The Ranch
What the DOJ Files Actually Reveal
I don’t mind stealin’ bread from the mouths of decadents
But I can’t feed on the powerless when my cup’s already overfilled, yeah
But it’s on the table, the fire’s cookin’
And they’re farmin’ babies, while slaves are workin’
The blood is on the table and the mouths are chokin’
But I’m goin’ hungry, yeah
- Hunger Strike
The Epstein files are finally public. Much of this has been known for years but suppressed by a corporate press whose reasons you can probably guess. Now we're seeing resignations, firings, forced departures - the names alone are doing damage. Everyone's talking about who was on the plane, who exchanged emails. Those revelations are shocking enough. But what's getting lost is the larger story the documents tell
I get it. The names are seductive. The flight logs give people something tangible - high-profile names to be angry with, at a time when people seem particularly angry. But the celebrity circus, as satisfying as it may be to watch, is a distraction from what the DOJ files actually reveal. The kind of stuff that, if Michael Crichton wrote it, he'd be laughed at for being too ludicrous.
As I said in my last post, I don’t claim to have answers, but I do think we need to ask better questions. Is it possible that pedophilia and human trafficking wasn’t the endgame but rather part of a bigger supply chain operation? From my vantage point:
The sex was the mechanism.
The blackmail was the security system.
The island was the storefront.
And Zorro Ranch - the 10,000-acre compound in the New Mexico desert that most people still haven’t heard of - was the laboratory.
I've been pulling this thread for a while. In the summer of 2024 I started sharing some research about the connections between Epstein’s network and transhumanism. Last June I turned it into an essay called The Clone Wars Have Already Begun, where I asked a question most people in my orbit thought was absurd: was Epstein's interest in genetics theoretical, or was there documented infrastructure behind it? I started with Dolly the Sheep and followed it through He Jiankui's gene-edited babies, companies building industrial-scale artificial wombs, Operation Paperclip, and Epstein's own financial networks.
Despite the documented trail, friends of mine laughed and thought I “went too far.” Candidly, I’m pretty used to that at this point. And look... maybe I did. Maybe I’m the most psyoped person on the planet. While that’s not lost on me, I still haven’t heard a single reasonable refute of the public sources or patterns I highlighted. All just coincidence? At what point do so many data points align that dismissing them as chance becomes its own kind of delusion?
Well, now the DOJ has released a trove of documents and the patterns have even more receipts.
Epstein’s Own Words
There’s a recorded conversation in the DOJ files (Ref: EFTA00432827) between Epstein and someone identified as “Richard” (Dawkins?), referencing a prior conversation with Katie Couric and Prince Andrew present. Richard is discussing “cephalo-pelvic disproportion” and mentions “images of the clones on channel whatever.” Does that sound like cocktail party discussion you or I would have?
Then Epstein explicitly said, “I think we should, I want to start cloning things, me.” Prince Andrew asks whether a clone with consciousness could be killed for spare parts. Epstein’s response: “I’ll make it without a head, would that make you feel better?” Couric, according to the transcript, nearly vomited. She never reported it though. Like most of this story, it was behind the veil.
In 2005, Michael Bay directed The Island - a film about human clones grown in a facility for organ harvesting, kept compliant through memory suppression. A movie about exactly what the DOJ transcripts describe Epstein discussing on tape.
Bay got his start directing commercials for Victoria’s Secret - Les Wexner’s company. The same Wexner just unredacted as an FBI co-conspirator in Epstein’s operation. And Juliette Bryant, a survivor, places Bay at Zorro Ranch. The guy who made the movie about it was at the place where it may have actually been happening. I’m not saying that’s proof of anything. But it sure doesn’t seem like nothing.
Sit with that for a second. This is a man on tape discussing growing headless human clones for organ harvesting. This isn’t speculation on some Reddit thread - though, as an aside, Ghislaine Maxwell was apparently one of the most prolific moderators on that platform. This is a government-released document you can go read right now on the Department of Justice website.
In a separate email, the Crown Princess of Norway wrote to Epstein, November 2012 (Ref: EFTA00947189): 'Soon people won't be able to make new humans anymore... We can just design them in a lab.’
As always, follow the money. Bryan Bishop, a researcher with a Ukraine-based lab, went to Epstein with $9.5 million proposal (Ref: EFTA01003966). His pitch was for “the first live birth of a human designer baby, and possibly a human clone, within 5 years.” Epstein’s response was elucidating: “I have no issue with investing, the problem is only if I am seen to lead.”
Not if the tech was possible. Not if it was morally questionable. Just... if he’s seen. Remember, Epstein was already a convicted sex offender at that point.
The Infrastructure
The media seems to be presenting this as one guy's creepy fetish. If you go to the source material, there was clearly far more going on here. Something institutional.
