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Sep 17

Russell Brand, comedian / actor turned conspiracy theory streamer, was accused this week of rape and predatory behaviour. Fellow members of the so-called "freedom movement" leapt to his defence, saying he was attacked to silence him, before even knowing what he was accused of. 🧵

Several GB News presenters came out in support of Russell Brand, both before and after details of serious allegations against him were published. Many took a pop at the "relic media", suggesting the "motivation" for the story was that they were scared of his audience.

Other journalists suggesting allegations against Russell Brand are an attempt to silence him range from Tucker Carlson and Allison Pearson to fringe media figures like Leilani Dowding (who works with Mark Steyn and David Icke) and Jacqui Deevoy (Unity News Network etc).

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John Bye

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Aug 30

Conspiracist groups backed by Clare Craig, Toby Young, Neil Oliver and others were founded by a man responsible for at least 15 companies that were struck off or made insolvent, most without filing accounts.

One of the groups has now been struck off by Companies House. TWICE. 🧵

The groups in question are "Not Our Future" (promising to "halt the Great Reset") and "Covid19 Assembly" (responsible for Clare Craig's non-existent Covid Death Audit).

Both groups seem to have been doomed from the start, given the history of their founder, David Fleming...

David Fleming's LinkedIn profile looks straightforward, with 4 years in the marketing department at Formula 1 team Williams, after which he was Managing Director of 3 companies related to motorsports marketing and driver development.

But Companies House tells a different story.

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John Bye

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Jul 29

HART were so convinced that ivermectin was a miracle cure for Covid-19 that members sourced supplies from both foreign pharma and local farmers, and advised high risk members and their friends to take it rather than get vaccinated. 🧵

Some HART members tried (and failed) to get ivermectin from their GPs. Edmund Fordham, who's at high risk but thinks taking ivermectin weekly stops you catching Covid at all, sent multiple letters to his GP asking for "prescription for ivermectin as alternative to vaccination".

Ros Jones wanted her GP to "prescribe Ivermectin or HCQ & Doxycycline", while Clare Craig opted for Budesonide when she and her family caught Covid in July 2021. Anna Rayner even offered to lend her an inhaler.

By December Budesonide was reported to provide little or no benefit.

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John Bye

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Jul 29

HART and Tess Lawrie's BIRD worked together to promote the use of ivermectin against Covid-19, despite a lack of reliable evidence. They produced reports which "ignored" papers they didn't like, relied on possibly fraudulent studies, and glossed over conflicts of interest. 🧵

Like HART, Tess Lawrie's British Ivermectin Recommendation Development group (BIRD) launched in January 2021.

Thanks to HART's leaked chat logs we know that, just a few days before BIRD went public, Lawrie asked HART to help setup a launch event, invite guests, and provide PR.

Lawrie optimistically wanted "an invited panel" of "about 50 people" - "influencers" from "healthcare admin, politics etc", including the UK's Chief Medical Officers and Robert Dingwall from NERVTAG!

According to BIRD's website, only 20 people showed up. Including HART members.

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John Bye

@_johnbye

Jul 15

The whole "withdraw my consent to be governed" nonsense may have come out of an event last week, attended by MP Andrew Bridgen .. alongside fugitive from the law Dolores Cahill, dangerous extremist Mark Sexton, and many other bizarre conspiracy theorists.

h/t @CoasterCrazy82

Mark Atwood seems to believe anything he sees on the internet, from alien motherships orbiting the Earth to numerology and claims of widespread satanic child abuse.

https://t.co/oiGUMcM6Zp

https://twitter.com/_johnbye/status/1678023811235545089?t=h6yKmOUnDVnhpvIoti218w&s=19

David Adelman calls himself "the People's Lawyer". He claims there's only "one true universal law: do no harm", and that as long as you follow it you're "above the law". I'd love to see him try that one in court.

His website talks about "medical tyranny" and "mass mind control".

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John Bye

@_johnbye

May 9

Ofcom has ruled that Mark Steyn breached rules on harmful content in his GB News shows on October 4th and 5th 2022. In both shows Naomi Wolf described covid vaccines as bioweapons and made a number of other false claims without being challenged.

ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/…

GB News tried to defend the show on the basis that Mark Steyn's fans "understand the nature of the programme" and "take it into account when making up their mind".

In other words, he does this kind of thing all the time, and if his viewers believe it that's their own fault. 🤷‍♂️

GB News admitted Wolf and Steyn "might overstate the case now and then" and not everything they said was "the literal truth". Which is putting it mildly!

But ironically they tried to use the European Convention on Human Rights to defend her right to talk b*ll*cks on their show.

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