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gigilo
Just found this little gem about SPIKED unbelievable..i mentioned the sudden appearence of brendan o'neill on the poliyics show at short notice editor of magazine last week...only person that seemed to know that ''slight tinge'' was just an accident then attacked labour,no surprise after finding this amazing what you can find with just a bit of reading..
Robinson admits he has received several hundred thousand pounds in donations, but the Guardian investigation raised disturbing issues about the groups funding him. The US think tank Middle East Forum admits it has given $60,000 to support his legal fees and the London demo.
The Guardian also reported that the Middle East Forum, as well as other groups that have supported Robinson, have themselves received nearly $5 million from several wealthy donors. Among them is theAbstraction fund, of which New York department store heiress Nina Rosenwald is president and treasurer. The fund gave the Middle East Forum $2.65 million in donations between 2011 and 2015. Rosenwald is also the president of the Gatestone Institute, which has published a number of articles about Robinson and has received generous donations from the Abstraction Fund. Gatestone is also supported by the family of Robert Mercer, a hedge fund boss who was a key funder of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. The foundations of Richard Mellon Scaife, the late billionaire who donated generously to conservative causes, gave $575,000 to the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which frequently runs articles supporting Robinson.
The idea that American billionaires can impact on our politics in any way is profoundly wrong and the UK government should pass a law to ban all foreign funding in our domestic politics.
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Two of the richest Americans, David and Charles Koch, who are worth $120 billion have not been seen before to be funding organisations in Britain but the Guardian's George Monbiot revealed on December 7 that the Charles Koch Foundation had transferred money to a company that appears to be the US funding arm of a British organisation funding a magazine called SPIKED
The politics of Charles Koch were revealed back in 1978 when he wrote: "Our movement must destroy the prevalent statist paradigm." He argues for lower taxes and deregulating businesses, yet his own company has faced massive fines for illegal emissions, ammonia pollution and oil spills. The company was found guilty in 1999 of using a corroded pipeline carrying butane which exploded and killed two people.
The Koch brothers set up the Mercatus Centre, the Cato Institute and Americans For Prosperity and over the years they have spent hundred of millions of dollars supporting those organisations that share their right-wing views. They provided vital support for the Tea Party but then moved on to support Trump by funding his transition team. Not surprisingly Trump's administration has dramatically reduced taxes on large corporations such as those owned by the Koch brothers.
In the last two years the Charles Koch Foundation gave $300,000 to support Spiked which has denounced George Soros, Jeremy Corbyn and Black Lives Matter. It also denounced those campaigning for feminism and environmental issues. It provides strong support for the far-right columnist Katie Hopkins, Tommy Robinson, Aaron Banks, Toby Young and Viktor Orban (Hungary's right-wing prime minister). It has consistently supported a hard Brexit without a deal.
What a lovely media we have explains the editorials now eyes wide open and funded by these people,yet very few actually know whats going on,i had look a few times at spiked after drone said he had found himself agreeing with something on there,i looked last night ad on the comments page every person was an ardent robinson supporter..A very very strange magazine,labour hating rag,infact seems to hate lots of things hardly surprising now have never read so much vitriol now its all explained.strangest thing was finding so many robinson supporters on a supposedly ex marxist magazine,how did they even find or know it existed and why would they even think of reading it..
Aaron banks getting exposed..
And of course the highlighted names Abstraction,Middle east forum funding a pro israel ultra zionist movement who wouldv'e guessed..no shock to see trump amongst them as well,all inter related as well there's huge whiff about the whole thing..