Epstein operated a company called Southern Trust Company out of the US Virgin Islands - a connection mapped by the always outstanding, Mind Unveiled, whose work on the financial architecture in these files has been extraordinary. On paper, Southern Trust was a biotech entity specializing in “DNA analysis” and projecting $12.5 million in quarterly revenue. In reality? No lab, no scientists, no employees. Just a money pipeline. Leon Black paid in $170 million. The Edmund de Rothschild Bank paid in $25 million. And Epstein invested $40 million of it into Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures funds. Think about that for a second. A company that supposedly does DNA analysis... with nobody doing DNA analysis. Just moving money between a private equity titan, a European banking dynasty, and a surveillance tech billionaire.
The Cook Foundation was writing checks everywhere - transhumanists, AI researchers, CRISPR labs, you name it. But the big one was $6.5 million to Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Where Epstein had a permanent, unsupervised key card to the Genetics Research Institute. I know the trail is a lot but let’s slow down to contextualize this: A man convicted of procuring a child for prostitution had unsupervised key card access to Harvard's genetics building.
Martin Nowak, who ran that Harvard program, emailed Epstein in September 2015: “gene drives… (almost ready) (a collaboration you caused).” I need to explain what gene drives are because most people don’t know and it matters. Gene drives are CRISPR technology that can spread a genetic modification through an entire species - an edited gene that inserts itself into 100% of offspring until the modification saturates a population. The researcher who developed them, Kevin Esvelt, has warned about the global consequences if the technology is misused. And here’s Nowak telling Epstein he caused this. Not funded it. Caused it. Researcher Jesse Matchey has been sounding the alarm on the biosecurity implications of this connection for years. Hopefully, his work is finally gaining some steam.
In another email (Ref: EFTA01979532), Nowak tells Epstein he met the scientist who sequenced the Neanderthal genome and says “he knows Church. the two of them could build a neanderthal person!” Then suggests Epstein would like him. Nowak was talent-scouting geneticists for a convicted sex trafficker the way you’d recommend a good restaurant.
Last week, the Telegraph published photographs of James Watson - the Nobel laureate credited with co-discovering the structure of DNA - inside Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, years after his conviction, sending Epstein his research papers by FedEx. Again, zoom out and think about who was in this man’s orbit. The guy who is credited with discovering DNA. The guy who built gene drives. The guy who sequenced the Neanderthal genome. The guy who pioneered synthetic biology.
I have friends who scoff at this and think the sci-fi stuff simply isn't possible. Maybe they're right. But the documents make clear that these people were trying. These aren't random scientists chasing grant money. These are the people who built the toolkit for re-engineering human beings. And they were all in Epstein's circle.
A convicted child sex trafficker helped fund the program that produced a technology that can alter the genetic trajectory of a species. This is the same man who, according to a 2019 New York Times report, told multiple scientists he wanted to seed the human race with his own DNA by impregnating women at Zorro Ranch. Was he theorizing about the future of genetics or looking to be its source material?
Now, Dr. Harry Fisch, a male fertility urologist, appears 606 times in the DOJ documents. Six hundred and six. House calls. Gifts. A second urologist, Dr. Darius Paduch, consulted simultaneously. Why does a man supposedly running a sex trafficking operation need two reproductive specialists on speed dial?
In another email (Ref: EFTA00678699), a woman writes to Epstein: 'You made many unusual offers. You offered to buy my baby six months into our relationship.' Huh? Not adopt. Buy.
So I’ll ask again: is it possible that sex trafficking wasn’t the core of the operation, but instead a means to an end? From my perspective, it seems the Epstein story isn’t an isolated scandal. It’s a scientific blueprint.
The Collection System
In December 2006, Ghislaine Maxwell emailed Epstein about Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki: “Be v nice to her not stupid - she is interested in mapping DNA etc... she is key.”
Wojcicki co-founded 23andMe. This email predates the company's consumer DNA kit launch. Maxwell was flagging the future architect of the world's largest consumer DNA database as 'key' to Epstein's network before the product even existed. Before the product even existed. Worth noting that Wojcicki's sister Susan ran YouTube, Google was famously started in their garage, their father was a particle physicist at CERN and Stanford, and Google itself grew out of a CIA and NSA-funded research grant at Stanford. But I've written about the tech-intelligence web before - while I believe all these pieces snap together like legos, that's a different rabbit hole.
Last March I wrote DNA as Data asking who ends up owning your genetic blueprint when 23andMe collapses. I was looking at the end of the pipeline. Maxwell's email shows you the beginning - flagging Wojcicki as 'key' to Epstein's network before the public even knew anything about this. My framing was wrong: it wasn’t about who ends up with the data - it's who the data was always being collected for.
