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0:003 and a half million documents
0:04revealing one of the darkest abuses of
0:06power
0:06>> where women and children as young as 12
0:09describe rape, sexual abuse, and
0:11trafficking.
0:12>> My gosh, I [music] was 14 years old.
0:13Like, what the hell, you know, when
0:15you're that young?
0:17>> At the highest levels of society,
0:19[music]
0:19even after Epste was convicted in 2008
0:22for sex crimes, including one involving
0:24a minor, the visitors kept coming and
0:28nothing happened. You have not held a
0:30[music] single man accountable. Shame on
0:33you.
0:33>> Over two dozen people have resigned.
0:36CEOs, members of government worldwide,
0:38but I haven't seen any arrests [music]
0:40or investigations here in the United
0:42States.
0:43>> Are you still talking about Jeffrey
0:45Epstein?
0:46>> I think this [music] is a massive cover
0:47up. All over the world, we are being
0:49lied to. Americans have [music] flooded
0:52the streets to protest police brutality,
0:54for women's rights, against ICE, [music]
0:57and even for Gaza. So, how can something
1:00this disturbing only produce this?
1:02>> The satirical statue of Donald Trump
1:04[music] and Jeffrey Epstein hand in hand
1:06has now been taken down.
1:07>> A lot of evil [ __ ] out on this
1:09street. Bunch of pedophiles, bunch of
1:11rich pedophiles. The outrage [music]
1:13certainly exists, but it's been
1:15systematically diffused and diluted. And
1:18I believe that's by design.
1:24There's a concept that helps explain
1:26what's going on here called the Overton
1:28window. It's the range of ideas that a
1:30society considers acceptable, what feels
1:33[music] normal to talk about or believe.
1:35Everything within the window is seen as
1:37reasonable and what is outside it is not
1:40[music] to varying degrees from not very
1:43normal to radical to unthinkable.
1:46But that window isn't fixed. It can
1:49shift over time. And one of the ways it
1:52shifts is through repeated exposure to
1:54the extreme, the unthinkable.
1:58Not because it will be accepted by the
2:00masses, but because it makes the less
2:02[music] extreme things seem more
2:04acceptable. And in the process of being
2:07repeatedly exposed to the unthinkable,
2:09the unthinkable itself [music] becomes
2:11familiar, too. I believe there are four
2:14forces pushing that window in the United
2:16States towards a place where something
2:18like the Epstein files doesn't mobilize
2:21people, it overwhelms them.
2:25The first is the most obvious.
2:28desensitization. [music]
2:30Years ago, these files may have
2:31triggered a political crisis and
2:33protests across the US, like these
2:35events from Trump's [music] first
2:37presidency.
2:38>> And when you're a star, they let you do
2:39it. You can do anything,
2:40>> whatever you want.
2:41>> Grab them by the [music]
2:42>> They came from across the country.
2:44>> President Trump signing a new executive
2:46order imposing a 90-day ban on visas for
2:49[music] citizens from six Muslim
2:51majority countries. It
2:52>> was a huge crowd and a loud and an
2:54[music] angry one. And I say huge.
2:58>> They seem tame compared to what we've
3:00[music] learned from the Epstein files.
3:03>> Here is a witness statement who called
3:05into the FBI's threat operation center
3:08and he met a girl who said she was raped
3:10by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. She
3:13later had her head blown off and
3:14officers at the scene said that could
3:16not have been suicide.
3:19No one no one at the Department [music]
3:22of Justice interviewed this witness.
3:26Thank you for [music] a fun night. Your
3:28little girl was a little naughty.
3:38The difference is today these files
3:41emerge in a society that has already
3:43been pushed far beyond its previous
3:45limits because even the most unsettling
3:48written testimony cannot rival the
3:50impact of what people have seen and
3:52heard themselves. [music]
3:56>> Towns and cities have been reduced to
3:58rubble [music] and dust.
