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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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?

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          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.