Is Jeffery Epstein an agent himself?

Was his whole career intelligence operation?

Even if Epstein didn't originally want to be a asset, there's no way intelligence agencies would have let such an obvious asset go uncontrolled.

Even if agencies never wanted to be involved in pedo blackmail/networking, they'd scoop Epstein up just to keep some other Nation from utilizing the perv.

From a strictly amoral standpoint, if there is no way to stop a distasteful activity from corroding at society, may as well control/ exploit that distasteful activities supply and infrastructure.

It's clear Epstein was protected at the very top in both Bush-the-lesser's and Obama's administrations.

Given the amount of leverage Epstein is in a position to have on a number of powerful people, it would be interesting to know why Epstein isn't considered a threat to those people anymore.

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I think logically and come to this board for a purpose.

I want to read the work other real anons are doing and help with that work.

To that end I will not be lured into pointless flame wars and will not be tempted by clickbait links.

I will ignore the crap conspiracy posts — no matter the subject — and pass by any posts critical of Q. Q no longer needs proof so any crap to the contrary is just that: crap. Not worthy of a logically thinking anon. I will also ignore any posts based on faulty logic— because stupid is stupid no matter what the motivation.

Shills will continue to shill and clowns/idiots/nut jobs will insist on posting their crap. Please do so, because every minute you spend in a futile attempt to sway real patriots from their beliefs and ideals is a minute you are not doing something worse out in the real world. Just know you are totally wasting your time, but please keep wasting it. Please!!!!

Real anons think logically and will not be turned from the light.

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Real Hedge-Fund Managers Have Some Thoughts on What Epstein Was Actually Doing

Long before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in Florida more than a decade ago, his fellow Palm Beach resident and hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass was intrigued by the local gossip about his neighbor.

“I’m hearing about the parties, hearing about a guy who’s throwing money around,” says Kass, president of Seabreeze Partners Management. While stories about young girls swarming Epstein’s waterfront mansion and the sex parties he hosted for the rich and powerful were the talk of the town, Kass was more focused on how this obscure person, rumored to be managing billions of dollars, had become so wealthy without much of a track record.

Kass was well-connected on Wall Street, where he’d worked for decades, so he began to ask around. “I went to my institutional brokers, to their trading desks and asked if they ever traded with him. I did it a few times until the date when he was arrested,” he recalls. “Not one institutional trading desk, primary or secondary, had ever traded with Epstein’s firm.”

When a reporter came to interview Kass about Bernie Madoff shortly before that firm blew up in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever, Kass told her, “There’s another guy who reminds me of Madoff that no one trades with.” That man was Jeffrey Epstein.

“How did he get the money?” Kass kept asking.

For decades, Epstein has been credulously described as a big-time hedge-fund manager and a billionaire, even though there’s not a lot of evidence that he is either. There appears little chance the public is going to get definitive answers anytime soon. In a July 11 letter to the New York federal judge overseeing Epstein’s sex-trafficking case, Epstein’s attorney offered to provide “sealed disclosures” about Epstein’s finances to determine the size of the bond he would need to post to secure his release from jail pending trial. His brother, Mark, and a friend even offered to chip in if necessary.

Naturally, this air of mystery has especially piqued the interest of real-life, non-pretend hedge-funders. If this guy wasn’t playing their game — and they seem pretty sure he was not — what game was he playing? Intelligencer spoke to several prominent hedge-fund managers to get a read on what their practiced eyes are detecting in all the new information that is coming to light about Epstein in the wake of his indictment by federal prosecutors in New York. Most saw signs of something unsavory at the heart of his business model.

To begin with, there is much skepticism among the hedgies Intelligencer spoke with that Epstein made the money he has — and he appears to have a lot, given a lavish portfolio of homes and private aircraft — as a traditional money manager. A fund manager who knows well how that kind of fortune is acquired notes, “It’s hard to make a billion dollars quietly.” Epstein never made a peep in the financial world.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/hedge-funders-have-some-thoughts-on-what-epstein-was-doing.html

So, apologies in advance, but I want to do a quick little THREAD to explain my theory of what the Epstein story really is. I promise this isn't some crazy Pizzagate conspiracy about space lizards, just a neat little explanation that IMO perfectly fits the known facts (0/13):

(1/13) Let's take as our starting points two givens.

