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“They All Knew”

A reporter explains how the truth is hidden from the public and why it is difficult to call out the well-connected wicked and hold them accountable for their crimes:

Adam Davidson explained why he can’t publish what he knows about these powerful friends and clients of Epstein and why some victims won’t come forward.

He says powerful elites in the media knew of Epstein’s crimes and many of them participated in the sex abuse. In a lengthy thread on Twitter, Davidson lays out what he knows, writing: “I wrote something provocative about how I know stuff about Jeffrey Epstein and can’t publish it.

“I’ll do my best to explain and reveal here. It provides, I think, a good lesson in why it is hard to publish stories about bad things done by the rich and powerful: Just about everything I know has been published somewhere. It’s in books or articles or interviews with victims or revealed in depositions. And, I think, our podcast, Broken, went further than many in revealing scumbaggery. But, yes, there are things I believe, with good evidence, to be true that I feel I cannot publish.

“These fall into a few categories:

“Category 1: Protecting the victims.

“We spoke to dozens of Epstein’s victims and dozens of their lawyers. Many are, simply, terrified and don’t want to talk at all….

“The next circle of sources are the enablers,” he continues.

“Over the decades of abuse, Epstein had hundreds of staffers–pilots, house staff, chefs, assistants–the vast majority will never speak or will offer weak denials or will only speak through lawyers. We covered one of those enablers, Adam Perry Lang, quite well, I thought: he was Epstein’s chef for years and has become a Hollywood celeb chef, best friend of Jimmy Kimmel. “A few of these enablers would confirm details off the record.

“Then there is a huge group of people–those who witnessed Epstein and fancy functions. They saw him with teenagers at scientific conferences or sitting on his knee at dinner parties. There are countless people like this. A few did talk to us–totally off the record.

“Lastly, there are the people who (allegedly!) either had sex with children or were around when others were doing so. They are all rich and powerful and simply deny and refer to their lawyers often with clear insistence that they will sue.

“They knew. Yes, of course, many participated. But ALL knew.”

They did all know. At this point, we all know too. But there is a massive difference between a) what you know, and b) what you can prove to the satisfaction of a neutral prosecutor, and c) what you can prove to the public in the face of a corrupt prosecutor, a corrupt court, and a corrupt media doing a full-court press to hide the truth.

This is why we should neither fault nor shame those who are unable or unwilling to come forward, but rather, praise and reward the rare brave victim, enabler, or witness who does stand up against the corruption and wickedness in high places.

The media isn’t even remotely impartial, since it serves as the first line of defense for the forces of evil. Whereas it will cheerfully defame a minor public figure on the basis of nothing more than an anonymous accusation from a social media site, it will not permit even a hint of a suggestion that a powerful and well-connected individual has been part of a satanic sex-trafficking ring preying on hundreds of children for decades without permission from its masters, and in fact, will heap coals and calumnies on anyone and everyone who even asks the obvious questions about the observable evidence.

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The Demonic Gradient

Demonic attack appears to be a gradient that begins with coercion from presumably unwitting human servitors but gradually transitions to direct spiritual assault aimed at self-destruction.

I was only 13 years old when I pressed send on the first explicit photograph I shared with Dan, a ­handsome and popular boy who was three school years above me.

The fact he’d started to text me had made me feel good. We never dated — he only ever messaged me after 8pm — but I had always wanted to be liked, and the more the older boys paid attention to me, it seemed, the more the popular girls had time for me.

The morning after sending that first photo of myself in my underwear, I felt dirty. But I didn’t want to lose Dan’s attention. I’d had one boyfriend before — Joe, who was my age and very sweet — but we broke up when I started to receive more attention from older boys.

Dan, it turned out, liked me so much he wanted more photos. More explicit photos. The requests became demands and when I didn’t deliver…

Predatory on the one side and stupid on the other, but hardly unexplicable or indicative of homicidal evil, right? However, the subsequent developments, which materialists would erroneously dismiss as mere psychological aftershock, are illuminating.

I told myself I was a messy, ­attention-seeking, dumb, teenage girl. I was the trainwreck that went from model student to stupid slut. But in the end I didn’t think I had the guts to actually end it. Back at school I took all the insults — the fired spitballs, the rolled-up notes saying ‘SLAG’ — and the only way I found any relief was to go somewhere alone and take out the blade I’d unscrewed from a pencil sharpener. I made bright-red cuts across my arms and up my torso. I wanted to feel the sting. I wanted to watch as the blood kept oozing.

Men and boys under demonic pressure tend to resort to drugs and alcohol. Women and girls tend to resort to gluttony, starvation, or bloodletting. In both cases, the result is to open themselves to direct demonic influence that eventually results in oppression or even possession.

The photos damaged her, but the blame broke her. Her mental health began a ­dangerous downward spiral, taking her to a dark and terrifying place. She started to hear mean, accusing voices laughing at her, calling her names, and we, the people who loved her, couldn’t reach her. While driving at 60mph to a d­esperately hard-won appointment at Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, she suddenly opened the door and tried to get out. The ‘people’ told her it wasn’t safe in the car.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it.

