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    "Silenced" opens up this coverup with a flying kick.

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    A controversial personality who frightens everyone, apparently.

    Silenced - A BANNED Documentary by Tommy Robinson

    “Silenced” is a leaked documentary originally made by Tommy Robinson. In the film, he uncovers an unholy alliance between the government and the media as well as the unbelievable lengths they will go to silence the truth.

    A judge of the high court has threatened to send Tommy to prison if he released this documentary to the public. That is where we come in! Leaked to us by an unknown source, it is our duty to share this story with the world.

    https://rumble.com/v2q1fhk-silenced-...-robinson.html


    Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v2ng02o/?pub=1yatds

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    Share everywhere, this is horrendous, why are the UK government allowing in so many young, fighting age men, with what agendas?
    Jamal the evil little sh*t causing so much hatred, was this deliberate, come on Piers Morgan, perpetrator of hate… 🤬🤬🤬🤬

    Many thanks to Tommy Robinson, and hopefully more like him telling THE TRUTH!
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    Hello,

    Think this is connected to what we see when AI takes the Jobs.

    Source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/...led-in-england

    Quote A universal basic income of £1,600 a month is to be trialled in England for the first time in a pilot programme.

    Thirty people will be paid a lump sum without conditions each month for two years and will be observed to understand the effects on their lives.

    Two places in England have been selected for the micro pilot scheme: central Jarrow, in north-east England, and East Finchley, in north London.

    Will Stronge, the director of research at the thinktank Autonomy, which is backing the plan, said of the £1,600 figure: “This is a substantial amount. Universal basic income usually covers people’s basic needs but we want to see what effect this unconditional lump sum has on people’s mental and physical health, whether they choose to work or not.

    “Our society is going to require some form of basic income in the coming years, given the tumult of climate change, tech disruption and industrial transition that lies ahead. This is why building the evidence base and public engagement now is so important, so the ground is well prepared for national implementation.”

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    And here we go...........

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    Quote Posted by norman (here)
    A controversial personality who frightens everyone, apparently.

    Silenced - A BANNED Documentary by Tommy Robinson

    “Silenced” is a leaked documentary originally made by Tommy Robinson. In the film, he uncovers an unholy alliance between the government and the media as well as the unbelievable lengths they will go to silence the truth.
    Watched this last night and it was horrific. You would think by now, with all the stories I'm already aware of, that I would be jaded and somewhat immune to it all but it still produced a sense of outrage and disgust at the corrupt media and judicial system of the UK. The judge had to have been 'told' the outcome of this trial before he sat on it.

    I will say this though, I thought Tommy was wrong to show faces of people he was secretly filming, (perhaps they gave permission in the end), and definitely wrong to expose the location of the lad forced to leave the area with his family. I also wonder how the girl studying law feels about her chosen field now, she already knows the truth doesn't matter.

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    Quote Posted by norman (here)
    A controversial personality who frightens everyone, apparently.

    Silenced - A BANNED Documentary by Tommy Robinson

    “Silenced” is a leaked documentary originally made by Tommy Robinson. In the film, he uncovers an unholy alliance between the government and the media as well as the unbelievable lengths they will go to silence the truth.
    Watched this last night and it was horrific. You would think by now, with all the stories I'm already aware of, that I would be jaded and somewhat immune to it all but it still produced a sense of outrage and disgust at the corrupt media and judicial system of the UK. The judge had to have been 'told' the outcome of this trial before he sat on it.

    I will say this though, I thought Tommy was wrong to show faces of people he was secretly filming, (perhaps they gave permission in the end), and definitely wrong to expose the location of the lad forced to leave the area with his family. I also wonder how the girl studying law feels about her chosen field now, she already knows the truth doesn't matter.
    I'll remind readers at this point that funeral director John O'Loony reported, in an interview I wish I could identify again and post, that he was a part of a group of people who managed to get a meeting with a government junior minister in, I think, 2021. They expressed their alarm at what they were seeing.

    The junior minister sat respectfully listening to them all, then said, "I know, we are surprised there hasn't been a revolution yet, but we are ready for it when it comes".
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    Quote Posted by norman (here)
    A controversial personality who frightens everyone, apparently.

    Silenced - A BANNED Documentary by Tommy Robinson

    “Silenced” is a leaked documentary originally made by Tommy Robinson. In the film, he uncovers an unholy alliance between the government and the media as well as the unbelievable lengths they will go to silence the truth.
    Watched this last night and it was horrific. You would think by now, with all the stories I'm already aware of, that I would be jaded and somewhat immune to it all but it still produced a sense of outrage and disgust at the corrupt media and judicial system of the UK. The judge had to have been 'told' the outcome of this trial before he sat on it.

