Regarding what we know about this scandal, three things must be completely, absolutely obvious and clear:
First: it passes through the filter of one of the most serious cases of conflict of interest in human history, in which the crimes are revealed by officials who are most likely involved with the perpetrators. Therefore, we must consider that if it reaches us, it means that it is so serious and widespread that they cannot silence it.
Second: any of them will try to manipulate and exploit it against their opponents. So, let us not be so naive as to believe that the people involved are only on one side, and that they are only the ones presented to us.
Thirdly, given that it passes through the filter of one of the most serious cases of conflict of interest in human history, what reaches us are but crumbs, both in terms of quantity and, above all, in terms of severity. So, let us take note that not only does reality exceed the most perverse imagination, but it exceeds it more than we are willing to admit.
Consequently, what matters and interests us most in this scandal are not the names or the flags. What matters and interests us most is the severity and spread: how wide and how deep the oil slick is.
Because the width and depth of that slick is proof of what kind of people we are allowing to govern us.
It has been said that the most difficult thing to confront is Evil.
The evidence of how wide and deep the slick is emerging.
That slick is called Evil.
Not it is up to us to confront it.
A good starting point is the following interview of Byoblu to Marcello Foa, and his final considerations in the transcript:
3.5 million documents are available to anyone on the U.S. Department of Justice website. Videos, photographs, emails, investigative documents. Since the Jeffrey Epstein case archive was made accessible to the public, everything has been said.
Secret lists. Cover-ups. Intelligence. Blackmail. Omissions. Competing theories. Murders. But amid this massive mass of material, there's only one risk: losing track of the facts.
In this episode of V for Virginia, together with journalist Marcello Foa, we analyze what the "Epstein Files" really tell us and what falls within the realm of interpretation. Unfortunately, many issues are worse than one might imagine.
We retrace the origins of the investigation, from 2005 in Florida to Epstein's 2019 federal arrest and death in prison (suicide according to the official version), through the controversial 2008 settlement and the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 and now seeking grace from Donald Trump.
There were different levels of acquaintance in the relationships Jeffrey Epstein cultivated: some people were merely superficial acquaintances, while others knew him much better: they were invited to his parties and to his private island. Then there was the third and final level, the most dangerous and controversial...
The article in Byoblu (original):
HOW CLOSE WERE YOU TO EPSTEIN? THE 3 DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE OF HIS SECRETS. Marcello Foa
The article in Byoblu (automatic translation):
HOW CLOSE WERE YOU TO EPSTEIN? THE 3 DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE OF HIS SECRETS. Marcello Foa
The interview:
HOW CLOSE WERE YOU TO EPSTEIN? THE 3 DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE OF HIS SECRETS. Marcello Foa
Transcription of the finale, particularly significant:
So, these are emails that have been found, that is, emails that come from that archive... this needs to be investigated. And then, bearing in mind one thing, as Blush admitted, they don't show us the most shocking images.
So, what I hope for is not cheap sensationalism. What is at stake here is our dignity as human beings, the credibility of our institutions.
And this is a scandal that is bringing to light the mental, behavioural and satanic distortions of too many people who are too powerful. This is what the press should be focusing on... but instead, the press is not doing its job.
Instead, IT was furious in criticising Pizza Gate as a conspiracy theory, because that is a theory... if you like, conspiracy theory, as I explained to Byoblu the other time, was a technique developed by the CIA at the time of the Kennedy assassination: when you want to discredit someone and distract attention, you say, “Ah, you're a conspiracy theorist”. Then the person who is singled out is forced to clear their name and the subject itself is dismissed as unreliable.
And here, in this case, I sometimes get the impression that we are living in a kind of Truman Show in which we believed in... in these big international stars, in institutions, as if they were our heroes, our authentic representatives, even if they made mistakes, etc. But above all that, there was something that truly went beyond our imagination as normal people, who were rightly and reasonably sceptical.
These are the aspects that should... must make the public reflect, and I hope that even if the attempt to cover everything up, because let's be honest, it exists, is already underway, something will remain because those who become aware of it are shocked.
If you want one last reference, there is a documentary that is shocking, called Le survivantes, the survivors. Made by French producers and a French director, it recounts the testimonies of former children who were raped when they were young by members of the upper class in Europe. It is not just violence, it is something... these are true testimonies, eh.
So, these things were already happening 20-30 years ago in certain circles. This should worry us. We must be able to believe that those who represent us do not have these shadows. And, in my opinion, there must be a very broad awareness and a demand for fairness and transparency, because otherwise we live in a truly atrocious world. We denounce dictatorships, authoritarian regimes, etc., and then we are governed by people like this? Governed or influenced, because it's not that... national governments sometimes don't have the power we imagine, right?
This is the moral and ethical dilemma we face, and this is the reflection that should strongly emerge in public opinion. I hope this happens, because if it does, what these people fear is visibility, being exposed. It is that people come out of their torpor, their illusion, their awareness. Yes, to create awareness. Let us hope, in short, that we as journalists do our job, our mission, without having... with courage, with transparency, with, well, not everyone... In fact, those who have it try. We are here precisely to try to create the awareness that you said was necessary to see things without the veil of censorship or this grey dome that... that represents these rulers who, as you said, also presume to tell us how to behave, how to live our lives, and then these things happen behind... behind the cameras, behind public communications.