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Carl Deaker
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Carl Deaker
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What we think we see. Is not always the truth, and we should wait. For an alternative view to be delivered … https://t.co/eHnZz8w0HB
Grantham, England Entrou em Mayıs 2008
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@narindertweets @campbellclaret Don’t worry, the totally non partisan Free Speech Union will be all over this.
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The HYPOCRISY and nerve of Reform donor Ben Delo - threatening legal action to anyone who talks about his money laundering past.
Literally days ago tells everyone "cannot cope with lying politicians" 🤔
This is the same man who admitted in court to falsifying records and looking the other way while criminals used his platform.
And now using the ECHR to protect his rights.
Why do Reform attract these types?
James Wilson@per_incuriam2
Wow. I’ve just received a threatening letter from Ben Delo’s solicitors Addleshaw Goddard. They are claiming, among other things, that it is unlawful to publish information about Delo’s conviction for an anti-money laundering offence in the US. They also say I cannot publish their letter. An extract is below. Is Delo going to get his solicitors to threaten everyone who mentions his conviction? How is this not a SLAPP? @sra_solicitors @DanNeidle
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What an odd way to admit that your staff are committing crimes, and to let them know they won’t get in trouble when they commit more.
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Reform UK donor linked to sanctioned Iranian conglomerate #Echobox=1775853710" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@grantstern Amanda Ungaro gives exclusive interview to Spanish newspaper El País & Netanyahu now threatens Spain x.com/davidvargasa18…
David Vargas Araujo@DavidVargasA18
Netanyahu amenaza a España: “No tengo la intención de permitir que ningún país nos declare una guerra diplomática sin pagar un precio inmediato.” Netanyahu, expulsa a diplomáticos de España. Netanyahu, empecinado con ampliar su estrategia de guerra, por el mundo. RT👇
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Why did Melania Trump suddenly hold a press conference to deny her Jeffrey Epstein ties?
Looks like the interview Amanda Ungaro gave to El País is our answer.
Paolo Zampolli, her ex-bf is one of Trump's besties.
He's also a U.S. 'Special Envoy.'
Paolo got ICE to deport her.
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@AmandaUngaroA With the severity of the situation, I hope you are employing Trusted Third Parties with a “dead man’s switch” as insurance
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‼️ Trump pardoned crypto billionaire Ben Delo for money-laundering violations.
Delo then immediately flies home to UK to bankroll Reform UK.
Vance flies to Budapest to openly back Orbán; the same Orbán whose state cash (tied to Russian oil) props up the UK populist right.
This is a transnational oligarchy: billionaire pardons & foreign money & strongman politics. And Brexit Britain is most exposed to energy shocks and stagflation.
Sovereignty for a few and a big bill for the rest of us.
Don McGowan@donmcgowan
Yesterday, Reform UK dropped a billionaire bombshell via their pet [paid] media channels. Ben Delo — one of the UK's youngest self-made billionaires, declared that he would re-migrate to the UK in order to donate to Nigel Farage's pension fund. I had questions — I went looking. A mathematician and tech entrepreneur, he made his fortune in cryptocurrency as co-founder of BitMEX alongside two others in 2014. By 2018, he was reportedly the UK's first Bitcoin billionaire. So far, so standard for this type of guy. But when you start reading about those he has donated money to, and the circles in which he moves, things become a bit murkier. There are few firm details about Delo's philanthropy, but among other things, he helped fund Toby Young's Free Speech Union. He maintains a suite of offices called The Sanctuary, close to Westminster Abbey, in which he allows 'guests' to use his facilities for free. Podcasts, office space, networking events. The notorious Triggernometry podcast, hosted by Konstantin Kisin, records from the Sanctuary. From which he told the world that Rishi Sunak could not be British because he is a brown Hindu. Other notable purveyors of Ben Delo's generous office complex are: Rupert Lowe, Ben Habib, Kemi Badenoch [multiple times], Claire Fox [and her Academy of Ideas] and his close friend, Jordan Peterson. A genuine smörgåsbord of right-wing, free speech warriors. Another feature of Delo's philanthropy is his summer party in Westminster Abbey. Attended last year by such notables