yes i cannot get bitchute vids up either
anon should give a wick link as fast tutorial how to embed bitchutes since so much is gone from YT
>>14049772 <<<<<<<
https://izquotes.com/quote/43014
Bill Cosby ā 'Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.'
https://qanon.pub/?q=tock
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Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: fead75 No.8600954 š
Mar 28 2020 14:15:18 (EST)
A person(s) value:
-
vote
-
monetary value (tax contribution)
Why is 'free thought' ridiculed, challenged, and threatened when a person is opposed to the 'mainstream-narrative'?
[2] remains fixed (degree allowable by 'economic recession/expansion')
[1] remains a variable
[1] dependent on a 'controlled' system of information dissemination
What happens when 90% of the media is controlled/owned by (6) corporations?
What happens when those same corporations are operated and controlled by a political ideology?
What happens when the news is no longer free from bias?
What happens when the news is no longer reliable and independent?
What happens when the news is no longer trustworthy?
What happens when the news simply becomes an extension/arm of a political party?
Fact becomes fiction?
Fiction becomes fact?
When does news become propaganda?
Identity creation?
How does the average person, who is under constant financial stress (by design), find time to research and discern fact v fiction?
Majority of people more prone to believe someone in power sitting behind a big brand ānewsā name?
Do people [human psyche] tend to follow the āmajority/mainstream viewpointā in fear of being isolated and/or shunned?
āMainstreamā is used for a reason [dominate trend in opinion].
[If majority of people believe āxā then āxā must be validated / true]
Why do āmainstreamā media heads, within different orgs, always use the same keywords and/or catch phrases?
Coordinated? By who? Outside entity providing instructions?
Do they count on the fact that people [human psyche] are more prone to believe something if heard over-and-over again by different ātrustedā sources?
Do āecho chamberā tactics provide validation / credibility to the topic/point being discussed?
Threat to intellectual freedom?
Would control over[of] these institutions/organizations allow for the mass control of a populations viewpoint re: a desired topic?
Read again ā digest.
Would control over[of] these institutions/organizations allow for the mass control of a populations viewpoint re: a desired topic?
Logical thinking.
Why, after the election of 2016, did [D]ās and media corps jumpstart a [coordinated & planned] divisive blitz intended to create falsehoods re: illegitimacy of election, character assassination of POTUS through sexism, racism, every other āismā?
Pre/post 2016 election?
Why were violent [masked] terror orgs such as Antifa immediately created/funded?
Why were these orgs tasked w/ immediate intimidation/shut down of any pro-POTUS rally[s] and/or events?
Why were marches immediately organized to counter and silence pro-POTUS rally[s] and/or events?
Why were marches immediately organized which divided people into sex/gender, race, [ism]?
When you control the levers of news dissemination, you control the narrative.
Control of the narrative = power
When you are blind, what do you see?
They want you divided.
Divided by religion.
Divided by sex.
Divided by political affiliation.
Divided by class.
When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those ādifferentā from you, not those responsible [controllers].
Divided you are weak.
Divided you pose no threat to their control.
When ānon-dogmaticā information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or stable [livestock kept ā sheep].
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (āgroup-thinkā collective), and have āfree thoughtā.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
THIS REPRESENTS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Q
1203
Q !xowAT4Z3VQ ID: 948590 No.1121272 š
Apr 20 2018 19:30:58 (EST)
Mack is naming names.
Big names in H-Wood / Govāt (local/federal).
Proof.
The āStandardā Hotel.
Helicopter crash.
All related.
'Future will prove past.
AS.
Feeling ok today?
Why is the MX border / Long Beach Port so important?
Tick TOCK (LLC).
Q
1100
Q !xowAT4Z3VQ ID: 7ec299 No.966637 š
Apr 9 2018 11:16:28 (EST)
>>XMAS IN DC
Who is arranging the PRIVATE meetings?
MZ campaign contribution promises.
FB donations since 4.2.18?
Fresh round.
R's targeted (censorship/anti R = more $).
How to mask?
MZ personal donations?
Shell Co?
Recent stock dump?
Avoid FB public disclosure?
Track congressional intake (reported).
Keep open (+6 mo).
Loud w/ findings.
RT - how DC/swamp works.
Money talks.
Drain the swamp.
How do politicians access campaign contributions for personal use?
The "Con."
Q
https://qanon.pub/?q=nsa
https://qanon.pub/?q=zucker
https://qanon.pub/?q=facebook
https://qanon.pub/?q=lifelog
https://qanon.pub/?q=darpa
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Apr 11 2018 19:08:47 (EST)
Anonymous ID: cf14d3 No.1003261 š
Apr 11 2018 18:43:06 (EST)
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Check the dates. Pentagon kills LIFELONG project same day Facebook is formed.