4:00It is no exaggeration to say that the
4:02live stream genocide of fundamentally
4:06changed the world [music] forever on a
4:08material level and on a psychological
4:11level. [music] I think the average
4:14person before couldn't say that they'd
4:15ever seen a man burned alive or a father
4:18carrying the pieces of his child in a
4:20plastic bag.
4:22What was seen was so shocking that
4:25across [music] the world, people took to
4:27the streets in the millions.
4:29>> From Barcelona to Athens, [music]
4:32Mexico City to Rio de Janeiro.
4:35>> With time, the horrors Israel unleashed
4:38on Ghaza escalated.
4:40But the mass mobilization didn't. What
4:44psychology tells us is that the human
4:46brain is not [music] built to remain in
4:47a constant state of alarm. There is a
4:50process known as habituation where
4:52repeated exposure to [music] the same
4:54stimulus gradually reduces the intensity
4:57of our emotional response [music] to it.
4:59Not because the stimulus becomes less
5:01severe but because the brain in order to
5:04function [music] has to adapt. It has to
5:07dampen the response so that it can
5:09function and survive.
5:11I felt this happened to me in real time.
5:14At the beginning of the genocide,
5:15working with footage like this was
5:17physically unbearable. [music] There
5:19were nights I couldn't sleep and many
5:21moments where I had to step away from
5:23the screen because my body was rejecting
5:25what I [music] was seeing. But slowly
5:28something was shifting. Recently I went
5:31back to watch a video I edited towards
5:33the [music] beginning of the genocide. A
5:35video I remember really struggling to
5:37put together.
5:38>> The war with all the civilians.
5:40>> Today is 10 times [music] worse than
5:42yesterday. 100 times worse than the
5:45first day. Gaza is collapsing.
5:49And when I watched it, something
5:51disgusted me. Not the footage, [music]
5:54but my own reaction to it. And I caught
5:56myself having a thought that I'm almost
5:58ashamed to admit. I remember it being
6:01worse. Because in the time between then
6:04and now, [music] I had seen much worse.
6:09My feed on X is full of people reminding
6:11one another and pleading to the world
6:14how bad [music] things are. like we need
6:16to be jogging each other's memories,
6:19sobering [music] each other and the
6:20world back to a pre- genocide sense of
6:23human morality [music] and disgust.
6:26Americans are experiencing this too. And
6:29what came for them along with the
6:30genocide was a huge awakening [music] to
6:33the reality of the American empire and
6:35how it really works and increasing
6:38exposure to graphic violence at home as
6:40well. Aaron Bushnell then [music] placed
6:43his phone on the ground.
6:46The deadly shooting of United Healthcare
6:48CEO Brian Thompson.
6:49>> Charlie Kirk was fatally shot.
6:51>> What you're about to see is disturbing.
6:53There is crude language.
6:55>> It's in this [music] America that the
6:57Epstein files are released.
7:01These documents are landing on people
7:03whose threshold for horror has already
7:05been pushed far beyond where it used to
7:07be. And written testimony, [music] no
7:09matter how disturbing, cannot compete
7:12with what people have seen with their
7:13own eyes.
7:19But desensitization alone doesn't
7:21explain it because people still have the
7:23capacity to process and then organize.
7:26Except that that ability is under attack
7:29too.
7:31And that brings us to the [music] second
7:33force,
7:36a sustained war on the mind.
7:40We're living in an age of short form
7:42content and shorter attention spans.
7:45Every event, no matter how significant,
7:48is dropped into this constant fastm
7:50moving feed where it has to compete for
7:53attention with everything else. [music]
7:55In this digital environment, the way
7:58something is presented becomes just as
8:00important as what it contains.
8:04After almost 7 years of slow dripping
8:07information [music] and waiting, all at
8:09once, 3.5 million files are dumped.
8:14>> If you piled all the documents released
8:15[music] on top of one another, we're
8:17told it would be twice the height of the
8:19Eiffel Tower.
8:21>> It's overwhelming by design.
