“They cover up crime with scandal & cover up malice with incompetence. They want to project an image of being inept, instead of as having a cruel & well-defined plan.”
5/. There was a 2nd #lockdown in November, but @BorisJohnson lifted it at the beginning of December & encouraged people to prepare for Christmas, despite the emergence of the Kent #COVID19 variant
7/. Another telling moment in @C4Dispatches comes when Prof Sunetra Gupta - whose research was funded by a Tory donor - was asked which Cabinet members she had met at that crucial 21 Sept meeting
“Boris!” she says laughing at the memory
Tens of thousands of lives were at risk.
8/. Gupta received almost £90,000 to fund research “into the prevalence of #COVID19 in the population” in April 2020
The funding was registered a week after Gupta incorrectly suggested that half the UK population may already have been infected by #COVID. opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
9/. In Dec, the PM was asked why the country wasn’t in lockdown
13/. “I've asked lots of people to tell me what organisations the #JointBiosecurityCentre is joint between...It is in the shadows. We have no idea how exactly it operates." ex-WHO Head @GabrielScally.
At the same time, they also ‘won’ a contract to do the same for US Health Dept (HHS).
16/. “You ask forgiveness, not permission”
Palantir was set up by right-wing PayPal billionaire, Peter Thiel
Their seed funding & 1st client was the CIA, but they have worked with Intelligence agencies around the world
Much of their work is top secret.
17/. In Sept 2020, the UK govt launched a ten-year flagship strategy, #GenomeUK, which aims to transform the NHS & put genomics at the heart of the PM’s programme for govt
Incredibly it was launched quietly (on a Saturday!) & received no media coverage.
21/. #FacultyAI won a £250m NHS contract in Aug 2019. This only became public in March 2020
The joint contract for the NHS #COVID Data Store (with CIA-backed #Palantir) was only revealed after threat of legal action
Ben Warner attended 13+ SAGE meetings
22/. When @DawnButlerBrent asked Matt Hancock if he was aware of the rprtdly links between Palantir - how are running the NHS Covid data store with #FacultyAI, Hancock hummed & hawed for some time before saying
23/. When @DawnButlerBrent asked Cummings about Palantir’s involvement in NHS data, he claims to know nothing about what #Palantir do in the NHS “other than on ICU bed capacity”
Cummings also says he thinks #FacultyAI “don’t have personalised data at all”
Julian Assange is scheduled to appear in a federal court in Saipan, a US commonwealth in the Pacific, where he’s expected to plead guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act & be sentenced to 5yrs
Given he’s already served this time, he should walk free
The public have a right to know what their govts do in their name
Julian #Assange’s prosecution represented a grave threat to press freedom, undermining the key role of journalists & publishers in scrutinizing govts misdeeds & creating a chilling effect
2/. From the start of the pandemic the govt had given #Palantir, a US spyware company with reported links to #CambridgeAnalytica, access to NHS health data
3/. Palantir worked on the NHS data store with #FacultyAI - a company with ties to Cummings
In 2020, @amnesty warned that Big Tech firms might use the COVID crisis to hoover up genomic data, obliterating the last frontier of privacy: our biological selves
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
2/. It’s clear that the bomb blasts in Kerman on the 4th anniversary of #Soleimani's assassination by the US, could lead to a quick ratcheting up of dangerous tensions
After Oct 7, the US sent two aircraft carrier groups to the region
3/. Three US soldiers were killed & two dozen injured in an unmanned aerial drone attack on US forces stationed in northeastern #Jordan near the Syrian border, President @JoeBiden said