Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Ex Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating's daughter Kathrine Keating linked to Epstein in emails. 13 hours ago:
Oh nice. I didn’t realise archive.is worked on Murdoch. I assumed it didn’t, so I never even tried it out.
But yeah, I was kinda shocked at how poorly-written the whole article was. From the grammar to the flow of the writing to the journalistic style. It really feels like an amateur blog more than a newspaper that presents itself as one of our premier journalistic outfits.
- Comment on Ex Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating's daughter Kathrine Keating linked to Epstein in emails. 15 hours ago:
Full text, to save you giving Murdoch the clicks.
It used to be that ‘X’ marks the spot to find great treasure but a single ‘X’ has today plunged a Sydney socialite into a fresh Jeffrey Epstein nightmare.
Here we are, another day, and another new set of freshly unearthed emails, this time revealing more details about the ties between Katherine Keating, daughter of Australian prime minister Paul Keating, and the convicted sex offender.
The messages show that in 2011, months after the formally unknown financier had been globally named as a pedophile after he was photographed with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Ms Keating was still in contact with Epstein, including signing off one email with an ‘X’.
The new messages between Ms Keating and Epstein are contained in the tranche of thousands of documents released by the US House Oversight Committee. They show that on October 28, 2011 Ms Keating emailed Epstein with a link to a story from The Australian about her father, who then replied, “Are you here”?
Ms Keating: “Just arrived back from San Fran”.
Three days later, on October 31, in a message that started “Dear Friends”, Ms Keating sent Epstein and other people the foreword to her father’s new book After Words.
She also wrote, “I will be sure to send you a copy, it’s a brilliant read. I trust this email finds you well.”
The message is signed “Katherine X”.
Epstein responded, “Are you here?”
Ms Keating: “In NY. You?”
Epstein: “Send me your phone number”.
Whether Epstein was “well” or not in October 2011 is not known but what is is that the world knew who he was a sex offender.
In January 2011 a New York judge ordered Epstein to register as a level three sex offender, the most stringent classification.
The following month, in February, the infamous pap shot of Andrew and Epstein walking in Central Park was splashed across UK front pages with the headline “PRINCE ANDY & THE PAEDO.” The story referred to Epstein as “a convicted child sex pervert’ and reported that he had been “jailed on sex charges involving a girl of 14.”
What today’s new ‘X’ emails show is that Ms Keating, like a slew of other famous and powerful names, remained on seemingly friendly terms with Epstein in spite of his criminal past.
The chronology, as is known, goes like this.
In March 2010, Ms Keating first “struck up a firm friendship” with Andrew after they met at a lavish party in Dubai, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Then, later that year, Ms Keating moved to New York after she began dating hotel tycoon Andre Balzas, owner of Chateau Marmont and The Standard.
In December 2010, Ms Keating was filmed leaving Epstein’s New York mansion and being farewelled by Andrew. (The footage would only come to light in 2019.)
Fast forward to February 16, 2011, when emails from the Congress dump show that Epstein emailed Andrew, asking “Would you ask Katherine Keating if she would like to come for dinner with Woody Allen next week in New York?” Andrew replied, “Will do.”
Two days later, on the eve of Andrew’s 51st birthday, the former Duke of York wrote, “On the Keating case.”
Later that February, the News of the World published their “Prince and The Paedo” splash, setting off the biggest royal crisis in decades.
In an email dated February 28, 2011, part of the Congress tranche, Andrew told Epstein, “we’ll play some more soon!!! A, HRH The Duke of York, KG.”
As of today, we know that eight months later, even after the front page coverage and Andrew’s Epstein ties forcing him to quit as the UK’s international trade ambassador, Ms Keating was emailing Epstein with an ‘X’.
Just over two weeks after that, on November 17, the NY appellate court upheld their decision regarding his level three sex offender register classification, noting he had committed “very serious sex crimes.”
Ms Keating had never commented on her Epstein and Andrew associations until September this year when she confirmed the February dinner. She told the Daily Mail: “It was a large social event. A sizeable chunk of NY society was there, including [American broadcasters] Barbara Walters, Charlie Rose and Katie Couric.
“At the time, I had only lived in NY about ten weeks, and was happy to accept the odd social invitation.”
It is not known why Ms Keating was at Epstein’s house and with Andrew in December 2010.
What is clear is that Epstein’s jail term hardly seems to have clipped his business and society wings and he continued to move in gilded circles. Even after his conviction, the recently sacked British Ambassador to Washington Lord Peter Mandelson and Bill Gates are known to have spent time with him. Calendars belonging to Epstein showed plans to meet with Elon Musk, billionaire Peter Thiel and conservative commentator Steve Bannon. (There is no confirmation these meetings ever happened nor any suggestion of wrongdoing on any of their parts.)
However, what does it say about any of these people’s judgement?
- Comment on Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down Aussie.Zone 1 day ago:
I first noticed the outage because of aomstats.io being offline. Then I noticed Matrix was down. And then I went to Lemmy to complain, and couldn’t 😭
- Comment on Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target 5 days ago:
CO²
Just so you know, Lemmy actually supports subscript. Surround text with single tildes.
CO~2~gives CO~2~. - Comment on Is LW falling behind in federation again? 5 days ago:
I just got a notification on one of my posts from a LW user. It only appeared in my inbox about 12 hours after the comment was made.