8:25unorganized, [music]
8:26heavily redacted, and difficult to
8:28navigate. This release requires time
8:30[music] and attention to sift through
8:33things that the average person is
8:34already struggling with. And for
8:36journalists and content creators [music]
8:38to get through all of this is going to
8:40be a long and slow process. And in a
8:43world of 24-hour [music] news cycles and
8:45short attention spans, maintaining the
8:47emotional momentum in order to translate
8:50into any kind of mobilization is
8:52difficult. People are like, "Oh, I see
8:56now neither nobody has our side. Neither
8:59one of these groups it feels like have
9:01our side. You feel like it's just all
9:03these articles. It's like, well, here's
9:05an article about this is going to happen
9:07and then people get in an uproar about
9:08it, but nobody it it's almost like it's
9:10all algorithmed perfectly to the amount
9:13of our attention span where it just
9:15fades out of uh like the the zeitgeist
9:19of discussion.
9:21The information overload is intentional
9:24to kill our ability to sit and [music]
9:26process what has happened and instead
9:29leave us constantly reacting. And this
9:31brings us to another layer of this war
9:33on the mind. It's not just a war on our
9:36attention, but a war on the truth as
9:38well.
9:41every lie Donald Trump has told in the
9:45first 154 days of the Trump presidency.
9:49>> There was a time in the US media
9:50landscape when it was genuinely shocking
9:53that a sitting US president would
9:55blatantly lie on camera. That's not
9:58really the case anymore. It's almost
10:00like the assumed baseline is that the
10:02president is lying and that has just
10:04become normalized. This has happened
10:06alongside other assaults on the truth as
10:08well. the emergence of AI viewed
10:11millions of times showing just [music]
10:13how fast fake photos can spread like
10:15wildfire and the mass awakening many
10:18Americans have [music] been experiencing
10:19about their own history unearthing so
10:22many lies that were fed to them by the
10:24government. This is how freedom is
10:26spread. Okay, the west is the best.
10:30Somewhere in all this, something changed
10:32in how truth [music] functions in
10:34American life.
10:35>> There is no credible information. none.
10:38If there were, I would bring the case
10:40yesterday that he traffked to other
10:43individuals.
10:44>> So, this is a Democrat hoax.
10:46>> If we had information, we meaning the
10:48Department of Justice about men who
10:50abused women, we would um we would we
10:54would prosecute them.
10:56>> So, when the Epstein files are released
10:58into this environment, they don't land
11:00as a singular undeniable revelation.
11:04They're surrounded by many more
11:05questions. This is only 300 GB of the
11:09estimated 15 terab of data seized from
11:13Jeffrey Epstein. What's in the millions
11:15of other files that haven't been
11:17released? Who are the redacted names?
11:20Why is this being released now? And is
11:22it a distraction from something else?
11:25When people can't tell what's true, the
11:27window shifts without ever really
11:29noticing it. Because how can you
11:32mobilize against something you can't
11:34truly understand?
11:36Which brings us to the third point.
11:39[music]
11:39>> A huge pro Palestine demonstration took
11:42place today in the nation's capital.
11:43>> The biggest nationwide days of protest
11:46since the killing of George Floyd in
11:48police custody.
11:49>> Over the past decade, Americans have
11:50mobilized a lot. [music] And despite it
11:53all, they've seen little to no
11:54structural response. If anything, the
11:57current administration [music] shows how
11:58the US has only slid further towards
12:01fascism and now picking up another
12:03horrible and extremely [music] unpopular
12:06war on Iran. We are at a point where no
12:09one is even trying to [music] pretend
12:10that ethics laws apply to them. No one
12:13seems concerned about being held
12:15accountable [music] for anything. and
12:17corruption that would have once been an
12:18unprecedented scandal gets swept aside
12:21in the daily torrent of atrocities
12:23[music] being committed around the globe
12:25by the Trump regime.
12:28The empire is on a downward spiral
12:30[music] and the illusion that people can
12:32do much to change it is dying.
