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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

Alarming piece from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Blair + Murdoch + Ellison + Ellison Jr + a touch of Musk and the new world order.

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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

Larry Ellison has given nearly half a billion dollars to Tony Blair's institute. Now, why do you think he'd do that..?

Terrific piece by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social at @thenerve.news

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Blair is godfather to the oldest of Murdoch & Deng’s daughters.

His TB Institute is swimming in Larry Ellison / Oracle 💰 …to the tune of £half a BILLION

Ellison is best mates with Netanyahu

Oracle & its partner company Rafael Systems are deep in Israeli defence and intelligence industry.

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And now Tony Blair with Trump holds the keys to Gaza’s future.

While Oracle, the company owned by the man who bankrolls him - Larry Ellison’s - with its deep relationship with Netanyahu’s govt, will be incorporated into essential uk infrastructure.

But it’s ok because Larry Ellison only wants a total surveillance superstate. His words not mine.

Watch him with Tony Blair below talking about NHS data & all the wonderful things one could do with it.
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And guess what else? You know those digital IDs that Blair - & now suddenly Starmer - are so keen on?

Guess where that data looks like it will end up?

In a £5bn ‘sovereign AI cloud’ that UK govt has signed deal for with…yes, you guessed it!

Larry Ellison’s Oracle!!
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There are so many questions to be asked about Blair’s connections to Israel, his funding from Ellison & others & the many potential conflicts of interest.

But guess what? The Tony Blair Institute ignored multiple emails asking questions &requesting comment.
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What will the takeover of TikTok by Tony Blair’s funder - Larry Ellison - & his new business partner, Rupert Murdoch, mean?

Well watch & learn.

Here’s Bibi Netanyahu spelling it out. Social meds is a ‘weapon’ he says. And the most consequential one of all? TikTok.

Ellison’s son has been on huge US media buying spree but the really big deal is the TikTok.

Trump signed exec order last week which will allow Ellison - with new business partner...drum roll...Rupert Murdoch, another staunch supporter of Israel - to buy TikTok
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But Larry Ellison is the big beast. He holidays with Netanyahu & even found him a new lawyer.

It’s his massive donations to Blair that bankroll much of his institute’s huge global operation: between $476m and $538m.

A vast sum for a UK ‘think tank’

And then there’s Len Blavatnik. Another funder of Tony Blair & another friend of Netanyahu.

Blavatnik is a prominent investor in Israeli defence tech & bought Israel’s Channel 13 following a personal request from Netanyahu who complained it was too left leaning.
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We found other friends of Israel have given undisclosed sums to the Tony Blair Institute including a fund whose founder Natie Kirsh made his fortune through Magal Solutions paid by Israeli govt to build West Bank wall & Gaza security fences.
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In Israel, Ellison’s Oracle partners with Rafael Systems whose weapons are being used in the Gaza genocide & implicated in the deaths of British aid workers.

But that’s just the start…
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Tony Blair’s Institute has taken nearly half a billion $ from tech billionaire Larry Ellison.

His company Oracle is deeply embedded in Israeli govt & military.

Larry Ellison is a personal friend of Netanyahu.
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