Tuesday, November 02, 2021
Measuring the power of blackmail
A few of Epstein's controlled entities are starting to come loose. An executive at Deutsche Bank was fired for using his Epstein connections.
I don't assume that Epstein died, but it seems that his control over the empire is weakening just a bit. If he had died without handing over the files to a successor, the controlled entities would feel a sense of relief, and would stop following Epstein's wishes. We'd see a massive burst of information and a change of decisions. We saw such a burst in '73 after Lady Edgar died.
This isn't happening, so we can conclude that either he's still in charge, or he handed the operation over to Ghislaine, who isn't running the empire quite as forcefully.
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Thinking about the nature of blackmail power: Blackmailers like Lady Edgar and Roy Cohn and Epstein don't make decisions. Their controlled puppets make decisions and give orders, within a limited range. The puppets know what they can't do.
Blackmailers don't control the world, they control the controllers. So the power of a blackmailer might be measurable in an inverse-selection way.
For each decision there are several available choices. Which choices were no longer taken after Epstein roped in this CEO? 
Labels: Metrology, UNENDING HELL
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