Epstein, Khashoggi, and Bessent. Only One Still Standing

The banking rules to protect citizens were put into place in 1934, after the great crash of 1929 devastated so many Americans.

The rules on S&Ls were lifted in the 80s, leading to the massive crash of 1989, after unscrupulous people, (including Neil Bush), used the lack of regulation to speculate and commit fraud. That is when housing became unaffordable for so many, also. (Not a coincidence).

28 y.o. Jeffrey Epstein left Bear Stearns in 1981 and set up his own shop, with his first client being fabulously wealthy arms dealer, Adnan Khashoggi, and they worked on Iran-Contra arms deals together.

In 1991, the Bank of England shut down the BCCI bank, known as a favorite for arms dealing and money laundering. The Bank, known as the "Bank of Crooks and Criminals" was a favorite of the CIA for laundering money.

Adnan Khashoggi being one of the crooks who used the bank.

AI version:

Jeffrey Epstein :BCCIReports and claims suggest that Jeffrey Epstein's early financial networks and operations potentially intersected with the controversial Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). [1] (https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602033927)

Parallel Operations Claims:

Accounts from associates like Steven Hoffenberg claim that Epstein worked alongside figures such as Adnan Khashoggi and Douglas Leese in operations running parallel to the Iran-Contra affair.

Money Transfers and Financing:

According to these historical and investigative claims, these covert financing operations and money transfers heavily relied on BCCI before the bank collapsed due to widespread money laundering and intelligence links.

Broader Financial Scrutiny

While recent document dumps from the Department of Justice and congressional investigations (such as those led by Senator Ron Wyden) focus heavily on Epstein's later primary accounts with major institutions like JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, allegations regarding BCCI tie back to his murky, shadow-network beginnings in international finance and arms-dealing circles during the 1980s.

The Epstein files:

What we know about his links to IranParallel operations and the role of BCCI . Hoffenberg claims these activities were carried out as part of an operation running.

Senate Committee on Finance Wyden Releases New Information on Financing of Jeffrey Epstein’s operations by Billionaire Leon Black, Seeks Documents from Trump Administration.

Adnan Khashoggi was deeply involved with BCCI, primarily using the rogue financial institution to bankroll and execute covert international arms deals throughout the 1980s.

The landmark U.S. Senate investigation into the BCCI Affair and subsequent declassified intelligence documents detailed his extensive ties to the bank.

The Iran-Contra Pipeline:

Khashoggi acted as a central middleman in the Reagan administration's arms-for-hostages exchange with Iran. He utilized a personal BCCI account in Monaco to funnel and manage over $20 million in transaction cash.

Millions in Financing:

Khashoggi secured a $10 million revolving loan from BCCI to purchase missiles destined for Iran. He also routinely negotiated high-fee, short-term overdraft lines of credit with the bank's Monte Carlo branch to bridge his weapon shipments.

The "Black Network" Affiliation:

Congressional records and investigative reports by TIME Magazine identified Khashoggi as a premium customer of BCCI's notorious internal "Black Network". This compartmentalized cell within the bank operated outside normal regulatory oversight to handle transactions for intelligence agencies, dictators, and global arms brokers.

Partnerships:

Khashoggi maintained close relationships with prominent BCCI shareholders and directors, such as Kamal Adham (the former head of Saudi intelligence), who personally stepped in to pay millions in debts to free Khashoggi's seized private aircraft.

In 1992, a 29 y.o. Scott Bessent worked with George Soros to break the Bank of England. The bank collapsed, the people suffered, and Soros made a cool billion dollars.

In 1993, the newly elected Vice President of the USA, Al Gore, gathered US bank regulators together to let them know that they were no longer to enforce the banking laws. Famously incorruptible regulator William Black (who refused to intervene for John McCain in the 80s, with the Keating S&L crimes), testified about that.

AI version:

"Former bank regulator William K. Black has long criticized Al Gore and Bill Clinton's 1993 "Reinventing Government" initiative for forcing financial regulators to back off strict enforcement.

According to William K. Black, this specific White House policy fundamentally shifted the mindset of federal regulatory agencies. Instead of acting as independent, aggressive watchdogs, regulators were ordered to treat banks and financial institutions as "customers".

Now the banks roam freely, with regulations, including usury laws, unenforced.

Iranian "Protests"

Now that the US has attacked Iran there are two propaganda points I see people using. One is that Iran oppresses women, and the other one is that Iran killed 30,000 protesters in January. I try to point out that it is really difficult to kill 30,000 people, especially in only 2 days, but they have their talking points and they stick to them.

So I went back and looked at my Facebook feed for January, because I had posted a note from my friend in Iran after the internet was turned back on. They were already telling the lies back then, but I didn't realize they would be embedded so deeply, so I didn't save it.

FYI......

"Hello everyone, and thanks to all those who messaged me to ask about my wellbeing. I am writing this to tell you EVERYTHING YOU HEAR AND SEE ON YOUR MEDIA IS A LIE! I will tell you in nutshell what happened here from Tuesday to Friday.

Tuesday started with peaceful demonstrations for the unstable market. Wednesday, the marchers lines were infiltrated by violent groups, however, the security forces had strict order to not shoot, and in so many places they were sent UNARMED (remember Syria?)

Everything went spiral down fast and stormy on Thursday night, after the call of Reza P💩hlavi and his followers "take the streets, burn them down, kill, and have no mercy on their women and children".

Within hours streets were locked, unarmed security forces run down, dismembered, eyes gouched out, sodomised by foreign objects, BURNT ALIVE. Systematically huundreds of banks burned down, 4 hospitals burned, over 250 libraries burned, 186 ambulances burned and paramedics burned and mamed, fire trucks burned to ashes while trying to rescue residential buildings on fire, gas stations burned, schools, mosques, food stores, pharmacies, historic sites .... and then random fire opened up in the crowded areas on passer byes.

