The Billionaire and The Spy
What if monopolies are bad for the monopolist as well as the public?
This is a most useful frame for sense making when considering the Wall Street Journal stories into Jeffrey Epstein’s business and political relationships.
“We’re starting with Microsoft because it’s the biggest and because the Gates Foundation has already been turned.”
So goes the word from Northern Virginia.
There are so very many interesting questions posed by the Wall Street Journal’s latest exposé on billionaire Bill Gates.
To me, the most interesting aspect of it is that Gates’s spokesman is not denying that the affair between the 20-something Russian “bridge player” Mila Antonova and 50-something Bill Gates took place.
Put aside — for the moment — the totally normal thing for a young Russian woman to be interested in an old American man game like bridge and how similar it is to efforts to compromise other American decisionmakers through the National Rifle Association, poker or chess.
Did Gates et al contact the FBI? It doesn’t appear that they did. Why not? After all, wasn’t it “blackmail”?
It seems to me that there very well would not have been a crime which took place.
Here’s how I think the conversation really went down:
“I’d like you to fund a charity I’ve started, Bill.”
“I’m busy, Jeffrey. Ask one of your other friends.”
“I’m asking you, Bill. Or do I need to remind you that I work for an intelligence service?”
Viewed this way, Epstein, who was undoubtedly Mossad, MI6, and CIA, FBI-linked, was trying to get Gates’s resources for an operation. Gates’s refusal could be seen as reneging on a commitment he had made to Epstein.
Let’s not forget that Epstein knew the Russians quite well. He worked very closely with Masha Drokova, the VC behind WorldCoin and who formerly worked as the Charlie Kirk of Putin’s Russia.
Drokova — now named Bucher and in Switzerland — once asked me if I thought she’d be in trouble for working for Jeffrey Epstein. She was his publicist. Igor Zinoviev, the UFC fighter, was Epstein’s bodyguard. For what it’s worth Zinoviev doesn’t believe that Epstein hanged himself.
Could it be because Russian capital and personnel are essential to the Microsoft project to this very day? After all, there’s been a lot of hacking from what Bibi once called “Soviet Israel.” The chief scientist of Microsoft’s Open AI is none other than Ilya Sutskever — “the Russian Israeli-Canadian” key to the company.
Just take a look at this chart and ponder what’s really going on with Open AI and all its Chinese-money and purchasing of NVIDIA chips.
Now I suspect that Bill Gates (in happier times) was deliberately compromised — and allowed himself to be compromised — by the Israelis, Russians, and Chinese in order for them to have a stake in his empire and for them to want for him to be successful.
Gates, in turn, worked to acquire companies that Epstein liked and has invested in — companies like LinkedIn where Epstein was a massive shareholder. We’ve seen other Israeli-linked billionaires insider trade around Microsoft acquisitions.
This is why antitrust is really about national security. We cannot allow the compromised decision makers at major companies to make decisions that affect millions with what companies they choose to acquire. We’ve been on this a lot at this Substack. We really do have to turn all the major tech kingdoms.
Similar compromising efforts were done to Kevin Tsujihara at Warner Brothers (film), at Founders Fund’s with Keith Rabois and Peter Thiel (venture), and at Illumina with John Thompson and Francis DeSouza (genetics).
We need to be open to the possibility that many billionaires are traitors (or foreign actors) and like organized crime, they are propped up by access to foreign governments and foreign capital. This, too, needs to be curtailed.
What if the point of turning large fortunes into foundations was actually to protect the billionaires from foreign compromise?
What if the same effort is currently under way with the venture funds?
If you believe that Jeffrey Epstein was recompromising foreign compromised billionaires in the service of the US by turning their fortunes into foundations one of the questions we might explore is who the current Epstein(s) is/are.
I suspect that they won’t look like him. At all.
If you were recruiting someone who could be the replacement for Epstein my guess is that you’d find someone equally comfortable in every world.
And that he or she would look crazy, take risks that weren’t immediately apparent, and be willing — if necessary — to give up his or her life.
Such a person would give up everything normal or conventional—even the prospect of having a family. He might even be obsessed with genetics like Epstein (one of the first investors in 23&Me!) purportedly was.
Such a replacement would likely have been recruited when he was impossibly young. And one of the actions he would have done is to break free of those who were controlling him. They’d want to get their revenge — and that’s where Bill Barr comes in — but that’s a topic for another time.
Today Jeffrey Epstein is dead and Bill Gates’s foundation is doing everything that the U.S. deep state wants it to do.
Like Soros’s Open Society or the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been turned.
Thank you Melinda. And thank you Jeffrey.