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24 Apr, 7 tweets, 8 min read
1/. Let’s not forget, that #DominicCummings - who employed ‘eugenicist’, Andrew Sabisky - was central to the #HerdImmnityScandal which is central to the #PalantirPlan

It puts genomics at the heart of the programme for govt, using the UK as the petri-dish for a ‘brave new world’.
2/. “I feel we’re all paying the price for a girl laughing at his poem in 6th form” @MarinaHyde on Cummings

#DominicCummings imagined the mood of these photos was very James Dean. Instead they reveal his narcissism & complete tone-deafness
#CummingsGate
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
3/. Here’s a good #HerdImmunityScandal intro

It’s long, but gripping & it has #Cummings’ grubby fingerprints all over it

#HerdImmunity is an outcome not a strategy. Every scientist will tell you that

This thread starts to unpick WHY the govt knowingly went against the science.
4/. In March 2020, the PM held a meeting with big tech firms & granted access to UK health data records to Amazon, Microsoft, Google...& Palantir

#Palantir, set-up by right-wing billionaire, #PeterThiel, got the contract to build the NHS #COVID datastore (along with #FacultyAI)
5/. The NHS = Britain’s most trusted ‘brand’

#CambridgeAnalytica = the least trusted

And yet, #Palantir & #FacultyAI - companies with links to #CambridgeAnalytica - run the NHS digital platform & have access all our health data, including genetic material

And not just UK data
6/. We already know that Big Tech mine & sell our data, but the new frontier lies not in our consumer behaviour, but in our biological selves

As we know, #Cummings, #PeterThiel et al. are evangelical about genomics

They believe our fates lie not in the stars, but in our genes.
7/. With its centralised “cradle to grave” health service & it’s right-wing govt with an 80 seat majority, UK provides the perfect petri-dish to implement this stage of the #PalantirPlan

#GenomeUK - a ten year programme - is the next stage

But the plans is rolling out globally

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25 Apr
“To initiate a war of aggression is the supreme int’l crime”

The Iraq war was neither in self-defense against an armed attack nor sanctioned by the UN

Over 1 million ppl died

Bush & Blair should be in The Hague at a war crimes tribunal rather than on TV
Eight months before the start of the Iraq war, Tony Blair wrote to George W Bush: "We don't want to be mucked around by Saddam...the danger is he drags us into negotiation"

This is from the #ChilcotReport, yet still Blair is treated by the media like a respected elder statesman. Image
To try & get UN approval of the war on Iraq, the US & UK tried every trick in the book

The UN saw through their lies, as did most people around the world

They went ahead anyway

No WMD’s were found

A million people died

Blair & Bush faced no charges.
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25 Apr
1/. “As far as I’m concerned, this completely answers the question” says @trussliz after refusing to answer @JayneSeckerSky’s question three times.

Liz Truss & the entire Cabinet appear to have been ‘media-trained’ to answer questions dishonestly. #Ridge
2/. The purpose of media training should be to help people to communicate their message

I always tell people I train to:
- answer the question
- tell the truth

These Ministers do the opposite

As viewers, we end up shouting at the TV or switching it off!
3/. Too often over the past year, Ministers have been allowed to not just sidestep questions, but blatantly lie

For example, whenever a Minister claims that “no one knew about asymptomatic transmission ‘til May”, it’s a lie

They knew about it January.
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24 Apr
“I think what the public wants, is for us to move on from this #BarnardCastle thing” said @BorisJohnson & his entire cabinet

What the public wanted was transparency & accountability

@maitlis deleted this tweet about @adamboultonSKY’s story

The media were largely silenced
By asking why #Cummings hadn’t been sacked by the PM, @maitlis was doing her job

Political journalists NOT asking this question were failing to do theirs

Cummings’ trip to Durham proved to be one of the 2 clear drop points in adherence to lockdown rules.
“Some journalists are sitting on explosive information that should come out in real time.” @joncoopertweets

Shrinking space for journalism is something we witnessed in the UK during the Iraq War

Is it happening again now?

Would journalists be able to comment if it were?
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22 Apr
1/. QUESTION: Would you buy grapes that were individually wrapped in plastic?
#EarthDay #EarthDay2021 #ClimateAction #plasticpollution #ClimateLeadersSummit
2/. You’d probably be outraged, like my friend Diane was! #EarthDay
3/. CONFESSION...

The ‘individually wrapped grapes’ in the video aren’t real...

But this footage from Haiti is...

And so was Diane’s reaction...

And so too was the outrage you perhaps felt....

It’s time to channel that outrage into action. #EarthDay
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20 Apr
1/. In 2020, while the world was focused on saving lives during the #COVID19 pandemic, some countries were busy taking lives.

Find out tomorrow as @amnesty launch the latest Death Penalty Report
#deathpenalty
amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/… ImageImageImageImage
2/. This stunning video using melting wax sculptures was used in 2017 when there were 993 executions worldwide

Last year, @amnesty’s #deathpenalty report found global executions declined by 5% to a decade low of 657 executions

Has that trend continued?👇
3/. “Globally, at least 483 people are known to have been executed in 2020”

“Shocking as this figure is, it’s the lowest number of executions recorded by @amnesty in a decade, marking a decrease of 26% compared to 2019” @AgnesCallamard @TIME
#deathpenalty time.com/5956795/global…
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18 Apr
1/. “How is it that scientists are not mystics? Cosmologists not poets? Biologists not shamans? How is it that those to whom the universe reveals such wonders, are not enraptured each day? And each night, how do they close their eyes on this?” (E Warner)
2/. “In the testes of every man are 200 million sperm

& each of those sperm is capable of producing a human life

& each in of those lives will be a soul

& in each of those souls will be a universe

& overnight, each man will produce 200 million more.”
3/. “You ask what I would do with those men who believe themselves to be Gods

My answer is simple

I would take them to the ocean & sail them three days out to sea in my rickety skiff, & I would watch their faces as a whale breached & barreled beside us.”
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