There he was, in the “Redcedar” massage suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Vancouver, getting a Shiatsu from local masseuse Kendall Dixon.
A few blocks away, at Canada Place, his buddy Bill Gates posed for pictures at the TED Conference, alongside academics, artists and astronaut Chris Hadfield.
This was in 2014, years after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted for soliciting prostitution from a minor. He was on the New York sex offender registry. He should have been barred from entering Canada.
In a fair world he would have been flagged in the 1990s, after he and Ghislaine Maxwell tried to pick up a young teenager from Surrey on a domestic flight. But the victim says the airline refused to act.
Epstein kept visiting B.C. until the year before his death, when Canadian consular officials denied the notorious pedophile’s application for temporary residency.
What does it say that as the walls were closing in, Epstein thought about moving to Canada?
His pen pal Elon Musk already has dual citizenship. That fact resurfaced last summer, when the world’s richest man landed his private jet in Bella Bella, heading to a sacred hot spring.
We live in their world, or that’s what they believe. This club of powerful men operates with impunity across the Western world, taking what they want from whoever they want.
They hop across borders and use B.C. as a playground, just another exotic corner of the empire, setting up deals and maybe planning a bugout compound.
The private equity billionaires are the latest wave: the self-described “raiders of Wall Street,” septuagenarian bad boys with Picassos and teenagers on their yachts. They want our gas.
When they say “Unleashing American Energy,” they mean drilling holes anywhere in the Americas, the hemisphere they lay claim to. They don’t care about lines on a map.
And when they say “American Energy Dominance,” they mean forcing so much cheap LNG onto the market that people in Europe and Asia give up on solar panels and buy American gas.
It’s a dumb plan, but like their pal Epstein, these guys are not as smart as they think they are.
All the bigshots behind the Ksi Lisims LNG project in B.C. have connections to Jeffrey. Leon Black of Apollo Global Management was “a very close friend” and Epstein’s biggest customer, paying him at least $170 million.
Black’s Apollo co-founder Marc Rowan held breakfast meetings with Epstein and e-mailed him about personal investments, according to files released last week by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Perhaps Epstein talked about the potential he saw in B.C. at the cocktail party he was invited to in 2015 at the home of Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman. More revelations are on the way as the millions of pages are read through and dissected. Many parts of the story we will never know.
Epstein himself won’t be brought to justice. But here in B.C., I’m glad to see everyday people standing up to the billionaire egomaniacs who appear throughout the Epstein files.
Perhaps it’s because we see through them. We see how pathetic these men really are. They expect us to just surrender and hand over whatever they want. But we’re not going to.