as Matt Goodwin, Maurice Glassman and Paul Coleman — director of ADF International, the Christian law firm that opposes abortion. When Nigel Farage gave testimony to the US Congress last year, he was flanked by Lorcán Price from ADF. The ADF helped topple Roe V Wade in the US and have cosied up to Farage in recent years. Watch this space for Reform UK's forthcoming anti-abortion stance, I'd suggest. Of course, it's widely reported that Delo pleaded guilty to financial crimes by failing to implement anti-money laundering controls within his company and received a 30-month probation sentence alongside a $10 million fine. In 2025, the crypto president pardoned him. According to the Guardian, Delo has been biding his time, burnishing his reputation since receiving the seal of Trump approval [and by extension, of course, Farage's]. He is now launching himself into the UK political sphere as the latest white knight to attach his steed to Nigel Farage's rickety bandwagon. The timing yesterday was not coincidental, nor was its method of delivery. It's no secret that Reform UK have been fighting to keep the spotlight in recent weeks. Dropping poll numbers testify to that. Farage and Delo coordinated their announcement yesterday to coincide with a lull in the war [supposedly] in order that they maximise the headlines. And it worked. But, as you can see from the examples above, Delo runs in the same right/far-right circles as all the others. Propping up some of the most hardline anti-immigration and Christian Nationalist figures. This isn't a story about money — these people run together. It's an assault on our British freedoms. We need to be VERY wary of them.
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Both Donald Trump and his Slovene-born escort spent years calling for Obama’s birth certificate. I am calling for Melania Trump’s legal immigration papers: How did she get an “Einstein” visa for extraordinary abilities despite her blatant lie under oath about her college degrees?
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While interfering in Hungary's election, Vance baselessly accuses other people of interfering in Hungary's election
Amy Mackinnon@ak_mack
Vice President JD Vance said he wants to help Orban “as much as I can” ahead of Hungary’s parliamentary elections on Sunday. The VP accused Brussels of trying to interfere in the vote, describing it as “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference.”
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@LizWebsterSBF @ValerieRooney1 Years later, the Intelligence and Security Committee's "Russia Report" (2020) provided a different perspective on Russian involvement in the 2014 vote. Rather than being invited to help the UK government… itv.com/news/2020-07-2…
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@ValerieRooney1 I’ve never seen that before. What a shit show!
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🚨 WTF!!! Donald Trump calls into a rally attended by Vance to back Viktor Orbán:
“The United States is with him all the way.”
And praises Orbán for keeping Hungary “strong” and free from “invasion.”
An American president openly endorsing a European leader ahead of an election.
This is FAR from normal.
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@LizWebsterSBF Trump following the advice of one of his biggest sponsors, Sheldon Adelson: use nukes as a negotiating tactic against Iran
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🆘 If the US ever used nuclear weapons against Iran, that wouldn’t just be another escalation. It would change the world.
We’re talking about cities, millions of civilians, and entire systems collapsing overnight. No country can absorb something like that.
It would also break a line that has held since 1945. Nuclear weapons haven’t been used.
🔥 Once that line is crossed, it becomes thinkable again.
And once it becomes thinkable, other countries start asking a very simple question: do we need nuclear weapons to survive?
This wouldn’t stay contained. The Middle East is already on edge. You would be looking at a wider regional war and retaliation across multiple fronts.
Then there’s the Strait of Hormuz. Even now it’s fragile. In a crisis like this, shipping stops, oil stops, and the global economy feels it almost immediately. And from there it spreads. Fuel shortages, fertiliser disruption, food production hit. This quickly becomes a global crisis, not a regional one.
There are also legal and moral consequences. When civilian infrastructure is destroyed at scale, the question of war crimes is unavoidable.
So this isn’t really about strength or deterrence. It’s about breaking one of the few limits that has held the system together.
The real question isn’t just whether it could happen. It’s also about whether anyone is ready for what comes next if it does.
