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Intelligence sources believe Epstein was running ‘the world’s largest honeytrap operation’ on behalf of the KGB when he procured women for his network of associates.

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    This article’s source is the Daily Mail

    Is this what we’ve been reduced to? Soon as it says something you want to be true, now the Daily Mail is magically a bastion of journalistic integrity? Holy confirmation bias.

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      No, honeytrap operations are specifically a intelligence operation where assets (manipulatable agents in a target business or country) are obtained by gaining blackmail through documentation of embarrassing or illicit sexual encounters.

      Sometimes a trafficking ring is just for pedos to have sex …and while that is really fucking horrible it isn’t a honeytrap.

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    It’s Israel. Just because Epstein shared intel with Russia doesn’t make this a KGB operation. Wild how desperate the news media is to draw attention away from Israel and Mossad. They are very obviously still pulling the strings today.

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    I have heard from multiple cia people that Epstein was likely a recruit for the Israelis. That said it’s entirely plausible it was for the KGB as well as but based on recent events Israelis seems way more likely

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    Weak damaged man, weak damaged president, weak damaged nation.

    The office of the president is far too powerful, just as the anti-federalists feared:

    Holly Brewer, the Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland and the brief’s main author, told ABC News that historical writings from key figures, including Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and others as well as the records from the states as they ratified the Constitution explicitly show they were against “another runaway monarchy” after suffering under Great Britain’s King George III.

    And now, Putin is our defacto president. Disgusting.

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      They also fought tooth and nail against fiat currency/central banking…

      So of course we have the FED, the king of all central banking!

      They also fought tooth and nail against the federal government being a moral arbiter with too much power…

      So of course we now have a goliath super surveillance state working hand in hand with megachurches and companies!

      They also fought tooth and nail against military/police power abuse…

      So of course now we now have asset forfeiture and immunity to prosecution!

      etc., etc.

      The problem with ignoring the constitution for decades is you can’t decide it counts now and try to enforce it…

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      The office of the president is far too powerful

      The office of the Republican president is far too powerful.

      The office of the Democratic president is impotent and feeble.

      Putin is our defacto president

      It’s so funny to see the US intelligence services working overtime for sixteen years to do regime change in Russia. And because they keep fucking it up, the presumption is that we’re in Russia’s thrall.

      Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu takes flights out to DC every few years to give joint chamber speeches at our own capital building. He gives his minions in our legislature explicit marching orders, while his affiliates in AIPAC drop billions of dollars into primary and national congressional races, influence peddle to affect judicial appointments, and lobby states to outlaw criticism of the Israeli state, and we’re just like “Oh yeah, this is normal, nothing to see here”.

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        Trump didn’t nail up a pic of him and natanyahu on the white house wall a few weeks ago, but he did putin. Besides they can all be in bed together, which is probably the most likely.

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          Trump didn’t nail up a pic of him and natanyahu on the white house wall a few weeks ago

          Trump shaking hands with Netanyahu doesn’t Own The Libs. It’s one of those issues Chuck Schumer races Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson to applaud him on.

          Besides they can all be in bed together

          I don’t think for a second that anyone believes Democrats are in bed with Putin. And the urgency to take the fight to Russia is a major dividing line between MAGA Republicans and Neocon leftovers. (One that Trump was on the other side of as late as 2019)

          It would be safer to say Netayahu is in bed with Putin, pulling strings on his behalf, than that the Trump GOP is aligned with Putin directly and not just playing Ukraine and Russia off against one another for their own benefit.

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              I think the situation is more complex than that. These are three expansionist imperial powers in a very loose coalition, perfectly happy to stab the other two in the back if it suits them.

              The idea that Putin “owns” Trump is American media fiction. It’s not Devin Nunes sitting in the VP chair and its not Aleksandr Dugin operating as his Homeland Security Advisor. The folks that have their hooks deepest into Trump are 100% American.

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                  Also research Cambridge Analytica

                  Cambridge Analytica Ltd. (CA), previously known as SCL USA, was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It was founded in 2013, as a subsidiary of the private intelligence company and self-described “global election management agency” SCL Group by long-time SCL executives Nigel Oakes, Alexander Nix and Alexander Oakes, with Nix as CEO. Cambridge Analytica was hired by a variety of political actors, including the Trinidadian government in 2010 and the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

                  Nigel John Oakes (born July 1962) is a British businessman, and the founder and CEO of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group

                  Alexander James Ashburner Nix (born 1 May 1975) is a British businessman who was the former CEO of Cambridge Analytica

                  Alexander Waddington Oakes (born November 1968) is a British businessman, and the co-founder and an executive of Behavioural Dynamics Institute and SCL Group

                  So, I’m seeing a country’s name come up over and over again. But it’s not Russia.

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      RawStory: You’re not going to guess who is REALLY behind THE PRESIDENT! And they’re STILL using their WICKED INFLUENCES to CONTROL HIM!

      American Pleb: Is it rich people? Specifically, wealthy overseas special interests with ties to the intelligence services?

      RawStory: FUCK! We’ll have to FIND SOMETHING even more EXPLOSIVE to try and SHOCK YOU MORE next TIME.

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      At this point, what can happen? Congress is under the same sticky thumb as Trump, and there aren’t enough voters who are engaged enough to even know about it. The firehose of bullshit did exactly what it was supposed to do, and now there’s no public will left to keep fighting for freedom and democracy.

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        Military coup. A well respected general that still gives a shit about their country and their pride decides to say ‘not on my watch’, sends in the troops hot and hard, when least expected. Capture who you can. Eliminate those who can’t be. There would be no negative consequences for that person if they succeed.

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          Pretty sure they sniffed out anyone capable of that and sacked them in the purges. Hell, that was the reason for the purges.

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    Not from the US: How reliable/credible is this publication? Rawstory?

    Just checking sources don’t pounce on me.

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      Well if you look at the landscape of modern media, it’s pretty clear that the line between “just the facts” reporting and passionate activism has gotten really blurry. Sites like Raw Story tend to lean into the tabloid or “fast-paced” side of digital news for sure.

      But when you talk about Thom Hartmann, you’re looking at a completely different animal. He isn’t just a talking head; he’s a incredibly prolific author (American) who has spent decades building a reputation on “advocacy journalism”—which is basically reporting with a clear moral or political goal in mind.

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        Ok so the publication is mixed, but this particular author has integrity and established credibility.

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          That’s the way I feel, although others might feel differently. However, from my point of view, if he’s referencing this and putting it up there as journalism, then I would think it holds some weight.

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    Doesn’t matter. There is no longer any accountability in our government. It would take both Democrats controlling congress and getting their spineless shit together to start taking action. I could see the former happening, but I predict that they will pooch the latter, and most critical, step in the process because they are the reigning champions of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The US has failed. Even if the dems somehow manage to step up, the flaws in the system are terminal. The wealthy won. The blood spilled is of the 99.9% and not those who drove the country off the cliff.

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      There really isn’t government anymore. It’s completely clear that nations are just tools for more powerful entities to utilize. It’s almost comical watching people still thinking everything is NOT completely outdated.

      This woman digs into it pretty good. Takes a few minutes to get to it. https://youtu.be/0NMVKovsILo