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Winston Smith

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Immigrant from X. Dual British-French European, Pro EU, living & working in🇫🇷 Focus on disinformation, climate change, donors behind Trump & Farage & 🇷🇺 It’s not immigrants, it’s oligarchs & their insatiable greed. Reform 🇬🇧 is the latest grift ➡️ no DMs #FBPE

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Winston Smith @winstonsmith2019.bsky.social · Mar 8

If you look at the men & the think tanks behind Brexit, it is the exact same men & the exact same think tanks behind Trump, and the exact same media too. Maybe one day people will see this.

A mind map showing the UK Think Tanks behind Brexit, and their links to the UK media, as well as, in many cases, their links to Russia.

Legatum Group, Legatum Plaza, Dubai
Christopher Chandler Founder
Legatum Institute
Pushed for a hard Brexit
Shankar Singham Director
Wrote ultimatum letter to May from Gove & Johnson
Crawford Falconer Trade
Liam Fox
Named as UK Trade Negotiator
With USA
Henry Sands
SABI Strategy Group
Contracted to Vote Leave
Mathew

Boris Johnson
Foreign Secretary
THE LEGATUM INSTITUTE CONNECTION
David Davis
Brexit Secretary
Paul Marshall
Legatum Funder
Allegations Brexit letter was influenced by LI
Hosted Singham at
Chevening
Pro-Brexit hedge fund manager
Michael Gove
Environment Secretary
Liam Fox
International Trade Sec
Christopher
Chandler
Legatum Funder
Tim Montgomerie
Pro-Brexit moutnplece
Legatum fellow and editor of Unheard website
Vote Leave
Matthew Elliot
Legatum Senior Fellow
Held meeting with Singham
Shanker Singham
Legatum trade commisoner
Steve Baker
Conservative MP
Leading Brexit minister
Crawford Falconer
Dubal-based billionaire behind Legatum
Toby Baxendale
Legatum Trustee
Described the Legatum Institute as 'remarkable
Former Legatum employee and trade adviser to Fox
Philip Rycroft
Helped run Leadsom's leadership bid
Andrea Leadsom
Leader of the
House of Commons
Dual US and UK citizen with excellent access to Government ministers and senior civil servants particularly in Brexit departments
Theresa May
Prime Minister
THE CENTRE FOR SOCIAL USTICE
DEXEU civil servant has met with Singham
Head of pro-Brexit pressure groups Vote Leave and Taxpayers'
Alliance
TaxPayers' Alliance
Philippa Stroud
Legatum CEO
lan Duncan Smith
Conservative MP
Pro-Brexit Tory leadership hopeful
Spoke at Legatum event as Home Secretary
Co-founder of
Centre for Social Justice
Leading Brexiteer

Legatum Ties
One such major player in GB News is Legatum, an international investment firm based in the Dubai International Financial
Centre, a tax-free zone in the United Arab Emirates. Legatum is currently GB News' co-lead investor, putting a reported £20 million into its initial £6o million fundraising. The firm's founder and chairman is Christopher Chandler, who made his fortune investing in 'emerging markets' in 'times of political and economic uncertainty, including the stripping and privatising of Russia's assets in the 199OS.
The idea that Chandler, a New Zealander working in the Middle East with no known prior involvement in broadcasting, suddenly wants to make patriotic British telly seems fairly unlikely. But he is world’s most successful asset-stripper.

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Michael J Lentz RNc MBA @michaellentzrn.bsky.social · 1h

JD iss a money grubbing POS hypocrite

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · Aug 28

In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well”

This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

She alleged in the past that it was former Israeli PM Ehud Barak but we can’t know that for sure because Trump, Bondi, Patel and Johnson are hiding this person’s identity from the public by blocking release of the Epstein files.

Whoever it is.

For some reason.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29d

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 29d

"The plan is to continue to push." Annie Farmer, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, expresses her hope for the passage of the Epstein Transparency Act, and her surprise that more Republicans will not support it.

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Steve Brooks @stevebrooks.bsky.social · 2h

If only someone had warned us before we voted.
news.sky.com/story/brexit...

Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future', Bank of England chief says

The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that ques...

news.sky.com

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Empathy @constant-tummyache.bsky.social · 19h

Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20h

This really is a GREAT sign!

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 3h

Yup.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3h

He was so butthurt by millions protesting his authoritarian regime, he posted an AI clip of him in a fighter jet dumping crap on people exercising their constitutional rights.

It’s the kind of reaction you would expect from a mentally unhinged lunatic or a petulant child.

Not a President.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3h

#CancelSpotify

They are running ICE ads.

They aren't the only company, but I think we should make an example out of Spotify and do an economic boycott against companies supporting masked, armed agents terrorizing innocent Americans with impunity.

Spread the word.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing changes can happen in a mere couple of months.

The Trump regime's lies about No Kings protests are getting more desperate and inflammatory as the White House gets more scared of the power of the people.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 2h

They said Red America would stay silent. Then it roared.

Millions rose in peaceful rebellion from small towns and city streets to defend democracy and reclaim their power.

Read the story of a nation awake and unafraid. #NoKings

👉 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...

They Said Red America Would Stay Silent. Then It Roared “No Kings.”

From the plains of Wyoming to the pews of Georgia, millions stood in defiance of tyranny. Inside are the voices, colors, and conviction of a nation finding its roar.

open.substack.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

Gov. Pritzker: "Threatening to jail your political opponents—does that sound like the United States? Should we have a president who is threatening to jail his political opponents with no evidence of wrong doing?...I don't think so."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Winston Smith @winstonsmith2019.bsky.social · 3h

John Lennon’s Imagine is harder than it looks to play on the piano.

End of public service announcement.

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Winston Smith @winstonsmith2019.bsky.social · 1d

If he was innocent he wouldn’t have paid Giuffre $12,000,000 in compensation

Winston Smith @winstonsmith2019.bsky.social · 1d

100%
I’ve seen him in action in a restricted environment and he deserves everything that’s coming at him, the arrogant entitled spoilt little shit

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OldLadyInAZ 🌵 @oldladyinaz.bsky.social · 1d

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Rosemary Tucker @risenart.bsky.social · 1d

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 1d

Surely a coincidence...right?

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Fort Myers Florida No Kings Protest.

World War II Vet.

Incredible!

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

Lotta folks here at No Kings, Orange County NC.

Lots of American flags, a fellow in an inflatable dino costume asking everyone if they've read the Declaration of Independence and handing out copies.

No kings in North Carolina.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 1d

WATCH LIVE: @mehdirhasan.bsky.social will be speaking at the 'No Kings' rally in Washington, DC as thousands oppose the Trump administration's authoritarian power grabs.

Tune in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5uS...

MILLIONS take to the STREETS to say NO KINGS

YouTube video by Zeteo

www.youtube.com

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Grant Park Chicago. #NoKings

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

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