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One Nation Under Blackmail - Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1
Exposes vastly underexplored topics compared to other media reports and books on Jeffrey Epstein. How did Jeffrey Epstein manage to evade justice for decades? Who enabled him and why? Why were legal officials told that Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and to back off during his first arrest in the mid-2000s?
Volume one of One Nation Under Blackmail traces the origin of the network behind Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to the merging of organized crime and intelligence networks during World War II, following their most notable activities through the decades. Various scandals, acts of corruption, and other crimes throughout the last several decades of American history, many involving sex blackmail, can be traced back to these same networks, which have subverted and taken control of many of America's most important institutions for their benefit, and to the detriment of the public.
Volume one of One Nation Under Blackmail traces the origin of the network behind Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to the merging of organized crime and intelligence networks during World War II, following their most notable activities through the decades. Various scandals, acts of corruption, and other crimes throughout the last several decades of American history, many involving sex blackmail, can be traced back to these same networks, which have subverted and taken control of many of America's most important institutions for their benefit, and to the detriment of the public.
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September 24, 2022
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December 6, 2022
To put it in terms intelligible to the contemporary, internet-based political discourse: Whitney Webb's One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1 is a black pill.
As Webb explains in her interview with Glenn Beck, this first volume of the work is preliminary material. However, that preliminary material is a story in and of itself. Whereas most of the stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and most people's questions about him, revolve around pedophilia and child abuse--and rightly so--these are disgusting, condemnable behaviors, Webb's analysis goes deeper than the superficial behaviors that we all find to be, simultaneously, grotesque yet interesting.
This deeper analysis is of the networks that link organized crime, American and foreign intelligence services, the national security state, and the outward-facing image of "normal" politicians and businessmen. And this documentation of networks is why I say that this book is a black pill.
Virtually nobody whose name you know that operates in the worlds of politics, media, entertainment, finance, and big business is untainted by these networks, which are really just one big network of networks. This holds not just here in the United States, but in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East as well. Yes, this includes Donald Trump. And Reagan. And Kennedy. And pretty much every person whose public image was one of being a reformer, or a traditionalist, or a patriot, or--especially in the case of Trump--an "outsider."
Don't get me wrong. I've read plenty of books before this one that document elements of these networks. However, I've never read a book before that focuses primarily on documenting the networks themselves. Other writers home in on specific kinds of misbehavior by the elite (financial corruption, sexual deviancy, whatever). All too often, these kinds of stories are focused on exposing one particular kind of person, especially in politics (Democrats are bad! Republicans are corrupt!). What the documentation of the networks shows is that they are all complicit .
As of writing this review, I have not started to read volume 2. However, I think I can see where Webb is going.
Because virtually nobody within elite circles is blameless because of their links to these various networks, men like Jeffrey Epstein were useful because, if there's one criminal act that people genuinely and generally find to be unforgivable, it's the sexual abuse of children. So if you can assemble a dossier of every elite actor's proclivity for sexual deviancy, especially with children, then you secure their silence. Nobody is going to expose how deep the corruption is because nobody wants to be known as a pedophile. Jeffrey Epstein was, in essence, an insurance agent. He sold insurance to the networks. If everyone knows that everyone else is a pedophile, and if everyone knows that everyone else knows that they're a pedophile, too, then everyone is invested in protecting the network.
Whether or not that is the end of Webb's analysis remains to be seen (for me).
Either way, this is some genuine, real journalism. It shows what most people are unable or unwilling to see: that all our leaders, with probably few, very few, exceptions, are criminals and, at best, wolves in sheep's clothing. The black pill portion is knowing that this means there's no "leader" coming to save us from these networks because there are no leaders, just another link in the network (he who has ears, let him hear).
One final note of criticism: I would've given this book a five-star rating, but there are quite a few editing errors and oversights in the book that give it a rushed appearance. That is, it reads, at times, like the author and/or publisher were rushing to get this information out to the public and, in the process, overlooked some simple errors. Examples include sentences where it's clear the author was going to write it one way, wrote it another way, but left some conjunction or preposition in its original place. This can be forgiven, but it is worth mentioning.
As Webb explains in her interview with Glenn Beck, this first volume of the work is preliminary material. However, that preliminary material is a story in and of itself. Whereas most of the stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and most people's questions about him, revolve around pedophilia and child abuse--and rightly so--these are disgusting, condemnable behaviors, Webb's analysis goes deeper than the superficial behaviors that we all find to be, simultaneously, grotesque yet interesting.
This deeper analysis is of the networks that link organized crime, American and foreign intelligence services, the national security state, and the outward-facing image of "normal" politicians and businessmen. And this documentation of networks is why I say that this book is a black pill.
Virtually nobody whose name you know that operates in the worlds of politics, media, entertainment, finance, and big business is untainted by these networks, which are really just one big network of networks. This holds not just here in the United States, but in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East as well. Yes, this includes Donald Trump. And Reagan. And Kennedy. And pretty much every person whose public image was one of being a reformer, or a traditionalist, or a patriot, or--especially in the case of Trump--an "outsider."
Don't get me wrong. I've read plenty of books before this one that document elements of these networks. However, I've never read a book before that focuses primarily on documenting the networks themselves. Other writers home in on specific kinds of misbehavior by the elite (financial corruption, sexual deviancy, whatever). All too often, these kinds of stories are focused on exposing one particular kind of person, especially in politics (Democrats are bad! Republicans are corrupt!). What the documentation of the networks shows is that they are all complicit .
As of writing this review, I have not started to read volume 2. However, I think I can see where Webb is going.
Because virtually nobody within elite circles is blameless because of their links to these various networks, men like Jeffrey Epstein were useful because, if there's one criminal act that people genuinely and generally find to be unforgivable, it's the sexual abuse of children. So if you can assemble a dossier of every elite actor's proclivity for sexual deviancy, especially with children, then you secure their silence. Nobody is going to expose how deep the corruption is because nobody wants to be known as a pedophile. Jeffrey Epstein was, in essence, an insurance agent. He sold insurance to the networks. If everyone knows that everyone else is a pedophile, and if everyone knows that everyone else knows that they're a pedophile, too, then everyone is invested in protecting the network.
