Yves right here. As you’ll quickly study, Mission Nectar is yet one more surveillance states scheme being examined in a UK metropolis. These are the info fields it says it would acquire:
I’m curious as to why many of those are, or are assumed to be, obtainable for many UK residents.
Does the NHS have way more in depth affected person questionnaires and testing than US medical practices?
“Maybe greater than some other nation, america hero-worships the women and men serving in its safety and armed providers.”
—Jan Dehn, “The enemy inside”
“What’s being run proper now could be an enormous experiment to see if trendy expertise has fastened these issues [of cost] with surveillance and oppressive states. Is [technology] low cost sufficient to go full Stasi…? The oligarchs are betting that the expertise has made that change.”
—Ian Welsh, “The Logic of the Surveillance State”
It’s exhausting to put in writing an excessive amount of about what’s occurred, and occurring, with the Nationwide Safety State. Nevertheless a lot you say, there’s way more to inform that’s simply too very important to disregard.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] brokers escort a detained immigrant into an elevator after he exited an immigration courtroom, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Picture/Olga Fedorova)
Previous Sins
Prior to now, in fact, the safety state has subjected us to incidents like this:
Deathbed Confession Reveals FBI and NYPD Liable for Malcolm X Assassination
Dying declarations (“deathbed confessions”) are usually valued by police investigators, assuming they care in regards to the crime in query.
Or contemplate this informal, throwaway remark by Tucker Carlson throughout his latest Epstein rant:
I’ve spent my complete life just about in Washington the place I knew and beloved a lot of folks, together with one very shut particular person, who labored at CIA. That has by no means prohibited me from saying, I believe the CIA has finished some horrible issues. Murdered a bunch of individuals, participated within the homicide of a sitting U.S. president. It’s acquired an entire path of crimes. That doesn’t make me a disloyal American. It doesn’t make me anti-American in any sense. I used to be born right here. My household’s been right here for a whole lot of years. I like this nation. That’s why I reside right here.
Not proof, in fact, however the assertion about, clearly, John F. Kennedy’s homicide isn’t even the principle level of the comment. His level is one thing like “Although the CIA has finished horrible issues, I like my nation and my CIA buddies.”
This remark, thrown like an afterthought, means that “everybody I do know” thinks this, in the identical approach that “everybody I do know” thinks Jeffrey Epstein is an Israeli spy and asset. He says simply this later within the speech (emphasis mine):
You [Jeffrey Epstein] have the previous Israeli prime minister dwelling in your own home. You’ve gotten all this contact with the international authorities. Had been you engaged on behalf of Mossad? Had been you operating a blackmail operation on behalf of a international authorities? By the way in which, each single particular person in Washington, D.C. thinks that. I’ve by no means met anybody who doesn’t suppose that.
“By the way in which” … one other throwaway line a couple of broadly understood crime.
Current Crimes
As I stated above, offenses by the Nationwide Safety State in opposition to residents it was created to guard and serve, are spreading all through the West; they usually’re not simply previous, however current. Let’s take a look at only one offense, coming I’m certain to a security-soaked nation close to you.
Bedford within the UK is a good smallish city. Its inhabitants is about 200,000. It sits north of London, west of Cambridge and midway between London and Birmingham. Very British within the new cosmopolitan sense. Numerous; nothing terribly particular; nothing terribly notable, besides to its residents, who might fortunately find it irresistible to demise.
Besides Bedford now could be a testing floor for a brand new Palantir program referred to as “Nectar” (do not forget that title). From the Bedford native paper:
Bedfordshire Police utilizing AI software to profile political beliefs, intercourse life, race and well being information
Bought your consideration? Learn on.
Bedfordshire Police is piloting a controversial AI-powered information system that may entry extremely delicate details about people, together with their race, political beliefs, intercourse life and well being, in response to an investigationby Liberty Investigates and The i paper.
The system, named Nectar, has been developed in collaboration with Palantir Applied sciences, a US tech large co-founded by Peter Thiel, a donor to Donald Trump and shut advisor throughout his first time period as US president.
From the referenced i Paper report:
British police forces have signed contracts with a controversial US tech large to purchase AI-powered software program that makes use of information about a person’s race, intercourse life, well being and political opinions, it may be revealed.
An inner police memo obtained by The i Paper and Liberty Investigates confirms an intention to “nationally” apply the “Nectar” intelligence system, at present deployed as a pilot by the Bedfordshire drive after being developed with Silicon Valley information evaluation group Palantir Applied sciences.
The doc, obtained beneath freedom of knowledge guidelines, exhibits how the Palantir system is designed to convey collectively dozens of current regulation enforcement databases right into a single computing platform to attract up detailed profiles of suspects, in addition to collate info on victims of crime, witnesses, and weak people together with youngsters.
The 34-page briefing, which offers with information safety points associated to Nectar and Bedfordshire Police, makes clear the ambition of senior officers for the system for use throughout policing, together with within the battle in opposition to severe organised crime.
It states: “The first aim is to assist Bedfordshire… in addition to the Japanese Area Severe Organised Crime Unit… and ultimately apply [Nectar] nationally. This can develop instruments to raised shield weak folks by stopping, detecting and investigating crime.”
Mission ‘Nectar’
Which brings us again to Epstein and his broadly assumed blackmail operation. (Carlson once more: “I’ve by no means met anybody who doesn’t suppose that.”) What else do you suppose an enormous database of “political beliefs, intercourse life, race and well being information” could possibly be used for domestically — besides to silence dissent and blackmail compliance?
At this level it’s possible you’ll be remembering this system’s title. Nectar: bait for a honey lure. Spectacular creativeness for a nest of geeks.
Now suppose extra broadly: Is there any doubt in any respect whom the safety forces of any Western nation truly shield? Or by now, does everybody know?