It just keeps going. The New York Post reported that Epstein was personally shipping 23andMe kits to Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky, and Ariane de Rothschild - his girlfriend handing them out from a closet full of kits in the mansion, his accountant processing the reimbursements. A closet full. Like party favors. A Lesley Groff email from May 2017 shows thirty more kits routed through an Emirates airline supervisor at JFK to the ruler of Dubai. That's bulk DNA acquisition running through diplomatic back channels, celebrity networks, and a consumer product most people just thought was a fun way to find out if they're part Irish.
HSBC - whose former CEO Gabriel Perahia and director Clive Bannister both appear in Epstein’s black book - ran a public ad campaign with the tagline: “Your DNA will be your data.”
A little on the nose, don’t you think? The bank is literally telling you what your genetic code is about to become while two of its executives sat in the contact book of the man trying to build the infrastructure.
Twilight Sleep
A doctor friend turned me onto something I'd never heard of, that reoriented how I was looking at all of this.
From the early 1900s through the 1960s, millions of American women gave birth under something called twilight sleep. The procedure used a cocktail of morphine and scopolamine - a drug that doesn’t kill pain but erases the memory of it. Women were strapped to beds, sometimes put in straitjackets, blindfolded, their ears stuffed with cotton. They screamed through labor with no recollection afterward. Forceps deliveries they’d never remember. Injuries they couldn’t explain. Partners were barred from delivery rooms until the 1970s.
No witnesses. No memory. No consent.
Millions of births over decades. And it was never a public discussion because the women couldn’t remember and nobody else was allowed in the room.
I know the mention of MKULTRA-style mind control makes some people’s eyes glaze over. But this is a core study area for me and the connection is well documented, not speculative. Scopolamine - the same drug used in twilight sleep - is the same drug the CIA documented using for interrogation in 1951, two years before MKUltra officially began.
The same drug listed alongside LSD, heroin, and mescaline in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s MKUltra report. The same drug derived from angel’s trumpet plants - which Epstein specifically asked about in email (Ref: EFTA00984429) to his ranch manager: “Ask Chris about my trumpet plants at nursery.”
The man was growing the plant that produces a CIA amnesia drug on the property where survivors describe waking up with no memory of what was done to them. As far as I’m aware, there is no document proving scopolamine was administered at the ranch. But the convergence of the plants, the history, and the reported memory gaps is difficult to dismiss.
It's also worth noting that scopolamine is a standard dental sedation drug. Epstein maintained a fully equipped dental room on his island - complete with a clinical chair surrounded by identical masks mounted on the walls. His last girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, was a licensed dentist who founded 'Little Saint James Dental LLC' in 2013. So he had the plants, the research, and a licensed professional who could administer the drug.
And it wasn’t just the plants. In a February 2014 email, Joi Ito -then director of the MIT Media Lab - wrote to Epstein (Ref: EFTA01935768) “You told me about the technology that you tried where they erase your short term memory. Is this work published? Which lab is it?”
Read that again. According to Ito’s email, Epstein claimed he’d tried memory erasure technology. And he was telling people about it casually enough that the head of MIT’s most prestigious lab was asking for the citation like it was a podcast recommendation.
One of the big pillars in my MKUltra series is that the program never actually ended, it just evolved.
What Happened at the Ranch
I’ve read a lot of disturbing material over the last few years. Frankly, more than I probably should have. The Bryant testimony stopped me cold.
Juliette Bryant - the South African survivor I mentioned earlier - told the Daily Maverick she woke up naked and paralyzed on an examination table. A female doctor. People in hazmat suits. An invasive pelvic exam she never consented to. She believes her eggs were harvested. Her memories of the island are sharp - specific, detailed, almost cinematic. The ranch is different. There are gaps. The kind of gaps you’d expect from scopolamine. She described “being primed for something even darker.”
Bryant wasn’t the only one.
A Native American woman testified to the FBI that her mother trafficked her and other children directly to the ranch. Annie Farmer was sexually abused there by both Epstein and Maxwell as early as 1996.
A 2019 email from a former staff member alleges Epstein and Maxwell buried two foreign girls in the hills outside the ranch. The email included seven video links and requested cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar. That request was ignored for seven years. New Mexico is now investigating.
This Has Happened Before
After looking at all of this for a while, it seems fairly evident that the fashion industry was a recruitment vehicle for these operations. I started looking at this category after the Balenciaga coverage a few years ago. To understand the scope of this pipeline should require its own deep dive. For now, this one has a sentencing record that’s worth mentioning.
Peter Nygard was a Canadian fashion executive convicted of sex trafficking - 25 years, dozens of victims. He ran an island compound in the Bahamas and a stem cell company in St. Kitts that used fetal tissue from his own pregnant victims. He publicly bragged about having embryos growing in petri dishes.
And then there’s Jean-Luc Brunel. French modeling agent. Epstein funded his agency, MC2 Model Management. In 2016, Brunel was negotiating with federal prosecutors to testify against Epstein in exchange for immunity. A prosecutor’s handwritten notes read: “One of Epstein’s bfs, Jean Luc Brunel, has helped get girls. He is wanting to cooperate.” He had photographic evidence.