>>1003248
Finder of this should apply to NSA.
Q
hey Facebook Normies
lifelog killed
2/4/04
and
Facebook Born
2/4/04
Mark Is a Fraud
and you gave all your shit for free
you are super dense
you fail to realize that all the sleeping nomies have been and are uncomfortable and now seeing shit everywhere. China Joe is part of the movie everyone is watching and are also part of as they pump gas and buy groceries
and all the other shit
you have to show people or they wont see
https://qanon.pub/?q=show
4426
Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 84eaad No.9184840 š
May 15 2020 11:04:54 (EST)
https://twitter.com/Harlan/status/1261284089933508609š
Sometimes you can't TELL the public the truth.
YOU MUST SHOW THEM.
ONLY THEN WILL PEOPLE FIND THE WILL TO CHANGE.
Q
4461
Only when evil is forced into the light can we defeat it.
Only when they can no longer operate in the [shadows] can people see the truth for themselves.
Only when people see the truth [for themselves] will people understand the true nature of their deception.
Seeing is Believing.
Sometimes you can't tell the public the truth.
YOU MUST SHOW THEM.
ONLY THEN WILL PEOPLE FIND THE WILL TO CHANGE.
It had to be this way.
This is not another 4-year election.
GOD WINS.
Q
>Seeing is Believing.
>Sometimes you can't tell the public the truth.
>YOU MUST SHOW THEM.
>ONLY THEN WILL PEOPLE FIND THE WILL TO CHANGE.
It had to be this way.
yep
not her
Trump DeSantis Flag spotted by Cernovich
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1411521308240728067
Cernovich
@Cernovich
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1h
Saw my first Trump DeSantis 2024 flag , said āMake America Florida.ā
8:04 PM Ā· Jul 3, 2021Ā·Twitter for iPhone
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Mollie
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It's very subtle, but if you have a trained eye, a thorough understanding of the literature, and an academic background in media ecology, you can detect a slight difference in the way that the media covered the previous president and this one.
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CBS News
@CBSNews
Ā· 3h
President Joe Biden ended his trip to Michigan with a trip to a local ice cream spot. He ordered vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips in a waffle cone āā and made sure to get two scoops.
sauce:
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1411495797661777921
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1411494909719285765
When Donald does ice cream it means something
and he is never wrong
even if it takes a while to get it to the masses to consume
ice cream and firing Comey is so sweet
Donald Trump's love for ice cream has created a headache for the US president after it was revealed he got two scoops with dinner, while three visiting journalists only got one.
Washington CNN ā
President Donald Trump is living every childās dream: More ice cream.
Trump gets 2 scoops of ice cream, everyone else gets 1 ā and other top lines from his Time interview
Dan Merica
By Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 9:03 PM EDT, Thu May 11, 2017
According to an extensive interview with TIME Magazine, Trumpās White House staff has settled into Trumpās routine and know his desires, sometimes before he does,
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/trump-time-magazine-ice-cream/index.html
For example: Trump takes two scoops of ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, TIME reported, while everyone else around the table gets just one.
In the interview published Thursday, Trump also expanded on his view of Russian hacking during the 2016 election, refuted reports that he is unhappy with his current national security adviser and took a level of blame for his combative administration.
But, more than anything, Trump gave TIME a window into some of the oddities that make his White House unlike any in modern history, including the traits that make Trump tick.
Here are some illuminating takeaways from the interview:
Business at any cost
Trump casts himself throughout the interview as Americaās businessman, someone who is bringing his private-sector savvy to the White House to spur growth and create jobs. That focus extends to faulty digital launching systems on aircraft carriers ā āTime and material means youāre going to get your ass kickedā ā to arms deals with unlikely African leaders.
TIME reported that Trump brought up how he is trying to mint an arms deal with an African leader who has decades-old human rights concerns, all in the name of spurring American business. Trump declined to name the country.
āIt could be my faultā
Trump rarely takes blame, and throughout the 2016 campaign he said he rarely, if ever, apologizes.
But during his interview with TIME, Trump took responsibility ā sort of ā for the combative tone of his administration.
āIt could be my fault,ā he said. āI donāt want to necessarily blame, but thereās a great meanness out there that Iām surprised at.ā
Itās not an admission, but itās a close as Trump usually gets.
āI fully think apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong,ā Trump told Jimmy Fallon in September 2015. āI will absolutely apologize sometime in the distant future if Iām ever wrong.ā
A level of introspection
Trump, carrying on the tenor of his vicious 2016 campaign, has made Washington a more acrimonious place. Democrats, appalled by his victory, have grown more fearful, more vocal and more disgusted. Trump has kept his foot on the gas, too, with near constant combative tweets.
