Newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death observed an orange-colored shape moving up a staircase toward the isolated, locked tier where his cell was located at approximately 10:39 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019.
That entry in an observation log of the video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center appears to suggest something previously unreported by authorities: “A flash of orange looks to be going up the L Tier stairs — could possibly be an inmate escorted up to that Tier.”
It also appears, according to an FBI memorandum, that reviews by investigators led to disparate conclusions by the FBI and those examining the same video from the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General.
I don’t really like conspiracy theories in general. But it the Panama Papers and Epstein files have taught me anything is that there are indeed a bunch of nefarious conspiracies going on.
Faking the moon landing and flat eartherism are conspiracy theories.
Acknowledging that the global elite are depraved pedophiles who create global catastrophes just to profit off the chaos and misery, just means you accept reality.
If anything, the Epstein emails showed me that I wasn’t cynical enough… and I thought I was pretty cynical.
The cover up of the files is what a real conspiracy looks like. There is overwhelming evidence that powerful people are intentionally suppressing.
No need to make wild conspiracy theories when literally everything about this is a fucking conspiracy.
Seriously, though, there’s a key difference: Conspiracy theories require an ever-growing legion of circumstances and co-conspirators to make them work. Like for chemtrails. A secretive government plot to poison us with chemicals sprayed from airliners? Seems simple, but: Pilots have to be in on it. Airline mechanics have to be in on it. Chemical companies have to be in on it. There has to be a transport network and storage facilities, so truck drivers have to be in on it. The tanks have to be loaded onto aircraft, so airport workers have to be in on it. Et cetera.
Real conspiracies, by contrast, reduce down to simpler explanations. You can take moving parts away, and it still makes sense. Tax havens? Shell corporations? Corrupt prosecutors? Corrupt courts? Sex trafficking? Pedophiles? That’s lots of specifics that all point to one thing: Rich and powerful assholes doing rich and powerful asshole things because nobody can stop them.
I mean, if you can put an additive in the fuel that doesn’t burn up in the engine, you could do something like this. Only the oil companies need to know. Workers and mechanics can be told it’s something else, a stabilizer or something.
It’d have to be a simple element or a very strongly bonded molecule, which means its application would be extraordinarily limited. So no, it’s probably not useful enough to ever have been pursued.
Well, oil companies did put a poisonous additive in fuel for decades, but they did it right out in the open. They advertised it on gas station signs, and said it was for anti-knock purposes. They still put it in some general aviation fuel. Why should we presume they’d have to do it secretly?
They still do the additives they put in fuel are still toxic, there is poison in like everything we use. They put pfas on food packaging for god’s sake. There is pesticide on your food, in your food. They spray electronics with carcinogen, they impregnate furniture with carcinogenic flame retardants (that don’t work to slow fires,) and the list goes on.
It’s way worse than you think. They don’t have to make a grand secret conspiracy we all trust they wouldn’t do mass harm stuff and they do.
The NSA was indeed spying on Americans, that was a conspiracy. Plastic recycling is largely a scam, that was a conspiracy. Its generally accepted now that Covid-19 came from a chinese lab, that was a conspiracy. It is still very controversial with conflicting evidence on both sides.
As far as I’m aware the earth isn’t flat but some conspiracies do reflect the truth. The covid release may not have been intentional like some theories propose but its not impossible it came from a lab.
Edit: here is a link to Ken Lacorte’s research into the covid-19 lab theory and he tends to be well researched and trustworthy.
The former…Fox News executive? Who killed the Trump-Stormy story before the 2016 election… uhhh… yeah im not fucking trusting that dude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_LaCorte#Alleged_Fox_News_Trump_cover-up
That document is laughable. In only the first few paragraphs, I ran across reliable indicators of pseudoscience scams, like asserting that there’s some “scientific establishment” that he’s up against. Not a very powerful mafia then, because there are tons of dipshits pushing the lab leak hypothesis. Then, there’s the Absence of Evidence Fallacy. (It is not evidence of absence.) That’s as far as I got.
Go ahead and call me closed-minded, but c’mon, Ken should put his best evidence up front. If he has it, which I doubt. Especially when the alternative explanation is so damn plausible: The Wuhan Institute for Virology was put in Wuhan to study the viruses in local wildlife because Chinese authorities recognized the potential for human transmission, and so they built a lab to study the viruses. And that’s why the lab would’ve had the virus in it. Maybe it did have a leak, and some infections came from there, but biological systems are messy and imprecise; the virus probably jumped to humans many, many times over many years, and set up the conditions for a pandemic.
Consider the HIV/AIDS epidemic in North America. We used to think that it all traced back to Patient 0, a flight attendant who liked to get busy around the world. Then, researchers found the virus in stored blood samples going back to the 1950’s. The virus had been in the human population for decades before blowing up.
Reality is often complex, without intuitively-clear lines of cause and effect. The abstract thinking needed to understand it is beyond many people, so they latch on to simple, obvious, and wrong explanations, like the lab leak theory.
propublica looked at the lab leak evidence and it is pretty likely that was it. The senate collected a lot of the information, which has better investigative powers than a news organization, but they got their hands on a lot of email from the wuhan and virology people and the national health and the like and the messaging all but said it got away from them there.
Also consider that COVID-19 is just “SARS 2”, and we know that coronaviruses exist in nature already and this ain’t the first time one has mutated this way…Occam’s razor is that a lab wasn’t needed for this to happen.
We bungled the detection/response and it spread. Largely due to misinformation and inaction of authorities.
Simple as.
Alleged accusations. Its the reporters word against his. Maybe it was for trump, maybe the evidence wasn’t strong enough and Lacorte wanted to avoid a Trump lawsuit. You could argue that is a conspiracy in itself.
And discrediting the Ken Lacorte portion on my comment, the other 2 conspiracies are still valid. My point is we cannot dismiss information just because it is labeled as a conspiracy. For example, if trump rigs the midterms and wins, he will very likely call accusations of his rigging a “leftist conspiracy.” The truth is often somewhere between the conspiracy and the narrative.
The problem is that “conspiracy” has been diluted culturally to mean silly far-fetched ideas. Propaganda can have that effect.
Yes the NSA illegally spies on whoever they want, yes plastic recycling is a PR stunt by the plastics industry.
However no, the lab leak theory of covid 19 remains unsubstantiated nonsense pedalled mostly by china-hawks in the US who think we have a slightly better chance of winning if we start ww3 now.
Propublica did a thing on it and it convinced me.