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Archived on 19 March 2023 at 11:45am [URL redacted]
@EddieSchwartzenburg [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: These fkn people. #NetZeroWatch #CreditSuisse #Woke [URL redacted]
#AdvocacyUKNetZeroWatchNZW: "In a post announcing the launch of Net Zero Watch, Director Benny Peiser wrote that one of the central concerns of NZW was the 2021 energy crisis in the UK, writing that gas prices were 'going through the roof' while 'our domestic shale gas resources [sit] untapped under an absurd government ban'. Peiser added that Net Zero Watch will 'challenge the wild claims of green activists and policy advisers about this venerable and benign technology, which has brought US gas prices down to a small fraction of those here'. The group is currently based at 55 Tufton Street in Westminster, an address it shares with the GWPF and several right-wing, libertarian thinktanks. The campaign was launched on 11 October, 2021." #WebsiteDeSmog [DeSmog] #AdvocacyUKGlobalWarmingPolicyForumGWPF [DeSmog] #BrandCHCreditSuisseGroupAG
Context #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyNigelLawson, #AdvocacyUKGlobalWarmingPolicyFoundationBennyPeiser, #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondon55TuftonStreet
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Archived on 11 February 2023 at 6:00pm [URL redacted]
@ShylaMarak [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @billygoatideas Our saviour, our tireless warrior against the rising tide of #woke #marxism. [URL redacted]
#OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKLeeAndersonAKA30pLee
Supplementary https://bylinetimes.com/2024/01/18/reform-uk-limited-the-political-business-brought-to-you-by-billionaires/ #IRLBusinesspersonJeremyHosking #IRLActorLaurenceFox #EDUUKUniversityOfOxfordBullingdonClub #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUKGeorgeFarmer #BrandTechSocialMediaAltParler #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUK #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyPritiPatel #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJacobReesMogg #IRLCommentatorCandaceOwens #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #NMUKGBNews #IRLBusinesspersonChrisHarborneAKAChakritSakunkrit #2016_PanamaPapers [Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKRichardTice #OrgClassifPPUKAdvanceUKPartyLtdBenyaminHabib #BrandMcKinseyAndCompany #BrandSherriffGlobalGroup #BrandAMLGlobalLimited #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #TechAlgorithmBlockchainTether #WebsiteProtos #BrandQinetiQ #BrandFirstCorporateAKABristolPortCompanyTerenceMordaunt #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondon55TuftonStreet #AdvocacyUKGlobalWarmingPolicyForumGWPF #PhenomnClimateChangeAnthropogenic #AdvocacyUKConservativeWayForwardCWF #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartySteveBaker #BrandPantherSecuritiesPLCAndrewPerloff #BrandDunmooreJeffreyHobby #BrandQuidnetCapital #BrandFirstPropertyGroup
#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesFraserNelson [Muckrack] "To understand Reform UK, follow the money Local elections will prove the potency of Nigel Farage's crypto-funded populism - but it's more elite than insurrection How did Nigel Farage manage to rustle up £215,000 to invest in Kwasi Kwarteng's crypto company? When I was investigating Reform's financial ties a few months ago, drawing up a map of who was connected to whom, this was the biggest mystery. Nine years ago, aged 53, he declared himself 'skint' because 'there's no money in politics'. Only two years ago he was telling friends that he could not afford to run in the coming election. Then suddenly, his fortunes seemed to change and change utterly. How? The likely explanation emerged this week: he was given £5 million by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire and Reform UK donor. The money, Farage says, was a personal gift-so, not disclosable. It was to pay for bodyguards, he said, making him 'safe and secure for the rest of my life'. But such protection costs are, at most, £300,000 a year. Farage was given a lifetime of financial security, clearing the way for his return to the political arena. Albeit with a lifelong feeling of debt to Harborne, who sits in a web of interlocking global financial interests. The world of donors is one of sharks and angels. Many donors want to support causes (or people) they believe in, with no ulterior motive. But then there are the CRiSPers-cash-rich, status-poor -who've often made their money using murky means. They usually seek a return on their investment: often a knighthood, peerage, reputation laundering or policy favours. So how to separate honest donations from attempted corruption? The British model has always been simple: insist on full disclosure. Let voters judge. Harborne says he wants nothing in return for his donations. Perhaps. But it just so happens that Farage proposes a new 'Big Bang' that could add tens of billions to crypto companies' market value. A Reform government would order HM Treasury to stop work on its own digital currency apparatus, which could threaten the current crypto elite. The Bank of England would instead be told to hold Bitcoin, elevating it from a cowboy currency to a UK-approved official asset class. Tax on crypto trades and only crypto trades would be cut from 24 to 10 per cent. All this would greatly help Tether, a crypto giant in which Harborne holds a 12 per cent stake. Farage says the company is worth $500 billion. If he's right, then Harborne could afford to give away £5 million a day, each day, for the next two years and barely eat into I per cent