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“Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings”
by Iain Overton in Byline Times
@uk_politics
@resist_fascism
@Yogiomm
@channel4“Senior Reform UK figures, including Nigel Farage, have been filmed in an undercover investigation examining ways in which money originating from a seemingly wealthy American donor could benefit the party without its source appearing in public records, Channel 4 News revealed last night”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Undercover #Sting #ReformUK #Channel4News #ElectoralLaw #DarkMoney #ForeignInfluence #Farage #Orr #Cambridge #Palantir #Thiel #Vance #FarRight #Racism #GreatReplacement #Harborne #Cottrell #Donation #Jukes #Verbatim #MetPolice
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“Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings”
by Iain Overton in Byline Times
@uk_politics
@resist_fascism
@Yogiomm
@channel4“Senior Reform UK figures, including Nigel Farage, have been filmed in an undercover investigation examining ways in which money originating from a seemingly wealthy American donor could benefit the party without its source appearing in public records, Channel 4 News revealed last night”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Undercover #Sting #ReformUK #Channel4News #ElectoralLaw #DarkMoney #ForeignInfluence #Farage #Orr #Cambridge #Palantir #Thiel #Vance #FarRight #Racism #GreatReplacement #Harborne #Cottrell #Donation #Jukes #Verbatim #MetPolice
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“Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings”
by Iain Overton in Byline Times
@uk_politics
@resist_fascism
@Yogiomm
@channel4“Senior Reform UK figures, including Nigel Farage, have been filmed in an undercover investigation examining ways in which money originating from a seemingly wealthy American donor could benefit the party without its source appearing in public records, Channel 4 News revealed last night”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Undercover #Sting #ReformUK #Channel4News #ElectoralLaw #DarkMoney #ForeignInfluence #Farage #Orr #Cambridge #Palantir #Thiel #Vance #FarRight #Racism #GreatReplacement #Harborne #Cottrell #Donation #Jukes #Verbatim #MetPolice
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“Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings”
by Iain Overton in Byline Times
@uk_politics
@resist_fascism
@Yogiomm
@channel4“Senior Reform UK figures, including Nigel Farage, have been filmed in an undercover investigation examining ways in which money originating from a seemingly wealthy American donor could benefit the party without its source appearing in public records, Channel 4 News revealed last night”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Undercover #Sting #ReformUK #Channel4News #ElectoralLaw #DarkMoney #ForeignInfluence #Farage #Orr #Cambridge #Palantir #Thiel #Vance #FarRight #Racism #GreatReplacement #Harborne #Cottrell #Donation #Jukes #Verbatim #MetPolice
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“Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings”
by Iain Overton in Byline Times
@uk_politics
@resist_fascism
@Yogiomm
@channel4“Senior Reform UK figures, including Nigel Farage, have been filmed in an undercover investigation examining ways in which money originating from a seemingly wealthy American donor could benefit the party without its source appearing in public records, Channel 4 News revealed last night”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Undercover #Sting #ReformUK #Channel4News #ElectoralLaw #DarkMoney #ForeignInfluence #Farage #Orr #Cambridge #Palantir #Thiel #Vance #FarRight #Racism #GreatReplacement #Harborne #Cottrell #Donation #Jukes #Verbatim #MetPolice
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Republicans Stumble In Bid To Flood Midterm Airwaves With Discounted Ads
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"No one pays money unless there is some value to be gained from paying it." I'm not a gambler but I'm betting the PM sold out us mug punters to his billionaire donors. Again. #australia #ausgov #anthonyalbanese #politicaldonations #politicalfavor #darkmoney
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/aug/26/it-shouldnt-be-a-secret-who-the-prime-minister-has-dinner-with-and-what-was-discussed-australians-deserve-to-know-ntwnfb -
@USpol #AIPAC #DarkMoney #AllIn #ChrisHayes
Hold that phone, Leroy. Woah.
It's that segment Chris Hayes covered just now about dishonesty in PAC political ads, but making the point that PACs that are against a particular candidate winning will not use the cause that they're organized for but use instead public issues they're convinced that the voters are dead set against and then accuse, falsely, that the target candidate is guilty of that instead.I don't see how THAT is anything new, but what's new is the Democrat-on-Democrat verbal violence, so to speak--the AIPAC Wasserman-Schultz wing of the Party vs the Democratic Socialist wing....except in AIPAC's case, well, they target any candidate who even wants to put guardrails around any aid that the US gives to Israel. And yeah, they will NOT say that's WHY they have targeted the candidate; they won't make that case but they'll make a side-case like immigration. ICE. And lie about it.
