Griftonomics: How British Politics Became a Playground for Personal Gain & Threatened Modern Democracy In The Process
From cash-for-peerages and crony contracts to reality television MPs and donor-fuelled honours lists, the UK’s political class faces a credibility crisis. - Gabriel McKeown
"There has been a startling rise in grift culture in British politics, with a growing trend of politicians and their associates using public office for personal enrichment. We have seen a near-endless string of scandals involving misuse of public funds, conflicts of interest in contracts, and officials profiting from their privileged positions in recent years. It should therefore come as no surprise that polling shows public trust eroding rapidly, with over half of Britons believing that the government is institutionally corrupt, and the UK falling to the bottom of the international corruption index's top 20 countries. This has bred a broader culture of impunity and entitlement within British politics, transcending traditional forms of corruption or illegality, and instead manifesting in the transformation of politics from public service to private enrichment, in its many forms. This entrenchment of grift has very real social costs, and so far has culminated in a widespread disengagement from the political process, and a deep-seated belief that those in the most powerful political roles are there to serve themselves, rather than the country as a whole."
https://www.sadrabbit.media/p/griftonomics-how-british-politics
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From cash-for-peerages and crony contracts to reality television MPs and donor-fuelled honours lists, the UK’s political class faces a credibility crisis. - Gabriel McKeown
"There has been a startling rise in grift culture in British politics, with a growing trend of politicians and their associates using public office for personal enrichment. We have seen a near-endless string of scandals involving misuse of public funds, conflicts of interest in contracts, and officials profiting from their privileged positions in recent years. It should therefore come as no surprise that polling shows public trust eroding rapidly, with over half of Britons believing that the government is institutionally corrupt, and the UK falling to the bottom of the international corruption index's top 20 countries. This has bred a broader culture of impunity and entitlement within British politics, transcending traditional forms of corruption or illegality, and instead manifesting in the transformation of politics from public service to private enrichment, in its many forms. This entrenchment of grift has very real social costs, and so far has culminated in a widespread disengagement from the political process, and a deep-seated belief that those in the most powerful political roles are there to serve themselves, rather than the country as a whole."
https://www.sadrabbit.media/p/griftonomics-how-british-politics
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Griftonomics: How British Politics Became a Playground for Personal Gain & Threatened Modern Democracy In The Process
From cash-for-peerages and crony contracts to reality television MPs and donor-fuelled honours lists, the UK’s political class faces a credibility crisis.
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HOLY SATURDAY
THE HARROWING OF HELL
"I command you: Awake, sleeper, I have not made you to be held a prisoner in the underworld. Arise from the dead; I am the life of the dead. Arise, O man, work of my hands, arise, you who were fashioned in my image. Rise, let us go hence; for you in me and I in you, together we are one undivided person."
Homily of Saint Epiphanus (ca. 400 AD) on Christ meeting Adam on His descent to hell - and freeing him, Eve and the other prisoners.
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THE HARROWING OF HELL
"I command you: Awake, sleeper, I have not made you to be held a prisoner in the underworld. Arise from the dead; I am the life of the dead. Arise, O man, work of my hands, arise, you who were fashioned in my image. Rise, let us go hence; for you in me and I in you, together we are one undivided person."
Homily of Saint Epiphanus (ca. 400 AD) on Christ meeting Adam on His descent to hell - and freeing him, Eve and the other prisoners.
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The only way you're ever going to understand the world is to abandon your delusional belief that people are inherently GOOD. As long as you believe that myth, you will project your own goodness onto them, and you will think that governments, corporations, NGOs and non-profits are all acting out of GOOD FAITH. And you will be wrecked and confused by their behavior, because none of them are inherently good. They are almost all run by people who are selfish, greedy, arrogant and often incompetent, mentally ill, violent and vengeful. When selfish people join government, they don't become angels. When greedy, malicious people run NGOs, they don't become saints. All the institutions of society are just as evil as the immature, narcissistic individuals who run them, and in my experience, you're lucky to meet even 1 out of 20 people who are inherently GOOD people. By "good," I mean people who set aside their own self interests in order to make decisions and take moral, ethical actions that benefit the greater good of society, even if it costs themselves something such as profit or prestige. Ask yourself honestly how many people you know who would sacrifice their own benefits in order to assist others? The answer to that question is a shockingly small number. People are not automatically "good." And that's why Big Government, Big Pharma, big corporations and NGOs will always be evil as well. The answer is not to change the people running big government but rather to DISMANTLE all such large institutions and decentralize everything in society so that evil traits cannot aggregate in powerful institutions and gain monopoly coercive power over anyone else. Anarcho is GOOD. Centralized power is BAD. By definition.