Whether or not that is the end of Webb's analysis remains to be seen (for me).
Either way, this is some genuine, real journalism. It shows what most people are unable or unwilling to see: that all our leaders, with probably few, very few, exceptions, are criminals and, at best, wolves in sheep's clothing. The black pill portion is knowing that this means there's no "leader" coming to save us from these networks because there are no leaders, just another link in the network (he who has ears, let him hear).
One final note of criticism: I would've given this book a five-star rating, but there are quite a few editing errors and oversights in the book that give it a rushed appearance. That is, it reads, at times, like the author and/or publisher were rushing to get this information out to the public and, in the process, overlooked some simple errors. Examples include sentences where it's clear the author was going to write it one way, wrote it another way, but left some conjunction or preposition in its original place. This can be forgiven, but it is worth mentioning.
May 21, 2023
I'm in a mehish-wow mood after closing this book.
MEHS: a massive compilation of whose who's behind Jeffrey Epstein. A tedious compilation of hundreds of newspaper reports and books on the allegedly, probably, assumingly, involvement of criminal gangs, secret societies, bag men, money launderers, financial institutions, and governments.
Why was Epstein only NOW, after decades, brought to 'justice'? They couldn't nail him earlier on fraud and corruption, although they tried. Now, they got him on sex trafficking charges and made it serious enough to stick. Well, good for them. Finally! Sadly, nothing began or will end with him. He was exchanged...for what? What was so big that they were willing to give him up?
Prince Andrew, the 'poorest' of Epstein's blackmail victims—Epstein only dealt with billionaires, remember— but with international influence, was the easiest scapegoat. The easiest lamb to be sent to slaughter. The super players: politicians, influential businessmen, media moguls, and others, got away. As usual. Ghilaine Maxwell deserved her outcome. Enjoy! She still was a small pawn in this massive network. A nobody, really. Finally, she had to take the heat. Another sacrificial lamb.
Why was prince Andrew so important though? Beginning in 2001, the Duke of York worked with UK Trade and investment which was part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The Duke was then acting as the United Kingdom's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. ...
...In his official position, Andrew began doing business with executives from some of the world's most powerful companies as well as major politicians in both the UK and abroad. In this position, Prince Andrew traveled throughout the United Kingdom and the wider world.
This shadow government does everything in its power not to be prosecuted by the people's governments of the world. One powerful institution opposes another and wins. A war is raging between the two power structures. These covert power structures use blackmail, bribes, and assassinations as their weapons of choice to corrupt and control public institutions while manipulating and looting the public. Epstein was just the tip of an iceberg.
WOWS: The author, through years of research, successfully proved her case that the sex trafficking case against Epstein, deflated and distracted the attention away from his involvement in the much bigger international trade of drugs, bribery, blackmail, weapons, nuclear arms, money laundering, banks, and everything else. The journalists who are paid and controlled by this shadow mafia are silent on Epstein's real crimes. Even so, HE WAS A PAWN as well! An important CRIMINAL middleman in a world where money and power override any other rules. It is evident that most of those who aided and enabled Epstein will never see the inside of a prison cell.
To safeguard herself, Whitney Webb used the right language not to be sued. Her book is potent enough to expose the forces hiding in the dark, controlling the world. The bibliography is outstanding. The hundreds of articles, books, documents, and law records are mind-blowing. It will take years to read only some of the sources referenced in this book. However, more journalists and eyewitnesses than can ever be counted tried to bring awareness to the real history of mankind. This is it. In a nutshell. But a tour de force for sure.
The presidencies of the world are mere clowns—puppets; even stooges can be set up to be the leaders of countries.
If it wasn't for a group of vigilante and courageous journalists, nothing of this magnitude will ever be exposed. Sadly, they are silenced. So many whistle-blowers die as a result.
Security agencies and law enforcement are there to control the masses. That is us. They protect the criminals, in this case, Epstein's co-conspirators, against us. As stated in the book:
Chapter 2 of Volume One- Booze and Blackmail
Hoover repeatedly declined to use the Bureau to target organized crime networks, referring to organized crime as a “local” problem in which the FBI did not need to intervene for most of his nearly fifty-year stint as the top law enforcement administrator in the country
The question is asked in the book: Why was Epstein so heavily protected from justice for decades—in connection to both his sex trafficking crimes and his financial crimes?
The author did not try to impress by writing a non-fictional thriller. She tried to provide facts and context, dishing up as much information as she could find.
The book consists of two volumes.
Volume One provides a background to Epstein's world. Recent history of the hidden world from around 1900 up till now.
Volume Two includes the role of international secret societies, and the role of mind control (which I found preachy), with only the final chapters dedicated to Epstein—his covert and illegal activities to serve this international alternative government of a massive un-elected mafia.
My thoughts on Virginia Guiffre(then Virginia Roberts) who is not the center of attention in the book at all, but still bothers me. She was allegedly a victim in the Epstein-Prince Andrew scandal. In the final chapters in which her case is discussed, I can only conclude that she got paid to keep her mouth shut and go away.
Another thought: Her parents - yes, her parents, drove this minor child voluntarily EVERY DAY, FOR YEARS, to Epstein's residence where she had to perform all kinds of lurid acts on Epstein, Maxwell, and their powerful victims of blackmail and distortion. She got paid for her job. She worked for Maxwell and Epstein for several years, even traveling abroad with them to set traps for politicians, world players, and whoever could be bribed and blackmailed. As a paid member of his team, she even traveled, on her own, to Thailand where she recruited young women into Epstein's sex ring. However, she was promised a higher education and a better life, which never happened. She earned the millions (that Epstein should have paid).
