1/. “Not so long ago, Britain was the envy of the world
It had the world’s best healthcare system...the world’s finest public broadcaster...growing wealth & happiness...& was part of the world’s most successful political union
2/. Britain became afflicted by a fever dream of nationalism: the biggest lie of all
Nationalism says: “we’re better off on our own. We’re better than them. We should be competitors with everyone. Our only motivations are greed & self-interest”
3/. British people might not know it, but they’re going to be getting American-style healthcare bills soon
GP practices have been sold off to an US “health insurer” who aren’t in it for human kindness, but for money
We will be billed - $4,000 for a X-ray
4/. “A new wave of demagogues peddled insane lies. Britain - the gentle, wise, intelligent, expansive one - was put to the torch
The nationalism - its ugliness, hate, racism, selfishness, greed, toxicity - that wrecked Britain is here to stay
Its people haven’t learned a thing”
5/. Pure stupidity OR part of a bigger strategy?
In 2015, Steve Bannon got #CambridgeAnalytica to build a psychological warfare tool that used big data & social media to drive open cracks in societies & hollow out democracies
They were helped by Palantir
6/. Set-up originally with CIA funding, #Palantir - founded by #PeterThiel, a right-wing billionaire with big ideas & reported associations with the far-right - has been working with govt intelligence services for decades
Was Palantir involved in the Brexit & Trump victories?
7/. One of Thiel’s passions is genomics & Palantir run the #COVID data stores for the NHS & HHS
This diagram shows how the US & UK govts appear to have a joint/parallel #COVID19 strategy, giving military-backed data-mining company, #Palantir, access to heath data on a mass scale
Whilst there’s no proof of their involvement in the #Trump victory, 3 senior Palantir executives were among Trump’s earliest appointments, joining his admin in senior intel positions in Feb 2017
9/. We know that Big Tech mine & sell our data, but the new frontier lies not in our consumer behaviour, but in our biological selves.
#PeterThiel has been described as one of the most prominent “‘visionary philanthropists’ dreaming of a positive eugenics for the 21st century.”
10/. “Don’t ask for permission. Ask for forgiveness”
#PeterThiel's interest in genomics led him to back DNA-testing/editing & genetic engineering startups as well as life science companies incldg Halcyon Molecular, Pathway Genomics, Juvenesence & Imatato.
11/. Sixteen months after I first set out the #PalantirPlan & 8 months after I broke the #DatafGrab story👇, the story is of how NHS Digital are "refusing to rule out #Palantir being involved in the datastore from the GP data grab" came out
This quote is from @umairh’s article: "GP practices in London have been sold off to an American 'health insurer...Brits aren’t going to know what hit them when they get a bill for, say, $4000 for an X-ray. But that’s what’s coming"
1/. “It is the greatest mass-killing in recorded history; & it goes on daily, hourly, as regularly as the ticking of your watch”
Arthur Koestler’s 1944 essay expressing frustration at the failure of the world to acknowledge Nazi atrocities resonates today wethescreamers.com
2/ “There are a few of us…yelling at you in newspapers…Now & then we reach your ear…But it only lasts a minute. You shake yourself like puppies who’ve got their fur wet; then the screen again descends & you walk on, protected by the dream-barrier which stifles all sound”
#Gaza
3/ Koestler notes maniacs lose contact with reality so “perhaps it’s we, the screamers, who react in a sound & healthy way to the reality which surrounds us, whereas you are the neurotics who totter about in a screened fantasy world because you lack the faculty to face the facts”
“They got me!” Liz Truss tells far-right kingpin, Steve Bannon, before going on to explain that, to have effectively tackled “the deep state” that runs Britain & its institutions, she would have “needed a bigger bazooka”! #LizTruss #BritanniaUnchained
"I was just saying it like it is & that’s what people respect me for"(!)
Liz Truss’ compares her premiership to a one night stand & says she was just “fattening the pig” for slaughter & that she should have gaslit the public like Rishi Sunak is doing (!)
"I faced the most almighty backlash...from the usual suspects in the media” Liz Truss
“Truss's decline is simultaneously tragic & horrifying but the claim that the media conspired against her can't go unchallenged. There are front pages praising her to the rafters” @mrjamesob
As the 2nd module of the #CovidInquiry begins covering “core UK decision-making & political governance”, comes news that Rishi Sunak - like Boris Johnson - has also fail to fully comply with the order to hand his WhatsApp messages
“The govt needs get professional IT experts to recover these messages”
Charles Persinger who lost his wife & mother to #COVID, echoes the call of @CovidJusticeUK’s lawyers calling on the @covidinquiryuk to commission experts to retrieve Sunak & Johnson’s ‘lost’ WhatsApp messages
Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect on 29 September
It gives X the right to use your posts - including DMs - & all your data - including phone, email, biometrics (e.g. face scans & eye scans) to train their AI & to share with any partner X wants👇 twitter.com/en/privacy
“I do not accept that Twitter has deteriorated in any way since Elon Musk took over”
A week before Twitter’s change in privacy policy, some questions for @elonmusk
1. What biometric information will be collected & what are the intended uses?
How will X ensure that that the data of X’s 530 million users isn’t used for unlawful purposes? mashable.com/article/x-twit…
1/. “I am often asked why the UK doesn’t have a successful far-right populist party. My answer is: because it doesn’t need to” @julie_renbe
Far-right politics are becoming mainstreamed in:
Italy
Finland
Sweden
Greece
France
Hungary
Poland
Germany
Spain
UK theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…
2/. The far right is being increasingly mainstreamed in both European & US politics
Last October, Giorgia Meloni - head of the Brothers of Italy party, which has historical roots in the post-war neo-fascist Italian Social Movement - won Italy’s election nytimes.com/2023/07/31/pod…