Thread by @astralflite

Balenciaga is the cornerstone, the eye atop the pyramid, that brings everyone into focus: Epstein, Podesta, pizzagate, the art world, money laundering, child sex trafficking, the Clintons, Blackrock, the Rothschilds, the CIA, and still more… 🧵

https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1594532715126202368?s=46&t=ZF9mPg2aIBfqXTfVJwsrow

Francois-Pinault is the lynchpin that connects it all, as CEO of Kering and President of Artémis. Through these two companies we have connections to everything named above, and the symbolic significance of the operation is contained in the name

Artemis has many mythological associations. She was the Goddess of virginity, was attended by promiscuous nymphs, drank blood from a man’s pierced neck, and commanded Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter before sending his fleet to conquer Troy.

britannica.com/topic/Artemis-…

As a dynamic symbol, Artémis represents virginity, sexual indulgence, vampirism, and female child sacrifice. Fitting for a company engaged in sex trafficking, but in order to get there, we must investigate its primacy raison d'etre: money laundering.

Artemis is an investment and holding company, with ventures in two of the worlds most heavily implicated money laundering industries: art and wine. Artemis owns Christie’s auction house and Chateau Latour, a Bordeaux wine estate. Things get really crazy from here, so get ready;

Latour gets its grapes from a wine growing commune that primarily supplies Latour and two other brands - both owned by the Rothschilds (Lafite and Mouton). Wine is one of the primary industries for international money laundering - along with fine art.

Art and wine have subjective value that increased over time, making them perfect to launder and store ill-gotten wealth for a later profit. In many cases, auction houses -Christie’s- will sell the wine or art for anonymous owners who then buy them back through shell companies.

The “shell companies” are typically front companies based in the Caribbean and other tax heavens that obfuscate where the money comes from. Illegal business operators find these companies from the shadows, launder them through auction houses, collect the money, and store the art-

and wine in the tax havens - where they accumulate value. many of these “havens” began as exactly that: havens for pirates to store stolen goods outside the tax laws of the British and Spanish empires.

The money and goods going in and out of these havens isn’t moved by banks in those havens, rather they’re coordinated by investment banks in Switzerland and, up until 2016, the law firm Mossack Fonseca out of panama. This firm was implicated in the 2016 “Panama Papers” scandal.

This scandal revealed a massive, coordinated international money laundering scheme that implicated 300,000 companies, most of them fronts, and revealed that 95% of the firms business was illegal. Artemis was among the companies doing illegal business with them

One of the most shocking revelations of the Panama papers was that the art world, mostly through the auction house Christie’s, was a front for money laundering. Artemis bought the auction house in 1998 after they helped a businessman launder 205$ million “flipping” art

The amount of money and number of people who got involved grew exponentially under Artemis, to the point of absurdity, and paintings began making headlines with their preposterous numbers. We now know international criminals were given free reign at the auction house

Tony Podesta and Jeffery Epstein also frequented auction houses and gallows’s. Podesta was an influential lobbyist in Washington, and in this infamous Washington Post article made it clear that his art collection was also a financial investment.

washingtonpost.com/archive/lifest…

The Podestas were lobbyists who made millions representing corporations and foreign in govt’s in DC, making $900,000 a year from the Ukrainian gov’t alone. They also threw lavish parties with DC elite at various locales, including their home, amid Tony’s notorious art collection

Another venue for these “fundraising parties,” was Comet Ping Pong. Tony Podesta was both billing his lobbying company for the art “he” was purchasing, and he was also hired by Christie’s, for millions of dollars, to represent their interests in DC.

Jeffery Epstein also entertained the American elite amidst bizarre artwork, and was a regular at art auctions. He recruited some of his girls through his connections in the art work, like the Guggenheim school. Epstein was posthumously investigated for dealings with Christie’s

Investigators have subpoenaed documents from Sothebys and Christie’s that show Epstien purchased art on behalf of an array of investors that total in the hundreds of millions of dollars, including 50$ million in purchases on behalf of MoMa

news.artnet.com/art-world/soth…

So Epstein and the Podestas are connected to Christie’s, a known money laundering hub owned by the group that owns Balenciaga. Epstein worked for Wall Street and other interests (arms dealers), while the Podestas worked for politicians and foreign governments. Sex trafficking…

…was an integral part of the scheme. Most know by now that providing these rich and famous people child prostitutes compromises them and seals the deal on the use of ill gotten funds and political positions as a form of sexual blackmail

But the art world isn’t the only place these guys find their women, another major source is the fashion industry. Remember that Epstein was close with Victoria Secret CEO Lex Wessner and allegedly received over 1,000 women from a French modeling agency

So what is Balenciaga - a company owned by the people implicated in Podesta and Epstein schemes - doing promoting pedophelia in their ads? It has an eerie similarity to the same signaling that went on with pizzagate, signaling that they trafficking children for sex

So what is the missing link? What ties Balenciaga, Epstein and Podesta together? The common denominator is Christie’s, but the only reason we know Christie’s role is the Panama Papers, which implicating Mossack and Fonseca, which can be traced back to the CIA

It must be remembered that Panama was a fake country, at least by the time M+F was founded in 1981, it had come under complete control of the Panamanian military, and had decades of heavy US military presences around the Panama Canal. As such, it was a global hub for CIA activity

The man in control of Panama in the 80s was Manuel Noriega, a military dictator and CIA “intelligence asset.” Noriega helped the CIA train the Nicaraguan Contras and trafficked drugs, guns, and dirty money through the country on behalf of the US and the Contras

This is the political environment in which Mossack Fonseca established itself to help international bankers and businessmen hide their money. And here is the missing piece that brought everything together for me. “Mossack” is the last name of one of the founders, Jürgen Mossack.

His father, Erhard Mossack, was a Nazi soldier and a probable CIA asset. “Probable” bc at a certain point his intelligence file abruptly ends, and information is impossible to find about his life afterwards.

When journalists requested German intelligence for information, they refused to turn them over. What we do know about him paints a damning picture: After the war, he and another SS veteran attempted to infiltrate multiple communist organizations and spy on them

US military intelligence has an extensive file on this period of his life. His activity during the war included what the allies would’ve considered war crimes, and his file speculates he wants to offer his services “to get out of an awkward situation”

Erhard ended up in Panama, where he is on file offering to help the US combat communism in Latin America. Nothing more is available on his activity in Panama, but we know the US military and the CIA had a heavy presence in Panama, due to the strategic importance of the canal

Manual Noriega is one of the most important CIA assets of the 1980s, he was integral to the Iran-Contra affair, funneling dirty money from illegal weapons sales to Iran to the Nicaraguan Contras that he outfitted and trained *in* Panama *with* Noriega.

The Contras used the CIA money, in part, to help produce cocaine and traffic it to America. So we have the son of a CIA asset running a law firm specializing in laundering money, in the very country where the CIA is laundering illegal money through the drug trade

The connections to Epstein and the Clinton’s only multiply from here, and go on for decades. But by now you should see that the “conspiracy theories” about global sex trafficking, the fashion industry, and the USG is all real, and continues unabated. In fact, they’re mocking us…

This thread ended up being too long for twitter. I left out a number of tweets about money laundering though real estate construction and luxury apartments. Blackrock is involved, and they used Mossack Fonseca

I’m dying for twitter blue to come back the typos kill me