I'm still not convinced of her victimhood. Her lawsuit was 'successful'. However, what was she paid for? Her silence, behind the claim of victimhood? That's conjecture on my part of course. Perhaps she was controlled by higher powers, who controlled Epstein as well? The book provides enough 'suggestions' that Epstein was an agent for various spy- and security agencies in the world. Perhaps she was paid to testify against him. Of all the hundreds of so-called victims of his sex trafficking, his butlers, his other staff, NO ONE was willing to talk?
I don't agree with everything in the book but do appreciate the hard work of the author to summarize a part of history we all need to pay attention to. It is not a book to be rushed through by any means.
My conclusion: Isn't it ironic? Soldiers: our boys, husbands, fathers, uncles, and friends are sent off to fight this MAFIA government's wars for them. Our bribed and blackmailed politicians make it happen, while courageous whistleblowers and journalists are trying to fight OUR war against this mafia shadow government. We not only fight their wars, but we also PAY for their wars as well. A mind-blowing thought. Have we ever built a statue for a whistleblower or one of these journalists? Amazing, right? Nope, let's just call them conspiracy theorists, and be mad when years later we discover that they told the truth.
This book was a fascinating read. It is a summary of all the world players warring for the control of America.
RECOMMENDED.
MEHS: a massive compilation of whose who's behind Jeffrey Epstein. A tedious compilation of hundreds of newspaper reports and books on the allegedly, probably, assumingly, involvement of criminal gangs, secret societies, bag men, money launderers, financial institutions, and governments.
Why was Epstein only NOW, after decades, brought to 'justice'? They couldn't nail him earlier on fraud and corruption, although they tried. Now, they got him on sex trafficking charges and made it serious enough to stick. Well, good for them. Finally! Sadly, nothing began or will end with him. He was exchanged...for what? What was so big that they were willing to give him up?
Prince Andrew, the 'poorest' of Epstein's blackmail victims—Epstein only dealt with billionaires, remember— but with international influence, was the easiest scapegoat. The easiest lamb to be sent to slaughter. The super players: politicians, influential businessmen, media moguls, and others, got away. As usual. Ghilaine Maxwell deserved her outcome. Enjoy! She still was a small pawn in this massive network. A nobody, really. Finally, she had to take the heat. Another sacrificial lamb.
Why was prince Andrew so important though? Beginning in 2001, the Duke of York worked with UK Trade and investment which was part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The Duke was then acting as the United Kingdom's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. ...
...In his official position, Andrew began doing business with executives from some of the world's most powerful companies as well as major politicians in both the UK and abroad. In this position, Prince Andrew traveled throughout the United Kingdom and the wider world.
This shadow government does everything in its power not to be prosecuted by the people's governments of the world. One powerful institution opposes another and wins. A war is raging between the two power structures. These covert power structures use blackmail, bribes, and assassinations as their weapons of choice to corrupt and control public institutions while manipulating and looting the public. Epstein was just the tip of an iceberg.
WOWS: The author, through years of research, successfully proved her case that the sex trafficking case against Epstein, deflated and distracted the attention away from his involvement in the much bigger international trade of drugs, bribery, blackmail, weapons, nuclear arms, money laundering, banks, and everything else. The journalists who are paid and controlled by this shadow mafia are silent on Epstein's real crimes. Even so, HE WAS A PAWN as well! An important CRIMINAL middleman in a world where money and power override any other rules. It is evident that most of those who aided and enabled Epstein will never see the inside of a prison cell.
To safeguard herself, Whitney Webb used the right language not to be sued. Her book is potent enough to expose the forces hiding in the dark, controlling the world. The bibliography is outstanding. The hundreds of articles, books, documents, and law records are mind-blowing. It will take years to read only some of the sources referenced in this book. However, more journalists and eyewitnesses than can ever be counted tried to bring awareness to the real history of mankind. This is it. In a nutshell. But a tour de force for sure.
The presidencies of the world are mere clowns—puppets; even stooges can be set up to be the leaders of countries.
If it wasn't for a group of vigilante and courageous journalists, nothing of this magnitude will ever be exposed. Sadly, they are silenced. So many whistle-blowers die as a result.
Security agencies and law enforcement are there to control the masses. That is us. They protect the criminals, in this case, Epstein's co-conspirators, against us. As stated in the book:
Chapter 2 of Volume One- Booze and Blackmail
Hoover repeatedly declined to use the Bureau to target organized crime networks, referring to organized crime as a “local” problem in which the FBI did not need to intervene for most of his nearly fifty-year stint as the top law enforcement administrator in the country
The question is asked in the book: Why was Epstein so heavily protected from justice for decades—in connection to both his sex trafficking crimes and his financial crimes?
The author did not try to impress by writing a non-fictional thriller. She tried to provide facts and context, dishing up as much information as she could find.
The book consists of two volumes.
Volume One provides a background to Epstein's world. Recent history of the hidden world from around 1900 up till now.
Volume Two includes the role of international secret societies, and the role of mind control (which I found preachy), with only the final chapters dedicated to Epstein—his covert and illegal activities to serve this international alternative government of a massive un-elected mafia.
My thoughts on Virginia Guiffre(then Virginia Roberts) who is not the center of attention in the book at all, but still bothers me. She was allegedly a victim in the Epstein-Prince Andrew scandal. In the final chapters in which her case is discussed, I can only conclude that she got paid to keep her mouth shut and go away.
Another thought: Her parents - yes, her parents, drove this minor child voluntarily EVERY DAY, FOR YEARS, to Epstein's residence where she had to perform all kinds of lurid acts on Epstein, Maxwell, and their powerful victims of blackmail and distortion. She got paid for her job. She worked for Maxwell and Epstein for several years, even traveling abroad with them to set traps for politicians, world players, and whoever could be bribed and blackmailed. As a paid member of his team, she even traveled, on her own, to Thailand where she recruited young women into Epstein's sex ring. However, she was promised a higher education and a better life, which never happened. She earned the millions (that Epstein should have paid).
