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Nov 12, 2024 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky, for those fleeing there. Folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
2/The people who aided Dorsey in pursuing this vision were other libertarian/post-rationalists connected with effective altruism and other online anarchist movements. One network called TPOT (‘that part of Twitter’) was instrumental. It carried over into Bluesky’s founding DNA. Image
3/Someone made the visualization above in 2023, showing the TPOT/EA network quite clearly. EA as you know is part of TESCREAL and the belief systems that have driven Sam Bankman Fried and Elon Musk. SBF also put money into Musk’s Twitter buy.

knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultu…
4/Now that Dorsey has bailed, Bluesky’s DNA is basically TPOT people but without a funding source. Who is going to win in that scenario? I don’t know, but I’m not putting money on the users.

theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149…
5/Bluesky’s most recent funding round was provided by Blockchain Capital LLC. What do those folks want from their investment? I don’t know. But that’s the question to be asking. Crypto money outspent Big Oil in this cycle … to the tune of $200mm.
6/So anyway it’s fun to call it “the good place” but the fact is users will likely once again get a rude awakening when it either collapses or is captured by Musk, or worse. You’re using a free service on someone else’s dime; you should ask what they want from you.
7/More on that Blockchain Capital LLC funding round here.
8/And here is the source post for that TPOT visualization I posted on Bluesky back in 2023.

bsky.app/profile/euxenu…
9/Background on SBF’s involvement in Musk’s Twitter takeover.

futurism.com/elon-musk-sbf-…
10/🚨It get's worse. Blockchain Capital LLC was co-founded by Steve Bannon pal Brock Pierce, a major crypto advocate, perennial presidential candidate, and close friend of Eric Adams. Pierce has dozens of other shady MAGA/Russia ties as well.
universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/…
11/Eric Adams was a frequent guest on Pierce's jet. Steve Bannon helped Pierce raise $60mm from Goldman Sachs 20 years ago for his "World of Warcraft" mining arbitrage play, Internet Gaming Entertainment. So no, you don't want anything to do with Bluesky.
nypost.com/2021/11/23/eri…
12/This just in. Need to see what this, means if anything. Image

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Feb 4
If you want to understand Epstein-Israel better, consider Russia’s desire for influence and control of Israel. Where they have significant influence through the Lubavitch network (which is hooked into Jared Kushner, Charles Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Benjamin Netanyahu) they could obtain additional leverage and control through one of Netanyahu’s rivals, Ehud Barak.

Epstein sat at the intersection of those two networks and thus had hooks into multiple Israeli power factions. Epstein wasn’t working “for” Israel, but rather maintaining it as part of his portfolio, on Putin’s behalf.
As the evidence now shows overwhelmingly and conclusively that Epstein was advancing Russia’s influence agenda on multiple fronts, this becomes much more clear. Epstein had thousands of US contacts as well, but that doesn’t mean he was working for US interests. Indeed, he was not. If you look at *what* he was doing and ask “cui bono?,” the answer is always Putin and his global influence network.
I've covered this in detail before, but Russian propagandists have leaned heavily on latent antisemitism for over a century to provide cover for their own activities, starting with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Filipp Bobkov developed modern 21st century strategies; they also backed Yasser Arafat and helped amplify Palestinian identity and grievances.

None of this is to provide cover to the Netanyahu regime's murderous actions in Gaza. But if you want to understand what Epstein was doing, it's necessary to put aside all of that and study this objectively. Epstein was working to exert influence in (at minimum) the US, Europe, and Israel. His "Israeli ties" are well explained by that objective alone.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipp_Bo…
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Feb 4
1/Last August we launched a series of investigative articles asking: “Was Jeffrey Epstein part of Russia's broader war on the West?”

You should read it. Six installments (so far), each covering an important part of the bigger picture. We start at SFI.
america2.news/part-one-just-…
2/On Epstein’s good friend John Brockman, and his efforts to infiltrate the worlds of science and culture.

america2.news/part-two-jeffr…
3/On efforts by Epstein to infiltrate and operationalize Brockman’s “Edge”network.

america2.news/part-three-wha…
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Feb 4
1/Now that people are ready to hear it, Noam Chomsky was a founding member of the International Tribunal of Natural Justice, a FSB-aligned group responsible for spreading the most insane QAnon and COVID disinformation, founded by conspiracy theorist Sacha Stone, Image
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2/ITNJ was founded in 2015, and Chomsky was involved from the beginning. We spotted these ties in 2020 but many assumed he had been “tricked” or “didn’t understand.” But this was exactly when he was palling around with Bannon and Epstein. In his own words…
3/Sacha Stone is also a longtime collaborator with Jeffrey Sachs, who everybody can now see is a full Putinist. The “Sustainable Development Goals” Sachs claims to advocate for have been hijacked by Putin to serve his “Noospheric” agenda.
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Feb 1
1/It’s time to say this clearly, as you can see it with your own two eyes finally: Epstein was interacting first and foremost with Russia-aligned interests and was touching nearly every active measures and disinformation agent that has roiled Western democracies…
2/He is not plotting with “Israeli handlers.” He is coordinating with Putin, FSB agents, and their collaborators in the US and elsewhere, including Ehud Barak. What people don’t understand is the relationship between Russia and Israel which is long and complex…
3/For decades Russia has sought leverage and control in the Levant region. The KGB backed Yasser Arafat and fueled Palestinian conflict as a leverage mechanism. Robert Maxwell was involved in emigration of Soviet Jews into Israel. The Lubavitcher cult, founded in Russia…
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Jan 31
1/Trump’s Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh is the son in law of Trump’s Greenland whisperer (and major Greenland investor) Ron Lauder. Warsh also was partying with Epstein at Christmas in 2010, two years after Epstein’s conviction.
2/Trump was targeted on orders of KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov; specifically at a 1986 lunch run by Leonard Lauder, Ron’s brother, both of whom helped run Estes Lauder cosmetics. Trump traveled to Moscow in 1987 with the help of Epstein pal Vitaly Churkin and Kryuchkov’s brother in law, journalist and KGB agent Genrikh Borovik.
3/Robert Maxwell was tapped by Kryuchkov around the same time to exfiltrate Communist party funds into scores of Western bank accounts with the help of Maxwell’s contacts, which included Semion Mogilevich. Many involved in that operation “died” in/after the August 1991 “failed coup.”
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Jan 5
I regret to inform that this is all very simple, and dumb: since 2017, Putin has been trying to goad Trump into seizing Venezuela and Greenland. Putin thinks this will cement the “Monroe Doctrine” as US policy, which he thinks will drive US disengagement from Ukraine.

This effort failed in 2019 because it was blocked by John Bolton, Fiona Hill, Rex Tillerson, and other cabinet officials who considered these proposals but found them unwise.

Putin’s efforts to goad Trump resumed in 2025, first with renewed interest in Greenland, second with Venezuela. The Venezuela dangle worked, and there were no adults to stop it, and plenty of profiteers eager to help.

Now he’s after Cuba and Greenland, which Putin thinks (again) will catalyze US disengagement in Ukraine, which he hopes will give him a freer hand there, as well as reorient US power in the Western Hemisphere and away from Europe.

That’s it. That’s what’s going on. Oil, minerals, peace prizes are all part of the dangle. But this is the whole ballgame.
Receipts, part 1.
Receipts, part 2.
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