(A.) You are a committed, unrepentant pedophile

(B.) Because of your old job in private banking, you are very connected to lots of very, very wealthy people

We'll also assume a goal:

(Z.) You want to become very rich

(2/13) The obvious route is, well, obvious: you could just be a pimp, offering underage prostitute services to very rich people. This has two problems: you're very disposable (see: DC madam), and it's also not super lucrative. You can't charge millions of dollars up front.

(3/13) The second level though follows instantly: You don't need to charge up front, just get them to have underage sex, and then blackmail them afterwards for hush money. Better ROI, but you're still a liability, and producing and receiving big bribe money raises big questions.

(4/13) So, what to do? Well, the second idea has some merits. First, you need to recruit people in. Have lots of massive parties at your spacious home (check), invite top academics, artists, politicians to encourage people to come (check), and supply lots of young women (check)

(5/13) You don't even have to do anything, and most people invited might even be totally unaware of the real purpose of the parties! But, sooner or later, some billionaire will get handsy, she'll escort him to a room with a hidden camera, things happen. Morning after, you strike.

(6/13) You inform him she was really 15, but you offer him a nice, neat way to buy your silence: a large allocation to your hedge fund, which charges 2/20 (check). To ensure nobody else asks questions, you also take the extraordinary step of demanding power of attorney (check)

(7/13) The fund is offshore in a tax haven (check) and nobody will see the client list (check). Of course, you don't really know anything about investing, instead making up some nonsense about currency trading (check), and nobody on Wall Street has ever traded with you (check)

(8/13) The fund itself doesn't need investment personnel (check), only some back office people to process the wires (check). You don't want to money from non-pedophiles, or they'll notice you've just put it in a S&P 500 fund, so you reject all incoming inquiries (check)

(9/13) A $20 million wire from Billionaire X to you with no obvious reason will raise many questions, and the IRS will certainly want to know what you did to warrant it. A $5 million quarterly fee for managing $1 billion in assets? Nobody bats an eye.

(10/13) Because of this structure, you're extraordinarily secretive about client lists (check) because they aren't clients, they're pedophiles paying you bribes, and they also are very secretive, which is why no letters or return streams ever leak (check)

(11/13) Occasionally you may also try this trick on other people: important political figures, mayors, prosecutors, etc. They don't invest in the fund, but it's nice to have them in your pocket. Others (academics, artists, etc.) can just be bought with money as a PR smokescreen.

(12/13) And, of course, the scam can be kept going as long as people are willing to pay, which is forever. If you're ever caught, just lean on some of your other friends in government to lean on the prosecutor to get you a sweetheart deal. There's almost zero risk.

(13/13) And the last piece of the puzzle is the evidence. You'd want it somewhere remote, but accessible: a place the US can't touch but you have an excuse to visit all the time to update. Remember that offshore fund?

I bet there's a very interesting safe deposit box there.

Two small points of clarification:

1. This scheme works just as well if the billionaires are in on it from the getgo as a way to buy sex; I assumed that was obvious but I guess not.

2. There’s no need to invoke the Mafia/Russia/Mossad/CIA/etc, that’s just needlessly overfitting.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1148303671857491968.html

Dyn DDos attack yesterday caused very little news.

Yesterday, there appeared to be a massive DDoS attack on the Dyn DNS. This caused ~10% of the internet to go down. It affected access worldwide to Reddit, Twitter, Google, Microsoft servers, XBox, Netflix, etc. However, it seemed to mostly affect desktop access and not mobile networks.

In any case, when trying to search for information about what happened, Reddit and Twitter claimed internal problems due to an update. There's no news about the attack, and you have to dig really deep to find anything. Google searches yield very little, and I don't see a single post on Reddit about what happened. It almost seems like information is being "curated" by social media and Google. Seems really fishy.

http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&list=0&time=18087&view=map

https://bgr.com/2019/06/24/internet-outage-2019-google-amazon-reddit-down/