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Stefan Simanowitz

@StefSimanowitz

23 Oct

Last weekend, I set off the find the source of the River Fleet - London’s most famous subterranean waterway

It rises in separate springs on Hampstead Heath & flows underground along two brooks which meet in Kentish Town & eventually join the River Thames.

The sources of the Fleet are springs in the Vale of Health (see other THREAD) & this one in Kenwood, (‘Caen’ meaning green).

Of all London’s lost rivers, the Fleet was the largest & most important providing water for drinking, washing, powering mills & transportation & sewerage.

In Roman, Anglo Saxon & Medieval times the Fleet was a major river

As London’s population grew, its flow was reduced &, over the centuries, it became clogged with waste & sewerage

In 1870, the last stretch of the Fleet was covered up but on the Heath it still runs above ground

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Stefan Simanowitz

@StefSimanowitz

21 Oct

Rupert Soames, CEO of #Serco insists itS “NHS test-&-trace"

In reality, its executive committee has just 1 public health expert & it is run by 2 private companies

Serco is one of them & this week its shares surged by 18%

Soames suggests mentioning this makes you an anti-vaxxer

@DrRosena

“Serco is only delivering a contact tracing rate of 68.1% & SAGE has said we need a rate of 80%” @DrRosena

@rsoames claims this is based on “fake data”

But Serco don't reach more than 20% of positive cases & of those they reach, 15% provide no contacts.

@rsoames

Ystdy, @rsoames was furious at the suggestion #Serco Test & Trace is failing & that “his incompetence was only match by his girth”

Today, the govt are advertising for managers with experience of “turning around failing call centres”

Rate upto £2,000/day! jobs.telegraph.co.uk/job/11580381/s…

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Stefan Simanowitz

@StefSimanowitz

21 Oct

@BarackObama

“Our democracy is not going to work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders lie everyday & just make things up. We’ve become numb to it. We’ve become immune to it. Every single day. Fact checkers can’t keep up.” @BarackObama
#Trump #BorisJohnson

“And so by malice, stealth & brutishness a pattern is set. Less & less transparency. Less & less scrutiny. Less & less accountability. Until they’re entirely unleashed to bundle aside the truth & speak only their truths."

A lesson from history. Emerson Warner writing in 1949.

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1311971344402219008?s=21

The patterns are disturbingly similar in the US & the UK

Not just in terms of behaviours but also in terms of the way in which both countries have given a central role in their #COVID19 response to the shadowy data-mining company, Palantir. #PalantirPlan

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1311971344402219008?s=21

https://t.co/NJOdEkOJP1

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Stefan Simanowitz

@StefSimanowitz

17 Oct

#CambridgeAnalyica’s Brittany Kaiser has disclosed 800 pages of previously unreleased documents

They show:

1) CA started working for Trump in Sept, 2015

2) AIQ was operating as single legal entity with CA - something that had
been denied

3) “LeaveEU project approved” 3/11/15

The documents appear to reveal illegal coordination btw Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign & pro-Trump super PAC

They also appear to reveal that Nix lied to Parliament & to Congress

The companies in charge of our health data in UK & US, #Palantir & #FacultyAI, are linked to CA!

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1183657994514554880?s=21

Designed by #CambridgeAnalytica
& used by #Trump in his 2016 campaign & in LeaveUK’s Brexit campaign, this was a social warfare tool - designed to open cracks in societies & hollow out democracies - turned against our own populations.
#Palantir #FacultyAI

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1183657994514554880?s=21

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1183657994514554880

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Stefan Simanowitz

@StefSimanowitz

13 Oct

@didoharding

1 - The fact that the govt ignored SAGE's advice on #circuitbreaker lockdown doesn't come as a big surprise as SAGE has been increasingly sidelined since the setting up of the #JointBiosecurityCentre in July

The JBC is part of the "NHS" Test and Trace Service run by @didoharding

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1310703032846475265

2 - The #JointBiosecurityCentre runs the govt's #COVID19 response

Set up in May, it was originally headed by Tom Hurd (MI6)

He was replaced by Clare Gardiner (GCHQ)

This suggests it sits within UK intelligence structures

Over the last 6 months, the JBC has released no minutes

3 - Whilst little is known about the staffing & membership of this body, sources suggest that there is no "centre"

Instead, they say, the #JBC is scattered across offices in Whitehall & beyond, including intelligence agencies & research institutes

See: gov.uk/government/gro…

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Stefan Simanowitz

@StefSimanowitz

13 Oct

@amyklobuchar

“Judge Barrett. Is it illegal to intimidate voters at the polls?” @amyklobuchar

“I can’t apply the law to hypothetical facts. I can’t answer questions like that”

Wow! #AmyConeyBarret refuses to acknowledge the fact that voter intimidation is illegal #ACB

Earlier today, Judge Barrett - Trump’s selection to replace #RBG in the Supreme Court - refused to say #DonaldTrump doesn't have the Constitutional power to unilaterally delay the election.

He does not have that power.
#ThisIsNotADrill