Canadian physics professor steps back from job over Epstein questions

 

Epstein files place Perimeter Institute's Lee Smolin and other prominent Canadians under scrutiny

A highly regarded theoretical physicist is stepping away from the Ontario institute he helped found, after his ties to the late American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in recently released files.

Lee Smolin, an American Canadian professor of physics and philosophy, has "agreed to pause his working relationship" with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont., according to an email on Thursday from Perimeter's executive director, Marcela Carena. 

Smolin was a founding faculty member of the independent research centre, which is known around the world for pioneering work in quantum theory and got much of its initial funding from BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis. 

Smolin was working at the Perimeter Institute part time and also has academic appointments at the University of Waterloo and University of Toronto. 

His correspondence with Epstein was part of more than three million new pages of files released by the U.S. Department of Justice on Jan. 30. 

Nothing CBC News has seen suggests Smolin did anything illegal or participated in any of Epstein's illicit activities, and appearing in the files is not an indication in itself of any wrongdoing. However, questions have emerged after the documents revealed his relationship with the financier continued for years after Epstein's conviction for sex offences.

The files show that Smolin continued to correspond with Epstein, and the two made repeated efforts to talk by phone and meet up, until at least 2013 — five years after the latter pleaded guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor and another criminal count. The paper trail appears to contradict Smolin's own account of his relationship with Epstein.  (more...)

Canadian physics professor steps back from job over Epstein questions

The City of London’s Creation of the ‘Epstein Class’

 

The release of the documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid and disgraceful practices cannot be understood without going to the source of his deployment: the City of London. Consider the actual arrangements of his acquaintance with British socialite and Oxford graduate Ghislaine Maxwell, facilitated through British arms dealer Douglas Leese, who had “mentored” Epstein and eased him into establishment circles, including the infamous Bullingdon Club.

There are many British connections which have been highlighted in the recent weeks in the aftermath of the e-mails being released, including former UK Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson, former Prince Andrew (now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor), and of course, the Maxwell Family. Rep. Ro Khanna, who, along with Rep. Thomas Massie, has been at the forefront of the fight to end the cover-up of the files by the Department of Justice, stated that the revelations are “a window into [a] window into the elite impunity of this club. And, by the way, I think this is the most vulnerable the British monarchy has ever been.”

“I mean, I heard they were asking the queen questions about the Epstein class. They ought to ask the king and queen questions, and maybe this will be the end of the monarchy…. If they’re implicated with the Epstein class, not a good look for the British monarchy.”

Perhaps there is no ‘Epstein Affair,’ as pundits and media analysts continuously pontificate about. However, it is clear that there is a Maxwell Affair, which is being hidden from the general public, most importantly citizens of the United States, to once and for all destroy the republican system of self-government which was founded 250 years ago on these shores, along with the idea that all men and women are entitled to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” and, “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Jeffrey Epstein, recruited for his so-called “genius” in the practice of illegal money laundering, was deployed from Great Britain for one purpose: to destroy the U.S. Republic as a productive nation committed to the general welfare of all, through physical-goods production based on scientific and technological progress. It is the British imperial system, based on the belief that men are no more than beasts, which is the greatest enemy of all mankind, and must be defeated today.

That can be done by understanding ideas, such as Lyndon LaRouche’s science of physical economy, which emphasizes human creativity, not money, as the primary driver of economic growth. Today’s Manhattan Project, featuring presentations by Dennis Speed and Harley Schlanger, will delve behind the shadows of the ‘Epstein Affair,’ and discuss what everyone else has been missing.

Jeffrey Epstein’s sinister shadow over West Asia

 

Newly released Jeffrey Epstein files expose deep ties to US and Israeli intelligence networks, linking his activities to geopolitical upheaval across West Asia.

In late January, the US Department of Justice dumped millions of documents detailing the criminal activities of US oligarch and serial paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, including his vast rolodex of paedophilic celebrities, financiers, politicians and public figures. The tranche is so vast, independent journalists and researchers have barely scratched the surface yet. But preliminary investigations amply demonstrate Epstein was centrally enmeshed with multiple foreign spy agencies. First and foremost, the Zionist entity’s notorious Mossad. The horrors wrought on West Asia as a result are incalculable.

A recurrent phenomenon in the newly-released documents, emails and text messages is Epstein and his grand global nexus seeking to profit from Western-inflicted misery the world over. On March 18th 2014, in the Maidan coup’s immediate, violent aftermath, he emailed Ariane de Rothschild, a French banker and CEO of the Edmond de Rothschild Group since March 2023, due to her marrying into the famous, powerful Jewish family. Epstein was exhilarated. “Ukraine upheaval should provide many opportunites [sic],” he wrote.

De Rothschild was drained after a “very long day sitting on bank board,” but delighted to hear from her close friend. “Miss our talks and hope you’re well,” she gushed. “Will be at home tomorrow night, will you be free? And let’s discuss Ukraine.” The “opportunities” Epstein perceived in the shattered post-coup country, as it plunged into Western-sponsored civil war, ranged from an untapped reservoir of young girls and vulnerable women to pimp out to high-ranking ‘clients’, to pillaging the country’s vast resources.

