the decline of noblesse oblige is partly a consequence of capital mobility. billionaires used to care more about national interests when their wealth was tied up in the nation
EA was reinventing noblesse oblige for the techies in the only way they could understand the concept (with math laid out in A nerdy spreadsheet) and for that it is probably the most important new philosophical movement so far this century
Honestly, this does not seem that crazy. It avoids the extravagant, complicated, and collusion problems that most bad conspiracy theories fall into. Frankly, this is not a surprising phenomenon, such as "Londongrad", laundromats, and kleptocrats parking their ill-gotten gains in real estate, which is commonly known and studied, and backed by public information.
For more analysis on Epstein's connections check out the Rest is Classified's series on Epstein. It is hosted by a former CIA analyst and a British journalist. They critically evaluate whether there are any ties with Epstein to the intelligence world.
Brilliant analysis. Anyone who looked into these stories with a fair mind knows they are essentially true, and also that they contained many elements of exaggeration and fabrication.
I've long suspected that media aberrations like 'PizzaGate' were funhouse mirror refractions based on observations made by outsiders on fragmentary, distorted, and partly falsified drips of information that leaked from this moneyed transnational cabal. Only true insiders would ever have enough of the real picture to interfere substantively (but never would); the risks of falling from the cabal's favor are evident.
The most striking change between Russiagate and today is that in Russiagate, the left obsessed about foreign interference with US politics. We were under attack by another, who was menacing.
Today, I think we understand that Israel is far more influential in US politics than Russia ever has been, and it is starting to dawn on people that this is alarming. Pointing out the power of AIPAC does not provoke a knee jerk accusation of antisemitism the same way as it once did.
This is in part because the fact that that knee jerk reaction was an Epstein backed smeer campaign has come to light.
We sanction the hell out of Russia, and give billions of dollars to Israel. Which elites are winning over the US politically, and how? I think the Epstein files has shifted the narratives in play a great deal.
There are two deceptions happening here. The first, illustrated in this article, is the most absurd: suggesting Epstein was a Russian asset. The second is much more plausible: that he was a Mossad asset. But both distract from the much more obvious conclusion suggested by the evidence: he was a US intelligence asset. https://politicaleconomist.substack.com/p/how-not-to-understand-the-epstein
I think you've completely misread this. portraying epstein as a "foreign agent" of [fill in the country] is satisfying but lets the US off the hook for creating the network enabling him. It also misunderstands his business model as hierarchical links with foreign spies instead of a node in a global network of converging interests. There's a large number of people on social media invested in pretending that epstein only worked for Israel and never for Russia. I can guess at the reasons
But that’s still far too indirect. You are referring obliquely to ‘the US creating the network’ but the US is a country and countries cannot create networks. The FBI and CIA, on the other hand, are agencies that actually create things - yet you don’t mention them at all. As I discuss in my article, when Epstein got his implausibly lenient plea deal it was reported he did so because the prosecutor was told ‘Epstein belongs to intelligence’. The obvious inference is US intelligence, because it is very unlikely US agencies would seek to protect a Russian or Israeli asset blackmailing their own politicians. I also provide evidence from the emails in my article completely going against the suggestion he worked for Russia. So no, I don’t think I misread it all: you do not address the most obvious conclusion suggested by the evidence.
Just remember that while Comey and Mueller were investigating Trump and his Russia connection, they diffidently had full access to the unredacted Epstein files and were not able to use it to prove Russia gate …. On the other hand they choose to cover up the real Israel-Epstein gate and Trumps involvement in it
Just remember that while Comey and Mueller were investigating Trump and his Russia connection, they diffidently had full access to the unredacted Epstein files and were not able to use it to prove Russia gate …. On the other hand they choose to cover up the real Israel-Epstein gate and Trumps involvement in it
And now we have former British Ambassador Baron Peter Mandelson giving UK state's secrets to Epstein who then gave them to ...? Another Russian compromised client?
Mandelson had a lot of direct contact with Russians via Global Counsel and was/is (?) a non-exec director of a Russian conglomerate. He is the British version and embodiment of what this article is describing.
This article implies the exact opposite of the headline.
If the Russians keep contacting Epstein to try to understand how to influence him, it implies Trump was not a Russian asset and that Russiagate is a hoax.
I thought I liked this until you got into gotchaing the right about qanonism and COVID and election fraud.