But doing the TIME interview, as their dinner was wrapping up, Trump appeared to have a moment of introspection.
āIt never made sense to me, the level of animosity,ā Trump said. āAll you want to do is, like, letās have a great military. Letās have low taxes. Letās have good health care. Letās have good education.ā
Trump, notably, at times during the 2016 campaign demeaned his primary and general election opponentsā spouses and attacked a Gold Star family. More recently, he cast the entire media as the āenemy of the state.ā
āChoke like dogsā
Can Trump lament acrimony in Washington? Yes. But he also can elevate with seven-word sentence.
Watching clips of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former acting Attorney General Sally Yatesā recent Senate testimony, Trump compared to the longtime government officials to dogs.
āWatch them start to choke like dogs,ā Trump said after Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, asked whether official asked for names of Trump or his associates be revealed in an intelligence report. āWatch what happens. They are desperate for breath.ā
āAh, heās choking. Ah, look,ā Trump said after Clapper declined to provide names.
āSo they surveilled me,ā he added. āYou guys donāt write that ā wiretapped in quotes. They surveilled me.ā
is seth lemon news reporter
related to don lemon?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Seth+Lemon&iax=images&ia=images
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video/3664379-trump-tweets-defense-of-comey-firing/
Trump Tweets Defense Of Comey Firing
President Trump has unleashed a wave of tweets defending his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey and criticizing people who are questioning the move, Seth Lemon reports (2:09). WCCO 4 News At Noon ā May 10, 2017
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethlemon
remember this old shit
Listen FRONTHOLES kek hahahhaaaa I love calling people fronthole
August 21, 2018
People are angry over this safe seĻ guide, which calls the Ī½agina a 'front hole'
The health website Healthline is adding the term āfront holeā to describe the Ī½agina. (Photo: Getty Images)
A new safe seĻ guide for the LGBTQIA community includes the term āfront holeā as an alternative to āĪ½agina.ā
The health website Healthline, along with the Gay, LesbiĪ±n and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and Advocates for Youth, has published the LGBTQIA Safe SeĻ Guide, which expands current safe seĻ terminology.
āTraditional safe seĻ guides are often structured in a way that presumes everyoneās gender (male/female/nonbinary/trans) is the same as the seĻ they were assigned at birth (male/female/interseĻ or differences in seĻual development),ā reads a statement on Healthline. āThese guides also often unnecessarily gender body parts as being āmale partsā and āfemale partsā and refer to āseĻ with womenā or āseĻ with men,ā excluding those who identify as nonbinary. Many individuals donāt see body parts as having a gender ā people have a gender. ā¦
āFor the purposes of this guide, weāve chosen to include alternative words for readers to use for their geĪ·itals,ā the statement continues. āFor example, some trans men choose to use the words āfront holeā or āinternal geĪ·italā instead of āĪ½agina.ā Alternatively, some trans women may say āstraplessā or āgirl d***ā for peĪ·is. This usage is meant for one-on-one communication with trusted persons, such as your doctor or partner, not for broad discussion.ā
The term āfront holeā was recommended in a November study of 10 transgender men published in the journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. The study identified cultural and logistical barriers to the reproductive needs of transgender men, who for example get pregnant and give birth, and, as a result, face discrimination.
Two key recommendations for physicians, concluded researchers, are to use alternative terms such as āchest feedingā in place of ābreastfeedingā and āfront holeā for āĪ½agina.ā Lead researcher Alexis Hoffkling, MD, did not return Yahoo Lifestyleās request for comment.
Healthlineās new guide does not merely offer a more sensitive way to communicate ā as the site points out, people whose identity isnāt represented culturally or statistically may not get adequate health care.
The safe sex guide caught lots of flak on Twitter.
Technically biological men have front-holes too, unless the Healthline people think our urine just magically comes out of nowhere. So, good luck to the doctors trying to figure out what specific body part is being discussed when we exclusively use "front-hole".
ā Hayek's Ghost (@FritzHayek) August 21, 2018
Healthline directed Yahoo Lifestyle to the following statement, which reads in part: āSome people are under the impression that Healthline is now using the term āfront holeā instead of Ī½agina. This is simply not true. As one of the worldās leading health websites, we place a huge emphasis on standards of accuracy, integrity, and balance. Every article we publish undergoes a rigorous editorial process and extensive medical review.
