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[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Lowkey EXPOSES Tommy Robinson's Links to Israel @Lowkey0nline

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨BREAKING: Iran tonight

The United States and Israel are terrorist states.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I am a British Jew

I am appalled at the actions of Israel

They are NOT in my name

Judaism and Zionism are NOT the same at all

Judaism is a major religion that has existed for some 4,000 years

Zionism is a destructive political ideology that has existed less than 150 years

[Gareth Icke @garethicke]

Those pesky conspiracy theorists again.

[Peter Crouch @petercrouch]

@paddy_lacey @luislacey3 100% will play a higher level this lad
Thought he was class

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

Is no-one able to admit the obvious: that Epstein was Mandelson's Mossad handler?

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

The time Mandelson said he was personally campaigning against Jeremy Corbyn & doing everything he could to make sure Corbyn was defeated, because of what Corbyn stands for.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

The Jeff Epstein saga isn't a scandal about pedophilia, it's about a Russian word called 'blat,' a Soviet-era word meaning 'the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures.' It's about a kind of government.

As with the large number of 'blatniks' in the Soviet era who made sure their factories got what they needed outside the formal state procurement process, Epstein greased the wheels for the neoliberal state. His job was governance.

What does that mean? Well it's clear that Epstein was an entrepreneurial broker across multiple public and private bureaucracies, helping organize 'under-the-table' deals among the legal, business, intelligence, and political elites to allow them to escape the rule of law and traditional conflict of interest restrictions. It's statecraft to allow a superclass to systemically escape the formalized rules.

The pedophilia and prostitution were part of it - that is obviously violating the rule of law - but so are the random favors Epstein bestowed. Like Epstein sending Senator Joe Manchin's request for a yacht, a request which came from the First lady of the Virginia Islands, to a random NY financier who might have one. Or working with Joi Ito at MIT and billionaire Reid Hoffman to restructure the Bitcoin Foundation. It's all about matching capital and talent and inputs outside of the restrictions ordinary people are subject to.

This kind of governance is particularly important in Soviet-style states, where everyone knows the rules are fake, where skirting the system IS the system. Epstein and his affiliates thrived because of the weakened institutions of the United States, institutions enfeebled in many cases by the men in his network, like Larry Summers. These men adopted multiple roles - advisor, businessman, academic, board member, regulator - and put on the hat that best maximized their self-interest and the self-interest of their narrow network at that moment.

The old world, where handing someone your business card meant you represented that institution, disappeared in the 1980s. Over the course of the 1990s, neoconservatives, neoliberals, bankers - ultimately Epstein's network - built this new social order. It was one where you couldn't succeed through the formal rules, but if you were let into the networks of trust by blatniks, you could do anything you wanted.

While all the specifics of Epstein's network are not known, and while conspiracy theorists often have crazy views, they have correctly fingered that the world of meritocracy and formalized systems is increasingly a fraud. And that the real government lies elsewhere.

In short, when formal democratic institutions like Congress stop governing, the networks of men like Epstein fill the power vacuum. Epstein built what Roy Cohn always wanted to have, but never achieved, because the then-institutions were too strong for him to break.

Here's a passage from sociologist Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite on how this form of governance works.

[Paddy Lacey @paddy_lacey]

Big nights are on the way 🩵

[UtdTruthful @Utdtruthful]

🚨🗣️ Gary Neville: "Where has he [Shea Lacey] been”.

[UF @UtdFaithfuls]

SHEA LACEY, WHAT A GOAL THAT WOULD'VE BEEN!!!

SO, SO UNLUCKY!!!

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Translation: the UK has spent millions of taxpayers money trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government over 2 decades

Now our boss has kidnapped the president and bombed the capital, we hope for a peaceful transition of power to BP and Shell

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

“95% of the world’s terrorist attacks are orchestrated by the CIA” - Vladimir Putin

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

That time a CIA Contractor got caught trafficking children through an airport at 5am.

[LB20050 @LB20050]

Any tickets for Forest @ home tomorrow?

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

This man is a psychopath and would be in jail in any vaguely sane democracy. Instead he is a proudly fascist Minister in Israel’s government. And one of the most racist human beings there has ever been - and I grew up in apartheid South Africa. This is what the West is supporting.

[LB20050 @LB20050]

You can’t just forfeit games as manager as LFC, that was as bad as it’s ever been.

[Kadaveri @Kadaveri]

Here on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan website you can find the lyrics of their club anthem https://t.co/biFWhh5iRs

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Since learning that only one person was actually killed by the Manchester synagogue attacker I've been wondering how many Palestinian deaths it would've taken to bump the synagogue attack off the front pages and become the main story. At least 57 Palestinians died that day, but that didn't make a blip in the news.

So how many deaths would it have taken? How many Palestinians would have needed to be murdered for it to have risen to the level of interest and attention from western politicians, pundits, and news reporters that we saw them giving to the violent death of one western Jew?

A hundred deaths? Definitely not. A thousand? I doubt it. Ten thousand? Maybe. Maybe if Israel had actually deployed a tactical nuclear weapon in Gaza and killed thousands of people, maybe that would have eclipsed the one single death in the Manchester synagogue attack in the eyes of the western world. Maybe.

It's an interesting question to contemplate. It's just so incredible seeing how little value is assigned to Palestinian lives in the glaring disparity between the attention given to these easily quantifiable and comparable death tolls. Westerners really do think the lives of their house pets matter more.