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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy WTF moment for the morning re Barr.
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You cannot make this up. AG Barr's father hired Epstein without a college degree to teach at the prep school he ran & wrote 2 books while Epstein worked there: One,
"Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale," is about sex slaves! Check google if you don't believe.
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Ummm...???...
uponit7771
(90,379 posts)... going to be a Vice story 10 years from now.
brewens
(13,711 posts)frolic with!
RVN VET71
(2,707 posts)Those boys aren't getting any younger, and his Viagra prescriptions are due to expire.
2naSalit
(87,097 posts)they started kidnapping them, and I claimed that the whole idiot45 mess that he has been covering up is about the sex slavery, the russia thing is just a transaction to protect the wolrd-wide cabal of slave owners and marketers.
uponit7771
(90,379 posts)blm
(113,157 posts)the Epstein story and fallout. His dad hired young Jeff for his skill at seducing and grooming young girls for older men. Been going on for centuries.
Kid Berwyn
(15,222 posts)Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019
During Attorney General, William Barrs confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasses (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.
This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barrs father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattans Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.
While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New Yorks prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.
Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, he was something of a Robin WilliamsinDead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs. Epsteins mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns chairman, Alan Ace Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.
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https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107
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Then theres Alex Acosta...
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)then changed his mind, or had his mind changed FOR him. He should be removed from this investigation. He is too close to the players in this case. By the way, it was revealed that Epstein introduced tRump to wife #3. How did he know her, I wonder? Oh, wait, he was deeply involved in the sex trade and so was she so there is that. Could this have any connection to Epstein's "suicide"?
mopinko
(70,442 posts)epstein had a modeling agency, didnt he? i read he wanted to set it up "just like trump's"
RVN VET71
(2,707 posts)Maybe he was just interested in Slovenian history and culture. Y'know, just like Donald Trump was. History buffs, the two of 'em.
And math! Don't forget the maths! FYI, Slovenia has bested Croatia in mathematics for decades (true story), and Epstein was a math genius (also reportedly true). So that could be the connection: Epstein, Melania, and Slovenian advances in mathematics. All the proof you need. A natural coming together of 2 brilliant minds. OK, OK, one brilliant mind and one pretty nifty body (at the time). One brilliant mind in a body drawn to women "some of whom were on the young side," as our Leader put it. One nifty-body seeking dollars as courtesan-model instead of declining tolars by entering the U.S. via an "Einstein visa."
(Not kidding about Einstein visa. Melania actually got one of 3 awarded to all Slovenians the year she came to U.S. Is special visa for genius writers, actors, philosophers, and in one special case, a real nifty body!)
Kid Berwyn
(15,222 posts)Melanie sounds like a honey trap from the get-go.
Regarding Epsteins enablers, remember he held a Saudi passport. They can afford the best and the most often.
CDerekGo
(507 posts)Exactly why no Bail for Jeffrey Epstein, besides the obvious 'flee' reasons? Let's face it, he's easier to 'suicide' in jail than in his own home under House Arrest, right.....????
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)And if something had happened to him on the outside, they'd be making the same allegations they're making now, and would be dementia to know why he was released instead of remaining in custody where he'd have been "safe."
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)marieo1
(1,402 posts)Jill Wine-Banks is a very honest credible lady. She would not have said with out researching this completely. I totally trust her. Thanks, Jill Wine-Banks.
alp227
(32,095 posts)months before Epstein was hired
hedda_foil
(16,380 posts)TwilightZone
(25,550 posts)"Epstein started working in September 1974 as a physics and mathematics teacher at the Dalton School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan,[22][24] where Donald Barr was the headmaster until June 1974. Barr may have hired Epstein.[25][24]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Teaching
alp227
(32,095 posts)This NYT story from last month [link:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-dalton-teacher.html
|reported]:
In February 1974, Mr. Barr had announced that he was resigning as headmaster, protesting the meddling by the board of trustees, but that he would stay on until the end of the school year. It is unclear whether Mr. Barr hired Mr. Epstein during that time.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,114 posts)TwilightZone
(25,550 posts)The "source" is apparently a guy with a history of false claims.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,114 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)On a distant planet in the distant future...
When all the galaxies are colonized, John Craig, a young space diplomat, is captured by interplanetary pirates and sold into slavery.
On Kossr, where boredom and absolute power have driven the rulers to a special kind of madness, Craig is auctioned off to the exquisite Lady Morgan Sidney, a beautiful, sensual woman. He soon makes his way from the hellish slave mines into her bed in the tower of her castle. And it is here, under the strange castle, that he finds the secret that may bring about the end of man in the galaxy
Me.
