Niall McCrae
After years of patchy coverage, the mainstream media are all over the ‘Epstein files’. I put that in inverted commas, because there is a sceptical view that if politicians and newspapers are talking about something, it must be a distortion of the truth, perhaps to divert the masses from more important developments, or for the old tactic of divide and rule.
Should critical thinkers know better than to be sucked into such sensationalism?
Let us consider three sceptical perspectives on Epstein and the latest release of three million documents, beginning with the most cynical.
A hoax
Former investigative journalist for the Irish Independent, brazenly outspoken Gemma O’Doherty often regards major events in the news as ‘psy-ops’. Accidents or violent attacks are faked for problem-reaction-solution mechanisms, usually to get society to accept stricter controls. The Epstein files, according to O’Doherty, are a hoax, and she lambasted the supposed critical thinkers who have fallen into a trap (abridged below): –
I despair for those who call themselves ‘awake’ but fall for every single media hoax slopped up to them, the latest being the Epstein three million file psyop. I want to shake sense into them. Have they not yet grasped the very simple rule of thumb that if the mainstream media is selling them a story and the algorithm is making it go viral, it is by definition fake, a distraction and should be dismissed out of hand? Haven’t their eyes learned to roll involuntarily when they hear the name Epstein coming from the Media Industrial Complex? Do they suddenly trust the duplicitous press who’ve been lying to them night and day since and long before Convid when they were ordered by sell-out hacks to lock down and jab up with a deadly State injection? How do they still trust the excrement coming from the mouth of these snakes after everything they were supposed to have learnt?
As if any of these depraved creeps are going to throw each other under the bus! In this latest episode, we’re expected to believe that the demons plan their odious crimes and sexual depravities by gmail. As if they’re going to document every gruesome detail of their sordid lives and exchange them on their laptops. How dumb does a person have to be believe this garbage? They’ve even coded it with their special number to make it easy for slow learners. Even if this aspect of the pantomime was real, do you think their pals who run the internet, media and government – all of whom are equally blackmailed – are going to hang them out to dry? They have too much dirt on each other.
They are all in on it. There is no clean-up going on. There is no accountability coming from the swamp now or ever. Nobody’s going to spend one night in jail. Crisis assets like Windsor and Epstein are just performers in a sick play. You don’t get to be an actor on the world stage unless you’re involved in paedophilia or turn a blind eye to it. Every single one of them has been captured by their own immorality: that is the prerequisite for the job. When the swamp requires, they manufacture fake exiles, mock public shaming and sham resignations to give the illusion of oversight but it’s all a front for the dummies who swallow it hook, line and sinker. These psyops also serve to divide and conquer, deepening the toxic rift between right and left. And you can be sure when they’re doling out bread and circus like this email dump, they’re up to something behind the scenes intrinsically linked to consolidating their One World Government.
Ouch! Anyone who has taken the Epstein files to be a real thing, albeit carefully controlled and selectively revealed, is chastised and slapped in the face by O’Doherty. But is the truth so binary?
A deliberate distraction
Kit Knightly on OffGuardian website is also scathing, but more nuanced (excerpts): – –
The only thing anyone wants to talk about is the Epstein files, the millions of documents and emails released by the US government concerning the ‘ahem’ late Jeffrey Epstein and his many high-profile correspondents. That this is all the MSM wish to discuss is hardly surprising, they are the mouth to the establishment brain. But that it should also so totally dominate the alternate media I find a little concerning.
Have we really learned anything at all? Chomsky is a villain for being friendly, Finkelstein a hero for telling Epstein to go to hell. Mandelson has resigned. Again. Bill Gates got an STD. Elon is ‘too autistic’ to be a paedophile (and accidentally confirmed the emails were real. Oops).
Ever predictably, the whole thing has turned into an exercise in taking sides. While the MSM pundits are pushing ‘Epstein was a Russian agent working with Putin’, the people who know better want to talk about Maxwell, Mossad and Israel. There’s no denying that the latter has the benefit of being at least partially true, but both – to me – fall into the trap of letting the terms of discussion be set from above.
Why should we accept anything in these emails is meaningful? All we have here is what the US Department of Justice wants us to have. Vetted, redacted, or even invented. Simply being mentioned a handful of times in millions of pages of documents, the vast majority of which appear to be unrelentingly mundane, is not an indication of a crime. And yet, there is a fevered quasi-witch hunt atmosphere.
If anything I’ve found the reaction to the Epstein dump almost disheartening, because it shows how susceptible we are to the Empire creating our reality and smiling down as we study it.
The material presented, as Knightly asserts, is mostly piffle. Epstein knew many prominent people, and while it may be deemed inappropriate or scandalous that politicians continued to meet him after his conviction for child sexual abuse, it was not a crime to maintain friendly relations. Knightly thus accepts that some or all of the e-mails are real, but urges critical thinkers to be more critical on the meaningfulness of the messages, and the motives for making them front-page news.
A release valve
Gareth Icke’s walk’n’talk on YouTube urging vigilance. The truth may appear to be coming out, but the powers-that-be have had more than a year to curate and redact the data. They are only allowing us to see what they want us to see. But it was necessary for some release of the files. In this elaborate blackmail operation, some figures are surplus to requirements (George Bush Senior, for example, is dead), but others remain blackmailed. Icke believes that the scandalising and shaming of particular people (‘fall guys’) is a strong message to those with something to hide, that they could be next unless they toe the line.
The latest files show Epstein and others refer to the ‘Goyim’ as cattle. Anyone outside the Zionist cabal is a lesser mortal, and will be treated as such. But another motive, Icke suggests, is that the immorality and corruption of elected politicians across the spectrum destroys faith in democracy. This could be used to justify appointed ‘experts’ (the original Technocracy Inc model) or AI policy-making.
Icke ends by warning that some of the latest material is likely to be fake. The rise of AI makes it easy to produce credible images – for the credulous at least. The Epstein files are useful to the agenda-setters in maintaining public and press attention on salacious details that are relatively unimportant, while war, pestilence or economic crash is about to be unleashed. Never underestimate the psychopaths in power.
My view
We could all look the other way. But I see the Epstein files like Covid-19. The pandemic was a scam, but policies and actions were very real (lockdown, mask mandates, vaccines and ostracising of sceptics). We can’t be sure of the veracity of anything in the Epstein dump, but there are some undeniable facts (e.g. Mandelson’s dealings with the financier-pimp when in government).
My piece on Chomsky yesterday was about how a man who was revered by progressive intelligentsia has horrified his supporters by his friendship with a ‘far right Zionist’. I always suspected Chomsky was treating his followers as useful idiots. My previous piece was about Prince Andrew being used as ‘fall guy’. These are real events and reactions, and thus relevant for critique.
However, Gemma O’Doherty, Kit Knightly and Gareth Icke – in their own way – advise us to be ever-vigilant.
Niall McCrae is a social commentator and an officer iof the Workers of England trade union. He was previously a senior lecturer in mental health at King’s College London. His books include The Moon and Madness (2012), Echoes from the Corridors (with Peter Nolan, 2016), Moralitis: a Cultural Virus (with Robert Oulds, 2020) and Green in Tooth and Claw: the Misanthropic Mission of Climate Alarm (2024). He writes regularly for The Light newspaper.
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