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https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-intellectual-enabler

 

Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler

How did Epstein meet so many luminaries in the worlds of science and technology? It all might trace back to literary agent John Brockman.

If you are an accomplished science or technology writer, your books are probably handled by the most powerful literary agency in the field: the famous Brockman Inc., started by John Brockman and now run by Max Brockman, his son. As it happens, Max is also my agent—and has been since my first book was sold in 2009. As agencies go, I only have positive things to report: The Brockmans fight for their authors and get us very handsome advances. That’s what agents are for.

Lately, John has been in the news for other reasons, namely because of his troubling connections to Jeffrey Epstein, the so-called financier who reportedly hanged himself earlier this month while facing federal charges of sex-trafficking. Epstein participated in the Edge Foundation’s annual questions, and attended its “billionaires’ dinners.” Brockman may also be the reason why so many prominent academics—from Steven Pinker to Daniel Dennett—have found themselves answering awkward questions about their associations with Epstein; they are clients of Brockman. Marvin Minsky, the prominent MIT scientist who surfaced as one of Epstein’s island buddies? A client of Brockman’s. Joi Ito, the director of the elite research facility MIT Media Lab, who has recently acknowledgedextensive ties to Epstein? Also, a client of Brockman’s.

Knowing that Brockman likes to brag about all the famous people he has met and befriended—you can easily count the seconds until he name-checks “Marshall” (McLuhan) or “Andy” (Warhol) or “Gregory“ (Bateson) in a casual conversation—I decided to look over our correspondence over the past decade and see if he might have name-dropped Epstein somewhere. And, of course, he did. Browsing through our email correspondence, I stumbled upon a most peculiar email from September 12, 2013.


It was very laconic: “JE, FYI, JB”—followed by my short bio and some media clippings. (You can check the entire PDF of the correspondence here.) Strangely, it was sent to me and had no other contacts in cc. Perhaps he wanted to send it to “JE” but put my email there by mistake. When I commented on the meaning of this cryptic message, he responded with the following message, reproduced here in full:

I missed that one.

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire science philanthropist showed up at this weekend’s event by helicopter (with his beautiful young assistant from Belarus). He’ll be in Cambridge in a couple of weeks asked me who he should meet. You are one of the people I suggested and I told him I would send some links.

He’s the guy who gave Harvard #30m to set up Martin Nowak. He’s been extremely generous in funding projects of many of our friends and clients. He also got into trouble and spent a year in jail in Florida.

If he contacts you it’s probably worth your time to meet him as he’s extremely bright and interesting.

Last time I visited his house (the largest private residence in NYC), I walked in to find him in a sweatsuit and a British guy in a suit with suspenders, getting foot massages from two young well-dressed Russian women. After grilling me for a while about cyber-security, the Brit, named Andy, was commenting on the Swedish authorities and the charges against Julian Assange.

“We think they’re liberal in Sweden, but its more like Northern England as opposed to Southern Europe,” he said. “In Monaco, Albert works 12 hours a day but at 9pm, when he goes out, he does whatever he wants, and nobody cares. But, if I do it, I’m in big trouble.” At that point I realized that the recipient of Irina’s foot massage was his Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.

Indeed, a week later, on a slow news day, the cover of the NYpost had a full-page photo of Jeffrey and Andrew walking in Central Park under the headline: “The Prince and the Perv.” (That was the end of Andrew’s role at the UK trade ambassador.

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On 8/21/2019 at 3:00 AM, ParisInAKilt said:

There’s obviously many layers to the 9/11 conspiracy but without better evidence I’m not convinced about faked planes. 

They've made sure that everyone saw their one 'magician's' trick at the South Tower and then simply told you 'stories' about the other 3 planes in line with that.

No Muslim hijackers, and no planes.

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1 hour ago, Toepoke said:

Another statement from Prince Andrew released...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49460263

 

He was in jail for having sex with a child prostitute, although how a child can give consent to be a prostitute escapes me) so not sure what else there was to know.

I see the bold Richard Dawkins was on the express as well, interesting considering the previous shit storm about his comments about peadophelia.

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6 hours ago, phart said:

He was in jail for having sex with a child prostitute, although how a child can give consent to be a prostitute escapes me) so not sure what else there was to know.

I’m not normally someone who gets overly hung up on ‘PC’ language but on this issue I think you’re right & it’s important.

What you are talking about is a prostituted child not a child prostitute. Changing the noun to a verb drastically changes context & communicates coercion rather than choice. 

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18 hours ago, Scotty CTA said:

What did he say?

He's written about how believing in hell is more damaging to a child than getting abused or some such, if you google him Richard dawkins mild pedophilia it will come up, it's in one of his books i read.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/richard-dawkins-defends-mild-pedophilia-again-and-again/311230/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10998498/Richard-Dawkins-in-storm-over-mild-date-rape-tweets.html

The telegraph is him going on about "mild" date rape.

 

"CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Richard Dawkins, one of the world’s best-known and outspoken atheists, has provoked outrage among child protection agencies and experts after suggesting that recent child abuse scandals have been overblown.

In an interview in The Times magazine on Saturday (Sept. 7), Dawkins, 72, he said he was unable to condemn what he called “the mild pedophilia” he experienced at an English school when he was a child in the 1950s."

"Referring to his early days at a boarding school in Salisbury, he recalled how one of the (unnamed) masters “pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts.”

He said other children in his school peer group had been molested by the same teacher but concluded: “I don’t think he did any of us lasting harm.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-dawkins-pedophilia_n_3895514

It seems to be a theme with him.

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Seems story was ready to run 3 years ago but Buckingham palace used a "million" tricks to pull it, eventually it got pulled cause press would lose access to William and Kate.

 

Access is a huge problem in media. In doping anyone that says anything no longer can do their job as get refused access, just had a report that media fear losing access to politicians etc.

 

 

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There's a good piece about it in the Guardian - interesting that in spite of the might of the Royal Family legal & publicity machine, I've not spoken to anyone or read anything suggesting anyone believes a word he says. More to the point, most media outlets are more or less quite openly calling him a liar.

I think doing the interview was a bit of a 'Streisand Effect' cock-up really.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/16/prince-andrew-what-is-the-excuse-for-this-misogynistic-nonsense-served-up-in-a-gilded-chamber?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

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