2/. “Looking at the mirror is always hard, especially so if such introspection leads to the conclusion that one's ‘democratically’ elected govt regularly engages in terrorism abroad.” #JulianAssange
11 years ago, @wikileaks
published Collateral Murder
The idea that "journalists should be prosecuted for receiving classified information" makes the already perilous situation facing journalists working to expose the crimes & corruption of govts, more difficult
4/. Could this week’s release of #RealityWinner, convicted of leaking a report about Russian interference in the US election in 2016, give some hope to #JulianAssange?
6/. “They're making it all about Julian Assange in order to freeze any journalistic questioning, any journalistic push back or challenge to the secretiveness of the US government". Author @marwilliamson #FreeAssange#Assange@wikileaks@Snowden@xychelsea
7/. #BREAKING: The High Court has granted the US limited permission to appeal January's ruling blocking Julian #Assange’s extradition
The UK Court’s judged that #JulianAssange should not be extradited because of his health & the condition of US prisons.
8/. Last month, the Icelandic newspaper @stundin reported that a key witness in #Assange case, Sigurdur Thordarson, has admitted to fabricating accusations against the @wikileaks founder & publisher
9/. “Thordarson is notoriously unreliable, but we don't have to take his word for it. @stundin obtained his chat log history from 2010 & 2011 & found no evidence in all his communications that #Assange knew of what he was doing." @ryangrim on @HillTVLive
10/. US rptdly assures UK #Assange won't be held in a Supermax jail if extradited, & could serve any sentence in Australia
In 2011, @wikileaks published
correspondence from Stratfor
"Pile on. Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years.”
12/. The US promises not put #Assange in a maximum security facility or subject him to Special Administrative Measures BUT reserves the right to break this promise
13/. Twenty years after 9/11, in our Western democracies the war criminals & the torturers are free, whereas #JulianAssange is in prison precisely for revealing those crimes
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
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…