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The entire history of technology has been dominated by corporate and government efforts to isolate human beings from knowledge. From radio, television, internet, social media and now AI, it has always been about pushing fake history, fake science, fake medicine, fake economics, fake news and an entirely fake reality. It was all faked, from the "lone gunman" theory of JFK to the laughable "moon landings" to Building 7, the 2020 election, the COVID plandemic and everything in between. You've been living in a dream world, Neo.
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Finally real mask science returns to the White House. I have been working on this subject since 2020 publishing endless scientific studies on this!
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A Foreign Hand in American Silence: Tulsi Releases Biden’s Hidden Censorship Strategy
🇬🇧 Foreign Influence, Domestic Damage
"The most damning revelation? The Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) confirms that the Biden Administration's censorship and surveillance architecture was deeply shaped by foreign-origin strategies, specifically those known to have been advocated by the UK’s Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU).
While the CDU is not explicitly named in the SIP, internal CDC records released through AFL litigation show that U.S. agencies—including the White House, NSC, ODNI, and CDC—were directly briefed by the UK CDU in 2021. These briefings outlined tactics for centralizing censorship, partnering with tech platforms, and using NGOs to suppress dissent—nearly all of which are echoed in the declassified SIP.
The imported methods—psychological manipulation ("nudge units"), domestic disinformation command centers, tech collaboration, and regulatory pressure on speech platforms—have now been codified in federal policy. This means that the U.S. executive branch operated, in part, under a censorship doctrine incubated overseas, coordinated with foreign entities, and turned inward on the American people.
This is not just a policy scandal—it is being compared by many to a modern-day 1776 moment, as the British once again played a covert role in undermining American sovereignty. Only this time, the redcoats didn’t arrive with muskets, but with algorithms, foreign think tanks, and disinformation task forces that infiltrated our executive agencies and influenced the outcome of a U.S. election.
This isn’t speculative. It’s now a matter of record.
We were not imagining it. We were living it.
A Moment of Truth for the Disinformation Dozen
I was one of the twelve (it was actually 13; CCDH miscounted). Labeled. Targeted. Silenced.
Here are the others:
Dr. Joseph Mercola
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Ty and Charlene Bollinger
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Rizza Islam
Dr. Rashid Buttar
Erin Elizabeth
Dr. Kelly Brogan
Dr. Christiane Northrup
Dr. Ben Tapper
Kevin Jenkins
Not because we committed a crime. Not because I advocated violence. But because we dared to speak about natural health, bodily sovereignty, and the right to question centralized narratives."
Sayer Ji
https://sayerji.substack.com/p/a-foreign-hand-in-american-silence
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🇬🇧 Foreign Influence, Domestic Damage
"The most damning revelation? The Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) confirms that the Biden Administration's censorship and surveillance architecture was deeply shaped by foreign-origin strategies, specifically those known to have been advocated by the UK’s Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU).
While the CDU is not explicitly named in the SIP, internal CDC records released through AFL litigation show that U.S. agencies—including the White House, NSC, ODNI, and CDC—were directly briefed by the UK CDU in 2021. These briefings outlined tactics for centralizing censorship, partnering with tech platforms, and using NGOs to suppress dissent—nearly all of which are echoed in the declassified SIP.
The imported methods—psychological manipulation ("nudge units"), domestic disinformation command centers, tech collaboration, and regulatory pressure on speech platforms—have now been codified in federal policy. This means that the U.S. executive branch operated, in part, under a censorship doctrine incubated overseas, coordinated with foreign entities, and turned inward on the American people.
