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Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's dad.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...

Lately the fringe theories that we live in a world run by absolutely perverted and demented psychos actively worshipping exploitation and sadism doesn't seem that far out when you start to connect the dots of who's who in the in the highest echelons.

Then they wash themselves with philanthropy and everyone praises them. The masses are easy to steer and have no interest in the esoteric power structures or foreign worldviews of the absolute elite.

Please stop repeating Russian conspiracy theories. Here in the Democratic west we have freedom and meritocracy. Not legal corruption and nepotism. Now please return to the latest woke outrage de jour /s.

In all serious the idea that the West is not profoundly corrupt in its own way is ludicrous.

Were it all went wrong is not clear. I'd say probably the first Gulf War era was an inflection point but not a start.

Perhaps the Kennedy Assassination or the literal defenestration of former Secretary of Defense Forestal.

Wow. Amazing article.

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