When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

“You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.

Matthew 17: 14-18

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Truth Social is Pointless

It turns out that it might actually be easier to get a post deleted or an account suspended on Truth Social than on Twitter. There is literally no reason for it to exist at all, except to let cuckservatives posture about how brave they are to leave Twitter.

Good morning to everyone except the 14 backstabbing, low-life, sellout, gun-grabbing Republican Senators who voted with the Democrats on gun control. Never give another dime to the GOP – they hate you.

YOUR TRUTH HAS BEEN REMOVED

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They Chose the Hard Way

The mentally- and historically-challenged “leaders” of the skinsuit “West” simply refuse to accept the reality that Russia is not surrounded by them, they are surrounded by the rest of the World. Which means the USA and its European satrapies have less of a chance of winning WWIII than Austria-Hungary had in WWI and Germany had in WWII.

Say, whose side are Austria and Germany on this time? Are you starting to notice a pattern here?

ITEM: IEA warns Europe to prepare for total shutdown of Russian gas exports.

ITEM: Lithuania expands Kaliningrad blockade.

ITEM: Putin announces deployment of S-500 air defense systems.

It’s the third item that is the most significant, because it indicates that Russia is now preparing to contest European air superiority with NATO. There is no need for S-500s, or even S-400s, for that matter, to defeat the air forces of Kiev. Now wven the Washington Post has finally figured out that the USA is already at war with Russia; one wonders how long it will take the intrepid reporters there to notice that China has been actively engaged in unrestricted warfare against the USA for the last 23 years.

Last month, leaks by U.S. officials revealed that the United States helped Ukraine to kill Russian generals and strike a Russian warship, and Mr. Biden signed a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine, a lot of which is for military assistance like weaponry and intelligence sharing. The bill, which Ms. Jayapal and Mr. DeFazio voted for, comes on top of billions of prior military support. The Biden administration also announced, this month, that it will send rocket systems to Ukraine that could theoretically strike inside Russian territory, and it reportedly has plans to sell the Ukrainian government four drones that can be armed with Hellfire missiles.

Are we at war in Ukraine? If we swapped places — if Russian apparatchiks admitted helping to kill American generals or sink a U.S. Navy vessel — I doubt we’d find much ambiguity there. At the very least, what the United States is doing in Ukraine is not not war. If we have so far avoided calling it war and can continue to do so, maybe that’s only because we’ve become so uncertain of the meaning of the word.

The neocons and their servants can play all the legalistic word games they like, but the fun is going to end when a major US or UK city takes a direct hit from a Sarmat. It’s actions, not words, that define reality.

So, buckle up and enjoy the fireworks.

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Tuesday Arktoons

BOB Episode 43: ENOUGH!

STONETOSS Episode 93: Holidaze

VEGFOLK FABLES Episode 100: A Brief Interruption

BEN GARRISON Episode 58: Patton Slap

CHUCK DIXON’S AVALON Episode 60: Washed Up

THE AWAKENER Episode 44: Wounding the World

SPACEKRAKEN Episode 6: Taking Precautions

In other comics-related news, Gary Shipman’s Kickstarter to color issues of TITAN MOUSE and PAKKINS’ LAND, both of which run regularly on Arktoons, has ten days left to run.

THE AWAKENER

Interview with Razorfist

Dark Herald interviews Razorfist for Bounding Into Comics about his new Dark Legion book, DEATH MASK as well as the decline and inevitable rise of pulp fiction:

DARK HERALD: Your Nightvale series appears to be strongly inspired by pulp era adventure stories. Pulp fiction was fairly common through the 1980s, but then interest started to taper off over the next twenty years. Why do you think that happened?

RAZÖRFIST: “Logistically speaking, what killed the pulps were the wood rationing and shortages of the mid-’40s.”

“The Shadow, the most popular of the ‘hero’ pulps for a long while, dropped to a shorter digest format and even cut Walter Gibson’s pay to keep the lights on. He would ultimately quit Street & Smith over it. Most pulp publishers were already dead after World War 2 and just didn’t realize it until the bills came due all at once over the next decade.

In the ’50s, those old yellow paperbacks (for a time, distributed via vending machine) seemed to replace Pulp as Television and Comics came to the fore. Ultimately, those got thicker and more pretentious until they became the ‘elevated’ gas station literature you see today”

“With thirty different titles ‘written’ by James Patterson, none of which he was ever even dimly aware of. They did sort of morph into the ‘genre fiction’ you’re alluding to throughout the ’80s. And in a weird way, they live on through Star Trek and Star Wars books, Battletech and so on.

These publishing houses are essentially printing pulp. It’s just a bit more bloated and seems to have aspirations to be more than it is. Sorry to say, it isn’t and never will be. Which is exactly the way I like it.”

DARK HERALD: I’ve recently run into a few other authors like you and Sky Hernstrom that have written new Robert Howard style high adventures. Do you think there is pulp revival underway? Also, who else do you know of who is working in contemporary Pulp?