They took human shields of innocent people so security police couldn't stop them. They shot and killed women, children, nurses, street cleaners, defaced passer byes with sword, and bricks, beheaded ... horrors of Aleppi, Hamma, Mousul ... everything that they couldn't do in 12 days bombing.

Finally Friday all communications were cut off and announced anyone how stirs terror or attacks anything will be sh0t on the spot as enemy combatant. Saturday morning peace and order was restored but the country left in the blood of the innocent with monitory damage of billions of dollars. We watched all that LIVE on TV while you are hearing and seeing manipulated lies.

The official number of killed is 3110 I believe of whom about 2400 some are security forces and innocent people.''

The Maidan Coup

Today is the 12th anniversary of the US-backed coup in Kiev.

This coup is referred to in the newspeak concocted by the spinmasters as The Revolution of Dignity.

State Dept. goon Victoria Nuland was caught on tape with the US ambassador discussing who the US would place into power in the post-coup government.

This is referred to in newspeak as "Ukraine's national sovereignty".

The new government promptly outlawed being Russian in Ukraine, leading to the rebellion of the citizens of Crimea and the Donbass.

This is referred to in Mighty Wurlitzer newspeak as ''the Russian invasion".

The subsequent attacks by the post-coup US-backed Kiev regime onto the citizens of Donbass is called "anti-terrorist operations."

The invasion and occupation of 150,000 Kiev regime forces into NATO built fortifications in the Donbass is called "protecting borders."

The entrance of actual Russian forces into the civil war, to stop the Kiev regime forces from escalating the war, and trying to kill or push out the millions of people there, is called "Putin's unprovoked brutal invasion."

We live in the Empire of Lies.

Mike Benz On Epstein Release

It took me a while to put this up, but I think it ages well.

Timing Is Everything- The Navalny Case Resolved!

In Feb, 2024 Yulia Navalny was at the Munich Security Council, perfectly positioned to play the grieving widow when the announcement of the death of her husband, Alexi, was made.

She hadn't actually visited him in 2 years, and she didn't go to his funeral in Russia, cause.......Scary Putin™ . But still, grieving widow devastated by the news, blah, blah, blah....they played it up big time. She gave a speech lambasting Russia, because of course she did. That was why she was invited.

Now it is time for the Munich Security Council's meeting again, and what is the luck?

Yulia is there again! And the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands jointly announced that they had just discovered, 2 years later, that Bad Putin™ had poisoned her beloved husband with a tree frog poison.

Why didn't they just use novichok?

Why did it take 2 years and 5 countries to analyze a sample?

Oh, speaking of that, how did those 5 countries obtain a sample of body something-or-other (they don't specify what) when the man died in Russia, was autopsied in Russia, and was buried in Russia?

Funny thing about that, first they said that his beloved wife had smuggled them from his body after his death. Apparently someone realized that even the stupidest of westerners might remember that she was giving a speech at Munich at that time.

So now they tell us that ''it was smuggled''. The passive voice, the favorite of western media. "It became smuggled".

Anyway, Yulia gets to play grieving widow again, and give another speech demonizing Russia, which plays really well there in Munich.

But just how stupid do they think we are? After Rubio gives a speech talking about our great European tradition and values, and how the West will rise again, western media is busily telling people transparent and obvious lies, seemingly secure in the knowledge that Europeans and their descendants in America are not actually that bright.

Not bright at all.

Can We Talk About Pizzagate Now? (H/T: No)

Back in 2016 John Podesta left his phone in a taxi and someone gave the contents to wikileaks. John Podesta was high up in the DNC, and was serving as Hilary Clinton's campaign manager at the time, after serving as Bill Clinton's chief of staff earlier.

Wikileaks helpfully published it attached to a FBI guide to pedophile symbols, and people who looked at the emails were horrified at what they saw.

Democrats were outraged! Not at the revelations, of course. They were told to ignore the revelations, that they were "fake news", spread by Russians. They were outraged that people were talking about the revelations.

They cheered as Julian Assange was thrown into a London dungeon.

They sneered as Alex Jones was prosecuted in a kangaroo court designed to bankrupt him. John Podesta was elevated to chief money launderer in Biden's White House. At least, that is my interpretation of this....

"He oversaw the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, which authorized $370–783 billion in climate and clean energy investments. As Senior Advisor to President Biden for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation, he managed this historic funding before succeeding John Kerry as U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in 2024."

Go ahead. Google his name and see how many "debunkings" you get of the "wild conspiracy theories" that the emails engendered.

But now these same Dembots are suddenly allowed to be shocked, shocked! at the FBI releases from the 2018 anonymous tipline.

Who knew? Certainly not them. They weren't allowed to know, and they studiously kept themselves from finding out. But now it's OK.

Well, not OK to talk about John Podesta. Not OK to demand the prosectution of Bill Gates.

Just OK to talk about Epstein.

Dragging Some Stuff Out Of The Memory Hole

People are in an uproar because Trump threatened to go door to door, not specifying why.

"OMIGOD, fascism is coming soon!" they scream.

As if SWAT teams going door to door in New Orleans in 2005 was not?

What about Boston in 2013? Totally hunky dory?

Or what about Minneapolis 2020, brought to you by Tim Walz, same guy now waxing rebellious against governmental overreach?

So using ICE agents to rid this country of illegal aliens is wrong, but using the National Guard to force people into their homes is fine?

Got it. pic.twitter.com/GOSExqAQes

— Sovey (@SoveyX) January 10, 2026

Those who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it.