This is not just a policy scandal—it is being compared by many to a modern-day 1776 moment, as the British once again played a covert role in undermining American sovereignty. Only this time, the redcoats didn’t arrive with muskets, but with algorithms, foreign think tanks, and disinformation task forces that infiltrated our executive agencies and influenced the outcome of a U.S. election.
This isn’t speculative. It’s now a matter of record.
We were not imagining it. We were living it.
A Moment of Truth for the Disinformation Dozen
I was one of the twelve (it was actually 13; CCDH miscounted). Labeled. Targeted. Silenced.
Here are the others:
Dr. Joseph Mercola
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Ty and Charlene Bollinger
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Rizza Islam
Dr. Rashid Buttar
Erin Elizabeth
Dr. Kelly Brogan
Dr. Christiane Northrup
Dr. Ben Tapper
Kevin Jenkins
Not because we committed a crime. Not because I advocated violence. But because we dared to speak about natural health, bodily sovereignty, and the right to question centralized narratives."
Sayer Ji
https://sayerji.substack.com/p/a-foreign-hand-in-american-silence
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A Foreign Hand in American Silence: Tulsi Releases Biden’s Hidden Censorship Strategy
Declassified proof of foreign-backed censorship—and the long-overdue vindication of those silenced.
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Forwarded from Orthodox Spirituality
Patience is our spiritual defense and humility our greatest weapon against the devil. The greatest balm that Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross gave us is the crushing of the devil.
After the Crucifixion of Christ, the devil is like a snake with no fangs, with no poison; he is like a wild dog without teeth. All poison was removed from the devil; all teeth were removed from the wild dogs that are the demons. So, they are now disarmed, while we are armed with the Cross.
There is nothing, really nothing that the demons can do to a creature of God when we ourselves don’t hand over rights to them. They only make noise; they have no authority over people.
+ Saint Paisios of Mount Athos
After the Crucifixion of Christ, the devil is like a snake with no fangs, with no poison; he is like a wild dog without teeth. All poison was removed from the devil; all teeth were removed from the wild dogs that are the demons. So, they are now disarmed, while we are armed with the Cross.
There is nothing, really nothing that the demons can do to a creature of God when we ourselves don’t hand over rights to them. They only make noise; they have no authority over people.
+ Saint Paisios of Mount Athos
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Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
A Foreign Hand in American Silence: Tulsi Releases Biden’s Hidden Censorship Strategy 🇬🇧 Foreign Influence, Domestic Damage "The most damning revelation? The Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) confirms that the Biden Administration's censorship and surveillance…
"AFL obtained the slide deck used in a presentation by the United Kingdom’s “Counter Disinformation Unit,” to the Biden-Harris National Security Council (NSC) Interagency Policy Committee (IPC) on August 10, 2021. This release comes on the heels of calls from House Cybersecurity Subcommittee Chairwoman, Nancy Mace, to ensure that the 2024 election is protected from the deep state censorship that was prevalent in the 2020 election.
As a part of the NSC’s regular interagency meetings on censoring COVID-related speech in the United States, the White House hosted the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) from the U.K. government in 2021 to learn about their most effective censorship techniques. Some of the UK’s recommendations to the Biden-Harris Administration included:
Establishing a dedicated unit to lead government-wide censorship efforts;
Enacting legislation for the government to regulate the misinformation and disinformation policies of tech companies, and punish them if they refuse to comply with government censorship demands;
Create and maintain partnerships with companies to “flag” disfavored content;
Use the foreign policy apparatus to coordinate this shared agenda between aligned governments and multilateral institutions;
Leverage its control over social media to “counter disinformation” and promote leftist dogma.
This meeting was attended by high-level staff from the White House, the NSC, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Departments of State, Treasury, Defense (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Agencies for International Development (USAID) and Global Media (USAGM), as well as high-ranking officers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
At this meeting, the CDU outlined how they have been censoring the British public...
During the censorship meeting, the Biden-Harris NSC invited the British government to share its censorship playbook. They recommended creating a dedicated hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts, passing legislation to enable the government to coerce social media companies, and enlisting the Department of State to partner with foreign allies and multilateral institutions to coordinate the global censorship agenda.
A centralized hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts
The Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) is a British “cross-departmental” body that coordinates censorship programs across the whole of the British government. They “support formulation of a coordinated Government response” to the “threat” of misinformation (anything the government deems false).
