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Tony Blair is LOTO, behind the scenes, other Blairites are involved too. Keir Starmer is just a front man, Alexandre Samuel Barros-Curtis is Labour's version of Dominic Cummings, he's THE top man. Everything makes sense from this perspective. #LabourLeak #StarmerOut 👇 #BREXIT

 According to his LinkedIn profile, Barros-Curtis’s day job is as a consultant solicitor “Providing specialised legal advice in the area of derivatives and structured finance” in particular “Hedging, project financings, securitisations, credit derivatives” #LabourLeaks #HedgeFund
He has worked extensively on derivatives and structured finance matters in Europe and Hong Kong; as well as formerly working for the Clinton Foundation. Asked to comment on Mr Barros-Curtis and his role in the party Labour said they do not discuss staffing issues. #LabourLeaks
Starmer's team members were accused of what's called "DATA - scraping" - seeking to obtain certain information from a wider set of data. Mr Barros-Curtis was also the DATA controller for Keir's campaign website. Who hired Asaaf Kaplan and When?.
Tony Blair has said he would not want a left-wing Labour party to win a general election.

The former prime minister said that even if he thought a left-wing programme was the route to victory, he would not adopt one. 2015 https://t.co/8TThIzZR4F
''I'm a Labour Leader or was'' Tony Blair, Progress conversation with Matt Forde. https://t.co/RFn7DDmtEE
June 2020. Rachel Crasnow QC represented Labour at the hearing, Alex Barros-Curtis, was also present. She successfully applied for the #LabourLeaks report to be taken off the court file, citing concerns for data protection and privacy. #StarmerOut https://t.co/6PATr8H3rD
The report also included leaks of embarrassing WhatsApp exchanges between party staff regarded as opponents of Mr Corbyn, prompting claims that the party’s efforts to win the 2017 General Election had been deliberately sabotaged by senior officials.
Alexandre Samuel Barros-Curtis was also the director of ''OWEN 2016 CAMPAIGN LIMITED'' – a post from which he didn’t resign until 16 December – four days before Movement for Another Future Limited was incorporated with Barros-Curtis as the sole director. #LabourLeaks
When Starmer outlined his vision for the leadership, the same week https://t.co/H904HKMSel was transformed from a personal website into a professional, data-collecting operation to gather supporters’ email addresses.
Then there is the domain https://t.co/sJ7Jkvd77N, which was purchased less than two hours after the exit poll dropped on December 12 – although by precisely who remains unclear. #LabourLeaks
While Starmer served in Mr Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet along with Lewis, Thornberry and Long-Bailey, he also resigned from it in 2016 as part of a collective effort to displace the party leader. He was the only one of the four to do so. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut
Now, a clear connection between the embryonic Starmer campaign and Owen Smith’s own bid to defeat Corbyn for the leadership in 2016 has come to light. It raises serious questions about Starmer as a candidate running from the left.
Alexandre Samuel Barros-Curtis was in the leadership campaigns of Andy Burnham, Owen Smith AND Keir Starmer. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut
Alexandre Samuel Barros-Curtis managed ''Strategic Consultancy'' on the UK’s Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks #CSA
Tony Blair, Mandelson and Campbell, all appear in Keir Starmer's colleague Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Little Black Book’, Margaret Hodge was aware of child sex abuse in care homes for which she was responsible, and did nothing about it, Tom Watson bungled the VIP case. #StarmerOut #CSA
What would happen if political parties collude to mishandle a crisis?, their financial backers will profit. Hedge funds who have made nearly £1.5 billion in paper profits betting UK shares would collapse. April 2020 #StarmerOut https://t.co/nYIPQiisje
Tony Blair's Progress is deeply committed to pro-privatisation and pro-corporate policies. It has also steadily campaigned to reduce trade union influence in the Labour Party and latterly to do away with one member one vote for the Labour leadership. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut
https://t.co/S1Be9a2fWT
#StarmerOut #LabourLeaks

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Wow, Morgan McSweeney again, Rachel Riley, SFFN, Center for Countering Digital Hate, Imran Ahmed, JLM, BoD, Angela Eagle, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Lisa Nandy, Steve Reed, Jon Cruddas, Trevor Chinn, Martin Taylor, Lord Ian Austin and Mark Lewis. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut 24 tweet🧵

Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, launched the organisation that now runs SFFN.
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Rachel Riley is listed as patron. https://t.co/nGY5QrwBD0


SFFN claims that it has been “a project of the Center For Countering Digital Hate” since 4 May 2020. The relationship between the two organisations, however, appears to date back far longer. And crucially, CCDH is linked to a number of figures on the Labour right. #LabourLeaks

Center for Countering Digital Hate registered at Companies House on 19 Oct 2018, the organisation’s only director was Morgan McSweeney – Labour leader Keir Starmer’s chief of staff. McSweeney was also the campaign manager for Liz Kendall’s leadership bid. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut

Sir Keir - along with his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney - held his first meeting with the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM). Deliberately used the “anti-Semitism” crisis as a pretext to vilify and then expel a leading pro-Corbyn activist in Brighton and Hove
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WOW, Mike Gapes and Joan Ryan are non-Labour JLM conference attendees discussing disciplinary processes with Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner but not a privilege afforded to the people who pay the wages of the party machine. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut #LFI https://t.co/XZDKR5FmXC


