Notes on media, culture, conspiracy theories, religion. Anti-grift.

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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
đź§µ After an entire year of conspiracy theorist nonsense about Keir Starmer and "Ukrainian rent boys", the court case over arson attacks on properties linked to the PM has heard the suspects were allegedly hired by a Russian speaking man via social media / messaging app Telegram.
Man offered Ukrainians money to carry out Starmer arson attacks, court hears bbc.in/3PatIoz
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
A couple of days ago conspiracy influencer James Melville sneeringly implied the "legacy media" would not cover this arson trial. It's all over the media today but he apparently doesn't give a toss now that the online "rent boys" conspiracy narrative has collapsed.
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"Look, the Starmer rent boys conspiracy makes me feel smart and gives me an excuse to be vicious and self-righteous. I'm not going to drop it just because people out there who don't mouth off all the time aren't impressed."
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
Replying to @TiceRichard
"Accounts based in Russia posted lies about the motive for the arson attacks targeting Starmer, which were spread by figures such as far-right anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson" <-- explains the "rent boys" allegation you're disingenuously amplifying here bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2…
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"Russian operatives ran their... campaign remotely through social media and the messaging app Telegram, we found, creating fake online far-right and Muslim groups, which were used to organise acts of vandalism in the UK and stir up division and fear." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2…
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"Accounts based in Russia posted lies about the motive for the arson attacks targeting Starmer, which were spread by figures such as far-right anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson." Richard Tice also amplified the "rent boys" smear, albeit disingenuously bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2…
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Putney pusher: according to the Daily Mail article, detectives previously "interviewed 50 men and arrested three suspects", making this the fourth suspect. Shows why drawing conclusions from the mere fact of police contact or arrest is unwise. dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
An 11th century Christian cathedral ablaze because it was deliberately targeted by followers of a wicked cult. "Tommy Robinson" and other far right accounts on here will be furious, just you wait... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gy…
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UFC figher invoking "my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" on the White House lawn before shouting out a conspiracist Infowars-inspired slur against Michelle Obama nicely encapsulates Trumpist Christian nationalism thedailybeast.com/ufc-star-s…
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So apparently the trend on this site just now is "here's a video of someone falling to their death"
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
This whole administration is a bunch of cranks.
Thank you, @DNIGabbard, for exposing U.S. funded biolabs around the world. The American people deserve the truth.
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Remembering the 2022 "mysterious fires destroying food production facilities in the US" panic/grift. x.com/i/status/1552555851088…

Method: We collected new reports about recent accidents involving food production. The dataset was not defined by severity or impact, nor did we consider evidence relating to the various causes. No comparison was made with wider accident trends. Conclusion: Globalists did it
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The general view is that Fatos Ali Dumana from last year's Daily Mail and the convicted Ilia Belov are the same person, but they don't look very similar even ignoring the tattoo and the wife/sister discrepancy. Cameras can be misleading, I suppose. Maybe there's an alternative.
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Perhaps before Belov was identified as a suspect rather than a victim but was wanting to keep a low profile Dumana decided to put himself forward for his own reasons - and it's now gone horribly wrong
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Disclosure Day
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
This was Mitt in 2022. Three years later, she was our director of national intelligence. Decline is a choice.
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Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
"His paternal Grandparents were Central European émigré intellectuals who brought Marxist, anti-fascist and Continental philosophical traditions to Britain." You mean they were Jews who fled from the Holocaust? Why don't you say so, Bev?
It pains me to respond to the attention seeking @MatthewStadlen .... But he's tried to orchestrate yet another pile-on and truth matters. The exchange with him was at 1am on Monday night. At that time we were relying on sparse footage and interpreting media descriptions. The official figures were eventually released, based on accurate assessments, after dawn the next day. I was ACUTELY aware that this disorder would be used (just as Southport was) by the government to introduce more powers of control. I could see Stadlen priming viewers at home to accept incoming restrictions. Language matters. Too many people in news media reach for hyperbole to manipulate you - never more so than when an authoritarian government is waiting to pounce. Facts that emerged the next day: 15 police officers injured. 4 residential properties damaged by fire. 3 residents evacuated from burning homes. Several vehicles burned. All unacceptable hooliganism, stupidity and chaos. Life-changing for some involved. But when I think of 'riots' I call to mind Brixton in 1981 in which 100s of police and civilians were hospitalised. Toxteth, 1981, in which one person died, more than £10million of property was damaged and 100s were injured. The Poll Tax riots in 1990 saw 200,000 people in Trafalgar square; 100s of people injured and arrested. Tottenham, 2011, The 'Mark Duggan' riots - FIVE people died, 1000s were arrested and damage reached roughly £200 million. 2024: Southport, 1000s of arrests and some high-profile jail-sentences including Lucy Connolly for commenting online. Those are riots. In 2026, a hot day is an "emergency," feeling a bit down is "depression;" rain is a "flood risk" and being tired is "burnt out." In my view, the British people should be calmly withdrawing their labour and taking to the streets in their millions right now to force political change, but too many are unwilling to get off the sofa. It was obvious that this disorder would be used by the government to introduce more powers of control over free speech so on Monday,'s show, I was torn between relaying the unrest and attempting to moderate the hysteria. But I did let Stadlen wind me up and that was unusual on my part. On the issue of greater social media restrictions I was proven right within 24 hours. Now let's look at who Matthew Stadlen really is.... Have you ever wondered why a grown man would spend so much time doing unpaid media work, even going to the time and effort of clipping and promoting my counter-narrative views on social media at every opportunity? I have zero evidence that he is anything other than a trust-fund boy who lives in a big London house and likes being on TV. He may just be the product of his rarified upbringing. But if you were to require a malleable asset to nudge the Establishment dial, his type would certainly fit the bill: St Paul's and Trinity College educated with a father, Sir Nicholas Stadlen who was a High Court Judge. His uncle Godfrey Stadlen was a very senior Home Office civil servant involved in the administrative machinery of UK immigration policy. His paternal Grandparents were Central European émigré intellectuals who brought Marxist, anti-fascist and Continental philosophical traditions to Britain. His grandmother's work and participation in intellectual circles, especially contributed to debates on Marxism and political theory. Frankly, The Stadlen family sits in the upper institutional ecosystem of Britain through law and elite education, not to mention Matthew's hard-to-define media career... So when he is dead-set on making you think a certain way, take a breath, think harder and be extremely wary.
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
If I was a convicted criminal who’d been to prison for assaulting a police officer I probably wouldn’t send an MP a message with the punch emoji. Why on earth would Ant Middleton be seeing me very soon?
Replying to @BenObeseJecty
RATTLED! And so you should be… I’ll be seeing you very soon Ben 👊🏼
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