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Mar 1, 2022 • 26 tweets • 24 min read • Read on X
17/. Last August, #Palantir purchased $50 million of physical gold

If any other tech company did this, it would be notable, but it’s especially notable for a data analytics company

Was the #RussianUkrainianWar predicted?

Does it fit with #PalantirPlan?
seekingalpha.com/article/449050…
18/. Wow!

#Palantir has hired former Head of AI at NHSX & member of SAGE Indra Joshi (who left in March) as it bids for £360 million NHS Federated Data Platform

Palantir rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica how to scrape data & have interest in genomic data
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
19/. They’re not MAGA

They’re not QAnon

Curtis Yarvin & the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics

How does billionaire #Palantir founder, Peter Thiel, fit into the plot? #PalantirPlan #DataGrab #Genomics #ThisIsNotADrill
vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/i…
20/. Be afraid. Be very afraid!

“A pandemic & war in Europe have now conspired to shatter our collective illusions of stability & perpetual peace. #Palantir have spent nearly two decades preparing for this moment. This is our time & we intend to seize it”
thetimes.co.uk/article/palant…
21/. US data analytics, surveillance & genomics company #Palantir is gearing up to become the underlying operating system for the UK’s #NHS, poaching senior NHS officials as part of a bid to win a £360mn contract to manage the data of millions of patients
ft.com/content/3f6f24…
22/. “A firm like #Palantir has no place being the ‘operating system for the NHS’” @cori_crider

The trouble is Palantir is already doing many of the things which are going to be done by the platform

The UK media are slowly waking up to the #PalantirPlan
amp.theguardian.com/society/2022/j… Image
23/. Is it possible these firms & govts are really after our GENOMIC data?

In July 2020, @amnesty published this article on how Big Tech firms are obliterating the last frontier of our privacy: our biological selves

"Bio-invasive surveillance capitalism"
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
24/. “Spying on people & stealing their data [especially genomic data!] is abhorrent regardless of the nature of the govt performing or sanctioning that surveillance. Regrettably, surveillance capitalism has become a driving force in the global economy”
jacobin.com/2022/06/us-tec…
25/. #Palantir is set to become the NHS’s operating system of choice for health data, being favourite to win the contract for a new ‘Federated Data Platform’ (FDP) giving them access to GP & hospital records, social care data & genomic dat
@allthecitizens bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/how…
26/. “I don’t know exactly what Palantir wants with the NHS but I do know it’s worth keeping an eye on it. It’s certainly keeping an eye on you” @ArwaM

There are clues as to why the all-seeing data company may want to get into NHS health systems above🖕
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
27/. “It’s not through changing the culture that we’ll be able to solve social problems...but through changing people’s genes” T. Young

“Researchers don’t like the word ‘eugenics’ but they’re running ahead with the idea & UK is at the forefront” F. Nelson
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/rebranding-e…
28/. “As companies scramble to create an even more intimate marketplace of our data -one that trades in insights about our biological selves – it’s not hard to imagine the endgame”

Who is #PeterThiel & what’s the #PalantirPlan?

Some clues here. #Palantir
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/peter-thiel-…
29/. Biotech is entering a new era, with huge US govt support

Last week the US govt signed an executive order that assigned $2 billion in government funding for ‘high risk, high reward’ biotech projects such as CRISPR gene editing.
#PalantirPlan #GenomeUK unherd.com/thepost/americ…
30/. “We’re working on the assumption that the world will become more disjointed, more complicated, more unhinged”

CEO Alex Karp on #Palantir’s “not so secret-secret"

Is part of the #PalantirPlan to ensure that this happens? #Trump #Brexit #Genomics
31/. In 2015, Bannon tasked #CambridgeAnalytica’s @chrisinsilico to build a psychological warfare tool to hollow out democracy & rive open divisions in societies

It worked!

#Palantir rptdly taught Cambridge Analytica how to scrape data
#Brexit #Trump
32/. “Buying our way in!”

