Since the revelations have come out, I've been baffled and bewildered that Bill Gates, a guy with more connections and money than pretty much anyone who has ever existed and surely, surely must know what opposition research is....spent years hanging out with Epstein after his first conviction for treating high-schoolers as prostitutes.<p>I don't get it. Gates has never come across as completely depraved (greedy, maybe) so I don't think he was using Epstein's services, but I can tell you in working class US, if you find out that anyone did what Epstein did, you never talk to them again because they are a predator, much less befriend them.<p>What was Gates doing and why is there a collective sigh about it? Tech does not care. Microsoft does not care.<p><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2021/05/what-we-know-about-bill-gates-and-jeffrey-epstein.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.thecut.com/2021/05/what-we-know-about-bill-gates...</a><p>Gates is either careless, foolish, a creep, or all three. But this kind of bullshit is the stuff that made him the absolute worst person to head up things like virus response and we need to get these predators out of industries.
Let’s look at some facts:<p>- Alexander Acosta has been quoted as saying that he was told Epstein “is intelligence” and to “leave it alone”<p>- Ghislaine Maxwells father, who died under mysterious circumstances, was very likely to have been involved with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency<p>- Collecting blackmail material on powerful people is intelligence agency 101, Epsteins trafficking ring had scores of that.<p>- Epstein got large amounts of funding from Lesley Wexner, with no logical reason ever given as to why. Wexner by coincidence, is one of the founding members of the MEGA group, a group of businessmen who donate money to causes related to Israel’s national interests.<p>Occam’s razor says the simplest and most likely explanation is that Epstein worked for Mossad, and was running a sex trafficking ring in order to collect blackmail material on powerful people for the Mossad to wield.
Fun fact, the current business model of science publishing is attributed to Robert Maxwell (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell</a>), the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...</a>
Sounds like Ghislaine wasn’t the worst pimp in her family.<p>He also had ties to Mossad.
['belonged to intelligence'](<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-played-out-for-years-in-plain-sight" rel="nofollow">https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-pl...</a>)