12:35Psychology has a term for this, learned
12:37helplessness. When repeated attempts to
12:40change an outcome fail, people start to
12:42internalize the belief that [music]
12:43their actions don't matter.
12:49And none of this is happening in a
12:50vacuum. The average American is
12:52struggling [music]
12:53and people don't have infinite emotional
12:55capacity. When survival itself is
12:58exhausting, [music]
12:59outrage becomes a luxury.
13:02[music] And then they get the Epstein
13:04files where to top it all off, unlike
13:07previous moments that have led to
13:09Americans protesting, the villain isn't
13:12clear. Before it's been the police
13:14[music] or Trump or Israel or ICE,
13:18but here
13:20it's the entire establishment [music]
13:23elite.
13:24Regardless of their politics on paper or
13:27how far some may seem from one another,
13:30they're bound by their participation or
13:32enabling of this massive network [music]
13:34of pedophiles.
13:37The monster seems so big and all
13:39powerful that it can be hard to know
13:41what to protest or who to aim it at.
13:46If everything feels corrupted, [music]
13:48nothing feels actionable.
13:51And what isn't actionable
13:53slowly becomes acceptable.
13:59Last is one of the most powerful forces
14:01in moving the Overton window,
14:04the media. The more they focus on a
14:07story through a certain framing, the
14:09more that framing becomes fact and any
14:12other considered conspiracy.
14:16[music] The American mainstream media
14:17covered the story extensively and framed
14:20the story to be within the same world
14:21[music] as the Diddy scandal, Me Too,
14:24and Harvey Weinstein. That this is just
14:26about rich and powerful perverts being
14:28perverts and ignored the other element.
14:31>> And what happened in that massage room I
14:33assume was on video. This guy was the
14:35greatest black mailer ever.
14:37>> That this sadistic and horrifying
14:39network [music]
14:40routinely abused children,
14:45most likely [music] for blackmail and
14:47leverage.
14:48>> The infamous Lolita Express, [music]
14:51their private plane used to transport
14:53young girls and high-profile friends,
14:56including Bill Clinton. She also told me
14:59in that meeting that the plane, the
15:02private plane that she and Jeffrey used
15:05um was wired for for audio, video
15:10>> and the evidence highly suggests
15:13that they were Mossad assets.
15:15>> They were all essentially commodities to
15:18him traded for the advantage of one
15:20single cause which is Israel. That was
15:22the motive. [music] And we know he had,
15:24you know, extensive high level
15:26connections to the Israeli regime, to
15:28its government, to security,
15:29intelligence, uh, its financing circles,
15:32its [music] business community. That was
15:33the means that went with the motive. So,
15:35it's a story about Israeli influence in
15:37the highest corridors of power and
15:40wealth.
15:41>> Epstein had a very close relationship
15:43with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehood
15:45Barack, who would stay at his apartment
15:47so frequently that Epstein's staff
15:49called it Ahood's apartment.
15:52he was sort of an unofficial ambassador
15:54who could use uh this network that they
15:57had created together to be kind of a
15:59frontman, an advancement man for the
16:01Israeli uh for the Israeli regime.
16:03[music]
16:03>> So Epstein served as a adviser to Barak
16:06and he was facilitating introductions to
16:08tech investors and financial firms.
16:10[music] One of them was Palunteer.
16:12That's the US-based data analytics firm
16:14founded by Peter Thiel and they are
16:17deeply involved in government and
16:19surveillance. Here's a clip from a call
16:21between Epste and Barack.
16:22>> Palenteers Pio's company.
16:24>> Palant P A L A N T I L.
16:28>> Yes.
16:28>> Epste tried to procure cyber weapons for
16:31Israel. Aren't we done? Like that's it?
16:33Like does is there someone who is not
16:36connected to a government and their
16:38intelligence agencies that tries to get
16:39cyber weapons for that government?
16:43>> The mystery of the woman next to Jeffrey
16:45[music] Epstein. Galen Maxwell, accused
16:48of being Epstein's right-hand woman.