I'm still not convinced of her victimhood. Her lawsuit was 'successful'. However, what was she paid for? Her silence, behind the claim of victimhood? That's conjecture on my part of course. Perhaps she was controlled by higher powers, who controlled Epstein as well? The book provides enough 'suggestions' that Epstein was an agent for various spy- and security agencies in the world. Perhaps she was paid to testify against him. Of all the hundreds of so-called victims of his sex trafficking, his butlers, his other staff, NO ONE was willing to talk?
I don't agree with everything in the book but do appreciate the hard work of the author to summarize a part of history we all need to pay attention to. It is not a book to be rushed through by any means.
My conclusion: Isn't it ironic? Soldiers: our boys, husbands, fathers, uncles, and friends are sent off to fight this MAFIA government's wars for them. Our bribed and blackmailed politicians make it happen, while courageous whistleblowers and journalists are trying to fight OUR war against this mafia shadow government. We not only fight their wars, but we also PAY for their wars as well. A mind-blowing thought. Have we ever built a statue for a whistleblower or one of these journalists? Amazing, right? Nope, let's just call them conspiracy theorists, and be mad when years later we discover that they told the truth.
This book was a fascinating read. It is a summary of all the world players warring for the control of America.
RECOMMENDED.
February 26, 2023
Ugh. I wanted to like this; I eagerly waited for it's arrival and then find it's nigh on unreadable. You're carpet bombed with so many names, corporations, government agencies, and the tendrils of affiliations and degrees of separation they all have it's hard to where the author is navigating us. It's akin to listening to an overexcited 6 year old inundating his parents with every imaginable micro detail about his first trip to an amusement park.
August 28, 2023
This book is a nightmare. While there can be no doubt I considered the entire government a fraud of criminals and gangsters, Webb pulls the curtain back and names the names over the last century of mafioso, drug lords, crime bosses, and government bureaucrats both elected and appointed who are on the same team. The team they have is designed to run everything and loot it all. They own the banks and they own the prosecutors and the judges and write the laws and choose to ignore what they want. You want to see the multi-tiered justice system working on behalf of the gangsters and against you and me, read this book. The levels of perverse sexuality within this group and their blatant disregard for decency will make your blood boil.
These are your leaders and you never wanted them. They lead. They steal. They loot and they rape and pillage. This is your government and there is nothing you can do about it because they are gangsters from the ground floor up. I bought Volume 1&2, but I am going to hold off on reading volume 2 for awhile so I can relax.
These are your leaders and you never wanted them. They lead. They steal. They loot and they rape and pillage. This is your government and there is nothing you can do about it because they are gangsters from the ground floor up. I bought Volume 1&2, but I am going to hold off on reading volume 2 for awhile so I can relax.
November 17, 2022
Highly recommend this book. It will convincingly show you we live within a criminal enterprise. No more delusions!
November 9, 2022
This book should be headline news.
A very detailed investigation from an excellent journalist. Whitney Webb deserves huge credit as it must have taken a big effort to put all this together. Ideally, this book (and volume 2) would become best sellers, educate the public, be debated in the media and lead to justice and reform. I hope this all happens. Well worth buying. Get an extra copy and pass it on.
A very detailed investigation from an excellent journalist. Whitney Webb deserves huge credit as it must have taken a big effort to put all this together. Ideally, this book (and volume 2) would become best sellers, educate the public, be debated in the media and lead to justice and reform. I hope this all happens. Well worth buying. Get an extra copy and pass it on.
October 31, 2022
Provides a well researched and dry academic historical record of cases and context for agencies like CIA, FBI, OSS etc to develop and perfect corporate,sexual, personal black mail for government nefarous operations, subversions etc Nothing on the Epstein in part 1 but author's purpose is to establish historical context in which these operations were developed by dark actors in the swamps of government. Webb has an excellent podcast where she is able to articulate her wide ranging research as well, this book needs an editor and summary to make it more digestable. Its over arching and just too broad to really understand. The conclusion at the end is that the government along with networks involving politicians, business people, criminal organizations subvert individuals and groups for their purposes. The problem is that after working through it there was too much data to really connect to a central thesis - other than that the government operates in subversive ways and this book collects some of those cases.
Want to read
April 17, 2023Found some good quotations about this book on Unz.com
In her great chronicle One Nation Under Blackmail, Whitney Webb details Reagan’s CIA Director’s relations with the Jewish Mob:
[William] Casey and [Roy] Cohn were close friends, and, during the 1980 Reagan campaign, Casey “called Roy almost daily.” … [I]n the immediate aftermath of Reagan’s electoral victory, Cohn … took (Adnan) Khashoggi on as a client. Epstein would follow suit, shortly after his resignation from Bear Stearns. … Casey had been the legal representative of Bear Stearns during Epstein’s time there up until several weeks before Epstein’s abrupt resignation, when Casey became CIA Director. (Webb, ppg. 650–51)
Roy Cohn was of course the Jewish mob attorney in New York City who ran his own child-raping blackmail rings, similar to Epstein. Epstein resigned from Bear Stearns on March 12, 1981, less than a month after Reagan took office. The timing coincided with an insider trading crime at the bank that involved the Jewish mob family the Bronfmans. (Webb, ppg. 18–23)
In her great chronicle One Nation Under Blackmail, Whitney Webb details Reagan’s CIA Director’s relations with the Jewish Mob:
[William] Casey and [Roy] Cohn were close friends, and, during the 1980 Reagan campaign, Casey “called Roy almost daily.” … [I]n the immediate aftermath of Reagan’s electoral victory, Cohn … took (Adnan) Khashoggi on as a client. Epstein would follow suit, shortly after his resignation from Bear Stearns. … Casey had been the legal representative of Bear Stearns during Epstein’s time there up until several weeks before Epstein’s abrupt resignation, when Casey became CIA Director. (Webb, ppg. 650–51)
Roy Cohn was of course the Jewish mob attorney in New York City who ran his own child-raping blackmail rings, similar to Epstein. Epstein resigned from Bear Stearns on March 12, 1981, less than a month after Reagan took office. The timing coincided with an insider trading crime at the bank that involved the Jewish mob family the Bronfmans. (Webb, ppg. 18–23)
June 26, 2023
As we think about our lives and relationships we would like to believe we are more powerful than we are. CEOs, politicians, presidents, world leaders, and security service members are linked in a web of reliance that is laced with lies, extortion, desires to be more powerful, and powerful relationships.
