Healing and anti-oppression practice for BPOC through Chen Family Tai Chi, coaching and career counseling. Views are my own. Insta: Kahina_Resists
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Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
Tom, that’s utter nonsense, and you know it. It’s like saying that without Facebook and Cambridge Analytica fewer people would have been able to connect and throw virtual parties.
And when you say "while they protest", you’re talking about technical experts who know you, and who understand precisely what Palantir does and are challenging the company on technical, ethical and political grounds.
As you’ll probably remember, I was Chairman of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) when you were Minister for Digital Engagement and Civil Service Issues. You don’t have the technical background to justify presenting yourself as an authority on Palantir’s technology. Your value to Palantir is your access to government, politics, and the media. You advised the company from 2024 - while they were winning government contracts without having to go through procurement processes like everyone else.
Alex Karp has said: "Our product is used, on occasion, to kill people" and his co-founders?
So answer the constructive things people say instead of falling back to ideological statements. Everyone can see through them.
When Palantir technology contributes to a decision that results in the wrong person being killed, what do you call that?
A casualty of war?
A false positive?
Later today protesters will demand ‘No Palantir in our NHS’
While they protest, someone, somewhere will get an operation scheduled earlier, a cancer diagnosis quicker, a loved one home from hospital sooner - thanks to the software that those protesters would switch off.
Here is what you won’t hear. Trusts using the software have recorded:
• 117,000 additional operations
• 14.3 per cent reduction in discharge delays for long stay patients
• 5.6 per cent improvement in the number of people receiving a cancer diagnosis within 28 days
As a more articulate person once said: ‘certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.’
Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
🚨 After careful consideration of the current direction of Manchester United, the way the club is being run, and recent statements made by Sir Jim Ratcliffe, we wish to issue a statement of no confidence.
Read our full statement below.
Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
More valuable detective work from @marcowenjones
A most interesting thread!
1/ A week ago, a LinkedIn ad for a site called the @levantinereport came up in my feed.
Curious, I started to dig.
The subsequent journey took me to Hong Kong, North Macedonia, Brussels, New Jersey, Israel and Dubai, Sudan and three other websites.
Read on 👉
#dysinfluence
Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
Let me tell you about the Overton window:
A white, middle-aged, middle-class, clergyman in the Church of England, who volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a radical leftist seeking to bring down Western society.
That is how far it has shifted.
Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
El libertario/neoliberal utiliza la falacia knightiana, que distingue entre riesgo e incertidumbre, para decir: El capitalista no cobra por el riesgo acumulado ni por el capital; cobra por asumir la incertidumbre que el obrero no quiere o no puede asumir. 1/6
Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
Si usas Gmail tienes que saber que hay una IA de Google leyendo tus correos ahora mismo. Contratos, extractos bancarios, informes médicos, todo. Se activó sola, sin pedirte permiso, y probablemente ni sabes que está encendida. No es solo Gmail: también analiza tus reuniones de Google Meet y tus chats.
Aquí tienes cómo apagarla, en 2 pasos que casi nadie completa 👇
Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
🚨🇬🇧 ANOTHER VICTORY: A British jury refused to convict 7 Palestine Action defendants in the latest Filton 25 trial.
They took direct action against 'israel's' largest private arms manufacturer -Elbit Systems- in Bristol, August 2024.
The British public has spoken 🇵🇸✊🏼
Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
I've signed this statement from a small group of Labour Councillors.
Earlier today, MPs voted through a major attack on local democracy restricting the role of elected Councillors.
It makes communities bystanders in their own future.
Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
🚨 ANGELA RAYNER OVERRIDES LOCAL COUNCIL TO FORCE THROUGH DATA CENTRE INSTEAD OF SOCIAL HOUSING!
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has just overridden local objections to bulldoze the historic Truman Brewery in east London to build an AI data centre.
There are currently 28,000 local people on the social housing waiting list in that borough alone.
Yet out of 44 flats being built on the site, Angela Rayner approved a plan that provides just SIX social homes! 🤡
Andy Burnham and Angela Rayner constantly promise a massive council house building drive for working class people. 💷
Yet the moment developers show up with 500 million pounds, Labour happily crushes local democracy to build tech data facilities instead of homes for British families!!
Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
"Watchdog accused of ‘giving away’ billions of litres of spring water to foreign bottling giants."