16:51>> Galen Maxwell's father was Robert
16:54Maxwell, a media and publishing tycoon
16:56who owned the Daily Mirror, [music]
16:57>> was one of the most important and
16:59powerful people in British public life
17:01in the 70s and 80s.
17:03>> A man with long suspected ties to the
17:05Mossad, who mysteriously died when he
17:08fell from his yacht.
17:10>> His body was brought to Israel to be
17:12buried in Jerusalem's Mount of Olives.
17:13That's a graveyard reserved for Israel's
17:15elite servants. His funeral was attended
17:17by Israeli Prime Minister Yeetszak
17:18Shamir, Israeli President Shim Herzog,
17:21and at least six serving and former
17:23heads of Israeli intelligence. A lot of
17:25Mosad agents at that funeral.
17:26>> Epstein quotes a book called Robert
17:28Maxwell, Israel's super spy in an
17:31[music] email titled, "He was passed
17:33away."
17:38>> Epstein's lawyer was Alan Dersuitz. The
17:41informant believed Durovitz was co-opted
17:43by Mossad and [music] subscribed to
17:45their mission. So the confidential human
17:46source remembered Durvitz tell Alex
17:49Aosta the US attorney southern district
17:51of Florida at the time that Epstein
17:53belonged to both [music] US and allied
17:55intelligence services. CHS shared phone
17:58calls between Duritz and Epstein [music]
17:59during which he she took notes. After
18:02these calls, Mossad would then call
18:04Duritz to debrief.
18:06and Epstein's very close friends were
18:08these Norwegian diplomats who were
18:11famous for playing a key role in the
18:13Oslo Accords. The peace plan that many
18:16Palestinians see as having been a trap
18:18for [music] Palestinians
18:19>> was one of the architects of the Oslo
18:22Peace Accords.
18:25The diplomat Rod Larson quote wrote
18:27official letters of recommendation
18:29[music] to US authorities to secure
18:31visas for young Russian women in
18:33Epstein's orbit claiming they possessed
18:36extraordinary abilities suitable for
18:38research roles.
18:44He also calls him his best friend.
18:48So why does mainstream US media suppress
18:50the story? Can we discuss the blackmail
18:53operation that was taking place and
18:55which government that's a special ally
18:57of the United States put him up to it?
19:00And do we really want to be allies with
19:02a country that kidnaps young girls uh
19:05for rape just so they could have dirt on
19:07American politicians and control our
19:09foreign policy? Spoiler alert. Uh the
19:12topic was changed [music] promptly to uh
19:15Epstein's relationship with Russia.
19:17Possible connections between convicted
19:19sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian
19:21intelligence services.
19:22>> Growing suspicions of a Russian
19:24connection,
19:25>> fueling speculation that Epstein could
19:27have been working for Russia.
19:28>> Imagine if the story was Epstein tried
19:31to procure cyber weapons for China.
19:34Do you think we'd be talking about that
19:36non-stop? Of course. Everybody be like,
19:37"CHINA, OUR MORTAL OUGHT TO BE CHINA or
19:40just a random country, Kenya." Like I
19:42imagine New York Times CNN would be
19:44like, "Whoa, Kenya is all over the
19:47Epstein files." And he turns out he was
19:49trying to get cyber weapons for Kenya.
19:50He was trying to get America to bomb
19:52Kenya's neighbors on behalf of Kenya.
19:54Wow, what an amazing story. When it when
19:56it's Israel,
19:58>> look,
19:58>> the Israel connection is undeniable.
20:01Ignoring this or letting this fact just
20:03slip by allows the idea of this
20:06happening to become acceptable and
20:08normal.
20:12Investigations are now underway in at
20:13least 10 [music] countries.
20:15>> Britain's former Prince Andrew has been
20:17arrested on suspicion of misconduct and
20:19public office.
20:20>> Norway is living through the crisis the
20:22US never had over the Epstein files. The
20:25country's former prime minister and top
20:27diplomats found themselves under police
20:29investigation and forced out of their
20:31roles.