Then Epstein found out. He emailed Kathy Ruemmler - Obama’s former White House counsel, Goldman Sachs general counsel until she resigned last week - warning that Brunel was headed to the US Attorney’s office and that someone “asked for 3 million dollars so that Jean Luc would not go in.”
Obama’s top legal adviser, Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer, in the loop on silencing a witness against a sex trafficker. Got it.
By the next morning, Ruemmler was on the phone with Epstein’s lawyer. Brunel went quiet. Epstein stayed free for three more years. More than 50 additional girls were trafficked in that window, according to the victims’ attorney David Boies.
Brunel was eventually charged with rape of minors in France. In February 2022, he was found hanged in his prison cell. No cameras. Same official ending as Epstein.
Two modeling industry pipelines. Two island compounds. Two men found hanging in their cells. At some point the word “coincidence” stops being an explanation and starts being a coping mechanism.
On June 11, 2011, Epstein emailed his property manager Gary Kerney (Ref: EFTA02539994): “I do not want to spend money taking things off the island, bury everything.”
What exactly needed to be buried?
Where We Are Right Now
Last week, New Mexico’s unanimously approved $2.5 million truth commission begins. It has subpoena power. Testimony can lead to prosecutions. This week, Les Wexner sat for a deposition under House Oversight Committee subpoena.
The man who bought Zorro Ranch in 2023 through a shell company, renamed it, changed the address, and hid his ownership until public records exposed him - former Texas state senator Don Huffines - has now agreed to allow a search of the property. He says he plans to turn it into a Christian retreat.
This is the same Don Huffines whose investment firm led a $1.8 million round in Secretome Therapeutics - a company that uses cardiac progenitor cells harvested from the hearts of babies under 30 days old. A former state senator buys a convicted sex trafficker’s ranch through a shell company and invests in a company harvesting cells from newborn hearts. I’m not drawing a conclusion. I’m asking why no one else is asking the question.
As of today, the ranch has never been searched.
“... connections between Epstein’s network and transhumanism... was Epstein's interest in genetics theoretical, or was there documented infrastructure behind it?”
Across the Ages of human history... these bizarre episodes of human madness always comes down to three repeating forms of human spiritual tension:
1. What does it mean to be ‘Human’? What are the essential elements one must have/retain to be truly human? Who gets to decide? What is non-negotiable?
2. Can some humans engineer the human species into being what ‘They’ want and desire it to be? Should they? Will they? Or perhaps, can they deliberately and with intent set loose a series of forces that in fact will erase humanity from the Planet (for Their personal purposes and gain).
3. And finally and most essentially – Who Wants To Play God Today? Which self-deified mother-effers have elevated him and herself today to the lofty position of (false) gods over Humanity and All Things?
We – the human race – are always so lucky to always have around us some faux godlike slithering creatures who appear to be human but who see Themselves as being gods. They are self-appointed gods – of course not gods at all – but They think They are. That’s where the danger is. Instead of giving them straight jackets we give them titles and money and influence and sometimes respect and obedience. And then They go about Their useless and destructive lives trying to prove to everyone else that they are in fact gods – when They are not even worthy of being called functioning life forms.
They are human malware acting as if they were evolved beings. They are human defects who instead think that They are the crown jewel of a new godlike life form. They would not call themselves as ‘new humans’ because they hate the term human as being something far beneath them.
These mental deviates then seize the levers of World power and go about their campaign of inhuman species tinkering, attack, pain, distortion, and disruption. A psychiatrist might note that these defective not-so-super-humans hate humanity because in fact they hate Themselves – and that They are simply turning Their inner hatred outwardly against others.
It is not a good idea to entrust the future of the human race to sick individuals who seek only to harm the human family. It is never a good idea to turn the Keys to the Kingdom over to some of the most deranged life forms the Planet has ever hatched. But these deviates do not ask for our permission. They simply – take over. If we let them, that is.
As stated, at heart they hate themselves. Beyond that is of course a hatred of true Divinity. You do not love a divinity that you seek to erase and take the place of.
Even though the human family has had to deal with deviates like Nazi Scientists and those down through history like them (and then the NEW Nazi Scientists known today in America as ‘The SCIENCE!’)... things are worse these days because these deviates are empowered with Dark State money and new technologies and Artificial Intelligence all unfettered by human morals, ethics, and common sense.
It’s like handing dynamite to an insane group of apes. They like the sound of blowing things up and want to blow things up some more and don’t care what gets destroyed in the process.
You hear a big noises... and then maybe one day you never hear anything else... again.
Thank you so much, Joshua, for putting the pieces together. This is a highly-organized and complex puzzle but I salute your seeing the patterns, and passing that viewpoint along to us.