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24 Oct, 5 tweets, 6 min read
In 1989, Thatcher privatised the water industry claiming the UK had become the "Dirty Man of Europe"

4 decades on, the govt voted to allow water companies to dump raw sewage into Britain's rivers & seas @BorisJohnson @KwasiKwarteng @RobertSyms @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @SelaineSaxby
“And we cross now live to Shit Creek where it appears that...hang on...this can’t be live footage...the PM has a paddle...we know that @BorisJohnson_MP lost his paddle ages ago!”
#SewageScandal #Sewage #ShitGate #SewageStrewnUplands #rawsewage @RobertJenrick @RishiSunak
“We could say, if it’s good enough in India, it’s good enough for here. There’s nothing to stop that.”

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg speaking in 2016 on the possibility of slashing environmental & safety regulations on imported products after Brexit.
google.co.uk/amp/s/www.inde…
The key driving force behind Brexit was deregulation

The new Environment Act is the latest example

A far greater & more hidden issue - a central motivation for leaving the EU - is deregulation of genomic research

This is the Holy Grail that they believe will transform Britain
I used to joke that swimming off the British coast needn’t give you brain freeze or turn your fingers & toes blue

“If you go in by the sewage outlet it’s lovely & warm,” I’d say. “You can stay in for ages”

After the #SewageScandal, the gag isn’t so funny

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23 Oct
Ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele tells @haynesdeborah about Russian interference in #Brexit

Palantir who rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica how to scrape data run the NHS #COVID19 data store with Cummings-linked Vote Leave firm, #FacultyAI
👉#PalantirPlan
Christopher Steele also compiled a dossier alleging collusion btw Russia & the 2016 Trump election campaign

Were Brexit & Trump part of an intelligence-backed, right-wing plan for power through genomic data?

The #PalantirThree & #RussiaReport offer clues
Earlier this week, #ChristopherSteele told @GStephanopoulos that he’s speaking out now because “the problems we identified back in 2016 haven’t gone away, & arguably have actually got worse."

SEE THREADS👇on:
#RussiaReport
#Brexit
#PalantirPlan
#DataGrab
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22 Oct
1/. QUESTION: Would you buy grapes that were individually wrapped in plastic?
#COP26Glasgow #cop26plastics #COP26 #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #plasticpollution #ClimateJustice #FridaysForFuture
2/. “Every single grape wrapped in plastic! What the actual f***!”

You would probably be outraged like my friend Diane was! #COP26Glasgow #COP26 #FridaysForFuture #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #plasticfree
3/. CONFESSION

The individually wrapped grapes in the video aren’t real

But the passion fruit were

& so is this footage from Sierra Leone

& so was Diane’s reaction

& so too was the outrage you perhaps felt

It’s time to channel the outrage into action
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19 Oct
1/. #FreedomOfExpression I’d under attack

A new @amnesty report reveals how govts around the world have relied on censorship & punishment - using new legislation - to shut down reporting & target people who have been critical of govt response to #COVID19.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
2/. Numerous countries have put in place oppressive laws including Tanzania, Russia, Nicaragua & China

In China, more than 5,500 criminal investigations were opened against people who’d published information about the outbreak in the first 2 months of the #COVID19 pandemic alone
3/. @Amnesty’s report highlights the role of social media companies in facilitating the rapid spread of misinformation around #COVID

The destructive business model of Big Tech means that platforms are designed to amplify attention-grabbing content to engage users

V problematic!
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17 Oct
On the eve of the parliamentary vote on @pritipatel’s Nationality & Borders Bill which breaches both intn’l & domestic law, hundreds of protesters gathered on Brighton beach to show that they are #TogetherWithRefugees

This is part of a Week of Action against the #AntiRefugeeBill
“The Bill assesses people’s right to claim asylum based on how they arrived rather than on their need” @RSECEO of @RefugeeTogether on how anyone arriving by ‘irregular’ routes will have less protection & security & it will be harder than ever for them to come here to seek safety.
“This cruel & inhumane piece of legislation seeks to grant immunity to Border Force officials who are complicit in the deaths of families crossing the Channel”

Maozya Murray of @SussexUni on the #Togetherwithrefugees #whoweare week of action against the govt’s #AntiRefugeeBill.
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16 Oct
In the mid-20th century, satellites helped us determine the exact circumference of the Earth: 40,030km

But 2000+ years earlier, Eratosthenes
a Greek mathematician, came up with nearly the exact same figure using two sticks & his brain

Carl Sagan explains
I once asked “how is it that all scientists aren’t mystics, all cosmologists not poets?”

Carl Sagan was both of these

This passage - Pale Blue Dot - was inspired by the photo of Earth taken in 1990, by the Voyager 1 from a distance of about 6 billion km.
Scientists are like mystics in that they can travel in time explaining the past, seeing into the future

In this 1974 interview, Arthur Clarke makes precise predictions about the Internet & PC

And below James Burke predicts the rise of #CambridgeAnalytica
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12 Oct
1/. #BREAKING #COVID NEWSFLASH: The “official scientific advisers" behind the #HerdImmunityScandal were in reality were political advisors, appointed by politicians, who's advice had little or no basis in science (e.g. “Dr” David Halpern who has a doctorate in Political Science)
2/. Today’s findings are not new

The truth has been in plain sight from the start

We didn’t need #Cummings to tell us

Indeed, @Dominic2306 ‘revelations’ raised far more questions than answers

It was clear that #HerdImmunity was the strategy & they didn’t “pivot away” from it
3/. Every epidemiologist, virologist or public health expert will tell you that #HerdImmunity is an “outcome” NEVER a “strategy”

Without a vaccine it would involve sacrificing the vulnerable in vast numbers

This “strategy” would also clearly damage the economy

So why do it?👇
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