RAZÖRFIST: “Yeah, I’ve read some of Sky’s stuff in Cirsova and enjoyed it. The first ‘New Pulp’ writer I was aware of was Barry Reese, who does a Shadow-esque vigilante series featuring characters like ‘The Peregrine’ and ‘Lazarus Grey’.”

“I think a Pulp Revival is inevitable. Whether it happens now or decades hence. Attention spans have fallen. Smart devices are tucked away in every pocket. Short fiction and bite-sized stories seem the way to go.

Yet, the ‘Phonebook Fantasy’ writers seem to have a minimum page count of 500 and fill the majority of it with worldbuilding bloat. And despite the name, it isn’t all that novel, either. None of them are doing anything terribly interesting to justify it.

Writing straightforward Fantasy is fine – I love it to death – It’s the pretense that it’s anything more that I can’t abide. And the smug superiority as they look down their nose at shorter, more plot-driven fiction.”

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Antifragility: An Interpretation

ANTIFRAGILITY: a convex response to a stressor or source of harm leading to a positive sensitivity to increase in volatility.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Every attack is an opportunity.” – Vox Day

This is actually straight out of my Dragons training. In order to attack, a fighter must open a window. The mere fact of attacking intrinsically renders the attacker momentarily vulnerable. The properly trained fighter has five choices: a) break open a window through force, b) exploit an open window through speed, c) convince the opponent to open a window through deceit, d) follow-through on a window opened by a preceding strike, or e) counter a window opened by attacking.

Most people fear being attacked. They shouldn’t, because every attack is potentially useful to the party attacked in some way. It’s not an accident that “kick the dog until it bites” is not unreasonably described as the core weapon of the imperial USA’s foreign policy.

If there is one thing I have learned in 21 years of being targeted by various individuals and organizations, it is that every single attack will present opportunities that far outweigh any temporary damage inflicted. The challenge is to focus on identifying and pursuing the former while simultaneously dealing with the latter.

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Build Your Own Global Economic Order

China is embracing the ultimate build-your-own-platform challenge:

At present, Western sanctions against Russia have sparked multiple crises faced by the global economy, dealing a heavy blow to the international economic and financial order that emerging markets and developing countries rely on for survival. To a certain extent, these sanctions have made BRICS countries aware of the urgency of strengthening their cooperation and solidarity. As major emerging market economies with global influence, BRICS countries now share the common will of pushing forward with major reforms addressing the global payment system.

None of the BRICS countries has joined the Western economic sanctions against Russia. The reason why the BRICS countries apart from Russia all refused to join such sanctions is because they share the same antipathy to unilateral sanctions imposed by the West.

It is now crystal clear that Western powers safeguard their own hegemonic self-interests through sanctions, with no regard for the interests of emerging and developing economies at all and for bringing new uncertainties and risks to the world. Behind the sanctions is the dollar hegemony.

For decades, the dollar has been the most important reserve currency in the world and the most widely used currency for global economic and trade settlement. The outsized role of the dollar in the global payment system has not only offered the US a huge financial advantage in the world economic order but also enabled it to effectively use it as a weapon to punish its adversaries. Consequently, BRICS’ interactions in terms of financial, trade, investment and other areas have often been affected to varying degrees.

It should be pointed out that the purpose of establishing the BRICS was never aimed at forming a small clique targeting other parties. The reason why BRICS countries came together is because of a common need to address the injustice and unfairness in the existing international economic, financial and trade systems and to seek reform and adjustment in the global economic order to address the legitimate concerns of developing countries.

The New Development Bank (NDB), also known as the BRICS Bank, is an important trial by the BRICS member countries to promote not only intra-bloc cooperation but also fairness in the international financial governance, even though, the NDB has had its share of challenges, like its payment mechanism being subject to the US’ dollar hegemony.

Indeed, the financial implications of US sanctions have increased the urgency of de-dollarization around the world. It is not just the BRICS, but also many other developing economies that realize the needs to reduce the role of the dollar in global payments. In bilateral settings, discussions about exploring new currencies for trade settlement are becoming increasingly popular and common, an indication that the US’ abuse of its financial power has fueled the trend for de-dollarization.

Therefore, one of the main questions facing the BRICS is how to further integrate these needs among various countries by increasing new currency settlement and building new, safer payment systems, among others.

It is urgent for BRICS to push for fairer, safer global financial system, Global Times, 20 June 2022

This is the real basis for World War III. Neither the military might of the USA nor the financial might of the US dollar hegemony will suffice to maintain the current corrupt global economic order. No one trusts either the banks or the political leaders of the skinsuit “West” any longer; Russia correctly describes them as “agreement-incapable”, just to give one example.

The so-called “Great Reset” is an attempt to replace the existing structure without changing the leadership, and it has been rejected by all of the BRICS countries as well as approximately one-third of those who are its nominal slaves. Like Hitler in the bunker, the global imperialists will fight as long as they can convince or coerce others to die in their defense, but their fate is already sealed.

The BRICS nations are not the bad guys. To the contrary, it is all of the organizations that you have been taught to regard as sacrosanct, from the United States government to NATO, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and the World Health Organization, that are the bad guys. This will become increasingly obvious to everyone over time.

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