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Matrix Freedom's "make your mortgage disappear" scheme then came before a High Court judge, with the kind of result you'd expect. And a civil restraint order.

openDemocracy published a report on Matrix Freedom last year: opendemocracy.net/en/unautho…

It's all "sovereign citizen" inspired nonsense - a conspiracy theory that there are hidden legal and financial truths that can make you rich. That's been going round the internet for years - these people have monetised it: you pay them 1% of the debt you want to "disappear".

The document is from Ian Clifford Stamp, who runs "Matrix Freedom". They sell get-rich-quick schemes that promise to eliminate debts/mortgages and "create currency". This email shows them selling £500,000 of "currency creation" for the low, low, price of £2,000.

I often get legal threats. This one's a little different - it's printed on blue ink, babbles incomprehensibly about mail fraud, and was also served on Janet Yellen and Richard Hermer (UK attorney general). A quick thread about why this isn't funny.

The obvious question: who would fall for such an obviously fake scheme? The sad answer: vulnerable and/or mentally ill people. Stamp and his team make £500k/month from them. Here's a leaked video of one of their management meetings. youtu.be/8Bt-uZXhZew

The moment @MarchforWater entered Parliament Square from Whitehall Being at the v front it was impossible to know what was happening behind us But then to our left we saw marchers still yet to cross Westminster Bridge - over a mile behind us! Over 15,000 flooded the streets

Where’s the media and GOP civility police at times like this? Why is Trump consistently allowed to get away with language that no other presidential candidate, Democratic or Republic, in modern American history has been allowed to get away with? Why?

If I were a top campaign surrogate I would simply not admit my candidate plans to crash the economy

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The people of Texas, regardless of party, have the opportunity to elect a leader with character, vision, and the willingness to roll up his sleeves and work hard to do right by them. Let’s help send a great leader like @ColinAllredTX to the U.S. Senate.

Really is incredible to think that the Tories announced compensation for victims of two scandals, then did nothing to arrange the money. Labour has had to put aside a massive chunk of the money they secured yesterday to fulfil a promise the previous government made.

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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org

All The President’s Meh.

Amen.

Boris Johnson’s memoir flops as booksellers are left with ‘piles of the shite’. independent.co.uk/arts-enter…

Really?