Reading that Nixon and Carter were subjugated by the malicious control of the friends and members of security services and monetary powers (domestic and foreign) is a rude awakening when we consider how our government (NGOs/foundations) is unwilling to truly respect individuals and our society. Apparently, the powerful/wealthy rely more on fear, lies, hiding true causality and facts while not taking responsibility for all of society - as they are afraid of losing their network/ relevance! As I think of the Dunbar number, the elite/ powerful lose sight of life outside of their 150 contacts - oh if only they sought to be respected like a true God!
This book, a researcher's blessing, is a great guide to our reality that has been developing and becomes more entrenched as technologies develop. As we consider the covid-19 pandemic, the control placed by Gates, WHO, bio terror mavens, Fauci, and corporate interests (pharma, health networks, perhaps tech companies, and of course Defense /security contractors, and NGOs such as Rockefeller, Bill and Melinda gates, Koch) we can only begin to grasp our inability to alter power structures. Transparency would be a nice change and the author, Whitney Webb, does a superb job tying the inordinate web together. Truly an amazing and important tome to read.
As we move toward digital currencies, I suspect that the same control freaks will limit our choices and freedoms. Will we be forced to buy only certain things, buy GMO, polyunsaturated fat foods (which affect testosterone and estrogen levels)? I suspect we must use certain fuels coming from certain places, use corrupt/ specific banks, our digital currency can only be used within 5 miles from your home unless you have a corporate approved vacation using a state approved Tesla or inject the monthly vaccine. Each of those items to be taxed of course. Real pasture raised meat and gulfstream jets and Greenwich, CT and Palm Beach will be available to the "in" crowd and taxes will be waived. Let the poor worry about and pay for climate change and health insurance for having eaten foods that make others wealthy, while living paycheck to paycheck and living in fear of losing a job - is this a society for which our founding fathers would be proud? Whitney Webb has given us a great gift and I hope our society can be better for it.
Reading that Nixon and Carter were subjugated by the malicious control of the friends and members of security services and monetary powers (domestic and foreign) is a rude awakening when we consider how our government (NGOs/foundations) is unwilling to truly respect individuals and our society. Apparently, the powerful/wealthy rely more on fear, lies, hiding true causality and facts while not taking responsibility for all of society - as they are afraid of losing their network/ relevance! As I think of the Dunbar number, the elite/ powerful lose sight of life outside of their 150 contacts - oh if only they sought to be respected like a true God!
This book, a researcher's blessing, is a great guide to our reality that has been developing and becomes more entrenched as technologies develop. As we consider the covid-19 pandemic, the control placed by Gates, WHO, bio terror mavens, Fauci, and corporate interests (pharma, health networks, perhaps tech companies, and of course Defense /security contractors, and NGOs such as Rockefeller, Bill and Melinda gates, Koch) we can only begin to grasp our inability to alter power structures. Transparency would be a nice change and the author, Whitney Webb, does a superb job tying the inordinate web together. Truly an amazing and important tome to read.
As we move toward digital currencies, I suspect that the same control freaks will limit our choices and freedoms. Will we be forced to buy only certain things, buy GMO, polyunsaturated fat foods (which affect testosterone and estrogen levels)? I suspect we must use certain fuels coming from certain places, use corrupt/ specific banks, our digital currency can only be used within 5 miles from your home unless you have a corporate approved vacation using a state approved Tesla or inject the monthly vaccine. Each of those items to be taxed of course. Real pasture raised meat and gulfstream jets and Greenwich, CT and Palm Beach will be available to the "in" crowd and taxes will be waived. Let the poor worry about and pay for climate change and health insurance for having eaten foods that make others wealthy, while living paycheck to paycheck and living in fear of losing a job - is this a society for which our founding fathers would be proud? Whitney Webb has given us a great gift and I hope our society can be better for it.
January 11, 2023
Hard to put down!
April 26, 2023
Two stars because the corruption of our government via organized crime, rich folks, and the enemy is a self-evident truth, BUT Webb's book is just so difficult to read because it truly is a mass of names, banks, and places without true connections. And then there's her bias against anti-communists (Hoover, North, McCarthy, etc.) and Donald Trump. I began to question whether my lying eyes and ears were telling me the truth or whether Webb's sketchily sourced words were true. And then I read Diana West's critique of her books. Wish I had done better research. It would have saved my brain of 345 pages (where I stopped) of the 502 pages of the book. Here's the link: https://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/E...
June 17, 2023
This book is a feat of research and tying things all together. I especially appreciate the end notes and inclusion of source documents. I’ve been endeavoring to see the world more clearly, and this … explains a lot.
December 30, 2022
Astonishing
Very interesting, shocking in places. A difficult read as so many names are briefly mentioned. It is hard to keep track therefore and I had to keep notes so I was not totally overwhelmed by detail. However, it is worth the effort and I will buy part two now. Hope its easier to read.
Very interesting, shocking in places. A difficult read as so many names are briefly mentioned. It is hard to keep track therefore and I had to keep notes so I was not totally overwhelmed by detail. However, it is worth the effort and I will buy part two now. Hope its easier to read.
November 9, 2023
This is a much needed Wake-Up call from a brave and meticulous Researcher/Writer Whitney Webb!
In fact, I am surprised that she has not been suicided by the Intelligence/Organized Crime octopus... (See; Mark Middleton, Danny Casolaro, Vince Foster, Gary Webb, and of course Jeffrey Epstein and Others...)
Think I sound paranoid? Read this book.
Ever wonder why during or after the Ghislaine Maxwell trial NONE of the rich and powerful associates/clients of Epstein and Maxwell were ever revealed? Why were they/ARE THEY being protected?