Yep the EA are up to their old tricks again. The EA are charging Coca-Cola £6,070 a year to abstract water from the north of England which Coca-Cola then sells for £30 million.
Did I mention that according to the EA by 2050 in England we will need to find another 5 billion litres of water per day just to keep our taps running and to try and save our chalk streams.
What a hoax of a regulator.
observer.co.uk/news/business…
Jalal Afhim (he/him) retweeted
Here's what really happened on October 7th...
1. 07 OCTOBER 2022.
Israeli forces opened fire on a group of Palestinian children near the Apartheid wall in Qalqiliya, killing a 14-year-old boy with live ammunition (UN OCHA report)
2. 07 OCTOBER 2021.
Israeli settlers from the Telem settlement cut down more than 100 olive seedlings on Palestinian-owned land in Turqumiya, Hebron, belonging to 'Aziz Jamil Ja'afrah — the same land where settlers had uprooted trees the year before. (PCHR, 7–13 Oct 2021)
Israeli forces raided at least nine homes overnight and arrested eleven people, including a father and son together (Wadi al-Far'a, Tubas) and a 16-year-old (Adham Abu Srour, Dawha), without charge. A 55-year-old activist was separately arrested without charge at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Israeli forces demolished two residential structures in Bab al-Shams village (East Jerusalem area) belonging to two brothers — the third demolition of their homes within a single year.
Israeli gunboats fired on a Palestinian fishing boat off Gaza for roughly two and a half hours overnight.
Checkpoints and closures were imposed in Jericho, Bethlehem, Hebron, and Nablus.
3. 07 OCTOBER 2020.
Israeli forces raided Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem, blew open the doors of the camp's People's Committee office, and damaged nearby homes in the process — Palestinians officials called it part of a "terror campaign" against the camp. (PCHR, 1–7 Oct 2020)
Israeli forces raided a boys' school (al-Jamla School) in Jenin, confiscated staff IDs, and copied footage from the school's security camera system.
Multiple home-raid arrests took place in Beita, Yatta, al-Eizariya, al-Hashimia (Jenin), Qusra, and Qabatiya.
Israeli settlers from the Leshem settlement set fire to Palestinian-owned land in Deir Ballut, Salfit, burning 50 olive trees.
Multiple checkpoints/closures reported in Hebron (4), Nablus, and elsewhere, disrupting children's abilities to attend school and commutes to work and cutting off access to medical facilities and family.
4. 07 OCTOBER 2019.
20-year-old Fadi Osama Hejazi, died from sniper wounds sustained months earlier at Great March of Return protests (PCHR, 3–9 Oct 2019)
Israeli forces raided at least nine homes overnight across Bethlehem (al-Duheisha camp, Wad Ma'ali), Ramallah (al-Mazra'ah al-Gharbiyah), Jenin ('Anza village), Tulkarm ('Atil village), and Salfit (Hares village, two homes), arresting at least 12 people.
Israeli forces raided and ransacked the Hanthala Cultural Centre in Safa village (a heritage/youth-skills organization), breaking its main door and confiscating files.
Israeli forces guarding the Apartheid wall shot two Palestinian men near Zeta and Tulkarm while they attempted to cross into Israel for work.
Settlers from the Yitzhar settlement cut down 36 olive trees overnight in Burin village (Nablus). Later that morning, settlers from the same settlement attacked Burin's mixed school under military protection, forcing the administration to evacuate students.
In order to prevent Palestinians from leaving their homes during Jewish holiday, Israel began a full closure of the Tunnel, 300, al-Jeeb, and Hizma checkpoints (separating Jerusalem from Bethlehem and nearby areas) for three days during Yom Kippur, alongside closures of Arab village/neighborhood entrances with iron barriers and cement blocks, preventing anyone from accessing school, work, or medical facilities during that time.
5. 07 OCTOBER 2018.
Israeli forces raided homes in Jenin, Beit Ummer (Hebron), and al-Jalazoun refugee camp (Ramallah), arresting at least eight people; in Jalazoun, soldiers also confiscated 2,500 shekels (~$700) in cash from one household during the raid. (PCHR, 4–10 Oct 2018)
Israeli forces raided homes and a shop in Beit Led (Tulkarm), confiscating surveillance camera recordings, and arrested a 47-year-old man along with his 19-year-old son without charge.
