Richard Garner explores the way legacy media is playing a role in rehabilitating Bill Gates’ image in the public eye. A man connected with known convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein, who was asked to leave Microsoft for sexual misconduct, somehow continues to escape mainstream ridicule. But why?
Strong Evidence Suggests Ghislaine Maxwell Secretly Ran One Of Most Powerful Reddit Accounts in History
Ghislaine Maxwell could have been secretly operating one of the most powerful Reddit accounts of all time, according to strong evidence provided by the trueanon thread on reddit.
Hundreds of users have pointed out the u/maxwellhill handle has fallen silent since her July 2 arrest on sex trafficking charges related to Jeffrey Epstein.
In a Twitter post, YouTuber Joe Leonard wrote: ‘Ghislane Maxwell was the first person on reddit to hit 1 million karma LMAO! She’s the #8 karma to this day. Her posts to /r/worldnews constituted roughly 30% of the posts there. This connection was made after she was arrested and that account stopped posting there after 14 years.’
The u/maxwellhill account has not posted since July 1 despite posting on a regular basis for 14 years about the biggest new stories across the world, covering everything from Israel to Donald Trump and space.
Others have pointed out the account often discusses the age of consent around the world but completely steers clear of any stories relating to Epstein.
Karma points on are earned by user interactions with Reddit accounts; records show the u/maxwellhill handle currently has more than 14 million points and is one of the top rated on the site.
Maxwell, 58, the daughter of late disgraced newspaper baron Robert Maxwell, will appear in court remotely for an arraignment and bail hearing on July 14, the judge handling the case wrote Tuesday.
In a board one Reddit user wrote: ‘Not confirmed, but research suggests that /u/maxwellhill, the Reddit account with the 8th most link karma of all time, powermod of frontpage subs like r/worldnews and r/technology, first account to reach a million Karma, is/was operated by Ghislaine Maxwell.’
The post has been liked more than 8,000 times with more than 1,000 users adding their own theories on the account.
Evidence put forward for the unproven theory also include the fact the account was inactive around the time of Maxwell’s mother’s death in 2013.
The user also claims to be born in December, like Maxwell and uses a mix of British and US spelling as well as French slang. Maxwell was born in France, raised in the UK and has an American passport.
And there are also suggestions the name maxwellhill is a combination of her surname and the family home in the UK, Headington Hill Hall.
Youtuber Leomard said: ‘Despite being heavily involved with /r/worldnews, /u/maxwillhill refrains from posting about Epstein. Users have even jokingly called the account “Ghislaine MaxwellHill”.’
Sharing a screenshot he added: ‘She even advocated the legalization of child porn 7 years ago.’
In 2011 Gizmodo wrote: ‘Maxwellhill isn’t just trying to be mysterious; he/she is trying to be successful. Maxwellhill’s ascent to power was deliberate and skillful. The million karma points were a goal, not an accident.’
It was also pointed out that Maxwell has used obvious pseudonyms before; one of her bank accounts was logged as GMax as recently as this year.
Attorneys have already said they have identified 15 bank accounts associated with her in the last four years. The total balance of these accounts has ranged from hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $20 million.
The account shows recent subjects focused on by maxwellhill to include Bitcoin transactions, Donald Trump and The New York Times.
Many of the posts about President Trump highlight negative stories or people criticizing the administration.
The discussions by Reddit users come just days after its former CEO, Ellen Pao, tweeted: ‘She was at the Kleiner holiday party in 2011, but I had no desire to meet her much less have a photo taken with her.
‘We knew about her supplying underage girls for sex, but I guess that was fine with the ‘cool’ people who managed the tightly controlled guest list.’
After backlash Pao added: ‘To be clear, the press had described her as supplying underage girls for sex, but she had not been charged so I guess it would be more accurate to say we ‘suspected’ v ‘knew.’
One Reddit user commented that maxwellhill was silent during the time this party took place.
Maxwell was arrested after months of living in seclusion and moved to a federal jail in New York this week.
She faces six counts related to crimes allegedly committed by Epstein, her former boyfriend and a convicted sex offender who killed himself in prison while awaiting trial last summer.
They include perjury and conspiracy to entice minors as young as 14 years old to travel in order to engage in illegal sex acts. Maxwell is also accused of taking part in some of the sexual abuse.