Not really investigated is J.Edgar Hoover's use of Blackmail to stay in Power for 50 years (the Mob's Blackmail of him is mentioned.) That is simply not within the scope of this book. However, all of the strands of this tangled web(/Marriage) of Government/Organized crime corruption are thoroughly cited in the footnotes.
Can't wait to get into Volume 2!
Highly recommended!
In fact, I am surprised that she has not been suicided by the Intelligence/Organized Crime octopus... (See; Mark Middleton, Danny Casolaro, Vince Foster, Gary Webb, and of course Jeffrey Epstein and Others...)
Think I sound paranoid? Read this book.
Ever wonder why during or after the Ghislaine Maxwell trial NONE of the rich and powerful associates/clients of Epstein and Maxwell were ever revealed? Why were they/ARE THEY being protected?
Not really investigated is J.Edgar Hoover's use of Blackmail to stay in Power for 50 years (the Mob's Blackmail of him is mentioned.) That is simply not within the scope of this book. However, all of the strands of this tangled web(/Marriage) of Government/Organized crime corruption are thoroughly cited in the footnotes.
Can't wait to get into Volume 2!
Highly recommended!
September 24, 2025
Who's who with some more who's. Naming names. In combination with Anthony Sutton's, James Perloff's, Michael Ruppert's, G. Edward Griffin's, H. P. Albarelli's, Carroll Quigley's (some others in the same genre of course) work one should come away with the fact that the criminal, sociopathic element of humanity veling their true controllers (another review?) is and has been running the planet of hapless humans certainly, at least, for the last 200 years. We answer to the dregs, not any duly elected government or benevolent state. Reading Vol 2 now and it's more interesting especially if you've already read the authors listed above.
December 26, 2025
Tons to say about this:
- This reminded me of Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance with regard to the information presented being extremely important but in an approach that makes it feel like a slog. This book is 500 pages of names, dates, etc. There is just way too much data to be able to retain much, but it's worth reading because the overall info presented is so important to understand.
- The extent to which organized crime has worked hand-in-hand with the FBI and/or CIA is deeply disturbing. Going into this book, I was familiar with a little of what Webb discusses but most of it was new to me. It is incredibly depressing just how evil and corrupt many of the stories were in here.
- I was still only reading about things that took place in the 1940s and 50s when I came to the conclusion that the 'Octopus Murders' in 1991 were totally a real thing and Danny Casolaro (the reporter who uncovered it) was absolutely 'suicided' along with his key source.
It's a slow read and not a fun one but if you like real-life dystopians, non-fiction about modern history, organized crime, or the FBI / CIA, you should check this out.
- This reminded me of Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance with regard to the information presented being extremely important but in an approach that makes it feel like a slog. This book is 500 pages of names, dates, etc. There is just way too much data to be able to retain much, but it's worth reading because the overall info presented is so important to understand.
- The extent to which organized crime has worked hand-in-hand with the FBI and/or CIA is deeply disturbing. Going into this book, I was familiar with a little of what Webb discusses but most of it was new to me. It is incredibly depressing just how evil and corrupt many of the stories were in here.
- I was still only reading about things that took place in the 1940s and 50s when I came to the conclusion that the 'Octopus Murders' in 1991 were totally a real thing and Danny Casolaro (the reporter who uncovered it) was absolutely 'suicided' along with his key source.
It's a slow read and not a fun one but if you like real-life dystopians, non-fiction about modern history, organized crime, or the FBI / CIA, you should check this out.
October 13, 2025
Essential reading. Take the red pill.
February 8, 2025
I've long been a cynic with respect to my trust in so-called republican / democratic government, *especially* when it comes to our foreign policy. The US has been the sycophantic lapdog for Israeli interests since the Johnson administration, at least, which I researched and documented myself in a research paper at Air University.
Little did I know the extent and depth to which this corruption actually sank prior to reading Webb's extensively documented analysis.
In this two-volume work, she demonstrates that organized crime, foreign policy, national and foreign intelligence, arms dealing, sex trafficking, and the buying and selling of politicians *are all one interrelated and interconnected web of corruption* protecting one another's interests and insured against exposure by blackmail, especially but not limited to sexual blackmail.
And no one escapes the author's penetrating gaze. If you think Vince Foster's "suicide" was suspicious, you're not alone. If you believe FLOTUS personally authored his suicide note to cover up actual espionage against the US from the White House, well that would be worth investigating, no? But does it also tie to the Iran-Contra affair from two administrations previous? And to Watergate? And to Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump and Joe McCarthy and the Mossad?
If you've previously made all those connections, there is no need to read this book. But if you haven't and you're willing to be disabused of your misplaced trust in the American political system (D or R, it doesn't matter), this is a must-read.
The first volume is the background analysis of the organized crime, intelligence, and criminal "prosecution" networks that created and enabled Jeffrey Epstein, whereas the second volume deals more directly with his direct actions that are oh-so-more-involved than simply sex trafficking.
It is possible that the recent collapse of the mainstream media and rise of the independent journalists not beholden to the common ownership of the former will begin the process of removing the wool long ago pulled over the public's eye.
Or one can hope.
Little did I know the extent and depth to which this corruption actually sank prior to reading Webb's extensively documented analysis.
In this two-volume work, she demonstrates that organized crime, foreign policy, national and foreign intelligence, arms dealing, sex trafficking, and the buying and selling of politicians *are all one interrelated and interconnected web of corruption* protecting one another's interests and insured against exposure by blackmail, especially but not limited to sexual blackmail.
And no one escapes the author's penetrating gaze. If you think Vince Foster's "suicide" was suspicious, you're not alone. If you believe FLOTUS personally authored his suicide note to cover up actual espionage against the US from the White House, well that would be worth investigating, no? But does it also tie to the Iran-Contra affair from two administrations previous? And to Watergate? And to Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump and Joe McCarthy and the Mossad?
If you've previously made all those connections, there is no need to read this book. But if you haven't and you're willing to be disabused of your misplaced trust in the American political system (D or R, it doesn't matter), this is a must-read.
