Important

It'll all come out in the wash.

How anyone able to get into a position of power and influence could take one look at Epstein and Maxwell's honey trap operation and decide to go anywhere near it

One must learn to govern one’s passions. They will certainly lead to one’s undoing (close enough)

This whole Epstein situation has shown that pedophilia is more widespread - at least it’s been surprising to me. With wealth and power come opportunities to act out their sick desires with impunity. Perhaps their egos are so inflated that they figure nobody’s watching and that, if anyone is watching, it’ll never amount to anything.

I learned a few things about the Maxwell family I didn’t know before — Ghislaine’s sisters in particular, as well as Robert’s grandchildren. They have influence in the tech and political arenas.

As the article notes, the socialite/sex trafficker gets all the headlines, while the sisters et al. wield significant power power in Silicon Valley and media.

Like her friend Cheeto Man, she is truly evil.

More on Epstein from Reason (Libertarians)

Leaked Emails Reveal Jeffrey Epstein's Connections to the Surveillance Industry

by Matthew Petti
Reason, Wed, August 27, 2025

After his first arrest for sex crimes, Jeffrey Epstein tried to get into a new line of work: surveillance. In 2015, he partnered with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to invest in a security tech startup called Reporty Homeland Security, now known as Carbyne. Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin's circle.

After he was first caught sexually exploiting teenage girls, Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution in 2008; he served a little over a year in detention. Meanwhile, he invested his wealth in bizarre projects, including a ranch to breed women with his DNA and "efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you," according to The New York Times.

The leaked emails show that Epstein was also interested in more mundane means of spying on and manipulating people, which overlapped with the technologies governments often pursue. This interest crossed borders.

Barak's email inbox was quietly posted by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a website widely considered to be a successor to WikiLeaks, on a file-sharing platform for verified journalists and researchers in May 2025. The contents came from Handala, a hacker group named for a Palestinian cartoon character that has been leaking files taken from senior Israeli officials for several months.

Although the emails were posted without technical metadata or cryptographic signatures that would allow their authenticity to be verified, they include dozens of images, videos, voice recordings, and scanned documents from Barak and his friends and family that have never been published elsewhere. And they include information that was not publicly known at the time of the email leaks, including a reference to Epstein's birthday book.

Continues…

https://reason.com/2025/08/27/inside-jeffrey-epsteins-spy-industry-connections/