The Guardian Implicates - Robert Mercer in a global conspiracy to undermine liberal democracy:

[kpete]

Mercer is a brilliant computer scientist, a pioneer in early artificial intelligence, and the co-owner of one of the most successful hedge funds on the planet (with a gravity-defying 71.8% annual return). And, he is also, I discovered, good friends with Nigel Farage. Andy Wigmore, Leave.EU’s communications director, told me that it was Mercer who had directed his company, Cambridge Analytica, to “help” the Leave campaign.

The second article triggered two investigations, which are both continuing: one by the Information Commissioner’s Office into the possible illegal use of data. And a second by the Electoral Commission which is “focused on whether one or more donations – including services – accepted by Leave.EU was ‘impermissable’”.

What I then discovered is that Mercer’s role in the referendum went far beyond this. Far beyond the jurisdiction of any UK law. The key to understanding how a motivated and determined billionaire could bypass our electoral laws rests on AggregateIQ, an obscure web analytics company based in an office above a shop in Victoria, British Columbia.

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There are three strands to this story. How the foundations of an authoritarian surveillance state are being laid in the US. How British democracy was subverted through a covert, far-reaching plan of coordination enabled by a US billionaire. And how we are in the midst of a massive land grab for power by billionaires via our data. Data which is being silently amassed, harvested and stored. Whoever owns this data owns the future.

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Much Much Much - More Here:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

[dalton99a]

1. The idle rich and their unbridled lust for absolute power

[L. Coyote]

14. This is a worse case, an ardent white nationalist.

Which is why he supported Trump and finances the alt right info war.

[dalton99a]

16. That is true. The Mercers are pure evil.

[BSdetect]

26. The point is they are anything but idle

[Amaryllis]

30. Hope Rachel is all over this tomorrow.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

2. Fucking chilling. This needs to be shared. Democracy itself under attack globally, from US billionai

Link to tweet

[hedda_foil]

3. Everyone needs to read this.

We are well and truly far down the digital rabbit hole.

This goes far, far, far beyond what we've known until now.

[Ligyron]

4. Stay off of Facebook.

That's the message I get.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

5. That's a start, but Mercer should be criminally investigated for this.

Absolutely chilling.

[Ligyron]

6. That whole cabal should be investigated.

Problem is: what is he doing that is illegal?

We don't have laws written that really cover this as far as I can tell and I don't see our legislature or DOJ getting involved given who is in power just now.

Maybe in Britain something will happen in that direction with those 2 investigations and if so, it will all be due to these articles. Those authors may want to avoid Russian carrying umbrellas for awhile.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

7. Facebook has been weaponized by Mercer & co.

Dump Facebook, demand an investigation into Mercer.

[DK504]

19. All this time we've been trained to believe there is no Star Chamber.

Maybe we should start investigating these guys and stop letting the media get away with their bullshit blathering. Telling the exact same story every hour on the hour. There are people I like on the TV machine, but I get nothing from their shows. What they are talking about is already 12 hours old or a holdover from the day before.

Rather than digging deep and finding out what has caused this, the higher ups push the same upper layer of the iceberg, rather than finding out what the hell is under the water. It is true all we do is switching up of the Titanic's lounge chairs and listening to the band playing on.

Tom Hartmann, on Free Speech TV, is one of the few that dig deeper than the "news" networks.

The Star Chamber has always been there and we have been trained to forget about it exists.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

24. I'm no lawyer, but this level of psychological

targeting to tilt elections is unprecedented. People should demand privacy rights to their own data, demand voting laws be changed, and have these data terrorists held accountable.

In the meantime, lock down your social media accounts.

[hedda_foil]

11. And whatever you do, no more online intelligence or psychology tests.

They make ultra microtargeting easy prays.

[kimbutgar]

13. I had taken a break from facebook but returned recently

Friday I posted an anti chump video and my phone rang at 3:30 am from an unknown number. My phone never rings like that I suspect a harasser who didn't like my post.

I am going to stop posting and just look from now on.

[octoberlib]

8. And Cambridge Analytica is owned

by Alfa bank which has direct ties to the Kremlin and is known to be a front for Russian intelligence. One of the FISA's was for Alfa.

[dalton99a]

10. Yep.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

9. This is fucking creepy. This is threatening democracy itself, worldwide.

[Ezior]

12. But how can we prove it? :(

Anything illegal going on?

"Look, I'm running some election campaings, that's it! No worries!"

It seems like we (in Germany) can only react when it's too late, after his guy wins the election and starts to actually take democracy away:
"Gegen jeden, der es unternimmt, diese Ordnung zu beseitigen, haben alle Deutschen das Recht zum Widerstand, wenn andere Abhilfe nicht möglich ist."
"All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order, if no other remedy is available."

(That includes killing the tyrant.)

[BSdetect]

27. Lesson learned then. America is too slow to catch on to such need.

[Achilleaze]

15. "How the foundations of an authoritarian surveillance state are being laid in the US."

republicans selling out America.

More than deplorable. Execrable.

[Tatiana]

17. Chilling. But psyops explains the Cult of Trump.

I'm not quite sure how we extract these tech firms from strangling our democracy.

[Amaryllis]

18. All those movies where the bad guys are trying to take over the entire world...

Rachel has said a number of times this is global. Comey said something to that effect as well.
In those movies, there is usually a superhero who can save the day...or group of them.

[elias7]

20. Olbermann is prescient, calling us the Resistance

[Nitram]

21. It's getting hard to tell where bizarre conspiracy theories end and the real world starts.

We live in interesting times.

[BadgerMom]

22. K & R

Thank god British journalists are doing their job. This is chilling yet unsurprising. The shadowy outlines showing the size of this beastly conspiracy have been forming for awhile.

[wildeyed]

23. Whoa. They aren't hacking the voting machines, they are hacking our brains.

Super-creepy. Long read, but worth the time.

Um, so I have a well secured browser that blocks trackers, etc, to cut down on the amount of profiling that goes on. Wondering how the law that allows my internet provider to see my browsing history affects that. If they can see where I go with that, does it matter that I am somewhat masked online?

It seems like the key to not letting them hack your brain is to withhold your online behavior information, but doing that is so difficult.

[GliderGuider]

25. Why hack the vote, when you can hack the voters?

It has the advantage of being a quasi-permanent long term strategy. This has been coming since the Powell Memo of 1971, by way of media consolidation, AM talk radio and Citizens United.

[Duppers]

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[Madam45for2923]

29. This needs to be read!