āIn the LGBTQIA Safe seĻ Guide, we use both front hole and Ī½agina,ā the statement reads. āāFront holeā is one of the numerous, accepted terms for geĪ·italia we use specifically for certain members of the trans community who identify with it. In no instance in this guide are we saying we want to replace the word Ī½agina.ā
Debra Hauser, president of Advocates for Youth, sent the following statement to Yahoo Lifestyle: āWe were happy to contribute to Healthlineās LGBTQIA Safe Sex Guide. While correct names for body parts are part of the bedrock foundation of sexuality education, Healthline crafted their pamphlet to be inclusive of all types of bodies and all people. They included terms used by some in the transgender community as well as medical terms. Sex Ed is rarely able to be this inclusive, and we applaud Healthline for creating such a valuable resource. Representation matters, and having words that reflect how each of us describes our body parts is crucial to lifelong health and well being. We stand by our contributions to this thoughtful and informative guide.ā
https://twitter.com/ArielleScarcell/status/1030585979663470598
Arielle Scarcella
@ArielleScarcell
.
@Healthline
āVaginaā IS gender inclusive. Men and women (gender identity) can have vaginas. Using the term āfront holeā is dehumanizing.
https://twitter.com/JetSkiGirlRN/status/1031713585561526272
Barb
@JetSkiGirlRN
Healthline
@Healthline
Iām a medical professional Nurse Practitioner you do not have the authority to change the proper name of a womanās genitalia. You have no credibility especially after THIS!
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/people-angry-safe-sex-guide-calls-vagina-front-hole-012527170.html
Sven Juis
@SvenJuis
Ā·
Aug 21, 2018
Replying to
@ArielleScarcell
and
@Healthline
Uh, no. A man can mutilate himself and have a surgeon invert his plumbing, but thatās not a vagina, dear. #Science
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May 11 2020 18:06:24 (EST)
Anonymous ID: b80dc5 No.9129511 š
May 11 2020 18:05:22 (EST)
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>>9129285
Q Slow and Steady wins the race.
>>9129511
We are ready to unleash hell.
Memes ready?
Q
2189
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: cd97e7 No.3061670 š
Sep 17 2018 16:55:09 (EST)
Attention on deck.
Memes at the ready.
Lock on target.
Fire at will.
Q
epstein and crew
they gave dental exams and kept teeth
https://parentsecurityonline.com/jeffrey-epsteins-island-temple-had-a-piano-and-a-picture-of-the-pope-childabductors/
Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected sex criminal who died by suicide in federal custody, owned a 70-acre private island in the US Virgin Islands known as Little St. James.
The islandās southwestern corner features an unusual blue-and-white-striped building that resembles a temple or place of worship.
The building has inspired countless conspiracy theories, but none has adequately explained what was inside the building or what Epstein did there.
Insider explored the most prominent and tantalizing theories about the building, including that it is a monument to an evil Canaanite god and that it is a crypt.
A piano tuner who lives in the Virgin Islands told Insider that he visited the building twice in 2012 and described its interior in detail.
Visit Insiderās homepage for more stories.
An entrance to an underground lair. An altar to an ancient deity. A monument to sexual predation. A defiant gesture, like a raised middle finger, toward the rest of the world.
These are just a handful of the various theories sprouting from the discovery of a strange blue-and-white structure on Little St. James, the private Caribbean island once owned and inhabited by the financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein, who died last month, was said to have masterminded an international sex-trafficking operation, accumulated inexplicable sums of money, and organized his professional and personal lives around a private, inaccessible island ā all while plying his way into the upper atmosphere of the global elite. The outlandish temple, with no clear history or purpose, provided the perfect detail: an otherwise minor plot element that promised to illuminate the whole story.
Still, no theory has convincingly explained why Epstein erected the building or what may have happened inside. The persistence of this mystery is especially remarkable given the intense public scrutiny of Epstein and his circle since his arrest in July. Someone, somewhere, must have a clue. Right?
In the two months since Insider highlighted the structure, Iāve received dozens of tips about its true purpose. Most had no basis in fact or reason. But along the way, I found the closest thing yet to the truth: an eyewitness account of the templeās interior, from someone who stepped inside long before it became a symbol of its ownerās dark secrets.
Before we get there, however, letās run down the most popular ā and probable ā explanations.
Theory 1: Itās a facility for child abuse or sacrifice
A favorite among online conspiracists, this theory combines the more fantastical elements of the Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories, including cryptic allusions to pagan deities and underground chambers for abusing and murdering children. There are several variations of this theory, but many seem to stem from the presence of two birdlike statues perched on the buildingās roof.
One reader claimed that the statues depicted a deity of the ancient Canaanite religion, whose adherents practiced child sacrifice: āItās actually an āowl,ā and itās actually the same as the great āowlā at Bohemian Grove ā¦ The āowlā is Moloch, a satanic entity that demands child sacrifice.ā
Another reader sent an annotated photo, below, that described the statues as harpies, the half-bird, half-human creatures of Greek and Roman mythology. The same photo compared the buildingās exterior to the striped flag of Greece and noted that āsex between adults and minors was common in ancient Greece.ā
An annotated image of the temple-like building.
