• StarkWolf [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    I was looking through the released pictures, and for some reason I am very curious who this person was, who seems to be trying quite hard to obscure their identity:

    Also curious about the Gates pictures…like what the context is, where these were taken (doesn’t look like Jeffrey’s Island), who he is with, or who took the pictures. I know his name showed up in relation to Epstein in his logbook or whatever, so he was obviously involved with Epstein in some way, and these photos ended up in Epstein’s estate, but I just don’t really know what to make of them. Are these photos of him more incriminating than I am realizing? The Chomsky ones are much more damning. (I don’t mean to defend Bill Gates, I hate him and wish these pictures showed him directly with Epstein, or on the jet or island or with a clearly underage girl)

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    The photos are numbered out a of a package of 95000 photos.

    The 2 Chomsky photos are numbered 65656 and 65659, indicating that there are 2 Chomsky photos in between.

    The 2 Bill Gates photos are numbered 50603 and 71978, indicating that the photos are separate or unrelated to each other.

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      You think? As a euroremoved it is really interesting to see how easily people get swooped up in this story of this dead mossad asset.

      Your problem seems not to be the bad state your country is in but some kind of celebrity bullshit, so I guess nothing new. For all I care your crooked politicians could haveremovedd children every day. What difference does it make on top of all the children they bombed and all the widows they create. And that’s shit their constituents cheer on…

      It is all show but we are sadly not better here, we just lack entertaining pervs right now I guess.

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    Recently - in the past few months - has Chomsky said a word about his ties to Epstein? I assume the answer is no but it’s impossible to google because the results are just news articles about the two of them.

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          His connection to Epstein has been known since a long while before his stroke. He was asked about it numerous times and just deflected away from the question.

          Epstein arranged several meetings in 2015 and 2016 with Mr. Chomsky, while he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When asked about his relationship with Epstein, Mr. Chomsky replied in an email: “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.” In March 2015, Epstein scheduled a gathering with Mr. Chomsky and Harvard University professor Martin Nowak and other academics, according to the documents. Mr. Chomsky said they had several meetings at Mr. Nowak’s research institute to discuss neuroscience and other topics. Two months later, Epstein planned to fly with Mr. Chomsky and his wife to have dinner with them and movie director Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, the documents show. “If there was a flight, which I doubt, it would have been from Boston to New York, 30 minutes,” Mr. Chomsky said. “I’m unaware of the principle that requires that I inform you about an evening spent with a great artist.” Epstein donated at least $850,000 to MIT between 2002 and 2017, and more than $9.1 million to Harvard from 1998 to 2008, the schools have said. In 2021, Harvard said it was sanctioning Mr. Nowak for violating university policies in his dealings with Epstein, and was shutting a research center he ran that Epstein had funded. MIT said it was inappropriate to accept Epstein’s gifts, and that it later donated $850,000 to nonprofits supporting survivors of sexual abuse. In a 2020 interview with the “dunc tank” podcast, Mr. Chomsky said that people he considered worse than Epstein had donated to MIT. He didn’t mention any of his meetings with Epstein.

          From WSJ

          Keep in mind this is after Epstein was already known as a sex trafficker, the non-prosecution agreement was in 2008.

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            “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”

            “Third response is that I made frequent visits to Jeffery’s pedo island”