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13 Jun, 6 tweets, 6 min read
#BREAKING: #Switzerland votes YES in referendum to giving the police far-reaching & dangerous new powers that could to target legitimate political protest & subject children as young as 12 to coercive measures
@AmnestySvizzera @Amnesty_Suisse #BreakingNews
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
#BREAKING: In Switzerland police will now be permitted to use foot shackles, no-contact orders, zone bans & preventive house arrest against people who have not committed a crime or not suspected of preparing to commit a crime” #BreakingNews @amnesty @LibyaLiberty #ThisIsNotADrill
Last month, @amnesty warned that #Switzerland’s new anti-terror laws - which grants sweeping new powers to police purportedly to prevent terrorist attacks - are a real threat to human rights

This roll-back of rights is happening across Europe & the world
thelocal.ch/20210517/switz…
The first step in fighting the mainstreaming of attitudes & polices that - not so long ago, would have only been found in the manifestos of fringe right-wing parties - is to recognise the what is happening

Let’s make some noise & let’s start organising because #ThisIsNotADrill!
If you’re surprised by the rise of the far right, then you weren’t paying attention

Trump in the US & the results of the 2019 European elections were clear warnings

Since then, the far-right have further consolidated their power

Don’t be assuaged by #Biden in the White House. ImageImageImageImage
The media don’t make much fuss about this sinister slide to the right

That’s what mainstreaming does: shifts the entire frame away from the centre

200 years ago, the #StoneOfFreeSpeech was a place ppl gathered when their rights were threatened

Is it time to gather there again?

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15 Jun
Disturbing footage of @BBCNewsnight’s Nick Watt, being pursued by anti-lockdown protesters

@umairh wrote recently “Britain — the gentle, wise, intelligent, expansive one — was put to the torch. It became a nation afflicted by a fever dream of nationalism”
Such scenes became commonplace in America where #Trump denounced the media as “fake news” or “enemies of the people” (see @AP’s @johnminchillo at the #CapitolRiots👇)

The problem is, once the genie has been let out the bottle, it’s hard to put it back in.
The Reichstag fire in 1933 shows how quickly a modern country can be hijacked & transformed into an authoritarian regime

How they laughed at Hitler in 1923 when he marched on a Munich beer hall with his comedic moustache

Rule by Decree introduced after the fire wasn’t so funny! Image
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11 Jun
1/. It isn’t remotely credible that #Hancock had no idea of the links btw #Palantir & #FacultyAI - who run the NHS #COVID data store - & #CambridgeAnalytica

And yet, had due diligence been done, Palantir wouldn’t have been embedded at the heart of the NHS
2/. It also isn’t remotely credible (or intelligible) that #Cummings had no knowledge of what #Palantir are doing in the NHS “other than on ICU bed capacity”

It also isn’t credible when he claims he thinks #FacultyAI “do not have personalised data at all”
3/. Two questions by about #Palantir & #FacultyAI

Two garbled, nonsensical answers from @MattHancock & @Dominic2306

It’s a shame it’s taken 16 months before these question have finally been asked

It’s a shame the media still ignore it

But as this👇shows, Palantir are central.
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10 Jun
“We were guided by the science. We didn't always follow the science" @MattHancock

So @BorisJohnson was lying when he said “we stuck to the science like glue”

Were they following the cod behavioural science of Halpern’s Nudge Unit & the ‘data science’ of #Palantir & #FacultyAI?
2/. On 13/5/20, I broke the #CareHomeScandal

On 2/4/20 the govt had INSTRUCTED hospitals to send people “who may have #COVID19” to care homes WITHOUT TESTING

The govt KNEW about asymptomatic transmission in Jan/Feb 2020

The question is which Minister signed off this directive.
3/. Hancock claims that no one knew about ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD

This is not true

The govt knew asymptomatic transmission of #COVID19 was likely in Jan & had this confirmed in Feb

SAGE minutes on 28 January 2020 state that early indications suggest there was asymptomatic spread.
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7 Jun
All roads lead to genomics

Dido Harding’s was chair of Genomics England

Palantir rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica to scrape data

Is the #NHSDataGrab really about about population-wide genomic data?

Complete control?

Bell-Curve eugenicist’s wet dream?
“We could close our eyes & pretend that contrary to all the evidence, #Palantir is a rights-respecting company or we can call this façade what it is: another company placing profit over people, no matter the human cost.” Michael Kleinman, @amnestyusa
The #NHSDataGrab has been underway since Oct 2020 (see Tweet👇)

Why was it ignored for the last 8 months?

News editors, journalists & politicians appeared to be unwilling to report it

It’s great that the #PalantirPlan is now getting wide coverage, but are we already too late?
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5 Jun
Tweet from 8 months ago👇on how the govt was sharing our private NHS health data for “life science research” (genomics) with private companies

Now, NHS Digital is “refusing to rule out #Palantir being involved in the datastore from the GP data grab"

I call it the #PalantirPlan. Image
2/. The NHS is the most trusted brand in UK

#CambridgeAnalytica is the least trusted

Yet #Palantir - who rptdly taught Cambridge Analytica how to scrape data - run the NHS #COVID data store along with #FacultyAI, a company that worked for LeaveEU/Cummings & also has links to CA
3/. A year ago, Blair’s ex-Chief of staff – someone who knows about political skulduggery – wrote:

“This looks like the beginning of a rolling coup. It starts with the civil service then moves on to the judiciary & the media”

A coup for health data?

A coup for genomic data?
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3 Jun
1/. My heart broke a little this morning

“The northern white rhino - which survived 55 million years & saw ice ages, earthquakes, meteor strikes & bore testament to innumerable historical changes - could not survive humans” @VertigoWarrior

This rhino is now functionally extinct Image
2/. It’s because we love this planet so much, that we weep at its destruction

To be honest, my heart breaks a little every day

But it also fills with joy

Our hearts are designed that way

They're built to break & they're built to fill with joy, each day
3/. In 1944, Churchill described Nazi atrocities as "a crime without a name"

Soon after, the term 'genocide' was coined

Is it time to recognise ‘ecocide’ as an intl crime?

Is it time for all of us to start getting ACTIVE to protect our fragile planet?
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