(35,454 posts)Epstein would walk the halls of the prestigious prep school wearing a fur coat over his bare chest and gold chains. The kids knew, why not Barr?
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)Reviews of the book on Amazon indicate it was really awful, except for a few reviewers who liked how "sexy" it was. One reviewer noted that the author frequently referred to adult characters as boys and girls when they were in sexual situations.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Maybe that is why Barr doesn't want to recuse himself, maybe there are some secrets about daddy and Epstein's adventures in space that Barr doesn't want people to know about?
Red Pest
(288 posts)While I love SciFi, what is with these "authors" that write about sex slaves and people who are sexually excited by fear. Hmmm, a school headmaster and part-time author...could this have been projection? Wishful thinking? Sounds like a real F'ed up headmaster. Puns anyone?
cannabis_flower
(3,775 posts)It wasn't so long ago that people who had no teaching credentials were allowed to teach in public schools. In Texas, if you already have a degree in something, you can get a provisional certificate if you are working on your certification. I'm not sure if there are any requirements for teaching in a private school in Texas. I'm not saying that it was right, just that it was allowed and in private schools maybe still is.
BigmanPigman
(51,717 posts)charter schools. At least you didn't about 5 years ago when I knew someone who did this.
Farmer-Rick
(10,262 posts)Especially if she was younger than 16 at the time she attended, I would be lawyering up.
Pedophiles are not known for their self control. If Epstein was exposed to "younger" girls, (he supposedly only taught "older" girls 17 and 18.) he would have acted out in some manner.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Like a horrible virus.
brush
(54,009 posts)no idea Barr's father wrote a book on sex slaves.
Now it makes me wonder who influenced who? Also I wonder now if the senior Barr was perhaps serviced by Epstein's sex slaves?
It doesn't get anymore depraved than this corrupt scumminess, and the junior Barr has certainly shown by his outright attempt to whitewash the Mueller Report that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Kid Berwyn
(15,222 posts)"At the center of the criticism is the chief articulator of Bush's imperial presidency," we reported in 1992, "the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad"
by FRANK SNEPP
The Village Voice, APRIL 18, 2019
The Village Voice, October 27, 1992
Attorney General William Barr is the Best Reason to Vote for Clinton
Excerpt....
SON OF THE CIA
It was 21 years ago, in 1971, that I first encountered William Barr. Both of us were working for the CIA at the time, he as a novice China analyst, I as a member of the agencys Vietnam task force. Jovial and unassuming, he took his cues easily from an overly politicized office chief. It was a token of things to come.
Three years before, we had brushed shoulders unknowingly on Columbia Universitys roiling campus. Both of us were on the other side of the barricades as antiwar demonstrations there blasted our generation into a decade of rage. Barr, a conservative student spokesman, preached toughness to the university administration, of which his father, then dean of the engineering faculty, was a leading light. Years later, this same damn-the-torpedoes zeal would commend Barr to his ultimate father figure, George Bush. When Cuban refugees penned up at an Alabama prison rioted and took hostages in the summer of 1991, deputy attorney general Barr ordered the place stormed. Soon afterward, Bush tapped him for the attorney general slot itself.
Barr first met Bush in the CIA. In 1976, having shifted to the agencys legislative office, he helped write the pap sheets that director Bush used to fend off the Pike and Church committees, the first real embodiments of Congressional oversight of the CIA. Intimates say the experience was formative for Barr, turning him into an implacable enemy of congressional intrusions on executive prerogative.
The most radical period I had probably was when I was sort of a moderate Republican, he later acknowledged. Sure enough, Barr stayed safe within conservative clutches even after leaving the agency in 1977. Armed with a night-school law diploma, he asked for and got Bushs backing for a clerkship appointment to Malcolm Wilkey of the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Years later, as attorney general, Barr would name Wilkey to investigate the House Banking scandal. Wilkey repayed the favor with a wrenchingly partisan inquiry. Feeding the press overheated charges of wrongdoing, he scored points off the Democratic Congress just as the administration itself was being pilloried for its failed economics.
Source...
https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/
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Epstein was head of a global pedophile trafficking ring that serviced the planets plutocratic elite.
No man. No problem.
BigmanPigman
(51,717 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,222 posts)Donald Bonespurs, for two. Mitt Romney, for another, was happy to see others go to fight in somebody elses civil war and die. Just like Barr, they havent acted like they spent any time reflecting on their hypocrisy.
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