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Two guys (who are probably famous in their own right though I've not come across them before) are interviewing the great Whitney Webb, author of One Nation Under Blackmail, and the three of them are in agreement that the sort of people who end up running the world are driven by their appetite for three things- money, sex and power- and that operators like Jeffery Epstein thrive on catering to those tastes- and using them to apply blackmail where necessary. Who the likes of Epstein are working for is an even murkier story and we won't pursue it....

So, money, sex and power- these are the great motivators and points of vulnerability- but, says one of the guys, there's a fourth- and it's legacy. Excellent point! The boss classes are concerned with how the future will remember them. They're as scared of the historian as they are of the investigative journalist. They want their place at the high table and their bank balances and their under-age lovers but they also want their statues in the park. The politician who is happy to be remembered as an absolute toe-rag is a rare beast- and has possibly never existed.