Anonymous
cont:
Both hypotheses are shaky.
Regarding the first: I was unable to find a historical example of Moloch being depicted as an owl, an idea that some authors have traced to āDark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove,ā a 2000 documentary filmed and produced by the radio fabulist Alex Jones. The title refers to a private campground owned by the exclusive Bohemian Club in San Francisco, whose members conduct elaborate ceremonies involving a gigantic concrete bird known as the Owl of Bohemia. Jones refers to the owl statue as āMolochā throughout the film but never explains why.
Regarding the second: The mythological harpy possesses the body of a bird and the head of a human. The available photos of the statues, by contrast, show distinctly avian heads. There is a legible correspondence between the buildingās exterior and the modern Greek flag, and ancient Greek culture did promote sexual relationships between adolescent boys and adult men. But even if the buildingās motif alludes to the sexual culture of a society that ended more than 1,400 years ago, Greek pederasty was a male phenomenon. Epsteinās victims were young women and girls.
(Confusing matters further is the disappearance or destruction of some of the buildingās architectural elements. During Hurricanes Irma and Maria, its golden dome blew off and was never replaced. The statues in front of and on top of the building, including Poseidon and the birdlike ones on the roof, appear to have vanished around the same time.)
In any case, these theories assert that Epstein built a designated structure to conceal his criminal activities and that he incorporated a series of obvious clues about those activities into the structureās design. This doesnāt quite compute. If Epstein wanted to perpetrate crimes without interference, why would he do so in the most conspicuous building on his private island?
Verdict: Almost certainly not true. There is no clear evidence that Epstein constructed a special facility for abusing children or sacrificing them to Moloch or any other deity.
Theory 2: Itās a gym
In July, ABC News spoke with an IT contractor named Steve Scully, who said he worked for Epstein and visited Little St. James more than 100 times. Scully claimed that his client used the building for exercise. From the report:
āA colorful building that some news reports have called the ātempleā was actually a gym when Epstein worked out when he was on the island, Scully said, noting in an interview with ABC News that the gym had a memorable feature ā a massive framed photo of a topless woman.ā
This account, including the framed photo, is believable, except for one key detail.
Scully told the network that he worked for Epstein for six years, from 1999 to 2005. He later told The Virgin Islands Daily News that at the end of those six years he cut off contact with Epstein entirely. But based on historical satellite imagery from Google Maps, the blue-and-white building appeared on the island sometime between 2009 and 2013.
I was not able to make sense of this discrepancy. Maybe Scully never entered the building and only heard about its interior from someone else. Or maybe he visited the island and entered the building sometime after he stopped working for Epstein.
I wasnāt able to reach Scully either. An email address found via public records no longer works, and a phone number associated with one of his companies was disconnected. Kaitlyn Folmer, a producer at ABC News, passed along my contact information to Scully, but I didnāt hear back.
Verdict: Plausible, but the supporting testimony is inconsistent with the chronology of the buildingās construction.
cont:
Theory 3: It has something to do with ancient Egypt
One of the more remarkable features of the building is its exterior treatment: Wide, horizontal stripes, alternating between azure and white, that bend toward the tops of the windows and door. The design slightly resembles ablaq, a masonry technique used in mosques that involves layers of darker and lighter stone. Conspiracists have also pointed to a public bath in Syria, the family crest of Franceās House of Lusignan, and the set of Ellen DeGeneresā daytime talk show, āEllen.ā
Some of these similarities are debatable, and some are absurd, but it is difficult to ignore the sense that the building resembles something.
āI wonder if itās a mausoleum with an Egyptian theme,ā one reader wrote. āThe colors, design, and direction of the stripes are strikingly similar to the design in Tutankhamunās Nemes headdress.ā
A different reader added: āThe statues look similar to those of Horus, the Egyptian god of the sky, wearing the Pschent, the double crown of Egypt. Horus was in control of the sun and the moon. Celebrated at winter solstice.ā
This is a tricky theory to parse. The building undeniably resembles the blue-and-gold fabric headdress worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt. But itās not quite the same color scheme, and it would be difficult to prove, in the absence of Epsteinās own admission, whether the resemblance is intentional.
As for the statue, or statues, of Horus: The available evidence is inconclusive. None of the available photos and videos that depict the golden statues is detailed enough to determine their identities, or if they even have one.
Verdict: Certainly possible, but still unproven.
Theory 4: Itās a burial ground for his parents
Shortly after my original post about the building was published, a reader in St. John emailed: āI have it on good authority his parents are buried there. That would explain your question about the door lock,ā which curiously appears designed to prevent people inside from leaving.