Israeli forces carried out 20 additional home invasions (without arrests) across Hebron, Tulkarm, and Qalqiliya-area villages.
An Israeli drone fired a missile at a group of civilians near al-Shawka village, east of Rafah, Gaza.
Israeli gunboats opened heavy fire on Palestinian fishing boats off Rafah, firing flare bombs and forcing fishermen to flee.
Israeli forces conducted a limited ground invasion into eastern al-Bureij, central Gaza.
6. 07 OCTOBER 2017.
Israeli forces raided three homes overnight — in Ya'bud (Jenin), Wad Rahal (Bethlehem), and Bethlehem city — arresting three people, including two minors, without charge.
Israeli forces arrested without charge a 44-year-old man, Naser al-Jundi, at a checkpoint set up at the entrance to Al Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron.
Israeli gunboats twice opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off Beit Lahia and al-Sudaniya (northern Gaza), chasing them; no injuries or damage reported.
Israeli forces stationed along the Gaza perimeter fence near Umm al-Nasser Bedouin village opened sporadic fire and fired flare bombs into the border area, terrorizing residents.
Israeli forces conducted six additional home invasions without arrests in al-Samou', Bani Na'im, Sa'ir, and al-Jalajel (Hebron) and Bedia and Masha (Salfit).
Temporary military checkpoints were set up at Halhoul and al-Dahiriya (Hebron), four locations around Qalqiliya, and three in Salfit, further restricting Palestinian movement. That night, hundreds of Israeli settlers entered 'Awerta village (Nablus) under military protection to perform religious rituals in Palestinian towns.
7. 07 OCTOBER 2016.
Israeli forces raided homes in Sabastiya (Nablus) and Nour al-Shams refugee camp (Tulkarm) overnight, arresting five people without charge.
Israeli forces entered al-Far'a refugee camp (Tubas); when young men gathered and threw stones, soldiers fired live rounds, hitting three civilians.
Israeli naval forces intercepted a fishing boat at sea, ordered the two fishermen (one a 17-year-old) to strip and swim to the gunboat, then detained them; one was released later that day, the other and the boat remained in custody.
Weekly Friday protests in Bil'in, Ni'lin, al-Nabi Saleh, and Kafr Qaddum were attacked with live fire, rubber bullets, tear gas, and sound bombs; in Bil'in, soldiers assaulted a farmer trying to reach his own field and confiscated his vehicle.
In Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire on young men gathered near the perimeter fence in solidarity with Jerusalem (Shuja'iya and al-Bureij), wounding two with live rounds.
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive pickers from Yasouf village (Salfit) while they worked their land.
Dozens of settlers, escorted by Israeli forces, entered Ta'nak village (Jenin) to pray at a religious site; soldiers closed the village's main street to secure the visit, locking thousands of Palestinians in their homes.
Checkpoints went up on the Tarusah village road (west of Dura) and at Hebron's southern entrance (al-Fahes), further restricting Palestinian movement.
8. 07 OCTOBER 2015.
An Israeli settler shot a Palestinian girl from Sur Baher four times in Jerusalem's Old City; Israeli forces claimed she had stabbed him, an account PCHR notes it could not independently verify.
Hundreds of Bir Zeit University students and other civilians protested near a checkpoint and settlement outside al-Bireh; Israeli forces fired live ammunition, wounding ten (eight by live fire), while undercover Israeli units embedded in the crowd violently kidnapped three students — one shot in the leg, another shot in the head and left in serious condition.
Israeli forces raided homes across Hebron governorate overnight, kidnapping at least 16 people, including a 12-year-old (Amir Abu Romouz) and a 13-year-old (Nasim al-Teiti), in Hebron city, Dura, Halhoul, and Al Fawwar and Al Arroub refugee camps.
Israeli forces raided two homes in Nablus, arresting two men without charge.
Soldiers occupied an uninhabited home in Halhoul, raised an Israeli flag over it, and briefly operated a checkpoint from the site before withdrawing but continuing to occupy the house.
This was the seventh consecutive day Nablus remained under a full Israeli military cordon (imposed since October 1 as collective punishment), with the Huwwara, Jeet, al-Naqoura, and Deir Sharaf checkpoints all tightened, denying and delaying movement for residents.
IT GOES ON LIKE THIS EVERY DAY OF EVERY YEAR AS FAR BACK AS YOU LOOK
