TheDwZ

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[–] TheDwZ@lemmy.world 3 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago) (1 children)

From his wikipedia page:

In April 2005, at Luton Crown Court, Robinson was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault with intent to resist arrest against an off-duty police constable

In September 2011, at Preston Magistrates' Court, Robinson was convicted of assault for headbutting a man in Blackburn on 2 April 2011.

In July 2011, at Luton and South Bedfordshire Magistrates' Court, Robinson was convicted of using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour, for leading a group of Luton Town F.C. supporters into a brawl involving 100 people

In October 2012, Robinson was arrested and held on the charge of having entered the United States illegally. He had used a passport in the name of Andrew McMaster

In November 2012 Robinson was charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit fraud by misrepresentation in relation to a mortgage application

Sometime after 10 pm on 17 January 2021, Robinson went to the home of the journalist Lizzie Dearden after she had asked for his comment for a story she was writing about allegations that he had misused financial donations from his supporters. He falsely accused her partner of being a paedophile and threatened to return every night.

On 13 October 2021, Robinson was convicted at Westminster Magistrates' Court of stalking the couple

On 21 May 2025, Robinson was charged with harassment causing fear of violence against two Daily Mail journalists in August 2024.

On 27 November 2023, Robinson was charged under a Section 35 direction excluding a person from an area, after he refused to leave the area of the March Against Antisemitism in London

On 10 May 2017, Robinson was charged with contempt of court, and convicted. He had filmed inside Canterbury Crown Court and posted prejudicial statements calling the defendants "Muslim child rapists" while the jury was deliberating

On 25 May 2018, Robinson was arrested for a breach of the peace while live streaming outside Leeds Crown Court

After a Syrian refugee boy was assaulted in a school bullying incident in October 2018, Robinson falsely accused the victim of having previously attacked two schoolgirls. These events forced the refugee's family to relocate because "the level of abuse the children have received has become too much".

On 28 July 2024, Robinson was arrested by Kent Police at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone under the Terrorism Act, "for frustration of a schedule 7 examination"

In August 2024, The Times reported Robinson and associates had created "a web of secretive companies" which made profits of over £1.6 million without paying tax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson#Aftermath_of_imprisonment

Why isn't this guy in prison?

[–] TheDwZ@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Superb reporting from The Guardian 👏

From those who don't know Haykluyt, it's basically a private intelligence agency. Their clients are multinationals, billionaires and wealthy individuals seeking to sabotage enemies or gather extremely sensitive information.

They call themselves "strategic advisory" but make no mistake, these people are spooks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt_%26_Company#Activities

Hayklut's chairman, Lord Paul Deighton, is probably one the most connected man in Britain.

He is the chairman of Goldman Sachs in London

He is a close friend of David Cameron.

He sits in the House of Lords.

He is the current chair of The Economist.

Deighton was also the guy in charge of PPE contracts during Covid:

Lord Deighton has helped the government award billions of dollars in contracts –– including hundreds of millions to several companies where he has financial interests or personal connections.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/europe/britain-covid-contracts.html

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The fact private water companies are hiring spooks to stop nationalization is alarming.

 

 

The more you dig, the more you find statements like this

[–] TheDwZ@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (26 children)

I will not celebrate violence. I will not celebrate murder. It's wrong.

I'm sure he loved his wife. He loved his church. He loved his kids.

But this very same man had no issue with throwing men with no criminal records in horrific south american prisons. Men who simply wanted a better life.

He had no issue with spreading lies about election results, even if the result was violence.

He had no issue with lying about legal Haitian migrants eating dogs and cats, even if they received countless death threats.

He believed Canadian gun laws were silly, any angry man should be able to easily purchase guns. He didn't respect Canadians. He laughed at them.

I don't want to sound like a horrible monster, but it's hard for me to feel empathy.