- Comment on Is LW falling behind in federation again? 6 days ago:
Oh it’s happening to you on blahaj too?
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- Comment on Former Prime Minister Paul Keating on the dismissal 1 week ago:
Are you from Canberra or the NT? Because if not, you have 13 members who represent you geographically in the federal Parliament alone.
- Comment on Former Prime Minister Paul Keating on the dismissal 1 week ago:
Keating’s ridiculous insistence that the Senate is “unrepresentative swill”, even to this day, is a notable shortcoming of his views here that might get lost in the midst of his even more ridiculous assertion that he would have had the police arrest the governor general, if he were the deposed Prime Minister. Yes, the Senate gives Tasmanians a disproportionate voice compared to New South Welshmen, but by its electoral method, it nevertheless produces a result which is a much more representative of the wishes of the Australian people than the House of Representatives is.
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- Comment on The Whitlam Dismissal - 11 November 1975 | Constitutional Clarion [50 year anniversary] 1 week ago:
Oh shit that was Whitlam? I always associated that with Keating for some reason.
- Comment on The Whitlam Dismissal - 11 November 1975 | Constitutional Clarion [50 year anniversary] 1 week ago:
Maintain the rage!
- The Whitlam Dismissal - 11 November 1975 | Constitutional Clarion [50 year anniversary]www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I think most people won’t care. They’ll more than happily upload their photo ID or share their face with AI data miners and continue using commercial social media. It’d be great if this does drum up a stink about how poorly thought-out the bill was, but I’m not expecting much.
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 weeks ago:
Shops and media which profit from increased sales and viewership. Same as the recent “black Friday sales” nonsense despite the fact that we don’t have Thanksgiving.
Incidentally, I wouldn’t mind Thanksgiving. It’d need adapting to the Australian context, but it feels a hell of a lot less commercial than Hallowe’en…which is probably why there hasn’t been any attempt to bring it here.
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, all the people trying to defend it by saying it’s Celtic/from the British Isles are just clowns. At least the argument of “it’s just kids having fun” is possible to take seriously, because it’s engaging with the discussion in an honest manner.
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 weeks ago:
I’m not. I’m blaming capitalism and cultural imperialism, for the forced import of a piece of American culture.
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 weeks ago:
Christmas and Valentine’s Day both have sincere secular associations to them, and Christmas and Easter both have a pretty hefty religious component for a sizeable minority of the population. Hallowe’en is literally nothing but commercialism. Buy a plastic shitty costume. Buy lots of lollies (sorry: “candy”, for the Americans lecturing the rest of the world about how it’s totally not American cultural imperialism) at marked-up prices, and decorate your house with yet more plastic crap. But without themes of family and connectiveness to act as a redeeming factor.
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 weeks ago:
Oh please. Nobody of sound mind actually believes that the Hallowe’en celebrated in America, that some corporations are trying to make a thing here too, has anything more than a passing resemblance to the traditional Celtic practices it’s based upon.
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 weeks ago:
It’s probably a little overly simplistic to think of it as being “established” like that. Instead, multiple different elements of the holiday, which might originate in different places at different times and radiate out in different ways.
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 weeks ago:
That might be the scariest thing I see all year.
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 weeks ago:
and before that came from Ireland and Scotland
The American version of Hallowe’en (which is what supermarkets are trying to import into Australia) has only the most passing resemblance to its origins in Celtic tradition. And it’s certainly not being important because of its Celtic connections.
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- Comment on Ministerial Direction – Treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents with hormone therapy [is banned again, already. Still with no consultation] 3 weeks ago:
At least NZ’s unicam is proportional instead of single-winner.
- Comment on Supreme Court overturns Queensland's controversial puberty blocker ban - ABC News (Australia) 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Anti-science, anti-expertise, aimed specifically at causing harm and spreading hate towards vulnerable groups.
- Comment on Ministerial Direction – Treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents with hormone therapy [is banned again, already. Still with no consultation] 3 weeks ago:
Queensland’s a funny state. Labor has been in Government most of my life, but the brief periods of LNP governance have been some of the most outwardly destructive. And weirdly, outside of the last two federal elections, we’ve had a strong lean towards LNP federally.
- Comment on Ministerial Direction – Treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents with hormone therapy [is banned again, already. Still with no consultation] 3 weeks ago:
Hey, they’re also moving fast on other issues, like putting children in gaol and ensuring that taking drugs is as dangerous as possible!
- Comment on Ministerial Direction – Treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents with hormone therapy [is banned again, already. Still with no consultation] 3 weeks ago:
Nah they just used a different process. Original process was a “health directive”, which requires consultation. New ban is a “ministerial directive” which has no such oversight. It’s them literally declaring out loud “we don’t care about medical experts or the best health outcomes.”
- Ministerial Direction – Treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents with hormone therapy [is banned again, already. Still with no consultation]www.health.qld.gov.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Supreme Court overturns Queensland's controversial puberty blocker ban - ABC News (Australia) 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, yes, there’s a good chance they do that. It’s also possible that they’ll take the L and quit while they’re (relatively) ahead. Recognise that their Trumpian culture-war bullshit doesn’t work as much as they thought it did.