But this is what AIPAC has always done, actually--Hayes is a couple decades late in pointing that out.Following that segment, the bottom banner of the screen displayed:
"Trump says he doesn't need to campaign for Republicans".Except that's exactly what he's doing in the gubernatorial run-off primary election in Oklahoma, where there's GOP-on-GOP verbal "violence". Trump has a United Arab Emirates interest in that aluminum smelter proposed for Inola, OK, and that's what the negative ads against the #Trump favorite candidate focus on, and it's the reason why Trump is spending ad money on boosting Mike Mazzey vs Gentner Drummond and Drummond knows that the smelter and ANY foreign ownership of Oklahoma business and/or land will land where the Oklahoma voters live.
It's to be noted that the UAE also sits on the Board of Peace, so if y'all are wondering why any nation in its right mind would pay the big bux to sit on that board, well, wonder no more--odds are good that they've been bribed with such perks as this to do so.
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Wesley Bell and Cori Bush Head for a Rematch
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“The central corrupting feature of our politics right now is the power of money to buy politicians
so that government is captured by them,
not for us,” El-Sayed said as he fielded questions from the stage“AIPAC will spend huge amounts of money if you’re uppity like me and you speak out of turn to beat you,
and you’re seeing it play out on TV every day.”#MoneyIsNotSpeech #darkmoney #michigan
#moneyoutofpolitics
#moneyinyourpocket
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Voters will likely have the chance to decide this fall whether to ban political spending in state elections by Michigan’s regulated utilities and large government contractors.
#EnergyMastodon #Corruption #climate #EnergyTransition #DarkMoney
https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/money-out-of-politics-proposal-cleared-for-michigan-ballot
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Susan Collins “relying on a web of deep-pocketed outside groups, funded largely by billionaires megadonors”. That’s all she’s got. #TroyJackson #darkmoney www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...
After Democratic Shake-Up, Sus... -
“‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder’s Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures”
by Nafeez Ahmed in The Byline Times on Substack
“Why did Reform UK change from a privately-owned company into a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Ahmed investigates its funding and a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell”
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/posh-george-two-passports-and-a-fraudulent
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #Farage #Tice #Azami #ReformUKLtd #Cottrell #Donations #PoshGeorge #Fraud #DarkMoney #Finance #Criminal #MetPolice #NCA #Montenegro #Harborne #Abramovich #Drewitt
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Dark money, claims of racism continue to cloud Aurora Democratic primary legislative race
In this case, where you have two candidates who are Black women, you have to ask, ‘racism in service of whom?’
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Dark money, claims of racism continue to cloud Aurora Democratic primary legislative race
In this case, where you have two candidates who are Black women, you have to ask, ‘racism in service of whom?’
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#Minnesota #congress #senate #elections #DarkMoney #SuperPacs
#AngieCraig’s super PAC donors incl hedge fund founder, #UnitedHealth, & Chevron, but much of funding is unknown (dark money)
#PeggyFlanagan is backed by the DLGA (some questionable donors as well) & Clear Voice Minnesota. “Both super PACs must disclose their donors.” (NOT dark money)
Fellow MN Dems, letting Craig get the nomination would be a mistake and missed opportunity. Primary voting has started.
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“Who is Really Bankrolling Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain?”
by Josiah Mortimer and Max Colbert in The Byline Times on Substack
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@[email protected]
@[email protected]“EXCLUSIVE: Byline Times investigates the figures behind the Elon Musk-backed far-right rival to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK”
[..]
“Little is known about Restore Britain’s funding. The far-right party, seen as a disrupter on Reform UK’s right flank, was only formally registered as a party in February, meaning further donations records will begin to appear in the coming months, should they cross the threshold for declaration.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/who-is-really-bankrolling-rupert
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #FarRight #RestoreBritain #Lowe #Musk #Funding #X #Crypto #DarkMoney #CromwellClub #Donations
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New piece on who is actually funding Australia's renewable energy opposition in regional communities.
The climate obstruction playbook has moved on from denial. Delay is cheaper and more durable. You don't need to win the argument. You just need to prevent a decision from being made.
Follow the money, and you don't find a farmer's hat. Gina Rinehart's company donated $4.5 million to the IPA in a single two-year period. Fossil fuel interests donated nearly $4 million to major parties in 2023-24. Australia's $16,900 disclosure threshold keeps most of it invisible for up to 18 months.