In July 2011, Epstein emailed associate Greg Brown, declaring “the Libyans now are legit, but need real help,” adding “they must be careful there will be many claims on that money.” He was referring to Tripoli’s frozen overseas assets, seized by Western powers in March that year, after the country plunged into insurrectionary violence. Epstein fired off this missive right when NATO’s bombing of Libya graduated from striking government forces to actively supporting rebel advances, as foreign fighters closed in on the country’s capital.

Brown excitedly responded, “there are already $80 billion in frozen funds/assets internationally,” and perhaps “three to four times this number in sovereign, stolen and misappropriated assets.” He was working with MI6 and Mossad veterans to “identify stolen assets and get them recovered.” If they could “identify/recover 5% to 10% of these monies and receive 10% to 25% as compensation,” the Anglo-Israeli private spying network could reap “billions of dollars”.

However, this paled in comparison to gains to be had once the Western-sponsored National Transitional Council unseated Libya’s longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi. “The real carrot is if we can become their go-to guys because they plan to spend at least $100 billion next year to rebuild their country and jumpstart the economy,” Brown salivated. He reminded Epstein the country was “rich”, with a small population but “the ninth largest crude oil & natural gas reserves on the planet.” Gaddafi was murdered by rebel forces that October.  (more...)

Jeffrey Epstein’s sinister shadow over West Asia

Ethics in suspension: Epsteinization of power in today’s post-shame politics

 

Today, the world suffers neither from a lack of revelations nor from a shortage of information. Documents, images, names, and narratives circulate endlessly, and scandal has become commonplace.

What has grown scarce is not truth itself, but the moral response to it. The Epstein scandal is neither the first nor the last. What made it emblematic of a broader condition has been the silence – a silence born not of ignorance, but of habituation.

In earlier times, scandal marked a moral moment. Seeing led to judgment, and judgment to shame. The parable of “the naked king” carried weight only because the exposure of power implied its potential collapse.

Today, however, the king is naked, documented, named and yet remains standing. Not because the truth is concealed, but because judgment no longer functions.

The world sees, but feels no compulsion to act on what it sees.

This condition may be called the Epsteinization of power: a state in which power functions not by denying ethics, but by rendering itself independent of it. Epsteinized power knows that exposure is no longer dangerous because society lacks a shared standard of judgment.

Accountability has yielded to the management of scandal, and ethics has been reduced from a structuring principle of politics to a tolerable margin.  (more...)

Ethics in suspension: Epsteinization of power in today’s post-shame politics

Former Trump adviser Bannon plotted with Epstein to 'take down' Pope Francis

 

Steve Bannon, the right-wing strategist who served as chief White House adviser during US President Donald Trump’s first term, plotted with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to “take down” Pope Francis, according to recently released US Justice Department files. 

Messages exchanged between the two in 2019 show Bannon telling Epstein he would “take down (Pope) Francis” as he sought to advance his nationalist-populist agenda after leaving the White House.

At the time, Bannon was a vocal critic of the late pontiff, accusing him of siding with “globalist elites” and opposing what he described as a “sovereigntist” political movement gaining traction in parts of Europe.

The correspondence suggests Bannon viewed Francis as a significant obstacle to that vision.

“Will take down (Pope) Francis,” Bannon wrote to Epstein in June 2019. “The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU – come on, brother.”

According to the files, Bannon also floated the idea of turning the 2019 book In the Closet of the Vatican, by French journalist Frédéric Martel, into a film and suggested Epstein could serve as executive producer.

“You are now exec producer of ‘ITCOTV’ (In the Closet of the Vatican),” Bannon wrote.

Martel later said he rejected any such proposal and believed Bannon intended to use the book to undermine the pope.  (more...)

Former Trump adviser Bannon plotted with Epstein to 'take down' Pope Francis

Zionist takeover of UK police

 

In this episode, Palestine Declassified explores implications of the British state using technology produced by Zionist-controlled companies to surveil British citizens.

Anke Richter from Decult delivers a powerful message

 

Anke Richter — international journalist, author of Cult Trip, and founder of Decult, delivers a clear and uncompromising message about how high-control groups silence their critics.

Before Decult’s 2024 cult awareness conference, there was fear about even mentioning the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church because of their reputation for litigation. But the truth was spoken anyway.

Anke lays bare the reality survivors face: the shame, the stigma, the loss of privacy, the trauma triggers, the therapy bills  and then the legal threats. Most survivors don’t have publishers or lawyers backing them. They speak out alone. And they pay the price.

She calls out the brutality of using “big legal guns” against activists and survivors, especially when it comes from charities acting as the PR front of a coercive religious group. Her message is simple: this is about power, intimidation, and silencing. And she will not shut up about it.

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