2/ To start with CPAC has gone full blown extremist with a massive "Awake not Woke" banner, reference to Qanon white supremacist Great Awakening nonsense
Apparently Putin was reasonable bloke until recently, Farage seems to suggest taking the Russian speaking parts is fine
3/ NATO whataboutery, but China is a bigger problem however the greatest threat are the "Enemies within" and thr madrasses of Marxism (universities)
Marxists and BLM are going to destroy Western society
4/ We have to fight this enemy, praises school board take overs (who are banning/burning books, and engaged in threatening abusive behaviour)
He really ups the staked
America is a battleground, defend our heritage or all of western civilisation falls
5/ Farage says he knows the election was stolen, claims same fraud happens in the UK cos of Blair but need to focus on future
"You are the people's army"
"Are you ready for this great battle"
Pretty incendiary stuff when you consider how much of the crowd probably have an AR15
6/ Important to understand how a massive network of think tanks fundeds by a small group of incredibly rich libertarians who see democracy as an inconvenience have weaponised disinformation
2/ Some similarities to before the Southport attack and subsequent riots, creating a narrative and setting conditions to prime potential rioters for the next event that can be used as a match to start the fires
1/ Lucy Connollys appeal was funded by the Free Speech Union
Allison Pearson of the FSU led the media in supporting Connolly and promoted the crowdfunder that raised over £150k for Connolly (after Lawrence Fox took a 7% cut as it was his crowdfunding site that was used
2/ The FSU was set up with support of Peter Thiel
James Orr a founding member of FSU is also on the Edmund Burke Foundation's board which organises NatCon, that Orr is also on the board of
JD Vance is Thiels minion, previously spent a record $15 million on getting Vance elected
3/ Vance has been leading the US attacks on free speech in the UK
The FSU has been busy backing anti-abortion and anti-trans legal cases, working alongside Christian Concern and US ADF, an important NatCon group
Why is @Tony_Diver giving a full page interview to Malhotra in the Telegraph?
The self-titled "leading cardiologist" has become an antivax hero, who has to publish his papers via his own journal because they are as dodgy as anything Wakefield put out
Deeply irresponsible
The platforming of disinformation grifters in mainstream papers, particularly Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail, GB News and TalkTv is contributing to the increase in vax hesitancy
People will die because of shoddy journalism from likes of @Tony_Diver
@Tony_Diver 3/ Describing Malhotra as "serious public prominence" and promoting his antivax papers without pointing out that he set up the journal it's printed in, is frankly dishonest journalism
1/ Telegraph and Toby Young claiming "culture nationalism" being included is the latest attack by Labour on Free Speech is a lie
The Conservatives added this to Prevent in 2023
2/ From my October 2023 article for @BylineTimes on the updated Prevent training
@BylineTimes 3/ While they misrepresent Conservative policy to attack Labour complaining that cultural Nationalism was too broad a term, they didn't have a problem that socialism was also added to Prevent at the same time bylinetimes.com/2023/10/19/ter…
1/ So Toby Young, now a member of the house of Lords is directly receiving support from Musk, a member of a foreign government
2/ This is after the FSU jumped onto a case of a teacher appealing against a school for being dismissed for their online posts, the case was being backed by Christian Concern and FDU piggybacked as an intervener
3/ Worth noting the case centred around a petition from CitizenGo, an organisation identified as being part of a US/Russian network designed to undermine sexuality and reproductive rights
While much of the UK media has focused on DEI, tariffs and confirmation hearings there's been less focus on what appears to be an attack on the US constitution, purges of people and scientific information, and efforts to supress opposition and scrutiny
2/ First a quick look at the pardoned Jan 6 rioters as an example