Marita K

Made in Germany, but have been living in E17 for almost 30 years.I love food, wine, good company + walking my dog. @[email protected]

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

So, I have a friend who works at the BBC.

Yesterday, they told me the Tony Blair Institute basically selected the entire panel for @bbcquestiontime — hence why there was no balance and it was essentially dangerous big tech propaganda. Loads of staff pissed off, but silenced.

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

For my German speaking followers: Warum Labour die Nerven verloren hat und warum das alles jetzt böse enden kann.. 👇 https://t.co/kzp7aurhnh

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:

"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."

It's not true, it's utter garbage.

I'll go through facts and figures. /1

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

This industrial scale repurposing of government to personal and family wealth accumulation is exactly what we can expect of Farage should he become Prime Minister. He’ll have less global leverage but will still bleed the UK taxpayer of every penny for himself and his investors.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

After the Coutts affair, Farage nearly doubled his shareholdings in GB News parent company

1. No other presenter has such a stake
2. No political leader in the UK owns so many shares in a media company
3. No @Ofcom regulated media company supports just one political party

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Let’s keep banging on about this because God knows nobody else is.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

Following months of activism, 1,500 beagles are being released from the Ridglan Farms testing facility to animal rescue groups: the Beagle Freedom Project and Big Dog Ranch Rescue. To all the dogs being released, we wish you many years in loving homes. 14/10 for all

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

Keir Starmer has been hounded by the British media for weeks now because of a potential procedural mistake re Mandelson.
Where is the excitement about this? Haven't seen much about it in MSM since the story broke. Although much more damaging to UK democracy. Genuinely baffled.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

The lack of media scrutiny on this grifter is staggering

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

The PBS NewsHour has documented the Trump family's unprecedented conflicts of interest. Jared Kushner, a 'volunteer' with no official position, has $6 billion in assets from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar-the same governments he is negotiating with on Middle East peace. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have invested in drone companies that are now competing for Pentagon contracts in the war their father started.

Forbes estimated that Eric and Don Jr., they were worth about $40, $50 million each before the 2024 election. About a year later, Eric at $400 million and Donald Trump Jr. at about $300 million.

They're using war and diplomacy to enrich themselves

[Marita K @neostower]

@TrickyDicky71 @SimonCalder I use UK passport for UK border control and EU for EU border control. Not had an issue other than having to wait for OH who only has UK passport.

[Marita K @neostower]

@kerstingfamily @TheGraveside @lewis_goodall @Channel4 She’s been cleared. You may have missed it as the media hardly mentioned it.

[Marita K @neostower]

@TheGraveside @lewis_goodall @Channel4 And now that she’s been cleared by police, hmrc etc …… silence.

[Marita K @neostower]

@lewis_goodall @Channel4 Where is your in-depth investigation into fartage and his countless appearance in the Epstein Files, his tax evasion, his contempt for the ministerial code etc etc? Where is your fairness?

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

This is extraordinary.
Please read.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Bank of America just agreed to pay $72.5 million for helping Jeffrey Epstein traffic underage girls.

The settlement dropped late Friday night. Buried under war headlines and protest coverage. Almost like they planned it that way.

And this is literally the FOURTH major bank settlement tied to Epstein's sex trafficking operation.

JPMorgan paid $290 million to victims. Then another $75 million to the US Virgin Islands. Deutsche Bank paid $75 million to victims and got hit with a $150 million regulatory fine on top of that. Now Bank of America adds $72.5 million.

Total exposed so far: Over $660 million.

Number of bankers criminally charged: ZERO.

Number of bankers who went to prison: ZERO.

Every single settlement came with "no admission of wrongdoing." Every bank said some version of "we regret the association" and moved on.

But the court filings tell a very different story:

JPMorgan filed suspicious activity reports on Epstein's accounts as early as 2002. Their own compliance team flagged him. They KNEW something was wrong but they kept banking him for 11 more years anyway.

When Epstein was alive and actively trafficking girls, JPMorgan flagged $4.3 million in suspicious transactions.

After he died in his cell? They retroactively reported $1.3 BILLION in suspicious activity going back to 2003. That's 300 times more than what they reported while he was alive.

A Senate investigation found that JPMorgan executives overruled their own compliance officers to keep Epstein as a client. Internal emails show top executives approved continued business with Epstein even AFTER his 2008 conviction because he was bringing in ultra-wealthy referrals.

Deutsche Bank picked Epstein up as a client in 2013, the same year JPMorgan finally dropped him. Their own CEO later admitted onboarding him was "a critical mistake that should never have happened." They literally kept him for five more years.

Bank of America allegedly didn't file suspicious activity reports on Epstein-linked accounts until AFTER he was dead.

The pattern is identical every time:

See the red flags. Ignore them. Profit from the relationship. Wait until the client dies or gets arrested. Then file a report. Then write a settlement check. Then say you did nothing wrong.

Now think about this...

These are the same banks that freeze your business account over a $5,000 wire transfer. The same compliance departments that require endless forms of ID to open a checking account. The same institutions that flag small business owners for "suspicious activity" if they deposit cash from their own customers two weeks in a row.

But a convicted sex offender runs hundreds of millions through their systems for DECADES and nobody notices. Nobody reports it. Nobody escalates it. Nobody calls law enforcement.

Until he's dead. Then suddenly everyone remembers everything.

Senator Wyden called for a criminal investigation. The Treasury Department has thousands of pages of Epstein bank records they still won't release. Congressional investigators say the full picture of what these banks knew hasn't come close to being revealed.

$660 million in settlements and fines. But not a single criminal charge against any banker at any institution.

That's the system working exactly as designed.

I wonder why no one's talking about the files anymore?

[Marita K @neostower]

@LeShuttle when did you start charging admin fees for making an online date:time change to bookings? £20 for moving the date plus change in fare. Latter is ok but but the £20. What admin? I’m doing the change on your app. No intervention/admin necessary. Pure greedy

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

EXCL: Reform treasurer Nick Candy met several figures subject to international sanctions on trip last week to Nicaragua to discuss gold mine

He also received welcome message from co-president, subject to UK sanctions, who called him "friend" and "comrade"
https://t.co/P1V7m8TjUw

[Paul Talling @derelict_london]

Less than 30 tickets left!
https://t.co/MiIktIRbrh

[Helen S Fields @Helen_Fields]

Absolutely sick to death of hearing about how the new @louistheroux documentary has made people think about attitudes to women. Lots of MPs jumping on the bandwagon. I mean, no disrespect to Louis - I’m grateful for the highlight - but for God’s sake…
Women get killed by their partner every week. Tiny Man Tate has been a thing for years. Domestic violence shelters are overwhelmed. Women have been waving the red flags about incels and attitudes for years. We’ve been begging for change. We’ve been highlighting the serious threat of anti-women social media. Then a MAN makes a documentary and suddenly everyone’s interested? Do you not all think that this might be part of the problem?