So what should Peter Mandelson talk about at the recent Jewish Labour Movement conference – his worries that an independent process will hamper the party leader Keir Starmer?. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut #LFI


Mandelson “was there in the 1980s and understands where the power bases of the right are, and how it should be exercised”. Who needs independent processes or oversight when you are in the driving seat?. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut #LFI

Poale Zion trades as Jewish Labour Movement is a part of the Zionist Federation of the UK and organise within the World Zionist Organisation. You do NOT have to be Jewish or a member of the Labour Party to join. JLM contains CIA asset Ruth Smeeth. #LabourLeaks #StarmerOut #BICOM


Ruth Smeeth, one of the 60 plus anti-Corbyn resignations from the shadow cabinet, formerly held a post with the lobby group, Trevor Chinn's Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM). #StarmerOut #BICOM #JLM https://t.co/H2a9vnsnRP
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Alex Barros-Curtis run both Smith’s campaign in 2016 and Starmer's in 2020. He is Keir's new ultimate enforcer but who hacked, data scrapped and purged? Is Keir's position as LOTO truly legitimate?. Did he cheat?. Thread. #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks

Novara Media revealed that a leading figure in Kier Starmer's campaign had extensive links to Owen Smith's leadership bid in 2016. When asked if others from the Smith campaign were also involved in Starmer’s leadership Keir's office did not respond #LabourLeaks #Pfizer #Pharma


Keir had a campaign website, the controller for this DATA, according to the site itself, is a company called Movement for Another Future Limited. Alexandre Samuel Barros-Curtis is the sole director of Movement for Another Future Limited. Alex controls the DATA. #LabourLeaks

According to his LinkedIn profile, Barros-Curtis’s day job is as a consultant solicitor “Providing specialised legal advice in the area of derivatives and structured finance” in particular “Hedging, project financings, securitisations, credit derivatives” #LabourLeaks #HedgeFund

He has worked extensively on derivatives and structured finance matters in Europe and Hong Kong; as well as formerly working for the Clinton Foundation. Asked to comment on Mr Barros-Curtis and his role in the party Labour said they do not discuss staffing issues. #LabourLeaks
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Jess Phillips is funded by a Luxury Property Developer behind a number of controversial schemes. The register of financial interests lists a donation totaling £6,000 from Court Consultants. Plus a £8,000 a year sideline from the Tories. #LabourLeaks

Jess Phillips MP’s office is funded by a property developer criticised for not including enough affordable housing in his tower blocks. #LabourLeaks

Court Consultants is controlled by Birmingham property developer Anthony McCourt. He is a longstanding financial backer of Jess Phillips. In 2017, Anthony McCourt also gave £3,000 to Phillips to help with the running of her local Labour party.


Councils try to oblige property developers to build some affordable housing in their new buildings in return for planning permission. But recent developments involving Antony McCourt failed to meet even these limited attempts by councils to increase the amount lower-cost housing.

McCourt runs his developments through his other company, Court Collaboration. Recent Court Collaboration schemes have also been criticised for not containing enough affordable housing. #LabourLeaks
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Keir's position as leader of the Labour party may not be legitimate. Hacking into the membership database, during a leadership campaign to gain an unfair advantage, is cheating. Two of Sir Keir Starmer's leadership campaign team have already been formally reported. #StarmerOut


''The allegations are serious, and the confrontation has engulfed the campaign in bitter recrimination.'' John Pienaar Deputy political editor. February 2020 #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks

The campaign said it acted innocently but Ms Chapman said she believed "something wrong" had taken place. #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks

''One of them is his compliance official.'' says John Pienaar, Alexandre Samuel Barros-Curtis had previously worked as Sir Keir’s head of compliance during his campaign. COINCIDENTALY The same man was present in court when #LabourLeaks was suppressed.

Starmer's team members were accused of what's called "DATA - scraping" - seeking to obtain certain information from a wider set of data. Mr Barros-Curtis was also the DATA controller for Keir's campaign website. Who hired Asaaf Kaplan and When?, What date?. #LabourLeaks
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First Sullivan: agent provocateur who is no more antifa/BLM than he is Proud Boy, with suspicious family ties to the security state (allegedly), who helps instigate and document the Jan 6 events leading to IC officials immediately demanding the removal of the incumbent regime...

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Okay so maybe the guy is just a confused burn-it-all-down nihilist. Possible, but then we might do a big think about how an unhinged political schizo gets hooked up with a filmmaker with a long-history of doing activist/journalism on behalf of Woke Imperialism...

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— Charlie Munger

...but maybe you don't and would like to.

That's why I put together this thread.

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1) The biggest myths about reading
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1) The biggest myths about reading

Let's start with briefly debunking some of the biggest myths out there.

"I don't have time for reading."
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As gothic houses come in all shapes and sizes you may come across the following things which require fleeing:
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There are some items that are a clear giveaway that you are in, or near, a gothic house that requires fleeing. Look around you and see if you can spot:
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