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Thx Pete
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Extremely grateful to those who support my ko-fi fund and who purchase my ebooks there. Nothing more dangerous to a corrupt regime then reporters who spit truth in their eye:
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You have such a fine country and you can win this, if you properly diagnose the war as not politics, but a direct attack on humanity.
But begin now. The villains got a head start.
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Don’t let the culture wars obscure the trees, don’t let this war on kindness deter you from protecting the sacred – the bond of decency between human beings.
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So I ask British citizens to not look away, but instead look to Romania, Poland, Georgia, Finland, and Ukraine – see how they fight against politicians aligned with the new axis of evil, of which America is now a part.
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“We have been through this before. And there are people alive who remember the rise of fascism the first time. It never goes away. This virus, unfortunately, the one we thought we’d consigned like smallpox to the realms of history, it hadn’t gone away.”
It must be defeated, again.
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There’s the great W B Yeats line: ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity’, well we have to change that polarity around… we have to say, ‘Look, don’t be fooled….
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“They need to understand the historical moment they have inherited,” he said. “It’s a crucial moment in our history.”
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The writer and publisher John Mitchinson, in an interview with my podcast, told me that the biggest danger is complacency and urged people – and the Labour Government – to take control of their destiny.
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After the election of Joe Biden in 2020, there was a belief that we were out of the woods, that Trump could finally be prosecuted and that the worst was behind us. But the last four years was merely an opportunity for these brozillas to grow stronger.
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So I guess this is my plea to Great Britain to not sleepwalk into fascism the way America did.
We had a judicial coup. We have Christian supremacists. It’ll be different country to country, but the threat of Putin-aligned oligarchs remains stark.
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But then again, the lesson from the US is that the supervillains don’t have to be loved by a majority to take over a country. They can do it with their filthy lucre.
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Thankfully, the British people seem to mostly loathe the Nazi-saluting billionaire – they aren’t dazzled by his overt displays of villainy in the same way Americans appear to be.
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That Musk is threatening to influence UK elections should be something that mobilizes citizens to march now, not later.
Rebuke him!
Change laws!
Do something!
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In America, we didn’t take the dark intentions of billionaires as seriously as we should have. We have a media that still paints them as clowns and freaks, as opposed to lethal weapons of war aimed squarely at destroying democracies.
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In December, I learned about Elon Musk’s potential infusion of $100 million dollars into Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, now only a percentage point behind the Labour party in a recent poll.
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But in the nights, when I couldn’t sleep, came the haunting, the gnawing fear that Britain could be next on the chopping block.
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It is a city that feels comfortable in its own skin, and having lived under years of extreme tension in the US, I welcomed the reprieve, particularly knowing that guns are scarce here.
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Still, I took comfort in the beauty of London, its welcoming people, and what to a tourist appears to be an effortless multicultural integration.
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As I spent time in London detoxing from eight years of attempting to defend my country from a fascist takeover on the battlefield of Twitter, I was overcome with sorrow. We gave away our sacred freedoms so freely, while other countries continue to fight mightily for their own democratic values.
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I left the restaurant with a sinking feeling that this hostile takeover by billionaires who own our news channels and social media platforms presents quite a formidable challenge.
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The new US regime is coming for California, and public servants with empathy are getting in their way of acquiring our resources, so lies must be told and those lies make their way halfway around the world and seed themselves into people’s consciousness thus becoming ‘reality’.
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He looked stunned. I had punctured his information bubble, as I further explained the army of firefighter heroes deployed to battle on behalf of the land and its people.
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Calmly, I explained that the combination of the Santa Ana winds, which have been there since before people walked the land, and the lack of rain in Southern California created the conditions for the firestorms, which are then exploited by bad actors.
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At 3am, jet-lagged and famished, I made my way to a 24-hour restaurant, where the host – after determining I had just survived the Greater Los Angeles Fires – explained how California’s Democratic leaders were responsible for the catastrophic events.
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I didn’t want to be in the US when the Trump-Musk regime took power, so I traveled overseas, with the first stop being London.
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“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its boots.”
The murky origins of that quote, often attributed to Mark Twain or Winston Churchill, but likely penned by 18th century satirist Jonathan Swift, is an example of how disinformation permeates our world.
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Really important that you keep speaking truth. Thx Jon xo
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Thank you, Paul. Means a great deal to me