Jeffrey Epstein

[almagata]

I was expecting to see a post about Jeffrey Epstein. 

Personally, I don't think he committed suicide nor am I sure he is even dead.  Billionaires are usually more hopeful about life than your average man and tend to believe the their attorneys will find a way out for them.

I also tend to believe he was running his island of pleasure for the benefit of some intelligence agency, say maybe the Mossad? 

[albion]

If I were to have been betting, I would have thought JJD would have been suicided before Epstein.

Some people say the best thing about a Democracy is the peaceful transition of power from one regime to the next, but I dont think that is true. In the US it seems important or regular people who are just in the way, commit suicide, get hit by drunken drivers, die in robberies gone bad, and the populace just sits by and thinks what a shame. In other countries, the murders are much more visible, and the populace there just wonders who gets their apartment.

The Epstein case just seems to be another piece of the puzzle. A two party system entrenched in all levels of government. A capitalistic machine which funds who ever will do there bidding. Foreign interests willing to pay later for favors done while officials are in office. A bureaucracy which cares more about their own power rather than serving the needs of the people. Voters who care more about problems which have very little impact on their lives, while they not caring about the details of how our government is being run. A justice system in which the average person is not capable of understanding. A media which has given up on the mandate to inform, and is now only concerned with influence.

I hoped I might have more free time to write this morning.

[almagata]

I listened to the Edward Snowden interview on the 11th Hour that was posted on Youtube this week. Brian Williams let Snowden answer his questions without interruption. (CBS anchors talked over Snowden in their interview of him this week. An NSA official must have been standing off camera in the CBS studio egging them on.)

Snowden made a comparison with his situation to Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers so I tracked down a Youtube video of Ellsberg giving a speech at UC Santa Barbara in 2002 before we went to war with Iraq.

Ellsberg was very clear that governments lie and do horrible things and people in the government are well aware of the lies and keep their mouths shut even when they disagree with the decisions to go to war.

There are too many good people in this country to have it head down this evil road. There must be a way to turn this country around.

[albion]

Sept 22, 2019 5:12:48 GMT almagata said:

There are too many good people in this country to have it head down this evil road. There must be a way to turn this country around.

I wish I had something optimistic to say, but after watching the news today, with the Ukraine, Biden, Trump, Venezuela, Iran, N Korea, Pelosi, and so many others, I dont have a thing.

I wish people viewed voting as a privilege instead of a right.

Or that those on welfare and unemployment had to go to a mandatory civics class once a month. Particularly if it was focused on the local community and how it functions. I run into people who have no idea how to affect any change in their lives. This might get them involved.

Social media and tech companies should be forced to create a public page for candidates, small cites and counties, and small public schools. Then candidates could not buy TV time, and they would have to explain their policies and beliefs on this website, side by side, with less funded candidates.

Honest to god, more people know the newly enacted marijuana laws then know what the electoral college is or does.

Funny how no one is talking about Epstein anymore.