At the hearing, prosecutors will argue for Maxwell to remain behind bars without bail.
Prosecutors say she is an ‘extreme’ flight risk, pointing out that she has passports from the United States, Britain and France.
Judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction
A federal judge on Friday upheld Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction – the top count she was convicted of at trial – but tossed two of the three conspiracy counts against her because they charge the same offense.
In an order filed Friday afternoon, Judge Alison Nathan upheld Maxwell’s conviction on transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and sex trafficking of minors, which the disgraced socialite faces the harshest penalties for.
But, Nathan ruled, the three conspiracy counts Maxwell was convicted of are “multiplicitous,” and sentencing the convicted sex trafficker on all of them would violate the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause.
Nathan will therefore sentence Maxwell on one conspiracy count – count three – as well as the sex trafficking and transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity counts.
She now faces a maximum sentence of 55 years in prison at sentencing, which is slated for June.
In her order, which was a response to a post-trial motion by Maxwell’s legal team to throw out her conviction on all counts, Nathan wrote the three conspiracy counts charged Maxwell for the same “overarching conspiracy” that she engaged in with Jeffrey Epstein for decades.
“The overarching conspiracy—which, as the Government argued and proved at trial, employed a single ‘playbook’ to groom and sexually abuse underage girls—constitutes a single conspiracy offense with multiple victims,” Nathan wrote.
Because the Double Jeopardy clause blocks judges from issuing the punishments for the same offense, Maxwell will only be sentenced on one of the conspiracy counts, Nathan wrote.
Maxwell was convicted on five of the six counts against her in Manhattan federal court in December.
A jury determined she trafficked a number of underage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse from the 1990s to the early 2000s.
Four victims testified at the trial, sharing horrific details about their sexual abuse at the hands of Epstein after they had been lured into his orbit by Maxwell.
Maxwell is scheduled to be sentenced on June 28.
Adrenochrome – Conspiracy or A Dark Secret?
While it may sound patently ridiculous, the adrenochrome conspiracy theory has now made its way beyond the bloodshot eyes of YouTube investigators and into mainstream culture, such as when Dr. Phil featured a woman on his show who claimed that her missing daughter had been kidnapped and tortured for the chemical.
And if you’re wondering why it is important to pay attention to this sort of thing, well, let’s start with the fact that more than two dozen congressional candidates have shared QAnon material or even appeared on QAnon shows. Like it or not, there are signs the group’s influence is growing.
Let’s explain what adrenochrome is, what QAnon wants you to believe it is, but is definitely not, and what’s the harm in believing in such misinformation.
What is adrenochrome?
Adrenochrome is a chemical that’s a byproduct of adrenaline. That’s it. It turns out you don’t need to kidnap children and drain their blood. There are many trusted chemical suppliers, in fact—which we won’t be linking to, sorry—that sell it.
Back in the ’50s, scientists speculated that adrenochrome caused schizophrenia. Take a megadose of vitamin C, one researcher concluded, and adrenochrome along with schizophrenia should vanish. That…didn’t work, alas.
But the lack of real science didn’t stop adrenochrome from sounding cool enough to make it into drug lit classics like Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception and Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange.
The source of the myth that you need to steal adrenochrome from a corpse goes back to a fun scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Dr. Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson’s “attorney,” says adrenochrome “makes pure mescaline seem like ginger beer.” Later, it is explained that “there’s only one source for this stuff—the adrenaline gland from a living human body.” It’s an easy mistake to make, but please know that Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is not a documentary feature made from archival footage of actual events.
What does QAnon think adrenochrome is?
In short, QAnon followers believe there is an operative in the deep state called Q, and Q leaves secret messages called “Q drops.” Some think that Q is none other than JFK, Jr., who is very much alive today and was supposed to October Surprise us as Trump’s running mate. (He did not.)
“A central conspiracy theory circulating within the QAnon movement is that deep state Satan-worshipping pedophilic liberals are behind an international child sex trafficking ring,” says Joseph Pierre, the acting chief of mental health community care systems at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. “A more fringe aspect of that theory is that they are harvesting adrenochrome from children and then self-administering it as a kind of fountain-of-youth potion.”