The cruellest part: the playbook takes the genuine experience of being exploited by outside interests and weaponises it to defend the exploiters.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-07-02-who-profits-from-the-protest/
#RegionalAustralia #EnergyTransition #ClimateObstruction #DarkMoney #FossilFuels #RenewableEnergy #AustralianPolitics #Transparency #CommunityEnergy
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Aurora Democratic primaries engulfed in claims of libelous, racists attack ads by outside money groups
'I thought everything was about policy and about the work that we want to do, so to tread into what I literally call racism is disappointing'
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Aurora Democratic primaries engulfed in claims of libelous, racists attack ads by outside money groups
'I thought everything was about policy and about the work that we want to do, so to tread into what I literally call racism is disappointing'
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EVA HENRY: Corruption resurfaces in Adams, Arapahoe County politics linked to One Main Street
Corporate dark money groups are funneling millions into eleven different races statewide.
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EVA HENRY: Corruption resurfaces in Adams, Arapahoe County politics linked to One Main Street
Corporate dark money groups are funneling millions into eleven different races statewide.
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Another swell of outside political spending seeks to shape Democratic primaries in Aurora
Nearly $2 million in outside spending has poured into Colorado’s Democratic primaries this year.
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"The Concord Fund — Leo’s confirmation-campaign vehicle — has given RAGA $18.8 million since 2014, including $2 million in the first half of 2024, making it RAGA’s largest single donor. Koch Industries, the American Petroleum Institute, and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers have written six-figure checks. The circuit closes at every connection point."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"CRC Advisors, the firm Leo controls, took in $24.9 million from Leo’s 85 Fund in 2023, with $80 million flowing from the network to CRC since Leo took over the firm in 2020.
The fossil fuel industry’s entry into this network runs through the Republican Attorneys General Association, which has received $5.8 million from oil-and-gas companies and their lobbying groups since 2020 alone."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #BigOil
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"The Trust gave $153 million to Leo’s Rule of Law Trust in 2021. The Rule of Law Trust gave $36.3 million in grants to allied organizations in 2020 alone, with the Concord Fund — formerly the Judicial Crisis Network, the organization that ran the campaigns to confirm Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett — as the largest single beneficiary."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has tracked the pipeline across multiple investigations. Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust, established in 2020, controls a $1.6 billion dark-money fund."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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Leonard Leo has spent decades building a well-funded network influencing the U.S. judiciary. As Senator Sheldon Whitehouse states @2:07, "a billionaire dumped on Leonard Leo a $1.6 billion slush fund." He outlines how this ecosystem operates--and why it matters for judicial independence and public trust.
Worth understanding how these relationships shape the courts:
https://youtu.be/QS04lmJqeck?si=8m8M5fZKt6OwP2pe#LeonardLeo #SheldonWhitehouse #SCOTUS #RuleOfLaw #DarkMoney #USPolitics
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#FYI #US #USA #congress #darkmoney #climatedenial #fossilfuels #trump #musk #vance #DOGE #ICE #fascism #stopfascism #nazis #fcknazis #hostiletakeover #SheldonWhitehouse
Speech of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in the Senate on 09. July 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFDXKMsZiTM
#climate #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #climatecatastrophe #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #EcosystemCollapse #systemcollapse #ecocide #Co2 #Co2Emissions #GreenhouseGases #KeepitInTheGround
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Report critical of human rights
Report published by Policy Exchange claiming the HRA has curtailed the rights of Parliament
November 2024
Slightly amended 13 November
An article appeared in the Daily Mail on 11 November under the headline ‘Rights Act ‘curtailed power of Parliament ”. It said ’eminent lawyers have compiled a dossier of 25 cases where the Human Rights Act was applied and have shown how its use removed power from Parliament’. It continued that ‘power once held in Westminster is increasingly being transferred to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg’ and quotes the example of the government’s wish to deport ‘illegal’ immigrants to Rwanda which was frustrated at the last minute by the Court.
The Mail did not tell its readers however, who produced this report and a reference does not appear in the online version either. It was in fact written by the Policy Exchange and published on 11th. The organisation promotes itself ‘as an educational charity [and] our mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas which deliver better public services, a stronger society and a more dynamic economy‘.
The problem is that the Exchange is an opaque organisation and does not reveal who funds it, does not reveal funding on its website nor tells us the amounts given by funders. Open Democracy is very critical about the secretiveness of this organisation, its ‘dark money’ and its influence in government both with the Conservatives and now, it alleges, Labour.
