{"id":141167,"date":"2019-08-26T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=141167"},"modified":"2019-08-22T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:32:53","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-and-the-spectacle-of-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/08\/jeffrey-epstein-and-the-spectacle-of-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein and the Spectacle of Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

21 Aug 2019 – <\/em>When phrases such as \u201cthe deep state\u201d and \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d become staples of both the corporate mainstream media and the alternative press, we know the realities behind these phrases have outlasted their usefulness for the ruling elites that control the United States and for their critics, each of whom uses them refutably or corrobatively. These phrases are bandied about so often that they have become hackneyed and inane.<\/p>\n

Everything is shallow now, in our faces, and by being in our faces the truth is taking place behind our backs. The obvious can\u2019t be true since it\u2019s so obvious, so let us search for other explanations, and when the searchers search, let us call them \u201cconspiracy nuts.\u201d\u00a0 It is a mind game of extraordinary proportions, orchestrated by the perverted power elites that run the show and ably abetted by their partners in the corporate mass media, even some in the alternative press who mean well but are confused, or are disinformation agents in the business of sowing confusion together with their mainstream Operation Mockingbird partners.\u00a0 It is a spectacle of open secrecy, in which the CIA, which created the \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d meme to ridicule critics of the Warren Commission\u2019s absurd explanation of the Kennedy assassination, has effectively sucked everyone into a game of to and fro in which only they win.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I make a word do a lot of work like that,\u201d said Humpty Dumpty, \u201cI always pay it extra.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only by stepping outside this narrative frame with its vocabulary can we begin to grasp the truth here in our Wonderland of endless illusions.<\/p>\n

Death, sex, power, intrigue, murder, suicide \u2013 these are the staples of the penny press of the 19th<\/sup> century, Joseph Pulitzer\u2019s New York World<\/em>, Hearst\u2019s New York Journal<\/em>, the tabloids, today\u2019s mass media, and the CIA.\u00a0 People hunger for these stories, not for the real truth that impacts their lives, but for the titillation that gives a frisson to their humdrum lives. It is why post-modern detective stories are so popular, as if never solving the crime is the point.<\/p>\n

To say \u201cwe will never know\u201d is the mantra of a postmodern culture created to keep people running in circles. (Note the commentaries about the Jeffrey Epstein case.) Elusive and allusive indeterminacy characterizes everything in the culture of postmodernity. Robert Pfaller, a professor at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria and a founding member of the Viennese psychoanalytic research group \u201cstuzzicandenti,\u201d put it clearly in a recent interview:<\/a><\/p>\n

The ruling ideology since the fall of the Berlin Wall, or even earlier, is postmodernism. This is the ideological embellishment that the brutal neoliberal attack on Western societies\u2019 welfare (that was launched in the late 1970s) required in order to attain a \u201chuman\u201d, \u201cliberal\u201d and \u201cprogressive\u201d face. This coalition between an economic policy that serves the interest of a tiny minority, and an ideology that appears to \u201cinclude\u201d everybody is what Nancy Fraser has aptly called \u201cprogressive neoliberalism\u201d. It consists of neoliberalism, plus postmodernism as its ideological superstructure.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The propagandists know this; they created it.\u00a0 They are psychologically astute, having hijacked many intelligent but soul-less people of the right and left to do their handiwork.\u00a0 Money buys souls, and the number of those who have sold theirs is numerous, including those leftists who have been bought by the CIA, as Cord Meyer, the CIA official phrased it so sexually in the 1950s: we need to \u201ccourt the compatible left.\u201d \u00a0He knew that drawing leftists into the CIA\u2019s orbit was the key to efficient propaganda. For so many of the compatible left, those making a lot of money posing as opponents of the ruling elites but taking the money of the super-rich, the JFK assassination and the truth of September 11, 2001 are inconsequential, never to be broached, as if they never happened, except as the authorities say they did. By ignoring these most in-your-face events with their eyes wide shut, a coterie of influential leftists has done the work of Orwell\u2019s crime-stop and has effectively succeeded in situating current events in an ahistorical and therefore misleading context that abets U.S. propaganda.<\/p>\n

The debate over whether Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide or not is a pseudo-debate meant to keep people spinning their wheels over nothing. It attracts attention and will do so for many days to come. There are even some usually astute people suggesting that he may not be dead but might have been secretly whisked off somewhere and replaced with a dead look-alike. Now who would profit from suggesting something as insane as this?\u00a0 The speculation runs rampant and feeds the spectacle. Whether he was allowed to kill himself or was killed makes little difference.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s akin to asking who pulled the trigger that killed President Kennedy.\u00a0 That\u2019s a debate that was intended to go nowhere, as it has, after it became apparent that Lee Harvey Oswald surely did not kill JFK.\u00a0 John Kennedy\u2019s murder in broad daylight in public view is the paradigmatic event of modern times. It is obvious to anyone that gives minimal study to the issue that it was organized and carried out by elements within the national security state, notably the CIA. Their message was meant to be unequivocal and clear: We can kill him and we can kill you; we are in full control; beware. Then they went on to kill others, including RFK and MLK.\u00a0 It takes little intelligence to see this obvious fact, unless you wish not to or are totally lost in the neighborhood of make-believe.<\/p>\n

