No-one is able to explain why, how, and who helped him to obtain it…but it might be that Epstein was involved in the shady deals known as the Iran-Contra Affair
Stranger things have happened, although I'm unsure why Mr. Hanks would choose Greece (apart from, say, the food and the weather), as the Greek gov't has an extradition treaty with the US…
As for Austrians and Freemasons, they seem to be a club-loving, a little naive, gay, very sociable people, the mountain loving and the gay Viennese - or they were.
What Austria Hungary was before the Great War, and to what it was reduced after the war, maybe makes social groups smack of nostalgia for those familiar with the glorious past. The nostalgia for the Vienna Woods among exiles may not be relevant, but there is a lot of nostalgia associated with the Austrian Empire or its psyche, no Freudian pun intended. There's a certain pettiness mixed in, apparently, for those who have represented the State and the Culture in the world that's arisen from the ashes.
There's nothing more groupy than FreeMasonry. And they think their secrets mean they have special powers. It's got its medieval Roman Catholic love of darkness. I personally would worry about it, but maybe you're right to be concerned with shady dealings there too.
I'm kinda trying to respond to all your comments here:
The Masons are a secretive, elitist, and (para)cultist set of groups that firmly believe, whatever their individual outward appearances (historically, that would be 'Christian'), that they are better than the poor (hence the scare quotes in the preceding parentheses). Whatever the merits of certain individuals or groups (I'm thinking of some of the protagonists of the young US, specifically), their believes are fundamentally at odds with both Christianity (i.e., 'European values') and republican governance.
I'm considering these 'lodges' a form of pre-modern holdover that works as a de facto 'conspiracy'--why scare quotes here? Because I think that in many ways, these 'secret' societies are no longer needed as we've moved certain (business, family, etc.) ties into the open, and, while I think being a mason might have facilitated setting up stuff then and now, I doubt it's as useful as in earlier times when personal ties were more important than, say, the rule of law. That said, it might very well be that such groups/conspiracies are becoming more important yet again as the rule of law is more and more subverted.
"The two Gulf war adversaries, Iran and Iraq, are said to have been supplied with 340 GHN-45 guns, 140 of which are said to have gone to Iran, whose armament Kashoggi is also said to have ensured"
US hot wars in the Middle East were suicidal, as our troops could have been murdered by guns that either the CIA or an agent with their cover, had sold to Iran.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
EXCEPT that we have had the Internet for some time now, and smart people publishing intelligent reports online. Will the power of human written language be enough to bring law and order to the prosecution of criminals who commit unlawful sexual acts against children and young adolescents?
Imagine what the sale of weapons means in terms of CAPITAL, that an American President could be so dumb as to sell arms to Iran, a nation alteady branded as terrorist. Couldn't have sold to anyone else to raise funds that Congress could not thwart?
How did I not know (remember) that "we" shot an Iranian commercial flight in 1988 by mistake? Oh, yes, had just had my first child, who was big trouble. What an excuse! How could I have taken my eye off the ball, ie my country's foreign policy? Am I not responsible? Isn't that what we were taught in school - that The USA is Govt for The People, of the People and by the People? No? Oh, I'm sorry.
And Tom Hanks is 'Greek' now. Ok.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-officially-become-citizens-greece-n1234971
Wait, wasn't he on Epstein's list?
Stranger things have happened, although I'm unsure why Mr. Hanks would choose Greece (apart from, say, the food and the weather), as the Greek gov't has an extradition treaty with the US…
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/10-201.10-Greece-EU-Extradition-Treaty.pdf
As for Austrians and Freemasons, they seem to be a club-loving, a little naive, gay, very sociable people, the mountain loving and the gay Viennese - or they were.
What Austria Hungary was before the Great War, and to what it was reduced after the war, maybe makes social groups smack of nostalgia for those familiar with the glorious past. The nostalgia for the Vienna Woods among exiles may not be relevant, but there is a lot of nostalgia associated with the Austrian Empire or its psyche, no Freudian pun intended. There's a certain pettiness mixed in, apparently, for those who have represented the State and the Culture in the world that's arisen from the ashes.
There's nothing more groupy than FreeMasonry. And they think their secrets mean they have special powers. It's got its medieval Roman Catholic love of darkness. I personally would worry about it, but maybe you're right to be concerned with shady dealings there too.
I'm kinda trying to respond to all your comments here:
The Masons are a secretive, elitist, and (para)cultist set of groups that firmly believe, whatever their individual outward appearances (historically, that would be 'Christian'), that they are better than the poor (hence the scare quotes in the preceding parentheses). Whatever the merits of certain individuals or groups (I'm thinking of some of the protagonists of the young US, specifically), their believes are fundamentally at odds with both Christianity (i.e., 'European values') and republican governance.
I'm considering these 'lodges' a form of pre-modern holdover that works as a de facto 'conspiracy'--why scare quotes here? Because I think that in many ways, these 'secret' societies are no longer needed as we've moved certain (business, family, etc.) ties into the open, and, while I think being a mason might have facilitated setting up stuff then and now, I doubt it's as useful as in earlier times when personal ties were more important than, say, the rule of law. That said, it might very well be that such groups/conspiracies are becoming more important yet again as the rule of law is more and more subverted.
as you clearly point out here:
"The two Gulf war adversaries, Iran and Iraq, are said to have been supplied with 340 GHN-45 guns, 140 of which are said to have gone to Iran, whose armament Kashoggi is also said to have ensured"
US hot wars in the Middle East were suicidal, as our troops could have been murdered by guns that either the CIA or an agent with their cover, had sold to Iran.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
EXCEPT that we have had the Internet for some time now, and smart people publishing intelligent reports online. Will the power of human written language be enough to bring law and order to the prosecution of criminals who commit unlawful sexual acts against children and young adolescents?
See...
Shah of Iran,
American Hostage Crisis,
Arms for Hostages
Iran-Contra,
"oil", CIA as usual
Imagine what the sale of weapons means in terms of CAPITAL, that an American President could be so dumb as to sell arms to Iran, a nation alteady branded as terrorist. Couldn't have sold to anyone else to raise funds that Congress could not thwart?
This was Ronald Reagan the Hollywood Cowboy.
Just start with the 1950's.
THAT'S all. Isn't History "neat".
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/a-timeline-of-u-s-iran-relations
How did I not know (remember) that "we" shot an Iranian commercial flight in 1988 by mistake? Oh, yes, had just had my first child, who was big trouble. What an excuse! How could I have taken my eye off the ball, ie my country's foreign policy? Am I not responsible? Isn't that what we were taught in school - that The USA is Govt for The People, of the People and by the People? No? Oh, I'm sorry.