It was revealed by Rishi Sunak who admitted that Policy Exchange received funding from US oil giant ExxonMobil who helped the government write its draconian anti-protest laws. It serves as confirmation by the then prime minister of Open Democracy’s revelations that last year’s controversial policing bill, which became the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act, may have originated in a briefing from Policy Exchange. The organisation has form therefore in being hostile to rights and protests. It is curious that the Daily Mail, in the vanguard in promoting parliamentary sovereignty and a powerful force in the Brexit debate, failed to mention the influence of American money believed to be behind several of this and other think tanks. Quite where is this ‘sovereignty’ they are keen on?
The limited information provided to Daily Mail readers meant they are unaware of who funds these reports or the motives of the assumed funders (if indeed ExxonMobil are one of the funders). The report’s arguments are thin and present the reader with the notion that human rights were amply protected by our common law and there is no need for this ‘foreign’ court. Were that so and the victims of Hillsborough for example might disagree having been let down by the courts, the police and elements of the media in their search for justice. They finally achieved justice partly with the aid of the Human Rights Act so despised by the Mail. There are many victims of injustice who have found our institutions to be less than favourable to their interests – the Post Office scandal anyone?
#HumanRights_ #DailyMail #DarkMoney #OpenDemocracy #PolicyExchange
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Maybe (definitely?) if we got money out of politics, #CitizensUnited, #DarkMoney, we could get back to the business of democracy, where the voices of OUR citizens overpower the lobbying voices of corporate greed, and influence of extremist ideology. #democracy
When the branches of our government can be bought, we’re in a bind, aren’t we? #SCOTUS #loyalist< #constitution
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"Discourse Magazine" is Koch-funded Libertarian propaganda
For those unfamiliar with Discourse Magazine, it is a new-ish (~2020 launch) publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, both of which are strongly Libertarian, highly ideological, free-market fundamentalist, strongly aligned with the Koch family and Koch Industries, who provide major financial support and whose head, Charles Koch, serves on the board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/about/
These are part of the larger global Atlas Network of Libertarian "think tanks" (that is, propaganda mills) founded in 1981 by Antony Fisher:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Network
And are an outgrowth of the Mont Pelerin Society of "free-market' economists and propagandists.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mont_Pelerin_Society
Excellent investigations of these groups include
Jane Mayer, Dark Money: on political influence by the Kochs and others. https://archive.org/details/darkmoneyhiddenh0000maye_k2o0
Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: on climate disinformation by the Kochs and others.https://archive.org/details/merchantsofdoubt00ores
Oreskes and Conway, The Big Myth: on how "free markets" were sold as an ideological fable, by the Kochs and others. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/
I'd run across Discover Magazine via a recent HN submission, having been previously unaware of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856215
Edits: Markdown / reordering descr/links.
#DiscourseMagazine #KochBrothers #KochIndustries #CharlesKoch #Libertarians #Libertarianism #AtlasNetwork #MontPelerinSociety #Disinformation #MerchantsOfDoubt #TheBigMyth #NaomiOreskes #DarkMoney #JaneMeyer #EricMConway
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@TCatInReality @flexghost @[email protected] @Hey_Beth
Oh, agreed. #TFG is the front man. He's not fully controlled by the donors anymore.
Besides, 👉large parts of the #GQP have been corrupted by #Russian (and probably #Saudi) #DarkMoney flows:👈
In fact, I have called #TFG the most successful foreign asset in history, by now, I would include #Hitler's star spy, #Viereck. After all, he'd corrupted "only" 25 #Congressmen.
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This my little # index. It will be edited
#trump #michaeflynn #misha #devos #ericprince #opusdei #scotus#dominionism #sevenmountains #darkmoney #posttruth #copies #detroit #fineart #architecture #urbanplanning #detroit #michigan #MIPOL #MIGOP #painting #landart #USPOL #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #energy #cars #train #exhibition #collection #digitallibraries #museum #archives #libraries #gallery #artgallery #bibliography #information #disinformation #misinformation #aztec #codex #text #textual -
I'll be tooting my arse off about #Libertarianism #Brexit #Sunak #Tories #chartercities #anglosphere #disastercapitalism #BylineTimes #climatecrisis #politics #fascism #corporatism #Government #thinktanks #Democracy #capitalism #DarkMoney #Revolvingdoor #AynRand #MiltonFriedman #FriedrichHayek #ATLAS #ERG #IEA #PolicyExchange #RightWing #Starmer #coalition #eu #Biden #EnterpriseCities #ShankerSingham #JacobReesMogg #LizTruss #SuellaBraverman #Libertarian #Coup #twittermigration #freespeech #UK