of his fortune. By the standards of UK politics, Harborne's donations are enormous: no living man has ever given as much to any party. Two thirds of all the money Reform spends is wired from Thailand. But in crypto world, it's a bar tip. This is perhaps the hardest thing to appreciate about crypto: the sheer size. A wall of money stands ready to flood our politics, having already done so in America. Wall Street banks, Big Pharma, trade unions: no one has donated more to campaigns than crypto did in the 2024 election. We know this because US transparency laws are strong. But the Farage case exposes a loophole in the UK system: donations can be secret if the money is framed as a 'personal gift' with 'no expectation'. And if you're not an MP-like Zia Yusuf, Reform's hyperactive 'shadow' home secretary no financial transparency at all. The next UK general election looks set to usher in hundreds of Reform MPs to join the governing party (or coalition). How many more life-changing sums are being passed on right now on a purely personal basis, of course? Are any of Reform's higher-profile converts being paid? No shame if so, but transparency matters. Farage proposes an unelected cabinet, allowing allow him to parachute in whoever he likes. Who would scrutinise them? How much would we know about their 'personal' benefactors? 'Politics is no longer about right versus left,' Yusuf declared last weekend. 'It's establishment versus anti-establishment. The establishment must be smashed.' He means 'replaced'. As each month passes, we see that Reform is not an insurgency; it's more of a counter-elite. It is using the language of popular grievance while advancing the interests of its own patronage networks. Yusuf knows the absurdly rich very well, having made his fortune entertaining them. The company he sold, Velocity Black, offered jaunts such as tracking snow leopards in the Himalayas, flying fighter jets or training with ninjas in Japan. 'A life without limits,' was its motto. Now Yusuf's own bespoke elite experience beckons: a stint as home secretary and deporter-in-chief. There is something ironic in seeing someone climb out of a golden Land Rover to demand the smashing of the establishment, but it's instructive. It shows us what's really going on. The left have champagne socialists, the right have plutocrat populists. As next week's local election results will certainly show, it's a very effective formula. Farage's voters don't care if money comes from Bangkok with love: he's offering genuine hope to people who feel betrayed by the established parties. Effective border control and a decent economic model is hardly a radical demand. Failure to provide it has had huge consequences, most of them felt by Reform's core voters. And yes, Farage is using unorthodox ways to finance all this. But there has never been anything orthodox about him or the movement that is still leading in the opinion polls. Under this new model there is, it seems, money in politics. Harborne says he'll find ways to get around any curb on overseas donations. Ben Delo, a crypto billionaire recently pardoned by Trump for flouting US money-laundering rules, has said he'll move to Britain to keep his cash flowing to Farage. He recently gave £4 million. So a new model of politics is meeting an old model of donation transparency a dangerous mix. Farage dislikes being grilled on questions such as how his partner managed to buy a £885,000 house in his Clacton constituency for cash, but this matters. A single register, updated in real time by the Electoral Commission, could treat a £5 million 'personal gift' exactly as it treats a £50,000 cheque to party headquarters: as something the public has a right to know about Major party figures should be subject to MP-style transparency. A new era needs new transparency rules. Short of a lifetime cap on donations, which would also have to apply to trade unions, there is nothing Starmer can do to stop the crypto cash. His best way of fighting Reform is to govern better. But if he wants to be clearer about the choice at the next election - and the new elite that is preparing to govern then we will need more of what Farage seems to dislike most: daylight on the money." https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/understand-reform-uk-follow-money-crypto-kbzh5zbrj #2026_ #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandEssexClactonOnSea [Wikipedia] #TechAlgorithmBlockchainCryptocurrency #TechAlgorithmBlockchainTether [Wikipedia] #CharacterisationCRiSPersCashRichStatusPoor #BrandUKBankOfEngland #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKZiaYusuf #OtheringElitesPolitical #MetaphorOutsiderDissenterRebel
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Archived on 8 November 2022 at 4:30pm [URL redacted]
@RylanKlesel [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [20]: @DangleSpanners @CeliaRichards0n I'm thinking the same of you adepts of #CulturalMarxism. Seems you hold complete #PowerAndControl at #NT. . Your hateful #bigotry towards those who don't want your #woke agenda is terrifyingly reminiscent of the levels of #intolerance in #Germany, #USSR & #China in the 1930s. [URL redacted]
#ConspiracyTheory_CulturalMarxism #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyTotalitarianism
Context response to criticism of #AdvocacyUKRestoreTrust and its supposed links to #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraph and #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimes. The tweet was in response to #OrgUKNationalTrustCeliaRichardson's announcement of the results of its governing council election (which resulted in none of the Restore Trust candidates being elected).