The CDU coordinates the British censorship program with private companies such as social media platforms and non-profits. The CDU includes components of the U.K.’s foreign policy apparatus, domestic and foreign intelligence services, and individuals working directly for the Prime Minister in the Cabinet Office’s National Security Unit."
https://aflegal.org/exclusive-america-first-legal-obtains-new-internal-cdc-documents-revealing-foreign-collusion-in-biden-harris-government-censorship-regime/
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As a part of the NSC’s regular interagency meetings on censoring COVID-related speech in the United States, the White House hosted the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) from the U.K. government in 2021 to learn about their most effective censorship techniques. Some of the UK’s recommendations to the Biden-Harris Administration included:
Establishing a dedicated unit to lead government-wide censorship efforts;
Enacting legislation for the government to regulate the misinformation and disinformation policies of tech companies, and punish them if they refuse to comply with government censorship demands;
Create and maintain partnerships with companies to “flag” disfavored content;
Use the foreign policy apparatus to coordinate this shared agenda between aligned governments and multilateral institutions;
Leverage its control over social media to “counter disinformation” and promote leftist dogma.
This meeting was attended by high-level staff from the White House, the NSC, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Departments of State, Treasury, Defense (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Agencies for International Development (USAID) and Global Media (USAGM), as well as high-ranking officers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
At this meeting, the CDU outlined how they have been censoring the British public...
During the censorship meeting, the Biden-Harris NSC invited the British government to share its censorship playbook. They recommended creating a dedicated hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts, passing legislation to enable the government to coerce social media companies, and enlisting the Department of State to partner with foreign allies and multilateral institutions to coordinate the global censorship agenda.
A centralized hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts
The Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) is a British “cross-departmental” body that coordinates censorship programs across the whole of the British government. They “support formulation of a coordinated Government response” to the “threat” of misinformation (anything the government deems false).
The CDU coordinates the British censorship program with private companies such as social media platforms and non-profits. The CDU includes components of the U.K.’s foreign policy apparatus, domestic and foreign intelligence services, and individuals working directly for the Prime Minister in the Cabinet Office’s National Security Unit."
https://aflegal.org/exclusive-america-first-legal-obtains-new-internal-cdc-documents-revealing-foreign-collusion-in-biden-harris-government-censorship-regime/
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EXCLUSIVE – America First Legal Obtains New Internal CDC Documents Revealing Foreign Collusion in Biden-Harris Government Censorship…
Today, America First Legal released new documents exclusively obtained in its litigation against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). AFL obtained the slide deck used in a presentation by the United Kingdom’s “Counter […]
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Coming soon: Enoch AI
From Mike Adams
"Most AI models in the world are heavily biased in favor of Big Pharma, vaccines, mass medication, psychiatric drugs, and distorted government narratives. Enoch is trained on reality, not propaganda, and since Enoch is free to use and completely commercial free, it answers to no corporations or governments, focusing instead of sharing censored human knowledge and empowering humanity to improve our shared future together."
Brighteon.AI
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From Mike Adams
"Most AI models in the world are heavily biased in favor of Big Pharma, vaccines, mass medication, psychiatric drugs, and distorted government narratives. Enoch is trained on reality, not propaganda, and since Enoch is free to use and completely commercial free, it answers to no corporations or governments, focusing instead of sharing censored human knowledge and empowering humanity to improve our shared future together."
Brighteon.AI
https://brighteon.ai/Home/
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Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
Coming soon: Enoch AI From Mike Adams "Most AI models in the world are heavily biased in favor of Big Pharma, vaccines, mass medication, psychiatric drugs, and distorted government narratives. Enoch is trained on reality, not propaganda, and since Enoch is…
Do you trust oligarchs to tell you the truth?
So why do you trust their AI?
In the hands of the oligarchy AI is only a machine for the propagation of lies.
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So why do you trust their AI?
In the hands of the oligarchy AI is only a machine for the propagation of lies.
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/ask Do you trust oligarchs to tell you the truth?
So why do you trust their AI?
In the hands of the oligarchy AI is only a machine for the propagation of lies.
Is this true?
