So I commented the other day about the British billionaire whose boat sunk in a freak storm off Sicily, two days after his codefendant in a fraud trial was run over and killed.
After reading this Twitter thread:
I’m back on my Starmer conspiracy brainworms, and this might be totally silly of me, but….
Assuming MI5 had him orchestrate the dismantling of the Labour left in anticipation of worsening material conditions over the next two decades and the potential rise of a robust British socialist movement, could an additional objective be to enact draconian authoritarian laws to suppress protests and enhance surveillance? He then bows out after a year or two with deep unpopularity but with strong protections for capital in place, to be replaced with Ed Milliband in an attempt to show “progressive” leadership.
Basically, given the last 10 years the last few days happening has been horribly predictable. If you’re a Gladio aficionado, you might be sympathetic to the conspiracy theory I’m leaning toward here.
Fash in the UK continue with their attempted pogroms. A hotel housing asylum seekers has been attacked and is currently surrounded, with police currently holding a line.
Keir Starmer has described the riots as “far right thuggery” and “racist rhetoric”, finally conceding that there might be some sort of anti-Muslim thing happening.
Edit: video of fascists trying to break into a hotel to attack asylum seekers
I remain convinced that Starmer had a pact with Farage, which led to Labour pulling support for their candidate in Clacton when he started gaining ground on Farage. Actions like this make me think it is an ongoing thing.
This paper was published in 2023, but is popping up on Twitter for me today - I hadn’t seen the evidence of a non-Chinese origin of the virus laid out so clearly before.
Genome analysis of Covid shows that the dominant strain of Covid that spread during the pandemic neither originated in China, or was the cause of the December 2019 epidemic in China (which was due to 2 other strains).
Based on the estimated tMRCA of the non-redundant global genomes, SARS-CoV-2 appears to have already been circulating globally for at least 10 months before its first discovery in Wuhan. Therefore, focusing only on the genomes in China would make it impossible to reveal the actual origin of the pandemic.
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The tMRCAs of DL and DS were in September and October, respectively. Considering the ancient status of DS and DL compared with the status of GL, these results indicate that the three haplotypes were already separated before April 2019 and have evolved in parallel since then. In other words, GL that caused the global pandemic did not originate from the viral strains that caused the epidemic in China. The ancestor strains (DS0 and DL0) of DS and DL that gave birth to GL were already extinct before the outbreak of COVID-19; therefore, much more recent tMRCAs have been estimated by using only the current genome sequences.
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In contrast to the time order in China, the tMRCA of GL was considerably earlier than that of the two older haplotypes in most regions of the world, including India, Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, the USA, and South America ( Fig. 4 ). The earliest tMRCA of GL was identified in India, which had a mean of May 9, 2019, followed by Africa, Europe, and the USA with tMRCAs in May to July, 2019, suggesting that GL had spread globally at least 6 months before its discovery.
EyupLovely pinpoints an itch I’ve had the last week - Kamala is a speed run of Starmerism:
The Americans are speedrunning 2020-23 Starmerism with the coconut tree lady. Same smugness, same guilt tripping about the danger of the alternative, same certainty, same denialism of everything they did as a prosecutor, same height. They don’t know it, but they are doing it.
In a second night of fascist street violence in the U.K., homes are being targeted alongside mosques.
Amongst the chants today, the Nazis were shouting “stop the boats”, a term used and encouraged by Keir Starmer’s election campaign.
It appears not - it’s pure fash fantasy and opportunistic blood lust
Merseyside Police said those behind the violence had been fired up by social media posts which incorrectly suggested an Islamist link to Monday’s stabbings.
The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper had earlier warned about disinformation linked to the attack.
The suspect has no known links to Islam.
Nazis trying to burn down a Mosque in Southport in the UK after yesterday’s mass stabbing at a kids dance party….fucking bleak near term future with Keith’s government doing all it can to get Reform elected 
Lmao we’re so on the wrong time line, literally an inch or two to the left and BUHBYE
So, I heard, and this is what they’re telling me - Vivek, you know Vivek, right? Smart guy, very smart, some say too smart, but we like him, we like him - a little too smart for his own good, maybe - but I heard he’s a Trotskyist now. That’s right, folks, a Trotskyist. You know, Trotsky, Trotsky, the guy with the little glasses, not a great look, not a good look, folks. And I said, “What’s a Trotskyist?” - and they tell me, they say, “Sir, it’s someone who is a Trot,” and I said, “Trot? Like a horse? Like a horse!”