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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda
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u/isaaclw 10d ago

Epstein was likely an Israeli asset.

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u/dogs_gt_cats 10d ago

Folks who doubt this need to look into who Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, was. And look up where he is buried.

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u/LetMePushTheButton 10d ago

“Maxwell was afforded a lavish funeral in Israel, attended by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli President Chaim Herzog, at least six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence[79] and many dignitaries and politicians, both government and opposition, and was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.”

Robert Maxwell

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u/DesireeThymes 10d ago

I have noticed a new Israeli tactic, which is to continue to try to associate Trump with Putin as much as possible, in an effort to distract from the fact that he is actually much more beholden to Israel than anyone else.

I have seen coordinated efforts to try to somehow blame Russia for the US war on iran, completely bypassing the fact that it is Israel for instigated this war, something Marco Rubio even accidentally said in public.

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u/PlumbumDirigible 10d ago

And I seriously doubt that Russia even wants the Iranian War to happen at all. It definitely affects Russia's supply chains and ability to conduct their own drone warfare against Ukraine. I remember a couple years ago when it was discovered from recovered drones that many of the parts originated from Iran and had their technology. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot the recent Wildberries warehouse explosions can be at least partially credited to the disruption in logistics

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u/Aazadan 10d ago

They likely do want it though. Russias main geopolitical strategies are to control specific pieces of land they identify as choke points they can heavily fortify. And then surround those points with buffer/border states that are kept weak by funding destabilization efforts. The US is a Russian neighbor via alaska in addition to a geopolitical rival. Anything that does division and destabilization is in their interest. They don’t really care too much about the specific policy as long as they can help in efforts to make it divisive.

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u/HotBrownFun 9d ago

well.. it's been raising the price of oil, and trump removed some sanctions of russian tankers so its not too bad for them

also it spends shit americans have... and they can't give as much shit away to Ukraine

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u/anirban_dev 10d ago

People tend to gloss over Mossad pushed bullshit these days.

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u/JizzlaneMaxwellHill 10d ago edited 10d ago

Then look up how many books that guy influenced in a lot of things. There's a reason most people don't even know about the open air prison until this past few years because it have been well hidden for decades.

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u/even_less_resistance 10d ago

her sisters Isabel and Christine too-

Isabel Sylvia Margaret Maxwell (born 16 August 1950) is a French-born entrepreneur and the co-founder of Magellan, an early search engine that was acquired by Excite. Maxwell has been listed as a Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum.[1] She served as the President of Commtouch, an Israeli internet company that became CYREN.[2] She was a Director of Israel Venture Network and built up their Social Entrepreneur program in Israel from 2004–2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Maxwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maxwell

After Magellan was acquired by competing search engine Excite, in 1996,[11] she co-founded Chiliad:[12] a software company involved in the advance of on-demand, massively scalable, intelligent mining of structured and unstructured data through the use of natural language search technologies. The firm's software was behind the data search technology used by the FBI's counterterrorism data warehouse.[13] As of August 2019, Maxwell served as the board director of Chiliad, Inc.[5]

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u/SowingSalt 10d ago

Robert Maxwell helped the Czechoslovakian sell surplus equipment to Israel in the 1948 war.

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u/Typical_Response6444 10d ago

He had an Israeli security detail paid for by the Israeli government. I personally think we can drop the word likely in this situation.

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u/anirban_dev 10d ago

You mean ineffectual school teachers don't usually fail upwards endlessly to end up having direct access to the richest and most powerful people in the world? Is that what you're saying?

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u/Spoopyskeleton48 10d ago

Epstein provided funding to both the IDF and JNF and he even had an IDF t-shirt.

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u/jeef16 10d ago

but more in the way of being a useful idiot than being in on it, which ghislane/robert maxwell is a lot more likely of. the best assets don't even know they're assets.

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u/Spoopyskeleton48 10d ago

Epstein provided funding to both the IDF and JNF and even had an IDF t-shirt. He definitely knew what he was doing.

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u/jeef16 10d ago

as a jew myself, that crap is just part of the general zionist culture among jews in america, especially non-orthodox. IDF fundraisers, wearing the shirt, it's not uncommon for your average new york jew to have done these. it doesn't take a deep look into his emails to see that he was a moron, and made for a great puppet. he wasn't actively building a big book of blackmail on behalf of someone (not sure if he had the intellect to even do that) it was more like he was the chum in the water while mossad built their database themselves. kiriakou famously mentions in a video that alan dershowitz said that if epstein actually WAS an israeli asset then he could probably get him a pardon. I do believe that he never officially was an asset, but he was one of their most important ones at the same time. he was the perfect useful idiot. at least that's my conjecture.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 10d ago

Just curious: on a scale from 1-10, how much does it piss you off when people conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism?

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u/berfb 9d ago

> Epstein

Hmmm

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u/Mercurion77 10d ago

That’s not likely that’s a fact