20:32>> Lord Manden had been sacked as US
20:34ambassador because more [music] links
20:37with Jeffrey Epstein had emerged.
20:39What happens in the heart of the empire
20:41doesn't stay there. What the Epstein
20:44files reveal is not just the moral
20:45depravity of a few individuals, but how
20:48the system [music] that governs all of
20:50us works.
20:51>> Are you still talking about Jeffrey
20:53Epstein? This guy's been talking.
20:55>> And the reception [music] of the files
20:56reveals how this system is able to
20:58sustain itself. It doesn't try to hide
21:01anything, but it reveals just enough in
21:03a world that's already been pushed too
21:06far to respond.
21:10Now we can see this as a push of the
21:12Overton window or we can identify the
21:15common denominator involved in all of
21:17these elements
21:22that's already been sitting at the far
21:24far end of the spectrum for a very long
21:26time.
21:28Israel.
21:31And instead of a push, maybe this is all
21:33a pull
21:36because the levels of moral depravity
21:38involved here
21:41have long been within the Zionist
21:43Overton [music] window.
21:44>> He described the dog attack as rape,
21:47saying soldiers laughed and recorded the
21:49sexual assaults. We found booby trapped
21:52children's toys and [music] canned food
21:54planted by the occupation, meaning
21:56Israel, to cause more casualties.
21:59>> It doesn't matter who your enemy is, you
22:02need to destroy their offspring to
22:04prevent them from creating more
22:05offspring.
22:08>> And that pull [music] has become even
22:10more clear in the US and Israel's latest
22:12collaboration, the war on Iran.
22:16A heartbreaking deadly strike on an
22:18Iranian girl's elementary school on the
22:20first day of the war.
22:21>> There were students ranging from 7 to 12
22:24years old. [music]
22:25>> Lebanon's declared a day of mourning.
22:27>> She was 4 years old and called Lamar an
22:30angel to her family. When they found her
22:32body, she'd been decapitated.
22:35They've hit the same benchmarks.
22:38Horrifying violence to begin. Repeated
22:41lies. If we didn't hit within two weeks,
22:44they would have had a nuclear weapon.
22:46>> Weaponized hopelessness
22:50>> and media complicity
22:52>> for the long-term gain.
22:54>> Short-term pain for the long-term gain.
22:57>> Short-term pain be for long-term gain.
22:59>> We're going to have some short-term pain
23:01uh with long-term gain.
23:03A world that has failed to stop the
23:05genocide in Huzzah and failed to bring
23:07justice to the powerful around Epstein
23:09[music]
23:10is what paved the way for what is
23:12happening now where the people of Iran,
23:14Lebanon, and Palestine are experiencing
23:17levels [music] of savagery
23:19that were once debilitating for us to
23:21watch in Gaza. My son was just out
23:24playing. How can he be here now?
23:27I can't see him anymore. I can't look
23:29into his beautiful eyes. I have no words
23:32anymore.
23:40The babies is good to kill.
23:42>> Really? In Lebanon?
23:43>> Yes. In Lebanon, in Gaza, in Iran, I
23:47killed children.
23:52>> What Jeffrey Epstein built on that
23:54island and in that house and in that
23:57ranch weren't anomalies. They were
24:00concentrated versions of how power
24:02already operates. Spaces where the rules
24:05don't even apply,
24:07even when it's exposed at this scale.
24:10Nothing breaks.
24:12What we're collectively living through
24:14is a war on truth and justice [music]
24:17and basic human decency.
24:20We're being dragged towards accepting
24:22[music] barbarism, of normalizing the
24:25lack of morality in power.
24:29>> [music]
24:29>> They try to constantly overwhelm us with
24:32increasing levels of violence so that we
24:34may somehow come to accept [music] it
24:36someday.
24:38But it is our duty and our moral
24:40imperative to resist that even if it's
24:44just within ourselves
24:46every day.
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