The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is a ‘meta’ scandal that smaller scandals fit into like Russian dolls.  “Meta” means about the thing itself. “Meta news” is news about the news.

It reveals the higher network workings of lesser scandals, like the “Container Ship Crime Wave!” scandal, which fits into it neatly.

Names in Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book connect with people involved with the illicit drug trade. Like Adnan Khashoggi.

What the Jeffrey Epstein scandal would reveal, were its details to become public, is an industrial three shifts-daily powerhouse blackmail operation using hidden cameras to catch unsuspecting elite deviants engaging in what are known in the trade as “Unspeakable Practices, and Unnatural Acts.”

Jeffrey Epstein procurer Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of Mossad agent Robert Maxwell, hung out with Jeffrey Epstein and New York’s glitterati, including Donald Trump and Adnan Khashoggi. 

Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump and Adnan Khashoggi

They’re the Palm Beach homies. Prince Andrew is an honorary member.

They go to each other’s parties, with models trucked-in to Mar-a-Lago, and elsewhere. Everyone owns their own modeling agency.

Epstein partner Leslie Wexner owns Victoria’s Secret. Khashoggi travels with a literal bevy of women. Donald Trump owns his own modeling agency, called Trump Model Management. Originally known as “T Models,” it was founded in 1999.

For a while, it’s a thing.

Who else in their circle dabbled in models?  Arik Kislin. 

Wait. Arik who?

 

Under the Boardwalk

But it wasn’t all nights beneath the stars, or under the lifeguard stand, where the second Mrs. Trump could occasionally be found. They even shared tips on raising children.

When her kids were young and she still lived with “The Donald,” Ivana Trump talked about parenting to People magazine. She was also a firm believer in teaching traditional values.

“They have to know the value of money — otherwise they’ll get spoiled like those Khashoggi children,” she said.

 

PizzaGate People

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public,” said journalist HL Mencken, who lived and worked in Baltimore, and was one of the best that’s ever lived.

How much is 19 tons of cocaine? If it were yours, could you treat everyone living in this multiverse to a long weekend? It doesn’t matter.

 The Epstein scandal is bigger, and more meta; and it’s provoked a much scarier response that in some quarters is flat-out demented. 

THE PIZZA GATE PEOPLE. Back in high school they never owned a decoder ring or were invited to to hang with the cool kids or join a secret club.

They believe in safety in numbers. It’s one of their many delusions.

 “Where We Go One, We Go All.”

“We are fighting a global cabal that traffics and literally eats children.”

 

Eats children? Eww!

Speaking of de-evolution: Did you know Donald Trump is an ‘anointed warrior?” 

If you don’t, head over to Q-ANON right away and hear a screwball conspiracy theory that has JFK Junior coming back from the dead and revenging himself—presumably with the Anointed One’s help—on ranks of deviant Democrats stretching into the distance.

Question: If there are at least as many pictures of Jeffrey Epstein huddled with Donald Trump as there are of Epstein hanging with Bill Clinton, how can Trump be the “Anointed One?”

Just kidding.

 

Speaking OF Khashoggi

Adnan Khashoggi also had a seat at the table in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal—which is amazing, because he’s dead.

Author Vicki Ward, whose several profiles of Epstein in Vanity Fair make gripping reading, reported, “One more thing about that passport the feds found in a safe in Epstein’s apartment with his photo, but a different name and his country of residence listed as Saudi Arabia…

“In the 80’s, Jeffrey Epstein used to tell people he was a kind of financial bounty hunter whose job it was to “find” lost or stolen money for the government or for very rich people job.”

 “According to one of my sources, one of the rich people for whom Jeffrey Epstein chased down money was Adnan Khashoggi, the powerful Saudi businessman,” Ward reported.

Back in the 80’s, when Epstein was collecting for him, what was Adnan Khashoggi selling?

According to a declassified 1991 report by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Khashoggi was listed as one of the twenty biggest drug traffickers in Colombia.

More recently Khashoggi was a principal in a drug trafficking ring that flew out of St. Petersburg Florida, and had two planes seized in Mexico eighteen months apart carrying a cumulative total of ten tons of cocaine. His lieutenant Ramy El Batrawi owned one of the two DC-9’s involved.

Indications of Khashoggi’s involvement in drug trafficking or financial fraud—or drug trafficking and financial fraud—litter the landscape like discarded matryoshka dolls.  

Before killjoy Robert Mueller got his hands on it, it was called “RussiaGate.” And Adnan Khashoggi was involved.

Spook-wise, Adnan Khashoggi was always the little engine that could. His fingerprints are all over the later decades of the 20^th century and into the 21^st.

Khashoggi, who along with prominent Arabs like Saudi billionaire banker Khalid Mahfouz was involved with BCCI, agreed at a meeting in Paris in 1998 to continue what US intelligence officials described as “protection payments” to bin Laden.

 

Arik who?