Supplementary #NewspaperUKBrdshtBylineTimesBrianCathcart "When a National Trust executive asserted in a tweet a month ago that the activist group 'Restore Trust' was linked to 55 Tufton Street - home to the opaque think tanks said to be behind the disastrous economic policy of our short-lived Prime Minister Liz Truss - the response was dramatic. ... As was swiftly pointed out, Neil Record, one of six people identified on Restore Trust's online 'Meet the Team' page, is also the chair of not one but two bodies operating out of the Tufton Street network" (27 October 2022). https://bylinetimes.com/2022/10/27/the-right-wing-bid-to-capture-the-national-trust-exposed/ #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondon55TuftonStreet #IRLEconomistNeilRecord #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyLizTruss #AdvocacyUKGlobalWarmingPolicyFoundation
"So we must beware of a tyranny of opinion which tries to make only one side of a question the one which may be heard. Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage." #IRLHistoricalFigureWinstonChurchill (13 October 1943). [Government]
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Archived on 7 June 2022 at 5:45am [URL redacted]
@JacobWeck [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: #corporate #money #woke #farleft [URL redacted]
#PhenomnTrendBandwagon #2022_InvasionOfUkraine versus #EventLGBTQPrideMonth
Context #AdvocacyUSLogCabinRepublicansLCROUTSpoken "LGBT conservatives who support freedom and diversity of thought" https://getoutspoken.com/ #IdentityLGBTQIAConservative
Supplementary "The LGB Alliance is an anti-trans campaign group formed in October 2018 to oppose the UK LGBT charity Stonewall's support for trans rights, including among its original signatories list a number of straight people who are known for their violently anti-trans public rhetoric (for example, Graham Linehan who used a BBC NewsNight interview to claim that trans healthcare was akin to Nazi experimentation)." https://transsafety.network/posts/profiled-lgb-alliance/ #NMUKBBCNewsnight #NMUKBBCScotlandEditorSarahSmith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e79k6LILL1I #AdvocacyUKLGBAlliance #OrgUKStoneWall #IRLScreenwriterGrahamLinehan #PoliticsFascismNaziThirdReich https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/19/lgb-alliance-address-55-tufton-street/ #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondon55TuftonStreet https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/02/05/kemi-badenoch-lgb-alliance-meeting-anti-trans-backlash-transphobia/ #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyKemiBadenoch
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Archived on 19 December 2021 at 8:30am [URL redacted]
@SionainnAlexander [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [152]: @Moms4Liberty @TinaDescovich @GovRonDeSantis @richardcorcoran @realchrisrufo @ImQuishaK @Moms4LibertySRQ CRT = the Sneetches by Dr Seuss But here is the real #woke you fear the most. When the gaslighting disappears and the PetroYuan Gold scandals are fully revealed that tried to destroy the US Economy. Please inform #KochNetwork tax evasion investigations brings down mob kings. [URL redacted]
#ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondon55TuftonStreet #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA #AdvocacyUSDonorsTrust [Wikipedia] And #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundation [Wikipedia]
Supplementary #AdvocacyUSCenterForMediaAndDemocracyCMDSourceWatch [SourceWatch]
Addendum #WebsiteHuffPostMollyRedden "Trump appointed Mizelle to the federal bench in late 2020 over objections from the American Bar Association that she had not been practicing law long enough to be qualified. A search of her other rulings found she had never previously applied corpus linguistics. Neither Mizelle nor the Judicial Education Institute responded to requests for comment. In response to the new disclosure, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who chairs the subcommittee on federal courts and oversight, called for more disclosure surrounding when judges attend ideological educational retreats. 'The multi-pronged billionaire-funded scheme to influence the judiciary includes flying amenable judges to luxury resorts to bathe them in the latest fantastical right-wing legal theories,' he said in a statement to HuffPost. 'At the very least, the public ought to know when judges are attending lavish 'seminars' promoting the agenda of partisan special interests. The Judicial Conference should take a close look at tightening its rules to ensure transparency around such junkets.' Legal corpus linguistics is not inherently ideological. Nevertheless, as the right-wing legal movement increasingly insists that courts must interpret the law based on 'history and tradition,' conservatives have seized on corpus linguistics as a useful source of legitimacy. 'History,' as described by the conservatives who dominate the federal courts these days, has an uncanny way of mirroring the political beliefs of the modern GOP on issues like gun laws, school prayer, organized labor and abortion rights. Corpus linguistics, the thinking goes, with its air of big data, offers a potential retort to the accusations that judges are simply cherry-picking their view of the past. But skeptics argue that it's just as easy for an ideologically motivated judge to cherry-pick results from a search engine. 