āThe other thing I remember,ā the reader later added, āwas the Golden Owl on the roof pointed in a certain direction and that had [some kind of] meaning. I almost want to say it was the direction of where the parents lived.ā The reader explained that āthis particular knowledge is from the boat captains that frequent the area.ā
The reader did not want to be named, but I was able to verify their longtime residence in the US Virgin Islands. And it would be strange for a reader to use their real name to lie about what a local boat captain told them about a particular building on Epsteinās private island.
cont:
Still, the boat captains are mistaken. A death notice for Epsteinās father, Seymour, appeared in The Palm Beach Post on December 16, 1991; a notice for his mother, Pauline (under her nickname, Paula), appeared on April 23, 2004. Both said that funeral services would be held at Menorah Chapels, later known as Menorah Gardens & Funeral Chapel, in West Palm Beach, Florida. A representative for the facility, now called the IJ Morris at Star of David Cemetery, confirmed that Seymour and Pauline Epstein are interred in a mausoleum there.
Verdict: Initially believable, but provably false. That said, itās possible Epstein designed the building as a future burial ground for his parents but never got around to having their remains shipped to the island.
Theory 5: Itās a music room
This theory is based on three separate accounts.
The first was published by The Associated Press in July:
āEpstein built a stone mansion with cream-colored walls and a bright turquoise roof surrounded by several other structures including the maidsā quarters and a massive, square-shaped white building on one end of the island. Workers told each other it was a music room fitted with a grand piano and acoustic walls. Its gold dome flew off during the deadly 2017 hurricane season.ā
The second account was published by NBC News in early August. According to the reporter Rich Schapiro, an unnamed architectural firm submitted blueprints for a domed, single-story building on Epsteinās behalf to the Department of Public Works of the US Virgin Islands. The documents clearly show a building designed to show off a grand piano.
But as Schapiro acknowledged, the building substantially deviates from the blueprints, which describe an octagonal structure surrounded by a covered porch, with internal partitions for a bathroom, a closet, and a living room. The building, by contrast, is shaped like a rectangle and has no covered porch to speak of.
The third account came from a reader:
āMr. Epstein did in fact have grand piano in that ātemple,ā but the roof leaked because the AC units are on top, and the roof is flat. The piano was a ā50s Baldwin Concert Grand ā¦ so huge they had trouble getting it across the island and installed there ā¦ It wouldnāt fit the first time they tried (it was 1200 lbs). The leak was ruining the top of the piano, and the flooring. There were theater drapes in the room, and furniture. No stairs, no elevator. I know this because my friend ā¦ has been in that room several times to tune the piano.ā
cont:
The reader supplied their friendās name, and I confirmed that a person by that name has worked as a professional piano tuner in South Carolina and Florida. But when I called that piano tuner, he told me: āIāve never been to Jeffrey Epsteinās private island. I donāt know who gave you my name.ā He didnāt recognize the name of the reader who referred me to him.
āIt is true that I am a piano tuner with the Piano Technicians Guild,ā the piano tuner said. But he denied tuning pianos outside of Florida and South Carolina, or ever visiting the US Virgin Islands.
When I went back to the reader, they sent me a link to a YouTube video about Little St. James and claimed they had corresponded with the piano tuner via the comments underneath it. Indeed, someone had left several comments about entering the temple, using the piano tunerās name. āWas there a few times to tune his piano,ā one read, referring to Epstein. āNever saw him though.ā
Another comment read (minor typos have been corrected):
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āEvery time I was there it seemed some kind of repair was being done to structure. I know there were many issues with roof leaking and had to go there and move piano and cover it because they were putting up scaffolding to repair the roof that was leaking on piano. Not a lot in there except an absolutely huge 1960s Baldwin Model D concert grand piano and some furniture.ā
The piano tunerās denial is one reason to question this account. The piano-tuning industry is quite small, and while the piano tuner has a somewhat common name, I was unable to find a second piano tuner with the same name.
A second reason for doubt is yet another comment left by the same user:
āI didnāt have any idea what was happening there at the time, it was early 2000s, so I really didnāt pay attention to little details. I was just too excited to be on this beautiful island with a day to myself and this amazing piano. Those benches were there, sat there when I went out for a cigarette.ā
Remember, the building was erected between 2009 and 2013. But the YouTube user said he visited the building in the āearly 2000s,ā long before it appeared in satellite imagery of Little St. James. For this reason alone, it is unlikely that this person ever set foot inside Epsteinās temple.
Verdict: This is easily the most plausible and supported theory, but the available evidence is inconsistent.
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So what was the temple for?
