A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.

The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.

Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.

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    14 hours ago

    Turns out billionaires are mostly also narcissistic sociopaths. And they control the media where people get there information from. So there is a high probability for people’s actions to be manipulated by those billionaire-censored information. You can not expect everyone to spend there intellect, energy and time to comprehend these systems. The people are not the problem. The problem is the billionaire controlled system. People will change if the system changes.

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      12 hours ago

      There are still reliable medias that are free from billionaires. But that suppose to pay for them, because without a billionaire with an agenda to keep them afloat, who will?

      Personally, I support multiple of them (after looking into them, of course), even when not aligned with my own world views.

      You know what, let’s start a community to list them all. I think this is the best way to work against the billionaire press monopoly.