'A lot of what legal corpus work tends to do is allow you to pick and choose your history,' Anya Bernstein, a professor studying legal interpretation at the University of Connecticut School of Law who has written critically of legal corpus linguistics, told HuffPost in March. 'You pick and choose your corpus, you pick and choose what you're putting into the software, you pick and choose your results.'" https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/judges-luxury-travel-mask-mandate_n_665e065be4b0a8b68eea43fa #LiteralVaccineMandate #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #IRLJudgeKathrynKimballMizelle #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC #PhenomnMaskWearing #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginiaWestTheGreenbrier #WebsiteCorpusOfHistoricalAmericanEnglishCOHA #TheoryLinguisticsCorpusLinguisticsLegal #AdvocacyUSJudicialEducationInstitute #BrandKochIndustriesCharlesKoch #TheoryLinguisticsCorpusLinguistics #EDUUSUniversityOfConnecticutAnyaBernstein #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking
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Archived on 10 September 2021 at 6:15am [URL redacted]
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Archived on 13 February 2021 at 5:30pm [URL redacted]
@ScottieOdendahl [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [11]: How can non-Woke in UK & USA ... and Canada Fight Back in Culture Wars? [URL redacted] #Tribalism #Woke #culturewars @RubinReport #postmodernism #CdnPoli #USPoli #LiberalConsensus
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Archived on 25 January 2021 at 10:30pm [URL redacted]
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Archived on 17 December 2020 at 5:15pm [URL redacted]
@JessieAbidi [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : .@trussliz calling time on woke... #LizTruss #Woke [URL redacted]
#AdvocacyUKCentreForPolicyStudiesCPSCapX #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyLizTruss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nPrls8xmBo&t=64s https://capx.co/the-new-fight-for-fairness-liz-truss-speech-at-the-centre-for-policy-studies/ #IRLPhilosopherMichelFoucault #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #TheoryIndividualismCompetitive #TheoryEssentialismEthical #NarrativeStableMorality #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional #PhenomnUnconsciousBiasTraining #PolicyAffirmativeActionDiscriminationPositive #TauntLeftThe #NarrativeUtopiaDystopia #PhenomnCensorship [academic source] Magda Stroińska (2002). Language and Totalitarian Regimes [academic source] #IRLScholarMagdaStroinska
Context the logo for the #AdvocacyUKCentreForPolicyStudiesCPS appears as a tessellated backdrop.
Supplementary #IRLFilmmakerAdamCurtis "Antony Fisher and he invented the first modern think tank back in the 1950s. The Institute for Economic Affairs. It is the template for practically all the think tanks today. Fisher himself would go on to found another 150 think tanks around the world. But back in the early 1950s he was an isolated figure who felt completely at odds with the mood of his time. He worked with his friend Major Oliver Smedley..." https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/fdb484c8-99a1-32a3-83be-20108374b985 #IRLBusinesspersonAntonyFisherAGAF #PhenomnPolicymakingPoliticalAdvocacyLobbyingThinkTankPressureGroup #IRLBusinesspersonOliverSmedley #IRLPrivateCitizenLindaWhetstone #BrandTechNetflixRachelWhetstone [Wikipedia] #NMUSFOXFNCSteveHilton
Addendum for want of a better place, I am including this #AdvocacyUKLedByDonkeys tweet: [tweet] here, which includes reference to the following: #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyKwasiKwarteng #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyLizTruss #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondon55TuftonStreet #IRLJournalistTimMontgomerie #AdvocacyUKTaxPayersAllianceTPAMatthewSinclair #AdvocacyUKTaxPayersAllianceTPAAlexWild #AdvocacyUKGlobalWarmingPolicyFoundation #AdvocacyUKCentreForPolicyStudiesCPSCarolineElsom #AdvocacyUKAdamSmithInstitute #AdvocacyUKInstituteOfEconomicAffairsIEARuthPorter #AdvocacyUKInstituteOfEconomicAffairsIEAJulianJessop #PoliticsCapitalismLaissezFaireFreeMarketFundamentalism the #AdvocacyUKInstituteOfEconomicAffairsIEAFreeEnterpriseGroup now diverts to the #AdvocacyUKInstituteOfEconomicAffairsIEAFreeMarketForum https://tobaccotactics.org/wiki/free-enterprise-group/ #2012_BritanniaUnchainedGlobalLessonsForGrowthAndProsperity #AdvocacyUKInstituteOfEconomicAffairsIEAKristianNiemietz
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Archived on 13 December 2020 at 1:30pm [URL redacted]
@AlishaFogan [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [59]: Should the #Woke Be FORCED to #WakeUP! ?? ..... #JuliaHartleyBrewer on the #SocialEngineering #CultureWars, #Media/#SocialMedia Bias, #Covid, #FreeSpeech ........ . [URL redacted] . [URL redacted] . via #TheNewCultureForum @YouTube
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Archived on 16 August 2020 at 8:45am [URL redacted]
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