“Don’t talk much these days...Out of words some say.”
“The wise ones know that life is but a dream, and so they chose to dream a beautiful dream.” (Emerson Warner)
Ruben Vucuname - from Chiapas, Mexico - on Hampstead Heath. (Photos by @reteposh)
“I am not rescuing the ancient traditions of my ancestors. The knowledge of my ancestors is rescuing me.”
Ruben Vucubame
“I set out to try & save the world, but now I realise that - all this time - it has been the world that has been saving me.”
Emerson Warner (Pics @reteposh)
"How few people, even the bravest, ever have the courage to admit clearly that their view of yesterday was error and nonsense"
(Stefan Zweig)
Photo by @reteposh
"I went to Spain for the love of one woman. I left Spain with a love of all humanity. Although she is lost to me and my heart aches each and every day, I am no longer consumed with guilt for she opened the Universe with her grace.” (Emerson Warner)
Photo by @reteposh
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"Once an autocrat gets into office, it is very hard to get them out. They will disregard term limits, they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it." @sarahkendzior
"The most sophisticated tyrannies are ones that have a showman as their frontman. Clown or blowhard. Jester or villain. The type of showman doesn’t matter. Their audience will love them just the same."
(Emerson Warner, 1949)
Via @mdsharpe2
“I think that people are going to get hurt. People are going to get killed.”
Across the US, far-right militias are preparing for the #USElection & for post-election civil unrest
It is worth remembering that Ben Bradley also holds the Conservative record for the most retweeted post (his apology to Jeremy Corbyn) & the best introduction to a politician ever (@krishgm on @Channel4News)
“I wish people would stop saying ‘let's not politicise the issue of school meals’. If the fact that children are going hungry in one of the world's richest, developed countries is not a 'political' issue, what is?” @sturdyAlex
👇@BarristerSecret@Otto_English@David__Osland@AOC
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
“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.
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
#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!
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