The election was interfered with by the FBI obstructing the hunter Biden News and DHS officials lying about it, that was huge. We were literally locked in our homes going to church on zoom while the left got free passes to hold rallies they pretended were about racism. We could only communicate through a digital longlouse where left wing goons constantly censored our public speech. If they didn't actually steal the election on the internet connected voting machines and mail in ballots we literally never used before because they're not secure, it wouldnt matter. And you are not going to sit there and tell me the people who opened our borders treasonously, used their public offices to censor other, paid their friends billions of dollars to run little censorship shops would even blink about stealing al election. They smuggled 25 million brown people into the country. What's a couple hundred thousand ballots! Lmao.
Also people who thought the COVID vaccine was turbo cancer poison and it was being pushed by the lizard people cabal were still far less stupid than the people who took the vaccine obligingly and supported the official narrative. The government profusely lied about 100 percent effective and 100 percent safe. And they didn't need to keep the lockdowns at all as long as they did. They were keeping us locked down to destroy small businesses, finish the mass migration crisis, and shore up state power by disciplining the corposphere with a very clear "you need us to live and we can arbitrarily destroy you" message.
And anybody who thinks that the government wouldn't kill people arbitrarily, intentionally, stupidly or in a planned manner needs to understand that they knowingly lied about every major war in the last 100 years and millions of people died in those. You're the stupid ones if you don't get it.
Just remember that while Comey and Mueller were investigating Trump and his Russia connection, they diffidently had full access to the unredacted Epstein files and were not able to use it to prove Russia gate …. On the other hand they choose to cover up the real Israel-Epstein gate and Trumps involvement in it
I suppose you could tell an intertwined story about the collapse of noblesse oblige, and the rise of an elite optimized for ruthless opportunism.
Though on the other hand, is there *actually* less noblesse oblige now than there used to be? Has anyone been running a longitudinal survey on this?
the decline of noblesse oblige is partly a consequence of capital mobility. billionaires used to care more about national interests when their wealth was tied up in the nation
Not a longitudinal study but I’ve got this: https://thepriceofpower.substack.com/p/why-arent-the-rich-fighting-against?r=5kqm5
EA was reinventing noblesse oblige for the techies in the only way they could understand the concept (with math laid out in A nerdy spreadsheet) and for that it is probably the most important new philosophical movement so far this century
Honestly, this does not seem that crazy. It avoids the extravagant, complicated, and collusion problems that most bad conspiracy theories fall into. Frankly, this is not a surprising phenomenon, such as "Londongrad", laundromats, and kleptocrats parking their ill-gotten gains in real estate, which is commonly known and studied, and backed by public information.
For more analysis on Epstein's connections check out the Rest is Classified's series on Epstein. It is hosted by a former CIA analyst and a British journalist. They critically evaluate whether there are any ties with Epstein to the intelligence world.
What's the conclusion?
Brilliant analysis. Anyone who looked into these stories with a fair mind knows they are essentially true, and also that they contained many elements of exaggeration and fabrication.
To me this mostly looks like wild parties with drugs and prostitutes? I’m not sure what else I’m supposed to gather?
I've long suspected that media aberrations like 'PizzaGate' were funhouse mirror refractions based on observations made by outsiders on fragmentary, distorted, and partly falsified drips of information that leaked from this moneyed transnational cabal. Only true insiders would ever have enough of the real picture to interfere substantively (but never would); the risks of falling from the cabal's favor are evident.
a complex film series script
would have to be a farce
Just amazing. Now layer on the Panama Papers, and what does that tell us?
The most striking change between Russiagate and today is that in Russiagate, the left obsessed about foreign interference with US politics. We were under attack by another, who was menacing.
Today, I think we understand that Israel is far more influential in US politics than Russia ever has been, and it is starting to dawn on people that this is alarming. Pointing out the power of AIPAC does not provoke a knee jerk accusation of antisemitism the same way as it once did.
This is in part because the fact that that knee jerk reaction was an Epstein backed smeer campaign has come to light.
We sanction the hell out of Russia, and give billions of dollars to Israel. Which elites are winning over the US politically, and how? I think the Epstein files has shifted the narratives in play a great deal.