As it was with Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald, so it is with Epstein. There will be no trial.\u00a0 Nothing is really hidden except the essential truth.\u00a0 Guess, debate, wonder, watch, read to your sad heart\u2019s content.\u00a0 You will have gotten nowhere unless you step outside the frame of the reigning narrative.<\/p>\n

A corollary example of another recent national headline grabber, the Mueller investigation, is apropos here.\u00a0 Douglass Valentine, expert on the CIA and author of The CIA as Organized Crime<\/em>, said in a recent interview<\/a> that in all the endless mass media discussions of the Mueller investigation, one obvious question was never asked: What is the CIA\u2019s role in it all?\u00a0 It was never asked because the job of the corporate mass media is to work for the CIA, not to expose it as a nest of organized criminals and murderers that it is.<\/p>\n

What is important in the Epstein case is the deep back story, a tale that goes back decades and is explored by Whitney Webb<\/a> in a series of fine articles for the Mint Press. Read her articles and you will see how Epstein is just the current manifestation of the sordid history of the American marriage between various factions of the American ruling elites, whose business is sexual exploitation as a fringe benefit of being willing members of the economic and military exploitation of the world. A marriage of spies, mafia, intelligence agencies, sexual perverts, foreign governments, and American traitors who will stop at nothing to advance their interests.<\/p>\n

It is a hard story to swallow because it destroys the fairy tale that has been constructed about American \u201cdemocracy\u201d and the decency of our leaders. Webb\u2019s articles are not based on secret documents but on readily available information open to a diligent researcher. It\u2019s known history that has been buried, as is most history in a country of amnesiacs and educational illiterates.\u00a0 The average person doesn\u2019t have Webb\u2019s skill or time to pull it all together, but they can read her illuminating work. Often, however, it is the will to truth that is lacking.<\/p>\n

While Webb places the Epstein matter in an historical context, she does not \u201csolve\u201d the case, since there is nothing to solve.\u00a0 It is another story from a long litany of sex\/espionage stories openly available to anyone willing to look.\u00a0 They tell the same story.\u00a0 Like many commentators, she draws many linkages to the Israeli Mossad\u2019s long-standing connections to this criminal under and over world in the United States and throughout the world.\u00a0 She writes:<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the picture painted by the evidence is not a direct tie to a single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group [a secretive group of Jewish billionaires, including Epstein\u2019s patron Leslie Wexner], politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If anything is obvious about the Epstein case, it is that he was part of a sexual blackmail operation tied to intelligence agencies.\u00a0 Such blackmail has long been central to the methods of intelligence agencies worldwide and many arrows rightfully point to the Mossad.<\/p>\n

However, while throughout Webb\u2019s articles she draws linkages that lead to the Mossad, she only suggests CIA connections.\u00a0 This is similar to but milder than a point made in an article written by Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist, Did Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Work for Mossad<\/em>?<\/a>\u00a0 <\/em>Giraldi writes that the CIA \u201cwould have no particular motive to acquire an agent like Epstein.\u201d\u00a0 This makes no sense.\u00a0 Of course, they would.\u00a0 The CIA and the FBI have a long record of such activities, and to hold such a club over the heads of presidents, senators, et al. to make sure they do their bidding is obviously a strong motivation.<\/p>\n

Valentine\u2019s point about not asking the question about the CIA\u2019s involvement in the Mueller investigation pertains. Does Giraldi believe that the Mossad operates independently of the CIA? Or that they don\u2019t work in tandem? \u00a0His statement is very strange.<\/p>\n

The CIA is organized crime, and if Epstein is Mossad connected, he is CIA also, which is most likely.\u00a0 No one like Epstein could have operated as he did for decades without being sustained and protected.\u00a0 Now that he is dead there will be no trial, just as there will be no mainstream media or justice department revelations about the CIA or Mossad.\u00a0 There will be a lot of gibberish about conspiracy theories and the open secret that is the spectacle of secrecy will roll on. There will, of course, be much sex talk and outrage. We will anxiously await the movie and the TV \u201cexpos\u00e9s.\u201d Most people will know, and pretend they don\u2019t, that the country is ruled by gangsters who would pimp their mothers if it served their interests.<\/p>\n

Those of us who oppose these criminals \u2013 and there are growing numbers all over the world \u2013 must avoid being sucked into the establishment narratives and the counter-narratives they spawn or create.\u00a0 We must refuse to get involved in pseudo-debates that are meant to lead nowhere.\u00a0 We must reject the language created to confuse.<\/p>\n

If revolutionary change is to come, we must learn to tell a new story in language so beautiful, illuminating, and heart-rending that no one will listen to the lying words of child molesters, mass murderers, and those who hate and persecute truth tellers.<\/p>\n

As John Berger said, \u201cIn storytelling everything depends on what follows what.\u00a0 And the truest order is seldom obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Edward Curtin is a writer whose work has appeared widely. He is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. Website: <\/em>Behind the Curtain<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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