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 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.
I totally agree with you about the NYT piece. It was disappointing mostly in what they did not speak about. I cancelled my subscription with them over a year ago. Drop Site blew it out of the park, just fabulous reporting.
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!
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.
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.
#2+ July 16, 1986, Cyrus Hashemi, Iranian weapons dealer dies suddenly;
Q: Did Cyrus Hashemi get the Khaled Meshaal poison treatment??
CAIRO, July 31 (Reuters) - Khaled Meshaal, tipped to be the new Hamas leader, became known around the world in 1997 after Israeli agents injected him with poison in a botched assassination attempt on a street outside his office in the Jordanian capital Amman.
+ Oct. 5, 1986, Southern Air Transport shot down in Nicaragua, Iran-Contra unravels
+ Oct. 1,1998, Southern Air Transport declares bankruptcy, 1 week before Iran-Contra report.
#3+ April 4, 1991, Sen. John Heinz death: (a true American 1st senator)
According to researcher Rodney Stich in Defrauding America, when George Bush Sr. and CIA Director William Casey engineered the October Surprise to bribe Iranian officials into retaining US hostages until after the 1980 elections, two of the passengers on Bush’s BAC 111 flight to Paris were Senator John Heinz, along with Senator John Tower from Texas.
Heinz's long time friend, Senator Tim Wirth of Colorado, remarked: "He really believed he could make the world a better place, such a contrast to the jaded resignation of our time. He could send the Senate leadership up a wall faster than anyone I've seen." Also, Heinz was cousin of Trump. wiki
Even more intriguing is the fact that John Heinz chaired a three-man presidential review board that probed the Iran-Contra affair and-->> had in his possession all the damning documents from that sordid affair<<-- while John Tower led the infamous Tower Commission that investigated a variety of different CIA criminal activities and dirty dealings.
Coincidentally, both John Heinz and John Tower died in plane wrecks on successive days in 1991 – Tower in Georgia, and Heinz in Montgomery County, Pa. Once again I must ask:
"...what are the odds of such an occurrence, especially when both men had close ties to George Bush Sr., who was a former CIA director in the mid-1970s? Did both of these men uncover information that they refused to keep silent about any longer?"
DSN writes:
Pottinger escaped prosecution after the FBI’s incriminating tapes of his conversations mysteriously disappeared;
Q: Were the tapes on Sen John Heinz’s plane?
#4+ April 5, 1991, John Tower, St. Simons Island, GA, dies on flight 2311, The crash instantly killed everyone on board, including Tower and his middle daughter, Marian, astronaut Sonny Carter, and twenty others. wiki
In 1989, Tower was President George H. W. Bush's choice to become Secretary of Defense. In a stunning move, particularly since Tower was himself a former Senate colleague, the Senate rejected his nomination.After Tower's defeat, he was named chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.>>Future Vice President Dick Cheney<< then a Representative from Wyoming and the House Minority Whip, was later confirmed as Secretary of Defense. wiki
MintNewsPress:
Thomas Pickering was present at Maxwell’s yacht part. Pickering played a minor role in the Iran-Contra affair and, at the time of the Maxwell yacht party, he was U.S. ambassador to Israel. Senator John Tower (R-TX), who allegedly conspired with Maxwell in the Mossad-bugged Promis software at the Los Alamos laboratories, was also present. Tower died just months before Maxwell in a suspicious plane crash.
Q: Did Epstein clawback Tower's Maxwell funds hidden in Swiss accounts?
According to The Assassination of Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy by Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon:
'Tower became the liaison for Robert Maxwell, a British publishing mogul and super-agent[clarification needed] for Mossad, to the White House and to US government operations. The relationship began in 1984, and the soon-to-be retired Tower "told Maxwell that his fee as Maxwell's personal consultant would be $200,000." Tower received his fee in four separate payments of $50,000 into a Swiss bank account.
#5+ November 5,1991, Robert Maxwell, death:
In 1991, four years after Iran-Contra, Maxwell disappeared from his 180-foot yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, while it cruised off the Canary Islands
DSN: email from Gmax to Epstein :
"An email obtained from Epstein’s Yahoo! inbox, dated October 15, 2005, suggests Ghislaine Maxwell was trying to purchase information about her father’s missing fortune—from a CIA operative. Maxwell emailed Epstein excitedly"
Q: Did Epstein and Barak clawback Maxwell's laundered funds after having him killed?
As always, fantastic reporting. The Epstein-SAT connection is covered in-depth in Whitney Webb's masterpiece "One Nation Under Blackmail Vol 2", which is required reading on this subject. Very interesting to see Drop Site uncover the Angola connection as well. The reason the Epstein files will never be made public, is due to the fact that these all fall under the umbrella of "national security". One has to reflect, is the only way to keep our "nation secure", doing deals with dictatorships and drug smugglers all over the world for decades?
If so, I would suggest that that national security apparatus deserves to die.
THANK YOU for your relentless reporting that brings us revelation upon revelation, the deeper you dig! do you get any sleep at all - while 'legacy' media just "awake from their slumber"? the many details from so many realms of [so many mega-rich *) people's] life make me think that epstein was and is "the gift that keeps on giving".
how circumstantially befitting that in my mother tongue, gift [with a capital G] means poison.
_________________
*) mean_while, their mad machinations made millions of ordinary people's lives miserable!
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 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.
I totally agree with you about the NYT piece. It was disappointing mostly in what they did not speak about. I cancelled my subscription with them over a year ago. Drop Site blew it out of the park, just fabulous reporting.
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!
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.
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.
Checks with Whitney Webb 👍
Savage journalism.
