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22 Jun, 12 tweets, 12 min read
1/. Starting today, the most important courtroom drama the UK has ever seen

The PM challenged on grounds of national security following the findings of the #RussiaReport by
@BenPBradshaw @RhonddaBryant @CarolineLucas @LordStras @AlynSmith & @PJWheatcroft
2/. Last July - after much delay - the #RussiaReport was finally published

It’s findings were truly terrifying

It revealed the govt & intelligence agencies had actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in the Brexit vote

Self-sabotage
3/. The implications of the #RussiaReport fed into my ongoing investigation into what appears to be a global #DataGrab for population-wide genomic data

I’d already traced the plan back to 2015

Russian interference in the 2016 #Trump election & #Brexit vote made perfect sense!
4/. This diagram👆hints at a parallel US/UK strategy that appears to ‘overseen’ by intelligence agencies in UK & US

A clue to how high-up & how far-back it goes is the appointments of the #PalantirThree at the START of the Trump admin

The move by 3 senior #Palantir employees👇
5/. “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” writes @sarahkendzior

The centrality of right-wing & far-right figures in this strategy should give us pause
6/. In 1996, Carl Sagan warned

“We’ve arranged a society based on science & technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance & power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”

Is that time is now?
7/. The NHS = the most trusted brand in the UK

Cambridge Analytica = the least trusted

And yet #Palantir who run our #COVID19 data store, rprtdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica how to scrape data

Today, @MattHancock was asked about Palantir the NHS #DataGrab & “privacy concerns”
8/. On 30/9/20, Matt Hancock quietly launched #GenomeUK, a 10-year strategy that will transform the NHS & put genomics at the heart of the entire programme for govt

#DidoHarding’s was chair of Genomics England

Here’s Dido with #CambridgeAnalytica’s CEO
9/. The bid to launch a legal challenge over the govt’s failure to investigate potential Russian interference in British elections has failed

A High Court judge ruled that the case was “unarguable” & was a matter of politics rather than law.
#BREAKING independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
10/ Comparing UK's 'Russia Report' against US’s #RussiaReport is sobering

Words - 🇺🇸190,724 / 🇬🇧19,728

NUMBER OF MENTIONS:

Facebook - 🇺🇸56 / 🇬🇧0

Wikileaks - 🇺🇸373 / 🇬🇧0

Cambridge Analytica - 🇺🇸143 / 🇬🇧0

Bannon - 🇺🇸293 / 🇬🇧0

🇺🇸2,987 Trump / 🇬🇧0 Boris
(via @allthecitizens)
11/. “Ask forgiveness, don’t ask permission.” #PeterThiel who set up Palantir

The US & UK govts appear to have a joint/parallel #COVID19 strategy with #Palantir at the centre

It was only through legal challenges in UK & US these contracts were uncovered.
12/. The UK’s #COVID19 strategy is run by the shadowy #JointBiosecurityCentre

It was set up by Tom Hurd of MI6 & is run by a senior GCHQ staffer

They’ve not published ANY minutes

It’s membership is secret but last month we found out the name of one #JBC attendee: #Cummings!

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22 Jun
1/. @MattHancock on #r4today claims he pushed back the GP #DataGrab by two months

@MishalHusain fails to point out that it is 8 MONTHS since the FIRST deadline passed to “opt out” of another NHS patient data sharing scheme!

Our data iseven advertised by the Dept of Trade!👇
2/. The “opt out” from having your NHS patient data shared with pharmaceutical companies was 30 Sept 2020

It didn’t apply "when there is an overridinng public interest...for example, to help manage contagious diseases like #COVID19”

So there was NO opt out & NO media coverage.
3/. Last Wednesday #MattHancock claimed that GP’s having exclusive control of patient data is “undemocratic”

Instead he says he wants every citizen to “control their own data” (!?)

That may sound great, but how would that work in practice?

I trust my GP

I don’t trust Hancock
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20 Jun
1/. On Wednesday, @MattHancock claimed that GPs having exclusive access patient data was "undemocratic"(!)

This is bonkers

There are 7.5k trusted data controllers in the NHS at the moment

How will it work with 60m?!

He ALSO broke #COVID rules & lost his voice👇
#BreakingNews
#MattHancock often seems to have problems when asked simple questions

When FINALLY asked who issued the instruction to send people from hospitals to care homes without testing & if it was approved by a Minister &, if so, which one? - he lost his hearing!
When asked about the failure of the App & @didoharding’s “cherry on the cake” (the £37b Test & Trace fiasco) @MattHancock faked hysteria

“I think many of my viewers will think this isn’t a laughing matter,” said @KayBurley

The death toll had hit 65,000
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19 Jun
Today women’s & LGBTI+ organizations, political parties & people from all over Turkey are marching to demand that #Turkey reverse it’s decision to withdraw from the #IstanbulConvention on violence against women. THREAD👇#İstanbulSözleşmesindenVazgeçmiyoruz
Report via @ahval_en: “Turkish police battered women who gathered in Istanbul to protest #Turkey's withdrawal from the #IstanbulConvention on domestic & gender-based violence”

Five protesters were reportedly detained #IstanbulConventionSavesLives #VAM
“Feminism isn’t a Western invention. Feminism wasn’t invented by American women. It’s embedded in the culture & in the struggle of all women all over the world" #NawalElSaadawi Egyptian feminist to @krishgm in 2018 #MeToo  #TimesUp #IstanbulConvention
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19 Jun
1/. “All countries must stop selling arms to #Myanmar following the a resolution by the UN”

How about this for a crazy idea?

Why don’t we stop the arms trade altogether

Why flood the world with a never-ending flow of ever more advanced deadly weapons? amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
2/. For hundreds of years this tidal mill was one of 9 grinding corn for London

In 1588, one of the mills was turned into a gunpowder mill

This was a choice

To grind corn for bread to feed people or grind gunpowder for the muskets & canons to kill people

They chose gunpowder
3/. The world has lurched from one bloody conflict to another

The 1914-18 “War to End All Wars” was followed by another war & another & another

A year ago, even a meticulously negotiated attempt to call a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic was derailed...by the US
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19 Jun
Perhaps it says more about the state of my mind than it does about the state of the country, but watching the #ENGSCO game in the pub, I thought I saw a British Union of Fascists flag

They were at the anti-lockdown demo last year

Look out for them at the ‘Freedom March’ today. ImageImage
The anti-lockdown movement has brought together an strange confluence of groups

But the involvement of the far-right is disturbing

Their spores of hate travel wide on the winds of social media, even parasitically hijack the language of human rights: “freedoms”, “liberties” etc. ImageImageImageImage
Language has always been a battleground, but the “Culture War” is intensifying very rapidly

Even before the #COVID19 pandemic,
the forces of progress had been in retreat as the narrative was increasing framed not just by conservatives but by the far-right.
#ThisIsNotADrill
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18 Jun
1/. Dido Harding officially applies to become CEO of NHS England

“If she gets the job after spaffing £37bn on Test & Trace, it’s blatant corruption & we should report it to the government’s corruption tsar who is - *checks notes* - #DidoHarding’s husband. Oh.” @davidschneider
2/. #DidoHarding will no doubt draft very compelling cover letter, but I’d suggest anyone on the @NHSEngland interview panel looks at this @PrivateEyeNews article

It puts together things that Dido somehow left out of her official CV

Her career appears to be a litany of disaster Image
3/. “Putting Dido Harding in charge of the NHS would be like putting Gavin Williamson in charge of schools” @davemacladd

As well as getting a peerage, Dido
has also won awards: two wooden spoons from @DailyMailUK for “worst customer service in the UK” while she was at @TalkTalk Image
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