Exactly. They may have found some connection to the Clintons and to silence them, they arranged their release. I dunno. I know little about this particular rabbit hole, but these posts sound great, and seem to be well sourced! I wish more posts were like this!

Oh shit. I hadn't heard Steve Bing's name yet.

That lead me to this lovely Gawker article

And led me to have to steal this comment:

Let us recap, means William Jefferson Clinton (Bill), has had affairs or sexual relations with the following?

Gennifer Flowers?

Kathleen Wiley?

Monica Lewinsky?

Paula Jones?

Joann Broadrick?

Elizabeth Ward Gracen?

Dolly Kyle Browning?

Eleanor Mondale?

Sharon Stone?

Barbra Streisand?

Jeffrey Epstein's underage girls?

Ron Burkle's underage girl?

and Steve Bing's "friends" (some, foreign underage girls)?

I was going to try and make a joke along the lines of, "Hillary hasn't gotten publicly fucked like this since Monica Lewinsky"., but it seems like she gets fucked to that degree all the time.

Interesting.

I wonder if https://www.seekingarrangement.com/, a site where, women go to

find 'sugar daddies' - or older, richer men who would spoil them.

Could be used for say, billionaires recruiting young desperate women?

She goes to a party where young women try to find a suitor. All of the attendees are in masks and some of the men are married. Ling then interviews some of them, asking them why they want to pick a partner using the method. One admits they were homeless when they went on their first 'sugar date' while others used it as an opportunity to go to college because they had nothing.

So alot of these women are teens preparing to go to college or women that are homeless, or on the verge of being homeless? Sounds like these billionaires really took their "leverage" to easy prey. These guys are pretty much trying to shoot fish in a barrel.

Apologies, I stated:

The ladies that where captured in North Korea, researching human trafficking

I merely was reiterating the Chicago Tribune Article

The journalists were arrested on March 17 while conducting research on human trafficking near the North Korea's border with China. Ling and Lee were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in June for illegally crossing the North Korean border.

They were said to have been reporting on the trafficking of women and shooting video of the border region of China and North Korea when they were arrested at the Tumen River. The two reporters were accompanied by two men, an American cameraman (Mitch Koss [7]) and a guide who was an ethnic Korean citizen of China. Pastor Chun Ki-won of refugee aid organization Durihana, who was interviewed in the 2005 National Geographic documentary "Inside North Korea", had helped Lee and Ling organize their trip to China.[8] After their arrival in China, Chun introduced Lee and Ling to Kim Seong-cheol (김성철), an ethnic Korean citizen of China who served as a guide and escort for the two reporters during their work.[9]

Let me propose three questions?

*1. How does Kim Seong-cheol (김성철), "an ethnic Korean citizen of China", mistake which side of the river he is on? North Korea and China are divided by the Tumen river [Its not a small river, might I add]. No Chinese citizen, local to the area [assuming its why he was hired as their escort], would mistake which side of the river they are on. One side = free, other side = fucked. I think anyone local to the region, or even visiting, will remain well aware what side of the river they are on.

*2. How does camera man and producer, Mitch Koss, manage to get away, across that river? Would the camera man not be more plausible for capture, considering he was carrying the equipment. It seems this is a regular thing for producer Koss:

Many times, Koss seems to put [reporters] in harm's way just for the heck of it on stories that had been covered before by others.

*3. Why would former President Clinton need to get involved? You'r Wiki states:

Former Pres. Bill Clinton made an unannounced trip to Pyongyang on August 4, 2009.

For starters, I didn't know any American politician had the balls/authority, to just show up unannounced in North Korea., And why wouldn't the Obama Administration and Secretary Kerry get involved. Why would someone risk a former president to go do these negotiations?

My assumption is there was some conflict of interest involved with the Clinton's.

Maybe Doug Band, wanted to use it as a PR scheme, to garner more "donors" for the Clinton Global Initiative? But there's alot about this story that doesnt make sense.

Im just tossing some information and theory out there, incase people want to explore some of the individuals involved some more.

I dont believe Doug Band has been looked into enough considering,

It was he who had engineered Clinton’s transformation into a philanthropist-king

Its been Doug, that many have been financially skeptical of since 2013.

Inside the realm known as Clintonland, he is the subject of considerable angst. There are those who worry about the overlap between his work for the Clinton Global Initiative— which he conceived and helped run for six years—and his energetic efforts to expand Teneo’s client base. And there are those who worry about how some of the messier aspects of the charity’s operations could create trouble for Hillary Clinton, who has made the family foundation her base as she contemplates a presidential run. But the real cause for these anxieties runs deeper. At its heart, the unease with Band reflects an unease with the phenomenon of post-presidential Clintonism itself.

The team of lobbyist are their backbone. Doug Band wtih Teneo., John Podesta with the Clinton Global Initiative and The Clinton Foundation., And David Brock with the Bonner Group is where I believe we will get the majority of our answers.

But yeah, I apologize that im still questioning the image and email.

Doug Band clearly looks up to John Podesta as a Lobbying "role model', shown by email #52046., But what this email more importantly implies and describes, it's that they are aware of embezzlement and are practicing their money laundering.

The icing on the cake and admission of guilt comes from Doug Band himself, in email #2874:

John, I would appreciate your feedback and any suggestions. I'm also starting to worry that if this story gets out, we are screwed.

Doug Band was the one who sent the pizza.jpg image. Doug Band only has two jobs. #1) Make money for CGI (Clinton global initiative), WJC (william jefferson clinton), and Taneo Clients., And #2) Increase the public's outlook on CGI, WJC, and Taneo Clients.

TL;DR: I just have a hard time believing the former president needed to get involved in direct diplomacy and negotiations with North Korea.