To hear it in their own words, as reported by Right Wing Watch, the conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin says in a video, “Adrenochrome is a drug that the elites love. It comes from children. The drug is extracted from the pituitary gland of tortured children. It’s sold on the black market. It’s the drug of the elites. It is their favorite drug.”
Other QAnon conspiracy theorists, which again we are not going to promote by linking to here, use adrenochrome to explain why there are so many missing children worldwide. They also claim that Hillary Clinton and former aide Huma Abedin were caught on tape ripping off a child’s face, wearing it as a mask, and drinking the child’s blood to obtain adrenochrome. (Yes, really.)
Why does it matter that anyone believes this conspiracy is real?
There’s an old saying that you should never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity, but in the case of QAnon, their conspiracy theories are a generous helping of both. “QAnon is tapping into both conservative mistrust of liberals as well as the ubiquity of misinformation out there,” Pierre says.
What’s different about QAnon is that the conspiracy theory is targeting the party that is not in power. “What’s weird is that these kinds of right-wing conspiracy theories more typically arise when a Democrat is in the White House—as in, for example, the militia movement of the 1990s, which faded in influence once George W Bush was elected,” says Mark Fenster, professor of law at UF and author of Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture.
Believing that liberal elites are drinking dead child blood instead of just going to Oregon for shrooms may seem outrageous, but for some it is just one piece in a big puzzle that they are solving with their friends to take down the people they hate.
“Conspiracy theories can be like drugs,” says Brian Houston, director of the Disaster and Community Crisis Center at the University of Missouri. “If they are doing something for you psychologically, you often need more and more of that to get your fix. So the conspiracy theories just get crazier and crazier.”
The problem is that belief in something like adrenochrome and Q can translate into action, or inaction. “Belief in misinformation, and more importantly acting on misinformation, always carries a potential of danger. When it comes to misinformation in the form of conspiracy theories, that danger might be avoiding vaccination, leading to outbreaks of measles, or failure to contain COVID-19,” says Pierre.
According to Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta, who studies misinformation, we’re in a “golden age” of the stuff right now. The problem of inaccurate information being spewed so quickly and at such a high volume these days led the World Health Organization to declare in early 2020 that we’re in the middle of an “infodemic.” Especially when it’s laced with sensationalism, misinformation like the adrenochrome conspiracy theory tends to spread faster and farther than boring, fact-based information.
“The extremism of QAnon means that violence is always possible. Pizzagate illustrated that,” adds Houston, referencing a man shooting, and thank God not killing anyone, inside a Washington, D.C., pizzeria because he believed there was a child sex ring operating there.
But there’s an even more common danger to people believing in conspiracy theories like adrenochrome harvesting and hunting the internet for Q drops, Pierre says.
“People who fall down the rabbit hole of QAnon are usually neglecting their real lives, jobs, social relationships in favor of spending hours and hours on the internet, working themselves into a kind of self-radicalizing frenzy about the state of the world that isn’t congruent with reality.”
Belgian pedophile victim discloses “I met Politicians, VIPs and Heads of State”
The British ‘Daily Mail‘ tells the harrowing life story of a 53-year-old Belgian woman: As a child, she had been abused and tortured over five years by a pedophile network, says Anneke Lucas, who now lives as a yoga teacher in New York and has a 15-year-old daughter herself.
Against this backdrop, the fact seems interesting that journalist Udo Ulfkotte, shortly before his death, also was involved in the research on pedophile networks in German politics. While travelling in Afghanistan, leading German politicians are said to have had regular sex with infants.
The experiences reported by Lucas refer to serious crimes, such as what had come to light in the 90’s around the Belgian child molester Marc Dutroux. Lucas claims to have been tortured in 1974 by a man who was one of the accused persons in the Dutroux case in 1996. A spokesman for the Belgian police said to the ‘Mail’ they were not in a position to comment on the allegations made by Mrs Lucas.
Belgian judicial authorities in the 90’s had revealed a pedophile network behind Dutroux which has never been fully unmasked. There were several “investigation mishaps” and some dead witnesses. In 2004, only Dutroux was sentenced, for life.
Her mother sold her to the monsters
In 1969 Anneke Lucas was just six years old when she was sold to the network – by her mother. Since then, she would bring her everywhere when she got a call from the “Boss”. This boss was “a Belgian cabinet minister”, Lucas says. “My mother never really was like a mother. She was a very sick woman and a psychopath.”
