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Moral Panic Across The Pond

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What's puzzling about the whole Epstein affair is that in the US, it's looking like the last few reluctant pops of a batch of popcorn, while in the UK and Norway, it's buildng to a frenzy it never remotely reached in the US. Over the past week here, A board member of Beta Technologies resigned because he was mentioned somewhere in the last document dump Lawrence Summers resigned his last paid faculty gig at Harvard , having long since been fingered as an Epstein crony Hillary Clinton says "ask my husband" about any Epstein questions, while insiders worry Bill himself could "have a Biden moment" in his own testimony. But in the old country, it's become a much bigger deal: Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland was hospitalized following a suicide attempt days after being charged with "gross corruption" for his part in the Epstein scandal World Economic Forum CEO Børge Brende, another Norwegian, is res...