    I will say this though, I thought Tommy was wrong to show faces of people he was secretly filming, (perhaps they gave permission in the end), and definitely wrong to expose the location of the lad forced to leave the area with his family. I also wonder how the girl studying law feels about her chosen field now, she already knows the truth doesn't matter.
    Fifteen years of people getting clean away with horrendous crimes, successfully being covered up. I mean, what an unfortunately brilliant effort they did in covering this up; to the point child victims are called prostitutes by the police who pander to their own bigoted fears, as if they assume all Muslims are like this so they dare not say anything. How insulting of them.

    I talked about this before in this post from another thread (link) when Muslim activist lawyer Nazir Afzal reopened the case of a Muslim grooming gang in Rochdale. Nazir Afzal is the brave righteous person we should be looking up to, certainly government, council and police should be paying attention to his amazing work.

    Quote Take the problems in some English areas with Muslim rape gangs. The police pretended this problem wasn't there (and still do), not wanting to be tarred with a toxic brush of racism, so they glossed over it, turned the white victims into criminals. Yet the progressive media, not being brave enough to be honest about a problem, end up blocking the efforts of a Muslim activist lawyer Nazir Afzal who reopened the case of a Muslim grooming gang in Rochdale. There's more about this in this linked post (link). As I said there, its almost as if some people believe all men of Pakistani heritage are implicated and feel they need to protect them, but this is not fair and the guilty are a very small percent. So lets have the truth out for the sake of the innocent if not the victims. Their cowardice is failing everyone. But no, instead you get called alt-right. It's a corruption of truth to ignore nuances
    I agree the location shouldn't have be shared but compared to fifteen years of successful coverups ...at what point do we count our blessings that this is coming into the light? I think this is like catching the penny but missing the sack of gold. Doxing their location was bad but pan out and look at the state of this issue. It's well beyond a nightmare. Look at the testimony of its victims; they get hounded and bullied because people don't want to believe it.

    My gut felt opinion on this is its has been so bad for so long, enough is enough, out with the truth and good luck to anyone in the way.

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    Published in February 2015, yet the problem still continued round the country after this milestone.

    Quote Shame of grooming cover-up: Cynical councillors could be going to jail after report says they systematically hid truth

    ...
    Failures of South Yorkshire Police who did not believe victims and even referred to them as 'little slags'

    Police in Rotherham refused to believe victims and sometimes even blamed them for the abuse calling them 'little slags', the report said.

    Investigators also found that South Yorkshire Police were guilty of having a 'phenomenally low conviction rate' which allowed perpetrators to freely abuse up to 1,400 girls in 16 years.

    Between 1997 and 2013 – the period covered by Professor Jay – there were five convictions of men sexually exploiting girls and young women.

    South Yorkshire's chief constable David Crompton, right, has been under huge pressure to explain his force's attitude towards child sex exploitation over the last 15 years.

    ...

    Two councillors and corrupt police officer accused of having sex with victims of Rotherham abuse scandal

    Labour MP Sarah Champion, who represents the South Yorkshire town, said she now thinks the figures in the Jay Report may be an underestimate

    A corrupt police officer and two local politicians - including one serving councillor - have been accused of having sex with abuse victims in Rotherham, it was revealed today.

    ...
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-scandal.html


    Reading this I'm not even convinced the blocker to justice was social awkwardness, it looks like police and councilors were directly involved. A very well organised operation looking at its success. Even after this bombshell in 2015 people were not familiar or aware of the issue.

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    Despite its title, most of the first 15 minutes of this new 19 minute video is Alexander Mercouris explaining how things in the UK are going from bad, to worse, to even worse still, all with no end in sight.

    And British Defence Minister Ben Wallace was abruptly snubbed by Joe Biden regarding his aspirations to be NATO's new head. Mercouris reminds his viewers, discussing Biden's veto, that Joe Biden simply does NOT like Britain — and never has.

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    There's no end in sight because the people with the megaphones are looking in the wrong directions.

    They should shut up with doom and gloom and get educated, connected and active.

    . . . for a change.

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    I don't know if it's happening in the UK to the same extent that it's happening in the US, but in big "WOKE" US cities the amount of shop lifting is so off the charts that big stores are actually just closing down.
    And perhaps that was intentional, so that people would demand they reopen.
    But most likely that will only be done only on the condition that stores are allowed to demand ID verificaition, one step closer to the "Social Credit System" the globalists lust after so avidly.
    Ans perhaps it was considered possible to eliminate that first step in the UK, where big cities are more "civilized".

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    Just heard that Nigel Farage has had all his bank accounts (private and business) accounts cancelled. No reasons were given, and he's been unable to open accounts elsewhere. He has put the reason down to politcs. His family have also been targeted.

    You may or may not agree with Nigel's views but this action by the bank/s has very wide ramifications for all of us.

    Utterly outrageous behaviour!
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    Just heard that Nigel Farage has had all his bank accounts (private and business) accounts cancelled. No reasons were given, and he's been unable to open accounts elsewhere. He has put the reason down to politcs. His family have also been targeted.