The first volume is the background analysis of the organized crime, intelligence, and criminal "prosecution" networks that created and enabled Jeffrey Epstein, whereas the second volume deals more directly with his direct actions that are oh-so-more-involved than simply sex trafficking.
It is possible that the recent collapse of the mainstream media and rise of the independent journalists not beholden to the common ownership of the former will begin the process of removing the wool long ago pulled over the public's eye.
Or one can hope.
August 18, 2023
wikispooks
Whitney Alyse Webb is an American journalist who lives in Chile.
"Her work aims to highlight under-reported issues and find common ground between people of different political persuasions regarding corruption, government overreach, the lack of accountability for militaries and intelligence agencies, and the military industrial complex"
GoodReads
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Career
She has written for a range of independent media such as MintPress News, Global Research, the Anti-Media, The Last American Vagabond, the Unz Review and Black Agenda Report.
Her website is Unlimited Hangout
Patreon censorship 2021
Patreon blocked Webb's account in March 2021, since in their explanation her reports might dissuade her audience from taking preventative measures to fight COVID-19. Point of concern was her December 2020 article that covered the Wellcome Trust extensively.[
She was asked to remove the article from her own website, she deleted her Patreon after that. An interview she did with James Corbett shortly thereafter lead to the first strike on Corbett's channel.
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Whitney Webb
Investigative journalist, author
Residence Chile
Nationality American
Member of
Activist Post - American Herald Tribune
The Last American Vagabond - Unlimited Hangout
Victim of
- Censorship
- Google/Censorship
Interests
Permaculture
VIPaedophile
Zionism
Epstein Affair
US deep state
Operation Warp Speed
COVID-19/Purposes
CIA/Black budget
Investigative journalist who has published many aspects of The Deep State
October 2, 2023
A better title: Six Degrees of Jeffrey Epstein. It contains a dull summary of practically every alleged conspiracy between members of the intelligence community, organized crime, politics, business, and the media over the last century. Webb has rounded up all the usual suspects, as Claude Rains said in Casablanca. However, I kept waiting for a coherent story to develop, and it didn’t. It’s just an endless list of the names of influential men, mostly dead, who had tenuous associations with other influential men, as if that’s surprising. Though I scanned this massive tome (805 pages) quickly, the pages might as well have been blank; there’s nothing here. I won’t waste time on Part 2 (another 648 pages).
December 11, 2022
This book is an encyclopedia accounting of so many times between nefarious people and circumstances. It is overwhelming.
But I am laying it down and not finishing it (I bought both volumes.)
It is *extremely* well researched and a miracle of editing makes it very readable. But I will not remember these names or connections.
So I'm keeping it on hand - to use as an encyclopedia. If I run into the names again, I can look them up here.
The books are brilliant. But I already know my memory will not hold all of this well.
But I am laying it down and not finishing it (I bought both volumes.)
It is *extremely* well researched and a miracle of editing makes it very readable. But I will not remember these names or connections.
So I'm keeping it on hand - to use as an encyclopedia. If I run into the names again, I can look them up here.
The books are brilliant. But I already know my memory will not hold all of this well.
May 30, 2023
Whitney makes a noble attempt to list the 20th century's grand list of corruption as found in the public record.
No speculation or hearsay it's all footnoted and from official documents.
Most of these characters named are directly connected to today's CEOs and leaders by having schooled them or by family links.
My only criticism is Whitney attempts to cover way too much ground in this magnum opus.
No speculation or hearsay it's all footnoted and from official documents.
Most of these characters named are directly connected to today's CEOs and leaders by having schooled them or by family links.
My only criticism is Whitney attempts to cover way too much ground in this magnum opus.
March 1, 2023
This was one of the weirder books I’ve read only because it’s so interesting but hard to read at the same time because it’s so information dense and I’m a dummy, so I had to take a break constantly. I knew the government was corrupt but this book lays out how much more corrupt and how much farther it goes back than most people would imagine.
April 30, 2023
Respect her research and documentation skills. It’s just a very long read, tense with information.
Read
December 15, 2023Informative
June 18, 2025
Detailed to the point of making it mind numbing.
January 14, 2025
I struggled to read this. In my head there was a voice that sounded lie a YouTube essay content creator who uses connect-dots narrative style. The book is structurally built on historical foundations of organizations and departments that have been morphed, reinvented, restructured, redesigned and grown (out of control, in some cases) and the power that shifts with every passing geopolitical event.
If I were to set aside for a second that this all real, and the conjecture the author comes to has some backing, its makes for a fantastic narrative. Everyone in power is corrupt, every agency is corrupt, every law related, security agencies have bad blood on their hands and the fact that every conspiracy is a washed up Disney version presented to public while the reality is far darker, sinister and utterly disgusting.
I have definitely not looked at every source the author provides, maybe there are folks out there who have fact checked these. Its easy to prove or disprove what's there in the book but what seems to be very hard in these cases is that things are always being left out and how much of these left out stuff matters to the narration and why were they left out.
Still left with many questions, which I hope, will be answered in next installment.
If I were to set aside for a second that this all real, and the conjecture the author comes to has some backing, its makes for a fantastic narrative. Everyone in power is corrupt, every agency is corrupt, every law related, security agencies have bad blood on their hands and the fact that every conspiracy is a washed up Disney version presented to public while the reality is far darker, sinister and utterly disgusting.
I have definitely not looked at every source the author provides, maybe there are folks out there who have fact checked these. Its easy to prove or disprove what's there in the book but what seems to be very hard in these cases is that things are always being left out and how much of these left out stuff matters to the narration and why were they left out.
Still left with many questions, which I hope, will be answered in next installment.
