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1. International trafficking and pedophile rings existed long before Epstein ever became involved in the 80s, and it's very naive to believe it just suddenly ended when he was "suicided" in his jail cell. Many of the most infamous busts that occured before his involvement can actually be connected via archived news articles from the 1970s and 80s: Eye of the Chickenhawk (2023)

2. Conspiracies about the "dangers" of a "one world government"/U.N. new world order/Greta Thunberg is the "antichrist" have always mainly been fueled by propaganda campaigns of wealthy conservatives around the globe who want to destroy the existence of international law in order to avoid prosecution for their crimes.

•Although he officially sanctioned the operation, President Harry Truman forbade the agency from recruiting any Nazi members or active Nazi supporters. Nevertheless, officials within the JIOA and Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—the forerunner to the CIA—bypassed this directive by eliminating or whitewashing incriminating evidence of possible war crimes from the scientists’ records, believing their intelligence to be crucial to the country’s postwar efforts.

•Oil drives our Israel policy: New government documents reveal a very different history of America and the Middle East

•People should be more aware’: the business dynasties who benefited from Nazis

•Dark Money review: Nazi oil, the Koch brothers and a rightwing revolution

•American Business Consultants Inc., the Wackenhut Corporation, and Karl Baarslag. All of these creators had connections to the intelligence agencies of the United States government, kept detailed research files on individuals and organizations, and were part of a right-wing research and information network that monitored Communists and other perceived threats to their interpretation of the American way of life

•TIL current ICE contractor GEO Group, was originally Wackenhut Corrections, owned by hard right warlord and government contractor, George Wackenhut, who claimed to hold largest collection of files on suspected American dissidents

•Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

•Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

(Also, there (/s)hockingly seems to be quite a lot of overlap with these wealthy conservatives who oppose regulations at home and abroad, and members of the international pedophile ring who view other human beings as disposable objects.)