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6 Jan, 5 tweets, 4 min read
The Capitol Building has been stormed by an angry crowd, some armed with automatic weapons

Trump protestors are inside the building

Everyone is being evacuated, including @Mike_Pence

There have been pipe bomb threats & gunshots

What have those behind #Trump done to America? ImageImageImageImage
How Fascism Works:
1. Establish mythic past (“Return to greatness”);

2. Sow division (fear/envy/mistrust/use minorities as scapegoats);

3. Attack the truth (lie, distort, deny, & create “alt” reality);

4. Dismantle democracy...in the name of democracy
The scenes on Capitol Hill are the latest - most shocking -proof of what will happen when anger & division are deliberately & incessantly stoked for years on end

Step 2: Sow division

With Trump in US & Brexit in UK, a genie has been let out of the bottle
A clue that the #PalantirPlan dates way back is the move by the #PalantirThree to the Trump admin in Feb/March 2017

Kevin Harrington > Dep Asst to the President for strategic planning

Michael Kratsios > WH deputy Chief Tech Officer

Justin Mikolay > Special Asst to Defense Sec Image
“Trump’s refusal to facilitate a peaceful transfer of power has put public safety & the rule of law at grave risk.

His embrace of white supremacist groups & extremists has further fanned the flames of the chaos & violence.” @amnesty
#Capitol #Trump @AOC
amnestyusa.org/press-releases…

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6 Jan
1/. At 10am, a London court will assess #JulianAssange’s bail application days after they blocked his extradition to US

Whilst the charges that he still faces cast a dark shadow over journalism, his release on bail would be a ray of hope for #Assange.
2/. “The threat to press freedom is maintained.”

Chomsky speaking ystdy, points out that the decision to refuse #JuliaAssange’s extradition on medical grounds whilst accepting the frivolous charges against him, is a “perfect outcome” for US govt. #Assange
3/. Amnesty Intn’l supports #JulianAssange's bail application based on his right not to be arbitrarily detained, his right to health & his right to private & family life.

@amnesty’s message to #UK regarding bail hearing is clear “#FreeAssange”.
#Assange amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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5 Jan
JOURNALIST: Why, after 10 months, are there still no checks at airports?

@BorisJohnson: Um...er...We will be bringing in measures to...um...er...to ensure that we...err...test people coming into this country & prevent the virus...er...being re-admitted.

@piersmorgan last July👇
The PM, #BorisJohnson, also says at the start of his answer👆
“Just to repeat, schools are safe” on the same day he just introduced a new #lockdown & shut down schools because they’re not safe.
#Lockdown3 #schoolclosures #COVID19 #coronavirus #HerdImmunityScandal #covidbriefing
#BorisJohnson makes clear his strategy is sometimes to PRETEND not to know what's going on so that when he ACTUALLY doesn’t know, people won’t be able to tell the difference

The trouble is that we can ALL tell

Is the #BumblingStrategy really govt policy?
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4 Jan
1/. COUNTDOWN TO JUSTICE/INJUSTICE - 10HRS

“The activities that #JulianAssange engaged in are activities that journalists engage in all the time. We wouldn’t have information without them”
@JuliaHall18 @amnesty

#Assange will hear the verdict on his extradition to the US today Image
2/. 9HRS - "#Assange, is at glaring risk that he would be put into a maximum-security prison & subjected to Special Administrative Measures"

"If the decision comes to extradite him, we'll come out very strongly against it" @JuliaHall18 @amnesty @AJEnglish
aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/3/…
3/. 8HRS - It's staggering little most people know about the #Assange case & it's importance for the protection of those who publish leaked/classified information that is in the public interest

But before people can care, they need to know what's at stake
nytimes.com/2021/01/03/wor…
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3 Jan
1/. “The more you refuse to hear my voice
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jericho
Your lies will come tumbling”

Two things human rights abusers around the world should know:

1. We’re onto you

2. “That which has hardened will never win”.
2/. The thing is, as they sit in their mansions surrounded by fences & flunkies, they already know - deep in their souls - that they have already lost

The “that which has hardened will never win” line is from Andrei Tarkovsky👇& it is a good one to remember in darker times.
3/. “Because what has hardened will never win” is the last line.

Note, it is “will never win” not “can never win” or “may never win”

It is especially important if you are:

1. one of the good people filled with despair

2. one of the bad people filled with arrogance & fear.
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2 Jan
1/. NYE in Rio on the day Brazil’s #COVID19 death toll hit 195,000

Brazil has the world’s 3rd worst outbreak outside US & India

Is it a coincidence that these countries are run by populist nationalists?

Palantir are big in Brazil

Are they in India?👇
2/. In 2017, Steve Bannon asked @Nigel_Farage be part of a "convening authority" to "knit together a populist nationalist movement around the world".

He mentions Modi in India, but Bolsonaro in Brazil, Trump in US & Johnson in UK would also be part of it.
3/. Why were some of the most advanced economies in the world so woefully unprepared for #COVID?

The parallels btw UK & US flawed COVID strategies are uncannily similar:
- ignoring WHO warnings
- late lockdown
- lack of PPE
- introducing face masks on the same day, 4 months late
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27 Dec 20
1/. On New Year’s Eve last year, I sent a post-midnight cartoon to friends with a message saying hold on tight & enjoy the ride & a Rilke quote: “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been."

Nothing could have prepared us for what lay in store. #COVID19
2/. We’d hardly had a chance to recover from our hangovers before US assassinated General Soleimani, dramatically escalating tensions with #Iran

Until 20 January & Trump's departure, a danger of "Rapture-believing" hawks launching strikes on Iran remains.
3/. At the time of the Iran airstrike - while @BorisJohnson was holidaying on a private Caribbean island with his pregnant girlfriend - another crisis was brewing: #COVID19

@MattHancock says he knew about COVID at the v start of January & informed the PM.
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