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Seeing Is Believing (Not)
Kunstler.com ^ | 22 Dec, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 12/26/2025 6:29:16 AM PST by MtnClimber

". . . power that goes unpunished only learns one lesson: it can do whatever it wants." —Roger Stone.

John Brennan, former US Communist Party member, former CIA Director, and Convert to Islam.

Has it occurred to you that the video footage of the hallway outside Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell that shows nobody coming or going around the hour that he “killed himself” could be fake? All authorities from the FBI to The New York Times pretend that the date-and-time stamped video is authentic, and that it proves nobody went into his cell to kill him. Nobody has questioned this. How difficult would it be to take a few hours of alternate closed-circuit TV footage of the same drab hallway from the same position, making sure nobody got on-camera, and then stick a fabricated date-and-time stamp on it? Do you suppose that the intel agencies don’t have the capacity to fabricate that sort of evidence?

At this point, seeing what the capabilities are for AI to compose any kind of picture — or even what years’ old Photoshop programs can do — why would you suppose that anything in the Epstein files now being released might not be subject to fiddling by persons and parties with an interest? Even one second of video showing a notable person in somebody’s arms, or performing an illicit act with a child, a mere glimpse of such a thing, would be A) easy to manufacture, and B) guaranteed to create a mighty ----storm of a political crisis that would steal everybody’s attention from now until the Rockies tumble.

The Epstein files looks like the end of the seeing-is-believing phase of human history. Whatever dazzling fakes you’re watching on “X” these days, consider that the deep fake abilities of government agencies are a mile ahead of commercially-available AI tech that any jamoke on TikTok can use. I wouldn’t believe a single goshdarn thing coming out of these files that preoccupy the nation right now — while many momentous events unfold at home and around the world unnoticed, or get crowded out by the hoo-hah over Jeffrey Epstein’s sketchy doings. The further forward in time this goes, the worse you can expect it to get.

And why wouldn’t it be in the intel community’s interest to keep this hoo-hah going as long and hard as possible, so as to distract the public from some of the other problems besetting the republic — such as the intel community’s obdurately sociopathic and seditious activities against that very republic?

Talk might be cheap, too, but there’s plenty of chatter on the Internet these days to the effect that a claque of players with familiar names, currently under suspicion of major misdeeds, are secretly running critical sections of the government as a kind of rogue directorate. For instance, former CIA Director John Brennan, whose front-job for years has been as a “national security contributor” to MSNBC/NBC. Do you suppose he sits around his home-office all the livelong day and doesn’t talk to any of his old colleagues? How else would he acquire any “national security” info to report on cable TV? And might you wonder whether these conversations, if they occur, include not just queries and postulations but instructions? That is, orders. . . for people to carry out such-and-such activities? Or suggestions of orders?

And, of course, John Brennan is just one character in a basket of deplorable former intel officials who conceivably wield influence, or issue orders, in the vast turbid, stagnant, septic backwaters of America’s intel swamp. To name a few: Jim Clapper, Michael Hayden, Mike Pompeo, Avril Haines, Leon Panetta, Gina Haspel. Just add the rest of the list of bigshots who signed the infamous 2020 Hunter Biden / Russian disinfo “open letter.” And dozens more including a big gang of ex-FBI and DOJ with cases pending for activities that have the shape and smell of a coup to overthrow the US government (that they served).

Do you suppose any of them might have an interest in stirring the pot of cognitive dissonance that is making it nearly impossible for the people of this land to understand what the ---- is going on around them? You’ve got to wonder what John Ratcliffe thinks about all this (and about the 21,000 employees of the CIA he supposedly directs). And what Tulsi Gabbard knows about the sundry communications flying around the American digital ether. And what fresh treachery is yet being launched by this coterie of scoundrels. And now imagine how difficult life must be for one President Donald Trump. Just sayin’.

Merry Christmas to all!


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KEYWORDS: leftism; putsthecinkuntsler; r
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1 posted on 12/26/2025 6:29:16 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: little jeremiah; Carriage Hill; GOPJ; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini; JZelle; ...

James Howard Kunstler ping


2 posted on 12/26/2025 6:29:48 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Military tribunals immediately followed by hangings. It’s the only way to root out the corruption in the alphabets.


3 posted on 12/26/2025 6:36:21 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: MtnClimber
"To see is to know"


4 posted on 12/26/2025 6:53:51 AM PST by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: MtnClimber
John Brennan, former US Communist Party member, former CIA Director, and Convert to Islam.

Who 'ministered' to young men in Arab prisons?

5 posted on 12/26/2025 7:04:47 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats stand with criminals, dope dealers, illegals & terrorists. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: MtnClimber

To stop an inmate on suicide watch, what good would it do to have a surveillance camera recording the OUTSIDE of the cell door?

Purposes filming the outside of the cell door:
1) Document when jailers checked the cell. Who. When.
2) Document that the inmate did not leave the cell.
It’s all forensic CYA for when something goes wrong.

To intervene before an inmate successfully killed himself would require continual surveillance OF THE INMATE. Those who plan and run jails would know this — Epstein wasn’t their first suicidal inmate.


6 posted on 12/26/2025 7:06:10 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: MtnClimber

People were led to believe that Epstein maintained a secret black book with all the names conveniently alphabetized. Very dramatic. It does not exist.

And of course, if it ever did, it was dissolved in acid long ago.


7 posted on 12/26/2025 7:16:34 AM PST by odawg
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To: MtnClimber

It makes sense that there is a shadow leadership of the intelligence community for when the wrong people are elected and assigned as the official leadership.

It would be weird if this were not the case.


8 posted on 12/26/2025 7:50:18 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: MtnClimber

The one thing that keeps me from thinking it was a fake video. It was terrible. I mean a fake would have been more convincing to be honest.

More like they knew what they were doing and why he was in the cell.


9 posted on 12/26/2025 8:25:03 AM PST by for-q-clinton
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To: MtnClimber

AI is going to fool a lot of people. It is evil incarnate, and will be used to deceive many during the end times. Immerse yourselves in God’s Word, so that you know the truth from a lie, when it comes to the things of the LORD. Stay close to the LORD through prayer and the Word. Be led by the Holy Spirit. Jesus himself said, “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘He is over here,’ do not believe him. For false christs and false prophets will arise and will provide great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told you in advance. So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them...” Matthew 24:23-26


10 posted on 12/26/2025 9:06:08 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Chewbarkah

That is all well and good, but the cell block Epstein was in, the doors of the other inmates were unlocked. They could move between cells freely at that time. The only locked door was to exit the cell block.


11 posted on 12/26/2025 1:15:46 PM PST by Glad2bnuts
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