By mid-August, after speaking to the piano tuner who never tuned Epsteinās piano, I was blocked and bewildered. I felt no closer to understanding the history of the building or the local lore around it. Wild rumors about child sacrifice and pagan symbolism were one thing; they came with the territory of the internet. But why would at least three people ā the boat captain, the contractor, and the YouTube user ā convey superficially plausible stories about the structure, sometimes in exacting detail, that didnāt withstand basic scrutiny?
I had other doubts too. Soon after Epsteinās arrest, a YouTube user going by the name Rusty Shackleford began posting a series of remarkable videos captured by an aerial drone flown repeatedly over and around Little St. James. It was Shackleford who captured the jaw-dropping scene of FBI agents executing a search warrant throughout the island:
But my doubts stemmed from two earlier, less-noticed videos that featured close-ups of the blue-and-white building.
As you can see in the clip below, the arched, medieval-looking ādoorā ā the one facing the islandās interior ā is in fact painted to give the illusion of depth. Indeed, all the templeās external archways were illusions, painted on the buildingās featureless, flat surface as a trompe lāoeil:
In a second video, Shacklefordās drone captured a portion of the buildingās interior, seen through one of the side windows. Youāll notice what appears to be construction-grade scaffolding, two stacks of small mattresses, and an easel:
These developments were mystifying. Why would Epstein, who had access to seemingly unlimited amounts of capital, choose a mural of an elaborate door over the real thing? And what was the significance of the mattresses? The footage gives the impression of a makeshift storage locker, a discreet place to stash seasonal implements, but wouldnāt Epstein have had other places to keep extra mattresses?
The assumption that Epstein acted according to a certain logic, and that that logic could be ascertained through research and reporting, seemed less and less certain. I began to question the whole point of the exercise. How much more time and energy was I willing to spend on a story with so many dead ends? Did it even matter what Epstein used the building for?
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Every reporter has a personal theory of journalism ā a mental model of the entire process that explains why they bother with it in the first place. One might think their job is about informing readers, or speaking truth to power, or helping people live better lives, or bringing about societal change, and so on.
My own theory is that journalism is about solving mysteries ā identifying the unknown and finding a way to know it. That is a little embarrassing to admit, with its connotations of Scooby-Doo and alien abductions. But itās why I do it.
Yet here was a seemingly solvable mystery for which I could not find a solution. I found myself ashamed to discuss my progress with my editor and colleagues, as each additional clue turned out to be a false start.
The piano tunerās account provided the final clue
The episode with the piano tuner gave me one last idea.
Most professional piano tuners are listed in a directory maintained by the Piano Technicians Guild, a group in Kansas City, Kansas, that tests and certifies piano technicians in the United States. This was how I verified and contacted the first piano tuner, who said he never serviced Epsteinās piano on Little St. James.
Using the directory, I looked up piano technicians in the Virgin Islands. After all, if Epstein did indeed keep a piano in the blue-and-white building, there was a decent chance he needed someone to occasionally tune it. (For pianos in regular use, the recommended frequency is twice a year.)
The directory returned a single entry: a piano tuner named Patrick Baron. So I sent him an email and left a voicemail asking if he had ever tuned a piano for Epstein. Then I tried to put the whole story out of my mind. If this didnāt work, I planned to drop it altogether.
Three days later, my phone rang. It was Baron, and yes, he had tuned Epsteinās piano.
A different piano tuner visited the building in 2012
Baron recounted his experience visiting Little St. James over several interviews with Insider. He never met Epstein, and he didnāt recall how his staff originally contacted him ā maybe through another client, or maybe through the online directory.
According to a calendar he kept at the time, Baron went to the island twice: in August 2012 and October 2012. On each occasion, Baron traveled to a dock in Red Hook, a town on the eastern end of St. Thomas, where he boarded a small boat that took him to Little St. James.
Baron didnāt recall much about the boatās captain. But he did remember who greeted him on Little St. James. On the first excursion, he met a woman named Karen, who seemed to serve as the islandās project manager. On the second excursion, he spoke with a woman named Monique who filled a similar role, though she never actually greeted him in person while he was on the island.
To support his account, Baron provided three phone numbers, one for Karen and two for Monique, that he used to call them in 2012. The first two numbers appear to have been disconnected, while the third, for Monique, went to a voicemail greeting for Southern Trust, a company that belonged to Epstein. When I called back a day later, I spoke with a woman who denied any knowledge of Southern Trust or anyone named Karen or Monique. Then she hung up.
After briefing Baron about the various projects she was managing, Karen handed him off to another employee, an older man who belonged to the islandās maintenance staff. He drove Baron in a golf cart to the building where the piano was. The ride took about five minutes, along a path lined with palm trees.