August 7, 2025
I liked this novel, but I wanted to LOVE it. I mean this is one of the biggest stories in the news, (as it should be), and while the book provided great moments of intrigue there were also times I was lefting wondering where a certain tangent was going. Webb really and I mean REALLY loves throwing names out while also assuming you recall them all chapters later and how they tie into the main story. This can approach Charlie from Always Sunny in Philadelphia at the bulletin board levels of insanity. I was never bored while reading this, but the author would really benefit from less tangential moments and significantly fewer names. Focus should be placed on stories told during the story like PROMIS and BCCI and their importance to the Epstein story, not a tertiary character somehow linked to Meyer Lansky. Hopefully the second novel is more grounded in the story it is trying to tell.
February 11, 2025
There simply isn’t enough red string, push pins and corkboard on planet Earth to plot all of the connections laid out in this book. Despite its comprehensive coverage, far from a starter book, this is more like a capstone review of the links between governments, intelligence agencies, and criminal networks from the past 80 years. It would be pretty cool if someone, perhaps using AI, had a 3-D map of the world and all the characters involved (the z-axis being time) such that you could click on any person or country referenced in the book and trace all of the connections.
Welcome to the REAL history of the modern world. The “history” you learn in schools, even through graduate level college, is essentially a fantasy: it has little to no relation to why things are the way they are for most peoples’ lives. I can say with 100% certainty that the Teapot Dome Scandal, although it happened, is about as significant as the rocks I was skipping across the lake this weekend. Those smooth rocks are part of history now too! In a world based in reality, this book would be the foundation for the majority of high school and college History courses, called something like, “An overview of Organized Crime and Intelligence Networks in World Affairs, 101” or “Mossad and the Disappeared of Guatemala, 220”.
Although this book is rated 5 stars and Foundational, I would absolutely not recommend this book unless you’ve had extensive exposure to Deep State history. Otherwise the book is so sprawling and unwieldy it won’t register in your frontal cortex and will likely drift into the background like white noise. Start with the Octopus Murders Netflix series. And once you finish that and think, “My God this conspiracy is massive!” just remember that the Octopus Murders represents just ONE chapter out of 10 in the first of two volumes.
The other problem the book has is an almost complete lack of narrative structure. Data piled upon data at a certain point stops being data. And although there are plenty of recurring characters, they float so seamlessly in and out of the various plots, that it’s hard to pin anything down. See my 3-D map idea above.
In the end, this book is more akin to a reference work. It would be helpful to have a physical copy with an index (or at a minimum - a searchable copy). And anytime you were learning about any recent historical or current event, you could just check One Nation and see if there are any “Deep” connections.
Here is just a short yet deliberately obnoxiously long list of people, countries, topics covered: The formation of Israel, the Kuomintong and the formation of Taiwan, Burma/Thailand and opium, Prohibition era smuggling, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Roy Cohen, J Edgar Hoover, BCCI, Intrabank, the French Connection, Adnan Kashoggi, Michael Rappaport (not that one), Intermaritime Bank, the Krays, the Safari Club, the Knights of Malta, Leslie Wexner (owner of Columbus, OH), the Iran-Contra affair, the Mujahideen, Epstein, Robert Maxwell, the Franklin Scandal, the Clintons, Rose Law & Mena, AK, the Inslaw affair. It goes without saying that the CIA and Mossad are referenced ad nauseum.
You either accept, or begin to accept, that almost everything you’ve ever been told is a lie, or at best, a mass induced propagandistic hallucination in order to assuage cognitive dissonance regarding living in the heart of one of the most brutal empires in human history, OR don’t read the book OR begin to check out Whitney Webb’s website “Unlimited Hangout”. Or read another book on my Foundational shelf. Take it slow.
Welcome to the REAL history of the modern world. The “history” you learn in schools, even through graduate level college, is essentially a fantasy: it has little to no relation to why things are the way they are for most peoples’ lives. I can say with 100% certainty that the Teapot Dome Scandal, although it happened, is about as significant as the rocks I was skipping across the lake this weekend. Those smooth rocks are part of history now too! In a world based in reality, this book would be the foundation for the majority of high school and college History courses, called something like, “An overview of Organized Crime and Intelligence Networks in World Affairs, 101” or “Mossad and the Disappeared of Guatemala, 220”.
Although this book is rated 5 stars and Foundational, I would absolutely not recommend this book unless you’ve had extensive exposure to Deep State history. Otherwise the book is so sprawling and unwieldy it won’t register in your frontal cortex and will likely drift into the background like white noise. Start with the Octopus Murders Netflix series. And once you finish that and think, “My God this conspiracy is massive!” just remember that the Octopus Murders represents just ONE chapter out of 10 in the first of two volumes.
The other problem the book has is an almost complete lack of narrative structure. Data piled upon data at a certain point stops being data. And although there are plenty of recurring characters, they float so seamlessly in and out of the various plots, that it’s hard to pin anything down. See my 3-D map idea above.
In the end, this book is more akin to a reference work. It would be helpful to have a physical copy with an index (or at a minimum - a searchable copy). And anytime you were learning about any recent historical or current event, you could just check One Nation and see if there are any “Deep” connections.
Here is just a short yet deliberately obnoxiously long list of people, countries, topics covered: The formation of Israel, the Kuomintong and the formation of Taiwan, Burma/Thailand and opium, Prohibition era smuggling, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Roy Cohen, J Edgar Hoover, BCCI, Intrabank, the French Connection, Adnan Kashoggi, Michael Rappaport (not that one), Intermaritime Bank, the Krays, the Safari Club, the Knights of Malta, Leslie Wexner (owner of Columbus, OH), the Iran-Contra affair, the Mujahideen, Epstein, Robert Maxwell, the Franklin Scandal, the Clintons, Rose Law & Mena, AK, the Inslaw affair. It goes without saying that the CIA and Mossad are referenced ad nauseum.
You either accept, or begin to accept, that almost everything you’ve ever been told is a lie, or at best, a mass induced propagandistic hallucination in order to assuage cognitive dissonance regarding living in the heart of one of the most brutal empires in human history, OR don’t read the book OR begin to check out Whitney Webb’s website “Unlimited Hangout”. Or read another book on my Foundational shelf. Take it slow.
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