On the first “party”, which took place in a castle, she was chained with a metallic dog collar on a stage and forced to eat human excrement. Then she was led into a basement and shown the body of a freshly murdered child. The message was clear: “If you talk, you’ll die.”
Lucas describes in a personal report on ‘Global Citizen’ of how she felt broken completely and humiliated. In this situation, she knew she had to do something to survive.
“I recognised people from the television”
“I looked at the bizarre set of aristocrats who were dressed as hippies, swinging in various stages of sexual interaction to psychedelic music, consuming lots of small pills and pre-rolled joints, which were handed to them on silver trays by sober waiters.” At that moment she was trembling with fear however said to herself – what these adults are doing is wrong, and they will all end up in jail.
About a confused men in a suit who looked sympathetically at her for a moment that night, she says: “I never saw him again on the network. He later became a prominent Belgian politician.”
The members of the network all belonged to the establishment. “I recognised people from the television. I came across VIP’s, European heads of state and even a member of a royal family”, Lucas writes. “I was confronted with the dark side of their reliance on power – that side, of which no one believes it exists.”
Survival in inhumanity
In her family and at school, Anneke henceforth was like a “nothing” – and another girl from her school also had fallen prey to the network. She had few friends only – and absolutely nobody who she could trust.
She estimates that prior to her 12th birthday she was raped during six hours per week – a total of over 1,700 hours. “Usually, it went on all night and through the weekend,” she said to the ‘Mail’. As her parents did not talk about it, she began to say to herself: “It’s normal.”
To the inhuman conditions she responded by way of adaptation and a kind of Stockholm Syndrome, which means developing “sympathetic sentiments” towards her rapists as a survival strategy during the suffering. She took something like pride from it, to be abused by powerful men who used the children as luxury objects. The members of the network each had different motives for being involved in this.
Avoid attention by all means!
The threat of being murdered was omnipresent. Lucas says: “The children were played off against each other. There were friendships, but I tried to keep things as superficial as possible in order to survive.” Also she was keen to not become any offender’s personal “favorite”. Girls were more often killed than boys, who were tortured more frequently than the girls tough. “I knew what had happened to girls who had attracted attention … It triggered a lot of problems. So I tried to avoid any attention”, Lucas said to the ‘Mail’.
After five years she was “no longer useful” to the network, and she was supposed to be killed on a butcher block. This was averted last minute because the 20-year-old son of a politician felt sympathy for her and negotiated a deal with the head of the network: He would work for him if Anneke’s life was spared. “This good deed eventually cost him his own life. In this milieu, any spark of humanity is a fatal weakness.”
“No child should ever experience what I’ve been through.”
Lucas says, “No child should ever experience what I’ve been through, or what millions of children are going through.” She herself is through four decades of dispelling before she felt able to speak with another person about her story for the first time. In December of 2016 she made her story public.
She says: “If we are to survive as a species,” the world must be prepared to deal with the darkness of the pedophile networks.
She assumes that many of the perpetrators – “power-hungry people, leaders and corrupt politicians, abusing children” – probably hemselves had been abused as children and therefore are stuck in a spiral of retaliation. These people would use the power over others as a means to never again feel the humiliation they once had sufferred. They were lacking the courage to heal. Lucas writes:
“The mere survival in everyday life, while trying to heal from sexual abuse in childhood days, requires a thousand times more energy than any normal person without that experience needs to make a successful career. And the society still has more appreciation for a succesful career person than for a survivor.”
Survivors can show way forward
In her opinion, any survivors of abuse, incest or sexual slavery got enormous strength, and their healing and survival power may stimulate that of the society as a whole. She writes:
“We must learn to use our power for survival in our own interest, so we can heal our damaged Ego and channel this energy to point the way to a future in which former victims through love, understanding and compassion stand for all.”
- https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/anneke-lucass-harrowing-tale-of-sex-trafficking-am/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=global&utm_campaign=general-content&linkId=33374146
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux
- http://www.epochtimes.de/politik/europa/belgisches-paedophilen-opfer-packt-aus-ich-traf-politiker-vips-und-staatsoberhaeupter-a2032991.html?latest=1