There are two deceptions happening here. The first, illustrated in this article, is the most absurd: suggesting Epstein was a Russian asset. The second is much more plausible: that he was a Mossad asset. But both distract from the much more obvious conclusion suggested by the evidence: he was a US intelligence asset. https://politicaleconomist.substack.com/p/how-not-to-understand-the-epstein
I think you've completely misread this. portraying epstein as a "foreign agent" of [fill in the country] is satisfying but lets the US off the hook for creating the network enabling him. It also misunderstands his business model as hierarchical links with foreign spies instead of a node in a global network of converging interests. There's a large number of people on social media invested in pretending that epstein only worked for Israel and never for Russia. I can guess at the reasons
But that’s still far too indirect. You are referring obliquely to ‘the US creating the network’ but the US is a country and countries cannot create networks. The FBI and CIA, on the other hand, are agencies that actually create things - yet you don’t mention them at all. As I discuss in my article, when Epstein got his implausibly lenient plea deal it was reported he did so because the prosecutor was told ‘Epstein belongs to intelligence’. The obvious inference is US intelligence, because it is very unlikely US agencies would seek to protect a Russian or Israeli asset blackmailing their own politicians. I also provide evidence from the emails in my article completely going against the suggestion he worked for Russia. So no, I don’t think I misread it all: you do not address the most obvious conclusion suggested by the evidence.
Just remember that while Comey and Mueller were investigating Trump and his Russia connection, they diffidently had full access to the unredacted Epstein files and were not able to use it to prove Russia gate …. On the other hand they choose to cover up the real Israel-Epstein gate and Trumps involvement in it
Just remember that while Comey and Mueller were investigating Trump and his Russia connection, they diffidently had full access to the unredacted Epstein files and were not able to use it to prove Russia gate …. On the other hand they choose to cover up the real Israel-Epstein gate and Trumps involvement in it
And now we have former British Ambassador Baron Peter Mandelson giving UK state's secrets to Epstein who then gave them to ...? Another Russian compromised client?
Mandelson had a lot of direct contact with Russians via Global Counsel and was/is (?) a non-exec director of a Russian conglomerate. He is the British version and embodiment of what this article is describing.
Thanks for this further illumination of national betrayal.
In case you have not read it, here's an earlier key episode:
"Harvard Princes, Russian Reformers: When Harvard Ran Moscow" Harvard Crimson, 3/30/24
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/30/hiid-scrut/
I had not seen this, thanks!
More here: https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btfpiwkwid6fq6qrokcg/home/how-harvard-lost-russia
Mangling Russia's transition to capitalism > oligarchs > Putin > the world we see now
The internal rot of "Western institutions" breaks through to the surface.
They will need replacing, now. With something human.
This article implies the exact opposite of the headline.
If the Russians keep contacting Epstein to try to understand how to influence him, it implies Trump was not a Russian asset and that Russiagate is a hoax.
I thought I liked this until you got into gotchaing the right about qanonism and COVID and election fraud.
The election was interfered with by the FBI obstructing the hunter Biden News and DHS officials lying about it, that was huge. We were literally locked in our homes going to church on zoom while the left got free passes to hold rallies they pretended were about racism. We could only communicate through a digital longlouse where left wing goons constantly censored our public speech. If they didn't actually steal the election on the internet connected voting machines and mail in ballots we literally never used before because they're not secure, it wouldnt matter. And you are not going to sit there and tell me the people who opened our borders treasonously, used their public offices to censor other, paid their friends billions of dollars to run little censorship shops would even blink about stealing al election. They smuggled 25 million brown people into the country. What's a couple hundred thousand ballots! Lmao.
Also people who thought the COVID vaccine was turbo cancer poison and it was being pushed by the lizard people cabal were still far less stupid than the people who took the vaccine obligingly and supported the official narrative. The government profusely lied about 100 percent effective and 100 percent safe. And they didn't need to keep the lockdowns at all as long as they did. They were keeping us locked down to destroy small businesses, finish the mass migration crisis, and shore up state power by disciplining the corposphere with a very clear "you need us to live and we can arbitrarily destroy you" message.
And anybody who thinks that the government wouldn't kill people arbitrarily, intentionally, stupidly or in a planned manner needs to understand that they knowingly lied about every major war in the last 100 years and millions of people died in those. You're the stupid ones if you don't get it.
By the way what kind of fucking job is that?
Just remember that while Comey and Mueller were investigating Trump and his Russia connection, they diffidently had full access to the unredacted Epstein files and were not able to use it to prove Russia gate …. On the other hand they choose to cover up the real Israel-Epstein gate and Trumps involvement in it
And Trump stories are only one thing: it’s Russia.