It just gets worse \u2026 the idea that a childish sleaze bucket like Mandelson not only slurped at Epstein\u2019s trough but also engaged in self- aggrandisement (and took the money) with the most evil tech company is almost too much to contemplate (for by definition dealing with Palantir is dealing with one of the most extreme anti-humanity machines on the planet. <\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/feb\/04\/peter-mandelson-palantir-jeffrey-epstein-government<\/a><\/p>\n There are many ongoing posts about Palantir and its gangsterish, inhuman attitudes. Here\u2019s one from just a few days ago \u2026<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/02\/03\/palantir_lethal_magical_china_middle_east\/<\/a><\/p>\n Killing people is their business, no matter how they try to soothe it with garbled techno-jumbo<\/p>\n And incidentally (or not) their business is closely linked to the near total collapse of the concept of a Constitution:<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.lawdork.com\/p\/the-minnesota-julie-le-show-cause-transcript?hide_intro_popup=true<\/a><\/p>\n There is, gladly, pushback against the gangster government\u2019s use of barely legal squadristi, though as yet no one is attacking Trump directly for his sickening (but easily explained by stupidity) approach to governance<\/p>\n \u00a7<\/strong><\/p>\n A serious policy problem, but simple to fix by a change of assumptions, is that \u201c\u2026the future will behave like the past\u2026\u201d . But climate change does not work like that \u2026<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/feb\/05\/flawed-economic-models-mean-climate-crisis-could-crash-global-economy-experts-warn<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a7<\/strong><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It just gets worse \u2026 the idea that a childish sleaze bucket like Mandelson not only slurped at Epstein\u2019s trough but also engaged in self- aggrandisement (and took the money) with the most evil tech company is almost too much to contemplate (for by definition dealing with Palantir is dealing with one of the most … Continue reading “5 Feb 2026”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}