    You may or may not agree with Nigel's views but this action by the bank/s has very wide ramifications for all of us.

    Utterly outrageous behaviour!
    You could say that this will be a positive thing in that it will start to awaken many, who have no idea as yet to what is to come. If Nigel can be targeted, why not the proles, people will start to think. This is indeed political - It's because he won the TRIC award, so this latest 'censorship' serves to fire a warning shot over other media personalities' speaking publicly about the Totalitarian Creep and other horrors.

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    It's not just Farage. They have been targeting his family members.

    It's a stitch up that shouldn't even have gotten this far.


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    Quote Posted by Matthew (here)
    It's not just Farage. They have been targeting his family members.

    It's a stitch up that shouldn't even have gotten this far.
    Without digging into this issue, my gut tells me that whatever else is going on, 'they' are taking the political temperature of this country ahead of next year's election.

    Our reaction and our numbers reacting one way or another are data that their brain trust might be wanting right now.
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    Perhaps if Nigel's having problems opening a UK bank account he should look no further than to take a leaf out of Dave Fishburn's book and open his own bank. Given Nigel's 4,000,000 voters, it could be an amazing success and a real kick in the pants for UK bankers

    BANK OF DAVE

    Dave's complete story is on You Tube, 4 full 47 minute episodes, Here's a link to the first episode which I thought was great :

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fIG...NotYourFriends

    It's Dave versus the Goliaths of the banking world as Channel 4 follows one man's fight to bring old-fashioned banking back to the High Street. With the global financial system in a mess, bankers in disrepute and their customers feeling short-changed, straight-talking minibus supplier Dave Fishwick has had enough. If the high street banks aren't lending enough to keep the economy going, why doesn't he just start his own? Surely it can't be that difficult?

    Dave starts his fight in his hometown of Burnley and his plan is refreshingly simple: he promises is give 5% interest on savings and then use that money to lend to people struggling to secure loans from the big banks. If after six months his local bank works, Dave says he's going to do something the big banks just can't bring themselves to do - instead of paying bonuses, he'll give any profits to charity. As Dave says: "if I can make £1 after all the bills are paid, my bank will be £2billion and one pound better off than the RBS, because they lost £2 billion."

    This wonderful story's recently been made into a film. Here's a 2-minute trailer:

    In reality, Dave has still not been successful with his application and Burnley Savings and Loans Limited (BSAL) is therefore still not technically a bank, with customers only able to deposit a limited amount. However, it's been going for the last 10 years.
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    ...
    Without digging into this issue, my gut tells me that whatever else is going on, 'they' are taking the political temperature of this country ahead of next year's election.

    Our reaction and our numbers reacting one way or another are data that their brain trust might be wanting right now.
    Could be. It's an overaction for some reason. But the move against Farage smells desperate whatever the motivation. But even if it is a behaviour test I'm not sure it would be good to let this slide. Leaving it feels like a worse home-goal than showing disapproval against it.

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    Perhaps if Nigel's having problems opening a UK bank account he should look no further than to take a leaf out of Dave Fishburn's book and open his own bank. Given Nigel's 4,000,000 voters, it could be an amazing success and a real kick in the pants for UK bankers

    BANK OF DAVE

    Dave's complete story is on You Tube, 4 full 47 minute episodes, Here's a link to the first episode which I thought was great :

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fIG...NotYourFriends

    It's Dave versus the Goliaths of the banking world as Channel 4 follows one man's fight to bring old-fashioned banking back to the High Street. With the global financial system in a mess, bankers in disrepute and their customers feeling short-changed, straight-talking minibus supplier Dave Fishwick has had enough. If the high street banks aren't lending enough to keep the economy going, why doesn't he just start his own? Surely it can't be that difficult?

    Dave starts his fight in his hometown of Burnley and his plan is refreshingly simple: he promises is give 5% interest on savings and then use that money to lend to people struggling to secure loans from the big banks. If after six months his local bank works, Dave says he's going to do something the big banks just can't bring themselves to do - instead of paying bonuses, he'll give any profits to charity. As Dave says: "if I can make £1 after all the bills are paid, my bank will be £2billion and one pound better off than the RBS, because they lost £2 billion."

    This wonderful story's recently been made into a film. Here's a 2-minute trailer:

    In reality, Dave has still not been successful with his application and Burnley Savings and Loans Limited (BSAL) is therefore still not technically a bank, with customers only able to deposit a limited amount. However, it's been going for the last 10 years.
    It is an interesting story and the dramatisation of it into a film is a decent watch.

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    Whether or not it is anyway near the actual truth .... a nice and relaxing under 2 hours lol

    Normal..!

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    Thanks Lake, I'll enjoy watching this. I've only seen the first episode of the YT Channel 4 presentation so far and Dave Fishburn himself is a force to be reckoned with.
    "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable" (John F Kennedy - 13th March 1962)
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