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205/. This was the protest outside #Palantir’s Soho HQ yesterday: one of 40+ demonstrations across the UK
@andyburnham must terminate their £330m NHS contract signed in 2023
If the goal is a population-wide genomic data grab, the UK will be Palantir’s Petri dish
#PalantirPlan
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To initiate a war of aggression is the supreme int’l crime
The Iraq war was neither in self-defense against an armed attack nor sanctioned by the UN
Over 1 million people died
Bush & Blair & their enablers should be in The Hague at a war crimes tribunal
“In 2011 Major Laurie, a top military intelligence official has said the discredited dossier on Iraq's weapons programme was drawn up "to make the case for war", flatly contradicting claims to the contrary by the Blair government, and in particular by Alastair Campbell” @guardian
Stefan Simanowitz retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Palantir sent ‘intimidating’ letters to British MPs who criticised or asked difficult questions about the US spytech firm in parliament.
Read the full report here: novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/p…
“White House press secretary quits”
“Kremlin press secretary remains”
@PrivateEyeNews frontpage on the firing of @KatieZacharia by @realDonaldTrump
Wow!
“A man who has never set foot on a bus, never worked in his life."
Lula taking no prisoners in the TV presidential debate with Flavio Bolsonaro. #Brazil
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#Breaking: European diplomats, including French and Polish representatives, who went to the West Bank to observe the olive harvest, have been violently assaulted by Israeli settlers.
Ystdy, I went to #Frieze art fair with Tim Benton, the lead singer of Parenthesis Dot Dot Dot, to film this clip to promote his new single, ART
He painted 60 self-portraits in the style of different artists
Turn the sound down & see how many you can name m.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkN2y…
Frieze London is now open in Regent's Park! Stop by booth D14 to see Gagosian's presentation of six major new, large-scale paintings by Albert Oehlen: on.gagosian.com/4jlgstZ
“Liberté, égalité, pinkpantheré!”
#France #StudentProtests #FranceProtests #LycéensEnLutte #EducationCrisis #ParisProtests
(Photo credits to follow)
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Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine is hospitalised, after being brutally attacked by Israeli settlers this morning
1/. Gross press freedom violations revealed by #PegasusProject can’t be met with impunity
Govts & agencies who’ve spied on journalists must provide answers on this misuse of NSO technology #Pegasus #PegasusSnoopgate @amnesty @globalfreemedia @pressfreedom forbiddenstories.org/pegasus…
134/. Israel had access to illegally harvested data on Polish opposition politicians & legal officials via NSO #Pegasus spyware
@donaldtusk has called this #spyware scandal a "crime against the state” & “one of the biggest scandals in Polish history”
Watch @KimIversenShow👇
135/. Last year @amnesty revealed technical evidence of spyware firms like Intellexa developing tools for zero-click infection through online ads
We warned of a dangerous new threat to civil society. Now @citizenlab has caught devices at Al Jazeera being hacked via malicious ads
Thread 🧵
1/ NEW REPORT: Billions of advertising auctions determine in real time which ads we see on websites and in apps every day. Our latest research shows how the same data fueling this advertising ecosystem is being used to profile millions of users and silently infect targets with zero-click mercenary spyware, a novel attack technique we call "Adfection.”
Read the report: citizenlab.ca/research/how-d…
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This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
The Lido café on Hampstead Heath is under threat!!!
The @cityoflondon is suddenly asking for bids from operators to run the this fantastic family-run cafe
I have asked @willupton & @GregoryJonesCC if it is possible for the café to be given a Direct Award
chng.it/wj9sqty9Fr
"The @cityoflondon owns the freehold to some of the world’s most valuable real estate...It holds assets worth in excess of £3bn & generates net revenues of £226m. For 1,000yrs, it has resisted all attempts to rein in its vast financial wealth & influence."
thebureauinvestigates.com/st…
Fantastic news!
More than a year after we launched the #SaveTheLidoCafe campaign, the High Court has ruled that the @cityoflondon’s decision to grant the lease to the Daisy Green chain will go to judicial review
This victory shows the power of community & grassroots campaigning
Hampstead Heath cafe tenants CAN challenge decision to hand lease to Daisy Green ift.tt/zbaXc58
"Police raid and state takeover of Turkish opposition TV channel ‘a brutal blow to media freedom" @amnesty
The raid comes on the same day that Ekrem Imamoğlu is due to give testimony in a trial that would likely have been extensively covered by Halk TV
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
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The dawn raid and the take over by state appointed trustees of one of the main opposition channels @halktvcomtr is a direct assault on the right to freedom of expression which includes the right to give and receive information.
Media freedom is at the heart of all freedoms.
“While watching, I couldn’t stop thinking about all the stories over the last 50 years that nobody has heard & the thousands we’ve buried in these camps who would have never wished to be buried there”
Najla Mohamed-Lamin on seeing the film on #WesternSahara in which she features
“To run an international film festival in a refugee camp in the Sahara is nothing short of a miracle” (Javier Bardem)
One month til the screens of @FiSahara light up the dunes
The world’s remotest film festival - deep in the Sahara desert - begins 11 Oct
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
Intn’l media is reporting this huge story of Russian penetration of an influential right wing European party
But it isn’t making headlines in the UK
We know the intelligence services chose not to investigate Russian interference in Brexit
Brexit👉deregulation👉#PalantirPlan?
Last July, the #RussiaReport was finally published
Its findings were truly terrifying
They revealed that the govt & intelligence agencies had actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in the Brexit vote.
(video via @PeterStefanovi2)
This long thread on #Palantir is vital👇
Is the #PalantirPlan an intelligence-backed, far-right, rolling coup done in order to get hold of population-wide genomic data & give levels of wealth, power & control the likes of which Kings & Tsars & potentates have only ever dreamt?
205/. This was the protest outside #Palantir’s Soho HQ yesterday: one of 40+ demonstrations across the UK
@andyburnham must terminate their £330m NHS contract signed in 2023
If the goal is a population-wide genomic data grab, the UK will be Palantir’s Petri dish
#PalantirPlan
“Amnesty International is a fraud” (@marcorubio)
Since 1961, @Amnesty have been fighting bad guys
They campaign to end human rights abuses, bring torturers to justice, change oppressive laws, free people unjustly jailed & in 1977 won the #NobelPeacePrize
“It’s better to light a candle than to curse the dark” @amnesty motto
During my time at Amnesty International & over my decades as a campaigner, I've had the privilege of meeting & working alongside many truly courageous people
Marco Rubio couldn’t hold a candle to any of them
1/. "Govts aren't insensitive to the outside pressure & when world opinion is concentrated on one weak spot, it can succeed in making govts relent...That is why we have started Appeal for Amnesty, 1961"
It's 60 years since @amnesty launched with this OpEd
theguardian.com/uk/1961/may/…