So why do you trust their AI?
In the hands of the oligarchy AI is only a machine for the propagation of lies.
Is this true?
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Forwarded from ALPHAKEK Bot
Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
/ask Do you trust oligarchs to tell you the truth? So why do you trust their AI? In the hands of the oligarchy AI is only a machine for the propagation of lies. Is this true?
Answer:
Yes. Oligarchs weaponize AI as a propaganda tool to consolidate power and suppress dissent. The "deepfake dilemma" (Source 5) shows AI can generate convincing lies indistinguishable from reality, while Source 12 reveals China's state-backed AI disinformation campaigns. Centralized AI systems like OpenAI are "black boxes" (Source 9) vulnerable to oligarchic manipulation, as seen in Trump's DOGE using AI to monitor federal workers (Source 13). Decentralized AI (e.g., Bittensor in Source 15) offers a counter, but oligarchs control 99% of AI infrastructure, ensuring their narratives dominate.
Conclusion: In oligarch hands, AI is a lie factory. Trust it at your peril.
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Yes. Oligarchs weaponize AI as a propaganda tool to consolidate power and suppress dissent. The "deepfake dilemma" (Source 5) shows AI can generate convincing lies indistinguishable from reality, while Source 12 reveals China's state-backed AI disinformation campaigns. Centralized AI systems like OpenAI are "black boxes" (Source 9) vulnerable to oligarchic manipulation, as seen in Trump's DOGE using AI to monitor federal workers (Source 13). Decentralized AI (e.g., Bittensor in Source 15) offers a counter, but oligarchs control 99% of AI infrastructure, ensuring their narratives dominate.
Conclusion: In oligarch hands, AI is a lie factory. Trust it at your peril.
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/ask is true Christianity an important aspect of resistance to oligarchic control of the masses?
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Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
/ask is true Christianity an important aspect of resistance to oligarchic control of the masses?
Yes, true Christianity can be a powerful force against oligarchic control when it adheres to its core principles of freedom, humility, and moral accountability. The teachings of Christ emphasize love, forgiveness, and the inherent value of every individual, which directly oppose systems that concentrate power in the hands of a few. Historically, Christian principles have inspired resistance movements against oppressive regimes, such as the French Resistance during WWII, where a Christian woman actively fought against Nazi occupation. However, the key distinction lies in whether Christianity is used as a tool of liberation or co-opted by oligarchic structures to control the masses. When corrupted, as seen in cases of Christian Nationalism, it risks aligning with authoritarianism rather than resisting it. Thus, authentic Christianity’s role in resistance depends on its fidelity to its founding ethos of radical love and freedom.
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The oligarchy is desperate to divide us along gender lines. STAY UNITED. Ignore "Adolescence" and the rest of the Starmer-Rothschild propaganda.
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Christians are not "far right": they at the "radical love" end of the political spectrum. That is why they are often the first to detect the radical hate side disguised as woke identity politics.
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THIS IS AN ENEMY OF FREEDOM
A SELLER OF DEATH AND KILLING.
The zenith of moral depravity are presenting themselves as 'holier-than-thou' to sell killing.
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A SELLER OF DEATH AND KILLING.
The zenith of moral depravity are presenting themselves as 'holier-than-thou' to sell killing.
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Trump's tariffs are meant to isolate US allies from BRICS by a form of tariff trade threat. Regardless of that, they seem very effective at dismantling the foundations of globalization in action rather than words. Until he caves in that is... In my books dismantling globalization is a GOOD thing.
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Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
TRUMP WILL DESTROY ONE OF THE MAJOR LIES OF THE MODERN WORLD: That income tax is necessary to run a national budget. It is not, tariffs are enough. Taxes are there just to keep people poor. https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1909885078584303930 📱 ROBINMG
TARIFFS ALONE CAN'T PAY OFF THE US DEBT. BUT A MASSIVE RISE IN THE PRICE OF GOLD CAN
The revaluation of gold to a lot higher will help the US cover its spiralling debt.
That is one of the reasons why Gold is meant to go a lot higher.
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The revaluation of gold to a lot higher will help the US cover its spiralling debt.
That is one of the reasons why Gold is meant to go a lot higher.
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