Baron described the structure as a ārelatively small buildingā near the islandās coast, far away from the other structures on the island. It had a large glass door that faced āalmost directly south.ā Atop the roof were statues that resembled āgargoyles.ā The color of the building ā perhaps the most distinctive quality of the temple ā was a ādull pewter.ā He didnāt recall seeing any blue and white stripes on the exterior.
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When Baron mentioned this, my heart sank. It suddenly occurred to me that he could have tuned a piano in one of the other buildings on Little St. James. But every other detail seemed to match the temple. When I emailed Baron several photographs of the building, taken from different angles and elevations, he called me a few minutes later: āThat is definitely the building.ā
I asked if he was sure. āAbsolutely. Thatās the right location. Thatās the right shape.ā
In other words, it seems as if Baron encountered the building before Epstein applied its distinctive striped exterior, including the realistic mural of a large wooden door.
Inside the temple, the piano tuner saw a Wurlitzer grand piano and a portrait of Epstein and the pope
After the golf-cart driver dropped him off, Baron entered the building. Hereās what he remembers about the interior:
The floors appeared to be made of wood and were covered with a large Oriental rug.
The interior had two levels, with the first four to six feet at ground level and the rest on a slightly raised platform accessed by a single step.
To the right, against the eastern wall, was a nondescript gray couch or sofa.
Directly ahead was a desk, about 10 feet long, made of dark wood.
Behind the desk were several columns of floor-to-ceiling bookcases.
The bookcases went high enough to require a ladder. But there was no ladder.
The bookcases were filled with hardcover bestsellers. (Baron said he didnāt notice āanything scholarly.ā)
To the left, against the western wall, was a small black grand piano. According to Baronās notes, it was manufactured by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, whose piano-manufacturing operations were acquired by Baldwin Piano Company in 1988.
Above the piano hung a portrait of Epstein and the pope. (Baron wasnāt certain which specific pope, but when I showed him photos of the most recent three, he said his best guess was John Paul II.)
The interior consisted of only one large room; there werenāt any doors or stairwells that may have led to other rooms.
On both visits, after Baron finished tuning the piano, the same golf-cart driver took him back to the islandās dock, where the same boat captain returned him to St. Thomas.
Baron is almost certainly not the only person who stepped inside the blue-and-white building. Nor is he the only person who has publicly claimed to have done so. But he is the only visitor to offer a plausible and chronologically sound account of the buildingās interior.
I asked Baron what he thought the building was used for. āEven in the condition that I described it in ā¦ it was sort of a temple,ā he said.
āWhen you say ālair,ā there is a connotation to that,ā he continued. āWhen you say āstudyā or āretreat,ā there is a different connotation. I could have accepted it as a study or retreat, until I knew more about the man.ā
āI went in there knowing absolutely nothing about [Epstein], except that he was wealthy,ā he said. āAnd after doing the job and talking to some of my other clients on St. Thomas, and they filled me in on the scandal, my perception of that room changed from a study to a lair.ā
We now have a much clearer picture of the buildingās ostensible purpose. Based only on its furnishings, Epstein likely used the building to play piano, read books, work, and maybe relax. The music-room theory, it turns out, was the closest thing to the truth.
That might sound exceedingly mundane ā the most boring answer to a tantalizing puzzle. But it also points to yet another mystery, one that may never be answered: What was Jeffrey Epstein doing on the rest of his island, and with whom?
Have a tip about Epstein or his island? Send an email to the author: ktrotter@insider.com.
>I asked Baron what he thought the building was used for. āEven in the condition that I described it in ā¦ it was sort of a temple,ā he said.
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In a special about the making of Dirty Dancing, the director admits this. She even said she wrote in the abortion storyline specifically to normalize abortion. Her words were like, āI always try to find a place to insert political propaganda.ā
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It took me a while but i realized late that Hollywood exists as a propaganda dissemination mechanism(this goes all the way back to world war). This has been dramatically ramped up with Netflix.
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'''Canāt be emphasized enough that a co-founder of Netflix is the great nephew of Edward Bernays, the founder of modern propaganda (who himself was the nephew and utilized the theories of Sigmund Freud).
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The Lear Family Foundation (as in Norman Lear) works with many of the popular shows to insert political messages, often through humor so it slips by viewers' critical thinking.
>Canāt be emphasized enough that a co-founder of Netflix is the great nephew of Edward Bernays, the founder of modern propaganda (who himself was the nephew and utilized the theories of Sigmund Freud).
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Scene in The Martian (2015) where a rescue attempt will be impossible. Flag of United States Woman astronaut is going to die.
Untilā¦.
Chinese scientists agree to share their advanced technology to help, at the sacrifice of cancelling an important Flag of China space mission.
CCP propaganda is everywhere now.