As a 15 APR 2007 New York Post article headlined “The Shady ‘Inn’ Crowd”  reported:

“YOU never know who owns what these days. Case in point: The Hotel Gansevoort. Arik Kislin, one of seven principals in the trendy, 187-room Meatpacking District inn, once ran a firm with ties to a suspected Moscow hit man.”

“In the early 1990s, Kislin owned and was chairman of a Manhattan company called Blonde Management, which co-sponsored a U.S. visa sought by a Russian named Anton Malevsky.”

“The FBI believed Malevsky to be a professional assassin and head of one of Moscow’s leading criminal gangs.”

Arik Kislin has a lot in common with Adnan Khashoggi.

Making drug flights from St. Petersburg Florida— along with Khashoggis’ twin DC-9’s—was an executive jet, a Gulfstream II (N987SA).

Until two weeks before it crashed in the Yucatan and spilled four tons of cocaine across the floor of the jungle outside Merida in the Yucatan, Arik Kislin’s company owned the plane.

But because of the FAA’s arcane and outdated rules for registering aircraft—mistakes which may be on purpose—who owned the drug plane will always be a matter for debate. We’ll never know for sure.

Incidentally, Arik Kislin’s father, Sam Kislin, is in the Russian Mob. Russian mobsters are big in the Balkans. Big in Montenegro.

But let’s not get too far over our skis.

 

we are devo

Behind the curtain in the real world of drug trafficking is a faux production of “Much Ado About Nothing” shot on location using multi-cam go-pro cameras catching every angle of the furious chase between hunter and prey.

 Only, what’s the point, please?

The DEA admits it seizes at best ten percent of the traffic. Would cocaine manufacturers be hard-pressed to increase cocaine production to make up that ten percent?

No? Then what’s the bloody point?

Is there any explanation for why we continue to spend money on something that’s already cost a trillion dollars?

Is the war on drugs just is a make-work program for otherwise footless federal employees?

Officers make dozens of arrests, seizing tons of cocaine and whatever cash happens to be laying around, because there is often too much of it to know what to do with.

Major drug traffickers, like Barry Seal, didn’t even bother trying to count their money. They just weighed it. On pallets.

 

Containing the container ship crime wave

The container ship crime wave is a big scandal. Repeatedly dumping tons of cocaine at East Coast ports doesn’t send the right kind of pro-law-and-order message.

The drug bust—one of the largest in history—foiled an epic drug move worthy of the legendary names in the business, like Pablo Escobar or El Chapo Guzman.

Yet after the cocaine seizure on the container ship MSC Gayane, just a handful of seamen were taken into custody. Nineteen tons of cocaine looked like it was well above their pay grade.

Second Mate Durasevich and at least three other detained sailors are from Montenegro. None hang out with Jeffrey Epstein. Their phone numbers aren’t in his little black book.

Speaking for the stern forces of law and order, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, William M. McSwain delivered a blunt message to drug traffickers: ‘Don’t mess with Philly.’

“You thought you could breeze into our port and then leave with enough cocaine to destroy millions of lives without getting caught. You thought you were clever. You were wrong.”

But a nineteen ton drug bust is so big that it makes people cautious, and a month later US Attorney McSwain was acting less like a lion than a lamb.

It was the fourth MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) boat busted with industrial quantities of drugs… just this year.

The US Attorney announced he’d accepted a surety bond from the company responsible for the container ship.  Then he let it go, and tried to make it sound liker winning.

 

Dawn of history clips are difficult to obtain

From the dawn of history human beings have apparently been fucking with their consciousness every now and then. Making it illegal makes users pay somebody for the privilege of being human.

That somebody is a privileged elite deviant, whose name—if found in Epstein’s little black book—would surprise no one.

Mankind’s knowledge about who owns large business and luxury jets—and apparently container cargo ships as well—appears to be severely limited, and governed, like the movement of subatomic quarks, by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.

Uncertainty about plane and vessel ownership fluctuates with the level of influence the owner can muster.

Prospects for identifying owners become especially poor in cases where national Republican figures may be involved.

America’s elite deviants are in Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book for a reason.

 

Slim Pickings

Consider who might conceivably be held responsible, then ask yourself is executives from any of these firms will ever face the music…

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., with offices and a place of business at 12-14 Chemin Rieu, 1208- Geneva, Switzerland, was at all relevant times the time charterer and commercial operator of the Defendant Vessel.

Conglomerate Maritime Limited, with a registered office at Catherine House, St. George’s Place, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, was at all relevant times the bareboat charterer (and thereby the disponent owner) of the Defendant Vessel.

Mediterranean Shipping Company S.R.L., with an office in Sorrento, Italy, and MSC Shipmanagement Limited, with an office in Limassol, Cyprus, were at all relevant times involved with the technical and crewing management for Conglomerate Maritime Limited.

Meridian 7 Limited, a company registered in Bermuda, at Canon’s Court, 22 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM12, Bermuda, was at all relevant times the registered owner of the Defendant Vessel.

A webpage that’s been up for years—long before MSC’s recent kerfuffle—calls MSC the “Mafia Shipping Company.”

Why would anyone do that? One reason would be: if it’s true.