Liz Webster@LizWebsterSBF
🚨 As Trump’s deadline looms (8pm ET tonight), he warns a “whole civilisation will die” if Iran doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz. 🎥 WATCH Sky News speak to defence expert Michael Clarke on whether escalation is coming today, why strikes may have already begun early on Kharg Island, the risks of hitting civilian infrastructure, and why this could spiral out of control. Watch the full interview ⬇️ #Trump #Iran #Hormuz
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@micyoung75 @joncoopertweets I wonder how Estée Lauder & their related companies are now doing in Denmark & Scandinavian countries: the Greenland idea is said to have come from the sole heir to Estée Lauder’s fortune, Ron Lauder
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Applebaum's piece is worth reading slowly because the specific details are doing work that the summary can't.
Danish military commanders - inside a NATO alliance the United States founded - had to sit in a room and war-game whether their forces would shoot down American planes and kill American soldiers. Some of them still haven't fully recovered from running that exercise. The most popular app in Denmark during Applebaum's visit was one that identifies American products so users know not to buy them.
NATO has invoked Article 5 exactly once in its history. On behalf of the United States. After September 11th. Allied troops went to Afghanistan and some of them died there. Trump told reporters those allies "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines." The families of soldiers who didn't come back heard that.
Now Trump is in the middle of a war in the Persian Gulf with the Strait of Hormuz locked, oil prices spiking, and he's telling NATO allies - the same ones he insulted and tariffed and threatened - that he's "demanding" they come help solve a problem his own decisions helped create.
Applebaum's conclusion is precise: he doesn't connect what he does on one day to what happens weeks later. Allied leaders have drawn their conclusions. The rupture, as Mark Carney called it, isn't coming. It already happened.
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum
Trump has insulted and tariffed his European allies, persuaded Denmark to prepare for a US invasion and, by pressuring Ukraine and not Russia, encouraged Putin to keep fighting. All of which he has forgotten. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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The Financial Times is reporting something that should be front-page news everywhere.
Pete Hegseth didn’t just help design the Iran war. He championed it publicly, cheered it on, and sold it to the American people. And according to the Financial Times, while his own department was in the final stages of preparing to launch it, his broker at Morgan Stanley was attempting to make a multimillion-dollar investment in the defense companies that build the weapons we used to fight it.
The investment didn’t ultimately go through, but only because the fund wasn’t yet available on Morgan Stanley’s platform. Not because anyone stopped it.
If these reports are accurate, the Secretary of Defense was positioned to profit from a war he helped start, using information no private investor could ever have. That is a profound betrayal of every service member he commands, and of every American who trusted this Administration with their national security.
No one should be cashing in on privileged information while lives and national security are on the line.
Financial Times@FT
FT Exclusive: A broker for the US defence secretary attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. ft.trib.al/HIiu9Tx
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@SpencerHakimian And John Fetterman will vote yes to the nomination
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@ProjectLincoln Senator John Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote "yes" for Pam Bondi's confirmation as U.S. Attorney General on 4 February 2025. Let’s see if he also votes yes for Todd Blanche, more than likely he will
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Bondi can’t execute the Epstein cover-up the way Trump likes, so she’s out. She’ll be replaced with Trump’s personal lawyer Todd Blanche, who has been running the Ghislaine coverup for a year.
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@implausibleblog Senator John Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote "yes" for Pam Bondi's confirmation as U.S. Attorney General on 4 February 2025. Let’s see if he also votes yes for Todd Blanche, more than likely he will
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Journalist, "Is the public going to know the identity of the men who abused the girls in the Epstein files?"
Todd Blanche, acting Attorney General, "What does that mean? I don't understand what that means"
Journalist, "The men who abused the young girls through Epstein's"
Todd Blanche, "If we had information on men abusing women we would prosecute them"
"I don't know that there are men out there that abused these women"
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Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes.
$1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity.
One hour before the announcement.
Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time.
They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades.
Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium.
The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened.
This is not the first time.
It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves.
But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it.
Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind.
These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world.
I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here.
This isn't politics anymore.
This is a financial operation running out of the White House.
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This is televangelist Paula White, who leads Trump's White House ‘Faith Office.’
She's "downloading heaven." Why are so many Americans taken in by these charlatans? But then a lot of Britons are duped by Farage.
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