Thread by @_whitneywebb

Eric Weinstein, who has been a limited hangout on the Epstein-intelligence connections since his 2019 arrest, claims that Edge was just about submitting essays once a year. Here is what he's leaving out and covering up:

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1392206145364787201

Edge was created by John Brockman, the literary agent who also did “management consulting” gigs for the Pentagon and White House and passed a manuscript to the CIA in the early 1990s.

dazeddigital.com/artsandculture…

Edge for decades was instrumental in bringing together tech executives, scientists that were often Brockman’s clients and Wall St bankers thru its “Millionaires' Dinner”, first held in 1985. In 1999, those dinners rebranded as the “Billionaires’ Dinner”.

From 2001 to 2017, Epstein funded $638,000 out of a total of $857,000 donations raised by Edge. During this period, there were several years where Epstein was Edge’s only donor. Epstein had had financial links to Brockman since at least 1995.

Epstein stopped giving in 2015. That was incidentally the same year that Edge decided to discontinue its annual Billionaires’ dinner. The billionaire dinners were essentially influence ops w Silicon Valley and top scientists to benefit Epstein, almost like a personal Bilderberg

Jeffrey Epstein reached out to Eric in 2004, when he was providing the vast majority of Edge's funding, because of Epstein's interest in his science and foreign exchange trading. While Weinstein has talked about the meeting, he hasn't given any specifics on what they discussed.

Weinstein works for Peter Thiel. Thiel set up Palantir, essentially a CIA front company meant to be a privatized version of the "shut down" Total Information Awareness program. Thiel worked with neocon Richard Perle to set that up.
unlimitedhangout.com/2021/04/invest…
nymag.com/intelligencer/…

One key person involved in the rise of Palantir was former CIA Chief Info Officer Alan Wade. Wade, previously the CIA liaison for TIA, also founded the post-9/11 homeland security software company Chiliad with Ghislaine's sister, Christine Maxwell.

unlimitedhangout.com/2020/12/invest…

Thiel is also involved in numerous Orwellian surveillance-related companies, including ClearView AI and the Epstein-funded Carbyne911, an Israeli intel front company. Palantir is also building AI for the US military as is another Thiel-backed company, Anduril.

Thiel and his inner circle like to claim to be "libertarian". Thiel's politics are authoritarian and disturbing - please read this essential article published last year by Reason.

reason.com/2020/08/02/wai…

There is a massive cover-up of Epstein's ties to Silicon Valley and also of the role of intelligence in the rise of today's Silicon Valley oligarchs. Epstein, likes the Maxwells, was involved w electronic/tech-based blackmail, not just sex blackmail.

I've been working on a series on Silicon Valley, Edge and Epstein adapted from chapters from my upcoming book. I have put out a fraction of the ties between Epstein and Edge in this thread, more will be out in an article later this week. Edge was absolutely key to his op.

To conclude, ask yourself, do you really think someone who still works for Peter Thiel and the CIA-seeded technocractic panopticon he is building actually cares about Epstein's intel ties? Epstein ran in the same circles that helped Thiel set up Palantir.