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center_for_countering_digital_hate [2023/10/02 19:01]
pamela [CCDH Dark Money and Imran Ahmed]
center_for_countering_digital_hate [2023/10/02 19:02] (current)
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 For a variety of complex reasons, British political operatives don’t come to the United States, Americans go to England. Not just the UK, but wherever a political party needs top advice to win a campaign, they hire Americans: Israel, Argentina, Latin America, Europe…. Few know this, but a former colleague from my time in the Senate, Jim Messina, was hired by British politicians and helped push through [[:Brexit]], although by accident. Putting Brexit up for vote was a political ploy designed to quiet British critics of the EU, but this backfired when the issue then passed. The FT has a deep dive on Messina’s many political failures in the UK, Italy, Spain, and other countries—see here. For a variety of complex reasons, British political operatives don’t come to the United States, Americans go to England. Not just the UK, but wherever a political party needs top advice to win a campaign, they hire Americans: Israel, Argentina, Latin America, Europe…. Few know this, but a former colleague from my time in the Senate, Jim Messina, was hired by British politicians and helped push through [[:Brexit]], although by accident. Putting Brexit up for vote was a political ploy designed to quiet British critics of the EU, but this backfired when the issue then passed. The FT has a deep dive on Messina’s many political failures in the UK, Italy, Spain, and other countries—see here.
  
-Understanding how global political advice operates, I became very intrigued by Imran Ahmed’s ability to hop from London to DC, raise $1.5 million in dark money for the [[:Center for Countering Digital Hate]], and then have a 2021 report he put out become fodder for a White House press conference and hearings in Congress.+Understanding how global political advice operates, I became very intrigued by [[:Imran Ahmed]]’s ability to hop from London to DC, raise $1.5 million in dark money for the [[:Center for Countering Digital Hate]], and then have a 2021 report he put out become fodder for a White House press conference and hearings in Congress.
  
 I’m still not certain who is controlling Ahmed, but I plan to write more on him over the next couple of weeks, investigating his ties to various political groups in the United States and to [[:Peter Hotez]], an American physician, an ardent proponent of [[:Anthony Fauci]] and cheerleader in the national media for [[:vaccines]] and Biden administration pandemic policies. I’m still not certain who is controlling Ahmed, but I plan to write more on him over the next couple of weeks, investigating his ties to various political groups in the United States and to [[:Peter Hotez]], an American physician, an ardent proponent of [[:Anthony Fauci]] and cheerleader in the national media for [[:vaccines]] and Biden administration pandemic policies.
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