Thank you Harrison! 5 Suspicious deaths (timeline) connected to Epstein:
#1+ March 6, 1985, Arthur Shapiro, attny for The Limited, mob-style assassination
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/08/investigative-reports/a-kingpin-the-mob-and-a-murder-the-deeper-mystery-behind-the-arthur-shapiro-homicide/
#2+ July 16, 1986, Cyrus Hashemi, Iranian weapons dealer dies suddenly;
Q: Did Cyrus Hashemi get the Khaled Meshaal poison treatment??
CAIRO, July 31 (Reuters) - Khaled Meshaal, tipped to be the new Hamas leader, became known around the world in 1997 after Israeli agents injected him with poison in a botched assassination attempt on a street outside his office in the Jordanian capital Amman.
+ Oct. 5, 1986, Southern Air Transport shot down in Nicaragua, Iran-Contra unravels
+ Oct. 1,1998, Southern Air Transport declares bankruptcy, 1 week before Iran-Contra report.
#3+ April 4, 1991, Sen. John Heinz death: (a true American 1st senator)
According to researcher Rodney Stich in Defrauding America, when George Bush Sr. and CIA Director William Casey engineered the October Surprise to bribe Iranian officials into retaining US hostages until after the 1980 elections, two of the passengers on Bush’s BAC 111 flight to Paris were Senator John Heinz, along with Senator John Tower from Texas.
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKheinz.htm
Heinz's long time friend, Senator Tim Wirth of Colorado, remarked: "He really believed he could make the world a better place, such a contrast to the jaded resignation of our time. He could send the Senate leadership up a wall faster than anyone I've seen." Also, Heinz was cousin of Trump. wiki
Even more intriguing is the fact that John Heinz chaired a three-man presidential review board that probed the Iran-Contra affair and-->> had in his possession all the damning documents from that sordid affair<<-- while John Tower led the infamous Tower Commission that investigated a variety of different CIA criminal activities and dirty dealings.
Coincidentally, both John Heinz and John Tower died in plane wrecks on successive days in 1991 – Tower in Georgia, and Heinz in Montgomery County, Pa. Once again I must ask:
"...what are the odds of such an occurrence, especially when both men had close ties to George Bush Sr., who was a former CIA director in the mid-1970s? Did both of these men uncover information that they refused to keep silent about any longer?"
DSN writes:
Pottinger escaped prosecution after the FBI’s incriminating tapes of his conversations mysteriously disappeared;
Q: Were the tapes on Sen John Heinz’s plane?
#4+ April 5, 1991, John Tower, St. Simons Island, GA, dies on flight 2311, The crash instantly killed everyone on board, including Tower and his middle daughter, Marian, astronaut Sonny Carter, and twenty others. wiki
In 1989, Tower was President George H. W. Bush's choice to become Secretary of Defense. In a stunning move, particularly since Tower was himself a former Senate colleague, the Senate rejected his nomination.After Tower's defeat, he was named chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.>>Future Vice President Dick Cheney<< then a Representative from Wyoming and the House Minority Whip, was later confirmed as Secretary of Defense. wiki
MintNewsPress:
Thomas Pickering was present at Maxwell’s yacht part. Pickering played a minor role in the Iran-Contra affair and, at the time of the Maxwell yacht party, he was U.S. ambassador to Israel. Senator John Tower (R-TX), who allegedly conspired with Maxwell in the Mossad-bugged Promis software at the Los Alamos laboratories, was also present. Tower died just months before Maxwell in a suspicious plane crash.
Q: Did Epstein clawback Tower's Maxwell funds hidden in Swiss accounts?
According to The Assassination of Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy by Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon:
'Tower became the liaison for Robert Maxwell, a British publishing mogul and super-agent[clarification needed] for Mossad, to the White House and to US government operations. The relationship began in 1984, and the soon-to-be retired Tower "told Maxwell that his fee as Maxwell's personal consultant would be $200,000." Tower received his fee in four separate payments of $50,000 into a Swiss bank account.
#5+ November 5,1991, Robert Maxwell, death:
In 1991, four years after Iran-Contra, Maxwell disappeared from his 180-foot yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, while it cruised off the Canary Islands
DSN: email from Gmax to Epstein :
"An email obtained from Epstein’s Yahoo! inbox, dated October 15, 2005, suggests Ghislaine Maxwell was trying to purchase information about her father’s missing fortune—from a CIA operative. Maxwell emailed Epstein excitedly"
Q: Did Epstein and Barak clawback Maxwell's laundered funds after having him killed?
Thanks for this! The Times report was long and exhausting to read - and negligent. Keep pushing 'em!
This is so crazy! Going back to Iran-Contra! Jeffrey was more than a child sex trafficker, arms dealer, favor broker.. he was a mob boss!
As always, fantastic reporting. The Epstein-SAT connection is covered in-depth in Whitney Webb's masterpiece "One Nation Under Blackmail Vol 2", which is required reading on this subject. Very interesting to see Drop Site uncover the Angola connection as well. The reason the Epstein files will never be made public, is due to the fact that these all fall under the umbrella of "national security". One has to reflect, is the only way to keep our "nation secure", doing deals with dictatorships and drug smugglers all over the world for decades?
If so, I would suggest that that national security apparatus deserves to die.
WOW. DropSite does real investigative journalism. Thanks again, guys.
THANK YOU for your relentless reporting that brings us revelation upon revelation, the deeper you dig! do you get any sleep at all - while 'legacy' media just "awake from their slumber"? the many details from so many realms of [so many mega-rich *) people's] life make me think that epstein was and is "the gift that keeps on giving".
how circumstantially befitting that in my mother tongue, gift [with a capital G] means poison.
_________________
*) mean_while, their mad machinations made millions of ordinary people's lives miserable!