn’t just from internet kooks, remember that that truly unbelievable statement from Trump Labor secretary Alex Acosta who admitted to Trumps transition team that he went easy on Epstien when he was the prosecuting attorney in Florida because he was told that Epstein “belonged to intelligence”), no follow-up on the thousands of nude photos of underage girls, presumably with the rich and famous, seized from his NYC home by police. Hell, they even conducted the Maxwell trail in such a way as to not reveal who she was trafficking these girls too. In a less corrupt world, even if the government wasn’t interested in this story, since, presumably, it involves a lot of them, perhaps the mainstream media, with vastly more resources than Webb, who conducted this research largely alone, would be interested in pulling some of these threads or a least keep bringing it up so it doesn’t get memory hole’d which seems likely to be the ultimate fate of this story. Just another wacky thing that happened long ago. But Webb did it. She really went wild, connecting dots and doing here best to show a larger system of corruption and blackmail, where business and intelligence and criminal syndicates overlap to make money and shape power. Like the last book, this volume goes far beyond Epstein. He really only features heavily in about 4 of the chapters. Webb does a good job tracing his life and giving us as thorough a biography as exists yet, but her ultimate aim is the system and structure around Epstein, the one that his bizarre death and the lurid details of his life brought attention to and that we’re being told to ignore. There is a ton in this book about suslord Leslie Wexner, including several quotes his given over the years w/r/t his belief that he’s possessed by a Dybbuk, as well as some murders he seems to have been involved in. A couple chapters about the various Clinton scandals that aren’t BJ based and are thus ignored by even the right-wing press (there’s some actually interesting Vince Foster info that goes beyond the typical right-wing screaming when his name comes up). 

There is some very interesting stuff about how Epstein seemed to be moving toward Silicon Valley before his downfall and his very tight relationship with Bill Gates. There’s some information about his apparent “two-tier” system for women, one that seemed to involve simply underage sex and disposal and other where he groomed women to become wives and girlfriends for the wealthy and powerful. There’s an excellent final chapter on Palatir, an under-discussed super-evil project of Thiel’s that has a large building here in Japan near my house. Overall, the book is a great resource. I’m going to keep it and anytime someone comes up in various “spooky” news stories, I’ll hit the index real quick to see what Webb has dug up on them. I hope that people keep digging into the Epstein issue, I would read another book more narrowly focused on him. Webb has set the bar quite high.