[–] TheDwZ@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Peter Thiel signed a massive contract with the NHS

But most UK hospitals say it's totally useless:

Palantir, co-founded by billionaire and Trump donor Peter Thiel—who once claimed the NHS “makes people sick”—is known for its secretive operations and controversial clients.

Now, nearly 18 months after the Palantir NHS contract was signed, Democracy for Sale can reveal that many English hospitals have a different, unexpected objection: Palantir’s software simply isn’t good enough.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was even more blunt, telling NHS England in a private letter that adopting some of the tools on Palantir’s platform would lead it to “lose functionality rather than gain it.”

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-nhs-data-platform-rejected-hospitals

I'm a Foreigner. I clearly see corruption.

This is money stolen from the NHS. These people robbed the NHS.

The fact many Britons aren't angry and in the streets absolutely infuriates me.

People should be literally showing up at the homes of Boris Johnson and Dominic Cumming. People should be SCREAMING on them. These scumbags should be terrified. I understand the British aren't culturally the French, but still : /

[–] TheDwZ@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

There is absolutely no evidence that speed cameras are "tax grabs". This is a lie that just keeps getting repeated.

New York is the city with the most speed cameras in North America.

  • Budget of NYC ? $115 billion dollars. (1)

  • Revenue of NYC speed cameras ? $222 million dollars (2)

Now let's do some math.

  • 222,000,000 /115,000,000,000 = 0,19304

Speeding tickets are 0.19% of New York's revenue.

If you drive above the speed limit and get a ticket, you aren't a victim. You will get over it.

Not enough attention is paid to the pain and suffering of the real victims:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/ontario-woman-who-was-eight-months-pregnant-left-paralyzed-after-horrific-car-crash/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/quadriplegic-doctor-back-to-work-victoria-general-paralyzed-1.3908798

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/villeneuve-guilty-plea-1.7272277

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-traumatic-brain-injury-hospital-1.7388959

[–] TheDwZ@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This man has done an absolutely astonishing amount of damage to Australian democracy.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-19/former-pm-kevin-rudd-says-he-was-fearful-of-murdoch-media/13173242

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/utterly-unaccountable-turnbull-labels-news-corp-the-most-powerful-political-actor-in-australia-20210412-p57idq.html

He has also damaged democracy in the United Kingdom and the United States. For decades, his medias have promoted climate change denialism, anti-union propaganda, and the most astonishing lies.

I still remember the headline of The Sun right before the UK referendum on European Union membership:

He is nothing less than a vicious criminal:

https://theconversation.com/the-murdoch-tapes-news-corp-culture-and-the-phone-hacking-scandal-15810

https://bylineinvestigates.com/2024/03/16/rupert-murdochs-dodgy-dossier-the-bombshell-billion-pound-legal-document-being-used-by-prince-harry-containing-allegations-of-systemic-crime-at-the-sun-and-the-news-of-the-world/

Shame on Australia for producing such a piece of shit.

He wouldn't have the power he has today without ordinary Australians using his medias as a source of information.

Please financially support media alternatives.

[–] TheDwZ@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No offense to the wonderful British people, but a lot of your press is trash.

  • The Sun ? Trash.

  • The Daily Mail. Largely non-sense.

  • The Telegraph ? Official newspaper of the Tory Party. Used to employ Boris Johnson. He was lavishly paid to publish non-sense about the EU.

  • The Independent ? Now owned by Saudi Arabia and a Russian mobster.

  • The Times ? Owned by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. The CEO is Rebekka Brooks, former editor of News of the World. She is an actual criminal.

  • The Economist ? The current chairman Paul Deighton, a friend of David Cameron. He is a Tory Lawmaker (House of Lords) that was in charge of Covid PPE contracts. According to the New York Times, Deighton gave huge contracts to companies he owned.

The only two UK papers that I actually admire are The Financial Times and The Guardian.

I'm sure there are wonderful local newspapers in Wales, Scotland, and major cities, but overall the situation looks quiet grim.

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