@CommonsTreasury
@CommonsTrans
@CommonsSTC
@CommonsHCLG
@CommonsEAC
@CommonsBEIS
But half of the funding came from two green billionaire "philanthropic" foundations who controlled the event.
Read my report for the @thegwpfcom on the UK Climate Assembly, which was an obvious and deeply flawed attempt to circumvent democracy.
UK Climate Assembly was undemocratic https://t.co/cBjwSgXxIR pic.twitter.com/hHYnpV77Ds
— GWPF (@thegwpfcom) January 29, 2021
@CommonsTreasury
@CommonsTrans
@CommonsSTC
@CommonsHCLG
@CommonsEAC
@CommonsBEIS
But half of the funding came from two green billionaire "philanthropic" foundations who controlled the event.
(Don't take my word for it - the influence of political organisations in Parliament is supported uncritically by MPs like Darren Jones.)
https://t.co/6n4sz5koOD
On behalf of @CommonsBEIS and five other @UKParliament committees, thanks to @involveUK @SarahAllanUK @SortitionNow @mySociety @ECIU_UK @ChiefExecCCC @watsonjim2 @lwhitmarsh @Bankfieldbecky European Climate Foundation @EsmeeFairbairn and of course all 108 @NetZeroUK members!
— Darren Jones MP (@darrenpjones) January 26, 2021
One of those leads is Chair of @theCCCuk, Chris Stark @ChiefExecCCC.
That's obviously problematic, as the report explains.
* @Bankfieldbecky formerly of the @GreenAllianceUK
* @lwhitmarsh, chair of UK Centre for Climate Change & Social Transformations (CAST)
* Former @UKERCHQ chair & chair of @theCCC's Net-Zero Advisory Group, Jim Watson.
No bias there then.
I shall not tag them each in here, but they included:
* An XR organiser.
* A founding member of the UK chapter of EarthFirst!
* A founding member of Plane Stupid.
They were all presented as academics and experts.
Their backgrounds in political activism was not explained to the Climate Assembly.
But their choices were constrained and deliberately so, by the Expert Leads and other (ECF and EFF-funded) organisations involved...
Here @ChiefExecCCC lets his subordinate tell an untruth about what the Climate Assembly report found.
https://t.co/1lVP7z4fsz
This has allowed the convening organisations to misrepresent their votes.
They knew, because of work by the @GreenAllianceUK that they had no mandate for their policies.
Here is that research. https://t.co/Jq8knXJaqr
They arrived at the idea of Citizens' Assemblies, which seemingly offered an alternative to democracy.
The Assembly was not free to choose its own agenda or call its own witnesses.
It was often divided into groups by the convenors and Leads.
It was in other words, nothing more than a focus group-cum-PR stunt.
And the @HouseofCommons and @POST_UK have been crowing about what a huge success it was.
MPs now *really* seem to believe that the Climate Assembly have given them a mandate for #NetZero.
https://t.co/WwXZINPHSS
The only way they can produce a mandate is by getting dubious special interest lobbying organisations and activist-academics to browbeat a focus group, depriving them of any inconvenient counterarguments or criticism.
MPs had already let the public down in passing both the Climate Change Act 2008, and then increasing its targets to #NetZero in 2019.
They have now even further undermined democracy.
Yet there is zero scrutiny of it in Parliament.
E.g: https://t.co/YMMKetGc1a
It has been urged on by billionaire-funded NGOs, and the false promises of green tech salesmen.
The only things approximate to a "mandate" are opinion polls, and a 108 member panel.
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SolarWinds Hack
A digital "Pearl Harbor" moment for the United States, whoever was responsible had access to the keys to the kingdom for months during 2020, including sensitive military infrastructure. This is war!
SunGard + SolarWinds
SolarWinds software company is owned by same company that owns SunGard, which essentially provides data center services. A secure place to host internet servers with redundant power and "big pipe" data connections.
https://t.co/U3P3SrrkM1
SunGard Data Center
In Nashville, around the corner from their "big pipe" connection, AT&T. Like any data center, highly secure. Only authorized personnel can enter, and even fewer can access the actual server rooms. Backup generators are available in case of power failure.
If the SunGard hardware was being used to "host" critical command and control software related to SolarWinds, the US powers would be very interested in gaining special access keys that are stored on the hard-drives of specific servers.
A thread exploring the Nashville bombing in the context of the 2020 Digital War (via SolarWinds) against the United States perpetrated by our enemies, likely China, Iran and/or Russia.
SolarWinds Hack
A digital "Pearl Harbor" moment for the United States, whoever was responsible had access to the keys to the kingdom for months during 2020, including sensitive military infrastructure. This is war!
SunGard + SolarWinds
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https://t.co/U3P3SrrkM1
SunGard Data Center
In Nashville, around the corner from their "big pipe" connection, AT&T. Like any data center, highly secure. Only authorized personnel can enter, and even fewer can access the actual server rooms. Backup generators are available in case of power failure.
If the SunGard hardware was being used to "host" critical command and control software related to SolarWinds, the US powers would be very interested in gaining special access keys that are stored on the hard-drives of specific servers.
Patriotism is an interesting concept in that it’s excepted to mean something positive to all of us and certainly seen as a morally marketable trait that can fit into any definition you want for it.+
Tolstoy, found it both stupid and immoral. It is stupid because every patriot holds his own country to be the best, which obviously negates all other countries.+
It is immoral because it enjoins us to promote our country’s interests at the expense of all other countries, employing any means, including war. It is thus at odds with the most basic rule of morality, which tells us not to do to others what we would not want them to do to us+
My sincere belief is that patriotism of a personal nature, which does not impede on personal and physical liberties of any other, is not only welcome but perhaps somewhat needed.
But isn’t adherence to a more humane code of life much better than nationalistic patriotism?+
Göring said, “people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”+
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Tolstoy, found it both stupid and immoral. It is stupid because every patriot holds his own country to be the best, which obviously negates all other countries.+
It is immoral because it enjoins us to promote our country’s interests at the expense of all other countries, employing any means, including war. It is thus at odds with the most basic rule of morality, which tells us not to do to others what we would not want them to do to us+
My sincere belief is that patriotism of a personal nature, which does not impede on personal and physical liberties of any other, is not only welcome but perhaps somewhat needed.
But isn’t adherence to a more humane code of life much better than nationalistic patriotism?+
Göring said, “people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”+
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See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote:
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— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 20, 2018
See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
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And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote: