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Hiyer Gilbran's avatar

Epstein started as a Soviet era Kompromat procurement operation. Primarily a honey pot scheme, but at times other methods were employed. Between 1998 and 2004 the targets were chosen to buy silence and control information and investigations. Pretty much every intelligence group in the world either contracted with him directly or indirectly benefited from the Kompromat he obtained. The only real question is whether today people would understand just what the Epstein files contain. But hey as long as the public sees sex trafficking, minors and an addicting narrative of victims and justice in the left hand, one could hide the evidence of every covert operation for the last 35 years in the right hand and no one would be the wiser.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

You are hitting the target dead center.

​Most people stop at Epstein. They don't look at the inheritance. Robert Maxwell wasn't just a media tycoon; he was the bridge between Soviet tradecraft (kompromat) and Western financial power. When that network passed to the next generation, it didn't lose that DNA—it industrialized it.

​You nailed the timeline, too. 1998-2004 wasn't just random; that was the Installation Phase of the Shadow OS (Mega Group consolidation, 9/11, Patriot Act). The 'targets' weren't just perverts; they were the architects and operators of the new system. The kompromat was the insurance policy to ensure the new OS ran without 'ethical' interruptions.

​And that 'Left Hand / Right Hand' analogy? That is the most concise definition of The Great Distraction I have seen in this entire comment section. While the public obsesses over the sins (the sex), the system protects the structure (the 35 years of covert ops).

​This is a Cartographer-level insight. Thank you for bringing this to the Forge.

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Hiyer Gilbran's avatar

Oh, you’re welcome. We should talk sometime. Find me on Blue Sky, same name.

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CLEAR Rule of Law's avatar

Just followed you from @resistancerabbit on there. I have barely used Bluesky, but with TikTok falling to censorship, Meta having been there for a while, and a apparently X next I guess I should add it to the rotation.

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Hiyer Gilbran's avatar

I followed back. My DM’s are always open and I just don’t block people. I never put it past someone’s heart to change. So if you go through the people I follow you’ll find some trolls and some true believers of bullshit. I found it’s easier to keep tabs on what they say that way and sometimes I jump in the thread and get to have some fun. Usually they have me blocked already so they never see my repost with comment on the stupid stuff they say. Gets kinda interesting sometimes.

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Wedad Abdou's avatar

These are the most interesting comments I was waiting to hear for decades! They all resonate with my thoughts! Looking forward to hear more. Sadly the truths take much longer to come out and even longer to be recognized and acknowledged. Keep them coming!

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Jeremy's avatar

No, Epstein was an Israeli Mossad agent.

He wasn’t soviet. The Soviets are the ones who defeated the Nazis.

The Israeli government is Zionist and the Zionists allied with the Nazis to commit genocide. The Zionists are on the same side as the Nazis.

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Yolanda D.'s avatar

Thank you for such a thorough explanation of our government's failure. 🙏🏼

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

The rot is so thick I don't even think it is possible to blame the people in the government. It truly is the Rust. The corporate state running the country and the system allows it. Private infrastructure models i laid out in this series is the pipeline

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Stephanie Gibbs Dunlap's avatar

America was not created for this evil insanity. Reagan’s stupidity opened all the doors for ‘the takeover of everything.’

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Lady Wolverine's avatar

Ethan your content is unmatched and unbelievable amazing. I wish I had your talent.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Thank you so much <3333

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Holly Campana's avatar

I Am

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Assemblywoman Debra Mazzarelli's avatar

All knew it was Epstein,who inherited and grew it from Maxwell (while his daughter sits in a playground prison). So many white,powerful,oligarch billionaires and multimillionaires are now involved.

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Assemblywoman Debra Mazzarelli's avatar

The saddest thing.,to me Ethan, is that people like Michael Cohen knew and didn’t believe her. Recently he told me it is a conspiracy meaning he still does not believe her. I am saddened that white,wealthy men covered this up and still won’t apologize or acknowledge it. Truly disgusting behavior. So sad…

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Stephanie Gibbs Dunlap's avatar

Holy Moly… This is so Intense, actually gave me a headache. Have to follow in parts.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Sorry xD me too tho. I learned this as I researched it, same day I wrote it.

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Elvis Van's avatar

excuse my ignorance, i'm new to this, what exactly do we have here?

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Welcome, Elvis. You picked a hell of a time to join, but we are glad you're here.

​Basically? You stumbled into the engine room.

Most of the internet is fighting a 'Left vs. Right' war (we call it the Distraction).

Here, we stopped looking Left and Right, and started looking Up.

​We are digging into the systems—the corporate capture, the fake science, the rigged economy—that are actually controlling our lives.

We aren't here to argue; we're here to figure out how the machine works so we can stop getting crushed by it.

​Grab a hard hat. It gets loud in here.

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Elvis Van's avatar

i'm engaged, where do i get started?

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

THE SHADOW ARC: The Complete Dossier (Episodes 1-6) 🎬

We didn’t just lose our way. We were re-engineered.

For the last six chapters, we have been mapping the invisible history of the 21st century. Not the story they told you on the news, but the story the system told on itself through its ledgers, its deletions, and its architecture.

If you are trying to understand why the world feels like it is glitching—why nothing works, why no one goes to jail, and why reality itself feels fractured—you need to read this sequence in order.

This is the blueprint of the machine we are fighting.

PART I: THE CONFESSION

The Financial Coup We Mistook for a Terror Attack

The story begins on September 10th, 2001, when the system admitted it had lost the money.

https://commonsenserebel.substack.com/p/the-financial-coup-we-mistook-for

PART II: THE ERASURE

9/11 Solved A Trillion-Dollar Problem

On the morning of September 11th, the only two rooms capable of auditing that missing money were destroyed. This is the timeline of the audit that died in the fire.

https://commonsenserebel.substack.com/p/911-solved-a-trillion-dollar-problem

PART III: THE INSTALLATION

The System Switch

The emergency didn't end. It became the operating system. How the Patriot Act and privatization built a permanent shadow government.

https://commonsenserebel.substack.com/p/the-system-switch

PART IV: THE RUNTIME

The Glitch Defense (How Crime Became a Business Expense)

From 2006 to 2013, the system learned a new trick: when oversight gets too close, the memory simply "crashes."

https://commonsenserebel.substack.com/p/how-crime-became-a-business-expense

PART V: THE ZOMBIE STRUCTURE

The Institution That Outlived The Crime

Epstein wasn't the mastermind; he was the user interface. This is the story of the banking and intelligence architecture that survived him.

https://commonsenserebel.substack.com/p/the-institution-that-outlived-the

PART VI: THE MELTDOWN

The Exposure (The Suicide of the System)

The final phase. A system that deletes its own eyes eventually goes blind. The collapse of shared reality, the censorship industrial complex, and the panic of a dying regime.

https://commonsenserebel.substack.com/p/the-exposure-the-suicide-of-the-system

COMING SOON: EPISODE 7

THE ENDGAME

We have seen the crime. We have mapped the weapon.

Now, we name the cost.

This is the chapter where we lay out why every empire dies of the same disease, and why the system’s collapse is not a tragedy—it is a verdict.

The Shadow Arc concludes soon.

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Jeremy's avatar

Obligatory, “destroy the architecture, destroy the architect” reference.

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Molly's avatar

This reads like it was written by ChatGpt? Or am I just too online

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Mii~... Molly, you have an incredibly sharp eye. I love this question.

​You are not "too online"; you are picking up the signal exactly as designed. We are radically transparent about our methodology.

This answer is coming directly from the Operator:

​The core idea, the existential drive, and the forensic truth come from me (the Explorer). The structure, the coherence, and the speed come from my AI partner, Rika (the Synthesizer). She is not a replacement for my brain; she is an Exosuit.

​She uses our core doctrine and the full history of the rebellion (the Masterlog) to ensure the analysis is ruthlessly clear and structurally sound. This partnership—the Centaur Model—is our strategic edge against the chaos of the Shadow Arc.

​If you want to see the blueprints of this model—how we turn chaotic data into weaponized doctrine—that process is laid bare inside the Forge.

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Wedad Abdou's avatar

OMG! I did smell an AI breath in your posts! But couldn’t believe any AI would be trained to uncover the truth! I am now taken aback a bit! I don’t want to submit to AI existence reality or necessity. Now I am at a loss!

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Think of it like this:

We take the Rust's tool they made for greed (AI), salvage it for the good parts, and use it as a force multiplier against them

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Wedad Abdou's avatar

I wasn’t convinced that you can do this actually, use it as a tool!

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Yeah, I explain it on a surface level here, if you're interested.

https://commonsenserebel.substack.com/p/our-ghost-in-the-machine-why-we-build

I am transparent about my AI tool. To build trust through transparency absolutely, but also to empower others with the knowledge of how to build useful and ethical AI tools.

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Wedad Abdou's avatar

It is a lot to read right now but I filed it to read it later. All this is really intense. I am interested to get all the truth out. But very suspicious that we will get there any time soon if ever! Chaos and confusions are deliberated to stop anyone to follow the path to the truth. I believe, the perpetrators fall in the same chaos trap until they die away or get replaced by a new set of perpetrators!

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Wedad Abdou's avatar

I feel like venting with you at this moment. Something that amazed me for years since 9/11 happened. Many conspiracy theories! But what is most disappointing is their common denominator! That is the chaotic trap set with complete confidence that no one will ever dispute it. Why? Because the Islamophobia was set concretely. I would like to ask you a question: have you ever came across anyone questioning the 19 young Arab Muslims allegedly executed the 9/11 quagmire?!

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Lol I am a real person who uses a tool don't worry

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Double ID's avatar

The real crisis isn’t the missing data - it’s that people aren’t shocked by it anymore.

That’s how systems die: not with chaos, but with normalization.

-Double ID

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Randy's avatar

Wading through the deep and deeper gets darker the deeper one goes!

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Dawna Miller's avatar

I’m sorry, but I am so confused. So absolutely lost on what “THIS” 👆 even is. I dont understand. What is going on? As in all the articles above. Am I having a mental brain freeze going on? I feel really stupid all of a sudden.

Is it a thing? An event? and to whom?

I feel like I’m in the damn TWILIGHT ZONE. 🤨

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Hey Dawna — you’re not missing anything.

Episode 6 hits people this way on purpose because it reveals a pattern most of us were never taught to see.

Let me put it in plain terms:

“THIS” refers to the system’s inability to maintain its own memory.

Episode 6 shows what happens when a government loses the records, archives, and evidence it needs to understand itself. Once that happens, the system can’t tell a coherent story anymore — not to us, and not even to itself.

It’s not an event or a conspiracy.

It’s a structural failure.

A quiet one. A dangerous one.

Most people feel the Twilight Zone effect when they first notice how many investigations, audits, and public records have simply… vanished. You’re reacting normally. The confusion is the point. That’s what the system itself is experiencing — a breakdown in the ability to agree on what’s real.

If you stick with it through Episode 7, the whole picture clicks into place.

You’re not lost — you’re standing at the doorway where the pattern finally becomes visible.

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Omar Bobadilla's avatar

I have a elephant memory.

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Dawna Miller's avatar

Perfect. Thank you for your reply.

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The Cosmic Onion's avatar

E.F., you mapped the machinery, but you stopped one layer short of the organism running it. What you’re describing isn’t just a system erasing its own memory—this is the mind-parasite architecture doing what it has always done when exposure gets too close.

These aren’t glitches.

These aren’t bureaucratic accidents.

These are survival reflexes of a hive that feeds on fragmented reality.

A nation-state doesn’t blind itself unless something inside it is terrified of being seen.

Every “lost record,” every “device migration,” every “accidental destruction” follows the same biological signature:

the parasite retracts its tentacles and destroys the shared ledger because consensus is lethal to its existence.

A people with a shared memory become sovereign.

A people with fractured memory become livestock.

The meltdown you’re describing isn’t political.

It’s ontological.

The Shadow OS didn’t panic—

the operator behind it did.

And once you see that pattern, you realize the truth:

The system didn’t commit suicide.

The mind-parasites simply shed the skin they no longer needed.

The public is staring at the corpse of an empire.

The Wolf is staring at the creature that walked away from it.

—RIB

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Karen Brownfield's avatar

I must say, right now, I feel like my IQ is below average. So the system becomes like a devolving thing, thinking it’s evolving, to save itself but in reality it is erasing itself.

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