Blain’s Morning Porridge Feb 4th, 2026 – Is Epstein just the tip of the Iceberg?“Chaos is a smokescreen for corruption.”We will likely never know the full truth about Epstein. It’s not a sex scandal – it’s a sordid tale of corruption, insider dealing, greed and arrogance dug deep into the highest echelons of business and society. It involves far more figures than the few who have been exposed. Some corruption is hidden. Increasingly much is in plain sight.There are dark secrets about our society we would rather keep quiet, pretending they don’t happen. But the truth has a habit of seeping out... a trickle of insinuations can swiftly become a bombshell of facts.There is just such a ticking bomb beneath the façade of the Anglo-Saxon Economy fizzling away. It threatens to crack-open swathes of business, finance and politics. Denizens of the “blob”, the “swamp”, the “establishment”, or whatever entitled group of powerful folk who think they run the country are called, they will be nervous – who will be exposed next?Nobody has ever been able, or more correctly, willing to explain just how Jeffrey Epstein became so wealthy, so well-connected, so powerful, but such a threat he was removed from the board…. with extreme prejudice when the cameras trained on his cell “failed”.The revelations from the latest batch of the Epstein files suggest a much deeper scandal is in prospect. It’s no longer just a sordid tale of a perverted paedophile, abused women, and the reputational threat to those who partook of the pleasures he provided on his Island. Now it’s about a network that smells of financial corruption, insider dealing, greed and raw power.And that is going to make electorates very angry and shake their confidence in the system.It’s increasingly clear how Epstein’s web leveraged power, knowledge, and wealth from the contacts and friendships he cultivated and corrupted. The sex and abuse were just elements; tools he used to achieve his goals and to obtain valuable information.Epstein’s “business” was based in exploiting the culture of arrogance, entitlement, and the expectation they will always get away with it, that has always existed at the top end of society since we climbed down from the trees. He nurtured his portfolio of the great and the good to garner the information, access and insider status that informed and enabled his “investment” successes.

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