Leaked emails from #Palantir’s UK head, Louis Mosley, reveal their strategy to get depositories of heath data by “hoovering up” small businesses serving the NHS to “take a lot of ground & take down a lot of political resistance”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
33/. Mosley’s emails show how #Palantir planned take overs & key hires from the NHS

Suitable takeover targets were those already selling software services to the NHS

Founders would be offered a “v. generous buyout schedule (say 10x, especially if all stock),” Mosley wrote ImageImageImageImage
34/. Palantir was part of a group of investors that paid $230 million to support Babylon going public in 2021, as part of a partnership between the two companies that saw Babylon migrate some of its data to #Palantir’s Foundry platform

Cummings was a consultant for Babylon ImageImageImageImage
35/. Louis Mosley, grandson of Oswald Mosley & former Conservative Party activist, heads what is rptdly #Palantir’s biggest office in the world

To what extent is this about genomics?

Could the UK, with its cradle-to-grave health service, be used as a Petri dish?
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36/. “Britain has become a libertarian laboratory” @WritesBright in @nytimes

“We simply do not know who is bankrolling the groups now at the heart of the British govt...Some have financial links to the oil giants BP & Exxon Mobil & big tobacco companies”
nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opi…
37/. “Freeports” are part of the deregulation strategy

“They’re vast areas that go deep inland by many miles - with a secure customs border around them

The UK is being carved up by customs borders to create worryingly deregulated areas” @mikegalsworthy
northwestbylines.co.uk/business/the-n…
38/. Palantir plans to open new UK base near to the NHS Digital HQ

Some of its 900 London-based employees will be relocated

@LordWalney hired to advise #Palantir

CEO of @NHSDigital is Simon Bolton, ex CIO of #DidoHardy’s £37bn Test & Trace service
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Yep!

An NHS project to incorporate tens of millions of personal digital medical records into a data platforms is to be launched without seeking new patient consent

#PeterThiel’s #Palantir, linked to #CambridgrAnalytica, is favourite to win the contract
theguardian.com/society/2022/n…
40/. #PeterThiel doesn’t need to build an island to have his libertarian dreamland

He can create it right here in the UK...& already is

Genomics is key

With its cradle-to-grave NHS & govt in thrall to his vision, the UK is his petri dish @MorePerfectUS
41/. “An ideology influenced by far-right eugenics is influencing the billionaires involved in the biggest technology”

@NafeezAhmed on ‘long-termism’ & ‘effective altruism’ where he name checks Palantir’s Peter Thiel, Musk, Cummings, MacAskill & Bostrom👇
bylinesupplement.com/p/the-far-righ…
42/. Bostrom has explored the possibility of engineering "radically enhanced" human beings by genetically screening embryos for "desirable" traits, destroying those that lack these traits, & then growing new embryos from stem cells

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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
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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”
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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” Image
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Feb 23
“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



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Nov 6, 2023
Despite previous denials, Michelle Mone finally admits her involvement in failed PPE supplier Medpro

There should be a criminal investigation into possible intentional breach of beneficial ownership disclosure rules

The govt VIP Lane needs investigating

Something about the #MichelleMone interview doesn’t pass the smell test

Why are Mone & her husband - currently under criminal investigation in UK & Spain - being given a prime time slot to tell ‘their side of the story’?

5 questions @bbclaurak should ask

@bbclaurak “I don’t honestly think there’s a case to answer. I can’t see what we’ve done wrong” @MichelleMone

Wow! #MichelleMone & #DougBarrowman on @bbclaurak’s programme, this morning

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Oct 3, 2023
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

Both claim they can’t access key messages
#COVID
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“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
“It was like watching his death approach & seeing every mistake that was made”

@LoreleiKing describes listening to the timeline of govt inaction in the months leading to her husband’s death of #COVID19

Bereaved families want accountability #Covidinquiry
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Sep 9, 2023
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



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“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…
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Aug 7, 2023
1/. “I am often asked why the UK doesn’t have a successful far-right populist party. My answer is: because it doesn’t need to” @julie_renbe

Far-right politics are becoming mainstreamed in:
Italy
Finland
Sweden
Greece
France
Hungary
Poland
Germany
Spain
UK
theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…
2/. The far right is being increasingly mainstreamed in both European & US politics

Last October, Giorgia Meloni - head of the Brothers of Italy party, which has historical roots in the post-war neo-fascist Italian Social Movement - won Italy’s election
nytimes.com/2023/07/31/pod…

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3/. “The far right don’t need to win elections to spread their malign ideas” @kenanmalik

Last month, a coalition of the centre-right PP & the far-right Vox failed to win Spain’s election

Ystdy, Vox pledged it wouldn’t impede PP’s efforts to form a govt
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…




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