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Andrew Tate Built an Empire on Bullshit. Here’s the Real Story (EJ Dickson, Adam Rawnsley, Stefania Matache / Rolling Stone)
For a fee of more than $5,000 he also offered his acolytes access to the War Room, the brothers’ social network and an exclusive Telegram group offering their patented wisdom on sex, masculinity, and how to make money. To hear War Room associates, like a security professional based in Dubai who goes by the name Sartorial Shooter, tell it, it’s little more than “a highly supportive global networking group of men striving to excel in all areas of life.” And in some ways it is that, with members adopting a hypermacho stance by psyching each other up about money, cars, women, and conquests.
But it also may be more sinister than that. According to screen grabs obtained by the independent journalist Nick Monroe, which Rolling Stone confirmed came from an individual with access to the group, and an interview with a source familiar with the War Room, the Tates encouraged members to get their wives and girlfriends to do online sex work and fork over their income to them. A creator who enrolled in the War Room and posted a vlog review of his time there also says the organization teaches members how to become a “pimping guy who looks down on women, uses them and abuses them, and manipulates them to get from them what he wants.” One screen grab appears to show a high-ranking member of the War Room instructing others on how to coerce their partners to cam: “Breathe it on her neck, in her ear as she’s cumming,” he instructs.
Inside Britain’s anti-abortion training camps (Sian Norris / iNews)
There was no need now to pretend to be wide-eyed: my eyes were popping out of my head as he relayed how abortions were sacrifices to Satan; that our political and media class was packed with Satanists, and that Satan’s power was strong in Britain because of the high number of abortions (214,000 abortions were conducted in England and Wales in 2021).
By arguing that abortions are Satanic sacrifices, the movement is provided with justification for hosting prayer vigils outside clinics: praying, Wong informed us, can stop Satan’s power from working, disrupting the abortion and saving the foetus’ life. The attendees were encouraged to think about the possibility of ending abortion access in the UK – not as an idealised fiction but a target for the next five years.
The boarding school practices that shape UK leaders’ attitude towards normal people (Novara Media)
@novaramedia Ash talks to Richard Beard about the boarding school practices that shape our leaders’ attitude towards normal people.#ukpolitics #xyzbca #boardingschool #corruption #jacobreesmogg #privateschool #foodtiktok ♬ original sound – Novara Media
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