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@docrussjackson
Apr 16, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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One speaker is under investigation for right-wing extremism, others argue the Christchurch mosque shooter 'had legitimate concerns', gay marriage is 'a destructive experiment', & the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory is real!

The far-right ♥️ #NatCon

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The #NatCon2024 Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian 'think tank' funded by oil & gas money, & which received more than £1.3 BILLION in Hungarian state funding in 2020.

#FancyThat!

desmog.com/2024/04/16/nat…
Nigel Farage's entirely predictable #NatCon2024 speech was live-streamed on the far-right #propaganda channel GB "News", bankrolled by bigoted evangelical "Christian" billionaire Paul Marshall, whose hedge fund has £1.7 BILLION invested in fossil fuels!

The #NatCon organising committee features Frank Furedi, Exec Director of MCC Brussels, who delivered the 2020 annual lecture at #TuftonStreet's Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s leading climate science denial group, on the subject “eco hysteria”!
Surprised Liz Truss hasn't been invited to do a turn at #NatCon2024.

British #NatCon2024 speaker, Dr James Orr, linked to unhinged billionaire Peter Thiel, responded to a video of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London, which showed Muslim protestors praying, by stating: “Import the Arab World, become the Arab World”. 😬

varsity.co.uk/news/22640
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#NatCon is a project of a right-wing think tank the Edmund Burke Foundation, which has links to an Israel-based Zionist research organisation, founded in 2019, but it was registered as a private limited company in the UK by Cambridge Uni's James Orr.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
A #THREAD from last year on the The Edmund Burke Foundation, which brings together the far-right in Europe & the US, the various brands of the far-right, & gives them a framework, a common language, and a shiny brand to follow: 'National Conservatism'.

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