Haven't read all of this yet, but holy shit - real reporting. Thank you everyone at Drop Site. And thanks for contrasting with NYT piece. People need to see the corporate strangled media for what it is - just another corrupt pillar of power.
I read the Times story this morning and thought it was pretty good - finally some depth! This story, however, is in another league. Kudos to Ryan and Murtaza and special thanks to Bob Fitztrakis for helping to link so many seemingly disparate threads into a compelling and entirely riveting narrative.
effin HELL! Countless major scandals here in this reporting, and more and more we hear about how the Epstein class, including people just like D Trump, get away with murder, literally, and more! The big-time thugs, working hand-in-glove with government, are murdering either fishermen or relatively small-time drug runners with impunity as they make the BIG BUCKS at the top of the game. A swamp is not deep enough for how low this rot sinks!
Excellent reporting much better than the NYT fluff piece. According to them Epstein’s charm and his ability to con people made him wealthy. I wondered who paid them to write that simplistic piece. I was shocked Amy Goodman had the authors on her show
I just remembered Eisenhower warning the world about an industrial military complex after Korea. We didn't listen to the general. We should have. I just learned what that looks like.
I also have to read this at least twice but what is most striking now is the absence of anything political in the New York Times article. That article was alarming in what it said but terrifying now about what it did not say. The "fourth arm of government" the press seems to have caved in just the the other three. This is about power and money. No higher principals here. Sell arms to those who we also shoot at? Who shoot at each other? And get caught and call it a "scandal"? Reading the New York times article was like a condensed Readers Digest version of bad rich boys in the USA. In truth? The world arms trade is alive, well and thriving based on no kind of allegiance to anything but a corrupt grab for power. Thank you Drop Site. Thank you for assuming we have the brains and interest to read about the "real" truth, even if we all have to read it twice.
It's interesting how the very wealthy simply cannot stop trying to be wealthier and by any means. They deal with each other knowing they share this characteristic, so it is no surprise that all kinds of deals are thought up and then carried out. Businesses of any and all kinds are in the mix providing cover and false fronts. All the while, great wealth allows the full employment of the legal profession to take care of any "problems" that might come up quite frequently employing the all-purpose "non-disclosure agreement" to seal off leads that journalists might follow. Why would anyone be surprised that the 1% is always pulling away in wealth from the rest of us?
The greatest number of government employees fired by DOGE under the direction of billionaire Musk were employed by IRS. Surprised? The IRS should have a task force directed to examining in detail the tax returns of the very wealthy. It would take manpower that would have quite a bit of work to do instead of the easy pickings from Joe Average.
Haven't read all of this yet, but holy shit - real reporting. Thank you everyone at Drop Site. And thanks for contrasting with NYT piece. People need to see the corporate strangled media for what it is - just another corrupt pillar of power.
"This week, the New York Times awoke from its slumber to publish an extensive investigation on Jeffrey Epstein".
Great writers don't tell a story, they paint a picture. What is there not to love Ryan, Murtaza and their fellow journalists.
I read the Times story this morning and thought it was pretty good - finally some depth! This story, however, is in another league. Kudos to Ryan and Murtaza and special thanks to Bob Fitztrakis for helping to link so many seemingly disparate threads into a compelling and entirely riveting narrative.
effin HELL! Countless major scandals here in this reporting, and more and more we hear about how the Epstein class, including people just like D Trump, get away with murder, literally, and more! The big-time thugs, working hand-in-glove with government, are murdering either fishermen or relatively small-time drug runners with impunity as they make the BIG BUCKS at the top of the game. A swamp is not deep enough for how low this rot sinks!
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Excellent reporting much better than the NYT fluff piece. According to them Epstein’s charm and his ability to con people made him wealthy. I wondered who paid them to write that simplistic piece. I was shocked Amy Goodman had the authors on her show
Savage journalism.
I just remembered Eisenhower warning the world about an industrial military complex after Korea. We didn't listen to the general. We should have. I just learned what that looks like.
I also have to read this at least twice but what is most striking now is the absence of anything political in the New York Times article. That article was alarming in what it said but terrifying now about what it did not say. The "fourth arm of government" the press seems to have caved in just the the other three. This is about power and money. No higher principals here. Sell arms to those who we also shoot at? Who shoot at each other? And get caught and call it a "scandal"? Reading the New York times article was like a condensed Readers Digest version of bad rich boys in the USA. In truth? The world arms trade is alive, well and thriving based on no kind of allegiance to anything but a corrupt grab for power. Thank you Drop Site. Thank you for assuming we have the brains and interest to read about the "real" truth, even if we all have to read it twice.
It's interesting how the very wealthy simply cannot stop trying to be wealthier and by any means. They deal with each other knowing they share this characteristic, so it is no surprise that all kinds of deals are thought up and then carried out. Businesses of any and all kinds are in the mix providing cover and false fronts. All the while, great wealth allows the full employment of the legal profession to take care of any "problems" that might come up quite frequently employing the all-purpose "non-disclosure agreement" to seal off leads that journalists might follow. Why would anyone be surprised that the 1% is always pulling away in wealth from the rest of us?
The greatest number of government employees fired by DOGE under the direction of billionaire Musk were employed by IRS. Surprised? The IRS should have a task force directed to examining in detail the tax returns of the very wealthy. It would take manpower that would have quite a bit of work to do instead of the easy pickings from Joe Average.